>> ^WaterDweller:

>> ^schlub:
Yeah, it's called general advice for touching something that may be electrified. You go ahead and use your blade of grass.
>> ^Archanon:
Don't listen to that elbow or back of the hand crap. Even though most if not all electric fences are DC, they pulse the current so you would never have a clench response. Instead, pick up a blade of grass and touch it with that. The grass acts as a resistor and lowers the current you receive. He did earn a few Darwin points however for standing in a mud-puddle and touching something electric. He should go hug an electrical engineer for sparing his life.


General advice for touching something that may be electrified: don't.


General Advice for posting a response to a response to a response: Don't.

>> ^schlub:

Yeah, it's called general advice for touching something that may be electrified. You go ahead and use your blade of grass.
>> ^Archanon:
Don't listen to that elbow or back of the hand crap. Even though most if not all electric fences are DC, they pulse the current so you would never have a clench response. Instead, pick up a blade of grass and touch it with that. The grass acts as a resistor and lowers the current you receive. He did earn a few Darwin points however for standing in a mud-puddle and touching something electric. He should go hug an electrical engineer for sparing his life.



General advice for touching something that may be electrified: don't.

Yeah, it's called general advice for touching something that may be electrified. You go ahead and use your blade of grass.
>> ^Archanon:

Don't listen to that elbow or back of the hand crap. Even though most if not all electric fences are DC, they pulse the current so you would never have a clench response. Instead, pick up a blade of grass and touch it with that. The grass acts as a resistor and lowers the current you receive. He did earn a few Darwin points however for standing in a mud-puddle and touching something electric. He should go hug an electrical engineer for sparing his life.

Don't listen to that elbow or back of the hand crap. Even though most if not all electric fences are DC, they pulse the current so you would never have a clench response. Instead, pick up a blade of grass and touch it with that. The grass acts as a resistor and lowers the current you receive. He did earn a few Darwin points however for standing in a mud-puddle and touching something electric. He should go hug an electrical engineer for sparing his life.

Fingers are far more sensitive. Touch it with an elbow.

How hard is it to buy a cheap pair of elbow and knee pads? Seriously idiotic.

>> ^NaMeCaF:

Is he breaking that cows neck at 2:16? If so, that is fucked up.


Nah, he's just subduing her..It would take a helluva wrench to break that cow's neck, even if that monk was trying to! That cow's head is being held down on the ground and she's using massive force against him to try and get back up. If you perfect this practice demonstrated like this guy has then you are ready to hold a 350lb warrior to the ground with yer frikkin' elbow while yer other powerful arm is free to roam the soft tissue!!

>> ^FlowersInHisHair:

Poor pup. He needed some reassurance and all the douche with the camera could do was film it and giggle. Arsehole


This could happen every week and the dog just doesn't listen to being told no.

I've play-fought with my dog all his life, and every so often i give him snidey fake kicks in the rib cage to get him riled up, or get him in a fake mma leg lock and tell him to tap out while he chews my elbow. He sees those little kicks as affection now, but if you saw a 20 second video of me telling him to tap out then it might look bad!

You don't know their relationship and the dogs were clearly in good health and spirits, even if one was a little surprised.

How does forcing an apology from someone who doesn't want to apologize teach them anything? It teaches them (and the kids witnessing it) to just apologize next time even though they don't mean it. I have my own expression for it: "saying sorry as you elbow people in the side of the head to cross the room is impolite."

EDIT: You say "saying sorry and meaning it is how non-empathetic people become empathetic." ... I'm sorry but that doesn't apply to adults. Also, by the simplest logic, if you demand an apology from someone, they're probably not giving you a sincere apology (i.e. feeling any empathy).

>> ^dag:

The lesson was for the sorry sayer, not the receiver. Saying sorry and meaning it is an acknowledgement of causing harm - minor empathy, most definitely Not sociopathic.>> ^criticalthud:
yes, learn how to say sorry when you don't mean it in order to make someone else feel a certain way, and to quickly forgive purposeful aggressive action.
good sociopathic training
dunno. what you guys see a dutiful lesson in good manners I see as training to be disingenuous.
and who is the lesson for? are you condoning that your child should expect an apology every time she's bumped into?
if you train your child to be a princess that the world should be apologizing to, make sure she stays in the USA.

>> ^meggymoo:

Here's a fun fact. The slow loris is the worlds only venomous primate. They also stink.


That's debatable since they secrete the toxin from their elbows. "Venomous" implies that the toxin is injected directly with a bite, sting, spur, etc.

Heh well said I was going to side with Gordon at first after seeing the hit, then I remembered he's a totaly dick.

>> ^Quboid:

It really didn't look that bad, I suspect if it had been a professional player on the receiving end, rather than a middle-aged professional potty-mouth, he'd have got up and played on - after rolling around in apparent agony until Sheringham got booked, of course.
The really nasty ones are when the player's standing leg is caught so their leg and foot below the point of contact can't give way due to being planted in the turf. Then the point of contact is what gives away; the bone breaks. This is what can end careers.
Ramsey may actually have caused the most damage himself, he landed jarringly on his elbow and could have dislocated his shoulder. It wasn't a very nice challenge, but there's plenty of people who would love the chance to do much worse to Ramsey.

It really didn't look that bad, I suspect if it had been a professional player on the receiving end, rather than a middle-aged professional potty-mouth, he'd have got up and played on - after rolling around in apparent agony until Sheringham got booked, of course.

The really nasty ones are when the player's standing leg is caught so their leg and foot below the point of contact can't give way due to being planted in the turf. Then the point of contact is what gives away; the bone breaks. This is what can end careers.

Ramsey may actually have caused the most damage himself, he landed jarringly on his elbow and could have dislocated his shoulder. It wasn't a very nice challenge, but there's plenty of people who would love the chance to do much worse to Ramsey.

At first there did seem like there was something off about this, but if you watch the flip-guy frame by frame, everything makes sense re physics + timing and fits together too well re likelihood.

I think the reason i suspected fake initially was just the bewilderment of someone climbing into their boot to avoid having their legs crashed, little too hard to see if they succeeded, and another guy standing out in the middle of another lane when already in the middle of the road.. but when your focus is on "that car is running up the back of this one and i need to get out of the way" i think it forgivable to make a mistake like that.

His disappearing isn't weird, it's normal. Look at how fast that car is going, think about what the upper portion of your body will do when that mass hits just the lower half of your body, the guy could have died when his head impacted on the windshield due to how quick a transfer of forces took place (but i doubt he died).
(Edit: just read the description where it says he's alive. Lucky guy)

The flipping of the body seems fine, it continues consistently until another force joined the party.. the stopping force of the ground.

The landing, he crumples in on himself at a consistent speed before being flicked back when the combined force of the cars momentum, gravity and the spin all reached a stopping point where his body couldn't crumple any further.. and that compressed force acted like a spring.. that next head smash on the ground looked quite damaging and the arms did what they should have, they went with the existing direction of motion, bending only when the force pushed the elbow joint to the limit, until the forces lessened then biology/psychology survival instinct took over and he went fetal (which suggests he was not only still alive, but also conscious)

... imo

Promoting World Peace, One Elbow at a time.

If it was a mistake why didn't he react when his elbow contacted with something? Surely that would have been unexpected.