Okay, so I hadda look it up for you guys… but I have my own theory too.
According to Wikipedia, but much edited by me to cut to the chase…..
this is “Wave Rock” a natural rock formation shaped like…. you got it… a breaking ocean wave, about 50 ft high and 360 ft long.
It forms the north side of a solitary granite hill known as “Hyden Rock”, in Hyden Wildlife Park, near the town of…(surprise!)… Hyden, a couple hundred miles from Perth, Australia.
More than 100,000 tourists visit every year.. I dunno if they meant the park or the rock. Apparently not much to do in Western Australia. (Joke! Ok? In case you’re from Western Australia. It’s a very nice rock.)
My theory? Oh…. yeah… vanilla ice cream, dipped in chocolate.
They don’t want you to know, so they say it’s stone.
Don’t just take it for granite.
Too much makeup? Susan, we need you to style its hair. What’s that stuff that they advertise on TV to get rid of your wrinkles for hours? And that wardrobe, honey, that’s sooooo Middle Earth! That’s no way to show up for your turn on the red carpet in the Oscars….
All is okay with these herbs. It is not a case of fraud or deceptive packaging – this was already a topic on the Internet in 2020 and the company HES has also responded and explained and justified the facts.
Translated with help by Deepl: This is what the herb manufacturer told a reporter from the Rheinische Post (a newspaper in North Rhine-Westphalia) in 2020: “We are frequently confronted with this, but I strongly reject the accusation of deceptive packaging,” says Sören Waltz, Managing Director of Hallesche Essig- und Senffabrik GmbH (HES). The jar is not an opaque cardboard box. “And what the man in the video doesn’t show: the label doesn’t go all the way around the jar,” explains Waltz. A strip is left blank on the back so that it’s immediately clear how much spice is contained – even without turning the container upside down. But why is the jar only half full? According to Waltz, it’s a standard 110-milliliter jar filled with 60 grams of herb seasoning mix. This has a high salt content. Salt has a relatively high density compared to many other spice ingredients. In other words, 60 grams of salt takes up significantly less space than 60 grams of oregano. Or as Waltz says: “If we put 60 grams of garlic into the same jar, it will be full to the top.”
Left unsaid: if they fill it all the way up, they’d have to double the price. Also, from a different perspective, buying gazillion of “one size fits all” pacakaging is much less expensive than buying small quantities in multiple sizes. Finally, keeping to one size of container greatly simplifies the process of packaging…one conveyor system, set up once, no changes from one product to another. Less down time increases profitability. So all they way around, they’re doing this for the benefit of the consumer, providing a product priced fairly, not marked up excessively to cover unnecessary costs.
That seems to make sense…. and I suspected there was a place to see the level.
But we have various spice brands that also put their product into matching bottles, but they don’t feel the need to provide the same weight of each spice.
The bottles are clearly labeled with the weight in each jar. A jar of dried basil might contain half an ounce (14 gm), a salt mixture, 3 ounces (84gm).
It doesn’t make sense to say “All our bottles contain 60 grams”… That can’t even be true.
60 grams is just over 2 ounces… There’s no way they’re going to stuff 60 grams of saffron into one. It wouldn’t fit, and would cost at least $200. The last time I didn’t buy any saffron, there was a little cellophane packet inside the otherwise empty jar, holding only a few grams, for over $10.
60 grams of any loose dried herbs wouldn’t fit in the pictured jar, either. Maybe whole coriander or cardamom seeds, or as he says, dried garlic, would weigh 60 grams.
I do know that’s why the Caspian was called a sea — because a lake was defined by having fresh water.
But some lists use only having no outlets as the definition. On those, Salt Lake and the Dead Sea are called lakes, in spite of their totally salt water.
On other lists, like this one, I guess brackish is Ok, but not saltwater.
OK, that’s a low voltage flashover (I’ve seen a few).
I would think he’s checking the cabinet due to there being an outage (Circuit still off), didn’t see anything unusual (Evidence of burning/discharge) and as he went to close the door the circuit was tried back in from a remote location and the fault was right there.
If the circuit was still live when he looked, then again nothing unusual seen, and was very unlucky that the cable failed as he was closing the door.
That guy is going to need some hospital treatment, electrical flashover burns are no fun due to the molten metal contained within the flash.
A colleague of mine energised some 11kV switchgear, everything fine, and was just at the doorway leaving when the unit flashed over and erupted. He was unharmed fortunately.
It’s an Electrical Distribution Cabinet. What I would call a ‘Feeder Pillar’. The transformer and switchgear are in the big square green box to the right of where he stopped the car.
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“Well, since you asked, I can tell you in all confidence that … “
There has to be an interesting story about the geology of this place.
A fossilized half-pipe…
First thing I thought of. You beat me to it. Talk about getting some air….
It’s gotta be sandstone.
Except the grain is vertical instead of horizontal.
Okay, so I hadda look it up for you guys… but I have my own theory too.
According to Wikipedia, but much edited by me to cut to the chase…..
this is “Wave Rock” a natural rock formation shaped like…. you got it… a breaking ocean wave, about 50 ft high and 360 ft long.
It forms the north side of a solitary granite hill known as “Hyden Rock”, in Hyden Wildlife Park, near the town of…(surprise!)… Hyden, a couple hundred miles from Perth, Australia.
More than 100,000 tourists visit every year.. I dunno if they meant the park or the rock. Apparently not much to do in Western Australia.
(Joke! Ok? In case you’re from Western Australia. It’s a very nice rock.)
My theory? Oh…. yeah… vanilla ice cream, dipped in chocolate.
They don’t want you to know, so they say it’s stone.
Don’t just take it for granite.
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Skin tight suits for the girls, bulky hardwire for the guys.
Pulp sf art.
Gotta love it. 🙂
Goless?
Too much makeup? Susan, we need you to style its hair. What’s that stuff that they advertise on TV to get rid of your wrinkles for hours? And that wardrobe, honey, that’s sooooo Middle Earth! That’s no way to show up for your turn on the red carpet in the Oscars….
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Yup.
One of our first DVDs.
‘it ain’t Ozzie and Harriet’
The what now?
And the big one is thinking “Geez, buddy. Try the decaf for once.”
“Mom! Make it stop!”
Yup! Grandkids can be like that! That’s why I built swings, a slide and a zip line! Next comes the hill fort!
Just shaking my head and laughing.
This was the sweet golden retriever when i house-sat with my super speedy little schipperke, who wanted her to play.
Except my dog would also be holding one of the golden’s toys in her teeth…. or else be running underneath her, nipping at her belly.
,,
There is nothing like holding a dog!
,.
I’m intrigued.
Beautiful! We all want to know where this is.
Okay, okay….
Sheesh. I can take a hint. I’ll find out.
….
Okay… this is “Botanical Beach”… on the edge of Juan de Fuca Provincial Park, in Port Renfrew, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
It’s well known for these tiny, crystal clear tide pools, which have their own, separate ecosystems.
That’s a really beautiful area, all around it, too.
I don’t say it often enough, but thanks. 🙂
I appreciate that!
OMG! I’ve been on a field trip there and didn’t recognize the place! (It’s where I learned barnacles are delicious!)
Some settling may occur in shipping…and filling…and on the way to the marketing and accounting departments!
All is okay with these herbs. It is not a case of fraud or deceptive packaging – this was already a topic on the Internet in 2020 and the company HES has also responded and explained and justified the facts.
Translated with help by Deepl:
This is what the herb manufacturer told a reporter from the Rheinische Post (a newspaper in North Rhine-Westphalia) in 2020:
“We are frequently confronted with this, but I strongly reject the accusation of deceptive packaging,” says Sören Waltz, Managing Director of Hallesche Essig- und Senffabrik GmbH (HES). The jar is not an opaque cardboard box. “And what the man in the video doesn’t show: the label doesn’t go all the way around the jar,” explains Waltz. A strip is left blank on the back so that it’s immediately clear how much spice is contained – even without turning the container upside down.
But why is the jar only half full? According to Waltz, it’s a standard 110-milliliter jar filled with 60 grams of herb seasoning mix. This has a high salt content. Salt has a relatively high density compared to many other spice ingredients. In other words, 60 grams of salt takes up significantly less space than 60 grams of oregano. Or as Waltz says: “If we put 60 grams of garlic into the same jar, it will be full to the top.”
Left unsaid: if they fill it all the way up, they’d have to double the price. Also, from a different perspective, buying gazillion of “one size fits all” pacakaging is much less expensive than buying small quantities in multiple sizes. Finally, keeping to one size of container greatly simplifies the process of packaging…one conveyor system, set up once, no changes from one product to another. Less down time increases profitability. So all they way around, they’re doing this for the benefit of the consumer, providing a product priced fairly, not marked up excessively to cover unnecessary costs.
That seems to make sense…. and I suspected there was a place to see the level.
But we have various spice brands that also put their product into matching bottles, but they don’t feel the need to provide the same weight of each spice.
The bottles are clearly labeled with the weight in each jar. A jar of dried basil might contain half an ounce (14 gm), a salt mixture, 3 ounces (84gm).
It doesn’t make sense to say “All our bottles contain 60 grams”… That can’t even be true.
60 grams is just over 2 ounces… There’s no way they’re going to stuff 60 grams of saffron into one. It wouldn’t fit, and would cost at least $200. The last time I didn’t buy any saffron, there was a little cellophane packet inside the otherwise empty jar, holding only a few grams, for over $10.
60 grams of any loose dried herbs wouldn’t fit in the pictured jar, either. Maybe whole coriander or cardamom seeds, or as he says, dried garlic, would weigh 60 grams.
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Beware! Wearing hoodies may be grounds for deportation!
We may be viewing a slight example of static cling!
In keeping with our long running series of Western heroes….
“Lawman”
Can’t say I’ve thought of that one in a while.
I have a libretto of theme songs for these shows. This one is quite dramatic and fun to play.
..,
Pops right out at me.
The one raising pandamonium!
Got ’em.
Seems to me all you have to do is circle the one that’s just sitting there looking like a panda.
I’d say that’ll probably be the panda.
Who’s to say there aren’t a few dozen pandas in there? Tell ’em to take their helmets off…we really gotta know…
Who else found C3PO?
I just looked again…
But I don’t see anybody with CPO’s gaunt cheeks, or his round eyes and skinny chin.
Am I just missing him?
i do see one in one eyed Libyan style purdah.
Three rows down from the panda, at the extreme right edge of the picture.
Ok, yeah…. that could be him!
Not fair to let the Caspian Sea play with all those little lakes.
Look how tall it is….
It could swallow them!
I remember when it was a sea… Lake Superior was truly Superior back then.
Lake Ontario and Lake Erie aren’t feeling very Great right now
Soooo…how many of those are brackish like the Caspian Sea?
I dunno… cos I’m not familiar with some of them.
I do know that’s why the Caspian was called a sea — because a lake was defined by having fresh water.
But some lists use only having no outlets as the definition. On those, Salt Lake and the Dead Sea are called lakes, in spite of their totally salt water.
On other lists, like this one, I guess brackish is Ok, but not saltwater.
My older brother could do that perfectly.
Why does she fall down 😢?
Trying wireless.
Wires broke?
Malfunction of the flying harness apparatus, it’s quite an old video.
Ohhh…
I thought it was a plot point.
Whatever he did, it wasn’t good.
Perhaps he’s leaving a “note to self” on his phone: Don’t do that again!
Looks like a huge dye bomb.
OK, that’s a low voltage flashover (I’ve seen a few).
I would think he’s checking the cabinet due to there being an outage (Circuit still off), didn’t see anything unusual (Evidence of burning/discharge) and as he went to close the door the circuit was tried back in from a remote location and the fault was right there.
If the circuit was still live when he looked, then again nothing unusual seen, and was very unlucky that the cable failed as he was closing the door.
That guy is going to need some hospital treatment, electrical flashover burns are no fun due to the molten metal contained within the flash.
A colleague of mine energised some 11kV switchgear, everything fine, and was just at the doorway leaving when the unit flashed over and erupted. He was unharmed fortunately.
Yikes.
So he’s a workman who was supposed to be opening it?
I thought he was just some random guy, maybe going to vandalise it…. Not that I know what it is.
It’s an Electrical Distribution Cabinet. What I would call a ‘Feeder Pillar’. The transformer and switchgear are in the big square green box to the right of where he stopped the car.
The accompanying description from the site.
Swiss authorities were forced to evacuate an injured cow using a helicopter due to the threat of a possible landslide from an Alpine mountain
The cow seemed remarkably at ease with the whole thing.
Cow drugs?
I wish i could join you Judy.
Um… I hope you don’t mean that the way it sounds.
No. I could just use a rainbow right now. 🙂
Join the club!
People have indeed been kneed for less, Claude!
No need to breed disagreement…
Just make one pun for fun… and then run.
Thank you for that; we love Luna!
When I scroll down and see the slightly fuzzy thumbnail, I always, for a brief second, think it’s a painting of Ophelia, in a boat.