Odd Stuff (Part 2)

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That must be a translation error. They meant to say:

After this campaign, no one will be able to say that homophobia no longer STILL exists in Switzerland

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“ Has Switzerland’s same-sex marriage referendum campaign fuelled homophobia?

The campaign was “very violent” for LGBT people, according to Baranova. “The homophobia that exists in society has come to light,” she said.

Among other examples, the campaigner said their posters were “torn up, tagged, burned in a way I have never seen in Switzerland”.

“I’ve been in politics in Switzerland for twelve years. Never have I seen such violence also in large urban centres, where one might think that homophobia has declined enormously.”

She added that calls to hotlines supporting victims of homophobia had soared during the referendum campaign. “Before these hotlines received one or two calls per week but at the peak of our campaign, these hotlines started to receive 1 or 2 calls per day,” Baranova went on.

After this campaign, no one will be able to say that homophobia no longer exists in Switzerland.

Olga Baranova

Head of the marriage for all campaign”

“In Switzerland, violence is sneaky, it is verbal and consensual,” said Delessert.

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Ooooh…I should have read the article, huh?

Mea culpa!

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Not odd per se, but cute and funny in a good way. It has a cool human touch in the middle of the digital life.

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What is better than an algorithm? A business savy cute rodent.

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Odd flex from the Department of (college) Education here this morning.

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Considering the state or the Irish Railways, very strange indeed!

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Daniel Craig said he accidentally broke Dave Bautista’s nose in ‘Spectre’ fight scene - and then ran away

Better part of valor.

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Page me when the hamster has been consistently outperforming the index for more than 60 years.

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But the lifespan of them is so small…

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Nothing about this story makes sense.

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Huh. Maybe there is something to the Sous Vide method of cooking after all.

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Yeah. There’s a Tom Robbins novel in there somewhere.

“…a yoga instructor and scuba diver and worked in the biotech industry.”

"Souverneva reportedly had an operable lighter in her pocket as wells as CO2 cartridges and a “pink and white item containing a green leafy substance she admitted to smoking that day.” She told Cal Fire law enforcement she was hiking and “attempting to get to Canada,”

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I can’t say that I pack CO2 cartridges when I’m hiking, just weird stuff like a hydration pack and a water bottle, purification tablets if I thought that I’d need them, a stove, something for digging a hole in the creek bed away from the bear piddle puddle…

They don’t say everything that she had, but only mention a fanny pack.

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