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We asked our readers to send in their best pictures on the theme “on the water”. Here is a selection of the photographs we received from around the world.
Pictures on the theme of ‘on the water’
Month: June 2022
Ornery Orangutan Grabs Hold of Man at Zoo and Refuses to Release Him
A wild video circulating online shows the moment that a man at a zoo gets too close to an orangutan and winds up in the mighty creature’s unrelenting grasp. According to a local media report, the unsettling incident occurred on Monday at the Kasang Kulim Zoo in the Indonesian city of Pekanbaru. Hoping to produce something viral for his Instagram account, a foolhardy young man named Hasanal Arifin managed to achieve his goal in a manner that he now undoubtedly regrets as the video of his jaw-dropping encounter at the facility has spread like wildfire online as a reminder that it is rather unwise to get too close to the animals while visiting a zoo.
In the footage, Arifin can be seen extending his hands towards the great ape in a somewhat taunting fashion and then soon finds that the ‘joke’ is on him as the creature reaches through the bars of its cage and grabs hold of the young man’s shirt. With an unnerving look of determination, the orangutan begins slowly pulling the terrified zoo patron towards the cage, while Arifin yells out for help and, no doubt, wonders what will become of him should the mighty creature win the worrisome tug of war. Responding to his cries, a second individual runs over to the scene, but wisely keeps his distance from the aggressive creature after it swats him away.
Amazingly, this was just the beginning of Arifin’s ordeal as the orangutan releases its tenuous grip on his shirt in favor of something more solid: the young man’s leg! Wrapping its long arms around the appendage, the ape refuses to let go, even when the aspiring social media star eventually gets lifted off the ground and turned sideways against the cage as his friend tries to pull him away from the ornery orangutan. Eventually Arifin manages to be yanked away from the angry animal just as the creature appears to be poised to take a bite out of his bare foot. Fortunately, he was able to escape the situation without being injured and, one presumes, with a newfound respect for the pugilistic primate.
Since being posted to social media on Tuesday, the young man’s video has quickly gone viral around the world, though his hopes for online fame appear to have been dashed since most media outlets have failed to identify him as the man who tangled with the orangutan. Be that as it may, one Indonesian website did place Arifin at the center of the misadventure and he has since expressed deep regret for his ape-based antics at the zoo, offering an apology to the facility for crossing the guardrails in order to get closer to the creature. While its uncertain if the young man will get into any trouble for the ill-advised viral video, one suspects that the sheer terror that he felt while in the orangutan’s grip may be punishment enough.
What’s Going On With “Three Blind Mice” Nursery Rhyme?
Three blind mice. Three blind mice. See how they run. See how they run. They all ran after the farmer’s wife, Who cut off their tails with a carving knife, Did you ever see such a sight in your life, As three blind mice?
I Think Summer Has Arrived in Manitoba
I think the warm temps may be on the horizon in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It has been a cool, if not cold, wet spring so far. Record breaking amounts of rain, the rivers are bloated but the grass and leaves are green. The warmest temperature so far is +22 celsius (72 fahrenheit). Suppose to get up to +25 C (77F) in the next few days.
Comparison from a few weeks ago to today.
Homeless people camp out in tents along the rivers.
UFO Spotted Over Buckingham Palace During Queen’s Jubilee Parade
Television viewers watching coverage of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee festivities were left scratching their heads at the appearance of an inexplicable white orb that mysteriously zipped through the sky over Buckingham Palace. The puzzling UFO sighting reportedly occurred last Thursday as the United Kingdom kicked off its four-day-long celebration of the queen’s 70th year as monarch by way of a ceremonial parade wherein, as part of the event, nine Royal Air Force jets took to the sky and dispersed long streams of red, white, and blue smoke. As the colorful flypast unfolded, many people watching from home found their attention drawn to a peculiar aerial interloper that was apparently not a part of the show.
As seen in the video above, the curious UFO appeared out of nowhere and seemed to flew through the sky across the colored streams of smoke left behind by the Royal aircraft. Attentive TV viewers quickly noted the odd object and a clip showing the mystifying moment spread like wildfire on social media with many wondering what exactly the anomaly might have been. Given the historic nature of the weekend’s events, some have suggested that perhaps the UFO was an alien craft making an appearance over Buckingham Palace as some kind of interstellar salute to the queen’s epic seven decades upon the throne.
Meanwhile, skeptical-minded viewers have, of course, offered a more prosaic explanation for the UFO, suggesting that it was a stationary object that appeared to be moving due to what is known as the parallax effect. Should that be the case, while it is uncertain exactly what the anomaly was, it’s possible that the orb was simply an errant balloon, given the celebratory nature of the event.
Intricate Military Models
Lego battleship
Donald Trump Stars In Classic Horror Movie Scenes
Donald Trump Stars In Classic Horror Movie Scenes
Talented creatives from DesignCrowd’s global community have designed a series of scary mock-ups featuring former US president Donald Trump.
The DesignCrowd.com contest generated fantastic Photoshop artworks, which morphed Trump into scenes from horror movies such as Scream, An American Werewolf in London, Silence of the Lambs, and Alien.
Here’s Donald
The Shining Twins
Hannibal the Dealmaker
Freddy
This is just horrid!
Scream
The Beast of the East
Didn’t last long as an Exorcist, not enough money.
As the bodiless droid in Alien
More Alien
The mean-spirited reprobate won’t go away. But he is fading. God help us all that he fades away into oblivion before 2024.
Increased Number of Possible Possessions Prompt Catholic Exorcists to Call for Help
A worrisome survey of Catholic exorcists found that they feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of potentially possessed people coming to them for help to the point that they are asking the church to provide them with assistance. The troubling trend reportedly came to light during an annual conference of priests who specialize in the practice of casting demons out of unfortunate individuals. Speaking to researchers from the Catholic Church’s educational institute Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, the 120 exorcists in attendance at the event raised serious concerns about managing the myriad of possible possession cases they are currently encountering with some saying that they receive a staggering 30 to 50 such reports per day.
In the face of this monstrous workload, the exorcists called upon the Catholic Church to provide them with additional resources, specifically access to psychologists, in order to determine if an individual is actually possessed or if they are afflicted with mental illness. One priest who encountered this conundrum recounted how he was forced to independently enlist such a professional when a young woman’s parents were divided over what had caused her to attack a group of monks and assail them with insults spoken in Latin. He indicated that it was ultimately determined that the woman was possessed and she was freed from the demonic grip following an arduous nine-hour-long exorcism.
Beyond feeling as if they were forced to take on the burden of helping possibly possessed people by themselves, the exorcists also expressed unhappiness with having to perform the ritual for those who were sick with COVID-19 as it puts their own health at risk. Why, exactly, there are so many people requesting the practice is uncertain, though Spanish priests in attendance at the conference indicated that these individuals “have spent time with New Age, spiritual or meditation groups.” By taking their grievances public, one hopes that the exorcists can receive the help they need from the Catholic Church as, after all, they are something of a front line in the battle of good versus evil.
The very splashy lunch boxes from decades past
They don’t make lunch boxes, also known as lunch kits, like they did back in the sixties and seventies. The tin boxes which had a thermos inside were adorned with pop culture icons, TV shows, movies, sports heroes, historical events and many other topical subject matter.
The vintage lunch box as we think of it today was born in 1935. That’s when a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, company called Geuder, Paeschke, and Frey licensed the likeness of a new cartoon character named Mickey Mouse for the top of its oblong-shaped “Lunch Kit.” The metal container was sealed at the top with a loop of stiff wire that doubled as a handle.
From that moment on, placing a character of any sort on the side of a lunch box (or lunchbox, as it is often spelled) became the standard for the lunch boxes children toted to school. Before long, the signal a lunch box sent to your peers could mark you as a cool kid or a dork, depending on if your PB&J was packed inside a Mercury’s Space capsule Container (Universal, 1962) or a Evel Knievel lunch box (Aladdin, 1973).
Modern lunch boxes just don’t have the same eye-catching appeal of the old boxes. The lunch boxes today are more practical and cater to contemporary technology.
A three decker.
The majestic old lunch boxes:
The interior of a vintage box.
When buying a Roy Rogers and Dale Evans box on the right, included was a toy horse. It goes by the name Trigger.
Not sure where this one came from.
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