This year Lamborghini released one of the world’s most expensive cars ever, the Veneno at $3.9 million. Only 3 were produced, so this is just a collector’s item for those with more money than they can count. (They’d better not wreck it, since there would be no spare parts to find!)
As you might expect with it being a Lamborghini, it looks fast and exotic, although even more so than normal. This one reminds me of a Batmobile, in some of its stylings. Obviously it’s not, but it would take someone like Bruce Wayne to be able to afford it.
That’s awesome already, but it would be even cooler if it shot fire out the back like the Batmobile.
There’s more awesome pictures at the link above.
Also as expected with a Lamborghini, it’s faster than most people could safely handle. It accelerates from 0 to 60 in 2.8 seconds, with a top speed around 220 MPH. (The article didn’t mention it’s MPG…) 🙂
I also heard that a Lamborghini SUV will be going on sale in 2017, for an estimated $200,000. The specs aren’t released yet, but some suspect it will have around 650 horsepower. (My wife wants a new SUV… hmm… but our car budget will need a considerable increase in the next 4 years…)
I just heard about a 105-year-old woman in Texas who says her secret is that she eats bacon every day. I don’t know if that will stand up to medical scrutiny, but it’s worth something.
The article reveals her bacon “secret”, which should be enough for the whole article. But then it talks about her birthday party, which featured over 200 guests, which is okay, I guess. But then it goes into explaining why bacon has gotten a bad rap lately. It’s somewhat ironic, given the subject of the article. Apparently some research study linked processed meat to a premature death. But check out their results — they claim that eating less than 20g per day (which is 0.7 ounces) could prevent an estimated 3% of premature deaths each year. So if you eat only a bite or two of meat per day, you have a 3% chance of living longer. For people who follow that advice, I wonder what the odds are on premature death due to not enjoying life as much… (To each their own, but that advice wouldn’t work for me.)
The article then references another study saying that even a single serving of processed red meat increased the risk of participants dying by 20%. I may not be a statistician, but I figure the risk of dying is 100%. 🙂 You can eat all the plants you want, but it is appointed for everyone to meet their Maker at some point.
Obviously bacon is somewhat unhealthy — not completely, but in some ways. However, if a single serving of bacon (or any red meat) increases your risk of dying by 20%, and this woman has eaten bacon every day for 105 years so far (which could be up to 38,000 times), what would her risk of dying be? I’d like to see one of those researchers calculate it and go tell her. Maybe she’s like one of those cartoon characters who is invulnerable to the laws of physics because they don’t understand it. 🙂 Either way, whatever she’s doing has worked for her.
This breakfast platter from Tony’s I-75 restaurant in Birch Run, MI, has 1 pound of bacon.
I’m not claiming that all this research is bogus, but I think there’s a LOT more to it than just saying eating meat will kill you early. I’ve known quite a few people — including my grandparents — who ate big country meals all the time (which included lots of butter, gravy, and fried foods), yet lived to be 90+ and still had above-average health. I know that’s a small sample, but when you consider how Americans used to eat versus what we now “know” about nutrition, it’s amazing any of them lived past 25. I’m not saying fattening foods are healthy, but I do wonder if natural / organic fattening foods might be healthier than much of the modern stuff with preservatives and additives and chemicals. I can’t prove it, and I’m not convinced either way yet, but I do think there’s a lot more to nutrition and healthiness than we currently know.
Regardless of whether bacon is good for me or not, I’m now hungry for bacon…
Some readers have requested more funny videos, so I’m bringing you another one. It’s easy enough to find funny videos by searching YouTube, but that usually ends up wasting a lot of time, so I don’t do that too often. This video happens to be a commercial for Liberty Mutual Insurance called Amateur Athletes. Normally I’d prefer to link to a non-commercial video, but this one is actually pretty good. It could also be called athletics gone wrong or epic fails in athletics.
If you’re still unsure about whether or not to spend 30 seconds watching this, here’s what happens: There’s a guy who tries to dunk a basketball but fails in a spectacular way, a guy who tries to do a roundhouse kick but learns he’s no Chuck Norris, and a guy throwing a football that starts a fire in a tailgater’s car. Classic stuff… I bet they had fun making this commercial.
There needs to be more commercials where stuff catches on fire… 🙂
Here’s a video of Beardyman at a supermarket / grocery store, where he starts out as a bored cashier but gets inspired to do some beatboxing along the way. If only the cashiers at Walmart could do this…
He has a number of other videos out, and he performs live, too. If you care to experience more of his “beatology”, here’s a music video of DOLBYMAN featuring Beardyman performing all the parts, which covers several musical genres.
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