🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Wouldn't happen if you had to hold the handle on the pump
Hmmmm... 1/1,000,000 accidents vs 999,999/1,000,000 inconveniences. Tough choice.
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Micro
aggressionsinconveniences?
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Note that the Fox presenter can't resist repeating the old canard about not using a cell phone while pumping fuel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56lFhpByO2s&t=2m20s
Fuck, people are thick.
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Microinconveniences?
Average person lives about 24 * 365 * 75 = 657,000 hours. So it's acceptable to have X deaths per yer as long as X * 657,000 or more hours are saved by the convenience in question. I think locking gas pump handles qualify.
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But CELL PHONEZ CAUZE RF TO MAEK SPARKZ.
Fun fact, I've been in a vehicle with a 150w HF radio, transmitting, at a gas pump, numerous times. Did not catch on fire.
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Wouldn't happen if you had to hold the handle on the pump
Also wouldn't happen if he drove a Diesel.
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CELL PHONEZ CAUZE RF TO MAEK SPARKZ
IT MUST BE TRUE
CELL PHONE IS LIKE THIS ONLY SMALLER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSf93g0heUA&t=1m19s
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Note that the Fox presenter can't resist repeating the old canard about not using a cell phone while pumping fuel:
I've never used a cell phone while refueling, and I've never died in a gasoline pump fire. It seems to be working!
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I've never used a cell phone while refueling, and I've never died in a gasoline pump fire. It seems to be working!
I guess there's one reasonable reason for not using a cell phone while refuelling, especially if the pump locks on: the phone is a highly distracting device, and the pump owner doesn't want a fuel spill due to someone's inattention. (The hazard due to the spill will be worse than the possible few cents of extra profit.)
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I guess there's one reasonable reason for not using a cell phone while refuelling, especially if the pump locks on: the phone is a highly distracting device, and the pump owner doesn't want a fuel spill due to someone's inattention. (The hazard due to the spill will be worse than the possible few cents of extra profit.)
I learned to pay attention to the pump after my first experience with one of those high-flow diesel nozzles usually used by semis. The fuel is compatible with my pickup, the nozzle is close but doesn't quite fit, but it works if you line everything up just right and don't squeeze the lever too far...
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I've been in a vehicle with a 150w HF radio, transmitting, at a gas pump, numerous times. Did not catch on fire.
Have you tried running 1500W PEP and, uh, switching coils on your antenna tuner while key-down, 'cause that's totally like what ur phone does.
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/me tries to imagine a phone like that.
Yeahhhhh... no
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my first experience with one of those high-flow diesel nozzles usually used by semis.
I rented the biggest truck I could drive without a CDL when I moved from CA to WA. I learned that the pumps at truck stops are designed to fill semis with fuel tanks on both sides of the truck. My rental truck had only one tank, and I could not get the pump to actually dispense any fuel. It turns out that they only work if both nozzles are removed from the dispensers; if your truck has a tank on only one side, you still have to walk over to the other side, remove the nozzle from the pump, and just lay it on the ground, in order to put fuel in the one tank. ?
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Life.
Or maybe that's an evil idea, I'm not sure.
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And here we have another. Fuckwit causes small, controllable vapor fire just by being a fuckwit, then takes it to the next level by yoinking the nozzle and setting his wife on fire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc8URMK1f6s
Auto-flow fuel dispensers need to not exist. Like the man says:
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It's because they were too stupid to know that an EMERGENCY OFF SWITCH exists.
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In the civilized country in which I live, there's another Emergency Off Switch that you operate simply by letting go of the delivery handpiece's squeeze bar.
Check the sequence above from 0:08 onward. Dickhead has lit up the fuel vapor escaping from his tank, and his very first startle response is to jump away from the resulting burst of flame. But the delivery nozzle is still pumping fuel into the tank, which means vapor is still being displaced from the tank, from which a gout of flame is erupting as a result. So he moves back in to yoink the nozzle, and sets his wife on fire.
If that had happened at an Australian pump, jumping away from the first burst of flame would have been enough to stop the fuel flow, at which point the fire would, within a second or two, have consumed all the available vapor plus whatever few drops of fuel spillage existed around the fill port, and self-extinguished. And even if he had still reached in to snatch out the nozzle, he would not have managed to napalm his wife.
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ORANGE MOCHA FRAPPUCINO!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnZ2XdqGZWU&t=1m16s
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Of course, the only way in to your house is across your lawn...
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I use a 3-strike policy with bugs. If they annoy me, I strike them 3 times.
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Wouldn't happen if you had to hold the handle on the pump
Also wouldn't happen if the nozzle had a mechanism to detect whether it was inside the tank's opening.
Filed under: 502 Bad Gateway
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It's because they were too stupid to know that an EMERGENCY OFF SWITCH exists.
He'd have probably tried to run to it with the nozzle in his hand anyway.
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In the civilized country in which I live, there's another Emergency Off Switch that you operate simply by removing your hand from the trigger on the delivery nozzle.
Do you not put electrical outlets in bathrooms so people can't drop their hair dryer in the tub, too?
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There are building regulations that specify a minimum distance between bath/sink/toilet and any electrical outlet, so I guess, kind of.
Of course there are easy workarounds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27PP3lpEKxA&t=2m14s
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if your truck has a tank on only one side, you still have to walk over to the other side, remove the nozzle from the pump, and just lay it on the ground, in order to put fuel in the one tank.
Oh, is that why that happens. The last time I moved cross-country I did basically the same thing--a 26' or whatever box truck, stopped at gas pavilions, had to do the same thing. Of course I had to go in and ask why it wouldn't work, and this apparently happens enough they don't bother explaining anything, just say "take out the other pump and lay it on the ground."
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this apparently happens enough they don't bother explaining anything
A truck driver who either took pity on me, or realized that without help I was never going to get out of his way so he could refuel, explained it to me.
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Bad idea: The GW2 devs are trying to post the patch notes, but the forum is being DDoS'd by all the players wanting to see the patch notes.
Edit: Mirror here
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Damnit I already linked that YouTube LAST time we have that discussion with RacialProfilerUK
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I loaded up IE today to check if a webpage rendered correctly. Was shocked to see advertising for our own company on our interal wiki pages. Was a bit disappointed that google didn't serve up ads for a rival company. Would of really made my day.
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You know you done bad when language furriners complain.
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Don't you mean 3389dae361af79b04c9c8e7057f60cc6twitch3389dae361af79b04c9c8e7057f60cc6?
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IME, those things are insanely sensitive and shut off at basically anything. How he managed to rip it out, on fire, and not dislodge the little clicker thingy is insane.
Also, the emergency stop button does more than just stop the flow out of the nozzle. It shuts off the flow to the whole fricking station, so that little fire doesn't go back up the line and turn into a giant fireball engulfing the entire station. Which can still happen if you don't hit the button...
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How he managed to rip it out, on fire, and not dislodge the little clicker thingy is insane.
Pretty clear to me that the little clicker thing did dislodge after he ripped it out, because the Flaming Napalm Death died back faster than I think it would have, given only swift reflexes behind the surveillance cams.
I've lit up backyard burnoffs with about that size of of starting fireball (not explosion... grrr) using well under a cup of splashed petrol. It doesn't take much.
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But when it shuts off, it shuts off... Like maybe get a few drops out off. Hardly enough to napalm anything (except maybe a spider)
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Right, so it probably shut off when the handpiece hit the ground.
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Maybe the idiot held down the handle when he pulled it out..........
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I was curious so I took it apart into frames.
206 - We have ignition:
219 - Peak intensity of initial vapor fireball:
229 - Steady-ish burn as dispensed fuel continues to displace tank vapor:
236 - Fucknuckle attempts the snatch:
249 - Aaah that's hot, try both hands on hose (meanwhile she is still uninjured and starting to flee):
255 - Nozzle coming out, fireball expanding, wife still not injured:
260 - Fountain of flaming death:
Scan artifacts make it a little hard to see, but I think he's actually gripping the hose behind the handpiece, which is presumably why the click release hasn't triggered yet.267 - Hurls handpiece groundward, dousing wife and shopping bag in flaming, still-dispensing fuel:
272 - Handpiece hits ground, emits flaming puddle:
282 - Peak intensity of puddle flame, augmented by burning shopping bag:
339 - Flames dying back, clearly no further fuel is being dispensed.
So it looks to me as if the handpiece stop valve was indeed triggered when the handpiece hit the ground at around frame 272. The fuel that did the damage was dispensed starting at around frame 255. VLC tells me frames are 1/25th second apart, so that's 0.68 seconds.
If he'd been holding onto the handpiece at initial light-up, and it had auto-stopped when he'd pulled away by frame 219, that would have given the fuel a good 1.4 seconds to stop before he'd got it together to snatch out the hose. So even if he'd still gone ahead and done that, he would not have napalmed his wife.
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So even if he'd still gone ahead and done that, he would not have napalmed his wife.
Maybe this was all so he could set fire to his wife and claim it was an accident.
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@blakeyrat said:
I already linked that YouTube LAST time
Pray nobody links it any further?
Do not link it or I will rant at you a second time.
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Just noticed the date is 10/16/2013 in this video.
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What is this I don't even...
The phrase has since become a 21st-century version of “Do you want to come up for some coffee?” In April, it was added to Urban Dictionary with the definition: “Code for two people going to each others houses and fucking or doing other sexual related acts.”
If it's a code word, then the other person knows what's being asked, right? If they're being asked and then going over and having sex, aren't they consenting?
Uh oh...look at this reactionary:
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If we're gonna label Netflix and chill rape culture we might as well label all male/female interaction the same tbh.
They're working on it. These things take time.
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> If we're gonna label Netflix and chill rape culture we might as well label all male/female interaction the same tbh.
They're working on it. These things take time.
That not far enough! The job won't be done until everything is recognized as rape culture!
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And Netflix and Chili means ass rape?
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No, just normal PIV rape, I think. Most likely PI-cis-V rape, to be sure.
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Well, by Jolee's definition, it is for me and my boyfriend.
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So Taimi normally looks like this when she talks:
But there's one quest where she looks like this:
No, there is no storyline reason for that happening. Also, this is the only NPC in the game with a hand-painted chat head[citation needed], possibly because she has a birth defect that makes it hard to walk, so she has a giant robot that she rides around and kills stuff with.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/c/c9/Scruffy.jpg
Also, they modeled the inside of the robot's cockpit, but Taimi disappears from the world when she's inside it. And it has animated textures that are constantly looping even though you can see the inside of the robot for like 3 seconds during the entire game.