- If
you’re going to show up at a public waterpark, take off your clothes and let it
all hang out when you hurtle down the big water slide, there are certain risks
you run. Chlorinated water in places chlorinated water shouldn’t be, chafing
from hard plastic slides in unwelcome regions of your body….and apparently,
some perv with a drone and too much free time flying their unmanned aerial
craft above the park and possibly capturing footage of you floating down the
lazy river in all your glory. Panicked nudists at the Bernaqua waterpark in
Bern, Switzerland are worried that they may have been exposed after they spotted
a drone hovering above a sauna area more than once over the past few days. “A
customer told a lifeguard, who warned the security guards,” said Andrea Bauer,
a spokeswoman for the company that owns the waterpark. “The people who visit
that area are naked or wearing few clothes. Protecting their privacy is
therefore all the more important.” The park has women’s-only and mixed sauna
zones, both of which are nudist, and clearly no one in either area would want
anyone filming them at the park, especially without their knowledge. At this
point, it’s unclear whether the drone has a camera attached, but what is clear
is that flying a drone over a crowd is illegal in Switzerland. Figuring out who
the drone belongs to is a difficult proposition, but hopefully there was no
camera involved and whoever the drone belongs to realizes the sh*t storm they’ve
created and finds a better use of their time………
- Say
hello to Idaho State and Eastern Michigan, third-tier NCAA bowl games, and
goodbye to powerhouse programs in down years like Michigan, Florida and
Tennessee. In a crushing blow for bowl games that shouldn’t exist but do
because #cashgrab, the NCAA's Division I Council implemented a new rule this
week mandating that all bowl-eligible teams with 6-6 records must be chosen for
a bowl game before any teams with a 5-7 record can be considered. The council
made its move following a season in which only 77 teams were eligible for the
80 bowl slots, leaving three 5-7 teams to be granted waivers to play in bowl
games because of their APR scores. The fact that all of them -- Nebraska,
Minnesota and San Jose State -- won is irrelevant because even with the win,
THEY STILL FINISHED BELOW .500. Going forward, only after all bowl-eligible
teams are selected can teams with 5-7 records be considered, and their
eligibility will again be determined by the highest, most-recent multiyear APR
scores. "It's impossible to project how many eligible bowl teams we will
have," Big 12 conference commissioner and chair of the football oversight
committee Bob Bowlsby said in a statement. "We think we have a selection
process in the postseason that makes sense and is fair to the schools and the
bowls." Bowlsby admitted that raising the bowl-eligibility standard to 7-5
was not seriously considered in part because it would have "put a lot of
bowls out of business,” and at the end of the day, the NCAA and its bowl
partners are all about business above all else. Having too many bowl games
isn't a travesty and is more of a #firstworldproblem, but getting rid of a few
(and their regional trucking company or local wing joint sponsors) would have
been perfectly fine………
- It’s
no longer a convenient joke or an amusing story for news anchors to reference
in the closing minute of their half-hour broadcast as they prepare to sign off
for the night. On literally a weekly basis, a customer of a restaurant of some
kind is recoiling in horror and demanding justice because an employee uses a
derogatory term to label them on a bill or order form of some kind. Last week,
it was a Rhode Island bar patron who was dubbed “Fatty” by his server, who was
summarily fired by the bar’s owner - and his father - once the receipt went
viral on social media. Now, the trend is making an appearance in Kentucky,
where a Louisville Papa John's employee is out of a job after allegedly writing
a racist name on a customer's pizza order. The issue was actually brought to
light by Laura Cheifetz, who took to social media after her coworker’s friend,
who is Asian-American, ordered a pizza that was delivered to her with the words
“Ching Ching” on the label. Cheifetz tweeted the picture to Papa John's and
after what had to be plenty of cursing and quick damage-control planning at
corporate headquarters, the company used its official Twitter feed to respond
to Cheifetz and assure everyone that it had taken appropriate action against
the minimum wage earner who used the offensive word on the receipt. “This
action is inexcusable and doesn't reflect our company values. This employee is
no longer a member of the PJ's team,” the company wrote in a tweet. The ideal
result would be employees of eateries across the United States seeing all of
this and acting with a modicum of professionalism, but that clearly is not
going to happen……….
- After
seeing J.J. Abrams’ (mostly) well-received take on the Star Wars franchise and
knowing that there are plenty more movies in the series - and spin-offs - in
the works, it appears that a face of Star Wars’ past is looking on and thinking
he wants a piece of that lucrative action. Samuel L. Jackson believes his Star
Wars character Mace Windu could make a comeback even though it definitely
appeared that Windu was killed off in the über-forgettable “Revenge Of The Sith.”
In that movie, Jedi leader Windu had his arm severed by Anakin Skywalker before
being killed by Darth Sidious as he’s pushed over a ledge and suffers a long,
apparently fatal fall. Despite that strongly implied death, Jackson sounds like
a man who wants everyone to forget that he appeared in the three films of the
prequel trilogy - i.e. the three worst of the seven existing films in the
franchise - and accept that he could come back into the Star Wars universe just
like several other characters who returned in “The Force Awakens.” Jackson is
adamant that his character lives on somewhere in the galaxy far, far away. “Of
course he’s still alive. Jedi can fall from amazing distances, and there’s a
long history of one-handed Jedi. So why not?” Jackson said. “I told him (George
Lucas) my thoughts and George was ‘I’m OK with that. You can be alive.’” Of
course, Lucas has no involvement with Star Wars after selling the saga’s rights
to Disney, so neither his nor Jackson’s beliefs on Windu’s fate are of much
consequence at this point to those making the decisions on where the profitable
franchise goes from here………
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