Oh! Cool Robotic Limbs!
LGF:
The person who wrote this will undoubtedly thrive on the attention, but if you’d like a glimpse at the dark dead end of leftist thought, here it is: F*CK THE TROOPS.
So, 4000 rubes are dead. Cry me the Tigris. Another 30,000 have been seriously wounded. Boo f*cking hoo. They got what they asked for—and cool robotic limbs, too.
It gets worse.
That reminds me!
I was in the bus tunnel the other morning waiting for the 550 to Bellevue and a bus pulls up in front of me and with a bunch of other people a young guy, probably a bit younger than me, gets off, with sneakers on shiny titanium legs beneath khaki shorts. It’s been frickin cold enough here that it’s not like wearing pants would make a guy stand out, but he was wearing shorts and two shiny titanium legs. Got off the bus and sort of titanium-leg-swaggered up the platform. I thought he was cool.
April 28th, 2008 at 12:33 am
You know how the Olympic organizers won’t allow runners with artificial legs into the open races? Because they go too fast. It’s not fair to the unhandicapped.
April 28th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Yeah, Wired magazine had a big thing on those Cheetah legs they make, the ones that bend backwards, and this one guy from South Africa born with no legs beneath the knees who’s the fastest parathlete and the guy that gets to test out the new legs and stuff and “Will the Olympics ever let him race the legged?!”
April 28th, 2008 at 11:46 am
When you got ‘em flaut ‘em I guess.
Used to be pretty close friends to a disk-jockey named CJ Steele, a sweet and pretty gal. Her left hand was a prosthetic with an interchangeable end deal. Seriously. The hook for making coeslaw and working with iceberg lettuce. The clamps for turning ribs or chicken. She did have homemade insulator things for working the grill or stove tho, evidently heat radiates slowly, but surely.
It freaked me out the first time I watched her make fried chicken.
April 29th, 2008 at 1:26 am
Now that’s what I call hands-on cooking.
April 29th, 2008 at 4:14 am
Does anyone remember “The Craw” from Get Smart – the Chinese evil mastermind with a claw for a hand?