Smacks
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Post by Smacks on Sept 27, 2016 19:39:06 GMT -5
A huge crow eating smashed crab apples off a blacktop driveway. Fall in Ohio.
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Post by Not a real doctor on Sept 28, 2016 13:44:00 GMT -5
I saw this again yesterday. Out in the country, on sparsely traveled roads, it's not all that uncommon to come to an intersection with no stop signs in any direction. I've found a disturbing amount of intersections with no stop signs in the college town I live in now. It doesn't appear they're the result of "dang teen vandals" though since there aren't any posts there. I think they're supposed to be a 4-way stop/yielding situation. |
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Sept 28, 2016 13:52:34 GMT -5
some asshole's van parked on the wrong side of our street
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Post by haysoos on Sept 28, 2016 18:59:46 GMT -5
Today I saw ALL of the geese coming to gather on the lake in the park.
I was trying to count them, and was up to nearly 200 just in the quarter of the lake I could see, when in come a honking hundred more geese gliding in to make more poop.
No wonder the bacterial counts in that lake are so high.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Sept 28, 2016 19:29:12 GMT -5
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Sept 30, 2016 10:03:30 GMT -5
Yesterday I drove to my install for the day through intermittent rain and the sky was covered in dark grey clouds. Then, about 1/2 hour into the trip, the clouds broke up in the east and the sun came out and made a lovely rainbow in the western sky. First full rainbow I've seen in a few years. I wanted to take a picture, but not enough to stop along the interstate and risk getting run over.
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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Sept 30, 2016 16:32:46 GMT -5
Two dudes riding 1890's style gigantic high wheel in front/tiny wheel in back bikes.
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Post by Pastafarian on Sept 30, 2016 18:47:16 GMT -5
A squirrel trying to access our new squirrel proof bird feeder. Haha, too bad sucker! Go and steel someone else's seed!
I probably should find a better way of saying that.
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Post by Pastafarian on Sept 30, 2016 18:47:40 GMT -5
Two dudes riding 1890's style gigantic high wheel in front/tiny wheel in back bikes. If you weren't in Brooklyn, you should have been. |
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Post by Pastafarian on Sept 30, 2016 18:50:38 GMT -5
I went for a drive out in the country this evening, shortly before dark. Along the way I saw: a couple of beautiful old barns, a guinea strutting along beside the road, people harvesting corn and beans, dark stretches of road where the trees met overhead, a deer running across the road in front of me, two different dirt roads with signs reading "road closed during wet weather" and "road impassible during wet weather", and a bunny sitting beside the road. Whoa, look at Robert Frost over here! |
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Post by The Stuffingtacular She-Hulk on Sept 30, 2016 21:27:24 GMT -5
While on my way to pick up dinner, I saw two doggos! Both of them were old white-muzzled golden retrievers who were just SO HAPPY to be outside.
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Post by Lt. Broccoli on Oct 1, 2016 9:36:26 GMT -5
A couple having an argument on a street corner, in the rain. I didn't feel bad about staring at them, because if they are the sort of people who don't mind arguing in public in the rain, they probably don't care about what other people think of them.
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Oct 1, 2016 11:49:42 GMT -5
Yesterday, I saw another rainbow, this time over the local craft beer festival.
I am pondering the spiritual implications of this.
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Post by moimoi on Oct 1, 2016 13:20:19 GMT -5
Something one rarely sees in Chicago: a chode in a Nickelback T-shirt at Target, circa Wrigleyville.
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Post by 🔪 silly buns on Oct 1, 2016 15:18:59 GMT -5
Something one rarely sees in Chicago: a chode in a Nickelback T-shirt at Target, circa Wrigleyville. Was he wearing that shirt ironically? |
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Post by moimoi on Oct 1, 2016 16:26:55 GMT -5
Something one rarely sees in Chicago: a chode in a Nickelback T-shirt at Target, circa Wrigleyville. Was he wearing that shirt ironically? I don't think so. He looked like an NRA member - close cropped hair and goatee, scary clear blue eyes... |
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Post by Jimmy James on Oct 2, 2016 22:14:00 GMT -5
While those little family decals for the back of your car seem to be past their peak as a trend, I saw two different black pick-up trucks in I-85 with variations- the first had a set of five crosses, two large and three small, arranged in the same way as the stick figures of mom and dad and so on. I would guess they chose that to express their Christianity, though it gives the impression of a row of tombstones. I was worried about the more remote possibility of this actually being someone who had to bury five other family members which would be pretty darn tragic. The douchier alternative is the other truck who instead of a family had decals representing his two rifles and three or four pistols. I was leaving the hotel I was at (so technically inside today) and something caught my eye about the throw pillow on one of the chairs in the lobby- it was a strangely familiar hexagonal pattern. It took me a moment to recognize it as the same as the carpet in The Shining. Either a coincidence, or the hotel's decorator has a slightly dark sense of humor.  |
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Oct 3, 2016 11:03:21 GMT -5
A farm fence covered in wild morning glories, only instead of the fence being consumed by the vines, it was just dotted all over with gorgeous flowers.
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Oct 4, 2016 9:50:19 GMT -5
A rainbow!
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Oct 4, 2016 20:50:58 GMT -5
Today I saw: Three wild turkeys along side the road,
At least a half-dozen different convertibles , each with their top down,
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A sign outside a bar advertising "Beer as Cold as your Ex's Heart"
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Oct 6, 2016 8:30:00 GMT -5
A Geo Metro. Man, it's been a while since I've seen one of those.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2016 9:37:18 GMT -5
A Geo Metro. Man, it's been a while since I've seen one of those. I drove one of those from 2005-2009 before giving it to my little brother when he moved away to college. He got rid of it a year or two ago. So, ten years of use, not bad! |
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Oct 6, 2016 11:24:05 GMT -5
A Geo Metro. Man, it's been a while since I've seen one of those. I've had 3 or 4 of those over the years. 30-40 mpg was pretty sweet when gas was up around $4 a gallon. I still see one occasionally, out and about. They were cheap when new, and at one point there were tons of them for sale used for around $500 a pop, then the gas prices went up, and suddenly they were bringing $1500+. I rode a train two days to Grand Junction Colorado to pick up the last one I bought, a several years ago. I blew the motor up a few years later driving it home from a service call in Chicago, filled with tool boxes and with a 24 foot extension ladder strapped to a roof rack. That poor thing shit engine parts out all over I 57. I got way more than my money's worth of use out of it. I have seen at least two places advertised that claimed to refurbish Metros from the ground up. I don't know if they are still doing this, now that gas is cheaper. |
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Post by moimoi on Oct 6, 2016 19:26:39 GMT -5
East German army gear, assorted springs, and other oddities at american science and surplus.
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Post by Logoboros on Oct 7, 2016 11:55:28 GMT -5
Stopped at a traffic light. Guy in the car next to me (who looks uncannily like a 20-something version of Jamie for Mythbusters) has two actual wooden drumsticks in his hands and is literally drumming on his steering wheel along with the song playing on his stereo.
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Oct 7, 2016 13:59:32 GMT -5
The borough road crew guys taking down the American flags that adorn all the telephone poles in town during the warm months. Making room for the light-up snowflakes in a couple of months!
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Post by songstarliner on Oct 7, 2016 14:49:17 GMT -5
East German army gear, assorted springs, and other oddities at american science and surplus. So jealous! |
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Post by moimoi on Oct 7, 2016 15:03:09 GMT -5
East German army gear, assorted springs, and other oddities at american science and surplus. So jealous! It's a pretty cool place. I got two rather striking green gas mask cases that I'm going to use as panniers for my bike. |
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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on Oct 7, 2016 18:34:12 GMT -5
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Post by songstarliner on Oct 7, 2016 20:47:02 GMT -5
It's not a nice one, so I'll spoiler it for the faint-of-heart
A dead cat, a young one, hardly out of its kittenhood, on the sidewalk as I walked my son to school. No blood, but some ... oozing ... liquid? around the face. *shudder* We were talking and walking and I instinctively maneuvered myself to block the poor thing from his sight. It's gone now. RIP.
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