
Wouter Weylandt died today after crashing during the Giro de Italia.
A real shame for the road cycling sport and for leisure roadies like myself. The guys that take part in these events are the reason why I bought a racer in the first place and although I was not too familiar with the Trek racing team, it's still a shock to hear of deaths in what I always percieved to be one of the less dangerous sports.
Bad times.
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 20:22, Reply)

it seems that he lost control and bailed on a downhill section at full pelt. Nasty nasty.
Thing is though, these guys, and the majority of us lowly part-time riders, don't wear much protective gear other than our lids. When I'm out on the roadie I don't really think anything of doing 40mph down a hill wearing just a jersey and shorts but coming off on tarmac is gonna have the same effect as coming off a motorbike without leathers.
He must of taken quite a hit to the head if it smashed his skull through his undoubtedly expensive helmet.
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 21:33, Reply)

Sure, you're not doing 40km/h, but the car next to you sure is.
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 21:48, Reply)

but, I only started wearing one when I found out the hard way at 15 and ended up with several stitches. Lesson learned.
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 21:50, Reply)

wearing a helmet 2 years ago after I was forced to give up bikes with engines. There's nothing like a serious crash to make you consider your mortality.
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 22:03, Reply)

you'd be laughed out of the country.
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 23:12, Reply)

than pedestrian awareness. Also everyone cycling around town is doing so on a big heavy cobble proof cruiser which goes max 20 MPH.
However if you watch a road race in the Netherlands - they are all wearing helmets. At that speed it doesn't matter.
I've toured Netherlands extensively. I don't wear helmets in town - I sure as hell do when out of town and cruising at 20+ MPH. (I tour on a race bike with 10kg on a seat post rack)
( , Tue 10 May 2011, 1:04, Reply)

I'm surprised this can happen during a professional event!
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 21:56, Reply)

Helmets can only protect you so much.
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 22:07, Reply)

I enjoy cycling very much and although I don't follow the racing, I feel very sad about the news. R.I.P. Wouter Weylandt. :(
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 23:31, Reply)

are we allowed to do this? is it illegal to post it here? carter-fuck are on teh case.
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 19:57, Reply)

what's this twitter account?
can i find naked pictures of jeremy clarkson somewhere?
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 20:09, Reply)

edit: Gordon ramsay sexually harassed a woman?! never would have guessed...
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 20:15, Reply)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOQIMOcEVc4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
The Clarkson one has already been dismissed btw...
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 20:22, Reply)

so I guess it's all about the tabloids and their obsession with their misplaced moralising over other peoples' private lives, then, is it?
In which case, as I don't need to know about it, I'm quite happy not to have to, and why the hell should the durty rags get to be able to sensationalize it, it's nothing we need to know, so let the celebs keep their private lives private, fuck the tabloids, I say.
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 20:47, Reply)

Not all of them have been about shagging. The Trafigura injunction a couple of years ago was interesting case www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/13/trafigura-carter-ruck-gag
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 23:35, Reply)

Here's an interesting little blog-post about how an Orthodox Hasidic paper reported the assassination/ killing/ whatever-term-you-want-to-use of OBL.
More coverage here and (with the best reproduction of the photo) here.
Some people are very strange, aren't they?
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 19:25, Reply)

is this some sort of hasidic sexism/chavanism thing, or part of their orthodoxy?
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 20:00, Reply)

They're Ultra-ultra-ultra Orthodox. My bet is that she was photoshopped out because it was deemed to be too racy (on the grounds that married men & women cover their hair).
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 20:51, Reply)

it is not permitted to have printed images of women. Often their faces are blanked out, rarely are they photoshopped this well, but it obviously shows you what the FEAR OF GOD does for your graphics manipulation skills.
It has been known for various communities to have a kind of one-up-manship in these stakes, many of them blotting out the faces of female babies in adverts and suchlike. The spirit behind this is, interestingly enough, not a 'this is truly what the Bible meant and you're all slacker sinners' mentality but more of a 'No it doesn't say you need to do this but we are beautifying the commandments and going one extra to show God how super super super we are and we get extra brownie points.
Now I want brownies :(
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 21:40, Reply)

To show them how photo shopping is REALLY done?
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 20:04, Reply)

strangely, sending a link about jews to a paper that loved hitler seems like a great idea.
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 20:10, Reply)

or they did till 'divorce text' was banned......
technology.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474979274798
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 22:06, Reply)

I repeat what I said before: some people are very strange, aren't they?
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 22:38, Reply)

LEST WE FORGET BACKGROUND BRUNNETE
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 22:41, Reply)

It's on Facebook so you'll need an account to view it but it's very exciting. I can't wait!
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 19:16, Reply)

From Shane Meadows
"Well, The shoot is in the history books and we have set sail on the edit. Jeez we shot some footage in those four weeks. There's almost enough for 3 hours judging by the way the first hour of edited material has panned out. I'm going to tal...k to C4 about getting some more shoot/edit time etc in the hope that it can morph into a 3 parter split over 3 consecutive nights. If that doesn't come off, we will have a killer 2hr spesh, but quite how I'll get it all in to that is beyond me at the minute.
also on the cameras used for anyone interested...
We shot on 2 red cameras and used my Sony F3 on quite a lot of scenes. So three cameras at times, hence the potential for the 3 hrs! Reds look great on the screen but cacking hell they are a pain in the arse. Overheating, crashes aplenty and corrupted files. My Sony never skipped a beat baby!!!!"
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 19:38, Reply)

...co-writes this. (Jack Thorne)
The closest thing to a celeb friend I have.
( , Tue 10 May 2011, 9:08, Reply)

Victor Borge and Dean Martin experiment with a system for encoding punctuation into singing performances. Kind of like that show with Stephen Fry and Dr. House but with two American dudes instead of one.
Edit: Oops, looks like I'm not so good with remembering nationalities. Victor Borge is actually Danish. :)
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 19:13, Reply)

plays Laurie, right? His British accent is pretty good, but not as good as Christian Bale's.
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 19:49, Reply)

There's a whole series of these, and they're fucking amazing, but this one's my current favourite. If you like it, check out the full series. It's full of win (to borrow an expression from the 'kids of today')
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 19:05, Reply)

I Discovered these the other day and am working my way through! Takes me back!
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 19:13, Reply)

*watches* blimey, I'm impressed
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 18:55, Reply)

But that surprised me.
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 19:01, Reply)

( , Mon 9 May 2011, 20:42, Reply)

Kevin the yorkie found shoe box with 3 kittens in the park. He has saved them. They were cold, hungry and wet from the rain.
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 18:30, Reply)

Give up dude, it´s not going to be the next Maru.
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 18:45, Reply)

and I don't believe it found any kittens.
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 19:13, Reply)

Near as I can tell this guy has posted 2 links in the last fortnight. Where do the miltople spam accusations come from?
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 20:12, Reply)

47 of which were links.
That's not exactly "joining in" is it.
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 20:14, Reply)

Being tedious videos of his fucking dog doing absolutely nothing.
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 21:02, Reply)

you could have read the brochure and bought your own piece of Nirvana...look at it now (Irish apartment complex gone to ruin in 4 years)
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 18:07, Reply)

Now you can buy your own piece of Pripyat.
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 18:28, Reply)

I know it's a link to a picture, but I had to share it.
Seen from my home office window - a double rainbow, man!
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 17:27, Reply)

also glad it's not just me who is still impressed by stuff
like this.
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 18:17, Reply)

crank that bad boy up to 4 yfrog.com/z/h7pbpvvj
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 18:30, Reply)

A street magician protects the woman he loves from the mafia. I thought
this was a VERY entertaining two minutes :-)
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 16:05, Reply)

Just the right length, no introduction required, just good old storytelling.
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 16:31, Reply)

Happy Yorkie greets her owner with a cheesey grin.
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 15:27, Reply)

My grans Yorkie dog used to do that. It would usually be followed by mass amounts of sneezing.
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 15:32, Reply)

they are the worst model of dog.
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 15:34, Reply)

I'm guessing this isn't real.
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 15:15, Reply)

This is the site of a guy I know who makes randomly generated artworks based on collections of images. The link is to one on London; a more generic version is here. Type in a word to search on, then it will find images on Google and use them to paint with.
(Uses Shockwave)
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 15:00, Reply)

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( , Mon 9 May 2011, 15:22, Reply)

ffs - that's unbelievable. Are they afraid of the initial punishment for hit-and-run or why are they 'finishing them off'? I remember reading about the british army reversing over someone in belfast after they hit them, what would go through your head to do it?!
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 17:58, Reply)

"Even minor traffic accidents can become public dramas. In some instances bystanders have surrounded accident scenes and nominated themselves to be an ad hoc jury."
From travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1089.html#traffic_safety
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 18:43, Reply)

Probably not the first time that's happened to him, in all fairness.
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 16:36, Reply)

Maybe if you used snipurl then it might not be so obvious that the link is a vid of Hitler singing.
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 15:01, Reply)

And flies off in a wingsuit like the mental case he obviously is.
NSFW cos of the odd f-bomb.
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 14:15, Reply)

but the streak of scare-diarrhea trailling after me would prevent air travel over Europe for weeks.
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 14:19, Reply)

and call yourself 'The Brown Arrows'. :)
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 14:20, Reply)

is he REALLY storing the jet fuel in two hot water bottles? Mentalist value just increased by 100%.
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 14:24, Reply)

Jet fuel is kerosene - it may be given a fancy schmancy name (Avtur)by the suppliers but it's just kerosene. Not even as flammable as petrol.
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 17:34, Reply)

He sounds just like Forrest Gump at the beginning!
Cameraman: "What are you going to do with those?"
Rocketman: "Uh...fly...I like flying!"
( , Mon 9 May 2011, 14:46, Reply)
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