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null_pointer: Nov 9, 2004; Center in, pull back. Stop. Track 45 right. Stop. Center and stop.

Murray Mantoinette posted:

Thank you for making me realize my brain recalls this scene in its entirety despite not having seen the film for 25+ years

I also heard Richard Pryor's exasperation perfectly just by reading it.

# ? Jul 6, 2020 14:26

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# ? Apr 25, 2024 22:00

Memento: Aug 25, 2009; Bleak Gremlin

LifeSunDeath posted:

https://giant.gfycat.com/CloudyLameHog.webm

Get some proper fuckin' tools for gently caress's sake

I could very easily see the breaker bar they were using bounce out and brain someone.

# ? Jul 6, 2020 14:48

Fat Loser: May 27, 2004

Memento posted:

Get some proper fuckin' tools for gently caress's sake

I could very easily see the breaker bar they were using bounce out and brain someone.

It would have to hit them rear end first to do so.

# ? Jul 6, 2020 14:54

PhotoKirk: Jul 2, 2007; insert witty text here

Azathoth posted:

I'm very grateful to work in a shop where that would end in that person never operating anything more dangerous than a 3 hole punch ever again.

I have a coworker at my current job who bent the foot pedal connector bars on a Lassco 3-hole punch. She would start pressing the pedal while the drills were stopped, then hit the switch and stand on the pedal while it made horrible noises.

Back at the old print shop there was a pressman who figured out that a magnet would defeat the safety interlock...

On a Heidelberg 4-color press...

So he could clean the blankets with the press running at low speed...

Amazingly he still had all of his digits, but that was 20 years ago.

# ? Jul 6, 2020 14:57

Azathoth: Apr 3, 2001

PhotoKirk posted:

I have a coworker at my current job who bent the foot pedal connector bars on a Lassco 3-hole punch. She would start pressing the pedal while the drills were stopped, then hit the switch and stand on the pedal while it made horrible noises.

Back at the old print shop there was a pressman who figured out that a magnet would defeat the safety interlock...

On a Heidelberg 4-color press...

So he could clean the blankets with the press running at low speed...

Amazingly he still had all of his digits, but that was 20 years ago.

we have a bunch of Heidelbergs and ... holy poo poo, the very idea of that gave me a whole body shiver

ive no poo poo been sitting here for a couple minutes trying to imagine why someone would think that is a better idea than just ... stopping it to clean thoroughly and starting it back up. like... that's worse throughput AND more dangerous

# ? Jul 6, 2020 15:06

Uthor: Jul 9, 2006; Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Cartoon Man posted:

https://i.imgur.com/1Y5ntls.gifv

That's a million times better than the snake I was expecting. :3:

# ? Jul 6, 2020 15:45

Chocobo: Oct 15, 2012; Here comes a new challenger!; Oven Wrangler

Memento posted:

Get some proper fuckin' tools for gently caress's sake

I could very easily see the breaker bar they were using bounce out and brain someone.

Rule #1 of logging:

The boss will never provide the tools you need.

# ? Jul 6, 2020 15:57

Pickled Tink: Apr 28, 2012; Have you heard about First Dog? It's a very good comic I just love.

Also, wear your bike helmets kids. I copped several blows to the head but my helmet left me totally unscathed.

Finally you should check out First Dog as it's a good comic I like it very much.; Fun Shoe

chitoryu12 posted:

I absolutely believe it, especially after this weekend. A guy across the street was removing some palm trees from his lawn and he decided to just tie his truck to the tree by a tow strap and yank it out. I took video and I'll upload it once I can stitch the clips together.

Strap came off the truck at least 6 times because he just had it looped around the tow hitch instead of tied on. When he was having trouble pulling from the base he looped the strap around the top of the tree, immediately causing it to pull off over the top (like taking a scrunchie off your ponytail) as soon as it went slightly horizontal. He did this 3 times before realizing his mistake. When the trunk started breaking instead of pulling out by the roots, he went into his garage and came back dual wielding a reciprocating saw and a beer to try and cut the trunk.

By the time he actually had the tree out, there was a stump surrounded by broken wood and a massive patch of bare dirt on his lawn and he had torn the poo poo out of his grass with his tires from the constant pulling and shifting position. He ended up just staring at the scene with a beer, right in the middle of the road, like he was contemplating suicide.

To be fair. I've had to remove a couple of palm trees in the past (From my fathers backyard) and they are utterly obnoxious to get the bloody root ball out. He'd have been better off chopping the thing down, then smashing through as much of the roots with a mattock as he brought out the car.

In all seriousness, if you have to deal with something like that, spring for the heavy machinery you need unless you are a masochist or it is in an utterly obnoxious place (And in the latter, consider fire or explosives).

I had to mattock around the damned thing to get under the root ball, then slam this long metal rod in under it with a sledgehammer and work it around to break the roots gradually since we had no proper tools for the job and my father refused to go looking for any.

I then injured myself in a semi-unrelated incident which caused an abscess which led to me getting sick with some nasty cough that lasted eight months and destroyed my voice within four and had my voice only gradually and slowly return starting with the lower pitches and going towards the higher ones, which for the longest time caused trouble speaking since my voice would just cut out mid sentence when trying to make certain tones or words. That year really sucked.

# ? Jul 6, 2020 15:58

JackSplater: Nov 20, 2014; Metal Coat? It's already active?!

Chocobo posted:

Rule #1 of ~~logging~~employment:

The boss will never provide the tools you need.

# ? Jul 6, 2020 16:02

Lurking Haro: Oct 27, 2009

Lurking Haro posted:

They are installing a new one.

Took a while
https://i.imgur.com/EIBbk9W.mp4

# ? Jul 6, 2020 16:04

aas Bandit: Sep 28, 2001; Oompa Loompa; Nap Ghost

zedprime posted:

pfffbbtbpfpfbf around the dick

Pro-tier username, but probably too long.

# ? Jul 6, 2020 16:16

Uthor: Jul 9, 2006; Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Chocobo posted:

Rule #1 of logging:

The boss will never provide the tools you need.

Why is it standard practice to require employees to bring their own tools? The last place I worked at the machinists had to provide their own hand tools unless it was something exotic like a 1" allen wrench (power tools were supplied, but rarely used). My boss sprung to a basic set of hand tools for the engineers, but we all brought our own poo poo from home when we had to do work in the shop.

I can almost see it in an automotive shop where it's semi expected for the mechanics to move on and probably open their own places/rent a stall.

I mean, money is the reason, but my employers all supplied my computer and software licenses...

# ? Jul 6, 2020 17:08

Moo the cow: Apr 30, 2020

Uthor posted:

Why is it standard practice to require employees to bring their own tools? The last place I worked at the machinists had to provide their own hand tools unless it was something exotic like a 1" allen wrench (power tools were supplied, but rarely used). My boss sprung to a basic set of hand tools for the engineers, but we all brought our own poo poo from home when we had to do work in the shop.

I can almost see it in an automotive shop where it's semi expected for the mechanics to move on and probably open their own places/rent a stall.

I mean, money is the reason, but my employers all supplied my computer and software licenses...

Employees steal/lose the good tools
Employer buys cheaper, shittier tools
Employees break the lovely tools
Employer makes employees bring in their own tools

As long as they get an allowance for it, I think it is a good idea: let them buy the stuff they think is best, rather than what the corporate purchaser thinks is best.

# ? Jul 6, 2020 18:02

Der Kyhe: Jun 25, 2008

Moo the cow posted:

... rather than what the corporate purchaser thinks is ~~best~~ cheapest or pays the best kickbacks.

Fixed that for you.

# ? Jul 6, 2020 18:19

zedprime: Jun 9, 2007; yospos

In an ideal world purchasing works directly with the workers to score the tools ongoing and operations manages tools growing legs and walking home. You might see this in fixed capital heavy operation and as a business you can arguably capitalize your $4k of wrenches and get revenue breaks due to depreciation while you lose/break/wear them down.

By the time you're talking about car and equipment mechanics it's bring your own tools because the labor market supports it lol.

# ? Jul 6, 2020 18:28

Fur20: Nov 14, 2007; すご▞い！
君は働か░い
フ▙▓ズなんだね！

GotLag posted:

Chemical safety pro-tip: don't mix your piss jar with your potassium jar

https://twitter.com/WhoresofYore/status/1279872708902375424

Laughs and winces aside, how does the reaction of potassium with urine (presumably mostly with the water) result in reduced pressure in the bottle?

Is it from the metal that didn't react with the water being heated enough to burn, and consuming the oxygen in the bottle?

bull poo poo. in 1848 someone wanted to gently caress the flame atronach

# ? Jul 6, 2020 18:31

Cojawfee: May 31, 2006; I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

zedprime posted:

By the time you're talking about car and equipment mechanics it's bring your own tools because the labor market supports it lol.

Everyone loves getting $20k in debt with the snap on truck.

# ? Jul 6, 2020 18:36

Ornamental Dingbat: Feb 26, 2007

Shoulda used an erlenmeyer flask instead.

# ? Jul 6, 2020 18:40

Azhais: Feb 5, 2007; Switchblade Switcharoo

The White Dragon posted:

bull poo poo. in 1848 someone wanted to gently caress the flame atronach

There's a mod for that

# ? Jul 6, 2020 19:02

glynnenstein: Feb 18, 2014

Uthor posted:

Why is it standard practice to require employees to bring their own tools? The last place I worked at the machinists had to provide their own hand tools unless it was something exotic like a 1" allen wrench (power tools were supplied, but rarely used). My boss sprung to a basic set of hand tools for the engineers, but we all brought our own poo poo from home when we had to do work in the shop.

I can almost see it in an automotive shop where it's semi expected for the mechanics to move on and probably open their own places/rent a stall.

I mean, money is the reason, but my employers all supplied my computer and software licenses...

I maintain commercial buildings and ever since I started working for corporations I've been union and our contracts always stipulate that the employer or client provides tools. Honestly, I miss getting to use my own tools like it did back when I worked for a guy who was moonlighting; I like nice tools and I do "buy once, cry once" as much as I can.

In my experience where tools are provided small sites are no problem; tools mostly don't get abused or stolen because first it would be noticed, and second everybody just needs them to get the job done. But on large sites where you have a dozen or a few dozen guys it's always a problem with tools getting broken, left in a ceiling somewhere, let rust, walked off in a trunk, etc. I worked a huge 4.5 million square foot building and we had some big expensive stuff that we rarely needed like welders that you'd go to use for the first time in 6 months and it wasn't there anymore. I could see the pain of the managers when we had a contract change and they had to provide new tools to 40 people all at once (we were getting really poo poo Westward stuff, even) so I can imagine that cost gets shoved to the workers whenever they can.

# ? Jul 6, 2020 19:07

The Wurst Poster: Apr 8, 2005; Literally the Wurst...

Seriously...

For REALSIES.

glynnenstein posted:

I maintain commercial buildings and ever since I started working for corporations I've been union and our contracts always stipulate that the employer or client provides tools. Honestly, I miss getting to use my own tools like it did back when I worked for a guy who was moonlighting; I like nice tools and I do "buy once, cry once" as much as I can.

In my experience where tools are provided small sites are no problem; tools mostly don't get abused or stolen because first it would be noticed, and second everybody just needs them to get the job done. But on large sites where you have a dozen or a few dozen guys it's always a problem with tools getting broken, left in a ceiling somewhere, let rust, walked off in a trunk, etc. I worked a huge 4.5 million square foot building and we had some big expensive stuff that we rarely needed like welders that you'd go to use for the first time in 6 months and it wasn't there anymore. I could see the pain of the managers when we had a contract change and they had to provide new tools to 40 people all at once (we were getting really poo poo Westward stuff, even) so I can imagine that cost gets shoved to the workers whenever they can.

When I used to do telco and data cable move/add/changes I always enjoyed finding left behind tools in ceilings and crawlspaces.

Then again I did discover someone's empty liquor bottle and used porn stash in a crawlspace above the men's room at a fruit packing warehouse.

# ? Jul 6, 2020 20:59

SyNack Sassimov: May 4, 2006; Let the robot win.
��--Captain James T. Vader

The White Dragon posted:

bull poo poo. in 1848 someone wanted to gently caress the flame atronach

Azhais posted:

There's a mod for that

Oh "flame atronach" means little boy?

# ? Jul 6, 2020 21:11

Dirt Road Junglist: Oct 8, 2010; We will be cruel
And through our cruelty
They will know who we are

The Wurst Poster posted:

When I used to do telco and data cable move/add/changes I always enjoyed finding left behind tools in ceilings and crawlspaces.

Then again I did discover someone's empty liquor bottle and used porn stash in a crawlspace above the men's room at a fruit packing warehouse.

When I was at college, the building I lived in had free HBO because someone had broken into the ceiling and installed a physical descrambler. No one knew where it was, so we low key advertised that that particular res hall had extra amenities.

One summer, they had the IT guys run new cable for upgraded network hardware, and they stumbled upon the descrambler. Which meant that it had to be removed, not that anyone wanted to do so, but there were legal issues involved once we had to cop to knowing it existed.

# ? Jul 6, 2020 21:17

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

ECS Test for the new Russian VVER Reactor core

https://twitter.com/Syndroma3/status/1280043162388570113?s=20

# ? Jul 6, 2020 21:29

LifeSunDeath: Jan 4, 2007; still gay rights and smoke weed every day

CommieGIR posted:

ECS Test for the new Russian VVER Reactor core

https://twitter.com/Syndroma3/status/1280043162388570113?s=20

ur mom when I'm around

# ? Jul 6, 2020 21:47

Cojawfee: May 31, 2006; I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

LifeSunDeath posted:

ur mom when I'm around

She gets diarrhea?

# ? Jul 6, 2020 21:56

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Cojawfee posted:

She gets diarrhea?

He risks overheating and melting through the ground?

# ? Jul 6, 2020 22:04

FogHelmut: Dec 18, 2003

Pickled Tink posted:

To be fair. I've had to remove a couple of palm trees in the past (From my fathers backyard) and they are utterly obnoxious to get the bloody root ball out. He'd have been better off chopping the thing down, then smashing through as much of the roots with a mattock as he brought out the car.

In all seriousness, if you have to deal with something like that, spring for the heavy machinery you need unless you are a masochist or it is in an utterly obnoxious place (And in the latter, consider fire or explosives).

I had to mattock around the damned thing to get under the root ball, then slam this long metal rod in under it with a sledgehammer and work it around to break the roots gradually since we had no proper tools for the job and my father refused to go looking for any.

I then injured myself in a semi-unrelated incident which caused an abscess which led to me getting sick with some nasty cough that lasted eight months and destroyed my voice within four and had my voice only gradually and slowly return starting with the lower pitches and going towards the higher ones, which for the longest time caused trouble speaking since my voice would just cut out mid sentence when trying to make certain tones or words. That year really sucked.

I broke two shovels - a Fiskars and a Razorback - trying to dig up a palm tree. They were both replaced under warranty. Then I partially bent a digging bar. It came out eventually. I was trying to transplant it, but the operation ended up killing it.
Would have been easier to just chop it up into pieces and buy a new tree.

# ? Jul 6, 2020 22:19

angryrobots: Mar 31, 2005

Cartoon Man posted:

https://i.imgur.com/1Y5ntls.gifv

Glad to see the tech wearing kitten mittens

# ? Jul 6, 2020 22:31

Beve Stuscemi: Jun 6, 2001

Don�t take the cat out! You�ll fail emissions!

# ? Jul 6, 2020 22:50

Beve Stuscemi: Jun 6, 2001

Catalytic Conpurrter

# ? Jul 6, 2020 22:50

LifeSunDeath: Jan 4, 2007; still gay rights and smoke weed every day

Cojawfee posted:

She gets diarrhea?

yes

# ? Jul 6, 2020 23:00

UraniumAnchor: May 21, 2006; Not a walrus.

Cartoon Man posted:

https://i.imgur.com/1Y5ntls.gifv

I hate when stuff like this gets reposted without sound, because the audio really adds to it in this case:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEFZsK0X1V4

# ? Jul 6, 2020 23:03

HelloIAmYourHeart: Dec 29, 2008; Fallen Rib

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

Shoulda used an erlenmeyer flask instead.

This is an ELEVEN year old deep cut, holy poo poo. I remember reading that thread as it happened. https://www.somethingawful.com/comedy-goldmine/flaskfucker-fruit-hat/1/

Also, it is very important to wear PPE when dealing with feral kittens, because they can gently caress you up.

# ? Jul 7, 2020 00:09

Memento: Aug 25, 2009; Bleak Gremlin

If y'all get your OSHA videos from the regular sources (reddit, news sites etc) there's a video going around of a fuel tanker explosion from Colombia that shows people being visibly incinerated. Not sure about you but I'll be avoiding those regular places for a little while until it gets pushed off the front page.

# ? Jul 7, 2020 01:22