LOL Pic Thread #2 (NO POLITICS)

[Roman]

Originally Posted by Murf the Surf

BMW?

It's legit. There's an ///M badge on the tail.

[JeffL0]

Dear Santa

[Artemis]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

He's also very handsome because alcohol is a preservative.

Paging Murf the Surf

Lord Nelson - The Battle of Trafalgar
https://navyhistory.au/the-preservat...-nelsons-body/

When Lord Nelson died at 4.30 pm on 21 October 1805, there was no lead on board HMS Victory for a coffin, so a cask called a Leaguer (the largest size aboard) was chosen for the reception of his body. The hair was cut off (and given to Emma Lady Hamilton, as Nelson had asked), the body stripped of clothes (except for a shirt) and put in the cask which was then filled with brandy. The cask was then put under the charge of a Marine sentry on the Middle Deck. It stood on its end, having a closed aperture at its top and another below. In that way the old brandy could be drawn off and new brandy poured in, without disturbing the body.

[Lady Jane]

Originally Posted by Artemis

Lord Nelson - The Battle of Trafalgar
https://navyhistory.au/the-preservat...-nelsons-body/

What a neat piece of History.

[Artemis]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

What a neat piece of History.

"The Scandalous Decision to Pickle Admiral Horatio Nelson in Brandy"
https://www.atlasobscura.com/article...lson-in-brandy

Preserving a valuable corpse or scientific specimen in alcohol for transportation wasn’t unheard of in the 1800s; it’s a precursor to contemporary embalming practices. That doesn’t mean it was common. It’s not something most people would have direct experience with. But people were familiar enough with the idea that they had firm opinions about it. It was commonly known by members of the public that the best way to preserve a body was in navy rum, just like today we know you’re supposed to drink eight glasses of water a day, no matter who you are or what containers you use to measure a glass.

By keeping Nelson’s remains in brandy and ethanol—“spirit of wine” in the lingo of the day—Beatty was setting himself against popular wisdom. As a scientist, he knew Nelson’s body had the best chance of surviving the journey if he used the strongest proof liquor on board. But if it didn’t work—and there was no guarantee it would—standard rum was the politically safer choice.

(...)

Beatty was now famous, partly by his own doing. Why didn’t you use rum instead of brandy, people wondered, sometimes to Beatty’s face. Countless printed accounts said Beatty did use rum, because of course he did: it’s what you use. Popular slang popped up; navy rum was now “Nelson’s Blood.” Surreptitious tippling was “tapping the Admiral,” and legends abounded that the cask had been drunk down to nothing during the journey. (It hadn’t.)

In 1807, Beatty fought back with a bestselling book, Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson, which let readers know in an authoritative third-person voice that all of his decisions had been exceptionally clever, and by the way brandy was the better choice. He returns to this point at least four times:

"…a very general but erroneous opinion was found to prevail on the Victory’s arrival in England, that rum preserves the dead body from decay much longer and more perfectly than any other spirit, and ought therefore to have been used: but the fact is quite the reverse, for there are several kinds of spirit much better for that purpose than rum; and as their appropriateness in this respect arises from their degree of strength, on which alone their antiseptic quality depends, brandy is superior. Spirit of wine, however, is certainly by far the best, when it can be procured.”

[Artemis]

Jordan Belfort: "Sell me this pen". These folks: "Let's sell air" - https://lakecomoair.it/

What's next ? Make breathing air also a subscription-based service ?