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About the Fallas, every year, one of the puppets is saved from the fire. It is called Ninot Indultat (That's not spanish).
The best of all them is saved from the fire and moved to a museum.
The Fallas has also a lot of pirotechnics events with fireworks and others
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Hadaka-matsuri
http://www.gonomad.com/japannomads/2007/03/naked-man-festival.html
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In Thailand theres a new year cleansing festival called Songkran.
Its 3 days long and its absolutely mental.
You really get to see the Thai people who can sometimes be very serious turn into a bunch of mischevious kids!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songkran
Some good pics:
http://dsphotographic.com/g2/thailand/Songkran/waterfights/
Its also held in other countries across asia but I've only experienced it in Thailand.
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RE: the balloon festival in France...Albuquerque, NM has one every year as well, and according to Wikipedia, it's the largest one in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albuquerque_International_Balloon_Fiesta
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Just wanted to add couple of more things about Fallas.
Burning the figures is just one part of Fallas but it's so much more.
Fireworks at day and night. Processions, flower offerings, partying all night long, Buñuelos, Street Mascletà, free concerts, Falleras prancing around.
It's incredible. I will be there for Fallas 2010 - give me shout via my site if you need any information or got a question.
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I bought goggles from the steampunk guy in the WGT pic. He makes awesome custom steampunk stuff. I'd post the link to his site but his business card has disappeared into the piles of gumf on my desk.
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This was such a pleasure to read. I stumbled upon the page and found myself captivated. Please check out my personal blog sometime, I would love love your feedback, dear.
http://www.madisonreece.blogspot.com
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so beautiful pictures! fantastic!
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Of course "ninot indultat" is not spanish. It's catalan! Valencia's langue is the local variation of catalan. Even "Falla" Is a catalan word. In the catalan high pirenees, higher than 2000 m high, deep inside Catalonia, where there are plenty of 10-20 hab. villages, there's a traditional festival called "falles" to. In the summer solstice night,Villagers climb the mountain, cut a tree they have selected and taken care of during the hole year, burn it into flames, and carry it down over the shoulder back tot the village. The whole night, you see fire spots descent from the mountain. As I said, they are called "falles" to. "ninot" just means "puppet" in catalan. It's the same language, and the same country, split into two by the spaniards. The sad thing is the widespread anticatalan xenophobous ideology you can often see in Valencia.
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Wonderful comments all, thank you! We will keep the info the next part of series.
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That was the typical & out-of-place political comment of the separatist minority.
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'm just wondering why photos used for the Boryeong festival all feature white people, when it's in fact a South Korean festival. I get that tourists from all over come to participate, but with it being a festival made by Koreans for Koreans, I find it odd you wouldn't showcase photos of Koreans taking part in the festivities.
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Just because it's not *your* culture doesn't mean it's weird/strange.
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holi is just great!
thanks for the article, now I really really want to see the color festival myself
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What is really weird is
this chapel. Whole made of skulls and human skeletons. Little scary.
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First of all I would like to appreciate author's creativity and intelligence that inspired him to draft and publish this post. Amazing photography and incredible description.
Apart from few famous European festivals, one Asian festival I liked and that is Holi. Last summer I went to India after purchasing a pocket friendly package from an Indian travel portal called
ZapBooking during Holi season and saw people playing with colors in real. Actually, people in India starts celebrating holi around one month before the final day. Small kids and adolescents take advantage of the season to tease the people and irritate them by throwing water balloons and strong colors. However, on the final day , you can see groups and hordes of people with colored faces, hands and hairs on the streets and roads celebrating the festivals and spreading the colors of joy.
It's truly an amazing festivals that people love to celebrate
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Festival La Tomatina, Bunol, Spain really sound's funny. I would like to see this festival, and if I'll get a chance I will participate too.
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I love currency. Especially this:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=6850966739
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loving your work, your posts never fail to entertain.
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the "100 million" Reichsmark note actually is worth 100 BILLION.
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Another good post :) Surprised not to see any shinplasters though http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinplaster
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You should mention the world recorder Hyperinflation "Riches", the Hungarian 100 million billion (100 quintillion) Pengo. Yes, that's a 1 with 20 zeros after it.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/HUP_100MB_1946_obverse.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peng%C5%91
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To DarkRoastedBlend.
Check that :
http://www.adme.ru/sberbank/kalendar-sberbanka-sdelali-iz-elementov-banknot-fastway-103341/
russian bank has released creative and weird 2010 calendar made of elements of money...
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I second Carl. A milliarden is one billion, millionen is one million.
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Well done; many thanks.
Typo: Edward VII should read Edward VIII.
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Edward VIII became King instantly and absolutely upon the death of George V. After the death of a monarch, a period of respect for the dead monarch of approximately one year passes before the celebratory coronation ceremony (or "crowning") of the successor. Edward VIII abdicated before the end of the period of respect had passed, and thus he had not been "crowned" at the time of his abdication. Edward VIII was actually King from January 20, 1936, to December 11, 1936 (the effective date of his abdication). The mere fact that there was no coronation is of trivial significance. The short duration of his reign has much greater significance as to the rarity and value of "his" money.
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Don't forget notes issued by His Imperial Majesty Emperor Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.
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World record note:
I dont believe you didnt published
a photo of 500 000 000 000 dinars note (national bank of Yugoslavia), during hyperinflatio in 1993. here it is:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/sr/0/0d/500milijardi.jpg
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@darko: That Dinar note is far from being world record... Even the posted Zimbabwean note has 3 more zeros, and that's not WR either.
In terms of zeros, no currency managed to "beat" the infamous Hungarian Pengő I posted above.
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Czechoslovakia was not occupied by Soviets in 1949. It was back then only the Soviet satellite. The occupation happened in 1968.
INVITATION
See my vintage picture blogs:
http://mynewoldpictures.blogspot.com
http://mypetarts.blogspot.com
http://mynaturepictures-benmil.blogspot.com
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One of the reasons the 50 pence and twenty pence coins are multi-sided is so that blind people could tell which coins they were holding. A square pound coin was trialled in Jersey but was rejected in favour if a thick, round one, due to vending machine considerations.
Good article!
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You should also mention Cook islands: scallop shaped 1 dollar, triangular 2 dollars and dodecagonal 5 dollars and one shouldn't forget the banknotes for 3 (!) dollars.
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that "100 million" reichsmark bill is actually 100 Billion.
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fortunately i own one note showed here. its the first one, the Russian Empire bank note. its an A4 sized paper which i inherited from my grandmother. also i own lots of hungarian pengő, also millions. so practically i'm a multi millionaire :)))
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a hundred trillion dollars... it's incredible how poor zimbaue is... there's lots of corruption, and they have an acting dictator, I think his name is mugabe. The guy is completely mad, he forced the population of an entire city to move in the desert and starve or something like that... that's just so bad...
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Polish 20 zlotys with Chopin it's limited edition for collectors.
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Very neat. I was surprised not to see Canadian money on it near the end, though. It does represent one of the most colourful currencies.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/76/Canadian_bills2.jpg
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The "100 Million" Reichsmark note is actually 100,000,000,000 Reichsmarks. The confusion here is that the names of numbers begin to differ between North America and Europe after the millions. In North America a thousand million is a billion and in Europe a thousand million is a milliard.
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Prince Charles is an outspoken Royal not a politician.
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"Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko " = Premier Aleksei Kosygin during a 1971 visit to Canada.
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Thank you Emily - they both had a sour face though at the time.
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Oh p-p-p-please give us a series of the "accidental" appearances of The Won with a halo....
Fair's fair.
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haha Putin under the skinned bear was so funny.
The policy of Mediedev about alcohol was very nice too!
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hahah Loooool!))))))) Very Nice pics))) "Serious business" awesome))
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thanks for the article. I had forgot that putin was from kgb, the "tourist camouflage" was interesting
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All of these were funny or interesting, apart from the Bush ones - it's still painful!
The Regan/Putin one in particular is incredible - easy to forget that he was a KGB man, and even easier to forget he must have done real KGB footwork at one time. Agreed that Charles isn't a politician, just a... right royal charlie. Mandy looks appropriately uncomfortable, also.
Love it, Avi - keep up the good work.
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Temptation?!?!?
Peter Mandleson aka The Prince of Darkness is a homo
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Peter Mandelson may well be gay, but what's for sure is that he's an oligarchic scuz-bucket.
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At least George Bush didn't bow to the Chinese !
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FIRST!
people might be interested that the fancy 1942 ‘Concept for Greyhound Coach Lines’ was predated by at least six years... THE GERMANS GOT THERE FIRST... as this link about
a 1936 semi-trailer bus proves, (1) semi trailer busses were a reality in the 1930s already; (2) semi-trailer busses did operate in germany in regular public service during the 1930s...1950s; (3) they even had
double deckers; (4) they even
operated on rails (insular railway of sylt; system sadly got scrapped in dec. 1970).
wouldn't that page warrant a copycat entry here on d.r.b.? just in order to celebrate the greatness of german semi trailer bus design??
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"His latest work is Duel Nature - heavily armed trees wage war for green cause and some oxygen"
Why would they fight over oxygen? To a plant, that is a waste product. Perhaps you meant carbon dioxide?
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He didn't say anything about a war over oxygen, he said it was over "sunlight and nutrients" (nutrients could be minerals in the soil).
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These women are imposing.
We used to see the amazon as the most powerful of all.
However, now the amazon is too substantial a body type.
The fashion is now to have a delicate form with the power to kill if necessary, and to lure when appropriate.
Vincenti
ToysPeriod is a leading online shop specializing in
lego sets and model railroad equipment.
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Philip K. Dick might be proud, but Isaac Asimov would be prouder!
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This post was a lot of fun, now I'm off to ride my bike.
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thanks! that was great
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I have invested considerable time and effort into the construction and research of zany bikes and so this post is pure eye candy.
I seem to recall some bike lane proposal that involved enclosed tubes, one for each direction, that were pressurized to help skoot riders along.
There are some pedal-monorails available here and there at amusement parks, mostly in Japan.
There is a version of the tandem robot bike where the rear rider is on fire:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6W7SLpdNaU
As for the multi-person scooter depicted, this is the fabled "chinese dragon bike", an infinite theoretical bicycle design that is part of bike chopper cryptozoology, such as the "front-wheel-drive, rear steer" or "tall swingbike" (a specimen of which was recently discovered in California). A Cyclecide geezer told me someone had tried to build one and it didn't work, something about how rake on the connecting joints makes it want to carve but it's all connected like one of those fake bamboo snakes that "hover". Make each segment have two wheels, set the connecting pivot to plumb, and you're in business:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAe3c4NKQgc
Flip and upside-down bikes have been around for a century (like tallbikes), not much new under the sun.
The extra-tall bikes pictured are, I believe, Atomic Zombie's, and if you look at the silver one- Project Skywalker- it has a steering bar that lets you control it during a moving ascent or descent.
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Great that you like the beer bikes. As an "Amsterdammer" myself I think I speak for all of us when I say:
DIE!
Drunken tourists blocking bicycle lanes, causing accidents, harassing locals (look at me I'm so funny, I'm giving the locals a beer shower). Only ****ing douchebags ride those things.
Other than that, excellent post!
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Ah, to be in Amsterdam, where someone on a bike isn't perceived as a homeless person or pyschopath. It gives you a whole other set of problems. I *wish* drunk tourists on beer bikes were my problem. What about drunk drivers in bike lanes!??!?!
In some municipalities, it is legal to be drinking on a vehicle as long as the operator is sober (and complies with various requirements such as having no open containers within reach or painting a white line behind himself) and so the beer-bike is a sneaky way to be drunk in public.
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Another Amsterdammer here: I agree the beerbikes are annoying as hell.
They are for tourists and peasants that go for a day out in the big city. Like on stag-night and such.
There's a reason drinking in public is frowned upon (if not locally banned) and these things illustrate why.
Nevertheless it is fun to do: the pedalling is heavy but the drinking relieves the public humiliation quite nicely and the feeling of intoxicated mobility is really good.
As far a I know the guys/gal with the steering wheel has to stay sober: because it's a big and heavy rig that can cause quite a lot of injuries and damage if you crash it. You can kill someone with this one (which hard to do with a normal bike).
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http://daviswiki.org/WhymCycles
WhymCycle makes exotic bikes from recycled frames. He rarely charges for them, beleiving them to be hart to be shared with people for the joy of riding them.
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Great article, as always! Two additions that might be interesting:
A drawing of the interior of the camper bike that is already in the article:
http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/files/kevin_cyr_camperbike_blueprint_600x438_118.jpg
And here's a concept bike for Cannondale by a Dutch design student. A new take on the classic Dutch bicycle with some very interesting details:
http://www.vimeo.com/6255436
http://vanmansum.nl/
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wow...a lot of these bikes just leave you speechless
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http://www.xylonbikes.com/home-en.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-EjHf9fads
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the white bike concept is awesome.
does anybody know if this is going to enter production?
check this video from top-gear
http://www.flixxy.com/carver-car-motorcycle.htm
that's just awesome!!
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Nice compilation of bikes!
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Yuji Fujimura's concept for an electric bicycle looks like Eve design from Wall-E - white and a little black and some neon blue :)
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The "Schweeb" NZ bicycle monorail will, thanks to a sponsorship by Google,, be trialled in a city that's still to be anounced: http://shweeb.com/
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Oh the first one is scary as hell like NIGHTMARE AT 20,000 FEET twilight zone!!
I can't bring the link on youtube though, i've watched a jet accidentally hit Migratory Birds at high attitude.
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Emus are considerably larger than Ostriches, notes this Australian
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i love the last picture; the event is on the news every year.
http://mimi-xo.blogspot.com/
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[Emus are considerably larger than Ostriches, notes this Australian]
Sorry, but the Ostrich is the largest bird species, not the Emu.
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I have nothing against ducks, and I don't denigrate the fact that 6km is very high. But a modern jet liner flies at twice that altitude.
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Where do you get your facts?! The Sooty Shearwater is outdone by the Bar-Tailed Godwit, which flies from Alaska to New Zealand, without stopping! Also, the bird with the longest migration flight is The Arctic Tern, flying from pole to pole. The Sooty Shearwater?! Pffft...
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Hummingbirds ...aren’t big, don’t travel far,...
Wrong!
Many species migrate between Mexico (or further south) and Canada. The Rufous hummingbird migrates all the way up to Alaska, following the USA Western Seaboard.
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I would point out that crows are considered more intelligent than dogs. Crows have been known to use timing and precision to have cars crack open nuts. Seeing the success of this, other crows model the behavior. not to mention they have over 200 unique calls with often specific meanings. Saw this on "is it possible" on discovery...
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Not only are ducks amazing, they taste good, too.
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Hehe love the latte links. I've got one more you should add to your list though! It's a great instructional page that gives a really easy and cheap way to make lattes at home and you dont need those huge funky machines! I think you should check it out. http://www.kaycircle.com/index.php?q=How-to-make-a-Latte-at-home-without-a-machine
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trying it out... still like the funky machines, though
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Where is the "Happy 2010" picture from? I think I recall seeing it without the words here before but I can't find it, now. It's a fantastic photo. Can someone point where I can find a copy without words over it?
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[aol] Me too! [/aol] ;-)
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Jack - the full-size image is at the end of this
article - it seems to be an ad from a European agency, but we'd like to get more info as well.
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it's astronaut Anna Fisher
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The chase scene is terrible and basically animal abuse; they're using cables to trip the horses up. Horrible.
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The plane over the bridge is a common sight in Leipzig/Germany.
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Leipzig-Halle_Airport_Condor.jpg&filetimestamp=20090605065046
An exclusive photo of the Harry Potter area? You mean, exclusive other than The Orlando Sentinel, which has been posting photos every week all along?
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/features_orlando/category/wizarding-world-of-harry-potter
The plane crossing the bridge is also fairly common in Memphis, Tennessee; one of the Memphis airport's runways crosses an overpass right above a busy road approaching the terminal.
The guy jumping out of the car with the vinyl looks a bit like Tim Allen.
I hope those poor horses got to retire somewhere nice and quiet after that...
i was going to comment on those trip wires as well. this method actually kills horses and has been outlawed in the US for many decades. this video is horrific.
You call that a silly chase scene? I see your horse abuse, and raise you ninjas on rollerskates.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4s6zFVm9qI
The TRS-80 Model 100 - ha ha, very funny antiquated technology. I remember very well when that, along with the HP-34c, was the shiznit. Now, it's paraded as a funny relic. Ouch.
Why not scoff at Winky Dink and Billy Blastoff, while you're at it.
Won't be so funny when what you remember as the latest and greatest of the time gets dragged out for general mirth and derision.
And yes, a lot like Tim Allen.
The scene from the indian movie is really the dumbest thing I've ever watched, but the second one is for sure "Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus", just search utube for that, the trailer is something you guys must see! (or mustn't...)
I love the movie scene! It's so over the top. So they hurt a few horses. Horses are replaceable. I just want one of those Magic Jumping Jeeps!
That chase scene WOULD have been awesome if they hadn't shown such cruel disregard for the horses. I wonder how many broke their legs and had to be killed because some idiot director wanted more realism in his dumb movie.
Everyone associated with writing, directing, producing, and promoting that film should be dragged behind a horse through the worst streets in India.
If it weren't for all that animal abuse that chase/action scene would have been great. As it is, it is actually sad...
The horses that didn't fair well from filming that scene were slaughtered and eaten. Shame on all of you, there are starving children in India, why shouldn't they have a slab of horse meat? Horses are not unicorns, they are not angels who haven't gotten their wings, they are giant space and money wasting food vacuums.
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