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Ixian posted:Sometimes they weren't even subtle about it. Were they just out on the street with a bullhorn yelling up at the workers "You sandal wearing goldfish tenders, get some real scaffolding! Bamboo? More like Bambooooooooo!"
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The most questionable thing about the bamboo scaffolding is that workers just climb up it without harnesses. Oh, and in typhoon season when 50 storeys of bamboo poles come smashing down in the wind.
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Ixian posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqUS4JGbb3I It's kinda cool though cuz it's an organic sort of shell surrounding an inorganic building on the inside. Also looks like a spider web.
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Choom Gangster posted:The most questionable thing about the bamboo scaffolding is that workers just climb up it without harnesses. Oh, and in typhoon season when 50 storeys of bamboo poles come smashing down in the wind. I'm pretty sure steel scaffolding wouldn't last long against those winds either, but you do you I guess.
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The strike a lot of people like to make against it is it takes a little more skill to do the erection right. Bamboo diameter changes so it has a direction you need to pay attention to on risers and crosses that galvanized members don't, and lashing isn't as easy as collaring a few members and hitting it with a hammer until it stops moving. You aren't really getting away with anything using metal instead because a scaffold crew still needs a better than average intuition of statics to do anything fancier than straight up.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Were they just out on the street with a bullhorn yelling up at the workers "You sandal wearing goldfish tenders, get some real scaffolding! Bamboo? More like Bambooooooooo!" No, just typical condescending "wow, they are really behind the times here" type comments, a baffling take on a city like Singapore. That, and that most of the steel that goes in to metal scaffolding actually comes from China makes it extra-ironic but what can you do.
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iospace posted:I'm pretty sure steel scaffolding wouldn't last long against those winds either, but you do you I guess. I'm not saying it would. Needless interjection, but you do you I guess. Bamboo scaffolding works great, the solid concrete 30 storey apartement buildings with a single lift, no smoke alarms or fire escapes that the scaffolding is used to repair are the actual OSHA poo poo. Choom Gangster fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Mar 26, 2019 |
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“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.” - Mel Brooks Is there any more info on this guy? I can't find anything. Despite the quote I do hope he's not too injured.
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Mel Brooks is still alive as far as I can tell.
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AFewBricksShy posted:“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.” - Mel Brooks Mel Brooks directed a bunch of funny movies and is still alive afaik
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Hey, your wording makes it sound like you're talking about Mel Brooks in the second line rather than the man who fell, and that's pretty darn amusing
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The guy running into the manhole was Mel Brooks.  (the footage is sped up, it took 5 minutes for him to get there at his age)
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https://twitter.com/KellyReinkeTV/status/1110630716977618950
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schmug posted:not with an unlimited labor force it wouldn't An old trade school teacher of mine was contracted to install some CNC lathes in some factories in Guiyang, a little provincial center in China (population 4 million). He got to the last factory with the truck containing the last lathe (about 3.5 tons) and his translator was talking to the foreman. The conversation was along these lines: Translator: "Where's your forklift, I'll get it off the truck for you" Foreman: "Huh? Oh we don't have one of those" T: "???" F: *calls like fifty guys to come over to lift the lathe into place* They manhandled this thing off the truck and into place. Just loving schlepped it like a queen size bed mattress you had stuffed into your hatchback that was a prick to get in, a prick to get out and a prick to carry.
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quote:Air Force, overseas homestation.
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The air Force making you wait forever for menial poo poo is the truest element of this story. God damned jerks. Want me ready to go 5 hours before you take off? gently caress their goddamn poo poo they're awful even when allowed to "get rid of the bullshit" by operating their own goddamn operation.
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If you use steel scaffolding and an incident occurs, you can blame the manufacture of the hardware or the users who abused it or the grunts who didn’t follow best practices when installing it. Engineering calculations can show the design of the scaffolding to be perfectly safe. The unfortunate incident stems from the fault of some unimportant scapegoat. With bamboo, it’s harder to pass the buck.
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Wasabi the J posted:The air Force making you wait forever for menial poo poo is the truest element of this story. Looks like someone has some feelings
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gently caress the air force. former paratrooper spotted
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Wasabi the J posted:The air Force making you wait forever for menial poo poo is the truest element of this story. Kinda like calling a guy, telling him he needs to be ready to deploy in 24 hours, and then when he arrives they tell him, "Oh poo poo son, that's a real bad cavity in that tooth there. We can't send you out! Not without the base dentist to sign off, and he's not gonna be in til next month!" Never mind that his childhood dentist was just down the road. Had to be the base dentist. Can't trust no civilian dentist to know what's what. He came home the next day.
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I worked for a retired air force colonel who hated forklifts with every fiber of his being
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tactlessbastard posted:I worked for a retired air force colonel who hated forklifts with every fiber of his being Did he ever explain why? Or was it just a case of not trusting machines in general?
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Presumably his wife slept with a forklift while he was deployed.
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jobson groeth posted:Looks like someone has some feelings sneakyfrog posted:gently caress the air force. No, I had a Army deployment where I got out in charge of my sections logistics. Some it that included these super high speed "we'll never allow Benghazi again" type missions that the air Force would keep us sitting on the tarmac for around 8 hours to get a plane ready or something. I know aviation isn't as simple as getting in a car. I know that there's always a wait somewhere. But when it's your only goddamn job and you're the only team that can get boots on ground in a hostile environment, maybe cut the dudes about to go there and do things a little loving slack, especially if it's not going to bring down the plane in a fiery crash. Or keep the crews and planes fresh just like the Navy does for their rapid response teams on carriers. We tried doing that on our end with palletizing our kit for the missions and keeping it fully logged and under lock and key. Didn't matter. Air force kept everyone waiting for some completely opaque reason. Didn't even release dudes to eat; they had to dig into their own MREs because they were stuck on the "secure" side of the airfield, meaning they were one chain link fence from the base in general. There's no TSA for the flights. We just passed plates of food over the fence to our team. gently caress the Air Force and gently caress this Wendy's drive through.
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Wasabi the J posted:No, I had a Army deployment where I got out in charge of my sections logistics. Some it that included these super high speed "we'll never allow Benghazi again" type missions that the air Force would keep us sitting on the tarmac for around 8 hours to get a plane ready or something. This is actually a McDonald's drive thru.
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Zil posted:Did he ever explain why? Or was it just a case of not trusting machines in general? "loving retarded airmen poking holes in my goddamned airplanes"
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Wasabi the J posted:No, I had a Army deployment... I have no idea what you just said but: Respect. (insert fist out for a well deserved fist bump. Might be even worth a "lock it up")
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mostlygray posted:"lock it up" loving cursed
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mostlygray posted:I have no idea what you just said but: Is that where you insert your fists in one another’s anuses and lock together as a single dumbshit troop
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Former DILF posted:Is that where you insert your fists in one another’s anuses and lock together as a single dumbshit troop Got it in one. Hooah
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Whoa sorry guys. I thought this was a gip thread for a second and had a whole stream off consciousness thing.
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Wasabi the J posted:stream off consciousness thing.
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Rent-A-Cop posted:It has been noticed in countries with "regulations" and "labor rights" and other such bourgeois ideas. So why don't they use it in the USA 
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Jerry Cotton posted:So why don't they use it in the USA reported for attempted politics in gbs
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sneakyfrog posted:gently caress the entire united states military.
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Rent-A-Cop posted:It has been noticed in countries with "regulations" and "labor rights" and other such bourgeois ideas. all those bourgeoisie in the west fighting so hard for labor rights and regulations drat
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gently caress me if this isn’t true. Why yes, let’s have an unplanned 4-mile run wearing ~60lbs of gear and carrying weapons, what could possibly go wrong  Let’s have a guy fireman carry someone that outweighs him by around 50lbs, if he trips and falls that’s on him! Wait, he tripped and got knocked out when big dude fell on his head, who could’ve seen this coming Air bubbles in an IV line? Sir, I’m the medic here and I say that’s fine. Now lie back and relax, that weird feeling of air going into your veins will be gone soon. (Half the loving line was an air bubble  )There’s a drat good reason that the Military Idiots thread is one of the more popular ones in GiP.
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