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Catogrande

<p>Dunno about Hooroo RT, but I'm still in ignorant bliss.</p>

red terror

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<div><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/16/sports/baseball/bat-flip-bautista-blue-jays.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0'>New York Times</a> today:</div>
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<div><span style="font-family:georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size:24px;">Baseball Reaches a Flipping Point</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">Brace yourself, baseball fans, and behold the inexorable rise of the bat flip.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">Self-expression has long been a fraught issue in Major League Baseball, where impassivity â€” the ability to â€œact like you have been there beforeâ€ â€” often feels as highly regarded as power hitting and foot speed.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">Yet times change, and signs today indicate that the league stands poised to enter a golden age of celebratory antics. If so, bat flip buffs might one day look back upon the leagueâ€s playoff games this week as a symbolic starting point. [...]</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">Jose Bautista of the Toronto Blue Jays performed what might have been <span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>the most ostentatious bat flip in M.L.B. history</strong></span>. The moment came after Bautista smashed a late tiebreaking home run at the Rogers Centre. Bautista watched the ballâ€s flight, glared into the near distance <strong>like a professional wrestler, and then, in a burst of pugnacious swagger, hurled his bat sidearm deep into foul territory.</strong> [...]</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">For bat flip aficionados, the speed, trajectory and distance of a toss are crucial details. Midair rotations add to the visual splendor. Dramatic posturing and histrionic facial expressions elevate things to the next level. Bautistaâ€s had it all.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">Until now, the subject of bat flips has generally left little room for a middle ground. People love them or hate them â€” <strong>there is an unmistakable generational divide</strong> â€” and they feel compelled to air their stance either way. [...]</span></div>
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taniwharugby

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There are so many scams running due to litigation in the States, particularly in the motor insurance space.

Kirwan

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<div><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/16/sports/baseball/bat-flip-bautista-blue-jays.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0'>New York Times</a> today:</div>
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<p>Reminds me of the old debate about Goldie celebrating scoring a try, instead of dourly running back to halfway.</p>
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<p>Loved that video you posted of the guy freaking out after people touch his head? Why???</p>

jegga

<p>I had no idea there were bat flip aficionados .</p>

red terror

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<p><span style="font-size:14px;">I had no idea there were <strong>bat flip aficionados</strong> .</span></p>
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<p>TIME magazine:</p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);">Throughout this season, the act of flipping bats after slugging a home run has become a bit of a hot-button issue. Baseball has all kinds of archaic unwritten code rules: thou shall not show up a pitcher is one commandment. But in what sacred text, exactly, are such fusty statutes written? In South Korea, for example, they just roll with it:</span><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/03/sports/baseball/bat-flipping-draws-shrugs-in-south-korea-but-scorn-in-america.html?_r=0'> flipping bats </a><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);">are a pastime in itself. â€œWe laugh about it because we canâ€t imagine a player doing that in America,â€ <strong>Minnesota Twins outfielder Torii Hunter, a Korean </strong></span><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>bat flip aficionado</strong></span><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);">, </span><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/03/sports/baseball/bat-flipping-draws-shrugs-in-south-korea-but-scorn-in-america.html?_r=0'>told</a><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);"> the</span><em> New York Times.</em><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);"> â€œIn America, it would be considered so disrespectful that the next time he came up to the plate, heâ€d get hit right in the neck, guaranteed.â€</span></span></span>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://time.com/4074336/jose-bautista-bat-flip-baseball/'>http://time.com/4074336/jose-bautista-bat-flip-baseball/</a></p>

red terror

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<p>Loved that video you posted of the guy freaking out after people touch his head? Why???</p>
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<p>I'm not sure I know what video that was (maybe it wasn't me...) ...was it a baseball player? If so, probably Adrian Beltre, future Hall of Famer, who was just a part of yesterday's now-legendary 7th inning. He's incredibly "touchy" about people touching his head.</p>

Kirwan

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<p>I'm not sure I know what video that was (maybe it wasn't me...) ...was it a baseball player? If so, probably Adrian Beltre, future Hall of Famer, who was just a part of yesterday's now-legendary 7th inning. He's incredibly "touchy" about people touching his head.</p>
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<p>Yeah, him. It was linked in your explanation article, there is a montage of him freaking out after people touch his head to wind him up. Was awesome.</p>

mariner4life

<p>That Flipping Out article is brilliant. </p>

red terror

<p>Here's one for MN5:</p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size:24px;"><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/the-biggest-man-understanding-andre-the-giant-wrestlings-massive-indefinable-contradiction/'>The Biggest Man: Understanding Andre the Giant</a></span></strong></p>

JC

<p>George Takei takes on a troll:</p>
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red terror

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote"> <span style="font-size:24px;"><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://nypost.com/2015/10/18/stoner-high-school-student-says-he-hacked-the-cia/'>Teen stoner says he hacked CIA directorâ€s AOL account</a></span>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(46,46,47);font-family:'pt-serif', Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(251,251,251);">â€œI canâ€t believe he did this to the head of the CIA,â€â€ the source added. â€œ[The] problem with these older-generation guys is that they donâ€t know anything about cybersecurity, and as you can see, it can be problematic.â€</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(46,46,47);font-family:'pt-serif', Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(251,251,251);">He [teenage hacker] explained â€œCWAâ€ stood for â€œCrackas With Attitude,â€ which he said referred to him and a classmate with whom he smokes pot.</span></p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://nypost.com/2015/10/18/stoner-high-school-student-says-he-hacked-the-cia/'>http://nypost.com/2015/10/18/stoner-high-school-student-says-he-hacked-the-cia/</a></p>

antipodean

jegga

<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://i.stuff.co.nz/motoring/lifestyle-vehicles/73279559/Deni-Ute-Muster-The-Snail-is-the-best'>http://i.stuff.co.nz/motoring/lifestyle-vehicles/73279559/Deni-Ute-Muster-The-Snail-is-the-best</a><br><br>
Deserved winner, just awesome

Crucial

Crucial

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="jegga" data-cid="532513" data-time="1445537432"><p><a class="bbc_url" href="http://i.stuff.co.nz/motoring/lifestyle-vehicles/73279559/Deni-Ute-Muster-The-Snail-is-the-best">http://i.stuff.co.nz/motoring/lifestyle-vehicles/73279559/Deni-Ute-Muster-The-Snail-is-the-best</a><br><br>
Deserved winner, just awesome</p></blockquote>
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Brilliant! Very jealous. <br><br>
My outback setup was very amateur compared to that. I only had 160 litres of fuel capacity. <br><br>
Maybe this is what NTA needs to get Mrs NTA camping although given that it's probably not "too hot" for 364 days of the year he may not get his money's worth

taniwharugby

<p>plenty of them about...</p>
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jegga

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Crucial" data-cid="532717" data-time="1445583184"><p>Brilliant! Very jealous. <br>
My outback setup was very amateur compared to that. I only had 160 litres of fuel capacity. <br>
Maybe this is what NTA needs to get Mrs NTA camping although given that it's probably not "too hot" for 364 days of the year he may not get his money's worth</p></blockquote>
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Was yours a land cruiser too? I guess being in the trade like him is an advantage and having the mrs behind the project is very lucky and cool.

Crucial

Nah, I had a GQ Patrol. Solid as a rock, being basically a truck chassis and drivetrain. Heavy as hell too and I was very lucky that I was able to get all of my petrol 'sans tax' as it only did about 6km to the litre. <br>
Towed an off-road camper trailer with it. Great fun. Did one big trip from Canberra across the Hay, through Mildura, up the Clare to the Flinders, across the Oodnadatta track, up the Edge of the Simpson to Alice, down the Finke river Gorge to Uluru, then back by Tarmac. <br>
The next year, went up from Broken Hill to Innamincka and across to the Dig Tree then up through inland Queensland and over to the coast.

jegga

That sounds cool , you've never done a trip like that here? I like the Aussie 4wd scene with the trailers, I guess they have more space to do it.

The Silver Fern

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