Yessir, males don't get a pass at all in fact, the declining character of the the last 2 gens of male representatives of the species in western civilization have caused the keepers of the ova to recoil from relationships and children, embittering and alienating them. Some embrace lesbian relationships out of emotional necessity as a means of avoiding the cycle of poor-quality hetero partner defeats and heartbreaks while a large majority have quite the dildo collection (as well as lubes and beads, maybe some harnesses).

It is a constant force from abuse on all fronts that tends to cause the weak to spiral into madness...most likely, by design.
Society in decline peoples, best of and worst of times.

..bead chain doesn't like to bend at really acute angles?

The only issue would likely be if the hook(s) got caught in it's intestines. With any luck, they would be degraded enough by stomach acid that they would break if caught. Consider the size of the animal, a piece of wire and a few beads and/or spoons would pass right through, probably un-noticed. Even the lead shouldn't be a problem. These animals eat full size seals, with sharp heavy bones all the time, and they do just fine. That said, it would have been the right thing to do to remove the tackle before feeding the whales.
Now, when this happens salmon fishing it's usually a seal stealing the fish, and they often just bite the body off so they don't eat the hooks. The whale likely didn't get the whole fish (since it was still attached to the line and being pulled) so tackle may not be an issue at all.

Tazers and anal beads....er...so I hear anyway

So glad to hear I'm not the only person who hated this film, and quite enjoyed Quantum of Solace.

Walking into Skyfall I had the chilling thought that maybe people loved Skyfall because it was stereotypical rubbish. And so it was. The action scene on the bikes was so fucking ridiculous I wanted to scream. Dude crashes over a bridge / cut to him immediately running atop a train. This is after we've been riding around the rooftops for a while. Fucking please.

And they had a fucking Island Lair! An Island Lair, people. In 2012. And this guy had broadband coming out his fucking ears on his abandoned island lair. Like they couldn't have tracked him down when he was doing his evil deeds. Jesus me beads.

I've been disappointed by Bond before, but after a great return to form in the last two, this was hackery writ large.

He stated (@ about 0:19) that the "beads" are bionicle zamor spheres (http://bionicle.wikia.com/wiki/Zamor_Sphere) which are indeed lego parts.

"A custom designed working ball clock built entirely using LEGO parts."

...and a bunch of beads.

>> ^Ickster:

I literally witnessed a miracle because despite the fact that the train destroyed the truck, the men inside were okay and they are alive, . . .
Actually, you witnessed a driver not paying attention, and being saved by 50 odd years of safety legislation and good engineering.


Heh. I was going to say, seeing as how the actual cabin the drivers were housed in was a good five or so meters from the point of impact, this hardly seems like the appropriate time to bust out the prayer beads.

Unless, of course, one felt like worshiping the mechanical engineers. The cathedrals could operate on the Rube Goldberg Principal.

It's like someone turned the final chapters of "The Glass Bead Game" into a Hollywood action film.

autoshop class

making go karts using old lawnmowers

checking sparkplug to see if its firing, my buddy is holding it in his hand, my other buddy yanks the chord to start lawnmower

he makes a "ungh" sound as his arms... both, the one holding the spark plug and the one not, go straight up in the air like a ref signalling a touchdown


i still laugh about it



then there was the time I electrocuted my physics teacher in grade 12 lol

air puck with string of beads down hose so based on frequency you could create data points on a piece of paper as the puck travelled in an arc (table was slightly elevated so there was a slope)... you engage the electricity by stepping on a pedal



he called me over to look at something, stepped fully on the pedal while he was holding the puck in his hand lol

i was oblivious, my buddy figured it out because he was looking at my teacher and had heard the zap, zap, zap, zap... the teacher was getting shocks but held onto the puck, trying to figure out what was going on... until finally he threw the puck... the beads in the tube came apart, funnelled out the tube and had to be rethread



by my buddy, not me lol

Yep, this is called a "Pater noster" ("Our Father" , i.e. The Lord's Prayer) because of the construction of the elevator "cabins" reminiscent of the beads on a rosary. There are at least five of those still operational in my home city of Cologne, Germany. The one I used most is in Cologne's oldest (and one of Germany's oldest) highrise buildings, the "Hansahochhaus" and reaches up 17 floors (19, including the turn-arounds).

To answer lucky760's question: Yes, the cabins do go sideways at the top and bottom and you are not supposed to ride around in them when they do (Of course, I did).

Yeah, he used a CO2 canister-based pump. Very handy for quick changes, but you need to be careful to do as he do and aim upwards when inflating (downward facing = greater chance of freezing inner tube - from experience). Note: Depending on temperatures and canister size (12g, 16g etc), CO2 canisters often only get you back up to 80-90PSI, which may or may not be enough for your setup


This was a great (and impressive) display. As someone who has changed HUNDREDS of flatties, my ramblings, FWIW:
- The tyre/rim combo can often mean removal (and reseating) of the tyre is a PITA, due to slightly small ID tyre bead and slightly oversize RIM OD. Inevitably this requires n+1 tyre levers, with n being the number you have in your pocket (tip: wheel quick releases make good emergency tyre levers at a pinch)
- 30 seconds spent identifying/removing source of puncture (glass/wire/thorn) saves many minutes of rework when you get another puncture a minute later from the bastard wire strand you didnt look hard enough for
- always carry a patch kit (or 1-2 of the self-adhesive sticky instant patches). Two punctures on one ride is rare but it happens and being stranded out of cell coverage then trying to peel off bar tape to seal a puncture is a way to ruin a good ride
- Replace old tyres. There is an exponential growth curve that describes the relationship between tyre age to incidence of punctures. Old tyres are the single most effective way to spend lots of time on the side of the road yelling

This episode always bugged me. They got the concept wrong. The idea has always been to re-seat a tire's bead seal THEN pump it up. You can fill it afterwards with a bicycle hand pump if neccessary. 4 wheelers break the bead seal all the time when they deflate to get better traction and they don't use wheels with bead locks.

Maybe if the myth was you can drive away after the explosion, that'd be acceptable.

I know that multiple balls hitting one side will cause multiple balls to be released from the other side, but momentum isn't measured by counting the incoming particles; it's measured by mass*velocity, and that's all. One ball hitting with great speed usually releases one ball at great speed out the other side. Two balls with very low speed, even with less total momentum than the single fast-moving ball, will release two balls from the other side at the same low speed. It's something about the number of particles, not their momentum, that determines how many are ejected.>> ^oritteropo:

Try splitting the beads in a Newton's cradle so there are more than one swinging in at the end, like this:
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It's not that the balls know anything in particular, it's that the momentum generated by a single ball is enough to dislodge an equal ball from the other end. In the case of the three balls, there is the right amount of momentum to dislodge three balls.
Now, when we have a magnet involved the single bead is accelerated towards the magnet at a great rate of knots imparting extra momentum so it's now equivalent to many balls (with just gravity) and the only thing stopping all the balls on the other side of the magnet flying off is that the same magnetic force is stopping the closer ones from moving.
>> ^messenger:
Love it, as with just about anything with Sixty Symbols.
I'd like to know why two balls broke off, rather than one, which is what happens in Newton's Cradle, no matter how hard to smack them. The row of particles has no way of knowing that the incoming particle was accelerated before it struck, so there must be something else at work here. I wonder if it's the incoming particle shifting the whole mass in the negative direction as it pulls on the magnet, and if the magnet were fixed in place if just one ball would move off.

Try splitting the beads in a Newton's cradle so there are more than one swinging in at the end, like this:


It's not that the balls know anything in particular, it's that the momentum generated by a single ball is enough to dislodge an equal ball from the other end. In the case of the three balls, there is the right amount of momentum to dislodge three balls.

Now, when we have a magnet involved the single bead is accelerated towards the magnet at a great rate of knots imparting extra momentum so it's now equivalent to many balls (with just gravity) and the only thing stopping all the balls on the other side of the magnet flying off is that the same magnetic force is stopping the closer ones from moving.
>> ^messenger:

Love it, as with just about anything with Sixty Symbols.
I'd like to know why two balls broke off, rather than one, which is what happens in Newton's Cradle, no matter how hard to smack them. The row of particles has no way of knowing that the incoming particle was accelerated before it struck, so there must be something else at work here. I wonder if it's the incoming particle shifting the whole mass in the negative direction as it pulls on the magnet, and if the magnet were fixed in place if just one ball would move off.