Oddly enough

[StLGooner]

It's crazy to me how much food some people can put away, amazing! They actually show those hotdog eating contest here on ESPN once a year. I think the winner usually eats about 80 or so. Wow!

However, after I hear about or watch these type of things, I always think about the small kid in a 3rd world country somewhere that hasn't ate in a couple of days, and here we have people stuffing themselves to the point of puking for a competition. The world is f***ked ain't it!

[Zenith]

[Phil71]

How to lighten the mood at a funeral.

Dancing pallbearers.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-afric ... uneral-joy

[Zenith]

[Phil71]

Ha ha.

[Zenith]

Tom Hollander says he received seven-figure Avengers bonus meant for Tom Holland

British actor says his agency once sent him the Marvel star’s box office bonus by mistake

British actor and White Lotus villain Tom Hollander often gets mistaken for Spiderman star Tom Holland, but occasionally it works in his favour – like when he got the other man’s seven-figure film bonus.

“It’s been very difficult, because you know I was here first but he’s enormously famous,” Hollander told Late Night host Seth Meyers. “I don’t actually get mistaken for him, but in non-visual contexts I get mistaken for him all the time.”
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Hollander, who also had turns in Pirates of the Caribbean and Pride and Prejudice, at one time shared an agent with the younger Marvel star.

The 56-year-old told Meyers how he got the mistaken bonus while watching a play in which a friend was acting for £300 a week. “I sat smugly in the audience having just done a BBC show for 30 grand or something which was gonna get me through the next year or so, and I was thinking ‘well this is marvellous, I’m very prosperous’ ...

“And I’m going to go afterwards and see him [my friend] and slightly patronise him and say how wonderful it was. And then the interval came and I thought I’d check my emails.”

That was when he found the message containing a payslip – intended for Holland – labelled as the first tranche of a box office bonus for The Avengers.

“It was an astonishing amount of money,” Hollander said. “It was not his salary. It was his first box office bonus. Not the whole box office bonus, the first one. And it was more money than I’d ever [seen]. It was a seven-figure sum.”

“My feeling of smugness disappeared,” he said.

Hollander also said he was sometimes introduced to “excited, then confused, then disappointed children” who probably thought they were meeting Spider-Man.

Hollander was promoting his forthcoming series Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, in which he plays American writer Truman Capote.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... fice-bonus

[Zenith]

7 Engineers Suspended After $2.3 Million Bridge Includes Bizarre 90-Degree Turn



Ever had to make a 90-degree turn on a bridge? No? That’s the problem. In India, seven engineers just got suspended for designing exactly that.

A brand-new $2.3 million bridge in Bhopal, India, is going viral—not because it solved traffic, but because it bends at nearly a 90-degree angle. Now, seven engineers have been suspended, a retired official is facing investigation, and the construction firms behind the project have been blacklisted.

The 648-meter Rail Over Bridge (ROB) was supposed to connect Mahamai Ka Bagh and New Bhopal, easing congestion and slashing wait times for up to 300,000 daily commuters. Instead, it’s become a punchline and a cautionary tale.

Photos of the sharp turn, which appears midway through the elevated roadway, exploded on Indian social media, prompting disbelief and concern. Drivers expressed confusion about how to navigate the turn safely. Others wondered how the project even got approved.

Chief Minister Mohan Yadav didn’t waste time. “Seven engineers, including two chief engineers, have been suspended with immediate effect,” he said, according to The Indian Express. “A departmental inquiry will be conducted against a retired sub-engineer. Both the construction agency and the design consultant have been blacklisted.”

According to official records, the design for the bridge shifted multiple times over the past seven years, largely due to conflicts between the Public Works Department (PWD) and the Railways. The two agencies couldn’t agree on how to share land, and in trying to work around both railway property and the new Metro line, they ended up producing a final layout with an abrupt 90-degree angle.

VD Verma, the project’s chief engineer, defended the layout, saying his team had no other option due to “limited land space” and the proximity of the Metro station. But critics argue that no one should ever have signed off on a turn that sharp.

Internal PWD documents show the original 2018 plan featured a more manageable 45-degree skew. That plan was scrapped after the Railways refused to approve construction on its land. A second design attempted to accommodate the Metro line. A third version adjusted for alignment errors, though the Railways later admitted that the final result “is neither fulfilling the functional requirement nor safe for road users.”

Now, Bhopal authorities are discussing buying additional land to fix the turn, but that means more money and more delays.

For commuters who hoped this project would ease daily travel, the bridge has become yet another example of bureaucratic infighting and design-by-compromise. For engineers, it’s a high-profile reminder that bad geometry can turn into political fallout very quickly.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7-engin ... gree-turn/