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Gravdigr 04-03-2017 05:05 PM
Lion teaches tourists a lesson in Kruger National Park

Not much to see really, but, with a minimum of effort, Leo makes his point. 30 sec vid at the link.

Gravdigr 04-04-2017 04:11 PM
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Sketches vs. Objects Mashup

Example:

Attachment 59973

xoxoxoBruce 04-04-2017 08:51 PM
Those are pretty clever. :thumb:

Gravdigr 04-08-2017 05:12 PM
Matador gored through neck in very first bullfight

Yay bull!:celebrat:

BigV 04-09-2017 11:22 AM
Doesn't sound like much of a fight.

Gravdigr 04-09-2017 02:31 PM
Yeah, I think that guy might've flunked out of matador school.

xoxoxoBruce 04-13-2017 12:06 AM
This one was fun for me.

This BBC interactive website will tell you about you.
Enter your date of birth, sex, height, weight, and choose metric or imperial.
It will tell you what proportion of you is what elements and what they are worth. How many times your heart has beaten, how far your underarm hair has grown. How many cells of each type you have, and how many days they last.
How much poop you've made, and how many MB of data in your DNA.
And tons more about you.

Gravdigr 04-18-2017 05:07 PM
Using Photoshop To Troll Grandma

xoxoxoBruce 04-18-2017 05:47 PM
Ha ha ha, that's great. And don't answer the phone, or leave a recording, "I'll call you back when we get back from the hospital." :lol:

Clodfobble 04-18-2017 05:59 PM
It's funny how the hormones change. That link was hilarious to me just now. But back when the kids were very little, I remember seeing a cartoon--a drawing--of a toddler too near the water's edge, and it legitimately made my heart jump a little in discomfort. And the cartoon toddler was wearing a life jacket, for fuck's sake.

footfootfoot 04-18-2017 07:23 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 986381)
Quote:
Originally Posted by BigV (Post 986406)
Doesn't sound like much of a fight.
He probably wasn't in it for the fighting.

xoxoxoBruce 04-18-2017 07:56 PM
Noisy neighbors? Shake their booty. :blush:

glatt 04-19-2017 07:30 AM
Yeah, that will defuse the situation and get them on your side.

Flint 04-19-2017 11:40 AM
lumberjim's FACE will defuse the situation and get them on your side. wait.. the opposite

Gravdigr 04-25-2017 02:47 PM
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Kinda weird, but, I could see a use for it:

Attachment 60189

Like it says, uppertolowercase.com

footfootfoot 04-26-2017 09:27 AM

Gravdigr 05-09-2017 03:38 PM
How would ya like to do this twelve hours a day?

Sorries for the Bacefook linkage.

Gravdigr 05-09-2017 03:42 PM
How Our Favorite Foods Look in Their Natural Habitats

glatt 05-10-2017 09:50 AM
Excellent. I loved that link to the foods. And the harvesters were impressive. I would have a hard time doing that for more than an hour or two.

xoxoxoBruce 05-11-2017 01:17 AM
A list of 7,000 banned licence plates in North Carolina

I wonder why they banned Police-1, Police-2, Police-3, etc? :eyebrow:

Diaphone Jim 05-13-2017 11:15 AM
Some of my favorite eats.
Are the vanilla beans etched somehow or are those natural markings?

xoxoxoBruce 05-13-2017 01:22 PM
They look like they've been "branded" somehow. Maybe an anti-theft thing or marked with what tree they are from.

Gravdigr 05-13-2017 02:25 PM
I noticed that also.

gtown 05-15-2017 11:57 AM
You kids get off my lawn with your repetitive lyrics!
Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?
(cool article with cool charts)

Clodfobble 05-15-2017 12:50 PM
Wow, that was neat.

Gravdigr 05-15-2017 04:47 PM
Guy Sucks At Photoshop, Spends 10 Years Mastering Microsoft Paint To Illustrate His Book

The pics look stills from King Of The Hill. A lot.

xoxoxoBruce 05-15-2017 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted by gtown (Post 988698)
You kids get off my lawn with your repetitive lyrics!
Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?
(cool article with cool charts)
Quote:
The songs that reached the top 10 were, on average, more repetitive than the rest in every year from 1960 to 2015!
Make sense, easier to learn and sing along will be popular.

xoxoxoBruce 05-15-2017 05:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 988729)
I agree, similar palette and style to king.
He did a great job... the hard way.

Gravdigr 05-23-2017 03:11 PM
We're doomed.

Signs that humanity is getting dumber

Remember, if there wasn't a problem, there wouldn't be a rule/sign.

xoxoxoBruce 05-23-2017 05:00 PM
It's a result of the lawyer plague. :mad:

xoxoxoBruce 05-26-2017 02:02 PM
Keep On Truckin'
 
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Driving a long-haul tractor-trailer is as commonplace as the items that drivers carry, from blue jeans to blueberries, from toilet paper for Walmart to farm machinery bound for export. There are 1.7 million men and women working as long-haul drivers in the country. Yet truckers — high up in their cabs — are literally out of view for most Americans.

At a moment when President Trump has ignited a national discussion of blue-collar labor and even climbed into a truck during a White House event, trucking, which was once among the best-paying such jobs, has become low-wage, grinding, unhealthy work. Turnover at large for-hire fleets hauling freight by the truckload — the backbone of the industry — runs an astonishing 80 percent a year, according to a trade group. Looming over the horizon is a future in which self-driving trucks threaten to eliminate many drivers’ livelihoods.
Good read

Gravdigr 06-08-2017 03:05 PM
30 Facts About The Sit-com Cheers You Might Not Have Known

Examples:

The part of Frasier Crane was written for John Lithgow.

John Ratzenberger, who played bar know-it-all Cliff Clavin, improvised/ad libbed many of Cliff's little known "facts".

Norm Peterson's first name was Hillary.

xoxoxoBruce 06-12-2017 04:46 PM
An interesting take on business becoming more diverse in staff by sticking to business.
Quote:
If you want to build an inclusive culture, build a minimum culture. Build it around professionalism, boundaries, and work-life balance. Make sure your senior staff walks the walk, and spreads the word.
https://hackernoon.com/for-inclusive...e-87b663662cea

BigV 06-13-2017 11:53 PM
very good article, thank you xoB.

Undertoad 06-21-2017 06:27 PM
Open Railway Map

If you always wanted to know where those tracks went, now you can easily see.

Gravdigr 06-27-2017 09:44 AM
12 alcohol brands you didn't know were backed by celebrities

^^^Yahoo slide-show-type-thing, so, good luck.:o

xoxoxoBruce 06-28-2017 12:17 AM
MAUDE - Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience

The official site of the FDA to keep track of complaints and comments by medical pros about medical devices for the last 10 years.

Gravdigr 06-30-2017 11:15 AM
How Gullible Are You?

fargon 06-30-2017 03:48 PM
Pretty fucking gullible. I fell for that, like I was stoned.

Gravdigr 07-01-2017 12:44 PM
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:lol2:

xoxoxoBruce 07-01-2017 02:28 PM
Isn't it heartwarming to know if you die suddenly your pet won't starve?

Quote:
In 1997, a forensic examiner in Berlin reported one of his more unusual cases in the journal Forensic Science International. A 31-year-old man had retired for the evening to the converted garden shed behind his mother’s house, where he lived with his German shepherd. Around 8:15 p.m., neighbors heard a gunshot from the direction of the shed.

Forty-five minutes later, the man’s mother and neighbors found him dead of a gunshot wound to the mouth, a Walther pistol under his hands and a farewell note on a table. Most of his face and neck were gone—and there were tooth marks around the edges of the wounds. A half-full bowl of dog food sat on the floor.

The German shepherd was calm and responded to police commands. On the way to an animal sanctuary, the dog vomited some of its owner’s tissue, including skin with still-recognizable beard hair.
You snickering cat people think you're in the clear? You ain't. :headshake

xoxoxoBruce 07-03-2017 03:08 PM
This woman nailed it...

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Like many Americans, I’m having politics fatigue. Or, to be more specific, arguing-about-politics fatigue.

I haven’t run out of salient points or evidence for my political perspective, but there is a particular stumbling block I keep running into when trying to reach across the proverbial aisle and have those “difficult conversations” so smugly suggested by think piece after think piece:

I don’t know how to explain to someone why they should care about other people.
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can’t debate someone into caring about what happens to their fellow human beings. The fact that such detached cruelty is so normalized in a certain party’s political discourse is at once infuriating and terrifying.

The “I’ve got mine, so screw you,” attitude has been oozing from the American right wing for decades, but this gleeful exuberance in pushing legislation that will immediately hurt the most vulnerable among us is chilling.

Perhaps it was always like this. I’m (relatively) young, so maybe I’m just waking up to this unimaginable callousness. Maybe the emergence of social media has just made this heinous tendency more visible; seeing hundreds of accounts spring to the defense of policies that will almost certainly make their lives more difficult is incredible to behold.

I don’t know what’s changed ― or indeed, if anything has ― and I don’t have any easy answers. But I do know I’m done trying to convince these hordes of selfish, cruel people to look beyond themselves.

Gravdigr 07-04-2017 01:11 PM
She strikes me as one of those people who, when talking about the other side, sounds exactly like the other side.

:neutral:

Gravdigr 07-04-2017 01:37 PM
Photos That Accidentally Look Like Renaissance Paintings

xoxoxoBruce 07-04-2017 02:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 991803)
She strikes me as one of those people who, when talking about the other side, sounds exactly like the other side.

:neutral:
I don't think so, she's saying she can't discuss the issues with the other side because there is no common ground to start from. She and the other side have opposing base values. Like if one side thinks the Mississippi river should be cleaned up and the other side doesn't, they can never agree on why/how/who.
I think thic could have been written by someone on either side by changing details.

Gravdigr 07-05-2017 01:59 PM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 991805)
...could have been written by someone on either side...
;)

xoxoxoBruce 07-13-2017 10:59 PM
Watch the worldwide flow of refugees from 2000 to 2015.
Each dot equals 17 people, and I'll bet you'll be as surprised as I was.

Gravdigr 07-15-2017 11:21 PM
Wow. My version of Firefox (51.0.1) didn't like that site at all.

May have just taken a long time to load, seemed to lock up FF cold, though.

xoxoxoBruce 07-16-2017 07:53 AM
Chrome takes about 12 seconds to load, IE10 doesn't like it.

Gravdigr 07-17-2017 02:23 PM
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“Of all the campaigns in my life—20 major ones to be exact—the one I felt the most sure of was the one I was deprived of waging properly. I could have won the war in Korea in a maximum of 10 days, once the campaign was under way, and with considerably fewer casualties than were suffered during the so-called truce period. It would have altered the course of history."
MacArthur's Plan To Win The Korean War

:3_eyes:

xoxoxoBruce 07-17-2017 11:42 PM
An interesting take on why middle America flocked to Trump and stick by him. Also, how smaller politicians are choosing to emulate him, while the democrats are still clueless.

xoxoxoBruce 07-28-2017 03:25 PM
west-virginia-tries-to-improve-broadband-competition-incumbent-isps-immediately-sue.

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So by now you've probably noticed that the broadband industry is somewhat, well, broken. Unaccountable giant telecom incumbents, with a stranglehold on both federal and state lawmakers, work tirelessly alongside well-compensated lawmakers and covertly paid policy vessels to protect the status quo (read: limited competition, high prices, poor customer service). Often that involves quite literally writing and buying state laws that make it impossible for anybody to do much of anything about this dance of dysfunction.

And when it comes to highlighting the end result of this corruption, there's no better state than West Virginia. Whereas bigger incumbents in more populated states can often hide their stranglehold over a broken market under layers upon layers of exquisitely crafted bullshit, many West Virginia lawmakers and regional incumbent Frontier Communications lack the savvy and competence to mask what they're truly up to.

As a result, the state has been awash in controversy over its telecom policies for years now. Local Charleston Gazette reporter Eric Eyre has done yeoman's work chronicling West Virginia's immense broadband dysfunction, from the State's use of broadband stimulus subsidies on unused, overpowered routers and overpaid, redundant consultants, to state leaders' attempts to bury reports highlighting how a cozy relationship with Frontier has led to what can only be explained as systemic, statewide fraud on the taxpayer dime.

xoxoxoBruce 07-29-2017 08:18 PM
Badaboom, Big Badaboom.
 
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MADRID—The arsenal is a terrorist’s dream: 150 live hand grenades, 44 rocket propelled grenades, 1,450 9mm cartridges, 18 tear gas grenades, scores of triggers and detonators of various kinds, 102 explosive charges, and 264 blocks of plastic explosive. Such is the inventory of deadly materiel that was stolen from a military installation in Portugal on June 28 and is still missing.
Then, two days after that robbery, a van loaded with nitroglycerin was robbed in Barcelona, Spain. Those explosives have not been recovered either.
link

glatt 08-03-2017 10:51 AM
mozilla send.

A convenient free way to send somebody a file up to 1GB without an account with a file sharing service. File expires after one day or one download, whichever comes first. Encrypted too.

https://send.firefox.com/

Seems like it could come in handy.

Gravdigr 08-03-2017 12:31 PM
Thanks for that.:)

Gravdigr 08-08-2017 12:38 PM
Renaissance Paintings Recreated by Auto Mechanics

glatt 08-08-2017 01:10 PM
LOL. You are sitting in the lounge waiting for the oil change to be completed and you see either that guy with the sledge hammer or the one with the giant pipe wrench walking up to your car. :eek:

Gravdigr 08-10-2017 02:19 PM
Bravo-class submarine. Project 690

Flickr set of a Bravo class submarine. Maybe in Ukraine.

That is, literally, all the info I got.

glatt 08-10-2017 02:55 PM
Just need to run a sump pump for a couple hours to explore it more.

xoxoxoBruce 08-10-2017 03:05 PM
Class overview
Operators: Soviet Navy
In commission: 1967–1995
Completed: 4
Retired: 4
General characteristics
Type: Submarine
Displacement:
2,400 long tons (2,439 t) surfaced
2,900 long tons (2,947 t) submerged
Length: 73 m (239 ft 6 in)
Beam: 9.8 m (32 ft 2 in)
Draft: 7.3 m (23 ft 11 in)
Propulsion: Diesel-electric
Speed: 14 knots (26 km/h)
Complement: 65
Armament: 1 × 533 mm (21 in), 1 × 400 mm (16 in) torpedo tubes


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