GovSchwarzenegger posted:

Just seeing this. Great memories but here is the reality.

Working with John Milius was fantastic, because he was so hardcore.

But it is true that he thought I looked too much like a bodybuilder - I needed to lose some of the cuts because I had just won Mr. Olympia and I was way too ripped to be a barbarian. So he told me to eat normally and not diet at all - I let my body fat get to around 12%.

I had no issue with swinging swords even before I changed my body. I had been training with Sensei Yamazaki for three years before we filmed. I'd also been training in kendo and horseback riding for those three years by the time we filmed. Reps, reps, reps.

I knew I had gotten good with the sword when James Earl Jones let me hit him right in the neck on the bloodbag even though if I'd missed by a couple inches I could have hit his head or his ear. His neck had a protective leather cover under the bloodbag and I didn't miss.

I got attacked by a dog on the very first day of shooting - he pulled me down from the rocks into a thorn bush and I had to be stitched up on the set. Milius walked up to me and said "this sets the tone" - he meant this in a positive way.

Also, it is true that I had to bite a real dead vulture because in those days they couldn't make one that would look good in a close-up. So they soaked it in alcohol to kill bacteria and dried it out. It still had lice.

Say Nothing posted:

Sagebrush posted:

Or they are like me, and they're driving along, about to cross through a very wide (7 lanes both ways) intersection at the legal limit of 50mph, when the light turns yellow. My driving experience tells me to continue through because it's unsafe to stop at the speed I'm going with the distance I have to the intersection, and if the light turns red when I'm 2/3 of the way through, well, that's an undesirable but common part of driving.

But this time there's a huge prominent sign right beside the light that says RED LIGHT VIOLATION $437 MINIMUM FINE and I have no idea if that means "entering the intersection after it's red" or "being in the intersection after it's red" and I certainly don't want to find out, so after a half-second glance in the rear view mirror to check that there's no one behind, I slam on the brakes, lock the wheels, and slide thirty feet to a stop, in the middle of the pedestrian crosswalk but not yet in the intersection proper.

I am not proud of that incident, but seriously gently caress anything that encourages one sort of dangerous driving to theoretically prevent another.

Shugojin posted:

Yeah there are annual emissions and safety inspections in Pennsylvania. The only real problem with it is finding a decent shop that won't just find something wrong with your car for shits and giggles and a few hundred bucks.

Ak Gara posted:

If cops love to make money on every ticket they can write, how do cops not be there going "reckless driving... reckless driving... reckless driving... man I'm making BANK here!"

I heart bacon posted:

CO2 inhalation feels scary as hell. I've had it happen a few times. I've had to open up fermenters to add either fertilizer or antibiotics to them. The only reaction I've ever had to CO2 is dizziness and terror. I'd hate to die that way since it was a panic attack.

Chlamyllionaire posted:

There's a marker off 77 indicating the site of the wreck of the USS Shenandoah. Dad had me believing for a while that a battleship somehow crashed in the middle of a field in Ohio.

Sentient Data posted:

Speaking of led and florescent lights, anyone have any leads on adaptors that will let me convert my kitchen lights to led? They're the standard full size bulbs with the ballasts running straight off of 120v. I'm renting an apartment, so i can't really tear out the ballasts to get to the couple inches of wire to wire in an outlet, but i can't think of anything else that would work

Spiteski posted:

A dentist near to where we live. How does that even happen? Backwards pipe?

evil_bunnY posted:

LBR if I were lactose intolerant I would beg/borrow/steal whatever drugs would allow me to continue indulging.

chitoryu12 posted:

I mean, what do you do? Apart from the aforementioned "helicopter dumping buckets of concrete into the hole".

quote:

"We regret having to close our operation and send good wishes and brotherly love to the people of Philadelphia," the company said in its brief statement.

Later, the company added: "Due to circumstances outside of our control including a 330 percent increase in our insurance premiums, continued operations in Philadelphia are not financially feasible at this time. 

quote:

In July 2010, 16-year-old Dora Schwendtner and 20-year-old Szabolcs Prem drowned in the Delaware River when a barge overran one of its ducks, which had been in a shipping lane. The two were on a church-sponsored trip from a small town in Hungary. The crew and the other passengers made it safely to shore.

The operator of the tugboat, who was on his cellphone dealing with a family emergency at the time of the crash, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.

In another accident, a tourist from Beaumont, Texas, Elizabeth Karnicki, 68, was killed in May 2015 when a Ride the Ducks vehicle struck her as she crossed the intersection of 11th and Arch Streets in Chinatown.

Police said a witness reported seeing Karnicki crossing the street against a red light just before she was hit. At the time, she was looking at an electronic tablet.

spankmeister posted:

I honestly don't know why you'd want an inward opening door in a small space like a toilet anyway

RyokoTK posted:

Your house has separate rooms for the sink and terlet? That's weird.

Facebook Aunt posted:

My tiny apartment has a sliding door on the bathroom and it works really well. The door sort of disappears into the wall when it is open, so it takes up no space at all.


Like this.

The downside is you can't drive a nail through that part of the wall because the door is in there. And it's probably a bit of a pain to instal the kind that disappear into an existing wall, you'd have to tear out part of the wall and reframe it.

wolrah posted:

I believe you're referring to this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka-LEcZaYqQ

Facebook Aunt posted:

Wait, I thought hemp was a miracle substance being kept down by Big Textiles. Once cannabis is legalized everything can be made of hemp again, and then everything would be wonderful forever. But now this thread is making me think that maybe . . . hemp bad?

glynnenstein posted:

A bird strike at 39,000 feet would be especially bad because it would be completely frozen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%BCppell%27s_vulture posted:

Rüppell's vulture is considered to be the highest-flying bird, with confirmed evidence of a flight at an altitude of 11,300 metres (37,100 ft) above sea level.

GnarlyCharlie4u posted:

It's a lovely hut, but would make for a pretty cool casket.

Duzzy Funlop posted:

The tip broke off so deep in the ball of my foot that I couldn't get it out myself, not for lack of trying. On the second day, it got infected, and I figured I had to bite the bullet and go to the local campus clinic to have it removed. After an hour, the doctor there couldn't get it out either, and legally wasn't allowed to cut to the extent that it constituted surgery. So I get a referral to a foot & ankle specialist that ends up trying for yet another hour to get it out without cutting, unfortunately to no avail either. So she has to slice open the ball of my foot, get the thing out, and then sew it up with 4 sutures. I get a bunch of antibiotics and get sent on my way.

In the evening, after resting and elevating the foot and watching movies, I notice that the fucker has swollen up massively, to the point where I can't move my toes because the skin is too taut. The swelling rapidly spread towards my ankle over the next hour, and at this point it looks a lot like those "Before" pics you see of MRSA infections on the web. Two friends drive me to the ER, and I sit there while the infection spreads some more. Doctors conclude that, yup, a post-surgery infection, but not life threatening "yet", so they send me home with a prescription for three more antibiotics to fill at Walgreens.

For the next 5 hours, it didn't stop getting worse, but it finally slowed down at 7am, when I went back to the campus clinic. They monitored me for another few hours to ensure it was "under control", and then sent me home. With co-pay, ER, ER-doctor, and surgery, I ran up about 450 bucks that weren't covered by insurance. Total bill was something around 3,000 iirc.

Oh, the joys of being a European foreigner in the US.

Duzzy Funlop posted:

I've been told that before. It's the mandatory student health insurance international students have to get over here, regardless of income, age, or academic pursuit. On the upside, it covers a shitton...by American standards.

By my native standards...well...lol


I've heard friends dismiss my 450 Bill with a scoff and a laugh, because their appendicitis cost them 4 figures including post-surgery care.

minato posted:

Hurricane prep

KoRMaK posted:

I, a civilian walking to my office job, almost walked under a crane with a load as the boom hung over the sidewalk I was on. Nobody stopped me, sidewalk wasn't blocked off.

I didn't have a hard hat on.

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AzureSkys posted:

How enforced are hearing protection requirements in the restaurant/bar industry? I met relatives at a restaurant for my 14 yr old nephew's birthday party. It was so loud we had to shout across the table to talk. Out of curiosity, we asked the maybe 20 year old waitress if it's always like that and she said yes, sometimes louder. She often went home having a hard time hearing. My ears hurt for a day or so after and that was only 2 hours of being there.

Out of curiosity, and I don't know how accurate it is, I used an app on my phone to check the decibel level and it was averaging 84, sometimes hitting over 90. I looked up the law for my state and it said anything over 85db requires use of hearing protection. If 90 or over it must be reduced. She said sometimes they'll ask to turn it down, but the people in charge like it loud to make it more lively. She sort of shrugged off our suggestion to bring up the law. I felt bad since she was just a young girl working an entry level job and something like that probably wouldn't get any attention if she did bring it up.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

The trailer for the Trigger Movie used Third Eye Blind's Semi-Charmed Life and not only skipped all the lines about taking crystal meth, they didn't use any of the lyrics. Related, Alvin And The Chipmunks actually covered the song but changed the lines "She comes 'round and she goes down on me" to "She comes 'round and she walks up to me", "Doing crystal meth will lift you up until you break" to "Dreaming of a state that will lift you up until you break" and "Those little red panties, they pass the test, Slide up around the belly face down on the mattress" to "Those little red candies they pass the test, Right inside my belly, please feed me all the rest."
They still left in a bunch of drugtaking references like "Chop another line like a coda with a curse" and "And then I bumped up, I took the hit that I was given, Then I bumped again, then I bumped again" but they're vague enough to pass I guess.

RyokoTK posted:

you too

gently caress off outta here you neanderthals