Modern Vespa

If people had the choose between Bills problems and wearing a dress there would be a lot more dress shops.

I'd have to go mid calf. I don't have the knees for anything shorter.

I would have to go with a kilt, as I have a wee bit of Scot in my bloodline.

Scotland is such a lovely part of the country but isn't it strange that everyone ends up leaving.

I got to get there someday. Maybe after the present stupidity abates.

But, I want to do it on 2 wheels. Traveling in a car, looking out a window, just doesn't get it,

Oh, it's probably going to get worse.

Go to Ireland instead.

This is the strange paradox with Scotland Ireland and Wales.

People who have lived there will always tell you what a lovely part of the country it is, but they all seem to end up leaving because there's nothing there.

I have some family in Ireland, but it's distant. My Great grandfather left in the late 1890s before the split, but one of my brothers managed to connect the dots and visited with a few.

He probably ended up in Boston.

I don't suspect that's it's acceptable to buy 2 extra codpieces and rig them up as kneecap covers--sort of a hubcap thing.

Actually just outside of Enniskillen.

You should try to construct that look on AI to make judgement on whether it would decent in public.

Not a bad look.

Like we don't get enough shit already without the manufacturers piling on.

At least it's royal blue instead of baby blue.

Yes ... keep going and it'll look like an outfit straight out of Road Warrior.

Reminds me of the scooters in GTA

The Future of Transport.

I certainly hope not.

Looks like a Subaru Sambar with the "Transporter" body kit. Gotta pull the logo off the front to import those for customs.

Kei vans make sense in denser areas. Interstate highways is a bit much for them, though.

I was riding yesterday behind Ferrari, not the norm of days, and there were two boys, like 7 years old waiting in traffic-lights and yes: they had to finger that scene: me, my Vespa! ;-D

This guy figured out how to triple his fuel economy.

A punchbag in the middle of nowhere.

Except for that house.

Last Friday (1 May 2026) I attended Paper School at one of our paper vendors. They gave us a tour of their facility, and I took this pic in their warehouse:

Those rolls can't be too light....

I have been my career on printing industry, so scene like this is familiar, latest on our local newspaper, and sheet-paper warehouse was like this too, as we were printing Nokia-phones manuals, so there was looong truck coming every morning with full load of pallets.

-but weirder of course was the day the manual printing stopped and 130 persons left home. It was kind of ghost-house, filled with printing machines and nobody there...

If you look real close, the roll at the top of the stack to the left of the pole on the right is marked as weighing 3822 lbs. Based on what the label says (Anthem Gloss Text) and that most of the rolls on the left side are the same material, I'd guess they're all around that same weight.

So one could say there's tons of paper in that pic.

Until recently, I've always worked on small-format digital (or analog) printers/copiers. The largest sheet they could handle was 13"x19" (330mm x 483mm).

Recently I've been working with our large format printers. On them, the media is either on a roll that is anywhere from 18" (457mm) to 63" (1600mm) wide, and 100' (30m) to 300' (91m) long. Or is rigid media up to 48"x96" (1219mm x 2438mm).

At my current job, we did have three offset presses (a Miller and two Heidelbergs), but my boss got rid of them shortly after she started because they sat idle most of the time. We used to print all of the testing materials for the schools in the district twice a year, but during COVID they realized that the testing could all be done online, so there was no need to print.

Now the room that once housed the offset presses has four Ricoh Pro C9500 digital presses.

Just a couple.

For the hours sign: What the Faco?

Paper school?

Are you just going to leave that out there without context?

It's what our kids use to describe the schools us oldies went to obviously.

Like where we learned cursive. I use it most every day. Just yesterday someone cut me off by turning right from a side road directly in front of me. I kept my middle finger at bay, but I did a lot of 4-letter cursive on them. 🤬😆

Yesterday an elderly couple knocked on my door and said there were people down the street who had attacked them and was knocking on my door for protection!

They went on to say they were from a town 30 miles away but they had no vehicle, the bus station to my house is over a mile away as is the train station.

They were clearly frightened but also just as clearly suffering from dementia.

I took them to the police station but had to drive back when I realised the old guy had taken my phone.

The weirdest thing is why knock on my door when I'm 2 doors down from the last house on a quiet cul-de-sac on the edge of the town?

From their website: They teach everything from how paper is made, to why 80# text is thinner than 65# cover, to why 80# uncoated text is thicker than 80# coated text. Even though I've been in the printing industry for close to 35 years, I still learned something.

This is the lady who walks around my town with either a £5.00 or £10.00 in her hand.

I have no idea why she does it and I'm not going to ask.

Probably how much she's willing pay that day for someone to ask her why she does it.

Goddammit !