Dogs Scream for Ice Cream Cafe

"40 Miles From Leeds" by Dave Hewitt

Ice cream!!!

ICE CREAM!!!

The goodest girl greets all of her neighbors as they pass by her fence.

She made the mistake of challenging a cat to a pounce-fight.

The love of a cat.

I must dominate you.

A cat wants to help with the Christmas tree.

All-in!

Best job in the world: Puppy glamour photographer.

There be whales here!

Dogs tryna to be human.

Steve Inman: You can only push a cat so far.

Central Park concert.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/HUvXDCQWou
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 26, 2024

Golden Dum-Dum loves magic:

Wat for it.. 😎 pic.twitter.com/kRI3ZbEmMh
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 25, 2024

Posted by: Ace at 07:30 PM

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1 huh...the transporter is malfuncitioning.

Posted by: Orson at December 26, 2024 04:24 PM (dIske)

2 For real?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 26, 2024 04:24 PM (2UnvF)

3 And suddenly...the thred was gone!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2024 04:24 PM (RIvkX)

4 Howdy!

Posted by: Emmie at December 26, 2024 04:24 PM (Sf2cq)

5 Blog is broken

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 26, 2024 04:25 PM (GSHbq)

6 Oof

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 26, 2024 04:25 PM (b294k)

7 Not first?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 27, 2024 07:31 PM (ZOv7s)

8 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 27, 2024 07:31 PM (fwDg9)

9 Hi Friends!

Posted by: Piper at December 27, 2024 07:32 PM (pZEOD)

10 More blog snafus? Well, it’s Christmas vacation time. You don’t really know what day it is, let alone the time. It will all settle Jan 3.

Posted by: Piper at December 27, 2024 07:33 PM (pZEOD)

11 Ludacris Cam ftw!

My daughter has a black kitten who would do that. She is a menace.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 27, 2024 07:34 PM (ZOv7s)

12 LET'S DO THE TIME WAR AAAGAIN!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 27, 2024 07:34 PM (ZOv7s)

13 Train looks like it's going to Hogwarts

Posted by: Skip at December 27, 2024 07:34 PM (fwDg9)

14 ahem

"warp."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 27, 2024 07:35 PM (ZOv7s)

15 Mrs. F. 'S rich lib cousins are coming over tonight to light candles and she is in high dudgeon.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 27, 2024 07:35 PM (RIvkX)

16 Girrrraffe:

https://tinyurl.com/3m6frm7a

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 27, 2024 07:36 PM (eY5jv)

17 14 ahem

"warp."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 27, 2024 07:35 PM (ZOv7s)

Time Warp.... again???

Posted by: Riff Raff..... at December 27, 2024 07:37 PM (QAkQ3)

18 Mrs. F. 'S rich lib cousins are coming over tonight to light candles and she is in high dudgeon.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 27, 2024 07:35 PM (RIvkX)
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Discretely dip the wick in wax before they arrive. When the candles refuse to ignite, clear you throat and ask if they have "something to tell the rest of us."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 27, 2024 07:37 PM (ZOv7s)

19 13 Train looks like it's going to Hogwarts
Posted by: Skip at December 27, 2024 07:34 PM (fwDg9)

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Nah, it's going to the Great Value wizarding school - PigBoils

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 27, 2024 07:37 PM (OGOaV)

20 San Franpsycho

May your wife's path be made smooth.

Steam rollers are advanced technology that can help.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 27, 2024 07:38 PM (u82oZ)

21 15 Mrs. F. 'S rich lib cousins are coming over tonight to light candles and she is in high dudgeon.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 27, 2024 07:35 PM (RIvkX)

Then.... throw them in the Dungeon!

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 27, 2024 07:38 PM (QAkQ3)

22 A gold Spanish ounce for the man who first spies the white whale.

Posted by: Archer at December 27, 2024 07:38 PM (IDphi)

23 A gold Spanish ounce for the man who first spies the white whale.

Posted by: Archer at December 27, 2024 07:38 PM (IDphi)

24 Time Warp.... again???
Posted by: Riff Raff..... at December 27, 2024 07:37 PM (QAkQ3)
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Media lean to the left, but voters lurch to the riiiight!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 27, 2024 07:39 PM (ZOv7s)

25 I believe that top photo is the setting for one of JNW Turner’s impressionistic paintings.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 27, 2024 07:39 PM (7MHHr)

26 I'm in a parallel universe

Posted by: Archer at December 27, 2024 07:39 PM (IDphi)

27 Good evening, horde.

I love that stone train trestle. Would like to sit atop that and enjoy the view.

*not when the train is coming, though.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 27, 2024 07:39 PM (OX9vb)

28 A gold Spanish ounce for the man who first spies the white whale.
Posted by: Archer at December 27, 2024 07:38 PM (IDphi)

23 A gold Spanish ounce for the man who first spies the white whale.
Posted by: Archer at December 27, 2024 07:38 PM (IDphi)
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So nice you had to say it twice!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 27, 2024 07:40 PM (ZOv7s)

29 Is there a separate prayer for each night of lighting the Menorah?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 27, 2024 07:40 PM (XTmTf)

30 Am I slippin' into a twilight zone...

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 27, 2024 07:41 PM (ZOv7s)

31 15
'Mrs. F. 'S rich lib cousins are coming over tonight'

Tell her they'll probably expect an apology for you voting for Trump.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 27, 2024 07:41 PM (3wi/L)

32 Thanks for runnin' a train on us!

Posted by: The Old Brakeman at December 27, 2024 07:41 PM (G5+As)

33 I missed all the meaty threads today.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 27, 2024 07:41 PM (aD39U)

34
Train looks like it's going to Hogwarts
Posted by: Skip

Going to see The Who.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 27, 2024 07:41 PM (63Dwl)

35 Discretely dip the wick in wax before they arrive. When the candles refuse to ignite, clear you throat and ask if they have "something to tell the rest of us."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 27, 2024 07:37 PM (ZOv7s)
====

Very funny.

I have to give them credit though, because they gave me credit for something I predicted 20 years ago.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 27, 2024 07:41 PM (RIvkX)

36 24 Time Warp.... again???
Posted by: Riff Raff..... at December 27, 2024 07:37 PM (QAkQ3)
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Media lean to the left, but voters lurch to the riiiight!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 27, 2024 07:39 PM (ZOv7s)

I used to love that Movie, but when real life started to mimic it?

Can't watch it now.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 27, 2024 07:42 PM (QAkQ3)

37 'Mrs. F. 'S rich lib cousins are coming over tonight'

Tell her they'll probably expect an apology for you voting for Trump.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 27, 2024 07:41 PM (3wi/L)
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Serve orange punch.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 27, 2024 07:42 PM (ZOv7s)

38 Repurposed aqueduct?

Posted by: davidt at December 27, 2024 07:42 PM (i0F8b)

39 On the H1B thing, is it ridiculous to suggest that if these imported workers are so vital to the economy that they should be free to change employers once they get here? They would still be contributing without being forced into serfdom.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 27, 2024 07:42 PM (aD39U)

40 Ben Had, nope, just a special prayer the first night. But tonight is also Shabbos so we'll bless those candles too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 27, 2024 07:43 PM (RIvkX)

41 34
Train looks like it's going to Hogwarts
Posted by: Skip

Going to see The Who.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 27, 2024 07:41 PM (63Dwl)

Which Dr. though... Cool one? Old One? Female one? Gay one?

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 27, 2024 07:43 PM (QAkQ3)

42 Light the candles on the menorah and then break into the Trump dance.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 27, 2024 07:44 PM (u73oe)

43 There are a number of writers on this blog, but only one is Ace-endorsed. Suspicious.

Posted by: Andre' LePlume at December 27, 2024 07:44 PM (G5+As)

44 First, Stormy Daniels, and now a filthy dirty old train.

Coincidence?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 27, 2024 07:44 PM (xMHTF)

45 San Franpsycho, Thank you. Shabbat Shalom

Posted by: Ben Had at December 27, 2024 07:44 PM (XTmTf)

46 Train looks like it's going to Hogwarts
Posted by: Skip

Going to see The Who.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 27, 2024 07:41 PM (63Dwl)

Who's going to see The Who? Are they going Back to the Future to see them in their prime? Did they make sure the DeLorean has a full fuel tank - and pack the plutonium?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 27, 2024 07:45 PM (VNX3d)

47 On the H1B thing, is it ridiculous to suggest that if these imported workers are so vital to the economy that they should be free to change employers once they get here? They would still be contributing without being forced into serfdom.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 27, 2024 07:42 PM (aD39U)

They are that essential then they should be more expensive for their employers. Take away the tax write-off for their wages and insurance.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 27, 2024 07:45 PM (D7oie)

48 I used to love that Movie, but when real life started to mimic it?

Can't watch it now.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 27, 2024 07:42 PM (QAkQ3)
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Compare it to Phantom of the Paradise, which is much, much darker. Same time period.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 27, 2024 07:46 PM (ZOv7s)

49 And to you as well {Ben Had}

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 27, 2024 07:48 PM (RIvkX)

50 My brain is malfunctioning. Every mention of Hanukkah, menorah, or candles brings to my mind the Yiddish curse that JJS mentioned like 18 months ago. The one about hanging like a chandelier, so you can burn all night. I did bump my head the other day....

Posted by: Not Wrapped Too Tight at December 27, 2024 07:48 PM (G5+As)

51 ‘ALL-NATURAL’ SIMPLY ORANGE JUICE HAS HIGH TOXIC PFAS LEVELS, LAWSUIT ALLEGES | PFAS (FIN)

A new class-action lawsuit in the US alleges Coca-Cola and Simply Orange Juice deceived customers with claims of an all-natural, healthy product when the juice has been found to be contaminated with toxic PFAS at levels “hundreds of times” above federal advisory limits for drinking water.

https://tinyurl.com/4e68acjt

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 27, 2024 07:50 PM (eY5jv)

52 He has one about, you should grow like an onion, with your head in the ground.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 27, 2024 07:50 PM (RIvkX)

53 Greetings, hordelings.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 27, 2024 07:51 PM (Wg6v7)

54 I think it goes, May you be like a chandelier, hang all day and burn all night.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 27, 2024 07:52 PM (XTmTf)

55 TOXIC PEAS??? IN ORANGE JUICE?

Posted by: fd at December 27, 2024 07:52 PM (vFG9F)

56 I think it goes, May you be like a chandelier, hang all day and burn all night.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 27, 2024 07:52 PM (XTmTf)
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Burnin' for you?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 27, 2024 07:53 PM (ZOv7s)

57 Oh. Never mind.

Posted by: fd at December 27, 2024 07:54 PM (vFG9F)

58 What's all this I hear about whirled peas?

Posted by: Emily Latella at December 27, 2024 07:55 PM (aD39U)

59 I think it goes, May you be like a chandelier, hang all day and burn all night.
Posted by: Ben Had

I burn all day AND all night.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at December 27, 2024 07:55 PM (b1qe9)

60 Stowaway Caught on Delta Plane After Boarding Christmas Eve Flight Without a Ticket

https://tinyurl.com/5n7w9bjh

Posted by: Ciampino - so much for TSA security at December 27, 2024 07:55 PM (i0xsb)

61 TOXIC PEAS??? IN ORANGE JUICE?
Posted by: fd at December 27, 2024 07:52 PM (vFG9F)

It's Coca-Cola. Who knows what gets put in there....

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 27, 2024 07:55 PM (VNX3d)

62 Legendary comedian Dick Capri dead at 93 after celebrating Christmas

https://mol.im/a/14228771

Posted by: Ciampino - well he made Xmas at December 27, 2024 07:57 PM (i0xsb)

63 Starry the cat is back outside.

Mom, in the hospital is doing well.

I told my brother I just needed a break. He's taking care of this.

I have beer.

Good night.

Posted by: Stateless at December 27, 2024 07:57 PM (jvJvP)

64 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 27, 2024 07:57 PM (WXNFJ)

65
Possum and Lacey enjoy ice cream.

http://soyaraborzoi.com/LaceyIceCream.jpg

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2024 07:59 PM (dxSpM)

66 Three women at a Christmas get-together have died after eating a festive fruit cake.

Posted by: News You Can Use at December 27, 2024 08:00 PM (vFG9F)

67 She Hobbit, hugs dear lady.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 27, 2024 08:00 PM (XTmTf)

68 That top picture, how do you even start building such a massive viaduct? With no modern machinery.

Posted by: Ciampino - imagine the first guy to build an arch! at December 27, 2024 08:00 PM (i0xsb)

69 After a steady stream of kids and grands and visitors coming through, it's just me and the critters for a few days, as Mrs Refugee went to help daughter prep for an apartment switch.

Puppers is looking at me with a look that indicates "you're a pathetic entertainment committee"

Posted by: The Party at December 27, 2024 08:01 PM (8AONa)

70 Do not eat the fruitcake!

Posted by: Piper at December 27, 2024 08:01 PM (p4NUW)

71 Off old sock

Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 27, 2024 08:02 PM (8AONa)

72 That dominating kitten video I think is just showing the typical reflex that four legged mammels have when you touch the top surface of their paws the reflex is to put their paw up on top. In the last few years for our labs the vet would test that on the back paws and towards the end you could tell their nervous system was in an advanced degenerative state.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 27, 2024 08:02 PM (Y6IkP)

73
Do not eat the fruitcake!
Posted by: Piper

It's to be used as a doorstop.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 27, 2024 08:03 PM (63Dwl)

74 Ciampino, I have seen that picture before but can't find the date it was built. I'm betting it's a thousand years old anyway.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 27, 2024 08:03 PM (XTmTf)

75 66 Three women at a Christmas get-together have died after eating a festive fruit cake.
Posted by: News You Can Use at December 27, 2024 08:00 PM (vFG9F)

Sounds like it was bit TOO festive.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 27, 2024 08:04 PM (7MHHr)

76 *waves to Piper*

Posted by: Ben Had at December 27, 2024 08:05 PM (XTmTf)

77 Biden spent 40% of his term on vacation. He was never in charge and he knew it.

Posted by: Piper at December 27, 2024 08:05 PM (p4NUW)

78 Viaduct?

Posted by: Why Not A Chicken? at December 27, 2024 08:07 PM (G5+As)

79 Considering Bribe'em only showed up about 3 hours a day I put his down time at about 60%.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 27, 2024 08:07 PM (XTmTf)

80 advanced degenerative state.

You rang?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 27, 2024 08:08 PM (MLCjJ)

81 74

Built 1849 - fooled both of us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Kirkstall_Road_Viaduct

Posted by: Ciampino - imagine the first guy to build an arch! at December 27, 2024 08:08 PM (i0xsb)

82 Ciampino, good find, thank you.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 27, 2024 08:09 PM (XTmTf)

83 77 Biden spent 40% of his term on vacation. He was never in charge and he knew it.
Posted by: Piper at December 27, 2024 08:05 PM (p4NUW
The entire thing was run be ubama people.

Posted by: Eromero at December 27, 2024 08:09 PM (LHPAg)

84 68 That top picture, how do you even start building such a massive viaduct? With no modern machinery.
Posted by: Ciampino - imagine the first guy to build an arch! at December 27, 2024 08:00 PM (i0xsb)

And it lasts for centuries, as opposed to new bridges that don't last decades.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 27, 2024 08:10 PM (OX9vb)

85 Possum and Lacey enjoy ice cream.

My old mother took sick Dec 2, I have been staying in her house looking after her beloved dog since then, I just called spouse to give our old dog a treat of a dish of ice cream, his favorite. Thanks for the reminder Hadrian.

Posted by: friends in low places at December 27, 2024 08:10 PM (WD60c)

86 Three women at a Christmas get-together have died after eating a festering fruit cake.

Posted by: News You Can Use Corrections at December 27, 2024 08:11 PM (vFG9F)

87 Hi Ben Had!

Posted by: Piper at December 27, 2024 08:11 PM (p4NUW)

88 Mr. Peabody's Coal Train has hauled it away.....

Posted by: Paradise at December 27, 2024 08:12 PM (G5+As)

89 51 A new class-action lawsuit in the US alleges Coca-Cola and Simply Orange Juice deceived customers with claims of an all-natural, healthy product when the juice has been found to be contaminated with toxic PFAS at levels “hundreds of times” above federal advisory limits for drinking water.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 27, 2024 07:50 PM (eY5jv)

Yeah, but, the PFAS are cancelled out by the oranges 'n shit.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at December 27, 2024 08:13 PM (DTX3h)

90 Test

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 27, 2024 08:14 PM (7MHHr)

91 I've walked cobbled roads in Ciampino and Rome that were built by the Romans and marched over by legions. Our freeways have perpetual zippers to be opened for repairs and grow those strange State flowers, you know, the orange conical ones.

Posted by: Ciampino - imagine the first guy to build an arch at December 27, 2024 08:14 PM (i0xsb)

92 I saw Festering Fruitcakes open for the Rocky Horror Picture Show in downtown Atlanta in the early 80s. Really.

Posted by: fd at December 27, 2024 08:14 PM (vFG9F)

93 I take PFAS supplements and I feel great!

Posted by: Good Fer What Ails Ya at December 27, 2024 08:15 PM (G5+As)

94 fd, how's your hand doing?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 27, 2024 08:15 PM (XTmTf)

95 >>@KenPaxtonTX

>>We have successfully blocked the Biden Administration from disposing of any further border wall materials before President Trump takes office.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 27, 2024 08:16 PM (LkLld)

96 PFAS give me gas. Makes me PFART.

Posted by: fd at December 27, 2024 08:16 PM (vFG9F)

97 Three women dead after ‘eating cake baked by their sister as cops probe her husband’s food poisoning death’

So, practiced on hubs?

Poison is a woman's weapon.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 27, 2024 08:16 PM (MLCjJ)

98 Asian Christmas

https://tinyurl.com/43cdn752

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 27, 2024 08:16 PM (eY5jv)

99 >>> Test
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 27, 2024 08:14 PM (7MHHr)

Orange,... no Green!

eeeeaghhhhhh!

Posted by: banana Dream at December 27, 2024 08:18 PM (Y6IkP)

100 Roman roads stood up a long time because the legions drove little Fiat 850s and Isettas. All about the weight.

Posted by: Larry Landyacht at December 27, 2024 08:18 PM (G5+As)

101 "fd, how's your hand doing?
Posted by: Ben Had "

They took the pin and stitches out my finger today. I call it Frankenfinger. It feels like I smashed it with a hammer. I've survived worse though and we'll be ok.

Posted by: fd at December 27, 2024 08:19 PM (vFG9F)

102 PFAS is of concern because it was noted that ass cancer is more common in beach communities and other places where people have been putting their wet butts on scotch-guarded car seats.

...or maybe that never happened...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 27, 2024 08:21 PM (/lPRQ)

103 77 Biden spent 40% of his term on vacation. He was never in charge and he knew it.

Posted by: Piper at December 27, 2024 08:05 PM (p4NUW)

I wonder what the ratio of "good days" to "bad days" was.
What percentage of the time is he lucid?

Posted by: Reforger at December 27, 2024 08:21 PM (xcIvR)

104 >>> Test
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 27, 2024 08:14 PM (7MHHr)

Orange,... no Green!

eeeeaghhhhhh!
Posted by: banana Dream at December 27, 2024 08:18 PM (Y6IkP)

42!

Flood?

Famine?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 27, 2024 08:21 PM (VNX3d)

105 I’m discovering it takes about 2-3 hours to recover from the nausea and vertigo from playing VR games.

Star Wars Galaxies Edge is pretty damn awesome.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 27, 2024 08:22 PM (XV/Pl)

106 Me and Mrs. E are gaving pecan pie for desert and eating off the same plate. She gets some on her fork and asks me ‘is this part of my slice?’ I just looked at her. So she said ‘I don’t want to get forked here.’ And yet…..and yet……I can remember a day.

Posted by: Eromero at December 27, 2024 08:22 PM (LHPAg)

107 The love of a cat is not like that of a square.

Posted by: eleven at December 27, 2024 08:22 PM (iziT8)

108 Eromero, haha! Heartwarming, that is.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 27, 2024 08:23 PM (OX9vb)

109 Those gemius-level H1b visas:

https://tinyurl.com/443a2vt8

Posted by: Ciampino - imagine the jobs at December 27, 2024 08:25 PM (i0xsb)

110 >>> PFAS is of concern because it was noted that ass cancer is more common in beach communities and other places where people have been putting their wet butts on scotch-guarded car seats.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 27, 2024 08:21 PM (/lPRQ)

The microplastics in my balls effectively cancel out all my butt PFAS.

Life is all about balance.

Posted by: banana Yogi Dream at December 27, 2024 08:25 PM (Y6IkP)

111 On behalf of all who have been banned from looking directly at (the face of God?) TwitVVhore-Tweets, thank you for embedding the ones worth watching.

Posted by: Marooned at December 27, 2024 08:26 PM (kt8QE)

112 109
genius

Posted by: Ciampino - imagine the jobs at December 27, 2024 08:26 PM (i0xsb)

113 I better try and keep slept schedule, Monday need to be up early.
Have a great evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 27, 2024 08:26 PM (fwDg9)

114 That top picture, how do you even start building such a massive viaduct? With no modern machinery.

We don't know, but surely you start with centuries of taxation and promises.

Posted by: PennDOT at December 27, 2024 08:29 PM (FHiG2)

115 100 Roman roads stood up a long time because the legions drove little Fiat 850s and Isettas. All about the weight.

Posted by: Larry Landyacht at December 27, 2024 08:18 PM (G5+As)
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Our first car was a FIAT 500, the Topolino. This was 1951 in Uganda. Great little car.

Posted by: Ciampino - imagine the roads in Uganda at December 27, 2024 08:30 PM (i0xsb)

116 How did the Romans build the Colosseum with Roman numerals?

Posted by: eleven at December 27, 2024 08:31 PM (iziT8)

117 Those gemius-level H1b visas:

https://tinyurl.com/443a2vt8
Posted by: Ciampino

Our motels aren't going to manage themselves!

Posted by: t-bird at December 27, 2024 08:32 PM (D9hgC)

118 >>> I’m discovering it takes about 2-3 hours to recover from the nausea and vertigo from playing VR games.
Star Wars Galaxies Edge is pretty damn awesome.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 27, 2024 08:22 PM (XV/Pl)

Are you posting on the HQ right now while plugged into your rig? Ooh! ooh! What do we all look like in virtual reality? Do the cobs have cool avatars like dragons or psychedelic alpacas? Is the barrel there?

Posted by: banana Yogi Dream at December 27, 2024 08:32 PM (Y6IkP)

119 96 PFAS give me gas. Makes me PFART.
Posted by: fd at December 27, 2024 08:16 PM (vFG9F)

-----------

Ja! Ja!

Ich auch!

Posted by: A. Schicklgruber at December 27, 2024 08:32 PM (dDmld)

120 Snowflake and Trumpy are in early.

Just chilling. It's not that cold out but they came in and were wet. They like when I dry them off with the towel.

With Mom gone, they know somethings up. I should go watch tv or something.

I haven't watched my kids shows in a long while. They were sweet when I was less bitter and not watching slasher flicks.

Posted by: Stateless at December 27, 2024 08:34 PM (jvJvP)

121 Why a duck?

Posted by: Chicolini at December 27, 2024 08:34 PM (dDmld)

122 So get all F. Lee Bailey on this Biden on the job shit: Subtract sleeping hours, subtract vacation hours, subpeona medical records and depose EVERYONE around Joe in the basement et cetera. Oh my! Will there emerge a pattern of non compos mentis? Where, oh where, will full faith and credit be?

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at December 27, 2024 08:34 PM (QSrLX)

123 "I’m discovering it takes about 2-3 hours to recover from the nausea and vertigo from playing VR games."

When DOOM first came out, woah. There was a lot of movement going on long after the game was over.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 27, 2024 08:35 PM (KAi1n)

124 Why a duck?
Posted by: Chicolini at December 27, 2024 08:34 PM

What duck?

Posted by: The Duck Man at December 27, 2024 08:37 PM (Wnv9h)

125 Dogs Scream for Ice Cream Cafe

Not after Fauci "fixes" them so they can't.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 27, 2024 08:38 PM (MLCjJ)

126 Its always bugged me that Townshend and Daughtrey go out as The Who. I mean, everyone who would go knows their names, of course they are going to do Who songs..it feels like if McCartney and Starr went on tour as The Beatles

Posted by: azjaeger at December 27, 2024 08:39 PM (3/XaG)

127 There was a perception test in the 70's(?) where they gave all the subjects goggles that made the world upside down.

After a day or two the subjects could do everything normal like walk and ride bicycles.

Then they took the goggles of and after a day or two the subjects could do all the normal things again.

Their brains adjusted to the upside down world by perceiving vision upside down.

Posted by: eleven at December 27, 2024 08:40 PM (iziT8)

128 Who songs..it feels like if McCartney and Starr went on tour as The Beatles
Posted by: azjaeger at December 27, 2024 08:39 PM (3/XaG)

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It's like Chris and Tracy going on tour as The Partridge Family.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 27, 2024 08:41 PM (dDmld)

129 Hey man it's your favorite El Presidente here down in St. Croix Sunning My nuts again. How are things back in the States. I am sure they are in good hands with Hunter running the country.

Anyway, the sun is great and the weather nice and warm., Don't freeze your nuts off back in Northern US. Well, got go because it is time for my daily massage by naked Babes with large breasts and round plump ass followed by a Depends Diaper change all on you the taxpayers....

Happy Holliday's and Praise Allah ......

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 27, 2024 08:42 PM (7uGna)

130 That top picture, how do you even start building such a massive viaduct? With no modern machinery.
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Putting aside the structural engineering, consider the labor to cut and transport each stone.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 27, 2024 08:47 PM (XeU6L)

131 Virginia hospital pauses NICU admissions after babies are found with unexplainable fractures

https://mol.im/a/14230473

Posted by: Ciampino - don't have babies there at December 27, 2024 08:48 PM (i0xsb)

132 "Its always bugged me that Townshend and Daughtrey go out as The Who."

It should bug you more that John Entwhistle and Keith Moon drugged themselves to death. Moon's was a little more complex (and not entirely shameful) but "Ox" died of a toxic mix of blow and heart disease brought on by being a big smoker.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 27, 2024 08:49 PM (KAi1n)

133 Daltrey

Posted by: SFGoth at December 27, 2024 08:49 PM (KAi1n)

134 130 That top picture, how do you even start building such a massive viaduct? With no modern machinery.
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Putting aside the structural engineering, consider the labor to cut and transport each stone.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 27, 2024 08:47 PM (XeU6L)
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Four-horsepower carts?

Posted by: Ciampino - clydesdales? at December 27, 2024 08:52 PM (i0xsb)

135 I get up every afternoon from the Secret Service
Take a walk to the Oval Office by 4 PM
There's a teleprompter up above and people pushing, people shoving to see me

And the reporters from CNN who try to look pretty
And if I am on time, you can get to my work by five PM
And you in your minimum wage slavin' jobs and get your pay and if you ever get annoyed, look at me, I'm self-employed I love to work at nothing all day

And I've been takin' care of mine and Hunter's business, every day and Takin' care of business, every way
I've been takin' care of business, it's all mine

Takin' care of business and watching other people working overtime
It is easy as fishing, you could be a politician
If you could make gurgling sounds loud or mellow

Get a lying press secretary, chances are you'll go far
If you get in with the right bunch of Scammers

People see you having fun just a-lying in the sun
You tell them that you like it this way
It's the work that I avoid, and I am self-employed as POTUS

And love to work at nothing all day..............

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 27, 2024 08:53 PM (FDlb9)

136 And it lasts for centuries, as opposed to new bridges that don't last decades.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
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Recently read about a bridge being constructed over the Missouri river. It was stated that it was designed for a 50 year lifetime. Pretty pathetic. Still, better than Florida International, I guess.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 27, 2024 08:54 PM (XeU6L)

137 That top picture, how do you even start building such a massive viaduct? With no modern machinery.
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Putting aside the structural engineering, consider the labor to cut and transport each stone.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 27, 2024 08:47 PM (XeU6L)
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Four-horsepower carts?
Posted by: Ciampino - clydesdales? at December 27, 2024 08:52 PM (i0xsb)

Four cat-power horses?

I need to step away from a screen for a while, if my mind makes those kind of leaps.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 27, 2024 08:54 PM (VNX3d)

138 Matt Lohmeyer Air Force F15 Pilot and also a Commander in the U.S. Space Force is now the first ‘Veteran’ of the Space Force FIRED for voicing opposition to the Biden-Harris DEI rampant trainings.

Pres Trump has placed him on a Pentagon Task Force ensuring these Monsters never return again!
_@FFT1776

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 27, 2024 08:56 PM (eY5jv)

139 President Trump speaking at Mt. Rushmore, on the eve of Independence Day, 2020:

“Above all, our children, from every community, must be taught that to be American is to inherit the spirit of the most adventurous and confident people ever to walk the face of the Earth.

Americans are the people who pursued our Manifest Destiny across the ocean, into the uncharted wilderness, over the tallest mountains, and then into the skies and even into the stars.

We are the country of Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Frederick Douglass. We are the land of Wild Bill Hickock and Buffalo Bill Cody. (Applause.) We are the nation that gave rise to the Wright Brothers, the Tuskegee Airmen — (applause) — Harriet Tubman, Clara Barton, Jesse Owens, George Patton — General George Patton — the great Louie Armstrong, Alan Shepard, Elvis Presley, and Mohammad Ali. (Applause.) And only America could have produced them all. (Applause.) No other place.

We are the culture that put up the Hoover Dam, laid down the highways, and sculpted the skyline of Manhattan. We are the people who dreamed a spectacular dream — it was called: Las Vegas, in the ...
cont.
continued

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 27, 2024 09:03 PM (eY5jv)

140 it was called: Las Vegas, in the Nevada desert; who built up Miami from the Florida marsh; and who carved our heroes into the face of Mount Rushmore. (Applause.)

Americans harnessed electricity, split the atom, and gave the world the telephone and the Internet. We settled the Wild West, won two World Wars, landed American astronauts on the Moon — and one day very soon, we will plant our flag on Mars.

We gave the world the poetry of Walt Whitman, the stories of Mark Twain, the songs of Irving Berlin, the voice of Ella Fitzgerald, the style of Frank Sinatra — (applause) — the comedy of Bob Hope, the power of the Saturn V rocket, the toughness of the Ford F-150 — (applause) — and the awesome might of the American aircraft carriers.

Americans must never lose sight of this miraculous story.”

Stephen Miller@StephenM

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 27, 2024 09:03 PM (eY5jv)

141
And it lasts for centuries, as opposed to new bridges that don't last decades.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

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I don't think we've lost the ability to have things that last centuries, we've lost the willingness to pay for things that last centuries.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2024 09:05 PM (dxSpM)

142 World's most secretive society appoints new leader before Trump 2.0

https://mol.im/a/14226661

Posted by: Ciampino - The Black Hand? No? at December 27, 2024 09:10 PM (i0xsb)

143 This is the 3rd year I've gotten Fudge from Uranus.

This year, my fudge was lovingly packed by Joe.

https://tinyurl.com/5x224d2j

Posted by: jsg at December 27, 2024 09:14 PM (hPELp)

144 130
'Putting aside the structural engineering, consider the labor to cut and transport each stone.'

A frame and a system of pulleys to lift each block.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 27, 2024 09:14 PM (3wi/L)

145 142 World's most secretive society appoints new leader before Trump 2.0

https://mol.im/a/14226661
Posted by: Ciampino - The Black Hand? No? at December 27, 2024 09:10 PM (i0xsb)

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Kiwanis?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 27, 2024 09:14 PM (dDmld)

146 High dudgeon, what a great phrase. Is there a similar term for righteous indignation?

Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at December 27, 2024 09:14 PM (WvGHv)

147 142 World's most secretive society appoints new leader before Trump 2.0

https://mol.im/a/14226661
Posted by: Ciampino - The Black Hand? No? at December 27, 2024 09:10 PM (i0xsb)

Jared Kushner attends.

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at December 27, 2024 09:17 PM (2NXcZ)

148 >When DOOM first came out, woah. There was a lot of movement going on long after the game was over.
Posted by: SFGoth at December 27, 2024 08:35 PM (KAi1n)

Factorio would give me a splitting headache if I used a fast vehicle and played for hours. I was so addicted at the time that it took a while to convince me to stop.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 27, 2024 09:17 PM (lhenN)

149 Founded in 1954, the Bilderberg group has long drawn fascination for its clandestine meetings at exclusive hotels and alpine resorts where attendees hold discussions on international relations, economics and security.

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Pfft. Pikers.

Posted by: The Priory of Sion at December 27, 2024 09:20 PM (dDmld)

150 Not related. But DOOM!

I miss Monty.

Posted by: Stateless at December 27, 2024 09:20 PM (jvJvP)

151 World's most secretive society appoints new leader before Trump 2.0
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Rosicrucians?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 27, 2024 09:23 PM (XeU6L)

152 I'm feeling so much better.

Posted by: Stateless at December 27, 2024 09:24 PM (jvJvP)

153 Raccoon Lodge?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 27, 2024 09:24 PM (XeU6L)

154 World's most secretive society appoints new leader before Trump 2.0

The Knights of Columbus.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 27, 2024 09:24 PM (Wg6v7)

155 England gave the world Bob Hope.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 27, 2024 09:26 PM (KAi1n)

156 World's most secretive society appoints new leader before Trump 2.0

Lutheran Jell-O Salad Ladies?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 27, 2024 09:26 PM (mH6SG)

157 Biden is jetting off to Italy Jan 12 as well. I figure he vacationed or what at his beach house for "working" weekends over 3 years of his 4 year term. Not that he was functioning as president anyway.

Posted by: steevy at December 27, 2024 09:26 PM (KQk9m)

158 The California Almond Board?

Just spitballin' here.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 27, 2024 09:26 PM (dDmld)

159 England gave the world Bob Hope.
Posted by: SFGoth
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America gave England Winston Churchill.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 27, 2024 09:27 PM (XeU6L)

160 151 The Raccoon Lodge appoints Ralph Kramden, driver of the #3 Chauncey Street bus, as new Grand Raccoon.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 27, 2024 09:27 PM (gm9Sb)

161 The Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes. The world's oldest secret society.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 27, 2024 09:27 PM (KAi1n)

162 I mean yeah he was born there but Bob Hope came to the US as a 5 year old .

Posted by: steevy at December 27, 2024 09:27 PM (KQk9m)

163 155 England gave the world Bob Hope.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 27, 2024 09:26 PM (KAi1n

And now it's where hope goes to die.

It's crazy how evil the Commonwealth became the last few years.

Posted by: Stateless at December 27, 2024 09:28 PM (jvJvP)

164 I miss Monty.
Posted by: Stateless at December 27, 2024 09:20 PM (jvJvP)

Me, too.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 27, 2024 09:28 PM (OX9vb)

165 World's most secretive society appoints new leader before Trump 2.0

The Sons of Italy?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 27, 2024 09:28 PM (Wg6v7)

166 My secret society is so secrative we don't even know what we are called, where we meet or who any of the other members are and we really don't know what we talk about.

Posted by: Reforger at December 27, 2024 09:29 PM (xcIvR)

167 Nobody has even heard of the world's most secret society.

Posted by: steevy at December 27, 2024 09:29 PM (KQk9m)

168
World's most secretive society appoints new leader before Trump 2.0

__________

The Grange?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2024 09:29 PM (dxSpM)

169 Nobody has even heard of the world's most secret society.

It's like one hand clapping.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 27, 2024 09:30 PM (mH6SG)

170 The Grange?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Where the air is fine. If you got the time. But I might be mistaken. (They got a lot o' nice girls there.)

Posted by: SFGoth at December 27, 2024 09:30 PM (KAi1n)

171 There were work gangs in the UK when that viaduct was made called navies. Cut rock with steam engine, rail rocks to site with steam locomotives, and raise the pillars using pulley technology, powered by steam lifters.

And a horde of workers used to hard work.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 27, 2024 09:32 PM (u82oZ)

172 World's most secretive society appoints new leader before Trump 2.0
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Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night?

Illuminated and Ancient Brethren of Ee?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 27, 2024 09:33 PM (BpYfr)

173 Mike Hammer

TBF, American traffic almost killed Churchill in a pedestrian - car accident. He was on one of his many lecture tours.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 27, 2024 09:33 PM (u82oZ)

174 And a horde of workers used to hard work.

That's us! Wait, wut?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 27, 2024 09:34 PM (mH6SG)

175 "Perfessor" Squirrel

Put Carrot Ironfoundersson on the case.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 27, 2024 09:34 PM (u82oZ)

176 And a horde of workers used to hard work.
The Welsh

Posted by: steevy at December 27, 2024 09:35 PM (KQk9m)

177 Hey everyone, Douggie and me are out here in San Fran for the Holiday's just Fucking off. Nothing for me to do anyway and joey is sunny his nuts in the Caribbean. Well, I just downed my second bottle of Mogan David Blackberry Wine and feel great.

See you guys' next year in January when so guy name Vance evicts me and Dougie...

Cackle....... Cackle........ Cackle.............

Posted by: Kamal Harris at December 27, 2024 09:35 PM (7uGna)

178 Thunderstorms here!

Posted by: Piper at December 27, 2024 09:36 PM (p4NUW)

179 My secret society is so secrative we don't even know what we are called, where we meet or who any of the other members are and we really don't know what we talk about.
Posted by: Reforger

Well, it's not secret anymore!

Posted by: haffhowershower at December 27, 2024 09:37 PM (NMT5x)

180 World's most secretive society appoints new leader before Trump 2.0

But they thought it was important to announce they elected a new leader?

Posted by: Piper at December 27, 2024 09:38 PM (p4NUW)

181 Well, it's not secret anymore!
Posted by: haffhowershower at December 27, 2024 09:37 PM (NMT5x)

Oops.

Posted by: Reforger at December 27, 2024 09:39 PM (xcIvR)

182 Western Lensman@WesternLensman
MSNBC lib doesn’t think illegal aliens have committed a crime; worries about chaos and cost of deportations:
“That is what is disturbing…they see anyone who has entered the country as committed a crime…most Americans don’t see it that way."

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Well, they don't see it that way in the MSNWTF break room.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 27, 2024 09:39 PM (L/fGl)

183 182

'most Americans don’t see it that way."'

They fucking well do and voted that way. Turn off your gaslight.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 27, 2024 09:42 PM (3wi/L)

184 ???

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 27, 2024 09:43 PM (hoCmQ)

185 Frem WIki:

Glenfinnan Viaduct is a railway viaduct on the West Highland Line in Glenfinnan, Inverness-shire, Scotland, built from 1897 to 1901.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 27, 2024 09:44 PM (u82oZ)

186 World's most secretive society appoints new leader before Trump 2.0

I'm going with the gang near Port Asbestos, The Possum Lodge.

Posted by: Beartooth at December 27, 2024 09:44 PM (3Ev2O)

187 the aft gang's agley

Posted by: Bobby Burns at December 27, 2024 09:47 PM (D7oie)

188 World's most secretive society? Pimps For Diddy?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 27, 2024 09:48 PM (L/fGl)

189 CDC claims we may have a bird flu pandemic! It’s mutating.

I believe they will have to enjoy this pandemic by themselves.

Posted by: Piper at December 27, 2024 09:48 PM (p4NUW)

190 Zuzu's Petals?

Posted by: mindful webworker's wonderful life at December 27, 2024 09:49 PM (626PI)

191 This is not the Glenfinnan Viaduct. That is a railway viaduct on the West Highland Line in Glenfinnan, Inverness-shire, Scotland, built from 1897 to 1901.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 27, 2024 09:52 PM (u82oZ)

192 Amigaw, did I kill the thread? Or is everyone busy refreshing the front page looking for the oNT?

Posted by: mindful webworker's gravy errror at December 27, 2024 09:52 PM (626PI)

193 CDC claims we may have a bird flu pandemic! It’s mutating.

I believe they will have to enjoy this pandemic by themselves.
Posted by: Piper at December 27, 2024 09:48 PM (p4NUW)

well, it is not like there are no biolabs around working on enhancing the flu virus.

Posted by: Bobby Burns at December 27, 2024 09:53 PM (D7oie)

194 Zuzu's Petals?
Posted by: mindful webworker's wonderful life

That's either a secret society or a Shanghai whorehouse.

Or what you said in your nic.

Posted by: mikeski at December 27, 2024 09:53 PM (DgGvY)

195 CDC claims we may have a bird flu pandemic!

Symptoms include when you fly like an eagle to the sea.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 27, 2024 09:53 PM (L/fGl)

196 Puir Bobby, asked for bread an' they gae him a stane

Posted by: Kindltot at December 27, 2024 09:54 PM (D7oie)

197 189 CDC claims we may have a bird flu pandemic! It’s mutating.

Posted by: Piper at December 27, 2024 09:48 PM (p4NUW)
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Don't you have to have an epidemic before it becomes a pandemic?
Is this a ruse to cancel Jan 20 ?

Posted by: Ciampino - The Black Hand Gang? No? at December 27, 2024 09:56 PM (i0xsb)

198
I am no doubt missing something, but the tall skinny stone block columns on that "40 Miles from Leeds" railroad trestle look pretty week and unstable. But it must have been standing for 150 years at least. How'd they do that?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 27, 2024 10:05 PM (g3j/k)

199 81 74

Built 1849 - fooled both of us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Kirkstall_Road_Viaduct

Posted by: Ciampino - imagine the first guy to build an arch! at December 27, 2024 08:08 PM (i0xsb)

Gurgle says it's the Ribblehead Viaduct.

"The Ribblehead Viaduct or Batty Moss Viaduct carries the Settle–Carlisle railway across Batty Moss in the Ribble Valley at Ribblehead, in North Yorkshire, England. The viaduct, built by the Midland Railway, is 28 miles north-west of Skipton and 26 miles south-east of Kendal. It is a Grade II* listed structure".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribblehead_Viaduct

Posted by: Bridge Nerd at December 27, 2024 10:56 PM (Yt3ED)

200 Wow tһat was odd. I just wrote an extremely long comment but after Ι clicked submit my comment
dіdn't appear. Grrrr... well I'm not writing all that oѵer again. Regаrdleѕs, just wanted
to say fantastiϲ blog!

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