Yes, of course. I can't say about the base of the ladder, but they're typically not secured to whatever they're standing on, USUALLY the Earth, sure. But the base of the ladder in the bucket doesn't look like it's going anywhere, it's in the bottom of the V of the bucket. The top looks secured to the trunk.

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The whole thing is dangerous, no doubt. But it looks like precautions have been taken.

Hey, seeing as it's 4/20, watch these two guys get fucked up:

***There's a little blood shown on the sidewalk, so, if you're squeamy, maybe pass.***



See? Tell me they ain't fucked up.

Those boys are all FUCKED UP.
I don't know but that one guy looks dead.

~Four Brothers

Definitely suffered some brain trauma. :(
Watch his hand... fucking stupid people

Our idiot is in the Camaro.<---YouTube link

I gotta get a dash cam. I gotta. I gotta. Good lord.

I rigged a tripod and a cheap digital camera in GrandCherokeeOne for a while.

I carry more than two people too often for that set up.

What an idiot. The behavior of the driver of the pickup truck is illegal here in Washington. ON PAPER, the left lane is for passing only. No camping like this jerk. In fact, there's been a suggestion in our legislature this session that holding up traffic in the left lane be assessed an additional and increasing penalty for how much slower than the posted limit your traveling. Now, assuming the driver of the pickup was doing EXACTLY the speed limit, he might be faultless, but still not using the lane as it is designed/desired, for passing.

But back to the NYS, good grief, the driver of the camaro should be in jail.

A dose of estrogen might be more appropriate to subdue all the raging testosterone
that was generating those emotions of road rage and really bad judgement.

Passing on the left median is not OK in anyone's book, and that's what
appears to have lead to this "accident". After all, what could go wrong ?
Other than that, the "right" or "wrong" of driving in the inside lane, makes little matter.

Had all 3 drivers both eased off on the pedal and enjoyed a nice sunny day's drive,
they would each have all been in town about the same time, little worse for wear.

On the other hand, maybe if the Camaro's driver got to town a little bit later,
he/she might have been T-boned at some intersection by a different car, and killed !
Karma can sometimes be inevitable that way. :devil:

Fuck those left lane bandits. They park their ass in the left lane until it's time to cut across traffic for their exit. I don't care if they are doing the speed limit, I don't care if they are doing 20 over the fucking speed limit, they have no business in the left lane if they are not passing. The worst are pacing the car in the next lane because they have their cruise control set at the same speed as the car next to them. Then the car behind them in the left fucking lane is pacing the car ahead, while playing Kumbaya on their iPhone app, and everyone else on the road can go to hell.

Lamplighter, take your fucking estrogen and stick it up your ass. Then take your Ralf Nader amateur philosophy and get the fuck out of the way. You are a speed bump in the road of real people.

Wow ! Did I strike a nerve on somebody ?

*shrug*

Not here, particularly. Though your claims about estrogen are specious at best. I'd be happy to trade hypothetical shoulda/coulda/woulda if onlies about the possible future outcomes of the drivers in the video, but ... to what end?

Going from what we can see in the video,

the pickup driver is wrong for camping in the passing lane.

the camaro driver is wrong-ER for passing on the median and directly caused the accident multiple car collision due to his reckless driving.

There's no defense for either one of them.

What it looks like to me is that the p/u driver is cluelessly on autopilot/cruise control or being a passive/aggressive jackass. And the camaro driver is a road-raging sociopath. I kinda wish he'd gotten hurt, though I'm certain the video evidence will ensure his suffering. Goody.

So the Camaro driver blew a .19

http://www.syracuse.com/us-news/inde..._with_dwi.html

Those left lane bandits are egregious on a sliding scale that corresponds inversely with the amount of traffic on the road. If you are in a traffic jam, it's perfectly fine to camp out in the left lane. If the road is wide open, camping out in the left lane and creating a rolling road block is just the worst.

Around here, traffic is so heavy, cars are always camped out in the left lane, and there would be a car directly in front of that camper and also one directly in front of the truck (with an appropriate gap dependent on traffic speed.)

All I'm saying is there should be no one-size-fits-all condemnation of people in the left lane. Depends entirely on traffic.

Damn. That sounds like something I'd post.:eek:

What an uberdouche:

Florida man ran over a family of ducklings as a human family watched in horror

That would be me. I made cold slaw and went to add more salt. Well the little sprinkler top stayed in the damn top, so I got a bunch of salt in my slaw. Hello trash can.

Couldn't you wash it and start over with the washed cabbage?

Coulda, shoulda, woulda. but didn't. Had more in bag.

we had one of those here too :vomitblu:

http://www.annarbor.com/news/crime/m...ing-an-animal/

WTF is wrong with people. Of course the poor boy was driving a Hummer.

I'm pretty sure he got a little more than a slap on the wrist, but not much. His lawyer argued he had no idea the ducklings were there :rolleyes:

A woman yesterday was blethering on about all the places she'd visited, including Blenheim Palace. Which she called Blenn-hime.

Now I have nothing against people not getting place names right on reading them. English-English is generally tricky, thanks to its mongrel history, and never more so than in place names. But she said she had been there. At what point did she not pick up on the fact that it's pronounced Blennim?

So she was either a lying idiot, or an idiot who doesn't bother listening to anything but her own yap.
Having suffered enough of it, I vote both.

Regular old spelling/pronunciation rules would have had me, along with the vast majority of the non-British world, pronouncing it blen-hime. That's what it looks like, and as you say, if I haven't been there, how am I to know people have been eliding it into blennum for a thousand years...

But, then, you have George Carlin talking about the way things are spelled vs. the way a group/person wishes them to be pronounced:

:D

Eliding! I was trying to think of that word (elided, rather than eliding)a few weeks ago and couldn't. I'd forgotten about it til I read your post.

Thankyou!

Glad to be of service.:)

Now, see, you're making me learn things as well.

As an afterward, Blenheim was fairly local to me, so I probably heard the name before I ever saw it written down.
And I reiterate I am not an insufferable snob who laughs at people who get names wrong. I've done it enough times - especially once I moved out of Bucks.
Try getting your head around Mytholmroyd for example - although it's reasonably logical in the end.

And don't even think about place names in Wales...

My second primary school was just off a street called Blenheim Terrace. That name got everywhere.

Won't even...

I've been down that rabbit hole.

Now why would a woman of obvious breeding and culture wish to lower herself to the guttural pronunciations of the local riffraff? Would you wish her to wallow in pronounsorial gutter of the Welsh also? :rolleyes:

I'd love to be able to speak Welsh!
I love the Welsh.

Note I didn't wish to learn Welsh. I have no aptitude for languages. And I'm too lazy to work hard at it.

But if I was able to download them to my brain, my wish list would be Mandarin, Urdu and Welsh. The first two far more useful, the third most lyrical. It's a beautiful language. And so foreign.

Idiot Fucking Fool Of The Day:

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Shit. That makes me dizzy just lookin at it.

Where is that pic from, any idea?

I tried to TinEye the pic with no luck.

I think the housing looks sort of Europeanish, but, those concrete-colored buildings at lower left look sort of Russiany.

I did a Google Image search which returned several sites most of which weren't in English, but didn't appear to offer much in the way of information anyway.

There's a car driving on the RHS of the road so that rules out the UK.

Have considered the possibility of Germany or Netherlands due to the geometric street patterns. Not going to put money on it though. :)

Let's get the Pros involved.

Thanks to Glatt, & StreetView, the guy is on a building at the corner of Confederation Parkway and Princess Royal Drive in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

Oh, God! I laughed way too hard and long at that.

:lol2:

I wonder if that's an area where stopping's permitted. It doesn't look like it, just the two traffic lanes. Still. Watch where the hell you're going, ffs.

Yeah, you need to look up every now and then...

The way dude's face slides down that window is just hilarious.

I can't quit watching it.

There are no lines painted on the side of the road, so stopping, waiting, parking are all perfectly legal.

Now, don't quote me on this, but I think it's probably better to look over your shoulder before you move out and not after.

Profanity warning. Qty 1.

Hah!

In fact, double hah!

Man dies after shooting off a fireworks mortar placed on his head :eyebrow:

Drinking a lot of alcohol and lighting fireworks... what could go wrong?

http://news.yahoo.com/video/man-shoo...104555513.html

That's a sad story.

Who among us hasn't done stupid shit when drunk? Fortunately for me, when I did stupid drunken stuff, none of it killed me. Probably could have though. Those handful of years around the age of 21 are dangerous.

Fuck yeah. I look back and just shudder at the risks I took as a youngster.

Poor bugger. What a waste of a life.

I hope he hadn't reproduced. :eyebrow:

Well if he had, that would make him ineligible for the Darwin award.

As kids, we do stuff that, had we known how dangerous it was to do, would have killed us outright.



ETA: I wonder what the actual injury was? Concussion? Those mortars really whump when they go off...Maybe a fractured skull?

Ten cuidado con el toro con cuernos de fuego!



Yay bull!!

Judge Randall Lee Rogers, Smith County Texas
 

Judge Randall Lee Rogers, Presiding Judge, Smith County Texas, is the Idiot of the year.

http://cellar.org/2015/judge.jpg
Unfortunately this is not that uncommon, a judge overstepping jurisprudence. Because they have the power in, and out, of the courtroom. They have the power to jail you indefinitely for contempt of court... INDEFINITLY. Even if you murder someone you get a defined sentence. Unless you have money and/or political suck, you can't fight this kind of bullshit. No local lawyer would help you, as it would be professional suicide. ACLU, maybe. :mad2:

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I'll take 15 days in jail over marriage to, literally, any woman I've ever met.

I'd take 115 days in jail over marriage to, literally, any woman I've ever met.

I thought it was a little weird that his only real argument for caving in was, "the judge wouldn't let me call my job to tell them about the 15 days, so I would have been fired if I took it." Your girlfriend (now wife) doesn't know how to use a phone on your behalf?

That's when it becomes jurisimprudence?

Nice.

Idiots, That's Right, Plural
 

--Charleston, SC

Our Idiot Of The Day prize is shared today by two (2) idiots who decided it would be a good idea to break into someone's home. Someone's home where there was someone home.

The thirteen (13) year old boy got his mom's handgun and let fly at one of the burglars, who let fly right back with his own gun. Shots were exchanged between the boy and the burglar, who was hit three (3) times, before being helped into a car by his accomplice, and driven to a hospital, where he died. The boy also followed the men into the street and filled the get-away car with bullet holes.

That's right fellas...

...you were undone by a thirteen (13) year old boy.


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And a Colt .45. http://cellar.org/2015/shades.gif

Is that what he was drinking?

:D