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The General posted:I've done this once. Borrowed a friends bike, he failed to mention no rear brakes. I was flying down the street and the light changed, no back brakes, so over the handle bars I went. Once the rear tire comes up off the ground, the rear brakes are irrelevant. You would have gone over regardless, unless the bike only had rear brakes.
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captainOrbital posted:Once the rear tire comes up off the ground, the rear brakes are irrelevant. You would have gone over regardless, unless the bike only had rear brakes. Yes but if you have back brakes and you gently use front + back you dont go over. But if you squeeze both and the back brakes do not exist, you go over the front.
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Picnic Princess posted:I was in Port Douglas, Australia, staying at a hostel that had free bikes to use, but they weren't kept in good shape so none of them had brakes. I took one anyway because it's quite flat there and I was able to stop with my feet if I didn't go too fast. Until I turned onto one street that had a slight slope downwards, and I gained too much speed to stop with my feet. I was headed for a busy intersection and needed to stop. I went up into the grass, hoping that would slow me down enough. It didn't, so I made the decision to run into a tree. Didn't get hurt but the back wheel lifted up quite far on impact. I was surprised I kept my face from slamming into the trunk too. obeying direct orders even on vacation
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bows1 posted:Yes but if you have back brakes and you gently use front + back you dont go over. But if you squeeze both and the back brakes do not exist, you go over the front. If you squeeze the font brake hard enough, and don't adjust by moving your weight far enough back, the rear brakes become an adornment. The rear brakes will help you slow down, but as the weight shifts forward they become less and less useful. I've made the front tire skid before. Not having rear brakes won't make the bike prone to throwing you over the bars. You just have to adjust how much pressure you use on the front brakes and where your weight is centered.
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Sergio Jiminez posted:This guys Kick the door is me! Haha http://blackflag.jalopnik.com/watch-a-racecar-driver-desperately-try-kicking-a-faulty-1796109079
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Sergio Jiminez posted:http://blackflag.jalopnik.com/watch-a-racecar-driver-desperately-try-kicking-a-faulty-1796109079 
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Wait that kid diddlin' priest is 76 and at the age of retirement? What am I missing here? Sounds to me like he got away with diddling kids, getting punishment at such an advanced age is such a cop-out. Like who cares at that point? The dude who's roughly four years from death and raped tons of kids probably doesn't mind. I'm glad it's getting attention and he should certainly be prosecuted even now but I don't feel so great about this outcome, personally...
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It's as much about sending the message that it doesn't loving matter how old you are, Child Diddlin' Is Not Okay, as it is about him. It's why they still went after old men for being former Nazis even decades after the fact.
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Yeah I get that. It still bums me out that he got away with it for decades. But progress is progress
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"Microsoft" Scam Callers Arrested After Years of Terrorising the Technically Challenged Those shameless scammers that cold-call people pretending to be from Microsoft and demanding money after walking users through supposed problems with their computers? They're going down, it seems, with four people arrested in the UK for enabling the rip-off. City of London Police and Microsoft, the real Microsoft, have been working together for two years to trace the operators of the scheme, with the four people -- two from Woking and two from South Shields -- arrested on suspicion of fraud. Although the calls were found to originate from India, the investigators found that the scam was allegedly being run out of the UK, with the poor overseas callers working from scripts and, presumably, not really aware they're doing anything hugely wrong. http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/06/microsoft-scam-callers-arrested-after-years-of-terrorising-the-technically-challenged/
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Lime Tonics posted:"Microsoft" Scam Callers Arrested After Years of Terrorising the Technically Challenged I sure am glad that nobody else will start doing that.
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Ooooohquote:Millions of Americans rely on protections and coverage from the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. The Republicans new bill will gut these protections and many will die. http://mailmetothegop.com/
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Picnic Princess posted:I was in Port Douglas, Australia, staying at a hostel that had free bikes to use, but they weren't kept in good shape so none of them had brakes. I took one anyway because it's quite flat there and I was able to stop with my feet if I didn't go too fast. Until I turned onto one street that had a slight slope downwards, and I gained too much speed to stop with my feet. I was headed for a busy intersection and needed to stop. I went up into the grass, hoping that would slow me down enough. It didn't, so I made the decision to run into a tree. Didn't get hurt but the back wheel lifted up quite far on impact. I was surprised I kept my face from slamming into the trunk too. That's when you do this  Pussy.
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KingSlime posted:Yeah I get that. It still bums me out that he got away with it for decades. the mere fact that catholics worldwide didn't give up on catholocism after the whole scandal really started to unravel and that it was plainly obvious that the entire church organization participated in this poo poo...is amazing to me
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BraveUlysses posted:the mere fact that Catholics worldwide didn't give up on Catholicism after the whole scandal really started to unravel and that it was plainly obvious that the entire church organization participated in this poo poo...is amazing to me Never underestimate the human capacity for willful ignorance.
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The Pope blessed Nazi troops during WWII and that didn't seem to dissuade anyone 
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wwhy driver is piss. why driver is piss #brasiliano
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Spectral Debt posted:Looks staged It is.
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The Something Awful Forums > Main > Post Your Favorite (or Request): Coldly Compiled Lists > Schadenfreude: Today is funny, but in the moment i was very piss!
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BraveUlysses posted:the mere fact that catholics worldwide didn't give up on catholocism after the whole scandal really started to unravel and that it was plainly obvious that the entire church organization participated in this poo poo...is amazing to me People are very good at holding on to their identities through thick and thin, no matter and in times emboldened by opposing pressure
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'Performance-enhancing' drug that cost Lance Armstrong his seven Tour de France titles doesn't work, finds study 'It’s just tragic ... to lose seven yellow jerseys for a drug that has no effect' http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...y-a7816181.html
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BraveUlysses posted:the mere fact that catholics worldwide didn't give up on catholocism after the whole scandal really started to unravel and that it was plainly obvious that the entire church organization participated in this poo poo...is amazing to me My mum did. God bless her.
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Lime Tonics posted:'Performance-enhancing' drug that cost Lance Armstrong his seven Tour de France titles doesn't work, finds study 
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chitoryu12 posted:It's been beat for a while. Current mass produced winner is .500 S&W Magnum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMkiDguYtGw Someone has made a breech loading single shot pistol that fires the .50BMG round, because freedom and because 'murica 
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grumplestiltzkin posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMkiDguYtGw There's an incredible number of holes in that tin roof.
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I care gently caress all about fighting sports... but I'll admit that was impressive. Jesus.
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Remember that WannaCry ransomware attack from last may? Afterwards the company I work for pushed out an internal memo telling all employees not to worry and that such attack could never hit us. And then they got hit by NotPetya last Tuesday. I had a couple of days off so I didn't pay that much attention to it. But when I arrived at work this morning I was greeted by the cheerful message that production wasn't affected that badly and that the lines could still run the last few days. But supplies will run out Monday and we'll probably have to stop production Sunday because no one can open the doors of the warehouses the finished products are supposed to go to. The IT department never applied the goddamned patches for the EternalBlue exploit to all the vulnerable machines. Apparently the US based corporate headquarters was still working the costs before they would give the go ahead to apply those upgrades. When I informed about the status of their backups, the questioned IT-goon gave me a thousand yard stare, mumbled something incomprehensible and quickly walked away. Currently the crisis team's best guess is that critical stuff will be fixed in two weeks. This is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. 
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Bobby Digital posted:Shoulda looked sooner 
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Bobby Digital posted:Shoulda looked sooner 
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