The never-ending thread about nothing.

[Mr Doof]

Tale of a missing (4 years) surfboard.

News item here

Blurb:

As Griffiths explained to the BBC, this was no ordinary surfboard — he’d had it custom-built for surfing in this particular part of the world. The fact that it didn’t surface puzzled him, as this was not typical behavior for a surfboard.

Four years later, a pair of brothers were fishing off the coast of Queensland, nearly 1,700 miles away. They caught what seemed to be a mass of seaweed, but which turned out to be Griffiths’s lost surfboard, albeit with some added seaweed and barnacles.

 

[Bob]

I make a pretty good Yorkshire pudding.

 

[Random Guy]

I want to identify the light purple and dark purple flowers without paying . Anyone know what they are?
I tried 2 websites and both seemed to ignore my uploads


how? T

 

[000]

http://imgur.com/a/ahnrYGH

http://imgur.com/a/05alyFV

http://imgur.com/a/AbuLZLV

http://imgur.com/a/XxwQ6sg

 

[Joshua2415]

I want to identify the light purple and dark purple flowers without paying . Anyone know what they are?
I tried 2 websites and both seemed to ignore my uploads


how? TView attachment 110375

The Seek app by iNaturalist is a great resource for identifying all sorts of plants and wildlife and easy to use.

Seek by iNaturalist · iNaturalist

www.inaturalist.org

 

[_____]

purple freeway daisy?

 

[Mr Doof]

I want to identify the light purple and dark purple flowers without paying . Anyone know what they are?
I tried 2 websites and both seemed to ignore my uploads


how? TView attachment 110375

Best estimate since I can't really see the leaf structure, left to right (purple, yellow, pink, blue):

Purple looks like anemone or perhaps a daisy relative, yellow looks like petunia, pink an aster (daisy family), and blue (based on flower shape and since I can’t see the leaves) I’d guess a taller lobelia varietal (then campanula or blue star).

 

[000]

http://imgur.com/a/9DBhCXb

View: https://imgur.com/gallery/9DBhCXb

http://imgur.com/a/f27Agaa

View: https://imgur.com/gallery/f27Agaa

 

[One-Off]

http://imgur.com/a/ahnrYGH

Hell yeah! Poetic justice. What an asshole.

 

[stringcheese]

Inspired by a thread on another bb that's up to 16 pages... and it's STILL about nothing. THought I'd see whether we're capable of beating that record....

So I hope you can find something relevant to say... on this thread about nothing.

17 years later, that "other" bb thread looks like a bltch

 

[Random Guy]

I’m unable to answer the question “what do people often get wrong about you?”
Are you able to?

 

[Autoprax]

I’m unable to answer the question “what do people often get wrong about you?”
Are you able to?

They think I'm weird.

Ok, I'm kinda weird.

But not as weird as they think.

They say things like, "I thought you were weird but you're okay."

Or they used to when I would be around people.

 

[rowjimmytour]

They think I'm weird.

Ok, I'm kinda weird.

But not as weird as they think.

They say things like, "I thought you were weird but you're okay."

Or they used to when I would be around people.

 

[underdog]

Married in 88' #shestillhatesmypunkrockmusicimayunplugher

 

[Mr Doof]

 

[r32]

Water tank explosion in Lemoore today. 1.5m gallon tsunami. Not far from Slater Ranch.

"As a contractor started to weld, an explosion ensued"

Surveillance camera captures deadly water tank explosion in Lemoore

LEMOORE, California. (KSEE) – The City of Lemoore has declared a State of Emergency following the deadly water tank explosion Monday afternoon. The rupture of a 1.5-million-gallon city water …

www.yourcentralvalley.com

 

[Mr Doof]

Remind me not to drink explosive water in Lemoore.

 

[npsp]

Water tank explosion in Lemoore today. 1.5m gallon tsunami. Not far from Slater Ranch.

"As a contractor started to weld, an explosion ensued"

Surveillance camera captures deadly water tank explosion in Lemoore

LEMOORE, California. (KSEE) – The City of Lemoore has declared a State of Emergency following the deadly water tank explosion Monday afternoon. The rupture of a 1.5-million-gallon city water …

www.yourcentralvalley.com

Very sad and preventable event. The contractor doing the welding died and two City workers were injured. Probably due to poor tank venting and build up of gas in the head space of the tank. For a short while, I used to work for a company whose main service was maintenance contracts for ground and elevated water tanks. The first thing we did when we took over the maintenance of a tank was to install a power vent to make sure all gasses are constantly vented to the outside atmosphere to prevent this exact type of event.

 

[r32]

Very sad and preventable event. The contractor doing the welding died and two City workers were injured. Probably due to poor tank venting and build up of gas in the head space of the tank. For a short while, I used to work for a company whose main service was maintenance contracts for ground and elevated water tanks. The first thing we did when we took over the maintenance of a tank was to install a power vent to make sure all gasses are constantly vented to the outside atmosphere to prevent this exact type of event.

That was my first thought too is don't these big ass tanks have some kind of check valve at the top that auto releases gas once pressure reaches a certain level?

 

[npsp]

Most water storage tanks have a system of vents with a blower mounted on the top to supply positive pressure to the interior of the tank forcing any gas out the vents.