From Garfield's Halloween Adventure (1985).
Maybe I'm not as adventurous as Luke is, but if I was offered roast beef popcorn I simply wouldn't eat it.
Tall gaijin visiting Japan for the first time.
LoL
I read that in Lionel Richie’s voice.
“The ISS is leaking?? Where?”
“It’s high overhead, orbiting the earth at tremendous speed. But that’s not important right now.”
“~~managers~~ doctors warn.”
These breadsticks are like a glass of water and three in the morning.
The song that launched 1,000 remixes.
(Reznor released a GarageBand/Logic project file for this single for free to anyone who wanted to download it and play around. It contained all the vocals and instrumentation on separate tracks, which led to a flurry of remixes being posted by fans online.)
How did you find an old picture of me??
Spotify: downloads songs
Me: plays downloaded songs
Spotify: buffers for five full seconds
Me: PRAY TELL WHAT FOR?!?
Okay, the part where you say it’s not as good as Foundation really puts it in context.
I like the current movies, but I’m not really a big Dune fan. So I’ll just give this a pass.
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Hoot & Holler Hideout Inside Splash Mountain @ Tokyo Disneyland to Permenantly Close
(www.tokyodisneyresort.jp)
Source: Hataraku Saibou (Cells at Work)
Yes, it's a real video.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/29812202
Above: A 6-car JR West 189 series train set on the Kounotori Limited Express service, parked at Amagasaki Station in 2013.
The JNR (Japan National Railway) 183 series trains were introduced in 1972. They were the direct descendants of the similarly-designed 485 series. They featured a more simplified conductor's cabin (without a protruding nose cone) and other improvements, including the ability to link their drive trains to other models for tandem locomotion. The 183s retained many distinctive stylings of the 485 series, such as the dark cream & dark red livery and the metallic hood ornaments.
In 1973, some retired 485 series chassis were refitted with 183 frames and returned to service as the (strangely-numbered) 381 series train. These trains featured tilting bogeys to allow them to take curves at higher speeds. They were visually identical to newly-built 183s with a few telltale changes to the classic livery.
From 1974, newer editions of the 183 were introduced with further improvements. A handful of sets were strengthened against snow and cold weather. These sets were originally labeled as 183-1000 & 183-1500, but would later be referred to as 189s. At some point another minor derivative of the 183 series was planned as the 187 series, but never entered production.
Following the privatization of Japan's railways, the trains were owned and operated by both JR East and JR West.
The 183 & 189 series underwent refurbishing between the 1990s and the 2000s, the 381s were refurbished during the 2000s and the 2010s.
All 183/189/381 series trains were taken out of regular service between 2011 & 2015 and replaced with newer rolling stock. The last 183 series trains were formally retired in 2019 and the last 381 series trains were formally retired in the summer of 2024. Many sets have been preserved at various museums throughout Japan.
Two preserved 183s on display at the Railway Museum near Omiya Station in Saitama in 2024. The interior seating has been restored and is open to the public for eating boxed meals inside the train anytime during museum hours.
Pictures taken by me in 2013 and 2024. Part of my Rolling Stock series of posts.
Previous Rolling Stock posts:
- JR East 253-1000 Series Express Train
- Izukyu 2100 Series "The Black Ship Train (Kurofune)" Resort Liner
- Toei 6000 Series Streetcar
- JR East E491 "East iE" Track Inspector
- JR E351 "Azusa" Express Liner
- JR East 185 Series Limited Express Liner
- Sotetsu 20000 Series
- JNR 9600 Class Steam Locomotive
- Tobu 100 Series "Spacia" Strawberry Edition
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20696791
Screenshot of a Mastodon post - A picture of the bridge of the Enterprise-D from Star Trek The Next Generation’s first season. In it are Captain Picard, Doctor Crusher, and Wesley Crusher in the Captain’s chair.
The text reads:
“Wil Wheaton is now five years older than Patrick Stewart was in the pilot of Star Trek the next generation. Have your bones demineralized and fallen apart yet?”Original post @ Mastodon
Screenshot of a Mastodon post - A picture of the bridge of the Enterprise-D from Star Trek The Next Generation’s first season. In it are Captain Picard, Doctor Crusher, and Wesley Crusher in the Captain’s chair.
The text reads:
“Wil Wheaton is now five years older than Patrick Stewart was in the pilot of Star Trek the next generation. Have your bones demineralized and fallen apart yet?”
Original post @ Mastodon
Screenshot of Lemmy via Voyager of a meme and one of the comments replying to it.
The meme is a picture of an invertebrate and reads:
“This is Suzy. Suzy is a basal amniote.
She enjoys sitting in the sun, catching bugs, and laying eggs with extraembryonic membranes.
312 million years ago Suzy had two kids. One evolved into you and the other into a T-Rex. If Suzy isn’t metal as fuck I don’t know who is.”
The reply to this meme reads:
“Yeah, it seemed weird that Janeway and Tom Paris turned into this, but I get it now.”
No, it's the result.