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Has anyone here been in a motorcycle accident they truly believe they could not have prevented? [/ QUOTE ] Depends on how nitty about the definition of prevented is. I was riding an older motorcyle ('72 Honda CB 350 ftw) 6 years ago when, unbeknownst to me, a gasket on one of the cases went coating my back tire in engine oil. The first corner I attempted to make the rear tire just washed out and I went down at 35 MPH. I guess the accident could have been prevented by replacing the gasket prior to riding, but I had no idea it was in bad shape. |
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[ QUOTE ] Has anyone here been in a motorcycle accident they truly believe they could not have prevented? [/ QUOTE ] Depends on how nitty about the definition of prevented is. I was riding an older motorcyle ('72 Honda CB 350 ftw) 6 years ago when, unbeknownst to me, a gasket on one of the cases went coating my back tire in engine oil. The first corner I attempted to make the rear tire just washed out and I went down at 35 MPH. I guess the accident could have been prevented by replacing the gasket prior to riding, but I had no idea it was in bad shape. [/ QUOTE ] my scuba instructor was sitting stopped at a red light, a car rear ended him and he broke his arm i guess he could have gunned it into the intersection and played frogger? but it seems like it was pretty hard to prevent |
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Anyone have any good book recommendations? I've read 15 books the last 15 days at "work" and now I need to go buy some more. What I've read: (I've enjoyed them all)
Jose Saramago - Blindness JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye Gino Segre - Faust in Copenhagen Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway - In Our Time David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day Tim Weiner - Legacy of Ashes Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami - Dance Dance Dance Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita Haruki Murakami - South of the Border, West of the Sun Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar Jose Saramago - Seeing Goethe - Faust anyone have anything along those lines? |
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I enjoyed "A Moveable Feast" by Hemingway. I believe it was published posthumously. It's a sort of autobiography. Much of it was written when he was in love, or so a former teacher told me.
For those with Fresh Direct accounts, make sure to get in on the President's Special this week: Stone Crabs. I just got 3 pounds today and can't express my joy in eating these. I just put in another order to be delivered on Sunday, for 3 more pounds. I think they are on sale for $15.99/lb. They are cooked and ready to eat. Delicious. |
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I had to pay to get rid of my stone crabs [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]
<font color="white">can bad jokes be in this thread too?</font> |
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Anyone have any good book recommendations? I've read 15 books the last 15 days at "work" and now I need to go buy some more. What I've read: (I've enjoyed them all) Jose Saramago - Blindness JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye Gino Segre - Faust in Copenhagen Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway - In Our Time David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day Tim Weiner - Legacy of Ashes Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami - Dance Dance Dance Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita Haruki Murakami - South of the Border, West of the Sun Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar Jose Saramago - Seeing Goethe - Faust anyone have anything along those lines? [/ QUOTE ] Steinbeck - Log of the Sea of Cortez, Cannery Row, anything else Jack London - Seawolf Graham Greene - anything - The Heart of the Matter for example random: Now and on Earth by Jim Thompson short stories by JD Salinger Franny and Zooey Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction |
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Thanks for the recommendations guys, I will definitely grab some probably tonight on my way home.
Further question: does anyone here write? I've been writing, and I have some specific and some general questions, and I was wondering if there was someone/someplace I could send/post random paragraphs, etc for general review from time to time. Subforum? Thread in this forum? Some forum on some other site? No such thing exists? |
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mbillie,
a recent book (from last year) that I've been raving about: Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl http://www.amazon.com/Special-Topics.../dp/067003777X The Amazon reviews are pretty good, except that the people who don't like it are dumb. They're right that it's long and "pretentious" and weird, but I thought it was also great and hilarious and brilliant and from what I know of your online personality I think you would too. (I'd also guess you've probably heard of this book already, so I'll stop now.) |
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Possibly slightly TLDR random whatever spot:
My girlfriend and I were at a wedding last month, and the groom's family paid for dinner in a real nice restaurant right by the Red Square. There was always plenty of alcohol on the table, but water bottles didn't get replaced right away. Since my gf was thirsty and didn't feel like getting all wasted, I went to the bar a few times and asked for water bottles. At some point, another section opens up, which is kind of a night club, and strangers start coming in. A little after that I made another trip to the bar for some water, but the guy from our section wasn't there. So I just walked over to where the night club was (same longass bar), and asked for three bottles of water. The guy handed me three bottles (12oz or so) of water, but I had to pay close to 20 bucks. This was the same water that was distributed freely all night, and that got taken away if someone seemed to have abandoned a bottle. I wanted to say 'I'm actually with that group over there', but then my drunk ass thought WTF that just means the groom's father will have to pay for it. He already paid for all your other probably over the top expensive [censored], you can pony up $20 yourself, you stingy bastard. By the time I got back to my seat, I realized that it was very unlikely that they counted each and every water bottle and charged them over $6 for it. I decided that it was too late to be a bitch about it though, and just ate the loss. But I still feel kind of owned by the restaurant to this day. To add insult to injury, there ended up being a dance performance in another room shortly after, and by the time we got back, the one bottle we hadn't opened, but paid for, was gone! Given that I already made the mistake of walking away, what could I have reasonably done about this without making an ass out of myself? |
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I realized that it was very unlikely that they counted each and every water bottle and charged them over $6 for it. [/ QUOTE ] no, they probably do count all the bottles, but yeah, they probably do give him a discount... don't worry about it... hope you had a good time, try thinking about the fun stuff you did lol |
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