Joydip Basu

🇺🇲 in 🇬🇧 | Lub limricks n doggrel | 💛 cask 🍺 (on @Untappd) | @Cal 🐻 | Kings 🏒 A's & Dodgers ⚾ | Views immodest but mine own

[Joydip Basu @joydawg]

This Google Photos look back notification uncovered this gem

[Throwback Iran @Tarikh_Eran]

A group of Iranian football fans at the World Cup brought different parts of Iran’s flag into the stadium and sewed them together during the game.

FIFA has unjustly banned Iran’s 500+ years old flag, but Iranians keep finding creative ways to display their flag 🇮🇷

[Joydip Basu @joydawg]

Watched the 94 Cup entirely on Univision, a free US Spanish-language broadcast network. Although hosted entirely in the US, Andrés Cantor and Norberto Longo broadcasted the matches from Miami watching a giant CRT. Minus the final, which was from a high press box at the Rose Bowl.

[Telegraph Football @TeleFootball]

🏙️ Views across Manhattan vs an LED screen in Salford...

That makes it: ITV 1, BBC 0

Our man Alan Tyers sat up watching the football all night so you don’t have to, and here is what he learnt ⤵️
https://t.co/KFuWFQ5lox

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@_N47H4N Possibly gammony

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Nominative determinism, assuming she was soldering too!

[Things From the Past @pastarchive]

Engineer Karen Leadlay working on the analog computers in the space division of General Dynamics, 1964.

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@summacorp Too few! Still the land of opportunity for budding entrepreneurs without billions in the bank.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

If ever there was a popular actor whose most famous role was diametrically opposite to his own life , surely it was Arnold Ridley. He became famous and very popular for playing Private Godfrey in the hugely popular tv series Dads Army. His character of Godfrey was elderly, doddery, kind, polite, mildly incontinent and a conscientious objector.
But Mr Ridley's life could not have been more different. Born in 1896 he tried to enlist at the outbreak of WW1 in 1914 but was turned away because of a hammer toe. But he was accepted by the Somerset Light infantry in 1915 and sent to the Western Front.

In the space of a year he saw much hand to hand fighting in the trenches He was stabbed in the groin with a bayonet and his legs were riddled with shrapnel. In 1916 at the Battle of the Somme his left hand was rendered forever almost unusable by another bayonet wound , at the same time he was smashed in the head by a German rifle butt which left a legacy of blackouts. He was then medically discharged that year.

He rejoined the army in 1939 as a 2nd Lt, his job was looking after journalists in France attached to the BEF, was evacuated on an overcrowded warship during Dunkirk operations from Boulougne. But by now his WW1 wounds were catching him up and he left the army on medical grounds in 1940.

He immediately joined the Home Guard in Caterham! He did of course go on to write The Ghost Train.

Arnold Ridley passed away in 1984. A true hero who gave so much to our country. R.I.P.

[Joydip Basu @joydawg]

@RedbirdRiot Your dog is fine! It doesn't have a $133 million total value contract that it should be ashamed of.

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@TurnbullMartin A former Home Savings of America, now painted over 🫤

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

13 years ago, Rotherham, England turned 8 miles of mowed roadside grass into a "river of flowers." In 2021, they added even more miles.

The original scheme was commissioned by Rotherham Council in 2013, designed by Professor Nigel Dunnett at the University of Sheffield, and seeded with a 180-species wildflower mix along the central reservations of the town's main ring road. It replaced mowing that had been costing the council around £80,000 a year.

Since then: the wildflower verges have saved roughly £23,000 to £25,000 per two-year mowing cycle, increased pollinator abundance, and inspired similar programs in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Birmingham, Newcastle, and Sheffield.

In 2021, Rotherham added 3.5 more miles across 12 new sites including Herringthorpe, Swinton, Harthill, and Maltby. They just keep expanding it.

The UK has lost 97% of its wildflower meadows in the last 100 years. Most of what was lost was paved, plowed, or mowed. The verges nobody was using anyway turned out to be one of the largest untapped habitats in the country.

[Joydip Basu @joydawg]

I was an obtuse child, and growing up always saw the Dodgers logo as I (eye)-A. Thankfully after nearly four decades of fandom now I see nothing but LA.

Now I see this one as I - (some unknown quasi-Cyrillic letter)

[Emily Morgan Creates @EM_Creates]

Los Angeles @Dodgers redesign⚾️

Subtly incorporating hidden elements, while preserving the iconic structure!

[VisionaryVoid @VisionaryVoid]

The Night a Brooklyn Dodger Died in a Fistfight at 2,000 Feet.

On the afternoon of September 16, 1935, outfielder Len Koenecke was handed his release papers by Brooklyn Dodgers manager Casey Stengel in a Chicago hotel room. Koenecke had batted .320 the year before and set a National League fielding record. He called his wife, told her he'd be home soon, then bought a bottle of whiskey and boarded a commercial flight east.

By the time the American Airlines plane crossed Lake Michigan, Koenecke was drunk and in a fight, had knocked a stewardess to the floor, and was being physically restrained by the co-pilot. The airline put him off the plane in Detroit and refunded his ticket. He was 31 years old and apparently determined to get to Buffalo.

He chartered a private plane, a single-engine Stinson Detroiter owned by the tobacco heir Z. Smith Reynolds, piloted by William Mulqueeney, a 6-foot former college football player, with one friend aboard: Irwin Davis, a barnstorming parachutist who performed in a bat-wing suit. Koenecke was the only passenger. They took off around 10 p.m. Twenty minutes later, at 2,000 feet over Toronto, Koenecke lunged for the controls.

What followed was a 15-minute hand-to-hand brawl inside a cockpit the size of a closet, with Davis grappling Koenecke on the cabin floor and Mulqueeney trying to fly the aircraft with one hand. When Davis cried out that he couldn't hold him, Mulqueeney reached for the fire extinguisher mounted beside his seat. He hit Koenecke once, then again, then again. The plane was rocking between walls of air. "It was either a case of the three of us crashing, or doing something to Koenecke," Mulqueeney told police.

He eventually spotted the lights of a racetrack, set the plane down hard in the dark, and went back to check on the ballplayer. Koenecke was dead, skull caved in, no pulse. The coroner's inquest took minutes. Mulqueeney and Davis were acquitted by reason of self-defense. The Dodgers wore black armbands the next day and finished the season in sixth place.

The fire extinguisher, presented as evidence at the inquest, was bent nearly beyond recognition.

[Joydip Basu @joydawg]

Growing up in a Toyota-only household with 70s models onwards, before this, it was simply the Toyota wordmark that now appears below, and which has remained unchanged for decades now.

[LogoDecks™ @LogoDecks]

The Hidden Story Behind Toyota’s Legendary Three Ovals Logo.

In 1989, Masashi Uehara served as Art Director at the Nippon Design Center during the creation of Toyota’s iconic “Three Ovals” logo. This ambitious project, led by Creative Director Yusuke Kaji and overseen by the legendary designer Kazumasa Nagai, became a massive collaborative effort spanning five years. Developed to celebrate Toyota’s 50th anniversary, the emblem was crafted to deliver a unified visual identity that would support the company’s global expansion. The timeless design features two perpendicular inner ovals representing the overlapping hearts of the customer and the company, gracefully enclosed within a larger outer oval that symbolizes the world. Together, these elements subtly form the letter “T” for Toyota. The result is a sophisticated and meaningful logo that continues to embody harmony, trust, and worldwide ambition more than three decades later.

#logodecks

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Rubio 2028

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 PRESS SECRETARY RUBIO: "This is CHAOS guys!" 🤣

"You in the black! Yes ma'am."

"Not not you!"

You don't have black on—you have BLUE on! I'm colorblind, but I know blue and black!" 😂

[adult swim @adultswim]

RIP Captain

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@ilannfl18 Phenomenal. Somebody who has even less self-awareness than PCA himself 🫠.

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@jejujinho @Science_TechTV This is likely from The Mechanical Universe. It's a series about physics, but it has a few sections about calculus. It's on YouTube.

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@ObsoleteSony

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The guy behind the wall: "Karma"

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@LondonPubMap Nice!