Random stupid things on your mind. Post them.

[jazmunda]

Ok which one of you guys is this.


http://youtu.be/lh93pguL00A

[Hautex]

Ok which one of you guys is this.


http://youtu.be/lh93pguL00A

Blow hole jokes are gently flooding my brain....

[(Sandman) Logan-5]

Taken last night over the house across the street...Crocodile shaped cloud? Should Hoagland be informed?

I see it. Then again, two days ago I saw a cloud which looked like a nimble young vixen with albeit lopsided, but very perky tits.
Yup, I saw cloud porn. 

[Mind Flayer Monk]

Ok which one of you guys is this.


http://youtu.be/lh93pguL00A

So that's the kind of shows they are putting on The Learning Channel these days?

They should have a show about Falkie-just follow him around his day and listen to his rants.

[BobGrau]

Taken last night over the house across the street...Crocodile shaped cloud? Should Hoagland be informed?

Human centipede.

[JesusJuice]

Ok which one of you guys is this.


http://youtu.be/lh93pguL00A

>inflatable crap


I have a video of a guy with a  real dolphin. It's a webm with sound. Can I post it here?

[GravitySucks]

>inflatable crap


I have a video of a guy with a  real dolphin. It's a webm with sound. Can I post it here?

According to folks in the OSOM thread last night, I think you are done posting links for awhile. LOL

[jazmunda]

You've got to admit that pants on a chicken is pretty funny.


https://youtu.be/ZWjxRwHTZiw

[Humilia Lepus Foramen]

This is no longer called the Art Bell fan forum?!  Without Art as our unifying principle, we will splinter into chaos!  Oh wait that's how it's been all along

[GravitySucks]

This is hilarious

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/markmeckler/2016/06/oregon-rancher-receives-government-request-to-survey-his-property-read-his-brilliant-response/

[GravitySucks]

Houston

[PB the Deplorable]

This is hilarious...

That's awesome.

Too bad the point was no doubt completely missed by whichever of our betters received and read the letter.  I could be wrong though, did the State of Oregon streamline and eliminate any of their bureaucracy after receiving it?

[GravitySucks]

Note to self: never.sit.by.the.window.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/southwest-airlines-flight-lands-safely-after-major-engine-malfunction-1472320957

[albrecht]

This is hilarious

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/markmeckler/2016/06/oregon-rancher-receives-government-request-to-survey-his-property-read-his-brilliant-response/

That is awesome! I wonder if the government bureaucrats got the satire though. The map of Htown is pretty accurate. I recall some city employee emailing out a similar for Austin and getting in some trouble for it (racism, classism, homophobia, age-ism, straight-bias, and all the other bad things.)

[akwilly]

Note to self: never.sit.by.the.window.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/southwest-airlines-flight-lands-safely-after-major-engine-malfunction-1472320957

can't post the link but check out the one where the prop sliced off and lodged in the cabin

[pate]

Free Willy, wasn't won of yer kissin' cousins a'thar?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JG4dafCYJI

Roald Willy, creepiator of the "When hairy met Sally" and "Hairy Pooter 'n' Witches Brony" distant relations, Butt Still..

[BobGrau]

A genius thing about Cluub Zarathustra was the way they dealt with hecklers. One such method (still talked about by comedians today) was “The Cunt Ray”.

“It was known as the Cunt Ray,” says Simon Munnery, “but it was [actually] called the Self-Knowledge Impregnator. ‘Cunt Ray’ ruins the surprise of the joke.”

If someone heckled, a siren would sound, Munnery would shout “Activate the Self-Knowledge Impregnator!” and a large black box would be carried on stage. The device was equipped with a camera flash bulb behind a cleverly stencilled sheet of gauze. They’d point the device at the heckler and â€" boom! â€" it would burn the word “CUNT” onto their retina.

http://splitsider.com/2012/09/cluub-zarathustra-british-comedys-weirdest-secret/

[Yorkshire pud]

Note to self: never.sit.by.the.window.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/southwest-airlines-flight-lands-safely-after-major-engine-malfunction-1472320957

It says much of the intrinsic integrity of the turbine pod that losing the inlet shroud wasn't terminal to the rest of the aeroplane.

[TigerLily]

He wrote "aeroplane". Our Brits here are so adorable

[Laurakinch]

He wrote "aeroplane". Our Brits here are so adorable

Hey TL, our YP is otherwise occupied ATM so I'll answer for him.

The English spelling is always correct. We are the ones who have, and continue, to get it wrong. We ignorant lazy colonists couldn't be bothered to include all the vowels. :

[K_Dubb]

Hey TL, our YP is otherwise occupied ATM so I'll answer for him.

The English spelling is always correct. We are the ones who have, and continue, to get it wrong. We ignorant lazy colonists couldn't be bothered to include all the vowels. :

Consulting the etymology, it proves to be yet another case where the English adopted the French word when a perfectly reasonable English construction just begged to be coined.  Aping their betters, comme toujours.

[PB the Deplorable]

Hey TL, our YP is otherwise occupied ATM so I'll answer for him.

The English spelling is always correct. We are the ones who have, and continue, to get it wrong. We ignorant lazy colonists couldn't be bothered to include all the vowels. :

Not that they could be bothered to invent the thing in the first place

[Yorkshire pud]

Not that they could be bothered to invent the thing in the first place

Oh bless!

I suppose this could go in the history forum.

The Best of Brits - Great British Inventions

How the British, not the Americans, invented the plane. How the British, not the Germans, invented the car. How the British, not the French, invented photography -






Throughout history, the British have been responsible for many great inventions and are still commonly acknowledged to be among the best in the world when it comes to inventing. Over the past 50 years, according to Japanese research, more than 40 per cent of discoveries taken up on a worldwide basis originated in the United Kingdom.

Many of these British inventions have had an enormous impact on the world. For example, imagine how different life would be today if Michael Faraday had not built the first simple electrical generator or if James Watt had not developed the steam engine?

Leading British author Terry Deary has discovered some other pretty spectacular British 'firsts', some of which have not been traditionally attributed to the Brits.....


1. Powered flight
They say …

During 2003, Dayton, Ohio, and the Dayton & Montgomery County Public Library celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers invention of the first powered airplane. The first successful flight occurred on December 17, 1903 at Kill Devil Hills in Kittyhawk, North Carolina. But hang on … the Wrights may have made “The first successful flight” but they could not claim “the invention of the first powered airplane” because …

Brits say …

Brit Percy Pilcher designed a powered triplane and built it in 1899. By the last day of September 1899, Pilcher's powered triplane was very nearly ready for flight (save, apparently, for mounting the engine), but on that day Pilcher was gliding in his "Hawk." His previously reliable "Hawk" suffered a structural failure, fell, and Pilcher died two days later. Pilcher's powered triplane was never flown. But the “invention” beat the Americans by 4 years.

Or maybe it was Bill Frost a Welsh carpenter who patented the aeroplane in 1894 and took to the skies in a powered flying machine the following year (8 years before the Wright brothers)

Or maybe the world's first powered flight took place not in America in 1903, but at Chard in Somerset 55 years earlier, and the man who made it happen was John Stringfellow

We also invented most of what the colonists take for granted. Stainless steel, Radar, Pneumatic tyres. The list is long and distinguished. 

http://forums.canadiancontent.net/history/43718-british-inventions-foreigners-have-taken.html

[Yorkshire pud]

He wrote "aeroplane". Our Brits here are so adorable

Now class; Its aluminium, that's aluminium...NOT aluminum.

[GravitySucks]

Oh bless!
We also invented most of what the colonists take for granted. Stainless steel, Radar, Pneumatic tyres. The list is long and distinguished. 

http://forums.canadiancontent.net/history/43718-british-inventions-foreigners-have-taken.html

Humour me and provide more colourful commentary.

[ShayP]

My new hair trimmer comes with as USB cable.  Why?

[GravitySucks]

My new hair trimmer comes with as USB cable.  Why?

Hoagland was the chief designer.

You threw out the instructions, didn't you?

[K_Dubb]

Now class; Its aluminium, that's aluminium...NOT aluminum.

Haha it's aluminium in French, too.  Plenty of early precedents exist for using the -um suffix for minerals (e. g. plumbum) so you can't argue that on etymological grounds.

[ShayP]

Hoagland was the chief designer.

LMAO!  thank you for that.

[Yorkshire pud]

Haha it's aluminium in French, too.  Plenty of early precedents exist for using the -um suffix for minerals (e. g. plumbum) so you can't argue that on etymological grounds.

There's no argument from me on the origins of English. German, French, Latin, Arabic, Greek. The funniest line that Dubya ever uttered was "The French don't have a word for entrepreneur"

The one doing the rounds now because its so much more classy than saying it in English, and that is 'Faux'..Do people using it actually know what it means? Flogging is too good for them.