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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Stealth on August 09, 2003, 01:47:30 pm
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Here i am about 2 hours ago driving in a van with 4 friends, driving down a semi-busy road, two lanes on each side, when this guy on a bright yellow Suzuki or some other street bike (you know the kind i mean) he's going at least 60 or 70 mph, and he pops a wheelie. now he's completely vertical, for a second, and then he loses control and falls back. his back's dragging on the ground at 70 mph, and he's got a 500 pound bike pushing him into the ground. then the bike flies away and he's rolling around (still going very fast), flying into the air, falling again, etc.
now as i look back, his bike is on the side of the road, he's still rolling, and pieces of skin start flying off him. big pieces, whole chunks are flying out. he wasn't wearing a helmet, he had on tennis shoes, shorts, and a T-shirt, and now he's rolling and getting flipped around at 70 mph. anyway, eventually he comes to a stop, he tries to get up, then just falls down. (i couldn't see his body, i just saw a bright red, i assume it was blood... since most of his skin is all over the road).
very freaky. we went to starbucks down the street, and about half an hour later an ambulance arrives. it wasn't scary seeing him fly off the bike, what was disturbing is seeing chunks of skin (or parts of his body) go flying. there's a red stripe about 1 and a half feet wide, and about 30 feet long down the road where he was scraping down on his back with a motorbike on top of him at 70 mph.
so the moral of the story is i'm never, ever getting a motorbike. ever.
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Is he alive no or ? :shaking:
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That's just not the sort of thing I want to read.
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Tries not to be callous.
Fails.
Send this to the Darwin Awards. At the very least it rates a stupid human trick award.
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don't know if he's alive or not, we didn't stop to see, but i highly doubt he'll live, and if he does, he's probably lost a good 70% of the skin on his body, plus lots of other things flying off him.
yeah, that's what you get for trying to do a 90 degree wheelie on a bike that weighs close to 500 pounds. how do you end up? scraping along for 50 feet with a 500 pound bike on you on your back, at 70 miles an hour
that guy now knows the true meaning of pain.
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heh, dumbass. It's for his own stupidity anyways. That'd be why you wear proper clothing (at least a jacket) riding any kind of motorcycle. More to the point, don't do excessivley stupid things while not clothed properly.
And he's probably still alive, as long as his spinal cord didn't get too messed up. Makes me wonder though why you err.. nobody got an ambulance their sooner...
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and you didn't stop or anything?
you didn't even call 911 or something!?!
(there is no smilie for discust)
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I thought you would have stopped, or at least got to the nearest phone and called the accident in.. Good god..
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:eek2:
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Real compassionate move, going to starbucks :doubt:
Anyways, that WAS pretty stupid of him.
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Thats sucks. Hope he lives, but learns his lesson...a helmet and biker jacket certainly would have helped...
And why the hell didn't you stop to help him? So there your are, witnessing a terrible accident, so you decide that to get your mind off things you go to Starbucks. Perhaps, in your infiite compassion, you think about getting the guy a cofee to bring to him as he's lying on the road, but then you decide that it'll cost you 5 bucks, and you really want that second Grande Latte. :hopping: :hopping:
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No helmet? Well, probably there was nothing to protect either.
Sad stuff.
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:wtf: wait... if a member of a fire department had driven by and not helped, he would be fired and sued... if someone with a cell phone drives by, they call their friend and tell them all about it and keep going... :blah:
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Bobbau, Delta, Unknown Target, and Rictor:
Of course i called for help! **** man, i'm not THAT bad you know. less than half a minute after we'd witnessed this, i was already on the phone with an operator at 911. i assume many others also called 911 at the same time.
if i was behind him, or in front of him, i'd have stopped to help him, but we were going in the other lane, the opposite direction from him, and at least 2 or 3 cars quickly pulled over to help (cars that were behind him), so if we'd done a U-turn and stopped to help, by this time (we were going about 60) we'd have been half a mile behind him in the stopped traffic. don't worry, people do stop to help, just not people that aren't close by... and if they do, it's called "rubber-necking"
EDIT: I found out a few minutes ago that he is alive, and he's probably going to survive, he's conscious in the intensive care unit.
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Meep...:shaking:
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Tries not to be callous.
Fails.
Send this to the Darwin Awards. At the very least it rates a stupid human trick award.
lol, my thoughts exactly; it's difficult to sympathize with a guy who brings such things on himself entirely through his own stupidity. :p If he had been wearing a some sort of jacket and/or a helmet it wouldn't have been quite so bad.
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Stealth: It ok man. I didn't know you were goiing in the opposite directionand that you called 911. If other cars stopped to help him, thats fine then.
Good to hear that he survived. Most of you have probably done at least a few things during your lives that could have ended this way, but you were lucky. He's not stupider than the rest of us, he's just less lucky.
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Well, glad he's ok and let this be a lesson......
Testoserone is not a Shield of Steel :(
Flipside :)
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Originally posted by Flipside
Testoserone is not a Shield of Steel
Sounds like a challenge to me:D
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:lol:
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LOL! :D
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
heh, dumbass. It's for his own stupidity anyways. That'd be why you wear proper clothing (at least a jacket) riding any kind of motorcycle. More to the point, don't do excessivley stupid things while not clothed properly
Makes me wonder though why you err.. nobody got an ambulance their sooner...
And he's probably still alive, as long as his spinal cord didn't get too messed up.
1) yeah, exactly, i couldn't have said it better. also, don't try to pop wheelies at 70 mph on one of the busiest roads in Houston.
2) well i know I for one called 911 straight away, and i spoke to the guy at the body shop right where this happened, and he said he heard screams and ran out, saw what happened, and ran back in to call 911... so i know between the two of us 911 had two calls... we're not at fault.
3) yeah, you're right about that too. although not only his spinal cord, he could die if his brain got hurt too bad, which he might, since what he damaged was his head and spinal cord
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Ambulances normally take a long time, it's bureaucracy combined with traffic- whaddaya expect?
Anyway, I'm not entirely surprised they didn't send the copter in for that-it sounds like a nasty case, but what most people don't realize is that our bodies are pretty damn tough, and can withstand a lot of damage for a fair amount of time. A heart attack or seizure (massive internal failure) might call for the helicopter, but so long as there was someone who knew even the basic first aid that comes with common sense (you'd be surprised how many people lack it, but that's another story), and he was in a safe position at the moment, they knew he could hold on for half an hour or so.
Yeeh... So, how come, when an0n says basically the same thing as everyone's saying here about a similarly stupid situation and it's somebody someone here knows, it's "OH TEH GNO UNFFELIG FAGOT DEVAL!11!1!" but now it's okay? Idiots near the home are cherished better? Honestly, my sympathy extends more to the guy who's in horrible pain for hours on end and probably crippled or at least disfigured for life more than the guy who has to put up with maybe five minutes of shock before he's out for good. Still a moron, but most people, if not all, seem to turn their brains off at random and often inconvenient moments, so you can't hold that completely against him, and... ouch.
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Anyway, I'm not entirely surprised they didn't send the copter in for that-it sounds like a nasty case, but what most people don't realize is that our bodies are pretty damn tough, and can withstand a lot of damage for a fair amount of time. A heart attack or seizure (massive internal failure) might call for the helicopter, but so long as there was someone who knew even the basic first aid that comes with common sense (you'd be surprised how many people lack it, but that's another story), and he was in a safe position at the moment, they knew he could hold on for half an hour or so.
you're right in some ways and wrong in others Stryke. you're right that our bodies can take a lot, but remember that our structure is very delicate. do you know how easy it is to break a person's neck? do you know how easy it is to damage your spine, causing paralysis or even death? falling from a bike at 70 mph, then having the bike fall on you, causing a 30 ft line of blood from your back and arms, and then getting flipped and having chunks of you get hacked off by the rough street... i'm suprised he did survive, and who knows if he even will.
you are right about not feeling too sorry for him, because he was a fool, regardless.
since we're on the subject of slow response units, here's another story i have to tell... this happened a few months ago:
Sunday early evening (around 6:00) me and a friend are standing in line at the movie theater (it's a pretty popular and big one, there were quite a few people) and some teenager about 18 or 19 walks out of the theater entrance doors, he's walking, and suddenly we hear *BAM*... we look, and he's just fallen down. the noise we heard was his head slamming into the concrete. everyone's just staring at him, and i was like OK wtf, no one's doing anything (10 seconds have passed since he fell), so i ran up (i was about 20 feet away) and he was on his stomach, i couldn't hear any breathing or anything. i was like "Hey dude, are you OK?"... no reply... so i take the chance (i shouldn't have done it, but i did) and turn him onto his back. i then checked his pulse, it was weak, but there, and he's breathing faintly. where he hit his head on the concrete blood is gushing out. so i take my jacket and hold it to his head and start calling for help (there's a crowd of like 40 or 50 people around by this time). so a woman in her 40s runs up and says she's a nurse, she starts talking to the guy, and i stand up and look around. i see like 4 of the managers of the movie theater standing in the circle watching with everyone else. i was like "hey, have you called the ****ing ambulance or are you going to just stand and watch him die?". so one of them turns and walks inside. an older guy also pulls out his cell and calls 911. by this time the guy's breathing has gotten louder and raspy, like it's hard for him to breath. his eyelids have opened, but his eyes are back in their sockets. the nurse keeps holding his hand, holding the jacket against his head with her other hand. anyway, the croud stays at about 50 people strong, and no one's coming.
about 5 minutes later, his eyes come back, and he starts crying and trying to move. he's still half unconscious, so he doesn't know what's going on. the nurse tries talking to him, asking him if he's been taking any drugs, smoking anything, if he's allergic to anything, etc. me and my friend are just trying to get him some room, cause the crowd's all over him.
another 10 minutes pass, and i'm starting to get pissed off.
5 minutes later it's been about 25 since an ambulance was apparently called. i said to the nurse "forget this, the guy's going to be dead by the time they come". by this time he's murmuring stuff, but i can't hear what... we can pick out "yes" and "no", so i say "does it hurt?" he says "yes" and carries on crying. i then go through the procedure to see if he's hurt his back at all... he hasn't, so i picked him up (much to the horror of the crowd) and me, my friend, and the nurse still holding the jacket to his head and holding his hand start making our way quickly to my car which is somewhat close. i put him in the back seat with my friend holding the jacket. my car's never gone faster, but i got him to the hospital in less than 5 minutes with no problems.
what happened to him? i don't know, but i'm sure he was alright. i'd checked his wallet, and he had an ID, so i'm sure the hospital got in touch with his parents. i never heard anything else from the nurse, who had gone by the time i arrived back at the movie theater. the fire department (yeah, instead of an ambulance a fire truck has arrived :p ;) ) had arrived by now, and i told them what i did, and everything, and so they left, and i decided instead of seeing a movie (this kind of thing is stressful you know) i would get something to eat with my friend, then we'd go home and go to bed.
i guess for emergency responses you've got to expect them to take a long time to get there, because they do the best they can.
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I'd believe the original tale of woe if not for one little bit:
Originally posted by Stealth
with 4 friends
There's no way you've got 4 friends. Let alone friends who could afford to buy a van.
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damn that must have been a horrible sight (not to mention a horrible experience for the motorist).
Allthough I must admit it was really really idiotic to ride without a helmet it's still good to hear he's propably ok.
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Stealth, what are you like a magnet for accidents? Wherever you go, **** follows:D :D
Luckily, I've never been in a situation where I or anyone close to me required emergency response, so I don't know about how quickly ambulances arrive. But if its like 25+ minutes, thats way to long. Its not so bad if you have people with healthcare training around, so you know what you can and can't do to the person, but if theres is no one around who knows what they're doing, then they might either hurt him more by turning him over etc or not help him when he needs it (you know the "I don't know what to do, I'm not touching him" mentality).
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i did some work for the fire department in our area, and as soon as school settles down and i've got more time i'm going to volunteer again.
i dunno, i haven't seen many bad accidents in my life. other than the one yesterday and the one at the movie theater, i can't think offhand of something.
an0n: wow you're one to talk and you know it. 1st, vans don't cost that much, you can get a new van for less than $15,000 over here... i don't know about in the UK. 2nd, puhleaazzeee i do have at least four friends ;).
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Compensating for something?
(http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/432CABN/0008PreMob/KMob660h.jpg)
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ummm....wtf?
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oh yeah, compensating for a *looks at picture*... bunch of people? a mob? i only see 5 men in camo standing around.
am i the only one that doesn't get it?
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They're shooting fish in a barrel.
EDIT: Well, it's more of a bin than a barrel, but its still valid.
Not only are you friendless, you're also a special-needs child.
How depressingly humorous.
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OK let's all ignore an0n, he's trying to get another thread off-topic and trying to get himself some attention.
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If I wanted attention, I'd just repost those pics of your mom
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a good rule of thumb regarding an0n is to just ignore him, because he lives off attention. that's his primary purpose in life. he's one of those people that will do anything they can to get attention.
just ignore him, he'll go away.
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We've tried, and he has....
*looks at an0n's post count*
managed to stick around and spam a lot still.
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well i guess some people just get their thrills from watching people get pissed off at them.
oh well, whatever floats your boat.
Oh, you're just jealous because no-one's paying you any attention you little attention whore you.
people are catching on to his act
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It's nice how you nevery directly 'speak' to me in that post in an effort to avoid confrontation.
From this I summise several things:
[list=1]- You know that in an argument, I'd beat you like Ike beat Tina.
- You are of a conflict-avoiding nature.
- While you avoid any potentially damaging confrontations, you aren't above working your mouth.
- You attempt to influence peoples opinions and actions by way of directly telling them to act a certain way on the false premise that you know what you're talking about. This shows that you are very aware of your mental short-comings and actively try to rush people along so that they do not have sufficient time to think and realise that all your purported strengths are nothing but glitter. A relatively unconvincing and elaborate mix of smoke and mirrors.
- From the aforementioned 2 points, I believe you are the human equivelant of a Butterfly. All big and scary in principle, enough so that the dumber animals run from your evil patterns and colours, but bigger, smarter animals can cripple you with so little as a stray brush against you.
What I'm trying to say, dearest Stealth, is that I'm going to pour glue on your wings and pull off your legs purely because I don't like insects, no matter how impresive or flashy they like to appear.
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Who's Ike and Tina?
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Originally posted by Unknown Target
Who's Ike and Tina?
Oddly enough, I'm not going to mock you for that.
Ike and Tina Turner.
Ike beat the **** out of her.
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Well, Stealth ain't posted yet, so I guess he's doing a point-by-point of my post.
What a dumbass.
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I do enjoy these little battles of "wit".
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It's not so much a battle of wit as a battle of who's got the most time to waste 'insulting' the other.
Unfortunately for the flash-whore, I'll win that one every time.
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Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
I do enjoy these little battles of "wit".
Battles of little wit is more like it. Please go do something more productive Anon.
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I would, but due to.....issues and my now very much hateful feelings towards PenguinBomb.com, I have nothing better to do.
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You could listen to some Mr Scruff. DG will back me up, as he got me into it.
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Normally, I wouldn't do this but: WTF is Mr Scruff?
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Yea I know how that feels, to see an accident.
I live on route 20, its a 4 lane highway, and theres a sharp curve about 100 feet down from where I live and prople like to fly around this corner, the speedlimit is 55mph, but drops to 35mph for the curve. About 4 years ago I was sitting watchin TV, its about midnight and I hear a car comming very fast, I think to myself, whoever that is they better slow down, but he dosen`t and I hear tire squeeling and 3 big crashes, like a car flipping over and over.. Well I woke my wife and told her she better call 911. Then I rushed out the door and ran down the road to help, if i`d known what I was about to see I would have stayed put. The accident happened in front of a bar (pub) and drunken patrons are trying to help, they were outside when this took place.
I find a blazer upside down, one with the removable fiberglass top, the top is scattered in pieces all around, no one is left in the blazer which had 4 occupants, they were laying in different areas, execpt the driver, he is wandering around like in a trance.. I ask him if he`s alright, didn`t get an answer, he just stared at me.
I approached another, that I could hear moaning, it was a girl, her right leg looked like it was on backwards, she was pinned between the blazer and another car that was parked. My wife is now arriving on the sceen and she is checking on a man that is laying on the ground unconsious.
But the 3rd guy is laying in a small ditch in the parking lot, when I approached I could smell his insides, He is laying in a ditch filled with his own blood. One of the drunken patrons watched this guys body get thrown into the air so high he hit the powerlines which cut a gash in his side before falling to the ground. This patron`s thought it was part of the blazer..
Within 20 minuets of the accident I could hear sirens meaning help was on the way.
Well I had chest pains for several hours afterwards, my wife had me go to the hospital to be checked out, she thought I was having a heart attack.
To sum it up, one person died, the unconsious guy is now parlized from the neck down, the girl had a shatered pelvis bone and lost an eye, and, oh the driver is serving time for manslaughter. Now when a car speeds by I remember this and curse them to slow down.
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Originally posted by an0n
Normally, I wouldn't do this but: WTF is Mr Scruff?
Ohhh dear.
www.mrscruff.com
However, none of the music is on there.
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Originally posted by Whitelight
Yea I know how that feels, to see an accident.
I live on route 20, its a................... when a car speeds by I remember this and curse them to slow down.
I smell a Darwin Award.
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Pleasent story. Just what I needed for the day.
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Originally posted by an0n
Well, Stealth ain't posted yet, so I guess he's doing a point-by-point of my post.
What a dumbass.
yeah, Stealth "ain't" posted because he went to get something to eat at Ihop.
this may come as a shock to you, but some people actually do leave the computer, in fact, they actually leave their house to go do things, like see movies, go skating, skiing, hang out with friends, etc.
It's not so much a battle of wit as a battle of who's got the most time to waste 'insulting' the other.
Unfortunately for the flash-whore, I'll win that one every time.
Yeah, i'll give it to you, you definately have a lotttttt more time than i do... but hey, if i had no life i'm sure i'd have the same time you have.
Fortunately for the attention-whore, he wins that time.
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Oh and an0n, what the **** is up with you constantly making long posts using very big words when you're trying to make a point? It's very uncool. do you think it gets you attention? i know you do you InSidious lil' ***** but it's getting quite old now. if you don't have anything cool and/or on-topic to say, why not leave the computer (yeah, leave the computer...) and go get a life. yeah, go see a movie. go do something other than sit all day insulting people in your feeble effort to get attention.
i just glanced through that whole paragraph you must've spend a long time writing, and you're losing your skill... your "speeches" are getting more and more pathetic.
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Remember what I said the other day about acting like a bunch of fannys? (sp?).
:wtf: :rolleyes:
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Wow. I'm hurt.
I say I've got a limitless amount of free time and you......agree. Very scathing.
And it takes me very little time indeed to write that stuff.
All in all, you get a nice big:
[size=40]MEH[/size].
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Originally posted by vyper
Remember what I said the other day about acting like a bunch of fannys? (sp?).
:wtf: :rolleyes:
Fannies.
It's not a noun or pronoun so you go with the 'ies'.
Unless you meant "a bunch of women named Fanny" in which case you need to use a capital F.
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you've got to remember vyper, it's almost always an0n that starts it. i do remember the thread where you said that... and if you remember correctly it was in that thread (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,16640.0.html) that an0n came in dragging it off topic and starting to insult people.
yeah an0n, you're 100% right... i do agree you've got wayyy too much time on your hands.
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Originally posted by Stealth
you've got to remember vyper, it's almost always an0n that starts it.
And?
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Originally posted by an0n
And?
and pissing people off is definately not cool.
people don't respect you for being annoying
:yes:
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Rise HIGHER flames, higher! Reach for the sky, and burn the heavens!
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:p
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Originally posted by Stealth
yeah an0n, you're 100% right... i do agree you've got wayyy too much time on your hands.
Again, you're trying to use that as an insult.
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no, i'm trying to say that because you have too much time on your hands and are an attention-whore, you try to annoy people, and think it's cool and you're getting respect
...which you're not
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Originally posted by Stealth
and pissing people off is definately not cool.
people don't respect you for being annoying
:yes:
See, this is where your point collapses. I don't give a **** if people respect me or pay me attention.
I do **** because I like doing it.
I don't give a fuck if some little retard net-geek in Switzerland thinks I'm funny or cool or clever or a fag or annoying. I could give a fuck what you and the faggots like you think.
Go stick your fingers in a socket or something. Do the world a favour.
It's people like you, Stealth, who demonstrate time and time again that natural selection is a pure lottery as opposed to a force for good, that make me pray for a nice plague or nuclear war.
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It's people like you, Stealth, who demonstrate time and time again that natural selection is a pure lottery as opposed to a force for good, that make me pray for a nice plague or nuclear war.
and it's people like you that annoy the shit out of everybody!
(http://www.swooh.com/lorenzo/post-6-1060372893.jpg)
you can "go fuck yourself"
now... can we please get this back on topic? i'm sure everyone's seen enough of your immaturity. kthx.
Whitelight: that's pretty scary man
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Wow. Get it back on-topic. You mean another 50 posts of "DARWIN AWARD!" and "Oh, that's so terrible."?
Oh, goody. :doubt:
Again: Sockets.
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Battles of little wit is more like it. Please go do something more productive Anon.
Remember what I said the other day about acting like a bunch of fannys? (sp?).
You guys, just because you are too disillusioned and your hearts are too black with rage, hate, anger and a desire to be the one to make everyone 'play nice' doesn't mean the rest of us aren't laughing our asses off in enjoyment :p :D
and pissing people off is definately not cool.
people don't respect you for being annoying.
Pissing people off is one of the great pleasures in life. Especially the kind who react like you. :) I mean, c'mon, you got to realise you are asking for it.
On that note: Just for uh.. future reference, pick another activity for 'getting a life'. Seeing a movie or going dancing or whatever you like to do is hardly higher than being here.
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Guys, I'd launch into some long and detailed break-down of why you're all so incredibly similar in how annoying and pathetic you can both be, but I'm just to tired to bother. I will do my usual act of locking the thread though, and kindly implore you to shut the **** up, and leave eachother alone. Thankyou.