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I am insanely jealous. Why can’t we have lawnmower racing? We’ll trade you Brits some nice waterskipping (fooling a snowmobile into thinking open water is something it can travel on) http://www.snowtracks.com/snowtalk/ForumID16/446.html
since the Thames will probably start freezing again soon.

Yet more proof that men are inherently attracted to anything that can go VROOM!

I simply need video. Now.

*or*

This is what happens to men when you take away their guns.

(I couldn’t decide)

I shoulda put this in the other ‘direct object’ thread, but it was too far down. Found while looking for pictures of Smarty Jones.

P.S. I love that name — Smarty Jones. *I’d* like to be called that.

Uncle B says these guys are mostly sponsored by local garages, so they’re inveterate engine-tinkerers (note #78 there, careening around the corner on two wheels).

Speaking of B, he’s in London on business for the next few days. He decided not to bring his laptop and risk getting it pinched, so no Skype. I’m kind of going through badger withdrawals.

Which is nuffink compared to what he’ll go through trying to amuse himself of an evening without the internet.

Well, of course there’s video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34zVb73U5Ro

Too many stills and not enough vid in that one (first sequence starts about two minutes in), but there’s more video at the blmra website.

Yeah… but someone was fool enough to leave a laptop lying around, connected, so the Badger’s still about, keeping a beady eye on everyone.

Might have known our Leader would have done something tricksy behind my back!

Wonder if there’s a stall selling worm pies in this place… ?

Snf, snf. Anybody smell ass?

Oh, hi Uncle B!

dot koh dot yookey, dot koh dot yookey

I have drilled in my head from watching Red Eye.

felix:

Cryptorchids are a real problem for horse breeders. They’re typically sterile because the body heat inside the abdomen kills the sperm. Unfortunately, it has no effect on the testosterone. Surgery under general anesthesia is required to remove the offending direct objects. BTW: stallion-like behavior in a gelded horse is sometimes due to the fact that the “squealer button” (vas deferens) was not removed along with the direct objects; a horse incompletely gelded thus is referred to as “proud cut.”

Incidentally, I’d never heard a cryptorchid referred to as a rig. Ya learn sumthin Brit every day.

Another interesting term (to me, anyway) is “freemartin.” This refers to a female cow that is sterile because it was born with a male twin, and hormones from the male in utero sterilized the female. Besides being sterile, a freemartin often exhibits masculine behavior, i.e., mounting other females, driving sporty convertibles, never asking for directions, etc.

First, Morris dancing, then buggery, now lawnmower racing. Would anyone care to take a bet? The Brits probably have some sort of Lawnmower Museum.

I can’t believe this sort of dangerous, Gaia raping activity is still permitted by the EU. Nice going, Weaz, you just put everyone in that photo in jeopardy. The Eurocrats are inbound from Brussels as we speak (type – whatever). Why don’t you go to China and photograph a non state sanctioned Catholic mass?

And we do have lawnmower races in the US. Dave Barry has written several columns on the topic. In fact, there is a US built jet powered lawn mower. So suck on that, limeys!

I do believe I’ve struck internet gold. While pondering the existence of Lawnmower Museums in England (yes they have one) I remembered a lawnmower my dad bought when we lived in England. The “Flymo” hover mower, it’s inventor saw the hovercraft in the early 60’s and said “hmm…”

So I looked around, and here it is, the British Lawnmower Museum AND the Flymo.

http://www.lawnmowerworld.com/prod08.htm

Warning: the home page of lawnmowerworld has a soundtrack. (I hate it when they do that; no pity for cubiclemonkeys).

I object more to the inevitably cheezy music selections. And even if the selection is appropriate, somebody needs to tell people that synthesized instruments do fucking NOT sound like the actual instruments.

I rest my case.

What is wrong with those people? There are only two suitable soundtracks to British videos: The Liberty Bell March, and Yakety Sax.

Don’t get me started on sites that inflict their musical tastes on me – and don’t provide an off-switch. I firmly avoid them. If I run into a site with music and I can’t find the mute switch right away, I go away and don’t come back.

Oh! Ummmm…although…it really should be said. That’s an excellent lawnmower site.

Soundtrack or no.

Yeah, I think I once saw a King of the Hill episode about lawnmower racing. So they do it in Texas at least, which, the last time I checked was still one of the 57 states, Reconquista notwithstanding.

We used to have a Flymo too. Basically all that was was a petrol motor which span a blade which was covered by what was essentially an inverted, tea-tray-like, shallow dome. Highly, highly dangerous. But as we all know, danger is a rough analogue of fun, so it was all good.