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YouTuber cements head inside microwave oven
A YouTube stunt imbecile was rescued by firefighters yesterday after cementing his head inside a microwave. The video of the incident, titled I cemented my head in a microwave and emergency services came.. (nearly died), can be found on the TGFbro channel, as part of an "Extreme Christmas Calendar" series. It has gained more …
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Friday 8th December 2017 23:34 GMT Justin Clift
> ... and didn't realise plaster of paris heats as it sets.
Hmmm, isn't Plaster of Paris used (with gauze) to make plaster casts? eg for broken limbs and similar
Asking because I've personally cast body parts (using commercial prepared plaster gauze), and the "heating" isn't anything like bad enough to worry about. Were they doing something really strange?
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Saturday 9th December 2017 18:24 GMT Wensleydale Cheese
"Hmmm, isn't Plaster of Paris used (with gauze) to make plaster casts? eg for broken limbs and similar"
As I recall, it's applied one thin layer at a time, in strips. There's plenty of time (and surface area) to cool things off between layers.
A heat insulated microwave packed with the stuff all in one go will be a different matter.
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Sunday 10th December 2017 01:49 GMT Kiwi
Re: You don't pour concrete.
You don't pour concrete.
You place it.
All that time I spent working around construction-related industries and never knew. Nor did the architects, engineers, inspectors, concrete-truck drivers, people who removed the air from the concrete after each pour etc etc etc. The only time I heard someone use "place" in relation to concrete was telling someone where to put broken concrete ("place it in the bin over there") - everything else was referred to as "pour".
And yes, my experience involves buildings over 20 stories high.
And you don't make the foundation for a garden path out of concrete. You use well-packed roadbase and/or sand.
Depends on where you live and what you're trying to achieve. I've known a couple where if you're not putting in steel-reinforced concrete your path won't last long (of course, a route that wasn't across in front of the tractor shed (right next to the house unusually - he hated to walk far) would've worked wonders for the brick path he wanted to have!)
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Sunday 10th December 2017 02:33 GMT jake
Re: You don't pour concrete.
Kiwi, take a gander at:
http://deeconcrete.com/concrete/glossary-pq.asp
Scroll down to "placing".
Re. path foundation: As I describe works everywhere I've ever built a path with pavers. Including the one I drive a tractor over daily, the driveway in front of my garage, and one in Nevada, where the temperature dips into the 20-below F (close to -30C) range regularly during the winter. All are over 15 years old, and holding up quite nicely. The ten year old variation that fords the seasonal creek is going to need replacing in a couple years.
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Sunday 10th December 2017 04:33 GMT Kiwi
Re: You don't pour concrete.
Kiwi, take a gander at:
http://deeconcrete.com/concrete/glossary-pq.asp
Scroll down to "placing".
Who the hell are "Dee Concrete"? What makes you think they're better at defining concrete terminology than the millions of places who assert that "pour" is the correct term?
Re. path foundation: As I describe works everywhere I've ever built a path with pavers. Including the one I drive a tractor over daily, the driveway in front of my garage, and one in Nevada, where the temperature dips into the 20-below F (close to -30C) range regularly during the winter. All are over 15 years old, and holding up quite nicely. The ten year old variation that fords the seasonal creek is going to need replacing in a couple years.
We only get mild frosts for a few weeks a year where I grew up, which is probably why where your ground stays solid enough with a bit of sand ours turns to sometimes more than a metre of mud (in select places, like where tractors run over them often), thus making sand-based "foundations" rather rubbish in heavy-use areas. Hell, some places need much more than that just for people walking out to a clothesline with a basket of washing.
Your area may be much different to ours though, you may not get the near constant quakes (even if some are quite small), your soil may not get as liquid as it gets here at times, and you may be able to get away with these things. Not everyone can.
Success over seasonal creeks can vary significantly. When I was not long on farming (14/15yo) I drove a light tractor (tiny wee baby Massey-Fergusson 135, only a tonne and a half or so) across a paddock that clearly had a creek in part of it, but where I drove was dry with no water. A little while later a fertilizer truck came through and the driver followed my tracks. His truck was several times the weight of the tractor and where I found hard dry ground he found that it was only the surface, soft mud deeper down. In the same place, your packed-sand foundation would've failed just as fast as what he dove over, they're usually only a few inches thick and designed to take people walking over them or the odd vehicle, not 10 tonne diggers.
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Sunday 10th December 2017 07:51 GMT jake
Re: You don't pour concrete.
Maybe this link will help convince you:
http://www.ccanz.org.nz/page/Placing.aspx
Call 'em and ask for clarification. Report back. I'll bet you a plugged nickel the answer is that they tolerate "poured" in the same way that techies tolerate nontechies calling the box that holds the motherboard, power supply, disks, memory, processor, network card(s) etc. "The CPU".
We only get mild frosts here in Sonoma. Ground is alluvial from mixed sources. Even when soggy you don't sink much past the topsoil. I'm pretty certain we can give you a run for your money regarding earthquakes. The place in Nevada is high, dry, and cold, also alluvial, and gets plenty of earthquakes.
I've built in other corners of the world, with no issues. However, you're right in that if you're building on mud, all bets are off. Stabilizing mud is no fun at all. I can show you buildings built on the mud flats of San Francisco Bay that have pilings driven over 120 feet into the mud. They "float", and were actually designed to sink 5 feet further over their expected lifetime. Think flexible connections for water, power, natural gas, communications & sewer. I'm glad I don't have that problem.
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Sunday 10th December 2017 11:04 GMT Kiwi
Re: You don't pour concrete.
Maybe this link will help convince you:
http://www.ccanz.org.nz/page/Placing.aspx
Call 'em and ask for clarification. Report back.
No idea who these people are, the organisation only goes back as far as 2006. I've checked with organisations (eg Fletchers and FIrth) who've been around much longer. I'll ask around a few mates still associated with the industry if I remember too tomorrow, but I haven't heard of these guys myself. I do know that no one talked about "placing" concrete back then, it was called "pouring" because that was what the trucks and other machines were doing - pouring concrete. Some into formers (eg for columns), some into holes in the ground (eg foundations). Even a mate who has been a steel fixer for almost as long as I've been alive, and has worked on some interesting sites, calls it pouring.
I see in their document "guide to concrete construction" they use the term "This helps compact the concrete near the top of the pour as the vibrator is withdrawn from the concrete." (emphasis mine) - or you can look at http://www.ccanz.org.nz/page/Residental-Driveways.aspx for "Cool, overcast weather is ideal for pouring concrete. It should not be poured if rain or frost is forecast." (in fact the string "pour" comes up 4 times in that page alone). Their "news feed" off their home page prominently lists "http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11810779" (though that news site probably rates about as high as the flail).
More on their site : http://www.ccanz.org.nz/page/Admixtures.aspx
http://www.ccanz.org.nz/page/Joints.aspx
http://www.ccanz.org.nz/page/Early-Age-Crack-Control.aspx
I'll bet you a plugged nickel the answer is that they tolerate "poured"
Looks like they're more than happy to use "pour" in relation to concreting. But I'll drop them a line. I'll reference this thread so maybe one of them will speak directly.
in the same way that techies tolerate nontechies calling the box that holds the motherboard, power supply, disks, memory, processor, network card(s) etc. "The CPU".
I haven't heard it called that for a long time! Though in some respects, especially when you have a lot of external peripherals, that's not too far off the mark really. Much better than those who call the computer the modem and call the monitor the computer or something else.
We only get mild frosts here in Sonoma. Ground is alluvial from mixed sources. Even when soggy you don't sink much past the topsoil. I'm pretty certain we can give you a run for your money regarding earthquakes. The place in Nevada is high, dry, and cold, also alluvial, and gets plenty of earthquakes.
I didn't actually realise Nevada got any quakes, and I had forgotten you're more around SF area (IIRC - no idea where Sonoma is otherwise :) ).
The area I grew up is beautiful soil for all but building on it. Deep volcanic ash. Deep. And very rich. Bedrock is surprising deep in some areas (given the nearby rather large chunk of rock known as Mt Egmont that sticks out of the ground a bit).
Stabilizing mud is no fun at all. I can show you buildings built on the mud flats of San Francisco Bay that have pilings driven over 120 feet into the mud. They "float", and were actually designed to sink 5 feet further over their expected lifetime. Think flexible connections for water, power, natural gas, communications & sewer. I'm glad I don't have that problem.
I've seen some of that. The last "big" building I worked on (look up Midland Park, Wellington - look at the monstrosity behind it - I knew that thing when it was a hole in the ground) had some fun issues with ground water, even with the bedrock not being too far down. Of course, reclaimed land 'n'all, and what wasn't reclaimed came up during the 1840 quake that raised levels (IIRC along Lambton Quay there's "shoreline 1840" plaques on the footpath - showing where the shore was before that quake - those are inland from the site I mentioned). Not sure how they built the old central police station on there back in.. can't recall the year but a good 100 of them ago, though that was only 4 stories plus a (rather waterlogged by the time I saw it) basement.
I don't think we have many of the "floating" buildings here, and I kinda hope - given the nature of these "shaky isles" - that we don't get much more of them, and if we do they far exceed current standards.
(Hope this is ready to send - takes a while when you have to wait a few minutes for a page to load.. God willing my connection may improve significantly tomorrow!)
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Sunday 10th December 2017 14:32 GMT jake
Re: You don't pour concrete.
The Sonoma Valley's about an hour by road NNEish of San Francisco. Centered roughly here. Nice place, all in all, if you ignore the Rogers Creek Fault, which runs up the West side of the valley.
The "floating buildings" actually fare well in earthquakes. They just roll with it, kind of like stick-built homes on slabs.
Must dash, I'm getting yelled at from the barn...
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Monday 11th December 2017 12:40 GMT Antron Argaiv
Re: You don't pour concrete.
And you don't make the foundation for a garden path out of concrete. You use well-packed roadbase and/or sand.
Sand or "stone dust" in New England, because water freezes. You want it to drain away quickly, before it freezes and disrupts your carefully laid brick/stonework.
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Wednesday 13th December 2017 14:02 GMT ibmalone
> Hmmm, isn't Plaster of Paris used (with gauze) to make plaster casts? eg for broken limbs and similar
A bit late with my reply on this sorry, it seems that in gauze form it heats less than just using raw plaster, which is the mistake made by the unwary, raw plaster of paris being a common material in art departments. I'm fairly ignorant of the area, but turned up this, <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3746057>. You can get burned with gauze, but it's harder to do. (I think there's just less plaster by mass/volume in gauze, so more mass to heat, and heating probably increases the reaction rate too, so when it gets hotter it keeps getting hotter.)
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Monday 11th December 2017 00:35 GMT Sparks_
Re: I have always thought...
Can't make a call when already started recording video.... Perhaps this is a new phone feature to build in, an emergency services call button on the camera just for such instances. Then the discussion with the dispatcher asking "he's done what?!!" is recorded for posterity.
Perhaps add an auto-submit to Darwin award comittee button too...
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Friday 8th December 2017 20:05 GMT Mark 85
Re: I have always thought...
I have always thought when the call is picked up by the emergency services, there are explicit questions they should ask of which "Is youtube involved?"
Add to that since Youtube isn't always involved: "Did he yell 'Hey ya'll, watch this.'?".* Those last words seem to be very common among some of the recent dead.
*Usually followed but not always heard by bystanders is: "Oh...s**t!!!!".
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Sunday 10th December 2017 01:37 GMT F111F
Re: I have always thought...
I imagine an call center guy taking these and asking the following questions before dispatching help...
“Sir, please calm down, I cannot understand you when you’re screaming in pain.” (Picks his nose)
“Is this emergency a result of YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit, Instagram, FaceBook or other social media posting.”?
“Were the words ‘Hold my phone’, ‘Hey y’all watch this’, or ‘Hold my beer’ uttered by the person or persons in need of help”?
“If you answered in the affirmative to either of these conditions we are unable to assist you at this time, have a nice day.”
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Friday 8th December 2017 12:32 GMT Voland's right hand
Agree
The imbecile (oxymoron calling YouTube "star" imbecile, I know), got lucky. They used polifilla which sets slowly. If it was real plaster, he would have baked inside. It can get to 60C while setting. Happens every few years to some "artist" trying to create a mold from their hand or feet. 3rd degree burn and missing fingers.
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Friday 8th December 2017 11:20 GMT Aaiieeee
Like me dammit!
Why do people refuse to think through the next steps of their action, project, email etc? Doesn't anybody consider the route down before deciding to climbing a tree?
Thinking that your buddy with an electric drill attempting to remove the plaster encasing your head is somehow a suitable mitigation of any dangers that arrise from this prank is scary!
The old refain is "what did they expect?" and I suspect they didn't get that far; they got as far as the idea of rising youtube views/likes
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Friday 8th December 2017 11:37 GMT Aqua Marina
Re: Like me dammit!
So many people are incapable of comprehending that actions have consequences, or even that an effect had a cause they were responsible for. They just go through life one minute at a time dealing with the moment.
Reminds me of my teenaged uncle who has always considered himself a bit of an inventor. He had the bright idea of building a submarine out of 5 oil drums. He was in the middle one, and the 4 outer ones would be flooded to submerge him in the pond. His solution to surfacing was to have hose pipes going from the outer ones, to the inner one, and he simply would blow into each pipe until the water was pumped out of the outer drums.
He did live to tell the tale. His next great idea was a pedal copter, but that's a whole different story.
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Friday 8th December 2017 12:53 GMT SkippyBing
Re: Like me dammit!
'So many people are incapable of comprehending that actions have consequences, or even that an effect had a cause they were responsible for.'
Because everyone should go full Daily Mail once in a while, I blame the attempt to remove danger from all aspects of life, but especially child hood. If you don't have the chance to fall off a climbing frame and break an arm, or get mildly concussed playing rugby, then when you grow-up you won't have learnt that occasionally some actions may have undesirable consequences.
As a counter to that I'm sure we've always had adult idiots, I'd just like to believe my former statement so I can feel smug.
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Friday 8th December 2017 11:56 GMT Anonymous Coward
they got as far as the idea of rising youtube views/likes
And probably achieved it.
The very issue today is not fake news, it's the idiot ones, which are filling most media (not El Reg which categorize them as such and publish one here and there), and are too often among the most read/viewed.
I remember something like that to neutralize the proles in a book written by some Orwell...
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Friday 8th December 2017 12:34 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Like me dammit!
"The old refain is "what did they expect?" and I suspect they didn't get that far; they got as far as the idea of rising youtube views/likes"
It worked, they won. There is little disincentive, they have massive amounts of publicity, their channel has probably soared in popularity, hopefully advertising for their channel will now be banned though.
There was little disincentive, he didn't die and now he is famous.
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Saturday 9th December 2017 06:40 GMT Munkeh
Re: Like me dammit!
Honestly having briefly looked through recent videos on their channel - this is the third or fourth 'stunt' of this type. Previous highlights include same guy filling a bath with gelatine and submerging in it until it set and sitting in a bath with a friend before it's filled with plaster.
Each has millions of views.
It's depressing.
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Friday 8th December 2017 12:06 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Twat
YouTube has a lot to answer for in providing a platform for attention seeking twats
You don't think that this is just the cream of Wolverhampton showing their mettle?
In an odd sort of way, I'm quite pleased, that after years of amusing fuckwittery from Murica and the Antipodes, somebody has struck out with a bold claim on the gold for Blighty in the Stupidity Olympics.
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Friday 8th December 2017 12:30 GMT Bernard M. Orwell
Re: Twat
"YouTube has a lot to answer for in providing a platform for attention seeking twats"
Yeah! And books have to answer for all the stupid things written in them too! I mean, Mein Kampf! Oh, books, how you fail us!
"That, and ban them from youTube"
Much more sensible approach! It's not YouTubes fault that morons exist and use their medium.
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Friday 8th December 2017 16:30 GMT Peter2
Re: Twat
"Much more sensible approach! It's not YouTubes fault that morons exist and use their medium."
It is however youtubes fault that he is raking in significant advertising money, which as 100% profit, makes this financially beneficial for the idiot and so therefore encourages repetition of similar stupidity in the future.
Personally, I think that pressure should be applied quickly and strongly on either this fool or youtube to ensure that the idiot receives the public humiliation he deserves, without receiving the advertising revenue/profit from the views of his video on youtube.
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Friday 8th December 2017 18:29 GMT Stevie
Re: YouTube has a lot to answer for
But it also had the answer, had anyone thought about it long enough.
They could have sent Mr Microwave Head to that mad Fin with the hydraulic press channel and see if his head would explode "lyke the pay-perrr".
That bloke and Russian dashcam footage are what make life living sometimes. Viva YouTube!
PS
Oh, and I forgot those kids who jump onto corrugated plastic shelter roofs and look surprised when hey plunge right through, or those idiots who ride a skateboard down the railings of a concrete staircase then have the nerve to look surprised when they smash scrote-first into the handrail, then teeth-first into the concrete stairs.
Ooh, ooh, and idiots who make spud guns from PVC pipe and then fire them with their faces next to them.
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Friday 8th December 2017 11:30 GMT Mage
might have prevented us from helping someone else in genuine, accidental need
It's true it wasn't accidental.
The need was obviously genuine due to the cluelessness of these folks.
Pollyfilla is pretty easy to hoke out compared to actual rapid set cement.
There is a reason why wax replica of people makers do the head mould in two parts and the other parts too. Perhaps they should have done 1 minute of research!
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Friday 8th December 2017 23:25 GMT J. Cook
Re: They might consider
Arizona has a 'stupid motorist' law, which (in a nutshell) states that if you are stupid enough to try and cross a flooded road, you get to pay for the cost of your rescue, which is at a minimum several hundred dollars, depending on how much gear the rescuers have to drag out to save your.
There's been at least one a year since that law was passed, on average.
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Monday 11th December 2017 17:07 GMT The Indomitable Gall
Re: They might consider
@Yet Another Anonymous Coward
[ Re: pursuing compensation for the emergency services. ]
" What's the cut-off? "
I would say that performing a stunt in a professional capacity without a completed form signed by a suitably qualified risk-assessor and without the requisite safety equipment on-site is already illegal. And not warning the emergency services and/or the local council in advance of a potentially dangerous stunt too... but as the notification would have needed to include a risk assessment form, they wouldn't have been able to do that anyway.
The problem here is the way the so-called "gig-economy" takes amateurs and pays them, but still treats them as amateurs.
Sunday-league football, skiing, skydiving and cycling are mostly amateur affairs. Professional sports, on the other hand, are generally expected to have medical and crowd-control staff on-site, and are generally expected to pay for that.
Road racing on open roads is illegal, so I'll assume you're referring to closed-road events, where the organiser is again responsible for maintaining suitable response provision just in case there's an accident.
Rocket-powered cars for TV... well, again, TV has health-and-safety obligations. However, I do believe it's a bit of a different question whether you're talking about a competent professional racer like Guy Martin or a hyperactive middle-aged-"lad" TV-presenter like Richard Hammond. Top Gear was highly irresponsible letting Hammond go in that thing, and really the show should have been closed down permanently at that point.
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Friday 8th December 2017 11:40 GMT Hans 1
I read somewhere that a study found the average IQ of generations declining, starting with the 80's ...
I do hope the emergency services take this opportunity to teach these pranksters a lesson all while contributing to the effort ... 2 weeks voluntary work at the ER service sounds about right!
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Friday 8th December 2017 12:13 GMT Cab
Re: Average IQ
Nobody done this one yet ?
Three people, IQ's 100, 100, 100 = average (mean) 100
Three people IQ's 80, 80, 140 = average (mean) 100
Two people below average IQ in second example, no-one has below average IQ in the top one.
The only problem I can see is that your friend is assuming someone, somewhere is getting higher IQs (whether this actually relates to intelligence is an entirely different matter), and I'm not seeing much evidence of that these days.
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Friday 8th December 2017 12:29 GMT Lee D
Re: Average IQ
"I had a conversation with a friend recently who stated that she was sure that a larger percentage of the population had a below-average IQ now than 10 years ago."
Though completely misunderstanding the concept of an IQ, you can understand what she means, though! That's quite a good line.
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Sunday 10th December 2017 02:37 GMT Kiwi
Re: Average IQ
At the end they concluded the national average IQ was 112, which implies they hadn't read even the first paragraph of the Wikipedia entry.
There shouldn't be much of a problem with that. The average Kiwi IQ is about 110, whereas the average Ozzie is about 20 - thus they're helping to raise the global average IQ for everyone else :)
If a "national average" IQ is expressed as a global average, then it can easily be <>100.
(Not that IQ seems a great test - I sit here on 140+ (taking the average of tests I've done over the years) which means my savings ATM doesn't even rate to $1/IQ point, whereas these guys appear to have IQ's that rate below "functional amoeba" and yet they're worth millions!)
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Friday 8th December 2017 13:52 GMT Alan Johnson
'I read somewhere that a study found the average IQ of generations declining, starting with the 80's'
Perhaps surprisingly the opposite is true:
http://dujs.dartmouth.edu/2013/02/is-our-collective-iq-increasing/#.WiqYenlpGpo
I take the Flynn effect to be a comment on the difficulty of defining let alone measuring intelligence rather than the population if genuinely getting smarter.
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Friday 8th December 2017 15:16 GMT ibmalone
We have a winner, IQ may be defined relative to an average, but that average was fixed when the tests were designed. So the average now can change. It's not really my field, so my thoughts on the cause of the Flynn effect are uninteresting, but another odd aspect of the definition is its linear relation of intelligence to age: it implies the average 4 year old is 1/3rd more intelligent than the average 3 year old, and that there's the same relative intelligence for the average 16 and 12 year olds, 40 and 30 year olds and 80 and 60 year olds.
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Friday 8th December 2017 11:42 GMT Chris King
Darwin doesn't always reclaim his own...
Icon, for that "Where DID my glasses (and eyebrows) go ?" moment.
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Friday 8th December 2017 15:56 GMT JimboSmith
Re: Darwin doesn't always reclaim his own...
Kid at my school decided to have a stab at making his own fireworks out of magnesium and zinc. He'd filed down a magnesium pencil sharpener and something made out of Zinc one night. He'd just combined a small amount of the two when a spontaneous redox reaction (if I remember my chemisty correctly) took place and he got lit up. He lost most of both eyebrows, a lot of his fringe and had to sit in A&E for a long while to be seen. He wasn't in school the next day and rumours circulated that he'd died in the explosion. The chemistry teacher was incensed.............that this idiot hadn't remembered the lesson we'd had on redox reactions.
This was before the internet and I dread to think what he'd have tried had we had it back then.
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Sunday 10th December 2017 02:46 GMT Kiwi
Re: Darwin doesn't always reclaim his own...
This was before the internet and I dread to think what he'd have tried had we had it back then.
You'd probably have tried sitting on your arse all night watching stupid people do stupid things in youtube, and not much else - if the average person today is anything to go by!
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Friday 8th December 2017 11:59 GMT Anonymous Coward
Send them the bill
I think that's the best way to get the message across that stunts like these are not appreciated. Send them a bill to roughly cover for time and effort wasted over something they clearly brought upon themselves. Maybe that way they'll actually stop to think a moment before trying out the next "cool idea" which pops up.
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Friday 8th December 2017 13:19 GMT NukEvil
Re: Send them the bill
Can we ban fat people from universal healthcare? I mean, they've clearly demonstrated they can't be trusted with taking care of their own bodies, and fatties tend to have to visit the hospital more often than normies, so I don't see any logical reason my taxes should pay for their healthcare.
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Friday 8th December 2017 16:47 GMT bombastic bob
Re: Send them the bill
"Can we ban fat people from universal healthcare?"
Why not just ban 'universal health care' instead, i.e. "you pay for it yourself". Problem goes away. Works for me.
But if you're going to ban "fatties" then why not ban SMOKERS? Smoking is a voluntary activity, it irritates the CRAP out of most people, etc. so let's just BAN their 'universal health care' and slowly make society as UN-FREE as possible. (that last part was the REAL point)
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Sunday 10th December 2017 02:59 GMT Kiwi
Re: Send them the bill
Can we ban fat people from universal healthcare? I mean, they've clearly demonstrated they can't be trusted with taking care of their own bodies, and fatties tend to have to visit the hospital more often than normies, so I don't see any logical reason my taxes should pay for their healthcare.
I'm one of the "fatties". Even when I've been fit, doing heavy labouring jobs that require a LOT of walking while carrying loads over 40KG (and often over 60), swimming every other day (IIRC I averaged 15 lengths of a 50metre (Olympic size) pool each time), eating fairly healthy etc etc etc. Never could shake the excess poundage.
However, my ultra-fit ultra-healthy friends were the ones in and out of hospital, not me. Mostly sports-related accidents, but I've known some to have other ailments brought on by the unnatural levels of "health products" they'd bombard their bodies with.
Most of my accidents have been work-related, about half of them due to equipment failure (most of which could not reasonably have been foreseen, eg a poorly cast part leading to a critical part of the steering mechanism on a near new (less than 3 years old) forklift breaking). Total ER visits for me is 7 including when I got into something toxic as a toddler and broke myself up badly doing "stupid teenage stuff" as a stupid teenage. I have people I know who've done more than that this summer! (counting from when it got hot, not from the 1st Dec).
(Chopper because mate of mine needed one not long back while mountain-climbing - how many fatties need expensive mountain rescues each year eh? )
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Friday 8th December 2017 12:26 GMT Mage
Re: Send them the bill
Don't know about elsewhere. Here the Fire Service CAN charge thousands of Euro if they decide it was stupid etc. My House insurance covers Fire Service charges. I think they can charge for chimney fires as that is lack of maintenance.
There is no charge if your house is burning down and not your fault!
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Sunday 10th December 2017 12:01 GMT Wensleydale Cheese
Re: Send them the bill
"Here the Fire Service CAN charge thousands of Euro if they decide it was stupid etc."
The UK Ambulance Service can certainly charge. In the late 70s a colleague was injured in a traffic accident and taken to hospital in an ambulance and received a bill for that ttip. When he queried that he was told that it would have been free if he'd had an accident at home, but traffic accidents were different, insurance was involved and he should claim on the insurance company.
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Friday 8th December 2017 12:06 GMT Khaptain
Confused
Speaking to the BBC, Watch Commander Shaun Dakin of the West Midlands Fire Service (WMFS) said: "All of the group involved were very apologetic, but this was clearly a call-out which might have prevented us from helping someone else in genuine, accidental need."
It was definitely genuine and I am quite sure it was accidental in the fact that this was not the intended outcome.. I see no reason that the Fire Brigade would consider this as anything else.. Kids climbing then falling out of trees, cooks forgetting to turn of the stove etc are all genuine and accidental. No one intentionally expects their life to be put in danger.
Even though this was a prank stunt, the need for calling the services, and consequently saving the guys life remain the same...
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Saturday 9th December 2017 13:35 GMT Mark M.
Re: Confused
Nah, The firepersons should have just grabbed the biggest disc cutters that they had in the back of the fire engine, fired it up and used it on the defunct microwave.
5 minutes, job done and a testament to the delicate skill of the firepersons that they didn't take his head off or cut it open. the brown-stained trousers of the blockhead afterwards isn't their problem.
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Sunday 10th December 2017 08:02 GMT jake
Re: Confused
A disk cutter cuts disks out of thin metal, usually for jewelry making, See:
http://www.ottofrei.com/jewelry-tools-equipment/forming-tools/disk-cutters-hole-punching
The device you describe is called a cutting wheel. It is mounted on a circular saw, or a die grinder, or a power saw. I've got cutting wheels ranging from 18 inches (walk behind concrete cutter) to as small as half inch, for use with my Dremel.
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Sunday 10th December 2017 10:01 GMT Kiwi
Re: Confused
A disk cutter cuts disks out of thin metal, usually for jewelry making, See:
http://www.ottofrei.com/jewelry-tools-equipment/forming-tools/disk-cutters-hole-punching
Really? See https://www.worldofpower.co.uk/stihl-ts420-petrol-14-66-7cc-disc-cutter.html for a 14" petrol-powered disc cutter
Or there's the 16" model at http://www.ronsmith.co.uk/stihl-disc-cutters-ts800-16inch.html
There are a few sites that refer to the small tools you mention, but the majority of sites show much larger power tools under the heading "disc cutter"
Of course, you could find out the proper definition by visiting this specialist site...
Or you could visit this page at icky-pedia (is there a form of Godwin's law that means I just lost the argument by quoting that place?)
The device you describe is called a cutting wheel.
Nope, it's called a disc cutter (among many other names),
It is mounted on a circular saw, or a die grinder, or a power saw.
Most of the ones I've used have been mounted on angle grinders, even up to IIRC 14".
Mostly I agree with your definitions, but sometimes you seem to be a bit off compared to the rest of the world. Must be that weird language you yanks call "English" :)
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Sunday 10th December 2017 03:03 GMT Kiwi
Re: Confused
If such a call had genuinely come in, they should have just left the guy to go help the other person(s) first.
They often do - prioritise things like "threatening their life and others", "threatening their life", "threatening serious long term harm", threatening serious short term harm" and so on down to "he'll have a hard time of it (especially after he finds he cannot get to the bathroom in time), will probably have a few anxiety attacks, but is unlikely to suffer any actual injury - he can wait. At least we know he ain't going anywhere for a while".
--> Me going through the trapped guy's wallet hunting for some of his internet millions...
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Friday 8th December 2017 12:31 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Confused
Putting your head in a microwave full of plaster is not accidental. It was done as the challenge was "to nearly die". He was scared to do it because he might die. There was no purpose to the activity at all other to show that he was doing something that might make him die.
That is not accidental, it is deliberate. A kid climbing a tree, he never meant to fall. It would reasonably be expected that most children climbing trees come down safely and the purpose is the tree climb - exercise, adventure etc. A Cook leaving a stove on is accidental. The purpose of turning the stove on was to cook, not to leave it on to burn the house down. It was an accident.
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Friday 8th December 2017 13:05 GMT VinceH
Re: Confused
"Even though this was a prank stunt, the need for calling the services, and consequently saving the guys life remain the same..."
Yes, the need to save his life remained the same - but it was not accidental. At best, the word "unintentional" is a better fit, because as you say this wasn't the intended outcome, but accidental is being far too kind to stupid.
It was a quite deliberate act of incredible stupidity, by an idiot who didn't think through what he was doing.
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Friday 8th December 2017 13:35 GMT The_H
Re: Confused
"It was a quite deliberate act of incredible stupidity, by an idiot who didn't think through what he was doing."
And on that basis maybe we should include in the same category: idiots who smoke in bed; people who insist on riding motorcycles at 100mph on narrow country roads; anyone who goes up Helvellyn in trainers; anyone who takes to the oggin in anything less than 40ft long (with twin motors), etc etc
Personally I don't think they should have called the fire service. If I'd seen what was going on I'd have called in good old Photonicinduction. "I ain't 'aving it!!!" to add a few kilovolts to the situation. Problem solved, one way or another.
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Friday 8th December 2017 17:02 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Confused
"people who insist on riding motorcycles at 100mph on narrow country roads;"
Vincent's test riders did that. There are parts of Cambridgeshire where you can see if anything is coming, including on side roads, for miles.
"anyone who takes to the oggin in anything less than 40ft long (with twin motors)"
That's just prejudice. A good solid 30 footer with sails and a decent auxiliary Diesel with manual start is much better than a lightweight 40 footer with a pair of engines that won't start if the batteries go flat.
My point is that a little knowledge is the dangerous thing, and that people who really think through what they are doing may be perfectly safe doing something that would kill a less instructed person.
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Saturday 9th December 2017 01:29 GMT jake
Re: Confused
"anyone who takes to the oggin in anything less than 40ft long (with twin motors)"
I've taken my Monterey 28' from San Diego to Alaska powered with a single 4-banger Perkins diesel (Lateen rigged when I have the mind to sail), and as far as 100 miles off shore in search of Albacore. To date, I have had no problems. On the other hand, I have rarely taken my '59 Owens Tahitian 40' outside the Golden Gate, despite her pair of stroked 283" 300HP Flagship engines. She's a cocktail cruiser, and not designed for open ocean work. Horses for courses & all that.
Am I the only one who got hungry at the thought of oggin?
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Friday 8th December 2017 17:25 GMT bombastic bob
Re: Confused
A few years ago some friends of mine went to a national park in the USA to hike up a ~10k foot mountain. The park ranger inspected their gear first, before letting them go onto the trail, to make sure they had everything they needed beforehand. The point was to make sure they weren't going to need a rescue after attempting something they shouldn't have. Also made sure they had poo-bags and would bring their trash back with them. That's right, no "public poo-ing" in national parks. No digging latrines, either.
(I just thought I'd point that one out, in the context of doing potentially dangerous things when you're unprepared)
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Friday 8th December 2017 12:11 GMT jay_bea
Learning from Experience
Doesn't everyone have those - "maybe I didn't think that through" moments? I have certainly had my share, although they have diminished as I have got older (and wiser?). My list of things that I learnt by experience include: don't cycle down steep hills with no hands on the handlebars (I was 5), keep fingers well away from the sharp end of axes (14), a foot is not a vice, check the washer fluid before driving on winter roads. The only difference now is that our stupid mistakes are captured, intentionally or otherwise, for everyone else to see and judge.
Now, should I get a ladder to put up the Christmas lights, or just stand on my office chair?
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Friday 8th December 2017 12:28 GMT Callam McMillan
Re: Learning from Experience
You should stand on your office chair obviously... Don't forget to oil the casters too so they don't squeak. Record it for YouTube as well - we'd love to see the resulting, err, Christmas lights!
Joke Alert - Just in case any Darwin Award candidates think I'm being serious
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Friday 8th December 2017 12:51 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Learning from Experience
Yep!
I was 15 ( way back in the 80's ) and we decided to steal a light and a PIR sensor from a local council building. It was a damp foggy night, we crept up to the light and I volunteered to cut the cable.
Now, you see when you're 15 you very much haven't got a f**king clue about anything. Despite my ability well practiced confidence to write Z80 assembler, the simple basics of mains electricity seemed to be missing from my young and very stupid brain. The PIR unit was working because it was fed with mains, it simply had a solenoid to trigger the power up to the security light.
So with cutters in hand I reached up and snipped the live cable. The only things I remember were a blinding white flash, a deafening bang as a live 240v cable was cut and blew the nearest breaker/fuse! It was sheer good luck that I'd taken my Dad's rubber grip cutters not the metal handle ones, so I was spared being thrown 10 feet across the car park. I remember stumbling around in the dark with my eyes temporarily blinded by the flash and all I could hear was my mates shouting, "F**king hell, you utter dick. Run you stupid prick before the Police arrive!".
Someone guardian angel must have been looking out for me to make me take the rubber cutters that night, else I might very well not be here to tell this criminal and utterly moronic tale of teenage stupidity!
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Friday 8th December 2017 14:59 GMT H in The Hague
Re: Learning from Experience
"... a deafening bang as a live 240v cable was cut ..."
I used to do a bit of work for Corus/Tata. One of their plants, in Wales I think, suffered a partial power failure. There was a public footpath across the site, surrounded by fences, and with a cable bridge across it. When they went to investigate they discovered that some would-be copper thief tried to cut through a cable - a 10 kV cable! Fortunately it was an armoured cable so the short was between live and the earthed armour but it must still have created a significant fire ball (see YouTube for examples). What was left of the blade of the hacksaw they found by the cable bridge looked ... interesting.
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Friday 8th December 2017 15:21 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Learning from Experience
> I was 15 ( way back in the 80's )
A teacher friend, now long retired, once told me the staff were asked to watch some CCTV taken in the school from a camera looking down the length of a long corridor, to try and identify a miscreant who had broken into the school over the weekend and vandalised various bits of equipment. The reason there was only footage from a distant camera was because the miscreant (and mates) decided to nick a hacksaw from the metalwork lab and saw through the trunking carrying the cable from a closer camera. What they didn't realise was that the trunking also carried a power cable - not sure if for the camera itself or something else.
Needless to say, the staff all made the appropriate "oh gosh - I hope he wasn't hurt" responses as the one of the most disliked scroats in the 5th form lost his eyebrows to a large flash a few minutes after starting sawing. The metalwork teacher even went as far as to praise his sawing technique - and had obviously learnt something. :-)
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Friday 8th December 2017 16:39 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Learning from Experience - flashes and bangs
Speaking of flashes and bangs, I grew up on a military base. We found a "stun grenade" Being a bit of a know-it-all, 11 year old expert me declared that there was no technology that could achieve star-trek phaser like stun and it was quite obviously just a very loud banger. Why didn't we just lob it, cover our ears and find out exactly how loud it was?
Well, we realised why they are called FLASHbangs. Absolutely f***ing paralysed. Apparently there IS a technology that can achieve that sort of effect. Decades later I could recall the bowel loosening effect and the flash freezing of your last image on your retina so clearly that when I saw my kids playing CoD I could confirm that yes, that is pretty realistic ... if the subwoofer were powerful enough to make you soil yourself.
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Friday 8th December 2017 20:58 GMT W4YBO
Re: Learning from Experience - flashes and bangs
Back in the late eighties, an associate gave me a device that looked like a large firecracker (TP or bog roll core sized) with a short tube and string taped to it. The official looking label stated "Ground Burst Simulator", but heck, it was only a firecracker.
After carrying it around in my briefcase for about two weeks, I finally got out to a firing range. "Hell yes, I wanna see it go off" the range master said. So I jerked the string as the instructions stated, and threw it about 50 feet. We ducked down behind a couple of concrete shooting benches until it started making a whistling noise. As we peeked over the concrete, the descending whistle stopped. Then it went off! We saw the shock wave! We also found a piece of gravel partly embedded in a railroad tie a dozen feet from the explosion.
I've seen flash-bangs set off, and they are dazzling, but I've never heard an explosion like the "Ground Burst Simulator." I later learned, from the aforementioned associate under threat of bodily harm, that it was supposed to simulate an artillery ground burst.
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Friday 8th December 2017 18:48 GMT Stevie
Re: Learning from Experience
Doesn't everyone have those - "maybe I didn't think that through" moments?
Occasionally.
What was the question?
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Sunday 10th December 2017 03:27 GMT Kiwi
Can't turn it on while the door is open / removed.
... now that's security.
Screwdriver in each of the holes where the door catches would go (has to be both as you have to operate both interlock switches), and you're fine...
...fine dust blowing across the floor if you happen to discover that those switches (used to) contain mains power and while it theoretically shouldn't be possible you managed to put the screwdriver in contact with phase...
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Friday 8th December 2017 15:01 GMT WolfFan
Self-identify as a dog you say? Time to pay a little visit to the vet I think. snip snip.
Come on over here, monkey-boy, and try that. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/growling-wolf-royalty-free-image/138699017?esource=SEO_GIS_CDN_Redirect
Damn shaved apes, small ears, small nose, no fangs... and no sense.
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Friday 8th December 2017 15:11 GMT CrazyOldCatMan
Us wolves know better
Don't know whether it's true but one wildlife expert told me that wolves *hate* domesticated dogs. They think it's something to do with that they smell "off" compared to a wolf, but enough like a wolf to trigger the "must kill/drive away the diseased wolf"..
Having said that, when we visited a wolf sanctury, my wife and I were the only ones that the wolves licked the hands of[1] - although that might have been in more of a "I'll get a taste now to remember for later when we get free" sense. Either that or "you smell of small furry crucnchy cat-things"..
[1] The wolves (all undomesticated but raised in captivity and/or rescued from zoos) wore a harness with chains being held by two separate people. The wolves were allowed to select which people they wanted to greet. Most people just got a sniff, we got licked. There was a strict "no greeting the wolves if you think you are pregnant" rule for the women - apparently the wolves pay them lots more attention than the sanctury were happy with..
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Friday 8th December 2017 15:04 GMT CrazyOldCatMan
I self-identify as a dog.
Why be a dog when you could just as easily pretend to be a cat? All it takes is to be able to successfully fake affection until the treats/food/attention is delivered..
Oh - and the desire to cough up furballs in the middle of the landing carpet so that the unwitting food-provider walks over them in bare feet in the middle of the night.
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Sunday 10th December 2017 03:32 GMT Kiwi
Why be a dog when you could just as easily pretend to be a cat? All it takes is to be able to successfully fake affection until the treats/food/attention is delivered..
Mine prefers jumping on your bed in the middle of the night, then running off. From the highest point in the room. Right to your guts.
And if that doesn't work expect to find any exposed body parts have had a visit from Santa. Santa CLAWS that is. (actually we now call the little devil "satan claws")
Oh - and the desire to cough up furballs in the middle of the landing carpet so that the unwitting food-provider walks over them in bare feet in the middle of the night.
Mine went one better. Getting into bed after a long day, very tired, roll over towards the middle and wtf? Cat had decided to get the hairball out while she was under the blankets!
(El Reg, your icon department lets us down by not having a suitable icon for such levels of disgust!)
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Friday 8th December 2017 13:00 GMT Anonymous Coward
Attention seekers
As a natural introvert, I've always passionately hated attention seekers. When it got serious enough to call emergency services, why did they keep the camera rolling? Was it an emergency or not? The sort of thing you from five year olds, when mummy is not looking at them wiping their own arse or something. Truly truly pathetic.
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Friday 8th December 2017 16:34 GMT Chris G
Inexperienced
Clearly these clowns have little experience of home decorating and the consequent filling that requires.
Polyfilla is made with Portland cement and limestone, the limestone gives it a degree of elasticity so that it sands well but resists knocks that would crack and break cement. That makes it much more difficult to break up a large chunk of it, particularly when contained in a tin box.
For some humans, having a bigger brain than other primates just enables them to feck up with a little more imagnation.
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Friday 8th December 2017 18:20 GMT Stevie
Bah!
Damn. I was expecting to read:
Firefighters simply plugged in the microwave and set it to "potato (mushy)". After jumping around for a bit with sparks from his amalgam fillings shooting out of the breathing tube, the idiot's head exploded, shattering the cement and allowing the microwave to be salvaged almost undamaged.
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Friday 8th December 2017 22:15 GMT Anonymous Coward
They should send him the bill
When the victim is 100% to blame for his own need for help, he should pay for their services - plus a surcharge to help defray the cost of providing services to those who need them through no fault of their own.
Then maybe people would think twice about doing such things. Or maybe they'd think twice about calling for help, but if he'd died at least we wouldn't have to worry about him doing something equally stupid next month once he cashes in from all the views his video generates (I specifically didn't watch because I don't want to pay an idiot for being an idiot - the exception would be if he had a video where he castrated himself so he wouldn't impose his obviously inferior genes on the human gene pool)
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Saturday 9th December 2017 00:16 GMT Peter X
Response to BBC reporter
A response is here. To quote the end part...
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Reporter: There are some people who've seen what you've done and think, "what a complete idiot. You're time wasting for the fire service". What would you say to those people?
Jay Swingler: I don't care! Like. There... what about people who drink and drive? What about people who drink and start fights in the street at night? Is that not wasting police time as well?
In fact I wasn't wasting their time. They saved my life.
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It's a compelling argument! Although, not wishing to pick nits, but no one ever said he was wasting _police_ time, since they weren't called. But otherwise, a rock solid square lump of an argument.
Honestly, when I heard about that flat-earther launching himself in a rocket to prove the Earth's flatness the other week, I did not think someone would out stupid him so soon.
And re people arguing about various dangerous things other people get up to, such as riding motorcycles fast, etc, they do at least have a "fun" factor to them. Ride bike crazy fast... dangerous... but you can see the fun and excitement.
Stick head in bag in cement in broken microwave. Wait for it to set. Nope... call me old fashioned, but I'm really not seeing how that works for anyone, although I'm possibly more troubled that this clown has a YouTube channel and presumably people watch it? Why? Exactly how dull does your life need to be that looking at that would be worthwhile?
Grumpy grump. Lawn etc etc.
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Sunday 10th December 2017 11:51 GMT Kiwi
Go to duckduckgo, look up "cutting wheel" and "disk cutter". What do you see? Serious question ... do they adjust the results according to the local vernacular of the user? Would make some sense, but might get a trifle confusing sometimes ... first of all, define "local" :-)
I normally use DDG but normally with JS turned off. I did the previous searches with google for some odd reason. Hopefully that'll mean my search is a bit more "pure" in this case as I didn't pollute it.
Here are the first 4 results for "cutting wheel" via DDG with JS On. Please excuse my not linkifying the links :)
https://www.amazon.com/Cutting-Wheel/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3ACutting%20Wheel (various cutting disks mostly 4.5", about half-way down the page is something closer to what you're referring to I think)
http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=9&pub=5574933636&toolid=10001&campid=5336728181&customid=&icep_uq=cutting+wheel&icep_sellerId=&icep_ex_kw=&icep_sortBy=12&icep_catId=&icep_minPrice=&icep_maxPrice=&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg (first few are for much smaller wheels, larger tools start later in the page)
https://www.alibaba.com/showroom/cutting-wheel.html (mainly 4.5 -7" on the first few lines, some not identified by size)
http://www.cutting-wheels.com/ (their graphics show lots of large cutting tools)
I'll change browser (from Pale Moon to Waterfox) for the next search - DDG with JS for "disk cutter" (with quotes, both searches, btw). First 4 results :
https://duckduckgo.com/y.js?u3=https%3A%2F%2Fr.search.yahoo.com%2Fcbclk%2FdWU9RjRCRjkwMzQ4RUMyNENBQyZ1dD0xNTEyOTA1Mjk1NDc4JnVvPTc5MDk2MTM4MjExNjA5Jmx0PTImZXM9dXZUYmN0NEdQUzhXQ2ZxcQ%2D%2D%2FRV%3D2%2FRE%3D1512934095%2FRO%3D10%2FRU%3Dhttps%253a%252f%252fwww.bing.com%252faclick%253fld%253dd39aVSue6nqMeI_pZjsYHnijVUCUyDHUntYx9DJJcKKzEM394al%2D794ONJx_ms7v7BHDPl4o1EaKdEWe9NVa91XVQPS2%2DAuWbKiz%2Ddq7B2tI5RxRFjmkH87R4Q138XfTGLJVd6hZCU5MDQG2Q60aHrKEECZ3lxyRmCcTpHDEFQ22bUaE0V%2526u%253dhttp%25253a%25252f%25252f19.xg4ken.com%25252ftrk%25252fv1%25253fprof%25253d571%252526camp%25253d157594%252526affcode%25253dcr5364187%252526kct%25253dmsn%252526kchid%25253d160000636%252526cid%25253d79096138211609%252526queryStr%25253d%25252520%25252522disk%25252520cutter%25252522%252526kdv%25253dc%252526criteriaid%25253dkwd%2D79096146864946%25253aloc%2D134%252526adgroupid%25253d1265537954570837%252526campaignid%25253d291320625%252526locphy%25253d2510%252526url%25253dhttp%25253a%25252f%25252fwww.cooksongold.com%25252fJewellery%2DTools%25252f%2DRange%25253dDisc_Cutters%25252f%2DSize%25253d0%25252f%2DType%25253d0%25252f%2DBrand%25253d0%25252f%2DFont%25253d0%25252f%252526prdsearch%25253dy%25253f%2FRK%3D2%2FRS%3Dmx3m0pTGk9R0YCTLjS.u.C98YOw%2D (advert for jewellery tools)
http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=9&pub=5574933636&toolid=10001&campid=5336728181&customid=&icep_uq=disc+cutter&icep_sellerId=&icep_ex_kw=&icep_sortBy=12&icep_catId=&icep_minPrice=&icep_maxPrice=&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg (seems to be all small stuff like you mention)
https://www.etsy.com/market/disc_cutter (as above)
https://www.amazon.com/disk-cutter/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Adisk%20cutter
Most of the first lot of DDG results agree with you on this, only about 3/4 of the way down did I start to see stuff referring to the larger power tools.
Slight difference with turning JS off but that may be altered due to my previous search. I see an Alibaba link come into the #6 spot for larger blades, then about 15 or so a reference to farm machinery.
Interesting results - different search engines give very diiferent results. DDG is my main engine of choice but I use google if I am not seeing what I wish (DDG struggles with limiting searches to NZ sites, which may also be impacting on the results in this case).
Depends on where you live and who you ask. A few years back "scientists" published results of a study where they claimed they'd recently discovered NZ had 4 english dialects. I could name several more than that just from growing up - with differences based on race, church affiliation/religion, what sort of town you were in (smaller rural, dormitory, larger city etc), age group, type of school (public etc, poor/rich and so on), type of work (farming vs office vs mechanic vs....) and a whole lot of other factors. Some NZ accents are actually quite different to others, eg anyone in the North Island can pick someone from Gore (vs Invercargil) based on how they pronounce certain words or sounds.
So not too surprising even in supposedly standardised industries you can find significant differences in definitions. Especially when we have most of the Pacific between us!
(Made the mistake of leaving a couple of the wrong bits of JS on, 4th time through that captcha bullshit (at least 4th time, so far) - about time a tech site got that shit fixed isn't it El Reg? It also does stupid stuff like wiping out the text of the message and often breaking the reply link, such as in this case!))
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Monday 11th December 2017 10:13 GMT Pat Harkin
YouTube? Not surprised.
Sometimes when I watch YouTube I get an urge to cement my head into a microwave instead.
The videos which really annoy me aren't the pillocks like this, it's when I'm trying to find out how to do something - let's say "Bold text in Word" and I get a helpful video which starts off
"Hi! I'm Tad Bratwurst! <Don't care who you are just tell me the keyboard shortcut> Thank's for watching this video <Get on with it> and if you like it, don't forget to subscribe to my channel <Not looking likely Tad> Today I'm gonna show how to bold some text in Word. <Evidence thus far not terribly supportive of that claim, Tad> This is a common problem. I've had lots of friends ask me this <You need a more diverse set of friends>. It's really quite easy and you can do it in less than a second <And yet we're 4 minutes into this video> First of all, you need to have Word installed on your PC.... [Several minutes later] SO as you can see all you have to do is Click File, open your file, press ctrl-F to find your text, drag with your mouse from left to right - some people say right to left works too, I'm not sure, it doesn't always seem to work with this mouse then click Home on the Ribbon, sorry , on the Toolbar, make sure the font face and size are the ones you want, if they aren't I show you how to change them in one of my other MasterClass Videos, and then click the bold icon. Hope you enjoyed that, that's all for today, and don't forget to subscribe!"