NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:

Note: Don’t build your house below a surging glacier.

 geoff_morphini wrote: 
reminded me of the Kolka surges in the Caucasus

 Proclivities wrote:

As with many of these rapid mass wasting events, if they trap air they can accelerate, like an air hockey puck. Avalanches are strange beasts, their initial rheology ( material strength) can really dictate their behavior. Pretty amazing event. Glad the videographer survived.

 Proclivities wrote:

It's like the folks on the beach: "Here comes the tsunami. Uh oh. Maybe I can jump up as it passes under me..."

Well, an avalanche, not a flood, but it's pretty intense:  Story

 Proclivities wrote:

Those damn gays!

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
I think it's time to preemptively out crazy the crazies.  Every time something bad happens somewhere I will blame it on the policies I don't like.  So the bad fire season this year is because Tony Abbott was elected prime minister.  And things will be worse overseas because he's cutting foreign aid... wait, that's probably true...

And of course the conclusion on divine opinion on marijuana should be obvious from the Super Bowl. 

 dave_porter wrote: 
How refreshing to have a political party that doesn't consider itself a "big tent" and will actually kick people out. Here, you join the party, they have to take you.

• In September, MEP Godfrey Bloom {was forced to} quit the UKIP group in the European parliament after joking that a group of UKIP women who did not clean behind their fridges were "sluts". 

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
Too batshit crazy even to be tolerated in UKIP, thank goodness!

 Coaxial wrote: 
Unfortunately the global population of people like this would indicate that being this class of idiot isn't very detrimental.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
How does anyone live that long and yet be able to believe such gibberish?

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
That really does seem like it might be imported tho.

it's nice to know that batshit crazy isn't an exclusively American commodity