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Posted: **Mon May 09, 2022 1:15 pm**

As a kid I was a Jimmy Connors fan. McE was too harsh lol.

Posted: **Mon May 09, 2022 3:49 pm**

This is a pretty amazing race. Possibly better than the Kentucky Derby.

https://twitter.com/EmmanuelAcho/status ... 0467305473

Posted: **Mon May 09, 2022 4:17 pm**

Wow.

That was impressive!

Posted: **Tue May 10, 2022 4:43 pm**

Im going to sit this here. But I was thinking it would be a better fit for a models and hobby thread if we had one.

Posted: **Tue May 10, 2022 5:54 pm**

Daehawk wrote: Mon May 09, 2022 12:28 am Me and the wife always dreamed of going back in time to the 50s. Take in a old movie like a b sci fi. Then hit up a diner for some good food. Walk around town and buy some nick nacks . Would be great to be able to do. The movie and the diner are really appealing.

I'll avoid R&P, but I'll bet a time-travel visit to the 1950s would be disappointing on purely aesthetic grounds.

The B-movie SF movie would be a poor quality projection. The diner food would be cheap, mid-quality ingredients. Air-conditioning would be very rare, and most people would have worse bodily hygiene than you're used to. And *everywhere* indoors smelled overwhelmingly of stale cigarette smoke.

We've become a civilization that expects high quality because we have so many consumer options. That wasn't always the case.

Posted: **Tue May 10, 2022 6:07 pm**

"Stale cigarette smoke" was the scent of my childhood. I have a feeling that it would make me nostalgic more than anything.

Posted: **Tue May 10, 2022 7:16 pm**

As did I. There are still enclaves of smoking establishments around the metroplex. I do not experience nostalgia for that scent.

Posted: **Tue May 10, 2022 7:25 pm**

I remember being a kid in the back of my grandfather's car and watching him spit tobacco juice out of the window. Occasionally I'd get a gob of it on my face.

Posted: **Wed May 11, 2022 4:16 pm**

Wait..Goku and Vageta have kids now?..neat.

Posted: **Thu May 12, 2022 11:20 pm**

Posted: **Thu May 12, 2022 11:47 pm**

Heres one for Blackhawk. Roosters can be right mean but I almost feel sorry for this one. That pigeon beats the crap out of him. Dang didn't know they could or would do that. I can hear those blows from here.

Posted: **Sun May 15, 2022 9:16 am**

Posted: **Sun May 15, 2022 9:56 am**

Daehawk wrote: Thu May 12, 2022 11:47 pm Heres one for Blackhawk. Roosters can be right mean but I almost feel sorry for this one. That pigeon beats the crap out of him. Dang didn't know they could or would do that. I can hear those blows from here.

FWIW, pigeons are some of the weakest fighters in the bird world. Their beaks are pointy, but they are too soft to do much, and don't have much muscle behind them. The wing slap feels like someone smacking you with a rolled up paper towel. Their skin is extremely thin and tears easily, and their blood does not clot well when they are injured.

The only thing that they have going for them is that if they do survive the initial injury, they are very resilient and strong healers.

You have to be very careful about keeping pigeons with other birds. If they get in a real fight, a much smaller bird can handily kill a pigeon.

That rooster was more confused than aggressive. I'm guessing that the owner stuck him in there for a laugh. If he'd gotten angry, he'd have killed the pigeon really quickly.

Posted: **Sun May 15, 2022 10:24 am**

I didn't know whether to put this in the scam thread or this one. I went with this one. It is immensely satisfying, and it is informative. FWIW, the 'practical joke' part of the video is the least significant thing that happens, and is the least satisfying part. It is, however, what this guy is known for (his glitter bombs), but the impact he has is measurable.

Very worth a watch.

Posted: **Sun May 15, 2022 11:39 am**

Max Peck wrote: Sun May 15, 2022 9:16 am Crypto Song

Posted: **Mon May 16, 2022 11:08 pm**

Posted: **Tue May 17, 2022 1:32 am**

Posted: **Tue May 17, 2022 7:01 pm**

Yeah, wow. That was pretty incredible.

I need to share that with my kids.

Posted: **Tue May 17, 2022 7:43 pm**

I’ve listened to it at least a dozen times.

Posted: **Tue May 17, 2022 11:10 pm**

If only Richard Wagner had known about Eurovision, we could have avoided so many problems.

Posted: **Tue May 17, 2022 11:21 pm**

Unfortunately, Subwoolfer came in 10th in the final results.

I'm not going to say it was political, but Ukraine took the title.

Posted: **Wed May 18, 2022 12:13 am**

Posted: **Wed May 18, 2022 1:00 am**

Posted: **Wed May 18, 2022 4:53 pm**

dbt1949 wrote: Wed May 18, 2022 1:00 am

I'm from California and that guy is an asshole

Posted: **Wed May 18, 2022 9:49 pm**

I've seen some pretty bizarre weapons but I've never seen anything as ridiculously over-engineered as this thing.

Also, I love Johnathon Ferguson's videos.
He not only does the Royal Armourie videos but also does a series on Gamespot as a Firearms Expert

Posted: **Thu May 19, 2022 6:43 pm**

Posted: **Fri May 20, 2022 6:07 pm**

So, it seems that chariots are a thing again...

Posted: **Fri May 20, 2022 6:18 pm**

Do they just set them to max speed and off they go?
How do they control anything but steering? Foot pedals?

Posted: **Fri May 20, 2022 7:05 pm**

dbt1949 wrote: Fri May 20, 2022 6:18 pm Do they just set them to max speed and off they go?
How do they control anything but steering? Foot pedals?

Motorcycle chariot racing

Motorcycle chariot racing is a motor sport that combines motorcycle racing and chariot racing.

The sport was extant in the 1920s and 1930s, having been inspired by the 1925 film Ben-Hur. It went largely (although not entirely) extinct after that, although exhibition rigs are still made and driven.

The sport was developed in Australia in the 1920s and quickly spread to Europe and America. Motorcycle chariot races were, for instance, probably held at the old Charlotte, North Carolina motor speedway (the old speedway at 35°5′52.8″N 80°52′52.51″W, not the modern Charlotte Motor Speedway).

A typical early vehicle configuration was a rider on a motorcycle, pulling a chariot and charioteer who were essentially ornamental. A 1922 short piece in Popular Mechanics describes this configuration. This soon developed into a configuration with two riderless motorcycles steered by a single charioteer using reins. Steering was sometimes done with reins attached to the throttles (the charioteer steered by controlling the relative speed of the two motorcycles), and sometimes with rigid extensions attached to the handlebars. Modern rigs may have foot pedals for speed control, the reins used for steering the front wheels.

Posted: **Wed May 25, 2022 2:43 pm**

Posted: **Wed May 25, 2022 4:52 pm**

Reminds me of playing American Truck Simulator.

Posted: **Wed May 25, 2022 5:21 pm**

AWS260 wrote: Wed May 25, 2022 4:52 pm Reminds me of playing American Truck Simulator.

I was going to say you found a video of my younger son playing ATS.

Posted: **Fri May 27, 2022 5:37 pm**

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Posted: **Sat May 28, 2022 1:54 pm**

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Posted: **Sun May 29, 2022 1:14 am**

Posted: **Sun May 29, 2022 7:35 am**

Daehawk wrote: Sat May 28, 2022 1:54 pm

Thanks for posting this. I shared it with friends who have a young child with a congenital limb difference and they found it very interesting and relatable.

Posted: **Sun May 29, 2022 2:16 pm**

You're welcome. A lot I choose to post are interesting or fun. I love it when others find them that way too.

Posted: **Sun May 29, 2022 6:46 pm**

I love Han's lip wookie disguise.

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