βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Received some physical spam today
For those who haven't let Polish into their lives it's the Catholic Book Club, or, more accurately, the John Paul II memorabilia club.
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@coldandtired Should someone tell them? I think someone should tell them.
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@RaceProUK I like to imagine conversations where the CEO is asking why they are so far down the search results.
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@coldandtired
https://img.memesuper.com/c087c46b029331b7f34b314b6bc04fad_lol-dave-grohl-meme-generator-omg-ew-meme_383-510.jpeg
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@RaceProUK Indeed. Whiskey's disgusting :(
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@RaceProUK said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@coldandtired
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@loopback0 said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@RaceProUK said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@coldandtired
https://img.memesuper.com/c087c46b029331b7f34b314b6bc04fad_lol-dave-grohl-meme-generator-omg-ew-meme_383-510.jpegNO U (Spoilered because potential NSFW)
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noticed a train approaching and turned to avert it.
That's the real crime.
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My sympathy goes out to the train driver.
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@loopback0 I certainly don't feel any sympathy for photographers (although this isn't the one involved in the death)
βTragedies like this one bring up a moral dilemma for working professionals: does a professional photographer have a responsibility to counsel against and/or refuse their clients portrait sessions in places of known danger? One has to wonder when the cost of taking portraits on railroad tracks will finally become too high.β
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@coldandtired said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
does a professional photographer have a responsibility to counsel against and/or refuse their clients portrait sessions in places of known danger?
...is that a question that needs answering? If a client came up to you and said "I want to make a photoshoot where I put a rope around my neck and jump off a ledge", are you even allowed to say "yeah, sure, not my problem if you kill yourself"?
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@coldandtired Trains aren't exactly small or quiet. Unless you're sitting on on a corner of the track you can see and/or hear them a long way off even if you're not expecting to see one. And if you're sat on a railway, you should be fucking expecting a train.
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@Maciejasjmj 'Dilemma' usually refers to a choice between two bad options, so I assume in this case it's client death on the one hand and not getting paid on the other.
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@coldandtired said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Maciejasjmj 'Dilemma' usually refers to a choice between two bad options, so I assume in this case it's client death on the one hand and not getting paid on the other.
What if they pay in advance? You get the cash, and you cut down the developing costs!
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@Maciejasjmj If you time it right you might not even have to bother unpacking your gear \o/
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@loopback0 The girl in the article managed to miss two of them at the same time.
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@loopback0 said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@coldandtired Trains aren't exactly small or quiet. Unless you're sitting on on a corner of the track you can see and/or hear them a long way off even if you're not expecting to see one. And if you're sat on a railway, you should be fucking expecting a train.
The right place to make photos near a rail line that might be in service is at least 10 meters away, or on the other side of the drainage ditch, whichever is further.
Also apart from any safety concern, this is probably trespass as well (it is in NL).
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@coldandtired said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
the cost of taking portraits on railroad tracks will finally become too high
WTF? I mean, I've never been to a busy track, ever, but is it that difficult to find one that has at least ten seconds of visibility?
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@PleegWat It'd be trespass in the UK too IIRC, but that's generally a civil thing and not an actual crime. Normally the possibility of being hit by a train puts people off.
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@loopback0 And yet that never seems to stop people taking chances at level crossingsβ¦
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@RaceProUK said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@loopback0 And yet that never seems to stop people taking chances at level crossingsβ¦
Those people are also idiots.
IMO anyone who deliberately does something that results in them being hit by a train probably deserves it - the problem is that someone is driving that train and it's probably going to fuck them up because of something they had no control over.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
WTF? I mean, I've never been to a busy track, ever, but is it that difficult to find one that has at least ten seconds of visibility?
Assuming Dutch rail networks, that's passenger trains going 140 km/h, in 10 seconds it will travel about 400 meters. On a quiet line there'll be one train an hour. I don't think hearing it is going to be very effective. And the engineer WILL report sighting you. This WILL be followed up on and you WILL receive a β¬140 fine if you're still there when whichever police branch is responsible nowadays arrives (there used to be a special railway police but I think it's general police now).
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@coldandtired said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@loopback0 The girl in the article managed to miss two of them at the same time.
We had a similar incident at a train crossing near my hometown some time back. The crossing had railroad gates which only extended over half the street (i.e. only in the lanes for the respective directions of cars). This crossing also has pretty regular trains - at least one every fifteen minutes, or so. One guy was so fed up with waiting that he tried to steer around the gates. Naturally, this was the moment the train arrived.
According to the newspaper article, witness saw him still alive after the first crash. Yeah, first. Because there was a second train in the opposite direction after that one (it's a dual-track crossing).
And then there was this old guy I once brought meals every day (I was doing civil service and part of that was doing Meals on Wheels). One day, I met his family instead of him and was told that he wouldn't be needing our services in the future. The guy was living in a small village and was cycling to our somewhat bigger city when he came to a train crossing without gates (i.e. one which only had the flashing red lights). The lights were indeed flashing, thus he stopped his bike. A car then stopped next to him and the driver and him struck up a conversation.
We're guessing that during the conversation he must've forgotten as to why he stopped in the first place, because he suddenly told the driver: "Well, it was nice talking to you but I must be on my way!" and stepped into the pedals of his bike. The driver must've been dumbstruck because before he was able to call out to the guy, him and his bike were on the tracks. And, of course, he had a case of very bad timing.
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@PleegWat said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
hearing it
@PleegWat said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
of visibility
Whoever said anything about hearing?
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Buster and Sybil did the definitive version of this trope all the way back in 1920:
(Buster repeated the gag eleven years later in Parlour, Bedroom and Bath, but by that time they were using sound so it was a little harder to suspend disbelief about him not hearing the train coming.)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Whoever said anything about hearing?
Hm, I was sure I had an 'either' in there.
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@PleegWat said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Tsaukpaetra said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Whoever said anything about hearing?
Hm, I was sure I had an 'either' in there.
Shirley not!
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@PleegWat said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
On a quiet line there'll be one train an hour.
TFA being in the US the train was almost certainly a freight train. They are not nearly as regular or frequent, for obvious reasons. And much more difficult to stop, of course.
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@RaceProUK said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I'll admit I didn't read it very carefully, but it didn't immediately strike me as bad.
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@obeselymorbid said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
but it didn't immediately strike me as bad.
We all know what inspired them
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@NedFodder Right, that does it! I'm officially calling that the Clippy Building from now on! :D
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And because the onebox is teh dum:
http://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BByAXKS.img?h=1080&w=1920&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f
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E_NO_REDHEAD_DRINKING_DETECTED
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@RaceProUK Protip: if you lay your building flat on the ground instead of vertically, you can make it a loooooooot longer.
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@anonymous234 said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@RaceProUK Protip: if you lay your building flat on the ground instead of vertically, you can make it a loooooooot longer.
A loot? Ah, what they're going to do to their investors. Got it.
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Apple invents Continuum
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@coldandtired Why?
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@abarker Because every time a new iPhone comes out, you would have to buy another laptop
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@TimeBandit Ok, I guess I should have been more clear. How about this:
@abarker said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@coldandtired Why would you buy that?
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@abarker said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Why would you buy that?
Yeah; you'd need a thicker laptop to accommodate itβ¦
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@dkf said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@abarker said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Why would you buy that?
Yeah; you'd need a thicker laptop to accommodate itβ¦
Unless they make it just a hole there.
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@abarker A fool and his money stay together like a Kardashian's knees.
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@RaceProUK said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
And because the onebox is teh dum:
http://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BByAXKS.img?h=1080&w=1920&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=fBut is it ginger beer?
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@RaceProUK said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Jaloopa said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
But is it ginger beer?
Nope: ginger cola.
Or ginger pop? Soda?
Why won't the government just tell me alreadyβ½