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Wagonlitz · Mar 5, 2017

Due to it today being 10 years since the demolishion of the youth house started DR had compiled a list of facts about it.

Turns out that the house, back when it still was the Worker's House, was where the Women's International Day was invented and declared during the Second Socialist International. I.e. every woman can thank that house for having an International Day.

And that Lenin visited the house.
Also turns out that the Lord Mayor, who got a pucket of water poured over his head as thanks for giving the house to the youth, regretted two things when he stopped as Lord Mayor in 1989. Having given the house to the youth and having abolishing the trams of Copenhagen in 1971.
(And you can add Green Day to the list of bands to have toured the house.)

Wagonlitz · Mar 9, 2017

Just laugh of us if you want.

Today a man, Tim Henrik Bruun Hansen, has escaped from prison. He was serving an indefinite sentence (i.e. harsher than life in prison in that you can't ask for parole and have to be in medical treatment and only can be released if the doctors say you're cured) for molesting small girls. If one sees him, one should not contact him, but instead call police.
The way he escaped? He was on leave from the prison, and while being on this leave he decided to escape and hence did not return to prison once his leave was over. (He had a man with him tasked to make sure he didn't escape, but that man was not able to stop him from escaping.)

jeray2000 · Mar 9, 2017

Wagonlitz said:
Just laugh of us if you want.

What does this mean?

Ithvan · Mar 9, 2017

jeray2000 said:
What does this mean?

Laugh at [Wagon/Denmark], I presume. Regardless, I don't think he's stupid enough to escape to CCTV: the Country (i.e. the UK).

In unrelated news, I'll be having a couple of beers with JCan this weekend. I can't promise how hygge it will be, but hey.

LatinKaiser · Mar 9, 2017

Wagonlitz said:
Just laugh of us if you want.

Today a man, Tim Henrik Bruun Hansen, has escaped from prison. He was serving an indefinite sentence (i.e. harsher than life in prison in that you can't ask for parole and have to be in medical treatment and only can be released if the doctors say you're cured) for molesting small girls. If one sees him, one should not contact him, but instead call police.
The way he escaped? He was on leave from the prison, and while being on this leave he decided to escape and hence did not return to prison once his leave was over. (He had a man with him tasked to make sure he didn't escape, but that man was not able to stop him from escaping.)

Reminds me of the Willie Horton incident. Hopefully this guy doesn't kill anyone (or commit any other, unmentionable, crimes) while he's on the run.

Sleepyhead · Mar 9, 2017

Ithvan said:
Laugh at [Wagon/Denmark], I presume. Regardless, I don't think he's stupid enough to escape to CCTV: the Country (i.e. the UK).

In unrelated news, I'll be having a couple of beers with JCan this weekend. I can't promise how hygge it will be, but hey.

Is he old enough to drink?

Ithvan · Mar 9, 2017

If bartenders over in his place of abode are anything like the ~~wankers~~ Puritans over here, he likely has to show some ID every now and again. Other than that, you'll get more information as I reach the frontlines.

Wagonlitz · Mar 9, 2017

jeray2000 said:
What does this mean?

That you're welcome to make fun of us for how we allow even the most dangerous criminals to go on leave.
It reminded me of a South Park sketch of Canadian prisons where an inmate is allowed to leave on promise of returning.
This escape by the way isn't the first time somebody has abused his leave to escape. Depending on how dangerous the criminal is he might be allowed to be completely alone on his leave, i.e. nobody is checking what he does or where he is, and he's then supposed to report at the prison gate once his leave is over. Similarly when you originally go to prison then often you're told that you have to report at the prison gate at a specific date, and nobody checks whether you actually go underground before that date.

Ithvan said:
Regardless, I don't think he's stupid enough to escape to CCTV: the Country (i.e. the UK).

My guess is that he stays in the country. Perhaps gets a van and tries to catch children. (At the moment we have some problems with men in vans trying to grab children from the streets.)

Ithvan said:
In unrelated news, I'll be having a couple of beers with JCan this weekend. I can't promise how hygge it will be, but hey.

Why wouldn't it be hyggeligt?

LatinKaiser said:
Reminds me of the Willie Horton incident. Hopefully this guy doesn't kill anyone (or commit any other, unmentionable, crimes) while he's on the run.

Yeah lets hope he's caught before he does something bad.
And it's escapes like this which is the reason I don't think that dangerous criminals should be allowed to go on leave from prison. Only non dangerous criminals, like fraudsters, economic criminals, etc. (i.e. people in open prisons) should be allowed to take leave from prison in my opinion.

Sleepyhead said:
Is he old enough to drink?

The UK isn't the US; really doubt they have age restriction on when you can drink. Though if they go to a bar there might be an age restriction to enter.

LatinKaiser · Mar 9, 2017

Wagonlitz said:
The UK isn't the US; really doubt they have age restriction on when you can drink. Though if they go to a bar there might be an age restriction to enter.

AFAIK the drinking age is 18 in the UK.

Ithvan · Mar 9, 2017

LatinKaiser said:
AFAIK the drinking age is 18 in the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge_21
IME, Challenge 25 is more common. Plus, I don't look like a crack addict and I'm 23 years old so I get asked for my ID nearly every time.

LatinKaiser · Mar 10, 2017

Ithvan · Mar 10, 2017

LatinKaiser said:

An admirable synthesis of the British approach to anything involving cardinal numbers.

Wagonlitz · Mar 10, 2017

Take a look at this; it's absolutely ridiculous.
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...like-this-still-get-elected-confused.1004194/

Jacksonian Missionary · Mar 10, 2017

Wagonlitz said:
Take a look at this; it's absolutely ridiculous.
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...like-this-still-get-elected-confused.1004194/

Shitty people will always be up for elections and have the possibility of winning them, this is nothing new. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were our candidates this past election.

Wagonlitz · Mar 10, 2017

Jacksonian Missionary said:
Shitty people will always be up for elections and have the possibility of winning them, this is nothing new. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were our candidates this past election.

Still. This is one notch on the crazy scale above even Trump.

Also to LK, ramius, and others on probation then this is the OP of that thread:

So at present 732000 people have signed a petition to have Polish politician Janusz Korwin-Mikke expulged from the EU parliament due to his various speeches. The latest being pointing out how in the latest Polish theoretical physics olympics the best woman came in 800th, and that no women are among the best 100 chess players, how women are weaker, smaller, and less intelligent and hence must earn less than men due to that.
In listing male inventions he also adds, that the mop was invented by a black man.

In the past he has also called refugees human trash, stated that Germany is erecting new KZs in Poland to house the refugees, asked whether to just shoot the refugees at the border, made a nazi salute inside the EU parliament, and much else.

According to DR he also has stated that Hitler knew nothing about the holocaust---can't find any English video with him stating that on youtube though. But there's plenty of Polish videos where he at least mentions Hitler, but since I don't speak Polish I have no idea in which context he mentions Hitler. @pithorr has this man genuinely stated that Hitler knew nothing about the holocaust?

And this is just a small selection of the amount of ridiculous statements of his which are available on youtube.

As mentioned I'm really surprised how men like him can get elected in this day and age.

Jacksonian Missionary · Mar 10, 2017

I can't say I'm all that well versed in Polish politics, but I imagine that he ran on a campaign that didn't involve such language and accusations but was on that fine line between anti-immigration conservativism and straight up racism/sexism. I can't imagine he could get elected on rhetoric worse than Trump's.

LatinKaiser · Mar 10, 2017

I like to say that democracy is people voting for what they want and getting what they deserve.

To quote George Carlin, "If you have selfish, ignorant citizens you're gonna have selfish, ignorant leaders."

JCan · Mar 10, 2017

Sleepyhead said:
Is he old enough to drink?

Me?
I'm older than you'd think, sonny Jim.

Cliges · Mar 10, 2017

I'm not laughing about this at all, Wagonlitz.

@Ithvan I think I give up. Jcan apparently holds charms greater than my own.

Ithvan · Mar 10, 2017

Cliges said:
I'm not laughing about this at all, Wagonlitz.

@Ithvan I think I give up. Jcan apparently holds charms greater than my own.

He's living in Welthaupstadt Londen, and that's slightly easier to reach than Transatlantic Virginia.

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