Richard Brookman

Why you shouldn't be impatient with old folk.

http://www.digitalfog.com/gallery/granny.html

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john

In message <42ck2mF1hkblsU1@individual.net>, Richard Brookman
<newsboy@nowhere.com> writes
> Why you shouldn't be impatient with old folk.
>
>http://www.digitalfog.com/gallery/granny.html
>

Thanks Richard

Funniest thing I've seen this week!

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Nige

john wrote:
> In message <42ck2mF1hkblsU1@individual.net>, Richard Brookman
> <newsboy@nowhere.com> writes
>> Why you shouldn't be impatient with old folk.
>>
>> http://www.digitalfog.com/gallery/granny.html
>>
>
> Thanks Richard
>
> Funniest thing I've seen this week!

Very good indeed!!!

Nige


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Simon Isaacs

On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 13:57:42 -0000, "Richard Brookman"
<newsboy@nowhere.com> scribbled the following nonsense:

> Why you shouldn't be impatient with old folk.
>
>http://www.digitalfog.com/gallery/granny.html

excellent, she even manages to set off the airbag, which must have
cost a fortune!!!!!!
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Derek

"Richard Brookman" <newsboy@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:42ck2mF1hkblsU1@individual.net...
> Why you shouldn't be impatient with old folk.
>
> http://www.digitalfog.com/gallery/granny.html
>
> --
> Rich
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> Disco 300 Tdi auto
> S2a 88" SW
> Tiggrr (V8 trialler)
ROFLMAO
brilliant
Derek

Richard Brookman

....and Simon Isaacs spake unto the tribes of Usenet, saying...


> On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 13:57:42 -0000, "Richard Brookman"
> <newsboy@nowhere.com> scribbled the following nonsense:
>
>> Why you shouldn't be impatient with old folk.
>>
>> http://www.digitalfog.com/gallery/granny.html
>
> excellent, she even manages to set off the airbag, which must have
> cost a fortune!!!!!!

To me, that was the funny bit. Not the chuckles of the sk8ers, or the arse
getting what he deserved for harrassing an invalid pensioner, but the look
of bemused horror as the airbag slowly deflates in front of him. He's
getting out at the end - I would like to know what happened in the next 30
sec.

I thought airbags were supposed to deploy only in serious frontal impacts.
This was a half-loaded shopping bag! Mercedes quality control?

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Ian Rawlings

On 2006-01-08, Richard Brookman <newsboy@nowhere.com> wrote:

> I thought airbags were supposed to deploy only in serious frontal impacts.
> This was a half-loaded shopping bag! Mercedes quality control?

More like a fake video, perhaps as part of some comedy programme or
other. There's no puff of powdery smoke that I've seen when an airbag
explodes, they're inflated with a small explosive charge, and are
supposed to deflate immediately because they're not airtight (although
it does appear to deflate when he pushes it out of the way).

Also if the old lady is standing at the edge of the road and needs a
horn beeping to wake her up then why did he screetch to a stop in the
first place (which you don't see, only hear).

In the mpeg version of the video I've seen you can see the airbag take
about 1/3-1/2 of a second or so to inflate (you can see it take
shape), which seems far too slow for the descriptions of airbag
inflation I've seen in which it happens so fast that the air displaced
can supposedly harm hearing and/or blow out a window, and if it
happens too late or the driver is too close to the wheel, can cause
nasty injury.

Finally of course, it seems too funny to be true, especially the
comedic jump of the old woman just slumped there at the side of the
road, put together the whole thing just doesn't ring true. There's so
much fakery around that if it doesn't ring true it probably isn't.

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Ian Rawlings

On 2006-01-08, Ian Rawlings <news05@tarcus.org.uk> wrote:

> Finally of course, it seems too funny to be true, especially the
> comedic jump of the old woman just slumped there at the side of the
> road, put together the whole thing just doesn't ring true. There's so
> much fakery around that if it doesn't ring true it probably isn't.

Not to mention that only one airbag goes off and the force the old
lady puts on the crush can doesn't crush it and if it triggered at
that level of force it'd go off if you went over a speed bump too hard
or nudged a car when parking etc etc etc....

It's got to be a fake basically. Probably a cutting from an advert or
some comedy programme or sommat like that.

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Richard Brookman

....and Ian Rawlings spake unto the tribes of Usenet, saying...


> On 2006-01-08, Ian Rawlings <news05@tarcus.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> Finally of course, it seems too funny to be true, especially the
>> comedic jump of the old woman just slumped there at the side of the
>> road, put together the whole thing just doesn't ring true. There's
>> so much fakery around that if it doesn't ring true it probably isn't.
>
> Not to mention that only one airbag goes off and the force the old
> lady puts on the crush can doesn't crush it and if it triggered at
> that level of force it'd go off if you went over a speed bump too hard
> or nudged a car when parking etc etc etc....
>
> It's got to be a fake basically. Probably a cutting from an advert or
> some comedy programme or sommat like that.

Big spoilsport.

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Ian Rawlings

On 2006-01-09, Richard Brookman <newsboy@nowhere.com> wrote:

> Big spoilsport.

Sorry :-P

Well given the crap that people have been believing since the dawn of
time in churches and mosques etc all over the world, I'm sure you can
be forgiven suspending disbelief on this occasion!

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