Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

And it gave us Ralph Pootawn

MechaSeinfeld posted:

12 year old me had to explain to my friends mum how to watch Spinderman on VCD and she just didn’t understand that you had to swap the discs out. She just got mad at me that the movie stopped after 30 minutes. I wish I could’ve hosed her

Smirking_Serpent posted:

Blue Footed Booby posted:

My favorite is the goon who made an Abe Lincoln avatar and went around the digital bdsm clubs "freeing the slaves"

Daktar posted:

Way of X #2

Toshimo posted:

Why is Franklin Vegeta?

Outrail posted:

Link?

Such Fun posted:

Here’s a small and stupid question for you:

For the past two years I’ve been smelling this extremely intoxicating fragrance at the beginning of summer, and I can’t figure out what it is.

- This fragrance is only there at night
- I live at the 23rd floor, but it is still very potent - at night.
- I live next to a modestly sized park with chestnuts, linden trees, and plane trees.
- I googled for for plants that are fragrant at night, but none seem to be common around here.
- ‘around here’ is Utrecht, the middle of the netherlands, extremely moderate climate.
- I would describe the fragrance as camphor-like, or rose -without any of the sweetness.

So, anybody got a suggestion to what could create such a heavy fragrance?

(I asked my dad, who is generally knowledgeable, but it turned into a discussion about why I was smelling the nighttime air; was I trying to smell xtc-labs!?)

nishi koichi posted:

i hope you find out what it is, because you've just reminded me i might have smelled it too (pnw, though) and never found what it was. it seemed to be released only at night, a comforting and somehow nostalgic odor. i've never smelled anything like it since, it's wonderful. i don't think i can describe it, but if i came across it again, i'd know.

TheLastManStanding posted:

Linden trees bloom at the beginning of summer and are known for being very potent.

regulargonzalez posted:

Some thoughts:

You might be smelling it more strongly at night for several reasons that don't include the flower actually creating more scent at night: you're less preoccupied with work / activities at night, there is less traffic and so less exhaust odor that might mask the scent, less traffic driving through also means the air itself will be more still and so the scent can linger.

It's always tough to describe scents precisely -- we don't have a very good grammar for it, especially if you're not a perfumier or something. That said, your description reminded me of honeysuckle (which is a really great scent).

Kaiser Schnitzel posted:

In addition to all of the above, many flowers have their strongest scent in the late afternoon/evening, and most plants seem to have a particular time of day (not always evening) when they smell strongest.

artsy fartsy posted:

Is this because of the type of pollinators they're trying to attract?

Mak0rz posted:

Maybe! The collection of numerous flower characteristics (size, color, scent, time of opening, just to name a few) come together to form a pollination syndrome, in which the characteristics line up with whatever vectors, living or non-living, they coevolved with to facilitate pollination.

If a flower is stinky it's probably pollinated by flies or beetles. Big and (usually) red? Hummingbirds. Bright and can be seen from afar? Bees. Exposed and produces a fuckton of tiny, dry pollen grains? Wind.

Flowers that are open in late evening or at night tend to be pollinated by moths or bats. Most other would-be pollinators don't tend to be active at this time. Other characters typical of a moth syndrome include large white petals, which are better to see at night, deep nectary tubes to accommodate moth proboscis, and a strong sweet scent.

A flower like that could be what you're looking for, Such Fun. Anything around you that might match that description? The flowers would likely be closed during the day if that's the case. You said you live fairly high up in an apartment building? I doubt what you're smelling is coming from the ground. Do any of your neighboring balconies have flower pots?

Such Fun posted:

Okay, yes. It’s the linden trees, I’m quite certain now.
Describing scents can be hard indeed, and the adjective I was lacking was ‘cummy’.

I’ve talked to several irl people about this mysterious and enchanting fragrance last year, and I don’t think I’ll be bringing up the subject again.

But those cummies smelled real good.

Kenning posted:

There's a lot of drama and pathos in that quote sequence.

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

And it gave us Ralph Pootawn

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

It's chestnut trees that smell like cum, not linden.

A HORNY SWEARENGEN posted:

Japan's obsessive ornamental is the cherry tree because they're pretty, smell incredible, and you can make tea with the flowers.

America and England, though, said to hell with that. We want everything to smell like cum and for our our trees to only produce cum smell. No fruit. No tea. Only cum. Long live cum odor.

A HORNY SWEARENGEN posted:

America and England, though, said to hell with that. We want everything to smell like cum and for our our trees to only produce cum smell. No fruit. No tea. Only cum. Long live cum odor.

Hirayuki posted:

But Japan is also big on ginkgo in public plantings, and the fruit smells like vomit--like, they literally have the butyro-whatever compound that gives vomit its characteristic smell. In Kyoto they trim the trees into oblivion before they can fruit, but not in Tokyo. In Tokyo, you're walking by these majestic living fossil trees on constant lookout for non-existent barf puddles.

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

Ginkgoes do though and it matters which one you get.

Captain Invictus posted:

another day, another annihilated toilet

Ashcans posted:

How bad is running? There was a dude who ran so hard he died, and all the runners chose to celebrate that guy, presumably because he was 100% done with running and would never have to again.

Johnny Truant posted:

i had a furby as a kid, and one time i dropped it on its head at just the right angle to gently caress it up. it started making these terrible grinding and whining noises while every motor in it went off at once so its eyes were opening and closing and moving side to side while its ears were twitching and it's mouth was opening and closing.

i shoved a pillow over top of it and punched it until it stopped.

i remember this incident too often, like drat furbies were hosed up but that furby didn't deserve that

ultrafilter posted:

Kesper North posted:

No it is not.

https://twitter.com/eao_jcmt/status/1357510157043859459?s=20

prisoner of waffles posted:

Look at me. I am the cost-plus system integrator now

quote:

It seems that he did not understand the law of the sea because we were able to obtain a writ for “piracy on the high seas” and the US Coastguard went out and nailed it to the mast. They took possession of the boat and towed it into Hilo.

quote:

We were already somewhat alarmed when the pictures of it setting off showed that the boat was barely visible under the large pile of steel lashed to its deck. After several weeks had passed with no word, investigations revealed that the boat had actually gone to Holland and loaded up with an additional cargo of high explosives.

Zero One posted:

Haha

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

Wow, where was this quote from?

Zero One posted:

Haha

One More Fat Nerd posted:

A favorite from an ancient thread:


"a guy shoots his hunting buddy by accident. frantically he calls 911 and tells the operator that his friend is probably dead and asks what he should do. the operator says, "Is this granos?"

the man says "yes"

"well you've called the right number" says the operator""

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

Wow, where was this quote from?

Platystemon posted:

It’s from the East Asian Observatory’s history page linked in the tweet above.

One More Fat Nerd posted:

A favorite from an ancient thread:


"a guy shoots his hunting buddy by accident. frantically he calls 911 and tells the operator that his friend is probably dead and asks what he should do. the operator says, "Is this granos?"

the man says "yes"

"well you've called the right number" says the operator""

Vitruvian Maam posted:

Can't post anymore due to trolls. gently caress you all in your stupid asses