utterly random picture thread.

[Taipan]

[Nobby]

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A knife.

[Horse]

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[Taipan]

On this day in 1987 a group of hired labourers carried 700 old hospital beds onto Saunton Sands in Devon, England for a photo shoot by Robert Dowling & Storm Thorgerson.
Carefully arranged they were to form the cover to the iconic Pink Floyd album 'A momentary lapse of reason'
Despite meticulous planning the weather intervened, with rain forcing the shoot to be abandoned, the exercise was repeated a few weeks later.
By coincidence 1987 was also the year that Photoshop was first developed (although it wasn't marketed until 1988) fast forward a few years and thanks to Photoshop, AI, and other graphic handling/manipulation programmes we are unlikely to ever see the likes of this epically staged photo shoot again.

[Taipan]

Remembering Margaret Bourke-White who was born on this day, June the 14th, in 1904

Bourke-White was the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of the Soviet five-year plan, the first American female war photojournalist, and one of her photographs (of Fort Peck Dam) featured on the cover of the first issue of Life magazine.

This image of her on the Chrysler Building was taken by her assistant Oscar Graubne

[gremlin]

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Mk1 FIAT Panda.

My first car was one of these, red with a 'rust faster stripe' down the side

Looking back, the design was very clever, particularly the back seat which consisted of fabric and three plastic tubes, allowing it to be configured in a number of ways or removed altogether to give you a mini van.

Rusted to fuck in the UK climate so not many left, and now a bit of a cult car, but the Italians keep 'em running, especially the 4x4 ones, as in old hilltop villages they go where a Range Rover can't.

[gremlin]

Lineker has let himself go a bit since leaving the BBC.

[Wossname]

Step daughter does not fuck about when she wants to kill a tyre.

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How did she achieve that? Speed hump, taken at ….umm …speed?

[KungFooBob]

I call this one "doing a yozza".

[MrLongbeard]

A knife.

That's not a,,,,,, oh NVM, you get the idea

PXL_20250614_142221625 by MrLongbeard, on Flickr

[Nobby]

A knife.

That's not a,,,,,, oh NVM, you get the idea

PXL_20250614_142221625 by MrLongbeard, on Flickr

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[Felix]

Step daughter does not fuck about when she wants to kill a tyre.

20250613_163606.jpg

How did she achieve that? Speed hump, taken at ….umm …speed?

No. She got a clung on the right turn out a junction onto a road with no pot holes. Few 100 tards down the road the bottom part of the coil spring broke away making the rest drop and straight into the tyre. 60 zone and traffic behind so she had to drive until next safe place to stop. Thankfully it was run flat tyres.

[Felix]

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Mk1 FIAT Panda.

My first car was one of these, red with a 'rust faster stripe' down the side

Looking back, the design was very clever, particularly the back seat which consisted of fabric and three plastic tubes, allowing it to be configured in a number of ways or removed altogether to give you a mini van.

Rusted to fuck in the UK climate so not many left, and now a bit of a cult car, but the Italians keep 'em running, especially the 4x4 ones, as in old hilltop villages they go where a Range Rover can't.

I had a white one. Not the 4x4 sadly. Every now and then a nice example comes up for sale here if you feel you need another

https://www.fiatforum.com/

[Mr. Dazzle]

One reason I don't mow my lawn is so that critters like this visit.

The other is laziness.

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[Taipan]

I call this one "doing a yozza".

Proper Spanish. Beer, it’s even wearing a sombrero!

[Nobby]

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News travels slow here.
On the wall in a Pub.

[Noggin]

It quite in the same league as a Red Kite battle, but I still had to fight for my breakfast this morning

[Buckaroo]

It quite in the same league as a Red Kite battle, but I still had to fight for my breakfast this morning

Nasty little bar stewards them. Especially the cockernee version. OI OI!!

[Noggin]

Extremely determined little bar steward that one. Had to drop up the second half of breakfast until actually ready to eat it or he’d have stomped all over it the little git!!

[Felix]

Apparently the wee sparrow is on the danger list. I have seen them but since being told i must admit, i have not seen a lot.