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HenryJLittlefinger posted:Yeah, the Pythons have kind of disappointed me. I heard somewhere on here recently that Stephen Fry has said some pretty right leaning things too. Old and wealthy... It corrupts the mind into thinking that everyone and everything "new" is bad. Nevermind they made their name by being the new people who pissed off the ruling class and gentry. It's the circle of money
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sharkytm posted:Old and wealthy... It corrupts the mind into thinking that everyone and everything "new" is bad. Nevermind they made their name by being the new people who pissed off the ruling class and gentry. It's the circle of money If I recall Eric Idle is okay, voted Remain for Brexit and even called out John Cleese a couple times for being an rear end
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IIRC Terry Gilliam is still a good dude too but I haven't heard about him in a while now.
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Large Testicles posted:IIRC Terry Gilliam is still a good dude too but I haven't heard about him in a while now. Terry Gilliam is hyper-misogynist trash (look up what he said about #MeToo if you want to be utterly skeeved out). You're thinking of Michael Palin, who is a very sweet and inoffensive man. Cleese is a prat nowadays but it's hard to hate him since he's several million years old and mostly irrelevant. Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Dec 31, 2022 |
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Cleese is weird because the Pythons effectively were the woke crowd in the 60s and 70s and now Cleese is yelling at the woke kids to get off his lawn.
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CommieGIR posted:Cleese is weird because the Pythons effectively were the woke crowd in the 60s and 70s and now Cleese is yelling at the woke kids to get off his lawn. Mind you, that was basically his job amongst the Pythons. He was the vaguely establishment stick-in-the-mud who kept them from going completely buck wild. Also he created Fawlty Towers, which makes up for a lot of sins.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:You're thinking of Michael Palin, who is a very sweet and inoffensive man. Michael Palin is a national treasure, by far the best of the Pythons, along with Eric Idle. The others can go sit in a corner.
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KozmoNaut posted:Michael Palin is a national treasure, by far the best of the Pythons, along with Eric Idle. Which is amusing because for most of his life Eric Idle was known as being the jerk of the bunch. KozmoNaut posted:The others can go sit in a corner. Well, Jones and Chapman can't. Speaking of, it might be a blessing that Douglas Adams croaked when he did because I get the sense he might've gone off the rails in a bad way. Or maybe he would've been super chill and progressive. Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Dec 31, 2022 |
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CommieGIR posted:Cleese is weird because the Pythons effectively were the woke crowd in the 60s and 70s and now Cleese is yelling at the woke kids to get off his lawn. You die a hero or you live long enough to become a villain.
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John Cleese leaned to hard into the character he always played. Pull up John pull up!
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https://www.dw.com/en/germany-nazi-past-continental-tires/a-54719878 OK, not unusual, German companies working with the Nazis.... quote:An especially gruesome part of the report details how Continental's rubber shoe soles were tested at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin. 
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Good christ, this is beyond the pale.
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Holy hell what the gently caress
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kastein posted:Holy hell what the gently caress
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BuckyDoneGun posted:https://www.dw.com/en/germany-nazi-past-continental-tires/a-54719878 God Almighty
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Never again.  To be fair, Continental commissioned the study themselves. These companies are trying to come to grips with their histories and own up to what their predecessors did.
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Well, with Ken Block dead, I don't think we'll need to worry about that BRCC sponsorship anymore. 
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Full Collapse posted:Well, with Ken Block dead, I don't think we'll need to worry about that BRCC sponsorship anymore. Holy poo poo, that sucks. Snowmobile landed on him, I'm guessing? Those things are death machines.
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Riding into hard objects usually gets more people on snowmobiles, ATVs are the rollover killers.
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Nidhg00670000 posted:Riding into hard objects usually gets more people on snowmobiles, ATVs are the rollover killers. I was thinking more of it being a failed stunt jump with the machine coming down on him, but I'm sure you're right. Either way that's tragic. The drummer from Earth, Wind & Fire died too, probably not snowmobile-related though.
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Mister Speaker posted:I was thinking more of it being a failed stunt jump with the machine coming down on him, but I'm sure you're right. Either way that's tragic. Yeah, now that you mention it, if it was some kind of stunt/trick/jump thing and he actually got struck by a moving snowmobile that'll be bad. For some reason, I was thinking more of a regular rollover accident when you mentioned "landed on him".
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Jesus he had just joined Audi and built a UrQuattro with his daughter(?)
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Dying is so inconvenient!!
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Dick Burglar posted:Dying is so inconvenient!! To be fair, I was honestly surprised it didn't happen sooner.
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I know I already said 'snowmobiles are dangerous' but there is something weird about someone who does absurdly dangerous things for a living dying doing... Something else. I guess I don't know how avid a snowboarder Block was, but seems to me rally driving was more his main thing. Maybe it's just reminding me of how shocked I was to hear about Nicky Hayden being killed on a bicycle.
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Mister Speaker posted:Maybe it's just reminding me of how shocked I was to hear about Nicky Hayden being killed on a bicycle. Reminds me of Schumacher’s accident
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Mister Speaker posted:I know I already said 'snowmobiles are dangerous' but there is something weird about someone who does absurdly dangerous things for a living dying doing... Something else. I guess I don't know how avid a snowboarder Block was, but seems to me rally driving was more his main thing. Rallying isnt actually that dangerous, especially with the safety systems in play. Snowboarding and snowmobiles are quite a deal more risky TBH
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CommieGIR posted:To be fair, I was honestly surprised it didn't happen sooner. I am shocked Travis Pastrana has outlived Ken.
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Ok Comboomer posted:Reminds me of Schumacher’s accident Oh drat this too.
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We used to have a rolling death counter for snowmobile deaths on my local tv station. Possibly one of the most dangerous items in motor sports.
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Are those dirtbike conversion kits (with a ski on the forks and a thinner snowmobile belt on the swingarm) any less dangerous? Seems to me I'd much rather drive one of those than a heavy-rear end snowmobile, which was a huge chore the only time I tried it.
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Well, they’re slower, lighter, and more maneuverable, so yeah, they have a few downsides.
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Block was into anything and everything that ripped. I'm a little surprised it wasn't an atv wreck or a boat but not that it wasn't rally or gymkhana. That stuff was way more regulated and had safety oversight. Still lovely though, I still really love watching all his Hoonigan content.
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Nidhg00670000 posted:Yeah, now that you mention it, if it was some kind of stunt/trick/jump thing and he actually got struck by a moving snowmobile that'll be bad. For some reason, I was thinking more of a regular rollover accident when you mentioned "landed on him". iirc, the article i read earlier said that he was riding uphill, and the snowmobile flipped back and came down on him e: it was this article, a bit less detailed than i remembered: https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a42381041/ken-block-dead/ the cops posted:Block was riding on a steep slope in the Mill Hollow area outside Woodland, Utah at around 2:00 p.m. when his snowmobile "upended, landing on top of him," police said. Raluek fucked around with this message at 10:28 on Jan 3, 2023 |
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Mister Speaker posted:I know I already said 'snowmobiles are dangerous' but there is something weird about someone who does absurdly dangerous things for a living dying doing... Something else. I guess I don't know how avid a snowboarder Block was, but seems to me rally driving was more his main thing. That's how I feel about Colin McRae and the helicopter. We've had a lot of snowmobile deaths in Colorado this season as well, although some of that is tour companies just not training the tourists nearly enough. I know some SAR and EMS people and there have been like 4 in the last week I think. I've never ridden one but apparently they are real easy to slide out on or roll because snow is still snow.
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Lots of people get on snowmobiles without having the slightest clue what you should or shouldn't do. People treat them like a toy, they gently caress around and find out. I've been rolled over more than a couple of times, but most of them have been highsiders as opposed to back or front flips. Getting squashed into snow is unpleasant but usually you just leave a man-shaped hole in the snow.
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Nidhg00670000 posted:Lots of people get on snowmobiles without having the slightest clue what you should or shouldn't do. People treat them like a toy, they gently caress around and find out. I've been rolled over more than a couple of times, but most of them have been highsiders as opposed to back or front flips. Getting squashed into snow is unpleasant but usually you just leave a man-shaped hole in the snow. experience and expertise can breed complacency and unreasonable risk-taking, particularly when doing things like operating dangerous machinery/vehicles/etc. not to mention that logging more hours doing anything will increase the likelihood of experiencing an accident, in spite of any learning or skill increase that might happen with practice. Simply put-If you spend more time behind the wheel/fixing escalators/doing surgery/rock climbing/etc, your likelihood of being involved in an accident go up commensurately, simply because more time=more opportunities for accidents to happen, and at least some of those accident causing situations are going to be largely out of your control.
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Yeah if you know the odds of something bad happening are 1%, it’s probably not going to stop you from doing it. But if you do it 100 times, your luck is probably going to run out at some point
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Large Testicles posted:Yeah if you know the odds of something bad happening are 1%, it’s probably not going to stop you from doing it. But if you do it 100 times, your luck is probably going to run out at some point Covid.txt
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