Where and what is this?

[IanB]

Proving that you learn something new every day, I learned today for the first time about this structure. Who knows what it is and where it is?

[apelly]

I know now!

Google image search is really getting better!

<snigger>Newington Butts</snigger>

[PA0PBZ]

That's the biggest SMD capacitor I've ever seen!

[Rick Law]

Nah...  Nothing to do with capacitor.

It is the biggest vertical waffle maker.  Very green.  During morning, you spray the waffle mix on the outside wall.  By noon, the sun would have cooked it.  Quality of course depends on the quality of your waffle mix, but it is very energy efficient.

Optional equipment includes auto waffle-mix sprayer and auto-oriented trailer that rotates the entire trailer to follow the Sun, sold separately of course.

[AVGresponding]

I thought it was the Minecraft HQ

[2N3055]

Michael Faraday Memorial. London..

[IanB]

Right: 2N3055 got it.

It is in Elephant and Castle in London, and is a monument to Michael Faraday, who was born nearby.

It contains an electricity substation for the London Underground, providing the DC traction supply for trains.

The original concept was apparently to have been a glass pyramid with mercury arc rectifiers visible inside. That would have been cool 

Unfortunately it was thought that glass would invite vandalism and the glowing light show of the rectifiers would distract drivers, so they went for a shiny metal box with a disco light show instead 

[coppice]

Michael Faraday Memorial. London..

Memorial, or hideous insult to the memory of a great man?

[AVGresponding]

Well, I knew who Michael Faraday was anyway, and I doubt that anyone who doesn't would see that building and think, "that reminds me of Michael Faraday". Probably sounded like a good idea in committee on a boring Friday afternoon when nobody was paying attention.

[2N3055]

Michael Faraday Memorial. London..

Memorial, or hideous insult to the memory of a great man?

A Faraday cage... 

[coppice]

Michael Faraday Memorial. London..

Memorial, or hideous insult to the memory of a great man?

A Faraday cage... 

The blurb says its stainless steel. That makes a really poor Faraday cage, so I guess that fits.

[apelly]

It is in Elephant and Castle in London

According to its Wikipedia page they chose Elephant and Castle because it was close to Faraday's birthplace; Newington Butts.

Butts. It's fun to be juvenile.

[IanB]

Butts. It's fun to be juvenile.

I assume you don't get out much?

[T3sl4co1l]

There's a smoothed version too.

I kid... this is actually "The Bean" in Chicago.  I suppose they'll have in common, some particular resonant modes on the interior...

Tim

[themadhippy]

Butts. It's fun to be juvenile.

you could do an amusing tour around the uk,start in  shitterton maybe have a piddle in the piddle  and onwards  to twat via  willey, upper ramsbottom, peniston  and many more amusing places

[SiliconWizard]

I kid... this is actually "The Bean" in Chicago.  I suppose they'll have in common, some particular resonant modes on the interior...

Mr. Bean Memorial?

[coppice]

Butts. It's fun to be juvenile.

you could do an amusing tour around the uk,start in  shitterton maybe have a piddle in the piddle  and onwards  to twat via  willey, upper ramsbottom, peniston  and many more amusing places

Somehow every place name along the River Piddle seems to enhance the humour of the name, for reasons I can't quite identify. Also, its Penistone, not Peniston, gateway to the Peak District. I really hope there's a gym there to help people tone up their penis.

[coppice]

Most memorials seem irrelevant to the person they commemorate. I used to work next to http://hongkongthrumyeyes.com/2014/11/15/the-charles-k-kao-auditorium-at-the-hong-kong-science-park/ Was Charlie Kao especially into eggs? Is there some connexion between eggs and optical fibres?

[themadhippy]

Geographical fact,Blue balls is only 8 miles from intercourse

[Sal Ammoniac]

Until it was renamed "Fugging" recently, there was a town in Austria named Fucking.

[apelly]

I assume you don't get out much?

[themadhippy]

recently, there was a town in Austria named Fucking.

sounds an ideal candidate for twinning with  the german town of wankum

[SiliconWizard]

Until it was renamed "Fugging" recently, there was a town in Austria named Fucking.

Oh yeah, when the whole world must bow to the english language.
https://www.dw.com/en/austrian-village-of-fucking-decides-to-change-its-name/a-55740967

[Neomys Sapiens]

Until it was renamed "Fugging" recently, there was a town in Austria named Fucking.

Yes. And the local brewery sold a light-coloured beer (ein Helles) named appropriately 'Fucking Hell'.

[jonovid]

this