Any bushman can say what it is. "The gods Must Be Crazy".

Tha's what it looks like to me, too.

Determination in the face of all obstacles ... or an addictive behavior ?

Everest climbs may restart despite massive quake if climbers want to go ahead
Star Tribune - BINAJ GURUBACHARYA , Associated Press - April 30, 2015

The people there to climb didn't pick the option from a travel agent's brochure. The permit alone is $10,000, add the equipment, oxygen, food and Sherpa labor, you can top $100,000. But first high altitude training means months with no earned income before the climb begins. So someone making this attempt has a lot invested and probably won't have a second shot at it.

Well, I have better (safer and less expensive) things to do... like posting here on The Cellar.:rolleyes:

Therefore you will never understand.

Meanwhile in Russia


Maybe Limey can translate, but my understanding is that a small shop had three mislabeled geese for sale, so authorities came in and read them the goose act. And then destroyed the geese.

It's like a skit out of Monty Python, especially at the 5:05 mark as the illicit goods are destroyed.

That'll teach those lying goose imitators. :haha:

By running them over with a bulldozer. Over. And over. And over.

I confess to going right to the 5:05 mark, and, oh...I don't know why, really, I don't, but, I laughed. And I laughed. And I laughed. I had tears coming out of my eyes, I laughed so hard. I couldn't stop. It started when I first saw that bulldozer.

The only thing that could have made that any funnier would have been for those geese to have been alive and honking right up til the tracks ground them into whole-goose-pate.

It's kinda bothering me, now, that I found that so freaking funny. I don't know why. My ticklebox is still upside down.

Thank you, Glatt, so much!:lol2:

Glad to help!

I too thought it was hysterical. It's painfully slow, but that just builds the tension and funneh. When the bulldozer is slowly heading for the geese, and the camera pans over to see them all lined up in a neat little row 50 feet away, I snorted out loud and the kids ran over to see what I was looking at.

The minute and 15 seconds it takes from camera on dozer to squashed geese, makes me wonder if the cameraman is a Alfred Hitchcock wannabe. :haha:

Glatt is absolutely right, imported geese (from Hungary) without labelling in Russian. I do understand the urge to laugh but this film made me want to cry as all these officials and individuals tried so earnestly to execute the legal requirements and record this whilst being aware (as far as I could see) of the absurdity of the exercise ad yet unable to do otherwise.


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I'm wondering, Limey, if the bulldozer was the prescribed method of destruction, or, just the handiest? Did you catch anything about that part?

I don't recall anything about the method of destruction. These people looked to be pretty rural, I think the bulldozer was the first thing that came to mind. Maybe other things that had had to be destroyed were more substantial and that was what they'd become accustomed to using ..


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I got the impression it was the local dump, natural place to dispose of the bird carcasses.

Should've eaten the evidence.

Meanwhile, in Canadia:

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Hahahahahahah. Awesome.

Meanwhile, in Canadia:

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Meanwhile, in Japan:

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Oh those wacky Japanese.

Meanwhile, in North Korea:

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They're gonna shoot their toes off.

...in China
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The only way outta that is suicide.

Caused by a government check point. If you embiggen the picture you can just make out Chris Christie. :haha:

Plus, the building on the right, blocking the exit of 15 of the right most toll lanes.

WTF? Why put a building on a highway?

I read the red thing is a tool booth, and the building is a new government check point for traffic entering Beijjing.

Tool or Toll? ;)

It's a toll, I'm a tool. :lol:

In good old u s & a. Bad news for retirees: No Social Security cost-of-living increase.

but but socialism!

Damn gumint, they should give a SS increase to MEN, anyway. :lol2: :speechls: :bolt:







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Meanwhile, in Australia:

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E. Gads.

Attachment 53775 Guy on the right is a shadow of himself. He casts no shadow on the beach. No wonder he is so much darker.

Meanwhile, in New York City:

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I wonder what floor that was? How high will rats climb? Will they climb to the upper floors of a skyscraper.

Ratso Rizzo. ;)

"It's a trap!"

Meanwhile, in Japan:

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This is why they check their T-shirts in Australia.

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Taylor Swift: fairy godmother. While visiting Australia this week, Swifty happened to drive by an adorable pre-teen clad in a Taylor fan shirt. Rather than simply drive on by, Splash report the singer had her "entire convoy of car" pull over so she could get out and make the kid's dream come true before continuing on her way. The grinning little girl, who happened to be carrying a balloon, proceeded to grin as Taylor wrapped an arm around her and hugged her while her mom snapped a few photos.

While the climate talks were going on in Paris, 700 of these posters were plastered all over the touristy areas.

NSFW NSFW NSFW
 

Meanwhile, in Thailand:

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Pussyrazorshowwhatnow?!

Probably cordless electric.

Not sure if that's better, or, worse...:lol2:

Meanwhile, spring arrives in Canadia:

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damn

Meanwhile, in Canadia:

With a wolf's jaws clamped around her neck, she survived by just keeping calm

:eek:

Don't they go for the throat to asphyxiate their prey? By remaining still she may have fooled him into thinking he was winning.

Meanwhile, in Australia:

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Go home Japan/China, you're drunk.

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Meanwhile, in North Korea...

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Their idea of a Jet Ski.

Everybody knows N Korea does not have passenger jets. So 'beloved leader' always travels in an armored train.

There you have it. North Korea isn't permitted to land all of its passenger jets in the EU; however, no one told them their jets couldn't use EU docking ports ... hence the picture.

SEX-O-BON!
SEX-O-BON!
SEX-O-BON!

Meanwhile, in Arizona...

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Ahem.

I thought I would play a where is this and find where in Arizona this was taken. I couldn't find it. I searched the entire Arizona border and the only golf course is in a flat land area in Yuma and doesn't match this photo. So I stopped looking and did a GIS.

Turns out this picture is in Africa, on the Morocco-Melilla border. Those are Moroccan fence sitters, and Spanish golfers. I had never heard of Melilla before, so I thank you for that.

Wow. Mexicans are coming to America to work. So they can pay for The Donald's new fence.

I was just going by what the pic filename said.

I can't fact check every pic I post.

I'm mostly looking for amusement, not necessarily accuracy.

I mean, accuracy would be nice, and all...I just regurgitate the interweb's bowel movements.

Same with This Day In History, I'm strictly copy/pasting from Wikipedia, and This Day In Music.