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i’d like to point out that when i made this post, all of these comments were at the top, but now if you look at the thread they’ve been replaced by completely different comments
so please, for the love of god, look at the source link this thread is a neverending source of entertainment. people have added so much fucking shit since i made this
I was proctoring an exam for a student today while reading these, and I had to stop because I got to this one and almost fucking died
these are making my day
Okay, this one’s killing me:
These ones got me:
Ooohhh noo I can’t breathe and there are literal tears streaming down my face
A flooded street in Verviers, Belgium (photo: Belga)
Residents of Valkenburg, Netherlands, assessing the damage done to their houses (photo: Marcel van den Bergh)
A battered ship at the Maas river in Luik, Belgium (photo: AFP)
An army vehicle removes debris in Aachen, (North Rhine-Westphalia) Germany (photo: DPA)
Damage in Schuld, (Rhineland-Pfalz) Germany, where the Ahr river flooded (photo: EPA)
A woman swims through a flooded street in Luik, Belgium, where the Maas river flooded (photo: Reuters)
Two men in Bad Neuenahr, (Rhineland-Pfalz) Germany, attempt to rescue what they can (photo: AFP)
The running water stacked cars on a roundabout in Verviers, Belgium (photo: AFP)
An auto mechanic in Mechelen, Netherlands, watching the water run into his garage (photo: Marcel van den Bergh)
for who it wasnt clear yet: climate change is no longer something that’ll have catastrophic effects 9 years from now or only in “lesser” (bah) countries that arent as well prepared. the dutch are famous for our water ingenuity and infrastructure and look where we are. eat the rich
Before and after the major flooding in Erftstadt-Blessem, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
this image is probably the most accurate visual representation of the United States education system
Oh boy.
Do I have a story for you…
So this is the iconic and beloved clock of Moszkva square in Budapest, Hungary. Or more precisely it was.
It was a very popular meeting point for generations.
„2pm on Moszkva, under the clock?” „sure” It was in the middle of the square, so you could see each other pretty easily from anywhere.
When they „renovated” (rebuilt) and renamed the square that is now called Széll Kálmán tér (only by youngsters and tourists who don’t know any better - it will remain for a lot of us „the Moszkva”) the old clock was removed.
So. Removing the clock was very controversial, but it had to go, because someone dreamed about a new shiny one. Here it is. New, and weird and DIGITAL.
The problem is, it stopped working. For days. (you see, fixing it was time-consuming…) And they came and fix it. But it broke down in a couple of days again and again, so the lovely people around helped to fix it. Some of the best solutions:
Graffity: ?Is this a clock? No"and Where is the old clock? Furthermore, on the clock it states that it shows the right time.
An artistic rendition:
But my favorite one is where people got enough of the breaking down abomination, and the heartless people taking down the actually working clocks (it is a very busy square with a lot of public transport connections), and things escalated quickly:
I think this is the most of them we had taped on at once.
The papers state: In memoriam of the unknown time. Rest in Peace
“The deepwood is vanished in these islands - much, indeed, had vanished before history began - but we are still haunted by the idea of it. The deepwood flourishes in our architecture, art and above all in our literature. Unnumbered quests and voyages have taken place through and over the deepwood, and fairy tales and dream-plays have been staged in its glades and copses. Woods have always been a place of inbetweenness, somewhere one might slip from one world to another, or one time to a former”
Man called Owen Wilson made these posters (found here on Twitter) and the English are going absolutely bonkers with fury, cancelling holidays and supposedly “reporting” him to various UK authorities…and he’s just like, “off you pop,” “Wales isn’t in England” lmao
