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Car Record Players of the 1950s and 1960s | Early Infotainment Systems- Consumer Reports News

My kid dropped this pose on us yesterday.

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Received this box at work today:

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Seriously? Exactly how the fuck am I supposed to to open it, then? Strong language?

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I lol'ed

Or you can:
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If you cannot cut the tape, split the tape. The guy in charge of safety at our plant would argue there is a huge difference.
Notice the round metal protrusion on the box opening device below. It is not sharp, it tears the tape. Any cutting would require cut-resistant gloves.
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Safety here is kinda weird. I even have to wear a high-vis vest to get to my office, since I cut-through the warehouse where dangerous wild fork lifts roam. Thank god the bright yellow reflective vest keeps them from attacking me.

Workplace safety is overrated. Mehh

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Ironically, that would end very badly. The box is full of firestop pillows. These are full of intumescent, a material which expands wildly when exposed to fire.

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There are a couple of spots in the top-floor mechanical space of the Hancock Tower which look a bit like that. Scares the willies out of me.

Oddly enough, I just had firestop training a couple weeks ago with STI. I thought that looked familiar.

Have you checked out their EZ-Path system? It's a lot less of a pain than running through firewalls and having to firestop, especially considering that at least 51% of the opening must be firestop (when sealing cables).
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Go up on the roof and light one on fire, film it, upload it to youtube. Now. Please? :likecat:

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I 2nd that. Majority rules Joe.

Cats hate costumes.

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There are plenty of videos out there of intumescent material doing its thing.




Unrelated: random newsroom photos:

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And an unnecessarily large number of updates:

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And a thing in progress:

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And an icicle that I pulled off of the inside of my bedroom window:

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And a thing that was really goddamned hard to calibrate:

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And one of the many SCBA tanks lying randomly around the office:

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And, when the fuck did the Honda Accord become a 4WD SUV?

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And a battleaxe that my increasingly senile father thought would be a good birthday gift for my 11 year old niece:

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And me, underwater, looking at stuff:

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And a really interesting handcrafted model of Falkor the Luck Dragon that my sister had commissioned by some lady in Russia:

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And a frozen yogurt shop inside a bookstore in Florida. I thought hipster bookstores were supposed to have coffee shops in them? Oh, #Florida...

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And me, balancing dice on dice:

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And a room inside O'Hare Airport that I don't think I was supposed to be able to get into, that I got into:

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And two of the guys who work for me who swear that they didn't plan this:

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And a room that I need to figure out how to cram yet more shit into:

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Is that a sufficiently random assortment of photos for this thread?

The point, good sir, is not to see what it does, but to get the Joe Perez narration and reaction :bigtu:

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Ehh, you clearly left out the one showing where the fake news is generated. :D

Those carpet tiles piss my eyes off.

I also did a thing
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