Oh, nice tip! Any good way of emulating that on a mobile Android keyboard? Or do you just copy and paste a lot? Perhaps this could be done with a custom autocorrect dictionary injury?
rustyredox
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So, you're telling me that conductors would ghost ride their own train as a safety precaution? What a wild time!
I can only imagine the instances where the track dipped downhill a little after a bridge, picking up unsuspected speed, and leaving the crew frantically sprinting after the caboose.
Or that one bad day, when it's late into your shift, and you're feeling kind of sick and tired, and just don't have it in you to jog after your train over the upteinth bridge tonight, so you decide to risk it, relax a little, and ride it out. But then your luck also runs out, and you fall down the ravine in a burning metal cage only to then drown in the river, like some big budget action shot in a 1926 silent-film.
Just a few days ago I was re-reading the Restaurant at the end of the universe, and was going to try and look up this quote before reading the comments. I've really got to get around to reading the rest of the books by Douglas Adams, as I loved his hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy series.
Yes, more videos like this please! Campy but informative on novel scientific topics and recent discoveries. Just subscribed.
I took a photography class once where we developed our own black and white film. Getting the exposure just right while taking the shot, then processing the reel, then transferring the negatives was so tricky, especially when the subject lighting had a lot of dynamic range. Must have been a lot harder back then without all the optimized commercial chemistry supplies. But, perhaps this was a glass etching and not film?
These two workers specifically?
I could see with that.
These kind of workers in general?
I'm betting the ones who managed to limp off after one good belly flop would have quickly retired to shorter stilts.
There was a fairly big 40K lore channel on YouTube with a rather good AI impersonation of David Attenborough's voice and narration style/scripting. However, I just went to check it, yet it must have recently gotten hit with a DMCA and taken down. A shame really. Though I never got into 40K lore before, or the 40K franchise in general, I am a big fan of David Attenborough, and so that ended up really drawing me in to a new literary universe. However, it was a big mistake by the YouTube creator to use the name and photo likeness of Attenborough in the branding, video titles, and thumbnail art on the channel. I think without pushing that line, the AI voice with a clear disclosure could have kept the channel under the legal radar.
- https://old.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/17b4t1v/attenborough_lore_shut_down/
- https://youtube.com/@AttenboroughLore
From the pinned comments made here, this looks to be the same creators new channel, now using a different voice, no longer based on any one real person:
That's intense! Imagine tipping over the point of no return and falling over 3x your hight, all while your feet and hips are strapped in place. No bailing from the stilts, no tuck and roll, just catching yourself like your landing the most insane jumping pushup, that is if your even falling face first.
The workers also don't look too young. I wonder if this is sort of like the case of there being no bold, old pilots. Just seasoned workers who learn never to push their luck when balancing all day, or just folks who really learned how to take a fall early in their life.
Great community BTW, just subscribed.
The four eyed fish trivolously gives it away, cuz that ain't no flounder. Also, what cat in its right mind would be stealing a scavenged kill without it tightly secured in its jaws while on the run, let alone clinging a fish to its chest like an anthropomorphic cartoon?
The wide angle composition is kind of cool though, but I prefer photos of real cats.
I had the exact same thought. Glad to find someone beat me to the punch after checking the comments.
Seems to be a recurring theme with historic workplace photos: