Post something Weird or Random

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Like smearing honey on a child's cheek so the bear will lick it off and they get a cute picture??? You mean like that.

I hadn't heard of people doing that but sadly it doesn't surprise me. I was referring to people getting too close to bison and getting gored and trampled. And in some cases trying to sue someone else for their own stupidity.

Fortunately we'll never have trouble with Burmese pythons here, we've got plenty of pythons of our own that get to a similar size so there's too much competition for them, as well as our animals having evolved with snakes as predators and having defences against them.

I just checked, we've got 94 species of snake here.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

That's not a problem here, except when it comes to this animal. Tourists go on musk ox safari and don't realize how fast and sneaky musk ox can be. They just run you down. They are the titans of the arctic.

People collect the under coats of musk ox hair and spin it into soft yarn.

 

[Forest Cat]

I just checked, we've got 94 species of snake here.

Australia. One crazy place.


We have three here, three species of snakes. So compared to Australia we are amateurs.

 

[agateboy]

 

[Shevek]

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That's not weird or random, it is just shown without context. It shows on the left the colour that steel glows when heated, which is important for forging and brazing. On the right is the colour of oxidation that appears as hardened steel is tempered various amounts to trade strength for toughness.

 

[agateboy]

That's not weird or random, it is just shown without context. It shows on the left the colour that steel glows when heated, which is important for forging and brazing. On the right is the colour of oxidation that appears as hardened steel is tempered various amounts to trade strength for toughness.

I know what it is lol I chose this picture without conscious decision, thus making it random.

If I would have premeditatively thought about posting this specific picture in the specific thread that wouldn't be. But I saw someone post on this thread, clicked on it and, scrolled through my downloads and chose something at random.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

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When a hurricane took out our power, no a/c. No internet. No FB Hot inside the house, so we sat on the front porch and talked.

It was one of my favorite times.

 

[Mr. Stevens]

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I saw an interesting documentary about Frank Lloyd Wright, which talked about how he moved homes back from roads and normalized the front yard. This prevented people from talking with passersby, as they used to.

 

[Tired]

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

I saw an interesting documentary about Frank Lloyd Wright, which talked about how he moved homes back from roads and normalized the front yard. This prevented people from talking with passersby, as they used to.

You know, now that I think of it, I was just in an historic neighborhood yesterday. I just realized all those Victorian and Queen Anne homes were built right up practically on the sidewalk.

 

[Shevek]

Let's give the car and the zoning board the credit they deserve. People used to walk a few blocks to a streetcar, or the store, school, or work. Old neighbourhoods can still be delightful, with a small park included in many walks. Also, most of us don't have porch visitors as interesting as Jimmy Fallon or Oprah. Before money got into everything, knowing the neighbours was a great way to trade favours and wind up better off.

 

[mysterionz]

 

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You know, now that I think of it, I was just in an historic neighborhood yesterday. I just realized all those Victorian and Queen Anne homes were built right up practically on the sidewalk.

I read somewhere else in this forum about building houses right up close to the road so that people could talk to passers-by, but that's not at all why they were built like that.

In the Victorian era cities didn't have flushing toilets and sewers, the house was built close not to the road but to the gutter on the side of the road to make it easier for people to empty their chamber pots. They didn't have to carry the pot downstairs and through the house leaving a trail of stink behind, they could just open the window and hurl it from there.

 

[Forest Cat]

They didn't have to carry the pot downstairs and through the house leaving a trail of stink behind, they could just open the window and hurl it from there.

The good old days.

 

[Forest Cat]

 

[Shevek]

I read somewhere else in this forum about building houses right up close to the road so that people could talk to passers-by, but that's not at all why they were built like that.

In the Victorian era cities didn't have flushing toilets and sewers, the house was built close not to the road but to the gutter on the side of the road to make it easier for people to empty their chamber pots. They didn't have to carry the pot downstairs and through the house leaving a trail of stink behind, they could just open the window and hurl it from there.

Old houses are often seen overhanging the street, because they were taxed only on the area of the foundation. The overhangs may have been considered a public good as a rain shelter.

 

[Forest Cat]

Old houses are often seen overhanging the street, because they were taxed only on the area of the foundation.

So this house design would have been a great idea back then?

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

In Bill Bryson's book At Home, he recounts many things that seem odd today. The one that is coming to mind is that, in England for a time, people were taxed on how much glass was used in the home's windows. Architecture during that period had very tiny windows.

 

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in England for a time, people were taxed on how much glass was used in the home's windows.

There's lots of funny old laws like that. Up until the 1970s there was a law in England that said any land not devoted to the production of food was to be used for growing hemp. That law didn't count for the nobility of course, they were allowed to have lawns, but the rest of the population was expected to grow hemp for the navy to use.

There were some old laws in Australia that said if I took on an indentured apprentice I was obligated to supply him with at least 2 pints of ale per day. And that if he got arrested on a civil offence I was allowed to claim him from the police lockup for the day and put him to work under my own reconnaissance, then return him to the lockup at the end of the day. I had a lot of fun telling apprentices about that one.