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New Zealander Earl Bamber part of a winning LMP1 Porsche entry at Le Mans, with fellow drivers Nick Tandy and Nico Hulkenberg. <img src="http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2015/06/14/1227397/709666-6519762a-1297-11e5-9f1b-ea0e0a7b6fb6.jpg" alt="709666-6519762a-1297-11e5-9f1b-ea0e0a7b6"> These are the future of motorsport. The acceleration out of corners on these hybrids is unbelievable.

mariner4life

I watched a bit of this on the weekend. It's funny to watch, those LMP1 things fucking fly, and they blow past the 4th class cars like they are standing still. I couldn't believe how quickly some of them were being lapped, and it's not a small track!
 
The TV coverage is "interesting", commentators talking about inane shit as nothing is happening for large portions of the day.

taniwharugby

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Dog taken by rogue wave a 'victim of climate change'

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<img height="310" src="http://media.nzherald.co.nz/webcontent/image/jpg/201525/dunedin_dog_620x310.jpg" width="620" alt="dunedin_dog_620x310.jpg">Jayne Bush and her mother Debbie hold a treasured photo of their missing dog Ali, who was thought to have been swept away near St Clair Beach on Sunday. Photo / Peter McIntosh & Gerard O'Brien, ODT</div>
A Jack Russell terrier swept under big waves near St Clair was a victim of rising tides and climate change, her owner says.
Debbie Bush, of Macandrew Bay, went for a walk with her dog along St Clair Beach just before high tide on Sunday.
The waves were bigger than any she had seen before, she said.
''I actually turned around to go back to the car, because I thought it was getting a bit dangerous.''
Then, she saw the sand ''give way'' and watched her dog, a 15-year-old long-haired Jack Russell named Ali, fall into the waves.
<img src="http://media.nzherald.co.nz/webcontent/image/jpg/201525/dog_dunedin_620x310.jpg" alt="dog_dunedin_620x310.jpg">A woman scans the sea yesterday looking for Ali. Photo / Peter McIntosh & Gerard O'Brien, ODT''I went down to grab her and I managed to actually try to push her up on to the track, and she just freaked.
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''I lost grip, and she just went back down again. After that, I went straight back down to get her again, and that's when the wave got me. And I thought: This is about saving myself now.''
The wave surged up to Mrs Bush's neck.
She managed to extract herself by driving her boots into the sandhill to gain traction.
There had been a sign warning about erosion at the entrance to the track she was on, Mrs Bush said, but the path was open.
Later, when she went back to look for Ali, the track had been closed.
After Ali had been swamped by the waves, Mrs Bush saw her emerge and run along the beach.
She called to her, but Ali just kept running.
''She's deaf,'' Mrs Bush said. ''I'd never seen waves like this before ... everything's intensifying,'' she said.
''I think we've all been quite blasÃ about global warming. People don't like to say it's happening, but it is.''
Dunedin City Council senior animal services officer Peter Hanlin said animal services got a call about Ali's disappearance about 2pm on Sunday.
About a dozen people searched for Ali for more than an hour, including an animal services officer, but no sign of the terrier was found.
University of Otago geography professor Mike Hilton said the waves had been unusually high at St Clair and St Kilda Beaches in recent days.
The big waves were caused by low atmospheric pressure, an especially high tide, and waves that were widely spaced out.
Those conditions also created a perfect storm for erosion, he said.
''Whenever we get three of those things combining, we get erosion.''
Prof Hilton said the sea was ''up to half a metre higher than it should've been.''
Rising sea levels as a result of climate change were one part of the picture, but not the whole picture.
He said the ''spring high tides'' were now bigger than they were 100 years ago.
''Not much higher - only 20cm or 30cm higher - but that can make a difference,'' he said.
''So, there's some element of climate change in what we experienced over the weekend.''
In the future, ''the climate change element to these events is going to get bigger and bigger'', he said. ''But most of it is just a coincidence.''
He recommended people stay away from the beach until tonight as it was ''just too dangerous''.
However, from tomorrow, the tides should not be as high.
Victoria University professor of physical geography James Renwick <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/276351/retreat-from-coast-may-be-'>told Radio NZ</a>that extreme weather events posed a risk to New Zealand's coast.
"We're a long, narrow country with a lot of coast and a lot of people live near the coast ... and if one thing is for sure, it's that sea levels are rising. It does pose a very serious problem.
"Over time we do have to look at moving back from the present coastline because the coastline is going to move inland - that's the reality."
Mrs Bush said she ''would love to think'' Ali had survived, ''but I don't see how she could've.''
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Nepia

I found this to be quite funny. If World War One was a bar fight:
 
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mariner4life

It's not new, but i still like it

Tim

antipodean

mariner4life

i am a horrible person because that made me piss myself laughing

NTA

You're not the only one.

Paekakboyz

so good, so bad, so dirty!!

taniwharugby

antipodean

It started as a dispute between two men over a minor incident involving their children on the play equipment.<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://bit.ly/1Jbex4H'> It ended with three in hospital</a>

In case it requires mentioning, Wetherill Park is another shithole suburb of Sydney.

Paekakboyz

Jump to 40 sec then laugh your ass off at 1.01m

Meow, I'm gonna need you to set this aircraft down right meow!

Tim

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">[b][url=http://www.arlnow.com/2015/06/22/argument-over-the-value-of-a-college-education-ends-in-slashing/]Argument Over The Value of a College Education Ends in Slashing[/url][/b] 
by ARLnow.com â€” June 22, 2015 at 11:30 am 
An argument between two men about the value of a college education ended with one of the men being slashed across the face. 
The malicious wounding incident happened Friday night around 8:30 at the Gunston Middle School soccer fields. Police say two men were having a verbal argument when one of them brandished a pocket knife and cut the victim across the face, from the corner of the mouth to the ear. 
The slash caused â€œa fairly large laceration,â€ according to police, and resulted in significant bleeding due to a cut minor artery. The victim was rushed to George Washington University Hospital, where he received 60 stitches. 
The suspect fled the scene and the investigation â€œis ongoing.â€ The suspect is described as a Hispanic male, about 6â€3â€³ and 220 lbs. At the time of the incident was wearing a pink Nike polo shirt and blue jeans, police say. 
The argument started when the men began debating the â€œworth and importance of a college education,â€ police say. The suspect became angry during the argument, at which point he pulled out the pocket knife. [b]A crime report did not specify whether the suspect was arguing for or against the value of higher education.[/b]</blockquote>

Catogrande

I'm gonna go with "against". Not sure why.

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