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Pander posted:RE: Fedex flight 705 Your brain has a lot of redundant systems. The human body, fragile and poorly designed as it is, is made to survive extreme emergency conditions for just long enough for you to get to safety. Once you're safe and you exhale and relax, that's when systems start shutting down and poo poo starts getting dangerous.
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Nth Doctor posted:Don't. The writing is pre-literate children's level. The only good character is H.M. Wogglebug, T.E., and only then because of his love of puns. Everyone else is so flat they're 0 dimensional. Correct, although the sequels go to some truly strange places. Read the 4 Wicked books instead, the quality actually goes up from the first one.
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I know. It's like that time on Black Friday, where I was trying to get a gross of Butterfinger bars from Wal-Mart. I clobbered so many grandmas and children who got in my way that day, it was like I was the Hulk. Then when I got home I diarrhea'd myself and passed out on the floor. The human body is capable of such amazing things.
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That's just because of your pastry-based diet
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The Wonderful Land takes place after the Wizard's departure. It was even made into a movie. I've only seen the movie, the book is probably different,? A boy ran away from a witch who wanted to kill him because he brought a pumpkin-head man to life. Wobblebug is in the movie, and so are the Tin-man and the Scarecrow. The boy is captured by female revolutionaries opposed to chores. They see overthrowing the Scarecrow as the answer. But they get distracted by looting jewelry. It turns out the boy is actually an enchanted princess. The wizard usurped her rule and gave her to a witch. The witch turned her into a boy. In the end the princess is cured but with total amnesia.
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spankmeister posted:That's just because of your pastry-based diet Well, pastries are the bedrock of the North American Inverted Food Trapezoid. Frosting does a body adequate.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Well, pastries are the bedrock of the North American Inverted Food Trapezoid.
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yesterday at work, we had a truck backed into the loading bay door. One of our guys was driving a forklift into it and apparently the truck driver pulled out while this was happening. The forklift and driver fell down onto the ground. Dude was okay, but he wasn't wearing his seatbelt and hopped out. I heard someone mention "he was lucky he wasn't wearing his seltbelt" and I asked why and they said "he could have broken his back". I don't think the 4 feet or however high a truck trailer is is going to break your back if you land in a forklift while strapped in. You can however be crushed to death really easily if you fall out of it. edit: looking at youtube, this thing apparently happens all the time Drunk Driver Dad fucked around with this message at 10:13 on Aug 17, 2017 |
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Pander posted:RE: Fedex flight 705 He has the badS flag. 
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Drunk Driver Dad posted:yesterday at work, we had a truck backed into the loading bay door. One of our guys was driving a forklift into it and apparently the truck driver pulled out while this was happening. The forklift and driver fell down onto the ground. Dude was okay, but he wasn't wearing his seatbelt and hopped out. I heard someone mention "he was lucky he wasn't wearing his seltbelt" and I asked why and they said "he could have broken his back". I don't think the 4 feet or however high a truck trailer is is going to break your back if you land in a forklift while strapped in. You can however be crushed to death really easily if you fall out of it. Christ. Most places tell you that even an olympic jumper doesn't have a chance at jumping out because of the speed that the forklift falls over.
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Is taking the keys off the driver not a thing done at some places? We get our arses kicked if they aren't in the lockbox while the truck is being serviced. Not to mention not wearing a seatbelt. The forks don't work if the belt isn't closed, and if you did it up behind yourself, I bet you'd get fired.
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Blueheim posted:Christ. Most places tell you that even an olympic jumper doesn't have a chance at jumping out because of the speed that the forklift falls over. I'm guessing there is "extra time" when it starts falling because you have to wait for the gap between the truck and dock to grow large enough to fall through. And it wasn't a manager or anything that said it, just a random dude who worked there. I'm not sure what precautions they are going to take from now on, it didn't even happen on my shift.
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Pander posted:RE: Fedex flight 705 years (decades in this case) of experience and repetition making the necessary procedures and corrections require little in the way of active thought combined with instrumentation and automation that (under good conditions) will very easily guide you through the process.
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evobatman posted:Your brain has a lot of redundant systems. The human body, fragile and poorly designed as it is, is made to survive extreme emergency conditions for just long enough for you to get to safety. Once you're safe and you exhale and relax, that's when systems start shutting down and poo poo starts getting dangerous. What if instead of treating life threatening head injuries, you just put those people into extreme situations one after another to keep then alive. Okay Bob, that hostage negotion at gun point is done and HOLY poo poo someone has to defuse this bomb that is under the car right now while driving you to your next task of infiltrating ISIS within an hour.
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EVIL Gibson posted:What if instead of treating life threatening head injuries, you just put those people into extreme situations one after another to keep then alive.
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Yawgmoth posted:This sounds like it would make an amazing Jason Statham movie plot. I think it's already the plot of 24.
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Yawgmoth posted:This sounds like it would make an amazing Jason Statham movie plot. I wanna see a reality TV show based around this. "Susan is a 45 year old mother of 3 from Blonksburg Kentucky who enjoys needlepoint and backgammon. If she can last 10 minutes being waterboarded she'll advance to the next round!"
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I wanna see a reality TV show based around this. "Susan is a 45 year old mother of 3 from Blonksburg Kentucky who enjoys needlepoint and backgammon. If she can last 10 minutes being waterboarded she'll advance to the next round!" I think they did that in 24
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Still waiting for Crank 3.
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Yawgmoth posted:This sounds like it would make an amazing Jason Statham movie plot. Pretty sure it already was, and it the movies were called Crank and then Crank: High Voltage. High voltage is a loving insane movie, it's not awesome or anything, but 20 minutes of that movie feels like you've been watching for an hour minimum.
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What do you mean it's not awesome  oohhboy posted:Still waiting for Crank 3.
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http://i.imgur.com/TiZ1LuD.mp4
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Say Nothing posted:It's one of those new high-tech segmented tires. CHISELED SPAM
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Re: brain injury chat, I suspect that's probably why the co-pilot put the plane under so much stress - if he hadn't had a baseball sized hole in his skull at the time he might have had the wherewithal to be able to achieve his goal of loving up the hijacker without defaulting to his combat training and flying a DC 10 as though it was an F-14. Would have been way less rad though.
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Was hoping it'd bounce off the trampoline and into his house.
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Zopotantor posted:CHISELED SPAM Seriously. I am ready for smartwheels.
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Here's a compilation video of idiots cutting trees with chainsaws and causing all sorts of destruction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OZWjjjec9c That channel has a bunch more CHAINSAW FAIL compilation videos if that floats your boat
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The Russian one with the tree heavily bowed over before the cut is terrifying. After the top launches off you can see cutter whirling around the tree trying to hold on and the chainsaw on a tether chasing him around the tree. It's like a Final Destination scene come to life.
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Mustached Demon posted:Was hoping it'd bounce off the trampoline and into his house. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yqYv4K9v9c&t=308s
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With a fall time of ~3.5s, the arborist is about 60m up 
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what's actually wrong with that cut?
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Werong Bustope posted:Re: brain injury chat, I suspect that's probably why the co-pilot put the plane under so much stress - if he hadn't had a baseball sized hole in his skull at the time he might have had the wherewithal to be able to achieve his goal of loving up the hijacker without defaulting to his combat training and flying a DC 10 as though it was an F-14. Would have been way less rad though. I dunno, can you continuously knock someone off their feet for like half an hour without going all Ace Combat?
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Submarine Sandpaper posted:what's actually wrong with that cut? Not a thing, arborists are OSHA by nature. Here's a pic of the guy who helps out at my place! 
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Volcott posted:I dunno, can you continuously knock someone off their feet for like half an hour without going all Ace Combat? I'm just kinda basing that off the fact that a) he himself was like "I didn't actually know if I was helping" and b) that he didn't mean to almost hit Mach 1, he just didn't clock that the throttle was still fully engaged, which suggests he was operating more intuitively than making conscious decisions. Though then again he had the gumption to roll a DC-10 but the sense not to flip it on its back and ruin his visibility so who knows. Either way, both him and the captain must spend a lot on reinforced trousers for their enormous brass balls.
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Zopotantor posted:CHISELED SPAM
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Werong Bustope posted:I'm just kinda basing that off the fact that a) he himself was like "I didn't actually know if I was helping" and b) that he didn't mean to almost hit Mach 1, he just didn't clock that the throttle was still fully engaged, which suggests he was operating more intuitively than making conscious decisions. Though then again he had the gumption to roll a DC-10 but the sense not to flip it on its back and ruin his visibility so who knows. Flying a plane for pilots that have been doing it a long time is a lot like driving a car for everyone else, when oh poo poo moments hit a lot of instinct and their training kicks in and they end up doing things without really having to put a ton of thought into it. Source: my father flew for 30+ years and ran into plenty of situations that would have made me poo poo my pants whereas he did everything right and avoided tragedies.
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No, I know, that's what I'm trying to get at - it kinda feels from the story as described as though he defaulted to his air combat training, and had he not been dazed as hell he might have pulled similar manoeuvres but not to the same extreme (because he was in a plane that couldn't take that kind of stress.) They're clearly both fantastic pilots, I just found that aspect interesting.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Here's a compilation video of idiots cutting trees with chainsaws and causing all sorts of destruction: the last one is a lesson in not trying to outrun a tree
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Werong Bustope posted:No, I know, that's what I'm trying to get at - it kinda feels from the story as described as though he defaulted to his air combat training, and had he not been dazed as hell he might have pulled similar manoeuvres but not to the same extreme (because he was in a plane that couldn't take that kind of stress.) They're clearly both fantastic pilots, I just found that aspect interesting. Ahhh gotcha, so we're saying the same thing you say? gently caress you, I'M MORE RIGHT drat IT.
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