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@=XDC=iNSANE wrote:
http://news.bostonherald.com/national/west/view.bg?articleid=197822
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/15/bungee.death.ap/index.html
http://www.muskogeephoenix.com/local/local_story_212005108.html
Those people fell from the height and with no protection… so umm… yeah… height + protection = no miracle. There is also the way people land – he didn’t do the obvious and land on his feet, bend his knees and roll, but he also didn’t land on his head either. You tend to hear more survival stories than death stories too, which craps on the whole ‘miracle’ of it all. It’s more of a miracle people are stupid enough to get themselves into those situations to die in the first place – leaning over some rails to look down then falling off? ROFL That’s just asking for it.
If you want to see a miracle, hit a tonne of steel with your face @ 60mph (30+30 before you ask), get some big air, do a few flips then splat on the ground and then get back up… if I can do it, anyone can. Saying that though, there are many people who have crashed at lower speeds and without even hitting anything heavy and died, so maybe anyone can’t…
I was going to say well it’s a good job the Germans from Saxony are here anyway 😛 Spoiled that now 🙁
I’m not really sure why the site says it’s a miracle he survived? It’s a bit of a drop but from a pansy height and he is covered in armour though – my mother could survive that naked (albeit with some broken bones). Unbelievable he is walking? Bah!!
Maybe it was but it was advertised recently as a new release, with John Travolta etc. I contemplated taking my mum to see this, but moolah is going on seeing Rush Hour 3 next week instead 😉
People who drive whilst using their mobiles without a handsfree kit – especially whilst cornering.
People who go into an already occupied box junction.
People who stop in traffic and block off a junction – especially when it says keep clear in big fuck off letters.
People who stop in traffic past the white line at pedestrian crossings, especially smack bang in the middle of them.
People who speed up on amber lights instead of slow down/stop (when it’s safe to do so).
People who fail to indicate or indicate very late.
People pulling out right infront of you, especially when the road behind is clear – you’re not supposed to make anyone slow/stop :S
People who drive caravans without extended mirrors.
People who don’t check their mirrors.
People who don’t even check their blindspots.
People who are too stupid to know about power/weight ratio – especially 4×4 mum’s thinking their car worth more than my house will beat me at the lights.
People who think they can jump ques because they have a fancy car (ie lane for junction to turn right then they push into straight).
People who have fancy cars thinking they have skillz… the car’s gadgets do most of the work for them…
People who take too long getting to 30mph from a standing start – for christs sake I could be @ 300mph by the time some folk get a move on.
People who park right at the entrance exit of a junction on or right next to the bend.
People who cut corners into the oncoming lane as they turn into a junction.
People who beep their horn when they’re to blame.
People constantly doing 40mph… 30 zone they do 40, 40 they do 40 and 50 they do 40… what is that all about? =/Lorries overtaking lorries – FFS lorries are supposed to be in the far left lane only – it’s often to see them 2 abreast and sometimes more!!
Taxi drivers, foreign drivers, women drivers and eldery drivers especially.
This is actually the Generation X team – Famke Janssen, Sandra Bullock and Marisa Tomei have retired to pursue other careers.
Elisha Cuthbert
Not only is she into incest, british blokes, gimps, 1 armed men and getting kidnapped but she is pretty hot to boot. Her special power is to get people sacked from work by mysteriously always being their bosses daughter. She can also speak french, which can be quite handy if you ever needed onions, garlic or a shit car.
Jessica Alba
This is the 5 alarm chili of the trio. She can bend light, has telekenesis, a hot body and is a hell of a good dancer too, especially at hip-hop. She is also immune to conventional warfare as the only weapons aimed at her are locked away in underwear. Best deployed in tha ‘hood dealing with gangbangers…
Christina Milian
And finally we come to the hot chocolate. She can sing, dance, write her own songs and play a variety of instruments too. This one time at band camp…. ahem… She can communicate with dead people using WiFi, make guys walk on water and her powers are increased when she is dressed as a cheerleader.
In reserve I have Jennifer Love Hewitt should someone get injured or things get messy. She isn’t terribly good at disposing of corpses but she’d happily bone 100 year old men and marry them for their money to fund the operation. She also has a good udnerstand of how things work from mechanical to biological engineering, though the only thing she has managed to conjure up are dildos for men. Put her in a lab coat and a pair of glasses and she can mingle with evil genius to siphon their plans or put her in an evening gown and she can charm even the most stubborn of one eyed trouser snakes into submission!
I don’t even ride with a visor down, I ride visor up and it’s the first time I’ve ever had a tinted visor, of any tint other than crystal clear! Considering how dark it is on the outside it is surprisingly visible on the inside – kind of like those 1 way mirror type things, but without the mirror.
visor up = flies n shit in your eye (which you get used to) but in the 99.9% of the time that isn’t happening you get better clarity because the clear plastic isn’t 100% opaque. You also hear more, which means you’re hearing things before most people with a visor down or in their cars with their doors/windows closed +/- their sound system on do, which makes you more aware of your surroundings, which makes you a better driver 😛
There are a few things you can’t prepare for *like the car behind you deciding not to brake at lights* or *like the car pulling to park on your side of the road when you’re almost parallel to it and the road behind you is clear* 🙄 If you want to hear bollocks excuses crash #1 the chap said his foot slipped off the brake…considering they have rubber grips (or atleast your shoes do) and as car drivers yourselves you know it’s nigh on impossible, it’s obviously a BS excuse but atleast he had the decency to admit liability. Crash #2 the chap says I was driving on the wrong side of the road and not looking… erm I was in my lane and I hit his front passenger side – to do that in the other lane I’d have to be driving either on the other pavement or atleast in the gutter? ROFL… To hit that side it’s plausible the car was at 45 degrees and in my side of the road, no?
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The O2 Standing Zone 3 £20 £30
The O2 Grandstands £40 £50
Peruvian Wharf Standing SOLD OUT SOLD OUT
Peruvian Wharf Grandstands £40 £50
Race Club £195 + VAT SOLD OUT
High Flyers Lounge £495 + VAT £645 + VATSchedule Saturday 28th July
09:00 Doors open
11:30 Show starts
12:30 Opening Ceremony
12:40 Air Race Qualifying begins
17:00 CloseSchedule Sunday 29th July
08:00 Doors open
10:00 Show starts
10:45 Air Race Finals begin
15:00 Prizegiving
17:00 CloseFor those of you who missed last years action, you can watch the highlights as well as some top quality stunt flying using Joost @ http://www.joost.com/
@TurksMeister wrote:
Thank fuck for MOTs and …Arai…lids!!
Bleh the Helmet was £410 – but the difference being over a cheapo helmet is being alive or being alive and being a vegetable/dead 😮 Granted £60 of that was on an illegal-for-road-use dark tinted visor but the helmet looks so much more pimp with it – sort of like an all-black stormtrooper thing going on now 😉 http://www.araihelmet-europe.com/php/page/tourx2_show/pages/TourX%20motard%20black.htm
I may still see how much it will cost me to get down there and if I can stretch to it yet though 😉
If you like that sort of thing the Red Bull Air Race is in London this weekend – if I hadn’t forked out for a new Arai lid and my MOT next week I’d have contemplated going down your way to see it :O
Nub!
Start – Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Languages Tab > Details Button > Add > English (United Kingdom) > Click the Scrollbar to set the default to English (United Kingdom) > Click Apply.
Job is a good ‘un 😉
It won’t kill you to change your location to UK etc whilst you’re at it.
