Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2025 6:31 am
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Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2025 10:11 pm
Willow yesterday...
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Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2025 2:27 pm
Ooh! Blingy!
(Toyota Vellfire, Japanese import).
Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2025 2:57 pm
It looks like a bad AI rendering....
Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2025 3:05 pm
The literal meanings of South American country names
Each South American country’s name carries a little piece of history. Some come from the land itself, others from the people who explored or lived there long before modern borders existed. Together, they form a linguistic snapshot of the continent’s layered past.
Brazil takes its name from the pau-brasil tree, whose red dye looked like glowing embers. Argentina comes from argentum, Latin for silver, inspired by tales of riches brought by early explorers. Venezuela means “little Venice,” named by Europeans who thought its stilt houses along the water resembled their own city back home. Guyana translates to “land of many waters,” while Ecuador simply means “equator.”
A few nations were named after people. Bolivia honours Simón Bolívar, the revolutionary who helped free much of South America from Spanish rule. Colombia comes from Christopher Columbus, and its name reflects the colonial age’s fascination with explorers. Others, like Chile and Peru, reach back further into indigenous origins. Chile may mean “where the land ends,” and Peru possibly stems from a local word for “river.”
Each name tells a small part of a much larger story: exploration, colonisation, trade, and language all converging on one continent. What seems like a simple list of country names is really a record of how cultures met, mixed, and left their mark across South America.
Source: Amazing Maps
Each South American country’s name carries a little piece of history. Some come from the land itself, others from the people who explored or lived there long before modern borders existed. Together, they form a linguistic snapshot of the continent’s layered past.
Brazil takes its name from the pau-brasil tree, whose red dye looked like glowing embers. Argentina comes from argentum, Latin for silver, inspired by tales of riches brought by early explorers. Venezuela means “little Venice,” named by Europeans who thought its stilt houses along the water resembled their own city back home. Guyana translates to “land of many waters,” while Ecuador simply means “equator.”
A few nations were named after people. Bolivia honours Simón Bolívar, the revolutionary who helped free much of South America from Spanish rule. Colombia comes from Christopher Columbus, and its name reflects the colonial age’s fascination with explorers. Others, like Chile and Peru, reach back further into indigenous origins. Chile may mean “where the land ends,” and Peru possibly stems from a local word for “river.”
Each name tells a small part of a much larger story: exploration, colonisation, trade, and language all converging on one continent. What seems like a simple list of country names is really a record of how cultures met, mixed, and left their mark across South America.
Source: Amazing Maps
Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2025 11:55 am
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Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2025 5:18 pm
We get some big cruise ships in Lanzarote but this big fucker in Las Palmas today dwarfed them
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Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2025 11:34 pm
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Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2025 9:27 am
Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2025 2:40 pm
After pondering for ages, I need your help to decide what this is with 2 funny retractable hook thingies?
Nice hotel room, but I'm baffled.
It's fixed to wall so doesn't drop down.
Wadddya got?
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Nice hotel room, but I'm baffled.
It's fixed to wall so doesn't drop down.
Wadddya got?
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Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2025 4:32 pm
Do you hang push bikes on them?
Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2025 4:43 pm
It's just been rebranded as sports hotel
Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2025 4:54 pm
Yup
Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2025 5:34 pm
Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2025 6:24 pm
Just seen advert and you're right
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Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2025 8:04 pm
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Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2025 8:37 pm
It's been hung on Yorick's hotel wall.
Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2025 9:30 am
Do you not have Gaffer tape?
Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2025 1:00 pm
On my travels in Eire
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Re: utterly random picture thread.
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2025 1:23 pm
I forgot to take the "after" photo, sue me.