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MythBusters Destroy Dublin [US]

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  • #52
    sensibleken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    Haelium wrote: »
    By far one of the best shows on TV. What do you suggest they replace it with?

    Aliens!


  • #53
    Benny_Cake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭Benny_Cake


    Haelium wrote: »
    By far one of the best shows on TV. What do you suggest they replace it with?

    Shark versus Anaconda, When Good Sharks Go Bad, every other programme on the Discovery network seems to involve sharks.

    Mythbusters is good though, hopefully they show this episode.


  • #54
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,336 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Having been in Dublin, California all I can say is there's not a whole lot worth destroying there anyway.


  • #55
    The Snipe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,484 ✭✭✭The Snipe


    Its not the first time:

    http://boingboing.net/2009/03/26/mytbusters-accidenta.html

    From 2009:
    Our pals at Mythbusters made a big bang in the the small town of Esparto, California. Their aim was to "knock the socks off" a mannequin with an explosion of ammonium nitrate. The boom blew out some residents' windows that Mythbusters replaced. One woman whose glass was shattered was delighted by the surprise. Others, not so much. From KCRA.com:

    "Course all the neighbors ran out into the street. We didn't know what was going on," said Paul Williams, who heard the explosion...

    Williams said the school and others in town should have been notified the blast was going to happen.

    Chief Barry Burns, of Esparto Fire Department, had several firefighters on hand for the explosion. He said he made the decision not to notify anyone in town for safety sake.

    "Mythbusters is supposed to be a really popular show. Everybody would have been out there. We would have had to cancel it because it would have been too dangerous," Burns said.


  • #56
    Chuck Stone
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    Wow!


  • #57
    iano.p
    Closed Accounts Posts: 817 ✭✭✭iano.p


    great show hope they air it now


  • #58
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,464 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    sensibleken wrote: »
    PC brigade? what do you think political correctness means? what you are thiking of is health and safety.

    This is California, a State which has banned a series of weapons by method of the legislators going through a picture book of guns and saying "that one looks bad, we'll ban that one, that one's not scary, we'll let people have it..."

    I am sure that the local PC brigade will be involved in this too. Weapons are evil, mmmkay?

    NTM


  • #59
    cocalolaman
    Registered Users Posts: 547 ✭✭✭cocalolaman


    Irish Guitarist wrote: »
    It's a load of rubbish that paved the way for other rubbish like Destroyed In Seconds and that other pile of crap where they saw things in half with a chainsaw.

    Programmes that are on a channel called 'Discovery' should actually teach you something rather than being about blowing things up just for the sake of it.

    These types of programmes are ruining the documentary channels.

    So basically..no fun allowed.


  • #60
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    cocalolaman wrote: »
    So basically..no fun allowed.
    Fun should be allowed but it is just a silly show. These guys are sceptics and love science but make a mockery of science with some of the nonsense they get up to.


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  • #61
    sensibleken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    Manic Moran wrote: »
    This is California, a State which has banned a series of weapons by method of the legislators going through a picture book of guns and saying "that one looks bad, we'll ban that one, that one's not scary, we'll let people have it..."

    I am sure that the local PC brigade will be involved in this too. Weapons are evil, mmmkay?

    NTM

    thats not what PC means, unless guns have been declared an ethnicity or gender


  • #62
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    there have been times when watching I have though, Im slightly surprised health and safety let them do that, it was always gonna happen at some stage though

    still doesnt take away from tory trying to bunny hop over a low trailer and faceplanting! :o:D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZu25-W1qdg


  • #63
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,464 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    sensibleken wrote: »
    thats not what PC means, unless guns have been declared an ethnicity or gender

    In such contexts, PC is any movement which attempts to be as inoffensive to as many people as possible, to include at obvious levels, body mass, religions, flags, and christmas holidays, to start with.

    It's far beyond just ethnicity and gender.


  • #64
    sensibleken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    Manic Moran wrote: »
    In such contexts, PC is any movement which attempts to be as inoffensive to as many people as possible, to include at obvious levels, body mass, religions, flags, and christmas holidays, to start with.

    It's far beyond just ethnicity and gender.

    im pretty sure firearms dont come into that


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