Powershift posted:

If you're on a sour site(meaning H2S could be present) and you see someone go down, you yell "man down" and run the gently caress away because if you run toward him there are now 2 men down

ewiley posted:

I've had some pretty great dates with slags too

Lobsterboy posted:

Probably not, house isnt THAT old, and all of the detectors are on one breaker, but still.

The Lone Badger posted:

But why did he die if he tested it and saw it was hot?

Jet Jaguar posted:

Do people watching rally driving have a death wish? If that car is off in its sweet as gently caress jump, it plows right into the crowd...

quote:

Seventeen people have been injured after two cars crashed at a "car cruise" gathering and ploughed into spectators.

The vehicles collided on Monkswood Way, Stevenage, at about 21:45 BST on Thursday leaving two seriously injured and 15 more hurt.

One of the charity event's organisers described the "horrific" crash as a "nightmare".

Police have asked witnesses to send footage of the crash to detectives.

Video footage shows one car passing another before the two collide and one strikes people standing at the roadside while the other hits spectators in the central reservation.

Burt Sexual posted:

Yeah thanks for ensuring no gore. I should probably put a no death or gore rule in the op?

Cojawfee posted:

It might be like the other video where the throttle cable snapped so one of them sat in the engine bay and manually actuated the throttle.

Private Speech posted:

My neighbour has spent all day today welding metal, uhh, stuff onto his car right in the street in front of my (rented) house. I feel like that's not okay? Am in Britain if it matters.

Private Speech posted:

Meh okay. Could be doing it in his garage though.

violent sex idiot posted:

his garage is probably not setup to vent the fumes properly, making it safer to do it in a larger atmosphere

zedprime posted:

Yeah besides everybody needs a friend who can weld. Even if its badly tacking small bits onto things that's still more welding expertise than the op has at the moment and welding is cool.

wesleywillis posted:

MrYenko posted:

What I want to know is when they previously filled the interior spaces with foam, it was obviously done so the vessel wouldn’t sink, right? Now, it’s tied up obviously semi-permanently, but’s did they do anything to assuage the original concern that it would sink, or are they going to come back to their office one day and find it with the tide lapping up over the desks?

The March Hare posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvf8cDdCp8U&t=21m25s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvf8cDdCp8U&t=23m20s

what the gently caress is this guy doing (same vid, two different timestamps)

redgubbinz posted:

I've seen people texting/talking while on bicycles. Naturally, their right hand is the one steering/braking so they've only got their rear brake to work with. You're already courting death cycling anywhere near a main road in the US, why not make it interesting!

StarMinstrel posted:

Does this count as OSHA?

https://twitter.com/Leozaur/status/1160176611305623557

Mr. Apollo posted:

Yeah, he posted a long video about his divorce. He also said that he has really poor social skills so dating was very difficult for him. He ended up meeting a woman from India in Skype and he married her. He had been working for 3 years to try and bring her over to the UK and I think the government finally allowed her to travel and emigrate to the UK a few months ago.

Mr. Apollo posted:

I think so. He posted this picture a few months ago when his new wife arrived in the UK and said he’s thinking about doing videos again.

monkeytennis posted:

I thought diamonds would just burn up at crematorium temperatures.

Platystemon posted:

I give up. I know the diamonds are in the body, but where?

FuturePastNow posted:

those are the code names you choose when you want everyone to know what you're doing (or in the latter two, when you want the cable news to lie about what you're doing)

quote:

“Operations in which large numbers of men may lose their lives ought not to be described by code-words which imply a boastful and overconfident sentiment, such as ’Triumphant,’ or, conversely, which are calculated to invest the plan with an air of despondency, such as... ‘Massacre,’” Churchill wrote.

"Intelligent thought will readily supply an unlimited number of well-sounding names which do not suggest the character of the operation or disparage it in any way and do not enable some widow or mother to say that her son was killed in an operation called ‘Bunnyhug’ or ‘Ballyhoo.’”

Cojawfee posted:

Is that supposed to be a fuse?

zedprime posted:

Well duh, if you use the good tin foil it won't blow at an appropriate level of amps.

mobby_6kl posted:

I don't know what you're complaining about, seems like it was modded for higher durability for you.

Hedenius posted:

Or China. Why is that by the way? Did they just pick up a bunch of machinery on the cheap when the US and Europe switched to stay-tab?

Imagined posted:

When you look up any crazy element or chemical discovered more than about 50 years ago you'll always see notes about what it tastes like. Apparently combining random poo poo and seeing how it tasted was just how chemists rolled back in the day.

Imagined posted:

I've always wondered how a steel mill or similar facility cleans up a spill like that. How do you get hardened steel puddles off the floor and ceiling once they've cooled to room temperature?

PostNouveau posted:

The Soviets used to train dogs to do this. Just spend a few weeks teaching them to run up and lay under a tank for treats, and then get them out on the battlefield with a bomb strapped to them.

The initial plan was for them to run up and leave the bomb and run away, but that didn't work so they switched to doggy suicide bombers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog

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The first group of anti-tank dogs arrived at the frontline at the end of the summer of 1941 and included 30 dogs and 40 trainers. Their deployment revealed some serious problems. In order to save fuel and ammunition, dogs had been trained on tanks which stood still and did not fire their guns. In the field, the dogs refused to dive under moving tanks. Some persistent dogs ran near the tanks, waiting for them to stop but were shot in the process. Gunfire from the tanks scared away many of the dogs. They would run back to the trenches and often detonated the charge upon jumping in, killing Soviet soldiers. To prevent that, the returning dogs had to be shot, often by their controllers and this made the trainers unwilling to work with new dogs. Some went so far as to say that the army did not stop with sacrificing people to the war and went on to slaughter dogs too; those who openly criticized the program were persecuted by "special departments" (military counterintelligence).[3] Out of the first group of 30 dogs, only four managed to detonate their bombs near the German tanks, inflicting an unknown amount of damage. Six exploded upon returning to the Soviet trenches, killing and injuring soldiers.[3] Three dogs were shot by German troops and taken away, despite furious attempts by the Soviets to prevent this, which provided examples of the detonation mechanism to the Germans. A captured German officer later reported that they learned of the anti-tank dog design from the killed animals, and considered the program desperate and inefficient. A German propaganda campaign sought to discredit the Red Army, saying that Soviet soldiers refuse to fight and send dogs instead.[3]

Another serious training mistake was revealed later; the Soviets used their own diesel engine tanks to train the dogs rather than German tanks which had gasoline engines.[5] As the dogs relied on their acute sense of smell, the dogs sought out familiar Soviet tanks instead of strange-smelling German tanks.[7] This effectively meant that the Soviets had trained the dogs to sabotage their own army.

Cojawfee posted:

How do I shot faust

ReelBigLizard posted:

It's not the worst way, probably the worst case is similar to the above though - It doesn't work and now you have a device in an even more potentially dangerous condition.

Speaking of the worst way, we had a report come in to the mine action co-ordination group while I was back in the capital one day. Some guys who ran a bicycle repair shop had found a downed helicopter gunship in the bush and relieved it of a load of ~30mm cannon shells. They were pulling the projectiles, heating them up and then using a hammer and chisel to pop the copper driving bands off to use for brazing. Apparently they had been doing it for weeks before the inevitable happened. I was glad we didn't attend the scene.

ChickenHeart posted:

Initially I would get pretty anxious when handling explosives, but once you start building up your knowledge of how explosives function and how to best protect yourself against known and unknown hazards (and of course constant, unending training), the nervousness just turned into a healthy respect for stuff that can rupture your lungs/plant the baseplate from a tank round inside your chest cavity. Safety and situational awareness are drilled into your head from day one.

ReelBigLizard posted:

One of the absolute fuckers of UXO clearance is cluster munitions. Take the BLU-97/B Combined Effects Bomb for example. About the size of a soda can and painted a jolly bright yellow the unexploded munition is attractive to children and adults alike.

BMan posted:

don't worry, the rations are pink now. problem solved!

Mister Speaker posted:

I've definitely heard almost this exact story before, in the context of police (or maybe military) knife drills. A friend who teaches stage combat relayed it to me and I think he even mentioned something about 'special training knives' that were developed to counter it that did... something, perhaps shock you? if you tried to hand them back. That last part sounds extremely far-fetched, though.

ChickenHeart posted:

Exploding stuff is pretty good at starting fires in the first place, and any professional setup would take fire prevention into consideration regardless of whether burning is involved or not (in a permissive environment; safety may occasionally take a backseat to timeliness in a warzone).

ReelBigLizard posted:

It was hollow, just the bakelite part. Otherwise I wouldn't have hosed with it.

I was in a suit/helmet/plate combo thing. It was hot, heavy and disgustingly sweaty.

ChickenHeart posted:

Eh, long story short I decided it would be fun to blow dangerous stuff up for Uncle Sam. I don't have any interesting stories in my few short years so far as a bomb-toucher; by the time I joined up deployments had all but dried up.

It also doesn't help that you're limited on what you can talk about. Pretty much anything pertaining to how EOD does their job is classified in one way or another, and for good reason:

Mooseykins posted:

Oh, i'm sorry, i must've forgotten to cross check the user's icon against my Encyclopedia of Racist Symbols before i linked a video relevant to someone else's post.

I'll be sure check with you next time. Not that i looked at their icon, let alone knew it was racist.