Beefy's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

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The store in question is Morrisons. Can confirm this is genuine and not a fake. A quick Google on the names brings up contact details that shows them to be working there. Pretty disgusting.
 
I work in a shop and we are allowed to wear poppies without any problem. This is Britain and we have always worn poppies (if we want to) in November and taken part in a minutes silence. Morrisons should be ashamed to be so lily livered.
 
Or image processing and computer vision, if you have your last exam tomorrow. Followed by: beer.
 
Beef_Dripping said:
Confirmed tho.
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Yeah, I'll give you that.

On the sad news front, Japanese Suzuki rider, Yoshinari Matsushita has died during the evening qualifying session of the TT.

You watch the calls go out again saying the IOM TT races are too dangerous. Danger is in the throttle. Shut the throttle down and the danger goes away, but you lose the race. These guys race to win, and it is one of the last sports that is not, and cannot be, tightly controlled by safety measures. The safety is in the hands of the participants, which is how it always should be.

EDIT: And I was second with that news because I commented on it.
 
TheSecondStain said:
Yeah, I'll give you that.

On the sad news front, Japanese Suzuki rider, Yoshinari Matsushita has died during the evening qualifying session of the TT.

You watch the calls go out again saying the IOM TT races are too dangerous. Danger is in the throttle. Shut the throttle down and the danger goes away, but you lose the race. These guys race to win, and it is one of the last sports that is not, and cannot be, tightly controlled by safety measures. The safety is in the hands of the participants, which is how it always should be.

EDIT: And I was second with that news because I commented on it.
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Ballacrye again, been so many crashes there in the last few years, if you start santitising the course though it's the thin end of the wedge, slow one corner down and then you start to look at the next fastest. It's not nice sometimes, but the guys know the risks and they want to take them. My friend that rides BSB knows he shouldn't race it, although it would probably suit his riding style, because he doesn't think he has the right "sense mechanism" to slow it down where need be, you probably only get to make one mistake.

It's like one of the racers comments on the Closer To The Edge film, when they didn't know whether Guy Martin survived his Ballacrye crash, "the race is restarting in an hour, we won't be going any slower."
 
Downthe36 said:
Ballacrye again, been so many crashes there in the last few years, if you start sanitising the course though it's the thin end of the wedge, slow one corner down and then you start to look at the next fastest. It's not nice sometimes, but the guys know the risks and they want to take them. My friend that rides BSB knows he shouldn't race it, although it would probably suit his riding style, because he doesn't think he has the right "sense mechanism" to slow it down where need be, you probably only get to make one mistake.

It's like one of the racers comments on the Closer To The Edge film, when they didn't know whether Guy Martin survived his Ballacrye crash, "the race is restarting in an hour, we won't be going any slower."
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And this is actually part of the thrill for participants and spectators alike. What did Stirling Moss say about car racing in his era..? He loved the potential danger..! Mind you, the riders are getting a 1000 times more fun out of the events than the viewers, but they pay a huge price for getting it wrong. The trick is not getting it wrong.
 
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