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[
"\"Snow Camel violently headbutts Asian woman\"",
"More news at 11..........",
"\"Can you guess how many humps I am planning on giving you?\"",
"yes, I do smell worse on yhe inside. ",
"We know camels spit... "
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[
"Why is your foot filthy as fuck? Did you karate kick a dude in blackface before striking this pose? ",
"Hell yeah!!!!! ",
"That is an impressive pose, what is it called?\n\nAnd ignore the comments about dirty feet, thanks for posting!",
"ah that pose is like the baby freeze from breakdancing.\n\ni can do that too :D\n\ngood job achieving your goals. ",
"Congratulations OP! Clean the floor next time though",
"Didn't notice that until you pointed out.",
"that’s what i was doing before i attempted the arm balance. hence the dirty feet and shiny floors. and thanks for the love. ",
"thank you! it’s called Eka Pada Koundinyasana 2 \n\nfigured i would get some negativity on that haha just makes looking at the comments more fun. ",
"ooh a baby freeze. i’m gonna google that. in yoga it’s called Eka Pada Koundinyasana II which literally means one-legged arm balance. \n\nbaby freeze is way cooler. ",
"That's uncanny, two years ago I saw a picture of myself where I looked fat, and today I've also made the photo match reality.",
"haha yeah. \n\nbreakdancing has some pretty good names for some of the moves. \n\nactually, i do yoga more than breakdance now since i am getting old and the breakdancing is a little fast paced. \n\nbut like, quite a few moves are similar, and actually a lot of break dancers do yoga for flexibility. that's why i started doing yoga actually. ",
"Sometimes people get dirty feet when they get off their asses",
"Great work! ",
"I guess pronouncing that was half the challenge.",
"What flowers are those?",
"Holy shit have you ever cleaned your floors? Maybe take a break from yoga poses and do a bit of cleaning. ",
"Oh God, I had to roll out the mat to try it out. 4 youtube videos and 8-9 crashes onto the floor later, I'm more impressed...",
"Yeah this is gonna hit the front page because of all the redditors interested in yoga...\n\nWell done by the way",
"Butt",
"LOL, these people who've never had dirty feet. I wish I had half of your motivation! ",
"Congrats ",
"For anyone else who is curious, pogonophobia is apparently a fear of beards. \n \nNow I’m wondering if my beard, or anything else about me, has ever triggered someone’s phobia. ",
"Don't ignore the posts about dirty feet, but looks nice.",
"Feet get dirty sometimes. Its harmless. You can wash it off. ",
"Omg because no ones ever had dirty feet before. My god what a travesty. What ever will she do?! She'll need to cut the foot off and burn the whole house down and start from scratch. The humanity!",
"So what sort of process did you follow in order to train up to this move?",
"I’m not knocking it because I haven’t done yoga. But just curious, isn’t yoga supposed to be meditative and relaxing? This looks like neither. Looks more like a strength and muscle control challenge. ",
"I'm a pogonophile! ",
"I knew a breakdance move that was similar....only move i ever learnt",
"HEY EVERYONE! LOOK AT MY CROTCH!!",
"Awesome job, well done!",
"Alright my inbox is ready.",
"Yoga is a workout, working out is relaxing. If you want to medidate in a traditional sense, you are supposed to pick a pose (asana) and hold it while controling your breath (pranayama) until, well... until it's time to get on with life. Try holding a pose, even just sitting upright, for a long time with a weak core.",
"Put that way, it makes more sense. I’ve only worked out for muscle tone and strength, so never found it *relaxing*. But when I run, I get a sense of being more relaxed and free. Thanks!",
"You're really finding this photo sexual?\n\nI'm sorry for your circumstances.",
"A simple picture of your progress get people so triggered, dear jesus. Don't mind them, they are mad 'cuz they can't do it. Congratz ur killing it!",
"Username checks out",
"Fun fact: Margaret Thatcher was a Pogonophobe.",
"You found the perfect angle to properly show off your calf muscle. For years we've been looking down, not up.",
"Good on ya! Just started back to yoga a month ago and hoping to be able to do that pose too!",
"Did you go to yoga lessons every week ? Did you go the gym to train some muscle ? I ask because I have the same goal since a few weeks : manage to do a yoga pose and my upper body is really weak.",
"Pata sucia",
"Jiffy foot.",
"I would also like to know. It looks like a nice garden.",
"That's really cool. Are you gonna go into breakdancing now?",
"Funny story - I worked with these macho football type guys. They all got on some workout routine program together. A couple weeks in, the routine required them to do an hour of yoga. They went to a studio, I think, and did the hour. The day after their yoga hour, they were all weeping in pain, unable to open doors and stand up from their desks and stuff. It was hilarious. Yoga requires strength and serious control. It's a real workout (or can be, depending on the style and intensity), just a different type of workout than, say, lifting heavy stuff and putting it back down.",
"I don’t doubt it. That’s what it looked like to me. I might have to check out some home yoga videos on YouTube and try it out. ",
"now do push ups.\n\nvery impressive!",
"Called a baby freeze",
"Does that make you horny, baby? - Austin Powers ",
"It’s absolutely remarkable and fulfilling to track your progress in yoga. The first time i tried side crow, i was convinced I’d never be able to hold it. It only took me two weeks before i had it mastered. I started doing yoga 2 years ago because i wanted to jump to crow from down dog, then from crow push up into hand stand, on a good day i can do it. Still a little sloppy, but it’s all part of the journey. ",
"It means, \"no worries for the rest of your days\". ",
"Your feet are nasty 👅",
"Nice work! What is your yoga schedule like?",
"It looks like it was chilly in there.",
"the red blooms are actually leaves. it’s a poinsettia tree. i never saw one until i moved to this apartment. it’s gorgeous in person. \n",
"i started with classes every week for weight loss and strength training. loved it so much that i got certified as a registered yoga instructor. six months of intense training. now i practice daily and it helped me lose a few pounds in the process. ",
"the main parts are plank pose and hovering into chaturanga — which is like lowering down into a push-up but instead of pushing back into plank right away, you keep your elbows bent and hold this for a few breaths. \n\nyou can also try crow pose, side crow, and other arm balances to find that “sweet spot” in your body and the rest follows. \n\npractice is key. and not giving up. i ate shit, a lot, before i managed to keep myself hovered. if i can do it, anyone can. ",
"Girl clean yo feet",
"thank you! the feet comments are just making me laugh if anything. ",
"side crow was my first taste of glory with arm balances. from there i find myself chasing the high. i’m still working on regular crow which seems a bit backwards but i am stoked on my progress. thanks for the kind words. ",
"I generally ignore people’s progress photos. However, that is seriously impressive!",
"Fareal",
"This pose is called mixed foot. Half white half black.\nThats how you invoque ancient powers to hang on that pose.\nLooking forward to see the head pose.",
"I feel like the strength part of holding yourself up would be easy but the flexibility with the balance part would be super hard. Are there a bunch of intermediate positions you do prior to getting to this level?",
"I used to think Yoga was something for soccer moms. Then a couple friends, who happened to have a couple kids, showed me random poses and challenged me to do it. I never thought lifting my own body or holding still would be so tough. I’m 5’9” and 175lbs. I’m in normal shape with a fair amount of definition but forget any type of stands on my hands. \n\nI don’t think most people understand how much strength it takes to do what you’re doing here. Kudos, and respect. ",
"Girl clean yo floor",
"ardha hanumanasana, or half monkey pose, is the best place to start if you’re looking to get into side splits. you can find some good tutorials on youtube, but basically if you’re in a low runners lunge with your front leg bent and your back leg resting on the floor, bring that front foot closer to your body, and slowly start to straighten the front leg. don’t lock it out, keep a micro-bend in the knee to prevent hyperextension. if that is okay on your body, the next step would be to walk your hands forward towards your front foot, and see if you can get your sternum forward.\n\nwhen that gets easier, lower into full splits slowly until you hit your max. then ease up a little and see if you can relax. it’s a lot harder to describe so i’d definitely check out a youtube vid. \n\nanother one that stretches the legs and helps with flexibility in other aspects is prasarita padottanasana, or wide-legged forward fold. you’re basically just standing in a straddle, and reaching to the ground or your feet. \n\nhope this helps. ",
"thank you so much. ",
"But now you’re strong enough to admit it yourself ",
"WHO GIVES A SHIT? ^Also ^clean ^your ^feet ^once ^in ^a ^while ^sheesh.",
"Thanks for sharing and congrats on your progress.",
"Ew",
"I know this pose well, it's called the Dirty feet face plant. It's one of my favorite poses.",
"That looks so relaxing!",
"how many teeth did you chip from not being strong enough to do it?",
"this observation only took 9 hours",
"That’s awesome! I have a few yoga dvds I do but they don’t seem to be the sort to build up to impressive moves like this. I feel like it’s hard to find the right instruction to push myself. Maybe try more advanced dvds and struggle a lot until I eventually get stronger and can keep up? I’m sure ideally I’d do classes, but I stay home with a toddler so time and money are both in short supply!\n\nAwesome job though! I’m sure it was so satisfying to finally nail it!",
"Almost like it was night time in America",
"Wow, I don't think I will commit so much. But that's cool because I won't feel demotivated knowing that it is normal that it takes time. Thanks for answering and happy cakeday.",
"Excellent ",
"Thanks!",
"Nice booty",
"Damn I think if my yoga teacher made me do this I would kill my self.😅",
"I've recently gotten into yoga but I feel like I'm so far away from poses like that. How did you train your self? Was it self practice or lessons? ",
"a little of both. i went to classes at the gym and then loved it enough to pursue a career in yoga, so i trained for six months to get certified. ",
"I started taking classes at my gym too but am trying to venture out on my own more. Your post has definitely inspired me!",
"upvoted because girl...and we can almost see your asshole",
"> Eka Pada Koundinyasana 2\n\nHow does one get into this pose? A plank of sorts, or do you start with another arm balance like crow?",
"You made snot come out of my nose. I figured you would want to know.",
"Looks like a move from that dance scene in Oceans 12:\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr834Cs9ncs\n",
"\"ardha hanumanasana\" Wat....... \n\n",
"Maybe its time to Breakdance as well ;)",
" That room is so gorgeous. ",
"It's weird because it seems like there is no middle ground in yoga. I went to one class and it was all Jair standing with your legs spread and we touched the floor like once. I thought easy so I went to the next level class and they were doing shit like this. There was no bridge in between.",
"thank you! it’s usually covered in furniture but i was cleaning. ",
"nice dirty foot.",
"i would suck those feet clean",
"Do you like to... Do it yourself?",
"[Is there something I should be looking for?](https://youtu.be/LRr94kt8b7s) ",
"Hey, nice flexibility. Are you yoga trainer or practicing for a long time?",
"awh, thank you. practicing on and off for about ten years. got certified last year and have been teaching ever since! i've always had a bit of flexibility though, way more so since i started a regular practice.",
"Ok, that's good! I am also a yoga teacher. Keep it up. :)"
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Two years ago, I saw a photo of a yoga pose. Two weeks ago, I was finally strong enough to do it myself.
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/r/pics/comments/7qacos/swinging_a_string_of_glow_sticks_with_burning/
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[
"*steel wool... fuck.",
"Do you even LSD ",
"Doctor Strange ",
"Long exposure or?",
"Has to be",
"OP it looks like you opened a hole into another dimension. I'll go in first so I have dibs on being bros with the aliens",
"The voice of Sauron, \"I seeeeee youuuu.\"",
"Rick n morty’s portal gun maby?",
"Now that's a fricken good example of Newton's first law and centripetal force. ",
"Hey man at least you owned it. Good on ya mate. ",
"Unforgivable. ",
"Do you WANT to open a portal to another dimension? Because that's how we get portals to other dimensions...",
"quick someone post to PS battle =/",
"I'm sure it is.",
"Hey how many times will this type of thing be posted!?! 1000?!?! 1000000000?!",
"I was going to upvote, but 0/10 for title. /s",
"Time tunnel.",
"r/blackmagicfuckery",
"He’s gonna run the charge down if he keeps using it this much",
"I found out that steel wool burns like this when I was like 14. I was into modding original Xbox, soldering and tinkering with electronics. In my box of supplies and tools was steel wool to clean circuit boards and stuff....and also a 9v battery. Needless to say, they touched. It started slow but went nuts when I blew on it, then I threw t on the carpet and stomped it with my socks. Thank god I had socks on ",
"r/exposureporn",
"The result of copy/paste. :P",
"stop reposting karma whore, fuck off",
"🙄"
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swinging a string of glow sticks with burning steal wool at the end
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/r/pics/comments/7qadbk/i_think_this_is_relevant/
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[
"I think this is assault",
"Eddie Murphy be like \"please stop now\"",
"I think Jackson or Sharpton instead of Trump and I’d agree. ",
"10/10 for effort, but Trumps hands look way too big.",
"sadly, trump never shuts up, especially when he really should!",
"I don't think Jackson had a twitter",
"Thumbnail made this look like a big mural ",
"Moved on him like a bitch right? ",
"Yeah I don't think MLK Jr. is gonna tell anyone to not speak....",
"Good sign.\nThen again, if these are the things Trump is really thinking, we don’t want him in office regardless of what he says",
"Black man silencing a white man, yeah I'm sure this went over well with Trumpsters.",
"Should have been a punch.",
"Peace of silence. PEACE.",
"Of course. Silence the guy telling it like it is. Not the fools constantly threatening to destroy ANY hope of removing racism. -_- Fks sake you people never cease to amaze me. ",
"But he might say put down the damn phone.",
"Relevant?\n\n[huh ...](https://youtu.be/f0U4Vqt1A2w)",
"Don’t silence, but blatantly demonstrate the ridiculousness of what has been said. In this case, the work is halfway done. ",
"/u/Tr33H0us3, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule IV - Title violates title guidelines.\n\nYour title must directly relate to the event in the picture. \n\nYou can read the full information about our title guidelines at /r/pics/w/titles\n\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/Tr33H0us3&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7qadbk/i_think_this_is_relevant/?context=10\\))"
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[
"Probably a Skink I guess. ",
"Eastern Water Skink, if you're in my neck-of-the-woods? (S.E. Australia?) ",
"Yeh I'm in Victoria. Cool thanks. We got loads of the little skinks that are about 100mm long but this the first big one I've seen in my yard. ",
"One time when I had a skink I forgot to give him water and I accidentally killed him :’(",
"I thought the little bugger looked familiar!\n\nNice shot. I like the short depth. Looks a bit like my wife's 50mm...",
"I love how it looks like a short snake with legs. I know a lot of lizards do so don't kill me. "
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Saved this lizard from drowning in my fish pond. Not exactly sure of what species but it was about 4 inches long.
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/r/pics/comments/7qafwf/neighbors_upstairs_flooded_their_apartment/
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[
"Poke it. ",
"That or a Demogorgon is about to rip through your ceiling. ",
"Oh gad",
"So, you might wanna build something to block the water",
"r/popping",
"You should put a bucket underneath that. Just in case.",
"It’s cool, luke Skywalker will come suck all the liquid out that tiddy for free!",
"They might also have flooded your apartment.",
"Structural paint. ",
"Unintentional horror movie",
"Hope you have renters insurance ",
"That is the best sealed roof ever. Kilts lvl 10.",
"How many layers of interior latex paint is holding that water back?",
"You life is about to change",
"Came to say, that's some quality house paint right there.",
"Demidog",
"##MOTHERFUCKER",
"Demilovato",
"That's most likely a [stretch ceiling](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Stretch_Ceiling_Installation.jpg/1280px-Stretch_Ceiling_Installation.jpg).",
"....",
"looks like russian flat",
"It's relatively cheap and fast to install in comparison to a drywall ceiling, doesn't need to be painted and can be used to make glossy surfaces if that's the kind of thing you are into.\n\nAnd, as you can see, it is water resistant, so it works well in kitchens and bathrooms. Some not so experienced workers might even suggest it to you as a \"solution\" if your roof is leaking a little bit.",
"I’d buy renters insurance right now.",
"You're not going to find stretch ceilings in most apartments. ",
"My guess is it's about thirty years' worth of between-tenant paint jobs.",
"No a glass should do it. No need to go overboard. ",
"Demilidoggo",
"Obviously on a different plane of existence yourself. Upvote",
"Japanese Horror film \"Dark Water\"",
"[That's a load bearing poster!](https://youtu.be/QRVExJZKIT8)",
"r/popping",
"Hope you moved what you could to another room - and up high"
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Neighbors upstairs flooded their apartment
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[
"I see you've already scratched an arm.",
"r/unexpectedMontyPython",
"Always expect Monty Python ",
"I had a detachable arm but I was tired of carrying it around.",
"I thought no one expects them.",
"Tis but a flesh wound....",
"None shall pass",
"*are you suggesting coconuts migrate?*",
"A møøse once bit my sister"
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Bumped into each other at the renaissance fair!
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/r/pics/comments/7qalm5/a_stranger_asked_to_take_my_dads_picture_while_he/
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"I love this. It's simple. Which is not always easy to find ",
"and that stranger's name... me.",
"Thank you!",
"Seriously? ",
"What did you do for a living?"
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A stranger asked to take my dads picture while he was fishing. This was the result.
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[
"That's quite a cavalier attitude to catastrophic destruction.",
"This is what the cold War was all about. No-one likes a cold pizza or warhead.",
"When one's primary job duty is to render humanity extinct, a bit of gallows humor is to be expected. :/",
"So wait.. shouldn't this person taking this get a prison sentence for leaking potentially classified pics like the guy on the submarine? Or no... I forgot that someone can now share any classified info (up to 30,000 classified emails) on any server and not so much as get a fine"
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South Dakota Missile Control Door
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/r/pics/comments/7qaoxn/yakutia_russia_the_frost_62/
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"In mother Russia you don't make icicles... icicles make......mmmmffffffffpphhhhh.",
"Russian Santa Claus.",
"Yeah, used to play the tough guy here in Minnesota then remember the time I finally paid attention to how my nose was hurting the day after a chilly outing. Did it multiple times before I finally realized that it was frost bite. Remember once hanging sheet rock in a unheated building with the high of -15 F and my beer freezing before I could drink it. (This being after I caught my alky boss hauling a bucket of beers up the stairs at 10 AM)."
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Yakutia, Russia, the frost -62
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[
"Oh, do you think he will like it?",
"I actually never seen him eat anything, so I dont know.",
"How does it taste?",
"Happy birthday Bruce?",
"I be waiting for it in the BatCave.\n\nSource: am Batman. ",
"Awesome! ",
"Incredible!"
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My cake I made for Batman.
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"Whatever you say, Banana Walnut. I'm calling you B-nut for short.",
"Butt-nana",
"Butt-nana... That's good."
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My new Native American chief name
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"Bot ",
"No, bagel. ",
"It was baked by John Cena. "
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Invisible Bagels - Are Kosher/Vegan + Non-GMO and Gluten-free. Rich in imagination and naturally fat-free, get them fresh at your local Blazing Bagels! [OC]
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"This woman must be in her early 60's by now.",
"Is this John Cena's girlfriend? ",
"Ask r/potatosalad",
"Things are never quite the way they seem"
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camouflage
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[
"Looks more like a pond than a swimming pool.",
"That's more like a moat for the zombies and mythical \"florida men.\"",
"And they say money can't buy happiness.... ",
"You misspelled *alligator spa*.",
"Dwyane wade had his wedding here iirc",
"Now arriving at Chateau Guillard",
"Or most....",
"You want mosquitos? Because that's how you get mosquitos. ",
"pretty sure this is in Homestead, not Miami"
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This house is located in Miami, Florida and has a giant swimming pool around it.
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/r/pics/comments/7qavqm/2_years_ago_yesterday_i_lost_my_grandma_her_wake/
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[
"Are you all wearing name badges? I've not seen that at a funeral before.",
"Why are you all so happy? ",
"Ding dong, the witch is dead?",
"We are. This picture was taken at the wake; at the funeral home, before heading to the church and cemetery.",
"We weren’t “happy”, but emotions break sometimes. Grandma would want at least one goofy picture, so we did our best. \n\n15 minutes before or 15 minutes after you would have seen at least one of us in tears. Sitting for 8 hours in a receiving line in a funeral home at a Catholic wake is intense. I grew up geographically distant from my extended family so it was a lot of new introductions and learning. ",
"Probably should have explained that we were doing a goofy picture for her in the title.",
"We’re pretty sure that smudge in front was her wanting in the photo.",
"To help explain why, my grandma had 6 kids, from that we had two grandkids grow up in Iowa, two in Indiana, two in Wisconsin, two in the Philippines, and three (myself included) in Washington State. We’re a little spread out, so the name tags were an easy way for people from her community, church, etc. to identify us.",
"What a great photo. Your family looks like a lot of fun and she must have loved you all very much. I'm sorry for your loss. (And I agree with you about Catholic wakes. They're interminable!)"
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2 years ago yesterday, I lost my grandma. Her wake was the first time in about 15 years that all of her grandchildren (plus 2/5 great-grandchildren)were together.
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[
"Everything and everywhere can look like a postcard with adequate photography skills. ",
"You’ve never been to Basildon, have you?",
"Captivating! Would love to travel there sometime. ",
"Some postcards are better than others ",
"Some postcards' mothers are bigger than other postcards' mothers",
"Oh, I agree. I took the effort to find a good spot, set up my phone correctly and be patient.",
"The photo is completely without any editing/filters.",
"Basildon, Essex, UK?\n\nIt doesn't look that photogenic... Not nearly to the level of Zermatt.",
"It's expensive and you have to be lucky with the weather (I was)... Zermatt is a snow paradise!",
"Zermatt !",
"Every year my Aunt and Uncle would make a Christmas village from these ceramic houses and people they had. [Kind of like this one](http://desktopbackgrounds1.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Peaceful-Christmas-Village-6.jpg)\n\nIt was always supposed to look like this idyllic and perfect winter town like in a Norman Rockwell painting. This is the real life version of that.",
"You've not seen how messy my room is.",
"Paging /u/your_post_as_a_movie.",
"Yes it is!",
"Zermatt, Switzerland.",
"[I know, right](https://imgur.com/a/NfSAQ)",
"Thank you for showing me that user!",
"Good one :D",
"Ah Switzerland, where a two person meal on a night out will set me back about 120EUR. ",
"Perhaps the point was Basildon is not postcard-worthy no matter how amazing your photography skills are",
"Heading to Geneva for work ... any recommendations? First time to Europe. ",
"There's a really high fountain. And a few nice parks. Didn't see that much else.",
"Oh yes... It did. Zermatt is especially expensive.",
"Nice!",
"I've been there! It was on a train journey through Switzerland and we were lucky enough to stay in Zermatt for a few days. ",
"Reminds me of my years skiing in the swiss alps... Amazing photo! ",
"Thank you!",
"I was super lucky with the weather!",
"Perhaps. But that's not \"in the mountains in Switzerland\" so it didn't click for me.",
"> Greetings from disasterville.",
"Edit: I change the format of my comment so that it would be an easier read if you come back to it while you are in Geneva. I also added a few suggestions. \n\n- [Pâquis](http://www.ville-geneve.ch/fileadmin/public/Departement_5/newsletter/contrats_quartier/carte_paquis.jpg): the area between the train station and the lake and one of the liveliest part of town \n\nTo eat: this area has so many restaurant it would be impossible to list them all. So I recommend you check tripadvisor if you want to grab a bite there. My personal suggestion would be The Hamburger Foundation (simple but excellent burgers), Les parfums de Beyrouth (best kebab place in Geneva), Les saveurs du Liban (Lebanese food) and les bains du Paquis (fondue). That last place is located in the middle of the lake, and if you are here during spring or summer, you can also swim there.\n\nTo drink: plenty of bars in this area, although it's not the place to party in Geneva in my opinion, except if you are into drugs and hookers. One place I would recommend though is La Petite Reine which is fairly cheap where you can meet a lot of the people working for international organisations .\n\nTo visit: beside Les bains des Pâquis which is a nice place to chill during spring/summer, you can have a nice walk along the lake that will take you to Le Palais Wilson, the original headquarters of the League of Nations and now the HQ of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (not sure if you can visit it). If you keep walking along the lake, you'll end up in La Perle du Lac, one of the loveliest park in the city, and if you keep walking, you'll end up in...\n\n\n- [Nations](http://www.cartographe-legoff.com/boutique/images_produits/genevequartierdesnations-z.jpg), arguably, the most boring part of Geneva.\n\nTo eat: this is probably the part of the town I know the least, so if you want to go there, you should probably check a real guide. But, if you can get access to it, I would recommend trying the WMO's restaurant, which is located on the rooftop. The food is nothing special, but the view is pretty nice.\n\nTo drink: No idea.\n\nTo visit: if you are interested in international relations or humanitarian works, you should absolutely go there. You can visit the Red Cross museum, the Ariana museum, have a tour of the UN and study in it's library. If you're coming from la Perle du Lac, I would also recommend checking out le Jardin Botanique (where you have flora from all over the world) and le Parc de l'impératrice (all 3 parks are connected).\n\n- [Plainpalais](https://www.citec.ch/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Zone-30-Jonction-carte-perimetre-ville-geneve-1000x704.jpg). Now we move on to the other side of the lake, and one of its largest neighborhood. \n\nTo eat: again, there are so many restaurant in this area, I couldn't start to list them all. But I would recommend trying out The Hamburger foundation (again), Inglewood (for some fancier burgers) or Le Gruyèrien (for some damn good fondue).\n\nTo drink: this is where most people go out at night. Depending on what type of crowd you want to party with, you could go to Rue de l'école de médecine (the whole streets is filled with bars), where you'll meet some very drunk students, Barbershop (20-30 years old) or Les Halles de l'îles if you want to hook up with some bankers or buy some weed. And if you feel like going to a club, you should check L'Usine out. It's one of the few club in Geneva that's not crazy expensive.\n\nTo visit: I could be wrong, but I don't think there is that much to see here, except the Art museum, the Patek museum and maybe the Remor, one of Geneva's oldest café.\n\n- [Carouge](http://www.todan-demenagement.ch/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/carouge.jpg) Just across the river l'Arve from Plainpalais is one of my favourite place in Geneva.\n\nTo eat: basically, anywhere. There is a lot of very good restaurants in this area, but they also are quite expensive.\n\nTo drink: again, anywhere. Carouge has some of the nicest bars in the city, especially if like me, you like to be able to ear the people with whom you're talking. I would recommend checking out Qu'importe le flacon, l'Imprévu and especially Le Chat Noir that makes some incredible cocktails and also have a lot of concerts and live performances.\n\nTo visit: there is nothing in particular to see, but it's really to just walk around in the streets. You feel like you are in a tiny village when the city is just 2 min away. Perfect place for a lazy Sunday and to grab brunch.\n\n- [The Old Town](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CxNOQ65GY8w/UtFk-YShiwI/AAAAAAAARSg/7B-_QGWhdmU/s1600/Capture.JPG)\n\nTo eat: just like in Carouge, there is a lot of very good but expensive restaurants, but if you feel like eating italian food, you should check out La Citadella.\n\nTo drink: not the best place to go out for a drink, but there are still a couple of nice bars, especially La Clémence and La Demi-Lune.\n\nTo visit: Everything: every street is drooling with history. But if I've had to be more specific: la Cathédrale St Pierre, the cannons use to fight the Savoyards' invasion, the History museum and le Parc des Bastions. If you want to do some shopping you could go down to la Rue de la Confédaration/du Marché/Croix d'or/de Rive (same street, 4 different names) or Rue du Rhône if you want to buy a Swiss watch. While you are there, you could also walk to the Jardin Anglais and check out l'Horloge Fleurie (the flowery clock) which apparently is a tourist attraction although I don't have a fucking clue why. But it would bring you closer to....\n\n- [LES EAUX-VIVES](http://www.todan-demenagement.ch/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/eaux-vives.jpg): the best fucking place in Geneva\n\nTo eat: so many choices: Inglewood for some burgers, Luigia (and many other) for Italian foods, Alma for Peruvian foods, le Phoenix for chinese foods (best one in Geneva), le Café de l'amitié for fondue, la Bodéga for spanish foods, Al Dar for Lebanese foods, Inda Bar for indian foods, etc. There is also a lot of nice coffee places.\n\nTo drink: again so many places, but I would recommend one street in particular: rue Henri Blanvalet. There you'll find several bars all next to each other. If you want some good wine, try Bottle Brothers; some really cocktails, try l'Atelier cocktails and if you just want to get wasted, try Yvette de Marseille. \n\nTo visit: Not that many places to see, but one of the nicest walk to take in Geneva: start from le Jardin anglais, and walk a long the lake, pass the Jet d'eau, up to le Parc des Eaux-vives.\n\n\nFinally, if you have time, you should also check out the region around Geneva:\n\nClose by: \n\n- The Cern (20 min away by tram or bus - Switzerland). I am not sure if you can actually visit the facility, but they do have a museum.\n\n- Nyon (20 min away by train - Switzerland). Nice little town on the lake with a beautiful castle.\n\n- Crozet or La Faucille (20/30 min away by car - France) the closest ski station from Geneva located on the Jura mountain. The slopes aren't that crazy, but they are good enough.\n\n- Le Salève (20/30 min away by car, some buses might also go there - France): a mountain located just outside of Geneva. Nice place to go for a hike or do some paragliding. You also have a beautiful view of the valley when the weather is clear.\n\nA bit further:\n\n- Yvoire (30 min away by car - France): a medieval village located on the lake with a lot of little shops and some damn good saucisson.\n\n- Fort l'Ecluse (30 min away by car - France): a medieval fortress on the Jura mountain made of 2 castle, one at the bottom the other at the top of the mountain) and connected by a long-ass stairway.\n\n- Annecy (45/60 away by car- France): lovely town in the middle of the Alps with a beautiful lake (cleanest lake in Europe I think) and some excellent restaurants.\n\nA little bit further:\n\n- La Clusaz or Le Grand Bornand (1h away by car - France): some amazing ski stations in the Alps. They are more expensive and crowded than the ones on the Jura, but definitely worth it.\n\n- Lausanne (1h away by car or train - Switzerland): amazing city to visit, especially if you want to have a night out. There are a lot of students and a lot of bars and clubs to go to. You can also visit the Olympic museum.\n\n- Lyon (2h by car or by train - France). If you have time, I can't recommend enough that you visit this city. They are so many amazing restaurants - try Bocuse's restaurants or one of the many bouchons - the wines are amazing and some part of towns are absolutely gorgeous, especially Fourvière, the Old Town, la Presqu'île, la Croix Rousse and the 6° arrondissement.\n\n\nAnd obviously, don’t forget to eat as much chocolate as you can: try Laderach or Auer.\n\n",
"More like 250, if it is not fast food and you have some wine.",
"Wow ... thanks for all of those recommendations! ... will definitely try some of the great food(fancier), since it’s all paid for by my company. Looking forward to the views. ",
"Very pretty! <3",
"I live in central IL and turning this landscape into a postcard in the middle of winter would be tough. ",
"I'm curious about the pools I see around. Are the \"hot tubs\" or just swimming pools to use during warmer months?\n",
"Exactly, there are some hideous postcards out there ",
"Agreed ;)"
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In the mountains in Switzerland, everything looks like a postcard... And even more so at night!
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[
"We're there survivors? Looks like it could've been worse. ",
"Use your brain before posting stupid comments like this. You really think the incident involving the plane shown here in the condition it's in, which obviously must have resulted from going off the runway, resulted in everyone dying?\n\nAlso, on a side note, you apparently don't know the meaning of the word \"we're.\" Fucking moron.",
"MrNazgul’s anger translator: yes, everyone walked away without injury",
"Chill dude.",
"Wow, they could use your comment history in charm school. I mean, yeah, it's a fairly silly question but you don't need to be a total douchebag about it."
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This Plane. (Happened currently in Trabzon, Turkey)
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"r/nonononoyes",
"https://news.sky.com/story/plane-skids-off-runway-and-gets-stuck-in-mud-on-cliff-edge-in-turkey-11207458\n\nNo one harmed of the 162 on board",
"Fuck. That.",
"\"Look at me...... im a submarine now\"",
"That's not an over run that's taking a wrong turn.\n\n",
"Pilots got shampoo in their eyes. This is why we shouldn't allow shampoo bottles on airlines. Lol",
"Seriously, I thought this was a flat earth picture."
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Flight overruns the runway (Trabzon Airport, Turkey)
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"Window shopping is a booming business.",
"Clearly. ",
"Looks like Fenwicks window in Newcastle. That place is an institution! Well worth queuing to see their Christmas displays. ",
"Indeed it is!",
"false. "
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Only in the UK do we queue to look at the displays in the shop windows 😂
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"This is such a wholesome image ",
"Furminator?",
"You could make your own yarn with that much fur.",
"I wonder how much of that hair ends up stuck to the butter."
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How to clone your husky
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[
"Run. ",
"Where exactly?",
"That would freak me the fuck out.",
"They're not meeting up. They're all going in the same direction. It's a swarm, and they're on a mission.",
"This thread was posted by a gnome. They killed OP. RIP. ",
"\"Freeze! A human! Act like you're just a statue....\"\n\n\\- Those gnomes. Probably. ",
"Too late. I'm already being held hostage.",
" How many did you steal? ",
"You're giving off too much information. I'll ask you to delete this comment.",
"Looks like there’s a rabbit in charge at the back. Never a good omen.",
"I'd gnome right out of that",
"To steal underpants.",
"Oh \"gnome\" you didn't (Snaps fingers)",
"Who's fucking beard grows like that? All not on the front half of the chin? Like it's a clean straight line! Who the fuck would save it like that? Fucking Gnomes man, seriously smh",
"You misspelt terrifying",
"What kind of hostage is that if they allow you to reddit?\n\nJust admit it, you liked their mushroom soup.",
"You both gnome that gnomeone likes a thread full of puns.",
"Noam Chomksy family reunion.",
"You mean an org.. never mind.",
"Step 1: Kidnap OP\n\nStep 2: ?\n\nStep 3: Profit!",
"Probably smoking big ol' doinks...",
"I feel sorry for the goats! fancy waking up to all these blighters every morning horrific! It is there hill after all.. ",
"This would be the scariest horror movie ever. ",
"gnomes obviously. its in the title. keep up man, its not complicated",
"Damn you sir or madam i came here to say this exact thing, and you beat me to it. Take the upski, and good day to you. ",
"If you have a twin brother who thinks you've been kidnapped by a zombie because of some nerdy book, I can guarantee that he'll save you.",
"As you walk away and turn around, you’re gonna notice them in different poses and getting closer to you.",
"You should've taken a before photo of the empty hillside. ",
"r/creepy",
"That's some good DMT.",
"I wonder if this is marketing for a movie.",
"The neck beards are studying the blade at blade camp ",
"Don’t blink.",
"This has always been my dream.. of sorts. If I ever win the lottery I want to purchase hundreds of lawn gnomes and place them in my yard one night facing my neighbors house and over the course of a few weeks have them slowly infiltrate their yard. Yet never talk about it unless they bring it up and just accuse them of stealing my property. ",
"Imagine stumbling upon this on a moonlit night..\n\nAlone.",
"I will walk backwards and not blink until they are gone from view.",
"This kinda looks like a picture of a Warhammer army.",
"We're all going to die.",
"That's a real gnome-man's land",
"Keemstars on vacation atm, this explains alot.",
"Rare footage of the filming of the “Gnomeo and Juliet” movies ",
"Nightmare fuel",
"[\"Bewegen sie nicht!\"](https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/phineasandferb/images/3/30/Heinz_as_a_lawn_gnome.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20141123010815)",
"I just imagine this glorious scene in slow motion of some one destroying all of these with a golf club while they all attack",
"> \"Bewegen sie nicht!\"\n\nBewegen Sie sich nicht.",
"That's not Mr. Doofenshmirtz's quote though. He just yells, \"Bewegen Sie nicht!\" whenever Heinz moves. ",
"It's a good thing you weren't under the influence of any heavy hallucinogens. Finding these in that mindset might be the worst thing ever",
"Imagine walking past at night when you suddenly see you're surrounded by these silhouettes.",
"Murder.",
"Don't Blink",
"How do the mow? Do they take them all up and put them back each time? Do the weedeat around it all? Do they have goats? Or is that an area where mowing isn't required? ",
"Oh...Oh my~",
"This is how humanity ends.",
"Id poop.\n\n\nAnd throw said poop at em.\n\n\n",
"*Cough Cough* Gravity Falls *Cough*",
"You down wit OPP? Yea you gno me!",
"Who ever owns this yard is my hero!",
"Just me or does that closeup look like Jeff Sessions? 🤔 😂🤣",
"you gotta collect coordinates to fire the ballista bro",
"HOA:. You can't have lawn ornaments!\nHomeowner: Challenge accepted!",
"Don’t look into their eyes!!!!",
"I have a theory, Scully, but you're not going to like it.",
"Keemstar's family reunion",
"We're gonna need The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch for this one.",
"Now that was a killer rabbit!",
"I just watched this movie with my daughter about an hour before seeing this post. . .weird",
"And I thought I had a lot of garden gnomes in my yard... geez. At least I do have one rule, all of my garden gnomes are working gnomes. No freeloaders around here just sunbathing or doing any of that nonsense. All of my gnomes have a shovel or a pickaxe or garden shears or some type of tool they're using. Keeps me from worrying about any loafers joining the commune.",
"They're actually running from something much creepier",
"Jeff Sessions?",
"Are those black shapes scattered between then dead crows or something?",
"This is my nightmare ",
"cursed image",
"That's real fuckin' weird, man.",
"There's no place like gnome.",
"[Old Man Henderson](https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Old_Man_Henderson) will be coming by soon to collect.",
"Was this is in the Appalachians? ",
"Are those Winklebottoms or just worthless Figgleforths?",
"Don't blink...",
"Looks real in the upper picture ",
"Nome Alaska",
"You've already seen too much. Your life is forfeit. ",
"That is sounds of dollars of gnomes sitting on that is sounds of dollars of gnomes sitting on a hillside",
"This is very reminiscent of the final fantasy 11 benchmark tool.",
"post this to /r/linux :)",
"We know you're lying and you're fine because everybody knows that Gnomes dont take hostages.",
"Any one found waldo?",
"looks real",
"Stumbled upon? That’s a gnomed place.",
"Do u kno da way",
"It's possible you are dead and live in hell.",
"Amish. ",
"/r/mildlycreepy ",
"Well, maybe it's a good thing you haven't won yet.",
"Impressed that this is still intact given how asinine humans can be when the come across stuff like this.",
"Good reference.",
"I think the rabbit is the leader ",
"Looks like a great shooting range. ",
"You should kick one, so that they explode one after another. (Sims reference)",
"This here is gnome man's land. ",
"My friend would love this. ",
"Someday this will be a confounding archeological discovery.",
"That’s not even my worst idea. ",
"You turned your head away from them, never do that. Didn't you read the Goosebumps, Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes?!",
"There’s no place like gnome.",
"Ah, so *this* is where Henderson's gnomes disappeared to.",
"\"One, two, five!\" \"Three, sir\" \"Three!\"",
"They're there for Keemstar's homecoming.",
"I thought I knew your captors but actually, now that I think of it, I don't gnome.",
"A bit creepy...",
"Looks like a standard Gnome gun range to me.",
"None of them are are speaking to another?",
"Relevant https://m.imgur.com/a/X5Mnr NSFW",
"A herd.. there's too many of them, run! ",
"This reminds me of the ending of Antichrist.",
"***JAWS theme intensifies***",
"Impressive. More like creepy! ",
"We have a few graveyards in my town, all packed nicely in the woods and hills at the town’s border, away from people. And this picture looks exactly like a graveyard at the first glance, just with all the tombstones being weirdly bright colored...eugh\nSo yeah, do it. You’ll get bonus points from me for looking like a serial killer.",
"Grab a hammer and start smashing!",
"If you build it, they will come. ",
"Gnome sayin? ",
"Can you imagine if they were left there for the next 50-100 years. Let nature reclaim the land and that would be a terrifying small patch of forest you just stumbled into ",
"Reminds me of that one Goosebumps episode...only much worse.",
"Don't turn your back on them!",
"Its because the sand is warmer now.",
"Time to smash. ",
"r/creepy",
"Good luck. I bought one, a very nice expensive one, about three feet tall. It was a treat to myself while I was caring for my dying sister. Situated him in my front garden among the rosemary and azaleas and damned if somebody didn't steal my $400 gnome. Then my sister died. ",
"Keemstar meet and greet ",
"Where’s keemstar?",
"Only two girls...HMMMM ",
"Red caps!",
"Reminds me of a hiking trail in Vermont. Apparently people hike up with a garden gnome and place them somewhere along this one section of the trail. Kinda eery",
"But don’t blink. Whatever you do, don’t blink!!",
"Nope. Just nope. Creepy fucking gnomes. GNOPE!",
"Aella\n\nNow people will find it",
"Back up slowly and do no make direct eye contact.",
"Spent one high school summer aggressively stealing lawn gnomes with some friends and we’d bring them all to one friend’s back yard in the night. If looked a lot like this.",
"First thing I thought.",
"Is this what Iron Maiden was singing about in *Fear of The Dark*?",
"That reminds me of the tale of Old Man Henderson and his quest to retrieve his army of wee’ men.\n\nhttps://1d4chan.org/wiki/Old_Man_Henderson",
"Did you introduce yourself with the proper gnomenclature ",
"#STAMPEDE!!",
"Gnome meetup. \nGnomemeetup. \nGnomeetup. \n\n",
"Haha! That would be seriously awesome! ",
"Oh, the annual KEEMSTAR Fanclub meeting...",
"Was it look out mountain lol",
"*Doofenshmirtz evil incorporateeeeeeddddd*",
"Not where I'd want to be on acid. ",
"It's extra gross when you call it 'mushroom soup'.",
"Don't worry, they'll die once they run through Stranglethorn Vale. :)",
"First thing I thought of when I saw gnomes",
"Warming of the globes",
"I'm imagining a weeping angel scenario from Dr. Who.",
"I'd like to hear your ideas. You seem like Calvin from *Calvin & Hobbes*",
"Dwarf shortage",
"https://imgur.com/fmDzfZ1",
"1.\tBuy billboards along my friend’s route to work and post their most embarrassing Facebook photos on all of them. Bonus points for doing it instead to a random stranger who doesn’t have their privacy settings turned on on Facebook. \n\n2.\tI’d hire a guy in a bear outfit to follow my friends around from a distance. He’s to never interact with them or try to attract their attention, just follow them. I’d like to see if this would cause a mental breakdown. \n\n3.\tWhen quitting my job give everyone in my department 150k to quit with me. The ensuing chaos would entertain me. Weird part of that is I like my company. \n\n4.\tEvery year I host what I call Drunk Easter for my friends. If I had more money I’d try and turn it into a public event. That one isn’t bad for anyone but their liver. \n\nMy friends think I’d be broke with in a year. I’m inclined to agree. \n\n",
"You would be broke but happy. I really hope that you will realise some of these ideas. The billboard one is really good/evil!",
"Be fun to find on acid",
"Keemstar!!!",
"This should start a thread: images for writing prompts.",
"Is that some sort of Gnomecoming? ",
"Don’t blink.",
"Oh hell Gnome!",
"I wonder how long those two kids have been stealing them for?",
"r/creepy anyone?",
"I’m a fan\n\nAlso I’m the one in the top right",
"Disney-fried nightmare\n",
"Has anyone played Fable? ",
"Hmm. Gnome-juice?",
"Hey there’s Keemstar",
"It cool and creepy at the same time. ",
"This is amazing - I'd want to camp here. ",
"Uhm... ",
"Gnome way.",
"damn i didnt know it was a family reunion",
"Even worse ",
"Ask them how they make money stealing my underpants.",
"gnome time like the present for a meeting!",
"Get the fuck outta there! Oh God!",
"In Western Australia there is actually a place called gnomesville http://gnomesville.com\nThere's 1000s and 1000s of them. Pictures never give it justice. It just keeps going through the bush. Lots of puns and themes. ",
"http://www.gnomelands.com/inspiration/gnome-adventures/the-gnome-liberation-front.htm",
"NOPE",
"Lets get right into the news",
"War on drugs stared! Sessions are coming!",
"I don’t think you have a walk, enjoy cleaning those gnomes out of your backyard",
"What happens on drunk Easter? Just drinking or is more involved?",
"Gnoats will carefully eat around them.",
"Reminds me of the 'Befreiungsfront für Gartenzwerge' (liberation front of gardengnomes?) That were active in Germany. They'd collect all gnomes of a village and then place them on the central roundabout a few days later.",
"Thats fucked. ",
"Drunk Easter is an adult Easter egg hunt where I hide eggs in my yard for my friends to find. Inside the eggs are challenges such as; take a shot, finish a beer, do 10 jumping jacks, chase the guy in a pink bunny costume around the house, wear a mesh backpack full of water balloons on your front and chase someone down and hug them(this is water kamikaze), egg roulette as seen on Fallon, and stand here while blindfolded when the blindfold is removed everyone else is armed with water balloons throwing them at you.\n\nWhomever completes the most egg challenges at the end wins a prize, last year's prize was Cards Against Humanity's Bigger Blacker box and several expansions."
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Went on a walk and stumbled upon this impressive gnome meet up
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"Is that a whole pepper covered in bacon?",
"If it was sliced open and had the seeds removed then filled with cream cheese, I can only hope it is.",
"This is a whole pepper wrapped in bacon! ",
"Then both sides are yours...",
"She's not a big cheese fan and doesn't mind the seeds :D",
"Ha, I’ll try it like that the next time I make some poppers.\n\nI don’t mind a lil heat either! Cheers.",
"Just don't forget the bacon. ",
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One side is my side, the others is my wife's side... can you make a guess which is mine?
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"I like this",
"This would make a brilliant wallpaper",
"Looks like an indie band album cover.",
"Praise the sun",
"Nice view where to find this place. ",
"Great shot. I rode my motorcycle up to Oregon from SoCal for this eclipse. It was the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen. It was better than any trip on lsd alone in the mountains or the desert. \n\nEdit: /u/Sryzon took this pic, for anyone wondering. ",
"That is Skyrim",
"This is beautiful, thanks for sharing!",
"Smaller than I thought.",
"Nice shot! :) What settings did you use if I may ask?",
"Please post this pic in r/darksouls3",
"It is called.... Lothric",
"The Eye of Oregon",
" \\\\[T]/",
"Thanks for the new tablet wallpaper!",
"\\\\[T]/\n\nThat's how you do it",
"Thank you",
"So... did you die of dysentery?\n ",
"Heroes theme...RIP",
"Breathtaking.",
"Yeah mother nature has its way of being goddamn beautiful.",
"You take this picture?",
"Good thing nobody had an egg with facial features.",
"Phenomenal.",
"Wow spectacular shot! Is this a composite with several exposures? I got a lot of decent close ups with a 300mm lens but definitely couldn't snag a wide shot like this. I'd love to hear how your technique! ",
"I was in Newport for the eclipse. It really was just amazing to see. We left the area we were watching from after the totality and you could feel the judgement from the hardcore eclipse fans though. ",
"You sure that’s not the missile from Hawaii?",
"I was in Oregon for it too. Most amazing thing ive ever seen.",
"Wierdmageddon",
"Guess who has a new wallpaper!",
"I love the way the mountain range creates a layered effect through the fog",
"Great shot but too much hdr, do you have a different version ",
"\"Target the city. Single reactor ignition. You may fire when ready.\"",
"I was there, got a similar shot...very cool",
"Now this is why I subscribe to /r/pics, not for the thinly veiled political posts. Thanks OP!",
"This is a really cool shot. Where did you take the photo?",
"Battle of Sekigahara",
"The brand!",
"I wonder how many DJ's are going to use this as background for show promotion ",
"During the eclipse... after the photoshopping.\n\n(still a nice pic!)",
"My house was dead center in the trajectory. One of the coolest two minutes of my life, and watching the valley get progressively darker and colder was something else.",
"wtb this in a screen size image",
"Farplane",
"😲",
"This is epic. Thank you for my new wallpaper",
"Is there a better quality image?",
"Usurpation of the First Flame",
"I was there!..... and on a shitload of DMT",
"OMG!!!!!",
"Fantastic! New phone background for sure! ",
"It has definitely been edited and touched up. I live in oregon and witnessed the eclipse. The sky was much lighter blue that day. Also, the \"fog\" in this photo is actually smoke from nearby Forrest fires. I remember the photographer discussing this.",
"Its actually smoke from nearby forrest fires.",
"You're a little late to the party...",
"Looks like a fresh unexplored alien planet. I call dibs!",
"Originally posted [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/photography/comments/6vis3h/an_example_of_insane_sensor_dynamic_range_and_why/) by user u/Sryzon, also known as Daniel Plucinski.\n\nOP, don't post photos by other photographers without crediting them!",
"Where is the godhand?",
"Would be better if it wasn't crooked. The horizon should be horizontal. ",
"what a Click ",
"great Job",
"Gravity Falls IRL",
"I watched eclipse from Madras, Oregon. I love how these random eclipse images reminds me of that amazing experience again!!",
"I was there man",
"All this picture is missing is an Oregonian pumping gas like a fool.",
"\\[T]/",
"This is not OP’s photo, it was posted [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/photography/comments/6vis3h/an_example_of_insane_sensor_dynamic_range_and_why/?st=JCF3OXMW&sh=914baa3c) first.",
"oh look! oregon!",
"OP please credit the [photographer](https://www.reddit.com/r/photography/comments/6vis3h/an_example_of_insane_sensor_dynamic_range_and_why/?st=JCF3OXMW&sh=914baa3c) before posting as your own content.",
"Ay rawdoggin! Did you take your bimmer or the hyosung",
"There, I [Fixed it](https://imgur.com/gallery/qi4Xn) ",
"Thank you for sharing - this is spectacular ",
"Photogenic ",
"Ah yes... I remember driving up to Seneca, OR from the Bay Area to see 100% totality. One of the coolest things I have seen. Well worth the 14 hour drive lol. Popped open a bottle of wine on a dirt road with a open meadow, was majestic af ",
"Dope shot man.",
"The sun looked a lot bigger than that 60 miles away in Aloha...According to that sun's location it should be solid winter...I am thinking this had a little PS help....Nice Pic!!",
"When I originally read this I thought it said 'Oregon during the apocalypse' and thought 'oh shit maybe it's all true'",
"OP is a budget GallowBoob, but I don't think he's claimed it as his own content.",
"GET THE PITCHFORKS",
"Hey guys, original photographer here.\n\nI made a spur of the moment decision to fly to Oregon and see the eclipse. I rented a car in Portland and made my way to Detroit, Oregon where I met a couple other photographers and together we found this spot. This is on a mountain road just north of Detroit. \n\nThe eclipse was truly beautiful especially with the wild fire smoke everywhere. It was like night time, but with a 360 degree sunset. Someone brought a thermometer and the temperature dropped a whole 30 degrees. \n\nThis particular shot is a single exposure from a Nikon D750 and is as best as I could make it look as I saw it. [I've since created a composite from two exposures that I've got hanging in my office!](https://i.imgur.com/43MrXuf.jpg)",
"That smoke in the valley? My view was obsured because of the fires.....",
"Chad? Is that you? ",
"I'm starting up my own Pitchfork store to compete against the monopoly that is Pitchfork Emporium. Anyone wanna support a small business and buy from me?",
"Black hole sun\nWon't you come\nAnd wash away the rain",
"No wonder they shot the x-files there. ",
"Amazing shot",
"Feel like the color of the sky depended where you were in the totality. I was at Green Peter Reservoir and it got dark enough to see stars. ",
"Soul of Cinder is around there, somewhere.",
"I too took a trip from SoCal. Seeing is believing. No pictures or words can describe it in comparison to seeing. Taking one with universe to the literal sense. I felt so connected ",
"I went up into Idaho for the eclipse. Never had seen a full one before so didn't really know what to expect. Pictures like this are pretty, but holy hell seeing it in person was literally life changing. It was by far the most amazing natural phenomenon I've ever seen in my life. I totally understand now why people chase these things all over the world.",
"I was in Corvallis. 100% totality. Agreed you could see stars, still not this dark.",
"How am I looking at this without the eclipse glasses? ",
"I'm been meaning to speak with someone on Oregon, if that is alright ?",
"Do you have an IG? Stunning capture of a beautiful area. Detroit is one of my favorite places to explore hidden waterfalls!",
"WHAT FUCKING ECLIPSE??",
"That’s not Oregon, that’s New Londo",
"I love seeing awesome photos of my state like this. Oregon is a gorgeous place. Even the cities are surrounded by mountains, hills, trees, and just so much green.",
"H o m e ",
"So beautiful! 🙌🏻",
"I attended the full eclipse in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, I've been meaning to have a quality Eclipse phone background ever since. Thank you very much OP. ",
"I Guess the vampires got a hold on Auriel's bow after all... 😓",
"Could I buy a print of this?",
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"Would you mind if I pinched it as phone wallpaper? Simply stunning photography.",
"Go for it.",
"If I ever end up in a black metal band, can I use this for the tape cover?",
"Same. You basically know what to expect, but actually seeing the sun get blotted out by a giant black circle is still kinda terrifying and awesome (in the true, awe inspiring sense of the word).",
"PM me the size and type(print only, framed, metal, etc.) you'd like and I'll provide more info.",
"Do you have a high resolution version available? I'd love to make that my desktop background.",
"I read this as \"Oregon during the apocalypse\"",
"Hey bruh! I took the bmw so I could hit twisties on the way up and back. ",
"Same! He provided a link underneath his composite that presumably lead to one but it has 404'd! ",
"~~Is that the photographer though, that poster links back to a Facebook page...~~\n\nEdit nevermind",
"For some reason I feel like there's about to be a very large and powerful green laser to come down from that",
"Somewhere, someone in Oregon looked up, while pumping their own gas, saw the eclipse and immediately exploded. ",
"No matter how many eclipse photos I've seen, the real thing was amazingly freaky. The whole world becomes early evening in a matter of seconds, and there's this black hole - a sci-fi image that belongs on a movie screen - right there in the real sky. The vastness and tangibility of the whole experience was staggering. ",
"Can [confirm](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/6vacek/comment/dm09tss?st=JCF9JOLX&sh=8d1defaa) he is the closest owner of this photo.",
"Stunning!!!",
"August 21st 2017 Never forget",
"SAVE THE CHEERLEADER",
"I don't recall clouds in the sky. ",
"Didn't see that, my bad! Just went to the imgur which went to Facebook",
"~~I don't know if it's my phone or what, but all of them have a ton of banding going on in the sky. This one has the least, but still quite a bit.~~\n\nEdit: nevermind, it must be the reddit app I'm using because downloading the image and looking at it in a different app take away the banding.",
"I was in Hopkinsville Kentucky (aka ground zero) because we got called in with the Kentucky disaster relief crew. We were placed on site to a farm ground that wasn’t the busiest but it was the most exciting. We had all the TV crews filming and getting interviewed (my family included) NASA was doing experiments, and the United excitement can only be compared to New Years Eve with everyone counting down to the big moment. Then it came, it was incredibly hot but once the sun was covered it felt oh so refreshing. It was like the worlds biggest fan was gently blowing on us so we can cool off. It looked like the sun has set but it was right in the middle of the sky. The Eclipse itself looked like a diamond ring on display for the world to see. Nothing less than a breathtaking experience. ",
"There were some wildfires at the time and the heavy smoke had been covering the area.",
"I was in Hopkinsville Kentucky (aka ground zero) because we got called in with the Kentucky disaster relief crew. We were placed on site to a farm ground that wasn’t the busiest but it was the most exciting. We had all the TV crews filming and getting interviewed (my family included) NASA was doing experiments, and the United excitement can only be compared to New Years Eve with everyone counting down to the big moment. Then it came, it was incredibly hot but once the sun was covered it felt oh so refreshing. It was like the worlds biggest fan was gently blowing on us so we can cool off. It looked like the sun has set but it was right in the middle of the sky. The Eclipse itself looked like a diamond ring on display for the world to see. Nothing less than a breathtaking experience. I will never ever forget that magical day.",
"No pictures will ever do the eclipse justice. It was life changing. It put a lot of perspective of where we are in the solar system.",
"As a person from Oregon, don't come to Oregon. There's nothing nice here. \n\nSincerely blueprint\n\n",
"The wildfires started after the eclipse......",
"That seems like an odd thing to ask if you aren't redistributing it",
"Praise the Sun!",
"are you selling prints of this? It is a phenomenal shot! I like it even better than the composite :)",
"great pic",
"The eye of Sauron is watching you!",
"I live in Portland, OR. this photo is beyond beautiful. ",
"Please tag nsfl you could make us all go blind ",
"Me too, I was on the summit of McClellan mountain near John day. Awesome to watch.",
"Sadly mostly smoke",
"Great shot by the [photographer.](https://www.reddit.com/r/photography/comments/6vis3h/an_example_of_insane_sensor_dynamic_range_and_why/?st=JCF3OXMW&sh=914baa3c)",
"Ahh Oregon, home to two of my favorite fictional locations - Gravity Falls and Arcadia Bay :3",
"Yeah I was in Terrabone outside of Bend for the eclipse and the smoke wasn't to bad, but I was camping in Newberry volcanic monument like 30 miles south and it was super smoky. ",
"Nice :D",
"Thanks for the new phone wallpaper",
"Oh you can just fuck off",
"As another Oregonian, I will second this. We have a ton of meth addicts and homeless people though.\n\nIf you want to check out a nice town though, try Bend, OR.",
"Mountains *and* space? This might just be one of the most epic photos ever taken.",
"Thanks. I’ve seen everyone mentioning it, so I put it up top. ",
"Woah. Super excited to use this as a background. ",
"Cool. I drove up to Detroit Oregon to see it as well. I didn't want to bother with the crowds at Madras. ",
"oregon went from creepy to creepier",
"Nah mate, that’s the sun at the end of dark souls 3. The dark sign can do some crazy shit!",
"I was also just north of Detroit at Elk Lake. We hiked to the top of Battle Ax mountain for the eclipse. Couldn't have found a better location. Nice shot!",
"Good shot, it looks like it would make an interesting book cover.",
"My man",
"Nice shot",
"This photo is so good, I actually said, \"Goddamn, that's gorgeous,\" OUT LOUD.",
"Oh my god. Opened the full picture and got chills.",
"Im so jealous. I didnt have a car in portland so I couldnt drive and my friend woulsnt drive because \"99% is enough right?\" Heres to the north east in 2024",
"Hey, nice one. You picked a perfect focal length to keep the sun relatively large in the image and a scene that still feels big!\n\nI drove down to the grand tetons to witness this.. absolutely incredible!",
"Mr. Issak!!!",
"This is an incredible shot! Makes me want to go watch Heroes.\n\nI was hesitant to use my DSLR during the eclipse. Did you use any special filters to protect your lens and image sensor from damage?",
"Thank you for capturing such an amazing moment not everyone can witness!",
"The dark soul of man",
"I was in Oregon for the eclipse.\n\nI mean, I'm in Oregon all the time, but I was here for the eclipse, too.",
"I'm surprised you had a clear enough sky, i thought the area around Detroit Lake was mostly on fire at that point in the summer",
"Everybody still thinks there was a solar eclipse but I actually gathered the Dragonballs to wish that Putin remains president of Russia",
"oregons lit",
"It was. You could barely see in the early morning. This was taken relatively high up above the smoke, though. You can see it in the photo. ",
"You don't need anything during totality. You would need a filter if you were taking a close up of the sun and/or you had your camera pointed at it the entire time to avoid melting your camera. ",
"Oh yes, that’s right, I didn’t know there were wild fires around that time",
"Booooo",
"http://time.com/4907933/an-oregon-wildfire-is-blazing-in-the-eclipses-path-of-totality/\n",
"Not anywhere close to where this doctored image was taken."
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[
"😊",
"Great rack.",
"You mean the crown rack?",
"Good nerdy face!\n\nAnd yeah.... awesome bod!",
"Thanks hun ",
"Your boobs to waist contrast looks amazing :P",
"Thank you for noticing 😊 ive been trying to keep myself curvy in the right ways",
"thats a new way of saying it :P"
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a bona fide Trekkie Princess, even with a crown :P
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[
"I bet he'd feel more majestic if he was back in his own shithole country where he belongs.",
"Give it a fucking rest. Can't go anywhere on Reddit without US politics these days.",
"This poor guy has already had a wall built around him though...",
"[When in doubt, let Jim Carrey help out.](https://youtu.be/UPphDSc6ZEE) ",
"I bet if he fought a wild lion he would lose. ",
"white Loin???",
"He's the KING ",
"You know what? This guy’s right - please give it a rest. The “shithole” comment refers to the living conditions for humans made by humans. It’s common knowledge that the serengeti is a gorgeous, natural place for animals to thrive freely on the plains. Adding “shithole” to the comment is a political shoehorn that this picture can honestly do without. ",
"This is a shithole comment thread you started lol",
"Agreed. It’s a sweet lion, let’s leave it at that",
"Because you can take the king out of the shithole, but you can't take the shithole out of the king. ",
"This is Robert Plant in lion form. ",
"Well, he certainly hasn't been training lately in the zoo.",
"Technically Trump is the shithole jn the shithole..like some kind of shitholeception ",
"Was",
"Just such a regal creature",
"Close all the zoos down.",
"But actually. . . it's absurd that people admire these animals but ignore the cruelty of confining them to tiny spaces."
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This guy was at the zoo looking majestic. Beatiful creature.
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[
"I want to eat mussels.\n\nTotally not an euphemism or anything. I'm just really hungry.",
"Of course they knew. It's called lust minute after all",
"I'm glad I don't need to clean under my hood",
".#lUstminute .\n\nYeah they knew. ",
"Gaudí is turning in his grave rn",
"If it’s a “European” experience they’re trying to sell, shouldn’t the architecture or sculpture be chosen to look uncircumcised? ;)",
"Wait, the hashtag is lustminute but the Url is lastminute. Is this one add? Is the miss spell a marketing campaign? ",
"have some aspargus with them?\n\nceterum censeo \"unit libertatem\" esse delendam."
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They knew what they were doing
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[
"Or Russian",
"Or Scandinavian",
"That's about right",
"Finns",
"Good boots, you don't wanna get cold after all.",
"nice axe.",
"Or Finnish",
"That's Brazil",
"Poor girl, living in some shitcold country",
"Finnish is Scandinavian",
"I have seen this posted so many times but no one ever seems to know the origin of it?\n\nHas anyone been here long enough to remember? (Iirc I have been on Reddit 5-6 years)",
"Or Norwegian",
"Finish is not Scandinavian.",
"Norwegian is Scandinavian",
"True enough, but that is not the joke I was making.",
"Bride material.",
"Atrue Canadian would wear flip-flops",
"Oh sorry. I thought it just meant that it's part of the Scandinavian peninsula. But now I looked into it a bit more and when saying Scandinavia Finnland Most often isn't included.",
"Already has one hatchet wound, why not add another?",
"/r/canadian_irl ",
"I was going to say this looks more like Wisconsin or Michigan.",
"Curvy chicks are the best",
"Nice to know own I can keep my beer cold by placing it between her thighs ",
"Apetor's wife",
"If Finland is in Scandinavia someone doesn't know what scandinavia is . It's a common mistake. "
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Has to be Canadian.
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"One, a creepy soulless half human, the other, a guy in a robot suit.",
"[The first thing that comes to mind!](https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/en.futurama/images/7/70/Decision_3012.png)",
"Why didn't Robocop arrest him?",
"Not as iconic as his meeting with Elvis. ",
"The 4th directive.",
"Should've brought the ED 209 to have a [malfunction](https://thumbs.gfycat.com/RashJadedAsp-size_restricted.gif)",
"Was there no colo in 1987?",
"Foreshadowing of things to come."
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1987 Boys and Girls Club meeting attended by Richard Nixon and Robocop
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[
"A snow leoparrrrrd.",
"Needs a monicle and a top hat",
"Looks like hes seen alot probably has 20000xp",
"Sherkhan",
"Awesome photo!",
"Seriously bad-ass...",
"“Where did ya come from? Where did ya go? Where did ya come from, Cotton-Eyed-Joe?”",
"Skooma, just say no.",
"That’s a Disney villain in training. ",
"I wonder what kind of battle he had that resulted in his lost eye, and whether he regrets the events that led to such a battle.",
"He's seen some shit.\n\nSome.",
"Here is a higher resolution of the pic - http://i.imgur.com/SKRwcAU.jpg\n \nCredit goes to **[Johannes Nollmeyer](http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/profile/854036/)**\n",
"Must be weird for animals to lose senses, like as humans we know why, animals just all of a sudden have shit vision or can't walk",
"He is the king of jungle, and may be he is living a life of victory... look at his confidence...",
"This leopard looks like he hangs out with Die Antwoord. ",
"\"Hey motherfucker, it's me, Mittens.\"",
"Or an eyepatch and a three-corner hat",
"Crosspost to r/natureisfuckinglit",
"Looks like it’s about to share a crazy “people of New York” style story. ",
"Are we sure this guy doesn't join your party in a Final Fantasy game at some point? ",
"Could still kill you without you ever knowing it was stalking you for hours",
"Snow leopard...\n\n...king of the jungle.\n\nAh yes the notorious Himalayan jungles of Afghanistan and India!",
"I think he's just winking. ",
"Not anti-trump spam. Nice.",
"Cute",
"Why did the one-eyed snow leopard drown? Poor depth perception. ",
"He looks like he's going to fight a Panda to get the dragon scroll. Or he already did and lost.",
"What a beautiful animal",
"Named Odin ",
"I hear Johny Cash when looking at this.",
"With an eyepatch and a little training boss could take it out on missions.",
"White XIII",
"Oviously he will be voiced by Idris Elba in the inevitable Disney feature...",
"Meet Ahab, my one eyed Persian. https://imgur.com/gallery/8LaH9",
"You're the dragon warrior? What are you gonna do, big guy? Sit on me?",
"Needs an eyepatch and a horn on his head",
"This is the player winning a gun fight melee without a weapon. ",
"Looks more furious ",
"😉 ",
"Real life Shere Khan ",
"Looks like a Disney villain ",
"Skidoosh ",
"Never seen an animal look so weathered and wise",
"Saw them in Planet Earth II (fucking gorgeous) and did a school project on them about 15 years ago. Legit my favourite animal",
"I can only imagine the awesome story behind this one-eyed pirate snow leopard.",
"Brave Leopard ",
"Fast & Furious ",
"Dang, he looks mean af.",
"Ajani?! Is that you?",
"We have two sisters at our local rescue/rehab zoo with this issue. They were born with a genetic defect and the eye needed to be removed to keep it from being infected. They were from a breeding program to help repopulate snow leopards and couldn't go back into the breeding pool due to the defect. So now they live in Big Bear CA.\n\nAsha and Shanti (photo taken by zookeeper Shane) https://imgur.com/a/NY2RZ",
"Looks like an edgy wattpad book cover.",
"I feel like he would have valuable materia",
"\"Wanna cuddle?\"",
"Tai Lung's back for vengeance",
"He looks like he's about to give me a lot of dialogue, 2 quests, and a rare artifact.",
"That one orc from the battle of pelanor fields ",
"Oh how fucking dare you ",
"D dog? Is that you",
"If you're looking for a good book, I highly recommend \"The Snow Leopard\" by Peter Matthiessen, which documents his search for the elusive animal in the Himalayas.",
"This is like one of those shots where the photographer after taking it goes \"That's it. I'm retired.\" ",
"You wanna know how I got these scars?",
"Definitely gonna get a quest from that dude.",
"r/outside",
"Excuse me. I need to go walk the ol' one eyed snow leopard.",
"“If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe\nI'd been married a long time ago”",
"That kitty would fuck you up",
"He's like: \"you should see the guy I fought, lost more than just an eye\" ",
"Kitty Wap ",
"In Game of Thrones terms, this Snow Leopard is a Mormont. 🔥⚔️🔥",
"Rengar? ",
"What Scar would have looked like if he were a snow leopard. ",
"You just know he is the evil leopard.",
"Mack Mittens?",
"Meow meow",
"Not as badass as my cat. https://imgur.com/gallery/8LaH9",
"“The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.” -Jack Hanna",
"That look is called “I will fuck you up and then take a nap, bitch”",
"So Zach didn’t kill him. ",
"I'll do you one better https://i.imgur.com/R390EId_d.jpg",
"These are my favorite animals, and this is my wallpaper/profile picture for pretty much everything :)\nEdit: then again, you can probably tell by my username ",
"If it’s looking for it, it’s on the Rocky soundtracks",
"This cat has seen some shit. ",
"ITs not any better. My grandfather gradually lost his sight in his 40s to *retinitis pigmentosa* and all they could tell him was 'go home, its going to progress'. Not really anything to 'know' there.",
"My MacBook is so old that's the name of the OS X I run on it.",
"Kitty looks mean\n\n“Don’t worry she won’t bite” - every pet owner ever ",
"Well I was thinking more instantaneously, like losing the eye fully like this rough fighting boye ",
"That cat has seen some shit. Just couldn't tell how far away it was. ",
"Poor snowkitty :c",
"This looks like the real life version of a kung fu panda villain ",
"Animals live in the now and just keep trying to survive.",
"Leopard get down!\nThe enemy sniper....stay low and crawl along the ground ",
"Thats gonna be the new name of my speed metal band",
"Someone call Po!!!!!!!!!!1111!!!!1!",
"That looks like a tough motherfucker. Kinda like if Samuel L Jackson was a snow leopard.",
"Not even once",
"My thought as well, although I was thinking a Kung Fu Panda villain. ",
"Whoa it's Pedro!\nr/OnePiece",
"[pirate snow leopard](https://i.imgur.com/x7AdFXr.jpg)",
"You crossed the line with this one, cmon master chief, let's get out of here ",
"Someone better give him his damn axe back.",
"I actually saw something like this while hunting last year. A small buck was missing an eye (probably stabbed out in a fight with another buck), and it’s skin had closed over where the eye would’ve been.",
"Is his name Shercon? It damn well should be. ",
"He looks like an Ahab. I don't wanna piss him off. ",
"Doesn’t the prefix “One eyed” normally lead to a euphemism for penis?\n\nOne eyed milkman\nOne eyed monster\nOne eyed Willie\n\nEtc...\n\n(For clarity; I’m not disappointed)",
"Let’s all hail our one and true God. Óðinn!",
"And this is just another reminder that a new kung fu panda movie where he has to work with Tai Lung who is now savagely scarred by the ordeals, but tempered by his suffering and humiliation would be awesome.",
"Chubbs would be proud!",
"Nah, he's jaguar",
"He looks badass!",
"\"War never changes\"",
"Looks like he would murder Po and eat his panda guts",
"This. This is my spirit animal.",
"Yes. Untill it starts hunting or jumping and falls flat due to lack of depth perception. Badass otherwise",
"same transmission to the one eyed snow leopard\n\nget away, get away. ",
"“Tell Po, *I’m coming for him*.”",
"interesting. i was going to ask what the deal was because our young male over here at san diego zoo has an eye issue as well. as far as i know they are still using him to breed.",
"Lack of depth perception is not bad ass...",
"So do my trashy relatives.",
"You should see the other guy. ",
"Damn that cat's pretty fucked up lookin'.",
"r/natureismetal",
"The face of someone that has experienced the Wuxi Finger Hold.",
"It’s like Def Leopard but Partially Blind Leopard instead",
"What a fantastic picture of an equally fantastic animals. The picture speaks a thousand words",
"My kitty has one eye and she’s still a ninja. Can catch a fly out of the air. She might of gotten used to it quick since it was removed at 4 months old. I do still think animals adapt with certain things better than humans do. ",
"Six months after his epic fight with Po...",
"A vicious life or death battle with formidable prey...or he walked into a stick.",
"Got sniped by Widowmaker",
"Reminds me of Ana from Overwatch",
"ha ha",
"Looks like a Redwall character IRL."
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"Mmm, feet and stale beer",
"Could have been called rug muncher.",
"Maybe it is not a tea shop"
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"So, I guess this was touched up in photoshop, because the image in the sphere should be upside down?",
"my thoughts too",
"Sacramento? ",
"All touch ups done in lightroom, but the image flip was done in Photoshop. This bridge (Tower Bridge in Sacramento) isn’t very worldly, so i wanted the image in the crystal ball to be easier to see. If this was something like the golden gate i would have been more likely to leave it as it was. ",
"Yessiree ",
"Love!",
"Are you a contact juggler by any chance, or do you just have that for photography purposes ",
"Atleast its actually gold now. Instead of that baby shit brown it used to be. ",
"It’s been good as long as i can remember, and I’ve been local to Sacramento for the last 20+ years. How long ago was it that you last saw it? ",
"It was given to me by a company that makes them for publicity purposes. I’ll take it and use it every now and then to post some shots for them. So no, definitely not a contract juggler, and honestly feel like juggling these balls would be difficult, their pretty heavy lol",
"It used to be red I think. Then the city was going to paint it gold but it came out yellow and looked like shit in the sunlight. They repainted it gold shortly after that. ",
"Oh wow, that must have been when i was much younger. It’s been this big slab of gold for as long as I’ve been old enough to drive so at least 15 years or so. In any case, it’s lovely now, my favorite thing to shoot in this city. "
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[
"That’s definitely a UFO tractor beam, come on tell the truth 😉",
"\"Ion cannon ready\"",
"Looks like someone used the hammer of dawn",
"You OP TELL IT! ",
"Username checks out ",
"Soyuz from Baikonur?",
"r/mypeopleneedme",
"Or the Bifrost opening. Could be either really.",
"Long-exposure shots of [launch](https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2015/12/23604164970_a52b12d06f_z.jpg) as well as [landing](https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2015/12/23815832891_04cff2d938_z.jpg) of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.",
"Yup.",
"Thanks for my new iPhone wallpaper!",
"No its the fricken starkiller base",
"Insert Cher - Ray Of Light",
"EVERY REMAINING SYSTEM WILL BOW TO THE FIRST ORDER!",
"mmmm rocket lunch.",
"Something tells me that it wasn't all that long.",
"What's the original source, OP?",
"Ms. Portman we need you to open your wormhole!",
"A giant blazing celery stem! RRRUUUUUN!"
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[
"This has always been my favourite long weekend location. Clears all the work/life stress",
"That foreground does not do justice to the scene.",
"nice view.. terrible photo.\n",
"I can’t figure this one out. Is that Windermere in the distance on the left? Where is this taken from?",
"Curious myself..\n\nWas walking around the lakes last weekend,was amazing but nothing on this. would be nice to visit the spot in op's photo some day..",
"I think it's great langdales valley in front, and it is Windermere in the distance. The photo is taken South East ish.",
"Looks dreary as fuck",
"Awesome...\n\nI've been around Windermere a few times,I'll remember this one..\n\nCheers"
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"What kind of pick ups do you have?",
"I believe they're Fender Vintage Reissue '62 pickups",
"Nice match.",
"Very nice.",
"I don't know a lot about guitars, but I know something beautiful when I see it. This is such a gorgeous, understated machine. ",
"Indeed she is "
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"Roses are red \ncontrary to ferns. \nAccept this flower \nand third-degree burns",
"Durnik?",
"If you touch it you can shoot fireballs at your enemies!",
"They would love this at r/Darktower ",
"Came here to ask that. ",
"Happy cake day!",
"spamwatch /u/AndrewJarecki, /u/stanleypecor, /u/michaeljackson39 ",
"whats inside ??",
"Pain.",
"That's my favorite war movie from 2017",
"Looks real. ",
"/me slaps forehead",
"Tuch",
"Nothing. Its just hot",
"**Forged in the fires of Mt. Bloom**",
"To me it looks like Sanguine's rose.\n\nhttps://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/legacy-of-the-dragonborne/images/8/82/Sanguine_Rose.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/310?cb=20160222131539",
"Yeah it does! It even has the yellow centre ",
"But, I totally get the hunter x hunter reference! Loved that show",
"Prolapse?",
"Once. ",
"That's what they feel like.",
"That's beautiful.",
"Jhin got a kill.",
"Looks real to me\n",
"Is this an authentic forgery? ",
"Forging",
"Oh dear......!"
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[
"You are going to love this then\n\n[A Brick Laying Machine](https://europaving.com/wp-content/grand-media/image/tiger-stone-interlocking-brick-road-machine-printer-lays-bricks-12.jpg)",
"I feel violated.",
"That’s a concrete idea though. ",
"You gave meaning to my life. Thanks fellow redditor. ",
"Seems fairly solid. ",
"It's so water can still pass trough",
"It certainly made an impression",
"How many paver walkways have you installed in your life?",
"It's so temperature changes crack the concrete in visually appealing ways.",
"[Needs more house music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hG7-AQfbjE)",
"The gods have truly forsaken us ",
"This pun train rocks",
"In portugal it's a bit different\n\nhttp://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jNuT3FJaKqU/Tc1likZSxqI/AAAAAAAAAj4/SSdmGhLAJPE/s1600/Calceteiros_Cal%25C3%25A7ada_PORTUGUESA_+%25284%2529.jpg",
"> In fourth grade, a friend rigged a water fountain to continue running, then proceeded to pour a cement bag into it. \n\nThat's a solid prank",
"I waited too long thinking this was a gif and that it was some turtle race or something and the guy is holding the barrier to start the race.\n\nGoodnight. ",
"[Video of the machine in action, it's pretty cool](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJT3X4weECE&t=25)",
"It's not laziness it's eficiency. The only purpose of that is to give the concrete some space so it won't crack with time or changing terrain. ",
"I truly was picturing a team of masons lovingly crafting and laying each brick in place before seeing this picture. It's like learning Santa isn't real.",
"It used to be done that way, sure... \n\nBut time is money. And efficiency is king :)",
"Wait...what?",
"Wow that sure was a composite material created with an aggregate of sand, gravel, and cement, and used as a building material for things such as houses and sidewalks. ",
"He concretely pulled that one off",
"You know how much seeing this hurt, and yet you decided to inflict it on everyone else. You are a special kind of asshole.",
"you say it wrong then",
"it's actually really effective texture that wicks away water. smart design imo. ",
"That's cool. So people still lay the bricks though? It's not like you just pile them in and the machine sorts it into the pattern. ",
"I don't like sand, gravel and cement",
"That guy knows how to rock.",
"Well when you're right, you're right.",
"I know, but other people might think that it is only to have a brick pattern and it doesn't have a function.",
"well that dry and effective texture just violated me",
"This might be unrelated but it reminds of this satifying gif of clay brick being made - https://gfycat.com/admirablesilkyandeancondor",
"*BEEP BEEEEP FUCK YO PUNS!!!!!!!*",
"No shit, Sherlock.",
"Oh, people still have to go up and manually pick and turn the bricks. I was expecting the machine to do it all itself. Still cool, but I expected more.",
"It's also cost savings. Pavers are very expensive. Granted, they last a very long time, but if you are a business or a city or homeowner that can't afford the cash flow hit, it is a great alternative.\n\nStamping combined with the way they dye the cement works great.",
"Yeah that's really lame. Really it's a conveyor belt that lays the bricks down so you don't have to constantly have your back arched. So it's *not* a brick laying machine.",
"WHY AM I SO ANGRY AT THIS????",
"The soundtrack really elevated it.",
"Many \"brick\" crossing in cities are the same thing, only painted red.",
"It’s called Stamped Concrete and it’s been around for decades.",
"I kept waiting for this to animate before I realised it wasn't a GIF",
"Overact much?",
"So why don't we do this with roads? Cars can obviously drive over small cracks like that",
"Overreact*",
"exactly",
"This gif is so frustrating to me because all I want to know is how the holes down the middle of the brick tube thing got there and no matter how many times I watch it there's no answer here.",
">[a type of machine] that lays the bricks down\n\n>*not* a brick laying machine.",
"My city decided to have \"bricked\" crosswalks at some existing intersections. So, they got a brick pattern and use a tamper to impress it into the asphalt. Then they painted the patterned area red.",
"Butthurt?",
"I meant that it seemed like you just dump bricks into the machine, it sets them up, orders them and lays them down. Not just a conveyor belt.",
"This is the cheap way to do it. Ultimately lasts longer though. ",
"It's a 'type' of concrete expansion joint.\n\n",
"He's a regular chip off the old block. ",
"No schadenfreude for you.",
"roads are made of asphalt. besides that, there are roads made of concrete, usually to slow you down in urban areas. Has to do with cost and longevity to.",
"80s montage music.",
"When I heard it I nearly shat bricks. ",
"No it’s cosmetic ",
"i agree\n",
"I can't believe you've done this...",
"Concrete cracks. The lines gives concrete a place to crack. They will also likely deeper, unpatterned lines into the cured concrete for better control joints (the place where they try and channel the cracks).",
"It's like makeup for concrete.",
"Concrete always cracks. The control joints allow the concrete to crack along desired lines. ",
"Like the missionaries who bring the concept of original sin to Eskimos. Thanks, assholes!\n\n",
"Wow I was way off in my mind on how they made the controller for the ps1",
"The last place I worked did the same thing with brick, except itnwas super obvious and the painjob was horrible",
"Because labor is expensive. Stamping concrete (even lazy stamps like these) double the labor hours on these jobs. Since labor is your main expense with concrete (concrete itself is pretty cheap), it is easier to do the classic broom finish you see on sidewalks.",
"wHAT ",
"Not *all* pavers are stamped concrete, just the ones where they are saving lots of money (big commercial projects and municipal installs).",
"try using lube",
"he did but the moisture was wicked away",
"No",
"Meh, it's just a more expensive machine to pick and place the bricks is all. Company is saving tons of money on labor with this one, but you're gonna need a couple guys to run this machine anyways, so why bother getting another machine that's gonna *increase* the manhours needed per project? ",
"There’s a pattern emerging.",
"It's not just a conveyor belt is the thing you're getting wrong.",
"It looks like they arrive into the gif with the hole. Its just that it looks like unprocessed clay at the start. ",
"I just wish it wasn't that dismal gray.",
"It's extruded through a die, you can see it in the gif. Same thing as pasta. There's no brick where the hole is because they didn't put any brick there in the first place.",
"Something wick’d this way comes",
"They're made using an [extruder machine with dies](http://www.claymachinery.com/heavy.html). It's like a giant, industrial [Play Doh Fun Factory](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RzU-mO59-Tg).",
"I get that, but I've seen the pic posted many times before and not the video. I'd always wondered how the machine managed to sort the bricks and thought it was some cool computer program and mechanical arms linked to a camera of some kind inside the top area. \n\nThe reality is more boring. Makes more sense, but boring.",
"because brick laying is a job that is hard on your back. This ensures that the workers can do their job until they get their pension. In the \"old times\" brick layers got a lot of health issues after about 30-35 years of working. ",
"Stamped concrete is the value engineered option for actual pavers.",
"Nah. Way easier to just shake them into place and have a delivery chute that won't accept incorrectly oriented bricks. But, that leads to broken bricks, which stops the machine, which costs money again.",
"Same",
"Ffs always with the unnecessary house music",
"The extrusion machine splits the clay around a central mandrel, then squashes it back together as it forms the external shape. No air or dirt can get to the surfaces of the cuts, so they stick back together cleanly.\n\nhttps://i.pinimg.com/originals/d1/46/d1/d146d1eb894c5f1081ebd166ebca4307.jpg\n\nhttp://www.aluminiumdesign.net/design-support/die-design/",
"They'd just have incredibly strong backs, if they were working properly. The actual thing here is that it's cheaper to pay four guys to run this machine than it is to pay twenty guys to work safely without the machine, and the company isn't allowed to spend the worker's back strength to keep the production levels up anymore.",
"Yep fills up with water then in winter it cracks the shit out of it ",
"Germany?",
"Very hard to believe without concrete evidence.\n",
"So I'm assuming this protects the concrete from cracking?",
"That's cheating",
"Lol this is very common now days",
"It's not all done this way, I actually use bricks or stones on compacted sand method.",
"I want one that makes giant Lego bricks so I can build my own house. ",
"ELI5: what is the purpose of doing this? Stop from cracks? ",
"Stone cold prankster. ",
"It is not for water, hopefully the grade was set but these lines or valleys are stress reducers allowing the concrete to expand and contract without breaking",
"Evidence would really solidify my point of view. ",
"Wait ... do you live near Toronto? There's a few nearby towns that did this and it looks awful.",
"Tell our stampcrete guy that its cheaper than laying pavers. He must have missed the memo cuz that shit costs you your first born here done CORRECTLY",
"Maybe it's like that there, but in my place I've always seen bricks getting laid.",
"this is called stamped concrete and it's more common then you'd imagine.",
"\"Anything worth doing right is worth overdoing.\"",
"it did not used to be this way. it is this way because the effect is achieved and its simpler. back in the \"good old days\" it wasn't even a choice. ",
"r/thathappened. ",
"They're not doing it to turn your world upside down- it helps water drain evenly instead of pooling up.",
"How the hell can a 4th grader lift a cement bag? The smallest bag I've ever seen was at least 50 pounds. ",
"I dont know if OP loves it, but I want you to know that I do.",
"goodnight my dude, you really seem to need this...",
"Quit watching then.",
"Pavers are almost always more expensive. I had a patio built and for the same 300sqft design the difference between stained and stamped concrete to pavers was $3000 vs $13000",
"Helps water drain evenly i believe. Might be wrong tho",
"They did this where I’m from, after a few hundred cars drive over it the red paint wears off and it looks like shit.",
"No its not. If you don't have drainage at the bottom then this is actually the worst thing you can do to a concrete surface as an effective texture. Those things are going to full up with dirt and sand pretty quickly and without drainage they will all either crumble at below 0'C or get dirty over.\n\nIf you want an effective texture you do shallow and wide cuts to \"move\" the water, not deep and narrow ones that \"store\" the water.\n\nEdit: I can also tell with 99% certainty that in this pictures case there is no drainage system for anything.",
"Ohhh you!",
"Goodnight moon.",
"> They'd just have incredibly strong backs, if they were working properly\n\nThat is not true. Your can work however perfectly you want, after 30 years of 9 hour days, your body is damaged beyond repair.",
"It’s in southern New York - so Maybe it’s popular ",
"You'll need a slightly different machine as Legos are made using [injection molding](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VJbQ7zAlYo0) (not an extruder like the bricks), but still a fun idea. :)",
"They will typically paint it afterwards as well.",
"Because you can pay two relatively-unskilled people to run the machine, rather than two highly skilled bricklayers, who are likely in high demand.",
"i rate the music 💯 ",
"That music was way too intense for the video. Love it ",
"Like when water gets in there in the winter. ",
"Not only does this generally look as good as paver stones it has an advantage by keeping grass and weeds from growing between the stones.",
"They make mini bags",
"What else do you want? For it to name each brick, feed it every day, teach it to read and send it to college?! That's a lot of responsibility for one machine.",
"Somebody Michigans.",
"Goodnight stars ❤️",
"Y'all must have never seen brick laying in person. 2 laborers and an operator is a small crew for that kind of operation. For a typical operation this would be at least a 5 man crew plus foreman. \n\nThis machine improves production, lowers labor cost, and reduces the wear on employees, and increases the quality of the final product. It's a simple machine that makes a huge difference. ",
"That 4th grader's name?\n\nDwayne \"the Rock\" Johnson.",
"Plot muscles.",
"I felt like I was high.",
"All the turtles are females now what can you do...",
"I have that on a t-shirt. Bought it at the Globe.",
"In December, I found out that 🎅🏻 isn't real. In January, I find this out. Tough two months. There is no hope left",
"So... there's no downside?",
"Except this is more expensive then pavers and lasts longer",
"That is not the cheap way. This will be 2x to 3x more expensive.",
"This whole thread is an aggregate of silly puns.",
"So? You have something in common with turtles?",
"why form the bricks at all and not just keep it flat? genuine question.",
"That's...not house. ",
"I wish it stopped at JUST violating me",
"Southern New York. Isn’t that just.....New York?",
"These can also be cast in large panels then put into place. Here's one that I made the original mold for from wood: https://i.imgur.com/oltrDpc.jpg",
"nice",
"> They'd just have incredibly strong backs, if they were working properly. \n\nUhh no. They'd be unable to walk at age 50. \n",
"Just wait till you find out that the clouds in super mario are the same as the bushes.",
"AS an example, https://www.grainger.com/product/ROCKITE-10-lb-Pail-Expansion-Cement-6Z174.\n",
"This helps with water and prevents cracks during heat expansion, it's genius and you should feel amazed... and a bit violated.",
"Goodnight, Porn Hub.",
"Yeah sadly this is probably cosmetic",
"I am forced to assume there are some details missing from this story because I’m having trouble picturing a 4th grader standing in a hallway slowly pouring a forty pound bag of cement into a drinking fountain.\n\nNot that it isn’t possible, I just feel like there’s more to this.",
"https://youtu.be/cGhzzcgfHNc",
"Skateboarder here.\n\nI disagree. ",
"It's probably a product called HUBB surface systems and we do it all the time for crosswalks now, especially in parking lots where the AODA (accessibility/handicapped design requirements) requires textured surfaces where there's a crossing. \n\nBasically, they can either stamp it with something that looks like a grid of cable or rebar, then either [coat it](http://hubss.com/products/streetbond-coatings-asphalt-concrete/pavement-coatings-asphalt-concrete), which is fine for parking lots, or put down a a coloured, thermoplastic layer, which is more expensive but will last longer on busy intersections. Typically they go for the cheaper option, regardless of application.\n\nSource: Landscape Architect\n\nEDIT: I've been getting a lot of questions about the coating method and I honestly can't answer them, so I've put up a link instead of digging myself into a hole :)",
"I've seen this pic before but only just now saw the extra brick hanging on the right side",
"In the Late 80s or 90s, a fraternity at my university was getting kicked off campus for a while for one thing or another and in retaliation, they poured concrete(or something similar) down every pipe in the house. \n\nNeedless to say the house(that was in one of the most prime and beautiful spots on campus) was vacant until a couple years ago when they finally tore it down to build a new $5million sorority house. \n\nEpic. ",
"Goodnight cow jumping over the moon",
"Definitely doesn’t Texas.",
"This GIF is not working for me",
"With a name like Eaglescout1984, Canadian citizenship seems unlikely...",
"My life was a lie until 2005, the year I saw this pic for the first time.",
"And significantly stronger that normal brick.",
"lol 20 guys on a crew to lay brick? I'm assuming you've never done contracting. I worked for a small company and we'd get maybe 4 guys to lay brick.",
"This is the correct statement.",
"I was thinking of quitting this site, but this pun thread has really solidified it for me.\n\nEdit: WTH I thought making a pun was guaranteed upboats",
"Goodnight, secured folder.",
"Do people still find this meme funny? Even after 8 years?",
"There is a lot of misrepresentation here and a lot of people are making assumptions that simply aren't true. \nTruthfully, we have no idea if it will last longer, there really isn't any information on the climate, type of concrete, or even detailing of the concrete (is this 1\" thick or 10\" thick). For one thing, if this is any climate that gets a freeze/thaw cycle this will NOT last longer at all. Even if its in a tropical climate, this seems to be a very very very poor detail and design because the water has extremely poor drainage in those cracks (and looks like no weeping on the exterior edges). \nBut apparently everyone is an expert brick/road/layer so i'll shut up now.",
"This is so cool",
"To say nothing of the idea that any contractor is gonna send 20 guys out on hourly pay rather than rent a machine that 1/5th that workforce could operate, without putting ANY real strain on their backs.",
"It's 10:19 in the am here. Good morning.",
"Really cemented his place as the top prankster.",
"Goodnight Chaturbate",
"Well pavers are definitely more expensive ",
"Upstate and downstate are very different places my guy \n\nSource: Am an upstate NY guy. ",
"#fuckskaters",
"#metoo",
"no, this would, without a doubt, save the company money in worker's compensation claims. Strong back or not, being bent over for extended periods will wreck you (as will prolonged sitting). It's not a strength issue, it's anatomical. \n\nsource: am physical therapist. ",
"Yes, but not the north, the west, capital region or the city...\n\nSorry for describing beyond high level? Haha ",
"Yes.",
"Go the fuck to sleep. ",
"might just be the people from jersey ",
"Goodnight OLLLLD broke down cars.",
"This kills the house.",
"Goodbye, Incognito tab",
"Ahhhhhhhhhh my girl was like \"damn I thought they were all separate blocks not print type\"..... the face she made was amazing 😢😭",
"I have to assume this approach is being used at a culturally significant area.",
"Link?",
"It’s here in Maine, too. ",
"It's not uncommon that what [appears to be a stone wall is also stamped concrete](http://difeliceconcrete.com/wp-content/uploads/1798287_741603599190858_848905412_n3.jpg)",
"Goodnight light and the red balloon",
"Concrete will always crack. The best thing you could do is to provide guidelines, or purposeful weak points, in the concrete for the cracks to occur.\n\nThe way I've seen this done for stamped concrete is done by using a concrete saw to cut shallow lines across the concrete in several places. Most, if not all, cracks will occur in these lines away from plain sight.",
"Perhaps a bit more fiber, then.",
"Goodnight uncle.",
"'house'",
"Why don't you just come over and stab me in the eye with a sharp pencil? You psychopath",
"Dude.... that’s brutal. FOR ME! OH MY GOD!!!",
"Don't fret. They still do it the real way sometimes. ",
"Talk architect-y to me.",
"There are still places where people work to lay down and perfectly fit each brick together. Maybe it’s a dying art though. ",
"It helps to direct water off the sidewalk when it rains instead of it pooling on a flat surface. Also looks pretty. ",
"Im not surprised i’ve been lied to by my family my whole life ",
"It makes sense now why I never saw walkways like this with just one missing tile. Or even any loose tile.",
"to late it's already morning.\n",
"Not really. I did stamped concrete after replacing pavers. Way easier to maintain. Plus if it does settle, it will crack on the seams ",
"No, that was the loader.",
"It helps to avoid slippery conditions and looks better.",
"What the *fuck*",
"It's still not always this way. This is the cheaper way.",
"I could imagine the runoff to be shit and repairs to be a pain in the ass. ",
"People forget that 95% of New York’s land mass is Upstate NY. A lot of Upstaters don’t consider the lower parts near NYC Upstate so some call it Southern NY. ",
"Yes, this happens a lot in Portugal. That particular type of ground work is called \"Calçada\", and the people that do that (like the ones in the pic) are \"Calceteiros\".\n",
"And because it's cheaper.",
"Goodnight cow jumping over the moon",
"I think that's better, because it's at least actual brick... ",
"A mind like that, he'll be set for life",
"I want the sun\n",
"But I’ve actually seen workers in China laying down individual bricks on some sidewalks. I suppose it depends on the area. ",
"That makes much more sense.",
"the force is strong in you",
"OH FUCK. \n\nTIL",
"The whole point of the pattern is to help with runoff",
"How many versions of that melody am I going to hear in house? I originally heard it here in 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM7SZ5SBzyY",
"Is it really a prank if you are just willfully destroying someone's property?",
"there was a company in Los Angeles.. that made imprints like that for crosswalks.. by pressing a flaming hot device like that on the asphalt.. it melted grooves in the surface.. then their colored it like brick.. ",
"Wait until you find out you're adopted. ",
"IDK about it lasting longer. My town has brick pavers under a lot of the roads and while the roads keep falling apart and exposing the bricks, the bricks are still there doing their things. Some of the roads are more brick than pavement at this point and the brick is 100% holding up better than the road and it's nearly 100years older, too.",
"Yes, for example, in Upstate New York, they use the term \"steamed hams\"",
"Doesn't seem to be any. As long as no one attempts to remove them at least. You remove one the whole road will start degrading",
"Sometimes. On a sidewalk, usually they do integral color concrete though, as in, the concrete itself is a different color. Looks much better that way.\n\nAlso, having designed a ton of stamped concrete surfaces, I had no idea people thought it was actual pavers. I figured everyone just knew it was stamped concrete, or wouldn't care one way or the other. ",
"to prevent people from slipping",
"Right answer. I don't know why OP thinks it's for wicking water. You hit the nail on the head.",
"Pavers can be readjusted if shifts or settlement occur though. Concrete have fun with that!",
"Especially considering that within a year the red paint wears away.",
"Not to mention that if your company is big enough in things like paver driveways and stuff this would make a 6-7 day job into 1, and id joe schmoe wanted a paver driveway at his McMansion the machine could probably pay for itself in a single job (or a couple depending on cost or course)",
"Can someone explain why exactly they do this? Seems like it would be better if it was just a flat surface.",
"15 years on construction sites and owning a landscaping business.",
"Yeah nobody knows anything you're the expert here. Lmao. Yeah you're wrong. The opposite actual this actual will help with water and grass and weeds growing through.",
"There really does seem to be opportunity lost here considering the factory almost certainly is stacking the bricks before shipping them to the site, only to be dumped into a pile, only to be put into order again. The factory could have a machine to just tile them in the desired size and pattern then ship them in sheets which could be loaded automatically into a machine like in the OP that would lay them in place. More machinery up front but would cut labor costs forever.",
"You've got space between the bricks which allows the water to pass through into the grit / gravel below. Wouldn't the water simply collect when it's done this way?",
"Life, uh, finds a way. ",
"If you live in an area with lots of moisture and freeze/thaw cycles, larger slabs have a harder time with expansion/contraction than individual tiles. I have no idea if this helps with that or not. Maybe it would cause any cracks that do form to follow the impressed channels, making them less disruptive.",
"look up \"wick\" in the dictionary and stop sexually assaulting the english language. \n\nthe word you should have used was \"drain\" but even then, it's not a \"smart design\", the cracks being pushed into the flat surface result in the concrete being weaker, degrading and weathering more quickly, and so on. ",
"They still place them by hand that’s nice",
"Your entire perception was a lie ",
"Have you ever had the feeling youve been cheated?",
"It's *literally* a brick laying machine. It's just not a brick sorting machine",
"Ours did this too. I got really confused when the red started to wear off.\n",
"Goodnight town from footloose.",
"That's nothing. Why do you think Mario and Luigi have the same number of letters in their name?\n\nWAKE UP SHEEPLE",
"...And freezes, and breaks it apart. And the next year water gets into the cracks and underneath the pieces, and heaves them up, and suddenly the whole sidewalk is fucked and wobbly and a huge trip hazard\n",
"It’s the new hardscaping by Monsanto. They needed a new way to keep hardscaping in California free of weeds after the cities banned roundup use on public property. ",
"\"You gave meaning to my life.\" You're my inspiration! --Peter Cetera\n",
"It's mostly decorative. There will still be expansion joints and score joints. ",
"That tamper looks like a Dark Souls weapon.",
"Where do you think they got Despacito from? They copied this song.",
"I knocked up my wife to this video.\n\n10/10 would do again.",
"Where i live they are hand placed! Where* since apparently they refuse to do some mantainment (?) on them because they have historical relevance. If you go down that road in a car or a motorbike it's like riding a samba.",
"They did the same locally. Looked good for the first year til the snow plows started digging in.. lol",
"It's mostly decorative. ",
"Afternoon.",
"I like turtles",
"Goodnight John-Boy",
"Good morning world",
"I think they used this technique at King and Frederick/Benton streets in Kitchener. I don't think it looks bad now, but it probably will in 15 years due to wear and tear.",
"I can’t believe this is the top comment. I experienced a similar confusion thinking the guy was going to either holding some kind of barrier, like you thought, or climb across it like it was a sideways ladder.",
"If they were working properly, is the entire point. They wouldn't be lifting over 50lbs, and they'd be doing proper safe lifts, with harnesses and braces. No injuries needed for the work - but it's going to take significantly longer than the same guys working to get it done by sundown and ignoring the safety things, which results in the strains and injuries and problems years later.",
"It doesn't stop it from cracking - it just makes it more likely that the crack will occur in a visually unobtrusive place. ie. in the groove.",
"Goodnight nobody.\n\nToo real. :(",
"You can drive like this hours north of the city and still be in NY, and then Canada",
"That really steams my ham",
"The *sky* is awake, so *I'm* awake\n\nEDIT: sky, not sun. How *dare* I get a Frozen quote wrong. Thanks, /u/ScampAndFries",
"\"#MeToo\"",
"Aesthetics, presumably.",
"Willy Beamish is that you?",
"Laying brick for nine hours *isn't working properly.*",
"Per area of the site, sure. Are you only laying brick in one spot at a time? Guys with a rig like this could hit two, three sites in a day depending on the scope. ",
"Goodnight comb\n\nGoodnight brush\n\nGoodnight nobody (wut)\n\nGoodnight mush.\n\nAnd goodnight to the old lady whispering \"hush.\"",
"It's dismal because it's not getting laid.",
"That was some intense brick laying music",
"And much more expensive to upkeep",
"Lmao Yeah not good enough give me a link on this being 3x more expensive. It's not cheaper.",
"hippity hoppity down with property",
"My city does crosswalks in red brick! Or so I thought up until I saw the process last year. They carve out the brick shape with this sort of tool, spray some form of asphalt as adhesive and pour red sand over the top. I felt betrayed",
"This vs pressure under a flat texture that would eventually cause one big sink hole. ",
"They did this up and down central ave in Albany. Looked great from October when they finished he road work and December when they first plowed the road and all the colored asphalt came up. ",
"I hear that’s just an Albany thing.",
"Unless they went all the way through the concrete, rather than being a shallow imprint, would that really help though?",
"Sure but using bricks are better for avoiding flooding (because the water actually goes down and not towards the river",
"Really? Well I’m from Utica and I’ve never heard the term steamed hams.",
"Goodnight Johnboy",
"this kinda also looks like they spread it and cut them, and then take them and put them in the street",
"They probably cut proper expansion joints..\n\nThis just looks like standard stencilcrete, tried and tested method in Australia..",
"IMO only Orange, Putnam, Rockland and Westchester counties are non-NYC but still downstate",
"There might be some requirement that its textured like crosswalks for the blind must be.",
"Cya",
"You're probably right. I'm from Utica and I've never heard the term \"steamed hams\".",
"Until that water freezes and expands. ",
"This doesn't need to be readjusted genius it's already set and won't move like pavers. Upkeep on pavers is alot more work. Also we are talking about price that's it. This is def cheaper than having someone lay pavers.",
"This is pretty common but so is the use of actual pavers. A way to tell which you're looking at is to try to find any cracks. If there are large cracks spanning multiple \"bricks\" its most likely stamped like this. If the cracks are on individual bricks than its most likely actual pavers.",
"The scythe and the hour glass in a capsule of morphine",
"architect me like one of your french girls",
"son this been knew",
"No, no, not in Utica; It's an Albany expression.",
"This guy civil engineers",
"Wow hungary veeery 2050",
"Looks nice.",
"Not only that, but near the bricks at the edge, there are cut bricks. What a total disappointment of a machine.",
"Because of the design, you can't split sites if doing it by hand. If it was just straight lays, okay, but because of the angle, no way in hell are you able to split without having something with which you could normalize in the middle of the site.",
"Yes. You can legally get away with any act of vandalism or assault, as long as you yell “it’s just a prank bro!” at the end. ",
"You must be entirely without grit, then.",
"From wood?",
"Had a wood plank pattern stamped on the concrete around my pool, looks great.",
"That's not epic. That's just a bunch of shitty people being shitty and wasting someone else's money. I hope they got arrested. ",
"It's more an anti crack displaying machine.",
"Alan Walker - The Spectre for those wondering.",
"Goodmorning! I just woke up. I also thought this was a gif.",
"Not just your life dude we all been lied to. But the good thing about it is now that you know. You have woken up and see all the bullshit oraund us.",
"I, for one, am terrified that these machines are taking over our brick-rearing jobs",
"Its a moving conveyor belt!",
"Good morning ",
"The Rossio and Avenida Liberdade is the most underrated part of any city in Europe, spare old Odessa, which is also massively underrated",
"You're whole life? Because of concrete? What is your life? ",
"Goodnight stars.\n\nGoodnight air. ",
"Goodnight stars. Goodnight air. \n\n(“Goodnight nobody” always made me chuckle a little.) ",
"It's much quicker than laying it all by hand",
"Do you have a pic?",
"Yeah, they are seeing either from the point of view of the client who is paying for the job, or the owner of the company that would only care about profit. Let's get some expendable young guys to break their backs for 10-12 years, and replace them after. They can always go back to school after you know.\n\nAlso, I guess this could be pretty good marketing. The machine is more impressive than having 2-3 guys on their knees and could probably lead to new contracts because you look so cutting edge.",
"What?",
"The humble dandelion would like to place a wager...",
"\"Kobe!\"",
"I feel like the 2 guys could lay the brick down faster. I wonder if the machine levels the ground as well. If thats the case, then this is a great piece of machinery to invest in for mason companies. \n\nAnd happy cake day to you!",
"Interesting that they chose this pattern of all patterns, considering they could do anything in the world. It’s kinda ugly",
"> Why would Canadian citizenship be unlikely?\n\nI agree it seems unlikely, not impossible, but unlikely.\n\nSource: was a boy scout in Canada, never heard so much talk about being an eagle scout until I moved to the US. Could be a Canadian, but I would wager not.",
"With boss fight music.",
"We always read it in a deep, gruff voice.",
"Woodstock? Saugerties?",
"yet we're still expected to think a kid carried a bag of cement half his weight",
"yes. Portugal",
"He said Portugal ",
"Glad you're enjoying it. I'm just getting aggregated...",
"BRB. Going to contemplate my whole life.",
"I guess your life is a lie too",
"Goodnight room.",
"Good night cow jumping over the moon",
"*wood",
"Happens in Virginia all the time ",
"\"Please children, scooch closer. Don't make me tell you again, about the scooching\" ",
"He designs brick pavers for a living.",
"/r/oldpeoplefacebook \n",
"It makes perfect sense yet it's still so surreal",
"I dont understand what you even mean by that.\n\nEdit: Thank you to the people who actually responded helpfully without making it a big deal.",
"\"Goodnight, John John.\"",
"How do you know the depth of the concrete and underlayers from that picture? Our temperatures go down to -20° in winter and I've seen stamped concrete walkways that last for decades.",
"Leverage maybe? 50lb isn't *that* heavy. It's heavy but a 4th graders could probably lift a peer off the ground who weighs twice that, I don't doubt they could get a bag of cement onto the edgeof a fountain, then tip and hold it while it pours.",
"Goodnight mush.",
"It's not a lie... they're not meant to replicate individual bricks, but rather, to give water somewhere to go rather than just sit there.",
"Nope, random sidewalks (or all sidewalks, I can’t recall) are like this. ",
"What's a nice paving pattern?",
"That's kind of useful since the visibly bumpy surface should discourage drivers from speeding\n\ni say kinda because there are problems associated with the process they're using here. ",
"And good night you",
"Sky*\n\nWhat can I say, the 5 year old would be FUMING if I wasn't word-perfect on that scene. ",
"I've seen this picture before and it IS a gif, one that has been reposted on reddit several times, i guess this time the reposter didn't even bother to format it correctly. ",
"It's mainly for aesthetics. Its an \"upsell\" for masons. ",
"Not really, if you go to Lisbon for example, every walk and sidewalk is like this, and it’s the same in many Portuguese cities. it’s even considered a designer’s job to do this and there’s courses and training.",
"...happy cakeday",
"What is this? This is actual proof God has abandoned us. Everything was a lie!",
"This hurts very deeply. ",
"That's actually kind of Alan Walker's signature sound. A lot of his songs sound pretty similar. Both your video and the one you replied to are the same DJ.",
"Nope, they are a cosmetic pattern, to relieve stress the cut has to go all the way through the concrete, this is just a different type of pressed concrete mold.(a bad kind because water can freeze in the deep recesses and cause cracking).",
"More like a brick lying machine since it deceived us all.",
"That's electro, and copyright free electro at that",
"I keep reading comments that doubt the validity of the story because a bag of cement is too heavy to be practically carried by a child. \n\nA couple of points to consider:\n\n1. They make small bags of cement. \n2. It is possible for one to scoop a small amount of cement out of a larger bag and put it into a smaller container. ",
"Really? Fascinating.",
"Somebody's going to get stabbed!",
"But- but- but...",
"I'd prefer this over actual bricked roads. The tourist part of my home island had actual bricks laid down on parts of the road. They now look like garbage (cracked, uneven, falling out, etc) due to the rain, erosion, constant traffic driving on it, uneven roadways and crappy foundation. ",
"3,50€ minimum wage makes it quite affordable.",
"i think there are better designs for directing water off the sidewalk...",
"I saw that too., but I just woke up 😂",
"you could have a play doh party",
"He’s really cemented his place as the fourth grade prank king. ",
"At our place they use the same shaped bricks as in picture, rather than making a fake pattern. I don't know which one is good ",
"It's an older meme sir, but it checks out.",
"In my opinion, there's no downside to this method. ",
"My University ripped out a real brick walkway (that was in good shape) to replace it with this asphalt stamped brick style. Because logic. ",
"When it rains water seeps through a brick walk and drains. This one puddles and floods.",
"When it cracks or sinks from improper base, tree roots, water line break, or any number of things that can happen.. is it still more cost effective to tear it out and replace it everytime?",
"Long Beach? Yeah that shit is ugly",
"Great childs book.",
"RIP jobs",
"goodnight my dude, ",
"Sunshine... is my DESTROYER!",
"It doesn't have to go to college, there's plenty of money in the trades.",
"You can't repair or maintain services underneath it without having to repour and stamp the road or walkway\n\nWith paving stones you just remove the bits you need to remove and fix up your pipes or cables or whatever and then repave using the materials you already have, with this it becomes a demolition job and you then have to dispose of the waste, and then repave. At this point most towns just say sod it and do it the normal way because of the cost of doing it again.",
"Cheaper than laying bricks, sure. Not cheaper than leaving it without the impressions, which was what I was comparing the effectiveness to.",
"Why does it look awful? Just curious...",
"When there is a lot of rainfall, water can soak into the ground past the bricks. When this can't happen, in this case, the water flows, running into rivers and streams, causing flooding.",
"One friend has this Pic as a profile pic for 'bout 2 years now xD",
"You misunderstanding a thing does not make it a lie. On the other hand, you claiming to know something you don't know IS a lie.",
"I listened to it in my house",
"For another example, there's things happening in downstate and things not happening upstate \nSource: DownStater who now lives Upstate ",
"Mine too",
"This meme needs to end ",
"Goodnight cow jumping over the moon. ",
"Well fuck you too bud. I have long board wheels :P",
"At least it had awesome music.",
"You could use permeable concrete.",
"Moonlight... is my creator?",
"They obviously wanted a handcrafted thing, not just a [mass produced](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIhttsAM5YQ) look.",
"You want the ever block system! http://www.everblocksystems.com/ ",
"Well, Seymour, you are an odd fellow, but I must say you steam a good ham",
"Aurora Borealis?",
"Sometimes colleges, universities etc get subsidized by the government. If they don't spend it all, they get less next year. So they find bullshitty projects to burn money at so they get the same amount next year.",
"Always heard Metro NYC called downstate. ",
"This guy is tired of reading \"this guy\" a hundred times in every thread ",
"Not all are done like this... \n\nThis is a cheaper method but some places do use individual pavers.\n",
"oh crap , thank you . ",
"This destroys the brick.",
"This makes me want to poop.",
"It's mainly because of the power imbalance.",
"Fuck these dudes",
"I said working 9 hour days, not laying bricks for 9 hours.",
"The valleys are tapered so expanding water has somewere to go,",
"I love seeing dutch stuff in non dutch subreddits.",
"I read this in Samuel L Jacksons voice",
"I don't understand what you don't understand about his lack of understanding",
"Article and pic about fake crosswalk. Basically they heat up a big metal template like in op pic and just indent the asphalt and then paint it. \n\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2014/07/16/these-fake-brick-crosswalks-may-be-better-than-the-real-thing/?utm_term=.7c4112a11956",
"Yeah but you still have to manually load the bricks, it's not that impressive ",
" watching a GIF of this would super satisfying for sure!",
"Hit the bricks, pal, you've been con-crete-ed. Here, take some Ce-Mentos as a consolation prize. There's a pattern to your life, and it will one day all fit together. Until then, remember as the French say, if 'ze says one thing, 'ze-ment another. You've been Brick rolled.",
"That's substantially more complex and thus pricier. Even without such features, this machine is probably a good deal for large projects.\n\nThis machine is probably preferable to pure manual labor because the rows are guarunteed to line up nicely and the machine probably saves a lot of time. \n",
"Goddamn brick liars.",
"Not really, many non-American cities have roads or sidewalks like that. They also pay people to clean the streets and pick up trash.\n\nThey actually like to have nice, clean cities instead of shity ones like us :P",
"It's Electro House. So yes it is house. Curious to what you think it is?\n\n",
"Which makes it even worse when you see an uneven or crooked brick",
"Happy cake day!",
"Hey, Children, scootch closer. Don’t make me remind you about the scootching",
"Goodnight, LiveJasmin ",
"Goodnight to the old lady who just had a fucking heart attack \n\nOh wait, it’s your grandmother, she’s dead. ",
"Brazil also does this. Not exactly cheap, but looks really good. ",
"20 guys?\n\nGood fucking luck with getting even 4",
"Oh..shit. Condolences.",
"Pavers are so time consuming. I'm curious why he thinks this way should be more. ",
"Orange - good guess though ",
"Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars.",
"I never trusted that balloon ",
"Goodnight Frank",
"Sounds like every starlet's life story that dreams of making it in LA. You sure this wasn't the casting couch?",
"> Maybe it would cause any cracks that do form to follow the impressed channels, making them less disruptive.\n\nYes",
"+1",
"Do you think your puny tessellated concrete is a match for the mighty [Dandelion?!](http://i.imgur.com/nMp7SRa.jpg) ",
"You obviously don’t live in the north where [frost heave](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost_heaving) is a thing.",
"Wake up sheeple",
"Goodnight light and the red balloon",
"Yeah that’s why we used bricks with sand between them for my deck. They need room to expand in the heat. Plus the drainage I think is better with individual bricks. ",
"[Old commercial for Garden State Brickface.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIMpEnm3M2Y)",
"Im sure there are, but he asked why form the concrete into bricks, not why that specific design. I was just supplying an answer. ",
"Yep and the paint last for about 6 months before it starts to wear off and then looks like shit. ",
"DAYMAN, AH AHHH AAAAHHHHHHH",
"That sounds like a problem for year after next's you, not today's you!",
"Your entire life's core seems to rapidly change based on simple things. You must need emergency services during sad television shows. ",
"They can architect my landscape anytime they want",
"Yep. When correctly done, it should actually be a layer of red surfacing laid down on the asphalt or concrete.\n\nSame with bike paths; the ones that are surfaced with colored stuff last the whole year, sometimes even through the snow/salt/ice season. The ones that are painted last like a couple months. ",
"He never said no!\n\n*entire court room stands up and applauds*",
"Nice ",
"Am i the only one who hates this pattern?",
"The sun needs coffee, so I do too!",
"In my home town they have some brick roads in the older parts of town, they've been there far longer with far less maintenance and are in better shape than the asphalt roads in most places. I imagine laying new brick road would be way more expensive than it's worth, but good brick roads are durable as hell.",
"For a main road it's a little different. For a driveway someone own, they don't want to deal with weeds coming though or a brick breaking and exposing the sand...for a driveway, this or asphalt is the way to go.",
"beam me up scotty",
"I'd think not letting water through would be a downside. Not in all scenarios, but often you want to use brick or other porous paving material to allow water through. I honestly can't remember why (something something erosion), I just remember that it's something you often want. ",
"Interesting. I believe in Germany the property owner/company owner pays more in taxes or fees if they cover land with surfaces which don’t directly allow rain water to enter the soil (asphalt, concrete paths, etc). So you find a lot of parking lots, patios, and paths made out of interlocking stones. Upkeep is a pain, but I guess it pays off in taxes and environmental consciousness.\n",
"Wait, so they don't cement them down or anything? They just lay them down?",
"Yes because the pacers will need to be replaced long before that. The upkeep on pavers sucks especially with cars driving on them they will give under the weight of the cars way before the concrete. You're gonna have to be replacing whole sections of pavers just for a few messed up ones. ",
"Damn.. Why did I not think of this before.",
"I feel sooooooooooooo much Illuminati vibes rn",
"*3,50€ per hour",
"My favorite machine in that whole video was the machine that tapes the boxes. So simple, so wish I had.",
"I worked in the concrete industry and have cut expansion lines in curb for 8 hours a day, I am not wrong, yes it is has a cosmetic appearance but the purpose is the same as why 100ft of curb has the top slab slashed every 10 ft.",
"Night, John-boy.",
"Well yeah obviously that's not what we are talking about. We are talking about what's actually in the picture....",
"How's that epic? Stupid people destroying other people's property.",
"You're assuming those layouts match some kind of standardized width. \n\nA brick sidewalk can change widths even in the same city block. ",
"oh, yeah\n\nbut you really gotta do something about the drainage under the concrete first since you expect water to drain down not around",
"Wouldn't it be more effective as a roller?",
"Our town actually laid real brick. They found out about 5 years later they are popping out, being stolen, and disintegrating from salt, road wear, and freeze/thaw cycles.\n\nThey are starting to pave over them, what a great investment that was. Since some roads don't need a full repave we now have dark fresh asphalt with crosswalk lines. Other where the road needed to be repaved, but they wanted to keep the brick are now miniature speed bumps.\n\nEdit - I assume our bricks are substandard, or installed substandard to be doing what they are. I have no more information on the bricks. You can contact the bricks directly for more information. You may also hit the bricks if you feel you need to do so.",
"Good morning, Porn Hub. ",
"FIGHTER OF THE NIGHTMAN, AH AHHH AAAAHHHHHHH",
"it has the benefit that all of the weight of the bricks on the ramp are pushing the pattern together tightly. ",
"Soooooooo.....are we building a snowman or what the fuck?",
"that's actually how they make them not how they use them",
"Why do I get the burning desire to chomp into that layer being sliced off?\n\nThere's gotta be an official term for that. ",
"better than bricks, bro. bricks settle and then you're driving on a tiny hilly plain.",
"What are you going to do now that you're #woke ",
"That looks absolutely horrendous.",
"I'll see you next June and I'm looking for a spoon. ",
"[They've got nothing on this guy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AuK_k980tk)",
"Never knew that bricklaying was so heroic.",
"Most control joints (for stress relief) are only cut about a quarter of the way through.\n\nThe concrete's more than willing to break itself the rest of the way. \n\nhttps://www.concretenetwork.com/concrete/slabs/controljoints.htm\n\n",
"Since it’s obvious I’ve found the community of experts, can I ask a related question? How have cobblestone streets lasted so long? Hundreds of years!",
"> This guy reading \"this guy\" a hundred times in every thread tires\n\nFTFY",
"I like to believe OP knows the difference between cement and concrete and actually believed it was bricks and not concrete.",
"Nah, we uses [these](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhCLnUCci1k).",
"https://youtu.be/mLMQwjTDMho\nVideo on how it’s made",
"Oh my god they're pushing that thing into the concrete!! I thought they were spray painting it to look like bricks ",
"America includes Canada\n\nThat's gonna rustle some jimmies ",
"Aurora borealis, at this time of year, at this time day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen?",
"I'm told out in Batavia there is a regional twisted bread known to the locales as a \"Whitey whacker\".",
"and looks a little nicer than flat concrete",
"There must be a better way than having someone fold the extra stuff back in. Why not put a barrier there?",
"Reeeeeeeeeeee",
"I guess the problem is they did a crappy job. I can see that being the culprit. The government back home doesn't know their ass from a hot rock. ",
"No weeds ",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrrvbhEehIE\n\nThis is the more common one you see.\n\nSource: I sell the pavers.",
"In my city I was sure it was a pattern stamped into the street macadam.now I know the sad truth. ",
"I feel offended.",
"Solid > concrete ",
"Your entire life is a lie because of brick imposters? Sad",
"Cutting shallow lines in long pours of concrete allows it to expand and contract easier.",
"Yeah because this would somehow happen to concrete and not pavers lmao. Pavers are more expensive to replace when this actually happens. All you've done is prove my point. Pavers are more expensive to put in so guess what they are also more expensive to replace.",
"hope you dont live where it snows, those indentation will crack faster than the sun can rise",
"Just wait till you find out about the Russian thing...",
"Actually, it was \"the concrete\" back then.",
"Bad drainage properties, no adaptability in weak soil, more costly to do maintenance on/under.\n\n",
"but then it’s no longer cheaper",
"Maybe the cracks will actually make them into individual bricks with time!",
"Saw a guy doing a repair job much like this on a side street in Prague last year. Watched from the restaurant patio for longer than I'd like to admit.",
"nice",
"If we could just see how it all fits together! ",
"Several times.\n\n",
"[Here's a robot](https://youtu.be/2-VR4IcDhX0?t=19) that can build a brick wall that does a little more, still requires humans for finishing work though.",
"this is what happens when a country doesn't have mexicans.",
"Well, at least you're not welcoming your new robot overlords. That's pitiful.",
"Goodnight sweet prince.",
"CHAMPION OF THE SUN! ",
"Question: these grooves don't seem to go the full depth of the concrete. In places like California where day/night temperatures vary a lot, wouldn't there be concerns of cracks from thermoexpansion?",
"“Goodnight nobody” is the best line in the whole book. ",
"Takes longer, costs more, shorter lifespan. Check check and check. ",
"It's not how they do it over here. ",
"Haha.. you obviously haven't travelled North in cyclone season,gets pretty bloody wet.\n\nHeck,we had floods up a few years back that [washed entire towns away](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010–11_Queensland_floods) ",
"This seems really inefficient to me. How long does it take to transport the machine, set it up, set the bricks, and them slowly fall into place? I feel like a crew of 10 guys could do the same for a lot cheaper. ",
"I mean, next you’re gonna tell me Santa Claus isn’t real either?!?",
"Sometimes paying a guy is cheaper than getting a specialized machine.",
"100% ",
"If there's no utilities under them, you don't live in a area that freezes over a lot and you don't care that you have a big repair in front of you if it cracks or breaks, no.",
"well.... not really. There are a lot of beautiful areas, but there's a lot of areas where it's dilapidated. Forget High hells or go on the road and watch out on rainy days on sloopes it gets really slippery. not the most smart or pratical way of paving something, beautiful nonetheless when it's well kept and it's almost everywhere",
"Nowadays it is...I miss the Hi-hat.",
"Stamped concrete, cheaper than pavers",
"Such as becoming a brick layer",
"america colloquially means US.. almost like connotations and denotations exist",
"Night Johnboy. ",
"Your entire life was under a rock ",
"Wow. I used to think the brick layers who made these types of pathways and roads were one patient and resilient person. Now, those same people are nothing more than liars and cheaters. My heart… it is broken.",
"Ima sorry but he is not real.....\n",
"The world's strongest flower.",
"Plastic has good elasticity and toughness, concrete is going to crack if shaped into a complex shape like a Lego brick. Also you don't really need that much lateral strength for a wall. Just friction alone is enough to keep pretty big stone structures together even without mortar, if the stones are shaped right.\n\nThat being said, this is exactly how a Nordic log house is made. Logs are cut with notches for interlocking and a tongue and groove for sealing.\n\nAlso, you could make the bricks from plastic - at least their surfaces. But it turns plastic isn't actually very cheap. Plastic houses like the Futuro were briefly manufactured in the early 1970s, but the oil crisis killed it.",
"I shoulda been an engineer~",
"It’s supposed to be a joke my dude :-/",
"What the hell good is a fake brick walk way? The point of the bricks is to allow breathing space for the movement of the bricks during temperature changes. This is literally a facade. It's a waste of money.",
"Biggest problem right now is most brick layers only work for huge jobs or perfect straight long runs. \n\nFor so many instances right now they make no sense. But for some they do. https://youtu.be/2-VR4IcDhX0 of a brick laying robot that can build walls. ",
"My state just uses red concrete. I'm not sure why you'd bother with a more complicated method.",
"And Rio de Janeiro is just the same, being former capital of the Portuguese Empire and all...",
"I thought the purpose was of individual tiles/pavers was reducing the chances of cracking when the Earth settles disproportionately under the slab. Doesn't this ruin the whole function?",
"Concrete cracks and needs to be removed and re-poured. Pavers just shift around a bit and can be put back in place, so you don’t have the material costs.",
"Not giant legos...but it is a lego house. Not very comfortable.\nhttps://youtu.be/qzYWaQjBUB4",
"[Yas Moon](https://youtu.be/IqY4ce8Hz3s) ",
"no, the original pattern are auto-locking so you lay them on a bed of sand, and are usually 75 mm thick (very hard wearing), doing it in concrete is just copying a pattern without any thought behind. ",
"Hey hey hey,. How are those brick laying banks supposed to profit off of a brick layers drive to succeed if it doesn't feel like it has to go to a four year private brick laying college?",
"Goodnight, spade. Goodnight, ace. Goodnight, Ryan Reynolds' face.\n\n-Tiny Snek Comics",
"This is your entire life?!? ",
"Oh. my. God.\n\nYou don't want *anyone* to be able to earn money do you??\n\n\nLet me ask you something:\nIf you were to somehow accrue *all the currency in the nation* would you be wealthy or poor? \n\nThis is not a philosophical question. \nStop trying to kill the working class. He pays up (through purchases) and he pays down (welfare from taxes).",
"If we're talking about what's in the picture, what are you trying to say is cheaper? Its not cheaper to pay labor and bring in a machine to lay the pattern than it is to leave it flat.\n\nGenuinely curious. I'm not sure what you're getting at.",
"You shall never see another DAWN!",
"Besides looks, it’s better traction ",
"Go the fuck to sleep.",
"CHAMPION OF THE SUN, AH AHHH AAAAHHHHHHH",
"They looked good until they all wore off.",
"Andd a repost for karma.",
"Can I get a ruling of ‘boys will be boys’?",
"Damn...",
"*two",
"Aww, good night to you too mart.",
"I’m not in that area but that makes sense. ",
"But how is the part of the die that makes the holes attached to the rest of the die?",
"A couple expansion joints will keep that from happening to concrete.",
"I will love it....when the link manages to load.",
"Then maybe he should have thought of that before getting into this mess! ",
"The Dutch like to do it the hard way: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/51/35/9d/51359dd2f3cbd16927a52ec97e2e379a.jpg",
"Daylight come and me want to go home ",
"What does it mean?",
"*3,50 euros per hour per person",
"One of my professors blew up a piano on campus when he was an undergraduate. He got caught and was actually facing some bombing charges or something. He was ready to go up and give some speech to the judge about freedom of expression and the artistic value in showing the destruction of the arts, but his lawyer made him just say it was a college prank gone wrong instead. He ended up staying out of jail, getting probation and having to listen to the firefighters give him lectures about fire safety. So it seems like \"it's just a prank bro\" can be a solid defense.",
"Right, which is why upstate NY is specifically called \"Upstate NY\", and downstate is just called \"New York.\"",
"I've heard rumours that there are places in the world where things don't freeze in the winter.",
"Hey I'm only 25!",
"Certainly beats using actual bricks. My city had to tear them out after they started falling to pieces within months",
"NOWAY!!!!",
"That broken sidewalk in the article looks painful. And is just about how our neighborhood looked and the reason why I wiped out while running one day, spraining my ankle in the process. Colored concrete looks so much nicer. ",
"You guys know there's some places that never reach freezing temperatures, right?",
"I think that looks nice tbh, at least when it's new.",
"How do they place the things that make the holes? Like the squares that create the holes in the bricks are just levitating on the hole ",
"Actually, there are real benefits to this.\n\nFirst, it's cheaper. Laying brick by hand is more work intensive, which means more taxpayer dollars used.\n\nSecond, adding these gaps extends the life of the concrete by reducing stress and fatigue due to thermal expansion.\n\nThird, it looks just as nice. So what's to complain about?",
"At my country they put one by one. They didnt figured out this solution",
"My city bought expensive as fuck granite instead.",
"To make skaters fell",
"Someone's high maintenance",
"Same with my city. I saw one fly like 30 feet in the air after a semi drove over it. They took them out and paved the crosswalks now.",
"There are real brick pathways. My university had interlocking brick pathways filled with gravel that would absorb stormwater runoff. If it was just a pattern the water wouldn't have anywhere to go!",
"And it will leave a solid impression for some time to come",
"It's a form of cutting corners and a bad one at that.",
"That sounds expensive and ugly, but I’m no expert",
"This was sexy. Tell us more.",
"These types of machines are hard to load unload transport setup ect ect. So that multiple sites a day is unrealistic. They typically only use this on big jobs malls, parking lots and such. And it also has to be a straight run available to use it. In the future they will advance though today there not as useful as they look. ",
"STOLEN!?\n\nJesus Christ.",
"Good Night Toon!",
"Dark white",
"Europe has used pavers forever. If done correctly, there is no maintenance needed. What is the problem?",
"No not in Utica. It’s an Albany expression.",
"Actually, it uses gravity, first rows of bricks still need to be placed by hand where gravity + weight does the rest once the vehicle is set to move forward. If a belt is present, it would be only useles!",
"The fact that it uses gravity to hold the bricks together and greatly reduce gaps is useful\n",
"The circle of life...",
"But how are they going to teach the kids not to skateboard when they trip over a brick that pops up in 10 years? ",
"Form of cutting corners to make labor easy. Problem with this are things like a tree's roots unearthing the whole thing will be semi-elevated above the roots and cracked.\n\nSingle is the best way to go if you have the time.",
"I am a femiturtist and I believe all turtles should be given the opportunity to race, regardless of their sex.",
"Also God isn't real.",
"No, it's both.",
"Are your roads asphalt or concrete? Asphalt has a much shorter life span.",
"Hans, get ze brick paver!",
"lol no its not",
"Walking in on your friend fucking your wife like \"it's just a prank bro\"",
"They did that on a few new crosswalks in DC too. It was funny watching the process. \n\n",
"The name’s u/mart1373. Don’t wear it out.",
"\"There's no kill like overkill.\"",
"Or the Eskimos that brought the concept of yellow snow to the conquistadors! Thanks Greg!",
"Please never go into engineering, or anything involving thinking.",
"Chuck Norris have polaroid camera that shoot gifs!",
">and lays them down\n\nHow are you not getting this",
"/r/tryreadingabooklittleboy",
"No reason to get racial, friend.",
"If they don't add surface texture to the concrete before it hardens..... it'll be super slippery.",
"How is Karen Fillipelli doing?",
"What? Pavers definitely crack aswell and no you aren't just putting them back in place. There is a reason It cost more to install pavers than concrete. They require alot more to be maintained and have to be replaced more often. You are way off here it's far cheaper to have concrete laid. Look it up ",
"Why even do this? Makes it less \"flat\". Water and dirt can collect between ridges so doesn't hold as well. \n\nSo just for looks? And not slipping as easy because of air bubbles with wet weather, ni between the ridges.",
"Also if the ground heaves and the concrete cracks, it tends to crack along the patterned lines,,,, so the surface effect is not just for silly looks.",
"\"You think that's cobble lock you're walking on right now?\" ",
"Do you actually pay for that?",
"I don’t get it",
"It helps drainage so that it isn't slippery.",
"Heh. Poverty folk don't even have steamed hams. ",
"Have you seen the brick laying machine?",
"scooch closer, don't make me tell you again about the scooching",
"> Super Intelligent Equipment\n\nWoah, we're putting AIs in brick-layers already? That's how you create a weird Mega Man boss.",
"Goodnight popos.",
"Individually placing tiles supersedes stamping no? Idk shit tbh just speculation.\n\nTrees can uproot and crack this leaving and undesirable effect vs individually placing as that can be fixed cutting the roots for each affected role. \n\nEdit: okay maybe not a bad one, sorry. Just saves labor hour costs as it takes much time.",
"This is jus stamped concrete it’s different than pavers.. you’re correct to a point but pavers tend to settle over time more so than a concrete pad. Also laying pavers is much more labor intensive so in some cases this may be the only solution the customer has because of finances available. Remember some people need these things done for some reason or the other and can’t necessarily afford that route. ",
"The article said it conforms to ADA regulations- so blind/ sight impaired can feel the edges of the cross walk. ",
"In the downtown area of my city they painted brick pattern crosswalks... looked good for half a year now looks like crap as most of them are wore off.",
"There's something similar on a retaining wall a few blocks from where I live. Except it's meant to look like \"random\" stones, but you can see the pattern repeat.",
"That's not an issue everywhere, though. If you live somewhere where it doesn't get to be below freezing, you're probably fine.",
"Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA",
"There are like a dozen more efficient patterns to give water a way to go. This is definitely meant to replicate individual bricks.",
"I love it when the bucket is loading the bricks and I'm sure the guys standing there aren't taking it like pansies. At my job they would have got touched by a brick and then make a big deal about their boo boo. Union factory worker....",
"This is just a stamp, lol. No bricks will be popping up on this driveway. ",
"Goodnight to that most tasty chocolate eclair",
"What is the difference in lifespan and maintenance? If you know. ",
"I see these all over Germany without any issue.",
"I don't think that's actually paint. The stamped concrete that I've done, we used a powdered dye that you cover the top of the wet concrete with and it gives the concrete color. ",
"So it's cheaper, lasts longer, quicker to do, and looks just as good, if not better. What's there to be upset about? You just mad that some poor schlub wasn't bent over in the hot sun working for hours a day laying brick by brick? U mad that rugs and sweaters are woven by machine and not by hand? U mad they don't churn butter with a butter churn any more? U mad they don't make Keebler cookies by the hands of elves, bro? ",
"good night room.",
"Without the hi-hats it's more like \"ambient house\"",
"r/myentirelifeisalie should be a subreddit!",
"Utica keeping that weight off? ",
"\"lol\" -weeds",
"Same goes for The Fat Rat, all sound similar.",
"It to help lead the water off to the side and keep it from pooling on top.",
"sureddit not found. what is that even supposed to mean? \n\ni know the novel. i was talking about thegreymage's comment. it fits right in with posts from that sub. \n\n/r/getyourheadoutofyourass",
"This is the “clip-on tie” of side walks. ",
"So any explanation why is this done this way vs putting actual bricks? What is the benefit of doing this?",
"There's usually gold given here. ",
"A worm on my way,\nKeeps the early bird away!",
"What do you think paving bricks are made of?",
"Somehow, I can see some country doing this as a cheap and easy way to do it.\n\nHowever, I doubt this is actual, unless there is limited resources or manpower to do this?",
"You’re supposed to brush the concrete before it cures to give it plenty of texture",
"I’ve done that process in the past. It fucking sucks when you don’t have many stampers. It also sucks when you have to throw out the red powder before you stamp because the local mixing company doesn’t want the die in the trucks. ",
"...but that ARE bricks. As soon as the pattern was pushed through they became bricks.",
"Imprint on wet cement. Not individual stones. ",
"The problem I have with these decorative patterns at intersections is that the city won't spray the stop line on them in fear of ruining the esthetic. So people stop so far back (thinking the pattern is the place to stop and not just before the cross walk) that the sensors on the lights don't see them. So we all wait in traffic until either someone pulls up to where they should actually be, or the vehicle in the other lane pulls up to turn right.\n\nIt's all very frustrating just so an intersection can \"look pretty\".",
"Cost.",
"Stamped concrete. Or am I missing something here?",
"Lol,this isn't a dick waving contest,you get more rain,wowee..\n\nMy only point was that we get more than 24\" of rain a year and quite often when it does come it comes fast and hard.. \n\nMy state was close to twice that last year and it's not particularly wet here..",
"It is much better for the worker’s physical health tho, because now he doesn’t have to sit on his knees all day and wear out his lower back and knees (really common health issues among bricklayers). You can properly lay down the bricks while standing up straight and working at chest level. ",
"It is convenient, you don’t get any weeds. ",
"Japanese pop mixed with chip tunes?",
" this is sorcery!",
"I like it",
"Stamped concrete yo ",
"Where in the world is that? Is that Finland? Hungary?",
"I'm from Ontario, and the climate is very different here, so my answer may not be helpful. In concrete, we have two kinds of joints to deal with cracking: expansion joints and control/contraction joints. \n\nExpansion joints are the joints that go the full depth of the concrete. We only put those joints in every 10' feet or so, because the concrete sits on top of a base of gravel, which rises and falls with the temperature change, so where you have one of these joints, over time, it will develop a small difference in height. We obviously don't want that to happen here with each \"brick\".\n\nControl joints are either tooled in (same process as what you're seeing in OP's picture) or cut in with a concrete saw and only go about 1/3rd of the thickness of the concrete. Since concrete will crack, we try to control where those cracks will occur, by cutting in these weak points. They are installed every few feet in normal applications. Now, they could leave the grooves between the bricks to function as control joints or they may sawcut some joints in after this has cured. The waves between each row of faux brick is fairly continuous, so it may not be worth cutting a joint over the pattern when they can just leave the pattern itself to do the job.\n\nTl;Dr there's nothing you can do about concrete cracking. You can only design for the cracks to occur in obscure areas by building in these grooves, or control joints, so the concrete cracks along that.\n\nEDIT: Made some corrections regarding the brick pattern in OP.",
"The holes are already present there. What you see is only the external part. ",
"Why is it not?",
"No no. Not at all. I just have an appreciation for good masonry. That's all. This is the best way to redo a driveway. I didn't intend to come off that way.",
"What kind of sicko...",
"Yeah every redditor is suddenly an engineer. Except they're forgetting that water that gets between the cracks won't destroy the brick when it freezes because it has somewhere to go when it expands (up). That's the same reason your ice tray doesn't crack when used.",
"I understand its cheaper, but wouldn't it be cheaper to just pour the concrete? What benefit do they get by doing this, just aesthetics?",
"They have Boy Scouts in Canada",
"Amazing!!!!",
"Upscale New York, you mean?",
"That ain't no moon...",
"My dad designs aluminum dies and has for as long as I’ve been alive. I’ve always wondered how they made tubes but never thought to ask him. \n\nNow I feel dumb. ",
"I feel like they showed more action of them tearing it down than it running.",
"PRIASE THE SUN.",
"A few years ago, the Tourist Board made QR Code squares out of those stones and put them in other cities to advertise Lisbon.",
"Yes",
"Well there's always this https://i.redd.it/xyjyokxr84801.jpg but it's so much worse.\n\nPicture is from this post https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/7o5zja/does_anyone_know_what_the_purpose_of_these_ankle/",
"There's a nail in the door and there's glass on the lawn",
"That is an incredibly high price for pavers, $20-30 SQ ft would be a normal highend price. This guy most likely didn't want to do pavers or thought pavers were a bad choice and guided you with price. \n$45 SQ ft is way too high, even given the worst circumstances.",
"Happy Cake Day to you, Sir/Madam (whatever else you may identify as)!!",
"And of course you guys brought it over to Brazil, so we have [those in many of Rio's beaches.](http://www.artrio.art.br/sites/default/files/copa4.jpg?)",
"Thanks!",
"I actually used to do stamped concrete. Most of it is done with a big stamp. This is a bit different than what you might find around town.",
"the man doesn't want us skateboarding on smooth concrete ",
"I read that as go fuck the sheep... My mind is in the gutter...",
"You need to get out of America and see the world mate, that's the most ignorant sentence I've read today. America's got plenty of problem's it's sidewalks aren't one of them. The lovely streets in many other countries outside of the west are great, then two streets over is poverty like nothing you've seen.",
"Architect me like you mean it. ",
"Bro, do you even Home Depot?",
"My town put real brick crosswalks in... less than 10 years later they are breaking up in spots. I totally dig having infrastructure look fairly appealing (bare concrete walls can drive me nuts), but most important to me it needs to **LAST**.",
"All in all it's just another fake brick in the sidewalk. . . ",
"As a civil engineer, this irks me. damn architects get all the credit for our work",
"Nah, they have bump mapping...",
"And prevents cracking in the concrete. ",
"Sink holes take much longer to happen it seems, but when they happen man are they neat-o to see in person. ",
"The end of this gif when that guy faceplants is WELL worth watching for. ",
"In Romania,they still do it in the traditional way.",
"No mother, it's just the northern lights!",
" Not eagle scouts though. ",
"Sweet dreams",
"CHAMPION OF THE SUN, AH AHHH AAAAHHHHHHH",
"My dad had a paving business and he warrantied concrete pavement at 5-10 years and granite at 20-30 years IIRC, his company did a granite pavement in a town square before I was born, and it still is there 20 years later, so I believe him.\n\n(the ranges are because I don't remember exactly)",
"I can't imagine how much relief has been given to their backs by this machine.",
"Gotta pay the troll toll to enter the boy's hole ",
"How the hell does that \"wick away\" water? Seems like it would just leave a bunch of water sitting in the cracks to freeze and break/erode the cement to me.",
"I'm getting the hell out of this thread, before something else is ruined for me. ",
"Good night moon, in \"The Wire\" style from Kima:\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46W2nenbRTo",
"> architect me like one of your french ~~girls~~ *le ponts*",
"The brick by brick gradient is super effective!",
"I think you all are way over thinking this. It’s not some brilliant drainage or stress relief. It’s just a cheap ass way to make a fake interlocking paver brick sidewalk, which are very expensive to have made. ",
"Draw me like one of your french arches",
"What’s the difference between casting them individually and laying them, and pouring a slab and casting them in place? It’s not a pattern, it’s like a cookie cutter. Not completely superficial. ",
"It's cool though... The world is a better place because of that thing. Less waste, less energy used to make everything, it's stronger and it's cheaper than using 2,000 little bricks to make a dumbass sidewalk. ",
"You haven’t?? That really steams my hams!",
"https://youtu.be/FZ1mdBYrFBU",
"It's not bad, it's not a shortcut, just an alternate. Trees can uproot literally anything, asphalt, concrete, pavers, bricks, etc. You may not know this either but mushrooms can pop holes through asphalt as well, I see it all the time. Notice a big bump in your brand new asphalt driveway? Sorry bruh, you got a shroom. ",
"Stolen to the point of some kids taking a bunch out and putting them somewhere else.",
"get down on your knees and tell me you architect me",
"Oh man W.T.F ",
">french *buildings*\n\nFTFY",
"But why do you need a pattern in the first place? Is it an aesthetic thing?",
"Actually, it's a beltless conveyor.",
"At every UK pedestrian crossing they lay textured tile with either ridges running parallel to the road or little domes. ",
"That’s ok. I was just curious in general. Not like I’m researching for myself and need exacts. Can you do this stamping on granite? I thought it would be too hard. And too slick for a sidewalk. Maybe inside a building.",
"Why would the stop line be in the middle of the crosswalk?",
"There is more maintenance than you are thinking, a lot of it is done behind the scenes.",
"This post made quite an impression on me!",
"Don't they cement those things down or anything? How the hell do they know somebody isn't just gonna come along with a pickup and steal all those expensive bricks?",
"Looks great when done right. Unfortunately most do it with too wet concrete or they stamp it too soon and ends up looking like someone Wang doodled",
"It’s taken the job of 3 skilled masons + 3 more guys spreading sand and reduced it to one skilled operator and one brick-placing guy at 2x the speed. By leaving brick placement up to a person, the design can be flexible and the pattern changed anytime. They lay straight bricks along the curbs and can probably build crosswalks or other designs of different bricks as they go. \nThis is like a fast-food assembly line replacing two chefs and several cooks to turn out a more consistent product in half the time at 1/3 the cost. ",
"Reminds me of my annoying af ex girlfriend who would snap if something hit her \"expensive tiled driveway\". She still couldnt bring herself to admit she was wrong when I showed her a portion of her driveway where the installers fucked up the pattern and it became obvious it was a slab. ",
"Thats a bit offtopic, cobblestones are just granite blocks packed really tightly",
"Yes, the original master was made from wood, waxed, then liquid polyurethane rubber poured on it. That rubber mold is sent to the precast plant and they make the final panels.",
">You need to get out of America and see the world mate\n\nI have. Why else would I think poorly of American cities? If America is the only place I've been, I wouldn't have any frame of reference; I would think American cities are fine.\n\n>America's got plenty of problem's it's sidewalks aren't one of them.\n\nThe garbage on every street begs to differ. I live in Denver. It reminds me a lot of Berlin; the main difference is the garbage everywhere...some areas are maintained, but nobody puts that much effort into the streets and sidewalks here in the US.",
"In my home town they used actual bricks for crosswalks on a major downtown road and they kept having to redo it after it kept falling apart in less than a year, so I'm thinking there's probably a good reason behind doing it the \"fake\" way.",
"Hey, *someone* has to draw the pattern they put in the concrete.",
"Its not just a beltless conveyor is the thing youre getting wrong.",
"I think its also for expansion/contraction, if you don't place some lines in large slabs of concrete it'll just crack as it cures. But also probably an aesthetic thing as far as the design goes.",
"This is disgusting",
"See my other comment. Ours have lasted somewhat longer and are still in service, but have required repair. I want it to look moderately cool, but last as long as possible. Salt and cold winters sure don't help.",
"WTF",
"This stuff is really popular in North America... Including Florida and the Great Lakes region. ",
"stamped concrete is very common here",
"So here's the thing. NY is the biggest state in the northeast. Then going west you don't hit a bigger state until Illinois, and going south you don't hit a bigger one until Georgia. So NY is actually a decently big state.\n\nThen, NY is shaped in a very odd triangle. I don't know if there's another state shaped so oddly (maybe Idaho?). That shape is double odd because of topography, as the Appalachians prevent easy transport throughout the state. I grew up in Central NY for instance, and I've been to NYC *once*.\n\nThe result of which is that the size and odd shape means the cultural boundaries divide the state. Primarily into the urban coast, and the rest of the state \"upstate\". \n\nEveryone defines Upstate differently. I've heard people calling it anything north of the Bronx. Then I've seen people vehemently declare it only starts it at the adirondacks. [Personally I think this is roughly accurate](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/enhanced/webdr03/2013/7/17/11/enhanced-buzz-orig-28679-1374076004-31.jpg?downsize=715:*&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto), and I don't know why people care so much.[ A regional map is better than anything else.](http://www.visitnewyorkstate.net/regions/newstatemap.jpg)\n\nSo yeah, there's a pretty good argument for there being a \"southern\" New York.",
"Those \"darker\" bricks are actually tiny scored lines in the pattern. Pain in the ass to get them lined up right. Like anyone's ever going to notice a millimeter difference on the side of a highway.",
"And very resilient when done correctly",
"Our town did this and the paint lasted about a year before you can see the asphalt and no red paint in the tread areas. It looks terrible now.",
"The fancy brickwork in our city is a circle so it extends out from the crosswalk. They stop at the circle's edge, too far back for the stoplight sensors.",
"And that is... a bad thing? or a good thing? \n\nI am confuse.",
"Yes. Also if it broke it will only be localized in one tile.",
"This video is extremely European. 10/10",
"You can fill the cracks with polymeric sand, which will prevent water from getting in there and also looks nice.",
"Ummm... isn’t this how they all do it?",
"Not really a shorter lifespan, properly packed granite cobbles can last centuries...",
"This is a relatively new development. In my country, I've seen bricks(?) of this shape stacked beside the road, ready for laying the traditional way.\n\nSurprising really, if there was a lazier way, we should have adopted it first.\n",
"Same",
"It's, faster, cheaper and more durable than brick patterns too. The brick pattern eventually get uneven or even break away and become safety hazards.",
"Hmm that mushroom portion is very interesting. I didn't know that was a thing. We don't get a lot of mushrooms in San Diego. /r/TodayILearned",
"I used to think all of theses “bricked” sidewalks were all placed there.",
"I was expecting this to be the top comment. ",
"Good night, Chesty Puller, wherever you are ",
"Oh I think I mispercieved what you were asking, those numbers are only for individual pavers. Like the ones you lay down individually. \n\nAh the wonders of the language barrier",
"Yes, I know. I said that the \"factory could have a machine to just tile them in the desired size and pattern\" which would account for different sized sidewalks. Having machine which would only do one width or pattern would not be very cost effective.",
"!remindme repost this in 6 months ",
"Not. Yet.",
"Ahem.... Long Island checking in..",
"In Westchester pa we just have real brick sidewalks. They take them apart every few years to clean them its seems like a real pain in the ass.",
"Plus Suffolk and Nassau counties.",
"They don't do such things in our country.\nInstead, they like putting piece by piece.\nIn short, my whole life isn't a lie.",
"Man, people really took some offense to that. It's kind of cringe, but the real overreaction came from this sub.",
"asphalt is cheaper",
"Be careful. Before you know, you'll get architected right in your architect!",
"what lol",
"It's the only one I relate to.",
"Whenever a whole neighborhood in the Netherlands has to be redone it's always funny. \n\nInvariably the city will try to get asphalt introduced to some, if not all, streets. Invariably, the people will be raising hell at this attempt to take away their \"klinkers\" from the streets. Invariably the city will cave and the streets will be paved in the traditional way. \n\nThe whole thing reminds me a bit of the American gun debate :') ",
"Basically fuck bending over doing heavy work when you can have a magic moving slideytable to do the bending for you. This is still marvellous.",
"Not in public, cost too much. If your city paid for real bricks crossways, people would be up in arms for spending 3x on a walkway. People would then blame the city council for spending more money on a crossway than say building a library.",
"You'd have to apply the dye to the mix, meaning you'd need a dedicated batch of asphalt in each of the colours you need. Asphalt is also installed by just rolling a whole area at once, so having to lay small, detailed sections, or even a strip for a crosswalk, would add a lot to the labour costs. Far too much to make it feasible.\n \nI can't say much about the science behind the colouring method. I'm guessing a dye wouldn't adhere to the asphalt or it would fade far too quickly. In this case it's a sort of spray coat. Same sort of method they use to paint parking lots and the little wheelchair symbol.",
"Well....duh. it's for handicap people and pedestrian safety you insensitive monster",
"Weeds dont grow between these cracks. ",
"That’s a beautiful buttress you’ve got there. Want to see just how much of a load it can bear?",
"You must be fun at parties. ",
"It’s uglier ",
"Live long and may the force be with you?",
"Good night, waifu.",
"Adding to this, I think its worth mentioning that both your solutions are cheaper than putting down pavement-stones \"the regular way\". \nThis job is a lot less labour intensive, and the solutions in the image will remain nice for a longer while if the pre-work is carried out properly. \n\n",
"I'm so glad I 888888 it in it 7>I 78o9888 in",
"If you choose a pattern that has a lot of detail on the surface you're more likely to have finishing issues. In order to get those really fine lines to show, they have to basically over-finish the concrete which leaves the top layer of \"cream\" essentially non-homogeneous with the rest of the mix. At that point it essentially acts like a skim coat of mortar and chips and cracks more easily, especially in cold weather climates where pavements are salted regularly.",
"Hey moon, please forget to fall down.",
"This might be relevant to your interests \n\nhttps://youtu.be/cdPymLgfXSY",
"It's so they crack a specific way instead of looking ugly over time. ",
"The music makes it ",
"Wait, what? What happens? That's something I need to put in my mental notebook.",
"Your entire life is not a lie... Crosswalks are usually paved with actual paving tiles, this is just some black magic fuckery.",
"You can't follow a sense of humor? Sad. ",
"This is just stamped concrete. Cheaper than pavers and stone. It's not used all that often (here in NC at least). ",
"Well, after helping to lay like hundreds of this bricks for so many weekends in my dad's ranch, I would've prefer this. ",
"I have a girlfriend! She just...goes to another school.",
"Yep I agree, to me 'America' is always USA, not 'North America'. ",
"Surely the ingress of dirt in the depths created will cause stability issues, ie the concrete will break up upon lower impact?\n",
"Goodnight wife \nGoodnight son \nGoodnight SWAT team on the lawn ",
"Cheaper.",
"Had it done in my town. Wears away. ",
"So where have you been then? Ever left Europe? Been to Africa, Brazil, Vietnam, Malaysia? You pick Germany, a country with one of the highest standards of living for your example? That's a very narrow and privileged view.",
"She's a brickhouse. ",
"This reminds me of the crossings I saw in Richmond Hill on Major Mac.",
"Good month. ",
"As a non engineer, engineers like to put it out there that they are indeed engineers",
"Thermoplastic seems popular now, even in parking lots. I'm surprised corporations are actually thinking of the long term ",
"It probably wouldn't be that hard to give a machine LIDAR, some good brick graspers and a six axis arm for placing them. It's just much, much cheaper to get a human to do that part.",
"Super slick. Paint in general is slick to drive over. ",
"[Are these bricks even real?](https://www.careerxroads.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/westworld.jpg)",
"It's hell for cyclists too. The first time I've of your wheel slips because of it is very surprising",
"They are very slippery to motorcycle tires at speed when they are wet.",
"I thought they just dyed the concrete as it was being mixed?",
"I'll see you on TIL in 24 hours?",
"Ah yes, life with kids. I've been awake since 6:30! TMNT, cranked to unholy levels.",
"CHAMPION OF THE SUN\n\nYOU’RE A MASTER OF KARATE AND FRIENDSHIP FOR EVERYONE",
"Life uh... finds a way.",
"In my opinion you'd still need the normal crack lines / control joints which go more than an inch down. It makes sense because concrete is often like 4 inches deep. A 1/4 inch line won't have much sway over cracking.",
" joints in concrete are placed to cause cracking and hide the crack not prevent cracking.",
"Then you need a machine ran by Democrats. 😀",
"Reddit is full of beta soy-boys",
"There are far better ways to distribute wealth than to throttle efficiency of processes.",
"Unless you have to dig it up to fix a busted pipe or something under it. Then you have to saw up a big ass section of concrete and it’ll never match the original again",
" I think I'd really like to be a city planner. Why limit myself to just one building, when I can design a whole city?\n\nEdit: I'm getting lots of neat info on architects. But this reference might've been too much of deep cut. \n\nhttps://youtu.be/3DayjracBf8",
"Also, when there is freeze/thaw, it won't crack the cement, just shift some bricks around. ",
"Good night",
"Here in Chile (south) I've seen them putting them manually on some streets when they're building them.\n\nMakes me feel like there is a much efficient way.",
"Very insightful, thank you!",
"Good night whoever you are. ",
"My city just did the same thing, and now our downtown looks like a play room for preschoolers! ",
"Ya know it didn't even occur to me that it was a tamper, I thought it was a cigarette tower haha.",
"i felt it was a joke in itself",
"Some big developers do care a lot about the aesthetic of their properties because it's how they set themselves apart. Like anything else, it varies. Also, some Cities might just require it in order for the developer to build.",
"The drop at 2:40 must be the most anticlimatic thing I've ever seen or heard.",
"Same in Prague.",
"To be fair.. Brick roads are generally much more appealing than their asphalt counterpart. \nAnd they are a perfect way of indicating to drivers that they are in a residential zone and should slow down",
"I guess those are out of my realm of experience. I just have an uncle upstate who said Poughkeepsie was as south as he could go. Something about them being ruder past that, idk",
"Compared with the legendary effort of aligning all the bricks manually... I've tiled a bathroom and that shit is easy to do but difficult to master",
"That's a good alternative but it's bad for wheelchairs and the grass grows too easily/fast on it. Actually laying concrete bricks is the better alternative (somewhat permeable, kinda cheap, good for bikes/wheelchairs/strollers and depending on how it's done, not a lot of grass grows on it). If it gets wonky over time because earth will move under it, it's very easy to fix by removing some bricks, putting sand under it and putting the bricks back where they were",
"bullshit he was a jewish concreter in rome",
"I'm from Albany and spent a lot of holidays with grandparents in Utica. I have heard of this expression, but never heard a person actually use it. I've lived away for a really long time, though. Is it super common?",
"The ceiling *needs* to stay at 10'6\" even though the I-beam is at 10'4\".\n\n\nWould it be a big deal if we moved all 150 bathroom doors 8\"?\n\nI didn't realize changing things halfway through construction would cost so much.",
"Stop.\nDrinking.\nThe.\nKool-aid.\n\n*Its America poison.*\n\nAnswer to previous:\n\nIf you owned all the currency of a nation it would devalue because you're the only person who values it.",
">You pick Germany, a country with one of the highest standards of living for your example?\n\nNo; I was comparing Denver and Berlin, two cities that feel very similar to move through. \n\nThis is all I said above:\n\n>...many non-American cities have roads or sidewalks like that. They also pay people to clean the streets and pick up trash.\n\nYou're calling me privileged because I think that local and regional governments in the US should pay people to better maintain our roads and sidewalks. \n\nWhy? ",
"Eiffel me like one of your towers",
"I'm stupid and tired and I don't get it. Can someone explain? ",
"Enjoying the taste of shattering the grand illusion, op? ",
"Like grade for instance :)",
"Draw me like one of your golden arches",
"Ah so perfect texture for Florida weather. It all makes sense now.",
"I remember coming home from a club one morning in Holland still off my face on E and acid. I think I watched people doing this gobsmacked for about 20 minutes.",
"Permeable paving is a recommended SUDS (sustainable urban drainage system) design implementation in the UK too. The idea is to minimise impermeable surfaces in urban areas for a variety of benefits",
"Oh my god",
"I'm coming to the conclusion that many, many things we see, hear, taste and obviously read are all lies. It's the reality of our modern world. Question everything. Even brick pavers! ",
"Unless the water freezes...",
" there's two types of concrete. Cracked concrete, and concrete thay hasn't cracked yet. ",
"That is concrete. Sorry I hate asphalt.",
"[Vidya](https://youtu.be/FZ1mdBYrFBU)\n\nShit's hilarious.",
"just yesterday i chatted up Elsa Jean. a weeks ago i talked to Sarah Banks. offered her a towel to sit on as she was taking photos on set of steps that was crazy hot from the sun.. she though i was offering some place else to sit on and took offense at it. guess she did not see the towel in my hand. i was about to say to her that i did not want her melting the steps.. ",
"It's a flat slab of concrete that they're cutting the design into instead of laying the elaborate bricks one by one.",
"time to send her to boarding school",
"Then you just redo the whole driveway. If it's a busted pipe it's likely covered by the county / state and you'll get the money to replace the driveway. That's pretty unlikely to happen though. ",
"Did you just assume my texture?",
"Those ones specifically are asphalt. The concrete roads are crumbling as fast as the asphalt ones, though. I live in a very wet part of Michigan that went from 0 to 50 to 0 in a span of 48 hours last week with six inches of snow that started as rain, though. It's especially hard on anything more stiff. The bricks do better because they can move some.",
"Brilliant!!",
"Mother of repost",
"Good Night",
"I ran so far away....",
"Well more like all tires, but cars rarely have issues with it, since they are inherently stable.\n \nWider tires may have less issues, while narrow tires are almost guaranteed to have problems, so motorcycles, scooters/mopeds & bicycles are all affected by thermoplastic paint :(\n \nAlmost as bad is the individual smooth rock road type★, where someone decides to use smooth(almost polished) natural rock, for the road surface. That stuff gets so slippery when wet that even my car goes \"uhhh... You sure about this?\". \n \nEdit:\n \n★AKA cobblestone road. The word slipped my mind when I wrote the post.",
"This is Reddit where 95% of the people either never go outside, are 14, or are female (no offense intended but how many females know that stamped concrete even exists?). I don't think this is upvoted because 30k people think it's a funny joke.",
"Heavy metal birck laying. 🤘🤘",
"[What actual house music sounds like.](https://soundcloud.com/ze-vang/sets/house-music)",
"Believe me, this is nothing. Look at what we use here in the netherlands.\nhttps://imgur.com/a/mAF3W",
"Get over yourself ",
"Not really, watched a similar walkway be built on a local campus. They poured the foundation and outer \"rails\" first. Making a C shaped formation. Once that was cured they poured a thin layer in the center section and stamped it. It's just an inlay. if it cracks along the lines all you have is bricks that shaped sitting on top of a solid foundation.",
"Absolutely. However, a company that already has invested in a machine like the one originally posted is a prime candidate for a companion machine which could further streamline the process.\n\nThe key component is the machine at the brick plant but whoever is making the automation machinery could give the plant a machine for free in order to help drive demand for machines to process the brick sheets on site. An even better way would be to just lease them to whoever is doing the path install so there's no huge upfront capital cost.",
"🤯🤯🤯",
"Don’t they do this for the blind?",
"I think I know what he was talking about. Our town has the accessibility bumps, but also created fake bricks by imprinting and then painting it red to “look” like brickwork although it isn’t.",
"I imagine the thermoplastic layer would last longer since electrostatic spraying is just a fancier form of a conventional spray system. What kind of coating do they spray electrostaticly?",
"Also virtually eliminated the \"cracked sidewalk\"",
"Formwork design for an *architectural* abutment? Didn't know that was a thing.",
"Give him a minute. He's gotta build up to it.",
"A girl wanted me to architect her in the apse because we didn't have a column.",
"Make a to-do list for the next day first.",
"County, Down-east, Mid-coast, Hills or Massachusetts?",
"why not just... leave it be?",
"I have also heard this about concrete cracking. But I always wonder if it’s just engineers being engineers... \n\nI say this because when I’m around old concrete stairs or floors I notice giant expanses of smooth concrete with no cracks and no expansion or control joints. \n\nMany times it seems the solution to prevent an unlikely crack is to put in a ton of ugly joints all over the place. \n\nAm I only noticing the old concrete lucky enough to not crack or were they using different cement mixtures, building thicker slabs or just using extra love ???",
"Good, morning wood.",
"I am 100% cool with that. Attractive and cost-effective I assume.",
"Bite sized?",
"Well cyclist on the road.... We don't like you.",
"best to let these feelings develop into a complex dance of emotions",
"Technically gravity does the brick laying. It's just a brick holding slide",
"\nGoodnight po-pos\nGoodnight fiends\nGoodnight hoppers\nGoodnight hustlers\nGoodnight scammers\nGoodnight to everybody\nGoodnight to one and all.",
"Lived in Lisbon for 10 years and these are so iconic to me. I remember slipping on those things, tripping when that one stone was coming out and seeing those guys doing it all again. ",
"I was in Lisbon last year. I don’t recall seeing a sidewalk that wasn’t made of bricks.",
"All over my city... The color wears off in a year so it's just patterned asphalt now ",
"So, use red asphalt? ",
"[Here then, no bricks but it does have smurfs.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u56X0hmv3mU)",
"No it's not. Red concrete just adds the cost of the dye. Painting concrete adds the cost of the paint and the labor to apply it. ",
"My city used to have REAL brick crosswalks, and the brick sank down where tires connected to the road and resulted in a bumpy ride. They recently started replacing the real brick with the fake stuff. And I am so happy I don’t have to dodge the divots anymore. ",
"It's home music ",
"Most tile/brick designs are concrete thats stanped and has things added for colour or texture. It would be extremely rare for individual bricks to be used as a road somewhere.",
">smaller container\n\nLike a big bag but smaller?",
"My guess would be temperature variation = expansion/shrink = huge random cracks. These spaces probably prevent that",
"At first I'm thinking \"Extra effort for the sake of vanity. Pathetic\"\n\nThen I realize \"Oh wait. They just dont want kids riding through on skateboards.\"\n\n...pathetic.",
"nice",
"Decorative concrete is amazing. This is the low end of it. \n\nIt can also be used to do stuff like [this](https://imgur.com/J97f6Q3)",
"No, this can't be real!!!",
"Sure, but this was way more surprising (to me) than the original post.",
"Son?",
"ty TIL",
"It payed for me without my consent so I hd to complain to get a refund. True story.",
"ORDER NINTENDO SWITCH",
"Same for Prague. Just about every sidewalk in Prague is like this. Enormous piles of the cubical little stones in the streets near work zones. Don't tell the authorities, but I have one on my desk as a paperweight to remind me of the trip.",
"No need to get all scientific about it. It’s stamped concrete. Cheaper and more durable than pavers. \nLess labor as well. \nPavers in commercial areas get destroyed. ",
"I mean it works... lol fooled me",
"https://i.imgur.com/87dwXN5.gif",
"[Here ya go](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity)",
"You forgot the [10]",
"\"non-American cities are nice, clean cities instead of shity ones like us\". Do you stand by that statement? I'm not disagreeing that local governments need to maintain roads and sidewalks better at all, but that's not what you said. I'm simply saying your original statement was both ignorant and incorrect, whether or not it was badly worded or the intent of the statement.",
"Racist....",
"I ran a shop in Germany maintaining several miles of it. You are boring the hell out of me. ",
"There's also a paver laying machine. There's a gif somewhere. It's probably a tad more expensive than what they're using though",
"Goodnight hoppers!",
"Eagle Scouts are not a thing in Canada, [Scouts Canada](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scouts_Canada) is a totally separate organization.",
"Ah yes the old cookie cutter trick. Sorry OP you would have figured it out sooner or later. It’s not too terrible, Not as bad as learning about Santa or the Easter bunny.",
"Same",
"ahh interesting thanks!",
"I'm with you on this one. I think the reason for doing it this way is just that it's cheaper.",
"Goodnight, little boy blue and the man in the moon",
"Well motorist on the road, cyclists don’t like you when you believe the road is only for cars.",
"Its not, the water cant escape, so it will crack and crumble under 2 or 3 years due temp going below and above feezing point.",
"Ayyy eagle scout 2013",
"Ok… or maybe they’re normal people who don’t know the nooks and cranies (or possibly don’t care) of construction. A lot of people pressume they’re just bricks layered evenly next to one another to create the pattern. People might upvote because they actually learned something and we’re shocked that something they thought was done one way was actually done another. There’s no need to be an ass.",
"it's not. i've seen those bricks being laid ",
"Roads are for cyclists :-) ",
"I can recall seeing teams of people that you could see updating that red brick on public sidewalks. I am curious if repouring a concrete sidewalk every X years (guessing about 15 to 20) is cheaper then repaving and replacing broken bricks every year.",
"[This is what it looks like when it starts breaking thru](http://www.staceywelu.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC00119.jpg)\n\nMy family are masons... so yeah I see it often, many people aren't aware. Personally I dislike stamped concrete as well :)",
"Agreed ",
"I love the use of the word gang. I just got this image of some late teen gang member making play doh guns and knives.",
"There is a spray paint style version called stamping. They sprinkle colored powder just after laying it then jump on rubber mats that have a pattern on them. Then drag the mat over a bit and do it again.",
"Bricks of this size and shape are cheap and sold everywhere. This stamping is great as a control joint and patching the sidewalks with the bricks is much cheaper and faster than sawcutting and pouring more concrete. ",
"Too early for rustled jimmies but I will admit to raised eyebrows and an \"I'm sorry, what?\" ",
"Oh God\n\nIt's \"There is no Santa\" all over again.",
"Most impressive. ",
"I’d give it a stamp of approval. ",
"Haha. Cheaper and better doesn't apply to too many things in life. Take it and run. ",
"Treat me like a whore.",
"I want to have a beer with the guy being interviewed.",
"I have looked it up, when I was looking to replace the cracked concrete all around my pool. Everything I read and everyone I talked to said concrete will crack, and if you don’t like it, the whole slab has to be replaced. With pavers, yes some may crack, but yes, after replacing the few that are cracked they can be re-laid. Or, if works needs to be done underneath the pool deck, pavers can be pulled up and re-laid after the work is done, whereas concrete needs to be cut out and re-poured\n\nAnd I never said pavers were cheaper up-front. I’m well aware concrete is cheaper initially.",
"My entire life is a ~~lie~~ repost.",
"So cheap, good, and fast all at once? But emotionally unfulfilling. Hmm, this seems to add some complexity to the equation. ",
"Sidewalks you mean?",
"What does this mean for the Yellow Brick Road?! ",
"This guy architects. ",
"Well if you are going to be on the main road then you need to follow the same rules.",
"We saw them doing this in Porto! They were doing a whole sidewalk and had a huge pile of bricks. They would pull one and pound it in, pull one and pound it in. If one didn’t quite work they tossed it back into the pile and kept moving. Few feet behind them another guy was filling the gaps with sand and ramping them down. \n\nIt was amazing to watch them work. Like an art form. So precise and they were some of the happiest laborers I’ve ever seen. ",
"Somewhat common. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDUIGvpDolw\n\nThe comment you're replying to is the end of a conversation from The Simpsons that starts at about 1:25 in the above clip.",
"They're supposed to embed them with tiny glass beads to make them better, but they rarely do that. And even then...",
"Some materials and regions need expansion spaces, but this one might just be for aesthetics. No idea. Also, urbanism/landscape architecture is a very peculiar thing. Such a pattern could be used to slow down bikers, have an impact on wildlife crossing the street, noise, ice, etc. Im no expert but i know there are a lot of conditions that most people have no clue they exist.",
"Same",
"I thought it was a Gif.",
"Okay real random but what’s your average workday as a landscape architect? I was looking at maybe majoring in it for college but wasn’t sure.",
"Would this fall under landscape architecture or civil engineering? ",
"u/makaylarusso",
"oh no, I’m not brave enough for architects",
"That's beyond what I know about the product. Sorry! I think it's a kind of powder?",
"HOLY SHT, That is a shroom indeed!!!! \n\nI thought you meant a small section lifted above leveled group but no. That is a *BIG* problem LOL",
"Nope, sidewalks are dangerous and illegal to ride on for cyclists. Bicycles go on the road, glad I could clear it up for you!",
"It’s stamped concrete. Not sure what you were expecting ",
"Stamped concrete. It's quite a bit cheaper than bricks or paving stones and the quality can be great. There are different patterns to choose from. Can be better for folks in wheelchairs and it won't settle or change grade as much as bricks and stones will over time",
"Plus maintenance it sounds like",
"Better option: /r/CitiesSkylines ",
"-waiting for gif to load\n\n-realizing it is a picture\n\n-feeling stupid after realizing again that i am on r/pics",
"That escalated quickly",
"http://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/ydx07mh.gif\n\nMovie: Batteries Not Included (1987)",
"Imagine walking around without shoes...",
"https://media.giphy.com/media/7CG6pZwq74nte/giphy.gif",
"Stops weeds coming through!",
"As devastating as a maybe, there's actually a really important reason they do this. Just like any other item that has water in it, it's subject to expanding and Contracting during winter and summer. If you have one big slab of concrete and you let it sit there throughout the years expanding and Contracting it will develop cracks. Putting a bunch of quarter inch lines in between all the concrete can help keep it from cracking.",
"but possible to lay for a homeowner whereas concrete is much more difficult",
"By the way, they also paint the grass green on parks and etc.",
"Wasn't meaning to be an ass but you replied to the guy explaining things by saying it's just a joke. I was just pointing out that i don't think most upvoted because they thought it was a funny joke, i think they upvoted because they were sincerely surprised ",
"I suppose that makes more sense, I had this mental picture of someone building a tiny house out of stolen sidewalk bricks",
"\"People actually steal bricks out of my sidewalk because they think they came with Paul Revere and the boys\"",
"It could be worse. In Carmel Indiana, the mayor is in bed with the brick layers guild, and uses actual bricks for a bunch of the intersections. This has 2 major side effects:\n\n1. It's super expensive and takes forever to make\n\n2. Within only a few years, the bricks start wearing from all the snow and ice, and start damaging cars, and making costly road repairs. ",
"can you just stay straight on these and maybe put a foot down for stability?",
"that being said brushed concrete has good traction, so i assume it's just for looks",
"https://media.giphy.com/media/DqrccgvGSmre/giphy.gif",
"Do...do you need to talk to somebody? ",
"Goodnight Ned.",
"Yes",
"[~](https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1c_4YSVXXXXcYXXXXq6xXFXXXh/Black-White-Line-Curve-Abstract-Portrait-Painting-Dance-Girl-Abstract-Linear-Picasso-Minimalist-Art-Canvas-Poster.jpg)",
"because the concrete will break sooner or later, this just makes sure it breaka into neat pieces an no chipping occours",
"You seem very passionate about your opinions on the economy. Perhaps you'd be better off getting involved in supporting political candidates who share the same views than to make straw man arguments online.",
"My back thanks you for this post",
"[Please, children, scooch closer. Don't have me tell you again about the scooching.](https://youtu.be/FZ1mdBYrFBU)",
"For some reason i thought this was a gif and i watched it for way too long waiting for them to move the stencil....",
"What the heck is electro-static paint?",
"Like the time the 7yr old me discovered the wood panels on my grandmother's car were fake.",
"I'm out of touch with the youth. You could be totally right.",
"Mostly amongst the state legislature.",
"Boy Scout of America is US specific. Scouting in Canada is called *Scout Canada*. They are all part of Scouting, a worldwide foundation started by Baden Powell in the UK (early 1900's).\n\nScout Canada does not have an eagle rank. It is likely /u/eaglescout1984 moved to Canada after obtaining his eagle.\n\nWhile I realize you are not familiar with scouting, think logically. *Eagle*. That's literally as American (USA) as you can get.\n\nSource: eagle scout\n\nEdit: also checking your grammar, *america* does not include Canada. *North* America includes Canada. *Americas*, plural, includes Canada. America is singular and defaults to the US since it cannot distinguish between north or south.",
"Is this indoors? If you pour piles, which are concrete pillars going all the way down to below frost (i.e. no rise and fall/heaving) or on solid bedrock, then you can avoid the concrete rising and falling. If it's indoors then the heating can mitigate any temperature changes, which should prevent any thermal expansion, or at least lengthen the lifespan considerably.\n\nI know the Romans used a volcanic ash from a particular area in their concrete mixes, which is why it's so strong that most of their structures are still (somewhat) standing.",
"> fake crosswalk\n\nUh yeah, pretty sure that is a real crosswalk buddy. People actually use that to cross the street.",
"Dip me like one of your French Fries",
"I had no idea this was a thing, either, until a few months ago when we bought a house. One of our upcoming projects is going to be our back patio, it’s sinking and it collects a lot of water when it rains. My husband mentioned wanting concrete, I said it was too plain. He told me about stamped concrete. My mind was blown.",
"If you think that’s a lie wait to you see how they put on yellow lines on the roads ",
"What’s the real sin is making me think this was a gif",
"I feel like a YouTube video of you walking around town pointing out these facts would be fascinating. ",
"\"Here's the blueprints.\"",
"Build me like a brick house. But not actually a *brick* house. ",
"The reason you would do that would be to prevent cracking from erosion over time. If you don't cut the concrete, over time, it'll lead to cracks and potholes and things of the like. If you lay the concrete and cut it, the tiles it makes will have the ability to move independently of one another. Preventing large cracks as the landscape changes.",
"Question: They did several strips of this across a stretch of highway near me, the color lasted maybe a few months, presumably helped and accelerated by snow tire studs. \n\nHow are both parties not privy to the concept that the thin colored surface will wear away super quickly and make it kind of silly and pathetic looking in no time relative to the duration of time the surface is meant to stay there?\n\nI assume the dusting of color that is broadcast and troweled into the surface is a standard procedure over coloring the entire contents of the walkway strip? Which I think is the specific way this particular piece was done. ",
"Wow..this dude is good lol",
"Still has a purpose. It's definitely not like this everywhere, but at least this gets rid of aquaplaning. Still a bit weird, since you don't need the interlocking pattern. ",
"It’s stamped concrete...how if your life a lie? It’s a cheaper alternative to pavers. \n\nDeep breath buddy....pavers to exist. ",
"I'd like to Eiffel her towers *if you know what I mean.*\n\n",
"Give me that baluster right in my eaves. ",
"Ah, didn't know.",
"That’s no cobblestone though",
"mmm loving it. ",
"Repoooooooooooooost ",
"Trick is to walk on the black ones when it's rainy! ",
"Now my girder is rigid. Cantilever it alone?",
"So when I listen to house music in my house it's double house?",
"> Upstate and downstate are very different places my guy \n\nYou're the first person from New York who I've heard say this. Everyone I know from NY has said there's NYC and the rest is upstate NY, lol",
"rawr!",
"Asphalt and curbs are civil engineering. They usually defer to us to design and spec the patterned asphalt. It's a bit confusing actually since it would probably be a lot easier on the contractor if the patterned pavement showed up on the drawings for the asphalt. Maybe that's just how it is where I am.",
"Almost ate shit at 45km/h because I didn't think anything of it. Turned in an intersection that had the moto path merging through the cross walk and it slid sideways on me. From then on I'm paranoid as hell around any painted surfaces.",
"I think the biggest benefit here is not ruining your back. \n \nOnly a small benefit to the entire process though /s.",
"False. There is no *America* that is not the US.\n\n*North* America includes Canada. The *Americas*, plural, also does.\n\nAmerica does not distinguish north or south and since you're obviously not referring to both continents since it is singular. It logically defaults to the only country with the word \"America\" in its name.",
"it also has a function. fault lines will mostly crack at the weaker parts in between the \"bricks\" and not show. ",
"haha our thermoplastic in chicago for bike & bus lanes didn't last the year it was put down",
"We have some old cobblestone roads in our town, I think mostly for historic purposes.\n\nThey still develop tracks every few years and need to be redone.",
"That picture its older than my grandmother. ",
"Can confirm. Just got back from san francisco and they decided they didn't like concrete anymore and were tired of digging it up to service shit so they are replacing the entire city with sod. /s",
"City requirement sounds likely here. Kind of a farming military town, not exactly out of their way progressive",
"The cake is a lie.",
"Hey girl, were you designed by Jan Kaplicky? 'Cause you've got gorgeous curves.\n\nHey baby, I wanna get you wet so I can check out your flashing details.\n\nSomething something caryatid, something rebar... uhh, I got nothin'.\n\n",
"As someone who has laid a lot of interlocking pavers, they're not all like this. \n\n\nSo not your ENTIRE life...",
"Gravel is even better traction, costs less and lasts longer than this will.",
"I had a summer job once where I had to remove weeds from street stones, and damn was dat a pain in the a** . \n\nI really hope they implement something similar here . ",
"I mean, not all pavers are like this. Just most installed by the city itself. ",
"Maaaan! I’m so high. I was on r/gifs backed out to this image and tried to get it to play for like 20 Min before realizing this is on r/pics. Let it be known to kids that smoke weed. ",
"It's like a sad reality level in a mario game. ",
"Yes officer, this one right here.",
"When you’re all that I think abouuut",
"Creates jobs... sort of",
"Out of curiosity, what degree/certs do you have? I work in admin at a landscaping company and kind of want to move out of it.",
"What?",
"Urethane wheels bitch",
"We have those in Brazil too. Now I know who to blame :P",
"...May I see it?",
"You usually still need to redo it once in a while. The issue with most road surfaces is not the top layer, it’s hard to make the bottom part stable enough.",
"yeah expansion/contraction and regular use would normally shift and tilt the tiles (the idea being that you can more easier replace a single tile than an entire walkway pavement slabs same deal - that's why the tar is there, to seal the movement joint). This imprint for purely cosmetic reasons actually damages the concrete by creating weak points, and then doesn't protect it from wear & tear. I hope they've allowed for good reo and extra cover under there. Yeesh.",
"Well, in that case, a person who lays bricks isn't a layer either. They're just a brick holding guide for gravity...",
"That's not actually a benefit to actual bricks though, as it serves the same purpose. That's just the benefit compared to not having a tapered pattern. ",
"Work smarter, not harder.",
"\"Producer\" ",
"Yeah but southern NY is default NY.\n\nIf someone asks where you're from and you say NY, they think NYC. It's up to you, as the weird part of the state, to make the distinction.",
"In my city they just use a cutting wheel to etch a grid and then paint it. It looks nice until winter when the salt, sand and grime wears it off quickly. The city then ignores it for the foreseeable future.",
"Your entire life must be in a cubicle. ",
"But why the interlocking pattern if that's the case?",
"/r/myentirelifeisalie\n",
"It also has a secondary feature beyond looks, it keeps the population young. As those get worn out, they become very slippery.",
"That's a brick of a comment",
"*French* whore.",
"It’s not impossible to roll over this with either, but it’s not confortable or fun even with plushiest longboard wheels",
"I wish my uni did this. They have only half-bricked part the MAIN fucking walkway down the middle and left it fenced off for months now, meaning you have to literally detour for like 15 mins around the buildings to get past that one bit. ",
"WHAT THE FUCK",
"Who the fuck steals a paving brick? And *why?*",
"Flint Michigan has full brick roads. I wish they did this instead. The brick road is terrible. It's like being in bumper cars. ",
"Wouldn’t you prefer going through a paver manufacturer?",
"Yeah we had the same problem, it looked really nice at first, but after a couple years the cobblestone was really uneven, bumpy and everyone wanted it gone.",
"Yes. ",
"Why though? Unless this makes it less likely for a huge crack to ruin the sidewalk, this just makes it super bumpy for scooters, skateboards, rollerskates, etc. ",
"I hadn't seen this until now, so I'm happy for the repost. \n\nThe whole world doesn't revolve around you. ",
"Definitely true, can't say I disagree with homeowners who live on a brick road. \n\nIt's just funny how the whole circus repeats itself every damn time ",
">Do you stand by that statement?\n\nNo, because it's not what I said. This is what I said:\n\n\"Many non-American cities have roads or sidewalks like that. They also pay people to clean the streets and pick up trash. They actually like to have nice, clean cities instead of shity ones like us :P\"\n\n>I'm simply saying your original statement was both ignorant and incorrect\n\nI'm sorry if I hurt your feelings by saying I prefer clean, well-maintained cities.",
"Why though? ¯\\\\\\_(ツ)_/¯",
"That has nothing to do with common sense. That's actually so far removed from common sense that I'm not sure you even know what common sense means. ",
"Ok done.\n\nhttps://www.wired.com/2015/08/everblock-life-size-lego/\n\nAny other requests? \n\nAnd no I can make your dad love you.",
"Happy cake day!",
"http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/steamed-hams",
"Eat me like one of your french fries",
"Come to Santiago, Chile then. The real ones are still used... A very big street still has this instead of actual pavement, in some spots. Feels funky when driving on it.",
"Yeah, but then you'd have to use asphalt. ",
"\"I did nothing wrong. The rest of you are wrong. I reject the legitimacy of the authority of the state to regulate my personal behavior. If I could go back I'd do it again.\"\n\nVersus\n\n\"I am so sorry your honor. I am a stupid kid that made a mistake. I've learned there are consequences to my actions, and I will never do it again.\"",
"Amen ",
"I assume someone saw a loose brick and took it. I remember hearing about it because one got thrown through the window of a business a few years back.",
"My wheels are quite plush. Plus where i went to college. The sidewalk leading back home was to say the least “skateable” with bigger set soft wheels",
"I believe the genre is called \"YouTube Minecraft Timelapse\"",
"Is there no one among us who can defeat the dandelion?!",
"Takes less time than placing individual bricks",
"Wouldn’t this make sense to prevent cracks and pot holes?",
"No. ",
"Do it right the first time?",
"But it starts to erode, and it's a struggle not to slip when wet. ",
"u/IvorTheEngine's [comment below](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7qbr58/comment/dsnzq85?st=JCF0U41U&sh=2a476f83) should help answer your question. \n\nEdit: Tagging u/camdoodlebop. See link for answer to your question.",
"[*House*](https://youtu.be/W-arVdXoR5E)",
"I hadn't seen this until now, so I'm happy for the repost. \n\nThe whole world doesn't revolve around you.\n\n\n...in case you missed it.",
"I grew up pouring concrete in large factories and commercial facilities. No matter what liquid composition (water, plasticizers, etc) or reinforcement (rebar, fibres, metal slivers, etc) concrete over a large expanse will crack over time. You can probably get up to a 15 foot square that doesn't crack but the concrete itself generates heat as it cures, so controlling the temperature is very hard.\n\nWe just did as you said: put all the expansion joints and saw cuts under walls and door sills so they're hidden from view.\n\nEdit: the alternative, of course, is to tension the concrete, but no one wants to pay for that on a grade-level floor just to prevent cracking.",
"Back in 1999, the county I grew up in was planning to put strips of bricks into sidewalks for the sake of aesthetics. My friend's disabled father go this shut down under the ADA, and so the county put in brick-colored prints like this instead. I always thought the prints they used looked a little bit dumb, but living in Boston for the last several years, I really appreciate what he did. The brick sidewalks here are uneven, slippery, and especially treacherous when you can't see them well under the snow and ice. Physically disabled people often walk in the streets instead.",
"hudson valley is another downstate area.\nSome people call everything north of the Bear Mountain Bridge upstate.\nPeople in NYC call anything north of the last subway stop in the Bronx =upstate",
"Edited of to or in original btw.\n\nI thought this would be the case. I would think it would be easier having a landscape architect on the team and just work together during planning and building. Though my roads get torn up by 5 different orgs right after being redone to update this or change that so it doesn't surprise me haha. Efficiency isn't always the goal. ",
"Rather than tell you how that happens, I'll just link to a video on [how bricks are made.](https://youtu.be/SbKvhHzn4hQ) ",
"Could be in California, I've seen a fair number of crosswalks that look similar to this around my city \n\nlittle rain and temps never go below high 40s",
"Yes, Australia as a whole does get that on average because so much of it is fucking desert..those bits tend to be unoccupied for the most part.\n \nPeople tend to live where they have access to water, someone living in Sydney will probably get ten times the rain than they would have broken hill, both are in NSW.\nThe NSW average could be low, but that is spread over a area bigger than many European countries \n",
"they do this everywhere. ",
"I think you answered your own question. ",
"Key word being new. Our town just upgraded a highway and they put the red brick looking stuff down on them. It looked great for about two weeks until the weeds took over. ",
"Not your entire life. Just most of it. ",
"> 🎅🏻\n\nWhat is that supposed to be? It's just boxes on my computer.",
"i definitely thought it was some kind of critter race\n\ngood morning",
"Good morning star shine. The Earth says \"hello\"",
"The biggest divide I have ever seen is Chicago Metro area vs Rest of Illinois. ",
"No, it scaffolded. ",
"That's not common sense. That's called being a quitter.",
"So they are looking for ways to accelerate the process, but would it still not be better to use their method on the meantime? Is there a short term cost that makes that not feasible?",
"Sex Architect",
"staaaaaahp",
"Long island is the island. The city is the city. Those counties are down state. \n\n*speaking as a northern here who lived half my life in one of those downstate counties. ",
"Goodnight Ted.",
"You know it's illegal to ride a bicycle on the sidewalk, right? ",
"I like this better than real bricks because if you're skateboarding down the sidewalk, real bricks shift around weird over time creating unwanted obstacles when hauling ass",
"Insignificant, the cost of the other materias and actual labor would dwarf any dye costs",
"Very cool.\n\nThough, just watching the firs feed the bricks into the machine still looks like more work per square foot than the above method.\n\nAlso, I needed that song.",
"well it looks better",
"Walmart has those thermoplastic things with the bumps, and going over them with a shopping cart is like rattling my teeth loose every time. ",
"No.",
"Next time if your on mobile try to zoom in to see if it’s a pic or gif. ",
"thought this said \"goodnight moron\" and chuckled",
"While the concrete is drying after being cast it starts shrinking, causing friction relative to the bottom of the concrete slab, and will in most cases start to crack within the first week. This is normal. Putting in sufficient reinforcement to prevent cracking from occuring is not cost effective. By making grooves you control where the cracks will occur and it will look better than random cracking branching out everywhere.\nThermoexpansion is usually not an issue because the initial shrinkage will counter any expansion later on. But there are exceptions depending on factors like concrete receipt, treatment while drying, temperature when cast and so on...",
"depends on how long you want to wait on replacing. Properly done concrete will outlast concrete by a long shot",
"Better than standard bricks shaped this way",
"Mind blown! Idk why I never knew this. ",
"r/specializedtools",
"Upfront cost may be cheaper but maintenance cost isn't. This gaps do not effect longevity of the stamped concrete as the stamps are only pressed in on the surface and not through the slab. Concrete will crack, given enough time. It's purely for asthetics \n\nHowever with brick or concrete pavers you can pull up and repair the area as needed whereas with concrete you have to do a full cut out and replace. A full cut out will also affect the asthetics of the area.\n\nThe ROI on unit pavers vs concrete is palpable. \n",
"I'd like to fly her buttress *if you know what I mean*",
"What drives me crazy, is we have all these amazing materials that could look like nearly anything we could possibly imagine - stamped concrete, ceramic, plastic laminates, etc., yet overwhelmingly we make it look like (usually fake-looking) clay brick, stones, and wood. Is this really all architects can come up with, or do things just need to be very boring for city councils to vote on them?\n\nI'd love to cross the street over some anti-slip [MC Escher fish](http://www.mcescher.com/gallery/back-in-holland/no-41-two-fish/)!",
"All the Moonmen want things their way\n\nBut we make sure they see the sun",
"Hi Japan",
"If they didn't do it this way it would never be even",
"Old York to some.",
"They can also install brick pavers. ",
"work smart not hard ",
"What would convince anyone to steal bricks out of a sidewalk?",
"This explains a lot of upstate New York, steamed hams and Albany expression jibberish here for you. It is a [**Simpsons reference**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDUIGvpDolw).",
"You could honestly Texas and Michigan here in Georgia. Our weather is fucking crazy contrary to popular belief.",
"Stamped concrete is not considered permeable. It is very much still impervious. Only permeable concrete, pavers or asphalt is considered permeable when measuring from a LEED point perspective. ",
"😥😭😢😡",
"[It gets worse. This is concrete as well.](https://i.imgur.com/1WDiXja.jpg)",
"I agree with you.",
"Actually while this is cheaper than laying bricks and also looks like a good idea, it is environmentally aweful. Traditionally water can go through the spots between the bricks. This new design is not better than asphalt and usually not necessary. It is a big problem for groundwater and also for floods. If there is heavy rain the water can only be pumped into the underground water system. Same goes for water from rivers or similar things, and often times the system is overwhelmed in these situations. It becomes a huge problem. Not just because of this new method but in general we are closing our ground up...",
"Dandelions are tough, but I've yet to meet one that could handle a dose of round up",
"That's just cheating",
"So what's really the difference if the bricks are made before or after?",
"It's actually most of the same. Bricks are made by pouring concrete in to the mold. This is placing the mold over the concrete",
"If you're talking about floors or stairs in factories, they're generally prefab concrete poured with pretensioned cables. The cable tension compresses the concrete and prevents it from cracking due to expansion and contraction.\n\nhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestressed_concrete",
"Destroy my physical and mental well being like one of your concubines.",
"Mexicans hate him",
"> near Toronto?\n\nWhy in the name of God would any city with regular freeze/thaw cycle deliberately put cracks into concrete?",
"if you are flooding then you aren't getting the area drainage and slant right so it doesn't really make a huge difference. ",
"Goodnight Loon \n\nhttps://i.imgur.com/Fbt6tZh.jpg",
"The city planners that I've worked with are less involved in the design aesthetic than you might be hoping. Basically they review plans and applications from developers to determine if they meet code.\n\nI think you're thinking you'd like to work for a real estate developer. I don't know how you get into that. I've worked with developers that had backgrounds or education in architecture, business, engineering, etc. Business is probably the most common I've seen. ",
"They aren’t bricks... it’s just a pattern ",
"Or, are sides children laying machines?",
"ahh thank u",
"That sounds terrifying and definitely not what was supposed to happen. Someone dropped the ball big time if the thermoplastic layer is sliding.\n\nSorry you had to go through that, glad to hear you're okay.\n\nEDIT: I just realized he meant the motorcycle slid, not the thermoplastic. Still, that's terrifying.",
"Have a good day!",
"Good night nobody.",
"Please name the child Brock Rick.\n\n\"B. Rick\"",
"[Meanwhile, in the Netherlands.](https://www.autoblog.nl/archive/2010/11/16/nederlandse-vinding-kan-straten-als-een-tapijt-leggen)",
"Typically, I go for the cheaper option regardless of the application.",
"Wait'll you find out about 9/11.",
"Drive slower.",
"Why no tessellation?",
"Not if it’s in the middle of the turn. \n\nEven if it’s not, imagine how impractical what you just suggested is... You’ve got to put your feet out when you go over it? You’re also moving maybe 40mph and you have to catch yourself by putting your feet down?",
"This is a playful dialogue between pavement and sidewalk.",
"What the fucking hell! Mind blown. ",
"Here, we put thick (looks like 1\" dia) ~18\" lengths of rebar connecting the expansion joints to control height movement between sections.\n\nOn older roads, they will sawcut perpendicular to the joint, about 2\" wide, drop in steel, level the sections and then pour over the cut.",
"Yes, riding a motorcycles results in a high probability of death or dismemberment.",
"I feel spoiled. My city uses actual bricks. I have no idea why because we're so far north it get's all uneven after one winter, but it looks good otherwise. ",
"I went to Fanshawe College for Landscape Design, but there's also Bachelor of Landscape Architect courses at University. After that I just applied for a job as a Junior Landscape Designer/CAD technician. \n\nI had to write four exams and submit reports on my work experience for four years as part of my \"professional development\" before I could call myself a Landscape Architect though.",
"America...",
"I'm triggered.",
"Well, my dad did love me, but he died 25 years ago. Now about my teenage son...",
"Those guys seen to have the attitude of, \"What do I care? I'm hourly.\"",
"I don’t think you understand how weeds grow",
"That's...That's... Cost effective...",
"Santa emoji",
"This is just wasting money for no good reason",
"I do. It's amazing, though, how few cars follow the law by giving me the required 3 feet minimum of space, but all I ever see is people complaining about cyclists. We're not the problem, and most of us are drivers, too.",
"I'm working on a construction project in a posh township in NJ. All of their crosswalks are actual red brick pavers.\n\nBut they approved our plans, which show asphalt stamped in a brick pattern, and coated red. I think they fucked up during the plan review , so we'll see what happens when we install it per the plans.",
"Maybe this is being done in Arizona? or texas or one of the many areas of the world that rarely sees ice and snow? ",
"Dude.. its called stamped concrete. Ya gotta realize how much work is involved in a few square feet of interlock. Its just not cost effective for public use.",
"That's fucking amazing",
"Goodnight noises, everywhere.\n\n\n\nCome on, son!",
"Yup, that will last about a year and then it's going to look like someone spilled paint.\n\nsuch a waste of money imo",
"Oh wow",
"Or they tripped over the loose brick and decided to chuck it in frustration.\n\nSource: live in a neighborhood with brick sidewalks and have contemplated this many times after nearly falling over.",
"The genius of it all!",
"you wont be saying that on an icy morning.",
"I'm pretty sure this is the only right answer of all of the above",
"Life uh... Finds a way. ",
"What came first, the machine or the egg?",
"sure beats wiping out.",
"My faith in humanity has just been restored.",
"It's a fuckin' overpass, what did you expect?",
"WHAT THE FUCK lol\n\nWHY!! \n\nThat is totally insane to me",
"Making it patterned helps it withstand cold?",
"Stamped concrete is the shit. If you use powdered color hardener though that shit is going to be fucking every where. They're probably going to just paint this though.",
"does nobody slip when it's raining? I visited porto during a heavy rain and going up a street with a heavy rucksack was fun! In Austria we have to use lots of salt in winter to free everything from ice so nobody falls, which is pretty silly in my opinion.",
"Wait until you realize that Disney makes concrete look like... Rock, Wood, Brick, Stone, Tree roots, etc... there’s a compete team dedicated to just texture manufacturing for their parks. ",
"Yes, that will work out well when some vapor brained Lexus pilot with a super important text is behind you.",
"Some countries actually use the bricks.",
"I like how they gave up for the last 5 ft",
"That’s not what he meant. The TP layer didn’t slide. The motorcycles slide on it because it becomes a super low friction surface to tires when wet.",
"Hey everybody! This guy's a phony! A big fat phony!",
"no, although it might help to prevent cracking.\n\nThe 'pattern' creates friction. You slide on that you'll come to a stop, try that on completely flat concrete and you'll keep going (or falling)",
"How do you look so good when you can’t see yourself in the mirror? Does someone else do your hair or how does that work? ",
"Weird, the bricks shaped just like this outside my building are actual bricks. This just seems lazy.",
"Probably tradition more than culture. That's just how it's done and it looks cool enough so why not.",
"My city built actual bricked pavements. It's hell. It's been over 10 years now. In winter they have no grip when it's raining. They are also constantly moving a little bit when you walk because of where your weight lands. And it's a hassle whenever workers need to access pipes/wires etc. Also the sand often comes up and gets everywhere.",
"What about dandy lions?",
"Same effect, lasts longer, much easier",
"Flat asphalt or concrete will not last long without cracks or deformations (for different reasons). As for forming the \"bricks\", probably the mayor of that place has a phony contract with bricks producing company. He does it on the cheap like in the photo, keeps the difference in his pocket, and gets to show the 'bricks' if someone comes to investigate. (A small conspiracy theory, but I've seen similar schemes in Eastern Europe and Africa )",
"For this application? I would rather concrete or impressed asphalt. With the amount of water, salt and traffic passing over, pavers would turn into a hazard fairly quickly with heaving. At least with asphalt, it get's \"wavy\" when in settles, instead of having stones jutting out or cracked edges, which would make it much harder for someone in a wheelchair to cross. With concrete, it's more expensive, but stronger and you will have a continuous flat surface for a few decades if it's installed correctly.",
"#metoo",
"THa might look good if the panels actually sat flush with each other. It'd look better than flat concrete anyway.",
"Calçada just means sidewalk, of any kind, not just this.",
"No, these function as control joints nonetheless. In situations where the integrity of the concrete is not 100% imperative, like this, any cracks will form right at the bottom along the same lines as you see up above.",
"Again, waited for the gif to start... ",
"Maybe if you have lazy workers. It’s not hard to prep a bed and lay a walk correctly.",
"Makes sense, but in an area where the most (often but the most) you get is heavily frosted grass how much of a use is it?",
"It is indeed Hungary.",
"REPOST\nE\nP\nO\nS\nT\n",
"To be fair, brick is expensive af compared to asphalt ",
"If weeds are growing up in cracks then it just wasn't put together properly. There shouldn't be any soil for them and the cracks should be filled with sealant sand. I build these relatively often and have made whole backyards into paver patios, ours have a solid three feet of gravel and sand compressed under them, never had a weed sprout through a single one of my patios, and they don't shift because we put a solid base under them. Replaced many stamped concrete ones that had cracked or moved. I'm not sure where everyone is getting the info that the stamp is a better idea, in practice it really, really isn't.",
"Putting down grass doesn't seem smart. Why would they sod the road.",
"If this is how they do it, why do they pick such an unattractive shape for the bricks?",
"It still beats being hunched over putting the bricks in the ground. My back would be screaming after two hours of doing this by hand",
"This has been a thing for years! I told a now ex-girlfriend that is how they made the brick crosswalks. She vehemently disagreed with me because that made no sense.",
"That's not asphalt. It's concrete. ",
"Lol I thought this was common knowledge ",
"Draw me with good structural integrity",
"My illusion of hard and inefficient manual labor has been shattered! ;) ",
">We're not the problem, and most of us are ~~drivers~~people, too.\n\nFTFY",
"[Never change, reddit](https://i.imgur.com/OnViSC1.png)",
"!RedditSilver",
"It gives some texture to what would otherwise be smooth concrete. Helps keep it from becoming quite as slick.",
"Escalate me like one of your mechanical staircases. ",
"They got me too ",
"Good night, Chuck! ",
"I suppose",
"Such a nice floor.",
"They can, and in the past, they have. None of the recent developments I've worked on does this anymore, probably because it's cheaper to install and easier for the civil engineer to plan drainage around.",
" Trust me. As someone who has to lay brick often enough, this thing reduces labor by a massive amount. ",
"Cheap imposters. But the real thing exists:\n\nhttps://i.imgur.com/KqoTo.jpg",
"It defies the purpose of having a brick surface, because it won't prevent surface runoff..",
"All of Germany",
"Western NY is way different from both iirc. Though I'm a Southern guy.",
"Word, up in Jefferson county we just call it New York City. ",
" Laying by hand you never get it so tight. You have to knock them in tight. This thing only has use for certain applications but it's definitely put some people out of work. ",
"/r/Subredditsashashtags",
"I thought those were bricks, I've been lied...",
"Good talk",
"anyone else stupidly think this was a gif?\n",
"You're not really this stupid, are you? On what planet do cyclists belong on the sidewalk?",
"It can tear your knee quite easily. I know several old riders with knee problems. I have put my foot down at speed and it hurts. If you're wearing the gear, sometimes it's better to just go down. ",
"they are also slick when going slow",
"Well its pretty much the most resillient stone but yes, eventually they wear out. Dont really se it happening (with pedestrian use) before you need to tear them out to replace sewers or upgrade some other infrastructure.",
"I was expecting it to sort the bricks too. But in retrospect, that would probably be a hard thing to pull off from an engineering standpoint. Not to mention that a brick sorting and patterning machine (let's call it a brick printer) would be much bigger.",
"Who is that boss? It's [Stone Man!](http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Stone_Man)",
"Flat earth confirmed.",
"Goodnight little Xanax bars",
"Its actually a lot better then having real bricks because it settles evenly so it's a lot smoother",
"It's Reddit. Some gaffots just need to complain",
"To put it very simply. Amazing materials and systems cost money. They're the first thing to get cut from the project",
"Serious question: is that done for drainage or just aesthetics? ",
"Goodnight Sokka.",
"Because we all live in the same country all around the world, right?",
"My city did the same thing. At this point the paint has mostly worn off so it just looks tacky.",
"Same dude. \n\nGood morning. ",
"Could be. It's only in our \"historic\" downtown area, which is codeword for \"lots of fancy bars\". Could have been alcohol fueled.",
"You make the riser on my stairs go to out of regulation heights. ",
"^ this guy subreddits",
"If it's Chicago he's talking about, it's stamped painted asphalt. \n\nSource: utility supervisor, I have had to dig through it. ",
"dundun-dudu-dun\n\nLAYIN THE BRICKS\n\ndundun-duhduh-dun\n\nWIPIN THE DUST\n\ndundun-duhduh-dun\n\nLOADIN THE TRUCK\n\nthat's the lyric score I imagined as I watched them do mundane things to the scintillating tune\n\n",
"You're welcome. ",
"well thanks for spoiling all of our dreams ",
"Well, if this is how it's going to be done - why not make kitty paws or foot print patterns instead? ",
"https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sod%20it",
"I grew up 45 minutes from Albany (Pittsfield MA) and have never heard someone use the expression.",
"You like that ya fuckin retard!?",
"Still waiting",
"It would be cheaper to have just poured concrete and left it, yes.",
"🎶lips pout, walls fall out🎶",
"I've been waiting since yesterday and this gif still hasn't played. ",
"Damn it... Take my upvote, you witty bitch.",
"That’s cheating",
"Visit Korea to have your faith restored. They spend countless man hours placing and replacing those little bricks on sidewalks all over the country. ",
"I'd say aesthetics, but there is a chance it may help with freezin/thawing cycles to prevent damage",
"Don’t go from 90 to 30 in ten feet. ",
"You know these hamburgers are quite similar to the ones they have at Krusty Burger...",
"Maintenance is the word you're looking for. Hope that's helpful to you. ",
"I graciously accept your correction!",
"Work smarter not harder",
"Yeah...you like that, you fucking retard",
"I seent it at some California cities. ",
"Same reason why vinyl siding looks like wood.",
"Yeah but we don't care. ",
"Not just motorcyclists, regular ol' cyclists too.\n\nSkinny tyres and slippery surfaces do not mix.",
"Whether it’s illegal or not varies by local laws. In my city, it’s only illegal downtown, and merely discouraged elsewhere. Never heard of anywhere that encourages bicycles to stick to the sidewalks though. Bicycles have to go somewhere, and it’s frequently both faster and safer to have them among cars than pedestrians.",
"I’ve live in NY for my entire 33 years of life and this is the first time I’ve heard anyone say “downstate”. You either live “in the city”, “out on the island” or “upstate”.",
"Exactly ",
"Honestly? I think in many cases both parties are concerned with getting the development certified as painlessly as possible. Basically, the City holds a bunch of the developers money, equal to half or all of the estimated cost of the work (not including the building usually, it varies per City) and the developer only gets that money back when the site is finished. So we put in these coloured crosswalks and they look fine when the City inspects them, and then everyone walks away happy. \n\nI wish I had a better answer for you but it's usually because everyone just wants to get the job done and go home. There are a lot of things that are taken seriously, such as safety and accessibility, but no one wants to pay extra so the colour lasts longer.\n\nOh, and yes to your second question. If it's concrete, it's usually coloured via an admixture, which would carry through the entire depth, as that will last significantly longer than coating the surface, which can also be done.",
"Illegal sometimes but way safer for everyone involved.",
"I am disappointed that there arent people laying bricks one by one. I mean, r/mildlysatisfying, but also r/mildlydissapointing",
"NB. they didn't last through hundreds of years of auto traffic.",
"Do you think you have a point?",
"I can't even.",
"Fun fact: the word dandelion comes from French „dent-de-lion“, which means „lion‘s tooth“. ",
"I want this to play so bad.",
"Are all your streets the same standard width or something?",
"I wish I could answer you. It's probably a lot less complicated than the name makes it sound. It's basically a way of painting that works on asphalt. Normal painting methods won't \"stick\".",
"\"things you can say about your construction project but not about your girlfriend\"",
"Except brick manufacturers aren't necessarily interested in laying bricks. They produce the components and let others put them together.",
"Why...? Isn't it fine the way it is, without any patterning?",
"r/whoresome",
"[OK.](https://i.imgur.com/ZfDbmmT.png)",
"The pattern also promotes better drainage, so the walkway has no low spots of nothing but ice.",
"I was a little disappointed",
"This a fucking nightmare to the those of us who are superstitious",
"I wonder what the Romans would think of this?",
"They're the same person! Think about it. Have you ever seen them both at the same time?",
"y dey doo dat doe?",
"Concrete is cheap. In Kansas City, it's about $105/cubic yard. Concrete dye is expensive comparatively. IIRC, red being the most expensive, was about half the cost of the concrete itself. \nCoatings, like paint, are cheap but don't last. \nMunicipalities over-spend so much on the contracts, the cost of the materials is minimal. \nBTW, a 6-bag mix is much less prone to cracks than the standard 5-bag mix. I don't know why it isn't used more. ",
"Happy Cake Day!",
"Painted porches are my nemesis. Source- am mailman. ",
"...so I can join #metoo insanity",
"Answered every question I had about it except how do you start?",
"What the hell was that song?",
"Buenos Aires is like this. All of the sidewalks are made of paver stones. They get dug up pretty regularly. Rainy days are fun, stepping on a loose paver with water under it shoots up a stream of dirty water onto your pants. With practice you can see them (the loose ones) at a distance and avoid this. Its kind of like playing minesweeper though, cause you never really know for certain. ",
"I saw them laying bricks in a median last summer. Took them forever so I see why they do it this way now. ",
"Concrete is a magical world.\n\nGood money to be made for quality work if you can handle the labor. ",
"It is not. It is actually dangerous for the pedestrians and the bikers which is why it is discouraged in so many placed and illegal in many more.",
"Reading this to the tune of “I wanna be a millionaire” made me decide the logical next line would be “but I suck at math” ",
"I think the smooth parts were supposed to be underground. Maybe they haven't finished with the landscaping",
"Thank you for the explaination! ",
"Well, I'm in more of a senior role, but as a junior, my days were usually working on planting plans that a senior redlined (marked up with a pen, ideally red) for me or revising plans. Also working in photoshop colouring concept plans or doing something in SketchUp (that's one of the more fun parts). This is punctuated by taking phone calls from contractors or client's asking about something you drew three weeks ago. \n\nI spend much more time on the phone or in \"team meetings\" with Civil, Architect, the Client, the City, etc. or in site inspections and writing proposals, trying to get even more jobs to keep the billable hours rolling in.\n\nI spend a lot of time working on townhouse developments, where the roads, sidewalks, townhouses, are all laid out, I just have to plan out everyone's front yard, fences, patios, bike racks, etc. but there's also commercial plazas, factories. Once in a blue moon you get to work on something cool, like an urban plaza or a high end development with rooftop gardens and public art.",
"So how does the grass grow in between? ",
"Then your town didn't use what the article said?\n\nBecause it's just a small indention and there are no cracks for weeds to come through. That's one of the pros of using this style, it's all one big surface still connected so nothing can come through or not a single \"brick\" can dislodge or become uneven. ",
"it's all a Lie",
"Are you bragging or complaining? lol",
"Haha, guilty too",
"Made us feel Stupid",
"Can verify that this is how it’s done in California as well, am a Landscape Architecture student who just finished up a class where they taught us just that",
"Indeed. And the individual bricks eventually get knocked out of the grid and it's a mess. But why the brck pattern? Why not just leave it smooth or just have simple rectangular brick pattern? That shape was needed for bricks because they lock into each other.",
"I'm pretty outraged by this",
"This doesn't seem smart. For starters you're going to have lots of trapped water in the grooves which will further degrade the concrete. You'll also have dust and soil settling into the cracks and eventually you'll have weeds growing from them.",
"Yeah, the cracks will definitely get filled with organic matter in which weeds can grow.",
"In this picture the machine is set on it's largest setting. It can make smaller streets also. But there are machines that are smaller for like making sidewalks, bikelanes etc..",
"I found the builder.",
"Temperature change causes concrete to crack. If it's indoors, especially an office or something, the temperature rarely varies, so cracking doesn't occur.",
"East Coast USA!!!",
"R E P O S T",
"I looked at this picture and just said \"bummer\" ",
"And my point is that it isn't some [parched bloody continent..](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floods_in_Australia)\n\nWe obviously have different opinions of what \"wet\" is,but having grown up in the UK(very wet) and then moving to Australia I can tell you that it gets [ plenty of rain](http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/rainfall-records-loom-as-sydney-endures-19-wet-days-in-the-last-22-days-20170317-gv0zye.html)",
"Oooh an ancestor of Olmsted. Neat.",
"At least it looks nice.",
"You charge the paint with a positive charge, and charge the surface with a negative charge. They are attracted to each other so you greatly eliminate any overspray. \n\nThe item being painted and the paint both have to be conductive, so that basically rules out asphalt. Not sure that OP knows what he's talking about...",
"It will just crack inside the joints. The main reason it will crack is because once water evaporates, its mass decreases but it has the same volume, and it wants to shrink. However, the hydration of concrete is what gives it its strength, so at this points it’s begun hardening enough to be stuck in its shape. Thus, the concrete has no choice but to crack somewhere. \n\nThis part is all anecdotal but I think a reason it may seem concrete cracks more in modern construction is because contractors absolutely love adding water to concrete. People are paid to watch workers pour concrete because if it were left to some of them they would add enough to make it soup so that it could self form and they could move on to the next job. The more water in the mix, the more the concrete will shrink, the less strength it can acquire and and the more it will crack.",
"That’s the glorified job description. You probably won’t be designing whole cities. You’ll be telling people where they can put their sheds and you’ll be processing fast food drive through projects. Be a regional planner instead. You can help design policy without the consequences of your actions. No local politics and you can use all your idealistic education to guide you. ",
"This is only done so that the concrete can expand & contract properly.\n\nOh, and so the government doesn't have to pay actually skilled workers,\n\nthat can actually set a brick walkway, that would actually last a while.",
"!FUCK 2 Have some fucks",
"your life is a repost",
"Well, you know, normal butterfly tiles are probably still more common.\nCool pic though.",
"I just realized that. Either way, that's scary and something I intend to bring up if I'm ever involved in a project like this (i.e. thermoplastic on a city or provincial road).",
"Don't forget your hardhat! Don't want to get pregnant, do you?!",
"Asphalt isn't conductive. Electro static wouldn't work...",
"Those are just regular lions except they wear fancy sweaters. ",
"Well, shioot.",
"we are all dandelions on this blessed day",
"My city just painted a brick pattern. Wore terribly in about a year and they are just leaving it.",
"Whenever I read a title like this, all I hear is Jerry Seinfeld saying, “Really?! Your whole life?”. ",
"Nah once you go up north past Poughkeepsie, THEN you’re upstate. ",
"Yes, this is what they did in our area - widened the street dividers, poured concrete, textured it, and painted it brick color.",
"Yeah, I'm ready to fucking fight.",
"Seriously, getting a load of reddish sand sounds rather inexpensive. Any laterite sand will do.",
"A biker hitting a pedestrian is less dangerous than a car hitting a biker.",
">My entire life is a lie\n\njust wait til you see how men miraculously make your sewage disappear, give you both hot *and* cold water...... *out of the same tap*....... *and* turn night into day ......with the flick of a switch. \n\nand the internal combustion engine! omg!\n\n",
"Same in Sofia. Even the goverment had to step in and declare the klinkers cultural heritage so they can not be removed.",
"why is that??",
"I was fascinated in Prague that they have people with the sole job to drive around and look for missing stones, and replace them. I mean it's kinda logical but I never tought about it.",
"OP probably thought they laid each piece down individually",
"Yep",
"Lol incorrect. Vastly incorrect. It will always crack ",
"> \"People actually steal bricks out of my sidewalk because they think they came with Paul Revere and the boys\"\n\n",
"That's not the problem. If your tire and road marker material are inherently slippery, pretty much regardless of speed, you're going to have a bad time on any vehicle that has less than three wheels",
"God damn it. Just because it’s not part of NYC or LI doesn’t mean it’s “upstate.”\n\nThe Hudson valley and well north even an hour or two still isn’t upstate. ",
"I believe this is due to heat expansion and they do it to increase durability and the life of the road",
"Bloody italians and their smooth-rock rain-pooling country roads...",
"I've seen plenty of these individually stacked up, this isn't the norm by far. These mothers must be either retarded or cheap as well as the individual stones actually have a purpose, if you pour a continuous slab in the wrong conditions, or without preparing properly, it's gonna break up. But it could also be a pattern the customer asked for and its based properly etc.\n\nI'm not an expert, I just saw some youtube videos, man.",
"If you’ve heard of it how have you never heard it?",
"He speaks from heart and cuts straight to the point. ",
"If stamped concrete is done well, you can't tell the difference at a casual glace. \n\nIt's very common in theme parks - including but not limited to Disneyworld. \n\nWalmart even had stamped concrete in the entryway of every store they built for a while. \n\nAnd of course, the single most popular application of stamped concrete is driveways, sidewalks, and patios in upper and upper middle income housing developments. ",
"No!",
"Nope. Biking on sidewalks drastically decreases visibility to cars while crossing intersections, making it far more likely for bikers to be hit by a car compared to biking on the street where they belong. ",
"I'm relocating to Albany soon. Someone needs to tell me what steamed ham is, so I can say it all the time to sound like a local. \n\nI'm gonna get me some steamed ham and eat it at the track. ",
"Your life is marked forever ",
" Well those flowers definitely had distinct voices and *accents* in my head",
"And there's no space in between the stones making flood planning that much more of a headache.\n\nOver here a decent chunk of the tax (in the form of what you pay, mandatorily, for canalisation access) is based on how much of the surface you seal. Straight concrete would be 100% sealed, ordinary brick might count as 85-90%, there's special \"grass bricks\" which go down as far as 10-25%, those are very suitable for driveways, parking spaces etc. \n\nNot having them tumble all over the place is all a matter of preparing the ground properly. It's really the same as with asphalt: Skimp on the foundation and the street will crack and crumble after the first summer/winter cycles.\n\nThere's one other upside that can't be underestimated: Bricks are *very* easy to repair and maintain, which is a bonus if a tree decides to root under it, you want to bury some cables, or somesuch.\n\nThat all said, I think that gravel roads are underused, especially for smaller residential roads. Sure, they degrade, OTOH it suffices to slowly drive over them with something not entirely unlike a plow every couple of years and they're good as new.",
"Skateboarders hates these guys",
"Do people really think they were all individual blocks? God I hope people don't think sidewalks are made of individual slabs...",
"The town I live has the same 100+ year old red brick roads in many areas with the original streetcar tracks thru the center too. Rough to drive on, but they've held up amazingly well. Most of the bricks have the manufacturer name & date cast on them too. ",
"Poke holes in the concrete⸮",
"Our bike path's are just Tartan. oO Isn't that what they're supposed to be?\n\nEdit: for anyone confused https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartan_track \n\nBasically, it's a similar material to tires. Which makes sense, if rubber doesn't slip on asphalt it sure as hell won't slip on more rubber. \nThere are also patches of road before zebra crossings that seems like tartan, and now I'm thinking it actually is. I thought it was just painted asphalt but it's been going strong for more than 3 years with no maintenence in front of my home.",
"As someone who skateboards occasionally, this really pisses me off.",
"You must be from upstate. I’ve heard people say you’re not Upstate unless you’re in Adirondack North country. Seems like people want you in damn near Montreal to be Upstate. ",
"*Cupola....*",
"Except when you need to do maintenance or work on water, electric etc. You have to dig the whole thing up. Rather then remove the bricks and put them back after. \n\nAlso the village my mom grew up in had its road done in brick in the 90's and still looks great. Though it is in Germany so they probably did it properly, no offence.",
"Ok, no one else in my family finds that book as creepy as I do. \n\n1. Cats appear out of nowhere and bow before her before disappearing in the next frame.\n\n2. She says \"goodnight\" to nothing but void space.\n\n3. In one frame there's a face in the fire. ",
"That's the last straw",
"/r/killthecameraman ",
"When we rebuilt a main street in my town, I brought up the idea of having using concrete for the crosswalks, stamped as bricks, in order to have more visual differentiation from the roadway (as with all of our rain, lines easily get lost). Works great, except someone in their infinite wisdom still paints white lines on either side of the concrete, yet won't paint lines for parallel parking spaces.",
"Remember also that motorcycle tires have a curved profile, instead of flat like car tires, so the contact patch is much, much smaller",
"Do bikers not know how crosswalks work?",
"I'd make a pun, but I'm too plastered.",
"At the end of the day regular bricks and other materials like belgian block also do terribly with the freeze thaw cycle. We have a ton of roads paved with them scattered across my city and they turn to shit by spring. Certainly look pretty though. ",
"Wanton Abbey ",
"Trying, jaclyn... but my suspensions won’t stop cutting into my coffers. ",
"That can also be done by using a concrete pan to place the bricks in. We did that with a bricked plaza when we rebuilt one of our streets in my hometown. They poured the concrete, then instead of using sand as the base, they used asphalt, and the bricks look great, with no chance of anything growing between them.",
"Gang tags?",
"My town did that and didn't even bother with a tamper. They just painted a red brick pattern on the asphalt",
">individual smooth rock road type\n\nLike the type where when you slide your fingers across the pavement it feels bumpy yet glassy? Because that shit is terrifying when wet, even as a pedestrian.",
"Concrete into tuff tiles ",
"*Insert Ryan Reynold's \"but why\" meme*",
"Holy shit, every time I get on Reddit I discover there are even more stupid people in this world than I previously thought",
"they don't eat veggies. dandelion win every time.",
"Why is everyone being such dicks to each other",
"They are good in salads. Supposedly very healthy for you.",
"That was some really useful info! Thanks a lot.",
"Happy Cake Day! ",
"No.",
"You’re being obtuse. Maybe if someone is going five miles an hour on a beach cruiser or similar bike, they shouldn’t be on the road, but the road is for wheeled vehicles, sidewalk is for foot traffic.",
"Again, that doesn't matter when someone is replying to that super important text, and doesn't notice that everyone has been going 30 mph for a while.",
"I keep seeing stuff on reddit like this but then IRL I've seen people literally laying bricks in that funky zigzag pattern for a car park and I don't know what to believe anymore :(",
"Bad decision. It's still sealed off and rainwater can't pass through. Somebody needs to update the specifications to catch this loophole.",
"Ha! Look at u, u lil know it all",
"I work in IT, but this is still entirely familiar to me.",
"Texas by chance? :D",
"Art is alive, nothing is real. ",
"But they are? They're poured a slab at a time. They have to do it like that because of the frames required.",
"I don't think Germany does it like this",
"Honestly, the details behind coating/painting asphalt are beyond what I know in my field. The product I referenced uses something called [StreetBond150](http://hubss.com/products/streetbond-coatings-asphalt-concrete/pavement-coatings-asphalt-concrete).",
"Lmao, I read \"Goodnight moron.\"",
"Spot the hod one out in this chain ...",
"I would imagine also helps to control stress cracks ",
"This has to be fake news",
"Brick manufacturers are interested in selling bricks though. If they make the cost of using bricks for a path cheaper then that will help them sell more. And to clarify, it wouldn't be the brick companies making the machines in question, they would just be using them to package the bricks how the customer wants them when using automated brick setting machines.",
"Like you",
"> This part is all anecdotal but I think a reason it may seem concrete cracks more in modern construction is because contractors absolutely love adding water to concrete.\n\nNot sure about commercial standards, but I did residential foundation/poured concrete work for 13 years and this is very true. Pump truck operators would always add way more water than needed to ensure that the pump wouldn't plug during the pour and to avoid honeycombing in the concrete.\n",
"it is a gif ",
"Literately came here searching for this comment.",
"What the hell is Tartan?",
"I fucked a soy boy in the ass",
"**tips fedora**",
"\"FUUUCK YEEEA CON-CREETE!\"",
"My city has been putting textured lines pointing downwards towards the street at the end of sidewalks.\n\nKind of like this: https://www.straight.com/files/v3/styles/gs_large/public/images/17/08/sidewalk-2700-block-hemlock-04-2017-aug-23.jpg?itok=4bk-MZjb but just a rectangular block of lines.\n\nIt's slippery as fuck in the winter. ",
"Boy Scouts of America is an American organization (as in USA not North and South America).\n\nWe have Scouts Canada in Canada, which is not part of the Boy Scouts of America. There's really no such thing as an Eagle Scout in Canada, at least there wasn't when I was a scout as a kid.\n",
"That awsome, if they just left it as a smoothie sheet it would crack, now when it cracks it breaks along the lies between the “pavers” so it’s barely noticeable and there won’t cracks to fill!",
"You can tell if something is stamped concrete vs laid bricks by looking for a sawcut line. All concrete needs sawcuts, or a deep groove like in sidewalks, to control cracking",
"Wait until the shite cracks and loo2ms even more shite.\n\nPs it doesn't allow for permeable drainage either so it will break quicker due to flood/frost damage too.\n\nMore repairs for the tax payer ",
"Doesn't seem inappropriate to me to call NYC New York, considering it holds 50% of the entire state.",
"Only older cities and towns have real cobblestone. You can see weeds and dirt and all that popping out underneath. ",
"There are some sidewalks that look like that in some older areas of Portland. One broke my wheelchair and it took weeks to replace it. The axis couldn't handle the jostling. :/",
"....?\nIt’s a paver mold. It’s a legitimate way to do it if you have all the equipment to pour concrete?",
"Its for traction. So you don't slip.",
"/also Canadian, and also a scout as a kid.\n\nI can confirm, Eagle Scouts was not a thing. I've only heard about it online and in tv/movies from Americans.",
"Take me back to my house",
"It's one of those [traditions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_pavement) that people like. Talented workers often make designs like [this](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Trabalhado_cmsilva.jpg), or images like [this one](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Coimbra_jpg.jpg). ",
"Dude it's concrete with a print on it.\n\nIt's shit long term.\n\nSource:am a civil engineer\n",
"I thought this said goodnight moron ",
"Personally, i love these types of walkways. I'm partially blind and they have these at some of the intersections around my neighborhood. It makes it easy to double check that you're actually on the crosswalk",
"They go for the awful alternative because of snow plows.\n\nTextured concrete/asphalt holds up better than brick to snow plows. Once one brick is damaged, it lets the ones around it roll a bit, which lifts the opposing edges up and the next plow blade will catch it, damaging more. One becomes two becomes four...\n\n\nFor everywhere else, brick is much cheaper, you can repair broken blocks in 10 seconds for under a dollar, often by the community itself.\n\n",
"Yeah, one commenter below pointed out how dangerous it is for motorcycles when it's wet. It's something I will keep in mind going forward (i.e. I intend to talk to the manufacturer the next time this product is used to see if there's a solution to this)",
"God damn I just had to get up to go piss cause this comment gave me so much anxiety",
"Also, we have Scouts, not Boy Scouts. Scouts Canada has been coed since 1976.",
"Um, mom of a fourth grader, here...\n\nI am over 150, he is about 110, and mostly muscle. He has been able to pick me up for over a year, so, plausible.\n\nAlso, said fourth grader could have had help, or smuggled a smaller amount in his backpack in a zip lock or what have you.\n\nAnd as the fifth graders at my son's school recently got banned from using hand sanitizer because a few of them were eating it - kids do stupid shit without thinking about it. ",
"Better than my town. They used actual brick, except they used decorative bricks. So when winter rolled around, they split, then got pulled up by the snowploughs. They ended up pulling them all out and laying a new strip of ashphalt down.",
"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke",
"This should be a gif. It’s r/mildlyinfuriating that it’s not. ",
"Actually they're shit in high pedestrian traffic areas. Pavement or concrete is much better because of the lack of gaps.",
"The sidewalks in a town near me area all old brick that's been there for probably going on 150 years. The problem is that nobody lays brick sidewalks anymore, so when they replace a section they just haphazardly pattern them. Now, a few years after the fact, some old ladies are tripping on the uneven shitty new bricks that still have sharp corners.",
"If only your bike had two extra wheels beside the original two, to help with stability on slick surfaces.",
"Usually people like to color their concrete along with stamping. There's two types of items that you use for coloring--the base and then a very fine powder that serves as both a lubricant for the rubber stamps and adds a second color to the top to make it look more like natural stone. There's lots of ways you can screw this up, but in terms of maintenance you can have effect ruined if you choose to color the concrete base with what's called \"color hardener\" as opposed putting iron oxide color throughout the entirety of the pour, which is much more expensive. The color hardener only penetrates the very top layer of the pour, so if it chips you can see it's actually concrete and not a real stone. ",
"I can acknowledge parts of the southern half of NY-mainland being upstate, basically anything past Duchess County, I'm not that uptight. But people who live in the city (having lived in a city for 3 years myself) call *Westchester* upstate. And seeing you put a \"95%\" there, looks like you do as well.",
"cake is a lie",
"Same thing in my city. But it ends up being a terrible surface as it sinks and doesn’t flow with the rest of the road surrounding it. I guess it could be the incompetent workers that put in in. I’m going with both. ",
"Not your ENTIRE life. There are individual pavers like this, too. \n",
"All the times I saw the picture and I never knew I assumed the machine sorted the bricks out. If anything, that was apparently the impressive part to me, since seeing those dudes laying them out by hand kind of killed the magic for me. \n\nThere goes the internet, disappointing me again.",
"Goodnight Sweet Prince.",
"Am I the only one that kind of doesn’t get what’s going on ",
"Yes, and god forbid you are turning into, say, a roundabout with the thermoplastic paint on the crosswalk just before the inlet to the circle.",
"Only problem with this method is if it happens to crack you have to replace an entire chunk of area. With pavers it's a lot easier to replace one or two damaged pieces unless they use some kind of polymeric sand\n",
"Not if you're at Western Washington University. They put real bricks and I think they want them to be wonky as fuck.",
"Goddamnit I want to see a turtle race now!",
"If you're talking about that yellow stuff, its to stop blind people from walking into traffic without realizing it. You're sprained ankle sucks, but I think the risk of that happening is worth it if it stops people from walking into traffic.",
"Yeah guys. Stamped concrete is a thing...",
"So my mother's back was safe the whole time.",
"was waiting for a full minute for the gif to buffer...",
"I'll see you next June.",
"Won't this make the concrete more susceptible to weathering?",
"real brick walkways do that too and they serve the function of ensuring they are there for much much longer. They also don't crack as quickly or become a tripping hazard inside of two years.",
"Paint me like a pile of mulch.",
"You'll like [this](https://youtu.be/f0aHbx_UvJQ) then! ",
"Right, but you're not typically using concrete at all.",
"1/16th woke",
"So then wipeout. That’ll stop the Lexus texter from coating their tires with your organs. ",
"[Expansion joints](http://img.bhs4.com/98/8/9889D276B05892D7114DEA8279C1D1A76EE3B140_large.jpg)",
"That’s practically impossible if you live in a country where it’s quite usual for temps to go from -20°C to 35°C every year, where it can rain cats for days, most roads are sloped and there is some seismologic activity. Also, in some areas there’s no practical bedrock",
"[There is one that is strong enough to defeat it! ](https://youtu.be/mgL9Xj1n8Nk)",
"i have no idea what is happening in this photo.",
"But if you need to do some works over it you must destroy it and start over. With bricks you take them out, do what you need and then put them back ",
"Oh the tension! Rope me in! ",
"Go slower.",
"My depression is in session",
"What a colossal waste of time + money",
"Where I am they've stopped doing that and have moved to [tactile plates](http://www.landmark.crozier.ca/images/cast_iron.jpg). I've haven't really taken notice, but they don't seem as slippery.",
"They put the cement down like a normal sidewalk and are stamping a design into it to make it look like it’s made of bricks. ",
"Dandelions have what's called a tap root which is strong enough to punch through concrete and hard soil. Because they can get through soil other plants can't, they absorb minerals and bring them to the surface and share with other plants and this is the reason they can be good for your health. Whenever I'm sick I drink dandelion tea. ",
"They are stamping the flat cement with the brick pattern befroe it dries. ",
"See that's great. Ours look exactly like that but with lines just running straight down. I'll try and get a pic later if I decide to go out at some point. Hint: probably not",
"I was a bit sleepy but I guess I thought the same.",
"Jesus God in heaven. We cant even find money to slurry our roads here, let alone ADA upgrades but Portugal can do this!? Have they found an infinite money machine?",
"This is only slight off topic, but still relates to the brick sidewalk pattern in a lot of European countries...\n\n\nDoes anyone know if the soles on Birkenstock sandals looks like sidewalks on purpose? I've wondered this for a long time. They look very similar to the bricks that German sidewalks are typically made out of, which would totally make sense considering the fact that they're a German footwear company. But it would be a happy accident?\n\n\nPS: Most sidewalks are actually bricks and not just concrete with a pattern. Several other users have already posted videos and GIFs of the brick laying machines. Really neat! ",
"Why wouldn't they just add red dye to the concrete?",
"I thought this was a gif and waited 10 seconds thinking it'd play, even right clicked to find the \"show controls\" option. I feel like this post lied to me",
"Here you go OP: [real brick laying machine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hG7-AQfbjE)",
"Reality is poison.",
"You sound like the worst kind of asshole.",
"Same here.\n\n\n\n",
"They are stamping the cement to make it look like it was paved with individual bricks",
"So you are defending people who text and drive? ",
"Makes sense as a community service job or a general training job. A pickup full of rocks and a good eye is all that's needed.",
"You guys win, I was going to work in a pun about \"herringbone\" but you guys blew it out of the water.",
"\"Southern Tier\"",
"well done Guys",
"Also, being an idiot results in a high probability of looking stupid on the internet.",
"Sunshine is a nice name for your dildo.",
"well this looks slightly nicer than just the concrete right? Seems fine to me",
"I was convinced this would be what you linked: http://i.imgur.com/E4NZDHb.png",
"Oh that’s what I kind of figured. Thanks! ",
"It also adds both traction to allow people to walk when wet without slipping, as well as grooves to channel water away. Makes sense.",
"Nah I was actually joking. Luckily my girlfriend is very loyal. Unluckily it's because she had been cheated on before",
"Not just my motorcycle. When walking between classes in the rain, I've almost fell down a few times. Why do they put something so slippery on a surface designed to give you grip. ",
"Just accepting that your fate is unavoidable. You’re bound no matter precautions taken, to end up under the tires of a vehicle. I half expect you to sleep under a car nightly complaining about how oblivious drivers are.",
"They are slick at 0.01 mph",
"Use metric it’s slower.",
"Can't we just set all 112 lights *in* the concrete wall around the pool which has already been poured?",
"That one always gave me a little chill",
"Upstate is pretty much everything Westchester and up anyway. ",
"I totally read \"Goodnight moron\"",
"Yeah pretty much.",
"i expect he meant tarmac but his autocomplete fucked him over",
"Nah, we have to calculate the moment at the base created by touching the tip.",
"Dandy's lion.",
"It was everywhere, but now it's being restricted to the city's historic centre, with concrete outside. This way, the same budget instead of funding poorly maintained sidewalks everywhere, is funding properly maintained traditional sidewalks in the centre, and simple, cheap and functional sidewalks outside the city centre.\n\nhttps://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pt&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dn.pt%2Fsociedade%2Finterior%2Fcimento-em-vez-de-calcada-em-lisboa-esta-muito-melhor-5050446.html&edit-text=&act=url",
"The beads are for improved light reflection. Corundum can be added for increased texture and traction. ",
"Wow, thank you for the insight man!",
"Surely weeds wouldn't be a problem if those aren't actual bricks with cracks in between? ",
"http://i.imgur.com/ykD8hfh.png",
"Most people here seem not to understand that this is not for the optics or to „fake“ something...",
"\"I-beam\"? The engineers just had a mini-heart attack. It's a wide flange / WF beam!",
"Shut the fuck up. He doesn't live in all of Australia. He lives in one specific spot in Australia that exceeds 24 inches of rain a year. Your facts are pointless because they don't apply to the original statement at all. \n\nI live in the PNW, are you going to tell me that it's not especially rainy here because America only gets 30 inches of rain on average a year?",
"Press concrete paving",
"I suppose you're right. I'd still prefer this over regular smooth walkways, but if it doesnt have the same longevity as real bricks, I can see how that would be wasteful ",
"Even the white lines before the crosswalks when you're stopped at an intersection have a painted slick surface. When it's wet out and I go to accelerate my wheels like to spin out on that white line.",
"A lot of modern \"brick\" buildings are really just built with CMUs (think cinderblocks) or steel framing and then they cast slabs of concrete to look like brick and use it as an exterior veneer. Building an actual brick building is expensive and labor intensive.",
"Roman roads?",
"Good taste, awful execution",
"How do they FIT perfectly!!!?",
"I'm believe the current version of this meme is \"this is why I have trust issues\" ",
"Yeah! I live in kzoo. A ton of stuff in our garage looked like it got rained on because it was like 500% humidity. You're right though that is really hard on the concrete, especially because it all froze again within 2 days",
"Yep. People like the nostalgic look of brick, but forget that there are a lot of reasons we stopped using it. It crumbles, becomes uneven, and simply doesn't last. Asphalt was invented for a reason. ",
"Goodnight, moron.",
"Directions unclear, am now part of famous video.",
"wtf, Europe has been paving in brick for centuries.",
"You guys are laughing but I legitimately thought they were talking about sod. I wouldn't have known unless I saw his comment. ",
"Why?",
"I was thinking you were posting a game reference since the Witcher's [Dandelion](https://m.imgur.com/r/witcher/1GKo6) is considered annoying by some. I personally don't mind him though.",
"Or when the Audi driver sees you but doesn't care.",
"Thanks man",
"Lol.\n\nThank you ",
"My town decided to put it 2 roundabouts to divert main street traffic to a real brick road. A BRICK ROAD IN IOWA, with winter and plows and ice and shit. Its been 2 years and the road has already started to warp.",
"There's one. The ground underneath will eventualy sag in some places, creating depressions and bulges. With a homogenous watertight surface like this, it means puddles of water in which you'll step and on which you'll slip during winter, while cursing the idiot and his ancestors who decided the sidewalk won't have normal paving blocks.\n\nsource: stepping into puddles of water on a weekly basis",
"Stand up!",
"[Tartan](https://i.imgur.com/2hJpf1U.png)",
"Now fix this thing that you said wouldn't work well in the first place that I insisted on you implementing anyway.",
"This is efficient. ",
"I-beam? Are you a child?",
"> The whole thing reminds me a bit of the American gun debate :') \n\nSo every few days, a dozen people trip on a single uneven cobblestone and die?",
"Easily beaten. You just accuse him of criminal conspiracy and imprison him on Temple Isle, then execute him on a later date.\n\nDwarves, Dopplers and Witchers might be a problem though",
"Wait...Lego: The Movie? ",
"I'm from the gta and lived in Toronto for several years. Which towns? I've never noticed this. ",
"Are you retarded?",
"Architect:\nCan we raise the ceilings another 8\". \nMechanical engineer, electrical engineer, and fire protection engineer: You bastard!",
"Tomato pie?",
"!Remind me ... Actually no, someone else will do that in the comments. Take a rest, little bot.",
"> AODA (accessibility/handicapped design requirements) requires textured surfaces where there's a crossing. \n\nI don't really understand this. Wouldn't it be worse for people with things like wheelchairs, walkers etc?",
"Only relevant if the temperature here drops below 0 for more than a few days a year. Also, how are wider cuts going to avoid trapping dirt and sand? Regular sawcut joints are quite thin and deep, not too different from this. Also, if this was done properly, there should be a layer of gravel underneath that will act as a drainage layer.",
"skeeeeeiiiirrrrppppp",
"Have heard it called Street Print. Also has the stone look. ",
"Your fenestration is as grandiose as the egress at a Walmart. ",
"The only downside is that it doesn't drain at all, unlike block paving. \n\nIn cities we have water table and drainage issues due to too much concrete. \n",
"Plus the cost of washing the truck out which is not insignificant. ",
"Wait, real shit!?",
"Can confirm; we discuss this at least weekly over on /r/albany",
"Lol Markham",
"Cheaper, lasts longer, and still looks good.\n\nI see no problems here.",
"The yellow brick road was a lie",
"Meanwhile, over here in Buffalo, people forget we exist.",
"Lol you know how long it would take if someone laid that shit by hand",
"You like that you fucking Corinthian column?",
"Really bud? It's safer on the sidewalk for them and on trails. Too many times I've dealt with cyclist swerving from sidewalk to road cutting cars off as if they are entitled.",
"its easier, cheaper and smarter",
"TIL",
"I had that done to my driveway. They used an epoxy type coating. I’ve had it for close to 10 years and it still looks as good as new. ",
"What do you think visually appealing means",
"at least it looks good",
"In Seattle I rarely see cyclist follow the law. These lovely bike lanes have congested traffic.",
"Yes, over 50% of the self-centered aggressiveness for sure\n\nWay less than 50% of the resources they need to survive",
"Not everywhere so what is your point? ",
"That's interesting.\nI've never used that word in French though, I always heard \"pissenlit\". Turns out it is from \"pisse au lit\" (pee in bed).\nSuch funny names for such a hatred flower...\n",
"Your population is shrinking, your climate is terrible, and we were just briefly reminded you had a pro sports team, but I've already forgotten about it",
"I'll always remember breaking this ground as a cornerstone of our relationship.",
"I'm an electrical engineer, not an architect, but when I was an intern our civil engineer didn't have an intern under him so he gave me a few equations and had me check his work on how much the I beams for a new building we were working on would deflect in 100F weather. It came out that the amount that the beams would deflect was within tolerance. I hope that was enough to get you over the edge 😉😉",
"The change in texture is intended for people with visual impairments.",
"its way Easier ",
"He isn't being obtuse, everyone here knows how to use a crosswalk. It's just sad that we had to screw up our roads for a bikes that don't know how to use a sidewalk and cross walk.",
"So was it actually a yellow concrete path?",
"I wonder which is better. I imagine this is cheaper, but I can't see why someone would go with the other option if you can't even visibly tell. ",
"> Whenever I'm sick I drink dandelion tea. \n\n> OccultSorcery\n\nYou're not fooling me, witch!",
"Fuck English City council's! Get pitch Forks boys we're going to have an old time English mob on our hands here. ",
"Not illegal everywhere and it's a dumbass law. ",
"Frank and Lilian Gilbreth would have loved to lived to see this day!",
"amen bra..sis..du..ma..",
"Well ain't that a bitch. I always wondered how painstaking it would be to make all the pieces fit by hand. But once again, human ingenuity comes in to save the day.",
"now sit down and have lunch already",
">typically they go for the cheaper option, regardless of application.\n\nAin't that the truth for just about any roadway surface repair. \n",
"Wowzers! Man if that's all it takes I wish they would redo downtown's bricks. They are so bumpy. They are also a hundred years old so I'm guessing most people didn't anticipate cars back then . ",
"looks better than truncated dome mats.",
"0.00000000000000000000001 m/s",
"Where do you get concrete for under $75/yard? Where I am (Canada) it's $300/yard, plus delivery if your order is under 8 yards or so, plus $75-$100/yard if you want colour. 300sqft would be about 4 yards (assuming 4\" pour) so $1200 + delivery, plus labor to prep the site and form up, then pour/smooth/vibrate, then stamp, then return to remove the forms.... And that's not including colour as that will vary depending on if they added to the mix or put colour on top when stamping.\n\n$3000 is starting to look a little more reasonable once it's broken down eh?",
"It's not always like this, we still do it by hand in the UK ",
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartan_track I meant this type of material.",
"Am a project engineer for a general contractor. The myth of the architect that plans everything about a structure is fucking dead. Especially if the phrase 'Design-Build' comes up, because what that means in practice is 'The Architect provided no design for this element, and expects you to hire someone to both do all the design, and build the system in question'.",
"Mine too. Thanks a lot to you. Now I’ll never be able to enjoy the those kinds of pathways. ",
"Nope, I meant Tartan. As in the orange material used on running tracks.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartan_track",
"Cheaper, longer lasting, and a higher quality look. Am I missing something? Why would you do ot any other way?\n\n",
"u/Corbags I like your honesty and willingness to admit that your not sure about something. It is a mentalilty that I wish more people would adopt. \n\nHave a great day :)",
"What's fascinating is the sheer number of niche but necessary things like this that probably make millions a year. If people stopped trying to make \"the next big thing\" and instead focused on making what we have better, I think we would advance a lot faster as a species. ",
"well i can't look down into this, but i have seen this used for sidewalks where it's all connected underneath. ",
"It's definitely safer for cyclists to use the road in my city. Cars and pedestrians don't watch sidewalks for people going 15+ mph on bikes before turning or entering crosswalks. Traffic is also pretty congested so I can ride with traffic easily. Although, I've seen cyclists to dickish and illegal things plenty of times.\n\nI've also had a driver almost get in a head on collision because simply driving around me was too simple. Had to ride half in the other lane next to me to scream at me because... They had a bad day?\n\n\nTL;DR. People are dicks, mode of transportation doesn't matter.",
"[It's concrete, not cement!](http://www.cement.org/basics/concretebasics_faqs.asp)",
"Well duh",
"[Goodnight Vienna](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodnight_Vienna#/media/File:Goodnightvienna.jpg)",
"All that I dream abouuut",
"What do you think red asphalt grows on trees?",
"Legitimate question. How are these in areas that get cold and have snow/ice storms? Do they hold up?",
"The neck veins are a nice touch.",
"You are taking this too personally",
"I was told by a local that this is a holdover from communism, where they would create jobs just to keep people busy and working - unsure of accuracy, but in the city, sidewalk repair is continuous ",
"it's normally on an angle before being connected all on the inside. on one edge, then generally there are areas for it to escape in corners. ",
"No. NO. NO!!!",
"so sorry that you don't understand how it works. ",
"Haha, no but that's some easy karma.",
"Wait that ties something together for me because my Grandma used to tell me that if you touched a dandelion you’d wet the bed. Whaddayaknow?",
"I assume done properly as well. I think to keep the aesthetics of not having (visible) cement or whatever binding them caused a shorter lifespan ",
"What. The. Feckin. Frigger.\n\nI feel like I’ve been BETRAYED. \n\nTHIS IS BLASPHEMY.",
"same here on Brazil my dude, your colonization is really effective ",
"Going too fast better slow down speed freak.",
"Which is good. Cobblestone is already a pain to drive on, missing stones are the equivalent of potholes and only make the drive more unstable. Plus it can possibly injure bikers going fast enough. Urban bikes don't have the tread or stability to handle radical changes in topology.",
"Please bring it up to whoever you can",
"I hate those! I use my bicycle daily and these fucktards in some places get wrecked and they slow my bicycle down!\nI shake like a vibrator on these...",
"I imagine it would also help with rain. They're not very deep, but giving a channel for small amounts of rainfall can't hurt.",
"Haha. Maybe not \"touch\" it, but eating it would, it is diuretic.",
"Not everywhere",
"Reminds me of Rick and Morty ",
"I mean, doing it that way is definitely *way* cheaper than real brick. And you need some sort of facade to cover the mechanically stabilized earth under the overpass. I'd say it's a pretty economical engineering decision.\n\nI mean, it's an overpass not a hotel. ",
"This is madness!",
"Yup, sounds about right.",
"Madness? This! Is! Spartaaaaaa!",
"Water is able to run through the cracks instead of forming puddles.",
"The red dye is expensive and you are also adding stamping, adding more skill and labor. Costs skyrocket fast as you can see from The Concrete Networks [chart on driveway prices](https://www.concretenetwork.com/concrete/concrete_driveways/cost.html).\n\nEdit: red and green concrete dyes are the most expensive, as compared to all of the earth tones.",
"Is your entire life a repost just like this one?",
"Work smart, not harder ",
"[It's concrete, not cement!](http://www.cement.org/basics/concretebasics_faqs.asp)",
"[You better get an exemption from the zoning board, because it's business time baby](https://i.imgur.com/Lh970m7.jpg)",
"honest this is more economical and probably stays even. Even been on a bricked walking area where it becomes really uneven because the ground moves under it from tree roots and such? Not hard to get hurt",
"The “brand name” for this process is StreetPrint. I’m the only licensed contractor in most of Southern Tier New York. They give you training on the process and send jobs your way if people call the headquarters to get work done. \n\nThe process can be done with fresh or old asphalt. With old asphalt you can either use an infrared heater or propane torches to heat the asphalt and make it pliable. You then lay the customers desired pattern on the heated area (they’re relatively small sheets of braided steel cable so you have to repeat this multiple times usually). We use a 1-ton vibraplate to hit the pattern into the asphalt. Repeat until you have fully imprinted the entire area. Then you take a hand tool that’s like a chisel the same width as the patterns and fix any edges or joints that didn’t get imprinted fully initially by hand. Wait for the asphalt to cool. The coating is a two-part emulsion that comes in a variety of tints, plus we usually add sand to make it grippy to walk on. If the customer wants a different color grout than the brick surface, you apply to grout color first with a sprayer to the entire imprinted area. Then once that dries, you apply the brick color using a roller with a handle extension. This takes experience and patience to prevent filling in the grout with the wrong color. You need to be a bit stingy with the coating on the roller and press verrryyyy gently on the roller while applying. \n\nSorry for rambling, thought I’d let people know the whole process. \n\nTl; dr: explanation of the process of imprinting asphalt to look like brick\n\nEdit: sorry i just woke up on vacation and totally forgot to include the last step. After the coating dries, you apply a clear coat sealer to make the color pop as well as protect the coating and make it last longer",
"That's it... I'm done.\nFirst Santa, then the tooth fairy, now this?!",
"I think I learned in a construction science class that this is for preventing slippery flat surfaces when it rains. The lines create a texture that your shoes can grip onto in the wet.",
"Ummm...no. They generate 10x more GDP than the rest of NY. So, think again about who is subsidizing whom",
">tfw wheelchair",
"How does this result in your entire existence on earth being a lie?",
"Well that's rather efficient ",
"You’re being obtuse again.",
"And Reddit kills another site...",
"You'll fill those empty spaces with sand anyway in order to not let it fill with wather. This seems like a great idea. ",
"It’s weird cuz Thermo was the shit back in the day. Everything was striped thermo and even commercial customers specced it. I think it died off for a while due to it being so slippery and some lawsuits (at least where i live in the Northeast), and it’s been Chlorinated Rubber or Vinyl. I’m not sure about thermo making a comeback, but from what I’ve seen at road striping trade shows, it seems the future is in epoxy and something called MMA, can’t tell you what the means off the top of my head but it’s like an epoxy. ",
"How do I know if it is not going the other way and is actually a pavement eating machine? ",
"Yeah at my house I have real pavers. I was impressed watching them install it. ",
"Chicago did that in Lincoln Park recently",
"Because the government engineers who specced this aren’t experienced in the field and don’t know how to apply common sense to their degree yet. \n\nSource: 10 year road construction veteran who deals with newly graduated engineers who haven’t figured it out yet",
"that robot has a lot of limitations, even with that long straight job it replaces 3.5 workers, while needing two workers to clean up after it, one to feed it and who knows how many specialized workers to maintain it as well as set it up for they laydown. \n\n",
"How has anybody upvoted your comment? It is a fucking overpass. ",
"Didn't say GDP; said resources. How much fresh water and food does NYC have sourced from within its boundaries?",
"It doesn't tend to work though. Motorists will still go 80kmh through my street.",
"That’s nothing I just learned that cakes aren’t made by the cake fairy people make them! ",
"Lmfao what, people steal the road? That's pretty desperate. We have had brick streets here since forever and it's been going fine.. though only at speeds <=50 Km/h, above that asphalt is generally used.",
"Wow and here i just pour colored concrete throw release on it and stamp it, then spray sealer on it while its curing . But yeah whatever, keep talking crazy. Honestly, i have no fucking clue what youre talking about and ive been a concrete finisher for 13 years and have poured a fuck ton of stamped concrete. Oh and its not a \"product called hubb surface sysyems\" its a type of finish called stamping and theres a ton of different designs you can do, can even make it look like weathered cobblestone.",
"Satisfying sensation ",
"Knowing grandma, I doubt she could touch it without putting it in her mouth.",
"Sure as fuck beats the old fashioned way.",
"Of all the hills to die on... you choose this one.",
"in german this plant is called löwenzahn, which also translates to lion's tooth",
"God I don't see round abouts much but your making me paranoid about them now... ",
"Cheaper, faster, and more efficient? Why did you use the term \"cheap way to do it\"? Makes it sound like it's worse.",
"> My city decided to have \"bricked\" crosswalks at some existing intersections. So, they got a brick pattern and use a tamper to impress it into the asphalt. Then they painted the patterned area red.\n\nMy city did the crosswalks with real red bricks. Looked great until winter came, and plows ripped a bunch of the bricks out. Had to dodge huge potholes for a few months, before they pulled all the bricks out and just paved over everything.",
"That would‘ve been my follow-up fact in case anyone asked :) Native German speaker here",
"i go 140km on my road! but that's cause it's literally my road",
"We can always dream",
"Pave the way! I'll follow!\n\n",
"10 ^ -9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 mm/s",
"What if you put up a sign telling people not to read the paint? That should make it last longer!",
"The city I live in decided to have bricked crosswalks in the historical district downtown for 3-4 blocks. The issue is that they decided to do this on a state highway that is one of the main ways through town and thus sees a ton of traffic. Only a few months after everything was finished, they had to go back and tear things up because dips formed in the sections that vehicles drive over. It's been almost a treat now and dips are forming again.\n\nWe also had 6-7 miles of road paved 3 times in about a 8 month span. ",
"He chose to die on the cement hill.",
"Hey I’m really curious about landscape architecture as a profession, mind if I PM you?",
"What are you talking about? What resources?",
"Theres some flaws to your logic about rubber slipping. On asphalt, there are significant surface flaws. There's a significant lack of a uniform layer. Even in a freshly paved street there are tons of pores and deviations from a flat surface. When dry rubber should be ok coming in contact with rubber. (using rubber as a generic term) however when wet you may have some significant issues as they water usually works as a lubricant on that type of surface. I'm not saying it won't work, but I'd be VERY careful when the street is wet on those intersections.",
"Wait, what? My hometown has brick roads over 100 years old that are still in driveable condition. Is it a lost art or something?",
"How do they pull it off in Europe? ",
"Heres a fun fact, usually its not painted, you order the concrete a color from the plant and it comes pre mixed with pigmemt, usually red for brick. I honestly have no clue what this fucking landscaper is talking about and i have been a concrete finisher for 13 years and have done a ton of stamp work.",
"Once you get a crack, there is nothing that can be done to fix it. \n\nCompared to pavers which can be replaced individually. \n\nSo as someone else mentioned, if you live in an area that has rough freeze/thaw cycles you will start to form cracks over time.\n\nCurrently happening on my stamped patio. I don’t mind them though. ",
"You gonna eat your corn bread?",
"Yeah so you don't have to avoid small children cycling back from school.",
"Closet space",
"Aye, it's part of life. You have to accept it if you want klinkers, or worse, the dreaded bike-devastators known as [Kinderkopjes](https://www.steden.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/318-kinderkopjestallinn.jpg)",
"AND it looks like shit after two years when they do this in a roadway.",
"That's certainly possible, but it would be slower and more expensive. That'd be fine if it's in a factory somewhere and can operate completely without human involvement, but you still need a couple guys on site anyway to dump bricks in the machine and it's going to be a time-sensitive project, so it has to work quickly. This configuration allows the least number of people complete the job in the quickest amount of time for the least cost. ",
"It's better for their health. Sitting down on the ground and moving those bricks manually takes a lot of strain. There aren't a lot of streetmakers that will last till their retirement at 65 years.",
"Hipster discovery of stampcrete circa 2018",
"Rule 1 of construction: concrete will always crack",
"Do not try and bend the architect. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth. There is no architect.",
"[no turtle though](http://www.gifbin.com/bin/082011/1313397928_laying_a_road.gif)",
"Grooved pavement is of the devil too\n",
"Baby, you ain't have yo world rocked till it's been Engineered. Arcky-tecks have no skill. BD",
"Your ENTIRE life?",
"Son of a bitch!",
"I am mortarified",
"YOU'RE A MASTER OF KARATE AND FRIENDSHIP FOR EV-RY-ONE!",
"/r/gifsthatdontstart",
"But weeds give it its charm",
"They did this at my apartment complex last week. I was kinda mad",
"Stamped concrete is also super useful at home. At my last house, we did interlocking bricks, and even with the best sand stuff underneath, weeds came in. So at my current house, we did stamped concrete instead.",
"Noooo waaaayyy!!!!! 😱😱😱",
"Just wait until they come back tomorrow and stain them all red. PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THINK THEY LAID BRICKS! WE HAVE TO TELL THEM THE TRUTH!",
"Not all streets are made using those machines - in fact I have never seen such a thing in my entire life. A lot of streets, especially when it's just small repairs, are still done using manual labour.",
"Not the same, but [straling bricks can be lucrative](https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/dollhouses-st-louis/). ",
"It’s a play on how you said you see bricks getting “laid.”",
"Don't worry, when you get there and make friends, just say this one line naturally, and they'll all assume you're a local:\n\n>it's mad cold out.. deadass brick out here.",
"Just don't do it at all is my point, because it looks like shit. Save people money. Or if you are hell bent on brick, do a facade.",
"Watched this procedure done outside my apartment window once. It was all cracked in a few months.",
"I'm responding to eaglescout's comment above regarding the impressed asphalt, not OP's picture, although I've also been answering questions about the stamped concrete as well.",
"You're right that a lot of planning is reviewing applications. \n\nBut the good stuff that everyone wants to be a part of is coming up with master plans for cities and many government policies to make certain outcomes happen.\n\nreal world example: We want 10% of all daily trips to be made by Bicycle within 10 years. How do we need to redesign our streets, what equipment needs to be installed, what marketing needs to be done, what traffic rules need to change etc, to make that happen?\n\nDitto actually coming up with land use plans.\n\nIn simsity you start by laying out \"commerical\" \"residential\" etc areas, which then slowly get filled in over time.\n\nThat's actually very close to reality. the city planners literally draw a map like that, which developers then need to adhere to when proposing a project. So that initial plan is very important, even if the final product will not be seen for years, sometimes decades. \n\nexample: http://www.redwoodcity.org/Home/ShowImage?id=4391&t=635781896383830000",
"Shoot me a PM, I'll try and answer what I can.",
"Meh. ",
"This is actually how they built the pyramids, it was just a thing and then they shaved down the edges.",
"I'll have to apologise to the sales rep next time he's in...",
"I've done this before and it's just as shitty as you'd think. ",
"My city did that at about 5 intersections on a main road. Except they didn’t account for the asphalt settling more than the bricks so now we have these big ass speed bumps all down a main road. ",
"Those are the tactile plates I mentioned in another comment. We actually do install those as well, but at the curb depressions.",
"Honestly asphalt is better for your feet anyway. ",
"San Francisco? They just did that in my neighborhood. ",
"Well when he says asphalt, im 1000000% sure he means concrete. Theres no way they stamp asphalt and paint it for crosswalks. Crosswalks, unless its just a painted crosswalk, curbs, sidewalks, and approaches are all concrete. Also ive never ever ever ever seen anyone stamp asphalt the shit is a very thin layer of tar they pour over concrete and run over with huge rollers. Maybe ive learned something new today but i have never seen asphalt get a stamp pattern. Asphalt is basically a thin protective coating for the concrete underneath.",
"I used to work for a company that sells supplies to contractors that do this. I went to a workshop on how to make decorative concrete and was really amazed by it. You can make the concrete look like wood flooring, bricks, natural stone, tile, etc. then you put a finish on it for coloring and protection. Then just redo the finish every few years and it looks amazing and is permanent. $12-14 dollars per square foot in my market",
"I mean the whole idea of the bricks is to get rid of water when it rains. ",
"'Tis I! Though the scum of Novigrad know me as The Crimson Avenger!",
"Instead of having to render every individual brick, they just render the texture to save memory. Matrix confirmed",
"It’s a Skeuomorph, like how your save button looks like a floppy disk, or how a some cars have fake plastic wood panels on them. ",
"I can attest that it's one of the most valuable things I've learned in my 11 years of doing this. How you approach and fix mistakes is much more important than striving for perfection, which is an impossible task. It's what I tell the students who are just breaking into the industry, at least. Hopefully they're listening.",
"Hungary, fuck yeah!",
"Much smaller chunks that can expand and contract more easily and fit together to make a nice pretty pattern. Plus the tops aren’t entirely flat, the edges are a little angled. So there is more texture to these than what I would imagine the stamped version is like, but like I said I’m no expert. Also poured concrete is usually not colored, so idk why but maybe that’s something to consider. ",
"Yup, that's another one of their products. I think StreetPrint is the pattern and StreetBond is the colour coating. I was going to double check the site, but I think my link killed it...",
"That’s final boss music, for sure.",
"as an engineering student, sometimes i hate engineering",
"Don't make me tell you again about the scooching.",
"Pedantry.",
"\"Oh! That's too much. I don't care if it wears out, it will last at least 2 years, right? That's the length of my term.\"",
"looks cheap",
"I get that, but I never said amazing, only that if you're going to stamp you don't need to pretend to be brick. Even triangles for some mid century style would be cool.",
"welll, the sidewalks are made with these small stones. the streets are still mostly cobbled (they are called \"cat heads\"). still, I would see bikers and women in extraordinarily high heels brave the streets daily ",
"Also Ted Cruz told me that in Europe when old people get sick, the hospitals kill them to save money. ",
"Wasn't that automatic.",
"You want to lose jobs because this is how you lose jobs.",
"It still looks fucking shit and significantly worse than if they'd just left the plates untouched.",
"And Southern Tier upstate is totally different from CNY / WNY upstate. I've lived in them all.",
"Actually, it'll only crack between the \"bricks\" which isn't really a problem ",
"I mean, it looks worse than untouched plates.",
"This but unironically. I can't even describe (or even understand) why this makes me so irrationally angry. ",
"wat\n",
"Nah, that's the designer. Builder figures it's only an inch and tries to make it all fit at 10'5\"",
"Your clearly not an engineer ",
"Stamp patterns aren't considered control joints so that's not necessarily true. ",
"If you travel into the city somewhat frequently then you're probably not upstate. ",
"I saw these on German sidewalks too, but the roads were still obviously authentic cobble. Definitely safer to drive on the new stuff since it's even and stones can't be nabbed by tourists.\n\nI never saw heels though, that's just an awful idea. Block/traditional high heels are feasible though, just no stilettos. ",
"It *is* a facade. You keep saying save people money, but to my knowledge this is the cheapest option available.",
"They added those rubber/plastic fake red brick to crosswalks in my town a couple years ago. The group that installed them fucked something up, and they didn't last more than a couple months before they started peeling up and coming apart.",
"I'm thinking it isn't just done for the prettiness of it but also to give it more grip. ",
"I'm not talking about wider cuts I'm talking about shallow \"decorations\" that will act as rivers to all the water and dispose them to the sides.",
"Stamping concrete is far cheaper than laying bricks or block. You can pour hundreds of yards of concrete a day (the biggest pour I was ever on was 3100 cyds), where as a good brick mason can probably lay 2000 brick a day. ",
"Straight to the point. \n\nI like it.\n\nWhore.",
"You really don't know how true your topic sentence really is! Unless you've been red-pilled...ahahhaha",
"Works well for laymen.",
"Are there not clearly prescribed protocols for such a seemingly simple and obvious issues like this?\n\nX amount of traffic flow over time requires more than a superficial treatment?\n\n\n\nME here, and there are prescribed protocols for almost anything like this...particularly such a glaring oversight that is seemingly prolific in its misuse. ",
"That however does not apply to buildings where cracking definitely isn't \"a normal thing that happens regardless\", just a hint for those who frequent r/diy",
"If she weighs the same as a duck, she’s made of wood! \n\nA witch! ",
"At least in IT you can just CTRL-A, DEL when someone changes their mind half way through. You’re gonna have a lot harder time doing that with a building. ",
"Ohhh.. \"down state\" like Maine's \"down east\". That.. I can accept. But I don't have to like it..:)",
"This is to allow water to flow off them easily, as well as aesthetics, right?",
"This relationship is riveting",
"Must be a weather and salt issue because where I am the bricks are very old and not having those issues.",
"What about the Texas bricks? Those are real bricks right?",
"Change orders ain’t cheap",
"Dandelion: NANI?!",
"You might feel different driving by it at 80 mph on the interstate. \n\nRegardless, who gives a shit? It is an overpass. Do you really sit here and waste energy and get this upset about the aesthetics of an overpass in bumfuck, whoknowsville? ",
"Well I mean, yeah, but how did the holes *get there* in the first place?",
"Makes the place interesting at least. Every house has their own sidewalk style. If the area maintains it in general it can be neat to walk down a path with a different tile pattern every 30 feet.",
"And [in Brazil] its called 'Pedra Portuguesa'(Portuguese stones), I wonder why",
"Fuck the system.",
"I honestly can’t speak to the protocol on the government end of things, i just get a spec sheet from the engineer that i need to adhere to. I imagine that the engineers who draw up the plans and spec sheets are directly responsible, since they are the ones who tell me how thick the paint needs to be",
"The red wears out really damn quick",
"Most genius way of doing this job",
"I saw a version of this a few years ago, workers were using a blowtorch and a metal template to melt the old asphalt into a brick pattern.",
"Not your *entire* life. Just most of it. ",
"Just 5 more minutes.",
"Were you going to be a bricklayer?",
"So damn lazy",
"This guy architects.",
"Knock me down like two of your towers! Too soon?",
"This is popular where things don't freeze. ",
"Driver can't go around you unless you acknowledge him and you were probably swerving hence why he probably didn't pass you. I don't pass a cyclist on the road unless he/she signals me to do so for safety reasons. It's idiotic to have cyclist on the road close to 2 ton death machines especially since cyclist aren't required to follow the same laws as a motor vehicle. I have no way of calling in a bad cyclist since they don't have a license plate nor do they require to carry a copy of insurance.\n\nHonestly, mentioning shitty drivers only proves my point further. Why put a cyclist on the road when we still haven't fixed our fucking laws yet? It's just fuel to the fire that isn't necessary.",
"I really hope this isn't in an area that experiences snow.",
"Yeah, I know. Thats why I replied to the comment about Brazil. I will clarify in the OC.",
"This is the true hard way http://www.zlateruky.sk/front/document_root/images/references/1486/pokladka-zamkovej-dlazby-20140702-0_06d9.jpg",
"There are places in the world where temperatures are not an issue and they still stamp the concrete to look like slate or pavers. They even colorize the cement. It’s a cheaper and easier way to maintain patio or walkway and it looks appealing. I’m surprised this is a discussion. I don’t think it’s done so the cracks look better. ",
"Somebody's gotta get stabbed!",
"They spent money on it and it looks worse than it did before they did so. I'm not spending long amounts being annoyed by this or writing letters or anything, I just made a four word comment right after I saw it.",
"Wait, they made QR codes and put them in *other cities* to advertise Lisbon, and those other cities agreed? ",
"Maybe if you're in a tropical climate. Anywhere temperate and ice will make them into bricks whether you like it or not.",
"Trust me this is far superior to actually laying loose bricks with mortar",
"By extrusion process. The same way you get toothpaste out of the tube. It only has an extra piece of metal in the middle to make the squares. The same way pasta like macaroni or penne are extruded. ",
"Thanks, this helps. I was thinking of the extruder like a stencil, and was trying to figure out how the stuff that blocks the clay in the middle (the mandrel?) could just be floating there, but it makes sense that it's anchored further back and then the clay re-forms where it was displaced for whatever's anchoring the center bit.",
"Now everything is clear... I can die without regrets now uwu",
"My entire repost is a repost",
"This method has been around for decades ",
"And it wicks away water from the walking surface, providing better wet traction in addition to the mechanical traction added by the lines through the surface, all accomplished with very little extra work. It's like an engineer's wet dream. ",
"If you take the word \"facade\" at face value, then yes, the FACE of the concrete \"looks\" like brick, yet it clearly isn't brick. I'm talking about actual brick, solid masonry. If you want to anchor it to the concrete (Which you'd probably have to do) I guess you could refer to it as \"brick veneer\". A brick wall independent of the structural concrete.",
"God leaning over like that lifting and dropping something so heavy without being able to get your feet under it must kill the lower back. \n\nYuck.",
"As someone who’s worked with interlocking brick walkways, I really wish we had something like this. Interlock and screening are such a bitch to get perfect ",
"In addition to the other answers, the pattern will hide cracks when they inevitably form.",
"It's a back saving machine :)",
"But water can’t penetrate ",
"The thing that was tripping me up is I was thinking of the extruder like a 2-d stencil - like when you look at a stencil for the letter \"o\" or similar, they can't make a complete circle because there would be nothing to anchor the center bit of the stencil in place relative to the rest of the stencil.\n\nWhat I was missing is that the center bit is anchored further back, and so the goo closes back in around where it was displaced by the \"arms\" that hold the center bit before getting extruded.",
"I got it first time around and Nice one and Nice episode. Who's your favorite chess player?",
"How do they cut the edge bricks? I can’t figure that out. ",
"I kept waiting for it to load 'cause I thought it was a GIF, then I saw it was posted on r/pics... \nAwkward.",
"Having placed pacers before, I've actually seen these in my travels and thought: \"how the hell did these not settle? Where are the gaps? The cracks? The crab grass?\"",
"Likewise in Spanish: _diente de león_.",
"Everywhere on Hwy 7 and Main St. Markham",
"Drainage.",
"The good stuff is illegal in many places now.",
"I'd have to check the laws in my city to see if I'm required to signal a car to pass. I didn't in that case. \n\nAs to letting people use the road where death machines are? It would technically be safer if we required people to ride bicycles in full body armor, or force drivers to wear helments, or force people to take 200 hours of supervised driving lessons, or ban people from crosswalks. \n\nI could ditch my bike and drive the 1 mile to work and pay a few hundred dollars per year for parking. Or I can just ride my bike and save money. I try not to die by having lights and wearing a helmet and followung the rules like I'm supposed to (in my city it means I'm a car). ",
"The kid from the Bradbury novel *Dandelion Wine*. Destined from birth to be the dandelion's nemesis.",
"Exactly. I couldn’t explain better. ",
"You are not the only one. ",
"In case sidewalk paving materials really pique your interest . . . http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/nycdot-streetdesignmanual-interior-03-materials.pdf",
"It's a pun",
"*inhales* \n\nB O I ",
"I had a regular skateboard with wheels that made this sort of stuff surprisingly pleasant to ride on. I imagine longboarders have even more options.",
"The concrete is impressed; I am not.",
"In my area they deliberately use bricks so they can easily break up the street for construction and maintenance of pipes/electricity/gas...\n\nThey'll remove all the bricks, open up the soil to work and refit them all afterwards, variably slightly less or more crooked.",
"How Many Architect's does it take to change a light bulb?",
"C'mon, why? It's so much harder to ride on the bricked patterns.",
"Wikipedia [lists this DJ's genres](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Walker_\\(music_producer\\)) as: \"electro house, progressive house, deep house\"\n\n",
"Of course not. Green asphalt grows on trees. ",
"My life is ruined, everything I know I cannot trust",
"It's called \"Portuguese pavement\". A lot of cities in Brazil and other Portuguese ex-colonies have it.",
"Did you also think that sidewalks were individual slabs as well? The impressed line is there to prevents the cracks that would form in an otherwise single slab.",
"Idiot. ",
"Shows lots of things happening at once, remind everyone of what’s going on. ",
"Wouldn't water get stuck in the cracks and wear it away if it ever froze?",
"This is such a typical elitist Reddit comment. Since when is Alan Walker not considered house? It may not be everyone's cup of tea, it's certainly not my favorite, but house has many sub-genres and this definitely falls under that umbrella.",
"Are you a brick that aspired to be a part of one of these paths?\n\n",
"I have to shovel the sidewalk outside my business and years ago the city thought it would be a good idea to lay coblestones fir the sidewalk. Unfortunately, the person they hired never thought to compact the dirt below. Now Everytime I shovel snow I will catch the edge of a stone on my shovel and drop the shovel or take the stick to the ribcage.",
"Doesn't matter what the laws of the city are. I've operated heavily machinery for a long time and I've worked in a mechanic shop for just as long. Why is this relevant? These people are supposed to operate at a higher level of awareness when flesh bags are present. This is what separates us from Asia for when it comes to safety standards ",
"it's electro or edm, not house",
"Some chartbate membership activated itself without my fucking consent. Got mad and called them. Got\nReimbursed instantly. Shady shit. ",
"Calçada means sidewalk but also pavement. This kind of pavement with basalt and limestone laid like this is called Portuguese Pavement.",
"Unsure if troll to get me to correct your spelling or serious.",
"Real bricks and cobblestones are still used in Portugal streets and sidewalks! ",
"By stamping the bricks like this, when the concrete cracks which it will inevitably do the cracks almost always follow the impression lines so the walkway doesn't *look* cracked.",
"I live in Michigan and for us the issue isn’t extreme temperatures between day and night. The real problem is when we have temperatures that drop below freezing then above freezing a few times. \n\nThe water gets into cracks then freezes and expands, making the crack bigger. The ice thaws and more water gets in the bigger crack, then freezes and expands. Lather, rinse, repeat, and you end up with chunks of highway that have expose rebar for a foot long section.",
"Not fair. He had an elemental advantage.",
"[First of all.](https://media1.tenor.com/images/fca985e06e6e9de4b4559dba27678a56/tenor.gif?itemid=8878747)",
"FFS now I’m mad we don’t get that",
"cheers",
"Its that rubbery stuff that almost every running track is made of. When you had PE in school you ran on it. ",
"It isn't always done in this fashion. Pavers are still widely used by the rich folk. ",
"> the most underrated part of any city in Europe\n\nWhen are you writing a guide with all parts of Europeans cities ranked?",
"Don't you believe it. I got sent to a new build site because the HVAC system had lost comms with all it's outstations on one side of the hotel (still construction site).\n\n3 hour flight, booked in to a hotel, got a cab to the site, PPE gear on, find managers office and log in to the front end. Sure enough, 1/2 the outstations were sending nothing back.\n\nTake laptop and walk to each outstation. Each one was up and running and receiving data from its sensors, but no tx/rx with the front end.\n\nFind site manager and ask him to find me blueprints for cabling.\n\nNext day, get back to site, find all the OS's that have no comms (they run semi-auto without further instructions, but to change instructions you need physical access or comms with the front-end), have the data cables running through to the centre of the hotel and down a lift shaft.\n\nNow this is still a construction zone, so picking my way through unfinished corridors, dust and tools everywhere, I find my armored cable poking out of the wall in the unfinished lift shaft, cleanly severed.\n\nAsk site manager about the lift shaft (not the cable cause he wouldn't know which I was asking about), and he thought for a minute, and went, 'Oh, was that the hole that the twats dropped a mixer down from the roof?'\n\nAt that point my job was over, because I'm not there to dig out armored cable from set concrete when some dumb ass drops a cement mixer down a lift shaft and then blames us for the HVAC having a shit fit.\n\nIT, architects, sparks, plumbers and consultants mix all the time, and nobody walks away happy.",
"Wait a minute how do they do the edges? Do they have like half bricks, 1/3 bricks and 1/4 bricks ready for that?",
"But you're also talking about saving money. Bricks - even just a brick veneer - would cost way more than concrete.",
"How disappointing...",
"It probably lasts longer than the bricks anyways",
"Queue the Michael Scott No .gif!\n\nBut seriously... I used to think, man that be a sucky job laying all these bricks, and for what!? A lie, I say, a big fat lie!",
"This is really weird, but the capital P and lowercase h are bugging me in that picture. Its supposed to be the opposite",
"I bring up the laws because I assume traffic laws are created with safety in mind. Next time you drive around a city watch how pedestrians behave on sidewalks and how drivers exit parking decks. Imagine that you have a bike able to move the same speed as traffic, you'd be hitting people and car fenders left and right",
"My interpretation is that you were making fun of a stage theater reference as something for old people. Which it isn't.",
"My driveway is done like this, and it's fantastic. Brilliant. *Until* that is, you need any work doing that means you need to access under it. \n\nLike water pipes, gas pipes, drainage. \n\nThen, because it isn't just blocks that can be lifted, a hole dug, a hole refilled, and bricks relaid, you end up having to smash a great hole in it, and you can never patch it up to look very much like what was there, because it was initially one piece of concrete, stamped, coloured and painted or whatever, and of course worn in the years since it was laid.\n\nI'd never choose it myself. ",
"Fuck ... saw a pavement like this in Istanbul just last week, but with dog paw prints through a section. I was confused as hell until now ... feel such a muppet.",
"Yes it is called controlled cracking, but the first job of the cut is to prevent and minimalize the cracking",
"Inexpensive way to have a good look, plus it is in known territory (concrete is a tested and proven material). Other materials ain't as tested or as inexpensive. Some bricks can be used, but usually still require a concrete base...",
"I purposely bought 99 balloons instead.",
"Im suddenly realizing why there is a utica indiana near new albany indiana",
"I can see this lasting longer (vs laid brick) in many climates but not places with freezing and wet winters. Like say Minnesota. The heave from the freezing warming cycle and the scraping of plows. Shudder RIP cute brick pattern :)",
"GDP is resources...There is a market value to the said resources.\n\nFood can always be sourced from non-NY state with little or no extra cost (compared to GDP, which is why GDP is important )\n\nFresh Water -- Unless you plan to spend multi-billion dollars in creating a dam across Hudson, the water will flow in. It has nothing to do with NY state.\n\nBottomline, if tomorrow NYC cuts itself off by creating its own state, upstate New York will be destroyed\n",
"I too am joist.",
"I though that they placed blocks shaped like those. Mind = blown ",
"Giirrrll, you got better curves than a caternary arch. ",
"I suppose I should have provided a picture. I mean something like fist sized and above.\n \nAnd my memory serves up the correct word: cobblestone road. Bleh. ",
"the kid's in for a rude awakening when all he's doing is matrix algebra in a cubicle.",
"AKA cobblestone, which I should have put in the original post. ",
"They do that here in DFW except they dye the concrete.",
"Aaaand that last sentence is mildly nsfw.. whoops!",
"You've delved too far and too deep with the references. ",
"These joints are typical on a bridge of moderate span (say, 100+ meters) at the abutment approaches, where the road base transitions from earth to structure. For concrete slab applications such as the bricks in OP GIF, crack inducers (the impressions themselves) may act appropriately, or a buffalo board/rubber 'expansion joint' of 1/2 inch thickness could be used between impressions at say 8 feet on center to accommodate expansion/contraction and shifting earth.",
"Delete this.",
"/r/specializedtools",
"How will the weeds growing up make it easier to maintain?",
"As an engineer, this make me smile. It hits the requirements, including the budget requirement.",
"I’m in SHOCK ",
"[While we're here, what's this thing?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQO7TujWRHQ)",
"The new brick crosswalks in my town are some sort of thick vinyl sticker",
"We call em weeds here mate ",
"Ha! That's exactly what an *architect* would say! ",
"[Are you still there?](https://youtu.be/-ZReLaWESAE)",
"Then the motorcycle falls over. There's a minimum speed you need to keep 200kg of metal and plastic balanced and upright",
"*rated",
"Locally they use colored concrete; that way, a surface coating doesn't wear through and necessitate a re-coat.",
"Oh my god ",
"Stampcrete ",
"I'm pissed ",
"In sicily sometimes you see people to hitting the rocks in the sidewalks with chisels to make them rough again, since with time they get smooth and slippery.",
"Usually cities will dye it, but if it’s not in the budget it’s simply not in the budget. (Dying concrete is expensive) ",
"Most likely referring to the water table that feeds New York City that comes from upstate. It is a constant source of consternation for the people who live in those areas.",
"Lol of course they go cheap, gotta keep the budget low in the short term for them short term terms. ",
"I WANT YO SPAGHETTI",
"Something something Sayori",
"Albany would be destroyed\n\nFTFY",
"OK - enjoy drinking the Hudson and eating your GDP.",
"Yeah to be fair, if/when it cracks it’s surely gonna be along the edges of the pattern since its weaker, so you would never notice. ",
"It looks worse than the average overpass. Maybe I was expecting them to just not do things to actively make it uglier than it needs to be.",
"Charlotte did this. ",
"\"boiled goose\"",
"What THE FUCK!!!",
"The earth behind the overpass must be contained somehow, and design restrictions may require a MSE (Mechanically Stabilized Earth) wall due to spacial requirements. MSE walls allow for shorter structure spans and tighter overpasses, which are ultimately super effective (the MSE walls last longer than the design life of the bridge itself) and result in a lower cost (shorter spans, less backfilling, etc.). Although these specific patterns look silly this is what the client requested from the constructor.\n\nI'm pretty sure I addressed your statement about the waste of time/money.",
"for some reason I just tought of 500 days of summer",
"It will span the ages with people drawing on it's knowledge. ",
"Our city has smooth brick. A tiny amount of rain turns it into a slippery path of death.",
"Lego*",
"Did someone say buttress? ",
"Goodnight, Johnboy",
"Good night brush and a bowl full of mush. ",
"As a fellow engineer who lives around many instances of this sort of fake stamped brick and stone, it checks all the box yet misses by a mile. 90% of the time it looks terrible. It's as far off as that cheap printed paper veneer.",
"I hate this stuff. It checks the boxes yet misses by a mile. It always looks so terrible. It's the sidewalk equivalent of printed paper veneer furniture.",
"Assuming there was a valid proof of concept first, I blame the RFP process and project managers.",
"Stamped would as well if it's properly done.",
"A painjob sounds like it would be horrible.",
"Haha I knew that was some kind of black magic",
"The word you're looking for is [tesserae](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic)",
"[Relevant](https://satwcomic.com/art/coat-of-arms.jpg)",
"Does the picture have anything to do with your life being a lie?\nIt's a stamp, you're not the Truman show....",
"Because actual brick on traveled roadways are a nightmare. We have some older areas in town that are still bricked and they are absolutely horrible to keep looking decent.",
"/r/machineporn",
"I was under the impression that it’s just cosmetic and doesn’t goes to the bottom at all. ",
"Good night, John Boy.",
"Decks are made out of wood!",
"For one it probably saves time, for another I'd guess the workers won't have their backs bent all day and their good health will probably last longer.",
"This is more civil engineering ",
"Noted, shall not paint a porch ever.",
"This is the reason bricklayers and masons are losing jobs, not because of illegals. Illegals are brought in and exploited because the owner \"can't afford\" the machinery, or the illegal is cheaper. Been happening for what seems like ages, but keep blaming immigrants and the \"poors\", not the asshole in charge who devalues everyone but himself.",
"Nothing culls old people like broken hips",
"And it makes skateboarding more difficult. ",
"Most are in fact real bricks just some are not ",
"Sounds like someone is cutting corners or doesn't know how to do roads properly. It's supposed to be concrete with asphalt on top. ",
"I feel like I knew this and suppressed the memory to hold my reality together... so, thanks.",
"Reddit is no party, don't let the cake fool you!",
"This makes more sense",
"NOW I feel cheated too ",
"Ours are just red brick and grey grout \"painted\" on (I'm sure they're epoxy or somesuch)",
"the blind feel it and know there's a crosswalk",
"How much cheaper is that",
"How much cheaper is it",
"Mine is The Staypuft Marshmallow Man",
"Lemme tell you... it's for the best. My little town had \"historic\" brick streets dating from the 1920s. They were absolutely terrible shake your fillings out no end of pot holes bad. Every last brick had chipped edges so it was little better than cobblestone. About ten years ago they replaced all the bricks for eight blocks of the main drag in the business district. It cost six million dollars, which is a lot of tax money for a town of ~3k people. Now a decade later, the edges of the bricks are chipped again, and various courses have heaved or sagged. It's not great to drive on, and starting to look bad again. I'd rather they had just poured a normal concrete street and used the rest of the money to add sidewalks for the half dozen neighborhoods that don't have them. Bricks just aren't a great paving material when there are 30 ton garbage trucks and 10 ton delivery vans on them constantly instead of horse drawn wagons.",
"America, the country of imitation. ",
"Scariest part of the whole book for me. Where did the other person go?!? Were they never there??? I need answers!",
"Okay real talk. I don't know if your teenage son is actually some shithead kid or not. But speaking from the experience of a formerly shithead kid they came at a time during my formative teenage years even though I never really got in trouble I was obnoxious and pretty disobedient that it just felt like my dad literally just stopped giving a fuck about me one day. I had decent grades held out a full-time job had a couple of scholarship offers to play soccer and one for drama... And my dad being a bit of a controller just couldn't handle it once I was able to do my own thing so he stopped supporting me in any quantifiable way. I have the lead in my senior production Romeo and Juliet and two scholarships on the table while working a full-time job and he never came to a single game or any play I was ever in. He just kind of took the out to Willow you're a big boy you can do it yourself and of course I ended up not going to college and when I did go to college flunking out for lack of support. Not trying to give you my life story or anything but once we got a little older he ended up getting really sick and tried to come back into my life and by then the love was just gone... He died alone and I haven't talked to him in probably a year.\n\nI'll tell you that to say this... regardless of how much it had he is or not is or how different it is from you if you just keep loving him and show him that he has your love even when he doesn't want it things will probably be alright. I mail the parent of a four-year-old severely autistic boy and a five-year-old girl and that's my strategy I can't fix everything I can't make everything alright but God dammit I can love them and tell him I'll be there for them no matter what. Best of luck to you bud.",
"- Tiger-Stone",
"Welcome to civil engineering in the Rust Belt. We have asphalt on top of dirt, asphalt on top of gravel, asphalt on top of cobble, asphalt on top of asphalt, asphalt on top of brick, and sometimes concrete.",
">Fresh Water -- Unless you plan to spend multi-billion dollars in creating a dam across Hudson, the water will flow in.\n\nThe Hudson isn't fresh water that far South. It's a tidal estuary; when the tide is low the river flows South, and when the tide is high it flows North as ocean water pushes in. It's not potable.",
"/r/unexpectedfactorial",
"I picked up on this while watching the sopranos once. Tony was driving AJ around the old town and explains how his granfadda new to the country built the old church he drove by. ",
"I know nothing about bricks. I shouldn't even be commenting. That machine was awesome, do.",
"You mean the hit \"500 architects of architecture\"? ",
"\"Good those darn kids with their skateboards clonking down the sidewalk keeps me up at night.\"",
"What a *darn* shame..",
"lie lie liessss...",
"They are all lying for a living.",
"It's a binary proposition. Go with plain concrete (because this looks horrendous), or spend the money on brick. If i were to sum it up in phrases to convey my point, I guess I would say \"Go big or go home\" or \"Don't do it half-assed\"\n\nDo you really think they didn't get shafted on this? All of these slabs had to be done offsite, where the supplier can dictate pricing. You see this all the time with mid-tier retail products, car lots where new vehicles all have a few of the highest grossing option packages, ect.",
"Theres a cheaper option too. For residential applications you can [stain concrete](https://www.google.com/search?q=concrete+stain&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiqiMzOudjYAhUE6GMKHUD4BDIQ_AUICygC&biw=959&bih=951#imgrc=mknsegVqv2LNOM:). \n",
"in addition to the comment about water drainage; if the surface were to crack, the crack would be stopped by one of the pseudo bricks and it wouldn’t look nearly as bad as a very long crack that would appear on a flat slab.",
"I was there about 11 seconds...",
"They need full expansion joints for sure. ",
"The pattern isn’t just aesthetic but serving practical purpose too. It leaves room for smaller blocks to expand and retract in different temperatures ",
"Whuuuutttt? Is the real life?",
"I mean placed as individual slabs.",
"Yes it is a brick laying machine, and also is fucking saving brick layers backs, knees and souls.",
"Swans can be gay",
"It's red asphalt, Micheal. What could it cost, $10?",
"Not if you're in frost climates, permeable concrete creates an issue when the road/path/driveway is salted for ice and snow removal. The brine melt the water but has the potential to refreeze underground depending on the salt concentration and heave the roadway out of shape",
"Huh, TIL. Thanks for following up!",
"wait, where are you from?",
"That's probably how she got grandpa 😉",
"Same in portuguese\ndente-de-leão (lion’s tooth)\n\nlikely a number of latin languages as well",
"It's called stamped concrete for a reason.",
"It gets worse. Wasabi in America is actually just horseradish.",
"I've have to call a sales rep. but off the top of my head about half the price, I think.",
"Thanks, I think I got this one. Nothing more than the normal teen-father differences of opinion. I'm a laid-back parent. He's a great kid, 3 sport varsity letters and all by his choice, not mine. He gets good grades, behaves, plans to be an engineer. I'm a single dad - his mom tried to kill me and I have had 100% custody since he was 6 months old. I go t every meet - cross country, wrestling, and track - even though he tells me I don't have to go to all of them. I didn't have any real relationship with my own dad, but in the end I dropped out of college to care for him for 5 months until he died, and we both did our best to make up for our mistakes. Sorry about your dad. I decided when i had a child I would do everything I could to be a good father, and I have mostly succeeded - and the result is a good kid. But I did tell him again today he needs to clean his room, and get the laundry together so I don't have to wash his school clothes at 4 am because he forgot! ",
"I just mean that rolling down a strip of coloured asphalt in the middle of a field of black asphalt isn't something I've ever seen done before, I'd imagine it wouldn't look as good? Not sure if it would save any money either.",
"They're saying the laws about cycling on the sidewalk are not the same world wide. Even within the US, different cities/states have their own rules on this.",
"Same in portuguese\ndente-de-leão (lion’s tooth)\n\nlikely a number of latin languages as well",
"It would go to the sides along the seams and some would go to the bottom (edit: it would go to the bottom where there were cracks the whole way through). \n\nSorry to be technical but these are not bricks, they are pavers (that are made with a concrete adjacent material). \n\nI am not sure which eliminates water faster but apart from the [super porous concrete](https://youtu.be/Oizn8KPiaXk), concrete generally sheds water to the side rather than absorbs it.",
"WHAT",
"It's 1/4 of the thickness of the slab. Not 1/4\". Also in stamped concrete you should still have control joints in the slab.\n\n\"Don't confuse a stamped pattern or an engraved pattern with a joint—stamped patterns and engraving cuts are not deep enough to create the weakened plane for a contraction joint. Make sure the joint depth is at least ¼ the thickness of the slab.\"\n\nSource: https://www.concretenetwork.com/concrete-joints/decorative.html",
"Nope.. I'm talking about super old neighborhoods with sidewalks no where close to flat.",
"That sucks, I'm sorry.",
"I was asking stamping concrete like above vs the individual paver stones that these are made to look like.",
"In mcgerkinsville we call em “porked stammies”",
"That picture is from Charlotte but I live in Georgia.\n\nDoes it look familiar?",
"Cuphead and his heroic brother would like to challenge! ",
"Tartan tracks were specifically designed to work in wet conditions. According to the wikipedia article they were developed to let athletes compete in bad weather without serious performance loss. Admittedly athletes use spikes but reducing slippage should still be a priority. [The surface is very very irregular](https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2015/01/24/02/48/line-609709_1280.jpg).",
"Is tarmack not a thing over there? or is it just for cold climates.",
"Eh, most people don't even know what QR codes are. ",
"Yeah, we have real brick sidewalks in my city, and eventually they start coming loose. Once one comes out, the whole sidewalk needs to be redone.",
"They're talking about a cyclist crossing a cross walk where they have the right of way. However, a car driving alongside them (but faster) does NOT have the right of way to turn right until pedestrians (and a bicyclist in this scenario) are clear of the crosswalk. They are required to yield to the pedestrian/cyclist by law. Problem is, it can be hard to notice the cyclist because they are moving much faster than a pedestrian. Same situation if it's an oncoming car making a left turn.\n\nSo no, it's not a dumb law, and it is safer. For the record, I don't bike anymore and I too get annoyed by bikers who drive on the street but don't follow the traffic laws. But you really have to understand why them being on the sidewalk is unsafe.",
"/r/shittyrobots",
"Can confirm. Am portuguese.\nWHO THE FUCK IN OUR COUNTRY’S HISTORY DECIDED THAT WE SHOULD HAVE SIDEWALKS MADE OF TINY BUMPY STONES??? WHY CANT WE USE CONCRETE??",
"Oh yes, I agree. I was just saying that this appears to be concrete, not just cement (cement is one ingredient in concrete).",
"If I had to make an educated guess, then individual pavers if you have large temperature swings from winter to summer, because they'll fare much better in the contaction/expansion of water, and stamped if you never dip below 0C and have large rainfall, because the pavers won't get washed out as much.",
"This guy local governments. \n\nThey have some pretty animations now days but he real work is still matrix math and raw data.\n\nWorking I.T. I got to see floodwater, urban storm water, traffic, airport, parking planning. They are all driven by data but airport planning looked the most fun. Then traffic.\n\nThere's cool animations for building planning for the media department but it was only for show where I was. Again all the real work is math and meeting specifications. Height restrictions... Safety etc etc.\n\nIf you work I.T. you get to see what people do everyday...and never have to do a day of it.",
"Can't speak for the whole state but south east michigan has notoriously bad problems with freeze/thaw cycles destroying roads every winter followed by closures for construction every spring. A weekend below freezing won't cause this. A day of 10F on Tuesday, 50F wed and 5 by Friday morning again is what does it.",
"Polymeric sand... So polymer modified grout but in presumably huge bags?",
"That seemed to be most of what people were saying. I don't know if they use stamped ones here or not. Mostly it is just regular concrete unless you're in an older neighborhood like the one I was referencing. Then it was jacked up from time, older trees, etc.",
"turn that frown upside down...",
"You can stamp concrete any shape and color these days been doing it for most my life ",
"Because they are made from carved rocks, not a molded mixture such as concrete. Rocks last a very long time.",
"In the city of Arequipa, in Peru, many streets used to be cobbled. \n\nThey were quite rough and constantly had holes that needed to be patched with new stones, which the city council never did because they were incompetent.\n\nThen, in the 80s, there were lots of demonstrations on the street, and the police got a little out of hand with their violence. \n\nSo, the protestors reached for the only thing they had at hand: they pulled out the stones from under their feet, and threw them at the police. \n\nThe streets in Arequipa are not cobbled anymore. ",
"Nope, cheap and almost unnoticeable. All sidewalks have them. Just a small family filled in with something.",
"then it's no longer easy to make",
"Often, soil/sand get in the gaps and seeds are deposited in the air/by birds - they grow in the soil on top. Rarely are roots / seeds growing from underneath to the top.",
"Well the bricks are generally protected by the asphalt covering them, so they should stay in better condition.",
"I moved to Albany last year and have not heard steamed hams once ",
"[selciaroli](https://imgur.com/gallery/2ki92) @ Rome",
"CHAMPION OF THE SUN, AH AHHH AAAAHHHHHHH",
"How I feel when I think I seen something on reddit for the first time ",
"Yeah this is easier on the labor aspect, but it’s a cheaper product. It’s just poured concrete sliced into shapes. I’m not sure if it would last longer than natural stone. Probably the same unless you’re using some industrial strength concrete. \n\nEither way, I would have rather built sidewalks and masonry walkways for commercial property this way. Laying bricks 100% level is an arduous task.",
"So it's dirt? ",
"This is [Dandy Lion](https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/0f/52/db/f3/the-ugly-statue.jpg) , he's from my mums home town and I fucking doubt he could do anything to a dandelion. \n",
"You're right. I'm not always like this, it's an acute condition.",
"Oh, yeah. I should have scrolled down. Makes more sense now.",
"found the naive libertarian ",
"[Pretty much.](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074CNVRB4/ref=asc_df_B074CNVRB45336387/?tag=hyprod-20&creative=395033&creativeASIN=B074CNVRB4&linkCode=df0&hvadid=229286241014&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8765264501563376496&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9005675&hvtargid=pla-379212125215) You just sweep it into the cracks, blow off the surface, and wet it down, and the sand bonds together and becomes impermeable.",
"I've never been fine and dandy at the same time. Well maybe once, but nobody asked me how I was doing.",
"And as the article points out, it's more than just looks. Superior maintenance, less tripping hazard, no weeds between bricks, less time intensive to install, less theft risk, and better handling of cold winters. The article says the cost is a bit difficult to compare, but sounds like it can be comparable cost, too. In which case, I'm not sure if real bricks have any advantage, besides satisfying elitists.",
"I wish my city had done this. They actually laid brick and it’s terrible to drive over.",
"I remember this from like 2 months ago, this is a repost",
"Welcome to Night Vale.\n\nAnd Carlos' perfect, perfect hair.",
"This is how you mess with neurotics.",
"I think old mate is a little slow.. must be some kind of rain sickness..",
"edm is a broad term that includes electro house, so okay. It's edm as well.",
"You mentioned an issue with visibility yet putting a bike on the road just increases the likelihood of hitting the cyclist. Like when a semi truck makes a turn and a car tries to cut in from the inside. \n\nIt's a dumb law, bikes need to stay on the sidewalk ",
"Stamped concrete is a pain in the ass, but so satisfying ",
"I watched this for way too long waiting for the GIF to start. ",
"Alls well. :)",
"There has to be surface cuts or it will randomly break. Adding these designs makes less breaks while also causing the breaks to happen along the design",
"This stuff looks great but doesn't cut the mustard around here regarding durability. Source today's local news article. http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2018/01/14/Decorative-crosswalks-proving-to-be-costly-difficult-to-maintain.html",
"What -are- they doing? ",
"Wage war on your future self. How dare they remember you in their memories.",
"Wait can someone shed light on the dandelion? Apparently all I know about them is you can blow on them...",
"This is House.\n\nhttps://imgur.com/fPQMmZg",
"They aren't appealing when you are driving on them ",
"Nice bricked pattern so it's bumpy as hell to ride a bike on it.\n\nDon't get me wrong, if there's more than two pedestrians on one sidewalk stretch, then I'll move to the street, but the sidewalk is generally safer.",
"By doesn't it increase overall cracking cuz it give a place for water to get into before is freezes and expands?",
"Is it weird that I know what a sidewalk is but not a walk. ",
"Definitely this is the cheap way to do it but it lasts a lot longer ",
"My first internship as a civil engineering student was as a field engineer for a project like this. The most boring summer. ",
"Commences beating for not having my money.",
"I learned something today",
"Plus the people don't have to be bent over to set the bricks.",
"I was told that the beads do both",
" That is concrete, not asphalt. They're using an old-style rigid frame stamp. We call them \"cookie cutters\". I did miles of this back in the 1980's for boulevard medians in California. Also the triangle-shaped sections where on/off ramps meet the freeway. The look is quite common today but the stamps are made of flexible rubber of one quarter the weight, with any design you please. Side note: we did one job where we poured red concrete, applied powdered red hardener, and sprayed it with red curing compound. What color is it today? Pink.",
"I'll do whichever gets paid the most. ",
"A thousand thank yous kind citizen!",
"Northern and upstate are also very different. Upstate only consists of the areas North of NYC: the Catskills, capital region, Hudson valley.",
"They were definitely not individual bricks. It may have been along seams.. I don't slow down to look. But maybe it's different from this. Sure looked similar when they were doing it. ",
"Upon reflection it may just be along the edges and seams. I will admit don't look too closely when I'm commuting. ",
"This is pretty typical in Europe. You’ll see a ton of it in Czechia and similar methods in Germany and Austria.\n\nIt’s super practical - no concrete pours to rip up when you need to get at the pipes, dries quickly after rain, materials can last centuries...",
"Lol",
"That’s music was pretty awesome",
"Because it looks nice, and if it's done properly it's not that bad.",
">You mentioned an issue with visibility yet putting a bike on the road just increases the likelihood of hitting the cyclist. \n\nHow? The bike being on the road means it's in the driver's immediate field of view. When it's on the sidewalk it is not in the driver's immediate field of view. The driver is going to see the bicycle in the road right in front of them, but it may not see the bicycle that's on the sidewalk 10-15 feet to the right. ",
"My dad does this for a living! It’s called concrete stamping and it’s actually way more structurally sound than brick laying. All the different stamps you can use are interesting as fuck. ",
"Yeah, and the downvotes I've received mean I'm wrong. ",
"It was awesome! Does anybody know the source?\n\nShazam found nothing :(",
"Goodnight Bene Gesserit Witch whispering \"they tried and they died.\"",
"Like a bucket. ",
"Same reason they scribble on walls, litter, and drive poorly.",
"Easier to fix bricks because you can pop out bad ones, and toss in New ones.",
"LOLOL",
"I want one!",
"I wish could unsee this",
"Was brick for 80 years.",
"Only really as a happy side effect. The main point of the beads is improved night vision. For more info you could check out articles talking about retroreflectivity. Pavement markings need anti-skid aggregate like corundum to help slimmer wheel vehicles.",
"[Thanks!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD6qtc2_AQA)",
"They couldn't just, you know, use bricks?",
"I'm guessing you're doing none of those... we're talking local gov. Most are underpaid, on common AO rates, and in suck-ful conditions. They go on about conditions and the location, but it's a big bad joke. \n\nI don't even have a contract now and I have infinity an better situation from interaction with the boss, wages... and I'm working on stuff that's not a useless waste of time and public money.\n\nThere's so much waste just in local it sickens me - I hate to think of the burn in State and Federal levels...",
"The plastic crates that 2 liter Dr. Pepper bottles come in stack exactly like the basic Lego brick, except they're about a foot and a half long.",
"That's the number two. If it were not the 'to' that i used then it would be this 'too', but i'm never able to understand when to use that 'too' because i'm dumb.",
"How to Remember Homophones Two, Too, To\nRemember Two with a Three\n\nAll three of these homophones have the letters t and o in them. Only one has the letter w. If you turn w on its side (counterclockwise), it looks a lot like a three (3), which is a number that comes right after number two (t30).\n\nRemembering the Difference Between Too and To\n\nRemembering the difference between too and to is a little more difficult than remembering that two is a number. But there’s a solution. One of these words has one o and the other has two o’s. That’s right, one word too has too many o’s. If you can remember the phrase “too many o’s,” you can also remember that if the too you’re using means “in excess” or “also” (all so many), then you’re good to go.\n\n(copied from https://www.writingforward.com/grammar/homophones/homophones-two-too-to)",
"Hahahah, walk is like a sidewalk but without the road in the middle, it’s like a people-only road",
"To me the whole part about w being turned on its side to represent a '3' is so ridiculous, if your going to remember that long winded explanation why cant you just remember \"the one with a 'w' is the number\"? Apart from that your explanation did clear up some of my uncertainty on the subject, thanks",
"I mean, I wasn't sure how much to copy from the page and that part seemed silly, but sometimes ludicrous things help. ",
"'You know what would look great on my new office... a tree!'\n\n\"But sir, we just finished completing your walls... and its on the third floor.\"\n\n\"Oh, well, so how much will it cost now?\"\n\n\"Like 4 times as much.\"\n\n\"Ok do it\"\nApple Exec, on his Spaceship office.\n(Or so the story goes)",
"You still put far more effort into looking it up than i did so round of applause for you good sir. *clap**clap**clap**clap**clap**clap*",
"yea, thought it was a place in Denmark, near were i live",
"I always thought they do that to account for thermal expansion and water run offs.\n\nWas there a conspiracy!??!! 🤔",
"In Spanish it's \"diente de león\" , literal translation and done with ",
"Don't drive your motorcycle on peoples porches",
"engineering at its best",
"I'm still waiting. ",
"nope. only part of your life is a lie. there do exist these but made of individual blocks.",
"Freshly made bricks laying out nicely on the pavement. What else do you want?",
"you fuck around with me there's gonna be consequences and repercussions ",
"This is not cheap, however. Takes a lot of time and skill to get it just right ",
"That's a surprise, but it definitely is a time saver.",
"Now I very much want to see a turtle race.",
"My daughter has requested this as her bedtime book 5 days in a row now.",
"Good to know",
"I've never been dandy.",
"You sure it wasn't a concrete hill?",
"Haven't you ever seen small mounds on roads? [Those are dandelions making their way up.](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uN8NomEuRAg/U4IpEUNjNXI/AAAAAAAABW0/-8FAtuDe7dg/s1600/resilience-dandelion-through-asphalt.jpg)",
"It'll be a pylon for future humans",
"Relax. It was only a joke. The only two-wheeler people I don’t like are whatever percentage of bicyclists who seem to consider themselves pedestrians and do whatever they want.",
"then youre two comments are a non sequitur. how does reading a book \"little boy\" have anything to do with the globe theatre or peoples opinions of stage theater? and the condescension was completely unnecessary, especially if i was just making a joke. ",
"I just felt like an asshole at the time. ",
"ohhhhh",
"I promise that is still a thing.",
"Well, after helping to lay like hundreds of this bricks for so many weekends in my dad's ranch, I would've prefer this. ",
"Eh, concrete dye for something that vibrant is significant. But also, not having to do these patterns in the concrete reduces costs. Also, a ton of the time cities are using asphalt and not concrete, which is done across an entire span of the street per truck. They aren't pouring it into patterns or something. They're doing an entire sheet. It would cost a ton more to drag out a different asphalt truck or concrete materials specifically for something like a crosswalk. Also, doing an entire bikepath along the entire length of a road in a different color material means an entire second go-through on the pouring of the materials, doubling the cost of labor.",
"Doing a different color of asphalt would be hard as the way asphalt is poured out you would have to prepare the entire length of the way with a form for the bike path, then come back an entire second time with a different color asphalt, doubling labor. Also, unsure on costs of coloring asphalt as asphalt is usually darker than concrete.",
"But it actually will, because this is still one contiguous block with a pattern impressed on it. It's not individual bricks. This approach actually provides gaps that can make it more susceptible to freeze/thaw cycles.",
"Oh, I see. Thanks. ",
"That’s nothing I just learned that cakes aren’t made by the cake fairy people make them! ",
"Mother of repost",
"I know. I was just joking about it.\n\nBeside, stamped concret is cheaper than doing the whole work.",
"Were you going to be a bricklayer?",
"My life was a lie until 2005, the year I saw this pic for the first time.",
"I was wearing short sleeves and playing golf 2 days ago. It was sunny and almost 50 degrees outside. Today, it's 15 degrees outside and it's snowing. What the fuck Georgia",
"My life is ruined, everything I know I cannot trust",
"Make a mold with premade holes",
"Say no more, say no more!",
"well thanks for spoiling all of our dreams ",
"Somebody's going to get stabbed!",
"3 weeks late, but that's what I was hoping the machine could do.\n\nThose bricklayers know their days are numbered though ",
"Quick update: the city is removing the brick. Replaced with asphalt like the rest of the street now."
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"That's quite neat",
"Was there something special about 1972? A really important year or something? Or they just happened to use red?",
"Me and a friend are attempting this with a birthday card. Managed a few years so far. Hope to keep it going as long as this!",
"That's the year black ink was inshortage due to nam.",
"Santa's hands are creepy as F$&k.",
"It’s a testament to their mail carrier. ",
"Santa hasn’t aged one bit!",
"neat how the ink consistency changed too, like the difference between 1954 and 1959",
"The war on Christmas started in 1953",
"I just asked my dad and he can’t think of anything significant...he reckons someone just couldn’t find a pen!",
"VietFuckinNam!",
"Especially as my grandad was in the Navy so it was sent from Germany and Malaysia back to England for a period of time!",
"Frugal much?",
"I hope one of your grandchildren posts about it on Reddit in 63 years time!!",
"I always wish I did something like this as I find it really neat but then I realize I might be a bit old to get to the 63 year mark but even still I just wish I had a tradition like this of sorts.",
"Saved them about $60 each, I'd say it was worth it.",
"lol Makes sense!",
"Yep, once the US Armed Forces pulled back from 'Nam in '70, they couldn't leave the ARVN for dead, so the folks in the Pentagon decided to host a little meeting to figure out what they were going to do with the ARVN when all the boys got back home. Humans were out of the question though, and the ARVN was well supplied with American steel, be it tanks, hueys, or guns. What the Vietnamese needed to defeat the gooks were some good ol' fashioned boots on the ground. So the Pentagon came up with one solution:\n\nballpoint pens.\n\nYou might say it sounds crazy, and it does. The famed Gen. Westmoreland said \"why the fuck are we sending inanimate fucking objects to the jungle?\" (sic). But boy oh boy, the folks in the 'Gon knew what they were saying. Now, the tide of the war was quickly changing, so the US needed something quick. The DoD contacted the folks in Japan that knew their pens well, the Pilot Pen Company. These Japs were worth their salt. You needed a pen, they were the boys you looked to. \n\nThey had the IJN's backs in WW2. You know the infamous battle, Yamato? They supplied the heavy weaponry for that hunk of steel. Nine 45cm/18in Type 94 naval guns bombarded our boys in the Philippines with Pilot's 45cm G2 Pensshells during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. I would know, my best friend was blown to pieces from a direct headshot with those goddamn shells, right in front of my eyes... \n\nSo Pilot was contacted by the Pentagon for a special mission: to make elite and discreet Pen-borne grunts. And boy oh boy, Pilot made the hell out of them. Armed with a hefty armory of the reliable 7.62mm Type 63 Assault Rifle, a custom made 9mm M38 \"Metropolitan\" SMG (used in urban settings), an M18 Grenade Launcher with 5 Agent Orange shells, 2 M1911s retrofitted with explosive and incendiary bullets, and a Ka-Bar Knife. These bad boys were called the Metropolitans, after their special SMG. They tore up hell in every situation they were in, the most notable one was the Hue Night Raid in November of '72. This was the final operation for the Metropolitans. Pilot made the mistake of arming 50 thousand Metro with the M1 Black Ink. This system setting was only meant for police action in occupied areas, not for night assault. The result was a massacre. 46 thousand Metropolitans were destroyed and 4 thousand were captured, hanged, and drawn and quartered. The good thing was that 120 thousand gooks were killed. The bad thing is that 893 million American dollars were flushed down the drain in a matter of days, and the Metropolitan Program was shut down on December 25, 1972. The Pilot Pen Company only shipped out red pens that day, as a memorial to those grunts that died in the Night Raid. ",
"My great uncle Wallace bought the card and sent it to my grandma in 1953 but forgot to write inside - so she kept hold of it and sent it back to him the following year, the tradition went from there!",
"Honestly, I'd rather do this as a tradition than have to pay every year for cards that people simply read and then put in a box somewhere. Or worse they forget and throw it away.",
"This is genuinely really impressive",
"Nice demonstration of the technonological advancement of disposable pens.",
"You need to carry on the tradition, OP. Imagine the whole card being covered in years. ",
"This is kind of cool. So no message just write the year and send? Interesting. ",
"> Grandma and her brother \n> grandad \n \nThe brother of your grandma is your grandfather or your grandfather took his wife (your grandma) with him to Germany/Malaysia?",
"What happened in 1972 is what I wanna know",
"Wishing everyone a hearty greetings. ",
"My grandad took his wife (my Grandma) with him to the military bases and she sent the card to her brother :)",
"I like how they originally started writing the years so small.. like they knew this would be going on for a while",
"There is something very satisfying to me about that 2004.",
"He used to be Santa, now he is CIS white male scum.",
"Oh, the black ink embargo of '72.\n",
"Dark times...?",
"Yeah that did cross my mind - she’s 80, so eventually will need someone to carry it on, not sure I trust myself with it though!",
"Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepost",
"The original snap streak",
"Actually not, but I did post it on my own Facebook page 2 years ago (note the years only go up to 2015) https://imgur.com/a/nJYNZ",
"Happy accident!",
"Geez, as old as me! ",
"I think 54-58 might be pencil?",
"Oops! Yeah, that makes sense.\n\nFor some reason the app on my phone made me think it was pen. I'm on my laptop and I see what you're saying.",
"mmm 63 years of germs. Just Kidding.",
"What about 1963?",
"If it was sent just once to/from Denmark, there would be a 50% chance of it getting lost. Our postal service is horrible.",
"So not the USPS.",
"I feel fuckin' weird. They've been passing that card back and forth long before I was ever born and have continued it my entire life.\n\nMy brain's all spooked.",
"You should cross-post this to /r/BuyItForLife. ",
"Santa's fingernails are making me cringe",
"Red times.",
"Well, that is a pretty terrific Christmas card. ",
"I went out and bought nice birthday & anniversary cards and hoping my SO and I ca n do this. Should have done it years ago when we first met but oh well.",
"this is maybe a World Record ",
"> Our postal service is ~~horrible~~.\n\n*drunk",
"More like Missedmark amirite",
"Pun times. ",
"Santa looks as tired",
"And you assholes ruined our postal service as well! Posten was just fine before Denmark had to join!",
"I wonder how many people have been born in that time span. ",
"wow and they both write the numbers exactly the same way",
"Not sure if adorable or severe case of stinginess, probably both. And with today's snail-mail service also a miracle for nor getting lost in a forgotten pile of unsorted mail",
"1954-2017 = 63 years",
"TIL, Ink pens were invented in 1959",
"Grandma's brother would be his great uncle. ",
"That is so cool ",
"I'd be terrified to send something that historic in today's mail system.",
"1959, the year pen's were invented.",
"My question is who sent it from 1758?",
"Thank the baby lord Jesus and Donald J. Trump that we can say Merry Christmas again.",
"“Heh, greetings.”",
"Welsh? :O",
"I've seen this before ",
"I'm gonna be starting this tradition ",
"Hearty greetings! Thank god we can say merry Christmas after so many years!",
"And a happy winter solstice.",
"In Reddit time, it will be posted next week",
"Bravo to the United States Postal Service 63 years of flawless operation ",
"...buck a year compounding at a modest 8.5% annual average yields about two grand after sixty-three years: imagine how well everyone would be set if we could simply invest all our money otherwise squandered on frivolous social obligations...",
"Cymraes :) Family in England too though",
"Noice, first time seeing a Welsh word on Reddit was all, I'm in England studying atm :)",
"You’ve always been able to say it, an orange buffoon in office hasn’t changed that",
"I’m pretty sure people weren’t spending 1$ on every individual greeting card in the 60’s",
"This is a great idea! ",
"Yeah I don’t see many and I’m always a bit excited when I see any reference to Wales on here!",
"Did I need a /s tag? ",
"OMG Malaysia!? First time seeing the name of my country in something positive. lol. ",
"This is great .\nEverybody should do this .",
"All I do is keep getting the exact same damn fruitcake every Xmas.",
"When was 8.5% compound interest modest?",
"This is actually the handiwork of Royal Mail in England! But bravo to USPS anyway! :)",
"Yes, probably. *pat pat*",
"Oh.... I wish I could unsee that now.",
"Yea, that’s the best way to avoid these things (sorry)",
"A tyst minut for all the poor souls who has fallen victim to Postnord",
"Just wanted to note his disgusting red hands that look to be covered in blood.",
"Those Santa fingernails though....",
"Why the fuck doesn’t that card read “Merry Christmas?” This is America!",
"r/aww",
"My uncle and dad sent each other the same fruitcake for over a decade. My dad passed away 4 years ago and now my uncle and I have continued the Christmas tradition.",
"Awesome commitment ",
"Family Christmas traditions can be pretty fun. \n\nWhen I was a kid, someone in the family got this really ugly stuffed star thing as a gift. It was hideous. So whoever got it, saved it and re-gifted it next year to someone else. That started the family tradition of re-gifting the star every year. This has happened for probably around 20 years now and doesn't look like it's going to stop. ",
"Military mail can be pretty solid sometimes. I read about a dude in ww1 that was sent a fruitcake for christmas, but when it arrived at his post he had already been transfered, so rhey had to reroute it but when it arrived it his new post, be was transfered again. This kept happening until he went home and finally received his fruitcake which had followed him the whole time",
"my wife says \"If you send me a card I will read it on the way to the trash\". so around our third anniversary, I made her a card, just a funny pun on a twice folded (one fold each way) piece of 11x7 printer paper. soon we were making cards for every holiday, birthday, and event, the kids started making cards when they were old enough, other family members joined in. we have a huge box of them saved, hundreds of cards, all with a pun or funny drawing on the front and even a hand drawn bar code on the back to commemorate the date, usually with a drawing of the family animals sitting around and on it. \n\n\nits one of our most cherished traditions, if you dont like commercial cards, give it a shot! ",
"1972 must have been a wild year! ",
"nadolig llawen",
"That's actually super cool and it'd actually be pretty neat to send the same card back and forth every year but if you didn't receive it you'd get worried that something bad had happened to the other person",
"Before the bubbles hit",
"I'd watch this movie. Fruitcake following around this soldier who's going through constant shit. He's wondering where his fruitcake is, thinking his family has forgot about him and doesn't care while he's going through hell. Then he finally makes it home. And the damn fruitcake shows up. ",
"Hello Malaysia!\n\nThis message was sent from Space.",
"Oh? Nice! There are actually different 'types' of Malaysian curry. ",
"It’s weird how both of them have similar writing. Strange how nobody notice that. Anyway, it’s very interesting if this actually happend/is happening in the future.",
"Actually, 1959 was the year pencils were outlawed. It wasn't until after the Great War of 1972, commonly referred to as the Graphite Wars, that lead pencil production resumed. By then the common Ball-Point Pen had staked a firm hold in office culture, and pencils have all but disappeared because everyone just takes pens from the supply closet.",
"It's a miracle that your postal service didn't lose it ",
"No; people should know it from the context.",
"It's ok, you can swear on the internet.",
"Love this, same card but a sentiment. I hate greeting cards. A couple of dollars for a piece of paper that isn't even your original thought. Prefer a phone call or a text over a greeting card.",
"That’s lovely, is it like when you keep the top of a wedding cake and no one actually eats it?",
"You should check if this is a world record!",
"It is similar (they’re siblings I guess) but one of them definitely does rounder 9s than the other!",
"You're fun.",
"Now that's taking regifting to the extreme!",
"One year this card will be sent and not returned.",
"My cousin and his wife saved their cake in the freezer. My grandma ate it before they got back from their honeymoon. ",
"Well I don’t think it has nothing to do if they are siblings(I have a sibling and God no we don’t write the same). Writing has it’s own “signature”. Like 1979 and 1980 looks like they are written with same pen and 1998 and 1999 looks like it’s written by the same persone.",
"Greeting card companies hate them",
"When you care enough to spend the very least.",
"Don’t get me wrong. I just have my doubts :)",
"What? No, no no... they're not creepy as fuck, they're creepy as F$&k.",
"Skål",
"I've been using ~ as a snark mark. \"Another method of expressing sarcasm is by placing a tilde (~) adjacent to the punctuation. This allows for easy use with any keyboard, as well as variation. Variations include dry sarcasm (~.), enthusiastic sarcasm (~!), and sarcastic questions (~?). The sports blog Card Chronicle has adopted this methodology by inserting (~) after the period at the end of the sentence.[16] It has also been adopted by the Udacity community[17]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation\n",
"r/oldschoolcool",
"COMMUNISM!",
"Blwyddyn newydd dda!",
"Should is a big word",
"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch",
"Also, I travelled overland across Malaysia last year and you have really nice buses.",
"Love stuff like this! ",
"Are you guys ok?",
"I was thinking that the stamp today probably cost multiple times what that card cost in 54.",
"Found McCarthy's account. ",
"yes. why?",
"I think r/zerowaste would like this",
"Haha really? I was not expecting that! Glad you like it ^_^",
"Red right hand.",
"Is it me or does 1953 Santa look like a stoned ~~midget~~ little person with a jacked up middle finger?",
"Are you sure?\n\nFuck. Shit.\n\nWow, that feels really good!",
"Really cool! Are the two sides of the card still connected? You would think after 60+ years of opening and closing the card the crease would tear.",
"> Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHxO0UdpoxM",
"We Norwegians travel to Denmark for the sole purpose of buying cheap booze, so it's not like you're wrong here.",
"Is there a reason 2017 has a full stop but none of the others do?\n Some kind of dark prediction perhaps? ",
"You better continue that tradition when they pass on!",
"Calls to deliver my mail between 11-15 and requiring me to sign it.\n\nYeah, because people are usually home between 11-15.",
"This sounds awesome! I will make my own cards!!",
"What a incredible to me is that Danish booze isn't even that cheap relative to most places, it must be really expensive in Norway.",
"Two vowels. Couldn't you manage without any vowels at all? /s \n\n(So, this is pronounced something like \"Belvitten nevitt tah\", or? My Scots is a bit rusty these days, I'm afraid.)",
"And thus, we all witnessed the first time a Christmas card caused an existential crisis. Hearty greetings!",
"Isn’t that a town?",
"Same but I lost the card. Not sure it was fair as my birthday was only 2 weeks after my friend's and I have ADHD so of course I couldn't look after it for over 50 weeks.",
"Coegni?",
"Looks like my nan's arthritic hands. Santa is an old man so I'm not surprised",
"It was written in blood then?",
"And reposted an hour afterwards.",
"Santana hands are fucked up",
"\\#WarOnChristmas\n\n/s",
"Worse they’re welsh",
"Here's hoping that they are able to continue the tradition for many years to come :)",
"/r/buyitforlife",
"Satan hands ....or gloves with fingernails attached ",
"Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Resend the cheer.",
"Yes, thankfully I only have to be the card guardian (cardian?) for a couple of months. Initially, there was another card, and a third person involved, but they couldn't even keep hold of the card for the three weeks between mine and his birthdays...",
"Thank you, I hope so too :)",
"Dead times.",
"Gotta get on that karma train yo!",
"You are correct. But more expensive is more better, right?",
"*Is home and sitting on the couch between 11 and 15 literally 6 steps from the door*\n\n*Get's a message on my phone saying the delivery man knocked but nobody was home*\n\n?????\n\nFucking postnord",
"You can see when ballpoint pens came around and people stopped using felt pens.",
"Grandpa Wallace wrote that number in blood",
"Wait, what? I love discovering popular subs I had no idea about ",
"Scots?",
"I just thought to myself, “I want to start this!” And then I realized that I’m already too late.",
"It feels sad because it might get lost in the process. Just keep it as a memento at this point );",
"I wish.\n\nTuborg Grøn is cheap as water and better than whatever expensive piss we’re brewing up here.",
"I hand make my Christmas cards every year and last year I sent my sister a messed up one that, instead of saying, \"Wishing you a magical Christmas and a Happy New Year\" just said \"mag.\" When she sent me the picture I laughed so hard I cried. I hope no one else got one of those.",
"You can see the handwriting get better over time. ",
"Sad to think that one day one of them will be writing their last date on that card",
"awesome",
"In honour of the Canada - Russia series.",
"It's true, I would trust BFPO over conventional post any day. International delivery times you could only dream of via civvy post for around the same price as domestic, and even free post to many OPs and Ships on deployment, it is truly a testament to what Royal Mail can achieve. But then I send something 1st class domestically and they go and misplace it between 2 cities a handful of miles apart along the M4 and I loose all faith again.",
"And then he marries the fruitcake.",
"Omg that was great",
"Four vowels. Good.",
"Sorry, Gælic.",
"I’m confused- are they not talking welsh ?",
"OK, Welsh Gælic and not Scots Gælic, then.",
"As an aside, I just visited Denmark. You have a lovely country filled with warm, generous people. ",
"If they tried to put \"Hearty Greetings\" on a starbucks cup some people would flip their lids. ",
"Hearty greetings!\n\nClearly the war on Christmas Is much older than we suspected... someone notify Fox News!",
"Hallmark hates her!",
"A friend and I sort of have the same thing going. We were roommates in University, and she gave me a Christmas gift in a gift bag our first year. Next year, I accidentally gave her a gift in the same bag. Then it became a thing. \nNow, 15 years later, we live in different cities but still mail each other the bag every year. ",
"Just about, with the help of some tape! It’s a pop out card but unfortunately the tape was stuck on wrong and now it doesn’t pop out anymore!",
"yep",
"Nevermind curry, my overall favourite dish is nasi lemak. Shit, now I'm hungry just mentioning it.",
"so pens where invented in 1959?",
"We use post it notes for messages, but send the same card ;)",
"It's actually a pretty decent sub with decent information, especially in the [Request] threads. The sub is supposed to be about things you can buy for life. However there are quite a few posts of things that [you can't buy](https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/comments/7q2ipn/willie_nelsons_trigger_his_guitar_of_choice_for/), such as [old promotional calculators found](https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/comments/7mgldm/a_calculator_that_my_moms_company_gave_all_their/). I've seen door wedges and insulators on telephones posted there. ",
"For some reason, postnord made giggle like a motherfucker.",
"You mean before the Sweden part sucked 400 million DKK out of an already suffering danish post service to build new fancy post terminals in Sweden.. Yeah. \n\nPostnord is ruled from Sweden by the way.",
"I've heard that a bottle of spirits in Norway is about three or four times the price (So £60 rather than £12-20, depending on what it is) than where I live in England, which is one of the cheaper parts of the UK. I don't really know the prices in Denmark. While I know someone who grew up there, he never really talked about the price of stuff.\n\nAn acquaintance of mine is from the far north of Norway (about 100 km from Tromso) but her family would drive a 6 hour round trip to Sweden to get cheaper food from the supermarket.",
"What happened in '72?",
"Had a good few weeks(in canada) of joking about how trump saved christmas, so I do appreciate the entertainment value he provided",
"Grandpa Wallace was the man.",
"Don't know about Postnord Sweden taking from Postnord Denmark to build new terminals, but the logistics of Sweden require more terminals, both because of the larger country and the shape of it, but also because of the larger population and much higher volumes in goods being sent.\n\nBut nevertheless, even if Postnord Sweden did take from Postnord Denmark, it still doesn't make it any better, when Postnord Denmark continues to cause losses in the hundreds of millions for postnord.",
"Without a doubt",
"Damn, that’s how good the USPS is.",
"It's been discussed to death in the danish news, which are generally, sorry to say, a bit less biased than their swedish national proud counterparts. \n\nMuch of the losses have been caused by money being transferred to the sweden based mother company (not sure how this is legal but they did it).\nAnd then there has been a big push from the swedish politicians and the board of postnord, that the danish state should cover the entire loss of postnord because it is situated in the danish part of the company. \n\nThis is fishy, because it very much seems like postnord has speculated in this, and the fact that Denmark can't just let the post service die off just yet, even though the danish politicians know that postnord is using this as a weapon to funnel money into the swedish branch.",
">blue-ee-thin new(like how you say \"nev\", not \"new\")-ith thaa (where the th is the same as before)\n\n",
"QUICK, HIDE THE SHEEP !!!",
"Postal services can get that card back and forth for 63 years but fail putting my mail in the correct mailbox. Man i hate USPS sometimes.",
"Hearty Greetings? In 1954? What sort of pinko commie scum are your family leanings? Don't let McCarthy's ghost find this.",
"Although it appears ink didn't even exist until 1959.",
"My dad and his uncle (Only a few years older) do this as well. Their birthdays are two days apart so they have a giant card they give back and forth.\n\n\n\nNot 63 years though ",
"Dude they even come to Sweden to but it.",
"...market index funds return around 8.5% in the long term...",
"...yeah, but greeting cards haven’t been $1.00 for thirty years, either: i picked a historic median for simplicity...",
"...nah, forthrightly antisocial...",
"I swear that looks just like my handwriting",
"Fair enough",
"Is that before or after he broke Santa's finger? ",
"My cousin and I did this with bday cards. He started it. I lost the card after several years. :(",
"Fair enough",
"Don't trust the USPS with this special card things get lost in mail all the time.... after one of them pass away, have the other then sign it, get a nice frame and frame it. Then give it to the survivor till they pass on, now you have something for family history.... If want to continue get another card ",
"It would suck if it got lost in the mail or something.",
"It's the war on Christmas this card... It can't say Merry Christmas",
"WE SAY MERRY CHRISTMAS YOU FUCKING HEATHEN!/s",
"r/Frugal",
"turn that frown upside down...",
"“Hearty Greetings” is my new favorite dinner/gym expression ",
"im not welsh, i honestly had no idea what they were saying, looked like welsh so i had to throw in what i know lol\n\nEdit: Just now fuckng realized OPs name...",
"It’s gonna be really fucking sad the year that card doesn’t come back. :(",
"My mom and her brother do this with a birthday card and try to our cheap each other with the envelope. Her birthday is a month after his, so she has to hold on to it for 11 months. I think at one point the card disentegrated and she had to break down and buy a new one. ",
"Thought I was in r/frugal for a second. ",
"My mother and grandmother sent the same card back and forth for 15 years. The tradition ended when my grandmother used the same envelope and wrote \"Return to Sender\" on it.\n",
"Omg this melts my heart. ",
"And now, it's up to you soldier to continue this trend onward",
"A reliable postal carrier :D",
"Back in my day Christmas wasn't merry, it was Hearty. ",
"You need to outlive it, here's a book of matches",
"Why is santa so god damn shiny in pictures?",
"He used to drink.",
"Santa’s fingers are broken as fuck ",
"turn that frown upside down...",
"This is going to be sad when one of them dies.",
"We have a box that we do this with. Started with ‘Nana’s China 2011” and I just got it back last year with a cook book holder.",
"OP is not from America, they are from the UK.",
"How fucking eco-friendly of them! :D",
"I swear I've seen this but it doesn't come up on tineye. Maybe it was just the same idea, different people.",
":)",
"\"Hearty Greetings\"? I didn't know the War on Christmas has been going on so long!",
"Hahaha that’s awesome, it looked like he practiced it before the report and was satisfied with himself when he didn’t fuck it up ",
"So say it's your Grandma's year to send the card. Does her brother send a different card to her since he'll be receiving that one or does she not get a card that year?",
"Well, I can't argue with you on that one. Shit, now you've made me hungry",
"I ended up getting some for dinner!\n\nJust wish I could get it for breakfast here...",
"[Where the fox?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb0kiiB3O-o)",
"Haha. Decided to give in huh? Understandable. Where is 'here'",
"Wellington, New Zealand. Surprisingly much easier to find here than in the San Francisco Bay Area. Still haven't had any as good as my breakfast in Melaka, though.",
"Haha. Well, I guess nothing beats a Malaysian breakfast huh? ",
"Facinating! You should post on /r/Christmas ",
"That’s a great idea, thanks!",
"no just welsh. You can get Scots Gaelic and Irish Gaelic but Welsh is just welsh. Pedantry over!",
"I'd watch that movie.",
"Santa looks like he’s been smoking the high grade. ",
"I'm pretty sure that for a long time you could not get greeting cards anywhere under $3 until the dollars store killed that bloated margin down.",
"Remindme!63years",
"The pens got better in 1959",
"*great uncle",
"Fun Fact: This has also been reposted every year for the past 63 years.",
"in cold blood, or in cold blyad",
"agree with you",
"Ah, so the letter *d* is a fricative one in Welsh Gaelic? Is a single *d* the voiced one (like in English *they*) and a double *dd* the unvoiced one (like in English *thin*)?",
"Isn't Welsh the English dialect spoken in Wales? Like how Scots is the English dialect spoke in ~~Scales~~ Scotland.",
"\"d\" is \"day\", \"dd\" has no perfect english equivalent according to my welsh teacher in school, to me (who isn't fluent but is welsh), it's a mix of \"th\" as in thimble and \"gweneTH\" but try and say the \"th\" at the same time as saying \"d\" as in day, it's got a pretty abrupt sound to it starting and ending. \n\nI don't know how else to explain it sorry. ",
"No it’s a totally different and unrelated language. Welsh is a Celtic language, English is related more to Latin and Greek. They have no commonalities",
"Also I should say that there is Scots which is kind of a dialect I suppose, but some would argue it’s slang. Most Scots won’t write like you see on /r/scottishpeopletwitter. My wife is Scottish and sees it as a bit of an affectation amongst many. Scots Gaelic is an actual separate language (Celtic) which has no commonalities to English (or welsh I think), but does share commonalities with Irish Gaelic. Of the 3 main Celtic languages Scots Gaelic is by far the least used",
"OK, thanks for explaining!",
"OK, thanks for explaining!",
"Welsh is a much older language than English. ",
"American Pie cross-over ensues",
"They're equally old, I claim."
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"I feel like I've seen this somewhere.......",
"*sip",
"Open the jaw, relax the throat.",
"“Good girl” "
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"Where at on Lake Erie? ",
"Had some gnarly shove ice happen with the warm up last week. I seen some videos and pics from the islands in the western basin that looked like this.",
"Ice is so amazingly picturesque. ",
"Yeah, the effects of wind on surface ice. Check out what happens up here in Mini-Sota (sic) on a windy spring day. https://youtu.be/fqptbtwXUCs",
"North western Ohio around Port Clinton and Sandusky.",
"Does it do this all along the shore? "
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"It's not floathing.",
"Shhhhh",
"It’s loaf-itating. ",
"You must be fun at parties",
"Can never get my bread to rise that well.",
"Are you high?",
"Actually.. Most think not ",
"Username is relevant ",
"Thanks to those self rising yeast.",
"Wingardium Leviosa ",
"What is this, a trampoline for bread!?",
"You should post this on /r/mildlyinteresting ",
"I see wheat you did there.",
"The spatula is a f*cking Jedi!",
"Jag tycker det.",
"I have done nothing but levitate bread for the past three days.",
"How?",
"I would make that face too if I saw some bread levitating ",
"I loaf these kinds of posts",
"Is that a face in the background?"
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"Shouldn’t that be in the water? ",
"Or on a plate ",
"yes."
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"Bridge and tunnel!",
"That’s because Denmark is below sea level. ",
"Cool",
"Who knew Denmark was so small? /s"
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The bridge that connects Sweden and Denmark
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"I think this is the fist time I've seen her in a movie with this much clothing on! ",
"They already got that IT part 2 started eh?",
"May be she has the Eva green contract too.",
"Is it true at that time, bathing was something people did only once in a while?",
"Actually that is true! Search it up",
"I should not have opened this post, this image will now most certainly pop into my head whenever I'm close to finishing.",
"It was fashionable to wear a big padded bracelet that was drenched in perfume. People in public places would walk around holding them under there noses. ",
"I’m sorry but this is probably one of the most disgusting things I’ve seen in awhile. Bravo to the special effects crew for pulling off this horror!",
"She looks like a younger Pauline Hanson. ",
"Still would",
"The fancy clothes were supposed to distract from the ravages of ignorance, time, and excess.",
"And, by the grace of the Academy, I shall crown thee Queen Oscarthirsty The Mostest, the first of her name.",
"Ahh.\n\nI see you've never been at a Magic: The Gathering tournament before."
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"basigalweiler? cute as can be",
"Merjestic...",
"Snoopy on steroids"
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"What's so clever about them, if I may ask? Are the pictures of them as children, or are they just random stock photos of kids?",
"Of them as kids. Fairly obvious that is the reason I posted. ",
"Hmmm, I guess if it was fairly obvious I wouldn't have had to ask you, but what a douchebag reply. Thanks. ",
"Name calling. How nice. ",
"Calling a reply douchbag isn't calling you anything, but hey if you think the shoe fits...that's on you. I asked you a very polite question and you responded with snark. Don't be upset when you get snark back at you. Bet you're lots of fun at parties. ",
"If you can't handle snarky replies, I'd stay off the internet. It was just that, a snarky reply on the internet, I'm not even denying it. You're response has been to insult me and, well, that's also about par for the internet. Sorry about my original reply if it bothered you. ",
"/r/nocontext",
"Ah the brutal honesty approach would have been something you could handle, I see. Ok, this post is terrible and you should feel terrible for creating it. The 8 upvotes you've received in an hour show the community also agrees that these aren't very \"clever\" at all and that nobody really likes your post and you should delete it before the mods do since you showed personal information.\n\nBetter?",
"Lol. I love how much this means to you. "
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These clever business cards at our local children's museum
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"I don’t know, do you think? ",
"Uncle Will",
"what does the opinion of hell have to do with it?",
"Someone get Will Smith's agent on the phone and pitch this idea. Will all grown up and still living in the same house when he has to take in Carlton's son who has gotten into some trouble of his own. Call it \"The Old King of Bel-Air.\"",
"Must...resist urge...to grammar nazi!",
"It has to have been pitched countless times. With his kids in it probably.",
"/u/KieranD9503, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule IV - Title violates title guidelines.\n\nYour title must not ask for general information or feedback. \n\nYou can read the full information about our title guidelines at /r/pics/w/titles\n\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/KieranD9503&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7qcan5/do_you_think_if_you_told_will_smith_in_the_90s/?context=10\\))",
"I apologise.",
"I actually feel kind of shitty about this. I'm sorry. Trying to be funny and the anonymity of the Internet makes me an asshole more often than I'd like to admit.",
"Yeah, so do I. "
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Do you think if you told Will Smith in the 90s that he'd look like Uncle Phil do you think hell believe you?
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"/r/nonevilbuildings",
"/r/treevilbuildings",
"Mice.",
"I'm curious about how they prevent the tree roots from damaging the planters they're in. Given time roots tend to create pressure and eventually destroy anything in their path. ",
"Maybe I’ve been playing too much Mario but I see this as a whole bunch of levels I need to jump up to to meet the boss ",
"What happens if one of the tenants has a black thumb?",
"I don't know if I'd call all those human nests \"cute\".",
"From the [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosco_Verticale):\n\n\"It is called Bosco Verticale because each tower houses trees between three and six meters which help mitigate smog and produce oxygen. It is also used to moderate temperatures in the building in the winter and summer. The plants also attenuate noise. The design was tested in a wind tunnel to ensure the trees would not topple from gusts of wind. Botanists and horticulturalists were consulted by the engineering team to ensure that the structure could bear the load imposed by the plants. The steel-reinforced concrete balconies are designed to be 28 cm thick, with 1.30 metre parapets.\"\n\nReal neat.",
"Probably by carefully selecting the plant types and placing rootmats underneath the plants.",
"What a beautiful view / deck to spend a summer evening sipping wine on. ",
"Why can't we have nice stuff like this everywhere? I mean the design work is done, I want serial production starting tomorrow! ",
"Cost mainly, both design/construction and on going maintenance. It's the same reason that while some areas of cities have nice wooded sidewalks and medians, but the vast majority of a city does not. \n\nEveryone wants nice living spaces, but most are unwilling or unable to pay for it.",
"I studied in Milan and met with someone who worked on these apartments. Each resident is responsible for their own trees and everything and once a tree has reached a certain age, the resident is responsible for removing the tree, replanting it, and finding a tree or bush to replace the one they removed. The cranes at the top of the buildings are used for removal of the trees and to help move furniture into the apartments.",
"Just make the renting party responsible for cutting and watering the plants, and make it a valid reason to terminate the contract if it's neglected. Then you don't have to care about maintance. I see that the actual construction is probably a bit more expensive, but you could ask for a higher price since it offers a measurable higher quality of life in these apartments. ",
"looks like a giant fire hazard, considering the way the fire spread in grenfell and a bunch of other high rise fires.",
"Maybe if they focused less on high rise shrubbery and more on conquering Gaul, the glory of the Roman empire could return.",
"Actually only 10 apartments of those buildings were sold, in fact the price it is so high that very few can afford to buy one.\nAt the moment most of this green doesn't exist ",
"Seriously, only 10? How much did one cost?",
"These type of things are what you call make feel good, and doesn't contribute to anything significant. Some people argue that there are more trees now than ever before, but sure are there any ecosystem on a tree? \n\nIf you look at an old tree, you will realize the ecosystem on it alone. It's mind boggling.",
"I would disagree, I visited this a few months ago, many plants on each balcony. ",
"When I visited this place I saw wires connecting the balconies - are those structural to hold up the balconies?\n\nedit: when i say wires i meant thick metal cables ",
"I would HATE to be that landscaper",
"I remember unlocking these in Civ",
"Well they are aesthetically pleasing so I’d call that significant. Something doesn’t have to save the world to be important.",
"it's about 11k € for m2\n",
"no more",
"Cantilevered balconies with heavy load on them. I'm sure those added a big cost to the structure. ",
"I'm not a liberal save the polar bears/ice cubes kinda person. But imagine how much nicer cities would smell if all buildings did this.",
"They actually do host an ecosystem. Probably not as extensive as a natural forest. Planet Earth II has a series on cities and this was featured in the episode specifically for it having an ecosystem. ",
"This is really nice!",
"Nice CO2 sink",
"Every tenement in that building breaths easier and is less stressed.",
"It's not just liberals that want to save the planet and conserve now. ",
"Yeah but the green party is so small that it i don't count it",
"Looks so cool",
"Imagine walking nearby those buildings during some heavy wind. Branches flying all over the place impaling everything around you while you stand there thinking \"gosh, what neat looking shrubbery up there\".",
"In theory, conservatives should also want to conserve the earth, particularly the family values conservatives who should want a livable earth for their children and grandchildren to come. I'm sure there are plenty of such people: they need to tell their elected representatives to vote for policies that will protect the environment for future generations. That's the way to move it from being a liberal vs. conservative issue.",
"well it is more pricey but italy has its share of $10-30m euro villas in florence and probably elsewhere so indication of ppl with $$ to purchase. Plus, $1500 psf (approx) is not too bad compared to int’l prices.",
"I mean conservatives as well. ",
"That's cool, but what if somebody doesn't? Do they have inspectors or something to make sure no damage is done? Do people get fined/evicted for not maintaining their trees?\n\n",
"These reduce the island heat effect considerably. Cities hold heat well into the night and are often 20° warmer than surrounding undeveloped forests at night. This is why cities like Singapore feel cooler than cities like Bangkok. The heat is actually harmful to urban fauna and Flora, and it increases total heating costs dramatically. And yes, it is still effective vertically. \n\nSo no, this tower doesn't have a significant impact alone, but nobody was saying that a single tower did. If you cut down a country's worth of forest, everybody notices. If you do it slowly, piece by piece, apparently it \"isn't significant\". Instituting green cover policies that incentivise buildings like this are critical to having a mass impact. Saying that this doesn't have a significant impact is an anti-environmental logical fallacy.",
"sorry I double checked, it's 15k for m2.\n\nhttp://video.corriere.it/dentro-bosco-verticale-ecco-come-sono-lussuosi-appartamenti-15-mila-euro-mq/f53c31e0-2a31-11e6-9c68-4645b6fa27fd",
"They wake up to a horses head in their bed.",
"Imagine how different cities would look, and how much fresher the air would be, if every condo tower looked like this",
"They're Italian, it just gets done. There's probably some kind of punitive measure, but this isn't exactly a crack den. The price alone probably ensures owners/tenants that just love doing it. I mean, why move in if you weren't expecting that? How is that the dealbreaker?\n\nEDIT: [It also seems they have caretakers.](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/564e/7c73/e58e/ce8c/4200/03ad/slideshow/IMG_0690.jpg?1447984214) I want that job so badly. There's an initial estimate of 1,600 species in it's ecosystem. It's alive.",
"things that take time are usually worth it.",
"Except during an outbreak of boxwood beetles.",
"[Nah man, looks fucking AWESOME.](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/564e/7c73/e58e/ce8c/4200/03ad/slideshow/IMG_0690.jpg?1447984214)",
"This architect studio is building a whole city in China (obviously). Just Google \"Stefano Boeri\". ",
"> They're Italian, it just gets done. \n\n\nThat is the reason why I would expect it not to be done, lol. ",
"Could NOT be bothered with the maintenance of them, especially when they start growing too large and have to be replaced to stop the place from breaking.",
"I lol'ed. ",
"Ok but how about a photo from the opposite angle. ",
"15 thousand? A month?",
"As an Italian and someone who lives outside Italy, I find the only thing that moves fast in Italy are the cars. Almost everything else is embarrassingly slow and/or inefficient. I haven't been everywhere, but it's bad.",
"Price per square meter, to buy.",
"Hopefully the plants that are chosen do not grow large enough to cause issues whether structural or otherwise.",
"They are potted.. how would they grow big enough to \"break\" the place?",
"You have never lived with an HOA I’m guessing. :)\nThey are a nightmare. ",
"Nice, now please repeat this everywhere. ",
"Roots can break almost anything after a given period of time given the type of plants.",
"Hahaha, this is true. It's part of its charm though, so not hating or anything.\n\n\nI come from South America, we inherited being disorganised and inefficient from the Spanish and the Italians and then we took it to the next level.",
"That's not insane. San Francisco averages over $1000/sq ft, with many new constructions going for over $1500/sq ft.",
"I’miOSThemes /",
"The process of making the extra concrete needed to have this building would release more co2 into the air than the trees would be able to take out of the air over the course of 100+ years, just in time for another building to be made",
"> There's an initial estimate of 1,600 species in it's ecosystem. It's alive.\n\nLiterally the \"green\" residential district buildings in Cities Skylines, in real life, damn!",
"Looks like something out of the new Cities Skylines DLC.",
"Now that is what I call a green building. ",
"Saw this on the last episode of planet Earth 2",
"Very interesting, thank you.",
"I'm not making a climate statement. I make a statement that cities look ugly and it would be nice to look outside the window and see some trees :) ",
"I also was in the area during my Italy trip a few months ago. I can post a picture of it with a bunch of green on it... I took it because it looked so out of place in the skyline.",
"Next level Jenga right there",
"That was the first thing that came to my mind too. This kind of tree catches fire like crazy too. ",
"Seems like a lot of extra weight is added to those buildings. ",
"Spiders SPIDERS everywhere",
"Real conservatives believe in conserving the environment. The modern use of, \"conservative\" and \"liberal\" in the USA, are very different from their true definition. ",
"Just fyi for Everyone, Bosco Verticale means vertical forest. ",
"So many ants.",
"They'd still smell like piss.",
"not to mention the potential for water damage and the ever increasing weight of growing plants. Plants on buildings always look like an eventual problem in the making.",
"My wife makes the best sangria",
"Imagine the homeowners association in a place like that.",
"1,599 of those species are spiders",
"It seems like you don't really understand economics. If you pass the responsibility of the tree maintenance to the renters, then you can't ask for as high of a price for rent (and you still have to deal with the cost of enforcement), so you still lose money. Also, adding these types of trees to a skyscraper is not just a bit more expensive, it is a lot more expensive. Sure, it looks cool, but it is a huge luxory with a huge cost.",
"This is true. Let's be clear that this is 100% about being cool, and luxurious, and to make the apartment seem nicer. This is definitely not helping the environment.",
"So “Bosco Syrup” means “Forest Syrup”?",
"The color green, yes; this is in no way environmentally friendly. The building needs tons of more steel and concrete to support those trees.",
"Smell? Ok.\n\nAlso, this style of building has nothing to do with environmentalism. In fact, it is quite worse for the environment.",
"It's the same 1,600 species that already live everywhere else in the city, it sounds like a lot but it really isn't at all.",
"I'm sure they recouped those costs and more from the sales of the units, it's not social housing.",
"Maple forest maybe.",
"2118, it's all marajua plants",
"No doubt. Just if people are wondering why it's not more common, it's because it's expensive ",
"yeah, this is going to end badly. not everyone will be able to maintain their plants and shit will go down",
"According to Wikipedia, no lol",
"So you are saying this is a horrible idea. I concur!",
"That's my secret code https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyEFiaUQYGE",
"Your greenhouse gasses, hard at work. ",
"How do the roots not ruin the decks?",
"I was thinking the same thing, fellow old person!",
"Looks nice but I would think it would block all the light you want from the windows.",
"Living in a tower of bugs would be the deal-breaker.",
"Holy fuck",
"Not to sound morbid, but I wonder how quickly can fire spread on a building like that.",
"A crane to lift furniture that's a first I've heard of. ",
"... until you want to sell your house.",
"Northern Italy is supposed to be better than anywhere south of there, right?",
"The other one is their cousin. ",
"Probably stealing electricity.",
"All that weight of dirt and tree and concrete to hold it. ",
"Come to WV. Trees everywhere. ",
"Except for everything that had to be built to accommodate it. ",
"Let’s see!",
"Sweet mercy. ",
"Someone watched planet earth 2",
"[Here](https://imgur.com/a/KHRWR) you go",
"It's not an all or nothing thing though. There is a lot of bullshit on both sides where they push things too far. For example funding, what percent of GDP or tax revenue should we spend on the environment compared to say education or military. They are all political balancing acts and depend on a whole lot of different aspects of your ideology.",
"They look absolutely amazing ",
"The fact that it isn't all or nothing (all liberal or all conservative) is my point, though. And I agree that it's a balancing act, but a more balanced set of compromises on the budget issues would help too. My high school history text book said the genius of American government was for compromise. I'd like to see that become true again.",
"Thanks! Looks green from that angle. ",
"I would love to see some pics from inside the building. ",
"Consider that these are (among) the most expensive apartments in the whole country. There is surely a sort of pre payment for general maintenance in case shit does not get done",
"That looks dope af :0",
"Well yes but the Italian should be \"Sciroppo di bosco\" or am I missing something?",
"Knowing the rent of those apartments, if they won't be able probably one of their butler's will",
"Being insanely rich might contribute to that",
"That's my ATM password!",
"About the going rate for somewhere in a very nice spot in a nice European city. ",
"Già. In Paesi più a nord magari “obbligo del mantenimento delle piante e regolare manutenzione dei vasi” verrebbe rispettato di più. \nJust sayin’",
"/r/trees",
"Spending money on sustainable jobs that aren't just one-off gigs? Hah. Clearly your head is on the wrong way, friend. That's not how jobs work.",
"Actually, Verticale means forest /s",
"it's not a rent, it's the price for buying. 15000 per m2 is 3.000.000€ for a 200m2 apartment (standard size in those buildings)",
"Source?",
"But this is Milan, so is already Gaul territory.",
"What happens when the trees grow too large and heavy? Do they remove them or just keep them trimmed to stay about the same weight?",
"Verticale means vertical, bosco means forest. In Italian the adjective normally goes after the noun, so Bosco Verticale. Am from Italy, living in the US, and I've seen those buildings in one of my family-visiting trips. They are absolutely fantastic.",
" Also from the wiki \"those are all tomato plants\" ",
"Milan is as north of Italy as it gets. In a 45 minutes drive you're in Switzerland. The apartments in the Bosco Verticale are among the most expensive in the city, which is already on the expensive side of real estate in Europe, and the tenants are owners, no rentals in the towers. Therefore is in their interest to maintain their property. Furthermore, \"milanesi\" are very efficient people, work hard, make a lot of money, and... my god, do they dress well.",
"No rentals in those towers, only home owners. And they are rich, I guarantee it.",
"No rentals in those towers, only home owners. And they are rich, I guarantee it",
"This is not true. There is a maintenance fee (I lived for a week and spoke to designers etc.)",
"Sure, but I bet you there is an HOA of some sort, with monthly payments, which amounts to the same affect. If tree maintenance is not covered in the HOA fees, then the HOA fees must be lower.\n\nYa, I bet they are rich, because this is a very expensive thing to do. Which is exactly what we are saying. It is not affordable to do in most places. Somewhere else in this thread they said these places go for $15,000 per square meter. That is over ten times what is affordable for most people.",
"I guess I'm used to my immigrant Nonno who is the most responsible and efficient man I know, haha.. ",
"I used to live in Rome. I know how expensive it is. It still boggles the mind.",
"I foresee Decameronesque tree-climbings.",
"wow amazing ",
"Design & build companies, particularly those that offer facilities management? Sure, but most clients are leery of taking on more on going costs than absolutely necessary. \n\nThe only way this sort of housing will become the norm (outside of luxury properties) is if the city or state mandates it, and the cost of maintenance will undoubtable be passed on to renters. \nGiven the rising cost of housing in most major cities, the pressure is to keep costs low so it is unlikely that cities will move in that direction without solid, consistent public support and a willingness from said public to absorb the additional cost."
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"These are the kind of photos I love...they tell a story of the human condition.",
"Fuck you. Damn. C'mon man. Shit. I gotta get this stuff outta my eyes. Thanks for the feelings. ",
"Age, family, youth, love and Star Wars. This picture has it all.",
"Yeah, I got carried away, but my old man's sick and I'm sitting here playing with my kids.\n\nThe culmination. ",
"As each year passes, time seems to move more rapidly. I look at my once tall, powerful father (now 79) and see a vulnerable man, softened by time. I look in the mirror and I don't recognize myself sometimes...It's as if I'm a child staring at a man that I know is me, but is far too old.",
"And trains!",
"It really is a powerful image.",
"It hurts me to live in a world where my parents will likely see their decline and death alone. Where they would view the sacrifices their children would make to care for them as a thing too big to ask for and their children would view the loss of independence and privacy as an insult too great to offer.",
"This. Yesterday I looked in the mirror and noticed some grey in my beard. I don't like to think of the possibility of getting old, but it's happening.",
"Some are very tens and some are very happyy.",
"Such a wonderful story!",
"Well take care of your parents then.",
"It's not just my choice, is it? They were raised in a world where they had no obligation to their parents in old age, to hamper their children with their own infirmity would be a failure to them. ",
"Embrace it.",
"what a message ",
"Respect your Parents ",
"That was beautiful ",
"I feel the same way. Paying attention to small details helps slow the passage of time, but it takes effort to be so mindful all the time. ",
"Break the cycle.",
"That's the issue here, it's not just mine to break. If they are unwilling to accept help or if accepting the help makes them miserable then I cannot unilaterally decide that it's better for them anyway. The nature of my distress is more that we live in a world where they're likely to view needing help as a negative thing to be ashamed of and resist until the very end. They're likely to view their senescence as something they should shield their children from. I don't feel that way but I know that it will cause them a lot of pain as they get older regardless of my behavior. \n\nedit: forgot the word pain in the last sentence.",
"Didn’t get my permission slip signed for this feel trip",
"I didn't consider that. Still, try helping them without them noticing. Just like you would a stubborn child.\n\nVisit regularly, offer to help with any house problems, take them out somewhere, etc. There is no way there won't notice something is missing the month you can't come visiting.",
"Respect is mutual. I don't like that statement because some parents don't deserve any respect.",
"> It's as if I'm a child staring at a man that I know is me, but is far too old.\n\nThat was a perfect description. I've felt it too.",
"Are u 15?",
"Beard and hair is fine, it's first when the grey hits the pubes that you're gonna start feeling it.",
"I did this with my grandmother and intend to do it with my parents when the time comes. \n\nSo worth it. My grandmother harrumphed all she wanted but in the end she was a happier, well-taken care of lady and I am better off as well for having no regrets when she passed.",
"Very true. Child beaters. Controlling freaks. Neglecters. The bitch I watched beating her toddler in the head in Sam's Club today who said, \" what the f you think you're looking at?\" To which I responded, \" im looking at you beating a little child in the head.\" First her hand, then her damn cell phone! Beating his little skull. Those kind.",
"Easy Sheldon 😉",
"I try to see getting old as a privilege that not everyone gets. It doesn't really work, but it's a good notion.",
"Many cultures don't think that way. In fact, it is expected to care for your parents at old age. ",
"Respect to white people is dumping them in a care home ",
"I think this is a really good point. We tend to think of the very elderly as becoming almost childlike in some of their needs. But disposition wise, they're probably more like teenagers. They need the help of theirs families and loved ones, even if they don't always see it or appreciate it.",
"My pubes turned partly silver when I was 20. Doc said it was interesting, potentially from stress but nothing to worry about.",
"It's really when you first feel the wind rustling through your ear hair . . .",
"Anyone who smokes with a child in their car. Fuck those people with a porcupine",
"this is a very disturbing image to me =(",
"Growing old is a terrible thing, but for me, it beats the alternative.",
"It honestly sounds like you are rationalizing your own choices. It's a cultural thing that I see happening quite a bit. Like the best and brightest in the US not breeding for whatever(insert reason).",
"Did you call the police?",
"this is beautiful. The gay couple on the left is equally a family like the folks on the right. <3",
"Are you aware that some parents abuse their children physically or psychologically? ",
"Because lord knows we need more kids in this world. Nobody NEEDS to have kids. We have plenty. If you want to have them, it's fine, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with people \"not breeding\" for any reason, or no reason at all.",
"I remember old people hands when I was a kid; how boney and wrinkly they looked. I have those hands now.",
"I disagree. People who live organized lives should breed. People who live in chaos and starvation and poverty should try not to. We are doing things backwards as a world,and the only answer seems to be to sympathize with the problems instead of correcting them.\n",
"No it's a old man getting taken care of by his son contrasting the parents taking care if their young son. The circle.",
"Dude, even if your parents are in a nursing home you can make it a priority to visit often so they don't decline and die alone.",
"/r/meirl",
"I call it \"When the parents become the kids and the kids become the parents\". ",
"Is that Indonesia?",
"Unless I witness the evisceration of a minor in public view, I have learned through my experience with CPS to not even bother. They are overwhelmed, understaffed, and will say unreservedly that the child had clothes, shoes, appeared nourished, and wasn't bleeding. Case closed. One caseworker told me that beer swilling crack hoe mama having toddlers outside the bowling alley at 2 am was a parenting choice. I. Shit. You. Not.",
"Getting younger?",
"People should have kids only if they want to. The purpose of procreation in general is to pass on your genetics in order to guarantee the survival of your species, but we as humans are way past that. Natural selection no longer applies to us, thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people live complete lives in modern society who would not have survived a week had we still lived in nature. There is no longer a need for passing on strong genes to ensure the survival of our species, because we are so good at surviving as a whole that the only way we go extinct is if we kill ourselves, kill the planet, or get hit with a life ending cosmic event. The idea that people should have kids because “it’s what you’re supposed to do” is self serving and selfish. People should be and are absolutely free to live in any way they choose because honestly kids serve very little purpose now on an individual level aside from self fulfillment of personal desires. Humanity does not need you to breed, it’s doing just fine with that on a global scale.",
"Are you aware that the general advice of respecting parents doesnt have to be interjected with the obvious exception.",
"If only it was that easy",
"What’s up greybush ",
"People have to get pretty far down the road before your taking care of them has to be transparent to them.\n\nYou don't help people like that by asking \"How can I help?\" They'll say you can't, and feel bad that you offered. But there's a lot of life that you can help with just by showing up for a visit. Surely your parents won't deny a visit from their child? You start out grabbing a washcloth and doing a couple dishes while you're standing around chatting, or finding ways to repay favours they've done you, maybe even asking favours so you have an excuse to repay them by doing things they need done. They're not charity, everyone's just playing to their strengths as a team.\n\nEven in cultures where your parents stay a part of your life, offered help isn't always going to be accepted. Life just has this inertia where it's natural to help out because you're a part of their life. Nobody wants to feel like an imposition or a burden or an invalid, no matter the culture. People will accept anything if you find the right way to frame it for them. \n",
"I’m guessing those are grandparents on the right.",
"Malaysia?",
"*oof* right in the \"we're perpetually getting older and life is rather mundane if you think about it in the long run.\"",
"Thank you for this",
"I miss my dad...",
"Ugh, the photo shopping is so poor. ",
"Sup bro",
"Why no shoes though",
"I appreciate this. As a man in his mid thirties, I am wrestling with what the best option is for my parents in the not too distant future. Do I take them in? Do I leave them to their own lives until there is no other choice. I know they wouldn't want to take away my freedom and I, in a sense, don't want to take away theirs either. \n\nTime marches on though and eventually a choice will have to be made. Unless there was some serious medical care needed, a nursing home is out of the question. I can't do that to them... This is one of those life questions that nobody ever really prepares you for.\n\nEdit: spacing",
"This is all making me very depressed ",
"It's a question I'm just starting to ask myself. My father had heart surgery last year and suddenly we all (me and my siblings) realized that we live different lives in different cities. We can't provide the kind of care that may become necessary without dramatically altering our lives (and theirs). \n\nWhat you said about taking away their freedom rings true for me. They both love their independent city lives and having us move to them would be as disruptive to their lifestyle as having one of them move in with one of us would be to ours. Not to mention the economic realities of such an arrangement.",
"I completely get it. I'm 1000 miles away from them and they're both retired and have health issues like crazy. My father is showing symptoms of alzheimer's disease and he's also incredibly stubborn. I'm trying to at least get them to acknowledge that something in their lives needs to change and that I'm here to help... They both know they're not getting any younger but change is hard for them.\n\nAll I can say is that I hope we both find a good answer for our parents... We're all they got in the end right? ",
"I’ve been taking the subway for 6 years to work. One day I noticed how much one of the high school kids had grown since a few years prior. I realized, I’m literally seeing these kids grow up. ",
"You translated my feelings into words better than I ever could... Can you narrate my life please? ",
"Looks like a line ",
"\"I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, as long as I'm living my baby you'll be.\"\nParents would read me that from time to time as a kid and sing it differently every time. ",
"Not much, just the slow march of my hairline towards the back of my head. You?",
"I'm 20 and a last year I noticed my pubes had gotten very grey. Turns out, hair can change colour from stress. \n\nExcept, it wasn't my normal hair that changed colour.. ",
"Same, man. No grey pubes yet though. ",
"Wow this needs to be a painting!",
"I wish i hadn't read these responses. It's like discovering a new phobia.",
"This hit me hard... I’m sure it did the same to a lot of you too. Just try to live a life you’re happy with and make the most of everyday and each experience",
"Shit, man. That's deep.",
"It's a shame white people and especially Western society are so selfish they let their elders die alone in a home. ",
"You're getting downvoted but it's true. Tell someone from Asia or Latin America that you're putting your dad in a home and visit them once a month. Their head will spin. ",
"Wow... I had to save this. That has to be one of the most profound and sobering statement I've ever read. I'm 26 and I can feel my own mortality because of this statement.",
"I miss mine too. I can't believe it's been a year. It honestly felt like my life stopped when he passed. Ugh anyway just wanted to give you an internet hug!🤗",
"What is the alternative for people who need to work and cannot provide 24/7 care?",
"hugs",
"Chinese find a way. And they're way poorer than the US. \n\nPerhaps fixing your health care system would ensure the elderly didn't need to be in a home all alone. Maybe putting your society and elders before tax breaks. But once again. America cares about me me me me. ",
"No one appreciates your sweeping generalizations \n",
"I suppose it isn't a white person thing as much as it is a Western society thing. Probably even just American. Italians, Spanish, Greeks, French are lovely to their elderly and have systems in place to ensure they don't die in some facility where their children visit them once a month if they're not too busy. Prove me wrong. ",
"[Zenosyne](https://youtu.be/SNgyEmYyQF4) ",
"I experience this already and I'm only 19. ",
"Thank you. That's beautiful ",
"Malaysia ?",
"I didn’t say you were wrong, I said you were making sweeping generalizations ",
"I get that feeling.... these are images that you could show an alien, or a robot or God and say “this is humanity. This is what we are about. It’s never perfect and it’s not always pretty, but that is us.”",
"Do worry, you have your whole life ahead of you still!\n\nI mean, you may still die young, or painfully... but it's all still ahead of you!",
"Incredible how one picture can bring out so many emotions. Left my parents house a few hours ago after having a nice dinner and watching a game. Now i'm home and the kids are running around playing with the new puppy. Someday soon(ish) i will be holding my father or mother like this and its truly a terrifying thought. On the other hand my three boys are all full of life and energy and I have a lifetime to share that with them. Life is something.",
"You might like the book ''Demian'' by Hermann Hesse ",
"Being a teacher myself, I see my students grown in front of my eyes. Though they are not my children and not yet have one, I do feel like a parents who see their children grows and change. Never underestimate a person who don't have children never feel like one. And I see myself like never change inside. Just a ripe body and wrinkles skin here and there.",
"This is one of those pictures that really is worth more than a thousand words. Thanks for sharing it OP.",
"That's a really interesting observation. I wonder how many teachers feel aged from that, not from all the hassle of being a teacher, but just watching time fly by as kids grow and see a class graduate year after year.",
"Gerascophobia. \n\nI have it too",
"Sometimes I'll catch a glimpse of my mother's hand out of the corner of my eye, and then I realize it's my own hand.",
"I've felt this way for a very long time. Not so much dying, but the idea of being old and realizing life has gone by way too fast.\n\nThat and my parents dying. ",
"Jesus this cut to my core. Well put.",
"I feel the same. I read it and just went \"fuck.....\" and felt a deep sense of angst.",
"My mom was a social worker at a high school for close to 40 years. Recently retired. It’s always interesting to hear her perspective on this. It’s especially nice when she’s visited by a student that she’s helped. Kids who were struggling with addiction or suicidal thoughts or had horrible parents etc. but were able to move forward and became successful. She’s had some sad stories as well where things didn’t end so happily but as heavy as the job could be she managed to do a lot of good ",
"Stop it I came to this website to waste time before bed not to cry into a pillow ",
"Life sucks you lose who you love it’s sick and sad I lose all these people I love it so sad to see them sick and dying and to think they’ll be ok when they won’t ",
"Death created time to grow the things it kills.",
"Isnt that just fear of aging?",
"Still feel boney and wrinkly?",
"Something to really look forward to",
"Not much love for tbbt here :(",
"This is such a powerful image, the title is perfect.",
"Man, i got grey in my nose hair",
"turn that frown upside down...",
"):",
"The feels",
"Why is that ProZD dressed as a woman???",
"I don't see it so much as \"depressing\" but more of a realization that time flies before you know it.\n\nOne thing that I've come to a conclusion on is that we are all really just the same person we were when we were younger, except we're all in adult bodies, trying to do all those adult things that we feel we are expected to do as adults.",
"agree with you",
"Yes!",
"Do not go gentle into that goodnight. Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.",
"Well I'm not really afraid of it, I'm still young and not worried. I just look in the mirror and see someone older than I usually imagine myself. "
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[
"Door number 1 was worse.",
"Yeah that was part of the problem...opinions vary but it was rather likely 3 and 4 were running rabbit.",
"The majority are only going to hear about 2. Look at the shit CNN pulled to keep Hilary in the DNC spotlight. You have at least 4 major left leaning outlets shoving their Liberal pick down your throat (the only *right* choice) and then you have Fox (the only major Right leaning news source) that gives you a battle royal",
"You *can*, but they aren't going to win.",
"I agree.\n\nNever gonna happen.",
"Uncle Bernie is looking better and better everyday.",
"... Because of this mentality ",
"No, because of gerrymandering."
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When you warn the world but still get what’s behind door number 2
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[
"Blue",
"Trick question, they belong to all three of them. Siamese triplets.",
"Then where is the other set of legs?",
"They are his legs. No wait, They are his legs...or are they his legs.",
"It doesn't matter, that wasn't the question.",
"Real question is - homo or no homo?",
"homo",
"Blue"
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You decide who the legs belong to.
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"If this is today: Jan. 14th 2018; where are the snows?",
"It's from last August. :D",
"Thank the Gods!\n\nGlobal Warming is scary!"
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House in the mountains outside of Lenzerheide, Switzerland.
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[
"I'd take it as a compliment, too.",
"this is genius advertising ",
"They'll replace it soon with \"Why come here when this place is a shithole\"",
"I love that they’re not even following him in a fake tweet",
"mods please show the reports",
"I guess when Dick Durbin spins things around; everyone believed it."
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This coffee shop’s advertising (fake news) is pretty amazing
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[
"I didn't get it. Checked the title again. Went back to see it. Hmmm",
"Well shit. I guess those hips do lie.",
"I’m stupid, I read “a girl learning on the lower”",
"what is she doing barefoot? Ah I see :^)",
"The most attractive part of the picture wasn't even real..",
"Glad Maggie Gyllenhaal can still get work. "
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A girl leaning on the lower half of a mannequin.
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[
"Nice!",
"Porn ",
"Thanks!",
"I was about to ask out of what but I assume bronze since you said bronze in the title....",
"it can stab someone? jokes aside it's really good, keep uploading your forgings, we like them",
"Thanks, glad to hear it!",
"amazing work. what material? and at the risk of sounding super ignorant, is it cast molded or did you pound it with a hammer or something?",
"Thanks! This is a bronze alloy. Not ignorant--this was forged shape, not cast. It started as a round rod, then hammered to shape.",
"it looks remarkable \n\nis this a hobby of yours? what kind of equipment do you use to make this? is it s a job? any more work or a webpage? \n\n\nedit- went through your history, so like blacksmithing as a hobby? cool. do you have a shed in the back were you do your work? ",
"Thanks! Hobby turned part-time job. I have an Instagram @AntonsenForge with a lot more on it! I have Etsy as well.\nI do it all in my garage, and am currently looking for a workshop to rent.\nMy equipment is primarily an anvil, hammers, propane forge I built, and a belt grinder, as well as a bunch of 'normal' tools.\n\nEdit: Instagram link",
"Oh good, now I can stop wondering if you really meant cast not forged. \n\nTIL: Bronze can be forged as well as cast",
"Indeed! Not all alloys can be, but silicon bronze can. Other alloys like aluminum bronze will just crumble.",
"Wow amazing details! How long does it take to make something like that? ",
"Thank you! This took around half an hour",
"It’s a leaf ",
"Holy cats! So fast! ",
"Forging can be pretty quick! A lot of the time invested is in making the necessary tooling.",
"It's gorgeous work. Thanks for sharing.",
"That's very pretty. Well done!",
"That’s gorgeous... Are you planning on selling it or maybe making more?",
"Thanks! If anyone is interested I'm willing to do both.",
"Thank you!",
"Thanks!",
"I’d love to have something like that as a necklace pendant, and I think that it would be awesome with a black and silver style chain...",
"Feel free to message me!",
"You're welcome.",
"looks stabby."
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I forged a bronze feather! :)
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"This shit is bananas. ",
":0 ",
"Now in HD",
"How big is this? Needs something for scale."
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Wooooaaah
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[
"Beautiful ",
"Looks like it belongs to the family *Lycaenidae*. Where was it spotted? ",
"WuYiShan, China on a tea farm",
"cute aggression?",
"Cool! \n\nWhat I find most interesting about these butterflies is how long their tails are. It's believed that this is an evolutionary tactic to mimic the shape of their antennas. Predators become confused, mistaking the back of the organism for the front, so they approach from the front, giving the butterfly early warning and allowing it to fly off. ",
"What does that mean?"
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[
"Just bought one a few days ago and I'm also new to dslr scene any tips on what settings you use? this pic is what I want to achieve!",
"I used to live in a rural area for 1 year and those views of the sky would suck me into them, i could stare them for hours imagining what are we, and all those mysteries awaiting to be found in the space\n\ntoo deep for a pic on the internet but it looks so good",
"1764 stars (+/- 16)\n\ndon't believe me? count them",
"What kinda lens do you have? ",
"Not even close. 6,874."
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[
"Nothing can go wrong with that!",
"I love this. When people make fun of American presidents they show pics of a bunch of very similar white guys to show how “not diverse” the political system is. Then we have this. Three *very* similar looking ladies. Cracks me up. ",
"Brought to you by a country that isnt a total shithole",
"This is what they call gender equality. /s",
"I dunno. “Just women” sounds just as unequal as “just men” ",
"Diversity just means \"not white males\" now. It doesn't actually mean diverse. ",
"I'm happy to see more equality. Nobody should ever be looked down on for their race/gender/sex, judge people by their character, not their characteristics. ",
"I think that's the joke ;)",
"Ain’t that the truth. Just like feminism just means “men are shit”. It doesn’t actually mean empowerment or equal treatment. ",
"Yeah I replied when the /s wasn’t there. I am dumb lol. ",
"Yeah, if the goal was equal treatment, it wouldn't start with \"fem\"",
"For a movement that on its face says it’s about bringing women up they spend an awful lot of time bringing men down. ",
"I suppose it could be an allusion to how the political machinery was once opposed to women participating for a large part of history, and the fact that women now assume positions of political power are signs that there is an increasing diversity in the acceptability of leaders in general. ",
"This is 3 current leaders, not 300 years worth of leaders. There's a difference.",
"There have been women leaders in politics for centuries. The queen has been in power for what seems like ever. I know what you mean about it being disproportionate but still. ",
"...until the EU calls...",
"The projection circlejerk in this thread is amazing.",
"Not sure if political leaders or soccer mom convention. ",
"Queens are a product of monarchy, with power given to them by an accident of birth. It doesn't compare to what it means to have women assume positions of power when a large part of history was against that.\n\nThat said, I'd prefer if our leaders were selected and praised based on competency, not gender.",
"Females?! **REEEEEEEEE**",
"That could have nothing to do with Norway's relatively homogeneous population, not to mention no one claimed this picture represents diversity. ",
"Do you have any actual proof of this or is this just your persecution complex talking?",
"Who cares.",
">> “power given to them by an accident of birth.”\n\nLike being a man? ",
"They look like babushka dolls",
"Thank you for pointing out that they are women. I would not have understood your point otherwise. ",
"Because they saved a bunch of money...like 23%",
"You mean the very real practice of hiring based solely on race and gender in order to meet “diversity” numbers meant to reduce the number of white and male employees overall? ",
"That's what I was just thinking. The fact that an innocuous picture of three women could lead to so much bashing of the idea of equality and feminism, which were mentioned no where, just goes to show we still need those things. ",
"No, like being a person (immaterial if man or woman) born into a royal family.",
"Idk I'm a white male and never had problems getting a job. Maybe you just weren't qualified and are blaming \"diversity\" ",
"I mean down to the haircuts even? I wasn’t refuting a claim someone made I was just making an observation. ",
"They're not just all women, they're all the same person. Look at them ",
"Something something happiest country",
"Diversity hires are meant to increase the number of women/poc/people with other perspectives on life, not to \"decrease white male presence\" as you claim. Indeed, even in diverse work environments you will often find more than a few white men. Try again.",
"White man",
"They all wear fitbits? Who’s really in control?",
"I thought the sarcasm was obvious. I had to put an /s once i saw the reply below me.",
"Ya, we should be woke enough to have WoC, but this is what whitewashed feminism looks like...",
"There are plenty of companies that have diversity numbers they are supposed to meet. Required hires of minorities and women in order to show they employ those people. These people get hired based on those qualities regardless if there are more aptly qualified candidates who are not those categories. This is a widespread practice and is very common knowledge. I’ve never had a problem getting a job either but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. ",
"Just like when a picture of presidents before Obama are shown and everyone starts talking about how it’s such a horrible thing that they are all white males. To act like this pictures point is not to represent progressive moves toward female equality especially in politics is just ignorant. ",
"Norway follows The Philippines, Switzerland and Liberia for having similar political makeups.",
"WHERE ARE THE BRUNETTES?",
"If your company has 100 employees and they are all white and male and then that company is slapped with a diversity quota they absolutely will hire minorities and women to meet that number and because there are only 100 spots math says that hiring those people reduces the number of white males. Now that doesn’t mean there are NO white people (and I didn’t say that’s what happens) but it most certainly does reduce the number of them in that workplace. ",
"So?",
"Well that’s what you get for assuming I have a sense of humor or understand sarcasm lol. Instead I am actually just a tard. ",
"The real questions. ",
"He just doesn't want to admit that when he separates everybody by race, he ends up at the bottom of his applicable grouping.",
"who cares",
"The fact remains that it's not the end goal to get rid of white people as you claim it is. It's an attempt to open up the same opportunities to everyone regardless of race or gender. The fact that you're trying to frame it as some sort of personal attack is ridiculous and ignorant.",
"Regardless of qualifications as well which is my actual point. A white male who is qualified will be passed on for a woman who is not. All for some PC numbers. ",
"Can you imagine if you invented a product called “Just for Men”? You would probably dye.",
"As a woman I would use it anyway because I am strong and independent and I don’t need to listen to no labels!! ",
"This is so progressive! Female is the future.",
"...both?",
"They are powerful. \n\nThey also do a hell of a good job. ",
"are they watching a trump's speech?",
"I think I've seen this porno before. Not exactly proud of it.",
"Well, I doubt any of them have children. Not saying I know, I just doubt it",
"And conversely to bash women and feminism over a picture is also ignorant. The United States and Norway are very different. We just got our first leader who wasn't a white male long after every other developed nation, so to pretend the United States doesn't have a problem with representation is stupid. Go think about how ridiculous you sound given the political history of the United States. ",
"In Finland ",
"Well I'm aware of companies that have diversity goals to match the makeup of america or their community. Don't know any that simply hire unqualified people because if their race as you claim. Facebook Google apple all have goals but you are delusional if you think they are hiring unqualified people. ",
"I didn’t bash anything and never said anything about the nature or representation in the US. Maybe you should re-read what I said. I made comparisons to the two. How one picture of a bunch of similar people compared to this picture of similar looking people. Not agreeing with something or pointing out double standards isn’t the same as bashing. ",
"Lol there all women, such diversity ",
"Just because you haven’t seen it happen doesn’t mean it doesn’t. Maybe those particular companies aren’t the ones that do that. I have very much seen an interviewer look at multiple candidates and choose a woman over a man with way better qualifications because “we need more girls and I’m sure we can train her”. What is delusional is to say that because you haven’t seen it and these three major corporations don’t do it means it doesn’t happen. ",
"Are they in power *because* they are women or are they in power because they are the best suited for the job?",
"You know that one episode of Doctor Who where a spaceship crashes into Big Ben?",
"The second one ",
"That isn't how diversity works. But I'm a white male, I'm supposed to shut up and not speak on the subject of diversity because I cannot possibly be oppressed or silenced. ",
"I like how you did it again *\"everyone starts talking about how it’s such a horrible thing that they are all white males.\"* Could you link to one of those posts where that happened?",
"Well, good thing I didn't get a fitbit over the holidays, clearly they don't work.",
"Yes, its not enough that he has to feel guilt for his current priviledge, he has to feel that sweet white guilt for the previous 300 years of white supremacist patriachy too! I mean, get with the fucking program! /s\n\nEdit: for saracasm clarity",
"Hopefully not the health committee. ",
"I think you're a racist.",
"Same, white male here. My parents split and I lived with my mom. We were almost homeless and lived in an apt in the suburbs. I never got the free food, coats, education, field trip hell that all the African Americans get in the city. But I'm white and privileged. \n\n\nEdit: I'm fine now, I didn't beg for handouts or demand them. I never got any. I live more comfortably now. I think a lot of it too is living with the same minded people. If your neighbors are demanding handouts, you probably will too. ",
"One of them has to be a Slitheen.",
"Especially now with Trump in office *any* post about politics devolves in the comments to racial problems and the divide in the country. ",
"What company? Did you file a claim with the NLRB? Or a civil lawsuit? ",
"Lots of companies have diversity quotas",
"Am I the only one seeing [this?](https://i.imgur.com/8oQsojB.png)",
"Currently, yes, but this is a snapshot. When viewed in the context of history, it's a refreshing change and a sign of progress. \n\nThat's not even taking into account that the sample size is 3.",
"I didn’t file a complaint or anything because it didn’t effect me. I was already working there. I guess it did when I had to train that girl and all the things that went into that. It would have been much easier and better for customers though if we had hired the guy who knew all of that already. ",
"I grew up on welfare briefly, single mother. Never got the free anything, I have Autism and ADHD. I'm now in a masters program, basically every day of my life has been a struggle, and it frustrates me when people talk to me as if though my life is so easy just because of my gender and color. Would a female or a colored individual have it the same or worse? I don't know, but I feel like I slipped through the cracks. ",
"Personally I think it's a bit of both honestly. ",
"That's racist. ",
"The latter. I'm Norwegian. \nThese women are excellent politicians.",
"You are wrong.",
"So obviously I don't know the context that you are asking this question in, so I read it, judged it, left the whole threat and talked shit, not hatefully I swear, about this question to myself as I continue to scroll through the reddits. Then I picture Trump, and mocking this question asked myself, \"is he in power because he is a man or is he in power because he's the best suited for the job?\". Thought about it for a split second and then started to laugh my ass off. Decided that I would scroll all the way back to this question and credit it with giving me a good and ironic laugh. Love it.",
"On the other hand, a white person is more likely to be hired even compared to those who have the exact same credentials. A minority is also likely to earn less money for the exact same credentials and job. It's an equity vs equality thing. ",
"White people don't know what its like to be poor\n\n-Bernie Sanders ",
"Yeah, white men never had trouble finding work.\n\nReally???",
"So the goal is to increase the number of employees who are women or minorities, ie. anyone but white men. We agree on that.\n\nBut you disagree that the goal is to reduce the number of white male employees. How exactly will you achieve your goal of having more female and minority employees without reducing the number of white male employees?\n\nWhat's wrong with just hiring the most qualified candidate regardless of race or gender?",
"It doesn't magically make you fit idiot.",
"All. Fat.",
"So...you don't have a post where that happened? What's that word again where you make up arguments that the other side has...",
"Would it not be racist to say that 3 asian people that do not look like eachother are the same person? ",
"Laughing at the idea of immigrating to the US.\n",
"Stop identity politics and virtue signaling ",
"No Danish is safe.",
"And that's why he wasn't elected ",
"Fatty detected.",
"More like it’s such an obvious thing and I didn’t want to spend time looking it up. What’s that word again when you argue common things just to try to avoid discussion? Here’s one article because you absolutely need me to post one to admit that this happens. \n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/5zer6u/who_likes_trump_old_uneducated_white_men_are_the/?st=JCF6NLEH&sh=4f06ec94\n\nALL about race and gender. Sexist and racist comments aplenty. ",
"Or because before those laws there was a problem of people not hiring people based on their ethnicity or gender. ",
"I think I see the logic here:\n\n- Being a woman is better, just because of woman.\n\n(BS)",
"Yeah this isn't a post about \"everyone starts talking about how it’s such a horrible thing that they are all white males.\" this is a poll about what demographic has the largest number of Trump supporters.\n\nThe top 10 comments are anecdotes agreeing with the poll. Could you point to the one that talks about how it's \"horrible\" that's a thing?\n\nThanks for proving me right time and time again though, it's been fun.\n\n",
"Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V",
"Jeez what a shithole",
"Who gives a crap.",
"No wonder the country is going to shit",
"> excellent politicians.\n\nso they're really good liars that are corrupt to the core?",
"They are not corrupt from what I know. \nAnd if they are good liars? Well if they were I wouldn't know would I?",
"Yea. Relative to other races, whites have always had the lowest unemployment rate in America.\n\nEdit: to clarify I don't mean that white men have it easier then other races or haven't felt hardships. It's just that diversity goals in hiring is not the main reason. Just like racism is not the main reason that causes high unemployment rates for blacks and Hispanics. ",
"Forcing them **to** hire based on ethnicity or gender was the best solution? ",
"Also diversity means no diversity in opinions. I would like to see the 3 different views these women have on issues like economic or tax models. ",
"Nobody said this photo was diverse?",
"The color of ones skins does not mean 'different perspective' or opinions. To think that is racist. ",
"Absolutely. The enlightened folks who are super open minded as long as you have the exact same opinions that they do. ",
"Correct. I am also not saying this photo is diverse. ",
"which is why hiring should exclude name and race on applications. Hire based on qualifications. ",
"Plus there has been a fraction of the number of aueens as kings. The vast majority of monarchies have not allowed female leaders.",
"One of the top comments starts with “I don’t think negative generalizations help our cause”. Yet somehow there are none? Ok. ",
"Rifhr but yoy are commentimg on a thimg that hasn't happened.",
">> Rifhr but yoy are commentimg on a thimg that hasn't happened.\n\nUmm. Take a minute before you push post. I’m commenting on a comparison I am making of my own accord. I didn’t correct anything in the post. ",
"This looks like an evolution lineup from a new Pokemon game. ",
"When people try to make a \"big statement\" on fucking /r/pics and fail lol",
"According to the White House, it’s spelled Normay.",
"Definitely very real. A friend of mine, while very very good at her job, and probably one of the best people for it, was pushed straight through to the final stages of employment because she's a woman, and they needed to make the numbers. ",
"Troll account methinks. Look at the username.",
"You're asserting that it does happen so the burden of proof is on you. It's delusional to make a claim and then demand \"See you can't prove it doesn't happen'\n\n",
"i'm sure this repost has nothing to do with current political climate.",
"#diversity",
"All needing to speak with the manager ",
"Not all countries are like the US. They're probably corrupt but likely much less corrupt than any of our Congress people or the POTUS",
"What is going on with these super defensive comments?",
"The two women on the far ends generally don’t agree on that much. The one in the middle (PM) is basically the middleman who has to find some common ground for everyone to join her cabinet. Last election the one on the right said “no thanks”, while still undecided now after the most recent election.\n\nEdit: ah, fuck me. The one on the right just said her party will join. Announced when this picture was taken I guess",
"What do you want proof of? if there are 10 slots open and you have a quota to meet, that means you will ditch merit if you haven't meet the quota at that point.\n\nIf you want proof, I'm afraid you don't understand how diversity quotas work.",
"White people do not have the same trouble getting jobs that racial minorities do.\n\nWhether or not you think it's the right solution, there is a *reason* affirmative action exists.",
"[Appearently not](https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_perceptions_index_2016) ",
"Actually they're conservatives",
"I can’t see anything, maybe if things were circled. ",
"You don't fix racism and discrimination with more racism and discrimination.\n\n",
"that's because diversity for opinions is welfare for bad ideas",
"Sarah Millican's mum on the far right there.",
"Nothing. Now why are you so sure about the white guy being the most qualified person for the job more often?",
"How is 3 white women a good representation of equality? if it was 3 white men, you would be bitching about that.",
"CLONES!?",
"And non of them can speak English without failing ",
"Nobody said it was diverse. It's just that if men and women had equal opportunities to lead political parties, and a country had three major political parties, you'd expect this situation to occur 1/8 of the time. It's being shared to note progress that has been made toward gender equality.\n\nInstead, you have to derail this topic by railing against some false concept of diversity no one is advocating. I have no idea what motive you could have beyond seeking to undermine the concept of diversity and affirmative action or whatever while being too dishonest to just make your point directly.",
"Sounds like a lot time",
"Sure but while you wait for the perfect world to develop, working people suffer. Your words are easy to say when you'd be the one reaping the benefits in all aspects of life. Equity exists for good reasons. ",
"Judge them by the effect of their policies in 10 years.",
"I also wonder if they have diversity of opinions on gravity, germ theory, and whether or not the earth really is round.",
"This is cool, if you ask me the US house and senate needs to have more women in public office. ",
"I never said it was. I wasn't bitching about anything either. Learn how to read and process information. I pointed out how no one said it representative of equality and yet idiots are attacking the photograph. ",
"Watch out for any reactor projects that the [one in the middle](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/8e/30/4c/8e304cd2678d93080b36e8e9eb8a18a6--annette-otoole-candidates.jpg) tries to pass. ",
"WOW much Diversity!!!",
"You sound ridiculous with that comment about other developed nations. The vast majority of leaders from developed nations have been old white men or old men of the same ethnicity as the country they are leading.\n\nI'm pretty sure Ireland and Belgium have only had white men, Canada had a white woman prime minister for about 5 months, Israel has just been old Israeli men, and many others just have one woman crushed in between a list of old white men.",
"You know for a fact she was pushed through for being a woman? I ask because women tend to get fucked by this assumption sometimes. Everyone is seen as a diversity hire regardless of if they actually are. ",
"yes there are lots of different ideas or theories about why gravity exists, what causes it, how can we detect it and whatnot. ",
"Feminization of power has been a trait associated with human progress. That doesn't mean that all male political leaders are bad, but it does mean allowing women to rule results in better societies on average. ",
"Isn't it sexist to think this is a good/bad thing?",
"Yes, she's mentioned it to me before. Again, she's completely deserving of the position, but she's acknowledged that a pass was given because she is female. ",
"Fair enough. Sorry, I wasn't trying to question how you felt about her qualifications, just wanted clarification. That shit is messed up. ",
"It looks like the same person at different stages of their lives.",
"Nope. ",
"That's funny because that's a sacred symbol of the [Church of Kopimism](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionary_Church_of_Kopimism) based in Sweden, and you should not use that in vain",
"Credentials arent the only thing that matters im afraid to tell you.",
"[This photoshoot was praised for being \"diverse\"](https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/lingerie-photo-shoot-sends-powerful-message-never-sorry-black-171547014.html). They claim it's because of the body shapes but nobody was talking about that.",
"Well I guess you proved them wrong there with their claim that every single white male the world over experiences this. You know, the claim that they totally made.",
">if men and women had equal opportunities to lead political parties.. etc etc 1/8th of the time..\n\nBullshit.\n\nWomen have identical opportunity to start a business but 3x industry leaders side by side are never women.\n\nWomen just arent the same as men. Grow up. Were different in more ways than physical appearance only.\n\n",
"Exactly. Many others have had at least one woman and we haven't. Thanks. ",
"It's pretty neat. There's a spaceship and it crashes into the Big Ben",
"Norway is still consistently ranked highly in every global democracy and quality of life ranking. I don't think their democracy is built to allow one government to create chaos the way that the US's is right now.",
"They want people who think the same and look different.",
"of course u do! Big Ben was right there on the field when a spaceship came and crashed right into him. he woke up in the hospital with a nurse telling him the doctor would be in soon, but due to the accident, Big ben was partially deaf.\n“Doctor Who?” he says with a quiver in his voice.",
"OP just trying to start fights with that title.",
"[Here](https://www.unwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Swedens-walk-of-shame-hi-red.jpg) is the swedish all female goverment visiting Iran",
"I was gonna say, that middle one likely has a zipper on her forehead.",
"All white all blonde",
"By switching to Geico?",
"Appeal to the stone (argumentum ad lapidem) – dismissing a claim as absurd without demonstrating proof for its absurdity\n\nEdit: good to see that trying to keep arguments logical is discouraged. ",
"The person on the left is Populist/Right-wing/Anti-Immigrant.\nThe person in the middle (Prime Minister) is moderate/establishment right wing.\nTo the right is the urban/liberal (in a more European sense, but think libertarian)/centrist party.",
"Holy shit no way dude! Who gives a shit",
"I really wouldn't care if they were all three identical twins, if they did a good job. \n",
"> progress that has been made toward gender equality.\n\nPotentially. Symbolically, maybe. Depending on what aspects one considers important. \n\nWhen people only clamor for progress for one side, and even actively seek to send it backwards on the other, can anyone really call it progress?",
"The one in the middle(The prime minister) has two kids, the other two are childless.",
"His claim was \"hiring based **solely** on race and gender\".\n",
"I now know where not to move. Thanks for the info",
"Because they wouldn't make laws and different qualification thresholds based on race/gender if everyone was just equally qualified in the first place.",
"Why would anyone feel guilty about a place like the Netherlands of today?",
"Politicians in Norway enjoy a lot more trust and confidence than your typical corrupt democracy you are probably used to. Though occasionally dumb they seem to be doing a mostly decent job.\n\nSmall homogeneous countries with a long history of low conflict generally creates a culture of trust and good faith. ",
"She looks exactly the same",
"You mean the societal machinery. It's not just political. It's everywhere.\n",
"next time, i want you to do all the same exact things you just did for this comment, but delete the whole thing and don’t post it.",
"Ouch",
"Out of curiosity, how diverse is Norway? What’s the percentage of whites? I have no clue but if we’re talking 90% whites then would be kinda difficult to expect any other race. ",
"You're right, but most of the time it doesn't even get to that stage. There was a study done, I'd link you but I'm on mobile, that showed that people who wrote down white sounding names got a lot more interviews as compared to the exact same resume but with a minority-sounding name. \n\nAnyway there is no point of arguing about this. Fact is, life is unfair, and some of these rules exist to balance that out (hopefully). Not everyone will be happy regardless of the existing rules so they try to keep it as balanced as possible. ",
"Norway is famous for its salmon-devouring politicians for sure. They have a long winter ahead.",
"“D I V E R S I T Y”",
"I hope he was okay.",
"why are they all big boned",
"But but but what if they identify as [insert gender jargon here]!? How dare you just assume their gender!",
"IT is fine. Ben and the spaceship on the other hand...",
"Yes, not that every white male everywhere experiences the same decisions in hiring. Very different from what you were implying.",
"so? maybe they can still lead well? who gives a fuck about their party. just another unnecessary divide. not liking someone just bc of their political party is just as bad as racism imo. fucking dumb.\n\ngod i really have to limit my reddit time.",
"Well, they already ran the country for four years, and the people were obviously happy with the resault as they elected them again...",
"Fun fact: these are the leaders of the 3 most rightwing parties in the norwegian political mainstream, all of the leftwing parties have male leaders. I think them all being female is a coincidence.",
"I didn't say that. I'm saying it's not \"All for some PC numbers\". There was an actual problem they were trying to fix. Whether or not the solution is the good one I have no idea.",
"I was talking about Ben.",
"How did the one on right escape from 1950's unscathed?",
"Norway has a population of almost 5.5 million. Of that .01 percent are voluntary immigrants from countries with brown skinned people. \n\nIn the United States 25 percent of the population is non- white. \n\nI love seeing fools make non -existent points. ",
"The fact this warrants being classed as mention-worthy is very worrying.",
"Doesn't narrow it down much.",
"Yes it does that is literally what it means.",
"Geeze, you can't even give women the word that means 'Treat everyone the same'. \n\nNo wonder people feel the need for feminism. \n\n",
"ha ha sexist joke",
"How is the lawsuit against Google going? ",
"It would be easy for you to check. What would the point be to have separate parties if they did not have different opinions on issues again? I would like to see you do your homework and report back your findings.",
"ITT: http://i.imgur.com/8z9ARjc.png",
"I couldn't tell them apart if they didn't wear different Vests.",
"There's no statistics which account for skin color in Norway. \n\nThe Wikipedia article on Demographics of Norway has this to say:\n\n> Immigrants constituted 13% of the population at the start of 2015, and an additional 2.6% were born in Norway by immigrant parents. \n\nIt goes on to explain that of these 15.6%, approximately half had western european descent and the rest are from other countries. ",
"Skei Grande is not an excellent politician.",
"https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/no.html",
"Thank you. I guess I was thinking of race or lineage and not actual “skin color”. ",
"https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/no.html",
"> Norway is still consistently ranked highly in every global democracy and quality of life ranking.\n\nLike the opposite of a shithole country?",
"No what I'm implying is that the reason why whites aren't getting jobs is not because of diversity quotas like he claims. \n\nSimilar to how trump reacts to situations. Let's pretend trump went to a job interview and did not get the job. Oprah got the job instead. Pretty sure he would blame diversity, feminists, blacks, liberals, communists and others before he considers she might have been more qualified. ",
"Because of course if women are in power we have to doubt their merit...\n",
"What is diversity in Norway, anyway?\n\nFinding the one Papua New Guinean guy and making them prime minister would be the opposite of diverse.",
"No wonder the country is going down the shitter. Why is it always incompetent females or nu-males like Trudeau that allow for mass invasion of foreign men?",
"Hopefully we'll get Oprah soon.",
"But that's not what the word means. ",
"zomg hur dur women!",
"Ooh let's have a politically correct circle jerk now",
"Actually that's what it means.\n\n",
"If that was the case, the goal would be to hire almost entirely foreigners from a large assortment of countries, as they would have on average greater diversity in life experiences than underrepresented US minority groups. Additionally, diversity hiring for the sake of ideas would also make tokenism the dominant strategy as the instant a single person is hired from a unrepresented background their life experience is accessable to that division of company for what it is worth and there is no obvioius additional value to seeking additional people from such background. That those strategies are not being visibly followed indicates that lawsuits, PR, and a sense of community responsibility are more powerful business forces than cold capitalist exploitation of human experiences.\n",
"Whichever one farts the most is the one.",
"Not diverse enough. Couldn't they find any WOC to lead their parties? I'm so triggered right now seeing all this power concentrated with 3 white people.",
"No, it's because of modern day feminism you have to. ",
"He's fine. He's just not as big anymore ",
"They have the I'd like to speak to the manager haircut too.",
"Oh you sweet summer child.",
"Because I don't see how a monitor of fitness makes you fit? It's like just buying a treadmill doesn't make you fit either. You have to use it.",
"I won't change your opinion because you don't view the trade of time for money the same way that I do.\n\nAs far as I'm concerned a job is just a trade between two adults.\n\nOne gives away time/laboir and the other gives away money.\n\nTo complain that a deal offered isnt as good as one offered to another is so entitled. The business needs not offer employment, the individual needs not offer labour and neither is forced to accept by any person.",
"Wow great, who cares...welcome to 2018",
"The Netherlands? The OP was about Norway.\nIf you take a logical approach, there's very little reason to feel guilt. My Shitpost was addressing the far-left/feminist narrative that Norway is a shining example of progressivism because women leaders. Yet it's not enough that there are NOW three women leaders because, for the last 300 years there weren't. When you accept that equality has been acheived, the necessity for Social Justice activism no longer exists. That's why it will never be enough. As pointed out here. It's not enough to be happy that three women are in high powered roles, because of history/because they're all WHITE/because they get paid less than their male counterparts. When all of those three are addressed you can complain that there's no LGBTQSS. Take your pick. There will always be something.",
"Who's in it?",
"There is no point in having a government coalition that represents the whole political spectrum. That's what the legislative branch is for, but the government should at least represent a parliamentary majority. So-called national unity governments are normally formed only during extreme situations, like war.",
"Yeeeeah sounds like you didn't take Economy 101 in college. Or History. What do you do for a living, if you don't mind me asking? \n\nEdit: Nvm, did a quick browsing of your comment history and I can tell I won't change your mind either. Let's just agree to disagree.",
"Fat women *",
"I love this. Someone with an axe to grind invents a strawman and posts about it, pretending it is related to the existing thread. Then a bunch of people circle jerk to it, pretending like the comment had merit.",
"Jaguars rekt big ben",
"The sad thing is, I think you've been brainwashed enough to believe that.",
"Doctor Who",
"They don't all look like this. [Here's](http://dbstatic.no/60404485.jpg?imageId=60404485&x=0&y=32.130464954892&cropw=100&croph=58.848022206801&width=980&height=849) the deputy leader of the opposition.",
"They look adorable and i want them to make me milk and cookies.",
"I like how you picked the one thing that could actually be expanded upon and ignored the other two. Either way, no one should have “opinions” on accepted scientific fact, especially politicians. ",
"Breaking that glass ceiling? Unequal pay? ",
"did they? didn’t watch",
"Only Norwegians would put the right leaning politicians on the left and the center to the right.\n\nEdit: And the politician you said was center is the head of Venstre, as in \"the left\"? Herre gud... ",
"45-42 baby. Jaguars super bowl coming up bb",
"Blatant misandry. Smash the matriarchy! ",
"You can sure try.\n\nBut my description of what constitutes employment proves to you that i dont know anything..",
"Wouldn't it be nice if gender and race weren't political issues?",
"Lacking some of that diversity...",
"Is this a [Mimi](https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/thedrewcareyshow/images/8/86/1550437150-the-drew-carey-show-mimi.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160620162657) lookalike convention?",
"But hey atleast they have Fitbits",
">Instead, you have to derail this topic by railing against some false concept of diversity no one is advocating\n\nYou're right, no one is asking for all white female politicians. But as it happens, mostly white female feminists have no problem pointing out all white male politicians, while simultaneously ignoring presentations of all white female politicians.\n\n> I have no idea what motive you could have beyond seeking to undermine the concept of diversity\n\nWhat is diversity then, dingus? He was simply pointing out the hypocrisy and there is a lot of it.\n\nNo one derailed the topic, we're still talking about the women in the picture - just pointing out their skin color in a rather interesting brand of snark not too unfamiliar to those with strong left-wing beliefs.\n\nDerp.",
"Norwegians are not allowed to use our Swedish symbols! We have the IP and copyright, oh... ",
"Complaints about diversity in American politics are really complaints about *representation*. Norway is about 95% white people, it's really just not the same issue. ",
"> lead to so much bashing of the idea of equality and feminism\n\nDeconstructing feminism is not \"bashing\" feminism. As it happens, we can believe in equality and not be feminists. Even a little kid can understand the logic behind this thinking.\n\n>just goes to show we still need those things.\n\nWhat? We need what specifically? It's a broad term, so you need to specify and tell us which third world shithole you're from where women don't already have equality. Oh wait, I bet you're from a first world country.",
">We just got our first leader who wasn't a white male\n\nWas your first non-whitemale leader a white woman by any chance?",
"And yet somehow dictionary definitions don't help much in identifying how words are actually used. ",
"Are you calling Lövén a woman? ",
"Yeah, who wants to move to a melting pot of diversity? Not us white politician women from Norway!",
"but what's his name?",
"Which ones? The snotty Anti-American ones or the snarky Feminist comments?",
"She *is* standing on their left, but we usually describe picture orientation from our viewpoint. Politically Venstre hasn't moved much, but it was created before Labour and Socialist parties were a thing anywhere, so \"Left\" was an apt name at the time. It has been consistently liberal for it's 130+ years, but never socialist.",
"Am I the only person to wonder when they will ask to see my manager?",
"What does being in a first world country have to do with feminism? All these guys getting so offended over it amuses me. ",
"One could be a Slitheen. ",
"It was not. It was a black man. ",
"Wow what a shithole.",
"No this one /u/thegatmanz that has responded to almost every comment that doesn't paint women as evil reverse sexists. ",
"Actually no, that's what dictionaries do.\n\nhttp://www.dictionary.com/browse/dictionary?s=t",
"It's an initialism ",
"The one in the middle reminds me of the pig lady from that episode. I hated her so much. Everything about her; from the way she looked to how she spoke. ",
"Jolly! ",
"well they are scandinavian",
"Why does diversity only apply to race and not something like gender?",
"Are you serious? This has upvotes? Reddit is ridiculous. ",
"It does to reddit apparently, didn't you know women are evil? ",
"> What is diversity then, dingus? He was simply pointing out the hypocrisy and there is a lot of it.\n\nThree world leaders isn't exactly much of a sample size, dingus. Where the fuck is this supposed hypocrisy, because there isn't a man there? ",
"Well for one the earth isn't round. It's an oblate spheroid. \n\nAlso there are regular highly politically relevant updates to germ theory such as whether pathogens universally evolve to become less deadly to their host over time. \n\nTrying to destroy genuine diversity of opinion is cancer to the scientific method. Second only to people entirely opposed to the scientific method.\n\nScience can deal just fine with the kooks and the nazis. It's people like you who try to burn the foundations out from under it who are the real disease. ",
"While the definition in the dictionary may be that, unfortunately that is not how it is used my the people in the movement and the actions taken under the umbrella of “feminism” are often VERY contrary to that definition. Therefore the word has lost its textbook definition and taken on meaning based on the way it’s been perpetuated by the people who claim to be feminist. ",
"And you have no life. Trolls are useless.",
"Looks like momma slitheen (video)..also wiki for anyone more interested.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/VLZOFZggG4w\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slitheen",
"Are you serious? People have opinions and other people agree with them? Reddit *is* ridiculous. ",
"Please, everyone making comments like yours is desperate to point out some kind of hypocrisy. ",
"Yeah, I wonder if there are more men than women on reddit. ",
"Did you just assume their gender?",
"Meh. Most people don’t like hypocrisy so yeah they tend to point it out. ",
"send bobs",
"Aren't you the one who characterized feminism as \"men are shit\"? Fuck off pretending like you're deconstructing anything.",
"No u doo!",
"After this, they rolled out in their executive minivans",
"Yeah that dude is ridiculous, now he's acting like he's an academic deconstructing feminism. Probably some kid.",
"But muh diversity!",
"Some people? If you don't care, don't comment. ",
"god forbid",
"Maybe you don't understand the prefix \"fem.\" That's ok though, I realize English isn't the primary language for a lot of people on Reddit. ",
"So words change because some people are jerks but they aren't affected by the vast majority of women who strive for equality.\n\nInteresting on how your opinion of reality paints women as bad people. ",
"Humans don't have races though (it's a completely unscientific concept). There's different *ethnicities* though.\n\nIt's just that Americans have a tendency to talk about human races as if it's a real thing.",
"I addressed both race and gender. ",
"ITT: Heavily triggered Alt-Righters.",
"For fuck's sake, no one is even mentioning their politics. There are less women leaders than men. Doesn't mean anything beside that.",
"we'll all get free cars! Or bees...",
"*proceeds to use the dictionary definition of dictionary*. I love your consistency. Good luck in college. ",
"Yeah it's true, white men have it worse than anyone...\n\nAnyone can be oppressed or silenced, but to pretend like there's a historical disadvantage to being a white male in a western country is flagrantly stupid. ",
"So not only a misogynist, but a racist too. Keep this up and the Republicans will nominate you\n\n",
"No words change because a lot of people influence it to. It’s not “some people are jerks” it’s an entire population in a group of people. ",
"What's racist about mentioning the English language?? Haha, you're hilarious. ",
"Saying feminism \"just means 'men are shit'\" is not an opinion, it's a purported statement of fact. ",
"Super power in the making. ",
"pathetic",
"Stfu, we're full.",
"Haha, man that was too easy...\n\n\"I wasn’t refuting a claim someone made I was just making an observation.\"\n\nWhat happened to that? And what hypocrisy are you talking about?",
"I wasn't talking about America.",
">ThatSppokySJW\n\nDo I even have to guess?",
"Why's it always oscillation, never balance?",
"Did someone, anywhere, claim that this photo represent diversity?\n\nBecause the only people who have brought it up are people like you, desperate to point out some kind of hypocrisy that isn't there. ",
"New law: Everyone eats, even if they’re not hungry. \n\nEdit: just realizing the fat jokes and can see how people would assume this was one too. But my intentions were to only point out that these women look genuinely kind and wouldn’t want anyone going hungry. ",
"> One of them has to be a Raxacoricofallapatorian.\n\nFTFY. Also it's totally the middle one.",
"My lord is this legal?",
"They are triplets aren't they?",
"Exactly, your response consists of repeating slogans with no data or reasoning.",
"norway must feel really proud that one of the fattest stupidest most obnoxious americans ever flattered them...",
"Oh who would've thought women *don't* all have the same opinion... /s",
"GET OUT NORMAYS REEEEEE",
"Calm down. Obviously they were morbidly obese before and now, thanks to fitbit, they're on the road to a healthy weight.",
"So far, I've read men's comments whining about diversity and one comment with 90+ upvotes implying that women all have the same opinion (spoiler: they were informed otherwise).",
"All use the same hairdresser apparently, and it isn't a very good one.",
"Why did you ask about gender then?",
"But that's not what happened, they were on about diversity quotas and you came along with \"Well it's never happened to me\".\n\nCongratulations, but they never claimed it happens to everyone so your input means nothing there. They didn't even say they've been subject to it personally either, you're just assuming they must believe what they do because you assume they lost out on a job to someone else.",
"Yeah it does. In the US, anyway. How many not white males are in power? Not many. If we were to make the leadership more diverse, what kinds of people would bring us closer if most everyone is a white male?\n\nSounds like not white males.",
"For 99% of the population race is functional enough a term though. ",
"I'm sorry you're triggered by the use of actual definitions. Life must be a horror for you.",
"I was wondering why diversity was brought up in the first place.",
"I didn't say that though. That was all you, willfully misinterpreting my words.",
"Doesn't matter. They identify as HP printers.",
"Hahaha",
"Why should people care?",
"Lol, loser",
"The middle one. ",
"How did you know they were men? Sexist much? ",
"Norway's servers are full, please try again later",
"the one on the right looks like sarah millican",
">women\n\nYou sure about that?",
"One of the biggest problems with the lack of diversity in government is that it doesn't represent the people, who are very diverse in America. In Norway, they aren't very diverse. If a country of many different races has almost all leaders as white men, it seems like other groups aren't being given a fair chance. Of course it's ridiculous to choose someone just to combat this though.",
"All middle aged blonde white women. ",
"We don't. We really don't.",
"I mean, they've covered slightly leaner blonde white people and slightly heavier blonde white people... those are the only two ethnicities that exist in Norway.",
"Here's to diversity! ",
"Hmmm... how come I think the logic is that it's pretty rare to have women (more than one) lead political parties in a country? Guess I'm just less butthurt about it.",
"This is not what I think of when I think of Norwegian women. ",
"They aren't using their fitbits correctly.",
"I was just thinking out loud, wondering why it's a good thing for the leaders to be all women. ",
"You're all wrong... And your 'no wonder women need feminism' is a weak bait, so cut it out.\n\nFeminism is a term that has evolved and grown over time. And because it is such a broad term, it can mean different things to different people, and this is where clashes in culture and identity occur.\n\nYou will find people who interpret feminism as genuine equality. You will find people who use the term feminism to accuse the world of being run by a conspiratorial patriarchy. Both of these exist. Pretending that they don't is a detriment to your own education on the subject.",
"\"white males\"",
"They look like cousins.",
"1) your assumption that white males fundamentally cannot bring about a more diverse world as you would have it is prejudiced. And it slaps in the face all of those white males who have helped America to be more diverse.\n\n2) who is Barack Obama?",
"This is the most challenging game of Fuck Marry Kill ever.",
"No need to apologise, you asked a fair question",
"Women are good people in principle. But they include a hateful, spiteful subgroup called feminists, who are not good people.",
">You mean the very real practice of hiring **based solely** on raceand gender in order to meet “diversity” numbers meant to reduce the number of white and male employees overall? \n\nSo you are agreeing with him? It's a very real pactice **solely** on gender and race? black women and Hispanic women can get any and every job they want with no work or school experience. Glad you came to his defense because I didn't make the perfect argument. ",
"Any evidence to back up this blatant sexist claim?",
"Photo of three people ",
"Yes! It's in Steven Pinker's best seller *The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined*. It's one of Bill Gates' most recommended books & it is chock full of evidence. It's encyclopedic. Women being allowed to have political power is positively correlated with civilizational progress, including the decrease in violence. That's not sexist. That's science. ",
"> So you are agreeing with him?\n\nDoesn't matter if I agree with them or not, I'm pointing out that you made a mistake in what they were claiming with your original comment. What I believe on this issue is irrelevant since right now we are talking about what they said and your interpretation of it.\n\nI don't even know why you are fixated on the \"solely\" bit either. You initially acted as if they were wrong because you haven't experienced it yourself even though what they said never claimed it should.",
"This country is like 80% white. You're bound to see many white leaders.",
"To prove that there's no difference between sexes, we are going to point out people's genders.",
"Is it the cause of a good society or just simply because good societies would elect women as well as men? Does it go into evidence of how women changed society for the better and that it was purely because of their sex and not based on their principles or beliefs? \n\nI’m having a hard time believing being a woman makes you a better state leader by default, but then again I am a male and apparently not as capable of making judgements on political matters. ",
"Same thing happened is Scotland recently. Plus two of them where LGBT. Interesting coincidence.",
"I did not say that being a women makes you a better state leader by default! Read the words & stop skimming, please.",
"They look like a Pokémon evolution ",
"Yupp, just like animal breeds are also called races even though they technically aint. \n ",
"Are they also sisters? #conspiracy",
"Oh lord. We’re not talking about refining and investigating accepted theories and you fucking know it. Just like you know when someone says the earth is round, it’s a counter to saying the earth is flat. An oblate spheroid IS round. Round doesn’t mean perfect circle. Christ. Don’t be obtuse and obfuscate the argument. No ones trying to destroy diversity of opinion. We’re talking about politicians who deny accepted scientific fact and you know this. I’m done.",
"Do they all have blur eyes too?",
"why does reddit hate fat people so much man",
"Wow it's almost like modern sexism is a myth.",
"The two most powerful women in the UK (the UK is a world superpower) are both women as well.\n\nI don't see the point?",
"Do any in shape people wear fitbits?",
"Oof. ",
"It's not racist if we don't accept immigrant from all countries :)",
"Yeah, diversity is anyone who isn't a straight white male. They also should be very very progressive ideally.",
"By definition feminists are not hateful and spiteful.\n\nYou are wrong and should feel bad. ",
"...ruled by grandmas. Cookies for everyone!...",
"> Both of these exist. \n\nOf course they do. And so do people who think the Earth is flat.\n\nBut they are wrong.\n\nNo wonder women need feminism.",
"I mean they aren't scientifically a different race. But we classify people by their phenotypes and ancestry. And our 'racial' classification system is accurate enough where if you're 'black' in the US you will have higher chances of getting x diseases and lower chances of y. So our system is an accurate way of looking at classifying different populations in the US. They just aren't other races....\n\nYou could also argue that there kind of are different races when you look at the origins of different people. Eurasian people are part neanderthal, Africans arent, and melanesians aren't neanderthal but do have a good amount of denisovan DNA. So we aren't all exactly from the same family tree. Some of us are mixed with different species (depending on how you define it) that other groups are not related to.\n\n",
"And also excellent cooks, evidently....",
"Totally wild guess here. You're a feminist.",
"Yes. Like all decent people.",
"Like a weight gain progression picture ",
"Hey, wait just a damn minute. They're politicians? Why are they smiling?\nThe ones here in the US forget how or why to smile.",
"Not seeing the lean one",
"Nah. They've had them for years and look the same. ",
"Norway is a very white nation. What do you expect? They're representative of the population. It's different from America that clearly has a ton of minorities, particularly a lot of black people. ",
"[These](https://i.imgur.com/UyqCI5R.jpg)",
"[Essentially this](https://i.imgur.com/FsIe1B0.jpg)",
"[ikr](https://i.imgur.com/8O9qJtv.jpg)",
"Because proper representation is something all democracies should strive for. That's why. ",
"Why is choosing someone for a role based on their background or characteristics they can't change better than simple meritocracy?",
"Why? ",
"So... No more diverse than three white men. ",
"Democracies aren't meritocracies. ",
"Not going to Norway \nEver",
"No wonder Norway's gone to shit.",
"I agree, but why shouldn't they be?",
"I'm sorry.",
"And all three of them want to *speak to your manager*, immediately",
"Yeah, and the leaders are at least 80% white if not more.\n\nCompletely ignoring the male part.",
"It's okay. You can be a decent person too. That was always allowed.",
"Well sure they should, but they're not, which is obvious by how unrepresentative so may nations are. ",
"1) So you're saying electing more white males could mean that we elect more non-white males? Paradoxical, no? It's important to have minorities in power because the majority fundamentally has no idea what it's like to be a minority. I'm not interested in a more diverse world, I'm interested in a more diverse leadership.\n\n2) One black leader of thousands of white males.",
"They're all fat ",
"> unrepresentative\n\nWhat does this mean exactly? \n\nI don't really follow your logic. You claim that meritocracy is a good thing, but also appear to say that \"representation\" is important, the two ideas conflict. \n\nMeritocracy means that if you need 1000 people to run a country, you hire the 1000 best people for the job. Representation means that if you need 1000 people to run a country, you somehow hire 1000 people that are supposed to represent each group of people in that country. Quite how you define which groups need to be represented is difficult if not impossible, and doesn't appear to have any benefits.",
"...so what",
"Because the title seems to suggest it is a good thing these women are leading instead of men being there. Just because they're women we assume this is a good thing. We know nothing of their ideas, what goes on in their heads, but the title approves of them anyway only because they are women and not men. \n\nModern feminism has become how many ways can we exclude men? It doesn't feel like equality anymore, it feels like \"women can do it better stop hiring men stop electing men.\" ",
"There was a similar thing where like huffington post posted a picture celebrating how \"diverse\" their editors were, and it was all white women, except for like a single asian women.\n\nCouldn't find the original where they were bragging, but here's a copy of the image.\n\nhttps://twitter.com/lheron/status/733758898855940098",
"You’re lying. These are the same Pokémon, just different generations. ",
"The title seems to suggest it is a good thing these women are leading instead of men being there. Just because they're women we assume this is a good thing. We know nothing of their ideas, what goes on in their heads, but the title approves of them anyway only because they are women and not men. \n\nModern feminism has become how many ways can we exclude men? It doesn't feel like equality anymore, it feels like \"women can do it better stop hiring men stop electing men.\" ",
"You can actually see the shift here on reddit.\n\nPeople are becoming tired of this \"women can do it better\" brand of feminism. ",
"Look at actual percentages I bet congress is 13% black ",
"Just white. ",
"Well I don’t know what Trump was talking about us not having Norwegians, this looks exactly like the three people ahead of me at the deli counter every time I go grocery shopping",
"Do they allow people in that are from shithole countries, for example the United States? I'm asking for a friend./s",
"that looks like they come from a diverse tapestry of backgrounds",
"Diversity means hunting and killing white people man!/s",
"No one of color",
"Which guy?",
"In the house of representatives 46/435 are Black which is ~10.6% And in the Senate 3/100 or 3% are Black. So not quite.\n\nEdit: The senate gives seats based on states, not population, so rural areas get more representation. The senate percentage isn't as bad as it looks.",
"What percentage of congress is asian or hispanic though? Congress is not as diverse as the country is",
"Past, present, future.",
"they all look like frogs",
"We came here from England so the majority of our population was white to start. All the presidents in the beginning then did in fact represent the people. As immigration boomed and we *became* diverse maybe. Where does that line start though? When were there enough non-white citizens to be able to deem that there should be representatives in government? This country is only a couple hundred years old. By the time generations of non-whites were born, raised, educated, and able to lead in politics here we did start seeing them. Maybe not as president but all sorts of various other high level government positions. ",
"[Alien invasion confirmed](https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/tardis/images/3/3e/Blon_Slitheen_montage_600_pixels.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20131101173704)",
"I bet feminist are pissed there isn't more equality in the heads of the parties. I'll be waiting for them to speak up on these indiscretions ",
"Glad I'm not the only one who spotted Raxacoricofallapatorian. ",
"got it so my claim is worthy of criticism but you accept with no proof that companies hire based solely on race and gender in order to reduce white males role in society. typical white nationalist speech to pretend companies do this. ",
"Lmao",
"> We came here from England so the majority of our population was white to start. All the presidents in the beginning then did in fact represent the people.\n\nNo white women among the original immigrants? \n\nAlso I think there were plenty of blacks and natives even back then.\n",
"*migrating",
"I can see the zipper",
">> No white women among the original immigrants? \n\nI didn’t say anything about sex just race. \n\n>>Also I think there were plenty of blacks and natives even back then. \n\nExcept we enslaved and/or killed all/most of them. That’s an entirely separate issue. ",
"Finally! A voice for the oppressed white, blonde, heavyset Baby boomers!",
"> got it so my claim is worthy of criticism\n\nWell you were claiming they were saying something they didn't, so yeah. I was criticising you for falsely claiming what someone else was saying.\n\n> but you accept with no proof that companies hire based solely-\n\nAnd this is a load of crap. You don't know what I accept because I haven't said what I believe. Just because I am pointing out that you are making demonstrably false claims about what someone is saying doesn't mean I automatically agree with the person that you were arguing against. I specifically said that it doesn't matter if I agree with them or not because that's not what I was talking about here. Yet you insist that I'm talking about it anyway and decide for me what position I supposedly hold.\n\nSeems to be a habit of yours, making up bullshit about what someone else is actually saying in order to disagree with them. Think about it for a second, that person is claiming some companies employ diversity quotas and you can't even come up with an argument against that. All you can do is lie about what the other person is saying to have an easy strawman to knock down because you can't even come up with something as simple as a counter argument to the diversity quota claim.\n\nYou literally pretended I hold a position I do not just to avoid addressing that you already lied about what someone else was saying.",
"But if I were to say white Americans should take blame for slavery you would rightly say that it isn't relevant what happened 200+ years ago. It may not be a long time historically but black people have been a significant part of the population since long before even the oldest living American was born. Not to mention we have elections for congress every 2 years and reapportionment every ten so it doesn't take 200 years for the congress to reflect the population.",
"A meritocracy isn't going to produce unrepresentative populations unless there's some serious racial disenfranchisement going on. ",
"Reddit feels different to me. I'm used to these anti feminist types of messages getting shot down way faster",
"Are the norwegian opposition like Davy Jones, only able to set foot on land once every election cycle?",
"\"Slightly heavier\"? All three of these women are obese",
"We're not the first to have [noticed](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9a/4b/f9/9a4bf9684b3e5ca7be782e734e491c2c.jpg)",
"sure it will. the idea that every group will fall into every slot of society perfectly is a delusion ",
"Actually you don’t know what I would say but thank you for trying to assume. It actually is possible to believe that slavery was wrong and a horrific thing **and** that a young black person should not judge a young white person based on that. The younger generations respectively did not have a part in slavery. ",
"Nah my life is actually very nice. Sorry you are so naive ",
"Just because you find other mothbrestgers on line to circlejerk with doesn't make your ignorance correct, less much even an opinion of actual worth",
"It’s an idea that has been displayed and confirmed by active feminists spewing men hating nonsense. It **is** a fact they do that and so much so that they have tainted the idea of feminism to mean “anti-male”",
"he is making a claim and you are just blindly accepting it. I said i never experienced what he claimed and i get attacked by you twisting my comment into \"all white men have the same experience\". if you reread my original comment you will see i included a **MAYBE**\n\nAlso i never said all males i just said it never happened to me. Why attack me instead of just providing evidence supporting his claims? or maybe a constructive comment? it seems like you are just attacking anyone that criticizes his white nationalist thinking.",
"Look at you, the one chosen to dictate which opinions have worth. Probably judge based on if they agree with yours or not. Interesting. ",
"They kinda all strike me as hufflepuffs actually.",
"Did you assume their gender?",
"Sorry the existence of feminists is so traumatizing for you. Was your mom mean to you? \n\nWomen aren't inherently bad.",
"That is exactly what I said. But if you believe, again *rightly*, that the society of 200 years ago is not the same as the modern one, you must acknowledge that the diversity of today is a different matter entirely from the original mostly English one. ",
"That's a whole lot of shit to pull out of your ass. \n\nRespect other people and their opinions is the only criteria I have. If your opinion doesn't follow those 2 things then it's not an opinion. \n\nKeep projecting though.",
">> \"I wasn’t refuting a claim someone made I was just making an observation.\"\n\nI compared this picture to ones I have seen in the past of Presidents in the US. They both have people who look similar to each other. That is the point I made. No one else said it so there is no refutation to be made. \n\n>> What happened to that? And what hypocrisy are you talking about?\n\nThe hypocrisy **you** brought up? My statement was a general sentiment of agreement that people point it out and I added that it’s because they don’t like it.\n\nI can see it’s easy to confuse you. ",
"Backwards is up to you to define, but in my opinion feminism has been moving us backwards lately. It's been great for women, but absolutely shits on men, and that's not the end game. This is just a swing, an extreme reaction to the perceived patriarchal oppression the young men of today had nothing to do with.\n\nWomen are applauded for doing *better* than men, for taking the positions men take, and we have lost focus in general. We no longer care about people's ideas as much as their gender or skin color. That to me is the definition of racism.\n\nWe are supposed to applaud these women just because they're women? Why didn't op's title detail something these women believe that op is proud of? Why did op focus only on their gender and treat their actual ideas and beliefs as optional to talk about?\n\nAll that to me is backwards. ",
"What's the point? Things are better because they're women? Isn't that sexist? ",
"Which may explain the rampant immigration and bombing problem...",
"I did here\n\n>> As immigration boomed and we became diverse maybe. Where does that line start though? ",
"So if someone doesn’t agree with your ideas they aren’t decent people? Sounds pretty judgmental, and not something a decent person thinks. ",
">literally\n\nYou’re an absolute fool if you think there’s a literal definition of a word that anyone at any time can claim to be or define. There is sometimes a general consistency, at best. Nowhere close to “literal”.",
"Great job with the straw man! That’s how we win people over to feminism. Mocking them.",
"Something to keep in mind is how seats are assigned in the Senate, and how that aligns with the demographic distribution. Even though Black Americans represent 13% of the population, they are not uniformly distributed among states. On the other hand, Senators are evenly distributed among the states but not evenly distributed by population.\n\nBlack Americans are much more concentrated in high-population states - CA, MA, NY, NJ, the South - and weakly represented in the numerous states of the West/Midwest, so it is expected that Black representation in the small-state-heavy Senate is skewed down. Looking at the House, which is evenly distributed by population, we see a much closer approximation of the United States racial demographic.",
"#NBAsoBlack",
"This is very interesting I don’t think I’ve thought about it like that before. English isn’t my first language and I’ve always thought “racist” meant humans are classified into races. Thanks for the info. ",
"All blondes, with blue eyes",
"McDonald’s",
"That’s not diversity.",
"Most black people have ancestors that were brought over as slaves, decades before anyone in modern times was born. Most Asians came for the railroad, also decades before anyone alive today. Hispanics have been in the Southwest longer than it's been part of America. We've had enough time that congress should theoretically be approximately representative of the diversity of our society.",
"This exact attitude is what got Trump elected. You demonize people for their skin color and gender long enough, and they’ll burn the village down just to get back at you. Ironically, you and your attitude are the most dangerous threats to the fight for equality for women, because you add numbers to your opposition with every simplistic, ignorant comment.",
"CTRL+C + CTRL V",
"Oh yeah, I forgot about that. So we're close. I made an edit",
"If only the US could get one of these that wasn't Hilldog.",
"Well we should fix that! It’s racist! ",
"And people still say that the western world is sexsit, and it is hard to be a woman. Come on",
"If a country is 80% white, then 80% of leadership should be white.",
"And?",
"LOL, build that strawman kid. ",
"You mean short blonde fat women right? ",
"Now you understand what all white men over age 50 look like in a group.",
"Wow such gender equality. I love how men and women are both equally represented",
"AND they’re welcome in America ... as they don’t come from a s—thole country ;)",
"> he is making a claim and you are just blindly accepting it.\n\nI'm not accepting it at all though, how many times do I have to tell you to stop lying?\n\n> I said i never experienced what he claimed and i get attacked by you twisting my comment into \"all white men have the same experience\".\n\nThen what the hell was the point of your comment if not to imply that then?\n\n> if you reread my original comment you will see i included a MAYBE\n\nAnd it read like sarcasm, though reading comments doesn't seem to be your strong point. On that note, I am repeating that I have not accepted their claim and nothing about what I said should have given you that impression.\n\n> Also i never said all males i just said it never happened to me.\n\nBy saying it never happened to you implies that he is saying it happens to all males. Otherwise what's the point you were making with your comment?\n\n> Why attack me instead of just providing evidence supporting his claims? \n\nBecause I'm not supporting his claims, Einstein. Other people were already addressing those claims, I saw you make a post that heavily implied they were making the claim this happens to everyone by saying \"well it doesn't happen to me\". Because nobody posts that unless they believe the person they were responding to was implying it does happen to everyone.\n\n> or maybe a constructive comment?\n\nI pointed out how your comment misrepresented what they were saying.\n\n> it seems like you are just attacking anyone that criticizes his white nationalist thinking.\n\nIt only seems like that because your world begins and ends with you. Other people were already addressing his arguments well enough, your comment just stood out from the crowd.\n\n**And I repeat yet again because you have trouble reading, I am not supporting his arguments so stop accusing me of doing so. I am merely pointing out that your comment was either falsely claiming that they said this happens to all men or it's a useless comment that adds nothing to the discussion.**",
"All fat with short hair. Bet they nagged their way to the top. Lot of wanting to talk to the manager.\n\nI j/k btw",
"Looks like three Asians in the corner, yeah. No PoC. Some of the others could be from places like south America, they don't all look White European. ",
"Downvote for using the word “just” to describe a woman. What is this the 1800s?",
"http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=2093",
"Well when you've been on top for so long, equality can feel like oppression",
"Not the best advertisement in the world...",
"DICTIONARIES ARE A LIE. NOTHING MEANS ANYTHING. I AM A WALRUS MADE OF DREAMS AND CUSTARD.",
"It appears you are quite upset, perhaps take a moment to breathe?\n\n &nbsp; \n\n ^^^^I ^^^^am ^^^^a ^^^^bot",
"No, if someone disagrees with -feminism- they are not decent. Because if you were decent you would want equality for all.\n\nFeminism is not my idea.\n\nI wish it was. ",
"GO BACK TO THE MATRIX, BOT! ",
"Command+C, Command+V (for you Apple users)",
"It's perfectly valid when girls don't aspire to become leaders because there is a significant skew in the ratio between female and male leaders. It's there to show them that \"they can do it too\". It's there to destroy stereotypes because stereotypes DO exist in society.\n\nI don't even know why you would think that pointing out people's genders is always bad unless you just don't think stereotypes exist.",
"Not sure how you define in shape but I really like mine ",
"The US has a lot of minorities, but it is still 72% white.",
"Feminism does not mean equality for all. It just means between the sexes as compared to each other. It does not take on any other issues of inequality except sex. \n\nYou are right thought. Decent people want equality for *all* except that’s completely unachievable and not how life works. People are different and therefore cannot be equal by definition. That’s where the difference in morality comes into play and in my opinion is far more important than some political ideology. ",
"Ad hominem. Wrong fallacy although the point still stands they had to use one. ",
"\"THEY'RE ALL WOMENS GIVE ME KARMA PLZ\"",
"And you had better have held that super rigid orthodoxy your entire life, too, or it’s curtains for you. ",
">It's there to show them that \"they can do it too\". \n\nYes exactly, obviously important. I myself never would think to try something without seeing someone else with the same genitalia doing it first.",
"Gender is such a social construct that we’re going to point out successful women and cry about a nonexistent wage gap.",
"And they all HATE eachother...",
"Preach when they elect a black person.",
"Lots of things sounds good if you only talk about them in the context of the dictionary and not the real world. ",
"I see this picture posted a lot but is it legit? I have no idea who Sweden's politicians are.",
"Came here to say this.",
"How is it that in one of the healthiest countries in the world, their 3 leading politicians are all overweight?",
"So you don't support them. But you choose to attack me. Why not just ignore me like you ignored them? Glad to see your priorities. ",
"Yes, anyone who has any problems at all with the modern feminist movement just thinks women are evil. It's not that they could fundamentally agree with the message of equality, but disagree with some of the methods that are employed in its name. Or maybe disagree that feminism has some kind of ownership of that message. \n\nWe should _all_ strawman the ever-living shit out of each other, it's the only way to grow together as a community.",
" Correct, but it's not.",
"It would be nice, but that's also not a reality that humans have ever experienced. ",
"Aww they all look like BFF",
"Shes Norwegian with Pakistani roots fyi.",
"All fat asses ",
"The woman in the middle is a very good politician imo, even though im left on the political spectrum and shes more right-leaning i gotta admit that she is a competent politician.\n\nWoman on the left is leader of a right-wing populist party and hates immigrants lol.",
"I’ve never met a fit person wearing a fit bit ",
"Do Norway and Sweden have a feud or something? Genuinely curious.",
"bad time to live in norway then eh",
"Appears to be heavily weighted towards female in this case. And I mean heavily ",
"All 3 are kind of leaning on the table I guess?",
"But I bet its not 100% women.",
"It its population also 100% women?",
"Which *ethnicity* is best at splitting hairs?",
"Because when a position of power is filled 100% with males everyone questions if they are only there because they are men and woman are not given a chance. Why is it ok to ask that then, but not when it is filled with 100% women?",
"Yeaaah \"coicidence\".",
"Please leave.",
"Now I'm curious to see the breakdown if you weight all the senators based on constituents/representative how close it gets you to the right percentage. Surely there's someone with enough free time on Reddit who will do that math, right?",
"Anyone know what kinda watches those are on the right?\n",
"They just got them for Christmas this year",
"And?",
"You can respect someone you're sleeping with. Totally doable.",
"Shit son. ",
"That's why they're not a shithole country",
"[Swipe left]",
"We’re all entitled to make our own calls. Do you feel safe enough in your response to honestly consider what I said before you drop the gavel?",
"Really? In 203 years she's their first female president..... Really?",
"Hmm, not much diversity then is there?",
"Why is \"just women\" there? Oh yay we've completely excluded men from the leadership, what a victory wooptydoo.\n\nSorry, I don't like what I see here this is the wrong path. ",
"the title says \"just women.\" as if it's a good thing. Where do you see equality? I see exclusion. I see a fuck the men attitude. ",
"The title is just pointing out that it’s interesting/uncommon. There’s nothing there suggesting that they are good politicians or that they’re somehow better than any male politician.\n\nOP is right. You guys *are* super defensive.",
"> Small homogeneous countries with a long history of low conflict\n\nI agree best to avoid importing from shitholes",
"In fact i'll post one now of Trump with a few of his staff. I'm sure it will hit front page also.",
"Vagine Mobile",
"They basically look like every mom in Minnesota ever.",
"Unfortunately Norway is full of them. ",
"No, I'm sorry that you're a feminist. Wouldn't wish that on anyone.",
"Lagertha would be proud",
"So what? Wake me up when one of them is a Muslim. Oh wait, that will never happen in a country as racist as Norway. ",
"As /u/narwhalicus said, definitely no need to apologise. The question was very fair. It's pretty messed up, for sure. ",
"in order of fattest ",
"Do you think the enormous surge in alt-right ideology in young white men under has anything to do with contemporary feminism characteristic demonization of that group?\n\n>There is little evidence\n\nThe phrase “there’s little evidence” is a platitude here. Why did they choose the then-trailing Trump over every Republican front runner in the primaries and the months preceding them? The_Donald was dominating r/all for months, seemingly out of nowhere. Why would a huge population of working class men jump to support a man who’s entire history and brand has no similarity to them except for his ostensible defense of white men against “liberals”. Why do they rally for “liberal tears”? Working class support for corrupt rulers is of course nothing new, but I think my explanation is the most reasonable, and it explains much of the surge in Millennial anti-feminism we’ve been seeing lately.",
"its almost like people vote for who is qualified and not just b/c of a race.",
"They are all heffers. Sorry, I couldn't help it.",
"It`s bacon party, cupcake party and triple burger party obviously.",
"Hmm I'm not sure, maybe Google it?",
"Unlike the OP clearly virtue signaling.",
"And it's probably more effective and/or cheaper than the \"for-women\" version. ",
"North Korea is a democracy because it's in the name.",
"And you wonder why Europe is so fucked right now",
"Isn't it kind of dumb to change the definition of a word to something that doesn't make sense, then afterwards act like the word doesn't describe anything real?\n\n\nI guess I don't get what the point of changing the definition in the first place is.",
"Many have answered. Thanks ",
"And yet exactly alike",
"Fuck women, just women.",
"It's well-known that seeing others in your demographic group(s) do something is a pretty significant influence for people. The fact that you mentioned genitalia is a pathetic attempt to reduce my argument. Also, the use of sarcasm to make an argument is low intellect.",
"If we look at the major party leaders in all of Norwegian history would that make you feel better",
"So, it would be great if this was just as common as men being in these positions. But it's so rare right now that it's noteworthy.",
"Where in the title does it say it's diverse?",
"> One of the biggest problems with the lack of diversity in government is that it doesn't represent the people, who are very diverse in America.\n\nYou don't need to be the same skin colour to represent people better. Look at how many white kings there were in Europe that screwed over white Europeans. White people in America have been consistently getting screwed over by white politicians.",
"No, because even if they were all guys the men living now had nothing to do with it. I was raised as an ally to this cause, and now in my adulthood I feel like I'm being shunned because of the anger directed towards all those men who held that position in the past, men my generation had nothing to do with.\n\nFeminists are driving a wedge between themselves and men who were once on their side.\n\nI don't want to live my entire life shunned because men held those positions all along. I'm alive right now, and I'm for women's rights but we are on the wrong path still.\n\nHow many generations of female only leadership do we need to experience before everyone settles down and actually starts caring about what's in people's heads instead of what they look like? ",
"Norway is ran by \"can I speak with the manager\" ladies.",
"Shit I would have never known!",
"Thank you for your sarcasm. It wouldn't have been Reddit otherwise.",
"Nah man, we don't mind importing a few more Americans.",
"No one is in control. Have you seen 3 women argue.Norway has stand still since they took charge ",
"I think your perception of obesity might be skewed",
"Holy shit these comments ",
"In the same way that say England and Wales, or England and Scotland, or England and France, or England and the US do - or at least that's what my Norwegian friend has led me to believe",
"I thought it was three versions of Sarah Milligan",
"Guess nothing gets done.",
"Why are they all fat?",
"I'm getting a very different impression by reading the comments in this post.",
"I'm a dude who cares. I've had female role models my whole life, and it's neat to see that women are appointed as leaders. It's cool. ",
"3 overweight women running a country.... and you are proud of this why?",
"I think it shows that it's possible to have women leaders and that it's accepted. It's kind of like when Barry O was president, it was really cool that a black person could be a leader. Or like when OJ Simpson was let off, we found that black people can now also evade justice if they have enough money.",
"False. North Korea refers to a geographic location not a system of governance.",
"I know, women are scary. I used to feel that way when I was five.",
"The extremists of a group do not define the group. ",
"Feminist doesn't mean women, why do you try to interchange them? Most women aren't feminists.",
"The Norwegian oppsition is currently plauged by a metoo scandal, although it has been resolved with a shed of dignity.\n\nAlso, there is actually a guy in parliament who used to call himself communist. It's really wacky and cool.",
"I'm not. Feminism means wanting equality for all.\n\nLiterally anyone can be a feminist. ",
"I guess Norway has a thing for uh.. thick girls and short hair?",
"I think immigrants make up 16 % or so, although that is both white, black and arab.",
"> If a country of many different races has almost all leaders as white men\n\nWhite people still make up the majority of the country, so it makes sense that the majority of the country is being represented by people like them. \n\nIts like with the Oscars. People were complaining that only 20% ish of the Oscar winners were black but less then twenty percent of Americans are black so its not an under representation. \n\n",
"They sure don't go hungry",
"Everyone rocking that classic female politicians hair style.",
"Well, they are all neoliberal conservative types (which is why they're allies in the first place) the one on the left hates immigrants and the one on right loves dank kush and the envoirement. The one in the middle is the leader of the actual conservative party, and popular even in the opposition.",
"Funny no one ever asks that question of any white man to have ever held any political office.",
"Because nobody virtue signals them into office or votes for them because they are white men. ",
"It was a 3 for the price of 1 at the Parliament Hairdresser.",
"Hillary Clinton, in her book, made an interesting observation. Countries where they elect a Prime Minister, a female was first elected decades ago. She feels it is more difficult for the barrier of electing a woman when the people directly elect a head of state.",
"So fucking tired of the \"women are more suited for every single job that has power\" sentiment.",
"Yes it's a democratic republic. What does Democratic republic mean?",
"All have the same haircut too.",
"Because they huffle and puff after going up the stairs.",
"There are these three women and six other men as political leaders in Norway, so the scale still tips in men's favor. No 'indiscritions' here to speak of.",
"There are also six men not pictured here. ",
"Actually I like the one on the right. Just pointing out that in Norway conservatism isn't antifeminism.",
">I'm not. Feminism means wanting equality for all.\n\nNo, feminism is a primarily female-oriented doctrine as evidenced by its name and what people that represent it say and do. No feminists push for equal consideration in custody battles, or support male-centered causes like circumcision.\n\n[Egalitarianism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egalitarianism) is probably closer to what you believe. ",
"As I predicted you have reached the point of complete gibberish. Enjoy the killfile.",
"Okay?? Why skulls we care?",
"The Redpill movement has filled you with inaccuracies, half-truths and outright lies.\n\nDon't bother responding, I no longer care enough. Killfiled.",
"I really don't understand the upvotes on the joke. It's literally just a picture of three people with powerful jobs. ",
"That’s it, I’m moving to Norway. Progressiveness this far along needs to be seen up close.",
"People asks all the time when it's 100% women, they just refuse to believe that they were the best people for the job. When it is 100% male they don't question the merit of the men that are there, just why they can't ever bother to hire a woman. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has a fun anecdote about that, everybody could accept a full male supreme court for centuries, but when she mentioned she would like to see full female supreme court people lost their mind when it is entirely possible that at one point in time all the best candidates can be female.",
"I mean it would take a lot longer than 2 weeks to get noticeable results",
"I don't see anywhere on this post or picture where it says women are better. It's literally just a picture that shows three women in powerful positions (which is fantastic, think of how many brilliant potential leaders or professionals there could of been if women were given the platform in the past). If anything I mainly see a proportion of Reddit getting defensive/insecure over women having more power then them.",
">I have no argument against this, so I'm going to throw a fit and leave but act like I won. GOT EM! ",
"Valkyries ",
"From my other comment:\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7qcxcs/the_three_most_powerful_politicians_in_norway/dsp2jfn/",
"That's what I said. ",
"These women simply won the latest election. Party leaders are 6/3 men/women. ",
"Fat, Fatter, Fattest.",
"That is not how parliaments work. \n\n3 out of 9 party leaders in Norway are women, these happened to win the recent election. ",
"No. ",
"You seem kind of triggered",
"ah sorry",
"Are they actually good politicians? Doing good for the people, avoiding corruption, acknowledging real issues ect? ",
"if a man chooses a woman to represent him is he not represented?",
"I can't wait until feminists start saying,\n\n\"WOMEN HOLD ALL THE POWERFUL POSITIONS ... LAZY MEN DONT DO ANYTHING\"",
"I don't know what you're implying. Lol. ",
"Our foreign minister (Sylve Listhaug) is a woman that are very much against immigrant. Please do a minute of research before you comment.",
"They all speak decent English, next to speaking Norwegian and probably some Spanish, French or German. How many languages do you speak?",
"There is Norway this is true",
"B-but muh patriarchy!",
"Pretty sure the middle one is the prime minister of Wales... Does she seem to fart a lot...? I'd keep my eyes on her...",
"Hold on a second, Solberg managed to get reelected? Are the others known pedophiles or something? Been ignoring Nordic politics for the past couple years.",
"> Modern feminism has become how many ways can we exclude men?\n\nThat's a strawman and what antifeminists always say. The idea is that the imbalance in gender in influencial positions is due to sexism, and that Norwegia has so many women in politics because it is less sexist and women can succeed.",
"Blond and fat",
"But don't you see? Your bait is weak because it totally ignores the idea that there are a lot of people who do /not/ need the man-hating side of feminism. That is the side that is in critique. So your phrase is bogus.",
"Your first sentence is fundamentally different from what I said. What I am saying is that only a prejudiced view of race and race relations would assume a white male in power cannot help a different race/ethnicity. Also, only a prejudiced view would say that an individual of a minority race/ethnicity is going to help minorities, based on their skin colour before the faculties of their soul and mind are considered.\n\nBarack Obama's position as most powerful man on Earth was not given to him on affirmative action. He gained that place without any form of legislation giving it to him based on his skin colour. If he can do that, any other minority can provided they work hard enough and have individual assets like any previous president has had before. There was no systematic racism for or against Obama.",
">majority fundamentally has no idea what its like to be a minority\n\nWho is Eminem? Who is any poor white kid growing up in a very poor neighbourhood?",
"I genuinely believe that the \"men-hating\" side of feminism that people constantly refer to is massively exaggerated. Yes there is a very loud minority of \"feminists\" that shout that message, but it is a tiny tiny proportion compared to people who just want equality for women. It just seems like some big movement because a very loud minority is amplified further (intententially and subconsciously) by people who are critical of or against feminism. As soon as someone shows any passion about feminism they're also labelled a \"feminazi\" etc. Not because of what they believe, but because of what the observer defines as feminism. I see the spin of feminism being \"pro-women, anti-men\" constantly online, but I've yet to experience any rheotric of the like in real life (not that anecdotal evidence is the best kind). That's just an observational I've made.",
"I've seen more diversity and male acceptance in a Disney star wars franchise.\n\nThough At least Norwegian politics didn't resort to killing all the white males or confining them to the evil opposition groups",
"Next there will be no men allowed in the front of buses",
"Doesn't that question kind of prove /u/Ran4 's point? \"Ethinicity\" includes culture, \"race\" does not. So while it makes only limited sense to ask if someone is genetically predisposed to be especially nitpicky, it *does* make sense to ask if some cultures are more argumentative than others.",
"Oh, well, in that case I'm sorry that I expected women to be capable of pursuing their aspirations without being explicitly shown women have achieved them. You're right, women are stupid and weak and so we must intentionally manufacture examples for them or else they will never do things for themselves. I'm awfully glad I had your big, sexy intellect here to show me my follies.",
"Small, medium, and large. ",
"She just participated in negotiations to enter government and got huge concessions from Frp on the environment. Exactly how is that not excellent work for a leader of a tiny political party? ",
"Marry, fuck, kill.",
"You bore me, woman hater. Killfile. You. ",
"Either you’re not Norwegian or you’re one of the few venstre supporters. Venstre was on brink of being excluded from Stortinget if it hadn’t been for tacrical votes. Venstre has abandoned their earlier voter mass and become an MDG light. It’s not hard to get into government when the other parties need your representatives.",
"Well... You can take the same picture at the /r/The_Donald and have the title \"Say hello to our re-elected concervative and anti immigration politician from Norway\". \nFun fact Norway is the only country in the World where the majority of men vote for women, and majority of women votes for men (wouldn't be like that today after the metoo campain if we're going to belive statistics). ",
"Like I already said several times before, I'm not attacking anyone. I saw that others were already addressing them, people likely more knowledgeable on the subject than I. I also saw you stood out from the crowd for making a false claim about what they said. That's why I picked you out.\n\nYou'd know all this if you listened, I wouldn't have to repeat myself multiple times until you finally picked up on bits and pieces. Honestly you should be embarrassed it took you this long to even notice I don't support them when told several times over.",
"Would you ask this about three male politicians?",
"They look like they want to speak to the manager",
"They look like they want to speak to the manager",
"Found the feminazi with the name calling!",
"There used to be a feminin and remarkably funny man standing there as well. But I think one of them ate him as a sacrifice to Odin.\n\n\nSource: Am Norwegian.",
"If women succeed naturally in an environment that is not sexist, that is what I'm looking for.\n\nAmerica is taking the wrong strategy by trying to overcompensate by preferring women as if they deserve reparations for the past, which alienates the current generation. Affirmative action type stuff.\n\nMaking movies meant to exclude men, like the recent ghostbusters remake. Jumping down companies throats if they don't have the magic percentage of females to males.\n\nEverything right now feels forced, fake. It doesn't feel like true equality or lack of sexism, and in my opinion it is not the spiritually optimal route to true healing.\n\nWhat I'm talking about is sering into the future. The current climate is simply a stage, a phase, and I am saying I can tell it is jot sustainable, it doesn't feel right or fair and it will eventually cause a reaction. Maybe Trump was a hint. I can tell that an adjustment is needed, that this is not what the world will eventually look like. Things are swinging back and forth emotionally. Anger eventually turns into calm and possibly forgiveness, and the same is true of humans on a societal level. It just works different and on a different timescale. Change can be sped up by traumatic events, both for the individual and society.\n\n",
"So a redditor makes claim that hiring goals are made specifically to hurt whites and only use race and gender. He post no evidence.\n\nI claim I haven't experienced that ever in my life and gave a reason he might think that's true.\n\nThe best part of this is the person I was replying to had no issue with my comment unlike you. He was a little more level headed and understanding. Go ahead keep repeating that I was making false claims. Never did you are making my words stronger in your own head so you can pretend to win. ",
"K",
"> So a redditor makes claim that hiring goals are made specifically to hurt whites and only use race and gender. He post no evidence.\n\nAnd others were already dealing with him.\n\n> I claim I haven't experienced that ever in my life\n\nWhy? What possible reason would you have for saying you haven't experienced it if not to imply that they were saying everyone should and your experience disproves them? I've asked you several times but you never acknowledge the question.\n\n> and gave a reason he might think that's true.\n\nBased on zero evidence of their situation and an assumption of what they personally experienced. Maybe don't condemn them for presenting zero evidence if you make assumptions without any yourself.\n\n> The best part of this is the person I was replying to had no issue with my comment unlike you. He was a little more level headed and understanding.\n\nI'm dealing with someone who took several repeated comments to understand I never took a side. Someone who took several repeated comments to realise I don't support the side they claimed I did. Someone who pretty much insulted me outright and lied about what I believed.\n\nSo forgive me if I'm annoyed with you, this could have been avoided had you been paying attention from the beginning. Then we wouldn't be several comments deep only now having you realise I don't support the position you repeatedly claimed I did.\n\n> Go ahead keep repeating that I was making false claims. Never did you are making my words stronger in your own head so you can pretend to win.\n\nAnswer the god damned question, what was the point of your \"Well it doesn't happen to me\" comment if not to imply they were saying it does happen to everyone and they are wrong because of your personal experiences. What was the point of your comment?",
"I bet they have all sorts of haircut tips for each other ",
"Bravo! *claps slowly*",
"Because I never implied that no one experienced it. I implied its not a very real practice like he claims.\n\nYou inferred my comment to mean all white men. Yet you didn't infer that his comment meant all white men even though he used stronger language than I did.\n\nI just want some evidence of his claims....",
"> Answer the god damned question, what was the point of your \"Well it doesn't happen to me\" comment if not to imply they were saying it does happen to everyone and they are wrong because of your personal experiences. What was the point of your comment?",
"Leaders of cheeseburgers too, apparently ",
"Much easier to walk away than admit you lost an argument. I understand.",
"I think they're cylons.",
"Well the purpose was NOT to say all white men never experience it. HOW MANY TIMES ARE YOU GOING TO PRETEND I SAID ALL WHITE MEN? I said MYSELF and I asked for evidence of his claims in the following comment... You really wanna prop me up so you can pretend to win.\n\n\nEdit: also why are you asking what I meant by the comment now? Took you like 10 comments to actually ask what I meant instead of just asking first lol. ",
"Probably under 10% of the Norwegian population is visibly \"different\" from the average, to a large enough degree that someone would call it diverse in a picture :P",
"The gender of the politicians isn't really something that comes up in Norwegian politics. It's just not that important to people, so I think you are right. Any party could probably end up with any gender spokesperson.",
"They're all Ronda from HR",
"I'm pretty sure their English is better than your Norwegian.",
"I could see that. I honestly don't know if I think the United States will ever elect a female president. ",
"So you think the people in congress are now the most qualified? You must be precious. ",
"2 Beverlys and a Bertha i presume",
"Do all women of power have the same hair cut in Norway",
"Powerful?\n\nNo offense, but the population of Norway is just over 5 million.\n\nRoughly the population of South Carolina. \n\nNow, if this was a big country, like Finland... :)",
"They look like they want to speak to the manager.",
"No, he's trying to suggest my argument was that the existence of feminists is bad, and even that women are inherently bad. No teven slightly what I was saying. Strawman. ",
"If you think your individual story is relevant to the conversation. You just don't understand the conversation. ",
"\"Just like feminism just means “men are shit”.\"\n\nGo ahead, buddy. Defend that statement and then try telling me that \"just have a few problems with the modern feminist movement\". God forbid women seek equality (note, not supremacy) without being accused of hating all men for simply being men.\n\nCan some individuals who call themselves \"feminists\" take it too far in a ridiculous fashion? Yes, absolutely. Does that mean that people get to label all feminism as adhering to such actions? Of course not. \n\nThe majority of feminism is simply attaining equality among all genders, which is the way it should be. You'd be lying to yourself if you look at the past and pretend that's the way it's always been. That's not an insult directed at you or me. People who make childish arguments like \"feminism = men are shit\" are just immature dumbasses who can't face reality without feeling personally offended. ",
"\"Just like feminism just means “men are shit”.\"\n\nThis sentiment does not deserve my respect, only mockery. It's a joke. Hyperbolic, ignorant nonsense. I'm not interested in winning over this type of person, NOTHING I say can do that. ",
"Because of an obvious reason that someone with that much education shouldn't need explained to them. Being all male during times when all or most people with the opportunity to reach the level of supreme court were all or mostly male is the likely outcome. Being all female during a time when both males and females have an equal chance of reaching the level of the supreme court(not saying it's there yet) should be exponentially less likely. It's kind of embarrassing for her to pretend it's some kind of sexism instead of basic math.",
"How bout we base on merit and not gender or skin color?",
"> ~~The snotty Anti-American~~\n\nthe anti idiots you mean?",
"Man, what diversity!",
"Norway needs some diversity.",
"thick ;) ",
"and not a single lefty.. Norway is doing it right",
"Crazy thought, but how about we hire people based upon their qualifications and ability to lead rather than the pigmentation in their skin or set of genitals they were born with?\n\nOr is that ableist?",
"The leaders of Plaid Cymru, the Scottish Nationalist Party, the Democratic Unionist Party, the Conservative Party and the Scottish Conservative Party are also women. They're all just as shit as the male leaders.\n\nNorway isn't special.",
"They are still the most powerful politicians in Norway, regardless of the population smh",
"That's a very low number of whites, and you would expect 1/4 of the representation to be black roughly in line with that. Norway is way up in the 90s. ",
"I didn't say perfectly, but under a meritocracy you'd expect representation to be roughly equal because meritocracy is on role, not on other factors which is what democracy often results in. I'm guessing you're confusing what a meritocracy is. ",
"I never mentioned that women are better than men or the other way around . Just pointing it out.",
"I know, I was having a bit of a laugh (as I hope the comment about the enormous population of Norway would have implied).",
"they look same ",
"What amazing diversity Norway has to offer...",
"\"meritocracy is on role\" \n\nyou're the one confused. a meritocracy awards merit, and studies have shown that that does NOT lead to a representative sample of every group of person under the rainbow. It leads to certain fields being filled with certain groups and all like that. That's not a good or a bad thing, and certainly could change. But again, you're living in a fantasy world ",
">a meritocracy awards merit,\n\nNo. A meritocracy awards merit IN SPITE of all other factors. What we have today out there in the world is not meritocracy. Institutionalized biases are heavily present everywhere not just in institutions but in society far more broadly. There are very few meritocracy institutions out there at all. ",
"That's what \"equality\" looks like in 2018. Still sexist, just the opposite way.",
"They certainly have no intention of moving to the USA... ",
"Did you just assume their gender?",
"of course we cant question their merit because they are women...",
"I feel like you are making it something it's not. There are plenty of guys who in this thread are questioning the merit of these three women. Her point was about how they would be treated and how people still think it is absurd how women could be the most qualified. Just like here plenty of men would still question the merit of three successful politicians on the basis of being women.",
"No, it's fine to question someone like Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachmann, but if this was a picture of three Norwegian men no one would make a comment about their gender in combination with their merit. Just look how low people's standards for Trump werecompared to Hillary.",
"50 👏 PERCENT 👏 OF 👏 THOSE 👏 CEOS 👏 MUST 👏 BE 👏 WOMEN",
"hell no. being qualified is a bare minimum.",
"I don’t really see why it would be a big surprise that she was re-elected, other than the fact that the parties in opposition tend to have an easier time winning.\n\nIn truth, though, Stoltenberg (our previous PM, now leader of NATO) left and the labor party chose a new leader who doesn’t really resonate with the people as well. He literally ran his campaign on “higher taxes for all!” and had a pretty terrible outcome, as they tend to finish with somewhat 30%+ of the votes.\n\nThe labor party just finished a recent poll at ~20% for the first time in like 30 years or w/e after a #metoo scandal, in which one of the higher ups had to resign his position.\n\nI voted progressive and am glad her government will continue - 4 years is not enough to let them really do all they want, 4 more will make or break their legacy. I can’t really note any faults that would make a clear case for her not to be re-elected, I think they’ve done a decent, if not good, job so far.",
"is it a fine question for someone like Elizabeth Warren or nancy pelosi?",
"Big surprise is probably because I havn't updated myself for at least 1½-2 years I guess. But it seemed to me that they were doing the usual cost cutting which to me seems to always have bad consequences, and that they were stumbling real hard for at least a year with stupid statements and obvious disagreements although everyone insisted they were in agreement even though they stated opposite things. \n\nJust kind of assumed it would remain that way.",
"What is very true is that there have been lots of disagreements, but not between the two governing parties. Because they weren’t able to secure a majority of the vote in the first election, they had to collaborate with two other small parties who both have very different platforms from that of the progressive party.\n\nI mean, the only reason it took the one on the right in this photo this long to join Solbergs cabinet is because of her stance toward the progressives. The second of the two collaborators declined to join on the day of the election.\n\nThere were also some obvious strategic voters who switched parties to secure enough votes to the right side of the political spectrum.\n\nAll in all a close election, but not unlike the previous decades have given us.",
"Then what am I not understanding ",
"So you respond with nothing to backup your brainwashing comment",
"No because nobody virtue signals them and makes campaign promises based on white males. ",
"Yes, as long as you question everyone equally.",
"good answer. thought you wouldnt be about questioning them since you named two republican women lol",
"This would be like if I denied climate change, because the weather in my neighborhood appears consistent. \n\nThe issues are systematic, which affects individuals differently, but the systematic problems are undeniable with 5 mins of research. ",
"I am not American so my knowledge about your politicians is already limited, there is already a small amount of female politicians to choose from. ",
"How does this relate to my initial comment?",
"Jesus you are easily triggered",
"r/trueFMK",
"BWAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA",
"Maybe :)",
"Politicians in Scandinavia are not corrupt. They usually enjoy high public trust and are regarded as trustworthy. ",
"As a brunette Finn, I lol'd. ",
"I never said white guys are most often the most qualified. I said that the most qualified candidate should be hired regardless of race or gender. If that leads to fewer white guys being employed, fine.",
"Why a quarter? The US population is 12% black.\n",
"Well is my comment wrong or right?",
"> Well the purpose was NOT to say all white men never experience it.\n\nI'm not asking what you weren't saying, I'm asking what you were saying. This is a very straightforward question.\n\n> HOW MANY TIMES ARE YOU GOING TO PRETEND I SAID ALL WHITE MEN?\n\nUntil you actually give me an different answer than that. I'm not saying that you said all white men (I've repeated already), I'm saying that you comment with \"Well it doesn't happen to me\" is what people say when they are implying that the person said the topic happens to everyone. Now this is the only reason I can find for your comment, to discredit what they said by setting up a strawman. You claim that you weren't saying this but after several times asking you haven't actually said what it is you meant. You keep dancing around giving a straight answer.\n\n> You really wanna prop me up so you can pretend to win.\n\nYou've proven that you are pretty awful at reading people already, remember when you accused me of supporting that guy's diversity quota claims despite me not talking about it at all and even outright saying I didn't? You continued to accuse me until you noticed, then you stopped.\n\n> Edit: also why are you asking what I meant by the comment now? Took you like 10 comments to actually ask what I meant instead of just asking first lol.\n\nIt took you ten comments to realise I've been asking you for 10 comments. You've demonstrated yourself to be very slow at noticing what people are saying, only realising bits and pieces after they repeat it at you half a dozen times. It took you several comments to notice that I said I don't support their diversity quota claims, accusing me of doing so on zero evidence. It took you several comments to notice I had been asking you what the purpose of your comment was. It took you several comments to stop asking why I questioned you after already saying why multiple times.\n\n**I'm going to ask one more time (and I've asked several times already). If you don't answer I'm giving up on you and branding you a moron that has trouble paying attention in class.**\n\n**What was the point you were trying to make in your original comment if not to set up a strawman?**",
"Norway more like nO wAY",
"\nClaiming I never experienced it is not a strawman. **I never even said his claim was false just said it might have a different cause** I was just phishing for any evidence he would use to back up his claims. He had zero evidence other than an anecdotal account of training a girl that didn't know anything. He says management was unfair hiring a girl to improve diversity but he didn't file a complaint, quit, or sue.\n\nSo if you read the comment chain you can see what I meant. I didn't realize you would get so triggered by my opinion. I never even said it was widespread just me not experiencing it has lead you to have a spaz attack. ",
"About as wrong as a comment can possibly be.",
"Explain",
"being the most powerful in norway, is like being the best footballer in/for scotland. \n\npretty much meaningless on the world stage.",
"and this female politician could have eaten them all alive:\n\nhttp://static4.businessinsider.com/image/5162cd12eab8ea5977000000-1190-625/16-badass-photos-of-margaret-thatcher.jpg\n\n",
"check your spelling of indiscretion and use of quotes. not sure what you're attempting to say there.\n\nso feminists would be happy if the three most powerful people were men as long as the next 6 are women? doubtful\n",
"[Here you go](http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/873/260/a5b.png)",
"Define wage gap.\n\nIf you mean do women get paid less than men for doing essentially the same work, then yes. \n\nIf you mean do women with the same job title and same experience get paid less, the answer is yes but only a few percent.\n\n",
"Nobody tell trump. He's try to ban Norwegian immigrants too. ",
"Reddit tries to co-opt the meaning and intent of feminism all the time; it's pathetic.",
"The dreaded \"They!\"",
"You might want to capitalize your letters and use consistent periods before your start critizising other people's grammar ;)\n\nAnd feminists aren't a monolith. Of course there are the radical ones but most are regular reasonable people. ",
"but.. no one talks about the gender or 'race' of politicians in Norway. These three ladies happen to be the leaders of the three parties in government this term, but of the 9 parties in parliament, these are the only parties with female leaders. No one talks about them being women or other parties' leaders being men, no one cares. \n\nAlso it's wrong to day they are the most powerful politicians in Norway, as OP said. Erna Solberg in the middle is now the PM, she leads the second biggest party in Norway (25%), Siv Jensen, on the left, leads the third biggest (15,2%) and is minister of finance, and Trine Skei Grande (4,4%) on the right is leads the sixth largest party. Being in government doesn't neccesarilly mean you're the most powerful.",
"Why shouldn't they? You care enough to comment and then reply to mine.\n\nStop telling people what they're allowed to care about. ",
"Why do you assume these women were chosen solely because they're women?",
"Quote the part of my comment where I claim this.",
"I'm not correcting anyone's grammar. I just was confused by his use of it. I don't give a shit how people communicate as long as they get their idea across clearly. \n\nAll feminist want equality. it's in the definition of the word. so if you label yourself a feminist then Webster's dictionary says you want equality and believe women are just as capable as men. My question is relating directly to equality. not free abortions or government mandated pay levels, equality.",
"Bit late to the party but the word race in many European countries are heavily linked to racial hygiene and the idea that some races are more developed than others. \n\nThe definition of racism I was taught was holding the belief that humans can be divided into races. \n\nInstead the equivalent words for ethnicities, ethnic groups, origin country are used in Norwegian.",
"are you really surprised that we don't have equality perfect yet? it has never been perfect and possibly never will. however take it as only fair if we men get excluded for a bit since we've enjoyed dominating the rest of history and clearly didn't do the greatest job.",
"perhaps, if you think hard enough, the point is that only in a country whose political system is based on merit can three women become the leaders of that country.",
"you're assuming they are in power exclusively because they are women. you're assuming that they are not the best candidates for their position. you pretend to be on women's side but the moment that women take an exclusive role in power you get butt-hurt! you come across as a complete hypocrite!\n\ntake a second and remember that this is norway, a country thriving and functioning well compared to most others. perhaps the point is that only in a country that cares about merit can three females be the leaders of that country. ",
"i can tell you have conflated your own ego and think you are such a golden representation of a perfect white person. the problem is you have zero empathy and that comes across as sexist. so you're not the poster-boy for progress. you're just a dick. you have enjoyed all the benefits of privilege and then get butt-hurt when some of those are given to anyone but you. go play in a sink hole.",
"Hey! I don't even agree with her politics, but please respect our Prime Minister a bit more!"
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The three most powerful politicians in Norway right now. All leaders of their own party. Just women.
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"Where was this taken?",
"Looks like the Richmond Bridge across the north San Francisco Bay"
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"We do something similar in America with our tattoos. ",
"I've been in China almost ten years and it still puts a smile on my face. One that made me laugh the hardest was \"I'm a fucking pretty princess\" on a dude.",
"Do folks in Asia get tattoos in English?",
"The sales person told me it means \"Faith and Love\" in English",
"I spent two years in China myself. The shirts that just had gibberish on them always bothered me.",
"They do the same thing with English words in China.",
"I approve of international support for the legalization of marijuana world wide, but I don’t support the manner in which it is composed. On a side note, was the girl arrested on suspicion for wearing her shirt? With the recent crack down it would not surprise me.",
"may be she like weed",
"Fuck no! Chinese government workers don’t understand English. It prevents them from rising in the ranks.",
"You know what the best part about living in a country where marijuana is so illegal they give the death penalty for dealing is? No one knows what that smell is so they don’t know when to report it. ",
"She didn’t even know what “DaMa” meant. Her art teacher smoked a bowl once.",
"Well, technically it does.",
"That is true. I used to carry a backpack full of pot to high school every day and my parents didn’t know what that weird smell was until after I got busted. I always assumed they knew what it was because I carried some really heady weed around back in the day...",
"Fuckin’ a right.",
"Oh she understands alright",
"Fish Volkswagon.\n\nMeans 'strength' or 'yes'. It depends on context.",
"Well, there's something we have in common! :)",
"do you ever tell the wearers what they mean? I wouldnt be able to help myself. ",
"what DOES DaMa mean",
"That’s how you say “marijuana” in Mandarin.\n大麻",
"Daima is the cantonese word for weed. ",
"The only time people disbelieve me is when I tell China stories on stage at The Comedy Underground in Seattle.",
"I'd translate it as 'strongly no'.",
"We do something similar in America with our tattoos.",
"on occasion.",
"Big momma",
"They do the same thing with English words in China.",
"Yes, they never make sense. ",
"DaMa is mandarin for Cannabis. 大麻",
"We do something similar in America with our tattoos.",
"They do something different in China with our tattoos."
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People in China love to wear clothing with English writing on them, even if they don't understand the language
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[
"The status quo will be restored. So help me God.",
"Here's the little terror: https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/7qdqwk/hi_reddit_meet_mango_my_friends_new_puppy/",
"She's already plotting the pup's demise.",
"Yup. She's been plotting all weekend, just waiting for him to fall asleep "
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Her face after seeing the puppy
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"Neat?",
"Sounds like you have the munchies 😀 or want an upset stomach lol",
"Never thought about combining PB and avocado before. How is it OP?",
"this is why you can't afford a house OP",
"It's actually pretty good! ",
"Thanks, I'll try it!"
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Living dangerously - eating a peanut butter, avocado, honey on whole grain toast while watching the peanut episode of "Rotten" on Netflix
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"Why not use a real town? ",
"I have the same thing right by me called Safety Town, almost everyone on Long Island went on a field trip here at some point growing up ",
"Do they have miniature panhandlers to wander unexpectedly into the street?",
"But they're on the wrong side of the road!",
"I remember that!",
"I went to a similar, but less cool looking place. We learned road laws riding bikes.",
"Yep to bad their is like 5 opioid overdoses a month there now",
"There are no traffic laws in Bangkok! "
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Miniature town in Bangkok, Thailand designed to teach kids about traffic laws.
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"r/mildlyinteresting ",
"plaid is only a word in the US",
"Tartan*",
"We're gonna have to go right to... Ludicrous speed!",
"Piss on clan McDonald",
"aye*\n\nsource: am pirate",
"For those who don't know: tartan is a pattern consisting of criss-crossed horizontal and vertical bands in multiple colours. Tartan is particularly associated with Scotland. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartan)",
"You must be a Campbell. http://youtu.be/BXVhF0NGoR0",
"I am Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod. I was born in 1518 in the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel. And I am immortal.",
"There can be only one...",
"In Scotland a plaid is a one shoulder cloak worn on formal occasions by the most important person, such as the groom at a wedding. It's fastened to the jacket by a large ornate brooch.",
"I'd like to subscribe to plaid facts.",
"alright no one gonna ask why scotland has two suns?",
"If it’s not Scottish.... it’s CRAP!",
"You've successfully subscribed to plaid facts! The official name for this is the Fly Plaid and it was originally part of the Great Plaid which was a 9yard kilt that wrapped around the waist and over one shoulder. Some people think this is where the phrase \"The whole 9 yards\" comes from. \n\nTo unsubscribe, please reply STOP.",
"Some days I'm amazed Scotland has even one sun.",
"Huh. TIL. ",
"Cruel is the snow that sweeps Glencoe, and covers the grave of MacDonald.\n\nAnd cruel was the foe that raped Glencoe, and slaughtered the house of MacDonald. ",
"Mate, it's pish. ",
"That's probably at night and the shadows are from two streetlights.",
"It's managed to have meaning here in Canada too. ",
"A true Scotsman would let that one slide\n\nEdit: I was going for the \"no true Scotsman\" thing. Evidently I was not clever.",
"I'm picturing a tartan sari, sounds incredible. ",
"Pretty much but much bulkier.",
"My hubby is Scottish and when I showed him the pic he said, \"tartan ya cunt.\" So no, don't think they'd let that slide. :)",
"Does it mean 'you're saying tartan wrong'?",
"They absolutely would not.",
"No because it's very clearly streetlights at night...",
"[Glen Coe in the Snow](https://500px.com/photo/147447131)",
"Nah, plaid is a word in Italy as well, but here it refers to heavy blankets.",
"You go Glen Coe Coe",
"Judging by this post, yes, that's exactly what it means. ",
"Huh, I thought the whole 9 yards was because they'd done 9 yards of ale in a night.",
"No true sun of Scotland would ask such a thing.",
"Took be a while to realize the edge of the shadow wasn’t a curb. ",
"This. Is. TARTAN!!! ",
"Well plaid shadows, well plaid.",
"It’s just that tartan and plaid are very similar patterns.",
"!redditgarlic",
"I have also heard multiple origins of this phrase, I've just heard this is one of the possibilities.",
"What’s worse is that it’s often used interchangeably with flannel.",
"What is under the kilt of a happy Scotsman?\n\nE: Your wives lipstick",
"If it ain't Scottish, it's crap!",
"I've heard it was because the ammunition belts for WWI machine guns were 9 yards long. It may well have multiple origins.",
"In Australia, saying \"plaid shirt\" means exactly the same as \"flannel shirt\", it is a reference to the type of fabric, nothing to do with the pattern printed on it.\n\nNo idea why Americans use the word to describe tartan.",
"Scotland here, we have no sun",
"You forgot to say sorry.",
"No, it is tartan. ",
"Either of them.",
"Thank you for subscring to plaid facts.\n\nDid you know that yanks consistently make the mistake of confusing plaid with tartan?\n\nWorse yet, they'll further confuse the word plaid with flannel as in to describe a flannel button up which has a tartan (sometimes over-sized gingham) pattern.\n\nTo unsubscribe reply OOPS.",
"> tartan ya cunt\n\nstorey checks out ",
"How did I find this new word 2 times in the same day with completely different meanings?\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartan_track (I'm sure Tartan refers to chemical structure of the material or something)\n",
"En sån färg skulle man ha, hehehehehe",
"more like a tartan toga ",
"I heard it this way also, but let us not be so arrogant as to think that someone didn't make those belts 9 yards long because they were Scottish and had good reason!",
"hey man, a true scotsman would find it clever ",
"Please continue! ",
"Pure rotten ",
"Nope, just a theme. 3M also makes Scotch Tape.",
"cool",
"Po-tar-tan",
"[This guy would hate it there.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUB8k_Mn7RI)",
"Well plaid sir",
"Plaid isn't a pattern. Its a piece of fabric with tartan on it, iirc",
"You stole this from Adam Hess’ Twitter ",
"Okay but now tell us the difference between that and plaid.",
"😯",
"the real TiL, right there",
"The reason we call it \"plaid\" here in the U.S. (and maybe elsewhere?) is because the shoulder-sash thing that Scots wear with their kilt is called a plaid. And the plaid is usually tartan ~~print~~ weave.\n\nEdit: /u/greyjackal is right",
"plaid\nplad/Submit\nnoun\ncheckered or tartan twilled cloth, typically made of wool.\na long piece of plaid worn over the shoulder as part of Scottish Highland dress.\nplural noun: plaids",
"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman",
"r/CasualUK",
"Plaid refers to fabric with a tartan pattern on it. ",
"“Plaid” refers to a pattern/style.\n\n“Tartan” refers to a specific plaid pattern that a group can register as theirs.\n\nKind of like how a square has to be a rectangle, but a rectangle doesn’t necessarily have to be a square. Tartan is plaid, but not every plaid pattern is tartan.",
"Picture taken in NJ",
"The most important part of the entire Scottish getup is the kilt, which is made of tartan cloth. ",
"Not to mention that the correct wording would be “In Scotland, even the shadows are plaid (tartan).”",
"The US has meaning in many places, although that meaning is different depending on the location.",
"> new word\n\nLate 15th century.",
"this time of year, that's probably only at like 17:15 anyway though",
"When the Mossmorran flare is lit, we do get an extra sun from over Fife. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLUGlZLXAAAzPUq.jpg",
"Now I'm curious to see some examples of non-tartan plaids.",
"Aye it's Tartan ken",
"Managed to get all the way to \"ornate brooch\" without hearing the Scottish accent",
"Behold, the power of the internet:\n\nhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartan#Etymology_and_terminology",
"Probably even earlier than that if its Inverness or Aberdeen. ",
"finally someone said it. thank you.",
"nice",
"You get used to it, though - I don't even see the tartans. All I see is MacDonald, MacPherson, Royal Stewart. Hey, you want some whisky?",
"For a second there I thought it was a really dirty carpet that needed a good vacuum. ",
"Oh.",
"> A true Scotsman would let that one slide\n\nA true Scotsman would be unintelligible, leading us to believe they were letting that one slide when in fact they were hot pissed. (FTFY)\n\n^* Edit: These have to be the best comment replies I've ever had. I've never been so well-insulted so many different ways in so few words. I'm honored.",
"They’ve gone to plaid!",
"Yeah as a Scot I was a wee bit confused by this title",
"Yes. In the US plaid refers to the pattern. A tartan would be specifically related to Scotland. So if someone went to Scotland and got a tartan scarf, they would probably refer to it as a tartan scarf. But if someone went to walmart and got a scarf with the same pattern, they'd call it a plaid scarf. \n\nFor many Americans, I think it would be seen as disrespectful to call a plaid shirt tartan since tartans are a special thing in Scotland. ",
"One is a registered trademark of the 3M company,\n\nThe other is a byproduct of going to ludicrous speed.",
"Yep. That's it. \"Plaid\" is just American for \"Tartan\".",
"country is a shit hole\n",
"Yes. In the US plaid refers to the pattern. A tartan would be specifically related to Scotland. So if someone went to Scotland and got a tartan scarf, they would probably refer to it as a tartan scarf. But if someone went to walmart and got a scarf with the same pattern, they'd call it a plaid scarf. \n\nFor many Americans, I think it would be seen as disrespectful to call a plaid shirt tartan since tartans are a special thing in Scotland. ",
"He totally kilt it.",
"The corpse of an Englishman?",
"before 16:15 for [glasgow](https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/uk/glasgow)\n\nbefore 16:00 for [aberdeen](https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/uk/aberdeen)",
"And still managed to call it “plaid” ",
"STOP",
"Well plaid, sir.",
"are there two suns in scotland",
"I think thats missing a Burberry tag.",
"Concrete would be a pretty bad fabric, that's true.",
"like red and white patches isn't tartan but add some extra design to that it makes it so.",
"!PlaidFact",
"This makes me think of that Rick and Morty cob planet. I wonder if their genes are plaid.",
"Same in Norway (\"pledd\")",
"[(Link)](https://twitter.com/adamhess1/status/952506166822817792)",
"The plaid is the fabric you throw over your shoulder as a part of the kilt. It has a tartan on it. ",
"/r/mildlyinteresting",
"Well weave rather than print, but yeah",
"Don't knock it till you try it",
"At what age do the scottish teach the C word? ",
"Plaidows*",
"Shut it bawjaws",
"That’s ludicrous. ",
"Still fabric ",
"I see your ability to quote Spaceballs is as great as mine. Now let’s see how you handle it. ",
"Because.... aye wood walk faive uhndrred myles ",
"Google \"buffalo plaid\"",
"You mean tartan right?",
"And covered with heroin.",
"*Whisky, you heathen gobshite.",
"This is ludicrous. ",
"it’s TARTAN YOU CUNT ",
"I does but it's just 9 til 4",
"Fair.",
"may I suggest a concrete overcoat?",
"Just out of frame, Rent Boy, Spud, and Sick Boy are laid out on the concrete. ",
"Plaid? you think this is a fucking joke?",
"Teach!? Do you teach a fish to swim? Does a monkey have to learn to breathe? No you don't, ya cunt! \n\nKidding on pal, you're probably a good cunt!",
"*kerb",
"We have lightsabers too. They're all orange though",
"A combination of [the Frequency Illusion](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion) and luck!",
"Best answer here pedos! ",
"I have a concrete swimsuit ",
"Sorry bud, fixed now :)",
"*Whiskas",
">Naw, they widnae!",
"A stauner",
"Credit Adam Hess as this was his joke. A joke he actually got right. ",
"There isn't even one.",
"What did you call me ",
"Uh, not only did you do the abbreviation wrong, but the one letter that stands for a word that's ALWAYS a capital letter you wrote in lowercase. Nice.",
"And being surrounded by assholes.",
"Impressive",
"While I think you're lying, I just don't know enough about Celtic fabric patterns to call you out on this",
"And warmer. ",
"IT'S TARTAN NO PLAID YE EEJIT HEID",
"Many people in the states also use flannel interchangeably with plaid. Despite the fact that flannel only refers to the type of cloth.",
"I saw this on Adam Hess Twitter a few hours ago. Now was this stolen from there or were they both stolen from another source? When do the lies end",
"Plaid is a Welsh political party.",
"No it isn't.\n\nIt's the name of the shoulder sash used as part of the national dress here in Scotland.\n\nIn the US, you use it to refer to the tartan pattern, in Scotland it's the name of an accessory.",
"That's what he said. ",
"A plaid is the long piece of tartan fabric that is worn over the shoulder. The pattern is tartan and each clan has its own unique design of tartan. ",
"Gingham is plaid but not tartan.\n\nEdit: actually no it isn't apparently, plaid has to contain two or more colours. Gingham can only be white and another singular colour. Plaid could be white, black and red for example. But gingham would only be white and blue.\n\nShit you learn when your supposed to be sleeping for work tomorrow eh?",
"Mob approved.",
">since tartans are a special thing in Scotland.\n\nNot as much as you'd think.\n\nWhen folk wear them, unless there's a tartan that actually exists with your surname, you'd just pick whichever one looks nicest.",
"Most likely an American.",
"Plaid is finally a color! ",
"Bollocksing apps I don't have! ",
"My heart is happy.",
"Awesome picture. I've never seen the flame from over the Forth, didn't realize it was that bright. I live in the town to the right of this image. At night we can see the glow over the hill, looks like the sky's on fire.",
"depressing, too depressing",
"THEY'VE GONE TO PLAID!!",
"That's ludicrous ",
"[for the lazy](https://ctl.s6img.com/society6/img/klpS0Q50L6EMO8I3YLiCSx-9egI/h_264,w_264/throw-blankets/small/full/~artwork,fw_5525,fh_6500,fx_-488,iw_6500,ih_6500/s6-original-art-uploads/society6/uploads/misc/235abe76b19a432e9565b1adfc533c66/~~/bison-buffalo-plaid-throw-blankets.jpg?wait=0&attempt=0)",
"OP PLAID HIMSELF",
"Headed to Edinburgh in March! Never been to Scotland before. Any things we have to see while we’re there?? ",
"Are they also sold by all the Chinese in Edinburgh",
"Showing your true colours there",
"As I have already said, a plaid is a long piece of tartan fabric that is worn over the shoulder. See my fuller comment above. Each clan has its own unique tartan design. Traditionally the plaid and kilt were one piece of cloth. The modern kilt is a Victorian invention. ",
"Willie hears ya. Willie doesn't care.",
"Am Scottish. I can confirm that this is indeed the case.",
"That’s not Scotland... That is all...",
"Must be pretty kilt there too this time of the year. ",
"Found the Scottish person...?",
"They’ve gone to plaid. ",
"Subscribe! More facts ir al chib yeh!",
"OOPS",
"Scot here, never heard of plaid in my puff.",
"I have no idea what the hell plaid is. I only ever hear it from America. ",
"I thought you said Tarzan for a sec",
"Edinburgh Castle would be the obvious. You're also not too far from Stirling, so you could go there for a day trip (I honestly prefer Stirling Castle to Edinburgh Castle as a place to visit). Just be aware that although you're not far from Stirling, it . Stirling isn't far from the Wallace Monument, so it's a good place to visit too.\n\n",
"Give credit man, don't steal stuff. Original is: https://twitter.com/adamhess1/status/952506166822817792",
"Single Sun Shill!",
"Sqaure go, mate.",
"I'm pretty sure you mean flannel is the type of fabric associated with \"plaid shirts.\" tartan is a type of plaid, houndstooth is a type of plaid, tattersall is a type of plaid and so is gingham.",
"We have so little sun we made an artificial one to keep us from killing ourselves just so happens both appeared out at the same time here which is very very rare!",
"Can you explain the difference between all of them? ",
"But wouldn't the flannel be plaid? I thought it was plaid as long as it was fabric.\n\nEta: im a dumb yank and I have been educated.",
"No, the clans did not have their own unique tartan design, that's a common fallacy. \nThe idea of this came about with revisionists in the modern era. \nhttps://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/debunking-the-myths-about-kilts/",
"Houndstooth, gingham, tattersall are all types of plaid.\n\nhttps://manofmany.com/fashion/guide-what-exactly-is-plaid-pattern",
"Right awful bastard to tie up by yourself too",
"Fuck you betch",
"Aye, my now brother in law wore one when he married my sister last year - was pretty cool. Probably have a photo kicking about if anyone is interested. ",
"Nope. \nFrom the tartan Wikipedia page\n\n>Tartan is often called plaid in North America, but in Scotland, a plaid is a tartan cloth slung over the shoulder as a kilt accessory, or a plain ordinary blanket such as one would have on a bed.",
"r/scottishpeopletwitter",
"Almost a Scottish fabric if you ask me. Impossible to work with, unpleasant, a durable and steely demeanor, taken for granted even though it is the backbone of modern civilization...",
"Also Scotland. What's a sun? Is that no a paper?",
"aye",
"Tartan was the cloth, but became known simply for the pattern that the scots used. So tartan became the cloth that the scots used for the full dress, but in particular the shawl/scarf/shoulder drape was known as the plaid (also in the pattern)",
"I have a contract for /r/BookerDeWittsCarbine's capture. Somebody bring me his hands, as punishment for thievery. ",
"Tartan is plaid! So is gingham, check, tattersall, and madras and windowpane.",
"Why can I see a face at the base of that bollard?",
"Ive seen this photo loads of times today and it's just a photos of the pavement.",
"He says it's part of the language. The baby just says,\"Geez a tit ya cunt.\"",
"And I got downvoted.. :(",
"Do Scots let anything slide?\n\nAlso, RIP your marriage. Those damnable Scots!\n\n(seriously I don't even know why I am making Scot jokes. I like all the Scots I know. Weird, right?)`",
"Are you sure he's really Scottish?\n\nedit: sorry, trying to be funny, questioning a Scot's Scottishness. If I've really upset anyone whether or not they really are Scottish (just to be fair), I'll delete my comment.",
"A hipster buffalo. Got it. ",
"Goddammit.",
"Kid tested.",
"U better fuckin believe it is",
"Burberry errthang",
"Has your suspicious nature helped or hindered you in life?",
"How come we know it be the land of Scotland?",
"Not my picture alas, just nicked the coolest one from the internet. But it looks incredible, like the Eye of Sauron or something, from across the Forth.",
">Tartan is often called plaid in North America, but in Scotland, a plaid is a tartan clothslung over the shoulder as a kilt accessory, or a plain ordinary blanket such as one would have on a bed.",
"Leanne Wood drove a friend of my mother's to his hospital appointment once, because he told her he was getting the bus there after he attended a talk she did. Nice lady, apparently. ",
"You've successfully subscribed to Steve Martin facts.",
"“Scottish kilts almost always have tartan patterns. Tartan is often called plaid in North America, but in Scotland, a plaid is a tartan cloth slung over the shoulder as a kilt accessory, or a plain ordinary blanket such as one would have on a bed.”\n\nLooked this up because I also wanted to know..",
"Somebody's trying to get plaid",
"Yass. I plucked him out of Falkirk kicking and screaming. ;)",
"Yes, but the other half of the party's name has been ripped off from Toyota, with a kind of funky \"we're an ancient culture so we don't think you'll call us out on this shit\" spelling. So, really, who can take those jokers seriously?",
"For those who don't know: 300 Tartan's defended the island of Greece against an armada of bloodthirsty Persian's. Read a textbook people. ",
"No. They take some things really seriously. I am like, \"Babe...really...?\" Then the look on his face means yes. :D",
"Well plaid, well plaid indeed.",
"Its fucking tartan ya daft cunt.",
"I could be wrong, but I think this Wiki is saying that a *plaid* is a scarf or a bedspread with a tartan pattern. ",
"Hehehe. Marriage is fun. Throwing a Scotsman in the mix is even more fun.\n\n(Don't tell my wife I ever said that).",
"This thread took a dive.",
"Well no one in Scotland uses the word plaid first of all.",
"Tartan*",
"I thought that was the floor’s design for a minute. ",
"I can't imagine an existence without plaid. From which galaxy do you hail?",
"Concrete shoes go swimmingly with my outfit.",
"I hide all knives during arguments. :D",
"Has your avoidance of Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia helped or hindered you in life?",
"Cleary you have been in an argument with a Scot before.",
"Economical even with letters, I see.\n\nStereotype confirmed.",
"but why do they words wrong",
"I wore one at my wedding, looked cool but was a pain in the hole the whole day 😂",
"Sari not sari.",
"Then explain the chain of undergarments known as Plaid Panty. ",
"I would drape myself in concrete if it were socially acceptable. ",
"He apparently doesn't let much slide, even calling you out when you're annoying him.\n\n:)",
"Please ignore the wrong answers. Plaid was originally a very specific type of over-the-shoulder garment worn with a kilt. Calling the pattern \"plaid\" is about as culturally-savvy as calling the pattern \"kilt\". It has absolutely nothing to do with a clan's official pattern or anything of the sort.\n \n\nSo why the confusion? Hard to say, but probably a lot of factors. There's the infrequently-mentioned attempt at cultural genocide against the Scottish, such as through the [Dress Act 1746](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dress_Act_1746), which made it illegal to wear tartan and kilt and such for over thirty years. Then there's loads of [fake history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestiarium_Scoticum) that came about to capitalize on the resurgence of Scottish romanticism. Calling the tartan pattern \"plaid\" in the clothing industry is likely from similar instances of tomfoolery motivated by an attempt to make a buck. It should surprise nobody that native traditions and terminology are incorrectly appropriated by the fashion industry, but this one hits really close to home for me.",
"Ludicrous speed?! Sir, we’ve never gone that fast before. I don’t know if the ship can take it.",
"Angry for something trivial: Check\n\nManaged to fit in the word cunt or fuck at least once a sentence: Check\n\nYep, he's one of us",
"Americans refer to plaid as a pattern, whereas Scotland and Ireland refer to a plaid as a specific item of clothing. A 'full plaid' is the long piece of fabric that wraps around the torso and drapes over the shoulder in [formal highland dress](https://kiltsandmore.com/upload/artikelbilder/big/1187-2.jpg), and a ['belted plaid'](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/53/0c/ff/530cff06c35f16195a44bf09b9eaf5cf.jpg) is the older style that was one huge piece of fabric that was secured to the body with a belt. The full plaid was created to invoke the look of the belted plaid when it was worn over the shoulder, but to be less restrictive by not being attached to the kilt.\n\nHoundstooth, tattersall and gingham are examples of check patterns, not tartans. You wouldn't find them on any traditional plaids.",
"Is the love of the word cunt a universal thing for Scots, or just regional?",
"What have i done?! Somebody stop this thing!",
"You could put some on my nephew and the little fucker would still come back",
"Sore baws fae the sporran.",
"How many suns do they have in Scotland?",
"I got it. But I was too late.",
"Did you steal This from Adam Hess’ Twitter? \n\nUnless you are Adam, Yes you did. ",
"\"register as theirs\" How is that possible? No one owns a language.",
"Disrespectful to call plaid tartan? Yeah, no. We are definitely just ignorant.",
"Sounds like Scotland.",
"Well, [they have been used to make tents](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb1pdvvoVoQ)",
"And more redolent of piss, if authentic.",
"That sneaky fuck!",
"So, spaceballs is a lie?",
"Pff being so pedantic is plaid out",
"Weird\n\n\"Tartan is often called plaid in North America, but in Scotland, a plaid is a tartan cloth slung over the shoulder as a kilt accessory, or a plain ordinary blanket such as one would have on a bed.\". - tartan wikipedia",
"Thats alright. I didn't know that until i watched Outlander and googled it 3 days ago. Internet's full of \"experts\".",
"👌😆",
"While we're on the subject of tartans, anyone else super annoyed with the trend of having a faded crossbar in a lot of modern clothing designs? Like holy fuck just make a striped shirt at that point and leave tartans out of this. I'm talking about [this](https://s7.ralphlauren.com/is/image/PoloGSI/s7-1278939_lifestyle?$rl_470_pdp$) [kind](https://d1yk18ot3qjyqd.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/1400x/1084da6f1842d6e3c51f3a66d8d537cd/M/7/M7130_100_5.JPG) [of](http://scene7.josbank.com/is/image/JosBank/63U1_66_TRAVELER_VIOLET_MAIN?$browse_thumbnail$?$browse_thumbnail$) [shit](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/54/d1/52/54d152d262a7fee2dfb9a576eb76bb84--mens-plaid-shirts-tartan-shirt.jpg). Like god damn.",
"Sounds like it. On another slightly related note, I hate the way Americans pronounce the name 'Craig'. ",
"Who needs to be told this? I feel they also need to be told that hot things burn and water is wet.",
"I dunno - I Googled \"buffalo plaid\" *and* checked the \"for the lazy\" link, and I think it's a pretty spot on replica of the pattern as well as being punny",
"ONE OF US, ONE OF US\n\n^^^^^^(I'm ^^^^^^not ^^^^^^Scottish, ^^^^^^just ^^^^^^wanted ^^^^^^to ^^^^^^do ^^^^^^that)",
"Heavy shite.",
"True, but their logo is plaid. IT ALL COMES FROM THE PLAID!!1!",
"Auld Scottish Justice: confirmed.",
"I'm pretty sure we all love the word, just like the Aussies and the Irish. As an aside, your comment (Universal...Scots) reminded me of this sketch from an old Scottish sketch show - [enjoy!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLxLmFhROqY)",
"I never said they were examples of tartan. I said they are all types of plaid. I understand the cultural differences, I am an American looking at it from a fashion standpoint, as I have worked with a lot of fabric it in the past, So I guess we are getting down to semantics and I won't argue potato, potato. ",
"i feel like you’d get laughed at for calling plaid tartan in the US",
"Helped, greatly.",
"Well, it's like having a small penis. \n\nI've never had to experience it, but I'm willing to take your word for it.",
"9 to 4 on a good day! On the shortest day of the year we get about 5 hours!!!",
"Is that really true? That they wrap around like a sari? I thought the kilt (skirty-type thing) was a separate garment?\n\nI demonstrated wrapping a sari once in my Women's Lit class. Got $1 a yard ugly fabric; worked great!\n\nedit: whoop! whoop! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belted_plaid",
"And Wales",
"You mean \"among\" all of them. ",
"[I made this!](https://www.reddit.com/r/fakealbumcovers/comments/7qfh60/n%C3%AD_comstri_blood_is_thick_in_the_street/?st=JCFEDC60&sh=39c9863c) ",
"Burberry sidewalk",
"Tartan is not *plaid*. Americans misuse the word *plaid*.\n\n*A* plaid is an article of clothing.\n\nTartan is a type of checked pattern.",
"It's Tartan, Racists.",
"I wasn't trying to argue anything, just trying to inform. It wasn't apparent that you \"understand the cultural differences\". Given that you used plaid in the American sense, which is synonymous with tartan, it also wasn't clear that you knew the difference between tartan and check.",
"HAHAHA",
"6 and a half. ",
"You’re at it! There’s no Bucky bottle or junkie! That’s not Scotland!!",
"As a scottish man, i can confirm\n",
">\tplaid has to contain two or more colours\n\n>\tGingham can only be white and another singular colour.\n\nThat's two.\n\nGo get some sleep.",
"In Australia we say plaid as well",
"Those are some carefully placed lights.",
"I know it's such bs",
"I fondly remember driving home from the Odeon and it lighting the place up like Mordor.",
"I have a sinking feeling you're right.",
"The joke would have been funnier if they’d said tartan. ",
"That's why we keep a spare chib in our sock",
"Aye, with nothing on underneath ",
"Spill irn bru on it",
"Apparently it's what they call tartan ",
"i learned a new word, thank you!\n\nother new words i learned this week:\n\n- doughty\n- gambol\n- fractious\n- munificence\n- shiftless\n- quisling\n- jouissance ",
"*Rummages through hubby's sock drawer...*",
"Im watching braveheart and just saw this",
"Fuck yourself sideways lad",
"I'm in the Northeast. Can confirm. \n\nSource: Currently in hibernation, will be until March.",
"LUDA",
"Tartar*",
"Freezin. Rested my head on a pillow of concrete, again.",
"Whether there’s a difference between tartan & plaid depends on where you’re from.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartan\n\n>Tartan is often called plaid in North America, but in Scotland, a plaid is a tartan cloth slung over the shoulder as a kilt accessory, or a plain ordinary blanket such as one would have on a bed.",
"/r/oddlysatisfying",
"\"Plaid\" \n\nUrgh\n\nYou fuckers deserve trump. ",
"Flannel is a specific type of warm/soft fabric. It sometimes comes in plaid, and people start mixing those words up. That is what you were thinking about.",
"I dont think enough people have corrected plaid as tartan yet. ",
"Scottish confirmed\n",
"'cregg' ",
"They've gone to plaid!",
"In ye olde times a kilt was a big old piece of fabric wrapped around you, and some types went over the shoulder too. Nowadays we cheat and have a separate garment, and it's held on with buckles rather than pins.",
"They've gone to plaid ",
"TIL It’s called tartan in other places, neat",
"I hate it when i get my quotes twisted. ",
"I'm from Scotland and to be honest, when I wear tartan (which is an extreme rarity) I go with literally any other than the one associated with my own family name (Buchanan) because it is ugly as fuck.",
"No, it's a comic book for adults.",
"Fife calls for aid, and Lothian will answer!",
"*\n\n... ya fanny!",
"It looks well cool when you drive past it on the A92 and it's going mad. Especially now with all the windmills, looks all apocolyptic and shit.",
"A square is never a rectangle, what are you talking about?\n\n\n",
"I had to scroll down way too far to find someone bein a \"cheeky cunt\"",
"Not Scotland, but your comment reminded me of [this](https://youtu.be/LW43OnmPxIs?t=257) ",
"Fuk off ya daft cunt",
"Sounds painful",
"Plaidows",
"It was what, 15:35 or something like that in aberdeen on the 21st of December. Boy that was a depressing day. ",
"\"Well plat sir\"? The fuck are you trying to say? You know that it's not\npronounced \"played\", right, you fuckin Dalek\n\n",
"Yay. Love it when Scotland makes the front page every 6 months or so. We really aren't as bad as the English.",
"You can have tartan paint, but not plaid paint because plaid is a fabric dumbass.",
"Preaching to the choir.\n\nThe one for my family name is awful as well, so I generally go for the [Midnight Glen](https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanImagePrototype?ref=5634&width=750&height=750&resize=no&shadows=yes&threadsize=4), which is far nicer.\n\nI think it's specific to the hire shop I went to in Falkirk when I lived there, though.",
"\"Well plat\"? The fuck are you trying to say? You know that it's not pronounced \"played\", right, you fuckin Dalek\n\n",
"The mafia would fit you with a nice and snug pair of concrete shoes and throw you over the side of a bridge if you were a rat or owed them money.\n\nI am not joking in any way whatsoever.",
"Sorry, got that Texas education. ",
"Thank you for subscribing to Steve Martin facts! Did you know Steve Martin is an accomplished banjo player as well as a comedian? ",
" Because collectively they're dumb as a bucket of cunts",
"TIL that scotland is an alien world located in a binary-star system.\n\nkind of explains the guttural speech patterns they call a language.",
"Whiskobadodes, you ignorant slob.",
"If you want to become one of us, go on a quest to find a bottle of Bucky and drink that fucker in a dodgy park at night. ",
"On this side of the pond, “plaid” is an adjective synonymous with “tartan”, because we say it is. Nobody really knows or cares that the Scots say we’re wrong.\n\nThough I don’t understand what you’re trying to say about patterned flannels. Are you suggesting that we’re wrong for calling all plaid/tartan-patterned button-ups “flannels”, or that we’re wrong for calling all plaid/tartan-patterned flannels “plaid shirts”? \n\nBecause in America, all shirts with that kind of pattern are “plaid shirts”, but not all “plaid shirts” are “flannels” (only long-sleeved button-ups are ever called “flannels”). Even so, most flannel button-ups are plaid/tartan-patterned, so the fabric and pattern have almost become synonymous when it comes to such shirts, via process of association.\n\nIt’s like how the term “Third World” has come to refer to poor/developing countries in general, even though the term originally meant countries that weren’t aligned with NATO (First World) or the Communist Bloc (Second World). It’s just a term that changed its meaning through its association with the poor & developing countries that happened to be unaligned during the Cold War.",
"somewhere that isn't America. We call it \"tartan\"",
"That one time I tried making a tartan print in Ps...yeah, so much for that exercise in something besides retouching. ",
"r/funny",
"~~plaid~~ checked*",
"Keep ~~commenting~~ firing, Assholes!",
"Fuck aye! Scotland seems to be getting on the front page quite a lot lately.. so weird. ",
"Hmm so wearing it is like an urban camouflage. Fascinating.",
"https://www.greenhousefabrics.com/blog/tartan-vs-plaid-vs-check\n\nAll tartans are plaid, not all plaids are tartans.",
"Tartan! ",
"what about \"gingham\" as part of the discussion?",
"Burberry ",
"Plaid is also a type of pattern, in which tartan is included.",
"Hahha I’m American but hopefully my ancestors are proud of me now LMAO ",
"Don't tell me what kind of material to wear!",
"Good bot",
"Well plaid.",
"hol up",
"Well plaid sir",
"Yeah and you voted no... ",
"I carry me haggis in a basket. ",
"Forbidden clothing ",
"Only in the American sense.",
"/r/logophilia ",
"It's too light for it to be streetlights at night. I have heard that it can be possible for it to appear like there are two suns, that must have been what happened.",
"Fuck up lad, yer da sells Avon. ",
"The only shirts I would call \"flannels\" are shirts made out of flannel fabric.",
"Fascinating. Can you tell us more?",
"Who the fuck would even compare us to the English",
"All tartans are “plaid” but not all plaids are tartan. Plaid is an American word. No one in Scotland would call it that. Also tartan being associated with Scotland it would be the correct terminology for this post.\nTartan also has a deep historical root that every true Scottish family name can be linked back to via clan tartans and where our ancestors came from ect.\nThey have colour and design patterns that distinguish them from the idea of plaid making them Scottish. \n\n(I’m Scottish)",
"You'd be surprised. Went to Seattle for 4th of July a few years ago, and had to spend a few minutes explaining that while we sound \"British\", we are more importantly Scottish.",
"Have you ever been to Yoker?",
"Steve Martin's film Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid [is...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Men_Don%27t_Wear_Plaid):\n\n> ...partly a collage film, incorporating clips from 19 vintage films. They are combined with new footage of Martin and other actors similarly shot in black-and-white, with the result that the original dialogue and acting of the classic films become part of a completely different story.",
"Interesting, I hadn’t heard of that as a possible source for the phrase.",
"Unless you’re no a true Scotsman",
"Never forget my high school techy teacher pulling this one on the class clown. ",
"breh.....bruh.......brawh.....bra....is kurdin me, dawg?",
"Holy shit.\n\nIf anyone here is interested in learning more about kilts, tartan, plaids, etc, there’s a forum called X marks the Scot.\n\nTremendously awesome community, great for Scottish heritage and people who wear kilts and wear tartan.",
"Key difference is that Tartans are always symmetrical in terms of colours and number of lines, unlike plaid which can be asymmetrical.\n\nSource: Scot.",
"It's what dead men don't wear.",
"Did he make the mistake of saying whiskey before the edit?",
"That didn't sound right but I don't know enough about stars to dispute it!",
"Universal tartans are great. One of my kilts is Pride of Scotland, and another is Black Watch, also called “Universal” because it’s so common.\n\nAs for surname, some clans have associated families, mine associates with MacPherson so I wore that at my wedding.\n\nThere are also tartans for US States, many institutions, military tartans, and even Obama has a tartan. ",
"Like he said, it's only a word in the US. ",
"Can confirm. It has fascinated me relentlessly my entire life.",
"That looks like streetlights.",
"This is from the comedian, [Adam Hess’s](https://twitter.com/adamhess1/status/952506166822817792) Twitter.",
"Shite name the yanks have for tartan.\n\nPlaid is the sash you wear with a kilt.",
"If it sounds so bad, then why has someone given [this ridiculously expensive, futurist, AI sex doll a Scottish accent?](https://youtu.be/5pKczGG19uo) ",
"It looks like it was designed that way intentionally.",
"Ah'm no fae Yoker, ah've never been tae Yoker!",
"Scotland's winter isn't super cold, warmer than the northeast, but it's at a pretty high latitude so there's much less sun.",
"It's called *it's proper name* in other places.\n\nThe yanks get it wrong.",
"Thank fuck OP didn't say tartan because I'm American and didn't know wtf tartan is. ",
"Tartan* colour*",
"You would. I wonder where the difference comes from?",
"Yeah but rightfully so, most flannels shirts are plaid so you can use them interchangeably when discussing shirts.",
"Booooo",
"Yeah your wrong",
"So then what's flannel",
"A friend of mine had a great uncle that died that way before she was born. After that happened, the family split with some changing their name and moving to Canada, while others stayed. This friend of mine was part of the family that moved, as I otherwise never would've met her.",
"Ho you, quit havering pish! I'll have you know that we're a delightful people, both professionally and personally, so just you calm yersell!",
"dont know why this got so many upboats this could have been anywhere really\n\nalso... *Tartan",
"I've still no seen the sun ",
"Nope",
"Not really. Plaid is just the American name for tartan. \n\nSource: I studied textiles as part of an industrial clothing production course, and I also have Scottish grandparents.",
"If you're referring to the pattern appearing on the flannel shirt, no. That's tartan. A plaid is a specific article of highland clothing, worn over the shoulder, it has a tartan pattern, hence the confusion.",
"'The Scots' is a misleading generalization; Tartan was used only in the Highlands, not by the people elsewhere in the country; then it was banned altogether; it only became associated with Scots generally as a result of King George IV visiting Scotland and hoping to see lots of it as a result of reading Sir Walter Scott's 'Waverley'",
"Tartan is a pattern.\n\nPlaid is an article of highland clothing.\n\nFlannel is a fabric.",
"Well plaid",
"The rat can't talk anymore.",
"/r/mildlyinteresting",
"It says right on the wiki page:\n\n> Today tartan is no longer limited to textiles, but is used on non-woven mediums, such as paper, plastics, packaging, and wall coverings\n\nSo, no, it's not. Americans call that pattern plaid. That's it.",
"They really aren't. Seriously, no one gives a shit. I'm not Scottish by blood only by birth and don't even know what my kilt's tartan is. I just picked one that looked nice and no one has ever mentioned it since I clearly don't have a Scottish last name. \n\nJust call it a tartan shirt if you want, no one cares. ",
"Go to Hive. ",
"This is correct, thank you.",
"Apparently not! No bother. ",
"> every true Scottish family name can be linked back to via clan tartans and where our ancestors came from ect\n\nAs someone else commented, this is a fallacy created in the modern revisionist era; historically the clans did not each have their own tartan.",
"> each clan has its own unique design of tartan\n\nNO. https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/debunking-the-myths-about-kilts/",
"The plaid (pronounced played) is the long piece of tartan fabric that goes over the shoulder when wearing highland dress. ",
"Dead men *do* wear tartan.\n\nEdit - For the people downvoting, here is the reference:\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Men_Don%27t_Wear_Plaid",
"No, *you* Tartan. Me Jane.",
"I thought it referred to artillery on airplanes. Shouted when a person used “the whole 9 yards” of bullets.",
"It took me a while to fully understand this but still, I'm not quite sure. Just shadows or real design?",
"Trick question: there are no happy Scotsmen.",
"I took a while figuring this out until I looked outside but the shadows are created by our stupidly fucking bright newish streetlights aren't they? ",
"Tfw u can’t escapc",
"oi, don’t make me drop freedom seeds",
"Oh really? Why? Genuinely curious and not trying to be a dick",
"I just go for a red one usually the Clarke one is hideous as well ",
"I'm interested, screw that guy.",
"Ive lost track how many times ive had to explain to an American that British is not English. I don't think they'll ever get it. ",
"Yeah. Although the English deserve all the hate they get, so maybe it's worth bothering to explain.",
"STOP",
"Rule of thumb: if the country has an ‘E’ in the name then it has an ‘E’ in its whiskey",
"How are we supposed to pronounce it?",
"Or you know... tartan!",
"Aye",
"Pish mate, yer gran gets bullied at the bingo. ",
"It's a rite of passage, really",
"Ah yes, early Pearl Jam, the hallmark of barely intelligible lyrics.",
"Hive till five",
"Plaid is how you spell plaid. Tf are you talking about?",
"Immediately, it’s scottish medical tradition to congratulate a new mother on pushing a wee human out of her cunt.\n\nThere’s a government program to teach it to babies born via Caesarian section in infancy too.",
"Anyone else wondering how is that shadow possible given there are no horizontal bars on the gate....unless there is something in the back but that seems unlikely ",
"Craygg I think?",
"It's tartan you doss hoor.",
"two lightsources",
"I feel like they wouldn’t be laughing long.",
"Craig. \"Crayg\".",
"American here, I’ll take you up on that offer! I need a new country... ",
"Shouldnt have smoked right before hitting reddit lol...didnt even consider that smh. Thank you for saving me 30 mins of confusion ",
"I'm Scottish and even I'm tired of all the \"it's tarten ye cunt\" comments.",
"Yes",
"Plaid meant blanket and we started making shirts out of blankets and so we call that material plaid. \n\nAmerican is just an amalgamation of words from other cultures taken to mean something particular to us. Looking up why the hell we say shot the way we do has become a pastime of my husband (Mexican). ",
"I mean trump is the president so your not wrong 😂",
"Scotland averages 2.3 suns. It just doesn't acknowledge them as theirs.",
"I’m sorry, American here, how the flying fuck can’t other Americans tell the difference? The Scottish accent is so much more lively! ",
"Burberry*",
"Ludicrous speed! Go!!!",
"Indeed. Certainly not \"plaid\"!",
"Well, it's not exactly an isolated thing. Your \"chips\" are our \"fries\", your \"candy floss\" is our \"cotton candy\", your \"colours\" are our \"colors\", et cetera.",
"Are there two suns? Uhh, last I checked that's not Scotland in the Andromeda galaxy.",
"Fife pretty much is Mordor tbf. ",
"Stop this thing. I order it!",
"Ahhh, well thank you, that helps.",
"This is amazing!",
"Don't forget about the steel rods.",
"What's the matter Colnel Sander? CHICKEN?",
"The fallacy is that each clan had a unique tartan like countries have flags, something they swore loyalty to, used to distinguish groups and so on. It's not wrong to say that families used particular patterns or that those patterns can be historically linked to a clan. \n\nThe idea of non-universal tartans has always been stupid though ",
"I too, came for the Spaceballs references.",
"I had no idea this was a thing",
"I think you'll find she's a vile nationalistic separatist with no morals. Not at all like glorious tory prime minister Theresa May.",
"because that's his kink. some people are into bestiality...go figure.",
"FINALLY!!! I thought for a second I’d have to post it! HEID!!! ",
"\"skirty-type thing\" K, you need to grab your coat and run now. ",
"But it means 'party', and it's pronounced 'ply-d'.",
"Ludicrous speed, GO!!",
"Never attribute to malice what can adequately be ascribed to ignorance.",
"Plaid is not an American word.",
"You callin ma maw an orc?",
"that almost sounds like english",
"Am American, can confirm. We’re a bunch of morons.",
"Personally, despite living here all my life my accent isn't that strong. Definitely Scottish, but not straight-out-of-Braveheart Scottish.\n\nGenerally speaking, I think it's the fact that Scotland is such a small, small place compared to, well, anywhere else. My Dad tells a story of a time he was at a club in New York, chatting to these guys, when they asked him where he was from. He told them he was from Scotland, and when they didn't know where that was, told them it was in the UK, which pissed them off a little bit to say the least. After a load of verbal abuse he calmed them down and explained Scotland was the country featured in Braveheart, which had just come out at the time. They apologised and bought him a beer.\n\nSo long story short I think there's a lot of dumb Americans out there that probably couldn't point to Scotland on a map.",
"Some weird shit happens when I scroll past this image on mobile app. The moving picture contorts - some kind of optical illusion.",
"bless you",
"Cacabean. ",
"How does this even happen?",
"holy shit that is really cool",
"“For many Americans, I think it would be seen as disrespectful to call a plaid shirt tartan since tartans are a special thing in Scotland. “\n\nLOL, Trust me, they do not see it at all like this. \n\nSource: Born in Scotland. Live in America. ",
"Oh god you're not wrong. That's a belter.",
"Im never unsubbing. This is awesome",
"Maybe the usage of the words in Scotland was slightly different 100 or 200 years ago, and immigrants from Scotland brought the old usage to North America and it stuck, while back home it changed. ",
"really? lol just light hitting the poles from more than one direction",
"And ready for the shelves ",
"Hat would your ma’am say if she knew you used that language???",
"Well I hate the way \"you lot\" pronounce Noel",
"It's a tradition that every couple of weeks on r/Edinburgh there is a post from a recent arrival to the north of the city asking if part of the city is on fire.",
"Two perfect right angles though! Still, you're right. In any city this is bound to happen eventually.",
"What the fuck. They don't know what Scotland is? How the hell?",
"I think I'm the only Scot here who heard Plaid before, albeit in the proper context.",
"Slightly disappointed in the number of cunt comments in this thread. Expected more.",
"Did not expect to ever see my home town mentioned on Reddit! ",
"I would imagine so. in fact it probably happens perpetually in random places throughout the world at a steady rate from cars passing each other or similar situations ",
"And",
"Not sure if I was in /r/funny or /r/mildlyinteresting",
"You'd have to be quick with your camera to catch a photo like this though ;).",
"DAE trump is bad?",
"I figured I'd stick to Falkirk, rather than being incredibly specific with the village I lived in, especially as not to accidentally doxx myself, but aye, lived in Falkirk until I was 18 before moving to Glasgow.\n\nFar nicer in Glasgow :)",
"How do we know that was taken in Scotland?",
"As an American who has only seen her in general election debates, she seems wonderfully pleasant. ",
"well, to catch a photo like this in a scenario like that you'd have to be an ol' western camera slinger of course! ",
"A type of fabric or if you’re in australia it can also refer to a small cloth you use to wash your face. ",
"They use laser micro cuts in the concrete to achieve this ",
"In the US, it’s a catchall to describe any sort of checked pattern, such as Tartan, Gingham, or Tattersall",
"Burberry boardwalk",
"And then got *angry* when he explained that it was in the UK? What's up with that?",
"Nazgul mate. ",
"##Saree Not Sari\n\n\n\nGoddammit. Fuck ironic hashtagging on reddit",
"Just wait until you hear about full plaid ",
"That's how you get stabbed.",
"http://athletics.cmu.edu/sports/fball/2017-18/schedule",
"Ah wid walk five hunner miles",
"So I shouldn’t saying this kilt has my family’s plaid on it? I should say that it has my family’s tartan?",
"Wait so what is the difference between plaid and flannel? ",
"So... like Scottish gang colors?",
"thank you 😍",
"came for this. satisfied.",
"Bad rule",
"Thanks for the suggestions! I’ll definitely check it out!",
"Sounds promising? ",
"It’s an American word for the pattern. No one in Scotland would call it plaid. It would be tartan. ",
"/r/TodayILearned",
"Interesting considering my family name can be linked back to Dumfires & Galloway starting via its tartan. It has its own coat of arms aswel as tartan and named clan leaders. It’s also linked to another clan originally which dates back as far as 1100 in the same area. It was used as a Scottish regional pride symbol to show where you came from. It had its roots to where it began. \nAgain I was born and currently live in Scotland. It was taught to me growing up and I’ve taken a good few Scottish history tours throughout the highlands and visited the sights and locations based off these facts and stories. ",
"Hmm, should be viewable in any browser, it's just 500px...",
"Can you actually understand this, or is it an exaggerated scottish accent? And is it English or Scots or Scottish Gaelic? ",
"> but this one hits really close to home for me.\n\nApparently.",
"Have you heard about these things called \"street lights\"? ;)",
"The word derives from Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig) ‘plaide’ which means blanket.\n\nEdit - for anybody wondering about pronunciation it’s ‘platch-uh’.",
"Ha!\n\nFantastic. ",
"Seems like you'll fit in well",
"Ah, I see. Thank you. ",
"thanks",
"i know, i was working as a KP, and when i left the house for the dinner shift, it was already dark night. ",
"Cymru is Welsh for Wales.",
"It's the accent. Nobody with a Welsh accent can sound mean, even if they're saying something that's mean. But yes, Leanne Wood did come across very well in the televised election debates.",
"But the Scots don't think of themselves as British, do they? I think only the English call themselves British.",
"It's not the actors accent, but it's an East Coast dialect. I think it would be described as English with localised slang. ",
"Quite an assumption there lad. We voted no in the referendum did we not? You thought wrong",
"Can you understand it? ",
"Or the name \"Graham\". ",
"Reminds me of Burberry Checks... ",
"That’s so cool!",
"Ha ha brilliant. We still quote this all the time. The fishing one as well. https://youtu.be/N63Rcu2GMBU\n\nI love that we all understand every word but abody else needs subtitles.",
"Not a scarf. It goes over the shoulder then right around the body. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_kilt#The_great_kilt \nThis was the traditional dress in Scotland before tartan was banned. The skirt-like kilts are a more recent invention.",
"Burberry lawyers on the way...",
"Let’s keep it plaid and simple. ",
"I manage a chain of hotels so I get a lot of international business guys. I had a group of futbol trainers in from the UK recently, only one was from Scotland and although his accent wasn’t Braveheart strong, I knew immediately he wasn’t British! \n\nBut I grew up in a town full of immigrants with non-standard American accents, so that’s probably why I pick it up more than other Americans. ",
"He’s polarizing which isn’t always good.... ",
"The floor Clan!",
"Not at all what I'm saying. I myself am of Scottish descent. \"Plaid\" is a more well known term in America. That's all.",
"It's pretty easy to understand if you're Scottish.",
"I see",
"i mad",
"Who even knows. I don't know if it's due to the geography of it or something else",
"I get that, but every thread trump somehow is shit on. It just gets old. Although I admit it's mostly on me for diving into controversial to look for this shit, it still irks me.",
"Yes, that's why I brought up the overcoat, which is just being buried in a footing",
"Yes, that's why I went for a text based pun rather than uploading an audio clip of me saying it...",
"Interesting addition, thanks.",
"Eh, you and me and all. Trump bashing is old news. ",
"Don't put E in whisky. It won't turn out well",
"Gingham is armed? clever stuff.",
"Well, I knew I was going to rile ire and hoped my dopey expression would save me. Heh, text, you know.",
"\"checked' behind me... get it? i'm ok... phew that was close\n",
"Oohh, I see, you just have a different word for it. \n\nSo, how do you distinguish, say, houndstooth plaid from a historically typical Scottish plaid? \n\nWe also consider check also to be plaid...like gingham check or houndstooth check. And there are glen plaid, tattersall plaid, windowpane, among maybe some others. ",
"Jesus, that was yesterday. I can't believe I did that. Sorry, I think I was bouncing off the rest of the humor on the thread. Grammar nazi is not my preferred style. ",
"houndstooth is houndstooth. Check is check. Gingham is gingham. Tartan is tartan.\nThere's several posts on this topic explaining what I was not aware of before - that \"plaid\" is a very specific piece of clothing related to the kilt. So a plaid could have a tartan pattern. \nBased on that and my new-found understanding, all those uses of plaid you asked about are... well... incorrect? ",
"Ahh!! That's why they used to put the big gold pins on girls' tartan skirts!! To honor the time it was wrapped like a sari. \n\nAnd how weird is it that the sari is so much like the kilt? What is the overlap there, I wonder?",
"How do you people all live together up there without wanting to murder the British every day? It's been generations since my people have lived there and I find myself fuming about the many repressive actions of the Brits on a regular basis. \n\nI guess I don't normally see the people as reflecting of the actions of the state, though. And then Brexit!",
"No, not incorrect. Also correct. In the United States.http://www.dictionary.com/browse/plaid?s=t",
"I guess a big old strip of material is easier to make than a pair of trousers?",
"I guess if enough people misuse it for years, it becomes accepted, huh?\nSeriously though, it's an American peculiarity. ",
"I understand that there *are* cultural differences. You are being incredibly semantic.",
"You're welcome. Passing on knowledge is what the Patri_Arky does.",
"Joke miss: confirmed.",
"Hacks off a lot of steps, that's for sure. But 9 yards of material...you'd only need 3-4 for a whole suit.",
"Who's going to wear a suit in the Highlands of Scotland? A kilt is warm and rugged, while not restrictive so it's still easy to fight.",
"We have our own dictionaries, there are lots of words that differentiate from British English. https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/\n\nThat said, it often happens that misuse becomes accepted once it reaches a certain threshhold. I was complaining about people using \"decimated\" to mean \"devastated\" only to find that now it's completely acceptable. ",
"I don't know...seems easy to grab. I guess you need a sword longer than the skirt of the kilt.",
"Easy to grab? If you can grab somebody's clothes, you can stab them. Why not go straight for the latter?",
"This is why I'm not a swordsman.",
"It's the concrete shoes you gotta watch out for. Especially near water."
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Even the shadows in Scotland are plaid
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[
"What?? This is *loose* sand?!? \n\nsource?",
"\nI just saw this on Antiques Roadshow and had to look it up. As far as I know. Yes this is loose sand. The particular one was estimated to be worth 50,000 dollars \n\n\nhttps://www.google.com/amp/twistedsifter.com/2014/06/sand-art-by-andrew-clemens/amp/",
"I just saw a southwest scene in a bottle/jar on my bank teller's desk. She said it came from Tel Aviv.",
"\"At the age of five Clemens was stricken with encephalitis that left him completely deaf and nearly mute.\" ...wow\n\nBeautiful, but sad. Thanks for sharing!",
"Just as I was about to put the cap on my cat would have jumped on the table and knocked it over.",
"1800s 3D printing technique.",
"Sand art was my favorite thing at the country fair as a child. I used to stare at this supper long stretched out coca cola bottle I layered indigo, baby pink and Kelly green. Honestly, this sand art is on a whole different level good, but even basic sand art is genuinely pleasing to me. Sand under a microscope is a mind trip. ",
"Myeah... we’ve done these little sand bottle arts & crafts projects with the kids. \n\nBased upon our experiences – and our current collection of now-monochromatic brown and purplish sand bottles – those two bottles must have been filled/designed in that exact spot, and never moved since.",
"Has nobody else noticed the typo?\n\nIt's Manitowoc Wisconsin.",
"At first I was like \"well you can't even see it with a label that big on the bottle\" and then I realized the label is sand too. \n\nI have a little sand art thing I got in New Mexico but it's nothing compared to this.",
"An artist doing this hardly compares to your kid's craft project.",
"No it’s in a bottle but the sand inside the bottle has been carefully stacked to make this design ",
"Sand art made a brief comeback in the 90s. We made these at a summer day camp when I was a kid. Not as detailed obviously, but we made some cool designs. ",
"I see someone else also watched the antiques roadshow episode that I did last night.",
"As a fellow WI native....yes. Yes, I did.",
"If you had to rearrange the sand to fix it, you'd leave the mistake, too.",
"so if i grabbed one and shook it, would that completely fuck it up?",
"[here's making something similar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtK-Goo_pqE), it's like Bob Ross but with sand",
"Spelling might have changed since the 1800s...",
"Unlikely. There are no online references to that spelling that I could find. I looked before I posted.",
"I have never wanted to shake a glass jar more in my life.",
"Still only 1/10 as impressive as this work, though.",
"That is an old puzzle. You're supposed to dump it out and try to put it back together.",
"Unlikely, sand art tends to be densely packed to prevent that. With the value at $50k I wouldn't try it though!",
"Found some using Google, but not sure if all results were typos as well, or maybe ocr errors ",
"only 1 way to find out yeah?",
"[Wisconsin legislature from the 1800s](https://books.google.com/books?id=kHBDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA312&lpg=PA312&dq=\"manitwoe\"+wisconsin&source=bl&ots=ecmPIbiODp&sig=9X2L7t9DJJjNEKevTsaqG65ueMY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi60c-IwtjYAhVM8IMKHQrBCBMQ6AEwAnoECAcQAQ) has the same spelling.",
"No that's a c at the end, the font confused the search algorithm and it picked it up as an e.",
"Made with loose sand... and witchcraft.",
"music so relax",
"Urge to shake rising.",
">Just as I was about to put *a* cap on my cat, *he* would have jumped on the table and knocked it over.\n\nthis is what i read the first time.",
"Finally my hometown makes the news for something other than murder. I guess this comment could apply to either bottle. ",
"I came here to say the same lol",
"Yep, I did a kinda double-take with it too",
"What they are referring to has only tangentially to do with the level of skill.\n\nThe point is that sand in general is not entirely uniform, and regardless of how good sand you get, and how tightly you thought you pressed the cap on, vibration WILL result in rearrangements according to lowest energy principles, and thus freeing up space, and thus furthering the issue.\n\nThey are obviously exaggerating but they aren't fundamentally wrong. These have been well kept in a serene place without much ambient vibration or movement.",
"Holy shit this was in pbs antique road show 10 mins ago. Estimated value 50-80k.",
"It's not like he could hear the guy when he told him the name of the place.",
"Maybe brenden dassey made it",
"Just saw one of these on Antique Roadshow. Amazing.",
"Thank the lord videogames were invented to stave off epic boredom like this.",
"There is a good chance that sand is packed so well and sealed tightly with wax that you could juggle those bottles for an hour without disturbing a grain.",
"it coarse, rough and irritating ",
"And it gets everywhere",
"Better start over... ",
"My grandfather used to do this. It was amazing to watch him work the sand and make animals and mountains appear out of no where. It was a dying art when he did it 30+ years ago. ",
"Looks like a double layer bottle and that dark discoloration towards the top is likely some kind of wax to keep everything inside tightly packed.",
"Absolutely stunning craftsmanship.",
"so why does the guy that sets up the joke never get any votes i don’t get it",
"If I find out this title is not entirely accurate I’m going to fuck your mother’s ear hole",
"It's ok Annikin. ",
"Im not a bad person but i wanna shake those soooooooo bad right now.",
"Doing that between to plates of glass and writing names on the inside of the bottle is two different things. I believe he didn't use glue, but water maybe to make the letters stick is all I can think of.",
"Yes! I remember going to a fair with my mum and she let me fill a glass Scooby Doo with some psychedelic colored sand.\n\nGood times man. Still have that Scoobert at home",
"But it's still spelled different then current. That link shows \"Manitwoc\" instead of \"Manitowoc\"",
"If I juggled for them for an hour, I believe the sand would be significantly disturbed... unless it could survive the jar being smashed on the floor.",
"\"He then went on to apprehend the 'Chesapeake Ripper', despite having after having his original diagnosis covered up by Hannibal Lecter.\"",
"Just want to shake them lol",
"shake shake shake shake shake shake ",
"guess they had a lot of free time back then, huh",
"This one is a bottle: https://youtu.be/2rRcpvOtoDQ",
"That’s very cool unfortunately I don’t like sand",
"It's still done today: \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dI7XsDshK8",
"He was in a hurry to watch Wrestlemania, no time to fix it.",
"Oh, the sand is on the *inside*.... Thanks. I was having a hell of a time figuring out how loose sand would stay on the outside of a bottle :)",
"Bottle age 100+ years !!\n",
"oh man I remember seeing the commercials for those things. takes me back to summer vacation in the early 90s.",
"you just shake it like an etch-a-sketch, right?",
"what your cat just walks around *naked*? what's wrong with you?!",
"Still not as impressive.",
"I didn't know typos were invented after 1873.\n\nsearch results from that document:\n1 for Manitwoe\n1 for Manitowoe\n37 for Manitowoc",
"Bit too course?\n",
"And irritating "
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These bottles Were Handmade in the 1800s by layering sand. No Glue was Used
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"This nice",
"That's lovely, just as it is. \n\nIt also looks like what I'd imagine Amon Hen in *The Lord of the Rings*, where Boromir tries to steal the Ring from Frodo. ",
"Thank you. It's some sort of kiln, probably used to create bricks when the nearby fortress was constructed. But yes, I wouldn't be too surprised if Boromir did ride in there while we were checking the place out. "
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Zelda-like photo I took of a real place, Brimstone Hill on St Kitts.
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[
"Cool pic and thing to do! Are you a Packers fan?",
"I feel like this is a set up for a joke... But no I'm from Chicago, haha",
"Haha no joke! Keep flying and be safe."
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Awesome pic my buddy took of me flying around my local airport.
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[
"Wtf... what is that!",
"Pair of gloves \n\n[Pic](https://i.imgur.com/TKVH3nm.jpg)",
"That's a California Cancer warning. Those are on everything. Pretty sure I saw one on nail clippers once because shockingly, a lot of things have cancer causing components in them. \n\n\nDon't eat the gloves",
"Wow this is the first time I see it and I'm in NYC ",
"Yeah they’re everywhere in CA. Including prominently displayed at EVERY Starbucks location and at the check out line at my grocery store where they warn that probably tons of things I’m buying but especially anything in plastic is gonna give me cancer.",
"Yeah, according to California everything causes cancer."
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This is why you should read the labels of the things you buy.
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[
"Trippy. What’s prismatic film?",
"A [transparent, prism-structured film](https://www.intechopen.com/books/dielectric-material/natural-lighting-systems-based-on-dielectric-prismatic-film) that forces incoming light to refract and thus create this fabulous pattern when sunlight hits it.",
"I need this."
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Sunlight through prismatic window film
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"The mistake is not having enough money to buy a house with garage. Unforgivable.",
"Happened to me on Houston in Manhattan. It was the only time I got to park for more than a week without getting a ticket.",
"That first picture reminds me of the time my brother parked his '67 Oldsmobile land yacht like that and spent 2 hours shoveling the snow on to the road to get it out. Just as he was done the plow came by and buried it back in. Was he pissed. I laughed of course. ",
"That's the sign of an asshole plow. They can adjust the blade to push straight then back to the right. Had my convertible top crack due to how much ice formed from plows pushing the snow up on my car. ",
"Where I'm at permits are required for overnight street parking during the winter. I imagine this is what permit holders are forced to deal with.",
"Looks like two different mechanisms though. \n1 is plowed under, 2 looks snowed/melted/splashed.",
"Not sure if [this](https://imgur.com/gallery/t4NdD) is where the photos originated, but saw the exchange from some friends from Ohio a few days ago. ",
"most of us plow guys are not even thinking of your car except not hitting it with the plow. We wont move the plow no yer right because we rather not hit the car\n",
"In snow regions, it's typically not cool to overnight park on the road like this. I don't blame the plow like some here do. And once that car is moved, there's an ice dam left there for everyone to dodge until Spring. It's a selfish move when you know snow is coming.",
"Dodge Polara?",
"of course",
"What is... an ice dam? I barely comprehend the life of snow you casually refer to...",
"Looks like a Dart to me.",
"It blocks the rain and melt water for a while, can be a pain if in the right spot.",
"I live about half a mile from that car. My parents live basically around the corner... And my wife works with that guys ex.\n\nSuddenly Reddit became a small place",
"This street isn't like that. They have a dedicated parking lane separate from the 2x2(plus turn lane) of travel.\n\nThis car hasn't moved in like 6 weeks.\n\nIt got up to 60 last week it all melted off, and it still hasn't been driven. The owner is a bum.\n\nSource: I live here, and I know the driver's ex-girlfriend, he probably hasn't left the apartment this winter for anything but weed.",
"I park my cars on a main road in the snow sometimes. I don't like to, they always get buried. I don't have many other options. We can for 3 cars in our driveway out of the 8. The road just has to work sometimes",
"As is tradition. ",
"Haha yes it is. I work in town and I saw some business posted these 2 photos on Facebook. I wanted to snap a pic of that car before it melted but I only drove by it that once, and taking pictures while driving is always a not so great idea. ",
"Southern Californian here, so excuse my ignorance. Where are people suppose to park then? What is the etiquette? ",
"People are supposed to park in SoCal, apparently! Well this is a main road and a lot of times you'll see signs like \"snow/emergency route, no parking during snow\" in some cities. This city doesn't however, so you just kinda have to park on a less busy road. ",
"*he types from his parents basement*",
"sounds like you need to move.",
"Sounds like a good neighbor. ",
"I had a plow snap both my windshield wipers off cause he had his blade angled and it dumped on my car while I was driving (going opposite ways on a two lane road) ",
"I did. ",
"awesome. I have visited up north in the winter time and I honestly do see how people can live like that on purpose.",
"Yep, '65 Polara."
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40 years of making the same parking mistake
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[
"That stick was made for stabbin",
"and stabbin’s just what it’ll do",
"one of these day's these stabs\n",
"are gonna stab all over you ",
"Get a room guys",
"That's amazing. I envy the curators who got to handle it to display it in its museum.",
"I got a long stick you can hold... ",
"Wrong, that was made by someone from the Heidelberg race of human.\n\nHomo habilis died out like a million years before.",
"You're wrong. I have a PhD in History and Evolution. ",
"PhD in evolution? Evolution isn't a separate course, maybe you mean anthropology?",
"No. You don't know how college degrees work. ",
"I go to a community college Ik what I'm talking about.\n\nAnyways, I knew about the spear beforehand and it's NOT made by H. habilis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AMmNQCYfX8\nhttps://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22508-first-stone-tipped-spear-thrown-earlier-than-thought/",
"I don't respect or listen to what any undergrad has to say about anything ",
"Then you are just being close minded.\n\nHowever, I like your OP and the spear is still pretty nice."
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Schöningen Spear, the oldest discovered wooden artifact at 400,000 years old. A throwing weapon used by Homo habilis.
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"Worked. Confirmed he is super cute. ",
"Showed this pic to my husband and he said it’s so cute it looks fake. What kind of kitty is this?",
"Very cute! What breed is this? Very unusual ears!",
"Here kitty, kitty.... you're so cute!",
"If this cat could speak it would rule the universe.",
"Ah yes, the elusive CatBear",
"Munchkin",
"Koala kitten?",
"That little motherfucker look like a koala.",
"This looks like a munchkin kitten. Munchkins are bred for a genetic disorder which prevents their legs from growing to proper length.",
"Live stuffed animal :) ",
"super fuzzy kitty!",
"Is that an Ewok? Lol",
"Which is an abomination smh",
"I’ve become numb to cute catz",
"This breed is called \"American Curl\", the cuteness is a dominant trait.",
"Omg so adorable hahah. I wish I wasn't so allergic! ",
"They were not bred for the trait. It's a naturally occurring form of dwarfism that, like corgis, breeds true. That is why they are a recognized breed and not just a aberration.",
"Pictures on the Internet can cheer people up?",
"Seriously: that is the ugliest little kitten I have ever seen!\n\nWho is going to adopt this poor runt of the litter? \n\nI guess I'll just have to step up, and be the one... ",
"So.\n\nDamn.\n\nFuzzy.\n\nKawaii! ",
"Nope, still shitty.",
"Kittybear!",
"Consider me cheered.",
"Yes; thank you!!",
"TM",
"Oh. Emee. Gee. Adorable. ",
"It was cute, until I realized it was a Munchkin.\n\nNow it's just sad.",
"/r/aww",
"Koalkitty",
"She! Munchkin_minnie on IG.",
"Kinkalow, actually. She’s an American curl-munchkin hybrid. \n\nAlso characterized by extreme cuteness.",
"Kinkalow. The ears are due to American Curl genes!",
"Nope. Keep it on r/aww",
"Wolfpanda",
"So it's a breed, but it's not bred....",
"read it as shitty pay",
"Ju...just oh my god!!!! 😍😍😍 so cute I need one now ",
"he's kinda pudgy... obviously a CatBearPig\n",
"Tiny baby house lion, in Grey! Totally adorable!",
"O, woe is me!",
"It doesn't. Because I want to pet it, and it's not here where I am to be petted.",
"Xpost in /r/neworleans",
"Super cute. So much Loving",
"Eh, not really. I hate cats. ",
"I’m pretty sure OP is trying to bamboozle us with a stuffed toy.",
"My daughter is away at college, when she's having a bad day she asks me to text her pictures of our dogs.",
"#King of the house...",
"That's more cuteness than the law allows. ",
"Please tell me this kitten's name is \"Stumps.\"",
"Thnks 4 kitty\nI needed it",
"I don't think 'cuteness' can be at a single gene loci. But something has happened here. ",
"That's a pretty cute stuffed animal. ",
"lol he's so cute",
"When its get older it looks.........like a regular cat, only shorter",
"Murder Floof."
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Having a shitty day? Hope this cutie cheers you up like it did for me.
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"That reminds me of the beginning area from the lich king expansion for world or Warcraft. Great atmospheric music. ",
"Cool! I haven’t actually ever played WOW, but I can picture this landscape in some type of video game! ",
"Holy shit this doesn't even look real its like something out of an rpg",
"I can't wait to go here in march!",
"Crazy, eh! A lot of the sites I saw here were just as surreal! ",
"Hello! You will love it! So many unique and beautiful spots just like this. A lot of them are easily accessible too. Have a great trip! ",
"Looks like a setting from an ‘80’s fantasy movie.",
"Fantasy is right! ",
"Could you recommend some places?",
"In polite reference: all the major spots are clearly marked on any travel map. “Ring Road” is the road that travels around the island and a lot of sites are right off this road. Based on your travel time and direction on the island, it is really easy to pick the spots you want to stop with little knowledge of the area. Everywhere we stopped was amazing! ",
"I concur",
"This looks straight out of this season of Vikings. Beautiful.",
"What does Iceland have to do with Vikings? As far as I know they haven't even discovered Iceland yet in the show. The show is about the early 800's and Iceland wasn't settled until the late 800's.",
"Going there for the month of June!",
"Thank you very much for the advice. My honeymoon is going to be fantastic!",
"It's a bit dull, and there's no ice in the pic. I think I'll head over to Greenland to see some lovely greenery...",
"You sure this isn't the Death Zone on Gallifrey? ",
"I mean the shows arent very historically accurate for example Ragnar Loðbrók and Haraldur Hárfagri (first king in season 1) are historically 200 years apart.",
"The place in the picture is on a tour called the golden circle. It's very nice and you also see a geyser on the tour aswell. Also the blue lagoon is in Iceland definitely worth it. The harpa concert hall is a really cool building in Reykjavik. There's lots too see and do. ",
"Iceland is absolutely stunning. It is hard to choose a specific landscape, every single one of them is otherworldy beautiful. Still, I would consider my favorite spot as being the Fjaðrárgljúfur canyon.",
"I've booked the blue lagoon.\nI'm planning on visiting the golden circle. Is the tour signposted? Where should I start or is it very easy to see?",
"What is with all the Iceland posts? I’m honestly curious? I have absolutely NOTHING against them, but honestly where are all these people that travel to Iceland to take pictures??? So confused. ",
"I take it you are doing the driving and not going on a coach tour? \n\nYou should be able to Google it and follow the route via a satnav of some sort. It's honestly all one road pretty much buy it's about a 4-5 hour round trip. You get to see the geysers, the place photographed in OPs pic and there's a set of 2 waterfalls which are amazing and some other stuff. \n\nI did the coach tour so I couldn't tell you whether it's sign posted to be honest but there will be countless resources online giving you the route. ",
"In the newest season Floki's storyline.",
"I was going to do some research next month but essentially I've paid for a hotel for the entire stay in Reykjavik and for one night I've booked a cabin in the middle do the golden circle so I plan on visiting some sights before I get to the cabin. Ideally I want to see some black sand, waterfalls and geysers.",
"I mean it’s not ugly but this could literally be any cold place where there are mountains. ",
"You can see all that on the golden circle but they are quite far apart, a good few hours, but the drive is incredible. Nothing but gorgeous scenery and unbelievable views for miles and miles between locations. \n\nReykjavik is a really cool place. Very expensive but really cool. There's a lot to see. The Harpa Concert Hall is beautiful. There's also a very nice church. Lots of cafes and things. You could also walk along the 'beach front'. \n\nEdit: here are some of my favourite photos I took. https://m.imgur.com/a/w5SsT\n\n",
"On the road to the bloody gate.",
"These No Man's Sky updates are actually looking pretty sick",
"I seriously wonder why no one created a rpg yet with real places from Iceland.",
"Poor Floki :(",
"I thought this was a new PUBG map ",
"This looks like the game of thrones location where the wildlings had a camp site after getting over the wall and ran sacking ollys village ",
"r/EarthPorn",
"We went to Iceland last year. It was one of our bucket list trips. I think one of the reasons it’s so popular with photographers is the variation of landscapes. Some places look like you’re walking on the moon, while others look like the Rocky Mountains, and I swear at one point I was back home in farm country with rolling hills and horses and hay everywhere. You can drive for a day and see 4 completely different waterfalls. We have canvases up all over our house of pictures we took and most people don’t realize they are all from Iceland.",
"They shot certain scenes of Star Wars in Iceland ",
"Where in Iceland is this? ",
"I'm hoping to take a trip there some time this year hopefully. Looking to rent a car and travel a lap on the ring road. If anyone who's been there or lives there have an suggestions to make up an itinerary please let me know. ",
"turn that frown upside down...",
"I just know something bad is going to happen to him, I just know it!!",
"Wow, I'm going to be in Iceland. I can't wait!",
"Borean tundra. Exactly what I thought.",
"You beauty!!!! Bornean tundra! Exactly. ",
"One of my dreams is to go there. Can't wait. ",
"I am sure a camera filter helped a little bit :)",
"Ahhhh, I saw what you did there 😎",
"I'm heading there for Valentine's week with my girlfriend. We have the flights, hotel, rental car and day at the Blue Lagoon booked already. \nSeeing your picture made me even more excited and anxious to go!\nAny tips for travellers?",
"Ok",
"So is movie!",
"Is that a cheesecano? I wish the US had active cheesecanos.",
"This looks like it belongs in Destiny or Borderlands or an Alien movie",
"Where exactly is this located in Iceland? I'd love go as my next vacation :) ",
"*Any cold place where there is a history of heavy volcanic activity, and glaciated valleys. So basically just Iceland.",
"Yeah, but quit messing with colours of those places, or else people will be disappointing when they go there.",
"Came here to say the same thing. I have no original thoughts. Not even this one. I copied it from someone else who experienced a similar situation.\n\nI will say, as much as I don't/didn't enjoy most of WotLK leveling, Borean Tundra has a special feel to it that I can't get over. It's like getting hit in the balls while eating pizza. You'd rather it not happen, but there are redeeming qualities to the experience.",
"looks like the starting area of the next dark souls",
"Thought it was de_dust2 from the thumbnail. ",
"Looks like a place where I'd find a mustard tiger. ",
"When was this? I’m heading there on Thursday ! So excited to explore the beautiful country!\n",
"Omg. Get out of my head...",
"If I wasn’t so dependent on technology and internet I’d totally live out in the middle of nowhere there. ",
"Where is the ice?",
"Must be from all the immigration.",
"Looks like Prometheus.",
"Yes, we know",
"Went there beginning of December! A somewhat hidden place is the Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon. Probably the most surreal place I saw in Iceland besides the Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon!",
"/r/RealLifeSkyrim",
"Looks a lot like Þingvellir. It's a beautiful place!\n\n\n\n",
"Think I passed through here on the way to Markarth",
"Ah well, I suspect it is simply that Arctic and Sub-Arctic regions of the world are inherently beautiful in that the landscape has a very alien feel to it, that is so different from most people's common everyday experience. \n\nIceland happens to be one of the more stable and developed regions of the world which crosses into this region, and has lots of representative geography of Arctic landscapes. \n\nOther parts of the world also cross over into this region, such as Canada, or Russia... but with Canada, for example, all of the big cities are in the south, on the border with the USA, in non-Arctic climate zones. \n\nSo Iceland tends to be \"overly-represented\" when it comes to Arctic landscape beauty (and rightly so!). \n\nI've seen the Arctic myself (in Canada), and it is truly like visiting an alien planet. It's unlike anything in our common experience (if you live south of the Arctic). \n",
"Great pic. When I was there in November, it was foggy, rainy, and windy. But I was dressed for it. The beach was amazing, with the crashing waves.",
"great! your avatar is beautiful",
"There is a reason Floki the boatbuilder is there right now. ",
"Iceland is definitely on my bucket list. Every picture I’ve seen of it is beautiful.",
"I'll be there in March too!",
"I feel like Gollum is watching me right now.",
"For real! ",
"Ha ha it did, but honestly only slightly! I had a hard time actually getting the actual colour that you saw vs the iPhone default lighting. My enhancement I think actually better matched the real life colour! ",
"Ha ha ha ",
"Yes - the country is amazing! ",
"It sure is!!’ Crop the photo just below the 2 large rocks in the foreground. This will focus the composition on the framed leading lines up to the waterfall.",
"Probably a couple of weeks to months ago. Everything is mostly covered in light snow now but it's still really amazing.",
"This is Dverghamrar! I think the nickname is located “dwarf rocks”...",
"Congrats on your marriage! ",
"We went to the Canyon too, it was amazing! ",
"Gonna’ love it! ",
"Ha ha ha ha ",
"My wife and I actually said the same! ",
"Dress well it gets cold here. Also there might be snow and ice on the roads so it's better to drive slow than be sorry.",
"This was a couple days ago! We just had a few days of rain there but it was still great. I think you should expect better weather. Enjoy! ",
"Ha ha I kinda thought the same before I went. I think it’s just a very unique place that is a really popular tourist destination right now! ",
"Love the canvas idea! ",
"Ha ha ha ",
"Dwarf rocks is the translation! ",
"Ehh doesn't look too far from what it actually looks loke i have often seen vibrant colours like this in nature here.... although maybe not in january looks more like september or october because of the grass.",
"It’s there! Just not in the pic ha ha. ",
"You should go!! ",
"Ha ha ",
"Amazing enjoy! ",
"Thanks for the tip! ",
"I want to hike there!",
"Me too, so pumped",
"You should! ",
"I hope to one day- way over here in NC.",
"Where de ice at?",
"Just follow the yellow brick road. Err, wait.... what?",
"Ha it’s there buddy. Just not in this pic! ",
"Let us follow Floki!",
"Yes it is!! At first I thought you took my photo them I realized that yours is way better. https://photos.app.goo.gl/KA1Wq3nWaCQ6w4hr2",
"Honestly it's less about the color and more about the path and the way the walls on the sides frame it perfectly ",
"Ha ha awesome! ",
"Haha that's awesome! Where was this picture taken though? I've never seen this one before. \n\nEDIT: Nevermind, you've already answered in another comment, thanks.",
"What causes the trail to look so dark?",
"They have a child...find it! ",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKBR4w7jCoE",
"reminds me of a scene in the Noah's Ark movie",
"Southwest coast of Northrend, at a guess.",
"They have black sand and gravel there! Lavaaaaaaa",
"Funnily enough, Iceland has been used as a filming location for various sci-fi films. I think Prometheus had a few shots there, and Interstellar had a lot of shots filmed there too.",
"You can get a waterproof disposable camera cheap off Amazon. Pictures of Blue Lagoon are great but not worth risking your phone or SLR (plus who could have fun and relax worrying constantly about getting the electronics wet?). Be smart; I just used mine at the hot springs, but should have used it at the various falls and Geysir, since it was also pretty wet there, instead I came back with half a roll unexposed.\n\nAlso see if your car rental offers a wifi hotspot, ours did and it was absolutely worth the money, driving around backroads with signage we couldn't understand, to be able to google maps on the go (usually I just download the map for offline use, but that probably would have ended with me dead in an Icelandic ditch).",
"Thanks! I'll look into them both.",
"Was just at Þingvellir today. Blizzard rolled in and it was a whiteout. Was stuck in the blizzard for about 3 hours before rescue team came in to help evacuate us tourists. \n\nhttps://imgur.com/a/5iNU4",
"Fantasy in the respect a normal person can afford to go there. Shit is expensive there. ",
"Till some Icelandic rappers jump you.",
"I was there a week ago, I plan to go again, as I haven't seen all of the places mentioned. I also didn't get to see the Northern Lights.\nI would definitely recommend Reynisfjara beach.\nThe place is a bit expensive, but at a convenient location for travel especially from Europe.",
"So barren. They need some trees.",
"I‘m currently stranded in Keflavik because of a storm. Hope my flight today departs. ",
"I think Iceland and Scandinavian countries figured just a bit into that....",
"ah I loved the other starting zone.",
"A lot of southern Iceland used to be forested. Something like 99.9% of Iceland's forests are gone.\n\nForests were cut down then heavy grazing and soil erosion made tundra and plains unlikely to grow back quickly without assistance",
"Looks like the zelda map",
"So is 80's!",
"so beautiful!",
"Did the coyote lay a trail of gunpowder along the ground to blow up the roadrunner when he comes over the falls?",
"This looks like the scene from sword art online where Kirito gets paralysis poisoned",
"Sorry to hear! Hope that gets resolved soon. My flight departs later in the afternoon. ",
"I want to go to iceland so bad. Only a 5h 35min flight for me.",
"We were rebooked on flights today, and og course got a hotel and food vouchers. So no additional charges for us, but it’s still a pain. It’s also a storm and you can’t do anything about it, but yeah. ",
"Just looked through my photos from Iceland this past summer—I have a photo almost exactly like this of the same place.",
"They are all kinds of out of time on the show.\n\nRollo is a duke 200 years before France had dukes. Rollo was count of Rouen, not a duke.\n\nFloki is 100 years early\n\nHarald Finehair and Halfdan the Black are brothers on the show instead of father and son.\n\nBjorn Ironside is the oldest of Ragnar's sons (and is the son of Lagertha instead of Auslaug) on the show while Ubbe was the oldest according to the saga. ",
"nice!",
"Fucking hell Dverghamrar even sounds like an RPG city name. Or an NPC. \n \nI am DVERGHAMMER",
"Fire and Ice.\n\nAll you need is a whole bunch of scantly clad attractive people.",
"wow! We were coming back to Reykjavik from Geysir around 3, tried to get to the rift, got diverted in traffic 3 times, ended up near the south coast on some small Route trying to drive through near white-out on a winding hill near a lake that surely would have been a lovely frozen death, As soon as we got back, we said, \"what the fuck was so bad they diverted us to there?\" Thanks for answering our question. ",
"Borean Tundra?",
"Well Skyrim took a lot of inspiration there",
"I thought the road was yellow brick, not the surrounding areas. ",
"Looks like somewhere on Io in Destiny 2",
"Makes me think of Destiny...",
"WAY too expensive. And I'm from NYC, if that gives you some perspective.",
"I'd say Skyrim pretty much has places that look a lot like something in Iceland for sure. ",
"[how abut this crop?](https://imgur.com/gallery/uUaxJ) ",
"Bjorn is the son of Lagertha and Ragnar in the show. Thus also the first born of Ragnar.",
"So over Iceland pics. Please go other places people. ",
"Okay Floki, I see your land of the Gods. But how about Anglia? Seems much better suited for colony life. ",
"This must be what Borean Tundra in WoW is inspired by.",
"Any advice for someone planning to visit Iceland? Everything I hear about it tells me it should be on my bucket list.",
"Stunning and wonderful. ",
"It did not look like this 2 weeks ago, much more... snowy... This is Þingvellir right?",
"Its a TV show",
"Do a self driving tour and build in a lot of extra time. We found a company (there are several) that arranges the itinerary for you and when you arrive you just pick up your car, map, and guidebook then are on your own until you drop the car off again and get a ride back to the airport at the end. People do the whole ring road in one week, but that seemed like it would be pushing it to us so we went at a more relaxed pace which I'm 100% glad we did.",
"Most beautiful country I've ever been to",
"We Icelanders feel the same way.",
"Funnily enough hamrar means rocks hamar is a hammer",
"I’m hoping to visit this summer. Any recommendations?",
"I don't see this suggestion often; snorkel or dive in [Silfra](https://www.dive.is/dive-sites/silfra/). It's amazing!",
"Captain Kirk is about to appear. ",
"Yeah Howling Fjord was pretty, and the music was an absolute wonder. I used to hang out there just to listen to it lol.",
"You did say that.",
"/r/earthporn",
"I think you mean Greenland! Iceland is a frozen wasteland.",
"How hard was it to type that canyons name",
"Is there anyway to get PR to Iceland?",
"fantasy view",
"Willow.",
"Yeah, there are some historical flaws in the show, but that's not relevant here in any way whatsoever. I only pointed out the storyline in the show and that Iceland hasn't been visited there yet. (Neither have they visited America, Antarctica, Mars, Andromeda galaxy, the centre of te Universe, another universe etc. etc.).",
"OK, I don't have access to the latest season though. It was only a few months ago I watched season 4 (since that's when it was shown on one of the Swedish TV stations I have). So, Floke discovers Iceland, kills the eskimos and starts a colony? Or what's the plot in that storyline?",
"> They are all kinds of out of time on the show. \n\nNot really my point. My point was that they haven't even been to Iceland yet on the show (at least not in the first four seasons which are the ones I have seen so far). Iceland's landscape is very unique, it looks nothing like Scandinavia (where the show is set apart from in Britain, France etc.).",
"Yes, obviously. It wasn't Vikinmgs that I commented on, it was Modctribe's assumption that Iceland and Scandinavia look the same. (They haven't been to Iceland yet, as of S4, as far as I know.)",
"Im pretty sure Flóki crashes in Vík í mýrdal in iceland in 5th season, with him visiting the waterfall Skógarfoss. If im wrong ( have not seen the season only the clip) then point taken.",
"Im pretty sure Flóki crashes in Vík í mýrdal in iceland in 5th season, with him visiting the waterfall Skógarfoss. If im wrong ( have not seen the season only the clip) then point taken.",
"[Seems like you're correct](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrNiTztLDwo). But wasn't Iceland covered in trees back then before the settlers had cut them down (which took a few hundred years)?",
"True or thats what smarter people in biology/ forestry have told me.",
"I didn't type the name, it's easier to just search \"Iceland canyon\" in google. Fjaðrárgljúfur is the first result. I just knew the name and I wanted to copy it.",
"But given how they plant trees down there I guess soon it'll look like here in Scandinavia.",
"Yeah ill give it 200 years or so. It grows really slow due to the lack of sunlight. Still its epic. Hilsen fra Island!",
"> Hilsen fra Island! \n\nKwädi Jamplânnân! (I just realized we're at the same latitude so \"down there\" would be \"over there\", I guess.)",
"I went there this year. Went to a restaurant 1 beer 1 soda 2 bread bowls of soup .. 60 bucks, now it was good soup, but 60 dollars??? It was brutally expensive, to the point of this is no fun anymore."
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Iceland is beautiful!
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"Watch me go!!",
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The perfect scrape on this handicap logo
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"Way to go man! That’s amazing! ",
"Well done amigo. ",
"This is not how before/after pictures work.",
"Congratulations, well done! Keep up the amazing work!",
"Wow! Congratulations. I think it’s often underestimated how difficult it is to lose weight. You should be very proud of your hard work :)",
"I think it’s time to get new clothes...\n\nBut seriously, great job! ",
"If you're wondering why this is downvoted, it's just because people would rather you put this in a weightloss subreddit than this one.",
"The people who enjoy posting and upvoting these posts and also love encouraging others on their journey ought to subscribe to /r/progresspics as well. These kinds of posts have become very popular on /r/pics recently and the dedicated sub and posters could really use the traffic and kind words."
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This is me, one year later, 70kg (nearly 155lbs) lighter
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"Is that Rango!?",
"If you do to another person without their consent what that lizard is doing to that flower it is not ok gentlemen ",
"He's Probably just sewn into place with fishing wire so you can't see it (the wire) like all the other lizard pictures out there"
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He knows you're watching, he's just too cool to care
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"Hoax of course. Ghosts are not a thing. \n\nIn fairness, I didn't know anything about this before I saw this thread and skimmed a couple of articles. But is this guy even trying to fool anyone or is just writing a scary story for entertainment? I think calling it a hoax might be a little strong. ",
"I don't even care if it is a hoax I'm totally invested",
"Pretty sure it's a hoax. Everything the ghost could move are of green in color only (green screen editing; something along those lines). Nonetheless, I'm entertained. It's like /r/NoSleep but in twitter",
"The podcast, [Mysterious Universe](http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/01/19-01-mu-podcast/), just ran a show about this [twitter story](https://storify.com/moby_dickhead/dear-david) from Adam Ellis @moby_dickhead. \n\nThe story: Ellis experiences sleep paralysis and “sees” a boy with the right side of his head caved in. He is told, cryptically, that you can ask the boy two questions in your dream state, but if you ask three, he will kill you for in your sleep. Ellis forgot and asked a third question, “Who pushed the shelf [that killed you].” The boy disappeared and has visited him in waking life for the past six months. The ghost disturbs his cats and knocks things off shelves. The image, above, is one of the last in a series, of David standing over Ellis while he sleeps. There is a whole series of pictures on links from the Mysterious Universe page. \n\nI’m a lover of the uncanny, not a true believer. According to the show, no one has, as of posting, directly challenged the veracity of the pictures. So... how do you think they were done?",
"Me too! Listen to the show and follow the links. There are a ton of pictures.",
"Apparently, he is a screen writer, so, the conjecture of Mysterious Universe is that he is angling for a job. Which makes sense. \nI’ve seen twitter stories before, but none this stylishly executes.",
"/u/polymath_jack, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule IV - Title violates title guidelines.\n\nYour title must not ask for general information or feedback. \n\nYou can read the full information about our title guidelines at /r/pics/w/titles\n\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/polymath_jack&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7qdrzy/dear_david_ghost_child_or_elaborate_twitter_hoax/?context=10\\))",
"Apologies for that. I really considered it more of a rhetorical than a genuine question intended to receive feedback. But, then, I did post a follow up asking how they did it (with the assumption that they faked the photo). With that, I can see your point. \n\nCan I repost with a different title or is my chance over?"
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Dear David - ghost child or elaborate twitter hoax?
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"Have Butter Knife \nWill Travel",
"Gotta share the recipe ",
"All i can see is angry trump",
"looks like ham.",
"Sure! \n\nIt’s very simple, just needs time and patience. \n\n450g flour \n10g yeast (fresh)\n10g salt\n350ml cold water \n\n1. mix the ingredients with a spoon in a big bowl (don‘t mix it with a machine), cover the bowl with plastic foil and let sit for 30 minutes.\n\n2. wet your hand with cold water and take one part of the dough and gently fold\nit to the middle. Repeat for one round, cover and let sit for another 30 minutes.\n\n3. repeat step 2 and now wait 1 hour.\n\n4. take a dish-towel (clean and dry) and put plenty of flour on it. Put the dough on the towel. Now try to stretch the dough a little to make a rectangle (dont roll it out! just use your hands and pull a little bit on each side).\nFold one side to the middle and fold the other side on top. If your bread is too long, just fold it one more time to make a nice loaf. (Remember: Don‘t press, roll or squeeze, just pulling and folding ;-)). \nPut the sides of the dish towel on top to cover it up and let the bread rest for another 45 minutes. \n\n5. Now preheat your oven to 250 C and wait for another 30 minutes.\nPut a bakingsheet on the middle tray and take your bread from the towel and put it on the tray. It might be a little soft, thats perfect, just try to get it on the tray and maybe tuck the sides in a little, so you have a nice loaf. If it seems flat, don‘t worry, it will rise. \n\n6. Lower the temperature to 230 C and bake for 35 minutes!\n\nHappy baking! \n\n\n",
"sure come on over, sharing is caring :D",
"Thanks",
"omg you are right! I could‘t stand that look and ate the first slice/face - it was delicious! :D ",
"Baked to perfection, but I can't unsee that frowning face. ",
"Yeah, someone said that already. But\nif it makes you feel better, we already ate that grumpy face :D ",
"No nice, crusty scored shelves to pick off? Looks good otherwise!",
"*taken",
"I recently discovered the dutch oven method. \n\ntheres no kneading, about 5 minutes of prep. alot of waiting (seriously like 8-18h ) but it makes the best damn crust ive ever had.\n\n[if you like crust, it's worth checking out](http://www.girlversusdough.com/2015/08/13/no-knead-dutch)\n\n\n"
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Homemade Italian bread I just took out of the oven
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"I heartily disagree. In fact anyone who can dress like this most certainly should! ",
"just think, in this great big world, these two managed to find each other. lucky, I guess\n",
"Deadheads?",
"if definitely makes them easier to identify, and round up when the time comes\n"
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Just because you can dress like this doesn't mean you should.
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"This is wonderful!",
"They argue a LOT, but when it comes down to it they are best friends. Being their Dad, I love this!",
"Same for me, I never tell on my \"loved\" sister... Only tattle when she's unloved.",
"\"I will never tell on my loved sister\"\n\nTranslation, the 6-year old has some shit on the 10-year old."
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My 10-yr-old daughter wrote this "Sister Code" contract for her and my 6-yr-old daughter. They both ended up agreeing to it and signing it.
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"what! That is nuts! what are the chances",
"Beautiful",
"Now I see the value of bright colors in fashion... I am enlightened lol.",
"If those creatures could get the hair and arms right, they'd be top predators."
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"Yieed indieed.",
"/r/notmyjob",
"Pedxing YIEED ",
"YEE",
"Isn't that Welsh or something?",
"To be fair the guys that painted it most likely do not speak English",
"Most likely changed to E by vandals?",
"That’s what Kanye smokes",
"They were trying to write \"weed\" but were too high. Solved."
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"Can’t blame them... crazy that this is what needs to happen. ",
"Wow.",
"Better safe than sorry",
"Why is the map rotated so much to have North to the right? ",
"It's not that weird that countries deny other countries entrance into their airspace if they aren't on friendly terms. \n\nFor a time, during the cold war, the most efficient way to fly to Japan from Europe was over the North Pole (often with a stop in Alaska), because the USSR didn't have an open air space.",
"Flying to South Korea during the Cold War was famously difficult for the same reason and resulted in multiple passenger jet shootdowns, the [worst of which killed 249 people](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007).",
"Wasn't that specific shootdown the one that caused the US government to start allowing civilians to use their GPS satellite network?\n\nEdit: Apparently it was\n\n> President Reagan announced on September 16, 1983, that the Global Positioning System (GPS) would be made available for civilian use, free of charge, once completed in order to avert similar navigational errors in the future.[10][11] Furthermore, the interface of the autopilot used on large airliners was modified to make it more obvious whether it is operating in HEADING mode or INS mode.[9]",
"Mr, fancy pants actually flying in. \n\nI arrived in Busan (Pusan) on an aircraft carrier and no one bothered us.",
"It's an interactive map, you can pinch and zoom and rotate. ",
"I thought about that as we flew into Seoul last Fall. but when we did, the outward arc of avoidance wasn't nearly as wide!",
"far out. ",
"Ah thanks, that explains it for me.",
"What kind of fancy plane has a button for abortions? ",
"The fanciest of pants. ",
"What's the coat hanger button do?",
"Whoh! cool! A coathook? I'm assuming you press it and it pops out",
"There are routes through North Korea that fly into South Korea in the far eastern section of the airspace, but there are none over the DMZ. There are only two points were flights from China enter the South Korean airspace (you flew through AGAVO). https://skyvector.com/ is a great tool if you know how to read aeronautical charts.",
"I presume it's a call service button",
"No, it's a hook. For hanging coats.",
"You hang a coat or bag on it.",
"Is that an abort button?",
"> https://skyvector.com/ is a great tool if you know how to read aeronautical charts.\n\nYea I'm Sure that applies to a whole 1% of the population",
"Civilian GPS is still degraded compared to military GPS to this day. ",
"Most airlines were doing similar around Ukraine when MH17 was shot down. The FAA had issued a notice to fly around Ukraine, but Malaysia airlines just figured they would fly through a war zone. Be careful what airline you fly on. Some airlines will go through storms to save gas. Wonder how much gas MH17 saved the company?",
">Wonder how much gas MH17 saved the company?\n\nHeaps. Fewer passengers mean lighter planes and greater fuel efficiency.\n\nAll joking aside though it isn't unheard of to fly over war zones at the cruising altitude of jet-liners. Both Qantas and Singapore Airlines I think flew over the Ukraine in the hour before MH17 flew through that airspace. I myself have been on planes that have flown over Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria in the last 3 year despite a seemingly more hostile environment.\n",
"Malaysia airlines actually got clearance to fly through it and that it should be safe at that time.",
"No its very accurate, military or survey quality GPS. But the civilian version is purposly got an error in. During the first gulf war the error was removed from even the civ versions as they didn't have enough units for the troops so they started issuing civilian versions",
"Can confirm, same route and just landed in incheon airport",
"/u/l33t_d0nut, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule I - No screenshots. This includes pictures of screens and photos where the interest is the contents of a screen.\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/l33t_d0nut&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7qdyur/this_is_the_path_that_my_plane_took_to_avoid/?context=10\\))",
"Haha, yeah I guess most flights only have 2-3 pilots on the whole plane. Still I think they are neat. "
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This is the path that my plane took to avoid flying over North Korean air space when flying to South Korea.
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"4 for 98 cents thats daylight robbery",
"Needless to say, I didn't drink the cov-fefe",
"Toffiffee is quite old to be honest, I would be surprised to hear that you've never heard of them\nI'm assuming Toffifay is just the 'murican name",
"Fuck, hazelnut chocolates are my weakness.",
"America shit holes everything they can get thier hands on"
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Looks like Trump has his own candy bar now
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"Beautiful ",
"Great one! ",
"That is fucking amazing!!!",
"Thanks! I am now wanting it to snow again so I can find more like these! "
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Went outside to shoot snowflakes for the first time. Think I got lucky!
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"r/thisismylifenow",
"But you posted this, so you must've moved your arm at least.",
"We need an update OP."
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I’m not sure how she fell asleep like this, but I won’t be moving for a while.
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"LIZARD!!",
"Predator is just sitting there.... look!!!!",
"It's definitely not focused on the lizard. The leaves to the left seem to be the sharpest points in the photo."
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Confused! | My Camera was Focused on Something ||I Can't decide.....
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/r/pics/comments/7qe4y6/samsung_vs_iphone_users/
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"Smart business move. They know who can afford to pay more. ",
"And who's going to try and steal it.",
"Interestingly, before the clearance sale they were both the same price. "
] | 3 |
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Samsung Vs IPhone users
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/r/pics/comments/7qe6xz/do_what_makes_you_happy_even_if_its_playing_with/
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[
"We're the two best friends that anyone could ever have.",
"Ummm... I'll pass. But have fun. ",
"High five!\n(Doh!)",
"Ssssssssorry, you will miss out on snek partay."
] | 4 |
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Do what makes you happy! Even if it’s playing with King Cobras.
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/r/pics/comments/7qe7sy/car_crashed_into_the_second_story_of_this/
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[
"How?",
"The Weasleys - at it again",
"Hauling ass up French street? thats some high speed for a residential. damn.",
"She must have been driving fast",
"Was anyone in the building hurt? Or the people in the car? How did the driver lose control of the vehicle?",
"Fuckin sent it",
"\"Upon further investigation, authorities believe that excessive speed may have been a factor in the crash\" -them later, probably"
] | 7 |
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Car crashed into the second story of this building in Santa Ana, CA this morning
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/r/pics/comments/7qe81p/retro_game_store_had_a_rare_atari_jaguar_kiosk/
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"O o f",
"Just look at that controller. ",
"And growing up we thought that The Duke was a monstrosity...",
"Playing Doom on that thing was The Shit",
"Seeing that kiosk was like finding the great white buffalo.",
"This would be hella cool! I still want a dreamcast kiosk though."
] | 6 |
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Retro game store had a rare Atari Jaguar kiosk
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/r/pics/comments/7qe8wx/really_like_this_feature_on_some_teabags_and_the/
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"Tymbark beverages about 20 or 25 years ago did it too for the first time in Poland (and does it to this day!), I remember the hype back then :)",
"It really adds a special feeling doesn't it?",
"Little things that makes you smile... :)"
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Really like this feature on some teabags and the Coca-cola caps
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/r/pics/comments/7qe918/lucky_shot_during_my_winter_hike_in_rmnp/
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[
"Unless you're referring to the specific species, you had your shutter speed and aperture set to capture a moving object, so that's not exactly luck, it's just good photography. ",
"Hey thanks! I'm new to photography, and didn't expect to get a picture of the bird in flight, so when I noticed this pic in my photo album I was pretty happy!",
"Whats RMNP?",
"Rocky Mountain National Park, a beautiful place in Colorado."
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Lucky shot during my winter hike in RMNP
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"r/titlegore",
"You mean ‘proof’",
"/u/livedeportes, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule I - No pictures with added/superimposed digital elements.\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/livedeportes&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7qe97w/final_prove_that_earth_is_globe/?context=10\\))"
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final prove that earth is globe
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/r/pics/comments/7qe9xa/my_dad_wanted_to_see_the_darkest_hour_so_badly_he/
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"Did he enjoy the film?",
"Very much so!!!",
"Is that a cineplex VIP theater?",
"No it’s a standard VUE cinema in the UK"
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My Dad wanted to see ‘The Darkest Hour’ so badly he refused to wait outside whilst the staff cleaned up from the previous screening he was so excited
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/r/pics/comments/7qea0x/i_went_to_a_furry_party_and_got_to_try_on/
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"It absolutely made my night. :D\n\nEdit: WOW people did not like this! :(",
"turn that frown upside down...",
"Fuck em, OP. You do you. ",
"Thanks ;) \n\nI had an absolutely amazing time and wanted to share the absolute best moment ",
":)",
"Glad you enjoyed it. Screw what anyone else thinks!",
"It was awesome. "
] | 7 |
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I went to a furry party and got to try on someone's head, and now I want one of my own!
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/r/pics/comments/7qeacf/perfume_in_kitchen_window/
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"Right time at the right place",
"Yep. It was a GoodWill find and not even washed yet. ",
"Sure that in reality it is not really a Mana potion?"
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Perfume in Kitchen Window
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/r/pics/comments/7qebae/kicking_horse_right_now_credit_goes_to_my_cousin/
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[
"Winter is coming",
"My brain hurts now. ",
"Dude I woke up with a headache and this is one of the first posts I see this morning, fuck it going back to bed ",
"Kicking horse? Is that what you kids call snorting ketamine these days?"
] | 4 |
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Kicking horse right now!! Credit goes to my cousin
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