pseudorandom posted:

God drat, I only made it 8 minutes through, and the thing that impresses me most is how un-OSHA all of the stunt work is. Like, jumping off a rail car into a sign post/tiny stunt mat/platform wall/etc (Edit: forgot the attaching air lines between cars when they suddenly begin moving). Obviously this guy knows how to do things properly but a lot of the stunts seems like they're fractions of a second away from actually being real injuries

Phanatic posted:

Since this is a new thread I think it's time to get this one back in here:

http://www.sciforums.com/threads/vacuum-pockets-and-safety-nazis.41446/

CommieGIR posted:

https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1208094964841889793?s=20

Nenonen posted:

I should have suspected something when they said their Mein Pumpf line would last for a thousand years...

DarkDobe posted:

I like the part where the eucalyptus trees respond to being burned (not an uncommon occurence) by secreting extra poison in new blossoms. Koalas are a mistake.

Platystemon posted:

If you were sedated, kidnapped, and put in a zoo, you might find it hard to get it up, too.

Cojawfee posted:

You'd think he would have stopped doing stupid poo poo after the ATF or whoever investigated his shed after he was making explosives and posting it to youtube.

luxury handset posted:

imagine being a fish getting pulled into a firefighting bomber

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A fascinating scalping incident occurred as the siege of the English forts at Oswego, NY, were about to commence. In May, 1756, French allied Indians skulked about the forts to inflict what casualties they could. Stephen Cross, a shipbuilder from Massachusetts, records on May 25th that "one of our soldiers came in from the edge of the woods, where it seems he had lain all night having been out on the evening party the day before and got drunk and could not get in, and not being missed, but on seeing him found he had lost his scalp, but he could not tell how nor when, having no others around. We supposed the Indians had stumbled over him in the dark, and supposed him dead, and taken off his scalp."30 Patrick Mackeller also mentioned the incident in his journal and added "he afterwards recover'd."31

Sagebrush posted:

everydayfalls posted:

The big explody tank a few posts back is what happens.

For content:

i am harry posted:

Just mix the fumes and smoke with steam so it looks good coming out the top.

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The Leblanc process plants were quite damaging to the local environment. The process of generating salt cake from salt and sulfuric acid released hydrochloric acid gas, and because this acid was industrially useless in the early 19th century, it was simply vented into the atmosphere. . .

Because of their noxious emissions, Leblanc soda works became targets of lawsuits and legislation. An 1839 suit against soda works alleged, "the gas from these manufactories is of such a deleterious nature as to blight everything within its influence, and is alike baneful to health and property. The herbage of the fields in their vicinity is scorched, the gardens neither yield fruit nor vegetables; many flourishing trees have lately become rotten naked sticks. Cattle and poultry droop and pine away. It tarnishes the furniture in our houses, and when we are exposed to it, which is of frequent occurrence, we are afflicted with coughs and pains in the head ... all of which we attribute to the Alkali works."[10]

In 1863, the British Parliament passed the first of several Alkali Acts, the first modern air pollution legislation. This act allowed that no more than 5% of the hydrochloric acid produced by alkali plants could be vented to the atmosphere. To comply with the legislation, soda works passed the escaping hydrogen chloride gas up through a tower packed with charcoal, where it was absorbed by water flowing in the other direction. The chemical works usually dumped the resulting hydrochloric acid solution into nearby bodies of water, killing fish and other aquatic life.

CaptainSarcastic posted:

I'm pretty sure it looks worse than it actually is. I can't quite tell if he shatters the window with his chin or if it hits the window frames or whatever - that looks like one of the worst things in the GIF to my eye.

HelleSpud posted:

If we're going on a toxic tour of Australian towns we might as call on our old friend asbestos.

Fallom posted:

Sorry to say it’s down the shaft

LifeSunDeath posted:

HOLY poo poo! I seriously feel like 16y/os should not be allowed to drive...letting one loose in a flight deck is just asking for your doom.


This is scary af. Makes me want to get a geiger counter and run it over everything I own.

WorldsStongestNerd posted:

Its self evidently a really femme transwoman hitting on somebody.

Oh no!!!! Did you think you stumbled upon a bigotry? Thank god you're here to point it out. Aren't you supposed to be on a cruise getting yourself infected right now?

Modest Mao posted:

If you go visit about 20% of the world population you're going to be eating off plates like that come dinner time, water and sanitation are still a huge issue for humanity. 2 billion people don't have a toilet or latrine, including a million or so in the USA. 500,000 people poo poo themselves to death each year.

If there's no running water you either let food rot on the plate or wash it off with the water you have, I guess. These numbers are from the W.H.O.

Aramoro posted:

I'm always reminded to the peculiarly American illness of stomach Flu or 24 hour flu, which is just food poisoning. It's apparently the reason Americans think their food hygiene is good, they didn't catastrophically poo poo themselves because they don't know how to handle a lettuce, it was 24 hour flu!

Sagebrush posted:

influenza very rarely produces gastrointestinal symptoms. when americans say they have a "stomach flu" or a "24-hour flu" they universally mean they woke up in the middle of the night with sudden vomiting or diarrhea. that is essentially always acute gastroenteritis, usually caused by contaminated food.

food poisoning doesn't have to last long; sometimes once you've shot it all out one end or another you're back to normal. what you're calling "severe food poisoning," the kind of thing that knocks you out for a week unable to keep anything down, is more likely to be a gastrointestinal infection like norovirus, salmonella, e. coli, etc.

Jabor posted:

Yell at the kids to wait until the bus leaves before trying to cross.

Nth Doctor posted:

FTFY, don't leech images.

haveblue posted:

MisterOblivious posted:

The video he deleted was linked in the prior reply. It takes him less than 2 minutes to start bitching about a women abusing social services.

Keep in mind that people provide the absolute best one-sided version of the story when they tell it, and he comes off as a MRA shithead in the best possible telling of the story.

He met his Indian wife over the internet and tried to bring her into the country on a tourist visa. When that failed he tried to bring his internet wife and her mother into the country on tourist visas.

He was declined because he failed to provide his source of income, YouTube, which he stopped posting on. He literally used the income stream he stopped using as the way he'd support Indian bride. Oficials didn't buy his "I make 50 grand a year" despite not posting videos.

LifeSunDeath posted:

Goddamn this does not sound like a fun recreational drug

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The intoxicating effects of mad honey have been known for thousands of years. Not surprisingly, there have been many famous episodes of human inebriation caused by its consumption. Xenophon, Aristotle, Strabo, Pliny the Elder[16][21] and Columella all document the results of eating this "maddening" honey, believed to be from the pollen and nectar of Rhododendron luteum and Rhododendron ponticum.[22] According to Xenophon's Anabasis, an invading Greek army was accidentally poisoned by harvesting and eating the local Asia Minor honey, but they all made a quick recovery with no fatalities.[23] Having heard of this incident, and realizing that foreign invaders would be ignorant of the dangers of the local honey, King Mithridates later used the honey as a deliberate poison when Pompey's army attacked the Heptakometes in Asia Minor in 69 BC.[24] The Roman soldiers became delirious and nauseated after being tricked into eating the toxic honey, at which point Mithridates's army attacked.

Burt Sexual posted:

How much you pay for that?

chitoryu12 posted:

According to the news he was being pursued because he was blazing at full speed through red lights, something famously known to result in high-speed crashes. He then began randomly weaving into traffic, at which point they gave the order to stop him.

Azathoth posted:

Leaded gas alone is a poor fit with the timeline, but it's easy to forget just how many other chemicals were sloshing around in our drinking water and floating in the air during that whole time. Like, things aren't great now, but holy poo poo were they bad back then and I don't think we even really understand just how bad it was.

Munin posted:

Exposure to lead paint is still a blight across a lot of the poorer areas of the US and has stunted the development of thousands of children. The housing stock is so old that peeling lead paint is all over the place and toddlers etc do nibble on them and put them in their mouth since they taste slightly sweet. Due to the lead. Which is poisoning them.

There is no proper federal program to tackle the crisis and lol at the idea of slum landlords doing it. Generally it only happens when an area gets gentrified and the existing renters and homeowners get priced out and turfed out.

Jabor posted:

He wrote a story that involved one.

It was either an incredibly vicious racist analogue, or it wasn't, and figuring out which it is has caused much debate amongst scholars of literature.

Platystemon posted:

If Tumblr is a book, yes.

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Plug-in electric vehicles (also known as electric cars or EVs) are as safe and easy to maintain as conventional vehicles. While driving conditions and habits will impact vehicle operation and vehicle range, some best practices can help you maximize your all-electric range.

Rascar Capac posted:

Maybe it's wishful thinking on my part, but it looks like he's still moving around with the camera at the end of the video.

PainterofCrap posted:

The latter: Pre-made extract. Can find it online, or around Lancaster Country (PA) here & there.

Hires was the best. I really miss it.

I can simulate birch beer by adding a touch of wintergreen, & a bit of vanilla extract.

I haven't done it in several years, because the last two batches over-pressurized and I'm not sure what I was doing wrong with the yeast. Then I discovered that Victory makes a natural-fermented root beer that is nearly as good as making my own...but I have to go to their brewery in Phillipsburg Downingtown,PA to get it.