Sentences with phrase «like road kill»

No real surfer with any brains would paddle in front of a surfer up and riding when one's self is paddling out, simply because I'd rather be rolled by just the wave and not being run down like a road kill by a possible, out of control surf school graduate.

Karaoke is very popular at certain bars, like the Road Kill Bar, on specific nights.

You can stay seated for hours and not feel like road kill.

When town officials saw that a state budget proposal would give their counterparts in cities, villages and counties more money for roads, they felt like road kill.

Not exact matches

Autonomous vehicles — like the self - driving cars that are already being road tested — could kill or at least dramatically alter between 2.2 and 3.1 million full - time and part - time U.S. jobs, the CEA has estimated.

Wake up America why we are letting Peter King and people like him to waste time and money on non issues they should be working to solve the real problems facing this country JOBS LOSSES, OUT SOURCEING, BUDGET DEFICIET, BANKS, INSURANCE COMPANIES, UN JUST FOREIGN POLICY, SOCIAL SECURITY, LABOUR UNION PROBLEMS, JOB SECURITY for those who have any jobs left, bringing our troops home from UNJUST and ILLEGAL WARS, KILLING OF INNOCENT PEOPLE, OIL COMPANIES making billions of unjust Profit and paying millions to their CEO's, INFRA STRUCTURES ROADS and BRIDGES and so many other Real issues that they have been elected to solve.

People who follow religion think we would be immoral without it... Do you honestly think a thought like» Oh well Today I'm going to go down the road and kill Fred because it looks like his life is pretty crappy, I'd be doing him a favor» would exist without religion?

«It «s sort of like a state trooper telling you to stop making an illegal right turn with no traffic while there are drunken drivers killing innocents on the other road, «Denning said.

She may have angered her upstate bretheren, but she is positioned just where she wants to be, like a vulture sitting on a line waiting for road kill.

As more Latinos move to Texas, Arizona, Florida, Nevada and similar states, the entire electoral math may shift, particularly if Republicans keep doing things like killing the DREAM Act — seats that are comfortably Republican after this year's round of redistricting may be much more competitive a few years down the road.

Even in protected areas like the Mojave National Preserve, several tortoises are killed on roads each year.

Not so, according to a new study, which shows that, like murderous ghouls, road kill cane toads can haunt the wilderness long after death.

The area is ringed by paved roads, which reindeer don't like to cross, but if any do, the rangers have orders to track down and kill them.

No one ever assumes you feel like tow truck road kill when you've got bright lipstick on!

Okay, there's one very specific thing that I like about the new trailer for Open Road's Machete Kills, in theaters October...

In comparison to recent films based on the life and work of the Beats, like Howl and On the Road, Kill Your Darlings is presented less abstractedly, with Krokidas choosing a highly stylized aesthetic while employing the bold juxtaposition of the period setting and a contemporary soundtrack featuring the likes of TV on the Radio.

An intentionally stupid movie made strictly for those who like stupid movies, The Chase is cinematic road kill.

Parzival's first challenge is a road race in which participants have to dodge various lethal obstacles including rampaging T. Rexes and a Kong - like ape, while contestants killed in mid-race explode in showers of gold coins.

Tom Hardy — «Mad Max: Fury Road,» «Inception» Kevin Hart — «The Wedding Ringer,» «Ride Along» Felicity Jones — «The Theory of Everything,» «Like Crazy» Stephen Lang — «Avatar,» «The Men Who Stare at Goats» Jodi Long — «A Picture of You,» «Beginners» John Carroll Lynch — «Shutter Island,» «Zodiac» Gugu Mbatha - Raw — «Beyond the Lights,» «Belle» Denis O'Hare — «Milk,» «Michael Clayton» Michael O'Neill — «Dallas Buyers Club,» «Transformers» David Oyelowo — «Selma,» «A Most Violent Year» Dev Patel — «The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,» «Slumdog Millionaire» Rosamund Pike — «Gone Girl,» «Pride & Prejudice» Chris Pine — «Into the Woods,» «Star Trek» Daniel Radcliffe — «Kill Your Darlings,» «Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2» Eddie Redmayne — «The Theory of Everything,» «Les Misérables» Jason Segel — «The Five - Year Engagement,» «The Muppets» J.K. Simmons — «Whiplash,» «Juno» Sonny Skyhawk — «Geronimo: An American Legend,» «Young Guns II» Song Kang - ho — «Snowpiercer,» «The Host» Emma Stone — «Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),» «The Help»

I have a 2006 fully loaded VW Touareg with 110,000 miles it's a 4.2 V8 4 cam and has been serviced r put on the Dealer cumputer every 10k and I Change my on oil I run Mobil one super syn hi mileage now the 15 k oil but I used the 10 k till 70 k but I changed it when the temp changed we have 105 summers and it's humid as hell in ne bama but I d change oil and filter every 6 months r 7 k miles and new canister filter I like the k & n but use pureoillater LOL gold and had set of 255 55 18s last 70k miles but rotated and had balenced every 3 k and run nitrogen in them just put second set on it and had to put new sealed battery under seat heat killed mine that's been my biggest two probs the Mich tires I put on were 1700 $ but worth it and bat 279 but if you service your car change trans fluid and filter every 50 k and at 70 changed diff frnt and back now I looking how to put my radio code in tomorrow I have xm sat and 11 speaker 12 +1 CD player and I went with e3 plugs last time change every 35 k and my mpg with borla cat backs k & n cold air and the e 3 plugs and 10 mm wires is 25 hwy but you stand in it she ll drink baby but it is the safest nicest car / SUV made bring your Cheyenne on ur BMW x3 r Merc I ll tear you a new one in side LOL make them look like a honda compared and looked wat better mines light green pearl with big wide 18s and I ll drag your jacked up Chevy around I have one with 450 hp and 35s z71 o8 and I ll raise up the VW and it will drag u don tha road and rides like a 550 Merc I rode in a 4 door and fast as hell mine runs 12.9 107 1/4 mile and I think it will run the same at 300k best car anyone that every sat in it has said but I take car of a 50k ride it has to last and I have a friend with VW cumputer and I know cars but can't put the radio code in well can now read how a min ago, mines never poped a trouble code knock on wood and I m almost 110 k take care of your Cars and say good things if you can't afford to maintain one don't buy it hell most 20 year olds can't change oil and run castrol gtx LOL was great 20 years ago Mobil one!!!! VW Touarg lover baby get some!!!

Mind you, at no point did I feel like the Coupe was trying to kill me or chuck itself off of the mountain — the suspension setup and steering were so responsive that keeping things in line quickly became second nature — but I did get the message that driving the JCW near its limits on public roads is a high - risk, high - reward endeavor.

With the center differential in «Snow» mode and all traction aids killed, it was like old times with our long - term MR.. A few late night trips to some back roads provided plenty of entertainment and were the perfect venue to perform Scandinavian flicks and drifts.

It is also important to keep your yard such that there isn't food available, such as fruit falling from trees, rotting food compost piles which can be scavanged, open garbage containers, road kill out in the street, use animal proof garbage cans like the parks use, and so forth.

In the beginning it felt like they were out to kill us in one foul swoop... cars, dogs, scooters, chickens, trucks, buses and bikes all sharing the one lane road coming at us in every direction.

Like all RPGs you earn xp through quests, kills, exploration, etc (standard stuff) but the setting of the game (which is important for this awesomeness) is that you and your friends are on a road trip, so you have to camp under the stars or find a place to stay the night.

You spend these games wandering between various roads, villages, towns and castles, killing anybody, working for anybody, failing, ignoring or abandoning any mission, betraying anyone you like, and the game never stops you or tells you what to do.

You're like vultures picking at road kill then spitting it out when it don't taste like prime rib.

Like oil and insurance and licences and parking and taxes to pay for the roads and highways and hospitals to deal with the 32,000 people killed and 2,300,000 injured in cars in the USA each year.

Trying to prevent incidents like this from happening again is one of the reasons why Brake launched its Roads to Justice campaign, which calls for tougher charges and penalties that reflect the suffering caused; investment in road - traffic policing; and for Government - funded support for road crash victims whose loved ones have been violently killed or have suffered life - changing injuries.

While organizations like Bike Florida are working hard to protect Florida bicyclists through statewide Share the Road campaigns, change is not coming soon enough for the thousands of cyclists injured or killed in bicycle accidents each year.

If a New Mexico truck accident like this had occurred at a different time or on a busier road and caused an explosion, innocent people could easily be injured or killed by the immediate accident and fire, or a separate crash that could result.

«We went on the road being like, «We're just going to play shows and have fun and hopefully nobody kills each other.»

Even though some say the Nexus line of devices is approaching the end of the road, Google has recently confirmed that it doesn't plan to kill the family of devices which it uses to highlight its vision of what Android should look and feel like on smartphones and tablets.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.