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Hard to choose this time ;-)..my fav is #13, the unexpected evil child. I'm wondering if it's the mother who's sitting in front and if it was her taking the picture..scary!
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Very nice!
The one with the dude with the axe is the best.
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I mean number 8!
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Yeah number 8 for me too.
Although it's not a axe but a machete
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The face of the number eight is terrible :-)
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2 things for you Avi, no. 9 is the British "celebrity" Pete Doherty who, I shall say, was like that 24/7 until he had an implant put in his head.
2nd thing being that the CHINS idea originated on the BBC comedy series Red Dwarf.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dwarf
for more info on Red Dwarf.
http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/guide/index.cfm?sectionID=episodes&seriesID=6&subsectionID=gunmenoftheapocalypse
for more info on the episode.
The fat guy with the machete was the best.
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Think I am gonna have to go with 12
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Thank you Will - great info. It must be fun to be Pete Doherty.
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I'd say the Karamazov Bros' on #16 are a close call to the #3 girl whi(t)ch I'll have to go with. Boy she's ugly !
:-))) My word verification is : milfdisr...
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Sorry folks. I can't see any that are "ugly". They are pictures of ordinary people either making faces (1 or 4) or having their faces warped in some way (6 or 38). There are old people(14 & 19), but they are OLD not ugly. There are the grotesque (20 & 34) and the photoshopped (45 etc). You have the old 'face-on-a-chin' trick (46) and the obligatory 'political-candidate-caught-with-stupid-face' category (28). My favourite would be 47 which is real cute.
The face I would least like to see close up would have to be #20.
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#13, but only for the kid in the back seat. If you are not permitted to separate photo subjects, then #37--at least he was probably unstaged.
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#14 and #19 are really cool but #8's probably gonna give me nightmares
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the 14th looks like monkey ))
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#14 is a raisin, not a human.
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# 8 is scary.
But the evil child is awesome.
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These are priceless!
www.wannasmile.com
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lol, classic, I recognize the cars in 15. it's from Johannesburg (now Gauteng) in South Africa.
and WTF? once again, things that connot be explained.....
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I think that 19 looks like amy winehouse
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Number 3 is a natural.
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no. 16: Children of the Damned - the return?
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19!
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8, 12 & 13 have utterly freaked me out, I mean children are spooky most of the time anyway..and men with weapons look indestructible at the best of times... but when a freaky looking fella carrying a machete, who looks like he's from the eerie, totally uncomfortable film "the hills have eyes"... and children who look like they're just about to eat you... starting with your face,... well, that's just plain wrong!!! Where's my mum!!! I want my mum! I'm scared!!!
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What a terrible faces, if I see this face in my dream I will mess up :d
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Excellent Post...Some really crazy crazy faces
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#14! Hands DOWN! I LOVE her face. And she still wants to be a princess. Love it!
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#8 Comical, unusual, weird, odd, unique....none of these things are ugly to me. Evil is ugly...and #8 looks like pure evil.
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Will, the upside down chins was used on Red Dwarf, but it predates that by a LONG shot. I saw it in a book dating back decades, described as an amusing act to entertain friends.
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#8, he looks TOO real :O
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I found the portable rain covering hilarious because I have actually saw someone using something similar once and I figured they were either a bit mental or extremely neurotic. I found a picture online:
http://www.allpics4u.com/artwork/creativity-stuff-all-around-us.html
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Very beautiful stuff... I was always intrigued by patterns in the smoke from a candle or a cigarette as a child... lol
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lovely gallery, but I thought I'd point out that I don't think the 'crown' of smoke is actually smoke. I'm fairly sure that I saw the image on DeviantArt and that the photographer explained that it was a drop of milk in a glass of water.
Just thought you might like to know ^^
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very beautiful, i've always been entranced by watching smoke, as well
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Original and interesting art form
dugg!
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Wow, that is some pretty amazing stuff!
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@Anonymous:
The caption clearly states that the image to which you refer is made with milk and water.
Read before you dis.
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Incense doesn't create colored smoke, at least not to the extent to which its depicted here. The coloring is done afterwards in photoshop.
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To Anonymous #6 referring to Anonymous #2: I'm pretty sure DRB added that "milk in water" caption AFTER Anonymous #2 pointed it out.
Think before you dis.
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These pictures are fantastic!
Thanks!
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Photoshop anyone? At least for some of the pictures its clearly obvious.
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This site is very nice.Pictures are extraordinary.It clearly explains about the implications of smoke.
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Those are absolutely fabulous! It makes me want to go out and experiment.
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I have been doing this awhile. All natural smoke, no digital effects. Check out my Gallery at: www.smokeart.org
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really cool stuff... certainly gets the imagination going
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utterly beautiful!
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the link for the Rubik's bra is http://xkcd.com/457/ for the record
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Thank you Emily
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The 'Quantum Jump' picture is an ad for the Portal game...
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This is the best blog i've seen so far!Can i get a link on your website!
I have similair things on my blog.
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The Wanderman photograph is of this area: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=34.960106,-103.326931&spn=0.105092,0.219727&t=h&z=13
Google Maps is a great way to waste time, as always.
(For more fun:
Nuclear Craters in the Nevada Test Site.)
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The address for the 'quantum jump' picture is from SomethingAwful's Photoshop Phriday for the game 'Portal'. Afraid I can't find the link, though.
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Good morning, I would like to inform that the author of the pic of the old guy on the tank is: http://jr-art.net/
By the way, amazing blog you have.
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Thank you for all the info. Post updated.
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You can also see Jeremy Clarkson's documentary movie about Brunel ( and the "Great Eastern") on youtube. Keywords- Clarkson Brunel.
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I think I read somewhere that the ship also had a huge ballroom that was gimbled to always stay level even in rough seas. However, it ended up lurching around so much that the ended up locking it into place...
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Brunel's "atmospheric railway" (the one in Devon) failed because he couldn't seal the slot along the tube. Rubber wasn't available at that time so the seal was made of leather. When the iron tube rusted in the damp air, the iron reacted with the tannin in the leather and destroyed the seal. But in the brief time it worked, apparently it worked quite nicely. (Source: Routledge, R, "Discoveries and Inventions of the 19th Century)
The same book also has an item on the Crystal Palace atmospheric passenger railway, or "shuttle" as we would call it today, though it claims the tube was under Hyde Park, not in Sydenham where the Crystal Palace ended up.
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Thank you guys for great info. Jeremy Clarkson link was especially entertaining.
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Really enjoyed this piece... I was surprised though, that there was no mention of his broad gauge Great Western Railway. Brunel also made plans for an above ground pneumatic railroad. Compressed air was to be carried beneath the railbed in leather tubes. A piston attached to the railway carriages would then fit into this tube, much in the manner that a cable car has a grip that reaches below the rails, and engages the cable. The problem with this scheme it that the leather tube was not sufficiently airtight to be effective. If Brunel had access to todays modern materials, maybe he could have pulled it off.
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Great read!
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Avi, thanks for all your effort in producing Dark Roasted, it's always full of fascinating things and great pictures, I hope you keep on doing this.
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Oh, and, by the way... Brunel's atmospheric railway, a further problem with the leather seals was the fact that they had to be kept lubricated in order to remain flexible and seal well, this was done with animal derived greases, which led to them being an irresistable target for rats. Failure of the vacuum seal stopped the train, so although the concept was viable, the system failed due to the lack of a suitable flexible sealing material.
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Soubriquet - thank you for good words; you're welcome to submit similar articles, if you want.
As for unrealized atmospheric railway - RATS!..
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Another unusual pneumatic railway was trialled by a man called Alfred Beach, in New York, 1870.
An article on it can be seen
here, and a series of better pictures are viewable
here.
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Brunel was one of, if not the best British engineer. Many of his designs are still in existence today. If he had his way the gauge of railways would have been wider, that's what he planned for the Great Western Railway. Also on the GWR, over the river Thames is a flat arched bridge which nobody thought could be built.
On a related note I live about 1/4 mile from where the Great Eastern was built and some of the slipway still remains.
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The Turkish "magic atmosphere" sign is in Ephesus (Efes). I expect it's just there for tourists to take pictures of, since everybody speaks English admirably.
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I guess the axe is to get rid of ill people to keep yourself healthy (yeah I know, not really following the human rights, but it is Russia after all).
And for the "Religion Free DVD Player" I guess it's a mistranslation of Region free.
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The Center of the World sign is in the Leavittsburg-Warren area in Ohio. I have seen it often when I lived there.
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The "insert tongue in centre" cd is a Bloodhound Gang album I think. And yes, I did insert tongue in centre. (I was about 13, be fair!)
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The Turkish bathroom sign was especially useful, and the joy on the characters' faces was largely accurate. When I was in Paris, I ended up once having to use a "toilette a la Turque." It's a urinal. Male or female, you squat and poop. This works fine if you're dressed in a robe like a Turk. If you're dressed like a civilized person, in pants, it is the biggest hassle of the entire vacation. So, yeah, I'd pay extra in Turkey for a real toilet.
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Great compilation of signs! Finally some new signs.. been seeing a lot of reposts lately
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The traffic lights you've got on there from Melbourne (La Trobe St) make perfect sense, I don't see why it's "hilarious"... There are arrows to turn left and/or go straight, the white arrow is for trams and the right arrow to turn right, obviously...
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To the author of the article :
Concerning the yellow "Tokyo Teleport Sta." Japanese sign :
http://lh4.ggpht.com/abramsv/SJU_e99_aKI/AAAAAAAAX_k/Th6eyY6yFZU/s1600-h/rtyetertetrt.jpg
Sorry to burst your smug imperialistic bubble, but "teleport" is correct in the sign. Teleport is short for "telecommunication port." The word is common in French. I really get tired of Americans and other native English-speakers laughing at foreigners who take the trouble of putting up signs in English because you are too stupid or lazy to make the effort to learn a few words of another language. You often make fun of Japanese for their "engrish" but I'd like to see how much dumber you would look if you tried to write even three words in Japanese.
Philippe Laurichesse.
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I don't know, Philippe Laurichesse, you seem awfully smug yourself.
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To Philippe Laurichesse regarding his typically snobby ultra-socialist French-leaning comment... I find it comical that you lump Americans and other native English speakers together in a package of unabashed bias while in the same breath condemning us silly Americans for poking fun at a few individual translations found around the globe. Teleport means different things to different people. ha ha. We had a nice joke about it. But unlike you who believes it's appropriate to lump an entire culture and an entire people together as a mass of uneducated imperialists - we poke fun at a few select cases where a mistranslation becomes a thing of comedy.
There is a reason things are largely translated into English and not French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, etc. It's because English is, ever so slowly, becoming a universal connector language through which people from varying cultures can communicate.
And for the record, I am fluent in 3 languages; none of which are French; I've left the USA for extended periods of time, mostly to provide relief aid in third-world nations in central and south America, and I have multiple family members that have served in the military - including more than one who gave his life on the beaches of France.
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Isnt there a 'teleport town' on the edge of Tokyo bay, Japan – a futuristic area of city with some very unusual constructions? I wonder if that ‘teleport’ sign has any connection to that? Apparently the place is served by a ‘futuristic computer controlled monorail’ – so it may have something to do with that. As it mentiones Odaiba and the Sea Bus, it could be.
Even if the sign is just a telecommunications port – I think you would love Teleport Town! It fits this website down to the ground. It has a very strange, surreal and futuristic atmosphere, such as only the Japanese could produce. a really wonderfu place! Just run an image search on the term!
Oh, and no I don’t know why it is called that!!!
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Philippe, I know exactly what you mean, but don't take this too seriously. We make enough fun of Americans already. ;)
Relish in the fact that you speak a beautiful and complex language which is difficult to learn.
Bisou
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I am now desperate to stroll down the aisles of Suspicious Supermarket, whilst whistling and glancing either side shiftily.
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Awesome collection :)
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the robot milk is an actual product you can buy at the time travel mart in echo park
check it out here: http://344design.typepad.com/344_loves_you/2007/12/introducing-the.html
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Re: Center of the World
I've spent a few weeks in the Gateway motel. It used to be HORRIBLE, but wouldn't you know it, as soon as I moved out, they completely spiffed up the place and kicked the creeps out.
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@ americans here who got offended by the french comment:
Usually I'm anti us-government and all, as I'm french myself but I cannot stop laughing at the intense idiocy of my fellow (and humorless) citizen.
I guess there are rednecks in France too huh ;)
@ the guy who lost someone on omaha beach or whatever :
then stop supporting war, especially since "US go home" should be the most shared thought worlwide about your culture... :P
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To Anonymous #2,
You’re calling our French friend Philippe smug and ill-educated; well, you’re not so humble yourself if you’re boasting about being on X South American countries to provide relief aid, being fluent in 3 languages (hey, I’m fluent in 4, so what?) and being one more American bringing up for the ONE HUNDRETH MILIONTH TIME the fact that Americans died in French beaches.
Get over it – it’s done and over with. The French people were incredibly brave during WW2, but most Americans (and note here I say most, not all) are still completely convinced the French surrendered to the enemy at the first sight of a gun. You have no idea what you’re saying. Do you think the Jews and the Gipsies and other minorities who died at the hands of the Nazis in Poland and Germany surrendered and let themselves die because they were cowards? So why would you think the same about the French?
The French resistance was invaluable to the war effort and so were the horribly ‘smug and cowardly’ families who helped, fed and housed American troops when they entered the territory.
American media pokes fun of the French people ALL the time, charge them ALL the time for WW2… and you wonder why they hate you. The fact that Americans make the inevitable joke about the French whenever there’s any mention of WW2 in a movie, tv show or other medium available has influenced the relationship between the two countries and the people born and raised in each of them. You will find almost no mention of American culture in France except that which it essential for tourism to work. Yes, they hate most of you and they have every right to. I would hate a whole people if all I heard them mention about MY people was that we were cowards and still had the nerve to be smug and ungrateful.
I was recently in France and not one person was rude to me. Not one person acted like they were superior, or were anything else but regular people responding to the way they were treated. Those who’re polite will be treated equally, and that will happen everywhere and with everyone, no mater their nationality.
Sadly, most American tourists in France leave a VERY poor image of the rest of their countrymen, wherever they go; maybe because they’re loud, smug (yes, smug) and unpleasant. ‘Oh we hate the French and we'll make fun of them whenever possible, but we’re going to Paris anyway because, well, it’s Paris! Who cares if it’s in France?’
I don’t agree with everything he said, but Philippe is right about one thing: Americans (again, most, not all) are the only ones who don’t try to speak French when they’re in France. Even British people try it, and they invented the freakin’ English language, so don’t use that as an excuse.
And please, don’t make a bad name for other Americans who’re not such idiots and respond so badly to criticism, especially when they don’t take in consideration the last 60 years in 'bullying' History.
On another note (and this is not for Anonymous #2), I liked the pictures, they made me laugh hard.
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Christ, I'm glad I'm not American or French.
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Fresh air, fresh cold water and an axe are the best cure for a hang over.
With the axe you chop wood of course, kind of everybody who's lived in the countryside in eastern Europe knows this.
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Oh please, cut the crap with the "[Insert-own-nationality-here] are less condescending than you, stupid [insert-random-nationality-here]".
The point of this blog is not to make fun of other cultures, but to make fun of those small uneasiness (sp?) to adapt to another language/culture.
Philippe: like anyone in a French street will most likely understand "Teleport" as the compact version of "Telecommunications Port" rather than the Sci-Fi version of it.
For the record, I am French and I have NEVER seen such a use of the word either in French or in English.
Maybe because it no so used anymore to avoid confusion.
Please find your way back from the Fifties. :)
I didn't read all the bs about WWII, US tourists not learning a single word of french etc.
Because they usually do !
I've encountered quite a bunch of middle-aged and aged native english-speaking tourists being able to say "Bonjour", "Excusez-moi", "Merci", "Au revoir".
Like the same population of French tourists in Africa and North-Africa could do better in arab, wolof or whatever local language.
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We started of with some funny signs and ended up with WW2 and bragging about "I can do this...blablabla" We are very thankfull for your great contribution to making this a better world!
OK...some people have a sense of humour and some obviously do not!
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I wish I could speak French.
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hahahahaha! Thanks for a great collection of signs. I love them. I literally laughed out loud at the Very Suspicious Supermarket. I want to shop there!
Also brilliant (and I realize it is not a real sign) is "The Progress Bar" with the "loading" indicator. Hope someone really does it.
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The "zebra to nowhere" is probably a test of the paint for the stripes to measure how they wear down or corrode.
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i speak 480 languages
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wow...what a comment list...
first..for the brawlers who want to fight it out on a comment list...put your stuff away...everyone can claim to have this that or the other, but to be honest it's really just "piss in the wind" and just like that, it'll probably blow back in your face...
to me...it just sounds like, "Hey Pot, I'm the Kettle, you're dirty" /edited for possible rascism connotation/
most of the responders to this page "got" the idea that it's fun sometimes to laugh at the "tongue in cheek" mistranslations that occur where ever that might be...god forbid it's in jerusalem and my fellow jews take offense because of a mistranslated and oft-maligned and more oft-"made fun of because it's funny" sign ends up on a random website, which, ironically is known for posting things of humor....
/end rant/
pardon the above...
go cubs >;D
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thanks for posting this and all great articles, I laughed out with the sings and also reading all the comments.
I'm very happy to find out there´s a whole misterious, weird, complex, rich, hilarious and great world to live in.
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Thank you Rayo - you summed up the whole idea of DRB!
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The bottom-right Japanese sign picture is a crying rabbit... The sign appears to be an ad for the GABA language school, which is probably trying to attract ex-customers of the failed NOVA language school. The pink usagi (Japanese for "rabbit") was the mascot/logo of NOVA.
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RE: David Rix
Actually, Tokyo Teleport Station is the stop for the JR East Line (Japanese Rail Line that serves the Greater Tokyo Metorpolitan Region) for Odaiba ^^ You're absolutly correct. The city on Odaiba was supposed to be a great technological city of the future, but unfortunatly it became the subject of tax money during a mayoral election year and the city was never finished and fell by the wayside. It is a beautiful area and soon will be the home of the biggest fish market in the world when they finish construction. It is also where the biggest convention center in Japan is, as well as the largest indoor Toyota Dealership (at least as of 2006). I've been there many times, as I used to live in Japan, and I have to admit, Tokyo Teleport Station needs teleporters. It's a very large building with long concourse-like walks between areas and no moving sidewalks. Even so, it's come a long way from being a tiny island in Tokyo bay with cannons on it.
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to Philippe Laurichesse,
mate your problem is by far more related to a worrying lack of any trace of some sense of humour than the appropriate use of any language, that you tried to project as inappropriate use of a small laugh (?).
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hello
I was expecting to find the most hilarious sign ever that I ever saw: the "Caution, men at work!" sign of Great Britain (ok, it might exist somewhere else, but I haven't been there!)
I'm a woman, and 4 years later I'm still laughing!!!
And, damn it, I spent 7 years in the UK and never took any picture of it.
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A Brilliant collection
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The torture chamber sign was at an exhibit in San Diego, I never saw it this way until I read it on here. Funny... love this site
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thank god for the hat instructions. seriously, i almost bought two as shoes.
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The helicopter is a stock Boeing CH-47 Chinook transport helicopter, nothing fancy about it.
Any helicopter - and anything flying - is able to do that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CH-47_Chinook
It really all depends of the skills of the pilots.
Many say it's theoretically imposssible, , but with enough speed, height and guts a good pilot can actuaaly make loopings with a chopper.
Got to click on that cosmonaut photo and see the whole set. One question though, did they bring the rocking chair into space with them and if so, why? If they didn't, and it was supplied by the chase team, you have to wonder, why bring a rocking chair to a ballistic reentry party, and 2, you bring a rocking chair but not a stretcher to get the 'naut onto the helo? The whole photo set just screams Estes backyard rocketry.
In the new color railgun picture, that's Hitler 2nd from the right. I recognized his red colored hatband. Standing to his right is Albert Speer, wearing the "Organization Todt" armband.
I guess they're taking anti-flea baths. Or being part of some crazy sort of body-cleansing experiment during the war?
That last link isn't to an animation about peace, it's to a video of car crashes... :P?
Link fixed, thank you Elliot
Lions pictures are from South Africa. It could be the Lions Park next to Johannesburg.
I think the lions are getting a little tired of tourists wandering through being nuisances? Or maybe they just like biting things.
The lion pics are indeed from south africa. See "ZA" sticker on back of the defender - symbol for South Africa, from old Dutch: Zuid Afrika.
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