Mescal posted:

Well, the thing about strip clubs is you get to look at boobs

PubicMice posted:

I have the internet. I don't need to go to a loud, smelly club to get drunk and look at attractive strangers I can't touch and who will never care about me, I can do that from the comfort of my own home.

The Bloop posted:

Look, seeing live theatre is high culture watching a movie at home is low culture.

Same with tits.

Samuringa posted:

https://twitter.com/YahooFinance/status/1194281516106424320

"Vapers lives matter"

quote:

PG&E’s lawyers have requested proof — understandably, a whole lot of proof — after a married couple claimed the 2018 Camp Fire destroyed a massive $280 million emerald they’d been keeping in their Paradise home.

The so-called “Beleza Emerald” is described in court documents as a 500-pound “solid block of black schist and quartz with green crystals.” PG&E’s attorneys write that the alleged owners, in an insurance claim filed July 15 to Pacific Gas and Electric Co., say the state’s deadliest and most destructive wildfire in recorded history damaged or destroyed their precious gem as it sat in their home on Edgewood Lane in Paradise.

That item was among several termed “suspicious” by lawyers for PG&E and its debtors in a court filing last Friday, an effort to lower the estimate on its financial liability for the disaster. The beleaguered utility declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this year and remains entrenched in legal battles as it processes tens of thousands of insurance claims related to the devastating November 2018 Camp Fire, which killed 85 people and for which PG&E has been found liable.

...

In a letter to U.S. District Judge James Donato of the Northern District of California, attorneys for PG&E and its debtors allege that seven individual claimants have “collectively asserted over $350 million in damages,” coming from “duplicative and/or exceptionally large monetary claims, which appear suspicious.” The Beleza Emerald would make up about 80 percent of that figure.

quote:

The $280 million emerald would be remarkable, if it in fact existed. A list of top emeralds sold by Christie’s auction house maxes out at around $6 million. A nearly 800-pound emerald found in Brazil in 2017 was valued at about $309 million, according to a Forbes report. As comparison, the famed Hope diamond is valued between $250 million and $350 million.

It was unclear exactly how the couple claimed the emerald was destroyed. While the Camp fire burned hot enough to melt aluminum — which has a melting point of 1,221 degrees Fahrenheit — emeralds start to degrade at temperatures around 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit

A Google search found no record of a “Beleza Emerald.”

According to Realtor.com, the house in question was an 8-bedroom, 4,400-square-foot home in Paradise with an estimated value of $586,000 — raising further doubts that it contained a gem worth more than 477 times the price of the house.

Knormal posted:

Paradise couple claims Camp Fire destroyed their $280 million emerald. PG&E wants proof

Was a $280 million emerald destroyed in California wildfire? PG&E is dubious

Good luck with that one guys.

Tunicate posted:

People can do whatever they want to opossums for 5 days in NC. Some want that changed
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article237510559.html

M_Sinistrari posted:

This made me go look up if gemstones can burn because I've never heard of such a thing.

Blue Moonlight posted:

I like how the article describes how the law came about, but makes no effort to explain how or why a town came to cherish the tradition of lowering an opossum in a plastic box to ring in the new year.

Edit:


Jet fuel can’t melt giant emeralds.

Tunicate posted:

People can do whatever they want to opossums for 5 days in NC. Some want that changed
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article237510559.html

Blue Moonlight posted:

I like how the article describes how the law came about, but makes no effort to explain how or why a town came to cherish the tradition of lowering an opossum in a plastic box to ring in the new year.

M_Sinistrari posted:

This made me go look up if gemstones can burn because I've never heard of such a thing. Apparently they can depending on the impurities in the stone and the harder the stone the hotter the temperature has to be. Emeralds apparently turn into phenacite when burned. Hopefully some knowledgeable in gemstones goon could confirm or give more detail on this.

jojoinnit posted:

Whenever somebody says "you can do whatever you want" I assume it's a sex thing. A sexy opossum purge. How do the possums feel about it, or are they getting hosed to death in a new years tradition too?

Don Gato posted:

Tradition is peer pressure from dead people, no one knows how it started but by God they're gonna keep doing it

Don Gato posted:

Tradition is peer pressure from dead people, no one knows how it started but by Torah they're gonna keep doing it

By popular demand posted:

As a jew I can confirm.

Knormal posted:

Paradise couple claims Camp Fire destroyed their $280 million emerald. PG&E wants proof


Was a $280 million emerald destroyed in California wildfire? PG&E is dubious

Good luck with that one guys.

M_Sinistrari posted:

This made me go look up if gemstones can burn because I've never heard of such a thing. Apparently they can depending on the impurities in the stone and the harder the stone the hotter the temperature has to be. Emeralds apparently turn into phenacite when burned. Hopefully some knowledgeable in gemstones goon could confirm or give more detail on this.

Don Gato posted:

Tradition is peer pressure from dead people, no one knows how it started but by God they're gonna keep doing it

quote:

"Ron Brinton made a comment that he saw a porcupine running down Main Street on the way to work that morning," Wooters said. "I said 'That's it. Why not have a porcupine race?' "

Inceltown posted:

I live in an area where putting a dead kangaroo in a shopping trolley and taking it on a pub crawl is a thing so can safely say "what the gently caress, peta were right".

Captain Hygiene posted:

Church accidentally builds giant baby Jesus statue resembling Phil Collins

Sir Lemming posted:

So it was, as soon as Moses came near the camp, that he saw the Israelites air-drumming "In The Air Tonight". And Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you that you have brought so great a sin upon them?” So Aaron said, “You know the people, that they are set on evil. For they said to me, ‘Make us gods that shall go before us.’ And I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold, let them break it off.’ So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came Baby Phil Collins.”

Sir Lemming posted:

So it was, as soon as Moses came near the camp, that he saw the Israelites air-drumming "In The Air Tonight". And Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you that you have brought so great a sin upon them?” So Aaron said, “You know the people, that they are set on evil. For they said to me, ‘Make us gods that shall go before us.’ And I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold, let them break it off.’ So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came Baby Phil Collins.”

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

I thought that was called Lemon Party

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

Book 1: Genesis

chitoryu12 posted:

Illinois teen tries to sell classmate as slave on Craigslist

Captain Hygiene posted:

Church accidentally builds giant baby Jesus statue resembling Phil Collins

Captain Hygiene posted:

Church accidentally builds giant baby Jesus statue resembling Phil Collins

dumb. posted:

Memento posted:

I've been drunk enough to sing Khe Sanh at karaoke

I've been drunk enough to vomit out the window of a cop car

I've never been drunk enough to put a dead kangaroo in a shopping cart

wtf Inceltown-town.