PrometheusSmith

3289 pts ยท August 17, 2011


>Graham Cahill, 44, punched 25-year-old Toby Cooke once on the hard shoulder of the M1 in Bedfordshire in May last year.

>Cooke, a forklift truck driver, from Luton, Bedfordshire, died in hospital four days later from injuries caused by his head striking the ground.

But yeah, Americans are the only people that kill each other over road rage and getting punched just hurts a little, unless you die.

1 day ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I do love that every suggestion you have is basically blaming her for being a victim, and that she should just let whatever happen with no agency.

1 day ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"we should just let people beat the shit out of anyone with impunity and hope they get caught later" is a fucking hot take, even if you don't take into account the lethality of even a simple fist fight once someone gets hit in the head or falls down, lack of police response time, or a number of other factors.

1 day ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I don't think you really understand how much of a waste that would be for everyone involved. You talk about there being "no oversight" and how she just got away with it, but the police and prosecutors have been investigating this since it happened back in June and just now formally decided that charges cannot be pressed. I'm sure you'll say they've just been sitting on their thumbs all this time, but they took statements, looked at video, and decided that her actions were self defense.

1 day ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Anything that has that distinctive, frequency specific drone of a mosquito that comes from the frequency of their wingbeats. It's basically just mosquitos.

3 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's very easy to find a mosquito from a long distance when using lasers to scan like these do. You know that distinctive, high pitch hum that tells you a mosquito is near? That's the frequency of their wing beats. These detectors use reflected laser light to spot insects and match the pulsations of the wing beats to the insect, then eliminate the matches to that frequency range.

3 weeks ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Get out of here with logic, politics is only about rage!

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Then point to the tire tracks, because the pics are showing the motorcade driving near the middle while the photo of the freshly drained pool shows within a few feet of the edge. All I've seen so far is the topographic-like lines of where the wind switched or pumping was stopped and debris settled on the edge of the waterline. The photos linked have the area that was driven on under water still.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Using the force on the handle to clamp the jaw at an extreme mechanical advantage is exactly how the Knipex Pliers Wrench works. The difference is that the pliers wrench uses more advantage because the full swing of the grip moves the jaw a lot less, so to compensate they made it adjustable. It has enough grip with smooth jaws that I can put my body weight on the handle and not slip.

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/03/07/287335514/border-patrol-to-limit-use-of-deadly-force-against-rock-throwers
Turns out that DHS agents have a habit of putting themselves in front of vehicles in order to justify deadly force

8 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I made a belt out of watches Coral. It was a waist of time. A WAIST OF TIME, CORAL!!!

9 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

JD's mom cooks the driest, most shitty turkey you've ever eaten. People don't just go cook an 18lb turkey randomly because that's too much food. Also, you can get really good smoked turkey at plenty of BBQ restaurants

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

No, but it could be an option for a manufacturing process or machine that may be more prone to accidents.

9 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I suppose that depends on how loud you're willing to go and whether or not they can do a directed sound thingy, like the crowd dispersion sound weapons that police sometimes use when they're out of ammo

9 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I mean, that only works in an ideal world, or in a very special real one. The average margin for grocery store items is about 3%.

10 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

The only thing that makes me think this is real speed is the way the grass is blowing in the foreground. For the level of wind they seem to be experiencing that grass seems right. It's a little tornado so the stuff moving quickly around the funnel is probably accurate. Everything looks so much different in the shot with a big wedge.

10 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Balloon gas. It has been mixed with oxygen and possibly nitrogen to make it safer when I inevitably grab one and start sucking it down to make kids laugh. Looks like it might only be between 60 and 80 percent helium.

11 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Go write this exact same thing on a post when a woman talks about being in an abusive relationship, I dare you.

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

Nah, you'd just need to have a back board that was designed to lift a person from a single point. Four ropes that connect to a single point, similar to what a Coast Guard heli uses. They do similar lifts all the time.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

For more context, that's almost twice the distance from Earth to the Sun. (1 AU is defined as the average distance from Earth to the Sun) When 3I/ATLAS dips within the orbit of Mars, Earth will be almost as far as it can be, on the other side of the sun. It appears that the closest approach will be after that. Wikipedia actually has a neat graphic on the page from Catalina Sky Survey.

1 year ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

It's how they step on the sensitive part of your lap or chest twice in a row, every time!

1 year ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Yep. An ex girlfriend started her dryer with the cat in it, but luckily someone caught it within a few minutes. I always do a head count with my two before I run anything in the laundry.

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Great fishing in Quebec

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Is this the gay agenda that republicans hate so much?

1 year ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

Roommate was in school for nuclear engineering, and doing really, really well at it. Straight A student, barely studied. Put bowls and cups in the dishwasher so they held water. Bitched that it didn't work well.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Devil's advocate time. Pickup was matching the speed of other traffic, judging by him keeping pace with the orange semi. POV semi also didn't dip his nose or appear to slow down from the GPS speedo, despite him having a clear view of the pickup and the lack of a place for him to go. He probably violated the 'last clear chance' doctrine, which means that he may end up being partially liable for the wreck.

1 year ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 6

Doesn't matter what the "road looked like behind him". Maintaining a safe following distance is the responsibility of the drivers behind him. There's also the "last clear chance" doctrine, which says that if you have the right away and are not at fault, but clearly cause an accident anyway, you can be held partially liable. Pickup guy can argue that the semi, who didn't slow down when he saw that pickup was going to be forced to merge, was at least partially at fault.

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Tell that to the used car market in a year

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There's no reason to not pay off high interest debt. Typical credit card rates are in the 26% and up range. No investment is going to beat that.

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Look at how overly sharp the eyes are, especially compared to the background. The fur also moves weird, like the whole kitten is moving independent of the background.

Biggest giveaway though is that nobody is bleeding or getting gnawed on.

1 year ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 1