A roundup of this week’s news stories, including drunk hornets, Trump working at McDonald’s and time limits on hugging at a New Zealand airport. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We learned this week that hornets can hold their booze.
I can't wait to try this.
Tell me more.
See where this goes.
We learned that boffins at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, for whom curing all known human disease and so forth appears to be a back burner priority, had been spending their time and the taxpayers shekels attempting to get hornets drunk and had failed.
Actually, can we mix the insect noise and the hiccuping together for that proper drunk hornets vibe?
Amazing.
We learned that even after the doubtless delighted subjects of the study had been given nothing to consume for a week except ethanol heavy sugar solutions, no detriment was ultimately detectable to either their behavior or general health.
We learned that while the hornets initially reacted like most of us might after gargling 80% ethanol, that is by lying on their backs making ineffectual gurgling noises, they recovered within a matter of minutes, indeed appearing almost energized, as if, yes, they were enjoying the buzz.
Thanks for coming out.
Try the 80% ethanol, which may serve as useful insulation against the prospect that the voters of Earth's mightiest nation may be a week and a half away returning to Earth's most powerful office.
This guy, as many as you.
You have no idea what I did in the White House.
I stopped wars with France, to whose.
Lengthy list of malfeasances and wrongdoings we learned can now be apparently added stopping a war with France.
I understand that unless.
Unless he has entirely parted company with reality and simply has no idea what he's talking about.
But how likely does that sound?
Although sort of sticking with a French motif, we will be needing once more that discordant accordion bed in honour of that weird thing he does with his hands while saying words.
Because we learned that high on the list of the very many things that concern Trump about modern America is the profound, urgent and deeply imaginary issue of high schools forcibly performing gender reassignment surgery.