Cool...but Im calling BS on the lack of interupted water.
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Cool...but Im calling BS on the lack of interupted water.
AJUMP23
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The Indiana Bell Building: A Brief History of the Most Remarkable Building Rotation Ever - Arch2O.com
No matter how solid, or heavy a structure is, engineering can sometimes relocate it without destroying it. The Indiana Bell building constructed in
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The Building That Moved: How Did They Move an 11,000-Ton Telephone Exchange Without Suspending Its Operations?
In November 1930, in Indiana, United States, one of the great feats of modern engineering was executed: a team of architects and engineers moved an...
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A bit more for you.
Kamina
Golden Boy
No chance that this is real
AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
You were my first live notification. the most important feature we have.
Pegasus Actual
Member
^That motherfucking eagle flying around listening to some Lord of the Rings soundtrack still be all like "I ain't flying no ring into no fucking Mount Doom you're on your own you filthy hobbits."
Quasicat
Member
This was fascinating, but I was wondering why and how they did this. This goes into the engineering behind pivoting a building.
Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
Thats crazy! But utterly brilliant
I wouldnt go to work during the move in it though..
Grildon Tundy
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Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
Post the pic!
Vyse
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Vyse
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Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
Eesh, I wonder if she had any clue what she was getting into. Apparently she set the slowest time in the history of the event, gotta be embarrassing being surrounded by actual athletes for the duration of your visit to those games before and especially after running like that.
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DKehoe
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Someone deluding themselves that they could compete with actual athletes at a high level is always ridiculous but it's particularly strange for something like the 100m sprint. With something like football, it can be hard to get an idea of just how much better they are than you. But with the 100 meters you can know how fast you can run it and how fast they can. It's pretty easy to see how you compare. So it's hard to imagine she didn't know what would happen.
Like I mentioned, apparently she's apparently the niece of the director of Somalia’s athletic federation. So in that case it's nepotism. Not sure if that's been confirmed or just a social media rumour though. Maybe it'll turn out they needed someone to make up numbers or something and just threw someone into an event for the sake of it.
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Mr Reasonable
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On the twitter thread, it's said that she's the niece of the director of the athletic federation. They would know that she didn't have a chance in hell, but put her up for it anyway. Even if she was deluded it's not very fair to let her go through with it. Somalia is ranked as one of the most corrupt nations on earth, I can well imagine there's some sort of financial benefit for having a team compete at a certain number of events, etc. I think there's probably a good chance that she hadn't got her heart set on competing and had her family pull strings for her to definitely be humiliated around the world.
Trogdor1123
Member
I have a bit of a different take. It shows how much of a difference there is between regular folks and people that train their whole lives for something.
DeepEnigma
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DKehoe
Gold Member
Definitely. If you look at the runner who comes second last there's a big gap between them and first. But they're still way ahead of the person in last. And this is apparently the World University Games, so it's not even the absolute elite like you would get at the Olympics.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Not even once.
Hudo
Member
On time, though.
Trogdor1123
Member
I’ve always wanted to take a bite from a raw honey comb… probably a bad idea though haha
NeoIkaruGAF
Gold Member
Talking about bees..
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
Safer than using their human handsWait… and then they pick the honey with their bare hands??
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
This is Vietnam, not China.
AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
You can eat honeycomb. It is a little crunchy but taste like honey.
Grildon Tundy
Member
So...what's the benefit of harvesting wild honey versus beekeeping/not risking death by falling off a cliff?
Kilau
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Kamina
Golden Boy
They probably don’t have that type of bee there. Only the wild ones that like to live high up, probably due to predators
kanjobazooie
Mouse Ball Fetishist
New Elden Ring pvp meta:
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
It always amazes me that people filming this stuff just laugh. The depression I'd feel at finding myself living amongst those people would be crushing.
Dr.Morris79
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Dr.Morris79
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Mr Reasonable
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Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
The breathing at the end says it all too. God knows how that clamp actually held out.
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
If you look further down the twitter thread you can see what happens next.
Trunx81
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Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
That spoiler really does spoil things. Do you read the last page of a book first?
Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
Would never of seen that, I just avoid the thread after as it's usually brain rot. But, yeah, nope to all of that! Parachute an all..
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
These thrill seekers definitely need to be tested for Toxoplasma gondii.