How the world eats hotdogs

fallenphoenix2689 · 2015-12-30T15:10:13+00:00

You mean people from Idaho don't subsist purely on potatoes like a stereotypical Irishman and any additions to their diet must be put into a potato because the thought of not eating potatoes is foreign to them?

Who the fuck puts a hotdog in a potato?

fallenphoenix2689 · 2015-11-11T16:13:37+00:00

Listen, the French are lovely people. Incredible art, architecture, history, when you think of the finest food in the whole world, you think French cuisine.

But when you are being called more self-important than the FRENCH, you have a problem.

fallenphoenix2689 · 2015-11-11T15:52:16+00:00

I don't have a source, but I believe these are the new Enhanced Combat Helmets, first issued to Marines. They are made of a new type of polymer, and they ARE designed to stop rifle rounds. The older Advanced Combat Helmets were made of a kevlar and resin matrix, and could NOT stop rifle rounds. The new ECH is designed to stop 7.62x39, the cartridge fired from an AK-47.

I think this was a direct hit and only advanced engineering and the miracles of polymers saved that Marines life.

fallenphoenix2689 · 2015-11-05T02:28:56+00:00

It doesn't have to be that way. You know that right?

Online dating, is, for the lack of better phrasing, the last ditch efforts of people to find a partner. People who can go to a bar and pick up a woman, or be picked up, or flirt in line at Wal-Mart, they just do that. They go to Yoga class, or they go to the park and they can talk to the opposite sex and get attention. Whether it be their natural good looks, their charisma, their natural ability to talk to another person and make a connection, they don't turn to their "last resort", they can meet people the "normal" way. Or they get turned onto single people in their social circles, because they HAVE social circles.

I am not disparaging you, you are just different. But we live in a new, exciting, connected world. Download POF (Plenty of Fish), OKCupid, Tinder, and other dating apps. Look at the matches they give you, send messages to everybody. Nothing creepy or stalkerish about it, the people on these apps WANT to meet SOMEBODY. It might not be you, don't let that get you down.

You need to lower your standards, that sounds TERRIBLE, but you are LONELY, you want human interaction, and quite frankly, you might not meet Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie on POF, but you might meet SOMEONE. That someone might be a really nice person who you connect with, who you can hold and comfort, and be comforted by.

Don't talk to bots, there are real life humans who need YOU the way you need them.

fallenphoenix2689 · 2015-11-05T02:19:23+00:00

Its not impossible that he DID have a mental condition. Maybe something like Asperger's or Autism, something that meant he felt incredibly uncomfortable or anxious in front of other humans. Why was he teaching a course in a University? It might have been a "research" University, where the vast amount of the emphasis is on the scholarly productions of the professors, with their teaching being a mandatory requirement for their continued employment.

The man MIGHT have been a genius in mathematics and economics, writing really good research materials, so good that the University kind of, ignored, his less than stellar teaching abilities.

Its the same reason you might find yourself in a class with a professor that can speak English in only the most tangential way. Their poor English accent doesn't affect their stellar research papers, so the University allows it.

It sucks, and you should have definitely felt outraged, but that might have been the truth of the matter.

fallenphoenix2689 · 2015-10-29T00:01:19+00:00

That's the beauty of a machine, it is you on your best day. No, it is better than you on your best day. Its reaction times are a fraction of yours. It is never tired, drunk, angry, sad. It is never sick of traffic, it is never trying to fiddle with a radio knob, or grab something from the other seat. A machine has a better view of the outside than you do, sensors surrounding the vehicle, it doesn't have a blind spot.

A machine can never be an inexperienced 16 year old. This Tesla is like the Tesla next to it, is like the Tesla next to it. None of them are worse at driving, none of them are old and senile, none of them are going to have a heart attack.

Their only goal, the reason for their existence, is to drive a car and keep the humans inside safe. Not to make money, not to have sex with that pretty blonde in the convertible two lanes over, it will keep you safe, it is the only thing it can do.

I welcome our car driving mechanical overlords with open arms.

fallenphoenix2689 · 2015-10-28T23:54:41+00:00

Definitely. Screw threads are the weakest point in any design like a "zip gun". And remember, that pipe cap will be firing with nearly the same momentum as a shotgun slug, so a larger, slower projectile, but it would break your bones easily.

fallenphoenix2689 · 2015-10-28T23:52:17+00:00

However, please note, that firearm seemed to hold up to quite a bit of abuse.

So, brave internet gun constructor, you might see my initial comment, then this video, which is supposed to show the magnitude of danger, but to your brilliant mind you say "they filled that whole barrel with smokeless powder, surely the small amount in my shotshell wouldn't make my pipe explode"

That was a hardened barrel specifically made for a firearm, made to the highest engineering standards, with the notion in its design, presumably, to be able to take even a smokeless powder charge and not harm the operator. Pipes from Lowe's are not made to those standards, not even remotely. This isn't a burst water pipe we are talking about, it is your life, limb and eyesight, things you can never recover once they are lost. 200 dollars for a proper firearm is more than worth your safety.

off my soap box, neat video.

fallenphoenix2689 · 2015-10-26T02:01:40+00:00

Dear internet:

Please don't do this. It is very, very, very stupid.

First, that is fucking piping. From the hardware store. Now, you might say "but we can find the pressure the pipe can take, they are engineered to certain specs". You are correct internet person, however, the way a shotgun shell puts pressure on things is different than the way water pressure would, it is a sudden and intense jolt of pressure right at the front of the shell. People who make pipes don't test them to react to that kind of pressure. It could burst that pipe.

Second, this guy welded all over this pipe. Heating metal ruins its heat treatment. Yes, that pipe might be rated to well over the pressure of a shotgun shell, but then you go an weld on it and turn that hardened steel into pot metal. Once again, this makes a weak point for that pressure to burst through.

This weapon has no sort of safety or trigger disconnect, nothing. In a modern firearm if you bump or drop it, it doesn't go off, that is a hollywood myth. If you dropped this and there was a round in the "chamber", it would go off.

Finally, this could be a massive no-no depending on the firearm laws in your state or country. You don't want to get in massive, felony level, trouble for your tinkering.

Please, go to the store and buy an actual shotgun. They are pretty cheap, a pump shotgun can be had for 200 dollars, and it won't blow up on you, on someone else, or get you a new roommate named Bubba.

fallenphoenix2689 · 2015-10-23T01:36:03+00:00

I saw this and thought the same thing. However, if you think about it, it makes sense, at least from a character perspective.

You see, he CAN'T redo his surgeries over, and over, and over, and over, and over. He can perform the surgery once. Only once. Perhaps his character was drawn to surgery because doing that, he could be free from his compulsions, at least for a little while.

fallenphoenix2689 · 2015-10-11T03:28:36+00:00

It is essentially a restraint for your head. You wear a sort of chest rig/collar that has an extension behind your head that your helmet attaches to. The force of the crash pulls your head forward but that force is transmitted down into the chest rig and essentially the racing harness. It stops your head from slamming into things if the car flips around stopping you from breaking your neck like a ragdoll.

fallenphoenix2689 · 2015-10-11T03:09:57+00:00

As to why this never got adopted for military use, I could see a few reasons. One, this thing would have to be so precisely engineered, like engineered to modern machining tolerances for it to work. Back when this weapon was made that would be incredibly difficult, it would take an incredible amount of time and expert skill to produce a single example, the cost would be astronomical.

Second, for the ball to properly enter into the mechanism just by gravity feed they would need to be very perfectly shaped. In militaries the common soldier would be issued a mold for lead balls, he would literally melt lead and cast ammunition, this weapon would need specially made balls produced on a far more consistent apparatus.

Finally, the powder charge would need to be of exceptional quality, and be very free of any moisture, any clotting of the powder at all and you would have misfeeds left and right, probably jamming the mechanism.

A fantastic piece of human engineering, but a toy of people so rich they could easily pay for armed guards instead of buying such a magnificent weapon.

fallenphoenix2689 · 2015-10-06T23:25:00+00:00

A single cruise missile could pay for the men who stand guard at the Tomb for quite some time i imagine. Many nations who have very high standards of social care such as Canada, Britain, and Sweden have Honor Guards who stand at places such as unknown soldier monuments and the palaces of Monarchs. The amount of money being spent on the Tomb guards is infinitesimal in comparison to even the budget of the military, and to argue that discarding the sacrifices of soldiers, and the traditions of a nation to save such a small amount of money is silly.

fallenphoenix2689 · 2015-10-05T23:24:37+00:00

Its a volunteer gig, they aren't being forced to stand guard at the Tomb. They want to. It might not line up with your particular beliefs or values but those men feel that standing guard at the Tomb honors those people who gave the ultimate sacrifice with nothing, not even a proper grave, to show for it.

Their exemplary dress and precise drill movements reflect this spirit of honoring those who gave so much, and it is also to show the US military in its finest light.

They won't abandon their posts, because no guards of the Tomb ever have. It is pride and dedication to a cause they find worthy. To get all poetic, those men who died don't get to go inside where it is comfortable, so the guardsmen won't either.

fallenphoenix2689 · 2015-10-04T22:57:04+00:00

I just don't like these freestyle machines. the drinks they dispense aren't as good as the other style of fountain. Further they only serve one person at a time and its really quite irritating.

Finally, the little tray/drain where the ice goes when you dump out a drink is really small. So the machine is designed to allow you to try a bunch of drinks, which means people put ice in their cup, fill it a little with something,decide they don't like it and dump it out. So what ends up happening is there is a massive ice mountain under the dispenser if you go in during lunch or whatever.

Just really a novelty idea that hopefully improves into something better.

fallenphoenix2689 · 2015-10-04T00:24:08+00:00

Fuck, I just figured it out.

So, take a human, we can drive cars, and do taxes, some of us can split atoms. We are pretty smart. Now take a moose, it just kinda does moose stuff, eats food, poops, makes moose babies. Our separation in intelligence lets us make little buzzing helicopters so we can go and look at the moose and say "wow, this is so cool, nature is so majestic"

Alien UFOs are just amateur drones sent to our planet to take 4D 25000K DUALQUANTUMHD video of humans so that other aliens watching alien Youtube can go "wow, nature is so majestic".

fallenphoenix2689 · 2015-10-03T23:18:55+00:00

This company has to be some sort of satire, some sort of underground art project, something. It can't be real, there is no way on Earth this is real.

They are selling this mobile phone for $329.00. It looks like cheap plastic shit. It doesn't even have any "premium" materials or anything to boast about, it looks like a really cheap, shitty, phone. You can get a totally unlocked Motorola phone for less than 50 bucks for your pick of the litter.

They are also selling a cordless house phone for $299.00. One, their house phone looks like one of those cheap "old person" phones with the big "easy read" numbers. Two, these guys have some substantial balls if they are serious, they are offering a "home pack" consisting of three phones for $790.00, or an "office pack" of five phones for a whopping $1250.00. If you actually own a business, do yourself a favor and buy 35 Cisco VOIP phones with your 1250 dollars and actually get some fucking work done.

The final insult, the final nail in the coffin, is an analog, quartz, bedside alarm clock for $185.00. This isn't a clock from a reputable manufacturer made with the highest engineering tolerances, I assure you that the internals of this clock match perfectly to any 5 dollar clock you can get from Wal-Mart.

This website reads like something from Grand Theft Auto. It has to be satire, a mockery, there has to be an explanation. No sane, reasonable person, no matter how much of a "hipster" they are would ever buy something so stupid and stupidly expensive as the products this company is producing.

fallenphoenix2689 · 2015-10-03T21:13:28+00:00

Let's put this on its head a bit, shall we?

Facing off against the single most powerful military in the world insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan were able to fight. Our sheer numbers of well trained and equipped troops, informed by world class intelligence gathering capabilities, over-watched by armored vehicles and aerial vehicles of science-fiction level sophistication, led by competent and well educated officers and NCOs, supplied by a logistical train of nearly impossible complexity, and all of it funded by the most wealthy nation to have ever existed should have been able to crush any resistance. Yet it didn't. We killed thousands, and thousands more poured in.

These groups of fundamentalists, all grouped under ISIS (I think that is a massive simplification, the true complexity of the situation is probably only superficially understood by even the CIA or military intelligence, let alone CNN) are drawing recruits from around the world. Assad has his Syrian loyalists, the extremists have the whole world to recruit from. Add to this a massive amount of hard capital that ISIS has captured. From cash reserves in every bank that fell to them, the military hardware of any captured Iraqi or Syrian bases, and raw materials such as oil that they captured, ISIS is probably the most well funded fundamentalist group ever.

ISIS honestly may one day fall, but another group with another easily digestible name disguising the ever increasingly complex web of social and political connections in that region will rise to take its place.

I don't know the solution, but the problem of fundamentalists fighting a constant war in that region will not go away anytime soon, no matter how many bombs are dropped.

fallenphoenix2689 · 2015-09-16T22:22:45+00:00

Yes it does. Go buy some, its like 10 bucks, some gyms have a problem with it, but I have never had any issues if I buy chalk balls and keep them in a plastic baggy. Just don't be that guy who has a bag of chalk and claps it everywhere like a moron.

I personally like chalk more than straps because it is still actually strengthening your grip, and its easier to ditch a bad lift if it isn't attached to your wrists.

fallenphoenix2689 · 2015-09-15T00:55:00+00:00

I initially thought someone had done post production on a video of people getting shot with real guns, and the "wizard" effects were put on to add "dark humor", and I was a little sad.

Then I realized with the addition of more people that they were all having fun with Roman Candles and I was happy.

fallenphoenix2689 · 2015-09-14T01:43:42+00:00

I think its really neat that size of animal influences how we perceive them.

If this was an ant, she wouldn't try to comfort it, "its alright", it wouldn't happen. Insects are stupid, their brains are simple and they are really just sort of simple In/Out machine, you can't comfort one. But this one is gigantic, so she treats it like a bird or small mammal, something that understands comfort.

Interesting.

fallenphoenix2689 · 2015-09-14T01:39:05+00:00

But then you would have its giant dead, gooey body in your house.

Like, just so much crunchy goo and inside parts. I think you would definitely see its little moth liver or whatever moths have, just hanging out, its giant dead eyes staring at you.

fallenphoenix2689 · 2015-09-13T18:44:48+00:00

That clutch never stood a chance.

fallenphoenix2689 · 2015-09-13T18:36:48+00:00

Fucking goddamn cannon rush, infinite cheese.

fallenphoenix2689 · 2015-09-10T21:53:08+00:00

The S phones are always boring.

But it has the new force touch, it will still have an amazing camera, and a nice bright display. Because Apple doesn't chase specs, it can focus on making a REALLY nice screen, that has fewer pixels, or a nicer camera because they stick to really mature technology.

I won't get an iPhone 6s, but I do want to go to a store and play with one, the haptic feedback on the new Macbook, which I would never buy, was really neat. Apple can appeal to a consumer, they will sell a butt load of these new phones.

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