November 11 2009
Hot Tub Convenience and Other Choice Links
posted by Ana Samways at 11:48 am
Selling point of this house? A hot tub in the living room. Listing here. (Via Lovely Listings)
Deconstructing the Disney Princesses: Snow White’s “burgeoning sexuality is a threat to another woman, so she is killed…”. More here. And then a reader followed up with this deconstruction of the Disney Prince. Nice.
Update: A dramatised mash-up of this week’s footage of the carnage on the women’s soccer field.
Diversion: Learn something new every day! Like John Lennon’s cat was called Elvis. Cute site.
Video link: A bit of a traffic jam on the ballroom dancing floor…
Tech: Is this the strangest application for a Wii game console I’ve heard about…Wii Baby and Me.
Double News bomb: It’s hard to beat Tsehai Tiffen’s live cross from Scarfyland during the morning after the Undie 500, but this reporter gets bombed by not one, but two attention seekers.
Video: Flying car jumps over roundabout, captured on CCTV allegedly (cough, cough) in New Zealand… Anyone know anything about this?
November 11th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Roundabout picture has to be fake. Most cars have engine in front; so they don’t take off metres into the air pointing upwards; they fly nose down. Not to mention that 500HP rally cars are lucky to get this high over big jumps; and the video only seems to have one image between 6 and 7 seconds for the jump, (possible with CCTV but lead up to the jump has much higher FPS..). Somebody has been playing with FX
November 12th, 2009 at 7:48 am
It’s real, that was me. Car is lightened for track speed and is modified to mid-engine layout. Approaching the roundabout I hit a large cinder block or similar which someone had placed on the road (you can see where the car does a lurch before it enters the roundabout) which threw the car off line and ploughed it into the kerb of the roundabout which combined with my estimated speed of 125 km/h sent the car airborne. Simple really. The car came down more or less on the road and I carried on. It was sweet.
November 12th, 2009 at 9:38 am
It was me.
Michael was trying out the new Turbo Boost button on the way home from a late night mission to Maccas.
November 12th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
It was Michael Laws making a late dash to the Maori Party hui on Hone Harawira. He wanted to show his support for a fellow politician misunderstood by the nation. The jump was for the media, you can just see a flag out the passenger side window which says ‘Birds of a feather stick together!’
November 12th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
If that was you Scott (as you claim) then doing 125kph down a public road makes you a dick.
November 12th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Who said it was a public road?
November 13th, 2009 at 8:32 am
Oh, sorry, my mistake. So it was a private road in Stratford with street signs, lighting, a roundabout and surrounded by shops…yeah right.
A link for those interested: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=New+Zealand&ll=-39.33787,174.284349&spn=0,359.998275&z=19&layer=c&cbll=-39.337927,174.283888&panoid=e3clG7i2E6D6md7xspzSZg&cbp=12,64.41,,0,16.34
November 13th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Stratford born here – it’t not exactly brimming with roundabouts…certainly none on ‘private’ roads!
November 13th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
So…………………it’s not possible to ever close a road and use it for the purposes of night rallying?
November 13th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
No, Scott, they don’t run ‘night rallies’ at 3am through city streets. Even the idiot who was ‘actually’ driving the car would know that…
November 14th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Huh, whaddaya know – turns out you are right and I was winding you up all along! Thanks for playing, spotcha next time.
November 14th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
over here it’s called lying….
November 15th, 2009 at 6:48 am
Yep, I’m a pathological liar.
November 17th, 2009 at 8:50 am
Looks like I was right about the ‘dick’ part as well…