[cardcrimson]

Not a good thing. Please just flush TP.

https://nypost.com/2020/03/20/coronaviru...-problems/

[cardcrimson]

Not a good thing. Please just flush TP.

https://nypost.com/2020/03/20/coronaviru...-problems/

[BostonCard]

I expected a much better headline from the Post.

BC

[BostonCard]

I expected a much better headline from the Post.

BC

[2006alum]

I expected a much better headline from the Post.

BC

Really? That's pretty much exactly what I would expect from the Post. Find someone who did something bad in a liberal hotbed like California, and then associate that with all members of that liberal hotbed. Because obviously, it's the People's Gaypublic of Drugifornia. Wit and humor are of vastly secondary concerns.

[2006alum]

I expected a much better headline from the Post.

BC

Really? That's pretty much exactly what I would expect from the Post. Find someone who did something bad in a liberal hotbed like California, and then associate that with all members of that liberal hotbed. Because obviously, it's the People's Gaypublic of Drugifornia. Wit and humor are of vastly secondary concerns.

[cardcrimson]

I expected a much better headline from the Post.

BC

Really? That's pretty much exactly what I would expect from the Post. Find someone who did something bad in a liberal hotbed like California, and then associate that with all members of that liberal hotbed. Because obviously, it's the People's Gaypublic of Drugifornia. Wit and humor are of vastly secondary concerns.

Oh please, just stop. 

That damn BBC ridiculing those poor folks in Northumbria. . . .

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-51980820

From the same section in Google News, by the way.

[cardcrimson]

I expected a much better headline from the Post.

BC

Really? That's pretty much exactly what I would expect from the Post. Find someone who did something bad in a liberal hotbed like California, and then associate that with all members of that liberal hotbed. Because obviously, it's the People's Gaypublic of Drugifornia. Wit and humor are of vastly secondary concerns.

Oh please, just stop. 

That damn BBC ridiculing those poor folks in Northumbria. . . .

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-51980820

From the same section in Google News, by the way.

[82lsju]

I guess they forgot about the "fatberg" in London in 2017

A fatberg weighing the same as 11 double decker buses and stretching the length of two football pitches is blocking a section of London’s ageing sewage network.

The congealed mass of fat, wet wipes and nappies is one of the biggest ever found and would have risked raw sewage flooding on to the streets in Whitechapel, east London, had it not been discovered during a routine inspection earlier this month.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/...age-system

[82lsju]

I guess they forgot about the "fatberg" in London in 2017

A fatberg weighing the same as 11 double decker buses and stretching the length of two football pitches is blocking a section of London’s ageing sewage network.

The congealed mass of fat, wet wipes and nappies is one of the biggest ever found and would have risked raw sewage flooding on to the streets in Whitechapel, east London, had it not been discovered during a routine inspection earlier this month.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/...age-system

[2006alum]

Oh please, just stop. 

That damn BBC ridiculing those poor folks in Northumbria. . . .

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-51980820

From the same section in Google News, by the way.

Stop what? The Post is a right-wing rag! The left has them too - ever read the New York Daily News? 

BTW, the headline of the story in the link you shared is "Coronavirus: Toilet roll alternatives blocking sewers." Tell me who you think is being unfairly disparaged. I'm not seeing it.

It's much like the "Florida Man" headline phenomenon that is now so widespread it's basically taken on a life of its own - what is salient about a person's state of residence in reporting on their poor decisionmaking? It's a subtle form of ad hominem attacks that I think is silly, because that aspect of their identity has nothing to do with what they did anymore than their astrological sign, whether they're right or left handed, or whether they have a tattoo. You could omit the word Florida and the rest of the story would have precisely the same level of newsworthiness.

[2006alum]

Oh please, just stop. 

That damn BBC ridiculing those poor folks in Northumbria. . . .

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-51980820

From the same section in Google News, by the way.

Stop what? The Post is a right-wing rag! The left has them too - ever read the New York Daily News? 

BTW, the headline of the story in the link you shared is "Coronavirus: Toilet roll alternatives blocking sewers." Tell me who you think is being unfairly disparaged. I'm not seeing it.

It's much like the "Florida Man" headline phenomenon that is now so widespread it's basically taken on a life of its own - what is salient about a person's state of residence in reporting on their poor decisionmaking? It's a subtle form of ad hominem attacks that I think is silly, because that aspect of their identity has nothing to do with what they did anymore than their astrological sign, whether they're right or left handed, or whether they have a tattoo. You could omit the word Florida and the rest of the story would have precisely the same level of newsworthiness.

[BostonCard]

Lol at Florida man.

https://floridaman.com/breaks-into-home-...mans-toes/

BC

[BostonCard]

Lol at Florida man.

https://floridaman.com/breaks-into-home-...mans-toes/

BC

[cardcrimson]

Stop looking for bigotry in everything. Geez, I found the topic funny and I'm a Californian. Never did it cross my mind that the Post was making fun of Californians, just the 'crap' were dealing with. Frankly, using cut up t-shirts to wipe oneself due to the run on TP, then flushing them, is kind of funny. Relax a little, it's good for your health. . . .

And by the way, as for left wing rags, you forgot the New York Times, the Washington Post, the SF Chronicle, the LA Times, etc. etc. etc. . . . . 

Stop what? The Post is a right-wing rag! The left has them too - ever read the New York Daily News? 

[cardcrimson]

Stop looking for bigotry in everything. Geez, I found the topic funny and I'm a Californian. Never did it cross my mind that the Post was making fun of Californians, just the 'crap' were dealing with. Frankly, using cut up t-shirts to wipe oneself due to the run on TP, then flushing them, is kind of funny. Relax a little, it's good for your health. . . .

And by the way, as for left wing rags, you forgot the New York Times, the Washington Post, the SF Chronicle, the LA Times, etc. etc. etc. . . . . 

Stop what? The Post is a right-wing rag! The left has them too - ever read the New York Daily News? 

[2006alum]

And by the way, as for left wing rags, you forgot the New York Times, the Washington Post, the SF Chronicle, the LA Times, etc. etc. etc. . . . . 

Is "left wing rags" your codeword for most Pulitzer-Prize-winning newspapers?

[2006alum]

And by the way, as for left wing rags, you forgot the New York Times, the Washington Post, the SF Chronicle, the LA Times, etc. etc. etc. . . . . 

Is "left wing rags" your codeword for most Pulitzer-Prize-winning newspapers?

[cardcrimson]

And by the way, as for left wing rags, you forgot the New York Times, the Washington Post, the SF Chronicle, the LA Times, etc. etc. etc. . . . . 

Is "left wing rags" your codeword for most Pulitzer-Prize-winning newspapers?

Thanks for pointing that out. Didn't the Times win a couple of Pulitzers for their investigative reporting into Trump's collusion with the Russians. 2006, I didn't take you for a comedian. I was mistaken and humbly apologize.

[cardcrimson]

And by the way, as for left wing rags, you forgot the New York Times, the Washington Post, the SF Chronicle, the LA Times, etc. etc. etc. . . . . 

Is "left wing rags" your codeword for most Pulitzer-Prize-winning newspapers?

Thanks for pointing that out. Didn't the Times win a couple of Pulitzers for their investigative reporting into Trump's collusion with the Russians. 2006, I didn't take you for a comedian. I was mistaken and humbly apologize.

[2006alum]

Didn't the Times win a couple of Pulitzers for their investigative reporting into Trump's collusion with the Russians.

Are the 2018 awards what you're referring to? If so, here's what the Times and the Post won for:

Staffs of The New York Times and The Washington Post

The organizations were recognized for their reporting on Russia’s influence in the 2016 election, the Trump transition team and the presidential  administration. The winning pieces included a report in The Post that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had spoken to Russia’s ambassador to the United States during the presidential campaign, contradicting his confirmation hearing testimony, and a report in The Times that President Trump asked James Comey, then the F.B.I.’s director, to end an inquiry into Michael Flynn.

Alternatively, you could be referring to the NY Times's 2017 win:

The Times also won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for an investigative series on Russia’s covert projection of power, including the story of how Russian cyberpower invaded the United States. Winners for this series included Andrew Higgins, Andrew E. Kramer, Neil MacFarquhar, Eric Lipton, Jo Becker, David E. Sanger, Eric Schmitt, Scott Shane, Steven Erlanger, Mike McIntire and Barry Meier.

And here's the full list of the winning work. I'd be eager to hear which pieces you think are laugh-worthy.

[2006alum]

Didn't the Times win a couple of Pulitzers for their investigative reporting into Trump's collusion with the Russians.

Are the 2018 awards what you're referring to? If so, here's what the Times and the Post won for:

Staffs of The New York Times and The Washington Post

The organizations were recognized for their reporting on Russia’s influence in the 2016 election, the Trump transition team and the presidential  administration. The winning pieces included a report in The Post that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had spoken to Russia’s ambassador to the United States during the presidential campaign, contradicting his confirmation hearing testimony, and a report in The Times that President Trump asked James Comey, then the F.B.I.’s director, to end an inquiry into Michael Flynn.

Alternatively, you could be referring to the NY Times's 2017 win:

The Times also won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for an investigative series on Russia’s covert projection of power, including the story of how Russian cyberpower invaded the United States. Winners for this series included Andrew Higgins, Andrew E. Kramer, Neil MacFarquhar, Eric Lipton, Jo Becker, David E. Sanger, Eric Schmitt, Scott Shane, Steven Erlanger, Mike McIntire and Barry Meier.

And here's the full list of the winning work. I'd be eager to hear which pieces you think are laugh-worthy.

[OutsiderFan]

There are plenty of morons flushing wipes and paper towels down the toilet in CT.  Don't think CA has some kind of monopoly on such idiocy.

[OutsiderFan]

There are plenty of morons flushing wipes and paper towels down the toilet in CT.  Don't think CA has some kind of monopoly on such idiocy.