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Lovely website and incredibly consistent. What a treasure trove.

luke2m 5y ago
Hey, one man’s trash(bin) is another man’s treasure!
havernator 5y ago
Once found the site of a a Russian travel photo blogger who’d been almost everywhere and had a particular fondness for fire hydrants, street signs, bollards, trash cans, and so on. It was weirdly fascinating, I must have looked over dozens of his trip pages and many hundreds of photos. I lost the link though and it’s either gone or a victim of modern search-engine weakness.
- zarzavat 5y ago
  Here you go https://www.tema.ru/eng/travel/ https://www.tema.ru/eng/travel/ He also has a youtube (in russian) where he publishes the newer content.
  - havernator 5y ago
    Not gonna lie: I’d been waiting years(!) to catch a relevant post for “photos of dull stuff in public” on the front page early enough to post about that and probably have enough people see it that I’d get that link. Thanks!
  - cromka 5y ago
    That guy comes off as an asshole: https://www.tema.ru/eng/travel/kiev.2015.05/ https://www.tema.ru/eng/travel/kiev.2015.05/
    - snypher 5y ago
      Lots of people do and are. I try to not judge people on old blog posts about complex issues I don't really understand. Aside from that, I don't let people being assholes stop me from learning about trashcan and sidewalks.
    - havernator 5y ago
      Read quite a bit of that one, didn’t see anything bad. It’s in Standard Internet Tone but pretty mild. Having to couch everything in the gentlest terms and preface any snark or impolite observation with a paragraph of disclaimers so people don’t mistake you for The Bad Guys is a the-last-decade thing, and doesn’t seem to exist much outside the Anglosphere, where Standard Internet Tone continues to rule. Guy may be an asshole, but I read about half that page and didn’t see it.
- Scoundreller 5y ago
  I guess you might like this: The World Bollard Association https://mobile.twitter.com/worldbollard https://mobile.twitter.com/worldbollard
cat199 5y ago
the trash (or should I say 'rubbish'?) equivalent of 2600's 'payphones of the world'

Hey, one man’s trash(bin) is another man’s treasure!

Once found the site of a a Russian travel photo blogger who’d been almost everywhere and had a particular fondness for fire hydrants, street signs, bollards, trash cans, and so on. It was weirdly fascinating, I must have looked over dozens of his trip pages and many hundreds of photos. I lost the link though and it’s either gone or a victim of modern search-engine weakness.

zarzavat 5y ago
Here you go https://www.tema.ru/eng/travel/ https://www.tema.ru/eng/travel/ He also has a youtube (in russian) where he publishes the newer content.
- havernator 5y ago
  Not gonna lie: I’d been waiting years(!) to catch a relevant post for “photos of dull stuff in public” on the front page early enough to post about that and probably have enough people see it that I’d get that link. Thanks!
- cromka 5y ago
  That guy comes off as an asshole: https://www.tema.ru/eng/travel/kiev.2015.05/ https://www.tema.ru/eng/travel/kiev.2015.05/
  - snypher 5y ago
    Lots of people do and are. I try to not judge people on old blog posts about complex issues I don't really understand. Aside from that, I don't let people being assholes stop me from learning about trashcan and sidewalks.
  - havernator 5y ago
    Read quite a bit of that one, didn’t see anything bad. It’s in Standard Internet Tone but pretty mild. Having to couch everything in the gentlest terms and preface any snark or impolite observation with a paragraph of disclaimers so people don’t mistake you for The Bad Guys is a the-last-decade thing, and doesn’t seem to exist much outside the Anglosphere, where Standard Internet Tone continues to rule. Guy may be an asshole, but I read about half that page and didn’t see it.
Scoundreller 5y ago
I guess you might like this: The World Bollard Association https://mobile.twitter.com/worldbollard https://mobile.twitter.com/worldbollard

cat199 5y ago

the trash (or should I say 'rubbish'?) equivalent of 2600's 'payphones of the world'