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Random imagery
This is where
all the stuff that didn't really fit anywhere ended up...
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Whilst
this isn't technically weird or amusing in the original sense
of the word, I find it amazing that IBM can make a hard drive
that's THIS tiny! Maximum respect!
This image
is © IBM
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Does
this remind you of anyone you know (please don't say me - I'm not
THAT bad (although it might explain why I can't see very well....)
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Here's
a steamy orgie involving mixed race, one-on-one hardcore XXX action
and group hugs...
Jelly,
baby!
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This was
our bathroom in StudentVille; we'd repeatedly told the landlord
about the problem with the leaking roof, but he obviously didn't
give a damn.
Just goes
to show that if you put off repairing something - it comes back
to bite you in the butt; the landlord had to fork out four times
what it would have originally cost to repair when the roof finally
went! HAH!
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Ali G is
goin' space cadet stylee innit? 'Cos he is global, innit?
©
Christian Russell 2000
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Transport crisis
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A kind message from BP, seen during the fuel strike...
Incidentally,
Nathan at work actually saw one of these recently, and turned
his car round and went back, just to ensure he wasn't dreaming!
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...and if you thought the trains and roads in Britain were overcrowded,
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Now this
one was cool...
Think this
is a new car?
It is -
NOT!
This was
Dad's Astra Belmont; we noticed that the event was getting close,
we stopped and I took this. Yeah, alright, it's probably sad.
But I liked it ;)
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The best
place for
the car is right here; intricate rusting sculptures piled precariously,
waiting to become a scene in Scooby Doo or something.
Let's face
it - you wouldn't be able to get a spare gearbox from that silver
Volvo near the bottom....
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Saturday
afternoon; a woman wanted to go shopping at Galeries Lafayette in
Paris. Finding it difficult to park in the busy streets adjacent
to the shop, she decided to make for the underground car-park. Unfortunately,
the 'car-park' was mistaken for the entrance to the metro. Unbelievably,
she wasn't even fined, but at least no-one was injured.
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Who gave
this donut their licence? I can't believe some people. ;)
Perhaps
they were trying to beat the fuel crisis or something...
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This
image tickled my fancy; it's pretty accurate too. In the early days
of micro computers, people had to code in binary, using switches,
just to get the darned things to read off of tape!
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And here's some very naughty Technic
(or should that be technique?) Lego men...
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OK, so
this isn't bizarre or strange, but I wanted to put this on to
prove that even partially sighted people can do art.
I know
one of the hands is a bit ropey and the perspective could be improved,
but this is pretty much the only bit of art I've ever done that
I'm proud of, barring a clay duck that my art teacher broke!
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This is
Paul - you'll have seen him on the Mates
page - sitting on an unfeasibly big speaker.
We had
to do a Final Year project for Uni, and most of these involved
too much math. We weren't the best at math, so when we saw 'Speaker
Cabinet Modeling and Design' we couldn't resist.
This speaker
was AWESOME - 100 litre cabinet, a piffling little 7 inch drive
unit, but bass down to 10Hz and lower!!!! YEAH!!!
My Sony
speaker behind wasn't exactly the smallest one on earth either...
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Boys come
out to play
on the busy motorway...
Leon and
I decided to put on our best 'we hard' pose, and failed miserably!
Note the lovely shell suit (it was 1992!) and the grins
on our faces - like real hard men would be smirking! Oh well...
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If you thought
the British railway network was in need of maintenance....
In the aftermath
of the Kings Cross Underground fire of 1987, it was deemed that all
combustible materials should be removed from Underground stations -
including the infamous wooden escalators, one of which contributed largely
to that fire.
Well, all Brits
know the Underground is strapped for cash, and proof of this is this
pair of 1939 standard issue wooden escalators on the Central Line lower
platforms at Notting Hill Gate!
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| Cheers Harry
for the loan of your digicam - apologies to everyone else for being
an escalator spotter..... |
Here are some
non-modernised ones seen at Earls Court in 1994 - at the Live '94
Exhibition. I expect these have been ripped out by now though - note
the wooden risers and side panels. These are apparently identical to
the ones pre-fire at Kings Cross...
Personally, I
like wooden escalators as they are more 'comfortable' under the feet,
and they are also allegedly more reliable than the modern ones elsewhere
on the network. I guess it's nostalgia or something. However, their
days are numbered.....
What a photo
opportunity - loads of gutted heavy machinery - just the way I like
it! These escalators are in Bracknell's main 'Princess Square' shopping
centre and always seem to be breaking down... What the hell does an
escalator need all those breakers for by the way?
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