DemeaninDemon posted:

Dumb engineers.

Heard one wanted to heat-stress test their doodad and asked to stick it in the ICP-OES torch. Like it was a Bunsen burner or something. Thing's around the temperature of the surface of the sun. It's one purpose in life is to obliterate any matter it touches. No we do not want your poo poo all over the icp chamber.

Alien Arcana posted:

The same thing it does to everything else, I would imagine

Kikka posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw5ipq4P624

Bokito posted:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d42_1457122214

Dude gets pulled into running printing press. In China, of course.

PostNouveau posted:

Everyone leaves the cities and goes back to their hometowns.

calvus posted:

Is that real? Why don't more people do that?

Cthulu Carl posted:

I'm the drunk guy bouncing excitedly as the roof collapses.

ddiddles posted:

Our photographer met him, and said he was an incredible douche. He walked up to our booth, asked for about $10,000 worth of free poo poo, and then just silently left when we told him no.

satanic splash-back posted:

Did you just suggest the idea of a basilisk originated in a Harry Potter book?

Three-Phase posted:

Remember those painters in China pushing the scaffold?

It happened again with a boom truck trying to move a sign.

Warning http://youtu.be/o2nPTghbvyk

If they did survive they probably had very serious and debilitating injuries (electrical burns).

BernieLomax posted:

Found other sources where it is clear the person on the back is not the operator. People return in order to try opening the cabin in what looks like a failed rescue operation. Couldn't find any good sources, but it really looks like a fatal accident.

dietcokefiend posted:

This led me to the fantastic video of someone dropping a perfectly good massive tree directly in the spot you may not want it to go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvyDZ8n8FLM

Poor tree.

Say Nothing posted:

Elsa posted:

what, you've never used a toilet sidesaddle?

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

It turns out that some people weren't aware that the signs at Safari parks that say "Keep doors and windows locked at all times, do not exit your vehicle for any reason" weren't just for show

http://www.news.com.au/technology/s...3abadaf4193c396

The article has stills from the security video, the full video is on youtube ( even though you just see the tiger grab the woman and immediately drag her out of frame) and you can see a jeep full of park rangers dash across the road towards the tiger attack pretty much immediately. I'm guessing they saw the woman get out of her car and knew what was gonna happen, that had to be a lovely day at work.

Shady Amish Terror posted:

I am oddly fond of this short horror film version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdyknT4uchM

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

My work has a mildly onerous password policy. Nothing too crazy, but I liked how when it went into effect the olds that work there acted like the world was coming to and end. Our intranet site lets people comment on the news bulletins posted there, usually any particular time might get one comment at best, maybe two. The news bulletin about the password requirements had dozens upon dozens of posts from olds pulling their hair out and gnashing their teeth about it. "There's only so many hours in the day, how can we possibly be tasked with remembering a password with UPPERCASE AND LOWERCASE LETTERS?!?!?! MADNESS!" or "People will quit over this! This is just upper management adding one more task to our day! I won't participate!"

One women in my department was brought to tears just from hearing about what was going to be required. She hadn't even tried to create the newer stronger password yet, or even forgot it, just hearing about it was enough to send her into hysterics. It doesn't help that we have an automated password reset system in place in case you forget it, but again, no one over the age of about 47 will ever use it because "What am I, made of time or something?! That'll take forever. And look, it makes you click on a window! Pfft, gently caress that."

wdarkk posted:

I'd be very surprised if other things with autocorrect didn't have similar problems. The way autocorrect works and the way medicine naming works are inevitably going to gently caress things up.

Proteus Jones posted:

Parts of Australia just seem like they have invisible gates that change the difficulty slider for life from normal to nightmare difficulty.

Kith posted:

Dirt Road Junglist posted:

You can afford that car, but not the means or good sense to properly get a stack of wood home

Duzzy Funlop posted:

America

Wasabi the J posted:

Pro level YouTube comment:

"In Soviet Russia, mic drops you."

Synthbuttrange posted:

his dick got parasites.

Blast of Confetti posted:

it was illegals

Gunshow Poophole posted:

Depending on the state it is the driver's obligation to stop or yield to a pedestrian in a marked crosswalk. Growing up crossing streets in Illinois and I don't even think twice about it. Bad habit obviously but a legally binding one in many places

Crocoswine posted:

It's really weird that people are trying to lay blame on the lady who got murdered as opposed to the car/back-up driver who hit and murdered her.

tsa posted:

or perhaps you don't ahve a single loving clue what you are talking about (it's this)

Deteriorata posted:

SAT scores declined over the same period, so less violent people are dumber, I guess.

Tuxedo Ted posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F723rIlW_No&t=6s

Scott Forstall posted:

hey folks, long time fan and lurker.

I could use some examples of expensive fuckups of the kind ripe for this group, for my work. Any favorites?

Johnny Aztec posted:

A large part of the entire medical field is built upon the suffering of SOMEONE.
poo poo is all theoretical until you get a chance to actually test poo poo out, and how often do you get a chance for this?


It is cruel, inhumane, and horrifying, and absolutely 100% necessary.