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PostNouveau posted:They got good cheese fries, but your night has been a real shitshow if you end up there at 4 am eating cheese fries. That's exactly when we were there, and we did get cheese fries, but continued to party until like 3 or 4pm the next day, I believe there was a trip to The Boot where we met the kicker (at the time) for the Saints.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:
I won't even lie, this is awesome.
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bobfather posted:I won't even lie, this is awesome. Jesus Christ, just goes to show how powerful hydraulics are. And I love that they have a dedicated stunt rig for it to climb up on.
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This is actually a retractable barrier. They are used in the Netherlands, in some places just to slow down traffic (retracting for one car every 30 s), in which case they're only active during rush hour on roads parallel to highways, that go straight through neighbourhoods. Without them, people would use those roads to circumvent rush hour traffic and drive way too fast through those neighbourhoods. In this case though, it says BUS on the ground so this is probably an entrance into a neighbourhood that can only be used by public transport buses (those have a special transponder on board to lower the barriers). The barrier comes back up real fast after a vehicle crosses, but sometimes drivers think they can make it if they follow the previous vehicle close enough. In other cases the signage isn't clear and drivers don't even see the barrier until it's too late to brake. And, well...    
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bobfather posted:I won't even lie, this is awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBMUvAUPTGM Not the same tower, but if you want to watch it done! Skip to the 3 minute mark
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NoneMoreNegative posted:
It's telling you to hit the gym, fatty.
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There's one of those little genie lifts working outside my building and it's beeping extremely loudly non stop. For hours. Every time the boom or base is moving it has a slightly different beep and it's seemingly constantly moving very slowly as these painters work. Why does this need to be?? A full day's work of non-stop rapid beeping. Is this something we could ask them to turn off or tone down some how?
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Baronjutter posted:There's one of those little genie lifts working outside my building and it's beeping extremely loudly non stop. For hours. Every time the boom or base is moving it has a slightly different beep and it's seemingly constantly moving very slowly as these painters work. Why does this need to be?? A full day's work of non-stop rapid beeping. Is this something we could ask them to turn off or tone down some how? Just ask them politely to disable the safety device on their heavy equipment. Thats a very OSHA thing to do.
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Apr 4, 2017 19:13
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Those flashy vest are pretty annoying to look at, too. Tell them to take those off while you're at it.
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I don't quite understand why it needs to beep non-stop for 5 hours a day? What is the beeping making safe? I've seen other genie lifts working away without the ear piercing beeps.
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Apr 4, 2017 19:16
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It's so that people know it is moving. They should all make that noise constantly.
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Apr 4, 2017 19:26
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If it's constantly beeping, people will stop paying attention to the beeping. (Or go insane.)
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Apr 4, 2017 19:28
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TTerrible posted:It's so that people know it is moving. They should all make that noise constantly. I think the complaint is that it's beeping with an entirely different tone when stationary. All the time.
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flosofl posted:I think the complaint is that it's beeping with an entirely different tone when stationary. All the time. Hahaha wow sucks.
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Mozi posted:If it's constantly beeping, people will stop paying attention to the beeping. (Or go insane.) Exactly. It looks like the couple painters using it are just wearing ear protection so they don't have to hear the beeps. It's sitting fenced in on private property sitting on some sheets of plywood. The only people hearing the beeps are the people in nearby buildings who have no physical access to the lift.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJFyWBLeM7Q
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Wait your original post says it is constantly moving. If it's beeping while its completely stationary and noone is on it then its broken as hell. If it's moving *even slightly* then it should be beeping.
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Carbon dioxide posted:This is actually a retractable barrier. They are used in the Netherlands, in some places just to slow down traffic (retracting for one car every 30 s), in which case they're only active during rush hour on roads parallel to highways, that go straight through neighbourhoods. Without them, people would use those roads to circumvent rush hour traffic and drive way too fast through those neighbourhoods. Like this?  Ouch.
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Beeping that is tooth-rattling loud annoys me too. There's a service vehicle that is always coming and going near me. It beeps whenever it is in reverse, which is annoying, but they do that. Whatever. But since you shift through reverse when going from park to drive there is a weird half beep and squeal in that instant. If the timer was set to start on the off-beep you wouldn't have that. The beeping improves safety but only if you are within, say 50 feet, of the vehicle. And you can hear them a quarter mile away. deoju fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Apr 4, 2017 |
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TTerrible posted:Wait your original post says it is constantly moving. If it's beeping while its completely stationary and noone is on it then its broken as hell. If it's moving *even slightly* then it should be beeping. It's constantly moving slightly (the boom, not the wheeled base), within it's tiny fenced in area with the only 2 humans inside or with any ability to get near it wearing heavy ear protection to protect against the beeping.
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Working as intended. 
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Carbon dioxide posted:This is actually a retractable barrier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hb0ERuZHc4
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Also, watch out if a CNG fueled bus catches fire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QurQ2uW0oOU&t=21s
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Collateral Damage posted:They're in some places in the UK as well, and are a great source of schadenfreude.
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Collateral Damage posted:Also, watch out if a CNG fueled bus catches fire. Oh, the humanity!!!
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Collateral Damage posted:Also, watch out if a CNG fueled bus catches fire. Oh yeah I remember this one happening. Interesting thing is that the safety vents of the CNG tanks worked as designed. Would have been a different story if this had happened inside a busy street or something.
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I heart bacon posted:I'm not sure who would live there, but I bet she has clothes with shoulder pads. All we need is a DiscoVision player, CRT projector, and a coke spoon in the glass table.
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Like this? Get the fuckout of my no traffic zone
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Did someone mention bollards? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IELpd43PMvk
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evil_bunnY posted:The vast majority of people getting caught on these are willfully trying to break the law and the schadenfreude never gets old. I think they're absolutely terrible though. When someone tries to cheat, it causes damage to the underside of the car that makes it difficult to remove and very dangerous during the process. I mean it's a good "gently caress you" to the driver, but also to everyone else they are in theory trying to protect. It's gonna blow the radiator, oil pan, or gas lines/tank while pedestrians gather around and film it.
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evil_bunnY posted:The vast majority of people getting caught on these are willfully trying to break the law and the schadenfreude never gets old. Anyone know how this is supposed to be navigated? Is this supposed to be a bus/emergency vehicle only road?
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Obsurveyor posted:Is this supposed to be a bus/emergency vehicle only road? It's this.
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deoju posted:The beeping improves safety but only if you are within, say 50 feet, of the vehicle. And you can hear them a quarter mile away. They've started changing all the reversing beepers here to ones that make a much louder but kind of squelch-y noise, it's kind of hard to describe. The noise doesn't carry nearly as well, so you can really hear them where you need to but can barely hear them past about 100 meters.
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Megabound posted:Had some strange toilet placement in a hotel I stayed at recently This was a few pages back, but I wanted to mention that these setups are for the disabled, they have them in hospitals too. Makes it really easy to go from making GBS threads to cleaning poo poo off you, or for taking an emergency poo poo when you're in the middle of a shower, or just taking a poo poo and showering separately without having to step over something and invite a fall.
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Collateral Damage posted:They're in some places in the UK as well, and are a great source of schadenfreude. It looks like the last guy breaks the windshield with his face when he runs into the bollard.
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The 3 assistants from the Mythbusters have their own show on Netflix called the White Rabbit Project. Episode 7 is "Tech We Love to Hate" and one of the segments in that show is about the constant beeping in our lives. They "demonstrated" its very hard to tell where beeping is actually coming from when blindfolded and showed a new kind of back up beeper that's easier to get a fix on where its coming from. Apparently there are OSHA regulations that require hearing protection in places where the beeping is above a certain decibel level. So not only are beeps a lovely way to convey what you should be paying attention too you might have to wear hearing protection to stop going deaf from them. I was only able to find Russian? Ukrainian? copy of the episode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMt2kh6aDug&t=1618s Memento posted:They've started changing all the reversing beepers here to ones that make a much louder but kind of squelch-y noise, it's kind of hard to describe. The noise doesn't carry nearly as well, so you can really hear them where you need to but can barely hear them past about 100 meters. I'm guessing what the new noise they showed is what you've heard. FalloutGod fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Apr 5, 2017 |
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My pickup used to be owned by a train company, so it has a back-up beeper, and people get the gently caress out of the way 10 times faster than reverse lights alone, it's fantastic, but if everybody had one, everybody would ignore those too.
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