[QUOTE=download;48645329]What kind of person are you to get pissed at an explosion looping?[/QUOTE]
It doesn't show it crumbling down, which is half the fun right there
[QUOTE=kilerabv;48645363]It's not a perfect loop.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Paranoia10;48645394]It doesn't show it crumbling down, which is half the fun right there[/QUOTE]
I assumed he was pissed at the explosion looping around the bridge.
Speaking of Demolishing bridges, here is a video from 2004 when our [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Girardeau_Bridge"]old bridge[/URL] across the Mississippi River here was demolished after the opening of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Emerson_Memorial_Bridge"]Bill Emerson Memorial bridge[/URL]:
[video=youtube;ahDXhThTFRY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahDXhThTFRY[/video]
[video=youtube;nFzu6CNtqec]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFzu6CNtqec[/video]
Don't forget that one time a bridge decided to demolish itself.
seeing concrete and metal wobble around and warp like that is so surreal
[QUOTE=Headhumpy;48654464][video=youtube;nFzu6CNtqec]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFzu6CNtqec[/video]
Don't forget that one time a bridge decided to demolish itself.[/QUOTE]
God damn I love old voice overs
[b]IT'S FOOTBALL SEASON!![/B]
[img]https://nbcsportsworld.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/150129-marshawn-lynch-1600.jpg?w=1200[/img]
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[quote]Seattle's running back Marshawn Lynch performing a leap into the touchdown zone after running 67 yards and breaking 9 tackles in what would become known as the Beast Quake. The term was coined because local seismographs managed to pick up shaking of the ground underneath Seattle's home stadium after Lynch scored the touchdown.[/quote]
[img]http://thornography.weei.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Lynch-Christian-Peterson.jpeg[/img]
[img]http://ww2.hdnux.com/photos/33/66/60/7302153/7/960x540.jpg[/img]
[quote]Almost 4 years later, Lynch performs a 79-yard touchdown in Arizona during the playoffs. Battling supposed stomach problems during the critical game in post-season, Lynch's presence on the field was limited before this play. Imitating the same leap into the touchdown zone in where he was fined for an inappropriate gesture. Dubbed Beast Quake 2.0, this became his longest career run.[/quote]
I don't care if you're not much of an American football fan, but the fact that a 200+LB man can push away other 200/250+LB pissed off men that want your ball and your ass on the ground, with ease and be able to cover more than 50 yards in less than 10 seconds. That is incredible to fathom.
IMO both rugby and handegg have way more entertainment value than football anyway
wtf is handegg
american "foot" "ball"
[QUOTE=Joazzz;48655836]american "foot" "ball"[/QUOTE]
But you said
[quote] [B]handegg[/B] have way more entertainment value [B]than football[/B][/quote]
:huh:
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;48656131]
:huh:[/QUOTE]
Football as in real football. The one that involves feet, balls and Brazil losing them.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;48656131]But you said
:huh:[/QUOTE]
Footall is soccer
[QUOTE=Pilotguy97;48656150]Football as in real football. The one that involves feet, balls and Brazil losing them.[/QUOTE]
Oh, soccer
:downs:
[QUOTE=Bbarnes005;48645280]I guess the yellow arc you see before each set of explosions is the electrical charge they use to detonate the explosives.[/QUOTE]
It's a special form of tubing that carries a shockwave through it to the detonators in the demo charges.
It's much safer to work with than electrical connections, as a short or a static spark could trigger the detonators, while this stuff requires a detonator to work.
It's not detcord though, as the stuff doesn't actually explode, it's more like a trail of burning gunpowder but with high explosives.
[QUOTE=Joazzz;48654726]seeing concrete and metal wobble around and warp like that is so surreal[/QUOTE]
Well that's what happens when a structure, no matter what material it is made out, is poorly designed. What happened with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge was that basically it wasn't stiff enough to withstand strong winds or at least that's what I got from reading on it.
I'm not a not engineer or architect so I'm not the guy to go to on that. But however it's collapse can also be viewed as a good thing as it provided insight on how to build and design better and safer bridges.
What's funny that only five days before it collapsed it was decided to strengthen it and luckily nobody except the dog that was in that car died.
[URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_(1940)#Cause_of_the_collapse[/URL]
[QUOTE=Joazzz;48655662]IMO both rugby and handegg have way more entertainment value than football anyway[/QUOTE]
I went to an American football game this weekend and from the time the first quarter started to the time the fourth ended three hours went by even though each quarter is fifteen minutes; American football may be more fun to watch but at least real-football/soccer follows the laws of spacetime
Handegg is such a dumb word and it makes you sound pretentious.
[quote]"Gridiron" football developed in the late 19th century out of the original games now known as rugby football and association football. It is distinguished from other football codes by its use of hard plastic helmets and shoulder pads, the forward pass, the system of downs, a line of scrimmage, more specialist positions and formations, free substitution, platooning of different players for offense and defense, measurements in yards, a distinctive brown leather ball in the shape of a prolate spheroid, and the ability to score points while not in possession of the ball by way of the safety. Walter Camp is credited with creating many of the rules that differentiate gridiron football from its older counterparts.[/quote]
[quote][B]Football refers to a number of sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball with the foot to score a goal. Unqualified, the word football is understood to refer to whichever form of football is the most popular in the regional context in which the word appears:[/B] association football (also known as soccer) in the United Kingdom; gridiron football (specifically American football or Canadian football) in the United States and Canada; Australian rules football or rugby league in different areas of Australia; Gaelic football in Ireland; and rugby football (specifically rugby union) in New Zealand.[1][2] These different variations of football are known as football codes.[/quote]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/JZszJTh.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=OvB;48657470]Handegg is such a dumb word and it makes you sound pretentious.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/JZszJTh.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Yeah but football has been around for literally hundreds of years, American football co-opted that term to refer to their bastardised version of rugby.
why do people get so buttfrustrated that a sport in one part of the world has the same name as a different sport in another part of the world
they're two different things, and if you're confused which sport someone's talking about when they say 'football', there are handy dandy flags on the bottom left of everyone's posts that provide helpful context clues
who cares if the dirty americans tarnished football's legacy by... using the word to describe a different sport??? different sports develop in different parts of the world. this isn't a problem
god damn there are so many better things to get mad at in the world
why not just call it american football, that's what everyone calls it over here
"handegg" is such a condescending name
[t]http://i.imgur.com/QBv8shG.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]Goebbels, smiling in 1933.[/QUOTE]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/dRF2a.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]His expression after finding out the photographer of the last picture was a Jew.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Hakita;48660882]why not just call it american football, that's what everyone calls it over here
"handegg" is such a condescending name[/QUOTE]
well tbh "yank footy" is a conceptually more accurate translation of the word we use.
[QUOTE=Virtanen;48660952]well tbh "yank footy" is a conceptually more accurate translation of the word we use.[/QUOTE]
depends, some people use "jenkkifutis" and some people use "amerikkalainen jalkapallo", the latter being the more formal while the former being slangier
fair enough.
Talk about a bunch of haters.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/C910tm0.jpg[/img]
[img]http://cdn.rsvlts.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/President-elect-Bill-Clinton-playing-defensive-safety-930x608.jpg[/img]
[quote]President Bill Clinton touch football on the beach at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, December 31, 1993i.imgur.com)[/quote]
[QUOTE=Hakita;48661081]depends, some people use "jenkkifutis" and some people use "amerikkalainen jalkapallo", the latter being the more formal while the former being slangier[/QUOTE]
in Britain we just used to call it biggie shoulder rough and tumble
Obscure request: I'm looking for a background image I found (possibly here) a whiles back:
It's a landscape picture of a small bit of land near water and is overwhelming saturated in purple hues.
Any ideas?
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;48662050]
[img]http://cdn.rsvlts.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/President-elect-Bill-Clinton-playing-defensive-safety-930x608.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
he looks like trump sotra in this image :v:
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