Ashton Eaton nearly Killed By His Fiance's Javelin throw

You're confusing me. On the one hand, you appear to think highly of Eaton, yet you also indicate he knows nothing about the event, since, apparently, he turned his back to the thrower. Passive aggressive much?

Start A Lottery Contest wrote:

Idiot post. If you knew anything about the event, you'd realize that the first rule is to never turn your back to the throwers. Also, you obviously have never met Ashton Eaton, he'd be the last one to pop someone in the face. I guess we can't say the same about you, who all but admit you'd hit a woman in the face. Low life.

Why is nobody bringing up the fact that she threw the javelin just as far as him!?!? He was picking his up, and hers landed in the same spot!

Literalist wrote:

I think he means \"nearly killed\" because a few inches over and he might have been killed.

I was nearly killed multiple times while driving today. Many cars passed mine at great speed - only missing me by several feet. I\'m thinking of starting a message board thread about my brush with death.

blarg wrote:

Why is nobody bringing up the fact that she threw the javelin just as far as him!?!? He was picking his up, and hers landed in the same spot!

That's because he throws his javelin in feet. She probably throws in meters, which are much farther.

[quote]sprinterds wrote:

If it grazed his cheek/nose then 2 inches and it would have nailed him in the temple which likely would have been 95% fatal.

What's 95% fatal? I thought an event is either fatal or it isn't

Bluto Jones wrote:

[quote]sprinterds wrote:

If it grazed his cheek/nose then 2 inches and it would have nailed him in the temple which likely would have been 95% fatal.

What's 95% fatal? I thought an event is either fatal or it isn't

Yes, it is my understanding that a fatality is an all or nothing kind of thing - except for the 5% of the cases were it isn't.

Pope T-Bag II wrote:

cheeesyyy wrote:

Literally the cheesiest line ever.

When you say "literally," do you actually mean there was cheese - of the dairy based variety - in that line, and that this line contained more of this cheese than any line before it?

I think he's using literally figuratively. I know a lot of self-appointed grammar police have trouble with the abstract reasoning that goes on with that.

Bluto Jones wrote:

[quote]sprinterds wrote:

If it grazed his cheek/nose then 2 inches and it would have nailed him in the temple which likely would have been 95% fatal.

What's 95% fatal? I thought an event is either fatal or it isn't

Zombies are only 95 percent dead. They die to 100 percent but then they get 5 percent back.

Bad Wigins wrote:

Bluto Jones wrote:

[quote]sprinterds wrote:

If it grazed his cheek/nose then 2 inches and it would have nailed him in the temple which likely would have been 95% fatal.

What's 95% fatal? I thought an event is either fatal or it isn't

Zombies are only 95 percent dead. They die to 100 percent but then they get 5 percent back.

That's not true. Zombies are 100% dead and they stay that way. The process of zombie-ification is merely implementing some new involuntary nerve activity, much like how a chicken can run around with it's head cut off.

If those nerves are still working, then they're still alive.

Bad Wigins wrote:

If those nerves are still working, then they're still alive.

Not if there is no brain function.

When someone is brain dead on life support, doctors don't declare them dead until they pull the plug and everything else dies too. Don't argue with doctors about who is dead and who is alive.

Bad Wigins wrote:

When someone is brain dead on life support, doctors don't declare them dead until they pull the plug and everything else dies too. Don't argue with doctors about who is dead and who is alive.

Couldn't they just get a brain transplant and live?

Bad Wigins wrote:That's because he throws his javelin in feet. She probably throws in meters, which are much farther.

This is funny. Well played, good sir.

Justin91 wrote:

Not if there is no brain function.

That would suggest that there are an awful lot of dead people on this forum.

He was probably doing a standing throw

Deadman Running wrote:

Bluto Jones wrote:

[quote]sprinterds wrote:

If it grazed his cheek/nose then 2 inches and it would have nailed him in the temple which likely would have been 95% fatal.

What's 95% fatal? I thought an event is either fatal or it isn't

Yes, it is my understanding that a fatality is an all or nothing kind of thing - except for the 5% of the cases were it isn't.

In which case those of us conversant in English would say there was a 95% chance of an event being fatal. Not "likely would have been 95% fatal".