â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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@HardwareGeek said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@CoyneTheDup said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
he appears to have had sufficient protection.
Although I'm going to guess from the way he took off his gloves quickly and threw them that some of the metal stuck to the gloves and solidified there. Even the best gloves won't protect your hands from the heat for very long.
That's the reason why labcoats are required to be easy to get out of, i.e. they're only allowed to be closed by buttons (and not something like zippers).
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@Rhywden said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
labcoats are required to be easy to get out of
Despite having worked in a chem lab when I was in college (oh so many years ago), I never knew that. TIL.
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@Rhywden said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
That's the reason why labcoats are required to be easy to get out of
You want to be out of it before whatever is burning through it gets to you.
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@HardwareGeek said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@CoyneTheDup said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
just had long enough to stop showing red ... put it down again really fast.
Yeah, BTDT. I've learned the hard way to hold my hand near a piece of metal to check for heat before touching it. Even so, I still have occasional mental lapses.
Actually, I've BTDT, too. Several times (farm kid). Two cases I remember in particular:
- I picked up a little rectangle of metal about 2" by 1" by .25" that my Dad cut with a cutting torch just a couple of minutes before; that gave me a pretty good first degree burn. Fortunately, it had cooled quite a bit. I put it down about as fast as that tourist put the horseshoe down, I'd guess.
- But the best burn was the piece of 1/16" steel wire. It had just been red hot and, though I didn't get much deep tissue damage (too little mass) I got a nice surface ashed/carbonized spot about 3/4" long from the end. Here's a note: when it's that hot, you don't feel it right away.
When you do welding routinely, which is a farm thing, it happens from time to time, no matter how careful you think you are.
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I'm not sure if this is a bad idea or a good idea. It's certainly a bad idea to look at it if you get nightmares easily.
As presented by the internet, a children's book about infinity that's "pure MS Paint Lovecraftian nighmare fuel": https://www.math.brown.edu/~res/farm.pdf
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ON THE INFINITE FARM, CHICKENS HAVE TEETH TOO
Stealing this for my next horror movie tagline.
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@CoyneTheDup almost on topic:
The most common tattoo swedish men have on their butt is "ÖLYT", with the L pointing the wrong way.
Reason? Too many beers and a sauna.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
The most common tattoo swedish men have on their butt is "ÖLYT", with the L pointing the wrong way.
Reason? Too many beers and a sauna.Brand != tattoo.
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http://i.imgur.com/aVdVSh5.png
A combination of sovereign citizen bullshit, anti-medicine hippie bullshit, and "black power" bullshit. That poor kid.
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@anonymous234 said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
http://i.imgur.com/aVdVSh5.png
A combination of sovereign citizen bullshit, anti-medicine hippie bullshit, and "black power" bullshit. That poor kid.
Well damn, if he already talks of black power even with his placenta still in place, maybe there is something to it.
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@anonymous234 is that... a really dried-out umbilical cord, coming out of his harness?
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@anotherusername said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@anonymous234 is that... a really dried-out umbilical cord, coming out of his harness?
😲
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@anotherusername Doctors say it's bad and can cause infections, therefore it must be good.
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@anonymous234 said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@anotherusername Doctors say it's bad and can cause infections, therefore it must be good.
It would be sad for the poor, unfortunate baby, but overall the human race would be better off if it were a fatal infection. #TooStupidToProcreate
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@Fox said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
This Bad Idea brought to you by the Weekly Search for Interesting Kickstarters.
So he's inventing personal anal probes?
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@Tsaukpaetra They're retractable and offer a variety of sizes, too.
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My father used to sell something along those lines.
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@ScholRLEA I hope he wasn't selling them used.
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@Fox said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
This Bad Idea brought to you by the Weekly Search for
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@Maciejasjmj said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Fox said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
This Bad Idea brought to you by the Weekly Search for
Interesting KickstartersOrifice Reamers.Come on ,we know what you've been really looking for.
Furry kickstarters mostly, tbh
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@coldandtired Clearly she hasn't seen Flatliners, which both had a better way of doing that, and showed a reason it's a bad idea!
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...saw her writing down words from a TV signal that was tuning in and out, believing it be a message from her friend.
I imagine she was kept away from the TV as much as possible.
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@coldandtired
That are a couple of hot peppers indeed
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Reminds me of:
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@boomzilla He didn't get caught for half a year after doing so.
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nuclear lunch codes
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@ben_lubar said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
nuclear lunch codes
Sounds like a great name for a Korean joint that specializes in kim chi.
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@lolwhat said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@ben_lubar said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
nuclear lunch codes
Sounds like a great name for a Korean joint that specializes in kim chi.
Or a particularly spicy dish. Because you'll be having a ... meltdown afterwards!
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@Pennsylvania_Legislature said in Pennsylvania Senate Bill No. 1267:
(2) Red or completely unlighted signal shall stop in the
same manner as at a stop sign, and the right to proceed shall
be subject to the rules applicable after making a stop at a
stop sign as provided in section 3323 (relating to stop signs
and yield signs).Essentially, this says that people can treat any red light in the whole state of Pennsylvania as a stop sign, even if cross-traffic has a green. Governor Wolf signed it and it goes into effect on 18-Sep-2016.
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@djls45 said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Pennsylvania_Legislature said in Pennsylvania Senate Bill No. 1267:
(2) Red or completely unlighted signal shall stop in the
same manner as at a stop sign, and the right to proceed shall
be subject to the rules applicable after making a stop at a
stop sign as provided in section 3323 (relating to stop signs
and yield signs).Essentially, this says that people can treat any red light in the whole state of Pennsylvania as a stop sign, even if cross-traffic has a green. Governor Wolf signed it and it goes into effect on 18-Sep-2016.
Well, gee, how are they going to pay for all those red light cameras now?
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@djls45 said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Pennsylvania_Legislature said in Pennsylvania Senate Bill No. 1267:
(2) Red or completely unlighted signal shall stop in the
same manner as at a stop sign, and the right to proceed shall
be subject to the rules applicable after making a stop at a
stop sign as provided in section 3323 (relating to stop signs
and yield signs).Essentially, this says that people can treat any red light in the whole state of Pennsylvania as a stop sign, even if cross-traffic has a green. Governor Wolf signed it and it goes into effect on 18-Sep-2016.
Oh boy...
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@djls45 said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Essentially, this says that people can treat any red light in the whole state of Pennsylvania as a stop sign, even if cross-traffic has a green. Governor Wolf signed it and it goes into effect on 18-Sep-2016.
I've seen this sort of law before. For bicyclists.
Maybe this would work in rural areas. Any regular amount of traffic is going to be a bad time.
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@Fox said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Maciejasjmj said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Fox said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
This Bad Idea brought to you by the Weekly Search for
Interesting KickstartersOrifice Reamers.Come on ,we know what you've been really looking for.
Furry kickstarters mostly, tbh
If someone kicked fur into your orifice, this is the tool for you.
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@Lorne-Kates said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@djls45 said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Essentially, this says that people can treat any red light in the whole state of Pennsylvania as a stop sign, even if cross-traffic has a green. Governor Wolf signed it and it goes into effect on 18-Sep-2016.
I've seen this sort of law before. For bicyclists.
Maybe this would work in rural areas. Any regular amount of traffic is going to be a bad time.
It's intended for motorcyclists and others who aren't heavy enough to trip the weight detectors or have enough metal to affect the inductive sensors for the "smart" lights. But because it's kinda hard to tell which lights have sensors (unless you know how, I guess, which most people don't), they made the law for all traffic signals.
And yes, it's for the whole state, which includes Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
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@djls45 said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
any red light in the whole state of Pennsylvania as a stop sign, even if cross-traffic has a green
Isn't this normal? One road has red and must stop while the perpendicular road has green?
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@coldandtired said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@djls45 said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
any red light in the whole state of Pennsylvania as a stop sign, even if cross-traffic has a green
Isn't this normal? One road has red and must stop while the perpendicular road has green?
But are you normally allowed to continue at will once stopped (despite the light remaining red)?
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@Tsaukpaetra Then what's the point of a red light?
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@coldandtired said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Tsaukpaetra Then what's the point of a red light?
Methinks you're trolling...
Traffic flow stops when the light is red. When it turns green, traffic flow resumes (assuming safe passage is possible).
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@Tsaukpaetra No trolling. I don't understand the bad idea that red light = stop and stop sign = stop.
Edit: After some Googling it seems a stop sign in the US doesn't mean 'stop', it means 'pause for a second'.
So the red light will now also mean pause for a second instead of stop.
Must cars from both roads pause or only the minor road?
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@coldandtired said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Tsaukpaetra No trolling. I don't understand the bad idea that red light = stop and stop sign = stop.
Well, that change would mean that you may move even if you have a red light.
And not just like the right-turn-on-red-rule that some states in the US have, but in any direction.
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@aliceif Yeah, I was coming at it from the wrong direction :(
Why not just use flashing amber, like everywhere else?
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@coldandtired because flashing amber means "System is borked. Proceed with caution."
The situation described above is "System is working, but you're not heavy enough or carrying enough metal for it to notice you. You will die a horrible and lonely death waiting for this red light to turn green."
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@coldandtired said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Tsaukpaetra No trolling. I don't understand the bad idea that red light = stop and stop sign = stop.
Edit: After some Googling it seems a stop sign in the US doesn't mean 'stop', it means 'pause for a second'.
So the red light will now also mean pause for a second instead of stop.
Must cars from both roads pause or only the minor road?
You still have lights, so there's no minor or major road. AIUI, it just makes the red light mean "pause and yield" instead of "halt until it turns green". And when you're green, you don't have to yield or come to a stop.
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@Maciejasjmj For some reason I parsed the original as 'OMG red lights will mean we have to stop from next week!'
In my defence, it was quite early and the weather is terrible :)
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in â€ðŸ™… THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
"System is working, but you're not heavy enough or carrying enough metal for it to notice you. You will die a horrible and lonely death waiting for this red light to turn green."
A cynic might consider that to be broken as well :)
Here they do both, it can mean not working but usually late at night they switch to flashing amber so you don't end up waiting at red lights when you're the only car around.
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@coldandtired It also has the side effect of making red light cameras completely unworkable. I wonder if that's intentional...