Objectively intelligent.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

That’s Mt. Crumpit at Jingle Cross in Iowa City, which in recent years has been one of the few Cyclocross World Cups in the United States. Only the top cyclocross riders in the world can generally ride up it. Sometimes the race goes down Mt. Crumpit. When it is snowy or rainy, that adds to the fun. This video is from years ago, before it was a World Cup race. 26 seconds in, lower right corner for the money shot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSXXc6hce3k

Bike racing seems nuts on streets. That is beyond crazy.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Bike racing seems nuts on streets. That is beyond crazy.

This is a much better video of the crash:

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

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

This is a much better video of the crash:

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

You can see longer versions of this fantastic bike crash scene, but this short one sums it up - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaZBebMvE8E

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

You can see longer versions of this fantastic bike crash scene, but this short one sums it up - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaZBebMvE8E

You people seem like the types who would enjoy cheese rolling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fora0TmtnU

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

You people seem like the types who would enjoy cheese rolling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fora0TmtnU

It's chilton cheese in Gloucester. I seriously looked into going to it when I did my Festivals of Europe 2006 trip.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

You people seem like the types who would enjoy cheese rolling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fora0TmtnU

This reminds me of the scene in Thomas Pynchon's underrated masterpiece, Mason & Dixon, where Mason meets his wife:

He'll tell Dixon how he met Rebekah on May Day at "the annual cheese-rolling," when the Gloucester cheeses are "blessed and ritually rolled thrice 'roud the churchyard, and thence down a Hill." Except that this year someone has taken it upon himself to create a giant cheese, an "Octuple Gloucester, ... but actually octupled in all dimensions, making it more like a 512-fold or Quincentenariduodecuple Gloucester, -- running to nearly four tons in weight when green and even after shrinkage towering ten feet high." It is loaded onto a sturdy wagon for transport.

Mason has come to Randwick Church, the site of the cheese-blessing, hoping to see Susannah Peach, daughter of Samuel Peach, "a silk merchant of some repute, and a growing power within the East India Company." His infatuation is such that he has gone to her house when she wasn't there and "knelt by her Bed and press'd his face to the Counterpane of Silk to inhale what he could of her Scent." But while he is waiting, the wagon carrying the cheese breaks down and the great orange wheel starts rolling toward where Mason is standing: "The Victim of a Cheese malevolent, being his last thought before abrupt Rescue by way of a stout shove, preceded by an energetick Rustling of Taffeta. It is Rebekah, and "If she was not, like Susannah, a Classick English Rose, neither was she any rugged Blossom of the Heath."

[Pretty Little Flower]

Does any one else live in a metro area where police officers routinely accidentally shoot people? Back under curfew in the Twin Cities.

Speaking of which, “Accidental Discharge” was Hank’s nickname in college.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Does any one else live in a metro area where police officers routinely accidentally shoot people? Back under curfew in the Twin Cities.

Speaking of which, “Accidental Discharge” was Hank’s nickname in college.

I'm told that bad guys with guns can be stopped by good guys with guns. Maybe you should get some of those.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Does any one else live in a metro area where police officers routinely accidentally shoot people? Back under curfew in the Twin Cities.

Adder?

Can one of you explain why having an air freshener is suspicious to you people?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Does any one else live in a metro area where police officers routinely accidentally shoot people? Back under curfew in the Twin Cities.

Speaking of which, “Accidental Discharge” was Hank’s nickname in college.

Freshman year at Pennypacker there was that minute where it was not clear my scholarship would be renewed, because of the unfair grading practices TBH. So I decided if I could impregnate one of those trust fund girls, maybe her parents would pay for me! Going for a kid no need to drag things out. So yeah, I own the name.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

You can see longer versions of this fantastic bike crash scene, but this short one sums it up - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaZBebMvE8E

Nice one. Here’s a POV video of a similar race called Megavalanche, including some epic crashes by the racer filming the event:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2gwFkCU1Q4