The actual names of the “gritters” (what they call snowplows in Scotland) are too fabulous:
Gritallica
Gritty Gritty Bang Bang
Gritty Gonzales
Gritty McVittie
Sir Salter Scott
Sir Andy Flurry
Ready Spready Go
Ice Queen
Luke Snowalker
Sir Grits a Lot
Mr. Ploughie
Gritsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Anti-Slip Machiney
David Plowie
Fred
Brad Grit
Gritney Spears
The Subzero Hero
Usain Salt
Not a dud in the list!
One of our cats’ toys is “Sir Rats A Lot.” I think one of the cats came up with that.
Only in Scotland would this work.
Although I’m giggling about this and I don’t know why:
Is anyone seeing this? It dislayed in the preview, but when I load the page I only see a link.
Just a link…
(image larger than 3072KB)
It’s a configured limitation on image size in the bbs, to conserve drive space when it locally stores the image. Ends up tripping people up in the gif thread too. I usually try to mangle the image down a bit to get it to fit into the allowed size, though that’s not always easy.
I think the default allowed size may have shrunk slightly a couple of updates ago, since I’ve been seeing it happen more often.
It’s definitely a Discourse thing. TOP does the same thing, now.
I saw it display here when you posted it, but when Discourse tried to re-host it locally it must’ve rejected it.
Ah, yes. Thank you all.
So you son’t have to follow the link, let me tell you what you would have seen: it’s Chuck Norris stopping a chainsaw with his bare hands. Yes, he can do that.
Someone has a deeply twisted sense of humor.
I’ll bet they’re a scream to hang out with!
Ugh. I’ve had a dead bee in my mouth before (xenophobe waiter decided to prank student group he mistook for non-French speakers who wouldn’t be able to argue with him). It wasn’t pleasant.
Ick, sorry. Didn’t mean to dredge up memories for anyone.
