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Tumble posted:if you go to local hardware stores around They are pretty frosty about it, lol.   Possibly immoral. 
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Jul 17, 2017 03:07
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Oh God. So if someone fashions one of these, it means they have an inadequately or un-covered male plug at the other end of their lights, right?!
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Jul 17, 2017 03:17
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Facebook Aunt posted:
Paging the Fabgoons E/N Megathread. Paging the Fabgoons E/N megathread. CODE MAUVE. I REPEAT: CODE MAUVE. EXPIDITE.
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Jul 17, 2017 03:23
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azurite posted:Oh God. So if someone fashions one of these, it means they have an inadequately or un-covered male plug at the other end of their lights, right?! Yes, almost certainly. Theoretically they could have covered it with something, but if they were going to think of that they probably wouldn't be the sort of person who makes a male to male plug in the first place. Live prongs just dangling in the snow.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Yes, almost certainly. Theoretically they could have covered it with something, but if they were going to think of that they probably wouldn't be the sort of person who makes a male to male plug in the first place. Live prongs just dangling in the snow. I have trouble believing that the type of person who would do this wouldn't just jam paperclips into both sets of female connectors, wrap them up with duct tape, and call it a day. I just have an incredibly hard time imagining the precise level of dangerous knowledge where you think to do this, and yet then also think it's a good idea.
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Jul 17, 2017 03:30
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male-to-male cables remind me of my favorite (the best) bigclive video there is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvOTiQKkQMo
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Jul 17, 2017 03:35
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Jul 17, 2017 03:44
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Well I mean if you say so.
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Jul 17, 2017 04:51
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As Idaho goes, so goes the nation.
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Jul 17, 2017 04:55
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to be fair, he thought the sign was being sarcastic
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Jul 17, 2017 06:59
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Yeah. As a fundie that believes in Jeeeazus, there's no such thing as Science/Space. It aint in the Bible.
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Jul 17, 2017 07:08
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Lurking Haro posted:You never know what circuits cheap USB chargers have inside. The phone itself might have a dangerous potential to ground and the only thing keeping you safe is the plastic housing.
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Jul 17, 2017 07:25
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And now you know why he isn't allowed to be in a room alone with a woman.
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Jul 17, 2017 07:37
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Dillbag posted:
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Jul 17, 2017 08:06
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IPCRESS posted:Well... at least he wasn't shooting at him one-handed, South African Motorcycle Police style. For some reason I read the title as South Australian, which confused me once the guy started talking with a South African accent. If anyone is wondering, the village or whatever, which I assume is a strictly black zone leftover from apartheid, looks EXACTLY like a Native American reservation in the US. At first I thought it was a Navajo reservation until I saw that they were driving on the wrong side. Anyway thats my story 
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Dillbag posted:
I came on here before my shift to post this. According to my lazy local news station(they talk about anything as if they're all sedated), the guy was seated on the edge of the driver's seat and had he been anywhere else he would have been crushed. The pipe fell from an overpass, where a truck had lost its cargo. The man walked away with just a cut on his head. No eels. I'll link a story once I get my ancient laptop working here. Having some internet issues. EDIT: Aha! The hamsters that drive the wheel of my computer finally worked to capacity. Here's a link to the news story: http://wspa.com/2017/07/16/man-narrowly-escapes-death-when-massive-pipe-falls-on-van/ MODs; If I didn't link that correctly for forum use, I apologize. Still gettin' the hang of this. Three-Phase posted:What's scary is that if I'm interpreting the test correctly they had 14kA going through the breaker and it didn't trip (probably a larger 600 or 800A frame size - at more than 10x normal current it should trip almost instantly) and manually opening the circuit caused the breaker to explode. I know absolute squat about electricity but always wanted to learn. The fact it's not an exact science(according to most people I speak to) and the scary poo poo you post... it has kept me at arm's length. Do you personally have any close calls while working with that stuff? Ever feel like "whew, that was close!"? Papa Emeritus III fucked around with this message at 10:56 on Jul 17, 2017 |
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Jul 17, 2017 10:52
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There's a definite tipping point that marks becoming educated about electricity and that's when instead of being worried about shock hazards you have nightmares about arc flash.
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Jul 17, 2017 11:41
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I dunno, an Arc Flash would be a good way to go
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Jul 17, 2017 11:48
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Electrical engineering IS an exact science. An alarming number of licensed electricians think electricity is magic, though.
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Jul 17, 2017 11:51
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The magical part's electrochemistry.
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Jul 17, 2017 11:54
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Cumslut1895 posted:to be fair, he thought the sign was being sarcastic He's just proving a point. If they can't use quotes correctly, they don't deserve properly calibrated/cleaned equipment
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Jul 17, 2017 11:58
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:I dunno, an Arc Flash would be a good way to go Right? Most other ways to go, there's at least a few seconds in there where you know exactly what is going on. With an arc flash, you go one moment trying to remember the name of that one movie with the guy who was in Cheers but not frasier or norm, you know, the other guy, and then the next moment jesus or ganesha or whatever is all 'you mean Cliff? Yeah that's john ratzenberger he was in like half the pixar films and a bunch of other crap.' All things considered, going from hale and hearty to rapidly expanding cloud of steam in a handful of nanoseconds is a pretty good way to go.
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Jul 17, 2017 16:00
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OSHA baboon. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-40629597 About a year ago it was OSHA monkey. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36475667
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Jul 17, 2017 16:33
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azurite posted:Oh God. So if someone fashions one of these, it means they have an inadequately or un-covered male plug at the other end of their lights, right?! yea, it's a major warning sign for two reasons: 1, it means you're dumb enough to put your lights up backwards; and 2, it means you're dumb enough to either not want to just buy an outdoor extension cord and run it up to your roof or you're actually dumb enough to have considered it, but still figure that a male/male plug is still a better idea. basically as soon as you come looking for the male/male cord your name should go into a database and people should be performing daily welfare checks on you.
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Jul 17, 2017 16:34
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By comparison is a female/female plug as dangerous?
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RatHat posted:By comparison is a female/female plug as dangerous? you should never have the live electrical jizz pouring out of a male plug - and to get the electricity into a female female you need at least one male spewing forth electrical juice e/ so you should never need a female female plug for electricity that can kill you. for stuff where it doesnt matter like say audio cables, you see them all the time. but if you need a female to female for mains or higher, you done hosed up
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Jul 17, 2017 18:44
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RatHat posted:By comparison is a female/female plug as dangerous? no, because you probably dont have a complete circuit
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbpPIYy_YQk&t=211s
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Raskolnikov38 posted:no, because you probably dont have a complete circuit Have you considered what happens during scissoring?
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RatHat posted:By comparison is a female/female plug as dangerous? Is this a Requiem for a Dream reference?
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Azhais posted:Is this a Requiem for a Dream reference? 
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Jul 17, 2017 19:05
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Stay. Out. Of. The. Wash. https://www.facebook.com/ABC15/vide...kog&pnref=story At least 9 dead. I don't know what it is about the desert, nobody goes outside in the dead of winter in Alaska wearing just jockey shorts or flip-flops, but people don't think twice about trying to climb rocks in the desert with only a single bottle of water. Or hanging out in a wash during monsoon season.
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JFairfax posted:you should never have the live electrical jizz pouring out of a male plug - and to get the electricity into a female female you need at least one male spewing forth electrical juice Right. Technically male receptacles do exist -- you might recognize them from the back of your computer/monitor, where that oddly ubiquitous power cable plugs in -- but they're only ever supposed to be used on the *receiving* side of power, so that you can connect a removable power cord to them which has a conventional male end on the other side.
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I can't believe "don't have protruding energised conductors" is such a weird thing for people.
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TTerrible posted:I can't believe "don't have protruding energised conductors" is such a weird thing for people. Lots of people have trouble understanding that something they can't see can kill them. See also: gas and radiation.
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Jul 17, 2017 20:02
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Widowmakers are legendary in the entertainment industry for some reason (old school 'the show must go on!' bullshit maybe) but despite everyone having stories I've never come across one.
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Skippy McPants posted:Lots of people have trouble understanding that something they can't see can kill them. See also: gas and radiation. On the flip side people obsesses over things that don't affect them at all.
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oohhboy posted:On the flip side people obsesses over things that don't affect them at all. Like poor people being paid living wages, taxes, and universal healthcare?
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