This is Old Belton Cottages, Leigh On Sea, Essex, England, in 1868.
Are they actually slanting, or did someone not know how to properly aim a camera in 1868?
The camera position is wonky, the path should be flat.
The cottages near the camera are leaning a bit, compare them with the ones at the rear of the picture, but not as much as the picture suggests due to the camera not being vertical.
Just to add to your statement, there appears to be a water channel between the path to the right and the ground to the left. This may have caused some ground subsidence under the foundations over the years. The camera could have been set to emphasize the tilt.
Yes. The camera isn’t much off vertical, the house at the back on the left shows this, but it does make the lean of the cottages on the right more pronounced. And foundations for the cottages would have been quite shallow, so if the ground subsides, the cottages will go with it.
My view is centred on the two people in the photo, they would probably be standing true, and it is the building that is leaning; and also, just to the left and towards the camera are the pave-blocks, they seem to dip and then rise.
As Arfside mentions above, there is definitely a foundation problem…
I hope that no-one was injured (or worse) when the inevitable happened.
And when I “straighten up” the picture, the houses in the back are leaning strangely. (and the salvage work seems to all being done on the houses in the front.)
Okay… My tablet has a quick photo editor, of sorts, but with only a few tools. It won’t allow free rotation, only 90° at a time.
But it does have 1-button automatic “adjustment”…. and this is what it thinks this image should look like. A little more “straightened” and quite a bit more cropped than I would choose… but I don’t get to alter it.
What do you think?
BTW…. To me, the man in the foreground isn’t standing straight, he’s leaning against the wall ….maybe not this much, but maybe so.
As is often the case, many people uploaded the same one, which means all but one basically stole it from the original uploader. Some added their own comments, in English or other languages… Some commenters suggested it was Texas or Hawaii.
But in at least one, there was live sound, and they weren’t speaking English. A few people said it was Poland.
Finally I found one site that recognized the beach, and showed other views, without pigs.
So… AFAIK… this is wild boars, running across the municipal beach in Gdynia City, on the Baltic sea, in Poland, on July 31st, 2015.
What is “wrong” with the garage is the lack of a driveway leading to the street. Dirt (and, perhaps, gravel) in front of the garage door, where a lawn and driveway should be, does seem to have a small downward slope, but I wouldn’t call it a hill of grit.
Well, it is on a bit of a man-made hill — you can see that the property slopes off at about where the left side shadow lands (from the gable), and the trees in the gully alongside the property. I don’t believe it is AI. I think someone misread the plans, or the architect didn’t properly orientate ALL of the site plans.
I didn’t mean I think the photo is necessarily AI… though no door at all on the driveway side and no driveway to the garage might be a big clue.
I think the description, for some reason, is AI.
Maybe a phony real estate site, or one that purports to evaluate your property?
There is no “tree-lined” neighborhood, or “lovely decor”, which would normally be inside, no surrounding yard, unless you mean the dirt. And I’ve never heard any human refer to the dirt in an unfinished yard as “grit.”
I believe the focus of the photo is centred upon the orientation of the driveway/lack thereof, and not much on the textual content.
For the “grit”, maybe it is simply a typing error, fingers going too fast and in the wrong order — Hey, I’m one of those — and typed grit instead of dirt… something I didn’t recognize until I saw your reply above. Or maybe they are referring to the grit as being low quality/poor soil content. Who knows? Localized content as to where this is may help explain…
Nope…
And now it’s starting to look completely weird. A garage (with no driveway) surrounded by a house that looks like it was added as an afterthought…
Glossy coat when properly groomed, a bit scruffy if not properly cleaned up. She won a few, and had staying power. Only one foal, who performed well on secondary tracks, but never rivaled her dam.
On a human timeline, yes. On a geologic timeline, who knows. It’s known that they didn’t always fill areas with the most stable types of material. Newer buildings are being supplied with much better foundations than earlier ones.
Been to the Ponderosa Ranch theme park in Nevada, not long before it was shut down…didn’t see any bassets there though. If they’d filled it with bassets, it’d probably still be open 🙂
We did have a short hot spell in March or April, but since then, a rather cold spring, so we weren’t expecting this change in the weather.
This time of year, I help a produce vendor friend (a very little bit) at our Wednesday Night Market, starting around 5 or 6pm.
It used to be a farmers market, but now it’s things like crafts, imports, and prepared food… containers of hummus, kettle corn, $17 hamburgers and $12 slices of pizza.
There’s also beer and wine and loud music
If i didn’t get produce from my friend, I wouldn’t go.
I was considering not going today, because it’s still hot at 5, and for various reasons, I shouldn’t be out in 95° weather.
But this afternoon, all the power went out in my part of town. No lights, ok… But no Wi-Fi, which means no Internet, except on my phone, while it had battery… Couldn’t cook, didn’t want to open the fridge. And no fan. It gets really hot in my place without a fan.
So… into town I went. I made a couple of comments on yesterday’s strip, sitting in my car, but I knew I shouldn’t be using up my phone battery.
Then, magically, the power came back on minutes after I got home tonight!
So I had some dinner (luckily the freezer was intact!) and here I am, at last. I have more to say (I know I know) but I’m melted into a puddle of Susan. Not something anyone wants to see.
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Somebody, somewhere, appears to have a foundation problem.
And all the furniture keeps sliding out the front door!
This is Old Belton Cottages, Leigh On Sea, Essex, England, in 1868.
Are they actually slanting, or did someone not know how to properly aim a camera in 1868?
The camera position is wonky, the path should be flat.
The cottages near the camera are leaning a bit, compare them with the ones at the rear of the picture, but not as much as the picture suggests due to the camera not being vertical.
Just to add to your statement, there appears to be a water channel between the path to the right and the ground to the left. This may have caused some ground subsidence under the foundations over the years. The camera could have been set to emphasize the tilt.
Yes. The camera isn’t much off vertical, the house at the back on the left shows this, but it does make the lean of the cottages on the right more pronounced. And foundations for the cottages would have been quite shallow, so if the ground subsides, the cottages will go with it.
My view is centred on the two people in the photo, they would probably be standing true, and it is the building that is leaning; and also, just to the left and towards the camera are the pave-blocks, they seem to dip and then rise.
As Arfside mentions above, there is definitely a foundation problem…
I hope that no-one was injured (or worse) when the inevitable happened.
Whatever the lean really is, I do notice that one of them is being shored up with a couple of posts.
And when I “straighten up” the picture, the houses in the back are leaning strangely. (and the salvage work seems to all being done on the houses in the front.)
Okay… My tablet has a quick photo editor, of sorts, but with only a few tools. It won’t allow free rotation, only 90° at a time.
But it does have 1-button automatic “adjustment”…. and this is what it thinks this image should look like. A little more “straightened” and quite a bit more cropped than I would choose… but I don’t get to alter it.
What do you think?
BTW…. To me, the man in the foreground isn’t standing straight, he’s leaning against the wall ….maybe not this much, but maybe so.
Now the (apparently better constructed) house on the left looks like it’s getting ready to fall down
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62 years ago!
OMG… Do I dare admit to remembering?
Admit to remembering …I saw them at the Montreal Forum !
Okay… I remember 🙂
My buddy saw them in Vancouver in 1964. The rest of us got stuck staying home.
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Don’t even have to look it up
Same.
Got him but not her (or the movie I’ve never heard of…)
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“If you keep doing that, you’ll get stuck that way!”
My fingers will get stuck in this card?
👍 😉
“Let your fingers do the walking…”
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Belly button. Hubba hubba!
Nobody ever proved that she was a spy, but her name is practically synonymous with the idea of a glamorous, seductive, female spy.
So Mata Hari probably wasn’t a Mata Hari.
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A journey through the history of Italy, with AI by your side.
First I thought some of the labels and were due to an Italian speaker trying to write in English.
But no, it’s a robot speaker, trying to fill a page, hoping nobody notices the gibberish.
Modern landmarks include “lalaoo* and “hovarisin”…
And be sure to read the small print under Etruscan civilization, and EU integration.
OMG…. what is the world coming to?
No…. wait… I don’t want to know.
I don’t remember Flourishing Culture? What did he paint?
(And who put a bra on Botticelli’s Venus???)
And which Military Geezer were they specifically meaning?
Maybe he was part of the Redabison governson.
No, too early. Even before the Dattles.
Uh….. it’s colorful?
True.
In more ways than one.
Aaaaannnnd, it gives people gangs of fun pointing out the discrepancies. A win-win!
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hog gang in Portugal
Wow!
Where are they racing off to? Why? And who let them loose?
Big skeet!
That isn’t a gang! It’s a family!
“Rotte” in German. Not too far off.
Search mostly turned up YouTube videos.
As is often the case, many people uploaded the same one, which means all but one basically stole it from the original uploader. Some added their own comments, in English or other languages… Some commenters suggested it was Texas or Hawaii.
But in at least one, there was live sound, and they weren’t speaking English. A few people said it was Poland.
Finally I found one site that recognized the beach, and showed other views, without pigs.
So… AFAIK… this is wild boars, running across the municipal beach in Gdynia City, on the Baltic sea, in Poland, on July 31st, 2015.
If I catch one can I roast it?
Maybe if you ask it politely.
From what I know of Razorbacks and Javalina, I don’t think you’ld want to try.
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Two of my favorite things – bassets and ‘bones!
Is this a “sing along with Mitch” kind of thing?
I’m trying to hear the Dorsey brothers playing “Hound Dog” — and failing…
OK, you’re all out of Dog Yummies. I’m outta here!
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More AI… some incorrect, and the last row not labeled.
And they all look overcooked!
That “over easy” one looks totally assassinated.
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Does anybody understand this?
The description mostly doesn’t match the house, and what “grit” are they talking about… or is this just even more AI nonsense?
I’m really tired of it.
It’s either AI, a digital manipulation, or, the builder screwed up.
The garage door should be on the side where the driveway and the bins are.
What is “wrong” with the garage is the lack of a driveway leading to the street. Dirt (and, perhaps, gravel) in front of the garage door, where a lawn and driveway should be, does seem to have a small downward slope, but I wouldn’t call it a hill of grit.
Well, it is on a bit of a man-made hill — you can see that the property slopes off at about where the left side shadow lands (from the gable), and the trees in the gully alongside the property. I don’t believe it is AI. I think someone misread the plans, or the architect didn’t properly orientate ALL of the site plans.
I didn’t mean I think the photo is necessarily AI… though no door at all on the driveway side and no driveway to the garage might be a big clue.
I think the description, for some reason, is AI.
Maybe a phony real estate site, or one that purports to evaluate your property?
There is no “tree-lined” neighborhood, or “lovely decor”, which would normally be inside, no surrounding yard, unless you mean the dirt. And I’ve never heard any human refer to the dirt in an unfinished yard as “grit.”
Grit is something that you provide to your chickens.
I believe the focus of the photo is centred upon the orientation of the driveway/lack thereof, and not much on the textual content.
For the “grit”, maybe it is simply a typing error, fingers going too fast and in the wrong order — Hey, I’m one of those — and typed grit instead of dirt… something I didn’t recognize until I saw your reply above. Or maybe they are referring to the grit as being low quality/poor soil content. Who knows? Localized content as to where this is may help explain…
Nope…
And now it’s starting to look completely weird. A garage (with no driveway) surrounded by a house that looks like it was added as an afterthought…
Or a house moved onto a foundation which was unfortunately wrongly orientated?
I’m a no thinka so.
I got nothin’.
Never in a million years.
The bone structure is good, teeth are looking better in the grown-up picture.
Sounds like you’re evaluating a horse!
LOL!
Glossy coat when properly groomed, a bit scruffy if not properly cleaned up. She won a few, and had staying power. Only one foal, who performed well on secondary tracks, but never rivaled her dam.
The miracle of modern dentistry…
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Hmmm. How much of that land is built on fill? A big earthquake with liquefaction could change that landscape a bit.
Has there never been one in Manhattan?
Seems like that island has been hanging in there for quite a while.
On a human timeline, yes. On a geologic timeline, who knows. It’s known that they didn’t always fill areas with the most stable types of material. Newer buildings are being supplied with much better foundations than earlier ones.
You can tell where the bedrock is by where the tall buildings are.
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“Keep your eyes on the road!”
“.. and your hands upon the wheel.”
“And your eye upon the scale…”
“Keep your snoopy eyes on the road ahead.”
We’re having fun, sitting in the back seat, kissin’ and a huggin’ with Fred.
Most likely having fun driving both of you guys up a wall, because they know they can.
LOL….I was trying to look up that song when I started dozing off last night.
Is that a bow in her hand?
Is that Diana?
Been to the Ponderosa Ranch theme park in Nevada, not long before it was shut down…didn’t see any bassets there though. If they’d filled it with bassets, it’d probably still be open 🙂
Gotta say good night…
I’m kinda beat up… today was 95° F (36° C)
We did have a short hot spell in March or April, but since then, a rather cold spring, so we weren’t expecting this change in the weather.
This time of year, I help a produce vendor friend (a very little bit) at our Wednesday Night Market, starting around 5 or 6pm.
It used to be a farmers market, but now it’s things like crafts, imports, and prepared food… containers of hummus, kettle corn, $17 hamburgers and $12 slices of pizza.
There’s also beer and wine and loud music
If i didn’t get produce from my friend, I wouldn’t go.
I was considering not going today, because it’s still hot at 5, and for various reasons, I shouldn’t be out in 95° weather.
But this afternoon, all the power went out in my part of town. No lights, ok… But no Wi-Fi, which means no Internet, except on my phone, while it had battery… Couldn’t cook, didn’t want to open the fridge. And no fan. It gets really hot in my place without a fan.
So… into town I went. I made a couple of comments on yesterday’s strip, sitting in my car, but I knew I shouldn’t be using up my phone battery.
Then, magically, the power came back on minutes after I got home tonight!
So I had some dinner (luckily the freezer was intact!) and here I am, at last. I have more to say (I know I know) but I’m melted into a puddle of Susan. Not something anyone wants to see.
Tomorrow will be hotter. Oh yay.
I get it! It
supposed to be in the 90s over in the valley this weekend. On the coast we will probably get up to the 70s.
Gee… Up to the 70s?
That’s a heat wave!
High 80’s here in SoCal. El Paso will be in the low 100’s when we get there (if you can call that low).
We don’t get those often, but we do get them.
Hope they get tomorrow’s forecast wrong! Take care of yourself!
Thanks… But nope…
It hit 101° F… 38+° C.
At least my fan was working. And my fridge, of course.
Tomorrow will be a bit cooler, they say… about 80F.
Chaffinch.
Male Buchfink again!
Lovely guy.