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Re: The post funny stuff thread v.graham's number
« Reply #2030 on: November 28, 2018, 08:03:50 AM »
Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh!  :D
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Re: The post funny stuff thread v.graham's number
« Reply #2031 on: November 28, 2018, 08:09:15 AM »


I can totally relate to that. If I was still a kid I'd be doing it the whole day to see how fast I can go.

Okay, I would probably do it as an adult too if I saw a thing like that somewhere.  :biggrin:
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Re: The post funny stuff thread v.graham's number
« Reply #2032 on: November 28, 2018, 11:19:15 AM »
I still do that, just with a car now

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« Reply #2033 on: November 28, 2018, 11:38:27 AM »
I'm right now trying to figure out how to get that to read a baseball.   Not that it wouldn't be soul-crushing to see a top speed of 50-some-odd but still. I'd try.  :)

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« Reply #2034 on: November 28, 2018, 11:44:24 AM »
I'm right now trying to figure out how to get that to read a baseball.   Not that it wouldn't be soul-crushing to see a top speed of 50-some-odd but still. I'd try.  :)

Is the gun that measures car speed any different than the one they use on the baseball diamond? I had thought they were essentially the same. Just throw the damn ball, and hope it hits something (other than police property) before rolling down the street several blocks.
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Re: The post funny stuff thread v.graham's number
« Reply #2035 on: November 28, 2018, 12:56:56 PM »
I'm right now trying to figure out how to get that to read a baseball.   Not that it wouldn't be soul-crushing to see a top speed of 50-some-odd but still. I'd try.  :)

Is the gun that measures car speed any different than the one they use on the baseball diamond? I had thought they were essentially the same. Just throw the damn ball, and hope it hits something (other than police property) before rolling down the street several blocks.
Seriously, man, WTF is wrong with you?  :lol

Seems to me that a police radar gun has to be able to account for varying angles of approach. No cop has ever had the balls to walk out into the street to clock me head on. I've actually seen them run radar at near right angles. I suppose that detecting the Doppler shift would necessarily give you the range and direction of travel, as well. While certainly over my head, calculating an accurate speed based on the three variables is probably pretty easy. If that's the case then you should be able to hurl a baseball a few feet to the right of the thing and still get an accurate reading. Though in all honestly, the speed at which you can throw a baseball is a pretty poor indicator of manliness if you're not willing to hit a damn radar trailer to find out.  :biggrin:
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Re: The post funny stuff thread v.graham's number
« Reply #2036 on: November 28, 2018, 01:10:48 PM »
Though in all honestly, the speed at which you can throw a baseball is a pretty poor indicator of manliness if you're not willing to hit a damn radar trailer to find out.  :biggrin:

That right there is a big part of why I like you so much.   

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« Reply #2037 on: November 28, 2018, 01:11:08 PM »
Huh, I have never seen them aim the gun at traffic at such a significant oblique angle.

I will chalk this up to the One New Thng I Learned Today.

And it isn't lost on me that you can ask me that question, phrased as such, and get a chuckle out of me, whereas pretty much anyone else might get a slap in the face.  :)
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Re: The post funny stuff thread v.graham's number
« Reply #2038 on: November 29, 2018, 12:19:46 PM »
Huh, I have never seen them aim the gun at traffic at such a significant oblique angle.

I will chalk this up to the One New Thng I Learned Today.

And it isn't lost on me that you can ask me that question, phrased as such, and get a chuckle out of me, whereas pretty much anyone else might get a slap in the face.  :)
Well I hoped you learned two new things yesterday, because the one I taught you was surprisingly wrong.  :lol

Cop radar does not account for the angle of offset, and they're surprisingly inaccurate as that angle increases. Up to around 25° the accuracy stays within 90%, but after that it nosedives all the way to 0 at 90°. Turns out The Man has no reason to want this resolved, as the inaccuracy is always in the driver's favor. You will always be driving as fast or faster than the speed indicated on his gun, which makes this a really shitty defense in court. And since the radar is technically secondary to Johnny's, I shit you not, training and expertise in visual speed recognition, the general inaccuracy isn't relevant. Whereas were the radar gun manufacturers to incorporate cosine differential error correction they'd be adding a whole new wrinkle to what is already a tried and true aid to conviction.

This does nothing to address why I see cops sitting at oblique angles running radar, though. Maybe they just pull over to burn one and leave the radar on for good measure. I don't know. It does tell me that you should throw your baseball just inside that nine, though.
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Re: The post funny stuff thread v.graham's number
« Reply #2039 on: November 30, 2018, 05:41:33 AM »





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Re: The post funny stuff thread v.graham's number
« Reply #2040 on: November 30, 2018, 08:18:29 AM »
Johnny's, I shit you not, training and expertise in visual speed recognition

Which we know is bullshit; even among professionals that work in the industry, we know from the number of train accidents every year that judging speed is a very tricky proposition for human beings.   Indirectly, my company sells billions of dollars in equipment* every year predicated on that inexactness.

* My company has a division that sells signaling equipment to major railroads and regional transit authorities.  "Signaling" equipment is shorthand for the complicated system that you know as "crossing gates", though that is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

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Re: The post funny stuff thread v.graham's number
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Re: The post funny stuff thread v.graham's number
« Reply #2042 on: December 02, 2018, 08:16:39 PM »
It's okay, though, she has pretty eyes.

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Re: The post funny stuff thread v.graham's number
« Reply #2043 on: December 04, 2018, 11:40:27 AM »
I laughed way too hard at this....

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Re: The post funny stuff thread v.graham's number
« Reply #2044 on: December 04, 2018, 12:11:47 PM »
lol
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Re: The post funny stuff thread v.graham's number
« Reply #2045 on: December 04, 2018, 01:09:18 PM »
White dudes can't rock white suits.

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Re: The post funny stuff thread v.graham's number
« Reply #2046 on: December 04, 2018, 01:16:47 PM »
White dudes can't rock white suits.


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Re: The post funny stuff thread v.graham's number
« Reply #2047 on: December 04, 2018, 01:52:45 PM »
And for a picture of a man who looks like he has testicles:

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« Reply #2048 on: December 04, 2018, 02:38:46 PM »
White dudes can't rock white suits.


(Connery would have been too easy)


Good call on both.   But speaking of testicles, I don't know how a man crosses their legs like that.  Mine just don't move that way. 

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« Reply #2049 on: December 04, 2018, 03:02:21 PM »
White dudes can't rock white suits.


(Connery would have been too easy)


Good call on both.   But speaking of testicles, I don't know how a man crosses their legs like that.  Mine just don't move that way.
Yeah, you gotta be pretty careful and take your time with that. I only watched half the movie (I thought it was worse than the novel) so I don't recall the scene, but I'm guessing it cut to him already positioned like that and didn't show him sitting down. If not, I bet the blooper reel was pretty long and profane.
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Re: The post funny stuff thread v.graham's number
« Reply #2050 on: December 08, 2018, 08:39:39 AM »






That's a word salad - and take it from me, I know word salad
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« Reply #2051 on: December 08, 2018, 09:25:04 AM »
Last one is Josh. :lol
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« Reply #2052 on: December 08, 2018, 09:28:52 AM »
Madafakas :lol
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« Reply #2054 on: December 09, 2018, 06:56:51 AM »
White dudes can't rock white suits.


(Connery would have been too easy)


Good call on both.   But speaking of testicles, I don't know how a man crosses their legs like that.  Mine just don't move that way.
Yeah, you gotta be pretty careful and take your time with that. I only watched half the movie (I thought it was worse than the novel) so I don't recall the scene, but I'm guessing it cut to him already positioned like that and didn't show him sitting down. If not, I bet the blooper reel was pretty long and profane.

Maybe it's the European in me but I've never had an issue crossing my legs.

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« Reply #2055 on: December 09, 2018, 07:04:38 AM »
I could never cross my legs even when I was in shape.
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« Reply #2056 on: December 10, 2018, 05:06:00 AM »
Zydar is my new hero.  I just laughed so hard I nearly shat.

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« Reply #2057 on: December 10, 2018, 05:12:23 AM »
I could never cross my legs even when I was in shape.

So true.
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
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« Reply #2058 on: December 10, 2018, 06:04:36 AM »

Maybe it's the European in me but I've never had an issue crossing my legs.

I never crossed my legs until I saw the Godfather





I thought it gave off kind of a cool confidence, so I started doing it as well.

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« Reply #2059 on: December 10, 2018, 09:09:27 AM »
This first band is Soen very cool swingy jazz fusion kinda stuff.

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« Reply #2061 on: December 11, 2018, 07:40:42 AM »


Case closed, I guess.
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« Reply #2062 on: December 11, 2018, 07:45:22 AM »
Is there no end to police brutality?
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« Reply #2063 on: December 11, 2018, 08:08:43 AM »
Is there no end to police brutality?

It was prolly a black squirrel.
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« Reply #2064 on: December 11, 2018, 08:20:46 AM »
All Nuts Matter?
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