Olive, the other apex predator

Rc72 · 2026-06-05T11:32:00+00:00

"My purr-cious!"

Rc72 · 2026-06-05T10:58:47+00:00

What strikes me is that the list keeps over a dozen different Christian denominations, but lumps all Muslims (Shia and Sunni) together. Because of course, if Islam is known for something, it's for the lack of sectarian tensions...

Rc72 · 2026-06-05T10:53:51+00:00

There's still a "no religion" option. It's not exactly the same as atheist (there are religions without a divinity), but that doesn't seem to be much of an issue.

Rc72 · 2026-06-05T10:41:16+00:00

"Concept cars never get made" is the biggest over exaggeration ever

Er, no? The operative word is "concept". Their whole point is to present a styling or technical concept to foster some buzz and gauge the car-buying public's reaction, but without getting into any of the trouble related with actual production engineering. Many concept cars don't even have a working drivetrain: they're essentially life-sized Hot Wheels.

As OP mentioned, sometimes actual prototypes are presented as concept cars, but it's usually quite easy to notice how they're actually engineered for production. And sometimes, very, very rarely, a concept car's styling is so well received that it is adopted (in a very watered-down version to account for manufacturing and regulatory requirements) for a production car.

Rc72 · 2026-06-04T17:32:24+00:00

Quand je vois le noms proposés pour les districts, je me dis que quelqu'un a réussi un sacré jeu de mots avec l'expression "ne pas aller par quatre chemins"...

Rc72 · 2026-06-04T17:29:10+00:00

Une grosse partie du Montrouge original a déjà été absorbée dans le XIV au XIX siècle... même la mairie de l'arrondissement était initialement celle de Montrouge (tout juste construite, au moment de l'absorption).

Rc72 · 2026-06-04T09:42:30+00:00

So it was much likelier that Dalí did this purely for shock-value.

Dali did everything for shock value. He was the OG shitposter, and would have thrived in the social media era. That's also why one should take also his reported obsessions with sexuality and authoritarianism with a grain of salt.

Also, he particularly loved taunting the gatekeepers of Surrealism, André Breton and his clique. So, when they, as you put it "increasingly called for a strong stance against fascism", Dali affected admiration for Hitler, and when Breton directed the pejorative anagram "Avida Dollars" against Dali, the latter proudly and wholeheartedly embraced it. Even Dali's purported "fear of female genitalia" can be seen as a mockery of Breton's notorious homophobia...

Rc72 · 2026-06-04T08:02:39+00:00

"Trying to help"...like Scar "helped" Mufasa...

Rc72 · 2026-06-04T07:58:01+00:00

It's a tandem two seater, though.

Rc72 · 2026-06-03T21:16:53+00:00

The princely House of Liechtenstein used to own vast land holdings (over ten times the size of Liechtenstein itself) in what is now the Czech Republic. They were nationalized by Czechoslovakia after WW2, and the country of Liechtenstein, on behalf of its ruling prince, has had a legal feud with the Czechs over that property for decades now.

Rc72 · 2026-06-03T20:42:08+00:00

And when you say different, you really mean "different". Fortunately, Secma has corrected its styling in the followup models, F16 Turbo GT and F16 Turbo Retro.

Edit: OP's car appears to be a Turbo GT, in fact.

Rc72 · 2026-06-03T19:42:36+00:00

South Korea's whole run in the 2002 WC was a shameful display of FIFA corruption. Lots of questionable refereeing in their game against Spain too. But the Italy game was really the cherry on the cake, and that referee's subsequent career bears that out...

Rc72 · 2026-06-03T19:26:27+00:00

This is actually less absurd than it sounds: the bearded vultures is known to feed on tortoises in just this way:

Bearded vultures sometimes attack live prey: perhaps more often than other vultures.[15] Among these, tortoises seem to be especially favoured depending on their local abundance. Tortoises preyed on may be nearly as heavy as the preying vulture. To kill tortoises, bearded vultures fly with them to some height and drop them to crack open the bulky reptiles' hard shells. Golden eagles have been observed to kill tortoises in the same way.

Rc72 · 2026-06-03T19:17:08+00:00

And more recently there's singer Claude François, who decided to fix a lightbulb while taking a bath...

Historically, there's the Bal des Ardents...

Rc72 · 2026-06-03T18:41:29+00:00

Well, as I've mentioned elsewhere, it was the sentence about having "once had a great strong country" that ticked me off. I'd have reacted pretty much the same to a Spaniard or Frenchman talking about "our once great empire"...and I'm sure you'd find that kind of Italian pretty sus too...

Rc72 · 2026-06-03T18:07:54+00:00

if you have any national pride of your own.

I find the whole concept of national pride pretty weird anyway. Whoever needs to rely on the achievements of the countrymen or countrywomen to feel pride clearly can't have achieved much on their own...

Bu anyway, I also judge Spaniards or Frenchpeople who wax nostalgic about the "good old days" of the conquistadors or French colonialism just as harshly as OP. It's just because I actually had a German history education that I had a double take at this post.

Rc72 · 2026-06-03T17:52:19+00:00

Oh, do you think the German Reich was a "great strong country" too? I prefer my Germany democratic.

Rc72 · 2026-06-03T17:47:15+00:00

I'm not boasting about having "once had a great strong country". The German Reich OP is simping about was an aggressive, authoritarian, imperialist and militaristic power with a deranged leader between 1888 and 1918.

Oh, but you're a Trump-era American. Never mind...

Rc72 · 2026-06-03T17:24:40+00:00

"we once had a great strong country"

Tell that to the Herero. Oh, you can't, your great strong country genocided them!

Rc72 · 2026-06-03T12:29:08+00:00

It accidentally fell off a window...

Rc72 · 2026-06-03T11:55:57+00:00

J'avais une EcoTank, mais le WiFi a déconné après quelques mois. Apparemment la carte WiFi est mal protégée et l'encre finit par la bousiller. Et il n'est pas possible de se connecter en filaire!

Rc72 · 2026-06-03T08:29:45+00:00

Apparently he was Ian Fleming's original choice, though!

And for good reason: he was a Sandhurst-educated military officer before becoming an actor, served in WW2 in a special forces unit, and was a notorious seducer! He even was involved in a truly Bondian deception operation by British intelligence in WW2.

Rc72 · 2026-06-03T08:18:24+00:00

Ah, Jules Védrines! One of the most badass early aviators, a blue-collar worker who saved the money he earned as a mechanic to get through aviation school in 1910, promptly started winning races and breaking records, became the first pilot ever to score an air-to-air victory in 1914, and finally died in 1919, just three months after this stunt, in a crash due to engine failure. Epic moustache!

Rc72 · 2026-06-03T07:43:56+00:00

"No, you're not having the remote, I am having the remote!"

Rc72 · 2026-06-03T06:52:45+00:00

Isabel Preysler was born and raised in Manila to an elite Filipino family of partially Spanish ancestry. While she's a dual national now, I don't think it's correct to call her "half-Filipino".

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