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Various abandoned sites of the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics[/QUOTE]
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Chow time
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;45456673]worst possible way to cook a steak, right there.[/QUOTE]
I [I]love[/I] steak. Ate some for dinner tonight. Typically from a grill. Though cooking it in a pan is fine too if you do it right. Can be easier to deal with.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmC9SmCBUj4[/media]
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I usually grill though.
[QUOTE=OvB;45462679]I [I]love[/I] steak. Ate some for dinner tonight. Typically from a grill. Though cooking it in a pan is fine too if you do it right. Can be easier to deal with.
I usually grill though.[/QUOTE]
A lot of people don't realise how important holding the steak sideways and cooking the fat on the side is, also how much better it tastes when fried with a large amount of butter.
Nobody wants steak that doesn't have crispy edible fat on the side, if you'r trying to be healthy you won't be eating steak anyway :v:.
Screw cat cafes, I want to go to this reptile cafe
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hong Kong
[QUOTE=Zotobom;45456610]Not really cool pics but more the story behind them
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thats a waterslide
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the notorious Alpine Slide
Why are these so special you ask? They're from Action Park,one of the most unsafe and deadly parks ever. Read more: [url]http://weirdnj.com/stories/action-park/[/url][/QUOTE]
More Action Park nonsense,supplied by pictures so it isn't completely offtopic
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That looping slide decapitated testdummies. Employees were rewarded with $100 for testing it. It was only open for 10 days as most people got bloody noses. One person got stuck in the loop,the park constructed a hatch in it afterwards. If you wanted to get on,you needed to be weighed first. Then you needed to give an employee all your jewelry. Then you got instructions how to position yourself in the slide. Then you were sprayed with cold water so you were slippery enough. Just to get down the slide.
The park was responsible for 7 or 8 deaths.
The park bought an ambulance for the city it was in,so it was able to actually handle all the injuries. The hospital got about 10 to 20 injured people from this park a day.
A kayak attraction killed a person after said person got out of the boat and got electrocuted by loose wires.
They had a Tidal Wave pool,which had waves ofcourse.
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These waves were extremely high,drowning a lot of people.
And some quotes to finish it off:
About the looping slide:
[QUOTE]Employees who tested the ride reported that if you entered it going feet first, you’d come out of it head first, and vice versa. One person got stuck in the loop, necessitating the construction of a hatch that could be opened to extract people from that part of the ride. According to one employee who spoke with the Herald, “There were too many bloody noses and back problems” that resulted from riding the Cannonball Loop. It has long since been dismantled.[/QUOTE]
About the tidal wave pool:
[QUOTE]Think about it this way: former employees claim that lifeguards at the Tidal Wave Pool could often claim 30 “saves” a day, whereas your average lifeguard at a pool or lake might rescue one or two people in an entire summer. That’s an awful lot of responsibility to put on 12 teenagers.[/QUOTE]
Kayak attraction:
[QUOTE]Despite park officials’ denials, the coroner’s report proved that the man died from cardiac arrest due to electrical shock. Action Park was quick to point out that the victim didn’t have any burns, but the coroner said, “You don’t have burns when you are in the water like that…When you’re wet, you’re a dead ringer for a good electrical shock.” A wiring defect, described as either a “nick” or a seven-inch “gash,” depending on whose account of the findings you read, was later determined to be the cause of the electrocution.[/QUOTE]
Injuries:
[QUOTE]If you were injured, know that you were in good company. In 1986, the Herald reported the previous year’s reported accident toll at Action Park: more than 110, including 45 head injuries and 10 fractures. And it is important to stress “reported,” because the park got into a lot of trouble with the state for not reporting accidents. Despite this, Action Park, unlike other amusement parks in the state at the time, was fined just once between 1979 and 1986 for not following procedure. The Herald said this was not the case for other amusement parks, which would be fined for first offenses. Did Action Park get special treatment?[/QUOTE]
And a former employee:
[QUOTE]I worked at Action Park! And there was some very important craziness going on. First, the grass skiing. That was so long ago, most people will go, “Holy shit, I forgot about the grass skiing!” We used to grass ski on the mountain in the summer. That was stupid. Only knee pads were recommended (that means they were not required). The grass skis were still in the basement of the lodge when I worked there in the early ’80s.
Then, they built the skateboard park––a masterpiece design where the smooth bowls were isolated by the BLACK TOP PAVEMENT between them. Who thought that was a good idea? The blacktop did not even meet the cement at a smooth edge. That skate park was responsible for so many injuries, we covered it up with dirt and pretended it never existed before we even thought of grander ways to hurt people, like the Honda Odysseys. Before the minivan of the same name, Honda made a 4-wheel, knobby-tired go cart, which well predates ATVs. That was wicked fun! (Mostly for the employees, who would ride them through the park terrorizing everyone in our path.) And that was when we weren’t driving our CARS through the park!
I worked on the Water World side. Motor World, which had many more toys to play with, was hard duty in the hot sun––no place to be in July when you can watch the girls on the water slides. Now, a few points of interest:
The Alpine Slide was not cement; it was fiberglass––which explains why your skin would fall off when you fell off. We used to thumb through 10 carts to get a good fast one before going for it. The attendant teenager would give us employees a lot more than the usual 20 seconds at the top for the poor soul in front to get a good head start. Picture croquet, at high speed. I did not die that night when I fell off the slide––I am alive and well in New Hampshire.
The Cannonball Loop was the brainchild of some Swiss guy they imported on a week-long visa. I was one of the idiots that accepted you-know-who’s crisp $100 bill to test run it. That was my last ride. $100 did not buy enough booze to drown out that memory.
All the wounds and injuries are true, including the idiot who jumped off the diving cliff into the 40-foot deep whatever-they-ended-up-calling-it pool––and he could not swim. After that, they painted the pool white so they could see bodies lying on the bottom.
Nothing was more fun than test driving the big water slides we built with the “down the toilet bowl flush” through the big tunnel––which we assembled from huge culvert pipes lined with tons of rebar, gunite, and empty beer cans. The filters we built were so big you could find bodies in there too! After we were all beaten up, we had to drain the whole thing and coat it with urethane foam. I can still smell the xylene!
And let’s not forget the brewery! On the Motor World side, no less! This is not a joke. Action Park was a pioneer in the microbrewery fad, and got a brewer from Germany to come over here and make high-octane suds. Yeehaw! We used to steal kegs, drink the beer, ride the Indy cars down Route 94, crash the Indy cars, get the Indy cars back to the park without anybody seeing us (there were only three cops in Vernon back then) and then go for a swim at the pools to sober up. I do not recall any night security at the park, ever.
Action Park brings back a lot of memories. Especially the drunken debauchery at the employee Christmas parties––are those guys wearing motocross boots and tuxedos? If you ever get bored, go dig up the skateboard park––I’m sure it’s still there. –Amazingly-not-wheelchair-bound Tom Fergus
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Sorry for the enormous wall of text,but this is just really,really interesting to me.
honestly that park sounds like a blast.
I can post more tomorrow if anyone wants (prob not as i'm probably the only one who finds this interesting?)
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Bye merge
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[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;45467467]honestly that park sounds like a blast.[/QUOTE]
A lot of people who visited it liked it,yeah. For a ''outsider'' like me,it just sounds like a nightmare.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;45467467]honestly that park sounds like a blast.[/QUOTE]
It's not fun until someone gets hurt.
If you leave a waterpark with a cast or a bandage, then you know you had a good time.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;45467525]If you leave a waterpark with a cast or a bandage, then you know you had a good time.[/QUOTE]
It also had a Motor World side,which had go-karts where you could disable the speedlimiter and go-kart tank things with tennisball cannons.
Shit,pageking. Have some stuff about the Alpine Slide.
[QUOTE]The Alpine Slide was called Action Park’s most popular ride in a 1986 New Jersey Herald article––one that a park official declared “the safest ride there is,” noting that a 90-year old grandmother and mothers with babies on their laps had taken a ride on it. The same article said that the slide was responsible for “more accidents, the majority of the lawsuits and 40 percent of the citations” against the park. The Alpine Slide concept was simple enough: you sat on a sled and descended down concrete tracks using a hand brake to control your speed, either slowly or at a speed described by a former park employee as “death awaits.” If you were lucky, your injury would consist of some lost skin and the sting of Mercurochrome. Lose control of your cart on the Alpine Slide, however, and it would simply crash through the haybale barriers, your body subject to the laws of gravity and nasty hillside rocks. Take the ride too slowly and you would find yourself rammed by the person behind you. At least 14 fractures and 26 head injuries caused by the slides were reported between 1984 and 1985.
The Alpine Slide was also responsible for Action Park’s first death: that of a 19-year-old park employee in 1980. According to the website rideaccidents.com, “a malfunction caused a wheeled sled to derail from its cement track after it failed to properly negotiate a curve. The victim…was thrown from the car down an embankment. He sustained a fatal head injury when his head struck a rock.” On another occasion, some kids supposedly snuck into the park one night to ride the Alpine Slide in the dark. One kid headed down first and just disappeared into the night. His friends could not find his twisted body in the dark until it was too late. If that story is true, it’s one death that didn’t make the papers.
The Alpine Slide no longer exists and the concrete tracks have been removed, but you can still see where it was located if you take a ride on Mountain Creek’s Gondola and look below.[/QUOTE]
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There's similar waterslides with loops these days, they're just a lot better planned
The loop is way bigger, it's slanted, and the start of the ramp is so steep you're almost vertical. You stand on a trapdoor that drops out from under you
Loops are overrated anyway, they just look impressive. Some of the best rides I've been on don't invert at all.
Perfect time to post some actual cool themepark stuff
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I just think theme parks are really cool for some reason. Not just to visit..but just that they exist. If you know what I mean.
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hong Kong[/QUOTE][I]it is a time of great innovation and technological advancement[/I]
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USAF pilot being taken hostage in North Vietnam, ~1967
Is she holding a musket?
I don't think so, if she did she would be easily overpowered.
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But she's probably not alone.
[QUOTE=kaine123;45468250]Is she holding a musket?[/QUOTE]
It is and it's not cocked either, the push rod is also bent. Obviously she's got other people with her since someone is taking the picture; they probably had her stand behind them to make the shot embarrassing as possible.
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It looks like there's a geyser of honey or grease or something coming out of that piece of chicken, lol.
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Panzer crewman and his son.
Bugs look so cool up close.
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[QUOTE=pansarkurt;45469194]Bugs look so cool up close.
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That bee looks really condescending. Like a school teacher catching you joking in the back of class.
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hong Kong[/QUOTE]
whats the name of that?
[QUOTE=noh_mercy;45470073]whats the name of that?[/QUOTE]
Gojira
[QUOTE=pansarkurt;45469194]Bugs look so cool up close.
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Why couldn't evolution just had given us more insects like this? Why do most have to be the original sin that plagues humanity today? We need more insects like these cuties.
[QUOTE=pansarkurt;45469194]Bugs look so cool up close.
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It's actually very hard to take pictures like these.
These are focus-stacked photos, each photo consists of maybe 50-100 photos with slightly different focus in each, then all of those are processed into one photo.
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I've been trying this shit for a while now, and it's seriously stupid hard to get right :v:
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Special Effects Titan Ray Harryhausen and some figures.