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utterly random picture thread.
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Re: utterly random picture thread.
Just messing about, seeing what the Pixel 8 Pro can do.
Leant against an open door, 1 normal mode, 1 night shot, both at 30x digital zoom, hence why a smidge noisy
PXL_20240124_180209223.NIGHT by MrLongbeard, on Flickr
PXL_20240124_180128110 by MrLongbeard, on Flickr
Leant against an open door, 1 normal mode, 1 night shot, both at 30x digital zoom, hence why a smidge noisy
PXL_20240124_180209223.NIGHT by MrLongbeard, on Flickr
PXL_20240124_180128110 by MrLongbeard, on Flickr
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Re: utterly random picture thread.
It's still daylight hereMrLongbeard wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 6:16 pm Just messing about, seeing what the Pixel 8 Pro can do.
Leant against an open door, 1 normal mode, 1 night shot, both at 30x digital zoom, hence why a smidge noisy
PXL_20240124_180209223.NIGHT by MrLongbeard, on Flickr
PXL_20240124_180128110 by MrLongbeard, on Flickr
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Re: utterly random picture thread.
Seasonnaires can wear anything they like - even a neck tube as a boob tube
TBF, they aren’t real boobs in there, just two more neck tubes. Honest
Some of the funniest sights so far this season were this evening watching some of the larger lads trying to fit a neck tube around their chest - well trying to get the neck tube over their shoulder first! . Watching a couple trying to get out of them was funnier - 100% that one of them will need a pair of scissors
TBF, they aren’t real boobs in there, just two more neck tubes. Honest
Some of the funniest sights so far this season were this evening watching some of the larger lads trying to fit a neck tube around their chest - well trying to get the neck tube over their shoulder first! . Watching a couple trying to get out of them was funnier - 100% that one of them will need a pair of scissors
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Wouldn't feet-legs-hips have been easier than shoulders?
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Re: utterly random picture thread.
Don't be silly - these are pissed up seasonnaires (I wanted to write english, but the guy being 'fondled' by my mate is a Belge, so can't tar them all with the same brush )
Easier doesn't come into it. It works like this - hey, mad idea; great; shirt off, neck tube on; sorted (even if some of them needed a lot of help )
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Re: utterly random picture thread.
My mate does tuck pointing, which is an old style of pointing used on historic buildings, and thus is used to finding old oddities in cavities and crannies. Today's was not so old, but has a certain social history angle attached to it....
For the collector, Corrine Russell, 5 December 1985.
For balance, he tells this story....
He was working on a very old house and in the cavities he found odd shoes, all looking like they'd been deliberately damaged and placed there. He showed the owner of the property, who called a local museum to find out what could.
Turns out it was an old superstition to put a damaged shoe in a new house for each family member to protect them from evil, the reasoning being the devil would put the shoe on and then be hobbling about, or some such nonsense.
The local museum were very excited by this find so he jumped in his car and halfway there a tractor pulled out on him and he missed it by a hair's breadth. He turned straight round, gave my mate the artifacts back told him to put them back where he found them, where they remain to this day.
For the collector, Corrine Russell, 5 December 1985.
For balance, he tells this story....
He was working on a very old house and in the cavities he found odd shoes, all looking like they'd been deliberately damaged and placed there. He showed the owner of the property, who called a local museum to find out what could.
Turns out it was an old superstition to put a damaged shoe in a new house for each family member to protect them from evil, the reasoning being the devil would put the shoe on and then be hobbling about, or some such nonsense.
The local museum were very excited by this find so he jumped in his car and halfway there a tractor pulled out on him and he missed it by a hair's breadth. He turned straight round, gave my mate the artifacts back told him to put them back where he found them, where they remain to this day.
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Re: utterly random picture thread.
Visited the SS Great Britain, in Bristol, over the weekend.
Brief background:
She was the largest passenger ship in the world from 1845 to 1853. She was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859), for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service between Bristol and New York City. While other ships had been built of iron or equipped with a screw propeller, Great Britain was the first to combine these features in a large ocean-going ship.
In 1970, after Great Britain had been scuttled and abandoned for 33 years, Sir Jack Arnold Hayward, OBE (1923–2015) paid for the vessel to be raised and repaired enough to be towed north through the Atlantic back to the United Kingdom, and returned to the Bristol dry dock where she had been built 127 years earlier.
It's quite big: 322 ft long, 48 ft across.
As above, it's in a dry dock. But a 170 years of salt water have not been kind to the riveted hull.
So, to preserve it, there's a glass ceiling at water level. With rippling water on it.
Below, the air is dried to 'Arizona' humidity levels.
In the museum there's a reconstruction of the lifting mechanism which allowed the propeller to be lifted when the ship was under sail.
Brief background:
She was the largest passenger ship in the world from 1845 to 1853. She was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859), for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service between Bristol and New York City. While other ships had been built of iron or equipped with a screw propeller, Great Britain was the first to combine these features in a large ocean-going ship.
In 1970, after Great Britain had been scuttled and abandoned for 33 years, Sir Jack Arnold Hayward, OBE (1923–2015) paid for the vessel to be raised and repaired enough to be towed north through the Atlantic back to the United Kingdom, and returned to the Bristol dry dock where she had been built 127 years earlier.
It's quite big: 322 ft long, 48 ft across.
As above, it's in a dry dock. But a 170 years of salt water have not been kind to the riveted hull.
So, to preserve it, there's a glass ceiling at water level. With rippling water on it.
Below, the air is dried to 'Arizona' humidity levels.
In the museum there's a reconstruction of the lifting mechanism which allowed the propeller to be lifted when the ship was under sail.
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Re: utterly random picture thread.
Wife thinks kids did this parked up at home, I think it happened when she went to Tesco and didn't notice it untill the next day.
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Re: utterly random picture thread.
Looks like it's been smacked in, and then someone's done a shitty job of repairing it with a pair of mole grips.KungFooBob wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2024 12:37 pm Wife thinks kids did this parked up at home, I think it happened when she went to Tesco and didn't notice it untill the next day.
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