TUESDAY #3862

One Of My Very Own

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EMAIL: 
ralh.henry.at.folio.olio@gmail.com

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INFORMATION ACQUISITION

Actress Bessie Love 1915

A hundred years ago and beautiful by modern standards. One could assume that a thousand years ago there were beauties like that walking about.
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African leaders to launch a landmark 55-nation trade zone: It took African countries four years to agree to a free-trade deal in March. The trade zone would unite 1.3 billion people, create a $3.4 trillion economic bloc and usher in a new era of development

https://www.dw.com/en/african-leaders-launch-landmark-55-nation-trade-zone/a-49503393
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Hardcore paintball.

5.56 simunition used in the Army for training and they sure as shit hurt more than paintballs.
As I understand it each is an individual compressed air cartridge with a chalk power projectile. One article said it was effective up to 100 yards.
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You might want to enlarge this. I found it fascinating.

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The chicken crossed the road for the same reason everyone else does— to avoid running into someone it knew.

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She should be grounded.
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"grounded"
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OBJECTS OF INTEREST

I would have never posted that except it's plugged in. Why is it plugged in?
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Fake woodgrain always disappointed me.

I hate fake wood. 
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Box puncher

I would have never posted that except for the punchline: Sounds like men on their honeymoons.

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See anything odd?

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The peas are upside down.
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These titties found in a Where’s Waldo.

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This guy took dozens of photos and cut them out to make this animation. 
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The guy is going places...

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 This is great unless the burglar is thirsty.

 https://i.imgur.com/jahUxdP.mp4
The liquid in the lid is extraordinarily clever.
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Wow!

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New Farming Simulator.

 https://i.imgur.com/kPsMxHF.mp4
I don't know why they call it a simulator, but it is extremely versatile.
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This man went fishing and caught something truly amazing.

https://i.imgur.com/2yGmf2d.mp4

His expression is priceless.

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We should have burned social media to the ground when they started helping us reconnect with old friends.

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ADVICE YOU CAN TAKE OR LEAVE

WW2 propaganda poster.

During a total war, it is the duty of the government to teach you to passionately hate the enemy. Hate makes rationing tolerable.  Hate makes sacrificing your sons worth it. 
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Ace Hardware is now in the home defence business.

A lawyer will tell you that if you keep a bat in your car for protection then you would be wise to also keep a glove. Think about it. 
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My mother used to IRON my father's boxer underwear!
As an adult, I deduced that I only wore underwear to keep stains off my pants. Now that I use wet wipes I no longer wear underwear and have never felt freer in my life.
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I'm a real fan of #6.
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 You should remember that he went through a phase where nobody could look at him or even say his name. Silly, silly fellow.
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I couldn't agree more. 
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A young woman told me about eating lunch with her grandfather every day. He had Alzheimer's and seldom recognized her, but the few times he did made it all worthwhile.
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https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/health/how-to-use-a-public-toilet-without-sitting-on-it-20190709187275
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WAITER: Whaddaya have?

DADDY: Go ahead son, tell the nice man what you want to eat.

TODDLER: *extreme Slingblade voice* 

You got any o’them french-fried puhtaters? mmhmm.

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THE INTERNET:
TROLLS, HOAXES, AND GOOD CLEAN FUN

What to believe? Assumptions must be made, but sometimes I get it wrong. I normally trust dash cams.

I also trust security camera...most of the time.

We live in a time where internet meme stars are real stars.

I mean, who could forget this guy?


But now people try to turn themselves into memes by doing the most idiotic shit and posting footage of it online.

 Given their own stupidity of putting this on social media, it shouldn’t take too long.

This is the image that prodded me to write this section.
It was stated that this was a scan of a man's body.

 When I found it I scrolled down to the comments and many people pointed out that it was, in fact, not a scan but a composite image with the skeleton added. Scopes confirmed it.

But so what? I didn't want to use the image in a medical journal. I wanted to use it in a discussion of obesity, so I forgive such manipulation.

Here's another that is most probably fake, but again, who cares?

This is not presented as crime scene evidence. Its purpose is to generate smiles.


Same for this one...I don't CARE if it is staged it still made me smile...

I believe almost none of the thing like this:

This is the very first comment left for that story: 
"What a coincidence. My dad died at the bottom of a cliff in a freak grenade accident in 1997."
I suspect he wrote the story just to be able to add the gag.

But many people are not as discerning.
I give it 24 hours before some idiot on my facebook feed shares this thinking it's real.

And now the line between truth and make-believe will be almost impossible to detect.

 The Shining (1980) - Jim Carrey Deepfake
This is very unsettling how accurate this is.

https://i.imgur.com/XlYuTuc.mp4

Sometimes, of course, creating new images is done for social good.
Remember this cop calling racist bitch?

So after all that, you try to decide if this next one is true or false.

Here was the caption:
"We run a small used car dealership here in Fort Myers. We came into work, we were shocked to see a huge dent in the roof of a 2016 luxury sedan. We looked at the video from the security cameras to see if they held the answer to that crazy dent. There we saw that at 4:00 a.m. that morning, something fell from the roof of the building and hit the car, it was a person!"

I call bullshit on one piece of evidence alone. Security cameras don't move. That security camera not only moves but it follows the guy as he slides off the car.

But in my opinion, the greatest danger of the internet is that no matter how illogical your belief is, you can find other people online who agree with you.

Think flat-earthers. Their numbers could never have grown thirty years ago when your audience was like 30 people. Now you can easily reach 30 million. 
The same goes for anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers, moon landing debunkers, UFO enthusiasts, chem-trails, and all the other kooky ideas. Online ANY idea can find validation.
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I accidentally texted my wife “last dinner” instead of “late dinner” and now she won’t come home.

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Take is so very true. But most forget that you are showing your children how a married couple interacts.
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PLACES OF INTEREST

 Fuck spotting the guy behind the walk who keeps adding shampoo, what about the motherfucker filming in the shower?!
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I don't know what is in that ore but whatever it is it has to pay for that kind of extraction. 
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There's a leak in the DC metro.

One guy said, "The whole god damn DMV is flooding right now. I just saw people are being flood rescued from their cars on the friggin' beltway." 
(that was two weeks ago)
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This guy was remodeling his house and behind every wall were dozens of bottles of liquor.

Don't you just know the guy who put them there was a funny dude?

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Want to guess what is about to happen. I can almost guarantee you will get it wrong.

 https://i.imgur.com/WsOZTjr.mp4
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A river of river rocks.

https://i.imgur.com/bbADoSK.mp4

I spotted two Hearts of Stone as they passed by. You can see one at the lower right above.
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The most fun I ever to have been seen over a garbage can.

 

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 *handing nurse a bedpan*

Me: I pooped in this.

Nurse: I have told you over and over that you're not a patient here.

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LAST LAUGHS

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This teacher has no chill

https://i.imgur.com/EARopZe.mp4
I found his enthusiasm hilarious, but that might be because a friend of mine is a chemistry professor and grades his students' exams in the bar. He likes to entertain the patrons with the stupidest answers he comes across. 
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There are two extremes of feminine hygiene...

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 It's not technically stealing...right?

Speaking of coats...
Dad warming his son during a soccer match.

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