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https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-explosion-metra-20181103-story.html Metra worker dies, another badly hurt during Northwest Side explosion quote:The Metra employees were welding, using torches, to repair the tracks, Metra spokeswoman Meg Reile said.
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Fancy_Breakfast posted:Speaking of Venice reminded me how much of a problem cruise ships are for them. They cause so much pollution and are pretty OSHA. 
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Nov 4, 2018 05:39
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Despite reading all of this thread, I don’t know bad or unsafe this is. Seems bad tho 
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meanolmrcloud posted:Despite reading all of this thread, I don’t know bad or unsafe this is. Seems bad tho You can do it safely, but it's very easy to kill yourself if you're cavalier about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E12nnpWc5c
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Anybody else hearing Godzilla by Blue Oyster Cult?
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Every time I read about cruise ships I get depressed. They seem like the most wasteful, touristy bullshit imaginable. Like people have this desire to see far away places, but can't stand to be away from familiar western consumer culture for more than five loving minutes. It always reminds me of one of my aunts, who went to Cairo on her honeymoon and spent most of her time there playing golf.
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Nov 4, 2018 06:56
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Skippy McPants posted:It always reminds me of one of my aunts, who went to Cairo on her honeymoon and spent most of her time there playing golf. I hear the sand traps are brutal.
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Skippy McPants posted:Every time I read about cruise ships I get depressed. They seem like the most wasteful, touristy bullshit imaginable. Like people have this desire to see far away places, but can't stand to be away from familiar western consumer culture for more than five loving minutes. It always reminds me of one of my aunts, who went to Cairo on her honeymoon and spent most of her time there playing golf. After taking a private marshrutka from Kiev to Odessa on short notice, I don't think I could ever do something as bland as ride on a cruise ship. Or at least my ex claimed it was a marshrutka. I think it was just a dude with a semi-working van who took money to drive people between cities. He got us there in 4 hours, and the proper bus we took back to Kiev the next day took 8. It was also my first trip outside the US. Highly recommend.
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Skippy McPants posted:Every time I read about cruise ships I get depressed. They seem like the most wasteful, touristy bullshit imaginable. Like people have this desire to see far away places, but can't stand to be away from familiar western consumer culture for more than five loving minutes. It always reminds me of one of my aunts, who went to Cairo on her honeymoon and spent most of her time there playing golf. Real travelers go by freighter
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Nov 4, 2018 09:15
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I've been watching guys hop freight trains lately. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWzcfEMDULI This one is pretty popular: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KaCY6VcKCM This guy died exactly how you'd expect a beer drinking train hopper to die, but his videos are interesting. https://www.youtube.com/user/hobestobe
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Nov 4, 2018 10:26
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MisterOblivious posted:This guy died exactly how you'd expect a beer drinking train hopper to die Cirrhosis of the liver? https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/stobe-the-hobo-dath/
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:Or at least my ex claimed it was a marshrutka. I think it was just a dude with a semi-working van who took money to drive people between cities.
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Skippy McPants posted:Every time I read about cruise ships I get depressed. They seem like the most wasteful, touristy bullshit imaginable. Like people have this desire to see far away places, but can't stand to be away from familiar western consumer culture for more than five loving minutes. It always reminds me of one of my aunts, who went to Cairo on her honeymoon and spent most of her time there playing golf. Honestly most people tourist destinations are happy for you to stay in and visit the touristy areas and not try to have a “local” experience. Spend your money and get out 👉🏾
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Yeah I'm from Florida where everyone's already an American and are used to dealing with America every day and that's 100% the attitude, I imagine it's way more intense in non-American touristy places who don't need even more American bullshit in their lives.
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Nov 4, 2018 14:40
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MisterOblivious posted:I've been watching guys hop freight trains lately. A former co-worker's boyfriend was traveling by train and for some reason decided to hop off on a station and hop onto a freight train instead. Then he decided it was a good idea to climb on the roof. Here's a picture of a typical Finnish railway station:   at least it was quick.
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SelenicMartian posted:That is a marshrutka. Then I'm glad I got the authentic experience  It was actually pretty cool overall. We were there to play a gig in Odessa, and we failed to get SIM cards right away, so we had no way of contacting the guys picking us up at the transit station. About an hour into the trip, a guy sitting behind us, whose headphones were obviously bumping the same kind of music we play, tapped my partner on the shoulder and said, "Are you [so-and-so]? Igor wants to talk to you," and hands over his phone. Turns out the guys picking us up at Boryspil took an Instagram photo to announce our arrival, and the guys who needed to meet us in Odessa saw it and commented that they were trying to get ahold of us. The kid in the back seat of the marshrutka saw the post, recognized us, and made sure everyone got connected.I loving love Ukraine.
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Fancy_Breakfast posted:Throat cancer anybody? That's totally cool for a giant restaurant&hotel driving to tourist spots.
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Trabant posted:I hear the sand traps are brutal. 
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Nov 4, 2018 18:14
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He just wanted to go thoroughwrecked racing.
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This reminds me of one from back when I was a kid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6roevoWFCA and https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/16/sports/horse-racing-notebook-spectator-interferes-with-race-at-pimlico.html Of course, if I remember correctly, they found some serious drugs were involved. Now that I think of it though, horse racing itself is probably pretty OSHA behind the scenes. Biggest occupational hazards are falling off if you're riding, or getting kicked if you're working with them in the sheds. I've personally been headbutted by a horse (which probably explains a lot  )Edit: Not drugs, depression: https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/18/sports/horse-racing-notebook-pimlico-intruder-wanted-to-commit-suicide.html Epsilon Moonshade fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Nov 4, 2018 |
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Epsilon Moonshade posted:This reminds me of one from back when I was a kid: I work in a network communications company broadcasting horse races. Dog racing is the wildest wrecks, hands down. 70 lbs of dog doesn't stop if it loses traction at 55 MPH and a dog will wipe out half the other dogs running. There's no good news. They die from their injuries or are simply put down. Now harness racing is way more dangerous than thoroughbreds and quarter horse. Jockeys don't die as often as drivers; drivers are the riders that do harness races. Those wrecks are way more violent, since you're adding a cart and harness and wheels to the equation. Most people have seen the video of the cart get pole vaulted. Not as many have seen the one where the gate car spun out on ice and all the horses in the field crashed into the gate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhynju2qetY I hate animal sports.
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Wasabi the J posted:Not as many have seen the one where the gate car spun out on ice and all the horses in the field crashed into the gate. Deadliest Warrior: Chariots vs. Motorized Pike Wall
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Wasabi the J posted:I hate animal sports. It doesn't help that animal racing people are, almost invariably, completely insane.
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Skippy McPants posted:Every time I read about cruise ships I get depressed. They seem like the most wasteful, touristy bullshit imaginable. Like people have this desire to see far away places, but can't stand to be away from familiar western consumer culture for more than five loving minutes. It always reminds me of one of my aunts, who went to Cairo on her honeymoon and spent most of her time there playing golf. Gynocentric Regime posted:Honestly most people tourist destinations are happy for you to stay in and visit the touristy areas and not try to have a “local” experience. Spend your money and get out 👉🏾 Crazycryodude posted:Yeah I'm from Florida where everyone's already an American and are used to dealing with America every day and that's 100% the attitude, I imagine it's way more intense in non-American touristy places who don't need even more American bullshit in their lives. I live in Orlando and just took a week cruise on the biggest touristy ship there is and after also doing a self guided two week trip through Europe I have to say there was very little difference. Sure you can choose to really learn a local's point of view of a place but that's not how these cities and towns are setup anymore. They had the same stupid jewelry and watch shops in Orlando, Switzerland, and Jamaica. Every destination is now just a shopping stop for tourists. I just enjoyed the warm beaches and cold booze and had a fine time on vacation without needing to think too much. OSHA Cruise Ship content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPHPr9B8wYg
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lol if you voluntarily expose your body to the cancer-cursing sun
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:It doesn't help that animal racing people are, almost invariably, completely insane. If dogs didn't die from running so loving fast I wouldn't feel bad about letting people bet on them chasing a toy. But as soon as you add betting, it's a matter of time before they get bred and trained to literally kill or injure themselves, and owners are not held accountable to actually care for the animals injury, and find it cheaper and more convenient to kill it. Then again, a lot of "regular" pet owners do the same thing when Skippy keeps pissing on the rug. Horses have the added factor of being so loving stupid that they almost always eventually get injured and they are so frail that they will die from almost any injury.
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Skippy McPants posted:It always reminds me of one of my aunts, who went to Cairo on her honeymoon and spent most of her time there playing golf. I get a Chris Foss vibe from this.
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Thoroughbred racing has the least of those problems and it’s still bad. Harness and quarter horse races are bad and then other animals (ie dogs) are a disaster. But I’m from Kentucky and only seen the horse industry in central Kentucky - a Kentucky bred thoroughbred is almost always worth something so the worst abuses happen elsewhere. A horse is a complete failure at the track? Some rich person from New England/mideast/asia will buy it for their daughter and proudly say they have a Kentucky race horse. Ps Wild horses are pretty fragile too - basically all herbivores cant handle broken legs.
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Do they have steeplechase in the US? Horse racing over jumps and pools of water and poo poo? Every year here the racing season starts and every year some poor horse falls over and breaks a leg and they shoot it. I'm not a fan of horses but I'm even less a fan of sending them out to die so people can gamble. Also the jockeys get injured to but gently caress'em they had the choice not to do it.
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Eventing is a thing in the US but there aren't low level steeplechases you can bet on like in England.
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Wasabi the J posted:I hate animal The animals don't get to choose whether they race. It's not sport.
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Zero One posted:Every destination is now just a shopping stop for tourists. I just enjoyed the warm beaches and cold booze and had a fine time on vacation without needing to think too much. starkebn posted:The animals don't get to choose whether they race. It's not sport.
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evil_bunnY posted:There's plenty of sporty activities furry friends can enjoy, but competition, and especially paid competition *will* ruin everything. The dog agility courses and the retriever hauls rear end and jumps off the end of a pier into water events look like the dogs are having a blast. And the whole retriever event thing was probably just some guys drinking beer and realizing "you know what my dog does this all the time down at the lake. Let's go buy *more* beer and see who's dog can jump the farthest"
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Memento posted:Also the jockeys get injured to but gently caress'em they had the choice not to do it. 
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