u/SnarkyRetort — reddlx

Instead of clapping at Town Hall meetings cough.

If they prohibit clapping to the threat of arrest, cough.

Oak Island fans — if you like the exploration as much as the treasure, check these guys out

I've been watching Ghost Town Living and MBMMLLC, and I figured some of the Oak Island crowd might enjoy these channels too.

One of my favorite parts of Oak Island has always been the exploration itself. Going underground, finding old workings, trying to figure out what people were doing there, and discovering things that haven't been touched in generations.

That's what I love about these channels.

Ghost Town Living is centered around Cerro Gordo, an old mining town in California, and watching Brent explore those old mines is fascinating. He goes down into tunnels and workings that date back to the Old West mining days, sometimes squeezing through places where you really start wondering what the hell the miners who originally dug them were thinking.

Then you have MBMMLLC, which gets into another side of it—old mines, prospecting, mineralized rock, crushing ore, processing samples and actually figuring out what those old miners were chasing.

This video is a great example:

https://youtu.be/wrw2vaIxtw8?si=nBonxXGTbLJgZerU

What fascinates me is seeing the whole process come together.

You can walk into an abandoned mine that just looks like a hole blasted through a mountain, find a vein or a pile of material left behind by miners 100+ years ago, bring some of that rock back out, crush it, process it and discover that there's actually something valuable in it.

And there's the history behind it. These weren't modern mining operations with computers telling them exactly where to drill. A lot of these guys were working during the Old West, following geology underground with drills, dynamite, picks and experience.

Sometimes you're literally following their decisions through the mountain.

Why did they turn here?

Why did they stop there?

What were they following?

What did they miss?

That's the part that reminds me of what I enjoy about Oak Island. Even if they never pull a treasure chest out of the ground, trying to reconstruct what people were doing hundreds of years ago from the physical evidence they left behind is fascinating.

If you're into that side of Oak Island, I'd definitely recommend going down the Ghost Town Living/MBMMLLC rabbit hole.

Sometimes the interesting discovery isn't the treasure.

It's figuring out why somebody dug the hole in the first place.

u/SnarkyRetort — 14 days ago

▲ 51 r/Amphibians

This distinguished fella greeted me when i came home last night.

I got home tonight and my porch was absolutely covered in mayflies.

Except for one perfect little circle.

This toad was sitting right in the middle of it like he'd reserved the table hours ago.

Didn't move.
Didn't care that I walked up.
Just kept eating while the mayflies kept flying into the buffet.

Nature is pretty awesome sometimes.

u/SnarkyRetort — 2 months ago

▲ 58 r/Michigan

East Jordan Freedom Festival

Tonight I walked to the bar and snapped a few shots of south arm of Lake Charlevoix. Wish i had better focus on the boats but the sunset was amazing.

I passed a wedding along the way and snapped a candid wedding photo i wont post here for privacy reasons,

To the Bride and Groom congratulations, it's a really cute photo if someone is in the know let me know. ya know.

u/SnarkyRetort — 2 months ago

▲ 0 r/ViagraBoys

trading verbiage with

The song Ain't No Thief by Viagra Boys is a darkly funny, unreliable-narrator story about a guy who keeps insisting he's innocent while describing behavior that makes him look anything but innocent.

The joke is that the narrator repeatedly claims "I ain't no thief" while the details suggest he's constantly taking things, "borrowing" things, or finding himself in suspicious situations. That's a common Viagra Boys theme: a character with a warped self-image who can't see how ridiculous he sounds.

Some themes in the song:

Self-delusion – The narrator genuinely seems to believe his own excuses.
Petty criminality and rationalization – He minimizes his actions and shifts blame.
Masculine bravado – He projects confidence even when he's clearly a mess.
Satire of sketchy characters – The song pokes fun at people who always have a reason why none of their problems are their fault.

Like a lot of Viagra Boys songs, it's less about endorsing the character and more about putting that character under a microscope and letting him embarrass himself. The humor comes from the gap between what he's saying ("I'm not a thief") and what the audience is thinking ("Yeah... you probably are").

Musically, it's built around the band's trademark mix of driving post-punk grooves, repetition, and frontman Sebastian Murphy sounding equal parts threatening, drunk, and hilarious. The repetition reinforces the idea that the narrator is trying very hard to convince everyone—including himself.

A simple interpretation: the song is about the stories people tell themselves to avoid admitting who they really are. The theft is almost secondary to the denial.

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u/SnarkyRetort — 3 months ago