🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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That pisses me off. If some idiot kills himself by being a moron, I'd feel bad about it. We need to take these brains back to God and ask for a patch.
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Road layout matches a Dutch dual carriageway, but the blue sign at the start of the video looks like a bus sign of a type that doesn't occur here. The back of the truck has a marker 'LV, which suggests Latvia. They're members of Schengen though so that doesn't mean much.
The angles at the end of the video do suggest to me the passenger is filming.
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I'm sorry, the opening of that is just delicious:
@Drivel said:
You’ve had your chance, bepenised ones.
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@Drivel said:And you’ve blown it.
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Road layout matches a Dutch dual carriageway
So that's most of Europe. Not UK or Ireland. The road sign is about the only evidence for where it is, and it's hard for me to read. Maybe a bus-stop? That might correlate with how the road is painted.
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and allow cyclists unless there's a sign explicitly saying otherwise.
Except motorways AFAIK. Although cycling a dual carriageway is a bad idea too.
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The back of the truck has a marker 'LV, which suggests Latvia.
Format of the number plate seems wrong for Latvia.
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Except motorways AFAIK.
Yes. Some motorways also have explicit signs prohibiting cyclists and other slow traffic. I don't know why they sometimes bother, but that's part of the mystery of signage.
cycling a dual carriageway is a bad idea
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The german Straßenverkehrsordnung essentially contains that sign (301) - it wouldn't appear on an Autobahn, but this maybe ain't one. A Latvian number plate (as inferred from the whatever it is called indicating the country) also isn't unheard of in Germany, in particular on trucks.
But arguably it doesn't really look like Germany, something's off...
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In particular:
On trailers and semi-trailers, the license plates consist of one letter, a hyphen and four numbers, and are coloured black letters on a white background.
So the truck is a valid Latvian truck, not a fake one
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Huh. Fair enough.
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it wouldn't appear on an Autobahn, but this maybe ain't one
It's not; there are arrows painted on the road later on in the video.
Do you happen to be able to see what the sign is at 0:18? It looks like a fat man lying on top of five beer-barrels, but I may be wrong...
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Had a good Google but couldn't find it. These are the key images:
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Top one looks like:
Train station?
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Saw that one, I don't think that's it. The one in the clip looks like a building with something inside.
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We need some CSI ZOOM ENHANCE shit here.
The Latvian truck doesn't even mean the video is in Latvia.
I think @obeselymorbid is Latvian.
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Format of the number plate seems wrong for Latvia.
It's the correct format for trailers and semi-trailers.
Railway station.
"Novads" means something similar to "a county" or something so this is definitely Latvia.
I think @obeselymorbid is Latvian.
You are not wrong.
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Great, I can stop driving down Latvian A roads on Google street view.
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why didn't I think of that. I spent an hour trying to find photos of bus stop signs from different european countries, since the first sign looks vaguely like italy or spain. But Latvia it is, then.
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Great, I can stop driving down Lativan A roads on Google street view.
Wasn't just me doing that then
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Aren't our employers so lucky that we wasted so much time trying to track down a mystery road sign from a random internet video.
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They're lucky to have employees with such a thirst for knowledge.
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I was bored, so:
https://www.google.lv/maps/@56.8472429,24.4432164,3a,75y,113.06h,88.06t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjct7y_J3AD_YV_G4NSp4ew!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=enI used that "novads" sign from the video as the biggest clue. We only have 110 novadses so I found one with a coat of arms bottom half of which was resembling the one on the video. The rest was easy - typing "Ikšķiles novads" in google maps and streetviewing around the borders.
Google maps doesn't have that particular sign though. Either it wasn't installed yet when the google-car was driving through or more likely someone hit it because there is a Salaspils novads sign on the other side of the road in the same place.
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I was looking further up that very road - a bit closer towards Riga
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro0UEwuOR1Q
Bad Idea: "We want to advertise our new wifi-enabled car, but all we have is three cell phones, a woodchipper, and a woman having a heart attack."
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I'm willing to bet my keyboard (standard QWERTY) is not sufficiently different from the one you used to type that comment.
Now if we are talking about keyboard layouts, that's another thing - I use at least 3 different ones every day - English, Latvian, Russian.
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Bad idea: trying to clean laptop keyboards, apparently.
In my laptop's keyboard (like, I assume, in most of them) you can take apart a key by carefully pulling it up the right way. The upper half of the key is held in place by a simple pressure mechanism (I'm not sure what's the term for those), so you can just pull it out, whereas the lower half is "locked in place" and has to slide down to come apart.
In other words, you have to make sure you pull the key from the upper side, not the lower side, or you'll break the thin piece of plastic that holds it in place.
...that's on the lower row of keys. For some reason, the middle row of keys is assembled the other way around. You have to pull from the lower side. Who thought this was a good idea?
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Who thought this was a good idea?
What manufacturer?
This could be important information ...
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Computer is Asus. Keboard has a long serial number behind but no brand, so I assume it was designed by Asus too.
Yeah, it was kind of a rhetorical question. Of course the design is going to be shit. It's not like they give a fuck about their hardware lasting or being able to be repaired. It's just that this seems almost intentional.
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## A convicted rapist has escaped from his guards while on a visit to a brewery in Cologne and is on the run, police said on Wednesday.
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A spokesman for the North Rhine-Westphalia justice ministry told the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (KStA) newspaper that Breidenbach managed to escape when he was escorted to the toilet by one of the two prison guards who were accompanying him on the trip.
Instead of remaining vigilant, the guard decided to relieve himself at the same time as Breidenbach – despite the fact that neither the toilet cabins nor the door were visible from the urinals.
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I ask the same thing every time I see a driver make a right turn with his left turn signal blinking (or vice versa). I see it all the time
This morning it was an intersection where right-turn was the only option. If you turn left, you'd be going the wrong way on a divided highway. If you go straight, you'd get high-centered on the hedgerow in the median. This guy had his left turn signal on so I was watching in anticipation, but when the light changed green he turned right and I didn't get a show.
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@mott555 said:
watching in anticipation
You lead a exciting life.
Falser words have never been spoken.
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@Tsaukpaetra said:
You lead a exciting life.
Falser words have never been spoken.
You get to see front page submissions before they're anonymized. That's something.
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Something, but hardly exciting.
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Brussels will vote next week on proposals to demand that all washing-up gloves sold across the EU are tested and then certified to prove they can withstand “basic detergents”. Oven gloves will go through rigorous testing to ensure that they can withstand heat of up to 200 degrees. [...] Matthew Hancock, the Conservative business minister, is expected to fail in his bid to block the proposals because of opposition from Germany and the Netherlands.
Passed today: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/12111880/Government-feels-heat-on-EU-oven-glove-ruling.html
Under the rules oven gloves will be tested to show they "possess an appropriate coefficient of transmission of incident heat flux and be sufficiently incombustible to preclude any risk of spontaneous ignition under the foreseeable conditions of use".
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A convicted rapist has escaped from his guards while on a visit to a brewery in Cologne and is on the run, police said on Wednesday.
Why was a convicted rapist visiting a brewery?
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Yeah... prisoners are getting field trips now?
And not the kind where they have a shovel and they're shackled to a long chain, it seems.
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To a fucking brewery!
"Hey, we know they are prisoners and all, but that doesn't mean they can't enjoy local microbrews."
Breidenbach was convicted of rape in conjunction with serious robbery and sexual coercion and sentenced to nine years' jail in 1991 – but has been in preventive custody since the end of his full jail sentence.
The brewery trip, tacked on to some shopping in his hometown, was his ninth excursion without handcuffs.
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Why was a convicted rapist visiting a brewery?
Breidenbach was convicted of rape in conjunction with serious robbery and sexual coercion and sentenced to nine years' jail in 1991 – but has been in preventive custody since the end of his full jail sentence.
The brewery trip, tacked on to some shopping in his hometown, was his ninth excursion without handcuffs.
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"He is believed to be extremely dangerous," the spokesman said. "Anyone who sees him should inform the police".
'd.
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"He is believed to be extremely dangerous," the spokesman said. "Anyone who sees him should inform the police".
Who can't deal with it at the moment, because they had Mexican for lunch and it is time to drop a deuce.
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The brewery trip, tacked on to some shopping in his hometown, was his ninth excursion without handcuffs.
What goddamned money is he shopping with? Do prisoners get salaries? And what was he shopping for?? Do they not have commissaries in their prisons?
Just so many questions here.
So many questions.
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He's just a rapist, it's not like he committed any real crimes. He has a right to delicious beer too, dammit! Focus on what's important here!
Wow, even trolling that's painful.
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What goddamned money is he shopping with? Do prisoners get salaries?
In most German states (Länder), work is compulsory in prison. Only four states have removed this obligation in recent years.
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Their salary, set by law, ranges from 8 to 15 euros a day, or between 1.15 and 2.15 euros an hour. It is calculated on the basis of qualifications and seniority.
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However no pension contributions are paid for the work done in prison. That is one of the central demands of the trade union created last year.
”For those serving long sentences, this lack of pension contributions is a guarantee of poverty in old age” deplores Oliver Rast.
His organisation is also demanding that the new minimum wage of 8.50 euros an hour, gross, that came into force in Germany on 1 January 2015, also be applied in prisons.
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Auuuuugh!
UPDATE 9/9: Detroit Man Caught Nude In Bed With Daughter Charged With Assault
PONTIAC (WWJ) – Police in Oakland County say a man was stabbed by his father-in-law after finding the 47-year-old nude in bed with his wife — the man’s own daughter — and the older man is now behind bars.I hate when that happens.
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Reminds me of the Dutroux escape. From an unlocked courtroom window while read his file. Guarded by two unarmed policemen.
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A man Ohio police say sent them a selfie because he didn't like the mugshot they were using has been arrested in the Florida panhandle.
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as been in preventive custody since the end of his full jail sentence.
"This guy's so dangerous we can't just let him go, even though he's done his time. But field trips? Meh, fuck it. What could possibly go wrong?"