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This sign shows what animals and birds are attracted to the trees in the car park of Chorlton Water Park.
As it mentioned tits and finches and being a fan of the TV quiz show Pointless, I couldn't resist taking this shot.
The legendary Pointless "Tits and Finches" round in full - this will explain why.
Pointless is a UK TV quiz show where contestants answer a series of questions, previously asked to 100 people, and try to come up with the answer which scored the lowest - thus the name Pointless.
A favourite question asked is about periodic elements so prior to the show airing I get myself ready to play along. I know its cheating but I need all the help I can get on this subject 😉.
110 of 118 pictures in 2018 - Periodic Elements
Best enjoyed large.
I took advantage of another boring plane journey recently to peruse the pages of my favourite in-flight publication, SkyMall magazine. Here are my most pointless items from this edition; see my original choices here.
1. The Pet Observation Porthole. Make a hole in your fence so that your dog can see the outside world. Or take him for a walk.
2. Fling-Ama-String Cat Toy. Another pointless pet product. A piece of string usually does the job, I find.
3. Mount Rushmore garden sculpture. Perfect for the patriotic gardener.
4. Garden Yeti. What every garden needs, if the Mount Rushmore sculpture just doesn't cut it.
5. Pizza Pro. I love this: it's a spatula. And a pair of scissors. Stuck together. Genius.
6. No gooey centers baking pan. For the killjoys who like their brownies hard and inedible.
7. Butter Boy. Allows carefree buttering of trickily shaped corn on the cob. Um - use a knife?
8. Wonder Woman cuff bracelet: "A wry gift for the super woman you know, juggling everything life throws her and then some." I'd like one for Christmas please.
9. Rolling tie cases: Maybe I have to be a man to appreciate this one.
10. Chair protector: Stress-free dining with other people's children! Apparently this is not pointless - half a million of these transparent pieces of plastic have already been sold.
day 20 - (Provisionally)
05:40 - alarm goes off, I pretend that i really want to get out of bed at this time of the morning and then convince myself that I must be insane.... I stay in bed :) mmm nice and warm
06:00 - I remember the text my brother sent me. It stated that we have 2 weeks untill the hell runner competition and he has been running 10 miles with 6 minute miles in them. I remember that I havent run 10 miles in about 2 months and I am at 7 minute miles for only five miles.... I panic, jump (actually crawl unwillingly) out of bed and do about 10 seconds of stretches before running out the door....
I run back... It is cold and dark outside :( and more importantly, I forgot my keys!
07:00 - I am back (phew, pufff pufff, pant). 7.5 miles (12km) and some rather sore ankles (see pic) and feet meant that I had to come back before the 10 mile (16km) mark. That said, I know that I can do the distance, I just need to get the time down!
30 press ups then into the shower.... then climb into bed for an almost pointless 6 minute rest :)
Now I have to go to work, come home, go to college. My day will not finish untill 22:00. This is going to be a long day.
Oh, I've just relaised that i have no food in the house, crap. I am starving! Looks like I am living on porridge oats today!
Just playing with a vanishing point.
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As mentioned earlier, having waited and undertaken some photography around the Waverley Estate for something I am currently working on, it appeared pointless to hang about after around a 45 minute wait doing the photographs I needed and so at 11:30, I set off back towards town. Checking the time-table a few times on the way revealed nothing happening up in the West Yard, until reaching the Staniforth Road junction in Attercliffe where a quick glance at the dash mounted phone revealed class 5 working, had pooped out and was making its way out of the Doncaster area. So, 'abart turn' and heading quick-style diverting along through the Tinsley Yard and Catcliffe areas and back in the direction of Treeton which, by the time I arrived, was being deluged with a quick down-pour. Departing 67 minutes late from West Yard at 11:45, the set made short-shrift of the run south, not making any timed pauses and so arrived in the Treeton area, just over an hour late at 12:32. As can be seen, the set consisted of the two class 37s, 37038, ex-D6738, 'Riley & Son (E) Ltd. and, at the back, 37059, ex-D6759 with the Network ail, canary-yellow 'Mentor' test train set in between. These two locos have been seen recently in the area when they were hauling, in double-header style, Pathfinder Tours, 'The Yorkshire Explorer' between Taunton and Leeds and then back again in the evening, see-
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Without wasting any time, the set rattled south on headcode 5Z01, an Empty Coaching Stock designation though these are usually a 1Q or 3Q for the 'Mentor', 'Mobile Electrical Network Testing, Observation and Recording Coach', test train sets. The some of the material recovered from the Orgreave sidings in the last year or so has still not been removed from the site and a pile of the old sleepers remains piled up at the side of the Treeton Down goods loop on the left. The loop is now the only extra rail-infrastructure now left in this once busy area, all of the the other stuff, cross-over, bits of the remains of that can be seen in the right-hand picture, and the rail of the junction to the north into Tinsley Yard, have all now all been plane-lined; the loop still being used occasionally probably means ti will survive for a while longer.
I always thought it would be funny to see a VCR that included a tape that shows you how to set it up. Of course, if you were able to watch the tape, you wouldn't need it. If you needed the tape, you'd have no way to watch it. A true paradox.
There is no doubt this is the last day of Great Victoria Street station as Richard Whitford, who also appears in my B&W, can be seen at right. The hut at left was a temporary structure, the proper booking office having been pointlessly bombed a few days before.
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By November 1981, the wires were down and the 76's were awaiting the scrapyard - the sign was just a hint of what had passed.
Quick shot, cropped through the viewfinder, got the angles that I want and …Doh!
The tips of the coloured pencils are obscured by the edge of the case. So they are pointless. I guess I will revisit this idea with a tripod and better lighting.
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back lot at pointless fest. this photo doesn't show it but it kind of looks like a third world refugee camp. shown in profile: one of the guys from inepsy.
This bicycle lane is on a very quiet road and runs for just a few metres! Yes it does say "END" at the top!
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There is absolutely no point in getting the Insta360 that close to a lensball. Minimum distance to a picture plane has to be observed.
This particular set is still a work in progress.
ETA on the finished brickfilm May 25*.
*Date is subject to change.
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This is what happens when I combine all my interests into one. LEGO, zombies, animation, and violence.
I'm not sure what to say about this. It was fairly close to my original intention, but I shared the reins in this video a bit more that I probably should have. I had little to no control over the editing and dialogue (except my own.) The addition of sirens and camera rumbling was against my will, and the dialogue of the characters in the helicopter was totally different from what I intended. I animated the video first, then helped with a bit of editing and sound effects, then the other people involved threw in their contributions and today posted it online without my final approval. It's still a weird situation, and after this, I'll be controlling more of my animation projects while allowing some voice work to be done by other people. When I put others in charge of key aspects of the video, it doesn't live up to my expectations, and I'm not really proud of all of it. It has its moments, and I's love to hear what you guys think of it.
This will probably be the last Pointless Adventure video, as I have had a falling out with one of the lead voices of the series, and even when the relationship recovers, I doubt he will want to be involved with it much anymore. I have other unrelated stories I want to tell, so my brickfilms will be going in different directions storywise. So for the three of you who like my videos, that's what the abridged story is. I hope you enjoy it.
NOTE* Walter the M8 makes several cameo appearances. See if you can spot him.
UPDATE: Pointless Adventure 1 High Quality www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwxJS4lSFYY&feature=channel_page
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A pointless exercise really but amusing to do sometimes. We all know a small sensor camera will not produce a brilliant image @ that distance, even more so in this light with rain just starting.
As I drove along the road a Buzzard was flushed from the hedge & flew to that far hedge other side of field . Lead photo is 24mm wide angle on P950
Comments photo is 1.8 x optical zoom of 2000mm (35mm equivalent) to = 3600mm. At least you can ID it as a Buzzard
Fleetnames are ok providing they tell you what company you are travelling with or whom is the vehicle owner........
Route branding is err.... ok. BUT the vehicle must stay on the route it is branded for or the effect becomes both confusing and pointless.....
So here we have a First Leeds Wrights Eclipse Gemini with "X84" slapped on the side in the style and location reserved for the fleetname....... ie Leeds, Bradford etc...... The vehicle itself has no other fleetname and no X84 route branding........
Pointless in the extreme.....
For the sake fairness..... the bus was on the X84 and usually is whenever I see it but that is not the point.......
Like most flickrlites, I'd comply with them and take a pointless picture (SOOC from iPhone). This is to make me forget that I don't have a camera at the moment.
Boooh !!
See photos below of the place I had lunch on Friday. See the 19th comment. :-)
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We had a weekend in Borrowdale recently, a Christmas present that we tagged a day on to. After calling at work on Saturday morning to open for business we headed up the motorway to Penrith. The road through the central lakes was washed away in the recent floods and it is going to be a long job replacing it. This made the diverted journey around 145 miles but we had a good run up there. We wanted to get walking ASAP so we pulled in at Threlkeld with a view to heading up Clough Head, and subject to conditions, head over the Dodds and back by the Old Coach Road. We had left appalling weather at home, wind, rain, fog and sleet on the tops. Thankfully it was better further north. There was laying snow on the summits, it was fairly calm low down and some summits were cloud free.
We left the car at 11.10 in our winter gear, straight up through the quarries and the steep scree slope (another Red Screes), by now we were into the snow line. The cloud was down, the wind gale force and the summit frozen hard – a different world up here. South next to Calfhow Pike, the wind made it difficult to talk and it was around -4 so the there was a fair wind-chill factor. It was tough going to our next top – Great Dodd, part of the Helvellyn massif – It was to icy to walk in places which meant deviating from the path, and losing our bearings, visibility was around ten yards with spindrift creating a whiteout at times. We battled on to the top and found the summit cairn. Great Dodd isn’t the easiest top to find your way off in low visibility, we would have gone further but in these conditions it was pointless so we retraced our steps to Calfhow and clear conditions. From here we followed Mosedale beck to Mariel Bridge, which is on the Old Coach Road, this gave us a circular route back to our start. The Old Coach Road has been wrecked by the floods and the 4x4 off roaders are making it a lot worse. 9.25 miles in 3 ¼ hours and we were in Brysons Tearooms in Keswick for Coffee and cake by 3.45pm. We carried on to Borrowdale and checked in at our hotel, not a bad day really.
After a poor night in a poor bed we were breakfasted and out for 8.30. We drove the few miles up to Seatoller and we were kitted up and away at 9.10. A bitterly cold and icy morning, there was some sun but not as much as promised. We could see the summit of Great End covered in cloud, we were heading up there on to the Sca Fell massif. We followed the valley to the east of Seathwaite Fell, a new path for us. Once in the snow the going was very icy with the path ice covered in places. The snow was dry and powdery and in places it had blown over the underlying ice. At this point I might add, we do own crampons. After a winter of splashing around soaked we didn’t expect to need them and they were at home – very clever! This was our first real winters day this winter, other than an hour on Sca Fell Pike on Christmas Day, we haven’t seen winter conditions this winter. By the time we got to Esk Hause it was difficult to stay upright and on our way to Great End we had to pick our way very carefully around the worst of the ice. The spindrift made it difficult to see the ground at times, spinning around our feet in a mist. Once on the summit the cloud was thick and the wind speed high. We had been here fairly recently so I knew the layout of the summit and we had little difficulty finding the summit cairn. We were cursing our lack of crampons and the cloud. Instead of heading into the cloud along the Sca Fell Pike path we decided to get under the cloud, back to Esk Hause and head over Allen Crags and Glaramara. At this point we both took some heavy falls, as did others up there, a lot turned around and headed back down, it was deadly. The cloud had thickened, there wasn’t a ray of sun to soften things. Our chosen route was one of the hardest afternoons we had ever had. Everywhere was frozen solid, we had to kick toe or heel holes to move on slopes that we wouldn’t have broken stride on normally. Minor rock scrambles down steep crags had become life threatening in places and we proceeded with extreme care. The knees were creaking on the long descent to Seathwaite. 10.3 miles in six hours, almost half the speed of yesterday. We made it Keswick for afternoon tea – and bought some Micro Spikes for unfinished business to deal with tomorrow. A beautiful day was forecast so fingers crossed we headed back for a soak in the tub.
Day three, a gorgeous icy, sunny winters day. Things looked promising. We left along yesterday’s route at the same start time – with walking poles and Micro Spikes! At the top of the valley we met a guy who had set off before us, two guys known to him were picking their way through the crags, tiny specks on the 800 foot rocky crag. Some appeared to have tried to climb the snow filled chimney that runs to the summit but we heard later that conditions weren’t suitable. Even though it was minus four the sun had softened the snow just enough to get a grip and it was easier to avoid the worst of the ice, unlike yesterday. The summit of Great End was incredible with never ending vistas. We could see a steady stream of walkers on every path by now. Word had got out that we were in for a rare treat today, plus it was school half term so a lot of people were off work. I visited every possible viewpoint as we went to the summit of Ill Crag , Broad Crag and finally Sca Fell Pike. It was 1.00 PM by now and a steady stream of elated walkers were arriving on England’s highest point. It was bitter but beautiful. We had around five miles back to the car along the Corridor Route to Styhead, Stockley Bridge and Seathwaite. Part of this route we had covered recently on Christmas Day and despite the snow and ice we powered along. We would have been back in two hours but! A mile from the car, following the manmade path down Taylorgill Force to Stockley Bridge Jayne Stumbled. It’s not often she walks in front. I normally lead and relay instructions and warnings back to her. She hit the rock path with her head and face really hard, stunned, she rolled off the path over a drop. She was vertical, resting on a rock on her knees and clinging on to the edge of the path with her fingertips. I grabbed her rucksack and held her whilst I checked her injuries. She had a bad bump on her temple, another on her forehead, split the bridge or her nose, her glasses had gone flying but would straighten. Being left handed she had stuck her left hand out and it had been bent back, it was swelling and discolouring pretty fast. When I had established that nothing was serious enough to stop her moving I got her back on to the path to see to her injuries. The pain initially made her think that she was in a worse state than ( I thought) she really was. She could move her fingers and wrist, albeit with some pain but not enough for it to be broken. The wound to the bridge of her nose although very painful wasn’t going to be a problem. The bumps on her head were turning into eggs by now. I gave her Ibuprofen and Paracetemol and she sat and composed herself for the final mile. We made it to the café in Keswick and got a slightly later afternoon break, our first of the day again. 11.3 miles today in 6 ¼ hours and fairly tough going. It was nothing more than a careless, tired perhaps, stumble on one of the horrible ( our own opinion, I might add) manmade paths made out of irregular stones which are laid at odd angles and are a nightmare to descend when wet on tired legs. A few days later and Jayne is sat on reception at the doctors looking like she’s been boxing, with a purple eye and nose, her left hand swollen and purple – otherwise she’s OK. I came down with mild food poisoning during the night and had to drive 145 miles home at 8.00 the morning after feeling extremely ill. I was due to start fasting for a Colonoscopy in three days. I ended up eating six slices of toast over a four day period – Monday evening to Thursday evening- Having had over 40 stomach endoscopies in twenty years the colonoscopy was nothing more than uncomfortable and , subject to biopsy results, everything looked OK. The trapped wind was another matter – for two days! All in all a very traumatic week. Needless to say we didn’t use the Micro Spikes.
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Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon, 12 June 2016
The Quest 80 lorries were designed for assembly in South Africa, but five were sold in the UK. The design is certainly unique and the forward-mounted cab caused issues with weight distribution. It is quite miraculous that almost thirty years after it came off the road, the original buyer still owns this one and brings it out to shows.
It drives me nuts that some people just paste comments onto everyone's photo. Usually the comment doesn't match the photo. There will be an iPhone snapshot of a stack of books, for example, with no special lighting or focus or anything noteworthy, and they'll put "stunning". Really? Are you really stunned by this unremarkable image? Pffft.
You look at their stream, and they have thousands of likes. Thousands! Because they spend all day pasting disingenuous comments on people's photos (or have a bot that does it for them) to drum up traffic for themselves. Drives me nuts. Just saying. I really wonder whether something from the above list will wind up in comments below. Ha! That would be awesome. LOL
Edited to add: I neglected to say that the comments in my image are all copied and pasted from actual comments I've gotten in the past from one person. He disappeared for a while, but I see he is back now, and posting comments in We're Here! Not naming names at all. #maczeug
The editor/publisher who 'discovered' Catch 22 rejected this book in 1965 recognising the author John Kennedy Toole's talent but ultimately believing the novel to be "essentially pointless". After this its author killed himself in 1969, only to have it posthumously published and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1981. Point taken. This time we're in New Orleans and I'm reading yet more of your American life. "Hilarious, dark buffoonery", I'd say.