FOLIO OLIO: THURSDAY #3485

One Of My Very Own

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NEWSY BITS

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That's because the Scots hate the English as much as the Irish.

So, when Croatia won my bar exploded. No one person wanted England to win.

And now I have one dog in the fight. Remember that I predicted a team would win that has never won before. That would be Croatia.

Their fans make for a good Where's Waldo.

THINGS I HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE

I never knew that The Sphinx had a physical tail. Did any of you?

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I've cooked a lot of whole hogs, but I never cooked one this way.

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Care to guess what this is?

If you said brown Christmas Tree bulb, get off my blog.

Well, I never knew that kelp or seaweed or whatever the hell it is had flotation pods.

And I think they are adorable.

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Lavaberg breaks in half.

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Don't you just love people who think?

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How not to get stung by a Sting Ray prior to devouring it...

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Just what we need...yet another game.

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The Rock hasn't released a movie in two weeks. I hope he's okay.

THINGS THAT I NEVER WANT TO SEE AGAIN

I wrote this post on the night news broke of another mass shooting of innocent people, this time at a newspaper.

I'm getting really tired of crazy people fucking with normal people.

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Welcome to Earth where we flush our toxic waste away with the most precious, most essential liquid on the planet.

Brown water, goddamnit! Why isn't anyone listening to me?

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A man beats a murdered student strung up like a pinata during the Thammasat University massacre in Bangkok, Thailand in 1976.

There is an interesting dynamic afoot when normal people are in a mob. They do things they would never do alone.

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Captain Nieves Fernandez, the only female guerilla leader in the Philippines during WWII, demonstrates to a fellow soldier in 1962 how during WWII she would cut off the heads of Japanese soldiers she killed. The former school teacher is said to have killed up to 200 Japanese soldiers.

And her are children play with damaged or discarded weapons left by their home when the Germans retreated in France in 1944.

Yeah, well I for one am sick and fucking tired of endless warfare.

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Thumbs up was the signal he just finished organizing his tools.

I'm thinking EVERY car should have one of those devices that applies the brakes when it senses you are going to run into something.

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I never want to see that cartoon again.

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The most dangerous people I know are the ones who have convinced themselves that salads are fun and delicious.

YET ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT HUMOR

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I’ll have a Casting Couch Club Sandwich and an order of Fetish Fries.

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That time my wife asked if I used her brand new computer to jerk off.

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Never ask an artist why.

Absurd? Sure. But what's wrong with exploring the absurd?

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Including my wife and kids, the best thing to happen in my life is the “skip intro” option on Netflix.

EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE

Why that image? Looks a little childish to me.

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Men working in mid-air maintaining electricity cables.

At least they are tethered.

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Firefighter saves a suicidal woman's life.

And he's not even tethered.

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Baby gets to hear her mother for the first time.

I have shown you numerous clips of such things and I will never tire of them. But this one deserves a comment about him never making that face before.

I'm going to assume that the child's expression is just mimicked on his mother's face. She wants to cry for joy so badly but doesn't want to confuse the child.

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My idea of getting a summer tan is turning up my laptop brightness.

Murdering bastards.

AMAZING CONTRAPTIONS

The way the parachute expands on deployment.

You need to watch until the very end.

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If you want me to keep blogging, then don't buy me one of those cause I wouldn't put it down.

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I wonder how often he has to do that.

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No. This was not sped up.

That's what happens when you put a 1300cc Hyabusa engine in a jetski.

Did you notice how he positioned his legs to absorb the shock of acceleration?

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This must come in very handy in places like Alaska.

And looking at the terrain I'm guessing that is exactly where they are.

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Families who kiss each other on the lips creep me out.

WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?

A black man in blackface preparing for a medicine show using dolls in Huntingdon, Tennessee, in 1935.

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And they accuse the US of Imperialism. We don't occupy anybody that hasn't asked us to stay. Think Granada, Panama, Iraq, etc. Russia "owns" the Crimea and there is nothing the world can do to set things right...except to maybe arming Ukraine to the teeth.

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