|
spog posted:A clever bit of advice I heard is that if you are women and you are attached a night: shout 'Fire!' SenseLess fucked around with this message at 12:03 on May 4, 2018 |
#
?
May 4, 2018 11:58
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 6, 2024 22:26 |
|
|
Hold my sambuca while I get twelve burly dudes
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 12:00
|
|
|
SenseLess posted:I am not sure that is really clever advice because if someone yells 'fire' people tend to respond by running away from that location instead of towards it. Has this thread taught you nothing? People will happily put themselves in harms way to see something cool
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 12:16
|
|
|
Hold my sambucas while I get twelve bruvs
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 12:19
|
|
|
https://i.imgur.com/PSRtKp5.mp4 The guy survived with a broken leg, there were a few other broken legs and arms. If an escalator is out of order, don't walk down the loving thing.
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 13:25
|
|
|
Well usually when an escalator is out of order it is called 'stairs'. If there was an issue with it where people shouldn't be on it, they needed to rope it off or something.
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 13:30
|
|
|
Contrary to Mitch Herberg's advice, an out of order escalator is actually a masticator disguised as stairs
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 13:41
|
|
|
Sentient Data posted:Contrary to Mitch Herberg's advice, an out of order escalator is actually a masticator disguised as stairs Ohh here here he comes Watch out boy, she'll chew you up She's an escalator
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 13:47
|
|
|
The DC metro would have been totally inaccessible for the last 15 years if you couldn't walk on out-of-order escalators. Of course that might have saved people from all the fires...
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 13:49
|
|
|
Memento posted:https://i.imgur.com/PSRtKp5.mp4 This poo poo makes me want to avoid properly functioning ones even.
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 14:02
|
|
|
5er posted:This poo poo makes me want to avoid properly functioning ones even. Yeeeaaaaahh... When I was 5 I was pushed down an escalator by some random guy. I feel down exactly 4 steps before my dad caught me but pretty much every patch of exposed skin on my arms and legs was scraped really badly and I got bruised all to hell. On top of that it fed a phobia of escalators that I didn't get over until I was 12. I think that phobia might be back.
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 14:16
|
|
|
Escalator now stairs. Sorry for the convenience
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 14:22
|
|
|
A couple years ago at a casino on new years eve I was sitting at a bar right next to an escalator and a drunk as hell older guy tumbled down about half its length. It looked like something out of a movie, literally did a couple summersaults on his way down. I kinda sat there watching him, dumbfounded, until someone that was further away yelled "help him up" which snapped me and another guy out of it and we picked him up and yanked him away from the end of the escalator. He picked up the slot machine tickets he had dropped and shuffled off without saying a word.
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 14:24
|
|
|
Jerry Cotton posted:We don't have that many above-ground fire hydrants and the ones we do have are almost never stand-alone posts as is common in the US so a co-worker who's in a volunteer fire brigade (which are a rather important part of fire-fighting around here) told me they once spent minutes searching for the hydrant with everyone shouting "we HAVE the right co-ordinates it's GOT to be here" at each other until someone noticed the fire engine was parked on top of it. Very professional. Very handy. That seems like a really strange design choice. Where I grew up, they would add extra orange poles to the top to make sure they couldn't be hidden by snow. Even if you have a below ground hydrant, I would think you'd want a marker pole with a big sign on it so that you don't end up missing it in a panic situation.
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 14:34
|
|
|
Leviathan Song posted:That seems like a really strange design choice. Where I grew up, they would add extra orange poles to the top to make sure they couldn't be hidden by snow. Even if you have a below ground hydrant, I would think you'd want a marker pole with a big sign on it so that you don't end up missing it in a panic situation. In addition to maps and GPS I guess, there is always a marker on the closest wall (at least I think that's what these are:)  But yeah, surface snow and ice are a major problem which is why they carry blowtorches. The hydrants are located on the street, not by the side of the street or on the sidewalk, probably because the side of the street and the sidewalk will have loads more snow on them after plowing. Melting or hacking through a few cm of ice is a lot easier than digging through ½-1½ m of hard-packed snow + ice.  Also not likely to be many cars parked in the middle of the street - except in this case.
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 15:47
|
|
|
Dr.Smasher posted:Nascar would be way more watchable if they had more road courses than Sears Point and Watkins Glen. they're adding at least one this year and the trucks run on dirt once a season
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 16:38
|
|
|
SenseLess posted:I am not sure that is really clever advice because if someone yells 'fire' people tend to respond by running away from that location instead of towards it. What if you shout "WORLDSTAR"?
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 17:20
|
|
|
I read about that helicopter thing this week, and then noticed that it happened like 20 minutes from my house  That guy is really lucky no one died thanks to his endeavor.
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 17:35
|
|
|
The sloped yard is what makes the helicopter thing insanely retarded instead of just regular retarded. You’re taking something that’s already difficult and making it 10x harder and 100x more likely to result in a tail rotor strike.
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 17:49
|
|
|
veiled boner fuel posted:The sloped yard is what makes the helicopter thing insanely retarded instead of just regular retarded. Not that I don't agree with what you are saying but I think "untrained pilot trying to fly kit gyrocopter in residential backyard" qualifies as insanely retarded no matter what the slope of the yard is, personally.
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 18:03
|
|
|
Ixian posted:Not that I don't agree with what you are saying but I think "untrained pilot trying to fly kit gyrocopter in residential backyard" qualifies as insanely retarded no matter what the slope of the yard is, personally. Just attach some drat balloons to a patio chair at least that won't hurt anyone.
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 18:40
|
|
|
Chillbro Baggins posted:A valid tactic. Lol at forgetting to turn left.
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 18:53
|
|
|
Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Just attach some drat balloons to a patio chair at least that won't hurt anyone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7w_v9J7iOc
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 18:54
|
|
|
His story is actually in one of the units of the Cambridge English for Engineering textbook.
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 19:14
|
|
|
You folks might like this; in the biosciences the equivalent of OSHA is IRB, Institutional Review Board and their job is to ensure that participants in research don't get killed, maimed, poisoned and all that. Before you can do ANYTHING involving human subjects you have to submit your protocol to the IRB for review, if it's invasive or risky in any way it goes to a full board review of clinicians and PhD's that hash out every aspect of the proposed study and its risks versus the benefits. A middle/high school science fair almost always requires an IRB be convened for exactly the same reason, to protect the researchers and participants. Last night was my 7th grade daughters science fair and there was no IRB. What I saw as a judge was pretty interesting; 1) Some kids made "dirty water" by filling a bucket with dirt and stuff from their yard. They then built a gravity filter out of a 2 liter plastic Coke bottle cut open and filled with sand, rocks and ashes, filtered the water and "proved that it was clean" by drinking it. 2) Two really sweet young ladies wanted to know if the preservatives in a McDonald's hamburger would "make it rot slower compared to a homemade hamburger". So they acquired each of those things and left them on the counter in their kitchen "to rot for a while" but their mom told them that they had to put the burgers into a plastic container. They put both burgers (buns, onions, tomatoes, everything) into a Tupperware container, sealed it and stuck it in their dark closet for like 3 weeks. Interesting but the burgers didn't rot, they grew mold. LOTS of mold. BLACK, fuzzy, nasty dark loving mold. They then, of course, brought the burgers in to the science fair took them out of the Tupperware and left them on the table by their poster. You could actually see the mist of spores rising off of the very healthy black mold when the sun hit the burgers. 3) My favorite. A group of four kids decided to "test whether hand sanitize, applied to your hands and ignited would hurt. That was the hypothesis; "will it hurt and how long will it take to hurt if it does". They emptied a liter bottle of hand sanitizer into a shallow bowl, covered their hands in it and lit it on fire in a kitchen somewhere. They had MANY photographs of themselves holding up their flaming hands right next to the bowl filled with most of a liter of sanitizer. Their conclusion was "carbon tetrachloride burns" (which I don't think is even an ingredient), they also concluded that "William is the toughest" because he let the alcohol burn until it went out. Also that, indeed, "burning hand sanitizer can cause pain.". Yes they brought ANOTHER liter bottle of sanitizer to the crowded science fair in the gym of the school, poured it all into a bowl and offered to demonstrate using the lighter they had handy! There will be an IRB next year.
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 19:54
|
|
|
Snowglobe of Doom posted:They'll even ram cop cars if they're blocking their access Occupying armies, too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yco1deXOzN8
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 19:59
|
|
|
My university teacher wouldn't let me bring in a small piece of uranium ore for my random number generator project. 
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 20:02
|
|
|
I forgot one; 4) A group of three boys made "homemade liquid nitrogen" and froze things with it. Homemade liquid nitrogen is a big chuck of dry ice in a bottle of alcohol (methyl, ethyl, who the hell knows) so -83 rather than -340 or so right. They then dipped things into it and hit them with a hammer. One kid shared that "sticking your finger in it makes your finger numb!"
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 20:15
|
|
|
ChlamydiaJones posted:I forgot one; My senior year science fair wasn't quite the horror show, but we did have a guy with a big container of liquid nitrogen that would freeze just about anything for fun. We sent somebody on a lunch run and then tried frozen taco bell and frozen jr bacon cheeseburgers. Surprisingly okay.
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 20:41
|
|
|
FuturePastNow posted:Occupying armies, too! Hearts and minds!     
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 20:50
|
|
|
ekuNNN posted:Hearts and minds! Shock and Awe!
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 21:06
|
|
|
ChlamydiaJones posted:You folks might like this; in the biosciences the equivalent of OSHA is IRB, Institutional Review Board and their job is to ensure that participants in research don't get killed, maimed, poisoned and all that. Before you can do ANYTHING involving human subjects you have to submit your protocol to the IRB for review, if it's invasive or risky in any way it goes to a full board review of clinicians and PhD's that hash out every aspect of the proposed study and its risks versus the benefits. A middle/high school science fair almost always requires an IRB be convened for exactly the same reason, to protect the researchers and participants. Oh my God.
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 21:17
|
|
|
FuturePastNow posted:Occupying armies, too! Was their mission : 'Be a dick to the greatest number of people possible. Difficulty level: no airstrikes, no guns'?
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 23:07
|
|
|
spog posted:Was their mission : 'Be a dick to the greatest number of people possible. Difficulty level: no airstrikes, no guns'? No, their mission was not to stop for anything ever, because if they did someone would try to blow them up.
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 23:12
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 23:18
|
|
|
FuturePastNow posted:Occupying armies, too! If you never fantasized about doing exactly that while fighting traffic, you might be clinically dead.
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 23:19
|
|
|
Trabant posted:If you never fantasized about doing exactly that while fighting traffic, you might be clinically dead. Compared to Black Water these guys are saints. poo poo either way.
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 23:31
|
|
|
Snowglobe of Doom posted:Also firefighters really loving hate people who block hydrants and they take an ENORMOUS amount of joy in being able to legally smash the gently caress out of their poo poo: Yeah even the ones who don't enjoy it in particular are still going to be "Oh, I'm going to teach this fucker a lesson." Parking in front of a hydrant can make it more difficult to attach the hose or can create a cinch in a very inconvenient place that fucks up the flow. I think this is why they just smash the windows out and feed the hose through the car. Then there's nothing in the way and the hose can do its thing! And really you shouldn't be parking there anyway. Even if obliterating your car is illegal I really can't see the legal system anywhere actually calling a fire fighter responding to a fire on that sort of thing. Like was said that's illegal parking in the first place. It's like hey guys, don't block the drat fire hydrant. Don't do it. Don't be That Guy. When I worked at a Walmart I constantly saw people parking in the fire lane right in front. You know, where ambulances and fire trucks would go. Since neither showed up commonly people (and it would always be the same lazy, fat fucks who can't be assed to walk an extra 20 feet) would park there with their blinkers on for sometimes hours at a time. I always wanted a fire to break out so that the fire department would just scream up and pulverize all the cars but it never happened. If you're taking somebody to the store who can't walk all that well then feel free to drop them off at the door and then park properly but DON'T LEAVE YOUR drat CAR IN THE FIRE LANE. Ever. Don't loving do it. I think one of the reasons people do it is because "yeah well fires rarely happen so it isn't a big deal, right?" It's a big deal you fucker. Don't do it.
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 23:38
|
|
|
spog posted:Was their mission : 'Be a dick to the greatest number of people possible. Difficulty level: no airstrikes, no guns'? They're probably cops now.
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 23:46
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 6, 2024 22:26 |
|
|
ChlamydiaJones posted:I forgot one; This sounds like what happens when you grow up watching jackasses do "experiments" on youtube
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2018 23:50
|
|
