how about a meme generator thread...

[day_trippr]

My mom was around for 2/2/22 - and she's still around

 

[GrogNerd]

almost totally deaf in one eye

 

[balrog]

almost totally deaf in one eye

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HEY!
Perfect pairing with those hearing protection glasses posted somewhere nearby "the other day"

 

[pvtpublic]

HEY!
Perfect pairing with those hearing protection glasses posted somewhere nearby "the other day"

Add some steel toe gloves and you'd be d@mn near invincible!

 

[GrogNerd]

HEY!
Perfect pairing with those hearing protection glasses posted somewhere nearby "the other day"

perfect! because I'm blind in one ear too

 

[Kent88]

 

[Kharnynb]

 

[jcav]

Me too! (Born in 1964)

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Add 6/6/66 for me, but I missed 5/5/55 by a couple year

 

[Kent88]

@balrog

 

[pvtpublic]

 

[Jayjay1976]

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His autobiography was a great read. I wasn't really even a 'stones fan until after reading it. Living legend.

 

[GrogNerd]

Mick Taylor Stones is the best Stones

 

[GrogNerd]

ooops. forgot where we were for a second

 

[Pkrd]

ooops. forgot where we were for a second

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[GrogNerd]

gin & beer.

love myself, hate everyone. mostly.

misanthrope cursed with a career in customer service

 

[Kharnynb]

 

[balrog]

I got yer hi fi right here buddy

 

[Broothru]

I got yer hi fi right here buddy

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A few notes short of a chord.

 

[nobadays]

 

[Kent88]

@balrog

 

[Broken Crow]

I got yer hi fi right here buddy

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Could be worse....here's one of my formerly-daily-used before injury racks;

 

[Broken Crow]

Sorry about that ^... lost track of what thread I was in.
Here's something more upbeat;

 

[Snuffy]

 

[Agent]

 

[AkTom]

perfect! because I'm blind in one ear too

Speak up! I can’t see you…

 

[nobadays]

 

[Kharnynb]

 

[day_trippr]

Failed the eye test...

 

[doug293cz]

Trying to decide if this is a staged photo, or PhotoShopped. Van couldn't have gotten there on its own without significant damage. I'm leaning towards real and staged. Tow truck, or other lift, used to place the differential on the post. Shadows indicate a point light source out of view behind the van, and another point light source out of view to the left of the field of view. Anyone have other opinions?

Brew on

 

[Sailingeric]

The sign says automatic bollards so I suspect they were down when they parked.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Those look like hydraulic security cylinders that can be lowered to allow entry, I used to have to cross over similar ones when I would enter and exit the senate building and other government buildings. So it could easily raise up and lift the van without damage if it happens to rest on a place capable of supporting the van, which if there isn't much of a load in that van it would be rather light.. definitely possible.

 

[day_trippr]

I'm going with stupid driver backed into spot and didn't realize they were over the lowered bollard...

 

[doug293cz]

Retractable bollards it is ("other lift".) I still think it was staged, since it would be very improbable for a random parker to center the differential perfectly over the bollard by accident. That plus the apparent added lighting..

Brew on

 

[day_trippr]

I dunno, could be a completely faked construct.
Anyway, I don't think that bollard is near the center of the vehicle. Looks more like it's in line with the left rear tire...

 

[Agent]

I'm with @day_trippr that it's at least inline with the rear tire, If not slightly outside.

And the one shadow that makes zero sense is the big round one surrounding the bollard.

 

[balrog]

I love it how we come together as a collective cerebral gathering, and work together to find solutions to so many disparate problems!

[bourbon may have been involved in that answer]

 

[doug293cz]

Anyway, I don't think that bollard is near the center of the vehicle. Looks more like it's in line with the left rear tire..

Nothing in the photo suggests to me that the differential, in the center of the rear axle, is not sitting on the bollard.

And the one shadow that makes zero sense is the big round one surrounding the bollard.

Took me a while to figure out that shadow. That is the shadow of the tire closest to the viewer due to the light that is out of view to the left.

I have changed my mind about the position of the backlight. I now believe that it is not hidden by the van, but rather mounted up higher, out of frame towards the top of image.

Brew on

 

[day_trippr]

Here's another image...from here: https://x.com/aidanmcnelis/status/1771829125155553613/photo/1

Apparently the whole thing is legit...it was an advertisement for SpecSavers



Cheers!

 

[chessking]

 

[AzOr]

Poor guy went in for an oil change and got a colonoscopy instead.