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  • Ianbolton20

    blog

    Going to Sicily on Friday for my first proper holiday since way before COVID. Pretty excited to say the least.

  • Chimp2

    Europe is Fucked

    Just got power back in Madrid. Everything was down from the mobile network to the traffic lights.

    • Everyone is having a beer and chilling.Chimp
    • Portugal was out too?PhanLo
    • @phan... Dmay knowsOBBTKN
    • “Rare atmospheric phenomenon” apparently.Chimp
    • Swamp gas.monospaced
    • Just back in Barcelona. What a mondaymaquito
  • palimpsest6
    • Realitypalimpsest
    • For real! I went to put gas in the car, and I had to go back home... but on the way, all the terraces were packed! LOLOBBTKN
    • Also this in Portugaldmay
    • in The Netherlands we would be fucked since everything will go by a digital system to pay or take orders...milfhunter
    • Umm what am I looking at here? What's it supposed to say/mean?HAYZ1LLLA
    • millions of people... just, living out their lives. oblivious... to the truthsarahfailin
  • mort_2

    Car of The Day

    Cadillac XP-840 Eldorado Fastback, 1965. A V16 two-seater coupe designed under Chuck Jordan which was the culmination of Cadillac’s experiments with multi-cylinder concepts (12 and V16). There was no back window, instead a reversing camera replaced the interior rear-view mirror, 60 years later this is now used by Polestar and others.

    • Sporty hard top take on the Tex Avery Wolf Car.garbage
    • bit of a stingray look to it too.mort_
    • Love it!OBBTKN
    • Lovely, remindful of a Hot Wheels style car I had as a chid.utopian
    • I'm also getting some DeTomaso Pantera vibes from the profileContinuity
    • Looks great but knowing how Cadillac thinks I bet there's no manual transmission.CyBrainX
  • Nairn3
    • hahaha. Keep on it. The stinging will soon end and you'll be blinded by the sheer beauty of those piss tearsIanbolton
    • why do people do this shit? Or maybe I'm the naive oneIanbolton
    • Ian, I'm relatively certain this isn't for real. At all.Continuity
    • RFK approvedPhanLo
    • its from the new jackass series...neverscared
    • my recommendation is switching to a different prescription, I recommend semen drops, 4 out of 5 doctors agree_niko
  • utopian4

    Elon Musk

    New York Moves to Shutter Tesla Dealerships in Blow to Musk

    Lawmakers in New York state are moving to shut down Elon Musk’s Tesla dealerships in yet another blow to the billionaire CEO.

    New York State Sen. Patricia Fahy and other lawmakers are fighting to remove a waiver that allows Tesla to operate five in-person dealerships in New York, instead forcing the company to sell their vehicles through dealer franchises, The New York Times reported Sunday.

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/ne…

    • Why do they need a waiver to open a dealership?bainbridge
    • some places (like New York, evidently), have laws that forbid automakers from also owning dealerships to prevent competing with independent dealers/franchisors.monNom
    • I think dealers originally came about to prevent consumers from suing manufacturers directly (no contract with manufacturer, the contract is with the dealer)monNom
    • But laws changed over time to give consumers some recourse against manufacturers, so the dealer concept is a bit of an anachronism now.monNom
  • Nairn10

    Russia-Ukraine Invasion

    “You've no clue what you're on about. Post proof of those imaginary North Koreans in Ukraine”.
    —Milan

    Aside from all of the photographic and video evidence, which you'd no doubt smear as synthesised propaganda, about straight from the horse's mouth?

    http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/7f7e…

    Or are you going to err on a technicality with them having fought in the Kursk region?

    • Kursk is not in Ukraine, idiot.Milan
    • Yes, hence erring on technicalities, idiot.Nairn
    • Shift the goalposts, go on.Nairn
    • What's your point? North Korean boys got some training in modern warfare while helping completely cleanse Kursk. Again, they never entered Ukraine, retard.Milan
    • The point is to highlight how fork-tongued an utterly unreliable you are. They're 'involved in the conflict', you implied they weren't. You are deceitful.Nairn
    • Or, perhaps, just utterly credulous and a bit stupid.Nairn
  • Gardener1
  • Nairn20
    • +1maquito
    • Watching Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling have a chest burster pop out with perfect hair and hollywood tan would be fire!Akagiyama
    • I'd watch the shit outta this crossover event!Akagiyama
    • LolOBBTKN
    • ALIEN: Mojo Dojo Casa Houseprophetone
  • futurefood2

    UFO of the day

    Another recent animated sequence. This one has an interesting horseshoe shape. Like I mentioned previously, there seems to be many different types of UAP in the sky at any given time. I can photograph numerous airliners coming in for landing and get a mix of different UAP. Helicopters get buzzed by these things too, but airliners can get buzzed/tagged multiple times at once.


    • Could it be of interdimensional origin?utopian
    • That is one of the current theories. The way they move and the speed? It wouldn't surprise me.futurefood
    • They seem to travel thousands of ft through the air in fractions of a second.futurefood
    • Looks like dust or little tiny flies.monospaced
  • Gardener9

    blog

    I've had a ridiculous day booting today, up early I hit a new boot in Arbroath next to the football ground at 7.15am, late I know TELL ME ABOUT IT. So I left home picked up a black McD coffee en-route and sauntered into the field to have a wander. The fruit & veg man was there, always a good sign, and I got about 3/4 the way along a row and there's a bloke kneeling down in the familiar digging pose. I stood behind him to see what he was looking at as he flipped by original Mothers of Invention, Kevin Ayres, John Martyn albums, picking out the Genesis, Tull, Hendrix and Floyd, all originals in super clean nick (as far as I could tell by the sleeves). He got up asked how much they were, the woman said her husband, who was standing next to her, wanted a pound each, but I'll let you have them for 50p each (!!) Jeez, god knows what he got tbh as I got down and pulled 25 in under 25 seconds including pink Island John Martyn, Andwella, unboxed Harvest albums by Kevin Ayres, BJH and others. But best of all the Omega Red Star album, I never even checked condition of any of them but when I got back to the car most look hardly played, just incredible for a collection like this to come out so cheap. I paid £15 for the lot as I was hardly going to give her £12.50 and she even gave me a canvas bag to put them in, crackers.

    So happy as a clam but with a tinge of what I must have missed by minutes, curse you McD and your reasonably priced coffee! I headed home for breakfast and after porridge (I have a very Scottish wife) I headed out to the lunchtime boot that kicks off on a village green about 20 miles from me at 1pm. Arriving early so I could wander about and see what was out as they do like to tell the sellers here that there is NO SELLING BEFORE 1pm. So strict, but for me it means I can see where the records are and hit those stalls first. One bloke had an incredible amount of 70's African & Indian albums and singles, I spent £60 with him, another lady had obscure labelled 7" from the 80's at 50p each so I basically spend all the money I had on me except for a fiver. As I was leaving a woman came up to me asking if I was still looking for records to which I replied erm, yes, "well go to the charity shop on the village high street it's open today and they have loads of records." So I did and they did indeed have more bleeding records albeit weird folk stuff, I spent £6 as I found a pound in the car and I came home and played many of them, cleaned some and watched my team win 5:1 and The Championship. So it has been a tiring but rewarding day but unfortunately this doesn't happen every weekend.

    • And Arne's song to Jurgen...just the icing on the cake!stoplying
  • mort_2
  • utopian10
  • Krassy4
    • That kid who caught the owl on her gauntletPhanLo
    • Hetfield, Ulrich, Newsted, HammettContinuity
    • Lemmy
      Dakota Johnson
      Kip Winger
      Michael "Freddie Mercury" Jackson
      Akagiyama
    • Keith Kallenbachutopian
    • Red Rum!monospaced
    • lol mono_niko
  • canoe10

    Food

    A glimpse of some of the food encounters from Rome to Milan.

    • 2) stuffed fried anchovy in the back. 3) martini pasta shaken at the table, sprits with gin 4) rabbit "confit" 10) saffron cuttlefish squid ink risottocanoe
    • Gorgeous! +1OBBTKN
    • I want to eat these photos.Continuity
    • the boy looks stoked :)Krassy
    • Is that a street vendor? Looks kosher to me.utopian
    • lol the kidpango
  • futurefood0

    UFO of the day

    Recently had a spare camera converted to Full Spectrum+IR. Best decision I've made. While photographing UAP with a stock camera tuned to visible light is possible, soon after I converted the camera,
    imaging these objects became super consistent. Like a night and day difference.

    There seems to be so many different objects hidden in the IR spectrum. Below are only a couple examples of objects I have photographed. I am shooting stills in continuous mode @ 5 fps. This enables me to get the highest possible quality out of the image rather than shooting 4k video. But I also have really interesting 4K Infrared video.

    You guys are going to trip out when you see the other images I've been taking with this camera. Can't wait to share the rest.

    I've started to notice these streaks in many images. I originally thought they were meteors flying through the atmosphere, but they were happening a little too often and funny enough, capturing a meteor under these circumstances is more rare than a UAP. I got lucky with this one as I captured enough frames to create an animated sequence. Details in the .gif

    This one below was my first attempt at creating an animated sequence. This is a typical capture of the objects the UAP researcher and I have been studying. I do believe I have captured a clearer image of these objects. They are roughly the size of a basketball, maybe a little larger.


    • Forgot to add, these airliners are on a landing approach. They are at around 3,150 ft altitude.futurefood
    • There’s dudes out there capturing ultra fast, almost invisible b/c so small and fast uaps zipping aroundprophetone
    • Found him, southern ca mostly, near coast and military base nearby? he posts lots of stuff https://youtu.be/Oca…prophetone
    • https://www.youtube.…prophetone
    • These aren’t just bugs?monospaced
    • ^Hey Mono, wait to check out the other images I’m working on. There is no way to confuse these with bugs.futurefood
  • Krassy5
    • that cert should be in there somewhereKrassy
    • It’s on a zip diskmonospaced
    • ... but think what they can do for your porkfolio!maikel
    • I view all my QBN through a VGA monitor on a Pentium II 266mhz. it is a joyous experienceautoflavour
  • Krassy4
  • Krassy5
  • Gardener12