Sheep ship is ship shape to ship sheep after collision with Russian naval intelligence vessel.
A Russian naval intelligence ship sank Thursday after colliding with a merchant freighter in foggy conditions on the Black Sea near Istanbul, the Turkish coast guard said. All 78 crew members on the Russian vessel were rescued.
The crew of the freighter Youzarsif H, a Togo-flagged ship traveling from Romania to Jordan with a cargo of 8,800 sheep, was unharmed, and the ship suffered slight damage to its bow, according to local media reports.
Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion.
Huh. I'd have put my money on Hell being the name of the place.
Nope. The town does have a Fucking problem, though - people keep stealing the Fucking town signs.
Yeah, it's all the Fucking tourists that are taking them.
We had a road in our town that had to be renamed. It was finger road and as you can imagine all the college kids wanted the sign for their dorms and they got stolen so much they just renamed the damn thing.
Huh. I'd have put my money on Hell being the name of the place.
Nope. The town does have a Fucking problem, though - people keep stealing the Fucking town signs.
Yeah, it's all the Fucking tourists that are taking them.
We had a road in our town that had to be renamed. It was finger road and as you can imagine all the college kids wanted the sign for their dorms and they got stolen so much they just renamed the damn thing.
About 5 miles west of the truck stop in Williams, AZ, there is an exit for Devil Dog Road. I don't even want to think about how many times those signs must get stolen.
Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion.
Huh. I'd have put my money on Hell being the name of the place.
Nope. The town does have a Fucking problem, though - people keep stealing the Fucking town signs.
Yeah, it's all the Fucking tourists that are taking them.
We had a road in our town that had to be renamed. It was finger road and as you can imagine all the college kids wanted the sign for their dorms and they got stolen so much they just renamed the damn thing.
There are several states where highway miles markers have 68.9 instead of 69 for the same reason. My city took the measured and reasonable action and welded all the interesting signs right to the post, so if you want one you've got to go out there with an angle grinder and draw a lot of attention to yourself. It's not 100%, but the only ones that seem to get stolen now are rural side roads, and some just never get replaced.
Huh. I'd have put my money on Hell being the name of the place.
Nope. The town does have a Fucking problem, though - people keep stealing the Fucking town signs.
Yeah, it's all the Fucking tourists that are taking them.
We had a road in our town that had to be renamed. It was finger road and as you can imagine all the college kids wanted the sign for their dorms and they got stolen so much they just renamed the damn thing.
About 5 miles west of the truck stop in Williams, AZ, there is an exit for Devil Dog Road. I don't even want to think about how many times those signs must get stolen.
So, when me and my wife were driving out to the city where we had our wedding on a planning trip last year, I noticed something odd - a milage marker for mile 405.99... The reason became pretty apparent - Montana has a single area code - 406 - and it's become a bit of a cultural marker. So the 406 milage marker was probably a ripe target for theft, so the DOT just replaced it with one that wasn't as attractive. I've heard of 419.99... markers for the same reason.
Well that feels less hypocritical so I'll just choose to believe that's it.
Edit: Also, how were area codes assigned? 316 is in Kansas? 315 is the middle of New York!
One explanation I've heard, probably apocryphal, is that the lower the numbers in your area code the more important your locality was circa 1965 or whenever they initially set them up. The reasoning being, the lower the numbers the quicker you could dial them on a rotary phone. So NYC got 212, LA got 213, etc etc.
Well that feels less hypocritical so I'll just choose to believe that's it.
Edit: Also, how were area codes assigned? 316 is in Kansas? 315 is the middle of New York!
One explanation I've heard, probably apocryphal, is that the lower the numbers in your area code the more important your locality was circa 1965 or whenever they initially set them up. The reasoning being, the lower the numbers the quicker you could dial them on a rotary phone. So NYC got 212, LA got 213, etc etc.
Well that feels less hypocritical so I'll just choose to believe that's it.
Edit: Also, how were area codes assigned? 316 is in Kansas? 315 is the middle of New York!
One explanation I've heard, probably apocryphal, is that the lower the numbers in your area code the more important your locality was circa 1965 or whenever they initially set them up. The reasoning being, the lower the numbers the quicker you could dial them on a rotary phone. So NYC got 212, LA got 213, etc etc.
It's not apocryphal, that's exactly how the original codes were assigned (with NY, the most active telephone area, getting the easiest code to dial in the system.) Of course, with the advent of touch tone dialing, number location no longer mattered, which is why as new area codes were added to major areas, they had higher numbers.
Well that feels less hypocritical so I'll just choose to believe that's it.
Edit: Also, how were area codes assigned? 316 is in Kansas? 315 is the middle of New York!
One explanation I've heard, probably apocryphal, is that the lower the numbers in your area code the more important your locality was circa 1965 or whenever they initially set them up. The reasoning being, the lower the numbers the quicker you could dial them on a rotary phone. So NYC got 212, LA got 213, etc etc.
It's not apocryphal, that's exactly how the original codes were assigned (with NY, the most active telephone area, getting the easiest code to dial in the system.) Of course, with the advent of touch tone dialing, number location no longer mattered, which is why as new area codes were added to major areas, they had higher numbers.
Well then good on Doug Coupland for teaching me something.
1. YOU, the Anagramancer, stare down the invading MANTICORE: Will you ROMANCE IT (turn to 123), give it CREMATION (turn to 213), or summon EROTIC MAN (turn to 312)?
Now there's a line that promises a disturbing Choose Your Own Perversion Fueled Adventure.
The only signs around here I've been tempted by, would be ruined not on a street corner kinda.
Is a subdivision here where you can be on the corner of Starlight and Moonbeam.
Always expect to see hippies there, never do
I've never been tempted to steal any of the signs, but I have been tempted to just buy my own.
I haven't cause that's always seemed like a trap, but as I understand it there is nothing illegal about buying a road sign as long as you don't put it up on public property as if it were a legal road sign.
I feel like I should be looking for the description of "speed hump" on page 123 or 312....(or even 213, in a potentially nightmarish chapter involving high coefficients of friction).
Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion.
In Yugoslavia, the Western half used the "latin" alphabet (think English, French, Italian, etc.. letters) while the Eastern half used "cyrilic" (think Russian). Bosnia, being in the center, used both on official signs, like road signs, kind of like English and French in Quebeck. In school you would learn one in first grade, the other on second grade (random which you learn first, balanced by population), and were required to alternate alphabet for assignments every week. Then in college and after you could user whichever was your preference.
To be clear, it was the same language with the same vocalized letters, you just had 2 different ways of writing most letters (some were same). And most people's preference cane down to which side of that east/west split their ancestors came down.
Then during the 1990s Balkan wars, these sides didn't like each other much anymore. After a U.S. arranged peace accord, the dislike persists but it's not violent. Instead, it's passive aggressive bs. For example, grade schools don't teach the "other" alphabet any more. However, the road signs are still printed in both languages. So petty vandalism is not stealing signs, but spray paint crossing out the "wrong" script. The municipalities are generally poor, so these signs then sit like that for years and years.
1. YOU, the Anagramancer, stare down the invading MANTICORE: Will you ROMANCE IT (turn to 123), give it CREMATION (turn to 213), or summon EROTIC MAN (turn to 312)?
Now there's a line that promises a disturbing Choose Your Own Perversion Fueled Adventure.
And it won because... It promises a nightmarish exploration of the arbitrarality (is that a word? I think that's a word) of English grammar. Not because... You know, literally everything else.
Are there subregions of Bosnia and Herzegovina then? I know there's the Bosnian Serbia and from Europa Universalis 4 I remember Hum and Travunia but I'm pretty sure that things might have changed in the last 400 years!
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No, that's in Norway.
True enough, even though I knew this I had a brainfart.
Still, there's certainly a tour to be had in that part of the world:
Sheep ship is ship shape to ship sheep after collision with Russian naval intelligence vessel.
- John Stuart Mill
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I'll be honest; I'm not shedding many great, big, salty tears for Russian naval intelligence. :P
- John Stuart Mill
We had a road in our town that had to be renamed. It was finger road and as you can imagine all the college kids wanted the sign for their dorms and they got stolen so much they just renamed the damn thing.
About 5 miles west of the truck stop in Williams, AZ, there is an exit for Devil Dog Road. I don't even want to think about how many times those signs must get stolen.
- John Stuart Mill
There are several states where highway miles markers have 68.9 instead of 69 for the same reason. My city took the measured and reasonable action and welded all the interesting signs right to the post, so if you want one you've got to go out there with an angle grinder and draw a lot of attention to yourself. It's not 100%, but the only ones that seem to get stolen now are rural side roads, and some just never get replaced.
So, when me and my wife were driving out to the city where we had our wedding on a planning trip last year, I noticed something odd - a milage marker for mile 405.99... The reason became pretty apparent - Montana has a single area code - 406 - and it's become a bit of a cultural marker. So the 406 milage marker was probably a ripe target for theft, so the DOT just replaced it with one that wasn't as attractive. I've heard of 419.99... markers for the same reason.
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Sandwich
But now they've reversed it due to constant theft.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
God so loved the world that it is totally chill to steal this sign?
It's also the area code for the Wichita area.
Edit: Also, how were area codes assigned? 316 is in Kansas? 315 is the middle of New York!
More like
I may or may not have had one in my dorm for that reason.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
One explanation I've heard, probably apocryphal, is that the lower the numbers in your area code the more important your locality was circa 1965 or whenever they initially set them up. The reasoning being, the lower the numbers the quicker you could dial them on a rotary phone. So NYC got 212, LA got 213, etc etc.
Apparently, a hump is like a bump but different enough to necessitate a different warning.
So, I have this link for some reason:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbering_plan
Turns out they similar area codes were intentionally spread out to be not adjacent.
Also likely but not my mental image of Kansas.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
It's not apocryphal, that's exactly how the original codes were assigned (with NY, the most active telephone area, getting the easiest code to dial in the system.) Of course, with the advent of touch tone dialing, number location no longer mattered, which is why as new area codes were added to major areas, they had higher numbers.
Well then good on Doug Coupland for teaching me something.
Is a subdivision here where you can be on the corner of Starlight and Moonbeam.
Always expect to see hippies there, never do
Now there's a line that promises a disturbing Choose Your Own Perversion Fueled Adventure.
https://www.trafficsafetystore.com/resources/choosing-speed-bumps-humps
I like to imagine the sign would get knocked over, then put back up after a couple of days, only to mysteriously disappear 40 days later.
I've never been tempted to steal any of the signs, but I have been tempted to just buy my own.
I haven't cause that's always seemed like a trap, but as I understand it there is nothing illegal about buying a road sign as long as you don't put it up on public property as if it were a legal road sign.
I feel like I should be looking for the description of "speed hump" on page 123 or 312....(or even 213, in a potentially nightmarish chapter involving high coefficients of friction).
- John Stuart Mill
To be clear, it was the same language with the same vocalized letters, you just had 2 different ways of writing most letters (some were same). And most people's preference cane down to which side of that east/west split their ancestors came down.
Then during the 1990s Balkan wars, these sides didn't like each other much anymore. After a U.S. arranged peace accord, the dislike persists but it's not violent. Instead, it's passive aggressive bs. For example, grade schools don't teach the "other" alphabet any more. However, the road signs are still printed in both languages. So petty vandalism is not stealing signs, but spray paint crossing out the "wrong" script. The municipalities are generally poor, so these signs then sit like that for years and years.
Example:
http://www.sodalive.ba/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/putokaz2.jpg
And it won because... It promises a nightmarish exploration of the arbitrarality (is that a word? I think that's a word) of English grammar. Not because... You know, literally everything else.
Some days, you guys make me want to cry
Name one province in Bosnia (without Googling it), go ahead, I'll wait.
Bosnia?
Herzegovina?