#3: As a Michigander, I've certainly done that - and I'm quite thankful that driver's training about 65 years ago required us to practice skidding in an emptied parking lot. When I came back to Michigan after 12 years in the service and working for a defense contractor in warmer climates, after the first snowfall I found an empty parking lot and ran through the skid drills again.
#6. My wife asked me the other day if I had ever had the wind knocked out of me. "Well yes, about a thousand times I guess" was my reply. "What's it like" she asked. She had never had that happen. She's a swimmer and very athletic, but no hard impacts in that sport. I still can't believe that girls and boys grow up that differently but there's a glimpse into the other side.
When I was 15 or so, I got hit hard playing tackle football (no pads or safety equipment). Twenty years later I found out I have two ribs broken clean of my vertebra at exactly the place that the guy hit me when he tackled me. I was on my back for 30 minutes or so and it hurt for a few days, but no serious effects other than that.
I broke my back in a fight back in 1980 and didn't know about it for 6-7 years until I hurt my back on the job and went to the doctor. He came out after doing Xrays and asked, "When did you break your back?" I told him I never broke my back and he said, "Bet me," and showed me the Xrays. Then I remembered that fun night.....
Odd, similar experience. I was 35 or so when I found out about the ribs being broken. I had a dirt bike accident that caused pleurisy and some serious pain. The Xrays perplexed the doctors because they saw the broken ribs and were trying to correlate my complaints to that damage. It took me a couple of days and talking to my internist (my pleurisy turned into pneumonia) to recall the incident when I was 15.
#1 Stupid should hurt, and it looks like it did. Glad he didn't hurt anyone else, really hope he didn't crack any glass with that particular bit of stupidity. #2 Stupid should hurt, or at least be horribly embarrassing. Which is probably much worse, as this looks to be filmed in an Asian country.
#4 How in the hell did he not sandpaper his nipples off? But you can see him casually wave to a passerby and then hop up to go again at the bottom....
#8 & #9 stupid should hurt. And I'm sure it did many, many times while they were practicing showing off. It's amazing the things men will do in their drive to get laid. Err... Look cool. Which is the same thing, I guess.
#6 I know of NO way to design one of those that doesn't do that, unless it screws into the studs behind the trim all around the doorframe. Then it's no problem, except for your landlord.
It's not only a chin-up bar relying on friction like a push-out curtain rod, but it also has those crossbars. So it not only has to hold her weight, but it has to hold the torque applied to the little round contacts by a lever!
I'm no fan of product liability lawsuits, but if I was on a jury and that workout device is what it looks like, I'd find against the manufacturer and add punitive damages for reckless stupidity. How could any engineer sign off on that design? (I'm an electrical engineer, but I still had to learn enough physics/mechanical engineering to make the flaw obvious.)
#6: Might wanna get some X-rays and maybe an MRI after that, just for fun. Between that landing and those little tremors, she really has the look of someone who just got hit a little too hard.
#7: Seems like a safe toy. Reminds me of things my grandparents had when I was that age. They also had lawn darts...I had no idea those had been banned until a couple of years ago.
#10 sure isn't California right now. I just read that Mammoth is shut down for the time being because...too much snow. 7.5' new, with another 2-3 days coming.
First time I saw the knife #8 was in the Philippines, with what they call a venti quarto, 24 inch, knife. Crossing Batangas to Puerto the Banka guy entertained us all the way across. I was mesmerised just waiting for him to cut his arm off, but the fucker didn’t.
#10 I used to hate these people when I skied.....
ReplyDelete#8 Ok......
ReplyDelete#3 Mad skillz
ReplyDelete#8 Was the rage with 90s kids wanting to be punk. My fingers want to bleed just watching it.
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#3: As a Michigander, I've certainly done that - and I'm quite thankful that driver's training about 65 years ago required us to practice skidding in an emptied parking lot. When I came back to Michigan after 12 years in the service and working for a defense contractor in warmer climates, after the first snowfall I found an empty parking lot and ran through the skid drills again.
Delete#6 reminds me of this. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7f/a4/c1/7fa4c11469d322af0ac6ae4f75557c26.gif
ReplyDeleteGary Larson said it was autobiographical.
#7 What the hell is she doing with her feet after she falls? Seizure?
ReplyDeleteYou mean #6.
DeleteI don't think so, she sits up right away.
Just a tiny tantrum.
DeleteLooks like a flutter kick before she sets up
Delete#6. My wife asked me the other day if I had ever had the wind knocked out of me. "Well yes, about a thousand times I guess" was my reply. "What's it like" she asked. She had never had that happen. She's a swimmer and very athletic, but no hard impacts in that sport. I still can't believe that girls and boys grow up that differently but there's a glimpse into the other side.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was 15 or so, I got hit hard playing tackle football (no pads or safety equipment). Twenty years later I found out I have two ribs broken clean of my vertebra at exactly the place that the guy hit me when he tackled me. I was on my back for 30 minutes or so and it hurt for a few days, but no serious effects other than that.
DeleteI broke my back in a fight back in 1980 and didn't know about it for 6-7 years until I hurt my back on the job and went to the doctor. He came out after doing Xrays and asked, "When did you break your back?" I told him I never broke my back and he said, "Bet me," and showed me the Xrays. Then I remembered that fun night.....
DeleteOdd, similar experience. I was 35 or so when I found out about the ribs being broken. I had a dirt bike accident that caused pleurisy and some serious pain. The Xrays perplexed the doctors because they saw the broken ribs and were trying to correlate my complaints to that damage. It took me a couple of days and talking to my internist (my pleurisy turned into pneumonia) to recall the incident when I was 15.
Delete#3. Nice driving. Don't brake, Don't accelerate. Just steer into the skid. What else can you do?
ReplyDeleteThem Duke Boys is back in town.
DeleteEnter that sucker at the Speedrome next Saturday night.
Delete#1 Stupid should hurt, and it looks like it did. Glad he didn't hurt anyone else, really hope he didn't crack any glass with that particular bit of stupidity.
ReplyDelete#2 Stupid should hurt, or at least be horribly embarrassing. Which is probably much worse, as this looks to be filmed in an Asian country.
#4 How in the hell did he not sandpaper his nipples off? But you can see him casually wave to a passerby and then hop up to go again at the bottom....
#8 & #9 stupid should hurt. And I'm sure it did many, many times while they were practicing showing off. It's amazing the things men will do in their drive to get laid. Err... Look cool. Which is the same thing, I guess.
#6 I know of NO way to design one of those that doesn't do that, unless it screws into the studs behind the trim all around the doorframe. Then it's no problem, except for your landlord.
It's not only a chin-up bar relying on friction like a push-out curtain rod, but it also has those crossbars. So it not only has to hold her weight, but it has to hold the torque applied to the little round contacts by a lever!
DeleteI'm no fan of product liability lawsuits, but if I was on a jury and that workout device is what it looks like, I'd find against the manufacturer and add punitive damages for reckless stupidity. How could any engineer sign off on that design? (I'm an electrical engineer, but I still had to learn enough physics/mechanical engineering to make the flaw obvious.)
#6: Might wanna get some X-rays and maybe an MRI after that, just for fun. Between that landing and those little tremors, she really has the look of someone who just got hit a little too hard.
ReplyDelete#7: Seems like a safe toy. Reminds me of things my grandparents had when I was that age. They also had lawn darts...I had no idea those had been banned until a couple of years ago.
#10 sure isn't California right now. I just read that Mammoth is shut down for the time being because...too much snow. 7.5' new, with another 2-3 days coming.
ReplyDeleteFirst time I saw the knife #8 was in the Philippines, with what they call a venti quarto, 24 inch, knife. Crossing Batangas to Puerto the Banka guy entertained us all the way across. I was mesmerised just waiting for him to cut his arm off, but the fucker didn’t.
ReplyDelete