Awesome stuff you see on the internet
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@dogmeat said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@tim When I hitched through Finland I used to just wander off into the forest and find somewhere to sleep for the night. Woke up one morning surrounded by reindeer grazing.
Never thought about bears A quick google tells me there are thousands of the buggers - and wolves!
you sound like the type of genius who goes for a swim in the Northern Territory
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@mariner4life German tourist.
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Paraglider Lost In Freefall After Parachute (And Backup) Fails But She Miraculously Survives
A 20-year-old paraglider from France fell into a terrifying free fall and her nearly fatal nightmare was captured Her parachute failed, her backup failed,
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@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Paraglider Lost In Freefall After Parachute (And Backup) Fails But She Miraculously Survives
A 20-year-old paraglider from France fell into a terrifying free fall and her nearly fatal nightmare was captured Her parachute failed, her backup failed,
Fuck me. I feel sick
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@machpants she remained pretty calm given how fucked she seemed, especially when the 2nd chute failed!
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@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@machpants she remained pretty calm given how fucked she seemed, especially when the 2nd chute failed!
There's been a couple of times in my life when my underyling thinking was "yep... I'm fucked"... but I do recall that the cliche of "everything slows down" is remarkably apt.
Each time, time really did slow down... I had heaps of time to think about shit, calmly think about options, etc... even if I didn't necessarily take the correct options.
I seem to recall that my main line of thinking in each case was "Well... this'll be a decent anecdote"
I assume kids nowadays are thinking... "shit... I wish I had this on GoPro"... -
Never, ever, fuck with a cat.
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I mean, I know the guy is just making money off another person's success. He didn't even talk to Taika. But the title had got to win the award for best named book of the year
Eye of the Taika.
I'm singing it in my head, and so are you!
Eye of the Taika - a new book on the films and comedy of Taika Waititi
Taika Waititi's films take three of the New Zealand Box Office Top 10 Films, including the top two Hunt for the Wilderpeople and Boy. Taika's unique style of film-making has also made him one of the most in-demand film directors internationally. His second Marvel Comics movie Thor: Love and Thunder...
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this is the story of the year!
Aliens stupidly building a house on a visible area of the moon!
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@taniwharugby you missed it in the other thread
It's Elvis in a double decker bus although @Catogrande doesn't think the buses would get there in time.
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@taniwharugby well they were priced out of Sydney
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@dogmeat this is a new article, I am pretty sure I posted the first article on it, I couldnt recall which thread i posted it in (thought I'd put it in the Science one) so it came in here!
@mariner4life and Auckland
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