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/r/pics/comments/7vkjql/looking_for_something/
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"Hiddleston that rapscallion! ",
"Wtf did I just read.",
"He's obviously found it. "
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Looking for something?
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/r/pics/comments/7vkjsj/only_at_comic_con/
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[
"Dope af!",
"Epic mash up: Venom Trooper!",
"Man, we need that Disney crossover ",
"All because you can do a thing, doesn't mean you should do a thing... unless it's a Venom Stormtrooper in which case, go for it!",
"WHOMSTVE DONE THIS, actually cool though",
"Holy shit, that's really well done and creative as hell.",
"Awesome!",
"These swole memes are getting out of hand",
"This is the coolest thing I've seen all month. ",
"Cosplayer copsplaying a cosplaying cosplay",
"Very cool but why not Vader",
"/u/dickfromaccounting, 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/dickfromaccounting&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vkjsj/only_at_comic_con/?context=10\\))"
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Only at comic con
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/r/pics/comments/7vkp6u/chad_refugee/
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[
"Unaccompanied minor from the looks of it. ",
"Am I the only one who first looked at the picture quick and thought \"damn, that dude on the left is leaning waaay back\"",
"Kinda does look like a Chad ;)",
"The boat started out with 10 others. Now, just him."
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Chad refugee
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/r/pics/comments/7vkryt/i_finished_a_paint_by_numbers_piece_today_and_im/
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[
"The trees have eyes!",
"Just amazing",
"This really makes me want to go get some paint by numbers. I haven’t done any since I was a kid.",
"Lay off the shrums",
"That's beautiful! Did you do it by palette knife?\n\nCoincidentally, I have a [very similar looking painting](https://m.imgur.com/gallery/OqPMo28) hanging in my drawing room!",
"Don't worry it's just a Morty",
"Leonid Afremov painted that one, if you want to see more of his stuff.",
"Just finished a 1000 piece puzzle of this about a month ago!",
"Thanks. I know about Afremov's palette knife paintings. They're beautiful. I got this for about 50$, so I seriously doubt it's painted by him; must be a reproduction. ",
"No problem! I wasn't sure if you knew, and he's got such cool art that I figured I'd share on the off chance you didn't.",
"Rainy but shining, wonderful!",
"Thank you!",
"No. Just a brush. ",
"I had no clue. I found it on amazon and loved it!",
"Thanks!",
"Do it! They are pretty fun. You can find them pretty cheap on amazon!",
"link for the lazy?",
"I just got this kit!! Can't wait to get at it. Awesome job!",
"I just bought 2 For my wife for Valentines day. I hope she likes them. This look cool",
"[here you go!](https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Arts-Crafts-Sewing-Adults-Paint-Number-Kits/zgbs/arts-crafts/7756212011) ",
"Thanks! I would love to see it when you’re done. ",
"Thank you. Hopefully she will love them!",
"thanks",
"Do you have any skills as a painter? I’m interested in getting one but I don’t know if I’d be any good at painting such fine details..",
"I don’t have artistic skills at all. I love these because it’s all laid out for you. You just need to have patience. ",
"Awesome! Will definitely look into getting in the future! Thanks for the reply :)",
"Where do you order these kits from? I would really like to buy some.",
"Amazon!",
"Thank you! "
] | 32 |
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I finished a paint by numbers piece today and I’m pretty proud of this one!
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/r/pics/comments/7vkshk/joshua_tree_ca/
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"Surreal ",
"Amazing. I actually went there as a kid and looking at the sky was so overwhelming! Made we want to buy a telescope ",
"The sky looks great even without one! Love going up there whenever I can."
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Joshua Tree, CA
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/r/pics/comments/7vktf7/an_excellent_australian_finger_lime/
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"Hey /u/Limemanaustralia, appropriate-username wants you to see this!\n\n \n\n \n\nReddit doesn't tag people in titles, so I try to help out!\n\n \n\n^(beep boop, I'm a bot. Please contact /u/asquared31415 with questions or concerns | If you would like this bot removed from your subreddit, please contact /u/asquared31415, and he will respond promptly)",
"Wtf is that thing? ",
"Can't you read? It's a finger lime! But what it is, I don't know",
"Do..do you eat this? Or is it used for something else?...",
"I've seen them used by TV chefs. They put the flesh over some food to give a citrusy zest. "
] | 5 |
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An excellent Australian finger lime /u/Limemanaustralia grew. [xpost /gardening]
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/r/pics/comments/7vktz0/took_this_pic_of_my_cat_with_my_phone/
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"I believe you. ",
"I don't believe you...its a cutout on black background and not even a good one...can't unsee photoshop...also its black and white or desaturated...",
"I used the portrait mode on my iPhone. It made it look like that. I was amazed it changed so drastically "
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Took this pic of my cat with my phone.
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/r/pics/comments/7vkv84/cat_is_one_of_my_best_friends/
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"She’s beautiful! Nice looking cat, too.",
"Cat: \"I DIDN'T SIGN UP FOR A SELFIE!\"",
"NSFW? (Beautiful woman kissing her pussy) ..."
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Cat is one of my best friends
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/r/pics/comments/7vkvq6/now_more_than_ever_i_want_to_sit_in_that_chair/
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"All the feels",
"That chair always looked so comfortable.",
"In a condo large enough to have a grand piano, *and* a TV, and have furniture that's not pushed against walls (that alone being one of my indicators of wealth), who wouldn't be comfortable?"
] | 3 |
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Now more than ever, I want to sit in that chair.
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/r/pics/comments/7vl07b/a_mystical_mushroom_i_found_on_a_hike/
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"Eat it! It'll send you in a fantasy land. ",
"Like Heaven. Im sure that shit is toxic",
"It'd be hard to have a bad trip in heaven.",
"better trip in Hell where all the fun is. Reality though, neither exist :)",
"Mushrooms will make your head spin into the sun. I've seen it happen, man!"
] | 5 |
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A mystical mushroom I found on a hike
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/r/pics/comments/7vl1cb/john_mahoney_who_played_frasiers_martin_crane/
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"No need to be a cunt, just downvote and move on. I had no idea the guy was sad so it's nice to see a little fan tribute show up in my queue.",
"Great actor in a great show. Makes me sad.",
"Ah man, I really loved this guy. I grew up watching Frasier and Martin Crane provided a lot of great insight for me. ",
"He was a nice guy, too. He used to live in Oak Park, IL or some where close. Met him at the Starbucks on Lake St.\n\nSad news.",
"He had a good life... That's all any of us can aspire to ; )",
"F",
"Let's not forget his role in Say Anything (John Cusak boombox) as the corrupt dad who sends his daughter into her boyfriend's arms.",
"He was also excellent in Barton Fink. ",
"So is he the new Grandpa Joe now?",
"His family fled ~~Blackpool~~ Manchester for Blackpool during WW2 in the UK and it was his sister who'd married an American sponsored him in 1959 to live and work in Illinois. He lived the American Dream...literally. RIP ",
"He gave me plenty of laughs..",
"Poppity pop pop pop!\n\nMade me laugh a lot.. Good show, good actor, sad news.",
"Great character, great show.",
"Is that the same chair from the r/oldschoolcool post earlier?",
"His character was the perfect offset to Kramer and Niles oddball personalities. The thing that made him great though was that he wasn't just the straight man, he was funny too and also brought a lot of the emotional heart to the show. \n\nCouldn't imagine anyone else playing Detective Martin Crane. RIP John Mahoney.",
"Is there a Manchester in America as Blackpool to Manchester isn't that far.\n\nBlackpool wasn't even an bombing target in the Blitz as Hitler wanted to use it as a retreat.",
">Thanks for the laughs, John.\n\nYou're welcome.",
"There is at least one Manchester in America. ",
"This hits home for me, my dad just passed away in November and we’d always watch Frasier together... we even had a similar dynamic. Ugh the feels.",
"That's generously nuanced because my mistake would've just killed the whole family...GB Manchester to Blackpool ",
"/u/Pieassassin24, 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/Pieassassin24&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vl1cb/john_mahoney_who_played_frasiers_martin_crane/?context=10\\))",
"That always gives me a fit of giggles \n\n^^^^poppity ^^^^pop ^^^^POP",
"Also Hudsucker Proxy.",
"R. I. P. He was great in the show. ",
"Kramer...\n\nBut otherwise, yes, you've hit the nail on the head. He played Martin Crane with such warmth.",
"Oh my goodness what a spectacularly idiotic faux pass on my behalf. I'm not sure I'll be able to live this down at the cafe nervosa.\n\nI need a Sherry.",
"Me too another one that makes me really laugh is when hes questioning whether he was actually nilea and frasiers father, he walked into the apartment and they were all around the piano singing a Gilbert and Sullivan song I think.\n\nHe burst in and sings 'about the scary hippopotamus!'\n\nToo funny",
"With many awful facts about the scary hippopotamus! ",
"Ty. Now i have that song in my head and the look on his face as he sang it. :)"
] | 29 |
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John Mahoney, who played Frasier’s Martin Crane died today. Here’s a pic of him doing what he did best. Thanks for the laughs, John.
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/r/pics/comments/7vl2q2/my_wifes_ravioli_spoon_rest/
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[
"I misread that as \"ravioli spoon test\" there was much confusion",
"I came to the comments looking for answers to what this spoon test was.... I also misread it haha.",
"Haha yeah I had to reread it after I found no comments before me",
"Glad I'm not the only one "
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My wife’s ravioli spoon rest...
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/r/pics/comments/7vl2tg/what_color_is_this_jar_of_pb/
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"Gold. ",
"I don't know, why don't you put it in white light, it blue.",
"Brown"
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What color is this jar of pb
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/r/pics/comments/7vl3kv/martin_has_left_the_building/
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"I'm surprised Urabn Outfitters doesn't sell replicas of that chair...yet. ",
"An empty seat at Dukes.Sad news was a great actor.",
"Some fucker's cutting onions around here....",
"😢",
"Ok, who put these tears on my face?",
"Baby I hear the blues a'calling...",
"Aww",
"Was so sad to see this. I loved that guy.",
"My husband and I watched Frasier last night and for the first time ever watching that show all I could feel was sad. ",
"Damn Gina. ",
"Wrong Martin.",
"What am I looking at?",
"KILL MUH MOMMA BIRD GINA.",
"OooKaaaaaaay?",
"The actor who played Frasier's dad on his show passed away recently. This was his easy chair on the set.",
"AWWW JEEEZE!!!",
"There are no more seats at Dukes. It was demo'd. ",
"Have a day off mate.It was demolished as you say but I liked hearing him say “I’m going to Dukes!”Your quite correct top of the class you go.Mcginty’s then.That better?Deary me."
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Martin has left the building.
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/r/pics/comments/7vl565/my_cat_burned_down_my_favorite_house_of_18_years/
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"No soup for you!",
"Sending good vibes your way. ",
"Cancer right?",
"i should do an AMA",
"/u/soapy5, 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/soapy5&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vl565/my_cat_burned_down_my_favorite_house_of_18_years/?context=10\\))"
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My cat burned down, my favorite house of 18 years just died, and i just survived ass canser. heres a pic of me happy. plz gib karma.
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/r/pics/comments/7vlc2c/the_most_trippy_hoodie_ever/
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"www.xclusivemember.com",
"I'd wear it, but I don't like wearing stuff with prominently placed logos, especially if it's just a clothing company name. A band or a brewery maybe. A sort of musical instrument company or video game, perhaps. But a clothing company? I'd rather a plain style with little branding.",
"3 cycles and half the coloring will fade. ",
"Like is it impregnated with acid? because Im just not seeing it.\n\nAlso awful logo placement."
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The most trippy hoodie ever..
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/r/pics/comments/7vldkm/what_is_the_name_of_this_flower/
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"[Moth orchid.](http://everything-orchids.com/types-of-orchids/phalaenopsis) Some [examples](http://mesosyn.com/orch1.html). More on [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalaenopsis).",
"Some kind or orchid maybe?",
"Great！ someone around me say so too. Phalaenopsis, or moth orchids, named for their resemblance to tropical moths (phaluna is greek for moth) is a genus of about sixty species"
] | 3 |
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what is the name of this flower？
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/r/pics/comments/7vlg2e/after_a_freezing_rain_captured_this_awesome_shot/
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"Nice",
"This could be eerily reminiscent of a Safe Haven in Alan Wake. Absolutely loved that game.",
"If you look at just the top half it looks like a tunnel",
"It's confusing then impressive then confusing again. I like it.",
"This looks like a long exposure picture of a night sky from the top half. Very cool pic. \n",
"What a great shot! Sometimes, the simplest things make amazing photos. You just need an artistic eye.",
"I've noticed this effect with light and iced trees before, but never had a good enough camera to capture it. This is lovely!",
"Taken on an iPhone 7, although the real experience was an incredible sight. The picture doesn’t really capture the storybook feeling it gave me.",
"The night before my mother died I looked out of the window and saw exactly this effect. I never noticed it before or since.",
"Woah. ",
"Amazing! ",
"That photo is so lovely, but in every other aspect, freezing rain can eat a bag of dicks."
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After a freezing rain, captured this awesome shot of light reflecting off my frozen tree.
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/r/pics/comments/7vlgvv/been_running_through_haunted_forests_at_midnight/
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[
"Lay off the steroids dude, it's all going to your butt. ",
"There's probably better ways for discreet sex. ",
"Looks like you found King Boo in that forest...",
"I doubt it. ",
"That sounds a little too spooky. ",
"It’s going in my butt. ",
"Same pose is used by all the hoes on insta ",
"You look like a skinny guy in a muscle suit.",
"I like the picture, I don’t see why guy always have to jump to the old steroids comment🤨",
"*guys ",
"I’m jealous of the ghosts that get to haunt that ass ",
"So yes. You’re hot hot hot. \nAll that work you’re doing to get there is working. \n\nNow- how about focussing on something other that yourself and what others think of you. \n\nThere’s so much more to life. "
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Been running through haunted forests at midnight. Great exercise routine.
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/r/pics/comments/7vlh2a/the_best_day_of_my_life/
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"Congrads",
"Thank you!!",
"Isn't she? ",
"Thanks!!! ",
"Congrats 👏. Beautiful couple!",
"When did reddit become Facebook? smh.",
"I'm sorry those humans had to block the photo, super rude of them, but I'm happy you and your family got to frolic in the field. ",
"Which is you in the photo?",
"Something's up. I just seen a different post a few hours ago of the same woman and a different guy that said they were getting married.",
"Wish you many better days than a long, boring ceremony. The after is meant to be the good part. People here are jealous is all",
"She cheated on you with your best friend.",
"I agree. I do not care about this! ",
"Plot twist: His dog is his best friend.",
"no you misunderstand. He found a winning lottery ticket in that pocket.",
"The bull in the back. Brought the family out for a picnic.",
"Amen",
"why you got to be so mad, do happy people make you sad?",
"If you want this kind of content. Go to Facebook. There’s plenty of it there. ",
"Congrats my dude! Looks like mother nature was cooperative. What a bro. More like Brother Nature.",
"yep. Starts going downhill within 24 hours.",
"you and your happiness need to btfo\n\ndon't you know this is a safespace?",
"Congrats on your graduation!"
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The best day of my life
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/r/pics/comments/7vlkbh/i_stayed_up_and_took_some_photos_of_the_blood/
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"The Blood Moon rises once again.",
"Wow for Reddit being the front page of the internet this sure is an outdated post",
"Why is this an outdated post? ",
"Because we're in the 24-hour news cycle, and everything is \nhyper-accelerated I've been seeing pictures of this all over the place and I think to myself \"didn't this happen like six News Cycles ago?\"",
"Man your stressing me out. Not everything has to be breaking news or content. ",
"Please excuse my abrasiveness I'm new to the community and didn't notice your reputable nature. The Singularity is upon us...."
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I stayed up and took some photos of the Blood Moon over Melbourne last week!
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/r/pics/comments/7vlnwn/my_mom_dad_1970s_turkey/
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"Turkey? I saw camel. ",
"Restored a bit. Colors are badly messed up.\n\nhttps://i.imgur.com/3K24Q1p.jpg",
"Your parents were a pretty bunch.",
"Thank you! Sorry for my mothers photography skills :) "
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My Mom & Dad, 1970s, Turkey.
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/r/pics/comments/7vlplp/yummy_teriyaki_steak_marinated_for_at_least_two/
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"Poor cow",
"Man that looks so good",
"Eat stones :)",
"Cows cannot use currency...",
"That is exactly why cows can't be rich.",
"Yeah they don't usually give them names ",
"Oh yea it was ",
"Yea sorry about the cow 🐄. I appreciate him though for letting me get stronger. "
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Yummy Teriyaki Steak 🥩. Marinated for at least two days. The wait was so worth it. 😊
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/r/pics/comments/7vlq7u/today_i_visited_my_chiropractor/
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"Rub your wet fingers along the metal rods on the rack under the seat. Greatest way to annoy EVERYONE. Fuck you middle school!!",
"Holy fuck I forgot about these.",
"My boyfriend was just talking about this the other day. I never even knew you could do that.",
"Guys are assholes *shoulder shrug*",
"Where are my fucking asterisks?",
"Thank you. You’re awesome. I was sarcastic ",
"/u/conrick, 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/conrick&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vlq7u/today_i_visited_my_chiropractor/?context=10\\))",
"What happens?",
"It makes a high pitch noise, I guess. Like when you run your fingers around the rim of a crystal glass.",
"You guys are killing reddit's magic."
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Today I visited my chiropractor.
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/r/pics/comments/7vltas/i_found_waldos_girlfriend/
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[
"What’s going on with the kid in the red hat 😳",
"Damn i miss going to Universial ",
"Hahaha cannot unsee",
"When you try to look tough but a kid's holding your hand lmao",
"I was so confused like uhh why is an 11 foot tall Anubis Waldo’s girlfriend ?",
"Aww bless your heart",
"I just spend the longest time looking for Carmen SanDiego until realizing you meant the girl in the red striped top. "
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I found Waldo’s girlfriend
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/r/pics/comments/7vlujv/one_year_clean_from_heroin_and_my_buddy_and_i/
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"r/Facebook",
"Congrats on getting clean and all but this is an insanely creepy picture. You went to a fair dressed as evil carnies. ",
"One of you looks like Steve-O, and the other looks like Patrick Swayze.",
"Congrats on the year! I'm at like 60 days off benzos ",
"Happy for you man!",
"Good for you guys! Stay strong. Stay clean.",
"One day at a time. Congratulations to you! Sober fun just eventually becomes fun. :)",
"That's fucking awesome! Good job man. Keep it up, this life is worth it. ",
"Well done. Love the Devo shirt btw"
] | 9 |
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One year clean from heroin and my buddy and I celebrated by going to the fair.
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/r/pics/comments/7vlvtz/hot_tub_life_goals/
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[
"This specific hot tub can be found at 5 torri, in Cortina D’amprezzo, Italy. ",
"Looks like a small animal already beat you to it. ",
"It takes a lot of work to keep these warm by heating them with firewood. Better hook it up to a legit water heater.",
"But it’s so much cooler with firewood. ",
"Not when you have the task to keep shoving logs on the thing.",
"I feel like if I could afford this tub as my own I could afford someone to put logs in for me. Heh he. "
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Hot tub life goals
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/r/pics/comments/7vlzxu/walking_on_dimensions_via_universedope/
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[
"Trippy ",
"Looks like the ozone is bursting into flames #coalpride",
"But looking Beautiful...",
"Sometimes there are no words for how beautiful something is. This is awesome.",
"those words seem to suffice.",
"I miss living in a place with minimal light pollution. I completely took advantage of it when I was a kid. I still had awesome memories, even got to see the aurora borealis one time when a solar flare brought it to us...but I definitely took that view for granted now that I live in a city. I need to experience it again.",
"I would pretty busy freezing to death while trying to enjoy a sight like this",
"I've had that feeling; looking down, like falling up... ACID!",
"Yup",
"Wow! Amazing photo! Where is this? ",
"I don't know dear",
"/s it is a spectacle! :) \n\nEdit: wrong type of cammo! ",
"[Salar de Uyuni](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salar_de_Uyuni) in Bolivia, at the winter/rainy season the salt flat \"floods\" and create large pools that reflect the sky.",
"Think about how great it must have felt to be there at that moment. To forget everything that's ever troubled you in your life and just admire your surroundings. ",
"Looks like the [Bolivian Salt Flats](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salar_de_Uyuni). ",
"Cheers for the reply. Might have to add this one to the bucket list. ",
"Apparent motion visible in the reflection? But not in the actual Milky Way. Nice. ",
"nice picture!\n\nwhy is the top half sharp and the bottom half blurred?",
"Stellar! ;)",
"Wow this is amazing. But that guy had to stand still for a long time in order to not get blurred! Impressive photo indeed.",
"It would appear that the photographer is positioned atop a frozen bed of ice, and due to the change in the index of refraction, the reflection of the Milky Way appears slightly blurred.",
"Composite photo probably. Would be easy to combine two photos at the horizon. ",
"that would make sense. his head is blurred as well though.",
"Really? If the skies where I live were more clear I would be seeing this every night? This is incredible. Where is this guy standing btw? ",
"I noticed that too, yeah. Perhaps some sort of camera effect that focused on the sky and blurred other parts of the image? I'm certainly not a photographer, merely a physicist.",
"Is there a version without that crouching man in it?",
"Focus is an important point but probably he also didn't sit completely still and there was a long shutter speed involved.",
"Yea, this is two photos combined. One of the sky, and one of the photographer. The one of the sky is taken on a much longer exposure, and is on a rig that tracks the stars, so they don’t get blurred. The one of the photographer is just on a tripod for a little bit... long enough that the stars moved a bit.\n\nThe photo of the photographer is cropped just above the horizon, and the picture of the sky is pasted in.\n\nEdit: not trying to take anything away from he photo, just explaining how it’s done. Photography is art, and the best photos are rarely just caught in frame... there is almost always lots of work done. \n\nEdit 2: There are many ways to accomplish the effect. What I posted was just what came to mind first. ",
"Pro-tips-from-a-Canadian: \n\nWear a lighter jacket with pockets, beneath your bigger outer jacket.\n\nIn the inner jacket, place 2 water bottles that you have filled with hot water... one in each pocket, and you're good to go! \n\n--------------------------------\n\nOccasionally you can also pull your hands through the outer jacket sleeves, and warm them against the inner hot water bottles periodically. \n\nYou can also do something similar with hot rocks... but make sure they are not too hot! \n\n------------------------\n\nOr you can also use one of those sodium acetate \"rechargeable\" heating [gel packs](https://www.amazon.ca/HEAT-WAVE-Instant-Reusable-Heat/dp/B002Q6Q4HY/). \n\nAlso known as: \"Click-It\" packs.\n",
"Where was this taken? Beautiful ",
"Still gives a good effect and pulled off well. ",
"That's a great picture! But a really dumb name.",
"How did the subject stay SO STILL for this photo? I find that the most impressive aspect of the frame. Bravo.",
"Except that it looks nothing like the photo to the naked eye.",
"Insane!",
"Yeah... Photoshop is really, really beautiful",
"No, you can't see that with the naked eye, it's done using special techniques with a camera ",
"> Doesn’t ship to US",
"Yeah, this is not even a case of image processing, it's just photoshop. There is no possible way starlight or the milky way would ever be bright enough to reflect off anything.",
"This looks fake to me for some reason.",
"My advice is go down to your cities power box with a glass of lemonade and pour it on it. Bring the dark skies to you.",
"I wonder what kind of wizardry is required to make a photo show the stars and galaxy so clearly. I can't see even a fraction of this with the naked eye. Maybe too much light pollution wherever I go! 🙄",
"You can take a photo like this with out any editing. Set exposure to 15 seconds or more (plus other settings) and you have your self this picture.",
"oh well. awesome fucking photo though. ",
"You can create photos like this in Uyuni quite regularly when they flood.",
"Incredible, haven’t seen anything like that!",
"Same here. I used to live about 10 miles from a very small town, and about 50 miles from anything bigger. We got a pool when I was 7 and I spent almost every single night swimming and starring at the stars. We moved when I was 14 and I've missed that view ever since. I still drive close to an hour away from where I live whenever there's going to be a meteor shower, so I can watch.",
"Exposure. With more expensive cameras you can choose how long the shutter stays open when it takes a picture. So basically the longer the shutter time, the more light the camera captures over that period of time\n\nIt can even make a picture taken at night look like its broad daylight outside its insane",
"No you cannot. First you need a camera body that's capable of a high iso while maintaining a quality image. Second you need a lens with a fast aperture, and a wide field of view. Third you need a quality tripod. At best the Milky Way will look like a lighter cloudy area of the photo. Photoshop is needed to enhance the color and brightness. Source: I've been doing astrophotography for two years. It's a bitch to get it right and this photo looks great",
"Oh! haha that makes sense ",
"Hmmm, it looks like the ice and sky are different exposures. The star trails in the reflection show the extra exposure time. So not a total shop, just a blend.",
"If you live in a place small enough that disabling one power box would be enough you don’t really need to do that",
"And that light is not visible to the naked eye? 🤔 surely they have must be doing some photoshop work too..",
"Does it have to be lemonade? Does Rola Cola work also?",
"Where the hell can I see something like this. I'm in Melbourne Victoria, but I've always wanted to go far away from all the light pollution and see this for myself. ",
"Can't let the aliens see you",
"Yes, but people wrongly associate photoshop as the evil whereas most pictures are just properly developed, same as they were in the good old film days. \nDoes the Milky Way look like that to a naked eye? Not really, but it’s just proper curves and exposure, not some master level photoshop required",
"lmao! My thoughts exactly",
"I hate it when someone is so willing to criticize someone else's work. Saying \"photoshop is beautiful\" is like telling a painter they have a nice brush. Have some respect.",
"no, you don't need a rig for sharp astro photography and very unlikely they've used one, but certainly different exposure settings and maybe different equipment for the two shots. [More info on settings](https://petapixel.com/2017/04/07/npf-rule-formula-sharp-star-photos-every-time/). source: I shoot astro photography edit: should have qualified this by \"don't need a rig for wide angle astro photography (like in this shot)\"",
"Where do you live now?",
"Nope it's not, because even in darkness there are still light photons moving all around you, there's just much fewer of them. The shutter being open captures what photons it can and builds on them.\n\nThe reflection may definitely be photoshop, but it's absolutely possible to get a picture of the night sky like that solely using a camera",
"Where is this?",
"Photoshop is the paintbrush of an artist. You're absolutely correct",
"This comment always 🤦🏻♂️",
"A dimension is a unit of measurement. ",
"Where is this?",
"Theres a theory that taking down a single certain power station in the east coast would cause a cascade failure and bring the entire east coast to darkness.",
"Ruined a beautiful picture by having that guy in it",
"Username checks out.",
"And you need to sit the stillest you’ve ever say in your life to not be blurry if you’re in the pic.",
"Wow. Didn't know cameras were this sensitive. You have convinced me to get myself a decent DSLR. Would love to take similar photos. Thanks buddy!.",
"We're gonna need a bigger glass of lemonade...",
"AURORA BOREALIS",
"Light is not visible to the naked eye. lmao! My thoughts exactly [Salar de Uyuni](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salar_de_Uyuni) in Bolivia, at the winter/rainy season the salt flat \"floods\" and create large pools that reflect the sky. Looks like the ozone is bursting into flames #coalpride My advice is go down to your cities power.",
"《Me looking at my fake friends》",
"This is the answer. ",
"If you'd really like to do something like this just ask the [russian hackers who each year hack Ukraine's power grid](https://www.wired.com/story/russian-hackers-attack-ukraine/)",
"Outback. Australia has killer night skies",
"I see pics like this all the time online, it's mesmerizing. Need to know..are sights like this visible to the naked eye? Can I experience this humbling sight? I've been out of the city and seen starry nights but would go nuts if I ever saw something like this in real life. ",
"He is the one true dimension scraper ",
"The combining of two different exposures is a common technique in astrophotography that works very well, however the smear in the reflected stars is actually something else this time. Minute ripples in the water make the stellar reflections bounce up and down over the entire course of the exposure. This is more pronounced the closer the reflection is to the camera (larger apparent size of the ripples). If it was the movement of the sky that caused the smear, the trails would travel left to right (milkyway is facing South) instead of vertically and be the same throughout the entire reflection.",
"[Here](http://www.astroadventures.space/nightscapes/images/26.jpg) is a slightly higher quality version of this image. [Here](http://www.astroadventures.space/nightscapes/) is the source. \n Credit to the photographer, Yuri Zvezdny (aka yuri_zvezdny\non Instagram). On Insagram, he provides the following information:\n\n> Photographer at work. The ground is deceptive: you'd think that this ice, but it's a thin mirror layer of water. Salt lake El'ton [Volgograd Oblast, Russia] is an amazing place. Here you can walk around the space, almost in the literal sense of the word.\n\n> a7s, 24mm, f/2.0, 20 sec, iso 5000.\n\n> AUGUST 20, 2016\n",
"Spent a lot of time as a young adult working in situations where light was off-limits and didn't really appreciate it either. Now I have kids and the light pollution is awful. I have an eight year old that can honestly say she's never seen a night sky with more than like 50 stars. It's getting to be road trip time, I think.",
"I think the power went out in Los Angeles once and people were calling the police saying that there were strange gracious lights in the sky, and they were terrified. It was the Milky Way.",
"If you're in a really dark place and give your eyes time to adjust, you can absolutely see the sky filled with stars and the Milky Way. The colors may not be exactly as you see them in the photo but it's just as breathtaking (probably more) in person.",
"When life gives you lemons, sabotage your local grid for a visceral night sky.",
"Also if you’re taking professional quality photos, you’re going to be shooting in RAW, which looks like garbage unless you edit it. And Lightroom is the far superior paintbrush to photoshop. Don’t know why anyone would even put this pic in PS for editing. People who’ve never taken a picture on anything other than their phone don’t seem to understand what it takes to turn SLR photography into an art and not just point and shoot",
"I only use Royal Crown Cola to induce my major blackouts",
"> There is no possible way starlight or the milky way would ever be bright enough to reflect off anything.\n\nEh, yes there is.\n\nYou most likely weren't at a low light pollution sky. I am in a small town (40k people) and can see the Milky Way outside of the town, walking for a minute.\n\nI think you and most other people in this thread don't understand how bright the Milky Way can be.\n\nI was all night on New Moon on top of [the Brocken](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken) and it's really insane how bright it is, and that's in Germany.\n\nIf you go to Africa or other low populated areas (like in Skandinavia) you can really see the Milky Way in full effect.\n\nThe Milky Way can cast it's on shadow if you don't believe it.",
"I feel like I'm looking at the sky in Halo",
"Unethical life protips ",
"Focal length dictates the amount of exposure before you start seeing trails. For wide angles I’ve never had any problems with streaking up to 20-25 seconds. It’s really more noticeable when you start to get in the 35mm or more range",
"The word is yugen :)\n\n“an awareness of the universe that triggers emotional responses too deep and mysterious for words.”",
"Gotta wear the camouflage so that you don’t scare away the stars. ",
"Wow TIL thank you",
"/r/technology",
"where is this?",
"Saving this for when I travel! Thanks brother!",
"They should have sent a poet",
"Astronomer here! [Here is a dark sky finder map! ](http://darksitefinder.com/map/) My experience looking at it is you can see the Milky Way starting at green colored areas, but of course darker is better. \n\nI hope you manage a trip out to see the stars again soon! :)",
"It's not a theory, it's true (to an extent). There's a book about the vulnerabilities in our nation's infrastructure for the power grid called Lights Out by Ted Koppel, if you're interested.",
"New wallpaper. Cheers m8",
"At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your kitchen?",
"Is OP taking the picture or taking the picture of the guy taking the picture? And what’s the other picture look like?",
"Its still a theory because..no one has tried yet.",
"As you may have already seen, the subject and the stars are different shots. While the sky may have been exposed for a long time the photographer was probably only for around 5 seconds (maybe more just a guess) ",
"Can you actually see something like OP with the naked eye, or do you still need some sort of equipment to see it? Because I live in a place where citywide blackouts are not rare, and to this day I have never seen anything near OP, that I started to think this as an urban myth and that there is more to it than just light pollution.",
"That look amazing. And let the whole world wait",
"Fuck Rola Cola. Just piss on it and hope for the best.",
"Thank you for this!",
"Or they have and we don't know it yet. they're in there just waiting...",
"The Northeast Blackout of 2003 was caused by this. A single power station began to overload but did not provide corrective balance to the grid due to a fualt of the monitoring systems alarm. High voltage transmission lines began to heat up and dip into untrimmed foliage before relays tripped shutting down the overloaded lines. After the first lines tripped the remaining lines and surrounding power station began to trip as a result of not being informed by the initial power staions overload. Overall an estimated 55 million people's along the east coast were affected by the Blackout. ",
"Photoshop being a colloquial term. However this photo was edited in lightroom and photoshop.",
"10 points to slytherin ",
"I'm pretty sure that guy is using that camera in the wrong way. You're supposed to use it to take a picture, not take a picture of it.",
"This is a stacked image. There's no way he sat that still",
"Another thing to note for would be star gazers is that in addition to man-made light pollution, a couple other factors should be considered. Humidity, elevation, and moon phase. I'm not astronomer so there may be others, but viewing on a crisp dry fall night, during a new moon phase (or with moon below the horizon), up in the mountains will yield spectacular results!",
"Be sure to bring along a Moon Pie for a great snack with the RC Cola. It's a southern thang.",
"LOCALISED ENTIRELY WITHIN YOUR KITCHEN?",
"I'm no photographer but don't shots like this take a while to take to be able to capture the low light? How long did that guy have to stand like that? Still, beautiful shot.",
"How long ?",
"Just got back from there and it was literally otherworldly! The locals are quick to tell you that the last scene of the recent Star Wars movie was filmed there. \n\nPro tip: wear wrap around sun glasses or else your eyes will well up like a god damn waterfall as the salt flats act like a mirror to the sun. ",
"I'm curious, is any of this enhanced in Photoshop and if so how much? Do you have the original to compare? I want to believe it's all natural and you can see all this, with little light pollution obviously. I'm very serious, I've never seen anything like it so I just want to know and can plan a trip somewhere desolate.",
"Use the app Astrospheric for this\n\nAlso, it depends what you are looking at. Planets and the moon for example can look worse on a cold crisp night. You want excellent seeing for planets and the moon which can be better on a warm humid night. When the stars twinkle, it’s generally considered bad for planets\n\nOn the flip side, you want crisp and transparent nights for viewing deep sky objects like nebula and galaxies. ",
"It’s a dish from utica.... \n\n(Am I remembering this bit correctly?)",
"We always take for granted the things that are... well, granted to us without requiring any effort on our side.",
"Most professional landscape photographers use both Lightroom and Photoshop as part of their workflow. Neither “paintbrush” is better than they other as they have different uses. Of the two photoshop is far more powerful it’s just also far more complicated as the program has added tons of features over the years and has never taken a feature away. To that end there are multiple ways to do everything in PS. ",
"The real life pro-tips are always in the comments.",
"Probably the coolest pic I've seen on Reddit. ",
"Been working in the Electric Industry for over 10 years and your comment, while factually flawed, made me laugh my ass off. ",
"On the bright side, it is easier to teach children the major constellations in a light polluted sky ",
"Congrats you just killed your grandpa living on life support. ",
"I add a lot of whisky to mine.",
"Where is this place can anyone tell me please",
"This could also be one photo but with a tracking mount. The motion would only show up on the photographer in the foreground and very minimally on the horizon. The stars should all be sharp. \n\nThat's not to say it couldn't be stacked images, but it certainly doesn't have to be. ",
"It's not Bolivia. Credit to /u/Spartan2470 for the detailed source:\n\n> Here is a slightly higher quality version of this image. Here is the source. Credit to the photographer, Yuri Zvezdny (aka yuri_zvezdny on Instagram). On Insagram, he provides the following information:\n\n> Photographer at work. The ground is deceptive: you'd think that this ice, but it's a thin mirror layer of water. Salt lake El'ton [Volgograd Oblast, Russia] is an amazing place. Here you can walk around the space, almost in the literal sense of the word.\n\n> a7s, 24mm, f/2.0, 20 sec, iso 5000.\n\n> AUGUST 20, 2016",
"My God!\n",
"Wow, this really actually is one of the greatest pictures I've ever seen. ",
"I know the OA when I see her",
"http://www.onyx4d.info/2018/02/prediksi-singapore-tgl-07-february-2018.html",
"Exactly. Think about reflections of city skylines. The reflection isn’t a perfect mirror. In fact that’s kind of a giveaway that it is fake if the reflection isn’t distorted a bit. ",
"Pretty sure it’s from Russia ",
"It’s in Russia I’m pretty sure ",
"Has he not seen the new documentary \"The Paradox Effect\"?\n\nStage 3 is everyone starts feeling startled ",
"Where is this? I legit want to go there.",
"It’s from Russia ",
"[It's in Russia ](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vlzxu/_/dttlyyk)",
"simply BREATHTAKING!\n\nmay I ask where this is?\n\nI AM IN AWE!!!!!",
"This is 100% photoshop.",
"What amazes me the most about this \"pic\" is the amount of people that believe it is real.",
"I remember doing this photography on a rooftop. Yes absolutely you'd get your balls frozen!",
"You can barely see it. It is definitely brought out more in the long exposure photo. ",
"The more time I spend on reddit, the more I realize how awesome it is living in a small town in northern Canada. Sure it might be -20C outside right now, but the sky is absolutely beautiful, and the aurora borealis is a common sight. I've seen reds, greens, blues, and one time even neon pinks dancing across the sky. Any decently clear night the Milky Way is easy to see, and that's in town. Drive fifteen or twenty minutes outside of town, and I guarantee you'll see the most Star-packed sky imagineable. ",
"Is this actually real? I've lived in a city all my life, so at best you could see some constellations maybe. But that's just breathtaking and seems surreal.",
"What about the living afterward to actually see the stars part?",
"I have used this map before, but the data is 12 years old now. This one is slightly more up to date and slightly better definition. It's not specifically for astronomy I guess, but it does give you several options for where the map comes from.\nhttps://www.lightpollutionmap.info/#zoom=4&lat=5759860&lon=1619364&layers=B0FFFTFFFF",
"I've been in some VERY remote places (hundreds of miles from the nearest small town) and have seen the milky way extremely defined and cast a shadow. I gotta agree with the other guy that a reflection on ice is only possible to see through photography.",
"It won't be nearly as vivid or colorful, but you can absolutely see clouds of stars like that in an area with no light pollution. ",
"Thanks! That's awesome, but their color key is atrocious.",
"Wait where is this?",
"I've imaged the stars reflecting off of my car before. You need to find you some dark skies! Yuri is a pretty well known astrophotographer, his images are not fake. As someone who also does a lot of astrophotography (mainly deep space nebula and galaxies, not the Milky Way itself) it's pretty insulting when people just write off our work is photoshop when they don't understand what goes into these images. ",
"The light is visible to the naked eye and lies within the visible spectrum. Think of it like turning all the lights off in your room, and setting your camera up to take a 30\" exposure. On the camera after such a long exposure, you'd be able to make out your room in the image, even though you can't see it in real time at that moment. Is your room invisible? No, of course not. It's just dark. The Milky Way can easily be seen at a location with no light pollution. In a true dark sky the Milky Way is so bright it can cast shadows on a moonless night. ",
"That was a good read, thanks. ",
"You have no idea what you are talking about. ",
"Sure, you CAN do astrophotography without an EQ mount, but i don't agree that its very unlikely the photographer didn't use one. They're incredibly common among astrophotography enthusiasts (and you don't get a shot like this by 'kinda' being into the hobby). The most obvious explanation for why there are star trails on the reflection and not on the sky is that the photographer used a mount for the sky, but the mount doesn't work when there are stationary objects in frame, i.e., the ground, so it was just a standard, stationary long exposure. ",
"It's not that nobody has tried, it just takes time to set up a massive operation like taking down an entire countries power grid. I would say something like this is more of an \"in progress\" kind of thing, and timing is everything. ",
"I have sadly never seen the milky way before in real life.",
"not just focal length but speed of lens as well",
"This is not 100% photoshop as the other poster claims. This is all real data captured with a camera, nothing was artificially added. As someone who does *a lot* of astrophotography (feel free to check my profile and look at my own images) I have a very solid grasp on this sort of thing. It is fairly insulting when people assume that photos like this are photoshopped without knowing any of what goes into them. A perfect analogy I use to explain this to people is image you turn the lights off in your room, set your camera up and take a long exposure. Suddenly you can see your room just fine in the image. Think of this photo like that. Is your room suddenly fake since you can't see it? Of course not, your room is still there, it is just too dim to see well. \n\nThe Milky Way is the same way. It lies in the visible spectrum just like your room, and it is pretty dim. However, the Milky Way can actually be seen very easily and it is very bright depending on your location. At a truly dark site, the Milky Way can cast a shadow with no moon in the sky. It is far from fake. How does it look in a location with low light pollution? [Something like this](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WHi58HjBERg/UR5XaX_hTwI/AAAAAAAAC8Y/M0mJnQ9N9EA/s1600/Milky-way-naked-eye_0159-reality.jpg). ",
"Cool photo, but why is there an abandoned tripod in the middle?",
"OK, maybe not *very* unlikely and of course anything is possible, just giving my 2 cents. tried to find some info on this image elsewhere but can't find any. even without a lot of specialist kit, if you had the choice of using a $250 f2.8 i just think it's unlikely you would rig up an EQ for a wide angle shot when it's not needed\n\nedit: not sure if you know [Mark Gee](http://theartofnight.com/), but he won Astro Photographer of the year (I think 2016, not sure). He has an amazing [tutorial here](http://theartofnight.com/2014/06/the-art-of-astrophotography-tutorial/) and you will see that he rarely uses an EQ and recommends the same lens I reference above",
"For best results use tide brand detergent! ",
"Damn....I never thought of it this way....\n\nEdit: Though I do think there should be a specification if you are going to alter photos. I want to know what's real and what isn't. ",
"What is the f stop, ISO, and exposure time parameters for this shot?",
"Where was this?",
"Woah, where was this taken?",
"Where is this? I want to trip here. ",
"Great idea in theory, but reality is that it would take days for the light to dissipate enough to clear the sky. The light gets trapped in the clouds, and the atmosphere, and can't escape until a few days after the source is cut. It's science. ",
"Just waiting for Neil deGrasse Tyson to walk out and start explaining some dope shit.",
"3 glasses of lemonade. Just to be safe. That's cool though I didn't know that. Thanks! ",
"It's not ice, it's a thin mirror layer of water. I've definitely seen the milky way's reflection in water before.",
"I submitted this to r/fakealbumcovers\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/fakealbumcovers/comments/7voed4/universe_dope_walking_on_dimensions/?st=JDBUQXEI&sh=f77be42bhttps://www.reddit.com/r/fakealbumcovers/comments/7voed4/universe_dope_walking_on_dimensions/?st=JDBUQXEI&sh=f77be42b",
"Right I was half joking about not using photoshopp to take this pic.",
"That’s amazing.",
"I say Wolf Cola, the official soft drink of Boca Raton.",
"Is a painting real?",
"This is more than likely 10+ photos combined. You can't get the Milky Way to look like that in a single exposure. So multiple exposure stacked for the sky, multiple for the ground, one for the person, and maybe another for the horizon. ",
"So is he seeing the sky as i see it in this picture?",
"Because it not real. ",
"No, but I know a painting is somebody's vision created through paint. When I see something like this, my question is....\"Is this a photo of \"real\" nature, or is it photoshopped to look real?\"\n\nThe same difference between having a real picture of yourself vs a picture that is airbrushed, filtered, and changed in the numerous other ways. ",
"Flat earth ",
"[So did they just set all the oil they're digging out of North Dakota on fire or what?](https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/#zoom=5&lat=5612288&lon=-11184227&layers=B0FFFTFFFF) It's one of the bigger bright spots on the U.S. map in 2015!",
"Awesome, thanks!\n\nLooks like iOs only... Any android alternative?",
"I think this might be my favorite picture. ",
"It's his vision created through a lens and software",
"Which is cool as hell. Just wanted to know if the photo was \"natural\" or not. ",
"I’m not sure actually, sorry \n\n",
"> Astrospheric\n\nIt's available on Android also: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.astrospheric.dfior.astrospheric&hl=en\nToo bad it forecasts wheather only for US and Canda.",
"man I wish I live somewhere like that when I was a kid I would enjoy every dam night outdoor under the nightsky. I have to drive an hour + and hike up the mountain to get a nice clear view.",
"Holy shit, that's beautiful ",
"F2.8 at a minimum",
"When I was a little girl, I used to wake my mom up to accompany me to the toilet. This one particular night, while my mom waited for me to finish, she walked to our front yard. I went out after her, and I will never forget the sky that I saw that night. The stars were like glitter powder! It was ethereally beautiful. We stood outside for a while, just enjoying the view. I’ve never seen the sky like that again after that. There was probably a blackout that night, hence the starry sky.",
"Have you ever looked up at the stars and thought \"I wonder how many copies of shrek 2 can fit in my mouth\"",
"Thanks for that map it was pretty cool 👍",
"The exposure settings for this photo are listed on his instagram (@yuri_zvezdny). He only had to sit still for 20 seconds...\n\nDespite what others have said in this thread, you can take a photo like this without creating a composite from 2 separate shots.",
"Wanna second this. I'm an amateur astrophotographer and I use this ever time I plan to go out and shoot.",
"Speed of the lens has nothing to do with when you see trails. The point at which trailing becomes noticeable is dependent on three things. \n\n1. Focal length of the lens\n\n2. Your camera sensor's size\n\n3. The portion of the sky you are aiming at",
"This image is completely real. ",
"Reminds me of [this] (https://orig00.deviantart.net/4f74/f/2014/235/3/d/field_of_dreams_by_yuumei-d7wd0qx.jpg).\n\nSource [here](https://yuumei.deviantart.com/art/Field-of-Dreams-477618441)",
"The speed only matters because you can get the same exposure in a shorter amount of time. As long as you stay below a certain number of seconds for both pictures it won't matter. ",
"You cannot take a photo like this without it being a composite and this photo is clearly a composite. The stars in the ground have trails and the stars in the sky do not. That means two different camera settings were used for two different shots. The only way to get an exposure like this sky without having trails is to composite multiple images and you cannot get a 20 second exposure of a person that sharp, especially with them kneeling and balancing. This picture is absolutely 100% a composite and most likely at least 10 different images combined. ",
"Yes all the individual composited images are real. But that's like me compositing an image of your face and a dick in your mouth and saying it's real. I think you would disagree. ",
"Is he walking.... on ice..? ",
"Not even close. This is a single image, not a composite. ",
"not gona lie this is gona be on my facebook cover. hope the fbi dont find it D:",
"Yes.",
"May I see it?",
"When I went to Seneca Lake for a week a couple years ago, I saw a ton of stars in the sky and it was pretty amazing. Living in a city, I'd never seen more than 50 or so - not really sure. But there were hundreds at the lake, nothing even remotely like what's in this picture. I'd like to see the real sky someday. I think as technology progresses, pictures of the milky way are going to be almost unbelievable to more and more people, the way they are with me. It is just hard to imagine looking up and seeing something like this picture.",
"Then why is the ground a different exposure than the sky and how did he expose the sky with no trails? The earth moves while you're waiting for the camera to expose. So unless he stopped the earth from rotating for half the image and somehow let it keep spinning for the other half, it's not one shot. Not to mention no consumer camera in the world can expose that much light from the sky in 20 seconds. The sky doesn't even line up with the reflection. The reflection should be much closer to the horizon as the Milky Way in the sky is. \n\nThis is about as much exposure you can get out of a single shot. https://goo.gl/images/6bfL4M",
"No.",
"> Then why is the ground a different exposure than the sky and how did he expose the sky with no trails? The earth moves while you're waiting for the camera to expose. So unless he stopped the earth from rotating for half the image and somehow let it keep spinning for the other half, it's not one shot.\n\nThe ground is ice so you get that smearing the image + coma. This is why some of the image reflected has very severe trails while other portions of the ice are nearly as sharp as the sky (look the left of the photographer). Don't believe me? The photographer also states it is a single 20s exposure on his website. http://www.astroadventures.space/nightscapes/ \n\n> Not to mention no consumer camera in the world can expose that much light from the sky in 20 seconds.\n\nJokes. Do you have any actual images of your own that show you have experience with this? Or are you just assuming this is fake? [Feel free to check out my post from today of my own astrophotography if you are wondering if I have any experience with this.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Astronomy/comments/7vn69c/my_image_of_messier_95_using_a_145_scope_oc/) \n\n> The sky doesn't even line up with the reflection. The reflection should be much closer to the horizon as the Milky Way in the sky is.\n\n[If you actually checked, you would see they are a perfect match when connecting Messier 8 and Messier 17 in both images.](https://i.imgur.com/abbxx9l.jpg)\n\n> This is about as much exposure you can get out of a single shot. https://goo.gl/images/6bfL4M\n\nThat is a completely different portion of the sky. ",
"Where i live,i can count them.. :(",
"How?",
"You definitely don’t need a rig, but I do believe one was used. Though I suppose I had it backwards though. Since the ground is just reflecting the starlight, it could be a shorter exposure for the sky, with a good lens and big sensor, and a longer one to get the detail in the ground, hence the streaking.",
"I feel that given the motion in the reflected stars, if it’s a single exposure with a tracking mount, the photographer would have much more blur. What you’re seeing on him is noise related to the editor selectively ramping up the brightness on that one part of the image to make for a more interesting scene.",
"Wait so if he’s taking a picture, then who took this one..? ",
"Absolutely beautiful shot ♥️",
"I miss living far enough from the city to really see and appreciate the stars.",
"Yah, I know it's not 100% photoshop like that other person is claiming. I'm a photographer myself and have done plenty of long exposure photos, but nothing at night with no light pollution. I'm sure he did some color enhancements at the very least.",
"people thinking shitty, doctored images of space passed off as photography belong on the front page always 🤦",
"One who thinks actual photography, or even worse, painting, has anything in common with Photoshop, could be said to be borderline artistically illiterate. You're also missing the intent of my remark - it's not a genuine photo, but it looks like it could be, or it already is, therefore I find it lazy and the exact *opposite* of a painting. How's that?",
"Not sure why people are so defensive about doctored images being passes off as photography. If it were real",
"Photography in and of itself, with photoshop is an artistic expression, no different than playing the flute or a tattoo artist. You my friend are the illiterate one /u/stonewallb",
"Nah, they're totally different. You're also kinda contradicting yourself in a super un-self aware and ironic way. But sure, buddy. Enjoy your spot in\n\nr/lynchmob"
] | 248 |
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Walking on dimensions. Via - UniverseDope
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/r/pics/comments/7vm2lj/time_to_shoot_some_pics/
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"Part of the tactical surveillance squad",
"Illegal in CA. ",
"Nice",
"How much is that in total? Looks expensive w all the lenses.",
"I wonder if they would let you take that on a plane.",
"That's a hell of a Canon you've got.",
"**Headshot**",
"That's so neat.",
"Assault camera",
"That's pretty sweet.",
"Go shooting",
"Shooooot urr shottttt khedddddd. ",
"How did you take the picture? 🤔",
"Last year, I met up with the cousins of one of the founders of my company after we had a business meeting with a partner co.\n\nDuring dinner, this gentlemen starts telling us about how he sold his company and how he's retired now and continues to tell us about his hobbies. One of which happens to be shooting rare animals. He was telling us about how he had a recent trip to Siberia to shoot tigers; you take a helicopter out to a remote area and they drop you right into the forest and if you're not there at the rendezvous point for pickup, you're SOL. He said it was quite a rush.\n\nThe whole time, I was thinking \"Dude, fuck this asshole\" and I was about to nope it out of there. Then he starts talking about his equipment and lenses he brings on these \"shooting trips\" :P ",
"Oh that’d be *just* great to bring into a sporting event or presidential briefing.",
"I'm sure that's illegal in CA",
"r/misleadingthumbnails",
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"The artist is Keith D’Angelo from his series “Shoot Portraits Not People” ",
"Probably not too expensive, maybe a few hundred USD per lens (say about $300-$600ish). At a casual glance, they don't seem to be long focusing lenses and they don't have red strips so aren't 'L' series glass.\n\n// Most 'L' series glass are white casings with red stripes, though there are a small handful of black/red Ls. Either way, they hurt the wallet. (They're generally in the $800-$2000 range (and higher))\n\nhttps://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/products/groups/lens-prices\n\n[EDIT] apparently Canon is also having a sale, with $500 of I can finally afford that $12,000 600mm lens :P",
"Mft minimalist buttstock, can't place the rest. "
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Time to shoot some pics
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/r/pics/comments/7vm5ds/cloud_factory_outskirts_of_moscow/
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[
"Not clouds...",
"You might be right. Looks like a nuclear reactor and they don't produce waste other than the decaying radioactive material",
"\"The Simpsons\" is not a documentary.",
"I have not seen it so can't relate to your comment ",
"> I have not seen it\n\nHow's Mars this time of year? Do you like our planet? :)",
"You are weird"
] | 6 |
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Cloud factory. Outskirts of Moscow.
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/r/pics/comments/7vm805/built_an_aircraft_carrier_for_my_son/
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[
"My son wanted an aircraft carrier for all his army guys, I looked up the GI Joe carrier I had when I was a kid...sells for several hundred dollars online! So we just built our own from scrap wood. [progress pics ](https://imgur.com/gallery/tez8a) ",
"That is sweet. Looked small in final shot but progress pics better conveyed size. Lucky kid, awesome dad. Maybe post to /r/woodworking or similar diy craft stuff",
"Good job man",
"Post this in /r/diy",
"Very cool! Good job. Anchors aweigh!",
"That thing is huge. I love it. \n\nDid you also build the coffee table?\n\nAnd, do you also have a daughter (I see the pink purse)? What things have you built her?",
"Props for correct word with \"Anchors aweigh!\" It drive me absolutely bug nuts when people get that wrong.\n\n(yeah, I have issues)",
"No problem shipmate! ;)",
"I am actually not, and never was, in the Navy. But, my grandfather and uncle were during WWII, so the Navy is special to me.\n\n(Didn't want to misrepresent myself)",
"That's cool. Thanks for sharing and showing respect for the Navy.",
"No, coffee table has craftsman look, but was not DIY. My daughter helped with the carrier too, she has Shopkins occupying the ground level of the tower right now, lol.",
"This aircraft carrier belongs to US Navy.",
"That looks awesome. ",
"Looks like something the navy would build. Great job👍",
"Thanks! Just started out as a fun little thing...then it all kept growing 😀",
"Great job!\n\n",
"That carrier was like 150 bucks when I was lusting after it 30 years ago. Several hundred doesnt seem obscene.\n\nThat said this is going to last a LOT longer.",
"I shoulda kept the one I had as a kid. Search USS Flagg on eBay...when 100% complete they go for like $1,500! Agree mine will last longer!"
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Built an Aircraft Carrier for My Son
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/r/pics/comments/7vma2t/tiger_hd_pics/
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"Not a tiger",
"And drop mic",
"I understand it is not a tiger I am seeing that who is intelligent that put out my mistake. I proud of you."
] | 3 |
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Tiger HD Pics
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/r/pics/comments/7vmagg/st_ives_cornwall_england/
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[
"Lovely place - shame about the people living there though.",
"Why a shame ? ",
"It was a joke really - most of these houses are owned by wealthy people from London/South Coast who do not live here full time. ",
"Been there many times on family holidays. My memory of the place was an amusement arcade that had the Hillbilly Shootout game by the window. My brother and I would play it and aim for the guy who shot water out the window every time someone walked past.\n\nHappy memories. ",
"This reminded me of a riddle I heard as a kid:\n\nAs I was going to St Ives,\n\nI met a man with seven wives.\n\nEach wife had seven sacks,\n\neach sack had seven cats,\n\nEach cat had seven kits.\n\nHow many were going to St Ives?",
"So.. where's the corn wall?",
"That thing was the boy! It’s still there",
"Hehe okay ....cool i didnt know ....seems like a really nice spots to visit .",
"Can't deny that :)",
"Haha nice! ",
"Yep, still there and the floor is wet!"
] | 11 |
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St Ives, Cornwall, England
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/r/pics/comments/7vmatn/anyone_want_a_ride_of_my_gaming_pc/
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[
"No carpet?",
"You're missing the mountain dew to tie it together",
"*heavy breathing*",
"You just bought lights and mounted ur monitor",
"bro, not even one LED on the rig? \n\n"
] | 5 |
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Anyone Want A Ride Of My Gaming Pc
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/r/pics/comments/7vmdai/which_side_is_the_real/
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[
"The one not reflected off the water. ",
"The one with less leaves and duck shit floating on it",
"/u/Marius_Danmark, 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/Marius_Danmark&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vmdai/which_side_is_the_real/?context=10\\))"
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Which side is the real?
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/r/pics/comments/7vmff4/my_friend_told_me_to_take_his_picture_with_this/
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[
"Moments before death.",
"So you’re just a tool for your friend? You’re better than that!",
"This irrationally stresses me out.",
"Boat is big.",
"Ok",
"And you did.",
"http://en.miui.com/thread-974228-1-1.html",
"Please add this to r/humansforscale it’s perfect! ",
"And being the good friend that you are, you did. Cool, then.",
"did your friend try to drop that big ass anchor on your head after you complied?",
"Friends don't let friends use /r/shittyHDR.",
"\"What is my purpose?\"\n\n\"You take pictures.\"\n\n\"Oh my god!\"\n\n\"Yeah, welcome to the club, pal.\"",
"That boat must have been named after a stripper.",
"Ship schwantz.",
"you should never stand under a massive load like that anchor",
"He has a good eye! ",
"That looks awesome. Where is that?",
"My guess would be India somewhere, maybe chittagong. ",
"Alang, I'm guessing.",
"170 meters. ",
"From what? ",
"Do you also work in the crystal meth laboratory in Somalia? ",
"Yeah, I got the “breaking yard somewhere in India” vibe too. ",
"That was my initial reaction as well, and i got the chittagong (witch is in Bangladesh btw) from the last known ais info (07.05.2017.) The source further up in the comment section claims it drifted ashore during a cyclone in May '17. But i have not really been able to verify that.\n\n\"Fun\" fact: Apparently she escaped a piracy attack in 2014.",
"That is a fun fact. A nice reminder that piracy is alive and well in today’s world. Perhaps not as widespread as “the Spanish Main” etc. but it’s definitely around. ",
"An old bulk carrier, it is apparently in Chittagong port, Bangladesh, one of the world's biggest ship breaking operations, and also a toxic hazardous mess. Countries with very strict demolition/scrapping laws send their ships to be broken up here due to the lack of expensive regulations. \n\nhttp://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:1049281/mmsi:405000099/vessel:CRYSTAL%20GOLD",
"Chittagong port is in Bangladesh. \n\nArrived in Chittagong in November and was relocated on site for breakup http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:1049281/mmsi:405000099/vessel:CRYSTAL%20GOLD",
"Oh wow, i really messed up on that one. I have no idea how i managed to make chittagong Myanmar. ",
"I don't see where you get the info from, without the premium subscription from marinetraffic it says the last received position was somewhere west of India 07.05.2017.",
"The travel tracker on the link says it departed the main port on the 31st of November 2017, being redirected in the port, since the arrival destination was the same port. \n\nShips only go to Chittagong for one reason these days, to be chopped up. They wouldn't have been broadcasting GPS positions once they receive the ship for demolition. A lot of the data that shows up on these sites gets mostly updated by volunteers who track these things, ship spotters and such. ",
"Such a good idea for a subreddit but there's only 2 posts so far. ",
"Alot of the info on those sites are automated, i wouldn't take it for granted. \n\nAccording to Wikipedia, chittagong is the main port in Bangladesh.\n\nI've found [two] (http://en.miui.com/thread-974228-1-1.html) [sources] (http://www.newagebd.net/article/16640/cyclone-mora-wreaks-havoc) that claims it drifted ashore during the Mora cyclone. ",
"Someone's taking in dump in the background 🤣 ",
"I figured it was at a ship breaking operation. I remember a National Geographic story about it, maybe 10 years ago. Fascinatingly scary. ",
"The size of it? For me I think it's the fact that it makes it look like the boat could lose it's balance and turn on it's side. ",
"Huh huh, you said massive load ",
"The anchor. ",
"I have no idea, that’s why it’s irrational!",
"Where is that?",
"Crystal Gold Sounds like some failed soda flavor. \"Try new 7Up Crystal Gold!\"",
"I think he might have been planning on dropping that anchor...\n"
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My friend told me to take his picture with this.
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"\\#hollywoodphysicsengine",
"Physics don't exist in most big budget hollywood movies",
"And best case he makes it into a burning building?",
"It depends on his momentum. Though, he is a rock.\n",
"What weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks (rocks)?",
"That guy forgot to calculate the wind factor. Hollywood winds are pretty strong.",
"He'll just People's Elbow the burning window and walk right in",
"It's OK, short means it will be over sooner, he doesn't exactly star in the best films after all..."
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This movie will be very short
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/r/pics/comments/7vmilx/unwrapped_my_new_iphone_charger_and_it_looks_like/
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[
"Did you buy it at Mont Blanc? lol",
"You're holding it upside down.",
"O",
"I’m not gonna lie I have no idea what that means 😂",
"The Mont Blanc symbol is that rounded five point star haha"
] | 5 |
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Unwrapped my new iPhone charger and it looks like a rounded star
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/r/pics/comments/7vmiyb/if_its_something_that_happens_in_the_movie_its/
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[
"I'm pretty sure they mean something that's explicitly and/or clearly shown in the movie isn't really a detail. From what I understand, for something to be a detail, it must go unnoticeable by many common audiences.",
"My post is pretty fucking obscure that nobody noticed.\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/7vlktp/in_interstellar_cooper_changes_the_tars_humor/\n\nAnd their entire sub is filled with shit that everyone has noticed.\n\nHis comment is just laughably dumb though.",
"So much butthurt. ",
"Thanks for joining us today bot. Will log in tomorrow?"
] | 4 |
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If it's something that happens in the movie, it's not a detail, thanks /r/MovieDetails/ and /u/darthdog876
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/r/pics/comments/7vml99/it_reflects_perfectly_in_the_lake/
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[
"That was a fast repost.",
"Cross post to r/castles",
"Looks like [Egeskov Castle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egeskov_Castle) in Denmark.",
"It is",
"Actually it is upside-down :(",
"Hogwarts?"
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It reflects perfectly in the lake
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/r/pics/comments/7vmm53/frogs_umbrella/
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"Mario's comin'",
"Shouldn't there be a frog in this picture?",
"Idk, looks more like a toad's stool to me."
] | 3 |
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frogs umbrella
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/r/pics/comments/7vmm8i/sunset_in_mayo/
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"'mayo'?",
" Looks like that's in ketchup. ",
"Possibly sriracha",
"Now do peanut butter!"
] | 4 |
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Sunset in mayo
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/r/pics/comments/7vmr1y/the_olympic_games_in_berlin_the_bronze_medalist/
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[
"*Her* hand?",
"That’s why the bronze medalist is dead ",
"I’m sorry but did you just ASSUME their gender?!",
"Yes.\n",
"It's because their not German."
] | 5 |
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The Olympic Games in Berlin - the bronze medalist does not raise his hand in the Nazi salute
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/r/pics/comments/7vmrh2/found_a_pile_of_puppies_in_aït_benhaddou_morocco/
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[
"FREE THEM",
"They weren't captive and far too young to be out on their own!\n\nThey belonged to a man that ran a store in the town. It was a very hot day (as most in Morocco are) and they were round the back of the store chilling in the shade. Their Mother was sleeping not far from them too. I really don't think they were in any need of saving :)",
"> It was a very hot day (as most in Morocco are) \n\nI wish you were right. I'm wearing two sweaters as I type this. \n\n",
"Haha, sorry meant to say Summer day! I'm aware you have winter too :p"
] | 4 |
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Found a pile of puppies in Aït Benhaddou, Morocco.
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/r/pics/comments/7vmsmv/i_painted_a_thing/
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[
"Nope. ",
"You ok there bud?",
"I really like this. \n\nProvoked these thoughts: \"Face them, befriend them, run away from them, hate them, accept them, find what they want and tame them!\"",
"Sounds like some Jungian shadow work - I can dig that. ",
"r/creepy",
"I wish - despite my style, they delete my submissions fairly regularly. I think it's the medium - if I was doing digital or oil maybe.",
"I hope you're getting the help you need. Seriously, though, I like it.",
"You should ask Gojira (or any metal band) if they need an album cover.",
"I'd legit love to get into doing album art - my portfolio's metal as shit - it's just... if we (whoever that is) cross paths I think it'd be a mutually beneficial relationship. "
] | 9 |
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I painted a thing.
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/r/pics/comments/7vmtgj/thats_all_folks/
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[
"So he got them dead to rights on them bubble yellows",
"I need context here, where's this going?",
"Looks like the hearse is being towed away, as the funeral procession is coming out of the church, ready to load the coffin into the hearse...",
"Thought the place looked familiar, it's in Shoreditch, London:\nhttps://goo.gl/maps/Lb9wwFwQ3rm\n\nWhat's interesting is that there are now parking bays there, and I think I can see lines in front of the shop on the left. So why was the hearse being towed...?",
"Can't tow a hearse unless it's dead...",
"My guess is that they are filming some sort of comedy show/movie - you can see one of those fancy fluffy microphones just above the funeral procession.",
"Oh yeah that definitely is a mic-blimp on a boom over to the left.",
" it's from a tv show, called [Rev](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1588221/?ref_=ttep_ep_tt) from the BBC. Not sure which episode it's from?",
"Because it's in the script of the TV show it was filmed for."
] | 9 |
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That's all, folks!
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[
"x-post /r/MostBeautiful\n\nPhotographer: Jormungand",
"Wow! Very beautiful.",
"Beautiful ",
"Always wondered how they grew those.",
"I need this to be a Mario Kart track ASAP",
"Where is this?",
"So this is where the rainbow ends, start digging!",
"Mind if I snip off a few for the wife",
"Must be somewhere in Netherlands",
"The Midgård Serpent took this? Man, he gets around.",
"I think they actually build them.",
"Actually can not believe this photo is unedited",
"Cant think if something witty to say... This is gorgeous tho ",
"I doubt it, it is rarely to see electric lines for households above the ground here (except those huge ones)",
"My guess would be Denmark. \n\nEdit: Downvotes eh? Welp, see you later. ",
"This is from Akebono Mountain Park in Japan.",
"Akebono Mountain Park, Japan.",
"Unexpected Thor reference: Have an upvote.",
"Wendimore?",
"Is there a high res version without the saturation?",
"Love the little house with its own propeller. ",
"Hot",
"My gay neighbours' backyard. ",
"To many colours, and we don’t really have any old windmills left :(",
"Are those windmills actually functional today? Or are they built simply for aesthetics?",
"Doesn't have the real Dutch vibe.",
"I can taste it.",
"This will make an excellent desktop background. Thanks!",
"Isn't one Rainbow Road enough?",
"I wanna name it \"Dropped Acid in Holland.\" ",
"Please treat the flowers with care. they are living things you know??",
"Or in any video game, really. ",
"Seems like elee0228 is right.",
"Damn. This farm is 🔥🔥🔥",
"It's... just... a mythology reference",
"Just did that!",
"I had to check this wasn't a screenshot from Breath of the Wild. That game has some amazing visuals.",
"Fun fact: flowers wilt in high temps so they used to have to build a windmill to cool them off. But they've gone away with advances in irrigation that allow you to cool the flowers with water spray.",
"SATURATION + 9,999,999% ",
"Sorry, haven't seen that one yet.",
"Yep. Dutch people are also the tallest in the world because we have to hand start the windmills. ",
"Neon farm? Neon farm.",
"Just another reason why I love tulips",
"Not for Mario Kart 8 (and 8 Deluxe). Game has 3 different Rainbow Roads...\n\n\n...and they’re *fantastic*",
"Looks very natural and not color graded one bit.\n ^^^^^^^^^/s\n",
"turn that frown upside down...",
"Don’t trample my flowers!",
"Beautiful ",
"is this edited at all? (Probably a stupid question) if not its amazing ",
"[Here](https://i.imgur.com/4lThYZB.jpg) is a much more natural looking version of this picture from the photographer's website. There they provide the following information:\n\n> Chiba Prefecture Akebono Mountain Agricultural Park\n\n\n [Here](https://500px.com/photo/148606805/rainbow-farm-by-jormungand) is the source of this image. More of Jormungand's work can be found [here](https://500px.com/jormungand).",
"I was waiting for this comment.\n\nNot disappointed.",
"This photo makes me incredibly sad, but I'm not sure why.",
"The ones in the Netherlands are (often) still functional. Often they have graineries in them. ",
"Damn, graphics in gaming really is improving tremendously.",
"I heard if you follow it there's a pot of cow manure at the end.",
"No they said 3 was going to be their last one.",
"Even one is too many for this guy.",
"That sounds wonderful. ",
"Is this real?",
"What’s funny is I thought I was on /r/gaming. I came to the comments to see what game it was and after seeing your comment I scrolled through a bunch of others like “is no one gunna say the name of the game??”\n\nThen I found out this is Japan. Great graphics!",
"Those flowers are so beautiful, and the sunset(rise) is even more beautiful. ",
"/r/HipHopHeads is leaking",
"I thought it was digital",
"I see. There was an entire Thor comic book series based on the Midgard serpent. I suppose it makes sense that they borrowed the story from mythology.",
"Another peaceful Autumn evening in Stardew Valley...",
"Which Skyrim ENB is this? ",
"[Here's the location on google maps](https://www.google.com/maps/search/%E5%8D%83%E8%91%89%E7%9C%8C%E3%80%80%E3%81%82%E3%81%91%E3%81%BC%E3%81%AE%E5%B1%B1%E8%BE%B2%E6%A5%AD%E5%85%AC%E5%9C%92/@35.8945067,140.0061752,215a,35y,29.67h,49.55t/data=!3m1!1e3), although you can't see any flowers. ",
"Does the windmill have cancer? ",
"For some I reason I find this better looking than the saturated one. Like I feel the breeze in it. I think I wanna live on a farm....",
"As others pointed out it's in Japan. However the windmill itself was a gift from the Dutch. So you're almost right. ",
"Totally, but damn if it isn't beautiful to look at. Like syrupy, sugary eye candy. ",
"They grow saturation +10 on this farm. ",
"This is where all the gay pets go.",
"All I can see if weeds, and all the manual back-breaking labour it's gotta take to keep them picked.",
"Lol botw reference? ",
"Dont believe Kevin’s lies",
"It's r/outside",
"No! You must not hurt the flowers! They are screaming out in pain!",
"Plus I see a hill in the background. Plus the way of planting the flowers is inefficient for harvesting. Plus the trees along the allée are atypical.",
"Look at the graphics!",
"Looks like a normal daily picture from Holland",
"OP's thought process: *\"I\"ll get more upvotes if I butcher this artistically crafted photograph.\"*\n\nI guess you can't argue with the upvotes.",
"I just wish N64 RR was more than 1 lap, same with the downhill track but that wouldn’t make as much sense since it doesn’t loop ",
"I've been waiting for a game to adapt the track from Wreck It Ralph. ",
"How do I buy this ? I want it in my house ?",
"This is in Japan, so the latter.",
"Is that you, Fable 2?",
"This is in the Netherlands, isn't it?\n\nEdit: Oooookay. Don't know why someone would downvote this. The Netherlands are known for growing lots of flowers.",
"me too!",
" Not a real farm. Exaggerated nonsense. ",
"So you damn kids can destroy my crop?!",
"Wasn't there a country based on this image?",
"This \"wind\"mill design doesnt seem to too efficient at catching wind. Any idea why they build it like that?",
"Please god only one rainbow road, I’m already bad enough ",
"Is this a picture or did someone make this on a computer?",
"):",
"Pictures like this make me think I should bother getting a passport just to see stuff like this in rl.",
"DON'T WALK ON MY FLOWERS. ",
"This looks like a beautiful dream. Just imagining strolling around those tulips in an empty, quiet, everlasting dawn. Looking around fields that disappear into the mist with nothing more than thinly dotted trees.... Shit where did that come from. ",
"Lol yeah probably",
"Wow! ",
"Om Namah Shivaya!! 😍😍😍😍😍❤️❤️❣️❣️❣️",
"If anyone ever wants a reference image for tasteful HDR photography that picture is textbook",
"Perfect!! The flowers.... trees .... weather .... everything.... just perfect!!\n",
"What a stunning view",
"Fantastic image.",
"It reminded me of the annoying lady ahaha",
"Actually, the windmills were built to distract Spanish soldiers.",
"wait till you got no internet there..",
"Oh yes. Right next to Iryohojinseishukainishimagi Hospital.",
"These danish tulips are such a fad. No way they will be popular for 4 centuries.",
"It is! We have like 10km of above ground electric lines that are below 50kV. Rest of it is underground. \n\nCan cause some outages when people are not digging careful enough. However storms won't cause outages. ",
"STAMINA STAMINA",
"Is it real?",
"She gon cut you if you step on em again.",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDtiFYZXv14",
"This is the most Dutch thing I have ever seen. It's like Vincent Van Gogh, high on weed and chugging Heineken, selling tea so he can buy a million dollar share of tulips, while cooperating with the Nazis. This picture couldn't be more Dutch if it gained 100 square km of land area over the next 100 years through giant civil projects.\n\nI bet it was allowed in Japan a generation before any of the rest of Europe.",
"Civilization V anyone? This is the look a Polder improvement takes upon completion for William of Orange and the Netherlands...\n\nHaven't played Civ VI yet, so unsure if the Netherlands are a part of it. ",
"!dreambot ",
"I would've sworn this was somewhere in the Netherlands.",
"Thanks! I am going to Tokyo in March. It seems to be about an hour and half away by taking a series of trains. Would be cool to see, but probably won't be able to. ",
"Wow I'm sure this is very edited but it might be the best picture I've ever seen.",
"For the most part the oversaturated one isn't terrible. Most landscape photos are such overkill when photographers/designer crank up that saturation bar too high but it kinda works here.\n\nThe reason why I and possibly you like this more natural looking version is because of the contrast between the sky and the flowers. \n\nThe oversaturated one feels a lot flatter. ",
"Very unique- nice work. ",
"Wow I thought for sure this was going to be the Netherlands",
"This is so beautiful I can hardly believe it exists! ",
"Fun fact. The largest building in the world is the Aalsmeer auction house where all these flowers go to be sold. It is bigger than the country of Monaco.",
"The downhill snow track is probably my favorite. I wish it could be longer. ",
"Someone is trying to make epic bacon. ",
"Where is this??",
"It looks lovely, but how can it be commercially viable to leave such a large gap between rows?",
"I want to go to there.",
"why isn't Sonic & All-Stars Racing on this",
"is this dutch?",
"I can't even tell the difference between the two, they look exactly the same",
"That is one epic motherfucker of a photograph! I salute the maker's skills.",
"It does kind of remind me of a video game. Like WOW or something.",
"Wow",
"I want to go to there ",
"GOd that is breath taking!",
"Wow, is.....this.... real?",
"It is Japan? ",
"I've never seen so much Bitcoin before.",
"This should be Holland xd!!",
"How else do you get this many upvotes? ",
"Have the Netherlands invaded Japan without me noticing?",
"They grow gays",
"Me too, guess there's no copyright on the tiny kernel of displayable national identity that we have.",
"Q99",
"I’m honestly having trouble determining if this is digital art or a photograph. It looks like some sweet map out of new FPS. ",
"Thank you! Saved me a google search ;)",
"This is what I get for making assumptions. \"Tulips? Windmills? I know where this is, haha!\"\n\n> Chiba Prefecture Akebono Mountain Agricultural Park\n\nwhat the fuck\n\n[confusedly scratches head in Dutch]",
"WAIT THIS IS REAL?!",
"u/Your_Post_As_A_Movie",
"Japan?! I was gonna guess the Netherlands. ",
"Well the Dutch were the only European power allowed to trade in Japan for centuries so I suppose it's only natural for there to be some interest in Dutch culture over there. ",
"I actually moved to the NL, and when I saw that picture I thought \"this is where I'm going this weekend, need to find the location\", I was 100% sure like you it was here.",
"Isn't Akebono that American Yokozuna?",
"We still have quite a lot of the old windmills around my birth city :) They are typically a bit off the main roads though!",
"wow - i thought this was a new Battlefield One map ",
"What kind of trees are those? Are they dawn redwoods?",
"Who knows, /u/spicedpumpkins may have already found it with these elevated saturation levels on a poster site. I can't provide a direct link (or my commet doesn't show up), but [the top link here](https://www.google.com/search?q=Holland+flowers+Silk+Fabric+Poster+Print+JZK937&oq=Holland+flowers+Silk+Fabric+Poster+Print+JZK937&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l2.343j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8) is one such site. \n ",
"I think you should try and make it.\n\nWould be a really great experience to get farther out from the city. ",
"when my internet goes out I just stare out of a window for hours ",
"Thanks for the wallpaper",
"Yes, the KNIL invaded 2 days ago.",
"Wasn’t there a donkey Kong downhill that cannon’d you back to the top?",
"Here we go now this is a good background ",
"The first one is very over-saturated, especially the colors in the sky.",
"Instantly reminded me of that part in Zelda BotW where you have to walk through the flower garden",
"I dont believe, some paintings aren't even this pretty.",
"I highly doubt the second picture isn't saturated, I'm calling bs.",
"I laughed. Have my upvote.",
"Dutch guy here. I was confused, there was something off with that picture. I think it are the trees. We don't have trees like that.",
"i have to go here its not an option",
"You like it because it’s a better representation of what actually exists. The other falls into some uncanny valley where it looks like a painting. ",
"I always thought they grew on trees",
"more like saturation farm ",
"Yes, there was, on the Wii. It was fun. There was also a snowy one similar to this one that did the same thing.",
"Important to note that can be an intended effect. Pictures aren't always going for a 100% accurate replication \"of what actually exists.\"",
"I see these amazing pictures of nature and I wonder how some people think that nature and world in general came by coincidence and not God’s creation. Such a stunning and beautiful picture.",
"#You must not hurt the flowers! \nThey are screaming out in pain!",
"Or the tiny hill upon which the windmill stands. We don't have elevation like that. ^^^/s",
"If you zoom in on the trees and compare the two, there's really not much difference! Normally adding saturation destroys fine details like those trees, but I think that the jpg compression in the original has already done that, so there's no big loss.\n\nThe white flowers show the saturation change a little more. You lose a small, but very small amount of detail in the white flowers.\n\nI'm honestly amazed to see it look this good with those saturation changes.\n\nThe thing that really stands out about this photo (both versions) is the underexposure. This is what really makes the colors in the field pop, and it's a sign of someone that understands photography decently well. If you just allow your camera or phone to adjust the exposure, it will raise it substantially so you don't have so many dark colors in the foreground, but in this case you really want those dark colors.\n\nI really love this photograph. :)",
"The Hila Rao Shrine",
"Also above ground electricity and the rooftops. Although on sheds maybe, but usually they look different.",
"Photo, with adjustments.",
"Woman i have a kingdom to save",
"Yes",
"I like it, would be a nice background screen on my computer ",
"Yes. It's in Japan.",
"It just rolls off the tongue. ",
"It's because redditors love to *blast* saturation even though it always looks fucking terrible",
"It's a photo, with adjustments.",
"It could be, absolutely. People can definitely like it, no problem. I’m talking about a philosophy of landscape photography about editing a picture to be what you saw, which often is not caught by a lens like it is the eye. This guy did not see bioluminescent tulips at sunset. \n\nHowever, it does have an awesome fantasy feel. So it hits the mark somewhere for sure. ",
"The hues and the different textures. I'm just in AWE!",
"As a Dutchmen I could immediatly tell it isn't, there are no mountains over here. ",
"Holy shit, this place is just down the road from me. \nI'll have to check it out when it's in season.",
"Like every digital photo you've ever seen, yes, this is edited.\n\nAre you saying you don't like the look of it if they adjusted brightness, contrast, saturation and sharpness?",
"Yes. It's in Japan",
"It is edited, like every other digital photo you've ever seen.",
"Same here!",
"I've always found something off in these absolutely perfect pictures of nature. It never looks quite right for me.",
"Always prefer to see the normal shot of photos like this. Love the natural looking photo better in this one. It's beautiful either way. ",
"Thought this was Rocket League for a second. ",
"confuse! isn't real",
"It's actually Japan. Someone probably downvoted you because several of the top comments say it's in Japan, but you obviously may not have seen those. People like the downvote button...",
"This is the Dutchest thing I've seen today",
"no it looks great, but my mind would have been blown if it was unedited.",
"Oh, I *know.*",
"Except for the fact that, apparently, it's not in Holland. I was surprised by that also.",
"Man, the colors in this photo is amazing \\- not one spot keeps your eye focused there for a long time \\- your vision travels all over the photo",
"Needs more diversity.",
"Reminds me of horizon zero dawn ",
"Looks like the Witcher' last dlc",
"Time to whip out the klompen.",
"Looks like a Fortnite map update",
"its so beautiful",
"I think Magda would kill you before you even get to drive there. ",
"Meanwhile, back on-topic, it's a beautiful shot. You are fortunate to have seen it in-person.",
"r/cozyplaces",
"It's sort of a back-and-forth... Tart Top in Mario Kart DS (2005) and Cookie Land in Double Dash (2003) were both themed around sweets and had similar color schemes to Sugar Rush from Wreck-it Ralph (2012).\n\nAt the same time, it's hard to imagine that Sweet Sweet Canyon from Mario Kart 8 )(2014) isn't basically a Sugar Rush homage/knock-off. Which is fine, since Sugar Rush is a Mario Kart homage/knock-off.\n\nTo get closer you'd really have to just make Sugar Rush into a game. Which apparently they did, but there's maybe a flash game and maybe a fan game made in Unity. There's no monolithic \"this is the game\" presence.",
"*grabs meteor rod*",
"This could easily just be a screenshot from Zelda or Guild Wars :)",
"Wow those photos would all make excellent wallpapers, thanks for finding the links",
"Why so much wasted space between the rows?\n\nI am assuming it is necessary to the process, but it seems like a lot of arable land is going unused here.",
"Yeah but this is Rainbow Rose.",
"Canon EOS 5DS R\n Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM\n **31mm/ƒ/10/5s/ISO 50**",
"So this is where gay peeps come from....",
"...is this real?",
"I would LOVE to. My two conditions that I would need to look into first:\n\n1. Will the flowers be in bloom in Late March?\n2. Is there anything close or around the park that I can do afterwards?\n\nLast year I went for a month and I could have easily swung this. This year I am going for about a week and a half. I am going to add it to my \"list\" of things. I created a list of things I could do, no details or plans, just names of places to visit or ideas of things to do. So stuff like obscure museums. I will do some research.",
"Tulips and a wind mill. Wonder where this is?",
"Taste the rainbow. Tastes like tulips.",
"oh, that's pretty nice view:)",
"Why /s though",
"*Eight*\n\nFUCK, I'm old ",
"Congrats for the amazing camera, how much did you pay?",
"The original still looks straight out of a video game's story mode, wow.",
"These are just the stats for this photograph. I always like to see how its made.",
"Me too, until I zoomed in on that building off to the left in the background. Suddenly yep, that's definitely Japan.",
"I want to live there ",
"Where is dis?",
"Came in this thread for the BOTW reference.",
"As an amateur photographer I struggle with that a bit. I find myself personally liking much dark photos. Like I will see things people post and it will get lots of praise but personally I find them \"washed out\" maybe I need better monitors.",
"Flashbacks of the [bridge.](https://i.imgur.com/JzFkTfp.gif)",
"If you squint it almost looks like a bitcoin farm",
"https://www.mariowiki.com/Sweet_Sweet_Canyon",
"Polder: +3 Food from marshes and flood plains.",
"Huh. Weird, my money was on Holland.",
"this is now my desktop wallpaper",
"I would go so far as to say that the \"original\" already looks heavily saturated, and it didn't need even more saturation from a second editor",
"Because Limburg exists. And windmills are relatively often placed on a little hill/terp.",
"Is it bad I thought this was minecraft ",
"I have no words just beautiful. ",
"I'm guessing this has been touched up to make the colors pop like this, but it still an amazing pic.",
"Look at all those Bitcoins!",
"Lol",
"Oh wow! How come just the Netherlands?",
"While it was on the Wii version, DK Mountain comes from Double Dash on the GameCube.",
"Looks like the end of fable 2 where your in the heaven sequence",
"This sorta reminds me of the garden in the movie Coraline. ",
"I want to live here and subsequently die here.",
"Well there's this theme park in Japan called [Huis den Bosch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huis_Ten_Bosch_(theme_park)) which recreates some parts of the Netherlands. The photo is probably from there.",
"definitely Tirisfal",
"Giving a new meaning to “I’ve got wood”",
"r/accidentalwesanderson",
"It's the mountains in the background.",
"i'm no bad bad guy but im taking this as my new wallpaper\n",
"Also because you’re scared of downvotes.\n\n/s",
"A recreation of a 17th century high end graphics card.",
"Happy cake day",
"Looks so refreshing like a fruit drink. Would like to drink this picture on ice",
"New fortnite town",
"And that’s how all that dude’s friends got murdered. ",
"Hello /outrun ",
"It must be pretty rad to own a flower farm. Something seems very whimsical about it.",
"Double Dash fucked us all up, man. The bitter taste of Rainboe road still lingers. ",
"Netherlands?",
"Ah a tourist park, that makes sense then. Thanks. ",
"This just became my background",
"This probably isn't the best answer out there, but anyway...\n\nThe Portugese were the first Europeans to trade with the Japanese. Along with bringing goods from their trade network they also brought Catholic missionaries who began proselytizing. Within 50 years of this there was a sizable Catholic minority in the Nagasaki area (where the foreign traders were limited to). Eventually this led to religious tension between the Catholics (mainly peasants) and the Buddhists (which the ruling class in the area were). There was rebellion led by primarily Catholic peasants which was crushed by the ruling class. The Portugese were then banned from trading because they wouldn't stop bringing Jesuit priests in with them. \n\nThe Dutch (who were primarily Reformed and not Catholic by this point) on the other hand we're much less concerned with spreading their beliefs and were more focused on trading. The Japanese tolerated them more than the other Europeans and allowed trade to continue with them although there were very heavy restrictions. IIRC they were limited to trade from a small island in the Nagasaki harbor and there were thorough inspections to make sure no Christian symbols or Bible's made their way through. \n\nSources: random Wikipedia articles on the topic and the fantastic movie Silence (2016, dir. Martin Scorsese) which is about Portugese priests in Japan during the crackdown on Christians. \n\nTL;DR: the other Europeans wanted to convert the locals to Christianity while the Dutch just wanted to trade.",
"Came here to say this!",
"Actually, I'm from the hilly part of Limburg, so it felt a bit disingenuous to post it without an /s. ^^^^/s",
"is this even real haha",
"I think I hear a chest on the second floor of the windmill. Quickly, we have a lot of ground to cover.",
"wow! the flowers in the foreground got a little too much dodging IMO, but this is an incredible shot. so well composed. feels complete.",
"Reminds me of Coraline.",
"31",
"For a moment there I though someone had sprayed the flowers with fluorescent dye or something, but no, just photoshop.",
"Nice! Is there any chance I could get a pic of your fat cheese pussy / balls? ",
"The Portuguese were actually the first Europeans to start trading with Japan, but then they tried spreading Christianity and the Shogun wasn't having it so he threw them out. The Dutch were less interested in spreading religion, so they were allowed to keep conducting trade with Japan (they were not allowed to leave their trading post [Dejima](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dejima) however).",
"Reminds me a bit of when I used to waste time playing Farmville.",
"I came here to say that it looks like a stadium for Rocket League. Good stuff",
"Where every five year old's lost dog ends up :)",
"Did someone call?",
"Literally my favorite levels in the game. Snes version is the best!",
"Neat!",
"I'm getting flashbacks from that movie Coraline ",
"beat me to it!",
"There really isn't any reason they couldn't make it more than one lap and still be all downhill. Sort of MC Escher / Mobius strip thing. ",
"So vibrant.",
"There's probably at least 2 chests in that windmill",
"Morbo: \n#WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!",
"Why would you ever want to ruin such beautiful tulips",
"Is this a polder?",
"Thank you so much for the thorough explanation! ",
"r/outrun",
"Post the original version in a month and see how many people still say the saturation has been increased. I'm betting at least a few.",
"My parents told me that all of my dead pets had “crossed the rainbow bridge”. Are you trying to tell me that every pet I had as a child was gay? \nThat’d be one hell of a coincidence. But would also explain why my rabbit didn’t want to breed with my sister’s rabbit.",
"Those flowers are definitely Digital Blasphemy material.",
"I always wondered where rainbows came from. Now I know....they are grown on farms! A number of years ago I flew my plane thru a rainbow. Don't know why but I felt I was doing something wrong when I did.",
"This isn't in Holland? Colour me surprised.",
"Thank you! 😄",
"No problem! I find this sort of history fascinating.\nIf you want to know more, these links should help:\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93Netherlands_relations?wprov=sfla1\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimabara_uprising?wprov=sfla1",
"So this is where Skittles come from. ",
"those hills may as well be mountains in the netherlands :P",
"This is beautiful! ❤",
"Oh shit, hadn't noticed. 12 frigging years. Thanks! ",
"I feel a bit swindled that this isn't the Netherlands. It just doesn't have the same effect since it's Japan.\n\nBut beyond that, from a purely photographical standpoint, this is an incredible shot - well done!",
"Would be cool if it burned like a rainbow as well",
"We try to ignore the fact that Limburg exists",
"exact coordinates:\n35.8964466, 140.0082747\n\nThere's probably some allegorical reason for that single windmill so far away from the river, doubt thats for pumping water...",
"So this is where Rainbows come from",
"This reminded me of the twisted metal 2 map holland.",
"This reminds me of [flower](https://youtu.be/rrfBjWOw2Xo?t=21) on the playstation. It was one of my go-to chillout games. :D",
"I feel like I played it on DS. ",
"Yeah as a Dutchman I was sure this would be in the Netherlands, even the sky looks Dutch. But the Japanese have had a lot of contact with the Dutch, so no surprise they wanted to copy some of our beautiful things.",
"I feel like this is what it looks like when you get to the end of a rainbow. ",
"WHERE CAN I FIND THIS PLACE!?!?!",
"Imagine living there and waking up to this every morning.",
"At first glance it looked like it is taken from Witcher 3. ",
"> Chiba Prefecture Akebono Mountain Agricultural Park \n \njapan\n\n",
"FLÜGGÅӘNKб€ČHIŒßØLĮÊN",
"The Netherlands was one of the only countries that was allowed to do trade with Japan during the Edo period. Lot's of culture flowed over to Japan and some of their words nowadays stem from Dutch. Am I right /u/koektrom?",
"Rainbow farm could also be named 'Moo-moo road'",
"Look at the flowers. ",
"This really makes me wanna play Flower again. ",
"There was Donkey Kong Jungle (I think that's what its called) in Mario Kart 7",
"Wario's something, right?",
"Neew phone background. achieved❤ ",
"The Netherlands were indeed the only western nation that was allowed to trade with the Japanese. All western science as such was seen through a Dutch lens. Dutch words common to the Modern Japanese include Randoseru (Backpack for children) from Ransel. (Soldier's backpack. The d in Randoseru apparently comes from the habit of saying randsel), Kaban, which is an old fashioned southern Dutch word for bag, and mesu (scalpel) from the dutch word mes (knife). Then there's also a whole list of medical jargon, but that has a Chinese twist so I couldn't trace them back if I wanted to. ",
"I thought it was a painting for a moment",
"I had it as a background on the main page of our intranet site for about a year and a half. I finally only changed it because I heard someone commenting how they were sad I didn't change the backgrounds with the seasons anymore. I just really liked that picture. ;)",
"Polders are so awesome once you research Economics. I just wish there were more marshes when I play the Dutch.",
"The jury voted to acquit after seeing that GIF footage",
" Stardew Valley IRL",
"...And if you're not so much into reading Wikipedia pages, there's the Samurai Champloo series that is set around that era... ",
"Holy shit imagine tripping here. ",
"Now this is one of the most beautiful pictures that I've seen all week. This is really a great shot and you should be proud. If you were smart, you would enter this in a photography juried show.",
"Normally I'm not a fan, but I really like how saturated the colors are.",
"I knew this had to be in the comments somewhere ",
"Stolen for wallpaper.",
"is this for Real?",
"Which planet is this on",
"Everything above sea-level is considered a mountain in the Netherlands. ",
"actually its also from r/wallpapers I think (might have been another wallpaper subreddit, but Ive seen it in that context before already)",
"In the rainbow...... farm, where your dreams and horrors come.....true?",
"I'm Dutch and I wanna go there now. Am I weird?",
"OH MY GOD TOO DAMN BEAUTIFULLL",
"Is this a video game or real life?",
"I think it would be fun to visit another country's rendition of America - and I'm American - so, no!",
"Yeah that neon pink is distractingly over the top ",
"Pretty amazing! :) ",
"Hi fellow Dutchman. There's a small grammatical error in one of your sentences. It should read 'I think it is the trees.' (the verb is referring to it, not the trees)",
"Exactly why I unsubscribed from r/earthporn everything is super saturated, edited and has filters ",
"I am guessing.. The Netherlands? (The tulips and the windmill tipped me off)",
"Size?",
"You can wander all over my wood, if you know what I mean...",
"Truly one of most beautiful photographs I've ever seen.",
"Why does this remind me of Tarren Mill on World of Warcraft? Better yet, why the hell do I still remember the name of a fictional town when I can't remember real world towns.",
"I felt that the buildings weren't Dutch looking (aside from the windmill obv).",
"Washed out has become its own trend. Especially for wedding and portrait photography. ",
"Overwhelming want to see that with my own eyes. ",
"Which Skyrim mod is this?",
"Where is this? I want to live there! ",
"Hi friend, rarely is an adverb (bijwoord), but since you're not referring to a verb, you should just use the adjective (bijvoegljjk naamwoord): rare. You could say: *you rarely see*, as well. \nFijne avond!",
"It doesn't happen often, but sometimes a post immediately gets upgraded to \"Set as Background\" status. Thanks for this one!",
"Farm life. ",
"That's such a diplomat thing to say",
"Wat voor'n spul hest nou over dan? Qest nait normaol int nederlandsch uutleg'n. ",
"Just... Wow... ",
"So the ones in the sky are free range organic?",
"This is the most Holland picture ever",
"> Chiba Prefecture Akebono Mountain Agricultural Park\n\nThey did a literal yet impressive copy&paste of the Netherlands.\n\nEven fooled me as a dutchie, was certain that this picture was from somewhere around the province of North Holland.\n",
"Don't step inside it or else a lady may just attack and kill you!",
"Reminded me of that as well, lol",
"How many times do I need to tell you. Don’t. Step. On. The. Flowers!!",
"I hope you like hard labor, being poor and the smell of shit ",
" That one looks much nicer. Why was it altered? ",
"Die uitgang -ly gebruik je alleen als het woord (in dit geval zeldzaam, rare) iets zegt over een werkwoord.",
"Thought this was minecraft",
"I have this as my wallpaper haha.",
"Looks unreal.. thanks for this man",
"rainbow farm 😍😘",
"We ain’t in Kansas no mo!",
"This beautiful picture made me rage just because it made me remember that shit",
"Not to be dramatic but I would go here to die",
"On the bight side, you can't fall off of this one 100 times when someone bumps into you or you hit a turn too wide",
"Thought it was a screen shot of blood and wine lol.",
"Are....are those tulips? ",
"\"Saturation Farm\"",
"There's Candy Mountain in Mario Kart Custom Tracks. That's one",
"That does make sense as it becomes more of a pastel look. I am more referring to Landscape photos. Like these are some I took from the roof of my office building in San Diego.\n\nhttps://imgur.com/a/LVMmM\n\nI like the darker look, they seem almost more cinematic. I know they aren't great but I am proud of them :)",
"Neon farm? Neon farm.\n\n",
"Denmark? ",
"Yeah the hill is not normal for the Netherlands ",
"ohhhh looks like the white bread in my pantry! ",
"I want to live there so desperately",
"Nah.. We wouldn't put trees in front of a wind mill...",
"Anarchy Acres, Fortnite",
"There's New Holland in Michigan also. It's as stereotypical as you would imagine.",
"Love this",
"Witcher 3 right before a damn Archspore appears?",
"!dreambot12",
"Whales are accumulating, watch out.",
"Are those Bitcoins growing?",
"I have a few more for you, if you're interested. (I'm a native Dutch speaker but studied Japanese)\n\nJapanese - Dutch - English \n\npenki - pek - paint\n\notenba - ontembaar - untameable, but now means tomboy in Japanese\n\nkariumu - kalium - potassium\n\nkaruki - kalk - lime (the mineral, not the fruit)\n\npinsetto - pincet - tweezers\n\nsupoito - spuit - syringe\n\n\n\n",
"put em in two tabs and flop between them, you'll see",
"There's a reason for that",
"Oh you mean west gate tree hospital? ",
"I need this in wall picture size! \n\nBeautiful\n",
"This is good for tulip bulbs.",
"Where is this?",
"Thank you!",
"Solid work, Gildish Chambino, son of Childish Gambino! 👌",
"I would always prefer to look at something without photo manipulation, at least once to know what it actually looks like in real life other than only having a fantasy setting for reference.\n\nI think this preference for truth goes hand in hand with my preference to know what the girl looks like without makeup before sleeping. My guess is that like scenery photos most people don't give a fuck what reality is like if fantasy always looks better.",
"I'm commenting on this so that I don't forget it exists",
"This is so over saturated.",
"I'm quitting photography",
"This gorgeous beauty of a place is my springtime wallpaper for sho!",
"My ears started ringing when I looked at this. ",
"I was thinking of the little building to the right. Didn't look right.",
"So much crypto",
"Right. Everybody here is living in 2018 and I'm sitting here in 1994 still trying to not die on the first try of Mind Cart Carnage much less deal with spiders that shoot landing webs and parrots that shoot coconuts and still making references of 'oh fuck where's the L and R buttons when I hit a pot hole I didn't see'",
"Yeah, I'm super colour blind and this is why I don't even touch the saturation bar lol ",
"I legit thought this was a screenshot from WOW.",
"Lol. I wish my dad was Lando Calrissian/Simba/Grammy award winning/Emmy award winning Donald Glover. ",
"wow! that's amazing",
"Beautiful. Saved. Someday I'd like to oil paint this scene.",
"I remember it just from constantly leveling several toons.",
"Yup, Mt. wario is the name of that track ",
"Is this Tirisfal Glades from world of Warcraft?",
"Stunning capture!",
"This reminds me of that stupid girl in LOZ:BOT who would lick your ass for stepping on her flowers, she made a circular maze path to the shrine. If you didn't purposefully trample all over her flowers a few times, you didn't play it right.\n\nEDIT. I can't believe I didn't see that...\nkick*\n",
"Looks like an Eyvind Earle painting",
"animalcrossing_irl",
"Or /r/outrun",
"This is Japan? I thought to myself this is the most Dutch picture I've ever seen. "
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"How small is your country? That fire looks like jogging distance away.",
"Monaco maybe... size of the city of Monaco. Edit: looked and it's Def not Monaco haha",
"Pochinki ",
"This is not pubG",
"Not Monaco lol close to Morocco "
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"I drove past a gate like this in Seoul one time and when I went back the next day, it was a pile of smouldering ashes.\n\nEDIT - Yep, [Namdaemun](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Namdaemun_fire) ",
"Thats crazy, I was just at the Namdaemun market this weekend. I never knew that thing had been burnt down.",
"Oppan, Gwanghwamun style!",
"Survived the [Imjin Wars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasions_of_Korea_\\(1592–98\\)), survived [invasions by the Manchu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qing_invasion_of_Joseon), survived the Japanese Occupation (during which they tore everything down from [palaces to temples](https://cdn.namuwikiusercontent.com/s/077b5784f835c5cbc07ba618ef1499b4e11d698601dfac5c6d2b5341df782d4d334c7ddd48ed520169c41a2c24de51193a8026c06698acb44fe0eb05b460f0d0550a6097914e65e38083c36498a3e63e?e=1522985758&k=S49FLyHWsAuXUwmdBDbgLg)), survived the Korean War, and stood as the entrance to Seoul for 550 years...\n\nonly to have some crazy old guy come and burn it down. The shame."
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"Can't hold a bitcoin in your palm and feel it's weight.",
"it's....Girth",
"It's...Firmness ",
"I try to pay my bills in gold all the time.",
"And all that glitters is gold;\nOnly shooting stars break the mold",
"Hey now ",
"Your an All Star!!!"
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When the global markets shit themselves, it's always good to have a little gold. Best currency ever.
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[
"Hide yo kids, hide yo dog and hide yo husband. ",
"Yeah, protecting that huge tract of arid land is definitely a shoot first, ask questions later situation. ",
"How does a sign like this work with gun regulation in Australia? Are they allowed out in the Bush? ",
"Yes. Highly regulated, and you must provide evidence that you have to use them on your land (not for shooting strangers though!)",
"There’s probably been a history of cattle duffing, or prospectors coming on to the land looking for mineral / precious metal deposits ",
"Stay off my patch.",
" What about recon roo with pouch cam?",
"Keep Outta my Bush",
"5Hoot?",
"Figured as much! I would hope this sign wouldn’t constitute a legally binding right to use lethal force. ",
"It's an alluvial gold mining operation. There's a fair bit of the yellow stuff there.\n",
"Thanks! Glad to hear it.",
"No body, no crime.",
"TIL Australia has a Texas too.",
"I too 5hoot and ask questions later",
"I thought Australia has strict gun control law.",
"I find it disturbing that they choose to put a dot over every capital I.",
"Are they worried about people and their dogs mining the land in the night.",
"No witnesses",
"And their missus",
"Its easy to get a gun, you just can't get a hand gun.",
"The reflection looks like Mick Taylor from Wolf Creek",
"That's not a sign... ",
"Thanks for the compliment cuz!",
"https://imgur.com/a/6nGNz",
"Ι kind of feel that if I were to steal gold from a mine I would neither bring my missus nor would I stop because a sign told me to.",
"Probably more worried about getting robbed for any gold they haven't sold off yet.",
"They \"5 hoot\" first? Well, at least they give you fair warning.",
"No way that land could have anything of value based on this one small picture right?\n\nNot like it could be a cattle ranch where a single bovine can cost between $1,500 and $3,500.\n\nNot like it could be a horse breeding ranch where a single sample of horse goo can cost thousands of dollars.\n\nNot like it could potentially be an oil mining site.\n\nNot like it could be an alluvial gold mining operation (oh wait that's what OP says it was).\n\nNo... clearly a single picture gives you all the info you need to know about the land.",
"I don't know. This may be on the border between Australia and Texas.",
"where i come from, a life isnt valued in dollars. so we ALWAYS ask questions first. just a thought.",
">we ALWAYS ask questions first.\n\nCool, so if someone smashes your window and breaks into your house at 3am with a crowbar, I'm sure you're going to ask him politely to put the weapon down & have a chat over where his life went wrong?\n\nMe? Well if it happens again I'm gonna shoot the fucker. \n\nOk well when it did happen to me he wasn't armed with a crowbar, but he did smash my window and force entry into my home. He entered on his feet, and left on his back.",
"The point of the sign is to stop the non-gold stealing random passers-by. The getting shot is what stops the gold thieves.",
"Aussie farmers don't want to be white African farmers. ",
"im so proud of you but, living in a first world country, my belongings are insured and there is no reason for me to potentially take a life over some monetary value.",
"I didn't know why he forced entry into my home, I did not know if it was to steal property, or to harm myself, or my family. Nor was I going to find out. Turned out the criminal was wanted for a series of burglaries and was also armed with a knife. I feel no remorse for having defended myself and my property.\n\nThe criminal decided his life was worth less than my property the second he decided to force entry into my home. He also decided to bring a knife to a gun fight. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.\n\n>there is no reason for me to potentially take a life over some monetary value.\n\nSo you're going to have a nice chat and make sure the criminal is there for your belongings and not for something else? What if they aren't?\n\nI'm not going to give them the opportunity. They forced entry into my home, they invaded the one place that I am supposed to feel safe and secure. There are plenty of stories of people selling their homes and moving after a robbery, or a home invasion, because they no longer feel safe in their own home.\n\nI refuse to be a victim.\n",
"Texas has the Bushes. Australia has the bush",
"Some people believe their privacy and property are worth killing for... some people don't respect fences... you know the crunchy ones be like \"oh whoa sorry bro didn't see your fence Kangaroo man\"\n He's like \"sorry mate I didn't see your face, boom!\" I mean you have to be in a certain mental state to seek such extreme isolation in the first place. I could understand that if you went to Such Great Lengths to be alone and still have people bothering you, that you might become a little irritated.",
"Out of context.\n\nGiven that I quoted how the user stated that would **ALWAYS** ask questions, I challenged that statement with a specific scenario.\n\nBut to address your scenario, I own a large plot of land (square miles) if I find you trespassing you are going to be asked politely yet firmly to leave.\n\nIf you refuse to comply, it will cease to be a request. If you become violent and confrontational, it will *definitely* cease to be a request, and you will be ordered to the ground and held until the police arrive as has been the case a few times with drunk college kids who want to throw a \"Kegger in the country\".\n\n______________________________\n\nI deal with trespassers a few times a year. People have this insane idea that they can set up camp on my land because they \"want to see the stars\". Despite the \"No Tresspassing\" signs posted every 500 ft.\n\nAnd every time I do I am armed. Partially because I do not know who they are and what they are doing on my land. Partially because I live in rural Texas and have to worry about Feral hogs. \n\nIt's really quite simple, respect the person and property of others.",
"I mean why would anyone break into someones house just to hurt them? Im gonna go ahead and say stealing is the common reason. Also, if you ask me directly, no i would never shoot at a living person unsess its a direct threat for my life. A guy with a knife stealing my laptop isnt a threat for me. A guy with a knife charging me is a threat. You refuse to be a victim but are totally ok with being a murderer, I'm sorry thats just absolutely disgusting to think about.\n\n",
"A lot of crimes don't require a body. Shoplifting springs to mind.",
">Australia *is* the bush.\n\nFTFY",
"In the US, there is about a 50/50 chance that a homeowner has a gun. Which means if someone commits a home invasion, there's only a few probabilities: \n\n1. They didn't know you're home, in which case telling them that you have a gun and will shoot them is generally enough to get them to leave. \n\n2. They don't care because they're armed themselves. \n\nIn the US if someone breaks into your home while you're there shooting them is a very reasonable course of action. \n\nRelated note, home invasions are quite rare in the US compared to other countries. And the reason for that is that burglars know they'll get shot. ",
"I mean if there's a big sign saying that they will shoot you for putting a toe on their lawn should you really be surprised if you get shot for putting a toe on their lawn? \n\nIt doesn't matter if it's reasonable or not. What matters is the outcome. Maybe he goes to jail, maybe he doesn't. But you maybe get buried. \n\nWhen a person makes a threat, for your own safety, respect the possibility that the threat is credible. If a guy says he'll shoot you, maybe assume he will. ",
"I live in switzerland. Its not quite the same level but i assume about 30% of the people here have a gun at home (most commonly an assault rifle wich you get to keep after military service). There is quite some criminal tourism/burglary here, but no one would ever shoot another person just because they wanted to steal some stuff.",
"US/Australian translation\n\nWelcome to Baltimore.\nSpeed enforced by Police radar.",
"I was about to ask, gun laws in Australia are really tight but I guess in the Bush accidents occasionally happen, as it were.\n",
"What about Emus? Can I shoot Emus on my land? Can I use a machine gun?",
">I mean why would anyone break into someones house just to hurt them? \n\n[I](http://abc7chicago.com/suspects-tie-up-man-rape-woman-in-south-chicago-home-invasion-police-say/2573860/) [don't](http://www.macon.com/news/local/crime/article171386427.html) [care](http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/fran-dreschers-home-invasion-rape-ordeal-they-broke-the-door-down/news-story/57ad5f455f7626e155bbf99752b961f6) [to](http://www.fox10tv.com/story/36564128/2-men-at-large-after-violent-home-invasion-and-rape-in-eight-mile) [ask](http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2017/10/laplace_home_invasion_rape_sus.html) [why](http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2017/11/09/man-sentenced-to-68-years-for-willowbrook-home-invasion-rape/)\n\n> are totally ok with being a murderer,\n\nIt's not murder.\n\n Murder - Noun. \n the **unlawful premeditated** killing of one human being by another.\n\nInvoking castle doctrine is neither unlawful, nor is it premeditated. It is not murder. It is homicide I'll give you that. But don't go throwing around legal definitions like murder when it doesn't fit.\n\n>I'm sorry thats just absolutely disgusting to think about.\n\nDon't break into my home and you'll never have to. You've been doing it successfully since the day you were born. Over 7 billion people successfully avoid invading my home and thus avoid the lethal consequences of such every day.\n\nIt's really not difficult.",
"The murder rate in the US is 10x higher than that of Switzerland. Murder is still rare, but not nearly as rare as where you live. So, balance of probability states that home invasions in the US is much more dangerous to the occupants than in Switzerland. \n\nAccording to the last statistics I can find, about 27% of home invasions in the US result in violence from the invader toward the occupant. \n\nIf someone breaks into my house while I am still inside of it I am going to assume that there is a chance of them committing a violent crime toward me or my family. If they wanted to just take my stuff they would've waited until I went to work. You break in my house while I'm there, you're gonna get shot. ",
"It's a gold mining operation. You don't get to just show up unannounced to places like that. ",
"Yeah you can but just be careful not to bring up too many painful memories of the great emu war back in the day",
"That escalated quickly ",
"Yeah I'm sure you would start a conversation with the guy breaking into your house at night...",
"Look up NW Australia on Google maps. Probably the most remote place in any western country so I doubt they would go and report what happened. ",
"Property lines are what they are. Defense of property is what it is. \n\nNow, let's imagine this scenario real quick. You are a landowner with a gold mining operation. You've posted a sign that says you'll shoot anyone who jumps the fence. And then someone jumps the fence anyway. So, this person on your property (which is marked as a gold mining operation) KNOWS that you have threatened to shoot them but they came onto your land anyway...Would you not be concerned as the landowner in that scenario? ",
">THiS iS THE PLACE WHERE WE 5HOOT FiRST AND ASK QUESTiONS \n AFTER.\n\nDid a 6 year old write this?",
"West Texas is like this too. It's just more of a you're so far from civilization you've gotta handle your own business kinda thing. Dollars to donuts, any situation that calls for the police will have come to a natural close by the time they get there. Plus, when you live that far out there's really zero reason for anyone you don't know to wind up on your property uninvited so when they do you're naturally going to be suspicious.",
"They may be perfectly friendly they just don't want you on their land. If you would like to pay their taxes and mortgage I suppose you may have some moral authority to bitch about the sign?",
"I'd definitely take my dog though, he's got a nose for trouble, that dog. ",
"As a non-gold stealing passer-by I'd be cool with \"private property do not enter\" which makes me think I can ask for a glass of water if I'm dying without risking getting shot, but hey different place different customs.",
"Did you ever think maybe the murder rate is 10x higher than in Switzerland because of the violent mindset of many Americans? It's a circle... You think you need all those guns and be ready to kill at the drop of the hat...because everyone else also has those guns and is ready to kill at the drop of the hat.",
"In that last pic, weren't you worried about crocodiles?",
"5 hoot\n\nFTFY.",
"Seems like it would be more likely to be used in court as evidence against the property owner if they did murder someone. Could demonstrate reckless intent. ",
"Sounds like a “we’re doing something we don’t want people to stumble upon” situation. ",
"Of course it is. But that doesn't change the reality on the ground today. \n\nAmericans need to have a long serious talk about how we treat the mentally ill and how much we glorify violence. \n\nBut the time for that talk is NOT at 1am when someone is entering my occupied house. ",
"Your shadow is trespassing.",
"You see, this is the same kind of guy who would post the warning about being shot but not post a warning about the minefield set up between there and the mine. If you’re trespassing and you were told you would be killed, you should expect to die",
"Exactly. They're friendly once you get to know them, they've just gotta be sure that you're friendly and you come with good intentions before they let their guard down.",
"it's crap land!",
"Me scaring them into leaving isn’t going to replace my window, at least the coroner can tell me who the guy was and his family can pay for it",
"What is it? A space station?",
"I see you haven't played signey-spooney before. ",
"Bad strategy as a homeowner, IMO. You might think you have the upper hand because you have the homefield advantage, but they might wind up with the upper hand because they are awake and already inside. \n\nCall police, announce presence, bunker down around a choke point and wait for police to arrive. If the guy leaves, fine. If he doesn't also fine. 1am is not the time to be going room to room clearing and checking corners and hoping to get the drop on a bad guy who might be ready to get the drop on you. \n\nBesides, the cost of a window is nothing compared to the cost of legal fees. ",
"The sign is probably illegal. Shooting people for trespass is illegal. Fun times. But the property is probably so big that the owner could probably plead ignorance (\"Sign? What sign? I never put up a sign. Might have been my grandfather's offsider back in the 70s\") and get away with it.\n\nDickheads are a universal.",
"I didn't know Australia and the US shared a border!",
"r/iamverybadass",
"And their dogs too!",
"Not with that attitude!",
"I’d never go to Australia. They seem to hate tourists and are condescending to Americans. ",
"they had all that room at the bottom and didn't throw in a \"Ya cunt\"?",
">Texas has bushes. Australia is a Bush\n\nFTFYFTFY",
"Im sure you dont close the front door of your house either",
"Which is a funny statement considering how prevalent rural folk on welfare is.",
"LOL, they would have us believe in America that all you Australians have given up your guns? Is this another one of the lies our government tells us?\n",
"People kept breaking into my land to jack off my horses. Luckily I put a sign up and that was that. ",
"You're tellin' me I can break in somewhere and steal thousands of dollars of horse cum? Where?",
"Doesn't look far enough north",
"Yup, it's near the Queensland/New South Wales border: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas,_Queensland",
"You think that we will believe that you have a passport? ",
"I think that's the point though, if it said private property you might think it would be okay to enter if it were an emergency. This guy clearly doesn't want anyone on the land even if they're dying of thirst, etc.",
"Yea, but then I don’t get to kill anyone",
"*Read with Australian accent*",
"Not a single I is capitalized, yet literally, and yes, literally every letter is capitalized except I.",
"Well, fuck him too. I think I *will* steal his stupid gold.",
"To get out of law suits??\n \"It doesn't say Shoot, it says 5 hoot.\"",
"Well at least they're honest about being antisocial",
"So are you just trying to feel superior or did you have a point you were trying to make?",
"Good point. Have you considered breaking into other people's houses? You get to kill someone AND you can have whatever you find inside. \n",
"I think you can get a handgun if you compete often enough? I'll admit that I didn't read through all of this, but [here ya go](https://ssaa.org.au/news-resources/research-archive/handgun-ownership-facts-in-australia/).",
"Opal mines too if I'm not mistaken",
"Did they write 5 hoot on purpose incase they get sued or something? ",
"You think people wanting to rob a gold mine would be deterred by this sign? I'd assume most people willing to rob a gold mine would count on there being armed guards.",
"\"to prevent or terminate the unlawful imprisonment of himself or herself or another person\"\n\nWe could really use a law like that here in the states! That's one way to fix our radical incarceration problem. ",
"This sign isn't for the thieves, its for the idiots that blunder onto the land *looking like* thieves.",
"They shoot the people stealing from them. The sign is a warning for people to know not to go on the and because they will get shot. Of course a criminal would ignore the sign and get summarily shot as a result",
"5hoot first",
"Casey Neistat\n",
"Australia and Texas are basically the same place.",
"I wonder if that works on door-to-door scammers and early morning knock-knock proselytizers. ",
"Unlawful means not done by th government. I truly recommend you go and pull a gun in a prison of your choosing.",
"Checking Section 10.4(2) of the Criminal Code 1994 (Cth) which states the following:\n\nto prevent criminal trespass to any land or premises; or\nto remove from any land or premises a person who is committing criminal trespass.",
"I watched that Gold Diggers Aussie edition for a few episodes (can't remember the proper name). These sites are so far from civilization that the owners can be gone for 2 to 5 days just getting a piece of equipment fixed or getting more fuel. And that's only if the weather permits them to return.",
"People will look at a Private Property sign and say, \"Fuck it, what are they gonna do? Ask me to leave?\" \n\nThat won't happen so much with the \"We shoot on sight,\" sign.\n\n\n",
"Even lazier, they were just painting one half of the umlaut. \n\nSilly bushwackers, none of those words even call for diaeresis!\n\n",
"I thought guns were illegal in Australia?\n\nOr are they talking about shooting with blow darts?",
"And their mates",
"Let me rephrase, then I don’t get to legally kill anyone",
"This. You put hostility into the world, you get hostility back. It's exactly these type of people who get kids daring each other to trespass.\n\nPeople who do this should face legal repercussions. He published a letter of intent for premeditated murder on his front lawn, literally promising to not use judgment before committing murder.\n\nThreats of violence should not be tolerated. ",
"I thought guns were illegal in Australia?",
"take the fucking sign. \n\njust to be a dick to these assholes. ",
"Exactly. It would be too easy for an actual thief who was caught to say they didn't know and too disastrous to shoot a tourist that happened to be poking around not knowing what's going on. So you put up the sign to deter the tourists. All you got left are the thieves.",
"They shoot you and then they turn into Jayden Smith's twitter feed. ",
"it aught to just say \"belonga mick\" ",
">You're tellin' me I can break in somewhere and steal thousands of dollars of horse cum? Where?\n\nOP's mom's.",
"One day, I want to take a few months, go to Australia, get a motorcycle, and ride around the entire country. When I do so, I'mma look for that place, then stick an envelope on the sign with a note saying \"Hey, I'm a Canadian who's curious about this and would love to meet you!\" with a cell number and an email address. :)",
"You think we believe you have any idea what you are on about?\n\nIf you count passport cards, a majority of US citizens have one.\n\nhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2018/01/11/the-share-of-americans-holding-a-passport-has-increased-dramatically-in-recent-years-infographic/#3069c2f03c16\n\nNow, as to the condescending part: No, not really. I lived in Balmain for a couple of years back in the 90's. The only weird part was drunks coming up to me in pubs, and lecturing me on their perceppions of what was wrong with the US. \"The problem with you yanks..\" was the typical beginning.\n\nBut, if you ignored them, they stumbled off peacefully.",
"Oh my!",
"r/scarysigns",
"Man that guy's handwriting is awful.",
"Assault weapons are illegal. Hunting rifles are available with a licence. ",
"Texas has the presidential Bushes while Austria has Bush Beer",
"I read it as more of a promise than a threat.",
"The missus is the brains of the operation. ",
"Which is exactly what someone says after you call them out on threatening you.",
"Australia is Texas # 2 or Texas is Australia # 2 ",
"o yeah",
"So we stop the cycle of violence by perpetuating it? Solid plan ace. ",
"I thought they made guns illegal in Australia. No?",
"Oh, you have Americans too?\n\n/Canada",
"i LiKE iT. iT FiTS HiS ViDEOS.",
"If someone sees that sign, and goes in anyway, they deserve to get shot.",
"These salty cuckold comments are hilarious.\n\nMad respect to this man. A dying breed in decadent Western modernity. Christ bless and preserve him.",
"It's definitely his kind of personality, much like how in his older vlogs he'd throw stuff around rather obnoxiously for affect (effect?). ",
"> 5Hoot\n\nI wondered about this too. There seems to be a hidden message here.",
"What if they can't read?",
"Who going to tell on them?",
"I feel like if you get shot there you won't be found again. There are a lot of room to dig graves in the Australian outback.",
"I thought Australian firearms had been confiscated from the public and destroyed. Is this not right?",
"an argument could be made about all of the y's statuses but after reading the sign i don't want no trouble",
"You might be right about the y’s. What a strange way of writing. ",
"Kentucky. Triple Crown race winners stud for 6 figures or more per go. It's really, really expensive.",
"The areas you’re talking about receive the highest percentage of government welfare, by far. They would all literally die without constant federal babysitting.",
"Texas is just Australia but rightside up.",
"There are actually more guns in Australia now than before the govt buyout. You just need some \"valid\" reason to have one. (Hunting, etc)",
"Hoot Hoot Hoot Hoot Hoot",
"r/iamverybadass",
"If you think the only reason that someone would fence in their property and try to keep people out of it, is because they have something to hide you would love the US. If you have a backyard in the US it is most likely fenced in. And trespassing is taken seriously. So we must all have something to hide. Or you know we just don't want people fucking up, or fucking with the property and privacy that we payed for.\n\n I have absolutely nothing to hide but I still don't want people coming onto my property without my permission. The only reasons they would have to do that are bad reasons. You dont jump the fence into the property of a complete stranger just for some netflix and chill, or to talk about how disastrously shitty the new Cloverfield was.",
"I thought the Australian government took their people's guns?",
"No Face No Case",
"I get the idea. I had to shoot a couple of horse jackers in my day. ",
"WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP\n",
"The math checks out.",
"I would hate to be a land surveyor up there. ",
"We hoot five times and then we ask you the questions",
"\"there is no significant difference between rural and urban residents among those who have gotten poverty entitlements (47% vs. 43%)\"\n\nhttp://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/12/18/a-bipartisan-nation-of-beneficiaries/\n\nStop reading propaganda.",
"What is a threat if not a promise of violence? ",
"Also in the US if some retard hurts himself on my property he can sue me and there is a chance he can win because the conditions were dangerous. ",
"When you decide to quit LoL (i.imgur.com)\n\n",
"\"I didn't threaten to shoot anyone, your honor. That's a five.\"",
"Gold mining I think someone said.",
"I would think the barbed wire fence sends a pretty universal \"you shouldn't be here\". \n\nWould the inability to read make you not liable for any other trespass/violation of the law? ",
"You also generally don't put up a sign that says you're going to shoot anyone who's in your backyard. I highly doubt it was the fence that made him think something was up",
"Not all Australians are friendly?.. you don't say.. ",
"Really? My thought out there would be what sort of sauce I'll be served with.",
"Angry cunts ",
"hey Australia, the 70s called and wants its bush back.",
"I don't know how trespass laws work in Australia. In some parts of Europe you can't legally stop people from going on your land unless you have a good reason (danger to livestock, within X metres of a residential dwelling, etc.)",
"Bolt action rifles and non repeating shotguns are easily obtained by anyone (just need a justified reason like sport or hunting)\n\nSemi auto is where the restrictions come in. There are a few categories but you basically have to prove you need one (and you only get one) but large land owners usually have an occupational reason (like a professioinal need to kill herds pigs/hogs).\n\nHandguns are only really available for sport shooting and are heavily controlled.\n\nThe state of Western Australia has the least restrictive gun laws (it's generally national but applied slightly different state to state) probably because it is mostly rural property. It's a place where some properties are bigger than other countries, where they hunt and travel on their own land by helicopter because it can take over a day to drive.\n\nBasically, out in the middle of no where in Western Australia there is a fair chance they own a high calibre semi auto rifle and many high calibre bolt actions and if they decide to use it no one would ever find you.. they wouldn't even need to hide the body.",
"I'm calling bullshit. Australia doesn't have any guns.",
"The fuck is 5hoot",
"Live in texas, \"we dont dial 911\" emblazoned across a metal fabbed gun is the second most popular outer house decoration. Second only to the giant star with a rope like border. My grandma has one. ",
"Interesting considering firearms are illegal in Australia.",
"AFTER... Ask questions after.",
"Also, Arizona = lil' Australia",
"Just highly regulated. And they're still pretty common in the bush.",
"Yep because everything is financial. Quick question: do you have a method for dealing with the odd timber rattler? Coyote? Feral Hog? Most urban people would rely on the government (animal control) to remove a snake, stray dog etc, whereas most in the country have a firearm kept for just such a purpose. Just an example off the top of my head.",
"That’s a self-reported survey of all government benefits, not just welfare.\n\nBe better at critical thinking, check your sources better, and learn to have debates without talking like this because it makes you an asshole.",
"Australia is mostly Texas, except the two cities where it's San Francisco ",
"their boomerang technology is very advanced. ",
"Meanwhile Missouri has Busch Beer",
"That's the territory of the Kangarudes gang.",
"Getting 5hooted can't be that bad. ",
"Gotta love that sweet legal loophole where you can put up a sign and be totally justified committing murder. ",
"I wonder if it's more like this:\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRbh7cFvv5g",
"JODY HiGHROLLER",
"b-but they don't have guns?",
"Assault? That’s not a kind of weapon people in America even have.\n\nDo you mean semi-automatic guns that are painted black?",
"Where is the perpetuation?\n",
"effect ",
"You can Tell OP is a real Aussie, with that hat",
"Gun regulations doesn't = no guns. \n\nI'm from the UK and although guns are heavily regulated it's relatively easy for someone to get something like a shotgun, simply be above 18 and get a reference from your shooting club is sufficient. \n\nFarmers are also allowed fire arms, with a permit of course, for protecting their land from pests etc. ",
"So how do you tell when these sites are left empty? Asking for a friend. Also unrelated question, where do I find the cheapest plane tickets to Australia?",
"Thats a valid point. Its usually just \"Beware of Dog\".",
"We're allowed guns, even if we live in the city. \nIf you're classed as a primary producer (e.g farmer) it's a little cheaper.",
"Not an attorney and certainly not Australian, but I would guess that s 10.4(2) of the Criminal Code 1994 (Cth) was superceded by the [national firearms agreement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Agreement). My understanding is that the self-defense isn't by itself a legitimate reason for gun ownership under the agreement. I don't know if a person who owns guns for other reasons can legally use one in self defense though (I would think yes).\n\n ",
"Looks far enough north to me, but it's possible that it's a spot that's cut off from crocs. Sky is clear blue so it's probably during the dry season",
"Hey! there is quite a few smart men left down under. Mostly because there is enough shit to kill the dumb ones. Natural selection and all. ",
"Little known fact: The act of throwing a Boomerang is called \"shooting the rang\" or just \"shooting\".",
"Poor fucken gazza",
"But it shouldn’t be a shoot first, ask questions later situation. That’s just a horrible way to handle it when teenagers trespass all the time for no reason at all, find a place to smoke or maybe to look for shrooms. Not things you want happening on your property, but it’s still no reason to shoot at anyone.\n\nHell, if someone is literally breaking into your home, there is a certain series of steps you have to go through before just blowing their head off. Anyone with a sign like this is a jackass, period.",
"Drug faaaaarm.",
"That Oxford comma tho",
"Guy below the fold says it just as well. Rural areas are both supported by and restrained by government. Eg my family could make a lot of money if we clear felled our land. Lots of wood, then lots of grazing. But that isn’t really the point.\n\n‘Dependant upon the government’ can mean ‘needs govt to sort certain things out, as I lack the skills necessary to do it myself’. Here is a phrase more common in cities than remote properties: ‘get a guy in to do it’. In remote areas you need to do it yourself, pretty much always. \n\nThis applies to mechanical issues, first aid, security, sewage handling, water security and so on.\n\nIt’s one of the biggest and growing divides going on in the world right now. City ppl and remote areas people are actually getting to a point where they’re not on the same page at all in a lot of ways. Literally cannot understand each other’s perspective and challenges. \n\nIf you’re ever a few hours from police and ambulance you may think to try at that point in time putting yourself in the shoes of someone who is always in those conditions. I’ve had to deal with some home intruders when I was living 30km from the nearest police station. Doesn’t feel good. ",
"Australian hospitality ",
"Hey I never argued for shooting people willy nilly now.\n\n> Anyone with a sign like this is a jackass, period.\n\nNot necessarily, maybe they just have the sign to dissuade people from trespassing because they know it might lead to a situation where the trespasser could get hurt and they don't want to hurt anybody.\n\n> find a place to smoke or maybe to look for shrooms\n\nI guarantee that there is plenty of non-fenced off land out there they could use for that. And that there is plenty of fenced off land that is not owned by people who put up signs saying they'll shoot you. I don't really know what to tell you if you choose the land with the sign over all the other options.\n",
"No. Easy to get. Just not as batshit easy as the US, and if there is any thought that you might wanna use your firearm against a human being, you’ll lose the license (guns are privilege, not a right). Mostly it’s rifles. Hard to conceal, slow to fire. ",
"Things like this make me appreciate places like Iceland even more. Friendly people and very few fences and even fewer signs threatening to shoot you. ",
"My family grew up there, and have a family reunion there every year! Good to get some small town recognition.",
"Ask questions later, get 5hot now.",
"Not exactly. I live in Texas. You'd be hard pressed to find a sign like that out here, devoid of spelling errors. We don't spend much money on edjumacation round these parts.",
"Maybe this is a difference between locations, because these signs were all over where I grew up. And they’re definitely used by tough guys who basically fantasize about shooting people. \n\nAny no trespassing sign will dissuade people who don’t want to get into trouble, and no sign will dissuade dumb kids. It’s best not to treat guns like they’re the solvers of all problems and brag about how quick you’ll be to shoot people. Doesn’t matter where you live, there’s never an excuse. ",
"They do not shoot first they don’t have guns ",
"No, they deserve to be charged with trespassing. Or are we just doing away with laws now?",
"Kiwi here with friends in Oz. This sign is probably put up by a roughneck bogan with little understanding of the law who is trying to act tough. \n\nIn Queensland you can't just kill people for being on your property. You're allowed to defend yourself but the force has to be reasonable and proportionate to something being done to you. \n\nIf some bogan just shoots random people on his property with no notice he would certainly be arrested and put on trial for murder/manslaughter. \n\nIf you confront them and tell them to fuck off back where they came from and they attacked you, then you'd be within your rights to shoot them because you're way out in the bush and in fear for your life. ",
">You put hostility into the world, you get hostility back. ",
" well I hope you like getting shot at then, you should respect people's private property and stay the fuck off of it if they don't want you there. This person is not obligated in any way to help you if you are dying of thirst at his gate. Yes, it makes him a dick but there are plenty of dicks out there in the world",
"Yeah they do. There are actually plenty of gun owners there ",
"In a lot of places, you won’t encounter them at all. Kids trespass constantly, and the onus is on the dude pointing a gun before even trying to evaluate if they’re dangerous. 99% of the time, they’re not. Nobody is forcing anybody’s hand. \n\nIt’s a dick move, and putting up a sign like this makes it very clear that you’re a dick. It shouldn’t be glorified. ",
"So same as the US then. Do they allow handguns also? ",
"Can someone pull this up on google maps? We need to thoroughly investigate whatever they're hiding. ",
"https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vmycn/not_all_neighbors_are_friendly_in_the_bush_up_in/dttjd0g/",
"Is there such a thing as Australian Bush Crabs?\nGood name for a rugby team.",
"I want to strike the mention of guns and make this my (un)welcome mat.",
"Not illegal, just regulated.",
"From what I understand you are allowed to have a gun for varmint control, etc\n\nAs for the National firearms act, I don’t know if it supersedes existing legislation if it does not include a section specifically pertaining to this. ",
"No. Only certain types.",
"But they do.",
"Yes they do. For fuck's sake you have the ability to look these things up.",
"> Nothing like a little man hunting.\n\nI'm pretty sure they prefer to be called midgets.",
"> Hell, if someone is literally breaking into your home, there is a certain series of steps you have to go through before just blowing their head off. \n\nNot in American, thankfully.",
"> these signs were all over where I grew up. And they’re definitely used by tough guys who basically fantasize about shooting people.\n\nThen you would be pretty dumb to tresspass there then. That's on you, not land owner.",
"I'm not saying it should be this way. I'm just saying it is what happens. \n\nIf you're the dude who gets uptight about the fridge at work and starts putting passive aggressive notes up all over the place, frustrated people are going to start fucking with you out of spite.\n\nI don't think it's right at all. But people can only take so much hostility before they start getting shitty back.\n\nHence my previous example of kids trespassing. It's always the most hostile person on the block that has kids fucking with them. Kids intuitively know it's not okay to be threatened and scared by some random person. So they strike back almost as a matter of maintaining their dignity.\n\nIt's very primitive behavior no doubt. But it is what happens. I have no sympathy for people who put hostility into the world and are surprised to get hostility in return.\n\nNone of the examples I've given of returned hostility are actually violent btw. I'm not advocating anything especially violence. So your assertion that I'm advocating a cycle of violence still holds no water.",
"Nearly Illegal from what I hear... compared to Canadian laws, which are strict and regulated. And especially compared to the American clusterfuck.",
"Where is their caretaker then?",
"Reddit loves protecting the rights of criminals",
"Hashtag edgy",
"Textralia ? I love this place!",
"Offect",
"And Brazil has the Brazilian ",
"I never understood this. You have people literally threatening other people with unjustified murder with a written statement. How is this not illegal?",
"Texas is mostly Texas, except for that one city that San Francisco wishes it was. ",
"Yet Whistler BC is the winter capital of Australia.\n\nIt’s all just so confusing.",
"Reckless intent? They literally write “we will murder anyone we see without thinking about it”. That’s just illegal.",
"The way you phrased you initial comment, it seemed like you were promoting taking extra legal action against the guy with the sign. ",
"Never heard about dyslexia?",
"Obviously, if the trespasser is visibly unarmed/looks lost, then ideally the landowner would just tell them to leave. That said, in some places it's perfectly legal to shoot trespassers (based on other comments in the thread, looks like that's a gray area in Australia where the picture's from).\n\nRegardless, if someone sees a sign that says \"go in here and you'll get shot\", proceeds to go in, gets shot, then says \"omg how could this happen\", I have no sympathy for them.",
"San Francisco wouldn't want to be that one city in Texas you refer to because that city is surrounded by Texas.",
"[Bullshit.](http://www.citizen-times.com/story/opinion/contributors/2014/03/22/the-castle-law-to-shoot-or-not-to-shoot/6705605/)",
"Some people think they have the moral high ground that allows them to mess with other peoples stuff. No trespass means no trespass.",
"Are you dumb? Never mind, you're dumb. ",
"Texas QLD 4385.",
"Affect (verb): To make a difference on something, to have an effect on. \nAffect (noun): A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus. \n\nEffect (noun): A change as a result of an action or cause. \nEffect(verb): To cause something to happen, to bring about.",
"So many people think \"They don't have guns.\" Well, you're wrong. ",
"The land owner is a thinking human being. He’s not physically compelled to destroy any human on his land. The onus is on him if he decides to shoot some kid, and he will likely (and rightfully) go to prison for it. ",
"Australian law says you can defend property with lethal force. Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935 Section 15a.",
"r/Superbowl",
"Doesn’t say anything about your shadow , ha! Loophole! ",
"This sign is probably enough to call the cops and report you feel threatened which will lead to hassles for the gun owner. ",
"I come from a place where there are barely any fences as well, but you will still get shot and/or charged for trespassing. ",
"Don’t forget speed cameras ",
"Sure it would. It's Austin. Super Liberal and has a functioning economy with a reasonable tax rate. ",
"it really depends, i think standard procedure is little people. \n\n(I know i just killed a joke, sue me ;P)",
"Texas a place known for its Southern hospitality?",
"And surrounded by Texas ",
"My history teacher told us that Australia was where Europe sent convicts and -well- undesirable people. And therefore the average today Australian was ill-mannered and prone to uncivilized behavior.\n\nAt the time I thought she was biased and border line racist, this picture makes me think that all in all she might have met that guy.\n\nEdit:the downvotes makes me think that irony is not particularly appreciated in this thread, and/or I’m not good at it \n\nPlease, note that I did not write “I think she was right”, but I wrote “I think she met this guy”. Which, you can all agree, is highly unlikely. ",
"No notice?! Didn't you read the sign? ",
"Hope whomever sees this can read english...",
"If someone is dyslexic enough that they cant even read that sign then they definitely need a caretaker.",
"Hope you don't cut yourself on all that edge. ",
"I just don't think it should be a death sentence. ",
"I'm not being edgy, just realistic. Are you familiar at all with dyslexia or did you just bring it up thinking you were clever?",
"The dingoes made me do it",
"Howdy neighbor!",
"So you disregard the sign and you're lurking around this guy's land.\n\nSuddenly, Mick Dundee jumps out of a spider hole, throws both hands in the air and aggressively shouts in your face:\n\n# HOOT! HOOT! HOOT! HOOT! HOOT! \n\nYou totally had that comin', mate!",
"What a bunch of retards.",
"RiFF RAFF OBViOUSLY WROTE EVERYTHiNG ON THE SiGN. ONLY EXPLANATiON. ",
"Texas is just America's Bavaria. ",
"> People who do this should face legal repercussions. He published a letter of intent for premeditated murder on his front lawn, literally promising to not use judgment before committing murder.\n\nFalse. He has every right to protect his land from intrusion. Defense of self or property is not murder.\n\n",
"Which is awesome",
"Probably a mine tbh.",
"If someone is breaking into my home, there's no series of steps. I'm not risking my life or my family's lives on the chance that maybe the intruder isn't hostile. Sorry, this is just how it is, you intrude, you accept the risk of being killed. Don't like it, don't intrude. ",
"I thought there were no guns in Australia ",
"Affects are needed to cause effects. His obnoxiousness was effective, he affected the levels of obnoxiousness by throwing things. Easy cheat to remember is that the words are in alphabetical order of when they happen.",
"Texas is known for being Texas.",
"But that place likely isn't Iceland. ",
"Possibly because i is the only letter whose capital form looks identical to another letter (lower case L). I vs l",
"But no beach access.",
"Consider yourself served.",
"This looks like the true “took a wrong turn in Albuquerque”",
"Godammit, why did you bring this to my attention? Now I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight.",
"You've never lived next to the ocean have you. ",
"hahaha is the guy who wrote this JODYHiGHROLLER?",
"The outback and towns bordering it are very much Like it. From my experience there was a very big fit in or fuck off attitude. ",
"Well, if your not welcome...can you blame the guy?",
"Boomerangs dude.",
"Wait Austria is involved in this now? How deep does this go? ",
"Unaustralian",
"Howdy Mate! ",
"\"now turn around and fuck off\"",
"Something makes me think you have nothing worth protecting or you've never been in a situation of having to protect it.",
"[THEY DREW FIRST BLOOOOOOD](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcCsfFze1PQ)",
">Series of steps if someone breaks in\n\nWhere do you live? Remind me never to go there. If I wake up to someone in my home, they are getting shot and I won't be charged with a damn thing.\n\nWhere I live, my property also falls under this legal doctrine",
"Depends on the state. Most southern and Midwestern states you can shoot trespassers with impunity. And in almost all US states you can shoot home invaders with impunity",
"They had caps lock on.",
"It's my dream to have a huge piece of land and signs like this all around. Being alone is awesome.",
"No I have not.",
"Hey Kiwi, I'm a mongrel half breed myself (Dads a Naki boy) . If truth be told the sign is there for wannabe prospectors who go gold detecting on other peoples claims without a permit. The threats in the text on the sign are more likely to be the locals sense of humour",
"The beach ain't everyone's cup of tea. However I do really enjoy the beach and yes that is a downside. ",
"No, it's a fair way from the coast and only flowing after a rain bearing tropical low (Cyclone Joyce) flooded the area a few weeks prior.",
"They literally write that they will shoot something before they ask a question, it says nothing about shooting or murdering a person. ",
"Have you? Its pretty cool",
"Correct, it's very close to the Ashburton River.",
"r/scarysigns",
"I'm about a mile away from the beach. ",
"https://gumshoenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/pinegapsign.jpg?w=460",
"Austin jumped the shark a long time ago. I'm not sure how the average person can afford it. I cashed out because of shitty apartments being built by me and my property taxes were ridiculous. I'm 30 minutes south of Austin and loving it. ",
"not being a dick is more important than private property. ",
"do you really think trespassing is a crime that should have the death penalty? isn't theft worse?",
"Mrs recently went on a charity rally up as far as Cameron Corner, one of the support crews was bailed up by 3-4 dodgy looking locals on one of the roads asking all sorts of questions about where they were going, and what they were doing, and who was with them.\n\nThere is some kind of dodgy shit going on out there, and these guys were paranoid as fuck.",
"Not enough room to write \"shoot five times.\"",
"So then I guess cats are cool?",
"iFFECT",
"cold oceans are prettier\n",
"It actually beautiful country up there. We were geological surveying so not much different. The sign is more likely to be an example of local humour than anything.",
"Cats get shot up there. Typically the only ones you see are feral cats that decimate the local bird and marsupial populations.",
"I ride a motorcycle also. Once you get so far north you need to be prepared for the long distances though. The south west corner of West Australia has some nice roads though. I've worked with quite a few Canadian geologists all of which were awesome people.",
"If it was humour, wheres the smiley emoji? Can i at least get a /s?",
"Mick Taylor is probably waiting outside that gate because they can't hear him knocking. Time waits for no one, Mick.",
"No, but gun control became a lot more strict - self defence is no longer an acceptable reason to carry a firearms licence. Farmers usually have firearm licences for pest control. ",
"Yeah, I seem to have missed the part where threatening to shoot people is humorous. ",
"So....do they have an outback or lone star? ",
"I'm just surprised I'm not being down voted into Oblivion for using a not so pc term. Reddit has a sense of humor today! Yea!",
"Ok",
"I ment REAL America, not the pussy liberal states.",
"Cool. We Canadians aren't all perfect, but we're mostly not too shabby. :)\n\nAs for long distances, I lived in Yellowknife NWT Canada for 30 years. It's a 15-hour drive (about 1500 km) to anything resembling civilisation (i.e. the city of Edmonton Alberta). I've had no problems with long car drives, and I intend to work myself up to long motorcycle rides (Ironbutt etc.). Both Canada and Australia have similar population densities, IIRC. (Googling....) Yup, Canada it's 3.9/km² with 90% of the people huddled along the US border, Australia it's 3.2/km² with 90% of the people huddled along the coasts. ",
"G'day Pardner!",
"this but unironically, tbqh fam",
"You forgot about the brisket and tacos.",
"Maybe his missus.",
"The drive from Perth to where the pic was taken was about 1,400km each way so similar distances. Drove over 3,000km there and back last week. A lengthy tour of Canada is up there on my bucket list.",
"All the words fit on the sign. Good grammar. Capitalization could be better. But all the letters and words are uniformly sized and space which is unusual for a handmade sign. 9/10. I would pay this guy to make me an angry redneck sign.",
"Maybe in America but not in Australia. Australia is a no murder country even if you own the land.",
"You say that, but every day it’s a little bit more like San Francisco.",
"He kinda sounds like a dick. ",
"what they got bb guns? australia got they guns took right?",
"And you’ll be charged with manslaughter unless you can prove to a jury that your life was in danger. Chances are it won’t be too hard, but if it’s some unarmed teenager going through your liquor cabinet and you shoot him in the back of the head, you’re probably going to get locked up.",
"I'm no gun enthusiast but off the top of my head you can get a license and registered guns like certain lever and bolt action rifles, think .22s and .33s as well as certain shotguns with round carrying capacity under 5 shots I think. The police can randomly check that you have it securely stored. Some Olympian got into shit over that, lost his license, big fine, couldn't compete. There was a big 'hoo-ha' recently about a fast lever action shotgun with 7 round capacity that was a grey area under the law, I think they got banned. You have to give a reason to own one which could be as simple as a firing range sports shooter. There is also special class licenses for professionals who cull feral animals like wild pigs and 'dingos' (many are bitzers, dingo cross wild dogs that kill sheep etc). We have hunting seasons as well, some greenies getting arrested and fined for airhorn protesting duck hunters because of our bs anti-protesting laws.",
"It also states criminal trespass, which will not be the same as trespass. ",
"He's not \"promising to not use judgement\" he's saying he \"won't ask questions\". It's possible to form a judgement of a situation without asking questions.",
"[The](https://g.co/kgs/FwUKVW) good brisket.",
"Anyone who writes a sign like that in the first place has the maturity of a child. ",
"I imagine you can’t just shoot someone for trespassing either. ",
"Laws don't prevent people who ignore laws from doing illegal things",
"Could you give me a source for that? Because in most places they have to be a threat to your life. You don’t have to fire a warning shot, but it’s a smart idea if you want to avoid a lengthy manslaughter trial. \n\nAlso worth noting: soldiers who are literally at fucking war dealing with suicide bombers are required to fire a warning shot. It’s not unreasonable if you’re properly trained on how to use a fire arm. Unfortunately, most people aren’t. ",
"ITS OK MEXICANS ARE GONNA TAKE OVER AUSTRALIA PRETTY SOON TOO JAJAJAJA JUST LIKE WE DID WITH CALIFORNIA AND NOW TEXAS THAT AMERICANS TOOK FROM US.",
"Not according to the surrender agreement Australia signed. ",
"**Just Walk Away and there will be an end to the horror. Just walk away**",
"And the brisket tacos",
"This is exactly what it is.",
"SF has better tacos\n\nfite me if you disagree",
"Pussy liberal states like [Oklahoma?](http://www.oklahoma-criminal-defense-lawyer.com/oklahomacriminaldefensehelpfulvideos/chargedifharmpersonbreakingintohouseinok/) lol",
"No you cannot. They must be a danger to your life or someone else’s. A jury will be more likely to side with you, but even in my state this is true and we’re as red as they come. ",
"Not in Texas. Its a castle doctrine state. ",
"What if you're an aboriginal and cannot read English?",
"What's hotter than being hot?",
"Gaaaaaryyyyyy..... ",
"This guy knows about the Great Emu War.",
"You mean a castle doctrine free state? Castle Doctrine provides you with the right to defend yourself in your own home, but killing an unarmed person is not protected unless you can prove that you reasonably feared for your life (reaching for what looked like a gun, for instance). \n\n[Read up on it,](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_doctrine) it may save you a manslaughter charge. ",
"Which just means that when life and limb are threatened, you don't have a duty to attempt retreat before using force. \n\n\"Castle Doctrine\" doesn't mean \"shoot on sight\".",
"Dumba55’5 Ss look like 5s",
"\n>So how do you tell when these sites are left empty? \n\nYou're not shot while traveling up the road",
"> You don’t have to fire a warning shot, but it’s a smart idea if you want to avoid a lengthy manslaughter trial.\n\nA \"warning shot\" is **never** a good idea. It's reckless and usually illegal. If you are justified in shooting at all, you're justified in putting rounds on target.",
"SF 49 square miles surrounded by reality. Damn, I miss that place...",
"Opal fields are mainly east and south. The ones I can remember are in South Australia and New South Wales. ",
"Gary, the psychotic Australian goat clone.",
"Does that means my cat is allowed there?",
">If some bogan just shoots random people on his property with no notice he would certainly be arrested and put on trial for murder/manslaughter. \n\nOnly if they find the body. ",
"The fence should be a clue. ",
"Austrailia shoot?\n\nROTFLMAO. These are the unarmed fucks that lost a war with birds ",
"Gotcha. I've been to Australia once and the whole time I was watching out for crocodiles. Only saw 3 I think haha.",
"It’s a good idea if you know what you’re shooting and what’s behind what you’re shooting. It could cause them to flee rather than try to escalate if they’re unarmed/inferiorly armed and know you’re serious about using the gun. ",
"the sign isn't illuminated so probably more worried about the daytime.",
"It's \"little people\" now. You can't just throw that word around like you'd throw a midget at the bar. ",
"Working on that \"Witwatersrand\" type gold rush up north?",
"They live in the bush. Readin' 'n' roitin' isn't going to be their strong point.",
"Australia is Texas.....LOL",
"Somebody needs to put buckshot holes in that sign...",
"The Great Emu War always makes me chuckle but I guess it's not too different than the feral hog problem in the US. Our solution was to just tell the rednecks there is no restrictions on killing them. Even then, I think the hogs are winning but I moved away several years ago so this may no longer be the case. ",
"*cane toads. ",
"But if they ignore the law, are they really breaking the law?\n\nr/whoa",
"Yeah thats the whole problem with making things illegal. What we really need is some global education standards agreed upon by all the big players and enforced by economic sanctions. Humans could exist with moral laws alone if given proper education.",
"Literally. Shaking. ",
"But jim said aussies dont have guns",
"Shit on the sign. ",
"I don't know.. I've seen many movies about outback it make Texas Chainsaw look PG-13. ",
"Yup. I've only ridden in the US, want to do some serious riding in Canada some summers. My 40th high school reunion will be June 2019 in Yellowknife, so thinking I'll ride up for that. About 4500 km one way.\n\nAnd there's an Ironbutt certification someone did called \"Four Corners of Canada\". [About 11,000 km,](https://goo.gl/maps/2KfUH8TYyyn) supposed to do it in 10 or 14 days. I'd love that.",
"As a geologist in Texas I feel we could have a beer together. ",
"One time I was lost in north Carolina and after the road I was on became a rather narrow super rural road, I turned down the first drive way I saw. It was over grown, and made out cracked asphalt. There was a tall fence with barbed wires and a sign that read., \"this is a castle doctrine state. If you can read this you're within range.\" My Yankee self fucked right off of that driveway. ",
"No gun enthusiast? What does that even mean. Like you just sit around and enjoy not having guns all the time? TBH, Sounds a lot cheaper than being a gun enthusiast. ",
"No doubt about it. Always a pleasure to have a cold one with fellow geos.",
"curious, what do you mean by cheaper? like you have to pay for a license?",
"Not too far away from that area in a regional sense. There's also gold associated with conglomerates nearby but suggestion of a \"Witwatersrand\" style of deposit is language best left to the promoters.",
"That sounds like on hell of a ride. I imagine you'd want to get the season right so you don't freeze half to death. Down here in Australia riding in summer 45 deg Celsius is more like being in a fan forced oven. Still though, it's character building.",
"You know every other sign up there has buckshot holes in them, or single rifle round holes. I was surprised this one didn't.\n\n",
"So you see your neighbor's fence and the first thing that pops in your mind is a hail of bullets?\n\nThat's a tough neighborhood.",
"Under the Firearms Licence in Australia you need to have a 'genuine reason' for owning a gun. 'Recreational' is a valid reason. However, if you're not a Primary Producer, you either need the signature of a Landowner (where it's legal to hunt, i.e. primary producer) or be part of a shooting club (which costs money/yearly membership fee.) Basically you have to prove that you have a venue to legally discharge your firearm, otherwise there's no point in you owning one. \n\nOther fees (application fee etc) vary greatly depending on what type of [Firearms Licence](https://www.police.qld.gov.au/programs/weaponslicensing/fees/fees.htm) you want (and which state you're in.) \n\nIt's stupidly easy to get a gun in Aus. You just have to prove you've done a Firearm safety course, not be a dickhead, and pay a small fee.",
"Good. Let people know there’s a consequence for trespassing. ",
"Implying the bush people participated in the buyback ",
"I believe so, but only for sporting purposes. Don’t quote me on that, though. I’m sure there are probably technicalities and loopholes etc. ",
"Really? You don’t know what an assault weapon is?",
"Which two cities?",
"He didn't mean he was enthusiastic about not owning guns, just not the opposite.",
"Cattle poaching is still a big problem in an outback Australia. Where I was three road trains worth of cattle was poached.",
"I take it you dont like it?",
"Just pointing out that I only know what I've heard in the news etc. Someone else who has gone through the process of getting their license would know a lot more about it than I would.",
"Are your Texas family reunions anything like this [Texas Family Reunion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nggqe-L9ZQ8&t=333s)",
"No no no no no. You **never** fire a warning shot.\n\nBullets go places really fast and really hard. Best case scenario you end up with a hole in your wall. Worst case, you end up with a dead neighbor/kid/etc cuz the bullet punched through the wall into their house/room/road/whatever. Beyond that, guns are loud as all holy shit. If you aren't wearing hearing protection cuz you grabbed the gun the second you heard the intruder and didnt have time to grab the HP you're gonna be pretty much deaf.\n\nAs for a \"threat to your life,\" that doesn't take much. Any weapon more dangerous than a nerf bat is considered a deadly weapon and constitutes a threat to your life. Even if they're unarmed, if the charge you or try to attack you, you're justified.\n\nIt's best not to alert them to your presence until you have the upper hand. Dont go with the old \"racking a shotgun will make them piss themselves and run\" bit, because that's not always true, and it lets them know where you are and that you're armed. Get a jump on them, verbally let them know that you're their, keep your weapon trained on them, and be ready to shoot them if they try anything. If you have a partner or roommate, they should have called the cops by this point. If not, you'll have to do it, but you should give the intruder clear and concise orders to disarm and get on the ground first to make sure you have sufficient warning if they attack you while you're calling the cops. If the cops have already been called, give them the same orders, and in either situation you basically just have to hold them at gunpoint until the cops get there. Be careful, they may have other people with them. When the cops get there, alert them to your presence, lower your weapon, and let them take over.\n\nIn a home defense scenario you can probably get away with killing them regardless of the threat. If they're dead, who's there to say that they weren't going for your kitchen knives or charging you, ya know? But it's easier if you only shoot them if you have to. Makes the more than likely homicide investigation easier for you.",
"I do like it? Someone was arguing that Austin is better than San Francisco because it's surrounded by Texas. San Francisco, even though it kinda sucks, is still surrounded by cool shit. ",
"My dad has a lot of property in victoria. The people he gets tresspassing are people hunting which is dangerous, my dads place is hard to see and i wouldnt want him, his house or his animals being shot with a stray bullet. People riding dirt bikes, going yabbying or people just straight up wanna run through his place too see what he has. Hes found a few blokes going through his shed, tried to intimidate him til he pulled his shotty from the passenger. ",
"We have guns but strict laws on ownership, storage of said weapons and a ban on the more high powered & automatic weapons. It's not uncommon for farms to have a couple of rifles for pest control and putting down suffering stock.",
"No, you don’t want to go to many hospitals here. And learn to spell hospital. ",
"the city that wishes it was San Francisco, is what you meant.",
"Not vegan enough tbh",
"Okay I read the actual law. Looks like trespassing, burglary, and robbery are all covered. \n\nTexas Penal Code - PENAL § 9.41. Protection of One's Own Property\n\n(a) A person in lawful possession of land or tangible, movable property is justified in using force against another when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to prevent or terminate the other's trespass on the land or unlawful interference with the property.\n\n(b) A person unlawfully dispossessed of land or tangible, movable property by another is justified in using force against the other when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to reenter the land or recover the property if the actor uses the force immediately or in fresh pursuit after the dispossession and:\n\n(1) the actor reasonably believes the other had no claim of right when he dispossessed the actor; or\n\n(2) the other accomplished the dispossession by using force, threat, or fraud against the actor.\n\nTexas Penal Code - PENAL § 9.42. Deadly Force to Protect Property\n\nA person is justified in using deadly force against another to protect land or tangible, movable property:\n\n(1) if he would be justified in using force against the other under Section 9.41 ; and\n\n(2) when and to the degree he reasonably believes the deadly force is immediately necessary:\n\n(A) to prevent the other's imminent commission of arson, burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, theft during the nighttime, or criminal mischief during the nighttime; or\n\n(B) to prevent the other who is fleeing immediately after committing burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, or theft during the nighttime from escaping with the property; and\n\n(3) he reasonably believes that:\n\n(A) the land or property cannot be protected or recovered by any other means; or\n\n(B) the use of force other than deadly force to protect or recover the land or property would expose the actor or another to a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury.",
"My dad built someone's shed there and I went to visit that family about 8 months ago. Nice town.",
"You thought wrong. Farmers need them for hunting.",
"r/iamverybadass",
"That's very, very literal interpretation",
"No, you can't ",
"I think it’s more like being on Mars, years go by, and then one day you run into another human. You’re probably going to ask them why they are on Mars.",
"This is in rural as fuck Australia. The Pilbara region is 5x the size of Iceland and has less than 50,000 people in it.\n\nIt's a slightly different part of the world to say the least.",
"I've never heard such mean-spirited [hate-hoots](https://youtu.be/YRbh7cFvv5g).",
"Wrong. According to the Texas Penal Code:\n\nTexas Penal Code - PENAL § 9.41. Protection of One's Own Property\n\n(a) A person in lawful possession of land or tangible, movable property is justified in using force against another when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to prevent or terminate the other's trespass on the land or unlawful interference with the property.\n\n(b) A person unlawfully dispossessed of land or tangible, movable property by another is justified in using force against the other when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to reenter the land or recover the property if the actor uses the force immediately or in fresh pursuit after the dispossession and:\n\n(1) the actor reasonably believes the other had no claim of right when he dispossessed the actor; or\n\n(2) the other accomplished the dispossession by using force, threat, or fraud against the actor.\n\nTexas Penal Code - PENAL § 9.42. Deadly Force to Protect Property\n\nA person is justified in using deadly force against another to protect land or tangible, movable property:\n\n(1) if he would be justified in using force against the other under Section 9.41 ; and\n\n(2) when and to the degree he reasonably believes the deadly force is immediately necessary:\n\n(A) to prevent the other's imminent commission of arson, burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, theft during the nighttime, or criminal mischief during the nighttime; or\n\n(B) to prevent the other who is fleeing immediately after committing burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, or theft during the nighttime from escaping with the property; and\n\n(3) he reasonably believes that:\n\n(A) the land or property cannot be protected or recovered by any other means; or\n\n(B) the use of force other than deadly force to protect or recover the land or property would expose the actor or another to a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury.",
"It's gold. It's in the Pilbara - which is a fucking monstrously big region where very few people live, and there's a shitload of mining going on",
"No not at all",
"Judging by the region - you probably won't see your neighbours fence unless you're nowhere near your own house",
"Jim was talking about city people. Outback people are a different type of human.",
"> unarmed\n\nHard to be unarmed when you have guns though",
"No, we didn't have them taken away",
"Yes, but only for very specific reasons. Otherwise no, you're generally stuck with rifles and shotguns.",
"Yes, this one man on an extremely rural farm represents an entire nation",
"> Nearly Illegal from what I hear\n\nWell you hear wrong. ",
"Yeah, pretty much. America can't be bothered to do any research about anything that isn't to do with them.",
"Only problem is that the aboriginals have been there for quite a longer time and are used to the space.\n\nIt would be like a Chinese guy coming into your backyard, setting up a fence, and posted a sign in Mandarin telling you that he will shoot you if you cross his fence.\n\nAre you sure you are ok with that?",
"Hope I get to visit sometime. I've only been to Eastern Australia. ",
"But crocodile Dundee was so friendly ",
"Your capitalization of “Emus” left me quite confused:\n\nWho is Emus?\nWhy do you want to shoot Emus?\nHow does one pronounce Emus?",
"....What are you talking about? None of what you said makes any sense.\n\n\nThat's absolutely not how it works here.",
"Yeah I haven't been up to the northwest either - it's more or less the most inhospitable part of the country besides the center ",
"would sell or be punished be more fitting?",
"Most people in the outback are nice too, they're just a bit different",
"Shit I don't know, my dad got to keep all his guns, as did his dad, and my uncle, and pretty much all our family and friends out in the country\n\nSo..... you tell me",
"Texas\nQueensland\nhttps://goo.gl/maps/vhpk16fYwnu",
"Most of the brisket places around there go through at least 1 cow a day. You may have had Texas brisket, but Austin brisket is a different beast altogether.",
"No need to fight. We have Torchy's, Tin Star, and Velvet Tacos. I'm perfectly satisfied.",
"You know, I've heard good things about Pecan Lodge. How's it hold up to Austin-style?",
"Well, my point is, picture this guy \"accidentally\" killing someone who was just passing through and he thought they were trying to steal something or cause him harm. You might get off on the whole accident/self defense claim without this sign, but with this sign a judge could look at that and say it demonstrated clear reckless intent and negates the self defense claim. ",
"Interesting. Can you be your own landowning signee? \n\nIm not a fan of hunting but I do like recreational shooting (trap, skeet, etc.) but here in the US, while there are private shooting clubs for the sport, sometimes even local governments (as is the case in Miami, FL where I reside) have public ranges that just cost ~$8 per round, no membership required. ",
"wild you made me google it and its not so bad over there.",
"Yeah, not that much really changed on the whole. It's a little bit overplayed in the media",
"My dad used to work there at the mines. Interesting stories for sure :p",
"How much mining could you do in 5 days before the owner gets back though.",
"I've been in +45°C and -45°C. Neither is fun to ride in (had a snowmobile up north).",
"I dunno, ain't had Austin brisket.",
"We need some of those signs on the southern US border.",
"NW Australia=Murica",
"Austinite here. Can confirm, lots of Californians. I dont blame them though. Whataburger is better than in-n-out. ",
"We're not in Kansas any more.",
"Yeah, if your property is classified as 'Primary Production' (farm) land you can sign as yourself. \n\nI don't know of any Public ranges, but know 3 private shooting range/clubs within ~25min drive of me (I live about 20min drive south of Brisbane, 3rd largest city in Australia.) My mates that shoot all tend to head to some farm properties that are about ~1.5 hours drive away though.",
"Thanks for the insight.",
"whats a 5 hoot?",
"Lile the dude with the goat gary",
"Australia straight up has some of the strictest gun laws on the planet. Argue all you want, but it's true. ",
"Right, except it's not remotely hard to legally get a gun if you have a need for one\n\n\n[here's a map](https://www.google.com.au/search?q=gun+shops+in+sydney&npsic=0&rflfq=1&rldoc=1&rlha=0&rllag=-33918180,151141536,7120&tbm=lcl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiB3YGE7JLZAhUhHGMKHXcfDsQQtgMILA&biw=1458&bih=679#rlfi=hd:;si:;mv:!1m3!1d260756.56846663513!2d150.9992733!3d-33.819996399999994!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i228!2i236!4f13.1;tbs:lrf:!2m1!1e2!2m1!1e3!3sIAE,lf:1,lf_ui:10) of all the gunshops in Sydney alone if you think it's so impossibly hard to obtain guns here",
"A lot of it is done with metal detectors, so if you abandon your site, someone can come behind you and swoop up a few hundred bucks in nuggets if you're on the gold.",
"TIL",
"Glad I could help",
"Texaustrailia...",
"The media has lied to me. I assume it's a similar gun law to Canadian ones then.",
"Nowhere does that allow one to \"shoot on sight\".\n\nIt permits use of deadly force \"to prevent the other's imminent commission of arson, burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, theft during the nighttime, or criminal mischief during the nighttime; or... To prevent the other who is fleeing immediately after committing burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, or theft during the nighttime from escaping with the property\"\n\nEven then, Texas is an exception to the norm. Nearly all states with Castle Doctrine laws require that the perpetrators(s) pose a threat of immediate deadly or serious physical harm before deadly force is justified.",
"The guy who made this sign is a dirty drongo bogan. ",
"A very brief rundown of how it works in Australia --\n\nIf you *need* a gun, you will easily be able to legally get one once you've proved your need.\n\nGenerally, owning a farm, being a hunter, or being a member of a shooting club is more than good enough.\n\nhttps://www.police.nsw.gov.au/online_services/firearms/request_for_firearms_license_application_form\n\nThis is what a firearms application looks like in New South Wales - you can see all you have to do is provide a 'genuine reason' to own a gun. With that, you'll get a categorised licence, and you will be allowed to own guns in that specific category.\n\nThe process might take a couple of months sometimes, but on the whole it's not exactly arduous. ",
"I understand but i dont get it.",
"So they are definitely up to some deeply illegal shit...",
"Me thinks the lady doth protest too much.",
"We do have inland crabs, yeah",
"I think everyone forgets that it's usually just the city people that get affected by most shit",
"Well.... you don't. It's a gamble. Farms out in this region of the country can be upwards of a million acres.\n\nIf someone does catch you though, you might be in some shit.",
"The signs yellow, so it will stand out at night if there's a light on it",
"Australia and America don't have the same laws my man. \n\nIn Australia you can't just randomly shoot people - because that is fucking insane.",
"It's within reason though. It's not some blanket thing that I can just shoot a cunt that's 400m away from me because he's my side of a fence.",
"Central would be a more accurate word",
"The pig problem is even worse in Australia - but yeah, same principle for the emu stuff. Once they let the farmers get at them, everything was sorted pretty quickly.",
"> gun laws in Australia are really tight\n\nNot really in the part of the country this photo was taken. I'd say most, if not all, people that permanently live out in that region have at the very least 1 gun on their property",
"Nuh-uh. Torchys has fucked up my order every time I've gone there, at three different locations.",
"Education is actually pretty awful in that part of Australia sadly",
"No, just regular old guns",
"See, I see a sign like this and assume they're running a drug lab. Or some kind of \"I keep sex slaves penned in like animals\" creepy shit.\n\nThere is no sane reason to be -that- defensive. ",
"The dots on the I’s are bullet holes. ",
"Emus are a protected species, fine is $1000 for every bird you shoot, however they are considered a pest in Western Australia so if you obtain permission from the government you can shoot them.",
"**MISSION ACCOMPLISHED**\n======",
"How much are you paying? I can make a redneck 5ign. ",
"Nah just someone who was raised in W.A",
"Okay, okay I guess its more like \"shoot on sight, after deciding whether they are committing arson, burglary, robbery, theft, or criminal mischief.\" Notice how criminal mischief is included in the wording of the law, as a catch all for almost any possible crime not mentioned. Its essentially saying \"shoot on sight\" in so many words. \n\n",
"Yeah I wouldn't take the risk plenty of looped out cunts up north that would be glad to shoot yah and bury yah. No one is gonna find you up there it's isolated as fuck. There is a reason why WA has the most serial killers. Fuck old mate Big Bradley was known for lurking round up that way and he's supposedly the inspiration for Wolf Creek. ",
"Fuckin' bogans. ",
"The sign is to deter illegal prospectors who detect on other peoples licences without permit. Not far from this area are a couple of Mining Leases for the purpose of alluvial gold mining. ",
"It's actually the wet season but that day was pretty clear. It's not really far enough north to get daily monsoonal rain though. Pic was taken last week when myself and my son were up there.",
"yes",
"Okay, that makes a bit more sense then, sorry. I thought this was like, \"Some guy and his house,\" not \"Some mining company/group/whatever.\"",
"Incredible ",
"Yeah it is an odd law, the way it is phrased seems to leave the definition of \"within reason\" to the property owner. Although how a judge interpret that law may be different. 1935 was a different time. ",
"Thanks for clearing things up for most us who took interest in wanting to know what the sign was all about. Good job op!",
"Yep and that sign is probably grounds for revoking the property owners licence. Threats of shooting someone is grounds for revoking.",
"I wonder if they've accepted Jesus as their personal saviour? Should go and check.",
"You'll also notice that the criminal mischief section stipulates that if only applies at night.",
"True. I was thinking south and East of the area described in the photo. ",
"Never had that problem, also at three locations.",
"They're called scorpions :D",
"I thought Austria stuck to pilsners?",
"What company you working for mate? Im a geologist working near laverton. I managed to get an 8/6 roster, its so good",
"You jest, but yes. My in laws were sapphire miners in the Qld gem fields, a movie was made about a \"situation\" where some big city types tried to steal my father in law and his mate's claim (Buddies, around 1986). They were driving around with shotguns in their utes and trucks. People legitimately would sneak onto other people's claims and steal what they could find. ",
"I work for myself and consult to a number of companies. Spent many years doing the FIFO thing and yes, an 8/6 roster was about as goo as it got. Had many a beer at the Desert Inn in Laverton and worked on several local nickel and gold projects.",
"An assault rifle would be a fully automatic rifle, customized with attacking options such as grenade launcher, ACOG/hybrid scoping, etc. \n\nFully automatic weapons are almost impossible to obtain in the United States.",
"They’re allowed anywhere in Australia, we have gun regulation not no guns ",
"[r/emuwarflashbacks](https://www.reddit.com/r/Emuwarflashbacks/)",
"ah cool! So not far enough north to get crocs I guess?",
"No, no crocs there. In 2008 there was a croc spotted in the Ashburton River near the rivermouth in the Exmouth gulf. That was the most southerly a croc had ever been spotted in the wild on the north west coast. Last week we were a good 300km inland. Normally the riverbed is just sand and pebbles.",
"Both my little brothers are farmers, and complete gun nuts. They had so many guns within a year of their licence, the Police had to audit them. When they passed, they celebrated by buying another gun, (he said it was 50cal but i don't know if he's trolling, although the ammo is eye-wateringly expensive).",
"If I'm dying of thirst and come across this sign in the middle of nowhere, I'm not waiting at the gate. I'm turning my pockets out, removing my shirt, and walking slowly with my hands up in the air towards whatever building I might find.",
"You can legally obtain guns in Australia.",
"The commercials here is: Bush, Australian for beer",
"I'm just saying if someone has a sign that says it's private property and violators will be shot then maybe don't trespass if you don't want to be shot.",
"> 'dingos' (many are bitzers, dingo cross wild dogs that kill sheep etc\n\nThey missed an opportunity to call them \"dingdogs\".",
"Honking is illigal in my town. Is it ok to shoot people who honk if I put up a sign saying “honkers will be shot” ?",
"So , this person thinks a sign he posted as a warning will exonerate him from murder “cuz I warned em\"?",
"No seriously, it was really shitty. Bad dialogue. Tons if completely unnecessary scenes and dialogue.\n\nAnd one of those....this movie should have been a five minute trailer for the next movie...endings.\n\nI wouldnt recommend it, but you know, we all like different flavors.\n\nYou do you boo"
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Not all neighbors are friendly in the bush. Up in north west of western australia came across this awesome sign of welcome.
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"Reminds me of Fyke isle in Witcher 3. Which makes me not want to go there. ",
"Not sure the best moment to visit is when you die tbh",
"Probably enjoy it more not as a corpse. IMHO.",
"If you want to see more images, this is [lake Bled](https://www.google.com/search?q=lake+bled&tbm=isch)",
"Oh look, another Lake Bled photo. The church on it is reserved more for fancy weddings than funerals. Traditionally, the wedding ceremonies have the groom row the bride out to the island and carry her [up the stairs](http://finestayslovenia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/lake-bled-quality.jpg) to the church. Slovenian tradition holds that if you were married at Bled and later get a divorce, you must return to the island and throw your former wife down those stairs and into the lake as part of the denuptial celebrations.",
"When I die and they lay me to rest\n\nGonna go to the place that's the best"
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This little island in Slovenia is where I want to go when I die
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"Does seeing Jessica Alba looking so good and healthy really mess up your day?",
"\"Oh well, guess I'll find myself on Reddit again\"",
"\"Skirt, you have failed me.\"",
"You're right, this isn't a special doggo pupper with cancer. Doesn't really belong here, with the other high quality content",
"Karma farming, a man of your talents?",
"\"Ah fuck. I can't believe you've done this.\"",
"Cooling down those herpies ",
"I’d rather see this than the usual ‘I used to fat, but now I’m not’ and ‘I stopped smoking meth’ karmawhoring. ",
"She is quite hot",
"Her in the angel Halloween costume in Idle Hands was my biggest crush ever.",
"still meta",
"Gee, that doesn't look at all staged. /s",
"Hell yes. ",
"She blamed it on the grate but we all know it was a renegade queef.",
"She was unbelievably hot in that movie. 10/10 ",
"takes a lot of skill to walk on grates with high heels",
"I would have gone with Marilyn Monroment.",
"I wish I was that storm drain.",
"Marilyn Monroement.",
"Marilyn Monroe's left tit didn't look that weird.",
"I knew i had seen this be for but a better version.\n\nhttps://images2.imgbox.com/f2/55/EKEcugE3_o.jpg",
"Only pictures of newly nationalized Americans and people losing weight are allowed on /r/pics\n\nThank you very much - mgmt ",
"Much better legs than Monroe’s, too! And lacier underwear. ",
"first thought as well. ",
"But the cleavage is not for me.",
"True hero right here...Thanks! 😉",
"Because if it's not weight loss progress, sunsets/landscapes, sad animals, or \"inspirational\", it has no place on r/pics. Brah, just because you get uncomfortably seeing pictures of beautiful women in slightly revealing scenarios doesn't mean that it shouldn't be shared just like the rest of the content. *In L.A. Beast voice* Have a good day!",
"I prefer my Marylin Monrobot."
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Jessica Alba's Marilyn Monroe moment
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"I took this on an iPhone X. \n\nWe were walking to lunch and she was just sitting on a stoop hanging out. I asked her to take her picture and she was really cool about it. Take a look at the details on her nails!",
"I would have offered to buy her some cigars. I would at least want to have known where she gets hers. ",
"It's really nice.\n",
"Honestly, get this to /r/humanporn, I think they'd get a kick out of it.\n\nAlso, did you use Portrait mode on the X when you took the picture? ",
"Will do, thanks for the tip. Yea it was taken in portrait mode. Incredible what it can do. ",
"I've got a picture of this lady too! From a few years ago. ",
"Really? That’s amazing! She must be there all the time. ",
"IIRC my dad found her while my parents were shopping in town. She charges like a peso to take her picture or something. ",
"Humanporn is a pretty terrible name for a sub. ",
"Must be a decent living if shes still doing it all these years later. She was near the Plaza de la Catedral which had a lot of tourists around it.",
"When I view a portrait photo like this, I can't help but wonder about this person's story.",
"Well she looks like she sat down and smoked a cigar",
"She charged 5 cuc for the pic, right?",
"Put a 57 Chevy in the background and you'd have yourself the most Cuban photo ever",
"All \"porn\" subs are just a dumb trend, in my opinion. Makes the link NSFW and they are full of disappointment if you're actually hoping for porn.\n\nBut human porn is the best porn.",
"I think my parents were in Havana when they found her. Btw it was like 8 years ago, and she still looks the same. She's aging remarkably. ",
"She actually didn’t charge anything... we talked for a bit before and I gave her 1 cuc as a thank you for the picture. ",
"You look sassy",
"Cuanto te cobrò?",
"Must be the cigars.",
"/r/BossFights ",
"she sits there dressed up and charges tourists for pictures - not a bad way to make a living.",
"She is, it's her actual job, I watched a documentary on Cuba a few weeks ago she appeard in it IIRC.",
"Yeah i guess that was my thought. Isn't human porn just regular porn. So a human porn sub would just be ...porn. ",
"Did she proceed to shake you down for money after as well?",
"Not at all. She was very nice",
"So basically how every interaction goes in Cuba! ",
"it's part of the SFW porn network on reddit. \n other examples:\n\n* /r/WeatherPorn\n* /r/AbandonedPorn \n* /r/ArchitecturePorn \n\nhere is the wiki page with all of the SFW porn network subreddits:\nwww.reddit.com/r/sfwpornnetwork/wiki/network",
"New favorite sub",
"Santera, no doubt.",
"too much sun\n\n",
"She certainly looks like she's Havana good time.",
"1 CUC for each photo? She must be seriously rich compared to her compañeros. ",
"Those nails aren't cheap 😂 ",
"I've seen a picture like this posted a few times before on here. There are a few of these ladies that sit outside all day dressed in these costumes smoking cigars, that let tourists take pictures of them for money. \n\nIts basically the Cuban equivalent of those guys dressed like Elmo in Time's Square.",
"Madam Zeroni boutta put a curse on the Yelnats family.",
"You look great ",
"I would, cause I know shes knows things",
"Yeah, this lady's job would be posing for these sorts of photographs - I'm hoping OP tipped well. ",
"Ditto",
"Black don't crack.",
"\"I'll suck your deek, acere\"",
"Cuban working girl?",
"She’s black ",
"The end.",
"Madame Zeroni is a badass.",
"Saw her too back in 2015. ",
"If they charged you 5 CUC for a damn picture you're getting ripped off, 5 CUC= 125 pesos, regular salary in Cuba 600-750 pesos a month, so basically a regular government employee gets paid ~31 CUC a month.",
"you look great! Glad to have the good people of Cuba here on Reddit! Welcome",
"That stick will whup your butt, ain't no Dominican.",
"My aunt has this as a painting in her house!",
"la mulata no se desbarata ",
"Problem is, if a Cuban citizen has CUC and wants to exchange it back to regular pesos that they can use, they don't get an equal exchange rate. There's quite a penalty. They would have to do private transactions with their CUC to probably get more value out of it.\n\n5CUC for a picture is still way too high. That's nearly a large bottle of rum. But some people will try. Best to avoid the tourist traps in Havana. People can be a little aggressive.",
"If only, if only, the woodpecker sighed",
"The penalty applies when you convert from Dollar to CUC, which is another huge ripoff. I traveled to Cuba for 2 weeks 4 years ago, returned to the US sick and lost 10lb lol. ",
"Racist.\n\n",
"I mean when Cubans have to convert cuc that they receive back to pesos that they use in their everyday purchases. Cuban citizens can't normally use cuc for their everyday purchase unless it's under the table far as I know.\n\nBut yes, cuc is more or less tied to USD with a 2-3% fee when exchanging.",
"All these years? She's only 22.",
"She’s looking great at 27!",
"Morgan Freeman is really working hard to take this method acting to a new level. ",
"Yep looks about right",
"Celia Cruz is alive!! ",
"Or the political dissidents who are Being tortured by the goverment ... thats also really cuban",
"Plot twist: She’s actually 30 years old.",
"Beautiful copper woman. ",
"I was really hoping this was a picture of you. Because I love the idea of a bad ass cigar smoking Cuban woman on Reddit. ",
"it's official, now i really want to go to Cuba. OP, was it difficult to get there? where were you coming from? ",
"haha. that would be amazing!",
"How much does it cost to take a picture of her?",
"It wasn't hard at all. We flew Jetblue from NYC. They sell the Visa you need at the Jetblue check-in counter. You can't use credit cards when your down, but other than that, it was pretty normal.",
"that's awesome. that's curious about the credit cards, do you know why that is? how far did American cash get you while you were there/how much do you think you spent?\n\nnot trying to be nosy, i'm just trying to figure out if it's feasible for me to go anytime soon. ",
"I remember seeing a similar lady when I was there about 12 years ago, but I believe she was older. ",
"For always and eteeeerrrrrrnity!",
"Nice",
"you exchange your dollar for Cuban CUCs which is basically 1:1 with the dollar minus a ~17% exchange fee that goes to the dollar. Its definitely feasible to go.",
"There's actually way more Yugos and Ladas on the streets than old American cars. Modern non-American cars, too. The only people they can't get new cars and replacement parts from are the US.",
"fuck off pasty.",
"Trust me, EVERYONE in Havana will tell you where to get good cigars.",
"Not that surprising. Getting photographed is her job.",
"What about the political dissidents being tortured in Saudi Arabia, China, Egypt? Should the US embargo those countries too? ",
"Would. ",
"Yes ! \nAlso a tourist Going to those countries .. imagine tourists Going to germany during the 30’s/40’s",
"That is absolutely a costume.",
"Am I the only one who saw the bloodshot red eyes? She looks high as fuck!",
"[It can be both](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_costume)",
"niiiiiice. ",
"There's a cigar bar I visit occasionally that has pictures of her. When I saw this and it said you took it I immediately said bullshit. But this must be her thing. Thanks for sharing it.",
"Is it me or this [pic](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/6ac85w/my_favorite_picture_from_my_trip_to_cuba/) was taken in the same place?",
"looks nice... but staged.",
"She's a tourist trap",
"Meh even if it's not a lot of pay, she's getting paid to sit around and smoke cigars sounds like a pretty job for me.",
"She seems to be a little old to be opening her kitchen to others. Are things really that bad there?",
"OP is not the person in the picture",
"But will that do anything effective? Other than isolate the US?\n\nThis is literally, dammed if you do, dammed if you don't. Cuba and Iran don't stop being oppressive with sanctions. And yet SA doesn't improve with trade deals either. Seems like the only way to stop the torturing is to invade like we we did with Iraq.\n\nEdit:\n\nI think my point extends to your analogy to Nazi Germany. As time went on and the two countries became enemies, German oppression of Jews only increased. The only thing that stopped it was an invasion ",
"Shithole countries Being shithole countries.\nInvading them is also not an option, those countries are not worth americans dying. What is helping in Iran is the internet. More and more iranians(youth) are disliking their nation and religion. ",
"yep, shes looke 45 since she was 25",
"[Hey!](https://media.giphy.com/media/iGHbjYrUftITS/giphy.gif)",
"Great shot! Here's my favorite photo I took while in Cuba:\n\nMan in Old Havana https://imgur.com/gallery/pOYqv",
"How much do you need to wear it before it just becomes a regular outfit?",
"You can use European credit cards to withdraw cash in some places. Lonely Planet has lists of ATM for most major cities.",
"Does she know de way?",
"I don't know.",
"Havana? \n\nOoh na na! ",
"She is a tourist trap for pictures, in this instance its a costume. She has been posted quite a few times on reddit by a few people.",
"I bet she has a beautiful voice. ",
"Confirmed Cuban, Hand of Orulla don't lie. That and the little Cuban flag nails those are dope.",
"not staged. This was taken on a stoop in a street in cuba using portrait mode on an iPhone X",
"I got back a few months ago and spent about $1000 for a week long trip. Pack in your cash because you can't bank there to get more money. Also load up on Cuban rum on the way out at the airport bc you can't get it in the states. ",
"Looks like it! It even seems like the same woman!",
"I would never pay a guy to take a picture.",
"Thanks! She must be popular!",
"Plot twist, she is 17.",
"what is the status on cigars? i'm more of a whiskey/cigar kind of guy. i'm sure they're everywhere and cheap in Cuba, but what about bringing them back? ",
"And none of them will be right! I had tons of people try to sell me cigars on the street. Ended up getting a couple sealed boxes off a friend I made who had friends who work at the factory. Paid about $180 for 50 cigars that were rolled that Saturday in the cohiba factory. ",
"It’s a costume because not a single person, including this lady, wears anything except western style clothes unless they are charging for photos in Havana. It is no different than people dressing up like colonials at a historic fort. True to history and culture maybe, but still just part of the job.",
"Don't drink the water Bruh",
"What a nice guy though",
"Perfectly legal to bring back as many as you'd like. Trick is getting them through non official channels. Mine for instance were stolen by line workers in the factory. I made a friend during my travels there and he hooked me up. ",
"Cubans can use CUC to buy pretty much everything, but sometimes 1 CUC = 24-23 never 25",
"Oh really? I thought they had to trade it back to pesos. TIL. Thanks!",
"She is a street performer. You can find a couple of them dressed up like that for photos. It's a business not what Cubans normally wear on a given day. ",
"hmm, what do you mean by non-official channels, if you're so inclined to answer? i've never been to any foreign country other than Canada, so i'm clueless about this kind of thing. ",
">Invading them is also not an option\n\nI agree. The people need to be willing to die for the cause, not US troops. Otherwise democracy won't last (ex. Iraqi army running from ISIS)\n\nBut I don't think we should have a trade embargo either, since we know it doesn't work. I think the US has more to gain from trading with Cuba. And since we look the other way with our other dictator allies, I think it's shortsighted to hold Cuba to a higher standard. ",
"Kudos then... my apologies.",
"Define costume.",
"/r/NoSillySuffix combines and reposts all the \"porn\" subreddits in one sub that are in fact not porn but just have a stupid name ",
"It's the padron cigars.",
"No kidding. Her experience...she'd ruin you for anyone under 70.",
"Literally I went out to eat one night at a nice restaurant with my girlfriend. The waiter liked to practice English and we liked to practice Spanish. He took a liking to us and offered to show us around the following day on a walking tour for like $10. I said yes and that also I was in search of cigars. He called his friend who works at the factory right there at my table and the next day he had my cigars for me at the end of the tour. He had to give them to me in his own home because they were stolen from the factory and it's illegal to sell stolen goods to tourists obviously. \n\nHe explained how everyone has to steal from their workplaces because they can't afford to live on their state salary. It was very interesting. \n\n\nIf you're going to go, I'd say try to make a friend. If that fails you can buy them by the trove at the airport on the way out. Don't buy off the streets because they are not authentic. Just shitty tobacco rolled up to scam tourists. ",
"You look so pretty in that dress!",
"Actress. Lots of them in Havana. They'll follow and haggle you for money if they see you take a photo.",
"What did she taste like?",
"Waiters, bar tenders, and cleaning staff. Last time I was in Cuba, I bought a box of 25 Romeo y Juliete No. 2 for $100 CUC from a waiter. That saved me ~$100 CAD. ",
"This is how you make a living off of tourists. I assume yall tipped her. No different than people dressing like Spiderman and other superheroes and making tourists pay them for pictures together.",
"Some of those are just suits! ",
"Whats more amazing its thats a fella, fellas.",
"> It isn’t a costume\n\n> Oh yes the costume itself is part of the job\n\nHmmm",
"I did the same. Did yours have a tax stamp on it?",
"La belleza oscura no se apura.",
"thank you!",
"Me too, from this summer.",
"I go to Cuba every month, I was born there, you can bring up to 100 cigars with you.",
"That's a man, babeeeee!",
"She sits there and charges people for pictures. My dad accidentally got her in a picture and she got all pissy when he wouldn't pay her for it.",
"It's harder again since trump took over. If you want to go badly go through Canada or Mexico. In Cuba the immigration officer will not stamp your passport so there will be no paper trace. I went with my kids this last June and it was magical! Good luck",
"Idk why but I can clearly hear her saying something like \" so..... You wish to know de wey tu de palace of illicit delight?\"",
"It's amazing how differently we dress from the people in Cuba -- in fact, do everything differently from them. I recently went last year on a school trip to El Ballet Nacional de Cuba. \n\nYou really realize how well you live in your home after you go to Cuba. Life-changing experience for me.",
"The funny part is that she’s actually only 25 years old!",
"Everyone in Cuba has a \"friend\" who works in a cigar factory. Tons of fakes.",
"She looks like she has stories to tell.",
"> If they charged you 5 CUC for a damn picture you're getting ripped off, 5 CUC= 125 pesos, regular salary in Cuba 600-750 pesos a month, so basically a regular government employee gets paid ~31 CUC a month.\n\n\nYou can't look at Cuban salaries and try to reconstruct a story about what their economic lives are like. This is immediately apparent if you go to a grocery store. The cheapest beer costs them 1 CUC per can when sold in a 24-pack - and people are drinking them pretty regularly - even in the poorer parts of Centro Havana. Its very complex.",
"Met the same woman back in 2003 lol",
"I have some on my Facebook feed. They're still a little facebook naive - its really cute.",
"Those nails though.",
"Wow that’s incredible. First thing I thought before clicking was how high quality the photo looked. Would not have thought it was an iPhone X that took this. ",
"Not a costume, that west African attire.",
"Looks like a Tide ad.",
"Yes they all lime up in that one street to get tourist to give them money for a “classic” Cuba picture. ",
"Change American dollars for Canadian b4 u go, otherwise you pay 10% penalty. I have stayed in 3 different casa particulara I have booked through airbnb and they were all awesome.",
"Making money off of pictures. Not that there's anything wrong with that. My sister paid her to take her picture 2 years ago as well. ",
"She looks like she has stories to tell.",
"She looks like Angela Basset should play her in a movie. \n\nSmart, badass, yet loving. ",
"Hey, you should crosspost this to /r/HumanPorn.",
"I understand the skepticism but I am also not an idiot. ",
"I think that's a dude.\n",
"Came with the certificate of authenticity in multiple languages and then also a seal that would be put on the exterior of the cigar box before being exported. ",
"You look good",
"What cigars did you buy?",
"Cohiba robustos",
"How long ago was this? Have a picture? Only trying to help. ",
"Those are Santeria beads she is wearing. They are representative of Orula The Deviner . This woman is a priestess of Orula and is likely very revered in the Santeria community. ",
"If only if only the woodpecker sighed. The bark on the tree was as soft as the sky. The wolf waits below, hungry and lonely. HE CRIES TO THE MOON, if only if only. If only, if only......",
"Do they import them? Padron has been made in Nicaragua since the seventies.",
"/r/Bossfight\n\nthe active one",
"I'm the biggest hypocrite of 2015",
"Well thanks, that’s helpful! Subscribed",
"Risky click of the day..",
"Wow, the Castro family just won't die.",
"She?",
"I have no idea...i just know the wrappers\n\nPic: http://elfumador.com/padron2000cigar.jpg",
"You are right, Guantanamo Bay is in Cuba, except is the US government is in charge of torturing political dissidents. ",
"I do wonder how these people do for a living. I would think they do well considering how poor their country is. I was there a few weeks ago. Our tour guide was telling us that her husband, a dentist, works 6 days a week and makes about $40 cucs a month granted his schooling was free. A Cuc is a cuban convertible paso, used by tourists, and is a 1 for 1 equivalent of a us dollar. \n\nI suspect that our tour guide made about that much in tips for our tour alone.\n\nThere were people dressed up like this lady and I think they were charging about $5 cucs per photo.",
"A couple months ago! No prob I don't mind. \n\nhttps://imgur.com/gallery/msHa3\n\nHere are the cigars and the two docs that came with them ",
"You do know America kind of ruined Iran in the first place, right?",
"So you paid for the picture then, haha",
"When did you go? It was a 13% charge for me when I went 3 weeks ago.",
"Yeah that's not a Padron she's got. Look a little closer. Wrong shape.",
"/r/swordorsheath",
"They aren't cheap in the tourist areas. Not sure how much they cost outside of tourists areas but I suspect they're a little more reasonable.\n",
"But take some dollars with you as well. You can get way more for a dollarthen you will ever get for one CUC",
"I was there in December...",
"Did you run the codes on the Habanos website? ",
"I gave her a tip for letting me photograph her",
"ya great, I just got fired for clicking it",
"She was a beauty in her day. ",
"To be fair, they're probably fake. Some guy outside of the Cohiba Factory sold me some really nice cigars for next to nothing. I was so happy with myself, until someone told me they were knock offs a few days later. Still very good cigars, but not the real deal.",
"Unfortunately, those are fake. \n\nSerial number on the box seal is invalid (you can check at http://verificacion.habanos.com/).\n\nThe cigars bands are not correct. No holograms anywhere (should be on all the gold parts). No inner hologram \"tanios\" head instead the gold head. White boxes should be same size as the black lines around them. \n\n[This](https://43g4dd3q94082no2a62j0na118wy-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Cohiba-Band.png) is what the current Cohiba band looks like.\n\n",
"Great capture! ",
"she is there for tourists, I have seen her both times I have gone and she demands money for pictures taken of her...",
"Sad",
"Without trying to be an ass, how do you know you werent screwed over? I know I got screwed over, right outside the Cohiba factory.",
"Isn't this basically her job though?",
"Dad is really let himself go",
"Also, every bar was the bar where Buena Vista Social Club used to play all their gigs.",
"I was born in Cuba, I have a pretty good idea how the economy works over there. And believe me when I say the struggle is real. Most people can't afford to buy at grocery stores that run in CUC, from ice cream to Soda costs 1.20CUC, that right there is more than 25 pesos, 90% of government employees(doctors, teachers....) get paid in pesos, no CUC. People have to do \"illegal\" jobs to get by, like red meat trading which will get you 20+ years in prison If caught. ",
"Hopefully you carried her up the mountain and sang to her so zero and Stanley can finally get off that mountain.",
"IIRC, there's several of them. They're called Cigar Ladies and they make their living off of tourist pictures.",
"Radical islam ruined Iran.",
"Huh. Different experience than I had. ",
"Yes, it's a tourist thing. There are many of these ladies that sit around all dressed up with huge cigars asking for money so you can take a picture.",
"Convert American cash to Euros or Pounds before arriving to save a lot on the exchange rate to Cuban cash.",
"She's the famous Cuban lady! I painted her last year.\n\nhttps://imgur.com/a/Cv0Ls",
"Yeah all the taxi drivers would charge tourists as much as 20 CUC for what should have been a 5 CUC (or less) ride. I don't blame them, there's a lot of poverty in Cuba and tourists bring in a lot of wealth. Still it helps to speak Spanish there if you're like me and look super gringo.",
"Not as cool when you realize this is a tourist thing that happens all over cuba. Old ladies dressed up with huge cigars, playing the stereotype for your pictures.",
"https://i.imgur.com/lXyP4V0.png\n\nEeeeeveryone who's been to Havana has a photo of her.\n\n[See also, 54K thread from 9 months ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/6ac85w/my_favorite_picture_from_my_trip_to_cuba/dhdpvp1/)",
"Well I'll be damned. It's hard to believe because the packaging had such high production value,they'd really have to have a serious operation going to knock these off so well. \nIs it possible since they claimed they were stolen that they wouldn't be registered on the site? From what I understood they were taken from the production line ",
"Someone above did!",
"I'd smash that pelvis into dust",
"Yeah, its a real problem in Cuba and other South and Central American countries. There is tobacco all over the place and most people smoke cigars there so its pretty easy to make passable boxes and bands and slap them on any cigar for maybe $5-10 and sell for much more. \n\nMost say to only buy from trusted or official state run shops (La Casa Del Habano). \n\nIf you are interested in trying real ones, head over to /r/CigarMarket ",
"Beautiful pic. ❤",
"He is brought you into this world though ",
"I was in Havana in 2005 (or was it 2006?). Pretty sure I saw the same lady or a version of her.",
"That’s a man. A tranny.",
"Well I am certainly impressed. Thanks for helping me find out. What made you suspect them in the first place? How I acquired them?",
"Ya. I know. I was joking.",
"Everybody in Cuba claims they know someone who works in the cigar factory. I can’t tell you how many random people in Havana had that same story. Those cigars are all black market counterfeits.",
"See my conversation below! Apparently I've been had an my non idiot comment is now highly ironic as I am indeed an idiot. ",
"I was in Cuba this past December! I saw her too!\n\nOld Havana IIRC?",
"Last I heard was about 15 bucks, that was when Obama opened travel to Cuba though ",
"It is staged. She is dressed up specifically for people to take her photo and tip her. ",
"I am American and have a picture with her and another lady dressed like that! I wish I could go back to Cuba!",
"*”Alright, Cuba!”*",
"I'm definitely impressed with the production value haha. Ah well memories were still made. Cigars don't taste bad although I am questioning if they are safe to smoke tho",
"Most people budget $100 a day",
"Esta mujer es una bruja",
"Is this picture of you?",
"That sucks. However, even the cheap cigars were great over there!",
"Yeah. Price and source are obvious. The Robustos go for about $400-450 a box right now. And factories don't let workers walk out with boxes of cigars. \n\nPretty much every post to subs like /r/cubancigars or /r/cigars about Cuban cigars end up being fakes. Most people don't know anything about them.\n",
"> People have to do \"illegal\" jobs to get by, like red meat trading which will get you 20+ years in prison If caught.\n\n\nWhat's up with that red meat thing? I kept hearing that red meat is illegal - then that its just illegal for locals. But then I met a group celebrating a guys birthday at a restaurant and one of them was eating a steak. Also, isn't ropa vieja Beef? So one of their national dishes is illegal? Its so confusing.",
"Did you remember to carry her up the mountain?",
"Theres people like this all over havana. Communism has made it so the only real paying jobs are in tourism , so most people work for tips doing things like this at common tourist traps . \n\nIf theres a kid running to give you a flower or something dont take it . if you do youll be stopped by their mother almost immediately to ask for money because you accepted the flower. \n\nSame with these people dressed for pictures. If you take a picture you'd better expect to pay up , same deal as Hollywood boulevard ",
"Me too! It's an older picture (she looks younger). I got mine off a banana! ",
"The money that non-Cuban tourists use is about 20x more valuable than the Cuban peso. Or at least it was when I was there in 2012. It was explained to me that $20 US dollar is ~1 month salary for a Cuban.",
"Maxine Waters",
"Havana ooh-na-na",
"That's not really her story though is it",
"Attire is a synonym for costume...",
"She looks like she lived a hard life.",
"You can get Havana Club pretty easily in the states, but the others are definitely worth grabbing and much harder to come by here.",
"It's 100 cigars and 2 liters of alcohol per person, but they don't check much of anything at customs, at least on cruise lines.",
"yes, and the Germans hang around with suspenders and shorts all the time , right?",
"that's what happen when you've seen shit",
"Whenever I see these pictures I kinda wonder if people who do not smoke cigars actually exist in Cuba?",
"While yes, this lady was dressed like this in the streets of Cuba, it is “staged” because she specifically dresses this way, cigar and all, to have tourist take these very pictures and then give her a tip. \n\nShe is not some local dressed in her normal attire surprised someone wants to take a picture of her. ",
"Gotcha. Well I appreciate the knowledge man!",
"why not go to Puerto Rico instead, pretty much the same thing but less risky",
"I was happy with them and thought they were legit til today so I'll count it as a net positive ",
"American banks just haven't moved forward in putting the deals in place to operate in Cuba. Their infrastructure also isn't the best to begin with so you're going to end up using cash most of the time even when they are.\n\nHonestly, if you want a completely stress free trip just book a cruise to Cuba. They're fairly cheap and you're able to get cash out on the boat and use it as a shoving off point for your trip. It's how I went the second time and I'd always suggest it.",
"There are tons of old american cars. They replace parts from other makes and they fabricate parts they dont have. They're american cars in body only, but you will see tons of them in cuba.",
"Watch Buena Vista Social Club if you want to see more remarkably aging Cubans. ",
"Great photo",
"If the matrix was a Cuban film, she would be the Oracle",
"I saw a lot of them, but as an American, I'd been given the impression that the streets were just *packed* with them. It seemed like (at least in Havana), the old American cars accounted for maybe 1/10 or less of the cars on the street.",
"Shyla?",
"I remember it closer to 30 to 50%, they are often used as taxis, so if you are in more central parts you definitely see more. But I would say 10% of the cars are classics in decent shape. Often they're pretty worn old junkers.",
"I've had a Farmer roll me some fresh cigars there. They were great, although experts will probably tell me they were shit. It's the entire experience that made me enjoy them so much!",
"I have a picture of this lady too!! From last April. She had the Cuban flag on those nails too, different design. She was so nice. This made me smile. ",
"She's beautiful ",
"She was born, she went to school, she realized she couldn’t make enough money working, she had no ability to steal from her job to sell in the black market, government finally allowed street performers due to restoration effort by Eusebio Leal Havana’s History dude( sorry not sure how to translate Historiador de la Habana),she realized she could make dozens of dollars a day(several times a monthly salary) standing around, she either bought or made a costume and sat around in touristy areas.\n\nThe end. ",
"There’s an oil painting hanging in a cigar/liquor shop in Honolulu strikingly similar to this photo. I offered to buy it, but the shop owner rightly refused. It was beautiful. So I had to settle for a photo of it, which I don’t have on my phone. If I find it I’ll link it here. \n\nWeird!\n🤔",
"She is a Professional Cuban, there are many like her!",
"True dat",
"I'm off there in 5 weeks.",
"There we go. I'm satisfied now",
"She's the Cuban version of a You Tube star. ",
"That's not a Padron. And it's not a wrapper, it's a band. ",
"It is a costume, but it's an outfit typical of Oshun in her path of Ololodi, wife of Orunmila. Oshun and Orunmila are orisha, basically gods of Afro-Cuban spirituality derived predominantly from Yoruba sources.",
"pics of real, non-model people are my favourite type of pics. Good, high detail, of people you just know would have a story to tell if you took the time to have a chat. ",
"Damn, this lady looks hard as fuck and she doesn't take shit from anyone.",
"ah yes, the Jagger method",
"Ugh, I cannot with her! She's so fabulous! She looks like she'd read you down faster than RuPaul when the library is open. ",
"1930s you tube star ",
"Morgan Freeman’s next Dew commercial.",
"Or the Roman soldiers in front of the Coliseum.",
"What normal person states the model of their phone for their picture",
"I can see the Ladas but are parts even riggable for a Yugo",
"The background is a wall, are you trying to kill somebody??",
"Can confirm am cuban. She’s actually making bank. My uncle makes roughly 30$ a month by American conversion.",
"So how were the Cuban cigars and the rum?",
"> minus a ~17% exchange fee that goes to the dollar. \n\nThe exchange rate is 13%. That's the 10% surcharge for US cash plus the 3% buy/sell commission. So $1.00 USD = .87 CUC.\n\nThat rate never changes, it's the same at all the Banks and Cadecas.\n\nIf you paid 17% then that was either over-the-counter at your hotel/resort where they can charge anything they wish, or you were ripped off.",
"Show was dope",
"Wouldn't she not still be doing it if it was a decent living?",
"Is that the Chiquita banana lady?",
"A person that wants you to know that they have a $1000 phone.",
"> Really? That’s amazing! She must be there all the time.\n\nHer name is Yanet and it's her job. She has a licence to \"perform/pose\" for photo ops for tourists. There's about another dozen ladies doing the same thing in Old Havana. Her dress, hair, etc. are all mandated by Habaguanex, the company that drives the restoration of Old Havana, funded in part by UNESCO.\n\nShe charges 1 CUC per photo so her job is **VERY** coveted, she greased a lot of palms to get it, and to keep it.",
"LOVE this song",
"oi oi mate, she sure looks like her.",
"RuPaul's mom???",
"Imagine being so cool that you can just lounge around smoking a cigar all day, charging people to take a picture of you.\n\nGoals.",
"How recent? My FIL just got back from Cuba this last friday. ",
"No idea. I watched a woman fix her Yugo's engine with a hammer, though.",
"La cucaracha es Bueno dos taquila ",
"Even the Pillar Men had a mom.",
"She may live there. :) (great picture tho)",
"2014, saw this lady in Havana! I have her picture somewhere. ",
"Three pesos for a beso on your cheek. ",
"ZING! I bet there is some truth here.",
"Ha-van-na-na-na-na",
"It might have been 13%. I honestly don't remember. I did it at my hotel so maybe it was more. Thats why I included \"~\" meaning about...",
"Thankfully, shes attractive despite it, but i really dont understand the tobacco use",
"Incredible! ",
"I love love love everything about this picture!!!!",
"> Its basically the Cuban equivalent of those guys dressed like Elmo in Time's Square.\n\nThat's pretty much all of Old Havana. Didn't talk to a single local there that wasn't either trying to sell me something or lead me to his buddy's restaurant.",
"I'd go crazy from doing literally nothing but chatting and posing with tourists.",
"Are these restaurants good at least?",
"i guess its like being vegan. its not worth doing unless you tell people about it",
"I want to be her when I grow up",
"her name was lola...",
"She lit af",
"I mean....\nDon’t they? ",
"Couldn't tell ya, partially cause I hate being lured places like that and partially cause my airbnb host all but guaranteed I'd spend the rest of my vacation in the bathroom if I accepted the invite. \n\nFood as a whole was very good though.\n\n",
"> partially cause my airbnb host \n\nI dont imagine that is legal in Cuba.\n",
"I see she's changed her outfit since I took the same photo in the same spot about 14 years ago. She charged a buck a piece at the time. Totally worth it. \n\nhttps://imgur.com/a/euU5m",
"Why wouldnt you? It brings in so much tourism",
"Or OP's mom.",
"I got so annoyed in Havana with the scummy people coming up whispering in my ear \"buy marijuana\". So I took it up a notch and said to the next one loud enough that everyone in the market could hear \"man I am from Canada we got better pot then you, you want the good shit?\" As I took off my backpack and started unzipping it. Guy ran and wasn't bothered the rest of the day. Tour guided wasn't impressed and suggested not to do something like that again.",
"How much did you tip her?",
"Cause last I heard it's still illegal to own property, it's all still government owned. Unless they've backed off the whole communist thing in the last few years and I didnt hear.",
"I was just about to ask what lens he used for this pic, I assumed it was taken with a dslr, that this was taken with a cell phone is fucking incredible",
"You mean Indian migrants trying to sell cheap plastic toys?",
"Her 40s are going to be rough.",
"That’s a man baby ",
"Is that a trap?",
"OG Kush ",
"They've allowed self-employment for awhile and I think opened it up to other small businesses lately. The guy I stayed with was actually a Canadian expat that spent a few years getting some sponsorship that allowed him to run a hotel. I assume that means he bribed some dudes.",
"It’s ok. We do the same thing in Texas but with belt buckles and cowboy hats. ",
"Or that nice guy dressed as William Wallace in Edinburgh.",
"Havana ooh la la.",
"Is she Morgan Freeman?",
"The picture quality is amazing what lens did you use?",
"\"Watch yourself, Skipper,\" muttered my first mate, Red Gallagher, \"she might have a gun.\" \n\n\"Easy, Red,\" I replied. \"We'll just do our business and shove off.\" \n\nI politely took off my hat and turned to the formidable female who was scrutinizing me from her chair next to an open door. It was too dark to see inside, but the mingled conversations of drunken sailors and notes from a badly tuned piano told me we were in the right place. \"Are you Madame Hacienda?\" I asked.\n\nUnhurriedly, she exhaled a dense cloud of blue smoke. \"Depends on who's asking.\"\n\n\"The name's Carney,\" I replied. \"Phil Carney. The Chinaman sent me.\"",
"Portrait mode on an iPhone X",
"beautiful.",
"It's called Casa Particular and it's very much legal as long as they're registered. You have to put their address on your visa so there's that. Also, the food is incredible for the most part. No cow, just pork and chicken (fish is expensive) for the most part. And their cokes are AMAZING because of cane sugar. ",
"I swear to God this woman was there when I visited on vacation with my parents, 30 years ago! ",
"It’s true, they’re just shells. Most of them are converted to diesel. They’re tourist cabs. Once Cuba opens up economically they’ll remain an attraction, like the horse carriages around Central Park in NYC. They’re so associated with Havana, that I’m certain there will be fiberglass replicas at some point.",
"Great photo. I remember seeing this woman when there in May: http://www.cruisehabit.com/sites/default/files/three_women_havana_cuba.jpg",
"Dude looks like a lady.",
"The chicquita banana lady got old! And black.",
"It’s the Cuban flag",
"That girl knows how to pose. ",
"My name is Mister Sir",
"Just to give you a little background on your lady. \nShe is what they call a Santera they follow the Yoruba religious belief system. \nThe yellow and green necklace it telling you she is married to a Babalawo a high priest in the religion. I photographed her and the lady in light and dark blue who is a devotee of Yemaya the goddess of water. ",
"For all those mentioning that this is her job and linking other photos of her, that's all well and good but OP's photo is SO MUCH better and she has cooler nails in this one. So, nice photo work OP. ",
"This lady knows how to live.",
"Thanks!!",
"Damnit... another tide ad.",
"Earth 2 morgan freman?",
"Well she would need multiple cigars most likely unless she just lights it enough to have the burn an inch off and then only light it when someone requests a pic, but assuming she keeps it lit to attract people that's alot of cigars.",
"You're the first person I see on this thread talking about the meaning. The necklace doesn't necessarily mean that, it's the colors of Orula, which is the messenger of Olofi. You get the necklace and a bracelet of the same color that's been blessed by a babalawo. Yemaya is the goddess of the ocean and she symbolizes the mother of all. Oshun is the goddess of rivers and lakes, also Yemaya's sister. It's a fascinating tradition, I've loved every minute of being a Santero. \n\nEdit: forgot to mention her bracelets. Yellow and copper are colors of Oshun and blue and clear are Yemaya. She has both which usually means she's \"hija de dos aguas\" which means \"daughter of both waters.\" I'm the same, it's double duty!",
"Yep. Saw her or a version like her too.\n[oh, those cubanas](https://imgur.com/gallery/LVnMN) ",
"Nice repost karma whore",
"Thank you for your reply. I just did not want to share what I’m sharing with you. The collar de mazo it was given to her by my godfather Fran Ogbe Oshe who happens to be my godfather and I am a Babalawo Alakentu. Her husband was a Babalawo and you are correct she is Oshun in the Santeria pantheon La Caridad del Cobre. ",
"There this show on Netflix calls One Day At a Time about a Cuban family and there's one episode where the Cuban grandma swears Cubans are all white and I had to stop watching bc my father is literally Cuban and literally black just like this mujer hermosa here",
"Chrome. Off. A. Trailer. Hitch.",
"Morgan is a very free man now I see. ",
"?",
"Dam no way, I have only played around with portrait mode in the house. Your photo is SLR quality nice job 👍🏽",
"Everyone in my family names their son Stanley, 'cause it's Yelnats backwards. ",
"That's awesome! I did Santo over there almost two years ago, unfortunately didn't get to go out much, I would've loved to. Bendiciones",
"She's capitalizing on tourist expectations. A sassy fabulously dressed Cuban woman with a Cuban cigar is a stereotype tourists are apparently thrilled to pay for if she's still doing this decades later. Cuba is closely associated with fine cigars in U.S. pop culture, you can even find the association in older cartoons (50s and 60s era). I'm not entirely sure why but I plan to look it up when I'm back at my p.c., I encourage you to do the same if you're curious.",
"ah, makes sense! ",
"Congratulations on your Osha! \nOrumila wa pelu e=may Orula always bless you. ",
"Thank you! \nI'm still not done as I have not been able to do ebbo yet, unfortunately. Three moves, 2 cross country, a divorce, bankruptcy, and some law troubles got in the way. I'm not sure when I'll be able to but it's on the top of my priorities.",
"When you do your six month ebbo it will free you up of some of the restrictions from being a Iyabo. \nI was not able to do mine at the six month mark either. But that was thirty eight years ago and thing were different then. \nIs interesting how you go thru life changes when you do Osha. Trust me everything that happens is for a reason. Your guardian angel will always do what’s best for you. ",
"Awesome picture! I had my hand out the window of a car the whole time I was there and just took random pictures. This one is my favorite. https://i.imgur.com/zULrGPo.jpg",
"I jumped through all the hoops and paperwork to visit Cuba and wrote out the detailed reason why I was wanting a cultural visa and got straight rejected. I have been to 88 countries so this really pissed me off. So I filled all the paperwork out again and rather than write out with all the effort to articulate my reasons I wrote. “ I was rejected on my first attempt at a cultural VISA for Cuba case #######. I am writing to tell you I will travel to Cuba with or without your permission by hired boat or through air via Toronto or Mexico City. We can act like children or adults but I am going to Cuba so no matter if it’s legal or not it’s happening.... so your move”. Two weeks later they sent my cultural visa lol and I love Cuba and your pic!",
"I swear I’ve seen this exact comment somewhere before.",
"Have i not seen this exact post before ..? wtf?",
"full nasty.",
"It’s because Cuban cigars are arguably some of the best in the world and tobacco is one of Cuba’s biggest exports, (the other being fruit.)",
"It’s because Cuban cigars are arguably some of the best in the world and tobacco is one of Cuba’s biggest exports, (the other being fruit.)",
"Haha I love that story; It took too long to hear back from US treasury so I just went in nov of 2016 without approval and when I came home I had my reject letter. Then I was worried i would be denied global entry but I went for my in person interview and they asked about it so casually and approved me. I’m headed on my 2nd adventure to Cuba in 3 weeks. Last time I only did Varadero and Havana, this time I’m renting a motorcycle and crossing the country and I’m so excited ",
"Damn that’s a great idea....... taking the motorcycle would be perfect way to explore Cuba. HAVE FUN!"
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Picture I took on a recent trip to Cuba
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"Recipe: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Cook-Breakfast-in-Bread-Egg-Bread-Bowl/",
"That doesn't look like a bed to me",
"True maybe more a pillow for your head ",
"\"Honey, be still, you're gonna knock over my egg-cheese-sausage-pizza looking thing.\"",
"I'm talking bout the table \n\nEdit: I'm an idiot",
"I feel like that picture just made me constipated...",
"Yes, please..I’ll be here patiently waiting..",
"Oh *bed*. I thought you said \"go to bread\"",
"Oh my god it says bread. I thought it said bed. Fuck ",
"Time to go back to bread.",
"Wow.....ummmm YES!!!"
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Breakfast in Bread anyone?
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"It looks like this post is about US Politics. Various methods of filtering out content relating to US Politics can be found [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/wiki/v2/resources/filter/politics).\n\n*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/pics) if you have any questions or concerns.*",
"*conspiracy intensifies*",
"Pre or post?",
"clearly they don't sit in a restaurant as the restaurant is to their left.",
"Any history or background on this picture? It looks relatively recent.",
"\"So Mick's really your father. Well I can top that, I really wasn't...\".",
"I don't think JT has had bottom surgery yet, so pre. ",
"No, it's to our left..",
"frick",
"darn"
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Barack Obama and Justin Trudeau at a restaurant
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/r/pics/comments/7vn7rf/today_the_floats_for_the_cologne_carnival_rose/
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"The other floats can be found here: https://www.ksta.de/koeln/rosenmontag-das-sind-die-neuen-persiflage-wagen-29624848 (photo credit: Worring)\n\nThe name of the float in the background is \"Langsamer Walzer\" which not only translates to \"slow waltz\", but also to \"slow roller\".",
"Yeah, but the stock market! Oh, wait....",
"You should post this to r/MarchAgainstTrump\n\nKölle Alaaf!",
"Danke für den Tipp!",
"Lol you funny germans you will be begging us for help when you have been overrun by people that don’t care if they live or die. "
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Today the floats for the Cologne Carnival Rose Monday Parade were unveiled. One is about US politics.
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"Rest easy sweet prince. Your watch is done. ",
"Damn it who is cutting onions in the office ",
"The lady looks devastated"
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Members of the 436th Security Forces Squadron say farewell to retired military working K9 Rico as his former US Air Force handler carries him to the veterinary clinic; Rico was suffering from a spinal cord disease.
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[
"She looks like one of her parents is a blob fish ",
"LMAO",
"Try this in r/imgoingtohellforthis",
"it just says \"Wow such empty\"",
"It’s because of all the nsfw posts. Don’t worry literally the entire sub is like “I’m 12 and edgy” it’s all stuff you could put on r/comedycemetery ",
"how do i make nsfw posts apear ",
"/u/Ryan1sB1_, 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/Ryan1sB1_&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vna2o/roses_are_red_my_dad_hangs_out_at_bars/?context=10\\))"
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Roses are red, My dad hangs out at bars
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"I’ll take the red house in the background. I’ll record my next atmospheric black metal album in the basement.",
"Yes, wanted a nice mirroring of the clouds but lost track of the rest of the saturation of the picture. ",
"Ja den var liten. \nYes its quite small"
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Small Harbor in Norway
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[
"Needs more tits",
"Yeah, like three or something.",
"I suggest watching Total Recall for that. ",
"I hear you :) That's actually a fun movie, I've watched a few times already (I mean the original one, not the remake, which I think sucks in comparison).",
"That three titty chick from Total recall.",
"Three is the magic number."
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Daenerys Targaryen cosplay
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[
"This pic is as old as the internet but its still beautiful. ",
"Haha. The first time I saw it was about half an hour ago and I gasped.",
"Owl have what she's having.",
"It looks like it's trying to rob her.",
"Superb"
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Owl and girl
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[
"I keep getting older and that movie stays the same age",
"It was made in 1993, and took place in 1976... and was incredibly retro for its day.\n\n17 years. If it was made now it would take place in 2001. ",
"A lot changed between 76 and 93",
"Love Richard Linklater! This is one of my dad’s most favorite movies of all time. He told me the first time we watched it that if he had a camera on his shoulder in high school this movie is what he would have caught on camera. Especially him going to high school in Texas!",
"One of my all time favourite films ",
"I graduated in 1994. I remember in 2014 thinking that Stairway to heaven is to me as Smells Like Teen Spirit is to the kids graduating today.\n\n",
"this movie really helped me, as a kid graduating high school in 03, connect with past generations. If you grew up in a small town like I did, it always felt like living outside of time, and we were all doing the same shit in 03 as 76. ",
"That’s down the street from me. Nelson’s Field stand up!",
"Hell I remember being left alone all day in the nineties as a kid. If my mom wanted me home for whatever reason she just yelled and I usually could hear her. It was no big deal then and I was all over that town by myself. ",
"The stoner kid looks so damn 90's.",
"Yikes.",
"I can re-name all of the characters with names of actual people I knew, and I'll admit, I was Slater.",
"Fast Times was shot at my dad's school, Clairemont High in San Diego.\n\nEdit: I just googled this to see if my claim was true, and it seems it wasn't shot there, however \"The film is adapted from a book Crowe wrote after a year spent at Clairemont High School in San Diego, California. He went undercover to do research for his 1981 book Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A True Story, about his observations of the high school and the students he befriended there, including then-student Andy Rathbone, on whom the character \"Rat\" was modeled\".\n\nSo it's based on my dad's actual school and basic time period he was there (my dad graduated in '74).",
"Pfft. There was no memes about self loathing and depression in 1976, now is way better!",
"This movie is definitely a great snapshot of how things were back then. I'm sure almost any teenager from that time period can relate.",
"Say man, you got a joint?",
"alright alright alright",
"Such a great soundtrack too.",
"Hey man, watch the leather.\n\n",
"Same here, even had the long hair and sold pot."
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Dazed and Confused, 1993
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"Nice, poignant John Mahoney tribute",
"[Here](https://i.imgur.com/GOIc2r3.jpg) is a higher quality version of this image. [Here](https://www.gettyimages.no/detail/news-photo/season-1-pictured-frasier-and-martin-cranes-apartment-news-photo/138362465#/season-1-pictured-frasier-and-martin-cranes-apartment-picture-id138362465) is the source. ",
"I want a house with built-in bookshelves. ",
"Oh crap just found out about him passing. \n\nThere goes my smile....",
"Your comment made me think that Kelsey Grammer had died.\n\nFor those still confused, it was John Mahoney. I guess I should have figured that out based on how prominently the chair was in the OP's photo. [Here's an article](http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/news/ct-ent-john-mahoney-dead-steppenwolf-frasier-20180205-story.html).",
"You're the hero of /r/pics.",
"The house is all wrong, everything is is the wrong position \n\nBut RIP, great show",
"wow, furniture. what a pic.",
"\"It's Eclectic\"",
"If I only lived in Seattle then someone would actually love me :c",
"[Hey Baby, I hear the blues a-callin...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQx-H2av1PM)",
"Oh yeah \"just found out\" just as soon as you were about to type a comment to make it sound like you were surprised as soon as you clicked on this post",
"Netflix does as well for anyone who has it and wants to rewatch!",
"Hey everybody. Join us over at /r/Frasier , we're a great sub!",
"Does he post with out emotional titles? Then he'd be my hero",
"Had to look up their ages, must have had Frasier young!",
"I don't get it",
"Sad day :( ",
"Awww Geeez...",
"They play Frasier every morning on channel 4 over here in the UK. They've done this for years! Never actually knew John was originally from Blackpool.. ",
"I prefer sinfeld",
"turn that frown upside down...",
"Tossed salad and scrambled eggs...",
"appropriate username",
"*Frasier",
"I found out last night right before going to sleep, and I had to take a moment to breath.\n\nIt might be silly to be this affected by it, but Frasier was one of those shows I grew up watching and absolutely loved. I could watch episode after episode and never get bored, and before the internet and streaming became a thing, it was one of those shows I’d always stop to watch when it was on. While I can now recognize Frasier as a... less than amazing person himself, Martin Crane remains one of my favorite characters in any story. Looking through his past works, I see he was a part of more of my childhood than I realized, and it makes me appreciate him even more.",
"It's ok man. Things will get better in your life. Just hang in there.",
"/u/youcried, 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/youcried&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vnezk/goodnight_seattle_we_love_you/?context=10\\))"
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Goodnight Seattle we love you
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"What is this tube? Is this something that can be purchased? Looks like something to have a couple of them where I store my small screwdriver.",
"This is called shrink wrap or heat shrink. Used in electrical work. Very solid idea",
"Its a good idea to double layer it for rigidity. I had a pair of glass last an extra 3 years without replacing even the frame.",
"Yeah I have thicker tubing underneath then the thin tubing on top. That's what the little bump half way back is.",
"Why thank you. The AF gives you glasses once a year but I get a nasty headache every time I update the perscription so I try and make a single pair last 2 years.",
"Yeah it's heatshrink tubing, I highly recommend getting a small box of it since it is pretty useful when you need it. I have used it for fixing glasses and other small things like a charging cable that has the cable worn out (apple chargers are a good example 😂)."
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Broke the hinge on my glasses and had to come up with a quick fix to get me by.
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"or it could be that someone is jealous.",
"I feel like it gonna fall over",
"thats a reeeaaallly big bucket."
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I think this machine is compensating for something!
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"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coZ6NHoBfiI&feature=youtu.be",
"Stupid is as stupid does. Do you feed bears on the side of the road too?",
"Tell 'em Steve Dave!!!",
"Looks like your hanging off the edge of the river...."
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Baboons attacking me in Cape Town, South Africa (Video in comments)
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"Isn’t this picture illegal? ",
"Why would it be illegal ?",
"I was reading somewhere that it’s illegal to photograph the Eiffel Tower at night :-/ ",
"So I googled what you said and yes the lighting of the Eiffel Tower is protected by copyrights because it is considered art and it was made in 1985. Although the Eiffel Tower is of public domain because it's been more than 70 years since the death of Gustave Eiffel."
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Paris By Night - February 2018
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[
"Did you mean \"There's no age **limit** for cosplaying?\"",
"the real question here is can they imitate the voices lol “stupid dawgggg you made me look baaad”",
"When did Eustace and Muriel have a daughter",
"[North Korean officer with Cap's shield.](https://i.imgur.com/0SZlt0k.png)",
"Bernie sure has a lot of time on his hands now ",
"No. No one's allowed to cosplay.",
"[Here](https://imgur.com/a/4JJZ6) are a few more pictures of them. Their names are Albani and Carlos Paiva. They were among the [finalists of CCXP 2016, in São Paulo](http://g1.globo.com/pb/paraiba/noticia/2016/12/aposentados-da-pb-vao-comic-con-experience-com-cosplay-de-coragem.html).",
"The action shots are glorious.",
"*\"Stupid dog!\"*",
"Jesus Christ that show gave me nightmares as a kid. ",
"Where is me mallet ",
"The first thing that came to mind was Agent Carter.",
"Awesome cosplay. Relationship goals. Reminds me of the picture of [an older couple cosplaying Han and Leia](https://imgur.com/cYiVwY1.jpg)",
"FINALLY, good cosplay here",
"This needs to be on the front page!",
"This made my day",
"RETURN THE SLAB, OR SUFFER MY CUUUUUURSE.",
"And it was a damn good show at the same time",
"*but there should be",
"Stupid dog!",
"I just feel anxiety for that person who's phone is in battery save mode.\n\n*plugs phone into charger even though it's full battery*\n\n",
"Old people cosplaying is always awesome.",
"nope. when you cosplay, you actually become the age of the character. ",
"Naaauuugghhhtttyyyy",
"Motorola phones and the never ending saga of low battery and battery savers ",
"That guy is rocking the fuck outta those boots",
"That Wonder Woman in the back next to Deadpool looks banging.",
"Is it just me or does that guy look like an older mark hamil. ",
"There is. Playing dressup say past 10 years old is a sure sign of some sort of mental issues.",
"What show is this from again ",
"Damn, this is really good. Glad they brought up the Courage to do this. ",
"Technically, they are the correct age for their cosplay though. 🙃",
"He needs the mask! ",
"Courage the cowardly dog",
"Pulling... It...Off. ",
"Thanks ",
"Motorola literally made the phone with the longest lasting battery in a phone so far",
"That poor guy got cut out of the picture.",
"So weird ",
"Did anyone else's brain add the word \"limit\" in the title automatically?\nGreat cosplay though",
"And they've been coasting on that accomplishment for 15 years. ",
"I play dress up every day. I put on a suit and tie and go pretend to be a professional, functioning adult. Then I go home and play video games. ",
"Is it cosplay when its your life? /furry",
"Yeah I have to question whoever told him to go for Han and not Luke - he's like a spitting image of old Hamill. But then if his wife was Leia and they kissed or held hands, it could get weird. ",
"that sounds lonely and shitty",
"I think we all assumed that’s what he meant, yes. The point is that there was a pretty important word or words omitted from the title if that’s the case.",
"What's yer offer?",
"No Fun Allowed",
"Is that Claudio in the view of the phone?",
"Anyone else wanted to cry? Just a bit? I loved courage so much!! ",
"Hope you are on the opposite side of this when you get old.\n\nMiserable and boring.",
"Name checks out",
"Why did you crop out Weird Al?",
"Booga Booga Booga!",
"Bet they had some sweet couples Halloween costumes back in the day",
"I thought cosplay was when girls wear their underwear but say they're a character from a video game or tv show.",
"that is awesome",
"AMAZING but what are they disguised as?",
"Cute .",
"*Someone better get the door*\n\n*who's gonna get the door*",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QU-Kf7ZIYI",
"I think this is the first time i see a girl cosplayer without sexual clothing. ",
"Where can I buy these grandparents? ",
"waiting for him to pull out that big as mask and go \"A-BOOGA-BOOGA-BOOGA!!!\" Followed by the fake sog screaming while ukulele plays.",
"I already said it once here, but I'll say it again.\n\n\"A-BOOGA-BOOGA-BOOGA\"!\n\n*Courage screams as ukulele plays*",
"and Eustace BAaaAaaaAgge...",
"No, there is no era of cosplay.",
"This makes me so happy",
"I figure they'll stop doing that when video games and tv shows stop having women characters mainly in underwear.",
"This! This just made my fucking day!",
"You do you. I'm plenty fun. Unless it's Halloween I just think dressing up in costumes is what toddlers do. ",
"I love those guys so much just for knowing about Courage as well as the festival. So dope !",
"Hi, I'm Muriel and I'm only three and a half years old.",
"Love how it cuts out that other girl next to the old man ",
"Now THAT is adorable.",
"Not afraid to ask the tough questions. I like that",
"Plus Han is way cooler",
"Do you have an age? Yes? Sorry, no cosplay for you. ",
"photo cropper!",
"> But then if his wife was Leia and they kissed or held hands, it could get weird. \n\nNot if they were cosplaying as young Luke & Leia from ep V.",
"Of course there's a fucking deadpool...",
"Oh MY GOD MY HEART. ",
"Yea going to an enormous convention which hosts tons and tons of people from across the country/globe who share similar interests and like to have fun is DEFINITELY a sign of mental illness. Where as judging people for doing something entirely harmless and fun is definitely healthy, and not a sign of someone hating their own uninteresting life",
"Yea i dont take naps because it is soooo childish. Thats what toddlers do!",
"grams",
"Maybe they're not old, but just really good at cosplaying? ",
"Sleeping is a human function we all are required to deal with. Dressing up like your favorite Superhero is a choice and one you shouldn't make if you're over the age of 12. But whatevs.",
"This makes me happy.",
"Stupid dog!",
"Good god you sound like too much fun",
"This is something Netflix should revive",
"Because I don't think adults should play dress-up outside of Halloween or the bedroom? There are better ways to have fun.",
"Too much macaroni!! ",
"Well congrats on your “i dont like it, so nobody should do it” opinion, but its largely irrelevant and not needed on this thread. Good day!",
"My life's actually really interesting. I just don't have any *children's hobbies*. Cosplay is stupid and childish as fuck. And for what it's worth, having a convention doesn't legitimize something. NAMBLA had conventions.",
"The modern age is for cosplaying.",
"Good day to you. I hope and pray that your Spiderman onesie is as comfy as you are defensive.",
"i just find it funny that when someone doesnt agree with something they have to shit all over it. Who is that benefiting exactly? Did your comment make waves? Enjoy your *adult hobbies*. It sucks we arent all that mature",
"While we’re on the subject anyone want to tell me why my parents would say it was a bad show with animal abuse and stuff? I don’t think I ever caught that",
"I want to see the dude do Wallace and Gromit.",
"Ah that's what it is, religiousness. Only reason I can think of for spouting an ignorant comment and then ending with \"Good day.\" Fucking extra special there.",
"The comment was sarcastic. \n\nJudging by the responses, cosplay fans are grown babies, pretty much proving my point.",
"No one else is bothered by that phone in the corner taking the same picture? ",
"Honest question. Do you think they are really doing this out of a love for cosplayor this cartoon? Do companies “promote” their product by hiring people to go to these events and get lots of pictures taken? I am not a part of this world so I really don’t know.",
"Honestly he scared me more than anyone.",
"> I'm plenty fun\n\nI mean if you gotta *say* that..",
"...in response to an accusation. Context matters. I take it you like to play dress-up too?",
"This is deadly! Wish they had a real dog though!",
"MURIEL! Where's my dinner!",
"This is so adorable!",
"Deadpool about to beat the shit out of Wonderwoman and Captain America. ",
"The man doesn’t look mean enough to be Eustace",
"This episode, was the only one I remember legit scaring me.",
"You mean the love child of Lorde and Post Malone?",
"Living their best life ",
"that is so cool! Courage was 1 of the best cartoons i watched as a child, was freaky shit.",
"Not enough cheese!!!",
"This Eustace doesn't look scary at all",
"No mallet?",
"Can't bop a mouse without me mallet.",
"That guys phone is going to die soon",
"He may not be nice to the dog but hes also going to give us universal healthcare and free college tuition .",
"i guess i feel like there's a lower bound\n\nthe person has to be old enough to know what they're wearing",
"I was gonna post my pic of them too. Relationship goals",
"Can we just call a spade a spade... It's dress up. And there is no age limit to dress up.",
"\"Good! Use your incestuous feelings, boy. Let the incest flow through you.\"\n\n",
"Ohh fuck.. I just remembered that scary fucker. ",
"That's it, I'm getting me mallet.",
"I'm really worried about that phone's battery condition, was it charged? Did it die in the middle of the event?",
"These people are my new heroes lmao",
"Obligatory Deadpool in background",
"what are they cosplaying ?",
"There needs to be a new series of Courage the Cowardly Dog. Like a darker version, kinda like how they did the final season of Samurai Jack. This and Ed, Edd, n Eddy needs a new life and then I can die happy.",
"THIS IS MY LINT ",
"THIS IS MY LINT ",
"That's it! I'm gettin' me mallet!",
"I knew a lady who would have made an awesome Nanny Ogg. Had the personality for it too. Face like a happy dried apple and everything. \n\nI can't wait to get old and cosplay as Izma. \n",
"It does help to be old in this scenario.",
"I scared to watch it because I think it still might give me nightmares ",
"I miss this show ",
"Stupid plush ",
"*RRAAAMSEEEESS!!*",
"Thats the perfect age for that cosplay. Definitely would not work at 22. \n\nAlso, thats one of the best cosplay ever.",
"Ya and some of those old folk can pull off a much better cosplay. \n\n\nHey, that guy over there , could you and those 10 other kirito please compare notes, thanks. There are other colors other than black you know ?",
"Yes there is. Over 25 and it’s kinda really pathetic. ",
"Go home everyone else that couple won ",
"\"Back in my day we called a costume a costume\"\nSo i guess the age limit for cosplay is 30 and younger.",
"MORE MACARONI! ",
"Grandma and grandpa are awesome!",
"That's it they win.",
"*you think it’s stupid and childish. \n\nThat doesn’t mean it is. How is it any more stupid than anything else people do for fun?",
"But it’s okay to wear the jersey of your favorite athlete. Lots of opinions getting tossed around as fact on this post. ",
"... I can’t tell whose side you’re on or exactly what you are getting at. 🧐",
"These two were at Ohayocon this past month. Absolutely wonderful couple.",
"That's it. I'm gettin' me mallet.",
"You're making me gay ",
"My fav show!! They look great holy shit",
"The internet would beg to differ",
"You should see them in their Spike/Faye costumes.",
"Considering that Courage the Cowardly Dog ended a good while back, I think it's safe to say it wasn't corporate sponsored. While I'm sure companies do sometimes do that sort of thing, in general cosplayers do it for the love of the franchises their costumes represent.",
"Bernie? Is that you?",
"The internet would also threaten to differ",
"Holy crap, i watched this show alot but completely blocked it out until i saw this.",
"The man in cloth\n\nThe man in cloth",
"Bernie really gets to do a lot since he is not the prez",
"Lol no, same with jersey wearers. It's a bad look for an adult. Of course it's an opinion. ",
"He's gettin' his mallet",
"The mobster foot fungus..... I will never forget it in my dreams.",
"Why is she not having fun :(",
"I love how the old man being Eustace even looks tired of this shit. \n“Stupid dog. People are taking pictures of me again”\n“Oh leave him alone Eustace”\n“Never. Not until they either stop or a modeling agency takes me picture.”\n",
"Unless they're teenagers and this is a clever part of their cosplay.",
"Oh yes there is and the old fella knows it.",
"Good on them!",
"/r/cosplaygirls",
"The best thing about this is that you *know* she hand-made that Courage plushie, and it probably took her several days and several trips to both Michaels and Jo-Ann Fabrics.\n\nTrue cosplay dedication, mad respect.",
"I get what you're saying but I am still skeptical. shows that have been off air for quite a while still have adds for them in syndication. If the show is on Netflix or Hulu, the production company still has reason to push its name. Not saying you're wrong, just playing devils advocate.",
"Well, punching Nazis is serious business."
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"Wow, great picture!\n\nI have a view of Lake Erie, and watch the freighters go by all the time. I always wonder what it is like to work on one of them. There is an app called Marine Traffic that allows you to identify and track them. It is interesting for boring people like me. ",
"[my dad, a freighter captain](https://i.imgur.com/snonG3k.gifv)",
"Your washer machine looks awesome and badass. What brand is it?",
"I instantly thought of [this](https://youtu.be/9vST6hVRj2A?t=10s) song.",
"Imagine this as a space capsule that just landed in a unknown earth like planet with humans looking for a new home in galaxy far away.",
"This honestly looks like a painting. Great pic!",
"/u/Capitol_Bill, just an FYI, but [this website](http://www.interlake-steamship.com/about-us/our-culture/) is using your dad's picture. They don't provide any attribution, so hopefully they got his permission.\n\nEdit: Thank you /u/Moe_Ronn. Corrected. (The one damn time I didn't copy/paste!)",
"Might be the company his dad works for.",
"Your dad better watch it or Gordon Lightfoot will start sinking about his exploits.",
"Got OP's name wrong. ",
"Accidentally appropriate typo?",
"I have something to tell you. Your father is in jail. Your mother has been keeping up this charade for years but it's time you knew the truth. ",
"I have a singing feeling you’re right. ",
"This is a porthole to tomorrow.",
"Oops. My big fat Fitzgeralds keep hitting the wrong keys on the keyboard.",
"First thing though my mind as well. 🎶 The legend lives on 🎶",
"This is awesome! Looks like the thing astronauts come back to earth in and it lands in the ocean with the little window. ",
"You are my hero.",
"My FIL lives on Lake Huron. He also uses Marine Traffic and is boring like you. I kid. I’m also boring and find it interesting. ",
"looks like a peaceful job.",
"They have freighters on the Great Lakes? Honest question, what do they transport and from where to where?\n\nEdit- wow I had no idea! Thank you everyone for all the great information!! I live in Arizona and have never been to the Great Lakes. ",
"Everything and everywhere and I'm only guessing. I've been to Duluth and they have freighters coming and going all the time. I know some are hauling taconite pellets mined from upper Minnesota out of Duluth.",
"Assuming OP isn't a BIG FAT PHONY",
"Nice, a cool picture on r/pics with out tits",
"Canal to canal, or port city to port city,, to be moved between major rivers or across the lakes more directly than driving around. Lake freighter is actually a distinct type of boat that people with an eye for that sort of thing can spot. They carry a lot of mining ore, grain, that sort of bulk material. They can be really fun to spot and track if you live somewhere with a lake view! ",
"We shouldn't have gone so deep. They didn't want us down there.",
"OP's dad is Gordon Lighfoot \n\nEdit: everything ",
"Bio shock, anybody?",
"/r/albumcovers",
"Which boat does you dad work on OP? I have family and friends who've work on them from time to time. ",
"Nice pic!",
"Right up 'til the gales of September come early....",
"As the others have said, things like ore, coal, grain, etc. They're also more efficient than railroads making the same trip due to the shorter distances and higher carrying capacity. They're also easier to maintain and last forever due to the fact that freshwater isn't as corrosive as salt water.\n\nPretty much the only downside is that they are not safe. The cargo holds are huge, and if you spring a leak, it's going down.",
"Nice, I always enjoy seeing more proof that the Earth is flat. Thanks for sharing! ",
"Quite possibly. I know a lot of the pictures my friend takes he lets the company use for a different lake company.",
"I've used Marine Traffic a lot for my job. Switched to Vessel Finder free. Less advertising and it seems more accurate.",
"All of the lakes are connected not only to themselves, but to the gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. \n\nSo they can go anywhere in the world.\n\nShips can enter and exit the great lakes on the Mississippi river from/to lake Michigan, or through the St. Lawrence seaway into lake Ontario. \n\nThat's how Chicago and Detroit became so large. They were huge ports at one time. \n",
"That's a super interesting profession. Any good stories?",
"Its crazy that this is a picture of a lake, and that a lake has freighter ships.",
"Twist: The picture is upside-down.",
"If the earth were flat, the rockie mountains would block out the sun.",
"Its going downnnn, im yelling Bluraagagarararggl",
"[r/AccidentalWesAnderson](https://www.reddit.com/r/AccidentalWesAnderson/)",
"Beautiful",
"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald",
"They bring coal into Marquette for the power plant and leave with a load of iron ore 26,000 tons more than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighs empty.",
"If you haven’t visited the Great Lakes, you really should. I’ve lived on Michigan and Superior and may never leave the region. It’s like having a coast without all the salt. Lake effect snow is wicked as well.",
"November. Fun fact: Lightfoot says “November” 6 times in the song “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”",
"The Great Lakes are absolutely HUGE. However big you think they are, they’re probably bigger than that. Lake Michigan almost as big as Ireland, and Lake Superior is bigger than Scotland. Considering that all the lakes are one gigantic interconnected waterway, it’s a convenient way to transport goods all the way from the center of Canada or the Midwestern United States to the Atlantic on the same ship. I live in Chicago, where a ton of freighters come in and out 24/7. Usually they are either coming from or going to Michigan or Canada.",
"Obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A",
"Thanks for the tip. I have installed Vessel Finder, and will try it out.",
"I had a 50/50 shot at getting that one right. Couldn't recall which of the \"ember\" months it was",
"10,000 tons?",
"I actually really dickered the lyrics haha",
"Look up the 'November Witch'. And to OP, Respect to your dad. The Great lakes are a tough sail. ",
"Unless I'm in a time warp I've seen this picture posted on here but I thought that the lighting was different.\n\nEdit - Not a time warp, just a similar pic. ",
"*26,000 tons more than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty",
"Funny. I thought if Billy Joel's \"Downeaster Alexa\"",
"Was this taken at night or in the morning?\n\nJust wondering if he was delighted or took warning.",
"A lot of them come down the Detroit river here. If you stand on Belle Isle you can watch them pass all day. Things are huge",
"Karmadecay and Google Reverse Image Search are far from perfect, but karmadecay [showed nothing](http://karmadecay.com/results/u10048519), and [this](https://www.google.com/search?tbs=sbi:AMhZZispzuNEMolihyoYRAFQf8UPOIOGsghsatIY7TXf91x0vCxb09g_19RZYJIpzzJKhApmKTClOYOBP6oNS4lW0yUrQtb-UvsBCiUvCJ7VlTFiqk1wf8ONctIq6pPVJfUlZIohNi4QLv8MMAGTtXVMlETIl_15mV7MnWXtcUitGW0uaXSMe6tac6iv0puY_1GCwki3W407JvAqmlA80chMr6xwPMTklGqUNYeQO8aiPCadOE_1_1miLyz2pxta7uVk14svWCe3eDCnu_1oTRM7h-uRbKJNhXjlD37D7YHUjWyeM8AbGFgm82uEmmOs2aYEaYKMIh9scRgSeL) was the only Google Reverse Image result. \n\nI'm not saying you're wrong, but with the available information, perhaps we should explore the time warp theory too.",
"My dad is a crack whore. ",
"It seems Google Reverse Image Search can't find it if it's slightly recolored ( just tested it with this picture).",
"Sorry, I'm confused. What are each of those dots of light?",
"It's certainly not perfect, but earlier today it worked finding images that were recolored [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vmud0/rainbow_farm/dttmmxj/) and [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vovso/beautiful_isnt_it/dtu124c/). Who knows? I'd love to hear back from OP to know for sure. In the meantime, if I can help with the time warp theory just let me know.",
"I used to watch them with a glass of wine from a friend's apartment in Milwaukee. I now live along the Mississippi River and have a better eye for barges. But yes, all inland waterway vessels are crazy impressive given any time to actually think about what they do. ",
"\"The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down...\"",
"Who does your dad sail for? Algoma or CSL? ",
"Plenty of lake effect snow Saturday night and last night.\n",
"Love it. I live on the st. Clair river in Michigan and live watching the freighters come through",
"Yes! There is some international trade through the St. Lawrence Seaway but a lot of the trade happens between Great Lakes ports where ships transport a lot of natural resources (timber, ore, coal) from ports in Lake Superior towards the larger cities (Chicago, Cleveland, Toledo). These shipping activities are largely responsible for the spread of aquatic invasive species (such as zebra and quagga mussels) in their ballast. This is something I'm studying for a Master's thesis, never thought I'd have a chance to rant about it on the internet! ",
"I took this on Erie somewhere between middle bass and port clinton\n\nhttps://i.imgur.com/8jEAyHA.jpg",
"Team Zissou!",
"Fun fact. I'm a licensed maritime captain. (Not for rigs as big as freighters...only 50 tons.) Operable anywhere in the world EXCEPT THE GREAT LAKES...and Alaskan waters. They both have their own set of regs and different Rules of the Road. \n\nUnderstandably so if you've ever spent time on the water there. It's comparable to different driving laws in different countries. Also, I have so much respect for the Lakes captains. That water is no joke. It can make the Atlantic or Gulf look like a guppy pond at times.",
"It was huge for lumber in the 1800s and 1900s. There’s tons of forests in northern Michigan and it was easy to move that lumber to cities like cleveland, Detroit, chicago, Green Bay etc. ",
"I am a seafarer and I can tell you it's harsh to be on ships like those. I sail over long haul cross-continental routes and its a pain to be cut off from your family for so long. With ever increasing size of these ships and reducing crew members (20-23 guyz) it is very stressful to work in there. ",
"That's the company his dad works for, totally fair of them to use it (it's their ship, after all). Source: /u/Capitol_Bill is an old friend of mine. ",
"The porthole (glass) is closed and reflecting the engine room overhead lighting. ",
"Flat earth proof",
"Thanks for the tip! This is my dad's company. He gave one of their PR reps permission to share when he posted to his Facebook.",
"That's a pretty sweet pic. Thanks for sharing.",
"How do you find stuff like this out? ",
"I'm in Michigan",
"I'm in Michigan",
"I love my state. Michigan is amazing! God's Creation is awesome!",
"Most often either karmadecay or [Reverse Google Image](https://www.google.com/search?tbs=sbi:AMhZZispzuNEMolihyoYRAFQf8UPOIOGsghsatIY7TXf91x0vCxb09g_19RZYJIpzzJKhApmKTClOYOBP6oNS4lW0yUrQtb-UvsBCiUvCJ7VlTFiqk1wf8ONctIq6pPVJfUlZIohNi4QLv8MMAGTtXVMlETIl_15mV7MnWXtcUitGW0uaXSMe6tac6iv0puY_1GCwki3W407JvAqmlA80chMr6xwPMTklGqUNYeQO8aiPCadOE_1_1miLyz2pxta7uVk14svWCe3eDCnu_1oTRM7h-uRbKJNhXjlD37D7YHUjWyeM8AbGFgm82uEmmOs2aYEaYKMIh9scRgSeL) search.",
"..op gets sued by dad for not getting permission ",
"Just for a point of reference - they are probably [much more massive](http://image.mlive.com/home/mlive-media/width600/img/news_impact/photo/freighter1jpg-0ccdc73291bf3be9.jpg) than you think. The only size limiting factor they have is the width of the locks around Niagara Falls - which was actually built smaller than originally designed due to lobbying from coastal port cities back in the late 19th century.",
"Not penny’s boat ",
"I love that almost all of your activity on here is Detroit Lions-related. ",
"\"...of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee. The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead when the skies of November turn gloomy.\"",
"ALIENS IN THE WATER LOOK AT THE LIGHTS THE HISTORY CHANNEL WASN'T LYING!!!!",
"That makes perfect sense and yet I have no idea how you figured that out.",
"This makes me miss up north summers",
"Hey! I don't go around posting songs about disasters at your dad's workplace! ;)",
"Looks like they have a great dental plan.",
"Post to r/accidentalwesanderson",
"You can thank the union for that one.",
"Fevember",
"Sundown, you better take care...",
"Or the surprise 80 kts gales of July come in during the The Mack and cause damn near every boat to DNF. 2017 was wild.",
"[Sabotage. This is not a drill. March.](https://i.imgur.com/tS7GD6a.jpg)",
"I got to sail my friend's 42ft yacht from DYC up to Port Huron this past July, and it was so fucking beautiful.\n\nGod I miss Michigan, never should have left.",
"> Lake effect snow is wicked as well.\n\nOh fuck yeah it is. Kalamazoo winters do not fuck around.",
"I'm in Michigan. It's snowy bullshit right now. ",
"Grew up in Chicago, went to school in Kalamazoo, and just moved to Seattle. \n\nI miss snow, and I never thought I'd say that. I'm fucking sick of the constant mist here, and just the entire area honestly. I want my winters back.",
"Beat me to it.\n",
"from the Chippewa on down",
"Impossible, the rockys aren't 3,000 miles tall. ",
"but muh curvature, MUH GRAVITYY",
"Nice pic, I didn't realize Great Lakes freighters still had portholes.",
"Yup",
"Aliens",
"Look at the destination for Anerican Integrity in Toledo today.",
"How did you become one?",
"Lake Michigan has the most beautiful sunsets I have ever seen. ",
"I read that as from my dad, a refrigerator captain\"",
"Sure he's not in one of those tsunami pods?",
"Anybody think of the ending to Chris redfields arc in re6?",
"My sister dated one years back and it basically sleep with all her friends",
"I hated my last union job, but I'll be damned if I don't miss the union itself. They were fantastic. I would have had to kill someone on shift to get fired from that job! Great dental too.",
"There’s a good chance he’s coming downbound from Duluth in this picture. ",
"I worked on the Great Lakes for 5 years sailing as engineer on small three hundred foot freighters all the way to the biggest which is the Paul R Tregurtha which is one thousand and four foot long. We carried stone, coal, grain and iron ore from lake to lake.",
"Am I alone here, or did you also think a flat earth was crazy talk before you got past the gibberish and made a decision for yourself? \nIts hard to believe how blindly I trusted what they teach us..",
"Looks like a pretty old Tsunami Capsule.",
"Lisa Needs Braces!",
"Also an excellent beard maintenance program.",
"Holy shit! Gordon Lightfoot abandoned folk music to become a sea captain?",
"Which ship? Curious if I was on it at my old shipyard",
"Thalssophobia senses tingling",
"My dad's a math teacher. I guess you could post Pumped Up Kicks. ",
"Or politics!",
"The Great Lakes are connected to the Gulf of Mexico? ",
"[How I picture you](https://imgur.com/fIcY4wG)",
"Detroit sucks! \n\nSorry, I fucking hate the wings. I have no ill will towards the lions and tigers.\n\nEven though they are still rivals. And you know this Chicago guy totally rooted for the tigers over those blue shirt north side sissys!\n\nAlright, two comments to you in the same thread, I should go be productive.\n\nHappy sailing to your old man. ",
"The earth ain't flat man I was fucking around I hope you are too",
"The Great Lakes should really just be called \"noceans\"",
"You got me.",
"/r/fakealbumcovers ",
"of the big lake they call \"Gitchee Gumee\"",
"Good",
"Edmund Fitzgerald?",
"Visiting the website, I have to ask - how long is your dad's beard? (I assume he has one)",
"I don’t mind the snow so much as long as it doesn’t get ridiculous. I know they’re having ice issues on the river right now though- people’s canals are close to flooding over and the ferry to Harsens island keeps having to shut down due to ice on the river ",
"When a laker passes through the rivers, the amount of clearance - especially when fully loaded - is so small it's insane. [This video emphasizes the importance of proper navigation on the lakes and rivers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIPMfHUIVvk)",
"trust me, you don't. try to remember the days you didn't have a snow scraper in your car and it snowed 6 inches the night before\n",
"Nothing eerie about this",
"Nope. That's OP's dad company. ",
"We spend almost our entire summer at Cedar Point. Sandusky Bay has freighters in and out all day. Seeing one of these massive freighters move close to the park through the shipping channel is awesome. Next to all those giant coasters, they still look huge.",
"Looks like a screen grab for the next BioShock game!",
"Dental Plan!",
"You got a ton of information here, but I'll also give you some more. There are a few of them that are a thousand feet long, they're the newest ones, and a bunch around 750 feet long, they're a bit older. Then some smaller ones.\n\nEDIT: I'm wrong, new stuff happens.",
"calm down Hector...",
"Yeah, i live near the Welland Canal, only way a boat can get from Lake Ontario to Lake Erie and the rest of then Great Lakes, bi passing the Niagara River and Niagara Falls.\n\nIt sees an incredible amount of traffic over 9 months of the year. It's still cool to see the big boats, even after living here for so long, and even if it means getting caught by a bridge while in a hurry ",
"Sorry, but the song is so good I couldn't help myself.",
"\"fellas it's too rough to feed ya\" - such an eerie and haunting song (in a good way). ",
"Wait. They can get to the Gulf of Mexico from the Great Lakes (not via the Atlantic, I mean)? How do they do that? As far as I know, the Mississippi doesn't go to the Great Lakes.",
"One route is the US Merchant Marine Academy",
"So obviously not the police union.",
"r/AccidentalWesAnderson",
"It must be fun to sail the great lakes. All the feeling of being on the ocean with zero of the chance of a hurricane unleashing the gates of hell on you. Fun fact- I used to live on the great lakes. Well by. I'm not a merman.",
"Uhh, how?",
"Is there a subreddit for this??",
"awesome",
"> I would have had to kill someone on shift to get fired from that job!\n\nI don't really think that's a *positive*. ",
"You should post this on r/accidentalwesanderson",
"Are the lakes frozen over now? Do they still ship if frozen? ",
"Now repeat for 20 minutes ",
"If the earth were really flat then the rockies would cast as shadow as the sun went down over them. You would see a crooked edge and not the water. I'd bet that flat-earthers would say that haze would stop you from seeing it, but if that were the case, you would never see a sunset. The sun would always gradually disappear as more and more haze got between it and you.",
"The only reason I scrolled this far through the comments was to see if someone had beat me to it!\n\nCongratulations Sir!",
"Via the Mississippi River iirc",
"That lake looks great!",
"It ain't flat man I was fucking around ",
"Not Penny's boat!!",
"Which lake?! I grew up on Lake Erie, the shallow baby of the Great Lakes. Jealous of all you Superior folk and what not.",
"I think combined they are about the size of the UK. ",
"wat",
"Hello new background screen",
"I love this! I really want to use it as a wallpaper, but theres one thing I cannot unsee. The horizon is slanted just slightly. Anyone wanna photshop it?",
"Do you even Mississippi River, bro?\n\nEdit: Illinois River connects them, I believe. ",
"Lisa Needs Braces!",
"yes. the st lawrence river (via the erie canal) is connected to the atlantic.",
"Yep - Lake Michigan to the Chicago river to the Illinois Waterway to the Mississippi.",
"I used to live in Duluth. I don't know what ship this is, but I made videos of a couple boats coming to port. [Paul R. Tregurtha](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDmixg1uF_k) and [American Integrity.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFowLGmkxV0)",
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Waterway",
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Waterway",
"Hold my beer...",
"I wish i was a boat captain.",
"If someone starts posting about \"Brandy, you're a fine girl\" I'm outta here.",
"> That water is no joke. It can make the Atlantic or Gulf look like a guppy pond at times.\n\nIn what way? The unpredictability and choppiness?",
"Lisa needs braces!",
"/u/Capitol_Bill Which Interlaker is it? I'm here in Sault Ste. Marie, and see them all the time... If i were to guess, i would say your father is on the Lee A. Tregurtha.\n\n\nEdit - due to being so low to the water my second guess is the Barker. Regardless Interlake is the shit.",
"My in-laws have a place in the thumb of Michigan, right off lake Huron, and you see those huge freighters going by all day long. They have a book (like below) that you can see the history of the ship & what it's probably carrying. \n\nhttps://www.amazon.com/IMPROVED-SPIRAL-BOUND-GREAT-LAKES/dp/B06XY2G8G1/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1517948730&sr=8-3&keywords=great+lake+freighter+guide+book",
"Most Lake Superior ports are closed once they are iced up, but if the conditions permit, they'll stay open year round. It's all about the ice!",
"Or perhaps a Tsunami Capsule",
"My bad. 😣",
"No curve in the pic",
"Awesome ",
"Where’s the curve?",
"Is there a map or anything of how this works? I assume canals are at work but I would love to see how all the Lakes connect, and how a freighter would get to the ocean.",
"Dental Plan!",
"Great Lakes into canals that flow into the Illinois river that flow into the Mississippi. Source: I am a merchant mariner ",
"I've lived in MI my whole life, I've been sailing these waters for almost 40 years. \n\nThe most scary experience I ever had was being woken up by my father at around midnight with \"Wake up, get your life gear on and get on deck\" NOAA weather had a gentle crossing along Saginaw Bay... 5-10Knots wind, seas 2-3 feet, yada yada...\n\nCanadian weather on the other hand \"SMALL CRAFT WARNING! ANY VESSELS UNDER 40 feet, seek shelter immediately (mind you, 35 foot sailboat at the time). Waves 5-15 feet, wind in excess of 60 Knots\"\n\nMy dad, myself and one of his crew drove that boat directly into the storm, heading south across the bay. We ended up, 1.5 hours later, 3 miles north and 2 miles west of where we started. Driving into it at 7 knots the entire time.\n\nWorst storm I''ve experienced on the Lakes in my entire 40 years",
"In two ways. Either through the Saint Lawrence and down the east coast, or down the Illinois and through the Mississippi",
"I used to live a mile away from Lake Erie near Buffalo, and holy crap, I never realized how scary the lake could get. One morning the lake would be calm as glass, and then hours later have MASSIVE waves. You definitely get a large sense of it's power. I always say that the lake has a personality because it definitely feels like that sometimes! ",
"Lakes combined are 622 miles^2 larger. I don't think I've ever really realised just how big they are until this picture. I've seen shots from the shoreline, but being on the water and not being able to see land.. on a lake..",
"Where in the city do they dock up? I work in streeterville now and I would love to see them.",
"Well played. ",
"FIL?\n\nedit - none of you are funny.",
"The Mississippi meets the Illinois near St. Louis",
"freighter in law",
"This is one of the greatest pics I've ever seen, atleast to me. It gives a full immersion feel.",
"Father in law",
"You can thank the union for that one.",
"EPIC VIEW 🙌🏽",
"Awesome. Beautiful.",
"Father in law\n\nEdit... None of us are funny, perhaps, but some of us are right. ",
"Not OP, but my dad works on the docks in the Great Lakes. \n\nMy favorite story of his is from back in the 70's. Back then, the port that my dad works at used to get shipments of regular consumer goods from all over the world (liquor, electronics, clothes, etc.) Also worth mentioning that security on the ports was much more lax than it is today.\n\nWhen they were unloading a ship that was carrying something cool or expensive, the guys working at the port would ~~steal~~ misplace some of the cargo. It was usually only a few of whatever item so it went largely unnoticed.\n\nOne time, they got a shipment of pure iron ingots. One of the guys secretly loaded up his car with a bunch of ingots that he was going to resell later (iron ingots are not cheap.) As he was driving up to the front gate to leave for the day, the suspension on his shitty car suddenly broke and his car dropped 6 inches. The thing was dragging on the ground due to the weight of all the ingots and the fucker played it off as a joke and tried to drive away.\n\nHe obviously got caught. They didn't fire him but they made him pay for all the ingots which ended up costing like $8000 (in the 70's.)\n\nLots of general insanity at the port back in the day. Another regular occurrence was people getting black out drunk on their lunch break and then coming back to work. Imagine drinking a fifth of vodka and then driving a towmotor or handling a crane for 4 hours. ",
"Fiancée in law maybe? ",
"Superior? Does he need workers?",
"Hyperbole to express how much the union would fight for members.",
"I work in a butcher shop of 20ish people. I can't imagine being trapped in that shop for months on end with those people. I look forward to just getting in my car on lunch and being alone. I couldn't imagine the stress of running one of them with that little amount of people. ",
"Father in law? Not sure to be honest, just a stab.",
"https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=what+does+fil+stand+for",
"Or any state Maritime academy ",
"That's a great view bro.",
"Nice shot and beautiful view!",
"Father-in-law?",
"Frigate In Law",
"The largest of the freighters, the thousand footers, are much to large to fit through these locks. They are effectively landlocked in the upper lakes.",
"Yep, almost exactly. Great Lakes are bigger by about 2000 sq. km.",
"Haha that is the sort of thing I could happily have on in the background.\n\nEdit: combine it with a heads-up display on the window ! That would be very cool",
"wat",
"I read that as firefighter and was very confused ",
"I live on Lake Erie in Ohio, and my grandpa used to take me to watch the freighters come in all the time when I was little ♥️☺️",
"Is this what the inside of a tsunami capsule looks like?",
"NOT PENNY'S BOAT",
"Also the state Maritime Academies as well. I believe there's Massachusetts, Texas A&M, SUNY, California, Great Lakes, and Maine maritime.",
"the lake it is said never gives up her dead",
"Lol, I was gunna say. \n\n\"Shit OP posted this pic 6 hours ago and someone website ALREADY put it on their front page....\"",
"Both.",
"Sick pic! Love the framing",
"Was hoping to see a good reference to this song :)",
"Maybe a good read for you \"Safe from the Sea\" by Peter Geye. Tells the tale of a frieghter captain and his son. Worth look.",
"My aunt lives in Port Huron right next to the water. She drinks her coffee in the morning and watches them go by.",
"That water must be so cold",
"Wow! Very relaxing just by looking at it",
"Yes",
"[There are a number of em out there](http://ais.boatnerd.com)\n",
"Studying for my OOW unlimited at the moment, just curious how different are the colregs for the great lakes do you know any examples? ",
"*Please* tell me that your dad is the one with the epic beard (on the right) in the background pic for the \"Our Culture\" heading text on the \"Our Culture\" web page linked above by /u/Spartan2470",
"It never really bothered me to scrap my car off. Always had at least 2 in my car so if one broke I'd have a backup.\n\nIdk, life without winters is just very bland. There's never any change in the days, it's just the same over and over and over. I miss the drastic change of the seasons and the stillness and quiet of winter.",
"I've never been able to hear the words \"dental plan\" without hearing the follow-up line in my head since that episode aired 25 fucking years ago.",
"Damn he just gave away their location ",
"Yes, both. When a storm forms in the Atlantic or Gulf, there is usually a fair amount of warning. These \"storms\" develop far away and travel. I say \"storms\" because not all scary nautical weather phenom include rain and lightning. Sometimes a steady NE wind for days can build mountains of waves. \n\nOn the Lakes, however, those kinds of fierce wind conditions can build much more rapidly. Blowing in from the NW and bringing plunging temperatures and Winter precipitation. Which adds a whole different element.",
"Does your dad have any prints of this he'd like to sell? ",
"What does it haul?",
"You know he absolutely loves his job. ",
"You know he absolutely loves his job. ",
"Of course it's hyperbole, but I think your message was delivered....even bad workers likely don't get fired....which I'm not sure is a positive....",
"is your brain broken? why would you be able to see a curve across such a short distance? if you take a giant beach ball and place a camera on top of it, the photo would resemble this one. are beach balls flat?\n\nhave you ever been on an airplane? do you understand time zones?",
"Really clever joke! Have an upvote\n\n^^NOT ^^SARCASTIC ^^BTW",
"I love this! I really like Window pictures in general but when the view out of the window is pretty its always a plus. ",
"There’s also a website called http://www.boatnerd.com that has a lot of info. ",
"If you like Gordon Lightfoot you need to check out [Moxy Fruvous' Take](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy8o1sPVO98)\n",
"So OP, how much does your dad hate \"the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald\" song?",
"Originally iron ore. The steel mills that fed the manufacturers in the rust belt needed to get the ore from the Iron Range. Conveniently, the Range is right next to Duluth at the end of Lake Superior. It's why Duluth is still by my understanding the largest freshwater port in the world.",
"Incrediblé!",
"Ah, fascinating.",
"This is a lovely picture, what lake was this taken on?",
"Wow the graphics for Sea of Thieves are amazing! Must be running on PC",
"Fraternal Inbred Lover",
"Ooooo. This little peek into your life sounds incredible! Still in Wisconsin?",
"Unless FIL is a popular acronym. Don't use it. ",
"My father was the keeper of the Eddystone light\n\nHe married a laker one fine night\n\nFrom this union there came three\n\nA tug and a barge and the other one me!\n\nYo ho ho, the winblown lake\n\nOh, so good that OP's not fake.",
"Obviously, it's Father I Love.",
"Has he ever seen an anus thru that porthole?",
"We're from Michigan (inland) and daughter's fiance is a Brit. He was impressed with the waves during a storm on Lake Michigan. He kept tasting the water because anything that big simply must be an ocean. ",
"My family used to have a house and boat in Grafton, IL which is right about where the Illinois River connects to the Mississippi River. We'd see barges coming down both all the time. You get a lot of travelers going through there as well. You'll often hear people are on their big loop / 3,000 mile trip, which is basically going down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico, following the coast around Florida, back up the Eastern Seaboard, and back into the Great Lakes all the way back to the Mississippi. Lots of retired people like to do it.",
"Thats why i asked which one it is. Like i mentioned, i live in Sault Ste. Marie, which is essentially where Ontario, superior, and Michigan meet up. I see an interlaker almost ever day of the shipping season.",
"Assuming OP's dad isn't a BIG FAT PHONY\n\n",
"Which lake is this? ",
"Tbh I was surprised it wasn’t here yet. ",
"i've got troubled thoughts and a self esteem to match",
"Together they contain about 21% of all surface freshwater on the planet.",
"And that's the calm lake! I've seen Lake Superior a handful of times. There's something existentially horrifying about that lake. A sense of its vastness as you stand at whitefish point, seeing enormous, angry, frigid waves and nothing but water in all directions save directly behind you.",
"This photo is very pleasing to me.",
"I didn't study to work on the Lakes. I do remember my instructors mentioning that much of it had to do with the canals and Rules of the Road. For example, the signaling for entering or crossing a channel or passing or overtaking another vessel isn't the same as in open water.\n\nWhich to me, makes little sense. As the Lakes, are to me anyway, as much open water as anyplace I've ever been. I do see the logic, however. Things have been done there a certain way for a long time. It makes sense that tradition would set the precedent.",
"Yikes. This is my constant fear of being on water. Even on a 26 acre pond...\n\nSailors have my ultimate respect.",
"It's the only place where ppl are genuinely interested! ",
"The big thing by my understanding is the distance between waves is just much shorter.",
"Sailing the great lakes...the wild west of Merchant Fleet.",
"FUCKK, why'd you guys have to put me onto that site. I don't even have an interest in Marine Traffic, and now I'm gonna waste so much time there.",
"Oh darn, I was actually hoping for a reason this was evidence of a flat earth haha.",
"They have icebreakers so the freighters can get through. The New York Times [did a piece on The Mackinaw](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/us/great-lakes-ships.html) (biggest icebreaker on Great Lakes) last month that is pretty cool :) ",
"Thank you. Was having a hard time finding one with out paying 6 bucks for the obvious good one",
"Spent a lot of time on that vessel growing up (my friend is OP). Stared out that porthole myself and it's just as beautiful as it looks in the picture. ",
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Waterway\n\nThe Soo Locks are pretty cool, gone through them a few times.",
"Ugh. So shitty. ",
"Also Kings Point ;)",
"Too bad",
"Love it. ",
"*When the skies of November turn gloomy...*",
"Which lake is his freighter on in that picture? Superior?",
"They dock up on the South Side by the Skyway, around 95th street I think. If you're in Streeterville then you can probably see them pass by out on the lake from either the beach or any lakefront building. I recommend the Handcock observatory if you haven't done that yet, it's a great view of the city and the lake and is less crowded than the Sears Tower one (which has a still amazing but slightly lesser view). It's pretty amazing that even 1000 feet up, you can't see the other side of the lake!",
"nice one",
"Mostly way down on the south side by the Calumet River and Lake Calumet. There are gravel barges and stuff through downtown once in a while but no freighters since I think the ‘70s.",
"The Great Lakes are actually so big that they do have tides, they're just a few inches tall instead of many feet like the oceans.",
"Actually, we *do* have tides on the Great Lakes. They're just very small (<5cm). ",
"It is if youre a bad worker",
"Lake Erie is barely frozen over so I doubt any of the other lakes are.",
"I believe that’s the Merchant Marine Academy ",
"http://www.theportofchicago.com/",
"This would be a great computer/phone background",
"Would you say his ship is larger than most and is your father and his crew well seasoned?",
"Listen to the song /r/Freefight posted. The Edmund Fitzgerald's last cargo was \"iron ore, twenty six thousand tons more than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty\"\n\nThese are massive ships hauling big cargo.",
"It mainly hauls water now. ",
"My dad grew up on Harsens Island. We used to go there a few times every summer. We'd rent a dinky little boat (12-14 ft I'd guess) with an outboard motor and he's cruise right up next to these massive fucking freighters. It was amazing and terrifying at the same time.\n\n(/r/submechanophobia of course)",
"Which Laker is he captain of? Used to work security at one of the bulk freight docks so got quite familiar with the different lines. Just curious",
"You mean...beautiful, clean coal?",
"Seriously, 1100 lightning strikes in 1 hour. You could have read a book from the constant lightning, it was 3-4 layers high across the sky most time. \n\nThe anemometer on my dad's sailboat topped out at 60 Knots.... It sat there pegged for 90 minutes.",
"OP, can I use this as my phone’s background, please!?",
"You should also post this on /r/thalassophobia",
"I feel bad that I didn't know this. ",
"Which boat? I'm actually at the AMO Star center now...",
"Beautiful! Is that on your personal boat or freighter?",
"I have Marine Traffic, paid for the $3.00 app a few years ago. It’s very accurate. I use it to track 60+ vessels a year.",
"Damn that’s amazing ",
"Yup. Fuck no.",
"Mad respect bro",
"Please ask him to turn off his cabin lights next time.",
"Can you explain more about your dad's job?\n\nAs an Ohio native, a freight captain on the Great Lakes is super interesting! ",
"Lisa Needs Braces!",
"Yes! existentially terrifying is a great word to use. It's almost like the ocean. I was an undergrad at a college near the lake and to de-stress I would go see the lake, because it's exactly like the ocean in that you can't see the other side, and it was just such a great source of perspective and so spiritually energizing. I have never seen Lake Superior in person but I hope to someday soon. The Great Lakes really are something.",
"He wouldn't sink, he's just a bit top-heavy. ",
"something about joining the Pittsburgh Pirates.\n\nor...\n\nstarring in an action movie with Johnny Depp. \n\nI actually have no idea either.",
"Come join us at /r/RedWings fellow Michigander",
"Ah, I see. That was a problem. I worked with a handfull of people that should have been axed. Sometimes unions are a double edged sword.",
"and you have every incentive to be a worse worker if you have these protections.",
"Yep. Which is, if memory serves correctly, only a few hundred yards across the Hudson River from SUNY.",
"Hi, I work on a tug/barge on the lakes but have sailed freighters from 650' to over 1000' on the lakes. There's a huge amount of taconite (iron ore pellets) that are moved, as well as almost anything you can put on a boat. We do a lot of stone (limestone mostly), gypsum, scrap metal, pig iron, ag lime, coal, coal ash, and even cement (powder).",
"Just coming out of that trending tsunami escape pod thread and this picture looks absolutely terrifying.",
"Quite a lot of bulk commodity. Iron ore pellets, coal, limestone, grain. There is also a surprising amount of tanker traffic on the “canadian” side. Millions of tons of cargo go out of Duluth alone, and that’s a small city compared to some other larger ports further south and east.",
"They are all merchant marine academies. We all get licensed by the coast guard with unlimited tonnage licenses to operate merchant or military vessels. ",
"I wonder what being a captain on the lakes is like compared to the sea. Like there are obvious differences, but it would be fun to learn about.",
"I've been watching a few of the freighters come past us here in Milwaukee. I love them. ",
"Can confirm, its sorta a double edged sword.",
"Dental Plan!",
"My friend's dad used to be the captain of the Cort. That is an awesome shot btw...",
"You weren't first.",
"Most haunting line for me is\n\n \"Does any one know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?\"",
"\"-be required to fart on a regular basis!\"",
"> The Great Lakes are absolutely HUGE.\n\nYou may think it’s a long way down to the chemist’s but that’s just peanuts to the Great Lakes. ",
"I understand, I’m from the area and always thought that one was just called the Merchant Marine Academy. Turns out it’s called the United States Merchant Marine Academy. TIL.",
"I know this place! It's right outside of Las Vegas. I go there all the time!",
"I’m curious how he got the shot to be well lit in the sunset and well lit inside the porthole? I’d like to know what photography technique he used. ",
"that's a wonderful picture! thank you for sharing, my stepdad is an engineer on some of those ships, way bigger in person than what i expected from hearing about them when I was a kid.\n",
"Bronco?",
"yep, that line always gives me goosebumps.",
"I've probably unknowingly waved to your dad once or twice if he ever passed through the St. Clair River. ",
"God damn beautiful, Lake Michigan or Superior? Michigander here and let me tell ya there’s nights I’d trade a warm lady for a beach side camp out with that view",
"I believe it’s the Long Island Sound, SUNY Maritime is right underneath the Throggs Neck Bridge ",
"Sounds like a lovely app for pirates. ",
"Thank him for me, please. Lovely picture.",
"I used to live right on the waterfront to the St. Mary's River/Soo Locks. Tell your dad thanks for chilling out with the foghorn blasts after 2am. Much obliged.",
"I quickly read the title as 'firefighter.' Here I was thinking to myself, \"A firefighter? On the lake? Why would there need to be a ship of firefighters?\"",
"This reminds me of every single submarine game I played on the computer growing up. I feel like there will be a destroyer on the horizon at any second. ",
"> none of you are funny.\n\nTwo of them are funny.",
"Ah I think a couple of shitty workers is worth it for all the benefits that are received from the union",
"Most fascinating is that [they reversed the flow of the Chicago River to make it happen!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_River#Reversing_the_flow)",
"It's a good thing he wasn't tasting the waters of Lake Ontario",
"Went out west one time hung out on my buddies sail boat off of Vancouver Island for a couple weeks. The engine broke and all my buddies from Ontario called it a nautical disaster and started off on this song. I don't think the people from BC got it or this song isn't as well known out there. We kept getting funny looks from all the locals helping us back to shore.",
"I am confused. Should I be associating this with /r/subnautica, /r/monstrum or /r/bioshock?",
"I am fairly certain our dads have crossed paths. He is a captain on the tugs responsible for navigating these freighters through the lakes (but mostly rivers such as the Maumee and Detroit River). ",
"No need to apologize, it's an amazing song.",
"first time listening. i really enjoyed, care to tell me more songs like this obe?",
"He should not play any Gordon Lightfoot for his own safety. ",
"Still plenty of freighters on Erie. Source: I also grew up on Lake Erie. ",
"Maybe you being a bad worker is just an excuse for your boss to fire you - now is that positive you can't get fired so easily?",
"Someone woke up on the judgey side of bed this morning.",
"Nope. OP's dad's son is OP.",
"Hey, my dad was a navigator on a spice freighter. Sadly, he died before I was born, and I was raised in this godforsaken desert town in the middle of nowhere by my aunt and uncle. I hate living there, but my uncle won't let me apply to the academy before the next harvest, so I'm not going anywhere. At least I did pick up these neat drones to help round the farm - I'm going to go clean them up and see what they can do!\n\nAnyway, great pic!",
"The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they call ‘gitche gumee’",
"Finally made it to the finger lakes?",
"I loved seeing those freighters when I’d visit family in Marquette, especially when they’d loading up at the Ore Docks.\n\nGreat shot and makes me miss the lakes. ",
"I always found it interesting that the Great Lakes are used for commercial shipping but I guess it's hard for me to understand just how big they are and how much more convenient it is to put something on a ship and go across the lake than to put it on a truck or train and go around the lake. ",
"Ngl, read caption as \"firefighter captain\" and wondered what fires are there in lakes..... (Sigh)",
"As a person in the logistics biz, I salute your father 🤙🏾",
"Coal, grain; you name it, they carry it.",
"I read \"firefighter\" and thought I was seeing a blaze in the distance. Stupid brain.",
"There are many lakes on Earth where one cannot see shore from the center. There are even many rivers that are so wide, one cannot see across them.",
"They transport a lot of taconite, which is an iron-bearing ore. ",
"Oh totally! I was just curious which lake this was, not sure that OP mentioned.",
"If it's over a hundred and fifty feet it's a ship. ",
"Wow, freighter captain on the great lakes. Was that tough on you, growing up? I mean, he must have been away from his home and family for several hours at a time.",
"A fellow Port Hurorian or is it Huronite? I remember your sister giving a presentation about your dad back in elementary school didn't know if he was still at it. Seeing this makes me miss home. ",
"LOL",
"\"Don't take the lakes for granted, they go from calm to a 100 knots so fast they seem enchanted\" \n\nI love the beauty of the Great Lakes. This picture makes me think of Stan Rodgers and some excellent summer trips. ",
"https://imgur.com/gallery/elfN7",
"I'm in northern Minnesota and routinely see ships from Asia and Europe. It's cool to think about, so close to the great plains, yet seeing ocean going freighters.",
"Cool, thanks. I'll check it out. ",
"Dont give me PTSD, brother",
"> Maybe you being a bad worker is just an excuse for your boss to fire you\n\nBeing a bad worker isn't an *excuse* to be fired, it's a *reason*.\n\nalso\n\nI dont mean positive from the view of a bad worker. I mean positive in general. I don't think bad workers being difficult to fire is a positive, in general. It protects bad workers, which ultimately impacts good workers because they have to, y'know, work with em!\n",
"Ayooooo 👈🏻😎👈🏻",
"At what point.. does a lake become big enough to be a sea? lol",
"Which boat?",
"What a time Dan Seaver would of had in this day and age. A short lived career I’m sure but still. ",
"Which ship is his? I follow a lot of them in Facebook group.",
"Not Penny’s boat",
"I'm in duluth, far western tip of lake superior. We ship out millions of tons of grain, iron ore, and finished goods every year. We also handle the inport/export of really big machines. Think wind mills and tunnelers.",
"There are no songs about the dick sucking factory.",
"Agreed.",
"Lake Superior is larger than Scotland.",
"Just told my wife this the other night. I'm a songwriter and perform in bars, etc. I was working on a song last night and, for inspiration, remembered how this line takes you there--you can feel the cold darkness, the anxiety, and hopelessness. I literally feel shivers when I hear this lyric. Lightfoot felt the moment...which is what good writers do.",
"As big freighters go is it bigger than most?",
"Damn skippy. Fuck the Chips",
"facts don't judge",
"I've lived by the great lakes all my life, I've never seen anything to warrant such a name.",
"The photo of those two guys makes me want to work with them. :)",
"Growing up near Lake Michigan, it's always surprising that people don't realize it's massive. ",
"I love both songs. But Downeaster Alexa is a woefully underrated shipwreck snog.\n\nI love the drum roll.",
"Assuming OP's mom isn't a BIG FAT PHONY",
"Alas, no, work took me a few states south. I actually ended up in a position where I've learned a lot about rivers & lakes in North America and kind of wish I knew then what I knew now. It used to be purely aesthetic enjoyment, but I have an even greater appreciation for them now. \n\nI loved Wisconsin while I was there though!",
"I've lived by the great lakes all my life and have never seen anything to attribute that name to until now.",
"another tight squeeze https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thPBE5WI86Y",
"I didn't know they are THAT great!",
"This should be on r/subnautica ",
"Or until sundown ",
"I too am boring. I used the app when I lived in lake MI. Seriously awesome to see how far some of those ships travel and what they carry. \n\nBoring rocks 🤘",
"Exactly 😉. If you ever get a chance to go and visit Kings Point or SUNY they are really cool places. I go to A&M but have been up around that area twice. Although Kings Point doesn't have their own ship it's still a neat place. ",
"It appears to be docked. It doesn't list a next destination, buts says it came from Detroit. ",
"Thanks for sharing. Sounds like an episode of the second season of The Wire.",
"When it no longer has freshwater",
"Are y’all Michigan people?",
"I live near the Detroit river, in Michigan. I love going to downtown to watch the freighters pass by. So cool seeing them pass thru a metropolis",
"What ticket do you have? If it's a 50-ton Near Coastal and Inland, you are absolutely allowed to operate on the Great Lakes. \n\nGreat Lakes rules of the road are governed by the same 72 COLREGS of all other US Inland waterways, and other than a couple different light patterns for the GL freighters, there aren't any exceptions.\n\nSource: Captain on the Great Lakes (based out of Cleveland)",
"Sundown from Gordon Lightfoot is pretty good as well.",
"Friend In Lederhosen",
"I live 10 minutes from an international airport and one of my favorite summer pastimes is smoking a cigar on the back porch while watching the planes– I have an app that shows where they’re all coming from/going to. Very boring on paper, but it is extremely relaxing!",
"Good for you. Happy life to you & yours. I'm soon to be 49yo. Still don't know what I want to do when I grow up.",
"Ahh the ol' reddit hug of death",
"Whoa, I need to know more about shipping in the Great Lakes. I mean I know they’re huge (like inland seas maybe) but how long does it take to get from port to port? What’s the conditions like? Is it safer than ocean shipping? I.e. weather systems etc",
"Nautical fun fact? No, it's a Tide Ad.",
"That’s pretty. Pretty ghey u poof boi. Uwotm8?",
"HA! Haven't heard that term in forever!! My whole family grew up around the Great Lakes....",
"Thanks for commenting. I was reading the others wondering why people weren't referring to anything firefighter related. I too have stupid brain",
"normally...but on the Great Lakes, they are still called boats. ",
"[Belgium to Cleveland](http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20150710/NEWS/150719974/port-sees-spike-in-international-shipping-in-2015) is a recent-ish partnership and brings in tons of break-bulk",
"Tell him to sleep well under those stars the mermaid know who we ares",
"In the summer, I sit on my balcony and whenever I see a big vessel on the lake, I open the app. Sometimes I see a tall ship, or giant yacht passing through. It's pretty cool. ",
"I did not want to pay, and accuracywise it might be a matter of a couple of minutes. But to a lazy lineman a couple of minutes is a world of difference.",
"What a twist indeed",
"Yep. There are storms on the Great Lakes that snap freighters in half. Very much a set of inland seas.",
"Because you've got to understand the risks behind the gales of November coming early.",
"the redwings sub is poison",
"Thread accomplished!",
"The modern true story of Hawaii\n\nEdit: thinking about it, this also looks like from the inside of one of those tsunami pods which is probably popular now because of the tsunami false alarm last month. I see an actual 'what if' script here. Someone get on that.",
"Can he do an AMA? I've always been intrigued by this job, and the life of the guys who do it. Would love to know more about it.",
"How did you even find that website? 😂",
"The Great Lakes are an inland sea system and is a bit like a North American Mediterranean sea. The Northern Peninsula of Michigan and Wisconsin are large produces or iron, copper, and other raw bulk resources that get shipped to refineries and further on to cities like Detroit, Chicago, and Pittsburgh. Lake freighters are actually a special class of ship called Lakers. There are long and very skinny to fit though locks and traditionally have the pilothouse at the bow rather than the stern. They also have very long lifespans since they don't sail through salt water so many lakers can be several decades old.",
"One night while I was a browsing of /r/pics \nAnd a-downing of the votes on the bundles of sticks \nA bright little thumbnail caught my eye \nAnd there was a pic of a familiar sky! \nYo ho ho, the wind blown lake \nOh so good that OP’s not fake!",
"Yep, just with more snow.",
"Tell him to be careful on Lake Superior in November.",
">From my Great dad, a Great freighter captain on the Great Lakes.\n\nFTFY",
"The M/V Paul R. Tregurtha \"has an elevator and quite luxurious guest accommodations\" I want to be a guest! \n",
"I don't think he/she did either. On a side note, I grew up in Marblehead where they would dock and load up with limestone. They're actually kind of scary up close. ",
"I went to the Maritime Museum at Whitefish Point and they literally play this song all day every day. I was only there for about an hour and a half and thought I was going to flip out. ",
"small world, I sailed as an engine cadet on the Hon. James L. Oberstar",
"You're damn lucky. Glad it worked out.",
"*lake",
"Falafels In Love",
"Well... lake captain.",
"Shitty people get fired regardless there is union or not. Better not believe all that pro-corporation bullshit.",
"I use FlightRadar 24 for this. I'm not really close to the airport, but in the flight path for arrivals from the east. I can see out over the lake too, so tracking those flights is cool too.",
"What're you, the \"first\" police? ",
"I read it as ‘firefighter captain’ and was like, huh?",
"It’s about commercial fishing.",
"For a second I thought this was r/thalassophobia ",
"Hey! I am currently working on a ship in that fleet in Erie! The Dorthy Ann tug and the Pathfinder doing winter repairs. Pretty cool to see a photo from that fleet out in the water.",
"Definitely A lake. ",
"Well certainly not the last one",
"I suppose. I’m not a lineman, but more the guy that tells the boat where to stop, and where to place their cargo (dock foreman). I’ll admit there have been a few occasions where the map didnt update and the vessel got an inch closer (screen inch) than anticipated. Shit shit shit they’re ALMOST THERE!!!",
"Interesting that the Welland Canal can only accommodate boats of up to 78 ft beam. The largest Great Lakes freighters are confined to the lakes without access to the ocean. ",
"*The Aurora suffered orbital hull failure. Cause: unknown. Zero human life signs.*",
"Professional captain here, can confirm.",
"I tell people they're really not lakes they're inland freshwater seas. Show me another lake that's not one of the Great Lakes that can get 10 foot seas (and bigger.)",
"https://www.reddit.com/r/fakealbumcovers/comments/7vqtas/zabrze_basis_of_discoveries/",
"But... \n \nRed wings are a pretend sexual medal... Not sport... \n \n \n \nWell, maybe a sport for some. ",
"The largest freighter on the Great Lakes is the [Paul R. Tregurtha](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Paul_R._Tregurtha) at 1013 ft. long. They mainly transport ore and other bulk cargo. ",
"Is that the big lake they call Gitche Gumee?",
"Oh cool! What boat?\nMy nephew just won an Interlake flag in an online contest. He's 4 and was super stoked.\n\nedit: spelling",
"It's not about how big, it's how salty it is. The great lakes are freshwater and inland seas like the Caspian Sea have a much higher salinity. For example the Caspian Sea is quite low as far as salt water seas go with a 1.2% salinity. Lake Superior is .006%, or essentially 0. ",
"/r/accidentalwesanderson",
"/r/DetroitRedWings",
"The sea was angry that day, my friends.",
"I have firsthand experience. No corporate bullshit here. ",
"Much like the Redwings",
"I'm just curious how they managed to get that HDR or whatever that gave great lighting to the outside and inside",
"Blows my mind that it's freshwater. ",
"Gitchigumi? ",
"I grew up on Lake Huron. Beautiful out there, but man it can get scary fast on that open water. \n\nThis taken on Superior?",
"Yea, fucking beautiful picture here mate!\n\n(Is there any short hand like @op, to shortcut and reference the original poster?)",
"I used to work on a ferry that went across Lake Michigan; you would be surprised how large the waves get in the middle of that lake! ",
"The teachers union in my school district literally made it so had to assault a kid to be fired. Otherwise they had to wait u til your contract was up. That included when a teacher was found grading blank documents with Cs and calling students racial slurs.",
"Looks like someone playing Subnautica on extreme quality settings haha",
"Erie is definitely not the calm lake. It's the shallowest by far so it gets whipped up in a hurry. ",
"I live right by a harbour on Lake Erie and see these freighters regularly. We have an app that tracks them, its something we do for fun. Which ship is this? Im sure we have seen it before!",
"I've watched the barges pass under the Adams St. Bridge. its freaking impressive how they get those things around. Figured it would be down south, was hoping I could see them from work. Maybe i'll bring binoculars in one day. ",
"The thousand footers, built in the late 70's early 80's, are not the newest ship on the lakes. The CSL Trillium Class and the Algoma Equinox Class ships were built in the last 5 years (the oldest was built in 2012, the newest came out in 2017. Algoma has more new ships under construction.",
"As soon as I saw this picture, I was immediately reminded of a picture I took while working at sea several years ago.\n\nhttps://imgur.com/a/wp2XW\n\nSun never really sets there in the summer. Makes for some really nice \"sunsets\"",
"I work in a building by Lakepoint/NP, so I have unobstructed views of the lake. Gonna bring some binoculars in and see if I can spot one.",
"[Done.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTZ7iX4vTQ)",
"Thanks! Suppose i could have googled that.",
"A great laker's light / If it's showing green / It's dropping off something\n\nIf it's showing red / Coming from the right / Out of the West / Into the night\n\nOn the working lake / Moving with the wind / It's picking up something\n\nGord Downie - Broadcast",
"... be required to fart on a regular basis!",
"Thematically, \"[[Wreck of] the Julie Plante](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS2_xT4H5BA)\" might fit. ",
"what is he in? a scuba thing or a submarine?",
"If you could read my mind, love...",
"It is pretty weird to be in the middle of such a huge lake. In some places you can be hundreds of miles from land and have a thousand plus feet of water beneath you and you almost have to taste the water to make sure that it really is a lake that you're on. What's even cooler for me is that when you take off or land in O'Hare or Midway airports you'll often times fly out over Lake Michigan and even then, when you're several thousand feet in the air, you still can't see the other side. The lakes truly are inland seas.",
"Can you hear the Jack Whales singing?",
"And the way he sings it. ",
"Cleveland has a coast guard base if anyone needed more evidence!",
"I think you’re putting too much effort into something that the person you’re responding to is undoubtedly misremembering.",
"you ain't facts so..",
"I cant make that a wallpaper at that resolution! lol",
"\nSo obviously not the last one.\n\n-----\n^^^this ^^^is ^^^is ^^^an ^^^experimental ^^^bot ^^^that ^^^utilizes ^^^markov ^^^chains ^^^to ^^^form ^^^sentences ^^^from ^^^context.\n",
"What’s his favourite stop along the Great Lake stretch?",
"Father I Love To Fuck, obviously.",
"Most of you don't even realize that's geoengineered. That big horizontal red cloud is man made lol ",
"I was originally licensed at 50-ton Near Coastal. Have since been upgraded to Offshore, as the size vessels on which I've worked haven't increased. I've never delved into the COLREGS of the Lakes or Alaska.\n\nI was just instructed during my schooling that my ticket would not be valid in either waters, unless I went for further endorsements. As I don't plan on working in either location soon, the only endorsements I've looked into are towing, sailing, and able-seaman. (Which you would think would be a pre-requisite for a Captain's license, but is not.)",
"Came here hoping to see this reference. 10/10, did not disappoint.",
"According to HIM. ^^^^^/s",
"you didnt understand. Being a bad worker is very subjective and your boss could leverage that to fire you for whatever reason aside from being an actual bad worker.",
"Put https://www.flightradar24.com/ on another screen and you can now track planes in the sky in real-time too!",
"Look at me...I’m the captain now...",
"This is a lake? Holy shit.",
"Yea, quite a bit actually. I’m not sure about other places, but the port of Duluth has a surprisingly high shipping volume. A lot of mining up north contributes a good chunk of it. Plus Duluth is right in Interstate 35, which runs down the center of the country all the way to Texas.",
"Through the porthole you can see God. But Down in the engine room the devil is tangible. He is holding a big wrench and hasn't slept much and the guy he is always around is driving him nuts and..",
"Damnit. They other one didn't pop up",
"If you want more of that, https://www.flightradar24.com/ does the same thing for planes in the sky. With their app, you can point your phone at a plane and it will tell you what flight it is, airplane type, how high it is flying etc etc. Super fun1",
"Why are you bringing up subjectivity? We're talking in generalities - a bad worker should be fired. I'm obviously not trying to opine on shitty bosses or \"perceived\" bad workers. ",
"read into the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald. I don't think people understand how bad lake superior can get. The waves were 30 feet high with one wave reaching 45 feet. The winds get really intense with freezing rain and sleet. It can get really rough out there. ",
"I know the one you're thinking of. Don't worry, you're not going mad.",
"You better take care. ",
"They may actually shutdown the connection in the future to stop invasive species like the asian carp from getting into the lakes. ",
"My husband works on them! It's stressful at times, and long hours, but he does enjoy it and gets to go to some really cool places. ",
"I just now heard that song for the first time and it was amazing. Thank you.",
"Dude. That has to be bad luck. ",
"The lakes are pretty massive. A lot of people don't truly understand just how big they are. You are right though. It is alot more efficient to load a 1000 footer (as we called the) and ship it through the lakes than to put it on a truck or train. Most of these shipments are not going across the lake, but into the rivers and onto the next lake and so on.",
"In Detroit we see these freighters passing up and down the river between Huron and Eerie daily. In the early 1900's before the US Canadian border was heavily restricted boat traffic was insane. There used to be huge cruise ships (and maybe a few still operate) that would go from Chicago to NY via the lakes. I would have loved to have done that. ",
"The Edmund Fitz references are creepy. ",
"I'm having Sea of Thieves withdrawals.",
"The Beard Union Maintenance Program is an excellent BUMP to have.",
" Was that in 2011? Was doing the Chi- Mac in July that year and the lightning was astounding. ",
"Yeah, I use FlightRadar 24 also. I really like it. I guess I have a simpler version though. I don't think I can do the point and track thing. I use a tablet on wifi, not a smartphone, so maybe that is why.",
"That's a nice picture and all but I think there has been a mutany... Low part of the ship... I bet he only sent this picture to you with no message.\n\"He will understand!\"\n\"Oh what a lovely picture\"",
"Nice, I am a Chief Steward on Container ships myself and you see no better sunrise or sunsets then on the water. ",
"Nope , OP's family didn't even have a mailman. ",
"this looks like the view from inside an open vomit comet, after the tsunami settles. ",
"It kind of blows my mind that \"Freighter Captain on the Great Lakes\" is a job that exists. I grew up in Washington and the Southwest, and I've never really seen a lake that you couldn't see the other side of. Or you know, drive around. It's hard for me to comprehend of a lake that handles freight.",
"That's not what the doctors said but I appreciate the sentiment.",
"I know a lot of people think the Midwest is just flyover territory, but the Great Lakes are some of the most incredible places I’ve ever been. ",
"Reddit internet chanties should be a thing...",
"TIL there are freighter captains on the Great Lakes",
"I took this [shot](https://m.imgur.com/a/29kuO) from my coast guard cutter on Lake Michigan few years back. No where near as cool, but strikingly similar, and same location. Does your dad make any stops in sturgeon bay",
"i see those freighters go by whenever im out fishing, he is truly the king of the great lakes",
"If you're going to spend your time on a sub /r/detroitlions is the one to spend it on.\n\nBest damn sub in the league! Go Lions!!",
"Almost had to stay on the Tregurtha as a ship rider. Those staterooms are straight out of ‘the shining’....fucking creepy 70s look.",
"Your father work for Interlake Steamship Company by any chance?",
"I know I’m late and all and no one will probably see this, but this reminds me so much of my grandfather (he just died a week ago). \n\nHe joined the merchant marines during WWII, eventually became a captain in the 80s, and ended up traveling the world. We have pictures of all his travels and him in his uniform... He only got an 8th grade education, but he ended up becoming incredibly accomplished. He was deployed in Korea, Vietnam, and Desert Storm.\n\nSeeing this makes me wonder how he felt on those boats he was all those years. He wasn’t really around when my dad was growing up.\n\nSorry, I don’t know where this is going. This picture just inspires me more than I thought it would.",
"Oh no! Not *job security*! What has the world come to when employers need a valid and documented reason to terminate somebody?",
"Bad workers get fired. Unions make sure that the burden of proof for \"bad worker\" is on the employer.",
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald must be harrowing ",
"I know exactly what that is without having to click. ",
"Ahhhh my home turf. Beautiful shot.",
"U see the picture? That’s a flat Earth right there. ",
"There are worse storms than hurricanes on the great lakes. ",
"Howabout [Jeremy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS91knuzoOA)?",
"Yes. Comparing the Earth to a beach ball? They aren’t even remotely the same. ",
"Great shot!",
"I saw the title and wondered which company he sailed for, surprised to see it was interlake. My dad and uncle both worked for them in the 90s. I always loved going on the tregurtha when she was docked, especially for the family dinners.The smell of the engine rooms will always be with me. Which ship of theirs was this aboard?",
"Oh, well, doctors... what do they know?",
"You mind disclosing which ship? My step-dad also happens to be a captain for interlake ",
"Seems like you’re at least a little interested! Ha\n\nJust adding to the convo my pap is a charter fisherman on Lake Erie! (Takes people out to fish)",
"We need more weird tales from sailors. There was a goldmine in an old thread, but it's hard to get a good stock of reliable stories.",
"I have always loved the song Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot and I’ve always questioned how people can do a job in shipping. \n\nThen I see a picture like this.",
"My gramps was a Great Lakes captain as well. Mad respect to your dad. ",
"That’s badass man!! \n\nMy pap is a lake goer he takes people on trips fishing on Lake Erie!",
"Does [this] (https://youtu.be/sI6HVnz6Wq0) count?",
"do you understand what a sphere is? the beach ball comparison has nothing to do with the object itself and everything to do with the shape of the object. you can't seriously be this dense, can you?",
"I work on a coaster on the Norwegian coast, and I tend to geek out when it comes to ships. I would allso like to know what one of the great lake freighters is like. \n\nallso, Marinetraffic is vital.",
"Lisa Needs Braces!",
"My dad is also a great lake on a freighter captain.",
"You bet wrong. The Earth is flat and the sunset is just another example of how flat Earth is. The Sun goes up and down, it doesn’t go around the Earth. Maybe the Earth you live on is round, but from my point of view it’s flat. ",
"This is more of a parallel because, like the Wreck of the Edmund Fitz, it's based on an actual event. ",
"It might look like it but thats not us, sonny",
"Very cool photo. \n\nI have lived within 45 minutes from Lake Erie my entire life. I am ashamed to admit that I haven't spent a lot much time on the Great Lakes. I think it's because they are so close that we don't think about how cool they really are. I am fascinated by open water, but really only think of the ocean. I need to be more thankful that I have Erie and the other lakes so close. I sometimes wish I could just hop on a ship and stay there. ",
"I get views like this from my balcony all summer long. I have a small apartment, and a boring life, but this view makes living here worthwhile. ",
"You are correct. I was in a hurry at work. ",
"How much different is it being a freighter captain on the great lakes compared to an ocean?",
"Yeah. I lived in the Kzoo for 5 years. I loved it, but I live in Austin now and you couldn't lure me away from 40 degree lows in February for all of the Two Hearted I could drink.",
"Wtf. How in the hell did you discover that so fast? ",
"So with a body of water that massive, do the great lakes act more like lakes or seas/oceans?",
"\"The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down\n\nOf the big lake they called 'gitche gumee'\n\nThe lake, it is said, never gives up her dead\n\nWhen the skies of November turn gloomy\"",
"If you didn’t know about that you’re probably one of the lucky 10,000 to learn some fun Illinois trivia: \n\n\nThe final connection that made it possible to go from Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico via the Mississippi was the Illinois and Michigan Canal (finished in 1847). It really laid the foundation for Chicago to become a metropolitan powerhouse and trading hub. This eventually lead to Chicago becoming the railroad hub of the US and development of Illinois’ close ties with the East Coast. \n\n\n(In this way, it played a *huge* roll in the Civil War. Illinois sided with the Union which made the Anaconda Plan possible and allowed the Union to cut the South in half. The canal continued contributing directly via the Chicago ship building and supply lines.)\n\n\nThen in 1900 the Illinois and Michigan Canal was to be replaced by the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, but there was a pending court injunction to stop work on it. Then they opened it anyway in a fly-by-night operation.\n\n\nAnd that’s how Illinoisans illegally reversed the flow of the Chicago River!",
"What is a coaster?\n\nYesterday, I discovered \"live\" train videos from Norway on YouTube. Some the routes are really close to the coast. I'm surprised how close the tracks are to the water.",
"Awesome",
"So, there’s an island in Lake Superior called Isle Royal. Isle Royal has a number of lakes, but the largest is Siskiwit Lake. Siskiwit Lake also has a number of islands, the largest of which is Ryan Island. Ryan island has a pond, and that pond contains a boulder near its shoreline. When it rains hard, though, the boulder also becomes an island. This makes that boulder the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake in the world. ",
"[My View of the Great Lakes](https://imgur.com/gallery/69N7t) ",
"What freighter is your dad on? If you don't mind me asking. I live in Marquette and love to see them at the ore dock here.",
"If they only sail the lakes. \n\nEdit: What's up with the downvote? Lakers (which only sail the lakes) are called boats. Salties is the other term for the ships that navigate and sail the oceans. The boats are the ones that are too large to make it through various locks, either the Welland Canal or the St. Lawrance Seaway and thus only sail the Great Lakes. ",
"r/fakealbumcovers needs to do something with this",
"Thats so cool. I live on the Lake in Duluth, always wanted to see what its like on the ships I see all the time.",
"Right? I got in a discussion with an Aussie on here the last time a great lakes photo was posted. He had some gripe about how Americans assume everyone knows where their landmarks are, and that we should specify which state lake Superior was in. I kindly tried to explain that lake Superior is fucking massive and borders multiple states, and furthermore it is a matter of global knowledge-- it holds like a quarter of the world fresh water. He made some snarky comment about \"I bet you don't know what [Blue Lake](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/201310/r1195050_15413327.jpg) is, it's fucking huge too, not everyone knows everything about every country\" (apparently Australia doesn't really have lakes, because that's one of the biggest lol). When i told him that superior's surface area was something in the tens of millions times larger than that blue lake I think it finally sunk in.",
"What do you have to do to become a Great Lakes freighter crewmember? I lived on Michigan for four years, and it was a hazy dream of mine to become one.",
"If I find you been creepin' 'round my back stairs. ",
"What model of camera if you don't mind me asking?",
"Makes me think of the eternity of nature and the zen of the world.",
"How many times have you heard \"The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald\"?",
"Reminds me of /r/subnautica",
"Look up the port of Duluth, Minnesota / Superior, Wisconsin. It's the largest and busiest of the ports on the Great Lakes. Taconite (iron ore), grain, limestone, coal, salt, and frankly just about anything passes in or out of there.\n\nAnd here's the largest freighter on the Great Lakes entering the port in Duluth, Minnesota. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFfVWH4Njlw",
"Working on them in not too great.",
"We can thank unions for 8 hour days and weekends, time and a half for overtime pay, pensions, healthcare insurance, and medical leave.\n\nI never belonged to one, but my dad did (even though he was a manager), and it made a difference. We're seeing losses of worker influence with the death of unions.",
"I read that as firefighter captain first. Messed with my head ",
"Yeah I know but I wasn't giving a treatise on the great lakes weather system it was like a shower thought. ;)",
"Great photo, someone's dad! ",
"Yeah but when the unions' influence started to wane, the Beard Integrity Management BuyOut program rolled back much of the benefit of the BUMP.",
"Is that the Lee Tregurtha??? That port light looks very familiar!",
"IMHO, small seas. The storm winds can push 8 foot waves then move on past leaving no breeze and 5 foot waves.\n\nSource: former Lake Michigan sailor.",
"Pretty sure freighters are for the open ocean. I think your father had a different boat. ",
"Wes Anderson",
"Awesome! Have an upvote.\n",
"That looks stunning!",
"A coaster is pretty much a ship that mainly trades along the coast. Normally much smaller than the one doing intercontinental trade. \n\nNorway is all about the coast, the whole country is basically just one long coastline. There should be a video about the Coastal express (cruisship/ferry) from start to finish in realtime aswell, check out \"Hurtigruten minutt for minutt\"\n\nhmm. Not enough coast. coast coast coast.",
"Red at night\nSailors delight\nRed at morn\nSailors taken warn\n\n\nBeautiful picture. Your dad ever sail into Duluth?\n\nlooooooong ... short short ...",
"Is it just a \"couple\"? You don't think there is a far-reaching impact? The front office at my university is heavily unionized, on top of the fact that it's public sector budgeting, and they are superbly incompetent at their jobs. Society is not better off when their union tolerates crappy quality of work.",
"Inland oceans",
"I don't think so, but you can do u/insertUsernameHere to ping the user you want to reference.",
"Dental Plan!",
"Aaaaand just like that I've got Gordon Lightfoot stuck in my head.",
"So I am hearing. Aside from seeing a lot of cool places, life on board seems not so good. ",
"A red sky at night, a sailors delight.",
"\"The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down \nOf the big lake they called 'gitche gumee' \nThe lake, it is said, never gives up her dead \nWhen the skies of November turn gloomy…\"",
"you did read that the person I replied to admitted that getting rid of bad workers was a problem, yes?\n\n> What has the world come to when employers need a valid and documented reason to terminate somebody?\n\nThat is an incredibly different sentiment than joking about how it's practically impossible to fire someone, to the point it almost requires homicide. Where did I make an iota of a claim that workers should be able to be terminated without reason?",
"They make a wetsuit big enough for those man's balls? Jesus Christ...",
"I'm terribly curious. Why did you figure this out?",
"Hahaah, I know what you mean. One winter I stayed on her alone most of the time. Some long and dark nights for sure.",
"Loneliness, fatigue and a rather tough working environment. Not many women. ",
"Holy fuck that caught me right off guard hahaha",
"Yar, she blows.",
"It can carry it's own volume of water!",
"Just out of curiousity, what port? \n\n-Michigander",
"Yar. You should see that sundown.",
"As someone who has worked in a Union there are times where it's almost impossible to fire someone, regardless of how much proof can be provided. That's exactly why the OP made the joke that you would practically have to kill someone to be fired!",
"Boats are pointless. ",
"My dad loved sailing the Great Lakes. One of my most cherished memories is sailing with him under the Mackinaw bridge at 2am, under a huge full moon. He said it was the closest thing he had ever felt to a “religious experience.” Miss you, Dad. ",
"Why aren't the considered seas?",
"God damn this would make an awesome tattoo. ",
"I read this as \"From my dad, a refrigerator captain on the Great Lakes\", and that's the type of title I wouldn't mind having in life. Just saying. Could be something.",
"If she finds a lighthouse in the middle of the ocean tell her to avoid it!",
"I saw a CBS (US TV network) story about \"slow tv\" in Norway. They mentioned a realtime cruise ship video. Perhaps it is the same one you speak of. I will check it out.",
"See! I told you the world’s flat! /s",
"Not Sundown?",
"THIS ",
"Or Erie... Yikes",
"um, what's your dad's favorite song?",
"That's the one. ",
"Stop trying to ruin my poor work ethics!",
"Also good.",
"My new wallpaper, thx.\n",
"Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald starts playing.",
"Ohhh nobody gives a shit you tranny fuck ",
"Oh, what an adorable lake I can see all the edges of!",
"You seem to ",
"I live in the Great Lakes region and go scuba diving on shipwrecks in the area. Before I started, it had never crossed my mind that the lakes were dangerous for these huge ships. I mean apart from navigational hazards or running into each other or whatever. This was fascinating to me and I spent a lot of time reading about many of these shipwrecks. \n\nIt's hard to imagine that the water itself gets rough enough to sink large ships but there are dozens of wrecks to prove it. \n\nI should mention there are estimated to be thousands of shipwrecks in the Great Lakes but I'm mostly talking about 'modern times.' \n",
"I thought of Rhinestone Eyes but I assume that’s just me ",
"Oh good one, but the fact is I just like telling the filth of the world to end their pathetic existence",
"Its that or them doing their job shittily vaus ethey get treated like shit",
"Please tell me this freighter isn't named the Edmund Fitzgerald.",
"Lol cool, nice hobby. Have fun out there 👍",
"Respect. Erie is the best.",
"It absolutely boggles my mind to think that the lakes are so big that they have freighters.",
"God damn do I miss the sea...",
"I'd say the same if you weren't the lowest dregs of humanity 😂",
"Very interesting! Thanks for that nugget of Illinois goodness.",
"How hard is it to get on at that company for entry level positions? ",
"Sound like my bf",
"K ",
"See ya, ape 😘",
"I’m feelin’ a little steampunk when I look at this-nice photo!",
"You don't sail, I'm guessing",
"Looks like a Lake Erie sunset",
"Right click the picture, 'Search Google Images' and it'll pop up as the only link using the image.",
"Actually thats a sluge tanker",
"Meanwhile my dad can't get his finger out of the pictures",
"I live for references like this!",
"Tears every time I hear it.",
"I don’t know what they require in terms of training and education but the maritime industry is actually struggling to find and retain talent. If you’re interested there’s a place for you, you just may need to go to school first.",
"It is, but my interpretation is that the ship sinks. And probably the captain intended to sink it in a suicide.\n\n*So if you see my Downeaster Alexa*\n\n*And if you work with the rod and the reel*\n\n*Tell my wife I am trolling Atlantis*\n\n*And I still have my hands on the wheel*\n\nTo me, trolling Atlantis implies the ship has sunk.\n\n\nAnd then:\n\n*There ain't much future for a man who works the sea*\n\n*But there ain't no island left for islanders like me*\n\nTells me that he had no hope, so the sinking was intentional.\n\n",
"My dad is a proud graduate of Great Lakes. There are far worse places to go to school than Traverse City.",
"The [Carl D. Bradley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Carl_D._Bradley) was quite literally snapped in half by a storm on the lakes in 1958. ",
"Yeah if you have a view of Lake Michigan you see the big ones out there sometimes, keep an eye on marinetraffic.com",
"Did that guy want to fucking die?",
"World where unions protecting you from endless corporate greed makes the workers lazy. I've now heard it all. Big corporations only have the best interests of their workers in mind! :s",
"Same here. I grew up ON the shore of Lake Huron. Just a 5 minute walk from it. I still don't believe how small people can think the lakes are.",
"Lisa needs braces!",
"This is neat. My family is your dads chandler if he makes ore runs near Cleveland.",
"It's actually an [amplifier](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/aoAtY2ejo1eVcGTBgej3niuhRQjm-jL8FRd3pxUtQNA9nSYsHF1gDPnfJQ-VPqf_58oQZa0z33FX97tTeEJAtMYRuEWYP9NvlM0Zye0NXQO-pZIrCYgibarnQ7nS8ElzUcE)",
"Ah, earlier it was \"Margaritaville\" - https://imgur.com/a/90LT5",
"> I was only there for about an hour and a half and thought I was going to flip out.\n\nYou said they play it all day, yet you weren't there long enough to listen to the whole thing once. You barely got halfway through. How do you know?",
"No kidding! I can't believe it's been so long since I looked into shipping on the lakes. I had forgotten those were in the plans, and now it's been 6 years since they have been out.",
"Oh! You are right. It IS Margaritaville. I was looking in the wrong place.",
"Yep. We are planning our Loop in about 10 years. :)",
"Just Beautiful",
"As a former Interlake Sailor I say hello!",
"I don’t think you’re boring at all. This is the kind of thing I absolutely love ❤️. Thanks for sharing because I’ll definitely be downloading it! ",
"Looks like the beginning of bioshock",
"Awesome pic",
"There's a maritime academy here in Traverse City, Michigan. From what I understand, the graduates get pretty high-paying jobs and this one is one of the few that qualifies you for both Great Lakes and ocean jobs.",
"> Oh, what an adorable ~~lake~~ pond I can see all the edges of!\n\nftfy.\n\n",
"Whats his work schedule like? Ive done a bit of research on the people who work on the river barges. They work 2 weeks on 2 weeks off or 4 weeks on 4 weeks off. Is it similar?",
"Thank you! My guess would be Michigan, based on when he posted it.",
"They are basically extensions of the Atlantic Ocean when you include the St Lawrence Seaway. ",
"They are above sea level, are freshwater, and don’t directly connect to the ocean (they connect through the St. Lawerence Seaway). Other than that, they are identical to small seas and are in fact larger than some actual seas",
"Thank you for your service, Moe Ronn",
"If it’s at sea level and is saltwater",
"Tricked again! Oh fate is a cruel mistress. I guess I’ll go cry into my immaculately clean shirt and ^^oh-look-I’m-actually-a-Tide-ad",
"Edmund ",
"I wonder if he's gone past my camp on the St. Lawrence right outside of Lake Ontario? or is he just in HOMES?",
"90% of the world's ore passes through the locks at Sault Ste Marie, Michigan/Ontario.",
"Sorry for the ignorance.\n\nWhere do people freight stuff to/from on the Great Lakes?\n\n",
"They are frozen. This is actually from late last year. My dad is currently at home, getting ready to watch the Red Wings.",
"Is he accepting passengers?? I’ll clean or some shit.",
"very informative, and explains it!\n\nthank you ",
"Michigan has a longer shoreline than California, Oregon and Washington combined. It's second only to Alaska.",
"Well, these aren't barges, these are much larger ships. We're talking 200m or longer, with a staff of around 10-20 people or more depending on the fitting and the size.\n\nI'm not OP or his dad so I can't attest to the schedules you're talking about, but schedules at my company are much longer. Usually single trips are that long on their own, plus a couple of days at port to load/unload/ballast. Since much of the Lakes shut down in the winter due to navigation hazards, they run fairly hard during the course of the year. I mean, it all depends.",
"Your dad was a smart one.\n",
"Don't forget Cold.\n",
"That was already a funny story before I saw the picture, and as soon as I saw how small that ~~lake~~ pond is I snorted water out of my nose from laughing too hard. If that’s what they think is a “fucking huge” lake in Australia, I wonder what they’d think if they saw the Great Lakes for themselves...",
"Correction: It's snowy, frozen bullshit right now.",
"Yep. Only a 'temporarily set back millionaire' would belive that. Lol!",
"My dad is a first mate!",
"It is his duty! That's why he has the magnifying glass flair.",
"NOT PENNY’S BOAT!",
"Isle Royale was made a National park in 1940. It's a wonderful, truly wild place -- the main island is about 45 x 9 miles. It also has over 100 named islands around it. Because it's so remote and wild, it gets only about 18,000 visitors per year -- Great Smoky Mountains NP gets an average of almost 31,000 PER DAY.",
"His hair was brown before he became a captain.",
"Magnifying Glass flair?",
"For example:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A",
"Glad I could help!",
"You know the problem with working in an environment like on a ship is that you are sharing two sides with your crew members. Earlier in the day they are your colleagues and the very same evening they're your friends. It gets very very awkward to see people from diverse backgrounds sit together and share the dining table after severe clashes at the workspace. To put it to perspective, imagine living with your boss in metal cage thrown away from land. Tough, right? It is. ",
"Very r/accidentalwesanderson",
"[How I actually look](http://imgur.com/r/marines/6a4LY7V) \n\nI'm a marine engineer and work in engine room. Oil and grease are more common on my hands than any cosmetic product. ",
"OP you probably won't see this but I grew up in Rogers City working docks on these ships. My Uncle was Captain of the Cason J Callaway for a while before he retired. ",
"Am I the only one that wants to be a (legal) stowaway on a freighter for a week or so? I'd love a low class trip around - see the quarries and the docks that these boats end up at it. No frills just working people and the water.",
"Here is an [album of pics of the canal system](https://imgur.com/a/RDZI5) from my time as a wheelsman on the Lakes before I joined the Navy. Had a blast. ",
"Attend a degree program in any one of the streams: Marine Engineering or Nautical Sciences. The former opens doors for you to work in Engine Room and get dirty with oil and grease while the latter is more about being on the Bridge Deck and keeping watches for safe navigation and cargo work. You have a variety of Merchant Marine Schools that offer the program. Post that you sail as an Apprentice (Cadet), slowly working up the ranks. ",
"You don't see the magnifying glass next to his username?",
"I watch the freighters go thru the Detroit River and also use marine traffic haha, I you're not the only boring person here!",
"It was in the 90s because I was still doing race committee and bringing the bit back with dad",
"Thanks Man, the memory is forever etched in my mind",
"That’s why music is so great. Each and everyone of us can have different interpretations that are just as meaningful. \n\nMy brother was the captain of a commercial swordfish vessel and we played this song at his funeral. It holds a very special meaning for me.\n\nI interpret it as commercial fishing is a dying industry and the hopelessness that comes with losing a lifestyle.\n\nEdit to add: Atlantis is a canyon in the Atlantic off the east coast. ",
"Sorry, I had the subreddit style turned off. I see it now.",
"It is crazy to think if the ships go too fast they actually can suck down and touch the bottom especially in Lake Erie where there is only a few feet of clearance in places on a good day. ",
"I live in the Soo now (just moved there from GR), and I love going down to the park and just watching the ships go through the locks!! I’m really excited that they seem to be closer to installing a “new” lock!",
"Hey OP! I have one that looks like this [too], except mine was aboard a research vessel on Lake Winnipeg (https://i.imgur.com/C6ZL5ic.jpg) \n\nHere is one from one of the Great Lakes while on a separate research vessel:[ Lake Erie](https://i.imgur.com/5WtOTXo.jpg)!\n",
"Those 1000' footers are massive, I only got to see one once because we generally stuck to the Lower Lakes / St. Lawrence.",
"Please thank your Dad for taking this. ",
"I’ve seen this one go through the locks in the Soo a couple times!! It’s amazing to stand close and watch this big ass ship rise and fall in the locks. ",
"It looks like the cover of an epic novel",
"No, you're not the only one. I'd love that!",
"Yo dawg. I heard you like lakes and islands. ",
"Lol that's someone's account dude",
"Great Lakes boats are not with any decent rotations. 30/15 was Grand River Navigation. The rest were basically seasonal work for your first year. It's been 14 years since I last sailed up there. I am certain things are pretty much the same. Pay was good, views were amazing, food was fair to great. I've since gone offshore drilling to get a decent rotation along with a heavy paycheck. This is a good place to do some more research about getting into the industry. Good luck. You can PM me for more info...\n\nhttp://www.seafarers.org/paulhallcenter/phc.asp\n\nhttp://www.lcaships.com/careers/",
"That would be a sick album cover. It could be like Sailor rock or something.",
"That would burn his tongue ",
"Beach balls are flat until you inflate them. I understand what a sphere is, but what does a sphere have to do with the Earth? Take a quarter, turn it on it’s side and spin it. If you spin it fast enough you see a round object, but a quarter isn’t a sphere. ",
"www.boatnerd.com is full of great lakes ships and information and pics. It is a bit dated but you can get a lot from it.",
"Man, your dad *really* overdid it with the hose. \n\nEdit: Oops. I thought it said **firefighter** captain...",
"But.... The waves are higher and choppier in the great lakes compared to the sea. I used to work on a research vessel on Lake Michigan. And have thrown up more than I'd like to admit. Another interesting tidbit. Vessels are all called boats on the Great lakes. Even if they are a ship on the ocean they are considered a boat. ",
"That's fucking awesome",
"If I was your dad, I would do the \"look at me...I am the captain now\" line to EVERYONE.",
"Super beautiful.📸\n",
"WhErE iS tHe CuRvEtUrE",
"l",
"I live on Superior and use it. My first thought was, which ship? since I pay attention to the ships that come to our town, I was wondering if it'd be one I recognize. ",
"I used to work for Interlake as an Engineer. What vessel does he work on?",
"Last October the bouy off shore near my town recorded a 28.5ft wave on Superior. We had a massive storm. Regular waves over 20ft near shore. I lost a lot of sand dune on my property and had to build a new sea wall. The lakes are crazy.",
"Having lived in Mt Gambier, noone thinks it's a big lake (except that dude). It's a small crater lake it an old volcanic caldera. It's only interesting for the geology of the area and the fact that the water is exceptionally blue. Worth a visit, but probably one of the smallest in Australia. We don't have anything as big as the great lakes over here. Places like Canongatong lake are only 'normal' sized lakes in comparison to the great lakes. But those lakes are an exception, not the norm and probably shouldn't be used as a benchmark for anything other than \"ours is bigger than yours\" arguments.",
"It is mentioned elsewhere in this thread that he works for Interlake Steamship",
"After I posted it I thought he might be American. Cheers.",
"Whaaaaat? The lakes are famous for their storms especially in November according to Gordon lightfoot ",
"Might use this as a wallpaper. If it's not too grainy ",
"One 1000 footer contains 3000 semi loads or 700 train cars. 4% of the US GDP passes through the locks in Sault St. Marie. ",
"Lucky man. I miss the Navy. ",
"That isn't a very big lake. I haven't seen the Great Lakes but lakes you can find in western Canada are massive compared to that. ",
"Looks like a Bob Ross painting! ",
"Which of the Great Lakes?",
"Wow, that picture is breathtaking!",
"ITT: People who don't know the great lakes are big. \n\nI've literally met people surprised you couldn't see across them. They're basically freshwater oceans, guys. ",
"FOO FIGHTERS!!!",
"As a prior Lakes sailor, just curious - which ship?",
"This reminds me of Myst for some reason",
"It's a flat plane. ",
"Not the Cort is it? If so Burns Harbor USW says hi!",
"Is this red skies at night or sailors take warning time?",
"Red at sky at night sailors delight, red sky in the morning, sailors take warning",
"Everyone did.",
"I live on Lake Superior. I have sailed across it (365 miles) and up and down it more times than I can count. I have also worked on the Bearing Sea (in winter where 35 ft waves and 70mph winds are not uncommon). The storms and waves on Lake Superior are as scary as the Bearing Sea. Different, but equally scary. Why, you ask? The distance between waves on the oceans is much wider than the Great Lakes. On the Great Lakes there is less time to recover. Makes 20-30 foot waves absolutely terrifying. Hell, it makes 10 foot waves terrifying (boat size does matter). And ocean weather is much more stable. On the GL a small craft warning comes out of nowhere, regularly. And on the back side of Isle Royale (with no harbor) the pucker factor goes way up. \n\nWhen the water turns from blue to black. You are already in trouble. Offshore, 2 ft. chop is going to go to 6-8 in 20 minutes. Better have a plan. \n\nBut then on a calm starry night in August, there is no better place to be. Love/hate; S/m, you decide.\n\n",
"Thanks for the new wallpaper OP's Dad!",
"Looks like a Wes Anderson cut scene",
"Nice. My GG Grandfather was a Great Lakes freighter Captain. I would love to know what that was like in the 1880’s & 90’s. ",
"If your dad was willing to do an AMA I would ask some questions.",
"This for some reason this plays tricks on my eyes and i see the water move.",
"Think your dad could get me a job?",
"Haha maybe you're right I would never know. ",
"Not mine ",
"I got rid of the reflections, hope you don't mind\nhttps://imgur.com/a/fmSqh",
"I thinking just one of those things you have to be near in person to get. ",
"I've been along the southern side of Lake Superior and am always amazed by the beauty. Any idea if the northern side in Canada looks any different? The population is so thin, one of the few places I worried about running out of gas. Do you mind if I ask what you do for a living or is this a retirement home? There is hardly any heavy industry in the upper LP and the entire UP. I always wonder how people get by.",
"So how does the sun get from one side to the other at night?",
"I have friends that go to the North shore every year. Their pictures are gorgeous. I'm a remote IT worker. So I can live anywhere I have good internet. The big employers in the area are the hospital, University, mines, logging, and tourism.",
"That's great and you get all the scenery with a lot fewer people.",
"Yep! I love it up here.",
"Yeah, Google \"biggest lakes in australia.\" I believe that blue lake is either the biggest or second biggest natural permanent lake. They have big lake basins that occassionally fill, but 95% of the year they are salt flats. \n\nLike, Australia legitimately doesn't have lakes like we picture in NA.",
"Did you happen to click my link and see what is near you?",
"No, because it doesn't matter what is close to me, the shipping season has been closed since the 20th, meaning there hasn't been an interlake ship passing Sault Ste. Marie since then. The only ships that came close to ssm recently were algoma central owned delivering fuel to purvis docks, which they can do because they don't need to traverse the locks (which are closed). So ya, current AIS info is not going to help me answer the question when all the ships are in winter layup, likely at bay ship building since that's where most inter lakers go... (There is honestly likely 4 interlake ships sitting side by side at bay shipbuilding right now)",
"The Earth orbits around the Sun. Jesus, don’t they teach this stuff in elementary school? ",
"Yes - a few years after \"The Earth is round like a big ball.\"",
"Oops! Sorry, u/insertUsernameHere ",
"I was stationed on lake Erie in the USCG. I'm not sure most people realize how incredibly dangerous the great lakes can be for ships. In heavy seas there is no pattern to the waves, much like when you splash in a bathtub. They come at you from all directions. Quite thrilling really",
"Looks like the backdrop of a wes anderson movie poster",
"Yeah, I hear Erie is bad because it is shallower. During storms or high winds, I love watching those waves, but am really glad to be on shore. They are HUGE, and dangerous. ",
"Texas size 10-4.",
"A friends personal boat :)",
"I owned a trailer right on the water at port clinton that I just sold last year (I miss it but I made out so can't complain). We used to always go watch the sunset behind ol' Besse.",
"nice one",
"/r/accidentalwesanderson",
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"Great!",
"Amazing!",
"Does anyone else immediately think of [this](https://i.imgur.com/TlYiPrO.jpg)?",
"I was thinking more [this.](http://mancunion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/The-Neverending-Story-DI-1.jpg)",
"Wooderful",
"\"Great... now what do we do with it?\"",
"I wonder what the day job of said 20 people were over the course of those 3 years. ",
"Does it know it has a nasty growth on its butt? ^^^^^jk",
"I love how on the torso they preserved the natural contours of the wood. ",
"tyrannosaurus lion",
"Voltron",
"A stunning combination of animal, vegetable, and mineral.",
"[THE DIAMOND IN THE RRIAMOND IN THE RROUUHUHHHH](https://youtu.be/arT0ZYWW9ck?t=2m42s)",
"And 3,000 years of growing. ",
"Anyone else think its body looks horribly mangled and disease ridden?",
"Looks like an ethiopian lion.",
"Absolutely worth it, three years well spent ",
"Going to look awesome on some billionaires estate.",
"Maintaining EMC is gonna be a bitch on this big beautiful guy. ",
"Cool, now pose next to it and say \"fuck cancer!\" And get to the front page!",
"They made a Weiner Lion",
"According to [here](https://mymodernmet.com/giant-lion-worlds-largest-sculpture/):\n\n> Taking 20 people more than 3 years, a single tree trunk has been carved into a giant lion titled Oriental Lion. Sculptor Dengding Rui Yao led the team in carving out the enormous redwood trunk, which is now located in Fortune Plaza Times Square in Wuhan, the capital of China’s Hubei Province.\n\n> The artists worked on the mammoth sculpture in Myanmar before it traveled a little over 3,000 miles in December 2015 to China. Measuring in at 47.5 feet long, 16.5 feet high, and 13 feet wide, the giant lion is the world's largest redwood sculpture according to Guinness World Records.\n\n> Oriental Lion‘s head, paws, and tail have been sculpted into a smooth finish, with the torso maintaining the trunk's rough texture. It's unknown if the wood was sourced from China, but we certainly hope it was a tree that was sick or dying rather than being chopped down for the project. If it did come from China, it's most likely a Metasequoia, a fast growing tree found in the Hubei Province.\n\n> The use of the lion in public sculpture is a clear choice given the animal's significance in Chinese culture. As a symbol of power, they are often used at the gates of palaces, temples, and tombs to ward off evil spirits. Since its installation in Wuhan, the giant lion has become a favorite new monument in the city.\nThe giant lion sculpture in China is carved from a single tree and holds the record for the world's largest redwood sculpture.\nGiant Lion Carved from Tree Trunk - World's Largest Redwood Sculpture Giant Lion Carved from Tree Trunk - World's Largest Redwood Sculpture\n\n**Edit:** According to [here](http://digg.com/2017/tree-trunk-lion-carving), it looked like [this](https://i.imgur.com/xpOrYSQ.jpg) prior to sculpting.\n",
"That's the trunk's original texture, they left it alone on purpose.",
"You bleed on it and it ruins a perfectly good trilogy with an absurdly shitty ending.",
"Aaazing",
"\"A lion doesn't need to concern himself with the opinion of sheep.\"",
"What about the nub it has for a forearm. Definitely not close anatomically correct",
"The arms ruin it for me. Should have stretched them out like the legs so it didn't look deformed.",
"The front looks great,they should slaughter a bunch of lions for there pelts and fill in the middle.",
"Looks like a tube of squeezed toothpaste",
"I hear this EVERY time I watch this and say it along with it in my head",
"Strangely specific yet accurate.",
"Why didn't they just hire 720 people? Then they could've finished it in a month. Or why stop there, 21000 people could've finished it in a day.\n\n*Edit: Jokes are lost on some people I guess.",
"Shame they did such a shit job",
"Hmm... i'm not sure if I want to know what you're referencing. I'm in the middle of a few trilogies that this could apply to. ",
"Not to be negative, Nor do I mean to disrespect the art of this piece but why are his front legs so short?!\nThe proportion is off and its messing with me!",
"Actually good news. It's thought to be a Metasequoia which is a fast-growing Redwood:\n\n\"Metasequoia is a fast-growing tree, exceeding 35 m (115 ft) in height and 1 m (3.3 ft) in trunk diameter by the age of 50\"\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasequoia_glyptostroboides",
"Some one fucked up the front legs, the guy who made the back one must hate him.",
"Looks pretty cool, but I think it would look really impressive it were still a tree. ",
"I must know what you're referring to, tell me!",
"20 people x 3 years x 2080 hours of work per year x $100/hr = $12,480,000 approximate cost of labor.\n\nPlus what looks like a 300+ year-old tree, which isn't cheap either (hopefully free if the artists found a fallen tree).\n\nI bet this is a $20 million piece of art.\n\nI hope one day to have more money than I know what to do with. Then I can afford giant wood carvings of cool animals.",
"Sand. Then sand. Sand some more. Sand all day. Sand forever. Then sand some more. ",
"Thanks for this information. Makes me feel much better. ",
"R/atbge",
"Don't worry the machine is filling the cup while I Reddit on my phone",
"I was so afraid of this movie when I was a kid! I must have seen it about 5-10 times and I'm still unsure whether I want to rewatch it now!",
"Deadwood",
"I liked the end to Assassin's Apprentice!",
"The purpose being that they got lazy . . .",
"it's body looks like it is decaying from cancer and is riddled with the pox. ",
"What were they carving it with, spoons? Jeez, one man with some decent power tools could knock that out in a month. I mean roughly 108,000 man-hours for that? C'mon!",
"Despite being skilled artists, I doubt they're making anywhere near $100/hr in China.",
"And needs a tiny match stick to put him on fire 🔥",
"Yeah I've seen those guys with chainsaws carve bears, eagles, etc in just a few hours and they look pretty damn good.",
"I think its pretty rich people on reddit calling a group of people who took 3 years to create this \"lazy\".",
"Like the wooden pickle from Bad Santa\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN0i_VQtb8o",
"Its front legs aren't proportional to its rear legs.",
"You're right. Turn it to matchwood.",
"L O N G B O Y E ",
"Oh they certainly aren't. But 100 was an easy number to work with.",
"time to start over boys",
"> 3 years to create this\n\nThat's another thing that bothers me. Saying it took them 3 years to create makes it sound like an incredibly huge task. But do you really think they worked on it for 1095 days? They probably worked on it over weekends when they weren't too busy.\n\nBut when I say lazy, I mean that 2 and a half years in they probably got bored of the project and found the fastest way to finish.",
"[Epic Movie?](http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0799949/)",
"I would actually say they probably took weekends off, since they were likely paid to do this. Carving a lion from a giant redwood that you can’t move without super expensive equipment is a little beyond hobby and moving into the realm of ‘job’ ",
"Wow",
"Oh cool. Now make me one. I will wait and I will only pay after completion",
"Did you get the beaver pet tho",
"I'm curious. What are you referring to? ",
"Imagine being the guy having to jump into the mouth to carve it out",
"The largest recorded tree was 7.7ft wide. Burned in 51.\nIt is endangered. Only 5,000 remain in a grove besides isolated pockets, most habitat being used for rice cultivation. \nA living fossil, much like Ginko Balboa.",
"I'm wondering how they prepared the wood. On average, it takes about 1 year for an inch of wood to dry. If you have a table slab that's 4\", it would take 2 years to dry (center is 2\" from either side). If you let it dry after milling it and making a table out of it, it will warp and possibly crack. \n\nThis tree wouldn't dry if you left it for 100 years because there would be no place for the moisture in the center to go. Therefore, I predict that this thing will snap in half in a few years.",
"Bet the guy at my local fair can do this in an hour with a chainsaw.",
"I thought same thing. Impressive feat but body looks like shit",
"Lol glad I'm not the only one.",
"Being able to carve something like that , is truly a skill I will never understand but always admire ",
"The people on Carving Kings netflix show could knock this out in a weekend.",
"Kiln drying?",
"> Ginko Balboa\n\nApollo Treed",
"Corgi lion.",
"But why? ",
"The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe I think! ",
"Just a guess... the never ending story? ",
"You mean Ginkgo Biloba? Not a red-headed stepchild of a ~~Detroit~~ Philly boxer?\n\nAnd you're wrong about the largest recorded tree. General Sherman is over 36 feet wide and is easily google-able. Google: Arbol del Tule Tree\n\n ",
"the lion the witch and the wardrobe? Maybe...",
"13 ft wide tree, grew approx 3.3 ft in 50 yrs, so this was pretty much a 200 year old tree. one day there will literally be nothing close to a tree this big so our grand kids will have no idea what the earth was once like but they can go to Fortune Plaza Times Square in Wuhan, Hubei province and see this monstrosity. smdh",
"It's face kinda looks like a rat",
"I was wondering why they had to use too much damn lacquer! ",
"Someone should have at least thought to use references. That front leg is so fucked up. ",
"seems fitting.",
"To what you are referring?",
"Just to think, there is some rich asshole looking at this right now trying to figure out how to purchase it and put it in front of his Fortune 500 company",
"How are the twins, Mike and Bezequil?",
"My guess would be they were roots that they used the natural curve of",
"That’s the coolest thing I’ve ever seen. I am obsessed with lions ",
"This is the best comment in this thread. I hope you get the recognition you deserve. ;)",
"Probably they outsourced it too. ",
"how many man hours did it take? I hate when people break time down this way\n",
"Looks fake.",
"Wow you think they could have done a better job. Looks awful outside the head.",
"Why",
"Yeah it's like they spent so much time on the cool head they got to the body and were like, fuck it!",
"No, clearly the largest tree ever was significantly narrower than this lion that was carved out of a tree. ",
".... it doesn't look finished. ",
"It looks awful outside the head.",
"Put it in the greatest elks lodge of all time",
"Kick ass but \n#1. Looks likes it is starving\n#2. Who the hell would buy this thing...what a wasted of $$$\n#3. So 3 years? Probably a few hours a week...",
"wonder how much thatd go for in a souvenir shop",
"They can take a lot of *pride* in their work.",
"That lion looks malnourished ",
"The farseer trilogy by robin hobb. I loved it thought the ending was fine. ",
"It's treeson, then",
"Or after 60 person years, their boss decided this was a good enough",
"In awe at the size of this lad, absolute unit!",
"Looks like a lion banged a corgi.",
"The tree was still more impressive.",
"Cuz it’s a fucking tree ",
"Redditors criticizing art where they can’t even finger paint probably, shut up and just enjoy it ",
"We better hope that thing never comes to life 'Night at the Museum'-style",
"> Detroit boxer?\n\nYou mean Philadelphia?\n\nGoogle: *Rocky*",
"That’s remarkable ",
"The trunk probably wasn’t wide enough to make the legs any longer",
"It's one of those dwarf/miniature lions, the ones prone to health problems.",
"Why is he starving?",
"You’re not lyin’. ",
"Proportions and anatomy are trash. Scrap it, back to the drawing board. ",
"It's literally un-look-at-able.",
"Lol how did I mess that one up!?",
"Impressive talent. But would rather have the redwood tree back.\n\n*Wood",
"Imagine being rich enough to buy this as furniture",
"They wanted a certain length, so to keep it structurally sound they needed to have the body be a certain width, and then there was only enough wood left for stumpy legs ",
"This needs to be on Shipping Wars.",
"Give it two months some dip shit will break the tail for views.",
"**Termites:** *heavy breathing*",
"That's a very good guess, sir",
"That would be Robin Hobb's Farseers Triologi. Ending was not horrible but felt like the author had painted herself into a corner and pulled something weird out of nowhere to fix it.",
"This reminds me of that painting oh that very long lady on the back of the pick up lmao",
"Here's a quarter. Go buy yourself a life. ",
"That's easy - just start with a big hunk of wood and chisel off the parts that don't look like what you're making.",
"Munchkin lion. ",
"The entire thing is sanded and polished too. I agree with you but that's a *lot* of work still.",
"To be completely honest. I would rather see a picture of a 500 year old red wood tree in its habitat than this lol.",
"How do you get the proportions correct on something like that.",
"How many people to finish in one nanosecond?",
"I hope it finds a better home than the one it's got.",
"this is low key one of the most amazing things",
"It kind of bugs me that it doesn't look proportionally accurate. Like, the head looks really big compared to the rest of it.",
"Looks like one of those things you order off Amazon and not realize the size until you try to get it through the door.",
"Not that I personally think it's an issue, but it originally being a tree doesn't matter. They could have sculpted it to be a bit more proportional. ",
"Corgi legs i see",
"Now this will be the new \"easter island statues\" of this century, they will wonder why and they will wonder how.. The answer is simple, because why not? Looks badass and will hopefully stand the test of time for future generations.",
"How much would something like this cost? ",
"> one day there will literally be nothing close to a tree this big \n\nThere's *literally* entire forests of these kinds of massive trees. Although deforestation is relevant, I highly doubt these forests are going to disappear anytime in our species existence. ",
"Eh, they should have stained the whole thing, IMHO, it would look a lot more intimidating.",
"Your heart is in the right place but be serious. Occasional art projects like this have nothing whatsoever to do with deforestation.\n\nMost likely this tree had already died anyway.",
"Psh, give me three days. ",
"I’m not incredibly well travelled, but I’ve been to a good chunk of places. Nothing has compared to seeing Yosemite National Park. Those Sequoias (especially to a ten year old) were simply too big to believe. Even touching one a part of me still thought that surely people must have built this fucking thing. Really want to climb one.",
"Its because of the way redeood trees taper off. They had to make the mane where the base was and redwoods taper fairly quickly in order to gain height so they couldnt make it anatomically correct",
"Just leave it in the middle of what looks like Chinese Detroit...",
"I totally agree with this. The subsequent books are much better planned. Liveship is my favorite of hers.",
"The tree would be honoured.",
"Chinese pollution got to it, was born with a defect poor thing...",
"The thought of the wolf in the cave still scares me to this day!",
"But then it would have been shorter. ",
"something about that made me want prawn toast ive fucking idea why",
"Or the head smaller.",
"\"In Lichuan, Hubei, there is a dawn redwood forest consisting of barely 5,000 trees[10] (by another count, around 5,400 trees.[11]), and some smaller groups (typically, under 30 trees each).\"\n\nYou are completely wrong.",
"Is that tree a redwood? Doesn’t look like any redwood I’ve ever seen. ",
"[Asia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwood_National_and_State_Parks) isn't the only place with redwood trees. ",
"Make a deck.",
"\"Raaargh, jump into my mouth cause I can't run.\"",
"I have 1 *almost* exactly the same as this carving!",
"Amazing what artists can create. I unfortunately have not artist skills except for helping my children with their coloring book. :) ",
"Not necessarily. Look at ivory. Does the handle to an ornamental knife contribute to the ivory trade? Absolutely. I'm not saying I'm an expert on trees and deforestation, but dead or not, they are poached in North America so they are definitely being poached in China or Myanmar or where ever it came from. ",
"Incredible ",
"They probably had to be a lot more careful and precise than the people who chop logs into sculptures with chainsaws because it's likely a once in a lifetime work. The people who make sculptures in a short time can afford to do so because when your work is that small, you can afford to make mistakes, and you can easily just buy more wood. Those are the sculptures you see in gift shops and hotel lobbies, not on public display as an honoured cultural protector. \n\nFor these guys, the stakes were a lot higher. The tree was (probably) dead, is endangered, and was in a good enough condition to be the base for a gigantic sculpture. Not to mention, the sculpture is so large any deformities would be noticed and be permenant, and you can't just wave that away by saying \"well, I was working on a small object, of course the eyes are going to be a little wonky.\" Not only that, it's going to have to withstand the test of time and be at the scrutiny of not only the higher ups who approve it, but also the millions who pass by it and judge it. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the creator cited it as their magnum opus. With that kind of pressure, I'd be scared to even carve away at it with a scalpel.\n\nIt's like looking at a Renaissance masterpiece and saying \"that took 4 years?? What did they paint with, single hairs? I've seen art students paint pretty good things in a matter of days!\". It's just silly.",
"We are talking about a specific species, not just redwoods in general.",
"Or they kept fucking it up and having to shave a little deeper",
"But how much did they sell it for?",
"What a waste.",
"I'd keep it inside",
"Did you notice the, uh, size of the sculpture? It's a little bigger than a little bear or eagle carved out of drift wood.\n\nAnd when I say a little bigger I mean tens, maybe hundreds of times the size. ",
"That would look great outside of a casino ",
"We should have left it on the ground, truly. If there is one thing children appreciate, it is looking at dead wood on the ground. It is obvious they will despise us, not for ruining their economic prospects or for the rampant global warming we have triggered, but for the lack of big, dead logs... Just sitting around.",
"No. The person I replied to was referring to trees of this size. Never did they mentioned this particular type of redwood. \n\nAlso, redwood *is* the species of tree this lion was carved from; the region it comes from, and the differences it carries compared to others, is what defines it as a subspecies. Similar to how certain animals may be a particular species, such as wolves, but their region/habitat changes them significantly enough to categorize them as subspecies of the parent species.",
"Corgi Lion!\n\nDon't let my stupid joke take away from how impressive this giant would carving is. I hope the wood ages well, I'd hate for a massive crack to form. ",
"I used karmadecay before posting this and it showed it to be nowhere on reddit, so if you got a problem with it contact reddit and tell them to fix their tool to help prevent reposting. And chill. ",
"Skipped Fore-leg day",
"Man... my momma would love this in her garden!",
"you just awakened a lost memory in me",
"Preach",
"And they are endangered all over ",
"Because of major deforestation, improper fire control, invasive species, and more. However, major efforts are in place to bring them out of it. \n\nThey are a protected species in at least America, and probably else where. The argument isn't whether they're endangered or not, it's whether this person's children will be able to see them in their lifetime. Barring some planet-wide catastrophic incident, these trees aren't going anywhere. ",
"It's okay I guess. ",
"China? China.",
"I feel like u/ArmanDoesStuff didn’t think the ending was fine.\n\nSo how did it end? ",
"I don't know if I'm more amazed by the sculpture, or the fact that its from only one tree! :0",
"Aslan?",
"ok, arguments sort of changing but w/e, i'm saying chopping one down to put at a Chinese mall is irresponsible IMO.",
"Did you read the article? It was likely already dead. \n\nEdit:\n\nAlso, the argument wasn't changing. In fact, I defined the argument in my prior reply because *you* made a point that was irrelevant to the argument. So, if the argument is changing, it's because of you. ",
"Even at 100× bigger it should have taken a little under a year, No? I know it's big but 3 years seems like a long time for a team that big.",
"\"I'll give ya about 3 bucks for it.\"",
"how long'd it take to grow the redwood?",
"I would pay money to have that in my yard.",
"For next millennia, people will be saying, “wow......”. It must have been great to have been part of that. ",
"That trilogy was bad before the ending. Don’t call something “the assassins apprentice” if you’re going to spend 0 time on the fact the main character is an assassins apprentice.",
"It's another one of those horrid Munchkin breeds everybody's so in love with lately.",
"Great. Now what?!?!",
"I thought of [this](https://youtu.be/C29bpit807M).",
"Forest of giants google it",
"ok i re-read your first response, i'll give you that the argument hasn't changed all that much, however\n> It's unknown if the wood was sourced from China, but we certainly hope it was a tree that was sick or dying rather than being chopped down for the project\n\n\ni can say it was chopped down just as surely as you can say it was already dead. \nthey are endangered, and a lot of things that are endangered and worth ~$100,000 tend to disappear sooner than later. so i stand by my point. i hope i'm wrong.",
"I think that would only be the case if difficultly and size scaled together. It's possibly that a sculpture of this magnitude would be several times more tricky than one even half the size. I could be wrong. They could have just worked largely by hand if they are traditionalists, or maybe they were just slow.",
"This wood look good on my lawn.",
"Looks like my deuce from this morning, had tacobell last night!",
"The only thing bothering me is those teeth.",
"It's probably one of those deals where they worked on it for a few hours, then stopped for a few months...like the guys on reddit that show a painting and they say \"It took me 5 years to paint this\" and then you find out it was really only about 40 hours worth of work, they just didn't work on it continuously ",
"Off to Casterly Rock.",
"I didn't like the Liveship stuff anything like as much as the Farseer stuff. :(",
"you ever done stronglifts 5x5 brah?\n\n6 months of that program will give you T-rex arms and GARGANTUAN LEGS.",
"I like the epic feel and character growth of the Liveship books. Farseer was often too depressing for me.",
"That thing still gives me the creeps",
"Some King spends **ages** trying to make a dragon thing to fight the bad guys. Carves it, puts his life into it (and so does some random old hag who pops out of nowhere like wtf was that character) and then it flies away.\n\nThen it turns out there's a big fuck off field of these things and all you have to do to wake them up is bleed on them. So the protag does it and saves the world, pretty much negating the king's whole story.\n\nHe was carving that shit for like two fucking books!\n\nThere was a bunch of other stuff that made me absolutely *detest* that series. The worst part is that the previous two were some of the best novels I've ever read. They were *so* good and they ended on the perfect cliffhanger for the third.\n\nAnd the finally was just plopped out and it was fucking garbage. I felt personally betrayed by how awful it was.\n\nI could honestly rant for pages (as evident by this essay I've vomited discussing just one issue), but in the interest of saving you all from brining in my salt I'll leave it at that.\n\n***\n\nEDIT: I tell a lie, I'm in riled up nerd mode. Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but I will now spend 40+ minutes explaining why yours is wrong if you enjoyed this travesty of a book.\n\nSpoilers ahead. And by spoilers I mean I'm going to go through the entire god awful plot.\n\nFirst, I have to explain that the previous two really were outstanding, in my opinion. The world was beautifully painted, the complex fantastical system felt so organic and fit into the world perfectly, and the characters... good lord. They were so good, you felt for them, each one with their motivations and flaws, it was all so real. Pack that all into a dramatic and enthralling story you feel personally involved it.\n\nThe second ends with the good king gone to the north to find The Elderlings (some species no one remembers) and the old king dead, leaving the evil prince in charge. He's ~killed the protag but his soul went into his spirit animal dog thing. There was an uprising ready to support him, you thought it was going to go all game of thrones and then this was an even better twist. I'm *so* ready to see what he does when he resurrects!\n\nThen comes the third book. It succeeds in systematically shitting on every part of what made the previous books great. I do not exaggerate when I say the the first **half** is *literally* just the protag monotonously walking towards the douche prince's castle. There's a few random villages and side characters along the way but all were so vapid I honestly can't recall them.\n\nHis dog fucks off at some point, and with it half of the characters you give a shit about.\n\nDuring this time they begin to also shit on the magic system. Now it gives you visions, lets you posses people, all kinds of random shit. Where originally it was a subtle means of manipulating an enemy into being afraid or angry or cautious, it's now just become The Force on roids.\n\nThen the climax of part one. Dude *finally* gets to the castle to assassinate the new King/super douche prince. He seemed like an really interesting character previously; cold hearted, calculating, etc, but it becomes rapidly apparent he's just a whiny man child.\n\nAnyway, despite training his whole life as an assassin **and it being in the fucking title**, he is *abysmal* when it comes to killing dudes. He gets owned by the overpowered magic (which can now make hallucinations? And also somehow the prince can now use via his magic subjects?) and then just as all is lost, old king out of middle of fuckistan up in the mountains mind-screams really loudly \"get over here, prick\" to the protag (apparently he can semi mind control?) and the bad mages piss themselves, protag jumps the window and... back to travelling.\n\nNo joke, the second half of the book is just more fucking wandering about! No real purpose, just the order \"find the old king in the mountains\", he doesn't even want to be doing it but he's semi-mind controlled. He really just wants to go home to his wife - who has had his daughter in his absence and they're being cared for by his adoptive father. Everyone he loves/His happy ending is just waiting for him!\n\nAnyway, he meets a bunch of cunts along the way. Some stay some go, who gives a shit. They're all fucking boring. But *no one* is worse than Kettle (old hag mentioned initially). Don't even get me fucking started on Kettle. The epitome of a book killer. This piece of shit, know it all, bitch-ex-machina just barfs over any of the book's redeeming qualities the moment they struggle to break into the light.\n\nAnyway, so he meets up with the Queen in the mountains and they're all \"nah, fuck you and your wife and your daughter, go find the king and *maybe* we'll think about not taking your daughter as an heir\" (but they say it in a friendly way?) to which he's like \"okay cool, I'll hike these goddamn mountains if I can see my wife/daughter again. Gotta get that happily ever after and all that.\"\n\nSo after that short interlude they continue with (yay) more bloody walking! Only now in addition to Old Bitch (she's coming to ex machina the shit out of a dragon/elderling!) and some Bard Lady (forgot to mention this character earlier because of her **overwhelming insignificance**) they also have Dumb Queen (why the fuck is she tagging along, again?) and a hermaphrodite clown (we like him but knowing this book they'll fuck that up as well).\n\nAnyway, so they hike for 1000 pages up to the mountains, hike another 1000 pages up to some crossroad, then they hike one way, don't find shit (it's an empty quarry), then they hike **back** the other way, don't find shit (it's a park(?) with a bunch of dragon statues), then they hike **BACK THE WAY THEY CAME AGAIN**, and this happens maybe eight million times before they find the king behind some rock in the quarry or some shit.\n\nHe's come here to find the dragons but fuck knows how to wake them up so he decides to make one himself (apparently his magic also does that?). So that's what he's been doing for a book and a half while the entire country is arse banged by pirates on one end and face fucked by the shitty prince on the other.\n\nAnyway, amongst all this babbling nonsense, the protags has one of his many astral projections. He checks on his family and sees that his wife is banging his fucking ~dad! Totally fucking gross considering the 30 year age gap and the fact Dad's known her since she was like 10. So there's that.\n\nBut wait, it's okay! (not the age shit, obviously, that's super creepy) Old Bitch says protag never *really* loved her because they were young and also because fought because that's not a thing couples do! Thanks Old Bitch!\n\nForget that he's loved her since he met her as a child. They have a deep connection that spanned their entire lives, they've supported one another through the darkest parts of their lives, they gotten married and had a child and this relationship is the main cornerstone of the series (and his entire motivation for this ass backwards quest). But yeah, since they had some arguments the hag is totally right, it was never \"real\".\n\nThis bullshit physically hurt me more than any of the other bullshit. Felt more forced that my page turns at that point.\n\nAnyway, so Old Bitch blessedly fucks off by helping make the dragon (doing it kills you btw. gotta put your soul in or something) and it's also time for the king to do the same/become one with the Apache Pirate-Destroyer. But wait! Before he does, he needs to make sure he has an heir... but his old, decrepit ass can't bone his Dumb Queen in its state... if only there were a young protag with a body to use!\n\nSo yes. *He fucking uses the protagonist's body* to sex up his wife (and insta-preggers her, I guess).\n\nCucked by his ~dad. Cucked by his own body. Wakes up in time to clean himself up, poor protag can't catch a break! Although I think he then bones Bard Girl, so I guess she did have a purpose in the end! Only bit of action that is remotely age appropriate since the good king is also like 50 and his wife is like 15. I get the \"different time\" aspect but come the fuck on!\n\nOkay, so the king dies/flies off into the sunset to eat some pirates. Bad guys randomly show up and protag teleports(?) back to the dragon field. He accidentally bleeds on the dragons and it turns out that's what fucking wakes them up! This whole prophecy about him being the chosen one, his massive journey, his *entire life* has lead to this moment. **His job was to bleed on some goddamn statues!!**\n\nAs if fucking over the prequels wasn't enough, it fucks its own king's sacrifice story by making it as irrelevant as the fucking Bard Girl's pointless existence!\n\nAnyway, so the hermaphrodite clown rides these dragons into the sunset (protag was too shit to even do that, I guess) and that's it. They just wrap it up. Protag does some reverse mind games and the prince gets owned by magic (and later killed by a ferret I think? wtf).\n\nAlso, apparently looking at the dragons makes you forget shit which is why no one remembered them... fuck it. At this point I can't care about that nonsense.\n\nSo yeah. That was the book. If you were expecting some climax of shit you will be disappointed as I am, it's just a constant steady stream of crap until you are dull to its betrayal...\n\nProtag doesn't even go back to his wife an child, despite the fact the Queen doesn't need his daughter as an heir anymore, and that this was his *entire* motivation. He instead just becomes a Hermit.\n\n***The End***\n\nGood God, what a steaming pile of trash. They pulled that shit straight from the devil's arsehole...\n\nAnd then fans had the goddamn *audacity* to say the other spin offs get better and improve on the issues! Fool me once, you motherfuckers!!\n\n/rant... it's 00:22, that took a while.",
"I've never actually regretted reading a series until that one. So many people absolutely loved it! Like, her books are their *favourite* fantasy novels. It's utter insanity from my perspective!\n\nReally is a case of to each their own, I guess.",
"Yeah, he was really shit as an assassin from start to finish. I think that was the point, but the titles were indeed pretty misleading.",
"[I'm gonna say no.](https://www.google.com/search?q=redwood+tree&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS715US722&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjf__ngtpLZAhVpyFQKHScbCB4Q_AUICigB&biw=1680&bih=877)",
"No, it's not a redwood. ",
"I would hope they didn't cut it down just for that purpose ",
"It’s also a repost from last november",
"looks like shit",
"Gonna tell you the same thing I told the other guy. I used karmadecay before posting here and it didn’t show it anywhere to be found on reddit. If that bothers your soul then please contact Reddit and tell them their tool for checking for reposts is absolute shit. Thanks.",
"So? That doesn’t change the fact it looks like it has mange. ",
"How..how heavy would that thing even weigh...\nI mean damn...",
"This was the top 3 hits... I don’t even play dark souls\n\nhttp://darksouls2.wiki.fextralife.com/Forest+of+Fallen+Giants",
"Yeah but then... is the Statue not redwood? It looks like other redwood carvings. Or maybe that’s some crazy redwood species?",
"If it's like any group project, 1 person did all the work and the other 19 took credit.\n",
"That I am not sure, but it doesn't seem out of the realm of possibilities. ",
"Yes it is a dawn redwood. Not a coastal redwood like we have in california but still a redwood.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasequoia",
"*about tree fiddy ",
"This came up on google for dawn redwood:\nhttps://goo.gl/images/vxoF9h\n\nThe bark looks like a normal California redwood. The tree in the pic looks like a spruce or something. Like this tree: https://goo.gl/images/eQA8Lh\n\nReally interesting that dawn redwoods are deciduous. Would never have thought. ",
"not bad",
"I want to know how much this would sell for.",
"Ah I didn't even look at the picture just what the article said about it being a metasequoia. Post it to r/marijuanaenthusiasts and see if they can find out",
"I guess you could say it's bark is worse than it's bite",
"Epic!",
"Can you explain how Mr. Expert redwood sculptist? ",
"Maybe with the shape of the tree, it would have been difficult to show a full length front leg bent? Are you really implying these guys used NO reference of a fucking lion? God reddit. Y'all are crazy sometimes. ",
"Pity they weren't all working from the same version of the plan",
"i suddenly want some can of peas.",
"My concern about it is very fleeting, haha. Reddit does need to be better about it though",
"I’ll give you $5 and a bag of chips for it",
"There's gumtrees near my house wider than that so I'm inclined to believe you're wrong. ",
"A dead tree that big is also a home to countless organisms - plant, animal, and fungi. I’m sure it impacted the biome it was removed from immeasurably ",
"I was thinking part Corgi",
"Looks like a diseased scrotum.",
"looks like shit... what's wrong with it's back? looks like another lion is biting the front lion",
"Wow. That's pretty awesome. I can't wait to see it when they get done. ",
"Call me naive, I'm sure I will be, but a handfull (3ish) chainsaw carvers seem like they could do this in maybe a month.....",
">a giant lion titled Oriental Lion. \n\nWould that name be a translation? Very literal, like a committee settled on it. Maybe Oriental Lion really \"rolls off the tongue\" in Mandarin or something.",
"I applaud the raw emotion you put into. It's nothing worse than when a series takes a nose dive in quality probably due outside influences.",
"I have no idea what you're on about, but I read the whole thing and I sure do appreciate the effort and passion that went into it.",
"/r/AEBGT (the opposite of /r/ATBGE)",
"Re-proportion the head to allow for better sculpting of the legs. \n\nAlso, I really love the condescending tone, as if I implied I would have done it better. I simply agreed that the proportions are off, and even stated it doesn't bother me. Troll much?",
"It reminds me of sign making where you start off writing your text all uniform and nice and you soon realize that there is not enough room for the last letter so you just do your best shoving it in. \n",
"Well played",
"So how much is something like this worth? Or is it a “priceless” piece?",
">The largest recorded tree was 7.7ft wide. Burned in 51.\n\n7.7ft? Haha, what? Is that a typo?",
"What's your opinion on grilled cheese sandwiches? ",
"Doesn't look done",
"Holy fuck pal, that gave me a good couple laughs.",
"Wow. I had an existential crisis about halfway through that because you made me realize that all life is meaningless. \n\nWhat’s your opinion on the sandwich status of hot dogs?",
">Here you go retard, all you need is google. Thats 3 fucking places on reddit that I was able to prove what a fucking moron you are. Youre welcome for doing the work for you, you lazy karma whore fuck.\n>\n>https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/6a557i/giant_lion_sculpture_carved_from_single_tree/\n>https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/6ar9al/giant_lion_carved_out_of_a_redwood_tree_trunk/\n>https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/6a8mzy/giant_lion_carved_out_of_a_redwood_tree_trunk/\n\nThank you for pointed that out, /u/Apparatus171. I'd hate for a specific interesting thing to get posted on Reddit more than once (especially when it's been only 9 months since the last time there was a post on it)!\n\nBy the way, I'd like to compliment you on your *way with words*. Such a poetic, respectful comment. You must be *very* smart. ;)",
"Well shit, I'm about 2/3rds through book two. Is that a major spoiler?\n\nEdit: not reading any further down this line just in case.",
"I'm very happy that someone else was also off put by this. This book is the reason I won't read any of her other material. Literally the worst",
"Still better then the Ronaldo statue ",
"You said it originally being a tree doesn't matter, as if you know better than them. The head and main are clearly the focus. Troll much?",
"I love this movie. I aim to rewatch it with my kid. ",
"The sheer size of this thing is **extremely** impressive.",
"The fuck? Is there even a debate there? Hot dogs are NOT sandwiches. Who, even remotely, thinks otherwise?!",
"> You said it originally being a tree doesn't matter \n\nBecause it doesn't. It not being proportional has nothing to do with it being a tree before hand. Need I pull up some examples of sculptures made using trees that *are* proportional? Or how about some ice sculptures that started as a block of ice? What about rock sculptures that started as nothing more than giant boulders?\n\nAgain, at no point did I imply I could have done better, nor did I imply I knew what it took. I simply said it was disproportional in spots, and because it was being sculpted, it almost certainly could have been done more proportionally. But, go ahead and tell me what I meant when I said it, because apparently your reading comprehension is so good that you know better than me when it comes to what I wrote.",
"Kind of cool, but wasted under an overpass. ",
"I read this series in early highschool or late middleschool ~7-8 years ago. I barely remember it except for some key points, which is weird because I usually can never forget the books I’ve read. You just explained to me why I never moved passed that trilogy.",
"I feel like OP just made everything up In the title. ",
"https://www.reddit.com/r/ofcoursethatsathing/comments/6rynnk/the_sandwich_alignment_chart/",
"And second comment goes on to prove, without doubt, that a hotdog is a taco. Nvm. I give up. \n\nI think I'm a structural purist, ingredient rebel, except that subs are also sandwiches. \n\nBut a hotdog is still a hotdog even if you remove the bun.",
"You put it in the den.",
"Didn't expect to find a random Farseer Trilogy reference /rant here but good fucking job man! That third book was a little weird. I am reading the Liveship Traders now, hopefully it has a better ending lol. ",
"What if the filling for your “hot dog” is a bratwurst or other kind of sausage?",
"That just simply incredible effort by those people to make a sculpture from a tree.",
"How long will this last before its decomposes?",
"I dunno man. My reality is being thrown out of wack here. Perhaps I'm more of a structural purist. One flat layer of dry over a flat-ish layer(s) of filling, on one flat layer of dry. Like, bacon between to waffles is a sandwich, but a breakfast sausage between two waffles isn't, unless you have a set of them and make a flat surface. Not sure why that's where I draw the line, but in my head that's how it's perceived.",
"One man with some decent power tools could knock out a vaguely shaped piece of wood in a month, if they really tried.\n\nThis is not that. This is an intricate massive carving with an enormously valuable stock that you can't mess up on.",
"No. This is way more intricate and polished than the stuff people carve in a few hours with a chainsaw.",
"We've found the Legendary Moonlight Sculptors!",
"You made an enormous assumption to push your agenda. Do not do that. it is irrational, and it undermines a potentially good point.",
"No, the handle to an ornamental knife does not contribute to the ivory trade. Demand for ivory does. Arguing that a resource should not be used when the alternative is waste because the resource can be exploited is asinine drivel.",
"All of the Elderlings books have ups and downs, but I liked most of them quite a lot. The Rain Wilds quadrilogy was the worst of them. ",
"Too bad it's ugly as shit. What's on the lion's back? Weird lumpy things?",
"*grabs box of matches*",
"Only in China",
"I love it. Who Pays for this to be done?",
"Wow that's gorgeous! ",
"ROAR!",
"Stubby!",
"\n\n*\"I drew the duck blue because I've never seen a blue duck before, and be honest with ya, I wanted to see a blue duck.\" - Billy Madison, 1995*",
"NO\n\nA hotdog is a fucking hotdog. I am highly against radical sandwich people, and that is bullshit to say that calling a hotdog a sandwich is neutral. \n\nSuch bullshit.",
"Damn. I don’t even know what book you’re talking about but I feel like I could paint a colorful version in my head. Thanks for the read!",
"See, I just got that damn theme song stuck in my head for years.\n\n\n...\n\n\n\n^^^fuck. ^^^it's ^^^back.",
"that's badass ",
"There has to be a documentary about this somewhere. I’d love to watch the process. ",
"I love the idea that /r/trees and /r/MarijuanaEnthusiasts are just people who get high and stare up into the trees so often that they know everything about them. ",
"Could you imagine being the person driving the crane when they move that thing. It would be the most stressful thing I can imagine.",
"Yes",
"And it probably took you all of about 5 minutes to repost",
"Repost from way back. Still beautiful though.",
"The best artist got to work on the head.",
"What point is that exactly?",
"Amazing.",
"Kind of redundant to say that the tree was dead",
"Idk if you are missing much, already read the Farseer, Liveship, Tawny man, now on last of Rainwilds. I'm still gonna finish them all, but it gets far too monotone sometimes with the same themes replaying but not in a good way. I still like her series set in Six Duchies better than Bingtown/Rainwilds and you aren't really missing much by reading only one side or the other.",
"Nighteyes is a wolf you pleb.\n",
"The Lannisters really go all out, don’t they?",
"Cool. Now we just put a few coats of lacquer on it and.. KEVIN! PUT THAT DAMN LIGHTER NOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo",
"Longcat, Wood Edition",
"Holy ",
"What cha take for it? ",
"DroopLion",
"... do you really need me to tell you your own point?",
"Looks malnourished ",
"Woke up to this brilliant review. Weirdly it’s made me want to read the series just to see if I feel the same way. Thanks for taking the time!",
"I need some closure on the dragons and the live ship traders ",
"Just one match.",
"I think they are only allowed to use trees that have fallen down for this kind of thing.",
"Amazing artwork.\nBut I don't know, that's tons of wood we could use for practical things",
"That was majestic. I wish to read more reviews in riled up nerd mode.",
"Thats a lot of work for something that ugly.",
"Prove it.",
"Quality nerdrage. May I subscribe to your newsletter about Crossroads of Twilight?",
"Dont. He is spot on. That series ending is even worse than the final book of Sword of Truth.\n\nOnly embark on that journey if you have serious masochistic tendencies. ",
"I love how much effort you put into this, you're wonderful",
"They rock, obviously. This isn't even subjective.\n\nYou gotta do it properly, though. Grilled cheese on the *outside* as well.",
"You've just given me an existential crisis making me consider that sandwitch question!\n\nAt first glance it's such an obvious no, but thinking about it, they're like one step away from a meatball sub, which everyone recognises as a sandwich!\n\nWHAT IS LIFE?!",
"Well here's a carving that took *one* man four years, but I think you will admit it's a hell of a lot more intricate than a giant lion..\nhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2509367/Guinness-Book-Records-creating-worlds-longest-wooden-carving.html\n",
"That photo you posted in the edit is not the tree before sculpting, that's the largest Camphor tree in Japan. ",
"How much does she go for? ",
"They made the back legs fine with the fucking tree",
"Should've made a dragon, that thing looks like a malnourished wiener dog with dwarf front legs ",
"To be fair, you are talking about only three out of sixteen total books. The events all build off of one another, and like GRRM and Robert Jordan, frustrating questions are planted that get answered along the way. I'm currently slowly making way way through the last book, which was only released last fall. Robin Hobb took a risk with Fitz and the Fool's relationship. Sexuality and gender are bent in ways that really make you think about humanity through a different lense. Her dragons are well-detailed and described, exponentially more fun to read about than GRRM's. The story is unlike anything else in the genre, I find it beyond refreshing to dive into the world she's created. It's a narrower scope than GRRM but the characters are much more fleshed out IMO. It's a beautiful epic, and you wrote about less than a fifth of the series. C'mon meow.",
"THATS HOW IT FUCKING ENDS?... I waant even aware the 3rd one was out yet when i firat read the first 2. Fuck. That. Nope. Non cannon. I dont believe you. MmmmmnnnNOOOPE!",
"How do you feel about Tacos being sandwiches?",
"Can we get a better resolution poc? Could barely see any detsil in this",
"I'm sure you're right, there must be a reason people love them so much.\n\nBut I just can't bring myself to give any of the other books a chance after my feelings about that first trilogy.\n\nBut I'm glad you enjoyed it! At the end of the day that's all that matters.",
"lol, my bad.\n\nYou may still enjoy it, though. Many people did.",
"It sounds like \"The Wizard Lord\" but extended.\nFirst 1/5 is great character building..... Then 350 pages of walking through bad weather... Because thats the bad guy. A wizard who makes the weather bad...",
"Loads of book pull this, tbh. The Innocent Mage and sequel had awesome build up. Great characters and then an amazing cliffhanger followed by so much hype for the final battle.\n\nAnd then the ending was just so abrupt and predictable, and all around just random.",
">Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but I will now spend 40+ minutes explaining why yours is wrong if you enjoyed this travesty of a book.\n\nThis is when I knew to get popcorn. Thank you for the excellent entertainment on this fine Wednesday morning! I feel your pain; allow me to recommend a trilogy or two that didn't make me want to off the author. If you like science fiction, read the Humanity's Fire trilogy (Seeds of Earth, The Orphaned Worlds, and The Ascendant Stars) by Michael Cobley. Alternatively, if you're not against Christian novels and/or want to read about daemons and angels, read the spiritual warfare trilogy (This Present Darkness, Piercing the Darkness, and Prophet) by Frank E. Peretti. If you'd like more fantasy, while it's not just a trilogy, read the Wizard of Earthsea series by Ursula K. Le Guin.",
"Which Russian billionaire ordered it?",
"The problem with this rant is that it makes me want to read the series just so i can be this pissed off too",
"Glad you enjoyed lol\n\nI'm always on the hunt for more scifi/fantasy so thanks for the suggestions. I'll add them to my to-read list!",
"Do it, it's win win!",
"Glad to be of service! I hope you enjoy them. :)",
"> Anyway, so the hermaphrodite clown rides these dragons into the sunset\n\nThere's your TL:DR right there.",
"I disagree. The ending (for me) was utterly, utterly horrible. I've never left a book/trilogy with a worse taste in my mouth or a stronger conviction to never read anything again by the author.",
"HI Peter, \n\nIf I didn't enjoy the first trilogy as a whole, and utterly detested the ending of it - might I still like the following books? I wanted to like Farseer, but I just hated that trilogy and the ending was indescribably awful. ",
"Good to know. Considering I hated Farseer (worse ending of any book/trilogy I've ever read - by far). I will steer clear of Liveship.",
"Do NOT even dare read the latest series. I found the first three series good enough but damn me if Fools Assasin was not one of the most stupid books i have ever read. If you found the third book bad in the first series.... Yeah there might be some better books in the middle series but the last series was so bad i shudder.",
"It really depends on what you didn't like about it, and at what point in the trilogy you reached that opinion. If you don't like how hard and depressing Fitz's life is, for example, that's a major part of all of his books. It wasn't until his sixth book that I was actually happy for him. (I haven't read his final books yet.)\n\nThe Liveship books don't have Fitz in them and they're from a third-person point of view with many viewpoints. I like the more epic feel that evokes for me. And most of the characters end up in pretty good places at the end, except for a few. Those eventually get better development in the Rain Wilds books (which have a similar feel).",
"I mean it's very different. I don't think disliking Farseer means you'll dislike the Liveship stuff necessarily, and I got plenty of replies from people disagreeing with my opinion anyway. ",
"Oh ok thank god that makes sense and makes me feel much better lol."
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Giant lion sculpture carved from a single dead Redwood tree. It took 20 people over three years to complete.
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"I haven't visited them all, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did!",
"It looks like a [folly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folly). Is that the area that the Guiness family owned?",
"As far as I know, the Guinness fam way concentrated around Dublin and Cork...though what I know isn't much. ",
"I am completely unfamiliar with the area, but I [searched for the area](http://www.coillte.ie/site/ard-na-gaoithe/) since it looks like a fairly recent folly and saw that there were a large estate owned by the Guiness family around there.",
"Oh man, I was way off lol...Thanks for the education! ",
"Ah, you know what, I was thinking about the Jameson distilleries...got my boozes/families mixed up ",
"Well, less of an education and more of a I-have-no-clue-what-will-a-web-search-tell-me. I don't know who built it, but I'm willing to bet that it is a folly built by someone fairly recently.",
"More surprised by the forest than the tower. "
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Ancient tower in Ard Na Gaoithe Forest , Cong, Ireland.
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"Annnnnnd it gave me cancer",
"Maybe that’s why it’s so small...",
"I wonder if a core sample from it would show some rings with mutations or something",
"How adorable is this miniatures arborium. ",
"For a 400 year old tree, I don’t think they planned very far ahead. They risk damage to the tree when that platform has to be replaced. ",
"You think they can't handle it?",
"Yes, I think they think they can handle it. But no one can handle Murphy’s Law. \n\nMy intended point was that they should have constructed a platform that would outlast the tree to avoid the issue entirely. ",
"So it's radioactive?",
"Maybe 400 years was longer than they expected.",
"[I’ll leave this here](https://youtu.be/In50DxgGqVw) ",
"Loose",
"Ugh. My original point, which is more trouble to explain than it’s worth, was that this platform will need to be replaced before the tree dies. How old do you think the current platform is? Maybe 30 years? The expected life of that platform means that it will need to be periodically replaced and a structure with durability equal to a tree that may live for a x00 more years would have been a better choice. ",
"Lol\n",
"I hope I can live for 400 years and survive an atomic blast and still look so photogenic",
"NOW I GOTTA CUT LOOSE!\n\nFOOT LOOSE!\n\nKICK OFF YA SUNDAY SHOES!",
"Groots \"special\" cousin. ",
"Bonsai are regularly handled and re-potted as necessary, keeping a tree small involves root trimming and thinning just as much as regular pruning. I imagine it would take more than a short forklift ride to damage it. ",
"It's alive, so yes.",
"The art of bonsai involves repotting the tree and trimming roots and branches.\n\nI don't think an arboretum with multiple bonsai will have a problem with that.",
"I loost my shoes",
"Lose change",
"*because",
"/u/jet_black would like this",
"thank uou",
"Fire bomb",
"If you cross cut it, would it have an identifiable ring from 1945?",
"I dont know if 2 miles is near or far for an atomic bomb...\n\nEdit: looked it up, blast and firestorm radius was about 1 mile, so it is far. ",
"Is this at the U.S. National Arboretum?",
"nah. bonsai are very hands on. that's what allows them to be small in the first place...",
"Hilarious.",
"Looks like the Washington D.C. Aboridium. They have an amazing bonsai collection.\n\nEdit: This tree had interesting story. Wasn't on the site but they received this tree from a family in Japan. Documentation was lost and the aboridium did not know who it was from or how old till some time in the 2000's. The two grandsons of the family that donated it came to check on the tree on vacation. They happened to mention it to one of the employees giving the tour and the info checked out. \nLink:\nhttp://www.usna.usda.gov/Gardens/collections/bonsai.html",
"http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/\n\nKinda fun to play with. I think we overestimate the blast radius for these things typically. ",
"If the roots is strong, the tree will survive.\n",
"YOU SEE ALL THAT RADIOACTIVE TREE MATERIAL BURSTING FROM THE TRUNK?! halflife 3 confirmed.",
"This is terrifying ",
"Do you or a loved one have mesothelioma? ",
"It's now intelligent and telepathically manipulating the US government in order to seek revenge.",
"Unless they wanted to redecorate :D",
"it occasionally eats one of the caretakers but that is overlooked due to its age",
"Hey, you're in Washington D.C., aren't you? Nice weather we are having, isn't it? ",
"That's a goddamn baby World Tree.",
"There are flying birds that survived 2 miles away. We had fuckers in a trench a mile from one of our blasts.",
"https://youtu.be/TcndF9QpYAU",
"Does it glow in the dark?",
"That tree has seen some shit",
"What type of tree is this? Dragonsblood?",
"Is it? What's the story about how it ended up leaving Japan?",
"Mr. Miyagi's bonsai store is still going strong I see.",
"Did the radiation alter it in any way?",
"Bonswolo more like it",
"That tree prob has radiation traces...",
"Most trees alive at that time would.",
" A man who was in Hiroshima blast and fled to Nagasaki only to be bombed again, survived and had children. He died at age 93. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Yamaguchi",
"\"Traditional\"",
"Look, it survived a nuclear blast. I think it can handle being dropped once.",
"What you don't know is the soul of a young child is stored inside, forever bound to the tree by the radiation given off by the blast. For the first 50 years, you could hear a child weeping in the darkness around it, but no child could ever be found. Now he simple tends to the trees around him, waiting for his time to be released into his eternal afterlife. ",
"Call 1-877-KARS-4-KIDS to get the help you so desperately need.",
"One of the worlds oldest trees died after testing for age...let's just leave this one alone",
"So does it mean it’s radioactive?",
"Shitty thing is, nuclear weapons now are waaaaay more powerful than they were in 1945. I’m willing to bet the more badass nuclear arms could wipe a small island off Earth permanently.",
"It’s a Bonsai tree as indicated in the title.",
"+1 - underrated site",
"Idk if you know this or not.... But there can be many types of bonsai tree. \nSo my question is, what type of bonsai tree is this. \n\nYet again, the internet let's me Down.",
"My bad. Thanks for not doing the usual name-calling thing that’s on Reddit. I understand now that the art of bonsai is applying different techniques to make different species’ of trees look miniature and aesthetically pleasing.",
"Wouldn't this be highly radioactive? ",
"Link?",
"The trunk even looks nuclear...",
"kinda looks like the deku tree",
"I think [this is it](http://www.usna.usda.gov/Gardens/collections/VirtualTours/BonsaiVirtualTour_25.html#Slide). It's a Japanese White Pine.",
"Given to the US as part of the 1976 bicentennial celebration. [Source](http://www.usna.usda.gov/Gardens/collections/VirtualTours/BonsaiVirtualTour_25.html#Slide)",
"because you may be entitled to copypasta compensation",
"Feed me, Seymour.",
"Only because the scientist got his drill stuck and cut the tree down to get it out.",
"> A bonsai tree, part of a collection at the National Arboretum, came to the garden's National Bonsai & Penjing Museum in 1976 as a gift of friendship from Japanese bonsai master Masaru Yamaki. But the diminutive tree's past was unknown to museum staff until 2001, when Yamaki's grandsons visited the bonsai and revealed its history: The tree survived the world's first nuclear attack, dropped 70 years ago Thursday in Hiroshima, Japan.\n\n[Link](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/08/05/bonsai-tree-nearly-400-years-old-survived-hiroshima-and-still-flourishing-dc/31164857/)",
"> A bonsai tree, part of a collection at the National Arboretum, came to the garden's National Bonsai & Penjing Museum in 1976 as a gift of friendship from Japanese bonsai master Masaru Yamaki. But the diminutive tree's past was unknown to museum staff until 2001, when Yamaki's grandsons visited the bonsai and revealed its history: The tree survived the world's first nuclear attack, dropped 70 years ago Thursday in Hiroshima, Japan.",
"or go to KARSINOGENS-4-KIDS.COM",
"Alot of these trees have their locations kept secret to stop vandals and idiots from killing them.",
"r/scp is leaking ",
"I’ve seen people tear up a ridiculous amount of indestructible stuff with a fork truck. Go spend a day in a warehouse and you wouldn’t trust a fork truck anywhere near something valuable. \n\nRight now I’m wishing I’d never subscribed to Bonsai facts. ",
"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-one-man-accidentally-killed-the-oldest-tree-ever-125764872/\n",
"Most trees didn't survive around that time within that range.",
"Mr. Miyagi would be proud.",
"Thanks!",
"\"kek\" - tree, 1945",
"... and now it can read minds.",
"Is it possible to make a 'medium sized' bonsai?",
"\"Remember that time you tried to obliterate us? This survived. Here you go, I guess.\"",
"It layed low. Duck and cover.",
">D.C.\n\n>Irradiated tree\n\nSo, it's just Bob and Harold, then.",
"But the destructive radius goes as 1/3 power of bomb size (because the bomb yield is proportional to fireball volume, which goes as radius cubed), so an 8x bigger bomb destroys only a 2x larger radius.\n\n",
"ITT: people who can't spell \"arboretum\"",
"Looks like the bombs radiation has given it accelerated growth. Or stunted? I dunno, either way it's really cool.",
"Remember, that is Kars with a K!",
"What the hell is that sub",
"It's my money, and I want it NOW!!",
"Just assume you don't know anything and you'll have way less of these interactions :) ",
"I will\nNever\nSee\n\nMy\n\n\nBonsai\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTree\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe same, again ",
"Goddammit now that’s stuck in my head for the next week",
"My first thought was that it looks like a hulk version of a bonzai. Aren’t those much smaller?",
"Behind the smoke and mirrors of deep state.... /r/trees.",
"[FU!](http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/000/578/1234931504682.jpg)",
"Do people ever cut down bonsai trees and build stuff from the wood?",
"Did you or someone you know, die from asbestos poisoning?",
"Hitoshima was mostly paper houses. The one stone building standing in all photos? It was the only stone building.",
"As someone who continually tries desperately hard to keep his bonsai alive to no avail...HOW THE FUCK",
"Are you retarded?",
"I feel bad for the maintenance crew. Every 50 years they have to shorten the platform a bit so the tree doesn't hit the ceiling.",
"No wonder the tree is so fucking swole",
"That tree is tha bomb!",
"Potential Area X breach logged.\nThe border is advancing through historical Japan.\nNotify the Voice.",
"How long until it's just a tree?",
"Look as good you will not.",
"I came here expecting a Fallout 3 reference, and I was not disappointed.",
"So the energy required for the resulting fireball is an inverse cube relationship?",
"\"What don't kill ya, tends to STRENGTHEN you\".\nDoes this Bonsai glow in t dark? :)",
"So what you're telling me is stone beats nuclear blasts?",
"Wouldn't the radiation level be high?",
"So Huge Jackman as the Wolverine?",
"Ok well I’m not gonna do that. There are plenty of things I actually know about. My understanding in this specific instance was that bonsai was a specific species of tree. I said you were right and apologized, what more do seriously want from someone you’ll never have an interaction with again?",
"Let me watch it for the weekend. It’ll be dead by Sunday evening....",
"Them little nippers are tough.",
"Is this Ginter Botanical Garden?",
"Soon the US border will morph into a picture of a tree... then the bonsai will have its hour.",
"vandals and idiots? redundant",
"That sounds less like having its history removed and more like some random guy coming up with a silly lie.",
"KARDASHIANS-4-KIDS.COM",
"It gained the power to read minds, but it's a tree so it can't do anything with that.",
"Yes, and the comments are correct about it being a bicentennial gift.",
"This one would have a few thousand years to go before it could be considered one of the world's oldest trees. I don't know if there would be any interesting information to be gained by studying it while it's alive, but if there *is*, I'm all for that risk. It's not like we don't cut down trees all the time and if the only reason we don't want to risk a tree dying is because it's \"old\", we're pretty uselessly crippling the expansion of human knowledge on the arbitrary idea that old trees are better than young trees.",
"apparently..? As the quick phone tour stated, the walls of the arboretum it's kept in now are the same as the nursery it was kept in in Japan.",
"this is correct. Cared for since 1626 by the same family until it was gifted to the arboretum.",
"Arboridium. Arborarium. Aboretum. Arboritium. Arboratium. Arboretium.",
"*looks around cautiously* ...the truth",
"It’s starting to feel that way. ",
"I'm somewhere between Fallout's Harold, and Fallout's 'Master' here.",
"There was no mention of radiation. The family who cared for the tree survived as well, though the tour did not state if they were also 2 miles from the blast where the tree was. I found this video on youtube today about the tree when I was considering posting to TIL, but decided to post my own pic instead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYPeNcnyZ6g",
"Unless we want to know just how old a tree can get but some twerp kept cutting the old ones down... ",
"IIRC, you can grow them as big or small as you like, it all depends on how you prune them.",
"sure it did.",
"If they let it grow without pruning, they will apparently become (for lack of a better term) regular trees. I never knew this before!",
"I didn't consider this, because 2mi sounds so close IMO. Thanks for a new perspective!",
"National Arboretum's Bonsai museum in Washington DC",
"Indeed.",
"There are a *ton* of bristlecone pines out there, so that would be impractical. Also, you don't need to cut all of them down to get sufficient data for whatever you're doing, unless the experiment is \"how long does it take to cut down every tree\". Also also, you don't even need to cut them down to get data. It was *one* unfortunate circumstance OP is talking about.",
"Was there during the day. Can't confirm.",
"Bonzailla",
"R/pics 06/02/2417\n\"This 800 year old bonsai is still alive....\"",
"It's a bonsai so, kinda the point",
"Yeah except the Mk 12A delivery vehicle carries a 300 KT bomb, about 300 times bigger in yield. And the Russian’s ICBM’s are way bigger than that. 1+Megaton\n\nSource: was nuclear maintenance tech on minuteman III’s for the USAF during my enlistment. \n\n\nOur bombs are city killers, Russia’s are state killers. Basically. \nI don’t even remember how big the Tsar Bomba was....but didn’t it shift earths orbit by some insanely small amount? ",
"Will this tree serve as Biollante in a future Legendary Godzilla movie?",
"Can you not see how this one instance obviously stems into your life? You don't know jack shit lol. Your understanding of almost everything you don't have some sort of research (not hours of googling, research) is extremely flawed. Nobody ever told you bonsai was a specific type of tree you just assumed. Enjoy your life, thicc head. ",
"Survived the bombing, but look at those green lines. Clearly this tree has some sort of mutant superpowers.\n\nSomeone eat part of it and see if it grants eternal life.",
"Needs a banana for scale",
"Do you want mutant trees? This is how you get mutant trees. ",
"So what you’re saying is that by observing one online comment made by someone you know nothing about, you can accurately evaluate their morals, thought processes, and logic? I will reiterate once again, I already said you were right. What more do you want from me right here? Is it that important for you to “win” this argument? Or do you just want to make it known that you think a random person on the internet has less knowledge about bonsai trees than you do...\n\n\nAlso, thanks for resorting to name calling as usual.",
"That's gonna be my new porn name.",
"Lol I’m newbie at reddit and when my post didn’t satisfy the TIL rules, I typed this sub in first and realized it was not the right one.",
"About 7 adorable I would say",
"You mean bombside tree",
"/r/marijuanaenthusiasts",
"There is a painting of a burnt twig laying in someone's attic....",
"Not all idiots are vandals, but all vandals are idiots",
"Lol, not my worst typo! I think I'll leave it, I mean, it IS your cake day... ;)\n",
"It's so big but so small at the same time ",
"A treeocracy sounds nice. Big on solar and wind and clean water.",
"Can’t tell if serious or not, but jic:\nBonsai’s are ornamental trees grown in pots to keep them from reaching full size. They require lots of hard work. They do not produce very much wood and if you spend hundreds of years caring for a tree, i think the last thing you’d want to do is cut it down! You can plant them in the ground and let them grow full-size. This particular bonsai is a Japanese white pine, which is typically used for landscaping, not lumber. ",
"So, this is bonsai equivalent of a super hero.",
"Just don't get it angry...You wouldn't like when it's angry.",
"exactly, and the equipment/methods he used are likely dated, and possibly even misused at that moment ",
"👉😎👉",
"Is it radioactive ?",
"\"its\"\n\nAlso, it's a fucking bonsai tree, you retard, that's the point\n\nAlso holy fuck, get a load of that username",
"I love these trees BUT they DIE so FUCKING EASY",
"Does somebody know where in Japan this is? Tokyo? A specific museum of Bonsais or something like that? ",
"The tree and the family who cared for it were unharmed during the blast.\n\nI found this article for reference: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/31164857",
"The tree is at the U.S National Arboretum in Washington DC. It is no longer in Japan. The family gifted it to the US in the 70s.",
"What's with all the fucking periods, are you having a goddamn stroke?\n\nNice negative karma and unreasonable post karma for a five day old account\n\nHow do you have that username in 2018? Did you fall through a timewarp from 1998?",
"plot twist: It wasn't a bonsai before the blast, it was a normal 70ft tall 400 year old tree.",
"CALL JG WENTWORTH 877-CASH-NOW!!",
"Thank you for your response. Thats great, I’ll be sure to check it out next time i go to DC. \n\nWhat a beauty, cant even imagine how many wonderful caretakers it has had through the years. \n\nPeace",
"What if you wanted to figure out how long a tree can last after it's been exposed close-range to the greatest nuclear explosion humanity has ever conducted?\n\nThere doesn't seem to be a ton of those out there this old. ",
"2 miles away, a lot of stuff survived the bombing of Hiroshima",
"It survived tho ... maybe even got stronger ... perhaps it was intelligent and is now living longer in order to thank the US government. ",
"Do you just post this every time someone mentions Hiroshima? ",
"did that really happen? i thought scientists were supposed to be smart.",
"I don’t remember the exact location, but it’s around the DC/NoVa area.",
"fuck, its stuck in my head now!!!",
"Don't worry, they've helped thousands, they'll help you too.",
"Directions unclear. Dick stuck in tree.",
"National Arboretum in NE DC",
"Yup, it's in the National Arboretum in DC.",
"How big can these get if they had an impossible amount of time to grow? ",
"It’s beautiful there, not just for the inside exhibits but the entire area. Strong recommendation to anyone who has not gone.",
"9 if there was a cat",
"i just cant get away from these fucking commercials",
"Rad",
"The scientist didn't know how old it was. They were doing core samples of a few trees in the area and only found out the tree's record-setting age after he cut it down. It was, IIRC, a very expensive drill.",
"Respect your elder(tree)!",
"Best place we visited when living in NOVA. We went during the apple blossom. There is one of the best authentic Chinese restaurants in the US just outside of it. China Gourmet. ",
"When 900 years you age, look as good, you will not.",
"It's based on a website with the same name, about a clandestine organization that deals with paranormal objects and threats. All content is user written, some of it is dark and oppressive, some is light hearted cutesy humor, and a fair amount has a great sense of gallows humor.",
"Does this make it a... Bombsai tree?\n\nI'll see myself out.",
"Does it not contain any sort of radiation?",
"Don't let me in charge of that tree. I'm so unlucky that I would probably kill it in a week.",
"That's not the same person you've been talking with man. 👍",
"Most of these are made out of parts of trees found in the wild that are groomed and trained to grow to a small stature. Starting one from scratch takes years. I've never done it myself but I've read a lot about it and it intrigues me. ",
"Nice",
"Or Keanu Reeves",
"What is this, an arborium for ants?",
"Just sad that the Republicans tried to kill it by forcing the Democrat Truman into doing something he didn't want to do.",
"It also glows in the dark ",
"The autumn exhibit in November was amazing. ",
"Here, I wrote this a while back:\n\nI have a rekted settlement and I need rekt now, ...\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/7d9mr6/whats_the_difference_between_ea_and_my_uncle/dpwlj2p?utm_source=reddit-android",
"wait...so the US bombed Japan and then took their tree? ",
"Yeah, but still. That's a record level of stupid. Regardless of how pricey your drill is.",
"It has to be roped off now because it eats people...",
"It was given to the National Arboretum years later. ",
"Where is this? ",
"Need to work on the yield . . . ",
"Probably not, trees grow very slowly and radiation is most damaging to cells actively dividing. That's just a guess though, the rate of cancer in the population affected by Hiroshima did not rise much so I would expect the tree to be even more resilient.\n\nSource: Nuclear Engineering",
"Not how that works",
"Everything is radioactive",
"M8 r u high",
"http://weirdestbonsaiever.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/bonsai-cats-altered-books-collaborative-journal-of-bonsai-cats.jpg",
"[Panda Gourmet.](http://www.pandagourmetdc.net/) It's in the bottom of a run-down hotel on a major road and looks like a complete dive, but some of the best Szechuan I've had in the US.",
"~~ants~~\n\n\nEnts.",
"This tree was also in The Karate Kid. Surprised Ralph Macchio didn't pee on it like he did the Alamo. I hated him in Full House too. Fuck that guy. The tree is cool tho. Go Bolts!",
"Trees actually prefer sewage.",
"I like to think that sometime in the future, society will have collapsed, and this tree will break free from the shackles of it’s tiny pot and grow into the large tree it was always destined to become. ",
"One day I hope to be wealthy enough to fly to Japan to visit a tree. ",
"So they'll take it away from us? They have my vote!",
"It was a gift from a bonsai master from Japan as part of the 1976 U.S. bicentennial. The National Arboretum didn't know its history until the grandson of the donor told the staff there it was 400 years old when they visited in 2001. ",
"Oh thats cool :) ",
"Actually, their roots do extensive damage to our infrastructure. \n\nSource:Plumber",
"A literal tree of life. ",
"IIRC he thought it was an otherwise normal tree not an absolute ancient one. No normal person would think twice about cutting down a normal tree to retrieve an expensive tool. Trees grow back and are worth less than said tool.\n\nThis was an \"oops\" situation. \n\nEdit: Also the type of tree in question is nearly impossible to figure out by age. Great bristlecone pines don't grow big contrary to popular belief about tree age (ie bigger == older), they top out around 20ft tall. This tree and the one next to it would look almost identical, except the other one is 500 years old and not 5,000.\n\nIt's a tree. A new one will grow in its place.",
"No one bothers to mention the people that also survived at the same distance.",
"Tbh 2 miles away isnt very impressive at all. The blast radius/ radius of observable damage was only 1.6 km. That's less than 1 mile. So this tree was about double the distance of the blast radius away and also the terrain of the area probably shielded it. Might as well have a picture of a tree in Wisconsin and a caption about how it survived both atomic bombs. \n \n\n \nAlso there are humans alive today who were directly in the center. I had a professor at purdue university who was directly in the epicenter of this same bomb as a child and survived. \n \nhttps://www.purdueexponent.org/features/article_dee05832-73a7-54bd-bfe7-ef7359c31ca6.html. \n \nTldr: fuck yo tree!",
"Yes, the caretakers of the tree survived with very minimal injuries too. It’s crazy that people could be at such a close distance to a nuclear bomb and still be alright!!",
"ITT: lots of upvoted comments by people without a thread of knowledge about how radiation, genetics, and mutation work. ",
"You are now manually breathing",
"Thank you! Learning lots today. Someone shared an interesting blast radius link earlier too! The tree was protected in the nursery from cinderblock walls. The family who cared for it also survived unharmed. ",
"immunization to radioactive level : 99",
"10 with rice",
"> it was a very expensive drill \n\nHomeboy should’ve known not to get it stuck in a tree, then ",
"Actually probably not. From a quick Google search I found the blast radius of the Hiroshima atomic blast was only 1.6km. Remember these were the some of the first atomic bombs ever made. They weren't very big explosions compared to the nukes we have today. \n \n So 1.6km is about 1 mile. This tree was double that distance from the blast. All the tree would experience was some increased background radiation and maybe some heat. Heat usually helps plants grow and radiation also sometimes can too. \n \nOverall I wouldn't expect much of a change and I'm not impressed the tree survived. I'm willing to bet just about every tree also around it survived too. ",
"Sigh, I guess. Still painful.",
"Just don't let my wife near it.",
"Except it didn't \"survive\". It was far enough away to be considered outside the blast radius by about double the distance of the blast radius. The blast radius was only 1 mile. That's like saying someone in a building in a block away from a building fire is a survivor of that fire. ",
"It's especially silly once you Google and find out the blast radius was only 1 mile. This tree didn't survive shit. ",
"You better get nuked while your young and can recover faster then.",
"Dude do some research. The blast radius was 1 mile and this tree was 2 miles away. This tree didn't get hit at all. For definition the blast radius is the radius of observable damage. ",
"Well, the biggest explosion I've ever seen in person had a blast radius of about 6 inches so this is still pretty much unfathomable. ",
"Tyler Cowen did his podcast from there. \n\nThe cumin lamb is amazing. ",
"Yep people here can't do a quick Google search and find out the blast radius was only 1 mile and this tree is as much a \"survivor\" of the blast as a tree on the moon would be. ",
"It's matter so yes. ",
"No? There are literally hundreds of stable isotopes that experience no radioactive decay.",
"Proof? The blast radius was only 1 mile. I'd bet that just about every tree within the 2 mile zone was just fine. Might have even benefited from the extra light and heat. ",
"How can we believe you if you are so erroneous?",
"ummm...",
"The tour didn’t go into many details. I didn’t realize 2 miles was a far distance for a nuclear bomb until another user posted a cool link to a nukemap. The tour stated that the walls did help protect it in the nursery at the time of the blast.",
"These comments are giving me cancer. So many people don't know the first thing about radiation, genetic mutation, or cancer. This needs to be a standard in school that we teach kids about how radiation works, dosages, and so on. The people in Hiroshima had an estimated maximum exposure of about .02Gy. Nagasaki had about .24 Gy at maximum. Radiotherapy can give patients up to 2.5 to 3 Gy. The radiation wasn't a big deal. People died from the huge fucking explosion not the radiation. ",
"Wow. I find these so fascinating.",
"I've seen Terminator, can't fool me!",
"I didn't know they were made from parts, thank you for the interesting tid-bit. ",
"2 miles from ground zero and we’re amazed the tree has stunted growth?",
"Yeah man, it's just one lump sum of cash.",
"Harold's lookin pretty good for his age",
"Is this at long wood gardens? Outside of Philly? ",
"Well it's a tree which isn't really worried about spikes in radiation, and it was 2 miles away which is extremely far from the danger zone.",
"Older meme but it checks out ",
"What kind of plant is that tho?",
"At only a few weeks of age, a kitten's bones have not yet hardened and become osseous. They are extremely soft and springy. In fact, if you take a week-old kitten and throw it to the floor, it will actually bounce!\n\nI do not recommend that you try this at home. The kitten may bounce under the furniture and be difficult to retrieve, as well as covered in unsightly household dust. However, the flexibility of the kitten's skeleton means that if the bones are gently warped at this early age, they can be molded into any desired shape.\n\nAt Bonsai Kitten, I achieve this by placing the kitten into a rigid vessel soon after birth, and allowing the young cat to grow out its formative time entirely within this container. The kitten essentially grows into the shape of the vessel! Once the cat is fully developed, it is removed (or the vessel broken to remove it!), producing the lovable, furry pet you've always wanted, but it remains in the shape you've always dreamed of! There is virtually no limit to the eventual shape of your pet.\n \n*Practical Considerations*\n \nAt Bonsai Kitten, I am happy to take care of all the little details and simply deliver to you a fully shaped kitten according to your specifications. However, for those who have applied for and received the appropriate Bonsai Kitticulture permits from the U.S. government, I am happy to provide details of the procedure to those who want to start from \"scratch\"! There are three main requirements that must be considered when making a Bonsai Kitten:\n \n**Air**\n \nThis ought to go without saying, but you'd be surprised how many amateurs forget this detail and wind up with a cold, hard kitty in the morning! If the containment vessel is sealed, you must drill airholes prior to kitten insertion. A diamond drill is recommended for glass vessels.\n \n**Food & Water**\n \nEspecially if the kitten's head is being shaped (one of the most versatile aspects of the Bonsai Kitten), it will not be able to eat or drink normally. The most common solution is another hole in the container with a feeding tube to the kitten's mouth, where a liquid food slurry can provide both nutrient and hydration requirements.\n \n**Waste Removal**\n \nLeft to its own devices, the kitten would quickly fill its vessel with its own urine and feces, leading to certain sickness and death, not to mention the inevitably unpleasant appearance and odor. The best solution is to seal the kitten's anus with Super Glue prior to insertion, and then insert a waste tube through a third whole in the vessel. As the kitten's body is still developing, a natural rectal diverticulum will soon form around the tube, which can be drained in any convenient fashion. It's just like a kitty colostomy bag!\n\nIf you have your license to \"grow your own\", don't hesitate to contact me for assistance and also to let us know your results! I’m always happy to help. And always remember to have fun! :)",
"It's the ring that glows. ",
"It even kinda looks radioactive. Heh",
"Don’t make it angry, you wouldn’t like me when I’m angry https://youtu.be/e4BwG7UF-l4",
"I'm actually sick",
"Hiroshima is in New York?",
"Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention in my comment that bristlecone pines are not what someone might think of as a \"majestic old growth tree.\" The mental image of someone cutting down a 300 ft redwood makes their opinions of this situation make a little more sense. Really, it's a glorified shrubbery :-p",
"I've seen these in person. They are profoundly beautiful, no photo does them justice. Blows my mind the Japanese people would be so generous in not just donating such a priceless piece of their cultural heritage, but give it to the very transgressors that nearly destroyed it. It's a powerful sentiment to how noble their society is, we should be lucky to call them our allies.\n\nAlso, the entire National Arboretum is the most underrated park in DC.\n\nhttp://tcl.efront-flare.com.au/cms_images/217_09-01-2017_4944.jpg",
"You fools, this is the seed of Eywa.",
"We (USA) tested hydrogen bombs that exceed the atomic bombs dropped on Japan by 100x fold.\n\nFurthermore the only atomic weapons used on humans were America’s in Japan (outside of side effects by bikini atoll residents).\n\nUnsure how to take your post. \n\nThat said I find this tree to be beautiful and amazing. Older than our country and absolute perfection. The Japanese culture and bonsai is beautiful.\n\nI have been to the Hiroshima memorial and it was a humbling yet enlightening experience. Going there I believed that i should feel guilty and I was nervous..... not one portion of the museum or any Japanese people implied any negative feelings towards me. I was an American walking ground zero developing a comprehensive understanding of Hiroshima unburdened from skepticism or guilt. \n\n",
"Nobody knew that its the oldest tree until they cut it down. If I remember it was a park ranger that helped to cut the tree. ",
"I had a professor who survived the blast at Hiroshima. He was 3.5 miles from the epicenter and survived without a scratch, while his father worked 1 mile from the epicenter and his body was charred instantly .\n\nHe was the happiest person I've ever met, with a sick sense of humor: nothing was off limit, even his dead parents. ",
"> Yeah except the Mk 12A delivery vehicle carries a 300 KT bomb, about 300 times bigger in yield.\n\nHiroshima bomb was 15 kt, so MK12A bomb is only 20x bigger, or 2.7x destructive radius.\n\n1MT Russian bombs are 70x bigger, or 4x larger destructive radius.",
"Blast radius of 1 mile...do you understand radioactive fallout? Radioactive dust is subject to wind...1 mile from the blast zone isn't far for radioactive dust to travel especially with the wind speeds created fromo a blast of a nuc to propel it and render virtually everything within its path contaminated.",
"A little off topic, but after the fallout had run its course after WWII, didn’t the flora thrive?",
"It was later found out that it wasn't the oldest on earth, but it still ruined his career",
"Bonsai don't give a fuck",
"So dissapointing. I read this post and thought, neat I am gonna visit Hiroshima in two months, better check out this 400 year old bonsai tree. \n\n",
"Dude, wtf?",
"Thank god it survived, or else I can't see it live today!",
"I love the rope to stop people getting close. The tree survived a fucking A-Bomb, some twonk with wondering fingers aint gonna do shit. ",
"This was hopping from Ted Bundy to George Carlin. I am confused.",
"On the plus side, you have one more reason to go to DC, now. DC is awesome, the museums alone are worth the trip.",
"But does it look nice, and isn't too expensive?",
"Okay I was definitely serious when I posted that. I understand that it takes a a lot of time and effort to grow one, but i was just wondering if it were like a special type of wood that was only found in bonsai trees which would make it more rare. Not really a tree guy if you haven’t noticed ",
"The fact that they are hard to grow is kind of the point.",
"It's arborable.",
"Wait, so...these comments can cause cancer though? ",
"arboretum*",
"There's a few things that took the blast. Right by a school I went to, there was a grove of bamboo that was used as shade for all the burn victims. Crazy stuff. The city was wiped out.",
"I was stationed down the road from Hiro, Iwakunki. I do remember some big trees that had to have been there. Used to hang out in Peace Park when we couldn't find anything else to do.",
"Awesome how it’s made itself into a mushroom cloud shape to mock the pathetic bombs.",
"exactly",
"For reference [this](http://images.mentalfloss.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/old-swedish-tree.jpg) is what the oldest tree looks like. Its almost 10000 years old. Easy to mistake for any other tree.",
"This is treasure",
"Learn from the great bonsai. ",
"No, I meant all over the world. We can see the radioactive isotopes from nuclear explosions in plant life and other things all over the world.",
"You didn't really answer the question. Do you have proof that everything or even most things within a 2 mile radius died from the fallout?\n\nPlants generally are more tolerant of radioactive fallout than animals are, as well.",
"i haven’t heard about that in like 6 years, jesus. ",
"C A R D A S S I A N S 4 C I D S, Donate your action figures today",
"Yes, actually. Nukes aren't nearly as powerful as people think they are. Most of the damage they do is from the firestorms they cause.",
"This photo was taken in a pitch black room ",
"[No tentacles though?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xJ4u9YtDDo)",
"Fuckers fucked up Rome. They deserve a bad name.",
"Bro you can google that... \n\nTo say virtually every plant would survive is absurd.",
"I’m not a tree person either! No worries! What I’ve learned from the museum and referencing other sources since I posted this pic, is that any tree can basically be a bonsai. (So you can’t go buy “bonsai” seeds and plant a mini tree, which I also used to think before yesterday lol) The wood is the same wood as a regular tree, nothing special compared to a tree’s normal full sized version, aside from it producing a lot less wood. The only thing that makes the tree a bonsai is keeping it in the small pot, where you’ll trim the roots/replant it as needed and a LOT of attention to detail and pruning the branches keeps it small/or grows it as big as you like. (Some are trained to grow in shapes of animals) \nWhen it’s taken out of the pot they will grow full size with the right conditions and will require minimal maintenance compared to bonsai size. Lots of bonsai tree trunks are smaller than your arm and can be kept on top of a table in your house. I know my pic may be hard to tell the actual size, not to mention it’s way bigger than most bonsai’s, but that’s why I wasn’t sure if your question was serious. Hope that helped!",
"That’s incredible! Glad he was able to have a good perspective on life after going through that. \nOther users have helped inform me that even though this was a nuclear bomb, the blast radius was only about 1 mile, and 1-2 miles beyond the blast would’ve probably been affected mostly by flying debris and stuff. So now it makes more sense why his father instantly died, and that your professor was unharmed. If you didn’t get a chance to see- the family who cared for the tree was also unharmed aside from minor cuts from broken glass.\n\nNuclear bombs are much more powerful than Little Boy nowadays.. doubtful the odds of surviving 2 and 3.5 miles away for us will be as good as it was back then. Here’s hoping that won’t happen anytime soon!",
"Japanese white pine",
"This is in Washington DC at the national arboretum ",
"It's hard to say. One thing to note is that most nuclear weapons aren't designed to detonate when they hit the ground, they detonate while in the air. This greatly affects the blast radius. \n\nSecond, possibly the more dangerous aspect of a nuclear bomb is the fallout and lingering radiation. This can cause sickness and death in the near term, as well as long term health and death through, for example, cancer. It's hard to get an accurate \"total count\" of deaths cause by the nuclear bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. \n\nBut yes, it was always great. He would often overhear students complaining about their bad day and say \"oh no that's terrible! I had a bad day too, once...\" The guy was hilarious. ",
"It helped a lot, thanks!",
"This is all so interesting. Thank you so much for sharing!\n\nThat’s so funny.. What a great person to he must have been to know!",
"This is all so interesting. Thank you so much for sharing!\n\nThat’s so funny.. What a great person to he must have been to know!",
"This needs more upvotes",
"I know. I’m so disappointed. This was the perfect comment.",
"My sis vandalized a confederate statue. (Didn't get away with it, but I'm still proud, lol)",
"I love that stand! What a nice blend of textures!",
"I hope I look this good after North Korea and Russia bomb the US!!!"
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"WHAT A FEELING!",
"man I was really suprised at how amazing the first one was. I hope this one lives up to my expectations!",
"Awe look at that!",
"Not counting bullets in this one",
"I wonder how Deadpool will handle George Michael's death.",
"The anniversary of the Mt St Helens eruption? Huhn, interesting day to pick for release.",
"I don’t think that most people will even realize that. ",
"My father was working for the USGS at the time, and knew the geologist, Dave Johnston, who was killed in the eruption. So that date always sticks out to me.",
"At first I ~~thought~~ hoped those were small chimichangas.",
"He needs that golden shower.",
"For geologist Dave Johnston, that would be the most horrifying day of his life. For Mt. St. Helens, it was a Sunday.",
"With a poster like this, how could it not ",
"Haha who says America glorifies guns? ",
"That's not the only thing that is going to blow off some pressure May 18th",
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"This is jaspe river canyon in Anelpolisc, Spain. ",
"According to [this](http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/photos/10530780/) it is in Utah.",
"Nice try. It's in Glenn Canyon National Rec area in southern Utah:\n\nhttps://www.google.com/maps/place/Antelope+Canyon/@37.418324,-111.0463879,1141m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x873411f49ba00e0b:0x98361608ad6aa79b!8m2!3d36.8619103!4d-111.3743302",
"You wanna fight? ",
"Is that Galdin Quay, Leide?"
] | 5 |
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Canyon view
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/r/pics/comments/7vo372/this_clip_that_came_with_my_bread_has_an/
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[
"Blame the factory worker that probably didn't finish high school. Not trying to be rude but I've done factory work and can definitely say they're not the brightest bunch sometimes.",
"I like to think they were just tired :(",
"Or stoned.",
"Date doesn’t exist, bread doesn’t expire. Logic.",
"Lousy Smarch Weather.",
"turn that frown upside down...",
"Get a good lawyer and at least you can get free bread for a year",
"Immortal bread",
"Is this the power of ultra instinct?",
"This bread came from another dimension. ",
"I wonder if lawyer costs would be more expensive than the cost of bread for a year...",
"Just gave him a % of the free bread",
"The truth comes out: Every sku and expiry date is written by hand.",
"Or tired, stoned, and stupid.\nSource: Factory worker.",
":)",
"Hey, don't forget \"too coked up to remember,\""
] | 16 |
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This clip that came with my bread has an expiration date that doesn't exist
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/r/pics/comments/7vo3l8/im_confused_which_one_of_them_asked_for_a_photo/
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[
"Neither",
"I did.",
"/u/HannibalGoddamnit, 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/HannibalGoddamnit&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vo3l8/im_confused_which_one_of_them_asked_for_a_photo/?context=10\\))"
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i'm confused, which one of them asked for a photo?
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/r/pics/comments/7vo3ml/a_stroll_through_the_temples_of_angkor/
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[
"Is this in Angk, or wat?",
"Word, i was just in Burma, they have temples and monks like these too",
"Wat?",
"Darn it, too late to post this :("
] | 4 |
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A stroll through the temples of Angkor
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[
"They don't serve panda either.",
"that's koality design",
"Your pun is very much koalafied",
"Chic Fil A has cows. Maybe he wants you to eat more panda and not koalas."
] | 4 |
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I'm confused.
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/r/pics/comments/7vo6p3/milky_way_hampshire_il/
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[
"I want to go camping soon in hopes I’ll get a view like this. ",
"Gotta find a really dark spot, and keep in mind that pictures of the Milky Way are always Long Exposures so the light just keeps building and building upon itself. you'll be able to see the Milky Way, and it will be amazing, just might not be as intense as in Photographs. \nEither way heres a nice [Map](http://darksitefinder.com/maps/world.html) to help you find a really dark site. In my experience, dark orange is where you can start to faintly see it with the naked eye, but green to black areas are where it'll be outstanding!",
"Awesome! Thank you 😊 ",
"Is this seriously from Hampshire? Wouldn’t there be too much light pollution?",
"Damn, never thought I'd see Hampshire on reddit. Much less on /r/pics! Great shot!",
"In Hampshire? No, the skies are pretty clear in the middle of nowhere.\n\nOkay, middle of nowhere is an exaggeration, but it's definitely rural enough to have nice clear skies.",
"I live around this area. There's like 30 stars in the sky total ",
"Yep it’s Hampshire, 72 and New Lebanon. You can faintly see the Milky Way with the bare eye out there",
"I’m guessing you live Elgin-ish, If so you’d be amazed at the difference a 10 minute drive west will make, New Lebanon rd just South of 72 go there on a clear summer night of the new moon. Get out of the car and be amazed"
] | 9 |
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Milky Way. Hampshire, IL
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/r/pics/comments/7voa28/my_legit_1996_senior_portrait_saw_the_giant/
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[
"The 90s were dark times.",
"You brought that from home. ",
"Any regrets?",
"Pure 90’s awesomeness.",
"Oh wait, I get it, cute. You put this crayon here and people are supposed to think \"Oh that looks like a dick.\"",
"1996, the year you went from crayons to perfume.",
"Crayon my wayward son\n\nThere'll be peace when you are done\n\nLay your weary head to rest\n\nDon't you cry no more",
"like a boss!",
"Nice dildo.",
"How Freudian. ",
"Hello Carrot Top's lil sister!",
"Make sure to post this in /r/blunderyears",
"Carrot Top before he got famous?",
"\"I need em to be this big\"",
"Are you enjoying your 40s?",
"Size queen? ",
"It's funny you should say that because statistically speaking the 90s had more cloud coverage on average than any other decade in the past 100 years. It was quite literally the dark years .\n\nI was talking to my meteorology professor the other day and he mentioned this off hand. When I asked him to explain why he told me the reasons and it's really fascinating.\n\nApparently because people started to make a push against climate change around this time, the rate at which the weather differed began to slow down, leading to a cold front in America.\n\nWhen I asked him if this was all true he said, \"No this is all a load of bull. But look at my lab coat. Spotless.\"\n\nTldr; it's a tide ad",
"*“Well thanks son! I’m just glad you managed to fit it in the garage using the forklift!”*\n\n /u/shampoo_not_realpoo ‘s Mom",
"Is this supposed to be a burn or something ",
"I wish I could find it, but there was a guy in my high school who brought a stuffed cow to school and it ended up in his yearbook picture",
"Sometimes you just need a shoulder to crayon.",
"I've only failed if I stop - him probably ",
"I'd fart right in that teenage girl's face.",
"In the 90's, we were all Seattle. ",
"cringe",
"I'm not a failed artist. However I am in my 40s and was curious how a fellow 90's graduate's life was treating her.",
"Wish it matched your hair color. ",
"Not at all. I am in my 40s, also graduated in the 90s, and was curious how someone else's 40's were treating them. It's just friendly commiseration",
"Asked to comment on this picture, Sigmund Freud stated \"I think the girl just wanted to get her photo taken with a giant crayon.\"",
"Jostens. Embarrassing teenagers since the dawn of time.",
"Huh... Always assumed carrot top was a drop out... ",
"except seattle, they were portland",
"Ok my bad. I just totally misread",
"I had one of those in my bedroom growing up. By 1996, I figured out I could take its top off and use it to hide weed and porn. My parents never thought to look in the teenage girl.",
"Kung Fu hands at the ready. ",
"Was it a piggy bank? We had one growing up, and every time we filled it we would roll up the coins and do something fun as a family. \n\nMy sisters and I always raided it so we could buy fruitopias at school in the morning.",
"Baller, simply baller. My big wheel has nothing on that cryaon.",
"Ha! Nope. It was a prop in the studio. ",
"Only that it wasn’t an orange crayon. ",
"I don’t turn 40 for another 6 months. ",
"ME TOO",
"Gooooo Jostens. ",
"i like your sleeves. just a little to long. i think that is so hot. aww look at the little handses. they might be cold. she needs and wants me. ",
"My wife did that too! Lol",
"I thought I was in that sub. Maybe OP don’t want to share a current pic wich you have to in blunderyears?",
"dank times imo",
"Not to be weird, but you were hot.",
"This comment colors my whole view of this thread.",
"Don't waste your time guys....she apparently doesn't post on gonewild",
"dank times, in-my-experience\n\n",
"Class of '96 represent!",
"I have to admit your outfit aged well for 1996. It could have been WAY worse. \n\nHell, you could wear that outfit un-ironically today and no one would think any less of you (unless those jeans are actually super baggy).",
"LOL",
"Nope. Not going to comment. Nope not doing it.",
"Anything’s a dildo if you’re brave enough.",
"A purple crayon, no less!\n\nhttps://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Purple%20Crayon&amp=true&defid=3905388",
"diggity dank for sure\n",
"Whoa! Didn't see that until you pointed it out. Cah Razy",
"How much ended up being in that piggy bank crayon?",
"[Done!](https://imgur.com/a/bpOCA)",
"Is this the new shittymorph?",
"Were you able to get it in?",
"The 90s were grey. It seemed to always be raining.",
"Go deep or go home",
"This is the best new meta meme past to come out in years. YEARS.",
"r/blunderyears",
"Once you go purple, nothing rhymes with it.",
"This is remarkable.",
"And Portland, they were Nabisco.",
"I wasn’t aware! I can post in both spots? ",
"And Nabisco was elves",
"YOU ARE AWESOME!!!!! ",
"Grampa, you're still alive!",
"[Ohh shucks.](https://imgur.com/a/k3Cu7)",
"I got that sweater at a resale store for a buck. Nothing I wore then fit properly. It was the 90s. ",
"Absolutely! Go soak up some sweet, sweet karma.",
"My wardrobe has not evolved much since then. ",
"Do it! Current pic is not a have to. ",
"'giant' - yeah, right, ya Borrower. ",
"Thank you for sharing this 😂",
"Just got here, but \"purple crayon\" is slang for that black D. Anyone point that out yet?",
"Yes, thank you. NOT my intention. ",
"It rained every day in the 90s actually ",
"I think this should become the new u/shittymorph meme. Tide ads.",
"Always blame the rane",
"I would hope your parents didn’t look in you.",
"I feel like we would have been friends in 1996, except for the fact that I was c/o 97 so as an underclassman you would have shunned me for your cooler senior friends.",
"I actually married my prom date, who is a little younger than me. As long as you liked watching Harold and Maude over and over, we would have been friends. ",
"Ohh where did you get the extra large snack!!",
"Carrot tops first prop. ",
"I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.",
"Guess he was too shifty for you.",
"Are you Annie!?",
"Are all gingers attracted to props? ",
"Fuck Prestige Portraits, 1 8x11 copy of a photo should not be $56, and a package of several small copies should not be $200.",
"But the elves were gnomes",
"I was a bottle ginger. I have a soul. ",
"Did you calculate for inflation? ",
"You look like you’re cosplaying carrot top doing prop comedy. ",
"Well she got the size right ",
"[Usable giant crayon](https://www.target.com/p/crayola-giant-crayon-red/-/A-52768335?ref=tgt_adv_XS000000&AFID=google_pla_df&CPNG=PLA_Seasonal+Shopping&adgroup=SC_Seasonal&LID=700000001170770pgs&network=g&device=c&location=9016817&gclid=CjwKCAiAweXTBRAhEiwAmb3Xu5nYaY2oucY6WD4Pz-UwiXfe6RqgOL_pl8R1ktfDc6MMsLP1Ktk64hoCSqUQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds)",
"That’s $1B in today’s dollars!!!!!!!",
"Was that crayon also a piggy bank? If so I had the orange one!",
"Not sure. I don’t recall anything in it. I wish it had been orange. ",
"There was a slot on that plastic lid and you could fill the crayon up. They prolly had that empty one for a prop. Nice pic tho!",
"Something drew you to it",
"Comments like this are why I love Reddit. ",
"downvoters don't recognize this great Always Sunny reference",
"Typical.",
"Now that's a baby face. ",
"Woot!",
"-Abraham Lincoln ",
"I always feel like 1996 me may be disappointed with where 40’s me, but 90’s me was a nerdy dipshit and doesn’t know anything. I could have made better choices or worked a little harder, but I have had a good life so far and I’m pretty happy. \n",
"I would pay that to hear a lot less Bush on the 90’s station. ",
"That's not how you hold a crayon, though.",
"Carrot Top?",
"It’s the grand crayonyon",
"Hey if I could have been holding a huge phallic prop for my senior pic I would have too.",
"What I've got you've got to get it put it in you. ",
" Hello, class of 94' here. Outside of not being able to lose weight as easily, 42 is treating me good. ",
"Ah a young carrot top with his first prop.",
"42 in the house... Much better than 30s I'll say that for sure.",
"'96', you graduated the same year as I did. Rock on girl, you look cute. ",
"Wish they'd launch a giant crayon into space",
"Natalie from The Facts of Life and. Carrot Top had a kid?",
"Class of 96 as well? ",
"So does that mean everyone was living in Frasier?",
"Well ok then... let's forget that ever happened.",
"The beginnings of his prop comedy",
"Was it suede??",
"[Had to have it](http://gaia.adage.com/images/bin/image/jumbo/State_Farm_Furniture_3x2.jpg)",
"Ha. Identical to Carrot Top",
"Willow Rosenberg?",
"Anybody else thinking this girl aged [REALLY well?](https://i.imgur.com/AMxc2U9.jpg)",
"Eggplant purple huh? I see what you did there 😏",
"Why lose weight? Become as large as possible so you can intimidate lesser herd members with your bulk, like John Goodman.",
"Awww, thanks!! That’s what not having kids and being a vegetarian will do for ya! I’ll be 40 in a few months. ",
"If you have to start with “not to be weird” it’s still going to be weird ",
"1996 me could not have fathomed 2018 me. I wouldn’t have taken the million-dollar bet that I would have (years later) married my platonic prom date, taught high school English for several years, and gotten a ton of dogs. ",
"Awesome! ",
"Gravity Falls confirmed!",
"I was a sophomore that year. Class of '99 ",
"There it is thanks",
"Carrot tops first prop",
"Something tells me you’re at home with props...",
"Welcome to 40 this year oh person in the same boat!",
"I thought is was somthing els... ",
"Good to hear, I'm glad you're happy. I feel a little happier living vicariously through you",
"Glad to hear it!",
"Cool. Same year I was born.",
"Carrot Top? He was at his peak in the 90s. ",
"Not to break your heart but..... I was born in 1996! I love you tho ",
"Otherwise you'd just crayola ver the floor",
"I wish we could have had props instead a fake dress.",
"/r/buttsharpies\n\nEdit:\nnsfw",
"Agreed. I have a VEST in my senior picture. A vest. With flowers on it. And my clarinet. 😣",
"I think you and your sweater are both super cute. \n\nUgh so freaking lonely.. sorry for flirting ",
"Carrot top",
"In the same vein as mine from last year \n\nhttps://imgur.com/a/etzgZ",
"Falcon Heavy",
"Well, color me bad.",
"Nice!! ",
"I’m done Redditing today. ",
"This comment was... gold!",
"Something to think about next time you read \"Harold and the Purple Crayon\" to your kid",
"I took my senior photos with Prestige as well! Didn’t have a giant crayon however ",
"Holy crap I had a giant crayon bank, looked just like that (and yes, it was in the 90s). ",
"I had the orange one. ",
"Well played! You shifty bastard!",
"Looks like I'm just getting started.",
"You are beautiful! ",
"You chose correctly",
"Hating it now. Last year, \"If you were born after the year I graduated you cannot buy alcohol\". Made me feel old :)",
"This one has more corporate shill.",
"My Jostens and michaels pics were awful. You weren’t in Nashville were you?",
"I love periwinkle",
"http://nodtotherhythm.com/?eDLyO0kI",
"My first thought too...",
"Giant crayon, tiny hands",
"NCHS?",
"is this a pen?",
"Thank you, I was browsing deep in that subreddit and my phone died, couldn't remember the name of the subreddit.",
"Carrot Top's troublesome, adolescent 90's daughter. ",
"I have a feeling she would have bet on the dogs. ",
"You must be *this* big to ride.",
"Coincidentally, the tutorial for using the quick select tool (?) in PS involves isolating a giant crayon. ",
"Color me impressed.",
"Closed Reddit as I saw this, had to open it up again just to upvote. ",
"I had the exact same bank. We filled it to the top of the label part, and then realized it was too heavy to move. Had a good amount of money in it when we finally cashed it out!",
"Chicago burbs. ",
"That’s bananas",
"Glycerine... Glycerine... Ugh, I hear ya!"
] | 195 |
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My legit 1996 senior portrait. Saw the giant crayon and had to have it.
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/r/pics/comments/7vocr5/mom_left_a_case_of_la_croix_in_her_car_overnight/
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[
"The best flavor is Remy LaCroix",
"I bet that's the very last time she ever forgets something like, at this time of year... I don't envy the cleanup.",
"Hahaha",
"Found the porn enthusiast. \n\n"
] | 4 |
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Mom left a case of La Croix in her car overnight
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/r/pics/comments/7voftw/two_legends/
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[
"https://youtu.be/R9m6v1QGnmc",
"the classic combo of reggae and alcoholism. Hooray Beer. ",
"Hooray Beer Indeed ! ",
"[I miss those commercials.] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7tRCfSuMTY)",
"Way better than the Dilly Dilly ish we are seeing now. ",
"back in the days where you could have a commercial making fun of a culture, and we just laughed. "
] | 6 |
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Two Legends.
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/r/pics/comments/7vojeg/fantastic_pit_by_stephen_alvarez/
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[
"Is this where Gandalf fight the balrog",
"I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the Flame of Anor! Dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udun!",
"YOU SHALL NOT FALL!"
] | 3 |
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Fantastic Pit by Stephen Alvarez
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/r/pics/comments/7vojk9/this_stack_of_logs_i_stumbled_across_in_limoges/
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[
"\"You're right, Ray. No human being would stack logs like this.\"",
"I want to split it",
"I’m a little confused. \n\nHave you never seen logs piled up or is this a way to brag about being in France? ",
"It’s a stack of logs I found in France...I hope that clarifies things for you.\nAnd my apologies if the title offends you",
"I understand that it is a stack of logs you found in France. \n\nWhat wasn’t clear is why? It’s a stack of logs. The picture doesn’t have any thing unique or photogenic about it. It’s no different then if I posted a picture of my refrigerator. It’s not your fault, I doubt Ansel Adams could have made it a good picture. \n\nBut you also gave a location. Why? Again, “Here is a picture of my refrigerator, in Minneapolis Minnesota. \n\nNeither of the two things you posted about were interesting, together, or alone. \n\nSo it led me to two possible reasons for the post. \n\n1.\tA stack of logs is not something you see. I don’t know you or where you are from. Maybe you live in Manhattan and have never left the city. So a stack of logs would be unique to you. That is cool. I would get that. I have never seen the Matterhorn, but if I did go see it, I would post a picture of it. \n2.\tYou were in France and wanted to do a humblebrag. Again maybe traveling to France is a life long dream, and that is cool too. But then just post that you were in France, show us some of the beauty of the country. Don’t show us a pile of logs that is no different then a pile from Buck Creek Mississippi. \n\n\nAnd I’m not offended, just curious. \n\n"
] | 6 |
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This stack of logs I stumbled across in Limoges, France
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/r/pics/comments/7vokiu/beware_the_romanian_submarine/
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[
"So Romanians are on tv all the time! Oh",
"Fake! Photoshopped!.\n\nAs someone whose setup satellite TV dishes, i can tell you that not a single dish on that sub is picking up any kind of usable signal.",
"They are being used as a ballast you dummy.. ;)"
] | 3 |
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Beware the Romanian submarine
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/r/pics/comments/7volse/friend_of_mine_took_this_stunning_shot_on_a_hike/
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[
"Is there a name for this kind of photos with people in black because of the light? I love them but can't find many of these.\nAmazing photo btw",
"Silhouettes, not sure if that's the name of the type of photo, but the subject here is a silhouette ",
"Alright, thanks! "
] | 3 |
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Friend of mine took this stunning shot on a hike we went on to catch the sunrise in Alaska
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http://i.imgur.com/rEVSKpO.png
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/r/pics/comments/7voqn2/stunning_ancient_greek_mosaic_that_was_uncovered/
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[
"It's amazing how much dirt can accumulate over a little more than 2,000 years.",
"It looks like an amazing find. I hope they can preserve it.",
"A testament to the great empire of Alexander the Great.",
"Sharia will be bombing your artifact soon...",
"Their maid must have sucked.",
"Very intricate and detailed. Was Alexander a infamous lover?",
"Wow, I can't imagine the feeling of sweeping the dirt away and finding that. Incredible.",
"Or keep it safe from idiots",
"Yeah...the dig which found these mosaics started 11 years ago, and this particular mosaic was discovered at [least 4 years ago.](https://mymodernmet.com/zeugma-excavations-ancient-mosaics/)",
"It frustrates me to think you're probably right. ",
"how does it buried like that?\n",
"How can that thing look so good after being buried in sand for thousands of years?",
"Well not enough as it seems",
"There would be no Alexander the great if the Moors didn't teach these people how to bathe bringing them out of the [dark ages.](https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/timely-reminder-of-how-islamic-culture-helped-europe-out-of-dark-ages-1.690805) \n\nhttp://www.allempires.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=36429 \n\nhttp://www.stewartsynopsis.com/origin-of-caucasian-race-and-albinism",
"No, no. Mister not here",
"So wrong it isn't even funny.",
"lol brain damaged",
"How much longer with that mosaic last before someone decides to destroy it. ",
"I was expecting dickbutt",
"U realize that today's turkey was Greece before the Muslims conquered it right?",
"I was gonna say, I KNOW I've seen this before.",
"Weather + time",
"Amazing. 😊",
"No beards or tzatziki. 2/10",
"Many of these were purposefully buried. There are records of many sites - especially the ones at Gobekli Tepi and the surrounding regions which were hidden under dirt mounds for millennia. I was at a lecture with Robert Shoch some years back - his theories were that some of these temples were buried and hidden to protect from some kind of ‘prophetic catastrophe’ that the local cultures thought they were about to experience, or a long foreseen invasion.\n\nTrying to find a link...",
"better blow it up",
"Oh my word....\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/pics/search?q=mosaic+turkey&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance&t=all",
"Oh shit you know history pretty well don't you kid?\n\n\nRather weird that Alexander the great died in 323 BC, while Mohammed ,the one who started the muslim religion which the Moors followed wasn't born until 632 AD . ",
"Also known as Iskandar. ",
"[I know a good re-toucher that could restore those.](https://imgur.com/a/R1stX)",
"Cover it back up before Isis finds out",
"In a way, the being buried in the sand helped preserve it from harsher elements at the surface (and human vandalism).",
"It really pisses me off that this happens TBH. Like, on top of being completely immoral to kill thousands of people, the fact that they have no respect for history and archaeology pisses me off on a whole new indescribable level.",
"This is just one of many reasons why we need to invent the time machine. ",
"I'd also say that maybe a lot of it might be hidden in advance of the mongol hordes or other \"heretic\" invaders that might destroy history. ",
"Trump supporter alert!!",
"He's probably too stupid to understand AD and BC",
"How can that be? The world is only a couple thousand years old! (I’m totally joking)",
"An Ancient Macedonian Legend",
"Now that's some Grade A karma whoring. ",
"She's gone from suck to blow!",
"Ah, I see you are also a man of culture.",
"Now, now, let’s not use intolerant facts against the religion of peace. ",
"They should have used a Dyson.",
"\"It is good to see you, Medjay.\"",
"Sharia is Islamic law, not a terrorist organisation...",
"Well he didn't say it was uncovered *today*.",
"Tort will be bombing your artifact.\n\nDoesnt make sense? Neither does your statement.",
"Good culture. ",
"Hey I know you from 9gag. Mods this cunt was a 9gag celebrity.",
"Its so stunning that its been found 10 times",
"Sadly treasures like these are currently being destroyed in the Syrian conflict, the [Ain Dara temple](https://youtu.be/bbQxHvBdwcc) just took a massive hit :(",
"Islamic law demands the destruction of all heretical idols, monuments, texts, etc\n\nThe only reason \"terrorist\" organizations are considered extreme is because they follow the complete law to the letter",
"I will.",
"Everything ISIS does is justified by Sharia law... Or they wouldn't do it",
"http://www.stewartsynopsis.com/origin-of-caucasian-race-and-albinism",
"The 9 muses.\n\nPeople liked Love Live even back then I guess.",
"http://www.stewartsynopsis.com/origin-of-caucasian-race-and-albinism",
"http://www.stewartsynopsis.com/origin-of-caucasian-race-and-albinism",
"Still doesn’t make sense to say “Sharia will be bombing your artifact soon.”\n\n“Because of Sharia Law, your artifact will most likely be bombed now” would make more sense.",
"Absolutely stunning to see such a beautiful piece preserved from the past ",
"Cool! Now don't let the islamists near it.\n\n*Edit: Come on now, you know they would destroy it.",
"Is there a map that shows the countries during that time? I've tried Google but came up with nothing. That could be from my lack of googling skill though",
"muslims will destroy it soon",
"These comments...Jeez people, OP never claimed it was *just* uncovered. Who cares *when* it was uncovered?",
"Exactly. ",
"Looks veeeeeerry 18/19th century ",
"Search for \"Eastern Rome\" - input date and other such key terms",
"Can I learn this legend?",
"Thanks. I felt like an old man with how I was googling.",
"Greece was well known for its intricate Mosaic and Micro-mosaic pieces. They likely understood math related art concepts that were lost to the rest of the world until their rediscovery in the Renaissance such as perspective and maybe even later by the 18th and 19th century impressionists.\n\nSource: I got high and watched a documentary, once.",
"You knew what he meant though didn't you? or else you wouldn't have corrected him.",
"Not from a Persian",
"How do you think it became Greek?",
"So its not Istanbul but its Constantinople... ",
"You are easily manipulated. ",
"\"Sheryl, you know that tiled bathroom you've always wanted!?\" ",
"Greece was there thousand of year before Arabs or Muslim even existed there why u talk about. The ottoman Empire conquered Greece late in 1xxx after deus",
"How do you think it became Greek?",
"* https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Asia_Minor_in_the_Greco-Roman_period_-_general_map_-_regions_and_main_settlements.jpg\n\n* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatolia#Greek_West\n",
"I doubt it.\n\nNow that it is uncovered, it is only a matter of time before the idiots get to it.",
"It's amazing how much they knew that was imply lost to time. Only to be re-invented much much later and then refound to have already been invented.",
"1 part weather and 1 part time or is there a specific ratio?\n\nAnd can I substitue vodka for weather and orage juice for time?",
"So all of present day Turkey was Greece during the Roman empire?",
"It's completely real. Might want to re-adjust your bullshit meter.",
"reminds me of [this](https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/zelda/images/7/7f/Chamber_of_Sages.png/revision/latest?cb=20100402040224) kind of",
"It's a simplification in language assuming the reader can bridge the gap. It's like saying \"The fuck?\" instead of \"What the fuck?\"",
"OP posts and comments entirely in soccer related stuff for weeks, almost all comments, then posts three images in unrelated high traffic subreddits in quick succession. I'm guessing their account was either sold, hacked, or is being prepped for sale by karma farming.",
"I think it was a colonized region as opposed to a part of Greece https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece#Colonies",
"No, that was pre-Roman empire, present day Turkey was mostly Roman, most of the time, during the Roman empire, after 100 BCE or so.\n\nAlthough the eastern Roman empire was largely Hellenistic, Greco-Roman is probably a better description.",
"I'm pretty sure he was Irish.",
"That is surprisingly well-preserved. I saw a few ancient mosaic tile floors when I was in Greece a few years ago, and none of them were anywhere near as intact as this one.",
"That's really interesting, TIL",
"If you’re talking about empires, then yes you’re correct. But no, Greece didn’t exist at that time. ",
"Honestly I just found the image online and thought it was awesome and wanted to share it. Sue me :/",
"Apologies but I never claimed this was a recent discovery. Just found the pic online and wanted to share it! Thanks for the extra info on it though!",
"Alexander was so powerful he could take an army of 40,000 and take over... the world. ",
"Lol, I've only been around for 4 years and moderate one of the biggest subs on here. God forbid I found a cool photo and wanted to share it.\n\nAlso I really like soccer.",
"I think we still have those.",
"It's making me say your username just out of exasperation.",
"Classical Antiquity in Greece was preceded by the Greek Dark Ages (c. 1200 – c. 800 BC), \n\n1200 BEFORE MODERN times. That's only what... 1900 years before Muhammad founded Islam in 700 ad or 2500 years before the ottoman Empire. So yep Greeks were there long before Arabs by millenia\n\nSource https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece",
"That's what was confusing me as I was looking into it just now. Were they allies at the time? ",
"Yeah sorry but I don’t think that that’s what’s happening here. You’re comparing a well known colloquialism to a standard sentence.",
"Yep, this seems to be happening a lot lately.",
"Yeah I'm playing the reallllllllllly long con to take in all that dolla from selling my account obviously /s",
"The modern idea of a country didn't really come about until the mid-17th century. Before then, a \"nation\" was defined as the area of land a given ruler/government could effectively rule and protect, with the borders being much more fluid and not defined.",
"That's really neat. I never thought of it that way. It seems obvious once you said it since anyone could come and claim the land if nobody could stop them. Thanks for the insight. ",
"Oh, I’m calling my lawyer right now! ",
"No. I don’t know if he/she was implying that because of Sharia Law some terrorist organisation is going to blow it up, or that he/she really just doesn’t know what Sharia is, and thinks it’s a terrorist organisation.",
"Yep, def a place ISIS would want to destroy if they could.",
"Was that picture taken with an ancient Greek camera?",
"Also known as Alejandro.",
"I'm glad it didn't become dust in the wind",
"Rome conquered large parts of Macedon (Greece) proper, and Anatolia (Turkey) was left to the Roman empire in a will by the last, childless, king iirc.\n\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Greece\n\nBut the Romans in general were great fans of Greek culture, literature and history, so their conquest was a lot less destructive than say the Roman conquest of Carthage.",
"A lot of the things ISIS does is not justified by Sharia law. Please learn about it before you say stuff.",
"Oh yeah for sure, but when you say Greece I’m thinking of modern day Greece, not spartan/Ancient Greece. The place was ruled by a lot of civilizations before the ottomans conquered. ",
"We should take this from them. They will probably end up blowing it up.",
"Whatever gets you through the day bud. From experience just time does it, for the most part, but vodka + time almost always works.",
"Like who? Even under Romans Greek stayed there. Iron and genocided and did population replacement .",
"And tesla instead of chariots?",
"Maybe they should break it, and reveal the truth underneath.",
"I'm not, don't worry. I know full well that the people doing this are terrorists who don't represent Islam. ",
"Think you mean Byzantium",
"To be fair, this happened in history a lot, not just sharia. Mongols, Goths, Christians, Muslims, Indians and Chinese, they’ve all done it.",
"Wouldn't be surprised if Erdogan destroys it ",
"Ancient tagging",
"Imaginary beings can look like anything",
"Every painting I saw in Turkey had the eyes scratched out for some reason",
"Iskander is good civilization.",
"Let's jackhammer it and put it in museum.",
"Jesus Christ, want a history lesson? Google it. Wasn’t the Romans that were just there. ",
"Amazing ",
"And present day Greece was mostly Turkish during the Ottoman Empire.",
"Why'd they change it? ",
"Yes, that too.",
"I have a feeling that the Commander up there is a doofus who was being sarcastic. ",
"This is a very odd remark. The Turkish Republic has a rotten government that does have a bias toward fundamentalist Islam, unfortunately, but there is no sharia law in the country, and the country has a truly vast heritage of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine antiquities that the government spends vast resources to preserve. You've never been to Turkey. (I don't have to ask. It's obvious.) There is nowhere in the world a collection of ancient, beautifully-preserved mosaics as there are in Istanbul. Chora Church, Hagia Sophia, Mosiac Museum, and on and on.",
"As someone that studies the Ancient Greeks (I'm currently working on my PhD), uh.... you have a poor understanding of history. The civilisations in the region were far older than Greece, and Greece only settled that region after warfare from those nations caused a temporary collapse in which SEVERAL different groups from the Med. region settled what the Greeks would eventually call Ionia, and as those groups regained power, formed into different ones, and solidified themselves they went back for their land, and war were declared several times over centuries with the Greeks (and later the Romans) getting involved in the madness (the events of the 300 movie are set during a chunk of this conflict after Athenian involvement in the Ionian Revolt, though by no means near its origins or end) \n\nMuslims and the OE come WELL after Greece, true, but where the hell do you think those people came from? Did they sprout out of nowhere in 1453 and say \"Oh shit, look at this land, let's take it\" or are they descendants of ancient civilisations that had been there well before the Greeks? I'll let you ponder that one for a bit. \n\n[I mean for Homer's sake, there was an epic poem about the Greek invasion.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliad) [They even made a terrible but forever loved due to its cheesiness movie out of it if that's more of your thing.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znTLzRJimeY) ",
"... Huh? Is this kind of like saying that using the nuclear arsenal as a metaphor for the size of your dick in a tweet is presidential, just because the president did it?\n\nWould beating the shit out of my wife be husbandlike, since it's something her husband does?\n\nIf Tom Brady dropped a deuce on an injured opponent, would that be sportsmanlike on account that he's a sportsman? ",
"Reddit is full of basement dwellers whose sole purpose is to find reposts and old stuff. It's ridiculous sometimes, as soon as I post something they dig up an older post from like 3 years ago and hiss at you while crying to the mods",
"Turkey just deliberately bombed an ancient temple in Syria so yea...it's definitely possible.\n\nEdit: A thing",
"If only I had a time machine..",
"It was immediately destroyed by ISIS ",
"Excuse me? Why would we do that?",
"Alexander was also a bisexual. ",
"ITT Americans who have no idea what Southern Turkey is snd assumed it was a place in Syria.",
"\"'And Alexander wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.' ~ Hanz Gruber\" ~ Jack Doneghey ",
"How does posting a picture make him a karma whore? It's a cool picture from like 4 years ago, of course someone has already posted it on here. ",
"Probably. *shrugs*",
"Fear not, for I merely jest. ",
"The Hittites, the Akkadians, the Assyrians, the Persians, and that's just the BIG ones up to Alexander III. Before the Ottomans we have the Seljuk Empire as well with its paws alll over that sweet, sweet, sweet Turkey leg. \n\nYou have a very western understanding of history. Fill in the blanks please. ",
"r/edgy",
"> ‘prophetic catastrophe’ \n\nWell I mean most ancient civilizations have a flood story, so that's a good place to start",
"You a fan of: https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-56-kings-of-kings/ ?",
"Yes, and many of those civilisations are under water now. Schoch had a really interesting geological theory involving a solar storm and a flash melt around 90-100,000 years back. \n\nIn these cases, more like inevitable war and pillage - hide the temples under landfill.",
"I know of him, but I don't think I'd be very interested to be honest. Seems educational though, but not quite what I'm in need of. ",
"Volcanos man, volcanos lol\n\nAlso, they just knocked down walls and built on top of stuff all the time",
"Sounds like something a doofus would say... ",
"Yeah that was another of Schoch’s theories for burial. The med wasn’t exactly the most stable of places.",
"By the nine!",
"They all look Caucasian.",
"SARABA, CHIKUU YO!",
"90-100,000 seems far to me. I'd guess more like 10-12,000. ",
"I can’t say, people just liked it better that way",
"Yes sorry you’re correct. Getting my numbers waaaay mixed up. Approx 11,000-9000 BC",
"*Southern* Turkey",
"yes, this is lawyer, go ahead",
"That's not what he said...at all...nice straw man though ",
"My good friend who has been teaching history for over twenty years absolutely adores this podcast. You should check it out. It's not so much educational as it is a celebration of history. He often tells the story from interesting angles. Very unlike most history books. I highly recommend him. ",
"...what's Your point?",
"... until IS find it...",
"Enjoy it before it gets bombed into oblivion ",
"Hello, payment for lawyer I am processing. Pm numbers.",
"Uhhhh, please don't be disingenuous. You didn't \"*just find the pic online*\". I posted this 3 years ago in this sub and you have done an **IDENTICAL** repost, not only using my same headline text verbatim, but you also didn't even bother to change the Imgur link... as it is exactly the same as well. \n\n> https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/2mq5r3/this_stunning_ancient_greek_floor_mosaic_was_just/\n\nDon't you have better things to do than cruise through the top postings of /r/pics and repost them for internet points? \n\nAlso, since you didn't bother to post the explanation and context of the image I wrote so everyone might actually learn something, I will add it here:\n\n> This mosaic, which is about 2200 years old, depicts [the Nine Muses](http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0881991.html) of Greek arts and sciences, who are said to have inspired all who engaged in those endeavors. They were the daughters of Zeus, lord of all gods, and Mnemosyne, who represented memory. Memory was important for the Muses because in ancient times, when there were no books, poets had to carry their work in their memories. Just thought you'd be interested to know.",
"Dibs",
"Thank you for sharing. Some people really need a life if they are that concerned about 4 years between a post. ",
"Isnt that a Planet that the Space Battle Ship Yomata has to reach?",
"Don’t call my name",
"Nobody cares ",
"Lol are you really that worried about someone reposting a picture you posted 3 years ago?\n\nI've never seen it before and it's not like OP is stealing karma from you. Get off your high horse.",
"It seems that you care enough to open your mouth about it.",
"You should go to the corner and think about what you've done.",
"Its called an observation. \nCompared to the guys cleaning it and that area, people are darker skinned then the people in picture. So maybe i am saying 2000 years ago Caucasian ruled the area. Now that im thinking about it more. Or maybe all they had at the time was white paint. I dunno again just an observation. ",
"Lol, I don't care about the karma. The OP is making out like they found the photo on their own, when they literally just scanned through the TOP upvoted list for this sub and posted something that got a lot of upvotes. That is about as lazy and karma-whoring Redditing as you can get. ",
"Fun fact: soil is what accumulates, dirt is soil after it has been altered anthropogenically. ",
"Didn’t use text to speech",
"Yeah but who fucking cares lol. It's not even in the top 100 on this sub, it's not even close. I'd probably have to scroll pretty far through the top posts to find that. Reddit is built off reposting and thank god it is or I'd never see half the cool shit that gets posted here.\n\nJesus I mean it's just a cool picture, don't let it ruin your day.",
"Wait, did the Mongols pillage enough of their conquests to warrant such an effort to preserve these works? I thought Genghis was rather lenient and didn't allow heavy plundering.",
"If you are getting your PhD you should have some knowledge outside of your area of study. If you did, you would know that ethnic Greeks inhabited large portions of present day Turkey until until they we're foribly removed by the Ottomans in the early 20th century. This culminated in the 1923 population exchange where 2 mil Greeks were moved, which ended thousands of years of Greek presence in Asia minor. So in short, the people who currently inhabit that area have no connection, genetically or culturally, with the people who made those mosaics. It's evident just by looking at the mosaics, they are clearly European faces.",
"That's Zeugma it's now underwater. I almost did my PhD on this site. ",
"Can you imagine if we found a site under water off the coast somewhere that dated that far back?? Holy hell the implications that would have.",
"So basically ending the last ice age, melting all the glaciers and throwing us into the world as we know it now?",
"The spartans literally referred to themselves as an occupying force for the entirety of their reign in southern greece.",
"Just about every civilization on earth has, in some way, conquered the land they inhabit today.",
"Who's to say we haven't? ",
"WHEN DID THE GREEKS ARRIVE, GREG? \n\nI know all about the Ottoman Empire, the Greeks, the population exchange (I have a BA/MA in History as well) \n\nOf course the Mosaics are of the West, but that doesn't mean the people there have no connection to that land, and it's ludicrous to even say so and is ignore THE HISTORY THAT COMES BEFORE THE GREEKS DO. \n\n\n\n",
"I would imagine the finders would be screaming it at the world in excitement. Why sit on the finding?",
"It was a recent discovery!\n\nYou recently discovered the pic!!",
"Yep. It’s a pretty leftfield theory involving a plasma storm. Schoch was always out there, but he was bang on the money about the true age of the Sphinx, and the fact it’s head isn’t the original (was a lion, got reappropriated by some ancient asshole Egyptian leader - at the time it would have been built, it would have lined up with Leo in the sky, as the Sphinx was a leaping lion not a docile cat)",
"Hell, Christianity was one of the first religions to take the idea of heresy (and by extent an ingrained intolerance of other beliefs) *really seriously* and it was incredibly bizarre to the polytheistic religions. Before hand it was sorta the norm that when two religions collided, they'd kinda merge in the sense that it's not really important that we call the God of Lightning Zeus and you call him Jupiter, since it's all pretty much the same. Then organised Monotheism came along and shit got weird ",
"Don't worry, my day is just fine. I feel you are getting more upset than anything that I decided to point out a user was gratuitously recycling content. If you don't care, that's up to you. Why would you even waste your time telling everyone about how much you DON'T care about something? Don't let it ruin your day.",
"Oh I see, you used '*vomit-to-text*'. Makes more sense.",
"I suppose flash flood or not, the glaciers melting would have been a significant event. Even if the melting took place over a few decades or centuries, the fact that people gradually had to move because of the encroaching water probably would've been recorded through oral recollection.",
"Or Alexander the Accursed as the world's remaining Zoroastrians call him.",
"Holy shit the salt is so obvious here. \n\nThanks for sharing /u/jesuspunk 👍🏼",
"Underrated comment.",
"It belongs in a museum!",
"I was making a Fate/Zero reference. ",
"Most people that scream at the world are thought of as crazy. \n\nHow do you prove something like that? ",
"Wow, says the person who is bitching about how much they don't care about something. Get a life, dude.",
"And near Syria. I’m guessing Antakya. ",
"Don't listen to Mr. attitude problem. Its a nice picture.",
"Don't you mean Turkish mosaic? 😀",
"Oh dude - it’s freakier than that. Look up ‘plasma storm atmospheric disturbances’ and the Gobekli Tepi temple carvings. I’d link them for you, but the trip to discovery will either have you like ‘wuuuut’ or like ‘psssh’.",
"Read \"the great sea\". Never a period in history that some poor bastard wasn't floating in it with his throat cut.",
"Do you vomit with a closed mouth?",
"because allah told them so?",
"Nice one bru! I bloody love me some history",
"Depends on how well they surrendered ",
"He's not a lawyer fox, just a detective_fox.",
"That's nobodies buissnes but the turks",
"It is known that they burned down the [Library of Baghdad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Wisdom#Destruction_by_the_Mongols) which contained many original classical books and translations from the ancient world. ",
"Osha is going to be posses for not benching back that bank!",
"Is it like Mario that if you jump into the picture you go to that place",
"Stuff like this always seems made up to me.. Then I see something like this..\n\nYeah right there was a mosaic buried under the dirt.. yeah sure these people made something like this.. right..\n\nOh wait a minute it's actually there ",
"Considering its been covered for thousands of years. It was just recently uncovered. ",
"Don’t tell isis they might just blow it up for funsies again",
"Holy shit. She fucked that shit up ",
"I give it 3 week before someone blows it up.",
"> Many of these were purposefully buried. There are records of many sites - especially the ones at Gobekli Tepi \n\nGobekli Tepe is 10,000 years old. I doubt the Greeks were doing the same thing 2,000 years ago.",
"And by destroy you mean sell to [private collectors](https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-men-who-trade-isis-loot-1502017200)? ",
"Can't wait for my house to be discovered ",
"Can we get a class action suit going? I want in.",
"2000 years ago people just walked around on this like it was no big deal. All the women came and went. Barefoot servants too! ",
"Well, they said that. I don't know how true it actually is. ",
"I'm not your babe.\n\nFernando.",
"It'll be gone by Tuesday",
"> This culminated in the 1923 population exchange where 2 mil Greeks were moved, which ended thousands of years of Greek presence in Asia minor.\n\n\"Population exchange\"\n\nIe the Greeks exchanged the Turks in their lands, and the [Turks exterminated the Greeks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_genocide) in theirs. \n\nIn all fairness, the [Turks weren't exactly treated well](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Muslims_during_Ottoman_contraction) in Balkans either. ",
"Armenians? ",
"*Radical Ismlamists",
"Obviously? I mean this mosaic predates Islam by ~700 years. Anatolia was still firmly in European hands at this point. ",
"Wait, what? ",
"Hey don't feel bad! If you hadn't posted it I wouldn't have seen it. I don't mind reposts as long as it's not a weekly/monthly thing, I know some people use them to get karma but I think it's cool that newbies can see older stuff that may be from a post that isn't easily accessible/frontpage. ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯",
"I was thinking when I seen the picture that next week we will be reading that. ",
"Oh you mean like Cyrus the Great? Who was he?",
"He certainly wasn't a Greek, but let's go back even further! ",
"Take it before they break it",
">So maybe i am saying 2000 years ago Caucasian ruled the area\n\nHave you ever heard of the [Eastern Roman Empire](https://serhatengul.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Roman-Empire-Split-Constantinople-Rome-Theodosios-Map-395.png)? Anatolia was Greek up until the 1200s when the Seljuqs showed up. ",
"If someone is interested: these mosaics are found near Antakya. The museum has alot of other masterpieces in their collection.",
"We're talking about the same people who [blew up the Parthenon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenon#Destruction). ",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lppTJFYigoU",
"Not quite that old, but it's an inhabited area that was submerged by rising sea levels. There's plenty of evidence that it was a pretty great place to live.\n\nhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland",
"That's impossible long term",
"Why? Just arbitrarily assuming because of the time difference?",
"Ken M?",
"And Persian before that..",
"Aside from being stupid and edgy it's also inaccurate. Just because the pillsbury doughboy doesn't exist doesn't mean he lacks a set image.\n\nJesus may or may not have existed but regardless he didn't have the face of a lamprey.",
"First off for me thats blocked by a pay wall. Second they are selling stuff but also destroying much more. And the things they are selling by large are from museums and such they destroyed along with many other artifacts.",
"What’s all this about? Buncha alt right people are making this same comment all over Reddit. New talking points just get sent out or something?",
"Better hit the gym first.",
"Gobekli Tepe is the first man made structure we know of. It was built before we had agriculture. I sincerely doubt there is any cultural continuity over that 8,000 years. They're not even the same people, the native Anatolians were wiped out/assimilated when the Greeks began colonizing. If this was a Hittite mosaic, I'd maybe believe it, but there's just too much of time/cultural distance. ",
"Ok, one example, good. But was this purely for conquest without any other motive, or did the locals resist and this was the price Genghis imposed?",
"Early, early designs for the Flinstones phone dialler toy?",
"It's a fallacy to state that most people are, therefore the individual is. \n\nHowever, you prove something like that by showing the world what you found. Imagine a kid yelling to a crowd in his neighborhood that he's found a dead cat in the woods. How do you prove something like that?\n\nJust lead them to the site.",
"Stop",
"Never had a clue. Nor put the time into it. But thanks. Maybe i will now.",
">by large are from museums and such they destroyed along with many other artifacts.\n\nThey took over one museum, the Mosul Museum. They probably sold a lot of that stuff too, but it doesn't mean they aren't also selling artifacts from dig sites. ",
"> or did the locals resist and this was the price Genghis imposed?\n\nThat's exactly what happened. \n\n>Hulagu began his campaign in Iran with several offensives against Nizari groups, including the Assassins, who lost their stronghold of Alamut. He then marched on Baghdad, demanding that Al-Musta'sim accede to the terms imposed by Möngke on the Abbasids. Although the Abbasids had failed to prepare for the invasion, **the Caliph believed that Baghdad could not fall to invading forces and refused to surrender**. Hulagu subsequently besieged the city, which surrendered after 12 days. During the next week, the Mongols sacked Baghdad, committing numerous atrocities and destroyed the Abbasids' vast libraries, including the House of Wisdom. The Mongols executed Al-Musta'sim and massacred many residents of the city, which was left greatly depopulated. The siege is considered to mark the end of the Islamic Golden Age, during which the caliphs had extended their rule from the Iberian Peninsula to Sindh, and which was also marked by many cultural achievements.[7]\n\n\n[source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258\\))",
"If you want the same feeling buy a pressure washer, you'll weep once you see the results. ",
"Yeah but some things transcend culture. Like war and natural disaster.\n\nIt doesn't matter if it was 10,000 or 2,000 years ago. There will be a reason to protect/hide a place of worship. And while the Greeks may as well have been the borg in terms of technology compared to the nomads that built Gobekli Tepe I still don't believe they had the tech to just stop nature/army's from destroying buildings.\n\nSo what else would they do? You bury it, you let it get razed, you let it get destroyed by nature or ???. I can appreciate your attempt to be rational but I think you overlooked Occam's Razor.\n\nBut maybe I am overlooking something obvious. Correct me if I am wrong.",
"Damn, sucks for them. Caliph is overconfident, his countrymen pay for it. I wonder if anyone that heard of this tried to fight a losing battle against them. If you can win, then by all means, fight. But this caliph got his city sacked because he refused to be the one to kneel. \n\nIn all honesty, I'd have refused as well. For everything they knew at the time, walls beat horses. \n\nBut the mongols still sacked them because they resisted, not because the mongols were an uncontrollable plague on the continent. Though, you'd be inclined to think them so if you were on the receiving end of it.",
"Turkey, close to Syria had an ancient Roman settlement. But a dam was built along the river and flooded the area years ago. I think these pics are of the team the only was able to excavate a small area. I wanted to do some underwater archaeology and find the rest. The mosaics are really well done, if it is the area I'm thinking it is. ",
"Someone posted the article somewhere else in this thread. It's definitely Zeugma. If it's gone, that's fucking terrible. Would the water help preserve it? ",
"Suck, suck, suck, suck",
"> It's a fallacy to state that most people are, therefore the individual is.\n\nI didn't claim its not a fallacy, nor that the individual is actually crazy. I was referring to most common perception. You don't scream at the world, you present logical facts as evidence and get it peer reviewed.\n\nAnd if the site is 10,000 years old and underwater? You can't just say, come on guys, I swear its there. A lot of work goes into proving significant finds like this. And if mainstream history books don't want to agree, there's not much you can do to force their hand. Look at the story of Gobekli Tepe. ",
"This is my life.",
"The scientist that the guy is referring to, Snoch, is known for his pseudo-scientific claim that all cultures on the planet descended from one. Which is the only way his idea about the Greeks being cultural descendants of the builders of Gobekli Tepe could work. \n\nHe also believes in telepathy, psychokinesis, and \"ancient astronauts\". I find it hard to take anything he says seriously. ",
"Can't wait to hear about how someone defaced or destroyed it sometime before the next century.",
"Don’t let ISIS or the Taliban get to it",
"Hugs. ",
"Robert Shoch believes in a number of fringe theories such as telepathy, ancient astronauts etc. I would take a lot of what he says with a grain of salt. \n\nA lot of these types of sites are places that fell into neglect and were buried by repeated flooding from rivers, eruptions of volcanoes, mud slides, sand storms and simple decay of organic matter, such as leaves and building materials. ",
"And I was making a Star Blazers referance ;)",
"We’re not Americans. We respect our history.",
"Italians?",
"Islam. That's why. They protected the mosaics and treasures from destruction from the islamic horde. ",
"Oof they didint like that dose of reality.",
"Eh, it was group effort. Turks shouldn't have stored explosives in it and the Italians shouldn't have shot at it. ",
"Yes? Like most people in Greece and Turkey.",
"Anatolians are europeans now?",
"I don’t know why those dudes on the picture look so dark, probably thr lighting. Have you never seen a Turk?",
"Dude, there haven't been true Anatolians since the Bronze Age. Armenians (and yes, to a lesser extent Turks) are the closest people we have. I'm referring to Greeks when saying \"European\". ",
"I think if I could go back in time it would either be the peak of Greek or Roman empires \n\nBut North America without the Europeans would be really cool too",
"Yeah, there is even a story in the Bible where King David, an enemy of the Philistine nation, hid in a city technically under Philistine control. Whether you consider that mythology or not, it demonstrates well the idea that, in ancient times, the resources needed to enforce control over a large area constantly were simply not available. In an era before photographs (actually, I don't even know how many people could make realistic paintings) or widespread literacy, how would you declare a man wanted? Let alone keep each city constantly informed of this, with all messages needing to be physically transported to each location",
"lol op doenst know tons of ancient arts and mummys isis destroyed in palmyra",
"Anybody know what this site is called and how long ago it was discovered?Also any news articles or academic papers on it yet? thanks",
"Here, read this, pal. Turks are from Central Asia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkification#Arrival_of_Turks_in_Anatolia\n\nNot sure of the age of this mosaic, but the Area it was found was once pretty centrally located in the Antigonid Dynasty, the Seleucid Empire, and probably some others I'm missing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigonid_dynasty",
"Turkish",
"U realize that today's turkey was a place with distinct peoples and culture before the Greek conquered it right?",
"Hope ISIS don't blow up this ",
"Noooo, they did not.",
"Fuck, bury it! The muslim terrorist groups will bomb it.",
"The radar sir, it appears to be jammed!\n*raspberry*",
"They have a whole process to actually safely cut it out and re assemble it somewhere safe but I don't know if they will do that. ",
"I was wondering how long it would take GT to show up in a post about ancient ruins in the near Middle East ",
"> I find it hard to take anything he says seriously.\n\nI fail to see how any of the other things he has said are related at all. This isn't some crazy theory, its just the most logical answer. How did a bunch of temples around the world all end up buried fully intact? \"Buried to preserve them\" is just as likely as anything else I have seen.\n\nI don't think the person who says it the loudest matters if it's the simplest solution and does not contradict any known knowledge.\n\nI understand not wanting to listen to a looney but even a broken watch is right twice a day.\n\nIn your attempts to discredit him you have failed to contest a single one of the valid points I brought up.",
"Think about that lady who spent her life looking for that famous English kings remains. Then finally found him underneath a car park. The adrenaline must be real.",
"I feel like this new portrait of Alexander the Great is going to be one of the definitive images of him. So very cool. ",
"Those are idiots, yes, but also other idiots too. Idiocy is not exclusive to Islam. ",
"Treasonous hoards. ",
"I self identify as a goofus. Your misidentification of me is verbal violence. ",
"And now go read the article on Genetic Studies on Turkish People. Most \"Turks\" are from the indigenous groups, which shouldn't really come as a surprise considering the amount of empires that have ruled these areas that have promoted multiculturalism. \n\nDon't let nation state names fool you. ",
"Now imagine that feeling but in the opposite when those people destroy it.",
"Oh most definitely, I've heard that only a small minority of Turks actually have lineage that goes back to Turkic peoples of the Eurasian Steppe.",
"All joking and animosity aside, I'd grieve to see the ruins of the Internet in my lifetime.",
"LONESTAR!",
"The only point I'm trying to make is that the Greeks didn't have their land stolen by people that are strangers to it. The Greeks came and took the land in antiquity and it sparked back and forth wars between both sides trying to grab it back, Alexander didn't start it and he didn't end it either. The people living there in the Ottoman Empire period included large groups descended from the people living in the region already when the Greeks first arrived. \n\nI'm not saying one side has more right to it, I'm not saying the population exchange was right, all I'm arguing against is the notion from the OP in this chain that the Greeks were kicked out by some foreign group with no ties to the land when in reality they have a larger connection with it. That's all. \n\nThe break up of the OE was a mess, and the mistakes in how it was dealt with are still causing problems today. But these things go back well before the OE was even dreamt up. ",
"Yes it should be fine because it's under earth and the water is on top. It will be fine. Some mosaics were taken before it was flooded. Maybe one day I'll get to uncover them and write that thesis. To be honest given what's going on over there the water might be the best protection for it. ",
"If it’s Greek, why the fuck would it be discovered in Turkey? The Greek territories were never a part of today’s turkey. And that mosaic does not look Greek in any way shape or form, it looks persian. ",
"The original Brady Bunch intro screen?",
"If it’s Greek why is it in Turkey???",
"I was going to say... good thing this is on the Turkish side of the modern border.",
"I've been to Macedonia, Skopje, they built like a hundred statues of Alexander The Great - The Macedonian Legend. ",
"I still, for the life of me, do not understand why people installed wall-to-wall carpeting to cover these beauties up.",
"Update to article says it's marked \"Made in China\"..",
"I think there's some indication that the pillars at Gobleki Tepi were buried under rubble after the asteroid strike roughly 13,000 years ago that ushered in the Younger Dryas. ",
"You should see the Antikythera mechanism:\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpLcnAIpVRA",
"Somewhere in orbit around the sun is a chariot with a music device playing a song by David Bowopoulos on loop.",
"Beautiful art . I hope we (as mankind) can appreciate and preserve this artifact for the future generations to scorn ....oops, appreciate it as a work of art.",
"Can you provide me with a sue date so I can schedule around it?",
"Dude that looks so dope ",
"Love this art. Best wish for photographer .",
"Mostly to spite Greek Macedonia, since the Macedonia around Skopje is actually Slavic and not Greek. ",
"Duuuude what documentary tho",
"Turks have been systematically destroying Greek historical artifacts for centuries now, to be honest I am surprised they are preserving these finds.\n",
"It's already preserved! You can't preserve it any farther!",
"When you show your friends your selfies and ask which one is best for uploading to social media.",
"something something jackdaws",
"There was no such thing as Greek, or Greeks, there were several city states. What made the Hellenics, hellenic or Greek was trade, language, history (Storytelling) and the following of the Olympian Gods. Rome and the etruscans was in fact yet another city state and tribe that had these attributes. hence these people were one in the same, it's not like we separate the Dorians, from the Ionians, or Mycenaeans, I see no reason other than political, to separate the Romans or Etruscans from the hellenics, they are all one peoples. ROME or Roman Empire could not ultimately exist without the Greeks in any way shape or form, period! Although I have seen several efforts as of late, to try and separate the minoans from the Hellenic world, completely absurd!",
"Say what you want about Christianity, but virtually all modern scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed historically",
"Definitely potato face Jesus there on the left",
"*Radical Ismlamimsts",
"The color is really nice - the marble statues in museums from Rome and Greece were originally painted but the paint wore off over the centuries.",
"The Byzantine empire",
"Who wrote it?",
"-Michael Scott",
"The Turks/Ottomans are not Arabs.",
"What’s really remarkable is how the colors are still so vivid... I’ve seen plenty of beautiful ancient mosaics like this in the Middle East but none as vibrant as this. ",
"Do you pay extra for that?",
"Nop. It always were Greeks. What distinct cultures? ",
"Thank you. ",
"I'll be the judge of that thank you",
"You are confusing 'Muslim' with 'Arab'. Arabs are a race with many religions, there are many Christian and Jewish (and Athiest) Arabs. Turks are another race/ethnicity, and now a nationality.\n\nMuslims are a members of a religion. Muslims come in many different races; Arab, Turk, Indian, African etc.\n\nHow the hell do you not understand this?",
"Careful there. You don’t want to dig through our “disk planet” and fall out the other side. ",
"Yoghurt? YOGHURT?! I hate yoghurt, - especially with strawberries!",
"the people are remarkably white. ",
"OK.",
"Iskandar Beg :)\n\n",
"Chill out mate. These predate Islam by a good few centuries. The moors and Mughals left plenty, if not all, ancient antiquities well alone. Leave the racism at the door, mate. \n\nThe book burners and temple destroyers are fairly contemporary. ",
"Not sure he ever mentioned telepathy. I spent quite a lot of time talking to him about this stuff. He tries to steer away from occult stuff. He told me that it keeps finding him.",
"I’ve never seen this before and it’s pretty amazing. Thanks!",
"Source?",
"Why tf are they standing on it ",
"Muslims were always Arabs. They invented it and if u were not Muslim ur child was taken and trained in their military to fight for them while non Muslims payed jizia and they were basically slaves. So many converted . Convert or die. U are commenting on history through modern times wich is stupid",
"These are undisputed and recorded facts. Who is it that tore up great and irreplaceable structures and sold them to the English, hint it ain't the Greeks.\n\n\nhttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/archaeology-and-history/magazine/2017/03-04/parthenon-sculptures-british-museum-controversy/",
"Well i am from Macedonia and we are about to get our name changed and all monuments linking us to our ancient history will be taken down, including the big Alexander one. ",
"you mean like this one: [Underwater Stonehenge-style rock found in the Mediterranean Sea: Monolith may have served as a 'lighthouse' 10,000 years ago](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3192145/Underwater-Stonehenge-style-rock-Mediterranean-Sea-Monolith-served-lighthouse-10-000-years-ago.html)\n\n> The island was submerged during a flood 9,500 years ago, after the Last Glacial Maximum. ",
"Isnt it nice for past humans to leave presents like this for the future people",
"David Abulafia. Oxford University Press 2011. It's not a novel it's a history pieced together describing the people's and places around the Med in chronological order all the way back to the beginning of recorded history. It's a dry read, a bit like the bible... Who did what to who and when..... ",
"Is this Greek or Roman?",
"Can confirm, even if only as a much more recent trend. Portuguese settlers for instance have been accused of filling their homes and surrounding infrastructure with cement as their African colonial empire collapsed. Think of it as a type of scorched earth strategy, a final “huzzah” for that which was and the middle finger for that which now will be. See for instance [here](http://articles.latimes.com/1989-05-23/news/mn-682_1_portuguese-south-africa-angola-and-mozambique).",
"Bits are older! Don’t put owt past the Greeks. They’re an inscrutable people. ",
"He was also the geologist credited with accurately ageing the Sphinx, and correctly identifying hydrological weathering of the construction site. Schoch’s main body of work is looking at paradigms of understanding and western concepts of ‘civilisation’ - the majority of his lectures examine what egyptologists and archaeologists regard as markers of development, highlighting the current fallacies in believing that only non-degradable pottery is evidence of an intelligent people.\n\nAlso the ancient astronauts thing, I think you have taken a little out of context. I asked him about this literally four years ago, and he himself said it was a pretty out there theory, and shrugged. He’s more interested in the rise of culture and art, and the foundations of the human condition.",
"I really dont understand why the so much greeks fuss about it. Say to hell with hellenic fascists, Dont give up your name .",
"Wait, why does the title say \"Ancient Greek\"? I'm no expert, but that definitely looks Roman",
"How do you even find something under a car park?",
"They are obviously talking about the version of him that wears a cape, and has the shittiest superpowers ever.\n\nAka the one they believe in.",
"Thanks ♥️ ",
"I think they knew Grey Friars church was on the site of the car park, iirc. I'll find a source in a moment.\n\nhttps://kriii.com/about-the-centre/an-incredible-discovery/",
"How did they unearth it? Mk84?",
"And today's Greece was classical city state Greece before the christening happened.what point are you trying to make?",
"That was my first thought :(",
"Literally every living thing on land has done this",
"turn that frown upside down...",
"All those people appear to be light skinned in the mosaic?",
"https://xkcd.com/1053/",
"So he stands on it?",
"Oh, noes all those 21st century monuments so solidly linking you to Alexander the great will be taken down! ",
"The original faction of the Acropolis was to be a defensive position. The Parthenon is the biggest building up there as well.\n",
"I don't think Persians actually inhabited Asia minor, just ruled it over.",
"It's amazing how good that looks for it's age",
"Source on that? \n",
"They converted to Islam and became Muslims, not Arabs which is an ethnic group. For a large amount of history the most powerful Muslim leader was the Ottoman Sultan who was a Turk not an Arab. \n\nJanissaries are also a Turkish invention as far as I know.",
"uhhhhh the first caliphate destroyed as many ancient antiquities as they could. Anything with the shape or depiction of a human or another god was destroyed. ",
"Yet remarkably so many churches and monasteries stayed standing. Go to southern Spain sometime.",
"They left the holy places alone.... ",
"[Here ya go.](https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/-a-loss-as-great-as-palmyra-syrian-temple-of-ain-dara-severely-damaged-by-turkish-forces)\n\nThere are tons of other sources, too. I picked this one so you could see the images.\n\nEdit: Guess the Turks found my comment and don't like truth. ",
"So...which was it? Did they destroy other gods or no? Because antiquities were fairly well treasured and cared for under the Umayyad caliphate. They were the Sultan’s gold.",
"That was a beautiful and cultured place until Islam came there.",
"Shit like this is why I'm studying archaeology...well, this and the Mesa Verde ruins.",
"When I was at the British Museum in London one of the amazing things to me was when I left one area to go to another I walked through the doors into the stairwell and the walls were covered in Mosaics. I was stunned, just stood there gaping at them for several minutes and forgot was I was doing. Just didn't expect that; small ones and large ones but all beautiful.",
"A man surrounded by women, his harem maybe.",
"> “Because of Sharia Law, your artifact will most likely be bombed now” would make more sense.\n\nSeeing as you suggested he change it to \"“Because of Sharia Law, your artifact will most likely be bombed now” would make more sense.\" I'll take it you knew exactly what he meant.",
"It's a bit of both actually, they allowed Greek settlements to continue existing, essentially, but put in their own puppet governments throughout the region, utilised the land for trade and whatever purposes they needed. So Persians were definitely in the land at this point, though the population would have been largely Greek in the cities that the Greeks previously held, but places like Sardis were clearly Persian held during the Ionian Revolt (it was the burning of Sardis by the Athenian force sent to aid the Greeks in Ionia that caused Darius to declare the Athenians enemies and send his men to conquer Greece. Darius wouldn't have minded much if the Athenians came and burnt down a Greek populated city, even if it was in his territory technically. ",
"I am not saying that the population was solely or majority greek at that time. But were they Persian or other Anatolian people?\n\nThe Athenians burned down Sardeis as part of a revolution of Greek cities of Anatolia. They did fail of course.",
"Oh, I see now. The Persians were not Anatolian. I was only bringing them up in response to this question. \n\n>The place was ruled by a lot of civilizations before the ottomans conquered.\n\nResponse \n\n>Like who?\n",
"Yeah no problem.",
"Plenty of living things refrain from disputing their territory and are fine, or at least tolerant, with sharing.",
"No I knew what would make sense and would be correct. I honestly don’t know if he knows a thing about Sharia Law and whether or not is a terrorist organisation.",
"Okay okay okay. I being a smartass. Really...I understand what you're saying.",
"It was a good idea though. We assumed no one would shoot at a super old world wonder.",
"I'm sure some of that if they can, but there seemed to be a lot of evidence of defacing the larger stuff. I mean even the BBC and Al jazeera was reporting that.",
"Anatolian Greeks are still hellenized Anatolians. Why would Greeks be ”european” in any way other than geography?",
"Tessellated mosaics were not in existence in Alexander's time. The mosaics are from the city of Zeugma, founded by Alexander's general, again after his death, the mosaics themselves being from the 1st-3rd centuries AD, *centuries after Alexander's death*, when the city was part of the Roman empire."
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"Beautiful. Is that [this delkevic exhaust?](http://www.delkevic.us/index.php?route=product/product&path=116564_119155_119185&product_id=70907&Title=Full+System+to+fit+GS750L+%281979%29+with+Classic+Straight+Universal+Muffler+and+Stainless+Steel+4-1+Headers&SKU=COM32BP) I really like the blueing on the headers. Thinking about picking one up for my 850.\n\nAlso great job on the swingarm conversion. Is that single sided, or just something beefy enough to handle the shock relocation? ",
"Factory exhaust, factory swing arm setup. Unsure of what bike the tank is from. Chopped rear frame. GS 750ES model, a little more race oriented than a regular Gs. Adjustable rear shock bigger brakes.",
"I had a '74 GT-750, triple two stroke and i loved the chrome bits that were on it.\n\nMaybe I'm too old school but it doesn't look like an all weather rider."
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"Is that the new invisible Tesla ",
"Don't know if this fits r/ATBGE or not. \n\nTake your upvote. I need a drink.",
"that pattern repeat is the worst thing I've seen today",
"Bless his heart. That’s a shame. ",
"nice pic of a parking lot",
"I think r/Shitty_Car_Mods would be appropriate but this pales in comparison to some of the shit on there"
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"I hope everyone in that building is ok. ",
"Currently they're are dozens trapped. Hope they get out safely. ",
"https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us1000chhc#map -- Serious! Hope everyone is OK!",
"Magnitude 6.4 earthquake\n10 miles from Xincheng Township, Hualien County, Taiwan · 10:50 AM",
"Any live coverage/feeds? ",
"I don't think the building supposed to be sideways",
"/u/TheEarthquakeGuy what happened?",
"with the epicenter off the coast what are the risks of a followup tsunami?",
"I hope everyone is safe and okay.",
"Hope none got hurt and everyone is okay.",
"From CNN article \"The USGS estimates a low likelihood of causalities and damage. There is no tsunami warning at this time.\"",
"Best [Coverage](https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/02/06/hotel-collapses-after-64-earthquake-strikes-northeast-taiwan/23354405/) I can find.",
"no threat currently. ",
"This happened around midnight local time so hopefully any injuries or casualties in that building may have been reduced.",
"I hope they stay clear of another tsunami at least, and everyone is as safe as they can be. ",
"Gonna go out on a limb and say no. But dont lean in my word for accuracy",
"WAIT, WHAT? WE HAVE AN EARTHQUAKE GUY??",
"I thought this was going to be a gag for the new Cloverfield movie for a second.",
"Wow. Looks serious. Hope every stays safe.",
"Not \"an\" earthquake guy, *the* earthquake guy.",
"And he's amazing!",
"You don't know about the earthquake guy!?",
"Where have you been these past 2 years?",
"The building was made in Taiwan so probably not very well built. I hope everyone is OK.",
"An earthquake.",
"Looks like the Kaiju have woken up.",
"Holy shit that is a lot more dramatic than I pictured.",
"In the middle of a continental plate, thank you very much",
"But... There's a building almost laying on it's side...",
"Wow, exactly 2 years to the day since Taiwan was hit with another 6.4, that one killed 117. For there to be 0 reported casualties thus far, this is incredible, hopefully that number doesn't change in the coming hours and days. \n\nEdit / Update: 2 reported deaths* with another 200+ injuries (27 of them severe)",
"The cracks in the road are mad ",
"~ keyboard warrior\n\nWe can always change our profile pictures on facebook.\n\nHorrible jokes aside donation links maybe?",
"Jesus christ thats some Doctor Strange IRL shit. \n\nI hope everyone is okay ",
"Holy hell! Hopefully they can get to everyone trapped.",
"Yes but the camera shake makes it unwatchable ",
"They should all go on vacation 2 years from today",
"Unless it's an apartment building.",
"Just seeing a building slanted like that gives me anxiety. Can’t imagine what it’s like to even be there in person. \n\nI hope everyone gets out safe. ",
"well except for THAT one.",
"u/TheEarthquakeGuy where ya at? ",
"He's our guy on the inside",
"Better than praying. You gotta step ya game up man.",
"I live on a roof and as this earthquake was happenin the enemy team was destroying our core ... fuk’n Taiwanese augmented reality is so advanced !\n\nㄐㄧㄐㄧ",
"I read somewhere that is was a hotel?",
"幹！EARTHQUAKE GUY! What have we done to incur thine WRATH!!? ",
"But the weight fluctuations from everyone departing & returning could cause the plates to shift more!",
"WHOOSH",
"The reporter totally mispronounced the city\n花蓮 Hualien : hwa’lee’an\n(the towns name means ‘Flower Lotus’)\n\nCan’t blame him though, 拼音pinyin is a fucking retarded system.\n\n注音: is superior",
"Or pour some cement on the fault line in order to stabilize it. It'll work, I'm a Doctor.\n\n祝你们一切都好\n\nEdit: Fuck, I wrote my good wishes in simple form. Sorry 台灣, 祝你們一切都好. (Not too much difference)\n\nEdit Edit: 他媽的, 我寫下了簡體字. 抱歉, Taiwan, I wish you all the best.",
"Well hit it back!",
"Where the hell have YOU been?",
"I had a dream where that exact situation happened and my balcony met the ground. My friends and I then started gathering supplies and fortifying my apt for the ensuing chaos.\n\n\nEdit: I didn’t mean to offend anybody and I’m sorry if this comment is insensitive. Obviously I hope the people of Taiwan are ok.",
"That seems like a lot of damage for a 6.4 in an earthquake prone area...",
"some say he lives in the mantle",
"I've been crawling around Reddit, idly upvoting cats and reposts... Redditing I guess ¯\\\\\\_(ツ)\\_/¯",
"Actually, yeah, how did you know that...?",
"Jeez man, I don't know. Think I might need help.",
"\"they're\" is not a thing. It would be \"Currently **there** are dozens trapped\". I'll eat the downvotes to help you out bro.",
"He lives on Quaker lane",
"Geezus... That's gonna be a lot of damage, and take a lot of...\n\n<fixed in 3 days>\n\noh...",
"Quick maths",
"Most buildings are made so they don't tip over at all.",
"What did any of that mean",
"\"We report no casualties in all of the world today,\"\n\n*building falls on crowd\n\n\"I repeat, no casualties, everything is fine.\"",
"I think he means he was playing a VR video game when the earthquake hit. ",
"This particular building is very dramatic",
"I don’t know enough about plate tectonics to dispute this, so I’ll have to take your word on it.",
"Yum yum me love karma!!",
"My first thought was the Cloverfield movie. Wait, are they making another one? ",
"Holy fuck, i pray for the people of taiwan to be ok :( ",
"The estimates are based on location, magnitude, time of day, and some other things. It's generated automatically before human involvement. Understandably their estimates are never perfect.",
"Keep up the good work",
"When Paragon is life.",
"There're",
"The Earthquake Guy?",
"turn that frown upside down...",
"what the hell are you doing?",
"The Earthquake Guy!",
"The third installment is available on netflix right now, Cloverfield Paradox. Trailer aired during super bowl, movie was released to Netflix directly after the super bowl.",
"u/TheEarthquakeGuy umm... Hey we found one",
"Nice ",
"My goodness this is terrifying. Sending positive thoughts and prayers to the people of Taiwan. Hoping they stay safe and sound.",
"I got a news alert saying a hotel collapsed, so midnight may have been the worst time for it. :/",
"Some say that if you tune to 88.5 you can hear his thoughts. \nAnd, he samples the mantle with a magma straw. \n\nAll we know is, he's called The Earthquake Guy",
"6.4 aint shit if you have properly constructed buildings.",
"Thanks. Quick statistics doesn't have the same ring to it. So I cheated a little",
"Like Cloverfield",
"AP is reporting now that there have been 2 deaths and 144 injured at present. But I echo your sentiment, and hope that it stays as low as possible. ",
"\"We're reporting 30 million casualties today!\"",
"OMG!",
"GG",
"Do I feel bad for liking the post er na?",
"\"They're\" is indeed a thing. As \"Where are the people who were in there? They're trapped inside.\n\nBut grammar won't stand that building back up or save the people inside. They're going to need help.",
"There go the RAM prices...",
"Theirnd",
"Unreal Tournament 2004?",
"> \"they're\" is not a thing.\n\nIt most certainly is. It may not be the appropriate \"thing\" for this context, but since we're being pedantic. . .",
"He didn't ask you to go over there and help but he pointed out how useless it is for people to \"send their thoughts and prayers\" on social media like you just did. That helps no one. If you want to be there for these unfortunate people like you claim, do what he suggested and provide links so people can be there for these people by donating. Maybe don't be a fucking idiot and a prick?",
"[I hope that hotel has these beds](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuM-EAnor4I). I feel like I would only visit if I could sleep on one of these for my stay.",
"New inflatable buildings for earthquake-prone areas. ",
"I think he's referring to one of the ignorant ?senators? We had in the u.s a while back that was concerned about a military base on the edge of an island causing the island to capsize.\n",
"Or...now bear with me here....counterbalance the over exertion of plate force with everyone leaving Taiwan...let that pressure work it's way out slowly...like a slow, silent but (non)deadly fart. By the time the people come back to the land, the pressure will be relieved and it will just smell like sulfer(farts). \n\nPabloBablo\n\nPhD, FartPhysics; Plate Tectonics; Population Dispersants",
"they're are however...",
"Best wishes from Britain, hope all is OK as it can be.",
"Suddenly the whole there are dozens of us meme is a lot less funny.",
"Yes... I've heard of this, Earthquake Guy.",
"Riiiiiip",
"Don't forget the looting and human sacrifices...",
"Nope. ~~always sunny reference~~ Tide Ad",
"The clue is enemy team... Godzilla and Mothra!",
"No they're aren't!",
"Can confirm, have been in buildings the greater part of my life and none of them have tipped over. ",
"[Except this one](https://youtu.be/YevmEDd80So?t=9)",
"See what happens when we applaud? !",
"Wasn't México's big earthquake last year on the exact anniversary of one of their most massive ones back in like the 80's? What's up with that? ",
"Mickey Mantle",
"VRChat with Ugandan Knuckles",
"Seems liked they learned from the flaws last time. Nice to see nature trying to control there population and fail sometimes. Fuck genetic drift. ",
"Masonry never does well in earthquakes.",
"And the forth one already finished filming.",
"Wow.",
"https://i.imgur.com/kpTtT.gif\n",
"It's late at night so hopefully it was a business and not many people were there. ",
"You must be new to Reddit, here, you'll need this: /s\n\n^^/s",
"yes, exact same date, 19/sep/85. In 85 magnitude was 8.1, last year was 7.1, back in 85 we had 10,000 deaths, last year just 305",
"):",
"of course, hopefully all are safe. Though it looks like it just tipped and didn't collapse that much. Frankly I probably would probably have assumed I was in some inception level dream if the building went that way and probably gotten myself killed thinking I could control the dream.",
"Cloverfield is happening.",
"Do you see any stains???",
"T'here",
"He likes to shake things up.",
"And we'd best keep ourselves in his good books...or *we'll be next!*",
"I thought it was good.",
"Please, help!",
"I did too.. This is the me from the other dimension though.",
"i just watched this last night on netflix",
"Like meet the Robinsons..",
"Taiwan Number One",
"OP’s mom tripped getting out of the tub ",
"Cool, thanks",
"QUICK, UPLOAD IT TO REDDIT!",
"Does he actually know about earthquakes? Is he an expert",
"How is that building still standing? ",
"Plot twist, earthquake guy was visiting Taiwan and is the only reported casualty.",
"Dear sweet Jesus. That's more terrifying than the earthquake",
"/u/theearthquakeguy",
"> Can’t imagine what it’s like to even be there in person.\n\nI imagine it's a lot like [this.](https://i.imgur.com/99gUahD.png)",
"Along with the other figurines",
"Hmm how can a 6.4 be so serious? I thought 6.4 was relatively weak.",
"It's science.",
"The shaking of the earthquake causes rapid loading of the saturated soil underneath the building. Because the rate of loading is so high compared to the drainage rate of the soil, the added loading causes an increase in pore pressures, which decreases the stress between the actual soil particles. Less particle stress —> less soil strength ",
"Depends on your definition of relatively weak\n\n> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_magnitude_scale\n> > 6.0-6.9 Strong\n\n> > Damage to a moderate number of well-built structures in populated areas. Earthquake-resistant structures survive with slight to moderate damage. Poorly designed structures receive moderate to severe damage. Felt in wider areas; up to hundreds of miles/kilometers from the epicenter. Strong to violent shaking in epicentral area.\t\n\nIn terms of personal experience, I was around 15 miles away from a 6.7 and the shaking was violent enough to knock me damn near in the air off the bed.",
"Man the marketing team over at Tide knew what they were doing. They had no choice with the whole pod craze.",
"I watched the original Cloverfield last night and this reminds me of the act where they have to enter the building next door, jump onto the tilted building's roof and then save the girl trapped inside. So much anxiety.",
"Is that building supposed to be at that angle? ",
"Hopefully they could show him da wae to safety. ",
"That's so odd. I mean I know earthquakes are fairly common in some areas but the fact that the few times there were sizable readings and it happens to fall on the exact day of an anniversary for the same area. ",
"He's probably in the /r/WorldNews thread.",
"6.1-6.9 is moderate to severe. Earthquakes he serious happen roughly 20 times a year (not sure if that figure includes oceans). But 5.5 and up has the ability to knock over buildings. The amount of damage is also pretty relative to the epicenter of the quake. \n>\n>\n\nSauce: www.geo.mtu.edu/UPSeis/magnitude.html",
"My first thought too. We're going to hell. ",
"It depends on proximity to the epicenter, stability and type of soil, length of event, and other factors. What happens to buildings also depends on local codes.",
"Yes. Review his posts. ",
"Inb4 Taiwan blames cjayride ",
"Glad you could redirect the attention back to yourself during a crisis",
"Momma noooo!!",
"Yes, it's the more modern style of architecture nowadays. ",
"Oh my god I forgot about that. ",
"Thankfully most hotels are empty at night ",
"Cloverfield marketing is getting out of control!",
"Depends how far and how deep. I'm in Anchorage, AK, and the 8.0-8.2 that we had outside of Kodiak last month just made my video game collection rattle against eachother for about 30 seconds.",
"Philly has taken their super bowl celebration too far",
"in 2010 U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson made the statement that adding more Marines to Guam would flip the island over in a hearing with the Admiral of the pacific fleet,later attempted to play it off as levity. Video is on youtube and is worth a few chuckles.",
"> relatively\n\nis a word with a definition. ",
"Most of them are designed to the strictest maritime standards.",
"Well, a year does represent a physical process. Maybe there's some kind of subtle tidal effect from the sun's gravity that can trigger existing pressure buildups to express. ",
"Earthquake damage has a lot to do with it's magnitude, but also a lot to do with depth and how well it's centered on any urban center. \n",
"quick change your facebook profile pictures.",
"What, where is the damage/indication? *Ups brightness on phone* Ooooooh!",
"The fk is wrong with you?",
"Pack it up, toys. Our work here is done. \n\nThe people of Taiwan will thank us.",
"Right, because we all on Reddit are scrambling to help and our attention is of the utmost importance.",
"It’s seriously the most genius ad I’ve seen in quite some time. \n\nThink about it:\n\n- Funny and clever to begin with\n- Makes the statement that the expectation of clean clothes must make it a Tide ad\n- Subliminally makes the viewer think that any ad could be a Tide ad \n- Parodies other ads for other products that P&G owns (Old Spice and Mr. Clean), which further embeds the idea that **any** ad actually *can* be a Tide ad, while also promoting their other products\n- David Harbour\n- Takes some attention away from idiots eating Tide Pods\n\nIt’s brilliant. ",
"That picture looks like a shot from the first Cloverfield.",
"On the one hand: bravo to the architect, engineer and construction crew for building such a rock solid structure.\n\nOn the other:: God dammit...",
"Crap, hard drive prices will jump up! ",
"Wow, an entire building tipped without downright collapsing into rubble. Such a weird thing to see. \n\nSeems like the news sources claim 2 casualties so far, I hope it stops there.",
"Question...I'm horribly terrified of earthquakes and I live in California. What are the chances of an earthquake of this magnitude doing this kind of damage in CA?",
"I see what you’re saying but you can also not be a complete narcissist and look for a way to crowbar a story about your dream of a random thing into the narrative of people actually dealing with an earthquake.",
"I haven't watched TV in ages and have no idea what you're talking about but it sounds good. Link, please?",
"Senator from Georgia was worried about Guam capsizing. I hate my state some days ",
"didn't they just have an earthquake a couple of days ago?",
"The next earthquake in two years will actually help to improve infrastructure and 117 babies will be born that day",
"'trigger existing pressure buildups to express\"\n\n",
"I'm not OP. I just don't see a problem with someone talking on the internet casually in a serious thread. ",
"Agreed! It's not like they'd actually *discourage* others from purchasing their products, regardless of use. \n\nIs that a news report describing the dangers of children eating Tide Pods, nope, *It's a Tide Ad*.\n\nBrilliant strategy to just replace the controversy with humor.",
"So this is a bit of a dumb question, in the event of a building collapsing like so, is it safer to live in one of the higher up floors, assuming there's no massive fires below? ",
"I've heard of steel beams being flexible to avoid toppling, but this is ridiculous",
"meta",
"Aww come on, pinyin isn't that bad lol. ",
"Here you go: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IIW3l-ENHdA",
"I’m not the earthquake guy, but I don’t think the building should be leaning like that. ",
"Not to mention they help enforce the idea that tide is clean by the constant head gesture of looking down at their shirts",
"Wow, you sure deserve your reputation.",
"Reports are coming in of the first confirmed casualty...they say his name was Sum Ting Wong.",
"We'll Mexico's last earthquake hit us 37 years after the previous one. \n09/19/1985-09/19/2017",
"wait did CNN use 'causalities'?",
"I'm not the earthquake guy he was referring to.",
"As I've heard it, the soil acts as a non-newtonian fluid, ceasing to be a solid and acting temporarily as a dense liquid (liquefaction) that has a density less than that of the building above it. I live in an earthquake zone and I'm rather worried about this. Though I reckon I'd prefer my 100-year-old apartment building to sink gently than to be shaken by underlying bedrock to the point it breaks up.",
"Something gave it away, not sure what.",
"Wasn't the Mexico City one like 10 years to the day or something? ",
"You know the answer to this.",
"I can't figure out how they're supposed to get to any of those supplies under the bed. ",
"WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MOON!?... oh lantern...",
"It's called tact and good taste. It's not illegal but if you're not going to show either, expect people to mention it.",
"Heard of Taipei 101?",
"I thought it had ended and then David Harbour popped up, \"Nope, Tide ad.\"\n\nHe's like Chuck Testa.",
"Depends on where you live. Due to California's propensity for earthquakes, and it brings the US the standards for engineering are probably higher depending on where in Taiwan this is. I imagine older buildings, just like in California(though it's possible California had higher standards back in the day than Taiwan), probably has some older buildings not up to the current standards.",
"I hope everyone is okay:( ",
"That photo is haunting.",
"Cloverfield 4 viral marketing is getting a little out of hand.",
"You used literally the least logical word for \"there\". C'mon dude.",
"So the Chinese have finished their tunnel? ",
"we have a guy for everything.\n",
"And neighboring countries should close their borders. They want none of that earthquake shit. ",
"Quick. Someone make a stabilised version. ",
"The upper floors had to collapse on something to tilt like that.",
"Holy shit, I hope everyone is ok.",
"HOLY SHIT I HOPE EVERYONE IS OKAY",
"This nice breakdown is the first time in a while I've liked reading anything tide related ",
"History shows he's been offline for 14 hours. God help us all.",
"The lack of much damage in reports is probably because Taiwan was out of the environment at the time",
"Seriously. I saw this video a year or two ago and my only thought is, if that shit happened I'd wake up and flip the fuck out that i was in a box.",
"Yeah, if you were the earthquake guy your username would indicate it. ",
"No, they're aren't not!",
"Copy and pasted from the article, but it's since been updated to say 2 people have died.",
"a LOT depends on how deep it is.",
"I bet China is somehow behind this. ",
"listen here u little shit",
"What’s more incredible is that for 10 am it’s completely back outside.. must have shaken the sun right out the sky!",
"Taiwan numbah zero",
"https://imgur.com/a/D4hSR",
"\nWe had in the coming hours and days.\n\n-----\n^^^this ^^^is ^^^is ^^^an ^^^experimental ^^^bot ^^^that ^^^utilizes ^^^markov ^^^chains ^^^to ^^^form ^^^sentences ^^^from ^^^context.\n",
"Depends on how shallow and far away the epicenter was.",
"Heard of filling walls with empty paint cans instead of concrete? Because Taiwan has...",
"I blame those Chinese PUBG players",
"I blame those Chinese PUBG players",
"I blame those Chinese PUBG players",
"So.... what's this conversation, then? Seems like you're taking it more off the rails, as if that was a concern in the first place.",
"So buildings don't collapse like a planned demolition when they suffer extreme trauma.\n\n911 inside job.",
"It's very dependent on many factors. I was in a 6.9 (Nisqually, 2001), maybe 10-15 miles from the epicenter. I was walking through a parking lot and never would have even known there was an earthquake happening had it not been for the squeaking suspension of a nearby truck. But people in the building I was walking next to came pouring out scared half to death and complaining of nausea. ",
"But you are the earthquake guy we deserve",
"Also the relative damage done would be heavily dependent upon where it strikes and the infrastructure in place. Poorer countries with older or poorly designed structures will be hugely affected, where better-engineered structures in richer areas would not. ",
"Ok, by the time you have used the water and food, you will be bathing in your own piss and shit in a steel box, with no idea if anybody will ever find you. Wow, what a way to go.",
"he was watching the spacex landing and commenting on it.",
"Will the US disavow earthquakes?",
"Some of you guys are alright. Don’t stay home in 2 years.",
"I feel like Taiwan has trouble making buildings that are earthquake resistant. A 6.4 on the West coast or in Japan doesn't seem to result in this kind of damage.",
"So that's how NPR works.",
"Yeah, best to save time and sleep in your coffin",
"Are they?",
"_Thy shall never doubt the Reddit community_",
"Is this shit not getting old yet? White dude fakes a Chinese accent to piss off Chinese people. Yaaaay funny, yeah..... ",
"Tbf, I was more worried about those little nibbling horrible cunts",
"[video for the lazy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjG958lZ1KI)",
"'sad facebook react'",
"I'm honored",
"is it just me or are we seeing a increased number of earthquakes so close together.? [this i found handy](https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/#%7B%22autoUpdate%22%3A%5B%22autoUpdate%22%5D%2C%22basemap%22%3A%22grayscale%22%2C%22feed%22%3A%221day_m25%22%2C%22listFormat%22%3A%22default%22%2C%22mapposition%22%3A%5B%5B-25.005972656239177%2C228.427734375%5D%2C%5B44.715513732021336%2C312.80273437499994%5D%5D%2C%22overlays%22%3A%5B%22plates%22%5D%2C%22restrictListToMap%22%3A%5B%22restrictListToMap%22%5D%2C%22search%22%3Anull%2C%22sort%22%3A%22newest%22%2C%22timezone%22%3A%22utc%22%2C%22viewModes%22%3A%5B%22list%22%2C%22map%22%5D%2C%22event%22%3Anull%7D) * added link",
"holy fuck I forgot about that. I'm going to rewatch the series now that they are all connected",
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?",
"Lol have fun with your retarded keyboard",
"Ugh I was making coffee this morning in Southern California, looking out the window and thinking about I could be thrown across the room without warning at any second. What time did this happen in Pacific time? That’d be creepy if it was the same time. ",
"Injuries *are* casualties.",
"I knew the Falcon Heavy launch was powerful, but DAMN!!!",
"USGS has maps and other information on their [event page](https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us1000chhc#executive) and you can report the shaking you felt [here](https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us1000chhc#tellus). \n\nThis earthquake today was in the same [location](https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/#%7B%22autoUpdate%22%3A%5B%22autoUpdate%22%5D%2C%22basemap%22%3A%22grayscale%22%2C%22feed%22%3A%2230day_m45%22%2C%22listFormat%22%3A%22default%22%2C%22mapposition%22%3A%5B%5B23.37251382235947%2C-238.634033203125%5D%2C%5B24.676969798202656%2C-237.227783203125%5D%5D%2C%22overlays%22%3A%5B%22plates%22%5D%2C%22restrictListToMap%22%3A%5B%22restrictListToMap%22%5D%2C%22search%22%3Anull%2C%22sort%22%3A%22newest%22%2C%22timezone%22%3A%22utc%22%2C%22viewModes%22%3A%5B%22list%22%2C%22map%22%2C%22settings%22%5D%2C%22event%22%3Anull%7D) as the M6.1 that happened two days ago. This M6.4 also occurred exactly two years after the M6.4 in 2016 that resulted in 117 fatalities, nearly all from the collapse of a building with poor construction standards. From today's earthquake there have been [2 fatalities and 144 injured](https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/taiwans-premier-says-2-killed-144-injured-in-earthquake-striking-east-coast-city-of-hualien/), according to Taiwan premier. The impact an earthquake can have depends on many factors such as where it occurs, how large it was, how deep it was, which direction and how fast it ruptured, the ground type of the nearby area, the construction standards of that area, and any triggered events like landslides and tsunamis.",
"I know! Let's make a huge generalization about extremely complex events governed by principles we know nothing about and draw a conclusion that fits our narrative!\n\nDang. Ssaannkk beat us to it. ",
"\"We haven't been able to confirm with anyone inside but we are going to speculate that Satan has risen from the earth and the population has resorted to canabalism\"",
"I wonder how much money America is gonna have to spend on this.",
"Viral marketing for the next Cloverfield movie?",
"I made it through the original and 10 Cloverfield last night. Watching the new one tonight.",
"Ah balls, hard drive prices are going to increase again. (Hope everyone is as safe as can be)\n",
"This is why you follow the IBC",
"he sounds like ben carson",
"This looks like something out of Cloverfield",
"Thought this was the scene of Philly after the Eagles won",
"First thought “Holy shit the moon looks incredible!\n“Oh wait, it’s a lantern.”",
"You’re right about the liquefaction, which essentially occurs when the effective stress between the soil particles reaches zero. The waves actually don’t carry much amplitude through bedrock. Soil layers amplify specific frequencies depending on thickness and wave velocity through the soil. Buildings also have a “fundamental frequency”, which amplifies motion at a certain frequency dependent on its height. ",
"Maybe he’s asleep? Nothing new in his comment/post history ",
"TAIWAN NUMBAH WUAN",
"1 out of 365 isn't really terrible odds. There is a large week-long meeting of 20,000+ geoscientists hosted every year and it is nearly always in San Francisco. That 1 in 52 chance of the \"Big One\" occurring while they are all there just seems… brazen.",
"i thought the moon was vomiting all over taiwan. ",
"i hope ",
"I couldn't find the clip in question (looks like they rotate them) but I assume the reporter was speaking Enough. I'm curious how zhuyin can be considered superior in this context since it doesn't use Roman characters.",
"Holy shit ",
"And if you happen to have your leg or arm hanging over the bed, what might just be a minor quake endup up with you having your arm severed and bleeding out..",
"Looks like a scene from Cloverfield. ",
"Thats Elon Musk's drone that was lost earlier for sure",
"[fixed](https://i.imgur.com/iJOGhpR.jpg)",
"Wound't that be 200+ casualties? Casualty means injured and dead not just dead. ",
"I knew about the vacuum cleaner guy and the jumper cables guy, but not the earthquake guy",
"[does this help?](https://i.imgur.com/iJOGhpR.jpg)",
"this is the dumbass they gave us to replace cynthia mckinney when she started telling people that iraq didn't have anything to do with 9-11. still pissed about that one.",
"That's not very typical, I'd like to make that point",
"Isn't there a user that goes by the name, \"seis-matters\" that also does a damn good job?",
"fool.",
"Holy sjmozers. But not sure if that is top level building or low level demolishing?",
"The previous earthquake took down all the shit buildings. ",
"That's not Taiwan that's tilted towers",
"/r/kaijuwashere",
"The Richter scale has not been used for almost 6 years now... It’s now reported in the “Moment Magnitude Scale” which has a completely different means of determining strength. They are therefore not comparable. A 6 on the Richter scale is FAR MORE INTESENSE than a 6 on the Moment Magnitude Scale. This has never really been explained to most people, so earthquake reporting seems A LOT more alarmist in recent years.",
"holy shit.",
"Yeah the ones that infect you and make your head explode? That scene with them in the subway tunnel... yeah NOPE",
"Girlfriend and I were at the Natural History Museum in DC today, and they have a live seismograph. We saw it registering as it happened. Was pretty sure 6.4 was bad...lo and behold.",
"KEK",
"Eat the mattress first.",
"More like TaiLose",
"Are people using webcams from 2006 to take pictures? Even my 2 year old freebie smartphone takes better pictures than this.",
"It does look strange. Looks like the top floors slid off and are resting on the bottom floors maybe? Otherwise if that building was in the process of collapsing (as I originally thought was the case for some reason) I believe that unfortunately more than a couple deaths would have been reported. Still probably amazing that less people didn't die. Also could have been an abandoned building, otherwise condemned for some structural reason (lending to its collapse) etc...",
"Just fyi casualty refers to people injured and dead. It would be better to refer to it as 200+ casualties, two reported fatalities.",
"What if he died in an earthquake!? ",
"...no.",
"This is [just now being reported by the BBC.](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42966916)",
"No, no you're looking at it wrong. You haven't yet been trapped here yet, flee now while you still can.",
"That's the first thing I thought of.",
"100%",
"And a tsunami in central park...",
"even casual injuries?",
"We did it Reddit",
"Don't be so modest. Own your title. ",
"Is there a way I can send these guys my thoughts and prayers? Jk \n\nHonestly though may someone please link me to where I can donate? I'll donate to red cross for sure and maybe 2 other places that's aiding with relief. Thank you. ",
"I too have been to Panama City",
"That is some Pacific rim shit right there.",
"Yes.",
"It's like they tried to use the wrong one ",
"> /u/theearthquakeguy\n\nHas /u/theearthquakeguy posted yet?",
"The front fell off ",
"You know reddit is fucking broken when breaking news like this is only on the front page because of the pics subreddit ",
"★｡･:*͖̝̲̙̥̩̾̉ͥ̚ ¯\\\\\\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯ *̞̫̥̼͆̈́̃͂:･ﾟ★",
"Don't forget the 4th installment coming out this year too! ",
"I swear california has been expecting a huge earthquake for the longest time, but so many other cities be getting hit by huge ones... is there a reason there are so many earthquakes right now?",
"He is sleeping in again ",
"Didn't he have some sort of neurological problem, though?",
"This is a good argument for mandatory drug testing for politicians..",
"Depends on your building codes. Haiti earthquake was 7.0 and caused 100,000 deaths. ",
"will never understand how he kept a straight face\n",
"Might have been an error. Have you ever made an error?",
"California has high standards for earthquake protection. You'll be fine.",
"So you’re saying injuries are causally related to casualties?",
"Holy shit that building got rekt",
"Earthquakes can't melt steel beams!",
"/u/theearthquakeguy would love this",
"Someone needs to tell CNN. ",
"Damn that looks like a scene out of a movie",
"I feel so bad but I laughed loud at this.",
"Jet fuel can't melt them",
"Racism is a lie invented by the bourgeoisie to undermine the progress of communism, TAIWAN NUMBA 2",
"Was that the head or stomach? Either way.... fuuuuuck",
"But what exactly DID Iraq have to do with 9/11? We never found any WMDs, and all we did was remove Saddam from power, which was arguably the wrong decision. ",
"I knew which video before clicking on the link. Was not disappointed.",
"Falcon Heavy is to blame. ",
"We'll leave the light on for ya.",
"you mean chinese taipei",
"But an earthquake onsite a jet fuel refinery supported by steel beams, maybe....",
"> This is a good argument for mandatory ~~drug~~ IQ testing for politicians..\n\n",
"Why don't we build them slanted, and then when an earthquake hits they'll be knocked upright and everyone will be ok",
"It's not exactly obvious what happened in this picture but the two major ways this kind of damage can happen is either soil liquefaction under the foundation, or structural failure of a soft story. Possibly both. The fact it's at such a drastic angle suggests liquefaction to me but ill try to confirm later. \n \nWhat happens in liquefaction is during an earthquake, the water underground rises up into the soil underneath the building. The water permeates the soil causing the soil to lose any rigidity and act more like a liquid, similar to quicksand. The foundation then sinks much lower and causes a scene similar to this. It also happened in the Los Angeles - Northridge earthquake. \n \nWhat happens in soft story structural failure is if a taller building such as a mid-rise or high-rise has a lobby or first floor that is taller than the other floors, or also sometimes tuck-under parking that isn't properly retrofitted, the violent shaking causes a lot of stress to focus on the unique feature like the taller story or weaker tuck-under. The rest of the building that is more uniform in construction usually stays together as the floor belows it suffers catastrophic damage. \n \nI work in an engineering firm as an assistant to a structural engineer who specializes in seismic evaluations for the entire west coast. When I go to work today I'll try to see if he has any clues that indicate one possibility or another. \n \n**TL;DR** shaking causes soil to act like quicksand and building sinks, or the building had outdated structural features on the first floor that gave way in the large quake.",
"So that's where the center core went...",
"I like when you shout misspelled words. **This cofvette is intesese!!**",
"Disturbingly there are far far to many things that would be a good argument for that..",
"/u/earthquakeguy",
"Wow it is terrifying that he is in charge of anything. Great response by the military guy: \"...uh we don't anticipate that happening\"",
"I've lived in Taiwan, building codes only changed in the late 70's to early 80's I saw many many code violations and many many pictures of building snapped off at their bases. I've also seen entire neighbourhoods abandoned because damage was too substantial to repair and no one had money/ desire or there was too much superstition to tear them down. ",
"Time zone? ",
"hehe i live there",
"Can't win them all.",
"SIMULATION... Someone restored windows 76,000 to its 2 year old backup",
"Fuck. Politicians should need to pass some sort of mandatory common sense and educational screening. The results made public. But even then, with people’s blind loyalty to their parties, I can imagine someone making excuses for an ignorant politician, and still voting for them over some sort of personal similarity that has nothing to do with being a politician. ",
"Look! It’s the Beatles walking across the crosswalk in the background!",
"that looks like a scene from a video game. fucking wild.",
"No, it's laying on *its* side.",
"WOW, THAT SUCKS. HOPEFULLY NOBODY WAS IN THAT BUILDING",
"Welcome to you’re “doom”",
"From what he's said in the past he actually just has a personal interest in geology and has learned stuff about in his own time. He's not an expert and doesn't have any professional training in it, just a bit more knowledge than the average guy. ",
"An earthquake of this size? You'll be fine.\n\n\n",
"I've never made air.",
"We can rebuild it. We have the technology. ",
"That was difficult to watch. I just wanted to reach through my phone and strangle the answer out of him. ",
"How horrible! Looks like some building inspectors will be put in jail, too. Good luck, friends. I hope you are ok.",
"Don't feel bad fellow internet person. Here in California, plenty of people believe that the state will sink into the ocean during the next earthquake. \n\nStupidity knows no borders. ",
"While I can agree to an intelligence testing thing, I dont think IQ is a good choice, cause well its bullshit",
"That ainten’t correct.",
"Was it a tandem earthquake though?",
"Good bot",
"This should be on r/getmotivated. If this guy can make it then anyone can make it.",
"I know, it was a joke. ",
"The irony.",
"Wow. I remember it, I was in Hualien exactly two years ago. That earthquake happened in the south of the island, however, near Tainan IIRC. Leveled a couple of apartment buildings, which was the reason for the death count.",
"Hahah.... /sigh\n\n...You’re not wrong Walter...",
"CNN is still looking for Flight MH370.",
"I think someone was just sharing a personal anecdote, nothing more. They weren't grandstanding for attention.\n\nRelating to situations is precisely how we relate to and comprehend the world. If a giant worm burst up out of the ground people think of movies, dreams, TV, games, etc. where that happened, it's pretty natural. The particular shape of the building may have been especially familiar to them and really struck a chord, who knows.",
"thanks for the lolz",
"I don’t think so, that one is really big ",
"The cause of, and solution to, all our problems. ",
"came here for this, I feel bad.",
"You made me laugh out loud enough to.wake up my cat lol",
"Hanyu Pinyin is way easier to use and doesn't require another alphabet mapped onto the keyboard...",
"Crazy question, is there a noticeable correlation to changes in Earth's plate tectonics given some similarity in both it's position along it's orbit around the gravitational primary (Sun) as well as the moon's tidal forces?",
"And you stop to take a picture.",
"That's roughly how I feel after my 4th cup of cofvette in the mronging",
"[6.7 Quake in Northridge CA](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/FEMA_-_1807_-_Photograph_by_Robert_A._Eplett_taken_on_01-17-1994_in_California.jpg/1280px-FEMA_-_1807_-_Photograph_by_Robert_A._Eplett_taken_on_01-17-1994_in_California.jpg) ",
"This is obviously click bait.",
"But it’snnot really the size of the waves, it’s the... never mind.",
"Other than all the casualties there are no casualties",
"Lol this photo is better quality than the one on my phone. ",
"It sounds flippant, but the first thing I thought was \"That looks like a still from Cloverfield.\"",
"🎶 Naa, na na na na nah na naa, Katamari Damacy... 🎶",
"That’s where the movie lost me. You’re going off to rescue this girl and your friends are tagging along. Come on. Get the hell out of the city. Stop wasting time. I’ve never really been in love so I just didn’t get it. Would you let love kill you?",
"^^💩",
"He saw what happened to Club Penguin.",
"As far as I know, all older buildings had to be updated.",
"The buildings in Taiwan have Earthquake codes. Taiwan is just as earthquake prone as Cali, tbh. I remember experiencing a 3.0 magnitude last time I visited, my great-grandma was just calmly sitting there watching T.V. like nothing was wrong. I was overreacting to the earthquake, given how all my relatives were laughing at me :P",
"I felt slightly bad about making this joke.",
"OUCH! OUCH! Why would you do that to me? ",
"Not that I'd ever wish that on anyone /anywhere but that'd be irony at its finest",
"I can understand him going back for the girl he loves....but all his friends too? Maybe I just don't understand how friends work since I don't have any.",
"Someday I’m going to have to explain to the kids why cofvette is funny and then explain why I call nickels “bees”.\n\n",
"China numba won!",
"little known fact, plate tectonics have zodiac signs, so certain times of the year they get moody. It has nothing to do with it's relative position to the Sun ",
"In another thread they said he's from New Zealand, so he should be waking up to this, unless he pulled a me this morning and didn't wake to the alarm's and just barely made it to work on time.",
"Oof",
"Xdd get it cause asian sound like ching chang chong xdd",
"These people are running our country.",
"[...and this one.](https://i.redd.it/f0nuay8pnme01.jpg)",
"This means Japan will probably experience a bigger quake soon, right?",
"Yeah it kinda sucks.",
"Lets blame the muslim for everthing bad happend to the world",
"These Pacific Rim publicity stunts are getting out of hand",
"God, hope the people in that building are ok.",
"\"I don't know what I expected\" - /u/thr33beggars \n",
"Drugs don't do that, no need to further stigmatize addicts. It's a case of willfull ignorance of science in a position of power and that is deadlier than any drug nature or man can produce ",
"Do you have links/sources to explain this?",
"Thanks, Ollie.",
"Is drug testing not mandatory? ",
"Makes sense. We had a 6.8 in socal a few years ago, it was fun until my mom's collection of hot sauce flew out the cabinets, then my buddy and I learned the hard way you don't clean that with bleach. ",
"He had to be joking, no?",
"No deaths? That's surprising. ",
"I did literally the same thing. I was thinking \"hmm never seen a building tilted like that would it actually crumble in real life?\"\n\nGuess we have our answer!",
"If this happened in Europe, people on facebook would be changing their profile pictures to “pray for ____”. \n\nPray for Taiwan.",
"what if Taiwan is just like that? ",
"Shock does things to your brain.",
"WHY WASN'T EVERYBODY POINTING AND LAUGHING AT THAT MAN?",
"Remember, politicians are supposed to be representative of the population they represent.\n\nThat guy seems to sum up Georgia pretty well. ",
"i feel like thats what trump said after visiting puerto rico",
"Don't worry, it's not a coffin. Unless you die in it of course. Then I guess it doubles as a coffin.",
"/r/Cloververse once you realize you don't know what's happening",
"Ha, I just watched it last night, too! I'd never have done what they did... That's just asking for trouble, not to mention it would be absolutely terrifying, being in a place that could collapse any moment.",
"And the type of earth the building was constructed on. ",
"I was going to go to that hotel with a bunch of other exchange students next week. Scary stuff folks.",
"I'm not sure, but judging on context alone they are mad because they replaced a congresswoman who simply made comments about Iraq not being involved with 9/11 with someone who is a bona fide moron.",
"Happy cake day!",
"As long as my Ex-Wife moves her fat ass, that should shift it enough.",
"I live in Taiwan, man. Experienced 4 of the maybe 10 earthquakes over the last week. Last night, my fucking building was swaying like a swing. And the nights before. I live in a newer building, so I'm certain it is using new earthquake-proofing. But I feel really bad for older buildings that aren't. \n\nI won't deny it, it was fucking scary as hell.",
"It was his new glasses ",
"Watched it shouting \"Oh nooooooo!\" The entire time.",
"White devil destroys city, leaves EZ girls homeless.\n",
"Was that story about more earthquakes 2-3 days ago?",
"Damn.",
"Yeah, this is what killed the film for me. \"Plot-by-stupid\" moments kept happening so not only are you almost *rooting* for the characters to learn their lesson, but you're shaking your head the entire time because it feels like super lazy writing.",
"I always knew I could be president 😍",
"/u/waterguy12 would love this",
"I think they were asking because people who die in accidents are called \"casualties,\" not \"causalities.\"",
"How many of you thought it was a video and were waiting for it to load?",
"Why dont they get Taiwan and push it somewhere else",
"At least ours gives us good punk music: [Sink with California - Youth Brigade](https://youtu.be/toUzZ4lpco0)",
"Google Taiwan earthquake building collapse. This is shockingly common and pictures are horrific. After living in Taiwan and surviving a 6.5 quake, afterward, the mildest tremor would make me fear for my life. When I came home to Canada, for many years after returning home, the rumble of a big truck going past the house or touching a washer on spin cycle would turn my stomach and make my palms sweat. Their building code standards are absolutely terrifying. ",
"I'm actually looking it up and the earthquake I experience was reported as a 6.7 Mw (moment magnitude). No clue what it would have been in the Richter scale, since apparently they stopped using the richter scale since the 70's? (media used to report Richter for a while, but they were just wrong, I think most outlets try to say \"magnitude\" now).\n\nHowever, based on the description of a 6.0-7.0 for Richter, and the results of the earthquake I'm willing to say it's an accurate description.",
"To go hang with Hawaii",
"A joke on Reddit? Unlikely.",
"A lot of older construction in Taiwan is complete shit. Crooked construction companies liked to [cut corners on concrete fills by dumping in empty barrels.](http://metro.co.uk/2016/02/09/developer-of-collapsed-building-arrested-after-oil-cans-spotted-in-its-pillars-5670830/) Of course it's only a problem if you're building in an earthquake-prone area like a volcanic island on the ring of fire.",
"I'm sure buoyancy on land is much easier to calculate than on water. Although if you designed a building that sank on land intentionally, that may be an achievement in and of itself.",
"Already published hours ago ",
"Hell no!",
"It's a tide commercial",
"... Express can be a verb. ",
"Already 20 minutes back into the first one again!",
"To be fair, this isn't /r/funny, so there's a chance. \n\nhttps://media.giphy.com/media/cAwNWy7dKoyOs/giphy.gif",
"Yea they’ve been having a couple of earthquakes the last few days. Fam lives in Taiwan ",
"lol",
"At least we have Atlanta. I hear Savannah is nice too. ",
"Looks like a scene from Cloverfield",
">\tPoliticians should need to pass some sort of mandatory common sense and educational screening\n\nThat's what elections are supposed to be for",
"This is heartbreaking. I hope people are okay.",
"Who lives on Quaker Lane.",
"it was 1k deep. shallow=bad",
"6.4 doesn't sound huge, but that damage looks awful.",
"Earthquake small. Building shitty.",
"Don’t get me wrong. I love my state, but we need to start voting smarter",
"This needs to be at the top. A smart women replaced by an idiot. Not the first (or last) time.",
"Damn, didn’t realize SpaceX’s rockets had so much thrust.",
">幹\n\nFor those that don't read Chinese, he just said 'fuck'.",
"But that's because you want representatives like you. Dumb people want representatives like them. That's the whole point. That's how representation works. When you disbar people from running for office, you open up a whole can of worms that leads the the death of democracy. The real solution is to educate the electorate, who will then, theoretically, elect more educated leaders.\n\nOf course the catch-22 is that the leaders educated by an uneducated electorate have no interest in improving education...",
"They are are not not",
"Because he has power, IIRC he’s still in office ",
"Or a me and had all of his alarms set for the wrong time and strolled into work twenty minutes late thinking he was early and then avoided reddit entirely in order to be on his best behavior. ",
"It is interesting when a large or impactful earthquake occurs at a conference and you see phones lighting up, people running models on their laptops, groups poring over maps and whispering while the poor speaker tries to regain attention.",
"I thought he was just referencing always sunny like everyone else on reddit",
"Maybe not to california. just incaseies",
"This mandatory testing would have been useful about oh, I don't know.. say a year ago?",
"He’s in Taiwan ",
"Pinyin is not designed for non-Chinese speakers. ",
"You ever wonder why buildings in China topple so easily during earthquakes? Building codes are a joke there because people are bribed to look the other way. Some buildings [just fall over as they are being built](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5685963/Nine-held-over-Shanghai-building-collapse.html).",
"Not if the neutrinos don't mutate.",
"Local's here..\n\nTwo people dead and hundreds injured. There were three people trapped inside that hotel.\n\nWell compare to the earthquake two years ago, this one is better. 2016 earthquake killed 100+ people.",
"WHAT DID YOU DO ELON?? ",
"CTRL + F, RAM prices, thanks for posting this!",
"Hate to say it, but after closely following Cloverfield's viral marketing I was suspicious for a second. Glad I'm not the only one. ",
"IDK what else you'd have him do, Presidents sign off on things.\nHe signed off on plenty.\n\n*Forgot hating on Trump is in fashion, even though he did a fine job handling Puerto Rico.",
"Come to live to Chile... After a while you won't even leave your seat for a 6.7...\nNot trying to play it as a badass, it's common for us to have 6+ earthquakes so everything is build to avoid damage",
"Yeah, that was no drug-induced momentary lack of judgement. \n\nThat was a deeply-rooted lack of understanding in what an island is. ",
"I know someone that was living in that building until last Saturday. She just got back to the US after she finished an english teacher job.",
"Stand up building, you're drunk.",
"Bruh.",
"That Falcon Heavy rocket sure is powerful.",
"拼音 is by far better...",
"Even weed? If they smoked they might become better people. ",
"AGU!",
"They were shit to begin with. Add this, combined with GPU cost (until the cryptocurrency crash) we're all doomed to keeping our current computers forever.",
"Top three worst fears. 1 earthquakes, 2 mudslides, 3 sink holes. ",
"I started to watch it, but it didn't hold my attention. I figured I just wasn't in the right mindset for it and I'll try again later. Does it pick up?",
"He never posts his updates in r/pics. Only in news subs",
"https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ looks like a number of 6.+ earthquakes hit, from s africa to Taiwan.",
"Remind me",
"Seems similar to the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. This one was 6.4, 1km deep, ~20km from the city. Christchurch was 6.3, ~11km deep, ~10km from the CBD. Shallow earthquakes can give very high ground acceleration compared to deep earthquakes.\n\nSee also the Northridge earthquake in the 90’s for an example of this.",
"Guerrilla marketing 101 ",
"Taiwan's Tilted Towers",
"6.4 isn't exactly \"huge\".",
"We don't give them any sort of tests though. \n\nWe read their stupid Tinder bio of a website which is written for them by someone smarter, and that's mostly what we get in terms of evaluation. ",
"Looks like the front fell off",
"Jesus the comment on that video...",
"What are the odds i see a post about an emergency ball made for earthquakes and floods, etc, take a nap, come back on reddit, and this is the first post i see",
"0 casualties? Are we sure this isn't a Cloverfield promo?\n\n\n\n/s",
"WHY ARE WE SHOUTING IN THE NEWS NOW",
"It's a widely believed fact.",
"it's not very logical to assume it was an error of logic. also the c'mon dude makes you seem like a whiny bitch but that's beside the point",
"They are now. I fixed it. https://i.imgur.com/GqSHz6R.png",
"The vibrations from the falcon heavy launch had unexpected repercussions.",
"Forgive my ignorance, but isn't 6.4 kind of smaller in the grand scheme of earthquakes? Doesn't Japan regularly get hit with 7s-9s with minimal casualties? What gives?",
"It's also the second M6+ earthquake plus aftershocks in the past two days, people were very prepared to evacuate as soon as the shaking started. ",
"Your hopes are everything",
"You must work from home.",
"It is quite possible that Seattle will sink a few (dozen, even) feet during their next large event due to the subduction zone.",
"Sounds like something that someone who received poor marks on an IQ test would say...",
"This looks a lot like the effects of liquifaction, but it could also just be structural failure of the building.",
"Pinyin was never intended to be a pronunciation guide for English speakers. That's like saying if an English speaker mispronounced \"deux\" as \"dey-ux\" that the French alphabet is a retarded system.\n\nAlso, if it was being transcribed in bopomofo, English speakers would still *definitely* not be able to pronounce it correctly.\n\nBut really, it comes down to you complaining that someone isn't pronouncing things correctly in a foreign writing system.\n\nSource: have background in linguistics, conducted research in phonology and writing systems, spent a summer in Beijing on an NSF grant conducting research about how Chinese speakers process phonological information from written words, can pronounce Pinyin fluently.",
"Where the fuck is earthquake guy!?",
"Expect more this year. The Earth is is decelerating and this correlates to more earthquakes. ",
"GOJIRA",
"注音 isn't readable for non-Chinese speakers so how is it even relevant",
"Damn. I hope they can recover well.",
"What happens when you clean hot sauce with bleach?",
"Unfortunately, this building was constructed on C-137 earth.",
"\"I us intesense to cover the smell of my mariwanna.\"",
"Honesty thought the title was a goof and this was from the set of a Godzilla/Pacific Rim/ Japanese Disaster film.",
"Local infrastructure.",
"Nothing. Iraq had nothing to do with it. America went to war with a completely unrelated country. They may as well have invaded Australia. They replaced Cynthia Mckinney for telling the truth because the truth went against the party line.",
"I can't believe he couldn't think of the word \"narrowest\" when asking about the dimensions of the island.",
"Thanks Ollie ",
"What the hell is that supposed to mean",
"My gripe with pinyin is that it teaches its learners incorrect ways to perceive English letters. I had a hard time teaching Chinese kids English when I was there.\n\nFor instance, the \"CH\" sound in \"chair\" is represented with \"Q\" in pinyin. While \"CH\" is actually in pinyin and sounds like \"tss\" with your tongue rolled. Or the Chinese \"Z\" is pronounced akin to English \"J.\" Chinese \"X\" is pronounced akin to English \"SH.\" It's annoying but nothing major. Most of the time, it just leads to awkwardness while I tried to figure out what they're trying to say.",
"That is just what the chinese want! ",
"I thought it was trash honestly. Brilliant job by Netflix getting people to watch it before it could hit Rotten Tomatoes.",
"**TAWAIN FAILED TO SUPPORT THE WAR ON TERROR, SO F’ EM. THE ONLY REASON TO TRAVEL THERE IS TO HAVE SEX WITH CHILDREN AND A SHAVED APE PROSTITUTE.**",
"I already saw it but you're still a dick",
"it was OK, but seemed only loosely connected to cloverfield",
"If you read the full context of Rep. Johnson's comment, you can see his line of questioning is a deadpan joke, and that his concern is the impact of the number of soldiers being moved to the island. He follows up his \"will Guam tip over\" statement with this: \n\nJohnson: And also things like the environment, the sensitive areas of the environment, coral reefs and those kinds of things, and I know that lots of people don’t like to think about that but … you know, we don’t think about global warming either, and now we do have to think about it, and so I’m concerned from an environmental standpoint whether or not Guam is the best place to do this relocation. but it’s actually the only place, is that correct?\n\n",
"Is that building okay? Asking for a friend, not a building a human one. ",
"I guess he was according to him somewhere further down. I never watched it so I was wrong. Applies to this moron too though",
"Ya, if you could leave out a ladder, preferably of the rope persuasion, that'd be great too.",
"http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/sick-reference.gif",
"I see a conspiracy starting... ",
"It depends on a lot of factors. In areas regularly hit by earthquakes, they tend to build things that can withstand them. There are many things done in construction that massively resist the impact of earthquakes. Another factor is terrain. Buildings built on softer earth as opposed to rock are going to be much more prone to earthquake damage. A 5.0 on some mud flats in China will cause much more damage than a 6.0 in San Francisco.\n\nAlso, these reports often give the strength as measured from the epicentre. The actual strength diminishes somewhat at greater distance.",
"That's what they all say. They all say \"D'oh\".",
"That's racist",
"It creates earthquakes in the past. ",
"I'm on a PC and this looks like it's 480x640",
"I hope everyone is fine there",
"I think the Taiwan government can handle this on its own, the disaster was limited to the city of Hualien and there were only a few buildings with very heavy damage. But I guess the red cross or other organizations could always use donations.\n\nEdit: Misspelled the name of the city. ",
"Chief wiggum is my spirit animal",
"Look at that cool ass lamp though!",
"If the arm starts crawling towards you, give it a pen. It might have an important message for you. ",
"Yep. And gets bizarre.",
"The likelihood of buildings collapsing completely is extremely low due to California's strict building codes. Most of them should survive even a major quake. Pictures of the freeway collapses from the Northridge quake are scary but they've been re-enforced since then.\n\nJust be prepared, get a kit of supplies together and get under a heavy piece of furniture like a table or desk and cover your head. Don't go outside or in a doorway as they're less safe. If you are outside, try to get to an open space clear of falling debris.",
"Strange coincidence that r/Cloververse is one of today's Trending Subreddits.\n\nOr is it?",
"it's lame and has absolutely zero to do with the first two",
"Nah, the US couldn't get away with invading Australia because it isn't full of brown people. Fuck our leadership. ",
"Eli10:\nEarthquake moment magnitude doesn't tell you much about the intensity of the damage that can be caused just the energy released from the fault rupture at the time of rupture (the parts of moving ground that cause the shaking).\n \nSeismic waves can change dramatically depending on what they interact with during their journey. For example your friend that lives on a very flat plane made of very hard volcanic rock will experience very little shaking compared to you who lives in a soft sedimentary basin even though you live the same distance from the fault and are experiencing the exact same earthquake. \nThis is because waves travel faster through more dense hard rock like that formed from solidified lava and have smaller amplitudes (less movement) due to the crystalline structure of chemical bonds within the minerals they are composed of. It's like wiggling a rope while holding it tight you won't get much movement and the ripple gets to the other side faster. Sedementary basins however are filled with loose ground up tiny versions of minerals and other stuff so are really \"fluid\" and easy to move. This makes wavelength, amplitude and ground movements larger and also causes the waves to travel slower giving them more time to do damage. Not to mention if the basin is deep and surrounded by much harder rock it can reflect waves around within it causing them to crash into each other and stack to higher amplitudes than possible before.\n\nThere are many many other things that can happen and I would literally have to write a textbook on it to explain it all properly but it's all super interesting so I'd recommend watching some YouTube videos on seismic waves, their effects and things that change their behavior. Gl and have fun. \n\nP.s volcanoes are super interesting too!!! ",
"I’ll also guess that he was probably born in Alabama, and moved to Georgia. ",
"The most recent comparable quake on the West coast was a 6.0 in August 2014. It killed 1, injured 200+, and did more than $300 million in damage.",
"Nice thought, but it's not looking good.",
"Probably the Falcon' s center core ",
"It's not just that it's a completely stupid concern, and mind bogglingly insane that someone with authority would think that, But DAMN does he not know how to talk. ",
"The global war on terrorism began as a direct result of 9/11. The whole WMD thing was pretty much proven false immediately after it was reported, however throughout the early years it was still repeated. Many insisted on it being necessary to be 100% sure there were no WMD.",
"Sounds oddly familiar...",
"Q and ch sounds both exist in pinyin and are not the same sounds. The q sound does not actually exist in English, not do z and x sounds. Pinyin ch does exist in English and it actually is exactly like ch in chair.",
"Holy *SHIT.*",
"Hmmm. Prehaps we could weaponize this phenomenon. ",
"I want to like it, I loved the first movie, but I feel it's bizarre for the sake of being bizarre. It doesn't really lead to the story apart from creating some tension. The story is also very straight forward. As a whole it felt very disjointed. [Also I don't think that Star Trek Discovery having a similar storyline recently helped...](/spoiler)",
"No, you made no mistake. Source; youre a doctor.",
"I know it's not possible but I would love for it to happen.",
"I'm not OP, but bleach has thick fumes that fill a room, I'd imagine mixed with hot sauce it probably creates a tear gas feeling in the air. ",
"These people are ~~running~~ ruining our country.\n \nFTFY",
"Lean 45 degrees and panic. That's what it's like.",
"6.4 is NEVER weak. \n\nBut how bad it is can really depend on distance and depth. Can make the difference between a few causalities and flattening whole cities.",
"HEY",
"Intense if true.",
"well Pudong is sinking because they built skycrapers on marshlands so there can be some truth lol",
"Just don't everyone clap at the same time! It would start another earthquake!",
"I dont know if i should up vote since this is terrible but i kinda want to ",
"I liked it for the most part, except for that ending. That was really, really bad.",
"PUBG is clear of hackers for the time being. \n\n",
"God punishing the world for spacex",
"groudon and kyogre needa chill ",
"Well and i was watching hafu's stream when suddenly chat got raided by an taiwanese host and everyone was spamming \"earthquake in taiwan\". I guess i'm one of the first witnesses, even though i thought it was a joke",
"My dad in Taiwan was sleeping when it happened at 23:51. He ran out after feeling the 8 seconds of shaking and stayed up at 7-11 all night. Hope there's no casualties. ",
"/u/Warlizard would love this. to post on his forums.",
"An earthquake? In Taiwan? Chance in a million. ",
"If there’s anything I learned from the military (there’s actually quite a lot that I learned), it’s military doublespeak. \n\n> the military guy: \"...uh we don't anticipate that happening\"\n\nThat translates roughly to, “Please tell me you are *not* that fucking stupid. Did you dress yourself today? Because that statement was pants-on-your-head stupid. I can’t believe you were actually elected into your job. \n Sir.”",
"Yeah, I can definitely see that. Standalone it's nice, but as part of the Cloverfield story it feels very rough, specially trying to tie it back to the first film.\n\nI feel like the direction was great but the execution still needed a little more polishing.",
">Currently they're are dozens trapped. Hope they get out safely.\n\nCurrently they are are dozens trapped.\n",
"Here is all the raw earthquake data and analysis. \n\nhttp://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventtype=EQ&eventid=1133266&episodeid=1197330",
"Here’s a succincnt explanation *note, I just google searched and read it, i don’t really have any background on the specific website, so take it with a grain of salt... \nhttp://www.actforlibraries.org/the-difference-between-the-moment-magnitude-scale-and-the-richter-scale/",
"Geez. And the huge Mexico City quake they had in September was also on the same date as *their* previous large earthquake. What the heck",
"I imagine anyone on those balconies slowly stepping backwards until they full on run inside.",
"Lol looks like acenen from movie",
"An earthquake's magnitude is a poor way to measure its intensity. It doesn't take into account the depth or direction of shaking, or the magnification effects of the local geology, among other things.\n\nSource: I was in the Christchurch earthquake which pretty much destroyed the centre of that city. Despite the magnitude being only 6.3, the fact it was a shallow tremor, producing mainly vertical shaking occurring in an area that is predominantly silty river plains, it produced some of the strongest shaking ever recorded, with one seismic station measuring vertical movement of 2.2x the force of gravity.",
"Why should a comment about a senator from the US have to be at the top in a thread about an earthquake in Taiwan???",
"If this post wasn’t titled and it was just the picture. I would have thought that was Philadelphia after the super bowl",
"Omg thats terrible, i'd keep them in my prayers",
"Depends on different factors besides the magnitude, a M6.4 with a depth of 10 km literally below L.A. or S.F. could be very very damaging... But a M6.4 in Death Valley with same the depth would likely just result in a few buckled roads. ",
"Thought this was a picture of philly ",
"Not on their front page, but if you do a search, it comes up. Note the time stamp.\nhttps://www.cnn.com/2018/02/06/world/taiwan-earthquake/index.html\n\n",
"This is why you don’t match slope in prop hunt.",
"After spending considerable time in Florida. ",
"It is important to note that 6.4 is a large earthquake, but not a HUGE one. The primary reason it was so bad here is that it was essentially directly below (10 Mi. is not very far at all in terms of earthquakes) a population center.",
"For me the ch and the q in Pinyin sound almost identical but are just followed by different vowels and the z is more like a \"dz\" sound harder than a j that we don't have in English but could be approximated with the dz in end-zone. The x doesn't really quite exist in English either and is usually between the sh and s with the exact position varying a bit by accent.\n\nI mean it's not perfect, but it's about as good as you're going to get to properly adapting the Latin alphabet to Chinese\n\nZhuyin is nice and I learned it first when I started studying Chinese. I don't really think it's better or worse for native speakers but I do think that using it helps learners avoid just trying to pronounce Mandarin the way the pinyin looks.",
"Ah shit, I have family there. Hopefully they and everyone else there stays safe.",
"F",
"It’s not 拼音 that creates the most confusion with Taiwanese names, it’s the remnants of the Wade-Giles system. Kaohsiung? Really? At least Gaoxiong would have some more sense behind it.",
"It’s means we’re all going to die.",
"I'm so lost without him",
"He probably thought it was Arkansas however. ",
"Having been in the Northridge quake, which was a 6.7, a 6.4 is going to feel pretty darned strong. Scary strong. But you are right, the Richter scale is a logarithmic one where a 1 point increase equates to a thirtyfold difference in magnitude. ",
"damn hope they alright. ",
"It depends on a lot of things. Even where I live in Japan, although we are constantly aware of and building against earthquakes, this would still do some damage in areas where the buildings aren’t so sound (thinking back to Kumamoto’s earthquake). The one upshot of being in the Tohoku earthquake was that I was fairly confident I wasn’t going to die from a structural collapse cause I was living in a new house built to the latest codes. ",
"That was the point of her statement. There was very little if any major reasons related to 9-11 for the Iraqi conflict. Afghanistan and Pakistan were however. \n\nIn before some armchair neckbeard responds to me with some pedantic arguments about how I'm wrong. ",
"Should probably caveat that many countries still use the Richter magnitude scale for official measurements, so it's worth checking the source of any magnitude reading to see which scale was used.",
"To be fair, Johnson was battling Hepatitis C at the time, which often induces hepatic encephalopathy, mental confusion.\n\nhttps://www.webcitation.org/68zd8eIwV?url=http://www.ajc.com/news/u-s-rep-hank-230506.html",
"That's what's causing the earthquakes in the first place...",
"Or it might counter it",
"What sort of standards?",
"that last one got me",
"Damn earthquake woke me up last night:(\nLuckily I live away from Hualien so it was a minor shake. Hope the residents there are safe.",
"The building shouldn't look like that right? ",
"6.4 isn't \"huge\" this is mild by my country's standards. \n\n\nSource: a Chilean fellow who's lived through two 8.x earthquakes.",
"Trying to escape Earth, I see. ",
"You forgot to mix it with ammonia ",
"WITHOUT 9/11 the govt. would have needed another reason to keep invading the Middle East, keeping it in turmoil and allowing the oil companies to write favorable contracts for themselves...at some point people are going to have to recognize that the sole reason anyone is there is to continue the removal of their oil reserves..but hey TERRORISTS",
"I'm summarizing this article I read the other day: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/11/20/earths-rotation-is-mysteriously-slowing-down-experts-predict-uptick-in-2018-earthquakes/amp/\n\nTfw you get downvoted for bringing others' attention to science. ",
"Crazy",
"/r/worldnews is utter trash. Not surprised at all.",
"why was the change made?",
"Thanks I was really confused.",
"We have a the earthquake guy?",
"Have you considered not typing things that are wrong",
"Shit!! I gottaa message this dude!",
"Wait. 4th? I thought there were only 2 movies?",
"Hopefully any injuries in that building have been rescued and be safely.🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻",
"There's about a 99% probability that you're going to die a horrible death. LEAVE. CALIFORNIA. IMMEDIATELY.",
"Glad I could help!",
"That's what you get for harassing cjayride...",
"So you just post a pic to farm karma???",
"I think that using zhuyin to learn phonics before pinyin is good for people studying Chinese since it helps you avoid confusion, but I don't know a better system for romanizing Chinese for people who aren't looking to really learn the language. Even for people learning the language I think it's fine so long as you remember it's not English (or whatever language you know written in the Latin script). I personally never used zhuyin after learning phonics.\n\nAlso just a heads up that 花蓮 in 漢語拼音 is Hualian, not Hualien. I think Hualien is Wade-Giles which is miles worse.",
"Drugs for sure mess up your brain my dude",
"Taiwan...where building are made in China...",
"The leaning tower of shit apartments",
"At least I’m not the only one. I saw the picture before I read the post and thought, *Cloverfield*. ",
"Oh jesus, haven't heard that name in decades.",
"It's 12:40 PM in New Zealand. He's definitely not just waking up to this. ",
"You asshole, nearly made me spit my drink out laughing",
"[USGS Link](https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/#%7B%22autoUpdate%22%3A%5B%22autoUpdate%22%5D%2C%22basemap%22%3A%22grayscale%22%2C%22feed%22%3A%221day_m25%22%2C%22listFormat%22%3A%22default%22%2C%22mapposition%22%3A%5B%5B-55.87531083569677%2C682.03125%5D%2C%5B74.21198251594369%2C963.2812499999999%5D%5D%2C%22overlays%22%3A%5B%22plates%22%5D%2C%22restrictListToMap%22%3A%5B%22restrictListToMap%22%5D%2C%22search%22%3Anull%2C%22sort%22%3A%22newest%22%2C%22timezone%22%3A%22utc%22%2C%22viewModes%22%3A%5B%22list%22%2C%22map%22%5D%2C%22event%22%3Anull%7D)",
"It's actually a tide ad.\n\nBut seriously, I hope everyone is ok.",
"(This is deadly, for those unaware.)",
"Seems like it's every teen \"found footage\" type movie. Never fails, by the end I'm rooting for the badguys because these good guys are so _terminally dumb_.",
"pray for them :(",
"Was there a time traveler involved?",
"3 were as in they made out alive or are now dead?",
"Ram and projector bulb prices to go up",
"Zhuyin an objectively better phonetic writing system (“拼音”) than HYPY. it’s more consistent and faithful at representing mandarin phonetics. \n\nHYPY (“pinyin”) is better at romanization and being easy for foreigners to read.",
"The Cloverfield Paradox was released on Netflix directly after the end of the Superbowl. The 4th installment of the Cloververse, which I forgot the name of sorry, is set to release later this year as well.\n\nEdit: The 4th movie is called \"Overlord\"",
"They applauded too hard",
"Only off by about 1,500 miles. Close though!",
"God that video is hilarious. The \"saving\" animation is so brutal and scary hahaha.",
"> now that they are all connected\n\nwait so the new connects them somehow? a yes or no answer will be appreciated since i dont like spoilers. i was gonna watch it eitherway though.\n\ni know the first two arent connected in any major way unless this new one changes that. ",
"Ok",
"Yep. Not enough brown folk....or oil. ",
"I see the Chinese earthquake machine is fully operational.",
"Yes. ",
"Bet",
"You don't go to threads about earthquakes in other countries to read about United States politics? You need to get your head examined. ",
"What about a sink hole caused by an earthquake that gets filled up with a mudslide?",
"Flip the island? What does he think an island is? A sturdy floating piece of dirt?",
"It was only an estimate!",
"China is happy",
"That looks absolutely terrifying, I hope everyone is okay.",
"Zhuyin an objectively better phonetic writing system (“拼音”) than HYPY. it’s more consistent and faithful at representing mandarin phonetics. \n\nHYPY (“pinyin”) is better at romanization and being easy for foreigners to read.\n\nHow many vowel and consonant sounds are used to pronounce the sound “Yu”? (雨）? how many of each in the word “wu” (五）？ the answer for each is zero consonants and one vowel.\n\nHow about “wo”(我）？ Two vowels, Wu (as above) and o. People who learn 注音符號 know this, people who learn HYPY often may not.",
"🅱️NN",
"That'll just get you shitty radio2",
"Godzilla",
"Jesus...and I was mad that my knock off Jordans haven't arrived yet. Don't I feel like a piece of shit.",
"I hope everyone is ok!",
"haha, i guess ill watch it today.",
"Was about to make a similar joke until I found this one. Good show.",
"I guess they found the Falcon Heavy center core. ",
"Wow, guess those Nike kicks I ordered are gonna be late",
"Tilted towers update irl?",
"[Not there either](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/7vol8s/strong_taiwan_quake_topples_buildings/dttu637)",
"Taiwan # 1",
"https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/7vol8s/strong_taiwan_quake_topples_buildings/\n",
"So you’re saying the front fell off?",
"Sounds like the little bro got his hands on the account.",
"Bleach + Vinegar = Chlorine Gas",
"usgs says 6.4, that's not that huge",
"Whatch out guys! The road is cracking right next to you! ",
"RemindMe! 2 years",
"I hope everyone in the world except the people in that one building are ok.",
"Such a disappointing stream at the very end...\n Dust, dust, \"and now back to the studio!\"",
"Taiwan numbs one",
"I would rather invest the money into a better engineer so I won't need the bed.",
"Well, the hotel I'm in sure rocked around for a while. But it seems fine. ",
"Yeah, but that's only because [she thinks Bush did 9/11](https://twitter.com/search?q=9%2F11%20from%3Acynthiamckinney&src=typd).",
"6.4 ain't THAT huge....",
"Never realized buildings actually leaned like that. I thought that they'd just collapse since they're not designed to . . . Lean like that.",
"It sure woke me up. Building in in was rocking around for a good minute post quake.",
"Damn Reddit won’t let you enjoy your popularity at all, even though everyone strives for it. It’s like middle school — if you knew you were cool, you weren’t cool anymore. ",
"This is the first I've heard about a 4th Cloverfield. I'm not holding my breath about any others getting made though since the new one got such terrible reviews.",
"Got it. So HUGE EARTHQUAKE JUST HIT TAIWAN = moderate earthquake hit 10 miles off the Taiwanese shore.",
"I think that's just the nature of phonetics. There's a learning curve, but pinyin serves its purpose just fine. ",
"Thanks man! I didn't realize it was my Reddit bday.",
"I read it’s actually the clapping of hands",
" Not Cloverlord? Shame",
"We’ve had like a hundred (literally) earth quakes in the past few days in taiwan so this entire theory is unbelievable bullshit lol",
"Really? It was almost a direct rip of Sunshine's plot with a sprinkling of Event Horizon, except with *less* of a convincing explanation for what was going. Very standard space horror fare. Well acted and interesting characters, with what I felt was a fun twist at the end. I give it a 7/10. It wasn't *bad* but it also wasn't really good and there's nothing at all to recommend it over literally any other space horror film.\n\nI'm still waiting for the \"Aliens\" of the Cloverfield universe. I want some damn space marines.",
"It's just sleepy ",
"Now we know where the center core landed. ",
"Yeah, but there was another earthquake a few days before, in September 7 that affected another area of Mexico (8.2 Richter), weirdly enough scientists said they weren't related ",
"Stay safe all x",
"There were actually closer to one hundred earthquakes. But yes most not strong enough to feel. I definitely felt 10 myself",
"Jesus that would be awful.",
"Nah I only looked at their front page. It was in the morning for a brief time ",
"Fucking millenials",
"Ehh Saddam was pretty terrible. He added stability to the region but at a huge cost to Iraqi citizens. ",
"I can’t wait to get the VR tour from tha ZUCCCC",
"It's already done filming, I'm sure the series will just continue on Netflix now",
"r/meta\n\n[MRW I just finished my presentation on how the uneven vibrations caused by applause may cause earthquakes. AND THE FUCKING IDIOTS START CLAPPING.](https://media.giphy.com/media/5KyYuIyRe1KeI/giphy.mp4)\n\n[Post](https://www.reddit.com/r/shittyreactiongifs/comments/7vhh9f/_/)",
"CHINA #2\n\nTAIWAN NUMBA WONNNNNNNN",
"I mean, two out of three ain't bad. ",
"Man, even their buildings are slanted.",
"OH SHIT THE JIG IS UP, TIME TO SCRAM!!!!!!!",
"Do you need life alert? ",
"Zh, Ch, Sh. That \"Ch\" does not sound like \"Ch\" in chair. At all.\n\nEdit: Your passive-aggressive downvote is noted.",
"ㄈㄜㄎ ㄩ！",
"The timeline has been altered ",
"That's some Akira shit right there.",
"Now, I’m no building expert, but I’m pretty sure that buildings aren’t supposed to tilt like that. ",
"Taiwan numba one",
"I actually just read that the studio is still on board for a full theatrical release in October! ",
"What, \"The people of Taiwan will thank us\"? 😅",
"I know what zh ch sh are, and ch is the consonant in chair. ",
"ching chang pong!",
"You're saying you're surprised a public forum with millions of unique visitors per hour doesn't stay 'on topic' in every thread? The beautiful thing about reddit is you can enter a thread on any topic and see any number of fascinating and informative discussions taking place there. ",
"Technically speaking, casualties means injuries & deaths",
"> helps learners avoid just trying to pronounce Mandarin the way the pinyin looks. \n\nThat's all I'm saying. It's the same for when Spanish-speakers learn English. The alphabet already means something to them, and they have to learn that it means something else in English. (Double \"L\" for example.)",
"I live California... Can't wait for our's to hit. ",
"Cloverfield Paradox marketing is really good.",
"Have some fuckin empathy. ",
"Thank you. You are exactly right.",
"how you do dat?",
"Mate, im not sure you understand what the right connections can bring you.",
"Living in Taiwan, there's no way we fix this in 3 days. We spent 20 years building a 50km metro.",
"JUST? THAT WAS LIKE HOURS AGO.",
"You will never covfefe the intesese mronging I feel for you, my love.",
"\"huge\"",
"When you say zh, ch, sh, you have to roll your tongue. Not so for the \"ch\" in chair.",
"Falcon Heavy Center Core FOUND",
"ಠ_ಠ",
"Oh wow so you really can figure out how the world works by watching 20 min YouTube videos after all. Good to know.",
"It's highly unusual for a building to fall on it's side. Very irregular indeed.",
"Cloverfield Paradox is the most bolted on non related movie that had elements of Cloverfield shoe-horned into the script. \n\n",
"I do want them to enjoy their vacation obviously ",
"Well the front’s not supposed to fall off, for a start.",
"I explicitly said what I said, in regards to me teaching them English. I didn't say their way of using the Latin alphabet was wrong. I said it was different. You're defending a non-issue.",
"Trying to reach his final form of /u/TheSpaceQuakeGuy probably.",
"Wait... really?",
"Being only 10km away from the epicenter is the culprit ",
"I just want to say I love the idea of an armchair neck beard. A normal, well adjusted man of average hygiene who opines on subjects from the perspective of a neck beard. ",
"Boo",
"He could save others from death, but not himself.",
"Yet CNN still has trump bashing on constant loop.",
"Fuuuuuuuuck. My parents literally landed in Taiwan 2 days ago. They and the rest of my family are okay thank goodness. ",
"Its amazing that buildings fall like that, relatively all-together as one piece. \n\nKnowing nothing of engineering I suppose that future buildings will have to become lighter to prevent close-to-ground levels from collapsing like that.",
"Hey, are you the guy from the tide commercials?",
"Wasn’t this building made so it wouldn't tip over?",
"Hey, aren't you that guy from the earthquake gaming forum? ",
"Magnitude 6.7 earthquake makes a building tip on its side while remaining intact. Small fire on a floor of world trade building 7 collapses it at free fall speed. Makes sense to me! ",
"The earthquake happened around 5am nz time I think, so he should have the details ",
"The front fell off.",
"Or it could tilt the Earth and everything would slide off. You know, with Earth being flat and all. (according to Shaq.)",
"Dude, Cynthia McKinney is crazy as all fuck. Being a 9-11 truther isn't the same as \"telling people that iraq didn't have anything to do with 9-11.\" ",
"Yes let's talk about what you want to talk about",
"I couldn’t even make it past him saying “tip over”. Too cringeworthy ",
"Oh, no! :( \n\n",
"Looks like Cloverfield 4 teasers started already.",
"Alaska can come too.",
"yes",
"why SHOULD any post make it to the top? because people like it and click upvote. Deserve has nothing to do with Reddit. Pretty simple actually, welcome to Reddit.",
"yes",
"IS TOAST OKAY??",
"Better make it 1 year and 364 days just in case their flight gets delayed. ",
"My wife and i are in Yilan and yes we felt at least 6 over the last few days but yes our home has been rocking. \n",
"Reddit is overwhelmingly American, go figure",
"I doubt you can feel a 3.0",
"Knowledge is where you find it. I never know where a thread will take me but am always ready to learn.",
"Think its related to the Falcon rocket launch?",
"I mean we're all replying to a reply that involved flipping the island of Guam over. And before that someone replied they should all go on vacation 2 years from now before this also happened 2 years ago.",
"Well, TBF, those buildings were \"Made in Taiwan\"...",
"IIRC it later turned out he was on some heavy medication for an illness or something and really shouldn't've been there speaking.",
"They're a little on edge, but ok.",
"Can confirm. Am traumatized ",
"It could have been modified by its users or built shoddily to be under budget. In Chile's 2010 mega quake, only two buildings tipped over, one brand new and one not too old. The first was not built to specs and the second had weight bearing columns taken out by its bank tenant... smart one there.",
"The front fell off!",
"I DOUBT THATS THE CASE SINCE BUILDINGS ARE BUILT TO CONTAIN PEOPLE ",
"Well you know, I didn’t see the typo until like the third time I read your post. And I read it that many times because it had great information\n\nAnd then I laughed because CASP TYPO",
"Express is a verb like others pointed out. You've never heard the term expressing feelings? ",
"I vaguely recall from Earth Science class in high school back in the Pleistocene that every magnitude point higher, the strength of the quake increases tenfold. Or some shit like that. Also, if the earthquake is shallow, deep, under a fault line affects the damage, I think.\n\nSomething about subduction. 🤔[Magnitude explained](https://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/topics/mag_vs_int.php) \n\nBasically, 6.4 is pretty bad if it hits just right and there’s shitty building codes etc.",
"I appreciate your honesty. ",
"We are all tide commercials on this blessed day. ",
"Wait wait is also hosted by mole people",
"ಠ_ಠ",
"Cynthia McKinney needed to be fired. She behaved like a child when asked to identify herself to a Capital Police officer, which was one of the main contributors to her loss in 2006.\n\nNot that her replacement is better, but a 'smart woman' would know better than to make a scene over being asked to present ID at an entry control point, no matter how well-known you *think* yourself to be.",
"Well the new Cloverfield movie dropped on Netflix Sunday night so its not surprising that subreddit would pick up in traffic and why people revisiting the other movies.",
"DISGUISEDTOAST ARE YOU SAFE",
"I don't feel better. But I appreciate your answer!",
"Following ops font/title text shouldn’t this be in all pointless caps?",
"My parents are over there for my dads job. As soon as I saw this I called them to see if they were ok. They’re fine they are actually more worried about how cold it is haha.",
"So, is the fault Global Warming or Fracking?",
"It depends on where it originates and if it’s subduction; if the area is silty, below sea level, badly constructed buildings. Source; former “Pacific Ring of Fire” resident for 35 years. \n\nA 6.4 could arguably cause buildings etc to disappear under sandy areas, or some shit.\n\nDon’t underestimate nature’s power to fuck your day up.",
"Thank you! My apartment building is 100 years old but everything I can find about this type of building (concrete reinforced with rebar) says that they were basically built that way to withstand earthquakes. ",
"What other things?",
"He always seemed to be the first on the scene, but today he was too early",
"China just attacked",
"Thread started 6 hours ago so maybe?",
"First, no you don’t. Second you’re thinking of zhi, chi, and shi. There is a different between whole syllables, consonants, and vowels.",
"Speak for yourself.",
"Unless he lives in Christchurch or Wellington he should be fine.",
"Saying that people who die in accidents are called casualties is not excluding injuries from also being included in casualties.",
"How am I just hearing about this",
"WHY IS THE TITLE IN ALL CAPS?",
"Inflated for humor value, I get that. But, meanwhile, not that preposterous at full global scale.\n\nhttp://www.newsweek.com/climate-change-sinking-ocean-rising-sea-levels-772862\n\nThere just aren’t enough people for the outcome you suggest. ",
"Yes, thanks for that. I'm from LA and remember that earthquake which is why I'm so fearful of them. My main concern now is that I live on a 100 year old building. ",
"Dude...I am Chinese...",
"Thank you! ",
"What do you think I am?",
"Thank you! Now tell me about your cats. ",
"2 have been confirmed dead, with 144 injured (as of a few hours ago). This is crazy. My family lives in Taiwan but they're in Taipei...my heart goes out to the citizens of 花蓮 and all other affected areas.",
"Its just to distract you fron the chibese invasion force",
"It’s just resting, taking a breather, it’ll be fine",
"Cynthia McKinney was an embarrassment anyway",
"I speak for all of us on this blessed day. ",
"...jet fuel can't melt steel beams?",
"Godzilla!",
"Yes many parts of Los Angeles are currently undergoing major retrofitting. But there are weird standards as to which buildings LA flagged as needing to be retrofitted. Also, I believe they have 7 years to comply. So here's to hoping my area of town doesn't procrastinate. ",
"Just because they had a big earthquake doesn’t mean they can rip off Italian architecture.",
"Fuck.",
"This is a groundbreaking event 🥁",
"Well now that all these kind people responded with actual answers, I do know!",
"Apartment for sale. Owner is motivated. Free bonus car in underground garage.",
"No, it's _lying_ on its side.",
"[melt with you](https://youtu.be/Nmg5zP5nYO0) ",
"maybe?",
"I think it was the head haven't watched it in like 10 years lol",
"Arnie will save you! ( Will be the next Terminator movie) ",
"I don't even know where to begin. You disagree with the way we fundamentally say those sounds. I just pulled a random YouTube video and it reaffirms what I [said](https://youtu.be/DDQbfDIG1mg?t=1m33s).",
"How?",
"Wait what, this year!? Already? Damn.",
"Hanlon's razor maybe? Or maybe they had intelligence indicating that terrorists had a big network in Iraq, but they didn't want to go public with it, for obvious reasons, as that could compromise their ability to take out said terrorists.\n\nAnd to be clear, I have no stake in the Bush fight. Just playing devil's advocate. I had no idea of the goings on when all that shit was going down.",
"Fair",
"No problems man, only people who are dumb will care what form of characters are used when people are giving sincere wishes.",
"Same, it's like going down the rabbit hole. But Americans do sometimes forget they are not the only ones in the world.\n\nI had to leave America to learn that.",
"I am picturing the monster behind that building.\nSeriously hope everyone is okay.",
"> 幹\n\nJust googled. Shows as 'Dry'. \n\n\ndry\n\n形容詞\ndry\n乾, 幹, 乾燥, 乾旱, 燥, 涸\nable\n能夠, 能, 能力, 會, 幹, 賢\n名詞\ndry\n幹, 旱地, 旱田, 陸地, 熇\nstem\n幹, 榦, 莖, 梗, 樹幹, 詞干\ndoing\n幹, 活動\n動詞\ndry\n幹, 槁, 熇, 帨\ndo\n做, 辦, 干, 幹, 進行, 作\nwork\n工作, 做工, 做事, 辦事, 活, 幹\nlay\n鋪設, 放置, 鋪, 布置, 放, 幹\nmanage\n管理, 經營, 管, 治理, 理, 幹\nput\n放, 放置, 置於, 擺, 擺放, 幹\n\nGot damn! The shishkabob-tree word is rough!",
"That must have been because of the failed landing of the core booster of flacon heavy...",
"Nope, tide commercial.",
"I have no problem going off topic, shouldn't be top comment though",
"Cynthia \"I'm gonna hit a Capital police officer because he asked for my ID\" McKinney? She had some issues.",
"I was there! Was in the area this week. It's the third consecutive day of earthquakes, but this one was the biggest by far- enough to throw me off balance. I have more pictures of the location if anyone is interested? ",
"Dang fam prayers up",
"You can tell it’s in Asia from the lantern shaped moon. ",
"Depends on how you pronounce it. If you use a '1' pronunciation, it means dry. If you use a '4' pronunciation, it means fuck.\n\nThat's hilarious how you called it a shishkabob-tree word, though!",
"Well, I'll blame the structural engineer, geotechnical engineer, and construction crew for building something that fell over. ",
"I don't get the second design... How is he supposed to get the water if he's sandwiched in the mattress? ",
"*quick google search*\n\n*crosses fingers* Please don't be a republican.. Please don't be a republican..\n\nOh, actually.. He's.. Not. Yay?",
":)",
"Just like those tornado chasers, RIP",
"This kills the person.",
"Taiwan numba 1!!!",
"Proof?",
"Well, there are … regulations governing the materials they can be made of.",
"Not actually huge, they're just not prepared for it, only a 6.4",
"SHOUT, SHOUT, LET IT ALL OUT",
"What about this dimension?",
"Oh my god!!! My boss is there for the month and no one was able to reach him !!! I'm so scared!",
"The Chinese and North Koreans have a secret earthquake machine.",
"I hope everyone is safe out there. My thoughts are with them.",
"I totally agree, I had to unsub the other day. What are some alternate subs? I’m subscribed to my local one but I can’t find a world wide sub, free of politics, to just get world wide news from.",
"yes",
"Maybe we need to say his name 3 times?",
"“Sometimes you just gotta pull it”\n\nWhenever I’m reminded that quote, and I wonder if they were trying to sell us that buildings all have a self destruct button.",
"Agreed, that sub is run by a bunch of idiots.",
"I honestly thought this was a picture from Philly.",
"Nothing happened, my karma coffers have grown that’s all.",
"I just finished watching the Cloverfield Paradox and have 10 Cloverfield Lane playing. What a coincidence!",
"What bugged me most was that the first Cloverfield movie was seemingly set when it came out in 2008, yet this movie makes everything clearly set in the future. ",
"Here we go boys, it’s earthquake time ",
"6.4 isn't a huge earthquake and it did that? God damn, Taiwanese buildings are garbage.",
"9/11 couldn't be more perfect if Monsanto had engineered the seed themselves. \n\nWhat a great fuckin yield man.. overseas, and more especially domestic! ",
"Hey man.. not even trying to make it sound biggity I promise. I only speak/read English, but I know there's other languages. I have no way of knowing how all those characters are pronounced much less what they are called. Glad it made you laugh though!",
"No no no... it’s Chang Ching Bing Bong!",
"The commenter has no problem with this rabbit hole conversation, it's interesting and you can easily follow how we got here. He's disputing that it should be \"at the top\"",
"A bunch of seismologists were at a conference in Japan when 3/11 happened:\n\nhttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one",
"There goes the hard drive prices",
"No no. He was just on cough medicine. His staff said so days later, so it’s obviously true. ",
"I have a friend on a work visa there. Unsure of the exact area. Currently trying to get ahold of him. Pretty anxious.",
"Yeah, a lot of people are shitting on it and I'm just not sure how it warrants that much negative review. I think people's scales are off. Yeah it wasn't perfect but I wouldn't call it a \"bad\" film.",
"hatersgonnahate.gif",
"What materials?",
"hatersgonnahate.gif",
"When you’re playing pubg and the buildings haven’t fully rendered yet. ",
"/u/theearthquakeguy or it didn’t happen? 😰",
"ALL CAPS ALL THE TITLES",
"Tofu building.",
"Distance, depth, type of soils, time of day, building materials and design all affect it. Afterwards, you're concerned with local geography and financial resilience.\n\nChristchurch got hit hard by 6.3 earthquake in 2011, right under the city and 5km down, 183 deaths and the CBD was reduced to rubble. \n\nIn 2010 they had a 7.1, 37km away, in the quiet of night and all it did was condemn a few buildings. If it were during the day, people probably would have died.\n\nHaiti got hit with a similar earthquake to the 2010 one... 7.0, 25km from Port-au-Prince, 5pm on a Tuesday, hundreds of thousands dead. This is why building codes are important. ",
"I've seen it before, it was an attempt to demolish the building that kinda went tits up.",
"What are some examples of it happening before?",
"He is fine",
"I'm subscribed to /r/neutralnews which is an okay replacement.",
"SOMEONE ON REDDIT PREDICTED THIS WOULD HAPPEN [link](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7n8gwa/aside_from_the_obvious_ones_eg_the_sun_will_come/ds0jix0?utm_source=reddit-android)",
"That’s interesting seeing as how last years Mexico City earthquake happened on the anniversary of the infamous 1985 earthquake. ",
"Yep.",
"Agreed, Tonnes Of hype about musk and his antics with rockets is getting a lot f attention but you expect to see disasters in the world to at least be on the news subreddits",
"And all we've got is one sorta shitty picture?",
"I hope Z. Starbuck is okay.",
"Christchurch had a [modern, build-to-code building](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTV_Building) pancake during a 6.3 earthquake.",
"Fucking excellent Top Gear reference my dude. ",
"This kills the building. ",
"the movie stated the paradox is that their particle accelerator can create ripples in time, so it basically changed the past of their dimension.. or that clover from the first movie was also another parallel dimension their machine affected\n",
"That's insane :O hopefully people stayed safe",
"All those poorly made building, elevators and escalators are all gonna crumble down ",
"Bro, you *aaare* the dankness squared!",
"Obama. ",
"This immediately made me think of cloverfield\n",
"I just saw that today. I swear to god those motherfuckers are a blessing on humanity. ",
"Well think of it like this, we can get up to the roof of the building and cross over into Beth’s complex, work our way down from there. ",
"Schrodinger's War. In order to be certain that there are no WMDs justifying war, one must first make war. Only by invading do you resolve the superposition.",
"Also we are lucky that we can choose where to build on. Some terrain is better suited for buildings than others. I don't think Taiwan has that much space to choose from.",
"What’s the point of earthquakes? ",
"Aw, my thoughts are with the taiwanese",
"Well cardboard’s out.",
"What are these \"feelings\" you speak off?",
"Especially with a title like that. I thought this was a joke for a while and all the comments were playing along.\n",
"Fake it till you make it.",
"I thought this was Inception...",
"It was less than 20km off the island. I don't know the depth, but the epicenter is right there. ",
"Paging /u/TheEarthquakeGuy ",
"BWAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNGH",
"That's 10:50 PM local time.",
"Clinton emails",
"That’s worse than the tsunami spheres. It even looks like an actual coffin. I’ll take my chances with the earthquake. ",
"Wow. That man is so fucking inarticulate and uninformed. He could probably run for higher office if he wanted to.",
"Zero daffs ",
"I hate when people get called out for being stupid then pretend they were joking but there's no way he wasn't joking.",
"Looks like a Cloverfield screenshot. Holy shit! ",
"Dear Reddit,\n\nThank you for the support from Taiwan!\n\n:)",
"Update all five dead. Including two Japanese tourist and a stray dog. ",
"It's not unheard of for me to wake at 1 or 2 pm. It's not that strange",
"Absolute wankers. This makes my blood boil.",
"So that's when the central booster from Falcon Heavy went...",
"What are you even supposed to do in the scenario where you're in that building?",
"BENGHHHAAAAAZZZIIII!!!!",
"To be fair, it's just a 6.4 earthquake..",
"He knew about the power of the high ground",
"China numbah wan",
"Exactly. It was rough. My parents were on vacation, the power, cell towers, and phone lines were down for the day, so we decided to start cleaning, then had to leave the house for a few hours because it felt like death. ",
"This is the anniversary of the release of the 114th Godzilla movie. \n\nCoincidence?",
"You've been here more than a year. Get your head in the game, man/woman!",
"I speak for all of us on this blessed tide commercial? ",
"What if they're the cause of the natural disasters, not their country.",
"Imagine the building on fire and it locks you in with rubble. Talk about oven baking. ",
"I felt it in Alaska ",
"6.4 is far from huge :/",
"I was about 40-50 miles north of the epicenter of the Nisqually quake, working at an outdoor mall and it was intense. On the third floor of the mall computers were bouncing off shelves and, when I hot footed it out of the store to the parking area behind it, SUV's were actually bouncing around. You're right about how much the environment can affect your experience. ",
"YES YOU ARE RIGHT I SEE THE PICTURE OF THE RESULT OF THIS EARTHQUAKE IN TAIWAN\n\nEDIT: SPELLING OF TAIWAN",
"The tide commercial speaks for all of us.",
"Didn't that have more to do with the fact that the whole city was built over reclaimed swamp land or something? it has a type of soil that liquified when shaken, a guy did a youtube video showing the effect of that soil, whilst moving it about on a cartwheel if I remember correctly. Similar to that area in Mexico City that was built on top of a dry lake bed.\n\nCities built on approved soil should be able to brush aside a 6.3 earthquake for the most part. Soil mechanics sort that stuff nowadays. Obviously that was not known when cities like Mexico City and Christchurch were founded.",
"I feel like this is some kind of slick Cloverfield viral advertising campaign. ",
"But.... Godzirra is japanese!",
"Haven't seen u/theearthquakeguy in a few earthquake posts. I'm getting pretty concerned at this point.",
"Anyone in the U.S in GA feel some trembles also around this time? I thought I felt something.",
"Always happy to help answer questions, whether /u/TheEarthquakeGuy is around or not. Hope he’s just caught up at work… or maybe he is still reeling from the SpaceX launch. I know he’s into planes n’ stuff.",
"heyyyy That building is sideways ",
"This is the only thing I came here for.",
"Are your fee fees hurt?",
"Well obviously not.",
"Hey I rewatched it too! That was my first thought. \n\nForgot how intense the film was. Can’t wait for the fourth one",
"Same, just don't buy property that is not up to code or built over a reclaimed swamp or lake.",
"/u/TheEarthquakeGuy is busy geeking out over the Falcon rocket launch. ",
"Looks like that building is in free fall. I'm guessing government put detonators in the building. The question is why. ",
"Saddam Husein violated [UN Security Council Resolution 1441](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1441)\n\n",
"User \"not-creepy\" below suggests \"zhuyin\" for non-native learners of Chinese. Would you mind giving your opinion on that, or perhaps suggesting another alternative? Thanks.\n",
"The last big Mexico City earthquake happened on the anniversary of a particularly big and deadly one 32 years before that. Weird. ",
"Spending time in prison or being treated like an outcast because you prefer something different to coffee, tobacco or alcohol...that can mess your brain up even more than your drug of choice...",
"Does the 2nd have really anything to do with the 1st? I half-watched it and it seemed to be only tangentially related.",
"*Drug users - not all under the supposed influence of drugs should be assumed to be addicted too",
"Then the Earthquakes have already won",
"Oh yeah, it's a complete success!",
"No, he's definitely referring to It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia",
"But that's their favourite building!",
"Well, before these earthquakes, we had no idea there were fault lines anywhere near the city.\n\n[But yea, alluvial plain, aka riverbed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWMnhOMOagk). We now have the \"red zone\", abandoned suburbs built on drained wetlands.",
"I would def Taiwan on if I was in such a circumstance. ",
"Why is it so dark in the picture? ",
"SHIT! Why are the people in the foreground just living a normal Tuesday with that building going down there in the background? It would be a fine time to put your phone in your pocket, buddy!",
"Damn",
"I agree, 6.4 is barely newsworthy in Chile",
"You were going to stay in the house you just bleached? But why",
"The 921 earthquake was a huge wake-up call. Google that if you want to see some incredible earthquake photos. Even so, there's not much they could do besides tear down every building in the country and rebuild from the ground up. Even people's houses tend to be 3-and-4 story concrete townhouses. They hold up great against typhoons, but if there are hidden structural weaknesses like these oil drums then they're very vulnerable to earthquakes.",
"If you look *very* closely, you can make out that half of the floors have been demolished, in an attempt to collapse the building. ",
"The first two are technically about an alien invasion, so kind of",
"6.4 isn't really huge. Just poor building regulations and construction techniques.",
"Leaning Condo's of Taiwan.\n\nWhat, too soon?",
"Technically on a geologic scale, a large change in weight on a plate could result in Earthquakes due to isostatic uplift. This is usually only applicable to things like mountains and huge glaciers, however.\n-Source - Geology student (last semester in Uni)",
"And?",
"Oh, I was worried it was the other way around.",
"Out of what?",
"Why is this a big thing? Earthquakes happen all the time in that area.",
"It's a meme you dip ",
"I'm visiting Taiwan in a month and a half. Will aftershocks still be a problem by then you think?",
"Literally the only appropriate use of an all caps title ",
"Wow this year is rocking with earthquakes..",
"Some thing has found us...",
"I live in Taiwan and I often think about what I would do when/if my building decides to lean in an earthquake.\n",
"Thanks Ken!",
"The person is saying \"zhi chi shi\" in the video which is why she's rolling her tongue. Say \"Chen\" and ask yourself if your tongue is rolled.",
"wow, your response was a lot deeper and warmer than I'd expect fr.... wait, never mind.",
"HELL BED!!",
" ? thats pretty huge dude....4 to 5 is 10x the power and 5 to 6 is ten times that, ",
"No cardboard derivatives.",
"as long as the front doesn't fall off its ok",
"What is even more uncanny is that the Mexico City Earthquake was also an anniversary event. I suspect some fishy things going on here. ",
"Earthquake or [something found us?](http://iris.theaureview.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Cloverfield-672x372.jpg)\n\nOn a serious note I hope all is ok :(",
"Whomst've says it's not a thing?",
"That's the reason it overwhelmingly sucks",
"I thought that light in the upper right was the moon throwing up blood",
"Sounds pretty fucking stupid",
"Communist party is punishing Taiwan for separating from China.",
"That was so surreal. Like we've been doing drills on 19 of September every year, but I was not alive in 1985 so I had no idea how it was... Until last September. I felt a slight movement in Guadalajara, but my parents and sisters live in Estado de México, so I was pretty nervous. Since communications were clogged, many people had trouble reaching familiars, one of which was my middle sister who could not contact anybody until night, and the earthquake was at 1:14 pm.\n\nI am pretty sure that this year's drill will be met with even more grim faces than usual.",
"I live in Taiwan. Didn't even feel it!",
"Something tells me that building was not built correctly",
"[You're missing out](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM)",
"Hope people are okay.",
"I’m no structural engineer, but that building appears to be inebriated. ",
"Yes...? Goddamn I'm confused. ",
"With no nearby fracking I assume",
"get SpaceX on it",
"Yeah Iraq really had nothing to do with 9/11. I believe the answers you're looking for on 9/11 are in the Saudi papers. As for why we went into Iraq? It's certainly a multitude of reasons. Saddam and his sons were certainly dicks, but we don't invade countries just because their leaders suck. We certainly don't invade just because of wmd's (norks, Pakistan, and Israel (Israel being the most credible threat to stability)), although they had VX gas at one point (at the least), but UN controller's never could find anything. Bush Jr following through on his father's legacy. It's all very up for debate and supposition.\n\nAs far as I can tell the invasion of Iraq was a political move more so than a strategic or tactical one. The real fight to try and counter terrorism started on 9/19 when we deployed a portion of 5th group (I think) to AFG. I believe they're referred to a the horse soldiers now.",
"It is actually the fact that bleach + vinegar creates a poisonous gas. ",
"Woah! i just saw one almost identical to that one a few minutes ago ",
"Chen. Roll tongue. Cen. No roll tongue...? ",
"Cloverfield marketing game is insane.",
"Now I'm concerned for a redditor I've never heard of and a human I've never met. Thanks a lot Reddit. \n\n17hrs radio silence and counting. ",
"I've seen the footage. He's a damn idiot.",
"The worst problem is we’re being hit with one of our worst cold snaps in years. It’s freezing. I can’t imagine how bad it would be for those trapped inside.",
"Guess we know what happened to falcon heavy core",
"Considering that he was elected in a majority minority district...\n\nhttps://ballotpedia.org/Georgia%27s_4th_Congressional_District\n\nAny context on reddit, if you call a mostly African American, mostly Democrat population stupid, you would be criticized.\n\nBut if you call them \"Georgians\", and ha ha upvotes.\n\nHe's a dumbass, but that shouldn't reflect on his constituents, whether you are using it to insult blacks or southerners or democrats.",
">Is that building supposed to be at that angle?\n\n[Well, it is not very typical I'd like to make that point.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWs2Chp62e4)",
"The sad part is, it's not drugs. It's lack of common sense and utilizing education.",
"But it's 10x less powerful than the 2011 earthquake I experienced in Tokyo, which still didn't destroy anything in this area. The 9.1 epicentre 200km away off the coast of Tohoku was a huge earthquake.\n\n6.3 is nothing. A comfortable rocking to put you to sleep.",
"This is a fairly common thing to say, but it wouldn't work in the real world. Yes, the equation balances, but the equilibrium concentration of free chlorine is too low to saturate the solvent, and escape to a gas phase in any appreciable amount. \n\nA stronger acid like hydrochloric acid will do the trick. For example, I use hydrochloric acid and bleach to create chlorine gas to sterilize the seeds in my lab. \n",
"Remind me! 2 years \"skip Taiwan\"",
"Shock, I suppose. When you hear someone say something that ignorant, it's hard to wrap your head around it.",
"Like...Paper?",
"Its just a 6.4 calm down guys. I would not consider it as \"HUGE EARTHQUAKE\"",
"There are hundreds of earthquakes in the US every day, if you felt an earthquake it was one of those. You would not be able to feel an earthquake from that far away.",
"Godzilla!!!! ",
"The initial invasion of Baghdad was one of the most impressive military actions ever executed. It turned into such a different war then what we expected",
"+why have there been so many earthquakes in Taiwan in recent days? ",
"The Chilean part of me is like laughs at Chilean.\nBut all the rest of me is hoping for all the missing to be found and the injured to get well",
"Won't it just flop back the other way once the Earth rotates a bit more?",
"No paper. No cellotape.",
"For the love of god.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_postalveolar_affricate\n\n>Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Catalan, and Thai have a voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate /t͡ɕ/; this is technically postalveolar but it is less precise to use /t͡ʃ/.",
"/r/shittyaskscience",
"Oh thank goodness.",
"GOOD point ",
"Wait, theres a series of cloverfield movies?",
"He knew it was going to happen and traveled there to watch in person. But then things didn't go *quite* as planned...\n\nOH! Maybe he even CAUSED this one! :)",
"Big house, it was just the kitchen, and I didn't find it how dangerous it was until I started asking questions in chemistry the next week",
"Cloverfield, 10 Cloverfield Lane (currently watching this one), and Cloverfield Paradox (Watched once, about to watch again)",
"He is who we turn to in times of treble.",
"We live in Taichung on the west coast and felt that one. Actually had a few we have felt this week. ",
"To be fair, the 4 buildings that collapsed are relatively older buildings. One of the earliest ones is over 40 years.\n\nAnd the same could be said for tornado alley in the US.",
"It might even capsize the whole country!",
"thanks for the useful eli10.",
"Would be fun to crawl through ",
"She may be using zh ch sh but she is saying zhi chi shi, likely for didactic purposes. When you say the full syllable there is an implied sound similar to ri that is why your tong needs to roll. Instead say something like zha cha sha and your tongue should not be rolling. Your tongue is in a position more back than za ca sa but there is no roll necessary especially given the new vowels. None of this is even relevant to how chair starts with the ch sound not q sound though.",
"I refuse to believe this guy wasn't being facetious. ",
"Dam hopefully there all ok",
"Rubber?",
"That's interesting, as a native speaker q and ch are worlds apart. Ch in Mandarin is very similar to ch in English, but I've noticed that a lot of native Mandarin speakers will pronounce English Ch words with a Q for sme reason.",
"That follow up does nothing to make me believe he was joking...",
"Yeah someone else linked to the youtube vid of it.",
"Lol that's amazing.",
"I thought that traffic light on the pole was a face and this picture was a fake or a witty title for this scene in a play. \n\n",
"That Admiral's response was amazing. I don't know how he controlled himself and just start laughing at him.",
"I live in a condo highrise and my biggest fear is a huge earthquake that just topples my condo. I have dreams about it sometimes but there's nothing I can do about until I save up enough money for a townhouse or something. Housing in Vancouver is just ridiculous for young people.",
"Looks like clover field ",
"techically , its over a 100 times less....lol. 6.3 to 7.3 would be 10x and 8.3 would be 100 times, so about 700 times less . you win.",
"It did?? :D",
"It's factual. Read the article I posted. ",
"The single word sentence of \"Sir.\" at the end pretty much sells it.",
"In the same way that Cloverfield and Independence Day are related, yes",
"I’d pick about any place over China to be during an earthquake. I wonder how many buildings collapsed due to poor building standards.",
"The upvote tendencies on Reddit are really strange. \n\nThe other day I got like 3k upvotes on a comment, that makes little sense for it. \n\nI only pay attention to them in curiosity. The funniest, most intelligent arguments I’ve made get little to nothing. \n\nAs to your actual comment. I’ll gain some downvotes. \n\nElected officials are representative of people’s wishes. A person who voted for trump isn’t necessarily like him, just what they want in office. \n\nAn elected official is certainly representative of those he represents. If those people happen to be minority, then so be it. Then they’re minorities who wanted an idiot in office. Which says something about them. I do not know the demographics of who elected him. Again, I also do f care. \n\nMy comment was just suggesting that I’m not surprised that guy came out of the south. They’re not big on common sense. ",
"This is a common fallacy. there was WMDs just not in the volume or condition expected. The Israel's told us Hussein shipped them to Syrian just before the war and the fact that Bashar Al-Assad used WMDs on his own people lends to this idea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction#2005:_Operation_Avarice",
"As long as you are stereotyping the right group, all is good on Reddit.",
"The Earth rotates at 1600km/hr? Fake news! We're sitting still! ",
"In case anyone is interested, he lives in Taipei and barely felt it.",
"I saw the picture before reading anything and thought “oh that’s not good” read caption and comments and thought “yeah that’s definitely not good”.",
"How would the earth slowing down cause earthquakes? Is there even proof the earth can slow down at all?",
"What the hell no Godzilla jokes?!? What is the Internet turning in to?",
"Few weeks ago Alaska got hit with a 7.9. 2 years -1 day from a 7.2 that hit us. \n\nI hate earthquakes and want to move to Florida. Hurricanes you can see coming for days.",
"This. There were many reasons why The U.S. went into Iraq. Those of us that we old enough, and don't have a political, bent know this. Millennials have been lied to for 16 years so just don't know any better.",
"Are they not from Georgia?\n\nIt’s a stereotype, the point is being non specific. \n\nIf your concern is me being one of those people who wouldn’t insult minority groups Everyone should be made fun of when they’re stupid. ",
"Reinforce it and dub it a tourist spot, Leaning Tower of Taiwan has a nice ring to it.",
"No rubber.",
"👏 STOP FUCKING CLAPPING!! 👏 ",
"Remember, whoever the fuck was responsible for this: \n \n* Do **NOT** mention their name. \n* Do **NOT** post images of them. \n* Do **NOT** give them the attention they crave. \n \nWe *cannot* let these sick fucks get their 15 minutes this way. Reddit, we take a stand. **Now.**",
"Human is kill",
"Huh? I’m confused.. who are you?",
"I honestly wouldn't be able to tell you. But I personally wouldn't worry. I have experienced about 20 earthquakes in my area of Taipei. It is totally worth it. Taiwan is really beautiful and the people are fucking awesome.",
"Yes. It takes a few milliseconds less to rotate 360° degrees than it used to. Read the article. ",
"I feel like JJ Abrams is creating his own Black Mirror universe. Kinda. Feel me?",
"It also explains how/why a creature just started ransacking NY. It just popped in from another dimension and started tearing shit apart.",
"I feel like he’s going to create all these seemingly separate films and connect them all with one massive story drop and uses the same film from each just completely ripping your mind apart. Almost like he’s releasing different chapters of a book out of order, then ties it all up with a huge film. Maybe I’m just hopeful and overthinking it.",
"You're a moron.",
"Loving this thread. I'm guessing you guys hate the SEC too??",
"Agreed.. not saying it’s the best space epic of all time.. but I’m not trying to figure out how to get my time back.",
"Yes.. I do agree. I think I might be a little overly optimistic about my idea of the next movie.. it’s somewhere in this thread. So with that, I’m hoping that this ending picks up in the next movie somehow.",
"Awesome, I'm very excited :)",
"Think of it this way, they are still sorta chinese... we had a machine from Taiwan that they set up to run something, and it overheated at the speed they set which it was supposed to be able to do 24-7. Looked inside and it has NO cooling for a motor that is expected to run 24-7. We slowed it down and it at least works for the normal 8hr shift but I don't think the higher ups like it and will return it. ",
"Go home Cloverfield your drunk!",
"Just learned what a subduction zone is (well, looked at a picture on google images..). Is that actually a concern in that area?\n\n",
"Um, paintings were swaying fully side to side and doing flips, and furniture was bouncing around.",
"this is r/creepy material",
"What you expected. I was in the streets for as many of the 'Not in Our Name' protests in NYC as I could. It was incredibly clear what was going on to some of us, no disrespect.",
"Got to have a steering wheel, there's a minimum crew requirement.",
"It’s like watching Mike Tyson beat a blind infant with no arms and legs. With a sledgehammer. For months. ",
"Taiwan number 6 point 4",
"It was an earthquake, not a terrorist attack",
"And the only photos are of this building",
"\"Made in Taiwan\" -The Building",
"I agree completely, i was pretty young at the time, but since you were opposed to it, then you know better than anyone how crazy this country was, ready for war and to kick some terrorist ass ",
"THE FBI!",
"What is the third one? There I know of cloverfield and cloverfield lane. What is the third?",
"They're are are",
"\"Uhh, I can't go into work today.\"\n\n\"Why not? It's just a little earthquake.\"\n\n\"Yeah, but the office is sideways.\"\n\n\"I know the office gets a little crazy after an earthquake, but that's no reason to not go in. I'll see you at 8.\"\n\n\"No, seriously. The office is literally at a 40 degree angle.\"\n\n\"That is a problem. See you at 9.\" ",
"Cool",
"But sensationalism gets karma",
"Cloverfield Paradox, just released on Netflix last night",
"something something... Cloverfield?",
"Thanks middle aged facebook mom! ",
"There was this moment on 9/12 when people floated the idea of internment camps for Muslims 'because you can never tell', and everyone took this half a second of deep eye contact to vibe eachother out and went \"oh no, that's terrible, we would never do that.\"\n\nThat moment of hesitation made me worry about humanity more than anything else I have experienced.",
"6.4 is not HUGE, anything falling here is poorly constructed.",
"Yeah, exactly. This was the only post on the front page, I had to scroll through too far to find this...\n\nedit: both the top post in r/news and r/worldnews are about musk... I mean rockets are cool and stuff, but this is pretty important too",
"I was talking to my friend in Taiwan when this hit. She was excaming how scary it was. While she was chatting to me.",
"I can't tell if you're serious or not",
"Surprise! The next one will hit one day shy of two year anniversary of this one",
"There’s only one explanation, Godzilla!",
"lmfaooo I don't give a fuck. ",
"Oh my fucking god that is terrifying beyond words",
"Thanks. Username checks out",
"Sorry daddy, I promise I will behave",
"I enjoy the neural subs like this and am now subbed, but it does seem like this sub has primarily US related news.",
"How closely is it related? I read the the original and cloverfield lane were very loosely related. Is that true?",
"Ok Ken M",
"Third ties them all together, just binged all 3 (having seen them all before).\n\nBinging helps you recognize the ties a bit more. ",
"I was there a few years ago for work. Cool country tbh. I hope everyone is safe ",
"Where did you get 6.4? http://cwb.gov.tw/V7e/earthquake/quake_index.htm",
"Were you nearby? I'm in Tainan and I barely felt it.",
"Well obviously not that one, Brian ",
"A lot of people were pulled out, including many kids. \n\nThe ground floor was a hot pot restaurant that was open late. ",
"That’s how they’d report it on the mainland. And then tell how the videos are fake. And then say the crowd was a bunch of ideological enemies so it’s okay. ",
"are we talking richter? 3 really is quite weak but i guess you could've been in an unfortunate resonating spot",
"Many others have given you great responses. But I should point out that it's unlikely that the buildings are all up to code.\n\nThere was a scandal in Taiwan last time where they found [cups and old food tins in the building's foundation](http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1910068/building-collapse-during-deadly-taiwan-earthquake-linked-shoddy).",
"THESE ARE THE THINGS WE CAN DO WITHOUT, C'MON, I'M TALKING TO YOU, SO C'MON.",
"he always shows up after an earthquake? coincidence... or tide ad",
"I vaguely remembered there's a TIFU about this somewhere, maybe not your story but something similar.\n\nEdit: nm just a bunch of \"TIFU by creating mustard gas in {insert location here}\"",
"Oh sad :(\n\nI hope they rebuild soon.",
"It was a hotel. The ground floor was a hot pot restaurant that stayed open late. ",
"OMG 🙏🙏🙏",
"What? ",
"Hehe",
"I'm in Taipei, which isn't too far from Hualien (where the quakes have been happening). The past few days here have been pretty nuts. Every day, multiple times per day we're feeling quakes that are all coming from essentially the same place in Hualien. This one and one on Sunday were both pretty scary, even here. Can't even imagine what its like over there..\n\n[242 and counting so far in February...](http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V7e/earthquake/seismic.htm) ",
"What's the minimum crew?",
"My friend is there now. He texted me that he's ok. ",
"Just the whole country.",
"Hi, I'm living in Taiwan and I experienced the earthquake. It was a little scary, but nothing as terrible as this post would suggest.\n\nOne hotel fell down and there are two reported casualties. Lets take off the caps lock, try not to sensationalize this, and call it for what it is; a local tragedy. Thoughtlessly creating a clickbait fenzy is not good because it can add a lot of confusion and fear where there needn't be any.\n\nEdit: I should say that since I made this post more information has come to light and things are worse than they originally seemed. Two more earthquakes have happened, there have been close to a dozen confirmed casualties, and many more are still missing. In light of that my original post is just plain inaccurate and insensitive to the situation. I'm leaving it because I feel my original point about over sensationalism things still has some merit.",
"Yes. Government mandated and funded temporary relocation services. A whole shit ton of A380's and send em all to Cancun for a little R and R. Everyone pays into the fund with tax money therefore forcing them to save money and then force them to take vacation at a very specific time. ",
"let me know when austrailia does this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anfal_genocide",
"Hope everyone is safe in Taiwan - sending thoughts from across the pacific.",
"I knew it.",
"Not sure if sarcasm or r/woooosh",
"Me either ",
"You know that happened in the 80s, right? Are you trying to tell me that America can just indiscriminately invade countries just so long as they've committed a major war crime some time in the past 20 years? Surely you realize the entire Gulf War also happened in-between the Anfal genocide and the Iraq war, right? How many wars exactly can one genocide justify? Could you invade them again now, with that as a casus belli?\n\nWas this post supposed to be some kind of joke?",
"Italy's got some competition now. But seriously, hope everyone is okay and no injuries.",
"God damn Godzilla",
"would you like the whole list of saddams crimes against humanity? I just pulled one but theres 100 more from where that came from. And on top of that we declared war on all terrorism not just afganistan and the taliban. ",
"Wonderful to hear they were able to save so many! Do you live near where you took the pic? I hope some in that restaurant were able to find air pockets and cavities in the rubble. ",
"It’s Hualien, they make rice and are a tourist place on the east coast (if you visit Taiwan, going there to visit Taroko National Park is a must !).\n\n\nEven tho most electronics are now built in China (by Taiwanese companies), the industries are located on the west coast. It shook well here, but no damages :) ",
"New Year next week ! ",
"I'm in Taipei at the moment, didn't even feel it. Hualien is worth visiting though.",
"What I'm hearing here is that you're the world police and don't need any particular reason to declare war on anybody. I knew this was the kind of thought driving American foreign policy, but I don't usually see people espouse it so openly.",
"Context makes the story",
"Hey when youre big enough to stop us come try. ",
"Xincheng is a pretty small place and Hualien in general has a much smaller population then anything on the West coast, idk if that last earthquake was in the same area or not but it would make a lot of sense that 117 people died if it was near any city on Taiwan's western side.",
"https://puu.sh/zioe3/4f4ff08193.jpg",
"It was really close to a city, hence the damages. Taiwanese are prepared for it, it happens all the time, but a 6.0 in a populated area makes damages.",
"Just like Mexico: the recent major earthquake was on the anniversary of 1985's.",
"fuckn a",
"Just like Mexico: the recent major earthquake was on the anniversary of 1985's.",
"The restaurant was in the corner of the building that took the brunt. It used to be a much taller building. I snapped this picture this morning. \n\nI hear they were nice people. https://i.imgur.com/mFj4ebe.jpg ",
"Earthquakes can't bend steel beams",
"Here was one incident: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_29,_2006,_Capitol_Hill_police_incident\n\n",
"I am a Taiwanese and l lived in Taiwan for more than 10 years. Seriously, earthquake is the worst nightmare for most of Taiwanese people. God bless Hualien. Please no more after shock.",
"I live in Taiwan as well, but I'll assume we both live far enough from the epicenter where we both feel it was just \"a little scary\". The hotel wasn't the only one with structural damage and I'm almost certain to the people in Hualian that it wasn't just \"a little scary\".",
"That’s not how science works. It’s also not true. The main driving force of a plates movement is it being sucked under the crust, along with the push it gets at spreading zones. People moving on and off wouldn’t make a difference. ",
"On so the oil companies control everything? Tell me more about how you are simplistic as fuck ",
"0 reported casualties, that’s great!! I hope you didn’t jinx i.. damnit.",
"What's the 4th one people keep mentioning in this thread?",
"God damn paradox",
"Or how about voting?",
"Let's go further and say the right to vote should require a mandatory IQ screening...oh wait...",
"Cloverfield",
"Not really. It seems like people in the area of the SEC are the only ones who care about the SEC. \n\nIf I wanted to watch below par football I’d go down and watch pop warner at the local elementary school. ;)",
"Gees even r/MorbidReality doesn't make me feel as bad as that does.",
"Well you live in California, don't be scared just prepared. ",
"I am in New Taipei City, close to Xindian district office MRT.",
"Yes, let's hope the count stay low. Take care Taiwan!",
"TAIWAN NUMBER ONE!",
"Yup, that's good! Most of the horrible quakes like Haiti and Sichuan are that bad because construction companies skip the rebar to save money.",
"I'm not trying to marginalize anyone's experience, or make light of the situation. In fact, as more information has been coming in, it seems things are worse than they appeared at first. My point was that contextless, clickbait sensationalism is not at all helpful. From the original post there was no way to know if one building had fallen down or if all of Taiwan had been turned to rubble.\n",
"Ahh. That's closer than I am. ",
"Cloverfield? ",
"Would listen to Jeremy Clarkson do Morning Edition.",
"Thanks for the type. I will do this when I get my days off. \n\nChronological order?",
"Tell your mother to bring me back something from Taiwan",
"This is tragic but a caps lock title is never justified.",
"Never knew they were all connected.",
"I pray for the safety of the people there in the affected regions of Taiwan.",
"I hope that no one was in that building",
"Saddam apparently had the chemicals needed to make gas bombs (large amounts were dumped in rivers ahead of the \"Coalition of the Willing\" Forces) but no way to manufacture or deliver them, which anybody with a real brain knew going in.",
"It didn't. Saddam was a holdover from the heyday of the \"Arab Socialist\" rulers like Nasser and strongly opposed to groups like al-Qaeda and the Taliban. As anybody who had two brain cells knew.",
"I'm guessing english is not your native language.\n\n\"They're\" is a thing. ",
"Idk man. On the news feed on the telly, the emergency broadcast announcer said it was a 3.6, and that there were reports of damaged buildings. Then again, I was a little kid when it happened, which probably warped my perception of it. It was definitely strong enough to have to lay on the ground and grab table legs though",
"How important is peace",
"> Taipei 101\n\nNot sure what point you are trying to make.",
"I live in Taoyuan and felt my building sway. Very unnerving.",
"Wow. That was a powerful rocket. ",
"It's an incredibly funny thing to post\n\nLet the nature take it's natural course ",
"a huge dick with capslock just hit my frontpage.",
"To be fair, Taiwan gets hit by earthquakes like this pretty often. Still terrible, but it's not anything new.",
"It didn't have anything to do with Trump, yet. So it obviously wouldn't be on the front page from any of the default news subreddits",
"Where do you come from? Further north? In Taiwan I really hear people pronounce them almost the same but when I hear people speaking with a Beijing accent the pulling back of the tongue for chi shi and zhi is much more evident.",
"It's supposed to be terribad though",
"Rip DDR production. FML.",
"Nothing, which was their point.",
"This comment is kinda hilarious to me because \"Zhuyin\" and \"Bopomofo\" actually refer to the same system. It's just that \"Zhuyin\" is the pinyin for the formal name of the system, and \"bopomofo\" are the first four syllables in the traditional Mandarin syllable ordering. So I'm saying pinyin is a fine system, while using the name derived from the other system, and the other person is saying the other system is a better system, while using a name written in pinyin. HA.\n\nAnyway. Either system works fine, you just have to recognize that Pinyin has different phonology-orthography correspondences, just the same as the alphabet from any other language has different phonology-orthography correspondences.\n\nI prefer Pinyin, just because at least 80% of the syllables are pronounced exactly as you would expect, and so you have a lot of leeway when you're trying to type something into a dictionary to look it up. If you want to learn Chinese with Zhuyin, you're going to have to memorize all the different phonetic symbols. However, if you treat syllables in Pinyin also as discrete phonetic symbols and put just as much effort into memorizing them, you'll have no problem using Pinyin.",
"I'd prefer neither of them -- turns out she's absolutely fucking nuts\n\nhttps://twitter.com/search?q=9%2F11%20from%3Acynthiamckinney&src=typd",
"Oh one I s'pose",
"Ah gotcha. Quite different than being an idiot as the comment implies...",
"I don't know you but I wanted to let you know that I just laughed at one of your comments from like six years ago [here](https://reddit.com/r/keto/comments/o6vei/_/c3evtb5/?context=1) so yeah. Thanks for being the funny guy",
"Hey, that really made my day. Thanks so much.",
"Thank you very much!",
"So the allegations that they're just designed to carry as many people as possible, no matter the consequences, that's ludicrous is it?",
"10 death and 25 missing now :( the buildings collapsed are all on the fault. btw there're 94 foreshocks and over 230 aftershocks till now.\nedit: 10 death 7 missing \n",
"/u/theearthquakeguy wtf are you doing",
":)",
"Yeah totally! Almost done watching it all (started over the Christmas break) and was getting a lot of those vibes from it.",
"Jet fuel can't melt steal beams.",
"Absolutely ludicrous, these are very strong vessels.\n",
"So what happened in this case?",
"Well, the front fell off in this case by all means, but that’s very unusual.",
"but *why* did the front bit fall off?",
"Well a wave hit it.",
"A wave hit it?",
"A wave hit the ship.",
"Is that unusual?",
"Oh yeah, at sea? Chance in a million.",
"I’m a Taiwanese thank you for your wishes.don’t like some people just care themselves and talk about something unrelating to the earthquake in Taiwan",
"So what do you do to protect the environment in cases like this?",
"Well it's been towed outside of the environment.",
"Into another environment?",
"No no no, its been towed beyond the environment, its not in the environment.",
"No, but from one environment to another environment?",
"No, its beyond the environment, its not in an environment, its been towed beyond the environment",
"Well it must be somewhere? What's out there?",
"Nothing's out there.",
"There must be something out there.",
" Theres nothing out there, all there is is sea, and birds, and fish",
"And?",
"And 20,000 tons of crude oil.",
"And what else?",
"And a fire.",
"And...Anything else?",
"And part of the ship that the front fell off, but there's nothing else out there, its a complete void, the environment's perfectly safe.",
"Thanks for joining us. We're out of time.",
"We're out of time? Can you book me cab?",
"didn't you come in a Commonwealth car?",
"Yes I did but...",
"what happened?",
"...well, the front fell off.",
"They could’ve just said that god farted "
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HUGE EARTHQUAKE JUST HIT TAIWAN
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"that's one of my favorite places to just sit and chill for a bit. ",
"I used to live there and miss this museum",
"Great museum! Wish I could have been there to hear you play.\n",
"whats that you're jamming on there??",
"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipa",
"Very cool!",
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Brought one of my instruments to perform at the Nelson Atkins Art Museum for the Chinese New Year party, one of the coolest places i've played yet!
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"to impress people we don't like... on Reddit.",
"Well, I don’t even have the money to buy shit I need so...",
"Could be worse. Could be fidget spinners, with a credit card.",
"That reminds me of a picture I took with all of the stuff I carried in my [backpack](https://i.imgur.com/CTwrEQI.jpg) I used for work.",
"I think I need to take lessons from you about organising things :)"
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My gadgets remind me of George Carlin’s quote: We buy sh*t we don’t need, with money we don’t have.
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"It's not political, it's historical !",
"bad bot",
"Henry Ford museum!",
"It’s not blood.. \n\n“Many visitors wonder whether dark spots on the back of the chair are Lincoln's blood. Not so, say museum workers: The stains are oil from other people's heads who sat in the chair before that fateful night when Lincoln was shot by a pro-Confederacy actor, John Wilkes Booth.\n\nSteve Harris, a historic presenter at the museum, tells passers-by that Lincoln's head would have been positioned much higher than the stain because he was 6 feet 4 inches tall (1.93 meters).”\n\nEdit: there is blood on the chair, just not the large obvious spot. It wasn’t perfectly maintained even after the assassination so there were a lot of contaminated areas. ",
"That is a morbid attraction. "
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Still stained with his blood, the chair President Abraham Lincoln was sat in when he was shot
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"That is amazing!",
"Wowzers!!!!!",
"This is a really fitting tribute to a massive redwood",
"I almost can’t believe that is real. Are we sure it isn’t a fake?",
"It's real. It took 3 years to carve. With a team of 20 people",
"Incredible!",
"I feel they got a bit bored in the middle! ",
"Worth it?",
"My thoughts exactly. Maybe it was already fallen?",
"I hope so...",
"Where's it at?",
"We don't all live in the same countries and timezones so it wasn't intentional...",
"Amazing. Any link to it? I'm curious how long it took.",
"From what I read...20 people and it took 3 years.. ",
"Well, it was a knotty problem, but they carved a way out",
"Could have branched out into a bit more intricate carving...",
"Wouldn't be as bad as this dudes story. Killed the oldest tree ever known to exist....\n\nhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-one-man-accidentally-killed-the-oldest-tree-ever-125764872/"
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Incredible lion sculpture carved out of a single redwood tree
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"Not when you look at the shoes though. ",
"True. It's the details that give it away",
"Having worn period appropriate footwear, I can say that if I was actually using an axe or doing any sort of meaningful labor, the modern boots are significantly better. Older ones are pretty though. ",
"And modern boots are much warmer, you can't really see it here, but we were filming in the winter in Canada. Some of our other actors had some pretty nice old school boots, we just didn't shoot to many foot close ups :)",
"Can confirm, the vintage boots I've had [(see me on the left here)](http://i.imgur.com/AnXfh0x.jpg) have no insulation whatsoever outside of leather and canvass. Back then, you might have overshoes or shoepacs which went over your actual boots. Meanwhile, my modern boots got me through four years of college in upstate New York just fine. "
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This set photo looks like it could have been taken in the 1920's
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"Is that you Donald Trump?",
"You have really small hands. ",
"The fingers are very long in comparison to the palm.",
"I know that this is a banana, it is a youuuuge banana. Me and this banana are very close friends.this is the youuuugest banana-D.Trump ",
"How do we know this isn't a strawberry in Trump's hands??",
"It will have as much taste as the floor.",
"Because it's not the best, greatest strawberry that YOU'VE ever seen. Nobody holds strawberries better than Trump."
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Strawberry
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"One of these is not like that others and it’s not the pig",
"Just darkening his skin pigment. ",
"I can already hear the sizzling... that poor gingerette.."
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Getting the tan with fam and ham
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"I don't even know how you did this!",
"Actually, yes. Yes I do. ",
"are you saying that you see my pencils and my pushpins every day?",
"Don’t turn around too suddenly or you may find out "
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Now here's something you don't see every day...
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