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Hard work never hurt anyone, but why take chances.
Anonymous
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
Anonymous
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'Tis no joke. There's a gravel pit and concrete company just off the highway I take to work. A number of years ago one of their mixer trucks rolled off the highway, and they couldn't get it emptied in time before a full load of concrete set inside the barrel. The truck was detached and the barrel was left there for a couple months while the company negotiated with the city on its disposal. The barrel was too big and awkwardly placed to move via crane. Initially, they wanted to dig a large hole and just bury it in place, but the state was worried about long-term maintenance of the highway. Various other solutions were either too time-consuming (jack-hammers) or environmentally hazardous (solvents to dissolve the concrete).
The final solution - insert a very specific amount of explosive inside the barrel from the mixer, cover the barrel with hundreds of bags of sand, and set off the explosive. This fractured the concrete into manageable chunks that could be cleaned up easily. They only had the the highway closed for a couple of hours, and it only took them a day or two to cut up the barrel and haul the concrete away.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Although it's a major f***up, that sounds actually quite hilarious. I would have loved to see the explosion from far, far away. 
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Unfortunately this was before the days of ubiquitous video cameras, so no film at 11.
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I've never had occasion to find out.
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I think you'll find it's simply old age!
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It has actually morphed into full blown viral/sore throat shivering and tiredness, so perhaps I am not fit for the knackers yard just yet!
Still, an excuse to slob out all day and watch crap films. After all, what else can you do in Provence in June when it is 30C and the pool is deep blue! 
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Munchies_Matt wrote: I just made and laid about 4 tonnes of concrete this morning, ... Throat is swollen,
Hopefully you were using a dust mask.
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Eye protection as well. My step-dad and I were painting our basement walls with a concrete-based paint. It came as a powder that you mixed with water. I got a bit of the powder in my eye, and spent 15 minutes with my eye held open under running water. Not a pleasant experience.
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You did too much with too few training. When I used to stack wood one a year it was basically the same.
Also powdered concrete is igroscopic as hell and clogs your breathing conduits. If you have trouble breathing go see a medic.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
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* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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For all those in Canada and ex-pats living elsewhere, Happy Canada Day!
Enjoy some butter tarts and poutine.
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Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
Anonymous
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Canada, what the US would be if they hadnt got their independence... 
Anyway, hay Canada day!
I learned the other day my grand parents got married in Montreal. Its a strange old world.
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Our air conditioner stopped working for some reason, and when I went out to check the heat exchanger outside, it was turning on and off in regular 5-second intervals (5 seconds on, 5 off, repeat). I killed power to it and checked the external cutoff (to see if it was loose), and then restored power. It started working correctly right away.
A quick Google and it seems our unit has a tendency to have its internal motor controller glitch and start doing what I was seeing. Killing and restoring power resets the controller and fixes the issue (until it glitches again).
It seems the controller glitches most often when it is very wet out, and we just had a ton of rain, flooding a lot of places, which explains the glitch.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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With "fix-it" skills like that, you should be in tech support! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: With "fix-it" skills like that, you should be in tech support!
Problem is in real life "Tech Support" is [on a good day] max 10% "Tech" and 90% "s/Tech/Idiot/g"
- which is why TS burns too many good people.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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When our A/C inexplicably stops working, it is usually the drain pipe that takes water that forms on the condenser to the outside, that gets clogged. There is some kind of slime that grows in the pipe. Pouring a cup of chlorine bleach into the reservoir that catches the condensed water every couple of months, helps a lot.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Consider yourself lucky if you have a cutoff switch for the drainage. Very recently, I had the drain for my downstairs unit clog completely to the point that I had to dismantle the whole assembly (having 2 90s and a 45) to clear it out. I replaced all of those joints with a piece of clear plastic tubing which eliminated the elbows and allows me to see at a glance if there is a problem. Luckily, I caught it before it made a real mess.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Controller probably running Windows 10 embedded. Was busy updating. Just reboot, fixes everything.
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
Anonymous
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In our family we call it "Cutting our Losses Day". Dumping that failed colony was the best thing we did!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Quote: failed colony
Failed colony? That from someone living in the UK that had to be bailed out in two world wars by the "failed" colony?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Quote: bailed out
The US of A sold Britain and it's allies all it could and then stepped in at the last minute to claim all the credit as usual. Since the UK, and France, Belgium and The Netherlands have been paying you back in hard currency for decades ever since I think the US can be officially classed as "war profiteers". I understand that the UK paid the last installment just last year ("bail money"?); so how will the US survive now without Europe paying off the war debts (known by some as "usury")? The US was in a pretty poor state economically just before WWII and it was the best thing, economically, that could have happened for it! Especially with US statesmen such as Joseph Kennedy stirring things up against Britain...
OK, I'm not going to get into it any further. I quite like the US and anyway, many countries have things in their past that they would rather not talk about. Germany for example, until recently, was a great place to live.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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