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Dirt Road Junglist posted:I somehow managed to avoid throwing up entirely from the time I was an infant until age 20. I was staying with my parents over summer break, and I woke up at 4am feeling a little... Off. Went to the bathroom, sat down, and realized that the horrors of the deep were on their way, and I was powerless to stop them. Relying on the deepest of ancestral memories, I reflexively reached down for the trash bin moments before my stomach up-heaved everything I had eaten since 1994, timed perfectly to coincide with my rear end blowing liquified poo poo at maximum velocity out my other end. I think the equal and opposite reactions of both projectile flows is what kept me stuck to the toilet until my GI system had expelled it's entire carrying capacity. honestly sometimes i remember i really am browsing a website called "something awful"
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Why the hell don't those go karts double as emergency rafts? You could even use their engine to propel them through the water.
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Mar 26, 2019 07:28
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If the Fifth Element taught me anything it's that there's plenty of room for escape pods
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Mar 26, 2019 07:36
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 In HK on a trip. All the scaffolding here is bamboo its weirding me out! 
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Mar 26, 2019 09:09
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Bamboo is stronger than any steel.
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Then how do pandas eat it 
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Mar 26, 2019 09:55
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Then how do pandas eat it Pandas can't eat bamboo pipes.
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Mar 26, 2019 10:16
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They should make steel out of bamboo.
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Mar 26, 2019 10:18
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Kingdom of the Spiders remake looking good.
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Mar 26, 2019 10:20
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Lurking Haro posted:Pandas can't eat bamboo pipes.    Anyway it's true, bamboo is incredibly strong and light material compared to steel scaffolding. My only concern would be the strength of each connection, as there is no standardized locking mechanism for the poles. I wouldn't like to think that they're held together by single zip ties... Nenonen fucked around with this message at 11:10 on Mar 26, 2019 |
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Mar 26, 2019 11:06
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other people posted:Bamboo is stronger than any steel. Jet fuel can't melt bamboo reeds
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Then how do pandas eat it Make the scaffolding out of pandas then.
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Mar 26, 2019 12:07
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jobson groeth posted:If your life is devoid of human contact then you don't get it either. That seems to be working for me. 
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Mar 26, 2019 12:36
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Nenonen posted:
It seems like a lot of them are tied at more than one point and the scaffolding is denser than an equivalent metal one for more interlocking connections. It must work because I see these scaffolds everywhere from small scale to huge things
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Mar 26, 2019 13:45
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Memento posted:You need the direct link, that should work.
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Mar 26, 2019 13:57
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Have some Tuesday Truckfuckling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-7Xn_UuPV0
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Mar 26, 2019 14:41
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Can we talk about how dumb the driver of the car filming that incident is? I mean, you see it coming, why are you still driving so close as to be caught in the airborne debris? Like, the truck driver made a mistake. The camera driver willfully drove into it.
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Mar 26, 2019 14:45
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Bad Munki posted:Can we talk about how dumb the driver of the car filming that incident is? I mean, you see it coming, why are you still driving so close as to be caught in the airborne debris? I don't know that it would be immediately clear that the car on top was going to hit the bridge, and you don't even know if that was something the driver was even focusing on leading up to the bridge.
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Mar 26, 2019 14:52
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Bad Munki posted:Can we talk about how dumb the driver of the car filming that incident is? I mean, you see it coming, why are you still driving so close as to be caught in the airborne debris? A mother responding to the ramblings of her child isn't doing calculations on whether every vehicle around will clear a bridge.
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Nenonen posted:My only concern would be the strength of each connection, as there is no standardized locking mechanism for the poles. I wouldn't like to think that they're held together by single zip ties... Not even zip ties.... 
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Mar 26, 2019 15:01
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if bamboo scaffolding didn't work, that would have been noticed by now
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Mar 26, 2019 15:02
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Mozi posted:if bamboo scaffolding didn't work, that would have been noticed by now
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Mar 26, 2019 15:11
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Mozi posted:if bamboo scaffolding didn't work, that would have been noticed by now not with an unlimited labor force it wouldn't Rent-A-Cop posted:It has been noticed in countries with "regulations" and "labor rights" and other such bourgeois ideas.
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Mar 26, 2019 15:14
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Mozi posted:if bamboo scaffolding didn't work, that would have been noticed by now Apparently, the workers prefer bamboo over steel as it has a more organic feel: when a single pole starts to fail, it does so slowly and they can notice and fix it. Whereas steel scaffolding tends to fail catastrophically without warning.
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Mar 26, 2019 15:17
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Bamboo scaffolding has been in common use all over Asia for decades and is safe, strong, lightweight, and easy to assemble. You can have problems with it if workers aren't trained to use and inspect it correctly just like any metal scaffolding.
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Shut up Meg posted:Apparently, the workers prefer bamboo over steel as it has a more organic feel: when a single pole starts to fail, it does so slowly and they can notice and fix it. Whereas steel scaffolding tends to fail catastrophically without warning. 
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Mar 26, 2019 15:19
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And theres departments for this. https://www.labour.gov.hk/text_alternative/pdf/eng/SafetyGuideBambooScaffolding.pdf
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Mar 26, 2019 15:21
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I need my scaffolding to be warmer and richer, that's why I only use these $5000 handcrafted oxygen-free zip ties
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Mar 26, 2019 15:22
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They’re pretty neat tho. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzBVf5u3T50
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Mar 26, 2019 15:26
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As a former resident of Hong Kong, I can vouch for how weird that scaffolding is. I know it's strong, but even HK uses the metal stuff for important projects. I used to work across from the old Police Station in Central, which was the largest and most expensive remodel in the city. Halfway through, the bamboo collapsed, and most of the building came down. They replaced it with galvanized, and finished without interruptions.
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Lashing is probably as safe. Metal scaffolding uses mass produced hammer lock joints that are continuously thrown into concrete from 40ft and are used as 1 size fits all even when a joint should probably be lashed instead. A scaffolds natural state is falling down so you need to inspect them before use no matter what.
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Ixian posted:Bamboo scaffolding has been in common use all over Asia for decades and is safe, strong, lightweight, and easy to assemble. You can have problems with it if workers aren't trained to use and inspect it correctly just like any metal scaffolding. My main gripe is all the photos where there are no ladders or proper gangways and workers are climbing the scaffolds to all directions without being tied to anything. This isn't solely a quality of bamboo scaffolding, but there is a lot of overlapping between countries where bamboo or wood scaffolding is common and countries where scaffold safety standards are lacking. This though is from London; the company got a £5000 fine as a result. 
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Mar 26, 2019 15:50
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Cojawfee posted:A mother responding to the ramblings of her child isn't doing calculations on whether every vehicle around will clear a bridge. Oh, okay. I had it turned down fairly quiet on account of my environment but I thought I was hearing exclamations from her about it being about to hit.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqUS4JGbb3I All about it. Short answer is, you can certainly find OSHA thread worthy examples of bad bamboo scaffolding practices but the bamboo itself isn't the problem, it's the usual cost-cutting dipshittery. I know for people new to visiting Asia it can be a strange sight, particularly in places under perpetual, never-ending reconstruction like Hong Kong, Singapore, or Hengyang, but it is very common.
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Bad Munki posted:Oh, okay. I had it turned down fairly quiet on account of my environment but I thought I was hearing exclamations from her about it being about to hit. I thought she was remarkably calm for what just happened in front of her. I'm pretty sure my kids have learned to swear from me because of startling situations like that. Kid: "What happened?", Mom calmly: "Oh that car broke". I'm sure I would've reacted more along the of lines of HOLY loving poo poo!!!
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i just assumed they couldnt reliably source the quality of metal needed for consistent, safe scaffolding in those huge amounts. Eventually you'd get to the middle of the bundle and they'd have substituted tin foil in there. but bamboo grows pretty uniform no matter what and its hard to create substandard bamboo so they just go with that
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It's real easy to create substandard bamboo - just don't harvest/season/store it correctly
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Not that it isn't safe, I'm happy to admit that I'm no expert and my suspicions are not data, but "it's very common" as an argument for anything being in any way good is 
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The Bloop posted:Not that it isn't safe, I'm happy to admit that I'm no expert and my suspicions are not data, but Yes, "it's very common" was the totality of my point, not the video explaining how it works in detail. The real problem I have with it is every time someone saw it for the first time in Singapore where I worked there was always an undercurrent of "oh, those poor asians, can't afford real steel, what a bunch of loving primitives" as though the only reason bamboo is used is because they are too cheap/stupid/unenlightened to use anything else. Sometimes they weren't even subtle about it.
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