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Oh God help me, I'm gonna die.

NebulousQNebulousQ Registered User regular
edited January 2010 in Social Entropy++
Well I probably am just being a pussy and won't die, but if you see in the headlines that a hydrogen fueling station blew up and took out part of a freeway well then that was me. Gonna go replace that HIP check valve, brb. (Well I'll do it on friday, but w/e.)

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  • scarlet blvd.scarlet blvd. Bebop Cola Goooood!Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Dead man walking



    wuss

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Man, if you're going to die at least post some nude pixx here first.

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  • UbikUbik oh pete, that's later. maybe we'll be dead by then Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Hip check? is this about hockey or something?

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  • LarlarLarlar consecutive normal brunches Moderator, ClubPA Mod Emeritus
    edited January 2010
    I'm dialing 9-1, and once your story checks out, 1 again.

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  • AMP'dAMP'd Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    We're all going to die, Nebulous.

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  • RuckusRuckus Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Everybody dies, it's just a matter of when and how funny the circumstances are.

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  • scarlet blvd.scarlet blvd. Bebop Cola Goooood!Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Ruckus wrote: »
    Everybody dies, it's just a matter of when and how funny the circumstances are.

    Thank god for the darwin awards for alerting us to such circumstances

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  • Mr. Henry BemisMr. Henry Bemis God is love Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    i'm dying in your hydrogen station tonight

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  • Mr. Henry BemisMr. Henry Bemis God is love Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    arms

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  • LarlarLarlar consecutive normal brunches Moderator, ClubPA Mod Emeritus
    edited January 2010
    The darwin awards get boring so quickly.

    The only one I've laughed at more than once was that one guy who wanted a cheap way to get drunk so he combined gasoline and milk, went home, threw up in his fireplace and burned his house down, killing himself and his sister.

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  • Mr. Henry BemisMr. Henry Bemis God is love Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    that is to say

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  • I Win SwordfightsI Win Swordfights all the traits of greatness starlight at my feetRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I have been listening to the glee sountracks pretty much exclusively lately

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  • Lost SalientLost Salient blink twice if you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    scarlet, I'm sure you've heard it before, but your sig makes me happy

    "Let us partake of the bourbon, scotch, and rye until such time as we are fighting drunk."

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2010
    Larlar wrote: »
    The darwin awards get boring so quickly.

    The only one I've laughed at more than once was that one guy who wanted a cheap way to get drunk so he combined gasoline and milk, went home, threw up in his fireplace and burned his house down, killing himself and his sister.

    I found the "let's play Russian Roulette with an automatic pistol" pretty hilarious.

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  • the wookthe wook Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Larlar wrote: »
    The darwin awards get boring so quickly.

    The only one I've laughed at more than once was that one guy who wanted a cheap way to get drunk so he combined gasoline and milk, went home, threw up in his fireplace and burned his house down, killing himself and his sister.

    The real Darwin award should go to the members of the U.S. Government that eventually bankrupt the welfare system

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  • NebulousQNebulousQ Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Ruckus wrote: »
    Everybody dies, it's just a matter of when and how funny the circumstances are.

    Well when we found out after wards that the blast zone study was wrong and that the the freeway off ramp is actually in the blast zone it might be pretty funny. For some alive-people anyways.
    (The freeway isn't actually in the blast zone, the study was pretty rigorous. If things blow up it will be just me who dies.)
    Ubik wrote: »
    Hip check? is this about hockey or something?

    I am just an fresh-out-of-college engineer replacing valves on a high pressure hydrogen line, no worries.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2010
    And the one for the guys who played Russian Roulette with a mine.

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  • BogeyBogey I'm back, baby! Santa Monica, CAModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited January 2010
    I was just talking about exploding Hydrogen stations last week! :P

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  • Sars_BoySars_Boy Rest, You Are The Lightning. Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Munkus Beaver wrote: »
    Larlar wrote: »
    The darwin awards get boring so quickly.

    The only one I've laughed at more than once was that one guy who wanted a cheap way to get drunk so he combined gasoline and milk, went home, threw up in his fireplace and burned his house down, killing himself and his sister.

    I found the "let's play Russian Roulette with an automatic pistol" pretty hilarious.

    how does that even

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  • .avi.avi regular
    edited January 2010
    im already dead 8)

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  • Mr. Henry BemisMr. Henry Bemis God is love Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    i think the funniest darwin award is about the dude who's getting an underwater blowjob in the ocean and gets overexcited and holds the girl's head down on accident and she drowns or comes close to it or something

    they quoted some friend or something who said "an australian girl doesn't stop until the job's done"

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  • satansfingerssatansfingers Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    well the important thing to do is to stall on the internet about it and make yourself more liable for any damages

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  • NebulousQNebulousQ Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Bogey wrote: »
    I was just talking about exploding Hydrogen stations last week! :P

    Damn, hope you are not a prophet.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2010
    Sars_Boy wrote: »
    Munkus Beaver wrote: »
    Larlar wrote: »
    The darwin awards get boring so quickly.

    The only one I've laughed at more than once was that one guy who wanted a cheap way to get drunk so he combined gasoline and milk, went home, threw up in his fireplace and burned his house down, killing himself and his sister.

    I found the "let's play Russian Roulette with an automatic pistol" pretty hilarious.

    how does that even

    It doesn't.

    Hence the Darwin award.

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  • Sars_BoySars_Boy Rest, You Are The Lightning. Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Munkus Beaver wrote: »
    Sars_Boy wrote: »
    Munkus Beaver wrote: »
    Larlar wrote: »
    The darwin awards get boring so quickly.

    The only one I've laughed at more than once was that one guy who wanted a cheap way to get drunk so he combined gasoline and milk, went home, threw up in his fireplace and burned his house down, killing himself and his sister.

    I found the "let's play Russian Roulette with an automatic pistol" pretty hilarious.

    how does that even

    It doesn't.

    Hence the Darwin award.
    just

    wow

    is there a link to that somewhere?

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  • NebulousQNebulousQ Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    satansfingers wrote: »
    well the important thing to do is to stall on the internet about it and make yourself more liable for any damages

    If things go horribly wrong I'll be dead, no need to worry about trivial things like liability.

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  • LarlarLarlar consecutive normal brunches Moderator, ClubPA Mod Emeritus
    edited January 2010
    Sars_Boy wrote: »
    Munkus Beaver wrote: »
    Sars_Boy wrote: »
    Munkus Beaver wrote: »
    Larlar wrote: »
    The darwin awards get boring so quickly.

    The only one I've laughed at more than once was that one guy who wanted a cheap way to get drunk so he combined gasoline and milk, went home, threw up in his fireplace and burned his house down, killing himself and his sister.

    I found the "let's play Russian Roulette with an automatic pistol" pretty hilarious.

    how does that even

    It doesn't.

    Hence the Darwin award.
    just

    wow

    is there a link to that somewhere?

    http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2000-04.html

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2010
    Larlar smells like poop.

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  • Mr. Henry BemisMr. Henry Bemis God is love Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    sexy poop

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  • scarlet blvd.scarlet blvd. Bebop Cola Goooood!Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I like the one about the guy who tried to commit suicide: hanging, shootin himself, poison, lighting himself on fire, jumping off a cliff. I think that was all of em

    shot the rope on the way down, landed in water putting out the fire, temperature shock caused him to throw up the poison, then he dies of hypothermia in the hospital later on

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Larlar wrote: »
    Sars_Boy wrote: »
    Munkus Beaver wrote: »
    Sars_Boy wrote: »
    Munkus Beaver wrote: »
    Larlar wrote: »
    The darwin awards get boring so quickly.

    The only one I've laughed at more than once was that one guy who wanted a cheap way to get drunk so he combined gasoline and milk, went home, threw up in his fireplace and burned his house down, killing himself and his sister.

    I found the "let's play Russian Roulette with an automatic pistol" pretty hilarious.

    how does that even

    It doesn't.

    Hence the Darwin award.
    just

    wow

    is there a link to that somewhere?

    http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2000-04.html

    If he was playing russian roulette, did he already want to die?

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  • AMP'dAMP'd Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    scarlet blvd. wrote: »
    I like the one about the guy who tried to commit suicide: hanging, shootin himself, poison, lighting himself on fire, jumping off a cliff. I think that was all of em

    shot the rope on the way down, landed in water putting out the fire, temperature shock caused him to throw up the poison, then he dies of hypothermia in the hospital later on

    ra ra rasputin

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  • scarlet blvd.scarlet blvd. Bebop Cola Goooood!Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    AMP'd wrote: »
    scarlet blvd. wrote: »
    I like the one about the guy who tried to commit suicide: hanging, shootin himself, poison, lighting himself on fire, jumping off a cliff. I think that was all of em

    shot the rope on the way down, landed in water putting out the fire, temperature shock caused him to throw up the poison, then he dies of hypothermia in the hospital later on

    ra ra rasputin

    Nah man, he didn't try to commit suicide, some douchebag Russian nobles tried to kill him because he did somethin or other with the tzar or something... goddamn you euro history class, like poison in my brain

    edit: incidentally, they poisoned him, shot him in the heart, shot him again when he kept standing, then beat him up with stuff and rolled him into a rug which was swiftly launched into the river, and then he drowned or hypothermia killed him

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  • AMP'dAMP'd Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    scarlet blvd. wrote: »
    AMP'd wrote: »
    scarlet blvd. wrote: »
    I like the one about the guy who tried to commit suicide: hanging, shootin himself, poison, lighting himself on fire, jumping off a cliff. I think that was all of em

    shot the rope on the way down, landed in water putting out the fire, temperature shock caused him to throw up the poison, then he dies of hypothermia in the hospital later on

    ra ra rasputin

    Nah man, he didn't try to commit suicide, some douchebag Russian nobles tried to kill him because he did somethin or other with the tzar or something... goddamn you euro history class, like poison in my brain

    Oh, I know that

    Just, legend has it that he was hard as hell to kill

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    The legends surrounding the death of Rasputin are perhaps even more mysterious and bizarre than his life. According to Greg King's 1996 book The Man Who Killed Rasputin, a previous attempt on Rasputin's life had failed: Rasputin was visiting his wife and children in Pokrovskoye, his hometown along the Tura River in Siberia. On June 29, 1914, after either just receiving a telegram or exiting church, he was attacked suddenly by Khionia Guseva, a former prostitute who had become a disciple of the monk Iliodor. Iliodor, who once was a friend of Rasputin but had grown absolutely disgusted with his behaviour and disrespectful talk about the royal family, had appealed to women who had been harmed by Rasputin to form a mutual support group. Guseva thrust a knife into Rasputin's abdomen, and his entrails hung out of what seemed like a mortal wound. Convinced of her success, Guseva supposedly screamed, "I have killed the antichrist!"

    After intensive surgery, however, Rasputin recovered. It was said of his survival that "the soul of this cursed muzhik was sewn on his body." His daughter, Maria, pointed out in her memoirs that he was never the same man after that: he seemed to tire more easily and frequently took opium for pain relief.
    The Moika Palace, along the Moika River, where Rasputin was supposedly lured and murdered

    The murder of Rasputin has become a legend, some of it invented by the very men who killed him, which is why it has become difficult to discern the actual course of events. On December 16, 1916, having decided that Rasputin's influence over the Tsaritsa had made him a far-too-dangerous threat to the empire, a group of nobles led by Prince Felix Yusupov and the Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich and the right-wing politician Vladimir Purishkevich, apparently lured Rasputin to the Yusupovs' Moika Palace[15], by intimating that Felix's wife, Princess Irina would be present and receiving friends (In point of fact, she was away at the Crimea).[16] The group led him down to the cellar, where they served him cakes and red wine laced with a massive amount of cyanide. According to legend, Rasputin was unaffected, although Vasily Maklakov had supplied enough poison to kill five men. Conversely, Maria's account asserts that, if her father did eat or drink poison, it was not in the cakes or wine, because after the attack by Guseva he suffered from hyperacidity and avoided anything with sugar. In fact, she expresses doubt that he was poisoned at all. It has been suggested, on the other hand, that Rasputin had developed an immunity to poison due to Mithridatism.[1]

    Determined to finish the job, Yusupov became anxious about the possibility that Rasputin might live until the morning, leaving the conspirators no time to conceal his body. Yusupov ran upstairs to consult the others and then came back down to shoot Rasputin through the back with a revolver. Rasputin fell, and the company left the palace for a while. Yusupov, who had left without a coat, decided to return to get one, and, while at the palace, he went to check up on the body. Suddenly, Rasputin opened his eyes and lunged at Prince Yusupov. When he grabbed Prince Yusupov he ominously whispered in Yusupov's ear "you bad boy" and attempted to strangle him. At that moment, however, the other conspirators arrived and fired at him. After being hit three times in the back, Rasputin fell once more. As they neared his body, the party found that, remarkably, he was still alive, struggling to get up. They clubbed him into submission and castrated him. After binding his body and wrapping him in a carpet, they threw him into the icy Neva River. He broke out of his bonds and the carpet wrapping him, but drowned in the river.

    Three days later, the body of Rasputin, poisoned, shot four times, badly beaten, and drowned, was recovered from the Neva River. An autopsy established that the cause of death was drowning. His arms were found in an upright position, as if he had tried to claw his way out from under the ice. It was found that he had indeed been poisoned, and that the poison alone should have been enough to kill him. There is a report that after his body was recovered, water was found in the lungs, supporting the idea that he was still alive before submersion into the partially frozen river.[17]

    Subsequently, the Tsaritsa Alexandra buried Rasputin's body in the grounds of Tsarskoye Selo, but, after the February Revolution, a group of workers from Saint Petersburg uncovered the remains, carried them into the nearby woods and burnt them. As the body of Rasputin was being burned, he appeared to sit up in the fire. His apparent attempts to move and get up thoroughly horrified bystanders. The effect can probably be attributed to improper cremation;[citation needed] since his body was in inexperienced hands, his tendons were probably not cut before burning. Consequently, when his body was heated, the tendons shrunk, forcing his legs to bend, and his body to bend at the waist, resulting in it appearing to sit up. This final happenstance only poured fuel on the fire of legends and mysteries surrounding Rasputin, which continue to live on long after his death.

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  • scarlet blvd.scarlet blvd. Bebop Cola Goooood!Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    fuck yea, got most of it right.
    thanks Rolo

    edit: go education!,
    goddamn homework

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  • NebulousQNebulousQ Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Welp, I just told the project engineer I wasn't comfortable doing the replacement and now I feel like a wimp. Also I am still going to do it, so it was a lose-lose situation. Off to enjoy the last 36 hours of my life.

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  • OmegaTofuNinjaOmegaTofuNinja Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Way to go.

    Now when you become a hero you can't be all badass and say "Nope, I was never scared". Unless you kill the one who knows

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  • EnergenoEnergeno Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Real men cook hydrogen themselves and make funny balloon animals with it. Being a weatherman in the army was fun times.

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  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Surely there are safety routines which must be followed? Like, the line that valve is a part of will be purged and flushed with an inert gas before working on it?

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