Random Thought Thread

So I love history. And Queen Elizabeth I loved nicknames. And while her nickname for Robert Dudley was her "gypsy", one historian insists in private he was her "flaming python of love" and just

 

White is the new silver. Is it me, or are half the women in the US driving white SUVs?

 

Catch up grandad. That was 2014. Now it’s all silver foxes on the electric bicycles. Next stop - wife in drone - to shops, I predict.

 

How to paint just like Bob Ross:

 

...Ummmmmmm.....What?

 

It's the cradle of civilization. It's a satellite photograph of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Iraq.

Or maybe they're specimens of tiny worms that insert themselves in the human penis and cause Peyronie's Disease.

Or they're an aboriginal musical instrument. You grab the hooks on the top ends and bang them together. They sound like churchbells.

Or they're the femurs of extinct ballet-dancing quadropeds.

 

Warm....

 

If you're going to exterminate the vermin, you might as well make use of them. Waste not, want not, I say.

Spoiler: Here's the critter

Oh, and to further spoil this one, only the male has this bone.

 

Poor little burglar looking blighters...
Thank goodness humans are the only
mammal to not have one of those, or
they too would have a similar fate.

 

raccoon penis bones

 

Special attention @Cave Troll, @big soft moose, @zoupskim

Reload this...beyotchhh:

 

That gun was pregnant with another gun. That shooter performed a natural delivery as a transition to his sidearm. He is a doctor and a master and a god.

 

10 in carbine, 5 in pistol. Like the innovation. Though you can
buy a mountable stock for the AR-15 that can carry a pistol.

Challenge Accepted. Reload this, holmes

 

Yummy!

 

How are my sexy friends doing today? <nudges you all with tip of whale snout>

 

"I'm too sexy for a whale, too sexy for my tail... " - cetacean folk song

 

The Great British Baking Show

Contestant A: "Goodness, my phyllo is sticking to the tins. I'll never get them out in time. I'm going home for certain."
Contestant B: "Can I help you with those, Maggie?"
Contestant A: "That would be lovely. You're a dear. Thank you so much."

Any American Cooking Competition

Contestant A: "Fuck, my eggs burned!"
Contestant B:

 

Exactly why I love that show so much. Baking is the least interesting component of cooking for me, but they're just so polite. Even when the Polar Bear has to criticize something something to death, he's polite about it.

"Umm, Daniel, the assignment was to make a breadstick, and you've given me an undercooked muffin. It's really...not very good."

"I know, I'm sorry."

"That's okay, who's next?"

 

Jinkies... Paul Hollywood.

*fans self, looks noddy*