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WTF??!!!? - The 'What The F*ck' Thread

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    #2402
    New Home
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    Look, he's standing on his own two legs and not a scratch on him. Definitely lucky, in my book. The chap driving, on the other hand, either took a turn or something malfunctioned in the minivan, it was still accelerating after it crashed.


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    #2403
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    New Home wrote: »
    Look, he's standing on his own two legs and not a scratch on him. Definitely lucky, in my book. The chap driving, on the other hand, either took a turn or something malfunctioned in the minivan, it was still accelerating after it crashed.
    There has been a worrying increase in these types of crashes where the "drive by wire" accelerator goes to state "1" full power and the driver having no control at all.


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    #2404
    New Home
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    Look up "cruise control faults"... you'll never, ever, ever use it again.


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    #2405
    bladespin
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    New Home wrote: »
    Look up "cruise control faults"... you'll never, ever, ever use it again.

    Esp dodgy in an automatic.


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    #2406
    Higgins5473
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    New Home wrote: »
    Look up "cruise control faults"... you'll never, ever, ever use it again.

    Used it once about 15 years ago on a wet motorway. Lost control of the car and ended up spinning 90 degrees spread across the two lanes. At a busy time of day somehow there were no cars coming towards me. Never used it since and never will. I subsequently found out it is not advisable to use cruise control on wet roads. Car was aquaplaning and wheels looking for traction with the cruise control going into overdrive. My fault but surely there are so many warnings features in cars there be something standard in all cars about wet condition caution.


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    #2407
    mr_fegelien
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    #2408
    New Home
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    Higgins5473 wrote: »
    Used it once about 15 years ago on a wet motorway. Lost control of the car and ended up spinning 90 degrees spread across the two lanes. At a busy time of day somehow there were no cars coming towards me. Never used it since and never will. I subsequently found out it is not advisable to use cruise control on wet roads. Car was aquaplaning and wheels looking for traction with the cruise control going into overdrive. My fault but surely there are so many warnings features in cars there be something standard in all cars about wet condition caution.


    Then there's the part when they get stuck, you can't switch them off and you can't brake... there have been lots of cases (especially in the Middle East), but one of those that struck me the most was the story of a poor man in the UK who died when his car wouldn't stop and ended up under a lorry - he was decapitated.


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    #2409
    snow scorpion
    Registered Users Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭snow scorpion


    "That's a twenty-footer!"

    "Twenty-five. Three tons of him."

    I'm not even going to guess at the size of the bird.

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1278859871471808512


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    #2410
    New Home
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    Yeah, I don't think so. While very impressive, I doubt that shark is bigger than 5ft. Unless they were talking about the eagle's wingspan.


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    #2411
    Captain_Crash
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    New Home wrote: »
    Yeah, I don't think so. While very impressive, I doubt that shark is bigger than 5ft. Unless they were talkjng about the eagle's wingspan.

    It ain’t even a shark..... it’s a mackerel


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    #2412
    Mellor
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    Captain_Crash wrote: »
    It ain’t even a shark..... it’s a mackerel

    And the bird is an osprey. Which grow to 6ft wingspan.
    No idea where there the 25ft cam from


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    #2413
    Gaoth Laidir
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    Mellor wrote: »
    And the bird is an osprey. Which grow to 6ft wingspan.
    No idea where there the 25ft cam from

    It's a quote from Jaws.



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    #2414
    inforfun
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75Mw8r5gW8E


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    #2415
    Professor Moriarty
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    Whatever about the video, the music is sh1te.


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    #2416
    snow scorpion
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    Gaoth Laidir wrote: »
    It's a quote from Jaws.


    Thank you, Gaoth Laidir.

    There are people in the world who haven't seen Jaws yet? 😲


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    #2417
    New Home
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    I watched it back in the late '70s/ early '80s, what would make you think I'd remember all the lines?


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    #2418
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    New Home wrote: »
    I watched it back in the late '70s/ early '80s, what would make you think I'd remember all the lines?
    Well apart from "we're gonna need a bigger boat!" I can't remember any of the dialogue.


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    #2419
    Mr Crispy
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    This was no boating accident!


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    #2420
    RobertFoster
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    That's some bad hat, Harry.


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    #2421
    New Home
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    #2422
    Capt'n Midnight
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    #2423
    Capt'n Midnight
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    #2424
    Mellor
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    Gaoth Laidir wrote: »
    It's a quote from Jaws.


    Funnily enough it reminded me of the shark size in jaws. I just didn’t recognise it as a direct quote.


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    #2425
    snow scorpion
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    The NY Times might want to put some ice on that burn.

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    #2426
    inforfun
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    ^^^^^
    I wouldnt hold my breath

    Only last week they came with this one

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    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbhnqPjWkAcPD6C.jpg


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    #2427
    iLikeWaffles
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    #2428
    New Home
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    That'd be a good one for the maps thread in AH.

    Very sobering.


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    #2429
    NIMAN
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    New Home wrote: »
    That'd be a good one for the maps thread in AH.

    Very sobering.

    That must be the opioid crisis then.


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    #2430
    KevRossi
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    It's done by U.S county. If you look at the worst counties on the 1999 map in the mid-west, they are almost all exclusively counties with large native american reservations. Sad to see.


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    #2431
    iLikeWaffles
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    There's another possibility, they only started to be documented as overdose from 2014 and onwards likely being documented as accidental suicide.


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