5,794 Forum Posts by "IllustriousPotentate"
At 7/1/07 12:24 AM, dukemaster4 wrote:At 6/30/07 11:53 PM, IllustriousPotentate wrote:, as well as injuries and deaths, is a good idea.At 6/30/07 11:08 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote:
wow thats kinda 9 years ago dumbass.
Fireworks were the cause of 13 fatalities, 8,500 injuries, 7,000 fires,
and $40 million in property loss in 1998. [Source]
Yeah, you're right. Obviously, the number of injuries and deaths has plummeted.
2006: 11 deaths, 9,200 injuries [Source]
Not a statistically significant change. Dumbass.
At 6/30/07 03:37 PM, simple-but-sandy wrote: Statistically, you are more likely to die from lung cancer from eating a carrot every day than from 30 minutes of passive smoking.
I'd like to see the statistics that say this.
Personally, I think it is a bit over the top. Cigar bars, pubs, etc. should be allowed to get a license to allow smoking, as long as they inform potential employees about the smoke.
As for other workplaces, I'm divided. On one hand, it's the employers building, but on the other hand, I, along with many others with asthma and other breathing problems, shouldn't have to suffer to accommodate someone else's drug addiction.
At 7/1/07 12:15 AM, ForkRobotik wrote: It's insane how your country treats it's youth. No wonder america is such a shithole.
Says the person in the America-wannabe country.
At 6/28/07 06:52 PM, Memorize wrote:At 6/28/07 06:33 PM, SyntheticTacos wrote:bunch of useless jibberishAnd this children is how terrorists win. Because people like synthetictacos believes that those who hack people's heads off deserve good human treatment.
If the people locked up in Guantanamo are terrorists, why not give them a public trial, then lock them up if they are convicted?
That's a good idea, I think.
Having worked at a cash register before, I know how people are. This will make it easier for cashiers. Anybody who buys alcohol, you ID them. No guessing if they're 27 and need to be carded or whatever.
It'll also do away with the line:
"What? I don't look young enough to you to be carded?"
Which, along with "Does this make me look fat?", is one of the few questions for which there are no correct answers.
At 6/30/07 11:08 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote: If private contractors decide to start using fireworks to blow up the base of a building, come talk to me. Otherwise keep your idiotic slippery slope comparisons to yourself.
You can invoke the slippery slope argument all you want. However, no one in this thread can give a valid reason why unlicensed sales of an explosive used only for decoration, yet capable of causing damage, fires, as well as injuries and deaths, is a good idea.
Fireworks were the cause of 13 fatalities, 8,500 injuries, 7,000 fires,
and $40 million in property loss in 1998. [Source]
And the reasons why?
"But fireworks are cool!"
"Stupid people are the ones that cause the injuries."
Those are not valid reasons. C4 may be an extreme comparison, but the fact of the matter is, fireworks are explosives. They are dangerous, they are deadly. There is no reason whatsoever why unlicensed sales of fireworks is a good idea.
It's ridiculous. What logic is there that a private entity should be forced to allow people to use it? And why stop at talk radio? What about newspaper editorials? TV commentary? Why just talk radio, other than the fact that when liberals try to enter talk radio, they tend to fail, like Air America?
"No one wants to listen to our ideas on the radio, huh? Well, then we'll make them!"
I tell you what. I'll support this legislation when and if the Democratic party dedicates 50% of it's TV and radio advertisements, campaign literature, and platform to the Republican viewpoint. After all, it's only fair.
You know what ought to be legalized? C4 explosive. Sure, there's people out there that could get hurt or killed using it, but why should my ability to celebrate the fourth of July by blowing up a massive pile of crap in an enormous explosion be limited by the stupidity of others?
Here's one. I've seen at least a couple of others.
Wouldn't one burn up upon re-entering the earth's atmosphere?
I still like my tongue smilie:
:-Þ
More realistic than :-P.
You can also use :-þ when you want to poke less fun than when using :-Þ.
Of course it is. Soccer and baseball are sports, aren't they?
At 6/27/07 06:14 PM, Sanity-of-Insanity wrote: NASCAR
Non
Athletic
Sport
Created
Around
Rednecks
No I did not make that up some one else did.
Really, congratulations! You managed to find some overused cliche that anyone who talks about the subject of NASCAR, without having the foggiest idea of what they're talking about, bandies about in an attempt to look witty and germane.
"NASCAR? Uhh...what do I have on my floppy drive of a brain that relates to that? Oh yeah, there's that acronym that everybody posts. Let me post it, because no one has ever heard that kind of hilarity before. Oh, I am so clever! Yuk yuk yuk."
At 6/27/07 05:56 PM, Wardawn wrote: Yeah, drivers do have a wide range of "builds", so what? What I'm saying is that the build of driver cannot be compared to the physical standards that football or hockey players must meet.
Neither do track runners, bobsled teams, or swimmers. Does that make them any less of an athlete? Of course not.
Let's all join together and represent the Heard and McDonald Islands. They're uninhabited, so we'll know that anyone clicking for Heard and McDonald is from NG.
At 6/27/07 05:24 PM, Wardawn wrote:
football players? are you joking me? Would you compare Tony Stewart to Brian Urlacher?
No more than I'd compare Morten Andersen to Brian Urlacher.
Football players are bred to crush people by means of physical fitness.
Some of them are, the linebackers, sure.
That is one very silly statement.
I'm not comparing brute strength, or any driver to any given player. Nor am I saying that NASCAR drivers are built for maiming, most athletes aren't. What I am saying is NASCAR, like football, baseball, or other sports, have a range of builds. Not everybody in NASCAR has washboard abs, but then, not everybody in football, or many other sports, do, either.
How many drivers have ever been wrapped up in steroid scandals?
None. True athletes don't need steroids.
At 6/27/07 05:11 PM, Lost-Wisdom wrote: Oh Nascar is such a fun sport! All we do is spin around in a track over and over again.
Oh, track is such a fun sport! All we do is run around over and over again.
Oh, baseball is such a fun sport! All we do is hit and catch balls over and over again.
Oh, basketball is such a fun sport! All we do is toss a ball back and forth over and over again.
Oh, soccer is such a fun sport! All we do is kick a ball over and over again.
Oh, golfing is such a fun sport! All we do is hit a ball over and over again.
Oh, boxing is such a fun sport! All we do is punch each other over and over again.
Etc. Etc.
All sports are repetitive.
At 6/27/07 04:36 PM, Warrickneff wrote: Ah yes, but all of these require physical fitness as in "I go the the gym every day to prepare for my competition because I am at the peak of my personal physical fitness and I cannot miss one day or else" fitness. I highly doubt drivers or even bowlers do this which sort of nullifies your "I'm tired from driving a windy road" argument.
In fact, many do daily strength training and aerobic programs, along with nutritional regimens. If you look at the top drivers in NASCAR, or any other motorsport, you won't see too many fatties. They're in roughly the same shape as any baseball or football team.
I don't doubt that drivers have some nice looking arms and legs, but those crash suits also protect their precious belt of fat.
I look in football, baseball, etc. and can see just as many athletes with "belts of fat".
This is where I would also argue that anyone is physically capable of being a Nascar driver. Reactions in quick situations and driving skill could theoretically be trained into almost anybody. Apart from the handicapped, which I'll leave out of this, the only purely physical requirement to be a Nascar driver is to fit in the driver's side door.
Yes, and pretty much anybody who isn't physically handicapped can throw or kick a ball.
Of which two can be innately trained like driving a car. Endurance and stamina can be developed in every single person unless they have a serious learning disability. Look at what the military and martial arts do to normal people. They turn average loser Joe's out of high school into elite killing machines.
Of course. But the fact that they have to be trained doesn't make them any less of an athlete; all athletes require physical stamina and endurance training to compete at pro level in any sport.
I'm not arguing that only athletes can climb into a race car and make it go fast. It doesn't. You can go to the Richard Petty Experience and see for yourself. But, it doesn't take an athlete to go out and shoot a quick game of hoops, play a game of catch, kick a soccer ball around, or play flag football, either. It does take an athlete to perform on the exact, precise edge required to operate at the professional level of NASCAR, baseball, basketball, soccer, football, etc. Not just any Joe Schmo who takes the stairs instead of the escalators can go win races or even be competitive in NASCAR, no more than they could be quarterback for the New England
If I had a couple hundred million dollars, I think I could make it onto the Nascar circuit or a competitive one at that. In fact, I know that a lot of wealthy entrepeneurs like race in European races. Although their times are not as good, they haven't been racing since day 1 like many of the pros.
Or, they're just not as talented an in as good shape as the pros.
I'll try to come up with a good example. Jeff Gordon is fucking fast and good. Let's just say for fun that he is damn near perfect. So perfect that unless they change the rules and regulations regarding the car (which is a whole other aspect of this argument), that he may never be beaten as long as his brain neurons continue firing normally. We cannot say the same about almost any other sport. Even other "sedentary" sports always have the opportunity of an extreme athlete being faster, stronger and to have a new idea that can revolutionize the game. Ex: dunks in basketball and MJ.
How would this be any different than giving any other competitor an unfair advantage in any other sport? I mean, if you give a team a whiffle bat instead of a wooden bat in a major league game, does the fact that the team with the wooden bat, barring some miraculous event, will win make the game of baseball as it is played any less of a sport?
I feel like I'm forgetting something too....Oh yeah, the pit crew. They are not athletes in the slightest but every single driver says he would not be able to do squat without them. They are integral to the machine that the driver weilds so expertly, but without some nerdy engineer in the background designing a faster turbocharger, this "sport" of yours will remain constant like a hobby and never progress beyond the skill of driving without error, because that's the only time anything remotely interesting happens in car races.
All stick and ball sports, and many others, for that matter, are reliant on equipment. Just because the driver admits he can't do anything without a car, while a batter can't do anything without a bat, also doesn't diminish it's qualification as a sport.
A home run hitter, as much power as he has, cannot walk up to the plate with a shoddy bat or one made out of balsa wood and hit one out of the park. Regardless of whether he publicly recognizes the bat company that makes his bats, without them, he wouldn't be able to succeed. Compare sports equipment for any sport throughout the years, and you will see large scale changes in the equipment. All of these were developed by sports engineers and developers. Just because they're not out in the open like they are in NASCAR doesn't mean they aren't there.
At 6/27/07 04:16 PM, Grammer wrote:At 6/27/07 04:09 PM, IllustriousPotentate wrote: It doesn't matter what you'd take, and besides, you've never driven in a stock car at speed, so you're not qualified to make the assumption.Ok, well, sweat and mental stress is all well and good and all that stuff, but there's no exercise involved. You're driving a car.
There is exercise involved. If you've ever driven a car on a windy mountain road at 45-50 mph, you will realize that there is exercise involved. Your arms and feet will be tired--they don't get that way from lethargy--they get that way from physical exertion. And that's not even driving the car at its practical limits at that speed! Now, triple the speed, quadruple the distance and put the car on the edge of control, and you can't say it's anything but exercise.
At 6/27/07 04:02 PM, cronic-22 wrote: Nascar is boring its for reject drivers like montoya from F1.
And this is how you crash in stlye
These are just as equally stylish.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHOZ2DySk4k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLmhfUm2hUk
Both drivers walked away.
At 6/27/07 03:46 PM, TehChahlesh wrote: 100 Gs?
You're fucking joking.
Yes, in some of the more violent crashes, they have received very high amounts of G forces, and received only minor injuries.
Jeff Gordon experienced 64 G's in this crashed and walked away unhurt:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyMCZbYaasQ
Jeff Fuller received G-forces close to 100 in this crash. He suffered only a broken wrist and pinky.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YEIDLjrQgw
Granted, these are momentary, not-sustained G-forces. But they still experience more G-forces in normal competition weekly than many do in a year.
At 6/27/07 03:48 PM, Grammer wrote: Have you been in a room with no air conditioning in the heat of summer? Hell, I'd take driving in a little circle any day if it wasn't for my inescapable fear of crashes.
It doesn't matter what you'd take, and besides, you've never driven in a stock car at speed, so you're not qualified to make the assumption.
Of course I've been in a room with no air conditioning in the heat of summer. I'm in one right now, in fact. Most everybody has. But it doesn't take physical conditioning to sit in a hot room. Anybody, with the possible exception of people on their deathbed or severe physical conditions can do it and come out uninjured. Nor is it any sort of regulated competition, as far as I'm aware of.
At 6/27/07 03:51 PM, Warrickneff wrote: For me the definition of a sport is slightly different. The physical conditioning part is more defined as being "fit" or "active", rather than sedentary in a motor vehicle.
But plenty of sports are sedentary. Equestrian sports, rowing, luge, bobsled, etc.
With your definition an air-traffic controller is an athlete, although, granted they get A/C.
No, anyone is physically capable of being an air traffic controller. There is no physical training needed.
But air-conditioning is not what should differentiate athletes.
Of course not. Nor did I say it was. Basketball players play in air conditioned arenas, hockey players play on ice. But not everyone has the physical conditioning, endurance, and stamina to play pro basketball or hockey.
At 6/27/07 03:33 PM, l33t-soldier wrote: Make the turn right... THEN we'll see who's the athelete.
They do turn right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wHDuggdVyA&mo de=related&search=
At 6/27/07 03:30 PM, Grammer wrote: Fuck, sitting in a hot room playing video game is mentally and physically draining, but I don't think GTA is a sport.
Yes, it can be draining, but that requires no special physical training. You don't have to hydrate yourself like an athlete, doesn't require conditioning, etc.
Next thing ya know Bowling will be a sport
LOLZ
Bowling is a sport.
NASCAR drivers are athletes. They have to be properly conditioned, hydrated, and have the physical capacity and endurance to compete in temperatures as high as 130 degrees F, while maintaining mental and physical alertness and accurace over long distances while receiving several G's of force normally and approaching 100 G's of force occasionally.
NASCAR (and by extension, all other forms of motor racing), are competitions in which these drivers use their athletic skills to operate cars around a circuit in the hopes of being the first across the finish line.
People using athletic skills in a competition = sport.
Therefore, NASCAR = sport.
Let's see anyone try to debate this.
And if you want to post that
"Non-Athletic-Sport-Centered-Around-Rednecks" cliche, you can take it elsewhere; you're not original, you're not funny, you're just a moron.
It could be worse--you could be this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lentini
You may want to get your back checked, people that have a shorter leg tend to have more back problems.
At 6/27/07 10:32 AM, 1337 wrote: Haha thats awesome, so did you find it out yourself?
No, I found the link to the image pictured on another forum. I did, however, do the detective work to figure out what caused this.
At 6/27/07 10:27 AM, JagAlskirDiG wrote: Wtf i don't get it :s
The Google Street View van, when they captured the images of this street, not only caught a fender-bender on film, but a white car running a grey car out of its lane trying to avoid said fender-bender. Look at all the links in the order posted, and you'll understand.
Google needs to add a horn to its new Street View interface.
There's a minor fender bender in the right hand lane.
Fortunately, everyone's ok. They've gotten out to exchange insurance information.
White car: "Oh no! A wreck in my lane!"
At 6/27/07 03:35 AM, isolatedboy wrote: Are yours better than our buildings? I am Chinese.
http://cache1.club.ppstream.com/topic/10180/1 86094/1.html
Your buildings could be the best in the world for all I care, but at the end of the day I can't be thrown into a gulag for calling "Chairman" Mao a brainless, puppy-raping lunatic.
Allow me to interpret for those who have trouble reading this.
Ok, so I was on the computer in my basement when I heard something. Everyone was asleep, so I thought, "Who cares?" The noise stopped, then a few minutes later it happens again; then I thought "Who cares?" again. A couple minutes later the noise comes back again, so I thought, "Ok this is getting fucking annoying!" I waited around the corner where the noise was coming from, then waited until it came back.
Suddenly, it came back so I turned the corner and lunged myself for no apparent reason, and I heard, "What the FUCK!!!" I missed the person by an inch and hit my head on the wall. The person said, "WHAT THE FUCK! YOU FUCKIN' SCARED THE SHIT OUTTA ME YOU LITTLE PIECE OF SHIT!"
I then realized it was my dad; he got extremely pissed and I replied "Sorry. Jeez, don't get so mad. What are you down here for?" He said (this is funny shit) "To get some cookies downstairs."
I literally laughed so hard, I cried. I told him to take the cookies upstairs and quit annoying me. He said, "Fine, but I was trying to avoid taking them upstairs, so the smell wouldn't wake everybody up." I replied, "They're not gonna wake up to the smell of cookies, that's retarded." He shrugged and took the cookies upstairs, so he wouldn't bother me.
Indeed, I scared the shit out of my dad.
