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Ghost Leviathan posted:German engineering. And those are just the controls for the toilet!
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Zopotantor posted:And those are just the controls for the toilet! I guess that explains what happened to U-1206 at least. The sub commander didn't perform the proper valve opening procedure to flush the toilet and opened the toilet directly to the ocean while submerged. Enough pressurized water shot out of the toilet to swamp the batteries and they had to surface while not far from a British patrol. Some say the captain did this on purpose so his crew would be captured alive instead of them being sunk with all hands. Others say the captain was too embarrassed by the poo poo he'd just taken to call someone that fully trained to operate the toilet. Either way, I'll bet being in that room when the valve opened was exciting!
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Cat Hatter posted:I guess that explains what happened to U-1206 at least.
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wheatpuppy posted:I feel like having the "flush toilet" lever right next to the "drown us all" lever might be a design flaw? The toilets were badly-designed, yes, though in fairness, flushing a toilet while submerged isn't an entirely trivial process.
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wheatpuppy posted:I feel like having the "flush toilet" lever right next to the "drown us all" lever might be a design flaw? At minimum the procedure was:
...and I wouldn't put it past the Germans to make it even more complicated than that. They were deeper than 60 meters underwater so thats about 90 psi coming back into a toilet from a valve big enough for poo poo to pass through. I just looked it up and the captain's name was named Schlitt. I bet the Royal Navy had fun with that after they fished the crew out of the water.
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wheatpuppy posted:I feel like having the "flush toilet" lever right next to the "drown us all" lever might be a design flaw? It’s German efficiency.
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It's all pipes!
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Hell, one of the theories about what sunk the USS Scorpion was that the trash disposal unit malfunctioned and flooded the boat because it had almost done it a few times before!
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I was warned on a sailboat not to leave the valve open for the head after flushing by hand pump because it could flood the boat. I would just never poo poo if I was on a ww2 sub…
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raggedphoto posted:I was warned on a sailboat not to leave the valve open for the head after flushing by hand pump because it could flood the boat. I would just never poo poo if I was on a ww2 sub… You would make them surface and you'd poo poo over the side while dodging torpedos and machine gun rounds. Truly the most realistic version of battle shits.
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Surely there is a depth at which you could press your butt against a porthole and push a turd outside against the water pressure. E: possibly not. Googling for human fecal squeeze pressure gives a reading of 196mmhg (0.26 bar). My plumbing knowledge tells me that you get 1 bar of static pressure every 10m of water depth/ height. In theory you can't poo poo in water more than 2.6m deep. It doesn't sound right though. We need to see if some freedivers have ever tried to poop deep down. Azza Bamboo fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Dec 9, 2023 |
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Azza Bamboo posted:Surely there is a depth at which you could press your butt against a porthole and push a turd outside against the water pressure. Please update us on your findings, I need to know this now.
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If you’re directly immersed, internal and external pressure will be more or less equal, so you’d still have that +.26. Now, if your rear end in a top hat is an integral part of a larger pressure hull, yeah, it could get tricky.
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There was a good poster, oceanographister by trade, who claimed to have shitted some reef under emergency conditions. I believe he was at a depth greater than 2.6m at the time. IIRC he had one of the crazy-Alaskan-governor-in-a-red-dress avatar for a while. You ask a niche question and there's some goon who has expertise in the matter, be it traffic-lights sequencing or reef-making GBS threads.
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At some depth, the pressure is going to push that turd further back in you
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Bad Munki posted:If you’re directly immersed, internal and external pressure will be more or less equal, so you’d still have that +.26. and that's why you put your finger in a leaky dike and not your rear end in a top hat among other reasons
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How deep could the goatman go before water intruded in to his rear end in a top hat?
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karoshi posted:There was a good poster, oceanographister by trade, who claimed to have shitted some reef under emergency conditions. I believe he was at a depth greater than 2.6m at the time. Is making GBS threads at 3 metres depth such a memorable accomplishment, and what was the emergency that prevented him from rising to surface? Sharks? Also I thought that reefs are a bit deeper, that's practically at surface.
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Nenonen posted:Is making GBS threads at 3 metres depth such a memorable accomplishment, and what was the emergency that prevented him from rising to surface? Sharks? There are many depths greater than 2.6m that are also greater than 3m. He was probably at one of those. My guess is that he didn't have time to decompress.
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Cat Hatter posted:My guess is that he didn't have time to decompress. By the story, he did 
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Nenonen posted:Is making GBS threads at 3 metres depth such a memorable accomplishment, and what was the emergency that prevented him from rising to surface? Sharks? Stomach troubles. Either food poisoning or bad beer. No time to get up to the boat and remove the wetsuit, iirc. It was also a group dive and he just opened the emergency valve as the internal pressure rose beyond the hull rating. There are some reef fishies that enjoy poop, no matter how weird the pooper fish looks. They were happy for a super size ration. My memory is a bit hazy and some details might not be accurate. Nenonen posted:By the story, he did 
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karoshi posted:There was a good poster, oceanographister by trade, who claimed to have shitted some reef under emergency conditions. I believe he was at a depth greater than 2.6m at the time. IIRC he had one of the crazy-Alaskan-governor-in-a-red-dress avatar for a while. You ask a niche question and there's some goon who has expertise in the matter, be it traffic-lights sequencing or reef-making GBS threads. Are you talking about Trig Discipline?
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wheatpuppy posted:Are you talking about Trig Discipline? yes!
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Bad Munki posted:Now, if your rear end in a top hat is an integral part of a larger pressure hull, yeah, it could get tricky. Many are saying this.
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karoshi posted:There was a good poster, oceanographister by trade, who claimed to have shitted some reef under emergency conditions. I believe he was at a depth greater than 2.6m at the time. IIRC he had one of the crazy-Alaskan-governor-in-a-red-dress avatar for a while. You ask a niche question and there's some goon who has expertise in the matter, be it traffic-lights sequencing or reef-making GBS threads. IIRC they had photographic evidence of this occurring, they looked like a rocket launching on top of a brown exhaust plume.
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corgski posted:and that's why you put your finger in a leaky dike and not your rear end in a top hat you had no cause to speak of my mother in such a way and I won't forget this
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Well what else can you do? Raise the ceiling?
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What’s that weird brown plastic fixture behind the shower?
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Previous owners left a children's wardrobe which is actually useful but I was looking at it today while trying to find something and went "hang on a sec...." and turns out the reason one door slams is not because my 3 year old has flagrant disregard for her fingers, it's because they fit both soft close hinges on the door on one side and the slam hinges on the other. Then, while fixing that, I realised that the shelf part was in backwards which is why one door doesn't close properly as it catches on the shelf (I thought it was just cheap), turn it round and guess what? Now there are holes for rubber stand offs to indicate which way the front is! The door is warped now from this, but never mind. It's like they looked at the instructions and those "!" Important bits and went "huh, I wonder who that's for?". Also they'd replaced the knobs on it but not cut down the screw threads so there were big bits of metal sticking out the back of them : rolleyes:
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Platystemon posted:It’s German efficiency. Having had to work with German engineers' work, it is. That's the level of it, always. The fact is they've never ever been efficient at engineering anything besides genocide. (Seriouspost.)
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Previous owners left a children's wardrobe which is actually useful but I was looking at it today while trying to find something and went "hang on a sec...." and turns out the reason one door slams is not because my 3 year old has flagrant disregard for her fingers, it's because they fit both soft close hinges on the door on one side and the slam hinges on the other. There are plenty of smart parents out there but more dumb people have kids than brilliant people... probably also some sleep deprivation going on there.
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the yeti posted:What’s that weird brown plastic fixture behind the shower? Looks like part of the old shower, probably a retaining cap for a vertical pole.
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ComradePyro posted:you had no cause to speak of my mother in such a way and I won't forget this I'll speak of my girlfriend as I drat well please 
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VelociBacon posted:There are plenty of smart parents out there but more dumb people have kids than brilliant people... probably also some sleep deprivation going on there. Lots of otherwise smart people also categorically refuse to read directions carefully.
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I remember assembling an IKEA shelving unit where someone reviewed it saying that none of the holes lined up and they had to drill all new holes and it baffles me how someone gets to that point without even considering that they might be doing it wrong.
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Assembly instructions can be pretty tough to follow. The information is all usually there, but it’s not necessarily there on the step you’re looking at, and you often need to check the inventory to make sure you’re using the right part or look ahead to see how things fit together as a way of double-checking that you’ve got the orientation right. I’m pretty good at doing all that, but a lot of people would be better off with a step-by-step assembly video, which necessarily carries a lot of redundancy that’ll clear most of that up even if the presenter is bad at their job. Of course, some people don’t seem to realize those details are important at all, and those people are just doomed.
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In my experience most people just toss the assembly instructions aside in the most cartoonish way possible and struggle for however long it takes to either end up with a part that doesn’t fit or break something
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rjmccall posted:Assembly instructions can be pretty tough to follow. The information is all usually there, but it’s not necessarily there on the step you’re looking at, and you often need to check the inventory to make sure you’re using the right part or look ahead to see how things fit together as a way of double-checking that you’ve got the orientation right. I’m pretty good at doing all that, but a lot of people would be better off with a step-by-step assembly video, which necessarily carries a lot of redundancy that’ll clear most of that up even if the presenter is bad at their job. Not everyone built piles of legos as a kid and it shows.
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Some years ago I bought a kitchen at Ikea. We spent like an hour trying to put this thing together after finishing most of the rest, but there was no way this thing would fit together properly. We gave up and handed the problem over to the people who were doing the actual kitchen install + mounting and they had to get pretty creative to get it to work. Apparently Ikea put the wrong plate in the box, who would have thought... 
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