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Kibayasu posted:Every man on the planet could use one. Imagine if every man on the planet did it simultaneously. We'd charge the entire silicate crust of the Earth with jo energy. Edit: lol what a dreadful snipe. I'm sitting in the office building at my work right now waiting for some lightning to pass over so I can get out to the core yard and do some sampling. For some funny reason they don't like us going outside when you can count the number of seconds between flash and boom on one hand...
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:You don't want to risk it, you shouldn't smoke in a gas station under any circumstances, and the guy wasn't unjustified in using the fire extinguisher, but it's extremely unlikely smoking in a gas station actually sets off a fire/explosion. https://www.nbc4i.com/news/u-s-world/gas-pump-explosion-sparked-by-cigarette/1096265178
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azurite posted:That house looks jacked up! That's a good way to jack up your shack.
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 I found this at work today. Apparently the ladder wasn't tall enough.
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Reminds me, I’m all out of cheese
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Ak Gara posted:I feel like there should be someone beating a drum so everyone lifts it at the same time, by the same amount. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shqaQopEmhY&hd=1
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ButtTheShitmanFart posted:
JFC. Milk crates? Really? Come on...
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Oh god that drunk cop just got home
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Cartoon posted:Unfortunately 'Gas' stations also store and supply other flammable products like propane or even dispense LPG at the bowser. There have actually been incidences of bowser fires being started with a cigarette. Why be a jack rear end when the consequences can be so serious? There was a Sinclair station at the intersection in my hometown that was referred to as Malfunction Junction, because 5 roads came into one confluence that made little to no sense. About every 3-5 years from my childhood to my mid-teens, the propane tank at that Sinclair station would explode for some reason. It was usually someone smoking while they pumped propane, but sometimes it was something freakish like a bad gasket. Eventually, the owners sold the business, and now it's...an art gallery? I think?
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KoRMaK posted:Why is there a pallet in that designated no pallet zone? Somehow I get the impression that the health and safety of the people occupied at that workplace isn't a priority.
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It's all being done right in front of a camera though, so we may still see hilarious footage.
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Cartoon posted:Unfortunately 'Gas' stations also store and supply other flammable products like propane or even dispense LPG at the bowser. There have actually been incidences of bowser fires being started with a cigarette. Why be a jack rear end when the consequences can be so serious?
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We all know tie down straps are bomber, I'm more worried about a rock just rolling off over the edge.
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Splicer posted:This is like watching quadriplegics argue about climbing Everest. 
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jobson groeth posted:https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1055289997190868992/pu/vid/480x360/MEhU01UZwN5k0j0L.mp4?tag=5 isn't this a well done fake?
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Tashilicious posted:isn't this a well done fake? Yeah it is. It's been posted a couple times before I think. It's still kinda neat.
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jobson groeth posted:https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1055289997190868992/pu/vid/480x360/MEhU01UZwN5k0j0L.mp4?tag=5 Every day, dozens of stuntmen have to act against tennis balls on a stick and green screens. Please donate to "Stuntmen against virtual cardboard boxes" today. Their mental health depends on it. Tashilicious posted:isn't this a well done fake? If you mean 90s well done, then yes.
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Lurking Haro posted:If you mean 90s well done, then yes. If you weren't going into it expecting a fake it might look okay the first time.
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Cartoon posted:Unfortunately 'Gas' stations also store and supply other flammable products like propane or even dispense LPG at the bowser. There have actually been incidences of bowser fires being started with a cigarette. You'd think Bowser would be used to fire by now.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Those folks need a unified jacking system. think of the crystals
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Those folks need a unified jacking system. A busy box for adults?
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The camera guy seems to be plenty safely tied there. Now show me how the person filming him is secured!?
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Nenonen posted:The camera guy seems to be plenty safely tied there. probably in the drivers seat holding a cellphone over their shoulder
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Nenonen posted:The camera guy seems to be plenty safely tied there. Dude is one unexpected swerve away from bouncing his skull off the metal sides of the truck bed. They way I've seen lead truck filming before is a bucket seat bolted down with a 5 point harness. Also a helmet. And the camera rig is usually an articulated mount attached to the bed as well.
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SLOSifl posted:https://i.imgur.com/q6MX1lq.mp4 im all the missing mortar between the bricks.
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ButtTheShitmanFart posted:
This is so stupid, they could have saved a lot of effort by putting just one crate on top of the ladder.
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Spotted this at my local petrol station:
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Sorry for the delay for those interested. I was writing about how driver Michael Hodder managed to pass the supremely dodgy SN109 signal at danger, taking his train into the path of an oncoming HST travelling nearly 100mph at Ladbroke Grove. I wrote about how SN109 was a real hotspot signal, and I think people get why it had been passed so many times after seeing the photos. The other issue is Hodder himself. Michael Hodder had not been a driver with Thames Trains for long. He had started with the company in February 1999. These days it takes about a year to go from being new to driving by yourself. For him to have finished training in time to have this accident in October is very quick indeed. He qualified in September of that year, and drove a total of 20 times out of Paddington prior to this accident. On 19 of those times he hadn’t gone out on line 3, the line with SN109 on it. On the only occasion he had gone on line 3 SN109 had been green. He had never had to brake it at prior to the incident. When he, you know… didn’t. A key component of driver training is route learning. After you’ve done classroom based rules learning, practical fault finding/fixing training, and manual handling with a DI you have to do several months learning all the lines you will drive over. You don’t need to know signal numbers necessarily, but you need to know locations and potential routings you could be given by the signaller. This is really important in complex areas like Paddington. In addition to the main signal aspect telling the driver whether they can proceed or not lots of signals will have indicators to tell the driver how the route is set ahead of them. These can either be a box with a letter or number illuminated, or it can be “junction indicator” – a series of white lights in a line off to one side of the signal. In theory a “main aspect” with no junction indicator means you’re continuing straight on. A junction indicator off to the top right of the signal means you’re taking the first route off to the right. The second off to the right means the second route, and so on. In practice there is little consistency here. Where two lines split which one counts as “straight on”? The control measure here is that drivers have to learn what signals and what routings lead to where. Here’s an example of a signal with some junction indicators. http://imgur.com/gallery/aotGKtt This may not seem like a safety issue at first but the crucial bit that makes it one is that you have to identify where your next signal will be. “If I’m going onto the mainline the next signal is just past the curve to the right, before the station” or “If I’m going over to the relief line the next signal is the one on the end of platform 4 at East Croydon” or whatever. That is no mean feat in locations like Paddington. 6 lines. All bi-directional. The whole idea is that you can go from line to line in a number of locations so that they can keep the service moving and get as many trains in and out of Paddington as possible. Here, for example, is a section of line on approach to another London terminal. 11 lines. Mostly bi-directional. http://imgur.com/gallery/izE9bM7 If you pass signal TL2028 on the far right of the screen on 8 road and the junction indicator is lit where is your next signal? (Answer TL4118 on 9 road). If you are going to be driving on that route you have to demonstrate you know that. It might seem a simple case of mantra-like rote learning stuff. That is neither helpful nor feasible. You need to understand where everything is and where you are in relation to landmarks or you won’t be able to brake. That’s different from being able to recite the numbers. Also a study here recently showed train drivers have a reading age of about 13 on average. I’m not meaning that to denigrate them. I’ve yet to meet a train driver I would consider stupid as such – it’s a fearsomely competitive recruitment process after all. But they aren’t generally people who’ve had a particularly good relationship with traditional classroom education. Thames Trains training course was in a “transitionary stage” when Hodder was recruited. There were some notes for trainers but they didn’t appear to be using them as they didn’t like them much. They didn’t think the time for practical driving training to be sufficient so they had extended that bit. In practice this meant the time for route learning was cut short. In the end manager after manager for Thames Trains testified that they did not think it was their responsibility to teach Hodder the route and assess him on it. It turned out no one had really done it. No route maps were provided to trainees. There were assessments, but it was unclear what the criteria for passing or failing were. Route learning should also include information on known risks. SN109 with its illustrious SPAD history would certainly have qualified. But Thames Trains didn’t appear to have issued any kind of warnings to drivers about SN109, or any other MultiSPAD signal. Driver Adams, Hodder’s Driving Instructor for almost all of the practical part of his training, was not aware SN109 had been passed at danger multiple times. Paddington was a high risk for SPADs and a large majority were by Thames Trains services. Surprise surprise. Hodder approached SN109 on line 3 after receiving a junction indicator on his previous signal while driving on line 4 – SN87. Did he know after passing SN87 with a junction indicator that his next signal was SN109? If he didn’t know to look for it at the right moment would he have seen it at all, given the sighting was so poor? Did he know that there was a signal on that gantry that applied to the line he was on? Or did he misread the signal because of the unorthodox shape and think he had a proceed aspect of some kind? We don’t know for certain obviously, but the investigation concluded that a significant contributory factor was likely to be the fact that it could not be demonstrated that Hodder really knew the line. Thames could demonstrate he knew the rules. They could demonstrate he knew the train. But they couldn’t demonstrate he knew Paddington. The biggest outcome of the Ladbroke Grove crash in the area I work in has been the formalisation of route learning processes. Companies come up with norms for the amount of time and amount of trips over it necessary to learn a route. They do risk assessments on the routes and identify the concrete things a candidate must be able to demonstrate to be considered competent. This would include speeds, routings, and high risk signals. The crash also highlighted the risks posed by new drivers, who we now refer to as “PQ” – post qualified. It takes time to get yourself into the rhythm of train driving. Whilst the old guard have a hell of a lot of bad habits they also generally know when and how to get themselves into a focussed mindset when things get tricky. That takes time to learn. And even with route learning a new driver is just not going to have all the innate reflexive responses to the signals they see that a more experienced driver would. The experienced lot know the line inside out. Anyway, that covers why SN109 was passed, and why it was Hodder that passed it. If anyone is still awake I can write a bit about why after passing the signal the route was set into the path of another train.
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Time for everyone's favorite game again: "what's going to gently caress up this time?"
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Boogalo posted:Time for everyone's favorite game again: "what's going to gently caress up this time?" What even is that? I can't see it before it starts moving.
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spiny posted:Spotted this at my local petrol station: wdarkk posted:What even is that? I can't see it before it starts moving. There's a pressurized gas tank in the truck bed that falls over
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The Bloop posted:There's a pressurized gas tank in the truck bed that falls over Shrouds are for wiiiiiiiimps
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The Bloop posted:that is a safety barrier. Don't you like safety? Well, I guess I was on the safer side at the time ...
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These are great, please keep going!
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POOL IS CLOSED posted:These are great, please keep going! echoing this
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