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andymakesglasses
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19549 posts since 26/1/06

1 Jul 2010 13:48
I didn't take them if that's what you mean?
Noble Locks
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66963 posts since 10/7/03

1 Jul 2010 13:56
oh right, thought that was you with the legs dangling. i couldnt do that for no money in the world. the public aint allowed up there like that are they?
andymakesglasses
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19549 posts since 26/1/06

1 Jul 2010 14:20
No, the public aren't allowed in there. They broke in as they said they don't have money for clubbing, so they make their own entertainment.

On the website of the people who did it he says it wasn't too scary for the most part because the ladders were enclosed and there were platforms below them at various stages, but that the last climb up the mast of the ship was scary because it's completely open.

The last photo on their website shows two policeman at the bottom. They had to wait 3 hours until the policemen stopped fishing and went away. Laughing out loud

padawan
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2620 posts since 27/6/03

1 Jul 2010 14:27
feel sick just looking at that……
padawan
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2620 posts since 27/6/03

1 Jul 2010 14:29
dont like heights much - getting flashbacks from this


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA8lyvarnRc&hl=en_GB&fs=1
FLG
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5780 posts since 21/5/04

1 Jul 2010 14:35
Tallest statue I've seen was this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Motherland_%28Kiev%29 can't even comprehend that statues exist twice the size.
The only photo I have of it was when I summoned the strength to lift my shitty Nokia out my pocket after 5 days in that hell hole.
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1 Jul 2010 14:46
padawan wrote: dont like heights much - getting flashbacks from this


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA8lyvarnRc&hl=en_GB&fs=1

Taking Ineff's work out routine to the next level. Couldn't finish watching that clip, hate heights as well.
Murakami
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13238 posts since 9/5/05

2 Jul 2010 11:54
Buzby Berkley

nick2
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7231 posts since 18/2/09

2 Jul 2010 12:06
I'm ok with heights as long as I'm inside and feel safe, I don't like things like the Eifel Tower or high bridges where I feel like you could fall off.

The CN Tower in Toronto is scary high, but you feel totaly safe (except on the glass floor bit)

(not my picture below, I was too scared to go on it)


which led me to this,


which made me remember this :



(image to big to show)



andymakesglasses
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19549 posts since 26/1/06

6 Jul 2010 11:43
Does anyone know why countries originally drove on the left but switched to the right?

I know that driving on the left is as a result of having the reins of your horse in your left hand and your sword in your right hand to potentially protect yourself against passing horsemen.

But I'm not sure why so many countries switched to the right later on.

It's nothing to do with Napoleon by the way, that's a myth apparently. Although I've read conflicting sources that say he actually did impose right-hand driving on the countries he conquered.

Found this but it doesn't really explain why other than mentioning American wagon drivers sat on the left of the wagon and wanted to keep an eye on the wheels as they passed other wagons so changed to right-side driving.
fontelroy
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3200 posts since 14/6/08

6 Jul 2010 11:58
looks like the vast majority switched in the late 1930s onwards - maybe a result of imports of mass produced american cars built to drive on the right?
andymakesglasses
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19549 posts since 26/1/06

6 Jul 2010 12:02
Yeah I'm talking more about the first switchers - a lot of the 20th century switchers changed sides because of imported left-hand drive cars or because their neighbours already drove on the right so it was safer to drive on the right too.

What I want to know is why the early switchers switched - I don't really buy the wagon driver theory being the only reason.
phikz
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3057 posts since 14/4/09

6 Jul 2010 22:28
I remember that video, it's amazing.. Just imagine the feeling, must be immense although I'm shit scared of heights. I've been to the CN Tower too, went on the glass bit with my sister when we were both younger and jumped up and down Cool
Jesus
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5914 posts since 7/10/08

13 Jul 2010 13:51
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania

velvet
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9474 posts since 12/6/06

23 Jul 2010 20:22
hare krishna

lovely babes


you get these cool beads too

walnuts
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2454 posts since 17/6/06

2 Aug 2010 17:15

http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/china-to-build-ginormous-buses-that-cars-can-drive-under-video/
Cool
haz
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4333 posts since 7/1/04

11 Aug 2010 17:55
Ultimate Escape

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hervé_Jaubert
mr.white
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17101 posts since 10/7/04

11 Aug 2010 18:15
brilliant that Cool

how obvious…

andymakesglasses
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19549 posts since 26/1/06

11 Aug 2010 19:22
mr.white wrote:

Isn't that mase? Laughing out loud
MrPlatinum
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8924 posts since 24/2/04

11 Aug 2010 19:25
Laughing out loud