My town's rink didn't even have glass until last year! Before that it was just nets that attached to the top of the boards. Imagine taking a hit into that - we're lucky no one was ever broken in half
The myth of the 100 mph slap shot lives on in this thread - guys can't shoot it 100 mph in the all star game under perfect conditions.....
I miss metal tipped lawn darts, and furniture that is not anchored to the wall
Disagree. I bet some of those one timers they shoot are going quite a bit faster than an All-Star game slap shot. The added momentum of the pass and the impact that has on the sticks flex would have them moving quicker IMO. No idea if the physics is right on that, but it makes sense to me. All that energy from the puck isn't absorbed into the stick. Also I don't think the All STar game is prime conditions for a slap shot. It's not common to skate straight up to a still puck and shoot it that way. An ideal slap shot is a one timer from a hard horizontal pass.
Either way, I don't think taking a puck in the eye at 80 mph vs 100 vs 120 is really gonna make much of a difference. You'd be lucky not to be blinded in all three scenarios.
I remember being on a plane as a child and every one was smoking.
I seriously can't wrap my head around that now.
I find it weird that a lot of planes still have ashtrays in the armrests. I guess changing things in the aviation industry is a regulatory nightmare, so they just leave them.
The way drunk driving was handled back in the day is insane to look back on.
Honestly I still don't think it's handled as seriously as it should be. IMO if you get a DUI you should done for life. Driving is a privilege, not a right. Driving drunk is completely unacceptable and avoidable 100% of the time.
Did you get to steer, or did he do the knee steer?
I didn't steer. My brother and I were in the back of our custom van, as were popular back in the 70s.
My parents were part of a van club and we'd go camping with them nearly every weekend. I saw my first wet t-shirt contest when I was 9 at one of the rallies. Times have definitely changed.
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Man, that is disturbing to watch. I guess I'm getting my drill out tomorrow.
I remember the time before the internet, if you wanted to request a song on the Power Hour, you would actually have to write a letter and mail in your request. And in order to get your request approved, people would have to send in some ####ty art of the band and say how much they loved the Much Music VJ.
It was like real work. Nowadays, you just go online and tweet and "like" something... or if you are really ambitious, you send an email.
It's kind of embarrassing, but I mailed requests back when I was kid. I did some Napoleon Dynamite-like portrait of Erica Ehm to try to get them to play Fishbone and it worked.
I don't know what is more sad... that we did that, or that my kids will never know that experience.
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I find it weird that a lot of planes still have ashtrays in the armrests. I guess changing things in the aviation industry is a regulatory nightmare, so they just leave them.
I was on a united airlines flight the other day. The bathroom door had a little tray or extinguishing cigarettes in. So hard to imagine flying with folks smoking.
I miss just taking off all afternoon without any parents really caring where we were or what we were doing. Myself, my brother and 1-5 friends would get on our bikes and take off for the afternoon. As long as we were back "at dark", what we did and where we went wasn't tracked or really cared about. No phones or anything.
Try doing that with your kids these days, and some helicopter parent'll have C&FS on you faster than you can blink.
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That's a case where death wasn't the ultimate result. IKEA had a bunch of deaths before they finally recalled one of their drawer sets.
I guess that's the confusing thing for me. What is there to lose? Just one minute of time or is the fastener that huge and horrifically ugly that you'd actively miss and desire the old alternative? Strange.
Moved back to small town BC a year ago (where I grew up). My daughter's school has a sledding hill and the school itself keeps a giant box of crazy carpets outside for the kids to use whenever they want. Mind blown. Small towns move at a different pace.
Those things would take an average toboggan run and nearly turn it into a kamikaze mission.
I am convinced that I did more damage to my back on a crazy carpet than I have in the five vehicle collisions I have been in in my life (3 as driver , 2 as passenger). I love how there was no texture at all on either side so if you went over a bump at speed you could slide off your crazy carpet and tumble to a stop if you got your Sorels in the snow quick.
And smoking in offices.
My dad worked in a pretty blue collar environment and every office reeked of smoke with ash trays everywhere. Basically everyone was a chain smoker.
Gross.
I remember my teachers smoking in class. Almost every teacher's desk had an ashtray on it, and teachers would smoke throughout the day.
Hitch-hiking - everywhere
Nothing better than riding in the back of a pick-up. I remember being pissed when they didn't allow you to sit up on the edge any more
Those things would take an average toboggan run and nearly turn it into a kamikaze mission.
My first major injury was due to a crazy carpet. I don't know if anyone remembers the toboggan hill at Lake Bonivista, but when I was about 11 I went down that hill kneeling on a CC and lost control and went into the tree line, I decided to bail just in time to use my bent knee to stop myself by ramming it into a tree.
Of course in those days you never admitted to an injury so everyone crowded around this stupid kid clutching his knee and screaming his head off and decided to help me up. So I sucked it up and hopped home which was normally a 30 minute walk using my best friend at the time as a crutch. My mom saw me come in and freaked because my knee had turned black and swollen to the size of a basket ball and it had that rotten tooth throbbing pain.
Anyways she had to call my dad home from work and he was pretty unhappy and they drove me to the Rocky View and it turned out that I had cracked my knee cap and done some other damage.
So I was on crutches with basically a hip to toe cast for 2 months which killed my hockey season, and chicks aren't turned on by the story of an idiot slamming into a tree on a CC unless it was on fire and you were saving the world from communist terrorists (Trust me this was in the early 80's so it makes sense)
Anyways that was the last time I ever went down hill on anything.
Stupid unsafe but fantastically fast Crazy Carpets. If only I had gotten the bag of broken glass at the same time.
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