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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Jun 6, 2023 11:03:13 GMT -5
A horse and sulky trotting around the local fairgrounds track. I haven't seen that since I lived in rural Maryland.
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Post by monodrone on Jun 6, 2023 14:57:59 GMT -5
An offshore wind farm from a small boat. Big turbines imo.
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Jun 8, 2023 9:48:58 GMT -5
Smoke from Canadian wildfires, several hundred miles south of the source. It's like someone applied the "Mexico" filter from Breaking Bad. My phone keeps desperately trying to color correct, "the sky is supposed to be blue, gotdammit!"
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jun 10, 2023 16:33:21 GMT -5
I am house sitting this week. Out the back window today I observed a ridiculous pigeon that twice landed on the (metal) barbecue outside and then clearly realized immediately that this was a mistake. This silly bird was basically hopping from one foot to the other, visibly flinching at how hot the metal under its feet was.
But note that I said twice. This bird did this once, for about a minute, then flew away to the shade. Then I saw it come back ten minutes later and do the same thing.
I think it was the same pigeon, at least.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Jun 10, 2023 19:12:43 GMT -5
A mother sandhill crane with its baby. There was another one, which I presume was the father, but couldn't get them all to pose together.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Jun 11, 2023 11:06:01 GMT -5
A DeLorean driving across the parking lot of the Buc-ees in Crossville Tennessee.
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Post by King Charles’s Butterfly on Jun 11, 2023 13:11:50 GMT -5
Something I heard: the old “Hello Moto” ringtone
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Jun 12, 2023 23:14:23 GMT -5
Yesterday, on our drive home from the Great Smoky Mountains, we passed the Paul Powell Museum in his hometown of Vienna Illinois. If you are at all familiar with the history of Illinois government/corruption you will recognize the name Paul Powell as the former IL Secretary of State who died suddenly in 1970. During the time he was in office, when you got tags for your car or renewed your drivers license, you made the check out to "Paul Powell". After he died, hundreds of thousands of dollars of cash was found stuffed in shoe boxes in his apartment in Springfield. I was amazed to see a museum dedicated to him, although he is as much a symbol of Illinois politics as old Honest Abe.
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Jun 13, 2023 13:25:06 GMT -5
A person with a sloth plushie looking out the back window of their car while said car was doing 20 in a 40 MPH zone.
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Post by ganews on Jun 17, 2023 16:17:16 GMT -5
Two different motorcycles, on two different highways in two different states, with middle-aged dude riders and Baby Yoda plushies on the back.
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Post by Lurky McLurk on Jun 20, 2023 14:54:45 GMT -5
A man wearing a cowboy hat and a full length black pleather trenchcoat, zipping along the road on an electric scooter.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Jun 21, 2023 18:54:57 GMT -5
A semi truck and trailer burned to twisted metal, and an eight mile traffic jam on the northbound lane of I 57 just south of Tuscola IL. Fortunately for me, I was heading south bound. Further south on the same interstate, I saw a CN railroad truck rolling along with smoke pouring out from under the hood, and possibly from the cab. Also, lots and lots of cops besides the ones around the accident site.
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Post by ganews on Jun 30, 2023 23:31:07 GMT -5
In this past week, I have seen multiple Maryland drivers: in a torrential downpour, crawling at half speed with emergency flashers on, but no headlights; in a severe air quality warning, with N-95 masks on, but their windows rolled down.
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Post by Some Kind of Munster on Jul 2, 2023 8:49:18 GMT -5
A roadkill beaver, which on one hand seems like something you’d see more often since they’re slow and dumb on land, but on the other hand why was he even on the road?
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Post by ganews on Jul 4, 2023 21:04:33 GMT -5
A firework I have never seen before: an orange sphere of flame, like the setting sun through a cloud. It wasn't a mistake because there were three of them in succession.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Jul 14, 2023 13:37:43 GMT -5
A 36 pack of Radio Shack brand AA batteries.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Jul 14, 2023 13:56:06 GMT -5
Two separate herds of cows lounging at the edge of their pastures under cover of trees to get out of the rain.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Jul 14, 2023 22:04:53 GMT -5
A pedal tractor pull, and modified lawn mower racing.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Jul 16, 2023 12:37:50 GMT -5
A snake skedaddling across the road, and the undercarriage of a car on the side of the road.
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Jul 16, 2023 17:32:42 GMT -5
A bag of crushed pork rinds intended (per the copy on the bag) to be substituted for breadcrumbs in keto dishes.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Jul 16, 2023 17:47:13 GMT -5
A bag of crushed pork rinds intended (per the copy on the bag) to be substituted for breadcrumbs in keto dishes. How were they?
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Jul 17, 2023 7:42:07 GMT -5
A bag of crushed pork rinds intended (per the copy on the bag) to be substituted for breadcrumbs in keto dishes. How were they? 6 bucks a bag. Someone else can find out.
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Jul 21, 2023 7:42:23 GMT -5
A car with a bumper sticker lovingly given center placement above the license plate, said sticker being a Punisher skull decorated with a US flag (vertical stripes but proper 'union top left' display method) and topped by TFG's unmistakable hair mop thing.
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Jul 22, 2023 18:11:46 GMT -5
They've already begun converting the what used to be a CVS into a Spirit Halloween store.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Jul 22, 2023 18:58:10 GMT -5
They've already begun converting the what used to be a CVS into a Spirit Halloween store. It's the circle of life....
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Jul 23, 2023 10:57:29 GMT -5
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Post by songstarliner on Jul 23, 2023 22:59:23 GMT -5
William T. Goat, Esq. They're everywhere, they're everywhere!! Dozens on my front porch, probably millions within county limits. I'm terrible at squishing them because a) how can my squishing possibly put a dent in their onslaught and b) squishing them is gross.
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Jul 24, 2023 6:10:55 GMT -5
They're kind of adorable though.
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Post by Dellarigg on Jul 26, 2023 5:28:25 GMT -5
A phone on the ground, having been flung there from a second storey window.
The character who threw it (my neighbour's daughter's boyfriend; they seem to've been staying with him off and on for the past two years) jumped out of the window after it, wearing only blue shorts and one sock. It was the daughter's phone, and he was trying to get it before she did, ostensibly to prove she was a slut. Not sure why he threw it out in the first place, but you don't really think straight in these situations. Not long after, her handbag was also flung out. This time he went out via the door, still in his shorts, but at least wearing trainers. He ripped the handles off it before bringing it back in, because she had torn something of his.
Now, while there was lots of shouting and crying and door slamming, I don't think there was any violence. My neighbour was in there with them, besides, and since he was taking something of a back seat while his daughter was being labelled a slut, I took this as a run of the mill occurrence and didn't call the police. (You, uh, don't exactly get thanked for calling the police round here anyway.) The boyfriend screamed off in his car, still underdressed, even for July. This was all at 10am, I should point out.
They had a similar shouting match on Christmas Day, and some of you may remember the boyfriend's appearance in this thread last summer:
A streak of blood on the wall near the back door of my block, a moaning lad on the ground who had just been beaten up by two youths with golf clubs, his girlfriend sitting quite calmly next to him blocking the door when I was trying to get out, and some police milling around. The girlfriend is the daughter of one of my neighbours. No word yet on why the two golfers should've exercised their fury on him in this way, but he looked the type this happens to often and deservedly.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jul 26, 2023 21:41:32 GMT -5
William T. Goat, Esq. They're everywhere, they're everywhere!! Dozens on my front porch, probably millions within county limits. I'm terrible at squishing them because a) how can my squishing possibly put a dent in their onslaught and b) squishing them is gross.
What are these things?
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