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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Flipside on November 06, 2009, 12:14:45 pm
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8347408.stm
Apparently, the speakers on the London underground started broadcasting 'sexual noises' during rush hour...
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
Why can i never be on the underground when stuff like this happens?
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Ew
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That has to be a stunt :P
Awesome haha
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Which station was it? Because I know for a a fact you can only "change from the pink to the brown" at baker street.
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Damn you! I just sprayed coffee over my keyboard!
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Which station was it? Because I know for a a fact you can only "change from the pink to the brown" at baker street.
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You naughty boy, Holmes.
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Britain gets the best technical errors. :lol:
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i think they were definitely going to fire someone with access to that stuff.
and that person went out IN STYLE!
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The best part about it is that they turned off the intercom, but the people had fiddled with it and it didn't stop the noise. :D :D
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Hahahahah!
/me rofls
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:lol:
Quite an hilarious thing to happen.
Then again, here in Helsinki there was a brief moment some months ago when, instead of instructions of how to buy tickets a porno film was played on one of the Helsinki railway stations self serve ticket machines. That was a hack job, apparently.
Sadly... I wasn't there. I just read it from the paper.
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Brings a new meaning to "self-serve," I suppose.
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yea sort of I guess
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Which station was it? Because I know for a a fact you can only "change from the pink to the brown" at baker street.
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:jaw: Did he just...
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/upload/2009/04/why_projection_isnt_all_its_cracked_up_t/picardandrikerdoublefacnm1.jpg
Thats all i have to say about that
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:lol: embedfail
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Woah, terran_emperor, the double facepalm???
Remember with great power comes great responsibilty, that is not something one can just throw out like that.
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On the topic of metro trains, the main station of Helsinki metro (the one under the Helsinki Railway station) was pretty much flooded last sunday afternoon due to a burst water main and a mysterious hole that had been drilled to the concrete casing around said water main by unknown persons at unknown time. No one seems to know where that hole came from, and when it appeared, but if the casing had been intact the water would likely have just burst to the street level surface rather than rushing down to the metro station's cavern.
The incident basically blocked the trains from going west through that spot and there's no track to circumwent the station, so the three westernmost metro stations are essentially out of order for the time being.
...and before you ask how much water it was; about 10000 m3 of water, at worst spots piled up to 20 metres height in elevator shaft, so the pressure was quite massive, enough to deform the elevator shaft walls and doors:
(http://kuvat.uusisuomi.fi/sites/default/files/imagecache/suurennettu/kuvat/3I3X2330.jpg)
Allegedly, several shops were pretty much aquariumized, as were the rest rooms of the ticket inspectors (three to four metres of water there...)
Here's a news article in londonese (http://www.yle.fi/uutiset/news/2009/11/flooding_in_helsinki_centre_disrupts_traffic_1144632.html), if you're interested.
Luckily, no casualties or even injuries. No one was in the elevator at the time of the leak, and the elevator shaft and doors didn't give in completely, so the people on platform level could get away without being washed away into the high voltage tracks on the actual metro tunnel...
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Our trains get delayed by forty+ minutes if theres a fraction of that water, such as friday just gone. :mad: stupid England, it's noty as if it's never rained here before.....
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Well yeah but it tends to be better when they are not working. At least that way you don't die of heat exhaustion with your nose pressed into an armpit. :D :D
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I'm a commuting machine. I'm on the sevenoaks service now. Jammed train even by LDN standards. But i'm seated comfortably. All you need is a good elbow technique and a holdall to provide legroom.
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Urrrgh, that sounds grim.
Also **** biology essays. :(
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In Singapore, suicides cause delays. It's a fad to jump infront of a moving train and traumatise everyone around you.
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We had one at Catford bridge saturday before last. Shut down all trains from London Bridge to Hayes. So suicide happens here too. To be honest Catford is pretty grim. But lack of moral fibre probably contributed.
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Apparently, the speakers on the London underground started broadcasting 'sexual noises' during rush hour...
Maybe they were just picking up this woman (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wear/8352729.stm)? :p
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:lol:
Yeah, I read about that, and I must admit that, looking at them, the screaming was not wholly unjustified...
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This line takes the cake.
Caroline and Steve Cartwright's love-making was described as "murder" and "unnatural" at Newcastle Crown Court
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Bag of laughs your country is. :P
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It's probably a BBC thing, no doubt they took the piss in the papers ;)
In a way, I kind of feel sorry for them, since the UK is going through a 16th Century Japanese architecture thing at the moment, where a thin piece of paper is considered 'sufficient' for a wall, at least, that's the only reason I can think of for the construction methods used on newer homes.
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47 decibels?
Good walls wouldn't make much difference.
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True, in that particular case, but, I still believe that a lot of these problems could be at least reduced if 'construction material' didn't fall into the category of 'the cheapest **** we can get away with'.
That said, I don't think the UK is alone in that little habit.
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I think insulation in all the walls and the ceiling would make it more sound proof. That can be installed by the residents themselves if it is their own house and they know how and have the money and time to tear walls apart. It seems they don't make houses and apartments as high quality here as they used to. Now it is thin cheap wood. To consider that the construction methods in the Roman and Egyptian empires were superior in longevity and stength than today's construction methods. It's kind of sad really that it has been down-graded in that way these days.
Eh, only the public buildings (partially) and palaces were of the quality you're thinking of. The normal people in cities lived in a fairly dangerously built shacks piled on top of each other to form apartment buildings (or tower blocks if you wish, though the amount of floors wasn't quite as high as in present days). There are barely any remnants or even ruins left of those, just the high quality stuff. Same largely applies to all ancient civilizations; mainly the monuments have survived, because they were made to survive.
Of course, the buildings that have survived - plus the roads and aqueducts - those were quality engineering all right. The largest dome built of non-reinforced concrete belongs to the Pantheon...
If I were sent back in time to ancient Rome, I'd try and teach them how to use reinforced concrete and see what they would come up with that. Now that would be interesting, because it would give them incentive to industrial steel production, which would probably make them find an use for the silly Greek toy called steam turbine.
If games are so much fun. :drevil:
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Steel and concrete have the same coefficients of thermal expansion, that's what makes the use of reinforced concrete possible in the first place.
And the steel reinforcements encased within the concrete typically doesn't really corrode all that fast, since it's practically sealed environment.
Of course, if the concrete gets damaged and exposes the steel reinforcements, the corrosion can start seeping in via the interface of steel and concrete, but even then it takes a long while for the structure to weaken.
Someone correct me if I'm completely in the wrong about this. :nervous:
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Sometimes they put a coating on the rebar before they pour the concrete. Concrete is porous too, so I guess some water could seep in there, maybe.
But yeah, High Max, reinforced concrete is WAY stronger than pure concrete, and a for a building to stay standing for 100-200 years with no maintenance at all is pretty good.
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Only on HLP could a thread about sex end up as a discussion of concrete. :p
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Ah yep. That's us. :D
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Only on HLP could a thread about sex end up as a discussion of concrete. :p
Indeed.
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Well, you can't have a good discussion without concrete examples. It would be just a string of anecdotal references and handwaving.
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Let's face it:
(a) Imagining those two getting down to some bump and grind.
(b) Thinking about Concrete.
I'd take option (b)...
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Oh cheers, just break down my carefully constructed defence against that. Now that image is stuck in my head.
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Well, you can't have a good discussion without concrete examples. It would be just a string of anecdotal references and handwaving.
Indeed my good man. No position can be properly argued without the use of rock hard proof, and steely determination that you are right.
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Oh cheers, just break down my carefully constructed defence against that. Now that image is stuck in my head.
:lol: Add the 'Blue Oyster' music from Police Academy to the scene, that helps ;)