Strange things from the internet

[jenny]

Why the heck would anybody do that if they weren't planning to repaint the car anyway? Do we really need a public service announcement?

[pdr]

Well maybe they were planning to wash the car before drinking their daily anti-covid glass of bleach and swallowing some UV lightbulbs. It's the same demographic...

PDR

[efros]

Amusing short.

[jenny]

That is so funny!

[eeyoresmum]

Here's another shortie - even got nominated for an Academy Award.
Features one of those actors you recognise but never knew the name of.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVooyfaPYD8

[crissdee]

Efros and/or Jenny, is this guy anywhere near either of you?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw2GSuoPdc8

[efros]

Gardiner Maine, about an hour away from me and a little more from Jenny I think.

[jenny]

About an hour from me too. Woodsman is the architect for the Gardiner library, which is a historic building, and it takes him about an hour to get there from here.

Woodsman says Mr Prescott is a wholesaler, and I found that his car collection has its own Facebook page. www.facebook.com/pepclassiccars/

[tetsabb]

A friend has worked in the same hotel in London since 1989. She has worked for four generations of the same family.

They have hardly got started in comparison to this place
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nishiyama_Onsen_Keiunkan

[crissdee]

I think I have mentioned the north London funeral directors, whose offices I used to see dotted around Golders Green. They are apparently run by the 7th generation of the same family...

[Bondee]

Levertons?

[crissdee]

That rings a bell....

[efros]

Ai generated 60s soul.



Lyrics

[Verse]

Well I was walkin' down the street

Feelin' kinda neat

When the wind came out your butt and blew my wig off

Oh

It was a sight to see

My hair flyin' in the breeze

'Cause the wind came out your butt and blew my wig off



[Verse 2]

People started laughin'

They couldn't believe their eyes

As my wig flew through the sky

Oh what a surprise

I tried to catch it

But it slipped right through my hands

'Cause the wind came out your butt

And now it's somewhere in the lands



[Chorus]

Oh

The wind came out your butt and blew my wig off

I was walkin' down the street

Didn't know what to do

Oh

The wind came out your butt and blew my wig off

But I'll rock this bald head

No need for a hairdo

[Bondee]

Aug 6, 2024 13:32:32 GMT crissdee said:

That rings a bell....

I heard about them a few years back when my friend's dad died. He specifically asked for them when he found out that he didn't have much time left because they'd arranged the funerals for the previous 3 generations of his family. Their reputation is well deserved.

[Leith]

Aug 6, 2024 9:41:16 GMT tetsabb said:

A friend has worked in the same hotel in London since 1989. She has worked for four generations of the same family.

They have hardly got started in comparison to this place
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nishiyama_Onsen_Keiunkan

Not approaching the venerableness of the Japanese hotel, but one of the companies that came up in my family tree research had a pretty good run.

I'm not certain whether my Allday family were related to the one that ran the Alldays & Onions bellows and portable forge manufacturing company in 19th century Birmingham, but I suspect there's a connection (I'm can trace a link to nearly every other Allday in Birmingham of that era, and my 5 x great grandfather was friends with the Onions family).

The company was the merger of William Allday & co., est. 1784, and J. C. Onions, est. 1650 (and possibly operating as a lone craftsman back in 1625). After a foray into bicycle making and early automobile manufacture, the company returned to its roots in moving air about in useful ways, making specialized industrial fans. I believe they were still a family owned company up till at least the 1980s, and possibly until their sale to the Witt Group in 2005. They appear to be still in operation today in the guise of Alldays Peacock.

From making blackmith's bellows in a shed outside Dudley castle, the company ended its independent days manufacturing fans in Weston Super Mare to float giant hover barges like these:
www.hoverfreight.com/history.html
(would take a lot of eels to fill one of those)

[amanda]

Aug 6, 2024 11:09:06 GMT crissdee said:

I think I have mentioned the north London funeral directors, whose offices I used to see dotted around Golders Green. They are apparently run by the 7th generation of the same family...

I've just seen something on FB about the oldest inn/hotel in Japan, cared for by 52 different generations over 1300 years. 

[tetsabb]

Leith, can we presume that the Onios family probably pronounced their name 'O'Niyans' rather than like the vegetable?
😉

[jenny]

I used to know someone with their name and they did pronounce it O'nyons. I also used to have a neighbour called Mr Death, who pronounced his name De'ath.

[crissdee]

I was idly curious as to how many personal bank accounts were open in the UK, so I asked Mr Google, and he gave me this rather surprising answer:

"Of the UK's total population approximately 97 percent had any day-to-day account, amounting to approximately 49.7 individuals."

Being pretty sure that there were more than 51 people in the UK, I looked into the matter more deeply and discovered that it was, of course, 49.7 million accounts, but a bit of proof-reading would have been good....

[efros]

Interesting song

[efros]

www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2022/12/did-you-know-kangaroos-have-three-vaginas/

Strange but true.

[crissdee]

Interesting choice of pictures to illustrate this item for sale on FB;

www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1068559077957554/?ref=browse_tab&referral_code=marketplace_general&referral_story_type=general&tracking=%7B%22qid%22%3A%22-1465772211939949570%22%2C%22mf_story_key%22%3A%227182514146982014060%22%2C%22top_level_post_id%22%3A%227182514146982014060%22%2C%22commerce_rank_obj%22%3A%22%7B%5C%22target_id%5C%22%3A7182514146982014060%2C%5C%22target_type%5C%22%3A6%2C%5C%22primary_position%5C%22%3A7%2C%5C%22ranking_signature%5C%22%3A6470713232022487248%2C%5C%22commerce_channel%5C%22%3A501%2C%5C%22value%5C%22%3A0.00086145620357109%2C%5C%22upsell_type%5C%22%3A127%2C%5C%22candidate_retrieval_source_map%5C%22%3A%7B%5C%227759827087412434%5C%22%3A3533%2C%5C%228516193881724187%5C%22%3A3561%2C%5C%228305647516123743%5C%22%3A3016%2C%5C%227668687306508517%5C%22%3A3533%2C%5C%227787433031324791%5C%22%3A3561%7D%2C%5C%22grouping_info%5C%22%3Anull%7D%22%2C%22lightning_feed_qid%22%3A%22-1465869381225842723%22%2C%22lightning_feed_ranking_signature%22%3A%226470713232022487248%22%7D

[amanda]

I'd say they've uploaded the wrong photo.

[efros]

Dolphins ain't that nice apparently

slate.com/human-interest/2009/05/the-dark-secrets-that-dolphins-don-t-want-you-to-know.html

[crissdee]

I had an email this morning, asking me to sign a petition to prevent the closure of something or other. One of the reasons given, was that the closure would contravene some kind of law. Now then, call me impossibly naive, but I can't help thinking that the Senedd, who are proposing the closure, have a team of lawyers and other legal advisors who look into such matters. If that is the case, then one of two things has to be the case. Either the closure IS against the law, and they will be strongly advised not to go through with it, or these trained and qualified people have determined that it is NOT actually against the law, in which case that aspect of the protest is worthless.

[tetsabb]

Aug 12, 2024 23:13:55 GMT efros said:

Dolphins ain't that nice apparently

slate.com/human-interest/2009/05/the-dark-secrets-that-dolphins-don-t-want-you-to-know.html

I remember a sci-fi story based on that very premise. Of course, I don't remember title or author, but that last sentence could have come from it.
Llike cats, some of their behaviour has greatly endeared them to us. Some of their behaviour we choose to ignore.

[crissdee]

Can anybody explain what this thing is actually supposed to do?

www.mrslm.co.uk/products/luminous-concealed-car-parking-number-plate?variant=43115573379116

The ad talks a lot about how stylishly and securely it does whatever it does, but never really explains what that is. It apparently displays your "parking number" whatever that is, but can also hide it, which rather renders it useless.....

[efros]

The idea is that you use it to display your cell phone number while your car is parked such that if someone needs you to shift your car they can contact you. Fairly common in Asia.

[eeyoresmum]

Every now and then I see photos of Cosplay costume designs, but never seen it going to such lengths:


x.com/viciousfrockery/status/1822717228871008579

Bleeding enfer!

[crissdee]

Aug 13, 2024 13:57:59 GMT efros said:

The idea is that you use it to display your cell phone number while your car is parked such that if someone needs you to shift your car they can contact you. Fairly common in Asia.

But then why would they make it concealable?