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I live 5 minutes from this. AMA I guess?
The Memphis pyramid was a sports arena and concert venue in the past, eventually the city built another venue that wasn’t shaped stupid so it sat abandoned for a decade or so before bass pro bought it.
Are the ducks really unlimited, or is that just economically until the limits of physical reality kick in?
They have a duck accelerator inside that fuses antiducks and posiducks together as a source of unlimited power.
Do they fire them in a flying v formation?
Is there any other way?
That’s pretty ducked up
I’m just glad it’s not goose-based. That would surely open a portal to hell.
Psyduuuuuuuuuuckkkkkkkk! 🤯
I know you are just being silly, but to answer your question, the point of those groups (ducks unlimited, pheasants forever, whitetail whenever, turkeys tomorrow, raccoons all noons, etc) is to put money into conservation of those animals so that their populations stay great enough that they can be hunted.
So yes, the goal is for the ducks to be unlimited.
TIL. Thanks 👍
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Underrated joke here.
Is this a reference from something I don’t understand?
Is it bigger than the Luxor in Las Vegas?
The Luxor is ever so slightly bigger I believe.
Luxor looks about to be 10% taller (98m vs 107m) Source
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I saw Alanis Morissette there in 95’ish and the acoustics were terrible. Still a great concert though.
It’s a real artist to be at the peak of popularity and play at a Bass Pro shop.
It was not a Bass Pro Shop then. It was The Pyramid, concert venue / arena.
I saw Jimmy Page and Robert Plant play there in the late 90’s. It was totally awesome, they played almost 3 hours of Led Zeppelin and Page/Plant songs. John Bonham’s son Jason was on drums.
I think they were joking
Joke.
Has anyone tried to climb on top of it?
I’ve actually been in the pyramid itself. It’s actually quite small inside compared to what you’d expect and is literally just a bass pro shop with a fish tank and a bar area with a bunch of tvs and nothing else. They do have comfortable seating though!
Yeah me and wife went two years ago. We weren’t impressed. Funny story we were early so we had to wait for the elevator to open so we could go to the viewing deck.
Well as we waited this lady and man who apparently were with a touring company showed up with like 50 people.
They had paid for the tickets and thought they get first priority and cut the line. But at these time there were already 20 of us waiting. But luckily the manager made them get in the back of the line.
The tourist lady was pissed.
The Egyptian ones ate similarly sparse inside, though for VASTLY different reasons.
I wonder how it was built.
It’s kind of nice how everyone is in on the joke now? Like I think if you told the average person 15 years ago that a lot of history “documentaries” are racially motivated drivel you’d get a funny reaction.
I think I could show this to my (quite conservative) parents and get a good chuckle out of them now.
Granted I’m from the Middle East and the racist theories we have here have some of the roles swapped around. We don’t have 24 hour electricity but the average person genuinely believes we are the god-chosen enlightened people who are only held back by some combination of hubris, western empire, and “western empire” (this one should have a bunch of parentheses around it, several sets, I don’t want to get caught in some spam filter).
There is a replica of the Parthenon near Nashville as well https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenon_(Nashville)
Full size replica built a hundred+ years ago
The story behind this is actually pretty wild
Here’s an hour and a half long video of a floating green hoodie explaining all of it https://youtu.be/bj-ya2MBgbM?si=ryN8HOwL1BPP87Wx
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Imagine archaeologists a few thousand years from now finding this
They were a culture obsessed with hunting and fishing, which of course was unsustainable and led to mass starvation and civilization collapse.
One of many shrines to our capitalist overlords and the mighty dollar.
All cultures use pyramids to show the reverence due to their gods, right?
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I was on holiday in the US and saw that thing in the distance while driving. I drove to it. And when I saw it was just a simpel store, I thought to myself: “only in the fucking USA 🦅🦅 yee-haw!!”
The seventh wonder of the world, for sure.
clearly a landing pad for alien anglers
Big if true
true if big
