Chris E

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A board game box with a picture of a giant container ship carrying many many shipping containers. The game is called "Container"
Map of Essex zoomed in to Burnham-on-Crouch and Foulness
Photo of a randomly chosen Zanzibaran Parsi (yes, it's Freddie Mercury)
A bar chart made from leeks. Well, one leek copy and pasted. The leeks have been stretched in one dimension only leading to a foolish appearance. The scale is unclear. The labels are unhelpful and poorly formatted. The labels are in comic sans. No software a quarter as advanced as photoshop was involved in this bar chart.
I am a rationalist apparently
Youtube comment - This song has finally been immortalised on film - the B-side version is used in the closing credits of Alan Moore/Mitch Jenkin's film The Show (set in Northampton).
A lego bunny smashed into pieces, as dead as Christ was yesterday
A horrible purple alien monster sitting pretty on its imperial throne
"I will do such things - What they are yet I know not, But they shall be The terrors of the earth." William Shakespeare King Lear Act II Scene 4
Wikipedia bio of Manuel de Godoy, highlighting his title of Prince of Peace, fall from power, exile and death
Two stuffed toys stare each other down in front of a Christmas tree. On the left, an angler fish, terrifyingly betoothed. On the right, a Moo Deng, astonishingly smug and wearing a knitted jumper for some reason.
The same windowsill a little later. Part of the ceiling has collapsed onto it.
Model ship on a pub window sill
The worst cat
Video of PS Waverly's paddles turning, from inside
PS Waverly, steam down the Thames
The best meme ever
A small and adorable cat
Old skool mangle used as sign for the bay museum
Brighton bar scene, guy has a cockerel on his shoulder, for some reason or none
Two excellent ponies in front of a stunning view
Imposing harbour arm seen from below on the beach. Topped by a lighthouse and a statue of a very serious victorian seaside lady
In September, October, and November he fought the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Battles of the Isonzo. The only effect was to kill a lot of Austrians and even more Italians. If ever there were a useless waste in this most wasteful of all wars, the Isonzo was it.
Desk fan with led display showing 33 degrees C
screenshot of FAQ from https://carbootfinder.com/burcot-car-boot-sale/
Wikipedia screenshot showing Nintendo was founded in September 1889
Stock photo of the International Space Station. It looks rad and scifiish. It in no way resembles the moon
Eggs, devilled. Looking great
Woodland path surrounded by green. A tiny person hides behind a tree. She is very good at it
Pavement marker for the via francigena / north downs way with arrows to Canterbury & to Rome
Poster for the 1944 film "A Canterbury Tale"
Cartoon rat sensei
1561 newsheet with a mysterious picture of a space battle centre on the sun
Morning tea in a Polish mug. It has sausage dogs on it
A well-earned pint
Phaëthon now looked merely as if he thought I was crazy, which was unpleasant but better than concerned curiosity.
Screenshot of mp3 metadata from a tag editor. Much is missing, some is baffling
a torch. I have never used this and cannot now remember where I put it.
Two dorks in a beer garden
Screenshot from an ebook centred on heading 'Do trees exist?'
Speculate, reflect: every thinking activity implies mirrors for me. According to Plotinus, the soul is a mirror that creates material things reflecting the ideas of the higher reason. Maybe this is why I need mirrors to think:
He was here. Now time has passed. He shouldn’t come back here again. But by now all his stories are so saturated with falsehood that anything said about him is false. He’s succeeded in this, at least.
Screenshot of OP with 'sea shanty' and 'beautiful forest' highlighted
Waterlilies
Plate full of whitebait. They look delicious
Race timings - 1 hour 39 minutes 35 seconds
Anakin +Padme meme. It is exceptional. Exceptionally good, right? *beat* *beat*
Explain clearly the situation. "No, actually I don't really give a damn about that Calvino any more.
You fling the book on the floor, you would hurl it out of the window, even out of the closed window, through the slats of the Venetian blinds; let them shred its incongruous quires, let sentences, words, morphemes, phonemes gush forth, beyond recomposition into discourse; through the panes, and if they are of unbreakable glass so much the better, hurl the book and reduce it to photons, undulatory vibrations, polarized spectra; through the wall, let the book
'Video games cause violence' Based on the last game you played, what are you getting arrested for?
Hunk of ice held up against ruler showing it is 14mm thick, water butt in background
A terrifying monster beyond the dreams of man
Dr Jones and Dr Jones, mad at each other
Man in Christmas outfit exceptionally pleased to have a plush moo deng
A fine mug of Christmas tea
Low-rez pixel art of a warehouse full of wrapped presents, labelled WELL DONE!
Screenshot of a post beginning: When you ask a question and people reply with the top Google result, that is pretty annoying.
Blorenge Orange
Knitted Yoda glove, baby size
Comically short chalk cliff (perhaps six metres). Tiny person for scale