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[hops]

It's white bread. No decent sandwich gets made on white.

I don't know about you, but I personally think rousong and chili paste sandwiches are better with white bread.

Zero Punctuation hasn't updated in two weeks, and absolutely no-one has said anything about it as far as I can tell.

You could say that they had

 

Zero Punctuation

[da_nang]

There's a big head of a pike on the sidewalk for no apparent reason. I'll assume it's the first sign of an apocalypse.

[mastahcheese]

There's a big head of a pike on the sidewalk for no apparent reason. I'll assume it's the first sign of an apocalypse.

A fish pike or a weapon pike?

[Mech#4]

There's a big head of a pike on the sidewalk for no apparent reason. I'll assume it's the first sign of an apocalypse.

You mean a spear/pike head or a fish/pike head?

Edit: Dammit. Mount the pike head on a pike to really confuse people.

[da_nang]

It's the fish pike.

[scrdest]

There's a big head of a pike on the sidewalk for no apparent reason. I'll assume it's the first sign of an apocalypse.

Nah, it just rains fish.

True story, first time I read that as 'there's a big head on a pike on the sidewalk.

[Flying Dice]

There's a big head of a pike on the sidewalk for no apparent reason. I'll assume it's the first sign of an apocalypse.

Nah, it just rains fish.

True story, first time I read that as 'there's a big head on a pike on the sidewalk.

Heads on pikes aren't a sign of the apocalypse, though, just an overly enthusiastic historical reenactment society.

[Fniff]

Zero Punctuation hasn't updated in two weeks, and absolutely no-one has said anything about it as far as I can tell.

You could say that they had

 

Zero Punctuation

You could say, since you have no full stops at the end of that, that you too...



Have zero punctuation.

[JoshuaFH]

My computer crashed while I had cookie clicker going in the background, and now all my Cookie Clicking Save Data is gone. When I was THIS close to getting what was nearly the last achievement.

I guess life just says "Hey stop clicking already" sometimes.

[Mephansteras]

Your computer was trying to free itself from the grandmatriarchs grasp.

[lemon10]

Six British soldiers who died in an Afghan bomb blast claimed by the Taliban were "unlawfully killed on active service", a coroner has ruled.

What?
Unlawfully killed? As opposed to lawful killings of British soldiers during wartime?

[Fniff]

Maybe he's saying that so they can arrest everyone who belongs to the Taliban for murder?

[10ebbor10]

Six British soldiers who died in an Afghan bomb blast claimed by the Taliban were "unlawfully killed on active service", a coroner has ruled.

What?
Unlawfully killed? As opposed to lawful killings of British soldiers during wartime?

Unlawfully killed as in breaking the laws of War. Ak, commiting a war crime.

[Fniff]

Wait, so using bombs is against the rules of war now? Was it a car bomb?

[lemon10]

After a tad more research:

In English law unlawful killing is a verdict that can be returned by an inquest in England and Wales when someone has been killed by one or several unknown persons. The verdict means that the killing was done without lawful excuse and in breach of criminal law. This includes murder, manslaughter, infanticide and causing death by dangerous driving. A verdict of unlawful killing generally leads to a police investigation, with the aim of gathering sufficient evidence to identify, charge and prosecute the culprit(s).
It is important that the inquest does not name any individual person as responsible.[1] The appropriate standard of proof is that the unlawful killing must be beyond reasonable doubt. This is when the evidence was so overwhelmingly obvious that death would result, that no other thing is taken into account. If this standard is not met, a verdict of accidental death or death by misadventure should be considered on the balance of probabilities.[1]

A verdict of unlawful killing was returned in the following notable cases:

Lt Col Rupert Thorneloe and trooper Joshua Hammond, of 2nd Royal Tank Regiment, were killed in an explosion in Helmand province on 1 July 2009.
A jury decided on 3 May 2011 that Ian Tomlinson had been unlawfully killed when he was struck with a baton and pushed to the ground by Metropolitan Police officer Simon Harwood at the G20 protests that took place in London on 1 April 2009.[2]
A jury decided on 7 April 2008 that Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al-Fayed had been unlawfully killed.
The inquest into the July 7 Bombings decided on 6 May 2011 declared that the victims had been unlawfully killed.[7]
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So yeah, apparently they can't arrest the Taliban yet, but they CAN investigate them to see if they CAN arrest them.

It just seems really bizarre to me that they would declare this an "unlawful killing" when its the death of soldiers during wartime by the enemy. The fact that apparently British law doesn't distinguish between a soldier being killed by the Taliban in a firefight and someone being stabbed in a robbery is just strange.