It’s Sunday, which means it’s time for another “picdump!” Here are 136 memes, pictures, and cartoons floating around the internet that I found interesting or relevant this week. Share and enjoy!
Month: January 2025
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My plans for Burns Night 2025
Here’s the main course for dinner tonight…
…and that’s because it’s January 25th today, making tonight Burns Night, the night when we celebrate the birth of Scottish poet Robert Burns:
Haggis is a kind of sausage, in that it only sounds bad when you describe what goes into it: “a savory pudding containing sheep’s pluck (heart, liver, and lungs), minced with chopped onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and cooked while traditionally encased in the animal’s stomach” (although in modern times, it’s encased in sausage casing).
It’s actually delicious, and it’s typically served this way…
…and in case you were wondering, tatties are potatoes, neeps are turnips, and yes, there’s scotch on the side. I also plan to make a whiskey sauce to pour on everything.
And finally, since sausage is for dinner, it’s only fitting that sausage is also for dessert:
This is Chocolate Salami, from Toronto chocolatier Soma, which is a “sausage” made of chocolate, candied orange peel, sun dried cherries, pieces of feuilletine (crispy flakes of caramelized crêpes), coconut, almonds, hazelnuts, nibs and rum.
Here’s what it looks like when sliced:
We’ll probably start dinner with this reading of Robbie Burns’ famous poem, Address to a Haggis, delivered with the proper gusto by true Scotsman Cameron Goodall:
My friends in my old home town, Toronto, won’t find Tampa’s current temperatures cold, but by local standards, it’s downright frigid.
The past couple of mornings have started at a temperature that Torontonians would consider balmy this time of year: 4°C (39°F). With Tampa’s humidity typically in the 90% range, it feels more like 0°C (32°F). I pulled out the olive drab puffy vest that my Dad gave to me as a Christmas gift ages ago — he had a thing for giving me warm clothing — and snapped the photo above to let my Mom know how I’m doing.
It looks like it’s going to get a little colder this weekend, which is going to be a challenge for the sizable portion of the local population that’s perpetually in shorts and flip-flops.
But at least it isn’t snowing in Tampa…
Clearly, I missed out by not watching the director’s cut of Jerry Maguire!
But seriously — when films go abroad, especially to Asia and Africa, they’re promoted with hand-painted signage made by people who haven’t seen them, and often are following the most cursory description of the plot and a couple of photos.
The roots of “Show me the money!” are still visible in the translation from film to poster…
…but I have no idea what’s going on with dismembered Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.’s character). I think the machete-wielding guy to Rod’s left is supposed to be Frank Cushman’s dad (played by Beau Bridges), and that his holding Rod’s severed arm, which in turn is holding a grenade, is an action-film allegory for what actually happens in the movie.
Want to see more movie posters like this? Deadly Prey Gallery is an Instagram account that features wild Ghanian interpretations of American films.
It’s Sunday, which means it’s time for another “picdump!” Here are 118 memes, pictures, and cartoons floating around the internet that I found interesting or relevant this week. Share and enjoy!
It’s Sunday, which means it’s time for another “picdump!” Here are 113 memes, pictures, and cartoons floating around the internet that I found interesting or relevant this week. Share and enjoy!
It’s the first Sunday of 2025, so it’s time for the first “picdump” of 2025! This is where I post the memes, pictures, and cartoons floating around the internet that I found interesting or relevant this week. Share and enjoy!
