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Post by repulsionist on Jul 26, 2023 21:51:27 GMT -5
Desert Dweller, they're Spotted Lanternfly nymphs. They have had a surging population in PA for about 10 years. Huge problem for many PA residents.
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Jul 26, 2023 21:57:32 GMT -5
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Post by Dellarigg on Jul 27, 2023 9:45:32 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.As a possible update to this, one thing I saw outside today was a police car.
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Post by King Charles’s Butterfly on Jul 27, 2023 16:50:24 GMT -5
Massive 3%er looking dude getting his toenails worked on in a salon staffed and mostly frequented by petite old Korean ladies.
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Post by ganews on Jul 27, 2023 20:34:24 GMT -5
My neighbor mowing his lawn in the full dark of 9:20 at night.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jul 28, 2023 1:49:52 GMT -5
Desert Dweller , they're Spotted Lanternfly nymphs. They have had a surging population in PA for about 10 years. Huge problem for many PA residents. Ah, I see. Yes, I have heard they are a dangerous invasive species.
Blech.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Jul 28, 2023 21:24:43 GMT -5
An empty condom box outside the Walgreens. and later A beaver or ground hog standing by the side of the road. I couldn't see it's tail to be sure which it was.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Jul 29, 2023 17:49:59 GMT -5
An electronic traffic billboard that I could swear said "slow down idiot" when I glanced at it. But when I looked at it again, it said my speed (49 in a 35). So I slowed down.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Jul 29, 2023 21:12:11 GMT -5
I think whoever designed this hotel doesn't really like dogs.
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Post by Prole Hole on Aug 1, 2023 7:16:08 GMT -5
Took the train from Edinburgh to Glasgow and when the trains are not in use or nor boarding, the destination indicator simply say, "chillin'". I'm making the same journey on Thursday, if I see it and remember I'll take a picture and post it here.
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Post by LazBro on Aug 1, 2023 8:52:32 GMT -5
I don't know which was more interesting...
1. The police SUV which blatantly ran a red light that I was slowing to stop at. It was a "Texas red light", meaning the light was yellow as we approached but fully red before the vehicle entered the intersection. Unambiguously a crime, but you see it every day.
...or
2. The van immediately behind the police SUV who also ran the light.
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Post by ganews on Aug 1, 2023 9:24:26 GMT -5
I don't know which was more interesting...
1. The police SUV which blatantly ran a red light that I was slowing to stop at. It was a "Texas red light", meaning the light was yellow as we approached but fully red before the vehicle entered the intersection. Unambiguously a crime, but you see it every day.
...or
2. The van immediately behind the police SUV who also ran the light.
If you ever get into an intersection at the last legal moment (or even too late) there is like a 75% chance the person behind you ran the full-on red.
I've seen cars enter the intersection three full Mississippis after the light goes red.
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Post by LazBro on Aug 1, 2023 9:46:19 GMT -5
I don't know which was more interesting...
1. The police SUV which blatantly ran a red light that I was slowing to stop at. It was a "Texas red light", meaning the light was yellow as we approached but fully red before the vehicle entered the intersection. Unambiguously a crime, but you see it every day.
...or
2. The van immediately behind the police SUV who also ran the light.
If you ever get into an intersection at the last legal moment (or even too late) there is like a 75% chance the person behind you ran the full-on red.
I've seen cars enter the intersection three full Mississippis after the light goes red.
For sure, yeah. You see it all the time ... but literally right behind a police car?
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Post by ganews on Aug 1, 2023 12:26:54 GMT -5
If you ever get into an intersection at the last legal moment (or even too late) there is like a 75% chance the person behind you ran the full-on red.
I've seen cars enter the intersection three full Mississippis after the light goes red.
For sure, yeah. You see it all the time ... but literally right behind a police car? I assume they guessed that the cops largely don't enforce traffic violations any more.
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Aug 1, 2023 19:37:32 GMT -5
If you ever get into an intersection at the last legal moment (or even too late) there is like a 75% chance the person behind you ran the full-on red.
I've seen cars enter the intersection three full Mississippis after the light goes red.
For sure, yeah. You see it all the time ... but literally right behind a police car? Maybe the police car was being stolen by the owners of the van, and the cops took the van to pursue
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Post by Desert Dweller on Aug 2, 2023 0:54:59 GMT -5
I don't know which was more interesting...
1. The police SUV which blatantly ran a red light that I was slowing to stop at. It was a "Texas red light", meaning the light was yellow as we approached but fully red before the vehicle entered the intersection. Unambiguously a crime, but you see it every day.
A cop here got in big trouble several years ago for running a red light at high speed and then consequently hitting a car on the other side of the intersection. That car was driven by an employee of mine at that time. She got seriously injured. There were speed cameras and red light cameras at the intersection and cameras at the grocery store/bank on the corner. So, this was fully photographed and the speed was captured. My employee won a lawsuit against the city.
Here, what I'm noticing during this insane heat wave is pedestrians crossing major city streets NOT at a crosswalk. And the crosswalk will be, like, 20 feet to their right. But they will just dart out into traffic, trying to find the shortest path possible to wherever they are going.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Aug 2, 2023 9:14:36 GMT -5
Dude at the grocery store writing an honest-to-christ check. And they were letting him. He was probably mid-60s or 70-ish.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Aug 2, 2023 15:41:46 GMT -5
Dude at the grocery store writing an honest-to-christ check. And they were letting him. He was probably mid-60s or 70-ish. Was he using it to purchase a small carton of cream?
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Aug 2, 2023 18:43:24 GMT -5
A squirrel on my balcony who was taunting Luna.
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Post by Prole Hole on Aug 5, 2023 10:18:09 GMT -5
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Post by pantsgoblin on Aug 6, 2023 11:17:21 GMT -5
Neighborhood calico and world's friendliest cat Luna (though she does get underfoot in her demands for pets).
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Post by repulsionist on Aug 6, 2023 18:12:12 GMT -5
The beautiful Karamatura Valley at sunrise after a cold night on an air mattress. Waking temperature was 4C/39F.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Aug 10, 2023 1:19:08 GMT -5
Traffic stopped in our state capitol to allow a flock of geese to cross the street and later A bunch of kids swimming in a flooded ditch along side the highway.
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Post by Dellarigg on Aug 12, 2023 9:31:42 GMT -5
Yesterday: a fight at the front, across the road, between two youths. When I got to the window, one of them was down on the ground and making craven hand gestures. When he was allowed up, he ran away with his tracksuit bottoms halfway down his arse cheeks. His opponent sauntered across the road into a waiting car, taking him to his next bout, allowing the beaten man to start shouting for him to come back and whipping a lamp post with something.
Today: my neighbour, the one whose daughter and her boyfriend featured recently, having a fight with one of his mates, this time at the back. These aren't youths; they're both about 50. My neighbour often ends up on the wrong side of a perceived or real slight when it comes to his friends, ending in violence. This one developed into shouting, pacing, being on his phone, and then a brief fight, two punches thrown by my neighbour, one with his wrong hand and therefore clumsy. His opponent, perhaps drunk, went over easily nevertheless, one of his trainers coming off - inanimate objects have a tendency to conspire against us at these times. Anyway, he put it back on and went off, insults and denunciations ringing in his ears, though I wouldn't be surprised if he's back later.
How am I supposed to listen to my classical music adagios CD with all this crap going on?
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Aug 12, 2023 14:05:48 GMT -5
I am watching, right now, the mullet contest at the Illinois state fair.
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Post by Prole Hole on Aug 13, 2023 9:27:57 GMT -5
Goat's cheese ice cream.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Aug 13, 2023 11:54:35 GMT -5
Shirtless guy the size of Terry Crews walking a pit bull on a “leash” made of what was clearly nothing more that a black tshirt torn in half.
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Post by ganews on Aug 14, 2023 8:19:01 GMT -5
Yesterday we tried out a new Latino ice cream/popsicle shop a couple miles from the house. So many interesting flavors; I had blackberry with cheese (cream cheese I guess?).
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Aug 17, 2023 18:26:48 GMT -5
I just drove by a business called "HJ Auto Service".
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Post by pantsgoblin on Aug 17, 2023 18:52:11 GMT -5
A discarded flyer inexplicably featuring only an image from everyone's favorite comic about naked 8-year-olds who are married, Love Is...
Fun fact: the cartoonist, New Zealander Kim Casali, set off a media firestorm in the mid-'70s when she became one of the first women to conceive a child with her dead husband's sperm.
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