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Re: General life questions / observations / random whatever thread
Has anyone here been in a motorcycle accident they truly believe they could not have prevented?
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Has anyone here been in a motorcycle accident they truly believe they could not have prevented? [/ QUOTE ] I've been in two that I could not have prevented. The first I was riding slowly down a wet street at night, doing maybe 30. It hadn't rained for a long while and the roads was greasy. My handlebars began girating wildly without warning and the next thing I knew I was sliding down the street on my hands without any gloves on. I had been riding in a straight line at the time. Got up without a scratch. Second time I was on a dirt road with a passenger. Coming around a blind corner I met a car that was going way too fast in the middle of the road. I took the bike straight off the road at the corner and slid down a small ravine. Once again not a scratch to either of us but the bike was not happy. Neither was I. |
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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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