How did they know he grew his beard if they didn't have a picture

My buddies and I bet a bottle of scotch on that every year. I've won twice, once with orange and once with yellow. Seems like mostly lighter colours most of the time, you don't see red or purple very often.

So, gambling addict gets lucky when natural disaster happens. Trying to tell me this guy somehow knew?

It's a small percentage to be sure but some cars look fucking bad ass with a matte finish. Mustangs indeed are one, depending on the year and if it's been fucked with. And there are some more modern classics (90s Celica?) that can look hip in matte.

David Sedaris has an absolutely amazing story about dutch Santa. Go on YouTube and look up "David Sedaris - 6 to 8 Black Men"

100 percent an awesome idea. As I say, most every fire hall will be more than happy to show anyone who wants to know how to fight a small fire with the tools they're likely to have around them at home or work.

Yeah there should definitely be one on every floor of your house, plus the kitchen gets its own. As well as any other potentially hazardous area (garage, bbq area, basement if you have like, a workshop or whatever in your basement).

If you go to any fire hall, there's a very decent chance they'll let you blast an extinguisher on something. In many cases (if they have the facilities) they'll even light something up for you and let you put it out. Lots of fire halls do this sort of thing for like, the Boy Scouts or school trips and crap, and most any firefighter will be delighted to show you proper technique and whatnot. Honestly I think every school age kid should get a trip to the local fire hall every so often and get their hands on a real extinguisher, so they're familiar and realize what they're all about, what they can and can't do.

Fire blankets are also a really good idea, as anyone (including kids) can use them and they're quite effective on say, a stove top that's lit up. Obviously those can get out of hand in a hurry, but in a lot of cases like that, or say, a garbage can or something that's on fire, a blanket can kill it before it gets too big. Obviously if you have any doubt about your ability to fight fire (no matter what tool you have), then get out, but there are plenty of situations where you can contain it if you keep your wits about you, and you have the proper equipment close by. Definitely an extinguisher (hopefully a decent sized one) and a blanket should be mandatory gear on anyone's deck or patio if you have any kind of bbq/grill/smoker happening.

The vast majority of extinguishers you're likely to encounter in daily life are dry chem. CO2 are generally reserved for electrical fires, so if it's extinguished quickly, the equipment will only be damaged rather than destroyed. Occasionally you see them in kitchens, too, but most places will either have foam or a full on fogging system if it's a bigger setup.

He was a corporal? Damn, imagine being a private and having to salute him?

I feel like it could be as strong as legal drugs too. I mean morphine is legal if you're in the hospital, seems to work pretty fucking well

No one except like half of Canada and a giant number of people in northern states, and I assume also large swaths of northern Europe.

But yeah outside of those 200 million-odd people, like no one

Wow I wonder how his family feels, having two of the least funny characters on one of the least funny TV shows in the history of the medium named after their relative. I mean why not just name a fleet of garbage trucks after the guy

I call shenanigans on the entire story...how could we possibly know any of this with even the tiniest bit of certainty? Absolute horseshit.

You ask 5 people, just minutes after a car crash or other incident what they saw and you'll get 5 wildly different stories. We're being asked to believe one person's account of the story, which we can't say for sure that he was even present for and saw with his own eyes, nor do we know what kind of biases this person may or may not have had that might alter the story one way or another. Further, we're being asked to take into account the medical opinion of this untrained person living in the 1st century BC as to what may or may not have been a fatal stab wound, surrounded by 22 other stab wounds.

Bullllshit.

If you go by deaths per passenger miles, I imagine cruise ships are crushing it too. 3000-5000 people per ship, and there are ~100 or so ships that size (conservatively, could be slightly higher), travelling say, 1500 nautical miles per week (again that's very conservative), 52 weeks a year. Puts you in the neighbourhood of 27-30 billion passenger miles per year (much more if you include the crew of said ships), with astonishingly few deaths. (We're talking deaths due to the fact that they travelled by ship, as opposed to people who roll up and have a heart attack or choke or something.) Big cruise ships don't sink, as a rule.*

*unless you're showing off and run one up on the rocks in Italy for example. And technically still didn't "sink."

Nah, he was a real shithead. Not a super good actor either

Fuck, Hinckley misses AND a storm almost got him? Fuck, so close

Not for nothing but John Olerud hit 400 into August just one year prior. Obviously not even close to the same level over their careers but Gwynn wasn't the only guy with a realistic shot at 400 for a season.