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mind the walrus posted:That's that lovely show where they contrive social situations with actors and hidden cameras, right? Yeah I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that every single moment of that exchange is fake as balls.
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bows1 posted:He's definitely not 6'2", more like 5'11". When we met I was taller, and Im only 6'1" During his bodybuilding days he was. He probably has lost a fair bit considering hes getting close to 70 now.
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SLOSifl posted:Everyone involved including the "racist", except the actual customers, is fake, yes. The whole point is to see what the unaware people in that situation do. Most of the time, it's nothing, and those people sometimes get called out for it too. The ones who give a stupid explanation (and have time for an interview) end up on the show, but that's not exactly the point. Yeah I was calling out the customers for being fake as well. Reality TV is notoriously manufactured.
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mind the walrus posted:Yeah I was calling out the customers for being fake as well. Reality TV is notoriously manufactured. I'm pretty sure the customers are fake too. Real people aren't 100% rude or 100% polite. Most real people would be like, "Dude, are you loving serious?" long before giving a Captain America speech like that. I don't watch the show though, so maybe there are some of those responses. All the gifs or clips I've seen though have over-the-top kind people acting like angels.
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I'm not sure if there's a PYF Bad rear end Videos thread, so does anyone here have the video series of a guy doing regular everyday things in cool ways - like throwing his bread across the room into the toaster etc? I was kind of a day in the life, and he did a lot of parkour things. I remember running across it years ago on youtube, but all the searches I can think of didn't bring it up.
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Baldbeard posted:I'm pretty sure the customers are fake too. Real people aren't 100% rude or 100% polite. Most real people would be like, "Dude, are you loving serious?" long before giving a Captain America speech like that. I don't watch the show though, so maybe there are some of those responses. All the gifs or clips I've seen though have over-the-top kind people acting like angels. I've seen the show a handful of times, because it always seems to come on when I'm hanging out at my parents' houses and there's nothing good on. They have lots of times where instead like, there'll be someone racist, or committing a crime or something, and the lion's share of people just actively turn around like "I'm not seeing this, and gently caress getting involved." but they're usually blurred out. I imagine that's like 99.99% what anyone would do in real life.
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  The Empire State Building's design was originally made to moor and depot dirigibles. Unfortunately, strong winds and updrafts made the building unsuitable for the airships and was ultimately abandoned.    Brutalist Architecture (béton brut, or "raw concrete"), popularised in the 1950s-70s, often depict fortress-like structures that display forms of strength and functionality (and in my mind, 1980's Sci-fi). Examples here include The Buffalo City Court and The University of Toronto's library.  The Phantom Corsair, a prototype car designed in 1938 by Rust Heinz. Its design included no door handles (push buttons instead), a top speed of 185km/115m per hour and an in-board beverage cabinet. Costing $24000 to produce at that time, Heinz's death the following year meant that the prototype was the only one ever produced.    The Flood Tunnels in Japan, designed to prevent overflow in the city streets, are the largest of its kind: Wikipedia posted:Work on the project started in 1992 and was completed by early 2009; it consists of five concrete containment silos with heights of 65 m and diameters of 32 m, connected by 6.4 km of tunnels, 50 m beneath the surface, as well as a large water tank with a height of 25.4 m, with a length of 177 m, with a width of 78 m, and with 59 massive pillars connected to a number of 10 MW pumps that can pump up to 200 tons of water (the approximate equivalent of a standard 25 meter pool) into the Edo River per second.  Naqsh-e Rustam, a necropolis location in Iran, dating back approx. 1000BCE. These tombs belonged to the Achaemenid kings of old, but were ultimately looted by Alexander the Great.  The Ship Breaking Yards of Geddan, Karachi. Dismantling ships for scrap metal, workers break down ships piece by piece with blowtorches and use chains to peel away each section.   These people are mental.   I remember when I (briefly) lived in South Africa as a child, I was taken to check out one of the Safari Parks/Game Reserves. We had come in on a day where they were feeding the lions, which basically meant they put a zebra carcass next to a tree, get everyone to make sure they stay in their loving cars and wait. For the next 30-40 minutes, we couldn't see or hear anything at all...at which point you would notice the giant loving cats creeping past the window towards their meal. Anyway, Africa has some cool beasts.  And finally, some cool dudes.
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This was all awesome, good stuff. IIRC though this specific picture is actually from Mirror's Edge. That being said I didn't know it was modeled on a real place  e: I have a hard time deciding whether wingsuit people or speedflying people are more nuts. Here's some of the latter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwWLnaME0CI (:50+ and 2:09 are completely nuts) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVE7ug4jJaw Chard has a new favorite as of 04:21 on Oct 2, 2014 |
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Schlinky posted:The Flood Tunnels in Japan, designed to prevent overflow in the city streets, are the largest of its kind: Clearly the Japanese have yet to dig too deep and too greedily. Christ.
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Schlinky posted:
This one is the former AT&T Long Lines building in lower Manhattan. I used to walk by it on my commute, it is a seriously badass building. It being designed for telecom/computer equipment explains the lack of windows & enormous ventilation shafts. (See also http://fuckyeahbrutalism.tumblr.com/ and all of its glorious back archives.) Chard posted:IIRC though this specific picture is actually from Mirror's Edge. That being said I didn't know it was modeled on a real place I was gonna point this out too - I did know about the real world tunnels when I played the game (admittedly it was a few months ago, I'm slow) and it was seriously cool.
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Schlinky posted:
My high-school's library was rebuilt during the 70s in this style. Does not match any of the other school buildings around it and is known for being one of the ugliest structures in the town.
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sulphix posted:My high-school's library was rebuilt during the 70s in this style. Does not match any of the other school buildings around it and is known for being one of the ugliest structures in the town. I went to a junior college that was entirely brutalist, it was like that Seinfeld ep where Kramer wanted to make his apt. into levels but all concrete and on a much bigger scale. The best thing about that style is imagining nature retaking it after the collapse of society, which if you look for it you can find a lot of structures that already look like this. I'm phone posting or I'd offer examples.
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syscall girl posted:I went to a junior college that was entirely brutalist, it was like that Seinfeld ep where Kramer wanted to make his apt. into levels but all concrete and on a much bigger scale. My high school had a new building put in that was brutalist, and 1 storey taller than any other buildings in the school (most were single storey, only a couple were 2-storey). To make it look less harsh, they painted it purple and lime green. It was hideous.
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Istari posted:My high school had a new building put in that was brutalist, and 1 storey taller than any other buildings in the school (most were single storey, only a couple were 2-storey). To make it look less harsh, they painted it purple and lime green. It was hideous. Cobra Commander will have words with you for breaking the purple wall. e: and a picture 
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On the other hand, it's very likely that the whole "dirigible mast" thing was never anything more than an excuse to essentially attach a giant phallus to the top of the the Empire State Building's previously flat-topped design in order to increase its height enough to 1-up the Chrysler Building, which had recently taken the world by surprise with its claiming of the title of tallest building in the world thanks to the surprise raising of its now-famous spire at the conclusion of its construction. Anyways, to make up for this bit of historical party-pooping, have some awesome images from nature.    
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Chard posted:This was all awesome, good stuff. IIRC though this specific picture is actually from Mirror's Edge. That being said I didn't know it was modeled on a real place Ah, my bad - I haven't played Mirror's Edge, so I naturally assumed that it was a nice little dark shoot or something. Doctor Bishop posted:On the other hand, it's very likely that the whole "dirigible mast" thing was never anything more than an excuse to essentially attach a giant phallus to the top of the the Empire State Building's previously flat-topped design in order to increase its height enough to 1-up the Chrysler Building, which had recently taken the world by surprise with its claiming of the title of tallest building in the world thanks to the surprise raising of its now-famous spire at the conclusion of its construction. That's actually pretty cool to know! Anyway, here's a series of shoots by Jan Kempenaers on Spomeniks in Former Yugoslavia - memorials of the Second World War. What's interesting to note is that there used to be plenty more, but were subsequently torn down over the years. I posted the last in this collection before, but it's cool to see them with the others:               bitprophet posted:This one is the former AT&T Long Lines building in lower Manhattan. I used to walk by it on my commute, it is a seriously badass building. It being designed for telecom/computer equipment explains the lack of windows & enormous ventilation shafts. I'll be visiting Manhattan later this year, so I reckon I'll check it out - the photos probably don't do the actual building justice.
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Brutal Perry-Casteneda Library at the University of Texas Nothing preps you for a night of cramming quite like a library that looks like a space prison ElGroucho has a new favorite as of 20:08 on Oct 2, 2014 |
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Say Nothing posted:Badass architecture, you say? When did real life become a tower defense game?
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VendaGoat posted:When did real life become a tower defense game? I'd say sometime during the Middle Ages.
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Brutalchurch 3rd Church of Christ, Scientist (Washington, DC)
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 I miss the Brutalism thread. Legit the best architecture.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Brutalchurch I prefer my places off worship to have the look and feel of the secret police.
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Automatic Slim posted:I prefer my places off worship to have the look and feel of the secret police. deities and gestapos do share a lot of characteristics now that I think on it
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Flagrant Abuse posted:
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Brutalchurch Wasn't this the church that the congregation tried to demolish (so they could build a new church on the same land) only to find out some architecture club had had it officially declared a historical monument? EDIT - Yes, yes it was. It was demolished in February quote:In 2007, the church applied for a demolition permit for the building to permit sale and redevelopment of the site, with plans to relocate to a more suitable structure. A 1991 application for landmark status for the building, filed to forestall a demolition threat then, was subsequently approved. After a lawsuit and hearings, the District of Columbia issued a demolition permit in May 2009, and the building was demolished in 2014. Church services are held at a temporary location, and a new building is planned. Super Waffle has a new favorite as of 23:21 on Oct 2, 2014 |
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Combine brutalist architecture with some socialist realist murals on the walls and you have my favourite architectural style, looks like an alternate history world where the USSR won the Cold War. Onwards to Mars comrades!
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Flagrant Abuse posted:
Here, have this: http://fuckyeahbrutalism.tumblr.com
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 Prison? Spy agency headquarters? Reform school for the worst of the worst juvenile offenders? it's a swimming pool. Specifically, it's a swimming pool in Melbourne, Australia. It's named after one of our Prime Ministers from the 60s - the one that drowned.
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Mister Kingdom posted:I fully expect that building to start walking. 
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Vindolanda posted:I'm not sure if there's a PYF Bad rear end Videos thread  rule should apply. Videos, gifs, whatever, as long as it's bad rear end.939lb deadlift World Record, no weightlifting belt. 
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Say Nothing posted:As thread author, I think the That poo poo always impresses me on the whole 'this 2" thick solid steel bar is BENDING' level. gently caress.
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Attempt (failed, apparently) to break the bench press world record. woops:  ... still bad rear end. stop staring at those nipples
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Boat posted:That poo poo always impresses me on the whole 'this 2" thick solid steel bar is BENDING' level. gently caress. When Hugh Jackman did his Wolverine workout, he posted "if the bar ain't bending, you just pretending". 
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