Orgami morotcycles...

Just been slashdotted, so I'm not sure how long it will be up for ( though
I'm assuming yamaha can take the pressure).

Anyway, downloadable origami motorcycles are availiable from yamaha:

Original slashdot story:

http://slashdot.org/articles/03/12/19/0221223.shtml?tid=126&tid=159&tid=186&tid=95

Link to yamaha origami:

http://www.yamaha-motor.co.jp/eng/papercraft/

 

And here's one I made earlier :
http://www.autoin.it/ducati monster dark/immagini/r1.jpg

Note the use of liquorice for that realistic tyre look

 

Don't worry, that's a ginge by several months.

 

ITYM 'years'.

 

Possibly the Gingiest Ginge since Gingy the Gingerbread Man got *Ginged* on
a Ginger Bun.

http://tinyurl.com/2v3uu

4 years FFS, can't people use Google?

 

Rubs chin thoughtfully. So anyone who started mooching around here less than
4 years ago might well have never seen the original post and would have to
find it by (for some reason) deciding to search through google for origami
motorcyles?

 

flashgorman wrote:
[snip]

http://tinyurl.com/2q76n

HTH In May Nick thought that it "May be a Ginge".

 

Yebbut *if* it had been posted only once, four years ago, would the OP have
still taken a battering?

 

flashgorman wrote:
[snip]

Probably; what do you think this is, a sewing circle? People get flamed for
no reason here, it's just the way it works.

 

Yes. The group has been around since around 1995. There's a fair bit
of posting been done. There's an archive on the net that's easy and
quick to search.

Therefore, it's not unreasonable to ask that if you think you've got
something hilarious to share you might take a minute to have a quick
google for it.

Therefore, the OP is still an unfunny wannabe, and someone should go and
ginge slashdot.

 

"nuke".

 

But supposing you do google for it and find it was posted once in 1995. It
would only be a ginge to people who (a) are still posting after eight years
and (b) can remember that far back [1]. To quite a lot of people it would
not be a ginge.


[1] ie not Champ.

 

Why do people give so much of a **** about this? I've been hanging
around here for some years and it's rare that I waste time following
links in the first place, 'specially if it's a "funny" post.

Or maybe people could just give up giving a ****? More bandwidth gets
wasted on whining than these links.

Well, I wouldn't disagree with this bit but it doesn't really need to be
said.

Is it just me, or do the 'ginge enforcers' all seem to be relatively
recent posters?

 

/me thinks mmmm now who do we *know* has an R1?

 

Heh. My memory for stuff that happened 8 years ago is probably better
than for last weeks events

 

self-validation

 

The R1s on that site have a little more substance.

 

You theory isn't borne out by the amount of ginge-ing that goes on round
here. Nice try though.

 

I'm not whining in this instance, I was explaining why people bother
doing it. I, like you, rarely visit such links. I don't really give a
stuff about bandwidth, it's the time it takes to wade through the
threads that I'd like to see go down. If ginge-ing helps to keep posted
material new then I'm for it, but I won't loose sleep over it.