Yep, it's official, balls of steel are for pussies. Real men have balls made of hockey pucks.
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Balls of steel can be the cause of horrific injuries.

And nope, not photoshopped. His knee is all fucked up.

Test pilots have balls of steel

Yeah, the british guy seemed really intelligent, but really awkward (both socially and physically). I doubt he would be a good choice.

Obviously, I expect them to run extensive psychological exams on the last few candidates, I mean... these people will need to be intelligent, resourceful, with nerves (and balls) of steel, and also in good shape obviously.

balls of steel, these guys.

At this point, Israel are basically holding a midget at arm's length, kicking him in the balls with steel toe caps whilst Palestine slap ineffectually at their hand.

Israel has the capability to deal with the attacks on "their" land (let's not forget the UN recognise much of their occupation as illegal) without indiscriminate shelling of areas populated by MOSTLY innocent civilians. They are basically investing in future terrorism by choosing not to do so, giving themselves an excuse to elaborate on their prison camp which we refer to as Palestine.

You don't have to be FOR hamas to be AGAINST the killing of innocents, and i'm afraid Israel does the lion's (and the lioness', and the cubs') share of that. They can and should be better than retaliation.

always loved pilger.the man has balls of steel.

Actually you seemed to be discussing your likely mistaken assumption that the reporter was 'reporting future comments' rather than using proper English to state what a normal detractor might/would say if present. "some of your critics would say". In this context, those words are interchangeable. It's another definition of 'would' not meaning 'will say in the future' but instead meaning 'would be saying right now if they were here and had balls of steel'.
There's little question that his detractors have, do, and will say a well known convicted rapist's endorsement might hurt a candidate's chances, so even if you insist he's reporting on the future, it's not a leap to say 'detractors' will bring up his violent and felonious past as one that makes his endorsement a negative.
Reporters often don't give sources, especially for obvious statements like 'people who don't like you will say bad things about you' (which is also not a prediction of the future, but a statement about the present), you really don't need sources to confirm that kind of statement.

Whenever I see videos where they're shooting from a helicopter, I wonder why they don't catch their empties. That's a lot of hot brass they're dropping all over, wasting shells and contaminating whatever's below them. Why?
I agree, this reporter both has balls of steel and is obnoxious, but my thought was he could have simply given one of the military a go-pro instead of going with them, and 3 more children (or 2 thin adults) could have been saved.

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Balls of steel on that reporter.

Balls. Of. Steel.

Those shots are gorgeous.

And, judging by the size of some of those waves, that guy has balls of steel.

I'll give the guy all the credit for a suberb run (and balls of steel) but it's just not the same thing as driving it on gravel in a group B car.

Even if you ignore the sun in the eyes, stick gear changes and the way Vatanen had to use the clutch in the corners because the engine just had too much power, the sheer difficulty of traversing a low friction surface like gravel puts his time in a league of it's own.

Watch the two videos and you see the complete technical difference, Loeb goes in to low gear through the corners, doesn't drift at all (even drops in to first at points), and uses the cars acceleration combined with tarmac traction to get back up to speed. He even hits 6th gear quite a few times in the run. His control of the wheel is very smooth and measured.

Now watch Vatanen. Most of the corners, he's probably riding 2nd or 3rd and instead of breaking, is using the crazy horsepower of the engine to keep him going round the corner. He doesn't reach the same sort of top speeds of course because he's constantly fighting the loss of traction even in a straight line. His wheel control is excellent, but you can observe how he is constantly fighting to maintain his place on the road.

I suspect Loeb probably could better Vatanen's time with the same car and similar conditions, but we'll never know.

Personally, I would worry at least a tiny bit that the wrong someone would actually think I was the real thing and try to kill me. Balls of steel this guy has.