[Found here, here and here.
More about Thailand’s Mae Klong Market here.]
Category: Bizarre
Bizarropillar
The larva of the Pacific fruit-piercing moth eat leaves and are usually kept in check by Trichogramma, tiny parasitic wasps.
The moth stage does the real damage. The adult moth flies at night and sucks out the juices of ripe mango, banana, tomato, melon, citrus, guava, papaya and other fruit through its nose, and is considered an economic pest in the Pacific Basin Area.
Allochthonous Hot Links
Right Around The Corner, The “5” Royales (1956)The Royal Sons Quintet, aka The Royals, aka The “5” Royales were a gospel group that made the crossover to R&B and laid the foundation for what would later be called Soul Music. Active during the years 1951 through 1965, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015.
Armed robbery is hard in Russia.
Bunkerville is a good name for a blog.
Recreating a 121 year old hamburger.
“Cool costume, bro, but what ARE you?”
Anyone besides me want to see him attacked by giant lagoon weasels?
The saddest Egyptian god. He has a dung beetle for a head.
[Top image: Bean goose flying upside down (“whiffling”) near Arnhem, Netherlands. It’s a quick maneuver by young show offs. More here.]
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Sea Lice
Sea lice are actually jellyfish
The term sea lice was inappropriately coined by residents who suffered strange rashes after swimming in coastal waters in the 1950s, according to the Florida Department of Health. (There is such a thing as actual sea lice, it turns out, but they are tiny parasites that affect fish, not humans.)
The rash that humans tend to get, on the other hand, “is caused by miniature jellyfish larvae trapped under bathing suits when in the water,” states a 2017 brochure available on the Health Department’s website.
“If pressure occurs from exercising, surfboards, lying on the beach, etc., stinging cells are released and cause itching, irritation, and welts,” the brochure continues. The larvae also like to hang out in people’s hair, so the back of the neck—where hair hangs down and touches the skin—is a common place for lesions.
1970 Schizophrenia Treatment Center
The Mitsukoshi Department Store, Japan 1970
[Found here.]
Grallatory Hot Links
Funny, Joe Hinton (1964)First recorded by country singer Billy Walker in 1961, Joe Hinton’s version made No. 13 on Billboard’s Top 100, No. 1 on Cash Box Magazine’s R&B list, and was one of Willie Nelson’s first hits as songwriter. The title Funny How Time Slips Away was shortened on the record label. Hinton succumbed to skin cancer in 1968 at the age of 38.
Only Charlie Watts. R.I.P.
Another Funny is posted here.
Raccoon kit learns the trades.
Springfield School District board meeting?
Watch a tortoise eat stuff [h/t Mme. Jujujive].
This is what jellyfish larvae look like. The comments are fun, too.
Someone thought it was a good idea to put antifa (?!) in the classroom.
[Top image: Unknown source, probably from Reddit. h/t rightymouse.]
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The .Gif Friday Post No. 696 – The Mask, The Milky Way & The 99 Percent
Sulcata Rotata Blossoms
Close up image below the break shows a large home-grown specimen. More about these wonders of nature here.
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Kelp
[Photo by J. Erick Smith.]
Statues
[Found here.]
Twitter suspended that user’s account, @statuefun, for violating the ToS, presumably for promoting violence and/or tobacco use.
Tacky Raccoons 