Right in the republic!

Ahh - was that in answer to my (deleted) question about the name of the business?

For some bizarre reason I posted that here - but ws meant to post in the other thread with the brown shoes :P

I enjoy Fudds. The buns aren't great but the burgers are, plus you get to dress the burger yourself. Bison and ostrich burgers are on the menu, last I checked.

Truck drops cargo container on car. Car mashed damn near flat. No carnage. Driver of the car escaped with bumps and bruises. Passenger? Minor injuries.

Wow, very, very lucky.

WTF?

That was fucking awesome!

Country-pop singer Glen Campbell used to perform overtone singing demonstrations as a guest on television talk shows decades ago. He was quite good at it; but, I doubt there are any YouTube videos.

That's himuliating.

But, it is WTF.

Looks like it feels good.

That dog's loving it.

That was awful. Interesting in a morbid, sorta WTF kinda way, but prolonged listening will make your ears bleed.

I agree 100%.

Then you'll LOVE I had the inch and the mm screaming at me tonight.

If you listen to all 23 minutes of that, I am certain you will never be quite the same as before.

I have the cassette and the mp3, the whole thing is 48mins. I love it.

I think it's awesome.

This is called Chakra Activation & Healing Meditation.

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I think I've been there.

This might narrow it down a bit...

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Wikipedia - Great grey owl

I've looked at www.catersnews.com, to whom the picture is credited, but can't find any further information. Can't even find the picture!

ETA Found the original image on www.ardea.com but that doesn't help either.

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Bavarian farmer puts nappies on his cows in EU protest

I encountered Tuvan throat singing for the first time, live, when I was living in Moscow. I had no idea what to expect and it totally blew me away. I bought about five CDs (Hun Huur Tu was the band) and I love them all.


Sent by thought transference

I followed the link - was quite interesting. The bit that made me chuckle though was this :

So often this is the case. Big headlines about what the crazy Eurocrats are up to now - except that the original legislation wasn't that crazy at all and nobody was suggesting that farmers can't graze their cattle on hillsides.

You can almost here the resigned sigh when the spokesperson says "Bavarian farmers should raise this issue with the German Federal authorities in Berlin, rather than with the Commission in Brussels."

German farmers do have to be watchful though. In the US incrementally over many many years the Federal Government put regulations and subsidies in place that centralized agriculture into the big player system we have now. Push-back is difficult once the regulated big industry starts writing the regulations as the organic movement has realized. From my perspective the EU is a big mistake like our own Federal system it moves power away from the people to powerful organizations.

Not too hijack: Elizabeth Warren talks about the thousands of little decisions a day that go against the people in DC because the rabble can't afford lobyists. School lunch by ConAgra involves many of those.

School lunch???

I don't get it, no breaking news there, but maybe you had a "stale" copy buffer when you made your post. Is the link in your post the one you intended?

Amusing mix up. I intended to post a piece by a Dad who ate the lunch at his kids school. The food was pretty grim.

I think that this qualifies as a WTF moment...
 

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Daily Telegraph

Very impressive.

That is awesome. I can imagine my brother doing something like that.

I wonder what kind of permits and red tape that required?

Just as bizarre is the "professional twerker" in the next picture at the link.:rolleyes:

The boat was probably already there, in preparation for flooding from Lake Erie. ;)

He did something similar last year which...

Ohio home’s Halloween pirate ship grabs attention

Pirate ship Halloween decorations thrill neighbors on Tacoma Avenue in Lorain

Might have a bit of time later to look at Street View and find out what the house looks like the rest of the year.

It that type of neighborhood, most places (except Texas) require permits for a damn tree house or playground type stuff these days. The nanny state wants to be sure nobody can get hurt from falling off, on being fallen on in a wind, plus flammability. Of course most of that comes under a "because we can" power trip. :eyebrow:

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See, his garage is falling over. :haha:

Thanks, Mr. G! :thumb:

Koryo Air. The World's worst airline.
 

With its Soviet-era planes, rudimentary safety belts, and reputation for questionable safety standards, Air Koryo is unlikely to appeal to nervous fliers.

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This really is a minor niggle. Nothing wrong here that a bootful of opposite rudder won't put right.***

Koryo Air: on board the world's 'worst' airline


*** Assuming the other two engines are still working. ;)

"Guaranteed to land".

You always have to be avoiding airplane poison.

One drop will kill ya.

Yeah but that 1957 seating configuration looks more appealing than some current layouts.

In the absence of any speculation I'll start some.

Fuel exhaustion.

Unlikely as long as the other two engines are going.

Fuel starvation due to mechanical failure.

Possible.

Fuel starvation due to fuel mis-management.

Possible.

Fuel contamination.

Anyone's guess.

Double mechanical failure due to Sod's Law.

?

Any other ideas, anyone?

Cheap-ass gov't-run airline?

Oh, I know... Photoshop, 'cause I notice a squiggly pixel in the 7th verse of chapter three in that picture. From the colors I'd guess Pixar, but hard to tell since Disney ate them. ;)

I guess with all those people taking a zillion selfies every day, somebody will try to be original.

Get a load of this little guy:

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His name is Giuliano Stroe, and he is from Romania. He's 10 years old, and he's been lifting weights since he was two.

"Sturmir October 16, 2014

I’m romanian. His father is a failed boxer/bodybuilder. The social services gave him a few warnings for child abuse and after that he moved to Italy. The latest news i know about this kid is that some tv show host invited the father and the kid to a medic so that the father can confirm if the kid is healthy or not. This kid’s joints are almost wrecked."

Found this log raft hard to believe but apparently true. I wonder how many boats were towing/guiding it?

We're such pussies today. They'd never let something like that happen now. OSHA takes all the fun out of dying in a horrible industrial accident.

Some of those are pretty disturbing ....

Maybe it's the Krocodil. :(

I know that, when I auger in, I want to do it in comfort.

Man, I sure am glad the tobacco companies were looking out for us.

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Yeah, My Dad smoked them for awhile and I was stealing from him. Liked to have killed both of us, and maybe him. And me down the road. :bolt: