^ That is such beautiful, dramatic scenery! I liked the pictures of the chapel too.

^ You have my sympathy, Chiomara. I've also spent time in disappointing landscapes. Right across the planet, we seem determined to roll out some variation of the same uninspired, unambitious townscape. The attitude is always "It functions, so that's good enough." - and your photo made me think of this old children's toy ;) :-

https://www.danielkitta.org/wp-conte...uk-640x428.jpg

I had that^ or one similar.. Matchbox cars for days of entertainment.

TBH an aerial view of chain stores and their signs is surprisingly cool.

Yeah; nobody cares about good architecture anymore! Only misery! When I'm mayor it's going to be all Byzantine opulence all the time. (Have you posted your town in this thread yet? It looks like a lot of you practically live in Narnia)

I loved those mats; I'd use them to stage pretend UFO attacks.

If it doesn't actually look like Byzantium then you can keep your ****ing hyperbole.


http://www.alltoursistanbul.com/imag...2-D55eb22d.jpg

#retakehagiasophia

No, I was being 100% serious. BYZANTIUM OPULENCE ALL THE TIME.
(Imagine a byzantine cathedral turned into a library or disco club!)

^ Yeah, me too, to enliven my collection of Matchbox cars! Is that where a love of physical geography begins?

^ Well, it at least has the merit of looking colourful.

^ HaHa! Not Byzantine, but when I'm mayor, I'm gonna build this:-

http://www.globespots.com/pictures/s...lajas_4510.jpghttp://www.expatriateliving.com/expa...rtmeirion4.jpg

Great pictures, EPOCH. I haven't been out to BC in years and you're making me want to visit again.

Uncovered a new map marker in Fallout 5: British Columbia over the weekend. An old railway cabin, no roads leading to it, had to cross an active railroad bridge to access it.



Imgur is ****ting the bed right now, going to have to wait for the site to wake up again before posting pictures of the inside.

Nothing in here for 3 months? Come on fellas, where have you been?

Here are some of the places I've been hiding over the last few weeks.

http://i.imgur.com/Z7QNjTl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/mTdQQk3.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/CNVv4p1.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Ce0r2xm.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ECSebFY.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/5GTewcW.jpg

I went to San Bernardino this weekend. The water was very good.

http://i.imgur.com/WYfBnxp.jpg?1

Water? I assumed that was dry ice in a bottle.

Boondocks. Not the animated sitcom, but a biker bar on the Illinois River where you can pull up by boat... which we did yesterday.

Beach docking (we're the boat on the left with the rope)
http://i.imgur.com/bqPqbrZ.jpg

The front lot. Lotta bikes.
http://i.imgur.com/gbQ5elh.jpg

The outdoor back bar with live music playing. If you glare into the pic and listen hard enough, you can hear a cover band destroying Rock Me by Great White.
http://i.imgur.com/aaXPh8I.jpg

V8 Trike (A woman pulled up on this one along with the next one)
http://i.imgur.com/yzJ5ucT.jpg

Boss Hoss (The womans Hubby pulled up on this one along with 5-6 others. Rumble rumble)
http://i.imgur.com/fgGPT8D.jpg

Heading home
http://i.imgur.com/EvwOZsN.jpg

I'm burnt.

^ Did Patrick Swayze rip a guy's throat out?

No, but I was nice. Until it was time to not be nice. Then, I wasn't nice at all.

I try to go here at least once a day.

https://www.oeufnyc.com/media/catalo...e_nodrawer.jpg

I go hear at least twice a day.

https://www.americanstandard-us.com/...060951A347FD47

You go to the American Standard website?

OMG! That toilet paper is incorrectly hung!

^ That toilet roll looks ok to me the way it is. It's practical and easy to use; if the toilet roll was flipped so the trailing end hung near the wall it would look tidier, but would be slightly less accessible. Because there has to be a word for everything, the toilet roll in the picture is overshot, while the alternative arrangement would be specified as undershot. Who is to say which way is correct?

*successfully resists temptation to open a poll thread*

Been a while, MB.

Still alive, been a hell of a journey since my last post in June.

Here's a very brief summary of where and how I've been:

https://i.imgur.com/JFcpqKPg.jpg

Did you crash on your motorbike?

Yep, dirt bike, on my birthday too back in July, which is actually pretty hilarious considering the last time I was in the hospital was on Christmas Day. Was riding a long and windy trail about 10 km out of cellular coverage, alone, took a corner around a large mud puddle, failed to notice a fist sized rock in the middle of the berm, kicked out of my front tire and laid the bike down right in the puddle. It wasn't a very hard fall but I landed directly on an older minor knee wound that had only recently finished healing, split it open much worse than it was before but didn't break anything. Got up, dusted myself off, looked down through the hole in my jeans and was pleasantly surprised to see a 1'' x 3'' wide opening in my knee, revealing what I thought was my knee cap (but later found out it was just my patellar tendon).

No pain whatsoever, with the boost of adrenaline and shock it felt like a minor bruise. Luckily I had my first aid kit with me so I was able to clean it up a bit and dress it well enough to stop the bleeding before it got to my head. Picked up my bike, hopped on, and rode it one legged back down the trail and into cellular coverage. Immediately called a friend and told him to meet me at my place (only ~15 minutes away) so that I could drop my bike off somewhere safe before being carted away to the emergency room (last time I was in ER my truck was stolen from the parking lot, but that's another story). 5 hours, 5 bottles of saline, 1 tetanus shot, a shot of antibiotics, and I was on my way. By 3 AM in the morning however, all of the anesthetic and adrenaline had drifted away, and I was in a whole new world of pain.

Kept me off the bike for 2 weeks before I was able to bend my leg enough to ride without ripping out the stitches. But I'm back in the saddle now, it healed up really well and left a sick scar.

Holy ****ing **** that picture is gross!!
You warned me, so that one's on me. But damn! That's going to haunt me for a while.

Good thing that you didn't get any infections or more permanent damages.

Last year, an uncle of mine crashed on a mountain bike while taking a jump on a forest trail. He broke his neck but survived and didn't even suffer anything too bad considering the situation. He has a stiff neck and a janky collarbone to show for it.

Now that is lucky, paralysis is one of my greatest fears. Does he still ride?

About 2 weeks before my crash my father was trail riding dirt bikes with a retired friend of his from work, in his early 70s. His friend laid his bike down at low speed, got a minor scratch on his leg and insisted they keep on riding. Later that night around the campfire the swelling got so bad that he couldn't even pull his pant leg up to check on it, only then did he reveal to my father that he was on blood thinners. He left the next morning and a week later when my dad caught up with him he was completely bed ridden, his leg had gone septic from infection, and he was still refusing to see a doctor. Not long after his family finally convinced him and the doctors were just barely able to save his leg without amputation.

I'd be lying if I said that wasn't the first thing that popped into my mind when I looked down and saw my knee. It's always a race to beat the infection, it's amazing how bad a small wound can get, let alone a gaping knee.

Not apart from just casually riding on roads for the exercise. I don't even know what he was thinking last year when he tried to take that jump. He's in his 50's and not exactly practised at pulling off stunts. Some younger dudes were riding in front of him and I guess he figured he could make the jump too.

That kind of things is no joke. Before modern medicine, a small scratch could potentially kill you.

You have sexy calves.
:wavey:

http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/jayzd.gif


Permission to save that to troll the forum?

Great pics.

Only if you save it in a new folder titled "Cherry Pie".

Done.

That table is ****ing amazing!

Natural landscapes in Denmark are so flat and our forests so small, that it's absolutely nothing to speak of compared to what most other countries have. I love Denmark, but the one thing I think we're really missing is awe inspiring nature. A Danish forest is nice for a little walk, sure. Our biggest few forests, you might even get lost in, but not to the extent of being in any sort of danger. Just keep walking in one direction and eventuall you will come upon a trail, road or a farm house in less than an hour. If you manage to die in the Danish wilds, you must be a ****ing idiot. Every time I've been on vacation in Norway, Sweden, Austria, Germany, France, the Czech Republic... I'm in awe of their landscapes. The Swedish and Norwegian hills have these high altitude plateaus with moss, orchids and clear water streams you can drink from. It's the most beautiful places I've ever seen on this earth. Denmark is comparatively boring to look at.

Did a bit of riding around this area after work yesterday. This has been one of the most legendary dirt bike exclusive trail systems in British Columbia, maybe across Canada, since the 1970s. Professional enduro riders from around the world fly out here often to explore them and host skill building clinics. It's free to explore as often and as long as you want but after about 10 minutes on the trails you're so amazed by the effort that went into building them that you feel compelled to donate to the organization that maintains them. I'll be riding here much more often now that the bridge tolls over the Fraser River have been eliminated, this place is only a 30 minute ride from where I work. Looking forward to purchasing a 2018 membership and getting involved in trail maintenance.

I got to 1:46 and lost it. Fucken amazing.

I basically got hazed by a group of dirt riders on Saturday.

Usually a couple of times a week I send out public invites to dirt riding groups on Facebook to join me on the trails, a couple of weeks ago I was joined by a paramedic, probably a year or 2 older than me. Last week he invited me and another new rider to join him and his riding crew on the Vedder Mountain trails, one of the most famous technical enduro riding areas in British Columbia, offering to show us around the easier trails so we can start getting familiar with the trail system. I show up, we gear up, and without any warning they proceeded to lead me on a grueling 4 hour ride through the intermediate level singletrack trail system, far above my current skill level, expecting me to give up and pack it in halfway through. It was probably the most physically challenging thing I've ever done in my life, I was so exhausted by the end of it that I could barely reach up to take my helmet off without wincing in pain. But it was still, without a doubt, the most fun I've ever had trail riding, and I'm glad they pushed me into doing it because I wouldn't have done it without having been tricked into it, and it gave me an opportunity to prove myself that I have reached that level in my riding. After the ride they were all laughing and said "Well, you passed initiation."

This video isn't from our ride, but it's the same trails:



I am incredibly sore, even 3 days later.

Chicxulub is a name that has gained international fame as the site of a genuinely cataclysmic event: in fact, the meteor which fell to earth and destroyed the dinosaurs must surely rate as one of the most significant 5 seconds in the history of our planet:-

http://www.theyucatantimes.com/wp-co...7755076267.jpg

Disappointingly, if you go to Chicxulub now, as I have done on several occasions, you won't see any evidence of that spectacular drama. Today there is a shabby fishing-village-come-beach-resort which seems to be dozing through a permanent 24/7 siesta. If you are attentive, you can find an understated monument in the town square, (which you can see again, just left of centre in the second photo) and that's about it.

http://www.lugaresdemexico.com/ima/c...icxulub027.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...n_%2804%29.JPG

Say what you like about the Mexicans, but if this was the impact site, they've done a good job of paving it over; it looks as good as new. ;)

They did an excellent job destroying history for money. :)