Epic WTF

Golf clap for the subs there...

Is there an "Epic moron" thread? https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/08/parenting-indian-food-bubble-covid-families-judgement.amp

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There’s something so grotesque about the infantilizing language of “gently informing someone”—especially when that someone is “two doctors”—about “small tummies,” coupled with the racist horror that your 9-year-old ate

Nutjob Councillor invoices shop for £3k after entry refused over no mask.

https://twitter.com/SmythLr/status/1297164170249601026?s=19

A conservative councillor shopping at ‘All Things Army’?

Surely this is a massive joke
The guys twutter:https://mobile.twitter.com/MancunianC

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Nope, this nutter is actually a real person?

standard crypto-antisemitic smoothbrainery. what's more worrying is the fact that fashy tits like this get elevated to positions of influence at all.

They stock Opinel...

He's an independent cllr though I think?

yes. Tbh there probably needs to be some challenges to the nearly entirely Lab council up here. This chap is possibly not the most reasonable opposition. He does mention cycle tracks in one rant though.

https://twitter.com/MancunianC/status/1297103040156258304?s=19

Followed one of these for a few miles this afternoon, straddled well over the central white line. Insanely big. tractor preceded it towing the boom (?)

Just a combine (harvester) no?

Yeah it’s a combine, I know someone who rolled one

@Alf0nse
Spendy.

Not his combine, but yeah

Yes but it was fucking HUGE close up and the half-track vibe was strong

They've only gotten bigger over the years as farms (here in Canada, and I assume elsewhere as well) have amalgamated and speed and spread demands on the field have increased.

Qanon levels of influence in US politics is WTF

Luckily, over here there are comparatively few huge areas of bland monoculture creating the economy of scale necessitating massive machinery. They are incredible pieces of kit though!

Relatively few?
You ought to go for a bike ride in the countryside

It's been a while for me, but I was of the impression that combine harvesters used to consist of different functions bolted together. Consequently they looked quite skeletal. Now they are designed from scratch, so everything is integrated under one shell - so it looks a lot bigger. The amount of gubbins beneath hasn't changed through? Would be interested to know the thinking behind the half-track.

In my experience over here they've always been designed to do the one thing (well, 3 actually, ergo the name) but that was what they always were. I think the track might be to spread the load so that they can get on the land when it's still too wet for wheeled units.

Would be interested to know the thinking behind the half-track

Less chance of sinking into soft soils without needing huge tyres.
Or probably less pressure on any undersown grass crop that's waiting to grow.

Also smoothes out ruts so the blade height isn't bouncing up and down so much, meaning a lower cut can be taken... More straw yeild and better grass yield if its undersown.

But did the farmer give you the key?

I live in the bloody countryside and my best mate drives a combine! It's the really big ones that are rare, because of the cost the monsters are normally used by contractors who combine vast areas like the fens, Norfolk, Somerset levels and Romney Marsh.