I got NUTHIN’ today! I am fuckin’ burned out from all the BULLSHIT. I got a serious case of the I-Don’t-Give-A-Shit syndrome. Fuckit. Just fuckit ALL!!
When I get that way I often just look at Pretty Pictures. I just LOVE pretty pictures! Helps me daydream …. “sure would be nice to be THERE, rather than in this shit-hole”. It’s like heroin. Escapism. Perhaps, even denial … not that I give a rats ass.
So, here are some Pretty Pictures for today. Maybe they’ll post, maybe they won’t. I don’t give a shit one way or another.
Ayers Rock – a large sandstone formation in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Bourtange Star Fort, Netherlands.
Burning Man, Black Rock City, Nevada.
Four Seasons resort in Bora Bora, French Polynesia.
Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Mir Mine, Russia.
Olive Tree Plantations, Córdoba, Spain.
Stockholm, Sweden.
Ancient Ruins of Palmyra, Syria.
Bratsk Pulp Mill, Russia.
Soquimich Lithium Mine, Atacama Desert, Chile.
Venice, Italy
Worker resting on bales of cotton, Ivory Coast
American Military Aircraft graveyard, Arizona.
Village in the High Atlas Mountains, Morocco
Crops in Kansas from 310 miles up.
Road interrupted by a sand dune, Nile Valley, Egypt.
The obscenity known as Dubai.
Lone penguin in Antarctica protesting global warming.
Village on stilts in Phand Nga Bay, Thailand.
Mountains of tomatoes dumped on the banks of the River Durance, France.
The foolishness of building cities in the desert. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Roar Rollercoaster, Six Flags, Maryland.
Moar new cars!!
How God sees humans. Here, the Hand Of God is getting ready to pluck up our friend, “bb”, and send him to hell.
OMG, Black people are picking and handling cotton in Ivory Coast!
Quick- send in the Justice Brothers to organize a boycott of Ivory Coast, oops, I meant, get Al and Jesse to shake them down with a “donation” to their “ministries”.
That Russian mine looks like the Eye of Sauron, BTW.
Thanks Stucky. The Good Lord sends us the cooler Fall weather, harvests and painted woods to enjoy.
It’s probably just me but I would say 16 pretty pictures.
Been doing the same, though, stepping back, looking through the lens and trying to find a little peace from the impending doom.
Worrying about the kids and grandkids, will it be war, epidemic, failure of the power grid, or a boot on a face forever makes me wonder what we are all doing on this rock in the first place.
Who the fuck thought all this shit up anyway?
One of my employees believes we are an alien experiment and they fuck with us once in a while for enjoyment because if they get bored they’ll just end it all. Sometimes I wonder…..
Himalaya’s from above
https://vimeo.com/121045965
The obscenity known as dubai. Nuff said. My right hand just came back from a couple of weeks in Prague and Budapest, and told me that there is saturation advertising over there to visit dubai, but no reasons given as to why you might want to
The Palmyra heritage site is flattened now thanks to ISIS.
The EU dumps good produce – they don’t even allow vendors to give the day’s leftovers to the poor, nor do they allow it to feed pigs. Just wonderful EU policy.
The Mir Mine is just biding its time to suck in the surrounding buildings.
The Penguin pic gave me a chuckle.
kokoda
Nice Himalaya vid. There’s a new IMAX movie out about Mt Everest. Even though it only gets 75% on rottentomatoes, it looks fabulous, and Ms Freud and I will be seeing it sometime in the next couple weeks.
Sorry Stucky, I didn’t see much beauty in these pictures. Overpopulation in not beautiful.
kokoda
How did you copy that VIMEO vid?
On youtube, when you right click a vid there’s that “copy url” choice …. but, not so on Vimeo.
TIA
I had a FedEx delivery near that American military aircraft graveyard in AZ a couple months ago. It is big .One part is military and the other part is for older private retired airplanes .Seems like such a waste.They are just sitting there rotting away.
Stucky I really think you would enjoy this ‘coffee table’ book:
PS: what’s the deal with the mountains of tomatoes?
“Sorry Stucky, I didn’t see much beauty in these pictures. Overpopulation in not beautiful.”
——————- Wip
Sure. No problem.
Maybe you’ll like this one better.
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In case it doesn’t post …. it’s a pic of a country church and a cemetery.
Stucky….(and anyone else)….should read the book “Into Thin Air” by John Krakauer. I was lucky to sit at a presentation given by Dr. Seaborn Beck Weathers, a member of that fatal Everest expedition. A fascinating read.
Stucky….this will not be a good answer. I received an email and it had the hilighted link. I just copied the link and pasted it in my comment.
Stucky says:kokoda
How did you copy that VIMEO vid?
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Click the “share” button on the video (the paper airplane looking icon), then the URL will display, but you can’t cut/paste it. Use your right mouse button and select “open in new tab”. Then you will have the URL on that tab.
Let’s see if this North Carolina vimeo video posts:
Rise Up
You da man!!
Alternatively, one doesn’t have to open the link to a new tab. After you hit “share”, two blue boxes appear …. the one on the right “”, right click and hit “copy link location”, and then simply paste that. Only one thing left to do, the link location will append “#share”, so you have to backspace and delete it.
Again, thanks. Previously, every time I found a cool VIMEO video, I had to go to youtube to find it. This will save a lot of time.
Yep, that’s even a better way. I don’t use Vimeo that much and didn’t play with that option. Good one.
@Stucky
I hope I didn’t come off as unappreciative (is that a word?). I love picture articles.
Wip
No worries. I didn’t take it that way at all. Besides, your comment about overpopulation is correct.
I hear ya, Stuck…I’ve had a major case of the fuckits for a couple of weeks now. Still, been reading TBP but seem to lack the will to post much. Any wisdom I’ve found, I could find nothing to add, any foolishness, I’ve lacked the will to fight.
Cool pictures, though…some are beautiful, some are not, a couple are freaking creepy (that pit mine in Russia looks like a giant eye).
Overpopulation is the biggest, overriding problem in a world that has become one giant, steaming cesspool of them…and like most of them it has zero easy or pleasant solutions.
Cheers! 🙂
Thanks. Nice pictures, good of you to post them for us.
Peaceout, the tomatoes? That’s the perishable business. The minute any kind of harvest is ready, the clock is ticking. Not all outcomes are favorable. ANYTHING disruptive and you can kiss it goodbye.
When I first saw that picture of the worker with the cotton I thought it was a tiny little kneegrow fairy on a head of cauliflower.
That olive orchard in Cordoba would be a hot, dry place in summer!
There are way too many bridges leading into that star fort!
Hey Stucky
If you don’t care, why the shitballs are you puttin in the time. From the looks of it yer days are numbered, so here’s what I would suggest. Tell yerself, ‘next week I’m gonner scale back to 14 hours uh day online. The next week go nine, and so on, until yer down ter around 6, and then look at yerself in the mirror, and ask yerself, why in gawd’s good gravy did I have ter be born uh grade c- tom selleck look alike?
You do care stucky. You care uh lot.
bb, they are in AZ because they will rot in a more humid climate, and you fucks thought you knew about deserts, Hah!
Stuck, you may be suffering Octoberitis, it’s a mild depression brought on by the lessening sunlight. It usually peaks around January when folks decide to kick the bucket out of sheer don’tgiveafuckitis.
Also, Indented Sphincter, please re read yer own comments above ter yerself above in the voice of uh flaming homosexual (that’s how most people read them anyways)
Pretty funny, huh? Lemme explain something. When you overuse exclamation points as you so often do, at the end of yer asinine simple sentence observations about someone else’s posts, it evokes the breathy sing song lilt of a fawning homo. It’s like:
‘I could just suck yer pecker fer that great post big dog!’
See what I mean?
That’s OK, I have to tell you every time I need a good belly laugh I go look at your “Thirty Blocks of Squalor” articles. Like Larry The Cable Guy says, “I don’t care who you are, that’s funny”.
Treat us to another one soon!
Brian