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/r/pics/comments/7sb0nf/a_line_to_shop_at_the_seattle_amazon_go_a_grocery/
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[
"The system works! ",
"Let me guess, before it opened?",
"How ironic! Dumb people",
"You do all your waiting at the start. Breeze out at the end.\n\nGet it? It’s the polar opposite of the *CURRENT* grocery store experience.\n\nBrilliant!",
"https://i.imgur.com/5pcAEAX.jpg",
"The irony...\nI would’ve left if I saw the line they advertised that there wouldn’t be. ",
"During that pesky time when all of the other grocery stores are closed, no less!",
"A Brave New World ",
"I wonder how long until cries of \"racism\" when Amazon doesn't expand into *certain* neighborhoods because of *certain* kind of people...",
"The store just opened lol, get out of here with that edgy title.",
"Really OP? It’s probably closed and even if it wasn’t it’s brand new. Give it a few days sheesh. ",
"It's a grand opening... most stores do tend to be closed before the grand opening...",
"Grand opening",
"You may have missed the intended sarcasm.",
"I knew you were being sarcastic, but I thought you were criticizing the store for it. Most grocery stores at least in my area are open 24 hours a day.",
"Oh, nah. I just think it's ridiculous to wait in line to buy groceries."
] | 16 |
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A line to shop at the Seattle amazon go, a grocery store whose entire premise is that you won’t have to wait in line.
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/r/pics/comments/7sb2b5/i_edited_a_picture_i_took_of_a_puddle/
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[
"You should post this to /r/Sneakers. Its a pretty cool shot",
"Except they would roast me for the yellowing on my bottoms lol! Thank you though, I just might! ",
"Wow!",
"Fireworks going off and an airplane passing overhead right at that moment? Good timing.",
"Photoshop definitely had good timing on that! Can’t take credit lol.",
"Don’t jump!",
"Maybe I’d fall into an alternate reality!",
"Now that would be an awesome photo op!\nNice job, it looks amazing",
"Thank you!",
"Woah! Thank you so much anonymous for the gold!",
"Is this an old picture because I feel like I've seen it before ",
"Looks like a plane puddle to me. ",
"Nope! Just spent like 3 hours on it tonight. ",
"No problem",
"That pun!",
"Guess I'm having a deja vu event ",
"I mean I’m not the only one who has ever did a plane edit in a puddle before! Maybe that’s why it may look familiar!",
"That may be it",
"You're telling me you can't edit that out?",
"Haha I’m sure I could attempt to! But I kind of like it, gives them more character lol!",
"I was about to be all \"damn OP, you liar\", then reread the post title. Great PS skills.!",
"Thank you lol! I’m still trying to learn PS! No where near skilled as some people that I see! It’s crazy what people can do! ",
"This was such a bitch to find since the title says nothing about feet, shoes, planes, or anything relevant. \n\n[But I bet this is the one you're thinking of my dude.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7cc1yv/view_into_the_upsidedown/)",
"That one is super dope! First time seeing that one!",
"Thats it. Thanks for ruining my dreams of being a future predicting dude ",
"Can you post the original for comparison? It would be cool to see what you edited.",
"Yeah, do I just make a new thread or pm you it?? Not really reddit savvy lol.",
"Just post it here from imgur or something lol",
"[original photo](https://imgur.com/gallery/vM1VH) \n\nGood idea lol! ",
"Oh dang! I though those buildings where in the original. Great job! Also the original is great on it's own!",
"Thank you! I wish those buildings were in the original! But Lexington, KY is a pretty small city! "
] | 31 |
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I edited a picture I took of a puddle
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/r/pics/comments/7sb327/my_neighbour_made_the_biggest_snowman_ive_ever/
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[
"I did something like that many years ago, used some planks to get the middle ball on, then used planks to get the top ball on the truck bed then used the planks to get it to the top. The thing was huge. ",
"Awwww! That is awesome! Soooo cute! :) You should stick a carrot in the crotch area though!",
"Jesus. How does he still have any snow in his yard?",
"Hmm.."
] | 4 |
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My neighbour made the biggest snowman I've ever seen.
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/r/pics/comments/7sb3bi/my_girlfriends_dog/
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[
"r/mildlypenis",
"Its funny because it looks like a penis! I get it ",
"Is it a sausage dog?",
"it’s so relatable!",
"I wonder why she’s so attached to it...",
"Ah that’s what she calls it. ",
"What’s with the double rug situation? "
] | 7 |
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My girlfriend’s dog
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/r/pics/comments/7sb3r7/we_had_to_put_her_sister_down_tonight_she_wouldnt/
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[
"Jesus, this is sad. I'm sorry for both of your losses.",
"Only lost her sister , maybe the title is a little confusing. But she's still laying there wondering where her sister is :/",
"Sorry. That's really sad. My son just moved out and our dogs are miserable, waiting for him to come back.\n\nCheck out r/petloss for support.",
"Well I feel dumb now. Either way thank you. It means alot.",
"Thank you!",
"Yep, this is what I meant. She looks upset, too. ",
"Right in the feels, so sorry!\nAlways a heartbreak to lose a beloved part of the family. \nSniff, sniff 😢",
"I'm so sorry for your loss. Big hugs! God has a beautiful new angel in heaven and so do you💜",
"I'm so sorry. It's bad enough when it's people grieving, this is just heart wrenching."
] | 9 |
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We had to put her sister down tonight. She wouldn't leave the door. I miss her already.
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/r/pics/comments/7sb49u/101_professional_at_cooking/
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[
"I...huh? How?",
"They build stoves like this for people like you to put take out containers on.",
"One time I set fire to my sink",
"But they set on fire when you try to heat them up!",
"Better than what I would’ve done. Let’s just say that the egg wouldn’t be in that general area, and he fire would be consuming my house. "
] | 5 |
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101% professional at cooking
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/r/pics/comments/7sb4d0/gross/
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[
"This is why women need healthcare. ",
"This must be useful when her period syncs up with St. Patrick's Day.",
"She should get that checked out...",
"Is this a football game or a protest? ",
"r/trashy",
"Yes."
] | 6 |
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Gross
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/r/pics/comments/7sb5e3/she_thinks_begging_works/
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"Would work on me",
"Did it? ",
"I don't negotiate with terrorists.",
"Touché! "
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She thinks begging works...
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/r/pics/comments/7sb6w8/my_dog_watching_himself_watch_himself_watching/
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[
"What a narcissist...",
"Yo dog, I heard you like dogs...",
"Dogception...",
"/r/DrosteEffect",
"This title made my brain hurt. "
] | 5 |
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My dog watching himself watch himself watching himself on TV.
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/r/pics/comments/7sb8p0/the_fifty_is_spelt_wrong_on_my_50_bill_and_it_has/
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[
"Fake",
"I'm sure it's fake.",
"Katherine Ortega hasn’t been treasurer since the eighties, that’s one old ass fake bill. ",
"I’m from Canada so I have no clue. How’d they make it look so legit",
"That's a really horribly done \"Fifti dollar\" $5 bill. Whoever tried to make that should be ashamed of themselves.",
"To an American it doesn’t look legit at all",
"I wonder if it'd be worth more than $50 at a coin and currency show, just for the novelty value of it. ",
"Compare it to an actual (older) [$50 bill](https://www.papermoneywanted.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/1974-fifty-dollar-federal-reserve-notes_amp.png)\n\nSomeone just drew all over an old [$5 bill](https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/1969-5-dollar-star-note-jpg.129793/)",
"Looks like someone from another country tried to make a fake bank note. A $50 instead of $5. Not sure how one can fuck that up. This isn’t from NK. ",
"I very much doubt it.",
"The good news is that this is still legal tender.\n\nThe bad news is that it's a five dollar bill",
"Sure hope OP didn’t get this as change. It would be hard to spend even as a $5.",
"I don't know that it's fake but someone took a black pen to it. That's probably it. ",
"I pay you $5 for it. ",
"https://www.imgur.com/r/TheSimpsons/9qcMg",
"Don’t read any further. The cringe only gets worse.",
"It is a $5",
"Oh duh haha I thought they made the whole thing but you’re right ",
"You think that’s lols, I got it as a birthday present rip ",
"Check out Mr. Secret Service Agent over here. ",
"That's a counterfiddy, homey. ",
"That looks like it was made on a Canon. It's worthless. ",
"*Fiddy",
"Agreed. They did a good job blending it but I think it's a legit 5er",
"Lol this guy knows the secret service was formed on the day Lincoln was assassinated to stop financial crime. Nerd! ",
"Check out the guy who can't spot an obvious fake.",
"Check out the guy who doesn't like jokes!"
] | 27 |
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The “Fifty” is spelt wrong on my $50 bill and it has a picture of Lincoln but it says Grant.
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/r/pics/comments/7sb8qe/bus_stop_in_anchorage/
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[
"And now the Northern Exposure theme song is going through my head. Damn, I'm old.",
"I don’t know why but if you asked me to imagine a dude sitting at a bus stop in Anchorage, that would be the guy.",
"I came to say exactly this. ",
"If I was that guy I would be freaking out. Moose are bad enough alone but she has calfs with her."
] | 4 |
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Bus stop in Anchorage
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/r/pics/comments/7sb98r/minnesotans_during_a_12_blizzard/
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[
"That is literally what you would wear to mow the lawn on a hot summer day what is this man doing ",
"12 foot?",
"That is probably around 2-3 inches. There was probably more snow during the storm, just that this picture was taken before. ",
"r/madlads",
"He better shed some layers, could get a bit of a sweat going ",
"Minnesotans sure are tall"
] | 6 |
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Minnesotans during a 12' blizzard
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/r/pics/comments/7sb9y2/is_it_just_me_or_does_it_look_like_texas_capital/
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[
"I see it.",
"At least it’s different than the normal shit he spews. ",
"/u/DoctorPony, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule I - No screenshots. This includes pictures of screens and photos where the interest is the contents of a screen.\n\n* Rule IV - Title violates title guidelines.\n\nYour title must not ask for general information or feedback. \n\nYou can read the full information about our title guidelines at /r/pics/w/titles\n\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/DoctorPony&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7sb9y2/is_it_just_me_or_does_it_look_like_texas_capital/?context=10\\))"
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Is it just me or does it look like Texas’ capital building is Kim Jong-un barfing out protesters?
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/r/pics/comments/7sba1s/graduating_high_school_is_a_big_deal_to_this/
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[
"First homie from the hood to graduate since 85 yall.",
"I hope they don't fall out of the car celebrating ",
"High school is meant to be forgettable. If you peak in HS, you're a failure.",
"Someone who graduated in 1985 was very likely 32 years old when their first child (who graduated in 2017) was born in 1999..."
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Graduating high school is a big deal to this family
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/r/pics/comments/7sbabf/bananas_for_scale/
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[
"What breed is this? It’s so cute!",
"With a matching banana outfit? Adorable!",
"His name is Scale?",
"I read this as “bananas for sale” and immediately thought “there’s always the banana stand.” ",
"what's the point of dogs wearing clothes indoors",
"DO YOU NOT SEEEEEE HIM?!",
"I just woke up my wife with how loudly i \"awwww\"ed.",
"Cuteness is the point. They're good dogs, Mountaineer ",
"Chiquita. Learn to read or I’ll make puppy bread. ",
"My dogs go bat shit crazy over bananas. We had to start feeding one of them little bits of banana because he wasn't eating enough, so the other one got some out of fairness. They eventually made a habit out of it and now at about noon they'll bug the everliving shit out of you until they get their banana"
] | 10 |
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Bananas for scale
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/r/pics/comments/7sbarf/air_france_planes_allows_you_to_see_the_front/
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[
"Paging Qantas, it would complement the inflight map journey!",
"I’ve been missing out all this time.",
"I'd love this.",
"Somewhere out there is a very restrained technician who really, really wants to replace that video feed with something fun.",
"I feel like I'm staring at the back of a dog walking in front of me. Is that normal?",
"\"I'm the pilot!\"",
"Lufthansa had this too.\n\nImagine how terrifying this would have been on 9/11 though.",
"A shit ton of planes have this. They also have a camera on the vertical stabilizer.",
"Imagine watching as something goes wrong, gazing helplessly as your inevitable death awaits you towards the end of the screening. ",
"You’re the titan",
"I'd rather watch an in flight movie that I hadn't already seen, with free alcoholic beverages until I pass out. Hmmm, sounds like a flight to Australia on Qantas Airlines. ",
"What would it feel like if there were a camera at the tip of each wing that I experienced through VR goggles? Would I feel like a flying giant?",
"The best flight I ever had was with Air France. Nice staff and champagne",
"It would make me feel less ill for sure!",
"Very handy if you're about to hit a mountain.",
"This would be really interesting for about 5 minutes then you'd probably want to go back to a movie or something.",
"It would be just like real life!",
"Hello anxiety. Nice to see we’ll be exacerbating you this whole flight. ",
"See your impending doom.",
"Can you imagine having this on your first take off/landing? 😍",
"The whole time it's available?",
"Yeah but there's also snakes in the planes. ",
"It would be hilarious if one guy had a gremlin that would pop on the screen, but no one else would see it ",
"They play wedding videos too?",
"All those times the plane is crashing. If the plane is crashing you won't be thinking about turning on your screen to this view I bet.",
"I can't fly without my bose noise cancelling headphones either anymore.",
"If it's already on I'm not going to think about turning it off either.",
"Either way for you it's just to planeful to look at huh?",
"SAS does this as well, and has both a front and downward facing camera (at least on the A330). Pretty awesome on takeoff and landing. ",
"Ideas for things to have fly by:\n\n\nIron Man\n\nF-16\n\nHang glider \n\nUFO\n\nHarry Potter chasing a snitch\n\n\nWhat else? I’m trying to go with things that wouldn’t get them fired (ie crashing)",
"Bose noise cancelling ftw",
"It's great until it's all white and nothing else for 7 hours. ",
"I feel like during those 7 hours would be a perfect time to watch a movie or something. \n\nJust sayin. ",
"Are you saying they should also block the windows so at the very unlikely event of a fatal air disaster you won't see out during the final minutes? And let's say the plane is spinning wildly out of control, you'd be just fine, but seeing the screen would make you scared out of your wits?",
"That happened in the 70's. American Airlines Flight 191 in Chicago. The engine broke off the wing, severing hydraulic lines. The passengers got a pilot's view of the oncoming ground after the impacted wing stalled. Everyone died. \n\nMechanics used a forklift to remove/replace the ~~wing~~ engine rather than following the manufacturer's protocol - it saved them time. \n\nEdit: drunk comment",
"That white light is just your death. Don't sweat it.",
"Emirates (also a 380 operator) has a couple of these installed on their 380's - on the vertical stabilizer looking forward and somewhere underneath looking down. ",
"Finnair's A350 also had a tail cam. It was pretty cool especially during landing. \n\nhttps://imgur.com/a/yWb1B",
"Well, that’s just, like, your opinion, man ",
"Is there a cruising landing and taking off version of this ?",
"Oh, buddy. One concept at a time.",
"I think a lot of airlines used to have this, also a camera pointing down. Think they were probably nixed bc no value add beyond the first time you see it and think 'neato'... And then never turn it on again.",
"I think Emirates had introduced this way back in 2006. ",
"USS Enterprise....\n",
"Qatar airways also had a selection of three different camera feeds on the A350",
"A seven-hour movie?",
"> Mechanics used a forklift to remove/replace the ~~wing~~ engine rather than following the manufacturer's protocol\n\nFTFY",
"The Hobbit got stretched into 12 hours",
"Touché, good sir.",
"That's weird; I'm seeing nothing but a large black & white cat walking in front of me here.",
"Like the last convention I went to. ",
"Don’t most planes have cameras like this you can check out on longer flights?",
"It's all fun and games until you look and see [Megashark coming up at you!](https://i.imgur.com/n3Gwx5Z.gifv)",
"Pretty sure it is on airbus jets only.",
"Qc20s were a great investment",
"I'd like one pointed straight down",
"Here's the trick right. Once you've taken your seat. You go into the app and find the music. You search for Classical, they will likely have 'Ride of the Valkyries'. You press play. Then you go to the camera app & choose this view for takeoff. \n\nThen after takeoff you find the Tetris app and you set the highest score you can & don't put your name on the highscore, put your seat number. They reset the high scores each flight so your seat number will be number 1. Then periodically during the flight you go check if anyone has risen to the challenge. 36B I still hate you. \n\n",
"I think an aircraft carrier isn't that believable. ",
"Almost not needed in the Dreamliner. Almost.",
"i would shit my pants. i hate flying",
"This is a feature on the A380 and likely some other newer planes as well (A350 as well, if I had to guess), and not airline specific. Other views are also available!\n\nI haven’t seen this available for passengers on 747/777/787",
"It’s fun when the camera is pointing down and you’re flying over cities. \nBTW, a lot of large planes have these. ",
"That’s nice too :)",
"I'm guessing with that mindset you're not flying a lot.",
"Every plane I was on recently had in flight WiFi and gave you limited access. My guess is an in flight NAS and wifi. Plus cash for real internet.\n\nI'd love had there been the option to see a camera feed. A little neater map, and cool data like altitude, temp, speed. It's cool stuff, gives me a reason to look at the page. Shit, throw an ad in there every 15 minutes. But keep them mixed up.\n\nSeeing the same damn ads every damn cycle makes me turn it off.",
"I'm sorry.\n\nhttps://i.imgur.com/KvpXnjJ.png",
"Ah, the old Reddit [hitch-aroo](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7s9mj3/when_you_look_more_like_harry_potter_than_harry/dt39qto/?context=2)",
"This is in very bad taste.",
"I find that it makes me more comfortable when I can see ahead. ",
"I've never gotten this line of thinking. If the plane is going down, you could be having a front seat view of the outside from the broken off fuselage part you're falling out of the sky in. \n\nThis is like super rare occurrence and you're saying that because of that, no one should be able to see forward from their seat screen, even when they can turn their heads and still see it from the window?\n\nIf you're already falling out of the sky, you know you're probably going to die any way. Staring the screen on a very shaky ride isn't going to make it any worse at that point.",
"I believe they tried that but most people freaked out during touchdown as it looked to them like the plane was descending a lot faster than expected.",
"Every single airline needs to do this ",
"I took an overnight flight to Europe with Air France and used that little TV to watch the sunrise over the Atlantic. Pretty damn amazing.",
"This is generally dependent on the type of aircraft, not necessarily the airline. I know A380s have the cameras for instance.",
"That tail-cam was a pretty sweet view on an A380 coming into Singapore. On Lufthansa, from memory.",
"Emirates does this as well, as well as a ground view camera which is honestly much better than the front view. Front view is always washed out by sunlight. ",
"Oh the irony. (I partially feel bad because I think OP'S comment was intended to be referencing something.)",
"Old news",
"He means the REAL USS Enterprise. Seeing a starship fly by would be awesome. \n\nOh crap almost forgot: /s",
"I wish the Royal Air Maroc A380s had this",
"A380 is quieter",
"Everyone is trying to get into the virtual reality business...",
"Out of curiosity, what airlines don’t let you see this view, such that this is noteworthy?",
"He's not saying they should block anything. ",
"Hold my hand-written vows, I'm going in!",
"He's implying this view somehow contributes more to airline disaster victims suffering.\n\nThis is the same kind of a sentiment, that removed the front view cameras from planes after that one accident for a long time.",
"Yeah a lot of planes have this now. I find it helps make me feel more relaxed during landing, since I can see what's going on.",
"They also loose your baggage and don’t care. ",
"Try looking at that view while landing in a crosswind...\n",
"Actualy most of the airlines do this. It is standard in all 737 and above model entertainment units.",
"This has been on planes since 2005.",
"Yeah try telling that to The Avengers. ",
"I fly a lot but have only seen this once on a domestic flight in Japan. ",
"...exploding like it does so often",
"In the 1979, flight 191, the first time a passenger jet- three engined M Douglas- had the first flight with a take off, front view cam, cabin screens for pax- all of the passengers died screaming in terror,,watching the roll , dive, and ground coming up when multiple failures right after take off ( starting with engine falling off ) caused the jet to crash into the edge big hanger on the airfield. Killed all aboard, and a few on the ground. Cameras came out after that. Chicago. 273 dead. Worst crash at the time. ",
"More cameras + AR and airplanes are the new arcade",
"This existed on a garuda indonesia flight that I took about 15 years ago. No idea the model of the plane though. They played it in the drop down CRT screens they used to have. ",
"Loads of planes have this jeez",
"One of the planes I was recently on had both a camera straight ahead and straight down. It was either Lufthansa or Austrian. ",
"This is prime /r/ImGoingToHellForThis material.",
"Well you know what they say, snitches get stitches. ",
"I didn't know this. Thanks Reddit. (I don't fly much)",
"Air France has this as well.\n\nThe best though is the 3rd one on the tail, so you get to see the entire plane. ",
"Imagine this on 9/11.",
"Cathay Pacific does this too",
"I really don't understand how this works somehow.... Why isn't the camera attached to the plane?",
"i have to agree, but it stole my upvote with that disarming apology..",
"Saw it on the 777 three months ago (emirates)",
"I remember flying on an SAS flight which had a forward facing camera that the passengers could view. They stopped the feed once we were on approach. I can only assume it was to stop passengers freaking out or something similar. ",
"Is this not common elsewhere in the world? I thought most planes did this ",
"A lot of plane companies do this and have been for years. Air nz offers that plus a straight down shot ",
"Yep. I was in an A380 once and it had a camera in the nose and om the vertical stabilizer both pointed to the front but there was also one in the nose wheel carriage pointing down. ",
"I've seen it on multiple 777s as well.",
"Japan Air had this like 15 years ago. ",
"First person Crashing experience (TT)",
"Hahahhahahahahahaahahaa\nAt least you would know what’s happening ",
"Every Emirates plane I've been on has this too. The view whilst you're cruising through dawn is amazing",
"[https://m.popkey.co/116b5f/DydkG.gif](https://m.popkey.co/116b5f/DydkG.gif)",
"This is a common feature in flight such as Singapore Airlines since 1999.",
"I was worried I would have buyer’s remorse. They aren’t wireless, aren’t as good as my Beyers, but damn that cancelling is nice on flights. Probably a half dozen flights last year where they were indispensable, and also easy to pack. Still wish the truly wireless ones had noise canceling, sticking with my Zolos until that happens.",
"Those Bose QuietComfort 15 headphones are great on airplanes.",
"Norwegian has a camera pointing downwards and one from the tail pointing towards the body to give a forward/downward perspective.",
"That's a scene from Airplane. ",
"They should randomly pick one lucky passenger, give them a game controller, and tell them it's their turn to fly the plane.\n",
"underrated comment alert",
"Hey reddit, they also have a camera on the **vertical stabilizer**!",
"I get it, but if I'm going out I feel like I'd want to do it with eyes open, you know? Seems more cruel to deny the ability to see it coming. I just don't know. It seems to me that blocking the view only helps people NOT in the crash cope.",
"/u/JRhim, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule I - No screenshots. This includes pictures of screens and photos where the interest is the contents of a screen.\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/JRhim&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7sbarf/air_france_planes_allows_you_to_see_the_front/?context=10\\))",
"Yes, the A380 is the only plane ive seen with the tail cam. But yes indeed, almost all planes nowadays have the front facing camera and the bottom facing camera.",
"Another plane coming straight at you. But only for one guy. ",
"I have noticed once or twice where the pilot would turn off those cameras during take off and landing. My prediction is probably because they think they'd look bad.",
"A380 is the most incredible aircraft I've ever flown on. Quiet, comfortable seats and shit tons of toilets.",
"My main objection to the whole conversation still is that we're talking about something extremely rare occasion. Many types of catastrophic failure to the aircraft that makes it fall right out of the sky (double engine failure/flameout, mid-flight breakup) would immediately disable the screens as they're not part of the primary power system. It could actually just need a single engine failure to put the entertainment system out.\n\nSo in the event of a disaster, the entertainment system wouldn't even be available and even if they were, the plane spiralling wildly out of control would make it really hard to concentrate on the screen, let alone other things happening around you. It makes me feel like all the arguments of people staring into their death with the screens happen like people just peacefully sitting there and watching the ground come closer and closer. I guarantee you that's not how it's gonna go down. ",
"Yup. Seen it several times. Not for domestic flights with smaller planes, but that's been a feature most of the time making longer flights. Unsure about which planes, though. But first time was like 5+ years ago so it's nothing new. ",
"Yeah, solid point. It supports my assertion that blocking it only really serves to comfort people who weren't in the crash.",
"The stabiliser cameras are even better. [Here I'm flying over the Australian deserts at 36,000ft on Thai Airways.](https://imgur.com/a/2r2g3)",
"They are hoping someone will point out the first officer that he is stalling the plane",
"That’s a shame, it has no copyrighted content on the screen",
"That’s not at all what I was saying, what I meant was, imagine watching something go wrong and then sitting there helplessly. I wasn’t making any jokes, or saying that hey shouldn’t allow people to see anything. I was being a little poetic, and I was just thinking out loud. \nWouldn’t you be scared watching your own death?\nThat’s not me saying to block windows or anything. ",
"Should anything catastrophic happen, it would't really make me any more or less scared even if I saw it on the screen versus feeling the major vibrations or sounds the failure would make.\n\nBesides, as I stated before, many disaster scenarios would lead to the entertainment system being in the very first wave of electronics to go out either as a means to save power or simply because the part supplying the power is no longer attached to the same part of fuselage as you are.\n"
] | 142 |
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Air France planes allows you to see the front view of the plane via the screen in front of your seat
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/r/pics/comments/7sbasc/i_made_some_serious_lights_for_my_bike/
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[
"Are these just for visibility? ",
"Yeah, for other drivers.\n\n I have an oem headlight for riding. ",
"They seem in a good mood",
"AND their flexible!\n\n\nHappy lights.",
"Could you share a part list / how to instructions ?",
"Yes, I shared some build details earlier.\n\nScroll up to find it, if you have further questions, let me know. "
] | 6 |
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I made some serious lights for my bike
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/r/pics/comments/7sbe6w/womens_march/
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[
"lol classic",
"Oh shit look out feminism, the patriarchy has managed to aerosolize oppression! Set the mammary guns to full outrage! Fire all tampon missles! We are going to defcon REEEEEEEEEE. I repeat....defcon REEEEEEEEEE!\n\n",
"Not sure if you understand the meaning of aerosolize.",
"Is this real or photoshopped? The amazing quality makes it hard to determine"
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Women’s march
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/r/pics/comments/7sbeis/fair_enough/
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[
"...i might put my dick there...",
"https://i.imgur.com/kkkg9P4.gif",
"Just imagining it brings my dick pain. ",
"I wouldn't put my dick in my own mouth tho. Wait who am I kidding of course I would",
"Thanks u/fingerfromaccounting ",
"aw I was kinda hoping that was a real user",
"The sign made me feel the results. ",
"I wouldn't put my dick in a bowling ball.",
"Ladies... Put your fingers anywhere you'd like",
"https://i.redd.it/mf27seb2mhfz.gif",
"Username relevant. I wouldn't put my dick in accounting. ",
"One can say the reverse also holds true.",
"Pretty useless of that thing is going around in circles ",
"Looks like I have never had an original thought.",
"does not apply to 30% of women in college",
"Anyone else notice how that warning wouldn't be legible while the gear is moving?",
"You can buy those stickers here:\n\nhttps://arcempire.ca/products/warning-never-put-your-fingers-where-you-wouldnt-put-your-dick"
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Fair enough
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/r/pics/comments/7sbetb/who_said_you_had_to_be_a_disney_princess/
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"Pretty sure this means you are a Disney princess ",
"OP doesn't know their shit. They are now and forever more a Disney princess.",
"Don't feed wildlife."
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Who said you had to be a Disney princess?
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/r/pics/comments/7sbgyu/zooey_deschanel_and_katy_perry_are_basically_twins/
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[
"Nah. Zooey>Katy any day. ",
"Wtf is going on with K.P.'s left boob??",
"Katy looks like she's the girl trying way too hard to win a Zooey Deschanel lookalike contest ",
"Am I the only one who doesn't think Katy Perry is hot, like *at all*?",
"Interesting. Do you find Zooey attractive?\n",
"No",
"Meh.",
"As someone who sews I'd guess they have a bra type liner inside her dress and it's bunched up and hovering in a weird way a few inches from her actual boob.",
"A vs B/C?",
"I actually really enjoy her on a variety of levels, but other than the prodigious rack she’s not ‘beautiful’ in any classic sense of the word.\n\n",
"Around the mouth looks similar. ",
"I wouldn't mind being the ham in that sandwich if you know what I mean.........\"Backs away slowly from Reddit\"",
"Basic bitches",
"You are such a pig.",
"Can tell them apart by two big “differences”"
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Zooey Deschanel and Katy Perry are basically twins
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/r/pics/comments/7sbh1e/are_we_still_doing_any_old_spice_things_heres_my/
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[
"r/ThriftStoreHauls would love this lol",
"I would wear the heck out of those!",
"Magnificent.",
"Thanks for the suggestion, I wasn't aware of that sub!",
"/u/uptwolait, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule IV - Title violates title guidelines.\n\nYour title must not ask for general information or feedback. \n\nYou can read the full information about our title guidelines at /r/pics/w/titles\n\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/uptwolait&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7sbh1e/are_we_still_doing_any_old_spice_things_heres_my/?context=10\\))"
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Are we still doing any Old Spice things? Here's my latest thrift shop find.
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/r/pics/comments/7sbhv8/dragon_in_walnut_after_77_hours_of_carving/
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[
"Good job man.\n\nGonna look fantastic whet it's finished.",
"Thanks. ",
"Great work! \n\nFire and blood?",
"That’s pretty sweet.",
"More like blood and ice. Blood from my blisters and ice for my wrists. Targaryen for sure. ",
"👍🏻",
"Where do u find your fuckin walnuts",
"Are you a red or a black? ",
"This is the emblem of house Targaryen from Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice of Fire, for anyone who doesn't know.",
"No doubt ",
"👍🏻",
"I can’t think of a good pun. I just got lucky. ",
"Black walnut",
"It's funny",
"Why?",
"Nice! What tools did you use? I'd like to dabble with carving. Any special wood and/or tutorials you recommend?",
"I used basic carving tools. I don’t have a specific tutorial but Youtube should have many suitable videos. Good luck. ",
"You probably went nuts when you found that one ",
"Nicely done !",
"Thank you, I spent a couple hours wracking my sleep-deprived brain to find it",
"😄"
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Dragon in Walnut after 77 hours of carving.
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/r/pics/comments/7sbj6x/rare_color_photo_of_paris_taken_100_years_ago/
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[
"Potato (starch) quality.",
"Do you have any more info about this picture?",
"It is taken from around the area of Quai Loius Biériot(formerly Quai d'Auteuil) , 16e.\n\nhttp://lesphotosdedaniel.unblog.fr/2014/01/24/jardin-potager-quai-dauteuil-en-1918/\n\nNote the statue now faces the other way.\n",
"Autochrome Lumière (which uses potatoes)\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autochrome_Lumi%C3%A8re"
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Rare Color Photo Of Paris Taken 100 Years Ago
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/r/pics/comments/7sbk77/a_collage_depicting_the_sheer_range_of_genetic/
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"Often considered the most genetically complicated country in the world. Due to my work, I know that’s not actually true.",
"They all look Hindu to me.",
"All looks same to me"
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A collage depicting the sheer range of genetic diversity within India, oftentimes thought of as a homogeneous nation.
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/r/pics/comments/7sbm6t/not_the_moon_montana/
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[
"Pretty :)",
"Where in Montana is that? ",
"Was there for three months till last week. Take me back. ",
"Near White Sulphur Springs. Was there for a late season elk hunt. This was the morning after a storm - had this awesome pre-dawn blue light.",
"Thank you so much for sharing! I love seeing a piece of home, it really makes me happy :)"
] | 5 |
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Not the moon, Montana.
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/r/pics/comments/7sbmcq/cave_of_the_mounds_blue_mounds_wi_us/
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"I think it's mandatory that every middle schooler in the area has to go there on a school trip. ",
"Yup. Been there",
"It sure is. My son has been there twice on school trips and he’s only in 3rd grade. "
] | 3 |
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Cave of the Mounds, Blue Mounds, WI, U.S.
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/r/pics/comments/7sbmkq/mystical_forest/
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"Those cattles are thin.",
"tfw 4 trees is a forest.",
"Amazing pic. The composition is perfect."
] | 3 |
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Mystical Forest
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/r/pics/comments/7sbmsv/me_at_8_family_picnic_drinking_a_chocolate_coke/
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"Chocolate coke?",
"yep - it was some knock off brand. back in the 70's. it tasted a little weird.",
"I had a chocolate energy drink. It was disgusting.",
"My grandparents took me to some old school ice cream place in Ohio. They ordered me a chocolate coke. I'm sure it was different than what you have there but holy hell it was so fuckin good",
"Arizona (like the iced tea company) used to make chocolate coke too as recently as the mid to late 90s. My brother and I were obsessed with it. I kind of wonder if I would even like it now. ",
"it was probably made with real chocolate. I suspect my stuff from the can was mostly synthetic or artificial flavored.",
"ahhh... the 70's - those of us that were there will always remember those small things :)"
] | 7 |
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me at 8, family picnic, drinking a chocolate coke (they used to exist in the 70's) - peace out
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/r/pics/comments/7sbmz4/my_dad_is_an_amateur_stained_glass_maker_he/
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"yeah that's really nice. Great choice of colors.",
"That's beautiful.\n\nI have been looking at picking up a new hobby to learn and I considered stained glass. I kind of dismissed it though because I didn't know what to do with things I made. I don't think much amateur work is in high demand and I just pictured my house full of stained glass lamp shades lol. \n\nDoes your dad do a lot of stuff? Or was it just these windows ?",
"Just these windows, but I hope he continues with more!",
"Your dad did an excellent job! I love the colors!",
"Must look beautiful when the colors of the light pour onto the floor or wall!",
"Nothing like an 'amateur'. Beautiful!",
"While it looks great, stained glass is likely among the worst materials you could make a dartboard out of.",
"Haha, this is *exactly* the sort of joke my dad would make!",
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"It so much bothers me that the top petal is not aligned perfectly :) Other than that great job!",
"Nice.\nPM'd (about some exotic glass I have).",
"Breathtaking. Simply. And so exact. Respect.",
"Ah geez lampshades would be of extreme difficulty. ",
"Wow. I don't want to know how many attempts it took him to cut that middle star!",
"It's funny",
"This is exactly the sort of joke your dad glass make. \n\nEdit: A little strange that a joke, however unhumorous, with no maliciousness connotations, has attracted so much negativity. Oh well. ",
"Looks great and symmetrical. I want to take this up as a hobby, was your dad self taught? Does he have any tips? Thanks for showing us!",
"Amateur no more! ",
"This is lovely, please show this to dad and tell him we said so. What a talent and a loving memorable gift.",
"Wow! He did a fantastic job",
"\"Amateur.\"\n\nOP's Dad is also a fan of red capes, and portals to the Dark Dimension.",
"My sister and me*",
"I look at this and I wouldn’t say amateur at all. Gorgeous piece OP, your Dad is an artist.",
"Me think it's stunning?",
"i have done a few stained glass windows and i know how hard it is to cut curves like the purple glass. your dad did a great job.",
"TIL - Your sister is your dad's favourite child.",
"Whoops, I misread that. My bad.",
"My mom is currently working or redoing all the bathroom windows with stained glass design, along with a few that they have that they dont want people to see through. It's a great alternative to blinds and it's a fun hobby :) i'm sure you could find uses for it",
"Right? If his dad really is just starting out i imagine there must be quite the pile of broken shards lying around we aren't seeing... those thin tips at the top of those corved piece? -shudders-",
"Maybe officially an Amateur but he is very, very good at it. I have a lot of family members and friends that do Stained Glass and I don't think they could've executed this so well...",
"I really want to get into it but I have zero clue where to start. ",
"lol when i started out, i got a bunch of plain glass (window glass?) and wrecked it until i got the technique down enough to try on the expensive stuff. i haven't done anything in over 10 years, so i'd have to get more of the plain glass to get back into the groove of it.",
"Looks great. Make sure he wears his protective are filters/mask. Had a family member die from this after all the exposure. ",
"How good do you get before you are not considered amateur? I think he made it to the next level",
"I watched quite a few how to videos and found some classes. It seems like something easy to get into and hard to master making really intricate things. ",
"> not considered amateur?\n\nToday it can just mean unpaid\n\nBut back when the word was made\n\nIts meaning was done out of love\n\nAmare: to love, the root of\n\n",
"This joke is exactly the sort that an idiot would tell!",
"I was going for a dad joke. No need to be rude. ",
"I think it look amglazing 🙄",
"Stained glass: I know of a few gift-like or decorative items, like a 4 t 6\" design mounted on a wood base with room for a tea light candle behind it. Use an electric tealight for a child's night light.\n\nLay a narrow border around a picture frame, or decorate a corner or two, with colors matching the intended picture's subject, or do a corner with flowers, butterflies, bumblebees, etc. Matched sets would be interesting.\n\nThose small windows in entry doors?? Cover or partially cover them with something decorative - vines, fruit, trees, etc. leaving a little space for viewing out but giving more privacy.\n\nOnce others see your work, you will get requests. Be careful, a hobby could become your source of income.\n\n\n\n\n\n",
"That's awesome. Do you make and sell? I've always liked stained glass but it seemed people viewed it as like a 60-70s item for the most part. I may take it up...if no one buys stuff I can always donate it I'm sure :/",
"No, I never have, I knew someone who did, years ago. Before you produce a lot, visit local craft shows and get some feel for the crowds, and look at what they are carrying around, not just what's for sale. Best of luck, and don't forget to reddit post some of yours.",
"More like a bad joke!",
"Also it's not being rude it's a joke. I'm not surprised you didn't get it though with your sense of humor",
"I will! He’s going to be pleasantly surprised at the response I’m sure!",
"Hahaha, you haven’t seen the others yet!",
"Thank you, I’m proud of him and it’s nice to hear he has good work!",
"You have a stained glass half empty, my friend",
"my niece has been making stained glass for 20+ years, i can tell you, that does NOT look like amateur level work!",
"Amatuer",
"Looks great. Make sure he wears his protective are filters/mask. Had a family member die from this after all the exposure. ",
"Do it anyways! You might love it. And my husband and I have these windows near our entrance way that I would love to put stained glass in but I can't quite afford a true expert and would love to pay an amatuer who might be willing to charge slightly less than an expert (but obviously still a good sum as it will takes talent and time and whatnot). I'm sure you would be surprised to find people in your area in the same boat as me.",
"That is beautiful. I really do think he should rethink his amateur status though, a lot of people would pay good money for that quality of work.",
"Look for a local art center. They usually have a beginner class.",
"/r/stainedglass"
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My dad is an amateur stained glass maker. He designed and made this for my sister and I think it’s stunning!
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/r/pics/comments/7sboan/real_sign_in_sf_parks_no_adults_allowed_unless/
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[
"Awk",
"Adults sitting alone with no kids at a playground is a thing to keep an eye on. Especially at a busy one. ",
"It's a playground. They don't want adults (the parks department defines \"adult\" as anyone 13 and older) using the equipment that was built for children, unless those adults are assisting a child.\n\nIt's the same reason why most ball pits have age restrictions -- older people ruin the fun for the kids.",
"That's right,Uncle Frank!",
"I think it's more about the kid diddlers"
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Real sign in SF parks: No ADULTS allowed unless accompanied by children!
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/r/pics/comments/7sbph8/flying_to_dc_during_gov_shutdown/
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[
"I know the Gov isn't shut down now - but when I took off it was",
"This reminds me of when 9/11 happened. Planes were clear for weeks. ",
"That’s what the beltway felt like this afternoon. ",
"I call bullshit",
"Seconded",
"I was on a flight in to DC from Vegas one time. There was a storm so bad I totally thought we were going to die.",
"Windows look dark so it's a late flight and it could be coming from a smaller airport, not that unbelievable regardless of a gov shutdown. I flew to Nashville not too long ago and it looked like that, sometimes it happens.\n\nIt's amazing when it does though."
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Flying to DC during Gov shutdown
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/r/pics/comments/7sbq5q/cool_picture_my_friend_took_of_me_edited_by_me/
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[
"Where are you? Location? So pretty ",
"It’s in California. Went to kern river!",
"This looks absolutely gorgeous"
] | 3 |
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Cool picture my friend took of me. [Edited by me though]
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/r/pics/comments/7sbt9f/deserted_under_a_sea_of_stars/
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[
"Beautiful! ",
"How far you reckon the picture was taken from camera to person?",
"I'm jealous! I wish i were there, that is stunning",
"Where were you? So beautiful and peaceful ",
"I tried tagging the location. It’s Fonts Point at Anza Borrego state park in California! Look up some images! ",
"Beautiful photo!",
"It was about 35/40 meters."
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Deserted under a sea of stars.
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/r/pics/comments/7sbubh/the_edge_of_the_world/
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[
"Very cool! Where was this taken?",
"When you can see can see the curvature of the earth ",
"Southeast Africa, I'm guessing. ",
"It’s a fish eye lens, so it distorts proportions a bit. ",
"oh yea, i forgot about that 80,000 foot mountain in southern Africa.",
"This is fake, btw.",
"This isn’t legit sorry chaps. ",
"Lol I thought so, but you never know. It’d definitely be shocking if it was real though. ",
"true, but for me it was too obvious. there is no elevation high enough to allow that kind of angle. The vegetation gives it away aswell"
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The Edge of the World
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/r/pics/comments/7sbuxs/i_didnt_know_who_else_to_ask_will_this_banana_be/
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[
"Prob not, unless you put it in a brown bag, which speeds up the ripening process. If you want it to slow down cover the stem with aluminum foil. In 12 hrs it won't be completely brown though if just left out",
"Not in 12 hours not at all. You’ve got a couple days left out of that banana.",
"Thank you. I’m gonna try that aluminum foil thing. All my bananas have just been getting brown all of a sudden so I thought I’d ask.",
"Good to know. Thanks!",
"Why don't you just eat it?",
"I want to eat it for breakfast. Start the day off right and all.",
"You will be fine. You can still eat them after the skin has browned. In fact a Samoan guy I knew wouldn't eat them until they browned.",
"They taste so much worse and are so mushy when you let them get brown though.",
"We keep our bananas in the fridge. Last longer. ",
"/u/Pass_the_eggs, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule IV - Title violates title guidelines.\n\nYour title must not ask for general information or feedback. \n\nYou can read the full information about our title guidelines at /r/pics/w/titles\n\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/Pass_the_eggs&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7sbuxs/i_didnt_know_who_else_to_ask_will_this_banana_be/?context=10\\))",
"You’re too late! I already got the banana related advice I was looking for!"
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I didn’t know who else to ask. Will this banana be brown in 12 hours?
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/r/pics/comments/7sbvka/my_most_recent_creation_finished_an_hour_ago/
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[
"Contains an 8.3g Tourmaline (Barra De Salinas) with Sapphires, Tourmaline, and Welo Opal accents ~ Sterling Silver ~",
"Absolutely stunning!",
"If HR Geiger had made jewelry... ",
"I don't know what this is, but it's beautiful. ",
"Simply amazing. You have a unique talent and I hope you enjoy the creation as much as I enjoy the end product. ",
"Soul gem, with a gemstone binding ritual attached for good measure. I don't know what they've caught in there to need all those stones, but you can bet it's really nasty.",
"That answer was more terrifying than I was expecting.",
"It's beautiful! But, uhm, what is it? ",
"I know I'm repeating myself - but I'd LOVE to see, even if it's just some minutes cut together, how you do this, on a video.",
"Well that's not even close to what it is lol, it's a pendant.",
"A necklace pendant!",
"Your work looks very much in the style of H.R. Giger and I love it.",
"Thank you! I actually get this a lot!"
] | 13 |
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My most recent creation, finished an hour ago!
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/r/pics/comments/7sbwr8/made_a_warm_cozy_and_custom_jacket/
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[
"Nicely done. ",
"neat",
"Beautiful work! What material did you use and how easy/difficult was it to work with?",
"This is awesome ",
"^_^ how did u make it? what went into that process?",
"Thank you so much!",
"Thank you! The outer shell is a cotton twill, and the lining of this particular design is fleece. They’re both fairly easy to work with. Since the fleece has more stretch than the twill I cut them on top of each other and sewed the layers together to avoid any pattern discrepancies. That made the entire design a lot easier to construct.",
"I have a handful of custom patterns that I made for women’s and men’s apparel. This particular one is a basic jacket that I altered the design for and built using a lightweight cotton and a thicker fleece for the lining.",
"Thank you!!!",
"Looks good!",
"Thank you so much!"
] | 11 |
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Made a warm cozy and custom jacket!
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/r/pics/comments/7sbwt2/chilled_to_the_bone/
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[
"Very **cool**",
"Skeleton-tone down the puns there",
"He was just trying to be a little humerus.",
"Right. Sorry for Sкullking",
"BONER! Am I doing it right?"
] | 5 |
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Chilled to the bone
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/r/pics/comments/7sbyjl/my_friend_made_a_marble/
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[
"It’s beautiful. ",
" That's awesome, I'm guessing making a marble is kind of like glass blowing but you compress the hot glass instead? ",
"50mm?",
"More like roll it in the mold to make it circular.",
"I can make an album and more pics showing the process tomorrow. Ill be making some tomorrow and im still learning.\nI made these. But the yellow one cracked in half. https://i.imgur.com/g3XgIGx.jpg ",
"Hey everyone! I found the virgin!",
"Thank you! ",
"Not sure exactly. It was a practice marble while he was teaching me. Ill ask him tomorrow.",
"The marble allowed itself to be made.",
"With the current trend of shiny moose cakes on r/ food I assumed this was another cake. Now I get hungry when I look at glass marbles apparently.",
"It would be weird if you said thank you and you weren't the friend, right?",
"Yeah my bad. It was late...and to be fair i learned and helped make this one a little bit. Didnt do much on this one in particular though ",
"It amazing looking do you know how it take to make one?",
"This one took around 2-3 hours. He was making it and teaching me so it took a bit longer than if normal. Time can also vary depending on what colors and designs you want to put in it."
] | 14 |
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My friend made a marble.
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/r/pics/comments/7sbzy5/no_queue_they_said/
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[
"What’s Amazon go?",
"Amazon go wait at the end of the line.",
"A grocery store with no cashiers, it uses various technology to know what's in your cart and how much to charge you as you leave. ",
"Whaaat? Why wouldn’t there be cashiers? What is going on here? What if I need someone to ask about my phone being hacked? ",
"Amazon go talk to the police?",
"No carts either. You bag your groceries as you go and just walk out when your done. ",
"Could have gone somewhere else and had an awkward interaction with a cashier by the time they get into the store"
] | 7 |
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No queue they said....
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/r/pics/comments/7sc09s/jabba_the_dust/
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[
"General Riposti! \nOkay maybe a repost from months back, but Jabba is photo shopped in. ",
"That's so photochopped.",
"Could've gotten away with it if they'd done a better job",
"Jabba the Shopped",
"seems legit",
"Agreed, you can see the wrinkles in his face and even the reflection in his eyes. ",
"It appears almost as though someone took a translucent picture of Jabba and placed it over the saw dust to make it appear as though it resembled him. I bet one day technology will be developed and people will have a really hard time believing natural phenomena like this actually occured because they will think someone just somehow overlayed a picture of Jabba over the dust thus forcing his resemblance!",
"If you think this is legit, perhaps I can interest you some bitcoins.",
"Slightly photoshopped. Notice the eyes and nose.\n\n[Original](https://i.imgur.com/Ad1hQsz.jpg)\n",
"Cha too ma laya conky, ya neema loka nyan.",
"Han Solo in carbonite on the right. Seen this picture many times, first time I noticed that.",
"NOVICAL JALALALA",
"that 'stache tho",
"Yeah it's moderately blender but not enough to really sell it's made of dust lines.",
"And also, oh I don't know... the fucking frozen Han Solo? ",
"*Shoppa the Hutt ",
"Looks more like Jupiter’s big red spot in the original. ",
"I was wondering why it’s such a coincidence that Hans next to him frozen in carbonite ",
"**OOGA CHAWOOGA**",
"This post again?",
"Huh. I honestly didn't even notice him until I just looked again now.",
"OP appears to be a karma-farming bot that can only copy/paste other people's stuff.\n\n**TLD:** \nIf you're not familiar with these types of accounts (and how they hurt reddit), [this page](https://www.reddit.com/r/quityourbullshit/comments/3jss04/meta_spammers_how_they_work_and_how_to_spot_them/) may help to explain.\n\n\n\n\nHere it copied/pasted /u/cam_add's submission/tittle from [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/3u7cbd/jabba_the_dust/). For some goold old reddit history, (/u/EsseXploreR submitted [this image](https://i.imgur.com/Ad1hQsz.jpg). In that thread /u/AggressiveAggressive mentioned that [he saw Jabba the Hutt](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/2h4x03/the_layers_of_sawdust_in_my_table_saw/ckpeqgw). \n /u/redolent_serenity responded by [shopping Jabba into \"OP's\" image](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/2h4x03/the_layers_of_sawdust_in_my_table_saw/ckpofn7)).\n\nIts comment [before this](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/7sbsap/fern_growing_under_a_circular_roof_hole/dt3l6d7/) is a copy/paste of /u/Jehovacoin's comment [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/6duert/fern_growing_under_a_circular_roof_hole/di5jsl8/). That thread was started by dougdomi. More on them later.\n\nIts submission and title [before that](https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/7sbwie/just_a_homeless_dude_playing_his_xbox/) is a copy/paste of /u/bronalpaul's submission/title [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/2e1ef2/just_a_homeless_dude_playing_his_xbox/).\n\nIts submission/title [before that](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/7sbt07/living_on_the_edge/) is a copy/paste of /u/k3rstman1's submission/title [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/37y3ea/living_on_the_edge/). The top comment in that thread was made by ImogenBrown. More on them later.\n\n\n__________\n\n\ndougdomi - born April 18, 2016, woke up 24 days ago.\n\nMost [recent submission/title](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/7sbzri/technology_will_be_our_doom/) is a copy/paste of /u/ShadowStorm440's submission/title [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/27qcs0/technology_will_be_our_doom/).\n\nIts first-person comment [before that](https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/7sbwie/just_a_homeless_dude_playing_his_xbox/dt3lqqb/) is a copy/paste of /u/xboxhobo's comment [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/2e1ef2/just_a_homeless_dude_playing_his_xbox/cjv5i8l/). \n\nIts submission/title [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/7sbsap/fern_growing_under_a_circular_roof_hole/) is a copy/paste of /u/woyto's submission/title [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/6duert/fern_growing_under_a_circular_roof_hole/).\n\nIts first-person comment [before that](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7n0324/what_old_insults_need_to_make_a_comeback/dry1djt/) (\"my mother once told me...\") is a copy/paste of /u/obsessederpina's comment [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6bnn6v/what_old_insults_need_to_make_a_comeback/dho98pr/) (sans the edit).\n\n\n__________________\n\nImogenBrown - born March 2, 2017, woke up 9 hours ago\n\nMost recent [submission/title](https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/7sc4d6/the_witcher_3_on_the_lowest_settings/) is a copy/paste of /u/gari692's submission/title [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/4ahwo2/the_witcher_3_on_the_lowest_settings/).\n\nIts first-person comment [before that](https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/7sbwie/just_a_homeless_dude_playing_his_xbox/dt3lkck/) (in the thread started by Icewall42) is a copy/paste of /u/NoTimeForThat's comment [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/2e1ef2/just_a_homeless_dude_playing_his_xbox/cjv8pst/).\n\nIts comment [before that](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/7sbt07/living_on_the_edge/dt3l485/) (also in a thread started by Icewall42) is a copy/paste of /u/wisewizard's comment [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/37y3ea/living_on_the_edge/crqwplj/).\n\nIts submission/title [before that](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/7sbvpq/what_happens_in_the_hour_after_you_drink_kale/) is a copy/paste of /u/enigmasaurus-'s submission/title [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/3g4561/what_happens_in_the_hour_after_you_drink_kale/).\n",
"shooped i can tell by looking at the pixels",
"Do it!",
"If it was any more photoshopped, it'd be in a shop. With photos.",
"Snooped for sure."
] | 26 |
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Jabba the Dust
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/r/pics/comments/7sc2k4/fifty_shades_and_my_little_pony_on_the_same/
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[
"No mentions of the Cars topper?",
"There is also a *Cars* topper, yes.",
"That seems more out of place.",
"The whole experience was pretty surreal. Also, I just noticed there's a copy of *Smokey And The Bandit* on the Fiddy Shades side. Now **that** was a sexy flick.",
"Riding crop movie section."
] | 5 |
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Fifty Shades and My Little Pony on the same display in Walmart. Sorry for the crap angle.
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/r/pics/comments/7sc3np/found_a_very_lonely_tree_today/
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[
"You just can't see all the fish that tree is best friends with. Try it again, but underwater next time. It's like a party down there!",
"> very *lovely tree",
"It’s dead. You on the other hand are dead inside. ",
"Being alone and being linked isn't the same, dude. \nStop judging trees and shit. ",
"Looks like a cover of a novel ",
"Isn't this the place you fight Dark Link?",
"Botany Bay"
] | 7 |
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Found a very lonely tree today.
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/r/pics/comments/7sc4ke/not_a_donut_ring_cushionmy_glazed_mousse_cake/
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[
"Something all pot shops need. Trippy mousse cakes.",
"Impressive",
"Sweet",
"That's one strange looking mouse or is it one strange looking moose?",
"Gorgeous! Just made my crappy day a little better seeing something so beautiful ",
"*Dude!*",
"I kinda want to see a gif of this being cut into..",
"This laced with pot would 100% be the best thing ever",
"It's meese.",
"Sweet!",
"What's mine say?",
"*DUDE!*"
] | 12 |
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Not a donut ring cushion...My glazed mousse cake.
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/r/pics/comments/7sc6bb/someone_went_to_germany_and_took_this_picture/
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[
"Lining up each edge of the original photo to the actual backdrop was quite satisfying. ",
"Careful, you can get arrested for that type of thing over there.",
"That’s awesome. Places what is sometimes an abstract historical event with a real, modern location. I’d like to see more of these!",
"Are we all just going to pretend like this person is not wearing tactical gloves ",
"The red dot is killing me. I need to know why it's there! ",
"Someone should be aware that even in Germany the mere photographical depiction of a Hakenkreuz, especially in a historical context, isn't illegal :)",
"Not for that, even in Germany ;)",
"Two Chinese tourists were arrested for making a nazi salute. ",
"That's indeed forbidden, also the public showing of a Hakenkreuz. But not holding a picture of Hitler.",
"and took this picture",
"I could walk down the street wearing Hitler's actual unifrom holding Mein Kampf saluting while giving Hitler's Stalingrad Speech and not get arrested. Granted Id probably get beat to death or close to it but Id have the freedom to do so. MERICA. \n\n\nSeriously though Nazis should do is all a favor and wash their mouths out with cyanide.",
"There was a Swastika on the building there ",
"Can you still smell him though?",
"30 something American male here. Served in the military and consider myself a routine consumer of historical information, especially military/WWII related. This is the first time I’ve ever read the word Hakenkreuz. It never dawned on me that swastika wasn’t what Germans called it. What else don’t I know!?",
"If you're looking for more there's /r/OldPhotosInRealLife",
"why would you even post this? you must be a total karma whore.\nOP only just posted this 2 days ago!\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7rvyoc/my_friend_went_to_germany_and_took_this/?st=jcrbix9y&sh=1e1edb47",
"[Without the annoying red blob.](https://i.redd.it/xhby3z4txcb01.jpg)",
"and? I wear gloves like that when doing yard work or moving shit or just general outside work.",
"I'm a fucking History Major and I didn't know this either. Admittedly WWII isn't my focus, but I thought I'd come across that information somewhere in a book, not reddit.",
"Yay the right to be a cunt. Seems to be making for a wonderful society! :p",
"TIL how this thing is called in German",
"Yep, I have a few pair for garage tinkering, hunting, yard work. They’re really functional. \n\nBesides, I wouldn’t consider these “tactical”. Tactical gloves have protective hard shells to protect the knuckles, and the index finger and thumb can be peeled back for precise manipulation of ones firearm during extreme combat situations. ",
"The thirst for karma is weird and gross.",
"Freedom of speech should never be compromised. Not for any reason.",
"Thank you. What fucking idiot did that. Like the whole point is \"look, this is the exact location where A.H. gave a speech, but shit, we'd better not show any swastikas!\" UHG.",
"Your freedom of speech ends where it starts to hurt me, so fuck off.",
"That is the dumbest thing anyone has ever said. If it hurts your feelings it should be illegal?? That is insane. Freedom of speech does not mean you are allowed to incite violence. "
] | 27 |
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Someone went to germany and took this picture.
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[
"It truly wouldn’t take much for this to be true. ",
"Minus all the murder though right?",
"Minus the conch...."
] | 3 |
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I took this picture years ago, it reminds me of Lord of the Flies
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/r/pics/comments/7sc9sc/when_i_see_a_beautiful_rainbow_like_this_i_always/
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[
"It's not for you. There is no god. Things will either be OK, or they won't.",
"Wow. Way to completely miss the point. ",
"You get your emotional support from being a dick, OP gets theirs from elsewhere.",
"You may be right, and my optimism about God, finding hope in the beauty of nature, and having faith that tough times are eventually gonna turn around may be completely unfounded. But it gets me through the day. And if your beliefs get you through yours- more power to ya. I truly wish you well. "
] | 4 |
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When I see a beautiful rainbow like this, I always kinda feel like it’s just for me. Like God is saying to me, Hang in there. I’m with you and it’s all going to be ok.
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/r/pics/comments/7scbu4/so_i_drew_a_portrait_of_terry_crews/
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[
"\"I know shit's bad right now...\" ~ State of the Union",
"So majestic",
"Looks just like him.",
" He looks cold",
"It checks out! Awesome work, probably best painting of him I’ve seen yet",
"Glorious ",
"But we got this guy Not Sure.",
"What inspired you to draw him like this?",
"I fucking love Terry Crews. I'd fucking let him try to impregnate my ass. And I'm a straight dude. ",
"I actually thought it was the photo at first.",
"*they can't tell it's me under this...*",
"#DwayneCamacho2020",
"Seems like he is looking for his yogurt",
"True warrior spirit.",
"His face looks like a mountain, it's magnificent. ",
"\"I'm going to shovel the fuck out of that driveway...\"",
"So this started taking off... Here is the [photo and original thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/CrewsCrew/comments/7s1pd6/our_man_terry_at_sundance) that inspired me. There are a couple progress pics in there. TC is the man. Check out /r/crewscrew",
"Thanks. ",
" Recent photo of him taken at the sundance film festivle. [Here's the thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/CrewsCrew/comments/7s1pd6/our_man_terry_at_sundance)",
"oh nice",
"Terry Crews as Mufasa",
"I'd watch that... Be a short movie, Scar would be fucked. ",
"> \"I know shit's bad right now\n\nWith all that starving bullshit. And we're running out of French Fries and burrito coverings. ",
"You forgot the wings! ",
"He's worried about how expensive that fur coat is. ",
"Perfect",
"It looks like Terry is coming out of a vagina as a fully grown man ",
"I don’t know why but I really like this",
"That’s one hairy vagina, looks more like lion’s hair to me",
"Did you mess up the ears and decide to cover them up with a Lion's mane? Or did you mess up the Lion's face and decide to cover it up with a Terry Crews?",
"TC *is* a lion, bro. [But this pic/thread was the inspiration. A photo from sundance.](https://www.reddit.com/r/CrewsCrew/comments/7s1pd6/our_man_terry_at_sundance)",
"NINE NINE!",
"Honestly, I had to do a double take because I thought it was the photo at first. Phenomenal work!",
"thanks. that's pretty much the best compliment a portrait artist can get. ",
"You earned it. I'm also sending it to my sister to try and get her painting again (granted, being a mom to toddlers can really make that impossible). Thank you for the good start to my day",
"thanks. yeah, when my son was a toddler art kinda took a back seat. but once he got old enough to start doing artsy things with me it was perfect. teach him things, set him up with an art project as i worked on mine. the key to being productive with kids is having some dedicated art space. so you can do work in bits and pieces when you have time. set up/break down/clean up is time consuming. having a nook to just keep things set up if available will help tremendously. thanks again. ",
"I would watch this movie where Terry is a detective in a small town close to the arctic circle investigating a series of strange but gruesome crimes. He's an outsider looking in but no one else can see the happenings in this town like he can. ",
"Wow very nice OP",
"As Mufasa? I'd be all down for that remake",
"Our next president",
"More like Hairy Crews.",
"Beautiful work, op.\n\nYou captured the essence and the beauty of the man.",
"...when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, everybody's gonna jump for joy",
"Terry *LOVES* yogurt!",
"Terry “Lion-o” Crews. ",
"You my dear have a great talent, keep it up, this is so good it almost looks like a photo. Be proud.",
"After stalking the tundra for days, his prey finally came into view. The mighty warrior let out a battle cry that shook the ground. \"You took Terry's yogurt.\"",
"“Terry loves Terry” ",
"If society would stop recognizing people as “black” or “white”, I really think we could have awesome actors play awesome characters. Imagine Terry Crews as Sabertooth. Or Idris Alba as James Bond. But no! Because of the racist nature of humans. We will never have that. Idris Alba doesn’t wanna be known as “black James Bond”. I don’t blame him. I just wish people wouldn’t put so much emphasis on skin color. I think Terry could even play an unbelievable Wolverine. Big jacked ass dude who can look scary as fuck! \n\nExcellent job on the portrait btw! Makes me wanna not spend any money and get off my ass.",
"Send it to him in a pm, I’m sure he’d appreciate it as an artist himself.\n\n\n/u/TheTerryCrews",
"i tagged him in it on IG and i pinged him on here with a message when i posted it to his sub, which he frequents. i am hoping he does see it. ",
"If this happens and Crews gets the art, OP will get the same username-snubbing as Obama gave to shitty_watercolor though.",
"Remember, don’t look for your own slice of the pie. Be incredibly charismatic with the body of a Greek god and make your own pie!",
"you nailed the face but his hair doesn't look like that at all. in fact i'm pretty sure he's bald.",
"Omae wa mo shideiru ! ",
"He is a great artist you should send this to him I think he would love fan art!!!!!!",
"So what did you use?",
"Wizard of Oz remake, Terry’s acting chops would make him an amazing Cowardly Lion. I can already hear his voice. \n\nCowardly Lion: All right, I'll go in there for Dorothy. Wicked Witch or no Wicked Witch, guards or no guards, I'll tear them apart. I may not come out alive, but I'm going in there. There's only one thing I want you fellows to do.\n\nTin Woodsman , Scarecrow: What's that?\n\nCowardly Lion: Talk me out of it!",
"\"so\"",
"Crews-fasa ",
"OLD SPICE GIVES YOU THE POWER TO TRANSFORM INTO A LIIIIOOOOOONNNN",
"Why?",
"WTF are you on about? \n\nOP: I drew Terry Crews. \n\nYou: WHY CAN'T BLACK ACTORS PLAY HISTORICALLY WHITE CHARACTERS?! \n\nYour comment is completely out of place and has nothing to do with this post.",
"I see his name a lot lately, but still can't figure out who he is. And I'm not interested enough to Google it. But good luck to you, Terry Crews.",
"When I saw this drawing, I actually immediately went to thinking that they should reboot Conan the Barbarian with Terry. \n\nToo bad the real reboot was a bit lame.",
"Omg Terry Crews would make a great jedi.",
"Great work, OP! Now ask him to draw a portrait of you!",
"[Reminds me of this](https://youtu.be/-Gq68u-f6X0)",
"Dude he looks like he could play Sabertooth but we all know society would just identify him as “Black Sabertooth”. Exactly the reason Idris Elba turned down the role for James Bond. Read an article every now and then. I’m just indentifying a problem in society. I want Idris Elba to play James Bond cuz he would prolly the best there ever was. \n\nI also complemented you on the drawing. Take the compliment bro. ",
"Why bring race into it at all? It's a digital painting, not a political statement. \n\n>Read an article every now and then \n\nWay to be condescending. I'm well aware of Idris Elba's Bond situation. \n\n>I also complemented you on the drawing. Take the compliment bro. \n\nI didn't make this. Are you new here?",
"Terry loves portraits. ",
"Why the fuck did you even say anything at all? And no I’m not new here. Thanks! I’ve known about Reddit since the beginning. And if you were aware of Idris Elbas situation then you could have come up with a better comment than what you did. Go back to MySpace, Bro. You should see how many fucks I have to give about what you said. \n\nAnd saying what I said wasn’t a political statement. It was a statement about how racial the world is. It’s 2018 so why are we still putting so much emphasis on it? The Democrats! \n\n\nNow it’s a political statement! Lol",
"They need to bring back blue's clues and call it Crews clues. ",
"[your art reminded me of this.](https://i.makeagif.com/media/8-04-2015/QCB4NM.gif)",
"Just waiting for crews to show up out of nowhere.\n",
"So",
"Why you painted him blode... white chicks?",
"I agree that it looks like an actual photo in the thumbnail. Expected one of them hyper realistic drawings that no one should actually be able to make. Magic. Full size it's obviously drawn but, damn, this is really well done. ",
"I support terry crews in exposing Hollywood pedos",
"Oh man, by far one of my favorite clips of his. [PRESIDENT CAMACHO!!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGUNPMPrxvA) Followed closely by his \"[Euro workout](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AuIURhCoAA)\" routine as a fitness trainer.",
"Terry loves fur coats.",
"Just...no, Amy.",
"And he HATES bathroom talk. ",
"Looks like a lion mane",
"Thumbnail looks like a photo man, very nice! ",
"Harry... Crews",
"Can he be the Demoman in any TF2 live action film, please?",
"That must have taken awhile. At any moment during it did you wonder \"what the f am I drawing terry crews for?\"",
"Chewy crews",
"Tell me that you wouldn't rather have President President Camacho to Trump.\n\nHe was a humble man who surrounded himself with the best advisors that he could find. It happened to be some loser who got frozen decades ago with no other merit to himself, but still.",
"Is Terry snuggling up under chewbaccas armpit? ",
"maybe. but... have no expectations, and you'll never be disappointed. i drew it for my own amusement. i'm almost positive terry crews will see this, if he responds that'd be awesome. he's a decent dude from what a hear, and a fellow artist. so i wouldn't be quick to judge him to snub me like that. ",
"I think he'd wear that if you asked him nicely. ",
"Is he trying to survive in the arctic?",
"Why is a lion pooping him?",
"He is a great actor and all around great human being. "
] | 97 |
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So i drew a portrait of Terry Crews.
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/r/pics/comments/7scfa6/this_bar_has_a_frozen_strip_to_keep_your_beer_cold/
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[
"Wonder what a spilled drink on that would do ",
"That's such a cool idea.",
"Put it on...\n\n\n...ice",
"It is really effective on the stemware",
"I just hold my drinks near my heart, has the same effect",
"Capital ale house in Fredericksburg???",
"I see that at UoB here in Davis & Sacramento",
"It would spill. Eventually it might freeze, but probably it would just fill up the trough. If they are smart, they built it with a slight grade to it so any fluids will flow to one side of the bar and into a bucket or spittoon.",
"And Maui brew Co",
"Why are people babysitting beer long enough for it to get warm?",
"Wait until someone falls asleep/passes out at the bar and their mouth/tongue gets stuck. That's why we can't have nice things...",
"Good to know I can keep my glass nice and cold on my hands as my beer warms up!",
"It is ineffective and it is a gimmick, and we have this conversation every time it's reposted. ",
"Looks like Squatters in Salt Lake City. There are a few bars downtown like this like the Beerhive. "
] | 16 |
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This bar has a frozen strip to keep your beer cold.
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/r/pics/comments/7scftp/my_first_visit_to_portland_nw_23rd_ave/
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[
"The shoes look great with the leaves colors",
"Purple Docs and you claim it's your first visit? A likely story...",
"I love your shoes! Where'd you get them?",
"Zappos.com :)",
"I did see that there was a Dr Martens store! But I didn’t get a chance to stop in."
] | 5 |
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My first visit to Portland - NW 23rd Ave.
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/r/pics/comments/7sch3q/my_awesome_nintendo_collection/
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[
"That's...like all the games??",
"You have Faxanadu?",
"Amazing collection, well displayed too!",
"Do you play them all?",
"Well you got em all....now what?",
"Simply awesome!!!!",
"No collection is complete without The Magic of Scheherazade.",
"The land that girls forgot...",
"or a bottle of rubbing alcohol",
"Aka your girlfriend",
"Actually no lol I stick to PS4 nowadays "
] | 11 |
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My awesome Nintendo collection :)
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/r/pics/comments/7schhb/never_try_to_form_number_55_in_a_flash_mob/
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[
"It looks like 55.",
"Those sure are some festive Nazis",
"Never try to make something edgy that isn't even close. http://i.imgur.com/7sXAzg9.gif",
"Just a little more space and WSJ won't have to burn you down.",
"Introducing our latest font: Swastika Serif",
"They did nazi that coming.",
"except, it doesn't look like a swastika (卐). ",
"It's a joke",
"And his comment isn't?\n\nThis comment is a joke",
"You have an non existing sense of humor.\n\n\nI give you an upvote and you post a better joke as reply.",
"2016 US presidential run.",
"I didn't right away. I thought it looked like SS, still Nazi themed, but then the swastika resemblancw appeared."
] | 14 |
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Never try to form number 55 in a flash mob
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/r/pics/comments/7schnj/my_friend_should_be_a_justin_bieber_lookalike/
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[
"Yeah, great, just let him know there's a hierarchy in the double drive thru. ",
"I don't even know what that means :-(",
"Who is the guy she is with?"
] | 3 |
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My friend should be a Justin Bieber lookalike!
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/r/pics/comments/7schqc/found_a_familiar_guy_in_the_background_of_one_of/
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[
"You mean Captain America in the back?",
"Could it be lord Gaben ?",
"#GABEN",
"Who?",
"Gabe Newell, video game billionaire.\n\nAlso known as Lord Gaben, our lord and saviour.",
"No idea what you're going on about. I thought it was going to be some one famous that AI didn't recognize. ",
"AI?",
"I. "
] | 8 |
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Found a familiar guy in the background of one of our photos.
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/r/pics/comments/7scj70/you_know_youve_got_that_base_model_when/
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[
"Those are the vestigial male nipples of the car.",
"That's the finest Honda Civic LX has to offer.",
"And why would you turn off skidmode? It’s the only pleasure I’ve got left. ",
"Meta",
"You forgot your question mark, and your period, and Finnish is a nationality. ",
"Ooof! Now I've got to wonder what the heck that button really is for the rest of my life. You don't really know do you?",
"make stickers for NOS, oil slicks, ludacris speed and spike strips",
"It's [electronic stability control](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_stability_control). If your car has it you'll notice it when you drive in the snow especially if you hit black ice. You'll feel the brakes activating via computer control giving you much better handling. The button disables it. In some cars holding it changes between modes that behave differently. In simple cars it turns ESC off probably for situations if it's behaving badly or broken."
] | 9 |
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You know you've got that base model when...
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/r/pics/comments/7sck0u/sewer_explosion_in_omaha_blasts_fireballs_out_of/
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[
"Having worked around sewer gas. That is going to smell so so so bad",
"Reflection of street lights off wet road?",
"It's not an optical illusion caused by sewer gas, it's a ufo",
"This was a few years ago. Still interesting enough I guess. ",
"Shouldn't have parked there. Oh oh.",
"Koch brothers flushing their chemicals again?",
"That's some michael bay shit",
"I'm pretty sure most people have \"worked with sewer gas\". ",
"Here come the men in black...",
"Badass",
"[Here is the real story](http://www.omaha.com/news/hansen-the-great-omaha-manhole-fireball-photo-mystery/article_89c4d4cb-977e-522f-9535-153246678a99.html):\n\n>There was only one flame when she looked outside, Stephanie says. But when she snapped the photo, the glow from decorative streetlights reflecting off Howard Street's wet pavement made it seem as if there were a half-dozen flames, all perfectly in a row, like a scene from the Apocalypse or from a Batman movie.\n\nIn short, the yellow lights in a line on the street *are not fires* those are reflections from streetlamps.\n\nThere *was* a sewer explosion and there was *one* fire that the photographer saw.\n\nIt's sort of exaggerated news, not fake, but not really accurate either.",
"I'm pretty much just on the production side, aside from the occasional crop dusting or bad elevator ride",
"Seen this? https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/7scfs7/you_can_kill_someone_with_a_fart_smack/\n",
"I too have eaten Taco Bell ",
"Fuck OP for pulling this shit...",
"Shit's on fire, yo!",
"OP probably didn't know or check. This has been making the rounds since 2013 and a whole bunch of news agencies reported it just as OP did in the title.\n\nIt looked like reflections to me so I checked and found that only one reporter had actually bothered to track down the real story, everyone else had just taken the social media story and run with it.",
"Haven't seen this many flaming man holes since Magaluf ",
"Well someone had explosive diarrhoea. *Puts on sunglasses*\n",
"It's like I'm blastin' fireballs out my manhole, Doc!",
"That's probably why someone lit a match",
"[The great Omaha manhole fireball photo mystery.](http://www.omaha.com/news/hansen-the-great-omaha-manhole-fireball-photo-mystery/article_89c4d4cb-977e-522f-9535-153246678a99.html)",
"That makes much more sense, it also looks like almost every car is \"on fire\" in that parking deck.",
"Nah, I'm pretty sure it's a karma farming account. 300+ days old and it just \"woke up\" 6 hours ago and started reposting. ",
"As much as this may be a sad,dangerous situation, the picture is quite interesting....."
] | 26 |
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Sewer Explosion in Omaha Blasts Fireballs out of Manholes
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/r/pics/comments/7sckd2/brazil_maintains_a_fleet_of_hospital_ships_that/
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[
"‘Nevermind those bulldozers lets get you looked at’",
"It is not free. The people just vote for politicians who use tax money on the population in stead of the rich.",
"Repost..."
] | 4 |
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Brazil maintains a fleet of hospital ships that dock at riverside villages and treat the locals for free
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/r/pics/comments/7scpgw/a_dingo_running_across_a_flooded_plain/
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[
"Came in with low expectations. Actually cool. \n\nVery surprised how spritely the dingo is after having just eaten a baby. ",
"It will never know it’s an artist.",
"His shadow looks like a bottle opener, so Aussie.",
"Anyone else seeing that doodle S?",
"same! its like the universal symbol.",
"It was a small baby",
"Everything's brilliant about this pic, but more specifically the \"s\"",
"Somebody help me catch him. He ate my baby.",
"Mayfair filter. Instagram",
"There's no flooding OP, that's just sand.",
"Pretty sure that's a snake.",
"OP appears to be a karma-farming bot that can only copy/paste other people's stuff. The account was born on February 14, 2016 and woke up 12 days ago.\n\nHere it copied/pasted /u/Simmo5150's submission/title from [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/5pw530/a_dingo_running_across_a_flooded_plain/).\n\nIts first-person comment [before this](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7sclcg/what_was_the_worst_thing_that_happened_to_you/dt3qyv6/) (\"I was 13, hiking in New Zealand with my dad. We were walking out from a hut...\") is a copy/paste of /u/foochong's comment [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/687mp4/whats_the_scariest_thing_that_has_ever_happened/dgwk5nv/) (though it did change the age from 16 to 13).\n\nIts submission/title [before that](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/7pnewj/their_rivals_are_the_blood_oranges/) is a copy/paste of /u/Momza's submission/title [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/4dstc3/their_rivals_are_the_blood_oranges/).\n\nIts first-person comment [before that](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/7pmxoq/carrot_sharpener/dsiik6k/) is a copy/paste of /u/koektrom's comment [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/5ac1ug/carrot_sharpener/d9fbh5y/). That thread was started by KevinLeyes.\n\n_____________\n\nKevinLeyes - born Dec 22, 2014, and also woke up 12 days ago.\n\nIts submission/title [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/7pmxoq/carrot_sharpener/) is a copy/paste of /u/Foxman8472's submission/title [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/5ac1ug/carrot_sharpener/d9fbh5y/)\n.\n\nIts comment [before that](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/7pmoq4/this_perfect_cluster_of_apples/dsig90l/) is a copy/paste of /u/cobrakiller2000's comment [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/5b9e8h/this_perfect_cluster_of_apples/d9mv6mc/).\n\nIts comment [before that](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/7pmjrm/shoe_game_on_point/dsifu5g/) is a copy/paste of /u/MimonFishbaum's comment [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/5oqr1q/shoe_game_on_point/dcld0pr/).\n\nIts submission/title [before that](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/7pmt3h/im_not_racist_but/) is a copy/paste of /u/ThereW0LF's submission/title [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/4l5vmq/im_not_racist_but/).\n",
"dingos run in cool S's",
"Dingos Eight my Baby!",
"He didn't necessarily eat the baby, he just *took* it. The rest is a mystery.",
"I wondered why the sand was doing that. Then I read the the title.",
"He obviously is Michigan State fan "
] | 17 |
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A Dingo running across a flooded plain.
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/r/pics/comments/7scpo0/the_face_in_the_shirt_i_made/
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[
"I don’t see it. ",
"Human homer simpson?",
"Right in the center",
"Well, I see two.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the center, it looks like a Native American in a feathered headdress, but there's a spike pointing to the right corner that kind of reminds me of [Charles Manson](https://www.biography.com/.image/t_share/MTE5NTU2MzE2MzA4MTQ1Njc1/charles-manson-9397912-2-402.jpg)..."
] | 4 |
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The face in the shirt I made
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/r/pics/comments/7scq5l/westminster_abbey_during_the_lumiere_festival/
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[
"Awesome! It also looks like a finished page in one of those adult colouring in books :p",
"Looks like a mushroom trip ",
"This has my blessing",
"Looks like those buildings in the colouring books.",
"It rather felt like one! The colours were merging and changing over time. ",
"Saw a projection show like this on the side of the cathedral in Strasbourg, France for the building's millennial anniversary. It was one of the coolest pieces of art I've ever seen. It changed a lot, with all kinds of colorful, trippy imagery imposed perfectly against the intricate architecture. At one point it appeared to be on fire. And of course there was chill music in the background. Such an amazing contrast between old and new. ",
"The Lumiere Festival in Durham is just amazing. But its one of those things that is a victim of its own success unfortunately. The first year I went it was just starting out, so it was fairly quiet and the whole thing had this magical quality. But it was so good that, rightly, everyone wanted to go after that. It got so busy that the places was rammed, you could barely move at some of the bigger installations. Such a shame, I still recommend people go, because its just amazing, but if you don't do well in crowds, be careful.",
"Great pic. My phone made the colours look washed out. Enjoyed the festival",
"The Lumiere London festival was like that its first year out - similar this year as well. Still worth it IMO - sadly I only got to go for one night as I was under the weather and its too much to do in one night.",
"Thanks! It was so much better than I thought it would be. A lovely mix of treasure hunting, community vibes and trippy art. ",
"reminds me of Bismuth",
"I want to the one in Durham in 2011 and it is by far one of my favorite memories of living in Durham.",
"That's some Disney level shi.. right there. Wow! Better even!\n",
"That's amazing. I'd love to see that in-person. \n\nWith a bit of color shifting that would be one hell of a trippy thing to see while heavily \"medicated\" :)"
] | 14 |
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Westminster Abbey during the Lumiere Festival
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/r/pics/comments/7scsw9/met_this_doggo_the_other_day/
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[
"That's a dreadlocker spaniel.",
"Doggo looks like a carpet. But one heck of a cute carpet",
"rawwstafari",
"Mary Jane? In vegas?",
"Looks like a mop with legs XD"
] | 5 |
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Met this doggo the other day
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/r/pics/comments/7scvsh/they_look_like_tiny_men_training_in_the_pool/
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[
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TkedX5ubgs",
"Guild Team Six",
"Fitty men!",
"Dwarfs 2018"
] | 4 |
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They look like tiny men training in the pool
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/r/pics/comments/7scw4a/this_is_baxter_he_is_13/
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[
"Hello Baxter!",
"Retrievers are some of the best dogs. Love him hard.",
"Give him pats for me!"
] | 3 |
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This is Baxter! He is 13
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/r/pics/comments/7scwh2/german_soldier_lighting_his_cigarette_with_a/
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[
"the origin of the hans meme",
"I feel like there’s a reason these two don’t have beards",
"But that thing is only supposed to be used for werfering flammen!",
"Flammenwerfer. Had to say it.",
"It's so gas masks will seal better to a clean shaven face. ",
"User name checks out?"
] | 6 |
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German soldier lighting his cigarette with a flammenwerfer
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/r/pics/comments/7sd4nc/foxes_in_the_snow/
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[
"they look like a dog that is playing in the snow. ",
"Only foxier.",
"Foxy foxes frolicking foxily",
"SOOO MUCH COCAIIIIIN"
] | 4 |
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Foxes in the snow
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/r/pics/comments/7sd70l/funny/
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[
"Those dudes are high AF",
"He says meat is murder but then wears a t-shirt with a pig on it... Hypocritical much?",
"r/golfwang",
"What am I missing here?"
] | 4 |
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Funny
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/r/pics/comments/7sd8hd/looks_like_a_bug/
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[
"The police just won solitaire.",
"Looks more like a station wagon to me.",
"Looks like a repost"
] | 3 |
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Looks like a bug
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/r/pics/comments/7sd9ui/a_line_to_shop_at_the_seattle_amazon_go_a_grocery/
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[
"Every one of them fell for that line though.",
"amazon ~~go~~ wait ",
"Good to start with a city that is easily led.",
"Ideally as more stores open this will become less common until then people will always line up for novel ideas.",
"Where I live any new mainstream store or restaurant does gangbuster business the first week or two. It's only after the novelty wears off that you see if it will persist. ",
"This is a picture of the line BEFORE they opened for the Grand Opening. But hey, circle-jerk away....",
"It works. Now you won't have to wait at the other stores anymore. Go Amazon",
"What we need is to have a way to sit on our couch and browse hundreds of thousands of items and have them delivered to our front door.",
"It's ironic.",
"..don't you think\nA little too ironic, and yeah I really do think",
"They could save others from waiting lines but not themselves.",
"You must be 13, 'OP'",
"[who is the real poster](https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/955522688268746752)",
"it's like raaay-eee-ayyyyyyn",
"I wonder how many of these people supported the $15 minimum wage and then waited in line to enjoy the cost effective alternative. "
] | 15 |
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A line to shop at the Seattle amazon go, a grocery store whose entire premise is that you won’t have to wait in line.
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/r/pics/comments/7sdb4c/january_23_just_before_5am_mt_mayon_explodes_as/
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[
"Run, Jimmy",
"Too damn close. I'd wanna be far enough around the globe till I couldn't see it anymore.",
"you are so damn right",
"Reposts, get your reposts here! Hot off the press from 8 hours ago https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7sasyp/today_mt_mayon_erupted/\n\nOr take this one, this one from 9 hours ago, aged to perfection! https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7sai3f/horses_watching_mayon_volcano_errupt/\n\nGet em before OP steals another picture from rising and the front page! ",
">and have checked for reposts on Karma Decay. Don't believe me? Check it yourself.\n\nK \n\nAnyone seeking more info might also check here:\n\ntitle | points | age | /r/ | comnts\n:--|:--|:--|:--|:--\n[Today Mt. Mayon erupted.](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7sasyp/today_mt_mayon_erupted/) ^**B** | 9330 | 9^hrs | pics | 195\n\n*[Source: karmadecay](http://karmadecay.com/results/u9990552) (B = bigger)*"
] | 5 |
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January 23, just before 5AM. Mt. Mayon explodes as seen from Camalig, Albay, Philippines
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/r/pics/comments/7sdifn/silhouette_cutouts_from_coins/
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[
"Isn't it illegal to debase coins? ",
"I don’t know about that, but they certainly de-faced them.",
"I think coins should be in square format. It makes much more sense. It would be better and easier to store and keep. It would even be better to produce, reducing the cost and materials to make.\n\nAbout the cut out coins, was it make using lasers?\n"
] | 4 |
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Silhouette Cutouts from Coins
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/r/pics/comments/7sdihr/would_you_have_take_the_deal/
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[
"I mean if we were just dating and screwing 2-3 times a day yes. Married for 5-10 years that would be a stretch... Beside that game isn't that great. ",
"No fucking way! I do not need a new ADHD patient. ",
"/u/LBNSLOL, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule IV - Title violates title guidelines.\n\nYour title must not ask for general information or feedback. \n\nYou can read the full information about our title guidelines at /r/pics/w/titles\n\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/LBNSLOL&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7sdihr/would_you_have_take_the_deal/?context=10\\))"
] | 3 |
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Would you have take the deal?
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/r/pics/comments/7sdixr/dont_blink/
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[
"*\"Honey, where did you put my tie?\"* \n \n \n*\"Which one?\"* \n \n \n*\"The one I wore in that picture with the boys 20 years ago.\"*\n \n \n*\"On the top shelf in the wardrobe, next to your oversized suit pants\"* ",
"Don't blink. Blink and you're dead. They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back. Don't look away. And don't blink. Good Luck.",
"Pete Wentz has a weird looking family.",
"Is your dad’s back ok?",
"Blink and some blokes will take off with your kids and photo bomb you",
"https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2014-10/8/11/enhanced/webdr10/enhanced-buzz-6537-1412781055-8.jpg?downsize=715:*&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto"
] | 6 |
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Don't blink
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/r/pics/comments/7sdjob/big_mlem/
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[
"That tongue would be the best potato skin peeler.",
"Or skin peeler in general. ",
"I like my skin.",
"This is a questions that I've always had: would a kitty this size kill you just by playing with you?",
"considering how some cats cut up their owners as \"play time\", probably...",
"Hairy tongue",
"Yeah, that makes this beautiful animal terrifying to me. I mean, think about it. It can kill you while playing with you.",
"Them cross-eyes though",
"..do you want the hose again?! ",
"World class snozzberries.\n\nFor instant hilarity, overlay this picture with the sound effect of someone blowing a raspberry. ",
"It’s all fun and games until you have some canines in your skull. ",
"It can be both, IIRC big cats sometimes toy with their prey. Playing with you with intent to kill / eat.",
"Maybe my cat already does that to me.",
"Umm, you taste good!",
"That would be one painful lick, still better than a deadly mauling.",
"This guys channel is pretty interesting. He’s raised 3 tigers since cubs and you can see them playing with him as babies and adults.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/user/oomyfok",
"Thanks for that :)",
"I remember a story I was told as a kid about a guy who owned a pet Lion and raised it from a cub. One night while he was sleeping it licked his hand and because the tongue is so rough it drew blood. This was enough to cause it to maul him to death. Not entirely sure if the story is true, but it's the reason I would never consider owning a wild animal. Or a cat.",
"Kill your cat. It's the only way.",
"[Here](https://i.imgur.com/3y79EiP.jpg) is a much higher resolution and less cropped version of this image. [Here](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/jalur-the-sumatran-tiger-licks-the-glass-at-symbio-wildlife-news-photo/838985718#jalur-the-sumatran-tiger-licks-the-glass-at-symbio-wildlife-park-in-picture-id838985718) is the source which provides the following context:\n\n> SYDNEY, NSW - (EUROPE AND AUSTRALASIA OUT) 'Jalur' the Sumatran tiger licks the glass at Symbio Wildlife Park in Sydney, New South Wales.\n\n> August 24, 2017\n\nAccording to [here](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/huge-tiger-just-cant-enough-11065985):\n\n> Jalur and his twin sister arrived at the Symbio Wildlife Park , in Sydney, Australia when they were both two years old.\n\n> There are only 230 Sumatran tigers left in the wild and the zoo is helping to combat this through their involvement in international breeding programmes.\n\n> But because Cinta and Jalur are siblings, one of the tigers will eventually be swapped with one from another zoo.",
"Would be cool to see the pic of the person behind the camera (if there was one) at that time...",
"No. The egyptian people worshipped cats. You know what happened after they stopped doing it.",
"Adam Sandler movies.",
"Precisely.",
"Thank you",
"Damn, I'm all out of lotion.",
"Sigh *unzip*",
"Alright.... sends bucket",
"Never again ",
"That looks like quite the exfoliator. ",
"George C Scott has seen some of his movies and it broke him. ",
"I want to clean it’s tongue",
"It can kill you just by playing with him as babies and adults. https://www.youtube.com/user/oomyfok.",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3npY7MTcl7E",
"I knew better than putting peanut butter on my balls.....rough ass tongue",
"Nope nope nope. ",
"Looks like he could mlem my skin off",
"Good for scraping flesh off the bones I imagine",
"cats have spiked tongues to better lick meat from bones",
"#trypophobia",
"That tongue be the best potato",
"r/trypophobia",
"It's odd how cats and dogs developed such different tongues.",
"That tongue... I want to shave it.",
"That tongue is giving me the creeps",
"That cutie could lick the meat off your bones.",
"My grandfather had a big tongue like this. He'd sneak it into your ear or the back of your pants any chance he got. He said he picked it up at a taxidermy market on a trip to India in the 1930s and he kept it in a little suede satchel in his pocket all the time.",
"Nice try Satan",
"These snozzberries taste like snozzberries",
"I thought you meant he had a big tongue and would put it in your pants I was concerned ",
"Kig ol' Bitties",
"This tiger is getting ready to lick the little ducky post just below it on the front page of reddit",
"Tigers and other large cats are apparently more aware of the damage that their claws can cause, so they keep them sheathed in playtime, whereas housecats can get too into it and scratch the fuck out of you.",
"Good. It must be really hard to stop inbreeding with such small numbers.",
"Yeah, everybody knows that they are the same species, just that dogs are the males and cats are the females. Sexual dimorphism at its finest.",
"I had to zoom in. Then wondered why I did",
"Well it’s tongue can quite literally rip the skin right off of you so.... yes probably ",
"Goodbye horses",
"yeah :(",
"It actually depends on the individual cat. The most important factor is having litter mates to play with up to 12 weeks. If they can play and learn with their brothers and sisters what hurts and what is fair play then they are much easier to handle. This goes for cats and big cats.",
"Would? Depends on how it was raised and how well it understood the limits of play...\r\n\r\nCould? Easily....",
"Oh I know it could, I was just wondering whether it would",
"dude what???",
"Woahhhh",
"He is going to die or be horribly maimed someday.",
"Chances depend on many factors, but definitely.\n\nA claw/tooth through the neck / leg artery and you are most likely done for.\n",
"Only a sociopath would think that\n\n",
"and look cute while doing it.",
"This one smells weird. Are you sure you know what you're doing?",
"Definitely. Cat it super cute. That tongue though. Nope to the limit.",
"Precisely.",
"( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)",
"That’s not weird at all. 😳",
"Just... no.",
"Why is a story you’re not even sure is true about one specific species of wild animal be the reason that you’d never consider owning any wild animal or a cat? It seems so unrelated. Like oh crookshanks (or whatever herminones cat was named) was mean in Harry Potter so now I’ll never own a dog. What?",
"If it wanted to, yes - but probably not. They usually know restraint against smaller things. They just want to win.\n\nYour little kitty might have to use claws to win. This cat just has to knock you flat (not hard for it).",
"My ex, never trained her cat well when it was a kitten and it still as a young adult would scratch a lot. Her hands looked like she fell into briers daily.",
"This is a good answer. Thanks",
"yes",
"Khajiit has mlem if you have coin.",
"*horribly mlemed someday",
"They aren't implying that there's a total breeding stock of 230 tigers. That's just how many are left in the wild. With the help of breeding programs through zoos and reintroduction programs, the tigers can recover providing that their habitat isn't encroached upon and they are being tolerated by locals.",
"Uh what",
"r/kenm",
"Good to know",
"First pet eh?",
"First pet she was responsible for training.",
"Everyone is going to die some day",
"Being mauled to death by a tiger is not an ideal way to go out. Large predators often start eating you before you're even dead.",
"I can't even begin to imagine how rough that tongue must be. ",
"Who made the MLEM motion with their mouth just now to figure out what was going on?\n\nAnd then smiled.",
"Probably like industrial strength sandpaper under wet fleece sweatpants with some steel wool added in.",
"Good on you for making that joke. I never do just because of downvotes. These new kids don’t understand. ",
"“Maaaaan”",
"I was wondering why I was getting downvoted lol, kids...",
"I have a full spectrum of cats, one who is quick to anger and will shred you, and one who is the most loving cat I've ever had, who will almost always keep her claws in. "
] | 96 |
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Big Mlem
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/r/pics/comments/7sdklg/shadow_art/
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[
"This is lit.",
"Without a bright mind that wouldn't be visible.",
"That third one reminds me a lot of SHODAN for some reason",
"But a little dark...",
"We must not meddle with dark arts.",
"It always boggles my mind when I see something like this. How would the artist conceived it? I guess I'm just not that good at creative thought. Amazing.",
"A Fox in the shade. ",
"But what happens it there's a blackout?",
"The ticket office closes.",
"So its shart",
"[Here](https://i.imgur.com/PuZZkA7.jpg) is a higher quality version of this image. Credit to the artist, [Fabrizio Corneli](http://fabriziocorneli.net/). This was on display at the Italian Institute of Culture in Madrid. ",
"[Reminds me of these.](http://photodoto.com/30-examples-of-amazing-shadow-art/)",
"Meh..",
"anyone else think it could be better?\nthis is like Minimalist Shadow Art",
"You have created a Grand Magnum Piece. \n\nYour art stat has gone up by 3. ",
"Reminds me of South Park’s Moses",
"Isn't 28 supposed to be Mickey Mouse? The article says it's people dancing lmao",
"Do a barrel roll!",
"Seems awfully underwhelming to dedicate an entire wall to.",
"Imagine how much time this must have taken",
"Ok, it took me a while to realize the shadows were a fox, rabbit, a woman and whatever.",
"yo momma so fat her shadow weighs more than you",
"Where is it?",
"I wonder if they have any \"No Flash Photography\" signs.",
"Lit-erally",
"Shart",
"This is super cool",
"*\"Hmmm, a shadow. I wonder if I can make a picture with them.\"* \n\nSomething like that? :D",
"I would buy the woman's face. For my own wall. And it would serve as lighting as well. I'm down with it. ",
"Id be the guy who accidentally has the flash on.",
"Simple and beautiful! ",
"On my first boy scout overnight trip, our scout leader delighted us with his shadow puppet tricks. They were mostly snakes, unicorns, rhinos, one-horned deer, etc. I went back to my tent when I thought the show was over, but my friend Brian stayed later and the shadow puppets must have gotten even better from the sounds I heard him making in response.",
"I can kinda see how it might look like a couple dancing, but I think you’re right about it being Mickey",
"Color with LED's? ",
"Beyond a shadow of a doubt",
"The two pics that they show of the three people making shadow designs are fake. The shadows don't line up.\n\n* [This one](http://i.imgur.com/IWYYlw3.jpg) they are sitting atop of a solid box, yet the shadow of the box has a slit of light going through it. Also no way to make the curves on the bowl (does that man in the back have a leg that curves perfectly backwards?). And if we are to believe that the guy in the back is making the top of the toilet, he is standing way to tall for the shadow to be cast that low, based on the perspective of supposed source of light. The \"shadows\" of the other two on the other hand seem to cast higher up even though they are sitting much lower.\n\n* [This one](http://i.imgur.com/UsU0R7Q.jpg) the guy is sticking up two fingers, but the cow has three distinct things protruding from his head, nobody else is sticking anything up to account for them. There's nothing to account for the cow's square face. The cow's legs are two oddly shaped and skinny to relate to anything on the people. The belly is too round. The microphone stand is set up at the wrong angle to cast a shadow in that orientation based on the supposed source of light.",
"I gotta call bullshit on the ones with the three people posing. The thinker on the toilet doesn't look possible with how they are positioned. ",
"Plus the cow one. Where is the tail coming from?",
"This one the guy is sticking anything up to account for the shadow to be Mickey Mouse?",
"Wow! Love this",
"I was thinking the same thing. none of it made sense. I assumed I was missing something in the altered perspective, but your breakdown makes me believe theyre fake.",
"u/Nosvind",
"I got that impression",
"Yes, the photos with the three people were a series of ads by Julian Wolkenstein for the \"Merrick, Dools & Ricki-Lee Radio Show\" on Nova FM in Australia. Unfortunately it looks like the project is no longer on Julian Wolkenstein's [webpage](https://www.julianwolkenstein.com), but a few other [sites](https://petapixel.com/2012/10/21/clever-photos-of-people-casting-intricate-shadows-with-their-bodies/) mention this series.",
"What is the second one from the left?",
"Shadow \"art\".",
"It's about the negative space.",
"Why did they not make a bat one?",
"Fairly light on the puns here.",
"People aren't very bright when it comes to casting a shadow joke. It's a whole lot of projection really.",
"I guarantee you someone tries to take a flash photo of this.",
"Lit-erally.",
"I can see it. 🤔",
"I like this.",
"Star Fox on the rich, falcon all the way on the left",
"This guy lights (c)",
"You're bright. The people that are dim don't want to darken their presence. They're afraid of being overshadowed by a glaring prominence."
] | 57 |
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/r/pics/comments/7sdksf/a_castle_in_miami_fl_estimated_to_be_worth_over/
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[
"If i win the Euro tonight im having it",
"If I win I'll invite you ",
"I think it was much less than this both times I've seen it reposted before",
"Mosquitoes must be a bitch.... ",
"Right? All that standing water.",
"That’ll be pretty neat reef material when the sea levels take it over.",
"If you win, I'll invite myself",
"Oh I feel a party coming on. ",
"I lived in Florida for 10 years. I've never been stung by a mosquito. I've never even seen one now that I think about it.\n\nAs for the house in the middle of a pond/lake. It's probably the most practical thing down there. It's so damn hot, a large body of water would keep the home pretty cool. I used to live right next to Okeechobee. Was pretty cool with the constant breeze. Too bad this house looks butt ugly though :P",
"I apologize, I'm in Minnesota, standing water means mosquitoes. Lakes just limit the heat not humidity. Different worlds I suppose. "
] | 10 |
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A Castle in Miami, FL. Estimated to be Worth over $12 Million
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/r/pics/comments/7sdntj/artist_with_prosthetic_arm_turns_his_arm_into_a/
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[
"how can he get so much detail with no wrist and fingers?",
"I'm glad we got Jean Luc back from his plundering horde.",
"Awesome Steampunk prosthetic",
"\"Let me kill 'im pa. I want his ears!\" - Junior Angel",
"The Borg have begun their assimilations. (It's also awesome!)",
"Maybe he guides it with his left hand?",
"It might be more steady than having a hand tbh. When I grip a pen or anything, my hand shakes. Part of me feels like my forearm is more stable. Will report back if I ever lose my right hand. "
] | 7 |
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Artist with prosthetic arm turns his arm into a badass tattoo machine.
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/r/pics/comments/7sdqvx/some_things_dont_change_even_after_a_long_time/
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[
"[Here's](https://imgur.com/gallery/rmxo4) a full album of recreated pics similar to this one",
"Left dude still tired of the other guys bullshit ",
"The people in the background are totally different. ",
"These kinds of pictures always make me smile.",
"Recreating photos is just so boring as everyone is doing it. There needs to be another level to the challenge. Like recreating it with people that have changed genders or people that have physically changed A LOT. ",
"He has the easiest job in the photo recreation.\n\nGuy 2 has to stick fries in his nose, and Guy 3 has fries sticking out of his mouth, but the first guy just needs to sip his soft drink and look upset.\n\nI mean, if they needed anyone else to pretend that they're fed up and sick of someone, they could have just hired my ex girlfriend. ",
"Hey I'm in one of those!",
"Except buddies hairline. ",
"Well, the vast majority of their DNA is the same, so... They're pretty close. ",
"The haircut on the boy to the left moved from him to the next guy",
"Yeah looks like those genes haven't changed for a while.",
"which one?",
"Dude #3 do yourself a favor and buy new glasses ",
"Lol, great recreation, love to see these fun feel good posts. Thanks for the smiles today.",
"16",
"[Number 16.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/4ow350/10_years_apart/)",
"That [appears](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/3orec9/11_years_later_burger_king_still_sucks_and_my/) to be /u/ScootaBoy93. ",
"You'd be angry too if your friend stole your haircut...",
"And buddie's cup",
"/u/Mutropolis appears to be [number 1](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/3c5xw1/the_family_that_showers_together_stays_together/).\n\n/u/Claybotron appears to be [number 4](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1ejh9f/made_my_mom_laugh_more_than_ive_ever_seen_18/).\n\n/u/ImHereToFuckBitches appears to be [number 5](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/uzkhe/first_post_for_our_fathers_birthday_we_tried_to/c500xvo/).\n\n\n/u/Pacificfrim appears to be [number 6](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1ummyk/got_a_lot_of_positive_feedback_on_fb_for_this/).\n\n/u/tyrol13 appears to be [number 8](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/65qxwn/its_unexplainable_how_much_effort_and_commitment/).\n\n/u/asuh appears to be [number 9](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1kk4ez/1984_and_2013_29_years_later_my_brothers_and_i/).\n\n/u/DirtyDrummer appears to be [number 16](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/4ow350/10_years_apart/).",
"Except hairlines ",
"Or you can just live your own life and not worry about internet challenges.",
"[That overalls pic](https://i.imgur.com/FK8NUZu.jpg) tho",
"Even the couple in the back changed genders",
"Looks like the kid on the left integrated his hairline. ",
"He's still the hottest of the group tho. His friends look like straight up freaks in comparison.",
"Dude on the right looks the same ",
"Wow on right i thought you were a girl.",
"The cup says Burger King but the hair says McDonald's.",
"Yes sir! ",
"Is it a good idea to microwave this?",
"Sadly some things do. You never see women wearing half mullet half pony anymore",
"Came here to see this",
"Thought this was a scene from dumb and dumber",
"Long time. What is this 5 years later?",
"...still? ",
"These are my brothers friends. The guy on the left lived a few houses down from me. This is the 3rd time this has been on the front page too",
"Aye it's JJ.",
"disappointed they didn't find the same people to sit at the back table",
"Passing the fringe/bangs through the family ",
"Too bad you couldn't find the person sitting behind you three. Good for you to keep the seat empty in his/her honor.",
"true friendship",
"Middle guy of 2nd pic stole left guys haircut",
"Hey the girl on the right turned into a boy ",
"Just hairlines ",
"That hairline does change, unfortunately. ",
"Guy on the lefts hair line certainly changed ",
"I bet they still had the good chicken tenders in that top picture. ",
"he looks pretty mellow to me",
"Yeah, like bad eyeglass choices... :-(",
"Except hairlines...also, dude on the right is gonna look 35 when he's 80 apparently. ",
"Well a couple of things changed the person directly behind the guys lost the ponytail, hair turned grey, and they got a ball cap, and the person they are with transitioned from a black guy to a white guy with a bandana. ",
"Except your hairline",
"The guy on the left has Michael De Santa hair.",
"I nostalgia'd hard over the old BK logo!",
"The guy who doesn't know how to eat remained thin. Story checks out.",
"Roughly 10-11 actually, I'm guy in the middle.\n\nThis was posted about a year and a half ago in a different thread.",
"Is it the same restaurant too?",
"The Jonas brothers haven’t changed a bit!",
"I swear that BK looks like the one I worked at in high school.",
"Guy on the right looks like if Nibbler was a human",
"I'd like to believe that it's the same two people in the background, too. ",
"Someone's hair line definitely changed...",
"Still the \"new\" Burger King logo which was what 2001? Not that new to me.",
"It evolved. ",
"This is the best one of these I've seen "
] | 66 |
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Some things don't change even after a long time
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[
"It looks like it belongs in Star Wars.",
"Is it endangered because cranky old Jedi dudes keep wanting to milk it?",
"Damn, one time a red ant bit the inside of my foreskin. ",
"😍",
"I'm pretty sure I saw this antelope playing clarinet in a cantina once.",
"A face only a mother could love. ",
"It's amazing",
"You don't fool me. It's half the picture of a plain antelope mirrored! ",
"When a tapir and an impala love each other very much....",
"Lol its face reminds me of the face they make in Rick and Morty, like how Morty's mouth looks when playing Roy at chitz and blipz",
"I wanna pet it's snoot.",
"I recall an Attenbourgh nature special where he talked about how many there were. how, in good times they would calve at a young age and often have twins.\n\n\nNow they are endangered. What the Hell?!",
"No that was the blue elephant in RotJ. Costume design at it's finest.",
"Yep, *A New Hope* Mos Eisley - https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/c/c3/Garindan.jpg",
"While it certainly sucks it's endangered, magnificent certainly isn't the first adjective that comes to mind hahahaha.",
"No wonder it's endangered, it has an uncircumcised penis for a nose.",
"Was just thinking it wouldn't look out of place if I were colonizing some planet out there.",
"I seem to recall that the saiga are disease prone; every decade or two something tears through the huge herds and wipes out a majority of the antelope.",
"Alf?",
"It has the potential to be cute but then... that NOSE.\n\nWe are united souls. We share a similar existence.",
"Max Rebo was the boss but sy snootles was an abomination",
"Max. Rebo. \n\nHe's a fucking galactic superstar. ",
"Also known at the penis butt face",
"Penis nose ",
"But how",
"Is this where the double-barreled shotgun comes from?",
"Did anyone else notice it's got a weird fucking nose?",
"This just has to be the inspiration for Alf. ",
"I’ve never seen this animal before in my life. Beautiful.",
"I imagined some Attenborough dialogue as I viewed this magnificent specimen.\n\nDA: \"Let's have a listen as the male of the species, who's the one with the large proboscis, sends out a pleading call to potential mates across the vast, cold expanse of the fronzen tundra\"\n\nSaiga: [\"PHNORK\"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qqE_WmagjY)\n\n",
"I was just reading, apparently when they were filming *Planet Earth 2,* around 150,000 (1/3 of the population) died over the course of 3 days from disease. :(\n\n**Edit:** https://youtu.be/NNmezwOk5JI",
"How what ",
"Yeah, well, she's lookin' right back at us & thinkin', (\"Poor monkeys - every last one of them with mange.\")",
"Looks like he's from dr suess. "
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The endangered and magnificent Saiga antelope.
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[
"Go get screwed. . .back together.",
"Looks like you just lost a screw and they aren’t actually broken. ",
"where's the screw？I don't know😂😭",
"Why did they censor \"Shoot!\"??",
"Oh it's good idea,I don't have a screw, but I have paper clip,maybe I probably don't go to the glasses shop, just do it by myself, thanks!"
] | 5 |
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S***t! My glasses are broken ....
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[
"Courtesy: Vama dalal",
"Those are fucking terrifying. I hate them! ",
"They be searching for that butter chicken",
"Drug Kingpin lives nearby",
"What idiot put bird seed all over the road?",
"Yup. Worst case of being cock-blocked I've *ever* seen...."
] | 6 |
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You shall not pass! (Chandigarh, India)
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/r/pics/comments/7sdwnt/an_old_abandoned_road_slowly_healing_over_and/
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[
"That kind of pictures always fascinates me",
"I wish it was abandoned. My tax dollars hard at work.",
"Nature respects our traffic rules. ",
"One leave blower away from a pristine road does not qualify as “healing”. ",
"A leaf blower is going to clear that road of moss and logs? ",
"Beautifully put",
"they’re really respecting the double line rule",
"/r/reclaimedbynature",
"TIL roads are made with slight raises in the middle to reinforce the lines we avoid while driving.",
"Also /r/abandonedporn",
"Where is this?",
"Nature vs man",
"Day one of the government shutdown, the roads have become self aware have begun to return to their pre-enslaved form. ",
"This is gorgeous. ",
"A****** nature, ruining man's hard work",
"I think it may have more to do with drainage.",
"TIL I should think about erosion before posting.",
"It’s raised in the middle to channel rain off to the sides, generally. ",
"Or I thought I learned something and didn’t, Dunning Kruger, sheesh. ",
"I think you misused that term.",
"Why did you delete the comment it was used in response to?",
"Someone needs to show this trick to my township.",
"Trouble is, about five thousand years for those siderails. ",
"When I was in high school, I found an old abandoned plantation in a field a ways from my house. When I found it, there were a couple windows broken out of the main house but it was otherwise in good shape. \n\nI visited again ~5 years later, and the change was amazing. The porch collapsed, the bathtub fell through the floor, the roof had caved in a few places and there were turkey vultures nesting in it. The basement was completely inaccessible. Not only the house, the grounds looked wild even though it had been pretty manicured when I found it.\n\nNature does not play games reclaiming what is hers.",
"A leaf blower? I'm not certain one of those jet blowers they use on race tracks would even be helpful.",
"still in better condition than not abandoned ones in my country",
"Let me guess, Russia?",
"The people of the future will wonder, is this the lava flow that killed the homosapiens? Is it the road to Valhalla? Nah...just defunct Route 12 in Minnesota.",
"How is it possible this abandoned being reclaimed by nature road still looks in better shape thank 90% of the roads in my province where we have potholes big enough to lose a car in. ",
"It's okay. Everything in those side rails came from the earth; they're just returning in a different combination. ",
"How cool would it be if The Walking Dead actually got this kind of thing right?",
"I think there's an old saying in New England (source *The World Without Us*) \"the simplest way to bring down a barn is to cut an 18-inch-square hole in the roof and wait.\"",
"No snowplows to cause the potholes",
"Snowplows cause potholes? ",
"It appears to be the work of the Lorax",
"I saw an old white flight suburb from the 1980s outside of New Orleans that was being completely reclaimed by trees and vines. ",
"There's a place nearby my family used to go hiking that had a small town that was forced to abandon due to a dam/lake bring installed nearby maybe 50 years ago. 20-25 years ago you could make out roads, foundations and some tilework still. \n\nNow the only way to tell what was there is to realize the long straightish clearings were roads. The foundations grown over, the roads covered with grass, but larger plants still can't grow in concreate so it's just clear areas surrounded by forrest. ",
"If the plow hits a bump in the asphalt it can sever a piece. \n\nAlso, and in my experience in winter, cracks get filled with water and freeze, causing chunks to break up. \n\nI'm sure there are other causes as well.",
"lol Moss and leaves do not a reclamation make.",
"No, they don't. It's often the freeze thaw cycle moving things around and causing cavities under the pavement that get compacted by large vehicles. Snow plows just help remove the chunks. ",
"This is a great picture. Theres a ton of content here. Great vision.",
"what if i told you it was just decorated for the walking dead? notice how nice the center still looks and how fresh the railing appears...",
"Just because you can't see the holes doesn't mean that there are no holes",
"...bad stuff’s gonna happen down this road, when a crescent moon minimally lights the way...",
"Looks like the kinda place where you get twatted by a deathclaw.",
"I think so; have never researched it.",
"It's called a camber (or cant or cross slope)\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_slope",
"You can't cut back on funding! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!",
"We will trip over them, running though, in the coming Zombie apocalypse. ",
"this is how the roads should look in the walking dead",
"Aaaaaand it's in better condition than the roads in Metro Detroit. FML",
"Tires hitting cracks and fissures in the asphalt is what causes potholes. Little surprise that this road looks in good shape.",
"It would be cool if the series was good after season 1.",
"I was gonna say, no way the paint lasted that long ",
"Got any proof? Or just good ol' fashioned reddit disbelief? ",
"This is just what our bike paths in NYC look like.",
"Power washing porn anyone?",
"Me too. I had thought about going out and photographing a bunch of these old roads and rail lines near me and making a coffee table book. Unfortunately, I have been thinking about it for so long that most of the places I wanted to photograph are gone. Getting old sucks. ",
"love this",
"Thanks Obama. ",
"How do places that don't get snow have potholes?",
"I think that's just how galvanized crash barriers appear once they lose their sheen.",
"Reminds me of fall out 4 where you have to hunt down Kellogg with Dogmeat ",
"That road is in significantly better shape than the roads actively \"maintained\" out here in OK. Ahhh the red state life /s",
"That's what always annoyed me about the Fallout games. They set it 200ish years after the fact, yet stuff is still around.\n\nYou pointed out that 5 years was devastating to a building. After 200 years, almost no trace of the previous civilization would remain.\n\nSure you could say \"Radiation killed plants!\" but that would be bullshit since there are clearly plants and trees everywhere. Plus there are giant bugs which would love eating all that rotting wood and junk.",
"But why wouldn't they fix those problems if it was the walking dead? Wouldn't the rust and worn out paint look thematically sound?",
"It’s always that guys fault. Even before his first term. ",
"That's way more set dressing than TWD has ever done to a road. The most they ever really do is add some pinestraw and put an abandoned, rusted-out car on the side of the road (because that *always* happens in the span of 2-3 years). ",
"Yeah, plus this type of regrowth could be a year or two, its dead leaves and moss.",
"Yes it absolutely would.",
"It looks like a scene out of The Walking Dead.",
"I love this!",
"Yeah there's nothing especially \"fresh\" looking about the railing. If he's expecting to see it rusted, you're right, galvanized railings will pretty much always look like this.",
"or a match",
"Haha, snowplows don't cause potholes. Potholes are caused by water seeping into cracks in the road. When the water freezes, it expands, and breaks the surface of the road.",
"This happens when a new road or highway is constructed. ",
"Water, animals, and mildew/mold?",
"Take pictures of coffee tables before it's too late for them, too. ",
"That's true of everything on earth though.",
"That looks like NE Scarborough. Off of Sewells perhaps.",
"Healing over...?",
"Especially before his first term. I consider GWB to be his fault, and we all know how that turned out.\n",
"/r/writingprompts",
"Sim City 2000!!!",
"r/nothingeverhappens",
"U.S. Civil War: thanks Obama",
"You'll be amazed by how little time this takes. I used to live in a house where there wasn't a back yard. You went out the back door and you were in the woods. There was a concrete slab back there and when I moved in I had to clear out about an inch of dirt, leaves and tree branches off of it. I didn't even know it was there at first. \n\nSo I live here for a few years and move out, but the landlord is a friend of mine and she never, I mean, *never* goes out the back door. I go to visit her one day about 3 years after I moved out and that concrete slab looked exactly the same as when I moved in. \n\nIf human beings went extinct tomorrow, it would only be about 100 years or so before nature would reclaim damn near everything. The first things to go would be the roads. ",
"Six years ago a group of campers went up there and got lost. Had to eat each other to say alive. Used to be the way to O'Riley house. He butchered over fifty children and kept their bodies in a cellah. But, you should find an old bridge about halfway up. That bridge is cursed, you know? They built it with the bones of two hundred Chinese laborers who were massacred in '34. Yeah. Lotta history down that rod.",
"I strongly suspect this path is still being used by bicycles and pedestrians, so the centre remains worn clean. Those railings are made of galvanized steel - they'll look \"fresh\" for centuries.",
"Mostly water. Wood starts to rot, and when it freezes inside cracks water can break concrete/stone/brick.",
"Is removing the chunks not a necessary step in creating a pothole? I think it's safe to say that a road with no factors (vehicles like snow plows) aside from the freeze thaw cycle acting on it would develop a lot less potholes and take a lot longer to develop them.",
"A lot of farmers do this in the Mid west, build a new barn then just let the old one rot until it falls over. ",
"Those paints are made to withstand decades of traffic use. Without much traffic, they'll last even longer.",
"Best The Last of Us cosplay",
"This should be the cover for Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road'",
"Im ok with this",
"In Fallout you and a select few are vaulted, the outside world still has people/mutants the whole time.",
"Location of picture?",
"This is really beautiful.",
"This is both beautiful and eeriely haunting at the same time.",
"Now I'm picturing God and his 18-inch square dick fucking Barn roofs.\n\nI need coffee, and probably shouldn't be operating any heavy machinery",
"Vehicular traffic is a major cause of road damage. ",
"Agreed. We had a paint truck with the yellow paint tip over and cover the entire road decades ago. It's still here to this day and even takes the abuse of being part of the busiest road in town",
"It absolutely would. This is not decorated road. It's most likely a walking/biking path through a reserve of some kind. ",
"/u/mapmyhike do you know where this is?",
"It really looks like Ireland, with the grey skies/landscape. ",
"Post-apocalyptic fiction is full of this kind of stuff. Stories set a decade after the fall of civilization and people are still driving trucks, riding bikes, using machinery that can't last more than a few years without fresh supplies of fuel, oil, rubber, etc... TWD comics got it kind-of-right after the time skip where they're back to medieval technology and not much else.",
"Probably easier than cutting a hole in the roof",
"Man 0, Nature 1",
"Hah this was way better than my answer. Nice one man.\n",
"That's the tiniest bicycle name I've ever seen",
"Yes, but snow plows aren't required for it. Really just need vehicle movement to compress and knock free the debris. ",
"Good location for walking dead to film, years after the apocalypse most of the roads are still fine lol",
"What if I told you there are roads like this all over preservation areas. Walking/biking paths that were laid down in the 60/70s and barely touched since. The roads last longer because they aren't driven/salted/plowed on. ",
"What most of the roads should look like in the walking dead. But don’t.",
"I would love to run here.",
"NYS is full of them. Driving along I90, you can't miss them. Sometimes they still seem to have stuff in them, or are still close to maintained buildings, to the point where I have to think it would be safer to just fix them or pull them down.",
"WWII? Obama, but mostly Michelle. ",
"Why do I feel like driving a rally car through that?",
"The using of the phrase “healing over” in this context makes my soul warm",
"Memory Lane",
"All they do for TWD is throw some leaves and grass clippings on the roads. It's definitely one of the parts of the show you have to willingly look past to believe.",
"\"Healing over\"... I like that. You have a way with words, OP.",
"Wonder what caused this road to stop being used ",
"It would need 10x it's already ridiculous budget.\n\nMaybe if they ever condensed it down into a 4 part movie series. ",
"Do you mean old buildings that people still occupy, or maintain the grounds? Because that's very much different.",
"My name is Kunta Kinte Drive.",
"Seriously. Because of GWB, we ended up with fucking *Obama*.\n\nThanks Obama.",
"Ireland doesn't have yellow in the middle of the road",
"And my axe!",
"I love that phrasing. ",
"Still in better conditions than the ones patched in Michigan. ",
"I think nature is not in danger from global warming. We are.",
"Depression - Obama",
"The center doesn't look nice at all. It's all cracked up. Considering people aren't using the road, why would the center line get worn out?",
"[I like to muck around with other people's photos](http://i.imgur.com/hn3IPdP.jpeg)",
"unfortunately, thats how developers/owners get around Historic Preservation rules. \n \nSabotage it, and wait till its so bad in condition, they have to let you tear it down. ",
"Very very very very few of them, comparatively. It's reasonable that Vegas in New Vegas would still be standing, but it is not reasonable that most of the uninhabited commonwealth would be in such great shape.",
"Big Bang, Thanks Obama.",
"Oh shit did I cross over to another dimension where I write *The Happening* based on a Reddit thread, instead of that slumdog bastard?",
"You didn't played it, obviously? Not Mutants nor people of the wasteland maintain almost any building.",
"Got a picture of that? Or even a Google streetview location? Seems pretty cool",
"That is a fantastic read! 10/10 highly recommend. ",
"All the plastic will be vaporized by our red giant sun just like everything else on Earth.",
"And guardrails. ",
"Hey, Obama can't be all bad. He limited Obama to two terms. ",
"Make sure you get a picture of a coffee table book on that coffee table.",
"Yup. And a lot of those places are in various states of disrepair. Some are in good order, and are actively occupied. Others are much more decrepit, and it's possible they were maintained for some time then abandoned much later for whatever reason. \n\nPlus, you know, suspension of reality. I mean, they were from a timeline where cars ran on nuclear fuel, power armor exists, you can cure radiation with a pill, etc, so... ",
"Makes for great photography.",
"Ever watch the History Channel show 'Life After People'? They went over what would happen to things like Fenway Park, Statue of Liberty, Lincoln Memorial, all sorts of historical things and what would happen if people ceased to exist. It was really interesting how quickly it happened and just how much upkeep there is to maintain the quality of what we are surrounded by. The show has been off the air for years but maybe it's available on YouTube, really fascinating.",
"The show http://www.history.com/shows/life-after-people is a really interesting take on this concept. It's theoretical, of course, but they touch on a lot of good details, like the beeping of smoke alarms in empty neighborhoods as their batteries age.",
"Yeah, that was my first thought. The center is clear because it's the part that still sees foot/bike traffic.\n\nAlso, FWIW, in the Walking Dead the roads are almost always still clear of trees/moss/whatever.",
"> healing over\n\nThis makes me (irrationally) angry. Why don't you heal over yourself to the state you've been in for the most of fourteen billion years?",
"This honestly could be anywhere in the world. For some odd reason I think Raystown Lake, near Huntingdon, PA, specifically at Brumbaugh's.",
"Kudzu don't play. ",
"Meh I’m in PA and it looks exactly like that outside right now. That’s an awfully American looking center line and guard rail. I’d bet money that this is somewhere between Appalachia and New England in the US. the trees and brush look exactly like everything does here. ",
"i’ve always thought of asphalt roads as being like scars. thought i was the only one. ",
"... and Chicago\n\nEdit: I would love to see a subreddit of the shittiest roads in the world. Is that a thing?",
"I see zombies in the woods to the right. Luckily the barrier will stop them until they trip over it and form a zombie ramp to climb over. You'd think that would give me time to limp away bu, no, I keep tripping and slipping on the moss and leaves. A zombie grabs my shoe and I finally get away in the nick of time.",
"wear and tear...",
"How many of the remaining structures are of natural materials though?\n\nThe setting is irradiated desert. There are plants, but it's not lush greenery. You've got hardy, small, plants that are evolved to need little nourishment. They aren't growing in areas that have to compete for light and water, such as in the city areas. They're out in the scrublands.\n\nThe structures that stand are metal and concrete. The shacks that are built by survivors are primarily corrugated sheet metal. The few wooden things you find are more akin to driftwood, and are built after the fact.\n\nHorizon Zero Dawn and Last of Us has it right in that the world apocalyptic event doesn't effect the earth (and/or story reasons explain it), so those plants can grow unabated. But Fallout is the early stages of the world recuperating from an event that fucks up everything, not just animals",
"Come on, it's photoshopped, people.",
"More like Toby Drive",
"Agreed, that would have been awesome.",
"No it completely depends on the conditions. In an arid place with mild temps year round even wood structures will last a really long time. In a temperate forest or a tropical jungle they have no chance.",
"It’s obviously still used as a bike or walking trail or else leaves would cover it entirely. ",
"Your name is Toby avenue",
"Thanks Obama for The Black Death Pandemic of 1346-1353. It was called the Black Death and he is black...seems legit.\n",
"And my bow!",
"Probably faster, too. ",
"How is this road abandoned when it is in better shape than most roads over here?",
"The great one, or just mine?",
"I'm going to make a guess of Baltimore, the murder park where they shut the roads into it",
"Humans are nature, thus anything we do is natural. \n\nHumans are just smarter than bees, which is why cities are more complicated than hives.\n\nThis is entropy, the highly ordered and intentional state of the road is being slowly broken down into randomness.\n\nEventually it will all fizzle out in the heat death of the universe.\n\nHappy Tuesday.",
"That's true about the mild arid climates. I still don't expect they would last 200 years, because animals would do enough damage. Especially larger structures.\n\nHowever you don't need a temperate forest or tropical jungle. Grasses and other ground cover will do plenty of damage, as will animals.\n\nThe most egregious offenders were FO3 and FO4 anyways.",
"That road is in better condition than some of my local roads, that are supposedly \"maintained\".",
"This comment is under appreciated.",
"It’s probably now used as a walking or biking trail, which keeps the middle from growing over. ",
"Can confirm in PA, looks shitty. Also, those trees. ",
"If Horizon Zero Dawn taught me anything, this is definitely not Photoshoped.",
"Aren’t they the same thing ",
"Barn burners are a hated group of people",
"Reminds me of that TV show with Billy Burke, Revolution. ",
"Now I’m even more intrigued. What’s that park’s name? Wouldn’t that make it less safe by shutting down the roads or are people randomly picked off as they drive through?",
"I had to check the username in case it was Shittymorph",
"/r/abandonedporn",
"The great one pre-dates mine by a couple of years. I think Obama might have caused both though.",
"Also common in the Mid-Atlantic area. Although old, decaying chicken houses and grain silos are more common than barns. ",
"Seriously. Some would be nicer if they stopped trying to patch and just made it a dirt road.",
"People pay top dollar for used barnwood nowadays, though.",
"Snowplow stealthily drives around in the night, possibly during a thunderstorm so you don't notice it. ",
"This is the cover for Stephen King's 'The Moss'",
"Tide Pods. Thank you Obama ",
"And any non-interstate highway in Arkansas. ",
"Can't be a coffee table, without a coffee table book. Then it would just be a table.",
"Anytown, USA",
"looks like the midwestern US. Somewhere far enough north that the trees lose their leaves",
"Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. ",
"This comment is fake, look at the pixels. ",
"Still better than most roads in Massachusetts. ",
"Zoom in on the full image. The cracks go through the lines, and there's no paint inside the cracks, which would happen if you sprayed paint down on a cracked road. So the paint is older than the cracks.",
"That was a good thing though. ",
"Toby Place; as in \"know your...\"",
"I had a great idea, of filling a book of pictures of coffee tables.. and having little legs on the book itself, as though its a coffee table. A meta coffee table book, if you will.",
"That is one hell of a risky click. ",
"I wonder if Obama hadn't been elected, would we still have Trump in office? Thanks, Obama.",
"That's because they're the same. Ireland, Scotland, and Appalachia all share the exact same ancient mountain range just split apart over time by continental drift.\n\nEdit: [Here's a link](https://youtu.be/GAKwRou6HUwto) to a fascinating Tom Scott video on the matter. ",
"This is strangely satisfying to me. Makes me question wether or not I want the downfall of modern society. Yes, yes I do. Please nature, eat up the streets. Crumble the sky scrapers. Rid us of the litter we have paved over your beauty. Win!",
"Y'all haven't been to Nicaragua",
"[He's aware.](https://media.giphy.com/media/12O2XuGsIx1OvK/giphy.gif)",
"Or one year of an unused road in Georgia.",
"well, New Vegas is set in the desert, so I think the buildings would last quite a bit longer without the humidity getting to them.",
"So fall and bike riders stay in the middle of the road? ",
"Could easily be eastern Kansas or Missouri on a grey day as well",
"LOL the same can be said for Trump now. I see Trump getting blamed for things all the time on Facebook.",
"Do a Google search for UK ex railway roads, in the 1960s the government closed a lot of routes, I love walking down the old track paths when I can, always interesting.",
"[It's on YouTube, yah](https://youtu.be/yQOAhyqPw5k)",
"I’ve always thought a lot of it was the lack of climate control. Exposure to extremes would cause a lot of expanding and shrinking, loosening nails and joints, then the water makes it on and it’s in from there.\n\nThe house directly acrossed from me has been standing for 11 years with no one inside but The family still has central heat and air to the place. They might visit the home once every two years now and it has no issues that I can tell.",
"True. As for the plastic, probably some bacteria will evolve in the next 100000s of years to eat it all.",
"probably illegal",
"It reminds me of the last of us. I bet there's a subreddit for this kind of thing.",
"Then head over to r/AbandonedPorn/",
"Thanks Trump, then!",
"https://media.giphy.com/media/2wFRLcV5d4ttS/giphy.gif",
"Nice to know that when we inevitably destroy ourselves that life will find a way",
"Blacktop Roads Matter!",
"I love pictures like these. The ones where old unused building are so fascinating. How quick nature returns. ",
".....healing over??",
"There’s a tv series that I think you’d enjoy. Shows what multiple cities would look like after many years of no humans ",
"Can confirm.",
"That was my thought. I'd much rather take this abandoned road to work instead of I-24 through Nashville.",
"Main street was it's slave name.",
"That makes sense. I’ve never been to Scotland or Ireland but that makes great sense. The guard rail and center line look like what we have here though. \n\nBut like I said, I’ve never been to Europe maybe y’all have the same guard rails ",
"caAaaARrrrLL",
"That's **crazy**: those old barn boards are en vogue and probably worth a ton of money. And the timbers could be worth a fortune as well, especially if they are are a hard to find wood.\n\nRecycled 3/4\" thick southern yellow pine boards were $9/sqft 5 years ago, probably a lot more now, and you can make a lot of those from a beam...",
"There's subs for them if you didn't know.\n\n/r/reclaimedbynature and /r/AbandonedPorn for example.",
"He'd assume they were some other film set or something crazy.",
"Down here in Florida, there are old houses just right off the road that are so overgrown and dilapidated you wouldn't even notice them from the road unless you happened to be looking at them. Somehow they're still standing (mostly). What amazes me is they're not like out in the sticks, there are often other newer houses around/nearby with people living in them. My only explanation is their previous owner died maybe and nobody has the legal right to bulldoze them.",
"I90 is my favorite road. It’s the quintessential interstate highway. At just over 3000 miles, it’s the longest in the United States. It connects Boston to Seattle and crosses 13 states. You see big cities and huge stretches of rural nothingness. You’ll see mountains and plains and forests and the ocean. It had the last stoplight in on a U.S. interstate highway and one of the last snow sheds as well. It’s an awesome road. I’d say give it a drive sometime. \n\nEdit: I was wrong. Wallace, Idaho had the last stoplight on I90 not on all of the US interstate highway system. ",
"… or it’s windy ",
"Life finds a way",
"And roads. It's all dirt tracks and ditches. No-one has seen a flat road in Ireland.\n\nNot one soul.",
"It’s not healing, it’s being consumed by nature.",
"But he's the reason why *Obama* had two terms!",
"It's a beautiful reminder how fast something will be dysfunctional if it isn't maintained.\n\nMaintaining infrastructure isn't as sexy as building something new but it does cost a lot less.",
"“Healing”? Don’t equate making a road with butchering mother nature.",
"Y’all must have never traveled down south....Mississippi...",
"Probably not, Thanks Obama",
"IIRC, there’s a post from a guy who found a bunch of old Playboy magazines in a shed or some such",
"It's [the road ahead](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Ahead_\\(Bill_Gates_book\\))! Not quite how Bill envisioned it, but pretty symbolic of what happened to Microsoft.",
"I think a big problem with the Fallout games is that of scope, they want to present this big overarching world but don't have the time/money/technology to invest in creating a world that feels logical* so they focus on aspects that they can do and fudge the rest.\n\n\\*for example take supermarkets with stuff left on the shelves after 200 years with a world full of scavengers, now extrapolate out to the rest of the game",
"Yeah. That middle patch is nice looking. ",
"I think it's interesting to think about what would happen if humans just disappeared one day. Like, how things would look in 1 year, 50 years, etc.\n\nI imagine in 50 years even the cities would start to look wild again.",
"Why doesn't he just break it in half? See, it's this lack perseverance which is why we ended up with health insurance regulations instead of universal healthcare",
"Go today! ",
"Being based in the UK for the next few months, that could be worth a try! ",
"I never understood how is this an issue. I mesn...you can just snap the cookie in half. Or get a bigger glass.",
"Check out the book “The world without us” by Alex Weisman. It a great read about how buildings materials and components breakdown based on geography and climate. I think the hitler channel (history channel) did a series on it but cannot comment as I don’t watch TV",
"I thought your name was Robert Paulson",
"That would be Leakin Park, it has a history of being used as a dumping site for dead bodies. Nothing recent I think, but I believe it happened a lot in the 20th century.\n\nDidn't know the roads into it were closed though. That makes it much more intriguing, I'm going to have to go there.",
"Wow that's an awesome sub, thanks.",
"I can tell by the way they are and how they look",
"Car drivers HATE him! Watch what this motorcycle rider is doing to roads..",
"Not sure healed is the right word. Assimilated is more appropriate I think.",
"These are the best kind of places to go for a run. ",
"Like how he dropped the ball on Katrina and didn't work hard enough for a peaceful resolution instead of going to war with Iraq on fake evidence?\n\nAt this point I have lost faith on an informed people making collective choices and think some kind of electoral proxy might be in order to stop excesses in stupidity.\n\nWe may be a bit fucked.",
"No. There are abandoned mining camps up in the mountains that haven't been inhabited in ~100 years that are still standing. Heck, you can even count the pueblo villages (ex. mesa verde) that have been there for several hundred years and are still standing without too much issue.\n\nHow fast buildings deteriorate is very dependent on the climate, and the wetter it is, the less time buildings stand for.",
"Where did this road lead to?",
"[Here ya go. Most recent is from 2015 street view Look straight down. Its been there for about 2 decades. We have a few other spots around the area where its happened as well](https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3770204,-79.1282102,3a,75y,310.95h,60.24t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sRnZlKEjD9ZjhKx4lnAvP5A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) \n\n\n[Now here is the same spot but in 2008.](https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3770485,-79.1281839,3a,75y,277.9h,60.71t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sC5nAxeLLe511PjExmn_Hnw!2e0!7i3328!8i1664)",
"That’s physically meta yo ",
"looks like a great bike path",
"The filth of Saruman is washing away. Trees will come back to live here, young trees, wild trees...",
"darkwood?",
"Leakin Park? If you've ever listened to the Serial podcast, the victims body was found in the park.\n\n I was in Baltimore for work a couple months ago, and I brought the family. My wife wanted to go there due to the podcast, and we ended up finding the nature center there. They've got a ton of exotic animals that people had as pets then dropped off when they didn't want them anymore, as well a raptor rehab area. My kids absolutely loved it, and we'll probably go back if we're ever in the area again.\n\n TL;DR - Went for the murders, stayed for the nature center.",
"Looks like a nice bike path. Watch out for branches though.",
"Why do I have to be told about those on a day I have tons of stuff to get done...",
"Im in the US and those painted lines more intact than 75% of the rural roads around.",
"1000 years after the last of us is gone, nobody will know we were there",
"Leakin Park",
"Not if we mark the coordinates now and use them as a future booby trap.",
"Perfect for motorcycles!",
"I think it'll be a cool world 300-400 years in the future, where our decendents find all these abandoned ancient (modern) worlds buried by nature, just like how we discover things from the ancient past. ",
"That's the joke.",
"Holy cow, are you talking about Warren?",
"It took you 5 years to revisit an abandoned house as a teenager?",
"This just goes to show how awesome nature is",
"The big question is is there water? If you are in a location with no rain then structures may well be standing after hundreds of years, on the other hand a little bit of rain every now and then and your buildings will fall quickly, daily floods can cause structures to be destroyed in weeks. \n\nThat's a big part as to why so much of the Egyptians remains compared to other civilizations of their time. ",
"Where does it end? It's just a road less traveled then it was before.",
"Ever since I was a little kid, I always wished that I could watch that happen as an observer through time. Not that I wanted all of humanity to disappear, but to see it happen as a \"what-if\" scenario. All human life stops ... then see what happens over the next 5, 10, 15, 30, 50, 100, 1000, 5000, 10,000, 100,000 years .. ",
"Not sure if sarcasm or not...",
"Can confirm.",
"Ya'll ain't been to Baltimore",
"Hoom hom!",
"Anytown, Northeast or Midwest, USA. ",
"While he himself doesn't get anything done he does endorse some vile shit. And his own ideas need to be shot down by courts.\n\nTrump may hold the record for the quickest lame duck president but he eggs on the dregs of society.\n\nThe GOP OTOH have been trash since the 90s. And that's when they bought into Gingrich's idea of alternative-facts based policy.",
"not actually healed, just hidden ",
"That’s something I often I have in mind ",
"No, but I'm sure this is a similar story across the world. This is back in Kansas. ",
"Barn + Vermont + October = Instagram likes",
"The various urban exploration subs are full of houses with all their stuff in them, many of them surrounded by well driven roads and occupied houses. Sometimes the stories are known, and it's often exactly as you say: an elderly person/couple dies, and the family just doesn't do anything with the home for whatever reason.\n\nI actually just read a thread where an urbex photographer found almost $6000 cash in a home that was falling apart. The bills were old US and Canadian currency and rubber banded up. They were able to track down one of the three children of the woman that died and give them the money and the story was pretty much exactly that--their mom died, and they just left it. But it was pretty cool of the guy to return the cash to the rightful owner. The owner was pretty sketched out at first, but incredibly thankful once they had a chance to meet.\n\nI love stuff like this. The forgotten stories are fascinating when you can learn them, and the imagination runs wild when you can't!",
"Cambodia thinks you're adorable",
"really reminds me of the Left/Right Game on r/nosleep..",
"It's in better condition than many local roads in Ireland. ",
"I stopped watching after season 2. How the fuck are there even zombies anymore? Hasn’t it been years? Pretty sure most of the “walking dead” would be actually fucking *dead* by now.",
"R/abandonedporn",
"The trees have a very fall/winter in PA look. They make me depressed and glad I moved to someplace with sun.",
"You go, girl!",
"The road to Hooverville/Obamaville ",
"During some winters in Chicago, the roads look like a damn war zone. ",
"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwynns_Falls_Leakin_Park",
"Too dark, too soon",
"Mountains are special! Plants grow much slower (or not at all) due to the 'thinner' air, and there are far fewer critters.\n\nOtherwise, yes, some smaller buildings, and especially ones made of stone in higher altitudes and/or desert climates will stick around, but you definitely shouldn't see an almost complete city filled with skyscrapers, cottages lining the edge of a pond or swamp, etc etc.",
"These days it's more common for them to be dismantled and the wood reclaimed. A single board could spend 50 years in Kentucky with a horses ass pressed up against it, and the next 20 years in a Seattle bar getting kicked by hipsters in \"trendy\" boots sipping craft cocktails.",
"The shutdown is over.",
"He's tolerant of the intact cookie to the point where he himself would perish from starvation rather than break the cookies sense of identity.",
"But I'm a Libertarian\n\nEdit: /s for those who need it",
"And they must have used really good paint, haha!",
"There was a Sci-Fi short story that I had read a long time ago about the idea of \"rewilding\" areas of the United States as people moved more into urban areas. I hope some day that happens and we get more pictures like this.",
"I40 feels like that for me",
"\"The simplest way to bring down a barn is to burn it.\" - reddit",
"for pictures of faded and slightly sticky magazines? nty",
"Ajax lines. Like your Grandfather would've wanted.",
"Is this copypasta?",
"/r/forestporn",
"A forest waits around every town.",
"I live in New York. Sometimes I'm not so sure about that. ",
"I can't believe Barry Soetoro lied about his cousins WMD's, invaded Iraq then gave Iran billions of dollars to fund terrorism. ",
"You would be surprised how difficult setting building on fire can be, when you actually want it to burn down.\n\nSource: Our Boy scout accidentaly set a barn on fire once, managed to save it half standing. Couple years later, bunch of new guys decided to finish the job for fun and failed horribly.",
">WWII? Obama, but mostly Michelle. \n\nMichelle of the resistance?",
"life uh,,, finds a way",
"Not to the Xerbuglons. Their universe was obliterated in the process :-(.",
"Neat!",
"If you have a little more time, take US 20 to really see the upstate country side. It has the romantic Americana vibe you can't get from the highway.",
"I love pictures like this, it really shows the impact of nature even in our modern society",
"\"Por que no los dos?\"\n\n-Obama",
"Would make a great bike path",
"I know It's just a road, but I still wanna Urbex that shit.",
"There's a section of the PA Turnpike that was cut out, it's awesome to hike.\nhttps://imgur.com/a/nlRSr\nThere's three tunnels, one of which is over a mile long if I remember correctly, it's kind of creepy walking through without any light save for the pinpoint at the end of the tunnel. ",
"Time heals all wounds ",
"In the midwest here I'd give it five years max before the roads are overgrown.",
"Oh yeah. Blaming the President for things used to be a funny meme. \n\nAhh.. the good ole days of 2015.",
"We recently took down an old barn and sold some of the wood. However we found that trying to find buyers and transporting, cutting, haggling etc. Was far more trouble than it was worth and ended up throwing a lot in the fire or letting it sit in storage. ",
"Well damn I didn’t expect such an interesting road review this morning!",
"Perhaps it is instead a road growing out of nature.",
"Probably before he was even born too. \n\nI’m pretty sure he was responsible for putting Hitler into power.",
"Does mother nature dare to cross a double line? Stay tuned to find out!",
"The simplest way is actually to tell hipsters they can use it as \"reclaimed wood\" in their industrial lofts. ",
"You may have lost me there, mate.\n\nI checked out of the US political circlejerk some time ago and may not be in the loop.",
"What",
"r/jeep would get a hard-on over this ",
"Mars thinks you're blessed. (sorry, Cambodia has the worst roads in the world)",
"i thought it was NI for a second too",
"People always think NYC when they think of NYS. But a quick trip across the I90 will show you just how much rural land there is. I think the trip between Buffalo and Rochester is pretty neat, though I'll admit that personal nostalgia probably feeds a lot of that. \n\nThe stretch between Rochester and Albany, though, is pretty sad. Places like Utica are just as bad off economically as places in WV. Quite a bit of history, and some beautiful land, but damned if it's not just a shell of humanity. I'm sure I90 and NYS are not unique in that respect, but it goes to show just how similar we all are, despite the growing red v. blue mentality.",
"Ya'll ain't been to Quasar Section B-43(h). The galactic potholes are OUT OF THIS WORLD.",
"Worn out memes. Thanks Obama.",
"Let us not forget the black holes. And the laws of physics. I really hate that nothing can go faster than the speed of light! Thanks Obama!",
"You clearly don’t live near dirt roads... or have mud season ",
"That paint is amazingly resilient.",
"Don't forget about *her* emails!!!!\n\n\n/s",
"I didn't want to be a dick inadvertently. Which is what I was doing.",
"Thanks Obama",
"No thanks. I've got [class](https://imgur.com/gallery/M9NLX)",
"A settlement needs my help!",
"It's like the Flying Dutchmen. \"One with the ship.\"",
"Lol healing",
"[[Naturalize]]",
"Wrong turn road?hehe",
"Puerto Rico would like a word....",
"That's because traffic, not weather, is the biggest destroyer of roads.\n\nSomething unused with naturally last a lot longer then something that sees 10,000+ cars a day.",
"Where there once was a road now there's a sweet bike path.",
"Where is this?",
"I am curious to where it leads to. ",
"Even nature respects the double yellow line.",
"This is a great Bike lane!",
"Reminds me of The Last of Us. I love that game cuz of how they show nature reclaiming the world after we leave it. ",
"How many times did the government shut down while obama was in office and you never heard about it.",
"Pennsylvania is still waiting for the Goddamn construction workers to let me pass",
"*quickly blows air through nose*",
"This reminds me of Centralia.",
"Been there. Can confirm.",
"That is eastern Mid-Atlantic US all day. ",
"Really shows how plausible it is that we’re not the first “advanced” civilization.",
"[Life After People] (https://youtu.be/02LHzofl9ic) ",
"Fallout 4, is that you?",
"But isn't that show not long into the epidemic....? ",
"A lot of good guesses here, but those look like locust trees on the left (big ones, too.) If that's the case, then it most likely is either in the Ozarks or the southern Appalachians.",
"QBATN!\n\nEdit - sorry, I should change that to “qbatn” with no exclamation mark. I’ve been shown that un-ironically capitalizing “lol” then putting an exclamation mark on Reddit means that you’ll be told to kill yourself. (I’m not joking.)",
"I'm 80% certain this is in Chesterfield, Massachusetts",
"Curly Jefferson lives down yonda past the scrub bushes. Under an old blue fridge, when curly crawls out from under the fridge. He sits there with a chippa grin and a pipe full of old spice tobacco. Puffin away... Every now and then when the mood is just right. The local forest children gather round whilst curls tells these tales you speak of.. it scares the living shit out everyone! Lotta history down that road.",
"Agreed. I played *The Last of Us* and I kept getting distracted by scenes like this.",
"For a brief second after reading “raptor area” I got very scared for you. \n\nThe I remembered “raptors” was referring to birds of prey, not small dinosaurs. ",
"Subscribe",
"You ever played the last of us?",
"I stumbled on this photograph\n\nIt kinda made me laugh\n\nIt took me way back",
"!:-)!",
"r/powerwashingporn",
"Young Sheldon. Thanks, Obama.",
"Looks better than South Carolina ",
"This old abandoned road is a collateral damage victim of the never ending brutal war among all plant species for dominance. There is no \"healing\" involved, you big ol' tree hugging hippie.",
"Best TL;DR ever!!! I chortled. ",
"Roads not in bad condition, paint doesn't look that worn, guard rails look perfectly fine (and exist in the first place). \nI don't think that's an abandoned road, that's looks more like a road after a nasty winter storm that had been temporary blocked off due to debris.\nYou also don't put guard rails on a road in the middle of nowhere that nobody is going to use.",
"With a little bit of debris cleanup, this looks like it would make an awesome rally stage.",
"Pictures like this give me a calm, reassuring feeling that even if we totally fuck this thing up and kill ourselves off, nature will recover and wipe the slate clean in deep time.",
"This is what we call \"fall\" in our state.\n\n\"Fall\" refers to tree branches.",
"Yet in 200 years in fallout 4, there is little not no vegetation growth.\n\nFallout games have always gotten that wrong, and it makes the supposedly passage of time feel fake. 200 years is a long time.",
"\"Lotta history down that rod\"\n\nSame.",
"FO4 was very weird, because it was simultaneously in too good of shape, and not good enough of shape.\n\n200 years, most everything would be wrecked. The buildings would be rubble after 200 years of winters, storms, fires, hurricanes, flooding, etc. \n\nOn the flip side, after 200 years, there would be tradesmen again, capable of actually building solid structures out of available materials. ",
"And the interstates too. ",
"Y'all don't spell y'all correctly.",
"And wind",
"It'd make for a nice bike path.",
"Where I come from, our potholes have potholes. ",
"I'd rather it be gravel but that's just me. I feel like you don't have to worry about mud nearly as much and it gets really swampy here in the spring. ",
"Beautiful.\n",
"I frequently travel parts of US-20, though primarily the N/S part closer to Buffalo. But all that Finger Lakes and wine country is very much exactly as you say. It's beautiful and full of Americana. Anyone that wants a nice little quaint getaway vacation in the country would be wise to check the Finger Lakes area.",
"24 ain’t got nothing on 440, which is coincidentally the number of potholes per 500 feet of road",
"Montréal has freaking holes in the road. Fucking dangerous and the city couldn't care less.",
"Healing over? Lol. Dude, they're decomposing leaves. ",
"And Boston",
"Route 66 is my slave name. Now call me \"Veterans parkway\".",
"Out of sight, out of mind.",
"5 years minimum",
"Gatineau (QC) just doesn't get patched",
"Eventually the road will be grown over with leaves, rotting wood, and other debris. For a while it'll be like a scar, an obvious line where nothing grows. Slowly the scar will fade as the debris decays and turns to soil for small vegetation to grow. As this happens roots will be tearing the road apart and exposing the dirt underneath the road. Then trees will begin to grow and their roots will inhabit the cracks further breaking the asphalt apart. Then the rain will come and errode the increasingly smaller pieces of asphalt and soon enough the scar will be undetectable. ",
"I think it'd be interesting to consider, say, New York City or Chicago in even 50-100 years. I imagine animals would have made it very much into a new livable habitat.",
"I’ve been there. I just don’t like to talk about it ",
"They had it coming though. They should’ve known better than to destabilize the curl of the Liebmann vector coefficient while the reactors were in a depolarized state of baryon flux. ",
"This reminds me of when people are shot and they leave the bullet in",
"It's comforting to know that when we're gone earth will most likely heal pretty quickly ",
"I love this. Nature plays a long game. ",
"It shows that nature would easily take over the world without us ",
"They should at least have taller grass. Only takes a month for grass to grow near your knee, especially in the summer. I imagine that Georgia gets fairly humid and wet, so maybe even more so.",
"I would love to see a time lapse of this",
"If you are new and don't know where the post, post in: r/RedditInReddit",
"/r/abandonedporn ",
"This is what the Walking Dead roads should look like.",
"I've never seen an abandoned road before. Actually looks pretty awesome. I've seen some abandoned highway rest stops (and I would love to explore those), but I wonder the circumstances for this.",
"https://youtu.be/GAKwRou6HUw",
"> Earth\n\n> 14 billion\n\nWut",
"Why?\n\nThat seems insane to me unless you live somewhere people can afford multiple homes or bought on speculation. ",
"We have a similar saying in the UK, only our expression mentions 45.72 centimeters.",
"Its not real, I just mixed a bunch of stuff up to goat in some liberals. ",
"Honduras is one of the unsafe countries, but not because of drugs and gangs (If you steer clear of their trouble) but because of the roads. ",
"Reminds me of Centralia, PA [aka the inspiration of Silent Hill] (https://www.therandomsam.com/2015/01/centralia/) \n\nSome of those roads are better than the normal PA roads\n\nAlso yes [there is a road fill of dicks] (https://i.redd.it/8xttxsihga3z.jpg) ",
"Centralia, PA?",
"NOone has worse roads than MY state.",
"For those who are curious about Barry Soetoro:\n\nhttps://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/studentid.asp\n\nTo save you a click, it's another debunked claim about Obama.\n",
"Ya'll ain't been to Alabama.",
"This looks like it's straight out of Fallout. ",
"Georgia...",
"I think there are tax implications to pulling them down. Something like as long as there is a structure on the property, no mater the condition, the land is taxed differently. So it's best to just leave the barns there, slowly rotting away.\n\nI don't know if this is true, it's just what I've heard from my dad. He did a lot of traveling around the Southern Tier of NYS as an insurance salesman and has dealt with a lot of the folks who live there. \n\nOn a side note, he also says that a lot of folks who live in this area get by day-to-day by bartering, it's a very poor area and people there generally have very little cash, but they do have land, animals, other goods, and their own labor to trade with.",
"Not hard when the population has no souls.\n\nSource: am Irish, soul not found.",
"Lifetime Michigander here. I can confirm. Often, the dirt roads are smoother.",
"It always reminds me of how temporary all our little creations are. If we were to all disappear today, there would be no sign of our existence in a few hundred thousand years.",
"It's true, I haven't!",
"This is more common than you would think. I know of at least two other places in NY and PA where the town was evacuated and flooded for a reservoir.",
"But the lawn is always freshly mowed, or the grass isn't growing, so who is cutting the grass? ",
"There are some 2,000 year old roads that look better than this:\n\nhttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Timgad_rue.jpg/1200px-Timgad_rue.jpg",
"This kinda reminds me of fallout 4",
"No one can stop the natures power but can take care of it.....",
"Thank you! Came here to say this.",
"Lived in rural wv for awhile. It always was cool to be hanging out in the woods and finding old stuff like this",
"Was thinking this, if you swept the leaves off and cleaned off the moss it's probably not that changed. ",
"I often wonder if humans went extinct, how long it would take nature to erase any externally visible remnants of human life. ",
"Aha.\n\nDoes this give you satisfaction?",
"Reminds me of a road in Mercer County, NJ",
"Call me 0649684462",
"Looks like it's still being used as a jogging/bike path. ",
"It's at least a couple of years into it now.",
"Strangely very appealing as a running/jogging route",
"Regards from India!",
"Nah, that's the average PA road",
"Not really, all I heard during his terms were all the things that were Bushes fault.",
">mud season\n\n",
"Zombie landscapers ",
"better condition than the roads in spokane",
"This road looks like it would provide a smoother rides than most streets in Baltimore...",
"Around here we just call that \"Pennsylvania\"",
"Interesting that you used the word healing... deep.",
"You've not lived near a dirt road to say that.",
"Ya'll muthafuckas ain't been to Newburgh",
"My wife's Grandma owns few hundred acres in Northern Michigan that was an old cow farm and apple orchard. They didn't tear the house down because of asbestos shingles so the house remains. The road to the house was so overgrown that it was more walking path then two track. About a 1/4 of old barn is still there.\n\nWe walked around to a remote corner and there was rose bushes grown into a full hedge row and there must of been a thousand small old fashioned small white rose blossoms. Whoover planted those must still be proud of them. ",
"> A******\n\nAvocado?",
"Looks like a scene from Fallout 4",
"That would make an amazing walking trail. ",
"Love photo studies of areas that are abandoned and nature is reclaiming. There's an amusement park near me that was called Fantasy Farm that someone did pictures of a few years ago. So surreal and kinda creepy. ",
"It's a freaking moon scape here in Michigan as well. ",
"Agreed. Clearly still being used by cyclist riding the center line to avoid the encroaching tree branches. ",
"Or two lanes.\n",
"Y’uns beta fiks dat.",
"Found the YMS fan",
"Then she is clearly not from Florida.",
"uhm, have you seen roads in Russia? ",
"Mexican zombie landscapers",
"Correlation Vs Causality 101",
"Welcome to Boston\n\nEnd Paved Road",
"> Getting old sucks.\n\nSure beats the alternative",
"Still smoother than roads in Oklahoma ",
"Reminds me of Talking Heads tune Nohing but Flowers",
"I think their point is that there's a difference between being covered by a thin layer of debris and \"healing\". It's not like any roots will be able to penetrate that layer within a few hundred (thousand?) years.",
"^ Up there.",
"Man after the recent snowfalls the roads were like those of a third world country, or at least the back roads were.",
"abandoned roads actually become essentially man made geological formations, especially heavily traveled ones. And it looks like this one is still used as a bike path or something?",
"It reminds me of southern gothic literature and art ",
"I doubt it, since there wouldn’t have been so much reactionary hate towards a black guy in office.",
"That’s the back Harlow Road ",
"Yal'l",
"Same here. In the behind the scenes doc the artists reference the book The World Without Us as inspiration. Basically explores nature's unending quest to reclaim its dominance.",
"A rusted out car can happen in 2 years flat in Massachusetts weather with winter treated roads lol",
"I'm in Baltimore right now and overall Baltimore does mediocre at this. Detroit does not.",
"/r/fo4 pics from the apocalypse ",
"Dude. That's so awesome. I knew that the North America and Europe were once connected, but I always assumed the Appalachians were formed afterward. ",
"How is the middle so clean and not covered with dust?",
"This is my bike ride dream",
"Never gonna happen, bro. Just accept that that’s where you’ll die. ",
"Massachusetts?",
"Not that long.",
"nothing compared to Romania's roads",
"Om________________Nom________________ Nom________________Nom",
"I want to know where the road went to and why nobody goes there anymore... ",
"That’s the reality of groundshog day it was never the same day that’s just Pennsylvania ",
"But then loose crumbs would fall in the milk",
"Taking our zombie jobs!",
"There are a couple of documentaries floating around about how the area around Chernobyl is being reclaimed by nature. Watch them if you haven't.",
"I strongly suspect that this path was designed from the get-go as a bicycle and pedestrian path, and was never a road used by vehicles.\n\nUnless those guardrails are HUGE, those are some intensely narrow lanes for a two-way road.",
"I've heard similar stories, now that you mention it. In my hometown outside of Rochester, there was this \"farm\" in the middle of a residential area. And this wasn't a new development area, we're talking homes built in the 40s-70s, largely (though it *was* farmland and orchards before this time).\n\nThe house was on a corner plot, and there was a \"yard\" with an actively plowed plot of land, but as long as I lived there, nothing was grown, or even attempted to be grown (from what I could tell). There were active plow lines in it from a tractor that was stored in a small barn/garage (though I never saw it in action) and there was a busted and abandoned looking greenhouse in the back. The story was always that the elderly owner did it because it meant it was taxed as \"farm\" land.\n\nI dunno if any of that is true, but it was a plausible explanation. That or the guy just liked tending the land without actually doing anything with it. I'm pretty sure it's all just a regular grass field now, but since before I was born and at least three decades after, that was a weird little plot of farmland in an otherwise normal residential area in a surburban town.\n\nEDIT: [Here](https://imgur.com/a/8b9Pm) are some pics from Google Streetside spanning 2007 to 2015. You can clearly see the \"plowed\" land in 2007, then it starts to fade out in 2012, then is just gone in 2015. The barn/greenhouse in the back must have gone down earlier than 2007 as I didn't see it.",
"Lol, You'd think it should be \"Can't be a coffee table, without coffee.\".",
"You know trees lose their leaves in the south too right?\n\nSource, live in GA, have no leaves on my trees.",
"Y'all'mst'ven't",
"Damn nature! You scary!",
"My buddy's got a barn, built in the 1700s, thing just wont fall down. Its up out of habit at this point. No roof holes though",
"That was my first thought! ",
"Now this is a Frood who really knows where his towel is.",
"SEE ROCK CITY",
"Fine, pass a no smoking ordinance.. Don't come uptown, where us lawbreakers will be..",
"Michigander here, confirmed.\n\nAnd tonight we'll listen to old Ricky Snyder tell us how great the roads are.",
"The show is set in GA",
"What else do you expect zombies to eat when most like humans are dead",
"Do you live in South Africa perhaps? Hahahaha ",
"Will always upvote references to *The World Without Us*. ",
"Interestingly, Illinois is one of very few states that prioritizes the maintenance of existing roadways over the construction of new ones. That's why we're always bitching about \"construction\" (actually maintenance). Personally, I think it's a pretty good policy. Statistically, Illinois's roads are in better shape than many other states due to this.",
"Where does it lead to?",
"And San Diego ",
"Tv has taught me you said “in my country” with a thick russian accent",
"ITT: \"my country has worse roads than yours\"\n\nSo where is this road? What does it connect to?",
"OooWee! He's tryin'!!!",
"After a certain threshold, the number of potholes actually starts dropping.",
"Mostly cause I don't want to be shot ",
"[Obama just can't tell any more...](https://i.imgur.com/NgFp2RK.png) ",
"r/abandonedporn",
"LOL!",
"SEE ROCK CITY",
"That's literally the only though I've had for 20 years, please send help",
"Burmese Tigah Trap!!",
"Seen roads like this on the B.C / Yukon border in Canada. Pretty to cool to see how the Alaska highway has changed and the old remnants of roads being engulfed by nature. ",
"For what it's worth I live at the other end of I-90 on the West Coast. Not relevant to the conversation or anything, I just thought it was interesting, because I never thought I-90 went all the way to the East Coast.",
"Dear The Walking Dead producers,\n\nThis is what a dilapidated road that has not been taken care of in the last few months looks like. Sorry it took you 8 seasons to realize this.\n\nBest Wishes,\n\nThe Remaining Fans",
"Still smoother than the roads in indy",
"One of my pet peeves. There is no 'a' in 'you'.",
"Looks like arkham asylum...",
"I also thought it looked like somewhere in PA.",
"I'm from Michigan and i felt sorry for the people in Chicago",
"The aerial shot is fun:\n\nhttps://www.google.com/maps/@37.3766437,-79.126855,127a,35y,289.28h,45t/data=!3m1!1e3",
"pretty much what happens to my bedroom when I don't tidy and open windies",
"I live in Vietnam. Not saying this is a contest of who has worse roads, but if it was, I’d win.",
"Sturges hammering on a building wall all day begs to differ",
"No shit. Roads are expensive. What did we pay for that isn't being used?",
"No, you just don't live in Michigan.\n\nI grew up on a dirt road in Oklahoma, another state that isn't exactly renowned for it's infrastructure spending.\n\nHoly Fuck is Michigan awful at maintaining their roads. Good lord it's awful.",
"Watch out. County Mounty hidden in the weeds. Not even bicycles can cross the double yellow lines. 10-4, good Buddy.\n",
"When I was a teen that would be the kind of place we would party.",
"Point one for nature!",
"Hahaha (laughs in Kosovo)",
"They’ve been fixing old Dundalk for 20 years now",
"I love your choice of words. \"Healing\" over. I feel that is the correct usage. The opposite of that is \"development\" which is always the exact opposite of development. I have no problem with people building houses, but when they come in and scrape beautiful areas to the dirt before they start, that is not development regardless of what is \"built\" there. It's destruction. It's even worse when old growth trees are torn up and replanted with scrub pines that are useless to everybody and everything except the company that planted them, and they get to chalk it up to good things for the environment to the people in the area. This road is not sad, it's happy that nature wants it again.",
"If only we subsidised rail instead of taxing it into the ground. If only we didn’t subsidise big rigs. ",
"As a former Michigander, can confirm, roads are worst I have ever used, other than possibly Chicago.",
"New Yorkers: what are you saying that road looks fine",
"Take the kids to a murder scene, I’m glad you found the nature center instead. ",
"I was actually born in Ann Arbor Haha",
"Seriously, especially now. I thought I knew all the potholes on my commute. Nope. New ones, worse ones. Coworker blew his tire and destroyed a rim on the way to work last week. ",
"What's a road?",
"or a lost road to the bat cave",
"Looks like Puerto Rico a day after Hurricane Maria. Some roads still look like that.",
"It starts there, like most Zombie media, but in the show & Clem's timeline in the game, around 2 years [(610 days)](http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/The_Walking_Dead_TV_Show_Timeline) have passed.",
"5 or so years now ",
"Yeah, being taxed as farm land sound about what I heard. Though I suppose we'll have to let the NYS tax pros out there straighten us out.",
"I guess the question is how long does nature take, depends where ",
"Except MY state!",
"Chester Bennington ",
"There’s a cool documentary you should check out called Life After People. It talks about what will/could happen if/when the human population goes extinct. ",
"Is that the title of an upcoming adult movie ?",
"*one winter.",
"Bike Trail!",
"Slavery.. Thanks Obama.",
"*This* Is what walking dead should actually look like.",
"That sounds super interesting. Have a link, by chance?",
"Your second apostrophe should go between the m and s.\nJust sayin.",
"Makes you wonder about how truly advanced previous civilizations were if roads can disappear like that. ",
"Check out r/abandonedporn ",
"Oklahoma has Red Dirt Roads‼️Especially around the Red River between OK & Texas. I live northwest of DFW. ",
"That looks like montreal in Autumn if you just destroy the road a little but keep the plants.\n",
"What *is* the term for the lumps of road that are left when potholes take over the majority of the surface?",
"Take a long walk off a short pier ",
"Can confirm, also live in GA and the only trees with leaves are the evergreens.",
"So, here's the thing: As a parent, you want your kids to be safe - you actually prioritize their safety above almost all else. One danger out there is fog- Its easy to get lost in fog, and its hard for cars to see you. I don't want my kids to wander too far from me in the fog, especially in parking lots. So, to protect them, I may have told a lie. My children (currently 6,4, and 2) believed that Raptors live in the fog. When it was time to get in the car, I'd have to have my pocket knife drawn and ready, in case any raptors came into sight. They'd stay close by, always looking for the monsters from the unseen. when my oldest was 4, he started questioning me on this. He'd ask why we never saw any raptors in the fog. I'd say they were hiding, waiting for me to let my guard down, so they could grab him or a sibling. He'd ask where they went when the fog cleared. I'd say they retreated to Canada (Side note, he's now scared of Canada, as well as the Child-snatching birds in Chicago, but thats another story for another day).\n\n So, given the above story, you can imagine the excitement on my kids faces when they heard the naturalist say there was a raptor area in their nature center. As we were walking over, I could hear my sons whispering about how it most have been foggy, and they bravely set traps around the park.\n\n I will never forget the look of disappointment when they came to the first cage with two owls in it. :)",
"Yinz better stfu and get your shit together.",
"I had no idea that upstate New York was in such bad shape, economically.",
"Ooh, well then I apologize that you too have suffered Michigan Roads :D\n\nIn all seriousness, 8mile north of Ann Arbor (west of Pontiac Trail where it's still dirt) is better than some of the parts of 8mile that is paved east of Pontiac Trail.. It's mind blowing.",
"I used to know a road like this. For some 20 years i used to walk along it (because it was fenced in on both sides). It was being abandoned the week after we moved there and by the time i moved away the first oak trees on the concrete reached above my head. \n\nKinda weird feeling thinking back on it. ",
" * An optimist thinks the cookie is too big. \n * A pessimist thinks the glass is too small.\n * A Republican blames Obama.\n * A Democrat worries about the cookie being forced into a place it doesn't fit, and thinks the glass should expand itself to accommodate the cookie.\n * A socialist divides the cookie into smaller portions that fit the glass, and shares with others. Everybody tries to dip their cookie into the glass all at the same time. The glass gets knocked over.\n * A capitalist divides the cookie, sells the individual portions, and charges for access to the glass.\n * Justin Trudeau takes a selfie with the cookie and the glass of milk.\n * Donald Trump eats the cookie, tweets about having the very best cookies, and then wonders where the cookie went. He totally overlooks the milk.\n",
"Healing over? Is this a common term? ",
"Queue in Walking Dead Theme music.",
"Looks good for biking!",
"...TIL",
"Is there a sub for these kind of dystopian photos in real life?",
"I’m talking about the paved roads the city/state is supposed to maintain. They’re horrible. ",
"Seems like closing the roads would increase the likelihood of being a dumping ground....",
"True, Massachusetts is a post-apocalyptic wasteland. But there's no winter treated roads in our zombie future. And we all know that the only car truly immune to rust and ruin is the Hyundai Tucson.",
"I feel sorry for them on multiple levels, like the murder. ",
"not cyrilic not Kosovo",
"Still less potholes than my roads in PA",
"Y'all = you all\n\nYa'll = ya I'll = ya, I will\n\nYinz = Nothing. Never say this.",
"First thing that came to mind as well. ",
"One of the least comfortable experiences in my life was fitting four adults and a kid in the backseat of a car to drive from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap",
"What? I'm from Indiana and whenever we vacation in Michigan, we constantly remark on how nice the roads are compared to our state. ",
"Same here. Funny how this \"healing\" process is actually quite destructive, roots digging into whatever they come across. Then after, erosion breaks it up further. Eventually it's in pieces and buried again. ",
"*Cue The Last of Us theme*",
"And we likely would not have had Obama if not for GWB. Thanks GWB.",
"This would be so cool to ride a motorcycle through",
"Most of the roads where i live are actually pretty good. Just putting that out there",
"I mean, we didn't tell them it was a murder scene or anything, we just kinda drove around the park for a bit, and saw the signs for a nature center. ",
"They finally replaced Stadium. Lord, was that a good day when it opened. ",
"Y'all ain't been to Ohio",
"Hey, in defense of conservatives, they tried really, really hard to blame that one on Jewish witches, instead.",
"You spelt Massachusetts wrong.",
"im in the US and im amazed that it isnt covered in potholes and cracks.",
"have you heard the good news ?",
"And here I was, thinking: \"OK, enough of Fallout 4 screenshots...\" =|",
"This, my friends, it nature's bike lane.",
"Would be a great setting for a post-apocalyptic movie scene. ",
"And Louisiana",
"The walking dead needs to film there ASAP",
"Provided it's whole wood. I'd imagine there are a lot of these which are made of plywood or OSB sheeting rotting away nowadays. Nobody's gonna be harvesting that to put on their kitchen floors anytime soon.",
"When the Spanish first explored up the Amazon, they came back with tales of huge settlements along the river, with agriculture including corn fields, and elaborate houses built of wood and rope. They of course raided several of the villages.\n\nWhen the Portuguese made their way up the river 80 years later, there was no sign of these communities or agriculture, only scattered tribes of slash-and-burn hunter/pastoralists. The Spanish reports were largely dismissed as tall tales.\n\nWe're now finding more and more evidence of a thriving jungle Empire that once existed in the upper reaches of the Amazon, from Manaus to Santarem. It explains a lot of mysteries about the people of the area, such as why semi-nomadic slash-and-burn horticulturalists have a hereditary aristocracy. Virtually all traces of their life was wiped out following Spanish contact. They probably caught diseases from the European conquistadors, and every trace of their civilization dissolved in the heat and rain of the jungle in less than 80 years.\n\n",
"Still in better condition than Michigan roads. ",
"Significantly underrated comment. ",
"looks like a single bike lane\n",
"We should just go back to \"Ye\" for the second-person plural, hard to fuck that up",
"Where ? Is ? This ? (Midwest) ",
"Surprised no one has tried to scrap the guardrail.",
"Second reason why the aftermath of our existence doesn't bother me at all, first being the fact that the earth will be eventually engulfed by the sun and all of our bodies and every living thing on the planet will be completely destroyed, as well as the planet itself, obviously.",
"Even the roads are smarter than us now",
"Wow I guess The Walking Dead got this right...",
"Fucking preach! (lifelong Michigander)",
"And a few in Wisconsin if my normal commute is any indicator.",
"Rookie mistake. But one you do not learn from.",
"Looks like parts of RT 66 I have seen.",
"[Heres another one from around town that happened. More recent and if you look back you can see a snail trail from it. Dont ask why we have no luck with the line painting.](https://www.google.com/maps/@37.2892643,-79.1687454,3a,75y,64.54h,64.7t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqNnTtamRz1BBS-6-O9eGZQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)",
"One question, how do roads go abandoned? Is it because they're like in the middle of frest or something and a new route is made which is shorter, accessible? ",
"And many cars still have juice in their battery to start the car when it should be 0(?).",
"There ain't no 'a' in isn't, either.",
"Almost like a wound healing.",
"Poi Pet to Siem Reap is similarly nightmarish.",
"Here in New York... Pot holes own you",
"You know those jungle scenes in Forrest Gump? Those were set in Georgia. Savannah I think. \n\nAnd yes Georgia is perfect for growth like that. They’re covered in kudzu (kudzu is a vine that grows on EVERYTHING down there). It grows in ditches and up buildings and covers old abandoned houses completely. It would have taken over TWD universe by now\n\nEdit: I guess the jungle scenes were in SC, my mistake.",
"It's all a conspiracy with the car companies",
"and Indianapolis..",
"All of y'all ",
"Basically what I think they were going for with the title. ",
"Fuck Chicago's roads, hit a massive pothole driving out of the city on I90. Weakened one of my tires to the point that the sidewall burst out about 30 miles outside of Madison.\n\nIf you're going to make me pay your bullshit tolls at least repair the fucking roads. ",
"I delivered pizza by dirt roads for about a year and a half, I legit preferred the dirt roads because the cement ones were so full of potholes. ",
"And Pittsburgh ",
"So you would type \"yo'll\"? After attempting to type that 4 times, I can assure you auto correct does not agree.",
"Is the state or country not taking care of it? How does something like this happen politically?",
"Good production but the script is crap. ",
"Codorus in PA if u want to add a 3rd. Susquehanna/conowingo at the conowingo dam if u want to add a 4th.",
"There's wooden pre-war stuff all over the place in the Bethesda games. Tons of intact artifacts that have been sitting out for 200 years. Things like cans of food. ",
"These kinds of photos are like peeking into a time machine at a glimpse of the fall of civilization. ",
"10/10 I'd still longboard it ",
"It's a video game, dude. Play it for what it is. Jesus, people take things way too seriously.\n\nAre you the type of guy who is obsessed about Star Wars and how fascinating it all is but then complains that someone's military uniform is off in a movie?\n\nJeeze.",
"Reminds me of fallout ",
"I wish the roads actually looked like this in The Walking Dead, instead of a casual scattering of dead leaves to imply decay over time.",
"GOOD point",
"We're part of nature. Everything is in danger from climate change. ",
"Here's an [article](https://petapixel.com/2015/01/07/urban-exploration-photographer-finds-stash-cash-abandoned-house/) about it. Here's the guy's actual [website](http://www.freaktography.com/house-of-treasures/) about it. /u/freaktography is the guy, and he frequents urbex/photo subs around here. Good stuff.\n\nAnd I was wrong, apparently it was ~$7000 in cash.",
"Only motorcycles go through this road apparently.",
"This is obviously photoshopped, nature does not reclaim linearly ",
"I like to believe he is about to make cookie soup....",
"Yea they do. It's amazing how no matter what you put on the ground, nature will eventually break it down and go back to it's natural state. It's a self healing planet if you don't get in it's way. ",
"At least its paved! The road I live on (and the one that borders my property) are not paved and the county refuses to do anything about them. ",
"Maine. This road would be in use AND the speed limit would be 50 mph.",
"What's wrong with Nicaragua?",
"I'm fairly certain that the road ha been cleaned in the middle. I would believe that the moss hasn't grown over the middle yet, but I'm not buying the fallen leaves at all.",
"Look, look with your special state! ",
"Yas! That's exactly what I thought when I saw this pic. It's depressing how long it would take for everything to return to dust, but it's just a dent in time for the earth as a whole. Pretty beautiful to think about ",
"Don't worry, if its anything like Massachusetts they are probably just saving you from the 1000 potholes they are making there.",
"How is it that roads aren't being maintained in different states? Thought taxes go to infrastructure maintenance?",
"Where do you live ",
"There's a documentary called After Humans that's worth watching, it goes into what will happen to Earth in a hypothetical scenario were humans just disappeared one day. Pretty fascinating stuff.",
"The last of us",
"Nature abhors a vacuum. ",
"Nature does not play games when reclaiming what is hers.",
"the hudson river tunnel is even worse",
"It’s a couple years in",
"this road has 0 cars drive on it each year, chicago has 10,000s a day on side streets, 1,000,000s on main streets",
"Thailand?",
"I don't think it's a problem with the game itself. It's a storytelling tool to make the game interesting. If they actually had realistic levels of loot to scavenge, along with realistic consequences of injury, disease and lack of water/food, and of course encumbrance rules, then it wouldn't be a game. It would be a simulator called \"Fuck, I died _again_!\"",
"😂😂",
"Pretty sure without people actively working to stop it, the Swamps of Florida would retake that entire state within a year.",
"Do it while you can, a lot of these Beeching era railways are starting to disappear completely. We used to go on a lot of walks as a kid along the old tracks and it was fascinating.",
"but dat breastmilk doe",
"As someone who has lived in many places including Michigan and Baltimore and driven all over the country.. Michigan has by far the worst roads in the country. Though Baltimore is fairly high up there too.",
"Very much depends on climate. In a desert, things would last much, much longer. In a jungle, they'd last a month.",
"You should take a picture of yourself to capture your youth! Oh wait.. ",
"It would take just a day or so for us to ruin it and make it a road again. ",
"Only municipal taxes go to the majority of roads. Even interstate roads are maintained by the specific state they're in by specific spending measures passed by those state legislatures.",
"The heavily populated Costa Rican Central Valley has tragically worse roads than out in Guanacaste. Granted, there's exponentially more cars and usage, but every time I go out towards Liberia, I'm like \"Holy shit, I can actually just relax and drive and not constantly be scanning for IEDs!\"",
"Then you haven't been in Poland. You'd be shocked. ",
"This is what the roads in The Walking Dead should look like.",
"nice",
"Nature knows not to cross yellow solid lines",
"Would that just be really small and inconvenient black holes, rather than potholes, in the route?",
"r/abandonedporn",
"You seem fun at parties.",
"You don't realize how bad the roads are here in Michigan until you get a car that isn't paid off. Then every bump you hit makes your stomach churn. ",
"I always look forward to that first big snow that fills in all the potholes.",
"I think you're right. Probably introduced, then the municipality failed to provide funding for upkeep.",
"And that is how paper beats rock.",
"I expect to see Zombies coming down that road soon",
"I love driving in the rain at night on those roads, I never have any idea where the lanes are!",
"I've played enough Fallout to know that there's three landmines on the road.",
"You've been on that long enough for it to sneak into the proverbs, huh?",
"This is what everything will look like, once Earth gets rid of us) ",
"It's somewhat comforting that once we humans are long gone, the earth and the plants will reclaim whats theirs and fix some of the scars we've put on the planet. ",
"Also, after 200 years, people might decide to sweep up the garbage and clean the filth in their immediate vicinity and/or residence.",
"Still better than Northern Virginia. Right next to the capital and our roads are like a 3rd world country's.",
"Kudzu will EAT YOUR HOUSE!",
"I handed the picture to the orange haired man. He grabbed the picture from my hand voraciously and looked at it with pitiful eyes. He laughed with spit flying from his mouth. \n\n“Meat, all roads lead further into the woods” he says as his assault rifle clambers on his arched back. His breaths were deep as a hungry wolf. ",
"It's almost as if no cars have rolled over it in decades.",
"Nearly blew a tire driving this morning. Tax dollars hard at work",
"Get some mycelium up in there and the road will disappear in a few years!",
"Umm... Bulgaria had new highways. In two years they aged five decades.",
"The paint is lava.",
"Ukraine",
"Pave the road, comes out perfect. Oh that's nice... now dig it up in random spots to work on electrical, water and whatever else... now pave it again in the middle of winter so if breaks up and you get pot holes every ten feet... repeat the cycle in 10 years.\n\nIdk what to say but at least our city workers get well paid.",
"Looks like it's in New England to me. When you can reach bedrock with a beach toy, you can build roadbeds that last much longer than in areas wtih good top soil. (Good for farming, terrible for roads..)",
"http://all-that-is-interesting.com/american-killing-fields/4\n\nFound this article. ",
"While this is a very valid point, it would be extremely expensive to only allow overgrown land in the background of that show. I get it, but I'm willing to suspend disbelief. Personally, I find the mysteriously shiny-clean Hyundai to be far more distracting. Fucking hate product placement, always so ham-fisted.",
"Yall niggas have never been in Bulgaria",
"I like how you say \"healing\". Nature truly rules.",
"where is this photo taken anyway",
"New Orleans",
"Nepal be like 'Hold my beer'",
"Are you the photographer?? ",
"\"I was really lucky I was able to salvage this wood from an old seaman's chapel in Nantucket.\"",
"This leads to a Victorian mansion where the host is waiting for your arrival. He will have you and 11 other guests you don't know \"stay\" there through the night. At the dinner table he will discuss a game that he wants you to play, and the one who wins (survives) will get a cash prize (there will be no cash prize, the prize is that you will live on through the rest of your life, but traumatized from all the people you saw get murdered in cold blood throughout the night).\n\nSource: Movies and Books that I have seen and read with my own eyes.",
"my native language is russian, so yeah - go on) ",
"Looks cool, but if you think it's 'damaged nature', then a thin layer of leaf litter and moss and dirt over the top of the pavement is not 'healing' anything. That would mean removing the pavement, as well as the layers of gravel and shit underneath. \n\n",
"I‘d buy that book!",
"That is the most beautiful bike path ever!",
"You guys havent been on the belt parkway in NY",
"Someone's gonna use this in a movie. ",
"trailbikes more likely. what's hard to believe is no potholes - so road apparently abandoned w/in last 3-5yrs.",
"Except AMC are cheapskates and would never pay for it. They fired the showrunner from season 1 because he wanted to show zombies rather than just hearing them growl offscreen (far cheaper).",
"I like how you say healing over instead of taking over. :) ",
"Save the time and effort of dressing any roads: film on the eastern shore of MD. It already looks like an apocalypse hit it in most places.",
"I live in SE Michigan, 8 mile is riddled with pot holes right now. You would think I would be used to it by now. ",
"Humans :(",
"Still in better conditions than the ones newly made in Prince George's County, Maryland. ",
"Buy more gas, maybe it will get better",
"Not what I expected, but what I should've expected.",
"Utica is planning a few big changes, someone i met back in high school is working on the urban planning for utica and its looking very promising.",
"Been on a few like this around Warickshire, very spooky. ",
"Is that show still around? Last episodes I saw before I gave up (around the time shit hit the fan in the safe zone) they were just waking around for episodes in end.\n\nI thought that was the last nail in the coffin for sure",
"I will take this over pothole ridden NJ roads.",
"My girlfriend is from Michigan and I thought she was joking about how bad the roads are. You can be asleep in the car and tell when you've crossed into Michigan because of all the potholes. ",
"I couldn't finish season 2 it was getting unbelievable. ",
":)",
"Hey! Yinz guys need to worsh your mouths with soap.",
"Reminds me of Dark",
"They just did this in my home town. Developer owned 3 100year old homes, let them go vacant in ~09, then tore them down when they got to be dilapidated. Got around the code that wouldn't allow that, and now he's building apartments",
"Have driven i40 from the outerbanks to san francisco and back. Can confirm.",
"If the roots want to, they will go right through that road. Asphalt is pretty brittle and tree roots are determined bastards. Source...civil engineering degree.",
"This is an scp ,stay away from it",
"The people from MY state say hello!",
"I’ve always wondered about stuff like this. Like in 10,000 years, if the world as we know it is still around, someone goes and digs this up, how blown away they would be by the technology of ancient civilizations. ",
"Make em warsh their mouths out with soap.",
"That's a bit of a broad brush to lump all of upstate together. The Southern Tier is just the southern row of counties along the PA border. There's also Western New York (the western most eight counties) which overlaps with some of the Southern Tier, Rochester and the Finger Lakes districts, Syracuse, Albany, The Adirondacks, etc. All of these different areas are faring differently economical. Even within the Southern Tier the picture I described only applies to the poorest of folks living there in the more remote/rule areas.",
"How do roads get abandoned like this? I live in Belgium so Ive not seen it happen before. ",
"That's the reality of groundshog day it was never the same day that's just Pennsylvania ",
"Can't Steal whats been stolen before.",
"Yep. They collect a lot of money from car owners but the roads are complete shit.",
"Wtaf\nr/nocontext",
"I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's not the first time something like that has been proposed, but fingers crossed. I don't want anyone to suffer and there should be enough prosperity to go around.",
"But my soap is slippy n'at",
"DEY TOOK ER ZERMBER JERRRBS",
"There's a book, The World Without Us, which was turned into a Discovery/NatGeo TV series like 12yrs ago. I bought the book in an airport, flying the DC to visit my parents over break - had like a 3hr layover in Phila. Amazing read and o.k. TV show.\n\nIt talks about what will happen to Earth - buildings, roads, infrastructure, animals, etc if humans just disappeared. Gives you timelines and puts it into perspective - like he talks about the 6months and what goes into building a new house. Then what happens in 1,5,and 10yrs to that same house as its reclaimed. \n\nISBN: 978-0312427900\n\nI'm not a shill or anything, just really enjoyed the book - plus that week visiting my parents was stellar, so everything stands out from that break. ",
"Can anyone ELI5 this government shutdown? It sounds like a pretty massive deal but I haven't seen anything about it on the news (I'm not American)",
"An Old abandoned road slowly left to deteriorate, fighting against the unruly will of Mother Nature.",
"I'm always amazed when archeologists find old cities buried underground and wonder how the hell that could happen.\n\nThis is how.",
"Dampness ruins buildings incredibly fast.",
"How quaint. Some of you have paved roads. New Mexico here. More miles of dirt roads than paved ones.",
"This is probably a tourist attraction and somebody is keeping it clean.",
"I object to the word “healed” altogether. It wasn’t ever sick.",
"\"Thanks Donald\" is sounding pretty good right now",
"When the snow and ice melts, it's mud season ",
"This new fallout mod looks amazing.",
"And Louisiana",
"Upvote as fuck. Lansing native here, last year my car almost got hit by a stray wheel that came off when the mini van behind me hit a pothole goin 45.",
"Pennsylvania is the fucking worst",
"I can guarantee you that someone else has worse roads.",
"can confirm this confirmation. ",
"/thread",
"There was a cool history channel show that showed what would happen to the earth when humans die out. Really interesting, language would continue on for another 1-200 years because of the birds that speak. ",
"Fell into one and found myself in the Sigma quadrant. I mean honestly, they need to fill in those gravity wells around the α Cygni system. It's getting ridiculous.",
"The first guy did, them Nicaraguans are way down south\n ",
"I want to take my motorcycle down that.",
"I love the use of healed over, very concise vernacular. ",
"Didn't read your comment before I posted the same book above. \n\nThink nothing, that's the start of chapter 1. You got it. ",
"Depends how far back we prune the tree. Disease, sure, no problem, nature is happy we are gone. Climate change, worst case we prune back 95% of life, in a few 10s of millions of years we have proliferation of species and phyla and another Cambrian explosion. Concerted nuclear war, ecological warfare, dropping asteroids on each other... maybe the bacteria will evolve into another intelligent species just in time for the Sun to expand and swallow Earth",
"It's mad to think that when we as a species eventually kick the bucket that Nature will reclaim everything as her own eventually!",
"AFAIK, none of the popular zombie franchises seems to deal with the notion of environmental decay very well. You would think after a period of time, they would literally lose their flesh if only from wear and tear and UV decay.",
"Bitch please, any Mexico road.",
"Still in better condition than the average road in Montreal.",
"r/AbandonedPorn",
"we found the detroiter",
"r/marijuanaenthusiasts",
"r/abandonedporn",
"I don’t watch the show (patently opposed to not calling the dead zombies) but if the grass is lawn grass most strains have over the past 80 years or so been selectively bred to not grow more than about 6” at full growth. If it’s field grass or road-side grass that’s a different story. \n\nDon’t know why I felt like sharing that. ",
"This is me with my camera lol \"I could get some pretty badass pictures if I just go to these locations. But I'm lazy so some other time.\" That was years ago ",
"True story: FIL took a trip in an ambulance last year. He lives in the boonies. Ambulance peeps were waiting until they got to the paved road to put in his IV. He said, “dirt road is smoother. You should do it now.” They got to the paved road and said, “shit, we should have done your IV on the dirt road.”",
"I know right? It doesn't stand for yaou all",
"Nah Obama woulda been president either way, have you heard that man speak",
"[The finest](https://vimeo.com/20658199) ",
"I love seeing people drive cars even just a few years after society collapses... where’d you get that ready to be used gasoline?\n\nEven if you found an oil well or something, how’d you treat and filter the oil through the process it needs to go through?",
"That's an amazing show. The one about the Queen's corgis was the best.",
"Escape From Tarkov? ",
"No but my penis has. ",
"Broken Household Appliance National Forest by Grandaddy is the best song ever written on this very subject of discarded man-made structures being reclaimed by nature. ",
"I'd wager that someone is clearing the middle and still using that as a path at least... For the fallen leaves to not even stray into and cover that area seems highly unlikely.",
"Ha. You took the tunnel.",
"Changes is the first rule of Nature. You can say self motivated road. Nobody was taking care of it so it started itself.",
"Refrigerator",
"I'm sitting here reading all this praise for I90, thinking \"I drive it regularly, it sucks.\"\n\n> The stretch between Rochester and Albany, though, is pretty sad.\n\nThen I get to this part, which is the stretch that I drive regularly and what I was going to use to counter the praise for the highway.",
"Not on my watch. *Turns on flamethrower*",
"Lol... this guy hasn’t traveled outside the US.",
"No, I wouldn't type that. Are you thinking the contraction for 'you will'?",
"If the roots really want to? I'm not really sure what you mean by that. It will be quite some time before roots penetrate the asphalt, not to mention the layers of gravel and compacted soil underneath, and even longer before they have done enough work to consider the road as a whole \"healed\".",
"In better condition than Michigan roads",
"Slowly Healing",
"Hah, why would somebody spend hours decorating a road to look abandoned if it's gonna be in view in the background for like 5 seconds? Let's be realistic here.",
"midwest wedding starterpack",
"I understand the point you’re trying to make, but it doesn’t really work with Obama. He was not hyper tolerant. ",
"They do not withstand to much winter tho",
"This is a beautiful pic",
"1st world problem.... aka perspective people!",
"The game starts with her being 8, having her birthday in the later chapters. Currently in the third installment her age is about 12 or 13, she's started puberty and having periods. Our baby is growing up.",
"So this is how archeology begins, right?",
"Looks like a nice bike road",
"I wouldn't call that healing. It is just desolate and being grown over by fungus ",
"In reality, zombies love landscaping as much as human brains so the walking dead is actually super accurate.",
"Zamasu approves.",
"this would be an awesome spot for a car photo shoot ",
"I'd love to photograph this-so cool to look at!",
"Is that THE 8 mile\n",
"\"Healing over\" sounds like a loaded term",
"There’s a road like that near my house in Massachusetts. Looks pretty similar, though I’m not sure if mine has the guardrails. ",
"Yes, but not in most of FL :)",
"it's technically a protective layer.",
"Huh, lived in Baltimore for 30yrs and never heard of this park. It does not surprise me though. They closed car access to a lot of parks in the 90’s to prevent drug deals and to increase safety for pedestrians. There are large sections ofthe Gwynns falls trail in west baltimore that are old roads, and a whole network of roads criss-cross patterson park in southeast baltimore\n\nEdit: just googled and realized the Leakin is sort of attached to Gwynns Falls. It is also in a deadzone of West Baltimore and nobody really goes thru. The original highway plans would have had I-70 cutting right thru here, so it stayed undeveloped, and most other major roads run around this area but not thru.",
"The Road.",
"\n\nI like to see the Earth and other planets as living cells. We humans are merely viruses that have evolved over time to damage and destroy our host cell, we continue growing and moving on to the next cell (in this case, Mars you're next!) until we pollute and deplete it of its resources. Then on to the next one and the next as we grow more advanced and faster, just like a virus. But once we leave this planet for good, it will slowly heal itself back up to what it once was. Strong and healthy and full of dinosaurs. \n\nPeople often wonder what is the meaning of human existence and how we fit in the universe. Whether heaven and hell is real or aliens are our decendants. But I like to think we're the equivalent of teeny tiny viruses infecting a giant organism which we think is the universe. Call me crazy!",
"They didn't close *all* the roads into it. IIRC, there is a road that goes through it, but they closed off most or all of the roads that used to branch off into the park. Basically, it's a fairly huge park, and the old roads that branched off provided a lot of privacy, so it was known as a place that people would go to dump bodies without being seen. By closing down the branch roads, there are no longer places that are easily accessible by car where you can be confident that nobody else is going to drive up on you.\n\nIt's had an above-average number of bodies found there over the years, but as with most things like this it's not like people were being killed there every night or anything.",
"yeah, this must be the UK or the like...\n\n(ie- nowhere that gets snow or really cold temp's on a regular basis.)",
"Its a vicious cycle. Especially in states with cold winters and hot summer. Winter comes and it snows, the plows utterly destroy the roads and any existing potholes turn to craters. This amplified by the water in the cracks freezing and splitting them more. Then it takes 6 months for them to be fixed, just in time for it to snow again.",
"I personally believe that he should have spent another term or 2 as a Senator to have legislatively been able to back up his oratory abilities as a President.",
"Centralia PA possibly? ",
"These are the old High-Valarian roads.",
"Your description is as beautiful as the photo. ",
"Mmm, so tasty. Thanks, Obama! ",
"Do you live in the United States?",
"Look at the trash those trees are spreading around, while destroying the natural beauty of human reefs.\n\nI swear, sometimes I wish I weren't a tree.",
"Three weeks old and already on the front page, well done",
"Looks like Newark ",
"'",
"If skynet didn’t become self aware, would we not hate our robot overlords? ",
"/r/abandonedporn",
"The weirdest contraction for me is 'ain't'. It covers a lot of ground.",
"Will the construction workers ever finish, took ‘em over 2 years to finish a bridge over a highway, could have finished it in about 6 months",
"I can't believe he played golf on 9/11. He really **DOES** hate America!",
"I kind of want it to be now.",
"Oh stuff it where the sun don’t shine. It is your type that are filled with hate for anyone who doesn’t share the hive mind world view that led directly to trump. Good job antifA, cnn, and the left.",
"That, or now the perfect cycle path.",
"In the spring/summer, weeds and pretty much everything else grow like crazy down here. There is a small wooded area behind the fence in my backyard, with a shit load of weeds growing in it. These thorny fuckers grow through my fence and take over if not maintained. I go back there once every week or two and hack it all down with a machete. Takes me about an hour, and its a great workout. I hate the weeds because they look bad when they grow through the fence, but I kind of enjoy hacking it all down so I haven't looked for more permanent solutions. Not sure if any chemicals would really stop the persistant bastards anyway.",
"What would happen in a mushroom biome?",
"Meh, death's not bad. Been there, done that.",
"There are a couple spots along US 20 here in Northwest Indiana that are like that. One is almost the entire stretch that is in Gary.",
"perfect motorcycling road",
"And socal 405",
"The video that ended a subreddit.",
"Romania sends its regards.",
"It just looks like a windy day in fall. ",
"Here in Cincy I saw 2 cars pulled off to the side of the road due to a giant pothole they ran over. That sucker was more like a mini sinkhole than a pothole.",
"I’ve taken this picture before, Schenectady/Albany county? ??? NY LMK",
"Saying province, I assume you are in Canada? It's also possible this is in an area that doesn't get a lot of freezing, which also damages roads by causing expansion.",
"This is why we can’t find evidence of the prior and more advanced civilization that existed here before us. ",
"Sometimes they're old access roads for industry, but if that industry is completely abandoned then no-one has need to maintain them, especially if they're in remote rural locations.",
"Yeah, well there aint no 'a' in 'team' neither. at least... shit.",
"Would powerwash 10/10",
"I 20 is super nice to memphis. Maybe its 22 I forgot. Its a newer road. Was the bees knees when it first opened up",
"Found r/shittyroads but it looks pretty shitty itself. ",
"Any midwest local roads are shit, coming from someone from Wisconsin. ",
"Yea, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 mile run about a quarter of the width (~50mi) of the lower peninsula from Detroit to the west until highway 23. ",
"Family property often gets tied up in probate if the heirs can't agree what to do with it. (Having a will goes a long way towards preventing this) Even if they are all in agreement, people don't knock down houses for free, it's expensive to have it bulldozed and hauled off. Pretty much the only time this happens is if the heirs have an immediate use for the property (or to sell it) or if the local government makes them take it down. Otherwise it's cheaper just to let it sit and rot. ",
"Nature grabs back.",
"maybe a lawsuit can help with that. They're allegedly taking taxes to make sure the roads are safe, and if they're not doing that, perhaps the people can force them into doing their jobs?\n\nLove Montreal btw",
"Came here to say this but you beat me to it.",
"There’s even a better depression than yours. \\#Sad\n",
"Still good for a motorbike",
"Only if you go out of your way to make it one.",
"Ah yes, didnt think of that, thanks",
"How long has it been abandoned? Curious how quickly this has occurred...",
"It's a shame that everyone living in NYS are at the whim of the lawmakers in NYC though. Crazy how one city gets to decide the laws for an entire state.",
"The show is filmed in GA. It's set in VA. Or possibly MD. They're not very clear about the geography.",
"/r/crappiestroads",
"still in better condition than not abandoned ones in my country",
"dafuq? that one has a reverse pothole. goodbye muffler",
"I love seeing old architecture and how impressive it looks; I just imagine can you imagine twenty years of that same disgruntled worker playing with the stop sign ",
"If every person on Earth vanished in an instant - but everything else remained - how long would it take for there to be no trace we were ever here? No bones, no fossils, nothing.",
"I can make you a table… Granted it won’t be a good table but it could be a table nonetheless",
"A rake could fix that",
"Can confirm. Source: live in Romania. ",
"Kinda lame reddit thing to suffix a theme with \"porn\" to... Make it more attractive maybe? I don't even know how this stupid trend lasted this long ",
"Papua New Guinea laughs. no roads, only trails made from crashed airplane parts",
"Please tell us more about the stop light and snow shed. I'm not even sure what a snow shed is in this context.",
"Desolate and covered with moss is the natural state of the world before we show up and start applying tar and gravel to it.",
"Snorkels shouldn't be required on all vehicles yet...",
"“Healing over.” Great choice of words.",
"This is my favourite thing. Whenever I think about what nature(y) thing I like the most, it's when things become overgrown and nature starts taking it back. There's a trail by my house I love to walk down because back 15 years ago when we were kids, it was a full on walking trail. Now it's hard to find unless you know where to look!\n\nOne thing I'm not a fan of though is reconstruction. When I found out the Great Wall of China was what, 99 percent rebuilt? (Thanks Karl) I lost any interest in seeing it, because now it's just a wall they built in the 50s to resemble the wall that's no longer there. I'd be happier seeing small foundations of the old wall than a brand new one.",
"Don't forget to try VATS every 10 seconds to check for frag mines!",
"“The Road”",
">It is your type that are filled with hate for anyone **who doesn’t share the hive mind world view that led directly to trump.**\n\n> Immediately calls me Antifa, CNN, \"the left\" just because I don't like Trump.\n\nPlease tell me more.",
"Insurance. They will pay for a barn that collapses on it's own, but not if you take it down yourself.",
"\"Healing\" 🙄",
"The simple usage of the word \"healing\" makes this even better.",
"Alexandria looked pretty fucked and overgrown this season. Tall weeds everywhere. Did no one else notice? ",
"There are some streets in Bucharest you'd swear were hit by bombs.",
"r/DrosteEffect",
"Oh God I'm getting the last of us flash backs",
"*sigh* ... even my depression is sub-par. ",
"If a yellow line holds up for this long why does my town spend money repainting them every few years?",
"This is amazing",
"You’ve only now lost faith? \n\nGood proxy idea but who would we trust to be the proxy? ",
"Only way that happens is if society crumbles.",
"I driven in Nicaragua and the roads were not bad. The speed limit was low AF got stopped 2 times ",
"Life, uh, finds a way.",
"Having driven across every state except for four, Mississippi and Michigan win hands-down.",
"https://www.reddit.com/r/shittyroads/",
"its the forest thats healing i think with this not the road. ",
"For some reason, I find images like these beautiful. ",
"I live by quite a few of them in Sussex - miles of old train lines used as off-road cycle tracks. Also, the village I work in, you can see the old train station",
"This is a dang creepy looking road ",
"Maybe if the people who pass the historic preservation rules actually put their money where their mouth is and pay for the historic preservation they pretend to value, then this wouldn't happen.",
"That would make a great bicycle path ",
"When I was a boy we had a road like this that went past my house. About a mile or say past our home the road went into a,cattle pasture. We'd climb overcthe fence and walk the road until the road was next to a creek. The creek had started to wash the road out. We'd sit on the side of that road and fish for hours. If you followed the road it came to a dead end where a bridge once had been but had since been torn down. We would swim there. Also we'd play war games along the road. The other side had a steep hill and we'd taske turns hiding trying to \"shoot\" each other. I had a blast on that road. I had the best time of my life with my brother and friends there. To quote Stephen King I never had any friends like the ones when I was 12. God , does anyone? ",
"Any places like that in Northern Oregon?",
"I stopped reading them around issue 90. It got kind of repetitive and boring IMHO, I also knew a lot of it from watching the show.\n\nAnyway this time skip thing sounds awesome. Would you happen to know what issue that was?",
"Now that I look closer at whats being said I understand what is going on. Y'all are talking about punctuation, not spelling.",
"You write *What’s Happening* ",
"This reminds me of [Joe Rogan’s theory about what humans are](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpfpvVyTJ1I) ",
"Man crysis 4 is looking nice",
"Getting young?",
"Soaking up all those lovely chemicals.",
"This is what’ll happen when we stop relying on Mako Energy",
"Idk about plowing... But I know the US pays farmers to not plant crops in order to fix prices of produce. ",
"You engineer the stratosphere\n\nYou commandeer this hemisphere\n\nBut water will still come\n\nMan should surrender\n\nRearrange forms of life\n\nBattle night with your lights\n\nBut water will still come\n\nMan should surrender\n\nFlying boxes through the air\n\nDropping cities everywhere\n\nBut water will still come\n\nMan should surrender\n\nFire made for all to burn\n\nFoolish end for all concerned\n\nBut water will still come\n\nMan should surrender, surrender now\n\n[Pailhead](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO7H0MuRfTc) ",
"Shout out to all those public work contractors in my home town who have dedicated their lives to make roads nature-reclaim-friendly to the point that the nature doesn't even wait for the rains to reclaim. ",
"This is what roads would be like in an event of a zombie apocalypse.",
"Nah you just don't get it. The roots just have to pull themselves up by their boot straps and work harder, then they can't penetrate asphalt. /s",
"Those freeze cycles really fuck up roads in the northern states.",
"I'm from Wisconsin and I'm wondering what the fuck roads are?",
"Imagine biking down that road...",
"Username checks out.",
"I have a brother who did civil engineering for the Army. He said that they can (and do) build runways that will last for 50 years with heavy traffic. He says that we have ability to build highways that will last as long, but we don't, because \n\n1) we have to keep those people employed and \n\n2) after 50 years of not building roads, nobody would know how to do it right.\n\nBut if we wanted to, we could. That's one of my biggest difficulties with modern life: nothing is built to last anymore. Not like the shire.",
"Chappelle show bro",
"Mexico agrees",
"Centralia has a similar feel, but pretty much everything is gone now. Plus kids drew dicks on everything.",
"that's awesome. i hope shows like The Walking Dead start to incorporate things like that as the timeline moves forward.",
"Why is there an extra s? \n",
"How’s it going to deteriorate if it’s never being used?",
"Look at this ~~photo~~graph",
"Where we going, we don’t need roads...",
"What are you, a buckarooni?",
"I’m waiting for a 7 mile and 6 mile. Rabbit slowly encroaches on Detroit lol",
"My front and backyard the nature tries to reclaim it every Fall. Thank you, Obama! ",
"Worse than Jamaica?",
"There's a really cool video depicting what will happen to earth if all humans completely disappeared and it's scary to see how fast the world would become unrecognizable. ",
"Embarrassing to see people complain ab Chicago and Michigan! People clearly don’t get out much. There are countries with now roads and hardly any water! Quit cha bitchin! ",
"To create a better visual experience? Even the small background things add to the experience as a whole. Changes like that aren't exactly small either. ",
"I like that, it's like roads are cuts we've cut into the earth and it's healing ",
"That because people vote based on their party and not whatever the candidate is suing. ",
"What’s a ‘road’?",
"Jesus, you should meet my roommates. ",
"Now that you say it, I think that M. Night should reboot the *Look Who's Talking* series lol. The babies' voices will have been Bruce Willis the whole time.\n\nedit mistook the *What's Happening* series for *Look Who's Talking* series.",
"Hell it's better than a new road in Maine",
"This is because they get a tax break if there's a building there. You'll also see them buy trailers and leave them in a corn field. ",
"Exactly! These idiots complaining ab first world roads. Try traveling peeps! It’ll keep you from sounding so sheltered and naive. ",
"LOL",
"The Senate didn't pass a spending bill before the last one ran out, so a lot of governmental departments did not have funding to stay up and running. Yesterday, the Senate wrote and passed a different spending bill, which went on to be passed by the House and signed by Trump, so those governmental departments now have money until February 8th, and the government is no longer shut down.",
"I brought my fiancee to visit my home town after college and thought I'd show her the plantation. It was still pretty cool, even had the shell of the slave quarters still standing.",
"Love pics like that! Thanks!",
"Vanishing point. ",
"What a great, objective analysis.",
"The TV show gives a false sense of the actual timeline due to the child actors growing up. \nIf comparing to the comic, only about 2 years have passed.",
"At some point the zombies are are barely involved in the show. The real conflict is between different groups of humans.",
"[It's the little details they sometimes miss](http://efunnyimages.com/wp-content/uploads/funny-The-Walking-Dead-lawn-mowed.jpg)",
"I hate the fact that lawmakers in the middle of nowhere get to hold funding for the MTA hostage. Honestly NYC / Long Island should secede. I’ve never gone north of Sullivan county and have lived in NY my whole life so it might as well be another country to me. Two completely different regions with very different needs. ",
"that show as super interesting",
"HAHA, patched??? That’s cute. ",
"You arrive along the old road.",
"oh shoot. yea.",
"[This is why.](http://e.lvme.me/6veyqw1.jpg)",
"[Kudzu is a great example of how an invasive species can just run absolutely amok without careful consideration of what you're introducing to the ecosystem.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudzu_in_the_United_States) Originally brought in as this neat oriental vine that could make your house look pretty, feed your cattle, and prevent soil erosion. It was a miracle. Then, as soon as farmers left the plant unchecked, it exploded. Removal methods can't even keep up with it's growth. The US Forest Service recently (2015) said that it's not as big of a problem as previously suspected, but it can still choke out all existing flora and cover massive trees without a thought. ",
"Good for you road.",
"Obama is God confirmed. ",
"right. it was a by comparison comment. ",
"We patch our roads???!?!?!1!!!??",
"I've seen that. Also learned that the UK had a different voice over. It didn't sound like a movie trailer throughout. ",
"Can’t wait to see this on r/fakealbumcovers",
"Better than roads in Michigan",
"It also taught me youre male",
"Anyone ever been to Florida? They maintain the roads where no one goes on, but the ones that have high traffic, they never properly fix it up. ",
"Wouldn't the zombies have decomposed years ago? If we want to get technical I mean, the act of walking alone would slowly destroy their feet and legs ",
"Nature...uh...finds a way",
"Friend of mine had a cousin actually try to take a rail road track into the scrap yard to see what he could get out of it.\n\nThey called the police and he told him his grandparent died and it was a lawn decoration from when they demolished the old tacks in our town.\n\nThey didn't take it but he assumed with 40c per pound that it would have been around $80.",
"Yeah, anytime that snow is not on the ground, I90 is easily the best interstate drive in the nation. My personal favorite stretches are where it passes by the Mohawk River in New York state, and pretty much all of Montana. Also Snoqualmie Pass in Washington State.",
"really? your telling me they signed off on a zombie show and didn't want to foot the bill for actual zombies to be in the show? that's doesn't make any sense. though, i'm good with that choice because it builds more tension to not see them.",
"Reminds me of Centralia, PA. Old coal mining town, coal catches on fire underneath town. Town is essentially abandoned due to liability of sinkholes.",
"Nice victim blaming. ",
"Thanks Obama!",
"Love nature, nice to see it take back what rightfully owns. ",
"I went to a wilderness program near Clayton, GA when I was younger. Basically a bunch of fucked up kids primitive camping and hiking through the Chattahoochee National Forest for a couple months with no contact with the outside world. One of the most interesting parts of the experience was seeing all of the different forest types and the transitions between them. The Appalachian temperate rainforest is an incredible place.\n\nEdit: looked it up, the Vietnam scenes from the movie are actually Hunting Island State Park in SC. The bench scene is Savannah",
"Much easier said than done. These houses didn't truly hold any historic value, they just contributed to the overall neighborhood character. All 3 needed extensive rehabilitation on the inside and outside, including asbestos abatement. So, if you're a historic preservation officer, what convinces you to save them? You can't force the developer to save them, he has his own rights. You can't force the city to save them, they have no real historical value. You might be able to convince someone to buy them and save them, but thats a long process and many homebuyers don't want to buy a huge project. I support historic preservation 100%, but sometimes it isn't feasible in the real world.",
"you damn well know its still on",
"I grew up on a dirt road in Alabama. Does that count in this pissing contest?",
"Have you ever driven through Belgium?",
"I love the way it's slowly creeping in towards the yellow stripes, really eerily beautiful",
"Well lots of interstate bridges are designed to last for 50 years and those are roads. Also the fanciest, most expensive road you can build will still get fucked up by a broken water line underground and will still be fucked up by workers having to cut it up to get to something underground for one reason or another. ",
"how does a road become abandoned?",
"Why isn't there a snow shed any more? Avalanche protection is still important, right? ",
"I've heard of this, and have been wanting to check it out!",
"I appreciate your use of the word “healing”",
"“All roads lead deeper into the woods.”\n- The Trader, Darkwood (2017)",
"I think /r/powerwashingporn would like a word with you. ",
"i will give it to them on that, they have definitely been showing the zombies more 'aged' in the later seasons",
"Detroit has the highest murder rate *per capita*. Don't let the numbers fool you, we're still number 1!",
"All I'm picturing is you cutting down a tree using it as a table (without further cutting) and the stump as a stool. \n\nNow I'm picturing you trying to balance a plate on it. ",
"Any chance this was taken in Guilderland, NY? Leading up to an abandoned railroad crossing bridge? ",
"Humans aint' shit.",
"I see your Nicaragua, and I raise you [Costa Rica] (https://imgur.com/a/6zqj7)",
"Yeah maybe, expierence is always a benefit",
"I mean, you’re the one criticizing games. A video game. “Isn’t realistic.” Your complaint is the buildings still standing. Not the monsters, whole vault premise, etc etc. ",
"I've driven it a couple times and it is indeed amazing.",
"He just described almost every major interstate. ",
"You Have Died. ",
"That sounds like some socialist propaganda! /s",
"So it's a bike trail now.",
"Up in St. Lawrence county, a lot of these old farms are being bought by the Amish and getting new barns, etc. It's nice to see.",
"Still better than 440 in Nashville. ",
"r/reclaimedroads ?\nr/eclaimedroads ?",
"> I was really lucky I was able to salvage this wood from an old seaman's chapel in Nantucket\n\nhttps://media1.tenor.com/images/96fb7f1f3426a9b4ef57d12642efed2a/tenor.gif?itemid=9846916",
"Still much wider than country roads in Ireland. ",
"No that’s cool. M. Night could reboot *Three Men and a Baby* too. The twist is the baby is Satan. And Trump has to go back in time to perform an exorcism before black robots from the future create universal health care. ",
"You da mvp",
"I'd love to see a time lapse of this happening",
"He's about to call in a drone strike. Those cookies will be creamed.",
"8 seasons currently. Not sure how long it is in the show, but it's definitely been years by now. ",
"I've been to Nicaragua, those roads are ridiculous, I remember riding in a bus for 2 hours on this \"road\" that was leading to the middle of nowhere and then all of a sudden we see a subway and stop and eat there, like what the hell? There's no way they have enough customers to stay open, they were surprised when we walked in, it was one of the weirdest experiences of that trip.",
"What do you want to know",
"How have the zombies not disintegrated by now? They should be facing walking skeletons",
"Naw, That's just how the road looks after I drive my bad ass truck on through there.",
"because nature is gentler than vehicles!",
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood\nAnd sorry I could not travel both ",
"Yeah! Fuck that road!",
"I’ve never been so proud in my life.",
"Every part of me loves stuff like this. I can only describe it as a sort of \"Call of the Void\" because I feel inexplicably drawn to roads/paths that feel like they belong in some post-apocalyptic wasteland. \n\nBasically... A++/would explore until some maniac murdered me",
"Came for the Pennsylvania comment",
"This is how the dame Darkwood started. ",
"Literally made me laugh out loud. I'll be sure to avoid tunnels.",
"2015: Red River Floods, I30 shut down because river bridge is under water. Bridge Damaged beyond repair. \n \n2018: New Bridge Built to prepare for next disaster. To insure that 2015 doesn't happen again, The new bridge is build lower, so floodwater doest get over it. \n \nThat's ARdot. ",
"Then your original post was misleading. You seemed to say these were valuable historic homes. And then in the followup you said they aren't, but you support their preservation 100%?",
"This is true beauty",
"The Last of Us: IRL",
"MY STATE",
"Those paints survive for years between repainting despite heavy snow ploughing, salt/sand, and traffic on major highways throughout southern Ontario. On an abandoned bike path, it will last for a long time.",
"Looks like a storm just went through here. ",
"\"Oh, and BTW, Santa isn't real either.\"\n\nMight as well pull the band-aid off all at once.",
"[This may align with your interests :)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snoqualmie_Tunnel) \n2.25 miles long, 2600ft above sea level, it's an old singletrack rail tunnel. \nhttps://i.imgur.com/Dn09ocr.jpg",
"New Burlington, OH for a 5th",
"This was a parking lot. Now it's all covered with daisies. - - Talking Heads",
"hmm... You seem to know me better than I know myself… I didn’t even think about using the stump as a stool\n\nEdit: I also didn’t realize that I somehow did not post this comment on the previous comment where the guy was talking about how he hates being a tree… What can I say? New app…",
"440 could take a monster truck down. ",
"Would be cool to see what nature would do to the things we made if earth was unpopular for like 1000 years.",
"Building that sort of tension works in horror when you don't know what it is that's off screen or unseen. If you know its the same old zombie's it's no longer a good technique",
"This happened with Gilboa in NY.",
"Fake. This must must be intentional... The Walking Dead has taught me that an abandoned road will simply have some loose leaves and perhaps a working abandoned car or two even after several years of neglect. ;-)",
"I wonder if 50 years from now people will discover this asphalt road under all these leaves and say \"why would someone cover up this beautiful asphalt road with this carpet of leaves?\" ",
"See what happens when government closes down and can't pay for infrastructure maintenance",
"Where in Indiana? Michigan roads are terrible.",
"I'm gonna need some info on that middle of nowhere Subway. Where were you traveling to? ",
"Interstate highways that are multiples of 5 are all supposed to be suitable for cross country travel. \n\nKind of like even numbers run East West and odd numbers run North South, unless they're a 3 digit number, then it's a bypass, and the first digit being even or odd tells you if it reconnects or not to it's main interstate.",
"It takes place outside of Atlanta so the foliage would be insane in a few weeks. It give it a year or two before the kudzu took over downtown Atlanta. ",
"Man vs Nature the road to victory.",
"It's not exactly reddit exclusive, it's just more noticeable because of the subs thing\n\nI think it started because porn is a visually \"enhanced\" (depending on the material obviously) depiction of sex, while ******-porn would be any topic but the pictures are \"like porn\" to look at ",
"That always bothered me too.",
"Ah, yes. The greatest mistake in the history of the universe.",
"Reminds me of Tarkovsky's \"Stalker\".",
"Spoiler:\n\nThey learn in season 3 (i think) that all people are infected. That means that when anyone dies, they come back as a zombie unless you destroy their brain. Getting bitten will turn a living person, but everyone has the virus. ",
"The road less travelled.",
"May as well, right next to California. \n\nYeah. Just past that fault line. Few more steps. Perfect.\n\nSeriously, there's a *lot* of the country that couldn't possibly be happier if NYC and Cali *weren't* dominating our elections. You complain about MTA without realizing 3/4 of the country would *kill* for that level of mass transit where they live.",
"I finished ",
"Sounds about on par with North Dakota, every fucking winter it's \"Let's dump about 500 gallons of salt water on the roads\" talk about rotting cars, potholes and glare ice. ",
"r/NewOrleans",
"You must have inspired someone because there is now! r/crappiestroads",
"Y'all need to move to Baltimore County",
"OMG I wasn't expecting someone to mention Nicaragua. The \"Manjoles\" (manholes) of Managua when it rains a lot are like a mystery obstacle. ",
"Watch out, Utica. Springfield is a city on the...grOW. ",
"Can confirm the roads are shit in TN",
"You have dirt roads? Never seen one in my life.",
"Nobody has said Centralia, PA yet, so that's my guess",
"If I don't mow my lawn for a month it gets pretty shaggy. Two years in the deep South is enough time for a jungle to form.",
"My bet's on OP being a member or r/misanthropy given the verbiage of the post.",
"Can I adopt this road so that I can later abuse it with racing and burnouts?",
"I love this road.",
"No no no this isn't possible. If Reddit has taught me anything it's if the USA sucks at something then Canada doesn't suck at that thing. ",
"Looks like a road in NY where I lived.",
"Big changes to Utica? Unless it involves destroying most of it and rebuilding while getting rid of the crackheads and murderers good luck",
"I never claimed they were valuable... Re-read one more time",
"In Russia, road abandons you.",
"Pittsburgh would like to throw their hat in the ring of this shitty roads contest.",
"I'm from Ohio and Michigan does have the worse roads! Ours are great, except for the orange barrel rodeo you have to traverse across the state.",
"That's because it's unused.",
"This is cool. I love it.",
"Really? I thought it was St. Louis now. ",
"industry facility moving out of the Area and this being the only Road, old Bridges being unpasable due Instability, human made nature Catastrophe, Rock Slides that dont get removed, other bigger Roads build to replace it leaving this one to be forgotten. There is for example this huge Coal Fire somewhere in the States but i forgot where it was xD",
"The cookie, like America, must remain united!",
"> really? your telling me they signed off on a zombie show and didn't want to foot the bill for actual zombies \n\nI too found this incredible. They fired him, that was known as soon as it happened. Details weren't given immediately, but eventually leaked.\n\nThis is *after* season 1 had aired. They shitcanned him because he didn't want to do it on a cheap budget. Their hit show, one that was in the same league as every other \"best show on television\" show... and they weren't willing to spend.\n\nApparently the only reason that they didn't cheapskate their way through Breaking Bad was that some other studio owned the production (they just had broadcast rights).\n\nGo read up on it if you don't believe me.",
"Yes! There are so many reasons zombies are a stupid idea: https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/strange-creatures/10-reasons-zombies-are-physically-impossible.htm\n",
"Abandoned road still looks better than Missouri's roads",
"Living in Rochester now and having to use the thruway to go back to my parents house near Rome/Utica that stretch is just boring nothingness for 200 miles",
"Alien?",
"I love New Mexico; I was just by that long stretch leading to Colorado from Raton. If I broke down I’m sure I would have been never found ",
"By burning some of the oil to distill the rest, exactly how its done by unemployed people in the Middle East today. Dirty & dangerous but you get gasoline.",
"Roads in Shewaukee.",
"Potatoes of the future are going to be shit. ",
"28 days later did it. But those are considered \"infected\" rather than zombies.",
"I guess they’re building something new thru Snoqualmie Pass for avalanche mitigation. ",
"I’d love to run on that road, or would that be considered a trail?",
"I like how you used \"healing\". Streets are basically scars that humans carve into the earth.",
"We never see them take a shit *once*",
"Nice sweeping down the middle",
"Good location for a hoot movie/video! 😁",
"Nah, it's SFW shots of stuff like this",
"From Baltimore, can confirm.",
"How did I know that PA was gonna end up in this thread?\n\n\nFuck Pittsburgh and their potholes, especially. Then they re-pave roads that *aren't* bad while neglecting the ones that need it the most. ",
"as someone who also did that in the army I find it suspect that the army can do any construction work that's quality enough to last 50 years",
"Humans in cars: \"I love you, road! Wait for us, we'll be back one day!\"\n\nRoad: \"Okay! I waits!\"\n\n...",
"Wrong interstate. ",
"Grass needs more nutrients.",
"Friggin' Everstorm.",
"that was before tannerite",
"THE FOOL ",
"Mother Earth reclaiming her throne.",
"cool",
"We have more potholes in the north... no one wants to believe me... but we need a border wall with Canada to stop them from sneaking bad drivers over and fucking up our roads!",
"It was used as a filming location for some of the movie The Road.",
"It's also corruption. Roads are built by contractors who states just don't have the resources to patrol. They do things like add excessive sand to the asphalt to stretch it out and cut costs... the state can sample and send to a lab, but that requires resources they don't have. \n\nThere are roads that last many years, built with scrutiny... and there are some that don't last 365 days.",
"Strong The Last of Us vibes",
"R/Abandonedporn",
"no seriously. Baltimore city is bad, but imagine all of the highways like that (like the last mile or two of BWI into the city, unless they finally decided to continue construction that far north). that's Michigan. I drive MI>MD frequently and am extremely relieved when my suspension doesn't give out before i get into Ohio (only good thing about Ohio lol)",
"I've never seen this before. So what do these people do? Are they bought out or receive compensation? Were they just screwed with no money and no house and expected to just get on? ",
"Belgium?",
"This is all a daydream anyway.... we're really still just stuck back in Michigan.",
"Thank you. It irks me how people tend to be of the mindset that modern humans create and build unnatural things even though all of our creations can be broken down into natural compounds and elements that the Earth has afforded us (for better or worse) - unless one subscribes to the \"man is a tragic misstep in evolution / a dark anomaly outside of nature\" school of thought (hence why I believe OP to be a member of r/misanthropy ).",
"this is me now",
"This is what the roads in the walking dead should look like",
"You mean being heavily polluted by trees tossing their garbage.",
"I wouldn't consider this \"healed.\" One pass with a bucket and the debris would peel up. Road may look brand new. ",
"The last stoplight was in Wallace, Idaho and the [snow shed](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_shed) was on Snoqualmie Pass in Washington. The Wikipedia page for I90 is pretty interesting and gives you an idea how far it really travels and how much there is to see along the way. ",
"[No.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sIlNIVXpIns) ",
"Had 8 years of hope for cookie soup.\n\nWe were left with skim milk and crumbs.\n\nTrump brings the whole milk and pirolines. Not what people expected and has too much sugar, but its good and i'm not angry to have them.",
"I think it's more like, see what happens when the government steals all of your money.",
"Fuck off",
"i used to live just outside punxsutawney for a while. \n\nYou're pretty much right.\n\n",
"I didn't see anything too shocking or unexpected when I was in Siam Reap. But I didn't really leave the city.",
"Minnesota here, our [roads could be worse](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CMdv2wRaqo4) :-/",
"TV series have relatively small budget. I can guess they spend it on things that matter, like props, FX, pyrotechnics, etc. I'm pretty sure that if the task at hand is to make every single scene absolutely visually realistic they can pull it off, but that's not a priority.",
"Beautiful. Hope it happens to the rest of the planet as well. Civilization was a mistake.",
"[:D](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sIlNIVXpIns) ",
"That's cute",
"I so enjoy that you used the word \"healing\". So peaceful, and so representing of the damage we do to this world. ",
"[r/abandonedporn](reddit.com/r/abandonedporn) ",
"True but things will last a ton longer in grasslands than forest. I'm from ND and farmers leave sheds, barns, and silos up long after they're out of use. I've seen dozens since I was a child that are still delapidated but look fairly similar to how they did 30 years ago. If they were surrounded by trees, moss, more animals, more rain, etc they'd be long gone. Even the frigid winters and strong winds there can't compare to what thriving plants do. ",
"Snow shed?",
"Better than Cleveland",
"And less illegal and risky.",
"I used to live in a neighborhood with a road that over the years was just left to decay until finally they closed it off.\n\n[This was the entrance.](https://www.google.com/maps/@41.2107645,-73.2616222,3a,37.5y,35.38h,82.3t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sTzj7G2vgbjzXpbQp61jMPg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)\n\n[And it came out here.](https://www.google.com/maps/@41.2078917,-73.2590034,3a,75y,297.27h,90.52t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sRtDnLNa6P4xDHoN6RQARDw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)\n\nIt was on the maps. It wasn't in the middle of nowhere. My parents actually drove done it once. There were huge gaps in the pavement. And you can see remnants of it to because Morehouse Highway reappears on the other side of Congress Street.",
"this would've been an excellent shooting location for The Road",
"The opposite, actually - that's why they did it. If you can drive right into a wooded area with a body in the trunk it's easy. If you have to hike in with the body over your shoulder it's a lot harder, and much more noticeable.",
"Reminds me of that episode of Doctor Who where everyone is stuck in an eternal traffic jam on this massive underground highway under some future variation of NYC. There were these two little old ladies which had been there since the very beginning of the jam. The Doctor asked them \"So how long have you two been here?\" To which one of them calmly replied \"Oh, its been 23 years now.\"",
"Beautiful...I wonder what happened to make the road be abandon?",
"I also lived in FL, on the panhandle. Trees lose their leaves there too.",
"Oh snap. I'll have to contribute",
"This. I would love to see a sub like this!! Scary and shitty roads of the world. ",
"Your brother is wrong, or at the very least, misguided.\n\nThe cost of building roads that don't crack and heave due to a frost thaw and don't pothole due to snow plowing is enormous -- far higher total cost of ownership than the roads we have now, even if we did a better job with roadway maintenance. Which we can't. Because drivers throw any politician who wants to raise the gasoline tax high enough to pay for those expenditures out of office.",
"That's actually the one in NY that I was thinking of.",
"I think the issue is that if you're accepting that there's biological factors limiting their longevity (decay, etc) then you're implicitly accepting tons of other biological limitations which preclude that zombies can't exist in the first place (i.e. all other cell mechanisms necessary for maintaining life that would still be needed in order for the thing to be able to move, etc).\n\nBut they're all hypocritical anyway because they always still show them rotting/decaying away (even show limbs coming off easily, etc), but there just seems to be some convenient limitation to how rotted and decayed a zombie can get.",
"At least PA construction workers are doing something. New Jersey construction workers stand around, while watching the traffic go by. ",
"The title of this post sounds like a blade runner baseline.",
"I've driven through Michigan, can confirm.",
"I keep an eye out for those places, and whenever possible I go there to photograph.\n\nI lately bought/made a few post-apocalyptic clothes and props for a cosplay, and I love to get a couple photographs in locations like this. Only one session so far but I'm looking forward to doing more, and a place like this would be perfect.",
"I remember when the tigers played the cardinals in the world series a few years ago it was #1 murder city vs. #2 murder city. We got swept but we're still number 1 in murders!!!! ",
"Weep not for roads untraveled",
"We hiked that with the boyscouts when I was a kid.\n\nBoy it gets dark halfway through the tunnel! Cue 20 thirteen years Olds looking on the walls for graffiti boobs and dicks ",
"Jamaica laughs at you all",
"Show me on a map? Have the photo?",
"Wow didn't know about 'Wingo. I was thinking of Marsh Creek in Chester County.",
"Heh, there's a Chesterfield in the US?",
"He actually left Trump a pretty shitty situation. Everyone like to pretend a president was great after he leaves office. Obama was a shit president and you people need to quit pretending he wasn't. ",
"Is a road considered a wound",
"Love that you said it was healing. ",
"This isn’t even a joke",
"Is the walking dead still airing new episodes?",
"Interesting article! Baton Rouge doesn't belong on that list, tho. Sure, it's a shit hole town, but they only refer to Derek Todd Lee's killing spree (bodies weren't dumped) and swamps in Iberville Parish. I don't think people are going to BR to dump bodies. LOL ",
"> didn't want to foot the bill for actual zombies to be in the show\n\nTo be fair to them, developing an Umbrella T-virus strain and leaking it in the general population of an area sounds expensive",
"I also didn't say you said that explicitly. You definitely implied it. If you're here lamenting how the developer \"got around\" the codes, then you seem to say you find that a bad deal and they should have been saved, i.e. valuable.",
"There's still hope for planet Earth!",
"Can't wait until it's \"old abandoned mall being reclaimed by nature\".",
"Half my road is abandoned/closed due to the hillside collapsing. \n\nIt's so reclaimed that it's barely recognizable as a road. It's only been 40ish years since it's abandonment. ",
"Where is this?",
"Sounds like the last of us",
"Need to know if this is a thing as well",
"Guilderland NY?",
"Yeah, Army Corps *claims* and reality are quite disparate entities. Someone once did an analysis of Army Corps' stated lifespan of coastal projects and the *actual* lifespans, and found that not a single one had lasted even *half* of the claimed lifespan.",
"You're reading inbetween the lines. It wasn't implied that they were valuable, I have no clue how you would get that from what I said. Also wasn't lamenting anything. The developer found a way to get around codes thats fully legal. You're really reaching here",
"At least we’re number 1 at something cuz our sports teams suck.",
"I agree, fuck roads. \n \n^(/s)",
"...and this is exactly what they are missing in things like The Walking Dead. Do they have zombies that are doing yard cleaning or something?",
"r/creepy ",
"[snow shed](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_shed) ",
"Please tell me that \"going down memory lane\" is just as cheesy and cringey as it sounds in the US as well? I'm not a native speaker but I seriously feel uncomfortable whenever someone uses the phrase in a nostalgic setting",
"I don't know men, I live in Montreal, Québec my whole life and it's seems like they repaint the lines pretty often might just be an impression tho... hell we even need to patch/repair the asphalt every summer because the froze/unfroze leaves holes everywhere ",
"If the last scenario happens, let's hope we never see another \"intelligent\" species again.",
"Yeah I suspend my belief for shows and movies, but once people start talking about them in any kind of serious way, I tune out. Calling them on it doesn't seem to work either.",
"It wouldn't be as scary if it looked less.like it does outside your house",
"Fucking 202 and 95. Shits been under construction for like 20 years. Either fix it or dont.",
"I'm surprised somebody hasn't tried selling them off for scrap.",
"That show has been unwatchable for years. Like we get it Rick is unstable. F",
"I've heard that if everyone died, there would be no sign of civilization within just 100 years. Seems hard to believe, but maybe that's true.",
"Where we're going, we don't need roads!",
"https://youtu.be/__HzX90K1Uo",
"If you're talking about the same kind of weed afaik there is no solution. ",
"r/shittyroads seems to be fairly deserted, except for today's post.\n\nWith some resurfacing we can bring it back to life.",
"How dare you? ",
"I believe I know where this is too.. ",
"You know what's even worse destroyer or roads? Corruption. ",
"r/shittyroads ",
"Why would I give \"nature\" precedence over my own species?",
"This picture reminds me of a movie called Millers crossing ",
"I love that episode. \n\nS3 Ep3 Gridlock, in case anyone is wondering. ",
"This will happen eventually at some time in the future... ",
">He said that they can (and do) build runways that will last for 50 years with heavy traffic.\n\nAssuming an infinite budget? Sure. \n\nAsphalt just happens to be the cheap and flexible solution to building roads under highly variable usage and weather conditions. ",
"Omg it has to be this location. I know exactly where this is. I’ll go there later and take a picture. ",
"You should call public works, and get a street sweeper out there. That will show Mother Nature, who the boss is, lol. ",
"I feel bad for you if you watched beyond first half of S3. Such a trash show that just got even worse beyond then, I had to stop.",
"Don’t people steal the cement instead of layering the roads properly? A friend of my cousin died today traveling from the shitty roads driving from Sozopol to Burgas..",
"Forest Gump ",
"Am from Georgia. Can confirm that Kudzu is all-consuming. It can grow up to 6 feet in a day in the right conditions. The only way to kill it is to get to the root, cut it there, then dig up the roots and throw them in a bag in the trash. Simply digging them up and throwing them down will cause them to grow back. Kudzu is a beast of a plant.\n\nEdit: Okay, so the web claims this stuff only grows 1 foot per day. I may have over-estimated the growth rate slightly, but I swear it will grow faster than a foot per day in GA. It seems to appear from nowhere overnight. ",
"Abandoned bridge on old state road",
"This picture makes me think of \"I am, Legend\".",
"Well, then feel for me. Yeah, most shows, once I am vested in it, I am in the long haul.",
"I took this road to escape some Clickers only to run into a couple Fire Flies hiding out in the bushes.",
"We burned an old garage on our farm... jamming a couple large round bales of hay inside helps...",
"Can confirm subscription.\n\nNature is just a term which describes our understanding of physics, if things are occurring which seem to violate physics, then either our understanding of physics is incomplete, our measurements are flawed or someone outside this simulation is directly interfering with our universe in such a way that violates the rules we are constrained by.\n\nThe closest we can say is \"doesn't occur naturally in the universe outside the influence of intelligent actors\" to which I can only reply - you looked everywhere?\n\nThe sun, comets, and butt plugs that look like Peter Dinkeledge are all equally natural - if not equally fun.",
"Healing? Looks like it has an infection. ",
"I had to cut bait on that one though. The characters are so bad and the show completely ignored giving me any answers to what I would be interested in for the theme.",
"I have to cross the dam everyday for a job I'm on. So I looked it up. Was pretty neat to learn about.",
"Sorry we need that money to polish the bean.",
"> Not sure if any chemicals would really stop the persistant bastards anyway.\n\nNone of the legal ones anyway. Especially not worth it if you have animals outside.\n\nYou can rake the ground on other side with a toothed bucket if you need a break from it. I'd suggest a bush ax rather than a machete if you're dealing with a lot of thorns. Just make sure you bend your knees and keep your back straight when swinging. It can be hard on the back.",
"\"healing\"",
"Unless they are like most kids who don't remember even half the shit their parents lied to them about.",
"Or at least the walking dead should'nt have clean brand new cars they drive for product placement. They probably need that ad money to buy guns to fight the saviors though. ",
"We don't talk about Detroit. We always shift the murder topic to Chicago. Fox 2 is always like \"Two murdered at gas station in metro Detroit! The humanity!\" \n\n\"Well yeah, it's Detroit. But, damn! Look at Chicago being murdered over there!\" ",
"Years have passed in universe.",
"Here in New Orleans, a crusader emerges at night to spray paint giant dicks around the massive pot holes. Give it a try, been working pretty well to get them fixed! ",
"+1 for descriptive title",
"I have this picture and I just looked, it’s old state road bridge,... my picture is older and one of the trees is on the road, that was standing in my picture",
"Hurr durr Obama sucks amirite?!",
"Nature's way of saying fuck you.",
"Looks like the road home from Darkwood.",
"This is kinda the same way Northern Virginia is for the whole state. A mostly rural state that is usually all decided by the dense metro area that is at the very tip where it borders DC",
"Howdy neighbor ",
"did you just turn y'all into german slang for we",
"TIL\nNYS",
"Sweet bike path 🚲 ",
"It was crazy when i discovered that it would be six turns to get from where I lived in Spokane, Washington to where some WoW guildies lived near Boston. The interstate system is insane. ",
"Nice bike path now",
"With the amount of roads in the country it would take 50yrs to do them all so it would be like painting a big bridge. By the time you get to the end it's time to start over.",
"Confirmed: grew up in Michigan ",
"If this is anywhere out east, chances are good that the shrubs growing along the road is the highly invasive Japanese Honeysuckle. This human-introduced weed grows quickly and outcompetes the native natural plants in the area. In short time, the roadside will have lost all biodiversity, save for the human introduced weeds.\n\nOne could argue that this isn't nature reclaiming the road from humans, but an example of our influence continuing even when we have left. \n\nIt can be easy to overestimate a landscape's ability to heal when we are unaware of how we use natural plants and animals in human ways.\n\nhttps://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/plants/honeysuckle.shtml\n\nTL/DR: Those are weeds and nature is losing. Humans crush everything even when we aren't around.",
"What is a road?",
"I just looked up leakin park and thought it was interesting. Click on the link in that article, someone detailed them out. Stops in 2012. Wonder about anything recent.",
"Hi there!!!! I have been there many times, always in interesting spot, it brings many weird memories and feelings. Great spot for contemplation 💚",
"New Jersey",
"This is how its gonna look when were gone",
"We have a Pimp my Pothole in New Orleans. \n\nhttps://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/pimp-my-pothole-photo-gallery/Slideshow/2437016",
"I dream of a day all roads look this way.",
"Doesn't look that \"healed\".. Blow those leaves and branches off and I'd bet it'd look nearly perfect.",
"> almost no trace of the previous civilization would remain.\n\nIf it's all wood, sure, but are you aware of how much steel and concrete we use in construction?",
"Been there, and the roads are better than some of the stuff you find in SC",
"That show has to many flaws to list. ",
"I kinda want to see that place before I die.",
"/r/shittiestroadsintheworld\n\nNow it is.\n",
"These Fallout 5 graphics are pretty good.",
"God damn it, this makes me sad. There really is just no end to how much these people got fucked over by Europeans.",
"You contemplate life here too?!? I love watching the trains go by and waving on the bridge here. Had a bunch of fun here in high school and it’s still the same old place. I hope it never changes, even though it’s mad dangerous ",
"I love this book. Sitting on my bookshelf right now ",
"Username checks out.",
"I've only experienced the WA side of I90 and it sure is beautiful. ",
"Is this in Savannah near Bethesda? ",
"I've gotta think it's pretty common, seeing all those responses in before me.\n\nI was thinking about the four downs drowned in Western Mass in the 1930s so Boston could have water. The Quabbin Reservoir was once people's homes in Enfield, Dana, Prescott and Greenwich MA... and the state gave them pennies on the dollar for the land they essentially stole through public domain.",
"I'm surprised somebody hasn't taken the guardrail yet.",
"Most of that is just leaves and moss. The road itself hasn't been claimed much, but it's still beautiful and interesting in a way.",
"Pretty sure this pic is in Savannah right near Bethesda ",
"Thought this was a gif, convinced myself a couple of times I could see movement. Send help.",
"how can nature reclaim something it never had before?",
"This road was likely abandoned for the same reason it is still in such good condition- hardly anyone ever used it.",
"Why do they even bother? Sometimes the patch job is worse than the potholes and cracks they filled in.",
"Think about that you dont have a real winter... \nWinter and freezing conditions Kill roads way faster ",
"/r/shittyroads/",
"The Vietnam scenes in Forrest Gump were filmed on Fripp Island in South Carolina. They planted dozens of palm trees to make it look extra tropical.",
"Finally a legitimate reason to build a wall",
"True. And the new graffiti covered the old, better graffiti. \n\nStill worth a visit. \n\nI think the mountain range in the background is why I get a PA vibe.",
"I have, there is no Nicaraguan word for road",
"Wouldn't rust make this a much faster process?",
"That is amazing . Quite beautiful I might add lol.",
"Y'all wanna complain about roads? Try Florida. We're ALWAYS UNDER MAJOR ROAD CONSTRUCTION EVERYWHERE, and don't even get me fucking started on the old people, snowbirds, and god damn turn signals.",
"Sounds like a line in a country music song",
">COooraaal\n\nFTFY",
"For those playing post apocalyptic RPGs, especially \"Rip Van Winkle\" scenarios, this is a great visual. All those old maps just don't work anymore, outside of major topographic landmarks. ",
"This was almost 20 years ago, I went with a group to Rolando Rodriguez and El Porvenir after both towns were wiped out after a huge storm broke apart a wall of the volcano there open and a mud slide wiped out thousands of homes, so I'm not exactly sure where it was at, but we were on the way to those small towns to help rebuild some homes for them, it was somewhere between Managua and Rolando Rodriguez, I just remember the ash from the volcano falling all around us like black snow and we come across a subway that seemed to be in the middle of nowhere.",
"Trump saves America yet again ! 🇺🇸",
"Fallen branch on the left kinda looks like an arm with three fingers.\n\nJust tryna climb over that metal railing...",
"No, that's not at all why Frank Darabont left the show lol. ",
"Milwaukee sucks too",
"I can vouch for the shittiness of Chicago's roads. Hell, objectively you got lucky.. there are some real rim busters out there.",
"looks like a road from Supernatural. ",
"Perhaps they are considered \"Property of the Highway Dept.\" And maybe less valuable than stealing and stripping copper from somewhere. ",
"This gives me little doubt that there is more to our history. ",
"Fascinating ",
"Utah's not a country. ",
"Right, but the issue is, we dont have people who fix the fucking roads.\n\nId be ENTIRELY FINE WITH IT if they did. But instead they let the roads get ruined, leave it like that for months or years, and then they put that shitty gravel over it and leave it like that.",
"Scrolled way too far down before seeing this comment. Real talk. They have been doing construction on the same part of road right off the highway exit by my house since before I moved in. Four. Years. Ago. ",
"By leaps and bounds better than Michigan roads ",
"I have 2 voices, one for everyday conversation, and one with a impressive southern drawl that is my real and natural voice that only comes about when I’m around my family. The accent also comes in handy for fooling the trump supporters into thinking I belong.",
"I see you, too, live in Jacksonville.",
"You get a surprise when you go to milk the cows.",
"I find this to be true of pretty much every goddamn vine plant out there. My house in Seattle has a problem with an ivy plant that has been embedded in the yard for years. When I moved into the house, the hoarder that owned it had done nothing about it so it had really just kind of been going wild over the years. On top of that, there's a goddamn grapevine that's growing around the fence, which of course looks really cool until you realize that the grapevine it does not want to stay just on the fence. When I moved into this house, I tried to tackle the yard, but it fucking killed me. I couldn't do it. I was pulling Vines out for months and months and months and months and I could not fucking win. You break one tiny little piece of this shit off and it just keeps growing. Have problems with blackberry bushes too. Blackberry bushes weren't even native to the Pacific Northwest, but just about everywhere you go you will see blackberry bushes growing all over the goddamn place. And I don't mean just a little bit. I mean, massive areas where blackberry bushes have overtaken all the underbrush and you can't even get through. Both of these things are fucking nightmare. We get so much rain that leaves plants just go absolutely ape shit.\n\nFuck the people that brought these things here",
"Still better than some down here in Miami!",
"Watch yourself, or I'll read you some Vogon poetry.",
"That road's not healing, it's getting fucking eaten.",
"This is what roads in zombie apocalypse shows should look like. Instead they look perfectly clear, well marked, and litter free. ",
"Not visually realistic just visually appealing. The Walking Dead would be more visually appealing if the roads had more leaves and moss, they don't even need a huge amount to achieve it. \n\nBut as you said it's probably not a priority. Just I like those little details. ",
"This would look very nice during fall season.",
"Can you provide some sources on that because that sounds like major BS",
"I'm also not a whiny bitch.",
"Are you from the secular state in South Asia where we have a democratic regime and are one of the top ranked countries in terms of human capital.",
"i've been there, why would you say they have bad roads.\n\ni'm from a little bit further on east from Belgium, some couple of thousands kilometers - Ukraine",
"Hahahaha thanks for laugh.",
"Nature always wins in the end.",
"> It had the last stoplight in on a U.S. interstate highway\n\nThere's still a [few you can enjoy.](https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2013-03-11/breezewood-pennsylvania-roadgeek-maphead-ken-jennings) \n \nWiki has a [whole section on it.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gaps_in_Interstate_Highways#At-grade_intersections_and_traffic_lights)",
"Yess, I do contemplate life there.... a thinking spot if you will.... today is a good for that if it wasn’t so rainy...it’s a place that attracts loners and thinkers I believe. ",
"It’s beautiful!!! It’s hard to get up here in the winter though ",
"Reminds me of Darkwood. ",
"Tampa but basically same same. ",
"Why are the roads in Michigan so cracked? Couldn't for the life of me figure it out.",
"Is the story about child-snatching birds to keep them out of the wooded area by Montrose that is used for a sex hook-up site?\nEdit: Montrose point bird sanctuary",
"Still a better love story then twilight.",
"L o L",
"> southern Appalachians.\n\nI think it's the road in to an old, abandoned place. There are a lot of asylums and rich folk destinations in the southern Appalachians that got abandoned, and the roads in look like this.\n\nI've been to two.",
"Because it's a game",
"Sometimes they are made shitty all at once.\n\nMinamihara-31 Nakahama, Futaba-machi, Futaba-gun, Fukushima-ken 979-1402, Japan\nhttps://goo.gl/maps/f3a8SGA2oS22",
"New Burlington, oh ?",
"Hello from MY country!",
"I was thinking of the difference in the rural areas of both states. \n I go to western Michigan a lot and the state highways are wonderful even when you're in the middle of nowhere. Smooth tarmac, wide shoulders. And I'm not just talking about M22 only. State highways in Indiana are often barely upgraded farm roads. Keep in mind that you can't really ascribe the state of municipal streets to the state. I'm sure quite a few Michigan municipalities have some of the worst roads in the United States due to a lack of funds, but the state highways have always been decent for me.",
"> Weakened one of my tires to the point that the sidewall burst\n\nUsually that's caused by running on a flat tire. Check your tire pressures more often, especially after hitting a pothole. ",
"Truth. NC resident here, but my office is in SC. As soon as I cross the state line the road becomes pure shit. I love crossing back over into NC. It’s like a drug. ",
"You could get around something like that with good writing, have a nutbag scavenger cult that believes in order for their lives to get better/the messiah to come/whatever they need to restock the supermarket, then you've got a heavily defended location with lots of loot.\n\nIt's like when people have built little enclaves to live in yet there is rubbish everywhere, there is no reason for it, out in the wasteland sure, but where people are living and trying for 'normalcy' \n\nthere is so many little incongruities within the world, that could be worked around but seeings as the latest installment seems to be a FPS with RPG trimmings rather than an RPG game I doubt things will get better. ",
"Yeah... not entirely. Ive lived in NS, CA for a number of years and the temperate coastal climate really fucks the roads up. \n\nSouth/central American countries are next are next level though. Ive also driven around rural Costa Rica and there was literally just shit on fire on the side of the road, a number of times, potholes as big as cars, and tons of prositutes just chilling on the side of the road. Also a hill was on fire but apparently this is normal.",
"Motor Scooter Dan is set in his ways, long after highway 18 was build, he's still taking Old Campbell Rd to work. ",
"Fuck toy",
"Down in Mississippi we had a lot of kudzoo that took over everything if we didn't burn it e ery so often. It literally great 18inches a day in optimal conditions, 5 years max there too. ",
"I would love to see this show up on /r/powerwashingporn/",
"Come on. Stumps are nature's stools and twigs are nature's chopsticks. Maggots are also nature's rice... Meaty meaty rice. \n\nRe: edit\nHey this app is the closest thing to infullible",
"For real, I was driving down Washtenaw he other day and the road is buckled so bad I thought I ran over a dead body.....again",
"St Louis is known for assault and battery, not murder. ",
"Even nature knows not to cross the double yellow. ",
"There’s massive amounts of rural land in every state lol ",
"God no, I just moved here from Tampa for work, where I went to USF.\n\nNot the same thing. At all. Jacksonville is waaaay worse. Oh man. Be grateful. 😩",
"Yea Tulsa roads are pretty crap! ",
"I'm tryna figure out why no one else is asking this question!",
"where does it go?????",
"The Red Wings, Tigers, Pistons, and UofM. \n\nWhat are you talking about? ",
"Not speaking about your Bridge´s... \nor the Condition/Mainanance of the BigDig Tunnels.. \nCharlestown Bridge... shit i thought i was somewhere in Sibiria... ",
"I’d prefer not to imagine. Good luck!",
"Are you Cambodian? ",
"Unexpected nickleback ",
"In the words of Liz Lemon:\n\n“I want to go to there.”",
"What is it with those wait times at road work sites in the US? I missed the most beautiful sunset on one of the last days of my vacation because I was stuck at one forever. I'd never seen anything like it, in Europe they either completely reroute or keep blocks in each direction moving alternately. \nThen, in California, I waited for 20 minutes as first in line for a \"pilot vehicle\" to lead me at almost walking pace through a mile of construction site whith a stretch of like 500 feet of actual work being done.\n\nI can drive in cities, I'll probably manage to go past 500 feet of workers without running someone over, thank you very much.",
"SPARTANS!!!! oh...wait :(",
"Whenever I see archaeologists digging up these ancient Roman cities, and they're in such good condition, I think to myself how can they be so well preserved but buried? Like they can't all be landslides and volcanoes. And the ancient roads in Italy that are still in use today that are almost 3,000 years old. And then I see something like this and it puts it all into perspective. Thank you for posting this.",
"I fount Montreal beautiful. After having spent all my life in Winnipeg. Didn’t see no holes in no road. ",
"And \"healing\" is the perfect word to use here.",
"My comment is in response to one that inaccurately represents the setting of the recent Fallout games. ",
"Nature always wins in the end. It plays the long game",
"My buddy lives in Cali. He always claimed Cali had the worst roads. Then we did a road trip from Cali to my home-state of VT. We realized America has terrible roads everywhere you go. ",
"I think Michigan takes the cake on worst roads in the country. Where is this gas tax money going towards I wonder...?",
"To inconvenience foreigners while hurting its citizens is the American way 😉",
"I lost 18 inches of tread off a tire driving through Chicago on the freeway. Finding a tire place that was open at 5pm on a Saturday in the northern suburbs of Chicago was fun.",
"Geez, what's in that paint?",
"It's the winters combined with a state that allows some of the heaviest loads on rigs in the US. Absolutely destroys the roads.",
"NYC and California don't even come close to dominating national elections. If anything, that would be a more fair accusation for Ohio, Florida, and the other swing states. ",
"I’m actually a Spartans and Lions fan :”(",
"Downvotes despite being correct about a *number,* of all things. That's Reddit for ya. [I got your back.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_Earth)",
"Whaddaya lookin’ at! ",
"Doesn't have the same ring to it",
"Looking forward to seeing that...",
"80 years is practically eternity in terms of jungle growth and decay. 24/7 heat, moisture, and ideal growing conditions will have the jungle swallow up anything in a matter of years.",
"It’ll look like the picture above in another few years ",
"There was greenspace behind my house that they since cleared to lay down a road. When I walked back there I was surprised to find fire hydrants and other concrete features. Went to google earth and turns out they cleared it once but abandoned the roadwork before curbs were put in. Literally was covered up by brush in a matter of 5 years.",
"I’ll never argue about roads or drivers with someone from Florida; just get out before they get you",
"Can confirm. Got an IV in an ambulance in Michigan. Took 6 attempts, blood everywhere. ",
"I like to think it is its own word!",
"Someone should clean that road up.",
"You missed the best part, imho. All of the stuff with Negan & the Saviors and the huge war they had, what the show is covering now. The skip happened in #127 and they aren't specific about it, the fan theories seem to agree on 4 years give or take. But it's enough time that most of the modern stuff you see them using in earlier issues is gone. They still have guns and working radios, but all the cars are gone, and they've evolved into a agricultural economy, trading with other settlements.",
">the mysteriously shiny-clean Huyndai\n\n...with the fully-charged battery and a tank full of fresh gasoline.",
"I bet the still charge for access. ",
"This is so cool",
"They are working on replacing the Charlestown bridge. It’ll probably take 10 years though.",
"I'm pretty sure the cast wouldn't want ticks all up in their goodies haha.",
"Sounds like this is exactly the kind of thing we should use when we terraform Mars. :-)",
"Nuke it from space. It's the only way to be sure.",
"Yes I do. Dirt roads 5 minutes from my house. Rural farmland 15 minutes from my house. Some dirt roads do get pretty bad, especially in the rain, but I'd still rather drive down them than some of the streets in the lesser well off areas in my town.",
"I appreciate the term \"healing over\" for this. ",
"Enterance to the exclusion zone (chernobyl Ukraine)",
"[I like your style, dude.](https://i.imgur.com/fPhOFbN.gif)\n\nAlso, OP has only been a member of Reddit since Jan 1st of this year and already has 3x more karma than me being here for 4+ years. WTF!?",
"It probably lasted longer because its not repetitively driven over so its not being worn down. ",
"'Healing'. Lol.",
"It amazes me when I see the bumper sticker \"Pavement is Forever\" um no actually it's really temporary. Nature don't fuck around.",
"Yes I do. Dirt roads 5 minutes from my house. Rural farmland 15 minutes from my house. Some dirt roads do get pretty bad, especially in the rain, but I'd still rather drive down them than some of the streets in the lesser well off areas in my town. \n\n",
"Do you at least get blackberries and grapes from them?",
"Holy shit, I live five minutes from this bridge. It's a beautiful spot, especially in the summer",
"Thank you for subscribing to Interstate facts!",
"Yes Gravel would be nice. ",
"What are you on about? I took I-40 all the way to Barstow and 101 to SF. Literally traveled every inch of Interstate 40.",
"True story ",
"Hawaii is pretty bad. But probably not the worst. Our biggest roads are old, bumpy, dirty, and full of uneven asphalt and a million small potholes.",
"We dug up an entire hillside with an excavator and put the dirt in a huge pile, in an attempt to kill the kudzu. We ended up with a mountain of dirt that was quickly covered in kudzu, and it grew back on the hill. To kill it, we put the dirt back on the hill, sprayed the fuck out of it with some herbicide that scorched the earth, and covered it all in heavy opaque plastic for a couple months. We left the plastic down, and covered the hill in riprap.",
"The gas would be skunked by now too.",
"And yet the still shoot on film? That's definitely not the cheapskate route. ",
"You’re my wife now",
"What really bothers me is before, there was a zombie next to you, it would pretty much mean you were done for. Now, you could be surrounded by 68 zombies and you probably are not going to die, with rare exception.\n\nEven though, I was happy how this season ended. I also loved the start of whatever season Terminous(sp?) started, even though, too many people apparently complained in how \"violent\" the show was being.\n\nFFS... it's a zombie apocalypse.",
"Concrete jungle ",
"It takes nature 4 years to reclaim a road, 4 months to reclaim a shed, 4 weeks to reclaim a yard, and 4 days to reclaim a man’s face.",
"And this is probably less that 50 years old. Imagine the amount of stuff that's been covered for millennia.",
"I wonder how far it goes?",
"Secondary succession ",
"According to Republicans, Obama and Hillary are The Doctor and his companion, except they travel through time causing every problem known to man.",
"Potholes big enough to break a tie rod are repaired by just throwing that cold patch crap in them, letting the passing cars do the work of pressing it in. Meanwhile all of those said cars get it splattered on them and it's impossible to remove. Then the patch breaks up in under a year and the pothole is back, ruining our alignments and suspensions. First world problems.",
"I wonder if the volcanoes have anything to do with that",
"Max 1 foot per day",
"We have the best depressions.",
"Guilderland, NY. It's an abandoned bridge that goes over train tracks. It's a really cool spot.",
"Where I come from our potholes have names.",
"'Healing' is such a bullshit term in this case. \n\nGrow you liberal maggots.",
"I'm pretty sure it has more to do with the insane cost of building and maintaining a runway than keeping people employed and forgetting how to build roads.\n\nA runway costs several times as much as a road per square foot just to build, and then you have to pay for constant, detailed inspections and maintenance. That's doable for a single location like an airport, but completely impossible for the tens or hundreds of thousands of miles of roadway in a given US state.",
"[[naturalize]]",
"Neat, thanks. I quite liked the Negan stuff, I might get back into the comics. #127 isn't too far off.",
"Well not the activity but maybe the soil. Oahu has no active volcanoes and our biggest highway is terrible. It’s also mostly elevated.",
"> the bathtub fell through the floor\n\nThat's because someone tried to dissolve a body in it.",
"[Fido helps a ton](http://www.bigbadbob113.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/fido-zombie-mowing-lawn.jpg)",
"Surely they can patch concrete with asphalt, right? What do you mean that doesn't really work?",
"Try heroin. Then the weeds wont bother you as much.",
"Makes me wonder how long it took dinosaurs to get buried and fossilized?",
"That sounds amazing. Thanks!",
"This pic reminded me of this George Carlin bit:\n\n“We’re so self-important. Everybody’s going to save something now. “Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.” And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. Save the planet, we don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. I’m tired of this shit. I’m tired of f-ing Earth Day. I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is that there aren’t enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world safe for Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don’t give a shit about the planet. Not in the abstract they don’t. You know what they’re interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They’re worried that some day in the future they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me.\n\nThe planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles … hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages … And we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet isn’t going anywhere. WE are!\n\nWe’re going away. Pack your shit, folks. We’re going away. And we won’t leave much of a trace, either. Maybe a little Styrofoam … The planet’ll be here and we’ll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet’ll shake us off like a bad case of fleas.\n\nThe planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?” \n\nPlastic… asshole.”",
"This is strangely comforting. ",
"Atlanta native checking in. Saying \"Georgia gets fairly humid and wet..\" is like saying people in the path of a hurricane will experience elevated moisture in the air. The humidity here is insufferable.",
"Sounds like I'll be watching the UK version..",
"Various parts of Maryland are like that too. I can find atleasst 5 old out of use barns in like 15 minutes here.",
"[No. They can't even get CGI deer to look right.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPxTVJWkbX4)\n\nCGI foliage would make everything awful.",
"I live in Savannah, originally from Colorado. Can confirm it’s humidity is ungodly and I wanna die. Of course they could grow grass tall no problem ",
"For being abandoned that looks remarkably more drivable than the streets I drive on in LA. ",
"There's this old bridge/causeway where I grew up, has been closed to traffic since the 50s. You can barely tell there was a road once due to sporadic chunks of old asphalt and curb, about as wide an ATV now. This is also up north where the winters slow down growth some.\n\n",
"What texture pack is this?",
"Interesting. Are these elevated roads asphalt? If so that could be the problem",
"road to silent hills monakS",
"We used to throw them in the road for cars to run over, just to be sure. ",
"Shanks!",
"It's not incredibly easy to find but I did eventually find it on YouTube. ",
"The bridge was just structurally unsafe to drive. It's still safe to walk on and it's actually pretty popular around here.",
"Yeah they should... but it's gone to shit lol ",
"Here's the info https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandoned_Pennsylvania_Turnpike",
"Wait are abandoned roads common? Why aren't people using them?",
"Houses in GA would be overgrown to the point that you literally couldn't see them in one summer. Ask anyone who has experience with property preservation of foreclosed homes. And have you seen just outside Atlanta? It's THICK GREEN vegetation. Looks like a god damned rain forest to my Colorado eyes. So yeah, Walking Dead should probably look closer to the Amazon than it does. ",
"Seriously... EVERYone should be more courteous to our Section B-43 brothers. Source (am from B-44)",
"I wonder how long this would take from the last time somebody drove down, to this. ",
"It's been long enough for a baby to gestate and be born and now be walking...",
"I used to live near a place like this. It was fun following the old roads on ridgelines and playing amateur archaeologist.\n\nThere are random bridges, foundations, farm implements, and so on just sitting out in the middle of the woods. Also, stairs and fireplaces. Those are the last to be reclaimed.\n\n",
"6 ft a day? So can I literally watch it grow?",
"Big Auto-Mechanic lobbied to keep the roads full of damage-causing potholes, giving more work and money to them! /s",
"Well it didn't read that way. Outerbanks seems like NY or MA and I40 - certainly you would agree - doesn't go to San Francisco.\n\nI figured you meant I80. ",
"Most shows do, or so I understand. (Mostly) fixed costs.\n\nSometimes you're a cheapskate and you don't want to be called on it, so you try to find other places to trim costs or so I guess...",
"They are both concrete and asphalt and there are just random patches of asphalt on the concrete every once in a while. Usually slightly elevated from the concrete or full of holes. I think it’s just the humid rainy weather.",
"In the sense that mankind is a blight and we’re ruining the earth. ",
"How many years have passed in that story so far through? These roads would be more fitting in The Last of Us instead.",
"fuck the walking dead season 8",
"The infrastructure in this once great country is deteriorating and will worsen as more third world savages (legal and illegal) pour in and ethnically replace the descendants of those that brought civilisation to this land. ",
"Please understand that I'm not trying to justify our impact on the environment here. But zoom out. We are animals. Like birds, we carry seeds. This is nature. We are part of nature, we are natural actors. You call them \"invasive species\", but the concept of species on this planet being entitled to permanent local quarantine from diverse competition is the real myth here. And with intelligent monkeys easily traveling the entire globe, it's actually a silly expectation. We need look no farther than our own existence to recognize the fallaciousness of this expectation. The only thing that remains is our choice: what do we prefer to have growing here and there, and are we actually smart and diligent enough to pull it off, or will the inevitable, ***natural*** stirring of the pot that we necessarily cause have us foil ourselves?",
"Ooh didn't see that part. I'll go back and check it out. Thanks! ",
"Thats an interesting tidbit!",
"Same problem, that shit will take fown my fwnce if I ignore it. I got myself a brush trimmer attachment for my husqvarna... great investment.",
"The \"SFW Porn Network\" on Reddit is one of the coolest things on the internet. You should check it out. Be prepared, though... its ability to suck you in is on par with TVTropes.",
"r/reclaimed should be a thing. ",
"Looks like a great 4wheeler trail now.",
"/r/gatekeeping",
"Every spring when the ground thaws expect Michigan roads to turn to minefields, dodging potholes left and right... then they just fill it with some kind of low quality Asphalt stuff and let the cars tires push and mold it to the road. Talk about cheap repairs. It’s awful.",
"First season had six or eight episodes then they went to that 16 episode format and not much increase of money, so quality goes down. That's why they have so much filler episodes where nothing happens. I think it would have still been one of the best shows on TV if they left it at 8 or 10 episodes max, rather than stretching it out so damn much even splitting the season in two and halving the stupid \"mid season finale!\"",
"PA?",
"I read you last sentence as hamster fisted and had to laugh.",
"> You know those jungle scenes in Forrest Gump? Those were set in Georgia. Savannah I think. \n\nSouth Carolina, actually. Fripp Island and Hunting Island State Park. Off the coast of Beaufort, SC.",
"So why has the road just stopped being used? That's the fascinating part to me.",
"And South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan. And then we're going to Washington, D.C. to take back the White House.",
"Same in the Pacific Northwest.",
"Reminds me a little of Delorean's abandoned test track in Belfast",
"Maybe back in the day. But nowadays I'd imagine almost every production (TV shows especially) is shot digitally. I'd love to be proven wrong. Anything to keep film alive. ",
"Still in better shape than some rural roads I've been down. ",
"We are nature.",
"I don't blame you for not watching the show, the quality has definitely declined in the later seasons, but I thought you might find it interesting that they never use the word zombie throughout the entire show.",
"Fallout 4 with mods",
"I like finding roads like this in Google Earth and then rolling back the years to see what they looked like when they were still maintained as fully functional roads.",
"Ok mr “I want a wall”. The only savage here is you. Illegal immigrants should try to do it the right way but that doesn’t mean that immigrants are all bad. Half the people in the US wouldn’t exist. Hawaii is has a majority minority. It’s the only state where whites are a minority. Try growing up here and experience how that feels.",
"Worked well for jaws. I believe that was aa budget issue too. ",
"Well it is socialist to believe we should have shared prosperity through a society. Which isn't a bad thing...",
"Looks like a great spot to make out with a girl and then get killed by a hook handed maniac. ",
"I don't know if you play with mods, but you can edit the building animations out. No more demolition attempts to a house that's barely standing.",
"What'd that take? 50 years? Imagine what a million or a billion can do. For all we know there's been several \"advanced\" civilizations like ours on this planet before us. ",
"this is more important imo. zombies are the premise of the show so you have to accept it. The zombie premise does not include gas that never goes bad, small towns that never get overrun with foliage, and roads that don't turn to potholes after 2 winters.",
"I would love to know where this is. I absolutely enjoy seeing and visiting old abandoned places. ",
"Vietnam wasn't here in Savannah, but a lot of scenes were shot here. However, Vietnam was only shot less than an hour away, north of us.",
"> they were just waking around for episodes in end.\n\nthat could be anywhere from season 2 to the recent one",
"Same here, concrete and asphalt patches everywhere. Instead of all these short term fixes I say repave with quality concrete and be done with it. But MDOT seems to think otherwise",
"Can confirm. I’m the summer, I have to cut my yard every week. I’d bet it grows close to an inch a day.",
"It got too unsafe to drive on so they closed it. ",
"so would you prefer we didn't designate paths for travel and just drove wherever we wanted to?\n\nRoads are made from asphalt, sand, rocks, and dirt. All completely natural materials (totally GMO and gluten free too!), what part of that is a \"blight upon the earth\"? In the picture above, plants are thriving on the road's surface...",
"Glad to know we’re not the only state with these roads. Our local government just wants to build the grossly over budget rail.",
"No, it would only grow 5 thousandths of an inch a minute",
"The elements reclaim what was taken. ",
"Not as fascinating as I hoped...",
"It looks like the divider was photoshoped in.",
"Oh, I remember",
"Especially the gas containing ethanol. That shit eats up rubber and gunks up badly after sitting only a few months.",
"Omg it’s so terrible right now. ",
"I lived in the country in Georgia for a few years, in a trailor on a dirt logging road in a farming/forested area.\n\nEvery spring a plow would come along and clear the two-lane road and the wide ditches on either side. Logging trucks could pass one another, no problem. By midsummer, the kudzu would grow so fast that it was a single lane road, even with truck traffic running over the vines.",
"Look up the fucking Privet. Fuckin' piece of shit nasty ass son of the devil's asshole. So many blisters just trying to root out the fuckers. Spreading like wildfyre and super hard to eliminate.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privet_as_an_invasive_plant",
"That just isn't even true. \n\nWe rely on the so-called \"swing\" states *precisely because* of the oversized impact of NY and Cali.",
"And then...KUDZU!",
"The issue with Louisiana is more about poor funding.",
"I have lived in Chicago for 16 years and lived in Michigan for 5 years. \n\nMichigan definitely has worse road quality than Chicago. ",
"On NPR last night they were discussing how citizens on social media in Africa are playfully arguing whose roads are worse - Kenya and the Congo seem to be winning. Reminded me of this sort of discussion here in the US. BTW, I'm pretty sure Wisconsin, the Russian Siberian outback of the United States, wins for worst roads - I mean officially we have the worst roads base on some federal ranking system. Our potholes have potholes with potholes.",
"That's cheating. Every murder brings the number of murders up and the population down. That's double-dipping. ",
"My road!",
"Well the virus that reanimates the brain stem probably has some sort of tissue regeneration as well, albeit a slow regeneration. It's probably what keeps the zombies somewhat together.",
"Could be an estate dispute. The owner died and the kids can't decide how to divide the assets and one won't allow the house to be sold. So everyone & the house suffers.",
"\"We do not require the metal nor the paint.\"\n\n-the trees",
"Success?",
"Used to live just outside of Utica. Can confirm that it was in really sorry shape.",
"\"Life finds a way\"",
"> The last stoplight was in Wallace, Idaho\n\nI-5 still has a stop-light for the drawbridge between OR and WA, so I don't think that factoid is correct",
"Or just 24 big rig truck...\n\nhttps://streets.mn/2016/07/07/chart-of-the-day-vehicle-weight-vs-road-damage-levels/",
"I'd expect it to be in much worse condition. Strange..",
"And its not the truth, a lot of smaller connections in rural areas of germany are just dirt roads/gravel roads. \n",
"Mother Nature always gets her way.",
"Over my dead Red body!",
"Which lake? I know Perry has the remnants of Old Ozawkie that you can see when it gets low ",
"Holy fuck. I was just about to comment “hello, Baltimore here!” Lmfao. Gotta love our roads. \n😂😂😂 ",
"Guess it depends on the zombifying agent. In The Last of Us, the parasitic cordyceps fungi would eventually form some kind of tough armor on its zombified host. I guess the zombie would eventually rot away if the fungi broke down all the organic matter of its host, but I’m not sure how long that would take.",
"Oh, apologies. I meant the outerbanks of North Carolina. I've never heard of anything else referred to as the outerbanks, but I also just assumed other people knew of the NC outerbanks (a bunch of barrier islands).\n\n",
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania",
"16 episode seasons are really about getting two 8 episode seasons without calling them \"seasons\".\n\nIf they're called seasons, then after season 5 actors get to negotiate pay raises. This postpones that, but still let's them get the extra revenue from two effective seasons.\n\nNot that seasons mean much anymore. The canonical season is 26 episodes (once first run, and once again rerun makes it year round). The half-season became the new norm (13), which HBO and others trimmed to 12 or even 10. And UK stuff is ridiculous... 6 episodes is a full season for some things, but 3 episodes is a full season for others.\n\nEventually each episode will be two seasons itself (the first half and the second half) but only 15 minutes long...",
"It's almost like infrastructure should be a big political talking point to ignore once the election cycle ends.",
"You should check out Belgium. And then have your car serviced. ",
"Can't stop the universe ",
"Yeah, would def be a great place for a bunch of ricer bros to get together and vape and OH one of them’s mom bought him a Nikon ",
"I certainly wont claim that Ensenada has the worst roads, but let me just say this. You don't want to drive on anything but the main streets. A little exploration bug could have you driving down an unpaved road that could send you off a steep hill. And.. potholes just about everywhere. I always subconsciously brace for rough roads when I go drive anywhere.\n\nEdit to add a thought: And, the speed bumps are built here in a way that basically says, \"Slow down to a crawl or your car will be destroyed.\" I'm pretty sure road designers want to destroy wheels and shocks.",
"For some reason thinking of Supernatural. ",
"+ the Trucks... overloading and speeding ",
"Is it still filmed in Georgia even though the setting moved to Virginia?",
"Oh. Murder too. They have plenty if murders to go around. ",
"Your name is Geordi La Forge. ",
"Yeag, but no growth anywhere near it",
"TIL Y’uns is slang for we in German. The more you know!",
"Best not go down that rawd",
"I pass about 6 of them on my way home every day. \n\nNow there's businesses cropping up to dismantle these old barns and sell the recoverable wood. ",
"hillbilly highline",
"[Bodie, CA Historic Park](https://www.bodie.com/) is a good example of buildings sticking around with little to no maintenance. ",
"The infrastructure in this once great country is deteriorating and will worsen as more conservative politicians reduce taxes and leave infrastructure maintenance unfunded.",
"that's the engineers for ya. sad hooah",
"Subscribe. They'll still be there tomorrow!\n",
"Every time I see a little plant poking up through the cracks in the asphalt, it reminds me that no matter how much more damage we do to the earth, nature will be just fine after we inevitably kill ourselves off.\n\nhttp://humoncomics.com/mother-gaia",
"That's sad people still watch the terrible show...",
"Mr. Robot is a good example of this. It's such a tight show made to end after 5 seasons that the second season suffered from having nothing much happening when they changed from 10 to 12 episodes. They got back to 10 on the third season and it got much better",
"I live near one. Sacandaga lake which is the reservoir for NYC has a town at the bottom of it.",
"The biggest thing with TWD is that none of the car batteries have died. A month without starting a modern car is plenty of time to completely drain the battery.\n\nAnd every car seemining has a full tank of gas.",
"Well, I doubt anyone says y’uns but uns on its own means we lol",
"Oh man this story got me! Just imagining the look of disappointment when they saw owls",
"Yeah, who is mowing the grass in Walking Dead? ",
"Silent hill?",
"New phone background, many thanks op",
"Not sure how long complete decomposition takes, but they are less than two years into the story now. You can tell by how much the babies grow between seasons.",
"No, we rely on them because the electoral college causes voters in those (swing) states to have a greatly disproportionate impact relative to those in states like California and Texas. ",
"This is sarcasm right?",
"I've watched one slowly collapse over the last 2 years. I think it's just cheaper and safer to let it finish collapsing before they do anything with it. Then they'll either recover the wood and sell it themselves or hire one of these businesses that do it. ",
"it's a little of this and a little of that honestly. even that long between check ins is enough for a problem to show, but get repaired. decay is an exponential. nature it patient. however once something starts to go south, it'll start getting more and more extreme",
"The laws of thermodynamics do not apply to zombies",
"You must be a ginger. /s",
"Its a standard trope not to call zombies, zombies. ",
"Interestingly enough, it actually [didn't do well](http://grandpacliff.com/InvSp/Kudzu.htm) anywhere there was live stock. Goats and cows munched it to the ground. We are used to seeing it because it grows so well on vertical surfaces. In reality it could have been much much worse, but 70% of the land is used for agriculture so limited problem.",
"That is so beautiful. I'd like buy a bench and sit and draw. Or read. OR SOMETHING. I'd spend so much time here... ",
"So that it will choke all other plants?",
"Look I see Viggo Mortensen. ",
"Haven't you seen George Romero's Land of the Dead? The zombies will eventually start to regain some level of memory and will start mimicking their human lives.",
"I just downloaded it after reading another recommendation in this thread. He’s got a good writing style from the couple pages i’ve read so far.",
"You from Nova Scotia? I took a road trip there a few years ago. That place has shit roads. ",
"I’m a land surveyor and I see stuff like this all the time. If humans don’t maintain roads and buildings, nature comes back with vengeance ",
"How do we know someone didn’t just start playing Jumanji",
"This doesn't look like an abandoned road to me, for two reasons: First, the center path is perfectly clear of debris/growth. Second, the distance between the guardrails doesn't look big enough to fit two automotive lanes. It looks like it might have been a single lane bridge, or a railroad bridge, but it looks like this is being used as a bicycle path or something. ",
"India?",
"Well Carl's a teenager, and he was like 8 when the show started. Plus I think Judith is like 3 or 4, but add 9 months. Oh who knows.",
"I've heard that Kudzu won't survive extreme cold winters, and the arctic blast we had a few weeks back was expected to *slow* its northward progression a little. I don't know if it was cold enough to kill existing, established Kudzu, though.",
"Bethesda should be taking notes for the next Fallout game",
"Hyundai: JD Power's Top Ranked Zombie Apocalypse Car",
"Yeah, I grew up driving in rural Guatemala and all these Americans in here. I've been to the states, and y'all have some of the best roads in the world. I've also mailed stuff in the US, your postal system is awesome. \n\nMaybe complain about the healthcare system if you really need to complain.",
"This takes a lot longer than a year or two. ",
"Zombies in general make no sense. If they eat brains, how are there any that still have heads?",
"and so with the road, the memories with it would be gone, perhaps a trucker went past this road thinking of his wife or home to come to. Perhaps a motorcyclist blasted by, enjoying the verdant landscape . Maybe a group of highschoolers went on thier last road trip before graduation.\n\nThese things are bittersweet to me, knowing that one day all that I have done would too go away like this road, and I would turn back for one last glance and carry on. ",
"A plant grows six feet in one day!? Are you being serious or dramatic ",
"The secret is an annual cycle of freezes and dry, very hot weather. What survives one phase is killed by the next. That's why old buildings persist so well in California away from the coast.",
"I’d love to be able to step out of our timeline just to see what has came and will come. ",
"or The Road.",
"walking dead is a bad show",
"A lot of farmers do this everywhere, it's not just the Midwest.",
"Am I wrong for saying that show has some of the worst acting I’ve ever seen? I’m cool with being wrong.",
"Conversely, the movie I Am Legend had waist-high grass growing up through all the asphalt in the streets of Times Square, which is completely impossible given the movie's timeline of world events.",
"I know it's invasive and can absolutely decimate an ecosystem (less so than previously thought), but when it's completely covering a hillside it is absolutely stunning to look at.",
"Still better than the roads in Pennsylvania ",
"Better dead then red!",
"BETTER DEAD THAN RED? ",
"Nope haha, East coast of Canada ",
"Thanks Otrumpa",
"Right?",
"Those lines",
"Well that makes it a LOT better. /s ",
"Haha...too true. As a Pennsylvania resident, I think we really should change the state flag to a guy wearing a hardhat leaning against a shovel. \n\nIn the early 90s, PennDOT built the Casey Highway (alt route 6) on a mountainside that gets all sorts of bad weather and heavy truck traffic. Short of a bad truck accident which majorly damaged the road, there has never been need for construction or repair on the road in about 25years. Why? They used new means of building the road. \n\nOne would ask, “Why not build all roads that way?” It became instantly clear why. Two words...”Jobs Program”. Make better roads and government loses money. ",
"Anything but cockroaches😕",
"That’s a bike road",
"There was a section of road near where I live that was a dangerous curve. Lots of accidents on it. Eventually a new section of road was built that straightened out the curve and built a new bridge. There was a long section of straight road like this that just sat there and nature took over it. \n\nIt could be anything from an abandoned town to new roads being put in and this one becoming useless. ",
"You're right, change and migration of species has always been normal. However, the rate of change and the species involved that we disperse leads to less biodiversity and in many cases ecosystem collapse. Soil retention, water quality and availability, food availability for animals...all of these types of ecosystem services require a variety of native flora and fauna to perform well. Ultimately, we make our own animal existence much more difficult through acceptance or ignorance of invasive species. Biodiversity is special. An entire continent of the same few species is not special and is destructive.\n\nIt's important to note the difference between non-native and invasive. Not all human introductions are harmful. No one is suggesting that. Invasive plants and animals that dominate and render habitat useless are bad. They are bad for us and our planet we share.\n\nLet's use one example: In Maui, native forests were replaced by monotypic stands of eucalyptus. These trees manage their water use differently thus affecting the movement and percolation of soil into the substrate. Additionally, their roots create toxins to prevent other plants from rooting nearby. Nothing left to hold onto the soil...it gets washed away. The native trees also supported the endemic nectivorous birds. Without food, the already stressed birds disappear. Without pollinators, soil, water, and the increased competition from the common eucalyptus, the native forest has no chance to recover. Now these eucalyptus, growing a large stand all by themselves are easy pickings for disease and since they have nothing to stand on, even they don't survive.\n\nWhat we're left with is the loss of a special, unique place in the world and left with a stand of dying eucalyptus. \n\nRemixes of this story are happening everywhere. The outcome isn't harmony, isn't natural, and isn't good for us or our planet.",
"guarantee soffits and wood around windows, etc... are rotting if they haven't been painted. As soon as the roof starts to leak the whole house will be destroyed in short order from the water damage.",
"I mean ive used gasoline that's been sitting for a long time?",
"Was in New Mexico as a kid on family vacation and we went on a hot air balloon ride. Still remember this story the driver(?) of the balloon told us. He took the governor and a dignitary from Japan up in the balloon like a month before. They are pretty high up off the ground and the Japanese guy points down and asks the governor “What are all of those yellow things?” \n\nThe governor says “If they’re moving they’re sunflowers. If they’re not, they’re road workers.”",
"He didn't realize it but he had gotten some of the kudzu on his hands, and didn't wash before dinner. It finally got him.",
"Elon? ",
"There is a lot of mis-information about this. The fact is it grows well in areas like the side of roads that people can see, but more or less forms a wall and doesn't penetrate into the forest. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/true-story-kudzu-vine-ate-south-180956325/?q=",
"Reminds me of a scene from The Walking Dead 💀 ",
"Haha. This is great. Good one there balancedben, you're a king of satire.",
"Mars, the kudzu planet.\n\nNothing but dense kudzu from pole to pole.",
"Let goats eat it. :) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/true-story-kudzu-vine-ate-south-180956325/?q=\n",
"Yeah, after our first major snowfall, suddenly potholes everywhere from the plows catching pavement that rose up from ice under it and ripping chunks out of it.",
"https://youtu.be/l7MFZ1tEtdU",
"We should make a subreddit called footprints consisting of photos and such of old buildings/ roads etc. Made by humans that are now barely recognizable.",
"Maggots are very much part of the healing process. Thank you and Namaste. ",
"Clinton. I've never at been able to find out town it was specifically. ",
"UK is a whole different discussion because (afaik) it's a very different programming/scheduling model altogether (same for many other countries. e.g. as far as I'm aware here in Germany it's quite common for many shows to not even have \"seasons\" but just ongoing numbers. as in: episode 40, episode 41 etc.)",
"You’re right, every person that drives a well put together car is a ricer. Quality post, friend.",
"my gps sux.",
"It's only healing if you consider it damage. I mourn for the loss of the infrastructure we laid down in that continuing battle for survival against nature - forget not that nature has claimed more souls than anything we've wrought ourselves. ",
"it does, lol.",
"The Husqvarna Automower® robot mowers everyone bought at the start of the epidemic, since one of the first symptoms is an aversion to yard work. ",
"Did that subreddit really go down after that? That's pretty funny. ",
"Also apparently winter doesn’t exist in TWD’s post zombie apocalypse.",
">~~lava~~ lead. \n\nThat's probably why there's not growth near it. Organic yellow or orange pigments would have degraded long before the green creeped on the road.",
"> this is how the roads should look in Chernobyl zone\n\n",
"I love creepy abandoned stuff. Detroit is full of old abandoned buildings. Anyone have any recommend websites or books for abandoned things?",
"I grew up with grapevines in New England. You do get grapes, but they aren't very good for eating. I think only once did we get grapes that weren't too sour, and that's probably because we had a long, hot spring and a long, hot summer. My grandfather used them for wine and possibly jam. Blackberries taste fine (and I miss having a blackberry bush nearby). ",
"One of the main reasons I moved last month. Could not take the traffic there anymore, especially since it put my girlfriend in the hospital. ",
"WWZ showed us that that won't help.",
"Yep, they locked and closed that subreddit right after that came out. They said that when Obama himself was meta-ing the meme, nothing could top it.",
"It's been forever since I read it. I'm horrible at buy books based on covers, but I don't regret that one",
"unexpected Minnie",
"that guy's* fault\n\n guys = more than one guy\n\nLearn this.",
"Stuff like this is why I loved Horizon: Zero Dawn (video game).",
"I'm from the Netherlands, which is a neighbouring country to Belgium, and when you drive from the Netherlands to Belgium and vice versa, there's a noticeable difference in road quality when you cross the border. Maybe my standards are too high though, as the Netherlands have very good infrastructure.",
"beautiful pic!",
"Oh for sure. Like those Asian carp in the Mississippi. Causing all sorts of problems, but it is cool to see them all leaping out of the water at the same time. ",
"That thing was never a road to begin with...",
"This road is in slightly worse shape then the highways in NW Indiana.",
"Only because they are one big group think and don't know who is the good candidate to vote for.",
"Yes, but oxygen production would be through the sky...",
"Everyone knows zombies mow in their free time ",
"#metoo. Thanks Obama.\n\nedit: should read \"hashtag me too. Thanks Obama\", but reddit insists on bolding the whole thing. Im leaving it. ",
"Still better then Michigan roads\n",
"Saskatchewan. More roads per capita than anywhere in the world. Where you prefer the dirt roads to paved roads because the gravels holes aren’t sharp at the ledge. ",
"He’s a Green, the bastard",
"wow that's crazy",
"Then just burn everything when you have surplus oxygen and you get a nice balance of CO2 in there too. All right NASA, I'm available for hiring!",
"fair enough",
"Watch out for radiation and Monolith fighters.",
"Also, the hosts in TLOU were still alive- body shots would still kill them, indicating they still had useful organs.",
"That’s true of roads anyway...",
"I love being reminded that mother nature can and will take this world back",
"What do you mean, *you people*?",
"Healing? More like perfect industrial masterpiece getting perverted overtime with the barbaric force on soil",
"Now it's the perfect biking road :D",
"I heard that releasing herds of goats on the kudzu might help more than anything else.",
"[This is him now](https://imgur.com/a/GECYp)",
"people still watch that?",
"[Apparently not as invasive as people think. ](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/true-story-kudzu-vine-ate-south-180956325/)",
"Nuke it from orbit*\nFtfy",
"That was what I was thinking; there's a house like that in my hometown; middle of a small residential street surrounded by trees. Never seen anyone go there, house is slowly falling down. ",
"That can be arranged, 1v1 me on Hellas before the bastards flood it!",
"My guess is a combination of: middle of the road is higher so water doesn't stay, and people still cycling or walking on it.",
"In Northern Georgia (where I live) the soil is a red unforgiving clay, and all of the water evaporates during the day to make huge clouds. Grass does not grow well here. Trees and vines do though.",
"Someone power wash this!",
"Both of those reason are dumb. We'll forget how to build roads? Lol\n\nThere's one reason....costs",
"True, I see what you mean now. I'm sorry, I thought you were alluding to the fact it hadn't really faded. My apologies.",
"Batman finally could retire.",
"Now add another say, 20k years to this, would the metal be there? Nah, rotted away into dirt by then, what about the concrete, freeze thaw cycles would have pulverized int, it would be nothing more than rock at this point.\n\nIf someone suggested a once great civilization lived there others would say \"but where is the proof of them, not even roads!\", and now you know why.\n\nNature doesn't care about preservation, nature only cares about nature. ",
"Looks like it belongs in Fallout 4... Somebody probably already pointed this out, though. (You read that in Eeyore’s voice.)",
"Oh my. So parentally evil, but so good! \n\nI'll remember that for my kids. ",
"But that's about 2.12 micrometers a second!\n\nAnd double that if most of the growth happens during a 12 hour period.",
"From whence it came.",
"Source Carolina. But seriously, close enough.",
"The actual real problem is getting Mars a decent magnetosphere. Otherwise, the oxygen gets stripped off it too quickly to build up.",
"It's still amazing to me that there used to be a town underneath Quaker Lake. Love that place so much. Almost makes me guilty enjoying the beach, thinking about all the family memories that were made in those houses under that water.",
"The grass dies in the winter here. Would that affect the growth rate?",
"I like how nature respects traffic laws and doesn't cross the double yellow lines.",
"What's the timeline like on TWD? I only watched a couple of seasons before I got tired of it and they were still like only a year in. The roads wouldn't necessarily be like this for a few years at least. ",
"Yeah, season 2 sucked farts.. It went from a zombie thriller to a family drama on the farm. ",
"This is one of those times where the gif needs to be sped up.",
"At first I thought this was written by my husband. We live in the PNW and have the exact same issue with the same vines in our yard. Plus a few others that we ignorantly added: clematis, honeysuckle, jasmine, etc. ",
"Whenever I see pictures like this I always wonder why they were abandoned in the first place",
"Also New England, can confirm. Grape vines take effort if you want anything useful. Blackberries are easy, though. It almost feels rustic in this day and age thinking about picking blackberries in the woods out back and bringing in a bucket full for putting in cereal or making jam. ",
"I used to drive the bridge on I-84 right into/out of Newburgh all the time going between Hartford and Scranton, and that whole stretch is breathtaking. I love the part heading towards PA where you crest that huge hill and everything you see in the distance is half NY, half PA. God I miss those drives sometimes.",
"Sounds like we need a little magnetic Kudzu then. Crispr?",
"Mother nature : goddamn brats I told you to clean up after yourselves! Now I gotta take care of all this mess..",
"Mr. Miyagi would use this to teach something about patience. ",
"Check out YourMovieSucks on youtube. His Walking Dead series goes over all of this stuff in depth. They basically had Frank Darabont(sp?) create the show and use his personal connections to the actors to get them to work for far less than they would have accepted otherwise. Then, fired him before season 2 ( but only after he finished promotion for season 2 at cons and in interviews) to bring on a cheaper puppet director, double the episode count, and drastically lower the budget per-episode. They fired Frank for a Yes Man who wouldn't complain about all the cost-cutting and script manipulation by the exec.",
"I don't think we can assume science and nature on a fictional TV series. For all we know the same virus or whatever that affected humans could be stopping the growth of flora and fauna to a certain extent. It may be preserving it but not allowing it to grow or grow at a much slower rate. If we are to believe that zombies can exist is it a far stretch to believe that plants and animals may be affected as well?",
"It takes more longer. When I was a kid there was this giant factory that at some point didn't make anything and just became an office so they didn't need their giant parking lot. \n\nI hadn't been by there in about 15 years. You can still see parts of concrete, but I'd imagine that you'd need at least 10. Given that it is in the south, longer growing season. Maybe 10?",
"Jaws was also a single movie (the sequels were not nearly as good, or well received), not a TV series. \n\nComparing a TV series to a movie isn't a great comparison, since there's an expectation that the audience has seen all previous episodes of a TV show, and will be conditioned to a lot of what you try to build tension with. \n\n",
"We're very lucky it doesn't spread through the air.",
"There are worse things to have around. Kudzj is a bit of a miracle plant. It grows everywhere and can be eaten by human and livestock alike. Its good for the soil, you can use it to weave baskets, can be used as herbal medicine , soap and alcohol. If I lived in TWD or any post-collapse situation, having kudzu around would be a blessing.",
"AMC is just a nonstop parade of questionable production choices. It’s like they succeed in spite of themselves.",
"The snow shed looks pretty interesting. Too bad it's gone now, though in [some pictures](https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3021/2978880184_ebf04d8a80_z.jpg?zz=1) it seems like it's really just passing on the problem to the lanes going the other direction.",
"Just needs a shovel. Beat nature back into submission. ",
"I believe they cut the grass as they are trying to limit the actor's and crew's exposure to snakes that often hide in overgrowth. Lethal snakes such as copperhead or cottonmouth. Basically it's a liability issue.",
"Jane has died of tetanus",
"Good point, which made the bow and arrow very useful in that game.",
"How can *you* tell if it's true that *I* did not see a dirt road? You don't know me. Also, you are wrong. No marked road in Germany is dirt paved, it's forbidden by the Straßenbauvorschrift.",
"Kinda reminds me of the [roads in Centralia, PA](http://restlessmass.com/places/centralia/images/large/DSC02192.jpg). ",
"Get the mix it yourself roundup and double the rate it calls for. You'll have to spray a couple times of year but eventually maybe only one a year. ",
"lol I knew somebody would say that as I was typing it out 😂",
"My biggest beef is why couldn't they defend a farm against slow zombies. Barricade the stairs and stab the mofos from a safe distance. It's like they didn't even try.",
"Need a Kleenex?",
"Easy, drill to the core and nuke the fuck out of it.\n\nWorst case scenario, it creates a hollow so unstable the planet collapses in on itself, awesome we now have a tectonically active Mars. Tectonically active Mars means liquid core made of (hopefully) molten metal. This could in theory spin enough to generate a magnetic field.\n\nIn other words, we're doing CORE irl.",
"All you guys need to do is introduce another invasive species that eats Kudzu. Then when that invasive species takes over you simply introduce a population of wild Gorillas. ",
"Yeah, this was a few years ago and I'm more cautious with tires now. I just wish they would maintain things better, it happened in July, they should have taken care of any winter potholes by that point. \n\nI'm just hoping my trip back down goes better next month haha, first time I'll have been back. I keep a portable pump/jump starter with me now just in case. ",
"God damn shiny bean.",
"TWD is the only show that AMC owns, and the only one that gets a shit budget. ",
"All I see is a bike lane.",
"I wish. I'd turn my left pinky into an electromagnet.",
"DUDE. THIS. I'm from NC and lived in NY for a while so I had to go through PA a lot.\n\nWhy the fuck are the highways ALWAYS UNDER CONSTRUCTION?",
"And don't even get me started on the 17.4% sales tax I have to pay on my hotel next month. Chicago is a fun place but holy shit the taxes are ridiculous. \n\nTHEY LITERALLY TAX FUN!",
"Much like setting up an aquarium I’d imagine you’d initially want something hardy that could help kickstart the nitrogen cycle. In a way it wouldn’t seem like a bad choice for a first plant. There are probably better options though.",
"Of course not. I'm not saying Trump is worth a shit either, but everyone's love for Obama is sickening. I paid higher taxes than I ever have and I do not make much at all. I had to pay a penalty fine because I didn't sign up for his healthcare plan. I could go on and on about things that affected me personally much less the general public and foreign policy. Yeah, fuck him",
"If it does all its growing during daylight hours, then that's roughly 6 feet in 12 hours, so 1 inch every 10 minutes. That's crazy. ",
"East Coast of Canada lol",
"I guess my /s was more for the word \"propaganda\" than anything else. ",
"We have them in amble supply in North Texas as well. Looks like a road I've biked down in Rowlett.",
"Fellow Yinzer here.\n\nSo glad they finally patched the Homestead Grays Bridge. That one pothole southbound was over half the width of my car in diameter, and so deep you could see every piece of the exposed rebar grid in the concrete sub-structure.",
"Thermonuclear explosions alone wouldn't relight the Martian core though. We'd have to have an electron pump on a celestial scale to do it.\n\nWhich would be incredibly cool.",
"... and that!😁",
"And the other 20%?",
"You are a crazy person.",
"wow...I can't believe this picture has so many comments! \n\nGood job OP",
"This road is in better condition than many around where I live. Just saying",
"I had a Lyft driver the other day and all he talked about was how the roads here in Dallas are nice and the ones in Michigan are horrible. ",
"HEY That's me!\n\nThanks!",
"There’s been a walker trapped on a lawnmower the entire show. I think he shows up next year at the mid season finale.",
"A goat or maybe a couple chickens will probably take care of them, or you can use glyphosate (roundup) in the late winter/early spring, or plant things along the fence that smother the weeds out",
" Very Very common in the upper peninsula of Michigan",
">careful consideration of what you’re introducing to the ecosystem \n\n\nLike exempting regulations to build a fucking wall ",
"Meanwhile, I can't get anything to grow in parts of my yard...",
"If you could longboard or skate on that, it would be so sick",
"I've been watching Z Nation recently and this is one thing that takes me totally out of the plot. The world has been overrun by Zombies and society has all but failed. Quick, we need to escape, grab that... oh look, a brand new Ford, shiny and clean, full tank of petrol & drive down this pristine road.\n\nErm... who's been keeping the car clean, where'd the petrol come from. Who's maintained the road? Why haven't they a) been seen in the programme, and b) not been eaten by Zombies?",
"Men come and go, but Earth abides.",
"And the rest of us in the state are frustrated because our public transit options are nowhere near as good as the MTA. \n\nThe city and the rest of the state are too different. It's very frustrating on both sides. You should come visit upstate (real upstate, not the Hudson Valley) sometime though. It's a nice change of pace, with some beautiful places to see.",
"r/NatureIsFuckingLit",
"The satire is quite true making this country more of a joke all the time. ",
"what? why",
"When republicans shut down the government for even longer...",
"Warwick area?",
"Gentlemen, this is a first rate example of primary succession.",
"Not enough nuclear bombs in your proposal. This is a jobs program for weapons manufacturers after all.",
"Well, some road crews turned zombie while still on their mowers and are aimlessly mowing back and forth all day, every day.",
"Looks like the opening shot of a Stephen King movie...",
"I wish things like this were opened up to people on mountain bikes or something, not just blocked off and policed...",
"I want to see that road at spring/summer",
"Life, uhh, finds a way",
"turn that frown upside down...",
"No offense BUT liberal rhetoric tends to be as partially true and partially b.s. as is the conservative rhetoric. Best to reject the false left right paradigm as truth isn't usually as one sided as left and right. With that said - the left tends to more accurate on economic issues and right on moral ones but not always. So from an economic perspective what you said has more merit than the crap spewed from the fundie christian admirers of Ayn Rand. In other words - you're right. ",
"Would love to see a time lapse of this!!",
"> driver(?)\n\nStrictly speaking, the correct term is *balloonist*, although since it's technically an aircraft, I suppose you wouldn't be wrong to use *pilot*.",
"The first zombie they showed in episode 1 turned me off to the show entirely. When the show is about zombies, and the first one seen looks like a 4th grader did the makeup, I was out. ",
"There's a shack jjjjust off camera containing several bottles of Gwinnett Stout, a couple of stimpacks and some 10mm rounds. ",
"Holy shit yeah that one was awful. \n\n\nAfter this recent snow there was one by the steel mill in Braddock that's so bad I watched it destroy a tire on an 18 wheeler. That was impressive. Can't say I've ever seen that before. ",
"r/abandoned",
"2,4-D, It ain't friendly, but it kills almost anything that grows out of the ground. Spent a lot of time in my youth helping my grandfather clear out an old pasture that had been taken over by thistle and multiflora rose, another invasive with thorns.",
"Yes, I put liberal tears in my morning coffee. ",
"Maybe a solar powered particle accelerator floating in space, it could be hundreds of miles long, have it on in orbit around the sun between Venus and Earth, aim it with ion thrusters as RCS jets. I mean it'd be slow to aim, but we're trying to keep up with a planet, not a bullet.",
"/r/abandonedporn",
"Well, not after just a few years. That show actually does a good job of \"weathering\" roads, towns, etc. I'm guessing the road in the picture is at least 10 years removed from any use, likely more",
"Very stupid that they are paid by the hour and not mile. ",
"Hoopy.",
"Looks like it's from fallout",
"Well, it IS from China, and Mars IS the RED planet. :p",
"Here are a few pics I took of the Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike a few years ago. https://imgur.com/a/B3ws9 \nAbout 9 miles were abandoned in 1968 as a new section routed around the two Tunnels and was cheaper then attempting to either 'twin' or widen the two-lane holes into four. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandoned_Pennsylvania_Turnpike",
"I actually get comfort in knowing that whatever humans throw at it, nature and the earth will survive. Humans may climate-change themselves slowly out of existence, and sadly take many other species down with them; but the earth will heal itself and survive. Human habitation may be only a blip in time of the almost infinite number of eons of earth's existence.",
"/r/Awfulroads is a thing now. /r/shittyroads has been inactive too long and the mod no longer uses reddit.",
"This is just sad...",
"I can’t agree more; it took them two and a half years to fix a bridge ten feet long over a creek not a river or a mountain a creek",
"[All falls before the Kudzu...](https://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/abandoned-ghost-village-shengshan-island-china-4.jpg)",
"Its Mars, we just play god and find something that eats it, then transplant that to Mars as well. You can also get other plants that are particularly good at surviving and they can compete with it. Both things which we can't do here because of already existing life. We create our own ecosystem with blackjack and hookers.",
"https://phys.org/news/2017-03-nasa-magnetic-shield-mars-atmosphere.html\n\nOn a related note",
"Damn it, now I want to play Fallout again!",
"Perfect bike lane ",
"Also, wasn’t the first season only a “half” season because TWD replaced another show that got canceled?",
"zombie goats",
"Ooo spooky",
"and the shiny cgi deer",
"horrible road \n",
"Oh yeah, I play with mods. I just brutally murdered Sturges instead, it's easier.",
"> Otherwise, the oxygen gets stripped off it too quickly to build up.\n\nThis is not true. You can build up the atmosphere way faster than it gets stripped.",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCbfMkh940Q",
">Maybe my standards are too high though, as the Netherlands have very good infrastructure.\n\nnot sure whether irony or not, but your standards indeed are too high^or^mine^are^too^low",
"In the Pacific NW we call a similar plant \"Morning Glory\" ",
"This is what the roads in the walking dead should be looking like. The apocalypse in Georgia just don't make no sense to me.",
"That's how they'll all look eventually.",
"Getting younger would be the opposite, not the alternative.",
"6 feet a *day*?! Is that even fucking possible?",
"Yeah, very briefly my commute took me down Braddock Ave. That stretch that goes past the Edgar Thomson Works is a special breed of shit, even on a good day in June.\n\nActually added time to an already long commute to avoid both that and the Turtle Creek clusterfuck. Man, I learned how to drive and navigate in the Pittsburgh region, but that stretch of road makes even a local go \"fuck that I'll take the scenic route\".\n\nYou know it's bad when taking 837 through West Mifflin and Duquesne is the more attractive option.",
"Yeah that sub is dead. I made one too but it's a war between /r/awfulroads and /r/crappiestroads it seems.",
"Blow the leaves?",
"Deny it all you want but they come from third world hell holes due to the fact they tend to have lower i.q.s. The truth might hurt but it's the truth all the same. So, the only thing savage about what I said is that I have the balls to say what needs to be said. As for Hawaii - it's doing well because of the higher Asiatic types and the white minority alike. Otherwise it would be on the verge of collapse like Puerto Rico. The white race isn't the only refined race of humanity and you just assumed that's what I meant due to constant demonizing of whiteness in the kosher blessed Media. ",
"\"Healing over\" fuck off. ",
"There actually are native pnw blackberries, they're just less common",
"Came here to say this",
"As someone who frequents Chicago and Michigan, Michigan definitely wins this one. ",
"\"Mine\"\n\n\\- Nature (probably)",
"Still horrendous yes. I just thought it was important to state the right amount, and not an exaggerated one. ",
"Mother Nature bats last. ",
"hundreds of thousands of miles of induction coils around the equator",
":( But Sturges is the coolest dude out of that whole settler group even without mods. He hangs out in my weed greenhouse a lot.",
"Apparently the Vietnam bit was wrong, but I can confirm that in Savannah the grass in the side of the highway can get to be 8 feet high or more.\n\nThat's not even counting the kudzu.",
"I need to know where this road leads to and why it was built and then abandoned...my curious mind needs to know!",
"I'm *well aware* of how the electoral college works, thanks. \n\nYou are missing the point, though. \n\nBut for the absence of a few large cities we wouldn't *have* to rely on the swing states. NYC and SF/LA account for something like 10-20% of all electoral college votes, with like .5% of the land area.",
"The one who made it hasn't been on reddit for 5 years, so it'd make sense to make a new one. /r/awfulroads and /r/crappiestroads have been made out of this comment so we'll see.",
"And has absorbed too much water for most engines to run ",
"Thanks!",
"Damn plants at it again!",
"with moss and leaves top and trees/grass growing through and right next to it, i would imagine the asphalt that we can't see is cracked/cracking and slowly turning to rubble.",
"The show does show many of them in a very decomposed state, but if they somehow have a higher resilience to decay than a normal human, it should still only take a couple of years.\n\nI'm assuming those who live up north are having a grand old time in winter when the zombies freeze solid.",
"The first side crossing a line wins!",
"Fair enough. Grew up in Chicago, my knowledge of NY State is lacking. My bad.",
"**a s p h a l t w a v e**",
"We had a public golf course that changed locations. The original location was pristine grass and trees. A year later it looked like a place lions and tigers might hide. ",
"It worked it Shaun of the dead ",
"This doesn't sound right, but I don't do know enough about terraforming Mars to dispute it.",
"I like how you say healing ",
"Um",
"Right? Did they find a truckload of Sta-Bil during the pilot that I missed?",
"Expect to run into Negan on that road!",
"Thank God ",
"Chandler Riggs is, yes. But it’s much harder to hide the aging of a prepubescent boy than it is on an adult old man. \n\nCarl was 9 when the comic started, and there’s conflicting information after that. Kirkman himself said Carl is “13 or so,” yet other events in the comic contradict that statement and align to the two year timeline of ~610 days, making Carl 11. ",
"That, too. Sounds like a job for u/AWildSketchAppeared",
"I would just like to say it bugs the crap out of me that none of the pics ever say say where they were taken. It's the only question I ever care to get answered, the it's always left unanswered. ",
"On a related note to multiple things mentioned... this is the result of all of that.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/PWc7aVFe2sY",
"Real talk...why the yellow lines look better on this road than half the roads in jersey?",
"I read that they paid Georgia homeowners to use their homes, and asked them not to mow, but the homeowners wanted their houses \"to look nice for the cameras,\" and so mowed, anyway.",
"Hey why you no party there ",
"People in this thread are bitching about Chicago and Baltimore. They haven't seen Louisiana. The state is so poor than can't even afford enough blacktop to repair them. The bridges are eroding to the point where I'm pretty sure any other state would shut them down from disrepair. ",
"It does remind me of the roads in FO4 though. I see that picture and I'm immediately thinking there's a Deathclaw or two lurking in those trees somewhere.",
"Most gas these days have additives to help keep your engine clean but they break down after a while. I think premium \"recreational\" gas without ethanol lasts longer though.\n",
"Yeah, but you have to go through Cleveland.",
"Ugh when I worked for Maryland DNR, I cleared so much kudzu, phragmites, tree of heaven and multiflora rose. Strangely left the Japanese honeysuckle alone, though.\n\nKudzu is awful. ",
"Shouldn’t we know by now to stop questioning the walking dead’s logic...",
"> digging them up and throwing them down will cause them to grow back\n\nThis should be called the \"WWF Phenotype\".",
"You mean, The Walking Dead universe has winters?? Next you're going to tell me there's actually precipitation too! ",
"This would be a cool longboard path",
"Fallout4?",
"/r/shittyroads\n\nIt's pretty dead but all it needs is some readers and some content.",
"What a shame",
"I didn't say how we were setting fire to everything, but your suggestion is appreciated and we'll be looking forward to implementing that idea.",
"How do the leaves know not to fall in the middle? They don't. This is obviously still used as a walking/bike path.",
"Still looks better than some actual roads I've driven on.",
"Healing?",
"That's a lot of electricity, how could we ever generate that much power?",
">Y'all haven't been to Nicaragua\n\nI have. There are some crappy roads out in the country from what I remember. My favorite was the construction project where they were using what were essentially bricks or pavers to build the road surface. When I asked why they were doing this for a main road and not using what I would consider more modern highway construction methods using asphalt and such, I was told it was because whoever was responsible for highway construction owned the company that made these pavers/bricks. This was in 2010.",
"It was more of a presumptuous answer to the question than my actual opinion. And, yes,I think humans are a blight, not necessarily our roads. ",
"Ahem. 5 *hundredths*.\n\nStill not discernible with the naked eye.",
"Grew up in Alabama and you had to be very careful when walking in an area that'd been overrun by kudzu. Never knew when you might walk over a hole/ditch/cave/etc.. ",
"I'm from Sudan. What's a road?",
"A lot of the walking dead takes place only a year or so after the zombie outbreak. Not long enough for significant regrowth like this.",
"It's called \"adoquines\", and I wouldn't be surprised if that were true. Corruption here is terrible, our infrastructure suffers greatly from conflict of interests. We've had progress recently, but still not the one we should be seeing at this day and age.",
"I’ve had some lengthy conversations with friends about our plans for the zombie apocalypse. As if it’s actually going to happen. We do it because it’s fun to talk about and imagine. Not because we think it’s going to happen. \nIt’s almost like those “if I won the lottery” conversations ",
"from the black scab",
"#***Kill them ALL***",
"If anyone is interested in seeing some of these there are a bunch around Codorus State Park near Hanover, PA. The large lake in the park was created after a damn was built and flooded out a small town in the valley. There are lots of roads that just go into the lake and then reemerge on the other side.",
">at the whim of the lawmakers in NYC\n\nWell, the lawmakers are actually in Albany. And as an upstate New Yorker I've never really felt that I was disadvantaged by the presence of such a large and important metropolis in our state. I'm pretty sure NYS would be in worse shape as a whole without NYC. ",
"As long as Trump had enough money to pay Fox News, and the Russians didn't want Hillary in office, Trump would have won. ",
"The new fallout. ",
"Sounds like the quabbin reservoir in ma. The flooded 5 or 6 small town ",
"Clearly it's in Omaha, NE. Right off of Rainwood, closed road to Cunningham lake. ",
"Guilderland NY ",
"Where was this taken and where did it lead too",
"hundreds of thousands of miles of induction coils in low orbit.",
"Right, I assumed it was slightly less than real time, because Judith has barely aged and she was born in season 3? So it can be roughly estimated to be a little over 4 years. Also, I know it's hard to hide someone aging, but because he's being played by someone who's clearly older than 13, the show may need to concede that more time is passing than in the comics. I just don't buy him as younger than 14.",
"People don't listen to me when I say walking dead is a much lower quality show than the greats out there (GoT, Vikings, WestWorld).",
"Fallout has always been pulpy and more about fitting the concept of what people in the 50s thought a post apocalypse might be like than reality. It's not meant to be realistic.",
"Just imagine, in 1000 years, without human interaction, this area will completely change by nature. ",
"Yeah there's a few bits of green, its really just covered in trash (dead leaves and limbs). \n\n\nLess reclaimed and more repurposed as natures trash collecting point. ",
"Goats help control it is about the only helpful thing I can add here",
"To those who keep commenting on the lack of potholes:\n\nWe have an entire highway interchange that was constructed for a highway that never built here in CT.\n\nhttp://www.abandonedct.com/2015/05/i-84-stack-interchange.html\n\nThe surface is nearly perfect still, even though it was surfaced in 1969. It just never sees any of the pressure on top from cars/trucks, and the snow sits there until it melts, not being scraped and beat up by plows all winter.\n\n",
"I have never seen a grassy area that doesn't become a weedy hay field if not mowed. If there is a grass that stays at 6\" we could get rid of loads of roadside mowing.",
"Reminds me of \"Life After People.\" It's oddly reassuring. ",
"Hopefully it will stop exactly at the edge of the sky and not go through it.",
"FHWA remains ever-vigilant. We have our own revenue stream.",
"Watch as the American road evolves into a post-apocalyptic Dutch bicycle-bahn ",
"XD you do you. That's the joy of games like this. :3",
"Every road in 16 years if mouth breathers keep getting their leaders elected",
"Also from GA. As a child I was always very afraid of kudzu. It grew in alot of giant holes near where I lived. I thought if you fell in the kudzu hole you would just fall forever. Kinda like Alice in wonderland, just never ending. ",
"Sigh, and the top response to my comment is about Nickelback. ",
"A glimpse of our future...",
"I mean, there's just so many.\n\n* Jaguars live in the basement, but are scared of daddy. If you tell them daddy is coming they hide, otherwise, they'll pounce.\n\n* Floor creatures love to take toys that kids leave out. Sometimes, if you yell down the heat register, though, they'll bring your toy back in the morning\n\n* Regular Reese's Peanut butter cups actually contain beer, and should only be eaten in limited quantities by Mommy and Daddy. There's an exception for the mini cups in the gold foil - those are beer free.\n\n* A sea turtle's diet primarily consists of chirlren's poop. Pooping in the potty is how the turtle gets his dinner. They CANNOT eat poop out of diapers, though.",
"Yes, I think it was Savannah. And what an awesome place! So pretty and historical and charming with really kind and friendly people. Georgians should be very proud. \n\n*The Forrest Gump bus stop scene was Savannah, right?",
"I have heard of them using penned-in goats to deal with the Blackberry brambles of the PNW. Apparently you fence in the goats and they just eat it all. Not sure about the Kudzu, or Ivy, though.",
"Yeah but delicious blackberries though.",
"Perhaps this is a dumb question but are we sure this isn’t a road slowly forming, rather?",
"I know, and I get it. I just... why not just say it's set 20 years after? Or 50 even? Why 200?\n\nAlso it always annoys me that buildings that should be gone are in such great shape, while the places that post-apocalyptic residents reside is literally falling apart and full of garbage, even in the large and successful towns.",
"r/reclaimedbynature",
"This how roads look in STALKER.",
"How do you abandon a road?",
"Why was this road abandoned? Tell me there is a great love or war story about this road...",
"O god I bet that was a tough transition. I'm from the south and have visited Colorado and just the mild summers with no humidity almost make me want to move there.",
"A road is not a black scab. It's not a disease. It's people using the land to help themselves, to live better lives.",
"Where exactly is this?",
"This kind of species introduction pisses me off. Birds, fish. Who the fuck thinks it's a good idea? Decorative vine indeed.",
"Yeah, I definitely feel as though there are a lot of inconsistencies, especially in the TV show. I don't think they are even trying with Judith. IIRC, last season was supposed to take place over like 3 days, yet somehow Judith now looks like she's 2-3?\n\nNot that that's really a major issue (compared to everything else in the show) since she's really just an afterthought and adds exactly nothing to the story. In previous seasons, the group was at least worried about protecting her. Where was that sense of urgency, by anyone, when Alexandria was lit up like a Christmas tree? I forgot she was even there most of this season, until the weird LOST-finale-esque dream sequence where Rick sees the group as he remembers them when they died.",
"This photo actually is really neat because it shows the different types of succession in such a small area. Primary is the moss and lichen, which provides a foot hold for the grassy and herbaceous plants which will eventually give way to small trees and shrubs and then full grown trees. \n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_succession",
"Live in Oregon. Yes we get black berries from them. I live in 20 acres 5 of which are blackberry overgrowth, and we are just now after 4 years starting to get them under control. And we have done everything short of burning it. Its a nightmare to deal with",
"Roads as scabs upon the earth. ",
"Healing? I mean it's not like we're a disease or anything. It is cool to see roads being over taken with vegetation though. Given a relatively short amount of time (geologically at least) and all traces of society could easily disappear.",
"Yes that's the joke.\n\nI'm mostly complaining about the juxtaposition of buildings being far less run-down than they are, and the places people live being far more run-down than they should be. Make up your damn mind!",
"It's the same on the other end of I-90, where Seattle makes the rules for the rest of the state.",
"r/abandonedporn",
"It did? cool. I fucking *loved* season 1... but season 2 lost me. I'll power through.",
"[Think of the children](http://www.thegallinigroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Kudzu.jpeg)",
"Makes for some awesome bush forts in the woods though. ",
"Me want walk on that road...",
"> It can grow up to 6 feet in a day in the right conditions. \n\nThat's an inch every twenty minutes. Can you actually SEE the growth if you look closely enough?",
"I think the Virus keeps em \"fresh\" but dead, or rather undead.",
"There was once a road through the woods\nBefore they planted the trees\nIt is underneath the coppice and heath\nAnd the thin anemones\nOnly the keeper sees\nThat where the ring-dove broods\nAnd the badgers roll at ease\nThere was once a road through the woods\n\n- Kipling",
"It loses some potency after 6 months, some cars will start having hickups.",
"Any lichen.\n\nWe'll need something that can bog down the dust that the surface is made of, and start turning proper soil. ",
"Comparison worse than you might imagine. Screw Jurassic Park - velociraptors were only the size of a turkey.",
"Doesn't really look like Leakin / Gwynn Falls trail. Also, they only closed the roads from high crime neighborhoods iirc. Plus, OP said it's in NY.",
"Liberal cunts ",
"You people are only talking about gasoline and not about Diesel right?\nThat stuff should be okay after a couple of years.",
"By comparison, I thought The Last of Us did a fantastic job with this",
"I lived in Georgia for a long time as a kid and still go back there to visit friends and family. I live in Alaska now, which is so fucking dry. Going back to Georgia in the summer is god awful. ",
"It's kind of too bad. It would have been pretty cool if the show had evolved over the seasons into more of an old west or even medieval feel.",
"r/bikepaths",
"They shot we were soldiers at hunter Leggett or one of the army camps here. That was also set in Vietnam...",
"Same here. Although season 2 did have it's moments. Can't wait to check out 3 now... ",
"I think the factoid was meant to apply to the last at-grade crossing. There are a few drawbridges on the Interstate system (the Wilson Bridge on I95/I495 for example) and they would all need stoplights. ",
"Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, I wish they handled things a little differently. Loot scarcity is what bothers me the most. After 200 years, only the most dangerous and out of the way places will have anything useful from pre-war laying around. Everything else should be in someone's personal stockpile by now. I get it's for gameplay reasons, but they could honestly get away with putting 10X less loot. Resource management, even on survival, is never an issue.",
"Souls sold by the pint.",
"And all the chicks should have hairy legs.",
"Tennessee is loaded with these. Take he back roads somewhere and there is at least two rotting old ass barns to he left or right to you at all times",
"Nonsense!\nJust make a Virus that keeps em superhealthy, lets them eat and reason on a basic level... but still hunger for BRAINS.",
"Upstate would have significantly lower taxes and less regulations if it were separate from NYC which would help spur investment and improve the economy. I'd imagine upstate would look more like a new Hampshire or Maine. ",
"NC resident here, can confirm. I thought Charlotte felt like Satan's armpit in the summer, but Atlanta is somehow worse. You get 106 degree heat, 98% humidity, and daily pop up thunderstorms.\n\nHere in Charlotte we only get 102 degree heat, 95% humidity and bi-weekly pop up thunderstorms. Huge improvement. ",
"Actually, the walking dead should be over.....fucking skeletons walking around! Were the zombies the product of super science or the paranormal? Huh? ",
"from seinfeld if you didn't know. i can't tell.",
"It has been shown to rain. In a notable early episode, Rick and Glenn cover themselves in zombie guts to make their way through a herd. Then a downpour starts to rinse the guts off. ",
"in the twilight zone",
"Can we have the story of the Child-Snatching Birds?",
">zombies are the premise of the show so you have to accept it. \n\nI believe this is called \"suspended belief\" and you're absolutely right. Much like a show with timetravel or super powers doesn't have a free pass on all other logic/physics/plot points\n\n>roads that don't turn to potholes after 2 winters.\n\nI believe salt causes this, which is no longer being applied to roads. ",
"Season 3 makes season 2 worth it.",
"Haha",
"this...makes me dislike the show/network",
"I know there have been recent reports of closing the bridge in Lake Charles due to safety issues. I've even heard my family in LA talk about never driving over it and taking the loop instead.",
"btw, fantastic handle",
"Good point on the grass height being limited by breeding, but after a few seasons weeds and saplings would start to take over. The show has lots of lawns, some of which appear to be weed-free and even well maintained in a few scenes. ",
"Were gonna just have to agree to disagree ;)",
"Nope 5 thousandths\n0.00555\n\n\nEdit: sorry I miscalculated it's 0.05",
"That stretch is exactly where I was talking about. I live in the dirty Turtle and the guy who rides me to work takes Braddock Ave most days. Once I get my car I'll go around, but for now, I suffer in (mostly) silence. Lol",
"Again please note, I'm not trying to excuse our negative impacts here, I fully support doing what we can. BUT...\n\n> *The outcome isn't harmony, isn't natural, and isn't good for us or our planet.*\n\nYou're committing a fallacy here: the anti-naturalistic fallacy, the \"repeal of nature\" fallacy.\n\n(I have just invented this, it's actually part of the [appeal to nature fallacy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature).)\n\nHomo sapiens are nature in action. And although we are vaguely capable of rational thought and action, the reality is that to some very large extent we are also incapable of being consistently rational or reliable, and that is our reckless monkey nature, and that is us spreading seeds over the entire surface of this planet without regard to any piddling notions of \"native\" or \"non-native\" or \"invasive\" or \"biodiversity\" or \"quality\" or \"collapse\". Shit happens in nature at every scale possible. Meteors and volcanoes wipe out the entire planet at various points in time, because that's how far they happen to reach. Who knew monkeys would ever reach that far too? I know it actually sucks for us, and for the other species that have happened to be left undisturbed for long periods of time, forming happily balanced little slices of \"biodiversity\". Shit dies off, because large scale changes happen. We don't live on a static planet, and we are one of nature's most dynamic actors. Spreading the wrong seeds is bad for biodiversity, and so are glaciers. You can say \"but we can't do anything about glaciers\", and I'll have to answer that we don't actually know if or what we can actually do about ourselves, and it's something we have to study scientifically if we want sound answers.\n\nSome time over the last few hundred years, as humanity worked out science and began to form a realistic understanding of natural reality, we formed a cluster of attitudes that are unrealistic. We still believed we were magic creatures created by a magic sky daddy, and put here as shepherds and justified owners and exploiters of this planet. We were unaware of large scale phenomena in general. We were in the habit of writing authoritative lists down in books, and assuming that these formed knowledge for the ages, eternal and unchanging. We cataloged nature, and mistook her as static, and we as invaders who upset the stasis. This erroneous thinking was only worsened because until recently, our species was a small and seldom global influence, and our usual experience, right as we were forming science and technology, was still pioneering new virgin territory, places that had reached local balance for long time scales beyond our comprehension, and then exploiting the accumulated riches, often until depleted, making them \"less valuable\" to us, and certainly to anything that used to live there.\n\nForests and deserts both come and go. A million years from now, a different forest might grow on a different landscape, in exactly the same spot you're living right now. Or it could be a desert. It doesn't make it \"unnatural\" if one of the reasons why was a monkey spreading seeds rather than a glacier.\n\nWe need to take responsibility for, and rationally guide our own actions on this planet, our only viable space ship. Polluting our fundamental premises with fallacious ideas and value judgments may be useful in some particular ways, but I think it's ultimately harmful to the larger project of realistically understanding nature, which includes ourselves, and our own monkey behavior in all its animal glory.",
"I was talking about gasoline. I only ever use diesel in military vehicles and when burning a barrel of shit.",
"No where the show is at now they havent even reached the two year mark yet. Its weird because of how much carl has grown to us, but but timeline events from the producers its only been around 620 days since the initial outbreak.",
"It goes right through my town so I get to drive on it every day!",
"haven't watching Vikings, but GoT and WW are 2 of the best I've seen...i always assumed it was because HBO was a paid station, they have more freedom and money to really get behind something\n\nthen they go and cancel shit because it costs too much (ROME) and piss me off anyways",
"[Upstate New York](https://www.google.com/maps/@42.7406576,-73.9679218,256m/data=!3m1!1e3) according to OP.",
"Not sure how you're winding up with that, unless you're actually just looking for downvotes.\n\n6ft/day * 12in/ft / 24hr/day / 60 min/hr \n(6*12/24)/60 = 0.05 inches per minute",
"That's awesome, I'd love to hike there some time. ",
"There was a lost episode about how for some reason the zombies don't attack those with OCD, who have nothing left to do during the apocalypse except cut grass.\n\n*Source: I can make things up*",
"Perhaps eventually, but I can't help but think that losing nyc would be like cutting off New York's right leg. I'm from the capital region so a lot of our economy is fueled by the lawmaking that goes on in the area. That leg may have its own agenda, but at least it's keeping us upright. ",
"Or just kudzu and magnets. Solved.",
"NY, SF, and LA account for around 60 electoral votes out of 538, or a bit over 11%. They also have a combined metro population of about 40 million out of 323 million total in the US, which is 12.3%. If anything, they're underrepresented. Land area doesn't matter - the government represents people, not property. ",
"Everyone out looking for kid who we know is a zombie at some point. Preggo wife goes out looking for hubby in car, flips car, zombie on the road. \n\nOk WTF seriously who goes off driving while pregnant in a zombie apocalypse, and crashes with no other cars on the road? This unbelievable bitch right here. ",
"> I believe salt causes this, which is no longer being applied to roads.\n\nsame can be said for plows tearing shit up",
"Probably Bloomington. It looks like the only city that was demolished for the construction of the lake. Here's a map from 1889 showing the city where the lake is now. https://imgur.com/a/VZNJ8 (via http://historicalmaps.arcgis.com/usgs/)",
"#dirchtheroads\n\nI live what I believe. Do you live what you believe? Heal the earth. Stop using roads.",
"We have kudzu all over in Chattanooga. It’s ridiculous.",
"I guess you are from the US or Canada, do you people have died (dark red stuff) Diesel for heating, which is made cheaper but you are not alleowed to use it in your car?",
"ITS IN MY LUNGS",
"If you're talking about the snow shed in Washington off Keechelus Lake, it was removed in 2014 for the expansion of the bridge that's there.\n\nI don't believe there are any remaining on I90.",
"Something baffles me about this photo. Why are there still yellow lines? I know those lines don't look new or anything but even on highways those lines need to be repainted once a year. The lines on my neighborhood street were painted a couple years ago and now they're nearly completely gone. How long did it take for nature to reclaim this road? A couple months?",
"That would need to be some seriously heavy duty explosions. I'm not even sure conventional nukes could put much of a dent in a planetary core.",
"It probably leads up to Chernobyl. ",
"Just napalm the hill and then explode it with thermite to be sure",
"Sounds like the shit growing underground in the stranger things universe.",
"Awesome pic",
"[This is more fun though.](https://www.cat.com/en_US/products/new/equipment/excavators.html)",
"Everything about the walking dead is incorrect, from the \"fail safe mechanism\" at the CDC to the non-rotting flesh of zombie flesh in hot Atlanta GA weather to the hardness and consistency of human flesh to the character stupidity when it comes to falling victim to zombies they all are fully aware of and have lived along side with for what? Years?! You kidding me, how do you accidentally go somewhere and get trapped by zombies. \n\nFrom week one I'd know to designate a trap alarm to attract the zombies, and just sneak into any building as they run out to check it out and kill any stragglers as a group. There's too much in Walking Dead to address",
"I do live what speaks to my heart yes... :)\nI have already made numerous changes in my life and will make many more... everything in steps. :)",
"For old and abandoned it sure looks better than some of mine in my daily commute. You can at least see the divider. ",
"Try doing a google image search for roots and asphalt...",
" The Walking Dead has been filming on and off for years in my hometown. Part of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 was filmed here too, I guess my city is good for apocalypse scenes.😂\n\nThere's an abandoned overpass bridge in my city that is all grown over. Probably would be cool to take photos of but the city put up a wall of rocks to barricade it so you can't really get onto it.",
"Potholes are caused more by traffic than by the environment (especially winter traffic).",
"Oh yes, all native Georgians know to fear the Kudzu and red clay. ",
"Still looks better than some of the roads here in New Brunswick.",
"Make sure the steps are natural, not concrete.",
"6 feet in a day? Holy shit. \n\nI would imagine it’s gotta be the fastest growing plant in the world. Or at least one of.",
"not me. gave up this series ",
"Albany would retain its seat as the capital of upstate, just the NYC reps would probably have their own capital somewhere in Manhattan. I am familiar with the area though, went to school in Albany and enjoyed my time there. \n\nI believe the current movement for upstate to breakaway doesn't want it to become its own state but for the state to split into two autonomous zones which I think could be a fair/more politically possible solution. ",
"You are totally missing the point. Every day I see Trump blamed for something he didn't do or has not responsibility for, much like Obama. The extreme left isn't any better than the extreme right.",
"You need to watch Vikings. Only other show as good as those two HBO shows.",
"is that true though? Isn't it caused by the moisture freezing in the cracks repeatedly",
"I'm part of nature, does that mean everything is mine?",
"In NS everything is paved but it was all paved 40 years ago and they have just cold patched everything since then. Feels like your riding a wooden roller coaster unless you are on the major highway. ",
"What bothers me more in Fallout is how even occupied homes just have inexplicable filth in them. These are people living a (albeit hard) daily life.\n\nSo why not just like sweep that pile of dirt and refuse out of the room? Why just leave it there?\n\nAnd I mean, cleaning products are ALL OVER THE PLACE.",
"It’s not the last stoplight - I-690 in Syracuse has a stoplight that’s active a few days a year for the state fair. The parking is on one side of the road and the fair is on the other. I actually got to stop at it because I was driving through on fair day!\n\nUnless by US interstate highway you mean those that go through multiple states. 690 is only in NYS. ",
"> I paid higher taxes than I ever have and I do not make much at all.\n\nObama hardly raised taxes for anyone making under $400k so I don't know what you're crying about... Obamacare gave a slight tax increase but it also gave an improvement to our health care system by covering a lot more Americans.\n\n> I had to pay a penalty fine because I didn't sign up for his health care plan\n\nEveryone should have a health care plan... it's pretty dumb not to have one... That fine is to prevent dipshits like you who can't afford an emergency medical treatment because you're uninsured and the rest of us have to foot your bill. Use some common sense and get health insurance. \n\nThe reason everyone \"loves\" Obama is because compared to the moron we have now Obama is practically Jesus. ",
"yeah really they should've had TWD evolve to a low tech world (like old west) as the modern stuff is expended/deteriorates and become about trying to rebuild society rather than wander from place to place only to have it get overrun as soon as Rick & Co show up.\n\nThen FTWD should've been an anthology from the start. So a season could be about the fall of society, another one in the future when primitive states have formed, another one following a platoon of soldiers that were deployed in the middle east at the time of the apocolypes, and so on. Instead now we just have another group of people wandering from place to place only to have it get overrun shortly after arriving.",
"yeah that was back when it was interesting",
"And the batteries in the abandoned cars would also be dead. ",
"We need to fire all of our nukes at Mars to scorch it and try and build an atmosphere, just let it chill for a bunch of years.",
"It's 100% not Centralia, but it does look like PA.",
"Yeah. I've given up. Same story every season now: meet a new group and get into a conflict with them, forget everything you learned about about staying safe from the zombies, fight with the new group while the zombies you forgot about attack you from behind. Throw in a few lame personal stories and \"shocking\" main character deaths. Repeat.",
"why?\n",
"That's incredible - I had no idea.\n\nThank you!",
"From the point of view of an imaginary personified biosphere...we are a disease, one which is exponentially growing.",
"Nice one.",
"I waited on this gif forever ",
"Iirc S2 had a lower budget overall than S1. Total fucking garbage.",
"I feel solitude, I feel winter, I feel coldness, I feel spooky, I feel serenity, I feel, my gosh I feel soooooooooo much looking at this awsome picture.... The list can go on n on n on,,,,,,,,,,,thanks for sharing!!!",
"Oh woops my mistake, I miscalculated and did 24/72",
"me too got tiered of the repetitiveness, and then when they killed of Glen.. nope done.\nBut i get what you mean about the road.. ever seen a documentary call Earth Population Zero? think that's what it was called.. good look at what would happen id we wern't around. ",
"R/abandonedporn sounds sketchy, but I will trust you internet internet stranger.",
"I like exploring old buildings, but I learned early on that if you invite the wrong kind of person they destroy everything. People will break windows, kick holes in the wall, etc.\n\nYou can't tell who will be this kind of person, either. I had one of my favorite old buildings vandalized so I made sure I only took one or two people, and even then only to look around.",
"I’m sure that there are people out there who would do it for free. ",
"Pantheism prevailing ",
" True, I know it has rained before, but to be fair that was WAY early in the series was it not? I've just been a little disappointed that in the past few seasons are the creators of the show haven't used rain to even just to set the mood of an episode. I know the show is all about character drama and development but couldn't they get creative with one thunderstorm? I understand they might not want to tackle seasons because they likely don't shoot in winter, but if they could, I think the timeline would make more sense with people. There are plenty of human stories being told but it's hard to imagine going too long without Nature playing a role in the stories.",
"Well, potholes occur in places which never get subzero temperatures too.\n\nThere are numerous causes, but they're all exacerbated by traffic. In comparison, a pedestrian area covered with asphalt lasts many years.",
"Leakin Park in Baltimore, MD.",
"I thought I this was /r/AbandonedPorn and you were being silly, but then I realized I'm actually in /r/pics and you were just being helpful and nice.",
"I’m taking “Electron Pump” as the name of my new edm album.",
"...okay?",
"Really. Well I'm from Utica and I haven't heard the news before.",
"Burn the kudzu ",
"Dan Bell mare a nice documentary on Leakin park.",
"And then they never thought of the Zombie guts idea ever again!",
"Can you watch it grow in real time with just your eyes? 6 feet a day is crazy, almost scary in a weird way.",
"Neat!",
"Neat!",
"They do it once or twice in more recent seasons, but yeah, totally under-used. WTF, I would be wearing zombie guts EVERY TIME I stepped outside a secured perimeter. Ed: spelling.",
"Kinky",
"That fixes our energy problem but causes a host of green house emission problems. Do we need a second Venus? ",
"TIL there’s an occupation known as “balloonist” that doesn’t involve balloon animals. ",
"The vine that ate the south I’ve heard it called. ",
"Healing is an excellent way to put it. Human development is a violent attack on the land. ",
"There is a reason farming is the deadliest occupation. Safety is often not the highest concern on the farm. Source live in the country, seen a lot of stupid shit. ",
"I agree. It's pretty boring and a little ridiculous that it's always sunny and summer time on the show.",
"That doesn't *necessarily* involve balloon animals. I'm sure there's a lot of overlap, especially amongst ballooning enthusiasts.\n\nCuriously, Wikipedia suggests that:\n\n> People who create balloon animals and other twisted balloon sculptures are called Twisters, Balloon Benders and Balloon Artists",
"Just plant more kudzu to suck up the now massive amounts of CO2",
"Just think of how much time and effort went into building this",
"I once wanted to take pictures of some old Interurban rights-of-way in rural Indiana. Did not, so now all has become farmland, bikeways, or windbreaks (trees on the right of way).",
"Nature is the void",
"> Unless by US interstate highway you mean those that go through multiple states.\n\nUh yeah, that's literally the definition of interstate.",
"This is a good habit. Should do an active shooter scenario, since it seems to be more common of an occurrence.",
"Healing? Wtf....",
"Thought I recognized that spot. have been there many times... ",
"Fallout 4",
"> I know those lines don't look new or anything but even on highways those lines need to be repainted once a year. The lines on my neighborhood street were painted a couple years ago and now they're nearly completely gone. \n\nBecause of wear and tear from tire friction, road cleaning, et cetera. ",
"don't forget ignoring the backstory of a side character for a season or two until the episode they get killed off in so you can try and make it feel important that they died.",
"Well, the movie did, but in the book and the Zombie Survival Guide walls are a great asset. Hell, just breaking the stairs is an effective means of isolating yourself from zombies",
"yeah why wouldn't they have coats with zombie guts on it premade and hanging by the door so whenever you leave the settlement you grab one and wear it",
"Nature.....finds a way. ",
"Yes! Not to mention long sleeves, or even leather or Kevlar jackets. That alone would prevent 50% of the deaths on the show. The people from Hilltop seem to get it, but they still need to pile on the zombie guts.",
"could be worse though. I saw an article somewhere a while ago that talked about how when they pitched the show to one of the broadcast stations (abc maybe?) the network wanted to make it an investigation show where Rick & Shane investigate 'zombie crimes'\n\nThe Walking Dead is garbage now but NCIS: Zombie would've been pure trash from the beginning.",
"keyword planning. something connected to the utica historical society.",
"since the gun fire will draw in the zombies I'd probably just run ",
"not sure you can go by that though. the babies grow way faster than the pregnant girl's belly grow.\n\nI'm pretty sure there was a winter between season 2 and season 3. Season 4 takes up with a whole bunch of new 'extras' - a doctor, old people, children, plus a bunch of farm animals and crops - so that had to have been several months and we haven't seen a winter yet, so I'm assuming some of those months were winter.\n\nSo I think it's been 3 or 4 years since the original outbreak.\n\nBut then you have trash people who have somehow developed their own dialect even though they're all old enough to remember the pre zombie world.\n\nIt's a whole series of nonsensical creative decisions.",
"i posted it in a different comment but there was definitely a winter between season 2 & season 3. And then all those new people at the prison in the start of season 4 makes me think that that would've been several months for that many people to relocate to there.",
"I’ve rode down the [Graffiti Highway](http://www.centraliapa.org/graffiti-highway-centralia-pennsylvania/) on a Victory Octane, there’s a bit off off-roading you have to do to reach that highway that most people would assume is impossible to do on a cruiser. The looks I got from people walking and bicycling on the trail were fucking hilarious",
"Nature can always win out. ",
"I wonder how long this road was abandoned. I remember a show on Discovery Channel that explored how fast nature would overtake human structures, I think it was called After Man or something. Really good mini series.",
"The secret is it's a desert with no moisture or rain. ",
"Last time I checked the mutants didn't mow their lawns...",
"It took me 3 play throughs to realize how incredible the bow is. Hoarded arrows after that",
"Yaasss thanks!",
"Bat cave",
"@mapmyhike This picture was taken on the road I grew up on!!! Do you live in Guilderland??",
"Top comment because it’s true. We make cars but we are clueless at making roads.",
"Oh, not in Utica, no",
"That's a good picture of a state government not being able to fund road maintenance. Where did all the money go? ",
"Location?",
"You can use it for heating in oil furnaces but it's more expensive than oil I think. It's for off road use like in farm tractors or bulldozers",
"In fact, forget the blackjack!",
"It is literally the best weather. I’ve gained a whole new appreciation living in the south for the dry weather. Colorado might very well have the best weather in the country. Very mild winters too believe it or not. It just occasionally snows in the foothills, it’s not a frozen tundra like everyone thinks.",
"Upside to driving in MI-snowbirds go to FL for the winter.",
"Way to go scorched earth on it bro, riprap and all",
"Sounds like bamboo.",
"Orbit is too close. Deep space it is.",
"We should have an invasive-species-Battleroyale.\n\nFind a nice little empty island. Dump all invasive species there. See who wins.\n\nYa'll game?",
"Yes, here in Austria it is used for heating and it is called \"Heizöl\" meaning heating oil.",
"+610 days since outbreak so far\n\nhttp://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/The_Walking_Dead_TV_Show_Timeline",
"They only bother spreading leafs across the roads half the time. That’s the best we’re gonna get ",
"Many highways with the interstate designation do not go through multiple states. Examples include 690 like I said (but that’s an auxiliary interstate so it might not count depending on who you ask), I-88 (NY only), I-4 (FL only) and way more. Not to mention all the auxiliary interstate highways that act as beltways or bypasses for cities (many are in just one state). \n\nhttp://epicroadtrips.us/2003/summer/nola/nola_offsite/1-90/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_intrastate_Interstate_Highways.html",
"Frank Darabont would have done this by season 3, I'm sure.",
"It almost surely already happened, and we pathetic individual monkeys are just too myopic and self absorbed to have noticed such grand drama.",
"Papua New Guinea thinks \"road is a wat?\"",
"It's magic.",
"no i havent ill have to look find it",
"I always love seeing scenes like this. Reminds me how quickly nature can reclaim what we've done if we're not around to stop it. To think one person with a rake and a shovel could probably stop this, but nope...",
"good point. it also had terrible cgi vampire things",
"The first 10 minutes of that first episode carried me through S2-3. I quit after that. But damn, those hands reaching through the door and scratching to get out...",
"100% right. especially with the growing cast. the extras were absolutely awful",
"agreed ",
"fuck. i forgot how bad it was. thats the point i noped right out",
"it shouldn't be but i believe it is",
"It's certainly not the same show, post-season-one. We gave up after season two, then returned a few years later because my wife's friends were talking about it. Honestly though, could have never picked it up again and wouldn't feel like I was missing much.\n\nIt's not quite to the level of broadcast tv, but it's only tiniest little hundredth of a notch above. AMC wants to be HBO or HBO's-runnerup on a UHF budget. It's pathetic.",
"Google maps will still take you down this road",
"absolutely",
"It really depends upon the winter. They can be brutal. The summers brutally hot, dry, smoggy, smokey. ",
"pretty much sums up the plot. walking. stab a walker. walking. walking. run into a gang. make speeches for 6 episodes. fight the gang next season ",
"nipple height then?",
"Yeah, I kept waiting for something interesting. S02 just about did me in, but I gave the first few of S03 a try... and that was it.",
"To be fair, Montreal is a whole different level of road abuse and insanity. I was just there visiting friends this holiday season. Literally holes 50 cm wide and deep off this one highway entrance, the taxi I was in had to dodge them. He said they'd been there since last year.\n\nAt least they're redoing a lot of the highway and infrastructure now. I think a lot of it was previously done by shoddy contractors hired by corrupt municipal government, which might partially explain why the paint isn't holding up.",
"That was one of my issues with the show. During season two i kept asking my wife \n\n\" who is mowing the fucking lawn\"?",
"Bless you!",
"I’m not sure, when we first moved in a little old lady and little old man would show up about once a month, start the van in the carport, drive it around the block a few times and stay the night. Then it was once every couple of months. Then it was just once a couple of times one year. Then no one for a couple of years. I think they were fortunate enough to own a couple of homes, if I had a guess this one was bought and paid for and then they moved wherever for whatever reason, closer to family or something like that.",
"Eventually this will be a beautiful world again.",
"I noted after the 1989 San Francisco Earthquake that a condemned overpass had grass growing through a crack in the asphalt less than a month after traffic was halted on it. ",
"nice shot! where do you take? any info?",
"This is what an average country road in Ireland looks like",
"Keep an eye open for walkers Carl.",
"I'm more impressed by the fact those guardrails haven't rusted",
"Apparently much of what is said about kudzu is a myth.\n\n\nhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/true-story-kudzu-vine-ate-south-180956325/\n",
"Reminds me of this song:\n\nhttps://tilcowstearusapart.bandcamp.com/track/renewed-wilderness",
"Still in better condition than California roads.",
"Wow. You went above and beyond. Thanks. \n\nTIL a lot more about balloons than I thought I ever would. \n\nEdit: The Cunningham Principle is alive and well. ",
"A small part of me wants to wander a post-apocalyptic wasteland, I like this picture.",
"> There's an exception for the mini cups in the gold foil - those are beer free.\n\nI knew there had to be something wrong with a peanut butter cup made that small. \n",
"The 80 mile stretch between Albany and Utica is pure misery. Except for that old baby food factory that is slowly being torn down, there's Zippo on that stretch. ",
"Imagine walking there at night",
"Appreciate the honesty in reality - but a foot a day is insane! ",
"I'm so sorry to hear that...\nI lived on the other side of the country so I'm not too familiar with the situation there. However, I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case.",
"Looks like it's a bike or walking trail. ",
"Make it a cycling path!",
"They're where we ice skate. ",
"I hit a step ladder on the Ryan once, jesus christ that sucked ",
"I ate at a dunkin donuts up the road from that bleak shit once ",
"And mars spiders hiding in that dense kudzu.....lots of mars spiders!!",
"I have a friend getting his doctorate in Peru doing like this exact same thing, right now. ",
"For sure! It’s a goldmine. ",
"That place has to be where they shot this scene from 2009's The Road with Viggo Mortensen:\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfJMhBMOcI0",
"In the end nature will consume all and life will begin again.",
"No, there are plenty of us monkeys that have been watching and documenting this ecological apocalypse unfold. Island biogeography is fascinating. Invaders always win when we do nothing or consider these changes acceptable. When we are talking about invasive species we are talking about habitat loss, extinction, and a giant human monkey boot.\n\nLet's pick on Hawaii again...a paradise island familiar to us. \n\nOf the 152 known island birds that once lived on these islands only 42 remain. That's a 72% loss. A majority of these occurred in the past 200 years with the bulk of those occuring in the first 100 of the European's arrival. These losses stem from invasive plants, invasive animals, invasive disease, and invasive insects. These extinctions began with the arrival of people. \n\nExploitation of the land leads to habitat loss and degradation. This leads to invasive species taking a stronghold. This leads to habitat loss. This leads to extinction. \n\nEvery island on Earth is experiencing this battle royale.\n\nETA: I agree with you that we are natural actors. There's a distinction though; unlike asteroids, seeds caught in bird shit, or any other vector, we have the ability to see (sometimes) what we are doing to landscapes.",
"It's Fallout 3 and beyond that has this issue, not games before. Bethesda added a huge timeskip and change in location so that they could effectively have a blank slate and not have to refer to the first two games that much, but these changes introduced a ton of plot holes and inconsistencies referred to above. 1 and 2 are set much closer in time to the war.",
"Not likely. Nellis AFB would be a military target for a nuke holocaust scenario. Vegas is in a bowl shaped valley so any pressure waves would hang out for awhile. A lot of houses are stick built stucco huts that wouldn't do well inside the blast radius. Firestorm is also big concern, with lots of fuel in the structures.",
"Only overestimated slightly by 600% haha",
"Love pictures like this!\n\nI’ve came across similar on my adventures ",
"My thoughts EXACTLY.\n\n\"Nooo, just spread some leaves over it\"",
"I found a place recently that had a railroad that had been taken over by forest. The giant rails are still there, but almost blend in.",
" I'm surprised that Tweakers haven't scrapped all those guard rails \n",
"No we aren't. We're acting no different than any species that if given intelligence and a will to wield it would. I don't get this idea that we're somehow separate from nature. We aren't even the dominant life form either. Heck we've had far less impact on our environment than organisms in the past.",
"Don’t get me wrong I’m a die hard fan of every Detroit team, that’s why I can admit when they need some work done.",
"Pluto chuckles quietly.",
"Most movies and shows don't call them zombies, which I find weird because they usually take place in modern times where zombies have been common knowledge for some time. The characters can still be incredulous and in denial but still recognize them as zombies... drives me nuts, too.",
"There is a road like this bear Milwaukee leading to Lake Michigan. It is all blocked off to vehicles and allows walk ins only. Very creepy and over grown, I heard they blocked it of leg due to people racing down it and ending up going over a 60 or so foot cliff into Lake Michigan!",
"What would you hum to yourself?",
"Still better by an order of magnitude over how underestimated most government contracts are.",
"It's very comforting in a way",
"Could make a hotwheels race in the future over there... Elon get on it!",
"[what I imagine](https://i.imgur.com/zW19fME.png) ",
"looks like the perfect road to shoot the next season of the walking dead on. Just imagine this road flooded with zombies lol",
"The road less traveled.",
"yes as in using the heal tool over second layer with the road lol\n\nthis is totally photoshopped to make a societal statement",
"You should try them washboard gravel roads in western OK. Your bones will rattle right out of your skin.",
"Vegas makes sense because, canonically, Mr House protected the area from most of the nukes with his anti-nuke... thingy.",
"Neat. This is happening in my driveway though, and it's not so neat.",
"Just about any post apocalyptic, time elapsed several months scenario should look overgrown. A game like the last of us captures the power of nature; even in the city, you feel you’re in a jungle. I can also say that I am Legend did it well too. It’s very cool to look at. ",
"Does that mean that it's not an abandoned road? ",
"Haha I know. Poor ground bein built on.",
"Vintage porn fans really missed out on that subreddit name.",
"That’s part of the reason why it’s so great, it shows the real America. You see the beauty and prosperity and you see everything else. I90 is America. ",
"No... capital region NY ",
"And herbicide! ",
"Capital region, upstate NY ",
"Sup neighbor ",
"[The Film Theorists did a pretty neat episode on this]( https://youtu.be/7xEJusROWN4)",
"Where is this? It’s beautiful.",
"/r/creepy",
"Wind wouldn't keep fallen limbs and tree branches off the path. And wind would cover the path with leaves, not clear it. ",
"Do people from Nicaragua say y'all??",
"Not really, people here don't speak English, and I don't think there's an equivalent term for y'all.",
"Still obeying the double yellow lines.",
"Haha yep!",
"Just like his nobel peace prize!",
"In that respect you are absolutely correct. He does induce the same knee-jerk reaction. Trouble is, he is awful most of the time, so the knee-jerk reaction is most often correct.\n\nIt still is a knee-jerk reaction, tho. Thus the case against Trump and his cronies isn't well argued.",
"I dunno. Some folks chosen at random. A couple of them depending on how many voters there are in a voting district? I'm sure this has never been tried, but they are bound not to cast their vote for somebody of dubious suitability.\n\nSurely.",
"> I may have over-estimated the growth rate **slightly**\n\nslightly? try 6 times as much ",
"lies. 1 foot a day",
"This is also abandoned, but time wont heal it.\n https://imgur.com/gallery/8Q7wO",
"i want complete realism in my flesh eating dead come to life shows",
"Similar to Chernobyl",
"If you’re passing through or live close it’s kinda neat, but if you’re planning on traveling very far just for centralia you will be disappointed. My brother goes to school at Bloomsburg which is about half an hour up the road so I’ve stopped in a few times. The graffiti highway is neat but State Police have had an increased presence and have been ticketing trespassers. There are not any buildings left, that I have found yet anyway. ",
"Love nature. So much better than awful humans. We are by some distance, the worst creatures on this planet. ",
"End of days for sure. ",
"i heard that too, just awful. gotta wonder what these execs think sometimes. ",
"is that timeline official though?\n\nSeems like it's just people counting days or whatever but doesn't seem accurate to me.\n\nIt has winter between Season 2 & 3 which makes sense so day 300 would be sometime in the spring. That timeline confirms this. It has season 3 entirely finished by day 321 and days 321 to 511 off screen between season 3 & 4. That's 190 days which is 6 months, so if spring was say march, we're now talking September. Another 30 days for season 4 it looks like. So now in October and they start... heading north. In October. And we they make it to Alexandria without it being winter. It has season 6 at day 547 - 598 which would be november/december outside of DC and the're all dressed like it's summer.\n\nThat's why I think you have to put a bigger gap in between season 3 & 4 and probably some more in between season 5 & 6 (using flashbacks to show the immediate aftermath of season 5 finale). Either that or the methane from rotting zombies has caused so much global warming they no longer have winter.\n\nAnd still if it's been less than 2 years what the hell is up with the trash people.",
"It's like off roaring, but with traffic.",
"I'm very sorry to read that. I hope she wasn't hurt too bad.",
"Thats what i did in my game with Railroad, Brotherhood and Institute, actually. I thought all of them are a menace for the peace in the wasteland, so i went to every HQ and did exactly that...",
"Holy shit sorry I made a typo. He didn't die yesterday. I'm sorry I don't know why I wrote \"today\". ",
"dude whats with the massive circlejerk of everybody one upping eachother “you think you got it bad! oh boy are you wrong!”",
"I don't know, but your mom just gargled my ball sack.",
"oh yeah? well i just pounded your dads brown starifish!",
"Is it just mile long?",
"Women are from venus, so yes.",
"My dad just died of starfish cancer you asshole!",
"my condolences. ill build a memorial for him, and then fuck ur mother next to it!",
"Two broken legs and ankles. Someone hit their brakes in front of her on 24 and she couldn't stop in time. Vanderbilt did an incredible job with her though, and now she's up am walking around like nothing ever happened. Science is awesome like that! ",
"this cut is too deep, internet villain",
"DFW Texas",
"I’m confused by this response ",
"Bah, that's practically nothing by government standards.",
"agreed",
"I'm glad to see she is getting better!",
"Season 3 is AMAZING. There's an entire episode with a single shot and it's absurd how great it is. The best episode on the series",
"Point, especially about not having the most impact--I guess blue-green algae might have been, the little oxygen poopers. I wish we acted more like we were a part of nature and worked with natural processes instead of against them.",
"I can understand what you're trying to say. It would be. Ice to not have to rely so much on fossil fuels, etc. Also design and plan cities and buildings with a goal towards sustainability and integration with nature. I'm sure we'll get there.",
"The roads where they film TWD have signs up reminding others not to cut the weeds....so what you see is about as overgrown as it gets. Most weeds/grass roadside don’t necessarily grow to jungle proportions if left uncut. ",
"The gas should work for a few years, at least if you filter it and have older American cars, not direct injection modern cars.",
"Curious. Since you seem to think he's such a saint. How do you feel about him going after whistle blowers such as Snowden when he was supposed to be the guy protecting them? Now Vladimir Putin is the one giving him protection for defending our rights as US citizens? \n\nPersonal opinion: fuck Obama, fuck Trump. We will never know the truth about dick. We need to quit buying into this charade known as democracy. Quit voting. Divorce yourself from it because there is literally nothing you can do to control or stop this machine",
"Henlo! I replied to your comment yesterday with a question for you. Check your inbox! ",
"Quite true, and I do love me some blackberries. Just not fighting off bushes.",
"I have enough (limited) experience with goats to know they'll eat goddamn anything, so that actually makes a lot of sense.",
"I guess living in the Ozarks I’ve just gotten used to it. ",
"Oh *god*, rampant jasmine is a nice fat headache. I will say, I love that plants love to grow here and having been plenty of places that are too hellish for plant life, I'll always appreciate that.. but these damn vines have NO CHILL.\n\nThe upside is, I highly recommend our native succulents to inexperienced gardeners. You can't kill them. 6 months in scorching summer heat or 6 months floating in 6 inches of water... they're fine.",
"The bushes growing around my property don't produce the best blackberries (really small and weak) so sadly, I don't get much of a reward for it. The grapes are great, though! They're not the typical grapes I'm familiar with (super tart) but my neighbour makes some jams and desserts with them that are awesome.",
"I'm from Georgia. There is not as much kudzu as you would imagine, being that the government spends millions fighting it each year. The amount has starkly decreased in recent decades. \n\nOn one hand, I absolutely can confirm that grass will grow up to a small child's shoulders over the course of a single Summer. On the other hand, few people know that Georgia naturally experiences severe wildfires which are managed by people nowadays, but you could expect a major wildfire to rip through the state once a year without human intervention. It's the natural state of things here, which is why the long leaf pine can grow 6 feet in a single growing season (to get above the fire line). So, it's actually not really likely that Georgia would look all that jungle-like if the zombie apocalypse did happen. I come from the dankest, most humid, tropical area of the state, and I can tell you that we have to have regular burnings here to keep the trees healthy. But it absolutely could happen if there were several years without a fire.",
"I'm from Georgia. There is not as much kudzu as you would imagine, being that the government spends millions fighting it each year. The amount has starkly decreased in recent decades. \n\nOn one hand, I absolutely can confirm that grass will grow up to a small child's shoulders over the course of a single Summer. On the other hand, few people know that Georgia naturally experiences severe wildfires which are managed by people nowadays, but you could expect a major wildfire to rip through the state once a year without human intervention. It's the natural state of things here, which is why the long leaf pine can grow 6 feet in a single growing season (to get above the fire line). So, it's actually not really likely that Georgia would look all that jungle-like if the zombie apocalypse did happen. I come from the dankest, most humid, tropical area of the state, and I can tell you that we have to have regular burnings here to keep the trees healthy. But it absolutely could happen if there were several years without a fire.",
"I'm also from Georgia. I think y'all are overhyping its prevalence just a tad, but hey, maybe you're just from a more overgrown area. There is not as much kudzu nowadays as you would imagine, being that the government spends millions fighting it each year. The amount has starkly decreased in recent decades (even in my rural hometown). People not understanding what it means to dig up the root, it can grow insanely deep, like 20 feet down, and the root looks kinda of like a giant potato or yucca. It can also be eaten, be instead of throwing it away. Some people turn it into flour. Believe it or not, the leaves are edible too.\n\nOn one hand, I absolutely can confirm that grass will grow up to a small child's shoulders over the course of a single Summer. On the other hand, few people know that Georgia naturally experiences a lot of wildfires, which are managed by people nowadays, but you could expect a major wildfire to rip through the state once a year without human intervention. It's the natural state of things here, which is why the long leaf pine can grow 6 feet in a single growing season (to get above the fire line). So, it's actually not really likely that Georgia would look all that jungle-like if the zombie apocalypse did happen. I come from the dankest, most humid, tropical area of the state, and I can tell you that we have to have regular burnings here to keep the trees healthy. But it absolutely could happen if there were several years without a fire.",
"So funny when Atlanta natives say it's humid. Go down to Statesboro for a while, then we'll talk. GSU students spend Summers sopping wet, and trust me, the classes aren't that exciting. It's an experience, for sure.",
"No doubt. As awful as it is here, it's still somehow worse in middle and South Georgia.",
"Now it's always Trump's fault.",
"As a Land Surveyor this looks awful and a very bad day for digging and cutting",
"I just mean if it was me I'd pretty much live there",
"Bravo.",
"Creepy & cool for sure. "
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An old abandoned road slowly healing over and being reclaimed by nature.
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"Someone was patient and very talented. ",
"Or someone has a drill, and a good thick wire to run through the holes.",
"Still makes them patient and talented! ",
"Yeah. There is no way they are just stacked. They are attached to a frame in some way.",
"\nSomeone was bored. And lucky to have a huge iron rod and his stone drill with him, just in case...",
"somebody was inspired and wanted to create art.",
"Someone is pretty good at photoshop. ",
"Or photoshop. ",
"This is a natural formation",
"tbf that could have a thick wire running all the way through it and be bolted to the bottom stone and to the ground, and I'd still be amazed that it hasn't folded over.",
"I want to upvote this but you're kind of a dick.",
"It's not a shop. They're stones.",
"I think that would take at least 3 people.",
"Someone with a bucket of superglue was bored.\n\nFTFY",
"That was me... Just kidding I was bored, but [I didn't make this](https://i.imgur.com/GgZx3er.png)",
"It’s ok to be a dick in micro doses.",
"More like someone was *stoned*. ",
"It's crazy how nature do that",
"Yeah, I'm no physicist, but that structure is impossible by gravity alone. ",
"Sometimes we need dicks. ",
"But microdick is never ok",
"I upvoted because you are kind of a dick.",
"Not a physics major.",
"Andy Goldsworthy?",
"It would be a shit shop because the first time anyone took a stone to buy, the rest would collapse. ",
"Are you crazy? Do you want to have Oblivion gates? Because this is how you get Oblivion gates.",
"Someone had a lot of Elmer's glue",
"University degrees don't have majors where I come from, so no.",
"The circle has been completed",
"It's a reference.\n\nYou may as well be amazed at a ladder as a structure built from rocks and wire.",
"I actually misread what he was posting. Still no need to be a dick about it IMO",
"I dunno m8, really *long* ladders always seem quite impressive to me. I wouldn't climb all the way up that thing in a stiff breeze, you get me?"
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"How is this racist? I really don't get why stating something obvious is a racist thing. Am I a sexist for calling a woman a woman? This guy is black. Hence the name. End of story.",
"No it's not. It's literal. \n\nIf you think it's racist, you are being racist.",
"Call me old-fashioned, but I fail to see how this is racist. Are we this sensitive these days?",
"Pretty sure that's not racist. Now if you don't buy the rum because of the name or image on the rum then you become racist.",
"Yes. People look for things to be offended about.",
"Just use it for your acne and get over it. ",
"Racism requires that a person believes their race is better than another. I do not see this here.",
"It's just a picture of a dapper black guy. Kinda looks like Keenan Thompson, to be honest. ",
"Have you seen the whisky called big black cock?"
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"Something the “child life” department does for a patients last treatment. Something my wife and I can show him years from now to help him understand what he has been through and explains some of the scars and holiday photos this past year. ",
"He doesn't know any better and is just looking around a bit befuddled. But my inner narrator is hoping that look is \"let's fucking do this\" ",
"In the background it was his grandparents, nurses and my wife to the left of him trying our darnedest to try to keep him still on the chair for one decent photo. He is a wild child. ",
"knitted\n[nit-id]\nadjective\nmade by knitting, as a cloth article:\na knitted bedspread.",
"Everything,he does,from now on.Will be easy.As he has beaten this situation,and clearly,won.I'm sure,he knows how strong he is.You have told him.What a warrior. ",
"I hope everything goes well for Parker! It must have been very hard on your family to get such a diagnosis. Is he old enough to really understand what cancer is?",
"Not at all, but he will have scars from surgery and slight hearing loss from the chemotherapy. Plus all the other families we have gotten to know along the way. Parker is going to have a lot of friends that have battled this disease as well. ",
"That's so awesome! Both things!",
"☺️",
"Man walks down the street in that hat, people know he's not afraid of anything.",
"My thoughts are with Parker and you. Such a strong little warrior. ",
"Congratulations. He looks like a badass getting ready for the final round in a game he knows is won. ",
"Here's to hoping he has a long and prosperous life, he's been through hell now to give some hell of his own. \n\nP.S. As a father, this hurts to see and even think about. Poor little dude. :( Fuck Cancer.",
"Cancer is an asshole. Your kid is a champ.",
"Parker is the cutest thing I've seen today! . And boy does he look determined!\n Go beat cancers ass! \nLove the hat!",
"....",
"my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle",
">Can you dig it?\n\nLast Day of Chemo.\n\n>Can you *dig it*!!",
"God bless his lil heart, sending hugs to all of you and one for that special grandma too! ",
"Disagree! Really like that name.",
"\"Wars not make someone great!\" - Yoda. \n\nWhat this kid has is spirit, which is apparently screwed to his spine....and I'm crying. \n\n",
"Awwww that’s adorable ",
"Congratulations!!",
"Holy crap am I ever pulling for that little dude! All the best to him. ",
"I survived childhood cancer too. This pic brings tears to my eyes. I’m so happy for you guys. I know what that moment feels like. It’s incredible. Welcome to the finish line little dude. ",
"He looks awesome! Keep that pic, he's gonna get a lot of mileage from it later on. Congrats on the last chemo!!",
"Thank you. Before his diagnosis my wife and I were very introverted regarding social media and posting anything about him before diagnosis ,but we decided to get out in front of this and embrace it to some degree. It’s overwhelming and daunting but if his story helps one person we are happy know that. Because we know how it feels to have the carpet pulled out from under you. I am sure my wife is going to be over protective of him. Good luck to all future girlfriends trying to get on her side, but like any proud dad I hope his story helps his cause. Thank you. ",
"Obligatory \"That isn't knitting, that is crochet\"",
"\"Hey fuck cancer, shout out to Boosie, I fuck your main bitch, I gave her cooties\" - Young Thug",
"Good job, kiddo!!! That's one strong little man! Congratulations.",
"https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/peanuts/images/0/07/Meet_linus_big.gif/revision/latest?cb=20090301044429",
"Congratulations! I'm always amazed at how strong little kids are! Also, he's a very handsome little guy!"
] | 32 |
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His great grandma knitted him a special gladiator hat for our little warriors special day.
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/r/pics/comments/7se6pb/i_didnt_find_a_safe_in_my_floor/
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[
"Well that's unfloortunate.",
"I only found concrete. :/",
"I only found beetle and termite damage.",
"Have you tried taking up the sub-floor?\n\n",
"Please put one in for the next people",
"So sorry",
"\"No one ever pays me in gum\" :(",
"now's your chance to put one in."
] | 8 |
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I didn’t find a safe in my floor.
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/r/pics/comments/7se6vm/donnies_wall_is_a_joke_in_hong_kong_too/
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[
"Holy shit thats good.",
"Sign maker deserves a raise ",
"Actually someone did the same thing over a year ago ",
"Now I want to know what Mexican food is like in China. ",
"Top marks for originality. That's for sure. ",
"https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7s5yka/authentic_mexican_food_that_trump_would_build_a/",
"Same bar- see hash tag "
] | 7 |
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Donnie’s wall is a joke in Hong Kong too...
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/r/pics/comments/7se7lb/the_local_library_made_this_igloo_in_the_kids/
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[
"I bet it stinks like sour milk. ",
"You wash them first...",
"No I didn't. Did you remember to wash them first?",
"Your comment history is a cry for help.",
"Ah, you're one of those creeps who lurks into the comment history of every person who's ever wronged you on Reddit. ",
"What is 650 milk?",
"Nah I just go in and downvote everything they have done in the past month",
">milk and water jugs\n\nSo it was skim milk?",
"Impressive!",
"650 is the quantity of watery milk jugs ",
"I know =]"
] | 11 |
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The local library made this igloo in the kids section using 650 milk and water jugs
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/r/pics/comments/7se9tv/riding_around_florida_in_a_b17_ball_turret_2005/
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[
"This would be an incredible experience. ",
"What kill streak unlocks the Turret? ",
"? ",
"UAV? Airstrike?",
"Video game reference.",
"That's a dream. Could you move the turret?",
"Ah! This is real ",
"Initially we could only move it with the hand cranks. A couple of us decided to get it working and our crew chief got out the manuals and made it happen. ",
"How loud is it in there? How easy is it to get out of?",
"That's the joke.",
"I've had comments go both ways....so I just say it's real. The inflection of humor is lost in translation.",
"It's not bad...mostly wind noise. Light the .50s off and that's another story. There is a reason those guys are mostly deaf. You enter and exit through a large hatch. Crank the guns straight down and the hatch is on the inside of the airplane. Open it up. Drop in and close it and you are off and running.",
"Awesome ",
"Whats the backstory here? How did you end up in this situation?",
"I was on the touring crew for many years. We did some long cross country flights and I'd ride down there as much as possible."
] | 15 |
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Riding around Florida in a B-17 Ball Turret 2005
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/r/pics/comments/7seao0/light_impressive_tattoo/
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[
"The blessed Artist : Jason Morrow tattoos",
"Will that fade into a big blob of ink in a few years? I don't know much about tattoos, but it seems like a photo-negative one would be tough to keep sharp. Very cool looking though",
"We're all an Artist on this blessed day :) ",
"The white ink will turn brown, and all the the shadows doesnt really have a lot of difference, so its gonna look like a confused puddle of grey in a few years. ",
"[That's my lock screen! ](https://i.imgur.com/isCTXSA.jpg)",
"Yes",
"Well that really detracts from it, so basically it makes great art, but terrible tattoo?",
"Speak for yourself!",
"If it's taken care of correctly and touched up now and again, no it will not. ",
"How often? How much work?",
"There's generally a touch up session a few months after the \"final\" session when the tattoo has had time to settle and heal. Touch ups are normally under an hour and provided free of charge or for very little. ",
"I assume the original tattoo here would be thousands of dollars.",
"What's it from?",
"On average a good artist will charge $100/hr. This one may have been close to $1000, but I doubt multiple thousands. ",
"No idea. Just saw it on /r/pics one day and thought it looked cool",
"I had a sleeve done three years ago that’s black and gray with a lot of white accents that looks like negative space.. it looks just as great as it did after it healed. I keep it out of the sun (or use SPF50) and use cocoa butter every night.\n\nWill it eventually fade? Of course... but it’s honestly not as drastic or quick as you guys may think.\n\nEdit: Ink, technique, skin type, etc.. do play a big role as well, obviously.",
"....",
"....",
"If you say so.",
"Whats bold about this? All the grey/black have a bareley noticable difference, no thick lines, and those trees almost look like they blend in with the hair. \n\nBold will hold refers more to old school-tattoos, with sharp black outline, simplified drawings and more basic colourschemes. ",
"I dont know what constitutes as great art, but its not a great tattoo. \n\nIts obvius that whomever has that tattoo doesnt really know what images makes a good tatto.",
"All art will fade to some degree, white is hard to hold especially without constant care. It will still be good, no self respecting artist charging hundreds an hr, plus the size of this piece would put it on someone who didnt know basic long term care. The artis like a business card, the artist considered most of this as ok.",
"It's less an issue of fading and more an issue of bleeding/blurring.",
"This is one of my best friends profile pics from a few years ago! I've seen it on r/iwallpaper a few times, someone she knows must have put it up there because she had no idea when I told her. Now I can tell her someone got a tattoo of her!!",
"The girl in this is my best friend! This was her fb profile pic for a long time, then last year I found it on r/iwallpaper. She had not idea that someone put her picture up on Reddit, and we couldn't figure out who it was, but she was flattered none the less. I just sent this to her and she loves it!!\nProof: https://imgur.com/70SJ5xS\n\nEdit: Better Proof\nPicture of us when we taught marching band at the same high school https://imgur.com/kRAl8dU\nProof that I am indeed dude in picture https://imgur.com/fzSd4Zd",
"I think if you have to preface a sentence with \"I don't know what constitutes great art\" then you probably don't have a whole lot to contribute to a conversation about art.",
"I do know a lot about tattoos, so I do have something to contribute. \nWhen I talk about not knowing about \"Great art\" I refer more to for example Picasso's art. To me, it looks like shit, but to someone more versed in his and his contemporarys works, it might just be great. \n\nA tattoo can be great, and is a great artform, but if the picture tattoed is great? I think not. Maybe to some.",
"You're brave, going against the anti-artsy tattoo circlejerk of Reddit.",
"White ink has a tendency to fade and turn yellowish within a few months.",
">the artist considered most of this as ok.\n\n[Citation needed]",
"I think it's up to the person who paid for and got the tattoo to decide if it's terrible or not.",
"The white will fade out fast though ",
"I usually hate tattoos but this is insanely impressive ",
"yeah, this will look horrific in a few years. But all tattoos do.\n\nNever understood the fetish, never will.",
"Citation is take any tattoo you dream up to a reputable shop and theyll go over it and tell you enough and by the time theyre done, it will either not go on your skin, or it will be modified in a way that it can go on your skin in such a way that a professional artist would be comfortable and you be comfortable... If not you can let you \"buddy\" do it.\n\n",
"That's what the question mark on the end of my sentence is for, it's not up to me whether the person likes this tattoo or not",
"I misread your original comment, I read it as if you knew that the artist that inked this thought it was 'only ok', as in: not good enough. My bad.",
"If it's not up to you, then why does it even matter if someone else thinks it's a terrible idea for a tattoo?",
"that was really crappy proof",
"It at least shows that they know the girls Facebook account ",
"or anyone who used that picture",
"Oh yeah I didn't think of that ",
"All good, shit happens. Love ya kid.",
"This will still look cool in 10 Years. The white won’t be as white as it is now, but it will still be lighter than everything else ",
"3 years isn't that long really. And it seems like you spend a lot of time rubbing skins. Your aging process is gone be different.",
"Ugh 150-180 for me",
"Stunning! ",
"I didn't want to post anything with her name, wasn't really sure how else to show that I know her? ",
"Don't know why you're getting downvoted, you aren't wrong. I suppose it's likely a lot of people that don't have tattoos, or some with tats done with cheap or outdated ink. Tattoo pigment/ink has come a long way. If your artist knows what they're doing and saturates really well, it will hold. Unless, like you say, you get constant sun exposure which will fade it out.\n\nAs for bleeding: again, it depends on your artist, as well as the size of the piece and particular ink used. Unfortunately, it also depends on the skin. White ink does *not* stay very well in black peoples skin. It just doesn't work well. My artist was telling me about a portrait that was done in all white on a dark-skinned black guy that turned out incredible, but that after a while it would inevitably turn yellow and fade.\n\nTL:DR, if the right ink is used and it's done well and taken care of, it can very well stay as good as it looks in OP's picture.",
"Please report back on that!",
"It really is but I wish more reasonable estimates for duration were given",
"Ive heard this too, but have yet to see any examples of it yet.",
"Updated with better proof. ",
"This looks awesome. great artistry.\n\nBut in a few years this will be a black blob of a mess. ",
"....",
"....",
"Nah dude. White is not a good tattoo choice. It looks great now. In a few years, it will NOT look like good lighting. ",
"....",
"Mind sharing? :)",
"Virgin alert.",
"I’ve never had a “touch up session” for any of my tattoos and non of the artists I’ve used have mentioned doing that. The rule of thumb I always heard was if the tat is saturated and done properly, you shouldn’t need touch ups.\n\nAlternatively I have heard that water color and photo realistic tattoos will require a touch up or even a redoing in one to two years due to poor color saturation/bleeding/skin not holding the ink. Also the lack of hard black lines makes those pieces blur more.",
"I paid around 3,500$ for my sleeve, it took around 30+ hours breaks included",
"Yes, because phone backgrounds obviously prove sexual activity. ",
"Did you come to the main tattoo sub just to tell us this? ",
"Once again, all aboard the /r/tattoos circle jerk hate for Anything that isn't American Traditional or Neo Trad. \n\nTHIS WILL BE A BLOB IN 5 MINUTES. \n\n/s\n\nGreat tattoo!",
"no, was perusing nice landscape and animal photos in /r/pics and this monstrosity popped up"
] | 66 |
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Light - Impressive Tattoo
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/r/pics/comments/7sebpx/indonesian_engineering_students_moved_to_a_lobby/
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[
"Finals + cellophones. The results will look great. :)",
"depends on \n\n* the questions being used\n* are the individual tests the students use using randomized questions per test per individual student?",
"Architect can Confirm;\nRetaking test would be horrific. ",
"I wonder why there are so many girls in the class. In Canada they can't bribe girls into taking engineering in any significant numbers. ",
"Because in first world countries women can follow their true vocations while in third world countries they have to make money to survive. \nI put it very simply but in Sweden for example , the country with the most widespread feminism, you find the lowest rates of female engineers and the highest rates of nurses. ",
"But I was told it was because of the patriarchy. ",
"It seems to be even more systematic and driven by internal forces than this patriarchy is supposed to be :) ",
"Former engineering student, can relate.",
"Because this is reddit, you get more upvotes because of girls.",
"Engineering student here...most of the time your phone can’t help you. ",
"Something doesn’t seem right. ",
"Can confirm. Like 15 girls in a class of 100+.",
"Wat?",
"you can have randomized testing, combined with questions that require understanding of the material so that you do not make common or beginner mistakes\n",
"The one in the front-right has her phone out. She's cheating."
] | 15 |
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Indonesian engineering students moved to a lobby to continue taking their finals after the earthquake hit. Because retaking that course was worse.
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/r/pics/comments/7seccp/death_valley_was_so_much_more_than_i_expected_it/
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[
"Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Park, CA",
"More alive or more dead? :)",
"You expected Earth, instead you saw Mars. ",
"I wonder what The Undertaker does while he’s there. ",
"It’s more alive than you’d think.\n\nYou’d expect desolation but there are shrubs and things all over which in turn bring insects etc.\n\nThere is apparently some larger wildlife that calls the basin its home but I didn’t see any of that to be honest."
] | 5 |
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Death Valley was so much more than I expected it to be!
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/r/pics/comments/7sedhn/family_picture_time/
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[
"Could you give us a backstory of your husband? ",
"I'm not married.",
"On second thought, you've told me enough already. ",
"Lol ok",
"Facebook is over there"
] | 5 |
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Family picture time!
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http://i.imgur.com/OINyphR.jpg
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/r/pics/comments/7seg6j/these_traffic_lights_in_the_ukraine/
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[
"why do people say \"the Ukraine?\"\n\nnobody ever says \"the France\" or \"the China\" lol",
"I used to holiday in the Wales as a child. ",
"it's the same with \"the Philippines\"\n\nmaybe it's because of the \"plural\" form of the country's name itself, like \"the Netherlands\" or \"the States\"",
"Bit excessive imo",
"Ukraine comes from Slavic and means “The Borderlands”, so i guess it’s similar to how we say The Netherlands. \n\nIt’s a little outdated now and officially just Ukraine. ",
"Or Seinfeld",
"People say *the* United States",
"They also [turn yellow in Saudi Arabia.](https://i.imgur.com/IYXqbkG.png)",
"I'm sorry I missed the light is no longer a valid excuse",
"Not entirely. Not knowing all the road conditions from the picture, but if the street faces East/West, it's not always easy to see the light with the sun shining in your face. \n\nAnd if you ever want to really see how little drivers pay attention, ride a motorcycle. ",
"I'm waiting for it that Green Light I want it ",
"Well, Russia doesn't own France or China...",
"But they don't say The America.",
"But they say The Americas.",
"The Ukraine is weak!",
"[\"You know what the Ukraine is? It's a sitting DUCK... a road apple, Neuman.\"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzLtF_PxbYw&feature=youtu.be&t=19)",
"There's that old Human League song called [\"The Lebanon\"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2vwZye34v4) too. _Weird._",
"As a tall person, yes please!\n\nI hate to crouch in my car just to see the lights.",
"Was it ever?",
"Yeah any extra detail that grabs the drivers' attentions helps",
"In Ukraine, light honks at you to go",
"Historically speaking, Ukraine was not a country, but a region, so it's like saying, \"in the west\". Even thought it's no longer correct, I guess it's a force of habit. ",
"I was about to say, /r/tall just jumped for joy! ",
"Ouch",
"Hmm yeah definitely agree there.",
"I need this in America because I have to tilt my head down to see the light in my Camaro if I'm first. ",
"Don't hit your head!",
"Grammatically speaking, you're right. Should be \"the Ukrainian\" for it to make it grammatically correct to precursor it with \"the\". ",
"Is not as cool as it would seems. Any point light seems white at big distance.",
"It is, however, correct to say \"the Gambia.\" ",
"When Russia attacked Crimea I heard many reporters calling it \"the Ukraine\" until they were properly chastised for it. Now I rarely if ever hear a reporter say that. \n\nFor the record my great grandfather is from \"Ukraine\" and on his immigration papers it says \"Ukraine\" there isn't a \"THE\" anywhere to be seen. I've also spent a lot of time in Kiev and not a single person added a \"THE\" to their countries name.",
"I'm sure many people have never seen this before. Reposts often aren't a bad thing, especially if it hasn't been posted for some time. But as some of the previous threads have a lot of useful information about this image, it's worth linking to them.\n\ntitle | points | age | /r/ | comnts\n:--|:--|:--|:--|:--\n[Cool Ukrainian traffic lights](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/5lo6gn/cool_ukrainian_traffic_lights/) | 53253 | 1^yr | pics | 1331\n[Might be an interesting thing to adopt](http://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/567te2/might_be_an_interesting_thing_to_adopt/) | 317 | 1^yr | vancouver | 83\n[Ukrainian traffic lights](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/5663rd/ukrainian_traffic_lights/) | 1501 | 1^yr | pics | 56\n[These traffic lights](http://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/565v9s/these_traffic_lights/) | 2660 | 1^yr | interestingasfuck | 58\n[Ukrainian traffic lights](http://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/565t0r/ukrainian_traffic_lights/) | 6458 | 1^yr | Cyberpunk | 350\n[Traffic light for the Jedi. In Ukraine.](http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/565aoj/traffic_light_for_the_jedi_in_ukraine/) | 5182 | 1^yr | funny | 123\n[Väntar du på att hela stolpen ska bli grön eller?](http://www.reddit.com/r/sweden/comments/5lqcel/väntar_du_på_att_hela_stolpen_ska_bli_grön_eller/) | 442 | 1^yr | sweden | 23\n[Traffic light for the Jedi. In Ukraine.](http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/6ptxue/traffic_light_for_the_jedi_in_ukraine/) | 51 | 6^mos | funny | 4\n[traffic lights upgraded in Malaysia](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/5usfkg/traffic_lights_upgraded_in_malaysia/) | 4314 | 11^mos | pics | 79\n[Cool Ukranian taffic lights 9r/pics by u/parelez-vous](https://www.reddit.com/r/topofreddit/comments/5lp7ig/cool_ukrainian_traffic_lights_rpics_by_uparlezvous/) | 7| 1^yr | pics | 2\n[[Cyberpunk] Ukrainian traffic lights](https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit5000/comments/567ms6/cyberpunk_ukrainian_traffic_lights/) | 2| 1^yr | reddit5000| 0\n[А реддіту сподобалась ініціатива зі світлофорами](https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraina/comments/56al4y/%D0%B0_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B4%D1%96%D1%82%D1%83_%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%8C_%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%96%D1%86%D1%96%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B0_%D0%B7%D1%96_%D1%81%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%82%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8/) | 4| 1^yr | ukraina | 17",
"What am I seeing here? I'm assuming my colorblindness is being a douchebag again.",
"Shouldn't the lights on the car also turn green?",
"The entire traffic light pole glows with the appropriate color (green, red).",
"No it doesn't. \n\nEDIT: No idea why i get downvoted. Statement simply not true. Its like downvoting \"2+2=4\". I guess somebody just doesn't like facts.",
"Ok that makes sense. One just looked brighter than the other.",
"This is a great idea, especially in places with lower visibility. \n\nIn Bermuda the traffic lights flash yellow and actually beep when they're getting ready to change from red to green. Since so many people ride scooters there it's very helpful. ",
"That must really be frustrating for you! ",
"And apparently they don't really like when you include \"the\" because it implies they're still part of Russia.",
"Lots of places in France and Spain have these little mini lights on the post for the drivers of the first car at the lights. They're awesome. Wish we had them here in the UK. \n\nI'm sure they're elsewhere too, but they're the only places I've driven outside of the UK so they're the only places I've noticed them. ",
"It can be. Coworkers think it's fun to ask me what color stuff is just to hear my guess. ",
"These don't refer to the same thing tho.... ",
"That's lit!",
"Remindse of an Auldi with Led blinker lights, a hoorizontal bar on each side that would slowly fill up an empty with yellow leds.",
"People do say say La France though.",
"Because the first poster made the mistake and the reposters usually just reuse the title.",
"So the dude didn't get called out on sources, only because he used more words, and the fact that he got here first?",
"WELCOME TO REDDIT!",
"That and The Bahamas - only two countries to officially take the definite article.",
"It's hard to tell from this picture, but if cars coming from other directions can see those lights, that's a problem. Ideally, you only want people to whom a light applies able to see that light, otherwise it can confuse people.",
"See also: 'the Argentine'.",
"except it does? \n[12 seconds of googling ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Ukraine) ",
"You could have called him out for sources. Or given your understanding of what Ukraine means. Just saying \"no it doesn't\" doesn't help progress the discussion.",
"Ukraine is weak",
"That's .. a different language.",
"\"the US\"\n\n\"the UK\"\n\n\"the Bahamas\"",
"Acording to Wikipedia it is true, but since you clearly are much smarter why don't you explain to us what it really means?",
"Those make sense because they are all more than one place. Ukraine is a singular country. It apparently used to be different though.",
"Well we say 'The' United States not just United States.",
"Isn't this will be more distracting for color blind people. \n\nI think they rely on position of lights and I think more bright light =>more distraction ",
"Welcome to any conversation.\n\nYou can't say \"wrong!\" and expect to win the argument",
"shut your whore mouth",
"Ah! Thanks so much for this. Explains why my Ukrainian friend got slightly miffed at me and corrected me when I accidentally used \"the\".",
"This to me just looks like drivers get hella fucked up in Ukraine (there no \"the\"). Drank too much in Ukraine no problem they got you.",
"What are you saying? The US and the Bahamas are both a single country.",
"People say The Bronx",
"Wrong. I win.",
"Ah but you didn't say \"Wrong!\"\nThe exlamation point is needed.",
"Double wrong!! I double win!!!",
"Damn, can't argue with maffs",
"I am sure they turn yellow in Ukraine too.",
"Finally, someone understands.",
"Perfectly useless if you are colorblind",
"Yes, because they're plural",
"They appear plural. The United States. ",
"Colourblind- I'm guessing either the lights are upside down or the poles are lit up? Really can't tell what colour they are :/ never had that issue before (with traffic lights)",
"Do you just think that all the countries that start with U need \"the\" in from of them?",
"The United State*s*\n\nThe United Kingdom of Great Britain *and* Northern Ireland",
"Why is it always said as \"the Ukraine\"?",
"You mean Vatican City?",
"It also comes from the way we say it in Russian. Traditionally, and a way many Russians ardently still say it, is \"на Украине\", compared to \"в Украине\". Yes, Ukraine comes from the Russian words for edge or borderland, so like 'the', 'на' implies that is is still a part of Russia because its almost like saying \"on Ukraine\" or \"On the edge (of Russia)\". Today Ukrainians want 'в' because it is saying \"IN Ukraine\", the same way Russians would say for any other state or country.\n\nTL;DR: 'The Ukraine' has roots in a traditional idea that Ukraine is merely a part of Russia. Today, Ukraine and Ukrainians are very against this for obvious reasons.",
"This is actually a great idea. I wish we had it here in Canada.",
"[oh you!](https://media0.giphy.com/media/uiVH8ETzr9nZm/giphy.gif)",
"Truckers will still run reds",
"People say The Thunderdome ",
"He hasn't provided any sources because he knows he's wrong.",
"You got downvoted because you're wrong, ya cunt.",
"Pretty useless.",
"The United States started as the union of British colonies. At the beginning, each state was much more like it's own country than it is today, more akin to how Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, and England make up the UK. State identity almost always came before national identity for a very long time.\n\nAs for the Bahamas... I believe it's because that was the actual name for the group of islands before it adopted that name for their nation.",
"Netherlands seems plural so we add “the” to make it work better in a sentence. ",
"*The Reddit",
"Possibly the most baffling downvoting in a long history of baffling downvoting.",
"Ehh plurality of The United States, or how it rolls of the tongue around vowels a,e,i,o,u.",
"It’s an old term from when Ukraine was a part of the Soviet Union that Ukrainians do not like used anymore. It’s just Ukraine now as they have gained their independence and are trying to break away from Russia. ",
"Where in Ukraine is this? I live in Ukraine and have never seen it, but admitidly have not been to every city. Where is this op? ",
"In these conditions it's tens of meters",
"A road apple, Newman. Maybe it's time we put the hurt on the Ukraine.",
"Makes some sense, but other SSRs, for example Georgia, were also named the same way (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic) and we didn't call it The Georgia. \n \nI assume it was because it was known by a lot of people as a general area, like \"the Caucasus\", which happened to be adopted as the name of a republic; and when it was part of the USSR people didn't care, but now as an independent country they officially made it \"Ukraine\" only. I do find myself still saying \"the Ukraine\" though, and have to correct myself.",
"Same as The United States, though people rarely feel the need to capitalize the T in that case. ",
"You say Ukraine is weak? I crush your stuoid game!",
"Would it be confusing to people at going perpendicular to the lights? You'd have to make sure these weren't visible from the off angles.",
"This is a pretty neat idea. I work for a DOT in the states, and it's kind of strange how we still use the same old antiquated design for lights. Virtually every other part of the road, from striping to signs, has seen multiple improvements...but same old lights. They do the job, but we should really have something that's a bit more visible by now. This idea is a nice step up.",
"Thanks for asking this, I got the feeling my colorblindness was also at fault. ",
"Traffic lights typically have hoods over them so that people stopped at other points in the intersection can't see the wrong light and go out of turn. When this isn't enough (like when lights are close together, for example when crossing highway overpass or underpass) they add fins to the inside of the lamp to that people at the wrong angle don't mistake the wrong light for their own (see something turn green out of the corner of your eye and start accelerating).\n\nThese traffic lights would be VERY hard to direct. Confusing a green for a different direction would be easy. Although, if this is the only direction that needs a light, that would be fine (odd intersection though...)\n\nEdit: I'm not saying it's impossible. Just difficult. If you could make sure it was only visible from one direction, awesome. But their size makes even reducing reflections challenging.",
"https://www.google.ca/maps/@50.4459475,30.4945419,3a,90y,329.24h,87.86t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sISGAnUBNoq33PF-KZT8Sbw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656",
"General Reposti! You are an old one...",
"The Gambia",
"I can't believe I never realized this, and I am a native speaker. ",
"Not a good idea for traffic lights. This confuses drivers who will approach an intersection like this and see red and green poles and not be sure which one is their signal. Also, when people driving can see what color the traffic light is for other directions of traffic, they will make dangerous assumptions about when they can continue driving full speed through said intersection while assuming the red light they're approaching will turn green moments before they reach said intersection.",
"Netherlands is plural. Same as the USA, one place made of many smaller places. 50 States in the USA, and I think 12 provinces or whatever in the Netherlands. ",
"So by saying 'The Ukraine' people are saying 'The The Borderlands'?\n\nEDIT: This was a joke but people took me serious. Oh well.",
"Amazing. You usually don't think of them as having their shit together.",
"Ahhh, the good ole US&A",
"Every place is made of many smaller places.",
"No, they don't refer to the same thing, but that wasn't the point. The point is, because Americas is plural, you add \"the\" in front of it. United States is plural, so you add \"the\". America isn't, so you don't. \n \nI live in the US. \nI live in North America.",
"Same as \"the UK\". Even though it's singular, it doesn't sound right otherwise. Also, a bit like the US I guess, it consists of different \"states\".",
"People say The Darndest Things",
"The United Kingdom?",
"True. No one says \"the Canada\" or \"the Australia\" for instance. Just whatever sounds right in English I guess.",
"Fuckin’ Canada not even trying! ",
"Maybe it just means \"borderlands\" without the ",
"Same reason the 5 Boros are Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens and **THE** Bronx. ",
"The Philippines consist of 7,641 islands. The United States consists of 50 states.",
"protanopia",
"so just like every country",
"As someone who is red green colour blind this is actually harder to use. I think I said this the last time it was posted too",
"The Congo",
"That makes zero sense.\n\n\nNew Orleans (the Big Easy) has wards as does the District of Columbia (D.C.)",
"*Russia",
"It's like that here in the states and our highways. At least in California, they add 'the' before their highway numbers. That's unheard of on the East Coast. ",
"THE CANADA",
"Wish we have those, so I don’t have to break my neck whenever I want to see if its green or not 👀",
"This could be a thing. When you shift to drive, tail lights go green and when you brake, they turn red.\nAnd turn signals could be a bright orange.\nYellow for reverse.\nWhat a colorful world would it be.\nPoor stick shift cars though",
"My couch is organized by cushions.",
"Well... The Netherlands is a kingdom for which 10 of its 12 provinces are elsewhere on earth (outside of Holland which is just two of the 12 - north/south Holland)",
"Just do as us, and piss off half their population by calling it Holland.",
"If that's just a neon tube, I'd be surprised if it can survive the snow and rocks thrown up by snowplows.\n\nMy town had something similar to mark the guardrail of a sharp curve, and it didn't last even one year.",
"It's short for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland",
"The Netherlands? The United States? But seriously, I think people in Ukraine don't like it. I know I like the way it sounds though because of the risk episode of Seinfeld.",
"Nice repost",
"I feel your pain, as a tall guy that drives an old Mini. I have to literally crouchdown and look upwards at an angle to see alot of lights where I live.",
"It's outdated and somewhat derogatory according to my Ukrainian step fam. It was used to belittle them as a people as in \"the filthy borderland people over there.\" It just stuck amongst foreigners and they've been trying to shake it ever since.",
"The other 10 are right next to it + Aruba, Bonaire en Curaçao",
"That's not your line. Go watch Seinfeld and then you can come back and play the part of angry Ukrainian.",
"Oof ",
"We living in 2018 they living in 2028",
">US&A\n\nI use this frequently and nobody seems to catch it.",
"But we conjugate The United States with the singular verb not the plural, at least since the civil war. I say just roll with it.",
"Is this a bot? If not can it be? Make it trigger every time a post on the front page has been reposted 5 or 10 times within the past year or two.",
"Took me quite a while to realize what was so unique about these lights... being colorblind is rough ",
"Except the United States isn't plural. We say \"the United States is\", not \"the United States are\".",
"In Florida we say The 528 or The 417, but call the interstates just 95 or I4 ",
"The Ukraine looks more developed than detroit",
"The Game.",
"No, it's just http://karmadecay.com/.",
"Because it is plural. ",
"I have the same dilemma with why people say \"Russian\" to Russia ",
"r/mildlyinteresting is leaking",
"Brilliant!!",
"My point was Kingdom is singular",
"I know this life. :/",
"Geographical reasons are similar. The Alps, the Sahara Desert, The Rocky Mountains, The Atlanta Ocean. Perhaps Ukraine is a somewhat archaic geographical term, or some sort of collection of states. Like The Roman Empire, The United States. ",
"It also depends on the visibility in the car, I'm 6' 5\", can see every light fine in my GTI but have to crane my neck half the time in a Camaro. ",
"Yeah, that's my concern with them. I'm OK with the red lights being there, since slowing down a little while you evaluate whether you need to stop or not is mostly OK. But I'm not fond of the green lights because you don't want someone who should be stopping to be confused about whether the green applies to them or not.\n\nThe key to good engineering is to fail to a safe state, I don't think that these do that well.",
"The worst part about a lot of European stop lights is they're situated on the \"close side\" of the intersection, so if you're stopped at the intersection you have to look directly upward to see the lights. I think it's way better to put the lights across the intersection from you (like they do in North America), so you can see them ahead of you at all times without craning your neck. The only time it doesn't work is if a truck is stopped in front of you, blocking the lights\n\nDriving in France was really frustrating, cause you could hardly see the lights from your car...",
"The United States (plural) of America (singular)\n\nI hope you understand the difference.",
"\"The 5\" yeah, it's unique. Most other places it's just I-#",
"I thought it was just 'U'+'kraina' meaning 'in country', not 'krai' as in 'edge / border'. TIL apparently.",
"Came to ask this too, I’m from Ukraine and pisses me off a little every time I hear it. ",
"Ahh, didn't know Florida also appended 'the'. :)",
"I think that's where it comes from, after reading some comments. They say it means borderlands. So \"the borderlands\" makes sense.",
"And he was actually right. The Russian borderlands were called Krais. And guess what’s right in the middle of U(Krai)ne. Stop being a contrarian fuckwad.",
"But a televised American once said 'The Iraq'",
"The United States of America",
"This must waste so much electricity. ",
"This only works if every light is green, but often times in larger intersections there are separate lights for turn lanes that aren't always green at the same time as the lanes that go straight. I really think it's a case of if it ain't broke don't fix it, this looks nice but it's not practical for every intersection and you might as well have consistency in the design.",
"The Netherlands. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The United States Of America. ",
"Well I guess his point is that (unlike with many places like Canada or Australia) the smaller places are also part of the name, at least historically in for example the [Republic of the Seven United Netherlands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_the_Seven_United_Netherlands). In modern Dutch it's singular \"Nederland\" now, but I guess in English and many other languages the plural stuck. ",
"Not an expert but judging by the architecture id wager this is albania not ukrain \n\nEdit typo",
"That looks like Kiev, although take it with a ton of salt. I have a suspicion that those traffic lights serve a much more practical use than it appears at first glance, and the reason is that traffic lanes in Ukraine follow \"qwik maffs\" rules- 2+2=15",
"To be fair, if you speak Ukrainian, or even Russian you'd see how that can be a bit up for interpretation. The word 'kraj' in colloquial, everyday Ukrainian is most often used to refer to the country itself. 'Ridnij kraj', for example, means 'native land' and pops up a lot in folk music. You'd be forgiven for assuming that 'kraj' is more likely to refer to 'land/country' rather than 'edge'. Couple that with the fact that Kiev was at one point the capital of the Rus', it's a bit odd that the country it is now situated and is the capital of would be referred to as 'borderland'. Words change etc. ",
"*The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland* isn’t plural. ",
"This is farther than I should have needed to scroll to get to this answer as it is the correct one. ",
"In most Slavic languages Ukraine means home, or simply country, This name originated in Ukraine and so it does not make any sense for people to call their land “borderland”, does it? I think the OP used “the Ukraine” due to poor knowledge of English ( my English is also quite bad) because English grammar clearly states that names of countries should be written without “The”",
"Don't stop too far ahead. That's what I do",
"Borderlands 2 IRL",
"OTOH the German language name for Switzerland is die Schweiz (the [feminine] Switzerland).\n\nHowever, in Ukrainian, there is no definite article (or so I've heard) so there's another reason they resent it.\n\nHistorically, about the only way a country has enforced a change by English speakers is to significantly change their name altogether, like Myanmar in place of Burma. For example, we still call Deutschland Germany, although they've NEVER called themselves that.",
">I think it's way better to put the lights across the intersection from you (like they do in North America)\n\nOh so they really do that in the US, huh? I saw the lights like that in GTA and thought it was weird, but now that I think about it, it does make more sense.",
"It's a neat idea and very visually stimulating, but realistically it's much more dangerous system of traffic lights.",
"It is Kyiv, Ukraine. \n\nSource: I actually live here.",
"Speaking for Ukrainian and Russian only, there are no such things as articles in those languages. That's one reason why people who learn English from Eastern Europe struggle with 'a' and 'the' and mix the two up. There are other methods to convey the meaning 'a' and 'the' would carry - mostly to do with context.",
"I vote we change it to \"Canadas\" so we can say \"the Canadas\".",
"Just a pair of LED strips.",
"They are lit 💡🔥",
"Isn’t there a war going on there? ",
"I don’t think it will help much ",
"How many fucking times is this going to be reposted?\n\nAlright, since it hits the frontpage every time it's posted, I'm gonna save this and post it again in a few months so I can rake in the karma.",
"I’ve always said it. And I’ve always wondered myself. Seems like 90% of Americans say it. I’d be curious of the source. Maybe a popular movie in the 80s. Maybe repetitive news reports falsely using “the Ukraine”in the 80s?",
"http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18233844",
"It is in Kyiv, just before Teatralna subway station, near the city circus.",
"Or just \"the Canada\". Like the start to a stand up.",
"I wanna start calling it the Canada now.",
"I got a red light ticket in the US for this exact reason. Was looking one stop light ahead and accidentally just went through the red front of a dead stop. Didn't go through, was just stopped at a red light and went when the other one was green and the cop who is literally right there LOL",
"US&nudes ",
"The Netherlands is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, but regardless they both begin with “the.”",
"First generation from Ukraine here. It’s Ukraine in Ukrainian. There no word for “the” in Ukrainian or Russian ",
"Not part of the name itself in any of those cases, just added in sentences because of plural and/or because the name is based on a common noun. ",
"I know exactly where this is and never saw it or noticed it. I went past there a few days ago.",
"The Netherlands is neither plural nor a common noun. ",
"i think they should not have the lights at the end and just the poles. that would look futurist as f.",
"So if I say \"The Ukraine\" (which I don't because it sounds stupid), I actually say \"The The Boarderlands\"?",
"yeah i know, i mean they should just say Russia /s",
"We don't use these in the America, and I've noticed they don't use them in the England or the France or the Germany, either.\n\nI'm pretty sure \"the\" isn't used any longer now that Ukraine is an independent country. ",
"It’s just Ukraine.",
"Seems shitty. People did that to me with my hearing. I'm not deaf, just a little hearing impaired. It annoyed me when people would say \"you can't hear that\" no I fucking can't. Can you see that sign down the street? Oh no? You can't? ",
"Ingrates.",
"Only if you're texting. ",
"It's actually both. Maybe clearer if you see it as its synonym \"low lands\", or in its predecessor [Republic of the Seven United Netherlands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_the_Seven_United_Netherlands).",
"We also say 'shawty whacho name iz' but we also know it's not gramatically correct haha. A better comparison to how strage 'The Ukraine' sounds to those of us from Ukraine who speak English might be 'The America'. ",
"It’s not both. It’s neither. \n\nThe Netherlands *is* in Europe. Not, “the Netherlands *are* in Europe.”\n\nIts synonym may well be both, but that’s irrelevant. ",
"Learn sign language and fingerbang his wife. ",
"Can I just skip the learning part?",
"NO! You gotta spell the alphabit!",
"It's only right I suppose. ",
"They say \"the south of france\" and it pisses me off.",
"You’re totally right, but now that I try saying “traffic lights in Ukraine” I feel like I’m trying to speak like Russian.",
"Same for the US: the Unites States *is* led by Trump, not the United States *are* led by Trump. (Though *are* would be correct too, in either case)\n\nAnd I said the name was *based on* a common noun (lands/states/kingdom). Obviously they have since become proper nouns, but the article stuck. ",
"So do I. Should we make it a thing?",
"> When Russia attacked Crimea\n\nEverything changed when the firenation attacked. ",
"Well, if Ukrainian is like other Slavic languages there aren't articles like \"the\", so that doesn't necessarily prove the point.",
">We also say 'shawty whacho name iz' but we also know it's not gramatically correct haha.\n\nDo... do we say that? Can't say I ever have. Still doesn't change the fact that the United States isn't plural. It's a single entity and takes singular verbs, and that's not incorrect grammar.",
"Its also in Turkey, probably in most of the countries tho\n",
"Its also in Turkey, probably in most of the countries tho\n",
"And is Ukraine plural?",
"Ukraine is Ukraine. We are strong (no) and independent nation! We aren't part of Russia, who stolen our country *(Kievan Rus). Moscow was just a horse station, while Kiev was almost the centre of Europe",
"Just because they have districts doesn't mean that's in the name. States is plural, which is why people refer to *the* US.",
"The UK.",
"Pretty",
"No. ",
"Looks like a waste of energy.",
"That sounds more resilient.\n",
"Actually philosophers have found out that everything is in fact only one place, it's just very large.",
"Just had a walk there yesterday and was quite surprised :D",
"[We already did that once](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Canadas)",
"Awesome thanks man! I’ll be there this weekend and am now going to make it a point to see these!",
"We have the best nudes, let me tell you.",
"Ok. What about The America? Or The Britain for that matter. Neither of those gets a 'the' because those are singular names. Those with a 'United' prefix, however, do, to show they are an entity made up of parts and also it sounds correct in English. Ukraine is a singular country post and prior to communist rule, the United States and the United Kingdom unified at least two or more seperate governments/territories at some time in the past. ",
"In some languages an article is used ",
"Traffic lights are also like that in the Canada.",
"No problem, man! Lemme know if you want someone to keep you company.",
"As it's been mentioned multiple times in other comments, Ukraine means \"borderlands\", and when associated with Russia, had the name \"the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic\". Take your pick as to why people used \"the\" in front of Ukraine in the past.",
"Slava Ukraine ",
"It is a common thing throughout the city to decorate the street with LED lights. Looks nice for good price.",
"Yeah sure let's do it.",
"Ukraine is game to you?!?!",
"Reminds me of that time I spent 20 minutes pondering why we say “The BBC and The CBC” but not “the CNN” \n\n",
"Is light pollution a problem with these lights?",
"Thanks! ",
"There's also an annunciation difference I notice.\n\n\"Over in U*kraine*.\"\n\n\"Over in the *U*kraine.\"\n\nI find myself guilty of the latter when calling lower East Side Manhattan \"little Ukraine.\"",
"What was the original comment?",
"The biggest nudes!",
"At some point it might be nice to just have colored poles, not even bother with the light boxes...",
"THE Ohio State University",
"I wonder what the cost difference is between those and the ones without the leds? ",
"We didn't do it, Reddit!",
"***The*** United Kingdom.",
"O THE CANADA ",
"Do they even need the regular little lights anymore? Those seem a bit pointless",
"It actually used to be called “the Canadas.” It was Upper Canada and Lower Canada and they were unified in the late 1800s/early 1900s.",
"Isn’t that “The democratic republic of the Congo?”",
"Is that the official term for your mom when she was pregnant?",
"Oh. Something like \"But this is why it's \"the\"\".",
"That's because \"The UK\" is a shortening of \"The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland\".\n\n\"The United Kingdom\" is much more describing what it is rather than where it is.",
"Good bot.",
"The only thing I can think of is: this must be blinding at night if it's raining, or the ground is wet.",
"Neat",
"I'm well aware of that, but when spoken in English it's a name as any other name. Even if it were \"The Borderlands\", it's not called that when referred to in English, and therefore it is still just Ukraine.\n\nNow, in the case of \"The Ukranian Soviet Socialist Republic\" that doesn't matter either, because the same applies to \"The French Republic\", and yet we still call it France, not \"The France\".",
"I like this.",
"What if they cut a groove into the poles and had the LEDs sit in there instead? That should solve both issues. \n\nedit: good point that u/romario77 mentioned. You could just put something around the edges to prevent the LEDs from being seen on the side. That way you don't have to worry about the structural integrity of the pole. ",
"I'm from the USA",
"The United Kingdom *of* Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Still singular.",
"The poles are also lit either green or red by LEDs. For colorblind people they luckily also added a normal street light :)",
"I keep hearing \"O Canada\" instead with \"The Canada\" and it works perfectly!",
"Reminds me of the old rage tantrum. \"maddafakkah! Are you waiting for the whole pole to turn greeeen?!! ",
"I see your Schwartz is as big as mine!",
"Not really, a strip like that is going to be LED instead of your standard bulb like many traffic lights still are. They are super easy to make only seen from a particular direction. Some areas around Seattle have new LED stop lights and you can see this affect in double left turn lanes. If you are in the second from the left lane from your perspective the leftmost lanes light isn't even on. New technology new possibilities.",
"Why does that piss off half the population, out of curiosity?",
"Yeah but then you get the problem of motorists encroaching into the crosswalk.",
"The US is a collection of multiple states. ",
"The phattest nudes ^b^^r^^^o^^^^o^^^^^o^^^^^^o",
"Ukraine. Come for the street lights, stay because you were killed by political unrest. ",
"I'd be fine with these as long as I wasn't trying to sleep anywhere near them.",
"It was either Terry Pratchett or Scott Adams that said this. Not mine.",
"Why do we call it \"The Yukon\"?\n\n",
"Estados Unidos Mexicanos",
"They went with O Canada, but it never caught on.",
"Saying just \"south of France\" implies Andorra, the Mediterranean, or Spain, not \"southern France\". ",
"a neighborhood is also one place made of many smaller places. the Ukraine is also one place made of many smaller places",
"*The Russia.",
"I think Holland is only a region in The Netherlands, so it kinda ignores all the people not from Holland.\n\nMaybe some Dutch person wants to correct me, if I'm totally wrong.",
"If something is plural or the name is comprised of regular nouns, add the.\n\nIf something is singular or the name is only a proper noun, don't add the.",
"The point is that the kingdom is that of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, therefore it is The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.",
"What about them? FINISH YOUR TITLE. ",
">Not part of the name itself in any of those cases\n\nhttps://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation_and_Perpetual_Union#Article_1",
"I'd settle for changing \"Canada Day\" back to [Dominion Day](http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/politics/inside-politics-blog/2012/06/post-8.html).",
"Best friend is Ukranian, he gets very upset at anyone saying \"the Ukraine.\" It's just Ukraine.",
"I guess because of an older name:\n\n> [The territory was split from the Northwest Territories in 1898 and was named **the Yukon Territory**.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukon)",
"its in Ukraine not \"the Ukraine\"",
"Cheers. I noticed the lights where different in the USA to UK, and they had a different design in France but same colour I think. It just looks like a bright light to me, very nondescript colour. Could be the camera though",
"Better let them out.",
"Many Ukrainians are actually offended by this, as it implies they are a territory, not a sovereign nation. It’s best avoided. Just call it Ukraine. ",
"What are they called? That'd be neat to see.",
"r/2deep4me",
"Slavic languages do not use articles, so this is meaningless.",
"Thanks! I had zero clue to this. It would be like calling all Brits Welsh, or all Americans Yanks. Cool - thanks for the heads up!",
"This is one of my favourite gags from the TV show Corner Gas. That was a great show! Unfortunately can’t find a clip from that episode. ",
"Shithole countries with their pretty traffic lights",
"Okay I'm in ",
"Doesn’t “The Congo” refer to the Congolese forest/Congo river, not necessarily the country?",
"Borderlands 3 in Ukraine confirmed",
"There is a good bar a couple of blocks before the intersection, VarVar.",
"Congratulations on seeing something twice.",
"I find this hilarious as a person who typically yells “What?! You waiting for the pole to turn green, too?!” at people who don’t catch the light change.\n\nCuz then I’d just be like “oh.”",
"dude, i read the title and IMMEDIATELY went and looked this up because the semantics of it and the deliberateness of the \"The\" sounds weird to me. I had to know why people do this and to know if I was wrong in just calling it Ukraine... and lo and behold, i'm not the only person who was thinking this! yes!",
"\"Energy cannot be created or destroyed, merely transformed.\"",
"*Insert joke about them living in 3018 here*",
"I’ve never understood Holland vs The Netherlands. When I was a kid I lived in northern Germany for a year, and we would often go to Holland (Amsterdam) so to me it was always just Holland, and the people were Dutch. ",
"Why do you always have to foul everything u.... shit, never mind.",
"It's just Ukraine. ",
"Ukraine means borderlands, there's no Ukrainian word for 'the'",
"It is also a stylistic choice, to denote that it is the only one and that it is a country, like The United Kingdom, The People's Republic of China, the Congo (actually The Democratic Republic of the Congo), etc.",
"They have the same style in Tirana too",
"I don't really care enough about this topic to argue with you about it. But wiki says: \n \n>Since the Ukrainian language does not use definite articles, \"Ukraine\" is the proper name in the Ukrainian language.[2] However, in languages which possess definite articles, the question of whether the \"official\" name for Ukraine includes the definite article is subject to discussion. \"Ukraine\" and \"The Ukraine\" are both possible translations of the Ukrainian \"Україна\". \n \nWhoever popularized the translation probably thought \"The Ukraine\" sounded better. ",
"This is pretty cool ",
"Cool idea",
"There’s also the politics of using the на or the в preposition. Are we на Украине or are we в Украине?",
"I thought the borderlands took place on Pandora. Huh TIL",
"US&T...&A",
"No, they need to learn their lesson.",
"Personally I just want an absolute standard. Every light should have a set standard. I would hate for someone to get used to some blinged out light in one part of town, and then run right into my car in another intersection in my part of town that just has \"normal\" lights.\n\nSo I'm all for this bling, but it should be on every light, or no light.",
"I want! ",
"Yeah, thats pretty cool, but, unfortunately, there is only one of those, which is located on Saksahanskogo str.\n\nBut, u know, every time I'm riding past this light people on bus start speaking about corruption.\n Coincidence? I think not.",
"I've always loved how many European traffic lights will go from Red to yellow as a \"warning\" that its about to turn green. I feel it really reduces the lag it takes for people to take their feet off the brakes and begin to slowly accelerate.",
"Anyone seeking more info might also check here:\n\ntitle | points | age | /r/ | comnts\n:--|:--|:--|:--|:--\n[Might be an interesting thing to adopt](http://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/567te2/might_be_an_interesting_thing_to_adopt/) | 317 | 1^yr | vancouver | 83\n[These traffic lights](http://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/565v9s/these_traffic_lights/) | 2660 | 1^yr | interestingasfuck | 58\n[Ukrainian traffic lights](http://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/565t0r/ukrainian_traffic_lights/) | 6458 | 1^yr | Cyberpunk | 350\n[Traffic light for the Jedi. In Ukraine.](http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/565aoj/traffic_light_for_the_jedi_in_ukraine/) | 5182 | 1^yr | funny | 123\n[Cool Ukrainian traffic lights](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/5lo6gn/cool_ukrainian_traffic_lights/) | 53253 | 1^yr | pics | 1331\n[Ukrainian traffic lights](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/5663rd/ukrainian_traffic_lights/) | 1501 | 1^yr | pics | 56\n[Väntar du på att hela stolpen ska bli grön eller?](http://www.reddit.com/r/sweden/comments/5lqcel/väntar_du_på_att_hela_stolpen_ska_bli_grön_eller/) | 442 | 1^yr | sweden | 23\n[Traffic light for the Jedi. In Ukraine.](http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/6ptxue/traffic_light_for_the_jedi_in_ukraine/) | 51 | 6^mos | funny | 4\n[traffic lights upgraded in Malaysia](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/5usfkg/traffic_lights_upgraded_in_malaysia/) | 4314 | 11^mos | pics | 79\n\n*[Source: karmadecay](http://karmadecay.com/r/pics/comments/7seg6j/these_traffic_lights_in_the_ukraine/?via=chromeExtension)*",
"So it has to do with colonialism. We call places “the”’whatever when we can’t to show they are part of a former empire. \n\nSpecifically with Ukraine, adding the “the” shows support for the Russian notion that Ukraine belongs, as a former colony, to Russia.\n\n",
"Internationally all Americans are called Yanks (Yankees). There's only a North-South distinction within the US.",
"In Denmark we also always just calls it Holland.",
"Their [United Nations registration](https://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/UNGEGN/docs/26th-gegn-docs/WP/WP54_UNGEGN%20WG%20Country%20Names%20Document%202011.pdf) does not have the article as part of the official name for the US, Netherlands, UK or Ukraine, and it does for The Gambia and The Bahamas.",
"The Ukraines. Cool. ",
"So you can see the damn light when you are behind a truck. Love it.",
"[Ukraine is game to you?!?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzLtF_PxbYw)",
"US T&A",
"Technically it *is* \"The Russian Federation\"",
"\"The Ukraine is weak!\"",
"These United States! ",
"It's settled then. Some day I'd like to visit the Canadas and play with many meese.",
"Ok, that’s cool. Why can’t we all do this?",
"In Ukraine traffic signals you!",
"/r/designporn",
"We need those in the states!",
"Borat boi",
"North-Rest distinction. Us out in the West don't appreciate being called Yanks either. So yeah, It is the same lol. The rest of the world unwittingly accidentally offends most of a country by calling them by one locale's name.",
"No idea if you’re right or wrong in this case, but it’s definitely not just a general thing: there is only one Bronx, NY, yet it’s called “The Bronx.” And for contrast, just north of it is Yonkers, NY, but it’s not called “The Yonkers.”\n\n\n…what *is* a Yonker, anyway?",
"Not a machinist but cutting a groove into a hollow pole would drastically reduce it's strength to hold any kind of weight.",
"But it’s not The Ukraines.",
"Represent ",
"This is poor design though that will likely cause many accidents. These traffic lights are visible from all lanes in the intersection, including lanes the traffic light isn't meant to signal, potentially causing a lot of confusion. ",
"No he's saying that the word \"Ukraine\" means \"Borderlands\". That's why we say \"The Ukraine\", because together it means \"The Borderlands\"",
"But you do have the United States, the Netherlands, the Philippines, the Bahamas. ",
"The “United” refers to the kingdoms of Scotland and England. It was the United Kingdom of Great Britain before they conquered Ireland.",
"The are no articles in the Ukrainian language. ",
"The Ukraine means the borderlands so it's kinda the same thing.",
"This is probably one the things I hate most about driving in Europe. Just put it across the street like the US. Don’t need to break your neck trying to look up at the light. ",
"Still not plural, though. However, there are a couple examples of other *clearly* singular countries that we give the definite article to, such as \"the Congo\", and \"The Gambia\", the latter actually being the official name. For whatever reason, \"the Ukraine\" became common in English, and it really doesn't matter that there's still a \"the\" there for many people. Personally, though, I couldn't care less what people call it.",
"It's still singular though. It just so happens that English works in the way it does ie UK is \"the UK\".",
"> Same as The United States\n\nSo what if it was singular - \"United State\". Would people just say \"these people live in United State\"? Or wouldn't they rather say \"these people live in the United State\"?",
"I made a prediction a week or so ago that they would start making green lights more noticeable so people would see them in their peripheral vision while texting... time to go pick some lotto numbers...",
"TIL I'm supposed to not like being called a yank.",
"Isn't that a property of the lens and not the light source?",
"I bought a VW EOS, it's a convertible with a glass roof. Fantastic headroom but more importantly, you can almost AWLAYS see the light! (though people look at you weird when you look up.)",
"There's two countries we could call \"The Congo\". One, the Republic of the Congo, is relatively \"stable\", and the other, the DRC, is basically a failed state.",
"The Ukraine is game to you!?",
"It's because Ukrainians have convinced themselves that using \"the\" before their name is a purposeful attack on their culture. When in reality the only reason people say \"the Ukraine\" is because it rolls off the tongue better. ",
"It's [the episode](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0546108/) where Emma tries to give up knitting and Brent tries to give up coffee. Found a compilation clip. :)\n\nhttps://youtu.be/Fi9xzFIixSM?t=2m39s",
"The Candidas tropicalis. Bring ointment and antibiotics when visiting in the warmer months!",
"Not \"The\"... No one says \"The Canada\"",
"Looks like Vegas",
"Original written use meaning is not clear. Further down the line it has been often used as “land”. “Borderlands” only makes sense if you think of the word in terms of Russian language in the past three centuries and thoroughly ignore other words with the same root.\n\nThe language that developed in the country itself doesn’t work in a way that makes “borderland” _the_ explanation. The language it was originally written in doesn’t give much hints because Slavs didn’t leave enough written records at the time. Although slavic languages usually derive “borderland” from “granь”, not “krajь”.\n\nHowever, this is irrelevant to the original question. “The” is a leftover from “the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic”.",
"The Dominican Republic\nThe Republic of China\nEtc. ( <- Because I'm not aware of any more)",
"We should just call it the nether region. Sounds natural.",
"Something something land.",
"Would this be confusing possibly to people in the intersecting direction? I imagine a big part of the way lights are used is to only give green signals to specific directions. ",
"Well I don't, but for some reason, by the time it turns green the damn car crept to far up ahead. ",
"This is a solid point, I have 4-6 inches of room for my head in my EOS but my head is in the ceiling in an Audi A5. (Similar roof line as the Camaro)",
"Just make directional LEDs with a little collar around them so you can only see it at a certain angle of view. ",
"Surprise, countries are called different things. In German, Switzerland is called Die Schweiz. ",
"By 2028, these traffic lights would be in Russian territory.",
"Lol!)",
"Just like when you say \"The El Camino\" = The The Road",
"Okraina which means outskirts.",
"In Baku (Azerbaijan) we also have ",
"US&Ayyy",
"WRONG",
"Ukraine is game to you?",
"That would be cool to do, plus add the Ampelmannchen for the traffic crossings, and you'd have a pretty nifty setup for your traffic intersections.",
"It's like saying New York is all of the United States because it's a popular city. ",
"Probably the latter because state/states is also a common noun (just like **the** United **Kingdom** or **the** Czech **Republic**)",
"But people do say THE USA!",
"Let the record show that someone on the inter web said that something in America is better than elsewhere in the world. First time I’ve seen that. ",
"it’s just Ukraine. Not The Ukraine.",
"That's actually a good idea. Sometimes, tall vehicles can block out the lights and when they're done like this it is much more attention grabbing (even though one should be paying complete attention anyway). ",
"Seems like a waste of electricity ",
"Man, America sucks.",
"Amsterdam is in Holland though. Many other cities in the Netherlands are in other regions.",
"The United States of Merica ",
"We have those in Russia btw",
"Its crazy to see this kind of innovation, to see this kind of perspective of another country. This is a country that was invaded by Russia and had land stolen from it. This is like our home, with the cars and the buildings and the ideas. If Russia can do this to a developed nation like the Ukraine, what would stop them from doing such a thing to any other country?",
"They also have time-counters for pedestrian crossing lights.\n\nFor example it's just red, there red clock counting the seconds down how long it will be red. Also for how long it will be green, which is just awesome.",
"this has been posted before ",
"How could you let a horse station steal your mighty country?",
"do NOT marginalize pre-civil war conjugation",
"To each their own. I've never liked it, because I feel like we have a very different mentality in Colorado than they do in the Northeast, but if you're fine with it, don't let me get in your way!",
"I agree. The name of a country is not equivalent with the etymology of how the name came to be. We all agree that \"England\" is a place, but nobody is arguing that \"The England\" might be correct because it was once derived from \"the land of the Angles\". Wouldn't it be funny if we referred to England as \"The Englands\".",
"The Canadas in the northern part of the Americas. ",
"\"Guys wanna do drugs and go check out the traffic lights?\"",
"Only russians and pro-russian brainwashed people say \"The Ukraine\". For Ukrainians it's insulting when someone says \"The Ukraine\". It's Ukraine. Just Ukraine. #fuckputin #freecrimea #saverussiansfrombrainwashing #ukrainiandrinkingbuddiesarethebestbutyouwontrememberwhatyoudidlastnight",
"We also say “the balkans” and many people say “the Crimea”",
"Except the Planck length.",
"Nobody knows you're a dog on the internet. ",
"The Levant",
"The good ole The US&A",
"True, but it just doesn't sound right to say 'In Ukraine'. Also might be due to it's former status as a region, not a county. Kinda like you say, 'In the South...'",
"Nice to know they're spending their scant money wisely",
"I can agree as a fellow Russian",
"*Powered By Razer Chroma™*",
"*vodkanation",
"Very nice, how much?",
"What color does it change to when Russian tanks are rolling through?",
"Usanda?",
"[I come from Ukraine, you not say Ukraine weak!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2BwaYiPByg)\n\nI love that scene.",
"The good ole US&M",
"THE Ohio State University",
"The thing is that the law in Poland says that you are forbidden to pass by the traffic light when the light is red. That way when the light changes when you are already at the intersection you are not at fault. How does it work in US? Can you get a ticket if light changes when you are at the middle of the intersection waiting for a left turn?",
"На Крым, На донбасс",
"With tiny hands!",
"All lights worldwide should be like these. Also make all street signs big enough and lit up so you can see them from afar",
"I think of it as a form of unity 😊",
"Tron. ",
"Similarly, in China, 新疆 (Xinjiang) could also be translated as \"The Borderlands\", though I have also heard \"New Dominion\" and \"New Frontier\". Typically when referring to the area in American English we just use the Chinese name instead of translating it, though.",
"It's the Ukraine by custom.",
"Because they are a bunch of united states. Ukraine isn't a bunch of places united to form one country. (I dunno I'm bad at history)",
"Is it a joke that's going over my head?",
"And it was annexed by the USSR so it wasn’t an independent country. Therefore it was the region known as the Ukraine",
"the Ukraine = a part of the soviet union. Ukraine= a independent nation that borders Russia",
"Civil engineer, can confirm. This is an FHWA nightmare, they'd hate it.",
"It's officially just \"Ukraine\" now.",
"You would say \"the Canadian Provinces\". \n\nNot sure if this contributes at all.",
"Yes yes. The issue in that phrase for me isn't the 'the'. It's that they don't just call it southern France. LA isn't in the south of California, it's in southern California. Just made me think about it when OP said that people don't say the france.",
"Yeah, I wasn't thinking about it. The Yankee thing pre-dates the settling of the West. No, I wouldn't call Coloradoans(?) Yankees. \n \nEdit:I think the US is broke up North, South, Mid-west, and West. With Pacific Northwest maybe being its own thing.",
"how many times is this going to be posted? ",
"I was actually wondering if it would be more of a distraction for color blind drivers (lit up poles take away from focus on the actual traffic light that is lit up.",
"Well if you look at the Wikipedia article, there's an entire sub section which explains it.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Ukraine#\"Ukraine\"_versus_\"the_Ukraine\"",
"So simple it is genius. ",
"There were plenty of people out here. We just weren't a state yet. And yes, Coloradoans ;)",
"Eh. I say marginalize away. Marginalize whatever you want. It’s how we create a well-defined culture and society. We marginalize some things and bolster others. Then we have an identity. \n\nShit! This started out as sarcastic to walk beside your sarcasm, but now I think I’m into something.",
"it implies soviet rule, and the ukrainians hate it.",
"Looks like Kyiv ",
"Saw these in Albania too! Pretty awesome ",
"What other Murica would anyone talk about besides THE GRAND OL' U-S-OF-A",
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Ukraine#\"Ukraine\"_versus_\"the_Ukraine\"",
"My wife and I do the Oscar and Emma Ukraine bit all the time. \"You sir/madam are no Ukranian.\"",
"I remember reading an article about how Ukrainians hate their country being called “the Ukraine” because it it a callback to when they were territory of Russia. \n\n[Here is the article](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/03/25/ukraine-or-the-ukraine-its-more-controversial-than-you-think/?utm_term=.e6071430c3cc)",
"That's Russian/Soviet propaganda bullshit. 'Україна' (Ukraine) comes from 'країна' (country). \n\n'The' comes from the times when country was a part of Soviet Union but was identified as independent unit in terms of international law. It's outdated for more than 25 years now. ",
">That must really be frustrating for you! \n\n\nSome things are, but not traffic lights. \n\nThe green is normally brighter and is always at the bottom (except those weird places with sideways lights). The red is usually bigger (at least on modern lights)",
"In this particular place nobody else can see these lights. This is a one-way street opening to a big intersection. Also it's fun to see this post on front page just after 40 minutes I've been there.",
"The Sudan",
"Dont let those sneaky brakes fool you",
"> The worst part about a lot of European stop lights is they're situated on the \"close side\"\n\nSweden has them on both sides\n\n\\#NotAllCountries",
"its \"Ukraine\" not the Ukraine, its like saying \"check out these lights in the Canada\"",
"That truly is the most constantly bothersome thing about being colorblind. ",
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Ukraine#\"Ukraine\"_versus_\"the_Ukraine\"",
"It works identically to what you just described, but the line of demarcation is the start of the intersection, not the traffic lights. So yes, you're allowed to be in the intersection when the light is red, but you cannot enter the intersection during red. The exception is that 99% of places let you turn right even on a red signal",
"Yea Ukraine is a separate country... for now...",
"They were not part of Russia, but they were a part of the USSR.",
"What about Holland",
"That is awesome. I'd love to have those here in the States.",
"It's one kingdom that is united from parts. It's not several kingdoms in an alliance.",
"They're both lit in OP's picture , aren't they?",
"Why do people say THE United States? I don't know man, does it really matter?",
"Proving that the English language is trash.... ",
"Anything north of Atlanta is a Yankee. And I mean **anything**",
"OP in 1997 calling it \"*The* Ukraine\" ",
"#THE MURICA",
"Should be \"of\" rather than \"and\".",
"I think it's simpler than that. My theory (not based on much) is that Ukraine starts with a U like the United States and the United Kingdom so people subconsciously think to say \"the Ukraine.\" ",
"in canada we solved that by putting lights on the other side of the street (as opposed to right next to where you stop)",
"Political unrest happened like 4 years ago and you couldn't be affected in it unless you specifically took a part in it.\n\nThe ongoing conflict with Russia is not an unrest. It's a hybrid war.",
"O-H",
"I think this is because United States is functioning as a mass or uncountable noun. If you can't say \"a United State\" and be referring to a member of _the_ United States, then it takes _is_, not _are_.\n\nNetherlands, same deal. Very nonstandard to reference \"a Netherland\".",
"Similarly when Europeans say \"The Congo\" or \"The Yemen.\"\n\nIt's a colonial holdover with all the connotations that entails.",
"Wow someone knows how to led",
"They have the same ones in Albania 😍",
"I’ve always wished stoplights were made as horizontal bars over the lanes you’re entering. I also like when states have the countdown until red light sign before entering the intersection. Just all around safer than the current small light situation.",
"I hope the green moves along the pole before the traffic light changes",
"The future.",
"They are from SoCal. You know get on the 15 and then the 56 then the 5 south ",
"> *Kids* say The Darndest Things \n FTFY\n",
"A potential problem is that on large intersections you have to stop a long way before the lights themselves. When the lights change or you notice the lights late [some](https://www.reddit.com/r/Roadcam/comments/5kz4y5/usaoclets_just_stop_in_the_middle_of_the/) people think stopping in the middle of the intersection is best. Though I admit that's a rare problem even on /r/RoadCam which displays the stupidest people in traffic. ",
"If i were a technician for those lights, I’d make the pole red and the circle green just to see what the person would do.\n\n(I would only do this if there was only one person at the light. Not tryna make a traffic jam)",
"Just the candles and some baseball players really",
"As a short driver in the traffic hell that is LA, why aren’t we funding this?! ",
"There's very little difference for me, but could be the camera settings. More vibrant, saturated colours would help. Or at least it'd draw my eye to where the lights are",
"Am I the only one that cringes when they hear that?",
"anyone been i hear the women are gorgeous! ",
"But the United States isn't plural.\n\nWe say \"the United States has a central government in D.C.\"\n\nWe don't say \"the United States have a central government.\"",
"It's a hold-over from the colonial past. Like \"The Congo\" or \"The Yemen\"",
"Have a cold cherry Obolon for me!",
"Because grammatically we use the definite article (the) in front of countries that are plural, islands or a group of states i.e. The Netherlands, The United Kingdom, The United States, The Philippines etc. So, as the the Ukraine comes from the Slavic \"borderlands\" we use \"the\". ",
"Ah, gotcha. I agree just saying southern is better.",
"From a geographic pov it makes more sense to name a region borderland than home.\nIt was the borderland of the settled civilizations in the west and the nomadic civilizations in the east. And if you consider vegetation zones it was the border of grass lands and the european climate.\n\nSo it isnt a very political and more a geographic name. ",
"The Ned.",
"I don’t get it r/pics, how is this about politics?",
"There's some traffic lights that you only see when looking at it a certain way due to reflective and stuff ",
"I remember when my parents would say “it’s green! It ain’t getting any greener!”\n\nThings just got greener...... ",
"The old joke: \n\nAround the world, a Yankee is an American.\n\n In America, a Yankee is a northerner.\n\nIn the north, a Yankee is from New England.\n\nIn New England, a Yankee is from Vermont.\n\nIn Vermont, a Yankee is someone who eats pie for breakfast.\n\nEdit: had to make the Canadians happy.",
"I'll margarine you!",
"Does \"-na\" make it plural?",
"You would hate driving around Hilo, Hawaii.\n\nI too am colourblind, and hired a car there when I visited in 2016. Over here in Australia nearly everywhere our street lights aer white. So the colour difference between them on traffic lights is significantly different, you can't really confuse them.\n\nBit in Hilo? They're red. Red Street lights.\n\nNow imagine approaching an intersection at night where you see this line of overhead red lights, and the light at the intersection is red.\n\nYeah, the intersection is basically invisible. I nearly hit the damn thing at 55mph or whatever the speed limit was, fortunately I realised very late that \"hang on, those ones are traffic lights!\".\n\nMost ridiculous design ever.",
"That's awesome, I can almost never see a traffic light when it's up high like that.",
"I'm sure we have plenty of islands too man",
"We could use these where I live, theres a few lights that you have to really crank your neck around to see the light due to poor placement, and of course much harder for the idiots to claim they missed a light",
"It well predates the SSRs. References to \"The Ukraine\" are hundreds of years old. It may have come from other languages, like French, where they refer to a country as \"le\" or \"la\" countryname, or it refers to the region in general rather than to a soverign country, for example \"The midwest\".",
"O-NO\n\ngo blue ",
"Really the UK should be called \"The United kingdoms.\"",
"[We have](http://eeena.rosselcdn.net/sites/default/files/dpistyles_v2/ena_16_9_extra_big/2017/04/10/node_20488/1530262/public/2017/04/10/B9711689418Z.1_20170410225907_000+GB88S5DEM.1-0.jpg?itok=MAdrlwY4) [that](http://img.over-blog-kiwi.com/0/76/60/14/20140310/ob_106c4a_feu-rouge-3.JPG) in every traffic lights in France..I didn't know if wasn't common ",
"It well predates the SSRs. References to \"The Ukraine\" are hundreds of years old. It may have come from other languages, like French, where they refer to a country as \"le\" or \"la\" countryname, or it refers to the region in general rather than to a soverign country, for example \"The midwest\".\n\n",
">\tWhen Russia attacked Crimea\n\nWhen did that definitely happen? I mean: is it known (actually known; not said to be known) that *Russia* itself attacked Crimea as opposed to “civil war” (possibly involving russians as well)? Or just speculation?",
"I'm pretty sure this is not the reason for \"The\". So far these comments all focussed on the English \"the\". In English, \"the\" can refer to both singular and plural. Now, an interesting fun-fact: In German, we also put an article in front of Ukraine, just like we do with the USA and Netherlands.\n\n**However, in German, Ukraine has the singular article, whereas both netherlands as well as USA have the plural article.**\n\nSo my conclusion is that it must have originated differently from those countries and it makes sense if - like someone else pointed out - it is indeed a shortening for \"'The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic\".\n\nAnother fun fact: In German, both Ukraine as well as Netherlands/USA use the same word as the article: \"die\" (pronounced 'dee'). This either refers to singular 3rd person feminine or 3rd person plural. So how do we actually know it's singular then? Well, in German the article gets inflected, and when you inflect it towards dative, then these articles will be different: \"der\" for singular feminine and \"den\" for plural.\n\nhttp://www.canoo.net/services/OnlineGrammar/InflectionRules/FRegeln-Art/Art-Def.html",
"Sometimes. I asked my Ukrainian colleagues about this and they shrugged. One said they understood why it was seen as bad but didn't bother them. The other said it was a complete non-issue to them.",
"No there are about 45,000 people in Ann Arbor like that",
"Some Arabic countries too. Iraqs official name is „the Iraq“ in Arabic. ",
"FUCKING GOOOOOOO!!!!!!!",
"Not in Danish. We just say “Gambia”. We also just say “USA”. We do say “the Philippines”, though. ",
"Sometimes the sun is shining from directly behind the light so if I could glance off to the side a bit to see if the light is still green and not die in a horrible T bone car crash it would be great!",
"That's the idea. All the cars at the light should be able to see it and every car at every other part of the intersection should not see anything. The large surface area spread out so much makes this very hard.",
"The color is not readily apparent, so it does not stand out. To me it could just be a reflection and the color difference isn't that noticable. ",
"\"It's feeble! I think it's time to put the hurt on the Ukraine.\"",
"[In Tirana, Albania too!](https://i.imgur.com/08ONx9I.jpg)",
"The Europe. ",
"So Holland is a region / state / province in The Netherlands?",
"Well, its all fun and games until someone jokes about **your** country and **your** beliefs.",
"To be fair, there are at least 3 major OSUs in the country: Oregon State, Oklahoma State, and Ohio State. Branding your self as The Ohio State University helps them stand out. They are tOSU now. It also helps establish them as the flagship university in their state, as opposed the University of Ohio, which would be the logical guess based off of other states.\n\nBasically, there's tons of reasons why they do it. ",
"The lights are on both near and the far sides of the intersection. Also, the traffic laws are written (in Wisconsin at least) to leave as little vagueness as possible; at an intersection, if there is a line designated to stop behind, then that is where you stop. If there is no line, then you must stop behind the light poles or stop sign.\n\nRegardless on how the laws are written or where the lights are, you are still going to have idiots stopped in the middle of the crosswalk...",
"Flashbacks to The Witness!",
"> When in reality the only reason people say \"the Ukraine\" is because it rolls off the tongue better. \n\nWell, to be fair, probably the only reason *that* is true is because everyone is used to saying and hearing it that way. (That contrasts with some of the other discussion, e.g. \"The US\" or \"The Netherlands\" where the \"the\" kind of de-pluralizes it.) So that just pushes the question further down -- why is everyone used to it?",
"Ukrainians would disagree with you",
"They've been doing that with special lenses long before there were LED traffic lights. An intersection near my house had those in the 80s.",
"You're in between the West and Russia, hence you're the borderland. Poor Ukraine never stood a chance.",
"It was a war of State's conjugal rights.",
"It was called the Ukraine when it was apart of Russia.",
"That might work. But even the large spread they cover could be an issue; more spread means more reflective angles. The car in front of you could suddenly turn completely green; that could be a safety issue too.",
">turn signals could be a bright orange\n\nThey already are?",
"Wow, that's really awesome. ",
"You should say The Gambia though. I think technically it’s called Republic of The Gambia. That’s the correct and complete name of that little country.",
"Wow, that's so lit",
"I’m from US. Never seen anyone stop in the middle of an intersection ",
"No it’s not dummy ",
"You’re arguing with someone who was born there right now.",
"The US\n\nThe States ",
"so, San Francisco?",
"So the fact that it is plural doesn't matter?",
"I read they have them in Ukraine too. ",
"^^ not an achievement ",
"And mate those meeses to pieces",
"Dont think of it as cutting a grove in a hollow pole, but adding an incomplete cladding around a structural pole.",
"That surprisingly is a good idea, I am shocked no municipality anywhere in Canada or america has come up with something like this!",
"People tried to claim Jeff sessions was racist because he called it the Ukraine lol ",
"I actually like it this way. Drivers in the US are assholes with pedestrians and block any and all walkways during red lights. Not to mention we allow right turn on reds too",
"that works most of the time, but some lights won't give you a green if you're not pulled up far enough, especially left turns. ",
"That’s pretty confusing especially for people who are opposite the road, or buses ahead of the light ",
"i've had couple of friends who blasted through a red light because they didn't see the light. First one had an 'excuse' : \"I'm not used to the lights here in Canada. They look different.\" Second one didn't. Well, there you go. These lights are for those rare people who fail to see the obvious.",
"Something something command!",
"That does happen here, but it's mostly from motorists being idiots and stopping too late or hoping the light won't turn red while they're sitting on the crosswalk, not because of the placement of the lights. It's mostly a problem when traffic is bad and people get \"pushy\" and try to get through the intersection despite too many cars blocking their way",
"OMG yes!",
"In Ukraine",
"In my country we have no traffic lights 🤣",
"[https://i.imgur.com/GGlUPyY.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/GGlUPyY.jpg)\n\nSame traffic lights (Tirana, Albania) ",
"Yeah I guessed it was *the* Territory near the Yukon river.",
"You can just.put a tiny mirror on your dash while your at a red, once it turns green take away and repeat. ",
"Fun fact: Australia is Latin for \"Fuck me dead that's a spider not a horse\"",
"Linguistics or etymology aren't always 100% consistent because language evolves naturally. I gave an explanation for why people add an article to the Netherlands even though [it's not part of the official name](https://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/UNGEGN/docs/26th-gegn-docs/WP/WP54_UNGEGN%20WG%20Country%20Names%20Document%202011.pdf), that doesn't mean every instance of the word \"land\" gets an article.",
"but why do Americans also add articles to words like university and hospital?",
"Now if only we could think of something that would alert users to activate their orange signal lights before changing lanes... ",
"Ooohhhh The Canada!",
"But the point stands that languages are not always consistent about using the definite article with places.\n\nIn German, one would say \"in Deutschland\" (in Germany) but \"in der Schweiz\" (in Switzerland).\n\nIf other languages are not consistent, then is it really a big deal if English isn't either? You should just use what sounds natural",
"As a small person I agree!! ",
"Actually i think he is spot on, it does mean borderland or outskirts.\n\nIt was probably names the outskirts or borderlands, because when it got the name. Ukraine didn't exist as a country like today, but was a part of the Russian empire and was pretty much the border region to Germany/Prussia, Poland, Romania etc whatever they where called during those periods.\n\nAlso In the former Yugoslavia (South Slavia), Ukraine is called Ukrajina. Krajina means borderland or outskirts in most of those languages. U more or less can be translated to in or the. So called it Ukrajina litteraly translates to in the borderlands or the outskirts, on modern serbo croatian/south slavic language.",
"We have these in Moscow too! [pic1](https://i.imgur.com/ZiHFyIX.jpg) [pic2](https://i.imgur.com/ffj8E1Y.jpg)",
"So, if you’re color blind?",
"Finland too. I thought it was standard practice everywhere.",
"And here I was thinking it was some clever play on words that I just wasn't understanding.",
"You're damn straight it is. ",
"It was cold!",
"r/Mildlyinteresting",
"It was probably names the other way around, seeing as it is the slavic word from borderland/outskirts. And it was on the outskirts of the Russian Empire. The Russians probably names it as that, because it was bordering the west or central europe such as hungary, poland, romania etc",
"Teatralna subway is far away from that place, it's beginning of Saksaganskogo street, near hotel Lybid.",
"(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞Even drunk u can see it ☜(ﾟヮﾟ☜)",
"Her virgeen hang like sleeve of wizard.",
" You can just say Ukraine. Saying \"the Ukraine\" is like saying \"the Spain\".",
"I can just see everyone at the intersection start to go when they see any green in any direction then suddenly stop when they realize it's not their light lol",
"& Ohio State University ",
"Are you aware peanut butter isn't green?\n\nSorry if I am one of those annoying people.",
"Also with “the Philippines” and “the United Kingdom”.\n\nWhat it seems to be is that you put “the” before the name of a country if it’s either a plural name (like the Netherlands and the Philippines) or if it’s a description of what kind of country it is (the *United States* of America, the *United Kingdom* of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the *Democratic People’s Republic* of Korea). Of course, pretty much every country that begins with “the”, as per the second type, has an alternate name that doesn’t require “the” (America, Great Britain, North Korea).",
"Slava Ukraina, fixed that for you, also Heroyam Slava!",
"No 'the'. Just Ukraine.",
"Im color blind, why are the lights blue and green?? So confusing",
"Awesome! I really gotta watch some of this show again. ",
"True, it is just that subway stations are nice markers to track your location on the map",
"Only click-bait",
"I've never noticed millions of diverse people living in a region all sharing the same 'mentality' about anything, but yeah to each his own I suppose. ",
"I'll add a bit to the other reply. It's *mostly* right, but there are a few states that operate differently. Traffic laws are *mostly* uniform, but do vary a bit by state, and this is one case where they do. The behavior you describe -- where as long as you've entered the intersection before the light turns red, you're okay^* -- is called *permissive yellow*. There are a couple states where you have to have cleared the intersection by red, which are referred to as *restrictive yellow*.\n\nThese are named from the perspective of the yellow because the action it changes is mostly what you do when you see a yellow.\n\nE.g., http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/traffic/article25886749.html",
"Netherlands here, can confirm am plural",
"Except there’s lines in the roads in America at intersections that show where to stop. Nobody in America stops AT the light, we stop prior. If you’re in the middle of the intersection when the light changes you’ve already fucked up. ",
"russians",
"You're right. \nIn more detail: The Netherlands has 12 provinces, and only 2 of them are named Holland. North-Holland with cities like Amsterdam and Haarlem, and South-Holland with cities like Rotterdam and The Hague. These provinces were by far the two most important provinces in the so called Golden Age (17th century), where the Dutch ruled the world (a bit). The Netherlands now is obviously way more than those two provinces. For instance Eindhoven (province North-Brabant) which is the smartest region in the world (ICT, Philips and ASML), home of Dutch Design and called the Dutch Silicon Valley. Or Wageningen (province Gelderland), with worldwide used agriculture and environment innovations. Furthermore there are great cities outside the Holland provinces like Utrecht, Maastricht, Groningen, Den Bosch and Nijmegen to name a few. \nGiven, most Dutch don't give a crap about the Holland / Netherlands thing. Only the insecure types who need their place of birth as an identification and internal validation.\nI also think Holland is used because it's easier to pronounce. ",
"Incase we get it confused with the other Ukraine.",
"It gets the article for both reasons, just taking away one isn't enough. \n\nExample: the Philippines gets an article because it's plural, it probably wouldn't if it were a single island called Philippine.",
"I just checked and on Global Guts they said just \"Ukraine,\" so I have no excuse.",
"Ukraine without 'the' is the correct usage. When people say 'in the Ukraine' they are either mistaken or want to insult Ukrainians.\n\n\nhttp://time.com/12597/the-ukraine-or-ukraine/",
"The Ukraines.\n\nFTFY",
"Why are we not funding this?\n\nEdit: Typo correction",
"The USA should do this.",
"They are red and green, to match the traffic lights.",
"Would fix the issue of large trucks in front of me blocking the view.",
"We do say \"the United States\". But not \"the America\".\n\nYeah Ukraine's not supposed to have a \"the\" leading",
"\"These Ukrainians are making me thirsty!\"\n\nDid I get it?",
"Thank you",
"As a colorblind person, this does not help me at all. \n\nI wish the \"stop\" color would blind or become a dashed line or something.",
"Yeah, you shouldn't need a sunroof to tell if the light is green...",
"It depends on how old the term is.\nIf it s older rhan the russian empire or any other empire it it probably the borderland between grassland and normal european climate or borderland between nomads and settlers.\n\nOr \"home\" but that just makes not as much sense. ",
"We stand on guard for thee!!!",
"I’m pretty sure there’s a rule to not block an intersection in the US. (Well at least in my state)",
"Because we’re one nation, indivisible. ",
"We've had these kinds of lights in Chişinău , Moldova. Although those were beautiful, they lasted for about 4 months or so , they're not that long lasting.",
"My neck felt the most soothing sensation looking at this pic.",
"That would be so helpful",
"When you're in the center lane waiting to make a left you're meant to pull forward 1/3 of the way into the intersection. If the light goes red before you're able to turn, you're supposed to complete your turn, not stay in the middle of the intersection or reverse.",
"Yikes!",
"Is it not Dutchland?",
"because it's a thing that's being described, not a name, things come with articles\n\na kingdom\n\na state\n\na republic\n\nif you've got any of these in your country name, you've got a The too",
"Latvia too. There are very few intersections without them ",
"They cant see them",
"It's weird a lot of my Dutch colleagues and neighbors still call it Holland. I live in Amsterdam which is technically Holland so maybe they refer to the region all the time and not the country.\n\nFor example, what brings you to Holland? Is the most frequently asked question now.",
"None of those reasons are good enough ",
"...El Salvador?",
"I'm an American living in Germany right now. I was in Sweden for a few days and instantly noticed the lights on the other side on the intersection. It was love at first sight. Then I actually got free water at a restaurant AND things were open on Sunday. It was amazing!\n\nThe rest of the country pretty good, too :)",
"We also have lots of trees!",
"These are cool .. but why? there are starving children in the world cant everyone just keep their eyes on the lights.",
"I'd call it closer to 80%, and the people with the green light get priority. And to clarify why, we drive on the right, so turning right from the rightmost lane into the rightmost lane means you're going through very little of the intersection and not getting in many people's way at all, so you get to treat it like a stop sign.",
"“in Ukraine*” You don’t call it The China do you?",
"This is a dark omen.",
"I say “the Iraq”",
"Fun fact, we dislike it when foreigners call our little country Holland. When our soccer team is playing. Then we shout to top off lungs Holland Holland Holland to encourage our team. #Dutchlogic",
"No, but it makes it feminine. Most country names in Ukrainian are female. Anglia, Francia, Germania, Polshcha, Turczia etc ",
"where was i arguing. it’s just supplemental info. i don’t care if you were born there.",
"Damn full of Yanks ",
"AND LOTS OF WEED! OOOH THE CANADA",
"Also, it’s not the Ukraine it’s just Ukraine.",
"Alaska and Hawaii alone have like 2,700 combined. If you include islands in lakes, I know the Great Lakes have like 10,000 islands within the US. I don't think people call it The Philipeans because of the Islands. Also yea, comparing islands to states is pretty pointless.",
":( here's a sad upvote",
"This is old. ",
"I think for one day I actually understood the difference between England, the United Kingdom, Great Britain and whatever other names there are for the various collections of countries, regions and islands over there. ",
"I wonder what colour they use to say the Russians are coming ",
"It makes more sense when spelled in Cyrillic... Украина is sort of a compound word, У-край, the word \"У\" translates to \"by\" or \"within\", and \"край\" translates to \"edge\"... It is literally translated to the edge of Russia. (I unfortunately do not know Ukrainian, so my spelling is in Russian, but the translation into English is the same.). The definite article \"The\" is an anglicization, as Slavic languages lack definite articles, but we do the same thing with our territories in the US, \"The Northeast, The Panhandle, etc...\" ",
"Max Verstappen (arguably the most famous Dutch athlete) calls it Holland and The Netherlands almost interchangeably for some reason. Maybe it's because he's half Belgian?",
"Ukraine is lit!",
"It looks like the lights are for a roundabout, so just one set of lights",
"Ukrainians get upset if you say \"the\" Ukraine. Just refer to it as Ukraine. Has something to do with the history reference Russia ",
"You could. Just because you don’t doesn’t make it wrong. ",
"Is the team based in Holland?",
"I wonder what lights are like in the France too, or the Spain.\n\n/just Ukraine, or France, or Spain, etc\n\nIn English, that's how it works. Just use the proper name, no lowercase \"the\".\n\nOnly exceptions are where you are talking about a collective that starts with an adjective \"the United States\" or \"the European Union\" or \"the United Kingdom\"",
"Yup. I had the reverse experience playing Cities: Skylines, which is made by a Finnish company. I remember looking for the traffic lights and not finding them before realizing they were on the close side (there's a mod to switch it around, thankfully).",
"Jesus, this pic is on here like once a month.",
"Ah yes, the Ukraine.",
"Same in Europe. In Europe there are also stop lines, they are placed a few meters before the light itself, and you've fucked up if you stop AT the light and you can't see it anymore. [Streetview Example](https://www.google.com/maps/@52.0764003,4.29471,3a,75y,332.66h,91.43t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sx0xeygsLOVigVTNV2MAK4g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en)",
"God really likes thee!! ",
"Well you're just a weirdo. Edit: oke has a good reply.",
"Well nobody is calling Ohio State \"osu\". They always call it \"THE Ohio State\". That's the point of what we're talking about. They don't just say \"Ohio State\". ",
"Then Vokzalna subway is the nearest )",
"Yeah but...this is the first time that it's been....true...",
"I mean we are talking about them right now aren't we? I'd argue that this one of the most important part of the distinction, to be talked about and recognized. To this end, I'd say they're successful.",
"Going to assume you mean changing to a red. \n\nEven then, if you’re making a left turn and it turns red because you couldn’t turn earlier, that’s not a fuck up. Somebody else probably fucked up though (idiot pushing it through a yellow).",
"Watch the average reaction to someone smoking a joint on the street in Denver versus, say, Indianapolis, and I'm guessing there would be a significant variance in mentality.",
"True!",
"I always of. US of A. Who uses &?",
"From far and wide!",
"This was obviously designed with vodka drunk drivers in mind",
"RGB all things!",
"I had a friend living in Kharkiv tell me that traffic lights are a suggestion and often aren't followed at all. True?",
"There were several countries I grew up hearing prefixed with \"the\": the Ukraine, the Sudan, the Lebanon, even the Yemen (I think, though I could be misremembering).\n\nThe latter two lost the \"the\" completely; I can still hear \"the Sudan\" without thinking it *too* strange; but I still struggle hearing/using \"Ukraine\" on its own, it's just odd to my ear.",
"That would be a real pain compared to a groove. You'd have to maintain alignment during install and uselife. Not to mention requiring a whole new product instead of just purchasing pre existing strip lights.",
"They do indeed, which is why I said what I said :-)",
"I don't think he's unsure what plural means - he's just making a counterpoint.",
"That's how we should hold our next elections.",
"Now get off your phone! The light and light post itself turned green 10 seconds ago!",
"There is generally a line drawn on the road telling you where to stop. [The thick white line](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Street_intersection_diagram.svg/531px-Street_intersection_diagram.svg.png) you can see just before the crosswalks. In a rural road that no one has bothered to paint, you just stop before the corner. If you're past the line when the light turns, you keep going and clear the intersection before people the other direction start going. \n\nThis happens a lot for unprotected left turns, like you described. Light turns red, people stop going straight and are no longer in your way, you make the left. Usually there's only 1-2 cars waiting in the intersection, so it doesn't take long for them to get out of the way before the other direction goes.",
"This is 100% accurate. I'm from PA, I'm not a Yankee. That's some new England stuff. I move to the South and everyone calls me a Yankee, tosses out stereotypes that don't fit at all, stuff like talking in a bad nyc accent, asking if I like maple syrup, it was pretty weird but I'd do it all again for the sweet tea. Shit is weaponized deliciousness, but nowhere outside the south does anyone make it right.",
"We do both [sides in New Zealand.](https://www.google.co.nz/maps/@-43.5449085,172.5250771,3a,75y,230.65h,89.77t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3C3K77_GRLSDw2z29hxTYw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)",
"Probably should’ve clarified I meant actually stopping, not making a left turn since most intersections require you to actually pull into them to make a left. ",
"Seems appropriate since it's always foggy as fuck in every picture I see of Ukraine.",
"It's not THE Ukraine. It's just Ukraine.\n",
"Looks tacky. ",
"What city is this?",
"It’s more dangerous than just finishing the crossing of the intersection or turning. ",
"A province, yes. Two actually. South and North.",
"Wish we had these here in the States",
"Not its official name my friend. ",
"I thought the north american way was the only logical way. ",
"Well in the digital age I’m sure it helps those pesky drivers who glue to their phone. Their peripheral sight glows ",
"That's really cool. These guys should join NATO. \n\n",
"RGB",
"Being called a yankee is offensive if you are from the North as well.",
"Or do both sides of the intersection like they do in Australia.",
"Thank you! I can't believe I had to scroll down this far to find a Corner Gas reference! \n\nEspecially with mentions of article use (\"the\" vs \"a\") in the main comment chain. ",
"Interesting fact, before the civil war, it was 'a united states of america'. after the war, it was changed to 'the united states of america'. ",
"We do but if ur tall and first you can't see the damn thing without leaning and craning your neck",
"I keep hoping Netflix Canada will eventually add it. Even found a \"request\" page on their site and left a suggestion there.",
"No but we say \"the United States\" and \"the Philippines\" etc. Just depends on the country.",
"😂",
"It’s so that drunk people will notice the light more, and then keep driving through a red light.",
"\"young gentleman,\" derivation of old Dutch jong (young) and heer (\"lord\"); in effect, \"Esquire\"",
"That’s amazing, we need those here in America",
"and plenty of us in Columbus too",
"I think we did it! I might need to type one more. OOHH THE CANADA! ",
"I know, that's what I'm saying. It's singular.",
"We need this in America.",
"Goofballs",
"На Багамские острова, на Филиппины, на Кубу",
"... ugly af",
"There are almost always lines that you have to stop at, and if you roll over them on a red, you can get pulled over. They can be hard or impossible to see in the snow or really hard rain though. ",
"Take left at bear.",
"That's true, however, people do say both \"na Ukraine\" and \"v Ukraine\" for the same reason. ",
"[You might be. ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme)",
"They're radioactive.",
"Our home and native land OHH THE CANADA \n\nBtw I'm British/ saffa and you guys have a beautiful bloody anthem.",
"This tells me nobody is paying attention to anything.",
"\"We are also North America!\" ",
"In Soviet Russia, the bear takes left at you.",
"What? That's why the cars are supposed to wait to turn right until the pedestrians have crossed. ",
"As a colourblind person,\n\nThis makes absolutely no difference and I'm still fucked.",
"[Crash course on Kievan Rus' ](https://youtu.be/etmRI2_9Q_A)(10 minutes long)\n\ntl;dw: mongols",
"I think we are ready to bring this to an NHL game.",
"And nobody says The United States... ",
"💙💛",
"The Ukraine is weak!!! \n\nSo it stuck in my head to say The. ",
"It would be good if the colour drained down so you knew how long you had left to wait.",
"So it’s the Nether Lands?",
"And Detroit cant even fix a burned out bulb",
"also known as, nuclear wasteland.",
"Don't *all* countries with plural names still take the singular verb?\nLike this: \"The U.S.A/Netherlands/Philippines **is** a country.\"",
">implies they're still part of Russia.\n\nThey are. They're just temporarily in denial about it.",
"I'm American lol, I grew up an hourish from the boarder and worked in towns next to it. Also most other states think I'm Canadian when I talk. ",
"I assume the pole is just a bent pipe. Adding a groove on a pipe would be much more expensive as opposed to gluing a strip of LEDs made in large quantities with a little plastic collar. I don't see much aligning besides initial glue on (which you would need to do with the groove as well). ",
"My SO is Ukrainian, they prefer just \"Ukraine.\"",
"“What are you doing here?”\n\n“Me? I came to see the traffic lights.”",
"In Finland the rule is that the light on the close side (max. 5 meters ahead of the stop line on the right side) is unambiguously the \"real\" one, and more are added to repeat it where necessary for visibility. Personally I feel it's a very good practice. If you're at all interested, I recommend having a look at http://liikennevalot.info/ – tons of information on the topic, written by the retired head of traffic light planning in Helsinki.",
"Hurr hurr the US sucks ",
"TIL, as a Canadian, in America, I'm a Yankee.",
"“The Canada”\n\nAh yes, now I get it",
"We sometimes say \"La Argentina\". I guess it's because of \"La República Argentina\", dunno.",
"Many things in Ukraine are like this. East calls it the Ukraine west calls Ukraine (west and east sides of the country). The pronunciation of Kiev. Etc",
"Well, maybe if you are xenophobic you might not",
"Or when the sun is just right.",
"It's so you know when to honk when you are behind a truck",
"problem is that assumes people will look before turning. When they think they can go, they don't look.",
"[The Iraq and such](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww)",
"Wait, are they all Dutch? I need a Venn diagram",
"What’re you doing? Waiting for the pole to turn green? \n\nWhy yes, yes I am.",
"Borat",
"Very cool, very cool",
"Except pedestrians in a cross walk have right of way over someone taking a right on red. ",
"Because it's named after a river, and in English, rivers are usually referred to with \"the\". Same reason for *The* Gambia and *The* Congo.",
"Repost from /r/cyberpunk",
"Hey, we're just playing a board game, buddy.",
"And if an intersection has a particular sight line issue, or even terrible glare at odd parts of the day, many places will add a traffic light somewhere that is easier to see, maybe only halfway up on an opposing corner or something.",
"This repost.. From like two years ago.. This is what we have become. Repost lovers ",
"[it's also a borat reference](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrTbsefI7aA)",
"I think we both need to apply for Canadian citizenship at this point haha. Been to the states and a little bit of Canada but this makes me want explore NA more.",
"SO THE LSD WASN'T MAKING ME HALLUCINATE! WHY DID YOU CROP OUT THE DRAGON KNIGHTS OP?",
"Well “v” makes sense, it very directly translates to “in” and doesn’t need “the” but good point about na. I guess the answer to that and this post is that Ukraine is a region before a country, it was recognized even when it didn’t have its own government and was parsed between neighboring ruling powers.",
"When fantasy movies and TV shows talk about the dark shadowy 'netherworld', I like to pretend they're talking about the Netherlands. \n\n'I shall banish your dark spirit to the Netherlands, from which you can never return!'",
"Because why not? As long as they're directional this should add some good visibility to the classic semaphore. Might be able find additional creative solutions for dedicated turn arrows as well.",
"So if \"Ukraine\" means \"The Borderlands\", does calling it The Ukraine mean you're saying \"The The Borderlands?\"",
"Someone went to AutoZone.",
"You're right that people do, but the law is at least consistent in places where right turn on red is allowed.\n\nNow, the matter of human nature and whether they will always respect the law and the rights of way...that's problematic.",
"It makes sense there, because there's no proper noun in \"United Kingdom\". \n\nUkraine is a proper noun. \n\n",
"The Dutch just call it Netherland (Nederland) though.",
"The United States, The Netherlands, the. Balkans, The Philippines, The peoples Republic of North Korea, The Ukraine meaning The Borderlands. \n\nThere are many examples of countries that we use “the”and has to do with grammar and titles in English and other root languages. \n\nPlural names of countries will use ‘the’ like: The balkans, While singular names will not use it. France, Germany, etc. \n\nIt’s just the grammar and root of the word that dictates the English title. ",
"There are places where it’s not like that? O.o",
"\"The Ukraine\" is the region that used to be a pat of the USSR. This region is now a part of Ukraine, the country.\n\nUkrainians hate it when you say \"The Ukraine\" because it reminds them of times when they were occupied by a foreign power and didn't have independence like they do now.",
"I went to school in the US and read everything you wrote and understand they're English words but still can't make heads or tails of wtf you've said. Much like taxes.",
"Florida drivers still won’t see it",
"You got downvoted for the pure reason why people are supposed to get downvoted on reddit: your comment didn't incite further discussion.\n\nCorrect or not, you haven't furthered the conversation in any way that the OP already had.",
"That problem can also be solved by placing a light at the opposite side of the intersection. Like here is a picture from Finland:\n\nhttps://i.imgur.com/Ib0GLod.jpg\n\n",
"Doesn't that mean we're all saying \"The The Borderlands?\"",
"Reminds me of what my daughter called one of her Disney picture books when she was little \"One Hundred and Dalmatians\"",
"Was this supposed to be a mildlyinteresting post?",
"I got in an accident when I was younger because of poorly placed lights and shitty timing. The lights had no delay and it turned red exactly at the same point as the other turned green. The guy gunned it and hit me, but I had technically run the red light. Never got a ticket, only had to go through a drawn out insurance process, but either way, whenever I drove that, I hated how hard it was to see the light. I honestly thought there wasn't even a stop sign at the intersection!",
"Oh, we have several variations of that setup in the US, too.\n\n\"Little mini lights\" sounded interesting so I wanted to see that, lol.\n\nI love strange and obscure infrastructure...like weird antiquated signals and redundant sign lighting. Or signs made of neon, because \"neat, neon!\"",
"Maybe we should pull the plug on that and try USB.",
"And the Australia.",
"There are two Congos (Democratic Republic of Congo and Republic of Congo). People often call them both \"The Congo\" because they're named after the Congo River. Same for The Gambia.",
"Touché\n\nBut usually there is a marker showing plurality or other definite/indefinite qualities ",
"Yeah the only countries that officially have a \"The\" at the start of their name are The Bahamas and The Gambia",
"In the southern United States, the term is not used. cross-reference: see Damyankee",
"Sure, but that's an inherent problem in all road/traffic situations, and it's why both pedestrians and cars need to maintain situational awareness.",
"\"The\" Canada has 10 provinces and and 3 territories.",
"I'd love to have these in Canada ",
"There is Pennsylvania made maple syrup, mostly in Westmoreland County",
"I'm from the US, was a passenger in a friend's car one time when he did this. Anecdote countered.",
"Competence vs performance you pretentious shithead",
"People used to use the name Ukraine as if it were a nonspecific region. Like saying \"The Great Plains\" or \"the steppe\" or \"the taiga\". But now, Ukraine is an independent state and it's more correct to call it simply \"Ukraine\". But some people still use the article as an outdated holdover from Soviet times.",
"The other issue is colourblind people. People with red-green and other varieties of colourblindness are sometimes forced to use the position of the light and not the colour to tell whether they should stop and go",
"WHY ARE WE NOT FUNDING THIS IS NORTH AMERICA",
"If was talking about our National soccer team.",
"The Philippines. The Sudan",
"> I don't really care enough about this topic to argue with you about it. But wiki says:\n\n🤔",
"I mean, you can also wait for the cars behind to start honking and yelling at you...",
"Cool and it seems more user friendly. But here in the US, there can be no traffic lights that don't follow MUTCD. https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/\n\nRewriting any kind of governmental safety regulation is slow or non-existent.",
"That would be pretty sweet! I wonder if CTV is the one preventing it. I can’t really think of any CTV shows that are currently on Netflix off the top of my head, although there very well may be. ",
"Wonder if the US had managed to nail those territories early on (there was a strong movement among certain classes of Quebecois) if they would still be called that.",
"Trust me, no one is confusing you for the US.",
"It is a plural meaning, Slavic root is plural for Ukraine or borderlands which is plural therefore we will use “the” when referring to it in many languages. ",
"I don’t know why but that looks funky",
"Neat",
"Only one of those words is accurate.",
"a) You've pulled up too far.\n\nb) [You just need a Tesla model X](https://hips.hearstapps.com/roa.h-cdn.co/assets/16/22/1464969515-jl82609.jpg) (I would have suggested a convertible, but that's too impractical. you know...compared to an SUV with rear seats that don't fold down and a roof you can't put a rack on because of the \"falcon doors\").",
"What about \"The Netherlands\"?",
"Fun fact: Lower Canada was north of Upper Canada",
"The big house seats over 100,000. ",
"I am curious if it has any impact on the statistics of running red lights in either situation. The extra distance probably has an effect on the driver decision of when and where to stop. When I was driving in Europe I found myself stopping too close to the intersection and having to struggle to see the light. I quickly started stopping further away from the intersection than I would in the US for this reason.",
"America could have nice things too, if you guys weren't $20 trillion deep in national debt.",
"Because you live in 1958 so it's United States and Alaska which is not united to the rest of the states and Hawai'i isn't a state yet",
"Sometimes they hang in the middle of the intersection if it’s small ",
"Man, I don't know how I'd handle it if someone ever made a joke about *America*. Thankfully, that never happens",
"One heck of a relevant username",
"FYI it's just called Ukraine now.\n\nhttp://time.com/12597/the-ukraine-or-ukraine/ ",
"\"You know what it is, I know where it is.\"\n\n\nSeriously, when I find my stupid magic lamp and wish us to New Earth, when I give the Brexiters their own set of islands in the southeastern part of the Indian Ocean and leave the pro-Pan-Europans (no, I didn't misspell \"Europeans\") where they are now, what names will each start using.",
"There is a junction near me (Calgary) that crosses some light train tracks. When the cars turning left from the the West bound lanes see the lights on the South side, (which are intended for drivers coming from the North) about one in 20 sees those lights, (which are red at this point) and the stupid fuckers then stop, **ON THE TRAIN TRACKS.** <facepalm> Mostly they then respond to the furious honking of the cars behind, but every so often, they end up there when the barriers come down. I couldn't be a train driver, I don't think I'd ever, actually, plough the stupid fuckers under, but the temptation would drive me mad. I think about 50% of the drivers round here can benefit from an intense retraining, and about 10-15% should just be banned from driving.",
"The regular light is still there though.",
"I like northern mn ha, make a decent living and I spend my weekends in the woods on family land and cabin. You can come to Mn and drive to Canada! See nice people the whole way up. ",
"))",
"This is so smart.",
"People say Doug Dimmadome, owner of the Dimmsdale DimmaDome.",
"Both sides actually. ",
"But does it really matter how you say it in your language? Shouldn't the definitive way of saying it be how the people of that country say their countries name? So, it is The Gambia. ",
"Thx from netherlands",
"Yeah but that didn't fit the People say The ... pattern.",
"\"Ukraine\" would definitely work here, but \"the Ukraine\" could also work here because The Ukraine is the region where Ukraine is. It's weird.",
"I've never even heard anyone use the word Yankee except for the baseball team. It's just such a dated term now.",
"Well, once I move us all to New Earth (where *did* I put my magic lamp?) and use duplication of territories to separate Novororussya form Ukraine, things will settle down.",
"Putin: shhh don't tell them ;)",
"You remember correctly, all of those used to be referred to with the prefix \"the\". It's because they all used to be colonies of another country and were considered vague, general regions rather than nations in their own right. Kind of like saying \"the savannah\" or \"the steppe\". Now they're all independent states so it's more correct to omit the word \"the\". The reason saying \"The Sudan\" doesn't sound too strange to you is because it's still sometimes called that. Wikipedia lists it as a valid name and even some Sudanese government documents say \"The Sudan\".",
"Yes, that's what I meant, there are 2 ways to say it because \"na\" refers to the border area and \"v\" is just \"in\". I guess I worded it a bit ambiguously, my bad.",
"Macaroni and Cheese",
"I thought “The Ukraine” was Soviet Union era Ukraine, and that it is a faux pas to use the “The” nowadays ",
"Wow i would really appreciate that around here, at start it might be a bit of struggle but its really convenient ;o",
"The Ukraine is strong. Like bull.",
"The Caucasus is a mountain chain. Georgia is a separate country which a rose in the early Middle Ages, which was long independent before being conquered by PErsia, then the Ottomans, then the Czars",
"It's also correct for places named after rivers, such as \"The Bronx\" and \"The Gambia\".",
"Oh, I've seen that one, and it seems dangerous. \nThere was a gif once of a bird being fried in a huge lightning, after making 2 lines from the middle of an intersection touch.",
"Little known fact: Ohio State University was founded by Ukrainians. That's why they add the \"the\" to the beginning. ",
"Something's broken..... Lights go green, every cars brake lights still on! Just like London.",
"Yeah, it is mostly like that nowadays. It is kind of weird that \"The\" is still somewhat polular.",
"Russians, Belaruskis, and Ukrainians are descended *from* the medieval Rus, just like Turks, Turkmen, a nd Azeris are descended from the medieval Ghuzz. No one modern nation *is* the Rus.",
"Is it Ukraine or the Ukraine?",
"It's Christmas everyday ",
"Unfortunately, not everywhere in North America has them on the far side of the street. \n\nSource: Live in Orlando, traffic lights here are stupid and hard to see.",
"Right, and that's why I took 30 seconds to google what wikipedia said instead of argue with them about it.",
"Legally in most places of North America, you can enter an intersection on green, but not yellow or red. You should be clearing the intersection on yellow, and need to be stopped behind the stop line on a red.\n\nIn practice, people are assholes. There are places (Detroit...) where two or three cars will go through the intersection anyway even though the light just turned red.",
"How \"tall\" are you?",
"Technically, German is very consistent with its use of the definite article for country names - it depends on the gender of the name. If it's male or female, you use a definite article - \"*die* Schweiz\", \"*die* Ukraine\", or \"*der* Sudan\". If it's neutral, you don't use one - you wouldn't say \"*das* Deutschland\" or \"*das* Polen\". \n \nThough of course that's of little help since you need to know the gender of the country, and since the only way to know that is to learn it for each one, you might as well just learn whether or not to use a definite article instead.",
"The first w as French controlled , the second Belgian, explains most of it.",
"Well, it makes sense they wouldn't add \"the\" in Kiev, given they speak Ukrainian/Russian.",
"As long as they can't be seen from the side. I could see traffic being confused from the other side.",
"It's Ukraine, but some people add a 'the' for some reason.\n\nUkrainians don't like that though",
"Dear Sweden goverment why isn’t this a thing here?",
"Does it yellow?",
"Real answer: \n\nWhen the Soviet Union existed, Ukraine was a territory within it. That’s why they called it *the* Ukraine. Calling it “the Ukraine” now is still implying that it’s still a territory of Russia. ",
"People say, people sah, people makusah ",
"Huh. At that point, why not save some tax dollars and just install the lights on the “far” side? (Or the “near” side, in the event there’s an advantage to them over the far side installation that I’m not seeing.) I get that you still need lights on both sides, since there will typically be bidirectional traffic, but the municipality can still save money using fewer light units and/or simpler light units, which I can only imagine cost a small fortune each. I guess I’m just failing to see the advantage of installing both.",
"I saw the coolest shit in Ukraine when I was there last month:\n\n* Some restaurants have call buttons on the table to get the waiter. This solve the problem of annoying American waiters who come to the table every 5sec or French waiters who are always hiding in the kitchen.\n\n* I saw some stop lights that have timers on them letting you know how long until it turns red, or how long until it turns green.",
"Turn lanes usually use arrows instead of circles or are otherwise labeled, in my experience",
"Does anyone actually use that term to refer to themselves, though? I’ve only ever heard it used pejoratively by southerners and foreigners to refer to others.\n\nI’m personally from the west coast of the US, and I wouldn’t consider myself or call myself a yankee. I don’t think anyone from the west coast would use the term. It also sounds really weird to hear foreigners use the term (and it mostly brings to mind either confusion or childhood memories of the Yankee Doodle song).",
"Well they’re usually hanging on wires so they’re definitely interesting when it gets windy. Don’t think I’ve ever seen one down though. ",
"Same in Croatian. Engleska, Francuska, Njemačka, Poljska, Turska...\n\n^^I ^^love ^^comparing ^^languages.",
"Champaign checking in. We experience collective anal clenching too. ",
"This immediately reminded me of the [traffic lights in the movie Looper](https://imgur.com/a/aWJlj).",
"This is genius, people will have to look up to take pictures. Less traffic jams in Ukraine by basically having a tourist attraction which will probably cause moree trafic... ",
"So traffic behind tall vehicles can still see a set of lights.",
"If you mean \"Did Russia admit it\" - no, that has not happened. However, it is an open secret known by all Ukrainians as well as those interested in following the affair. From the invasion of \"Little Green Men\" (that is, soldiers bearing no insignia) to tank and artillery convoys caught on satellite being transported across the border (not just in Crimea but in Donbas as well). And les not forget the downing of Flight 17 \n\n\"In September 2016, the Dutch-led Joint Investigation Team (JIT) confirmed the missile type which had downed the aircraft and said that the Buk missile system had been transported from Russia on the day of the crash, fired from a field in a rebel controlled area and returned to Russia after the Buk was used to shoot down MH17\".\n\nI don't separate the two, they are part of the same conflict. And I don't know about you, but I would define tanks and sophisticated missile systems rolling across your border as an invasion.",
"Somewhat interestingly, the borough gets a \"the\" but the county does not.",
"Most places here have LED stop lights and as someone who actually has designed stop lights for the city, directional LED strips are much harder to implement in real life than they are on paper. All it takes is a few improperly installed strips to kill someone and that kind of lawsuit isn't what government agencies go for.",
"Great, but why this not standard alongside [timers](http://www.panoramio.com/photo/12072690#)?",
"That's great. There is a light in a curve here in town and directly behind it is a sign for a gas station. The lights can blend in with the green and red sign behind it so its hard to tell what color the light is when approaching.",
"actually part of russia",
"Maybe something like a balloon toy should pop out of the top of the car?\nI am trying to turn the world into a colorful clown rather than offering real solutions you see.",
"Why are we not funding this America?",
"Okay that's like super smart.",
"Some places here in the US as well but it’s not that common",
"Getting rid of \"the\" was literally part of the first resolution they passed when they got their independence.\n\nI dated a woman from Ukraine and eventually she asked me why I used \"the\". I had no idea, so I looked it up and then told her. I apologized, but she didn't know the history at all.\n\nOf course this then lead to me having to explain why we were driving down *the* 101 in LA...",
"Why are we still using a black box with three circles that change color, instead of just having a pole that change color?",
"THE Ohio State",
"Our American traffic lights aren't fancy-schmancey, but at least we don't have to worry about being invaded by Russia--- oops.... Uh, nevermind...",
"I’m from Texas and I had this teacher in grade school who had been part of the Peace Corps and had lived in Ukraine for awhile.\n\nI still remember her ten minute screaming rant about that very thing, and years later it’s all I remember about the class. She was obviously fed up about people calling it *The* Ukraine. Sheesh. ",
"We have lights on the far side in Northern Ireland on most junctions, however it can cause problems if people from other entrances to the junction can also see them.\n\nSo not all junctions have them, and a lot that do, have blinders or slats installed to polarize the light so it can only be seen from the correct side of the junction.\n\n/edit for grammar clarification.",
"That's a brilliant idea. So often the sun visors in my truck make it hard to see the traffic light, and this makes it easy for vehicles of any size to see the change. ",
"Vuhzheen",
"As a Ukrainian, it would be nice if they diverted money from westernizing kiev to fucking FIXING THE CRUMNLING INFASTRUCTURE LAST FIXED BY THE GODDAMN SOVIETS IN LITERALLY EVERY OTHER PART OF THE FUCKING COUNTRY",
"It's a username with two digits at the end; didn't someone find that to be a good sign of a reposting bot?",
"What?",
"And the Iraq. And such as",
"Same. Lived in the US my whole life and never heard anyone referred to as a Yank or Yankee other than the baseball team.",
"> For instance Eindhoven (province North-Brabant) which is the smartest region in the world\n\nNobody ever calls a Dutchman modest, I wonder why that is.",
"Mother Russia will be proud to accept this innovative creation once Ukraine is pulled back in, да?!",
"The Canada",
"I saw traffic light like this in Izmir/Turkey recently.",
"Yeah, I'm not impressed. Please spend my tax dollars on something else. ",
"Because just the circular light isn’t enough.",
"With traffic lights like these, how did those Russian soldiers get lost on their vacation?",
"Wanna see it in Artsakh",
"It actually makes sense now that when I was dating a Russian, she'd just say Ukraine. Like it sounded odd because I thought she just dropped \"the\"... \"yeah I've been to Ukraine many times\". ",
"You are absolutely right. Another government shutdown doesn't help.",
"It's much more like thinking England and the U.K. are the same thing...",
"Not helpful for colorblinds, but definitely helpful for most of us! Maybe add a texture distinction, like steady solid red line, moving dashed green line?",
"Same in Finland",
"This is a really good idea. I live just east of Toronto and red-light running is epidemic. There are times where I will have a green turn arrow and 4-5 cars run the red. My arrow will be gone by the time I can enter the intersection. 1-2 times a week, someone’s been t-boned by some idiot running a red on my 10 minute commute to work. The local police ignore the issue and prefer to hand out 10 over tickets at the bottom of a big hill. Maybe a giant red stick would get people to stop. ",
"Don't forget *the* United Kingdom.\n\nWhen the name of the country includes a proper noun like Netherlands (Lowlands), States, or Kingdom, we usually use the definite article *the* before the name. ",
"I mean, the laws where I live are pretty unambiguous about exceeding the city-wide 25 mph speed limit, but here we are...\n\nInfrastructure can influence behavior more than laws. Similarly to how narrower lanes, neckdowns, speed humps, etc. can coerce motorists to follow the speed limit, design tweaks to intersections--such as where the actual signals are located--can coerce motorists to follow the laws about where to stop. In both cases, you're still going to have people who speed and stop in the crosswalk, but you can't let perfect be the enemy of good.",
"Not to mention the light pollution and waste of electricity",
"Isn't there a CGP Grey video about this?",
"Oh man, I moved from the San Francisco bay area to San Antonio. The difference is night and day.",
"In America, or at least my state, we have at least one extra light at intersections just to confuse you!",
"So the the borderlands",
"There's a reason. The United STATES. Multiple states or a group of states. Plural states united. ",
"Because it sounds better that way... I know it's technically not correct, it just sounds more correct. ",
"I think that’s cuz that’s not the full name for either- it’s “the Balkan Peninsula” and “the Crimean Peninsula”. When referring to the Mississippi River, people would call it “the Mississippi” and the state just “Mississippi.” Likewise, when referring to the Republic of Crimea, I’d say “Crimea.” The latter case is kinda weird though- for example, Wikipedia calls the entire Crimea Peninsula region just “Crimea” sometimes.",
"First time I drove in France, I ran a red thinking the light in front of me was my light. I had no idea my light was to the right of/ directly over top of my car. A car crossed right behind me and honked. Was in a Citroen C1. I would have died. ",
"This is way safer for pedestrians. As someone who walks everywhere, I fucking love close-side lights. Cars never stop in the crosswalk! They can't see the light if they're in the crosswalk, so the crosswalks are never ever blocked (unless the intersection has devolved into total gridlock). It's one of the nice things about being a pedestrian in İstanbul! ",
"Shiny, happy people’s democratic republic of the congo ",
"Almost died in Arras because of this very thing. ",
" Can't wait to the release of Ukraine 3",
"Have been reposted here over and over again. ",
"I like this",
"Milk Stout anyone?",
"Wow, didn't know that (на украине)... will have to ask when I am in Russia this year. Some nationalistic Ukrainians I met insist that the etymology of Ukraine means \"in the country\" and not \"borderlands\" or \"on the border\" or something. I remember reading something on the internet backing that up. What do you think?",
"Very cool idea but also really ugly...",
"This makes traffic lights look way too awesome. ",
"As an average height person, yes please!\n\nJust because its pretty damn cool looking!",
"I like to say \"a Ukraine\" just to mess with people, making them think there's a bunch of them.",
"Gotta be careful with those Slavic homonyms sometimes, though. \"Mraz\" (frost) is a perfectly normal word in Czech. In Russian however...",
"I imagine this wouldn't work if you have protected turn lanes. ",
"Why even have the old style light then. The LEDs are far more visible. Save the energy.",
"Ok, that's overkill.",
"I have a friend from Ukraine. He always says in Ukraine. Said no one says the ukraine.",
"Who stops for GTA traffic lights! ETS2 on the other hand is 360€ fine!",
"Amazing the things\"shithole\" countries have that America doesn't",
"This is technically correct (the best kind of correct) but I asked some Dutch mates about this and apparently, unlike in the U.K. where calling it just England risks seriously pissing off scots Welsh and some northern Irish, non-Holland Dutch aren't actually really bothered about it. Which makes sense for the Dutch.",
"The Ukraine ",
"In the UK, we tend to have high up ones, and then ones on the other side of the junction as well.",
"The Bronx, The Hague,\n\nIt's not unprecedented. It just, I don't know... *feels* more right.",
"When we did some joint training with Ukraine we were told to make sure and call it Ukraine. No \"the\" in front of it. \nI was more surprised people call it the Ukraine. I guess maybe because it was before my time.",
"But then you get dickheads who are travelling perpendicular to you who can see when your lights have changed to stop before theirs have changed to green. And jump the lights",
"YES. PLEASE. As a tall driver constantly ducking/leaning to see stoplights that are cut off at the top of my windshield, that would help so much",
"I was going to say that this would not be very helpful to those suffering from red/green colorblindness. For the rest of us, though, it's pretty cool.",
"TFW you're colour blind and they look the same :( ",
"My town really needs something like this. They have the light over on the sidewalk which is pretty off to the side. I'm guessing it's to avoid the ugly overhang wires, but they can blend in pretty well with the storefronts. I've lived here all my life & I almost ran a red light one morning. \n\nNew York, jot this down. ",
"It's really \"These (the) States United\", as is more proper to the Queen's [King's] English, it's original usage by the citizens of the time and of course the connotation. United States came after the Civil War.",
"Really? I swear this is my first time hearing about this. So it stays red if your just to far back?",
"There are others like The Gambia and The Yemen which don't fit the pattern. But it's slightly old fashioned to still \"The \" with those these days anyway.",
"Do they play '1944'? That is my jam!",
"And continents are islands too strictly speaking. But we don't all want to be obtuse 100% of the time.",
"yeah, this would be useless for me. I have to read the light by its position in the lamp (top, middle, bottom), so this would just be a lit stick to me heh",
"How can they even do that without articles?",
"Amen brother, especially when there is a box truck between you and the light.",
"IT'S NOT \"THE UKRAINE\". IT'S JUST \"UKRAINE\".",
"Thanks for the response. That’s pretty sensible. And upon further thought, this is a great example of the whole point of tax dollars: even if something could seem a bit impractical or not strictly necessary, the added safety benefit makes it worthwhile, even if most of the time, either light would have been enough. “Why risk it?” essentially, and the added cost distributed across the many makes it much less a financial burden, even though it only rarely ends up the reason a life is likely saved.\n\nSorry for the cavalcade of text. I’m just thinking aloud, really.",
"I mean, it's not... but nobody's going to war with Russia over Ukraine - so isn't it still, really? Especially if Russia can just waltz on in relatively unchecked.",
"Well, not really. They may be separate countries but they form only one kingdom. I think that's the idea anyway, that they were united under one king/queen. There is only one monarch.",
"Meta!",
"The Americaisyourdaddynow-pines?",
"Seems prudent to me.",
"Not trying to come off as ignorant but regular lights aren't helpful for the colorblind so why even even waste time complaining about this? ",
"Yes, this. People look at me silly when I pronounce it ‘Oo-krain’ rather than ‘You-krain ’. \n\nThat’s how the letter ‘y’ is pronounced in Ukrainian. \n\nOr you can also say ‘Oo-krai-ee-nah’ if you want to be ultimately correct. ",
"People from The America aren't great with geography.",
"Ha ha, the Ukraine. Do you know what the Ukraine is? It's a sitting duck. A road apple. The Ukraine is weak. It's feeble. I think it's time to put the hurt on the Ukraine.",
"I wasn't being obtuse. I was being brief.\n\nCanada is made of other places. France is made of other places. Holland is a made of other places, Europe is made of other places.....\n\nAlso, Europe is a peninsula.",
"Yes, but people are suggesting these lights as an alternative to having to look at the regular light, if you can't get an easy viewing angle. Unless you're suggesting these lights should only be viewed as a novelty?",
"In Latvia all traffic lights shape of glorious potato. ",
"where is this? as most crossing places in ukraine don't even have traffic lights lol",
"As a short person, yes please!\n\nI hate to have to try to be a girrafe in my car just to see the lights. ",
"In before some European teases us for spending money on fancy traffic lights instead of health care.",
"Gambia is one that sounds better without the the and they officially have one? ",
"That one is tasty =)",
"My boyfriend (from Ukraine) cringes so hard if anyone says The Ukraine.",
"You're proving *my* point.",
"I went to school in Detroit for awhile. I can confirm. ",
"Yup. Though here in NYC they’re usually suspended over the intersection, though the [national MUTCD dictates signals be placed on the far side of the intersection](https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/htm/2009/part4/part4d.htm#section4D11) (Part 4, Chapter 4D, Section 4D-11, paragraph 06; [Section 4D-13](https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/htm/2009/part4/part4d.htm#section4D13), Paragraph 02).",
"This is why many Ukrainians don't care so much. If they don't speak English the distinction doesn't matter so much. That said, many also do care, and where there is an opinion it's almost always against saying \"the\".",
"Meh. English grammar is meant to be ignored. Even if it's the focus of things like the SAT test or the GRE exam. *cough*",
"Yep articles dont exist in Ukrainian or any Slavic languages besides Bulgarian I believe. ",
"It's Terry Pratchett. I want to say that quote was in either The Color of Magic or Sourcery.\n\nEdit: alright, I spent 15 minutes looking, and I couldn't find the source, so if someone finds it, please let me know.",
"What about The Sudan",
"How have they not been stolen and sold for scrap yet?",
"So you are going to see .. traffic lights?",
"Put polarising filter over it.",
"Holy fuck, I literally drove through there this morning... It's a small world!",
"This isn't western projection tho. Most Ukrainians don't see the distinction and think of pre-1991 as a foreign occupation.",
"'На' is also used for virtually any island, regardless of that island's political situation. На Филиппинахъ, на Гавайяхъ, на Кипрѣ, на Мадагаскарѣ. You also use it for directions: на сѣверѣ, на югѣ, за западѣ, на востокѣ (this includes use of East and West as cultural terms, as well, only you would capitalize).\n\nIt's absolutely not grammatically incorrect to say на Украинѣ, but if it's really going to hurt their feelings, go ahead and use въ.\n\nEdit: Also your example is incorrect: you say въ Крымъ/въ Крыму. На Донбассъ/ѣ is correct.",
"Not really, it was mostly East of it. Upper and Lower referred to their geographical elevation along the St-Lawrence river. Upper being further away from the sea, therefore higher in elevation.",
"Is it not just more natural to say \"The Ukraine\" than it is to say \"Ukraine\". \n Thats where i always felt the confusion came from ",
"Canada is a federation and France is a unitary state. There is a distinct difference beyond land being forever divisible.",
"Classic argumentative Ukrainian.",
"what",
"Ok I didn't know if the stadium (field? pitch?) was maybe in that location, or if something like that was what had led to that chant evolving? I love learning about the origins of sporting traditions.",
"Right; my point was what differentiates Ukraine from Georgia is NOT their name as part of the USSR, but rather the historical reference to the Ukraine as an area, not a country. \n \nIf there had been a Causasian SSR which then became an independent country called Caucasus, then there would probably be an instinct to refer to the country as \"The Caucasus\".",
"Its from the radiation",
"> Technically the proper way is “Ukraine” but to make it flow better in sentences we had “the” to it...\n\nIt's not a slight (usually).",
"Ukraine huh? Someone got a good deal on rope lights... maybe the city mayor’s brother ",
"Still not right. It's Slava Ukraini - the dative case.\n\nEdit: \"Ukrayini\" also accepted, because ї.",
"I mean, no, look at it on a map. It's called Ukraine. It's next to Romania and Poland, are we calling those places The Poland or The Romania? Or The Russia? Nah. It might be a harder word for native English speakers from the US that don't know a lot about Eastern Europe to say but it's simply Ukraine, Georgia, Poland, Romania, Estonia, etc. No THEs involved :)",
"i like this because sometimes i don’t see the light ",
"I think it's fair to say there isn't consensus on that...!",
"Dear Redditors: Please, it is not THE Ukraine. Its just Ukraine. There are many comments here that spread some misinformation. I'd like to step up and offer some reasons why we Ukrainians find this to be offensive. Please bear with me. Its a bit of a long read. \n\nTL;DR: The \"THE\" is an outward signal of: Colonial history, ethnic chauvinism, and Genocide. \n\nIn general Ukrainians bristle at it because the term was often used to deny the uniqueness of Ukrainian culture as separate from Russia. It may seem minor to English speakers, but for Ukrainians it is an outward symbol of a struggle lasting 300 years (some say longer).\n\nFirst: the \"borderlands\" argument. Goes like this: use \"the\" before Ukraine to signal its history as a border area outside of Russia proper. We find this offensive because it is historically linked with the idea of \"Malorossiya\" that is, \"Little Russia\", an idea that is pushed by Putin today. In fact the borderlands translation is not even agreed upon, there are alternate ideas (even stemming from the word \"okrema\" - meaning \"separate\". But even the borderlands translation would refer to the historic trade routes to the middle East, a border to the spice trade (and not in reference to Russia). Again, the subtlety is in the context. If you deny the existence of uniqueness, you can simply absorb and ethnically cleanse. \n\nThis logic has been around a long time. Ukrainian language and culture was suppressed. Starting with Catherine the Great, and through the Soviet Union, Ukrainian language and culture either suppressed or outlawed. The Ems Ukaz was a law by Tsar Alexander II of Russia issued in 1876, banning the use of the Ukrainian language in print. The Valuev Circular of 18 July 1863 was a decree of the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Empire Pyotr Valuev (Valuyev) by which a large portion of the publications (religious, and literature used for school training) in the Ukrainian language was forbidden. Ukrainian intelligentsia was liquidated under communism. All of this in an effort to cleanse the region of its identity.\n\nUkrainians were killed. Particularly under Stalin, Ukrainians suffered executions, deportations, and destruction at the hands of Beria and the NKVD. in 1932-33, the Holodomor. A genocide on par with the Holocaust that nobody knows about. Of course, the war and its aftermath brought its own suffering. \n\nA good book on the subject and contexts is Tim Snyder's \"Bloodlands\". Between 2.4 and 7.5 million people killed in the Holodomor, and yet the world doesn't know. You see, for us Ukrainians, we never got to have Nuremberg trials bringing those people to justice. We never had any Truth and Reconciliation committees in an attempt to right the wrongs. The war was over, and the world wanted to forget. We didn't. We hope you forgive us for being instant on dropping the use of \"The\" when referring to our country. \n\n\n\n",
"LOL. Who is being obtuse?\n\n>Canada is a federation\n\nSo is The United states.\n\n>France is a unitary state.\n\nSo is the Grenadines.\n\n",
"It has very little to do with the USSR. There were 14 other republics and nobody says \"The Armenia\" or \"The Kazakhstan.\"\n\nIt's because the Ukraine was a frontier land for centuries, which is why the word comes etymologically from \"край\" - edge or border. It would be like us saying \"in the West\" in America. The distinction should not be used to beat people over the head with anti-Russian sentiment (as many sadly do), but merely a polite, \"Please say this now that we have our own independent country.\"",
"DNC checking in. We would like to speak to OP about collusion",
"The Gambia and The Philippines would like a word.\n\nBut seriously, it's not a super big deal.",
"Also came from a time when Ukraine was a part of the USSR. So \"the Ukraine\" was technically referencing \"the Ukraine region of the USSR.\" Now that it's a sovereign and independent nation, it's just called Ukraine.",
"\"China\" has not denoted a geographical area for probably over a thousand years, if ever. \"The Ukraine\" was a concrete place less than 100 years ago. It's still very much a part of the vocabulary.",
"Why would stick stift make any kind of difference?",
"Respectfully, I believe you meant to say: \"These traffic lights in Ukraine\". The use of the article relates to the time before independence in 1991, when Ukraine was a republic of the Soviet Union known as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Since then, it should be merely Ukraine.",
"Poles are lit up the same color the active light on the top is (red / green respectively).",
"Except that \"the Canada\" was never correct, whereas \"the Ukraine\" was until just a few years ago. Cultural usage will catch up.",
"There goes my default \"not paying attention to the green light\" tirade. \n\n\"What the f_&$ dude! You waiting for the whole POLE to turn green?!?!\"",
">USNA\n\nUnited South and North America. When? No? Ok.",
"The Canada! Come on man! Haha. Never been to MN. Would love to though.",
"Right, but it isn't related to the USSR.",
"Ha! I live out in Lincoln so I went to Google Maps and just went to the closest area with lights I could think of, Hornby :D I expect that to happen in places like LA, but not little old Christchurch!",
"Is Quebec also part of North America? ",
"And Mexico.",
"Regular lights at least present different orientations, using relative position to signal status.",
"Just stating facts: https://universonline.nl/2011/06/09/brainport-eindhoven-smartest-region-in-the-world\n\nBeing not modest would be something like: Dutch punching above their weight. As always :) ",
"It's a really interesting question. The names the provinces did end up choosing are usually the pretty obvious ones. There's not a huge amount that could have gone a different way.\n\nLower Canada might have gone back to the name Quebec (which was actually the name Britain gave all of New France when they conquered it) or, more probably, New France. \n\nUpper Canada probably wouldn't have joined unless it had to because a lot more of its residents were United Empire Loyalists who didn't want to be part of the US at the time and had fled the States. It still might have chosen Ontario for its name because the lake was named that at the time or might have just taken \"Canada\" if Lower Canada joined as Quebec or New France. \n\nWhat are now the Atlantic provinces would have been similarly reluctant, since they received a similar flood of loyalists during and after the Revolution. Newfoundland remained separate from Canada until 1949, after all. Nova Scotia and New Brunswick would have joined with their current names or as one large state of Nova Scotia.\n\nBC would probably have joined as \"Columbia\" or maybe \"West Columbia\" or might simply have become part of Washington.",
"Indeed it was, because \"upper\" and \"lower\" in that context referred to the St Lawrence River. Lower Canada was farther down the St. Lawrence than Upper Canada.",
"To be fair I never gave it a second thought. I grew up with.",
">When Russia attacked Crimea\n\nRussia didn't attack Crimea. There have not been any fighting and no casualties. Polls by the western agencies show that the residents of Crimea approve the unification with Russia by some very unambiguous margin.\n\nhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2015/03/20/one-year-after-russia-annexed-crimea-locals-prefer-moscow-to-kiev/\n\n",
"For me it's way simpler than that. \"The\" is used in states or regions that are part of a grander whole, it's the plurality that distinguishes England from The United Kingdom, and The United States or The Philippines or what have you. When Ukraine was part of The USSR, you might've called it The Ukraine, as if it's a state, a region, or a borderland. But it's an independent country now, it is whole all on its own, therefore it's just Ukraine. \n\nI don't think people need to be convinced that it's offensive or insensitive to a people with a history of oppression and war. Its hard to feel sympathetic to everyone's plight or really even connect with everyone's cultural baggage. To me it's not about being PC, it's not offensive, it's simply wrong.\n",
"Ok so also the Barbados and the Mauritius!",
"This one still has that, though. Only difference is the rod now glows. ",
"Pretty soon there will be closer lights, with the CSM going in between Hornby and Lincoln.",
"There are no articles in the Russian language, so it can be interpreted as \"borderlands,\" \"the borderlands,\" or \"a/some borderlands\" with equal validity, depending on context. The word \"the\" is absolutely not a required part of the translation. ",
"Kiev was the original capital of the Russian people. Muscovy (with its capital in Moscow) later rose in power. \"U\" in Russian means \"near.\" \"Kraina\" means \"border.\" If you say 'the Ukraine,' you're saying 'the borderlands [of Russia],' making Ukraine seem like it belongs to Russia. If you say 'Ukraine,' it puts it on its own. Even more bizarre, there is no definite article \"the\" in Russian, so the distinction doesn't exist in Russian.",
"“And the Iraq!”",
"I already faild the song and a nation. I like it, it's been cold now tho.",
"\"ARE YOU WAITING FOR THE WHOLE POLE TO LI- oh... ok.\"",
"You mean they won some award somewhere once, in 2011. And Melbourne won it this year.",
"Ah, yes, ‘Russians’. The slavic race resideng in the space between the baltic sea and pacific ocean allegedly invading Eastern Ukraine. We have dismissed this claim.",
"It's an Archer reference",
"That's going to be great! It'll help speed up the drive to Hornby on a Friday night. I tend to be an old man and go to the Working Men's Club on Fridays.",
"Ok.",
"Just so long as the Christmas lights aren't running, that drive isn't too bad anyways.",
"in europe it's often on the same side of the street. I had a teacher from france once who almost got in an accident because he stopped under the light.. in the middle of the street lol",
"And Melbourne now can't mention it. Because it's not modest :(",
"Not at all what I had expected :O",
"it's not all lights, but where I live in Florida we have quite a few at the less turn-heavy lights or off hours when the roads are less congested. \n\nthe worst is being stuck behind someone who doesn't realize, so you end up sitting through two light cycles and they still won't move up a hair to trigger the light. ",
"Well, that's cool. I feel sorry for the citizens that have to watch their hard earned money being spent in neon tubes. ",
"Leds don't get hot enough to melt snow.",
"It all depends on the Halswell Junction roundabout. If that's flowing it's all good, but when you get people blocking Springs road it gets fairly backed up. I saw it right back to the fruit and veg store just before Prebbleton the other day!",
"Looks trashy",
"I don't think they suggest them as an alternative, but as addition. US often has multiple traffic lights at intersections - several on top an one on the right (like this: https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4131/5082483497_629fa6c747_b.jpg ) . You could just use the LCD strip like this instead of the right light or in addition to it. ",
"It's interesting how the stereotypes are shockingly accurate and completely wrong at the same time. I'm from New England and now live in central New York. For no reason whatsoever, I personally get offended when people assume NY is part of New England because I see so many differences between myself/\"my people\" and people who grew up in CNY",
"I call them OSU because fuck em. ",
"That's true, but you can also just go up Shands and cross HJ at the lights there.",
"From NH, never heard anything about only Vermonters being Yankees. \nIt refers to people who embody the old New England Puritan/Protestant values of thrift, hard work, stoicism and being generally uptight. \nIt helps to have an ‘old’ family, and to not live and work in a city. Also I’m not sure that Connecticut counts anymore, at least the parts that have become NY-lite. \nOnce you’re in New England, it’s really a cultural thing, not regional. \nAlso, fuck THE Yankees.",
"The Ukraine what",
"Yeah, I really should just go via the roundabout at the Uni and go straight down Shands, I always forget to do that though :)",
"There are several places around me in the US that have the stop light on the close side of the intersection so you can't see it if you're in the front of the queue, but most have it on the other side or at least in the middle. ",
"Cheers ",
"Huh",
"Yeah, but then the colour blind people would suffer without the additional light",
"I'm from the UK and have driven there for 20 years. I now live in China and have been driving here for 10 years. The Chinese system is like the US and it causes may more issues having the lights far away than close. Why? If you get behind a tall vehicle you cannot see the lights. So you have no idea if you're jumping them or not because the tall vehicle has decided to cross just as they are going red. This means a possible fine or accident. I understand you can drop back but in busy cities this is also frowned on and people will randomly cut you up because of it. Overall the closer lights are honestly better and only a slight inconvenience.",
"WHY do people say \"the ukraine\"?",
"Oh ok, we agree anyway so all is good haha",
"I’m Ukrainian. Please, never say “na”, it’s just as bad as “the Ukraine”. Implies we’re a territory and not a sovereign state.",
"As colourblind as well, I just based it off the light position and assumed the attached limbs were changing too. This idea is neat, but there needs to be a more universally seen go/slow/stop that doesn't fuck over the most common version of colorblind in the world. I have seen a few things that helped like the addition of blue, but why aren't symbols being used instead/along with?",
"Lol no man I’ll be there for work but I am going to make it a point to see these traffic lights",
"No wonder Putin illegally annexed Crimea",
"You know they call it the Ukraine, like as if there were several sepated lands belong(ed) to the main one /sad sarcasm",
"Thanks for the info! I’ll remember that",
"I've had moments of, \"The sun's in my eyes, but if I pull down the visor I won't see when the light turns green without crouching.\"",
"Thanks for the write-up! I was just trying to make a joke, but I'm also trying to learn Russian, so this was really interesting!",
"Uhhhhhh do NOT use my comment to learn modern Russian! I write in pre-1917 orthography, so you're going to have a bad time. The letter ѣ doesn't even exist anymore.",
"Anytime :-)\n\nYou were likely under that impression because a lot of people repeat it, but a lot of people also forget that there was a time before the USSR, or even what the USSR was like before WWII (very different).",
"They are an eye sore.",
"He means this setup. Common in Paris at least.\nhttp://feu.routier.free.fr/90800.jpg?v=383jqw5zts6bkey",
"c'mon it's BorderlanD, not lands ",
"But people say the Iraq and such as ",
"… I mean, we have both in Sweden. Check mate, atheists— no, wait, *shit.*",
"Not always though, unfortunately. Sometimes there's just the one and that's it. ",
"As someone who hears this a lot from people, we do catch it. It's just not worth the effort to correct you. ",
"In Ukraine light does not stop traffic, traffic stop light.",
"> You're right. In more detail: The Netherlands has 12 provinces\n\nThen why are so many of your flagships called **The Seven Provinces?**\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNLMS_De_Zeven_Provinci%C3%ABn",
"It gets annoying. Im from Sudan and it really rattles my maracas when people say “The Sudan”",
"I'm Dutch and I always call my country Holland, never met another Dutch person who would be pissed off about that.",
"I am also Ukrainian :) I know some people get offended by it, but honestly it seems kind of petty to me. My grandparents, who have become very anti-Russia during the last decade or so, also still use \"na\" because that's just what used to be the norm. It will probably phase out eventually with newer generations.",
"The part about you guys being pissed off was also mainly meant as a joke.\n\n",
"What if we just had them in a circle pointing the right way that was surrounded by a lip? ",
"And so forth... ",
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee#In_the_United_States\n\nIt's ben attributed to E. B. White.",
"In Norway we have lights on both sides in each direction of the intersection, so it's easy for the first car and the others to see.",
"I’m of a mindset that the faster, the better :)",
"México doesn't.",
"To be fair, they meant Northern America",
"Huh, well that seems silly. TIL",
"It got me too.",
"Context: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww",
"Feels like there should be a shirtless Terry Crews draped with neon glow sticks frantically blowing a whistle and dancing in the middle to direct traffic.\n\nA very special Brooklyn 99 callback episode perhaps?",
"I’m no scientist but I’m just brainstorming here. The could also be used to title a specific thing, like *The* Bronx or *The* Last Jedi. The thing about English is that rules what",
"It’s more like recycling. ",
"I’m so sorry please forgive the me. ",
"What do they have against the? They should just call it De Nederland. ",
"Need some of these here in the US",
"I wish those existed in the USA.",
"It's both in a way that one is a geographical region, while the other is a nation.",
"The Lorde",
"We have this in the US, too. At least on the west coast. Do you want to know an embarrassing traffic story? \n\nI'm in Korea at a cross walk light with a British friend (we were both studying abroad). There is a strange noise in the background, but neither of us take note. The light changes and we start crossing the road.\n\nWe look over at the noise as we cross, it's an ambulance... and we're blocking it. So we both shot forward real fast to get out of the way. It's sound was foreign enough it didn't register.",
"Answer is in the thirth sentence of your link :) ",
"It’s Ukraine. That intersection is utterly fucked. ",
"in The Louvre ",
"Do they have these in the France or the Spain?",
"But there is no 'the'-article in Slavic languages. Well.. at least not in ex-Yu. Not sure about the other languages. If I read Ukraine in a Bosnian-ish way, it kind of sounds like 'u krajine'. 'U' does not mean 'the', it means 'in'. 'Krajine' means borderlands. \n\nBut since we don't have articles the proper translation would be 'in the borderlands'.",
">\"The Bronx\" and \"The Gambia\"\n\nIn both cases, it's part of the proper name, though there is some contention at times over The Bronx.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bronx\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gambia\n\n",
"Hey, I didnt create the name. I for one have nothing against either. Just replying to you saying, “netherlands seems plural”, but the Dutch themselves do not call it Netherland***s***.",
"Because they don't actually think about what they're saying",
"Even without him saying it to you, did you never stop to think \"hang on a second, this sounds stupid as fuck?\", because I feel like if you said \"the France\" or \"the Germany\" you'd surely question it instantly",
"NON! VIVE LE QUÉBEC LIBRE!",
"Rgb traffic lights",
"The Congo?",
"Well, a good chunk of us are kids who grew up in the late 80’s to early 90’s and were taught that way. Then never retaught that it was incorrect. ",
"Why the actual traffic lights are still there ?",
"Ha I noticed that was a new letter!\n\nI more meant learning that на is used for islands and directions",
"It's spreading...",
"Wouldn't mind some cold. It's been 30C+ (95F) for the last 3 months. Getting pretty tired of it.",
"Which one is brighter?\n\n(BTW, the top one is Red and the bottom one is green.)",
"Now now, the Canadian was just being polite and giving us a frame of reference for his area",
"\"Liikennevalot\"... yep, that looks Finnish alright.",
"[Nether Lands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nether_Lands) is an album name.\n\nThe name of the country is Netherlands, but yes, it is \"the Netherlands\" in speech.",
"If there were any one thing I could universally teach the world it'd be that the US is amazing. *circumstances* in the US are lacking",
"Do they make lightsaber sound effects when they change colours? ",
"And for those who don't understand this exception in America when you turn right the traffic in your nearest lane(s) is going in your direction, so you're turning into the flow of traffic, as opposed to driving through the intersection, impeding traffic from both directions and endangering everyone",
"SAME. Plus I’m still a teenager and still have my learners permit so I hope the driving instructor doesn’t deduct anything...",
"The bottom one",
"Ok. Are you from the America?",
"and you'll note those are all plural.",
"Yes, that's clearly different.",
"I have learned this now, however I've also learned it is apparently super offensive.",
"you mean a part? it is currently apart ;)",
"Plural.",
"Wow are you ok? Do you need a hug?",
"Yes, the \"borderlands\" holdover has been explained and it makes sense.",
"apparently very offensive to them.",
"safety rave!",
"I hate that temp we don't get it often but anything over 90 an I'm over it. We had -40 the other week, 30F this weekend and now it's 4F but will be 40 on Friday. Weather is drunk here.",
"No it was 100% my fault he was really cool about it and didn't give me a ticket for it cuz it was so obvious what happened. No one just decides to randomly go through a red light with a cop right next LOL",
"Mais le Quebec c'est deja libre..",
"No one told the guy who named [this movie](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMmI4YWEyNTItZTFiMS00YzY4LWE2ZjYtNGRlNmZhNjRmOWVkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjc1NTYyMjg@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,657,1000_AL_.jpg)",
"Im Ukrainian, from a VERY Ukrainian community here in the states. No one likes to call it the Ukraine. ",
"In Shanghai and Beijing they have red light timers. I know this won't work for intersections with sensors but I still want them here in the U.S.",
"For the cars? I've seen them for pedestrians a fair bit but it would be great for drivers too. ",
"Im from wherever you want me to be bb.",
"You are correct, i more ment its generally simpler to direct a tiny (relatively speaking) led than a large bulb that gets hot AF. Doesn't take anywhere near as much space for things like the fins or fancy lenses on the newer stoplights. I would imagine they weigh a lot less as well but I've not been around one i could try to lift.",
"It looks like a bunch of countries officially include \"the\" but since it's in parenthesis, I'm assuming it's optional.\n\n",
"Especially when the visor is down",
"It's an obsolete term. \"The Ukraine\" is short for \"the Ukrainian territory of the Soviet Union\". In modern vernacular, it is more proper to drop the \"the\" and just call it \"Ukraine\".",
"!isbot Spartan2470",
"Note: does not apply to Australia, New Zealand, or Japan, perhaps because those are countries comprised of many islands, rather than one?\n\nRhode Island is not an island, gets „въ“ :-)\n\nHere are three more letters that vanished in 1917: ѳ і ѵ",
"You can say that whenever you finally beat us in football again. Until then... I-O",
"The Ukraine is weak! ",
"I mean, does it send a text to the drivers' phones? That's really the only way they're going to see it when they are playing on their phones waiting at a stop light.",
"We say The United States is instead of The United States are.",
"For the record, GTA mostly does the Los Angeles model of lights.\nVirtually all major lights in the US use the farside with a post arm or a wire. LA also has post lights for major intersections but this isn't used everywhere else.\n\nSome cities may have near side lights. But this is typically in situations like rail crossings where you don't want vehicles turning and so the STOP line & light is well before the actual intersection of the roads.",
"I think it's on Crave TV",
"As a mechanical engineer, machinist, and welder, you are mistaken. Adding a groove to a metal pipe and in-laying or fastening is extremely simple, and will hold up much better to environmental conditions than some glue and a plastic collar. If you're looking for a one-off solution that might last a month or so, sure, glue some LEDs to a pole and add a plastic collar. If you're looking for a robust solution intended for public works, do it right by integrating into the structure.",
"\"the the borderlands\"?",
"It's a symbol that people in high power positions piss on those below them.",
"She wasn’t Ukrainian though, lol. ",
"That’s almost as bad a ‘The U’",
"As a former traffic signal technician. I can fap to this",
"THE Ukraine, as opposed to all those other knock off, wannabe Ukraines.",
"In the United States of America ;)",
"As a short man, I never knew someone would have to do that. Literally dozens of people agree with you too, a real eye opener. ",
"Doesn’t really help colorblind people. ",
"Pretty sure nobody wants to be a Ukraine. ",
"I think this is for a crosswalk, so no cars crossing, so it might work in this situation. Maybe people were blowing through the crosswalk so they made the red and green big and obvious. ",
"Because that's what our parents did and their parents before that.\n",
"You still need to install LEDs inside the groove and attach them, I assume attachment would be a similar way to my proposal. Don't see how it's easier or more robust. \n\nI am talking about an LED with a collar like this |∩| which could be covered with transparent polymer or something like it, so it's just one solid flat strip - nothing sticking out. You could fasten it to the pipe if you don't like glue or screw it on. ",
"Son of a gun that must be a pain in the ass. Maybe go very close behind them and they'll get uncomfortable and roll up a little to set the lights off. ",
"#Norway joins the family of both sides.",
"That’s why traffic lights are always oriented in a standard way. If you’re colorblind you just need to know which light is go or stop. It’ll always be in the same place. ",
"Well... A point against having them on the other side is that you have to stop before the light to see it. If you have them on the other side you can stand halfway into the walkway and be a douche.",
"/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/",
"that's not at all why",
"but not the America",
"Ah yes. \n\nGo Ohio State Buckeyes!",
"Be cool if the poles loaded the time left before the light changes by creeping up to the light itself.",
"Can someone tell me why Ukraine is the only country we call \"The?\"",
"Heyyy, you're the guy who wanted to jizz on his face in the shower, got stuck doing a fucking acrobatic position, grated his ass, and had to wipe the semen off with a shit covered finger.",
"Isn't it this is common? I mean, I can see that in other countries I visited.",
"r/mildlyinteresting",
"These traffic lights change countries every repost. ",
"These Here States!",
"How is it that a country undergoing years of civil war has better infrastructure than the US. ",
"Fucking Putins at the door and you all are wasting time fancying up the traffic lights? I’m so glad my grandparents got kicked out of your country for being traitors, so glad. ",
"The Wikipedia article seems to agree with you. However, right across the way from The Bronx, we have Harlem, which we do NOT refer to as \"The Harlem\" even though that place sits on its namesake river too. Like most of the English language, it's just another mess.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bronx#Use_of_definite_article",
"My goodness. What's next, some kind of tasty chicken dish??\n\n",
"In New York City, this is illegal. However, NYC is different than most of the rest of the United States in this regard. NYC calls them the \"don't block the box\" laws. If you pull into that intersection and get stuck in the middle when the light turns red, it is YOUR fault. You can get a fine and points on your license.\n\nhttps://www.google.com/search?q=nyc+don%27t+block+the+box&client=firefox-b-1-ab&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjyu6in3-_YAhXC0VMKHR2ZA6UQ_AUICigB&biw=1366&bih=626\n\nThe intention of these laws is to keep traffic moving and to prevent gridlock.",
"They are decades ahead of the US",
"http://www.lightinsight.com\n\nIt was the single best purchase I have made for my car. No more bent neck.",
"In Japan and Taiwan, they are also on the same side of the street. My mom accidentally stopped in the middle of the intersection a few times when we first moved to Canada.",
"Speaking of the UK..in one place in the US, we simply put the green on top just because no one there can stand to see the red of St. George's Cross flying above the green of the Irish Free State. To them, four hundred years was enough of that nonsense. https://imgur.com/gallery/0WlivGW\n\nhttps://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-ab&tbm=isch&q=green+on+top+traffic+light&chips=q:green+on+top+traffic+light,g_7:tipp+hill&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwixx56u5e_YAhURMt8KHVnGCxoQ4lYINCgA&biw=1366&bih=626&dpr=1\n\nThe traffic law was never modified to legally allow for this. But that neighborhood just says fuck it and runs the signal that way anyway.",
"Proof that no matter how green the light is people still be mashing on their brakes!",
"Anyone seeking more info might also check here:\n\ntitle | points | age | /r/ | comnts\n:--|:--|:--|:--|:--\n[These traffic lights in the Ukraine.](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7seg6j/these_traffic_lights_in_the_ukraine/) | 53798 | 15^hrs | pics | 1290\n[Cool Ukrainian traffic lights](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/5lo6gn/cool_ukrainian_traffic_lights/) | 53253 | 1^yr | pics | 1331\n[Might be an interesting thing to adopt](http://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/567te2/might_be_an_interesting_thing_to_adopt/) | 317 | 1^yr | vancouver | 83\n[Ukrainian traffic lights](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/5663rd/ukrainian_traffic_lights/) | 1501 | 1^yr | pics | 56\n[These traffic lights](http://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/565v9s/these_traffic_lights/) | 2660 | 1^yr | interestingasfuck | 58\n[Ukrainian traffic lights](http://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/565t0r/ukrainian_traffic_lights/) | 6458 | 1^yr | Cyberpunk | 350\n[Traffic light for the Jedi. In Ukraine.](http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/565aoj/traffic_light_for_the_jedi_in_ukraine/) | 5182 | 1^yr | funny | 123\n[Väntar du på att hela stolpen ska bli grön eller?](http://www.reddit.com/r/sweden/comments/5lqcel/väntar_du_på_att_hela_stolpen_ska_bli_grön_eller/) | 442 | 1^yr | sweden | 23\n[Traffic light for the Jedi. In Ukraine.](http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/6ptxue/traffic_light_for_the_jedi_in_ukraine/) | 51 | 6^mos | funny | 4\n[traffic lights upgraded in Malaysia](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/5usfkg/traffic_lights_upgraded_in_malaysia/) | 4314 | 11^mos | pics | 79\n\n*[Source: karmadecay](http://karmadecay.com/results/u7842467)*",
"I seen that kind of traffic lights in Ordu/Turkey too",
"I disagree with your approach, and if it was my project I'd be happy to present this to you in a more clear fashion. However, since none of this really matters and is purely hypothetical, I'm going to move on.\n\nCheers.",
"Am I the only one that finds it weird that sometimes Ukraine is referred to as THE Ukraine...as if there’s a need to distinguish it from that other Ukraine that we always forget about. ",
"It's just an old way of saying it. Changed in the 1990s according to wiki so no need to be harsh about it:\n\n> From November 1991, several American journalists began to use \"Ukraine\" instead of \"the Ukraine\". The Associated Press dropped the article \"the\" on 3 December 1991. This approach has become established in journalism and diplomacy since.\n\n> Referring to the country as \"the Ukraine\" instead of \"Ukraine\" is considered insulting and derogatory by many Ukrainians. U.S. ambassador William Taylor states the usage of \"the Ukraine\" is now seen as implying disregard for the country's sovereignty. He noted that it continues in Russian usage\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Ukraine#%22Ukraine%22_versus_%22the_Ukraine%22",
"United States and America\nWhich makes sense, grammatically \n",
"You know the Soviet Union only made it independent under international law was so it could give them an extra vote in the UN right?",
"Actually... distracting... I don't think it is a good idea.... For the post itself.\n\nAs for the second light on the post, that's good. Here we have that on many corners and they are very usefull! Specially when the ~~idio...brainde...stupi...~~ engineer that designed the corner decided it was a good idea to put the post on the wrong side of the corner (close to you instead of on the other side), and right at the stop line, and quite high since full height trucks are allowed... Seriously, you just can't see the light...",
"This will confuse too many people. Drunk, high, no common sense, retards, it's honestly not a good idea. ",
"Coming to the U.S. in 2032!! Can’t wait",
"yep, everyone in the netherlands is dutch and depending on your province you may be a hollanderll",
"This is in Kyiv. Near by Lebid hotel I guess!",
"In the Netherlands we have [this](https://i.imgur.com/nRZzZkj.jpg). There is no way of seeing the light for a left turn without looking at the one for going straight.",
"Is this near the stadium in Kyiv or am I trippin? They must have changed the lights since summer because I didn’t see these when I went.",
"It does really piss us off and we would really like it if people stopped doing it. If anything, not saying ‘the’ means you have one less word to worry about.",
"I don’t get that. We’ve always used “na Ykraine” to say “in Ukraine” and I’m from Ukraine. What’s the difference? Why do people use “na”? No one has ever told me it’s derogatory.",
"That's not relevant, but yeah. People of Ukraine were trying to become independent again all the time since Kievan Rus was teared apart and closes attempt was UNR when Reds killed the tsar. So when Stalin died and Union's administration become less totalitary they had to give some privileges (for example Crimea) to UkrSSR so there won't be any accidents. The trick worked and first countries to send Soviet to fuck off happened to be situated a bit westerner.",
"Infrastructure!",
"This is across from central circus (the dome on the photo) on Peremohy Square. The lights are seen from Sakhsaganskogo Street. Here's the [map spot](https://www.google.com.ua/maps/@50.4458383,30.4946787,3a,75y,326.43h,79.21t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sCjquunWtokn0sI-QTIUC5g!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DCjquunWtokn0sI-QTIUC5g%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D55.664978%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656).",
"YOU WOT M8",
"This is great! If I am first in line at the light I can't see what color it is, I'm very tall and my windshield is a slit. I can only hope we catch up with our technologically superior friends.",
"Just because op is a Ukrainian. ",
"Originally this traffic lights from Moscow and it appeared on Moscow's streets 3-4 years ago. ",
"Easier to see.",
"“na” presumes just geographical territory, not a sovereign state",
"This comes from Ukraine being a part of USSR. In Ukrainian grammar “na” is used to denote a republic/ territory, etc., whereas “v” denotes a country.",
"This was the first thing I came to read in this thread. Drives me crazy!",
"I did not know that. We were never taught the distinction but I guess growing up in the South during the early 90s, it wouldn’t have been top of the curriculum.",
"How come it's the Ukraine and not the France or the Finland for example.?",
"It isn't that odd for most people. The United States, The United Kingdom/The UK, and the Netherlands being some acceptable examples. There's also a lot of non-state regions/areas that have a \"the\". The Hamptons, Cape Cod in Massachusetts is often shortened to The Cape. I'm not saying you're wrong to dislike it's use in this case, but it's not that weird grammatically for most people and they're typically just completely oblivious to the distinction.",
"I don't know man, THE CHINA actually sounds really cool. Anything with THE in front of it does. But hey, you already got your answer from someone else #getschooled",
"Most of those are plurals though. The UK is the exception but it's because of the 'kingdom' part that it's not unusual to include 'the'",
"Wish it were translated into English so we can read it!\n\nId love to start this in my town!",
"Some of the [lecture material](http://www.liikennevalot.info/opi/index.shtml) actually has English translations, so that's something. Google Translate also kinda almost works, so you can try going through it. Just be prepared for some weird parts when it inevitably gets the context wrong.",
"Ontario was largely unsettled in 1776; if Quebec had joined the Colonies, it's plausible the peninsula a nd southeastern area could have been included in US territory like the area of the Great Lakes States was. Nova Scotia, while not as extreme as Florida, apaprently did not have a strong local government tradition like the 13 did",
"Actually the 3 Caucasian republics were once united before becoming union republics in USSR, and I *think* at least the eastern parts of the northern Caucasian territories were a federal union republic for a while before becoming part of the RSFSR. Many ways it could have gone, lots of things to fix if I find my magic lamp.",
"I often imagine BC (without Vancouver and Queen Charlotte Islands) beign called Caldonya",
"I will give it a go thx mucho mas",
"> Germania\n\nThere's no Germania in Ukrainian. We use Nimechyna which literally means land of the mute. Still feminine though.",
"I've heard a few people refer to it as Germania, maybe some novel 'correct' movement. Ukrainian language on television seems to be super correct compared to the stuff I hear in the West. Maybe I was just raised in a tiny village. Dunno. ",
"Nice...at least he isn't AN Ukrainian.",
"I was aiming for the student population but the big house is probably a better metric!",
"Glad I am not the only one...\n\nEdit: Anyone else have monochromia?",
"These are 🔥 ",
"How the fuck else are you supposed to know when to go? Someone honking at you?",
"I mean, the car’s entire driver area is covered in a pane of glass, so it looks like I’m staring at the interior roof of my car. \n\n\nThis is what an Eos roof looks like(while in sunroof mode but you can see the glass)\nhttp://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2006/11/eos.jpg\n",
"Yeah, but what about everyone else? Just doesn't make sense why they would put the traffic light 80 degrees above the front car.",
"Currently training myself to stop further back",
"Anyone seeking more info might also check here:\n\ntitle | points | age | /r/ | comnts\n:--|:--|:--|:--|:--\n[Might be an interesting thing to adopt](http://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/567te2/might_be_an_interesting_thing_to_adopt/) | 317 | 1^yr | vancouver | 83\n[These traffic lights](http://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/565v9s/these_traffic_lights/) | 2660 | 1^yr | interestingasfuck | 58\n[Ukrainian traffic lights](http://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/565t0r/ukrainian_traffic_lights/) | 6458 | 1^yr | Cyberpunk | 350\n[Traffic light for the Jedi. In Ukraine.](http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/565aoj/traffic_light_for_the_jedi_in_ukraine/) | 5182 | 1^yr | funny | 123\n[Cool Ukrainian traffic lights](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/5lo6gn/cool_ukrainian_traffic_lights/) | 53253 | 1^yr | pics | 1331\n[Ukrainian traffic lights](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/5663rd/ukrainian_traffic_lights/) | 1501 | 1^yr | pics | 56\n[Väntar du på att hela stolpen ska bli grön eller?](http://www.reddit.com/r/sweden/comments/5lqcel/väntar_du_på_att_hela_stolpen_ska_bli_grön_eller/) | 442 | 1^yr | sweden | 23\n[Traffic light for the Jedi. In Ukraine.](http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/6ptxue/traffic_light_for_the_jedi_in_ukraine/) | 51 | 6^mos | funny | 4\n[traffic lights upgraded in Malaysia](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/5usfkg/traffic_lights_upgraded_in_malaysia/) | 4314 | 11^mos | pics | 79\n\n*[Source: karmadecay](http://karmadecay.com/r/pics/comments/7seg6j/these_traffic_lights_in_the_ukraine/?via=chromeExtension)*",
"Doug dimmadome ",
"What city is this?",
">Kyiv. \n\nSorry, had to do it. "
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"r/shittycarmods ?",
"[Ok Szalinski](http://pics.imcdb.org/8460/vlcsnap-2017-06-15-14h35m43s154.jpg), just don't go around shrinking anybody.",
"Seems like a lot of work for not a lot of charging.",
"Yea, I was thinking the same...I wonder how much charging do the solar panels actually provide."
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[
"In a couple years this guy will star in a movie about the making of \"the disaster artist\"",
"There are tons of Italian dudes look just like James Franco. They are usually wise asses too ",
"ayyyyy",
"Franco's new body double.",
"Where is this? I think he waited on me once before.",
"In Canton, GA",
"Then he has a twin in Portsmouth NH. ",
"He was nice and you could tell he hears it EVERY TIME how he is a Franco twin, but he was awesome about it (including giving me permission for the pic)",
"Wasn't this guy in Spider Man?",
"***The Remaster Artist***\n*^^^starring ^^^James ^^^Italiano*\n\n^^^sorry, ^^^it’s ^^^the ^^^best ^^^I ^^^could ^^^do.",
"Very nice smile!",
"It was all fun and games for him, until about a month ago.",
"It must be nice to have people say you look like a good looking celebrity, because then you know you're good looking. Every time it comes to me when we're playing the \"who do you look like\" game, all I get is, \"You don't really look like anybody, you're just you!\" Thanks? ",
"Franco’s doppelgänger that didn’t make it",
"Control C + Franco",
"He probably has big plans for Spring Break.",
"I guess his dad got around",
"I thought so too",
"Yeah Franco is really quite cute, I'd never noticed before.",
"That'll do, pig. That'll do.",
"Franco and Cruise have this unnerving smile. They don't smile with their eyes. There's no emotion in it. It's as if they are forcing a smile but inside, they aren't happy about it. \n\n“It was definitely a process. [Bale and I] talked a lot, but he was in L.A. and I was in New York. We didn’t actually meet in person a lot, just talked on the phone. We talked about how Martian-like Patrick Bateman was, how he was looking at the world like somebody from another planet, watching what people did and trying to work out the right way to behave. And then one day he called me and he had been watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman, and he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes, and he was really taken with this energy.”\n\n--Mary Harron on Bale creating the character of Patrick Bateman",
"I get told ALL THE TIME that I look like Manu Ginobili.\n\n\nBut he is *not* a handsome man. :(\n\n\nPlus I'm 9\" shorter than he is, millions of dollars poorer, and have no discernible talents. Sooo...there's that.\n\n\n**edit - OK, so a lot of you think Ginobili is good-looking. Would you be willing to sign a petition to this effect for my wife?**",
"Is he a queerbaiter too? ",
"Keep your Daughters away.",
"I think I look like hot garbage but people correct me and say I look more like wet phlegm. \n\nI mean, \"*thanks mom*\".",
"is this suppose to register something in my mind, other that a dude at olive garden has the nickname franco. my nickname is little dick, but i don't go posting pics on reddit cause of it.",
"https://i.imgur.com/pIvKZxD.gifv\n\n^^^^/r/retiredgif\n",
"What food did you get",
"Depends on the context. \n\nI live in TN, and get \"you know you look just like Darius Rucker\" all the time. I am not sure if its because they think I actually look like him. Or is that I am black, bald and have a goatee. \n\nI find that's it only white people that do that, though.",
"Franco Mangiapane!",
"I'm in Portsmouth NH. Can confirm am his twin. Cya at Harpoon Willies this spring.",
"Ha Ha, what a story, breadsticks!",
"Really? I even asked my son to confirm that we saw this guy (your twin). ",
"Lol you can't retire your own gif",
"Did he try to take your panties off and go down on you?",
"No not really",
"LOL ",
"He looks like James Franco.",
"i agree, franco's smile comes across as so fake. This guy is doing the same smile but it seems much more genuine. \n\nit's almost like an exhausted, overexagtered smile. ",
"I give you bravery credit for eating there.",
"Is James Franco French?",
"It's like James Franco and Jay Baruchel had a baby. ",
"BOO\n\nBAD FORM",
"“Oh no, I look like someone famous, good looking, and funny. The horror.”",
"What's the cheapest thing to make? Noodles. Why do they charge so much for noodles at the Olive Garden? If I want microwaved chicken and noodles, I can do the same thing at home for 1/10th the cost.",
"You’re paying for the bread",
"Don’t let him toss your salad",
"wait..is this in canton?? This guy looks scarily familiar",
"lol",
"I guess you never watched Freaks and Geeks then",
"Its the eyes. \n\nMy momma always said \"smile with your eyes!\" \n\nand she occasionally said \"get your dirty fingers out of your nose.\"",
"More like if James Franco and Dave Franco had a child and named him Franco Franco",
"Dude fondled your breadsticks. ",
"People tell me I look like Dax Shepard... Hasn't put any butter on my bread yet, but hey, if I can inspire even one person to rewatch \"without a paddle\" it'll all have been worth it.",
"Good looking and funny are subjective but yeah. I've had people tell me I look like Justin Long and don't know how to take it. ",
"This young man has one of those smiles that makes me chuckle warmly. ",
"Omg he’s really cute",
"Username checks out",
"He’s cute.",
"You may not be ready, but if anything inappropriate happened you are in a safe place to talk about it.",
"He isn't ugly at all.",
"James Frencho",
"I can’t think of a more me_irl comment than this.\n\nAlso: me too thanks",
"He looks like a wholesome franco",
"I think you look like a shitfaced dick",
"Seriously? He LOOKS like James Franco...",
"\"I'm Franco's Franco, just fugghateabouditttt\"",
"I go for the soup, not the TV dinners",
"He's adorable but all the Franco brothers have that \"i'm your friend's little brother, I'll annoy you until you leave\" sorta vibe... this dude ain't different. ",
"I think it’s the yup I know I look like him, thaaaaanks but nicely",
"It is",
"I get the soup (sans breadsticks, sorry to disappoint). The kale and sausage one, Zuppa something?",
"Uhm no this guy was mainly nice and brought me soup efficiently...",
"I'LL ALLOW IT.",
"I know what you mean, I swear I've seen him in movies!",
"> Manu Ginobili.\n\n[lol](http://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/i/headshots/nba/players/full/272.png&w=350&h=254)\n\nDon't worry. I get told I look like Rick Moranis.",
"So where’s the name tag?\n\nIs his name really Kevin?",
"I’ve been told I look like Owen Wilson not sure if good or bad",
"I get told all the time that I look just like \"that one actress. I can't remember her name\".",
"Now he can say, it wasn't me, it was the waiter from Olive Garden, canton Georgia.!!!!",
"lol it was one of those round buttons but he kept it in his pocket, I think it was given to him, but he didn’t actively wear it",
"But I can suggest it ¯\\\\\\_(ツ)\\_/¯",
"Manu with or without hair?",
"But on the bright side, at least 30 internet strangers thought what you had to say was funny. ",
"He could make some good money as a celebrity impersonator",
"[Young Manu](https://i.pinimg.com/474x/81/8e/8d/818e8d966c0865de27bba59d84f60616--manu-ginobili-sports-figures.jpg) is actually not bad looking",
"whoa this is at the olive garden right next to my house lol",
"Did you ask him if he gave the pin back?",
"I get told I look like mcluvin from super bad. I would rather be nobody",
"Is your response wow?",
"WOW ",
"I get Jonah Hill... so don't complain about yours.",
"Why?",
"Now kith",
"Personally, I'm looking forward to James Franco's movie about being a waiter at The Olive Garden. It's obvious that he'll be well-rehearsed for the role. \n",
"I see Jeff Buckley tbh",
"I dont think you or u/CartoonDogOnJetpack know how babies are made.",
"He might not like seeing his picture online with where he lives/works.",
"I get Seth Rogan. \n\nAwesome. Thanks. :/",
"yeah I get Josh Gad, Seth Rogen, \"chubby Leonard from BBT,\" and last night, Bobby Moynahan. \n\nUgh. ",
"Imagine having to go through life with the face of a celebrity sex pest.",
"*suggestion received*",
"It's familiar.\nBut not too familiar.\nBut not too not familiar.",
"It can get a bit old. I have been getting called Keanu Reeves for years. Hell, I had a woman call me it when I reported for jury duty. I don't see it though, especially now that I have put on a little weight.",
"For the record, I was saying BooURNS.",
"People actually still go to Olive Garden?",
"Or Franc Franco",
"My father and I share a problem. Whenever there's an 'artist's impression' of some guy the police are looking for, one or other of us looks like it depending on whether there's a beard or not.",
"Can I date him? ",
"I don't get it",
"IT'S A NEW CRRRAAAZZEEEEE",
"Brother from another, fucker!",
"He’s handsome ",
"I think Manu is a pretty good looking dude, quite frankly.",
"I see TIM Buckley tbh\n\n(https://www.discogs.com/artist/71872-Tim-Buckley)",
"This. I'm in the same boat. Perhaps we look like each other. Now one of us just has to become famous.",
"8.5/10 would fuck",
"I get told I look like Chris Evans a lot, except I’m about 2.5 inches taller than him. A lot less muscle and a lot less money though. ",
"My first ever Bumble match told me I looked like Giovanni Ribisi. Debated telling her she looked like Chris Farley in response.",
"Good shout 👍🏻",
"Not when they tell you that you look like Rob Schneider.",
"Zuppa Toscana all the way",
"I've gotten Michael Cera on multiple occasions.",
"wow a waiter. what a picture.",
"Did you ask him how the pie was?",
"I get Laura Prepon a lot but my husband gets Hugh Jackman, specifically as Wolverine. He gets annoyed, I just giggle every time someone asks about his claws. It’s also not a bad gig having a hot husband. ",
"Your actual waiter? So not virtual? ",
"Dax Shepard was in my homeroom in high school. AMA.",
"did he rape a bunch of women too?",
"Just googled this guy and he’s not bad at all. I do love a guy with a big nose though.",
"I'm often told I look like Johnny Galecki or Elon Musk. Or a friend and coworker of mine.\n\nI'm not terribly sure if they're considered attractive or not. I'm just glad they're definately not ugly lol.",
"The eyes are what make a good smile good. ",
"Ehhxcellent...",
"...And my mom says I'm cool.",
"Mostly without. I'm 42 and have not escaped that gene.",
"WAOW",
"> Good looking and funny are subjective\n\nit's literally what he is world famous for. . . ",
"He's not ugly. If he has charisma and a good smile, that's all it would take for me to think he's attractive. ",
"This could take an unfortunate turn for him if James Franco gets confirmed for committing sexual harassment",
"Ooooh. I get \"Ross from Friends!\" I feel similar to how you do. ",
"I went to school with him. Sacramento CA.",
"It's with spoons, right?",
"I'm kinda jealous. Hell a beard like wolverine would be enough tbh. ",
"\"Like Freddy Kruger fucked a topographical map of Utah.\"",
"never heard of him. ",
"When I was in high school I got Jack Osbourne :/",
"Your day will come, Horatio Sanz",
"My mom’s cousin has been mistaken all his life for Gareca- a really famous argentine soccer player(he’s argentine too). He’s Peru’s current coach who got them into the WC for the first time in half a century or something but also single handedly eliminated them from it in the past.",
"I won’t. ",
"did barry save him?",
"Never realized how much James Franco looks like the Fonz until this photo of neither of them.",
"Well you seem very eloquent, can write very well and have a tremendous amount of self awareness. Boom! Those are three ways you are talented right there :) See",
"Yeah, but your username suggests you cast a pretty wide net, lol.",
"And then the sex happened.",
"Yeah, but not always. People say i look like post Malone, but without the talent I'm just a dirty white dude ",
"Aww, thank you!\n\n\n😍\n",
"All the internet karma in the world isn't with admitting you voluntarily ate at the Olive Garden ",
"Pretty sure it's for being an actor... ",
":p my username references the origin of the unicorn! ",
"You sound nice.",
"Not an insult depending on who you talk to. I like him personally. ",
"Years ago I visited China and went to the Great Wall. As I was walking with my tour group through the row of vendors selling t-shirts and souvenirs, one of them ran up to our group pointing at me and asking, \"The lost? The lost?\" I was like, \"No, I'm with a group. We're going to the wall.\" He kept on asking and I was a little confused thinking he was trying to pull something on me. Finally he spoke with the guide who turned to me and said, \"He wants to know if you are on the tv show Lost.\" Dude thought I was Hurley.",
"Anyway, how's your sex life?",
"I get Kevin Smith from Clerks/Jay and Silent Bob all the time...so...yeah",
"I get mistaken for other people quite a lot, but that's because I'm kind of a generic-looking white guy. Therefore I must look like a lot of peoples 'Friend-of-a-friend'. ",
"Excuse me? Emmanuel Ginobili is the most handsome thing ever to come out of South America. ",
"2 late you’ve been leaked to the internets now ",
"Did you ever talk?",
"I've gotten Robert Pattinson, I shit you not, *at least* a dozen times in the last few years, and about ten times as many variations on \"vampire\" or \"twilight.\" \n\nI'm honestly not sure whether to be pissed or flattered.",
"Looks like Tim Buckley ",
"There are subreddits full of nutjobs here. You piss off one of them, and who knows what they will try to pull.",
"Except that JF is Portuguese but whatever.",
"I get Seth Rogen a lot. I hang my head in shame, but it could be worse.",
"You’re right lol. Reddit is scary ",
"Idk, maybe it's because the smiles we see from Franco aren't genuine. And that's perfectly normal. \n\nWhy would anyone think they are? These guys get a hoard of cameras shoved in their faces and are supposed to look jubilant in that moment? Other stars might be better at \"smiling with the eyes\" but I'm not going to call someone soulless just because they can't. I always felt like most people force smiles for the camera.",
"You know what's worse? Being mistaken with a not so attractive celeb. For example on multiple occasions I was told i look like mac miller... I already knew I was fugly, this confirmed it.",
"I constantly get told I look like Steve Buscemi. Brought it up to my mom and she agreed. ",
"That's because this guy probably felt happier when asked for his pic. I don't blame a celebrity for not brimming with pure joy when a bunch of cameras ask him for a pic. I feel like most pictures of normal people are faked smiles for the camera anyways.:/ unless it's candid.",
"\"You look a bit like Jenifer Aniston, and you look a bit like a younger Sam l jackson, it's the eyes and the teeth\"\n\nWinalloveryourface: \"what about me?\"\n\n\"...you look a bit like a dinosaur..!?\"\n\nThe general gist of 5 independent conversations over the course of my 28 years on this planet.\n\nI guess I have short arms and a massive nose/jaw",
"Looks handsome to me.",
"He's actually smokin', especially with a little beard thing going on. ",
"[Same, but different...](https://i.imgur.com/kjcuIqL.gif)",
"I didn't know Miles \"Franco\" Wood worked at an Olive Garden now",
"This is James Franco’s alter ego: Frank Jameso. ",
"Since moving to Houston I also get Seth Rogen. Its mainly just the voice, we sound exactly alike but I have had multiple people question it at restaurants when we go out. ",
"Why did you go to an Olive Garden? Is there not a single Italian family place around you?",
"I'll sign",
"He could be their brother but he didn't get enough love and encouragement, so he works at Olive Garden. James and Dave are mean to him at Thanksgiving. ",
"Ginóbili is quite a handsome man! He’s just handsome in a distinctly mediterranean sort of way.",
"Nerdier uglier looking version sure.",
"lol...not really",
"He is one cool devil",
"That's because he is.",
"Funny you say that...\n\n\nTrue story: I was in an elevator in Seattle (I don't even live in WA, I was there for a conference), and a guy riding in the elevator with me looks over and says,\n\n\n\"Dude, are you like, from Jordan?\"\n\n\nwtf? Apart from looking just like Ginobili, I am genetically the whitest white European you could ever imagine. I've had two of those commercial DNA genealogy tests, and both have come back 100% northern European.\n\n\nIt's weird.\n\n",
"Fair enough. ",
"Nope, live and actual. I knew the level of smart ass about going to OG would not disappoint. ",
"I know it’s not “authentic” Italian but damn it’s still tasty soup ",
"That’s so funny! I know there’s a lot of ethnic similarity in the Levant, but specifically pinning your features as Jordanian strikes me as a really peculiar thing to do!",
"I already feel sexually assaulted. Ugh.",
"Yeah I think the dude was high. It was such a random comment, and he seemed like a real stoner. I get that I look Mediterranean, but...*Jordan*, in particular?",
"Well I didn’t say WHEN I went. Assumptions are this was today or something but much like the TIFU trend, this wasn’t today, or even this year. So. I’m sure it’s fine. Also, I have no idea where he lives.",
"Being from Jordan is my preferred euphemism for being stoned starting... now!",
"Made me chuckle haha good one!",
"James FAKEo",
"what has this to do with Fransisco Franco ?",
"This guy fucks",
"The majority of \"good looking\" are mostly features that indicate youth, fitness and health. Although there's a lot of aspects to fitness and not all of them are necessary result in what typically passes for culturally 'aesthetically pleasing'\n\nThere's not a lot you can do for the first one, you're either young or not. Although there's a nearly as good *'looking young for your age'* which is a kind of half compilement, half backhanded compliment that is used to describe people who are older and healthy.\n\nBottom line, the vast majority of looking good is down to your lifestyle choices, and not who or what your face looks like at all.",
"> Plus I'm 9\" shorter than he is\n\nTIL Penis size can have negatives.",
"YES! I always knew that dumb story would serve some higher purpose one day!",
"Only white people know who Darius Rucker is.",
"[Maybe they mean this guy?](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/480x270/p05nc8ly.jpg)",
"Omg",
"A good looking and funny one...",
"Samuel L Jackson?",
"> My father and I share a problem.\n\nGet him his own crossword book for father's day.",
"Maybe they'd stop if you didn't go around wearing a fireman uniform and carrying a hosepipe?",
"You laugh but you can imagine him in a nightclub on holiday, he's not going to say to the ladies \"Nah, I'm not the guy off the TV\"\n\n\"Yeah, I know it looks like I'm taking the vacation that only a waiter can afford, but ever since I made the film *'5 days with a trapped arm, see how I figured out how to fap'* I've had a thing for living rough\" \n\"Wow...\" ",
"I get that too, then it’s always followed up with “Ya know, in Captain America... before the muscles”.... yeah, thanks man..",
"No idea who that is, but no. ",
"Manu Ginobili is a Golden god. You should be proud. ",
"Damn, yeah I have an athletic build and am not scrawny, but definitely not as jacked as Chris Evans Captain America. ",
"franco is a cutie, 1 order of sit on my face pronto!",
"Same... I’ve always been tall and thin with broad shoulders.... but I have nothing on him. People think they are being nice... so thank you? Haha",
"[It's kind of obviously Chris Evans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Evans_(presenter\\))",
"I am tearing you apart, breadstick!",
"Humble bragging, and exaggerated Twilight hate in 2018, a most excellent cringe cocktail ",
"According to Wikipedia, he's Portuguese, Swedish, and Jewish (of Russian Jewish descent). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Franco#Early_life",
"I think you might be projecting a bit",
"I apparently look like I could be Kevin bacons son. Is That a compliment or not...?",
"This is the first time I've seen a Long Winters reference in the wild.",
"I get told I look identical to either Anne Hathaway or the main actress in Stranger Than Fiction. One is a compliment...the other is not, because the stranger than fiction girl did NOT age well...",
"He hardly even looks like Franco.",
"He's got the beard, the chops, and the mean mug.",
"I see a little bit of Andy Sandburg in there ",
"male Emilia Clarke right there",
"James Franco and Calum Von Moger love child.",
"According to allegations, he'll give you breadsticks even if you don't want them. ",
"He's actually not nicknamed Franco because of his appearance, but because he tries to have sex with underage girls that come into the store.",
"As a straight dude, I would fuck manu ",
"I mean, why wouldn't Franco's name tag say \"Franco\" on it? Stupid. . .",
"Or maybe it would just be they think you're the ugly version of a celebrity:\n\n\"You know, you look a bit like Zac Efron. I mean, he's super hot and has muscles, but your cheeks look like his.\"",
"Watch your 17-year-old daughters around this guy. ",
"Patrick Swayze’s brother looks like Patrick Swayze, but that doesn’t make him good looking.",
"He used to be a waiter at the Movie Tavern in Roswell. He didn’t have the Franco name tag yet though, but got lots of attention. ",
"Sigh, another lackluster AMA, I miss the days of Victoria, her shit was on point.",
"I'm an olive skinned chubby guy with long curly hair and fucking Maui from Moana is the bane of my existence.",
"He's only got the minimum pieces of flair. Weak. ",
"He’s the perfect mix of Dave and James. ",
"Once a co worker told me “Oh have you seen that Stephen Hawking movie? You look just like him!” She got a little embarrassed and clarified, “Oh I meant the actor!” Too late, the damage was done. I just wish I could have delivered a deadpan burn like Stephen does. ",
"Im looking at this while eating at an olive garden!! HA",
"This guy fucks",
"And now millions of people know where you live.",
"Woah. ",
"Seth Rogen is pretty handsome. Just chunky with the wild jew fro. I mean, [look](http://cdn02.cdn.justjared.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/seth-oscars/seth-rogen-jason-bateman-2017-oscars-06.jpg). Dude cleans up nice. ",
"Well not exactly. Unless they roam the streets screaming Wafflespro they probably wouldn’t find him. ",
"Well people always tell me I Look like Gary Busey...",
"I love Dax. Especially his adventures with his wife.\n\n[Have you seen this incredible piece](https://youtu.be/vgL3puDfuRg)?",
"Yeah wtf is the op smoking, that dudes handsome af",
"People used to tell me i looked like jonah hill.\nAnd i always wondered if they meant before or after he lost all the weight. Lol\n\nEdit: i googled him for fun, and the first image that came up looked way too like me. People are right.... lol. Could be worse",
"ARE YOU?",
"I've been called Leonardo Di Caprio by mostly foreign asian women and girls.",
"James Francophile",
":(",
"He’s gonna be upset when someone accuses him of sexual assault on accident ",
"I get Philip Seymour Hoffman a lot",
"I think seth Rogan is cute as hell. I think its mostly his voice and laugh but he is handsome to some people.",
"I’m sorry, Don.",
"The eyes are the nipples of the face. ",
"[\"So good...\"](http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view1/1271241/spiderman-pie-o.gif)",
"Girl, me and my gaystie (gay bestie) will be hitting your Olive Garden this weekend! \n\nWe normally do our peach sangria Saturday over at Barrett Parkway but we decided this is worth slogging to Canton. \n\n",
"he looks like Wells from the Bachelor, can't see much of anyone else in him",
"He is so lucky and beautiful ",
"He used to have long hair and a scraggly beard that made him look disheveled. ",
"Do you run into a ton of people who know what he looks like? I mean he's good, but not like MJ, Lebron, or Kobe famous. You must live in that state I assume.",
"Just that he worked in the Canton OH Olive Garden. Now I'm being creepy. Anyway, isn't it obvious this is kind of creepy? Do we need a mod here to make a call?\nEdit: I jumped the gun and thought we'd told the world where a james franco lookalike could be ambushed at work, I was wrong. ",
"I lucked out and got skinny Matt Damon. I even had the same hair at the time of Good Will Hunting. ",
"But that could mean you're [in ok shape](https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/126/590x/secondary/Jonah-Hill-weight-loss-973763.jpg) or look like you [ate the Jonah Hill that was in shape](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/12/21/16/3B8FBB9400000578-4055482-Dedicated_to_his_craft_Jonah_seen_here_in_Burbank_in_April_2015_-a-43_1482336296364.jpg)",
"Well you got the state wrong, so at least he has that going for him. ",
"Had to step out to google who this was but I came back to say I think he's quite good looking. I mean you made it sound like he was a hideous ogre or something. I'll sign a petition for your wife but I'm betting she already likes the way you look if she married you. ;)",
"Well considering it’s Captain America half the time I don’t think so. ",
"James Francoberg",
"noice. NEver knew there were multiple Cantons. I hope its less of a shithole than the one in Ohio, where they can only take pleasure in the fact that their votes count.",
"So fun story I use to work with this guy at a movie theater 3 or 4 years ago, and we called him Franco there too!",
"I got Conan O’Brien a lot when I was younger. Even some weird awesome hippie on Haight and Ashbury in SF stopped and was like, “Whoa, you look just like Conan O’Brien”. Now I get Louis CK. Both compliments in my book aside from the whole sexual assault shit from CK. ",
"I met a dude years ago who looks just like Andres Iniesta. He didn't know who that was so I showed him a picture and he hated it. It really upset him. Granted, Iniesta looks somewhat like an ape person but it's not that bad.",
":(",
"There's a few:\n\nCanton, California\n\nCanton, Connecticut\n\nCanton, Georgia\n\nCanton, Illinois\n\nCanton, Indiana\n\nCanton, Iowa\n\nCanton, Kansas\n\nCanton, Maine\n\nCanton, Baltimore, Maryland, a neighborhood and park\n\nCanton, Massachusetts\n\nCanton, Michigan\n\nCanton, Minnesota\n\nCanton, Mississippi\n\nCanton, Missouri\n\nCanton, Montana, \n\nCanton, New Jersey\n\nCanton, New York, a town\n\nCanton (village), New York\n\nCanton, North Carolina\n\nCanton City, North Dakota\n\nCanton, Ohio\n\nCanton, Oklahoma\n\nCanton, Pennsylvania\n\nCanton, South Dakota\n\nCanton, Texas\n\nCanton, West Virginia\n",
"Definitely somewhere inbetween.",
" I used to get Michael Owen (footballer) quite a bit when we were travelling in Africa, though I don't know if this is good or bad. Got a brad Pitt, once, in deepest Panama, which was nice.",
"He even has that squinty smile that James does.",
">I am genetically the whitest white European you could ever imagine.\n\n\nyeahhhhhhhhh",
"James Franco: Method Waiter",
"Definitely not 37 pieces of flair. ",
"what is that from?",
"Yeah, I live in South Texas, so the Spurs are HUGE here.",
"fuck yea, love olive garden.",
"He should play James Franco when they make a documentary about the North Korea mission.",
"Chuck: GIIIIINNNNNNOOOOOOOBBBIIIIILLIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!",
"Well, we've been married 17+ years, but I'm starting to suspect the long con...\n\n\nlol\n",
"Looks more like Jonathan Taylor Franco....",
"It's from the Deadpool movie\n\nEdit: here's a link of the scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxfFcMLQOe0",
"he didn't say it was voluntary",
">Andy Sandburg",
"Dammit I knew I was miss speeding it. ",
"If Franco & Baruchel had a love child",
"Fucking Olive Garden!",
"\"Higher\". Golden.",
"Or he'll become Francos porn double. ",
"Hey, a lot of us are into it!",
"Wood!!!!",
"My uncle gets told he looks like Gene Shalit. ",
"Ive been told on multiple occasions I look like Seth Rogen. I didn't think I did before, nor did I want to know",
"Franco comes from his Portuguese grandfather I think",
"Well unlike Franco he doesn't radiate a smug sense of self satisfaction.",
"This is why I come here. 5 little words that embody so much meaning. I read this in Jim Gaffigan's voice. ",
"Yeah right, no one would be that happy taking a picture while working.",
"I know what I'm doing this weekend",
"I’m excited. Let us know if you find him ",
"I've been told a couple of times by strangers I look like Gerard Butler when I was in college. Don't know why. And even if I did it didn't help attracting women, but it did boost the self esteem for a couple of days. \n\nI think i look more like Seth Rogen or Zac Brown. Which is lucky because that's what my fiance is into.",
"Ehhhxactly....DOHHH!!",
"oh yeah! haha thanks",
"OP said Georgia ",
"Holy shit, I know this guy and I used to work at this Olive Garden. Small fucking world...I see this happening to other people all the time on Reddit but I never imagined it would be me.\n\nEDIT: I worked there for some stupid amount of time - ~3 years? My brother works there now. \n\nEDIT 2: Is it bad that I can almost guess which exact table in the restaurant this photo was taken?",
"psh. you're married. who cares if you look good or not. ",
"big internet though ",
"True. It's a decently sized suburb of Atlanta, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. I wonder if he knows his picture has 8k+ upvotes on reddit. I considered linking him for a second but decided against it lol",
"K.",
"\"Can you sign my breadsticks? By the way, can I have more breadsticks?\"",
"Oh, I know him! We went to the same church and worked together later. His name is not Franco at all, but he plays into the joke. ",
"please do he would have some kind of feeling about it.",
"I hope you were there to ask directions to a real Italian restaurant. That place is disgusting. ",
"He looks JUST like Tim Buckley actually",
"I did not assault her.... I did nawwt",
"He's very aware he looks like a long lost brother of the Francos (hence his nickname), so I'm not entirely sure he would be phased by the post.",
"I dont know how they make babies where you're from, but there should be a fork involved. I overheard someone on a bus so my sources are legit.",
"I'm gonna need his name, phone number, address, email, SSN, and blood type. \nP.S -- asking for a friend. ",
"Dude, first off it is McLovin, second he straight kicks ass. You don't deserve to look like him. ",
"!redditgarlic",
"Shark head?",
"And your mom says you’re cool!!",
"So... more flair then, yeah?",
"I'm probably going to get flamed for this but I don't think Olive Garden is as bad as people make it out to be. The endless breadsticks are great and I like the chicken parmesan. Sure I'd rather eat somewhere new like a small family run restaurant but that's not always an option. ",
"As a straight man, James Franco could steal my heart in an instant.",
"Does not look like him",
"I like this because James Franco is basically the Olive Garden of actors. ",
"Who was your imaginary waiter at that Olive Garden?",
"He’s hot ",
"steve buscemi looks like he could be a ventriloquist",
"Sure, he's keeping a low profile for a while as the sexual harassment claims die down...\n\nI hear Bill Cosby is the chef there.",
"He’s a fucking hospi hero! ",
"Oh you mean Hootie right?",
"[**Here's your Reddit GarlicThot, ivanravenski!**](https://imgur.com/MdrnmIU) \n\nivanravenski has received garlic 1 time. (given by /u/spez) \n\n ^I'm ^^a ^^^bot ^^^^for ^^^^questions ^^^^^contact ^^^^^/u/ETHead420",
"[yeah... looks like.](https://youtu.be/P_55jpuZonM?t=9s)",
"I get Seth Rogen sometimes. And also John Goodman. I'm not sure which is uglier, but they're both awesome actors. ",
"Nah man that's him. He's just researching another role. ",
"I get Dave Grohl and Jesus Christ a lot. Like once a week, especially since I live near where Dave Grohl lives. Which is funny because I also play guitar and sing. I used to get Jack Black a lot too because I'm funny and was a lot chubbier as a kid. \n\nBut I'll *never* forget once I got called Jontron. I was really angry about that one. ",
"I think you might have made it slightly worse by saying \"he is handsome to *some* people.\n\nI get it though. He's not Brad Pitt status but still. You trying to reason with him essentially saying \"at least I think he's cute but not because of his face.\" might not be comforting.",
"Yo soy tu papa. Franco out!",
"It looks like a Fallout character default.",
"I'm not sure how attractive I would find him without the voice and the cute laugh, but as is he's pretty darn cute. Not hot like Paul Rudd though. ",
"Fawkin home run chippah ",
"Damn, I didn’t know James gave up acting ",
"French Jake-o",
"Actually Buckley and Franco look like brothers - I've always noted the resemblance",
"That's very Synecdoche, New York ",
"He should have won a Grammy for this one.",
"Well at least better looking. ",
"No, he probably would not remember who I was.",
"“If you want him to wear 30 pieces of flair, then just make the minimum of 30 pieces of flair?!”",
"I get Eminem. I can't rap. ",
"Not when they are calling it \"a shame\" to be compared to him",
"The actual level?",
"Yeah he is high..",
"Did he try to pressure you into doing nude scenes?",
"I actually know this guy irl. He is a all around good dude and went to school with my brother.",
"He works at the Methuan Olive Garden.",
"Frank Jameso",
"This is my younger brother! Our family is Italian and he does get compared to JFranco every day. But he doesn’t live in the country anymore so don’t go looking for him ;) ",
"I really thought I saw him at the one in Newington, NH. Maybe they are triplets.",
"He was super nice! ",
"That's MY brother, everyone.❤️❤️❤️\n#Nathan>Franco",
"He was very nice! ",
"What happened to actually combing your hair instead of waking up and running moose through with your fingers? "
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My actual waiter at an Olive Garden - even his name tag had the nickname “Franco”
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[
"Most photogenic quokka I've ever seen.... Ok, it's the *only* quokka I've ever seen, but still.",
"I have a friend who always shows me her baby's photos, and she looks just like this quokka when she asks me if I want to see them!",
"It's so cute and happy! I first saw a quokka pic on Reddit a few years ago and finally 2 years ago I made it to Rottnest (helps when you have family friends who live nearby where you can stay for free!) 10/10 was worth the cost to fly there!",
"\"It's so cute!\" ... famous last words.",
"They all look like this. Source - I've seen pictures of other Quokkas and they all look like this.",
"Most quokka pics I’ve seen makes it look like they’re the happiest creatures.",
"I loved my visit to Rottnest Island because of the quokkas. They're adorable.",
"They're riddled with disease, mate!",
"The ones that hang around the pub are pretty happy - they get fed all day by bored kids while mum and dad are getting sloshed. ",
"That’s cool, so are all my partners :)",
"You flew to Rottnest?\n\nWho are you, Johnny Depp?",
"Can confirm. This is the happiest creature on the planet. I couldn't find a single picture of a quokka that wasn't smiling.",
"Damm it I’ve been found out. Time to delete this account ",
"It's funny because in real life they don't really look anything special, but in photographs they always seem to show their teeth, making them look happy.",
"They always have the look in their face like they want you to tell them the story again.",
"I imagine that the frames in the video where those assholes set one on fire it wasn't smiling. But don't try to find those.",
"Gorgeous? Naw fam. ",
"That creature looks like it is born to be preyed upon by some larger predator.\n\n",
"There are no larger predators on Rotto other than pissed up bogans. ",
"That’s true!",
"didnt one of them set one on fire a while back?",
"Probably. Fucking wankers. ",
"I have a feeling it was around the time those guys were caught kicking em around.",
"It was french tourists, http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/french-tourists-who-burnt-rottnest-quokka-choose-jail-over-4000-fines-20150420-1mp5l8.html",
"Frog tourists mate.",
"Seriously fuck those guys. ",
"Were it not for adorable animals, I would expect 0 tourist would ever visit a place named Rot Nest Island...just sayin' "
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My daughter took this photo of a quokka on Rottnest Island today. How gorgeous is it!!!!
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[
"What the hell",
"I know, right? The odds of this happening is absolutely unbelievable ",
"It's the deer version of Cerberus. ",
"/r/unexpectednightvale",
"Which one connects with the butt?",
"So smart",
"Cerdeerus",
"Deerberus",
"Credit to the photographer, [Renatas Jakaitis](http://www.naturephoto.lt/fotografas/renatas_jakaitis), who captured this astonishing moment when three fallow-deer were walking along a path and the sound of a camera shutter caught their attention.\n\nThe curious animals stood alert and unknowingly forming an optical illusion as the three deer appear to have one body and almost identical heads. Renatas Jakaitis said, “I didn’t plan it, and I never even thought about taking a photo like this. I could never have imagined however that these three deer would all turn at the same time and look at me, and make such a funny image.”\n\nhttp://www.inspirefusion.com/three-headed-deer/",
"God damnit Dave, why are you turned around!",
"I say right one. It would be a really tight bend for the left one.",
"I feel like they’re about to start a lion king esque musical number. ",
"Um yeah, not buying it. That is obviously a three headed deer.",
"I am pretty sure they all connect to a butt.",
"Oh deer",
"Kinda reminds me of soundgarden's king animal cover. Well, besides the fact that the deer here are alive. ",
"Cerbuckus",
"Actually looks like the left one. I think his antlers are in front",
"Must be a new type of Pokémon. ",
"\"This is my design\"",
"One of them Chernobyl deers",
"Oh. My. God. Bambi. *Look* at her butt.",
"One bullet.",
"Cerverus. Since \"cervine\" means deer.",
"I got a similar one when I was in Africa. Not quite as perfect...\n\nhttps://photos.app.goo.gl/ilxsWYD22XLRbjrf1",
"Please tell me this is a Hannibal reference, because I freaking love that show.",
"Dovydas would like this",
"r/bossfight",
"Do you see?",
"Welp, that actually settles the case."
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Perfectly timed photo of 3 separate deer posing for the camera simultaneously in Lithuania
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/r/pics/comments/7seovb/bill_murray_putting_on_a_carpet/
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[
"Those are different balls from the ones Clinton had out in that office.",
"[Bill Murray after putting on a carpet.](https://imgur.com/a/n1pXI)",
"Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-lagunga."
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Bill Murray putting on a carpet
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[
">visitors to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum will be able to use a new headset-based guide system, which is being introduced because of the rising number of visitors to the Memorial. The new system makes it possible to maintain visitor service at a professional standard, even when many groups are touring the Museum simultaneously.\n\n",
"It is an experience you never forget. ",
"I posted this picture on another sub a while back and people immediately explained the headphones. The picture speaks for itself. It is not about headphones.",
"Then what’s its about?",
"Well if you don’t explain the headphones it looks like a bunch of teens with their iPods in being disrespectful. ",
"I should clarify: everyone might see it differently. I posted it because I found it moving and wanted to share. Making some kind of r/im14andthisisdeep point about headphones never occurred to me.",
"That is not what it looks like to me, but I guess everyone experiences things differently. Edit: I guess since it appears to be a common reaction, it is good that u/daveloper80 explained it right away. ",
"I've never seen an entire group of teenagers using the exact same set of headphones, even with a group of iphone users most will be using their own things and not the apple earbuds ",
"I understand I was just stating that some may have seen it the other way and wouldn’t figure out why they all have headphones on. ",
"I can understand that, haha maybe it's just an american thing but i'm honestly kinda used to seeing people with headphones on in museums, audio museum tours are pretty much standard in big locations anymore ",
"I'm going to delete and resubmit with a clarification. ",
"I'm going to delete and resubmit with clarification. ",
"my grandfather was a holocaust survivor and a lot of my family was lost in Auschwitz. There is a strange judgement of people who take photographs there and I just wanted to point out that nobody was being disrespectful in this photo.",
"I appreciate the clarification. My grandmother survived Auschwitz along with her two sisters. Most of the rest of her extended family was killed. As I posted above, I found the picture moving and that is why I wanted to share it. I was initially frustrated that people seemed to be distracted by the headsets -- maybe because it was obvious to me what was going on -- but if that is what most people see, it just makes more sense to clarify. "
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American Teens Visit Auschwitz
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