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Today as per every wednesday is warwick uni sports events day, my pick up time said 10.00 i knew it was wrong but still went anyway then at half ten i rung the office the informed me the pickup was midday...so yes i had a moan about it...there was also an event with schools going on at the universty and seen parked having bought a school in is Fastline of Walsall BX14KRD a Kinglong XMQ6900 C31FT. Photo taken 12/11/14
"I realized that Christmas is the time to be with the people you love..."
"Right."
"...and I realized that as dire chance and fateful cockup would have it, here I am, mid 50s, and without knowing it I've gone and spent most of my adult life with a chubby employee. And much as it grieves me to say it, it might be that the people I love is, in fact... you."
"Well, this is a surprise."
"Yeah..."
"Ten minutes at Elton John's and you're as gay as a maypole."
"I left Elton's, where there were a hefty number of half-naked chicks with their mouths open, in order to hang out with you, at Christmas."
"Well, Bill..."
"It's a terrible, terrible mistake, Chubs, but you turn out to be the fucking love of my life. And to be honest, despite all my complaining, we have had a wonderful life."
A funny shade of blue.... Optare Versa YJ12 MZV is one of a small number which have been expected for a while would cascade from Harrogate to York once displaced by electric Volvo's in the spa town. This did initially run for a week or two in Harrogate Connect livery but then the fleetnames were removed as can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/york-bus/29984672557/
During late september 2018 this was sent off for one or two jobs to be done on it including a full sand down and repaint into the new York and Country blue livery which was first shown online in February.... instead, in something which can only be described as a collossal cockup, the bus was fully repainted BACK into the red and black Harrogate Connect livery but with Y&C fleetnames added. Maybe the painter thought that was actually the York livery seeing as a number of red and black buses have been running with it in York.
212 is seen at Stockton Lane in Heworth with a 181 to Castle Howard and malton
Possibly the greyest day ever. Windy too. A short walk to visit Great Cockup, Meal Fell, Great Sca Fell and Knott. Some nice views of Whitewater Dash before heading up into the clouds.
Caution :
Your monitor screen is about to fill with dramatized accounts and descriptions of the origins of many complex and often very horny birding organism some of which may cause some viewers to feel uncomfortably rewarding.
As a result, viewer's Discretion is a lie. Not to lie is like kicking the can down the road.
Attention : strictly not for children under 13 days and above 113 years of age. This group of 'children' may not have the mental capacity to process the heart-wrenching, excruciating mumbo jumbo, absolute absurdity, explosively hooney, unreasonably honest, raise-blood-pressure and excitingly stupid information display on the screen.
My dog, Bullshit gave me a 'Like' after watching it and he send the link to my neighbour's dog Idiot.
Idiot suffer a massive heart attack after watching but survive to watch it 10 more times before turning into a Hot Dog
Caught this sensational Long-haired Crimson Sunbird perching cross-legged with beak slightly ajar + highly seducing birdeyes + original contour body by Fender + a pair of firm and juicy breast-like organs. This highly unusual pose for this species can only happen in the following combination of circumstances :
1) once in 13.13 years or 20,000 non-stop flying hours or one night stay at my house. (when my wife not in town)
2) Fully relaxed posture after a nice drink of CB juice from the neighbourhood CB plant (scientific name Chee Bye plant)
3) highly diffused sunlight at 5500deg kelvin wavelength
4) it's imperative for the photographer not to panic and scream in excitement during this once in a lifetime encounter which otherwise scare the pants off her. I got only miniseconds to turn her into pixels before she disappear as suddenly as she appear
5) during an extremely rare astronomical phenomenon known as Syzygy (hope I get it right) when this bird is in total alignment with all the planets in our solar system including Pluto and its largest moon Charon. The combined gravitational force from the unusual planetary alignment would reach a breaking point which cause her to lose some flight feathers as shown in the image as exposed bare skin which looks dangerously delicious.
6) a total solar and lunar eclipse that takes place simultaneously at precisely 12 midnight during a severe thunderstorm
which is known as a hula hoop eclipse. This has the potential to create massive airquake, waterquake, windquake, chickenricequake, lousyquake, pussyquake and even a terrible birdquake. Whateverquake, she does not quit.
Meanings of CB :
According to historical records date back to the early days of the SAF (sg army). Soldiers were strongly discouraged from using a particular type of plant for camouflage purpose in the course of field craft training. It was green and it was big and best of all it looked like a pussy. It was extremely hard for the enemies NOT to spot you from miles away even in total darkness because you looked just like a piece of giant green moving pussy.
This is the infamous CB plant. scientific name : Chee Bye plant, common name : simpoh air plant
In the past, hawkers used the CB leafs to wrap the Chai tow kway (black version), a well sought-after cuisine for most locals here including myself. These days, however this practice is loss along with its unique flavour due to the severe short supply of the CB plants.
One of the highlight :
her seducing birdeyes
The original tiny black round eyes which is found in other sunbird species have been replaced with a pair of latest model human-like eyes (come attached with sexy Korean-made eyelashes) called black eye pea. This modern marvel has provided her with excellent over the top quality binocular vision to spot any potential mate light years away. So that she could make advanced preparation for the mating process such as putting on the best makeup and perfume. Even her entire face has been transformed from the original bird face into a stunning sexy babe face using the latest cutting edge Laser technology just invented 13 mins ago. This allows her to smile and wink at ease just like any human babe does. She would then be able to send more compelling mating signals to any potential mate in sight. Other sunbirds can only watch and envy at the special abilities she possesses.
Following she would need to build a nest all by herself with whatever material she could find. But that's in the past, these days she could rent one comfortable fully furnished nest for a small cost of 2 bird seeds.. For another additional 1 seed, she could even have a build-in Jacuzzis bath. She could lay her eggs and incubate them in total comfort until the arrival of her little ones.
Again she could pay her neighbour, the cuckoo to do the feeding for her while she continue to enjoy the facilities and the intimate company of her mate in the nest.
Additional notes:
fake long black hair to conceal more beautiful real blonde hair beneath. A brilliant strategy to deter potential sex predators such as CBhawks, Hornykingfishers, cheekysparrow, pervert-eagle, maniac-myna, lonesomecrow, itchy-finch and ahbeng-pigeon.
The presence of a golden bangle on her right wing bone suggest she has been banded by a group of horny scientists (wish I was one of them). This bird has undergone extensive examination base on standard criteria of scientific investigations to determine her natural history and most importantly her mating requirements, sexual preference, bank load status, shopping preference and migratory behavior. In addition, her blood sample, sweat sample, saliva sample, breath sample and fart sample were also taken for DNA sequencing and future scientific reference. One important research is to collect sufficient data to nail her origins. Whether or not is she a distinct life-form evolved from a single cell organism or a result of speciation due to changing atmospheric conditions or perhaps she is a product of an extreme form of horny gene mutation.
This device is also designed to function as a highly sensitive electromagnetic wave transmitter. The pulse signals transmitted from its fully concealed ass-shaped antenna are being pick up by 20 horny satellites orbiting 13 inches above her head. This allows her every move to be precisely tracked so that her migratory paths could be traced and studied The system is so sensitive that even minute movement of her body parts such as involuntary digging of the nose, indiscriminate spitting of chewing gum or secretly scratching the butt can be instantly detected and recorded for behavior mapping and profile creation. In addition, with the latest firmware upgrade, any abnormal or unusual sounds such as excessive chirping, sing the wrong song, sing off-key, sing wrong note, abnormal wing beats, abnormal heart beats, irregular boob beats, excessive moaning, normal scream at abnormal volume or even irregular excessively soft farting is possible to be picked up as well for scientific analysis and research purposes. Future scientists can then use the data collected to accurately pin point the date for her extinction....which is yesterday.
Exactly why this bird is still hanging on remains one of the greatest mystery of all time after my missing chicken sausage.
It won't take long to notice this bird has got what appears to be breasts. Those things stick out like a sore thumb. It literally swept me off the ground the first time I see it.
This pair of familiar yet peculiar looking things which look like breasts are in fact a technologically advanced Radar system in disguise. Beneath the bra-like stainless steel protective casing lies an all weather multi role highly advanced Radar codename Cockup.. This cockup radar employed the one-of-its-kind-yet to-invent grandma rays emission system to seek and destroy any potential sexual predator which come within fun threatening range of this beauty. The initial reactive characteristic of this pair of radars would swell up to 13.13 times its normal dimension and instinctively begins to pulsate violently. Following that, it would starts to emit 2 beams of high intensity grandma rays from it forward-mounted specially designed photo emitter known as the peanuts. She could then stir her peanuts one way or the other to aim the deadly rays at her desire targets. Nobody would want to be at the receiving end of this CER (concentrated emission of radiation) These things are designed for one single deadly purpose, that is to kill by vaporization. Its latest victims, a male cheeky sparrow and 2 male horny cowbirds .Both vanish without a trace and both have the same last swear words....Cunt Ni Lao Beh !
Apart from the mentioned deadly purpose it is also on the lighter side use for safe navigation, directional finding, mate finding, food finding, shopping etc especially during night flight in sad weather.
To avoid being accidentally grilled by this pair of deadly Cockup radar approach her slowly and carefully from her back. This is the only safest way to get within arm's length of this lovely bird to have her detail photo taken. However, please pay close attention to the jet blast exiting her tiny nozzle located about 13.5 deg angle at her butt which could blow you out of existence during sudden unintentional take- off known as fart-off
Evolution by natural selection over billions of years has favor a CB mouth over a beak in view of the added advantages. One such advantage is to allow her to perform uninterrupted seamless Blowjob ...................to blow away the attacking mosquitoes which stick around to suck her blood.
The major drawback of this piece of beautifully engineered device is that without the long curve bill, she loose the ability to suck nectar from her favorite long and narrow elongated flowers. However, as recent as 100 million years ago, there was an accelerated development in the upper left side of her brain's electrical circuitry which allows her to figure out a method to overcome the pressing issue....simply by means of a horny straw made from recycled male human foreskin. This specially constructed hollow tubes are extremely flexible and can be extended to the desired length according to situation and circumstances by simply stroking it. With the advent of this lovely apparatus, she can reach into the deepest, narrowest and longest flower to access its contents quickly and effectively. There is even a specially made temperature controlled, anti-fungus, air-tight, insect-resistant, cyber-secured, software protected, hardware harden, double locked, nuclear explosion proof Tupperware container to store the life-saving straws in between her 2 breast-like organs.
Conclusion :
Her stunning outlook is in fact at the summit of natural beauty. A creature so wondrous that she must has managed to unlock the door of the Twilight Zone and sneak straight into this dimension right into your imagination.
A dimension of sight, a dimension of sound, a dimension of mind, a dimension of smell, a dimension of taste, a dimension that has little or no dimension, a dimension so horny that it goes far beyond your imagination. This bird is sitting in the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, between working and supervision, halfway between fact and fiction, anything between upper body and lower body, somewhere between LA and New York, halfway between the sun and the moon and it lies somewhere between the armpit of man’s fear and the height of his knowledge. This is the dimension of the product of pure hallucination, explosive frustration, untold distress, 100% displeasure, complete bullshit, downhill emotion, violent duress and extreme horny imagination. A dimension so bizarre that you have problems putting on your pants at the bottom of the sea when 6 is read as 9 and 9 is read as mine. This is a mysterious area call The Twilight Zone.
Please switch on the lights if you find it a little too dark.
The Twilight Zone, 1959-1964
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extra info :
This is a featherless bird species (usually female)
Only 4 species known to have existed in this world.
I got 3 and the forth one is still at large.
Believe to be hiding in a place far far away. A place so remote that even MRT+LRT+SBS bus can't reach.
I'm determined to track her down one day, shoot her and post her in flickr backside....i mean ...website.
Behind the scene:
This group of people/photographer together with their supposedly hired model came by while I was busy shooting the Stork-billed Kingfisher hunting beside a small pond.
Out of nowhere a lady came over accusing me for trying to shoot their model and thus scaring her, demanding me to move off from the area. I was rather taken aback and pissed off at her rude remarks. I then reminded her that this is a public place. I shoot my bird while you guys shoot your model. In fact I think the appearance of this huge group of people really impacted my photography.
It was at this moment that I decided to do exactly what they were accusing me.....shoot their fucking model !
A subject that was last on my list. I turn my lens away from the king and started framing this girl which I soon found her to be more appealing than my kingfisher.
Later, while I was reviewing the pics that I decided to do a write-up on this rather unexpected encounter. Inject a little humor, married it with a little avian flavor and turn it into something amusing.
This shot was also the result of a cockup in the timetable. GBRf Class 66 66747 cruises through Tamworth with the 16:35 Trafford Pk Euro Tml Gbrf to Felixstowe North Gbrf intermodal.
In the distance can be seen a Virgin Class 221 Super Voyager with a Chester to Euston service, and Class 390 Pendolino 390134 bound for Manchester.
A funny shade of blue.... Optare Versa YJ12 MZV is one of a small number which have been expected for a while would cascade from Harrogate to York once displaced by electric Volvo's in the spa town. This did initially run for a week or two in Harrogate Connect livery but then the fleetnames were removed as can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/york-bus/29984672557/
During late september 2018 this was sent off for one or two jobs to be done on it including a full sand down and repaint into the new York and Country blue livery which was first shown online in February.... instead, in something which can only be described as a collossal cockup, the bus was fully repainted BACK into the red and black Harrogate Connect livery but with Y&C fleetnames added. Maybe the painter thought that was actually the York livery seeing as a number of red and black buses have been running with it in York.
212 is seen at Stockton Lane in Heworth with a 181 to Castle Howard and malton
After the last cockup, I was chuffed when I pulled this shot off successfully. DB Cargo Class 66 is seen at Cardiff Central with the 11:22 (46 late) Bridgend Ford Sidings to Alexandra Dock Jn. T.C automotive components.
Sometimes things don't turn out as you would have liked - we've all done something similar, no doubt. This is a prime example! 55005 'The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire' trundles through Manors Station on the 0950 Edinburgh-Plymouth. Oh well, must just try harder! The Praktisix cameras I used at that time were as awkward to use as they looked! The lenses, however, were superb and a relatively low cost option for roll-film picture-taking, but not as user-friendly as 35mm. 24th September 1979
Not a good day today: when our daughter wanted to use the car this morning... it was gone.
After the WHAT came the obvious sadness: it is a bit like losing a friend. There are terrible things going on in t he world today. So, yes, this will latre be filed under minor mishaps an cockups but still: we're not laughing.
And yes we will replace it no matter what with something with wheels on at least. And no EV, sorry greens, not on my watch.
Give it back, please?
This is The National President of the Royal British Legion, Air Marshal David Walker CB CBE AFC MA RAF (Retd).
I wonder what genius decided to place his podium against such a stupid backdrop as this?
He was taking the salute in Southport as a military band and hundreds of marching veterans and RBL members made their way to lay a wreath the town's Cenotaph to celebrate the 2017 Royal British Legion Annual Conference.
(My mind bl**dy boggles.)
There are things that look, from a distance, like round cairns, but when you get closer, they're actually grouse butts. And there are small cairns here and there as welll. None of thse, though, is on the summit of the fell, which doesn't seem to be marked in any particular way at all.
A funny shade of blue.... Optare Versa YJ12 MZV is one of a small number which have been expected for a while would cascade from Harrogate to York once displaced by electric Volvo's in the spa town. This did initially run for a week or two in Harrogate Connect livery but then the fleetnames were removed as can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/york-bus/29984672557/
During late september 2018 this was sent off for one or two jobs to be done on it including a full sand down and repaint into the new York and Country blue livery which was first shown online in February.... instead, in something which can only be described as a collossal cockup, the bus was fully repainted BACK into the red and black Harrogate Connect livery but with Y&C fleetnames added. Maybe the painter thought that was actually the York livery seeing as a number of red and black buses have been running with it in York.
212 is seen at Monks Cross with a 181 to Castle Howard and malton.
A funny shade of blue.... Optare Versa YJ12 MZV is one of a small number which have been expected for a while would cascade from Harrogate to York once displaced by electric Volvo's in the spa town. This did initially run for a week or two in Harrogate Connect livery but then the fleetnames were removed as can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/york-bus/29984672557/
During late september 2018 this was sent off for one or two jobs to be done on it including a full sand down and repaint into the new York and Country blue livery which was first shown online in February.... instead, in something which can only be described as a collossal cockup, the bus was fully repainted BACK into the red and black Harrogate Connect livery but with Y&C fleetnames added. Maybe the painter thought that was actually the York livery seeing as a number of red and black buses have been running with it in York.
212 is seen at Piccadilly with the last 10 service of the night to Stamford Bridge
?700 GGG. Gordon International Transport of Stair, Ayrshire on the M1 at J15A. A cockup shot due to not paying attention in time...June 9 2020.
From left to right; Knott, Great Cockup, Skiddaw, Carl Side, Dodd.
Photo taken from sitting right on Bassenthwaite Lake itself. A great way to spend an afternoon.
Re-edited and uploaded. I had a LOT of graduated banding, especially in the sky. The picture has been improved by blurring the worst of the banding and the colours have been saturated further with a slight lift to the shadows.
Banding is still evident but I think that's just something to expect from display on Flickr.
I love this valley, so I take far too many photos of it. On this particular occasion the clouds above were fabulous, creating different shadow patterns from minute to minute.
Taken with a Vivitar "Ultra Wide and Slim" camera, this cheap simple camera has developed something of a cult following, it has a 22mm lens and a fixed shutter speed.
Shot on Maco Eagle developed in Rodinal 1:25 for 12 minutes.
I messed this up fine style, the lid came off the developong tank shortly after I poured the developer in! Although I replaced it immediately, severe fogging was inevitable, I've done what I can to rescue the negs in the scanning, but the results are pretty poor.
I really think the clouds are the stars of this photo. Aren't they magnificent? They were like this all day, and never built up into rainclouds.
Collage of three frames taken with a Vivitar "Ultra Wide and Slim" camera, this cheap simple camera has developed something of a cult following, it has a 22mm lens and a fixed shutter speed.
Shot on Maco Eagle developed in Rodinal 1:25 for 12 minutes.
I messed this up fine style, the lid came off the developong tank shortly after I poured the developer in! Although I replaced it immediately, severe fogging was inevitable, I've done what I can to rescue the negs in the scanning, but the results are pretty poor.
Taken with a Vivitar "Ultra Wide and Slim" camera, this cheap simple camera has developed something of a cult following, it has a 22mm lens and a fixed shutter speed.
Shot on Maco Eagle developed in Rodinal 1:25 for 12 minutes.
I messed this up fine style, the lid came off the developong tank shortly after I poured the developer in! Although I replaced it immediately, severe fogging was inevitable, I've done what I can to rescue the negs in the scanning, but the results are pretty poor.
This model nearly ended up as yet another addition to EFE's growing list of careless cockups. It was announced and prototyped as a highbridge bus, even though the PSV Circle had just published a fleet history of Luton Corporation that showed all of their Leyland PD2s were lowbridge. Fortunately the message got through in time and the production model is the correct height, although the 20-year old casting is really showing its age now. It represents 121 (FNM 121), one of the long-lived batch of PD2s delivered in 1948, in the later red and cream livery that contrasts with the more attractive maroon on the OOC Crossley..
It takes years of experience and an impeccable sense of timing to screw up a shot on this scale ! :-)
Sometimes you just have to laugh !
Nearly two weeks ago, the spineless council at York suddenly caved in to the selfish shouting from the vociferously vocal minority in the motoring brigade, and reopened Lendal bridge to all vehicles thereby ending the setup where the bridge was a Bus Lane and all unauthorised vehicles had to use either Skeldergate Bridge or Water End... though because our council seems to have come straight out of some poorly-written TV comedy where the main characters bumble from one embarrasing cockup to the next, the traffic light sequencing has not been altered to match; and so as traffic has built back up to summer 2012 levels to choke all the tourists visiting York over the next few months, it is now even more clogged than before as the traffic lights at certan junctions (station Avenue and Leeman Road in conjunction with Lendal bridge and Rougier Street being the main concern) are no longer synchronised and so capacity has been reduced by about 30%... As a knock-on effect of our bungled councils decisions, bus service reliability is now going down the toilet. Here leaving York rail station is Volvo B7RLE Wright Eclipse Urban YJ08 XYF on the Red Line 7 P&R service to the Designer Outlet, followed immediately by sister YJ08XYB on exactly the same service - and this isn't even the afternoon peak. The number 1 service was running in double formation, as was the2, the 4 and some number 6 services. The 5 was running up to 15 minutes late on every journey, and Coastliners were at least 10 minutes late on every journey.
Apparently "there has never been a better time to catch the bus" if you believe council-generated hype - but seeing as a bunch of monkeys could do a better job, or at least not make up so many conflicting schemes that contradict other schemes, this would seem to no longer be the case.
hütte eines deutschen siedlers aus dem 19. jh. - aus verwaltungsrechtlichen gründen darf sie nicht abgerissen werden. der käfer stammt definitiv nicht aus dieser zeit. glaube ich.
old hut brought by german settlers in the 19th century. due to adminstrative objections she is damned to stay a little bit longer. the beetle is definately younger, i reckon.
1972 Marshall bodied Leyland Leopard in Bridge St Northampton. This shot is a cockup as I could have let the bus come fully into the sunshine but was worried about the rubbish bin in the lower corner being in the way...Sep 11 2016.
.. and a complete cockup at my end. Was planning on being up and out for the 07-something to Bristol and set the alarm to wake me at 0545. What I didn't do was plug the phone in, so it died overnight (thanks Samsung) and I woke just as the train was pulling away from PMS.
So ... popping into Southampton to have a pint with a mate instead. Much more relaxing!
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Great Cockup is a fell in the northern region of the English Lake District, one of the four Uldale Fells (the others being Longlands Fell, Great Sca Fell and Meal Fell). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Cockup
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Laid the crankshaft on the vice to take a photo, noticed the light wasnt shining right,
That light should be the same for each web? - yes - OH NO!!
I'm not sure how I managed the twist, but I did.
One totally knackered Crankshaft :-))
under the flight path. City Airport is less than three miles away heading west. The area, particularly the newer developments to the west, stands to be affected adversely by plans to increase the number of flights to/from the airport by 40%. It was up to Newham Council to grant permission, but Greenwich and Bexley contain the areas where people will suffer for it.
Thamesmead has been shafted by successive governments when it comes to transport provision - it has always been so. The 472 bus is the best link the area has, putting the area within one bus trip of the tube, albeit a 40 minute one. A surprising number of people do it - many for the low-skilled 'invisible' jobs that exist around Canary Wharf.
The story so far:
TfGM bus stop flag had been attached to street lamp.
Tameside Council/TfGM/Whoever came along and constructed a Kassel kerb - one of several being fitted in the area to improve kerbside access to low floor buses.
Just over a week ago, Tameside Council came along and cut down the lamp post, leaving just a stump in the ground.
Consequently there is now no longer a bus stop at the newly constructed Kassel kerb.
Also, the lamp post had already been marked with its condemning blue cross before the kerb crew turned up and delicately paved around it.
In an ideal world, I'd like to think that TMBC would at least give TfGM a call to say that they now had a superfluous 346 bus stop flag in their possession; perhaps they could even post it to them. Or that maybe it will only be a matter of days before a man in a TfGM van turns up and erects a new pole and flag; or perhaps someone from the Council to plant a new street lamp into the ground, along with said detached sign. But I'm not holding my breath.
The major irony is that the bus stop had previously been sited on the next lamp post down to the left; but it was moved one space along several years ago when - you guessed it - the street lamp ended up cut down at the base.
Hyde (Newton), Victoria Street, 15/05/2021. Posted 22/05/2021.