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I think blue asbestos was one of the most dangerous types, so I'm gonna go with just the one guy standing upwind on the left.
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May 18, 2015 01:31
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jesus christ did they have glass eating competitions too
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May 18, 2015 01:33
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Level crossing fun with Top Gear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue61c6MZNQw
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Mr. Unlucky posted:jesus christ did they have glass eating competitions too being in that dust is pretty much breathing a big ol hit of microscopic glass needles and i suppose you probably eat some too
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May 18, 2015 01:37
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Captain Cool found the follow up to this - and yep, they're almost all dead. http://www.mesothel.com/asbestos-cancer/exposure/asbestos_roulette.htm
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May 18, 2015 01:46
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im glad they made a competition out of it
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May 18, 2015 02:41
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Darkman Fanpage posted:im glad they made a competition out of it Spoiler: everyone lost.
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May 18, 2015 03:11
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We demand more asbestos! More asbestos! More Asbestos!
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May 18, 2015 03:23
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http://i.imgur.com/CMrvett.gifv
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May 18, 2015 06:28
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Say Nothing posted:Level crossing fun with Top Gear. What's crazy is that American freight trains make European freight trains look like short-line babies pulled by switching engines. https://youtu.be/KaUM0opLHA0?t=1m55s Note how the engineer gets out, takes a look, shakes his head, and walks away.
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May 18, 2015 06:42
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The schadenfreude gets a hell of a lot worse in this case. The company who owned the mine knew asbestos was dangerous and did nothing to protect their workers. This left a couple of thousand people with an untreatable and totally lethal form of cancer called mesothelioma. Naturally they formed a class action for compensation. Australia has free health care, but these men also wanted money so their families wouldn't be destitute after they died. The company fought. Of course they did, wouldn't want to ruin the profit margins after all. Now, here's where things get a special kind of evil. One member of the company's legal team decided they would use a very simple and utterly amoral strategy - delay. She did everything in her power to tie proceedings up in bullshit until a lot of the men had died and were no longer eligible for compensation. The woman who headed the strategy was Julie Bishop. Who? Julie Bishop, deputy leader of Australia's current party in government, the LNP, their only female minister, and our minister for foreign affairs.
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May 18, 2015 06:47
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Gorilla Salad posted:The schadenfreude gets a hell of a lot worse in this case. The company who owned the mine knew asbestos was dangerous and did nothing to protect their workers. This left a couple of thousand people with an untreatable and totally lethal form of cancer called mesothelioma. I'm an American born in the mid 80s, and I can distinctly remember commercials on TV advertising for class action lawsuits for asbestos exposure/mesothelioma into the mid 90s.
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May 18, 2015 06:54
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Zeno-25 posted:I'm an American born in the mid 80s, and I can distinctly remember commercials on TV advertising for class action lawsuits for asbestos exposure/mesothelioma into the mid 90s. They're still running dude
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May 18, 2015 07:03
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Wasabi the J posted:They're still running dude Wow really? I haven't watched tv regularly for a good while
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May 18, 2015 07:20
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Zeno-25 posted:Wow really? I haven't watched tv regularly for a good while Every time I visit the states to see my grandmother I end up seeing more than a couple ads for them.
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May 18, 2015 07:22
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The British tried something like that in WWII. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umbpabDnSNE It's perhaps telling that one of the best sources about British tank design in WWII is a book called "The Great Tank Scandal."
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May 18, 2015 09:33
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Zeno-25 posted:Wow really? I haven't watched tv regularly for a good while asbestos and mesothelioma settlements are the highest paid ad terms,on google. If you google one of those right now and click on the first sponsored link, that law firm is charged $40
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May 18, 2015 19:28
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this is just... india.gif I suppose holy poo poo the guy in the white t-shirt who climbs up... this is amazing Somebody fucked around with this message at 01:24 on May 19, 2015 |
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May 18, 2015 19:29
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Bhodi posted:http://i.imgur.com/4o6oW9D.gifv Thank you so, so, so much.
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May 18, 2015 19:47
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I saw something like that on the episode of Parts Unknown where Tony went to Myanmar. Make due with what you have, I guess. And, yeah, holy gently caress, don't screw around with trains.
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May 18, 2015 19:48
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PT6A posted:And, yeah, holy gently caress, don't screw around with trains. Unless you're a nuclear waste storage container
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May 18, 2015 19:58
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Jet fuel can't melt steel flasks.
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May 18, 2015 20:07
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Blistex posted:(this was as the too land die place he worked at before becoming a teacher). Do you mean the Tool and Die place?
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May 18, 2015 20:43
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dablakh0l posted:Do you mean the Tool and Die place? Pretty sure he meant where underperforming hardware store employees are culled.
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flosofl posted:Pretty sure he meant where underperforming hardware store employees are culled. Shame on you, the Tool Land killing fields are nothing to joke about.
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May 18, 2015 22:46
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Angela Christine posted:Shame on you, the Tool Land killing fields are nothing to joke about. It's post-apocalyptic retail. "Thems that don't meet they's goals is sent to the Die Place"
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May 18, 2015 23:08
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flosofl posted:It's post-apocalyptic retail. While the Employee of the Month is guaranteed a spot in Valhalla, all shiny and chrome.
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May 18, 2015 23:19
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May 19, 2015 02:00
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Shake it off shake it
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May 19, 2015 02:02
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It's so hypnotic. I can't stop watching and laughing.
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May 19, 2015 02:21
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Darth123123 posted:Shake it off shake it Just act nonchalant. 
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May 19, 2015 03:59
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Say Nothing posted:Just act nonchalant. Ah, the old spark plug shard on the kneecap trick.
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May 19, 2015 04:05
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Say Nothing posted:Just act nonchalant. I once had a guy try to exit a store via the glass panel next to the door. The two weird things were that it wasn't an automatic door anyway, so he would have needed to push a handle, and that panel was only about a foot wide. I was off that day but got told what happened the next day when I asked why it was boarded up. The glass didn't shatter like this but there were two big broken areas - one where his knee hit and one where his head hit.
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May 19, 2015 05:54
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Say Nothing posted:Just act nonchalant. Gotta be sugarglass. Just gotta be.
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May 19, 2015 07:43
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Haha holy poo poo. "You got any spare locomotives or rocket-powered trucks lying around?" "yeah a few"
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May 19, 2015 12:31
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WarpedNaba posted:Gotta be sugarglass. Just gotta be. I think it's real glass, he just tosses a piece of ceramic with his right hand to shatter it before he walks through. That, and he's dropping his head before it even cracks.
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Actually, I think you can see he leads with his knee. It's been a bit since I've seen the video, though.
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