The Official Random Video Thread!

[Nutball]

Not fair, a person would have bled to death, but animals can take a beating and keep going with no care. Sure that deer will die soon, but still.

I'm thinking now it must have been a huge bruise that killed all the tissue there which eventually fell off and got eaten clean by maggots. Which means it has lived like that for a relatively long time. Surprising still.

 

[stig]

This explains the genius of ferguson really well.
That was the tractor that changed agriculture in Europe.

I've owned 2 of those and a model 35.
Great little machines, they were.

 

[gf beranek]

Great machines. They must have made a million of them.

 

[Fiddler]

I like them.
We've got three of the model 35s at the golf course..two we run daily and one my boss had restored (it's a beaut!).

 

[flushcut]

These tractors are everywhere in India, just driving down the highway. I couldn't get a pic of the sound systems some of these guys had but imagine two, two foot tall house speakers on top of the fenders bumping the latest and greatest.

 

[stig]

No less than 4 typos in that post.
Kind of y'all not to get on my case about it.
I've corrected them, but man, it still bugs me no end.

Well, according to the surgeon, my hand should be back to normal in a year or so.
We'll see.
Till then you'll just have to luve wiuth thetypois.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I love those old pieces of iron.

 

[pantheraba]

" Till then you'll just have to luve wiuth thetypois. "

It'll be kind of fun...'cause I think what you really meant there was, "Till then you'll just have to love with the hippos".

Hippo love...gotta be a good thing...right?

 

[Fiddler]

And Gary wins on the .net today!

 

[stig]

I quite liked this one.

Was there ever a BMW Isotta in the US?
It must have felt real tiny amongst the hulking cars Detroit were making back then.

 

[Tree09]

Did number 10 weigh the vehicle down too much or something?

 

[stig]

4x2 plus the driver makes 9.

Read up on it, they came up with the most amazing ideas to get out.
Hot air balloons, Super low profile boats, surfbords ans homemade submarines., anything.

Then look at the border: Inner German border - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_German_border

Kinda makes old Donald's " We will build a wall along the Mexican border and make the Mexican pay for it" look a bit puny, doesn't it.

Oh, BTW, whatever happened to that wall?
Did it get made and did the Mexies pay up..................................................................................or, or, or is that maybe not a question, one should ask right now?

 

[stig]

I found a good article for you, Kyle.
Bit long, but I guess you have the time right now:

Surfboards and submarines: the secret escape of East Germans to Copenhagen

Tales of Berlin Wall escapes are well known – but those daring East Germans who fled across the ‘invisible border’ into Denmark using kayaks, surfboards or home-built submarines are only now coming to light

www.theguardian.com

Those who made it to us, were welcomed and let stay if they wanted.
Due to the rather arbitrary way, Germany was cut in half, lots of them had family in the BRD and moved down there.

It is kind of funny how fast the World changes.
I bet a lot of members here, having read my posts and having never actually come across a real commie, think of Denmark and myself that way.

But back in the day, we stood ready to help those escaping from Communism.
Even the dear Joe Mccarthy would have looked at us kindly back then.............................maybe. There was of course the free porn thing, abortions and other stuff that no red blooded American would have had any truck with.

I've tried to find an article about the week the Berlin wall fell for you, but unless you want to learn Deutsch or Dansk, no luck.

When the Wall fell, a bunch of East Germans wanted to celebrate their newly won freedom.
How best to do that unless you were close enough to the border to just do a hop, skip and jump across.
Take a train, then get on the first free BRD ferry 3 days later to the land of milk and honey.................yep, you guessed it, Denmark.

The mayors of Rødby and Gedser ferry haven towns got a friendly warning from the opposite harbours in Germany that the ferries were literally packed with merry makers from DDR.
They got the local firebrigades and army together and set up a big welcome with coffee ( As in REAL coffee, not Erzatz) cakes, flags and the whole works. Lots of local folks joined in and did their best to make tyhe Germans feel welcome.
The happy folks spent the day browsing the local stores ( They couldn't buy much, since their money was worthless) and took the ferry home again that night, smiling all the way.


folketidende.dk - Gallery - https://folketidende.dk/modules/folketid/gallery/?articleId=526961 ( click on the foto, then you can scroll through them all.

Da Gedser blev frihedens by for østtyskere

Læs mere her.

www.berlingske.dk

 

[cory]

 

[cory]

 

[CurSedVoyce]

 

[Nutball]

 

[cory]

top 10 all time tree vid imo

 

[gf beranek]

Heck of a ride.

 

[cory]

 

[pantheraba]

He seems like a likable son of a b****.

 

[cory]

He is a trip and a half!

Have we talked about him much here? Ya Gotta read his book, "Can't Hurt Me", I did the audio version and loved it. Everybody, including 2 women and also 2 different guys who claim to have never read a book in their lives , loved it.

 

[cory]

Prepare thou self

 

[Raj]

 

[cory]

Ya know what blows my mind about that fine song??

When the ship sank, there was an article on it in Time magazine. Gordon read the article and poof wrote a hit song about it. If you read the article, so much of the lyrics come straight from it. 3 million people read that article, only one wrote a hit based on it.

Genius