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Post by Nudeviking on Jan 1, 2017 20:44:00 GMT -5
A toupee on the sidewalk, covered in winter street muck.
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Post by songstarliner on Jan 1, 2017 20:56:02 GMT -5
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Post by 🔪 silly buns on Jan 1, 2017 22:32:31 GMT -5
Center City Philadelphia after the NYE parade. All cars were blocked from parking and driving here.  
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jan 1, 2017 23:44:36 GMT -5
Rain! It actually rained today! Like, a lot!
Hey, this is exciting in the desert.
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Jan 3, 2017 14:52:02 GMT -5
The Holiday Vacation Report:
-- A Cooper's hawk, picking up some thermals over the house across the street, presumably eyeballing the birds at our feeder. When he drifted out of view, two red-tailed hawks appeared from the woods behind our yard, swooping low at first then gaining air and moving off. While they were still low their tails caught the bright sunshine at the perfect angle to flash bright red.
-- Two dead mouse-like rodents, in the same spot on our front walk, on consecutive days. They were both perfectly intact and peaceful-looking. Perhaps they were eating the new insulation in our garage remodel and it was poisonous? Who knows. I hope they're the effin' Cuddlers that live in our garden and eat all our veggies, even though I rationally know they're not. (The Cuddler and the new Mrs. Cuddler are much darker colored than these dead guys were.)
-- A packet of rolling papers in our driveway, and a jar of peanut butter tossed into the construction dumpster next to the garage. Hm. I wonder what the neighborhood kids have been up to in the abandoned property next door...
-- The one-antlered buck chasing a small doe quite ardently through the front yard this morning. January seems late for that, but I guess the heart wants what the heart wants. And honestly, what do I know about the mating patterns of white-tailed deer?
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Post by Buon Funerale Amigos on Jan 9, 2017 10:38:33 GMT -5
A fox trying to sneak up on a flock of Canada geese.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jan 9, 2017 13:17:33 GMT -5
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Post by Buon Funerale Amigos on Jan 11, 2017 22:21:47 GMT -5
A fox trying to sneak up on a flock of Canada geese. Was it successful? It wasn't successful in sneaking up on them, since they were clearly aware of its presence. It did get pretty close, and I don't know whether it was successful in nabbing one, since I was driving at the time (I did slow waaaaay down just in case something interesting happened). |
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Post by dＬᵒ on Jan 13, 2017 17:59:11 GMT -5
"Is that the neighbor's black lab? I thought that thing died last year. Maybe they got a new one"
*dark shape slowly expands and takes off*
"... oh it was a raven"
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jan 16, 2017 14:25:09 GMT -5
So, I know they're kind of cliched, but I get why people buy those "26.2" bumper stickers after they've run a marathon, because, fair enough, you want to make some acknowledgment of how you ran like a really fucking long distance all at once, and that's cool. "13.1" stickers, on the other hand, I feel like "all right, you ran a half marathon, that's certainly further than I've ever run at once, but I'm not sure it's worth bragging about to every other driver you encounter on the roads", but whatever. But what really got annoying literally the second time I saw one was those "0.0" bumper stickers, because, see, the joke is that they don't run, get it? Oh, what's that, you did get it, because you're a literate adult with basic numeracy skills and an ability to understand variations on patterns which you've probably seen thousands of times, and you understand that if you run 0.0 miles that means you've actually run no miles at all, which is 0% of 26.2 miles, which is the number of miles which are in a marathon? But anyway, it's totally fair if you don't run, but the "0.0" bumper sticker was only even a slightly clever joke the first time I saw one, so I could really have done without the hundreds of times I've seen them since. But the other day, I saw one of those "0.0" bumper stickers only, beneath the aforementioned number proclaiming that this person does not run marathons and hence you should find this banal fact absolutely hilarious, were printed the words "I DON'T RUN". Which, no, I actually got the joke without you needing to explain it to me, random condescending motorist, by virtue of me being a person who has seen several car bumpers over the last five years. I don't need you to elaborate on a lazy "joke" that's been a ubiquitous self-explanatory meme within our culture since at least 2012. Surely this bumper sticker is the fucking nadir of hand-holding insultingly superfluous explanation, at least in the world of bumper stickers, because not even those "Obummer" bumper stickers that conservative assholes put on their bumpers have a belabored explanatory footnote at the bottom explaining "In case you don't understand the wordplay going on here, the actual name of our the President of the United States is Barack Hussein Obama, and, as you can probably tell from the fact that I just put unnecessary emphasis on the middle name that he rarely uses when referring to himself, I'm a bigoted shithead, and I don't think Obama is a good president for completely ridiculous reasons like my belief that he's going to come for all my guns and recruit millions of black people to stand in line for three hours multiple times on election day so that they can vote for him like four times each and that he's actually a Kenyan Christian liberation theology believer atheist Satanist Muslim terrorist collaborator and that he's basically a dictator because have you seen Dinesh D'Souza's documentaries because I have and I like the way that they really talk down to me as if I never took a US History course in high school and the way that D'Souza told me that Obama's a ruthless dictator who hates America and he's the real racist unlike all Republicans, but anyway, suffice it to say that I don't like the head of state, so this bumper sticker, anyway, prepare yourself for this, because it might tax your capacity for wordplay, but this bumper sticker, what it says is "Obummer", which sounds like "Obama", except the last four letters are replaced by the word "bummer", and if something is a bummer then it is a bad thing, so the implication of my bumper sticker is that Barack Obama is a bad president, because it's a pun, do you get it?". Surely if even the purchasers of "Obummer" stickers didn't think that people would need such an addendum at the bottom of their trite shitty pun for people to understand it, then "0.0" bumper stickers do not need to bear the words "I DON'T RUN" in all fucking caps, right? God dammit.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jan 16, 2017 14:31:35 GMT -5
So, I know they're kind of cliched, but I get why people buy those "26.2" bumper stickers after they've run a marathon, because, fair enough, you want to make some acknowledgment of how you ran like a really fucking long distance all at once, and that's cool. "13.1" stickers, on the other hand, I feel like "all right, you ran a half marathon, that's certainly further than I've ever run at once, but I'm not sure it's worth bragging about to every other driver you encounter on the roads", but whatever. But what really got annoying literally the second time I saw one was those "0.0" bumper stickers, because, see, the joke is that they don't run, get it? Oh, what's that, you did get it, because you're a literate adult with basic numeracy skills and an ability to understand variations on patterns which you've probably seen thousands of times, and you understand that if you run 0.0 miles that means you've actually run no miles at all, which is 0% of 26.2 miles, which is the number of miles which are in a marathon? But anyway, it's totally fair if you don't run, but the "0.0" bumper sticker was only even a slightly clever joke the first time I saw one, so I could really have done without the hundreds of times I've seen them since. But the other day, I saw one of those "0.0" bumper stickers only, beneath the aforementioned number proclaiming that this person does not run marathons and hence you should find this banal fact absolutely hi larious, were printed the words "I DON'T RUN". Which, no, I actually got the joke without you needing to explain it to me, random condescending motorist, by virtue of me being a person who has seen several car bumpers over the last five years. I don't need you to elaborate on a lazy "joke" that's been a ubiquitous self-explanatory meme within our culture since at least 2012. Surely this bumper sticker is the fucking nadir of hand-holding insultingly superfluous explanation, at least in the world of bumper stickers, because not even those "Obummer" bumper stickers that conservative assholes put on their bumpers have a belabored explanatory footnote at the bottom explaining "In case you don't understand the wordplay going on here, the actual name of our the President of the United States is Barack Hussein Obama, and, as you can probably tell from the fact that I just put unnecessary emphasis on the middle name that he rarely uses when referring to himself, I'm a bigoted shithead, and I don't think Obama is a good president for completely ridiculous reasons like my belief that he's going to come for all my guns and recruit millions of black people to stand in line for three hours multiple times on election day so that they can vote for him like four times each and that he's actually a Kenyan Christian liberation theology believer atheist Satanist Muslim terrorist collaborator and that he's basically a dictator because have you seen Dinesh D'Souza's documentaries because I have and I like the way that they really talk down to me as if I never took a US History course in high school and the way that D'Souza told me that Obama's a ruthless dictator who hates America and he's the real racist unlike all Republicans, but anyway, suffice it to say that I don't like the head of state, so this bumper sticker, anyway, prepare yourself for this, because it might tax your capacity for wordplay, but this bumper sticker, what it says is "Obummer", which sounds like "Obama", except the last four letters are replaced by the word "bummer", and if something is a bummer then it is a bad thing, so the implication of my bumper sticker is that Barack Obama is a bad president, because it's a pun, do you get it?". Surely if even the purchasers of "Obummer" stickers didn't think that people would need such an addendum at the bottom of their trite shitty pun for people to understand it, then "0.0" bumper stickers do not need to bear the words "I DON'T RUN" in all fucking caps, right? God dammit. You know, a lot of people forget the "Hussein" but I think it's important. |
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Jan 16, 2017 15:50:09 GMT -5
I had no idea those 26.2 stickers mean they ran a marathon. I'm such a dummy.
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Post by dＬᵒ on Jan 17, 2017 18:13:09 GMT -5
I had no idea those 26.2 stickers mean they ran a marathon. I'm such a dummy. I initially thought that the (0.0) stickers were supposed to be a face like that OwO meme |
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Post by Jimmy James on Jan 17, 2017 19:04:58 GMT -5
"In case you don't understand the wordplay going on here, the actual name of our the President of the United States is Barack Hussein Obama, and, as you can probably tell from the fact that I just put unnecessary emphasis on the middle name that he rarely uses when referring to himself, I'm a bigoted shithead, and I don't think Obama is a good president for completely ridiculous reasons like my belief that he's going to come for all my guns and recruit millions of black people to stand in line for three hours multiple times on election day so that they can vote for him like four times each and that he's actually a Kenyan Christian liberation theology believer atheist Satanist Muslim terrorist collaborator and that he's basically a dictator because have you seen Dinesh D'Souza's documentaries because I have and I like the way that they really talk down to me as if I never took a US History course in high school and the way that D'Souza told me that Obama's a ruthless dictator who hates America and he's the real racist unlike all Republicans, but anyway, suffice it to say that I don't like the head of state, so this bumper sticker, anyway, prepare yourself for this, because it might tax your capacity for wordplay, but this bumper sticker, what it says is "Obummer", which sounds like "Obama", except the last four letters are replaced by the word "bummer", and if something is a bummer then it is a bad thing, so the implication of my bumper sticker is that Barack Obama is a bad president, because it's a pun, do you get it?". Someday when I have way too much time, I'd like to photoshop a pickup truck with that on a sticker taking up the entire tailgate. Per the "0.0" stickers, I can understand if someone is a little bored hearing people talk about a hobby they don't share, but it just seems kind of childish to get a sticker proclaiming you don't care (not just because it clearly shows that you do care, at least a little bit) as though you couldn't bear people talking about, or having bumper stickers about, an interest you didn't share. |
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Post by Powerthirteen on Jan 17, 2017 20:02:42 GMT -5
"In case you don't understand the wordplay going on here, the actual name of our the President of the United States is Barack Hussein Obama, and, as you can probably tell from the fact that I just put unnecessary emphasis on the middle name that he rarely uses when referring to himself, I'm a bigoted shithead, and I don't think Obama is a good president for completely ridiculous reasons like my belief that he's going to come for all my guns and recruit millions of black people to stand in line for three hours multiple times on election day so that they can vote for him like four times each and that he's actually a Kenyan Christian liberation theology believer atheist Satanist Muslim terrorist collaborator and that he's basically a dictator because have you seen Dinesh D'Souza's documentaries because I have and I like the way that they really talk down to me as if I never took a US History course in high school and the way that D'Souza told me that Obama's a ruthless dictator who hates America and he's the real racist unlike all Republicans, but anyway, suffice it to say that I don't like the head of state, so this bumper sticker, anyway, prepare yourself for this, because it might tax your capacity for wordplay, but this bumper sticker, what it says is "Obummer", which sounds like "Obama", except the last four letters are replaced by the word "bummer", and if something is a bummer then it is a bad thing, so the implication of my bumper sticker is that Barack Obama is a bad president, because it's a pun, do you get it?". Someday when I have way too much time, I'd like to photoshop a pickup truck with that on a sticker taking up the entire tailgate. Per the "0.0" stickers, I can understand if someone is a little bored hearing people talk about a hobby they don't share, but it just seems kind of childish to get a sticker proclaiming you don't care (not just because it clearly shows that you do care, at least a little bit) as though you couldn't bear people talking about, or having bumper stickers about, an interest you didn't share. There's a whole American subculture of people who feel better about themselves by plastering strangely confrontational shit on their t-shirts/bumpers/other surfaces. David Foster Wallace explored it eloquently in his essay on county fairs. |
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Post by ganews on Jan 17, 2017 21:50:13 GMT -5
About one mile south of the SC/NC border on I-85 there's a pole with a confederate flag. And a Notre Dame flag above it. What an odd combination.
I see those 0.0 stickers for sale at marathon expos. There's always a bit of "lazy spouse" merch available to buy along with the runner gear.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jan 17, 2017 22:59:37 GMT -5
About one mile south of the SC/NC border on I-85 there's a pole with a confederate flag. And a Notre Dame flag above it. What an odd combination. I see those 0.0 stickers for sale at marathon expos. There's always a bit of "lazy spouse" merch available to buy along with the runner gear. I mean, should we really be surprised at any sort of overt racism to the immediate south of the NC/SC border? |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2017 23:17:07 GMT -5
I had no idea those 26.2 stickers mean they ran a marathon. I'm such a dummy. I initially thought that the (0.0) stickers were supposed to be a face like that OwO meme Now I want one of those. |
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Jan 18, 2017 0:41:58 GMT -5
Someday when I have way too much time, I'd like to photoshop a pickup truck with that on a sticker taking up the entire tailgate. Per the "0.0" stickers, I can understand if someone is a little bored hearing people talk about a hobby they don't share, but it just seems kind of childish to get a sticker proclaiming you don't care (not just because it clearly shows that you do care, at least a little bit) as though you couldn't bear people talking about, or having bumper stickers about, an interest you didn't share. There's a whole American subculture of people who feel better about themselves by plastering strangely confrontational shit on their t-shirts/bumpers/other surfaces. David Foster Wallace explored it eloquently in his essay on county fairs. |
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Post by Not a real doctor on Feb 4, 2017 16:47:22 GMT -5
ATV racing on the frozen lake. What a time to be alive.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Feb 4, 2017 17:44:12 GMT -5
ATV racing on the frozen lake. What a time to be alive. Did you win? |
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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on Feb 4, 2017 18:38:42 GMT -5
Three boys under twelve with a full-sized shopping cart strolling down the neighborhood street. In the cart were two bicycles; one kid was pushing the cart, one pulling, and one riding underneath.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Feb 5, 2017 2:53:27 GMT -5
A huge group of bikers (motorcyclists) on the road. As we approached a stoplight, it turned red, cutting the group of bikers in half. One brave biker decided he didn't want to be in the loser group that got left behind, so he ran the red light. Right in front of a police officer.
Literally, the police car was sitting at the intersection RIGHT NEXT TO HIM when he ran the light. The police car immediately flipped on lights and sirens and went after him. The remaining bikers sitting at the red light all started laughing.
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Post by Not a real doctor on Feb 5, 2017 11:16:48 GMT -5
ATV racing on the frozen lake. What a time to be alive. Did you win? I like to think my motorsport would be something more in the vein of "stump pulling"  |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Feb 6, 2017 0:22:19 GMT -5
Girl scouts selling cookies outside the locals favorite pizza place. On Super Bowl Sunday. Go get 'em, girls!
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Post by Sanziana on Feb 15, 2017 3:33:00 GMT -5
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Feb 15, 2017 9:42:53 GMT -5
Sanziana, I remember days like that when I lived in Massachusetts. It's so pretty to look at!
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Feb 15, 2017 15:33:51 GMT -5
So, I know they're kind of cliched, but I get why people buy those "26.2" bumper stickers after they've run a marathon, because, fair enough, you want to make some acknowledgment of how you ran like a really fucking long distance all at once, and that's cool. "13.1" stickers, on the other hand, I feel like "all right, you ran a half marathon, that's certainly further than I've ever run at once, but I'm not sure it's worth bragging about to every other driver you encounter on the roads", but whatever. But what really got annoying literally the second time I saw one was those "0.0" bumper stickers, because, see, the joke is that they don't run, get it? Oh, what's that, you did get it, because you're a literate adult with basic numeracy skills and an ability to understand variations on patterns which you've probably seen thousands of times, and you understand that if you run 0.0 miles that means you've actually run no miles at all, which is 0% of 26.2 miles, which is the number of miles which are in a marathon? But anyway, it's totally fair if you don't run, but the "0.0" bumper sticker was only even a slightly clever joke the first time I saw one, so I could really have done without the hundreds of times I've seen them since. But the other day, I saw one of those "0.0" bumper stickers only, beneath the aforementioned number proclaiming that this person does not run marathons and hence you should find this banal fact absolutely hi larious, were printed the words "I DON'T RUN". Which, no, I actually got the joke without you needing to explain it to me, random condescending motorist, by virtue of me being a person who has seen several car bumpers over the last five years. I don't need you to elaborate on a lazy "joke" that's been a ubiquitous self-explanatory meme within our culture since at least 2012. Surely this bumper sticker is the fucking nadir of hand-holding insultingly superfluous explanation, at least in the world of bumper stickers, because not even those "Obummer" bumper stickers that conservative assholes put on their bumpers have a belabored explanatory footnote at the bottom explaining "In case you don't understand the wordplay going on here, the actual name of our the President of the United States is Barack Hussein Obama, and, as you can probably tell from the fact that I just put unnecessary emphasis on the middle name that he rarely uses when referring to himself, I'm a bigoted shithead, and I don't think Obama is a good president for completely ridiculous reasons like my belief that he's going to come for all my guns and recruit millions of black people to stand in line for three hours multiple times on election day so that they can vote for him like four times each and that he's actually a Kenyan Christian liberation theology believer atheist Satanist Muslim terrorist collaborator and that he's basically a dictator because have you seen Dinesh D'Souza's documentaries because I have and I like the way that they really talk down to me as if I never took a US History course in high school and the way that D'Souza told me that Obama's a ruthless dictator who hates America and he's the real racist unlike all Republicans, but anyway, suffice it to say that I don't like the head of state, so this bumper sticker, anyway, prepare yourself for this, because it might tax your capacity for wordplay, but this bumper sticker, what it says is "Obummer", which sounds like "Obama", except the last four letters are replaced by the word "bummer", and if something is a bummer then it is a bad thing, so the implication of my bumper sticker is that Barack Obama is a bad president, because it's a pun, do you get it?". Surely if even the purchasers of "Obummer" stickers didn't think that people would need such an addendum at the bottom of their trite shitty pun for people to understand it, then "0.0" bumper stickers do not need to bear the words "I DON'T RUN" in all fucking caps, right? God dammit. For some reason I'm only seeing this post a month later. Why did I not keep up with this thread?? Anyway, I am delighted by your outrage at the 0.0 stickers! The other one that gets me is the 13.1 ones that have a subtitle "It's not HALF of anything". Like, okay, I get that you want to feel badass about being a half-marathoner despite your niggling sense of shame that you're less-than because you aren't going to take on a full marathon, and I don't judge. Half marathons are hard! It's a great accomplishment to be able to run one, or more than one, or run any distance at all. Good for you for getting out there and doing it, if that's your thing! BUT HONESTLY, IT IS LITERALLY RIGHT THERE IN THE NAME. It is not "not half of anything" because it has been SPECIFICALLY INVENTED as half of a marathon. That is its ENTIRE POINT. Gah! I have a 26.2 sticker on my car. That was, like, 95% of what motivated me to continue slogging through the misery that was my marathon. I wasn't going to have suffered through all that training and the abject awfulness that was the race to NOT end up with that sticker for all the world to see.  |
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Post by Dellarigg on Feb 19, 2017 17:49:33 GMT -5
As I walked past a car near where I live, the boot/trunk mysteriously opened. There was no one inside the car, and no one around it or heading towards it, and the boot/trunk was piled full of bags of shopping. I know the people in the house it was nearest to, or at least I know them 'to say hello to', so I could've knocked and asked if it was their car without it being strange ... but I didn't. I just kept walking. I also had my own bag of shopping, and maybe someone glancing out of their window might think I helped myself to it from the car. Not bothered.
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Post by The Stuffingtacular She-Hulk on Feb 22, 2017 9:14:32 GMT -5
On my way from the car to the train platform this morning, I spotted a little grey tabby cat. We don't have a resident train station cat, so it probably belongs to one of the nearby houses, or lives on the army base next door. of course, me being me, I bent down low and held my hand out and made stupid noises.
AND THE KITTY CAME OVER AND LET ME PET IT.
I advised the kitty that parking lots are bad environments for kitties and that it should go home soon and I don't know if it listened to me but I feel #blessed regardless.
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