I saw that happen to a YAMAHA XS1100 that had been doing sidecar duty for several years on unimproved roads.
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WTF pictures
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Compact all-in-one meth lab.
Coffee shop on Wheels ?
The new Tony Fauci home biolab kit?
Robotic coffee maker.
Wow, we have some sharp folks here, Yes Alex the Jeopardy answer is "What is a Robotic Coffee Maker" and a huge waste of money
The all-in-one meth lab would have given you a better ROI.
Just sayin'.
Just sayin'.
Top of the range slush puppy ice maker
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Yesterday afternoon, a rare 22-degree solar halo appeared above Devils Tower in Wyoming.
The ring formed as sunlight passed through millions of tiny hexagonal ice crystals high in the atmosphere, creating one of nature's most beautiful optical displays.
It lasted only a short time before the clouds changed and the halo faded away.
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Yesterday afternoon, a rare 22-degree solar halo appeared above Devils Tower in Wyoming.
The ring formed as sunlight passed through millions of tiny hexagonal ice crystals high in the atmosphere, creating one of nature's most beautiful optical displays.
It lasted only a short time before the clouds changed and the halo faded away.
BEAUTIFUL PICTURE Original name was BEAR's Lodge . Yes we stopped there. Plus the little museum in the small town down the road. Travelled to there when we covered Montana, S Dakota,Wyoming, Utah,New Mexico,
Took sec.hiways as much as possible. Stayed in small towns rather than tourist traps covered both sides of the state on the way down and back up.
Met nothing but friendly great folks EVERYWHERE.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_Tower
Took sec.hiways as much as possible. Stayed in small towns rather than tourist traps covered both sides of the state on the way down and back up.
Met nothing but friendly great folks EVERYWHERE.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_Tower
I'm guessing this is at your work? Don't you hate it when bosses buy shit like this but then give out shitty raises or lousy bonuses?
This was years ago but our local council decided they needed to have better coffee for council meetings. They decided to buy a coffee machine. One issue, with meetings sometimes in the evenings, councilors needed to be able to make their own coffee to avoid overtime for support staff. The solution, they decided, meant constructing a new room next to the council chamber to house the coffee machine, plus buying the machine, and fitting shelves and fridges for coffee and milk, etc, etc. IIRC they ended spent sommat like £150,000.
But that was ok coz it's only public money.
But that was ok coz it's only public money.
I got a coffeemaker at home and I can buy a thermos. My Dad did that his entire working adult life and it served him just fine.
Maybe it's different in other places but around here it often seems that ideas like common sense and value for money have no relevance in the public sector.
Once, a local college lecturer and meself decided to do a wee tidying job in the village. Somebody had left an old steel oil drum at the end of a lane in the village, it had sat there for years, we decided to do sommat about it. So we went and had a look - it was about 1/3 full of scummy mess, probably some oil residue and a fair bit of rain water. We fetched some plastic jerry cans and a battery drill, drilled a hole near the base, let the contents flow into the jerry cans, and put the now empty drum in Nigel's trailer to to take to the council dump. But as we worked we both used our insight of how officialdom works and how the job would have proceeded if we had asked Scottish Borders Council to deal with, we reckoned -
Firstly there would have been a committee meeting, and after that somebody would have been delegated to see if ownership of the drum could be established, in the interests of saving public money. Hollow laugh!
When they would eventually report the owner could not found, there would be another meeting to discuss which dept should have responsibility - roads, refuse, public health, tech services? So probably form a sub-committee with representatives of the above depts, who could then argue about who's budget removing the bloody eyesore ought to come out of.
Then of course, they would have to send somebody qualified to asses the contents and see if they presented a health hazard - not just to the public but to any local authority team designated to move it. Tests, assessments, reports, more committee meetings, all fully supported by admin staff of course. And minutes of each meeting circulated to those departments. And the chief executive's dept to assess whether this was in fact something the local council could shift to some other party, and to assess the cost implications.
Because of course the council has a responsibility for the health & safety of the workforce.Plus, under Scottish Government law, an overiding responsibility to look after the costs.
After all, this is public money and the council has a duty called 'following the public pound.' To ensure no taxpayer money is wasted or even worse not fully accounted for. By now costs must be mounting and they're not really any closer to actually shifting it!
That's why Nigel and I just did it.
Once, a local college lecturer and meself decided to do a wee tidying job in the village. Somebody had left an old steel oil drum at the end of a lane in the village, it had sat there for years, we decided to do sommat about it. So we went and had a look - it was about 1/3 full of scummy mess, probably some oil residue and a fair bit of rain water. We fetched some plastic jerry cans and a battery drill, drilled a hole near the base, let the contents flow into the jerry cans, and put the now empty drum in Nigel's trailer to to take to the council dump. But as we worked we both used our insight of how officialdom works and how the job would have proceeded if we had asked Scottish Borders Council to deal with, we reckoned -
Firstly there would have been a committee meeting, and after that somebody would have been delegated to see if ownership of the drum could be established, in the interests of saving public money. Hollow laugh!
When they would eventually report the owner could not found, there would be another meeting to discuss which dept should have responsibility - roads, refuse, public health, tech services? So probably form a sub-committee with representatives of the above depts, who could then argue about who's budget removing the bloody eyesore ought to come out of.
Then of course, they would have to send somebody qualified to asses the contents and see if they presented a health hazard - not just to the public but to any local authority team designated to move it. Tests, assessments, reports, more committee meetings, all fully supported by admin staff of course. And minutes of each meeting circulated to those departments. And the chief executive's dept to assess whether this was in fact something the local council could shift to some other party, and to assess the cost implications.
Because of course the council has a responsibility for the health & safety of the workforce.Plus, under Scottish Government law, an overiding responsibility to look after the costs.
After all, this is public money and the council has a duty called 'following the public pound.' To ensure no taxpayer money is wasted or even worse not fully accounted for. By now costs must be mounting and they're not really any closer to actually shifting it!
That's why Nigel and I just did it.
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Just needed a sign on it that said "Do not remove this drum!"
Here in Kansas City it'd be gone that night.
Here in Kansas City it'd be gone that night.
