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I met Rick Perry's PR girl on the plane like 10 years back after he harassed that State Trooper. She looked beleaguered.
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I don’t know if these guys are on a job, but I hope so. https://gfycat.com/DeficientSecondBlacklemur
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Platystemon posted:I don’t know if these guys are on a job, but I hope so. That... seems like a great way to pass out from CO2 poisoning. While driving. 
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Platystemon posted:It’s a truck with a box on the back. Hence, “box truck”. One of my customers is a trucking company that has 10 of those for local deliveries. They call them "straight trucks" (yes, the "as opposed to" joke is rampant in the company). Might be an Ohio thing, though.
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Platystemon posted:I don’t know if these guys are on a job, but I hope so. WITNESS ME BLOODBAG!
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:One of my customers is a trucking company that has 10 of those for local deliveries. They call them "straight trucks" (yes, the "as opposed to" joke is rampant in the company). Might be an Ohio thing, though. It might be, I haven't heard it since I moved from Ohio. I think it's because semis articulate but these don't.
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Platystemon posted:I don’t know if these guys are on a job, but I hope so. With sound: https://rumble.com/v33fdk-when-your-cars-heat-breaks-in-january.html
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Chlamyllionaire posted:There's a marker off 77 indicating the site of the wreck of the USS Shenandoah. Dad had me believing for a while that a battleship somehow crashed in the middle of a field in Ohio. Like this?  Its a building in NJ
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just watched a guy who barely spoke english at a junkyard scramble up a 15 foot shelf to the very top and one hand carry a head for my engine down to me
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:just watched a guy who barely spoke english at a junkyard scramble up a 15 foot shelf to the very top and one hand carry a head for my engine down to me Just FYI you have to turn him in now or face prison time yourself.
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Perestroika posted:That... seems like a great way to pass out from CO2 poisoning. While driving. Not to mention it's probably rich enough to simultaneously be putting out more CO than you ever want to be around in a confined space, as well.
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Explosionface posted:Not to mention it's probably rich enough to simultaneously be putting out more CO than you ever want to be around in a confined space, as well. Plus its in Louisiana. Like how loving cold can it be that far south?
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Say Nothing posted:Nope. 
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Wheres his safety harness
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the work order specifies no harness is to be used, this is mandatory to complete the job and earn the money
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Say Nothing posted:Nope. can't even kickflip, what a poser
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Say Nothing posted:Nope. Me, reading this post and being deathly afraid of heights:  
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Jose posted:
Security through obscurity
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boner confessor posted:yeah the US navy experimented with airships in the 1930s. every single one of them crashed, and this was even with the massive technological advantage called "helium" because the united states basically controlled the world supply of it, extracted from natural gas Crimson Skies was a good game.
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That's pretty normal for a building that's had its phone system expanded over the years. One of the many reasons I hate when I have to deal with analog systems. As bad as a network rack can get it's never that bad.
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JB50 posted:Plus its in Louisiana. Like how loving cold can it be that far south?
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Hello yes I do not know about roots but I have a cool buggy and a video camera.
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Say Nothing posted:Nope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo11HmtnFgk
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boner confessor posted:yeah the US navy experimented with airships in the 1930s. every single one of them crashed, and this was even with the massive technological advantage called "helium" because the united states basically controlled the world supply of it, extracted from natural gas The answer: they tie the nose down right away, but it takes too long to secure the other lines, and as the California sun warms the helium tanks the ship begins to stand on its nose. The crew cut the rope to save the ship, and the guys holding the other ropes are dragged around the field, and then pulled bodily into the air as the Akron begins to rise. Most of them let go or have the rope dragged out of their hands, but it happens so quickly that three men are literally pulled up into the sky. End result: two guys plummeting to their horrible deaths, and Able Seaman Bud Cowart spends an hour hanging from a rope a mile in the air until the Akron's crew manage to drag him onboard. OId newsfilms of the event: (  for a man hitting the ground so hard he loving bounces):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHsVcDK42VQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzyQtERLUNU
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They should bring back airships for commercial use tbh. It'd be like taking a cruise, but in the sky: I'd fly that
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Apraxin posted:End result: two guys plummeting to their horrible deaths, and Able Seaman Bud Cowart spends an hour hanging from a rope a mile in the air until the Akron's crew manage to drag him onboard. I hope that guy became a PE teacher. Nobody would dare complain about the rope climb.
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Hydrogen wasn't actually as unsafe as people think. It doesn't explode in a huge fireball like the Hindenburg, because there isn't any oxygen in the mix so it just kind of burns off slowly as it leaks. The reason the Hindenburg burned like it did was that the paint used on the canvas was highly flammable.
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spankmeister posted:Hydrogen wasn't actually as unsafe as people think. It doesn't explode in a huge fireball like the Hindenburg, because there isn't any oxygen in the mix so it just kind of burns off slowly as it leaks. The reason the Hindenburg burned like it did was that the paint used on the canvas was highly flammable. Mythbusters did it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVup80IabHU
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A really interesting presentation from a 'Fast responder' motocycle doctor for TT style bike racing. It's mostly images overlaying his talk but scary poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsZBXlTHPCg He also died in a 150mph crash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hinds_(doctor)
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Say Nothing posted:Mythbusters did it! But in BF1 they don't immediately burst into a giant fireball so explain that myth busters 
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So we had an incident at the airport an hour ago where one of our newer fuelers was pulled over by a fire marshall because his tanker was leaking flaming jet fuel. Not sure how/why it was flaming fuel, but I could still smell the burnt jet fuel when I got there and the fire marshall was loving nuts on adrenaline making stiff paces around the tanker. Then he noticed it was still leaking. Some situations are very okay for frantic shouting, but enough is enough dude. I don't know why our lead asked the new guy to drive a tanker he wasn't trained in, but I'm not getting temp. lead pay anymore so whatever let the 'lead' do his lead thing. I asked the new fueler if he was comfortable driving the larger tanker and warned him about the blind spot so always use the bubble mirrors when turning. I wanted to tell him this incident wasn't his fault, he was using equipment he wasn't trained in, etc. Instead he tells me he broke the seal and used the interlock override when he couldn't get the tanker to start again after he stopped at a security checkpoint and the warning lights went off.  Also apparently he crashed the tanker into something big and didn't notice, that was what caused the somehow flaming leak. I was a little worried when I saw the mangled chocks he drove over when he first pulled out.I'm doing a doubleshift starting tomorrow morning so I'll try to find out what was hit when I start work again in a few hours. Hopefully not a plane, probably one of our other tankers.
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Sanctum posted:So we had an incident at the airport an hour ago where one of our newer fuelers was pulled over by a fire marshall because his tanker was leaking flaming jet fuel. Not sure how/why it was flaming fuel, but I could still smell the burnt jet fuel when I got there and the fire marshall was loving nuts on adrenaline making stiff paces around the tanker. Then he noticed it was still leaking. Some situations are very okay for frantic shouting, but enough is enough dude. Remind me which airport you work in so I can never, ever fly there.
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Say Nothing posted:Mythbusters did it! Mythbusters also concluded that the coating was not the major contributing factor. "Although the metallic paint may have contributed to the disaster, the busted myth revealed that the hydrogen did all the heavy lifting." http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/mythbusters-database/hindenburg-disaster/
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Mythbusters are also full of poo poo and frequently come to the wrong conclusion based on absent methodology. What was the internal structure of their airship, one bag or a series of separate cells?
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Mythbusters is also a show primarily for entertainment, not autism.
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Humphreys posted:A really interesting presentation from a 'Fast responder' motocycle doctor for TT style bike racing. It's mostly images overlaying his talk but scary poo poo. This was really fascinating. I've often wondered about emergency response at long courses, especially poo poo like motorcycle races around the Isle of Man or something where one little gently caress up sends you into some ancient stone wall at 150mph. RIP Dr. Awesome who I only just learned about an hour ago.
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One of our stone suppliers had one of their employees crushed by some falling marble slabs the other day. http://www.nj.com/gloucester-county/index.ssf/2017/01/man_trapped_under_marble_slabs_dies_of_injuries.html That happened at my work too with an improperly packed crate. My friend had about 5 tons of slabs come down on his leg. Luckily there was a couple 2x4's next to his foot, but his 2 lower leg bones (tibia and fibula?) were hosed. I don't know if we got a fine from osha because we didn't pack the shipping container.
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