I’m relieved to see that Libya is no longer on the map above.

Yay! Both ugly and beautiful....

Yeah, that’s the problem, if you’re amongst the majority of voters: Just a critical word or two on your part, and you’re off the plane without a parachute.

Somehow convince Donald Trump to fly you in Air Force One, which costs app. $200,000 per hour to operate. 6 hours of flight thus amounts to app. $1,2M.

Meanwhile, in France:

Once spent some hours waiting for my case in Traffic Court in NYC, gave me an enormous respect for the judge on duty that day. If only for his ability to keep a straight face when hearing one crazy-hilarious story after the other, from incredibly optimistic people who didn’t think the should pay this or that fine.

Not funny!

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Germany tried it in WW2, with the proof-of-concept Berlin B9 (for a Henschel jet bomber that never flew), and two reconnaisance planes that both flew.

Win. There’s a a fair number of them about, so obviously people can afford them.

First motorcycle (a BMW) on The Moon at 1:14.

In Denmark a Panamera Turbo is from US$ 429K and upwards. We win.

‘Stand your ground style’, just with vehicles. Great....

During the WW2 invasion of France a number of Shermans were converted for amphibious assualt. It wasn’t a total success:

Luftwaffe used it during WW2, as a method to (theoretically) disturb bomber gunners’ aim.

Wonderful idea. Do they make them for Dyanes too?

Naw, it’s usually German tourists who - unfamiliar with anything larger than small lakes, but still neglecting all warnings - get caught by undercurrents.

Wonder then if anyone will get upset when they hear Hyundai mispronouced. Anyway, if it’s any comfort, more Germans will mispronounce American car names. And in Asia most car names with L and R risk mispronouncialcion too, like ‘Rincoln Neblaska’. (And don’t give me a hard time about this: I’ve travelled in Asia, and…

When living in the US, I read stories about people riding air mattresses though L.A. storm drains. Of course that doesn’t count as stupidity only, seeing that you need to be fearless to even think about doing it.