22 yrs ago today, after a long zoning dispute with local officials that ruined his business, welder Marvin Heemeyer had enough & created the Killdozer.
He destroyed the mayor’s house, the judge’s house, town hall, the police station, & the bank - while avoiding hurting civilians or their property.
Happy Killdozer Day to those who celebrate 🎊
One thing that REALLY gets on my goat is the UK police force buying foreign cars. There are around 40,000 police vehicles on the road and the majority of them are built abroad! That’s approx £1.2bn going off-shore if they’re replaced every 3 years. It’s only a matter of time until we have BYD police cars… If I was in charge of the country the first thing I’d do is mandate that all UK emergency services must buy vehicles built in Britain. 🇬🇧 I mean how obvious is that to help our own economy, job market and above all pride?
When I was a teen, I had a boss who said when he was a boy in the 1940s, his family "escaped Germany and moved to Argentina." I was so naive I assumed he was Jewish until I read his obituary and learned he was... not.
Olympic skiers are like “I have 2% body fat. I train 23 hours a day. I have had 87 surgeries” and Olympic snowboarders are like “I have smoked this many drugs today” and they hold up their hand which is in a mitten.
Evening chaps. There's a 1960s office building in Gateshead that the council are preparing to demolish as the beginning of their regeneration program. It was built circa 1965, when the future was possible. In the spirit of midcentury futurism, they called it Computer House
It's here...
It's officially Ryder Cup week.
What better why to get hyped than watch the video the Euro team watched the night before the 2018 Ryder Cup in Paris.
(Was only meant to be seen by the players but was later made public after they won)
"That is unbelievable what I've just seen there!"
@connor_syme hit a 100 yard putt when he was just 18 yards from the pin early on Friday 🫣
#NexoChampionship
Golf instruction in 2025:
Today on the range at @HPlanner_Tour event, Oliver Gillberg worked with his instructor for an hour. His instructor was in Sweden.
Oliver wore his air pods and the pair worked thru some drills. Oliver had to position the camera a few times but a good option if the instructor can’t be on-site.
‘So turned off are these kids by increasingly dull and unaffordable modern fare, they’re turning back towards the cars their parents drove.’
@Andrew_Frankel judged a concours open only to cars of the most exceptional ordinariness. Welcome to the Festival of the Unexceptional. ⬇️