Probably also Marley tho.
― nickn, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 00:12 (four years ago) link
OH. MY. GOD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0gzmUsDM9I
You have led me to to THE MOST BORING AMUSEMENT PARK RIDE EVER MADE.
The sand "Rushmore" was for Hard Rock Park, a 55-acre, $400-million rock 'n' roll-themed park in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, that never offered discounts, bored children and promptly closed up for good in 2009 due to the recession.
Which is fine by me, since while I enjoy both kinds of music, rock and roll, this place sounds like Rock 'n' Roll HELL.
The level of detail was often astonishing. For example, the original version of a song, say "Purple Haze," that played along the walkways in the Rock & Roll Heaven area seamlessly morphed into a note-for-note calypso version of the tune as guests approach the Reggae River Falls attraction.
An Elvis-looking cow statue made small talk with onlookers before spraying them with his udders
It included Alice's Restaurant, the park's full-service eatery that served Thanksgiving dinner and clam chowder.
You know, there's nothing I enjoy more than walking around a 55-acre amusement park in the hot South Carolina sun for hours before sitting down to a heapin' hot helpin' of Thanksgiving dinner and clam chowder.
But.... that "Nights in White Satin" ride... From the video alone, I've ridden airport trams that were more exciting than that.
― pplains, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 02:10 (four years ago) link
Ha, and that's Mark Sanford in the blue shirt in the first pic.
― pplains, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 02:14 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/MGXpCWy.jpg
No Quarter indeed.
― pplains, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 02:25 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/RIPyh1U.jpg
Do gotta say that the Lynyrd Skynyrd ride was in really poor taste.
― pplains, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 02:28 (four years ago) link
lol
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 02:51 (four years ago) link
yeah i was lead to that image by podcast: the ride, specifically their two-part episode on failed amusement parks that focuses mostly on hard rock park but also the sid & marty kroft amusement park in atlanta.
hard rock park cost $400 million to build and closed after five months of business. then it reopened as freestyle music park, and closed for good after something like six months. so it actually failed twice
― na (NA), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:15 (four years ago) link
Tulsa's Golden Driller statue painted to look like Elon Musk.
https://i.imgur.com/JdLbdbg.jpg
Good ol' Ok-lol-homa.
― pplains, Thursday, 21 May 2020 02:51 (three years ago) link
The "Before" picture:
https://i.imgur.com/OFv2NvH.jpg
Ya know, "Tulsa" is very nearly an anagram of "Tesla".
And it's 100% an anagram of "a slut."
― pplains, Thursday, 21 May 2020 02:52 (three years ago) link
Salut!
― nickn, Thursday, 21 May 2020 06:19 (three years ago) link
just think, the tesla factory workers could all live in the same building, walk to work in the morning, hang out together, and do all their grocery and leisure shopping, all in the same general area, monitored by the everwatching ugly elon musk statue!
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 21 May 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
About eight other threads I could've posted this on.
https://i.imgur.com/lUDkQRz.jpg
― pplains, Sunday, 31 May 2020 23:38 (three years ago) link
Very cursed images.
― nickn, Monday, 1 June 2020 04:58 (three years ago) link
john bonham
https://i.ibb.co/PCGRHhw/85122143-1898544640289980-3107407644655091712-n.jpg
― visiting, Saturday, 5 December 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
OG pics of the Pat Tillman statue have shuffled off into the great cyber beyond. Here is a huge pic, allowing one to appreciate the abundance of ugly detail incorporated by the sculptor.
https://www.rocketsports-ent.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/IOS-0219223-Copy.jpg
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Saturday, 5 December 2020 19:44 (three years ago) link
Am I the only one who thinks that drummer looks like Bill Clinton?
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 6 December 2020 02:56 (three years ago) link
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/31/54332896_f42ee7da91_z.jpg
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 6 December 2020 23:47 (three years ago) link
How it started vs how itβs going pic.twitter.com/Y0Lwj3CHbu— Brad Batt for TN State Sanity βπΌβπ½βπΎ (@bradbatt) December 11, 2022
― pplains, Monday, 12 December 2022 04:12 (one year ago) link
proud of this statue for showing it
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/aug/14/arts.artsnews
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 12 December 2022 15:38 (one year ago) link
https://www.google.com/maps/uv?pb=!1s0x8edb3fa4e9ae6331%3A0xb32d864468561a2e!3m1!7e115!4shttps%3A%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPAI7pKfEjMdIJZL5a8YaCUW_mKJk-57Xi45THa%3Dw260-h175-n-k-no!5sKingston%27s%20new%20Emancipation%20Park%20-%20Google%20Search!15sCgIgAQ&imagekey=!1e10!2sAF1QipM3HIiuVnE1TG7dXJ5O_rPgL0F8j5G2qYpS3iMh&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwikyZvvtPT7AhUiLFkFHWgcAbsQ7ZgBKAB6BAgGEAI
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 12 December 2022 15:39 (one year ago) link
I present to you on this celebrated holiday, Coretta Scott and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
https://i.imgur.com/EDA1JB0.jpg
― pplains, Monday, 16 January 2023 14:18 (one year ago) link
"Given that I am not White, I am safe from ANY charges of racism for saying the MLK embrace statue is aesthetically unpleasant. The famous photo should have been a FULL statue of the couple and their embrace. What a huge swing and miss in honoring the Dr & Mrs King. SAD!" tweeted Boston Herald columnist Rasheed Walters."Show me a white man that was honored with a statue of only two of his limbs," tweeted comedian Javann Jones.
"Show me a white man that was honored with a statue of only two of his limbs," tweeted comedian Javann Jones.
The famous photo being depicted here:
https://i.imgur.com/9HRvJ95.jpg
― pplains, Monday, 16 January 2023 14:20 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/C9eXUix.jpg https://i.imgur.com/oEad028.jpg
― pplains, Monday, 16 January 2023 14:26 (one year ago) link
Lewis Capaldi presented with statue by pupils at former school. https://t.co/MZH5dAZ2k1π· Credit: Wattie Cheung pic.twitter.com/T9UVkjlV8t— STV News (@STVNews) May 22, 2023
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 22 May 2023 15:12 (eleven months ago) link
jesus christ that's horrific
― call all destroyer, Monday, 22 May 2023 15:18 (eleven months ago) link
it's funny that no one ever gives the photographer credit for shots like that, at least not right in the tweet, and then the photographer gets credit for that one
― z_tbd, Monday, 22 May 2023 15:21 (eleven months ago) link
Wow.
― pplains, Monday, 22 May 2023 15:58 (eleven months ago) link
nothing can compete with the last entry, but the new Mick Jagger statue in Dartford is a look from certain angles
https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/64d3aedf36a1e9d12cb54c0c/2:1/w_2240,c_limit/mick-jagger-statue.jpg
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 16:54 (nine months ago) link
I would've guessed anyone from Steve Winwood to Terry Fox to the guy who was in The Warriors before assuming it was Mick.
― pplains, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 17:14 (nine months ago) link
ah dangit, just came to post that
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 10 August 2023 03:24 (nine months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F9rdc5qWcAAxBZr?format=jpg&name=large
New fountain in Vienna, apparently
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 02:12 (six months ago) link
This may have been in the broken links above, and I do appreciate the spirit of this thing, but it's just butt ugly.
https://www.travel-mi.com/images/Detroit-Fist-Joe-Lewis.jpg
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 02:21 (six months ago) link
Another surprising omission. I am both fascinated and repelled by this.
https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/10/191030-BLUCIFER-DIA-3-1024x680.jpg
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 02:25 (six months ago) link
Oh I always kind of liked the Blue Mustang. It's definitely right on the borderline for me though.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 02:39 (six months ago) link
The locals call it "Blucifer."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 02:41 (six months ago) link
blucifer squashed his daddy fyi
and for a real good time you can google blucifer's veiny taint
but anyway
https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/enhanced/webdr06/2013/7/2/18/enhanced-buzz-21114-1372803229-5.jpg
the more i think abt this lab mice memorial the less gruntled i get
it is inappropriately cute and has the nerve to be ugly at the same time
we have gained so much of immeasurable value, saved & improved so many human lives, at the cost of terrible acts on creatures that are utterly at our mercy -- creatures that we bred, we brought into existence, for this purpose! to suffer for us, so our dumb asses might suffer less. they deserve a way more fucked up statue imo
(not that i'm finna fight about whether medical research on animals, and animal exploitation generally, is sufficiently justified by its benefits to humanity; just that it's insulting all around to try and paper over the moral complexity with this dumb cartoon of a wise little mouse wearing glasses and busily knitting a double helix for its beloved human friends)
― objectively objectionable object to object to (cat), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 23:01 (four months ago) link
Yeah, I know. That goes in the You Cannot Make This Shit Up file.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 01:38 (four months ago) link