Interesting places on the planet.

[Sebastian Cobb]

In that cross section of Kowloon, why is some dickhead using a pick axe to smash into his neighbour's room?

Stealing gas.

[Mr Farenheit]

In that cross section of Kowloon, why is some dickhead using a pick axe to smash into his neighbour's room?

Because he's playing Aerosmith songs?

[NoSleep]

In that cross section of Kowloon, why is some dickhead using a pick axe to smash into his neighbour's room?

The neighbour is helping him with his own pickaxe.

[solidified gruel merchant]

The neighbour is helping him with his own pickaxe.

We'll knock through this wall here, and that should really open the place out.

[steve98]

Here's another pick-axe pic... Or it might be an umbrella? There seems to be water coming in. Maybe they're all umbrellas? (Or parasols?)

[Sebastian Cobb]

The neighbour is helping him with his own pickaxe.

Must have got on well and decided to cohabit.

[NoSleep]

Here's another pick-axe pic... Or it might be an umbrella? There seems to be water coming in. Maybe they're all umbrellas? (Or parasols?)

There somebody pretending they're sitting on a toilet (bottom right), so these characters could simply imagine they have an umbrella if they wanted to, but we wouldn't see it.

[Sebastian Cobb]

It's probably one of those 'squatter' bogs common in Asia.

I made the mistake of taking a similar pose when using one, it did not end well.

[Kryton]

[Kryton]

The neighbour is helping him with his own pickaxe.

Nah the neighbour is fending him off with his own Kowloon pick axe.
'Aye aye fuck off that's a supportive 2D strut that is'
'Aye aye that's why I'm tunnelling into it, why aye man'
'Aye well you can ruddy well why aye man in the opposite direction with your pickaxes and shit. Go on. Away with you pick axe man.'
'But you've got a pick axe too'.
'Away with you'.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Thinking about it, those pickaxe lads probably just shrugged 20 seconds after that drawing and everyone died.

[studpuppet]

Here's another pick-axe pic... Or it might be an umbrella? There seems to be water coming in. Maybe they're all umbrellas? (Or parasols?)

I clicked on the wrong Lemming...

[NoSleep]

I think Sebastian beat you to a Lemmings reference in the post before.

[Dewt]

Beater? Blocker? Take it to the GP thread you guys!

Thank you this has been comedy Amen

[Kryton]

Poveglia Island (Italy).



Possibly one of the grimmest places on the planet if legends are to be believed. It was where plague victims were sent into quarantine (from 1793 until 1814).
Some say 50% of the soil is bone and ash in some places and visitors speak of it's atmosphere as being uneasy, dense and foreboding, with guests speaking of 'the feeling of being watched' and 'hearing strange sounds night and day'. 160,000 people were said to have died of the plague there.

Some keen-thinker decided to build a mental asylum there (1922 - 1968) with staff and patients all reporting ghostly activity. It is said some particularly cruel experiments took place there including lobotomies without anaesthetic and worse.

One particularly sadistic Doctor had his way with many patients and performed gruesome experiments on helpless patients, but the Doctor was eventually 'driven mad by ghost which tormented him' and eventually committed suicide by throwing himself from the bell tower.

It's now illegal to visit, but visitors who have managed speak of hearing the chiming of the bell (even though it was removed), plus disembodied voices and such. Charred human bones still wash up on the shores and local fishermen avoid the place like er.. the plague.



Almost certainly a lot of this is lore and myth, but there's no denying horrible things did happen on the island like something from a gothic horror.

[weekender]

The Strid at Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire.

The way this is described is that the river sort of turns vertical as it goes through some deep passages, before returning to horizontal again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCSUmwP02T8

[sick as a pike]

The Strid at Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCSUmwP02T8

This has been disturbing me for a while now, with various reports saying if you fall in you will die.  I'll just jump over this innocuous little stream... oops slippy! Aggggggghhhhh. Glub.

[A Hat Like That]

This has been disturbing me for a while now, with various reports saying if you fall in you will die.  I'll just jump over this innocuous little stream... oops slippy! Aggggggghhhhh. Glub.

My grandparents never once took me and my brothers there as kids despite living 15 miles away and taking us to Bolton Abbey at least once a week in the summer. The beach just downstream is a delight!

[weekender]

Devil's Pool in Zambia

On the one hand I want to do this, and on the other hand I'm never going fucking near it.

Here's a nice video where they make it look all reasonably safe and ting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVFsiJBSQps

Here's another one where it looks like they're just swimming to a 338ft death, despite making it look safe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldBBeJi6-Fs

No thank you, I shall just take my punishment of doing handstands in the wave pool at Center Parcs and getting told off for them. 

Water is scary.

[katzenjammer]

The Strid at Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire.

The way this is described is that the river sort of turns vertical as it goes through some deep passages, before returning to horizontal again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCSUmwP02T8

This place literally kept me awake at night when I first heard about it.  Thanks for reminding me.

This has been disturbing me for a while now, with various reports saying if you fall in you will die.

And your body may never be recovered since currents drag things down to get stuck in underwater caves.

[Kryton]

One for the Ophidiophobiacs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilha_da_Queimada_Grande

Ilha da Queimada Grande

Snake Island. Fucking thousands of the buggers. Mostly Golden Lanceheads - which are a particularly nasty snake, one capable of jumping and biting prey with quick acting venom, which liquefies flesh and causes extreme bleeding before nerves, lungs and brain shut down, killing you in less than an hour (presumably per single bite).



The island is 430,000 square meters and apparently there's roughly 1-5 snakes per square meter and they have no natural predators. Rumour has it the snakes were first introduced when a pirate buried some treasure and scattered the snakes in the area, which soon outbred everything else to dominate the island.

Another rumour suggests the first Lighthouse there was occupied by a family (the first and last) who were all found semi-dissolved and eaten, due to the snakes crawling through the window and killing them all.

The Lighthouse is now automated and needs maintenance once a year. The Brazilian navy arrive (presumably with flame throwers) to escort engineers to the lighthouse, also bringing scientists who safely collect snake venom. Nobody besides the Brazilian navy has ever repeatedly returned to the island for any length of time as according to lore everyone else died. Pirates, fisher men, smugglers and such all being found dead.

Another rumour which maybe deflate the above somewhat, suggests that extremely brave black market poachers occasionally visit the island to capture snakes and selling them for somewhere between  $10,000 to $30,000.

Either way it's an extremely dangerous Island.

[imitationleather]

The Strid at Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire.

The way this is described is that the river sort of turns vertical as it goes through some deep passages, before returning to horizontal again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCSUmwP02T8

Never heard of that before. How barmy.

[Emma Raducanu]

I've crossed the river at Bolton Abbey on those stepping stones and had no idea how close to death I was!

[Icehaven]

Devil's Pool in Zambia

On the one hand I want to do this, and on the other hand I'm never going fucking near it.

Here's a nice video where they make it look all reasonably safe and ting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVFsiJBSQps

Here's another one where it looks like they're just swimming to a 338ft death, despite making it look safe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldBBeJi6-Fs

If the current pulls you to the edge, how do you get back again? HOW DO YOU GET BACK?!?

[Twit 2]

Gary's house

[idunnosomename]

an interesting thing about bolton abbey is that the monastery was actually a priory (in that it had a prior, not an abbot running it, basically). and they were going to build a massive west tower but the act of suppression 1539 under Henry VIII put an end to that building project. most of the church is still there and its fucking awesome. the stepping stones are fun especially if some idiot dad falls in the Wharfe.

also take the second turning heading E on the A59 and you can basically park and look at the site for free haha! I mean for medieval monasteries what's left is pretty evocative of what used to dot our landscape

[shiftwork2]

The Strid at Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire.

The way this is described is that the river sort of turns vertical as it goes through some deep passages, before returning to horizontal again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCSUmwP02T8

That was great.  The kind of thing to lodge itself in your mind for a while before surfacing in a proper nightmare.

[A Hat Like That]

an interesting thing about bolton abbey is that the monastery was actually a priory (in that it had a prior, not an abbot running it, basically). and they were going to build a massive west tower but the act of suppression 1539 under Henry VIII put an end to that building project. most of the church is still there and its fucking awesome. the stepping stones are fun especially if some idiot dad falls in the Wharfe.

also take the second turning heading E on the A59 and you can basically park and look at the site for free haha! I mean for medieval monasteries what's left is pretty evocative of what used to dot our landscape

just gone down a rabbit hole of local train lines and thoughts of extending the Embsay railway from Bolton Abbey to Ilkley via Addingham. Bliss.

[Gurke and Hare]

The stepping stones at Gargrave are better than the stepping stones at Bolton Abbey. Fight me.

[Kryton]

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/oct/24/life-on-the-tiny-island-of-migingo-in-pictures

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migingo_Island

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/migingo-big-trouble-on-small-island-1651736.html




Migingo - A tiny island in Lake Victoria (overlooked by a bigger island called Usinga), claimed by Ugandan and Kenyan authorities, both of whom accuse the other of interfering and/or contesting the land, which nearly brought both sides to conflict, but for a lot of the islanders this dispute is considered 'banter' (despite the fact that the police on both sides saying it has caused hostilities and with the passing interests of Pirates from Kenya/Uganda and Tanzania) . It was initially claimed to have been settled in 1991 by Kenyan fishermen. However Ugandan people say the island was deserted in 2002/2004 (depending on the source) and they say they hold a better claim. Both sides lay claim with opposing flags and its patrolled by Maritime authorities and police belonging to both parties.

Its tiny size and relatively large population (for its size) makes it one of the most densely packed islands in the world. Covering just less than a quarter of a hectare with a population of about 131 people [2009] (however the Independent is going with 500+ people?).

The island is said to boast a pharmacy, four pubs, a hair salon and at least one brothel.


EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML5iHm4Hr8w&gl=NG Good video here.