duffmensch posted:

Monkey mask man: https://www.azcentral.com/story/new...ckets/97447212/

HEY NONG MAN posted:

How the hell is that even a phone number, Todd?

wolrah posted:

Australia

The Lone Badger posted:

There's no way he heated that on that fire.

quote:

On December 27, 2001 "Elvis", which had arrived in Melbourne, was immediately deployed to Bankstown, New South Wales to help with fire fighting efforts in the Sydney region and was lauded for its role in helping to save almost 300 homes. It was also credited with helping save the lives of 14 firemen in the Burragorang Valley in New South Wales.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

I love how a lot of them have sweet feminine names and then there's ..... well, see if you can spot the odd one out:

Millie, Georgia Peach, Isabelle, Gypsy Lady, Elsie, Shania, Incredible Hulk, Christine, Delilah.

Platystemon posted:

I would not look through a metre‐wide telescope at the Sun with naught but thin film protecting my eye.

e: Eyes, plural. He’s using a binoviewer.

With my luck, a bird would fly into it.

Sagebrush posted:

What happens if the film tears while you're looking right at the sun?

Platystemon posted:

Someone ties an electrical ground to a pipe near the faucet, ignorant of the fact that plumbing upstream is not conductive.

A wire faults to this new “ground” but because it’s floating nothing happens (like a breaker tripping) till the kid completes the circuit.

Bombadilillo posted:

Note you can just put a small filter that threads into the eyepiece instead with zero chance of it failing, but you don't want your primary mirror heating up and warping. Before mentioned moon filter is on the eyepiece.

ask me about amatuer astronomy!

quote:

Thanks for installing my nbn Telstra.... But I can't turn my water tap on now!

a kitten posted:

A visit to my hometown prompted me to look up a nearby bridge i remembered.
It's a railway bridge over the Missouri, pictured here:

quote:

Although a long bridge with one-way traffic and shared with railroad trains should have been spectacularly hazardous, a 1981 study found that it was "so dangerous that it [was] safe" because drivers were extraordinarily cautious when crossing it.

oohhboy posted:

I never not mock my Australian counterparts for their poo poo internet, gloat about my fibre to the door and good service(??!) for most part from the teleco. One of them is moving house but for the next 2 months he effectively has no internet unless he wants to plow through his mobile data to game. Technically he does have wired internet but somehow by a couple meters he has a connection so bad that has to be shared to the neighbours according to him it is expected to get 1KB/s, 25% the speed of 56K. While it seems to be an hyperbole and I can't figure out how that could happen but he isn't the type to lie. I get endless bitching and stories from them as to how bad it is from plenty of other people. Anecdotes not evidence etc this is 2018, wtf.

Memento posted:

Man don't tell me I get to be smug about my internet speed for once!



I normally get 95/38 but it's peak hour, so that seems fine.

Humphreys posted:

Time to be !

Memento posted:

Landline, HFC 100 plan.

I don't know why it defaulted to that server, it usually goes to the Internode one, same as yours. Before I got this installed, I had basically the same internet as yours.

Memento posted:

Man, loving Telstra. I moved into an apartment in St Kilda in 2008, and wanted a landline phone. Didn't think that was too much to ask of the national phone company. They gave me a connection date, November 4th - I remember because it was the day Obama won the election. The 4th came and went with no phone connection. I called them from work the next day, and they couldn't tell me why the connection hadn't gone through - "It was scheduled for the 4th, I'm not sure why it didn't work". It took the third person I was speaking to on that call to realise that the date had been entered as 04-NOV-2080.

Whooping Crabs posted:

A portal to heck has opened on page 666.

ncumbered_by_idgits posted:

Some people call it heck I call it Hades uh huh.

Platystemon posted:

I found this in an old “gently caress-up Friday” on Reddit.com/r/AskEngineers.

quote:

Being a combat flight, he had a box fin two thousand pound bomb on each wing station. The anguished pilot landed on the two 2000 lb bombs with a mighty "Whump!" but nothing detonated except the Commanding Officer after he discovered what had happened to one of his valuable aircraft. The pilot was medivacked to CONUS with a fractured vertebrae and a tooth-shredded rectal orifice. Not exactly a hero's departure out of Da Nang Air Base

CannonFodder posted:

Thankfully the carrier deck is actually rather high off the water. It's so high a B52 can fly below the flight deck.



The B52 looks like it's going down when it's actually in level flight because the wings are tilted up to facilitate greater lift during takeoff and allowing a big ugly fat gently caress to take off from shorter runways. I forget what the actual name of this tilted wing effect is though.

quote:

During a storm in the Pacific Ocean, Atlas was down one set of landing gear. The rest of the squadron went and landed on a nearby island due to the storm, Atlas, had to dump his fuel and had one chance to land into the net. This is a great tribute to Bug Roach (Bug can be heard on the audio calmly talking the pilot down to the aircraft carrier) and his contribution to Naval Aviation. Footage is from March 9, 1987.

quote:

- Nice Job Bug
- Hey Bug - Ball1 - You are superb.

IPCRESS posted:

Probably drain and steam clean tank due to possible fuel contamination (subtype: human debris).

Here's another not-robot-car OSHA thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEg89lfj_Vg

quote:

Práce s motorovou pilou vyžaduje dodržování bezpečnostních pravidel. Pevná obuv, pracovní rukavice i ochranné brýle by měly být samozřejmostí. Protipořezové kalhoty vás ochrání před vážným poraněním a mohou vám i zachránit život.

quote:

Working with the chainsaw requires adherence to safety rules. Sturdy footwear, working gloves and safety glasses should be a matter of course. Counterfeit trousers protect you from serious injuries and can save your life.

Say Nothing posted:

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

Why disable the alarms and sprinklers?

oohhboy posted:

Then there is this...

They don't make them like they use to. It returned to service until it got put into a museum. A F35 would shred itself like tin foil.

quote:

Four days later a considerable international media presence witnessed the Alraigo sail into dock at Santa Cruz de Tenerife with the Sea Harrier still perched on its container. The aircraft was salvageable, and the ship's crew and owners were awarded £570,000 compensation.

LanceHunter posted:

There was the infamous 2000 Fort Worth tornado, where an F3 tore through downtown and damaged a lot of the skyscrapers. A lot of damage but ultimately the structures stood and things got rebuilt shockingly quickly.

Banana Man posted:

Tornado chat! One of the worst events for my in laws, a tornado touched down in northern Illinois on April 9th 2015, and traveled about 45 miles, the storm also spawned 4-5 other tornadoes in the same region, and basically wiped a small town off the map at the end of it.
...
Video from the town where the tornado hit (personally terrifying):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grO8Px5J6TQ
...
Image for those who don't feel comfortable watching the videos:

evil_bunnY posted:

https://i.imgur.com/uSl67vT.gifv

Bip Roberts posted:

My favorite part of driving through the Australian outback is the sheer volume of roadkilled kangaroo gore coating the road.

Proteus Jones posted:

I’d say this is pretty OSHA

https://twitter.com/Lavrusik/status/981259304408788993

Vargatron posted:

https://i.imgur.com/47aKWFV.gifv

Gunshow Poophole posted:

So those people are reeeeal dead right? that's nuts

quote:

"A company which owns a SkyRunner was performing a routine flight on Friday when it came in contact with a building," SkyRunner CEO Stewart Hamel told Gizmodo today by email.

"Both Pilot and passenger are stable, neither sustained life-threatening-injuries. We understand the incident is currently under investigation in the UAE and we will report further when we know more," said Hamel.

starkebn posted:

https://i.imgur.com/c1shsSu.mp4

Platystemon posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF8OuKXySo8

Synthbuttrange posted:

https://twitter.com/thetimes/status/1004363530076934144

Der Kyhe posted:

Swimming on the top of the core when it is filled to the fuel stack management level is actually not immediately life-threateningly dangerous if you change out of your clothes and shower immediately afterwards. And did not swallow any water.

OSHA is diving down to retrieve your keys.

FuturePastNow posted:

https://i.imgur.com/m8Kd7Lh.mp4

Zil posted:

I was waiting for a third one to show up out of nowhere.

hobbesmaster posted:

Root for Mexico?

boar guy posted:

i did

Say Nothing posted:

KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:

group B was nuts and i don't mean that in a good way

weg posted:

Not as scary when it's oriented correctly lol.

Still looks like a cool place to take a hike though.

Let's look again at what Say Nothing posted:

Kith posted:

seems like a sticky situation

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

Gonna go for 2.0!

Dannywilson posted:

I just want a christmas card

We were doing compressions to this and Stayin Alive:

Doggles posted:

U-DO Burger posted:

oh my god shut up no one cares

https://i.imgur.com/EcrVxxJ.mp4

Raskolnikov38 posted:

https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/fahrenheit-451/author/ray-bradbury/kw/johns-manville/signed/

yours for only $6,050

Powershift posted:

spog posted:

So many questions.

Including: is he still there? do they slide thin crust pizza through the window crack to keep him alive?