Modern Vespa

Martha rocked but I had a "Thing" for Downtown Julie Brown!!

"Historians dispute Bayeux tapestry penis tally after lengthy debate"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/25/bayeux-tapestry-historian-genitalia-dispute

Hmmm...is that all those people have to concern themselves with?

What a load of old cock!

Witnessed an accident Friday. I was in the left turn lane on my last stretch going home, westbound turning south. The Jeep directly in front of me started to turn and then lost it, driving up over the curb, overcorrected and ran right into the driver's side of some poor woman in the left turn lane facing north. I sat with her, fire, police and ambulance came. Everyone was ok, but he hit her so hard the driver's side wheel broke off the Jeep and wound up across the street. Busy corner with lots of people, too. Got to talk to the police.

Makes you realize how quickly things happen. Everyone be careful out there.

This lifted Smart Car in Portland.

That's not weird, That's great.

That's hilarious.

I got beside a Carlsson version Smart Car the other day. I had never heard of them.

The first article I came across about them was THIS one. Hilarious.

Anyone here ever drive a Smart? I've always wanted to, just for giggles. And I always love the Smart / Hayabusa mashups.

I guess it's the "rooting for the underdog" side of me.

Why can't it be both?

This used to parked up near me.

It's gone now.. just dust remains!

I look at my self in the mirror today,ho my i look so old !

Happens fast ...

Ditto, too bloody fast!

And the alternative is???

OFG

NO MIRRORS!

On the Bon Jovi note, does anyone sing "Wanted Dead or Alive" when you ride your scooter/motorcycle?


Asking for a friend.

Almost always. Because on a steel horse I ride.

If it isn't that it's the theme from "CHiPs"

(the original cooler one with the great trumpet lead)

The mirrors in my house are defective. Every time I look in them, some old guy is looking out at me. Scary!

That's an easy fix. Just tape one of these up on all your mirrors. Six bucks at celebrity-cutouts.com

Let's hear it for The A Team!

I keep positive,I'm like a good wine,older it get better it test!

My favorite sign in all of Vegas.

Well, my grandfather's photo has somehow found it's way onto my driver's license...explain THAT!

I watched a video today, where a sciencey guy placed a golf ball in the grass at his feet, saying that at this demonstration's scale, it represented the Sun.

Then he hopped into his car and drove SEVEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-SIX MILES AWAY, then placed another golf ball at his feet, and said that this is the relative distance from our sun to it's nearest star, Proxima Centauri, 'only' 4.3 light years away.

Weird?...maybe, maybe not, but I guess we're not going there anytime soon.

If you're going to carry your own fuel or personally go, probably not. But some people have been working on ways to yeet small satellites with lasers pretty fast

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-46101-3

That might work reasonably well for space travel within our immediate solar system, but Centauri Proxima's 4.3 light year distance comes out to be
25,300,000,000,000 miles. That's over 25 trillion miles.

According to what I've read about it, at the speed of our fastest space probe, it would take 80,000 years to reach Centauri Proxima, and would require 2000 human generations.

That's the fun part! Low mass, low continuous acceleration over a lot of time gets you going waaay faster:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot

Hey, John ... saw this record at a thrift store the other day. That Magnatone made me think of you.

My HS Science teacher took us out onto the rugby field to demonstrate an atom. On the centre spot, he placed two peas next to each other. Then he took two pins and pressed one into the ground at the corner spot of the end zone, pressing in the second pin at the other end zone corner spot diagonally opposite.

"That is a rough scale model of a Hydrogen molecule. The two electrons orbit so rapidly that it gives the impression of being a solid ellipse, but in reality there is a lot of nothing in between."

Ah - you went to a proper school (like me)!

I saw the same Ferrari Dino twice today.

Mate, that wasn't a Rugby pitch if it had end zones, whatever the hell a end zone is?

An area at each end of an American football field, and out of bounds. Each team tries to get the ball into the other's end zone, for 6 points.

I think he means between the try line and the dead-ball line, properly called the In-goal area. (Past member of the OCRFC)

I'm curious - which OCRFC? There are several, including Old Coventrians, my old school's club

Old Cranleighans.

Heh - Cranleigh School - established 1865; King Henry VIII School - established 1545.

It blows people's minds here in the US when I tell them my old school was founded nearly 500 years ago!

Two unidentified carbon-based transportation units detected in sector R-27. Horsepower for each unit estimated to be approximately one. Operators appear to be very serious individuals. No relevant instructions on dealing with this situation found. Shutting down until relevant instructions are received.