looking through my old files and... found a weird one of a fake album cover I made and I have NO fucking clue what it was I used to pick the name, image and text, but... looking at it now I'm like "fuck this looks punk as hell kinda wtf"
https://i.imgur.com/d3tNT.jpg like, pretty sure the words might have been from random wiki crawls but... NO idea what the image is from. This was years ago so I have no memory of what spurred this but p. sure it was some thread on a forum.
(image description for the link I posted:)
a black and white photo of what would probably be called a "zebra crossing" in the UK, it seems, with water pooled around one side. Two people are walking through it, one in sandals and cut off trousers/jeans with ankles bare, one in jeans and either smart shoes or boots. The shot is taken as water is splashing up from their steps heavily.
Red text displays "BIE" as the 'artist' name, and "The First Deterrant" as the album title, in a military-ish font
@Nine it reminds me of how some people call elastomeric connectors "zebra strips"
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@Felthry I honestly never understood it myself like, zebra aren't striped regularly, and certainly not as broadly as that. Pinstripe crossing I would have understood but... zebra??
Also Pelican and Puffin Crossings are a thing and no i do NOT know wtf those are either or how to describe them, even though I am English, and no I have no idea WHY we call them that either, lol.
We brits are fuckin' weird.
@Nine do you have pictures of pelican and puffin crossings because now i'm confused
also now i'm thinking about how different types of ACSR are named after birds, like swan and albatross
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@Nine ACSR is the type of wire they use for overhead power lines by the way. aluminum conductor steel-reinforced; it has a steel cable at the center surrounded by a bunch of strands of aluminum wire and almost always no insulation
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@Felthry Yes, or, well, Wikipedia does at least:
Pelican crossing. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Pelican_crossing_on_Cuffley_Hill_%28geograph_2443957%29.jpg
and here is a Puffin crossing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffin_crossing#/media/File:Puffin_crossing_in_Belfast_(35021074385).jpg
...I think they are literally exactly the same, except the Puffin one... has a bike lane?? I think???...
...idfk what that has to do with pelicans or puffins tho.
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@g @Felthry omg toucan crossings are a thing too and they are just Puffin crossings but for bikes side by side with them, and yeah Puffin Crossings are literally just Pelican crossings but the signal to show when it's safe to cross for pedestrians is beside them rather than on teh lights, and also they have sensors to detect when it's safe for drivers to go again too.
I...
the pegasus crossing is a new one on me and my mind is BLOOOWWNNN
@a_breakin_glass @g @Felthry god please no the uk would probably call them something fuckin' daft like unicorn crossings...
....
actually that one's okay I think hm. not sure.
@Nine @a_breakin_glass @g or get confusing and call them like deer crossing or something
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@Nine @a_breakin_glass @Felthry 
geko crossings...
@g @a_breakin_glass @Felthry I would absolutely accept this
@Nine a zebra crossing?
*looks at it*
oh, a crosswalk. I am kinda amused you call it that though?
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