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12-17-2012 , 09:44 PM
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Originally Posted by BigPoppa
If the only thing that can kill me is a "car accident", I'm not driving a car anywhere.
No way.

Unless "car accident" is literally just for cars and not all motor vehicles. No way can you go through life not using car/bus/etc.
12-17-2012 , 09:46 PM
get to tha choppa

Last edited by pageh656; 12-17-2012 at 09:46 PM. Reason: DO IT DO IT NOW
12-17-2012 , 09:59 PM
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Originally Posted by 00Snitch
No way.

Unless "car accident" is literally just for cars and not all motor vehicles. No way can you go through life not using car/bus/etc.
I could live out my eternity quite happily without ever getting within 100 yards of a car.
12-17-2012 , 10:07 PM
the most shocking part of that statement to me is that it was made by an australian and afaik they dont even have cars they all hop around on kangaroos

Last edited by pageh656; 12-17-2012 at 10:07 PM. Reason: sometimes hitching a ride on a boomerang passing by
12-17-2012 , 10:20 PM
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Originally Posted by crashjr
I could live out my eternity quite happily without ever getting within 100 yards of a car.
You must live in a city with terrible traffic, or you own a terrible car.
12-17-2012 , 10:41 PM
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Originally Posted by n4rf
Remember listening to freakonomics podcast and if you were somehow immortal, but the only thing that could kill you is a car accident, your expected lifespan is ~250 years. This includes driving a car all day everyday
Yeah, but a 250 year old has got to be the worst driver oat.
12-17-2012 , 10:45 PM
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Originally Posted by HalfSlant
You must live in a city with terrible traffic, or you own a terrible car.
Or a boat, a marina, an ocean and an island with no cars on it.
12-17-2012 , 11:24 PM
How much can adding creatine to diet add to lifts if someone is close to advanced/end of novice gains
12-17-2012 , 11:25 PM
Yugo - Glad you're ok.

You havent lived in MN your whole life so you are not as familiar with what goes on on our roads in the winter as a native. Dont beat yourself up over this. Take it as a learning experience and be glad it wasnt worse. But, yeah, bridges and ramps are always more likely to be icy.

It rained like crazy over the weekend, then it got cold. There are icy spots all over the ****ing place. I almost fell on my ass getting out of the car in a parking lot in Wayzata today - the parking lots over there were all glare ice. The spots where there is no ice either got lots of salt, and/or has had lots of traffic to melt the ice. What road did this happen on? You can be exact. I'll know where it is.

4 wheel drive/all wheel drive and anti-lock brakes would not have stopped you any better on ice. That stuff is nice to have (AWD allows you to take off quicker and ABS helps you control the car as you slide on the ice), but it probably would not have prevented this.
12-17-2012 , 11:35 PM
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Originally Posted by pageh656
the most shocking part of that statement to me is that it was made by an australian and afaik they dont even have cars they all hop around on kangaroos
12-17-2012 , 11:36 PM
169 S right where it crosses 494. I was in the lane to turn onto 494 east on that new overpass and just couldn't slow my car down for the turn...so of course instead of careening straight into whatever guard rail/snow was in front of me, I spun out into the traffic next to me.

I really really didn't think there was ice there since road conditions were semi-perfect on 169 north of there. After 40+ minutes of driving I just really wasn't ready for it.

What potentially could help? Just not driving and living in fear the rest of my life? I'm like 5% thinking that is a very solid idea, .
12-17-2012 , 11:51 PM
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Originally Posted by KhalynYohrk
How much can adding creatine to diet add to lifts if someone is close to advanced/end of novice gains
creatines junk, won't do f all for strength.
12-17-2012 , 11:52 PM
not even if you up the dose?
12-17-2012 , 11:58 PM
no, upping the dose will just bloat u up like a water balloon.
12-18-2012 , 12:00 AM
Meh I felt like creatine helped a tad. Got a huge tub of ON Creatine so I still take it everyday. Khalyn want me to break you off a couple eight balls of it?
12-18-2012 , 12:11 AM
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Originally Posted by The Yugoslavian
169 S right where it crosses 494. I was in the lane to turn onto 494 east on that new overpass and just couldn't slow my car down for the turn...so of course instead of careening straight into whatever guard rail/snow was in front of me, I spun out into the traffic next to me.

I really really didn't think there was ice there since road conditions were semi-perfect on 169 north of there. After 40+ minutes of driving I just really wasn't ready for it.

What potentially could help? Just not driving and living in fear the rest of my life? I'm like 5% thinking that is a very solid idea, .
I'm always looking ahead at the road surface and whenever I think there might be ice, I slow down.

When I was younger I used to fool around in slippery, snowy, icy, empty parking lots - I learned a lot about what a car does in various conditions. For example, one of my favorite things to do was to go to Burnsville Center when they plowed the snow in big piles between the rows of parking spaces. You could get going pretty fast, then lock up the parking brake and have some fun. I probably would have got thrown in jail if a cop caught me doing some of the stuff I did back then, but it made me a lot better driver because I'm ready for anything now. I'm not necessarily condoning it, but its something to think about.
12-18-2012 , 12:16 AM
Empty icy parking lots are a right of passage for the northern teen male species iirc.
12-18-2012 , 12:18 AM
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Originally Posted by allinontheturn
Empty icy parking lots are a right of passage for the northern teen male species iirc.
Some of us graduated to frozen ponds.
12-18-2012 , 12:21 AM
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Originally Posted by crashjr
Some of us graduated to frozen ponds.
12-18-2012 , 12:45 AM
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Originally Posted by BigPoppa
Frozen ponds/lakes are fine to drive on once the ice gets to be ~8" thick. This guy probably wasnt aware of that.

this looks like fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUrQvgy3heE
12-18-2012 , 12:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Bro Sagan
Meh I felt like creatine helped a tad. Got a huge tub of ON Creatine so I still take it everyday. Khalyn want me to break you off a couple eight balls of it?
Will it help my back?
12-18-2012 , 12:48 AM
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Originally Posted by BigPoppa
The worst part about that is the dude now knows with 100% certainty that he's not the second coming
12-18-2012 , 01:44 AM
What you can't see is the driver moon walking on the water away from the wreck just off camera.
12-18-2012 , 03:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Country Roads
creatines junk, won't do f all for strength.


Creatine works for me. And it seems to work for all those people in them university studies. I mean every single ****ing study. The 'tine group crushes the placebo group.

Of course it doesn't do jack compared to the juice.
12-18-2012 , 04:08 AM
Creatine confirmed the only legit legal supplement, though iirc there's a high percentage of non-responders. I didn't really notice a difference except my hair falling out, so stopped.


Yugo/cha,
do you guys really not have snow tires? That's just crazy to me.

      
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