Either that or some douchebag that gets off pooping in public places. Not entirely out of the realm of possibility.
Back when I was living in the barracks there was one Marine who would get drunk and poop in the... Nevermind. Suffice to say it was horrifying.
Well, whoever did this spaced two milk crates strategically to free up the operating area. And two matching socks to clean up the aftermath. As a downtown entrepreneur, I'm no stranger to the occasional pile of human poo. It is what it is. Ever clean a grease trap? Much worse than shit. However the improvised milk crate commode still has us baffled two weeks after the fact. Where'd he get the milk crates? They weren't mine. Was he carrying them around? Does he have a stash hidden in a parking garage or something? If so, why not poop in privacy there instead of risking it in a cross street alcove? People, bruh... I give up. At least I got a couple of milk crates out of it. I hosed them down and hit them with our new anti-viral Covid sanitizer that apparently kills everything smaller than a toddler... and has a nice lemon scent to boot. Tough to get good milk crates these days. Vendors used to give them out willy-nilly. Now they want them back the day after they drop their deliveries. Bad enough I have to pay $60 a case for fucking corn without scoring a nice utilitarian milk crate. It's the little things that make me believe the world is really going to shit. Screw the pandemics and massive social issues... the end will be augured by niggles.
Red’s Giant Hamburg in Missouri opened what is generally considered to be the first true drive-thru restaurant in 1947.
Not Dick and ???? McDonald of McDonald's fame? I thought they came up with the assembly line approach to fast food and then Ray Kroc showed up, fell in love with the concept and turned it into the biggest thing in fast food ever..... Anyways, I thought there was a scene in the documentary of the whole thing about car hops bringing food to the consumer and also the cars driving around the perimeter of the restaurant to place their orders and then pick them up....maybe it came later. I'm old and forgetful.
The phrase "War, war never changes" that's so famously attributed to the Fallout franchise, actually, predates the entire series as a whole. No one really knows who coined it first. Some say it was Ulysses S. Grant. Others say it was from a book published in 1914 titled A Day's Work As A Soldier from The World's Work: Second War Manual: The Conduct of the War. But given modern pop culture, I think it's safe to say the phrase is now tagged to the Fallout series as read by Ron Pearlman (and Brian T. Delaney, the voice actor for the male Sole Survivor from Fallout 4.) https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/292351/what-is-the-origin-of-the-phrase-war-never-changes
Chrysler had the answer in the 60's : TV-8 Tank. Yeah nothing says 'modern warfare' like an atomic powered tank, that fired nuke rounds (90mm), and had video cams for driving and remote controlling the .50 cal on top. Also it was considered amphibious having a water jet at the rear of the vehicle. Though the hull looks neat, the overall design is kinda not good.
Since this video is technically nothing but useless facts, I thought i'd post this here for the first five minutes, even though it could also go in one of the more literary threads/boards. Zombie Nouns! It's one of the funniest literary lectures, and the funniest Royal Institute lecture i've watched.
Circular hierarchy for gathering spilled birdseed from the backyard lawn: rabbit chases off mourning dove, squirrel chases off rabbit, chipmunk chases off squirrel, mourning dove chases off chipmunk, rabbit chases off dove. File this under: Too Much Time on My Hands
The dove surprises me some. Looks so meek. But when they raise the wings, fluff the feathers, and charge they cane look pretty menacing. At least to a chipmunk.
The one that surprises me is the chipmunk chasing off a squirrel! That's like a chijauja chasing off a German Shepherd! Bear in mind, that dove's ancestor may well have been a T-Rex!! Also, beaks and talons are pretty fierce weapons.
Mosquitos are actually a kind of fly. https://peabody.yale.edu/sites/default/files/documents/exhibits/solving-puzzle/Skeeter_Farm_Discovery_Files.pdf
The Atomic Era when we thought it would be a good idea to shove a nuclear reactor into pretty much anything no matter how insanely dangerous that would actually be.
Dude, that's too weird. I was at my parents house today watching the animals congregate around the spilled birdseed. There was a squirrel, a rabbit, a chipmunk, and two birds. Only they were all eating together and not chasing each other off. Each was sitting less than foot from the rest... almost like they planned it. I even commented to my mom that is seemed as if they'd all realized there was plenty to go around. No need to beef with each other. Super weird!
I think the birdseed was fermented and they were all stoned But then that's East Coast wildlife, all the spunk civilized out of them.
Seriously, when there's ample food and room they tolerate each other. But when things get tight, the squabbles start. Sort of like people who post here, I think.
That was it. My mom has like 3 bird feeders and there were more seeds than blades of grass in the area.