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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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Is that shopped? Back tire smoking like the car is on the line... the shadow of the roof is at a different angle than the photographer's shadow... etc.
I don't think its a shop, the shadows are consistent on the car fins and the air flap. The car is flipping around and seems to be 180 degrees from it origin with the top wheel on the guardrail, which means it would still be rotating forward while moving backward and causing the smoking - it follows the rubber skid mark as well. But then again, I've been fooled before. |
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Ookii
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is actually Trippy
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Teleku
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https://i.imgur.com/mcj5kz7.png
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taolurker
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There was a little video at the bottom of the Daily mail page too.
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Lantyssa
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It looks like the body has popped off the frame is why.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Abagadro
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Yeah, and also:
That should be a pretty good indication to yourself that you need your reaction speed checked. |
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IainC
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That Daily Fail article makes me rage. They give the impression that the car was travelling at 250mph in the photo captions, then you see the video and realise it was a start line incident and the car span, bounced of a wall and came to a halt within a few seconds. The photos are dramatic but it's not the hyperspeed calamity that the article paints it as. |
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IainC
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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Abagadro
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"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
-H.L. Mencken
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schild
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Yea, saw that a while ago. Unfortunately, snowmen have 2 body pieces and a head. Not one. They cheated.
Also, they didn't use snow.
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Aez
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Simond
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sigil
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Took a google search for this american to get the significance, but yes. that's truly awesome.  |
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rattran
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Dammit, I was just about to listen to the chart show on Sirius to see who won. They're delayed 5 hours.
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K9
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A nice single to end the decade on.
Although the amount of irony running through this whole palarva has been monumental.
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I love the smell of facepalm in the morning
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Signe
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Muse.
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I think it was mostly done to thwart the notorious asshole, Simon Cowell. Not that I'm complaining.
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My Sig Image: hath rid itself of this mortal coil.
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Lakov_Sanite
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Can someone explain all this musicness to me?
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RhyssaFireheart
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Can someone explain all this musicness to me?
This. Because I'm not getting it either. |
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K9
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The X-Factor (Simon Cowell's pop-music-o-matic artist generation machine) has been the christmas number one (a largely symbolic achievement almost invariably held by Novelty or Charity acts since the early 80s) for the last four years in a row. In a response to this (not the first, but previous attempts failed) some people set up a facebook group to raise interest in buying copies of 'Killing in the Name' by RATM to make it this year's christmas #1 single. And they won; which is pretty awesome in many ways, and also spawned several ironies: - The song's shorus 'Fuck you I won't do what you tell me' contrasts somewhat with the sheep mentality of following a facebook fad
- When performing live on Radio 5 they were asked not to sing the chorus (see above) but did anyway
- Sony BMG own the rights to any music made by the X-Factor musicians, and they also own the rights to RATM, and so they make money either way, and actually if anything made more since they got two best selling singles this year rather than one
- Simon Cowell almost certainly owns a chunk of Sony stock and so is going to benefit from this either way
- The whole do this and buy that message of the fad somewhat contradicts RATM's socialist ideologies and message
But at the end of the day, it's all a bit of a laugh. I feel a bit sorry for the poor kid who didn't get his number one, but he's an X-Factor musician, and so needs to get used to disappointment. BBC Article |
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Malakili
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I didn't really know where else to post this, so here 'goes.  |
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rattran
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Unreasonable
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Engels
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inflicts shingles.
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The X-Factor (Simon Cowell's pop-music-o-matic artist generation machine) has been the christmas number one (a largely symbolic achievement almost invariably held by Novelty or Charity acts since the early 80s) for the last four years in a row. In a response to this (not the first, but previous attempts failed) some people set up a facebook group to raise interest in buying copies of 'Killing in the Name' by RATM to make it this year's christmas #1 single. And they won; which is pretty awesome in many ways, and also spawned several ironies: - The song's shorus 'Fuck you I won't do what you tell me' contrasts somewhat with the sheep mentality of following a facebook fad
- When performing live on Radio 5 they were asked not to sing the chorus (see above) but did anyway
- Sony BMG own the rights to any music made by the X-Factor musicians, and they also own the rights to RATM, and so they make money either way, and actually if anything made more since they got two best selling singles this year rather than one
- Simon Cowell almost certainly owns a chunk of Sony stock and so is going to benefit from this either way
- The whole do this and buy that message of the fad somewhat contradicts RATM's socialist ideologies and message
But at the end of the day, it's all a bit of a laugh. I feel a bit sorry for the poor kid who didn't get his number one, but he's an X-Factor musician, and so needs to get used to disappointment. BBC ArticleHere's the youtube clip of Rage Against the Machine that was played at the BBC studio. They explain the story a bit. Fast forward the last 40 seconds for the funneh. |
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Flatfoot
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Is "rap-metal" a word?
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MahrinSkel
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When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was bullshit!
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The "YES, WE ARE ALL INDIVIDUALS!" subtext would be beautiful, but teh stoopid, it burns.
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Lantyssa
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"Don't You Want Me" was 1981? I feel old now.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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Is "rap-metal" a word?
Yes. Unfortunately, that word is "shit". |
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Hawkbit
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Like a Klansman in the ghetto.
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Is "rap-metal" a word?
Yes. Unfortunately, that word is "shit". Back in the mid 90s I saw Biohazard at a club in my hometown. The club was next door to a high-end stripclub. I watched in awe as the dancers got off work and came over to dance on stage with Biohazard. Then the police broke it all up because there were easily 10+ naked women onstage with the band. It was awesome. While the genre might be shit, there are sometimes some pretty cool things that happen onstage with any kind of music. |
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schild
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grinding time Heh. I got "Broken" once on the Age of Conan/Funcom beta page. |
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Mrbloodworth
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Is "rap-metal" a word?
I had always heard the term "cross over" when in reference to those bands in the 90's. Technically early Faith no more fell into that category ( EPIC era). Rap-metal is a new one to me. |
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IainC
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Is "rap-metal" a word?
I had always heard the term "cross over" when in reference to those bands in the 90's. Technically early Faith no more fell into that category ( EPIC era). Rap-metal is a new one to me. used it in 2002. |
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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Technically early Faith no more fell into that category (EPIC era).
No, they didn't. One song does not a category make, no matter how popular it gets. That's like saying Anthrax and Aerosmith fall into that category. Also, Epic was not early FNM. |
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Amarr HM
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Is "rap-metal" a word?
Technically it's two. |
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NiX
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No, they didn't. One song does not a category make, no matter how popular it gets. That's like saying Anthrax and Aerosmith fall into that category.
Also, Epic was not early FNM.
Yes, it does. |
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Mrbloodworth
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Technically early Faith no more fell into that category (EPIC era).
No, they didn't. One song does not a category make, no matter how popular it gets. That's like saying Anthrax and Aerosmith fall into that category. Also, Epic was not early FNM. Sure does, and it is early as in, put them on the map and gave them the label. |
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