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[SM]

Just a few bad apples.

[Local Trouble]

[SiL]

Do they not realise the point about bad apples is they need to be removed really quickly so they don't spoil the bunch?

You don't just push them further down into the barrel.

[Local Trouble]

Do they not realise the point about bad apples is they need to be removed really quickly so they don't spoil the bunch?

Not when the bad apples are generally regarded as "good old boys" by the community.

[D. Compton Ambrose]

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/06/indian-jets-fly-galwan-china-blames-india-clash-200624105950727.html

Tashi Chhepal, a retired Indian army captain who has served in the area and is based in Leh, said the mobilisation was unprecedented in a sensitive region touching Pakistan as well as China.

"I haven't seen this kind of military movement before," he told AFP.

F**k

[Shinawi]

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/startling-images-reveal-coronavirus-forming-175319183.html

Startling images reveal coronavirus forming tentacles in cells. It may help identify new treatments.

Startling, never-before-seen images show that the new coronavirus hijacks proteins in our cells to create monstrous tentacles that branch out and may transmit infection to neighboring cells...

[SM]

Elder Signs might work.

[[cancerblack]]

Who decided that was just a pentacle with an eye? Always felt underwhelming.

[SM]

August Derleth I think.  It was popularised by the RPG.

[Local Trouble]

Has anyone ever pointed out Derleth's name sounds Lovecraftian by itself?

[SM]

I'm sure Derleth probably did.

[Local Trouble]

Who decided that was just a pentacle with an eye? Always felt underwhelming.

Sounds like Starro.

[[cancerblack]]

Who decided that was just a pentacle with an eye? Always felt underwhelming.

Sounds like Starro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYMui8JWkr8

I recognize that Pokemon.

[Shinawi]

According to this interview of a North Korean defector:

The Russian ambassador claiming that this was the reason:

https://news.yahoo.com/dirty-depiction-kims-wife-outraged-nkorea-russian-envoy-073746624.html

'Dirty' depiction of Kim's wife outraged NKorea: Russian envoy...

is just a smokescreen tactic.

According to the defector, there's a rumor in Pyongyang that Kim Jong-un is really not Kim Jong-il's son. The rumor is that a Japanese cook is really his father. Whoever is in charge of North Korea now (perhaps Kim's sister Kim Yo-jong) is angry because the defectors launched leaflets about the cook via balloon at North Korea...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/28/north-korean-leaders-japanese-chef-arrested-pyongyang/

...Mr Fujimoto, who served for 13 years as the personal sushi chef to Kim Jong-il, the former dictator, and as a playmate to Kim Jong-un when he was a child...

[Huggs]

So that Maxwell lady is ready to cooperate.

I wonder if it'll be the ol' "slip n fall" for this one?