Hurricanes Lounge XXIX: The "Hot and Cold" edition

[Jerkob Slavin]

Motorcycle Pointers

1) There are two types of motorcycle riders: those that have been down and those that are going to go down...
2) See #1 above and dress for the crash, not the ride.

I wear an armored leather jacket, reinforced gloves, kevlar jeans, and a full face helmet. I laugh and shake my head when I see riders in shorts, a wife beater, and flip flops. Those fools are going to hate it when they bite it.

 

[garnetpalmetto]

Helmets weren't necessary in SC when I lived there. I had an ex whose mother was an ER nurse and she had a nickname for people who rode their bikes without a helmet: organ donors.

 

[The Jerk Store]

I was in the Dominican Republic the other day and apparently its ok to ride 2-3 deep on mopeds and motorcycles. None of the riders wore helmets. I can't imagine what their mortality rate is down there.

 

[TheBigKahuna]

"Those things are dangerous"

 

[SlavinAway]

Motorcycle Pointers

1) There are two types of motorcycle riders: those that have been down and those that are going to go down...
2) See #1 above and dress for the crash, not the ride.

I wear an armored leather jacket, reinforced gloves, kevlar jeans, and a full face helmet. I laugh and shake my head when I see riders in shorts, a wife beater, and flip flops. Those fools are going to hate it when they bite it.

Yep. Full face helmet saved my face and most likely my life. Good jacket and gloves did their job. Kevlar jeans would have been better than denim but if I'd had some armor or padding in my knees it would've gone a long way to reducing the 12 weeks I was out of work.

 

[raynman]

Have a friend who used to ride, he hit a vulture on the way in to work one morning. He was extremely lucky in that he didn’t die but he had to unwrap the bird from his torso and said he’ll never forget the smell. Not long after his parents bought his bike from him after a family friend lost a leg in an accident. Knew a guy in school whose life was pretty much ruined by medical debt after he wiped out and went spread eagle into a metal pole. I’ve rethought my motorcycle dreams.

 

[TheBigKahuna]

I've lost a couple of friends and known a few others who met their fate on bikes. It makes you stop and think. And to be honest, the Triangle is a terrible place to ride.

 

[Canes]

Helmets weren't necessary in SC when I lived there. I had an ex whose mother was an ER nurse and she had a nickname for people who rode their bikes without a helmet: organ donors.

Also called squids. Stupid, quick, underdressed, imminently dead.

I had a childhood friend that died a few years ago on his motorcycle through no fault of his own. A guy in a car didn't see him, pulled out in front of him and he t-boned the side of the car. He was a safe rider that wore all the regular safety equipment but that still wasn't enough. You are at the mercy of some very stupid drivers no matter how good of a rider you are and what type of safety equipment you wear. I had always toyed with the idea of getting a motorcycle, even if just to ride casually when not commuting. That went out of the window after hearing the news of what happened to my old friend.

 

[Unsustainable]

2 types of motorcycle riders, those who have wrecked, and those who are going to.

I’m in the former...

Also, just be excellent to one and another — Bill and Tedd

 

[sabremike]

Roundabouts may suck, but four way stops suck way worse.

Did you know that if 4 Canadians come to a four way stop sign nobody will move and they will all eventually die?

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

Did you know that if 4 Canadians come to a four way stop sign nobody will move and they will all eventually die?

Please, you go first

 

[HisIceness]

There's a law still on the books somewhere in this state (or perhaps South Carolina) that says no one shall proceed from a four way stop until the other has passed.

Also in one town the man has to fire warning shots into the air to let everyone know his wife is driving

 

[zman77]

 

[Jerkob Slavin]

Wait a minute!!!! What’s that locker room cancer doing with Svech?!?! And that does NOT look like a museum!!!!

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

Home Depot ‘bomb threat’ was actually customer warning he’s about to poop

 

[MinJaBen]

Home Depot ‘bomb threat’ was actually customer warning he’s about to poop

Damn it @Roboturner913! You will need to tell us the story of this one later...

 

[Lempo]

“regular customer”

 

[RodTheBawd]

“regular customer”

How the f*** do you pick up on things like that? How do you have such a solid grasp of the English language? I don't f***ing get you.

 

[Lempo]

How the **** do you pick up on things like that? How do you have such a solid grasp of the English language? I don't ****ing get you.

Well this one was kind of giveaway and the article writer's joke really; the way they used the term the second time in quotation marks wasn't an accident.

But the whole concept of regularity to me is a specifically American thing, brought to me by continuous usage in the TV entertainment where some old guy tells uninterested people that he's regular. No one in my whereabouts ever boasts about his timely bowel actions. So it kinds of pops up in every English-language presentation they use it in any meaning of the word, to the extent that I can't ever take scuba diving as a hobby.

 

[RodTheBawd]

Well this one was kind of giveaway and the article writer's joke really; the way they used the term the second time in quotation marks wasn't an accident.

But the whole concept of regularity to me is a specifically American thing, brought to me by continuous usage in the TV entertainment where some old guy tells uninterested people that he's regular. No one in my whereabouts ever boasts about his timely bowel actions. So it kinds of pops up in every English-language presentation they use it in any meaning of the word, to the extent that I can't ever take scuba diving as a hobby.

You're a gem.

 

[McBrockGinn]

Surprised my wife hasn't called the cops on me for the amount of times I've blown up the washroom. Bunker busters everywhere!

 

[MinJaBen]

No one in my whereabouts ever boasts about his timely bowel actions. So it kinds of pops up in every English-language presentation they use it in any meaning of the word, to the extent that I can't ever take scuba diving as a hobby.

 

[NotOpie]

Surprised my wife hasn't called the cops on me for the amount of times I've blown up the washroom. Bunker busters everywhere!

Talk to me when she has to call animal control because of the beached whale.

 

[Unsustainable]

Ever fart so hard you crack your back?

 

[Lempo]

Ever fart so hard you crack your back?

I occasionally sneeze so hard it hurts in the balls.