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Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
To be fair, that’s a bitchin’ waterfall.



e: Apologies for the snipe.

https://i.imgur.com/0ZaFNp7.gifv

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Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



i was gonna say, can we get more stubbed toes and less people being torn from life itself

Bloody Hedgehog
Dec 12, 2003

💥💥🤯💥💥
Gotta nuke something
No.

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang




gently caress you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0SFycII3pU

Ariong
Jun 25, 2012

Get bashed, platonist!


Worth it.

Booourns
Jan 20, 2004
Please send a report when you see me complain about other posters and threads outside of QCS

~thanks!

flosofl posted:

Wasn't there some place in Peru where people were essentially leaping to their death to take selfies?

EDIT: Yep.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...p-machu-picchu/

You missed the best one "Earlier this year, a Washington state man accidentally killed himself while taking a selfie with his gun."

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
http://i.imgur.com/MLxqRm9.gifv

MisterBibs
Jul 17, 2010

dolla dolla
bill y'all
Fun Shoe

Water remains an incompressible fluid.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
Porcelain remains weak in tension.

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:

Powaqoatse posted:

When a train blasts its horn, it carries.

Maybe if you're in perfect downtrack you can't hear it, but it does carry.

I grew up near a crossing & the crossing bells completely disappear from my ears, but that horn when the conductor tries to warn an idiot? its loud as gently caress.

They were standing on one track taking a photo as the train went by on the other track. So the train that was right next to them drowned out the noise of the other train coming at them on the track they were standing on.

So it was pretty stupid, but in their defense the light/halo was probably the first stimuli they had of the train that killed then.

Then bam.

Correct me if I'm wrong though.

Double Punctuation
Dec 30, 2009

Ships were made for sinking;
Whiskey made for drinking;
If we were made of cellophane
We'd all get stinking drunk much faster!

This is somebody's fetish.

Zopotantor
Feb 24, 2013

...und ist er drin dann lassen wir ihn niemals wieder raus...

Data Graham posted:

Well yeah, it's a magazine for the railroad. Naturally it's from the engineers' POV.


Props where due, though: that's a really loving well made photo

Yeah, it's a once-in-a-lifetime shot.

FirstPlayer
Jan 1, 2007

Beat me up and earn
fifteen respect points

The head of the liquor commission of a county near me got hit with a DUI on the day the new casino opened.

best bale
Jul 4, 2007



Lipstick Apathy

Zopotantor posted:

Yeah, it's a once-in-a-lifetime shot.

:golfclap:

wayfinder
Jul 7, 2003

Data Graham posted:

Well yeah, it's a magazine for the railroad. Naturally it's from the engineers' POV.


Props where due, though: that's a really loving well made photo

Well they've had a thorough training

Two Feet From Bread
Apr 20, 2009

I'm. A. Fucking. Nazi.

please punch me in the face
i love it
give it to me daddy
College Slice

Outrail posted:

They were standing on one track taking a photo as the train went by on the other track. So the train that was right next to them drowned out the noise of the other train coming at them on the track they were standing on.

So it was pretty stupid, but in their defense the light/halo was probably the first stimuli they had of the train that killed then.

Then bam.

Correct me if I'm wrong though.

They have no defence. In the photo, the west bound train was at their back but since they were taking a selfie, they could still see it. That means the eastbound train was in their direct line of sight. They literally played chicken with a train. I get it selfies might be their focus but I refuse to believe that they, at some point in time, didn't see the train that was coming right at them on the same tracks they were standing on and decide that one more picture would be fine.

Other train freude, my brother in law worked as a lawyer for a train company. People do all kinds of stupid poo poo to trains in a train yard. Mostly, perry vandalism, but one bright young drunken soul decided that climbing on top of a train in the middle of the night was the best thing to do. So she climbed over a fence, climbed on top of the train, and hosed around until the train started to move. Short story even shorter, she fell off but only got her arm cut off by the train when she landed. Life lesson right there.

FCKGW
May 21, 2006

oh god shut up

StrangersInTheNight
Dec 31, 2007
ABSOLUTE FUCKING GUDGEON

Mak0rz posted:

How can a dumbass just hang out on a railway like that? I legitimately don't understand it. Maybe I'm sheltered because there are no trains where I grew up but they don't exactly make their potential as mile-long, five thousand-ton meat grinders a secret.

The same reason people underestimate how dangerous cars can be: they don't fully understand the danger or somehow assume they'll be smart enough/immune to it. Subway deaths are incredibly common in NYC for this very reason.

Two recent deaths:

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/f-train-fatally-strikes-subway-surfer-fell-brooklyn-tracks-article-1.2897447
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/teen-killed-jump-moving-subway-train-brooklyn-article-1.2902542

EDIT: I feel bad for the second kid, even though it's a dumb thing to do. That subway surfer tho, gently caress him.

StrangersInTheNight has a new favorite as of 19:17 on Dec 10, 2016

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

Booourns posted:

You missed the best one "Earlier this year, a Washington state man accidentally killed himself while taking a selfie with his gun."
Here's one from Houston last year https://www.cnn.com/2015/09/02/us/man-selfie-shooting/
I'm always morbidly curious if they still got the shot, and maybe in 100 years there will be a photo book full of failed selfies that all look like that one dude getting executed in Vietnam.

Zopotantor posted:

Yeah, it's a once-in-a-lifetime shot.
:popeye:

Non-human train sf: Aaawwwwwwww you dumb fucker :mad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6o1kM973Xo

StrangersInTheNight posted:

EDIT: I feel bad for the second kid, even though it's a dumb thing to do. That subway surfer tho, gently caress him.
This is what they WANTED to happen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3c67AYl0rM
e: skip to 2:00 for actual train surfing and not just bargain bin parkour.

FCKGW
May 21, 2006

FCKGW
May 21, 2006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSAEFLIjx6M

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRYnRMX8BPQ

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

erm... actually thieves should be summarily executed
LA Beast is mentally ill.

Phthisis
Apr 16, 2007

"Maybe some dolphins have sex for pleasure."

Powaqoatse posted:

When a train blasts its horn, it carries.

Maybe if you're in perfect downtrack you can't hear it, but it does carry.

I grew up near a crossing & the crossing bells completely disappear from my ears, but that horn when the conductor tries to warn an idiot? its loud as gently caress.

The speed of the train and the geometry of everything does actually make a surprisingly big difference. The point in time when you hear the train horn loudly is not very much time before it will be on top of you.

A friend of mine who is a professor in psychoacoustics/audio engineering was called to run the math and testify as an expert witness in a trial where the family of someone who was killed by a train was suing the train company under the claim that the train operator didn't adequately sound the horn to notify the person on the tracks.

I mostly just remember the takeaway from the conversation with my friend being that you really don't want to gently caress around on railroad tracks, because you have way less time than you think to get out of the way when you hear a train horn.

Proteus Jones
Feb 28, 2013



Yeah, I've stopped getting any kind of entertainment from his vids after realizing how ill he is in the head.

wayfinder
Jul 7, 2003
When's the last time we had a good way to gently caress up your back?

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:

wayfinder posted:

When's the last time we had a good way to gently caress up your back?



Is the coccyx part of the back? That's a good way to gently caress up your butt.

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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Outrail posted:

Is the coccyx part of the back? That's a good way to gently caress up your butt.

And your relationship.

Your Gay Uncle
Feb 16, 2012

by Fluffdaddy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYUG8elGsMM

BovineFury
Oct 28, 2007
I moo for great justice!
Let luck be a motorcyclist, tonight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvb2gTcjZA8

TheMaskedUgly
Sep 21, 2008

Let's play a different game.
Man a full 2/3s of those were bikers riding serveral times the speed of the traffic they're passing by and nearly hitting people making normal maneuvers with appropriate warning. Hard to feel bad about that tbh. That's ignoring the ones who don't know the difference between lane-splitting and weaving through traffic.

e: props to the guy at 8:45 though, heck of a save

TheMaskedUgly has a new favorite as of 23:06 on Dec 10, 2016

wayfinder
Jul 7, 2003

That last one was beautiful, glad I stuck with all the bad drivers

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

erm... actually thieves should be summarily executed

TheMaskedUgly posted:

Man a full 2/3s of those were bikers riding serveral times the speed of the traffic they're passing by and nearly hitting people making normal maneuvers with appropriate warning. Hard to feel bad about that tbh. That's ignoring the ones who don't know the difference between lane-splitting and weaving through traffic.

e: props to the guy at 8:45 though, heck of a save

Yeah the video is like I'd say 60% squids (idiots on supersports) riding way beyond a safe level, and 40% lovely Drivers Can Kill You Instantly If You Let Your Attention Wander.

The guy at 1:40 for instance is a perfect example of why you stay to one side of the lane while stopped, rather than planting yourself in the middle. And there were four or five clips making super obvious why you always stay away from the centerline in a blind turn.

ninjahedgehog
Feb 17, 2011

It's time to kick the tires and light the fires, Big Bird.


Wait for it.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
http://i.imgur.com/ideD9k0.gifv

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

ninjahedgehog posted:

Wait for it.



I wanted her to run around like when a dog or cat gets its head stuck in a jar :(

Zipperelli.
Apr 3, 2011



Nap Ghost

Slugnoid posted:

Reminds me of the recent accident at Dreamworld where the ambulance officers called the victims injuries "incompatible with life"; the medical term for they got hosed up.

Regalingualius posted:

I remember some story about an EMT goon dealing with a dispatcher who got really anal-retentive about using that phrase until they retorted with something to the effect of "his head is in a different room than the rest of his body".

So as paramedics, we're not allowed to call a patient "dead" or establish a time of death. We have to write our reports with terms like, "signs incompatible with life" or something similar because we're not doctors.

im pooping!
Nov 17, 2006


Zipperelli. posted:

So as paramedics, we're not allowed to call a patient "dead" or establish a time of death. We have to write our reports with terms like, "signs incompatible with life" or something similar because we're not doctors.

the more time i spend thinking about the possible reasoning behind this the angrier i get

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Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

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I'm confused as to how an EMT can't be trained to identify a dead person. I mean yeah, doctors have almost a decade of experience, but come on.

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