is there a term for that look?
Resting Cronenberg Face.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 02:21 (two years ago) link
Never heard of these guys so before I got to the before pics and the plastic surgery part of the article I kind of thought their look was due to being “descended from Austrian nobility” where the nobles were a bit too closely related
― joygoat, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 03:07 (two years ago) link
Resting Wildenstein face.
― the thin blue lying (suzy), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 08:20 (two years ago) link
lol immediately who I thought of too
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 11:17 (two years ago) link
Charlie Harper of UK Subs caught covid on tour just before Christmas but is now on the mend
― bovarism, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 12:05 (two years ago) link
Charlie is 77, 78 this year!
― I Can't See Gervais In My Mind (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 12:17 (two years ago) link
Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff became France's most famous twins, hosting a TV science and science-fiction show in the 1980s on a spaceship set.
They died of coronavirus within days of each other in hospital, Grichka on 28 December and his brother on Monday.
Aged 72, the brothers had not been vaccinated against Covid-19.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, January 4, 2022 1:42 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
science should be in quotes there, i think
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanov_affair
― Punster McPunisher, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 16:58 (two years ago) link
i can understand how they got so popular, but why they got PhDs is probably nothing short of a miracle worked by greed and corruption
Grichka Bogdanov was given a Ph.D. by the University of Burgundy (Dijon) in 1999, though this doctorate is sometimes erroneously described as having been granted by the École Polytechnique. He originally applied for a degree in physics, but was instead given one in mathematics, and was first required to significantly rewrite his thesis, de-emphasizing the physics content. Around the same time, Igor Bogdanov failed the defense of his thesis. His advisors subsequently agreed to allow him to obtain a doctorate if he could publish three peer-reviewed journal articles. In 2002, after publishing the requisite articles, Igor was given a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Burgundy. Both of the brothers received the lowest passing grade of "honorable", which is seldom given, as Daniel Sternheimer told The New York Times science reporter Dennis Overbye. In justifying the conferring of doctoral degrees to the Bogdanovs, Sternheimer told the Times, "These guys worked for 10 years without pay. They have the right to have their work recognized with a diploma, which is nothing much these days."In 2001 and 2002 the brothers published five papers in peer-reviewed physics journals, including Annals of Physics and Classical and Quantum Gravity. The controversy over the Bogdanovs' work began on October 22, 2002, with an email sent by University of Tours physicist Max Niedermaier to University of Pittsburgh physicist Ezra T. Newman. Niedermaier suggested that the Bogdanovs' Ph.D. theses and papers were "spoofs", created by throwing together instances of theoretical-physics jargon, including terminology from string theory: "The abstracts are delightfully meaningless combinations of buzzwords ... which apparently have been taken seriously." Copies of the email reached American mathematical physicist John Baez, and on 23 October he created a discussion thread about the Bogdanovs' work on the Usenet newsgroup sci.physics.research, titled "Physics bitten by reverse Alan Sokal hoax?" Baez was comparing the Bogdanovs' publications to the 1996 Sokal affair, in which physicist Alan Sokal successfully submitted an intentionally nonsensical paper to a cultural studies journal in order to criticize that field's lax standards for discussing science. The Bogdanovs quickly became a popular discussion topic, with most respondents agreeing that the papers were flawed. The story spread in public media, prompting Niedermaier to offer an apology to the Bogdanovs, admitting that he had not read the papers firsthand. The Bogdanovs' background in entertainment lent some plausibility to the idea that they were attempting a deliberate hoax, but Igor Bogdanov quickly denied the accusation.
In 2001 and 2002 the brothers published five papers in peer-reviewed physics journals, including Annals of Physics and Classical and Quantum Gravity. The controversy over the Bogdanovs' work began on October 22, 2002, with an email sent by University of Tours physicist Max Niedermaier to University of Pittsburgh physicist Ezra T. Newman. Niedermaier suggested that the Bogdanovs' Ph.D. theses and papers were "spoofs", created by throwing together instances of theoretical-physics jargon, including terminology from string theory: "The abstracts are delightfully meaningless combinations of buzzwords ... which apparently have been taken seriously." Copies of the email reached American mathematical physicist John Baez, and on 23 October he created a discussion thread about the Bogdanovs' work on the Usenet newsgroup sci.physics.research, titled "Physics bitten by reverse Alan Sokal hoax?" Baez was comparing the Bogdanovs' publications to the 1996 Sokal affair, in which physicist Alan Sokal successfully submitted an intentionally nonsensical paper to a cultural studies journal in order to criticize that field's lax standards for discussing science. The Bogdanovs quickly became a popular discussion topic, with most respondents agreeing that the papers were flawed. The story spread in public media, prompting Niedermaier to offer an apology to the Bogdanovs, admitting that he had not read the papers firsthand. The Bogdanovs' background in entertainment lent some plausibility to the idea that they were attempting a deliberate hoax, but Igor Bogdanov quickly denied the accusation.
this part is pretty funny:
At the start of the controversy in the moderated group sci.physics.research, Igor Bogdanov denied that their published papers were a hoax, but when asked precise questions from physicists Steve Carlip and John Baez regarding mathematical details in the papers, failed to convince any other participants that these papers had any real scientific value. The New York Times reporter George Johnson described reading through the debate as "like watching someone trying to nail Jell-O to a wall", for the Bogdanovs had "developed their own private language, one that impinges on the vocabulary of science only at the edges."
― Punster McPunisher, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 17:10 (two years ago) link
obits/posts from a couple of physicists who had contact with them
https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=12626
https://motls.blogspot.com/2022/01/igor-and-grichka-bogdanoff-1949-20212022.html (fair warning, this guy is himself crackers)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 17:23 (two years ago) link
stuck to her guns:
A deputy district attorney from California who regularly spoke out against vaccine mandates has died of complications from Covid-19.
Kelly Ernby, 46, a prosecutor from Orange county, southern California, who recently ran for the state assembly, died after contracting the virus, her family and friends have said.
According to Ernby’s husband, Axel Mattias Ernby, Kelly Ernby was unvaccinated at the time of her death.
“She was NOT vaccinated. That’s the problem,” Axel Ernby said on social media posts...
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 6 January 2022 20:19 (two years ago) link
i believe this means we’re full circle and the pandemic is…. over? https://t.co/UORfsaH3Dd— Sam Stein (@samstein) January 6, 2022
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 6 January 2022 22:29 (two years ago) link
the legendary Drama King DJ Kay Slay has been in the hospital for 14 days w/covid and is on a ventilator :(
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 6 January 2022 22:53 (two years ago) link
Goddamn, I haven't thought about Lubos Motl in a decade or more and he just went right along being Lubos Motl didn't he
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 6 January 2022 22:59 (two years ago) link
i think he got fired but yes
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 6 January 2022 23:02 (two years ago) link
sad to hear about kay slay, that's fucked
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 8 January 2022 06:37 (two years ago) link
AOC.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 9 January 2022 23:32 (two years ago) link
lol, and after that whole omg AOC was socializing in Florida! bs.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 10 January 2022 00:44 (two years ago) link
Apparently Glenn Beck has it ... again.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 13 January 2022 21:54 (two years ago) link
what, an STD?
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Thursday, 13 January 2022 22:22 (two years ago) link
he's with child!
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 January 2022 22:22 (two years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/19/czech-folk-singer-hana-horka-dies-after-deliberately-contracting-covid
― Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 January 2022 18:23 (two years ago) link
Reading that just made me incredibly sad for her son. Imagine how painful that would be to watch the entire process play out in front of your eyes with the predictable tragic result.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 January 2022 18:27 (two years ago) link
sad and bewildering
― Nhex, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 20:38 (two years ago) link
Guitarist ‘Big Merv' Shields of notorious #Nazi band #Screwdriver, instrumental in the notorious Blood and Honour neo-Nazi music network, had died from #Covid.He was unvaccinated and called Covid a ‘Leftie Jewish Plot.’ pic.twitter.com/kSFLWfv04Q— John O'Connell (@jdpoc) January 23, 2022
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Sunday, 23 January 2022 22:12 (two years ago) link
sweet!
― calzino, Sunday, 23 January 2022 22:24 (two years ago) link
i guess it worked
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 23 January 2022 22:33 (two years ago) link
Guess the plot worked
― frogbs, Sunday, 23 January 2022 22:33 (two years ago) link
heyyyyyyo
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 23 January 2022 22:35 (two years ago) link
news article on it here. lol at the caption for the second photo
https://www.sundayworld.com/news/northern-ireland-news/infamous-neo-nazi-skinhead-band-member-dies-of-covid-complications-in-co-antrim-hospital-41244638.html
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Sunday, 23 January 2022 22:39 (two years ago) link
that article's tone is all over the place, wild
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 23 January 2022 22:45 (two years ago) link
the Sunday world isn't exactly our paper of record tbh I'm surprised they didn't find a way to get a pic of someone in a bikini in there
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Sunday, 23 January 2022 23:24 (two years ago) link
Sarah Palin has tested positive for Covid, forcing a delay in the trial for her defamation suit against the NYT. She is not vaccinated, per the judge.— Jeremy W. Peters (@jwpetersNYT) January 24, 2022
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 January 2022 15:32 (two years ago) link
Actually, I believe the quote from the judge was "Of course, she is not vaccinated."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 January 2022 15:36 (two years ago) link
lol it was “She is, of course, unvaccinated.”
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 January 2022 15:37 (two years ago) link
her second go-round with the virus, iirc
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 24 January 2022 15:55 (two years ago) link
You gotta dance with the one that brung ya.
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 22:05 (two years ago) link
Marc Maron
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 22:08 (two years ago) link
Laurence Fox. Imagine being this much of a turd, it must be hell inside his head.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/jan/30/laurence-fox-has-coronavirus-and-taking-ivermectin
― build back a better mousetrap (Matt #2), Sunday, 30 January 2022 17:41 (two years ago) link
Hahahahaha
― the thin blue lying (suzy), Sunday, 30 January 2022 17:50 (two years ago) link
oh fuck him, hope he dies, and get Viktor Orban next
― Neanderthal, Saturday, October 24, 2020 12:42 PM bookmarkflaglink
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Sunday, 30 January 2022 18:10 (two years ago) link
I don't understand this thread
― JacobSanders, Sunday, 30 January 2022 18:13 (two years ago) link
It's a super spreader thread
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Sunday, 30 January 2022 18:14 (two years ago) link
goatse is thataway pal
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Monday, 31 January 2022 00:36 (two years ago) link
Liz Truss has tested positive for covid. She attended the packed meeting of Tory MPs and ministers in Portcullis House this evening, leaving before it finished. She was not wearing a mask.— Kate McCann (@KateEMcCann) January 31, 2022
― groovypanda, Monday, 31 January 2022 20:42 (two years ago) link
Prince Andrew's mother has it
― StanM, Sunday, 20 February 2022 13:36 (two years ago) link
whoever's job it is to massage her bunions and wipe her arse better get some medical grade ppe!
― calzino, Sunday, 20 February 2022 13:40 (two years ago) link
Could be Andrew's chance to shine.
― Blu Ray Davies (Tom D.), Sunday, 20 February 2022 15:01 (two years ago) link
John Toshack
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/breaking-toshack-intensive-care-covid-26340297
― Meet the Irish Queer Archive Poet In Residence (Tom D.), Sunday, 27 February 2022 11:45 (two years ago) link
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/13/politics/barack-obama-covid-positive/index.html
― StanM, Sunday, 13 March 2022 22:11 (two years ago) link