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jobson groeth
May 17, 2018

by FactsAreUseless

Luneshot posted:

“Normalization of deviance”: this isn’t quite right, but it hasn’t killed anybody yet so its fine!

Normalisation of deviance is how we get people thinking it's cute when other people go outside in their fursuits.

e: :69snypa:

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spookykid
Apr 28, 2006

I am an awkward fellow
after all

Icon Of Sin posted:

Oh boy do I have a bunch of stories for you :allears:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3519705&perpage=40

Granted, the NG is where you find some real pieces of poo poo, but they’re everywhere in the army. My platoon had a guy getting court martialed for child porn, 2 more getting thrown out for stealing wallets and going AWOL to Canada (I was in AK), a few getting separated for drug use, a guy who liked to show off his rear end in a top hat to everyone (only after his wife waxed it, though), a few hardcore alcoholics (so much so that they got thrown out of the army), someone that thought overdosing on his meds in front of me (after I picked him up from the MP station) was a pro move, another that threw his TV at his wife and yelled at the MPs “YEA I FUCKIN HIT HER, WHAT OF IT?!”, and still more that are lost in the maelstrom of stupidity that was my unit. Welcome to AK, enjoy your stay!

:smithicide:

Guess what exact NG rapey unit I was talking about when I wrote that? General Katkus and the AKNG recruiting/drug-dealing team sends their regards.

DR FRASIER KRANG
Feb 4, 2005

"Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Dannywilson posted:

Honestly all the marines I've ever worked with or around have been the most jovial polite pleasures to work with, and granted I've only ever worked with their aviation and mechanized folks, but man the army national guard is where the rapey people are: take the army, make it dumb as hell and only show up for duty once a month, and walk the standards and mentality back to the 1980's and you have a recipe for sexual harassment and assault.

Can confirm. My coworker is former army NG and he's creepy as fuuuuuuck.

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

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


Some good stuff here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK5_xobq2HE

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007


The schoolyard scuttlebut back when I was a we'un was that the book had been deliberately sabotaged to be useless and dangerous to the user.

Warbadger
Jun 17, 2006

The Lone Badger posted:

The schoolyard scuttlebut back when I was a we'un was that the book had been deliberately sabotaged to be useless and dangerous to the user.

It was a book written by a dumb teenager attempting to be as edgy as possible to appeal to other dumb, edgy teenagers. No need to deliberately sabotage that.

So Math
Jan 8, 2013

Ghostly Clothier
It's a shame we live in the timeline where the element known for its occurrence in bananas is named potassium and the made-up pot substitute is bananadine.

Bad Munki
Nov 4, 2008

We're all mad here.


https://i.imgur.com/2m7UAz6.gifv

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day
Is making GBS threads your pants daily on the jobsite a normal part of working construction?

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
Oh that can't happen, if he shits then it won't be enough weight to keep it from tipping.

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

Mozi posted:

Oh that can't happen, if he shits then it won't be enough weight to keep it from tipping.

Bet you're just saying that to trick me not to poo poo. Like those guys tricking their pal into collecting "gas samples" with garbage bag. Fool me once.

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
That reminds me I need to take a gas sample... give me your finger.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

No joke, there are crane operators who aren’t afraid of tipping slightly. One old guy tried to debate me over the phone about whether or not our practical exam was worth anything because he said he took an exam in Puerto Rico where the test was to let the crane tip off one set of outriggers and balance it. I told him that was insanely dangerous and almost definitely not true. He never ended up certifying. Guess he’s that dude now.

http://mockwa.tumblr.com/post/181676175150

Russians trying to break up a dog fight around a spinning PTO shaft.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Mozi posted:

Oh that can't happen, if he shits then it won't be enough weight to keep it from tipping.

If he shits his pants it's contained and still part of the mechanical system

Skippy McPants
Mar 19, 2009

chitoryu12 posted:

http://mockwa.tumblr.com/post/181676175150

Russians trying to break up a dog fight around a spinning PTO shaft.

Holy poo poo, that twist ending!

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

haveblue posted:

If he shits his pants it's contained and still part of the mechanical system

But then it's considered open-chain and the torque vectoring is all wrong to hold the rig down.

KoRMaK
Jul 31, 2012



chitoryu12 posted:


http://mockwa.tumblr.com/post/181676175150

Russians trying to break up a dog fight around a spinning PTO shaft.

I thought I was worried about the dogs!

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day
This poo poo seems unsafe
https://i.imgur.com/JurLDGi.mp4

Lurking Haro
Oct 27, 2009


The revolutionary army is kind of underwhelming.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

The Lone Badger posted:

The schoolyard scuttlebut back when I was a we'un was that the book had been deliberately sabotaged to be useless and dangerous to the user.

I haven't actually looked back at the Anarchist's Cookbook since I was a teenager, but iirc the simple explosives are correct, and the phone phreaking stuff would have worked when the phone company used the old systems that were vulnerable to it. No idea about the drug recipes. Obviously the chemistry, even if correct, is dangerous because they are recipes for bombs and/or you are making something on the stovetop out of industrial chemicals and then eating it.

The one I remember coming up all the time on the schoolyard was Fight Club's recipe for napalm, which was changed to be useless ("gasoline and frozen orange juice") but which all the other 13-year-old JDs repeated as fact. The one in the Anarchist's Cookbook does make something similar to napalm, though it's not chemically identical to what the military uses.

Hi FBI.

Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Jan 7, 2019

TTerrible
Jul 15, 2005
I had the anarchist cookbook version of napalm and had a seriously loving bad time.

TehRedWheelbarrow
Mar 16, 2011



Fan of Britches
napalm is not usually used as a sex aid but damned if that doesn't put you square in the top tier iron forging truckfuckler hierarchy.

El_Elegante
Jul 3, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Biscuit Hider
Jessica Simpson?

Goon Danton
May 24, 2012

Don't forget to show my shitposts to the people. They're well worth seeing.


They put on their hazard lights, it's fine

FuturePastNow
May 19, 2014


I was reading the autobiography of a guy who lead a WWII resistance group, and late in the book when the invasion was coming and poo poo was about to go down, he described the simple, nearly foolproof timed bombs they used and exactly how to make them. Yep.

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


:dukedog:
Offensive Clock

Seems relatively safe (as safe as turning a vehicle with muscle power can be), the largest risk is probably straining something or a hernia

wolrah
May 8, 2006
what?
I'd imagine that sort of thing is intended for situations where a convoy suddenly needs to turn around very quickly on a narrow road, like if someone tries to block them in for an attack, and they need to GTFO in the other direction ASAP in which case that might be the least unsafe option compared to trying to back up at high speed or attempting a multi-point turn.

Imagine being the guy assigned to get out though.

I recall seeing some homebrew mini shuttle train someone built out of an old van that used a similar system to turn around at the end of the lines, but I can't find the video now.

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

ymgve posted:

Seems relatively safe (as safe as turning a vehicle with muscle power can be), the largest risk is probably straining something or a hernia

at least until some fuckup recruit puts the jack off the center of gravity and tips the truck over

GotLag
Jul 17, 2005

食べちゃダメだよ

FuturePastNow posted:

I was reading the autobiography of a guy who lead a WWII resistance group, and late in the book when the invasion was coming and poo poo was about to go down, he described the simple, nearly foolproof timed bombs they used and exactly how to make them. Yep.

Are you going to share with the rest of the class?

Captain Cool
Oct 23, 2004

This is a song about messin' with people who've been messin' with you

Raskolnikov38 posted:

at least until some fuckup recruit puts the jack off the center of gravity and tips the truck over
Or the center of gravity changed somehow, perhaps by a heavy weight in the back

That doesn't happen to trucks, right?

Mr. Apollo
Nov 8, 2000

Raskolnikov38 posted:

at least until some fuckup recruit puts the jack off the center of gravity and tips the truck over
or the jack collapses because the ground underneath was too soft

Mr. Apollo fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Jan 7, 2019

FogHelmut
Dec 18, 2003

Sagebrush posted:

I haven't actually looked back at the Anarchist's Cookbook since I was a teenager, but iirc the simple explosives are correct, and the phone phreaking stuff would have worked when the phone company used the old systems that were vulnerable to it. No idea about the drug recipes. Obviously the chemistry, even if correct, is dangerous because they are recipes for bombs and/or you are making something on the stovetop out of industrial chemicals and then eating it.

The one I remember coming up all the time on the schoolyard was Fight Club's recipe for napalm, which was changed to be useless ("gasoline and frozen orange juice") but which all the other 13-year-old JDs repeated as fact. The one in the Anarchist's Cookbook does make something similar to napalm, though it's not chemically identical to what the military uses.

Hi FBI.

A friend from school gave a copy to me on a floppy disc around 22 years ago. I don't have it anymore. Wasn't the napalm supposed to be a mix of gasoline and styrofoam?

TTerrible
Jul 15, 2005

FogHelmut posted:

A friend from school gave a copy to me on a floppy disc around 22 years ago. I don't have it anymore. Wasn't the napalm supposed to be a mix of gasoline and styrofoam?

Yeah, melt styrofoam until it turns to jelly.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
The jack is already off-center because they can't put it on the driveshaft, and unless it can extend much further than that it can't tip the truck over. If the load is unbalanced you'd just get too much ground pressure on one or more tires for a human to turn it.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Mr. Apollo posted:

or the jack collapses because the ground underneath was too soft



Optimistically, the support columns are multiply redundant and the plastic wrap is just to keep concrete chunks from falling on somebody until it can get repaired.

Relentless
Sep 22, 2007

It's a perfect day for some mayhem!


TTerrible posted:

Yeah, melt styrofoam until it turns to jelly.

I did that once as a kid and used it to set off some M60s in the woods.

Which would have been an incredibly dangerous fire hazard if it wasn't for the foot of snow on the ground, and the bit where we stuffed the M60s in the bottom of a snowman and blew it up using a line of napalm as a fuse. So it was just regular dangerous.

It was also Montana, so these were fireworks we found on the side of the road, along with a bunch of bottlerockets and roman candles. The sheriff lived in that sub-division, so we think they were probably dumped when he came by. Small towns are weird.

spankmeister
Jun 15, 2008
Probation
Can't post for 14 hours!

Lurking Haro posted:

The revolutionary army is kind of underwhelming.

Ha

NoWake
Dec 28, 2008

College Slice

This is how a lot of railroad maintenance equipment (even long stuff like spreaders & tampers) get turned around, except the jacks are built-in and motorized.

Lurking Haro posted:

The revolutionary army is kind of underwhelming.

:v:

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
they were all on their way to pick up their new xboxes but they took one look and well

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haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Mozi posted:

they were all on their way to pick up their new xboxes but they took one look and well

To be totally accurate you have to let the gif play twice

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