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I should be able to retire in a couple of days!


This is my hand, and it's not that far from the spider. There may be a little perspective coming into play here, but not a lot. When I got my hand close, she moved.
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Good monkey roll. Certainly not a great monkey roll.
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This is my hand, and it's not that far from the spider. There may be a little perspective coming into play here, but not a lot. When I got my hand close, she moved.
I’d move too if I saw the five finger death claw coming at me!
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Good monkey roll. Certainly not a great monkey roll.
Props though for wearing the helmet! Otherwise....he'd just be another grease spot in the road!

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too much bike for his level of skill. Dang lucky no one got hurt.


i've done that. didn't wreck the bike, but wheelied like an imbecile while drag racing some jackass.
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I should be able to retire in a couple of days!


This is my hand, and it's not that far from the spider. There may be a little perspective coming into play here, but not a lot. When I got my hand close, she moved.
Just a Banana spider. When we were kids running though the woods, someone would always end up running into a web and end up with 9ne on their faces.




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Just a Banana spider. When we were kids running though the woods, someone would always end up running into a web and end up with 9ne on their faces.
Yep, pretty in a creepy spider kind of way, but still very big. The web for this one was relatively small, but I've seen them with huge webs. I'd freak right the frack out if I had one on my face/head.






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Yep, pretty in a creepy spider kind of way, but still very big. The web for this one was relatively small, but I've seen them with huge webs. I'd freak right the frack out if I had one on my face/head.

I have my grandmothers silver spoon that she stirred gravy with in a cast iron skilled. A few thousands gallons of gravy over a lifetime. A sterling silver spoon against a well seasoned cast iron skillet will grind it down in one generation. It was her mom's spoon, and grandma like to use it because it was one of the few things she got from her parents and she thought of her mom every time she used it.


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I have my grandmothers silver spoon that she stirred gravy with in a cast iron skilled. A few thousands gallons of gravy over a lifetime. A sterling silver spoon against a well seasoned cast iron skillet will grind it down in one generation. It was her mom's spoon, and grandma like to use it because it was one of the few things she got from her parents and she thought of her mom every time she used it.
Cool story. Thanks for sharing!
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too much bike for his level of skill. Dang lucky no one got hurt.
Looks like the Porsche pulls over.

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..and I thought I had some pretty radical weight saving ideas..


We toured the Penskie LMP2 Porsche facility we got to go down to the floor and touch the car, and ask the mechanics questions. No parts of the car were left as souvenirs. Every single broken bit of the car was shipped back to Porsche. The mechanics were busy drilling small holes in the length of the bolts that held things together, and removing a few milligrams of metal and then filling the hole with silicon. For the entire car that could not have come to one pound. Pretty radical to save a little weight.

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Well the German one works the top one cannot ever work !
EDIT, just realized, it's shown top down not front on but then, it shows steering , not suspension on the top one
And to be fair, bottom one looks more Italian to me



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Not quite as dramatic but my grandma's bacon turning fork. It was tough stainless steel but it still wore down one of the tines on the cast iron pan.


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