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WarpedNaba posted:My dream life sucks. I'm pretty sure actual life as a recovering coma patient will not be better.
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Cartoon Man posted:https://i.imgur.com/xBhhIcR.gifv this motherfucker is the reason they have to repave the roads every summer
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Cartoon Man posted:https://i.imgur.com/xBhhIcR.gifv ...gently up the road, merrily merrily merrily merrily, why the gently caress's it snowed!!?!?!!?!?!
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Platystemon posted:If you are reading this, you have been in a coma for almost twenty years. LMAO, get your rear end in here and MAKE ME, coward.
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Super Soaker Party! posted:...gently up the road, merrily merrily merrily merrily, why the gently caress's it snowed!!?!?!!?!?! "And gently caress your sidewalk. And your yard. And your sidewalk"
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A guy I see from time to time works at a lead battery plant. Tells us we can't call him a dirtbag because the company makes him take a shower before he leaves. The same plant lost a lawsuit years ago because they clocked the workers out before their shift cleanup. I still run into cast iron water pipes with lead joints occasionally. No PPE or anything special for those. On the other hand, lead paint... Freddie Gray... MRC48B posted:IIRC the last time TEL came up someone mentioned there's several viable alternatives to Leaded avgas, but since the epa got basically gutted, the FAA cant be bothered to force a change.
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Platystemon posted:Aviation gasoline is still leaded. Bringing this up around pilots is like bringing up Poe’s orangutang around scholars of literature. Hold the gently caress on, are you telling me Edgar Allan Poe had a loving orangutan? An actual drat great ape? That's osha as hell don't let those guys out when you're writing
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WE! DO NOT! TALK ABOUT! THE ORANGUTAN!
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SniperWoreConverse posted:Hold the gently caress on, are you telling me Edgar Allan Poe had a loving orangutan? An actual drat great ape? He wrote a story that involved one. It was either an incredibly vicious racist analogue, or it wasn't, and figuring out which it is has caused much debate amongst scholars of literature.
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Tyson Tomko posted:But I thought they do pollinate an absolute poo poo load of things? Actually, they used a picture of a cicada killer. They are large, and yes, they look like a nightmare when they're flying in your vicinity, but they don't give a poo poo about anything except catching and paralyzing a cicada. The only way one will hurt you is through serious effort or stepping on one.  Reuben Sandwich posted:I still run into cast iron water pipes with lead joints occasionally. No PPE or anything special for those. Welcome to Philadelphia!  PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 03:27 on May 13, 2020 |
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PainterofCrap posted:Actually, they used a picture of a cicada killer. They are large, and yes, they look like a nightmare when they're flying in your vicinity, but they don't give a poo poo about anything except catching and paralyzing a cicada. The only way one will hurt you is through serious effort or stepping on one. Awww, they're hugging! 
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Jabor posted:He wrote a story that involved one. wait, this story sounds familiar. . . was an argument about Poe's orangutan between professors of literature described in a book? Where did you read this?
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Squalid posted:wait, this story sounds familiar. . . was an argument about Poe's orangutan between professors of literature described in a book? Where did you read this? If Tumblr is a book, yes.
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SelenicMartian posted:Both units were made by the same Russian factory. For a long time people debated whether death by drowning or burning was worse. Now on Corona fire ventilators you get to experience both at the same time.
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Oh wait I vaguely remember the story didn't it involve someone getting dunked in molten pitch and burning to death?
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PainterofCrap posted:Actually, they used a picture of a cicada killer. They are large, and yes, they look like a nightmare when they're flying in your vicinity, but they don't give a poo poo about anything except catching and paralyzing a cicada. The only way one will hurt you is through serious effort or stepping on one. Ps, once again I have to demand goons stop breaking into my house and taking pics
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hmm. . . that looks like what i was thinking of, but its a lot lamer than i remember. I feel like I read a version of that story but cut down to like 3 paragraphs. Could have just been a different time the same person recounted it.
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We have tarantula wasps in California. They're kind the same way, the only thing they wanna do is sting an unfortunate Tarantula (which really truly are, the cutest of ambush spiders), lay their eggs in it, and let their progeny eat it from the inside out. If you somehow manage to get one to sting you (which requires stuffing your hands into every oak tree wound and small dirt hole you can find until you hit pay dirt or more likely, another species of wasp nest), the pain is apparently absolutely debilitating but not lethal. It goes away pretty quickly. I actually really like our native tarantula's. I've found them in my stuff while I'm camping, and I always take pains to gently shoo them out instead of smashing them to death for no reason. Field mice and voles, on the other hand, I absolutely loving hate with a passion. Those fuckers are ballsy. I literally watched a dude get out of his tent, and this little black shape quickly hopped into his tent before he turned around to zip it up. Speaking of which, we had an OSHA incident at my job the other day. I mark trees for arbor crews to work on. One day, I got a call from a very irate foreman, because I didn't notice the wasps nest tucked away in the top sixty feet of a Ponderosa Pine. Apparently, the poor dude in the box truck hit the nest with his polesaw, causing a swarm of very angry wasps to attack this dude, 60 ft in the air in a box. His solution? Lay down in the box, cover his face, and chain smoke cigarettes to deter the angry wasps. I don't think it worked very well
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A White Guy posted:Lay down in the box, cover his face, and chain smoke cigarettes to deter the angry wasps. He mis-remembered the manual. This is to deter angry W.A.S.P.s when you cut down their tree
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SniperWoreConverse posted:Oh wait I vaguely remember the story didn't it involve someone getting dunked in molten pitch and burning to death? What, tumblr? I mean in a metaphorical sense sure, but...
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A White Guy posted:We have tarantula wasps in California. They're kind the same way, the only thing they wanna do is sting an unfortunate Tarantula (which really truly are, the cutest of ambush spiders), lay their eggs in it, and let their progeny eat it from the inside out. If you somehow manage to get one to sting you (which requires stuffing your hands into every oak tree wound and small dirt hole you can find until you hit pay dirt or more likely, another species of wasp nest), the pain is apparently absolutely debilitating but not lethal. It goes away pretty quickly. smoke protects also nicotine is an insecticide adds up
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Cojawfee posted:You'd need a lot more nicotine than what's in a cigarette to be an insecticide. not really. you can get nicotine poisoning just by touching wet tobacco, and back in the day people commonly made their own bug spray by grinding up tobacco in water. modern insecticides were invented partially to come up with something less toxic to humans than tobacco juice. once cigarette wouldn't be able to kill very many bugs, but it certainly could kill some.
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Neonicotinide (the class of insecticides synthesized on those lines) are so effective that they're implicated in colony collapse disorder.
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Edit: nevermind.... Thought I saw a wasp.
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A White Guy posted:We have tarantula wasps in California. They're kind the same way, the only thing they wanna do is sting an unfortunate Tarantula (which really truly are, the cutest of ambush spiders), lay their eggs in it, and let their progeny eat it from the inside out. If you somehow manage to get one to sting you (which requires stuffing your hands into every oak tree wound and small dirt hole you can find until you hit pay dirt or more likely, another species of wasp nest), the pain is apparently absolutely debilitating but not lethal. It goes away pretty quickly. aka Cazadores.
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announced over the speaker in my department at work tonight: "All associates must wear shoes at work. Repeat: all shoes must be on." For reference: I work in an Amazon FC.
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20 years ago today, 7 years before I moved here for university, my city blew the gently caress up. https://youtube.com/watch?v=_etfXcbguZw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enschede_fireworks_disaster?wprov=sfla1 Lessons learned: don't warehouse fireworks in a residential neighborhood, idiots.
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The spiritual successor to Enschede was DEI (motto: "Initial success or total failure") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rktMzw2fd28
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GotLag posted:The spiritual successor to Enschede was DEI (motto: "Initial success or total failure") Of course the goddamn rat supervisor made it out.
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GotLag posted:The spiritual successor to Enschede was DEI (motto: "Initial success or total failure") drat, you don't gently caress with static electricity
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SniperWoreConverse posted:Ps, once again I have to demand goons stop breaking into my house and taking pics Did you ever explain what was the deal with your purple crystal?
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Arrhythmia posted:Did you ever explain what was the deal with your purple crystal? They need you to come over and help charge it up.
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This reminds me of my favorite wasp fact: https://sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/discover/in-your-garden/article/154 quote:In the spring, queen wasps wake from hibernation and start to build their nest, laying eggs and raising their first brood of daughters. These worker wasps cannot produce fertilised eggs, so spend their time helping their mother to expand the nest and raise more young.
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Omnivorous flying insects are on a neverending quest to get drunk as gently caress. Got to respect them for that.
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zedprime posted:Omnivorous flying insects are on a neverending quest to get drunk as gently caress. Got to respect them for that. Teach them to use a keyboard and make a new generation of goons.
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A White Guy posted:Neonicotinide (the class of insecticides synthesized on those lines) are so effective that they're implicated in colony collapse disorder. This is a common myth, this class is now mostly used as part of seed treatment, to prevent insect damage to very expensive modern seed.
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AlexanderCA posted:20 years ago today, 7 years before I moved here for university, my city blew the gently caress up. Hey, I was still around there when you moved there. Neato!
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Cyrano4747 posted:Teach them to use a keyboard and make a new generation of goons. I see your subtle attempt at a 2.5 page keyboard preference detail
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