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Former DILF
Jul 13, 2017

Methylethylaldehyde posted:

Somewhere in Canada this is a thing.

Funnel cake fingers
Little bits of cannoli filling
chocolate sauce gravy

Just off the top of my head

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ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

"Tiny Trains"

Chinese place in my town got shut down with a health report so bad it made the news. The next day the entire building was surrounded by construction fencing and boarded up. A health inspection so bad they're gutting/demolishing the entire building.

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

minato
Jun 7, 2004

cutty cain't hang, say 7-up.
Taco Defender

Baronjutter posted:

Chinese place in my town got shut down with a health report so bad it made the news. The next day the entire building was surrounded by construction fencing and boarded up. A health inspection so bad they're gutting/demolishing the entire building.

Chinese place in my town got shut down 7 times. Each time they transferred ownership to a relative (in San Francisco that means the "new" restaurant has no health record), changed the name, and re-opened again within days.

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
Switchblade Switcharoo

In the year one million and a half...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szHiOqbjgPY

Spime Wrangler
Feb 23, 2003

Because we can.

LanceHunter posted:

Meh, could be worse. Easily the scariest piece of equipment I've ever seen someone work with...



They were doing some "chainsaw" tree-stump sculpting. Fortunately, the thing broke fairly quickly and in a way that didn't end up killing or maiming anyone.

You can get 9” versions of these rated for 10k rpm that attach to the end of gas weedwhackers. We use em for clearing brush and small trees, and when spun up they will go through a 2” tree in under a second. The teeth catch and just suck the blade through. There’s an unholy amount of rotational kinetic energy in those things with no clutch or brake and they make chainsaws look super safe.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

LanceHunter posted:

Meh, could be worse. Easily the scariest piece of equipment I've ever seen someone work with...



They were doing some "chainsaw" tree-stump sculpting. Fortunately, the thing broke fairly quickly and in a way that didn't end up killing or maiming anyone.

Whoso pulleth out this saw of this knee and thigh, is rightwise King born of all England.


“Lancelot” is instruction for the nurses.

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.
You should see the Mordred.

Asproigerosis
Mar 13, 2013

insufferable
Not really OSHA related, but I just wanted to complain about how lovely the power infrastructure is here. Our MRI unit is constantly having problems with software corruption and hardware failure. Had to call the field service engineer today. He's been coming to our site at least once a week and this was the third time this week. The problem this time was that all of the post processing programs were deactivated somehow. The only solution that GE knew of was to format and reinstall. Again. The dude showed me the remote RMS monitor app on his phone and one of the phases dumped down to 128 volts. I aint no electricalman, but I know that 128 isn't anywhere near 480.

I personally blame our company for being too cheap to buy a UPS or I don't know upgrade our loving equipment that is 15 years old and probably doesn't have fancy power things that safeguard against this stuff?

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

minato posted:

Chinese place in my town got shut down 7 times. Each time they transferred ownership to a relative (in San Francisco that means the "new" restaurant has no health record), changed the name, and re-opened again within days.

They don’t have to get inspected to open? Yeesh.

Bombadilillo
Feb 28, 2009

The dock really fucks a case or nerfing it.

Asproigerosis posted:

Not really OSHA related, but I just wanted to complain about how lovely the power infrastructure is here. Our MRI unit is constantly having problems with software corruption and hardware failure. Had to call the field service engineer today. He's been coming to our site at least once a week and this was the third time this week. The problem this time was that all of the post processing programs were deactivated somehow. The only solution that GE knew of was to format and reinstall. Again. The dude showed me the remote RMS monitor app on his phone and one of the phases dumped down to 128 volts. I aint no electricalman, but I know that 128 isn't anywhere near 480.

I personally blame our company for being too cheap to buy a UPS or I don't know upgrade our loving equipment that is 15 years old and probably doesn't have fancy power things that safeguard against this stuff?

A ups will solve the problem. Someone needs to hand the beancounter the repair bills for a quarter and the price of a ups.

Cause they ain't cheap. But they work.

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

Asproigerosis posted:

Not really OSHA related, but I just wanted to complain about how lovely the power infrastructure is here. Our MRI unit is constantly having problems with software corruption and hardware failure. Had to call the field service engineer today. He's been coming to our site at least once a week and this was the third time this week. The problem this time was that all of the post processing programs were deactivated somehow. The only solution that GE knew of was to format and reinstall. Again. The dude showed me the remote RMS monitor app on his phone and one of the phases dumped down to 128 volts. I aint no electricalman, but I know that 128 isn't anywhere near 480.

I personally blame our company for being too cheap to buy a UPS or I don't know upgrade our loving equipment that is 15 years old and probably doesn't have fancy power things that safeguard against this stuff?

I'd be way, way more concerned about the motors and giant gently caress off million dollar electromagnets than the electronics in that scenario

tangy yet delightful
Sep 13, 2005



Bombadilillo posted:

A ups will solve the problem. Someone needs to hand the beancounter the repair bills for a quarter and the price of a ups.

Cause they ain't cheap. But they work.

Semi-related how feasible would a UPS for a residential house be? Like say 15 min - 1hr runtime for everything except HVAC/oven?

goatsestretchgoals
Jun 4, 2011

tangy yet delightful posted:

Semi-related how feasible would a UPS for a residential house be? Like say 15 min - 1hr runtime for everything except HVAC/oven?

Tesla Powerwall would probably work but might be way more than you were thinking because the website is talking about 7 days of power during an outage.

E: The top of the page is a dirty liar. Each $6000USD Powerwall is good for 13.5kWh.

goatsestretchgoals fucked around with this message at 02:11 on May 18, 2018

Asproigerosis
Mar 13, 2013

insufferable

Bombadilillo posted:

A ups will solve the problem. Someone needs to hand the beancounter the repair bills for a quarter and the price of a ups.

Cause they ain't cheap. But they work.

They just abuse service contracts instead of investing in protection for the equipment. On our nuc med camera I asked the service guy why we couldn't just get a UPS so we'd stop having issues from the constant power outages. He said they tried to sell them on a UPS but corporate balked at the gargantuan cost of $5,000. At the time, he wasn't under contract, so each visit was billable. Minimum $1,000 a visit, not including the price of the chip boards that were probably last manufactured 20 years ago.

shame on an IGA posted:

I'd be way, way more concerned about the motors and giant gently caress off million dollar electromagnets than the electronics in that scenario

Hmm the service engineer hasn't ever mentioned anything about things in the magnet itself. I don't know a drat thing about the guts other than there is liquid helium somewhere and electricity going around some cold wires and loud noises come out and the chiller goes chirp chirp chirp. Maybe he doesn't want to frighten our simple minds. I just know I spend an awful lot of time having to reset the circuit breaker on the Power Distribution Unit after an abrupt and unexpected hard shutdown.

Asproigerosis fucked around with this message at 02:17 on May 18, 2018

SpaceCadetBob
Dec 27, 2012

goatsestretchgoals posted:

Tesla Powerwall would probably work but might be way more than you were thinking because the website is talking about 7 days of power during an outage.

E: The top of the page is a dirty liar. Each $6000USD Powerwall is good for 13.5kWh.

Yeah, that is more like 12-24 hours depending on heating/cooking types. 7 days is based on getting power from panels every day.

tangy yet delightful
Sep 13, 2005



goatsestretchgoals posted:

Tesla Powerwall would probably work but might be way more than you were thinking because the website is talking about 7 days of power during an outage.

E: The top of the page is a dirty liar. Each $6000USD Powerwall is good for 13.5kWh.

Yeah...probably $1K or under is my think about it price :v:

MisterOblivious
Mar 17, 2010

by sebmojo

tangy yet delightful posted:

Yeah...probably $1K or under is my think about it price :v:

$1k won't buy you the grid tie inverter you need to hook up the batteries to your house.

Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

"Tiny Trains"

https://i.imgur.com/6loxtIx.mp4

oohhboy
Jun 8, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Risk wreaking multi-million dollar equipment over $5000 dollars. This checks out. You can be saving them a substantial amount of money with a little upfront cost but because it is an absence of cost it's not counted mentally as addition profit. This happens even though you demonstrate this to people no matter the organization. It can happen even when you help an individual make their lives easier at no cost retorting "That's how I have always done it". It's like trying to punch the stupid out of people.

Baronjutter posted:

Chinese place in my town got shut down with a health report so bad it made the news. The next day the entire building was surrounded by construction fencing and boarded up. A health inspection so bad they're gutting/demolishing the entire building.

I recall a game that did that if you let things get too far. I think it was Sim tower when a hotel room didn't get cleaned a cycle or two would force you to demolish it to get the space back.

Disgusting Chinese restaurants are everywhere but there are so many of them here no one sane would go to a visibly dirty restaurant with a D-F grade along with a list of violations on the door. It was bad enough that the neighbouring shops stepped up their pest protection as it impacted their grading when bugs showed up.

They simply went out of business in the end and I don't think the owners ever figure out why they didn't have any customers even after the second chance they got. No mysterious flaming car.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Ornamental Dingbat
Feb 26, 2007

His Divine Shadow posted:

TBH it sounds pretty awesome to live like that.

Then can I interest you in living in Alert, Nunavut, Canada? It's the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world.

For reference here's a map of where all the motherfuckers from the Erebus and Terror died from the cold compared to where Alert is:

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle





This is much stupider than it looks. The giraffe did not attempt to stick it's head through glass, the window was open. For unknown reasons the driver thought it a good idea to try to close the window while the enormous head was in the way.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLSg2wQEzNM

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

xergm posted:

Late to magnet chat, but here's a video of someone intentionally trying to combine 2 massive magnets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0t0J_ERzHM

The video is about 10min long, and they start putting them together at about 3:20. It's worth the watch to see the amount of thought they had to put into their rig.

Does this guy not own a mallet or did he just think using it wasn’t prudent?

LanceHunter
Nov 12, 2016

Beautiful People Club


Facebook Aunt posted:

This is much stupider than it looks. The giraffe did not attempt to stick it's head through glass, the window was open. For unknown reasons the driver thought it a good idea to try to close the window while the enormous head was in the way.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLSg2wQEzNM

We've had these drive-through "safari parks" in Texas for decades without incident. How is it that the UK gets them and we get videos of broken windows and people getting out of their cars around the cheetahs?

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle




LanceHunter posted:

We've had these drive-through "safari parks" in Texas for decades without incident. How is it that the UK gets them and we get videos of broken windows and people getting out of their cars around the cheetahs?

For centuries the most dangerous wildlife there has been, I dunno, hedgehogs or something.

goatsestretchgoals
Jun 4, 2011

Facebook Aunt posted:

For centuries the most dangerous wildlife there has been, I dunno, hedgehogs or something.

americanus texanus

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin
poo poo's on the move in Hawai'i

https://twitter.com/janinekrippner/status/997234086803656704

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005

xergm posted:

Late to magnet chat, but here's a video of someone intentionally trying to combine 2 massive magnets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0t0J_ERzHM

The video is about 10min long, and they start putting them together at about 3:20. It's worth the watch to see the amount of thought they had to put into their rig.

Does that man not believe in lubrication?

Carbon dioxide
Oct 9, 2012

Facebook Aunt posted:

This is much stupider than it looks. The giraffe did not attempt to stick it's head through glass, the window was open. For unknown reasons the driver thought it a good idea to try to close the window while the enormous head was in the way.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLSg2wQEzNM

For today's mechanical strength class, we're going to learn what's stronger: a car window or a giraffe's head.

treasured8elief
Jul 25, 2011

Salad Prong




TTerrible
Jul 15, 2005
Absofuckinglutely not.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

I'm just going to the bathroom for a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.......

treasured8elief
Jul 25, 2011

Salad Prong
i think it looks fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_3lYEUDzok

Strabo4
Jun 1, 2007

Oh god, I'm 'sperging all
over this thread too!


Jesus Christ you might as well spit in the grim reaper's face. :gonk:

cakesmith handyman
Jul 22, 2007

Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

LanceHunter posted:

We've had these drive-through "safari parks" in Texas for decades without incident. How is it that the UK gets them and we get videos of broken windows and people getting out of their cars around the cheetahs?

I don't believe for a second Texas had anything without incident, but yeah, hedgehogs basically.

IPCRESS
May 27, 2012
Are cranes automatically manlift rated? Because I know a guy whose whole crew of painters got fired for riding a self-climbing material hoist.

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

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


IPCRESS posted:

Are cranes automatically manlift rated? Because I know a guy whose whole crew of painters got fired for riding a self-climbing material hoist.

I have been in what they call a 'dogbox' on a very big crane before, dunno about 'automatically' but this one was. I also walked up a dragline boom, strapped myself to the top deck and filmed the boom swinging over a big rear end hole it dug. Ah the days before GoPros...

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Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

cakesmith handyman posted:

I don't believe for a second Texas had anything without incident

Yeah there's been a few incidents at safari parks in Texas: https://bigcatrescue.org/big-cat-attacks-before-2000/

.... but from a quick scan it looks like most of the attacks were due to privately owned big cats getting loose or people sticking their arms into cages at animal refuges/backyard breeders. Not to defend people acting dumb at safari parks but it looks like Texans are slightly more likely to get mauled by a lion suddenly appearing in their own backyard which is terrifying but also weirdly hilarious.

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