McDonald's is remodeling it's restaurants around here, and I think they should win an award for ugliest new design. They look awful. This one I just took a picture of over here near my house, was remodeled last year. It looks unfinished and terribly bland. I don't get it.

Looks right out of the Soviet design bureau !

The building is probably resistant to EMP attack.

Bill

McDonald's is remodeling it's restaurants around here, and I think they should win an award for ugliest new design. They look awful. This one I just took a picture of over here near my house, was remodeled last year. It looks unfinished and terribly bland. I don't get it.

Looks right out of the Soviet design bureau !

The building is probably resistant to EMP attack.

Bill

Or at least to the Hamburglar.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

McDonald's is remodeling it's restaurants around here, and I think they should win an award for ugliest new design. They look awful. This one I just took a picture of over here near my house, was remodeled last year. It looks unfinished and terribly bland. I don't get it.

Looks right out of the Soviet design bureau !

The building is probably resistant to EMP attack.

Bill

There is a Faraday cage built in, but it was designed primarily to stop the employees using their mobile phones. Got to stop all that time wasting you know.

McDonald's is remodeling it's restaurants around here, and I think they should win an award for ugliest new design. They look awful. This one I just took a picture of over here near my house, was remodeled last year. It looks unfinished and terribly bland. I don't get it.

Looks right out of the Soviet design bureau !

The building is probably resistant to EMP attack.

Bill

There is a Faraday cage built in, but it was designed primarily to stop the employees using their mobile phones. Got to stop all that time wasting you know.

Well, I saw a note at another fast food chain that said any employee caught with their cell phone on them while they were on the clock would be fired, in the locker in the boss' office, then punch in.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

That's one grumpy looking cat.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Yeah, well if it's the real one, He is a grumpy looking kitty.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Damn. What a sour-sweet story...

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Apr 3, 1999 - May 3, 2020

A tree very slowly trying to escape the @unioncollege campus


Full size

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Apr 3, 1999 - May 3, 2020

I've always wondered if that sort of thing is painful for the tree.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

I've always wondered if that sort of thing is painful for the tree.

According to many scientific sources plants do not feel pain.
https://www.quora.com/Do-plants-feel-pain
http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/mythbusters-database/plants-have-feelings/

Then you have people on the other end of the light spectrum who insist that plants do feel "pain"... but seem to lack any valid scientific evidence to back up their theories.

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I've always wondered if that sort of thing is painful for the tree.

According to many scientific sources plants do not feel pain.
https://www.quora.com/Do-plants-feel-pain
http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/mythbusters-database/plants-have-feelings/

Then you have people on the other end of the light spectrum who insist that plants do feel "pain"... but seem to lack any valid scientific evidence to back up their theories.

Agreed, trees and all plants don't even have a nervous systems to feel pain with, nor even a brain, people who think plants feel pain are thinking plants must be like animals except they're not.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

There was a show on in the 70's called Tales of the Unexpected, and in one episode a man had a machine that he used to experiment with whether living things in his yard felt pain or not. He would snip his rose bushes, and a little shriek would come out his machine. He got bold and took an ax to a big tree, and the tree gave out an emphatic groan of pain. Just a story, yes?

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

There was a show on in the 70's called Tales of the Unexpected, and in one episode a man had a machine that he used to experiment with whether living things in his yard felt pain or not. He would snip his rose bushes, and a little shriek would come out his machine. He got bold and took an ax to a big tree, and the tree gave out an emphatic groan of pain. Just a story, yes?

Just as much a story as an episode of Space 1999 that dealt with a planet where trees had a brain in The Rules of Luton.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

There was a show on in the 70's called Tales of the Unexpected, and in one episode a man had a machine that he used to experiment with whether living things in his yard felt pain or not. He would snip his rose bushes, and a little shriek would come out his machine. He got bold and took an ax to a big tree, and the tree gave out an emphatic groan of pain. Just a story, yes?

First one must define what it means to feel pain. Animals with brains have nerves that are stimulated. Does an algae? Can it feel? But it can react.

Not sure. There are sum ways trees try to defend themselves.

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Charles Darwin was one of the first scientists to break from the crowd and recognise that plants move and respond to sensation – i.e., are sentient. Moreover, Darwin – who studied plants meticulously for most of his life, observed that the radicle – the root tip – “acts like the brain of one of the lower animals.”

Time for a nice salad. I sure hope the tomato does not fight back.

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