For a month or so there has been thick disgusting wildfire smoke in the air. You can see, taste, and smell it. For many it causes health effects rapidly like coughing, headache, general short temper and anxiety. We’ve been breathing in toxic chemicals in the smoke for weeks now. So I see people wearing KN95 or N95 masks. But I only see like one or two a week. People complain to me that they feel sick and the smoke is bad. Well, you could wear a mask specifically designed to protect your body from that smoke.

During 2020 COVID was not visible. You couldn’t smell, see, or taste it. Scientific data showed that it was relatively harmless to normal healthy people. Data also showed plenty of promise with therapeutics and that masks really wouldn’t stop the spread of the virus. So I was walking around with no mask while pretty much everyone else wore theirs.

New recruits, fresh from their bath in a jar of paint stripper. Scale creep wasn’t always a gradual thing, nor was it always in one direction. These are all Ral Partha figures; from L-R: from pack 01-135 Lawful Swordmasters, 02-103 Chaotic Warriors, 02-104 Warriors of Chaos, and 01-137 Chaotic Knights of the Skull. The two larger figures were listed first in the 1986 catalog. The two smaller ones show up in the early 90s, and are comparable to most of RP’s older “true 25mm” figures including the 1970s/80s historicals.

They addressed this, sort of, in the 1986 catalog:

It seems every progressive libtard woman with access to the internet lost their damn minds the last two days.

Hurray!! Luigi assassinated a husband and father!

Hug that woman who methodically killed her own three children. It’s not her fault.

Hurray we get to kill our baby right up until delivery!

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"How is claiming they drowned a Hilux possibly underselling it" GREAT question.

To start with a little disclaimer, Top Gear's Hilux did not start off, as in the video above, in pristine condition. It started off with nigh-on 300k kms (for you yankees, that's about 8.4 million Boeing 737 wingspans) and a condition to match.

And it's only once careless driving around town yielded zilch in given shits...

(look, I found a local newspaper picturing it being driven around!)

...that they decided to drown it. Now, the underselling part: if you told me that they drowned a pickup the first place my mind would go to would be "driving it through a river a bit too deep for it, perhaps as deep as its height, until it stalls and then tugging it back out. You will concede that's rather different from tying it down on the seashore with the second highest tide in the world...

...and leaving it there until it engulfs the whole truck...

...only for the ropes to snap...

...and for the truck to be lost to the tides for FIVE HOURS.

(and for those wondering, yes, just as promised, well within an hour and the mandatory limits of basic tools and no spare parts, up the mechanic made the thing fire and away the presenter drove it - I must imagine doing a number on his clothes in the process.)

Oh also I would have mentioned the caravan.

Or at least the wrecking ball.

But hey, at least the fire was mentioned.

Still, I feel it's criminal to leave out how they celebrated it surviving all it did: by parking it at the top of a 23 story building for all to see! :)

Wait NO-

Well, that was uncalled for. Given what it survived, it deserved to rest in a museum instead of being unceremoniously cleared out with the other chunks of public housing that buried it.

Or at least, given that buried it wasn't...

...to be tumbled down from the rubble utop which it sat...

...and be fueled up.

"be fueled up", pfft, what for?, I hear you say. And you are right.

Look at that thing, you say.

Let's be serious now, however pretty of a story it would be that's not a truck that will do anything remotely in the ballpark of firing up, let alone running.

And again, you are right.

The battery was disconnected.

Sorted that, tho

"You can't be serious." Oh darling I sure can! "Well the presenters can't then" no no, I assure you, it lived. Go see it for yourself! It's at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieau, England!