Awesome stuff you see on the internet

Catogrande

@booboo said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

@nzzp yeah you're probably right. I always refer to the bits you can see from the Chch side as The Port Hills ... hills have more than one side I suppose. Serves me right for trying to unnecessarily pedantic...

Be. Trying to be unnecessarily pedantic.

Snowy

@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

guess maybe not awesome, but if he did what is alleged, then why not haha

Yes. This is puzzling:
the crew “was forced to restrain the passenger with the tools available to them onboard".

A budget airline is so budget they don't have handcuffs? Cable ties are cheap enough, and we had those too, we did not have duct tape. All very odd.

Kiwiwomble

@booboo said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

@machpants said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

I dunno what this is from, popped up in my recommended vids, but I wet myself

Think the TB show is called 'Utopia'.

definitely from "Utopia" and after working on state projects for the last four years...scarily not overly exaggerated

mikedogz

https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/125988990/watch-a-lada-turn-into-a-flamethrower

Kirwan

https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/oyu14c/watching_that_scene_for_the_first_time_its_always/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Snowy

@mikedogz Meh so 1998.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaster_(flamethrower)

I also liked the idea that it was designed to incinerate fluffybunnies that tried to steal your car (and possibly kill you).

No Quarter

@gt12

gt12

@no-quarter

Are you jealous that you don't have a line named after you?

MiketheSnow

Victor Meldrew

The bit from 1:30 to 1:35 where the lift door closes and re-opens is comedy gold.

Kirwan

@victor-meldrew reading the comments, apparently the fire sucked all the oxygen out and passed out. Lucky to be alive.

Unite

So good!

taniwharugby

if I didnt have a wife and kids I'd be up to give this a crack!

Pretty much as close as you will get to being able to step off the world for a year

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/300377336/want-to-pretend-to-live-on-mars-for-a-whole-year-apply-now

Catogrande

@unite

The world would be a poorer place without nutters like that guy

Catogrande

For all those of you that don't think cats are fluffybunnies.

taniwharugby

@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

guess maybe not awesome, but if he did what is alleged, then why not haha

https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/125975248/us-airline-puts-crew-who-ducttaped-unruly-passenger-on-leave

Related...interview with flight attendant...