Stress relief

[Tiller]

This is more stress relief than election.
Bad Lip Reading of the first democratic debate:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V_yxGsWHx9o

[lordmoke]

No comment:
http://www.clickhole.com/video/forbidde ... swalk-3528

[lordmoke]

Can you guess the cities from their metro map alone?
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/ ... _result_fb

Pretty pleased that I was able to get 10/11.

[Nathan]

11/11! Made a couple pretty educated guesses, but helps I've been to some of the weird ones.

[mister.shoes]

Cripes. Missed a super duper obvious one but got the rest.

[LakeCharles]

10/11.

The one I missed was the little circle and I'm not surprised I didn't know that.

[trigonalmayhem]

I got a perfect score, but I've seen the maps to scale site before and have a book of all the subway maps in the world.

[Tiller]

THE ONION HAS MADE YET ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL POLITICAL PREDICTION:

[FISHMANPET]

Img tags don't support gifv so here click this link:
https://i.imgur.com/Jyyw5KU.gifv

[mulad]

Yes, that would be the Tehachapi Loop in California.

[mister.shoes]

My dad's a railfan (I guess I am too) and I grew up with my nose in TRAINS and Model Railroader every month. That loop was one of those places we always wanted to go see. We got close on a family vacation to CA in '92, but I don't think we actually went by. The loop is crazy enough, but the approaches on either side are just as extreme of turns themselves. When you stop and think about the insane lateral forces on every inch of that train as it snakes around and crosses over itself, it's amazing it doesn't fall over or break apart. A couple—er, way more than a couple—thousand horsepower on both ends and some incredible couplers do amazing work. Trains, man. So cool.

[mattaudio]

I remember seeing a loop like this somewhere out in the Canadian Rockies back in the day. But yeah, there's nothing quite like Tehachapi.

So, when are we doing our UrbanMSP/railfan train trip?

[mister.shoes]

The Spiral Tunnels (read down the page a bit) below Kicking Horse Pass in Yoho Nat'l Park are pretty neat. We camped out there in '98 (I think) and could hear the train horns echoing in the narrow canyons. It was super cool.

[Nathan]

41 amazing public space transformations as captured by Google Street view.

http://www.techinsider.io/urbi-before-a ... ery-2015-8

[mattaudio]

The opposite of stress relief is when you wake up one morning and your cell phone has what looks like a layer of ink under the glass but above the image. LCD fail, I assume? But no drop to precipitate this.

[MNdible]

Probably caused by an excess of black bile.

[Nathan]

Driving vs public transit: pro and con chart.

http://www.theonion.com/graphic/driving ... tion-52297

[PhilmerPhil]

Anyone else catch the latest Always Sunny? Mac and Dennis move to the suburbs. Good stuff.

[Tiller]

I can't like this video enough

[mulad]

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