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https://twitter.com/venturecommunis/status/1270132473259651072 Occupational hazard: getting shot by the pigs because they don’t like the look of your concrete sample.
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its cool, its cool, i'm sure the NYPD will issue a correction once they realize what a hilarious mix-up this all is.
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Jun 9, 2020 01:17
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:Ah, Mother. Tell your children not to walk my way.
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Platystemon posted:https://twitter.com/venturecommunis/status/1270132473259651072 It's also absolutely possible it's background noise click-bait with a fake source.
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Jun 9, 2020 01:52
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Craptacular posted:Get this, how about take a huge drum, stick people inside it and then spin it real fast? It'll be fun and totally not dangerous at all. https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/rotor-ride-pictures-1950-1970/ 
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Jun 9, 2020 02:02
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I was just gonna say, i saw a carnie do that once that particular ride* replaced this one at my local county fair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NAZtd-qHSQ *the Gravitron?
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Jun 9, 2020 02:05
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The whole point of the gravitron is standing up in it, imo
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Jabor posted:The whole point of the gravitron is standing up in it, imo All carnival rides are up for grabs imo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBF1dLXRbiU
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Jun 9, 2020 02:22
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Did you ever see the one that's like the Gravitron but it looks like a UFO and has these railed slots on the walls that ride up as it spins? That was a sweet ride, a few kids always crawled up the ascending wall edge towards the ceiling and then fell down when it slowed, lol.
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Jun 9, 2020 02:35
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CHOO CHOOooooooooooooooooooooooo https://i.imgur.com/dDnHZK2.mp4
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Pacra posted:CHOO CHOOooooooooooooooooooooooo oh god wtf oh no
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:you haven't heard of the park, it was extremely small and regional and closed down nearly 15 years ago when the married couple who owned it sold it to a landfill developer and lost their money trying to setup a swinger's resort in one of those waterless islands off the coast of florida drug runners have tiger fights on. This is a beautiful sentence.
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Here’s the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X2A2f6E5DI Info about why it’s terrible: quote:Since circa 1964 (after the Wabash/N&W merger), the line hasn't received any major repair work, and also runs through Ohio's Great Black Swamp for the majority of it's length. Combined with those two problematic factors, the MAW was bound to creepily slow speeds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0EgQBOiB24 It is somewhat less bad today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkSymhpzcxU Platystemon fucked around with this message at 02:50 on Jun 9, 2020 |
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Blue Moonlight posted:This is a beautiful sentence. i checked it out and it looks like the island was totally demolished during a recent storm and now exists only as an occasional sandbar. these people were cursed. they had one of those "fun mirror house" deals and i absolutely, hand-to-god, chased a phantasmal child in there. I was cleaning up like half an hour after close, when I saw some 7-8 year old in a propellor beanie and denim jacket run inside, but the place was empty. Another time when we closed early due to a storm I absolutely heard that "laughing child" hollywood sound effect echo out of the closed gate.
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Pacra posted:CHOO CHOOooooooooooooooooooooooo Is this what it's like to have sex with me
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The whole amusement park thing made me remember something that happened in the 90s. The town I grew up in has a little festival they like to do in the summer. It's mostly local vendors, a calliope, music acts, and that sort of thing. It basically takes up a bit of a narrow street that runs by the river and a couple buisnesses' parking lots. Nothing huge, but it's a pretty small town in a rural county located in the American south. Once upon a time, though, there was also carnival rides, petting zoos, and all sorts of stuff. The town, being what it is, would blow most of the budget on this thing and kept getting more and more carnival ridea in this cramped little area but didn't get a bigger budget to work with. This lead to them hiring slightly less, uh, reputable people to bring in and run the rides. So, the last year they had rides was an exceptionally hot summer and well into triple digits. During midday the place was deserted and no one much would show up until after sunset. This lead to there just being a massive amount of people there all at once and the favored ride being the one that would cool you off the fastest by slinging you around: The Scrambler I was there with some friends and one girl decided that she wanted to go on the Scrambler, which was fine and all. Rest of us gently caress off to do whatever until probably 15 or so minutes later there is just this horrific grinding screeching sound followed by a banging and people screaming. One arm of the Scrambler came away and flung off, slamming into the pavement and sliding to a halt after hitting the side of a kiddie train ride. Naturally, my friend was in one of the seats that had been flung off. The good thing was that only broke an arm and a leg and was the one with the worst injuries. Essentially it was reported that the crew hired to bring in and maintain the rides were doing a lovely job of it due to the excessive heat and just ... Let the thing shamble apart because reasons. And, uh, no more rides were allowed at the summer festival. Now it's all just food stalls and lovely trinkets with boomer beach music at night featuring shag dance contests and old cars.
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Read that as Shag contests and was wondering what the issue was. Although that's probably fairly OSHA depending on where under Dixie you be.
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Yeah, I should have linked what shag dancing is. I hate it so, so much.
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Craptacular posted:Get this, how about take a huge drum, stick people inside it and then spin it real fast? It'll be fun and totally not dangerous at all. https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/rotor-ride-pictures-1950-1970/ Worlds of Fun had one, it was fun as hell, but they retired it reportedly because it was one of the first rides in the park and was becoming too difficult to find replacement parts.
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Not sure this is specifically OSHA but it sure looks like it to me. A guy I know needed to get his grain, so this happened? Seems like they cut it a bit close...  
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Jun 9, 2020 06:24
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Couldn't they have just blocked the road for 20 minutes while he pumps it all out?
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Pacra posted:CHOO CHOOooooooooooooooooooooooo Can't find a video with just the intro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgpQjSPyIBI
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Jun 9, 2020 06:55
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It feels like a covered wagon would be faster than that train.
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The train gets a bit faster once it's passed the damaged section of rail, though.
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Man's taken enough poo poo from cyclists, it seems.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:as a former US based amusement park ride operator i had to undergo more rigorous training and drug testing than the cops getting overtime for jacking off in the parking lot. There's a lot of competition in the Floridian swinger resort space.
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RE: spinny amusement park rides. The Gravitron, as the local one was called (also think it was called the "Cyclotron" somewhere else) was at a local deathtrap amusement park called "Maple Leaf Village" That place closed down and is now a casino.
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tokomon posted:So, the last year they had rides was an exceptionally hot summer and well into triple digits. During midday the place was deserted and no one much would show up until after sunset. This lead to there just being a massive amount of people there all at once and the favored ride being the one that would cool you off the fastest by slinging you around: The Scrambler At some point there was an A/T thread OP'ed by a goon who worked in the high risk insurance industry. They were involved in underwriting the policies for, among other things, amusement parks and traveling carnivals. IIRC, the only thing they would absolutely never ride, due to risk concerns, was a Scrambler. It hasn't been operational for a couple seasons now (probably due to vomit-related corrosion) but I always felt like the car was going to fly off and land a mile away (or piledrive me into the ground) when I rode Xcalibur. Boxman fucked around with this message at 12:33 on Jun 9, 2020 |
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Tollbooth operators hate this one trick: https://i.imgur.com/7flKikS.mp4
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When frightened, the Sedan will expand its frills to scare off predators and competition.
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Pacra posted:CHOO CHOOooooooooooooooooooooooo 
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Pacra posted:CHOO CHOOooooooooooooooooooooooo Someone has to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=novfcrFVHPM
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Humphreys posted:Someone has to Exactly what I was thinking
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Platystemon posted:https://twitter.com/venturecommunis/status/1270132473259651072 Okay, what is this test he's talking about? I used to inspect concrete paving operations for PennDOT, big honking interstate interchange pours, trucks pulling up for days. We'd take samples for entrained air, for slump, and to pour test cylinders that'd then be cured in varying conditions which we'd then crush to make sure the specified compressive strength was met. All of that stuff was done with calibrated equipment and gages. The cylinder molds were specified dimensions. We didn't just dump a random amount of concrete in whatever random container we had laying around. Guy says that's the " simple cup adhesion shear test," but that's not a thing that is mentioned in my concrete manual, and Googling that phrase doesn't come up with anything that seems even close; in fact the only exact hit is that tweet itself. He later posts a screengrab of some text detailing the process, and I buy it, but what the hell is it?
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This is how it came to be that an unsecured load in Washington is a gross misdemeanor, which is punishable by up to a $5000 fine and up to a year in jail. Edit: This is also why I don't drive behind work trucks. The people who most need to secure their loads are the least likely to do so.
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Phanatic posted:Okay, what is this test he's talking about?
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Phanatic posted:Okay, what is this test he's talking about? I don't think they are testing the concrete itself: 'adhesion of polymer and other coatings' suggests they are testing floor paint and the like for adhesion to concrete surfaces
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