Memento posted:

Did they forget to untie themselves from the dock?

"gently caress Billy, why aren't we accelerating?!?!? Full steam ahead already!"

Nth Doctor posted:

Wait, was it this video you were there for, Humphreys?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5H98kA2tqw

ekuNNN posted:

Vice made a documentary following Freelance Mine Clearers in Raqqa (at the start, the rest is just about Raqqa)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVTT3S-U6XM
First thing the dude does when going in trying to find boobytraps is just open a door and pick up some debris

poo poo POST MALONE posted:

Plays here in the US.

Platystemon posted:

Nenonen posted:

Zipperelli. posted:

Let's really get this derail going:

Tell me about how you all pump gas. Do you have the latch that let's you pump hands-free? Are you in some place where you're not allowed to pump your own gas? Let's derail this baby!

Mozi posted:

what what

in the ribbutt

starkebn posted:

Camera work more successfully suspenseful than most horror movies

quote:

However, City of Sydney spokeswoman Tanya Goldberg says the council is of the "firm view" the event should proceed.

The city's famous celebrations are expected to attract one million people to the harbour foreshore and generate $130 million for the NSW economy.

monolithburger posted:

Gee, I wonder why people in NSW think their state government is Sydney-centric


Oh look, Sydney is on fire now

https://twitter.com/9NewsSyd/status/1211918044215287808

drgitlin posted:

I’d be more concerned with the fact that Australia is the worlds largest coal exporter and shows no signs of stopping.

Some might call it irony. Or divine retribution.

Kith posted:

https://i.imgur.com/CCUa2mz.mp4

ekuNNN posted:

Australian magpie mimics emergency siren during NSW bushfires
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHzs-mlDXMY

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

They are still awesome in general.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckle_and_Jeckle

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

ncumbered_by_idgits posted:

One night a few years ago I was cooking dinner and had put a Pyrex pan with cornbread in the oven to cook. A few minutes later I put some water on to boil, planning to make mashed potatoes. I then realized we didn't have any potatoes so I dumped the water out but forgot to turn off the burner. When the cornbread was finished, I took it out of the oven and proceeded to put it directly on the still-on burner which I had forgotten about. It survived about 90 seconds before exploding with the loudest bang I think I've ever heard from inside my house. loving glass everywhere, dogs scared out of their minds. It was horrific.

angryrobots posted:

It's possible they shot a transformer, hard to tell from the video. More likely they hit an insulator or the conductor itself and popped it, causing an instant fault (short circuit).

So something I find interesting - anytime something happens up a utility pole, people say the "transformer blew up". Not that I expect laypersons to troubleshoot the issue, but more than likely it's actually a "short circuit" of some variety. Like the wind in your story - high wind causes conductors to flop around and slap together or tree limbs to fall into it, making a big light show until the upline protective device operates. Probably the most dramatic example of a short circuit you will find, a utility level fault condition like that. I have literally had to argue with people that their transformer is fine while I'm in the process of restoring their power.

But "short circuit" is what people like to call all kinds of electrical failures that aren't shorts, at all. Battery terminal corroded on your car battery? "That terminal is shorted out" - WTF?

Der Shovel posted:

Reminds me of Terry Pratchett's Discworld books, where the Ankh-Morpork fire department was paid for each fire they put out, which briefly seemed like a good idea.

Or the actual historical Roman fire department, which was privately owned and operated by one man. When his fire fighters arrived at the scene of the fire, they'd proceed to haggle with the burning building's owner to get as much money as possible, and if no agreement was reached, they let the building burn to the ground and then offered to buy up the plot for pennies on the dollar (or semisses on the denarius?).

Shut up Meg posted:

I'm always amused when watching American real life TV, someone has a medical issue in public and the Fire Department is sent, instead of paramedics in an ambulance.

I know that firefighters have medical training, but it's weird to see some guy faint and be attended on by 6 guys wearing fireproof trousers, riding a big red firetruck filled with pumps, ladders and axes - instead of perhaps two paramedics in an actual ambulance filled with medical stuff.

Azhais posted:

more schadenfreude thread really

snoo posted:

monolithburger posted:

Looks like Paleas has finally dug out all the dirt and descended into shoddily constructed madness.

Uthor posted:

I read somewhere that you can get cards saying that you are working for a prop department on a movie that will let you drive around with truckloads of "weapons" and "bomb" and other scary looking stuff*.

Seems like an easy way to get cover for something terrible.

*obviously props and not functioning

KodiakRS posted:

Do not expect logic, reason, or consistency from the TSA. Doing so will only make you confused or angry, probably both. If you fail at this remember that the person you're talking to has a life that sucks so much they've resorted to being a TSA agent. They deserve your pity, not your anger.

Sentinel posted:

Today i was given my first hard hat. *like i own it its not the company's* And i feel a quiet sense of pride. My goal is to cover it with cool stickers.
I started to do more OSHA related jobs thanks to this thread for about a year and a half now and nowhere else seems the most appropriate to vent this
Thanks guys.

Sagebrush posted:

Dirt Road Junglist posted:

Maybe there's something wrong with me, but watching that makes me wonder how one applies for that job, and what qualifications it takes

Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

Low budget Ghost Rider on point.

Kibayasu posted:

Breakdancing apparently just means “spin in a circle on the ground.”

Methylethylaldehyde posted:

The trick there is to take off an article of clothing and throw it, or whip it against whatever is closest to generate some reaction. Yeet his pants in any direction, and he'd touch the opposite wall in 10ish minutes. Incidentally, ripping a truly record setting fart, while bare assed, would also see you within reach of the bulkhead in 15-20 minutes. Now that I think of it, just pissing would work like 500x better if you were well and truly stuck, and as an added bonus, it would give the other people in the module a nice 'gently caress you' for leaving you stuck there for hours.

Platystemon posted:

https://twitter.com/GucciFeline/status/1231816137404366848

This isn’t an “occupational” hazard. I’m posting it anyway.