From http://kottke.org/15/05/questions-about-mad-max-fury-road:
> 1. With gasoline in such short supply, I'm surprised the various groups in the movie didn't take more advantage of solar power to generate energy for electric vehicles and such. Sunshine is obviously abundant in post-apocalyptic Australia and from the looks of what was scavenged from before the nuclear war and the ingenuity on display in getting what they found to function, they should have been able to find even rudimentary solar cells and get them to work.
> 2. Speaking of energy scarcity, I wonder if the troop-pumping-up and opponent-intimidating function of the flamethrowing guitar player was worth all of the fuel spewed out of the end of his instrument and energy consumed by the incredible number of speakers on his rig.
> 3. The roads in the movie were in remarkable shape, aside from the swampland. Who was responsible for their upkeep? Even dirt roads need maintenance or they develop potholes and washboarding. And for what reason were they kept in such good condition outside of the Citadel/Gas Town/Bullet Farm area? Aside from Furiosa's Rig, the chase party, and two smallish motorcycle gangs, I saw no other vehicular traffic on the roads...and who would have been semi-regularly traveling out past the canyon anyway? To where? For what?
> 4. What was the political and economic arrangement between the Citadel, Gas Town, and the Bullet Farm? Did the Citadel trade their water and crops for gas and bullets? Or was Immortan Joe, as the defender of the lone source of abundant fresh water in the region, the defacto leader of all three groups? The People Eater and Bullet Farmer certainly came a'running when Joe needed help retrieving his wives. There were obviously other sources of water in the region -- how else did the biker gangs survive? -- so you'd think that Gas Town and the Bullet Farm could have teamed up to squeeze Joe into giving them a better deal or even overthrowing him. Point is, there seemed to be a surprising lack of political friction between the three groups, which seems odd in an environment of scarcity.
> 5. Surely land was plentiful enough that large solar stills could have generated enough fresh water for people to live on without having to rely on the Citadel for it.
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Do your worst!
It really does, I swear!
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies π
Theyβre on standbi
Buenosdillas
Pilot on me!!
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
Today In Phishstory - October 26th
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Phish
Phish, 2021-10-26 Santa Barbara Bowl, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Setlist: https://phish.net/setlists/phish-october-26-2021-santa-barbara-bowl-santa-barbara-ca-usa.html
Tour: Not Part of a Tour
Show Notes:
Phish, Friday 10/26/2018 (3 years ago) Allstate Arena, Rosemont, IL, USA
Gap Chart, Tour: 2018 Fall Tour
Set 1 : Punch You in the Eye > Martian Monster , Axilla , Reba , My Sweet One , Mercury > Moonage Daydream , Walls of the Cave
Set 2 : Tweezer > Golden Age > Frost > Limb By Limb , Sand , A Day in the Life > Possum
Encore : Wilson > Tweezer Reprise
Jamchart Notes:
Reba - Airy grooves and sprite melodies create that quintessential sort of spirit, Mike's play on point and off-beat, driving an august sort of improvisation which, in time, Trey works to a truly impassioned conclusion.
Tweezer - The band, like one organism, seemingly processes varying properties of a periodic waveform, or signals that contain vital information, to be shared with some other, astral,
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When I got home, they were still there.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
You take away their little brooms
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
There hasn't been a post all year!
Itβs pronounced βNoel.β
Why
After all his first name is No-vac
What, then, is Chinese rap?
Edit:
Notable mentions from the comments:
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Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits
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French/Finnish art
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Country/Canadian rap
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Chinese/Country/Canadian rock
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Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap
There hasn't been a single post this year!
(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)
Nothing, it just waved
Bob
Today In Phishstory - November 8th
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Phish
Phish, Sunday 11/08/1998 (23 years ago) UIC Pavilion, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA
Gap Chart, Tour: 1998 Fall Tour
Set 1 : Taste , Carini ^1 , Love Me , Ride Captain Ride , Fee , Paul and Silas , Roggae , Water in the Sky , Stash , Cavern
Set 2 : Chalk Dust Torture , Meat > Rock and Roll > Down with Disease > Piper > Wading in the Velvet Sea , Run Like an Antelope
Encore : Been Caught Stealing
1 Alternate lyrics referencing a streaker.
Jamchart Notes:
Taste - Trey is excellent in this version, almost making it on par with the top versions from '97.
Show Notes:
Carini included a verse about the streaker from the show two nights earlier. Stash contained Fikus teases from Mike. Paul and Silas was played for the first time since February 28, 1997 (115 shows).
Listen now at Phish.in!
Phish, Friday 11/08/1996 (25 years ago) Assembly Hall, Champaign, IL, USA
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