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Pigsfeet on Rye
Oct 22, 2008

I'm meat on the hoof
With the right text, this could be an award-winning ad for a laxative.

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Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
Well I know that can’t have happened in <hometown>—traffic is moving too fast.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right
The flood was 60 million cubic meters of iron waste from a burst iron ore tailing dam in Bento Rodrigues, Brazil last year. 17 people were killed, 600 had to be evacuated and the toxic mud packed full of heavy metals like arsenic, lead and mercury contaminated the Rio Doce basin (which supplies water to about 230 municipalities) and then flowed into the Atlantic Ocean and contaminated the southern Bahia littoral zone which just happens to host the major marine biodiversity of the southern Atlantic ocean. Whoops.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bento_Rodrigues_dam_disaster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg-B25LYR7o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD_8y3VweZc

Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 12:47 on Jun 19, 2016

funkybottoms
Oct 28, 2010

Funky Bottoms is a land man

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

With the right text, this could be an award-winning ad for a laxative.



well, i'd definitely poo poo myself if i was there

PoizenJam
Dec 2, 2006

Damn!!!
It's PoizenJam!!!
Movers use forklift to lift forklift

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPkKV6wvLxI

I'm not sure whether this was OSHA or pro as gently caress. I mean, the middle forklift has two points of contact at all times.

No hard hats though, and I suppose the guy in red isn't tied off when >3ft?

mom and dad fight a lot
Sep 21, 2006

If you count them all, this sentence has exactly seventy-two characters.

Jerry Cotton posted:

Unlike this thread, it's held up by good posts.

:eyepop:

nomad2020
Jan 30, 2007

JVNO posted:

No hard hats though, and I suppose the guy in red isn't tied off when >3ft?

No hard hats is ok with caged lift. I can't tell if he's belted in or not though, that makes the inspector hard.

nomad2020
Jan 30, 2007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjOvI0TOx98


Wonder how long those two had to sit in that pile.

nockturne
Aug 5, 2008

Soiled Meat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ho1s6xUi4I

Sammus
Nov 30, 2005

dis astranagant posted:

Check out his channel. He has dozens of videos of his experimental homegroan gratuitously high voltage wasp zapper and other stupid things he tries to kill them with.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dwfh2VRBmY
Here he is using the flyback off an old tv to power the drat thing. A good lesson in why you don't gently caress with such a beasty.

This guy must really, really hate wasps.

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

Sammus posted:

This guy must really, really hate wasps.

Wasps are garbage and I have the materials on hand to build that bug zapper so maybe I should try it

vortmax
Sep 24, 2008

In meteorology, vorticity often refers to a measurement of the spin of horizontally flowing air about a vertical axis.
Not something I see every day: A port-a-potty more than three stories up. I'd hate to be in there when a strong gust of wind comes through.

Effective-Disorder
Nov 13, 2013

BattleMaster posted:

Wasps are garbage and I have the materials on hand to build that bug zapper so maybe I should try it

Don't waste time with that. Use thermite, and then dig out the results, kind of like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGJ2jMZ-gaI

EDIT: More like this- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6HmB4MvAGw

Effective-Disorder fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Jun 20, 2016

GopherFlats
Mar 16, 2011

The Locator posted:

I think the actual approved method is to fill it with a heavier than air inert gas. The reason rinsing doesn't work is that it doesn't remove the film of gas/fuel on the surface of the tank interior which is enough to cause vapors. It's the air/vapor mix that's explosive as hell.

I know this was a few pages back but that is the safest way to handle old fuel or oil drums.

The shop I worked in always had a co2 cylinder on hand specifically for large containers. Run a hose into the tank and crank it open, no oxygen no explosion. In the event we ran out and had to do it right then you could take a hose and clamp it to the exhaust of a forklift instead. Although that may actually be OSHA.txt

Mr.Acula
May 10, 2009

Billions and billions of fat clouds

Effective-Disorder posted:

Don't waste time with that. Use thermite, and then dig out the results, kind of like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGJ2jMZ-gaI


I want one of these

Evilreaver
Feb 26, 2007

GEORGE IS GETTIN' AUGMENTED!
Dinosaur Gum

dr.acula posted:

I want one of these

What, an ant? They're pretty easy to find if you go outside

Mr.Acula
May 10, 2009

Billions and billions of fat clouds

Evilreaver posted:

What, an ant? They're pretty easy to find if you go outside

No the neato decoration that you get after a mass genocide of bugs

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

nomad2020 posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjOvI0TOx98


Wonder how long those two had to sit in that pile.

Hahahahah I've seen this so many times but I've only just noticed the guy turning on his hazard lights after hitting the shelf but before it falls over.

Crazy Ted
Jul 29, 2003

In Cleveland, is this too many people on a municipal vehicle y/n



I think this violates some kind of code

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000


this kills the ant

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Alts

CovfefeCatCafe
Apr 11, 2006

A fresh attitude
brewed daily!
Is this OSHA? Lady with two kids and no flame shield seems a bit OSHA (even if it is a photoshop).



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Also, check out the top review.

crabcakes66
May 24, 2012

by exmarx
One glass of wine per kid and the rest of the bottle for mom seems pretty safe.

Islam is the Lite Rock FM
Jul 27, 2007

by exmarx
I'm a little tea pot short and stout.

Here is my handle here is my spout.

Tip me over and hear me shou... OH GOD IT BURNS.

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

Proof

dis astranagant posted:

Check out his channel. He has dozens of videos of his experimental homegroan gratuitously high voltage wasp zapper and other stupid things he tries to kill them with.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dwfh2VRBmY
Here he is using the flyback off an old tv to power the drat thing. A good lesson in why you don't gently caress with such a beasty.

That one wasp that lands right on the wire terminal, get stuck, and proceeds to twitch every time one of his buddies gets zapped to oblivion is particularly satisfying.

I was just about to say after watching the wasp napalm, why the hell don't you just shove a road flare in there?
This is the best way to kill a nest. Get yourself a couple of road flares and one of those battery powered air mattress pumps and you're in business. Toss a smoke bomb in for effect.

Make sure your rear end is covered though, those nests can get pretty big and they might sneak out the back door and come for ya.

GnarlyCharlie4u fucked around with this message at 13:58 on Jun 20, 2016

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord

BattleMaster posted:

Wasps are garbage and I have the materials on hand to build that bug zapper so maybe I should try it

Wasps are actually good and important pollenators. They're also smart rnough to recognize and tell other wasps about people that have attacked them.

Elusif
Jun 9, 2008

Improbable Lobster posted:

Wasps are actually good and important pollenators. They're also smart rnough to recognize and tell other wasps about people that have attacked them.

I dare you to prove that.

Lincoln
May 12, 2007

Ladies.

H110Hawk posted:

I am unclear which thread this goes in, but I feel like the "parents attic" vibe is the important part:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJOX0c60wQE

:cheers: "Now we gunna nuke this...ten-mil spannah."
:) "Twelve."
:cheers: "Thass ayven bettahhh."

IPCRESS
May 27, 2012
Photonic induction is great. I felt quite sure he'd killed himself when he didn't put a video up for six months, but then he was back with a 250 volt battery pack the next day.

Personal favourite is the episode where he causes brownouts in his street and the police come.

Waffle!
Aug 6, 2004

I Feel Pretty!


E Equals MC Hammer posted:

I dare you to prove that.

I always heard with bees or wasps that they released a pheromone when they died that told any of their friends nearby who to go after.

I know a guy that had a barrel explode on him after using it as a welding surface. He's got a huge, wicked scar on his arm, and he said his foot was hanging by just the skin when he landed.

GI Joe jobs
Jun 25, 2005

🎅🤜🤛👷
I think he's describing crows. Crows can recognize faces and communicate those faces to other crows.

Karma Monkey
Sep 6, 2005

I MAKE BAD POSTING DECISIONS

Waffle! posted:

I always heard with bees or wasps that they released a pheromone when they died that told any of their friends nearby who to go after.

Gullous posted:

I think he's describing crows. Crows can recognize faces and communicate those faces to other crows.

Nah, it's hobos. Hobos can do that.

My Q-Face
Jul 8, 2002

A dumb racist who need to kill themselves

Waffle! posted:

I always heard with bees or wasps that they released a pheromone when they died that told any of their friends nearby who to go after.

There is a puff of a powdery substance that jets out when you disturb a Yellow Jacket nest. This will cling to your skin, your clothes and so on. Even if you run, this will leave a trail in the air that the hornets can follow and they will follow it for hundreds of yards and sting the ever living gently caress out of you. I know this first hand, and I never even saw the nest beforehand.

Free Cheese
Sep 16, 2005
Come on, it's free
Buglord
Bees and wasps do release alarm pheromones when they are threatened or die that attracts other members of the nest, and honey bee stingers release the same pheromones after they detach from the bee. That's why beekeepers use smoke when they inspect hives, it masks those pheromones and helps to keep the bees unaware of your presence

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Gullous posted:

I think he's describing crows. Crows can recognize faces and communicate those faces to other crows.

It's kind of terrifying how intelligent corvids are. They're so common and other small birds so dumb that they're practically treated as disposable hordes, like winged insects, but they understand things like tool usage and recognizing individual faces, and at least one crow even understood water displacement enough to solve a puzzle.

Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

"Tiny Trains"

Wasps do have some form of communication though. I watched some Alan Alda thing where they did a bunch of experiments. They'd set up a picnic with dummies and props and a wasp would come back to its nest with the food and then other wasps would come too, some how that wasp told the others. So then they'd move everyone do another bench, but the previous wasps would go to the old bench but quickly figure out the new one. They kept changing things and seeing how the wasps would react and ended up strongly indicating the wasps were somehow not just describing the general direction and distance from the nest of the food source, but also what the area looked like. When the dummies and props were changed around the wasps got confused because they were told "look for the 4 blue shirt wearing people sitting at a table" and when they'd arrive there would be 2 green shirted dummies. If a table nearby was set up with 4 blue shirted dummies the wasps would quickly go there because that matched the description they were given.

So yeah, I think wasps can give directions and even describe objects/settings.

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

Proof

Budgie
Mar 9, 2007
Yeah, like the bird.

All I see is :eonwe:

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

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Crazy Ted
Jul 29, 2003

chitoryu12 posted:

It's kind of terrifying how intelligent corvids are. They're so common and other small birds so dumb that they're practically treated as disposable hordes, like winged insects, but they understand things like tool usage and recognizing individual faces, and at least one crow even understood water displacement enough to solve a puzzle.
Crows are pretty incredible. My parents used to have a heated birdbath, and every winter crows would line the entire rim of the thing like they were having some kind of crow party. There were pennies at the bottom of it, and one by one each crow would dip its beak in, pick up a coin, flip it in the air, and watch it plop back down into the heated water. Apparently this was incredibly amusing to the crows because they'd all make noise for about five seconds after the penny fell back into the water.

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