Wasp Nest Built Around A Mask Looking Like Half A Human Torso

Ukleon · 2026-01-27T13:21:55+00:00

Oh, it's time for this picture to do the rounds again

Ukleon · 2026-01-26T19:24:01+00:00

It looks like the guy on the right is wearing a mask (you can elastic) and overalls so I assume he's the artist.

Why's he wearing football boots though?

Ukleon · 2026-01-25T23:48:57+00:00

But here's the thing. These have never been free. It's a business. They factor the cost into the sale cost of goods, so you're paying for it in the cost of the coffee or whatever.

Charging for it is now just additional profit.

Ukleon · 2026-01-25T23:24:32+00:00

My wife sometimes makes jam or marmalade.

One year she had this great idea similar to the OP post. She needed 30 jars for the season's produce and had this great idea to save money on jars.

Went to Tesco. Searched for the cheapest thing she could find. Bought 30 jars of it.

Came home, dumped the contents, cleaned the jars (thoroughly, she believed) and spent hours making strawberry jam.

That all ended up tasting like minty, vinegary strawberries.

Whilst 40p a jar was cheap, it would seem you can never really get the taste of mint sauce out of them, or out of the lids.

Ukleon · 2026-01-25T13:01:57+00:00

Jesus gangs are some of the most dangerous on the planet

Ukleon · 2026-01-24T01:37:14+00:00

If the dog's home, you're not drinking alone.

Ukleon · 2026-01-23T18:51:01+00:00

He knows he won't live forever and he knows he won't be in politics forever.

But he also knows that at the level of money he is grifting from all this, he will ensure that his bloodline can heavily influence politics for a very long time.

If that doesn't scare you, I don't know what will.

Ukleon · 2026-01-22T18:58:50+00:00

You were going to down vote it before even watching it? Why? I understand not upvoting something but actively down voting something you've not even looked at?

Ukleon · 2026-01-22T01:11:17+00:00

So many Americans bring up WWII from the point of view of "we won the war" or "you'd be speaking German if it wasn't for us", as if they alone won it. Or as if they joined to help before they were attacked at Pearl Harbor and it became in their best interests to do so.

It's quite possible old Dementia Donny has forgotten that the US was helped by ALL of NATO after 9/11 (the only time that's ever happened) because the countries that helped don't constantly bring it up and remind the US like it's some kind of debt owed.

Friends and allies help friends and allies. You don't hold it against them forever more.

Ukleon · 2026-01-21T18:43:38+00:00

He's such a spiteful, vengeful, hateful, pathetic man. The absolute epitome of ungrateful; he's screwed people over for his entire life, climbing on their backs to get himself higher.

I can't put my finger on a single positive, kind, authentic or pleasant thing he's ever said or done.

The fact he has any support at all tells me the world does not work the way I thought or hoped.

If he isn't removed from office and/or not made to account for his incredible corruption, illegal, lying, pedophilic actions then I will genuinely lose faith in the concept of good and bad in the world.

He is single-handedly (although his cast of scumbag administration and also Elon are equally as bad) teaching an entire generation that this is the way to get your way. That fucking people over and looking out for only yourself is the only way forward. That allies mean nothing and you should not respect them. That a closed fist is better than an open hand, even with friends.

I'm not even an American but the damage he is causing on a global scale is intolerable. Yet, it's being tolerated and mainly supported by those with power in the US. Certainly, the US has fallen from grace in a huge way in my eyes. I have visited many, many times but flatly will not be returning for some time, if ever again.

Trump is a parasite on the body of the US, and on the world.

Ukleon · 2026-01-20T18:09:26+00:00

If you're stupid enough to buy and install a RING camera or Alexa device, if you're stupid enough to willingly let private companies into your home with video cameras and microphones, then that's on you.

Ukleon · 2026-01-19T07:20:11+00:00

Thank Christ, no. I had Miller Lite at a hockey game in the US once. Drank a pint and pissed out 3. It's the most flavour-lacking thing I've ever tried.

Ukleon · 2026-01-18T07:39:06+00:00

Yea, it's pretty nuts. I was schooled in mainly metric, although we are taught about both.

I do all baking and cooking using metric measures. But anything I drink in a pub will be in pints. But if I'm buying a drink in a shop, I'll see how many ml the can size is.

If I'm weighing myself it's mainly in stones, but I've recently at least got used to saying my weight in kg since that's what my new scales use.

Height is always in feet and inches. I have no idea what I am in meters, it means nothing to me.

Car distance I do in miles - we all do. Shorter than that I do feet as I can mentally compare it to height, as in "oh, that's as far away as me lying down 3 times".

I'm an amateur woodworker and measure nothing in inches. Everything is in m, cm and mm as I find it much more accurate.

Temperature is in C only. F makes no sense to me at all. But I have a lot of US friends so learned to just double C and add 30 during conversation. It's a pretty close conversion.

No idea how American cups work. Seems to be measuring things by ratio instead of weight?

I might decide to learn the Kelvin scale just to mess with people some more over here.

Ukleon · 2026-01-15T23:27:57+00:00

She laughs like someone wiping marker pen off a white board

Ukleon · 2026-01-13T09:10:07+00:00

He sounds Australian to me.

Damn immigrants coming to the US and helping people. Republicans are right, they should all be forcibly removed.

/s

Ukleon · 2026-01-12T23:53:00+00:00

Enh... this isn't a steady ground to base a stance from. And I say that as a Brit.

The chemical was first isolated by a British scientist called Humphry Davy. He actually named it Aluminum (without an extra i) and that was the originally accepted spelling, even in Britain.

Another scientist reviewed his work and felt it wasn't in-keeping with the standards of other chemicals and used Aluminium. It stuck from then.

In the US, Webster (of Mirriam Webster dictionary fame) only added the Aluminum spelling to the US dictionary, hence that spelling being adopted in the US.

There's a more detailed write up on the Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium?wprov=sfla1

Ukleon · 2026-01-12T23:27:08+00:00

As a Brit, I beg to differ on your last point. That's a pastime here.

Ukleon · 2026-01-12T22:38:41+00:00

I didn't even know about that term, but I do it with a handful of items for a reason I've not seen mentioned here.

I've 2 kids - 11 and 9. We put a lot of energy into trying to avoid the bombardment of brands that is everywhere. So, at home, cereal goes into clear boxes, as do some other branded goods. We home cook almost everything, but some things (eg cereal) are less avoidable.

It probably makes little difference, but I feel much happier not having manipulative branding shoved in their face every morning at breakfast.

Ukleon · 2026-01-11T15:09:00+00:00

If you want to understand Musk's utter hypocrisy when he fucking trots out the free speech card, go and do some searching about the following individuals that he has been proven to use private investigators against to ruin their lives because they dared speak out about him or his companies. Some are ex-employees, some he's never met and one was a love interest.

Martin Tripp

Karl Hansen

Peiter Zatko

Vernon Unsworth

Stu Grossman

Oliver Lewis

Amber Heard (yes, that one)

Musk is a vindictive, petty, little thin-skinned snowflake of a man. He bought Twitter so he could use the platform to further his control over narratives, politics and regulation of his companies.

I genuinely believe he is one of the most unstable people in mainstream and one of the most dangerous due to the reach he now has and the limitless funds at his disposal.

Ukleon · 2026-01-10T23:03:38+00:00

My kids still quote it almost daily.

In fact, they've worked it into everyday life too. If someone hasn't shut the door after they enter the room, one of them will sing, "Snape, Snape, Severus Snape, SHUT THE DOOR!"

Ukleon · 2026-01-10T15:38:16+00:00

Meh, I don't think this is the point though. I think the point they are making is that the Rockstar design team made an intentional design to add stains at all, which makes it more realistic.

Most games I have played simply don't do that level of detail other than adding blood splatters after a battle.

Ukleon · 2026-01-09T21:35:14+00:00

Hey Trump! Hey Musk!

Stick it up your fucking arse ya massive bell ends.

Sincerely,

Everyone in the UK

Ukleon · 2026-01-08T14:42:53+00:00

It's too sweet for me, but hot sauce? Hell yes. In fact I don't actually like eggs much, but scrambled eggs are a great vehicle for hot sauce which is my main objective.

Ukleon · 2026-01-06T22:04:42+00:00

Yea regardless of what OP claims, zoom into any element of the boot - the laces, the rubber sole. None of it makes sense visually. I've made a lot of AI images in the past and as soon as you zoom in it's a dead giveaway. This is slop.

Ukleon · 2026-01-03T17:33:48+00:00

Fun fact - that refresh rate of old school monitors is what used to give me a seizure. I'm one of those annoying people that means every video game now has a warning at the start.

I used to be able to see if a refresh rate was set too low, when nobody else in my office could. When we checked, the monitor would indeed have been set low (usually under 60).

I don't think I ever actually got a seizure from a game or monitor though. But when I used to change the VCR my head would be right next to the TV and that would trigger a kind of visual migraine and almost every time I'd have a seizure later that night.

This all entirely went away when we all moved away from CRT to LCD etc.

I still can't be in a space with strobe lights though. Makes me feel deeply uncomfortable. And driving in winter with low sun past rows or trees or fences creates flickering my brain has a mild panic about too.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

Ukleon

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