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Happy Thread
Jul 10, 2005

by Fluffdaddy
Plaster Town Cop

Untrustable posted:

If I remember correctly (I may not be), the goon wife wanted goons to help her identify mystery pills, which is weird to me because heads up: Drugs.com has a pill identifier. I use it for found pills at work all the time..

"found"?

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Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

Arivia posted:

The difference between what is morally right and what is legally right got LF shut down.

As opposed to the difference between Sarah Michelle Gellar and a household pet, which is what got Morally Inept shut down.

Arivia
Mar 17, 2011

Jedit posted:

As opposed to the difference between Sarah Michelle Gellar and a household pet, which is what got Morally Inept shut down.

quoting this for the funny forum quotes thread

Yngwie Mangosteen
Aug 23, 2007

Spanish Manlove posted:

Did he succeed in buying drugs, then curing his autism?

No, he still posts here sometimes.

beep-beep car is go
Apr 11, 2005

I can just eyeball this, right?



Captain Monkey posted:

No, he still posts here sometimes.

The funny quotes are coming from inside the thread!

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

.

Solice Kirsk posted:

Do bears mourn their dead?

Ferrule posted:

Have you not seen Brian's Song?

Aphrodite
Jun 27, 2006

Untrustable posted:

If I remember correctly (I may not be), the goon wife wanted goons to help her identify mystery pills, which is weird to me because heads up: Drugs.com has a pill identifier. I use it for found pills at work all the time.

Also the goon who lost his arm meat to heroin played a ton of Call of Duty with me and after getting surgery to regain rudimentary control of his arm, died of an overdose.

I don't think der juicen was the arm reduction guy. He just also had a messed up arm and did a lot of drugs.

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat
Now I wanna read about that tccer again who batted off a team of doctors using his dead arms as nunchucks before biting down on a hypodermic and kramering out the window

Punished Chuck
Dec 27, 2010

Spanish Manlove posted:

Did he succeed in buying drugs, then curing his autism?

Yes.

Spanish Manlove
Aug 31, 2008

HAILGAYSATAN

Glad to hear about another goon success story.

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

Noblesse Obliged posted:

According to the malleus maleficarum you can determine an incel by tying rocks to their legs and submerging them in a river

A proper man will drown and be in paradise with God whereas the incel will float as they cannot get their dick wet

theflyingorc
Jun 28, 2008

ANY GOOD OPINIONS THIS POSTER CLAIMS TO HAVE ARE JUST PROOF THAT BULLYING WORKS
Young Orc

ToxicSlurpee posted:

Yeah the speed it would have thrown somebody down it was "would kill you 100% of the time when you hit the end." He didn't do any math and just built the thing because lol I'm going to make the biggest and funnest zip line ever, man! Then some engineering goons did the math and were like "this is going to kill somebody. No joke, here are the numbers, and it isn't like one of those might hurt at the end but you'll be ok situations. This thing will literally kill people."

Does anyone have the Zipline thread handy

Also maybe there was a frontpage about it, i might be thinking of something else

Guy Mann
Mar 28, 2016

by Lowtax

theflyingorc posted:

Does anyone have the Zipline thread handy

Also maybe there was a frontpage about it, i might be thinking of something else

https://twitter.com/FoldableHuman/status/1018965087074177024

There's an entire cottage industry of people archiving and reconstructing old stuff from SA on sites like Twitter, it's a real shame there's nobody actually involved with the site who is willing and able to capitalize on that in any meaningful way to try and attract new users but at least it means the site's best content won't die with it.

And it's still inspiring new content among a new generation of fans.

https://twitter.com/itsSupercar/status/1018985312763039744

Elysiume
Aug 13, 2009

Alone, she fights.
Should that tweet be added to the SAclopedia for the zipline? If it's been up for six months it's probably reasonably stable, right?

Untrustable
Mar 17, 2009






Yeah I work security at a casino and we find pills all the time. Found pills require a report to be generated so we have to use Drugs.com to identify them for reporting purposes.

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:
That one guy spent so long designing a death coaster and some good makes a better one by accident.

Happy Thread
Jul 10, 2005

by Fluffdaddy
Plaster Town Cop

Elysiume posted:

Should that tweet be added to the SAclopedia for the zipline? If it's been up for six months it's probably reasonably stable, right?

Absolutely

Tambaloneus
Feb 5, 2007

I miss my cat someone buy me a kitten.

theflyingorc posted:

Does anyone have the Zipline thread handy

Also maybe there was a frontpage about it, i might be thinking of something else

I have a summary saved but I didn't think to save the author sorry:

"I believe at this point, we're legally obligated to post the lethal murderline of death that goon made a few years ago where the kids would have reached terminal velocity before slamming into a goddamn wall. The "test load" they used reached a speed between 45-60mph. They had built the entire structure without ever checking any math or basic engineering equations to actually find out how fast a kid sized object would travel by the end of the ride. Some other, smarter, goons found that, were a child to actually go down the zip line, they would crater into the earth. My favorite part was when someone showed him how to do the proper calculations and it turned out that he had overshot a reasonable, safe slope by 19 times. If I recall correctly, the point of the original thread was to ask for ideas on how to jury-rig a braking system, out of springs or foam rubber or something. (It would have to be cheap, though; they were out of money.)

Let that sink in. They spent tens of thousands of dollars building a zipline, belatedly realized it was lethal, and then turned to an Internet Comedy Forum for suggestions on how to halfass a way to make it not kill every child who rode it."

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:
... not kill every child...

So what was there success/failure survival threshold? 4%?

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle




It's like a trust exercise. Except instead of showing the kids they can do more than they think, this one kills the first kid in the group who volunteers to try it. Lesson: Trust no one.

Olaf The Stout
Oct 16, 2009

FORUMS NO.1 SLEEPY DAWGS MEMESTER

CannonFodder posted:

Cellophane or glass marble in the gas tank. It clogs up the fuel intake valve while the car is running, but in a random "what was that" way, and then it moves off of the intake valve so the car can start again so it's really confusing.

Something similar happened to my dad, his car would randomly die while driving it, and it was driving him crazy. He's an aircraft jet technician, so he just kept tearing his car apart till he identified the problem. The previous owner had a fuel line go out and used a bad replacement, one that shed tiny bits of microplastic. The tiny bits of plastic would clump up until they blocked the fuel feed at the bottom which would kill his car, but when he looked in the tank with a flashlight it didn't look like anything at all. He was so loving happy when he figured it out, it was great.

JnnyThndrs
May 29, 2001

HERE ARE THE FUCKING TOWELS
Mechanic here: The whole ‘put xxx in the fuel tank and it will intermittently block the fuel inlet, causing much hilarity’ does not generally work in modern cars. The reason why is this:

The fuel pump is in the tank nowadays, and the inlet is a good-sized fine-mesh bag commonly called a ‘sock’. It’s jammed against the bottom of the tank so you get the last little bit of fuel before running out of gas, and it typically spreads out in such a way that any plastic-sheet-like foreign body could only block part of it.

What does work is small particles of rust, plastic, rubber, etc which clogs the entire sock, like what happened to the guy’s dad in the previous post. This isn’t really a prank, though, it’s an utterly vicious thing to do and people have junked otherwise good cars because they couldn’t figure out why the car kept stalling.

JnnyThndrs has a new favorite as of 14:23 on Feb 5, 2019

Guy Mann
Mar 28, 2016

by Lowtax

JnnyThndrs posted:

Mechanic here: The whole ‘put xxx in the fuel tank and it will intermittently block the fuel inlet, causing much hilarity’ does not generally work in modern cars.

It's almost like the people posting these elaborate revenge fantasies of publicly damaging one of the most valuable possessions a person owns in retaliation for perceived slights are actually full of poo poo and just incredibly pathetic weirdos vicariously living out their impotent revenge fantasies online.

canyoneer
Sep 13, 2005


I only have canyoneyes for you
My favorite thing when I see a car parked badly across multiple spaces is to ignore it and move on with my life :evilbuddy:

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat
Is your life mainly about ignorantly rampaging over misparked vehicles? Just asking.

Spanish Manlove
Aug 31, 2008

HAILGAYSATAN
I like to write notes to put on people's wibdshields that say "have a nice day :)"

Spanish Manlove
Aug 31, 2008

HAILGAYSATAN
Also I give people a thumbs up if they cut me off or something.

IUG
Jul 14, 2007


EDIT: Nobody cares about this derail anymore actually.

IUG has a new favorite as of 19:15 on Feb 5, 2019

Fleta Mcgurn
Oct 5, 2003

Porpoise noise continues.

IUG posted:

EDIT: Nobody cares about this derail anymore actually.

NO WAIT HERE'S WHAT I DO





nothing who cares u all gonna die lol

PHIZ KALIFA
Dec 21, 2011

#mood
Bad news, Fleta, someone over at Blizzarioware just deleted all the horses. All of them. From all the games.

All the tiddy too. Now we're all flat chested horseless sexless eunuchs, it's like 4H camp all over again.

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat

Spanish Manlove posted:

Also I give people a thumbs up if they cut me off or something.

I give them that special thumbsup that means SIT ON THIS YOU ARSE HOLE where you also do that silly face with the googly eyes

Dareon
Apr 6, 2009

by vyelkin

Karate Bastard posted:

Is your life mainly about ignorantly rampaging over misparked vehicles? Just asking.

I drive a monster truck so... yes?

e: I do not drive a monster truck, the joke was just sitting there, parked across three spaces for anyone to see.

Syd Midnight
Sep 23, 2005

Elysiume posted:

Should that tweet be added to the SAclopedia for the zipline? If it's been up for six months it's probably reasonably stable, right?

No tweet should be considered 'stable'. Posting screenshots is better for cases like this, depending on the image host, but Twitter makes screenshotting long threads an enormous pain in the rear end. If anyone has advice for easily saving long twitter threads as images, that'd be awesome.

Ornamental Dingbat
Feb 26, 2007

Syd Midnight posted:

No tweet should be considered 'stable'. Posting screenshots is better for cases like this, depending on the image host, but Twitter makes screenshotting long threads an enormous pain in the rear end. If anyone has advice for easily saving long twitter threads as images, that'd be awesome.

Same for imgurs .

Every old thread is a sea of

Fleta Mcgurn
Oct 5, 2003

Porpoise noise continues.

PHIZ KALIFA posted:

Bad news, Fleta, someone over at Blizzarioware just deleted all the horses. All of them. From all the games.

All the tiddy too. Now we're all flat chested horseless sexless eunuchs, it's like 4H camp all over again.

I legit won't play videojuegos if I can't have horses with Chesty Morgan-level gazongas.

PHIZ KALIFA
Dec 21, 2011

#mood
bUDDY you're describing Centaurs.

Araenna
Dec 27, 2012




Lipstick Apathy

Syd Midnight posted:

No tweet should be considered 'stable'. Posting screenshots is better for cases like this, depending on the image host, but Twitter makes screenshotting long threads an enormous pain in the rear end. If anyone has advice for easily saving long twitter threads as images, that'd be awesome.
This site:
https://tinysubversions.com/spooler/

Will do this:
https://tinysubversions.com/spooler/?url=https://twitter.com/FoldableHuman/status/1018987954423750657'

Might be helpful for that sort of thing?

Fleta Mcgurn
Oct 5, 2003

Porpoise noise continues.

PHIZ KALIFA posted:

bUDDY you're describing Centaurs.

Only Piers Anthony centaurs.

Somfin
Oct 25, 2010

In my🦚 experience🛠️ the big things🌑 don't teach you anything🤷‍♀️.

Nap Ghost

Guy Mann posted:

It's almost like the people posting these elaborate revenge fantasies of publicly damaging one of the most valuable possessions a person owns in retaliation for perceived slights are actually full of poo poo and just incredibly pathetic weirdos vicariously living out their impotent revenge fantasies online.

Sorry you got keyed for parking across two handicapped spaces :shrug:

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canyoneer
Sep 13, 2005


I only have canyoneyes for you

Doctor Grape Ape posted:

Some dude choked a mountain lion, to death, when it attacked him while hiking :catstare:



The Rat posted:

Dude's gonna have the best pickup lines now.

"Ayy girl, I choked out a mountain lion, how bout letting me choke a cougar?"

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