βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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@TimeBandit said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@kazitor a stupid-gene pool trimmer
A circum-trimmer!
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With today's technology, you could probably make dumbbells and barbells out of lighter materials.
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@Zecc said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
With today's technology, you could probably make dumbbells and barbells out of lighter materials.
That's a great pun!
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Human Centipede: Ur Doin It Rong....
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@da-Doctah said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
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@Tsaukpaetra Try it now.
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@da-Doctah said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Tsaukpaetra Try it now.
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@Tsaukpaetra How do you even wire that up?
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@JBert said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Tsaukpaetra How do you even wire that up?
VERY carefully...
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@JBert said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Tsaukpaetra How do you even wire that up?
probably grounded the plug with the neutral lead, rather than the ground lead.
or they used the live lead instead. either way that's dangerously miswired.
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@Vixen I mean the way it measures a voltage potential across the screws. Do light switches like that come as two separate metal bits which don't touch behind the front plate?
Here in Europe I would expect that it's one metal bit holding both switches and keeping the cover plate on, and I've always seen that bit be isolated from any wires.
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@JBert said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Vixen I mean the way it measures a voltage potential across the screws. Do light switches like that come as two separate metal bits which don't touch behind the front plate?
oh. that.
I'm assuming it's using one of those newer plastic junction boxes behind that faceplate, so the two separate switches1 aren't commoned grounded through the metal case. That means they need to be individually grounded which is typically done with a ground lug on the switch that connects to the metal of the switch case what those screws are screwed into
1 - yeah they only come in single bank configuration, and multi gang boxes just expect you to assemble the combination of switches and plugs you want in there and get a faceplate for them)
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@Tsaukpaetra Sweet. When you turn on the light in the morning, you get to really wake up for free.
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Not visiting this website while on a 2 week vacation.
FileUnder:
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@TimeBandit said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Not visiting this website while on a 2 week vacation.
FileUnder:
But now you have something to do "while compiling"!
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@dcon said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
But now you have something to do "while compiling"!
Yeah, but I mainly work in PHP
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@TimeBandit said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@dcon said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
But now you have something to do "while compiling"!
Yeah, but I mainly work in PHP
s/compiling/waiting for the site to finish loading/
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@Vixen said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
waiting for the site to finish loading
I don't host anything on IIS
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Status: Didn't know where to put this so...
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/556177365626126349/664300250365952031/yiz1xgxcwo841.png
Don't eat people! Eat them out instead!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Status: Didn't know where to put this so...
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/556177365626126349/664300250365952031/yiz1xgxcwo841.png
Don't eat people! Eat them out instead!
I believe the canonical version of this joke is "My girlfriend says she's a vegetarian because she only eats vegetables. I told her I'm a humanitarian."
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@obeselymorbid Technically, you're supposed to have the chain brake set when starting the engine, so he'd be fine...but that's a mistake you'd only make once.
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I fell down the Lowering the Bar rabbit hole again tonight, and I found this at the bottom. This seemed the obvious place for it. Or the Nope thread; either works.
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@Zecc said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@obeselymorbid said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
If the 112 dispatcher literally said "on the side of victim's mouth" then that is entirely their own fault for not explaining it clearly.
They did not literally say that because they weren't speaking English.
The person telling the story said "cheek", which I figured in English sort of implies "outside", but maybe it doesn't.In English, it depends on whether they'd've said "on the cheek" or "in the cheek." The former indicates the outside; the latter, the inside.
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Bad idea: playing "Toro Totter" with your equally inexperienced friends:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwPJMQwo2xw
Even worse idea: play a "last man standing" game with a small crowd of people:
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https://www.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/comments/f9w94p/the_wheels_on_the_new_mac_pro_dont_have_locks/
They seem to cost $400 actually. Yes, just the wheels.
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@JBert said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Even worse idea: play a "last man standing" game with a small crowd of people:
I've seen one of these in person! It was just one table of four people, though. One guy "folded" the instant the bull was loosed, and after some other excitement (including one of the rodeo clowns trying to persuade the bull to play at all), the game ended when the bull slowly moseyed up to the table... and then tipped the table over, knocking over the last two guys.
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@dcon said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I see the deliberately ugly and question why anyone would choose that over something more usual.
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@dcon For bonus hilarity, combine with sharp objects.
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@cvi said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@dcon For bonus hilarity, combine with sharp objects.
Brings new meaning to the phrase "pump me up!"
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@Mason_Wheeler said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
I see the deliberately ugly and question why anyone would choose that over something more usual.
In this case, it's for men who've seen men with phylaria and were jealous.
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@jinpa said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
phylaria
Googling that is also a bad idea. Google says "Did you mean filaria?" and returns results for lymphatic filariasis. If you must look it up, be satisfied with the result previews Google gives you for Wikipedia and various medical sites; don't go looking for pictures. (Although there are many things even more unpleasant to look at, it's still not something I want to look at right after lunch.)
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@dcon Methinks they're compensating for something...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@dcon Methinks they're compensating for something...
Or they haven't been getting something... (dude! that's a medical condition - you need to see your doctor NOW!)
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@dcon said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Tsaukpaetra said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@dcon Methinks they're compensating for something...
Or they haven't been getting something... (dude! that's a medical condition - you need to see your doctor NOW!)
Compensating for not getting something. Same difference. Just one that might not be controlled.
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@coderpatsy said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Oooooh thatβll trigger someone, but it needs cilantro decorations.
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@coderpatsy simply because that made me almost throw up.
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@M_Adams said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@coderpatsy said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Oooooh thatβll trigger someone, but it needs cilantro decorations.
I'd starve first.
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@coderpatsy Huh. Don't have any bologna in. (This is deliberate, FWIW.) I guess this βcakeβ is off the menuβ¦
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@dkf "Oh no"
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@PotatoEngineer said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@JBert said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Even worse idea: play a "last man standing" game with a small crowd of people:
I've seen one of these in person! It was just one table of four people, though. One guy "folded" the instant the bull was loosed, and after some other excitement (including one of the rodeo clowns trying to persuade the bull to play at all), the game ended when the bull slowly moseyed up to the table... and then tipped the table over, knocking over the last two guys.
One of my uncles participated in a "rodeo poker" game like that. The rule was that the last one in his seat would win the prize, which was something stupidly low, like $500 at most, but probably more like $100 (i.e. not nearly enough to cover injuries, and I think they had to sign a form saying that they accepted full responsibility for getting into the arena with the bull β the rodeo would not be liable. The bull they got was frantic, so of the four guys at the table, two jumped up once the bull got close, and the other two (including my uncle) were knocked out of their seats when the bull kicked and stomped his way through the table. The judges determined that the other guy was in his seat last, because the bull had basically run straight over my uncle. Almost miraculously, my uncle's only injuries were a bump on the head from falling backwards onto the ground when his chair was upended.