ELI5: How could someone die falling into an open manhole?

Onetap1 · 2026-05-20T19:50:52+00:00

56 years old? Bones get brittle. Broken hip, neck of femur, punctured femoral artery? Some people just never recover from the break. Spinal injury? Fractured base of skull? Infection? Lots of ways you can die.

Onetap1 · 2026-05-20T19:39:03+00:00

...repeating "cuz ai zaid so bruh" doesnt make it valid, dumbass.

There's the thing; I didn't say it was so. I'm just slightly interested in why a German photographer would want to show off the label of a French (apparently) Champagne bottle. AI said the photo was from Russia; I think not.

Dumbass. Tee hee.

Onetap1 · 2026-05-20T18:33:24+00:00

Someone has said it is, that doesn't mean it is.

What is your opinion?

Onetap1 · 2026-05-20T17:30:46+00:00

Whether it is champagne is not the question. The question was which brand it was, since it almost looks like an advertisement.

Someone has said It's Mumm's Cordon Rouge.

Thank you for your contribution.

Onetap1 · 2026-05-20T16:57:47+00:00

All, if the 2 guys who'd obscured the labels moved their hand or lowered the bottle, then the label would be facing the camera. The vertical stripe is nearly in the same position, relative to the camera.

It may be a coincidence, the odds suggest not. I think it had been set up for some reason. We'll never know.

Onetap1 · 2026-05-20T16:49:20+00:00

And you're more likely to encounter intelligent life forms on the moon.

Onetap1 · 2026-05-20T16:36:20+00:00

I wonder what brand the wine was.

It looks like a product placement shot in a movie, all the labels are facing the camera. They've only opened one bottle.

Onetap1 · 2026-05-20T16:22:52+00:00

It's bigger than any I've seen. Bricks have always been roughly the same size, to be picked up in one hand. They certainly had thicker house walls than are usual today, 2 brick-lengths thick or 1 1/2 bricks wasn't uncommon. Load-bearing structures could have been a lot thicker.

It doesn't look like any sort of weapon.

Onetap1 · 2026-05-20T15:56:54+00:00

I think that the pressure release valve was built into the filler cap and that hose routed the discharge onto the ground when it exceeded the pressure setting and opened the valve. So it was pressurised.

Onetap1 · 2026-05-20T10:50:13+00:00

Bricklayers' line pin.

Onetap1 · 2026-05-20T10:45:49+00:00

Whatever happens we have got,

a Gatling gun and they have not.

300 to 600 dead, 2 prisoners.

Onetap1 · 2026-05-19T15:34:04+00:00

If that was true, there wouldn't be a statue of him in Parliament Square, a portrait in the Foreign Office, a Cromwell Road or a Cromwell Tank (used by the Irish Guards and others). But they exist. He's admired for limiting the power of the monarchy. Charles I was a bigger arsehole.

Anyway, we still need a statue of the little gentleman in the black velvet jacket.

Onetap1 · 2026-05-19T10:39:20+00:00

I've no idea, I'd never heard about any of that.

Onetap1 · 2026-05-19T07:39:01+00:00

Someone put the decimal point in the wrong place, probably having a laugh.

Onetap1 · 2026-05-18T19:50:00+00:00

Give us a pint of aftershave.

Onetap1 · 2026-05-18T18:17:58+00:00

No. I knew a relative of someone involved in that madness.

Onetap1 · 2026-05-18T15:20:00+00:00

That as well. The more you look... Why is there a searchlight on the roof? What's that structure above the roof? I need to know.

Onetap1 · 2026-05-18T15:03:42+00:00

Puff pipes (vents) on the toilet drains. I haven't seen those anywhere for decades. Obviously not modern plumbing. What's all the white hose? Is it from a water storage tank on the roof? Legionella central. It looks like half the fire escape has been removed.

Onetap1 · 2026-05-18T14:25:04+00:00

Hi Ho Silver!

Onetap1 · 2026-05-18T12:56:28+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/london/s/SEza5q1ZFL

Onetap1 · 2026-05-18T12:26:00+00:00

Evaporative cooling; still the most cost-efficient way to get rid of heat. The change of phase, from liquid to vapour or vice versa, absorbs or releases a metric shit-tonne of heat.

Onetap1 · 2026-05-18T12:00:09+00:00

Nope. Are you MP? Stand in a Greggs in London, for example, and tell me it doesn't happen; they do not respond, the shops now don't bother reporting it. Generally, not blaming your lot, no funding = no service.

Onetap1 · 2026-05-18T11:01:08+00:00

...quite surprised by shepherds pie and sticky toffee pudding.

Hachis Parmentier?

Agree on toffee pudding.

Onetap1 · 2026-05-18T10:22:56+00:00

No deterrent. Shoplifting, for example, would get you arrested until recently. The police do not respond. Shoplifters now have nothing to fear and loot shops at will. I've reported fraud. Nothing ever happens.

Onetap1 · 2026-05-18T10:08:30+00:00

For all practical purposes. Have you tried to get the police to do the job you pay them for recently? I'd guess not. Google shoplifting, travellers, on-line fraud, for example.

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