Random Picture Thread

[Dave Sarber]

This would be mine. Homemade hot Italians with spicy mustard.

 

[day_trippr]

"The Queen's Bath", an Atlantic shore feature in middle-north Eleuthera in the Bahamas. The puddles in the upper half/left-ish of the pic are toasty and safe at low tide and thus a popular attraction, but all hell can break loose as the tide rises...

 

[beermanpete]

 

[InspectorJon]

Pulled pork jack fruit tastes just like real pig! Had some once, didn’t know it wasn’t pork. The fruit taste like juicy fruit gum, only better. The seeds can be boiled and and have a slight pinto bean taste. Well worth trying, just make sure you have some friends over to help eat the stuff!!
A buddy of mine married a Vietnamese lady, and her mom showed us how to prepare that stuff. She said it something people do in a large group, because of all the work and fruit. We had bags of the stuff and gave away what we couldn’t eat. Been eyeing them ever since, but SWMBO remembers all work, and nixes the idea.

Some of the Asian grocery stores around here sell jackfruit cut in smaller pieces. Jackfruit is awesome. It must be related to the rubber tree as the part you don't eat makes everything it touches sticky/tacky with a layer of goo. If you coat your hands with oil before attacking the fruit it helps a lot. A good rubbing with oil and dish soap will clean your hands and knife when your are done separating the good part from the rest. It is worth the effort. One can also buy it canned. If you buy it in cans, get the yellow ripe stuff unless you want to use the green or unripe stuff for cooking.

 

[grampamark]

In front of a junkyard.

 

[BongoYodeler]

Pretty random. Took this with my cell phone, looking at our tabletop propane fire pit through a nearly empty glass of beer. It's my new phone background pic.

 

[grampamark]

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

 

[SoulToast]

 

[grampamark]

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The only thing missing is the 5th “Beetle” from the original.

 

[Dave Sarber]

A bit of extreme intergranular corrosion on the rear spar of an MD-82. This is a very low time aircraft, but hasn't flown in about 10 years. Found a shed snake skin in the same area of the other wing, a first for me, birds nests are pretty common.

 

[grampamark]

 

[day_trippr]

Must...not........respond!

 

[Dave Sarber]

Pre departure cargo loading, Brisbane airport.

 

[day_trippr]

What is that port in the middle/top of that pic?

 

[grampamark]

 

[kartracer2]

Pre departure cargo loading, Brisbane airport.

I suppose to the ground pounders in that photo it's just their job but it looks somewhat exciting. Yeah, at 20*F, with snow swirling, or 110*F, no breeze,,,, not so much. I forgot, +rain sometimes,,,

Joel B.

 

[Dave Sarber]

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Pre departure cargo loading, Brisbane airport. Or maybe you mean the antenna on top of the aircraft?

Brisbane International.

 

[Dave Sarber]

Moreton Bay Bugs. Smaller than a lobster, bigger than a sand flea, but reminiscent of both. Tastes like lobster, but a little sweeter. These are cut in half lengthwise.

 

[day_trippr]

fwiw, I was actually asking about that apparent squarish opening at the top of the fuselage...that seems to have an arrow pointing downwards?
As for "bigger than sand fleas"...I've seen pics of some big'uns, but didn't know they might be edible.
Hard pass

Cheers!

 

[doug293cz]

fwiw, I was actually asking about that apparent squarish opening at the top of the fuselage...that seems to have an arrow pointing downwards?
As for "bigger than sand fleas"...I've seen pics of some big'uns, but didn't know they might be edible.
Hard pass

Cheers!

I'm gonna guess that that bump contains the satcom antenna(s). I don't think the dark part is an opening.

And those other things look a lot like Aussie lobsters. I'd eat them.

Brew on

 

[day_trippr]

All of the satcom antenna arrays I've seen are housed in bumps. That looks like a vent? The lighting makes it hard to tell what that actually is - it does look like it sticks up above the skin, but it doesn't look anything like the satcom bumps I've seen.

As for the bugs...while I love lobsters and crawfish, I'm not sure that huge "sand fleas" are going to make the cut

Cheers!

 

[grampamark]

 

[Dave Sarber]

Here's a pretty cool pic, flying over the fjords of western Greenland at 36000 feet. What I thought was cool is you can actually see the shadow of our vapor trail in the water!

Currently laying over for 4 hours in Dallas.

P.S. yes, it's a satcom antenna. And the bugs taste like lobster, but not much more than a bite in each half.

 

[The_Professor]

Not for over 4 hours I hope!!!

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[grampamark]

Good morning, from the now not frozen Frozen Tundra of N Central MT.

 

[AF1HomeBrew]

 

[AF1HomeBrew]

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Moreton Bay Bugs. Smaller than a lobster, bigger than a sand flea, but reminiscent of both. Tastes like lobster, but a little sweeter. These are cut in half lengthwise.

Moreton Bay Bugs! Good Stuff there. I tried them when I was in Noosa.

 

[AF1HomeBrew]

Think Neil Peart....

 

[AF1HomeBrew]

With all of the Pandemic talk on the Mainstream media maybe we need to start thinking more about Oktoberfest.