utterly random picture thread.

[Taipan]

Woke!

[Taipan]

A mortsafe is a heavy iron or stone cage that was used to protect graves from being disturbed and to prevent body snatching:
Mortsafes were popular in the 18th and 19th centuries when the practice of bodysnatching was common. At the time, there was a high demand for corpses for medical students to study anatomy, but the government only allowed a limited number of bodies to be used, such as those of executed criminals. The practice of taking corpses from graves became known as "resurrectionism".
Mortsafes were designed to secure bodies in their coffins so they could decay. They were often rented for a couple of months, and then the mortsafe would be taken back. Some mortsafes were made even more secure by incorporating iron rods and specially designed nuts and spanners.
Today, mortsafes are fairly rare, and are most likely to be found in Scotland. They were often discarded, recycled, or repurposed as the practice of bodysnatching declined.
The word "mortsafe" comes from the words "mort" (dead body) and "safe"

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[Taipan]

Do you know what it is?

Spoiler

Minted lamb!

[Skub]

Or....a few pounds of meat.

[Horse]

https://amp.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... notre-dame

After disaster struck Notre Dame in 2019, Axelle Ponsonnet began to draw parts of the cathedral exposed by the fire, some not seen for centuries. A new book documents what she discovered



Sanguine of Saint-Denis
April 2024, red chalk on paper
One of the larger reworked drawings, this depicts the roof’s imposing statues being reinstalled on the gable, a big moment that “symbolised the end of the reconstruction of the roof”. These three-metre figures had to be removed after the fire for fear that they might cause the vaults to collapse if they fell.

More of her drawings in the linked article.

[Count Steer]

https://amp.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... notre-dame

After disaster struck Notre Dame in 2019, Axelle Ponsonnet began to draw parts of the cathedral exposed by the fire, some not seen for centuries. A new book documents what she discovered



Sanguine of Saint-Denis
April 2024, red chalk on paper
One of the larger reworked drawings, this depicts the roof’s imposing statues being reinstalled on the gable, a big moment that “symbolised the end of the reconstruction of the roof”. These three-metre figures had to be removed after the fire for fear that they might cause the vaults to collapse if they fell.

More of her drawings in the linked article.

Ooh...'sanguine'. Oi've got some Conté sanguines. Never got anything as good as that out of them though.

[Mr. Dazzle]

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[ChrisW]

Are the right angles debatable?

[Count Steer]

Are the right angles debatable?

I suppose at the points of the intersection of the arc and the circle with the lines it is actually 90⁰.

[Pirahna]

The actual definition is four equal straight sides, but we all knew that.

[MingtheMerciless]

Stolen from a Friendface group...

Ascension Island, some time in the 80's I think.

How small does that Victor look when parked in front of a C-5?

That would have been the Vulcan bombing the Falklands airport.

IIRC required 21 aircraft.

Hang on ...



Edit: excellent book

https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/prod ... toEALw_wcB

Vulcan 607 by Rowland White

It was to be one of the most ambitious operations since 617 Squadron bounced their revolutionary bombs into the dams of the Ruhr Valley in 1943 . . .

April 1982. Argentine forces had invaded the Falkland Islands. Britain needed an answer. And fast. The idea was simple: to destroy the vital landing strip at Port Stanley.

The reality was more complicated. The only aircraft that could possibly do the job was three months from being scrapped, and the distance it had to travel was four thousand miles beyond its maximum range. It would take fifteen Victor tankers and seventeen separate in-flight refuellings to get one Avro Vulcan B2 over the target, and give its crew any chance of coming back alive.

Yet less than a month later, a formation of elderly British jets launched from a remote island airbase to carry out the longest-range air attack in history. At its head was a single aircraft, six men, and twenty-one thousand-pound bombs, facing the hornet’s nest of modern weaponry defending the Argentine forces on the Falkland Islands. There would be no second chances

Nothing that couldn't have been achieved by the Harriers in the task force for much less cost but the RAF wanted a piece of the action and had the ears of the politicians.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Are the right angles debatable?

They wouldn't be right if they were up for debate?

[gremlin]

Are the right angles debatable?

They wouldn't be right if they were up for debate?

You're just being obtuse.

[Horse]

Are the right angles debatable?

They wouldn't be right if they were up for debate?

You're just being obtuse.

Are you making a point?

[the_priest]

They wouldn't be right if they were up for debate?

You're just being obtuse.

Are you making a point?

Sorry, but what is your angle on this?

[Horse]

You're just being obtuse.

Are you making a point?

Sorry, but what is your angle on this?

I'm trying to see both sides of it.

[Horse]

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[Felix]

Did Bashar al-Assad play for liverpool?

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[the_priest]

Are you making a point?

Sorry, but what is your angle on this?

I'm trying to see both sides of it.

Aha, the parallel view point, so an angle obtuse and lost in the mists of mathematical possibilities...

[gremlin]

Sorry, but what is your angle on this?

I'm trying to see both sides of it.

Aha, the parallel view point, so an angle obtuse and lost in the mists of mathematical possibilities...

FFS. Go sit in the corner.