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The top 100 reasons it's great to be a guy
The top 100 reasons it's great to be a guy
- Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.
- Movie nudity is virtually always female.
- You know stuff about tanks.
- A five day vacation requires only one suitcase.
- Monday Night Football.
- You don't have to monitor your friends sex lives.
- Your bathroom lines are 80% shorter.
- You can open all your own jars.
- Old friends don't give you crap if you've lost or gained weight.
- Dry cleaners and haircutter's don't rob you blind.
- When clicking through the channel, you don't have to stall on every shot of someone crying.
- Your ass is never a factor in a job interview.
- All your orgasms are real.
- A beer gut does not make you invisible to the opposite sex.
- Guys in hockey masks don't attack you.
- You don't have to lug a bag of useful stuff around everywhere you go.
- You understand why Stripes is funny.
- You can go to the bathroom with out a support group.
- Your last name stays put.
- You can leave a hotel bed unmade.
- When your work is criticized, you don't have to panic that everyone secretly hates you.
- You can kill your own food.
- The garage is all yours.
- You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness.
- You see the humor in Terms of Endearment.
- Nobody secretly wonders if you swallow.
- You never have to clean the toilet.
- You can be showered and ready in 10 minutes.
- Sex means never worrying about your reputation.
- Wedding plans take care of themselves.
- If someone forgets to invite you to something, he or she can still be your friend.
- Your underwear is $10 for a three pack.
- The National College Cheerleading Championship
- None of your co-workers have the power to make you cry.
- You don't have to shave below your neck.
- You don't have to curl up next to a hairy ass every nite.
- If you're 34 and single nobody notices.
- You can write your name in the snow.
- You can get into a nontrivial pissing contest.
- Everything on your face stays its original color.
- Chocolate is just another snack.
- You can be president.
- You can quietly enjoy a car ride from the passenger seat.
- Flowers fix everything.
- You never have to worry about other people's feelings.
- You get to think about sex 90% of your waking hours.
- You can wear a white shirt to a water park.
- Three pair of shoes are more than enough.
- You can eat a banana in a hardware store.
- You can say anything and not worry about what people think.
- Foreplay is optional.
- Michael Bolton doesn't live in your universe.
- Nobody stops telling a good dirty joke when you walk into the room.
- You can whip your shirt off on a hot day.
- You don't have to clean your apartment if the meter reader is coming by.
- You never feel compelled to stop a pal from getting laid.
- Car mechanics tell you the truth.
- You don't give a rat's ass if someone notices your new haircut.
- You can watch a game in silence with you buddy for hours without even thinking (He must be mad at me)
- The world is your urinal.
- You never misconstrue innocuous statements to mean your lover is about to leave you.
- You get to jump up and slap stuff.
- Hot wax never comes near your pubic area.
- One mood, all the time.
- You can admire Clint Eastwood without starving yourself to look like him.
- You never have to drive to another gas station because this one's just too skeevy.
- You know at least 20 ways to open a beer bottle.
- You can sit with your knees apart no matter what you are wearing.
- Same work....more pay.
- Gray hair and wrinkles add character.
- You don't have to leave the room to make an emergency crotch adjustment.
- Wedding Dress $2000; Tux rental $100.
- You don't care if someone is talking about you behind your back.
- With 400 million sperm per shot, you could double the earth's population in 15 tries, at least in theory.
- You don't mooch off others' desserts.
- If you retain water, it's in a canteen.
- The remote is yours and yours alone.
- People never glance at your chest when you're talking to them.
- ESPN's sports center.
- You can drop by to see a friend without bringing a little gift.
- Bachelor parties whomp ass over bridal showers.
- You have a normal and healthy relationship with your mother.
- You can buy condoms without the shopkeeper imagining you naked.
- You needn't pretend you're "freshening up" to go to the bathroom.
- If you don't call your buddy when you say you will, he won't tell you friends you've changed.
- Someday you'll be a dirty old man.
- You can rationalize any behavior with the handy phrase "F*#k it!"
- If an other guy shows up at the party in the same outfit, you might become lifelong buddies.
- Princess Di's death was almost just another obituary.
- The occasional well-rendered belch is practically expected.
- You never have to miss a sexual opportunity because you're not in the mood.
- You think the idea of punting a small dog is funny.
- If something mechanical didn't work, you can bash it with a hammer and throw it across the room.
- New shoes don't cut, blister, or mangle your feet.
- Porn movies are designed with your mind in mind.
- You don't have to remember everyone's birthdays and anniversaries.
- Not liking a person does not preclude having great sex with them.
- Your pals can be trusted never to trap you with: "So...notice anything different?"
- Baywatch
- There is always a game on somewhere.
August 12, 2008
August 11, 2008
Top Ten Sports Cars By Annual Fuel Cost
MyRide.com Announces “Top Ten Fuel-Efficient Sports Cars”
Consumers Can Satisfy “Need for Speed” While Being Earth-Friendly and Easy on the Gas Card
IRVINE, Calif. (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) August 11, 2008 -- No longer does style have to be sacrificed for fuel economy. MyRide.com, the new online resource for consumers to research anything automotive, has compiled a list of the “Top 10 Sports Cars by Annual Fuel Cost” with cars that fit every budget. From the Hyundai Tiburon to the Porsche Cayman, this list has something for everyone. Even a Lotus model proves to be better for the environment than many of its counterparts.
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July 30, 2008
Ten Important Steps to Help Ensure Your Safety Following a Hurricane
Ten Important Steps to Help Ensure Your Safety Following a Hurricane, From a Florida Disaster Relief Specialist
Hurricane season is upon us in Florida. Believe it or not, more people are seriously injured and killed on the picture perfect calm days after a hurricane has blown through and people are returning to their homes and lives. Here are 10 important steps to help ensure your safety in those cruicial days following a hurricane.
Miami, FL (PRWEB)
July 30, 2008 -- Hurricanes cause unbelievable destruction in terms of
lost property and lives. However, it's a little known fact that many
more people are seriously injured and killed on the picture perfect
calm days after a hurricane has blown through and people are returning
to their homes and lives. The number one culprit is stepping onto a wet
lawn or puddle that is electrically charged by an unseen down power
line. Following this tragic statistic, is the collapse of roof
structures while examining damage and falling trees.
The Choice for New Roofing
Gulf Atlantic Industries of America, Inc. (GAI) is a state licensed and
insured South Florida general contractor serving Miami to Melbourne and
Miami to Pt. Charlotte. They specialize in disaster relief, new roofs, and hurricane protection products, including hurricane shutters, hurricane storm panels, and impact resistant replacement windows and doors. You may visit them at http://www.remodelsouthflorida.com or call (305) 937-0500.
GAI offer's these 10 important steps to help ensure your safety upon returning to your home, high-rise, or place of business following a hurricane.
Ten Important Steps to Help Ensure Your Safety Following a Hurricane:
1. Have proof of residency in the form of a driver's license accompanied by a property tax document, insurance document, and or piece of mail that shows current address. This will be necessary to re-enter an evacuation zone or heavily damaged area.
2. Be extra careful on what and where you are walking through as well as using your hands to move debris. Look out for power lines, tilting trees, light poles, power poles, sharp objects, and wild life, especially alligators, snakes, and raccoons.
3. Upon arriving at your residence, do not walk right in. Survey the entire exterior structure, especially the roof for lose roof tiles that may slide off on to your head. When entering, remain in the doorway threshold, looking at the ceilings and walls to evaluate the durability of your surroundings.
4. Check your power source, electrical panel box, and smell for gas. If power is out use a flashlight, do not strike a match or a lighter. Feel your walls for wetness especially around receptacles outlets and do not plug in appliances and electronic devises prior to making certain that the prongs are dry.
5. Open up all your Fawcett's for 5-10 minutes to run water. Do not drink or bathe in water until you are given an all clear from the county or your municipality as water may be contaminated.
6. Check your windows and sliding doors to be sure they are securely in place as not to collapse on you and carefully remove any broken glass.
7. For those of you who have solar systems on your roofs, check that they are securely in place so that the simple closing of a door does not trigger the unit to come loose thus sliding off the roof crashing on to you. Same for screen pool and patio enclosures, carefully examine the frame structure.
8. If you are returning to a mid or hi-rise apartment or condominium complex check with the management office as to whether the elevators are safely operating.
9. Be extra careful upon checking the secure placement of your floor to ceiling windows. If lose frames or broken glass is detected, back away and hire a professional to securely board up the openings.
10. Upon opening a sliding door to a balcony terrace, do it carefully and look at the structure. Do not lean on any railings or knee walls. If it appears to be unsafe, close the door and tape of the area with warning signs from the inside.
More About Gulf Atlantic Industries of America, Inc:
Gulf Atlantic Industries of America, Inc. (GAI), a Miami, Florida general contractor,
is proud to announce that they are an authorized participating
contractor in "My Safe Florida Home". This is a State of Florida
administered program designed to assist homeowners to better harden
their homes and protect themselves and their families from treacherous
windstorm damage. To learn more about this program visit
mysafefloridahome.com.
Besides hurricane protection products, see Gulf Atlantic Industries for your screen pool and patio enclosures needs.
June 30, 2008
June 26, 2008
The top 15 Sweatiest Cities in the U.S.
Excuse me while I raise a stink.
Phoenix just won the title as Sweatiest City in the country in an Old Spice deodorant marketing gimmick....I mean contest.
But I protest.
I've called Arizona and Florida home and when it comes to
perspiration, we sweat with the best of 'em. At least in Phoenix the
buckets of water pouring off me when it was 111 evaported.
Drawing courtesy of Purdue University
Here...well...I don't need a swimming pool. I walk around in one. And
in Phoenix I never had to move away from people in grocery stores
because they reeked of BO.
Here. Go to Publix and you'll see. Or smell.....
Meanwhile, here are the top 15. Please discuss. As long as you're slathered in deodorant.
1. Phoenix, AZ
2. Las Vegas, NV
3. Tallahassee, FL
4. Tucson, AZ
5. Memphis, TN
6. Miami, FL
7. Houston, TX
8. Tampa, FL
9. Baton Rouge, LA
10. Fort Myers, FL
11. Huntsville, AL
12. New Orleans, LA
13. Birmingham, AL
14. Jacksonville, FL
15. West Palm Beach, FL
June 23, 2008
Guess Who Has the Most Trusted Brand in America? The Top Ten.
Google is officially the most trusted company in America, Advertising Age reports. The search giant’s rise is all the more incredible because it spends essentially nothing on advertising, and all the sweeter because it’s taking the top spot from rival Microsoft. Oil companies bring up the rear in a new poll, with Halliburton coming in dead last. The top 10:
- Google
- Johnson & Johnson
- Intel Corporation
- General Mills
- Kraft Foods
- Berkshire Hathaway
- 3M Company
- Coca-Cola Company
- Honda Motors
- Microsoft
June 03, 2008
May 28, 2008
5 Weirdest Cars On The Internet
Cars are awesome. Since its invention, tons and tons of upgrades have sprung up, like a means to burn fuel much more efficiently, made them thrice as fast, and made them sexy beasts from their original clunky form.
There are outrageous cars, and OUTRAGEOUS cars. The former being the frivolous luxuries that have been added to the basic car form, and the latter being silly ideas built into car form. What’s more interesting to note is, if you know how to build a car, you can build your own dream car, however silly or funny anyone else thinks it is.
Here are 5 of the funniest/silliest/most outrageous cars I’ve seen on tv and the internet. (Take note, I’m not sure about the legality of these cars — it IS illegal to drive bumper cars or go-karts on the road, I think.)
The “Home” Car – I mean, come on! There are RVs and trailers — why build a house on a poor chassis? I’m pretty sure it’ll have loads of amenities inside to make it feel more like home, right? How would this go about then? Sleep on a bed inside, then wake up to drive elsewhere? Truly a mobile home, a similar car has appeared in the series Arrested Development, when George Sr. tried to get away with the “cabin car.”
The Stilletto – I see some batmobile in there, plus something from Star Wars … in all the wrong colors. Built from a 1960s Corvair, it really jumps far from the source material. If you look at it closely … and imagine it in black … it kinda reminds you of the motorcycle in the new Batman movie. Hmmm…
Judge Dredd Land Rover – Think about it, Land Rovers are pretty much monsters nowadays so what of the fictional future where Judge Dredd resides in? It combines the looks of a tank, an armored car and, well, the tires of a land rover. Made specifically for the movie, one is in display in the Rover Heritage museum in England.
The 2001 Chevrolet Camaro Police Car – It’s notweird or anything, but this sports car is the fastest pursuit car in terms of law enforcement. Plus, it’s only sold to police units. The silly thig is, the car looks above average when compared to normal street cars, but consider what police cars go through — they get shot at.
The Couch Car! – I mean, come on! We have race car beds — but do they actually go anywhere? Think about having your own couch car, with a steering wheel mounted on the desk, stacked with your favorite snacks and beverages — then you literally park in front of the television. That’d be amazing. This car has caught the attention of the local media and has been featured in the Daily News … driving ‘round Times Square.
May 27, 2008
10 Strange facts about the human body you didn't know.
#1 Your Hand Can Have A Mind On Its Own
Remember Devon Sawa’s character in 1999’s ‘Idle Hands’, a comedy / horror movie about a teen whose hand becomes possessed and goes on a killing spree?
Apparently this movie has some truth in it. The ‘idle hand’ which referred to as the ‘Alien Hand Syndrome’ is an unusual neurological disorder in which the sufferer’s hand seems to take on a mind of its own. This is due to the damage in the medial motor frontal region of the brain and often occurs after a brain surgery, a stroke or an infection of the brain.
The sufferer has no control over the movements of the ‘alien hand’ nor will they have any conscience idea on what that hand is doing. The person suffering from this condition can often feel disconnected with their hand, and feel as if it was not part of their body.
When the suffer is unaware the alien hand can sometime act out complex movements like unbuttoning clothing, using tools or even tearing pieces of clothing. There are no know treatments or cure for ‘Alien Hand Syndrome’ however the best solution is to give this alien hand an object it can play with to keep it distracted from doing anything harmful to the sufferer.
#2 You Could Remove A Large Part of Your Internal Organs and Survive
While the human body may appear fragile, your body is stronger than you could possibly imagine. It is possible for you to survive even after the removal of the spleen, the stomach, one kidney, one lung, 75% of the liver, 80% of the intestines, and almost every organ from the pelvic and groin area.
#3 The Strong Contraction of Your Heart Creates Enough Pressure To Squirt Blood As Far As 30 Feet
#4 You Can Still Have An Erection After Death
(sorry couldn’t find a picture)
This is a death erection, which often being referred to as ‘angel lust’. It is a post-mortem erection that occurs when a male individual dies vertically or face-downside and as long as the body remains in this position, the effect will not subside.
How It Could Possibly Happen?
When a man is still alive, the heart pumps blood evenly around the body. When he dies, this mechanism stops and the blood acts by the force of gravity. As with any mass, the blood will settle at the lowest point of the body and cause swelling. So if a man dies vertically, the blood will settle in the legs and collect at the feet.
The pressure will cause the blood vessels and tissues in the feet to swell up to accommodate as much blood as possible. As blood collects, it will fill up to the torso and the blood will attempt to move to a lower position due to gravity, which is the penis (the legs are full by now). The blood causes the penis, consisting of erectile tissue, to fill with blood and expand.
#5 Heart Attacks Are More Likely To Happen On Monday
A 10-year study in Scotland found that 20% of people die of a heart attack on Monday’s compare to any other day of the week. The study suggests that the ‘Monday peak’ could be a result of massive drinking during the weekend and work related stress; you know the ‘Monday blues.’
#6 Three Hundred Million Cells Die In Your Body Every Minute
It does sounds like a lot but this is actually less than 0.0001% of the amount of cells being replaced in your body every day. (about 10-50 trillion cells are being replace in your body every day)
#7 Babies Have More Bones Than You Do
When a baby is born, they have 300 bones in their body. When they reach adulthood they are left with only 206 bones. This is because the smaller bones eventually join together to form stronger single bones.
#8 Your Hair Is Almost Indestructible
Apart from having it burnt, human hair decays at such a slow rate that it is almost impossible to get rid of. Do you remember those documentaries about Egypt, the pyramids and Mummies on Discovery Channel? Well the mummies are left with no flesh, practically nothing but bones and yes… hair. It might look fragile but hair cannot be destroyed by cold, change of climate, water, or other natural forces and it is resistant to many kinds of acids and corrosive chemicals.
#9 You Can Survive Without Food But Not Without Sleep
You need sleep as much as you need food. Many people neglect the importance of having enough sleep without knowing that humans can actually survive longer without food than without sleep. With water alone, an average person could survive a month to two without food (that also varies from an individual’s body fat and other factors).
But a few sleepless nights will cause the person to start experiencing radical personality and psychological changes. The longest recorded time anyone has ever gone without sleep is 264 hours. Randy Gardner at the end of which the experiment did not stumble or hallucinate but scientist has said that any more sleepless nights than that is dangerous.
#10 You Have A Philtrum
The indentation in the middle of the area between the nose and the upper lip is called the philtrum. While scientists are yet to figure out the specific purpose of this indentation serves besides allowing humans to express a much larger range of lip motions, the ancient Greeks thought it to be one of the most arousing places on the body.
May 26, 2008
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April 19, 2008
The Top 10 Coolest Human Abilities
The Incredible Brain (Daniel Tammet)
Daniel Paul Tammet is a British high-functioning autistic savant gifted with a facility for mathematical calculations, sequence memory, and natural language learning. He was born with congenital childhood epilepsy. Experiencing numbers as colors or sensations is a well-documented form of synesthesia, but the detail and specificity of Tammet's mental imagery of numbers is unique. In his mind, he says, each number up to 10,000 has its own unique shape and feel, that he can "see" results of calculations as landscapes, and that he can "sense" whether a number is prime or composite. He has described his visual image of 289 as particularly ugly, 333 as particularly attractive, and pi as beautiful. Tammet not only verbally describes these visions, but also creates artwork, particularly watercolor paintings, such as his painting of Pi.
Tammet holds the European record for memorising and recounting pi to 22,514 digits in just over five hours. He also speaks a variety of languages including English, French, Finnish, German, Spanish, Lithuanian, Romanian, Estonian, Icelandic, Welsh and Esperanto. He particularly likes Estonian, because it is rich in vowels. Tammet is creating a new language called Mänti. Tammet is capable of learning new languages very quickly. To prove this for the Channel Five documentary, Tammet was challenged to learn Icelandic in one week. Seven days later he appeared on Icelandic television conversing in Icelandic, with his Icelandic language instructor saying it was "not human."
The Boy with Sonar Vision (Ben Underwood)
Ben
Underwoodtaught is blind, both of his eyes were removed (cancer) when
he was 3. Yet, he plays basketball, rides on a bicycle, and lives a
quite normal life. He taught himself to use echo location to navigate
around the world. With no guide-dogs, he doesn't even need hands: he
uses sound. Ben makes a short click sound that bounces back from
objects. Amazingly, his ears pick up the ecos to let him know where the
objects are. He's the only person in the world who sees using nothing
but eco location, like a sonar or a dolphin.
The Rubberboy (Daniel Browning Smith)
Five time Guiness Record holder, The Rubberboy
is the most flexible man alive and the most famous contortionist.
He has been in many professional basketball or baseball games and on
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, ESPN's Sports Center, Oprah Winfrey,
Ripley's Believe It or Not, Cirque du Soleil, Best Damn Sports Show
Period, The Discovery Channel, Men in Black 2, HBO's Carnivale, and
CSI: NY and American got a talent.
He dislocates his arms to crawl through an unstrung tennis racquet. He
performs contortion handstands and unique acrobatics.
Mister Eat-it-All (Michel Lotito)
Michel
Lotito (born 1950) is a French entertainer, famous as the consumer of
undigestables, and is known as Monsieur Mangetout (Mister Eat-it-all).
Lotito's performances are the consumption of metal, glass, rubber and
so on in items such as bicycles, televisions, a Cessna 150, and smaller
items which are disassembled, cut-up and swallowed. The aircraft took
roughly two years to be 'eaten' from 1978 to 1980. He began eating
unusual material while a child and has been performing publicly since
1966.
Lotito does not often suffer from ill-effects due to his diet, even
after the consumption of materials usually considered poisonous. When
performing he consumes around a kilogram of material daily, preceding
it with mineral oil and drinking considerable quantities of water
during the 'meal'. He apparently possesses a stomach and intestine with
walls of twice the expected thickness, and his digestive acids are,
allegedly, unusually powerful, allowing him to digest a certain portion
of his metallic meals. Watch the Video at YouTube.
King Tooth (Rathakrishnan Velu)
On August 30, 2007, the eve of Malaysia's 50th Independence Day,
Rathakrishnan Velu (or Raja Gigi, as he is known locally) broke his own
world record for pulling train with his teeth, this time with 6 coaches
attached weighing 297.1 tons over a distance of 2.8 metres at the Old
Kuala Lumpur Railway Station. Raja Gigi, from Tampin in Malaysia
learned a technique of concentrating his powers to any part of his body
from an Indian guru at a young age of 14.
The Magnetic Man (Liew Thow Lin)
Liew
Thow Lin, a 70-year-old retired contractor in Malaysia, recently made
news for pulling a car twenty meters along a level surface by means of
an iron chain hooked to an iron plate on his midriff. He says that he
discovered he had the amazing ability to make objects stick
"magnetically" to his skin, and now he's added car-pulling to his
repertoire. After reading an article about a family in Taiwan who
possessed such power, he says he took several iron objects and put them
on his abdomen, and to his surprise, all the objects including an iron,
stuck on his skin and didn't fall down. Since this "gift'' is also
present in three of his sons and two grandchildren, he figures it's
hereditary.
The Man who doesn't Sleep (Thai Ngoc)
Sixty-four-year-old
Thai Ngoc, known as Hai Ngoc, said he could not sleep at night after
getting a fever in 1973, and has counted infinite numbers of sheep
during more than 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights. "I don't know
whether the insomnia has impacted my health or not. But I'm still
healthy and can farm normally like others," Ngoc said. Proving his
health, the elderly resident of Que Trung commune, Que Son district
said he can carry two 50kg bags of fertilizer down 4km of road to
return home every day. His wife said, "My husband used to sleep well,
but these days, even liquor cannot put him down." She said when Ngoc
went to Da Nang for a medical examination, doctors gave him a clean
bill of health, except a minor decline in liver function. Ngoc
currently lives on his 5ha farm at the foot of a mountain busy with
farming and taking care of pigs and chickens all day. His six children
live at their house in Que Trung. Ngoc often does extra farm work or
guards his farm at night to prevent theft, saying he used three months
of sleepless nights to dig two large ponds to raise fish.
The Torture King (Tim Cridland)
Tim Cridland doesn't seem to feel pain like the rest of people. He
astounded everyone by pushing needles into his arms without flinching
and he now performs a terrifying act for audiences all over America.
Scientific tests have shown that Tim can tolerate much higher levels of
pain than are humanly possible. He explains that, by using mind over
matter, he is able to push skewers through his body and put up with
extreme heat and cold unharmed - but to do this safely he has
extensively studied human anatomy, because puncturing an artery could
be fatal.
The Lion Whisperer (Kevin Richardson)
Animal behaviourist Kevin Richardson says he relies on instinct to win
the hearts and form an intimate bond with the big cats. He can spend
the night curled up with them without the slightest fear of being
attacked. His magic works not only work for lions but other animals
such as cheetahs, leopards and even hyenas do not hold a threat against
him. Lions are his favourites and its a wonder how he can play,
carress, cuddle with them whose teeth are sharp enough to bite through
thick steel. Its a dangerous job but to Kevin, its more of a passion
for him.
The Eye-Popping Man (Claudio Pinto)
Claudio
Pinto can pop both of his eyes 4 cm (about 1 and a half inch) or 95%
out of their sockets. He's now aiming (poppin'?) for a world record.
Mr Pinto has undergone various tests and doctors say they have never
seen or heard of a person who can pop the eyes as much as him. Mr
Pinto, from Belo Horizonte, said: "It is a pretty easy way to make
money. "I can pop my eyes out four centimetres each, it is a gift from
God, I feel blessed."
April 07, 2008
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April 05, 2008
Top 5 most dangerous roads of the world (Amazing Pics)
Top 5 most dangerous roads of the world
#1: “Road of Death” - Bolivia
North Yungas Road is hands-down the most dangerous in the world for motorists. This one clearly endangers your life. It runs in the Bolivian Andes, 70 km from La Paz to Coroico, and plunges down almost 3,600 meters in an orgy of extremely narrow hairpin curves and 800-meter abyss near-misses. A fatal accident happens there every couple of weeks, 100-200 people perish there every year. In 1995 the Inter-American Development Bank named the La Paz-to-Coroico route “the world’s most dangerous road.”
#2: Guoliang Tunnel in Taihang mountains (China)
The wall of the tunnel is uneven and there are more than 30 “windows” of
different sizes and shapes. Some windows are round and some are square,
and they range from dozens of metres long to standard-window-size. It
is frightening to look down from the windows, where strange rocks
hanging form the sheer cliff above and a seemingly bottomless pit lying
below. A village, opposite the tunnel, appears to hang on the precipice.
#3: Most Dangerous Tourist Hiking Trail (China)
(already reported here)
This is a heavy-tourist traffic area in Xian (Mt.Huashan). See details here.
#4: Russian Siberian Road to Yakutsk
The official federal-government highway to Yakutsk, and it is also the only one to get there. This can turn into a major humanitarian disaster during rainy spells, when the usual clay covering of the road turns into impassable mud blanket, swallowing trucks and tractors alike.
Here is an aerial shot of this road in winter:
There are also rumors of a quite normal 30 km stretch of Russian
country road, which gets an unexplained amount of car accidents; the
locals suspect underground gas seepage which causes motorists to fall
asleep... This creepy tale is supported by the evidence of car crash
statistics and the tales of survivors, who do not remember anything
prior to the crash and act strangely "drugged" afterwards. Hopefully
this will be properly investigated before the road claims more victims.
#5: Nepal, Tibet & Bangladesh Roads
A road in Nepal, leading from From Katmandu to Everest Base Camp.
A typical India-Nepal Road. There is also a "death road" in Bangladesh, but we don't have enough information.
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