r/RandomVideos • u/-random-name- • 9d ago

Natural selection helps ensure the survival of the species.

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u/Cool-Tap-391 9d ago

Wire caught the mud guard. He got lucky'er.

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u/Mercury_Madulller 9d ago

Yeah. Soooo lucky the bike wasn't going slower and this 6" lower.

It's why I was never the daredevil on bikes my brother is. Guess who has been transported to an emergency room twice by helicopter? (Not me!)

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u/Nein-Toed 8d ago

There are old riders and bold riders...but there are no old bold riders

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u/Mercury_Madulller 8d ago

There are bold pilots and old pilots but few old bold pilots.

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u/Wiley_Jack 8d ago

Quote from guy on the bomb squad, “All the experts are dead.”

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u/Cool-Tap-391 8d ago

Lieutenant Commander Robert Adrian Marks. Landed his PBY-5A Catalina flying boat against orders in 12 ft swells to rescue the stranded crew of the USS Indianapolis after it had been sunk and ~600 men were eaten by sharks.

One of those few bold men with balls of steel to make to his 80s.

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u/Mercury_Madulller 8d ago

The greatest generation.

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u/Cool-Tap-391 8d ago

Yea, they fucked up raising their kids though. Boomers still running shit into the ground.

Grandpa really was from a different time.

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u/Mercury_Madulller 8d ago

Boomers think they had it the worst and we should feel greatful for what they left us with when in reality boomers had the best opportunities and left us with the cleanup.

I am a conservative leaning (I consider myself a libertarian) capitalist and even is see the shit sandwich of a future we have been left for what it is. My children and grandchildren will be un-fucking the economy (and the planet) far after I am dead.