Mildly Interesting

Side note: as a vegan, the dog meal is pretty good!

It runs all the way down, flanking both sides. I pretend it's a moat for protection. So lush in some places it's difficult to not touch with your car as you drive along.

Very bizarre! Never had that happen before!

Maliah Beach club, Peru

Sauce: https://www.instagram.com/p/CK7MzF-pky0/?utm_medium=copy_link

I posted this previously in [email protected], but that community never seemed to pick up any speed, so I hope more people can appreciate this historic tidbit.

This photo (not mine!) is from downtown Stockholm. It takes place in the late 1980's.

To the right, outside of the field of the picture, is an iconic food hall for international cuisine as well as for Swedish fish and crustacean cuisine. To the right, visible in the picture, is "Sergelgången", which is an iconic street in Stockholm between "Hötorget" and "Sergels torg". Also to the left, outside the field of the picture, is the major concert hall (Konserthuset) with its iconic steps that have been graced by both celebrities and random rubes, for warming up in the sun on the otherwise chilly Stockholm streets.

The camera is focused on an iconic Hennes ("hers" in Swedish) store, that was mainly for ladies' fashion. The company that owned Hennes decided to branch out and bought Mauritz, and they ran both ladies' and gentlemen's stores until they brought them together as "Hennes & Mauritz". They were known for poorly made clothes that broke or got broken after a few uses and washes. Their zippers were nationally shamed as proper trash fashion as they broke after one use. Basically, in Sweden they were known for youth or "poor mans" clothes. Popular among students, but once their buyres could afford decent clothes, these went to a land fill (as even the second hand stores refused to stock this crap).

When they decided to go international, they rebranded as H&M, and later HM.

Kai Tak was the official airport in Hong Kong until 1998. It was built on the Kowloon side, and the start and landing strips were built and then extended onto an artificial peninsula.

Approaching to land in Kai Tak was nicknamed "Kai Tak Heart Attack", as you came so close to the apartment houses in Kowloon that you practically could see into the apartment windows.

• History and more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Tak_Airport
• 12 accidents during the time it was in operation: https://www.baaa-acro.com/city/hong-kong-kai-tak
• A cockpit view of landing on Kai Tak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx3Ccs5tKfw

I have no idea how the PCB got this effect.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1372366

As those who follow me on Reddit may have seen with my posts over the past few years, I love the New Zealand indie rock scene to death. I have posted songs constantly from the Dunedin Sound, made write-ups about artists on the label like The Chills and Chris Knox, and have tried everything to promote this untapped goldmine (at least from outside of New Zealand) to the mainstream public. I'm trying to get anything from Flying Nun records and have been trying to get anything Flying Nun related that I can possibly get (at a reasonably price). One of these things that I have not found before, either online or physically, until now is copies of Rip It Up Magazine.

Rip It Up is a music magazine in New Zealand that was one of the biggest music magazines in the country during the 80s, where it reached a height of 30,000 copies monthly. The reason why I am so interested in this magazine is that it covered the Dunedin and Flying Nun scene extensively during its birthing period and beyond, with interesting articles detailing some of the history behind bands that may have only existed for a couple years, and wonderful pictures of these artists. It's such an interesting artifact of a time and a place that I would have loved to have seen back when it was bustling and thriving.

The particular issue that I purchased was an issue from April 1982, right at the birth of Flying Nun and after Boodle Boodle Boodle's runaway success for the label. The issue has a picture of the Clean on its cover page, which is always cool to see. The articles it discusses related to the scene discuss the Dunedin scene as it was starting to take off, covering the various bands that would be present on the compilation album that would later be called the Dunedin Double, such as the Chills and the Verlaines, and further coverage of the Clean in the lead-up to their second EP Great Sounds Great, released the following month. It's such an amazing document of a scene just getting started and I am craving to get more issues of this magazine in the future.

(credit to u/Pasquinel)

They build a 25 meter tall tower out of wooden sticks over the course of four days and then make it all collapse. I thought it was pretty cool.