Genre – Anime Science Fiction Action
Series* – 15 Episodes
Total Runtime* – 6 Hours 3 Minutes
Spoilers – Yes
*For this Arc
I know three things about Gundam. The Gundam universe is a long running and beloved franchise. It is about Giant Robots. The Plastic Crack portion of the franchise is Serious Business™.
So, I don’t really know much about the franchise as a whole. Therefore, I absolutely will miss anything that is a reference to other series, or a recurring feature, or any other such element of a long running property that newbies are ignorant of. Fortunately, each of the series involved appear to be standalone stories, so I should be able to watch the one I have without needing to play catch up from the very start. I did do a little bit of research when I was trying to figure out how much of this series I owned, and I found that it was broken down into four main ‘Arcs’ with a time skip in between. As there are 49 episodes overall, I am going to break my reviews into the same four so I can pad out my content not stress myself out as much at how much I have to cover.
If that introduction didn’t make it clear, this was a Rightstuf blind box acquistion. Well, the first half of the series anyway. I bought the remainder because I figured I should see it through to the end. Okay, lets put it on. Episode one starts with the protagonist’s home colony on fire.
Dammit!
Angel colony, a giant rotating tube in space, is under attack by forces that would be called the “UE” throughout the Arc. Short for “Unknown Enemy”. The storytellers really hope they can fake you out into thinking these might be aliens, but it’s obvious from the design aesthetic that these are human forces. For some reason I kept thinking of them as the Europeans, Not sure where I got that lysdexic idea from. I don’t even have dyslexia.
Anyway, back to the plot summary.
Small child Flit finds his mother trapped under burning rubble and she gives him a data module containing plans for the Gundam. Cut to teen Flit waking up and indicating that the previous scene was a memory dream of exposition. After the opening credits we are introduced to this annoying as hell green sphere robot thing that Flit supposedly made that is so irritating that whenever it makes a noise I want to shut off the show. They never just chuck the thing in storage, and it plays no role in the plot, but it is always there, like an auditory land mine waiting to interject an annoying repeated word that someone else just said. I hate this stupid green sphere.
Anyway, back to plot relevant stuff.
Turns out Flit took the data module with the Gundam plans to his new home on Nora colony where they go and build the Gundam. And around this time I find out that the generic term for giant humanoid robot in the franchise is Mobile Suit and Gundam is the name of a specific suit, usually piloted by the protagonist. Fair enough, it’s the custom hero model. We also learn that Flit comes from a long line of Mobile Suit designers and is some sort of prodigy, though the design was pretty much completed by his mother before they even started construction work. I don’t know which parts of the end system were his contribution, or that of the old man.
I don’t even remember the old man’s name, but he’s the technical support guy who probably had more of a hand in putting the Gundam together than Flit did. Also in that picture is the girl who has a crush on Flit who plays little part in this Arc of the story beyond always being there and trying to convince Flit that he shouldn’t get involved in the fight against the Euros who destroyed his home colony and killed his parents. Like that would ever happen. Oh, and on the left is the Redheaded Step Pilot who gets stuck with a regular Mobile Suit when everyone else gets custom models. The character does have a name, which explains his longevity in the Arc.
Anway, halfway through episode one, Kelogg shoots Nora in the head. Wait, wait, no, the Euros attack Nora Colony. Redheaded Step Pilot gets sent out to prove the situation is dangerous by getting his ass handed to him by the Euros. Flit hops in the still untested Gundam and decides to fight, only they didn’t get to the part where they equip the thing with weapons beyond an energy dagger that seems kinda useless. Yet, by the power of Protagonist, Flit manages to beat one of the attacking Mobile Suits. He is shocked when the other Euros turn their fire on the downed suit to destroy it and prevent capture. Nevermind that these are clearly an organized force with a technological advantage over their targets who value secrecy, the idea of preventing their tech from being examined for weakness, or worse, reverse-engineered eludes Flit’s one-track mind.
Much is made of the spectrum of science fiction between “Hard” SciFi where you must abide by the tyranny of rockets and adhere to the constraints of real physics, to “Soft” SciFi, where you are bordering on fantasy. Gundam is not fully Hard SciFi, but does nod in that direction. There is no artifical gravity. All of the places where there is the impression of gravity are large spinning tubes with the structures on the inside. Often characters will float or bounce in various degrees of weightlessness depending on where they are. But they do have energy swords that behave more like physical blades, and giant robots always best conventional vehicles. And psychic children… we’ll get back to that.
After having torn up the inside of Nora, they Euros fly to the outside and launch some large munitions at structurally important spots, leading to inevitable collapse. I don’t know what kind of colony Nora was, but in addition to facilities to build an experimental Mobile Suit ‘Gundam’, it has a just completed Battleship ‘Diva’ in drydock. It’s not big enough to evacuate the residents, but the governor/administrator/commander/whatever his title is decides that they can use it to tow the central core out of the colony, which can act as a lifeboat for the residents.
So as the atmosphere begins sedately leaking out of the colony through a hole big enough to fly a ship through, the evacuation to the core begins, and the Euros keep attacking. We are already a couple of episodes in, and I have to note that the show does suffer from cliffhanger syndrome in that often something big or ominous will happen just before the credits roll. I suppose that’s less of an issue if I were not binging the series and the next episode were not a few mouse clicks away (to skip the closing credits). The next episode will then open with a slight recap. It’s nowhere near as bad as some series of legend, but watching multiple episodes in a row will make it stand out a bit.
Despite being only twenty four minutes each, minus a few minutes for credits on either end, they manage to cram a lot into each episode. The pacing doesn’t reach ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ levels, but is far from sedate. So, with the evacuation underway, Flit stumbles onto a young girl who is separated from the main group of fleeing colonists. The girl’s name is ‘Yurin’, and the English voice actor for Flit always pronounces it as ‘Urine’, and I can’t take some of the dialog seriously as a result.
Anyway this psychic schoolgirl guides Flit out to a blocked up corridor which moments later gets blasted open to space by the Euro attack and it is pretty well established that she is some sort of precognitive, though Flit really has a hard time figuring this out, even when her touch lets him see what the Euros are about to do in the next few seconds of combat. As Flit tussles with the Euro suits outside the colony, we find out one of the reasons this series is called “Gundam AGE”. The “AGE System” is a rapid prototyping construct for making new equipment for the Gundam based upon analysis of battle data on the enemy. It’s expert machine conclusion is that fighting technologically advanced Mobile Suits with the equivalent of a pocket knife is not the best idea – here’s a gun.
With a gun and the psychic schoolgirl’s precognitive assistance, Flit is able to fight of multiple Euros, until one flees inside the colony. You see, while it is possible to separate the colony core, it is not something it was designed to do, but an artifact of the way the structure was assembled. Releasing it is done manually from inside. So the administrator opted to stay behind to do just that. Somehow the Euros knew this and the suit inside shoots up the control center – wounding the administrator and forcing him to seek an alternate location to perform the task. This is a suicide mission, and the Commander dies to free the core.
Eventually, they manage to tow the colony core out of the collapsing Nora, and head for the second colony, whose name escapes me, but it doesn’t matter. During all of this I forgot to mention a character I will now start calling Captain Creed, because his strategic genius is more memetic than realized. I was going to make his nickname about his beard, but anyone who can sprout that much hair from his cheekbones while having no stubble on his moustache deserves some respect.
Also pictured, the Administrator/Governor/Commander/whatever his title is.
Looking up the second colony name, it is apparently ‘Fardain’. It still doesn’t matter. Along their trip there, they defrost the arrogant rival lieutenant Wolf, whose introduction annoys the crap out of me. They mello his ego as the Arc goes on, but I really don’t like the character because of the intro. Anyway, he is a hotshot Mobile Suit racer who was on ice for some reason we never get told and is put in command of the Diva’s Mobile Suit wing, including Flit and the Gundam.
Well, Captain Creed didn’t exactly take command of the Diva legitimately. He actually zapped the real command crew and left them to die on Nora. To be fair, the legitimate command crew had just decided to ingore the administrator’s orders and were preparing to abandon the plan to save anyone but themselves. So we can’t get too worked up about Creed leaving them to the fate they’d planned to subject everyone else to. Buuuut, this does mean that they are now officially mutineers, and cannot get Federation reinforcements for the counterattack against the Euros. So they have to turn to the crime syndicates on Fardain, who apparently have whole armies of Mobile Suits and warships for fighting each other. These two groups are descended from factions that were on opposite side of a previous war on earth and despite having lived in the same colony together for generations were still duking it out.
The skirmishes are low-key, and so routine that the colony has installed armored walls at the curb lines so that when the shooting starts, they raise up and protect the pedestrians and storefronts. While they are figuring this out, Flit finds another psychic child to replace the one sent off to go with the resettled Nora survivors. This one is a boy who is distinctly more on the narcissitic evil side of things. He steals the Gundam to go off and fight some stuff to alleviate his boredom. Evil kid then abandons the machine and runs off… of course we’re going to see him again, he’s a recurring villain.
The faction leaders both want to confiscate the Gundam for their own forces, but while they’re fighting over who gets to do that, the Euros attack, and demonstrate that the forces of Fardain are woefully outclassed by their tech. The only effective combatants are the Gundam, and Wolf’s new custom Mobile Suit. Though the AGE system does have to deploy new toy accessories, err, I mean, upgrades, for the Gundam so it can go hulk mode and punch through the upgraded Euro tech.
Outraged, the Fardainian criminal scum decide to counterattack the Euro mothership, despite the fact that they are woefully outclassed and now outnumbered. One of the syndicate leaders, Don Boyage (I am not making that up) goes so far as to Kamikaze the Euro mothership, doing jack shit. The end result of the battle is that the Fardainian criminal scum are now allied against the Euros, for all the good that might do. They agree to send a bunch of their forces to the third colony, whose name really doesn’t matter, to join in the attack on the secret Euro base that Creed has sussed out the location of. For once, a colony attacked by the Euros does not explode, and the Diva leaves for the third colony.
The third colony matters only insofar as it is closest to the secret base without a Federation Garrisson. We are reminded of the fact that Creed is officially a mutineer when Aussie Man shows up with a fleet to arrest him. We then get the sequence where I gave the captain his nickname wherein we repeatly find he has hidden additional forces behind various tactical rocks to counter the strategies of the Aussie Man. First it was the Gundam and Wolf showing up to disarm the Federation Mobile Suits (without damaging the pilots or the suits proper), then it was summoning the whole Fardainian fleet.
Of course the Euros decide to break up this little skirmish by attacking. Aussie Man temporarily joins the fight against the Euros since they had the audacity to interrupt this attempted arrest. The Euros are driven into retreat, and Aussie Man lets the counterattack force go for now.
So, we have five warships with a swarm of Mobile Suits which have been wholly ineffectual at damaging Euro suits attacking a space fortress built into an asteroid defended by the Euro mothership and a swarm of advanced Mobile Suits, including one piloted by Evil Kid. We do find out that Flit is also a psychic child, though not exactly to the level of the Evil Kid, who decides to bring out a drone mobile suit containing Psychic Schoolgirl as an amplifier battery for his abilities. At this point the Gundam is on its third form, upgraded for speed instead of strength this time, so their duel is moving around very fast. But with precognitive assistance and a swarm of plasma drones, Evil Kid manages to take off and arm and a leg from the Gundam.
As Evil Kid goes in for the kill, psychic schoolgirl invokes emotional willpower to take control of her drone suit and interposes it between the two, so she gets stabbed instead. This pisses off Flit to no end.
He disarms the Evil Kid, carving off large chunks of the Mobile Suit he’s in and leaving the disabled core adrift so that Evil Kid can continue to be a recurring villain.
Also in this battle, the Diva fires its new single-shot mega cannon I hadn’t mentioned to destroy the Euro mothership. It was short ranged so there was a lot of loss of Fardainian criminal scum trying to push the Diva forward to fire. Being short on limbs, the Gundam swaps out for hulk suit form to open the giant blast doors into the asteroid base. This shatters the hulk limbs, so it swaps back to the only remaining set – the initial design. Asteroid base boss again de-limbs the Gundam until Wolf comes in for the assist, then Asteroid Base Boss flees on foot to the command center where everyone gets to hear the exposition.
Of course these weren’t aliens. The Euros were actually Martians. Descended from a failed colonization attempt of Mars from a century and a half previous, they were out to conquer Earth and resettle it as New Eden. Nevermind that the people currently living there had nothing to do with the horrors they faced and thought they were all dead. That’s not important. Revenge is.
Creed shoots Base Boss as he’s taunting Flit, and we find deranged madman was a family man as his young son pops in on the command center inquiring about the self destruct alarm in time to see his father die. Oh, the Base Boss set off the self destruct, being a fanatic who didn’t care that his own family was on the base too.
The Arc ends with Creed being tried for mutiny and sent to prison, and the Federation claiming the attack on the Euro base was authorized, despite the mutiny trial. Given the intro voiceover, the war between Earth and Mars still has the majority of a century left to go.
If they had just deleted the green sphere, I could recommend this Arc as entertainment without reservations. Still, it has only a minor role, which makes its random outbursts all the worse as it could have been omitted without issue. And if Flit didn’t keep calling the psychic schoolgirl ‘Urine’, It might have been even better.
Production Code S01E07
What is it with Japanese media and including a “cutsey” obnoxious character that does nothing but annoy the crap out of the audience? And then compounding the error by making it an official mascot of the franchise? It is something that doesn’t really translate to the West?
I can’t stand that green ball, Okay.
Unrelated to Gundam, I had to make a substitution around Episode 20 of these reviews, and it’s metastasized into several into a single part swap out. I guess the review series will be longer.
Did the Japanese latch on to Jar Jar Binks as some kind of national hero the way the French glommed on to Jerry Lewis?
The Plastic Crack portion of the franchise is Serious Business™.
https://youtu.be/CbRGaZWEJDM
I haven’t gotten into Gunpla myself – because there isn’t enough information about which sets of accessories work with which core sets, or even which sets are really core sets. I need to find a guide… which I’ve been putting off to save me the cost of spending the money.
She has years of videos to research.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/27/trump-european-union-eu-trade-tariffs.html
President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the U.S. has reached a trade deal with the European Union.
“It’s a very powerful deal, it’s a very big deal, it’s the biggest of all the deals,” Trump said.
The U.S. president had previously threatened 30% tariffs on goods from the European Union.
Ahead of his meeting with von der Leyen, Trump said that it was a 50-50 chance they’d make a deal.
Trump said that the deal imposes a 15% tariff on most European goods to the U.S., including cars.
Some products, including aircrafts and their components, some chemicals and pharmaceuticals, will not be subject to tariffs, von der Leyen said in a briefing after the agreement was announced. She also said that the new 15% tariff rate would not be added to any tariffs already in effect.
More dumb luck I assume.
Repeals chicken tax.. still waiting.
Used to be you could pay your taxes in chickens…
Now they cry fowl.
So if I want a German car I pay 15% more, but it’s not a tax.
If a German want’s an American car he pays 15 % more, but it’s not a tax.
Some wise person (Lutnick, maybe?) said it’s an off set to make up for the shortfall from cutting the income tax.
Seems like all I do is bend over these days. I’m not saying I don’t understand the Trump, Bessent, Navarro and Lutnick shuck and jive because I don’t think they understand it. They can’t be serious…
Except that German car is likely made in Tennessee.
So if a German wants a German car made in the US by Americans he pays a 15% tax. I think I’ve got it now.
If I want a German car made in the US by Americans I pay the 15%. By George, I think I’ve got it!
“So if I want a German car I pay 15% more”
Maybe, maybe not. How much of the tariff is the German car company willing to eat to maintain market share?
It’s not that simple. It’s not a sales tax.
Doesn’t matter how much the German Company is willing to eat. 15% is added on to the remainder. It absolutely is a sales tax.
The cost of the car may be reduced but the percentage of tax remains constant.
Related plastic model news
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/world/asia/shunsaku-tamiya-plastic-models-dies.html
Rip
The probability of it being something natural is fairly high.
Beat me to it.
Cyanoacrylate is natural?
Tamiya plastic cement says it contains Acetone and Butyl Acetate.
relevant links – ray guns and gigantic vehicles
Lorentz plasma cannon test firing – pew pew starts at 6:14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lix-vr_AF38
simulation of Mars round trip mission with multistage rocket 5x heavier than Saturn V
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrjpELy1xzc
Also, dry ice might work better for extinguishing forest fires than water because it’s half as dense. Firefighting aircraft could fly sorties faster and use less fuel.
Water is readily available in large quantities, and can be loaded into aircraft very quickly, often without stopping. It is also close to free. The costs of producing sufficient dry ice to dump on wildfires would be prohibative, and that is before we get into the potential dangers to the people on the ground.
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Between $394 billion to $893 billion annually
The cost of wildfires in the United States is estimated to be between $394 billion to $893 billion annually. This range includes various costs such as property damage, direct and indirect deaths, health impacts from smoke, and economic losses due to climate change. Additionally, wildfires can lead to significant economic impacts, including job losses and reduced output, contributing to the overall financial burden of these disasters.
U.S. Senate
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The cost of making a pound of dry ice can vary based on several factors, but generally, it ranges from $1.00 to $3.00 per pound
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Hmm…worth a closer look
Makes more sense than corn ethanol.
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before we get into the potential dangers to the people on the ground.
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counterpoint: firefighter GoPro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mphHFk5IXsQ
A pound of lake water is $0.
Being in a fire will be like being in a fire, but getting water rained on you is safer than getting bricks rained on you.
I’m going out on a limb here, but I assert the author can’t provide any evidence of these.
Whatever do you mean. There have been fires. It’s been hot. Ergo, climate change. These things never happened in the past.
Muzzled Woodchipper:
The costs of climate change in Ohio: Cooling, flooding, asthma and more
UCS- there’s a test we do for VOC using dry ice. We buy it in pellet form.
I like to think that someone could do the math for how long it took (x) pounds of pellets dropped from a plane to sublimate as they fell.
However, I dont think its going to put out a fire of any magnitude.
I was giving the benefit of the doubt where they would start with blocks large enough that something reached the target in solid form with sufficient remaining mass to make a difference. So, the entire bomb bay of a B-52 with a single mass?
Well, the mol weight of CO2 is 44 g/mol. Ambient air is 28.97 (but my industry uses 28.84 lb/lb-mole) so the density would cause it to fall.
However, the heat from a fire and updrafts of air would make it ineffective. I think.
But that gas would be way colder. There’s a huge amount of entropy there that I cant get my head around after a 6-pack.
oops, dry ice is denser than water by 55% to 70% – well, it’s still worth a shot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-I3C50a480
Whut? Dry ice isn’t going to put out forest fires.
It’s CO2. I was told it causes forest fires.
I nearly spit out my drink on that one…
Chipping Pioneer:
I had to laugh over the weekend. Walking back to my car I see a guy hooked up to a gas truck doing a delivery and smoking, I do a double take at the truck, and see it’s delivering CO2 to a brewery, mentioned to the guy I did the double take, and he shot back, “Safe as can be!”
Forget it, it’s Derpetologist.
Artificially carbonated at the brewery? Fakery! Fakery!
UCS:
There’s several terms for it in the brewing world. Forced carbonation is the most common.
Oh, I’m aware. To avoid overpressure incidents the natural yeasties have to be gone before final packaging, and standardization comes from outside. This is assuming any bottling, kegging, etc.
UCS:
You’d be surprised. Quite a few beers are bottle/can conditioned. Which means that the are packaged with live yeast and enough fermentable sugars to get it to the proper pressure level. Get the math wrong and you wind up with bottle bombs, the bane of every home brewer and beer collector.
There are even beers where a different yeast strain is pitched for the conditioning phase, or the entire madness of Krausening.
Neph- when my brother home brewed he would also do root beer. Which was probably the best damn root beer Ive ever tasted.
However, a couple of times his, as you say, “math was off”. Caps blew and root beer was all over.
Tres Cool:
Fat Heads up here is renown for their root beer. They sell it by the growler, but warn everyone the growler will be good for nothing else going forward.
It wont. I was told by a bear that only you can prevent forest fires.
The bear told me that to prefent forest fires I had to shoot eco-activist arsonists.
“I was told by a bear that only you can prevent forest fires.”
WHO CAN PREVENT FOREST FIRES?
“You have selected ‘You,’ referring to me. The correct answer is ‘you.'”
Smoky
the🤨 Bear?When are you changing the name of this series to The Unwatchable?
Then I’d have to leave off the good stuff like this one.
“ For some reason I kept thinking of them as the Europeans”
Don’t have any clue as to why you think the Europeans are secret diabolical enemies. No sit. No idea.
Sit=sir. The comedy of errors continues.
I drank too much coffee this morning and have been in Da Vinci mode all day.
My latest minor eureka moment:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/07/cordycepin-triphosphate-vs-adenosine.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/zombie-caterpillar-fungus-could-be-used-to-save-human-lives/ar-AA1u6lNE
I know I’m not the first to notice the similarity, but I’m proud about finding it myself.
mushroom and plant play duet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udilkPa4qBM
It’d be cool to make a Beowulf cluster computer from different plants and mushrooms.
this pink mushroom “sings” a nice solo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hlQHYtncww
I have the exact module used for said experiments. It’s very cool (and very beautiful).
Here’s a post explaining a patch using it, https://peaksandnulls.net/index.php/2025/06/09/instruonica/
And another post with a better recording of the same patch, https://peaksandnulls.net/index.php/2025/06/10/instruonica-rev1/
Dry ice sublimates to 8.3 cu foot of CO2 gas per pound.
Imagine having that fill your aircraft.
Test drive for the next “intersectionality” exercise I’m forced to do at work:
“Putting people into categories is on the road to putting people in camps.”
Hitler loves putting people i to categories and then assigning them bright color geometric shapes to wear.
I give up. No more typing for me tonight!
Maybe they’ll stop categorizing people every which way they can then. You know, like the Quiltbag Crew, the various racial and ethnic lines they love to draw.
A man can dream anyways.
Take that to one of your “affinity groups” if you have them.
I pay as little attention as possible to my company’s agitprop in this area – because I have better things to do, like actual work – but I do get the sense there is much less of it where I am than at many other companies.
I’ve set up a filter to have emails from whatever DEI is calling itself by to go straight to my trash.
Excel, Nazi Edition?
This is an oddly fun read, though I have very little idea of what was going on.
(Are the giant robots hot?)
The thermal properties of the robots are not discussed, except when one falls into an atmosphere in a different arc.
I do try to make the reviews readable, if not entertaining.
All I can think of is “Pacific Rim” and “why are japs so obsessed with giant robots?”
However, Rinko Kikuchi really takes the wrinkles out of my love-tofu.
Oh, I’d classify this as entertaining. Your dryness got several legit chuckles from me.
(Your appreciation of hirsute men with disciplined shaving rituals is duly noted.)
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No.
I think it’s your cookies.
Are you eating enough cookies?
I don’t eat cookies.
I was right!
I had the same problem. I login on the main page and then go to the post. Clicking the reply button to a specific comment also works for me. Mostly. If I click the login to reply button at the bottom of a post, it logs me out usually.
I only get this on schedule every two (?) months I think it is.
I thought it was two weeks, unless that’s been changed.
Yeah that sounds right.
I fucking hate people. Some asshoe just texted me and asked if it’s ok to take off tomorrow. No. You fucking asshole. Don’t be dumb.
Uh, why wouldn’t they just call in sick?
In Korea, if ya missed a day off cuz of being ill ya’d have to get a note from the doc. That was a bitch. (Overcome-able.)
lol If I want a day off I just take a day off.
/Don’t you have thousands of employees too?
Me too.
Not that kind of job. No legitimate reason for being out. History of bad attendance and more. Dude can be someone else’s problem. I’m all out of patience, and any other employer would have noped out three chances ago.
Winston’s Mom never takes a night off.
I have a rule that when we’re in the office/shop, employees have all sorts of latitude for arrival/departure and time off.
But when we’re on a test- no excuses unless it was previously scheduled.
Today I learned
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The Jeep owner walked out of the store and at first was a bit confused when he saw her putting a rubber duck on his Jeep, but read the note and loved it. “The guy had the biggest smile and he just cracked up laughing,” she told Elmore Autauga News.
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The rubber ducks are often accompanied by little cheerful notes on the duck explaining why they’re and/or offering friendly support of some kind. It’s typically the classic yellow duck, but any color will do. Some owners have been “ducked” so many times they like to collect the ducks on their dashboard as a Jeep retrofit, which is colloquially known as the “duck pond.”
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https://www.slashgear.com/1553833/why-jeep-drivers-have-rubber-ducks-ducking/
No act of kindness, however small, is wasted.
Boob boos for Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwZaxGf2bE8
It’s like the algorithm can read my mind.
Redneck Star Trek – Beam Me Up, Bubba | AI Country Star Trek Parody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eqYswiW4eo
Channel name: Neural Derp
Bigfoot Joins the Blue Angels! | Pensacola Jet Ride Vlog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvt2xJbeTaI
For all who many know: I’m pepper-editing my submission and I’m sure I’ve his the “Submit for Review” button several times (once just now!), and I hope I didn’t kerfuffle anything.
A noonish slot (for posting) would be nice. (Ooh. That gave the euphe-fairies a glow).
But I’m cool with whatever, just let me know. (Oooh. I made that worse.)
You can hit “Submit for review” more than once. I’m sure it sends another email to the editors each time, and I end up annoying the crap out of them when I go hunting typos (which I make by the score and catch by the dozen)
I do the same thing. Tonio must hate it.
I got a bad feeling about this:
China’s Dark Factories: So Automated, They Don’t Need Lights | WSJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCBdcNA_FsI
China unveils mosquito-sized microdrone for battlefield reconnaissance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D75yngX5fTE
Well, it’s either this or make a human chain with their surplus young men.
How China Plans to Invade Taiwan with This Ship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmDcUsBzAZ4
Looks as sinkable as any other ship.
I’d actually say more sinkable. It’s a ridiculous fucking target.
“Lights out” as a concept has been around for decades, but I do not believe it’s ever been implemented. If for no other reason than maintenance and cleaning crews.
I had friends that got into the Gundam models. I never did, they don’t do anything. If I pay $50-$200 for a masterpiece Transformers toy, at least they transform. I mean, after I buy them I usually don’t transform them again after I’ve had them a week or two, and they are displayed like a static statue; but I know they have the potential to transform, even if I don’t do it ever again.
here ya go
actual transforming vehicles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=727BL_s1-Kg
[chef’s kiss] at 7 minute mark
transformers season 1 – official hasbro channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dGl6zzFlzI
tiltrotor aircraft and jets with variable wing geometry are kinda like transformers
Youtube has hidden somewhere in its bowels videos I watched years ago of some great cosplay costumes that transformed as well, but the current algorithm does not bring them up. But some non-transforming rockers do still show up.
I have the entire series on DVD.
Here’s a kid-sized transformer costume set:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hGruY-NG3Ng
Yeah, those are what show up, but the videos somewhere in youtube’s bowels were WAY more impressive.
Agreed. I just can’t find them.
I got distracted. Hope your vacation from sleep is going as well as mine. I may go fix my daughter’s birdhouse out in the garage tonight.
I’m too drunk for birdhouses. As it should be, I’m a confirmed bachelor.
Bumble costume actually transforms:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF43JMIW_Ck
If it’s on the internet, I can find it. That’s NSA on the job training for you.
Wakey wakey. Hope the beginning of your week goes as swimmingly as I predict the end of mine will go.
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Wakey, wakey. Have a Trumptastic day!
🍊🤴☕️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlkTVMMkCP4
🎶🎶
Don’t tell me what kind of day to have!
Good morning, Sean, EfE, and Ted’S.!
Morning, GT.
The baby pepper turned purple already, which makes me think it’s not going to get big 🙁
Good morning, U! Only time will tell about your purple pepper. 🙂🤞
How goes it with you?
OK, but it’s a trifle warm in the house. We had to turn up the thermostat to cut back on the A/C because it was dripping water in the basement and causing puddles. The current theory is either a malfunctioning pump (if it has one) or a clogged drain pipe. Dialing it back but leaving the fan on took care of the dripping, at least. Probably needs a service call, but at least it doesn’t seem to be anything catastrophic. 🥵
I misread that as “dripping poodles”
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Yikes, GT. Need that AC to get through the summer.
It’s been working hard, no doubt! In a pinch, we have a small window A/C we could put in the bedroom to make sleeping tolerable.
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/couple-slain-hiking-daughters-arkansas-state-park-police/4243212/
Yikes.
Well, I’m 12.5% thru w my day!
CNN Analysis: “Netanyahu is ensnared in a crisis of his own creation”
Yep. He started troubles in the Levant.
Who gets the blame for starting the *next* war?
Declared or undeclared?
Can they overlap?
Mornin’, reprobates!
Good morning, ‘patzie! How are you & yours?
Morning GT, Gp and the rest of the Glibbie crowd.
Morning, JI.
Mornin’, GT. Well be headed to the Joisy shore soon, and with impeccable timing the starter on the van is exhibiting signs of imminent failure. In the shop now, crossing my fingers.
Sounds like the starter has the good sense not to want to go to the Jersey Shore.
Ocean City. A bit more sedate than the places I frequented as a yute.
Chinese build 57-storey skyscraper in 19 days – timelapse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhLk7L1B_fE
1,500 Chinese workers build train station in nine hours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtEQCOlGqr0
City Construction, take your order please?
Now, Im not a huge fan of building codes and ordinances. But Im pretty sure they cut some corners….
Concrete doesn’t set in nine hours.
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Fast setting Quikrete will set in a matter of 20 to 40 minutes. But what also need to be taken into account is how much cement did you pour and how thick is it. The thicker the project is, the longer it’ll take to set. Regular Quikrete on the other hand will typically set in 1 to 2 hours.
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Setting time and curing time are two different things.
There’s a reason we get all these videos of Chinese tofu dreg construction collasping.
suh’ fam
whats goody
Cant catch a break. Have 3 days in West Virginia for testing, and its still hot, hot, hot.
GM 🙂
https://nypost.com/2025/07/27/lifestyle/woman-with-worlds-largest-lips-heres-what-she-looked-like-prior/
WTF?
ugh Not clicking on that.
Not the lips I was hoping for.
And she looked fine before. Comical now.
Mornin’ all!
“Florida deploys furry robot rabbits to fight invasive Burmese python overpopulation ”
https://nypost.com/2025/07/27/us-news/florida-deploys-robot-rabbits-to-fight-invasive-burmese-python-overpopulation/
Meh, they are just decoys. I want robot bunnies that actually fight pythons.
With frickin’ laser beams.
Do you want Night of the Lepus? Because that’s how you get Night of the Lepus.