Internet memotivationally epic fails

[Sad, little man]

Can't help but post this as it frames my distaste for sports perfectly.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/sports.png

[thesameguy]

:lol:

[Denetti]

I think this goes here: A Whole Bunch Of People Threw Boiling Water In The Air To Watch It Freeze And Burned Themselves (http://www.buzzfeed.com/adriancarrasquillo/a-whole-bunch-of-people-threw-boiling-water-in-the-air-to-wa)

[Freude am Fahren]

Those people would probably piss into the wind too...

[Kchrpm]

I'm sure it's a fun little experiment, but you need to do it carefully.

[Reverend Jim]

Those people would probably piss into the wind too...

Who wouldn't ? It's invigorating and zesty

[overpowered]

http://i.imgur.com/CtWA2I1.png

[Jason]

Fuck you, Californians.

[FaultyMario]

aren't you a Diegueno?

anyway, epic fail:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BaRlHE5CUAAvR90.jpg:large

[overpowered]

He's a former Californian. Last I remember, he was in D.C.

I love not freezing.

[overpowered]

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/19bm94ui3v59fpng/ku-xlarge.png

[Freude am Fahren]

:rolleyes:

[JSGeneral]

89

[Kchrpm]

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/photos.png

[Crazed_Insanity]

I threw a cup of cold water into the air today and saw it evaporate! Yeah, right. :lol:

Actually, it IS quite cold this morning. Right now it's only 49 degrees and will only reach a high of 70 degrees. T-shirt is only good during lunch time. I need to wear long sleeve shirts lately. :p

Regarding autism..., could it just be that doctors in the past didn't know how to diagnose them before?

[Sad, little man]

The real question is, if they made an autism vaccine, would giving it to kids cause autism? :eek:

[overpowered]

https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/3487_560473710711113_368420683_n.jpg

[Sad, little man]

Fallacy Man

http://gtxforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=108&d=1389231739
http://gtxforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=107&d=1389231254

108

107

[Sad, little man]

Death by wedgie. I'm not making up and/or embellishing this. :twitch:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cops-man-killed-stepfather-with-atomic-wedgie/

[21Kid]

:erm: Whoa!

[overpowered]

That's fucked up.

[Freude am Fahren]

But still Pretty funny.

Man, I've been completely desensitized by working in news. And being around you people....

[Rob]

:rolleyes:

FWIW, the first time I saw that autism/organic foods graph, it was on a science article and was used as a demonstration of how correlation and causation are not the same thing, in relation to the whole idiotic "vaccines cause autism" panic. There has since been other graphs, to the same ends, employing "internet use", "gay marriage" and "Google/Apple popularity" as direct causes of autism.

[Rare White Ape]

Someone should do a graph that compares wearing Crocs to autism.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/01/05/article-0-1A709D1C00000578-222_634x944.jpg

[overpowered]

FWIW, the first time I saw that autism/organic foods graph, it was on a science article and was used as a demonstration of how correlation and causation are not the same thing, in relation to the whole idiotic "vaccines cause autism" panic. There has since been other graphs, to the same ends, employing "internet use", "gay marriage" and "Google/Apple popularity" as direct causes of autism.If you have to explain the joke....

[Rob]

If you have to explain the joke....

Hey, I got it....FaF didn't.

Also, the McCarthy woman has just flipflopped and now claims vaccines don't cause autism....and that her son might not be autistic anyway. What a dozy cunt.

[overpowered]

She denied the claim that she said he didn't have autism.

I'm not exactly sure what FaF's response meant.

[overpowered]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-wxnID2q4A

[Kchrpm]

It started off so well, and then dudes and kids show up.

[Freude am Fahren]

Nah, I got it. My rollyeyes was a vague comment on people that believe it (and by whom I presumed the graph has been used seriously).

:)

[overpowered]

I don't know how many people remember doing this but I do:

https://scontent-b-pao.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/1536467_10151987362253778_959382494_n.jpg

[Drachen596]

didnt the autism report guy get his butt handed to him and been disproven about a billion times in addition to i think admitting he lied?

[overpowered]

https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/1450071_348589378612665_1223250839_n.jpg

[Rob]

didnt the autism report guy get his butt handed to him and been disproven about a billion times in addition to i think admitting he lied?

Yes, yes and no.

He was barred from practising medicine in the UK and his assertions were all disproven. To date, he still claims he was correct and seems to have attracted a following in the USA where he can still call himself a doctor. A bit like that rodent-faced shit-lover Gillian McKeith.

[Freude am Fahren]

https://scontent-b-mia.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/q71/1497799_268078193347296_483469967_n.jpg

[Freude am Fahren]

http://i.imgur.com/MJ1Tmhj.jpg

[overpowered]

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2008/07/09/carroll.cellphone.popcorn.cnn

[overpowered]

http://www.takepart.com/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_main_image/public/truckdecal.jpg?itok=bquiss2c

http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/09/08/womens-rights-violence-advertising

[speedpimp]

Apirport security camera catches a man farting (https://vine.co/v/hY2PPurVtxH).

[balki]

looks like he's running a little rich

[Freude am Fahren]

That and old (and fake) one.

[/spoilsport]

[Conman]

Would have been more convincing if the "fart" smoke was white since the FLIR is in white hot.

[Jason]

He's a former Californian. Last I remember, he was in D.C.

I love not freezing.

I am a citizen of the world!

[Freude am Fahren]

Would have been more convincing if the "fart" smoke was white since the FLIR is in white hot.

Exactly. Probably an aerosol can of some kind.

[Freude am Fahren]

http://www.freudeamfoto.com/gtx/mjffun.jpg

[GreatScawt]

WOW



That's a long ass time ago. Fun!

[KillerB]

Yeah, I had to.

[The359]

I don't get it. Can't even see who that is. Halle Barry?

[KillerB]

Look to the upper right. Then watch Goodfellas.

[GreatScawt]

http://i.imgur.com/upOU6D5.jpg

[G'day Mate]

http://www.namemydaughter.com/

[thesameguy]

Amelia Salad McLaughlin. Awesome.

Did Ixtley come from somewhere?

[George]

1 vote cast for Megatron!

[speedpimp]

I never knew Scorsese was that short.

[overpowered]

https://scontent-b-pao.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/1505207_690899934263906_833022311_n.jpg

[neanderthal]

Cthulhu AllSpark McLaughlin.

[overpowered]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWBV7yKWhWE

[overpowered]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO6kEok2uMI

[overpowered]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t1/1525480_516701908449762_735635796_n.jpg

They forgot about this one:

http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0087341/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_118

[Drachen596]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLQLS93ba3I

[thesameguy]

I'm not a big fan of the Onion TV, but that is top notch!

[overpowered]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t1/1511314_806642896029026_834077117_n.jpg

[Sad, little man]

Yeah, I saw that. It really makes you wonder though... How much additional carbon is being emitted to power that big screen? :lol:

http://gtxforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=183&d=1390096778

183

[overpowered]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHC27viPYtA

[Sad, little man]

I'm fucking crying with laughter here. :lol: :lol:

http://whatthefuckismywearablestrategy.com/#


Pair of glasses that turns the central heating on when someone logs into your facebook account

pair of contact lenses that texts your mom when there's 10% off at asos

wristband that makes a vine when your glucose levels drop

e-cigarette that unlocks your computer when you leave the iron on

pair of sandals that sends you an email when you drink too much coffee

[GreatScawt]

Fucking lol

"sports bra that throbs when you run out of milk"

[Freude am Fahren]

Pair of sunglasses that quivers when you have nightmares

[Jason]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHC27viPYtA


That video just pissed me off.

[speedpimp]

That is Wisconsin for you in the winter.

[Fogelhund]

185

Nothing like Beaver brand Baby Clams.

[Drachen596]

there was a big accident on i-65 near Lafayette yesterday.

http://www.wane.com/traffic/incidents/semi-fire-halts-traffic-on-i-65

[GreatScawt]

http://i.imgur.com/dSlnXvl.jpg

[G'day Mate]

:lol:

[Rob]

http://i.imgur.com/vBVDN.png

Didn't YW do this once?

[Kchrpm]

Related: do British buses have mounts on them to put bikes? I'm assuming it's not just an American thing.

[Yw-slayer]

Nah, it was 9pm at night and no-one gave a fuck apart from a "fellow" "cyclist" who ALSO took his bike on the train (but removed the front wheel) and was "brave" enough to take a picture of me and put it on Facebook but not "brave" enough to tell me to my face.

Krunch - standard bike racks on British buses? That's both hilarious and sad.

[overpowered]

People who do a bike+train commute are "cunts" because they are trying to get to work/home at rush hour?

[Rob]

Krunch: Nope. Only seen it in the USA.

YW: Taking his wheel off leaving two nice pointy forks at eye level.

overpowered: Yes.

[overpowered]

Why? Please elaborate.

[overpowered]

Gordon Ramsay’s dwarf porn star look alike found dead in badger den half eaten (http://www.shockingtimes.co.uk/gordon-ramsays-dwarf-porn-star-look-alike-found-dead-in-badger-den-half-eaten/)

[21Kid]

That is Wisconsin for you in the winter.
Even though I am not a huge fan of Wisconsin, the drivers there aren't all that bad. I don't know what was going on in that video. But, I've never seen anything like that in the 15+ years that I drove in WI winters.

[Impreza]

Hi-Ho Hi-Ho, It’s Up Your Arse We Go

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[Rob]

Why? Please elaborate.

Because you've missed the joke because you feel like you should carry the weight of every cyclist on your back. Again.

[overpowered]

Yeah, because bigotry is always funny.

[Rare White Ape]

1) Because it's peak hour and the train is presumably full of people and the bike takes up the space of two of them.
2) Because Doug has a bicycle so why doesn't he just ride anyway? That cunt.

[overpowered]

Cam used to do the bike-train thing from Irvine to Burbank IIRC. That's a bit too far to ride for a commute.

Of course, once you have a bike, you have to make it so that everyone can act like you don't exist or else you are being rude for existing.

[MR2 Fan]

https://scontent-b-mia.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t1/526865_733394800013023_1976760892_n.jpg

[Sad, little man]

:lol:

[TheBenior]

In the Chicagoland area, Doug would be a cunt because bicycles are rightfully banned from CTA trains at all hours, and banned on METRA trains during peak hours.

[Rob]

Yeah, because bigotry is always funny.

Stop being a martyr to a cause that doesn't really exist.

[overpowered]

I've had my life threatened three times in the last week for merely existing so go fuck yourself.

[Yw-slayer]

YW: Taking his wheel off leaving two nice pointy forks at eye level.

In fairness (or at least being fairer to him than him to me) he was carrying the bike around at waist level with the wheel off. It stems from a sop that our mass transit operator has offered to cyclists, which is "Bikes are not allowed in stations or on a train, but if the front wheel is removed then they count as baggage" (despite 98% of bikes being far larger than the dimensions of any "allowed" baggage on the train).

It's an idiotic rule and a bunch of self-righteous pricks have taken it upon themselves to act as moral guardians, perhaps in the hope that the operator will see the light, rather than realising that a two-wheeled bike which can be controlled is much safer than a useless contraption with only 1 wheel and a spare wheel with pointy forks flaying around.

But yeah, we agree.

[Yw-slayer]

OP, that joke wasn't about you. Just relax man, it's just like the first rule of trail use which applies to ALL users including cyclists, hikers, etc: "Don't be a dick".

[thesameguy]

http://www.anthonyjoyce.ie/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/albert-insane1.jpg

[Impreza]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bQAK5nnDrI

[Rob]

I've had my life threatened three times in the last week for merely existing so go fuck yourself.

To be fair to them, you are quite irritating.

[Rare White Ape]

OP, do you 'merely exist' or do you militantly enforce your right to behave a certain way on a bicycle?

Coz, you know, sometimes smart people will give way to vehicles that are 20 times heavier and five times faster.

[overpowered]

Changing lanes is not an unbearable hardship.

Getting hit because I encouraged them to pass close in a narrow lane is a terrible hardship.

It's funny how threatening someone with violence instead of just going around isn't militant but refusing to give in to threats of violence is considered militant.

I never cease to be amazed at how often people side with ignorant incompetent violent bullies.

[21Kid]

In the Chicagoland area, Doug would be a cunt because bicycles are rightfully banned from CTA trains at all hours, and banned on METRA trains during peak hours.
???
Bikes aren't banned from the "EL". They're limited to two per car, though.
But, you wouldn't be able to get one on at rush hour at all.

[TheBenior]

Turns out hey're banned from 7-9AM and 4-6PM, and "certain days when trains are expected to become very crowded, such as July 4."

[overpowered]

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-VCj2-uCqpOY/Ut9efFd2IJI/AAAAAAAABp0/7aXM4ybxbO4/w900-h602-no/0d11f04d-9f93-44c9-abd3-b546b240d225

[The359]

God damnit.

[Drachen596]

i'd say thats definitely a bannable offense right there.

[2ndMoparMan]

Fucking spiders! Ew!

[overpowered]

What? Momma's carrying all of her babies. It's sweet.

[Freude am Fahren]

https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/1534334_484597201650244_1666744131_n.jpg

Digging out from Anus has begun.

[overpowered]

https://scontent-a-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/1623604_853949861301135_375624292_n.jpg

[overpowered]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dllo85ZSUk

[Yw-slayer]

I have some lycra like that from my rowing days.

[Kchrpm]

Why am I only just now seeing this?!?!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXuLmA2392A

[Yw-slayer]

That was good. But he should've done his version of "Vogue".

[Freude am Fahren]

A couple in honor of today's "breaking news."

http://www.freudeamfoto.com/gtx/milieber.jpg

http://www.freudeamfoto.com/gtx/dexterlieber.jpg

(BTW, I work at a Miami news station, soo.... This is the only crap I've known at work today.)

[Cam]

I took my bike on the train in LA because I was allowed to at any time. There were specific areas where I could secure my bike. I'm a cunt then? Hilarious. :|

[Sad, little man]

This is kind of interesting, and too big for me to put right in the thread without feeling bad about it.

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/01/140123_FT_SpaceMissions-Hi.jpg

[overpowered]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L8UCfxmtSw

[overpowered]

https://scontent-a-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/1549546_745529482134732_729571145_n.jpg

[Crazed_Insanity]

That is interesting that we're all initially assholes. :D


I took my bike on the train in LA because I was allowed to at any time. There were specific areas where I could secure my bike. I'm a cunt then? Hilarious. :|

If you take away the 'am' and substitute with 'unt', then yeah!

[GreatScawt]

unt-ss-unt-ss-unt-ss

No Cam, you are not. We love you, man.

[overpowered]

See how it's different when it's someone you know and like?

The comic was designed to spread/reinforce hatred towards a set of people.

I don't usually take my bike on a train but I have a few times.

I do get my life threatened by people who can't handle just changing lanes to pass.

Pretending that bicyclists aren't oppressed for merely existing is either fundamentally ignorant or fundamentally dishonest.

[Jason]

Yeah, don't take a bike on the DC metro during rush hour. Ooomph. I don't see how this is even a discussion. O.o

(I think it's actually against the law to take the bike on a bus or metro train in DC during rush hour, fwiw... and if it weren't it'd still be a dick move, because you'd be taking up space of about 6 people, if not more. I'd also call someone a dick for bringing a month's worth of luggage on the metro during rush hour.)

---

Also, OP, you act like cyclists are some sort of oppressed people. But out here in DC? They basically have no laws to follow. This week hasn't seen many cyclists on the road... but the ones I did see were riding against active traffic, forcing cars to halt to a stop, or swerve into other lanes. Also, as usual, blowing through stop signs and red lights, forcing cars, again, to halt... or barely avoiding pedestrians. People in cars aren't the only assholes on the roads risking lives.

[overpowered]

Bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit.

A bike doesn't even come close to taking up the space of 6 people. You're full of shit.

Bicyclists do have laws to follow. Whether the cops enforce it or not is a different issue.

Riding against traffic is idiotic but what does that have to do with bikes on a train?

Blowing through stop signs is bad but not as bad as multi-ton vehicles blowing through stop signs which I also see regularly and what does that have to do with bikes on a train?

Blowing through red lights I don't see. I sometimes see them go through red lights after making sure it's clear which is still not OK but what does that have to do with bikes on a train?

People in cars are killing about a dozen pedestrians per day in the U.S., to say nothing of the number that they injure, but again, what does that have to do with bikes on a train?

You're grasping at straws for ways to rationalize bigotry against bicyclists as a group.

I stop for stop signs. I wait at red lights. I follow the best practices recommended by the top bicycle safety experts in the country and yet I am regularly harassed and threatened by people who can't handle so much as changing lanes to pass me.

People getting on a train are just trying to get where they are going like anyone else. That comic is nothing but bigotry. It's a double standard. People carrying a bunch of packages would NOT receive the same vitriol.

[Freude am Fahren]

Hey get a room... like this one maybe?: http://gtxforums.net/showthread.php?49-Cycling

[Sad, little man]

What if they were a bunch of packages with bicycles in them?

Anyway, your incessant complaining about having your rights as a cyclist trampled on is trampling on my rights to post silly things from the internet...

Anyone remember this one? You have to admire a video that went viral before the days of youtube.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENnAa7rqtBM

[Freude am Fahren]

Don't think I ever saw that one.

[Sad, little man]

I can only handle this for a minute or two until it feels too damn much like being at work. :|

http://conferencecall.biz/

[Rare White Ape]

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u308/b3nje909/1390591959248.png

http://www.perfectlydarien.com/personal/dino1.png

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/01/24/vava2u3u.jpg

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/01/24/ze2uneme.jpg

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/01/24/u8esu3es.jpg

https://24.media.tumblr.com/a99923a1a4b3b551871dbe4a59978053/tumblr_mztyzsWZpi1r97ur5o1_500.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BJH5x4zCAAAeBye.jpg

[LHutton]

People carrying a bunch of packages would NOT receive the same vitriol.
Or people carrying 40 stones of excess weight.

http://i.imgur.com/WS0oAVK.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/b3T3i3a.png

[Jason]

Bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit.

A bike doesn't even come close to taking up the space of 6 people. You're full of shit.

Come to DC and throw your bike on to the metro with you. You'll see what I'm talking about. During rush hour, the Metro is literally packed standing shoulder to shoulder on many trains. You can say I'm full of shit all you want, but you're wrong. They don't tell cyclists to not bring their bikes on the train during rush hour because of some systemic oppression of your people, get the fuck out of here with your victim nonsense.


People getting on a train are just trying to get where they are going like anyone else. That comic is nothing but bigotry. It's a double standard. People carrying a bunch of packages would NOT receive the same vitriol.

I'm not rationalizing anything, I'm saying assholes are assholes, and cyclists aren't immune from asshole actions. That comic isn't bigotry, it is a douchebag move to bring a bike onto a crowded subway car. And yes, people bringing a bunch of shit on to the metro would get vitriol here. This isn't really relevant in San Diego, as most of the trolleys in San Diego (at least when I lived there) aren't packed shoulder to shoulder. Pull the stick out of your ass and stop being such a god damned victim.

This is the Metro during normal hours:

http://files.schuminweb.com/photography/2005/shades-of-gray/full-size/01.jpg

No one gives a damn if you bring a lot of crap on to the metro during this time. Plenty of room.

This is the Metro during busy hours:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UXriXRifjMM/TThuZCHqN3I/AAAAAAAAACU/9N9jS6Ke-gs/s1600/metro2.jpg

Where are you putting your bike? Cyclists here will take their bike to a less busy line/stop, or use a bus that has a bike rack on the front of it to get a further distance during rush hour.

But hey, lets keep ranting about how you're some sort of martyred victim. Maybe you have issues with dicks out in California not sharing the road nicely, and I can understand that. But cyclists do pretty well for themselves on the east coast.

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Admins feel free to move my posts. I'll stop responding to the subject, as I've made my points and it's worthless talking to people who can't stay rational, or even take a ribbing.

[LHutton]

Come to DC and throw your bike on to the metro with you. You'll see what I'm talking about. During rush hour, the Metro is literally packed standing shoulder to shoulder on many trains.
Well there's the real problem.



http://files.schuminweb.com/photography/2005/shades-of-gray/full-size/01.jpg
Maybe 30 years ago when Doug started bringing his bike on the train that was rush hour. Give it another 30 years and someone with white gloves will be ramming people into trains and people with thick jackets will be a talking point.

[overpowered]

Come to DC and throw your bike on to the metro with you. You'll see what I'm talking about. During rush hour, the Metro is literally packed standing shoulder to shoulder on many trains. You can say I'm full of shit all you want, but you're wrong. They don't tell cyclists to not bring their bikes on the train during rush hour because of some systemic oppression of your people, get the fuck out of here with your victim nonsense.Bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit.

People who have to get somewhere have to get there when they have to get there. If there's not room for them to get on then they won't be able to get on. It's first come first served. You have arbitrarily decided that they are undeserving of being to travel when it's convenient for them. What about the 350 pound person who takes up two seats and part of the aisle? Are you going to tell them that they can't ride during rush hour either?


I'm not rationalizing anything, I'm saying assholes are assholes, and cyclists aren't immune from asshole actions. That comic isn't bigotry, it is a douchebag move to bring a bike onto a crowded subway car. And yes, people bringing a bunch of shit on to the metro would get vitriol here. This isn't really relevant in San Diego, as most of the trolleys in San Diego (at least when I lived there) aren't packed shoulder to shoulder.They are at rush hour. However, there are rules. On the old style cars they are only allowed at the ends of the cars and it's a max of two bikes at each end except the front of the front car which is reserved for wheelchairs. On the new style cars there is no limit other than space on the lower areas near the doors.

As for your "pretending to be a victim" bullshit, try having people threaten to kill you on a fairly regular basis for doing exactly what you are supposed to be doing. Try having people assume that you are a dangerous scofflaw simply because you ride a bike on the road. It's like assuming that a gay person is a pedophile or a black person is a criminal. It's bigotry plain and simple.

[Jason]

:lol:

You win. You poor victim.

[LHutton]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFF-CzaAkIY

[Alan P]

And the Americans are looking at that and wondering 'what on earth.....?' :)

[overpowered]

You win. You poor victim.Hopefully you'll never know what it's like to have people threatening your life over nothing.

[Yw-slayer]

You're both arguing at cross purposes and wasting your time.

[Rare White Ape]

I'd say that this tread is better with OP's hysterical rants.

/rides pushy to work

[overpowered]

I think it's hysterical that someone is supposed to lose the right to travel at their convenience simply because they have a bike.

If they live 3 miles from the train station, what are they supposed to do? Walk?

It's bigotry. You deal with people getting on the trains with "stuff" all the time. For some reason it's always special when there's a bike involved.

[Drachen596]

Take the bus.

[overpowered]

What if there isn't one that's convenient?

[LHutton]

What if there isn't one that's convenient?
Use a car and take up an even bigger space in the gridlock.


And the Americans are looking at that and wondering 'what on earth.....?' :)
I know but that show was just so damn funny. An absolute classic.

[Drachen596]

Taxi. Carpool with a friend. Work from home. Ride all the way to work.

drive your car.

[LHutton]

Taxi.
Or just get the butler to drive you.


Carpool with a friend.
Sounds better in theory than practice. Assuming you find such a person, no one likes the inconvenience of having to wait on their way to work or detour from their route. Then there's holidays, business trips etc. And two people in a car are still taking up more space per person than a guy with a bike.



Work from home.
I'm sure most people would absolutely love to do that but it's not always possible/permitted.



Ride all the way to work.
Or walk all the way? Time is a factor for everybody, just like cost, so let's not ignore them. Aside from that fact, if you ride a significant distance to work everyday during rush hour I see a career expectancy of about 2 years before you're off on incapacity benefits with people complaining that you're a free-loader.



drive your car.
Given gridlock is that really more of a problem or less of a problem than a guy with a bike on a train?

[overpowered]

Taxi. Carpool with a friend. Work from home. Ride all the way to work.

drive your car.
Taxi - expensive.
Carpool - often not available.
Work from home - not an option for most.
Ride all the way to work - What if it's a long distance?
Drive your car - The person may not have one or parking may be a major problem.

Of course, as always no matter how trivial the inconvenience of sharing with bicycles, it's still too much, no matter what.

[TheBenior]

Of course, as always no matter how trivial the inconvenience of sharing with bicycles, it's still too much, no matter what.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujBjn1qeCLs

In the rush hour scenario that Jason envisions on the DC Metrorail (which looks exactly like Chicago Transit Authority trains during peak periods), non-folding bicycles are rightfully banned.

So yes, if you need bring your bicycle onto a DC Metrorail during rush hour, you are a cunt unless you buy a goddamned folding bike.

[LHutton]

I'm amazed there are no infinitely more pertinent posters along the lines of:

"Mr. McDonald takes his tractor to the market on a single-carriageway A-road, specifically during AM rush hour. Mr. McDonald is a cunt."

"Mike overtakes in his lorry when doing 0.01mph more than the lorry in front of him, specifically during AM rush hour. Mike is a cunt."

"Company X puts too many fucking carriages on their freight trains, so that they travel at <10mph and take 10 minutes to reach a level crossing after triggering the barriers. Company X are cunts."

[Rob]

Z07 doing the "but what about these other irrelevant things over here" act even when the point of the entire Queensland Rail meme was to parody a specific campaign of posters dealing with behaviour on a train.

Arguably funnier than overpowered's hysterical lack of humour.

[LHutton]

I think the main thing for you to take away is that it just wasn't funny anyway.

[Jason]

the point of the entire Queensland Rail meme was to parody a specific campaign of posters dealing with behaviour on a train.

Ding ding ding :up:

[Rob]

I think the main thing for you to take away is that it just wasn't funny anyway.

Thanks for replying to a post addressed to Z07. As if it wasn't already blindingly obvious.

[LHutton]

Thanks for replying to a post addressed to Z07. As if it wasn't already blindingly obvious.
Urrhh..... don't be so obtuse. I think it's blatantly obvious that you think I'm Z07, since you never shut up about it and you responded directly after my post and you had a go here too:

http://gtxforums.net/showthread.php?573-Facebook-went-way-over-the-line-with-this-one&p=3200&viewfull=1#post3200

Whoever that guy was, I think the fact that you still focus on him long after he's forgotten about you is a major personal failing on your part and given your general tone with anyone who disagrees with you, I have a hard time believing that you weren't probably the one at fault.

[Nick T]

Hopefully you'll never know what it's like to have people threatening your life over nothing.

I was persecuted and threatened well into my teens because I was among a handful of non-white kids attending the school system I was in. You're just a douchebag with a bike and a superiority complex.

[LHutton]

http://i.imgur.com/NVIjRzV.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/5KOOge2.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/bwpB80N.jpg

[Cam]

You guys are dicks, the lot of you.

But hey, cunts and dicks go together, right?

204

[Random]

I'm with Cam.

Can we please move on?

[overpowered]

I was persecuted and threatened well into my teens because I was among a handful of non-white kids attending the school system I was in. You're just a douchebag with a bike and a superiority complex.I've been squeezed into parked cars.

I've had drivers pull in front of me and slam on the brakes hard. One I was unable to avoid and ended up with a badly bruised shoulder.

These are attacks with lethal weapons.

In every case, the road was multi-lane and the driver was just angry about having to move over to pass.

Who has the superiority complex? Is it the person who uses potentially lethal force to control another person or the person who is angry about being assaulted? The arrogance of people who hate bicyclists knows no equal.

[FaultyMario]

OP, there's a place and a time. I think that however right your arguments could be, the timing/placement undo them.

My $0.02

[Rare White Ape]

Sounds like you need to find another from of transport bro. Or change your habits or ride somewhere else. If that shit happened to me the urge for self-preservation would kick in pretty quickly.

But hey, if you want to be 'right', then go right ahead. Just be aware that I'll find it hard to give you sympathy if it ends badly.

[Rare White Ape]

http://i.imgur.com/WxFhr17.gif

http://i.imgur.com/xNMef3Z.gif

http://i.imgur.com/bntgYHH.gif

http://i.imgur.com/RqATwCO.gif

http://i.imgur.com/sAo9YTt.gif

[Rob]

Whoever that guy was, I think the fact that you still focus on him long after he's forgotten about you is a major personal failing on your part and given your general tone with anyone who disagrees with you, I have a hard time believing that you weren't probably the one at fault.

"As shit as I am, what about this guy over here?"

:lol:

[Fogelhund]

http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/agy7g6n_700b.jpg

[overpowered]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWvBxIEgL44

[GB]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eMOhw-89qY

[Sad, little man]

I love how you can just sense how pissed off he is even though he tries to remain professional. :lol:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTqNjzwjeDI

[overpowered]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw1vUL9dbqQ

[Phil_SS]

What an asshat.

[GreatScawt]

http://i.imgur.com/VJkKlsV.jpg

[Jason]

:up:

[FaultyMario]

Sword master, yup, that's my son.

[Impreza]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0tR0xFkLE7c/T_-aIa8liKI/AAAAAAAAGQE/uOTuzYSpNW0/s1600/cosplay-supergirl-wonder-woman-superman-sexy-blonde-brunette-demotivational-poster-anime.jpg

[overpowered]

http://www.thepoke.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/2WlfSrG.png

[LHutton]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw1vUL9dbqQ
No drugs or alcohol?

[overpowered]

When Mexican skier Hubertus von Hohenlohe hits the slopes at Sochi for the 2014 Winter Olympics, he will do it in style.

http://img2-2.timeinc.net/people/i/2014/sandbox/news/140210/mexican-uniform-435x580.jpg

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20780817,00.html

[MR2 Fan]

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014-01/enhanced/webdr06/31/10/enhanced-22987-1391183195-16.jpg

[Impreza]

Balls touching?

[FaultyMario]

Mexican Hubertus von Hohenlohe style.

About the only thing that rich playboys bring to sporting events.

[Yw-slayer]

I think it's pretty great how Stewart and McKellen keep going for the fanboy LULZ

[Rob]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/t1/1005786_10202705854303599_847460251_n.jpg

[overpowered]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8xhuzWj6CQ

[Yw-slayer]

LOFL

[FaultyMario]

That woman is unbearable.

[Impreza]

That's actually one of the best SF edits I've seen. LOL

[LHutton]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xFPsaxdzyAQ

[GreatScawt]

So distasteful but I have to post, OMFG

http://i.imgur.com/rhr9Oxc.jpg

[MR2 Fan]

thats wrong on so many revers

[LHutton]

http://i.imgur.com/YaZRVTT.png

[Sad, little man]

The internet... If it were drawn in map form.

http://gtxforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=228&d=1391374868

228

Full size here. (Much larger, amazing detail.)

http://jaysimons.deviantart.com/art/Map-of-the-Internet-1-0-427143215

[Rare White Ape]

That's like the series of internet maps on XKCD. He will update it every few years as the net evolves.

Myspae was once a behemoth, but is now a tiny island of fail.

[Rare White Ape]

http://i.imgur.com/0qJ3dZq.gif

[2ndMoparMan]

fucking

lol

[Random]

That's like the series of internet maps on XKCD. He will update it every few years as the net evolves.

Myspae was once a behemoth, but is now a tiny island of fail.

Yep, the author acknowledges xkcd as his (her?) inspiration.



I was originally inspired by map of the internet created by xkcd, showing most popular social networks as countries and regions, back in 2010. It was not my original idea, but I extended it to such a scale for the first time. I used photoshop for the majority of drawing.
The base style of the map was inspired by the National Geographic Maps, I also used Winkel Tripel Projection and similar border coloring fashion.

[Rare White Ape]

http://i.imgur.com/7fpqWhT.jpg

[Rob]

I laughed.

[Jason]

:lol:

:(

:lol:

:(

:(

[LHutton]

http://s2.postimg.org/5zear7efd/1391411685181.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/eqznolU.jpg

[Godson]

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/01/24/ze2uneme.jpg


Yeah, It's called ADHD. Living in it. Now quite giving excuses for bullshit and make me a sandwich.


But not really, I want a handmade apple pie, with fresh fruit...

[Godson]

http://i.imgur.com/0qJ3dZq.gif


*priceless*

[Godson]

https://scontent-a-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1/1689575_705252866171846_1830726967_n.png

[overpowered]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/chelseah22/10-people-not-impressed-with-the-coke-and-its-por-dj9r

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014-02/enhanced/webdr03/2/21/enhanced-13814-1391393232-5.jpg

Erm, America the Beautiful is not the national anthem. :rolleyes:

[Godson]

Ladies and gentlemen, that is a bigot.

[Crazed_Insanity]

Most Americans can't sing the national anthem anyway. Either don't know all the words or doesn't have the dynamic range wide enough to sing thru the entire song. Of course there are some who don't even know which song is their national anthem.

That particular blacked out FB poster is probably more an idiot than anything else.

Still, I have to admit I like America the Beautiful more than the national anthem.

[overpowered]

I wonder what those idiots would say if they found out that the author of America the Beautiful was a woman, who never married, and lived with a female roommate for most of her life, whom she wrote love poems to?

[Jason]

Every day white society makes me hate my skin. How can we be so intolerant and ignorant?

[Kchrpm]

Because you're looking at the worst examples. Trust me, there are bad examples of people in every race. You can't hate yourself because of them.

[overpowered]

Because you're looking at the worst examples. Trust me, there are bad examples of people in every race. You can't hate yourself because of them.Truth.

[speedpimp]

I wonder what those idiots would say if they found out that the author of America the Beautiful was a woman, who never married, and lived with a female roommate for most of her life, whom she wrote love poems to?

They were just very close friends who shared many things together.

[The359]

Even worse is how those Facebookers are butchering English spelling and grammar...

[Sad, little man]

Fucking awesome superbowl ad from last night. (Only aired in a local market.)

Flaming sledgehammer... That's all you need to know. :hard:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr2gdPY-88w

[Drachen596]

blame the school system for that. they ALLOW that kind of crap to be used on tests because they can't mark off for spelling unless its a spelling test. some were even talking about allowing text speak to be used and not marked wrong.

idiots have always been out there though, the internet has given them all a voice and made it really easy to see. you can't ignore that shows like Jackass and whatever the one with the fat woman and her pageant daughter have is called.

[Yw-slayer]

Loss of the brother aside, that ad is hilarious.

[FaultyMario]

Yours would still be about criminal defence and rawkin' to SLAYER, right? RIGHT?

[Yw-slayer]

Nah, I only (99.99999%) really do civil stuff. But yeah, if I were allowed to advertise in such a manner, Slayer might well feature.

[overpowered]

https://scontent-b-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t1/1780872_754410037913343_655840481_n.jpg

[Rare White Ape]

http://pics.kuvaton.com/kuvei/my_crazy_navy_seal_friend_and_his_ural.jpg

[Dicknose]

Too many wheels!

[Impreza]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3WBHOeVSSY

[Kchrpm]

:up:

[overpowered]

http://perezhilton.com/fitperez/2014-02-04-carls-jr-racy-tv-commercial-fake-banned-from-airing-during-super-bowl-watch-here#sthash.mm34DLDT.dpbs

[Yw-slayer]

That is one of the best "ads" I have ever seen.

[overpowered]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oroEOMskgEI

[overpowered]

https://scontent-b-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1/1898099_818811361478846_608523022_n.jpg

[Mr Wonder]

I'm watching the debate now. How the fuck Nye hasn't reached over and pulled this dipshit's heart out through his mouth I'll never know. More than once he has answered "because God".
It's also pretty telling that the science jokes Nye made, while delivered poorly, weren't getting many laughs yet the "there is a book that explain that available now" lines brought the house down.

So infuriating...

[MR2 Fan]

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't force him to believe its 2 parts hydrogen, 1 part oxygen

[Godson]

Sad but true.

[sandydandy]

Not sure if anybody's seen this...major fail on the part of the oncoming trucker.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce9lF_9m7yQ

[Alan P]

What a fucking idiot!

[FaultyMario]

So infuriating...
agreed.

by me, and this dude:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCt3xi9hzIc

[LHutton]

Not sure if anybody's seen this...major fail on the part of the oncoming trucker.


WTF was he doing anyway?

[sandydandy]

Trying to overtake a snow plow.

[overpowered]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t1/1546412_10152192663095944_2144643618_n.jpg

[LHutton]

http://i.imgur.com/v7JqYWi.gif

[Dicknose]

Trying to overtake a snow plow.

Which is a stupid thing to do, not just because it's a dangerous overtake, but wouldn't you be safer on the plowed road.
I know we had a car with some ski lifties go off the road and all died, they overtook the plow and crashed a couple of kms later.

[Godson]

Darwinism.

[speedpimp]

Which is a stupid thing to do, not just because it's a dangerous overtake, but wouldn't you be safer on the plowed road.
I know we had a car with some ski lifties go off the road and all died, they overtook the plow and crashed a couple of kms later.

But when Super Trucker® is behind the wheel, nothing, I repeat, nothing can get in his way because he is the most important person on the road and he will not yield for anyone because he is SUPER TRUCKER®!

[overpowered]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1JkpyD1kdc

[LHutton]

https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/480x304q90/829/cguq.jpg


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qCk_l-IRyJg

[overpowered]

https://scontent-a-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t31/966520_10151986290396130_2013507664_o.jpg

[Godson]

Please tell me that didn't happen.

[21Kid]

It happened last time to, if memory serves.

[overpowered]

I got it from Huffington Post's FB feed.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151986290396130&set=a.443444786129.234228.18468761129&type=1&theater

[Fiat500]

The stuff you come across on instagram sometimes...

http://i.imgur.com/1soBOWH.jpg

[GreatScawt]

http://i.imgur.com/BhSiAoR.png

[Sad, little man]

:lol: :lol:

[Freude am Fahren]

https://scontent-a-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t31/966520_10151986290396130_2013507664_o.jpg


Please tell me that didn't happen.

You wouldn't believe just how easy it is for that to happen.

[Jason]

Also incredibly easy to photoshop.

[G'day Mate]

Also, why does it say "Team USA"?

[Rare White Ape]

Not safe for work.


http://vimeo.com/86014703

[Godson]

http://explosm.net/db/files/Comics/Kris/introvert.png

[GreatScawt]

W. T. F. @ Robocop remake

Yeah, wasn't expecting that.

[overpowered]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1/1911732_285906708228149_681268072_n.png

[Yw-slayer]

Missing RWA and Scott's references?