Hazelle Posted July 7, 2006 Report Share Posted July 7, 2006 Awesome pictures of S-61 helo crash in Scotland. Link Go to post #2197 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Coaster Posted July 8, 2006 Report Share Posted July 8, 2006 What exactly do you find so awesome about a wrecked machine and possibly injured crew? I hate jack-asses who find this kind of thing amusing. Grow up. <_> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eJay Posted July 8, 2006 Report Share Posted July 8, 2006 There's nothing "awesome" about a helo crash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flingwing206 Posted July 9, 2006 Report Share Posted July 9, 2006 Actually, if you look at the pix and the story, it came out well indeed - no one hurt after a catastrophic inflight structural failure. Given that "awesome" has a meaning closer to "impressive" than "great", it's fairly accurate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hazelle Posted July 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2006 flingwing206 That's exactly what I meant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hazelle Posted July 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2006 West Coaster It says at the very beginning of the pictures that nobody got hurt.When I look at them I still think it's awesome that everyone walked away unhurt from that helo.Maybe I'm more easily impressed than you, but I thought people would be interested so I posted the link. If you're interested, there's a discussion about the incident with comments by RAF pilots here >> Link H. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delorean Posted July 9, 2006 Report Share Posted July 9, 2006 awe·some ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ôsm)adj. Inspiring awe: an awesome thunderstorm. Expressing awe: stood in awesome silence before the ancient ruins. awe ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ô)n. A mixed emotion of reverence, respect, dread, and wonder inspired by authority, genius, great beauty, sublimity, or might: We felt awe when contemplating the works of Bach. The observers were in awe of the destructive power of the new weapon Same word I would have used....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Coaster Posted July 9, 2006 Report Share Posted July 9, 2006 My appologies Hazelle. I jumped to the wrong conclusion from the get-go and never even read the story, just saw the photos. And the fact that everyone did in fact walk away from that is as you said, awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gomer Pylot Posted July 9, 2006 Report Share Posted July 9, 2006 Awesome is now the most over-used word in American English. It has come to mean very little because of this. Well, perhaps not THE most over-used. That distinction probably belongs to 'like', as in "like, awsome, dude! I was like......" Gag me with a spoon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eJay Posted July 9, 2006 Report Share Posted July 9, 2006 Hazelle... Sorry! I stand corrected. "Awe"-some doesn't necessarily mean cool. I should not have jumped to conclusions. My bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EAGLE1 Posted July 9, 2006 Report Share Posted July 9, 2006 Maybe "spectacular" would have been a better choice of words. Glad everyone walked away! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilJ Posted July 9, 2006 Report Share Posted July 9, 2006 Gag me with a spoon. Zappa fan Gomer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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