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LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

A fishperson in an intimidating hat!

Atticus_1354 posted:

isn't worth the cost for the horses when WD40 works well too.

I use WD-40 on a daily basis at work, and in such a capacity as to have never even imagined its potential use as horse-mane lube.

Also, I'm the horse which spends a substantial amount of its time huffing WD-40 fumes.

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LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

What a loving anthead. I hope his house burned down due to his stupidity.

Counterpoint: I am now really committed to finding a way to safely hold a transparent container which appears to be full of pure radiance in my hand.

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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RareAcumen posted:

I don't know a better way to save/show vines so uh, sorry.

https://v.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/5450...9QVFTXxBWBz5SS7

The camera dude sounds so loving indignant at the end, it's great.

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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Choco1980 posted:

Every time I see that gif I'm more sure the guy just died :ohdear:

Honestly, the vast majority of reasonably-healthy people will survive a 10-12 yard fall like that, unless they land on their heads or in other ways which damage the brain/spinal column, as long as they receive relatively timely medical attention; the reason he broke poo poo in his feet and/or legs is because they absorbed most of the impact.

You really need those things for walking, and it's not like serious leg injuries including fractures can't be life-threatening, it's just that your central nervous system isn't in your shins.

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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Mad Doctor Cthulhu posted:

Anybody else laugh when halfway through the video, the rear end in a top hat puts on a helmet?

More when, immediately afterward, he smacks his face into the floor after a 10-foot drop.

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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The fact that law enforcement in some form is an important part of a functional co-operative society (in this case arresting drunk drivers) has no bearing on the previous poster's mildly overwrought knee-jerk response to the extended implications of someone's feeling that their singular anecdote was significant.

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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"Huh, I sure wonder how this is going to stop!" --an adult human being engaged in constructing an elevated platform from which to fling children.

How could I have been totally ignorant of this event until now?!

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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Pierzak posted:

Brake test. The brakes work.

http://i.imgur.com/ZP1brrD.webm

Totally consistent with the half-shafts being mechanically the weakest of any of the systems in those vehicles. My battalion was issued several dozen of them shortly after we deployed, and within a week and a half six of them had snapped half-shafts (mostly more than one each).

Also our Alpha company was really good at getting them stuck in canals. I once spent thirty-three hours in a guard tower because six different convoys had to go out to a fiasco which started as a single MRAP backed into a canal and escalated to two wreckers and a combat engineering crane breaking down on the site. We actually wound up canceling several routine patrols the next day because of how few people on our patrol base had gotten any sleep.

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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Why do I never meet nice ladies like that?

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

A fishperson in an intimidating hat!

EKDS5k posted:

PYF public urination stories.

Between villages on patrol in Iraq, and I have to piss like you wouldn't even believe. While we were stopped in the last village, the dude in charge of my truck laughingly refused to let me swap out in the turret with someone else, telling me I'm a grown-rear end man and can piss in a bottle if need be (being a tremendous nerd and also constitutionally unable to keep my mouth shut, I got hosed with a lot).

I had to stay in the turret to keep watch and wasn't going to piss in a bottle when there were dozens of kids swarming around the convoy who could just look in the windows, and the officer we were escorting around to talk to cooperative sheiks was in a hurry so I didn't even bother trying to go piss in a corner somewhere once everyone was back. After we're a few minutes out, though, I grab a bottle, whip out my dick, and the NCO fucks with me for wanting to wave my poo poo in three dudes' faces.

I laugh and tell him "gently caress if you're uncomfortable I can climb out on the roof."

When he sarcastically tells me to go ahead, I immediately clip my rifle to the turret and rotate it off to the side; someone inside grabs my ankle as I'm climbing out and the sergeant is shouting "Lonsome! What in motherfuck are you doing get the gently caress back in the truck," but I'm already kneeling on the turret lip, straddling the .50 cal and pissing, pointedly groaning loud enough that they can hear me back down in the cabin.

By the time I've got my rear end back in the gunner swing, everyone in the truck is cracking up, the sergeant is calling me a crazy motherfucker, and the driver hit the brakes because he started swerving across the road when he looked up at me. The .50 hits me in the gut and my body whips forward, but I managed to tuck my chin and hit it with my helmet instead of my face, the dude in the back is shouting at the driver, and the gunner of the truck ahead of us is radioing back to ask what the gently caress just happened. I wound up doing a week of extra duty, not to mention getting chewed out by three different levels of leaders, but it was so totally loving worth it!

e: vvv not sure if you're serious but I had plenty of days where I would drink 8-10 liters of water and not need to piss until late night, but those usually involved long foot patrols or other kinds of physical exertion. On the other hand, rolling around in the turret all day is probably the least physically strenuous job on any active combat mission, meaning that the more-reasonable 6ish liters of consumed water would leave me sopping with sweat only under my vest and needing to piss like a racehorse every two hours or so.

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LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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When I watch this I feel schadenfreudily, but I'm not sure if it fully qualifies or not. Regardless, https://www.facebook.com/FUNKER530/videos/893809937337310/?pnref=story

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

A fishperson in an intimidating hat!


:psyduck: WHY IN THE gently caress WOULD ANYONE EVER DO THIS

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

A fishperson in an intimidating hat!


Hahaha that's loving awesome.

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

A fishperson in an intimidating hat!

It's a platform you balance on, which then moves out from under you like someone yanking on a rug. Who the gently caress thought that was a good idea?

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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oldpainless posted:

Someone poo poo in her flute

I almost spit my drink all over my monitor when I read this, you're aces in my book.

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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speshl guy posted:

It's like tonka truck physics

I squeaked like a terrified child when I saw that the first time. Imagine being in that cab!

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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Grem posted:

Why are cats retarded like that?

Most of janky cat behavior comes from the fact that cats operate reactively basically all of the time. The cat was already riled up, and its back paws touching something triggered an 'attack the motherfuck out of that' reflex. Then, since the cat was getting the poo poo clawed out of it by these loving legs (which unrelatedly happened to belong to it), it counterattacked and pretty easily pinned them down.

My oldest current pet cat has had a lifelong unawareness of her own tail. She chased it all the goddamn time when she was a kitten, gradually decreasing as she ages, and to this day after almost 9 years of living with a tail will occasionally get spooked by it and run away. Also, when she perches on the rim of the tub while I'm bathing and her tail inevitably falls in, it takes her a few moments to notice and then when she does she gives it the most disgusted, derisive look before pulling it out of the water with her paws and then holding it down while she grooms it.

If I'm petting her really good, and she's to the point where she's lying on her side all cat-melty from the attention, I can trap her tail against the floor with my other hand. It'll keep trying to move, and she'll get gradually angrier but also confused, because I'm still delivering the rubs. This is key, because it also distracts her from what my other hand is doing. Generally she'll stay in place, gradually extending her claws, getting crazy eyes, and then starting to growl and yowl, until I finally feel bad enough to let her tail go!

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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Use spring traps, cut the heads off and mount them on tiny plaques as a warning to the others.

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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LemonRind posted:

Best of Hot pepper gaming because nothing says great product reviews like having to eat a ghost pepper first.

The very end!

"...I'm so sorry, we really didn't film."
calm pause
"If that is a true thing? Everyone in this room is dead."

e: didn't realize I wasn't on the last page

chitoryu12 posted:

Ammon Bundy and 3 chucklefucks got arrested. Preliminary reports are that shots were fired, and unconfirmed that one militia guy took multiple gunshot wounds.

:ronpaulitshappening:

I work weekends and there's a ][][][% MOLON LABE chucklefuck who is probably going to be frothing at the goddamn mouth over this, it'll be glorious. He spent last weekend repeatedly explaining to people "And X number of acres is just a motherfucking drop in the bucket compared to what we lose to forest fires EVERY YEAR."

...as if the very real and persistent danger of wildfires isn't absolutely the goddamn-loving reason why accidentally (or 'accidentally') setting giant loving fires is illegal.

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LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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Samfucius posted:

If Obama can't appoint anyone, the next Dem (assuming they win) should appoint Obama.

Hahahaha, holy poo poo. Two weeks ago one of the dudes I work with was explaining to me how Hillary should be in prison because of emails and also how it was awful that she had promised to appoint Obama as a supreme court justice in the event of her election and an open slot on the bench. My immediate thoughts were that it would be pretty funny if both he and Scalia wound up on the Court at the same time. So much for that.

Also he explained to me the image posted several pages back, the juxtaposed empty fridge of The Working Man and the stuffed-completely-full-including-poo poo-that-doesn't-need-to-be-cold fridge of The Evil Poor. When I tried to point out to him that if this was possible he should probably be doing it (as a twentysomething with a kid, another kid due within the month, and who makes occasional comments about not being sure if he can cover bills) instead of making an almost-living wage as a machinist, he scoffed uncomfortably but managed to continue to insist that he had 'done research on this poo poo' and seen what food stamps can get you. Pretty sure that fridge is like three months' worth of food stamps for a family of our.

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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Ah, I see, he merely pointed out that, by going out of our way to ensure that every possible precaution is taken in order that our criminal justice system imprisons the minimum number of actually-innocent convicts, it might make a lot of work for the courts because obviously all of those assholes are going to try everything they can to not be locked in prison.

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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Inco posted:

Why in the sweet holy gently caress are people so nonchalantly lighting their loving gas tanks on fire? What the hell are these people doing?

It burns off the extra fumes as a safety precaution?

Russian cars run better if you preheat the fuel supply?

Several mistranslations of an obscure children's book cause incidents like this involving flammables in a low percentage of people born in the 1980s, pervasiveness of video recording and internet connectivity has allowed the phenomenon to be observed?

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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wayfinder posted:

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/16/override-hate-speech-laws-to-allow-marriage-equality-debate-urges-christian-lobby

:words: posted:

He said the case of Archbishop Julian Porteous, who last year was the subject of a complaint to Tasmania’s anti-discrimination commissioner after an anti-marriage equality booklet published by the Catholic church was distributed to 12,000 schools, was an example of why the law had a “low threshold”.

...:wtc:each consecutive point after that is frothier and zanier than the last. What even in the gently caress, this is like having a conversation with my father.

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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Data Graham posted:

6:23 is some non-Euclidean poo poo.

Still not sure what happened there.

Yeah, I watched it a couple of times. The overhead sign thing is ripped free, folds up a bit, and then falls down between the roads. You can see the left end of it just past the truck.

The first time was a serious "uh...what?!" moment, though. Thing looks like it just folds up into itself and vanishes.

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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Anyone know off the top of their heads what happened to this person? I mean, it always seemed to me that getting a watermelon with enough force behind it that you put your entire body weight into stretching the sling launched point-blank into your face is in the 'strong likelihood of serious injury and/or disfigurement' category at a minimum.

E: vvvv fuckin awesome, thanks! Always good to hear that poo poo I laughed my rear end off over didn't result in anyone getting seriously hurt.

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LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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Okay, right up until like the last 20 seconds of that video, I thought that the sound on further thought I suppose must be a dog barking was actually being made by the sister, who was having some kind of breathing problem over in the corner.

In retrospect, way less alarming/hilarious than on first viewing.

e:

Lazlo Nibble posted:

Probably means something like, if you work for a catering company that's been hired for a wedding, they can't fire you if you refuse to work the event on "religious" grounds.

"Uh, yeah, just wanted to let you know that I got blackout drunk last night and then found religion, so I can't work the Smith party today mkay bye."

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LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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Hey what if we invent a kind of train that just floats 10 feet in the air over any surface without needing rails or bridges, and then change over all of the trains to those, and while we're at it we could invent a kind of engine that doesn't need an energy source.

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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Defghanistan posted:

Can someone explain to me how being anti Muslim, or any other religion for that matter, is racist? I really want to know, because I feel like lately the two are being treated identically and they aren't the same.

The real answer is that being "anti-<insert religion or other common ideological beliefs and practices>" is bigotry. Racism is a subset of bigotry, the kind to which most people are most commonly exposed and which is most widely recognized in the west as being sharply negative, so in general when westerners are revolted by bigotry they're most likely roll out the accusations of racism despite the fact that it is a narrower term which may or may not apply.

Same sort of effect on the opposite side of this, too; in my experience people who self-identify as 'anti-muslim' (or related terms), in general, really belong to what you could call the "anti-other" category, and tend to conflate sort-of-related words and ideas when trying to lay out their perspectives.

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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Pingiivi posted:

Here's a lion that a Swedish king had done in 1731:


The taxidermist had no idea what it was supposed to look like and used the lion in the Swedish coat of arms as a reference.

That is some serious uncanny valley poo poo. A lion with the :iamafag: face of a human.

Solice Kirsk posted:

If it was in another spot sure, but the bottom of your foot? Its like stepping on a nail.

:wtc:Yeah, a flat nail with two jagged edges, just yank that poo poo right on out it's not like the sole of the human foot is a rube goldberg-esque shitshow of vestigial yet still distinct muscles layered with a crazy quilt of tendons, serious nerve junctions, and significant bloodflow. If you had this happen and it was a matter of life or death that you continue to be able move, obviously you should take it out and try to bandage it as well as you can, but if there's any way you can get to medical help you really, really should.

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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Leon Einstein posted:

I don't think you understand what uncanny valley is.

Wow, holy poo poo. I have explained that term incorrectly to many people over the last several years, somehow having come to believe it applied broadly to basically everything instead of computer-generated poo poo. I frequently wake up from dreams with the same sort of unease associated with the actual phenomenon so I guess I just assumed many people have the same thing, at least occasionally.

I guess the schadenfreude is me, and I refuse to give it up so one of you is going to have to kill me in order to get it, next time you gently caress something up. I'll be waiting.

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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quote:

"Oh s---, that was Jacob! F--- me!" Brachle is heard saying. "Are you OK?" Brachle asks Grant. "No," Grant answers.

I totally understand that a human mind whiting out in panic tends to cause people to say really inane poo poo, but holy gently caress every time I read this exchange I just can't stop laughing. A person you just magdumped into is not OK, Officer Brachle.

e: how much do you want to bet that guy's nickname is Broccoli?

...or, well, was anyway.

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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Okay what in the gently caress is that red thing?! I can totally buy someone dressing up as batman and blowing up their face, but not knowing what they used to do it gets on my nerves.

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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Aerdan posted:

I think he's referring to whateverthefuck is in that idjit's mouth...

Yeah, the thing he bites down on.

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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Kurieg posted:

Yeah, he snaps into a lighter like a slim jim while he has another lit lighter. The lighter fluid in the one he snaps open aerosolizes and explodes once it hits the open flame.

:wtc: I...was certain that couldn't possibly have been it.

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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Hyperlynx posted:

I think that guy demonstrated pretty clearly that he's not at all an expert at grenades.

The most important thing to remember about hand grenades is that the hard part about making them is balancing the fuse mechanism between "reliably explodes as advertised" and "is always exploding." A grenade is never safe unless the fuse has been completely removed.

e: HAHAHAHAHAHAH went back to read the article and :wtc: why would someone do that

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LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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Irsh posted:

When I was young, my older sister was babysitting me while I had a fever. When I asked for a popsicle, she brought one back to me that she'd made the day before with the liquid from a jar of jalapeños.

It's still to this day the worst thing I've ever had in my mouth.

:wtc: siblings are the worst. (also that's motherfucking amazing)

Pillow Hat posted:

gently caress the guy that did that, but also that is hilarious.

Yeah, it's awesome but whoever did that was probably so drunk they forgot about it, sadly.

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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Your Dunkle Sans posted:

We're not all that wreckless

Man, awesome profession + typo combination!

MrYenko posted:

This is not getting nearly enough love. Holy poo poo.

Probably because it's several years old. Not that it's not hilarious, just that things seem to lose their edge of humor the more times people are exposed to them.

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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The schadenfreude will be on this thread if we have a discussion about this.

LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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Kurieg posted:

As someone who lives in the rural area around Fargo/Moorhead, I assure you if there's a justice assigned to issue warrants he's probably chomping at the bit to do so.

All the more reason why it shouldn't take several hours to reach 'em by phone (even if it is a rural area, where as everyone knows phone signals are powered by steam instead of electricity, making everything take much longer).

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LonsomeSon
Nov 22, 2009

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artsy fartsy posted:

:stonk: This was a terrible way to start off my weekend.

I know, right? "I know what'll cheer me up after a stressful day at work, some gifs of people falling over! *thread is 50% shipwreck murder chat*"

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