It was an attempt, evidently doomed to failure, at wry humour. ;)

It worked too, would have fallen flat without Grav's come back. :thumb:

There are so many recipes and restaurant options that make me wish I liked bell peppers.

Just about the only thing I can stand them in is chili.

Sometimes I'm too subtle for words. ;)

I can't eat green Bell peppers once, every time I've tried they repeat all night. But I've found the yellow, red, and purple Bells, are no problem at all. :confused:

Have a close look at the legs on that beast, the front legs are wrong. To me they look like hind legs.:bitching:
After another look. Disregard this post.

Same for me, Bruce

I think the problem with green Bell peppers is they just aren't ripe. If left unpicked for another 4 to 6 weeks they'll turn red, then they're ripe. Anywhere in between, when they are part green and part red, they're called "tans"... damifino why?

Anyway, nobody will buy "tans", not even restaurants, so the farmer takes a huge financial risk waiting for them to ripen. Reds bring more money but the possibility of weather, insects, or a million other threats, could destroy the crop. :thepain:

I eat them every which way, but, lately it's been raw green bell peppers with pimento cheese.

:yum:

Green pepper is like one of the last flavors I have to conquer, along with cilantro. But I cain't. I just cain't eat it. Why oh why do we have such different tastes?








Maybe because minor differences between individuals in a species allow for genetic diversity to permit some to survive and adapt differently than others, causing evolution to happen even without genetic errors/mutations.

Psst... Queen Vicky's been talking shit behind your back. Come over to the USA, Nebraska love you long time.

So that's where them goddanged pheasantkillers came from...

This woman has some huge melons.

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What?

:lol2:

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For Limey
 

I'd dive through a wood chipper.

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Saw Lamplighter today:

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[j/k]:D

This.


Sent by thought transference

Wasn't me... I would never dye my hair that shade of red

Hah! I knew you were out there somewhere!

Lost Springs, Wyoming

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I started to say they had more feet than people, but, unless the populace consists of amputees, that would naturally be the case...

Thanks for posting that, Grav.

About a month ago, there was an article in one of the national newspapers about oil drilling or fracking, I forget which, and the effect it was having on Wyoming.
The article concentrated on the area around Lost Springs so I spent some time on Street View having a look around.
There seems to be some trailer accommodation behind the bar so perhaps that increases the population temporarily if it is related to energy exploitation. Lost Springs.

I'm fond of Wyoming, but Americans often say to me 'there's not much in Wyoming'. Exactly, that's its USP.
I find it a bit crowded in this corner of SE England so some time spent on the prairie suits me quite nicely.
Whether I shall ever get the chance to go back, remains to be seen.

Have they actually been to Wyoming? WTF?

Maybe they meant there isn't much man-made in Wyoming.

Yes, I think that is what was meant.

I take the view that there is plenty in Wyoming. Its natural splendour is unsurpassed.

I've made four visits and I'd go back tomorrow if I could, despite winter setting in.

Christmas card... although it could be Halloween. :eyebrow:

There has been much comment on that card in the Nation's press. Little of it favourable.

I knew I knew who that was.

Couldn't recognize him.

Ol' Tone looks like he got caught cussing the photographer.

Nothing to see, move along, just another day in Michigan. :haha:

That one guy doesn't have an orange safety vest. Amateur.

No ejection seat?

Maybe he's the hunter and the others are the easier-to-see targets.

A Bosty named Soybean...:D

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Good boy.

No, I don't believe I want balls on my chin. :eyebrow:

That's just not a manly look.

Somehow.

Big pic apologies, but, I thought it was cool enough to be seen in the large.

This pic was taken in 1927, at the Solvay Conference, in Brussels.

It's been called the most intelligent picture ever taken.

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Front row: I. Langmuir, M. Planck, M. Skłodowska-Curie, H.A. Lorentz, A. Einstein, P. Langevin, Ch.-E. Guye, C.T.R. Wilson, O.W. Richardson

Middle row: P. Debye, M. Knudsen, W.L. Bragg, H.A. Kramers, P.A.M. Dirac, A.H. Compton, L. de Broglie, M. Born, N. Bohr;

Back row: A. Piccard, E. Henriot, P. Ehrenfest, E. Herzen, Th. de Donder, E. Schrödinger, J.E. Verschaffelt, W. Pauli, W. Heisenberg, R.H. Fowler, L. Brillouin;

At some point, someone colorized it. Rather well, I think. Below is a pic taken at almost the same moment, which has not been colorized.

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I didn't realize they were contemporaries. That was a golden age of science. Lots of big steps taken all at once.

Schrödinger's there. Anyone spotted his cat?

Heisenberg picked it up and threw it against a wall, but he's uncertain whether it hit or not.

There are some frighteningly well read people on this site.

I had to look that one up. I'm dim but I'm honest.

:D

Planck's constantly muttering about something or other.

Maybe Planck is upset because Lorentz is always transforming the numbers.

because two days of "The Joy of Painting" is *enough*, even for Bob Ross.

I could listen to that magnificent bastard talk All. Fucking. Day.

I would really like to have met him.

I just smile, nod and head over to the picture threads ;)

Yah. Pull my finger

My family accumulated a bunch of painting they bought from a guy outside the Piggly Wiggly grocery store in Alaska. He sold them for $5 unframed, painted on grey shirt cardboard. I thought they were cool because they were in the style of a few blobs and a wide brush give instant background then minimal strokes of a brush fill in mountains, evergreens, and other details.

When I first saw Bob Ross on TV, I immediately thought of the style of those cheap paintings. When just recently I read Ross spend a lot of time in Alaska, I had to wonder if it was him, but he didn't get there until about 1959 or '60 and some of these predate that. That makes me wonder if he learned the technique from the painter?

Nevermind, as you were. :blush:

Yeah, I think he was AirForce when he was in Alaska. He's said that part of his job in the AF was to yell at people, and when he got out, he said he was never going to yell/shout again, and developed that signature soft-voiced way of speaking.

Speaking of Alaska, there's an artist up there making neat pictures.

Breakfast of champions... might explain a lot of coal mine explosions back in the day. ;)

http://s18.postimg.org/a0ta66lzd/Pot...r_3164492k.jpg

I'm inclined to take the side of the Peregrine on this one.

Hey, that's Species-ist.

Pretty impressive picture though.

I'm not best placed to offer an analysis of the artistic qualities of this painting, but the sheer size of it will always turn heads.

It's just a shade under 18' x 25'


http://s15.postimg.org/b46084y3f/Gibraltar.jpg

How on Earth do you even start a work that size?

The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782

Hey, it was painted by an American, it must be "exceptional". :lol2:

Yeah, how in hell did they handle it, move it around England, to Gibraltar and back, conserve it for 200 years? Roll it up? Don't oil painting get brittle and crack?