..now you dont even have to leave your stool to get a DUI.
I'll post some pictures of ours
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Archfeld
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· Score: 4, Interesting
fun, but dangerous as HELL. We've had several ambulance calls on various people, they sit in the garage alot as a result.
-- errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
From the bad title choice department
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Joe+Tie.
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· Score: 3, Funny
Thank goodness, I thought this one was going to be about competitions betwean bacteria cultures.
-- Everything will be taken away from you.
what a disappointment
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carpe_noctem
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· Score: 4, Funny
Is it just me or was anyone else disappointed that their use of the acronym "NOBRA" was only used in relation to a bunch of fat guys on minicarts, instead of say...*cough*. heh.
-- "Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
Re:what a disappointment
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Lefty2446
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· Score: 1
You miss the point, It's a method for getting to the beer FASTER...
Also, wasn't something like this posted on slashdot before?
not sure what to think about it but
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ralico
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· Score: 4, Funny
It might be better than being seen on a segway.
--
SCO to Hell
This sport is popular in England along with
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zymano
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Lawn mower racing is pretty popular in England also. The English don't use the same lawn mowers as us Americans. We have to drive SUV style riding lawnmowers.
Re:This sport is popular in England along with
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AndroidCat
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· Score: 1
In Norway they seem to go for that cross-country endurance thing.
-- One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
The Bar Racer Theme Song
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buyo-kun
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· Score: 5, Funny
Here he comes
Here comes Bar Racer
He's a drunk on wheels
He's a drunk and he's gonna be chasin' after someone
He's gainin' on you
So you better look alive
He's busy revvin' up the powerful Stool 5
And when the odds are against him
And there's dangerous work to do
You bet your life Bar Racer will see it through
Go Bar Racer
Go Bar Racer
Go Bar Racer, GO!
He's off and puttaerin'
As he guns the stool around the track
He's jammin' down the pedal
Like he's never comin' back
Drinks waitin' just ahead
Go Bar Racer
Go Bar Racer
Go Bar Racer, GO!
Re:The Bar Racer Theme Song
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Menkhaf
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· Score: 1
So what melody is used here?
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Re:The Bar Racer Theme Song
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FiNaLe
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· Score: 1
I think it's a Charlie Daniels Band tune... Something about Stroker Ace I think
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The REAL jabber has the user id: 13196
What you do today will cost you a day of your life
Stooling while intoxicated
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sssmashy
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· Score: 5, Funny
In other news, motorized bar stool DUI accidents have increased 800% in the past year.
"The bar stool carnage on our streets must end," warned a source from the local police department. "Anyone convicted of driving bar stools while intoxicated will be prosecured to the fullest extent of the law."
In prison, these maniacs will find fellow inmates who are more than willing to 'drive in their stools'"
Did you see...
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 5, Informative
The site claims that some of the gas-powered stools run up to 50 mph!
With the small footprint that these babies have, I wonder how many of the builders consider the problem with a tight turning radius on a VERY top-heavy cart (the site also claims this a 'sport for the overweight') at 50 mph.
I have a very vivid mental image of one of these turning at that speed, and it don't look fun.
On another note, I can't resist:
Get pulled over on one of these and you'll likely have to take a breath-alyzer and give a STOOL SAMPLE.
Excuse me, I simply love a bad pun.
-- Getting diabetes AND salmonella would be a bad weekend.
What? No Linux or BSD-powered computer controlling it?
Pah, not good enough.
(Sorry, couldn't resist;)
--
What is the point of the internet?
Our chairs have wheels, but we never go anywhere
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koolmama
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· Score: 1
This whole bar stool thing seems to be a very *unstable* sport with lots of *crashes* likely. (Maybe Microsoft can become the corporate sponsor.) We geeks need something more *stable* and with more *freedom* in a non-computerized activity...like maybe crocheting keyboard cozies.
former stool racer
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Spicy+Bisquit
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· Score: 4, Funny
i used to race stools back in highschool. but that all ended when i contracted shigellosis. all that remains from those golden days is the nickname "stink hand" and a spot of brown under my left pink i cannot seem to remove.
It's NOT New.
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repetty
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· Score: 3, Interesting
"...the new and fascinating sport of bar stool racing."
Sorry, my hometown newspaper, the Austin-American Statesman (Texas), published a story about bar stool races back in 1976 or so (when I was in high school).
Fascinating, yes. New? Not by a long shot.
What we need is a good forum on that new-fangled thing, the "compact disk".
Certainly not new from my perspective either. Altho my momory dosen't go back to '76, In '85 or so it was (and still is) a fun (and sometimes very serious) pastime among street rodders.
The bar stool races I first saw were held as part of the New Zealand Hot Rod Summer Nationals in Hamilton, NZ. I even got photos if anyones keen. The one that sparked my attention was a lovely made bar stool with a Honda CB550 engine. these were all made to the regulations of having a standard 'bar stool' track (and wheelbase) of around 20 inches, not these wide track models seen at barstool....com.
I have heard rumour that shortly after Richard Pearse claimed the first powered flight by man (before the Wright's), he used a powered bar stool
as transit to the nearest pub.
-- this is not a flawless plan.. this is inspiration
Sittin on a bar stool, actin like a damn fool...
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Nikkos
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· Score: 2, Funny
Okay, so it's a go-kart with a barstool instead of a normal seat. With the high center of gravity, I only have two questions: How long 'til some drunk ass kills himself, and how large will the resulting lawsuit be?
"Tipsy" is the key word here.
I�ve got an official stool racing�
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 3, Funny
...drag strip in my pants right now.
Re:I�ve got an official stool racing�
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wideBlueSkies
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· Score: 1
That would be a skid mark. Right?
-- Huh?
Re:I�ve got an official stool racing�
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visgoth
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· Score: 1
So that what those skid marks in your underwear are from.
-- My patience is infinite, my time is not.
Re:Sittin on a bar stool, actin like a damn fool..
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buyo-kun
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Maybe they should add a breathelizer to the Bar Stool, so that it shuts down when the guy gets a bit to "Tipsy" ^_^.
On the other hand, isn't this a great solution to escalating drinking problems. It'd work better then prohibtion no doubt.
Sullivan, of Tauranga, confessed to having "had a few". (Amazing, I would have thought he was racing semi-naked with his a** on fire and perfectly sober!)
-- One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Another interesting variety.
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Jerk+City+Troll
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Some of my old friends from Duquesne and I would get together, toss back a few drinks (we tended to pass a bottle of vodka, whisky, and rum in turn). Afterwards, we would engage in the dangerous sport of Dormatory Dolly Racing.
Dormatory Dolly Racing (DDR) involves standing on the thin piece of sheet metal that bears the load to be moved. You then lean forward some and try to kick yourself down the hall up to a speed where you can roll without propulsion. Then the trick is to balance it without falling forwards. Needless to say, we had many bloody knuckles after these games.
When it finally sank into our drunken heads that balance was difficult while intoxicated, we engaged in a subtly different variety: Dormatory Dolly Tobogganing. That was a killer on the knees...
Is that the shortest slashdot post ever? Sure looks it.
My god, the morons are at it again!
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KimiDalamori
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· Score: 1
Just looking at those things, they look like they're horribly topeheavy. I don't need a degree in physics to know whats gonna happen when I try to corner with one of those things... They don't even try to compensate by having a wide base. I would _NOT_ want to be one of the guys riding these things.
-- Lagito ergo expectabo
Re:My god, the morons are at it again!
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satterth
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· Score: 1
this is why you LEAN into the corner
-- Being called a dork on Slashdot must be like being called the retard in special ed.
Id love to see the kind of hits that site gets ehhe
-- Slashdot - The one stop shop for procrastination
Re:Barstool Racing? WTF?
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Slashdot+Junky
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Man,
Lighten up and stop faulting people for having different interests.
At least these people have a hobby they care about and can share. I bet these people are quite passionate about their form of racing. As serious as it needs to be for safety, it is also very much about having fun and the bringing together of two great passtimes...drinking with your buds and pushing limits! It probably started as a joke and look what it has become!
I wish I had the time and know-how to do something like this!
Later, -Slashdot Junky .
-- .
Landfill Mining Co. Managing the (Un)natural Resources of Tomorrow
Also featured on tonight's news: A Prominent citizen of San Francisco has expressed concern about how speeding bar stools on the sidewalks can mercilessly mow down senior citizens and pedestrians. He said that he will consider writing to the mayor to ban bar stools from straying outside his favourite hangout.
On further investigation we found that the said citizen "John Doe" was an avid slashdotter and his comments were based on the code of the slashdotters: "Thou shalt comment without reading the article". On reading the webpage Mr Doe grinned and said "Oh er em, those bar stool racers, sounds kinda cool huh?"
This might be the perfect substitute for BattleBots on Comedy Central sports! Toss in some gyroscopes for stabilization! Pop a couple of sledgehammers (is that a drink, too?) onto the sides. Maybe a claw on the front.
-- I had a sucky sig.
Lawn Mower DUI Offender Looking For New Transporta
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LeRoco
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· Score: 1
Lawn Mower DUI Offender Looking For New Transportation
From a Recent Local Newspaper Story "Johnston City, Illinois: Police officers wrote a DUI to a habitual offender because he was using his Lawn Tractor to go bar hopping."....... "They were able to track his whereabouts by following the wide swath of freshly cut grass in the neighborhood."
If this "Johnston City" man ever finds out about Bar Stool Racing, how will the cops be able to find him?
Ya know, it's stuff like this that makes a lot of the Middle Eastern folk want to crash planes into our buildings:-/
*Disclaimer - it's just a joke. Get over it.
--
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
- G.B. Shaw
wear. proper. protection?
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lingqi
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· Score: 4, Informative
I mean, seriously though! They make clothes that (they are called "armors," btw) that will take that kind of abuse and have you come out scratch free.
On the motorcycle side of things, people routinely walk away (bruised, but not seriously harmed otherwise) when they go out of control riding in the lower three digits. And a barstool is what, fastest at 45mph?
I mean, I see them people sitting on the stools, mostly wearing clothes they would go to a bar with - that's suicidal! there is a reason why there are body armors out there, and yes they do work (granted, a few grand for a nice riding suit)
Then again, maybe it's just a way to eliminate people from the gene pool.
Re:wear. proper. protection?
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tapenick
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· Score: 1
Good point... but bike racers are usually leaned into a turn only a few inches from the ground and already in a nice sliding position when they go down. Getting slammed from barstool height @ 45 could actually be more damaging.
Re:wear. proper. protection?
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Archfeld
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· Score: 1
I ride bikes as well, both street and dirt, and yes we have helmets pads ect. but the basic design of a bar stool racer is BAD:) to high up and unbalanced. Just the slightest wheel nudge and it will go over. Running around by yourself is cool, contact with anything or anyone else and roadrash..
They are FUN though:)
-- errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
Slashdot Mirror
Can you get done for drink driving?
btw, FP!
So, I suppose its part of the rules that you must drink and drive?
And btw... at our college here, there were toilet racer things. Had quite some pep in them.
Probably ran on methane.
..now you dont even have to leave your stool to get a DUI.
fun, but dangerous as HELL. We've had several ambulance calls on various people, they sit in the garage alot as a result.
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
Thank goodness, I thought this one was going to be about competitions betwean bacteria cultures.
Everything will be taken away from you.
Is it just me or was anyone else disappointed that their use of the acronym "NOBRA" was only used in relation to a bunch of fat guys on minicarts, instead of say...*cough*. heh.
"Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
The very idea! The last thing I want is for my bar stool to move away from my drink!
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
Just wondering, how does this tie in with the article about trace amounts of lead leading to lower IQs?
Ron Paul 2012
do it too.
Also, wasn't something like this posted on slashdot before?
It might be better than being seen on a segway.
SCO to Hell
Lawn mower racing is pretty popular in England also. The English don't use the same lawn mowers as us Americans. We have to drive SUV style riding lawnmowers.
Here he comes Here comes Bar Racer He's a drunk on wheels He's a drunk and he's gonna be chasin' after someone He's gainin' on you So you better look alive He's busy revvin' up the powerful Stool 5 And when the odds are against him And there's dangerous work to do You bet your life Bar Racer will see it through Go Bar Racer Go Bar Racer Go Bar Racer, GO! He's off and puttaerin' As he guns the stool around the track He's jammin' down the pedal Like he's never comin' back Drinks waitin' just ahead Go Bar Racer Go Bar Racer Go Bar Racer, GO!
Sounds like a crappy way to spend your time.
The REAL jabber has the user id: 13196
What you do today will cost you a day of your life
In other news, motorized bar stool DUI accidents have increased 800% in the past year.
"The bar stool carnage on our streets must end," warned a source from the local police department. "Anyone convicted of driving bar stools while intoxicated will be prosecured to the fullest extent of the law."
In prison, these maniacs will find fellow inmates who are more than willing to 'drive in their stools'"
The Jet Powered Bar Stool Racer?
And the Harley Bar Stool?
You got drinking in my driving!
Wait a second, we could have something here...
The site claims that some of the gas-powered stools run up to 50 mph!
With the small footprint that these babies have, I wonder how many of the builders consider the problem with a tight turning radius on a VERY top-heavy cart (the site also claims this a 'sport for the overweight') at 50 mph.
I have a very vivid mental image of one of these turning at that speed, and it don't look fun.
On another note, I can't resist:
Get pulled over on one of these and you'll likely have to take a breath-alyzer and give a STOOL SAMPLE.
Excuse me, I simply love a bad pun.
Getting diabetes AND salmonella would be a bad weekend.
Pah, not good enough.
(Sorry, couldn't resist ;)
What is the point of the internet?
This whole bar stool thing seems to be a very *unstable* sport with lots of *crashes* likely. (Maybe Microsoft can become the corporate sponsor.) We geeks need something more *stable* and with more *freedom* in a non-computerized activity...like maybe crocheting keyboard cozies.
i used to race stools back in highschool. but that all ended when i contracted shigellosis.
all that remains from those golden days is the nickname "stink hand" and a spot of brown under my left pink i cannot seem to remove.
"...the new and fascinating sport of bar stool racing."
Sorry, my hometown newspaper, the Austin-American Statesman (Texas), published a story about bar stool races back in 1976 or so (when I was in high school).
Fascinating, yes. New? Not by a long shot.
What we need is a good forum on that new-fangled thing, the "compact disk".
--Richard
Okay, so it's a go-kart with a barstool instead of a normal seat. With the high center of gravity, I only have two questions: How long 'til some drunk ass kills himself, and how large will the resulting lawsuit be?
"Tipsy" is the key word here.
...drag strip in my pants right now.
Maybe they should add a breathelizer to the Bar Stool, so that it shuts down when the guy gets a bit to "Tipsy" ^_^.
On the other hand, isn't this a great solution to escalating drinking problems. It'd work better then prohibtion no doubt.
Besides the wav making me jump out of my skin, anyone else find that one of their 3 catagories is titled "Gas Stool"?
/childish.but.amusing.humor
Can see the sponsorship stickers now in that catagory... "Sponsored by Del Taco(tm)" Or "Fueled by Green Burrito(tm)"
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Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. - Euripides
Well, it isn't THAT new. I remember watching an episode of That's Incredible, featuring barstool racing. (gasp! shame!)
When was that on... 1982 or something?
Stool racing!
Sullivan, of Tauranga, confessed to having "had a few". (Amazing, I would have thought he was racing semi-naked with his a** on fire and perfectly sober!)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
I would rather have the hemp car that Cheech and Chong drove in Up in Smoke.
Looks almost as fun as bed racing...
Happiness is like peeing yourself. Everybody can see it but only you can feel its warmth.
no, seriously. i thought i had everything. i was mistaken. now they just need to put the bar on wheels so it can follow me around ;)
today is spelling optional day.
Strap a couple out-rigger kegs to it to lower the CoG. Of course, as they empty...
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Imagine one of these built by the same people who build those 400HP Honda Civics with the coffee can exhaust and 3' high spoiler.
Overrated / Underrated : Moderation
Some of my old friends from Duquesne and I would get together, toss back a few drinks (we tended to pass a bottle of vodka, whisky, and rum in turn). Afterwards, we would engage in the dangerous sport of Dormatory Dolly Racing.
Dormatory Dolly Racing (DDR) involves standing on the thin piece of sheet metal that bears the load to be moved. You then lean forward some and try to kick yourself down the hall up to a speed where you can roll without propulsion. Then the trick is to balance it without falling forwards. Needless to say, we had many bloody knuckles after these games.
When it finally sank into our drunken heads that balance was difficult while intoxicated, we engaged in a subtly different variety: Dormatory Dolly Tobogganing. That was a killer on the knees...
Join Tor today!
Is that the shortest slashdot post ever? Sure looks it.
Just looking at those things, they look like they're horribly topeheavy. I don't need a degree in physics to know whats gonna happen when I try to corner with one of those things... They don't even try to compensate by having a wide base. I would _NOT_ want to be one of the guys riding these things.
Lagito ergo expectabo
All this talk of stool... I'm almost tempted to post a link to that Goatse guy. :-P
Man,
Lighten up and stop faulting people for having different interests.
At least these people have a hobby they care about and can share. I bet these people are quite passionate about their form of racing. As serious as it needs to be for safety, it is also very much about having fun and the bringing together of two great passtimes...drinking with your buds and pushing limits! It probably started as a joke and look what it has become!
I wish I had the time and know-how to do something like this!
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
.
.
Landfill Mining Co.
Managing the (Un)natural Resources of Tomorrow
On further investigation we found that the said citizen "John Doe" was an avid slashdotter and his comments were based on the code of the slashdotters: "Thou shalt comment without reading the article". On reading the webpage Mr Doe grinned and said "Oh er em, those bar stool racers, sounds kinda cool huh?"
This might be the perfect substitute for BattleBots on Comedy Central sports!
Toss in some gyroscopes for stabilization! Pop a couple of sledgehammers (is that a drink, too?) onto the sides. Maybe a claw on the front.
I had a sucky sig.
Lawn Mower DUI Offender Looking For New Transportation
....... "They were able to track his whereabouts by following the wide swath of freshly cut grass in the neighborhood."
From a Recent Local Newspaper Story
"Johnston City, Illinois: Police officers wrote a DUI to a habitual offender because he was using his Lawn Tractor to go bar hopping."
If this "Johnston City" man ever finds out about Bar Stool Racing, how will the cops be able to find him?
After you've had a few and can no longer race your barstools, you can always race your Belt Sander.
There is no reasonable defense against an idiot with an agenda
:wq
shortest. summary. ever.
(yes I know the rainbow coalition will mod this as a troll)
Good call. Lighten up gay slashdotters, he's just poking a little fun at your penchant for sodomy and sticking things in your ass.
NORBA
;)
oh my gwad... a geek that actually gets outside...
Ya know, it's stuff like this that makes a lot of the Middle Eastern folk want to crash planes into our buildings :-/
*Disclaimer - it's just a joke. Get over it.
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it." - G.B. Shaw
I mean, seriously though! They make clothes that (they are called "armors," btw) that will take that kind of abuse and have you come out scratch free.
On the motorcycle side of things, people routinely walk away (bruised, but not seriously harmed otherwise) when they go out of control riding in the lower three digits. And a barstool is what, fastest at 45mph?
I mean, I see them people sitting on the stools, mostly wearing clothes they would go to a bar with - that's suicidal! there is a reason why there are body armors out there, and yes they do work (granted, a few grand for a nice riding suit)
Then again, maybe it's just a way to eliminate people from the gene pool.
My life in the land of the rising sun.
This isn't a new sport. Theres been a lot of bars in the Fox Valley area here in Wisconsin that have been doing it for -years-.
Maybe new in the "accepted as an olympic sport" sense, but in the grand scheme it's not.
My stool races every time I eat alot of fiber!
---- "Excuse me. Where's the children's gun section?"
So what kinda fuel does it run on? Corn?
"Derp de derp."
Turbines, Wheels, and CASE MODS!!!
Drive your PC to the next LAN Party!
I can see it now, "Well, I've got the Athlon XP2400, 2 GB of RAM, 250 GB of HD, GeForce 4ti 4200, and 350 Horse Power..."
--- I wish I could hear the soundtrack to my life. That way I'd know when to duck.