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Harry_Potato
May 21, 2021

How are you recording me at work?

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deoju
Jul 11, 2004

All the pieces matter.
Nap Ghost
:lol:

McGavin
Sep 18, 2012

https://i.imgur.com/ydARoZH.mp4

GoonGPT
May 26, 2006

Posting for a better future, today!
Holy Jesus

Grey Cat
Jun 3, 2023

Doing stuff and things


I almost ran over a guy's head once and it was absolutely mortifying. I felt like dogshit for a couple days after. This video makes me feel it.

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?

a valuable lesson about staying in the lane and off the shoulder

Sentient Data
Aug 31, 2011

My molecule scrambler ray will disintegrate your armor with one blow!
Not every country has the same bike laws and culture, and about 95% of them suck. Next derail!

Groda
Mar 17, 2005

Hair Elf

Never even puts down her phone

BrotherJayne
Nov 28, 2019


We had to watch a safety video to use the machine shop solo at my college, highlights included a dude getting sucked into a sheet metal roller, and some dude getting slipped into a lathe and turned into bloody spaghetti

Couple of people changed their mind, but I deffo ended up mega careful about that poo poo

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


Cable Guy posted:

A few years back my local newspaper had a book promotion where you could buy a book with the paper for a couple of bucks. Overall they were a pretty good selection, but one of them was Dan Brown's 'Digital Fortress'. I'd read 'The Da Vinci Code' and recognised it for what it was - a delightful little fancy largely made up of elements plagiarized from New Age works of "non fiction", some of which I had also read.

But nothing could prepare me for the sheer entertainment I got from reading the passage in Fortress where they're trying to track the bad computer guys using a 'ping' command over the network and it {paraphrasing) "echoes audibly round the chamber..."

Yep, that was quite possibly the most hilarious thing I'd ever read... I think I was still chuckling when I went to sleep that night.

Never ended up finishing the book though. Didn't have to, because nothing was going to top that laugh.

You are 100% missing out on finishing it.

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat
What did the pong come back, bouncing across the floor as a spherical styrofoam packet of gas?

weg
Jun 6, 2006

Reassisted Retrogression

Grey Cat posted:

I almost ran over a guy's head once and it was absolutely mortifying. I felt like dogshit for a couple days after. This video makes me feel it.

I hit (bumped?) a kid with my car once. Driving though a residential area in St Pete, right lane was had come to a stop and I'm moving in the left lane at about 25-30. All of a sudden a kid about 13yo comes running out directly in front of me from in-between two stopped cars in the right lane. I jammed the brakes and slid to a stop and he kind of fell onto the hood. Maybe going 5mph when he touched the car. He got his balance back and just took off sprinting into the neighborhood, with the couple dozen kids on the nearby basketball courtvyelling various equivalents of "yo wtf" and laughing at him. I got out and called after him to see if he was ok but he was down the block and gone and didn't look back.

I knew it wasn't my fault but it hosed me up for the rest of the day. He's lucky I wasn't on my phone and driving a Miata instead of a pickup or something else large.

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat
If you had gone faster you would have missed him.

TontoCorazon
Aug 18, 2007


Grey Cat posted:

I almost ran over a guy's head once and it was absolutely mortifying. I felt like dogshit for a couple days after. This video makes me feel it.

It's OK, you'll get him next time

Slugworth
Feb 18, 2001

If two grown men can't make a pervert happy for a few minutes in order to watch a film about zombies, then maybe we should all just move to Iran!

Perestroika posted:

Sometimes you just gotta make sure your landing gear is still up to the task.

https://i.imgur.com/cqKeCWc.mp4
Well there's your problem, your props keep randomly changing speed and direction.

Grey Cat
Jun 3, 2023

Doing stuff and things


TontoCorazon posted:

It's OK, you'll get him next time

The one that got away.

CarForumPoster
Jun 26, 2013

⚡POWER⚡

Grey Cat posted:

I almost ran over a guy's head once and it was absolutely mortifying. I felt like dogshit for a couple days after. This video makes me feel it.

I mean this in a friend way but maybe the “violent accidents” threads aren’t a place to hang out.

I don’t hang out in the “pictures of people face down in a small body of water” threads for similar reasons.

spechtie
Feb 24, 2024

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sc2135WrPV1qigfjt.mp4

Grey Cat
Jun 3, 2023

Doing stuff and things


CarForumPoster posted:

I mean this in a friend way but maybe the “violent accidents” threads aren’t a place to hang out.

I don’t hang out in the “pictures of people face down in a small body of water” threads for similar reasons.

Is there such a thread? That sounds loving awful and I wouldn't blame you. I appreciate the thought but it's okay, nothing happened he was fine. There's definitely threads I dont hang out in for awful reasons too so I get it.

I'll even share the story. I was driving/crawling through a construction zone at a couple mph and I saw a guy using a jackhammer, he was positioned sorta weird, almost crouching and using the hammer at a shallow angle. He was really close to the coned lane I was in and I actually thought to myself, "Hope he doesn't fall over into my lane." Well he did, he fell backwards right under my front right tire. I slammed on the breaks, thought for sure I'd killed him. Just sat there mortified until his buddies picked him up and he waved me off like nothing happened. Probably a little banged up from hitting the asphalt bit otherwise fine.

E: I guess I get what you mean now, typing that out is anxiety inducing even a decade later. Being proactive to stress is smart but I'm very dumb there.

Grey Cat fucked around with this message at 13:59 on Apr 17, 2024

CarForumPoster
Jun 26, 2013

⚡POWER⚡

Grey Cat posted:

Is there such a thread? That sounds loving awful and I wouldn't blame you. I appreciate the thought but it's okay, nothing happened he was fine. There's definitely threads I dont hang out in for awful reasons too so I get it.

I'll even share the story. I was driving/crawling through a construction zone at a couple mph and I saw a guy using a jackhammer, he was positioned sorta weird, almost crouching and using the hammer at a shallow angle. He was really close to the coned lane I was in and I actually thought to myself, "Hope he doesn't fall over into my lane." Well he did, he fell backwards right under my front right tire. I slammed on the breaks, thought for sure I'd killed him. Just sat there mortified until his buddies picked him up and he waved me off like nothing happened. Probably a little banged up from hitting the asphalt bit otherwise fine.

E: I guess I get what you mean now, typing that out is anxiety inducing even a decade later. Being proactive to stress is smart but I'm very dumb there.

I’m not aware of any drowned people threads, I once almost drowned by getting an asthma attack for the first time while swimming in a spring (aka a bottomless pit of water). Friends saved my life. Now I don’t swim in springs or in water where I can’t see the bottom. Avoiding PTSD triggers is a cool and good thing. People get hit by vehicles a lot ITT.

PittTheElder
Feb 13, 2012

:geno: Yes, it's like a lava lamp.

weg posted:

I hit (bumped?) a kid with my car once. Driving though a residential area in St Pete, right lane had come to a stop and I'm moving in the left lane at about 25-30... it wasn't my fault...

:thunk:

Issaries
Sep 15, 2008

"Negotiations were going well. They were very impressed by my hat." -Issaries the Concilliator"

They didn't do it!
It was the meddling kid and the other cars following the road rules, that are to blame.

Collateral Damage
Jun 13, 2009

This is what they call alcohol abuse.

The Alchemist
Dec 12, 2010
Probation
Can't post for 3 days!

Thats not how you shotgun a beer

Haystack
Jan 23, 2005





*Ice T voice* the kids are calling it taking a kamehameha

weg
Jun 6, 2006

Reassisted Retrogression

Pretty sure someone sprinting into moving traffic isn't the fault of the traffic but what do I know? There was a crosswalk with a signal less than a block away but who has time for that?

PittTheElder
Feb 13, 2012

:geno: Yes, it's like a lava lamp.

"This right lane seems to have stopped for some reason, sure makes it hard to see over there, I wonder if they see something I don't? Oh well I'll just keep driving at full speed it's fine"

now we can quibble over what full speed is because god knows American roads are idiotically engineered and speed limited, but 65 kph in a residential area is already pretty loving excessive, use some caution bro.

Issaries
Sep 15, 2008

"Negotiations were going well. They were very impressed by my hat." -Issaries the Concilliator"

weg posted:

Pretty sure someone sprinting into moving traffic isn't the fault of the traffic but what do I know? There was a crosswalk with a signal less than a block away but who has time for that?

You literally almost murdered a kid.

I don't know how Americans do it, but here if cars in one lane are stopped for any reason and I mean any, you must stop too and check is it safe to pass.

corgski
Feb 6, 2007

Silly goose, you're here forever.

Issaries posted:

You literally almost murdered a kid.

I don't know how Americans do it, but here if cars in one lane are stopped for any reason and I mean any, you must stop too and check is it safe to pass.

Chill, lmao. First, that would never fly in the land of double parking. Second, if a whole line of cars are stopped in the lane next to you you're still pulling up to the front.

DR FRASIER KRANG
Feb 4, 2005

"Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Issaries posted:

You literally almost murdered a kid.

I don't know how Americans do it, but here if cars in one lane are stopped for any reason and I mean any, you must stop too and check is it safe to pass.

Are you stopping your car and getting out to look? Good way to get hit by a car.

corgski
Feb 6, 2007

Silly goose, you're here forever.

The sort of person who blocks both lanes two miles before the merge point because driving is a sport and they're in it to win it.

can i replace a bad derail with a worse one? let's find out!

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

corgski posted:

The sort of person who blocks both lanes two miles before the merge point because driving is a sport and they're in it to win it.

can i replace a bad derail with a worse one? let's find out!

Zipper merging is the car version of the plane on a treadmill problem. It just destroys people's sanity.

weg
Jun 6, 2006

Reassisted Retrogression

corgski posted:

The sort of person who blocks both lanes two miles before the merge point because driving is a sport and they're in it to win it.

can i replace a bad derail with a worse one? let's find out!

I hope that you can.

I was going to type out a bunch more boring stuff to explain the situation but no one cares and I know I did nothing wrong.

Explosionface
May 30, 2011

We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.


weg posted:

I hope that you can.

I was going to type out a bunch more boring stuff to explain the situation but no one cares and I know I did nothing wrong.

I'm guessing you had two lanes of traffic in the same direction

Scholtz
Aug 24, 2007

Zorchin' some Flemoids

Xakura posted:

Probably not a submarine, by the fact that it's active at all.

Commenter claims it to be a Arleigh Burke or Ticonderoga, based on the sound.

I seriously doubt a pencil could make that much noise

wesleywillis
Dec 30, 2016

SUCK A MALE CAMEL'S DICK WITH MIRACLE WHIP!!

weg posted:

Pretty sure someone sprinting into moving traffic isn't the fault of the traffic but what do I know? There was a crosswalk with a signal less than a block away but who has time for that?

Nah bro. According to gbs, pedestrians have/should have the right of way at all times. They should ge able to just walk in to any road regardless of how busy at any time, cross in any direction from anywhere at any time and if they get hit its the driver's fault because the drivers have small dicks, giant cavernous vaginas and are killing the earth with their pollution mobiles. Pedestrians are however, morally superior for not killing the earth, have giant dongs or very tight and agile vaginas.

Take that automo-assholes!!!

Issaries
Sep 15, 2008

"Negotiations were going well. They were very impressed by my hat." -Issaries the Concilliator"
Here we go again.

Lets assume you don't care about the kid.
What if the car on the next lane stopped, because they spotted a huge mammal heading to the road?
Collision with a Moose, Cow, Horse, Bison or an Elephant will gently caress up your car. Maybe you and/or your family too.

That's why you should have stopped. Because a stopped car on road is usually a sign that something might be wrong.

Edit: Or go for another hazard. Maybe they spotted expanding sinkhole. Or they spotted another cargo ship heading straight toward the bridge you're about to cross.

Issaries fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Apr 17, 2024

AFewBricksShy
Jun 19, 2003

of a full load.



One car stopped on a road might be indicative that there's something going on. A line of traffic, say like possibly stopped at a light, but the next lane hasn't filled up yet, is not necessarily something to slam on the brakes for. It is still a good idea that you should be cautious, which it sounds like the original poster was, as he didn't end up killing the kid. (I'm picturing this as a 4 lane road in my head, for what it's worth. I believe you have pictured it as he's going into the other lane of a 2 lane road, in which case I would agree with you.)

KoRMaK
Jul 31, 2012



wesleywillis posted:

Nah bro. According to gbs, pedestrians have/should have the right of way at all times. They should ge able to just walk in to any road regardless of how busy at any time, cross in any direction from anywhere at any time and if they get hit its the driver's fault because the drivers have small dicks, giant cavernous vaginas and are killing the earth with their pollution mobiles. Pedestrians are however, morally superior for not killing the earth, have giant dongs or very tight and agile vaginas.

Take that automo-assholes!!!
unironically, return the streets to the people so we may suck and gently caress in them

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McGavin
Sep 18, 2012

Archaeologist OSHA:

https://i.imgur.com/jsYXA4S.mp4

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