Your write of coarse. Or grammar correctness...Originally Posted by Sniper_CBR
Deus ex ukulele
Your write of coarse. Or grammar correctness...
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
Still rocking 2 Death Magnetic
that'll learn you
I ride the dirt, I ride the tide
I search the outside, search inside
I know I'll always burn to be
Remind me of what left this outlaw torn
~ The Outlaw Torn (Metallica: Load 1996)
Forum whore
No it wont.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
Forum whore
Or grammatical correctness
Moped rider
I agree.I have been having a discussion along these lines elsewhere.
Too many parents just don't care, and have a lax attitude to their children.
It's just sad that those idiotic teenagers had to go and kill themselves.
I guess one good thing that came out of this tragedy (?) was that they did not kill anyone else.
As a teenager, I sped but I never went ANYWHERE near those kinds of speeds.
I knew better, I knew I could not handle it.
Unfortunately teenagers need to do it themselves to learn...in this case, it was too late :/
playing in the dirt
Forum whore
If you are going to play russian roulette on the road sooner or later a live one is going to come out of the barrel. Two things guys, if you cross the line know when it's time to stop, and if you don't want to get caught don't do it.
Skyryder
Free Scott Watson.
Salted Pork
The morgue is a very sobering place and there is no better location to learn about the realities of human frailty.
I saw a doco a while ago that looked at some troubled teens going through such a program in the US and it certainly did have a powerfull impact on their attitudes.
Forum whore
Hmmm...thinks...Mk1 Zephyr diced up around power pole..bodies strewn around the road, a bystander trying to stop bleeding by sticking a rag down a young guys throat..4 dead.....Ford V8 rolls on Lake road..young guys thrown out, 1 decapitated....Mk 4 Zephyr V8 gets airborne over the crest of Newton Rd/ K road and bursts asunder, spilling and killing its load........
So...over the last 40 yrs....has anything basically changed!!!
The cars are faster?...but also better built so you have to go a bit faster to achieve the same level of carnage.
Young guys are still full of testosterone...7 ft tall and bulletproof. They all think they are ace drivers - until it turns to shit.
There are more boy racers on the road than there used to be?...well, theres twice as many people and cars are cheaper.
Society and authorities seem more apalled these days....more efficient instant mass communication?
Young men are going to be young men....and are going to kill themselves from time to time..in acts of bravado which are actually sheer stupidity....but they seldom see it as that...until its all too late!
A morgue session could well help introducing a bit of sense to some, but not necesarily all of the more reckless.
So, after each incident, which is blazoned across the media, the thumpings of righteous anger and indignation are heard wide across the land.....for about a week - then its on to something else.
Young guys have been killing themselves across the millenia, by whatever means happens to be popular and of the moment - the last century, its been mainly automobiles of one sort or another. Nothing we can do will stop it. People who kill themselves in car crashes, dont have kids to grow up and do the same. So I dont worry about it - when it happens to people I know, its a shock, but, hey, among life there is death! Always has been, always will.
I also support doing away with fences around swimming pools, but, thats another rant.
So, will anything stop these guys (mainly guys)
Why...I think not.
- He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
gee wizzz
isnt this just a touch hypocritical (sp) ??
A lot of the guys here are riding bikes at speeds well in excess of 200
The guy driving was speeding --he made a mistake -but a bunch of families are morning their dead kids right now.
coulda been any one of us
To see a life newly created.To watch it grow and prosper. Isn't that the greatest gift a human being can be given?
Mobile Oil Stain
A lot of them are very good at avoiding that rather obvious point.
Bikers that live in glass houses huh!!
Armature speller
My place is 50 year old rimu and stucco.A lot of them are very good at avoiding that rather obvious point.
Bikers that live in glass houses huh!!
Oh and my bike'll only hit 155kph bouncing off the limiter in top
gee wizzz
Hey i'm as guilty as the next guy. -Ohh hang on --no I NEVER speed and I always obey the road rules. Honest nodmanA lot of them are very good at avoiding that rather obvious point.
Bikers that live in glass houses huh!!
for those that can't tell--this is a pisstake
To see a life newly created.To watch it grow and prosper. Isn't that the greatest gift a human being can be given?
Loud and Uncouth
In a built up area that speed will do the trick...My place is 50 year old rimu and stucco.
Oh and my bike'll only hit 155kph bouncing off the limiter in top
Winding up drongos, foil hat wearers and over sensitive KBers for over 14,000 posts...........
" Life is not a rehearsal, it's as happy or miserable as you want to make it"
Hardcore Biker
Yep but of course it would never happen to them, they would never make a mistake at 120+kmh and crash into an innocent driver...
If it was a one off you could say that, but this guy drove like an idiot all the time and was just a fatality waiting to happen, its unfortunate his parents did nothing to stop him, didn't they even help him buy his car?
At the end of the day everyone should be fking thankful that it wasn't them meeting this guy after he failed to take a corner. Its just a shame he took other people with him.
Retired
SPMan couldn't be more right, and Frosty. We're all bloody hypocrites - you don't buy a bike cos you like the wind in your hair sitting dead on 100km/h on the long straight stretches of road, and you religiously obey the suggested cornering speeds... oh come on!!
As for limiting the cars/horsepower/power to weight bla bla bla... that will prevent some deaths from the point of view that when (and I do mean WHEN) the youngsters crash it may possibly be at a lower speed, but that will be a small percentage. From my experience, the three decent accidents I've had outside of legitimate racing all involved slow underpowered cars. Once I stuck my MX-5 (1.6litre, 88kw, governor at 180k) into a tree at about 30km/h while practising drifting... another time I stuck the MX-5 off the side of a tight twisty road and rolled it a few times - speed approx 80km/h, speed limit 100km/h, suggested cornering speed 15km/h... and some years before I rolled Mum's Civic (1.5l, 66kw, 178km/h indicated top speed) up on it's side after spinning into a bank - speed approx 110km/h in a 70 zone, wet road, brain fade (just like the other three).
I don't see how horsepower had anything to do with these experiences, yet excessive speed was involved in two, and complete farking brain fade was the precursor to all three.
"You, Madboy, are the Uncooked Pork Sausage of Sausage Beasts. With extra herbs."
- Jim2 c2006
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