TGIF! Congrats on making it to the first weekend of no football. On the positive side, that means Sunday Gravy is right around the corner, and let me tell you, it’s starting to smell awfully good in the content mines.
Survival – Personal Edition
Today we’re preparing for warmer weather, when we can take our motorcycles out on the roads again. Now, those two wheels of motion aren’t all fun and joy. In fact, they can pose significant danger when not operated properly. Let’s go over just one not so fun scenario: Losing traction!
- Don’t panic! When the motorcycle starts to skid, stay on the bike and try to regain control. The tires can recover traction and allow you to ride away.
- Once you realize regaining control is off the table, you want to induce a low side crash where you lay the bike down on its side in front of you. Easiest way to do this is apply full braking front and rear to allow the tires to slide. If you’ve ever seen a high side crash, you know exactly why not to keep fighting the bike at this point. With a high side crash, the tires suddenly gain traction, the bike stands up, and you get tossed up in the air.
- Fortunately, you’ve accepted the low side crash. Here’s why you separate yourself from the bike and slide on your back. Keep your arms and legs slightly spread and keep your head up so you can see where you’re sliding. You did remember ATGATT? All The Gear All The Time? That’ll make this slide safer, though you will need new gear.
- Once you stop sliding, hold still for a bit. All that adrenaline might mask an injury. The other helpful benefit of this is you won’t be tempted to stand up with still sliding. That will cause a high side without the help of the bike.
- Check yourself for injuries. Wiggle those fingers and toes and make sure everything’s still connected and working. After that go ahead and check on the bike. It’ll look like a mess, but it should still be able to get you home.
Congrats! You survived a motorcycle wreck like a pro. Ride safely out there folks!
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Survival – Species Edition
Time to put the sexy in Friday!
Enjoy the weekend, folks! Alright, now let’s get to what’s most important: Commenting and drinking!
I’m doing a really fun thing and I’m learning Portuguese.
I’ve fucked around with free lessons and YouTube and shit so some absorption happened.
I’m in a structured course now and I’ve got an 8 day streak.
Swear to God man there was a moment today when something clicked.
I want to keep learning something! For the rest of my life.
Must. Keep. Brain. Sharp!
Portuguese seems so much harder than Spanish, I wonder why?
Something to do with butts, I’d guess. Maybe Balls knows?
Once you get to the nouns the similarities are there. The pronouns are a bit of work.
Checking in late but present and accounted for.
Wow. That week happened.
How we doing folks?
I like how conservatives are feeling the need to have to pretend that Idaho, Montana and the Dakotas have anything worth spying on in them.
Isn’t that where all our nuclear missiles are located?
Oh yes.
Not all of them
True. They should not be geographically concentrated in one region.
Yeah ya bunch of bandwagon clowns
Are drinks under 70 proof even worth my time? I wonder
I’ll let my spirit animals answer this for me:
Is it just me or is Rob Lowe starting to look like Rachel Maddow’s sister?
I can see it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8fkdBz2bds
Evening
Sup
Just waiting for Redshirt at LAX.
Are you wearing a Mahomes jersey?
Joe Montana/Joey Porter mashup
Tom Brady Michigan throwback.
That’s just mean!
Wait, did I miss something? Is he getting on a plane? Is our sweet Ohio boy leaving the farm for the wicked city?
He’s my Godot
https://vimeo.com/693405435
I can’t stop watching this.
Honestly, I love the A380 and In-n-Out so this video is perfect for me.
I’m surprised every time how that A380 is hidden by that billboard. I know it’s there and I can never see it.
Speaking of awesome planes, the last ever 747 did a nice design on the way to their customer.
That’s 400 level class maneuver in Repo Tactics.
Trucker joke from a friend. SWIFT== Stevie Wonder Institute For Trucking. Or Sure Wish I Finished Training.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFkBAjkj2JQ
Your lesson against double parking in the former Soviet block.
Live look at me right now
I hear that it’s kind of cold somewhere back east. Probably in the 50’s.
Have you considered staying indoors?
Weve been keeping our beer in a cooler outside to have extra space in the fridge. I had to bring the cooler inside to make sure the beer didnt explode
I’ve been reading a book about food and it has quoted from a 1544 tract called Boke of Chyldren. The advice about hiring a wet nurse stipulates, “Ye must be well advised in takyng of a nourse not of yll complexion and of worse maners, but suche as shall be sobre, honest and chaste, well fourmed, amyable and chearefull…no dronkarde, vycyous* nor sluttysshe for suche correpteth the nature of the chylde”.
*turns out that not being viscous has been a positive attribute for quite some time
Chaste wet nurses, no wonder child mortality was so high.
Try googling ‘wet nurses’ with Safe Search off (for research purposes). It’s one hell of a wormhole that’ll take you anywhere from 90 seconds to three hours to emerge from.
Translated from this ancient tome:
These gifs are from the archive of my first image posts on KSK, way back when:
“Landed right in the middle!”
=B. Walsh
Our off season is going to need these
/pictured
Brett Maher enjoying his favorite hobby.
Honestly,* if Horatio didn’t rec this joke I would have wandered out into the snow and the -31 Farfegnugen temperature that I’m not enjoying at the moment.
*PFFFT! Are you kidding me?
I know it’s an illusion
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but that girl diving off the boat looks like she’s about to take one hell of a face plant onto the deck.
That’s a great idea. Just need to put a shadow on that lower deck to really sell it.
I REALLY like that velour bikini!
And I’ll bet you have the legs to make it work!
Like this:
The term “Like this:” is used here in the context of “in a similar fashion as” and NOT to be construed as “please click the little plus button.” I don’t need your fucking approval. Yes I do. I hate my mother.
I feel like yelling “Dumbass” at her.
All this is missing is her getting hit in the face with a pie.
If you want to see her jam her face in a pie, Mr Ayo has that on his other site.
That site is starting to pop!
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There was much face pie following this picture.
Bless you good sir.
And not only that, she really did fix the plumbing afterwards!
Indeed, the pipes are clean.
And if you need something to watch right now, Bathurst qualifying is getting under way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkBEZJhj_nI
Holy shit. A 2:01 lap, fastest ever for the event.
26 more minutes folks. Tune in!
I can’t explain how much it kills every driver to be that close to breaking 2:00 and not do it. The pole position is .053 from getting to 2:00 flat and they are super pissed about it.
I spent 5 years hitting times at 2:00.x at Thunderhill and was so pissed that I couldn’t make up that last bit to get under, or get the right weather to get under, or live 11 hours away and only get at most 2 days there a year. Fortunately for me, I did it. These poor suckers, though, they have yet another year of anguish reliving every second of every qualifying lap that could have been done different to get there.
Is it feasible though? At some point, you reach a limit, don’t you?
They’ll get there in the next few years. They’re held back only by tire technology and suspension setups, which will have to change with better tires.
Tire traction is behind brake and suspension technology. Also, if GT race regulations stop restricting aero aids, they’d be well below 2 minutes immediately.
True. A similar thing happens in NASCAR. They lower the speeds artificially through restrictor plates and aero rules.
Bathurst is my favourite track in the world. Whoever came up with that idea was a mad genius.
I started watching Black Panther and hated it. Am I a racist?
Probably; but what’s your opinion on the movie got to do with it?
He’s not, because as an Italian he’s already on the bottom rung.
What about the dirty, hirsute Slovaks? They never get any credit for being the dregs of humanity. And they work so hard at it!
Gumby is Slovak. Can confirm the hirsute part.
How do you nicely tell some horrible wench at work to mind her own business?
I was going with “Fuck off and die”, but I like my job
Seriously, this woman is a full blown kook and in addition to being a bible beater – telling me to have a blessed day – her perfume could knock out an orca whale
Bless Your Heart is a standard.
Complain about the scent to HR
chicks, man
Keep dry y’all, unless you in the Newer England, in which case hah suckers gotta deal with the crap I put up with for years in Chi before moving!
NYC owl is keeping dry.
In fairness, it is brick outside.
/YERRRRP!
//Unties Timbs
///Dick joke
Like this:
“I am so gettin’ laid tonight. Heh heh. Let me try one more thing to get them real wet..WHA—“
Gotta admire his experimental approach to Parkour.