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Re: MIT Engineers
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 10:26 am
by AlabamAlum
Okay, $175.....
Re: MIT Engineers
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 7:00 pm
by eCat
Re: MIT Engineers
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 1:22 pm
by crashcourse
the amazing thing is how that guys doesnt even flinch. Id be screaming like a little bitch
Re: MIT Engineers
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 1:40 pm
by eCat
what I'm trying to grasp with that picture is what role the car plays in it. notice the monks are keeping the crowd at bay behind the car
Re: MIT Engineers
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 3:26 pm
by Jungle Rat
It's a sacrifice
Re: MIT Engineers
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 4:36 pm
by Owlman
If I remember it, the monk set himself on fire as a protest (I think against Chinese rule, but I'm not sure about the reason)
Re: MIT Engineers
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 4:38 pm
by innocentbystander
Owlman wrote:If I remember it, the monk set himself on fire as a protest (I think against Chinese rule, but I'm not sure about the reason)
I believe you are correct (a Tibetan priest.)
Re: MIT Engineers
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 4:55 pm
by Jungle Rat
That's what I fucking said.
Re: MIT Engineers
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 4:59 pm
by innocentbystander
Jungle Rat wrote:That's what I fucking said.
And you were right.
Re: MIT Engineers
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 5:41 pm
by DooKSucks
I thought that was Saigan circa '64 or '65, and the priest was protesting the South Vietnamese government...
Re: MIT Engineers
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 7:54 pm
by AlabamAlum
His name was Quang Duc. And it was Saigon. DS is correct.
Re: MIT Engineers
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 7:55 pm
by AlabamAlum
Re: MIT Engineers
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 8:00 pm
by AlabamAlum
Apparently, the URL button doesn't work.
Re: MIT Engineers
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 9:28 pm
by eCat
he's not the only one that has set himself on fire. I know one has in protest to chinese rule
that's kind of their thing
Re: MIT Engineers
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 10:07 pm
by AlabamAlum
True, but that's a pic of Quang Duc.
Re: MIT Engineers
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2014 8:16 am
by BigRedMan
His name was changed to Roasted Duc after that picture...........
No please, don't get up. I'll show myself out.
Re: MIT Engineers
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2014 8:36 am
by hedge
No one believes that you would voluntarily show yourself out if there was roasted duck (or Duc) in the room...
Re: MIT Engineers
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2014 9:29 am
by crashcourse
seems to be a hot topic
anyhoo lots of those buddhist dudes did that --his was the mos famous
did you see that dude on the left side with a coathanger and marshmellow?
Re: MIT Engineers
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2014 10:16 am
by hedge
"They spent the afternoon drinking in a lazarous bodega run by a Mexican. Some soldiers came in. An altercation took place. Toadvine was on his feet, swaying. A peacemaker rose from among the soldiers and soon the principals were seated again. But minutes later Brown on his way back from the bar poured a pitcher of aguardiente over a young soldier and set him afire with his cigar. The man ran outside mute save for the whoosh of the flames and the flames were pale blue and then invisible in the sunlight and he fought them in the street like a man beset with bees or madness and then he fell over in the road and burned up. By the time they got to him with a bucket of water he had blackened and shriveled in the mud like an enormous spider."
Re: MIT Engineers
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2014 10:41 am
by hedge
Discovered a cool factoid recently. If you take 2 pairs of polarized sunglasses and hold them up to light (or the sun) facing each other, and then twist one pair at a 90 degree angle, it goes dark. Something about the way they infuse the lens with vertical strips of fiber...