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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Jul 19, 2017 15:18:07 GMT -5
A bald eagle and a boat called "The Guns & Hoses". If only the bald eagle had been piloting The Guns & Hoses. |
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Post by songstarliner on Jul 19, 2017 16:02:26 GMT -5
A lady at the wine store wearing a towel. At first I thought it was some kind of terrycloth sleeveless shift dress, but no: it was definitely just a towel. I assume she had a strapless bikini on underneath, but who knows?
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Jul 19, 2017 16:05:01 GMT -5
A bumper sticker that said "I miss Pluto".
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Post by Ben Grimm on Jul 19, 2017 17:22:23 GMT -5
A lady at the wine store wearing a towel. At first I thought it was some kind of terrycloth sleeveless shift dress, but no: it was definitely just a towel. I assume she had a strapless bikini on underneath, but who knows? She sounds like a hoopy frood. |
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Jul 19, 2017 19:38:37 GMT -5
A lady at the wine store wearing a towel. At first I thought it was some kind of terrycloth sleeveless shift dress, but no: it was definitely just a towel. I assume she had a strapless bikini on underneath, but who knows? You'll have to speak up. |
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Jul 19, 2017 19:41:53 GMT -5
A guy doing a New York Times crossword puzzle on his steering wheel while doing freeway speeds.*
*Posted on behalf of the people driving around me. I could have killed myself and many others.
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Post by haysoos on Jul 19, 2017 21:54:36 GMT -5
Today I saw a woman and her two cute little girls splashing and wading in the lake we were treating with chlorine because of extremely high bacterial levels.
When told they shouldn't be wading in the water because it had blue-green algae the adorable little six-year old said "That shit makes your feet itch!"
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Post by Logoboros on Jul 20, 2017 16:34:39 GMT -5
I saw an older man dressed in denim overalls (American style, not U.K. style) standing at a urinal in the grocery store restroom. As near as I could tell, both straps were still on his shoulders.
I haven't worn overalls since I was six years old, so maybe I'm missing something. Do adult overalls have some hidden pee-flap technology I've been ignorant of all this time? Or what was this guy doing?
EDIT: Nevermind. A simple Google image search shows me that overalls do actually have a zipper at the crotch. Color me newly informed.
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Post by ganews on Jul 20, 2017 19:13:44 GMT -5
I saw an older man dressed in denim overalls (American style, not U.K. style) standing at a urinal in the grocery store restroom. As near as I could tell, both straps were still on his shoulders. I haven't worn overalls since I was six years old, so maybe I'm missing something. Do adult overalls have some hidden pee-flap technology I've been ignorant of all this time? Or what was this guy doing? EDIT: Nevermind. A simple Google image search shows me that overalls do actually have a zipper at the crotch. Color me newly informed. Negative comment-avatar synergy. |
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Jul 20, 2017 23:12:19 GMT -5
I saw an older man dressed in denim overalls (American style, not U.K. style) standing at a urinal in the grocery store restroom. As near as I could tell, both straps were still on his shoulders. I haven't worn overalls since I was six years old, so maybe I'm missing something. Do adult overalls have some hidden pee-flap technology I've been ignorant of all this time? Or what was this guy doing? EDIT: Nevermind. A simple Google image search shows me that overalls do actually have a zipper at the crotch. Color me newly informed. Some have zippers, but some of the old school, more traditional ones still use brass buttons as their crotch closing mechanism of choice. |
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Post by Logoboros on Jul 20, 2017 23:36:58 GMT -5
Some have zippers, but some of the old school, more traditional ones still use brass buttons as their crotch closing mechanism of choice. Actually, the really strange thing is that I see the stitching for a crotch panel in the women's overalls that are in my Google image search, too. What is that doing there? Is it just vestigial? Is there actually a use for it? Do I really want to know what it could possibly be used for, if it's actually functional? |
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Jul 21, 2017 7:38:41 GMT -5
Some have zippers, but some of the old school, more traditional ones still use brass buttons as their crotch closing mechanism of choice. Actually, the really strange thing is that I see the stitching for a crotch panel in the women's overalls that are in my Google image search, too. What is that doing there? Is it just vestigial? Is there actually a use for it? Do I really want to know what it could possibly be used for, if it's actually functional? Sadly, despite spending most of my life here in the country, I never had the opportunity to gain a working knowledge of the operation of the focal point opening in women's bib overalls. |
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Post by LazBro on Jul 21, 2017 7:50:33 GMT -5
So mad at myself for not getting a picture as proof. You'll just have to take my word.
A license plate reading "ADONIS". I never got a look at the driver to confirm.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jul 21, 2017 8:00:14 GMT -5
A bumper sticker that said "I miss Pluto". It's still there; it just isn't a planet anymore. |
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Post by Powerthirteen on Jul 21, 2017 12:15:01 GMT -5
A dude rolling down Main Street in a Pontiac Sunfire with "Somebody That I Used To Know" blasting out of his stereo at 9:30 AM.
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Post by Dellarigg on Jul 21, 2017 16:37:38 GMT -5
A big shouting match up the street. Three women remonstrating with a topless bloke about telling off each other's kids. I didn't hear much of it apart from one of the women shouting I DON'T GIVE A FLYING FUCK over and over again.
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Post by Baron von Costume on Jul 21, 2017 16:41:33 GMT -5
It's fringe fest here so all sorts of wacky shit but...
-A woman who has clearly never worn heels before staggering around in at least 4 inch stillettos and dirty old sweat pants.
-A stilt walker doing prep for his show later just hanging on his stilts smoking a joint
-A dude dressed in a robot mask and a shiny silver plunging neckline jumpsuit so tight that his package was basically shrinkwrapped in tinfoil.
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Jul 21, 2017 22:12:14 GMT -5
A car actually plugged into the Tesla charging station at the gas station just off the interstate. I assume it was a Tesla, but I didn't have time to pull in and confirm that.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Jul 23, 2017 22:53:19 GMT -5
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Post by haysoos on Jul 24, 2017 10:22:04 GMT -5
Last night, while dumping chlorine in that same lake once again, I wandered over to tell another family that they probably shouldn't be wading in the water.
After thanking me, the family starts to wander off. The (somewhat lacking in adorability) little six-year old boy yells "YAY! A FISH!!", promptly picks up a dried goose poop and runs off after his parents.
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Post by Smacks on Jul 25, 2017 12:05:51 GMT -5
1/4 of a broken CD, near the road in the driveway of my workplace, which is in an industrial parkway. Clues as to the CDs contents were as follows: Geffen Records, 1992, produced by Brendan (something), and a large stylized "J" after which no other letters appeared because of the breakage.
I quickly posted this mystery on Instagram and in less than a half hour, a friend had identified it as Jackyl's first album. That's quick work. Now I can't help but wonder about the circumstances of the person who cracked the Jackyl CD in pieces and flung it out the window.
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Jul 25, 2017 12:30:00 GMT -5
1/4 of a broken CD, near the road in the driveway of my workplace, which is in an industrial parkway. Clues as to the CDs contents were as follows: Geffen Records, 1992, produced by Brendan (something), and a large stylized "J" after which no other letters appeared because of the breakage. I quickly posted this mystery on Facebook and in less than a half hour, a friend had identified it as Jackyl's first album. That's quick work. Now I can't help but wonder about the circumstances of the person who cracked the Jackyl CD in pieces and flung it out the window. Jackyl knows what they did! |
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Post by Lt. Broccoli on Jul 26, 2017 17:42:22 GMT -5
These caterpillars in a tree in my yard. They all died in a fire, let me tell you.  |
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Jul 27, 2017 9:33:42 GMT -5
These caterpillars in a tree in my yard. They all died in a fire, let me tell you.   Last night we had a mild propane emergency ("Do you guys smell propane?" "Yeah, I think I do." "Should... should we do something about it?" "...") that led to having to poke around in the giant tanks by the generator. I went to open the lid on the first of the four tanks, and as soon as I flipped it open Hugs gasped horribly and jumped back several feet. After shitting my pants, dying of a heart attack, and then realizing that I was not just blown up by a faulty propane tank, I realized she'd just wildly overreacted to a small wasp nest inside the lid of the tank. It seemed like a pretty benign little wasp nest, until the second time I had to open the lid, this time with the propane company on the phone instructing me how to close the tank valve. It turns out that when you first uncover a wasp nest around dusk, the wasps are sleepy. When you uncover it a second time minutes later, the wasps are waking up and are cranky. It seemed a cruel irony -- that I was not going to be killed by a propane accident, but instead was going to be killed by a nest of furious wasps. (Don't worry -- we had wasp spray in the garage. It was a really old can of the stuff but it still worked.) |
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Jul 27, 2017 12:09:15 GMT -5
These caterpillars in a tree in my yard. They all died in a fire, let me tell you. Last night we had a mild propane emergency ("Do you guys smell propane?" "Yeah, I think I do." "Should... should we do something about it?" "...") that led to having to poke around in the giant tanks by the generator. I went to open the lid on the first of the four tanks, and as soon as I flipped it open Hugs gasped horribly and jumped back several feet. After shitting my pants, dying of a heart attack, and then realizing that I was not just blown up by a faulty propane tank, I realized she'd just wildly overreacted to a small wasp nest inside the lid of the tank. It seemed like a pretty benign little wasp nest, until the second time I had to open the lid, this time with the propane company on the phone instructing me how to close the tank valve. It turns out that when you first uncover a wasp nest around dusk, the wasps are sleepy. When you uncover it a second time minutes later, the wasps are waking up and are cranky. It seemed a cruel irony -- that I was not going to be killed by a propane accident, but instead was going to be killed by a nest of furious wasps. (Don't worry -- we had wasp spray in the garage. It was a really old can of the stuff but it still worked.) When I was installing the old 10 foot satellite TV systems, the electronics out on the dish would be protected from rain by a plastic weather cover. Wasps absolutely loved to build in these things. They were possibly their second favorite place, after the valve covers on propane tanks. Nobody ever bothered them, except the satellite TV guy. (Me.) I used to be pathologically terrified of wasps and bees. Since I had to deal with them or find other work, I gradually de-sensitized myself to the fear of them (that kind of thing can work. I am proof.) Since I would often be balanced on top of a ladder when I removed the weather cover, I had to learn how to deal with them and not get stung/flail around and fall off the ladder. Might or late evening is the best time to deal with a wasp's nest. Not only are they more passive when it's cooler, they will almost all be back in the nest. The worst part of spraying a nest in the daytime is when the stragglers return to find their entire families massacred. They get very angry. The other main thing I learned is to m-o-v-e v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y. If I didn't panic, and moved slowly, I could take loose a weather cover with a wasps nest still attached, creep down the ladder, set it on the ground, and spray them to their doom. |
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Post by moimoi on Jul 27, 2017 13:40:55 GMT -5
Last night we had a mild propane emergency ("Do you guys smell propane?" "Yeah, I think I do." "Should... should we do something about it?" "...") that led to having to poke around in the giant tanks by the generator. I went to open the lid on the first of the four tanks, and as soon as I flipped it open Hugs gasped horribly and jumped back several feet. After shitting my pants, dying of a heart attack, and then realizing that I was not just blown up by a faulty propane tank, I realized she'd just wildly overreacted to a small wasp nest inside the lid of the tank. It seemed like a pretty benign little wasp nest, until the second time I had to open the lid, this time with the propane company on the phone instructing me how to close the tank valve. It turns out that when you first uncover a wasp nest around dusk, the wasps are sleepy. When you uncover it a second time minutes later, the wasps are waking up and are cranky. It seemed a cruel irony -- that I was not going to be killed by a propane accident, but instead was going to be killed by a nest of furious wasps. (Don't worry -- we had wasp spray in the garage. It was a really old can of the stuff but it still worked.) When I was installing the old 10 foot satellite TV systems, the electronics out on the dish would be protected from rain by a plastic weather cover. Wasps absolutely loved to build in these things. They were possibly their second favorite place, after the valve covers on propane tanks. Nobody ever bothered them, except the satellite TV guy. (Me.) I used to be pathologically terrified of wasps and bees. Since I had to deal with them or find other work, I gradually de-sensitized myself to the fear of them (that kind of thing can work. I am proof.) Since I would often be balanced on top of a ladder when I removed the weather cover, I had to learn how to deal with them and not get stung/flail around and fall off the ladder. Might or late evening is the best time to deal with a wasp's nest. Not only are they more passive when it's cooler, they will almost all be back in the nest. The worst part of spraying a nest in the daytime is when the stragglers return to find their entire families massacred. They get very angry. The other main thing I learned is to m-o-v-e v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y. If I didn't panic, and moved slowly, I could take loose a weather cover with a wasps nest still attached, creep down the ladder, set it on the ground, and spray them to their doom. So what should I do with the random propane tank left by the previous owners of my house? I don't use it for anything and I don't want wasps. What do you use propane for anyway? I am very urban. |
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Post by Dellarigg on Jul 27, 2017 14:01:44 GMT -5
Dogs on the beach. Nothing is more determined to have fun than a dog on the beach.
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Jul 27, 2017 14:11:18 GMT -5
So what should I do with the random propane tank left by the previous owners of my house? I don't use it for anything and I don't want wasps. What do you use propane for anyway? I am very urban. What do you use propane for? Well, I'm reasonably confident that I'm using it to eventually cause my house to be destroyed by an enormous conflagration.  I'm utterly terrified of propane tanks, being both staggeringly afraid of my house burning down and having been told, at an impressionable age*, about how a friend witnessed her father being killed by an exploding propane tank. But we don't have gas in my neighborhood, and when my shitty electric cooktop died a few years ago I decided to stop being so afraid and get a propane replacement. Once we were plumbed for one little tank next to the house for cooking, it wasn't THAT huge a step to get the four enormous tanks to run a whole-house generator off of (after going a week without electricity -- meaning no running water -- after Hurricane Sandy). Basically, now stately Dick n Hisses Manor is a ticking time bomb.  (Is the tank at your place one of those little portable ones? You use those for grilling!) *I was 27. |
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Post by dＬᵒ on Jul 27, 2017 14:46:57 GMT -5
Some have zippers, but some of the old school, more traditional ones still use brass buttons as their crotch closing mechanism of choice. Actually, the really strange thing is that I see the stitching for a crotch panel in the women's overalls that are in my Google image search, too. What is that doing there? Is it just vestigial? Is there actually a use for it? Do I really want to know what it could possibly be used for, if it's actually functional? Maybe it's reinforcement to prevent camel toe. |
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Post by moimoi on Jul 27, 2017 19:12:01 GMT -5
(Is the tank at your place one of those little portable ones? You use those for grilling!) Yes, I suppose it is - but why would I want to grill with something that can explode when I could just get some like, wood, or charcoal? How do I get rid of this thing? |
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