Category: Bizarre

Photoshop Fails

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Werewhale?

Actually it’s a pinniped, or maybe it’s Lon Chaney, Jr.

[Found here.]

UPDATE: That’s an unnecessary photoshop. Here’s the original:

Big Busts

Giant busts of 43 US Presidents are stored in a Virginia field awaiting their next assignment. Each is approximately 20 feet tall and weighs 11 tons.

[Photo & story here (via).]

Scorpy’s Hungry.

[Found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 631 – Indoor Half-Pipe, Home School Tee Time & Lil’ Flipper

[Found here, here and here.]

Doppelgangers.

[Update: Apparently the one on the left is a fabrication, but it still amuses me. The beach photo comes from Getty Images.]

[Update 2: Looks like it’s either a mistake or a joke that went viral. https://jerz.setonhill.edu/blog/2020/04/21/no-this-beach-photo-doesnt-prove-the-media-is-lying/ ]

Hot Links of the Tokoloshe

Microrockets.

The Broken Chair.

THE record breaker.

Window silhouettes.

Free paper organ templates.

This guy says he got it from Agnes.

The Stockport Spiderman [h/t @stumpymoose].

Interactive Wave is kinda cool. Click around on it.

First they ruined this. Then they ruined that. The PC police ruin everything.

“When u social distance so well that the cops have to find u by helicopter.”

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 630 – Parrot Punk, Duckling Fling & Rex Race

[Found here, here and here.]

Beware of the Dogwood

[Found in here.]

Doktorskaya kolbasa

Russian Докторская колбаса (Doctor’s sausage) had it’s origins in the United States.

The Bolsheviks mismanaged food production resulting in a widespread famine, so in 1936 Josef Stalin sent his food industry administrator to find out what the Americans were doing. Anastas Mikoyan found a lot of bologna.

Here is the exact recipe of Doktorskaya kolbasa that was used as industry standard from 1936 till 1974:

Quantities of ingredients to produce 100 kg of Doktorskaya kolbasa:

    • 25 kg of beef meat
    • 70 kg of semi-lean pork meat
    • 3 liters of milk
    • 2 liters of eggs
    • 2 kg of salt and 200 gr of sugar
    • 30 gr of cardamom
    • 50 gr of ascorbic acid (color stabilizer)

Manufacturing technology included dicing and mixing all ingredients in a homogenous paste, filling the tubes and later drying and boiling the sausage. Final product was incredibly tasty and quite healthy.

At least it was tasty and healthy enough for those who hadn’t starved to death during the famine, or slaughtered during Большой террор.

[Image found in here, story here.]