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Have you seen the photos of what he did to the kid?

Zero tolerance. Out of the game period. Let him find a job in the service industry or whatever he's good for other than Football. The Marines are hiring. Maybe he can actually do something useful there, although he'd have to step up his class level a lot. Maybe the Army instead.

Any of the Hunger Games films.

1:59pm, CST. The year of our lord 2014, September 12th. Chopped Liver and I have agreed on something.

Meh...one less person to compete with me in a future job....

The Empire Strikes Back I think one of the best films ever made however was 'Schindler's List'.

My oldest was 6 years above me, and he was also a Green Beret by the time I got into a few real tussles with him. Pressure points....those were real buzzkillers.

The latest Godzilla movie. Even compared to the godawful 60's films, it was bad. And I consider myself a fan.

I had 2 older brothers too, but only ever had maybe two or three real fights with them where we were trying to hurt each other, but even those were quickly abandoned. I don't really count 'em.

3 or 4 times... Very first was a girl actually. She kicked me while wearing cowboy boots, so I decked her. We were both 7 or 8...didn't know any better. I just knew it hurt. 2nd time was some kid who for some reason, threw a piece of asphalt at me, hitting me in the ear. I don't remember the fight very well, but I do remember friends telling me that I nearly killed him. I was maybe 10. I only recall running across the street to give him a knuckle sandwich, and that my shirt got torn. 3rd/4th times was a few fights in HS...... Guy in class had been picking on me for some reason, hitting my arm and trying to piss me off. I ran out into the hallway after class behind him and kidney punched him, which dropped him pretty good. I didn't get in any trouble because nobody really saw it, and he just shrugged it off and left me alone after. I guess the 4th was the guy I threw down the stairs. I was 'part of' a larger fight/brawl that only involved me because somebody in that group thought I was another kid. This was the first of a series of somewhat gangrelated fights that started at the school in my last year there. Place got rough I hear after that. There was a stairway nearby and I thought it would be convenient to locate the guy down a flight or two. He busted a few teeth on a step. Since I was confused with another kid, I walked away, was quickly recognized as being who I really was, and they went looking for the wrong person...so I never admitted to it. That guy ended up a pro baseball player, whose name I might release for some $$$.

I feel bad about myself if I'm not getting in something around 150 a week. So, that being said, I've felt bad all summer.

I once hit 39mph on a town line sprint on flat ground, no wind. Massive tunnel vision, saw stars. Not sure how I did it, couldn't repeat it. I got close a few times, at 37, even 38, but never quite got it up there on subsequent tries. I quite literally think that it hurt so much on that one effort, I simply mentally could not push myself to get that extra giddy up again. I seriously never really bothered much with sprinting in the ensuing years after I did that. Not sure why, guess no need to really. Other times I've done all out sprints were at steeper angles or on downhilly-ish roads, so probably don't much count. I'm proud of that effort, but again, it hurt like nothing else. And I don't think I was even in terrific shape at the time, but I was sprinting a lot. Regarding 'recreational fast'....I've noted amongst my peers in the clubs and such, that speeds of 18 or 19mph were the common 'recreational' fast up until GPS devices and social media started making it known exactly how fast people were riding. It was rare for us to average much more than 19+ on group rides, regardless of how flat or far the route was. Now? Some of the group rides are so fast, even for me, I don't bother to show up, because I'll get dropped on our way to a 22mph average. This can be some 35miles over 2,500 ft of climbing, and still average that. It's not just racers, but a lot of club riders. Things have simply gotten faster. It's made it rather hard in the last year or two to 'be' in shape enough to do some of these rides. The time commitment has also stepped up along with that. Used to be, you could get away with maybe riding 3 or 4 days a week, now, you have to be riding pretty much 5 or 6 days out of the week. It's INSANE. And I cannot begin to tell you how much the above sucks for me this summer. I've just not had the time to get in the miles. Despite a lot of these rides being 'no-drop', you still find yourself lagging far behind, really struggling to keep the pace, and so I've declined invites on numerous occasions.

I have an S4...No complaints whatsoever.

Old news. There's a better video of some actual scientists going down there, also in HD. Been out for several years now. It's kinda funny how shit like this gets recycled.

If I wanted attention I'd post here more than once every 3 weeks. I occasionally look to see if anything is happening, it isn't, but then, I see threads like this one. Same old stuff. My apologies for calling you out on it. As I said, it's kinda humorous, in a way. As for 'coming back', please. I bow to the master, Z.

I didn't say anything about that... AT ALL. It was a joke. I do kinda get a laugh out of you guys continually patting yourselves on the back for leaving, like you were spousal abuse victims or something or were indentured under a harsh master for 7 years. Maybe it's you that sucks.

The other place isn't visited very much simply because messageboards and bicycling.com itself are just increasingly irrelevant in light of social media. I see it as a situation where boards like this one are going to 'flare' for a little while, but boards overall are going to all but vanish, unless they have a particular draw. Bicycling however does have the advantage in that a few people may seek it out for advice (the beginners section has seen some traffic of late), and that's where I got started, in '04. I don't think I started making posts in the general discussion area until about 3 years after that. I would imagine however that within a year or so, Bicycling will close down the forums permanently.

Heh, I keep checking here to see if you guys are closed down yet.

Whatcha talkin 'bout Willis? Yes, I actually was in these United States' Marine Corps. A lot later than when I was joking ('90-'91), but we did have an awful lot of old crap for training purposes in use, and they acted like we were gonna go kick us some red commie tail and if not that, then we'd rustle up some Nazis somewhere to fight. I'm sure it's different now, but the 'Go get some Russkie' mindset was VERY prevalent in the Corps at that time.... The bayonets though, those things were ancient. In fact, the first one they gave me was so rusted that it wouldn't attach, so I was the 'slovenly soldier' on one occasion trying to get me 'tunic buttoned, or rather, fixing my bayonet, but I couldn't due to the rust. I remember this incident because some pansy arse DI from Pendleton was there, and instead of beating me senseless like a good and proper DI should (if he'd been from Parris), he just told the recruit next to me to 'fix him'. I think we spent 15min on that bayonet before deciding we needed another. I remember watching the movie 'Zulu' some years later and saying out loud during the bayonet scene... "Hey!"....LOL

I was in the Corps and I only remember it as the bayonet or, er, knife. We trained with it during basic, I never used it again outside of maybe a few parade deck gatherings, that I recall anyway. The ones we had in basic were rusted to hell anyways. It felt to me as if half the shit we trained with was WW2 surplus gear. I think our pugil stick chants involved phrases like "You'll get yours you lousy Kraut", and "I'll be singing along to Glenn Miller after you're dead!". Now our troops are all matchy matchy with every bit of their gear having the same camo scheme and lookin all 21st century.

Something nice

I had figured he probably experienced some depression issues but then who hasn't. Sad, sometimes all it takes to get through some of that is just somebody being nearby, but I've known several people who at the moment at least, didn't, and then sank even deeper to where there was only one exit. What pisses me off however are all the fuckwads in the interwebs blasting him for having killed himself, like they know a damn thing about why people tend to do that....

I've got a good friend who's doing this on FB....what ticks me off is that I know most of these peeps don't even watch auto racing. Some of these guys can be real douchebags on the track, but they take personal safety VERY seriously, and they don't fuck around. Rubbin is racin, that's for sure, but those guys all know what it's like to get hurt.

What'd you say?

So has every other driver. Tony's a lightweight compared to Kevin Harvick and some others.