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what's the name for that thing people do when they try to go for a dive but they go all flat and are basically ultra slapped by gravity and water?
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A belly flop?
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AlphaKretin posted:So do these things actually hover or are they mopeds without the handlebars? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDNgmdGMpuY
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StarMinstrel posted:Is the road slippery or is the car being pulled toward the Tornado by it? yes
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StarMinstrel posted:Is the road slippery or is the car being pulled toward the Tornado by it? it looks like they dont even apply his brakes until theyre right next to the tornado
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Dec 27, 2015 03:58
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Birb Katter posted:You should move to a backwater country like Australia where you'd get the poo poo kicked out of you for using one. I've seen two, both in shopping centres at night  One guy was crossing at the lights after presumably shopping and I had to stop and watch just to see if he fell head first into traffic so I could laugh at him. Sadly, he did not. trickybiscuits posted:Push them and then deny it. Come up behind them and press down on the edge of the board causing it to fly out from under them - then yell at them for riding those stupid things in a public place.
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Dec 27, 2015 04:41
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Gorilla Salad posted:Come up behind them and press down on the edge of the board causing it to fly out from under them - then yell at them for riding those stupid things in a public place. Or leave them alone because you are not the focal point of existence and it doesn't have anything to do with you. You would know this were you not all filthy millennial bastards
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titties posted:Or leave them alone because you are not the focal point of existence and it doesn't have anything to do with you. You would know this were you not all filthy millennial bastards We were laughing at skateboarders before you were born, whats a VHS
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Ozz81 posted:Someone basically looked at a Segway and said "hey, let's make it worse by removing the handles and gyroscope, then sell it to boneheads" This happens everytime, and it is painfully stupid. These things are like cell phones in how they will be perceived and accepted by the general public, they look incredibly stupid and useless from a far, but once you ride one around you realize "oh hey, neat!" The vitriol from afar is so bizarre, but this is SA and pyf - the most curmudgeony subforum in the whole system. http://i.imgur.com/BH1ZXo2.gifv KoRMaK has a new favorite as of 08:00 on Dec 27, 2015 |
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Dec 27, 2015 07:39
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You don't ride a cell phone. That's dumb.
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Dec 27, 2015 07:54
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KoRMaK posted:This happens everytime, and it is painfully stupid. These things are like cell phones in how they will be perceived and accepted by the general public, they look incredibly stupid and useless from a far, but once you ride one around you realize "oh hey, neat!" Oh man, that reminds me of some prime retrospect schaden.
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http://i.imgur.com/ahh4kOw.webm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWv_9BrwLik  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBofxHr8dms quote:This fun scooter turned out to be too hot to handle. KoRMaK has a new favorite as of 08:05 on Dec 27, 2015 |
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Dec 27, 2015 08:02
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KoRMaK posted:??? The only way the thing works is with a gyroscope A cell phone offers several advantages over yelling real loud so your friend can hear you. What advantages do these dumb hover boards offer over walking kinda fast?
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Dec 27, 2015 10:43
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Slime posted:A cell phone offers several advantages over yelling real loud so your friend can hear you. What advantages do these dumb hover boards offer over walking kinda fast? To not walk at all?
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Dec 27, 2015 10:47
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Horrible Smutbeast posted:To not walk at all? If it's far enough that walking is impractical, get in your car. If you find there's middle ground either you're too worried about fuel efficiency (in which case you're probably accustomed to walking this distances anyway) or you're lazy. In any case, it's not even remotely comparable to mobile phones, especially since bikes, scooters, Segways and whatever the gently caress else already exist.
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Dec 27, 2015 11:02
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"The Americans may have need of this 'telephone', but we do not. England has messenger boys enough."
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We already know the future of personal short-distance transportation, and it's Rascal scooters.
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its a fine tradition that whenever something most people think is a cool/fun novelty gets popular, goons start pissing their pants at how much they hate it.
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1928 - The Some Such Thing is Patently Orful Letter Writing Group 23Skidoo - "I say old bean, have you heard of this bloody rot about Penicillin?" Archpuke Franz Birdinthehand - "GHASTLY! Some sort of medicant, supposedly kills internal parasites!" 23Skidoo - "Bah, all these young whippersnappers! Thinking they can cure their bodily ailments with a simple injection. Why, as if leeches and a stiff upper lip weren't natures cure already!"
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But I mean, again, these stupid things aren't the first, fastest, or easiest to use product of its kind. Even if people are so lazy that "replacement for walking" is a product on par with loving mobile phones, that niche has already been filled by plenty of products that don't result in a page of crash pictures in this thread. Please tell me that me reading posts here as advocating these things is a gross misreading. Or else that the posts saying so are trolling and I'm just a fool. E: Somfin posted:Something Awful users choose to post in forums in the year 2015- we're mild luddites by nature. This is exactly the sort of comment I mean, the tone of others sounds like "oh you just hate them because  goons, hover boards are totally the next phone".
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AlphaKretin posted:But I mean, again, these stupid things aren't the first, fastest, or easiest to use product of its kind. Even if people are so lazy that "replacement for walking" is a product on par with loving mobile phones, that niche has already been filled by plenty of products that don't result in a page of crash pictures in this thread. Please tell me that me reading posts here as advocating these things is a gross misreading. Or else that the posts saying so are trolling and I'm just a fool. Something Awful users choose to post in forums in the year 2015- we're mild luddites by nature.
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I'd say it's like a unicycle (a fail army favourite) vs a bike. It unnecessarily dangerous and just a gimmick.
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Therefore it has no place in the world and must be eradicated, along with everyone who has less than absolute contempt for it!
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:1928 - The Some Such Thing is Patently Orful Letter Writing Group People have made a habit of making GBS threads on newfangled contraptions which turned out to be revolutionary inventions which would change the world for several thousand years now and providing some tasty schadenfreude for us here in the future. quote:What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches? quote:The abolishment of pain in surgery is a chimera. It is absurd to go on seeking it... Knife and pain are two words in surgery that must forever be associated in the consciousness of the patient. quote:This `telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a practical form of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. quote:There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
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I see hoverboards all the time in Korea. They're a fun way to get around that doesn't include dying in a moped/motorcycle accident or having to store a bike. They also allow people to travel farther to shop during short breaks during school or work. Some businesses put a pretty lady on one for advertising downtown, or for cheaper, quicker deliveries to near-by locations. I derive schadenfreude watching people get angry at gadgets they don't have to buy.
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Gonna go on a limb and say maybe the only thing revolutionary about a motorized skateboard would be the doors to the Hospital reception.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:People have made a habit of making GBS threads on newfangled contraptions which turned out to be revolutionary inventions which would change the world for several thousand years now and providing some tasty schadenfreude for us here in the future. The best one, for me, is doctors who literally believed their hands didn't have germs on it since they were so much closer to God, therefor they didn't have to wash their hands. Or sterilize anything. Absolutely amazing that something as simple as having clean hands or gloves for a surgery was resisted for so many years because of some stupid belief.
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Horrible Smutbeast posted:The best one, for me, is doctors who literally believed their hands didn't have germs on it since they were so much closer to God, therefor they didn't have to wash their hands. Or sterilize anything. Absolutely amazing that something as simple as having clean hands or gloves for a surgery was resisted for so many years because of some stupid belief. Someone will be saying something similar someday about guns in america. ... someday. 
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How the hell did you guys managed to create two pages of conversation over a silly entertainment toy? It has no purpose but to be fun, like most poo poo that people buy.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Someone will be saying something similar someday about guns in america. They'll only get rid of guns in America when they replace them with cooler, deadlier HyperGuns. Lightweight, concealable, smart ammunition that can snipe through slabs of concrete and pop a tango's brainmeat...hell fuckin yeah!!!!!
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lol that goons are treating a gimmick toy fad as some technological revolution. Wonder how many of you have stock in the company. Hey guys, there's this new device out, called a Tamagotchi! They're pets without all the mess or medical bills, they're totally going to usher in a new era. Flesh-and-blood animal pets will be a thing of the past, in ten years everybody will own a Tamagotchi. The name Bandai will be spoken in the same breath as Edison and Pasteur. Anybody who thinks otherwise is just angry at technological advancement 
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You're all being loving pathetic about this and I hope you're all involved in a hoverboard battery explosion. Some personal schadenfreude I thought I'd share. One of my "friends" (read, person I went to school with and only keep on Facebook for moments like this) proposed to his girlfriend on Christmas Day. Aww. Unfortunately, she didn't want to be proposed to on Christmas Day because she thought it was embarrassing - and had told him this to try and prevent him from proposing on Christmas Day - and after a very long fight they have apparently split up. Serves you right for not listening to her, fucker!
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I'm going to start a company that makes an integrated hoverboard, cell phone, and sex toy. Checkmate, goons!
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:I'm going to start a company that makes an integrated hoverboard, cell phone, and sex toy. Checkmate, goons! So when you fall on it, it penetrates you and dials 911?
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Roro posted:You're all being loving pathetic about this and I hope you're all involved in a hoverboard battery explosion. Being proposed to on Christmas/Christmas Eve just seems so stressful. You're already dealing with family and presents and travel and money and making everyone happy that you won't get time to bask in your engagement and instead you get to shuffle around telling everyone ten minutes before thanking grandma for getting you slippers that aren't your size. I said this to some friends of mine a few years ago and that Christmas Eve, my brother proposed to his now wife. Eeesh.
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I see we're all picking sides in The Hoverboard Wars. I'm hiding a stash of textbooks in the hope that civilization can be rebuilt from the ashes. May God forgive us all.
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Good lord, you can think the hoverboards are stupid without being a luddite. Because seriously, they're loving stupid and dangerous. If you want to get around easily and not constantly be at risk of falling and killing yourself, make one of these: 
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I think hoverboards are good because they're a new way for people to fall and hurt themselves, and since they're given as gifts, they're more likely to result in videos that I can watch in this thread. I can appreciate them as an innovation in schadenfreude without declaring where they fall on the iPhone-custom falcon perch spectrum.
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Gorilla Salad posted:Good lord, you can think the hoverboards are stupid without being a luddite. Because seriously, they're loving stupid and dangerous. Oh yeah, a motor slapped on teeny tiny wheels that were not made for motorized speeds on a child's toy looks really safe.
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Gorilla Salad posted:Good lord, you can think the hoverboards are stupid without being a luddite. Because seriously, they're loving stupid and dangerous. The irony in this post is that, years ago, the Razor-style mini-scooters were also crazy-popular holiday gifts, and also caused shitloads of injuries and falls when people got out and used them for the first time: Example: http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2001-11-21/news/0111210139_1_riding-scooters-toys-toy-related-injuries Obviously, scooters had been around forever but the razors were way more unstable as they were initially hyped for tricks and whatnot. Nowadays they seem pretty ubiquitous for kids. fake edit: 
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