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solarNativity
Nov 11, 2012

madeintaipei posted:

Thank you, American and Japanese pickup manufacturers, for making head and tail lights exceedingly eay to change.

Seriously, god loving bless. Trucks have spoiled me so much. My taillights come off with two screws accessible by opening the bed. Headlights are dead simple too. The only difficult maintenance task I have is sparkplugs, and that's only because I have 16 of them. I mean, they come with gas struts and underhood lights! They're actually made to be worked on. What a concept.

e: ew, snipe. here's my favorite USCSB video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rktMzw2fd28

solarNativity fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Oct 1, 2021

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Shifty Nipples
Apr 8, 2007


My apologies for quoting something two weeks old but just in case this went un-noticed I wanted to make note that I noticed.

GWBBQ
Jan 2, 2005


solarNativity posted:

e: ew, snipe. here's my favorite USCSB video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rktMzw2fd28
The simple "fireworks are explosives" at the beginning is something that a lot of people look over. I'm far from innocent of having done some stupid poo poo with them, and I'm lucky I survived a couple of incidents. If you're disposing of fireworks, they need to be treated as UXO and handled by someone who's not that company or the LAPD.

nomad2020
Jan 30, 2007

No one tell the LAPD

You can put a scale inside of the bomb box, that way you know how much bomb is in the box.

mostlygray
Nov 1, 2012

BURY ME AS I LIVED, A FREE MAN ON THE CLUTCH

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

Put a 2.73 diff in it. Congrats, now it gets 13mpg.

4.11 gears, a 900 CFM Rochester carb, 3 speed Hurst slapstick. Maybe cam it up a little bit.

That's good for about 7mpg on regular gas with a tailwind.

Harry_Potato
May 21, 2021

The new mega grande electrochino at Starbuks looks great. Can I get that with pumpkin spice, please?

Harry_Potato
May 21, 2021

nomad2020 posted:

No one tell the LAPD

You can put a scale inside of the bomb box, that way you know how much bomb is in the box.

You can put a scale under the bomb box and zero it before you start loading blowy uppy stuff. When it hits the capacity of the box, stop adding stuff. Mind blown!

Cyrano4747
Sep 25, 2006

Yes, I know I'm old, get off my fucking lawn so I can yell at these clouds.

Harry_Potato posted:

You can put a scale under the bomb box and zero it before you start loading blowy uppy stuff. When it hits the capacity of the box, stop adding stuff. Mind blown!

You could even do some galaxy brain poo poo like have a departmental policy that you only load the box to, say, 85% of the manufacturer's listed capacity.

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

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


Cyrano4747 posted:

You could even do some galaxy brain poo poo like have a departmental policy that you only load the box to, say, 85% of the manufacturer's listed capacity.

Haha like they do with cranes and forklifts

Unless that was the joke...

PHIZ KALIFA
Dec 21, 2011

#mood

Cyrano4747 posted:

You could even do some galaxy brain poo poo like have a departmental policy that you only load the box to, say, 85% of the manufacturer's listed capacity.

hey man, ive bveen drunk oin the job every day for thirteen years, i THINK i know how much my rig can handle

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
If the explosives don’t fit in a donut box, it’s too much.

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Lascivious Sloth posted:

I like how he puts the stirring paddle on the dirty floor, mmm

germ theory is just, like, your opinion man

EvenWorseOpinions
Jun 10, 2017
I'll interject quickly that there are smallish movements trying to propagate alternatives to germ theory in the modern day

Erulisse
Feb 12, 2019

A bad poster trying to get better.

Abrupt loving chaos

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

EvenWorseOpinions posted:

I'll interject quickly that there are smallish movements trying to propagate alternatives to germ theory in the modern day

Sure and flat earthers and crystal healing and magnets and copper socks

EvenWorseOpinions
Jun 10, 2017
I am used to and accept that flat earthers and crystals people exist, it boggles my mind that anyone questions germ theory. Copper socks? I dunno I guess I'm ready to have my mind boggled again.

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_r05pf7znG91r0uzl6.mp4

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_r05oe4Q4TO1r0uzl6.mp4

McGavin
Sep 18, 2012


Like a bull in a cell phone shop.

punishedkissinger
Sep 20, 2017

EvenWorseOpinions posted:

I am used to and accept that flat earthers and crystals people exist, it boggles my mind that anyone questions germ theory. Copper socks? I dunno I guess I'm ready to have my mind boggled again.

isnt copper anti-microbial?

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

EvenWorseOpinions posted:

I am used to and accept that flat earthers and crystals people exist, it boggles my mind that anyone questions germ theory. Copper socks? I dunno I guess I'm ready to have my mind boggled again.

Started out as something akin to diabetic compression socks, then the whole "copper" thing started a decade-ish ago when people started assigning woo powers to copper (see CopperFit products).

E: pretty sure it's antimicrobial but the bigger factor is the woo. Like PowerBalance magnet bracelets.

CRUSTY MINGE fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Oct 1, 2021

Lascivious Sloth
Apr 26, 2008

by sebmojo

I'm actually relieved/glad he didn't drop them. That was pure skill.

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat
Kept expecting them to get bike suplexed into the mud, not gonna lie.

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009




That's the injector head of a coil tubing unit. It is very much supposed to be perfectly upright.



A coil tubing unit runs tubing in and out of a drilled hole with specialized tools on it to do different functions. It can be used on active, producing wells. The stripper/packer holds the pressure of the well, and is above where that bend is.

So now they have a kinked tubing string that is holding all the valves open that they can't pull out. If that well is under pressure, I don't even know how they would fix this gently caress-up.

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat
Stripper BOP. Can't pull out huh. Bad case of injector head I'm sure, tubing in and out of that drilled hole. Good lord how do those people get 5min productive work in between the pun cavalcade that is their work week I wonder.

E: kink :mmmhmm:

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


Karate Bastard posted:

Stripper BOP. Can't pull out huh. Bad case of injector head I'm sure, tubing in and out of that drilled hole. Good lord how do those people get 5min productive work in between the pun cavalcade that is their work week I wonder.

E: kink :mmmhmm:

COCAINE!

You could censor a few words here and play "Sex toy or oilfield tool"



e:



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Powershift fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Oct 1, 2021

ReelBigLizard
Feb 27, 2003

Fallen Rib

Powershift posted:



That's the injector head of a coil tubing unit. It is very much supposed to be perfectly upright.

No kink shaming

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


https://i.imgur.com/niGKut8.mp4

Wistful of Dollars
Aug 25, 2009


ah...the one that got away...

Tobermory
Mar 31, 2011

EvenWorseOpinions posted:

I am used to and accept that flat earthers and crystals people exist, it boggles my mind that anyone questions germ theory. Copper socks? I dunno I guess I'm ready to have my mind boggled again.

There's a quack medicine movement called "grounding" or "earthing". The basic concept is that people are healthier when they're electrically grounded. Most of the people who believe in it just walk around barefoot a lot, or wire themselves up to copper stakes that they hammer into their yard. When they're dumb enough to spend a lot of money on it, then they get electrically conductive sheets or rugs that are wired up to electrical ground. Conductive socks are one of their things, although I've mostly seen them made with silver.

None of the people involved know anything about how electricity works. There's also a lot of crossover with the "5G gave my kids autism and cancer" crowd.

goatsestretchgoals
Jun 4, 2011

Tobermory posted:

There's a quack medicine movement called "grounding" or "earthing". The basic concept is that people are healthier when they're electrically grounded. Most of the people who believe in it just walk around barefoot a lot, or wire themselves up to copper stakes that they hammer into their yard. When they're dumb enough to spend a lot of money on it, then they get electrically conductive sheets or rugs that are wired up to electrical ground. Conductive socks are one of their things, although I've mostly seen them made with silver.

None of the people involved know anything about how electricity works. There's also a lot of crossover with the "5G gave my kids autism and cancer" crowd.

I typed and backspaced out 3 different versions of a home grounding kit that was my old toaster and a couple of butter knives. I am bad at grifting.

Mister Speaker
May 8, 2007

WE WILL CONTROL
ALL THAT YOU SEE
AND HEAR
With the existence of such things as 'docking', 'sounding' and 'soaking', is it weird that my first reaction to hearing 'grounding' is "ew what's this weird new sex thing?"

wesleywillis
Dec 30, 2016

SUCK A MALE CAMEL'S DICK WITH MIRACLE WHIP!!

Mister Speaker posted:

With the existence of such things as 'docking', 'sounding' and 'soaking', is it weird that my first reaction to hearing 'grounding' is "ew what's this weird new sex thing?"

Me and a guy at work cane up with a new one. 'threading'. It's like docking, but with a 'little twist'.

The Sausages
Sep 30, 2012

What do you want to do? Who do you want to be?

Tobermory posted:

There's a quack medicine movement called "grounding" or "earthing". The basic concept is that people are healthier when they're electrically grounded. Most of the people who believe in it just walk around barefoot a lot, or wire themselves up to copper stakes that they hammer into their yard. When they're dumb enough to spend a lot of money on it, then they get electrically conductive sheets or rugs that are wired up to electrical ground. Conductive socks are one of their things, although I've mostly seen them made with silver.

None of the people involved know anything about how electricity works. There's also a lot of crossover with the "5G gave my kids autism and cancer" crowd.

I've seen this sort of thing discussed by people into TCM, to help accumulate chi energy or whatever. Except they did it by running a cable from a ground connection to their perineum while meditating.

Killer robot
Sep 6, 2010

I was having the most wonderful dream. I think you were in it!
Pillbug

The Sausages posted:

I've seen this sort of thing discussed by people into TCM, to help accumulate chi energy or whatever. Except they did it by running a cable from a ground connection to their perineum while meditating.

I don't think that accumulates chi so much as just gets the taint out of it.

Regular Wario
Mar 27, 2010

Slippery Tilde

wesleywillis posted:

Me and a guy at work cane up with a new one. 'threading'. It's like docking, but with a 'little twist'.

Sounding with a drill bit

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010
I think some socks and underware use copper or silver "ions" or whatever in the fibers to reduce microb growth and thus reduce odor. They're popular with campers or travelers who want to stretch time between laundry.

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat

Oh Mike is loving done for this time. That's gotta be at least a hundred foot handlebar drop.

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat

PhazonLink posted:

I think some socks and underware use copper or silver "ions" or whatever in the fibers to reduce microb growth and thus reduce odor. They're popular with campers or travelers who want to stretch time between laundry.

See I can't understand this position. Isn't camping supposed to be your one chance to smell the way you want?

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Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

PhazonLink posted:

I think some socks and underware use copper or silver "ions" or whatever in the fibers to reduce microb growth and thus reduce odor. They're popular with campers or travelers who want to stretch time between laundry.

The soil here in Finland is so acidic that almost everything organic rots away in not a long time. But the presence of bronze jewelry in some iron age graves has preserved the fabrics they were worn over so we have been able to make reproductions of what at least the wealthy would have worn back then. Something to do with metal salts.

Nenonen fucked around with this message at 11:40 on Oct 2, 2021

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