Up up and car away

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First:mako100
7 months ago
First ahah!
7 months ago
Balls
7 months ago
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO damn just one first is all i ask
7 months ago
It seems that the Hydrogen car is still struggling for acceptance behind Hybrids, and electric.

It would make a good float for a parade.
7 months ago
I still reckon it'll take off sometime tho Pod.

Guess we all need to understand the gravity of the situation and then it might get off the ground so to speak

;-)
7 months ago
LOL - I really think the world is taking the hydrogen issue too lightly. My investments in this industry have tanked.
7 months ago
Both of you are high
7 months ago
Not yet but we're positively buoyant with optimism
7 months ago
Mako - This is a gas. I'm feel inflated with new hope, and my hope is rising to new heights.
7 months ago
they are so screwed if that car lands on someone's house or on someone
7 months ago
Where did it come down????? They left us hangin here.
7 months ago
Next time Douche brings those out of control dwarfs over to my house Thats the send off they can expect!! Mumbles to self...dwarfs...douche....
7 months ago
You okay, man??
7 months ago
DAMN your insensitive! They are either little people or vertically challenged.
7 months ago
or midgets
7 months ago
or elves
7 months ago
If you cross-bred a midget, an elf and a dwarf, would you get a Milf?
7 months ago
Stupidity is so entertaining!!
7 months ago
Alright, calling this one fake! Nice editing, but no fool'n this fool!
7 months ago
Well there was a reason for the very Heavy ropes on the car. Lift and then edit the cable out, then with computer compose the video. What can a really good graphics engine do:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACQW8iVCbhY

So we all should not be too quick to believe anything we see on video.
7 months ago
Anyone who watches Mythbusters knows this is total BS. Did you see how many balloons it took to lift a child? WAY more than that.
7 months ago
I dunno mitter, how can you be so sure it's fake?
7 months ago
ahhh you're right, miter. my bad.
7 months ago
There's no edit, you can See the wire and Hear the crane.
7 months ago
Yes a fake.
There's barely enough balloons to raise a person, let alone a car.
7 months ago
OH man I love that guy.
7 months ago
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
7 months ago
That would be so awesome if you could do that. But here are the videos for "behind the scenes" of actually lifting up the car.

It was originally a Ford ad in New Zealand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W-JRJsxvq0
7 months ago
It was actually a crane that lifted the car. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W-JRJsxvq0
7 months ago
Fancy sleuthing there surfer. Kudos!
7 months ago
Awesome surfer!
7 months ago
Simple to see that this is a fake. The volume of the baloons was not very much more than that of the car. But the specific weight of air is a LOT lower than that of a car and the weight difference between air and helium is not very much.
7 months ago
COOL COOLCOOL
7 months ago
Another load of complete crap from Glumbert.
7 months ago
assface
the only thing i find more dreary than your posts are the (alleged) poetry
of your countrymen...particularly that asshole robert burns

address to the haggiss

Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o' the puddin-race!
Aboon them a' ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy of a grace
As lang's my arm.
etc. etc.
this is basically a poem to a sausage

absolutely dreadful....i'd rather read cleveland
7 months ago
make that poems...read:.....the (alleged) poems
of your countrymen...particularly that asshole robert burns

ya thats more like it
7 months ago
I did not realise the Planet Moron had literary critics of such keen insight and high standing.
7 months ago
Wait, arse. Planet Moron has a highly restrictive entrance requirement...IQ under 50, inability to speak English consistently, and predisposition to idiotic inanities. You couldn't get in...but Chucky is a charter member.
7 months ago
standard english translation of robert burns "ode to a toothache"
"......All down my beard the drools trickle,
I throw the little stools over the mickle,
While round the fire the children cackle
To see me leap,
And raving mad, I wish a Heckling comb
Were in their backside!.."

note to readers as grotesque as it seems this is an actual translation
i'd rather read cleveland
7 months ago
from wikipedia
Heckling combs are used to remove the fibrous core and impurities from flax. It is wooden board with rows of nails
7 months ago
chaz

fuck you
7 months ago
people
once again i would like to point out the aforementioned quotes are literal and translated works of robert burns 1759-1796,
dreadful?yes....offensive? yes...
but i point them out as an example of the gene pool that has belched forth arseface
he's a victim
but sometimes victims are assholes
7 months ago
Not much activity here today!

If you want to see what blue colar americans think about global warming

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JoaS7CA03s
7 months ago
miter
i'm not surprised. a lot of time and money has been used to confuse them.
i think the only real question that remains is how much, if at all, do humans
contribute.
7 months ago
Its not really individuals humans who create the mess. It's the corporations whose hands are red.
7 months ago
Yet another thick head with a heightening awareness that there is some bad rough road coming up and he's not going to slow down. I apologize to the rest of the world for the linkage between patriotism and ignorance that is expressed here.

This is a frog in a frying pan who is getting cooked slowly, knows he should jump out, but is going to prove prevailing science wrong by being cooked.

Corporate America is to blame for this problem. At every turn the corporations/government has blocked every opportunity to change the energy paradigm of the US.

Example 1: Any worker at any US auto plant knows what is wrong with the US auto mfg, and could do a better job than the stagnant plutocracy at the top of that industry.

Example 2: Corporate dismantling of the Carter's energy conservation credits, and efficiency regulations, and standards.

Example 3: Have a look at Germany's Solar project in which they expect to generate 1/3 of their electrical need by subsidizing credits to INDIVIDUALS, who save energy through solar panels.

Example 4: The new country where tokamak fusion will become a reality France. Yes once again we worked out the science and it will become a reality in France.

Example 5: Outright statements from US auto companies that a car could get 15MPG, and 20MPG, and 25MPG, and 30MPG. Enter the the Hybrid cars from overseas which contain energy reclamation engineering from the US and Canada auto subcontractors.

Example 6: Removal of regulations on coal plants to scrub pollutants and CO from their generation processes.

We all know there are many many more. I wonder it the frying frog in this video knows that the US taxpayer is still subsidizing the oil companies.
7 months ago
chucky...you are becoming a total insult to anyone who's read Robert Burns. Doncha know, you knuckle dragging boor, that like Shakespeare, Burns has needed a modest form of translation for modern english speaking people. Your quotes do not excuse you from civil discourse in today's english, should you be acquainted with it at all.
7 months ago
i included a translation
the first one didn't need it
7 months ago
Chuck...on the other hand, I hate this sort of electronic aggression. I will offer the figurative olive branch, provided only that you are able to do the same.

Whaddya think?
7 months ago
fuck you
7 months ago
sheesh, chucky....same offer?

Note...I did offer civility, and you didn't accept.

You should have, if only on a "trial" basis.

I hate the contest between those who try to out-insult each other..don't care for it all. Don't want it with you. But. Your choice...I tried to get back on civil tracks.

BTW, I enjoy the Darwin awards. Would wish you a better future than our helium balloon friend. And re: Miter's notes...I am still "playing", but don't do stupid stuff anymore.

Yesterday, in my area, a man was arrested after he snatched a woman's pocketbook from her as she was loading groceries in her minivan. He was slowed in his running escape by the woman's grip on her pocketbood, while the woman's female partner called 911. He broke free from her hold and jumped into a red pickup truck, which the victim was able to indentify later. Minutes after the incident, police responded to a call from another driver who reported a man walking beside a major roadway, carrying a gas can. They found him still en route back to his truck which had run out of gas, and offered him a ride back , and he accepted. He was arrested as he took possession of the truck that the victim had identified. This was all within like, a half hour.

The thief didn't die. Thus the Darwin theory is frustrated at this outcome.
But, still, to rob someone and try to escape in a truck with no gas...?

Gotta love it.

Miter....agree, re: play.
7 months ago
All Glumbertans,

I have just realized that when I stated the new regulations for the competition. I made the effective date 1 NOV. In recognizing this I tell u all that I was drinking a bit of alcohol.... well a lot of alcohol.

In acknowledgement of this I give ny humbelest appolegies for any misunderstandings.

So I here by Make an official correction to the effective date of the newely stated rules. It shall be 1 DEC 2007.

For clarification here they are:

to all glumberters sinkingboat's 69 factor does not and will not apply to the contest because if it did no one could distinguish the post for them selves.

There is another issue I would like to resolve and it is the what if there is a tie issue. Now when I this contest it was just fun but now I see it has gotten pretty cut-throat. So I do not belive there will be a tie but in the event that there is the tie breaker will be for this month you will have to get as many SECOND posts in addition to the FIRST post which will be a more difficult task. I will start talling this up begining tomorrow the 1st. Also you have to guess what my favorite NFL team is the is a clue in my postings through out the last week, just kidding about the team thing but if u do guess it most certainly put you in my favor.


IN addition Randals law does apply to the second posts as well.

I am your competition executive and host and the only one with the authority too add change or remove rules according to the Glumbertan penle code
2-4/C3-3.

By this authorty I here by make the previously stated rules offical as of 1 DEC. 2007

Any questions or concearns are to addressed to my Junior Executive the origonial Randalflagg. Then will be brought to my attention if need be.
7 months ago
LOL
7 months ago
you know what's really funny, I noticed your mis-post re: November 1st, however doubting my current state, I declined to comment (fearing ridicule)....alas, I missed ridiculing someone else. Ya, I know ridiculing is probably not a word, and ya probably is probably misspelled....aww crap.....I bet I misspelled (misspelled) didn't I.....I am currently (how do you spell bouycotting, fuck!!!!!!!!!!!! I start out with a simple comment and am thwarted (another one) by doubt and inaccuaracy (another one).............I am sick to death of spell checking my gosh darn words. If you people can't tolerate (another one) my lack of expression......you can kiss my #$%
7 months ago
On another sad note......I used to win many spelling competitions in my day.....which I never appreciated till now.....and don't you dare tell me I spelled appreciated wrong or I'll get freaky on your ass.
7 months ago
OK, then I was not wrong. Where is my apology? Waiting.... (Toe tapping on the floor, arms akimbo)
7 months ago
And in the event of a tie the remaining players will be filmed in gladiatorial combat live on Glumbert. The Glumbert audience will give the thumbs up or down for the final two.
7 months ago
Hey Riza I got a gimp suit you can wear.

You spelled appreciated wrong!
7 months ago
what?
7 months ago
Ok guy's, what's happened to the "truce"? Must we slide into the insult zone again?

Alcohol fueled response's?

Personally I've decided to rip only the "newbies" that, insult the "regulars".

I'm kinda gettin to like you 'all. I wish we could all "hang" sometime and tip a few!

To each their own I guess.....or is it about what chuck said sometime ago......

"If it wasn't for the dynamic tension, glumbert would soon turn into an echo chamber"

chamber
chamber
chamber
chamber
chamber
chamber
7 months ago
agreed
and yes there was some alcohol involved
7 months ago
miter, I had that same thought, how cool it would be, to arrange a get-together, everyone has to wear a name tag, kind of like in Kindergarten. (do they still do that in school? I know I wore one on my first day!). Any and all names used for posting would have to be on the name tag, if someone has more than one. I think it would be a great time for all! Honestly, could you imagine so many different people, from so many different locations and backgrounds, differing opinions, all having a common link (glumbert) in the same room together? It would be awesome. While some would relish the chance to insult in person, I think generally, we would all be happy to meet.
7 months ago
Boy I've tipped a few tonight!!!!!! Not often I do that. Only reason why I am up so damn late! Maybe the beginning of a BEEEEUUUTIFUL friendship!!!

Before Randal busts my chops! Had a cougar on the line, but I thought best not too. Her laugh was so DAMN annoying that I couldn't take it, and I had her laughing alot! Even bought me a drink! Damn! What was I thinking? Someone needs to smack the shite outta me!!!!
7 months ago
OH FTB, I wouldn't need to wear a nametag. Everyone would say, "Damn, look at that big pimp." That would be me! LOL!
7 months ago
Well....allrighty then....I have heard many of our tribe hint at the outrageous notion of actually meeting..............one would have to deal with the fact that our world be global.........what would be the 'Focal Point'....I am going to say what is easiest for me, however, regardless of any point hereafter I am one of the few people I know that would show up......I never back down from a dare....(no joke, but honestly I am really curious about you guys) and if only one of you showed up it would be a rush. So, I pick.............my birthday (so I don't forget) August 7..........my favourite place on earth......the top of the Chief in Squamish, British Columbia, Canada(whether by rock-climbing or hiking)......year 2008.
7 months ago
FTB - There are some Glummies that would have to bring a wheelbarrow full of name tags;)
7 months ago
ARGGGHHH!!.....THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIST!!!!
7 months ago
OH...Never mind.



Its just Douche.
7 months ago
FTB...

It would be interesting to say the least! The logistics would be quite challenging.

As for the insults....I doubt it, not in person, not without the cloak of the Internet, not without our safe little private universe (our room with the computer)

Ever road rage? Ever been victim of road rage? Take that behavior, apply it to say, the bank or grocery store, where people are face to face, you don't (for the most part) see the finger flying, carts cutting you off, screaming obscenities to no end...etc.... not in person, no safety from reprisal.

So a gathering of the glumbert gang would be devoid of "insults" and most probably be similar to a 20 year class reunion...

One of the thing's I have learned in my (getting to be too many) years, is that some things are better left to the imagination, the "carefull what you wish for" statement may apply here.

Ever thought about what people here are like?, look like?, their age? etc.?
Whom amongst us may be famous, infamous, wanted, not wanted, loved, hated, lonely, sad, crazy, or just simply not who they portray themselves to be?

But it would still be entertaining as all get out!

Rizza

BC would be awesome! Is that your "neck of the woods"? My cousin lives there (outside Vancouver) and it's a beautiful place, I've only quickly been through the place, back in 1980, on my way to Alberta to help in filming a movie (Charles Bronson's Death Hunt). I did a stint building replica Bristol biplane's for the movie....ccccccccooooollldddd is what I remember most!
7 months ago
UMMMM, I don't know Miter.

Last week in the supermarket an elderly lady of about 80 years old was trying to pass me in the household good section. Other people were coming the other way so she cut me off and stuffed me into the toilet paper section. Good thing I had a Charmin landing. She dinged up my cart. So I ran chasing after her with my cart, arms flailing, screaming vulgarities, and then I pulled a Pitt manuever. Spun her around and she stalled. I flipped the bird, threatened bodily harm, and then flipped her cart upside down. It was total carnage! Good thing I barely came to my senses. I took the bag of flour from her cart and left.
7 months ago
LOL!!!!!!!!!
7 months ago
Mitercut, yup, I hail from Vancouver, B.C. The land of which is currently trying to sweep the homeless, drug addicts and mentally ill under a great big huge rug to prepare for the 2010 Olympics. And it does be cold here. We got snow right now. Lots of it in North Vancouver anyhow.
7 months ago
Death hunt ! I loved that movie! Lee Marvin play the crotchety veteran Mountie.

Ahh..Filmed in Technicolor and panavision! Almost as good as the Movie Emperor of the North.

And people please leave nothing to the imagination when it come to putting my face to the name! I'm as pleasant to look at for women as well as the men...I'm said to remind many people of a very famous movie star in an action roll!

What was the name of that Star Again???
7 months ago
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Oh ya! I remember, Lasie taking a shit!!

Oh wait, thats not good.
7 months ago
Don't be blasphemous towards Lassie! Lassie's shit is prettier than you! UMMMM wait....Not that I think shit is cute....Hmmmmm....digging myself in a hole.

**Gotta do some smoke in mirrors, they'll never see it coming**

I like turtles!
7 months ago
LOL Douche!
7 months ago
miter
i don't know if you saw this but i think it might amuse a former pilot
http://www.darwinawards.com/stupid/stupid1998-11.html
7 months ago
Yes chuck I did see it, I even remember seeing it on the news when it happened! Didn't Mythbusters do something similar?
7 months ago
I suppose I can't let this video get away without plugging my own "helium" video, stupid yes, but it is in keeping with my motto...

We don't stop playing because we grow old.......

We grow old because we stop playing!

C. Wyatt Runyan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmHqrNTTA_E
7 months ago
i give it 2 thumbs up
7 months ago
Miter - I
7 months ago
AAHH!!
Miter, see you have loads to do w/ the last one leaves the nest!
That was Awesome LOLOLOL!!
7 months ago
Miter - It was better than any UFO footage I have ever seen.
7 months ago
pod

now you know who's behind all the ufo sitings >()[
7 months ago
...whoops...

Salute you!
7 months ago
So - the story so far.
Chuck has decided I am Scottish. Why? Fuck knows.
He then proceeds to give his erudite opinion on the works of Robert Burns.
Then rejects a perfectly reasonable suggestion by chaz to stop being an ocean-going dickhead.
I've no idea which gene pool spawned a man who can't even spell the name of the fourth rate action hero after whom he chooses to name himself, and I don't really care.
I have a face like an arse, and often behave like an arse, but I recognise a cretin when I see one, and chuck fits the bill.
7 months ago
arseface
aberdeen
ring a bell?
7 months ago
arse....love your post.

And, as we are all faceless on the Glumberterian stage, your worries about personal appearance can be laid comfortably at rest on the pillow of anonymity.

Really enjoy your contributions...well thought out and expressed.
7 months ago
Chummin thinks I am living in the Netherlands, or is that the Nether Lands? He/They could be right, but to quote internationaltimes who gives a sh*t.
7 months ago
that's soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo fake. look at how many balloons there are compared to a car. then, see how they filmed it like every other fake video where they don't use a tripod and make it hard to see what is going on. then befor the car flies far away the camera man is like "aww man, maight" and then 10 minutes later when it's really far away he says THE SAME THING? who does that. watch it again it seams weird. AND it is pretty obvious they either used a crane, or a high flying helicopter and they avoided having to edit the wire out at the start by not even showing above the car.
it's fake.
7 months ago
You never too chemistry or physics have you? Remember the part about relative density's. The helium is under compression IN the tank, and even if the tank did not exist somehow it would be denser than the STP. The STP lifts the balloons, not the helium, as the helium provides the displacement, just like a bubble below the water.
7 months ago
C'mon Pod. The only bubbles below the water that you observe rise to the top in your bathtub.
7 months ago
Hey pod,

Maybe they should use hydrogen, since it has for times the lift of helium.

Let's try to figure out what the combined balloons in this video could lift...

I'm guesstimating there are about 500 balloons and since 22.4 liters is the Gram Molecular Volume, (the volume of one mole of gas at STP) and 22.4 liters is a cube that is just less than 11.1 inches (or 28.2 cm) on a side. Which conveniently, is very near the volume of one balloon (shown here).

Converted to cubic feet, that would be 0.791048 or lets just say a balloon is one cubic foot (over filled) X 500 balloons = five hundred cubic feet of helium. (approximately 2 big tanks)

Now how much weight could that lift at "Standard Temperature and Pressure (STP)" (Since the actual volume depends on STP it can range from 190 cubic feet to 242 cubic feet in a typical range of tank pressures). Let's call it, one tank of helium = 242 cubic feet, which can lift about 15 lbs or .062 lb per balloon.

Five hundred balloons x .062 lb = 31 lbs

So even filled with hydrogen they could only lift 124 lbs.

LOL,......this myth (video) busted!

Can you tell I "play" with helium! You should see the firework creations I lift on the Fourth of July! Oh and 55 gallon trash bags work MUCH better than balloons!
7 months ago
Miter - Excellent! Busted 100%
7 months ago
mitre....do you have difficulty getting past border screenings?

You got me convinced. Eh...I'm easy, being a recovering English major. Love tech talk.
7 months ago
A car weighs more than the tank the helium is in. Helium doesn't lift the tank. One helium tank's worth of helium won't lift a car. But it was a cool edit.
7 months ago
'fraid not Sherchuck.

Chucknorriss Shithole ring a bell?
7 months ago
you are a liar
arseface
2 weeks ago you wrote
"If you still need help, check out www.aberdeenhypnotherapy.co.uk "
thats aberdeen, scotland united kingdom
stupid
7 months ago
Anyone ever had fun with a (big) laser and fireworks?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9QotAtxrmc
7 months ago
miter i believe his calculations are correct.....but he did have a conservative estimate for the radius...
7 months ago
sorry the above post was misplaced
7 months ago
Miter, you want one don't you? I do.
7 months ago
O.k., let's get real. I googled this formula according to which you would need about a million ballons even if you stripped the car of everything heavy...

1. Determine the volume of the balloon. The volume of a sphere is 4/3 * pi * r3, where r is the radius of the balloon. So first determine the radius of the sphere (the radius is half the diameter). Cube the radius (multiply it by itself twice: r*r*r), multiply by 4/3 and then multiply by Pi. If you are measuring your balloon in feet, that gives you the volume of the balloon in cubic feet.
2. One cubic foot of helium will lift about 28.2 grams, so multiply the volume of the balloon by 28.2.
3. Divide by 448 -- the number of grams in a pound -- to determine the number of pounds it can lift.

My spreadsheet calculation:

balloon radius in feet 0.5 (assumed)
balloon volume cubic feet 0.523598776 (calculated)
lifting power in pounds 0.001168747 (calculated)
weight of car in pounds 2000 (assumed)
number of balloons req. 1,711,233.95 (calculated)
7 months ago
Hmmm, I came up with 33,260 balloons.
7 months ago
Na na, my balloons are bigger than yours!
7 months ago
good job
7 months ago
HMMM...not 99 red balloons?
7 months ago
you're dating yourself again McStreamy............
7 months ago
randal, just saw "The Mist" last night. What did you think about the ending? I thought the movie was pretty well done, really close to the actual story, a few minor differences, easily overlooked. The ending, a bit different from the story, although the ending that actually happened in the movie WAS hinted at in the story. They just took it a bit farther, and added a tiny twist. I won't say any more, for those that have not seen it, but, allaround, enjoyed it.

used, so you're saying you stand out in a crowd I take it? I believe it.

riza, I'm curious too, and have a great respect for so many on here. So many intelligent, funny people. It always gives me a kick to come here. I've never been to BC, but you know, it would be a great experience I'm sure. I do realize, people visit glumbert from ALL over, so it would be a little difficult to arrange, but maybe not impossible, huh?

miter, as usual, great feedback. I agree, there is a certain mystery that is challenging and entertaining for all of us. To meet one another may fall short of our expectations, but it may meet or exeed them as well. You never know. It's most likely just a pleasant fantasy, that we would ever meet in person, but I still would like to someday.

podman, that wheelbarrow full of name tags would be half the fun! Maybe someday, in a few years, it might sound like a good idea to come clean for everyone! I mean, how long can people carry this on? Honesty is good for the soul!

and angry, glad to see you come back, and still offering you a hug! NOT your intestines. That would just be messy.

Until next we "meet", happy Glumberting to all.
7 months ago
To travel hopefully, is better than to arrive.
7 months ago
pod
well said
i shall remember that
7 months ago
Tobe, My thoughts are mixed in finding a useful message there. So I find several.

1- Does he make that sacrifice the Supposedly crazy women demanded in the store? So then making her right?

2- Is it simply all about choices? As from the beginning with the short haired women leaving to go home to see her child?

scenario 1.
I liked it very much. how the people changed so quickly. A funny thing , you take away all the things that make us civilized, then scare the living shit of of us, then step back and see logic, civility, morality all those things that make (good neighbors) Fly right the door!

scenario 2.

the opposite of scenario 1, People rise above the fear! Keep their heads and endeavor to preserver. ( Chief Dan George). outlaw Josie wales.
7 months ago
FTB
Arseface will be unable to attend due to the asylums travel restrictions
7 months ago
This is a interesting find:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8057341397571931617

Google earth compilation of some of Google Earths 'Special Places'
7 months ago
That's pretty trippy. Wonder how much is real and how much is BS.
7 months ago
uhhhh....just in case any of it is real....you are all invited to my cabin in Pemberton, B.C......it ain't much, but it will house 20 and feed none. You boys gotta fend for yourselves out there and it does get cold, but I'd give you a roof over your head if you were dying. Geez, that sounded morbid. Honestly, you boys and girls know my daughter comes first, after that I would follow what the good book says 'The Stand' that is......Just call me Mother Abigale (ya douche, ya fuka, I spelled it wrong)...I digress.....all are welcome.....go into the light.....all are welcome. Honestly, look me up in Pemberton if all goes fubar.
7 months ago
about 7 years ago i worked with a group of ironworkers...long story short...
the foreman took a hefty trash bag filled it wth oxygen and acetelyne and detonated it (remotely)
holy shit ...it sounded like a bomb...in fact the san diego police thought it was a bomb...
7 months ago
the above story was supposed to be in rexponse to the laser and fireworks post
7 months ago
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEENTH!
7 months ago
my god that is freakin awesome. i'd love to do that in the middle of nowhere and shoot it down with bird shot...sweeeeeeeeet
7 months ago
Glumberters!

Exciting news - chuck seems to believe that because someone (me) suggests looking at a website from a company based in a particular city that I must in fact live there! Fantastic! His grasp of the www is awesome. Next time he suggests we look at the darwin awards website we'll all know where he comes from!
I am getting fed up engaging in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent, but I do wish he'd just fuck off and die.
7 months ago
i say great news, i don't know who for ?
7 months ago
(Walks in the door, bleary-eyed; turns on the lights, only to find his return marked by another video bereft of the spark that ignites heated debate and discussion....oh well.)

Hi all. I'm back. I just want to give my sincerest and deepest thanks to all the well-wishes I saw posted for me a while ago.

We got in late last night, and we were both pretty wiped out. The service was quite nice, very touching. The in-laws were all taking it pretty hard, so much so to the point of them asking me to do the eulogy. That kinda broadsided me, but I did it. I was flattered and honored to do so, and told them to please stop me if my Canadian accent got in the way. They actually got a much-needed chuckle out of that one. No matter how many funerals I attend or speak at (and believe me, I've had my goddamn fair-share), they are NEVER easy. Ever. Even to this day, the omnipresent stink of flowers makes my guts churn. When I was done, I was followed by the Baptist minister, who also said a few words. He was a decent man, but at one point, my wife leaned into my ear, and whispered 'If one more person says she's 'in a better place', I'm gonna knock them on their ass'. I understood completely. The worst part was going to her house with the rest of the family, to sort out who'll take what in terms of pictures, keepsakes, etc. The place where I had spent several warm, American Thanksgiving dinners, now seemed somewhat....cold. Empty. Impersonal, even. You could actually sense a shift inside the dwelling itself. It seemed like just a.....house, now. Some bricks...some wood...some paint. That's it. The image of a dead car battery shot through my head, and I guess that summed it up. Finally, after this was done, my wife had had enough, and simply said "I want to go home."

And that's just what we did.

Thanks again for all the sentiments.

I missed you guys (and gals).

Regards,

C.
7 months ago
Welcome back big guy. Funerals are brutal. I remember years ago someone said to me, once you turn 30, you spend the rest of your life going to funerals. It sucks but such is life. Take it easy, Bill.
7 months ago
Glad to see you're safely back home canuck. Hopefully, you (and your wife) can move forward, and not dwell too much on the past. It's hard not to right at first, with a sudden loss. But we must move toward the future as best we can. Your wife wanting to go back home was maybe the first step toward healing, although there may be many more steps required before it gets better. It is a step-by-step process, as I'm sure you already know. My best to both of you.
7 months ago
Welcome home, not here.....there.
7 months ago
ummmmm......sorry, couldn't go to sleep thinking my sentiments were misunderstood.......I'm sure you know what I meant but just in case let me clarify......it's very insignificant and awfully egotistical of me to welcome you home to Glumbert so I was trying to welcome you home to your real 'home' meaning spend time with those you love, comfort those you love and for gosh sakes get offa glumbert for a while. Take your time we'll make do without ya:-) But we always have open arms for ya.....don't we ladies and gentlemen?
7 months ago
Duly noted, Riza. Many thanks.

Same to Billy-B and freetobe.
7 months ago
Welcome back C.

By the way skid, I've seen the tree man site you posted. Pretty amazing. But beware - Chuck will now accuse you of living in London because it's the Telegraph website. You may well live there, but he'll accuse you of being a liar if you deny it!
7 months ago
don't waste your energy on negatives, use postives only
7 months ago
I'm back too! Yippee!!
7 months ago
So the Star Trek convention ended early eh?
7 months ago
Hey C lets discuss this very hot topic:
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45 Minute documentary on peak oil. How far does humanity go into a trap?
Where is the point of no return?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhlwBnhYXoo
7 months ago
I'll be getting back to you on these, Podster.
7 months ago
A good question, or questions to ask are, what's the reality? What we're being told, is it reality, or is it a manipulated version of reality. Who can we believe? What's known that we're not privy to? It almost seems as if we (industrialized society) are being led down a path to decline, yet how would the "elite" profit from that?

It seems to me, that in a free market, there's BIG money to be made in an alternative fuel, or "device" that would keep us moving, heated and lighted. What's the story on that?

What about all the "holiday" lighting in the world, what carbon foot print does that leave? How much power does it consume? I've been employed to put up holiday lighting displays in past years and I'm amazed at the power requirements needed to run them!


What about all the street, parking lot, and external building and sign lighting, how much is really necessary and how much power is consumed by them? There are (LED) lights available, for all the above mentioned types of lighting, that would use 90% less power! Are there ways to put traffic lighting/signaling (an enormous power hog) on some sort of motion detecting activation on off peak times?
7 months ago
Don't get me started on the green issue , ok then!!!!!

My bottom line belief is the planet will balance itself like it has all along, these changes will disregard human beings, we will/already are die/dying by the millions, we will survive in fractured settlements, probably the rich
7 months ago
Miter: One thing for certain: oil will run out! And you are correct about efficiencies of lighting and other devices. Government SHOULD take point on these issues, but the corporations which run the US government will hold back anything that would cut profits.

The US government should have been subsidizing, or even manufacturing energy saving products. If they can put trillions into weapons, they can use part of that for efficiency research and development. Compact Florescent Bulbs (CFB), and programmable thermostats are subsidized by local power companies as they should be. My local utility makes CFBs almost free, and my entire house has only two incandescents. LED bulbs are too expensive for anyone to convert to at the moment.

Another huge waste of fuel for example is lawns. Mowing, fertilizing, planting, insecticides, ect. How about a GMO grass that only grows 3 Centimeters high, and cannot cross pollinate?

How about really fuel efficient furnaces. Just look at the huge waste of heat that goes up the flue, and then compare the efficiency of any NG or Oil furnace to any pellet stove (98% efficient, and so clean that the EPA disregards them entirely).

The amateur scientists are out there trying, but this is the crazy result:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2464139837181538044
Notice how not one of these guys ever looped their "over unity" device to run on the output!

In the end there are only two forms of energy that are green. Nuclear, and solar (hydro, direct, cellulose). Oil is just stored sunlight.

Zero point, and fusion are the only future energies that can be tapped. Very little effort being put here.




These guys are NOT the answer but I give them credit for trying.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2464139837181538044
7 months ago
Oops, that link double posted.
7 months ago
skid - I agree. The final death blanket will be methane bubbling out of the permafrost, and the sequestered frozen methane in the oceans. But the rich will not survive, as they have no adaptation skills, and technology will not save them. Low tech common sense is the adaptation that will make the difference, as illustrated by every low tech culture on the planet.
7 months ago
Pod and Miter; the Ontario Government, along with Ontario Power generation and the gas companies up here are putting a serious push on conservation. Subsides for fuel efficient cooling and heating, rebates on energy efficient lighting etc. Incandescent bulbs are being phased out as quickly as possible. It's still not enough, but hell, it's a good start. My company pushes our customers as hard as possible to truly buy what is not only best for them, but also as energy efficient as possible. 60% of my business is radiant infloor heating which is by and far the best way to go. It can generate the majority of it's heat from ground source.
7 months ago
Good point Pod, yeh your right i reckon the tribe like few who are left will survive while the rich who need their arses wiped won't know what to do
7 months ago
Bill - I guess Canada learns, and then implements what is best for her citizens. I would like the US government to at least do what government is for Set standards, and regulate for the good of ALL.

Skid - If you really think about it it is the low tech societies that are prepared when technology breaks down. I would guess the Amish don't call the Power company when the electricity goes down, because they have no electricity or phones. To them it means nothing.
7 months ago
youre a fucking moron angryman
7 months ago
fuck you
7 months ago
Maybe Mr Angry IS a moron Muck, but he is not the following, all of which apply to you, whoever you may be -

a savage, insensitive shit who has nothing to contribute to Glumbert or indeed the world

a pathetic cowardly swine who feeds off the misfortune of others

a low-life, grovelling insect in the pubic hair of a child molester

a humourless, vapid irritant

a constant reminder to everyone on this site that someone is a worse human being than we are

For fuck's sake just give it up and go back to shovelling shit or whatever it is you do for a living.
7 months ago
arse- two points I'd like to make;

1. Angryman is no moron.

2. I really like the way you think!
7 months ago
arse...great verbal assault.

Camuck has potential, but he remains cowardly behind his pseudonym .

On the other hand, ANGRYMAN is indeed a vacuous personna seeming to demand undeserved attention via his dimwitted stylings.

Begone, you hapless posturer...until capable of conversation a level above neanderthalic.

Warmly....Chaz
7 months ago
OMS.....is that you Mako.....you once defended my honor with very similar words.....don't tell me you have an alias.....even more importantly don't lie.
7 months ago
I think arseface is Mako....not you Chaz....it kinda read wrong there a bit.
7 months ago
Sorry Riza, not me! Honestly. I would defend your honour if needs be, but you can probably do a good enough job yourself!

Only just back online as has been a national holiday so spent all night on the towm and all day in bed. Beautiful!

PS The only alias I had was 'Administrator' but Glumbert removed that one pretty fast :-)
7 months ago
its a free country AF. Dont be telling me what i can and cant do.
7 months ago
Amuck amuck amuck!
7 months ago
At what point does AF tell you what you "can and can"t do"? Spoken like someone a little too used to hiding behind a computer screen. The only "moron" around here is you.
7 months ago
WTF does that mean billhook?
7 months ago
Running amuck (also spelled amock) Look it up. It's in one of those dictionary thingies they talked about in grade 2.
7 months ago
I am amuck amuck amuck!
Look out everybody!!
7 months ago
Took you three hours to look that up didn't it.
7 months ago
Glumbert must be taking the day off.
7 months ago
The Ranger sits there anxiously, with one finger on the left mouse clicker, refreshing like mad, another finger hovers over the ctrl key, waiting to paste into the comment box the word "FIRST"! Then hit enter....will he get it? Stay tuned!
7 months ago
I'll run interference for you USR.
7 months ago
I got the spelling amok.
Dumbass.
7 months ago
a·muck (-mk) also a·mok (-mk, -mk)
adv.
1. In a frenzy to do violence or kill: rioters running amuck in the streets.
2. In or into a jumbled or confused state: The plans went amuck.
3. In or into a uncontrolled state or a state of extreme activity: "This jam-packed area of Honolulu has come to stand for tourist development run amok" Ila Stanger.

Cut and pasted from the dictionary. The word has three possible spellings. One just happens to be your name
7 months ago
On my return to the keyboard after a couple of hours in the real world I find a positively Brechtian, titanic struggle taking place between Muckfuck and, well, the universe.
Anyone else get the feeling he's about to implode?
Sit well back from your monitors, because I imagine that given the amount of shit inside him, the mess may be quite considerable.
Quelle domage....
7 months ago
Best put on your Amuckaluks.
7 months ago
There once was a boy named Camuck
who pissed off a poster called Chuck
he called him a moron
but he learned a lesson
can't say that I miss the dumb ..........fellow
7 months ago
hey stupid you misspelled
Quelle dommage
7 months ago
a·muck (-mk) also a·mok (-mk, -mk)
adv.
1. In a frenzy to do violence or kill: rioters running amuck in the streets.
2. In or into a jumbled or confused state: The plans went amuck.
3. In or into a uncontrolled state or a state of extreme activity: "This jam-packed area of Honolulu has come to stand for tourist development run amok" Ila Stanger.

Cut and pasted from the dictionary. The word has three possible spellings. One just happens to be your name.
7 months ago
Hey Chuck, Arse, you're better than this. Save your abuse for Camuck (until he gets his own name)
7 months ago
billy...you're right.
7 months ago
I think arseface is Mako......for real. What a coup. (Hey douche, did I spell coup right?)
7 months ago
Yes ma'am.

Maybe its a coup de tat. They are trying to take over.

I didn't see you in the gimp suit. Ok, I will utilize the rubber gag ball. It comes in handy when Randy prances around in his thong and cowboy boots.
7 months ago
DAM! Knew that was you peeping in on me last night.

If you must know I was rehearsing for Oklahoma ..err..And it started to get hot!

Thats all!!
7 months ago
P.S. to whom it may concern, didja know that there is a contest out there, (outside of Glumbert) in the far reaches of the universe, for the longest thread. It's currently on Youtube I think.....I caught it while I was looking for Randal's picture.....just kidding....no, really...ha, ha.....ha....errr,....hum....ah,nevermind......good night folks....
7 months ago
Riza, I'm on youtube! under something close to this name.
7 months ago
riza -

I can assure you I am not Mako, and I am sure he would be horrified to learn that you think he is me!
However, I have a sneaking suspicion that the inane duo camuck and chucknorriss may be one and the same....just a theory.
I have a face like an arse, and am quite used to being insulted, but that pair of buffoons take it to a new level of stupidity. Let's hope he/they both just fuck off once and for all.
7 months ago
af
once again
you are wrong
7 months ago
And, incidentally chuckfuck, if my misspelling is the worst on Glumbert I apologise sincerely, but if it isn't, then stick it up your festering, seeping, oozing, disgusting, suppurating, scab-riddled anus.
7 months ago
Yesterday it was pistaker v barnsleyfc today it's arseface v chucknorris

who tomorrow; imadickhead v soami

who gives a shit, no one! say something funny or constructive, but please don't slag each other off it's just pathetic !
7 months ago
Quite right skid. Happy to oblige. I won't mention the awful chucky again, even if he continues to be a moron and carries out personal attacks on me.
I may have a face like an arse, but I realise when I am becoming tiresome. Glumbert deserves better.
7 months ago
youre a fucking moron assface.
7 months ago
skidz
ok ok ok
it just irritates me that while many species are becoming extinct
arseface is still breathing
however; i will try to be more tolerant of his revolting and stupid posts
7 months ago
Skid.

Read any good books on schizophrenia recently? There must be a clue somewhere.
7 months ago
Okay.

Back to business, or (as one of my favourite peronalities on Glumbert once remarked, i.e., Col. Adolph Vanker) continue my "blitzkrieg on Bush's Reich". LOL!

So lookie what bombshell is making the news now:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071204/ap_on_go_ot/iran_nuclear

And this:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071204/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iran_analysis

Looks like everyone was getting fed the same lying bullshit about Iran as they were about Iraq. No surprise there. ANYTHING that comes out of that idiots mouth is NOT to be believed. Period. Also, here's the OFFICIAL version of the story:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/international/20071203_release.pdf

Whoa! Look who else is telling Bush to get the fuck out of Iraq:

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22866754-5005961,00.html

Seems like he may have a valid argument. Plus, ain't this guy a Shiite? You know...the ones who were put into power by Georgie-Boy? The ones who are sympathetic to....gasp!...Iran??? Yup...that'd be the same ones.

And who says that lying fuckin' crooks don't look after their own? Look who's baaaaaack:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/73273

Looks like getting fired from the World Bank don't stop anyone from getting a job at the White House...now does it? Or even for doing a lousy job at ones old position, for that matter.

And look at THIS little gem:

http://www.au.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr012=w9fk0htu32.app7b
7 months ago
We ALL knew that the Iran stuff was bullshit. I think there were members of the various government agencies that were willing to tell the truth to prevent the next Armageddon.

It sure throws cold water on the bombing of Iran. This does not mean that the Administration will not take action against Iran. They do whatever they want, and the world pays for it. Wolfowitz is most likely back to get the war with Iran going before the next election.
7 months ago
That last one got cut off. Paul Wolfowitz is coming back to the White House. How's that for a kick in the nuts?
7 months ago
C - That news just ruined my day! It is amazing that only a select few can be in the these positions. America has no one else? 300 million, and one one else is qualified?

I'm so disgusted with politics.
7 months ago
A major step on the road to Armageddon if you ask me. Haven't they got any up and coming neo-cons?
7 months ago
I must say i just laughed to myself about arseface and chucknorrises comments about each other, you both said them as if the other was within ear shot but was said under your breath...brilliant

it makes me laugh as well when i think about human beings, how we have report abuse buttons and inappropiate buttons, it's like we know humans favorite past time is abusing each other.

You abuse someone when you find them annoying, one would assume that to be annoyed by someones posting one wants to be annoyed, as in they are looking out to vent their anger on someone already, this frustration is usually because their life is not going to plan usually though their own weakness of character? thus frustration occurs, this weakness of character is from what, lack of will power, lack of self respect, lack of love, lack of future, lack of health.

I believe everything can be changed, i personnally was born in a poor house in medieval europe where i had the plague and a sexual disease that took three years to clear up, my job was a chimney sweep, now i run a self help group for fisherman, patrolling the alantic sea in a pink rowing boat eating garlic capsules to keep my joints moving but my breath is bad

right what the fucks going on!!

canuck has just posted loads of stuff, right lets have a little look!
7 months ago
what i find amazing is that ~30% of the country still support bush and his foreign policies...roughly = the number of practicing evangelical fundamentalists
7 months ago
Canuck; where did you find the following

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/international/20071203_release.pdf

felt like a James Bond character reading something i shouldn't, am i going to get a call by the FBI for reading this stuff
7 months ago
No sweat, Bruddah.

It's a public site.

It IS kinda strange lookin' at though, ain't it?

LOL!
7 months ago
LOL!! Skids if they come by, make sure you count the silverware when they leave:)
7 months ago
Good to see you back C!
7 months ago
Thanks Randy-Man!
7 months ago
also pods article about peak oil is fascinating...2 thumbs up
7 months ago
Mr Norris you bearded man, evangelicals are they the old KKK
7 months ago
Agree with you there Chuck. But I'd bet that the 30% is a very conservative figure.
I have a theory about 9/11 for what it's worth. It's maybe a bit naive and probably not by any stretch original, but here goes.
Al Quaeda really didn't expect the whole thing to be as "successful" as it was. They must have been amazed when both the towers came down killing so many people. I honestly think they probably said: "Oh fuck, now we're really in the shitter," or words to that effect.
Bush's reaction was absurd. He should have set his spooks to hunt for the specific criminals who carried out the attack instead of declaring a ridiculous and ultimately unwinnable "war on terror". What the hell does that mean anyway?
7 months ago
What does that mean Arse? Money in the pockets of the people who truly deserve to burn in hell (if there was one)
7 months ago
arse, some interesting thoughts there. I've wondered myself, once or twice, if the whole sorry business didn't surprise even the terrorists with it's unheard-of results. I don't think they could have possibly realized both towers would fall the way they did. None of us could have ever foreseen such a disaster, and I don't think they did either. Of course, they were hoping for destruction, that was their goal. But the magnitude must surely have shocked even those who planned it.
7 months ago
This is so fake
Not only would those balloons not provide enough lift but if they did those ropes would be no where near strong enough to support the car with them.
7 months ago
There was a car? and balloons?
7 months ago
agreed
7 months ago
I wonder how many balloons would be required to lift up that tank with its crew on board and drop it on top of USARanger's house, turning him into a helpless paraplegic spouting venom from his keyboard with the aid of a mouth pencil?
7 months ago
arseface is a moron.
7 months ago
This fake, not even close to the number needed
7 months ago
I am regularly amazed by the level of intelligence on this site, no lie.

From techno-talk regarding the balloon deal, to the situation in Iraq...just flaming amazing.

Holiday regards to all (this supplicating endearment-seeking notion being, actually, well intended).

C - goodaseeya. Riza...always fun/sincere. FTB...like Riza, and introspective, reflective. Podster, Miter, Arse, Billy, Randal, Skid....good stuff (mostly), and well presented.

Glumbert IS you. And I (mostly) enjoy it.

Hang out your mistletoe...I may just show up.

OK...empty threat there, but it sounded pretty good before I keyed it.
7 months ago
I am in full agreement with you there Chaz. A multi-cultural Happy Chrismakkakwanza or whatever you celebrate. Peace to you and yours (yes, even you Camuck) May we all play happily in the sandbox of life together.

Cheers, Bill.