How long can a car run with wooden pistons? Yes, that's right, wood pistons, four of them.
LOL- and the answer is- a few seconds
I thought it was a little funny but I guess not.....
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/23286657/former-nfl-kicker-jay-feely-apologizes-photo-gun
The second Amendment, then the first Amendment and finally, all sense of reason and humor.
Brian
I saw that. I just shake my head at everyone who wants to overreact to something, especially when it has to do with guns, and make a big fuss.
Two loiterers, who happen to be African Americans, get arrested for refusing to leave a coffee shop and its front page news: Outrage, offense, boycotts and a weak CEO apoligizing for a couple of A-holes making something out of nothing.
Two officers in Fla get gunned down for doing absolutely nothing but having lunch. Where’s the outrage? Where’s the news coverage?
Little of that makes sense to me. You say that there is over reaction to something especially having to do with guns. Then you seem outraged that there wasn't outrage about the one of the two stories you mentioned that involved a gun?
Little of that makes sense to me. You say that there is over reaction to something especially having to do with guns. Then you seem outraged that there wasn't outrage about the one of the two stories you mentioned that involved a gun? What would you have us do...boycott all Chinese restaurants until they can properly protect police officers eating there? The "weak" CEO was doing his job, protecting his stock holders, trying to protect his many employees from getting laid off if there was a boycott. Perhaps he was also trying to do the right thing by making sure that the Starbucks establishments don't discriminate against black people. Well maybe he was, but I don't think he was weak. The "weak" CEOs have someone in PR write up a statement and then cower hoping for it to all blow over. As for the "couple of A-holes" that got arrested for doing the exact same thing that white people do all the time at Starbucks, well they didn't seem like A-holes to me, but maybe they might have been on their best behavior when the cameras where there. Then again I didn't see the police that arrested them as being all disheveled and scratched up from any altercations with the two during the arrest. Now the naked guy that shot people in a Waffle House, there's an A-hole/nut job, where's the outrage? I mean whatever happened to no shirt no service? We should probably boycott Waffle House until we feel safe eating their cardboard waffles without fear that someone is going to walk in there without pants waving his junk around.
Ok so been watching a selection of car reviews on youtube recently (chap called Doug Demuro)
SOmething I find amusing is that its federally mandated that cars over there have to have a "trunk release" in case someone gets trapped in the boot , sorry I mean trunk
Question I have to ask is "how many people have been " accidentally" trapped in the trunk of their car?
Pretty much none ... since its federally mandated that cars over here have to have a "trunk release" in case someone gets trapped in the trunk, sorry I mean boot.
I suppose we could step back ... get rid of this requirement, have a few deaths, so you can decide, "Hmm, OK, maybe that little pull handle wasn't such a useless idea after all."
Only been mandated since about 2001
Now that we no longer have drive in movie theaters, why are people still getting in the trunks (boots) of their cars?I think this was mostly an issue for some of Tony Soprano's friends in New Jersey . . .
Now that we no longer have drive in movie theaters, why are people still getting in the trunks (boots) of their cars?
"Only"? That was ~16 years ago.
16 years of thousands and thousands of people being able to safely escape a closed trunk that they totally understandably ended up in.
ALso strikes me as nuts that exotics that have trunks you could barely fit a laptop in also , by the same regs, have to have the same emergency release in!!
Will someone please think of the children?!?!?!They did.
During the summer of 1998, eleven children died when they inadvertently trapped themselves in the trunk of a car. This new standard will provide children and others who find themselves trapped inside a passenger car trunk a chance to get out of the trunk alive.https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2000/10/20/00-27038/federal-motor-vehicle-safety-standards-interior-trunk-release
My point, probably poorly made, was to express my frustration with the hyper sensitivity to what was supposed to be a funny picture, as well as the coffee shop incident-perceived racial bias vs. the lack of coverage/concern over two uniformed officers who get murdered for doing nothing but having lunch.
They did.
(Yes, I realize you were making a funny, this response is really more about the original question)https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2000/10/20/00-27038/federal-motor-vehicle-safety-standards-interior-trunk-release
OK, that's better. Yes there is very much an over reaction to many things these days. Humor seems to be harder to interpret by the increasingly polarized masses. Humor generation can involve risk taking and sometimes not only does it not work, it backfires from over reaction. I don't think it's fair to compare the reaction of racial bias in a coffee shop to the death of the police officers reaction. I felt I was equally informed about both incidents, but since the shooter took his own life, we have little to follow up on in that story other than the officer's funerals. The coffee shop incident has plenty to follow up on, so there continued to be something to report and thus news coverage. I believe if there was more to the police story ...say if the police announced that they would be taking lunch in groups of three from now on, so one can stand guard while the other two eat, (or some other plan) Then there would have been more reporting about the police murders. That is of course, just my opinion, and I suspect we will continue to disagree about the "A-holes" and the "weak CEO" but that's OK by me.
And I didn’t have enough info on the coffee shop incident to really refer to them as a-holes. I should’ve looked into that more before spouting off. I’ve looked into it further, and by all accounts, if accurate, point to gross racial bias. I saw their interviews, and they seem like good people who were wronged. But they also appear to have been more than ready to capitalize on the situation too. It’s the skeptic in me that wonders if this wasn’t a premeditated event based on previous encounters at this store.
And although we all have some degree of racial bias, I find that my dislike/distrust of the media makes me always doubt the truth and motivations in their storytelling.
I still think the idea of closing every store in the U.S. for racial sensitivity training is a huge over-reaction on behalf of the company. Though employees should have that type of training, closing every store comes off as more of a publicity stunt to appease the angry masses than it does to truly address the problem. The CEO says he wants to “fix this”, but you can’t “fix” human nature. You can only educate and become aware of how your own biases affect how you look at and treat people.
If there is any positive out of this coffee shop incident, whether premeditated or not, is that maybe more folks are talking about racial bias and how it effects us all.