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    AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    Anyone here play The War Frames?

    yes, but occasionally, and it's been a while since my last spurt of playing

    questions?

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    Casual EddyCasual Eddy The Astral PlaneRegistered User regular
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    Give me n95s that look like crazy shit like this, cowards

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    21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    Anyone here play The War Frames?

    yes, but occasionally, and it's been a while since my last spurt of playing

    questions?

    Well, just wondering how hard it is to get into and what platform i should go for if i do try it out.

    Also, how many dollars i'll spend.

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    A Kobold's KoboldA Kobold's Kobold He/Him MississippiRegistered User regular
    I guess blaseball just isn't for me

    Switch Friend Code: SW-3011-6091-2364
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    Havelock2.0Havelock2.0 Sufficiently Chill The Chill ZoneRegistered User regular
    make me quesadillas

    I've seen things you people wouldn't believe
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    EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    Give me n95s that look like crazy shit like this, cowards

    Also make it out of teeth instead of gems, cowards

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    AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    speaking of military surplus, and asbestos, it made me think of the asbestos mitten you used for changing barrels on the MG 3

    my oven isn't working at the moment, but like, the oven mitts I do have have burn marks on them - and never really let me y'know, hold a hot tray without pain, either.

    how hard do you think it would be to get a hold of a pair of those asbestos mittens? because no muffin tray is going to burn you through those.


    (maybe quite hard, because I think they only come one per machinegun, and so you need to find someone selling two machineguns complete with every single thingy that comes with, and convince them to sell you just one small part of each kit. But it would be fun to say you have asbestos mittens.)

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    japanjapan Registered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
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    Winky wrote: »
    What if the lasting impact of this is that it becomes stylish to wear masks all the time

    Also make it full face masks so I can go nuts with weird things.

    One of my twitter follows collects obsolete military gear for airsoft, including gas masks, so they are having the time of their lives with this

    I started to itch where the gas mask seal went nine years ago at the mention of wearing gas masks all day

    Apparently the other issue is that if you're buying obsolete Eastern bloc CBRN gear there's a decent chance that the filters either are or contain asbestos

    And some of them take modern filters but the question then becomes what you're going to do with this asbestos you just removed

    put a sticker on it that you write ASBESTOS on and hand it over at the recycling station (or whatever they call the place you go to to throw out things that do not fit into a bin)

    is at least the procedure here. Or, well, wrap it in heavy plastic first, but that's more for the eternitt sheets you got tearing down the old shed - and a filter is its own containment


    is it hard to get rid of asbestos in the UK?

    It's classed as hazardous waste so municipal disposal sites/recycling centres typically won't take it (and it might be a criminal offence we they to do so)

    I don't actually know how you would get rid of it here in a non-construction context

    There's a battery of regulations and specialist contractor requirements for building work involving old asbestos construction, but none of that really applies to disposing of an asbestos containing thing

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    SanderJKSanderJK Crocodylus Pontifex Sinterklasicus Madrid, 3000 ADRegistered User regular
    Unless I actually visit the Americas I will probably never know, but a Mexican place opened here a year ago which is many steps above anything previously available to me and probably somewhat close to the real deal.

    Their meat is properly slow-cooked which is a huge plus, their quesadillas have some good melty cheesiness, its clear that the guacamole is fresh.

    I limit myself to 1 take out per week and I picked them a lot the last few months.

    Steam: SanderJK Origin: SanderJK
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    AegisAegis Fear My Dance Overshot Toronto, Landed in OttawaRegistered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    Anyone here play The War Frames?

    yes, but occasionally, and it's been a while since my last spurt of playing

    questions?

    Well, just wondering how hard it is to get into and what platform i should go for if i do try it out.

    Also, how many dollars i'll spend.

    As someone who bounces in and out: it feels a bit overwhelming since there's just so much to do.

    But there is a campaign and a star chart that you can work your way through. Set your goals based on a quest you want to achieve and just work towards that. Or pick a faction you want to rank up, or a weapon/warframe you want to try and collect the parts for, and go for that.

    We'll see how long this blog lasts
    Currently DMing: None :(
    Characters
    [5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
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    AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    Anyone here play The War Frames?

    yes, but occasionally, and it's been a while since my last spurt of playing

    questions?

    Well, just wondering how hard it is to get into and what platform i should go for if i do try it out.

    Also, how many dollars i'll spend.

    I have spent zero (0) dollars

    I play it on PC, and I have no idea what it's like playing on console. Rather different, I imagine. The gameplay is solid, the setting is rather damn cool. I beat the super grindy nature by mostly not caring.

    you start out with some of their Funbucks, and if you play then don't then do for long enough you end up with parts that people will buy for those funbucks to get you more. Use all of it on spare weapon and warframe slots. Especially not to speed up crafting or moneysinks like that.

    (well I did that but also a better colour palette, because fashionframe is the name of the game)


    it's easy to get into. For the stuff that isn't, there's the wiki. It's a good wiki. (also an in-game index that is good but not as convenient as a wiki)

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    MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    SanderJK wrote: »
    Unless I actually visit the Americas I will probably never know, but a Mexican place opened here a year ago which is many steps above anything previously available to me and probably somewhat close to the real deal.

    Their meat is properly slow-cooked which is a huge plus, their quesadillas have some good melty cheesiness, its clear that the guacamole is fresh.

    I limit myself to 1 take out per week and I picked them a lot the last few months.

    Mexican, Tex-Mex, Southwest US Mexican, Cali-Mex and so on are some of the best foods in the world for level of effort verse flavor verse filling level.

    And still it isn't around here. I mean Central American is good, but not the same as living out West.

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    SanderJKSanderJK Crocodylus Pontifex Sinterklasicus Madrid, 3000 ADRegistered User regular
    In NL there is a growing suspicion that Asbestos regulation was too kind to specialist removal companies.
    The rules were so aggressive in forced removal and overly cautious requiring suits for every tiny incident that it was pretty much free millions for the few companies that have certification.
    Compared to the many limited risks we take everyday it was like asbestos was plutonium.

    This started to collapse last year but I lost track of it...

    Steam: SanderJK Origin: SanderJK
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    wanderingwandering Russia state-affiliated media Registered User regular
    Neco wrote: »
    I’m so much prettier when half of my face is covered in mystery
    this is why I should be shrouded by mysterious fog at all times imo

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    AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    oh and yeah what chanus said is mostly what I was more opaquely referring to

    there's the starchart to progress through, which is straightforward (and was my main motivator at first - I want to see all the places) and there's quests which are actually rather good. I like the story. Especially so now that I'm playing destiny 2.

    apart from that, well, go to the wiki, browse through weapons and frames until you find some that look cool, then find out how you get it, then start hunting for it. Or don't, and just let stuff come to you as it does.


    oh and the two open landscapes - Orb Vallis on venus and plains of eidolon on Earth are nice. I like spearfishing. It is very relaxing.

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    matt has a problemmatt has a problem Points to 'off' Points to 'on'Registered User regular
    Mayabird wrote: »

    That as a mask would look like you've been coughing blood-flecked spittle into it.

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    HonkHonk Honk is this poster. Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    We did final mounting of the wall-hanging desk area. Two plugs didn’t deploy properly, was unable to fix by stuffing shit around them and would’ve needed glue or quick cement. They’re at least being somewhat helpful with vertical load and it’ll just have to do, there are 13 other rock solid screws and each should handle around 100kg. But it annoys me to no end. I’ll forget about it over time.

    Apart from that it turned out really nice!!

    PSN: Honkalot
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    AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    japan wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Echo wrote: »
    Winky wrote: »
    What if the lasting impact of this is that it becomes stylish to wear masks all the time

    Also make it full face masks so I can go nuts with weird things.

    One of my twitter follows collects obsolete military gear for airsoft, including gas masks, so they are having the time of their lives with this

    I started to itch where the gas mask seal went nine years ago at the mention of wearing gas masks all day

    Apparently the other issue is that if you're buying obsolete Eastern bloc CBRN gear there's a decent chance that the filters either are or contain asbestos

    And some of them take modern filters but the question then becomes what you're going to do with this asbestos you just removed

    put a sticker on it that you write ASBESTOS on and hand it over at the recycling station (or whatever they call the place you go to to throw out things that do not fit into a bin)

    is at least the procedure here. Or, well, wrap it in heavy plastic first, but that's more for the eternitt sheets you got tearing down the old shed - and a filter is its own containment


    is it hard to get rid of asbestos in the UK?

    It's classed as hazardous waste so municipal disposal sites/recycling centres typically won't take it (and it might be a criminal offence we they to do so)

    I don't actually know how you would get rid of it here in a non-construction context

    There's a battery of regulations and specialist contractor requirements for building work involving old asbestos construction, but none of that really applies to disposing of an asbestos containing thing

    kind of a failure of classification, then

    because like, unless you start fucking with it and breathing it in, it is not hazardous. It's not toxic for the environment, it's inert, it's obviously not a fire hazard.

    like sure it's not y'know, great to have around, but when something is 100% safe when just put into a cupboard*, it seems a bit too much to say "hazardous"

    *or, indeed, in the construction of your house. Until the day you tear up that floor, mind you. It's sanitizing asbestos that is such a fucking pain.

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    japanjapan Registered User regular
    SanderJK wrote: »
    In NL there is a growing suspicion that Asbestos regulation was too kind to specialist removal companies.
    The rules were so aggressive in forced removal and overly cautious requiring suits for every tiny incident that it was pretty much free millions for the few companies that have certification.
    Compared to the many limited risks we take everyday it was like asbestos was plutonium.

    This started to collapse last year but I lost track of it...

    The rule here is that if a property has asbestos in its fabric, you leave it alone unless there is no other option

    So it mostly only becomes a thing at the point of demolition or major remodeling, at which point the specialists are required

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    SanderJKSanderJK Crocodylus Pontifex Sinterklasicus Madrid, 3000 ADRegistered User regular
    Amazon/Twitch Prime has rolling bonuses for Warframe, usually one of the advanced Warframes rotating every few months?

    Ultimately Warframe to me seems like an endless checklist without a true goal.
    You get more and more powerful, you become faster and deadlier, but you're not really going anywhere.

    Steam: SanderJK Origin: SanderJK
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    MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    @Chanus I am watching the Rockies blow an 8 run lead over two innings. It is so frustrating.

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    AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    main problem with asbestos for professional tear shit down companies, or at least the one I worked with, wasn't that clearing asbestos is hard to do safely

    it's just that nothing else can really take place while you're doing it. So projects take much longer.

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    japanjapan Registered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Echo wrote: »
    Winky wrote: »
    What if the lasting impact of this is that it becomes stylish to wear masks all the time

    Also make it full face masks so I can go nuts with weird things.

    One of my twitter follows collects obsolete military gear for airsoft, including gas masks, so they are having the time of their lives with this

    I started to itch where the gas mask seal went nine years ago at the mention of wearing gas masks all day

    Apparently the other issue is that if you're buying obsolete Eastern bloc CBRN gear there's a decent chance that the filters either are or contain asbestos

    And some of them take modern filters but the question then becomes what you're going to do with this asbestos you just removed

    put a sticker on it that you write ASBESTOS on and hand it over at the recycling station (or whatever they call the place you go to to throw out things that do not fit into a bin)

    is at least the procedure here. Or, well, wrap it in heavy plastic first, but that's more for the eternitt sheets you got tearing down the old shed - and a filter is its own containment


    is it hard to get rid of asbestos in the UK?

    It's classed as hazardous waste so municipal disposal sites/recycling centres typically won't take it (and it might be a criminal offence we they to do so)

    I don't actually know how you would get rid of it here in a non-construction context

    There's a battery of regulations and specialist contractor requirements for building work involving old asbestos construction, but none of that really applies to disposing of an asbestos containing thing

    kind of a failure of classification, then

    because like, unless you start fucking with it and breathing it in, it is not hazardous. It's not toxic for the environment, it's inert, it's obviously not a fire hazard.

    like sure it's not y'know, great to have around, but when something is 100% safe when just put into a cupboard*, it seems a bit too much to say "hazardous"

    *or, indeed, in the construction of your house. Until the day you tear up that floor, mind you. It's sanitizing asbestos that is such a fucking pain.

    I did a bit of digging and there is a SEPA (Scottish environmental protection agency) classification code for asbestos-containing non construction waste

    You can use that to find a specialist disposal facility that is authorised to take it

    No idea what that would involve in practice

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    AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    SanderJK wrote: »
    Amazon/Twitch Prime has rolling bonuses for Warframe, usually one of the advanced Warframes rotating every few months?

    Ultimately Warframe to me seems like an endless checklist without a true goal.
    You get more and more powerful, you become faster and deadlier, but you're not really going anywhere.

    you're collecting stuff

    and it's also the only way you get more powerful

    and collecting stuff is fun when it's cool stuff. There is no true goal to be had in any game - my goal in warframe is either "I want to look at this place here, it's cool" or "I want this thing", more or less

    last time "this thing" was a fucking spaceship, which involved me making a one-man clan and building the fucking dojo and good god the grind is real. I got tired of it before I actually made the spaceship. But I did get to make a lot of the guns you need clan research for.

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    ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Chanus I am watching the Rockies blow an 8 run lead over two innings. It is so frustrating.

    i know the feel

    sports are tough on the emotions

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
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    Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    japan wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Idly browsing auto trader thinking about how if the new normal doesn't involve commuting, maybe it's time to get a daft car

    Like a v-power drinking monster barge

    Or an unnecessarily large 4x4 with a roof tent

    Mazda bongo with integrated kitchen

    A camper van is the perfect pandemic vehicle

    Visit people while technically remaining indoors

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
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    AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    edited August 2020
    japan wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Echo wrote: »
    Winky wrote: »
    What if the lasting impact of this is that it becomes stylish to wear masks all the time

    Also make it full face masks so I can go nuts with weird things.

    One of my twitter follows collects obsolete military gear for airsoft, including gas masks, so they are having the time of their lives with this

    I started to itch where the gas mask seal went nine years ago at the mention of wearing gas masks all day

    Apparently the other issue is that if you're buying obsolete Eastern bloc CBRN gear there's a decent chance that the filters either are or contain asbestos

    And some of them take modern filters but the question then becomes what you're going to do with this asbestos you just removed

    put a sticker on it that you write ASBESTOS on and hand it over at the recycling station (or whatever they call the place you go to to throw out things that do not fit into a bin)

    is at least the procedure here. Or, well, wrap it in heavy plastic first, but that's more for the eternitt sheets you got tearing down the old shed - and a filter is its own containment


    is it hard to get rid of asbestos in the UK?

    It's classed as hazardous waste so municipal disposal sites/recycling centres typically won't take it (and it might be a criminal offence we they to do so)

    I don't actually know how you would get rid of it here in a non-construction context

    There's a battery of regulations and specialist contractor requirements for building work involving old asbestos construction, but none of that really applies to disposing of an asbestos containing thing

    kind of a failure of classification, then

    because like, unless you start fucking with it and breathing it in, it is not hazardous. It's not toxic for the environment, it's inert, it's obviously not a fire hazard.

    like sure it's not y'know, great to have around, but when something is 100% safe when just put into a cupboard*, it seems a bit too much to say "hazardous"

    *or, indeed, in the construction of your house. Until the day you tear up that floor, mind you. It's sanitizing asbestos that is such a fucking pain.

    I did a bit of digging and there is a SEPA (Scottish environmental protection agency) classification code for asbestos-containing non construction waste

    You can use that to find a specialist disposal facility that is authorised to take it

    No idea what that would involve in practice

    I am suddenly much more appreciative of local sanitation

    if I have anything from a piano to plutonium I go there, and ask "which container does this go in?"

    you pay per cubic metre of stuff, as determined by a quick sideways glance by the guy in the booth

    edit: or in the case of asbestos, they ask that you wrap it in some proper plastic and mark it as such. Also on a pallet, preferably, because I guess people rarely only have a handful to get rid of.

    Abdhyius on
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    MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    I also love that NTT (Nihon Telephone and Telegraph) for someone reason is playing ads all the time.

    Its literally the semi-government owned Japanese telephone and cell company.

    Like they don't really exist in the US?

    I did know one person who worked there in the US. She was here for like 2 years.

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    nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
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    Give me n95s that look like crazy shit like this, cowards

    Its @Vanguard

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    MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Echo wrote: »
    Winky wrote: »
    What if the lasting impact of this is that it becomes stylish to wear masks all the time

    Also make it full face masks so I can go nuts with weird things.

    One of my twitter follows collects obsolete military gear for airsoft, including gas masks, so they are having the time of their lives with this

    I started to itch where the gas mask seal went nine years ago at the mention of wearing gas masks all day

    Apparently the other issue is that if you're buying obsolete Eastern bloc CBRN gear there's a decent chance that the filters either are or contain asbestos

    And some of them take modern filters but the question then becomes what you're going to do with this asbestos you just removed

    put a sticker on it that you write ASBESTOS on and hand it over at the recycling station (or whatever they call the place you go to to throw out things that do not fit into a bin)

    is at least the procedure here. Or, well, wrap it in heavy plastic first, but that's more for the eternitt sheets you got tearing down the old shed - and a filter is its own containment


    is it hard to get rid of asbestos in the UK?

    It's classed as hazardous waste so municipal disposal sites/recycling centres typically won't take it (and it might be a criminal offence we they to do so)

    I don't actually know how you would get rid of it here in a non-construction context

    There's a battery of regulations and specialist contractor requirements for building work involving old asbestos construction, but none of that really applies to disposing of an asbestos containing thing

    kind of a failure of classification, then

    because like, unless you start fucking with it and breathing it in, it is not hazardous. It's not toxic for the environment, it's inert, it's obviously not a fire hazard.

    like sure it's not y'know, great to have around, but when something is 100% safe when just put into a cupboard*, it seems a bit too much to say "hazardous"

    *or, indeed, in the construction of your house. Until the day you tear up that floor, mind you. It's sanitizing asbestos that is such a fucking pain.

    I did a bit of digging and there is a SEPA (Scottish environmental protection agency) classification code for asbestos-containing non construction waste

    You can use that to find a specialist disposal facility that is authorised to take it

    No idea what that would involve in practice

    I am suddenly much more appreciative of local sanitation

    if I have anything from a piano to plutonium I go there, and ask "which container does this go in?"

    you pay per cubic metre of stuff, as determined by a quick sideways glance by the guy in the booth

    edit: or in the case of asbestos, they ask that you wrap it in some proper plastic and mark it as such. Also on a pallet, preferably, because I guess people rarely only have a handful to get rid of.

    I just imagine someone bringing a box full of random items. They put it down. The sanitation worker looks at and just nods. Pointing to some buckets.

    No words are actually spoken.

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    AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    I am hungry. the toast mentioned earlier proved not to be sufficient food.

    I thought I had pasta I could make. This turned out to be about seven pieces of penne at the bottom of a box that I am now very annoyed I didn't cook or throw out, because I've been thinking for a while now that I have a box of penne when I indeed have only seven penne.

    anyways. I don't have much worth making a sauce out of, so I'm going to go for Beef Bouillon Cube Spaghetti.

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    japanjapan Registered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Echo wrote: »
    Winky wrote: »
    What if the lasting impact of this is that it becomes stylish to wear masks all the time

    Also make it full face masks so I can go nuts with weird things.

    One of my twitter follows collects obsolete military gear for airsoft, including gas masks, so they are having the time of their lives with this

    I started to itch where the gas mask seal went nine years ago at the mention of wearing gas masks all day

    Apparently the other issue is that if you're buying obsolete Eastern bloc CBRN gear there's a decent chance that the filters either are or contain asbestos

    And some of them take modern filters but the question then becomes what you're going to do with this asbestos you just removed

    put a sticker on it that you write ASBESTOS on and hand it over at the recycling station (or whatever they call the place you go to to throw out things that do not fit into a bin)

    is at least the procedure here. Or, well, wrap it in heavy plastic first, but that's more for the eternitt sheets you got tearing down the old shed - and a filter is its own containment


    is it hard to get rid of asbestos in the UK?

    It's classed as hazardous waste so municipal disposal sites/recycling centres typically won't take it (and it might be a criminal offence we they to do so)

    I don't actually know how you would get rid of it here in a non-construction context

    There's a battery of regulations and specialist contractor requirements for building work involving old asbestos construction, but none of that really applies to disposing of an asbestos containing thing

    kind of a failure of classification, then

    because like, unless you start fucking with it and breathing it in, it is not hazardous. It's not toxic for the environment, it's inert, it's obviously not a fire hazard.

    like sure it's not y'know, great to have around, but when something is 100% safe when just put into a cupboard*, it seems a bit too much to say "hazardous"

    *or, indeed, in the construction of your house. Until the day you tear up that floor, mind you. It's sanitizing asbestos that is such a fucking pain.

    I did a bit of digging and there is a SEPA (Scottish environmental protection agency) classification code for asbestos-containing non construction waste

    You can use that to find a specialist disposal facility that is authorised to take it

    No idea what that would involve in practice

    I am suddenly much more appreciative of local sanitation

    if I have anything from a piano to plutonium I go there, and ask "which container does this go in?"

    you pay per cubic metre of stuff, as determined by a quick sideways glance by the guy in the booth

    edit: or in the case of asbestos, they ask that you wrap it in some proper plastic and mark it as such. Also on a pallet, preferably, because I guess people rarely only have a handful to get rid of.

    You can do that here, for pretty much everything bar a couple of exceptions. The place near me has signage which prohibits asbestos, clinical waste, and dead livestock

    If you're a council tax payer in the area concerned it's free

    If it's commercial waste, then you pay

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    AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Echo wrote: »
    Winky wrote: »
    What if the lasting impact of this is that it becomes stylish to wear masks all the time

    Also make it full face masks so I can go nuts with weird things.

    One of my twitter follows collects obsolete military gear for airsoft, including gas masks, so they are having the time of their lives with this

    I started to itch where the gas mask seal went nine years ago at the mention of wearing gas masks all day

    Apparently the other issue is that if you're buying obsolete Eastern bloc CBRN gear there's a decent chance that the filters either are or contain asbestos

    And some of them take modern filters but the question then becomes what you're going to do with this asbestos you just removed

    put a sticker on it that you write ASBESTOS on and hand it over at the recycling station (or whatever they call the place you go to to throw out things that do not fit into a bin)

    is at least the procedure here. Or, well, wrap it in heavy plastic first, but that's more for the eternitt sheets you got tearing down the old shed - and a filter is its own containment


    is it hard to get rid of asbestos in the UK?

    It's classed as hazardous waste so municipal disposal sites/recycling centres typically won't take it (and it might be a criminal offence we they to do so)

    I don't actually know how you would get rid of it here in a non-construction context

    There's a battery of regulations and specialist contractor requirements for building work involving old asbestos construction, but none of that really applies to disposing of an asbestos containing thing

    kind of a failure of classification, then

    because like, unless you start fucking with it and breathing it in, it is not hazardous. It's not toxic for the environment, it's inert, it's obviously not a fire hazard.

    like sure it's not y'know, great to have around, but when something is 100% safe when just put into a cupboard*, it seems a bit too much to say "hazardous"

    *or, indeed, in the construction of your house. Until the day you tear up that floor, mind you. It's sanitizing asbestos that is such a fucking pain.

    I did a bit of digging and there is a SEPA (Scottish environmental protection agency) classification code for asbestos-containing non construction waste

    You can use that to find a specialist disposal facility that is authorised to take it

    No idea what that would involve in practice

    I am suddenly much more appreciative of local sanitation

    if I have anything from a piano to plutonium I go there, and ask "which container does this go in?"

    you pay per cubic metre of stuff, as determined by a quick sideways glance by the guy in the booth

    edit: or in the case of asbestos, they ask that you wrap it in some proper plastic and mark it as such. Also on a pallet, preferably, because I guess people rarely only have a handful to get rid of.

    I just imagine someone bringing a box full of random items. They put it down. The sanitation worker looks at and just nods. Pointing to some buckets.

    No words are actually spoken.

    they're big shipping containers, not buckets, but yeah.

    Normally the guy in the booth will speak to tell you that your trailerload of shit looks like it comes out to about hundred kroner, but you have only a bucket, and he'll wave you in.

    once in the area of the containers you may hold aloft an item out of your bucket and catch the eye of a passing man in hi viz, and he'll probably point to the appropriate container.

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    I am hungry. the toast mentioned earlier proved not to be sufficient food.

    I thought I had pasta I could make. This turned out to be about seven pieces of penne at the bottom of a box that I am now very annoyed I didn't cook or throw out, because I've been thinking for a while now that I have a box of penne when I indeed have only seven penne.

    anyways. I don't have much worth making a sauce out of, so I'm going to go for Beef Bouillon Cube Spaghetti.

    Sounds like 6 more penne than you need.
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    AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    big bulldozers and backhoes go around crunching the contents of the containers regularly, and various citizens are chucking their former shed into a container from a distance - so it's quite a loud place, where words aren't used if they don't have to.

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    AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    japan wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
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    japan wrote: »
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    Winky wrote: »
    What if the lasting impact of this is that it becomes stylish to wear masks all the time

    Also make it full face masks so I can go nuts with weird things.

    One of my twitter follows collects obsolete military gear for airsoft, including gas masks, so they are having the time of their lives with this

    I started to itch where the gas mask seal went nine years ago at the mention of wearing gas masks all day

    Apparently the other issue is that if you're buying obsolete Eastern bloc CBRN gear there's a decent chance that the filters either are or contain asbestos

    And some of them take modern filters but the question then becomes what you're going to do with this asbestos you just removed

    put a sticker on it that you write ASBESTOS on and hand it over at the recycling station (or whatever they call the place you go to to throw out things that do not fit into a bin)

    is at least the procedure here. Or, well, wrap it in heavy plastic first, but that's more for the eternitt sheets you got tearing down the old shed - and a filter is its own containment


    is it hard to get rid of asbestos in the UK?

    It's classed as hazardous waste so municipal disposal sites/recycling centres typically won't take it (and it might be a criminal offence we they to do so)

    I don't actually know how you would get rid of it here in a non-construction context

    There's a battery of regulations and specialist contractor requirements for building work involving old asbestos construction, but none of that really applies to disposing of an asbestos containing thing

    kind of a failure of classification, then

    because like, unless you start fucking with it and breathing it in, it is not hazardous. It's not toxic for the environment, it's inert, it's obviously not a fire hazard.

    like sure it's not y'know, great to have around, but when something is 100% safe when just put into a cupboard*, it seems a bit too much to say "hazardous"

    *or, indeed, in the construction of your house. Until the day you tear up that floor, mind you. It's sanitizing asbestos that is such a fucking pain.

    I did a bit of digging and there is a SEPA (Scottish environmental protection agency) classification code for asbestos-containing non construction waste

    You can use that to find a specialist disposal facility that is authorised to take it

    No idea what that would involve in practice

    I am suddenly much more appreciative of local sanitation

    if I have anything from a piano to plutonium I go there, and ask "which container does this go in?"

    you pay per cubic metre of stuff, as determined by a quick sideways glance by the guy in the booth

    edit: or in the case of asbestos, they ask that you wrap it in some proper plastic and mark it as such. Also on a pallet, preferably, because I guess people rarely only have a handful to get rid of.

    You can do that here, for pretty much everything bar a couple of exceptions. The place near me has signage which prohibits asbestos, clinical waste, and dead livestock

    If you're a council tax payer in the area concerned it's free

    If it's commercial waste, then you pay

    it being free sounds like a nice deal though at least (if there isn't a limit)

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    zagdrobzagdrob Registered User regular
    When we removed the asbestos tiles from the sides of the house we were renovating we just put them in contractors bags and took them to the dump. Took two trips but since they didn't contain food waste we just dropped them off in the construction waste area and nobody said or asked anything about it.

    Those tiles are pretty inert but I still wore tyvek and an N95 just to be safe.

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    japanjapan Registered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
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    Winky wrote: »
    What if the lasting impact of this is that it becomes stylish to wear masks all the time

    Also make it full face masks so I can go nuts with weird things.

    One of my twitter follows collects obsolete military gear for airsoft, including gas masks, so they are having the time of their lives with this

    I started to itch where the gas mask seal went nine years ago at the mention of wearing gas masks all day

    Apparently the other issue is that if you're buying obsolete Eastern bloc CBRN gear there's a decent chance that the filters either are or contain asbestos

    And some of them take modern filters but the question then becomes what you're going to do with this asbestos you just removed

    put a sticker on it that you write ASBESTOS on and hand it over at the recycling station (or whatever they call the place you go to to throw out things that do not fit into a bin)

    is at least the procedure here. Or, well, wrap it in heavy plastic first, but that's more for the eternitt sheets you got tearing down the old shed - and a filter is its own containment


    is it hard to get rid of asbestos in the UK?

    It's classed as hazardous waste so municipal disposal sites/recycling centres typically won't take it (and it might be a criminal offence we they to do so)

    I don't actually know how you would get rid of it here in a non-construction context

    There's a battery of regulations and specialist contractor requirements for building work involving old asbestos construction, but none of that really applies to disposing of an asbestos containing thing

    kind of a failure of classification, then

    because like, unless you start fucking with it and breathing it in, it is not hazardous. It's not toxic for the environment, it's inert, it's obviously not a fire hazard.

    like sure it's not y'know, great to have around, but when something is 100% safe when just put into a cupboard*, it seems a bit too much to say "hazardous"

    *or, indeed, in the construction of your house. Until the day you tear up that floor, mind you. It's sanitizing asbestos that is such a fucking pain.

    I did a bit of digging and there is a SEPA (Scottish environmental protection agency) classification code for asbestos-containing non construction waste

    You can use that to find a specialist disposal facility that is authorised to take it

    No idea what that would involve in practice

    I am suddenly much more appreciative of local sanitation

    if I have anything from a piano to plutonium I go there, and ask "which container does this go in?"

    you pay per cubic metre of stuff, as determined by a quick sideways glance by the guy in the booth

    edit: or in the case of asbestos, they ask that you wrap it in some proper plastic and mark it as such. Also on a pallet, preferably, because I guess people rarely only have a handful to get rid of.

    You can do that here, for pretty much everything bar a couple of exceptions. The place near me has signage which prohibits asbestos, clinical waste, and dead livestock

    If you're a council tax payer in the area concerned it's free

    If it's commercial waste, then you pay

    it being free sounds like a nice deal though at least (if there isn't a limit)

    In theory there isn't a limit, but if you're dumping a lot of stuff then you're probably going to get some questions to establish that you aren't dumping commercial waste

    Usually the test for this is "do the attendants feel like they've been seeing you a lot recently"

    Or if you're my brother, turning up in a pickup truck signwritten with the details of a landscaping firm, with a very large quantity of garden waste

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