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My dad decided it would be a great idea to start driving a motorcycle at 60, and got in several minor accidents that were presumably fate warning him before he got in a huge one that totaled his bike, turned his shoulder to cereal, and broke his leg in like 15 places. He was bedridden for almost a year, with my mom having to tend to him like a baby and give him injections, and he wanted to buy a new motorcycle to get right back to riding afterwards. 
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I mean, if you wanna tempt death, doing so at 60+ is a good time to do so.
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Jan 12, 2020 04:32
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Hell, I think they'll even let you keep your organs at that age when they bury you. I can't imagine 60 year old hearts or livers or corneas are in terrific shape before the wreck.
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Jan 12, 2020 06:15
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packetmantis posted:My dad decided it would be a great idea to start driving a motorcycle at 60, and got in several minor accidents that were presumably fate warning him before he got in a huge one that totaled his bike, turned his shoulder to cereal, and broke his leg in like 15 places. He was bedridden for almost a year, with my mom having to tend to him like a baby and give him injections, and he wanted to buy a new motorcycle to get right back to riding afterwards. I started riding in France, when I was 14. Moving back to the States and witnessing traffic here, particularly on the East Coast...nope. I am 57 and will stick with convertibles, thank you kindly. e: By popular demand posted:Bad idea: motorcycling at 60 PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 03:38 on Jan 13, 2020 |
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Jan 12, 2020 06:29
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Reminds me of a joke. How do you spot a smart motorcyclist? You can't; they're all driving cars.
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Jan 12, 2020 07:01
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Bad idea: motorcycling at 60 Good idea: motorboating at 69 
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Jan 12, 2020 07:16
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Iron Crowned posted:Americans are very stupid, and feel that it's their right to have their brains splatted on concrete, because PPE is for pussies Imagine saving your family money by having a funeral instead of bankrupting 2-3 generations with medical burdens to live halfway through the rest of your life.  
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Jan 12, 2020 08:25
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Uthor posted:I mean, if you wanna tempt death, doing so at 60+ is a good time to do so. Yeah. 60+ is probably the best time to ride. My dad puts more miles on his motorcycle each year than a lot of people do over a motorcycle's lifetime ("you can find at least one nice day to ride a month" he says...in Minnesota). He's got all his affairs in order and I'm legally obligated to pull the plug after a specified number of days if he turns himself into a vegetable. He's only got a few years left because of medical issues and he's going to enjoy his rediculously tuned up built engine Harley until the end.
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Jan 12, 2020 09:19
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MisterOblivious posted:Yeah. 60+ is probably the best time to ride. My dad puts more miles on his motorcycle each year than a lot of people do over a motorcycle's lifetime ("you can find at least one nice day to ride a month" he says...in Minnesota). He's got all his affairs in order and I'm legally obligated to pull the plug after a specified number of days if he turns himself into a vegetable. He's only got a few years left because of medical issues and he's going to enjoy his rediculously tuned up built engine Harley until the end. Same for my dad. Except the Minnesota part.
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Jan 12, 2020 09:36
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Shut up Meg posted:I've oft wondered what would happen in the real world if someone did that. The GIP idiots thread will tell you stories of soldiers/officers NDing into things or losing a pistol and getting a helicopter crew killed in a crash looking for it. Conversely the military history thread will tell you about 16th century German mercenaries accidentally killing each other because PFC Wulfrich decided to unload a pistol by firing it out a window. Excerpt from Ernest Junger's "Storm of Steel": quote:On 4 August, we left the train at the famous station of Mars-la-Tour. The 7th and 8th Companies were billeted at Doncourt, where we led a life of calm contemplation for a few days. The only thing that made difficulties for me were the short rations. It was strictly forbidden to go foraging; and, even so, every morning the military police brought me the names of men they'd caught lifting potatoes, and whom I had no option but to punish — 'for being stupid enough to get yourselves caught' was my own, unofficial, reason.
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Jan 12, 2020 10:16
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Buckle up... https://i.imgur.com/5VIgh5t.gifv
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Jan 12, 2020 15:03
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"How are they filming this... is it a drone they are us-" 
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Jan 12, 2020 15:08
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Cartoon Man posted:Buckle up... gently caress How did they not die? Whichever deity they pray to, I want in.
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Thought this thread might enjoy a photoshop twitter thread of rescue vehicles and safety equipment added to famous paintings. https://twitter.com/andy_doe/status/1215994216909824001?s=21
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Cartoon Man posted:Buckle up... ...taiwan?
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Jan 12, 2020 15:40
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Milo and POTUS posted:...taiwan? The comments said Nepal.
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Jan 12, 2020 15:53
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Cartoon Man posted:Buckle up... "I bet we're going to see a car go by...  "
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Jan 12, 2020 16:07
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Cartoon Man posted:The comments said Nepal. Right continent!
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Jan 12, 2020 16:13
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Cartoon Man posted:Buckle up... I yelled NO irl when I saw they were in a car driving towards it 
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Jan 12, 2020 16:13
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Cartoon Man posted:Buckle up... I'm not convinced that this isn't some new amusement park ride.
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Jan 12, 2020 16:14
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~~~OSHA road, ~~~take me home, ~~~to the place, ~~~I was killed.
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Jan 12, 2020 16:15
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What magic spell did they cast on the tires so that they didn't lose contact and waterfall off the cliff in the inches of moving water?
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Jan 12, 2020 16:25
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Cartoon Man posted:The comments said Nepal. You sure it isn't La Paz Death Road in Boliva? It's seems eerily similar.
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Did Yungas Road ever have features like “guard rails” and “good pavement”? e: Poking around, I found this Turkish road. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_tCxUmZTwo Platystemon fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Jan 12, 2020 |
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Jan 12, 2020 16:31
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zedprime posted:What magic spell did they cast on the tires so that they didn't lose contact and waterfall off the cliff in the inches of moving water? 40 american tourists worth of weight.
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Cthulu Carl posted:I'm not convinced that this isn't some new amusement park ride. I was going to say new Splash Mountain looks good.
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Jan 12, 2020 17:12
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JingleBells posted:This is why you wear the correct PPE when riding a motorbike: Surprised the driver of the car did because I'd expect the other bikers to just drag him out of the wreck and beat him to death right there. chitoryu12 posted:With guns? Depends. If it’s a pistol most holsters cover the trigger so nothing can snag it, so it’s technically safe as long as you don’t do a Tex Grebner. With a rifle? Hope you’re not walking through a jungle getting stuck on branches and vines. Not to mention there are a lot of pistols that don't have safeties. No safeties on revolvers, because 12-14 lbs isn't going to be inadvertently applied to that trigger in most reasonable circumstances. Phanatic fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Jan 12, 2020 |
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Jan 12, 2020 17:40
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https://i.imgur.com/AI3FH5C.mp4
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Phanatic posted:Surprised the driver of the car did because I'd expect the other bikers to just drag him out of the wreck and beat him to death right there. Modern designs might not have active safety levers but most have a host of passive safety devices. Your typical modern revolver has a transfer bar so the hammer isn’t resting directly over a live cartridge, for example. A lot of other designs incorporate safeties that are disengaged as part of the normal function of the weapon. Glock triggers being the most famous example. If your finger is on the trigger (which presumably means you want to shoot - keeping your finger off the trigger when you aren’t is fundamental gun safety) it activates the trigger safety so the gun will fire. If it isn’t that safety stays in place so dropping it or getting the side of the trigger snagged on gear or something won’t fire it.
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it's like some ballet move
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Platystemon posted:Did Yungas Road ever have features like “guard rails” and “good pavement”? Here is the road on google maps. A lot of switchbacks.
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C.M. Kruger posted:The GIP idiots thread will tell you stories of soldiers/officers NDing into things or losing a pistol and getting a helicopter crew killed in a crash looking for it. You really should have given a link to that story: The Slithery D posted:Thanks for reminding me of this bit of epic stupidity. Cyrano4747 posted:Modern designs might not have active safety levers but most have a host of passive safety devices. Your typical modern revolver has a transfer bar so the hammer isn’t resting directly over a live cartridge, for example. I was more thinking about what would happen if a sergeant wondered around a base's canteen with a loaded/unsafetied weapon and then sassed a captain when challenged on it. Does that guy get put on latrine duty for a year, or does the captain let him get away with it cause he's a SEAL and if he's in the canteen, at least he's not out decapitating prisoners, canoeing bodies or sniping children Also: Wild T posted:Idiots and guns to together like peanut butter and KY jelly.
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Ooh is it Army OSHA time? I've got two! I did my mandatory military service (I'm Finnish) at the Artillery Brigade, which trains field artillery gun crews. You can't just fire 122mm to 155mm artillery pieces at the backyard, so near to the army base there's a firing range, which is basically a huge 20km or so long stretch of wilderness which allows for the safe firing of artillery pieces (albeit at not anything approaching maximum ranges). This area serves multiple purposes. When there isn't any firing being done, there's a lot of moorland and forest for marches, camping exercises and other training, so there's a lot of access points into the firing area. Of course, when any firing is going to be done, the area is strictly 100% do not loving think about it off limits. One day during an artillery firing camp (basically a week long exercise) our gun crew were driving to the firing area in an SA-150 truck, pulling the artillery piece, when suddenly the truck pulls to a stop still about 5-10km away from our destination. At the side of the road is a sergeant with a group of artillery observer trainees on their bicycles. The sergeant is trying to wrestle one of the locked gates into the artillery firing range open as the 20 or so trainees look on. Our lieutenant jumps out of the truck and starts yelling at the sergeant, demanding to know why the gently caress exactly he is trying to lead 20 or so trainees into the loving artillery firing area when a live fire exercise is ongoing and the guns could start firing at any moment. Turns out they were running late and rather than taking the long route to the staging and firing area, he figured they should just open the gate and take a quick shortcut. I have never, ever seen our lieutenant (a nice and calm guy with a wonderful sense of humor) so loving livid with anyone as he was with that sergeant. Then there was the time a group of officer candidates at the firing range had managed to load too heavy a propellant charge into their 130mm cannon, causing their shell to overshoot the target area and land in the backyard of a family in a nearby town. Luckily nobody was home, so there was just structural damage to the house. That one made it into the papers! E: it wasn't the 122H63 howitzer, but the 130K54 cannon. Shaman Tank Spec fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Jan 12, 2020 |
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Jan 12, 2020 18:33
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This looks like a car getting a terrible cramp.
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Jan 12, 2020 18:46
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Cartoon Man posted:Buckle up... Probably the most scary clip I’ve seen itt Yikes
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Der Shovel posted:a group of officer candidates I’m not sure if this is a euphemism, but it should be.
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Cartoon Man posted:Buckle up... Holy gently caress! In guessing the only reason they went forward was because the road was disappearing from under them at the start.
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Cyrano4747 posted:If it isn’t that safety stays in place so dropping it or getting the side of the trigger snagged on gear or something won’t fire it.
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LifeSunDeath posted:it's like some ballet move Going "on pointe"
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Der Shovel posted:
It would seem that a firing range, with weapons that have different propellant charges, should have no back yards out to the maximum distance of a given weapon and propellant charge.  I mean, that's just me!
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