Cars & Rides
So, last week I got in my car at around 9 pm to run to Vons and grab some late-night blogging snacks (I like to go with beef jerky and M&Ms, although in a pinch Goldfish crackers will do), when my car started making this absolutely HORRIFIC noise. It sounded like a belt, and it …
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Justin Bieber Got a 2012 Fisker Karma For His Birthday
Those weird birthday feelings I experienced this morning apparently weren't completely unfounded, as the Birthday Heard Round the World is actually happening today: Second-coming-of-Canadian-Christ Justin Bieber FINALLY 18 years old. According to The Daily Mail, however, his birthday wasn't rung in with a statistics exam, a misshapen chocolate cake, and a pack of cigarettes (as …
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World's Biggest Rope Swing
Hey everyone, look! It's another massive, death-defying new stunt in the middle of nature, just like I always dreamed of trying watching from my computer chair with a Snuggie on! This video appears to have been made by the same cinematic geniuses behind THIS "super cool" stunt video. You can tell because of the almost …
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Tokyo Drifting Wheelchair Kid
What concerns me most about this video isn't that they have clearly greased the floor of a children's arcade, or that this kid is one wrong move away from flipping that thing and shattering his skull, or the strangely depressing Metric song in the background. It's the fact that there are several people that walk …
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First Ever Snowmobile Front Flip
Sure, this might not be to the caliber of a man climbing out of an airplane and hanging on to the wing while it rolls and then sky diving from it, but it's definitely a close second, right? No? Ugh, I can't even tell anymore. My impressive sensors are now completely out of whack.
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Roller Suit: NO THANK YOU.
I'm glad that we were able to scrape up one last "no thank you" daredevil video of the year. They popped up everywhere in 2011, from the Human Slingshot to the Aqualoop, those crazy Frenchies and OH YEAH that OTHER SLINGSHOT, and each one left my heart and stomach in a pile of vomit in …
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Car Thongs
If there is one thing I spot on the road while driving that makes me instantly drop my panties, it's a big old set of Truck Nutz hanging from the back of a lifted F150. To me they say, "the driver of this car is both masculine and sensitive. He enjoys the music of Dizzy …
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Luxury Car Pile Up in Japan
Talk about depressing. Jalopnik has reported that a 14 car pile up has occurred in Japan, and while no people were injured, 14 luxury supercars were destroyed in what could be called the most depressing non-fatal car accident of the past century. According to the car-lovers blog, the maimed vehicles included "eight Ferraris, three Mercedes, …
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Vertiginous Tightrope Walking
I Believe I can Fly ( flight of the frenchies). Trailer from sebastien montaz-rosset on Vimeo. NO. NO NO NO NO NO A MILLION TIMES NO. My question is, what do you do when you're too old to tightrope to the middle of a canyon and hurl yourself into the abyss? Can you ever sit …
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Marco Simoncelli Dies in Crash
Just last week, IndyCar fans were shocked by the death of driver Dan Wheldon when a massive 15-car pileup during a race proved too damaging and killed the young star. Now, just 8 days later, we see another tragic death in racing - and this time it's motorcyclist Marco Simoncelli.At the MotoGP in Malaysia yesterday, …
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Human Slingshot #2
I know that sometimes I probably come off sounding like a insanely phobic, slightly unhinged maniac. Yes, maybe I'm terrified of scary movies and spiders and crowds and big waterslides, but even I, Queen of Careful, think that this human slingshot looks pretty damn awesome.Sure, that bungee cord could snap and cause the person to …
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Dan Wheldon Dies in Fiery IndyCar Race
I don't know about you, but when I'm in a car and someone else is driving and they're going really fast - like, too fast - I feel like I should text my mother that I love her because the end might be near. Cars are so dangerous! Even my crappy old POS Escort is …
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The Human Slingshot Slip-N-Slide
Next up in our series of rides-that-might-not-kill-you-but-will-definitely-render-you-paralyzed, we have The Human Slingshot, a homemade set up in Paradise, Utah in a lake OR SHOULD I SAY MINIATURE 150 ft POND. According to the cameraman of this video*, three people passed out upon impact, so "don't try this at home." Oh, DARN. You mean I can't …
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5 Things You Could Buy For the Price of This Car
It should be noted prior to this post that I drive what some might call a "piece of sh*t" car. It blew a cylinder so it now only goes about 45 on the freeway and it has those automatic seatbelts that always feel like they might decapitate you. So my understanding of cars is "wheels …
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The World's Biggest Swing
As you might have gauged from my lack of interest in rollercoasters, water slides, and steep hills, I am not a thrill seeker. I honestly get a little nervous stepping onto those moving sidewalk things in airports. But I can still APPRECIATE a great idea, whether or not I would ever set foot on it. …
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The AquaLoop
One time there was this episode of The Amazing Race where this girl was too scared to ride this giant vertical drop water slide and caused her team to lose. Her teammate was like, "are you kidding me," and the reporters who covered the story were like, "are you KIDDING me, a water slide," and …
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Airline to Show Film About Orgasms
No more crappy reruns of Two and a Half Men or censored versions of B-list movies? IT COULD BE A MIRACLE! According to The Australian, Qantas airlines, an upper-class airline that flies in Pacific Islands and Asia, is showing a French documentary on one of its many channels about the female orgasm. The airline says …
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Gold Ferrari 599 GTB Spotted in London
There is this purple, souped-up low rider car that drives around downtown San Diego, bumping music and working its hydraulics, and tourists friggin' LOVE IT. That is, they love it until they realize that is has the horrible phrase "STATUTORY GRAPE" splashed across the back. It's always hilarious to see them "oooh" and "aaaahhh" until …
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The First Eight-Second GTR
The Nissan GTR is a really pretty car. That's about all I can say about it because I don't understand much about cars beyond "it drives good." However, according to AMS, the AMS Alpha GTR has made history: becoming the world's fastest street car, by scoring the world's first 8-second R-35 GTR!Check out the video …
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Worlds Steepest Rollercoaster
NO.NO THANK YOU.Sure, I may be writing this as a person who gets slightly ill if in the backseat of a slow moving car, but NO. And to all my fellow non-coaster-riders, do not get tricked by this video into thinking "oh, that's not that bad," because halfway through you will be slapped in the …
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