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ReagaNOMNOMicks posted:Guy inside the forklift is all like "welp, pulled this lever, didn't work, this is my life now." I don't know what lever he's pulling, but by ripping back on it he's either trying to lift it, tilt the mast back or sideshift it left. The tilt might help, but none of the rest are.
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You know I've watched the whole series probably 6-7 times, and never noticed that before
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Sappo569 posted:You know I've watched the whole series probably 6-7 times, and never noticed that before Whenever I whip a ball really hard I always hope it explodes like that scene
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Amazing, I never remembered that part of that scene. That's some severe attention to detail. And since someone posted a BoB clip, now I have an excuse to post the best scene in the entire series, an actual event that happened in real life, oh man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS1qfIsINh8
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SneakyFrog posted:fun fact: In Iraq in 2003 I had an opportunity to use a hand grenade. I was up against a wall of a two story house. The second story was set back a bit so there was a porch up there with a small wall around it. A couple of dudes were firing knockoff MP5s as some Soldiers across the street. I figured I'd just arc the grenade up and on to the patio. Then I had a vision of the grenade bouncing off the wall above me and falling at my feet. I put the grenade back in it's pouch and never took it out again for the rest of my time there.
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You'll be an excellent safety grandad. "Well kids in the war I kept all my limbs attached with this one weird trick that enemy combatants hate.."
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Only Battalion 90 soldiers will understand.
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spacetoaster posted:In Iraq in 2003 I had an opportunity to use a hand grenade. I was up against a wall of a two story house. The second story was set back a bit so there was a porch up there with a small wall around it. A couple of dudes were firing knockoff MP5s as some Soldiers across the street. I figured I'd just arc the grenade up and on to the patio. Then I had a vision of the grenade bouncing off the wall above me and falling at my feet. I put the grenade back in it's pouch and never took it out again for the rest of my time there. So how'd you kill those nerds?
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spacetoaster posted:In Iraq in 2003 I had an opportunity to use a hand grenade. I was up against a wall of a two story house. The second story was set back a bit so there was a porch up there with a small wall around it. A couple of dudes were firing knockoff MP5s as some Soldiers across the street. I figured I'd just arc the grenade up and on to the patio. Then I had a vision of the grenade bouncing off the wall above me and falling at my feet. I put the grenade back in it's pouch and never took it out again for the rest of my time there. Way to pass on a double kill.
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Factor Mystic posted:Amazing, I never remembered that part of that scene. That's some severe attention to detail. BoB is on Netflix at the moment. If you have Netflix, you should go watch it. If you've seen it before, you should go watch it again.
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chitoryu12 posted:There was a battle in The Boys of '67 where an American grenadier firing at retreating Viet Cong managed to launch a grenade from an M79 several hundred yards, arcing perfectly to hit a VC directly in the back of the head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDCFewosL2Y According to the book the Iraqi guy survived.
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Why didn't the Canadians make hockey puck shaped grenades for their troops?
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Spookydonut posted:Why didn't the Canadians make hockey puck shaped grenades for their troops? Yeah, the could even put them in these tactical chew holders 
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Can I get that on my collapsible stock? I still have room for more picatinny hooah.
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Spookydonut posted:Why didn't the Canadians make hockey puck shaped grenades for their troops? You don't throw a puck, silly. Actually though, Canada's Official Sport isn't hockey, but lacrosse. I bet lacrosse sticks would be fantastic for lobbing grenades  .
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Sappo569 posted:Yeah, the could even put them in these tactical chew holders I had something like that on my LBE actually.
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Angela Christine posted:You don't throw a puck, silly. 
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I had something like that on my LBE actually. The first one I saw was a dude had it hooked up to a retractable pistol lanyard.
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Yes. YESSSS!
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WarpedNaba posted:So how'd you kill those nerds? We just went in the house and shot them.
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spacetoaster posted:We just went in the house and shot them. Thanks I just coughed vape into my monitor
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Angela Christine posted:Actually though, Canada's Official Sport isn't hockey, but lacrosse. Its both. We don't want anybody to feel left oot eh e: related 
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http://www.wkbw.com/watch-live They gonna implode an old hospital in about a hour, watch live here.
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Wasabi the J posted:At the risk of a further derail, do you have a video of this? Because I don't know what the gently caress any of the cricket terms mean and apparently there are a poo poo load of weirdass rules in that game, including some people are allowed to spin the ball but others can't? Anyone's "allowed" to spin the ball, and all the bowlers do, it's just whether or not the spin is the main weapon or the speed. Because the ball bounces you can do much more with it than baseball pitchers can, which is why cricket has far more specialised slow/spin bowlers than baseball. The only weird rule is the ban on "throwing", bending your elbow in your bowling motion, because that would be ridiculously dangerous - fast bowlers can already get >100mph with a straight arm, being allowed to bend it would probably crank that up to >120 mph. Spin bowlers would also be able to get much more speed on their balls so you'd have to cope with an 80-90 mph ball that's also going to move six feet laterally as it comes at you. The reason I mentioned Murali is his action (and weird elbow joint) let him bowl a ball that did exactly that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-3SqsJvyGM It looks much less spectacular on tv because of the zoom crush, but you only need to look at the baffled way Marcus Trescothick, one of the best batsmen in the world at the time, looks back at his stumps - he was confident that ball was going way wide and all of a sudden his stumps are gone. I suppose the OSHA thread component of all this is look at how much protective equipment the batsmen and even some of the fielders are wearing - they get themselves way more in the line of danger than baseball players and bowlers are allowed to throw the ball at the batsman's head once every over (six balls) without consequence. That rule, limiting the amount of times you can legitimately try to hurt the batsman, only came in after hospitalising your opponents was used as a (perfectly legal) tactic in the Bodyline days.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Cricket stuff All this and the commentary on the video you linked just reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gu3mbl8SAk
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Phanatic posted:Here's a really loving great article on how despite fancy electronic ordering systems with multiple automated and manual check processes, a 16-year-old kid was dosed with 38.5 times the intended dose of antibiotics. Thanks for sharing this. We need to cut down on alerting at work, so this is especially relevant to what I do.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I suppose the OSHA thread component of all this is look at how much protective equipment the batsmen and even some of the fielders are wearing - they get themselves way more in the line of danger than baseball players and bowlers are allowed to throw the ball at the batsman's head once every over (six balls) without consequence. That rule, limiting the amount of times you can legitimately try to hurt the batsman, only came in after hospitalising your opponents was used as a (perfectly legal) tactic in the Bodyline days. Sometimes it kills them. quote:During the afternoon session of the Sheffield Shield match between South Australia and New South Wales at the Sydney Cricket Ground on 25 November 2014, Hughes, batting at 63 not out, was struck in the neck by the ball after missing an attempted hook shot to a bouncer from New South Wales bowler Sean Abbott. Hughes was wearing a helmet, but the ball struck an unprotected area just below his left ear. He collapsed before receiving mouth to mouth resuscitation and was subsequently taken to St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, where he underwent surgery and was placed into an induced coma. Hughes' injury was a rare but described type of sport-related blunt cerebrovascular injury called a vertebral artery dissection which led to subarachnoid haemorrhage. GotLag fucked around with this message at 12:03 on Oct 3, 2015 |
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Hooded Reptile posted:http://www.wkbw.com/watch-live Thanks that was fun 
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Our parents always insisted we play cricket with tennis balls or training balls which weren't cork and leather owing to personal experiences of seeing kids knocked stone dead during their youth. Though given the amount of access my parent's generation had to gunpowder while growing up I'm amazed I've even entered this world after hearing stories of home made ballistas going through fibro fences or the many failed attempt to launch a caterpillar, intact, with homemade rockets (it would get crushed to death on the way up, despite spring reinforcement.). The most fun we ever could do was shave off sparklers into a tin and set that on fire.
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Don't touch anything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfxOpRfIMeE&t=206s
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Angela Christine posted:You don't throw a puck, silly. Molotovs, too. 
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Hats Wouldnt Fly posted:Don't touch anything. I've done something like this before with an old cell phone I didn't have the right charger for.
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At work we have this huge high pressure vessel that's like 30 years old and undergoes maintenance every 6 months. Recently the whole thing failed and caused a bunch of damage, but luckily didn't cause any injuries. People started taking a look and noticed that some of the bolts/nuts nowhere near the failure point had come loose in what looked like a controlled way, so they asked the guy who maintains this thing about it. Whenever it comes time for maintenance instead of opening a bleed valve to safely release pressure this guy just comes along with a wrench and loosens nuts at random until he starts hearing air coming out, and then when it's time to seal it back up he does the opposite: tighten nuts until you don't hear air
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Oct 3, 2015 20:53
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So I'm assuming these bolts were at the lowest point and a nice layer of water built up?
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QuarkJets posted:Whenever it comes time for maintenance instead of opening a bleed valve to safely release pressure this guy just comes along with a wrench and loosens nuts at random until he starts hearing air coming out, and then when it's time to seal it back up he does the opposite: tighten nuts until you don't hear air 
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Uthor posted:So I'm assuming these bolts were at the lowest point and a nice layer of water built up? I was thinking the procedure might have fatigued the vessel.
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MrYenko posted:BoB is on Netflix at the moment. If you have Netflix, you should go watch it. If you've seen it before, you should go watch it again. No, it isn't.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Anyone's "allowed" to spin the ball, and all the bowlers do, it's just whether or not the spin is the main weapon or the speed. Because the ball bounces you can do much more with it than baseball pitchers can, which is why cricket has far more specialised slow/spin bowlers than baseball. 
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