Mythopoeika
I am a meat popsicle
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I have a glass-topped coffee table.
Just sayin'.
Just sayin'.
'Made in China'.OK, this fan... are you going to tell us her name?
Cool'Made in China'.
A famous TV celeb who has been linked with this UL, who being deceased can't sue me.
Where I grew up, the razor blades were supposedly in the big slide. (The local playground had two, a normal one and a larger one with a kind of hut at the top where the bullies hung out)
Instant sliced long pig :shock:
I don't think I get this - what is the story trying to suggest?
Do kids with special needs have better accelleration than the non-special variety?
<stubs out cigar and shouts "dammit!">Maybe they got a vigorous push
We had the old "man lying on the backseat of lady's car" one go round at work. Specific details relating to the petrol station, etc, making it local. I pointed them to the Snopes page as well.
@Bad Bungle
If they (again instinctively) curled-up into a ball for protection, their surface-area would be minimal in comparison to a supine adult's body. Therefore they'd fall down the angled slope much faster. Yes. That's it. Surely?
Rolled-up child falls like a ball, whereas bendy adults take more time to be 'birthed' down the tube. Case proven.
Maybe they got a vigorous push at the top to SEND them down the slide faster?
Now, I can buy the physics involved in this, but - and I speak as someone who's held a full bike licence for 25+ years - I simply can't imagine having the presence of mind to actually attempt any conscious action under such circumstances. How on Earth do you develop the necessary habits?You have something there - when I signed up to 20 laps at Brands Hatch on a souped-up v4 motorbike, the mechanic graphically explained to me that if you come off at 60 mph and instinctively curl into a ball to stop bits falling off, you will hit the barriers at 59 mph. To slow down you have to lie on your back with the arms out to increase surface area and pray your leathers can cope with the friction.
I’m sure that the female in the incident above would have preferred to (in my unsubstantiated personal theory) be abducted, raped and murdered in an empowered, diverse non-sexist atmosphere.
How on Earth do you develop the necessary habits?
On the one occasion that it's been relevant, the Time Slows Down thing happened and I had time to anticipate what was going to happen to to consciously try to spread out. Forgot to lift my head though and so was juddered into unconsciousness before I slithered to a halt And so spread out naturally!
I simply can't imagine having the presence of mind to actually attempt any conscious action under such circumstances. How on Earth do you develop the necessary habits?
maximus otter
Yes, actually, now you mention it, that makes a lot of sense.As the advice was given by a Brands Hatch Pit mechanic, I'm assuming the necessary habits are learned as part and parcel of Curcuit racing.