Yes I have more scintillating and titillating YouTubes for you.
Atik Family – Turkish couple goes glamping with the most outrageously luxurious equipment, usually in north-central Turkey, but this one was in the wild wild southeast part of the country. Subtitles in English.
Dale Charman Travels – London Tube train driver, with occasional travels. But it’s his narrated POV train rides that are the real gems.
Shawn Willsey – Idaho-based geology professor talks about rocks and volcanoes. He has had excellent videos and livestreams around the Iceland eruptions. Also does a series called “random road cuts”.
Stig Aviation – LA-based aircraft mechanic does walkthroughs and ridealongs during his maintenance shifts at LAX. Lots of details about the inner workings of aircraft – including the shitters.
Truck House Life – Timmy travels around Alaska in his hand-built truck house, complete with wood-burning stove and back porch. This video was his first attempt at driving from Anchorage to Prudhoe Bay in late December.
Mentioning Timmy and Turkey in the same post? I thought we were family friendly…
The crack in the windshield is driving me nuts.
Turkey is beautiful – don’t think I’d gambol through the hinterlands because it’s full of Turks.
Edward Longshanks nods sagely
I want to see that thing in the wind tunnel.
I am unimpressed with their plastic “tent”. Who wants to camp in a bouncy house?
Real campers use canvas. 😉
https://www.tentsmiths.com/product/square-marquee/
Real campers use brick
That would be homesteading.
Hmm, I didn’t realize I was camping when I would hike during the day and then sleep in a hotel room.
You didn’t build the hotel room.
Ok good, because camping sucks too. I’d rather eat salt and vinegar chips.
I’d rather eat salt and vinegar chips.
My friend years ago used to work for a snack company that made potato chips, pretzels, etc. They used to call salt and vinegar chips “douche chips”.
What was wrong with him?
It wasn’t just him, people in the company called them that.
That’s terribly rude.
I hope they’ve realized the error of their preconceptions since then.
WTF/UCS:
I would guess it’s based on the old vinegar and water douche commercials that used to air (maybe still do, I don’t know), rather than a new snack flavor advertised on Robot Chicken (that I unfortunately can’t find).
Real campers use spawn points and ambushes.
“Real campers use spawn points and ambushes.”
*golf clap*
Thanks KK, I have a personal interest in AK but all my travels were in the summer. I’ll watch the truck house guy after lunch.
After our first visit I said I wished I was 35 years old, my wife said I was crazy. Maybe…
I’d settle for 40. I think that was my prime. It’s been downhill ever since.
Things were still pretty good at 50. The long, downhill slide started in the late 50s.
I recently read this excellent book.
It made me realize that I am emphatically not Alaska material.
My only comment after watching the trip was that it seemed that he was going a lot faster on the snow packed roads than I would have. Looked like 30 MPH roads to me and it appeared he was going faster than that.
Turkish couple goes glamping with the most outrageously luxurious equipment – turks… someone should impale the fuckers
Of course. you would say that. I cant disagree.
On brand.
Timmy travels around Alaska in his hand-built truck house
salty and vinegar chips? gross.
Salt and vinegar chips are awesome.
Salt and vinegar is a very overrated chip. Barely edible.
A box of Cheez-It, ON SALE, for $5.49. *faints*
salt and vinegar is awesome.
They suck, but I do like the Carolina BBQ Utz which does deliver a bit of vinegar.
BBQ chips? Now you go to far sir.
I still miss the local chip maker at the neighborhood farmer’s market who for a while made some unsalted chips. They were fried nice and brown, a little thicker than average, and tasted potatoey and wonderful! 😋
Later, the vendor got bigger and all the chips got too salty. And now they’re out of business. 😢
GT:
Trader Joe’s occasionally has some unsalted chips, an old acquaintance of mine was so happy to hear about them because one of his kids had to be on a very sodium restricted diet.
Camping in a bounce house is a new one.
Thanks for the geology one! I’ll definitely be spending time with that one.
Timmy is insane. That is all.
Real campers use
canvasbuffalo hides.Also acceptable
aka Canvass
This one just got algorythmed to me, didn’t watch the whole thing yet, but it seems to fit a KK article: Helihome: The Insane 1970’s Flying Camper
Glad you linked that here — I saw it at the tail of the morning links just now before moving here and it is an interesting watch. Better fits KK’s theme (on both fronts).
The existential conundrum of liberalism
How the owner of Bliss chooses to run his business is, of course, his prerogative, Barounis and others in the hospitality industry say. But the conversation around the restaurant’s unconventional age policy raises some interesting questions: To what extent can businesses dictate who their customers are? And to what extent should they?
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However objectionable some patrons find these age restrictions, such policies don’t generally constitute age discrimination, says Trey Lindley, a civil litigator in North Carolina with the business law firm Lord & Lindley.
Businesses generally have the right to set their own guidelines for service, as long as it isn’t on the basis of federally protected categories such as race, religion, national origin or disability, according to Lindley. Think of the “no shirts, no shoes, no service” signs that proliferated in the early 1970s or Covid-era mask mandates.
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
I shared it a while back, but there was one Columbus bar that banned people under a certain age (from memory, I want to say 35) from their bars on weekends.
When I was around 13 or so, the local news ran a story on a hairdresser that wouldn’t style old women’s hair.
They sent in an old woman with an undercover camera and she got him on tape admitting this was his policy.
The news station was very proud to report that the government fined him and now he was styling old women’s hair.
I remember thinking at the time that it was his hair salon, can’t he run it the way he wants?
Also, why would anybody want to get their hair cut by someone that was forced to do it?
I guess I was libertarian before I knew any of the concepts.
Bake the cake bigot.
Freedom of Association is bad and indicates something that end in ism.
https://youtu.be/WlKr-yg-y5I
What, do they hire biologists to work the front door?
“How the owner of Bliss chooses to run his business is, of course, his prerogative”
In what alternate reality?
Two questions come to mind. 1. Why? and 2. Who cares?
The Turkey one looks cool. I may have posted this channel before, but it’s worth a check.
https://www.youtube.com/@AbandonedandForgottenPlaces
Some old coot explores abandoned mines and such in Nevada and elsewhere. I don’t know how he’s still alive.
what do palm trees and caves have in common?
Wasps. Hornets. Every single damned one of them.
Salt and vinegar chips are awesome.
Malt vinegar on french fries. Yum.
Yes. Hot sauce on fried fish, vinegar on the fries and hushpuppies.
Blech. I reject vinegar in all its forms, with all its empty promises.
(No offense to the rest of y’all… I’m just not that fond of sour in general and vinegar in particular. Balsamic dishes make me gag, I can’t stand the “Carolina style” ‘vinegar + red pepper flakes’ claim of ‘sauce’, oil and vinegar salad dressing, the aforementioned chips, etc.)
I just cut off some ribs last night and had chopped pork w/ sauce. Damn fine eating.
More shrubs for me (three batches in the fridge right now, two mulberry and one strawberry).
I ordered two All-Clad pans to do some test dishes for the cookbook half of Price Arvid’s Road Trip, I didn’t realize how small 1quart or 1/2 quart really was. (The 1 quart mini-casserole pan is about six inches across, the 1/2 qt saucepan is about 4 across.)
Thankfully this actually works in my favor, as it makes the maximum serving size small. Plus the little saucepan isn’t handle-heavy like so many cheap pans.
What is it with handle-heavy kitchen stuff? I refuse to use a knife that, when placed on a plate to rest falls off onto the floor.
Do the people who design this stuff actually use any of it?
For a lot of the products, I doubt it.
lately youtube shorts are full of this guy called yoinkman by fans. he yonks reptiles in Florida, Australia, south America etc
https://www.youtube.com/@fishingarrett
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ibf2rPJjKp4
The “Shorts” format is unwatchable.
just got a youtube short about a woman reviewing clothes not suitable for her chest. I don’t know why.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cLyISfhrS1Y
We’ve seen what you post in the AM links.
Making the Black Mead of Medieval France – Bochet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTRwIf2apWc
I watch that guy, he’s pretty good.
I made Parthian Chicken and it was really good, but I never made it again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LynenQ5h2Y
Then I made Deviled Bones (an old spicy chicken wing recipe). It was so good, I have made it many times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCtTdbdg9C4
Yes he’s on my playlist too.
I have a pretty good idea where his politics are, but he plays the history straight (no pun intended) which I appreciate and assume helps him keep an audience.
An acquaintance of mine just entered his first homebrew comp with his home made bochet. A local meadery (no longer in business) had one in their rotation that was damned tasty.
A pretty decent video.
Most mead making videos are pretty horrible.
Random observation-
I was reading a thing about the SC “We totally weren’t censoring social media, we just asked it it was a good idea to allow gullible dupes to be exposed to all those pernicious lies and anti-science nonsense” ruling.
The same people who eagerly bring up “power disparities” at virtually every opportunity are strangely quiet in the context of government regulated social media platforms.
The goal isn’t philosophical consistency, the goal is domination. The rhetorical devices used are just a vehicle to that end.
Power disparities is another good framing of this. A government agency can determine that what I say is “disinformation” and censor me, or even have me removed from social media. Can I do the same thing to a government official? “Hey Facebook, Biden is clearly lying, can you take down that post?”
You could if you worked for Twitter until a year or so ago.
Prog answer is there are elections and means of removal for cause.
We all know that is BS in most places, however.
Passed my last written CDL test today. Now I wait til mid July to get a Department of Transportation physical. I don’t need the bus driver job and won’t be able to do it in the fall. Maybe they’ll let me do the training anyway. I was thinking I could just get the training and quit when my teaching job starts.
The Old Forge in Scotland, the most remote pub in the world, offers free beer to anyone who makes it there. It requires a 15-mile hike, unless you want to swim or paddle there.
A real transformer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhG3106L8jI
Putin and Xi make pancakes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5qZoT6bbJo
Drive your class to school as part of your commute, win/win.
Remember when I suggested they might pre-record video of Biden’s answers for tonight? They just announced there will be a 1-2 minute delay…
https://x.com/catturd2/status/1806387379000967366
When interests align, there is no need for conspiracy.
For honest coverage, watch the news from other countries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82LI1pTtOsc
The fix is in.
They’re up to something. It may not be pre-recorded Biden, but you don’t add all these bizarre restrictions for no reason.
Have the candidates wear a silly pin of the other’s choosing prior to the debate.
https://www.teepublic.com/pin/22518964-im-wih-stupid
Have them wear a pin that is an LCD clock with date. With each side providing it in person on camera to the other at the start of the debate.
(Never happen)
Make the candidate hold up a copy of today’s NYT evening edition, so I know they are still alive.
Well, at least now we know his reboot cycle timing.
Trump better bring his own film crew.
Agreed. Even if the people he brings witness some shenanigans, CNN, the Dems, and the press in the other room will say they’re crazy nuts spreading disinformation.
How hard would it be for him to record it directly with a small USB camera or pocket pen, etc? It sounds all paranoid and spy like, but if I was his campaign, I would make a formal demand that they be allowed to directly film, and when that is refused, make sure he or whatever staff is present records in the open with a phone or more subtle device.
We’ve already been primed about “cheap fakes”, so any recording would be dismissed as such.
Well, CNN has just altered the deal, which opens the door for Trump to alter it even further.
Bring a single camera, say you will put it somewhere where it captures both candidates without having to move at all from a static position, promise not to broadcast it and only use “reasonable use” clips.
Announce you are doing it to provide an independent archive of the event, one that can be used to refute the conspiracy nutters who will claim there have been shenanigans due to CNN announcing the delay at the last minute.
If they refuse, point out that there is no reason for them to do so unless shenanigans are, in fact, being planned, and that you will not participate in such an obviously flawed process. While you are willing to face off against the President and the pro-Biden moderators, a debate that allows for alterations of the video and leaves the video solely in the hands of CNN is not one that can be trusted, and the American people deserve better.
The American people are getting exactly what they voted for.
Trump: “Joe, I challenge you to a drug test. Here’s 4 urine bottles. I’m gonna pee in these 2 here (…does so, whipping casually back and forth between them…). Here’s yours. Go for it dude. OK, now I’m gonna sign these in Sharpie and hand them to the moderator…”
They aren’t even letting in the White House press corps.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/whoa-white-house-press-corps-forced-watch-feed/
That for some reason gives me the wild thought of a deep fake video prepared of Trump assassinating Biden on “live” TV. Two birds. One stone.
If I were Trumps team, he would definitely be wearing a concealed camera and recording devices. Maybe The Hair can hold it for him.
Yeah if I’m Trump and this wasn’t in the original terms I just bring in my own cameras. And openly talk about this 1-min delay right in the middle of the debate, reminding everyone that the whole thing is fixed.
And (not that I really pay attention to where Brandon is on a normal day), but it’s my impression he’s been silent and shut-in the last few days, even moreso than usual. Trying to get him on a sleep schedule where he appears more coherent that late at night? Practice runs with extra drugs, etc.?
Supposedly, Biden has been head down prepping for the “debate”. In honesty, I don’t think there’s been a real presidential debate in my lifetime, just joint press conferences with spin and talking points.
1858 was probably the last time public debate between politicians was of any interest to anyone.
It seems to be by completely rigging the debate the D’s have already lost. There is no need to actually have the debate.
Yeah – somebody will be sitting on a dump button like an old shock jock show. When things look bad for Joe, they’ll hit the button.
On the old Opie and Anthony show, music would start playing they used up all the dump time.
Maybe Trump will try to get them to use up their delay time? He could be late or curse up a storm for a minute to eat up the lag.
I saw an online dating profile where a lesbian couple was seeking a sperm donor. I was tempted to reply, though after some reflection, I don’t like the idea of fathering a child who gets raised by someone else.
The genetic chauvinist in me wants offspring. Not sure if I’m cut out for marriage, but I’m not against it. Few things in my life have been traditional or conventional.
I would worry about the ideas the complete strangers would put in the child’s head.
I hadn’t even thought of that. It’s a good argument against being a sperm donor.
Through the years I have had a number of women ask me to father children without obligation. I have declined every time.
The risk of getting strung up for child support, regardless of if they pinky-swear they won’t do it, is way too high.
The counselor gets it.
Lipstick or plaid?
Kenya blinked.
Kenya’s Tax U-Turn Highlights Political Realities of Africa’s High Debt Burden
O’bumbles style I am sure…spending cuts on the pettiest of things that hurt people the most.
They just announced there will be a 1-2 minute delay…
They don’t want to risk Joe’s canned answers getting played out of sequence.
This debate is on par with the socialist’s last line of defense – dont believe your lying eyes. They are completely ignoring that everyone knows, that the whole thing is completely rigged.
I think what we are seeing is the death of the Democratic Party as they disappear up their own ass.
And proceed to win the House, Presidency and half the governorships.
Yeah, their losses always look like wins to me.
Abandoned NSA base in Germany: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLK7uPB-xaM
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During the NSA operations some other curious things happened: It was noticed that during certain seasons the reception of radio signals was better than during the rest of the year. The ‘culprit’ was found after a while: it was the Ferris wheel of the annual German-American Volksfest Festival on the Hüttenweg in Zehlendorf.[10] From then on, the Ferris wheel was left standing for some time after the festival was over.
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When I joined up, Bad Abling Station was the posting to get. I got the opposite as my first station, Fort Hood, initially and a few weeks before graduation, Field Station Korea.
Huh. There’s an Arctic Circle about 60 miles from me too.
Goddamn kids these days with their saltnvinegar chips and smelly pot smoke and YouTubeShorts.
Ok, no, that last one really is shit.
If I want to see shortform vapid and shallow content I’ll go to Tik Tok.
What am I, chopped liver?
Found footage of Biden’s debate practice
https://youtu.be/9v-33jcEDk4
STEVE SMITH BOOK TRIP TO ASIA MINOR
a decent Trump ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71h7cUkAuTw