🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Why do people interact in video games? Turn off the audio chat and move along.
Har har. Ever heard of "teamwork"?
Without interactions, MMORPGs are just shitty RPGs.
QFT and +1 -- I'm all for putting the RP back in MMORPGBad idea: hire a stretch limo and try to drive it across a level crossing.
Humped crossings are a #$!$!@$!% -- glad nobody was hurt. I think I'll try digging up where it happened, even...
EDIT: had to Google it and find the news article -- but I did get a location:aka DOT ID # 510034C:
Expect a FRA report on this as Amtrak operates over this track. Also, there's no sign of the W10-5 "low ground clearance" signage in the street view, even though a humped profile is apparent there. Image from the MUTCD that shows that sign, as it's not commonly seen:
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The correct procedure is to send someone down the track in both directions about 2 miles. And try to call the railroad, because there's supposed to be a placard at every crossing and it should have their number. They can reroute trains or contact the crew and have them stop.
Call the railroad and mention the number (6 digits 1 letter) on the sign. END OF DISCUSSION.
Depends on the train and how fast it's moving, but yeah, it can take that far. 10000 tons has just a bit of momentum, and that's a rather small train. People just don't realize how big and heavy trains are.
Heck, even an intercity passenger train (a tenth of the weight or so) takes a quarter-mile to stop!
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MMORPG
I knew there's a reason that i've started seeing MMOG replace MMORPG as a game genre in some circles.
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I moved a post to a new topic: @FrostCat can't be bothered to create his own topic in the correct category, so @abarker had to do it for him
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I fixed the title for you, too, bro.
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Yeah, there will be a crossing ID printed on the same sign. They'd ask you for it anyway, so I didn't feel the need to mention it.
I'd still want someone to go a ways down the track ASAP and be ready to flag down any trains though. The railroad should get any trains stopped or rerouted, but it takes a little time to make the right calls and there's no guarantee that a train won't come while you're talking to them.
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https://i.imgur.com/BJBFWTj.gifv
Filed under: Sorry corporate stooges, can't upload gifv to discourse
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Jealous much?
you want @RaceProUK and I to start flirting in public channels again? Cause we can.
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No, you're supposed to do that in the room you get. Do I have to explain everything to you?
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BTW I just now actually watched that video. That guy yelling, "it's not going to stop!" as if the engineer isn't stopping on purpose instead of, you know, his train having a stopping distance of like a quarter mile.
Goddamned people are stupid when it comes to trains.
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Goddamned people are stupid when it comes to trains.
Well, at least that guy knows trains have a long lead time now.
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That was one of the best jokes in Red Dwarf, when Kryten was doing the driving test. "You're travelling 1/10th the speed of light, what's your stopping distance?" "3 years, 4 months." "And your reaction time?" "A fortnight."
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I'd still want someone to go a ways down the track ASAP and be ready to flag down any trains though.
Unless the train is going really slowly, that won't help much (because it will take you a long time to go far enough down the track, you probably won't be very visible to the train driver either — unless you keep high-vis gear and good lights in your trunk — and anyway you might go the wrong way and do no good at all). If you get stuck, get away from the vehicle and tell the railroad. Got passengers? Get them out and away too.
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The whole scenario of sending someone down the track (both directions) obviously assumes having enough people to send one person in each direction while a 3rd person calls the railroad to let them know. If there aren't enough people to do that, then yeah, calling the railroad should be the priority.
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Doing something that's going to get you arrested and they saying "It's only a prank"
Seriously this shit happens way too much.
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When you're using a hands-free pump and a crazy person sets fire to the fumes escaping from the gas tank, you're probably better off slamming the stop bar on the pump than doing this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_-kiyi1h0Q
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Bad idea: doing as many drugs as this guy did.
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What are you talking about? "Be care full as who the Gropes you are in" is excellent advice.
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Bene Gesserit hackers, eh?
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If there aren't enough people to do that, then yeah, calling the railroad should be the priority.
Calling the railroad is the top priority once you're out of the vehicle, since they're much more able to stop trains than you. With a bit of luck, that'll mean that the car doesn't get hit by the train in the first place, and I call that a win.
Failing to call the railroad promptly can lead to horrific crashes.
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http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/hulk-hogan-racist-scandal-wrestling-caught-on-tape-saying-n-word-daughter-brooke-exclusive
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Calling the railroad is the top priority once you're out of the vehicle, since they're much more able to stop trains than you. With a bit of luck, that'll mean that the car doesn't get hit by the train in the first place, and I call that a win.
Failing to call the railroad promptly can lead to horrific crashes.
Definitely, agreed. I was just saying that, if you have enough people to have a person try to flag down an oncoming train (which they did have, in the video where the train hit that limo), then trying to flag them down at the crossing really ain't gonna cut it.
I tried measuring the distance there using Google Maps and it took a bit over a quarter mile for the train to stop after hitting the limo, and the driver would've been applying the brakes as soon as he saw it, so figure at least a quarter mile away when he saw it. I figure it took him at least a half mile to stop. Depending on how much the train's pulling it could be even longer. You're pretty safe assuming that it won't take more than a mile and a half, so putting someone 2 miles down the track in both directions will guarantee them room to stop with some to spare.
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Just how do you make the train stop? Lie down on the tracks in front of it? Somehow I doubt that waving and (pointless) shouting is going to be sufficient...
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Just how do you make the train stop?
You make the train stop by calling the railroad! ;)
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Wave a flashlight. It will stop. And then if there wasn't a good reason for the train to stop, the police will come and you will be arrested.
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Lie down on the tracks in front of it?
No, you tie down five people to the tracks, and lie down on the other track.
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You split the tracks into three, and tie goats to the other two routes, then hide them all behind doors and phone the railroad to ask them which one will they pick…
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Well judging by your avatar, you're the more experienced one here.
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Bad Idea: Destroying Obama in http://agar.io. Because two seconds after that, the IRS destroyed me.
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Bad Idea: Abstinence-only education.
She planned it my ass. She has made over $300K preaching about abstinence-only sex-ed and doesn't want that gravy train to end.
Best line from the news story:
"I have never been paid as an 'abstinence spokesperson.' I was employed by the great people at The Candies Foundation."
The Candies Foundation is a non-profit organization that advocates for abstinence to prevent unwanted pregnancies.
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I learned way more about STDs and other bad things that can happen to you if you sex the wrong way by clicking the random button on Wikipedia than I ever did in school.
School sex ed basically went "by the way, you're going to change in some way we won't mention and also don't put the pointy-out bit into the not-pointy-out bit EVER or YOU WILL DIE"
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don't put the pointy-out bit into the not-pointy-out bit EVER or YOU WILL DIE"
The Electrical Standards thread is over there
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sex the wrong way
Yeah, going in through the back door is not safer then using the front door.
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if you sex the wrong way
History lesson. A swedish king, Gustav III, rumoured to be playing for the away team, had troubles making the queen pregnant. eventually, when the queen talked to some friends, it turned out that he was Doing It Wrong. In the end they called in the king's trusted stablemaster for instructions.
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In the end they called in the king's trusted stablemaster for instructions.
Either the queen was as ignorant as the king, or she knew exactly what she was doing.
(on second thought, why did I jump to the conclusion the stablemaster was instructing by example?)
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Doing It Wrong
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and also don't put the pointy-out bit into the not-pointy-out bit EVER or YOU WILL DIE
But if you don't, WE ALL DIE!
(well, as a species, not individuals. But still, the bad ideas thread is um, right here.)
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TIL
In 1775, hired by the king to assist him in the consummation of his marriage (...) he was to act as sexual instructor for the couple. The King, claiming to be sexually inexperienced[2][3] called upon Munck to help him with a reconciliation with his spouse and instruct the couple in the ways of sexual intercourse[4][5] and to physically show them how to consummate their marriage. Munck, a Finnish nobleman and at the time a stable master
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Just how do you make the train stop? Lie down on the tracks in front of it? Somehow I doubt that waving and (pointless) shouting is going to be sufficient...
Actually, any object waved violently by someone standing at trackside is considered a signal to stop in the Operating Rules...
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When you're using a hands-free pump and a crazy person sets fire to the fumes escaping from the gas tank, you're probably better off slamming the stop bar on the pump than doing this:
No, you're better off hitting the emergency stop button that is located somewhere not at the pump. I assume that gas stations outside the US have such things. Sure, it shuts down all the pumps, but it keeps you away from the gas fire.
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I assume that gas stations outside the US have such things.
Probably. Never noticed it, but then most of our pumps have staff on site (though they're self-fill) so the emergency stop is likely not where the public can get at it.
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Most of the gas stations I frequent are minimally staffed, and so have multiple such buttons. Either that, or the only person staffing the station is busy manning the convenience store counter and not paying attention to the gas pumps, so the emergency stop button is placed somewhere conspicuous.
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You split the tracks into three, and tie goats to the other two routes, then hide them all behind doors and phone the railroad to ask them which one will they pick…
Does Monty Hall do the emcee work for that?