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[Eisenwurst]

https://www.timeout.com/news/out-of-...istrict-030824

I'm really surprised it's taken this long, the local gov't has shown some guts.

The poor girls have been openly propositioned in the street, one had $10K and a hotel key thrust at her with a demand for sex, one had her kimono ripped off by some prick that chased her down the street.

Cigarette butts flicked at them, being mobbed for photos and selfies, being stalked, the list goes on.....

Obnoxious tourists.....a lot of them don't deserve a passport and shouldn't be allowed to leave their country.

As the local gov't says "It's not a theme park, it's a residential district."

On a side note, we get a lot of tourists down here in Sydney and I gotta say the recent post covid ones have a hell of a lot of obnoxious types amongst them. I've come close to losing my temper a few times.

[Jimbuna]

Trespassing bird causes travel chaos at Brighton station

A bird trespassing on train tracks at Brighton station caused an hour-and-a-half of disruption during rush hour.

Thameslink was forced to close three platforms at about 7pm while the power was switched off and the herring gull was removed.

Services that were affected included Brighton to London and the Gatwick Express, with disruptions lasting until about 8.20pm.

The rail operator posted on X advising passengers to leave 20 minutes early to complete their journeys and check departure information regularly.

Several people replied to Thameslink asking if the news was a late April Fool joke, and questioning whether herring gulls are actually endangered.

One traveller complained that "numerous trains" had been cancelled and operators had left them "stranded in the rain".

Thameslink later said apologised for the inconvenience the incident caused to passengers, adding that the bird was safely removed from the railway.

"We're glad this had a happy ending," it said, sharing a photo of the young gull.

Despite the herring gull being a common sight in seaside resorts, the species has been on the Birds of Conservation Concern's (BCC) red list since 2009, because of ongoing population decline.

The red status means the species has been identified by the BCC as subject to "an increasing level of conservation concern".

The list is compiled by the UK's leading bird conservation organisations, including the RSPB, and identifies conservation priorities for birds.
https://news.sky.com/story/trespassi...ation-13106911

[Moonlight]

Making of the Steel Magnolia: How £550-an-hour Queen of the family court Fiona Shackleton became Britain's most feared - and best dressed - divorce lawyer representing King Charles, Paul McCartney and Liam Gallagher (just don't mention Heather Mills)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ron-cohen.html

How the hell has this currant become a Baroness?, she's a bleeding divorce lawyer for ****s sake, only the rich could afford her fees, and truth be told, those fees would be monumental.

The prime suspect here, would be, not my king Charles, yes, corruption runs deep within the royal family, so yes, I will lay the blame directly on Charley boys head. Services rendered and all that, it still leaves him looking like the prick he's always been, and the rest of the family as well.

[Jimbuna]

Chechnya 'bans music that is too fast or too slow'

Chechnya has reportedly banned music that is too fast or too slow.

The Russian republic is said to have ruled that all music should "correspond to a tempo of 80 to 116 beats per minute (BPM)".

Its culture ministry made the announcement in a statement earlier this week, according to the Moscow Times.

The new standard of music is relatively slow compared to a lot of modern day pop music and would rule out a number of western genres from being played publicly in the conservative Islamic society.

The republic's leader Ramzan Kadyrov instructed culture minister Musa Dadayev to make Chechen music "conform to the Chechen mentality," the Moscow Times said.

"Borrowing musical culture from other peoples is inadmissible," Mr Dadayev reportedly said.

The ban was reportedly announced following a meeting between the republic's ministry and local and regional artists.

But artists are said to have been given until 1 June to rewrite music that doesn't meet the criteria - and if their music isn't reworked, they won't be allowed to perform it in public.

All western rave and techno music, which tends to be of a higher BPM, would be banned under the new rule.

Chechnya has been a vocal supporter of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

It has also seen a wave of anti-LGBTQ+ violence in recent years, including reports of anti-gay purges, that the UN described as "acts of persecution and violence on an unprecedented scale".
https://news.sky.com/story/chechnya-...-slow-13110266

[Jimbuna]

Alpacas block traffic on busy England highway

Travelers on a British highway were surprised to find their path blocked by a herd of escaped alpacas.

The llama cousins wandered onto the A1307 near Hemingford Abbots in Cambridgeshire in the early afternoon Sunday, witnesses said.

Cathy Booty, who was traveling with her husband, Richard, said there were more than 20 of the animals in the roadway when another woman got out of her car and coaxed them into the grassy median.

Booty called Cambridgeshire Police, who confirmed that officers responded to the scene.

Police said the owner of the alpacas had returned them to their field by the time officers arrived.
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/04...3081712591428/

[Jimbuna]

Frogs are screaming - we just can't hear them, scientists in Brazil discover

Some frogs scream at an ear-splitting volume for other animals but its frequency is inaudible to humans, scientists have discovered.

While out in the Amazonian jungle studying frogs, researchers in Brazil noticed something strange.

Small leaf litter frogs were arching their backs, throwing back their heads and opening their mouths wide.

They looked like they were screaming but the scientists could hear nothing.

When they recorded the frogs using high-frequency audio recorders, the scientists captured the first documented case of "defensive ultrasound" being used by amphibians.

The scream is a response to predators, according to researchers from Brazil's State University of Campinas.

It could be a call to arms to attract another animal to attack the predator.

The researchers recorded the distress call on two occasions.

When they analysed the sound using special software, they found that it had a frequency range of 7 kilohertz (kHz) to 44 kHz.

Humans cannot hear frequencies higher than 20 kHz, which are classed as ultrasound.

A researcher on the team, Mariana Retuci Pontes, says she saw frogs exhibiting similar behaviour on a different research trip but didn't have the right technology to record the ultrasonic sound.

Bats, whales, rhinos, dogs, pigeons, cuttlefish… all sorts of animals use infrasonic and ultrasonic frequencies to communicate, and humans can hear none of it.

So the next time you're enjoying a peaceful walk, all around you there could be a cacophony of noise.
https://news.sky.com/story/frogs-are...cover-13112081

[Jimbuna]

Oxfordshire: Bird 'confuses' police officers by mimicking siren sound

Police officers were left "confused" by a bird when it convincingly mimicked the sound of the sirens on their cars.

Thames Valley Police said staff initially thought their vehicles had developed a fault after hearing the noise at a roads policing base in Bicester.

A video filmed at the site in Oxfordshire and posted on social media shows the bird chirping in a tree - before then replicating the sound of a two-tone siren.

The force said that the copycat call was "100% real and not a late April Fools joke" and added that officers were left "a little confused".

It added: "It's so accurate, they've been left thinking the sirens were faulty on the cars!

"From our workshops that test out the two tone-tune to officers deploying to jobs, this little fella has been sat patiently observing the noise to recreate it".

Social media users speculated that the bird could be a starling, which are known for their ability to mimic man-made noises.
https://news.sky.com/story/oxfordshi...sound-13112449

[Jimbuna]

Loch Ness monster: NASA urged to help as new search begins

NASA has been asked to help in a new search for the Loch Ness monster.

The Loch Ness Centre has urged the space agency to lend its expertise in a fresh hunt for the legendary creature.

Last year, one of the biggest searches of Loch Ness in the Highlands concluded with a hydrophone capturing loud underwater noises and several potential sightings.

The latest search will take place on the 90th anniversary of Sir Edward Mountain's expedition from 30 May to 2 June.

Since that first expedition in 1934, the Watchers of the Monster, there have been over 1,156 sightings recorded on the official Loch Ness monster register.

Aimee Todd from the Loch Ness Centre said: "We are hoping that Nessie hunters around the world will help us reach the people at NASA.

"We are hoping to reach them through the power of social media. We are just hoping for their expert guidance to help with our ongoing quest to get answers.

"We have gone to UK universities. We are hoping that experts from NASA might have some advanced imaging technology to scan the loch.

"We would have to sit down and talk to them about how to get it here."

Volunteers during the new search will be tasked to keep an eye on the surface, looking for breaks in the water. They will be briefed on what to look out for and how to record findings.

Those unable to make the search in person can get involved through the live cameras on the Visit Inverness Loch Ness website.
https://news.sky.com/story/loch-ness...egins-13113351

[Moonlight]

Revealed: Sydney knifeman, 40, who killed five women and one man in Westfield shopping centre bloodbath 'was known to police' and targeted screaming mum and her baby first before unleashing 15 minutes of horror until lone female cop shot him dead

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ed-police.html

The Sydney knifeman was a 40-year-old and his attack is not thought to be terror-related, New South Wales Police Commissioner Karen Webb said.
Ms Webb told a press conference: 'Later this evening we became aware of who we believe the offender is and we believe that he is a 40-year-old man.
'However, we are waiting to formally identify him and we cannot speculate yet on his identification.

You don't have to tell us anymore Ms Webb, it will all be revealed when the politicians have their story right and they've briefed the police on exactly what to say to the media.
People aren't ****ing stupid you know, the words of the police spokesman already tells them that they're trying to cover up the bleeding obvious, it's time for politicians to stop pussyfooting around and admit that these bleeding idiots are not welcome in a westernized society anymore.

The next thing for politicians and the police to do is anyone one of these muslims citizens who are known to the police should be deported, and if they have any family there they can be deported too.

Start doing your jobs you bleeding Woke pillocks.

EXCLUSIVE Religious war behind bars: How British white gangs from two major cities fight brutal war against Muslim extremists inside UK's toughest prisons

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...t-prisons.html

Why have these politicians who are supposed to lead and Govern our country by example have let things deteriorate to such an extent over the past 45 years or so?.
As we have gathered over the years "Group Think" invariably turns into "Group Stupid", and there's no one group more stupid than our politicians.

EXCLUSIVE Grooming gang leader who targeted hundreds of girls as young as 13 in Telford in systematic abuse hopes to be freed again after getting a parole hearing just 12 years into his sentence

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...e-hearing.html

These twats shouldn't be in prison, No, they should have been executed instead of having a cushy life behind bars. Will they be deported?, No again, they'll be free to do whatever criminal acts they want to do.
Politicians eh, the most stupidest currants on planet earth.

[Jimbuna]

Escaped racehorse joins commuters at train station - and stands behind yellow line

Commuters at a train station in Australia were left doing a doubletake as an escaped racehorse joined them to wait for a passenger service.

The rogue animal turned up at Warwick Farm station, New South Wales, and trotted down the platform before pausing ahead of the train's arrival - when it even stood behind the yellow line.

Footage shared by Transport for NSW shows shocked commuters stepping back as the horse made its way past just before midnight on 5 April.

The transport authority saw the funny side as they shared an update about the incident on Facebook.

In a post about a "missing individual", they wrote: "He was reported to be wearing only a rug and demonstrating a bit of horseplay."

"He appeared to pursue an informant along the platform before unsuccessfully attempting to board a train service," they continued.

"The individual then moved to the car park area where he was taken in by his owner and he was returned to his residence in a stable condition."

The post concluded: "No one involved in the incident is intending to take any further action as the individual was only horsing around!"

Local media said Warwick Farm station is near a racecourse but has not confirmed this is where the horse escaped from.
https://news.sky.com/story/escaped-r...-line-13112162

[Jimbuna]

Airplane passenger fined in Sydney for urinating in a cup

A passenger has been fined for urinating in a cup during a delay in deplaning after landing at Sydney Airport.

The incident, after a 3-hour Air New Zealand flight from Auckland, occurred last December and a Sydney court fined the 53-year-old man 600 Australian dollars ($395) for offensive behavior in February, officials said Friday.

The incident only came to public attention on Friday, when New Zealand news website Stuff reported that a passenger in the same row, identified only as Hollv, said she had reported the behavior to the air crew.

She said she and her 15-year-old daughter were sitting in the aisle and middle seats when the man in the window seat, whose name has not been released, was urinating in a cup.

Holly said the plane had been on the tarmac for about 20 minutes, waiting for a terminal gate to be allocated, when she heard the unmistakable sound of the passenger urinating in a cup, Stuff reported.

She said the man was “obviously quite drunk” and spilled urine on a flight attendant as he left the plane, it reported.

But the mishap with the attendant wasn’t his crime. Australian Federal Police said in a statement that officers removed him from the plane because he had “urinated into a cup while in his seat.”

Air New Zealand said it does not comment on individual incidents. It said it bans between five and 10 customers each month for disruptive behavior, including intoxication.
https://apnews.com/article/australia...98b37cd94542f7

[Sean C]

Originally Posted by Eisenwurst

https://www.timeout.com/news/out-of-...istrict-030824

My wife and I were in Gion in late September of 2010. We saw a guy stalking a Geisha. He was following her, dashing from one hiding spot to the next, just behind her. We didn't know what to do ... we had only been in this very different foreign country for a few days at that point.


Part of me is glad that the Japanese are now protecting the Geisha. Part of me is sad that outsiders will no longer be able to experience Gion. It really is a very beautiful place.

[Eisenwurst]

Originally Posted by Sean C

My wife and I were in Gion in late September of 2010. We saw a guy stalking a Geisha. He was following her, dashing from one hiding spot to the next, just behind her. We didn't know what to do ... we had only been in this very different foreign country for a few days at that point.


Part of me is glad that the Japanese are now protecting the Geisha. Part of me is sad that outsiders will no longer be able to experience Gion. It really is a very beautiful place.

Hi Sean. Japan's on my bucket list, I'll get there one day.....I hope. A good mate of mine, his daughter is over there now on a school excursion . When I went on school excursions we went to the local steelworks, coal mines, and port, and got a lump of coal each as a souvenir. Times change.

A lot of Japanese tourists come to Sydney, and they stand out. Good manners, well dressed, and multi lingual.

A contrast to all the yobbos from God knows where that descend upon us.

I used to be involved with Foreign Affairs issuing Passports and knocked back a lot of ratbags that would've been terrible "ambassadors" for my country overseas.

There's a lot of "Crazies" around, on the loose in Society. Yesterday I went to Bondi Junction ( I do a lot of business there ) and there's a VERY large Floral tribute been set up and people paying their respects to the poor women and men murdered and wounded on the weekend. I found it quite moving and got emotional, particularly when a crying beautiful young teenage girl did a tribute to her slain friends.

The perp was a "crazy", a thug probably doped up on redbull and drugs. There's heaps of them around you've only got to make eye contact and they're in your face. They travel around from city to city, sponging off do gooder charities.

A sad state of affairs.

[mapuc]

Copenhagen's historic stock exchange in flames

The 17th Century Børsen is one of the city's oldest buildings and onlookers gasped as its iconic spire collapsed in the flames.

Everyone inside the building was able to leave and people rushed to rescue some of its historic paintings.

Culture minister Jakob Engel-Schmidt said 400 years of Danish cultural heritage had gone up in flames.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68824189

Markus

[Jimbuna]

A 9-year-old boy’s dream of a pet octopus is a sensation as thousands follow Terrance’s story online

The one thing 9-year-old Cal Clifford wanted more than anything since he was a toddler was a pet octopus.

The boy’s family in rural Edmond, Oklahoma, humored him with toy versions of an eight-legged mollusk, but as Cal got older it became clear that only the real thing would do.

The child’s father, 36-year-old dentist Cameron Clifford, researched the possibility with a local aquarium store and before long Terrance the California two-spot octopus, also known as a bimac, was living in a watery enclosure at the family home southwest of Oklahoma City.

“We really like to encourage our children’s interests,” said the older Clifford. “It’s magical to see a kid embrace their dreams and bring them to fruition. Cal has been infatuated with the natural world and with marine biology since he was very little.”

A popular TikTok saga was launched with the father narrating the tale of Terrance the cephalopod, using a faux British accent generated by the social media app. Eventually, hundreds of thousands of people were following.

Within weeks, the tale took an surprise twist when it was learned Terrance was actually a female as it laid some 50 eggs that the family initially assumed were unfertilized. Several weeks after that, teeny near-transparent octopus babies began hatching and were given names like Rocket Larry, Squid Cudi, Swim Shady, Jay-Sea and Sea-Yoncé

Cal had burst into tears at the family dinner table when his father first announced that the local aquarium store had told him adopting an octopus would be possible.

Father and son together researched what was needed, deciding on a saltwater tank and water cycling system and ensuring they would be able to source food for the soft-bodied sea creature.

The family’s younger son Lyle and mom Kari also joined the project in their own ways. A family friend who is a reptile scientist has provided support and advice.

While female octopuses usually die soon after laying their eggs, Clifford said Terrance remains alive four months later.

Clifford said the family has gained much from the experience.

“Aside from the physical, financial and emotional requirements of owning a species such as a bimac, you will learn a lot about yourself in the process,” the Arizona-born Clifford told TikTok followers in his app-generated accent. “There’s always some valve or seal that’s not completely closed, and your storm resistant carpet isn’t rated for gallons and gallons of seawater. You’ll learn that seawater and electricity don’t always get along.”

“You will learn new things and meet incredible people and will learn that wildlife is magnificent,” he added. “But most of all, you’ll learn to love a not-so-tiny octopus like Terrance.”
https://apnews.com/article/octopus-p...aa69ce7171dcf4