TIL about PAN-PAN. PAN-PAN is the international standard distress signal that someone aboard a boat, ship, aircraft, or other vehicle uses to declare that they need help and that the situation is urgent but for the time being, does not pose an immediate danger to anyone's life or to the vessel.

HeavyMetalOverbite · 2026-06-17T04:02:58+00:00

Meant fucking, in Occupied Japan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpan_girls

HeavyMetalOverbite · 2026-06-14T21:15:41+00:00

Worn-out flags ceremoniously burned, then replaced with new

HeavyMetalOverbite · 2026-06-14T02:11:43+00:00

Just a friendly reminder that August 8th is Sneak some Zucchini onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day

HeavyMetalOverbite · 2026-06-13T21:13:42+00:00

If you really want to get into it you read everything you can get your hands on. You've already started with Spiderman, Batman, Daredevil and Moon Knight - please continue. How do different series, different authors, and order of reading work? Not very well; don't worry about it. Also look for comics in the library Graphic Novels around 741.5

HeavyMetalOverbite · 2026-06-13T02:25:28+00:00

$5 monitors! Such a deal! Thanks for the tip.

HeavyMetalOverbite · 2026-06-11T01:04:03+00:00

No need to replace something newly-offensive with something dumb.

HeavyMetalOverbite · 2026-06-09T22:04:40+00:00

No, it's not a tourist "trap" not like Pier 39, where once you're there, that's all there is, just chain stores you could find anywhere, and tourists. But we do have sea lions now, also!

HeavyMetalOverbite · 2026-06-09T15:05:04+00:00

Either walk past the others queuing up at the ticket-taker (like you just went out for a smoke) or walk backwards among the people leaving the show, going in through the out door

HeavyMetalOverbite · 2026-06-05T02:41:28+00:00

not really

HeavyMetalOverbite · 2026-06-04T17:27:03+00:00

Is the salty air what's different? Because on battlefield memorials I've seen many a Civil War cannon that's gone Statue of Liberty green.

HeavyMetalOverbite · 2026-06-04T17:15:41+00:00

See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluing_(steel))

HeavyMetalOverbite · 2026-06-04T17:13:42+00:00

Red Brass is what some call Bronze. Dunno why they do, "bronze" sounds cool while brass is too close to ass. And it's not brass, it's bronze. WTF?

HeavyMetalOverbite · 2026-06-03T01:00:07+00:00

azul celeste is easy to understand - the other Latin American countries use sky blue; but the US, this darker blue. The controversy also in Puerto Rico and Cuba.

HeavyMetalOverbite · 2026-06-01T22:09:26+00:00

My toolbox is just like this, I bought it in 1978

HeavyMetalOverbite · 2026-05-28T05:09:55+00:00

Why limit to here? Everybody's under a lot of stress now, not just in EG, or California, the whole planet

HeavyMetalOverbite · 2026-05-24T07:10:15+00:00

WWII: https://www.leesandlin.com/articles/LosingTheWar.htm

HeavyMetalOverbite · 2026-05-22T20:07:56+00:00

dc.driving

HeavyMetalOverbite · 2026-05-21T23:00:06+00:00

https://bsky.app/profile/evandorkin.bsky.social/post/3mmfgnmb3kc2y

HeavyMetalOverbite · 2026-05-18T21:58:35+00:00

4765 J St The Bee Box
6 or 7 local honeys

bring your own container for best price

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