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preciousmetal		2011-08-21 10:26:23 PM

Ooops!

Indolent		2011-08-21 10:28:48 PM

Great headline subby. Hopefully this will make headline of the week or month.

Walker		2011-08-21 10:36:33 PM

If you are thinking of trying to transfer from a plane to a helicopter in flight....don't do that.

doglover		2011-08-21 10:41:56 PM

Walker: If you are thinking of trying to transfer from a plane to a helicopter in flight....don't do that.

This.

Goopotato		2011-08-21 10:46:43 PM

Airplane stunts can be dangerous and have deadly consequences.

Winning		2011-08-21 11:07:20 PM

I want a wang walker.

/Actually no, that might hurt.

gameshowhost		2011-08-21 11:57:13 PM

"There were lots of tears," Bradley told the newspaper. "We sat and prayed together."

Todd Green is still dead, you stupid coont.

/prayer: never accomplishing anything, for... what, 6000 years?

propasaurus		2011-08-22 01:13:24 AM

"...a lot of people came just to see him..."

I'm sure a lot of people came just to see him fall.

mamoru		2011-08-22 02:35:59 AM

gameshowhost: /prayer: never accomplishing anything, for... what, 6000 years?

I'm not a religious person at all, yet even I can see the value of prayer in easing the minds of those who are doing the praying.

Just sayin'.

RatMaster999		2011-08-22 03:19:37 AM

With a slide show of his fall...

katerbug72		2011-08-22 03:19:59 AM

Ugh. I hate those pictures.

RealAmericanHero		2011-08-22 03:32:34 AM

mamoru: I'm not a religious person at all, yet even I can see the value of prayer in easing the minds of those who are doing the praying.

That's certainly an interesting side of the debate. Is it okay to believe in bulls**t if it makes you feel better?

I'm not debating, just... musing.

Tess Tickles		2011-08-22 03:33:08 AM

Didn't need to RTFA because awesome headline told me all I need to know. Hats off to you subby.

wasabi in my pants		2011-08-22 03:34:15 AM

R.I.P.

RosevilleDan		2011-08-22 03:35:22 AM

RatMaster999		2011-08-22 03:41:46 AM

Lars The Canadian Viking		2011-08-22 03:43:17 AM

Walker: If you are thinking of trying to transfer from a plane to a helicopter in flight....don't do that.

Or if you do, at least wear a goddamn parachute.

rockforever		2011-08-22 03:44:27 AM

RIP Wind Waker

Mambo Bananapatch		2011-08-22 03:47:43 AM

RealAmericanHero		2011-08-22 03:49:02 AM

Mambo Bananapatch: As long as they stay the hell away from school boards.

I agree in general, but IMO the problem is that they generally don't do this. I've found very few hardcore believers who haven't decided it's their mission to make everyone else suck down their placebo too.

Fine w/ it in general theory tho... if they didn't do that part.

dorkymidgetqueen		2011-08-22 03:51:11 AM

Fark. Those photos will haunt my dreams.

slackist		2011-08-22 03:51:58 AM

Lars The Canadian Viking: Or if you do, at least wear a goddamn parachute.

Says he fell 200ft, a parachute probably wouldn't have made any difference.

/nice headline subby

KickahaOta		2011-08-22 03:53:14 AM

Lars The Canadian Viking: Or if you do, at least wear a goddamn parachute.

At 200 feet, all a parachute is going to do is make it harder to move around the wing. It's sure not gonna do a lot for you if you fall.

Stickdeath		2011-08-22 03:54:49 AM

There's something behind the fullpage ad for the SF:Chronicle Ipad app that isn't auto-blocked by noscript or flashblock?

Mambo Bananapatch		2011-08-22 03:54:52 AM

RealAmericanHero: Mambo Bananapatch: As long as they stay the hell away from school boards.

I agree in general, but IMO the problem is that they generally don't do this. I've found very few hardcore believers who haven't decided it's their mission to make everyone else suck down their placebo too.

Fine w/ it in general theory tho... if they didn't do that part.

True enough. Hardcore believers need to be mocked without mercy, and children need to be taught to value reason.

That oughta do it.

mamoru		2011-08-22 03:56:47 AM

RealAmericanHero: mamoru: I'm not a religious person at all, yet even I can see the value of prayer in easing the minds of those who are doing the praying.

That's certainly an interesting side of the debate. Is it okay to believe in bulls**t if it makes you feel better?

Whether or not it's OK to "believe in bulls**t" is not the question; it's whether or not prayer has accomplished anything. And it does. Even if that thing is merely comfort and an aid in coping for those doing the praying with no other tangible results (and obviously nothing miraculous or supernatural), it is still an accomplishment. :p

;)

I'm not going to get into a debate or series of musings about what people believe in, because such threads always go the same way here and are decidedly stale. ;)

Hand Banana		2011-08-22 03:57:31 AM

Life is precious, it shouldn't be risked and wasted for idiotic stunts.

ShannonKW		2011-08-22 03:59:43 AM

RatMaster999: RealAmericanHero: mamoru: I'm not a religious person at all, yet even I can see the value of prayer in easing the minds of those who are doing the praying.

That's certainly an interesting side of the debate. Is it okay to believe in bulls**t if it makes you feel better?

I'm not debating, just... musing.

Placebo effect

If it works for you, great.

You're misunderstanding what the lady meant. She believes that people don't actually die, but go to a better place where it is impossible to sin, and that we who inhabit the mortal world are actually far worse off, for here we can suffer and imperil our souls. The dead are to be envied, not pitied. She was actually rejoicing with her child at the death of that most fortunate man.

Fluidmachine		2011-08-22 04:08:04 AM

R.I.P. Tom Green
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Sir Cumference the Flatulent		2011-08-22 04:08:24 AM

RealAmericanHero: Is it okay to believe in bulls**t if it makes you feel better?

The Democratic and Republican parties have made careers out of it.

KrispyKritter		2011-08-22 04:12:59 AM

can't we just for once enjoy mocking death without bringing religion or politic into it?

this is why we can't have nice things

Kurmudgeon		2011-08-22 04:16:10 AM

Mambo Bananapatch: True enough. Hardcore believers need to be mocked without mercy, and children need to be taught to value reason

And when there's blowback, I suppose in your mind the believers would be at fault.
Freedom of religion doesn't mean freedom from it. We all have to live here.
Mocking and harassing people tends to cause problems, look it up if you don't believe that either.

thefnz1		2011-08-22 04:20:02 AM

On further review of the photos, I spy a lone gunman (and probable government employee/assassin) over to the lower right in the "grassy cloud". Can't they just stick to their black helicopters without interfering in air shows?

0Icky0		2011-08-22 04:34:14 AM

My uncle fell out of the same plane in 1938. With the same result.

/after another plane chewed his plane's tail off. He wasn't stupid enough to try to grab a helicopter.
//maybe because no helicopters in 1938
///sad story bro

Otto_E_Rodika		2011-08-22 04:49:50 AM

In the Vin Diesel version, the canopy would have broken his fall.

bakhirun		2011-08-22 05:05:28 AM

KickahaOta: Lars The Canadian Viking: Or if you do, at least wear a goddamn parachute.

At 200 feet, all a parachute is going to do is make it harder to move around the wing. It's sure not gonna do a lot for you if you fall.

Are you sure about that?

Taking into account his considerable forward speed, had he deployed a chute immediately upon parting company with the aircraft he could have broken his fall and survived, I would surmise.

Sort of like base jumping.

I mean, it's not "Wing Walkers of 1934" with chorus girls dancing on the wings now Busby, is it?

Atomic Spunk		2011-08-22 05:10:38 AM

At least he died doing something he loved.

He loved screaming,"OH SHIAT! AAAAAAAHHHH!"

Candygram for Mongo		2011-08-22 05:12:42 AM

Rest in Pieces.

Vance Uppercut		2011-08-22 05:24:47 AM

mamoru: gameshowhost: /prayer: never accomplishing anything, for... what, 6000 years?

I'm not a religious person at all, yet even I can see the value of prayer in easing the minds of those who are doing the praying.

Just sayin'.

prayer is probably similar to meditation, at the very least balancing the brain's chemistry and putting the nervous system into a relaxed sympathetic state.

Excelsior		2011-08-22 05:25:33 AM

gameshowhost: /prayer: never accomplishing anything, for... what, 6000 years?

It's the least you can do.

Literally.

some_beer_drinker		2011-08-22 05:29:18 AM

He should have aimed for the bushes.

meunier		2011-08-22 05:35:14 AM

It's been mayhem at air shows this week, a biplane pilot died after an engine cutout in Kansas City and the RAF lost a member of its demo team at a show in the UK. Both of these accidents happened the same day as the one in TFA!

aspAddict		2011-08-22 05:36:54 AM

Fluidmachine: R.I.P. Tom Green
[s1.postimage.org image 244x327]

Dammit, don't tease me like that..

The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves		2011-08-22 05:42:39 AM

It's a shame he didn't bounce back from his injuries.

technicolor-misfit		2011-08-22 05:44:59 AM

nicoffeine		2011-08-22 06:05:21 AM

RosevilleDan: [www.highway29.net image 400x487]

I'm learning to fly
But I ain't got wings
Coming down
Is the hardest thing

Marcintosh		2011-08-22 06:06:04 AM

RealAmericanHero: mamoru: I'm not a religious person at all, yet even I can see the value of prayer in easing the minds of those who are doing the praying.

That's certainly an interesting side of the debate. Is it okay to believe in bulls**t if it makes you feel better?

I'm not debating, just... musing.

It's just a form of self hypnosis that relaxes the mind. Most religions have something similar, droning, prayer wheels etc. Over time it's meaning or use has been modified to the point that some believe there is positive affect in the real world.
simple, no?

BarbadoSlim		2011-08-22 06:10:08 AM

This might not have happened had he stayed inside the perfectly good aircraft.

ThrobblefootSpectre		2011-08-22 06:32:54 AM

gameshowhost: Todd Green is still dead, you stupid coont.

/prayer: never accomplishing anything, for... what, 6000 years?

I'm not religious. But between some lady who says a prayer when she witnesses someone die, and you who feels the need to be outraged at her and call her a stupid coont - guess who most people find more annoying, whiny, arrogant, unlikable and all around vile?

Yes, I know - you consider yourself "tolerant" and "enlightened".

stuhayes2010		2011-08-22 06:35:10 AM

Atomic Spunk: At least he died doing something he loved.

He loved screaming,"OH SHIAT! AAAAAAAHHHH!"

Keyboard. You owe me one.

Would lol again. A+++++

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