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Powershift
Nov 23, 2009



http://i.imgur.com/rVy8Axx.mp4
http://i.imgur.com/I7XyDSC.mp4

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Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBdd2OE5d3A

RatHat
Dec 31, 2007

A tiny behatted rat👒🐀!
Aside from the pain are there any actual problems doing that? Infection from the burn maybe?

IPCRESS
May 27, 2012

RatHat posted:

Aside from the pain are there any actual problems doing that? Infection from the burn maybe?

Eye damage from backscatter light.

Elevated risk of skin cancer if UV is a component of the laser light used.

A predisposition to joining MI and getting eaten by bugs.

13Pandora13
Nov 5, 2008

I've got tiiits that swingle dangle dingle




RatHat posted:

Aside from the pain are there any actual problems doing that? Infection from the burn maybe?

I mean, doing it that direction is pretty loving dumb.

Deteriorata
Feb 6, 2005

RatHat posted:

Aside from the pain are there any actual problems doing that? Infection from the burn maybe?

It would be a lot faster and simpler to use a red-hot branding iron.

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
Canada?

Messadiah
Jan 12, 2001


No snow tires is definitely OSHA WorksafeBC

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

https://i.imgur.com/p0D7qu6.gifv

Mo_Steel
Mar 7, 2008

Let's Clock Into The Sunset Together

Fun Shoe

Dillbag
Mar 4, 2007

Click here to join Lem Lee in the Hell Of Being Cut To Pieces
Nap Ghost

Yep, Vancouver during the snow storms last winter. The busses usually say "Sorry, not in service" when not operating, but it's even more Canadian that the drivers made the effort to switch the signs after getting stuck.

harperska
Mar 15, 2005

Deteriorata posted:

I thought it got dark because all the solar panels quit working.

The opposite, actually. They plugged in too many solar panels and they sucked up all the sunlight.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

harperska posted:

The opposite, actually. They plugged in too many solar panels and they sucked up all the sunlight.

It’s like when the water in a bathtub gets low.

Wake up, sheeple!

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHeCtXL9F9c

drowned in pussy juice
Oct 13, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

i wasn't sure how something could be absolutely disgusting and adorable at the same time but here we are

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule



"In India Blue represents one of the more favourable gods..."

OK, nothing wrong to see here!

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

Proteus Jones
Feb 28, 2013



harperska posted:

The opposite, actually. They plugged in too many solar panels and they sucked up all the sunlight.

http://www.discovery.com/dscovrd/tech/town-rejects-solar-panels-that-would-suck-up-all-the-energy-from-the-sun/

quote:

The Woodland Town Council was meeting to re-zone land for a proposed solar power project from Strata Solar Company. During the meeting, a retired science teacher raised concerns "that photosynthesis, which depends upon sunlight, would not happen and would keep the plants from growing,"

Warbadger
Jun 17, 2006


I mean, science teacher dude could be right depending on the context. Not a lot is going to grow in the (potentially expansive) shaded area under all the panels.

You can't really tell from the bit of quoted text whether this one was a guy angry about losing a large green space to development or just being dumb as hell like the cancer person and the fake study.

oohhboy
Jun 8, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
You could grow mushrooms under it and use the waste water from cleaning the panels on the crop.

FCKGW
May 21, 2006

FCKGW posted:

No kidding. I wonder where he's going from and to.



Oh.




Here's him doing a Matthew McConaughey impression before "bracing" his tunnel with a pair of 1" metal tubes, the kind you might use to assemble a small shed.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLxNoh4zmrc

This was from a while back, but I went looking for how this guy was doing and now his account is gone. Bummer, I wanted to see his tunnel collapse.

DiHK
Feb 4, 2013

by Azathoth

I'm really more interested in the teleportation technology that city worker used to arrive at the sink hole so quickly.


In other news I saw one of those tree removal guys (like Ashplund but not Ashplund) on his lunch brake just chillin... in the IN-chute of his trailer sized wood chipper. I regret that my wife was with me and I could not bring photographic evidence.

Lutha Mahtin
Oct 10, 2010

Your brokebrain sin is absolved...go and shitpost no more!

DiHK posted:

In other news I saw one of those tree removal guys (like Ashplund but not Ashplund) on his lunch brake just chillin... in the IN-chute of his trailer sized wood chipper. I regret that my wife was with me and I could not bring photographic evidence.

the actual company is Asplundh, so i guess if you saw a dude who was a second-generation knockoff then yeah that would explain it

DiHK
Feb 4, 2013

by Azathoth
White truck with no logo though and a yellow chipper... although I feel like I've seen actual Ashplunhd trucks in Chicagoland so idk wtf.

EDIT: Also, seemed like privately hired work too, they weren't clearing utility linty lines. Seemed like they were doing whole tree removal in somebody's back yard though there was another truck (with no chipper) up the street a bit.

DiHK fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Aug 23, 2017

Johnny Aztec
Jan 30, 2005

by Hand Knit

FCKGW posted:

This was from a while back, but I went looking for how this guy was doing and now his account is gone. Bummer, I wanted to see his tunnel collapse.

Awww, he must have gotten found out and whacked.
Those videos were so WTF.

monolithburger
Sep 7, 2011

Applesnots posted:

I was referring to the one before it. I pocket sized laser capable of burning light colored materials. no glasses and poo poo if a child got ah hold of that woo..... If I remember right anything that strong to be sold to consumers has to have a key lock on it.

This one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4fp89a-edo

AVE is on the case https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7WmUXtizEA

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

Laughed out loud when I saw "patented and confidential"

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
Switchblade Switcharoo

DiHK posted:

I'm really more interested in the teleportation technology that city worker used to arrive at the sink hole so quickly.

It was a false flag, he blew up the road so he could be the hero :tinfoil:

Slanderer
May 6, 2007

even when he is trying to be serious, he often has no idea what he's talking about. he's wrong on the power supply requirements, and on how FCC, UL and other certifications work. This is a dumb idea for tons of reasons, though. But never trust the word of Canadians, who are all ignorant and superstitious

Splode
Jun 18, 2013

put some clothes on you little freak
cross-posting from the China thread

Haier posted:

Pro tip: DO NOT TRY TO SECURE A GOD drat TRUCK AGAINST THE WIND WITH YOUR MIDDLE-AGED ARMS. YOU WILL LOSE.

http://i.imgur.com/bzlaGhY.gifv

I have a video of the aftermath, but it's really bad.

Yeesh

Elysiume
Aug 13, 2009

Alone, she fights.
Wonder where "really bad" falls on the spectrum of broken bones to ketchup smear.

Volcott
Mar 30, 2010

People paying American dollars to let other people know they didn't agree with someone's position on something is the lifeblood of these forums.
Help me out here, what do you call one of these? I keep trying variants of "hand lantern" on amazon and I'm getting nothing but camping lanterns.

JB50
Feb 13, 2008

Volcott posted:

Help me out here, what do you call one of these? I keep trying variants of "hand lantern" on amazon and I'm getting nothing but camping lanterns.



http://alanwake.wikia.com/wiki/Heavy_Duty_Lantern

https://www.amazon.com/Rayovac-85-L...2DR1SF69PQRV8SC

Volcott
Mar 30, 2010

People paying American dollars to let other people know they didn't agree with someone's position on something is the lifeblood of these forums.

I did not google the exact name the game used because I am an idiot.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Slanderer posted:

even when he is trying to be serious, he often has no idea what he's talking about. he's wrong on the power supply requirements, and on how FCC, UL and other certifications work. This is a dumb idea for tons of reasons, though. But never trust the word of Canadians, who are all ignorant and superstitious

AvE is generally pretty entertaining but he definitely has a problem with shooting his mouth off when he doesn't really know what's going on.

Also while I've met plenty of shop guys who talk like him you'd think a guy with a daughter would be more sensitive about using terms like "oval office hair" as a unit of measure

Johnny Aztec
Jan 30, 2005

by Hand Knit

Elysiume posted:

Wonder where "really bad" falls on the spectrum of broken bones to ketchup smear.

He's dead, Jim.

Arms_Akimbo
Sep 29, 2006

It's so damn...literal.

Elysiume posted:

Wonder where "really bad" falls on the spectrum of broken bones to ketchup smear.

Whole peeled tomatoes in a can?

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Volcott posted:

I did not google the exact name the game used because I am an idiot.

Their defining characteristic is arguably that they take 6 V lantern batteries, and searching for that (“6v lantern” or “battery lantern”) turns up several models—all the better if you can filter by category to remove the actual batteries from results.

Platystemon fucked around with this message at 07:56 on Aug 23, 2017

beep-beep car is go
Apr 11, 2005

I can just eyeball this, right?



DiHK posted:

In other news I saw one of those tree removal guys (like Ashplund but not Ashplund) on his lunch brake just chillin... in the IN-chute of his trailer sized wood chipper. I regret that my wife was with me and I could not bring photographic evidence.

My Dad worked for Asplundh in the 70s and 80s. Talk about an OSHA unfriendly job. He was observant and careful (and lucky!) but according to him the whole thing seemed incredibly unsafe at times.

He was one of the few tree trimmers in our area that did use the 12” “circular saw on a stick” trimmer instead of the “chainsaw on a stick” trimmer while working in the bucket.

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mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

Slanderer posted:

even when he is trying to be serious, he often has no idea what he's talking about. he's wrong on the power supply requirements, and on how FCC, UL and other certifications work. This is a dumb idea for tons of reasons, though. But never trust the word of Canadians, who are all ignorant and superstitious
Yeah he doesn't know some of the poo poo he talks any better than I do but that doesn't stop him, and that's what makes watching uncle bumblefuck so entertaining! Just don't make any life critical engineering decisions based on his vidjayos.

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