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Cerca del Portal hay un gran baniano que debe ser viejísimo a juzgar por el número de sus raíces colgantes y la forma intrincada en que descienden a la tierra desde lo alto de la copa para afincarse, ascender de nuevo, avanzar y entretejerse unas con otras a la manera de las cuerdas, los cables y los mástiles de un velero. Pero el baniano-velero no se pudre en las aguas estancadas de una bahía sino en esta tierra arenosa. En sus ramas, los devotos han atado cintas de colores, todas desteñidas por la lluvia y el sol. Esos moños descoloridos le dan el aspecto lamentable de un gigante cubierto de vendas sucias. Adosada al tronco principal, sobre una pequeña plataforma encalada, reposa una Piedra de unos cuarenta centímetros de altura; su forma es vagamente humana y toda ella está embadurnada, con una pintura espesa y brillante de un rojo sanguíneo. Al pie de la figura hay pétalos amarillos, cenizas, cacharros rotos y otros restos que no acierto a distinguir. Los niños saltan y gritan, señalando a la piedra: «Hanuman, Hanuman». A sus gritos brota entre las piedras un mendigo que me muestra sus manos comidas por la lepra. Al instante aparece otro pordiosero y luego otro y otro.
 

canadmos

Cake Tease
May 29, 2011
20,192
19,158
Canaderp
I just realized something from our ride last night.

About a week ago I blocked a straight cut strava line on this nice downhill trail. In under a month since I last visited the place, this shortcut had been well cut into the ground, leaving the outside corner completely untouched. I blocked that crap with moar crap, assuming some doucher would move it...

But nope, it remains blocked. :)

But on some trails closer to the city, someone keeps unblocking this tight line through some trees and over roots. It really is tricky, but its the way the trail was made; no walk in the park. They keep moving my branches and crap and going around the roots....
 

AngryMetalsmith

Business is good, thanks for asking
Jun 4, 2006
21,080
9,789
I have no idea where I am
I just realized something from our ride last night.

About a week ago I blocked a straight cut strava line on this nice downhill trail. In under a month since I last visited the place, this shortcut had been well cut into the ground, leaving the outside corner completely untouched. I blocked that crap with moar crap, assuming some doucher would move it...

But nope, it remains blocked. :)

But on some trails closer to the city, someone keeps unblocking this tight line through some trees and over roots. It really is tricky, but its the way the trail was made; no walk in the park. They keep moving my branches and crap and going around the roots....
Whenever I block a shortcut, I pee on the logs/branches. That way, who ever the asshole is who's unblocking them, gets gnome pee on his hands.
 
I just realized something from our ride last night.

About a week ago I blocked a straight cut strava line on this nice downhill trail. In under a month since I last visited the place, this shortcut had been well cut into the ground, leaving the outside corner completely untouched. I blocked that crap with moar crap, assuming some doucher would move it...

But nope, it remains blocked. :)

But on some trails closer to the city, someone keeps unblocking this tight line through some trees and over roots. It really is tricky, but its the way the trail was made; no walk in the park. They keep moving my branches and crap and going around the roots....
Caltrops...
 

TN

Hey baby, want a hot dog?
Jul 9, 2002
14,301
1,353
Jimtown, CO
His foot or your foot? I would never eat my own foot. But someone else’s, maybe.
well it was his anterior tibialas, would you eat some else's leg.

me, if for survival I will eat any foot. for curiosity only, just my appendages.
 

HardtailHack

used an iron once
Jan 20, 2009
6,630
5,444
I like money but I hated my job more than I like money so today I rocked up in plain clothes and said "I'm Done" then handed the keys and credit card in and left.
Should look for a new job I guess.
 

HardtailHack

used an iron once
Jan 20, 2009
6,630
5,444
I really dislike Daytime Running Ligths and LED tail lights that flicker, the Mitsubishi Lancer and ASX seem to be the worst, the French versions are pretty bad too.
Pretty stoked that my new L&M light doesn't visibly strobe at any brightness level, wish they'd make a better way to mount the light though. It's not very friendly to 35mm lizard sticks.
 

jdcamb

Tool Time!
Feb 17, 2002
19,799
8,383
Nowhere Man!
[QUOTE = "Westy, post: 4292106, member: 3779"] My crawl space is full of dehydrated crack babies. Should I get a storage unit? [/ QUOTE]

When I was a little kid our neighbors house got robbed. He (Mr Jenner) had a dog named Ginger. Everyday after school I would walk the alleys between our houses and Mr Jenner would let out Ginger and I would play with her. That day Ginger was dead in our alley. The asshole who robbed Mr Jenner killed Ginger and threw her body over our fence. I had nightmares for years after that. The thought of you having dead crack babies in your crawlspace brings back those memories. Thank you....
 

Pesqueeb

bicycle in airplane hangar
Feb 2, 2007
40,143
16,538
Riding the baggage carousel.
[QUOTE = "Westy, post: 4292106, member: 3779"] My crawl space is full of dehydrated crack babies. Should I get a storage unit? [/ QUOTE]

When I was a little kid our neighbors house got robbed. He (Mr Jenner) had a dog named Ginger. Everyday after school I would walk the alleys between our houses and Mr Jenner would let out Ginger and I would play with her. That day Ginger was dead in our alley. The asshole who robbed Mr Jenner killed Ginger and threw her body over our fence. I had nightmares for years after that. The thought of you having dead crack babies in your crawlspace brings back those memories. Thank you....
I'm not sure if this is just another crazy jdcamb story or if I should be really sad. :(
 

TN

Hey baby, want a hot dog?
Jul 9, 2002
14,301
1,353
Jimtown, CO
not quite sure why roadies are so dumb & have no regard for their lives or the impact their stupidness could have on someone else for mowing them down by changing a tube half in the road on a blind curve on a steep mountain road, making a lackadasical, slow u turn just over the crest of a steep hill, riding two deep down the twisties chatting and playing grab ass while cars stack up behind them, etc...
smdh
 

junkyard

You might feel a little prick.
Sep 1, 2015
2,601
2,303
San Diego
Somewhere near here is a nice middle eastern couple trapped in a living hell with that feral cat i caught them. It made laugh.

Also I had a business Idea. Im gunna start a strip club called "MILFS" and our slogan is gunna be "support a family today"
 

Jm_

sled dog's bollocks
Jan 14, 2002
18,853
9,557
AK
Just ran across this on wiki...damn, I had no idea:

Project Sapphire was a covert United States military operation to retrieve 1,278 pounds (580 kg) of very highly enriched uranium fuel intended for Lira-class submarines from a warehouse at the Ulba Metallurgical Plant outside Ust-Kamenogorsk in far eastern Kazakhstan, where it was stored with little protection after the fall of the Soviet Union.[7] The material, known as uranium oxide-beryllium, was produced by the Ulba plant in the form of ceramic fuel rods for use by the submarines. "The Kazakh government had no idea that this material was there", Kazakh officials later told Harvard's Graham Allison, a national-security analyst.[7] In February 1994 it was uncovered by Elwood Gift, an engineer from the Y-12 plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, stored in quart sized steel cans in a vault about twenty feet wide and thirty feet long. Some of it was on wire shelves while others were sitting on the floor. The cans were covered with dust.[7] Word soon came that Iran had officially visited the site looking to purchase reactor fuel. Washington set up a tiger team, and on 8 October 1994 the Sapphire Team flew out of McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base in three blacked out C-5 Galaxycargo planes with 130 tons of equipment. It took the team six weeks, working twelve-hour shifts, six days a week, to process and can the 1,050 cans of uranium. The Sapphire Team finished recanning the uranium on 18 November 1994 at a cost of between ten and thirty million dollars (actual cost classified). The cans were loaded into 447 special fifty-five gallon drums for secure transport to the United States. Five C-5 Galaxys were dispatched from Dover Air Force Base, Delaware to retrieve the team and the uranium, but four were forced to turn back because of bad weather. Only a single C-5, carrying 30,000 pounds of supplies Tennesseans had donated for Ust-Kamenogorsk area orphanages, got through. Eventually a second C-5 arrived, and the two planes carried the uranium to Dover, from where it was transported to Oak Ridge to be blended down for reactor fuel.[7]