If they want to show respect for the war dead then they shouldn't be putting on an embarrassing pantomime.

No wonder the US is a global laughing stock...

Totally bogus clickbait title. No vicious alligators, no danger to boy, no saving done or needed.

#21 Biker, motorbiker and driver for a very long time, so I come at this from a position of experience and informed knowledge, not ignorance and bias.

#19 But not as much of a dick as you. I hope to God I don't share the road with you and your mental disability.

Anyone who thinks that the cyclist is at fault here in *any* way needs to have his eyes examined. He was wearing bright clothes, was positioned correctly in the road, and was given no time to avoid the moron who drove into him. If he had intended to turn right, he would have been at the far right of the lane, or at least in the centre; as he was, a couple of feet over the white line, he was sensibly avoiding any fast traffic behind him going straight over the junction.
And as for the driver being unable to see because of a thick roof pillar... really? Have you not even looked at the video before posting this comment? The cyclist is 30 degrees to her(!) right through the windscreen - there is no, zero, possibility of restricted vision.
Summary: 100% the fault of the moron who bought her driving licence or cut it off the back of a cereal packet.

#12 Unnecessarily harsh.
Just how long will it be before the racing authorities prevent people standing on an outside curve? People are stupid - if you can't imagine a racing car spinning out of control and flying towards you then you need someone to stop you being so damned dumb.

It appears that Russians get their driving licences from the backs of cereal packets, no? And these kids have gonads of steel - respect.

I remember a long time ago that Snotr proclaimed itself a "family-friendly" site. I take it those days are now over...?
Funny video, though.

Nice to see a handshake at the end. Pity their political masters can't manage the same.

#7
"some people are ugly as fuck. it doesn't matter if they are beautiful inside."
I logged in specially to retort to your stupid and offensive comment. You are clearly an ahole, ugly as sin on the inside.
This girl is a diamond, an inspiration. You, on the other hand, are a poisonous piece of garbage.

#2 A good starting point would be to exclude the morons who get their news only from the Daily Mail Online and Fox News. Also insisting that people can read (though the Daily Mail newspaper is every bit as bad as their online platform).
Britain's exit from the EU and the election of the buffoon Trump (deep shame on you, America) is evidence. But at least we in the UK got it wrong only once. You Americans have a history of this - as in electing the talking (well, stammering) monkey Bush not once but twice.

#12 That doesn't help the poor sods that he lands on at 120mph...
I refer you all to my previous comment #7...

Stupid ass. Moron. A dimwit with no imagination or respect for people, especially his parents.

What a beautiful piece of kit, and what a pretentious load of toss...

(With apologies in advance to Thunderknight )...
If you want a really guttural throaty and very funny language, you really can't beat Dutch. As the joke goes, I was on a train when the guy in front of me started to choke; I was just about to give him the Heimlich when I realised he was just speaking Dutch...

#1 Isn't that like saying all high jumps/long jumps/marathons look the same?

That's the dog's hunting instinct. The parents should be extremely careful.

#21 Sorry, naturally I disagree. This wasn't a prank video - the posting of a misleading title doesn't qualify as a prank, but as a waste of time. A prank video contains the prank - the title doesn't.
And "watch...to the very end"? Why would you possibly expect me to stop watching before I see the event described in the title?
Sorry, fail all round with this one.

#4 Exactly. Thank you for making my case for me.

Wow. Is this site going downhill fast or what?

Dirty filthy moggies...

Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko's taste is all in his mouth...

I recommend the prophetic film ("movie" for our US cousins - it moves, see...?) Idiocracy by Mike Judge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N9nVLXMhPc
He got the date wrong by 500 years, but apart from that he's pretty well spot on.

I thought it might stall on the engine block - did it maybe slow down a bit, or is that my imagination? Really interesting video - I saw "3 minutes" and thought "I'll be bored by then", but I wasn't.

So this would be in Venice then...?

#1 Racist prick.

What serious athlete would use shoes with the added weight of motors?
On the other hand, useful for people who are too fat and lazy to tie their own laces.

What a brilliantly imaginitive graphic. Stats made simple...

Asswipes laughing at a guy who's clearly in a lot of pain.
Shame on people who upvoted this.

I see little point in a video which doesn't demonstrate the scale.
I was in Bosnia last year and took a video of what I initially thought was a very tiny moth, about half an inch long, hovering at flowers. I thought it was a bit strange during the day, so I looked closer. It and several others in the same patch turned out to be humming birds, smaller than the tip of my little finger - blowing up a still from the video I was just able to make out the body, wings and beak.
This video doesn't do anything at all to show that. This bird could be six inches long, and I've seen lots of birds before.

#1 "They have even been known to steal pets off of the porch"
#2 "Not a big fan of cruelty, but fur and leather are better than plastic."
#7 "PETA is a known terrorist organization"
WTFF is the matter with you people?
I expect this from sux2bu - we've had disagreements before about his vile ideas (I say "his" because I know no women with such repulsive stances), but the others...?
"Not a big fan of cruelty"? Seriously? You post this gem of humanity on a public website? What do you say in private?
Cruelty is disgusting. Killing inhumanely for profit is disgusting. One day our descendants will look back at these obscene practices with the same shame and loathing as we ourselves now look back on slavery. Though I suspect that a few here on Snotr, to judge by their posts, think that slavery wasn't really so bad after all, right?

#10 right on. Literacy matters.
Its = owns
It's = "It is" or "It has". Nothing else.
"It's mane" is therefore "It is mane" or "It has mane". Neither makes any sense. People who downvoted your comment (and no doubt now mine) are illiterate.

Not sure why the video shows the 30 seconds after the madman drives away...
Tip - nothing happens.

Never too late to downvote assholes...

Hilarious. Another one that made me laugh out loud.

#1 But not sad enough to get his name right...

Oliver Sacks

FTFY

I had to stop watching. Talentless numbnut after morinic numbskull trying to cause themselves life-changing damage for no good reason. Fun is one thing, plain stupidity is something else.

Very nice job. It must have taken a lot of time and effort. It would be good to see the pistons in the cylinders - i.e. with the cylinder heads removed. It would make the working of the mechanism clearer.

How does it push the lift (elevator) button...?
I'm guessing that it doesn't use the stairs. Like a Dalek.
(Hint - if threatened by a Dalek, go upstairs...)

Edit: Mods - you've implemented the non-autoplay option? Even though I'm on unlimited broadband it's always rankled that when I post a comment the entire 50MB video downloads yet *again*, but this time not. Excellent...

Well, there aren't many videos that make me hunch forward slack-jawed with amazement, but this is certainly one. I can't even begin to imagine the rush.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWgg20IqibM

Nuff said...

#12 Jake, that's not a choice. I don't want my kids to end up in a trunk, but equally I don't want to scar them mentally for the rest of their lives. This is just wrong on *every* level - exploitative publicity-seeking clickbait on the part of the makers, and abusive behaviour on the part of the parents.

Well, we're going to have to agree to disagree. From where I sit this is child abuse. Nasty and manipulative on the part of the film-maker, irresponsible in the extreme on the part of the parents, and unforgivable on the part of the parents wearing fright masks. It turns my stomach.

#4 Ok, mwak, let's suppose I can go with the general gist of your argument that these kids need a lesson. Just explain to me where the skull mask comes into that...?

Now that was shocking. How can parents do this? Especially those last ones - skull masks, FFS...? Appalling. Nice publicity for the film maker though.

I was never going to go up in one of these (I have a bad back - there's a yellow streak running down it...) but now I'm never *ever* going to go up in one of these.

God, I hope he doesn't have to do that all day. No wonder he's wearing earphones - not so much for the noise, but the tedium...
Great skill.

I, on the other hand, won't. I see no point in having a watch that doesn't do the one thing that it should do - tell me the time at a glance.

I had to watch it 7 or 8 times before I saw it. It's the guy on the left who begins to crack a smile at 00:07. Blink and you miss it.

That is just the craziest car I've ever seen. And it's absolutely brilliant...!

#4 Yes, that works for me...

I live in the UK where we're paranoid about security and secrecy, so it hadn't occurred to me that this would be open to the public. Thanks for the explanation.

I understand the technology, the damping action of a huge weight at the top of the skyscraper, but I don't get what we're seeing. There's an earthquake. Dozens of people know about it in advance and rush upstairs to see the weight in action...?
Somebody explain this to me.

"Comic" songs are *never* funny. *Never*.

Is it just me or does that look *wrong*...? The kid didn't look as if he was enjoying it, he looked terrified.

I'll believe it when I see it flying over me - I don't trust CGI.
The wings look far too small to support a vehicle that size. With even the driver alone, never mind with all four people aboard, the weight of the batteries with current technology would be enormous.
Pie in the sky...
Looks good, though. But so does the USS Enterprise.

Nice video with a positive message, but I was disappointed to see that it's just an advert for Coke...

#2 "That was a pretty tiny shark"...?

Really? And you say that from the comfort of your armchair, no doubt.

But he says in one breath "We cleaned this 3 (4?) months ago" and then showing the underside of the prep area "Never been cleaned since it opened"...? Did he just not do a very good job?

ATTENTION CYCLISTS
- Stop at red lights.
- Don't try to skate down railings. Eventually you'll knacker your nadgers.
- If you're not wearing a helmet, you have nothing worth protecting.

Now this is a clear candidate for "Awesome" rather than "Sports"...

#8 I was going to say that myself, but thought despite the unclear perspective she might have been able to back up a couple of feet and go between the bus and the car in front, but then I thought (and yes, I know what I'm typing and I'm prepared for the flame war) she's a woman driver...
But to be fair, the perspective may be misleading. Maybe several feet aren't enough. Though I bet I could do it.
And I'm totally with #5 & #6 here. Illegal parking. Bad result. Karma.
In fact, looking at the shadows, *is* there even a car close to the front of her car?

That "trained fighter" is a professional loud-mouthed f**kwit.

Hilarious!
And in the background a logo for the best beer in the world - Trappistes Rochefort from Belgium. Go for the 10 (11.3%).

I'm astonished that nobody, here or on the web in general, even asked what happened to the driver. All the coverage is about a fan who was injured. It wasn't until the fourth article I read that I found this: "Dillon amazingly survived the wreck."
In case anyone's interested...

#3 Thanks for the Youtube link. I don't know why you have so many downvotes when all you've done is to point us to an interesting and amusing video made by a nutjob. All that's missing is the phrase "The moon is made of green cheese".

#2 Seen it before, but one more was every bit as enjoyable - thanks...

#3 Disrespectful of hard-working people doing a great job in difficult circumstances.
And your area of expertise in train cleaning is what exactly...?

I enjoy videos like this, and particularly good to see the guy explaining how he did it.

I work with computers but I was lost well before a quarter of the way through. Duh...

I'm glad that we have scientists like this pushing technology forward, even when they're doing this sort of retrospective stuff.

#7 Totally agree. The one girl who was charming stood head and shoulders above the rest, and that last guy could walk under a snake's belly wearing a top hat. The rest were just common or garden scum.
But I wonder how I'd react myself...?

Very interesting ideas. Thanks, Sizzlik.

"Aloominum, which is wrong"...?

Illiterate? Don't know the meaning of the word.

Murkans...

This is the State and the Individual in a microcosm...

No Madonna, whose fall was so spectacular and so worthy of respect for the way she got back up and carried on?

#3 (I think you meant me...?) Yes, I totally agree, but it wasn't that either.

I'm a cyclist now, but I had a sports motorbike for 10 years, so I see this with a critical eye. Some of these were not the biker's fault, but the majority of them were caused by the sheer incompetence of halfwits with zero imagination and even less road sense. No sympathy for these a-holes, but great sympathy for the victims, especially the two pedestrians hit while crossing the road.
Imbeciles. Morons. But I hope they lived to be more sensible.

You people have clearly never seen a pigeon tear a man's throat open... this person obviously has.

"Cyclists who don't wear helmets have nothing worth protecting" (Patent pending Bloodbeast)...
And yes, I do. Always. Always. Always.

#6 #7 Thanks, both. I hadn't heard of these, though I've had a few Gulden Draaks. I'll keep an eye out for them.
My personal favourite is Rochefort 10, a dark beer at 11.3%. Awesome stuff if you like dark beer.

#4 Pretty much all of it. After you drink Belgian beer there's no going back - all the rest tastes like... well, piss...

Can anyone tell the difference...?

I thought the early part was pretty cool, but the detailing at the end was sensational.

I'm on the side of the tourists here... Get the hell out of here!

I wish I were as sanguine as the boat guy.

Fascinating stuff, as usual...
I'd sort of worked out how the cinematic trick works where the character seems to stay still while everything else zooms in, creating the "Woooow!" effect in my head, but it's good to see it confirmed and put in context.

It makes me ashamed to share the planet with the scum that posted these comments. And the Muslims dealt with it A-one - respect.
I almost hesitate to say this - but I wish the fundamentalists (of all persuasions) would show the same humour and respect as these people.

I watched it twice and I *still* don't believe it...

But on the bright side, he got Armstrong on the second attempt...

How many months did it take him to do this? Respect. Especially for the deadpan expression.

My attention drifted for a second and at about 35 seconds I thought "My god, he's done it *again!"

It's videos like this that make me glad that the worst I have to worry about is a Conservative government...
We Brits moan all the time about everything, but stuff like this should make us thank our lucky stars.

#6 Now *you're* talking in code. What is the purpose of the link? Anyone...?

#3 Before I unfairly give you a downvote, why the link...?

My mistake...
Thanks for the corrections.
#4 I take that on the chin...
I *have* seen this before, and not too recently, but maybe on Youtube rather than on Snotr.

#1 Both parts of your comment are asinine.

Oh for god's sake #10. Have you not heard of geology?
Nice imprint, but for anyone to claim that it's evidence for twenty-feet-tall people they would need to provide other evidence. All evidence is that our predecessors were small. This is therefore either something completely new that science has willingly discounted, or it's a fake (in which case I congratulate the forgers), or it's a spurious coincidence.
I'm with #6 Judge-Jake on this - graffiti. Clever graffiti, but graffiti nonetheless, not genuine, and certainly not worth the price of a ticket to SA. Nor a trek up a mountain.
And which "geologists" have marvelled at it? Name names...

No, seriously, how crazy do you have to be to do that...? Even with a gold medal at the end of it?

If a business offers something it should be prepared to follow through. He's dead right. Businesses rip consumers off time after time and yet when this consumer stands up for his legal rights you people think he's in the wrong? Come on...

#2 "Common sense" isn't the way business works. That's why we have consumer laws - to protect us from their sleazy practices. The manager was a nice guy in the end, agreed #4, but his initial wriggly attitude is exactly what I expect of business. He could have seen right away that instead of trying the stalling tactic the simple honest straightforward way of dealing with this was to hand over 15 cents' worth of guacamole instead of spending 50 cents of his company's time in arguing about it.

#5 What use is football? Or snooker? Or anything?
Talent is talent. He can do something that one person in god-knows-how-many thousands can do - why criticise something astonishing because it doesn't generate money?

I see it, but I struggle to believe it. Absolutely astonishing.
Similar Rubik videos look as if they start with a completed cube, the person scrambles it, and then the video is played backwards. This one looks absolutely pukka.
Amazing...

What is this "Actor Varun"? "Actor"? It cheapens and devalues the message.
India is a rich country in the same sense as "The Ritz welcomes everybody".

#(removed comment) I wouldn't write such a stupid inane f***ing comment even if I were totally pissed. WTF motivated you to write that?

Personally I don't have any problem with jostling in bars, but I still *definitely* want one of those. Is it genuine? These days with Photoshop who knows...?

And after every single toddler death, without fail, without exception, every single time, the owner says "But he was such a gentle dog - we never thought...".

Fantastically impressive, especially over such an extended period, but I can't help thinking they could be spending their time doing some more useful training...?

#2 You beat me to it. That guy's expression says all there is to know about the military and their excitement over boys' toys designed to kill.
The best we can hope for is that, like the laser, Teflon, etc. some proper use will be found for it, so the money won't be entirely wasted.
I'm a believer in "knowledge is power" and all sensible science may well find its use one day (and I say "sensible" deliberately to exclude obvious crap like homeopathy).

Once again another video that actually made me laugh out loud.

But guy, you *are* dead meat...

#9 That's the job of the authorities. If they're failing to do their job, then making things difficult for these arrogant scumbags by stopping them halfway works just fine for me.

#14 I'm intrigued (sadly). Why do you go out of your way to antagonise? I'm sure you'll repeat your mantra of "just saying it like I see it". I know there's a considerable intelligence in there somewhere, since many of your comments are lucid, reasonable and insightful, but why the insistence on ludicrously and unnecessarily provocative jibes? Not just this one, but in general. Why the negativity?
As it happens, I liked your comment #11, which was ironically apposite, but in deference to your desire not to be up- or downvoted I didn't push the button.

And people complain about f**king cyclists on their 10kg bikes...?
Respect to these people for standing up to these self-important driver asswipes.

Surely "one asshole speeding causes another asshole speeding to crash and take out an entirely innocent driver"?

#7 Are you sure that you put in the correct hash tag? Did you mean me? What does "high white" even mean? Why "wonderful place" in quotation marks as if you're quoting me (the usual usage of quotation marks)? Same for "common core BS education" - I didn't say that and I don't know what it is. I haven't the faintest idea what your comments mean. Are you sober?
I don't have my head up my ass. I've tried. I can't reach.
And I don't preach. I comment.

#1 No, of course we're not past it. Look almost anywhere and people are hurting or killing each other because of skin colour. Your comment is wishful thinking, unfortunately. And to suggest the file maker made the clip because she *wants* racism to be an issue? You can't mean that.

#2 Not to me it wasn't. I thought he might be the surgeon. Obviously there had to be some positive message, but "donor" never crossed my mind.

#3 I don't understand what your comment means. You mean the recipient doesn't care where the organ came from? I'm not so sure. Maybe in most cases, but wouldn't there be people in (off the top of my head) the deep south of the USA who would literally rather die than have a black person's kidney?

#4 I take it that your devil smilie means that you're being deliberately provocative and don't mean only Greeks (though recent events in Greece with immigration and far right parties make them a good example), in which case I agree.

#5 Spot on...

#11 You can have an upvote for that one...

#8 As I said in the first post, it's Norn Iron. But even though I lived there for the first 18 years of my life, even I found it hard to follow, mainly because children are more difficult to understand.

#7 Sizzlik, you've got the accent perfectly...

#4 Come on, now. It's comments like these that got you your negative average. I think somebody has commented that you're trying hard to be a bad girl(?) but there's no point in being an outright prick about it. I've liked a lot of your comments, but no upvote for this one.

Ah, Norn Iron. You couldn't beat it with a big stick...

I laughed until I stopped. The tears were running down my cheeks. That hysterical laughter is infectious.

#9 "Lighten up" about something that looks like child abuse...? Perhaps unintentional, but suspect nonetheless...

Am I the only one to think that this is wrong? I don't know whether the little girl was put up to this, though her smile near the beginning certainly makes it look that way, but to encourage a small child to hold a knife to a doll's face looks like a good way to traumatise her. You certainly don't film it.

I started off thinking "Yeah, right on" (I'm not an atheist, I'm an antitheist) but then gradually realised the point she was making - which was done very effectively.

Lovely to watch and fantastically skilful, but what's the point these days of making an implement that a machine can make in a single second resulting in a more hygienic end product? Not in any way disrespecting the craftsman, just asking the question.

#1 "First of all, we can't agree that there are places on Earth this poor, that live in this harsh environments"
Yes, we can. Not a question of "agree", it's a simple fact. I appreciate that your first language may not be English, and maybe I'm misunderstanding your comment, but at face value it's simply wrong.
It's a question of opportunities. People at this level of subsistence don't have opportunities. They just have to survive.
I know what choice I would make if faced with "breathe this gas or your family starves".
(And to make it clear, I'd breathe the gas).

#9 I'm surprised to see you confusing noun and verb...

#3 That would be "actress"...? It's a perfectly good word. Then no need to say "the girl".
A bit like saying "The person. Oh, by the way, female." Pointless when we already have the vocabulary. PC has limits after which it becomes senseless.

I'm not a big fan of the music, but it's always fascinating to watch a master craftsman at work. This is one of the good things about Snotr - the occasional unexpected video telling me about stuff that I didn't know I wanted to know...
Thanks, dbomber69.

#8 Yes, definitely...

#3 "More fun then a game of curling". Are you f***ing kidding me? Someone was killed. And people are upvoting this asinine comment?
And the word is "than".

#5 Learn the difference between political satire and offensive language.
Most people in the Middle East want a peaceful life. Don't bracket normal decent people with scummy violent nutters.

#4 Thank you - I'd never seen that in all the years I've been using Snotr. Is it a new function? It's really useful. And does the little green arrow indicate how far you are through the video?

That is very very cool and I want one. But did the video have to be 3:46?

A vile stupid waste of rubber, petrol and air. Morons.

I'll bet if that other car hadn't blocked her way she'd have done it a few more times. Duh...

What is is with morons and fireworks? And flaming drinks? Do they not know by now that fire is very painful?
And when will idiots stop trying to skateboard down railings? I suppose on the positive side it's Darwin in action...

"Battery life, which is at maximum 30 minutes".

No good for the UK then. Or most of the rest of Europe.

Spot on.
I particularly liked David Cameron at the end.

I started off bemused and ended up guffawing. Most excellent, dude.

#3 Which driver...?

#1 #6 Me too... too many people with a sarcasm bypass on this site (no offence, Sizzlik... )

Perhaps some of you will have heard of, or even seen, a minor comedy vehicle featuring Mr. Bean, called Blackadder. In one episode Blackadder berates his manservant Baldrick: "To you, Baldrick, irony is like steely and bronzey..."

Seriously? A country that can put people on the moon has a populace that can't spell forty? Really? Are you people not ashamed of your education system? A top one percent of properly-educated people (the moon people) can't make up for these morons.

And that's how I took it. And I actually did laugh out loud...

#21 I'm tempted to give you an upvote for making me laugh.

#14 You're being modest. Your mind is the equal of any cow's...

#15 What are you talking about? Do you mean *my* islamophobia? As if (a) anything I said implied it in any way or (b) that I first mentioned it?
I refer you to the original comment = #5.
I'm not islamophobic. I'm religionphobic. It makes otherwise good people do evil things. And yes, I do know that this is off-topic here, but I didn't raise the religion question in this topic.

#11 And FGM is different from MGM in which way exactly?
I refer you to #12, who has a far greater grasp of morality than you can ever dream of.
P.S. I also refer you to this - http://www.snotr.com/video/13759#comment-228847

#5 I don't know quite how to react to your comment.
The first part is what I'd expect - a throwaway supposedly-comic shrug. Did you actually watch the video? Anybody with any humanity or compassion couldn't write that comment after seeing it.
The second is spot-on; genital mutilation is unspeakably vile, though why you apply it only to the Muslim world I have no idea - an unwillingness perhaps to criticise the large US Jewish population?
And religion aside, cruelty inflicted on any living creature is ugly and shames humankind.

Hound of the Baskervilles?

I'm with Jake on this. Mehdi's a really funny guy, though this one was a bit forced - the ones with electricity are funnier.
I love the smell of singed flesh in the morning...

#3 Excellent advice.
Do they not have optometrists in Russia?
Or a driving test?
I know that this is a pick of the accidents, so the millions of safe accident-free miles with decent drivers don't appear, but seriously, most of these accidents were not only avoidable with a bit of common sense but anyone awake could see them coming seconds in advance, plenty of time at least to try to avoid crashing, and yet on they go, pedal to the metal, until it's too late... duh...

Respect!!!

#2 Pity.
After seeing cats toy with deliberately-crippled mice and baby rabbits, I'd be quite happy to see a world rid of the domesticated cat. Not lions, tigers, cheetahs, etc., but the abomination of these foul domesticated animals.
And don't give me any of the "It's their nature" BS. Their nature makes them what they are - disinterested in humans and everything else apart from their prey and food. Deluded people say "She understands every word I say." FFS get a life.
Rant off... And deliberately no smiley. I'm dead serious.

I'm a simple guy. Simple is good.
"Helicopter's massive dust cloud blinds drivers"
Sorted...

I laughed just as hard as the cameraman... magic...

Absolutely the right category - awesome.
I *hate* "comedy" songs, but this one actually made me laugh.
And one word - Ryanair. I'd crawl over broken glass all the way to Budapest to avoid giving that grinning monkey O'Leary a penny of my money.

#33 I have no problem with your comments, and as you'll see from my earlier comment #29 I more or less agree. My problem is with people who upvote #1 "swerve to get more of them" (28 and counting) and #18 "Melting rubber", etc.
*Those* are the people I'm referring to.

#31 And thank Christ there are so many of us here to counterbalance the assholes...

The funny thing (for me) is that my original comment #(removed comment) was in response to #1 "It's too bad he didn't pickup speed ***and swerve to get more of them***." If I'd been driving I would undoubtedly have panicked and put my foot down too, maybe I would have hit the kid, but "swerve to get more of them"...? Fuck no!!!
And still there are people who downvote common decency in favour of this claptrap #1?
I'm done with this thread and the moronic rednecks in it. You know who you are.

#26 I wish I could give you more than 1 upvote...

Well, I have to say I'm absolutely stunned by the vitriol of so many of you. Whatever the back story is, why in the name of god would anyone whoop and cheer about a serious injury? My first comment #(removed comment) was in response to #1, who clearly hadn't a clue what this was all about and was just rejoicing in the injury and wishing the same on more of the others.
You people need help.
I fully expect to be trolled for this comment, and I shan't respond. Do your worst.

#21 I was going to respond, but you know what? I can't be bothered. You're not worth it.
#19 Nickk, this is the sort of person I meant.

I had a neighbour once who was so afraid of spiders that she used to get me in to throw them out of her house - she wouldn't have dreamed of hurting them.
One was so big (well, to her, anyway) that when I went into her living room she'd put the usual upturned glass over it, and then for good measure she'd put a dictionary on top of the glass just in case with a mighty heave of its shoulders it threw the glass over...

#19 Now that's a first - someone on Snotr says that they may have got it wrong...
No problem, I enjoy a good argument too, especially with people who are prepared to listen. There aren't many of you around...
I'm pretty much like you - I'm in awe of people who can make things like this. Their engineering and craft abilities are knockout, and the video was a pleasure to watch(!) - but the finished product... <fx shudder>
I completely agree with your comment about this not really being a timepiece. Nobody in their right mind would buy this purely for its accuracy, regardless of how good it is. It's meant as a showpiece, and no doubt there are people whose taste and excess of money will allow them to buy it (I'd rather have ten differently-coloured Ferraris, but there you go).
Me, I'm happy with knowing that my £240/$360 Citizen will tell me the right date & time until 2100. I probably won't need it after that...
And seriously, welcome to Snotr.

#17 Wrong in so many ways, but I'm not getting into a war over it - far too boring. I'll limit myself to this: "This watch tells time with far more precision and accuracy than you(r) citizen eco drive does".
I've had a brief look round the web for a reference to its accuracy. I find none. On what basis then do you state that my watch (half a second max a day but resets itself to atomic time every night) is less accurate than this monstrosity? If you can't provide a reference then you're simply making a noise.
Welcome to Snotr...

#13 Good advice. Nevertheless, comments like these can't go unchallenged.
#12 Point by point.
"So just stating the facts is racist" If they're racist facts, yes.
"66% of black babies". And this has to do with violence in what way exactly? This comment alone shows your agenda more nakedly than your earlier posts.
"most Eskimos prefer seal blubber to beef that would be racist too". If posted in a racist context, as you have done, yes. And particularly if it's an undocumented statement.
"I hire and fire blacks and whites". God save us if you have hire & fire power over anybody...
"without race being considered". You'll pardon me if, having read your earlier posts, I take that statement with a pinch of salt.
To go slightly off-topic for a moment, your profile implies that you're from Dallas. With so much sun way down south you might want to consider keeping your collar turned up so that your neck doesn't get burned.

#8 Maybe it was unintentional, but I'm not very happy to see you conflating my comment with #4 (& #7) racist rants, when my view was diametrically opposed to his. As was #6, who also objected.
#4 Saying that you're just quoting statistics doesn't make it any the less offensive. Your follow-up #7 just confirms it.

#4 Wow! I was going to write this comment even before I noticed your name on that post. Not the first time I've been riled by your posts, as no doubt you'll recall.
Any chance that the people you're talking about are among the more disadvantaged in American society? Limited access to decent housing, schools, jobs, and constantly the object of negative attitudes (as in your post, maybe?) would make me mad.
Stats tell whatever story you care to make of them. They don't give a full picture, so quoting these isn't helpful.

#4 I agree. We piss money down the drain on stuff like this when there are so many more worthy things to spend it on. Why people would downvote your comment (apart from its terseness) is beyond me. How much Ebola research would just one of these monstrosities buy?

Well, I was entranced by this until I looked at sux2bu's link and saw the finished product. Amazing piece of technology, maybe doesn't tell the time as well as my Citizen Ecodrive that cost one six-thousandth of the price (though that's not why anyone would buy such an exquisite piece of kit), but so ostentatiously *vulgar* - I couldn't be seen out in public with such an object.

Once again a video that actually literally made me laugh out loud.

#6 ughlah, maybe the sound of the shout defeats the attempt to prevent the enemy hearing the velcro? Just a thought...

I had to give up when he was on top of the ridge. Nerves of jelly, me...

Great soundtrack, amazing skills and nerve, but what sort of fruitcake goes out on a skateboard at those speeds without proper body protection? He *knows* he's going to fall off...
Still, respect...

#4 I think you've proved his point...

Me, I just thought he looked like Philip Seymour Hoffman.

#12 I've given you an upvote. I can't see any harm in your comment and I don't know why 5 people (at least) would take offence. No pleasing some people...

I reckon "Shame on you" fits the bill, since anyone risking other people's lives should be ashamed. Basejumpers I respect - doing something daring but not over-risky (usually) they'll harm nobody apart from themselves. Unruly and careless drivers are a danger to everybody else.

#7 Thanks, I see what you mean. 31, 41, 61 fatalities in the past 3 years, and the 61 is only for three quarters of 2014. Shocking.

Jesus! That is *powerful*!
I'm from NI too, but I doubt I'd ever get hardened to that sort of advert. Pity that (according to #4) it doesn't seem to be as effective on the numbnuts who ignore it.

These boys are *sick*, and I don't mean that in a yootspeak way...

Very nice, but why the same video twice? It starts again at 2:36. If I want to watch it again I can press the "replay" button...?

Don't cop cars carry dashcams as standard? Even if front-facing they would give a good idea of the speed and direction of the car.

#2 Wrong end of the country. We don't have them in the north...

#10 Yes, I don't know if I'd have the courage to do the same with my child's cam footage. Respect.

#11 Agreed. But, with care, (pedal) cycling is healthy and life-prolonging. I've cycled for 35 years, including 17 years in London, Marble Arch, Piccadilly, and was knocked off only once, painfully but not life-threatingly (I have always worn a helmet), by a Mini driver who took out my back wheel and said the classic "Sorry, I didn't see you" despite my bright red jacket. Oh well... Still cycling every day, still being careful.

#12 Also agreed. As an ex-motor-cyclist, with no accidents because I was paranoid about bad drivers, I can still relate to this poor guy's accident. And as a father, I can not even begin to imagine his mother's pain. This is why I can't let pass unchallenged the imbecilic comments above, which I'm gratified to see are being massively down-voted.

#3 You're an asshole. Misjudged and unfunny.

I laughed until the tears blinded me even as my skin crawled... Awesome...

#2 I agree. This isn't about time or accuracy. My £240/$360 radio-controlled Citizen is accurate to 0.5 seconds per day even if it doesn't pick up a signal overnight. These watches are jewellery and for grown-up boys who enjoy the pleasure of owning something so fantastically intricate.
Me, I couldn't even tell the time on those over-busy watch faces, which rather defeats the purpose...

Wow! Fun. Just like Star Wars, except Luke didn't crash...

#10 Thanks.
I can take criticism on many/most of my comments, but on this one... a person who downvotes comments which emphasise health dangers while commenting positively on the subject of the video is not a person whose opinion I value. I have no fear.

I've never smoked, and I abhor the habit, which to my eyes reeks only of damaged personalities. With the knowledge we have today of the damage tobacco causes, there is no excuse for this filthy practice.
Nevertheless, I enjoy watching craftsmen at work and seeing the pride and pleasure that they have in the finished product. Although I detest the intended use, the pipes themselves are works of beauty.

My god, this is depressing. Not so much for me, since I'm nearing the end of my working life anyway, but for my kids. Fortunately they have had a good education, but this video suggests that even that won't be enough. Woe...

And the Star Trek TNG world with Picard saying "We don't use money - we have enough resources to support everyone and to concentrate on bettering ourselves" is pie in the sky. Robots will be used to feather the beds of the élite - f**k the unemployed underclass.

#9 Excellent...

#7 I can't argue with ignorance.
You wouldn't happen to be American, would you? The people who pronounce "nuclear" as "noocoolar"? Don't try to tell me how to speak my own language.

It seems a bit bizarre to break, sort, melt, form and refill a Snapple bottle rather than just wash and refill it with Snapple. No doubt the technology will get there one day.

#1 equilibrium2x
I was itching to say that as soon as I read the title. I'd love to broadcast to the world, but Snotr readership is a start...

"It's" with an apostrophe ***ALWAYS*** means "It is" or "It has".

It ***NEVER*** means "It possesses".

"The college selects its students" makes sense.
"The college selects it is students" doesn't.

It really isn't that hard...

(Written with love... )

He succeeds. 2 seconds of adrenalin. A brief buzz. A video. Kudos with his mates. Forgotten next month.
He fails. He dies. A lifetime of misery for his parents.
Selfish stupid little sod.

Budapest has vegetarian bears that prefer apples to a nice juicy crow...?

Puts a new slant on "the land of the free".

And it takes a Brit to hold up the mirror? A very funny guy making a very serious point in an engaging way, and I doubt that it will make a tap of difference. The people who vote for these policies don't watch programmes like his; it hurts their brains too much.

The "three strikes and you're out" (which he doesn't mention) is a bizarre practice - I don't know if what I see on TV is really how it works, but if the third strike is for something incredibly minor and the person gets a long stretch...? That can't be right, surely? But if it is, no doubt it contributes.

As I commented once before, Top Gear's Clarkson was told by a US cop "We have laws; we don't need common sense." How very true. And this is how you end up...

What a prick!!! Not funny, and it looks as if he could have physically injured some of those people. Setting fire to a newspaper? Hilarious... Imbecile.

#22 Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...
I laughed until I stopped...
Your nickname told me a long time ago what your mentality is, and this comment confirms it.
I shall waste no more time on you. You're a troll. A very good one, I have to admit. But still a troll.

#19 "British Intelligence (an oxymoron"
*This* from a person who lives in the country that *re*-elected GWB?
From that stupendous intellect's own mouth:
"Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me".
Well, that's what he *tried* to say...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKgPY1adc0A

Rightwing claptrap. This attitude is why America falls so far short of common decency in health care - "I'm not paying for somebody else's treatment...!"
It's not "Obamacare", it's not "socialist" - it's the right thing to do, and it's a national benefit to have a healthy populace.

This has the perfection of a computer-generated video. Absolutely amazing choreography and performance. Respect and admiration to the performers. Wonderful talent.

With this, Guantanamo, and various other neo-con initiatives, America lost the right to call itself "the land of the free and the brave", and reduced itself to the level of the most barbarous societies on the planet.
Shameful, disgusting, disgraceful.
Despite the clear knowledge that torture victims will spout any nonsense that the torturer wants to hear, thereby proving torture to be not only ineffective but counter-productive, still wicked people continue to use it. The civilised world should not.

I have to say that I've always thought that Jim Carrey has to be an intelligent human being - I could never remember and deliver lines as he and other actors can - but his face-twisting performances in his "comedy" films make me weep with embarrassment. He can be a good actor (Eternal Sunshine, maybe Truman), but the gurning stupidity in *all* the others...
And yet:
"You can fail at what you don't want".
Yes. Good advice. Maybe not practicable for everybody because of personal circumstances, but if it makes a few people make successful choices?
If *he* wrote that, and not one of his writers, respect...

That is a really impressive, and patient, piece of photography.
And congratulations to both...

#1 #2 You can see from a low-res video something that expert crash investigators couldn't? Impressive...

Well, as I say with almost every cycling video, I'm a cyclist myself, and I'm disgusted with these asswipes. Not only are they risking brain damage and death, but they're putting other people at risk, and are a shocking example of why cyclists are detested by so many people. Ambassadors for cycling that we could do well without.

#3 Drunkmonk - have you seriously considered the advice I offered you in
http://www.snotr.com/video/13382#comment-225626 ?

#18 That's good to hear. However, the RSPCA (American ASPCA) exists because not all animals are well-treated. Do you think that they should be disbanded because *most* animals are well-treated?
A few companies looking after their animals well (and I still say that *no* caged animal is being cared for well) is no reason to accept the disgraceful treatment by those companies that don't.

#11 These look like happy animals which have been well-treated by humans...? 00:20

#7 I don't understand your point. People are treated badly, yes. And that makes the maltreatment of other creatures ok... how exactly...?

This should be in "Awesome"...

I feel happy if I hit the board.

As a cyclist myself I appreciate the extra care that the Google robot takes with cyclists - even when they're riding like dopes...
Very impressive.

This video has awakened too many trolls. I don't know if they think they're being amusing, but they certainly don't amuse me. This is a tragic subject. I share the view of #19 schlafanzyk that perhaps the family misjudged the release of this video, or perhaps only the reaction of some of the viewers, but their situation should be treated with respect, not as an opportunity to release vituperative comments.
#22 drunkmonk. Drink less before you post.

Laziness doesn't imply fear. I haven't bothered to fill them in - not the same as actively trying to be anonymous. Perhaps you're the same.
I would amend your final comment ever so slightly:
"SNOTR. The website where you can express your opinion and comment on any video. ............ (as long your view coincides with the views of decent humanity)."
And it's interesting that you choose a pseudo-German (Austrian?) phrase to try to justify your vile eugenic comment...
Be ashamed.

#14 DetectiveBlack.
I'd already checked that, so it isn't news to me. I'm not trying to hide anything - I have nothing to be ashamed of. Can you say the same? I'm guessing by the fact that your comment was deleted that maybe you did regret your disgraceful comment - if it was you who deleted it and not a mod.
My comment stands - be ashamed.

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I'm not surprised that you want to be so anonymous. So would I if I had a head like yours.
Be ashamed.

Unutterably sad...

I was hooked right from "Brian knew that he had to get his badger under control"...

As a cyclist I find this plain fucking stupid.

#4 @Klemm.
I see that you took my comment (link below) to heart and have now become a decent human being who doesn't judge or criticise others who don't meet your exacting humanitarian standards.
http://www.snotr.com/video/12957/CRANE_CLIMB_500_ft

@Klemm - even as an "amusing" throwaway comment that's a shocking thing to say - shame on you. The smiley doesn't make it acceptable.

I'm sure that everyone reading this will know Jeremy Clarkson, the UK Top Gear presenter. I don't have too much time for him, far too right-wing in at least his public pronouncements, but he does occasionally come up with a good anecdote. Viz:
He was pulled up by a U.S. police officer for a minor (as he tells it) traffic infraction, and asked the officer if they could use common sense (i.e. give him a slap on the wrist and send him on his way). The officer's reply: "We have laws. We don't need common sense." He got a ticket.
America in a nutshell... :-)

#4 In fact I have two Warren Evans beds and I can assure you that a good night's sleep is worth a lot more than £498...

He certainly is, but with the often ludicrously over-cautious signage on our motorways people become blasé. A few weeks ago I was on a UK motorway and got repeated signs for "Incident ahead - 50MPH", so I slowed down, crawled along for about 10 miles, no sign of anything resembling an incident (and in that time there was ample opportunity for the signage to be cleared if there had really been any sort of incident that had cleared itself).
Me, I can understand that the driver would think "Yeah, sure..." and go ahead, and he was unfortunate to discover that this time it was for real. Not trying to excuse his behaviour, just playing Devil's Advocate...

#1 I've been watching on this site for years, and both your comments are the first ones to make me laugh out loud... I thought you must be a Brit with that dry sense of humour (until I read your profile).