La Jolla Cove is full of people in swim shirts dead set on bathing with the seals in a stew of their fishy excrement. Hold your breath and take a quick pic then go to literally any beach north of it.
the "Revolting Children" sequence in the film Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical, 2022 - it features approximately 225 children in total with an intensive 12-week trial, directed by Matthew Warchus
Aurelian was a kind of Abraham Lincoln figure in the late Roman Empire. Against the odds, he won a three-way civil war and reunited the empire, only to be assassinated for his troubles.
Here at Our Lady of Perpetual Kneading, the first ever massage parlor to accept the doctrines of Catholicism and reject the Protestant reformation, we burn incense and rub holy oils on you
Qatar's PM: "This war needs to stop immediately. Everyone knows who the main beneficiary of this war is."
Qatar's PM told the world, this war serves someone's interests. And that someone is not in Tehran, Washington, or Doha — it's in Tel Aviv.
Did you know old ships don't just fade away—they get torn apart for scrap? Yeah, there's a whole industry called shipbreaking. Massive retired vessels (tankers, cargo haulers, liners) sail to their final resting place and literally beach themselves on industrial shorelines at high tide. Once the water pulls back, they're stuck—high and dry—ready for the torch. Top spots where this happens:Alang, India, Chittagong, Bangladesh, and Aliaga, Turkey.
These beaches turn into full-on disassembly lines where crews swarm in with cutting torches, hammers, and sheer manpower, ripping steel, cables, engines—everything—down to sellable scrap and often get reborn as rebar.
They have nothing in common with dudes working on a real ranch. But they’re undeniably southern. The national brand just borrowed the southern elite “chivalry” and accent and left the rest on the table. The brand is boring and paves over distinct cultures.
People now perceive a kind of monolithic national “country culture” of trucks, boots, etc. But it is more of a brand, drawing certain elements from lots of distinct cultures and bundled together for mass appeal. It takes things from southern elitism, old westernism,
here’s the thing, I’ve been to Montana and Wyoming. They’ve got real, honest to God cowboys there.
There are no cowboys in Florida or South Carolina. There’s just guys who don’t pay child support while wearing boots.
agrarian ruralism, Appalachian hillbillyism, evangelicism, blue collarism, conservatism, cajun bayouism, turquoise hippyism, etc. Think about Todd Chrisley and the fancy polo golfer southern fraternity elite bros. There are no country songs about them. They’re not “country.”