Fantastic Headlines

[Steve]

Pirates of the Carribroken.. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12408069/Pirates-arrrrr-arrrgh-Moment-platform-collapses-sea-faring-amusement-park-sending-acrobats-plummeting-weeks-blaze-caused-German-theme-park-close.html

vorsprung durch gubnik?

[Barman]

Pirates of the Carribroken.. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12408069/Pirates-arrrrr-arrrgh-Moment-platform-collapses-sea-faring-amusement-park-sending-acrobats-plummeting-weeks-blaze-caused-German-theme-park-close.html

 

[Grumpmeister]

I got curious after hearing that TSG were suing the House of Mouse over 'Hollywood accounting' given they are a major entertainment financier so had a look around and found a copy of the complaint. I'm the first to admit I'm no legal expert but if I'm reading it right then it looks like breach of contract, fraud and tortuous interference. If this is correct then Disney has been a baaaaaaaaaad rodent.. 

https://deadline.com/2023/08/disney-lawsuit-film-finance-partner-tsg-hollywood-accounting-fox-streaming-1235520089/

https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/FINAL-TSG-Complaint.pdf

The cynic in me doesn't think this will ever make it to court as the discovery phase will mean all of their relevant financial documents will be in the public domain which would be a public relations nightmare not to mention that the SEC would have to step in and investigate. I can't see Disney settling out of court as they need all of their available capital and assets for the Hulu purchase and given what was said during the earnings call that could cost around $20bn so my guess is that they will drag it out through arbitration for as long as possible.

[Steve]

I got curious after hearing that TSG were suing the House of Mouse over 'Hollywood accounting' given they are a major entertainment financier so had a look around and found a copy of the complaint. I'm the first to admit I'm no legal expert but if I'm reading it right then it looks like breach of contract, fraud and tortuous interference. If this is correct then Disney has been a baaaaaaaaaad rodent.. 

https://deadline.com/2023/08/disney-lawsuit-film-finance-partner-tsg-hollywood-accounting-fox-streaming-1235520089/

https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/FINAL-TSG-Complaint.pdf

The cynic in me doesn't think this will ever make it to court as the discovery phase will mean all of their relevant financial documents will be in the public domain which would be a public relations nightmare not to mention that the SEC would have to step in and investigate. I can't see Disney settling out of court as they need all of their available capital and assets for the Hulu purchase and given what was said during the earnings call that could cost around $20bn so my guess is that they will drag it out through arbitration for as long as possible.

Disney backed down over Black Widow so will probably settle out of court again.  But as you say this does have a bad rodent smell about it

[Grumpmeister]

And now it looks like the Florida IG is going to start an investigation into potential financial 'irregularities' and misappropriation of documents during the time Disney had control of the RCID. 

https://youtu.be/WQZqJ_-WAO8

[Grumpmeister]

I'm guessing that elite soldier means brain dead fuckwit in Russian. Even as a cadet we knew better than to do something this bloody stupid.

One local account on VK social media said: 'During demonstration performances, the elite units decided to play 'a little joke' and began to shoot the audience, including children sitting on the podium, with blank cartridges.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12431953/Russian-soldiers-gun-audience-children-using-blank-firing-weapons.html

[Barman]

I'm guessing that elite soldier means brain dead fuckwit in Russian. Even as a cadet we knew better than to do something this bloody stupid.

One local account on VK social media said: 'During demonstration performances, the elite units decided to play 'a little joke' and began to shoot the audience, including children sitting on the podium, with blank cartridges.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12431953/Russian-soldiers-gun-audience-children-using-blank-firing-weapons.html

 

[Steve]

I'm guessing that elite soldier means brain dead fuckwit in Russian. Even as a cadet we knew better than to do something this bloody stupid.

One local account on VK social media said: 'During demonstration performances, the elite units decided to play 'a little joke' and began to shoot the audience, including children sitting on the podium, with blank cartridges.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12431953/Russian-soldiers-gun-audience-children-using-blank-firing-weapons.html

 

[Grumpmeister]

Complete fucking morons. I know that there are a number of community nurses, psychiatric nurses, midwives, social workers etc who drive SUV's because this is a rural county and they have patients/clients who live in out of the way locations where the roads are poor to say the least. And these fuckwits have decided to just deflate tyres en masse without checking to see if the owner was one of these workers.

Unfortunately as the majority of Devon and Cornwall police appear to be shall we say 'competency challenged' I have little faith that these tossers will be caught. 

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/climate-activists-deflate-tyres-more-8701680

[Steve]

Complete fucking morons. I know that there are a number of community nurses, psychiatric nurses, midwives, social workers etc who drive SUV's because this is a rural county and they have patients/clients who live in out of the way locations where the roads are poor to say the least. And these fuckwits have decided to just deflate tyres en masse without checking to see if the owner was one of these workers.

Unfortunately as the majority of Devon and Cornwall police appear to be shall we say 'competency challenged' I have little faith that these tossers will be caught. 

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/climate-activists-deflate-tyres-more-8701680

I'd drill holes in the vandals

[Grumpmeister]

I actually thought this was a Babylon Bee spoof when I first heard about it. The Department of Justice is suing Elon Musk and Spacex because they only are only hiring US citizens or legal residents. 

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-spacex-discriminating-against-asylees-and-refugees-hiring

[Grumpmeister]

Wait, let me get this straight. Two scrotes book into a hotel for a night with no luggage get bags from their car and magically their room is stripped almost bare, they are caught on CCTV doing it and the police question them at home but seem to do bugger all else. Now the police are telling the hotel to remove the video from their site as it is upsetting the light fingered arseholes? 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12446163/Beautician-boyfriend-cleared-hotel-room.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12448275/Police-tell-hotel-boss-remove-online-video-thieves-stripped-room-towels-lamps-fan-radio-kettle-tea-caddy-causing-distress.html

[Grumpmeister]

Were those Smugger shaped blurs I just saw speeding towards France..? 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12448995/France-pour-away-170m-wine-desperate-bid-stem-tumbling-prices-sales-crash.html

[Steve]

Were those Smugger shaped blurs I just saw speeding towards France..? 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12448995/France-pour-away-170m-wine-desperate-bid-stem-tumbling-prices-sales-crash.html

 
All shows how irrelevant French wine has become.

[apc2010]

Wait, let me get this straight. Two scrotes book into a hotel for a night with no luggage get bags from their car and magically their room is stripped almost bare, they are caught on CCTV doing it and the police question them at home but seem to do bugger all else. Now the police are telling the hotel to remove the video from their site as it is upsetting the light fingered arseholes? 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12446163/Beautician-boyfriend-cleared-hotel-room.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12448275/Police-tell-hotel-boss-remove-online-video-thieves-stripped-room-towels-lamps-fan-radio-kettle-tea-caddy-causing-distress.html