There was a time when Autogrills on Italian motorways were designed as destinations, but that was quite a while ago
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This always seemed cool as fuck on our way down to Blackpool.
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In the '60s and' 70s, motorway service stations were just about the shiniest and most modern thing about the UK outside of the rarely-visited airports.Comment
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Closed of course, because there's no separate fire exit(s)Originally posted by Lang Spoon View PostThis always seemed cool as fuck on our way down to Blackpool.Comment
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The cafe at Rheged is actually very good, as is the cheese shop.Originally posted by Fussbudget View PostComment
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Oh yeah I know, I've been. On a day out (really)
Apparently the coffee from the vending machine in the petrol station bit is also the bestest in the world, according to my former manager who used to arrange team meetings at our Workington office on the flimsiest of pretenses just so he could stop at Rheged for a coffee on the way there.Comment
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That does not seem in any way enough recompense for having to go to Workington. Or, indeed, Wukkiton.Comment
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Well that brings back some memories. I used to work there 20+ years ago during the summer to earn money for Uni.Originally posted by Guy Profumo View Post
I managed to get permission to go up the tower just the once - it was shut even back then.Comment
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Motorway services are one category of subject featured in the “Boring Postcards” volume I have - a collection of amusingly bewildering picture postcards from the late 1950s and 1960s, when concrete structures seem to have been considered very exciting.Comment
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Mitch McConnell's hands. WTF?Comment
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He's been having intravenous treatment for something (he's had a bandaid on the back of his hands for a while) and they can no longer find a vein.Comment
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Those Yugoslav war memorials are amazing!Comment
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An officer who served multiple tours in Afghanistan described that as the most Taliban thing he had ever seenComment
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Well here's a thing. Earthing sheets.
Why Sleep Grounded? Many are unaware that the Earth’s surface is covered by a blanket of electrons, which may act as one of nature’s most powerful antioxidants and anti-inflammatories. Every time we come into contact with the Earth’s surface, we are able to absorb these electrons through our skin through a process called grounding, or Earthing.
Grounding during sleep provides the body with multiple hours of these free electrons, at a time where the body undergoes the most healing and regeneration.Comment
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Yeah, a woman I work with has gone full earthing and is now barefoot anywhere she sees dirt or grass. Unfortunately she lives in a tall condo at Jarvis and Richmond.Comment
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Wouldn't they make you more likely to be struck by lightning in your sleep? No way I'm taking that kind of risk.Comment
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This goes here, I think.
Con artists sell Aladdin's Lamp to Uttar Pradesh doctor.
But then, that's UP.Comment
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The opposite. Like charges repel, and lightening is generally (but not exclusively) an electron discharge from cloud to ground.Originally posted by S. aureus View Post
Do you sleep outdoors often?Comment
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You would get lots of static shocks if you built up your own electron charge, though. That is how it would dissipate. Which would make sleep unpleasant.
I'm giving this woo way too much credence and thought now.Comment
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No, I was being facetious.Originally posted by Janik View Post
I'm not sure if I'm getting your reasoning here, though - if you lie on an earthed sheet then you are earthed yourself (being mostly water), thus providing a conduit for electricity to go from the clouds to the ground. If you don't and sleep in a normal bed there is insulation between you and the ground so the electricity would probably find a different path to take.Comment
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