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I lasted for 26 seconds. Who can beat my time? Kinda like bull riding, but different.

Is it wrong to laugh?

I made it to almost 2 minutes. Yes I laughed.

I didn't have the sound on, but I watched the whole thing.

I am in almost all of those situations at work.

It's good to go home every day!

No, you have to have the sound on, you really need to hear it.

Pintgudge wrote:I didn't have the sound on, but I watched the whole thing.
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Pint, this statement is complete and utter fail. Try to watch it again with the sound on and you will understand.

Edit:Rolly, I am rolling on the floor laughing, regarding our coincident petitions.

Yes, the sound is a critical component of the joy.

oh, an early Portishead video.

Excruciating, but still I laughed all the way through it.

This is what the director for the Willy Wonka movie did to pay for film school. Just when you thought nothing could be more embarrassing than goat on man porn

The only thing that could have made this better is oompaloompas

MADE IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH!

I couldn't stop laughing, especially when EVERY explosion (even electrical boxes shorting out) made the same noise as a car/bus/demolition/rocket-booster explosion from any Quinn/Martin production.

I'm with ya Ames, it's a bit like watching a Michael Bay flick.

I'm not on acid right now.

Why do I feel like I'm on acid right now?

It's good, but way too general. I did dig the psychedelic soundtrack.
I think safety instructions are more worthwhile when dealing with the specific safety hazards inherent to the specific job, rather than all industrial work in general.
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Both of those videos are off-the-charts awesome.

Feeling good about having a desk job at the moment.

I think Staplerfahrer Klaus was what Peter Jackson was directing before he did Dead Alive.

Absolutely loved that last shot!

I was required to watch the first video in it's original form when I had to take safety training at my last job.

Funny Dan, Oompa Loompas were the first thing I thought of.

Holy shit DerGolgo, that is fucking jangleplatz!! I love the severed arm with chainsaw cam! Someone really should do a parody of these with computer programmers! Or librarians! Oh shit, rock stars! You could totally do one of these types of PSA's about rockstars!

Yeah, back in my construction days our safety supervisors loved pulling old school shit like this out.
It does make a good point though, as comical as those vidoes are, can you imagine working at a paper mill and seeing someone pulled into a machine? Or falling from a scaffold (seen that myself) or being struck by a piece of heavy equipment? Its funny to watch people turn into ragdolls while they fall but dealing with them being seriously hurt after they land is no fun. Not trying to be a downer, just sayin'...

There were some guys working on the roof of the car dealership next door a few weeks ago, and one of them had a rope tied around his waist.
I wanted to o explain to him that he'd be better off falling the 15 feet to the ground than falling 10 and having his spine severed, internal organs re-arranged, but he just kind of ignored me because he thought I was going to tell him to clean up the shit he was dropping in my yard.
Which I was.

My fave in the video was the sound the baling monster made when it ate the guy.

OM NOMNOM NOM NOMNOMNOM!!!!!

But it's hard to get folks to pay attention to stuff, that's why these videos are good. They're so corny they are effective.

That guy who got his toe chopped off? At my plant it was all of the toes.
Guy walks differently now after a three month vacation, and his math skills are permanently screwed because he only has fifteen instead of twenty to count!

The guy being winched out of the pit, unconscious? That too.

It IS good to go home after work!

Mildly on subject, interesting work-safety posters from the USSR:





Oh, look! He's making a little clone of himself:
(Something about only ever using the forceps to put the workpiece into the die...if this is, indeed, how they manufactured little plastic bears, well, no wonder the USSR went and collapsed).

The one on the right doesn't look very concerned, does she?


http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2011 ... more-33189

Judging by the repeat appearance of rotary tables, soviet drilling operations must have been seriously dangerous!

Im totally changing my sig line now.