The Distract me from 2020s P&CE Thread Part Deux

I laughed when I heard a radio commercial "our cruises have no casinos & no children"

 

Hey Roby - you wanna slice of dis fresh muzzarelle?

 

He was throwing paper and carton cups to a friend, that landed on the pitch

 

1862941689079267738 is not a valid tweet id

 

You caught my M-I-L on a good day!

 

The horror!!

 

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19Z76epBYq/

Penguins hopping down stairs

 

Leaning Cook pine trees

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-strange-case-of-the-pine-trees-that-always-lean-towards-the-equator

 

It's a closeup of a damselfly sharing his muzzarelle

 

The vagabond known as Leatherman

He has his own documentary, a Wikipedia page and even a Pearl Jam song named after him. He's the Leatherman, and he is perhaps the most well-documented, real-life urban legend in the history of Connecticut.



https://www.ctinsider.com/living/article/CT-Leatherman-urban-legend-17517012.php

 

One of the ways these guys spent time in sick bay was their piss tube would freeze up. So they’re laying for hours in their own piss causing massive blistering.
‘Actually’ an anecdote from the excellent book
“Masters of the Air” starts at building the many airfields mostly in south east England until Germany finally surrendered, in all its gory detail. Those guys were heroes in the true sense of the word.
I was about 7 when I read. Yeah, I followed the news back then in Liverpool and kept cuttings. About the 60 planes that went down during the Schweinfurt raid. Thinking that was 10 men to a plane and doing the math. Stuck with me all these years.

 

Weren't you IN the RAF?

 

God no. My avatar is my Parachute Regiment cap badge. I took off in a lot of RAF planes.

 

I see. So after your childhood reading, you were still okay with the air force, just so you had a way to GTFO if necessary. Got it!

 

Should probably see a proctologist

NASA has found “something” on Uranus and Neptune: There are more than 5000 of them

https://www.ecoticias.com/en/nasa-found-something-on-uranus-neptune/9281/

 

I was!!! One of those gung ho fools.

I’ve prolly told this before .. duck, old fart story.
Us kids in 1944 used to play by the old Grand National Steeplechase Course. Mainly because it was a US storage place for tanks. Hundred and hundreds of Sherman tanks on trailers. Our goal was to chat the guards up and getting to know the friendly ones.
“Got any gum chum” wasn’t just a WWII meme. Worked most times. US soldiers are generous guys.
Then back one day in late May, early June we went anticipating some gum. Everything was rationed for us sweets and gum were not on our list.
Coming over the railway embankment, a short cut across the cemetery. We stopped stunned the whole place was empty, not a tank in site.
But we who kept up on war news knew where they had gone and where they were going.
The Germans found out a couple of days later.

 

my dad was one of them, though I can’t remember where he was stationed. Spent three years in England, then three days in France after invading Normandy. Wounded on June 9th.

 

Heroes all.

Glad he made it home. I’m assuming you were born after ‘44.

 

Stuck my head out of the door earlier, and saw the new moon as it was setting cozying up to Venus. Took a couple of shots but with my phone. My camera has been packed away a while. I’ve sorta lost my muse. So voila!


250,000miles then more is a stretch for a phone.

 

It was fantastic tonight! My daughters thought it was really cool as we were driving home.

 

In that there's a link with contents connected to our Denisovans/Indonesia minimen posts:
https://www.ecoticias.com/en/chinas-discovery-of-the-millennium/9358/

 

I had a boil on my anus, many years ago now but Man!

 

This elephant learned to use a hose as a shower. Then her rival sought revenge
Behaviors reveal sophisticated tool use—and possible “pranking”—among pachyderms

https://www.science.org/content/art...H_T6xPdwbIOCzlb90s_aem_6vexx1qe_v_RUcw86YCU1w

 

Yahoo News
Middle school students in Chicago have helped uncover a potential cancer-fighting compound: goose droppings. Through a STEM program led by University of Illinois researchers, the students discovered a bacterium in goose droppings that produces orfamide N — a newly identified molecule showing promise in slowing melanoma and ovarian cancer cell growth.
Read more: https://yhoo.it/4fRlNVn