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OrthoTrot posted:Thanks. I will try and write something about Ladbroke Grove next as its a really big deal. Like Clapham Junction it has had a massive impact. You can still get killed on the railway easily enough but it's hard to imagine something like that happening again. Our biggest risk these days is probably rear end collisions or a Germanwings style "I'm going down and I'm taking you all with me". Just want to chime in and say that I'm really enjoying these as well.
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Sagebrush posted:It's a common belief in China because of a famous court case where that was precisely the outcome: Death to humanity
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https://i.imgur.com/9aiF6JG.mp4 right click>show controls and unmute
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drgitlin posted:OrthoTrot your posts are both informative and engaging, please keep writing them for as long as you want. 
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Boogalo posted:https://i.imgur.com/9aiF6JG.mp4 this is funnier than it has any right being
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Renegret posted:this is funnier than it has any right being It's guys in the cabin giggling like school kids *before* they hit the horn that does it for me.
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All it would take for that to be murder is one of those people tripping
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SCATTER! THE FUN POLICE ARE HERE! (also, I had the same exact thought. I still laughed)
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I liked the soft toot at the end to just kind of show them that they are friends
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Diesel engines are loving loud though, how were they so unaware that they didn't hear it. You should be able to hear one at idle from quite a distance away.
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Renegret posted:Diesel engines are loving loud though, how were they so unaware that they didn't hear it. You should be able to hear one at idle from quite a distance away. Considering they were dumb enough to be walking on the tracks, my guess is ear buds as well.
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Im guessing that they've heard it in the background long enough for their brains to filter it out as irrelevant white noise.
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Piell posted:All it would take for that to be FTFY I've done a bunch of work on railroads, they aren't as loud as you think if they aren't flying along at 100. And if you're not really expecting them, and kinda in that oblivious state, then I can totally see missing it.
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Self-reporting as an unsafe worker  Tasted some nice spicy 480 the other day while farting around with control power wiring and not considering where my hands were. Don't work on live gear, kids! Even if it's convenient! We're about to have a big fat safety standdown here, but it's due to the seven fatalities we've apparently had. I'm not one of them. As far as I know. 
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ArcMage posted:Tasted some nice spicy 480 the other day while farting around with control power wiring and not considering where my hands were. excellent username/post combo
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Kith posted:excellent username/post combo I marked myself from an early age.
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ArcMage posted:Self-reporting as an unsafe worker poo poo, any place that had even one fatality let alone seven would get shut down for months pending investigation here.
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Yeah, no. gently caress that poo poo you can walk from now on.
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Sagebrush posted:It's a common belief in China because of a famous court case where that was precisely the outcome: In 2012 it was reported the man (Peng Yu) had actually confessed to injuring the woman he helped, and then deliberately sought attention and notoriety for helping her. Here it is in Bloomberg: quote:Or rather, it was until Jan. 16 -- when, in what seems to be one of the great scoops in recent Chinese journalism, the state-owned news magazine Oriental Weekly revealed the content of some newly discovered and disclosed documents. According to the trove, Peng Yu not only confessed to knocking over that supposedly greedy granny in 2006, but he actively solicited the local news media and online forum moderators to promote him as a martyred Good Samaritan. EDIT: I can no longer read that article on Bloomberg, but I also remember it was mentioned somewhere that local officials kept the whole thing secret for some asinine reason involving face Slanderer fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Oct 17, 2018 |
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OrthoTrot posted:Thanks. I will try and write something about Ladbroke Grove next as its a really big deal. Like Clapham Junction it has had a massive impact. You can still get killed on the railway easily enough but it's hard to imagine something like that happening again. Our biggest risk these days is probably rear end collisions or a Germanwings style "I'm going down and I'm taking you all with me". Just to add that these posts are excellent. My grandmother was one of the first doctors to arrive at Moorgate. She understandably never talked about what she saw down there, but between the pictures, and reading the accident reports, my impression is that it was close to hell on earth frankly.
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ArcMage posted:We're about to have a big fat safety standdown here, but it's due to the seven fatalities
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ArcMage posted:Self-reporting as an unsafe worker Someone has a poo poo lockout/tagout program!
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ArcMage posted:Self-reporting as an unsafe worker I've got some bad news for you.  E: Astroclassicist posted:Just to add that these posts are excellent. The wiki article for this event introduced me to a verb: "concertinaed". I've never seen that used before. 
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Schadenboner posted:The wiki article for [Moorgate] Should I read it or will you be covering this too eventually OrthoTrot?  (also: thanks!)
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Schadenboner posted:The wiki article for this event introduced me to a verb: "concertinaed". I've never seen that used before. I thought that exact same thing when I encountered the word. 
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Schadenboner posted:The wiki article for this event introduced me to a verb: "concertinaed". I've never seen that used before. Yeah, I'd never seen it used as a verb, but it effectively lets you know what happened. It's about as evocative as the seemingly innocuous phrase "injuries incompatible with life".
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Schadenboner posted:The wiki article for this event introduced me to a verb: "concertinaed". I've never seen that used before. It brings to mind inappropriately fun memories of watching Wile E Coyote cartoons
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We have a large concrete pad at the yard, for working on large equipment. There is a little building on the pad, for providing power since the pad is a ways away from the 2 big shops.  It is 40-50 feet from where the electricians shop is. I do not like the electricians in the yard.
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Schadenboner posted:The wiki article for this event introduced me to a verb: "concertinaed". I've never seen that used before. quote:The depth at which they were operating, and the shielding effect of the soil and concrete, meant their radios could not get through to the surface. Messages and requests for further supplies were passed by runners, which led to mistakes: one doctor requested further supplies of the pain-killing gas Entonox, but by the time the request reached the surface, it had been garbled to "the doctor wants an empty box". Oh they'll need some empty boxes alright...
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Load limits, what are those, then? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ7FKYU-cwE
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The Jeep turning around rather than (presumably) following the bus across is demonstrating an astounding amount of self-preservation instinct.
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ArcMage posted:Self-reporting as an unsafe worker Anyone else seeing a blank post here?
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ArcMage posted:OoooOOOOOOOooooOOOOoo What the hell is going on here?!
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Buttcoin purse posted:Should I read it or will you be covering this too eventually OrthoTrot? It's probably worth a read as I'm not sure I would have a lot to say about it. The driver approached the station, sped up, and hit the buffer stops. We have absolutely no idea why. He might have been asleep but trains have dead man handles, so being unconscious for that long should result in the brakes coming on. It certainly shouldn't result in more power being taken. We do now have safety features that mean you can't do more than about 10mph approaching buffers, so even if you did this the speeds involved should be much lower. That's about the only mitigation possible for the always present risk that one day someone who's shown no signs of anything before might do something completely inexplicable.
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Galactic Cat posted:What the hell is going on here?! poo poo, I just realized my work's information security policy does not take the risk of data being stolen by ghosts into account.
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https://twitter.com/patrickquinntv/status/1052738053242904576?s=21
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That's just the Sony Bravia commercial in SD.
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