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Random Stranger
Nov 27, 2009



im pooping! posted:

My next door neighbor had a tank with 2 green chromis, a tomato clown and a coral banded shrimp, bought some live rock, and literally 1 day later everything was dead with a hole in its side except the mantis shrimp who had stowed away in the rock and murdered everything by spearing it through the side. Thank god it wasn't the hammer-claw variety which can also break human bones and aquarium glass.

All I can picture is the slasher film sequel to Finding Nemo.

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Phanatic
Mar 13, 2007

Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.
Twofer:

Item 1:
http://nypost.com/2016/12/04/anthony-weiner-is-calling-pals-in-the-restaurant-industry-for-job-leads/

quote:

Anthony Weiner is so desperate for work, he has been dialing up friends in the restaurant industry for advice and job leads, sources said.

Days after the Nov. 8 presidential election, the disgraced former congressman and failed mayoral candidate spoke with a pal at the Hunt & Fish Club, the swanky Times Square meet market, about his future, two sources familiar with the conversation said. “He said . . . he’s ‘looking for whatever’s next,’ ” one source said.

Weiner didn’t inquire about specific openings at the chophouse but asked them to “think of anything, what I could do for my next step.” A master of understatement, Weiner glumly acknowledged, “There’s not a lot that’s necessarily available.”

The source thought Weiner could fill a “back of the house” role — perhaps at brother Jason Weiner’s Bridgehampton-based bistro Almond. Neither Weiner replied to e-mails and calls seeking comment.

Item 2:

The UAZ carrying Castro's ashes broke down during the processional and had to be pushed along the route by some troops:

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


Warm und Fuzzy posted:

On Wednesday a kid live-streamed himself weaving through Providence Traffic. The last thing he does before crashing is pass on the zebra stripes of an off ramp going 115mph.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV16MpaGmQk&t=173s

No one else was hurt, and he'll be araigned next week:

http://patch.com/rhode-island/eastprovidence/watch-video-wednesdays-crash-route-6
Right before the video portion ends, I'm pretty sure you can see the airbags appear.

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

railroad graffiti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8Nx5JZoArU

Elohssa Gib
Aug 30, 2006

Easily Amused

I love the music break for the rock climber.

Rough Lobster
May 27, 2009

Don't be such a squid, bro

I'm pretty sure he can make a few thousand bucks if one of the bigger porn companies are willing to hire him for a novelty vid.

He could also legally change his name to Carlos Danger and try getting work that way.

Chichevache
Feb 17, 2010

One of the funniest posters in GIP.

Just not intentionally.

Rough Lobster posted:

I'm pretty sure he can make a few thousand bucks if one of the bigger porn companies are willing to hire him for a novelty vid.

He could also legally change his name to Carlos Danger and try getting work that way.

Charles Peligrosa

canyoneer
Sep 13, 2005


I only have canyoneyes for you

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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The 2 point conversion was the real schadenfreude of that game.

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


BrianBoitano posted:

I tutor as a side gig. A woman just contacted me.
  • 2 months ago, I asked for your help then stopped responding. That's because I found a guy 1/3 your price
  • The cheaper guy didn't work out and I haven't passed a test all semester
  • My final is on Thursday, can you help me before then?
  • Oh, and are you flexible on your price?

Sorry, lady. This is the end of the semester so I'm booked :shrug:
Prices are flexible, just not in the direction she's hoping for.

evobatman
Jul 30, 2006

it means nothing, but says everything!
Pillbug

Does the missile pull the launcher forwards with it?

Gervasius
Nov 2, 2010



Grimey Drawer

Four Lions was a documentary.

Bobby Digital
Sep 4, 2009

Solice Kirsk posted:

The 2 point conversion was the real schadenfreude of that game.

The Falcons ended up behind after a go-ahead touchdown :getin:

Drunk Driver Dad
Feb 18, 2005

evobatman posted:

Does the missile pull the launcher forwards with it?

I guess so, if you think about it. The missile is self propelled, so the little bit of friction of it in the barrel would try to drag the tube along with it where a gun works by chemical expansion pushing off the chamber/barrel. I don't know anything about missile launchers, I'm guessing here.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

I think that's a recoilless rifle, which is basically a shoulder-fired artillery piece that shoots a heavy reactant mass out the back to cancel out the recoil that the person holding it feels. The mass ejection amounts to a forward thrust. Could be that's what's going on.

Groda
Mar 17, 2005

Hair Elf

Drunk Driver Dad posted:

I guess so, if you think about it. The missile is self propelled, so the little bit of friction of it in the barrel would try to drag the tube along with it where a gun works by chemical expansion pushing off the chamber/barrel. I don't know anything about missile launchers, I'm guessing here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannlicher_M1894

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Gervasius posted:

Four Lions was a documentary.

rip abu hajaar

Warm und Fuzzy
Jun 20, 2006

SLOSifl posted:

Right before the video portion ends, I'm pretty sure you can see the airbags appear.

Which is additional schadenfreude, since he's not wearing a seat belt, which is designed to reduce the relative velocity between your face and the airbag in those first dozen or so milliseconds after the impact.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Sagebrush posted:

I think that's a recoilless rifle, which is basically a shoulder-fired artillery piece that shoots a heavy reactant mass out the back to cancel out the recoil that the person holding it feels. The mass ejection amounts to a forward thrust. Could be that's what's going on.

Might be a faulty launcher that has too much forward thrust and the guy is barely holding onto it, so it falls out of his hands when he fires.

Alien Arcana
Feb 14, 2012

You're related to soup, Admiral.

She's like a reverse Pied Piper.

FCKGW
May 21, 2006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0CJMGUhr5U

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

18 Character Limit
Apr 6, 2007

Screw you, Abed;
I can fix this!
Nap Ghost

This is quality.

midwifecrisis
Jul 5, 2005

oh, have I got some GREAT news for you!


Went to post this, but with the natural audio rather than that music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BhhsEuYXZQ

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7yMZGA2lzg

peepeepants
Oct 9, 2001

I hope that after I die, people will say of me: "That guy sure owed me a lot of money."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtZJ__8PVDU

The best part is the boat's name: Nap Time

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

peepeepants posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtZJ__8PVDU

The best part is the boat's name: Nap Time

I wish on-land accidents worked the same way where the person who hosed up has to stand there and float impotently away from the scene of their crime (while I'm assuming the coast guard gets called on their dumb rear end).

Parts Kit
Jun 9, 2006

durr
i have a hole in my head
durr
You just know the guy was complaining about how they should have been watching where they were going or whatever.

ElGroucho
Nov 1, 2005

We already - What about sticking our middle fingers up... That was insane
Fun Shoe

This would have been me, I motherfucking loved broccoli

Serephina
Nov 8, 2005

恐竜戦隊
ジュウレンジャー

peepeepants posted:

The best part is the boat's name: Nap Time

I once skimmed the give-way rules when my dad was getting his license for a fishing boat, so wtf do I know, but didn't that smaller vessel have right-of-way?

Bogatyr
Jul 20, 2009

Parts Kit posted:

You just know the guy was complaining about how they should have been watching where they were going or whatever.

Wouldn't be surprised. I am no boater but my superficial understanding of right of way was that "Nap time" had right of way if you disregard all the other conditions involved in right of way other than simply direction of travel... Little boat gives way for ferry, because, you know, inertia.

Bloody Hedgehog
Dec 12, 2003

💥💥🤯💥💥
Gotta nuke something

Serephina posted:

I once skimmed the give-way rules when my dad was getting his license for a fishing boat, so wtf do I know, but didn't that smaller vessel have right-of-way?

The boat that has a much more difficult time in turning and slowing down has right of way, regardless of who technically has right of way. Why is why 90% of boat collisions involve assholes at the helm who think that they have right of way, so they're just going to keep going forward and if anything happens it's the other guys fault.

"GLUB GLUB, I'M DROWNING! Thankfully it's not my fault. I win this one! GLUB GLUB!"

18 Character Limit
Apr 6, 2007

Screw you, Abed;
I can fix this!
Nap Ghost
Not all boats are created equal. Expecting a ferry or lake freighter to turn for a cabin cruiser is insane. The rules about approaching based on which side you're on are for boats of the same class.

BOOTY-ADE
Aug 30, 2006

BIG KOOL TELLIN' Y'ALL TO KEEP IT TIGHT

Dillbag posted:

I know a kid who got a jalapeno seed stuck under his foreskin after taking whiz.

Tell him that's now how you make jalapeno poppers

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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18 Character Limit posted:

Not all boats are created equal. Expecting a ferry or lake freighter to turn for a cabin cruiser is insane. The rules about approaching based on which side you're on are for boats of the same class.

I may be wrong, but isn't there a "might = right" rule for ships/boats? Like bigger vessel always has right of way.

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

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Bloody Hedgehog posted:

The boat that has a much more difficult time in turning and slowing down has right of way, regardless of who technically has right of way. Why is why 90% of boat collisions involve assholes at the helm who think that they have right of way, so they're just going to keep going forward and if anything happens it's the other guys fault.

"GLUB GLUB, I'M DROWNING! Thankfully it's not my fault. I win this one! GLUB GLUB!"

I actually remember an old MAD Magazine article about boating (sailing, powerboating, etc) that made this exact observation, via humorous illustrations of the aftermath.

Corollary: in the 1950s MAD Magazine could make an article about boating and it was relatable to the vast bulk of their target audience.

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

The part where the work truck managed to break the windows on two buses at once by being the meat in the sandwich was magical.

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

Roose is loose.
🐓🐓🐓✊🪧


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Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

.

She just wasted like $12 worth of movie popcorn!

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