BBC World Service - The Food Chain, How does food make a president? - "‘Their president was invited to the White House to speak about Hispanic business opportunities.’
‘And during that speech, the Goya foods boss, Robert Unanue said,’
‘We're all truly blessed to have a leader like President Trump, who is a builder. And that's what my grandfather did, he came to this country to build to grow, to prosper. And so we have an incredible bill-’
‘This was immediately met with strong opinions on both the right and the left. And so there were calls for both a boycott for folks on the left to not to buy this product, particularly given very negative comments that Trump has made about Latinx voters, right, speaking about people from Mexico and Central America as only bringing drugs and trouble and criminality to the United States. And so there was a call for boycott and for buycott efforts from conservatives to purposefully go out and buy these products.’...
‘The Goya CEO said he saw no need to apologize, calling the boycott suppression of speech, and pointing out that he'd previously attended an event at the White House hosted by the Obama administration. No boycott followed that meeting’...
‘Perhaps surprisingly, Republicans and Democrats both wants more government intervention on a number of issues, such as GM labeling and food security. But there are other points on which they're becoming increasingly polarized. Like when it comes to how much meat they think we should all be eating.’
‘The biggest predictor of that is political. Left leaning, more democratic, more liberal people are much more likely to say that they're a vegetarian or vegan. I think there's a really interesting phenomenon here. And that is that among low educated consumers, there isn't much difference in meat demand. Where we start to see those differences emerge is among the more higher educated Republicans and Democrats and it's there that we see, really the more highly educated Democrats really starting to reduce their demand for meat relative to the more high educated Republicans. I think this relates to a phenomenon that as one gets more education, you're more able to seek out information and particularly information that fits with your, you know, your worldview and and your tribe, so to speak’"
Interesting tacit admission that illegal Latino immigrants are voting in US elections
Minority voices only matter when they support the liberal narrative
Good illustration of how the left are now more boycott-crazy than the right
什么是成功男人 - "3岁，不尿裤子；5岁，能自己吃饭；18岁，能自己开车；20岁，有女朋友；30岁，有钱；40岁，有钱；50岁，还有钱；60岁，还有女朋友；70岁，还能自己开车；80岁，还能自己吃饭；90岁，还不尿裤子；100岁，还没有挂在墙上；300岁，还在墙上挂着。那你就是成功男人！"
Grapefruit Juice and Some Drugs Don't Mix - "With most drugs that are affected by grapefruit juice, “the juice lets more of the drug enter the blood,” says Shiew Mei Huang, Ph.D., of the FDA. “When there is too much drug in the blood, you may have more side effects.” For example, if you drink a lot of grapefruit juice while taking certain statin drugs to lower cholesterol, too much of the drug may stay in your body, increasing your risk for liver and muscle damage that can lead to kidney failure. Many drugs are broken down (metabolized) with the help of a vital enzyme called CYP3A4 in the small intestine. Grapefruit juice can block the action of intestinal CYP3A4, so instead of being metabolized, more of the drug enters the blood and stays in the body longer. The result: too much drug in your body."
Why sparks fly when you microwave grapes - "When two grapes are close to each other in a microwave, the waves they absorb bounce back and forth in the tiny space between them, creating an increasingly powerful electromagnetic field. This continues until the electromagnetic field becomes so powerful that it supercharges nearby electrolytes that then shoot out in a brief explosion of fiery plasma"
Meme - "200 years ago 85% of the world lived in extreme poverty. Today that number is less than 9%."
"cApiTaLisM hAs fAiLed!"
Ben Shapiro on Twitter - "The most ardent Marxists in America are all celebrity-class beneficiaries of the vast wealth generated by American capitalism, and its most ardent opponents are all refugees from communist hellholes.
Marxism is a privilege of the rich who never have to experience it."
Meme - "You talk about sex too much."
"Mom, is it because it's not heterosexual sex talk?"
"Not at all, you know I love and support you. It's because you taught grandma what fisting is."
Meme - "Sorry, this is Austria not Australia! Need help? Please press the button. Commend provides Security and Communication. From Salzburg to the rest of the world. Even for the most unlikely of situations"
This looks like a cute ad for commend.com, rather than a serious service (the button is not real)
Why Kellogg's Workers Are On Strike - "Their most recent contract created a class of “transitional” employees who are paid lower rates and have lesser benefits than “legacy” employees. These newer employees can graduate into the legacy system as more tenured workers retire or quit, and the contract stipulates no more than 30% of the workforce can be “transitional.”... Kellogg’s spokesperson Kris Bahner said in an email that the average earnings of a Kellogg’s cereal worker came to around $120,000 last year, and that most employees (i.e., legacy ones) have “unparalleled, no-cost comprehensive health insurance.”"
Kellogg restarts talks with workers as strike enters seventh week - "The union rejected a proposal from Kellogg's on Nov. 4, saying in a statement at the time that the company's "last, best and final offer does not achieve what our members are asking for; a predictable pathway to fully vested, fully benefitted employment for all employees with no concessions.""
Of course, even though the union refuses to compromise, it's the company that is unreasonable and needs to compromise and employees who have been striking for 2.5 months cannot be replaced
10 Awesome Wheelchair Crowd Surfers
The fragile male - "The human male is, on most measures, more vulnerable than the female. Part of the explanation is the biological fragility of the male fetus, which is little understood and not widely known. A typical attitude to boys is that they are, or must be made, more resilient than girls. This adds “social insult to biological injury.” Culture and class make a difference to the health and survival of boys. The data presented here have implications for the clinical management of male patients as well as for the upbringing of boys."
The only valid use of "male fragility"
Attempts to ban DDT have increased deaths - "Pressures on poor countries to ban the insecticide DDT because of fears that its use would harm the environment have led to a resurgence of malaria in the world, yet the environmental impact of its use are “negligible”... after malaria was eradicated in wealthy countries and DDT was banned in those places, poor countries were pressured by health and donor agencies and environmental groups to stop using DDT spraying programmes. The agencies feared that they would harm the environment and adversely affect human health. But these fears were unsubstantiated"
Naturally, to environmentalists, "Nature" is more important than humans
Cognitive Effects of Nicotine: Recent Progress - "Preclinical models and human studies have demonstrated that nicotine has cognitive-enhancing effects. Attention, working memory, fine motor skills and episodic memory functions are particularly sensitive to nicotine’s effects. Recent studies have demonstrated that the α4, β2, and α7 subunits of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) participate in the cognitive-enhancing effects of nicotine... Because poor cognitive performance at baseline predicts relapse among smokers who are attempting to quit smoking, studies examining the potential efficacy of cognitive-enhancement as strategy for the treatment of TUD may lead to the development of more efficacious interventions."
Nicotine Induces Negative Energy Balance Through Hypothalamic AMP-Activated Protein Kinase - "Smokers around the world commonly report increased body weight after smoking cessation as a major factor that interferes with their attempts to quit. Numerous controlled studies in both humans and rodents have reported that nicotine exerts a marked anorectic action"
The shameful history of the anti-smoking crusade - "It is unusual for governments in modern democracies deliberately to encourage intolerance and animosity towards a large group of fellow citizens, but that is effectively what happened when ‘denormalisation’ was embraced as a tobacco-control strategy... It is the petty vindictiveness of America’s ever-expanding network of smoking bans that really irks. There will soon be nowhere left to hide. If it is not obvious to you that most ‘smoke-free’ laws are contrivances to force smokers to quit, rather than to ‘protect’ nonsmokers, this book will surely persuade you. It is almost comic to watch the quackademics of ‘tobacco control’ garrotting science to justify bans on smoking outdoors and in private dwellings. When the dubious epidemiology of secondhand smoke outlived its usefulness, the concept of thirdhand smoke was invented to persuade the public that they are at risk from anything that had ever come into contact with smoke: furniture, carpets, wallpaper and, most pertinently, the clothes, hair and skin of smokers themselves. In the land of the free, campaigners would rather encourage mass hypochondria than admit to being paternalists. The mere sight of someone smoking is viewed as sufficiently dangerous to justify criminalisation... By 2019, a steady stream of junk science and outright lies from supposed ‘public health’ groups had convinced two-thirds of Americans that e-cigarettes were as hazardous or more hazardous than traditional cigarettes. The anti-smoking fanatics get away with it, Grier argues, because they have had no accountability since the turn of the millennium. By the mid-1990s, the American tobacco industry had become a byword for corporate malfeasance. By the end of the decade, cigarette companies had finally stopped trying to dispute the addiction and harm associated with their products and closed down front groups such as the Tobacco Institute. On the face of it, this was no great loss to smokers, but one effect of the industry withdrawing from the stage was to leave the anti-smoking lobby free to say almost anything. The threat of having their work picked apart by the Tobacco Institute ‘helped enforce rigour in anti-smoking research in much the same way that the adversarial process in a courtroom trial forces both sides to justify their claims with evidence’. Without it, it was open season for junk scientists. Meanwhile, the spectacular collapse in trust in the industry gave the media the only story about smoking it would ever need. It became a simple morality tale in which there was no doubt about who the goodies and baddies were. Those who called for greater restrictions on smoking wore a halo, while those who defended smokers’ rights were suspect. Journalists were understandably anxious not to be fooled again, but their lack of scrutiny of the anti-smoking side amounted to giving a free pass to extremist cranks and fostered ‘a scientific environment in which research is judged primarily for its usefulness in promoting the goals of tobacco control, dissent is punished by personal attacks, and dubious claims about the effects of second- and thirdhand smoke can be made with impunity, sure to receive favourable press coverage by reporters eager to write a shocking headline’. They get away with it for other reasons, too. Class prejudice, for example. With cigarette smoking increasingly concentrated among the working class, smoking bans became tools of social engineering and gentrification. In the US, as in Britain, ‘smoke-free’ laws led to the mass closure of the kind of bars the upper classes were never likely to step foot in. Outdoor smoking bans gave the police licence to harass the homeless and helped clear the streets of undesirables. The ban on smoking in public housing, enacted in 2018, left homeowners well alone. Meanwhile, casinos, golf courses and high-end cigar bars got exemptions... The genius of anti-smoking policy from the 1990s onward was to portray the war on tobacco as a crusade against the tobacco industry, thereby sidelining the views of millions of ordinary smokers who wanted nothing more than to be left alone. While the tobacco industry continued making piles of money, and the anti-tobacco industry kept the grant cheques rolling in, it was individuals and small businesses who bore the brunt... the pure enjoyment of smoking never seems to enter the equation. And if people enjoy it, why shouldn’t they be free to do it? The answer from ‘public health’ activists is that they do not enjoy it and that smokers do not ‘possess any freedoms to be meaningfully infringed’. When legislators in Hawaii proposed raising the minimum age for purchasing cigarettes to 100 (yes, you read that correctly), the bill stated that: ‘Banning the sales of cigarettes should be viewed as a good-faith effort to free smokers from the enslavement of this powerful addiction and not an infringement on individual liberties.’... His analysis of the modern anti-smoking movement as ‘a contemporary manifestation of the old-time temperance movement, wrapped in the modern clothing of epidemiology but with the same tired contempt for individual liberty’, is surely correct. Resistance seems futile when fanaticism has become institutionalised at the highest level of American society – the Food and Drug Administration is currently contemplating the ultimate harm-reduction measure of removing nicotine from cigarettes – and yet Grier sees a glimmer of hope. The cigarette, he says in an unusually judgemental passage, is a ‘terrible product’. He views its rise in the early 20th century as a tragic historical accident that will be corrected when safer nicotine products take over the market. Cigarettes may have been dominant for over a century, but this is a small window of time in the long history of human consumption of tobacco. He thinks it likely that e-cigarettes, heated tobacco and other low-risk nicotine devices will make the combustible cigarette obsolete in this century."
There're interesting parallels with covid hysteria - smokers are demonised by many too
Woman ordered to stop smoking at home in Ontario ruling - The Globe and Mail - "If you smoke and you live in a condominium in Ontario, a little-noticed ruling may have stubbed out your ability to light up inside your own home. At the very least, it has given new legal heft to a condominium corporation’s ability to ban all smoking indoors if it so chooses. On Oct. 9, 73-year-old Jaromira Linhart represented herself in a hearing regarding her smoking, where lawyers for The Masters condominiums at 296 Mill Rd. in Toronto (officially, York Condominium Corporation No. 266) argued her cigarettes were affecting an upstairs neighbour who claimed to have an allergy... Ms. Linhart has been smoking since her early 20s, about the time she emigrated from the former dictatorship in Yugoslavia. “I left the country because that was a communist socialist country and they were trying to rule you in everything. So I left the country to be free … and look at me now. There’s no freedom whatsoever, they tell you what to do and how to do it.”"
Interestingly, the people who promote housing density also support smoking bans
Why do some places say 'pop' and others say 'soda'? Your questions answered - The Globe and Mail - "What about how apartments are described in ads and conversation? In Toronto, by the number of bedrooms (e.g. two-bedroom etc.), in Montreal by the number of rooms, always with a 1/2 room (e.g. 3 1/, which means a one-bedroom apartment)? In France, however, a "trois pièces" is a two-bedroom apartment. (from reader S.C.).
Pop or soda? (from Michael Cowtan)
When ordering pizza – do you order deluxe or all-dressed? (from Andrew H.)
Do you go to a restaurant with a patio or a 'terrasse'? (from J.M.)
Sofa? Couch? Chesterfield? (from Chris B.)"
The Blonde vs. Brunette Map of Europe - "in the central parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland, where at least 80% of the population is fair-haired, the highest figure in all of Europe. This map, indicating the varying degrees of blondness in Europe, shows how fair hair gets rarer further away from this core area – towards the south, as one intuitively might presume, but also towards the east, west and even towards the north."
Why Germany is a blank spot on Google's Street View - "In Google Maps, drag Pegman over Europe and you’ll see a curious picture emerge: virtually the entire continent is covered in the blue lines that indicate Street View is available – but Germany and Austria are almost entirely blank. It’s an image reminiscent of those late-19th-century maps of Africa with the center of the continent left empty, marked Regions Unknown... Germans are famously jealous of their privacy – an attitude that also resonates with their culturally close neighbors in Austria. But it all depends on what you mean by “privacy.” For example, Germans are not that private about their private parts. While public nudity is a big no-no in the United States for example, Germany has a long tradition with what is known as FKK – short for Freikörperkultur, or “Free Body Culture.” Certain beaches and areas of city parks are dedicated to nude sunbathing, and even Nacktwanderung (“nude rambling”) is a thing... According to research presented in the Harvard Business Review, the average German is willing to pay as much as $184 to protect their personal health data. For the average Brit, the privacy of that information is only worth $59. For Americans and Chinese, that value declines to single-digit figures. Why? Because Germans carry the trauma of not one, but two totalitarian systems in their recent past: the fascist Third Reich, and communist East Germany... While Germany’s macro-economy relies on high-tech to maintain its global pole position, on a micro-economic level, good old-fashioned cash is still king. In 2016, 80 percent of all point of sale transaction in Germany were made in notes and coins rather than via card. In the Netherlands, it was just 46 percent... In August 2010, Google announced that it would map the streets of Germany’s 20 biggest cities by the end of that year. The outrage was huge. Some of Google’s camera cars were vandalised. A 70-year-old Austrian who didn’t want his picture taken threatened the driver of one with a garden pick."
Why Spider-Man Is Popular - "Fans have loved Spider-Man because he has trouble paying his rent. He was not the most popular guy in school and does not always get the girl. Comic book readers — or "true believers," as Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee likes to refer them — have followed the web-slinger for so long because his very human alter-ego is Peter Parker, who struggles with the same everyday life issues as everyone else... as he recalled in Son of Origins of Marvel Comics, his publisher, Martin Goodman, was very skeptical. "Martin told me three things that I will never forget," Lee said. "He said people hate spiders, so you can't call a hero 'Spider-Man.' Then, when I told him I wanted the hero to be a teenager, as he was in the beginning, Martin said that a teenager can't be a hero, but only a sidekick. Then, when I wanted him not to be too popular with the girls and not great-looking or a strong, macho-looking guy, but just a thin, pimply high school student, Martin said, 'Don't you know understand what a hero is?'... After Spider-Man, more heroes in Marvel Comics and elsewhere encountered "everyman"-type situations... "All of our heroes in our society tend to have a chink in their armor, making them more endearing to the American sensibility," said Inge. "They tend to have a compromised morality. … Huck Finn was not an ideal character. He did some questionable things to get what he wanted and faced a moral dilemma with Jim the slave before he ended up doing the right thing." Much of the dash of realism in Spider-Man is rooted in its setting. Superman and Batman protected the fictional cities of Metropolis and Gotham, respectively. Peter Parker is a New Yorker who lived in Queens as a teenager and later moved to Hell's Kitchen as a struggling freelance photographer in his adult years."
Najib praises Mahathir for using chopstick like a Chinese - "Former prime minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad, created a stir on Dec. 12 when he said the Chinese custom of eating with chopsticks is an example of why it is difficult to assimilate the non-Malay population in the country... another of Malaysia's former prime ministers, Najib Razak, shared his thoughts on the matter by uploading two photos of Mahathir using chopsticks at what appeared to be a Chinese New Year event, while smiling and raising the lo hei high above his head... Several Malaysian online commenters have since reacted to Najib's post by highlighting how exceptionally skilled Mahathir appears to be in wielding the culinary tool, apparently even more so than most Malaysian Chinese... Mahathir has also posted videos and photos of himself using chopsticks, such as during the Chinese New year period in January 2020, to his own Facebook page"
Meme - "My dad with a fish
My dad with me *23rd birthday celebration*"
ConnexionSG - Posts | Facebook - "#TIL that one of our founding fathers had said obsession over "outstanding results" for Cambridge exams is "a very bad thing".
Singapore's then-Minister for Defence Dr Goh Keng Swee said in a speech in 1967: "The preoccupation in Singapore with examination results is unnatural and unhealthy and we should bring it to an end as early as possible. After all, good performance in examinations only proves one thing -- the ability to answer examination questions."
He said three aspects of education needed more emphasis in Singapore:
1. Creative imagination -- "which is inhibited by parrot-like teaching of text-books and I hope that abomination of this kind will cease in all of our schools".
2. Character -- because "an intelligent person can have no character; that is he may be weak and irresolute. Conversely, persons of lesser intelligence can show a high degree of courage and tenacity when placed in trying or adverse conditions."
3. Moral values -- because "the most successful leaders of pirates, brigands and gangsters have imagination and character in ample proportion but they, of course, are sadly lacking in moral stature."
"Without a widely accepted code of moral values, Singapore will remain what it is now -- a community which is basically self-centred and selfish. Such a community may be alright if it is governed by others but it will not survive for long as an independent democratic national state if the more successful citizens continue to place their self-interest before the interest of the community.""
So those who blame the obsession with exam results on the government are misguided
The Facebook users who reacted with laughing emojis to news of 27 asylum seekers drowning in the Channel
What passes for modern "journalism"
Eigengrau is the Dark Gray Colour That Most People See in the Absence of Light - "Scientists believe that Eigengrau is the dark grey colour that human eyes see in perfect darkness and this is said to be the result of visual signals from optic nerves... Eigengrau is professed to be lighter than a black object"
Meme - "Big dicks in his brothers bum.
Cat*"
"what
which word is supposed to be cat"
How Japanese Porn Industry thinks we watch porn after they blur the genitals funny memes : failgags - *2 parents and kid watching laptop*
Facebook - "Art used to edify. Be it religious chapels/ mosques/ temples, or even atheistic socialist regimes' use of their choir music and paintings to paint an image of the "divine". Yet postmodernism refuses to edify anything but existentialist dread, and magnifying the gnawings of lack of meaning the artist feels, where he begins deconstructing ideals into its constituent forms. Not with rigour as a scientist would split the atom, but with despair like a recently-blind man groping about in the dark, desperate to recall what life was like before his loss of vision. Except it was the postmodernist who blinded himself with refusal to believe in any doctrine as sacred. An evolutionary abberation."
Emma Ward on Twitter - "Chameleons are fun cause they'll grab anything you give them. *Sword, Halberd, Sword-Gun*"
Addendum: Meme - *the above with someone unzipping pants*
Meme - "Types of Knives
Paring knife: Small knife perfect for chopping veggies or hiding in a coat sleeve for self-defense.
Carving knife: Gives a smooth, clean cut. Good for taping to a bunch of Roombas so you can watch them fight to the death.
Steak knife: All-purpose table knife. Try holding a few between your fingers and yelling, "I AM WOLVERINE" until your waiter asks you to stop.
Fish filleting knife: Good for cutting fish. Bad for trying to juggle in your kitchen to impress a date.
Boning knife: THROW ONE OF THESE AT A DARTBOARD IT WILL BE COOL!
Soup knife: Used for cutting soup. Haha nah jk soup is a liquid! I'm just goofing - this is for bread.
Switchblade: These are illegal. If you use one of these to slice a ham then I WILL REPORT YOU TO THE HAM POLICE (seriously, don't do it).
Stone Dagger: Used for performing forbidden rituals in the woods at midnight.
Cutlass: This is technically a sword, but you can use one to put mayo on a sandwich or whatever."
The German City that Avoided WWII Destruction by Pretending to be Switzerland - "Konstanz is over a thousand years old and located on Bodensee, or Lake Constance. The university city is also called “Constance” in English... “The border between the twinned cities of Konstanz in Germany and Kreuzlingen in Switzerland was established during the outbreak of war, but aside from the war years, the border has historically been a formality rather than a real barrier for citizens of Germany and Switzerland.”... “the border with Switzerland goes right through the middle of the town.” So when the Allies flew over Germany at night looking for targets Konstanz left their lights on rather than snuff them out. Why? Because from above they looked like part of Switzerland, a neutral territory. Thankfully the population were spared from bombs, though the enemy would have kicked themselves if they knew what they were oblivious to. “There was production for the German military inside the town,” the magazine writes. “The company Funkstrahl produced parts for the radar in submarines, the Schwarzwald Flugzeugbau GmbH was developing a flying torpedo and the company Dornier transfered a part of its production from the heavily bombarded Friedrichshafen to Constance.” A key target was overlooked, though the upshot was the preservation of the city’s historic architecture. Parts of Konstanz have remained unchanged through the centuries."
Meme - "When you go to the strip club and your Grandma's face is hanging out of a strippers ass *Prince Harry*"
Meme - "Dad, what's dark humour?"
"See that armless guy over there? Tell him to clap."
"But dad! I'm blind !"
"Exactly."
Meme - "When your eating out your grandma and you taste horse cum then think to yourself "oh that's how she died""
Meme - "WARNING: BRIDGE WASHED OUT. UNLESS YOU FEEL THAT THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO DEPRIVE YOU OF YOUR LIBERTY, THEN KEEP DRIVING"
No one tells an American what to do - because freedom!
Facebook - "MDS (Malala Derangement Syndrome) is real. And unsurprisingly it’s coming both from the far Islamist right and the far left. Members of the far left seems very angry that she chose to marry a Pakistani man at 24 years of age, instead of waiting until she was 30 with her second PhD.  I support good reasons to marry later, but pretty telling that they are demonizing someone who made a different choice for their own personal happiness. "
'Why do people have to get married?' Malala asked this June, four months later she gets hitched - ""I still don't understand why people have to get married," she told Vogue, saying she wasn't sure she'd ever take the step herself. "If you want to have a person in your life, why do you have to sign marriage papers, why can't it just be a partnership?""
Meme - "Zilch
Buy Now, Pay Later at Dominos.
Pay Back Over 6 Weeks....
Pay Over 6 Weeks."
Financing is getting out of hand
Meme - "With capitalism, you either work or starve"
"With communism, you work and starve."
georgie ✨🏳️🌈 on Twitter - "To ensure we adhere to CDC-recommended social distancing guidelines, we will be selling DOOM Eternal a day early on Thursday, 3/19 as a safety precaution for our customers and associates. Animal Crossing will release on Friday 3/20 to further help separate the crowds."
"This is legitimate homophobia I’m not kidding"
Vicky Prest's answer to Is it common to go to prostitutes for only or mainly talking? - Quora - "occasionally, we did get guys that would come in for a ‘counselling session’ in which they just wanted to talk and be held, or have their head stroked or just sit with a pretty woman in underwear and talk... Sex workers often are confidants for some very unhappy people. We keep your secrets and we offer no judgement. You pay us for our time. What you do with that time, is entirely up to you."
City repairs curb reported damaged 28 years ago — 16 years earlier than scheduled - "a crew hired by the city of Winnipeg repaired some curbs on the St. Vital street Hawley had first flagged as broken to the city in 1993. It was damaged by a city snow removal machine. The years-long journey to get the work done peaked in 2019 when Hawley was given a number through the city's 311 line to check his file and request —it said his curb would be repaired by June 26, 2037."
Car left on Italian street for 47 years becomes tourist attraction - "Angelo Fregolent, 94, parked his Lancia Fulvia 1961 outside the newsagent he ran with his wife, Bertilla Modolo in Conegliano, north east Italy, in 1974."