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No, can't relate. By the '70s, it was a full-face, leathers and tall boots for me . . .
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^^ Haha! Fairgrounds arena, Monroe, WA.
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Originally Posted by Mark Twain
"Don't argue with stupid people; they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."
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It is. I broke mine twice within 4 months each time about 10 years ago. To this day it gives me problems. Never try to show off to your wife by popping a wheelie while clipped in. That happened the first time and I over rotated and landed right on my tailbone, which snapped. The second time was just a wreck in the rain
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I broke mine skim boarding on an irrigated football field. I walked funny for months.
I love those pictures of dminor when he joined the circus. That was so cool.
I love those pictures of dminor when he joined the circus. That was so cool.
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I think its disgusting and terrible how people treat Lance Armstrong, especially after winning 7 Tour de France Titles while on drugs!
I can't even find my bike when I'm on drugs. -Willie N.
I think its disgusting and terrible how people treat Lance Armstrong, especially after winning 7 Tour de France Titles while on drugs!
I can't even find my bike when I'm on drugs. -Willie N.
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I got to sling horse dung and sawdust in some of the most prestigious horse arenas in the Puget Sound basin .
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You are one of the best dung slingers I have ever seen on the internet.
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I think its disgusting and terrible how people treat Lance Armstrong, especially after winning 7 Tour de France Titles while on drugs!
I can't even find my bike when I'm on drugs. -Willie N.
I think its disgusting and terrible how people treat Lance Armstrong, especially after winning 7 Tour de France Titles while on drugs!
I can't even find my bike when I'm on drugs. -Willie N.
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Heroin is just as stupid!
The use of these drugs are stupid because, at first they make most humans feel good. Then they flip the script on you, and make you feel so bad, that if you don't obtain them, they have the capacity to turn you into a monster who is filled with pain and misery.
If you want to be a monster, you're stupid! It's much better to just be a normal human being who contributes to his community by working, supporting his family, and providing a future for his kids. Now that's being intelligent!
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Some germaine to the thread talk: helmets? I don't recall ever even having one until the late early 90's. Otherwise, it's a bad-ass picture, real or otherwise.
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Takes me back to the time I saw Reckless Rex make a truly impressive jump over a pile of flaming hay bales in Missoula Montana in 1982. Looked over to my right, and realized that the old guy standing quietly next to me in the full-length leather coat was none other than Evel Knievel.
https://youtu.be/fNsnO7hmL_Y
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Yes! It's a highly addictive drug that's stupid to try even once!
Heroin is just as stupid!
The use of these drugs are stupid because, at first they make most humans feel good. Then they flip the script on you, and make you feel so bad, that if you don't obtain them, they have the capacity to turn you into a monster who is filled with pain and misery.
If you want to be a monster, you're stupid! It's much better to just be a normal human being who contributes to his community by working, supporting his family, and providing a future for his kids. Now that's being intelligent!
- Slim
Heroin is just as stupid!
The use of these drugs are stupid because, at first they make most humans feel good. Then they flip the script on you, and make you feel so bad, that if you don't obtain them, they have the capacity to turn you into a monster who is filled with pain and misery.
If you want to be a monster, you're stupid! It's much better to just be a normal human being who contributes to his community by working, supporting his family, and providing a future for his kids. Now that's being intelligent!
- Slim
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i know a number of people (you probably do to, whether you know it or not) who have tried cocaine (and other drugs) and are still quite functional, probably with a better job than most. don't generalize.
drugs are not that bad, mmmmmmmkay.....
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Takes me back to the time I saw Reckless Rex make a truly impressive jump over a pile of flaming hay bales in Missoula Montana in 1982. Looked over to my right, and realized that the old guy standing quietly next to me in the full-length leather coat was none other than Evel Knievel.
If you look early in the clip, those shots at the lake were taken at Willow Bay Resort on Long Lake - - a quarter mile from the bottom of my driveway. I remember Rex setting up that ramp on the boat dock at WB and practicing his backflip all one summer. Every now and then just for fun he'd get out on the highway in front of the resort, stand on the seat and pull wheelies for about a quarter mile at 60 mph. And he wasn't just a one-trick-pony stunt guy. My buddy and I took him trail riding with us one weekend in the mountains behind my house and he hung right with us the whole time. Only person who rode with us out there that never batted an eye at the crazy routes we blazed through the woods.
BTW, that's one reason I live outside Spokane now - - grew up loving the open, semi-arid 'rain-shadow-y' pine forests - - wanted to have a piece of it for myself.
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Just because Some people can manage means basically nothing. Pretty much nothing in the world(drugs or otherwise) is Soooo bad that it destroys 100% of people the first time they try it. That doesn't make it a good idea. Plenty of people drive drunk and crash their cars at 50+mph and walk away fine too. Does that mean that idea is not so bad too then?
I tend to think that there's a reason most every society that's ever supported drug use has either fallen as a society(in history) or in the current world where it's much more difficult for societies to straight up fall, those societies have decided that maybe drugs aren't such a good idea after all. The famous Amsterdam(The Dutch), for example, decided a long while ago to make all "hard drugs" illegal, leaving only pot and mushrooms. Most mushrooms have been made illegal, and the rest of the mushrooms and pot are under discussion. Even the soft drugs alone being legal still seems to be posing a significant problem, and that's coming from them, who supported it. They've found that drug use isn't working out so well for their society, because Most people aren't productive functioning people while using. You may well be the exception, but the other 95% of people aren't, so perhaps drugs are indeed "bad" and we shouldn't go around promoting them as just fine.
But why did this need to turn into a drug thing over a Coke bottle cap anyway. I don't think anyone was taking it that seriously, Slim.
I tend to think that there's a reason most every society that's ever supported drug use has either fallen as a society(in history) or in the current world where it's much more difficult for societies to straight up fall, those societies have decided that maybe drugs aren't such a good idea after all. The famous Amsterdam(The Dutch), for example, decided a long while ago to make all "hard drugs" illegal, leaving only pot and mushrooms. Most mushrooms have been made illegal, and the rest of the mushrooms and pot are under discussion. Even the soft drugs alone being legal still seems to be posing a significant problem, and that's coming from them, who supported it. They've found that drug use isn't working out so well for their society, because Most people aren't productive functioning people while using. You may well be the exception, but the other 95% of people aren't, so perhaps drugs are indeed "bad" and we shouldn't go around promoting them as just fine.
But why did this need to turn into a drug thing over a Coke bottle cap anyway. I don't think anyone was taking it that seriously, Slim.
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Gawd I hope not. Maybe I should have included a disclaimer reading "Attention: For those who have been living under a rock for the past 30 years, cocaine is very addictive & dangerous, even though we didn't realize it upon its invention.
I was using that as an analogy of why I don't support the OP's OP(lol). Times were simpler when we, as a society, had far less knowledge than the we do now, but that doesn't necessarily mean that everything was better in the past.
As far as the drug mess goes, all I can say is that history has proven that prohibition doesn't work. If people want it, they'll find a way to get it. It's just a matter of how much of our money we want to dish out fighting a hopeless cause that only creates more crime for more tax dollars for Big Brother to take from us. It would be much easier & more cost effective to regulate & tax the hell out of illicit drugs & use the tax dollars accumulated to educate everyone on exactly why drugs are dangerous & a bad idea, & possibly offer more gov't-funded rehab centers for those who realized these things a little too late. Just think of the last time you heard of anyone getting arrested for bootlegging, & compare that to the number of major drug busts you've seen on the news in the last year alone.
I was using that as an analogy of why I don't support the OP's OP(lol). Times were simpler when we, as a society, had far less knowledge than the we do now, but that doesn't necessarily mean that everything was better in the past.
As far as the drug mess goes, all I can say is that history has proven that prohibition doesn't work. If people want it, they'll find a way to get it. It's just a matter of how much of our money we want to dish out fighting a hopeless cause that only creates more crime for more tax dollars for Big Brother to take from us. It would be much easier & more cost effective to regulate & tax the hell out of illicit drugs & use the tax dollars accumulated to educate everyone on exactly why drugs are dangerous & a bad idea, & possibly offer more gov't-funded rehab centers for those who realized these things a little too late. Just think of the last time you heard of anyone getting arrested for bootlegging, & compare that to the number of major drug busts you've seen on the news in the last year alone.
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This thread is fantastic. Simple childhood picture of a kid jumping a big wheel to a discussion over the use of helmets to the evils of drug usage. Wow. It's obvious many of you have been cooped up for too much of the winter.
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