Here is a monster pilot forum thread on Concorde that ends up pulling in senior ...

bragr · 2025-01-27T19:40:26 1738006826

>serious temporal hazard

Wow, you're not wrong. "I'll read just a little bit," I said. 2 hours later...

dang · 2025-01-28T19:10:48 1738091448

Discussed way back when (thank you!):

Epic Forum Thread on Concorde (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8277343 - Sept 2014 (49 comments)

We should have another HN thead about this once the Boom boom settles down.

idlewords · 2025-01-29T05:08:52 1738127332

There's also that thread about the Belgian couple who drove across the Congo:

https://forum.expeditionportal.com/threads/democratic-republ...

I call these kinds of forum threads "afternoon destroyers". It would be fun to weaponize them into a whole organized link page.

tptacek · 2025-01-29T07:50:26 1738137026

This is amazing. 10 minutes in I finally reached the entry labeled "Day 2" and closed the window out of self-defense. I'm going to send this link to annoying customer support clients to buy myself time.

idlewords · 2025-01-29T16:46:19 1738169179

Yeah, or create a CAPTCHA that is something like "what transmission components did this car need replaced before reaching Kinshasa" and hide your Tier 1 support reps behind it.

walterbell · 2025-01-27T00:33:49 1737938029

Long live old-school forums!

Fizzadar · 2025-01-27T05:12:02 1737954722

Thank you for the lost hours :) Fascinating read.

anothertroll456 · 2025-01-27T17:00:17 1737997217

That was amazing! Thank you.

Wait, idlewords is still around??