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  • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

    George KG Offline
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    George K
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    #130

    @jon-nyc I asked a friend who used to work in the mortuary business....

    Screen Shot 2021-02-11 at 3.28.51 PM.png

    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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    • George KG Offline
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      #131

      We did this at work all the time....

      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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        #132

        Brilliant

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        • brendaB brenda

          Brilliant

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          George K
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          #133

          @brenda said in Mildly interesting:

          Brilliant

          Pro tip: If you can find a wider piece of yarn that's a bit flat, that works better.

          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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          • taiwan_girlT Online
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            taiwan_girl
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            #134

            Euthanasia Roller coaster

            Link to video

            "The concept design of the layout begins with a steep-angled lift to the 510-metre (1,670 ft) top, which would take two minutes for the train to reach. Any passengers that wished to get off could then do so.[3] From there, a 500-metre (1,600 ft) drop would take the train to 360 kilometres per hour (220 mph), close to its terminal velocity, before flattening out and speeding into the first of its seven slightly clothoid inversions.[3] Each inversion would have a smaller diameter than the one before in order to maintain the lethal 10 g to passengers while the train loses speed. After a sharp right-hand turn the train would enter a straight, where unloading of corpses and loading of new passengers could take place.[3]"

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            • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

              Euthanasia Roller coaster

              Link to video

              "The concept design of the layout begins with a steep-angled lift to the 510-metre (1,670 ft) top, which would take two minutes for the train to reach. Any passengers that wished to get off could then do so.[3] From there, a 500-metre (1,600 ft) drop would take the train to 360 kilometres per hour (220 mph), close to its terminal velocity, before flattening out and speeding into the first of its seven slightly clothoid inversions.[3] Each inversion would have a smaller diameter than the one before in order to maintain the lethal 10 g to passengers while the train loses speed. After a sharp right-hand turn the train would enter a straight, where unloading of corpses and loading of new passengers could take place.[3]"

              KlausK Offline
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              #135

              @taiwan_girl I love this! Brilliant!

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              • MikM Away
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                #136

                Putting the fun back into concentration camps.

                “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                • George KG Offline
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                  George K
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                  #137

                  Click on the tweet to get a sense of this:

                  "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                  The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                  • George KG George K

                    Click on the tweet to get a sense of this:

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                    taiwan_girl
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                    #138

                    @george-k Wow!! That is impressive!!

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                    • MikM Mik

                      Putting the fun back into concentration camps.

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                      wrote on last edited by mark
                      #139

                      They don't make them like they used to! lol

                      Holy crap that is an excessively large door.

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                      • CopperC Offline
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                        #140

                        It makes me wonder what they intended to put through it.

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                          #141

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                          Only non-witches get due process.

                          • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                            jon-nyc
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                            #142

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                            Only non-witches get due process.

                            • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                              jon-nyc
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                              Only non-witches get due process.

                              • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                              • jon-nycJ Offline
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                                jon-nyc
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                                Only non-witches get due process.

                                • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                                • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

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                                  @jon-nyc it's called an "electrician's" or "underwriter's" knot:

                                  https://www.thespruce.com/what-is-an-underwriters-knot-1152873

                                  Used in lamps and things like that.

                                  "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                  The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                    #146

                                    That looks wrong. The two cables are supposed to be part of a bigger cable, and that bigger cable is supposed to be fixed by the two screws.

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                                    • KlausK Klaus

                                      That looks wrong. The two cables are supposed to be part of a bigger cable, and that bigger cable is supposed to be fixed by the two screws.

                                      George KG Offline
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                                      George K
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                                      @klaus a lamp cord has two wires, as you say, joined in a "cable." One has to split them apart to wire the lamp cord:

                                      https://www.bplampsupply.com/help/22HowToULKnot.php

                                      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                        Klaus
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                                        #148

                                        I think such cords would be illegal over here.

                                        Our power cables look like this.

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                                        • CopperC Offline
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                                          It's not obvious in the picture, but I suspect the Blue and Red wires are joined.

                                          Except where they are separated in order to tie the knot.

                                          The 2 wires form a single strand that can be easily pulled apart. Outside of a fixture the covering between the 2 wires is joined.

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