Urgent and Telegraphic

[archaeologicalnews]

Sixty per cent of shipwreck HMAS Perth gone after illegal scrap metal salvaging

A team of Indonesian and Australian divers has made the shocking discovery that 60 per cent of World War II shipwreck HMAS Perth has vanished, with evidence of large-scale illegal salvaging for scrap metal at the site off the coast of Java.

“This isn’t what we were hoping to find,” said Australian National Maritime Museum director Kevin Sumption.

“It is with profound regret we advise that our joint maritime archaeologist diving team has discovered sections of the Perth missing.”

Sumption said interim reports after a research dive conducted on May 14 to 17 and an earlier remote sensing survey indicated only about 40 per cent of HMAS Perth remained. Read more.

[pharwarner]

Disgusting, but not unique alas.

[peachykatze-deactivated20161215]

flowers scare the fuck out of me in real life except for roses and daisies

[scooteraz-deactivated20190119]

Daffodils get me.You can open their mouths.

[peachykatze-deactivated20161215]

lillies and tulips are creepy as hell. Any flowers with weirdly large and thick petals or super long pistils and stamens (the things with the pollen in them) are just ughhhh😩

[scooteraz-deactivated20190119]

Yeah,heh. I once did a drawing of a Pecker Lily. I’m sure you can guess what was the pecker bit.Lol!! XD

[pharwarner]

Let’s not even get on to Gladioli....

[irreverent-machinist-deactivate]

picture of the car meet tonight, also there is me and my car, I am the weirdo in orange pants

[pharwarner]

I was looking at your pic and thinking “They look great in those orange pants, I wonder who....” Oh! :)

[tkohl]

Watched this storm from 8 miles away...it was amazing....and terrifying...

[pharwarner]

Terrifying is the word. No one out here would accept that we suffer from tornados, but it seems to be better now. I saw a cymbal from a school music room embedded six inches deep into a tree trunk (with the school destroyed, of course.) What did that? It also sounded like a freight train. And destroyed several houses in the neighborhood. After going through that, storms aren’t a fun thing... 

[colortransparency]

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Float - 1958 Tournament of Roses Parade

January 1, 1958 Pasadena, California Photo by O.W. Sjogren

[pharwarner]

Bow before your new Donkey overlords!

[speciesofleastconcern]

Scrap Metal Woodlouse, Sculpture of Insect, Original Artwork, Reclaimed Metal and Repurposed

Scrap metal sculpture of a woodlouse. I have used stainless steel cutlery (mostly spoons) and scrap screws. The one in the photo has now sold

damn

[blue-betta]

Rad. I want one.

[pharwarner]

A Cybermat! :D

[tkohl]

[bantarleton]

Napoleonic Dream Team: Napoleon CinC, Chief of Staff Berthier, Chief of Operations Scharnhorst, Cavalry Corps under Murat, Wellington commanding the large, semi-independent masking corps in the Battalion Carre. Outside of that, there are enough good Corps d'Armee commanders that you can just take your pick. Davout, Lannes, Suchet, Soult, Massena from the Grande Armee, Archduke Charles, Bagration, Blucher and Gneissenau from the Coalition

10/10 would rate as most effective ever 19th century force. Now I want to write some sort of alt-history where there’s a zombie apocalypse or alien invasion in like 1810 and all the commanders of Europe have to ally to overcome it. 

[qsy-complains-a-lot]

most effective ever 19th century force my butt it’d get wrecked by just run-of-the-mill French army in 1870.

[bantarleton]

Talking about just commanders not in terms of tech, pretty sure a mediocre general with a 1899 military force would wreck Napoleon. 

[pharwarner]

Magazine Lee-Metfords, Maxims, shrapnel shells, and 1-pdr Pom-Poms? I think even General White could put old Buonaparte back in his box!

[historicrallycars]

Picture by Gerard den Haan

[pharwarner]

Nice!

[gameraboy]

She Wronged Him Right (1934)

[irreverent-machinist-deactivate]

One of the bugs my cousin has hiding away, along with a ton of parts for various aircooled vws and an entire type 3 square back roof. Also that’s a bug pan leaning against the fence

[pharwarner]

Great to see it being looked after.

[scrapironflotilla]

Private John “Barney” Hines surrounded by German equipment he looted during the Battle of Polygon Wood, part of the Third Battle of Ypres, in September 1917. He is counting money stolen from German POWs, wearing a German Army field cap and sitting amidst German weapons and personal equipment.

One contemporary account tells of an occasion when Hines reached a German pill box and danced on the roof taunting the occupants to come out. When nothing happened he lobbed a couple of Mills bombs through the gun openings, killing some and forcing the rest, about 63 of them, to come out with raised arms. He duly collected his souvenirs from them and herded them back to the Australian lines

[pharwarner]

He was a low, mean cur. Like so many of the Australians on the Western Front, our “Noble Digger” is a myth, and Hines is the poster boy for it.

[carinteriors]

1978 Vauxhall Equus

[pharwarner]

I always thought the Matchbox cars I played with at that time were poor small scale imitations of the actual real car.... My mind’s now blown. They were totally accurate!

[humanoidhistory]

The King Shot nuclear test in Nevada, November 15, 1952, part of Operation Ivy. (Department of Energy)

[pharwarner]

Operation Ivy was conducted at the Pacific Proving Grounds.

[bewarethebibliophilia]

“Orson Welles, Portrait with Symbols” by Irving Penn, taken around 1945. The stuff on the table is an assortment of symbols that comment about Welles. For example, on his first visit to RKO he was reported to have called the film studio “the biggest electric train set any boy ever had.” (From The Art and Technique of Color Photography, 1951.)

[pharwarner]

I’ve been asked to sit for a photoshoot to go in a newspaper in two week’s time. Myself with objects that comment on me. A) I now think I know where the idea came from, and B) I know how I’m going to play it!

[blundstone-deactivated20170419]

Anna Creek Station is the world’s largest working cattle station. It is located in the Australian state of South Australia. Its area is roughly 6,000,000 acres (24,000 km2; 9,400 sq mi) which is slightly larger than Israel. It is 1,977,000 acres (8,000 km2; 3,089 sq mi) larger than its nearest rival, Alexandria Station in the country’s Northern Territory and over seven times the size of the United States’ biggest ranch, King Ranch in Texas, which is 825,000 acres (3,340 km2; 1,289 sq mi). 

[trainedchimpanzee]

step it up american “ranchers” call us back when you have a ranch the size of Rwanda

[pharwarner]

Smallest station I’ve ever been on is 1,000,000 acres.... Liveringa.

[pharwarner]

A psychological researcher back in 1983: You know how kids use the people around them as role models? Look up to them, admire them, maybe even feel some latent attraction to a few of them...innocent crushes, that kind of thing?

A psychological researcher back in 1983: What if we took an entire generation of children, and inundated them with images of talking animals during their key developmental years.

A psychological researcher back in 1983: Made talking animals feature in every TV show, movie, toy, and ad directed at an entire generation of children.

A psychological researcher back in 1983: Just...completely swamped these kids' brains with images of talking animals, so their role models were like cats and dogs and turtles and shit?

A psychological researcher back in 1983: I wonder what would happen to them.

In 1983? From my direct experience, someone would have had to have been doing that in 1953 also. And in 1933 too. Third gen furry talking here.... Blame Disney? Blame those who influenced him as a kid in the 1890s? Blame the ancient Egyptian priesthood? We've always been here! ;)