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IRQ posted:Potentially good news on the subject of idiots nearly drowning in the antarctic ocean!
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When trying to buy some gag presents. rear end seen on tv!
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Dec 17, 2015 19:38
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lollin aloud just visualizing the hypothetical target demographic for gold rush merchandise
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Dec 19, 2015 12:26
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So I'm going through this latest episode. The oil pan cracks in their D11, and Hoffman is all "We have 3 days to get this going, do whatever it takes" so the guy orders a part that is going to take a week to be shipped to the middle of nowhere and seals the crack temporarily. Why didn't that exact day, drive to the nearest air port and fly his rear end down personally, get the part, and arrive back by the end of the next day? Or paid the company to send someone. The costs are insignificant compared to what they might lose. If they had to manufacture the part, it would make sense, but these dozers have part supplies everywhere. Just pay for a heli lift to an airport, do whatever. Dammit Todd. Also, where did the Gold Rush/Gold thread go? We had a lot of people in there and it was pretty popular! A new season of Prospectors just started too!
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Dec 19, 2015 18:31
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Philthy posted:So I'm going through this latest episode. The oil pan cracks in their D11, and Hoffman is all "We have 3 days to get this going, do whatever it takes" so the guy orders a part that is going to take a week to be shipped to the middle of nowhere and seals the crack temporarily. Why didn't that exact day, drive to the nearest air port and fly his rear end down personally, get the part, and arrive back by the end of the next day? Or paid the company to send someone. The costs are insignificant compared to what they might lose. If they had to manufacture the part, it would make sense, but these dozers have part supplies everywhere. Just pay for a heli lift to an airport, do whatever. gently caress Todd, I hope Parker destroys him in the gold count at the end of the season.
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Dec 19, 2015 19:28
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Philthy posted:
Here's the last thread (I think). http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3659814
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Dec 19, 2015 20:30
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Edit: wrong thread
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Dec 19, 2015 22:46
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is goldrush on a break for a month now?
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Dec 28, 2015 00:05
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Nah, just a week off because of holidays. It's showing a new episode for me on the Tivo this coming Friday.
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Dec 28, 2015 06:37
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I know it's not on the Discovery channel, but is it okay to talk about the MythBusters Mega Marathon?
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Dec 29, 2015 02:22
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I'm gonna miss that show but I think most of all I'm going to miss the anticlimaxes. They just did they one where they bend a tree back and release it to launch Buster like a catapult, but all it does is slowly return to upright and then Buster falls off it straight down. An hour ago was the Kirk vs Gorn episode where they loaded a cannon with homemade gunpowder and it only made the cannonball plop out of the barrel and roll away. And then there's the lego ball.
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Dec 30, 2015 20:23
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That's probably the best part of the show when the opposite of what they are expecting happens. One thing I've kinda of forgot was how much of fucksticks the build team were. It's amazing that they didn't end up hurt themselves. Ended up watching the walking over hot coals episode and they decide to test Adam waking over hot coals without telling him how to do it safely and he hurts himself. WTF why would you do that?
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Jan 1, 2016 16:53
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axelord posted:That's probably the best part of the show when the opposite of what they are expecting happens. And don't forget the ancient battery myth where they attached the ark to an electric fence charger and nearly fried Adam. They claimed the producers told them to do it.
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Jan 1, 2016 17:26
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Mister Kingdom posted:And don't forget the ancient battery myth where they attached the ark to an electric fence charger and nearly fried Adam. They claimed the producers told them to do it. FWIW Adam backs up that claim and implied the producer was fired over it.
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Jan 1, 2016 17:33
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axelord posted:One thing I've kinda of forgot was how much of fucksticks the build team were. It's amazing that they didn't end up hurt themselves. There was that time Tori tried to repel down a building and seriously damaged his shin on a window-frame. Though that coulda gone a lot worse
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Jan 1, 2016 19:14
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Did you guys see those interstitials in the commercials where the build team talk about their time in MythBusters? And how often they're played?
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Jan 1, 2016 19:47
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Speaking of Mythbusters, the final season starts tomorrow night.
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Jan 1, 2016 20:29
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muscles like this? posted:Speaking of Mythbusters, the final season starts tomorrow night. On that episode, Adam and Jamie will discuss what's to come in the final season.
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Jan 1, 2016 20:56
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Mister Kingdom posted:On that episode, Adam and Jamie will discuss what's to come in the final season. Hopefully they're off of the television show episodes, because those were dumb. I'm hoping they go balls to the wall with everything they've wanted to do and never had a chance. Without the secondary crew, the actual builds (the best part) have gotten a lot more airtime. I like the behind the scenes stuff because it makes me feel like I can actually accomplish some stuff as well.
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Jan 1, 2016 21:41
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Best part about that bad show ending is that Adam will have more time on tested! to do his one day builds and other stuff he does there.
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Jan 1, 2016 23:54
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Mraagvpeine posted:Did you guys see those interstitials in the commercials where the build team talk about their time in MythBusters? And how often they're played? That was werid too they decided to only use one answers from each of the Build Team and play it over and over again.
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Jan 2, 2016 05:14
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This desperate, illusory "BEAT PARKER'S GOLD" storyline that the gold rush producers are trying to force this season is so incredibly embarrassing. It asks for suspension of disbelief of literally every single limited element the show has ever repeated ad infinitum, and also requires a total disregarding of the fact that the seasons of gold totals have always been massively in his favor with a much smaller crew, less equipment, and less subsidy from the discovery coffers that live to throw good money after bad white trash. It's like trying to build an underdog tale around a team with the resources of the New England Patriots, rofl
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Jan 2, 2016 22:12
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It is nice to see on Mythbusters that Kari, Tori, and Grant will get a more appropriate sendoff at the end of this season.
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Jan 3, 2016 03:00
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That preview clipshow was way too aggressively spoilery and unsubtle but it does nothing to diminish my anticipation of every last moment of this inevitably excellent (barring the zombie tripe) season
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Jan 3, 2016 16:45
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TheRationalRedditor posted:That preview clipshow was way too aggressively spoilery and unsubtle but it does nothing to diminish my anticipation of every last moment of this inevitably excellent (barring the zombie tripe) season That was a bit too much information. The marathon continues and it's the worst episode they've ever done - San Francisco Drift.
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Jan 3, 2016 17:32
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Looking at the schedule for the rest of the day, I can't believe I missed the most recent MythBusters shark week episode when it first aired.
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Jan 3, 2016 18:34
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TheRationalRedditor posted:This desperate, illusory "BEAT PARKER'S GOLD" storyline that the gold rush producers are trying to force this season is so incredibly embarrassing. It asks for suspension of disbelief of literally every single limited element the show has ever repeated ad infinitum, and also requires a total disregarding of the fact that the seasons of gold totals have always been massively in his favor with a much smaller crew, less equipment, and less subsidy from the discovery coffers that live to throw good money after bad white trash. It's like trying to build an underdog tale around a team with the resources of the New England Patriots, rofl Are you saying Todd's crew of 100 people and all their families can't compete with parker's 5 people and to be fair his grandpa?
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Jan 3, 2016 20:50
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There's no way Todd makes any money with all the equipment and crew discovery channel throws at him. He has a legit mining operation going (no thanks to him) for the piddly rear end amount of gold they pull up. There's a reason it's only hillbillies panning for gold up there.
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Jan 3, 2016 21:20
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when it comes to actual profit at the end of the season Parker would easily crush Todd if they opened up the books, while Todd is buying dumb poo poo like a 3rd loving tailings belt, Parker is moving his plant closer to a cut to save tons of money on fuel costs and to run more dirt.
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Jan 3, 2016 21:34
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Everyone's favorite example of the illusion of competition should be the South American season, which if performed without a basic cable network-shaped safety net, would have resulted in team hoffman's mass ritual suicide. Particularly given the original premise of the show, WORKING CLASS DOPES BARELY SCRAPING BY ON THE BREADLINE, rofl
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Jan 3, 2016 21:37
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Invalid Validation posted:There's no way Todd makes any money with all the equipment and crew discovery channel throws at him. He has a legit mining operation going (no thanks to him) for the piddly rear end amount of gold they pull up. There's a reason it's only hillbillies panning for gold up there. The actual deficit he runs each season is *staggering* https://youtu.be/LWLzlef-75c
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Jan 4, 2016 02:16
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It's a good thing his dumb family and friends are mostly actors then. Id like to know how much money they foot the Hoffman crews part of the show.
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Jan 4, 2016 03:02
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Does jack Hoffman still go for the glory hole?
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Jan 4, 2016 04:05
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Holyshoot posted:Does jack Hoffman still go for the glory hole? nah he's getting too old for the glory hole.
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Jan 4, 2016 04:07
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More of a bonus hole these days.
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Jan 4, 2016 06:29
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TheRationalRedditor posted:That preview clipshow was way too aggressively spoilery and unsubtle but it does nothing to diminish my anticipation of every last moment of this inevitably excellent (barring the zombie tripe) season I hope that episode was them getting the recaps and "coming up on Mythbusters!" poo poo out of the way in the beginning so they can totally cut it out of the actual episodes. But I know that isn't true 
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Jan 4, 2016 15:47
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Photex posted:nah he's getting too old for the glory hole. The talk soup bit about the show was pretty great.
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Jan 4, 2016 21:35
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kefkafloyd posted:It is nice to see on Mythbusters that Kari, Tori, and Grant will get a more appropriate sendoff at the end of this season. I like the unspoken narrative that they cut those guys in an attempt to shake up the show/return to its roots/improve ratings, but it didn't work and the show was killed regardless.
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Jan 4, 2016 21:56
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MisterBibs posted:I like the unspoken narrative that they cut those guys in an attempt to shake up the show/return to its roots/improve ratings, but it didn't work and the show was killed regardless. Do people hate on them? I always enjoyed there side projects they did. But I also wasn't a hardcore loyal watcher of the show.
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Some people thought their banter was really forced and annoying, I never minded them that much.
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