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This picture cracked me up so I thought I'd share.

Excellent, thanks for sharing.

WHAT are those men doing? It looks like they jumped pig... and plan to parachute... maybe?

Yeah, that needs an explantion, Pi!

According to the caption, they're part of the "Flugtan" air festival in Moscow.
"Teams brave creative assemble their flying objects, and show what they can."

Hahha! The expression on the pig's face makes it for me.

Well that caption was most helpful.

(What????)

You see, that picture reminds me of why I don't do drugs anymore. Say I was walking down the Moscow streets, pleasantly high, and suddenly

AHH AHH AHH AHH

The expression is definitely the best part. It suggests to me that the end of the phrase "It'll happen when pigs fly" should actually be "which the pigs hope will be a trait developed AFTER they develop landing gear."

And ps that particular pig shows a blatant disregard for all laws of physics. How could he expect it to end any other way?

RandomAnthony wrote: "You see, that picture reminds me of why I don't do drugs anymore. Say I was walking down the Moscow streets, pleasantly high, and suddenly

AHH AHH AHH AHH"

::chuckles::

Hey, is there still one guy in the pig? I just noticed that! I'm still confused about what they are doing. Are there parachutes that have yet to be deployed?

I'm guessing that they're all falling into a lake or other body of water.
Love the pig's expression!

OK, that makes sense! They just seemed really low to the ground to be parachuting.

Red Bull Flugtag In Russia August 9th, 2009


RED BULL FLUGTAG in Moscow August 9th, 2009, the last day of filing the application for participation - 15 April 2009.
Red Bull Flugtag - a special day of the year, when a fly on the shoulder and feel the guy. Specially built over the water area the water trampolines, 6 meters in height, the signal «HOME», whistling wind, the speed ... Take off! Teams brave creative assemble their flying objects, and show what they can. Track an object in motion will be invoked only manual force without any motor, engine, petrol.

In early August in Moscow on a flight that is done and it will be appreciated by the audience and jury on three parameters: wing span, the originality of the device and the flight itself: its peculiarity, its quality and range.



http://www.oddrussia.com/2009/03/red-...

OK, this is all making sense to me now. That's like a google translation of the Russian article, huh? That's hilarious!

Hey, the website IS "oddrussia.com"... :)

Here's the link to the Russian site:

http://www.redbullflugtag.ru/#1224770...

I copied this text:

Red Bull Flugtag – особый день в году, когда любому по плечу взлететь и ощутить парение.

Специально возведенный над водной акваторией трамплин, 6 метров высоты, сигнал «на старт», свист ветра, скорость… Взлёт!

Команды смельчаков придумают и соберут свои летательные объекты и покажут, на что они способны. Летательный объект в движение будет приводиться только ручной силой, без всякого мотора, двигателя, бензина.

В начале августа в Москве полет такой свершится и будет он оценен зрителями и жюри по трем параметрам: размах крыла, оригинальность аппарата и сам полет: его особенность, своеобразность, качество и дальность.


And google translated it and got this:

"Red Bull Flugtag - a special day of the year, when a fly on the shoulder and feel the guy.

Specially built over the water area the water trampolines, 6 meters in height, the signal «HOME», whistling wind, the speed of take-off ...!

Teams brave creative assemble their flying objects, and show what they can. Track an object in motion will be invoked only manual force without any motor, engine, petrol.

In early August in Moscow on a flight that is done and it will be appreciated by the audience and jury on three parameters: wing span, the originality of the device and the flight itself: its peculiarity, its quality and range."

oddrussia.com should hire me!

And you know what? Doesn't Red Bull do these same events here? I think I remember seeing something about it...

I love the internet for immediate translation gratification.

Yes, the Flugtag events are here, too. If you look up flugtag on Google, the first result is for Red Bull Flugtag USA:

http://www.redbullflugtagusa.com/

Omg, I thought surely that "flugtag" was some untranslatable Russian word! Wtf?

Hmmm, actually it's German for "flying day." OK. Thanks, Red Bull.

Well, it's fine and dandy that my entertainment was sponsored by Red Bull. I still won't drink it. If coffee makes me jittery? On Redbull my nervous system would be standing next to my skin, standing next to my skeleton, standing next to my circulatory system, and we'd all be recreating Hands Across America, while tapdancing like six year olds who have to pee.

I've never tried Red Bull. Or Jolt cola. Or anything hypercaffeinated. Now that I'm not a college student, I really don't need artificial help to stay up all night studying. Even in college, I only resorted to No-Doz once, and I'm not sure if it helped, or just made me jittery.

The occasional mocha is strong enough for me, thanks.

Red Bull gives you energy, but there is a crash when it wears off.

That was a brilliant description, Sarah!

And that's interesting, Bunny. Isn't caffeine usually prescribed for headaches?

Once I chopped up NoDoze and snorted it. NOT recommended.

Mindy! Don't do that!

I thought caffeine restricted the bloodflow? (Which is why the ladies at the plasma donation center always told me not to drink any on the days I was donating.)

Sally, I don't anymore.

:)

Wow! That's actually pretty cool! Yeah, I can imagine there would be some sort of survival response that would produce that effect.

Or is it the blood that pumps out of the heart vs the blood that is going in? Do they have different types of tubes pipes veins/arteries?


Oh.

I don't know, but I think when they're taking plasma, they're using the outgoing veins. (Veins?)

Who is talking plasma?

The one time I used No-Doz to drive a borrowed car from Idaho Falls to Rexburg, cause the guy driving us to Utah got put in jail (don't ask... really bizarre night), I ended up in the emergency room because it messed me up so badly. I can drink coffee all day long and not get that wired. But one little pill and I'm in ICU.

Nope. No-Doz is ebil.

Eeeebil, I tell you, eeeebil!!! (I rather like saying it with the "b"!)

Sally, it was taking not talking plasma.

Everybody's got fudgy fingers this evening!

:)

Lick them then.