Milo and POTUS posted:

Where's this a dump?

Outrail posted:

How many people inject lead pellets into their puckins to cheat the weigh in?

Weka posted:

This all just sounds like an American version of a market.


Edit: /\
New tfr thread idea: what shotgun rounds can I buy to increase the weight of my pukins?

Dear Watson posted:

As I said before I hadn’t ever been to a state fair until I was about 29. It blew my mind. I try to go every year now, except this last one with COVID and all. They still had it though

For those out of the country, there is always a giant sculpture made out of butter.

Here’s an example I found from google from the Iowa state fair in 2016




Life size butter Star Trek

Casu Marzu posted:

gently caress yeah this is a good thread. Here's some random poo poo I've run into traveling around WI





Fonz statue in Milwaukee

Odd posted:

i've been all around the country and at different chinese places they have been called dumplings, pot stickers, peking ravioli and i think there was a 4th but i can't remember

Bonzo posted:

I used to do consulting work for an oil/gas/petrochemical tech company. Nearly every refinery or chemical manufacturing facility was in the middle of nowhere, because the land was cheap, the local government would give tax breaks (*cough* *cough* kick backs), and offer plenty of unskilled, low paying jobs in a town where there are none. Usually places where a major factory shut down decades earlier.

These facilities are often a ticking time bomb for the local environment as just one chemical spill could pollute the water table for generations. Not to mention the pollution from processing.

Hasturtium posted:

It's not just oil and gas... Years ago I was an environmental scientist working for a consulting firm. One of our clients was a Fortune 500 company that had purchased several industrial dry cleaners on its path to success, and I know of two different significant perchloroethylene contaminant plumes emanating from underground storage tanks. One of them - somewhere on the outskirts of Odessa, Texas - was over a mile in length, going beneath a major freeway and popping up at the other end of a power plant. The remediation's expensive and takes years. I can only wonder if it was properly handled, now.

Hasturtium posted:

Oh, God. LNAPL (light non-aqueous phase liquid) at least is polite enough to float. DNAPL (dense NAPL) sinks, like you say, and perc readily degrades into a host of daughter products with their own health issues and remediation requirements. One of the "fun" parts of that job was that the contamination affected an aquifer solely used for industrial purposes, but that was separated from a drinking water aquifer by a fractured sandstone. After a few years the perc found a path. So much paperwork, so much communication with the state.

On a lighter note, a site in East Texas was entirely preventable. It was a medical supply manufacturer that followed good, stringent guidelines... but the cleaning staff used a dilute chlorinated solvent in the mop water, and at the end of every day, for more than a decade, they just took the mop water and dumped it out behind the property. People will always find ways to surprise you.

Animal-Mother posted:

Hypothetically, if a veteran of the Civil War tried to enter a VFW hall, would he be turned away on account of being a filthy domestic war veteran?

Big Beef City posted:

I'm american.
No one in America should be doing this lol.

Pug Rodeo posted:

Pennywise the Frown posted:

I really have to see that sub. I love submarines. I just bought the book Das Boot.

Big Beef City posted:

As an American I'm not educated enough to know what that is is it behind the Perkins

Tip posted:

Seems more like a question for Japanese Pizza Hut to answer.

Behold the "Authentic American Hotdog Hamburger Pizza:


Oh God it's so beautiful

Palpek posted:

manero posted:

Nightmare fuel

AKZ posted:

Hahah that loving thing is wrapped in an american flag!

AKZ posted:

If I had any photoshop skills that hotdog would have a punisher skull, thin blue line, and trucknuts hanging off of it.

CPL593H posted:

I never understood why burning a flag as an act of protest or whatever is bad but then they also "retire" a flag by burning it. Either you can burn the loving thing or not.

The Bloop posted:

Not defending flag worship weirdness here but surely you are aware of the concept of context?

There are many, many actions that are extremely bad and wrong in some circumstances that are good and virtuous in others from crossing the street to killing another human being

Chrpno posted:

Hang on, are we still talking about American flags, or America in general?

The Bloop posted:

Thanksgiving dot jpg

Aardvark! posted:

i figured thanksgiving being an American holiday and all...

CPL593H posted:

We're all gay down here.

HugeGrossBurrito posted:

gently caress you drat Americans and your bad food anywhere here’s the traditional urine soaked fermented owl organs of my European homeland it is traditionally best enjoyed while wearing blackface.

HugeGrossBurrito posted:

Turing on your fellow Americans while no one even addresses the European posting their weird rear end shell soup, shameful

BastardAus posted:

Jesus gently caress you all have some problems compared to my small catholic primary (k-6) school in Sydney, Australia whereby our idea of fun was to play Teammates! Pretty simple, divide up the teams (boys AND girls, we were progressive in 1982), then proceed to keep the one tennis ball away from the other team for the whole 30 minutes of lunchtime. In the end it became so violent, probably because some of the girls were getting whacked as hard as the boys), it was banned.
So the boys went back to not letting the girls play cricket in the nets specifically for cricket (cricket was very mysogynist then) and all was out of whack(ed) again.
I'm sure the boys (especially me) liked being physical with the girls, and vice versa. It just was not the done thing in the early 80's.
EDIT: Oops Australiana

Szyznyk posted:

I don’t think we’re allowed to post the real name of that game anymore.

uber_stoat posted:

smear the <fill in the blank>.

Deki posted:

That Eagle is not abiding by the Flag code

Oyak posted:

Sounds like "Butts Up." Or, if your parents didn't let you say the word butt, you called it "Bunkys Up." Was it homophobic? I don't know, you basically had to stick your butt out while placing your hands against a wall, and then people would stare at your butt and throw balls as hard as they could at your butt. More like barely suppressed gayness, really.

Pennywise the Frown posted:

I just spent 4 or so days in a VA hospital and all of the meals came with an orange slice.

I ate it.

Gutter Phoenix posted:

I don't know who this is or why they are wearing a barrel, but it reminded me of this Americana:

Accretionist posted:

Oh hey, I just saw a skit about that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02S8t0F1inc&t=241s

CPL593H posted:

These last few years everyone won't stop talking about rimming. Is this just a meme or is it a way more common sexual practice than I ever though and talking about it is much less taboo now?