Epic WTF

This thread can now be closed, as no one is going to out wtf this.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCgqDAChkNF/

Fill with helium for a great weightweenie hack.

I'd go with hydrogen personally

Nitrous oxide for me. Then if it goes bang and I’ve wasted my money at least it will be funny for a bit.

You'll be laughed at for the extra weight.

Try explaining this ‘woke bullshit’ to a Staffie:

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Almost drove into fallen tree, turned a corner to find it fallen about 10m from the apex of the blind corner, although the bigger danger was the XC90 behind me who was driving a bit too close for comfort.

Herne Hill white people's market closed due to high winds.

'kin hell

It's like the apocalypse with people stumbling around in search of ironic South London tea towels and handmade feta.

The XC90 driver was entirely within their comfort parameters, safe in the knowledge that everyone else is the crumple zone.

Soviet-era advert for a car trailer that unpacks into a tent, portraying the joys of family togetherness, and their choice of music was... Eleanor Rigby?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4ed3199VAo

Most jaunty arrangement of Eleanor Rigby ever, certainly.

I like how he spins off as if they just had a quarrel.

I keep listening to it just for the very Mike Flowers musical arrangement, though.The wah-wah pedal a minute in is #chef's kiss#.

I expect she was having a go at him for taking his tie off or maybe it was because he pissed off home for the weekend leaving them in a tent in the middle of nowhereski.

As a Soviet, it’s mad seeing this kind of shit being unearthed. I had toy versions of this exact trailer thing as a kid, but the actual ‘product’ was mythical; it wasn’t ‘sold’ as such, or even advertised.

Everyone knew it existed, and being the USSR, there was only one version of this thing in existence, with a decades-long waiting list which required you to be in a privileged position within the Communist Party to even be eligible to sign up for. Nobody had ever seen one IRL, but everyone had an uncle’s best mate’s third cousin who had one.

Every kid had the toy though, along with the ‘Vazik’ (Lada Niva) tow vehicle.

CSB.

I did wonder, given that - as I'd read as a child - Kruschev pushed cars for the common man as part of his post-Stalin renaissance, but somebody forgot to build the supply chain for accessories, so that even windscreen wipers were a luxury that nobody could leave attached to their car when they parked it. My folks had this book on their shelves, which had an anecdote about how people would keep their windscreen wipers inside the car, so that when it rained there would be a mass pulling-over on the side of the road while people reattached the wipers. When I started following a former propaganda "executive" from the Moscow Agitprop bureau on social media, I asked him to verify this story. He said "Yes! When one of our journalists took a photograph of a famous sportsman doing the windscreen wipers dance, he got into a lot of trouble."

That is really interesting. Do you remember any other similar products/things that were highly sought after like the trailer? Are you Russian?

When I was about 12, we drove to Poland in my father's brand new Hillman Hunter. The advice was to remove the wiper blades if we parked up anywhere, as they would get nicked - not that they would fit any Polak motor.

What’s this gif meant to convey?

My grandad just rawdogged the rain in his ‘Volga’, no wipers. Partly as an anti-theft measure, but mainly due to being absolutely terrified of them wearing out.

He then got excommunicated from the Soviet party and almost sent to a gulag for believing he was doing the right thing in exposing corruption by the apparatchiks embezzling machinery from the steel processing plant where he was an engineer, and was forced to work as a PR agent for a spiritual healer, and as a smuggler of cars and parts from Europe. There were wipers oozing out of our every orifice.

Sorry, how rude of me: #csb

I for one think these are genuinely cool stories (bro).

Genuine csb, these are the things we, in Europe, never saw/believe due to propaganda.

What’s this gif meant to convey?

Super interested, no sarcasm intended