Ice cream shop north of the border crossing near Eureka, Montana.
Things we see driving around - original content (pictures you snapped)
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For the the literary fans.
It's 'rife'. (don't take offence as it's a common mistake).
Also, the way the box' sides fold completely on that VW (post #500) is what all pickups should do....or at least make it a option.
Play on words...........ripe as in STENCHYThe beach is always ripe with death.
Pablo got it. He's one of the sharper cookies in the drawer.
Absolutely horrendous, putrid, vile, and nauseating. If you stand too close on a humid day, the stench of carrion latches on to your shoes, clothes, hair, and skin. It follows you to your car, to your home, into your bed, and to work the next day. Everything, including you, needs to be sanitized , cleaned, and deoderized over and over.
And there may not be a single molecule of any of the smelly compounds left, yet it is in one's brain.
I am a bit baffled as to the HUMAN evolutionary benefit of this - molecular memory stickiness. Stay away from where death occurs?
We can see how this aromatic ripeness benefits the buzzards around here. Always cleaning something up.
Best scenes ever in the cornball Walking Dead. Popping into a car for shelter on a hot Georgia day. Dead (really dead) ripe people inside said car. The smell stays with a fella.
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Do you mean fold-down bedsides?
That phenomenon is real. but I have had people comment on my odiferous habitus after getting too close to dead whales.
The stench of decay is a function of chemical processes rather than one of evolution. Flies, bugs, and crabs appear to love it.
That whole world is a bit ripe.
If that's what they're called, yes.
They just make such plain sense. You drop the sides and you can move a real pool table, for example.
I test drove one of the little ones we (the US) imports under the heading, "used, unregistrable farm vehicle".
Can't remember the name. Its sides folded down and the cabs seats and flooring were rigged for removal.
Added wind noise? I'm not concerned.
Fold-drown or drop-down bedsides. Pretty common on K-car mini-trucks, and on true utility vehicles like Unimogs, and such. Domestically, a good percentage of pickup trucks are mostly not bought for utility but for being big, manly, and for being perceived as safer than cars. There are probably safety and liability considerations. I just know that some yahoo will go driving around with a dozen teenagers perched on the edge of the bed of his truck if it has fold-down bedsides.
And many people will put an oversized load on it. I have no confidence in common-sense use.
yeah true - but why do certain stenches stay in the mind, like strongly imagined smell, even when smell is long gone?
Related - people with severe dementia who don't respond to visual or audio stimuli will for certain respond to olfactory input. Like a perfume they used to smell, or a cantaloupe aroma.
We have lots of fires around here. This is a pretty common sight.
And imaginary odors can be an indicator of a brain tumor.
A Peel P50. That better be your picture.View attachment 232014 I saw this big car driving around.
