Modern Vespa

Wait, is that actually a thing? Or just a perc for moderators to give a bit of joy to a thankless job?

The thread graveyard is a real thing. Most of it is spam, which is automatically moved there when we mark an account as a spammer. The rest is mostly the smoking husks of wrecked threads.

Fledermaus/Jess,

I do miss the posts that are banned before I can see them. Yes, probably the devil in me. I do agree with the moderator standard of not allowing posters to personally play down or attack another poster.

Note: this is an open to the public, but private forum that can totally control what it allows. I am an advocate of no censoring - believing that you do not need to protect the public because they can make their own decisions. I am pretty sure that is why Jess and others try to keep politics out.

So good on the moderators.

Bob Copeland

Let's get back on topic please…….

We need a ticker:

'MV Has Gone xx Days Without an Incident.'

I'm sure you're aware of chandlerman's explosion ticker?

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Mercifully, he's in triple digits. The Stella missing the nut for the engine pivot bolt was a simmering event, though. Glad the NSM humanitarians beseeched him to fix it before we have a counter-resetting event.

Does it mean they help you keep your "grill" looking good?

New or used?

New………..hopefully………..

Can we just get him back for Christmas and thanksgiving? Like that uncle we all love but….

He'll be back by Halloween.

Seems appropriate.

Surely anyone with any self respect and dignity wouldn't wish to return here after being banned multiple times from threads and the forum itself?

Unless of course that person gains so much pleasure from being antagonistic towards other forum members that it overides any such self worth?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Glutton for punishment - no matter whether dispensing or receiving it?

And a very, very thick skin?

Reading the news ...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-22/images-of-hunter-valley-rescue-after-woman-falls-rock-crevice/104500728

Woman left hanging upside down for seven hours after falling in Hunter Valley rock crevice

Matilda Campbell was bushwalking with friends at Laguna, near Cessnock, earlier this month when she dropped her mobile phone while taking photos.

While attempting to retrieve it the 23-year-old slipped and fell three metres between two large boulders and became stuck, hanging by her feet.

I hope for her sake she chose to wear trousers that day rather than a skirt or dress!

Those phones will get you, one way or another!

I think I can post this without running afoul of any political restrictions.

Wurst.
Worst.
Salsiccia.
Embutido.

Ha! Reminds me, a couple of weeks ago my sister told me she dropped her phone in a Port A Potty.

I asked her if she went after it, and yes she did. I guessed right, lol. Anyway, it's still in action and she's got a story. Woman's beyond embarrassment.

Ida let that go.

Personally.

You have seen that particular sausage being made.

I wonder if he'll be in Trick or Treat mode

#teamtrick

Ok, this blew my mind this morning. How did I live 55 years without realizing this was a thing? Especially considering I grew up in the era of Viewmasters



and I actually own one of these :



I saw the image below with the caption instructing you to cross your eyes while looking at it until a third image forms in the middle. Adjust your eyes until the image becomes one image and viola! Stereoscopic image.

I'm gonna need an eye doctor soon.

Winner, South Dakota, population 2900, has a coin-op, self-service, doggy washing 'facility'.

I think that I may be gobsmacked!

I can tell that it isn't suitable for cats by the lack of blood on the interior walls.

Best Choice Pawn.."Rock'n The Balls Of Finance"

I post this here, not in a derogatory way of weird, but because my life is surreal as anyone that comes close to witnessing what I do, to be in service. Like a strange re-occurrence, a reminder of events and connections.

From their very first album, I've been a huge Roxy Music fan. Played LOTS of Roxy on the radio, back before the horror that is "i 🧡 radio" and their ilk took over and ruined the medium. And outside of the late, great Robert Palmer, Bryan Ferry is perhaps the best looking dude rock-n-roll has yet produced.

Victor

The biggest problem I have had with running around in public in my underwear is the age old issue of garment selection. Boxers don't offer proper support, while the traditional banana hammock leaves me no place to keep my phone. Thank goodness Hanes has come to the rescue with their line of explorer briefs.

Now I can run away at full speed with complete confidence while maintaining the ability at any time to order a pizza or record the police harassing me or call my lawyer. Thank you, Hanes, for making my life so much easier.

Now there's an invention no one ever asked for or will ever need!

I dunno, man ... I just described three real world scenarios where having my phone would have made life a lot easier.

My life, too just got immeasurably better.

Now I just have to wear out my old supply first....

A word of caution, when the pendulum swings the other way, men have the entire species to watch out for, not just half.

Spotted while driving through Lusk Wyoming today...

Sorta matches this old petrol station that I saw on Friday (closed 2009)

Lusk, Wyoming

"Who Are These Hominins?" – Paleontologists Uncover Mysterious Butchering of 300,000 Year Old Elephant

My question is how did they find a 300,000 year old elephant to butcher? And how is it even possible for an elephant to live for that long??

https://scitechdaily.com/who-are-these-hominins-paleontologists-uncover-mysterious-butchering-of-300000-year-old-elephant/