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Re: Darwin Awards

#301 Post by ian16th » Sat Nov 02, 2019 1:03 pm

What sort of 'Engineer' was he?
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Re: Darwin Awards

#302 Post by Ex-Ascot » Sat Nov 02, 2019 1:54 pm

ian16th wrote:
Sat Nov 02, 2019 1:03 pm
What sort of 'Engineer' was he?
With respect to all the engineers on the forum he wasn't was he? He was/is a mechanic. Bit of a difference.
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Re: Darwin Awards

#303 Post by Ex-Ascot » Tue Nov 05, 2019 7:16 am

Now this guy really is an @rsehole.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... OTTOM.html
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Re: Darwin Awards

#304 Post by Boac » Tue Nov 05, 2019 8:08 am

A bit like a progress report - "He needs a rocket up his arse".

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#305 Post by Slasher » Tue Nov 05, 2019 12:11 pm

Ex-Ascot wrote:
Tue Nov 05, 2019 7:16 am
Now this guy really is an @rsehole.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... OTTOM.html
Would’ve loved to have been there laughing meself blind at such ****! =))

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#306 Post by Sisemen » Tue Nov 05, 2019 2:53 pm

Been done before.
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#307 Post by ribrash » Tue Nov 05, 2019 3:25 pm

Slasher wrote:
Tue Nov 05, 2019 12:11 pm
Ex-Ascot wrote:
Tue Nov 05, 2019 7:16 am
Now this guy really is an @rsehole.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... OTTOM.html
Would’ve loved to have been there laughing meself blind at such ****! =))
Check out youtube.Some serious burnt rings. =)) =))

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Re: Darwin Awards

#308 Post by llondel » Tue Nov 05, 2019 4:04 pm

I bet it singed all the hair off his arse. A Brazilian would probably have been less painful.

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Re: Darwin Awards

#309 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Sat Nov 09, 2019 4:35 pm

Today's Darwin Award goes to a Mr Nutkin, a late squirrel of this parish. He'd made a move into my barn about a month ago, and I spotted him a couple of times before he disappeared after a week. I've just been to sort out my 55 gal matt black waste ash barrel, which after having half the old roof off and the new one not on yet, had accumulated a quarter filling of water. And, when I emptied it outside, one Mr Nutkin.
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#310 Post by Capetonian » Sun Nov 17, 2019 12:30 am

A French tourist has died after falling from a waterfall while trying to take a selfie in Thailand, police said Friday.

The accident happened on Thursday afternoon on the tropical island of Koh Samui, whose palm-fringed, white-sand beaches are a magnet for both backpackers and high-end tourists.

The 33-year-old man fell from Na Mueang 2 waterfall, the same spot where a Spanish tourist died in a fall in July, Lieutenant Phuvadol Viriyavarangkul of the island's tourist police told AFP.

"It took several hours to retrieve his body because the waterfall is slippery and steep," he said by phone, adding that the spot is roped off and there is a sign warning tourists of the danger.

"His friend said he was trying to take a selfie and then he slipped and fell."
https://www.news24.com/World/News/frenc ... l-20191115

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Re: Darwin Awards

#311 Post by Stoneboat » Sun Nov 17, 2019 4:31 am

The Canadian PM is an avid selfie fan. I think I'll start a GoFundMe to pay him a Thailand vacation.

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#312 Post by OFSO » Tue Nov 19, 2019 11:24 am

"Backpacker died when sex act went wrong" says the BBC. Yes, we've all been there and done that, haven't we.

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Re: Darwin Awards

#313 Post by OFSO » Fri Nov 22, 2019 6:59 am

Girl meets boy on-line, girl agrees to meet boy in bar, girl goes to his room to have sex, boy strangles girl. What could be more natural ?

Frightening, the lack of common sense. Still, that's what Darwin Awards is all about.

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Re: Darwin Awards

#314 Post by Groundgripper » Sun Dec 01, 2019 11:28 am


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#315 Post by Sisemen » Fri Dec 06, 2019 8:14 am

Q: When is enough fuel too much?
A: When it’s in the cockpit with you and you’re an eejit.

https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2019-04.html

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Re: Darwin Awards

#316 Post by Pontius Navigator » Fri Dec 06, 2019 7:22 pm

OFSO wrote:
Fri Nov 22, 2019 6:59 am
Girl meets boy on-line, girl agrees to meet boy in bar, girl goes to his room to have sex, boy strangles girl. What could be more natural ?

Frightening, the lack of common sense. Still, that's what Darwin Awards is all about.
That is only one side of the story. Her's might have been quite different.

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Re: Darwin Awards

#317 Post by Pontius Navigator » Fri Dec 06, 2019 7:27 pm

Sisemen wrote:
Fri Dec 06, 2019 8:14 am
Q: When is enough fuel too much?
A: When it’s in the cockpit with you and you’re an eejit.

https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2019-04.html
As worrying, only 42% awarded him 10/10.

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Re: Darwin Awards

#318 Post by PHXPhlyer » Fri Dec 13, 2019 12:46 am


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Re: Darwin Awards

#319 Post by PHXPhlyer » Fri Dec 13, 2019 12:48 am

Drugs are what probably saved him!

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Re: Darwin Awards

#320 Post by PHXPhlyer » Fri Dec 13, 2019 1:30 am

What we really need...a gator on meth.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fl ... r-n1101061

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