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Who is so terrible at parallel parking that they bump the other car?
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May 30, 2013 02:43
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muscles like this? posted:Who is so terrible at parallel parking that they bump the other car? I once worked for a guy who considered that part of his technique. He was a great parallel parker, he could get his large boat of a car in the most impossibly small spots, he just didn't give a poo poo.
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May 30, 2013 02:57
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You know, they joked about it but where the hell is Grant?
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May 30, 2013 02:58
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I don't mind the episodes so far this season, it was good to finally see them get the JATO done after a literal decade. The results regarding microsleep in the DC episode were interesting too.Koirhor posted:so i haven't watched mythbusters in awhile but I am stuck in a hotel room so what the hell right? uhhhh wow they are running out of ideas. TheRationalRedditor fucked around with this message at 03:46 on May 30, 2013 |
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May 30, 2013 03:43
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muscles like this? posted:Who is so terrible at parallel parking that they bump the other car? Just a few weeks ago I saw someone do such a terrible job at parallel parking that they scraped against the driver's side front corner of the car behind them going in.
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May 30, 2013 03:46
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Koirhor posted:so i haven't watched mythbusters in awhile but I am stuck in a hotel room so what the hell right? uhhhh wow they are running out of ideas. They haven't, they just have to wait for the summer blockbuster season for new "myths" to test
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May 30, 2013 03:51
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They're all so awful(the episodes) because you know they have to sit there at pitch meetings and figure out how to have the episode end in a tie so nobody gets pissed and writes their congressman.
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May 30, 2013 10:35
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ToastyPotato posted:Jake is taking a huge risk leaving the boat for something that is not a sure thing. Northwesterners make a nice amount of money per season. Sure, but what has he to look forward to on the Northwestern if Edgar does do the Captain thing more often? Deckboss? Jake wants to run a boat, and if Sig chooses a successor it would of course be Edgar. So it's probably better to take the chance while he is young. He's a great deckhand anyway (except him flying off the handle from time to time), so if it doesn't work out he shouldn't have a problem getting another job on a well-paying ship.
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May 30, 2013 11:44
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Something I just realized while thinking about last night's episode of Mythbusters is that once again they had a bit that they advertised in the opening but didn't actually show in the episode. It was who was better at reading emotions and looked like the segment that was supposed to have Grant in it.
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May 30, 2013 12:01
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I think that was in the first Battle of the Sexes.
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May 30, 2013 12:12
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Yeah, the first Battle of the Sexes episodes had reading emotions, BBQing, and packing a car for a trip.
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May 30, 2013 15:17
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Decius posted:Sure, but what has he to look forward to on the Northwestern if Edgar does do the Captain thing more often? Deckboss? Jake wants to run a boat, and if Sig chooses a successor it would of course be Edgar. So it's probably better to take the chance while he is young. He's a great deckhand anyway (except him flying off the handle from time to time), so if it doesn't work out he shouldn't have a problem getting another job on a well-paying ship. To add, one thing people gloss over is that almost all of the boats are family owned and run so Jake's career path is blocked at deck boss. The Cornelia Marie, Time Bandit, Northwestern, and Wizard all have multiple family members on board. You could say the Saga as well with Elliot's father on deck. Keith put it in very simple terms during a blurb. There are roughly 60 boats and 240 people working in this industry. It does not get any smaller or tougher than that. When you add in the decreasing quotas it begins the thin the herd just a little bit more.
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May 30, 2013 17:08
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Speaking of Mythbusters, I've stopped watching around the second Duct Tape Special (building a boat with duct tape). Between that and the second Battle of the Sexes, are there any notable episodes?
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Jun 1, 2013 03:06
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You might as well check out third time's a charm for JATO car.
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Jun 1, 2013 03:09
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The two episodes where they get to play with a rocket sled, and the one with the RPG.
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Jun 1, 2013 03:11
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toanoradian posted:Speaking of Mythbusters, I've stopped watching around the second Duct Tape Special (building a boat with duct tape). Between that and the second Battle of the Sexes, are there any notable episodes? Definitely the Mission Impossible Mask episode, if you haven't seen it. It might be my favourite Mythbusters episode ever. So unsettling.
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Jun 1, 2013 03:32
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Anything involving germs is usually somewhat interesting. Anything involving sleep deprivation or inebriation tends to fall flat since they just use themselves as test subjects, which is awful since they are trying to make TV at the same time which I feel distorts their behavior/reactions in a way that makes the test largely pointless. The only good one I can remember is drunk Adam Savage on the treadmill and getting slapped.
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Jun 1, 2013 04:23
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There was also mean drunk Kari when she had to rate guys.
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Jun 1, 2013 05:19
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They should really stay away from those Myths with the B-team as subjects, they have enough longstanding credibility problems with the fanbase as it is (and that was BEFORE the cannonball home delivery). That said, I think my favorite single memory of them being clowns was when everyone was retching while trying to put together that disgusting little earwax candle. I will always view more of those type of moments.
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Jun 1, 2013 06:28
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muscles like this? posted:There was also mean drunk Kari when she had to rate guys. That is kind of an example of what I am talking about. Kind of difficult in these kinds of cases to tell how much they are hamming it up, especially given that they seem to ham it up for the camera all the damned time.
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Jun 1, 2013 06:47
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I wonder if there is a world record for most C4 purchased by a television program?
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Jun 1, 2013 06:50
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Kari was originally hired to be a butt model to make a mold for a toilet myth.
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Jun 1, 2013 08:11
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FogHelmut posted:Kari was originally hired to be a butt model to make a mold for a toilet myth. Nah, that's just why she got on the program. Originally she was just Jamie's assistant at M5. In one of the recap episodes she talks about sitting out in one of the cars in the middle of the desert while they were filming the pilot. Tory's story is similar where he was just working there when they decided they needed a B team. Grant is actually the only one who was hired specifically for the show.
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Jun 1, 2013 15:07
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Yeah, Tory's a trained stuntman which comes in handy with some of the dumb poo poo they do. Kari's a model maker and Grant's an engineer.
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Jun 1, 2013 16:46
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Luigi Thirty posted:Yeah, Tory's a trained stuntman which comes in handy with some of the dumb poo poo they do. Kari's a model maker and Grant's an engineer. In fact he's the only one insured for a lot of poo poo they do, which is why the "lottery" to see who would drive the F1 car was "won" by Tori.
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Jun 1, 2013 16:53
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It also makes the clip of him crashing the bicycle that much funnier.
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Jun 1, 2013 16:56
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Luigi Thirty posted:Yeah, Tory's a trained stuntman which comes in handy with some of the dumb poo poo they do. Kari's a model maker and Grant's an engineer. Tory also worked with Adam and Grant at ILM making models for the Star Wars prequels.
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Jun 1, 2013 17:23
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That's a weird combo of skills. What do you do? I am a model maker for film and a stuntman.
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Jun 1, 2013 17:34
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Grant is one of 3 (or so) people that are allowed to officially control R2D2.
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Jun 1, 2013 17:49
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He was also the alternate for C3PO in the costume when Anthony Daniels wouldn't/couldn't do it.
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Jun 1, 2013 19:08
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Probably one of the funniest Mythbusters facts is that Jamie used to participate in the whole robot fighting thing but his robot was so good at destroying others/dangerous that it was banned. I believe the issue with it was that it caused too many parts to go flying off the other robots.
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Jun 1, 2013 19:20
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Every discovery show about whites guys operating small businesses has a promo where they are walking toward the camera away from a huge fire in the middle of the night.
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Jun 1, 2013 19:55
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muscles like this? posted:Probably one of the funniest Mythbusters facts is that Jamie used to participate in the whole robot fighting thing but his robot was so good at destroying others/dangerous that it was banned. I believe the issue with it was that it caused too many parts to go flying off the other robots. His robot was Blendo. That robot was pretty much the perfect Jamie robot. Simple, worked within the rules at the time, unbeatable. Hell, untouchable.
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Jun 1, 2013 19:58
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I'll never understand Build Team hate. I'd watch Earthquake machine from the season, BTW.
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Jun 1, 2013 20:01
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jscolon2.0 posted:I'll never understand Build Team hate. I'd watch Earthquake machine from the season, BTW. They seem to be needlessly scripted most of the time instead of just presenting what it is that they are doing. Jamie and Adam have scripted moments at certain points, but it really is overbearing with the Build Team.
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Jun 1, 2013 20:13
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ToastyPotato posted:They seem to be needlessly scripted most of the time instead of just presenting what it is that they are doing. Jamie and Adam have scripted moments at certain points, but it really is overbearing with the Build Team. They really just aren't strong enough personalities to pull it off. Jamie excels because he's completely loving deadpan and terrible at scripted segments, but it plays off Adam who has tons of natural enthusiasm. The B team is just, you know, there. Grant was never meant to be in front of a camera, Kari, eh, and Tori throws off Guy Fieri vibes for me. I won't say my dislike of them is rational, though.
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Jun 1, 2013 21:23
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That Guy Fieri comparison is pretty appropriate. The build team really feels like they would be at home on Food Network, TLC, Bravo, etc, while Jamie and Adam seem more in line with the generation of TV personalities they came from, namely Mike Rowe, and Les Stroud.
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Jun 1, 2013 23:08
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Fire Storm posted:If I remember correctly, his robot was just an upside down spinning dish that spun at a very high speed. Anything that touched it got flung far and fast. Blendo was rendered less-than-effective when they migrated from Robot Wars to BattleBots, for a variety of reasons. Don't forget that Grant also had Deadblow in Battlebots, who shows up in Mythbusters from time to time.
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Jun 2, 2013 04:54
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Blendo is such a Jamie name  Also, I can't find a decent video of it inaction. Most footage of the fights was apparently filmed using a potato. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKbE7ocZBHI
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Jun 2, 2013 07:47
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Tim Samaras, his son Paul, and Carl Young from Team Twistex were all killed by a tornado on Friday night. Really sad, especially considering they were the only team on Storm Chasers that was really interested in science. I really always thought it would be Reed. 
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