Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Support the French! Viva Democracy! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (7579)	1/14/2024 9:39:13 PM
From: Maple MAGA	1 Recommendation Recommended By Mick Mørmøny Respond to of 7833

I just watched Joan of Arc, one lesson of history is very clear, never trust French bureaucracy.

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (7579)	1/30/2024 11:43:19 AM
From: Maple MAGA	1 Recommendation Recommended By Mick Mørmøny Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7833

Ireland: Muslim activist says she is offended by Irish humor and ‘this needs to change in the Irish community’ JAN 29, 2024 5:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER 48 COMMENTS It doesn’t even seem to occur to Ala Buisir that she may not be universally recognized as the one who is dictating the terms. She knows the Irish have surrendered, and that she and her allies are in charge. So she casually and firmly issues orders for the subject people. Irlande : une activiste musulmane se sent souvent offensée par l'humour irlandais et affirme que "cela doit changer dans la communauté irlandaise" pic.twitter.com/hgkECRGrzQ — Jean-Robert (@Jean_Robert_29) January 25, 2024 “Ireland: A Muslim activist says on public television that she often feels offended by Irish humour and that ‘this needs to change in the Irish community,'” Medforth, January 25, 2024: Ala Buisir is a member of the Muslim community who grew up in Dundrum in Dublin. Through photography and her film-making, she tries to highlight racism, the War on Terror, and discrimination that asylum seekers face…. “A person looks at you and then, they’ll give you some stereotype joke. And you’ll say, it’s not a joke it’s something serious that you shouldn’t be saying. “But then you’ll get, ah we’re Irish, we need to make a laugh out of something. That needs to change within the Irish community. As much as I’m Irish, that’s the one thing that kind of annoys me.”

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (7579)	2/10/2024 2:05:02 AM
From: Maple MAGA	1 Recommendation Recommended By Mick Mørmøny Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7833

French matchstick Eiffel Tower record bid ruled out over wrong matches 2 days ago By Hugh Schofield BBC News, París Richard Plaud/Facebook Richard Plaud has spent eight years building his Eiffel Tower, only to find he used the wrong kind of match A French model-enthusiast who wanted to beat the world record for a matchstick Eiffel Tower has had his hopes dashed. Richard Plaud, 47, from Montpellier-de-Médillan in western France, was told by the Guinness World Records that his 7.19m (23ft) tower did not qualify because he had used the wrong kind of matches. "It's part of my dream that's vanished," he told reporters. His model took eight years, 706,900 matches and 23kg of glue to build. The final piece of wood was carefully glued into place on 27 December, 100 years to the day since the death of the engineer Gustav Eiffel. After that, he put the 1/45th scale model on display and contacted the Guinness World Records team so they could authenticate his work. But that was where it all went pear-shaped, because Mr Plaud had made a fundamental error. Realising that the most annoying part of the job was going to be shaving off hundreds of thousands of bits of sulphur from individual matchsticks, he contacted the match manufacturer. They supplied him with kilos of sulphur-less matches - in other words sticks without the red part at the end. Perfect for building, but technically not real matches. Unfortunately for him, the Guinness World Records rules stipulate that only "commercially available" matches qualify for a record-breaker. "They reckoned that my matches weren't available for sale. So they didn't qualify," said Mr Plaud. "It's pretty astonishing, and actually rather annoying. Not exactly fair play. What hurts most is that they don't acknowledge the work that I put in, the time I spent, the mental energy - because I can tell you it was not easy." He hopes to put his tower on display in Paris for the Olympics in July. Meanwhile the Guinness record stays in Lebanon - where Toufic Daher built a 6.53m Eiffel Tower in 2009.