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  1. Crown Royal

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    Just call me Topher

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    I love the distillery district and Old Town. It’s the crown jewel of Toronto as far as I’m concerned:
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  2. Nettdata

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    Fucking hell... this is incredible:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Catastroph...oncrete_retaining_wall_failure_allows_a_hill/

    Apparently some intense rain/flooding in Istanbul has caused a concrete retaining wall to let loose... and it's scary as hell watching it slowly come undone. (It's a big/deep construction site hole/pit that looks to be many stories deep). You can hear the individual retaining bolts snap... slowly at first, and then faster and faster.

    Later on another building then slid into the hole.

    Fucking hell.
     
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    And the other building sliding into the pit...

     
    #243 Nettdata, Jul 25, 2018
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    jesus christ. These types of videos always remind me of readign about that mall in China that completely collapse on the patrons due to the faulty/cheap construction.
     
    #244 Juice, Jul 25, 2018
  5. toytoy88

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    Gotta love karma. Larry Nassar was assaulted within hours of his release to the general population at the United States Penitentiary in Tucson, AZ.

    Nassar’s attorneys blamed the prison assault on Judge Rosemarie Aquilina. Yeah, totally the judge's fault, their client is completely blameless.
     
    #245 toytoy88, Jul 25, 2018
  6. Revengeofthenerds

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    I can only imagine when he walked into general, everyone else there got REAL quiet. The kinda quiet where you know something is about to happen, you just don't know when.

    Those few hours were probably more painful than the beating he got.

    The rest of his life should be similarly fun.
     
    #246 Revengeofthenerds, Jul 25, 2018
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    Yeah.... everyone always bitches about the red tape associated with building and construction, but in the end, it's there to try and prevent that kind of failure from happening.

    It's the #1 Canon of the Civil Engineering Code of Ethics...

    Engineers shall hold paramount the safety, health and welfare of the public and shall strive to comply with the principles of sustainable development in the performance of their professional duties.
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    http://www.asce.org/code-of-ethics/

    There's a special place in hell for suppliers or contractors that intentionally provide or use sub-standard materials or cut corners.
     
    #247 Nettdata, Jul 25, 2018
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    I'm a civil engineer and keeping contractors honest is the biggest pain in the ass. Even if what they want to do is a good idea and will save money, you have to be on them that the client should see a reduced cost or they can fuck off and follow the plans to the letter.
     
    #248 AbsentMindedProf, Jul 25, 2018
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    I can only imagine what herding those cats must be like.
     
    #249 Nettdata, Jul 25, 2018
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    I bet the exchanges aren’t very.... civil?
     
    #250 Revengeofthenerds, Jul 25, 2018
  11. Rush-O-Matic

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    Lol, I was JUST having that conversation with a contractor foreman yesterday. I was explaining all the CQA testing and surveying of flexible membrane liner that has to be done (impermeable plastic) for things like sludge ponds, landfills, etc. I said, 99.9 percent of the time, we don't have to come back and know the panel numbers, find any destruct testing or any of that. If there are minor repairs, they just get fixed, irrespective of the panel location. The testing and surveying is just to keep the liner contractors and laborers from cheating. Because, they will. Every single laborer on the job site with an extrusion welder would lie and cut corners if they weren't being tested.
     
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    Just got a bottle of "Liquid Ass" off amazon.

    Time to see how long I can make it go blaming the smell on the dog and our infant.

    This might make my wife puke.
     
    #252 Revengeofthenerds, Jul 25, 2018
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    It will make any human with a sense of smell puke. It is the smell of shit. Nothing else. The only thing worse is rotting meat.

    You spray that horrendous concoction in your house, enjoy your hotel room for the next two days. It will clear a city bus on the next stop.
     
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    Anybody who likes to cut corners while building something should be given the “Ludovico Treatment” from Clockwork Orange and forced to watch the documentary about that skywalk collapsing at the Hyatt Regency. Watch a couple hundred people get flattened like a cheap pizza.

    ....Over and over until you stop putting in cold fucking welds. GODDAMN IT.
     
    #254 Crown Royal, Jul 25, 2018
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    Oh I'm very familiar! My wife and I used to each have a bottle and fuck with each other with it, but that was years ago so I think she's forgotten how easy it is to deploy.

    My favorite liquid ass prank though was when we poured an entire bottle of it onto a pair of my boxers and hid it in the back seat of my buddy's jeep. His wife was in on the joke (so we didn't get completely murdered). Dude's jeep smelled like that shit for about a week.
     
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    I would drug you and shave a swatztika into the back of your head for that.
     
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    I got the title for my Z28 today and I'm thrilled....I couldn't ask for a better pedigree for the car. ( Of course I immediately googled the past owners name. I found his obituary from February of this year, so I was able to put together a bit of a timeline. )

    He bought the car when it was a year old in 1997 with 9K on it. It looks like it was a retirement gift to himself....he retired in 1997 at 52. He owned a small farm on a paved road and had numerous other vehicles and a garage, so I'm guessing this was his nice weather toy since it only has 100K now. He owned the car from the ages 52-72, so the chances this thing hasn't been driven hard are pretty good as are the chances that it very well maintained.

    Now I just can't wait to get my hands on it, which is probably still a couple of weeks away because of work.
     
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    Sounds like you got yourself a good score. Congrats!
     
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    Thanks. That's the kind of history you dream of finding with a used performance car....I'm stoked.

    Have I mentioned that even with shipping I'm going to be under $4K into it? Double score.
     
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    It's a little hard to judge distance, but I'm mildly surprised that they were standing so close to that wall. The force behind those retaining bolts must have been intense, I wonder how fast the heads were shooting off and how far they went?
     
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