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    #3152
    GrumpyMe
    Registered Users Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭GrumpyMe


    Oilrigsmap.jpg

    That is, allegedly, a map of oil platforms in the North Sea. Many of the lights could be explained by the upper - more northern rigs - it prompts the question why not the ones closer/between to the Wash and Amsterdam?


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    #3153
    locum-motion
    Registered Users Posts: 5,143 ✭✭✭locum-motion


    This is a copy of a post that I posted in the actual thread itself.


    EDIT: I see that the post I refer to above has actually been moved into this thread by a mod, so I no longer need to leave the same details here.


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    #3154
    locum-motion
    Registered Users Posts: 5,143 ✭✭✭locum-motion


    GrumpyMe wrote: »
    Oilrigsmap.jpg

    That is, allegedly, a map of oil platforms in the North Sea. Many of the lights could be explained by the upper - more northern rigs - it prompts the question why not the ones closer/between to the Wash and Amsterdam?


    If that map is accurate, it would make you wonder why Aberdeen is the capital of the UK's oil industry. Norwich would seem to make more sense!


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    #3155
    Lingua Franca
    Registered Users Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭Lingua Franca


    ch750536 wrote: »
    ^ I call that being shopped. No way are there that many roads in the north sea.

    I just GIS'ed for "Belgium from space at night" and picked one, doing the same search again shows a load of pics from different sources which also have those lights in the sea.


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    #3156
    GrumpyMe
    Registered Users Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭GrumpyMe


    locum-motion wrote: »
    If that map is accurate, it would make you wonder why Aberdeen is the capital of the UK's oil industry. Norwich would seem to make more sense!

    Aha! The lower ones are mostly gas platforms which I guess are set up not to flare off gas!

    sns_map.jpg


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    #3157
    RobertFoster
    Registered Users Posts: 9,162 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    Turns out, I don't find long comics posted in YLYL funny. 3 panels, 4 at the most. It's a bad sign if you need a tl;dr for your gag.


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    #3158
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,712 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    The last ones that were posted there -the drunken bakers and the george bestial ones- are absolutely abysmal, IMO. I know that humour is subjective, but I really wonder about people, sometimes.


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    #3159
    Mike Litoris
    Registered Users Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭Mike Litoris


    What am I missing here...from YLYL


    AXymBoo.jpg


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    #3160
    Darkglasses
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 14,526 Mod ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    Looks like a dong.


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    #3161
    Quazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 28,897 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Mike Litoris wrote: »
    What am I missing here...from YLYL


    IMG

    It looks slightly like a cock and balls.


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    #3162
    TheBody
    Registered Users Posts: 5,621 ✭✭✭TheBody


    Mike Litoris wrote: »
    What am I missing here...from YLYL


    AXymBoo.jpg


    See here:

    http://www.breakingnews.ie/discover/tesco-in-buttermilk-branding-fail-nsfw-647780.html


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    #3163
    Mike Litoris
    Registered Users Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭Mike Litoris


    Darkglasses wrote: »
    Looks like a dong.



    Cheers. I'm all :p now.


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    #3164
    wilser
    Registered Users Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭wilser


    What's the story with the usb and the shovel on ylyl?


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    #3165
    irish_goat
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 5,779 Mod ✭✭✭✭irish_goat


    wilser wrote: »
    What's the story with the usb and the shovel on ylyl?

    It's a ridiculous place to store a USB just.


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    #3166
    wilser
    Registered Users Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭wilser


    irish_goat wrote: »
    It's a ridiculous place to store a USB just.

    Thought I was missing something deep


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    #3167
    GrumpyMe
    Registered Users Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭GrumpyMe


    wilser wrote: »
    Thought I was missing something deep

    A whole new meaning to Christy Moore's song!


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    #3168
    Pawwed Rig
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 22,353 CMod ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    Mike Litoris wrote: »
    What am I missing here...from YLYL

    The general rule of thumb is think penis first on any pics where you don't see the funny


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    #3169
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    what did Kanye do to the kid in the wheelchair?


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    #3170
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,712 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    During one of his concerts, Kanye told everybody to stand up, and got annoyed at one of his fans -a wheelchair user- who wouldn't oblige him... :rolleyes:


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    #3171
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,712 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    TheBody wrote: »
    A purebread dog!

    No, that dog is in-bread :D


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    #3172
    gugsy
    Registered Users Posts: 570 ✭✭✭gugsy


    Lingua Franca wrote: »
    Conversely, Belgium is lit up like a Christmas tree at night in a way that would horrify the average penny pinching dad.

    GJ2t2sv.jpg

    Rumour has it that at one time the minister responsible for street lighting had a brother who happened to install street lighting and somehow the brother miraculously ended up with a contract to light every stretch of motorway in Belgium. I've driven through Belgium at night many times and can confirm that the motorways are fully illuminated. It makes Belgium very easy to pick out from space.

    (The north of Italy is also well lit up as are certain areas of England, but those are densely populated areas. All of Belgium is lit up, and it has significantlly less population density.)

    Where your looking at is Belgium and Holland the two most densely populated countries in Europe. Between them they have a population of 28 mill in an area the size of Ireland excluding the north. The reason for street light in most of the motorways is because there is very little countryside and practically leaving one city straight into another. Good pic tho.


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    #3173
    Lingua Franca
    Registered Users Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭Lingua Franca


    I live here in Holland, it's nowhere near as illuminated as Belgium and it's definitely just Belgium standing out there. The Belgian street light overkill is a matter of public record.

    When you cross the border from the Netherlands into Belgium it's suddenly street lights every couple of yards on the motorway and terrible, terrible roads.


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    #3174
    [Deleted User]
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    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=92790871&postcount=2504

    Remind me never to fly in a plane that appears to be held together with duct tape!


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    #3175
    Tokyo
    Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,655 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tokyo


    Duct tape you say..... :D


    This guy's plane got torn apart by a bear in Alaska while he was fishing - he left a bait box in the back and bears got the scent of it. He patched it with duct tape and flew it out of there and home....

    MqHzbQIl.jpg


    xx2xXjBl.jpg


    YIWkGJBl.jpg


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    #3176
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Late entry to the 2014 Darwin Awards


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    #3177
    Tokyo
    Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,655 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tokyo


    Darwin awards?? MacGyver awards more like.


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    #3178
    The Moldy Gowl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,889 ✭✭✭✭The Moldy Gowl


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Late entry to the 2014 Darwin Awards

    Duct tape is pretty strong.


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    #3179
    Tokyo
    Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,655 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tokyo


    The structural integrity, in the form of that tubular steel framework, is intact. The duct tape served more of a role of bringing back an aerodynamic form to the plane, and stopping the torn aluminium skin from upsetting the flyability of the plane.


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    #3180
    [Deleted User]
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    I would not fly a plane that I put back together with duct tape. I'm surprised that that is unreasonable.


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    #3181
    The Moldy Gowl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,889 ✭✭✭✭The Moldy Gowl


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I would not fly a plane that I put back together with duct tape. I'm surprised that that is unreasonable.

    It's not put back together with duct tape. Just maintaining the shape. Ever used duct tape?


    I love the duct tape episode of mythbusters.


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