Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Washington State DOT Uses M-60 Tank For Avalanche Control


The Washington State Department of Transportation uses multiple methods to make sure that drivers stay safe from avalanches. This particular method might be the most striking though. The DOT fires live artillery rounds at unstable snow to trigger avalanches while drivers aren't out on the roads. 

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Bill Hader's Best Celebrity Impressions


Maybe the most impressive part about all these tremendous impersonations is Bill Hader's ability to nail the pitch of each celebrity's voice as well. 

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Hogwarts Express Sighting Blocked Perfectly By Regular Train


In a wonderful moment of mass disappointment, these onlookers who waited just to see the Hogwarts Express had their time expertly ruined by a regular commuter train. That timing is perfection.

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Ex-Boyfriend Takes Advantage Of Lease, Gets Reported To Landlord


At its core this whole dramatic scenario sound like the sloppy manifestation of a nasty breakup. One person ends up moving out and the other ex-boyfriend swings low by having a ton of people move in that basically pay his way, while his ex has to make full payments on the rent. So, his ex reported him to the landlord, and he was screwed from there. Just a textbook petty revenge between a bitter couple of ex lovers. 

Check out another petty revenge with this story about some loud neighbors that deprived a family of sleep, so the kids took revenge.

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Text - r/pettyrevenge + Join u/dppick09 • 354d I Informed Our Landlord About Non- Leased Tenants To Screw Ex Over TL;DR on the bottom. On mobile etc. This was quite a long time ago. I was in my early twenties and had just gotten out of a relationship. The separation wasn't exactly a pretty one. We had lived together and I was beyond ready to move out and never speak to him again. There was just one problem: we were only five months into a one year lease at our duplex. We had a 2 bedroom duplex b

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Text - Find someone to take over my portion of the lease for the remaining months. He refused to do that and said he would NOT find someone to take my portion. • Breaking the lease. I felt like this would have been a good option because he had a ton of family who would have easily taken him in. He refused this option as well and said 'he wasn't making me move out, I chose to, so l can deal with the consequences of my actions.! He just REFUSED to compromise with me at all. I had friends/family re

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Text - However, a few months later I was hanging out with a friend of mine. He was a friend of both my ex and I. He decides to let me know that my ex very recently had FIVE people move in to our apartment. Three of them were unemployed and staying there rent free. The other two had jobs and were each paying 1/3 of HIS portion of rent. I won't lie, if they would have covered my entire portion or even just PART of it I most likely would have let it go. The fact that he found people to live there a

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Text - The next day I made a call to my landlord and told him everything. He immediately contacted my ex, made him pay a fine and told him that each and every one of the tenants needed to apply to be on the lease. All of them applied. NONE of them got approved so they were all kicked out. He had to continue to pay his portion for the remaining months of the lease. Pretty sure he never found out it was me who ratted him out. TL;DR: Ex and I broke up, I moved out but was still on the lease and pay

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Stuff That Looks Like Tasty Food But Isn't


We're geared to look for tasty things to eat and there's nothing we can do about it. Well, the one thing we can do is not eat something that's obviously a rock or bowl of poison. The thing is, there's so much tempting stuff out there that looks like food but isn't. It's hard to keep track of it all.

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Rock - so-called "scientists" don't want you to know about the beef mines

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Motor vehicle - TOBLERONEM

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Plant - These are not grapes. This is how chalcedony spherulites look like - a translucent mineral, a cryptocrystalline fine-fiber type of quartz.

4. Forbidden Prosciutto

Food - Nice

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Rock - おもしろい石たち Amusing stones 三枚肉 Boned rib of pork Clam 目玉焼き Fried egg Beef

6. Forbidden Spaghetti

Yellow

7. Forbidden Electric Pizza

Food

8. Forbidden Mantis Salad

Food

9. Forbidden Pocky

Material property - GLOSS PAINT clas ohlson

10. Forbidden Popcorn

Fungus

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Asphalt - TO

12. Forbidden Baklava

Rock

13. Forbidden Syrup

Product - er W5 DISHWASHING IG LIQUID SWEET MAPLE N 100% 100% 500ml 500ml

14. Forbidden Pretzel

Red

15. Forbidden Milk

Floor

16. Forbidden Cookie

Rock

17. Forbidden Chocolate

Plywood

18. Forbidden Fruit

Skin

19. Forbidden Insulation Bread

Food

20. Forbidden Melted Car Taffy

Red

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Water - FAMILY SIZE DAWN ULTRA CAPN CRUNCHS OCEAN BLUE ARTIFICIALLY 50% LESS SCRUBBING MAPLE 3X SREASE CEANING HOREPOWER SMONULIRA DAN DISHWASHING LIQUD "FLAVORED SYRUP 638 m (35 P) Z15 AZ 100 24 FL OZ m0

22. Forbidden Cookies

Python family

23. Forbidden Candy Corn

Food

24. Forbidden Fried Chicken

Fried food

25. Forbidden Spaghetti

Floor - TACK

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Mom's Baby Name Choice Gets Called Out


There's nothing wrong with finding ways to share your appreciation for Game of Thrones. Even if the last season and that finale was some whole other kind of mess, but leave the newborn baby out of the process. Or, or if you're going to name your newborn after a character from the show, at least spell their name right. The name that this new mom settled on sounds like it'd manifest in nothing short of a waking nightmare for the kid every time they went to introduce themselves. 

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Text - AITA for telling my roommate that the name she chose for her baby is 'ridiculously stupid'? Not the A-hole My roommate (24f) is a big Game of Thrones fan. She's pregnant with her first child right now. She decided to name her baby, 'Arya'. When she asked my opinion of this name, I said I it was a good name with a good meaning (Arya means noble in Sanskrit), but a lot of people have named their kids Arya/Khaleesi/Sansa because of the popularity of GoT and it might be a little too common, n

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Text - The next day, which was yesterday, she said she's found a way to name her baby 'Arya' and not have it be associated with other Aryas running around or the show. How? She said she wanted to spell it as Aughreighyah. I did a double take reading that word too, but apparently people are supposed to read it as Augh-reigh-ya or Arya. She asked me how I felt about it and I told her that, frankly, Aughreighyah looks ridiculously stupid and she should just go with Arya. She got kinda upset and sai

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Text - Vixen7-9 • 2d• Asshole Enthusiast [5] Aughreighyah sounds like something I would sigh when i'm frustrated. Or something Link would yell out when attacking. NTA. Reply 264 ...

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Text - iamskankhunt • 2d 1 Award NTA - that poor child will have to spell her name for everyone, and correct people mis-pronouncing it. Reply 3.6k ...

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Text - Goody3333 · 2d • Partassipant [1] Aryah Aria Auria Auryah ... Literally a billion ways to spell it, and your friend comes up with that bs? I hope this is a troll. Reply 2.5k ...

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Text - lamanamalgam • 2d • Asshole Aficionado [16] 2 Awards NTA. That name is a tragedeigh. Reply 472 ...

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Text - i_thru_it_away • 2d 121 Awards Ask her 'Arya being stupid?' ... I'll be here all night Reply 1 48.4k ...

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Text - 0000udeis000 • 2d • Certified Proctologist [27] 6 Awards NTA. You should not give your kid a name that looks like it could be a Welsh town. Reply 17.2k ...

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Text - Pale_Natural3655 • 2d • Asshole Enthusiast [7] NTA. They are setting that kid up for a lifetime of hell. Why do people feel the need to do this? Besides, the name is still the same, so they haven't really solved the too common problem, they just made the spelling look like a cat ran over a keyboard. Reply 854 ...

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Text - Practical_Heart7287 • 2d • Asshole Enthusiast [8] NTA. Holy hell. And this is from someone with a four letter name that people can't spell. Reply 539 ...

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Text - A-RovinIGo • 2d • Partassipant [3] NTA - I used to work in a pharmacy take them out to the waiting room, call the patient to the till for payment. One woman had a complete meltdown when I called her, claiming l'd "butchered" her name. Her idiot parents had given her a name from Greek mythology -- Ariadne, which is pronounced pretty much exactly the way it looks -- but they told her it was pronounced "ARDEEN"! It still makes my brain hurt. fill prescriptions, -- Reply 1 74 + ...

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Text - darthhellokitty • 2d NTA a lot of people have named their kids Arya/Khaleesi/ Sansa because of the popularity of GoT Laughing at the people who already named their kid Khaleesi and then got surprised at the end!!! Reply 142

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Text - Dracon_Pyrothayan • 2d NTA "Unique" names foist unpleasantness onto their holders, because the general public are terrible. Arya/Aria/Aryah will still get called on in class, won't get picked on for an odd name, and won't get her applications and resumè thrown out like they will with her mother's unique spelling. Reply 48

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Text - Froggetpwagain • 2d NTA, Arya is not super super popular, but spelling it like that would be a TERRIBLE mistake!!!! Kids going to have to spell it for the rest of their life Reply 21 ...

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Text - SuperSixSumorai • 2d This is obviously bait. No normal person names their kids that irl. If, by the slim chance this is true, and they are serious, then do everything in your power to stop it. Hard NTA Reply 354 ...

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Text - lustified • 2d NTA. I hope other friends have also told her how ridiculous it is. A friend of a friend on my old facebook (now deleted) has a daughter named Penneigh. I may have laughed a bit. Reply 43 ...

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Text - ElectricMoccoson • 2d • Asshole Aficionado [16] NTA - She asked you a question, you gave her a diplomatically honest answer. Reply 42 ...

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Text - oh-hot-baby-jesus • 2d NTA I was so ready to call you TA (my goddaughters name is Arya), but that spelling made my brain hurt. What is it with people giving their kids normal sounding names with crazy spellings??? Did anyone see that meme of the crossed out baby names like Lakkyn and Mkkarti and Nayvvie and Ashleighley Reply 12 ...

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Text - Flutter_bat_16_• 2d NTA Yeah she should just go with Arya. It's a beautiful name and she shouldn't try and over complicate the spelling just to feel like her kid is "unique" Reply 3 ...

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Text - AlmightyAcey • 2d ΝΤΑ. However, I plan to name my daughter Arya, and I am NOT a Game of Thrones fan. It's been a name I used for all my RPG characters in video games over many years, and I know l'll get asked about it a lot. It's a chance I'm willing to take. HER spelling looks like word vomit. Literal vomit in letter form. Reply ...

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Text - LivelyUnicorn • 2d • Partassipant [1] NTA I would normally say you don't have the right to tell anyone the name they picked for their child is stupid but on this occasion you are so right OP. Potentially saving a kid from a lifetime of hell with a name like that Reply 2 ...

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Text - Mxkylah • 2d NTA. I like longer versions of names a lot. Like my name is Makayla, but if I could've picked the spelling it would either be McKayla, or Michaela. But spelling a name in detail how it's pronounced is nothing but stupid. That's like if my parents chose to spell my name Muhkayluh. Like wtf. If she wants it to be a bit different, here are some ideas: Aria Aryah Aerya Aryaa Reply ...

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Weird Things Found in Elevator Shafts


At some time in their life, everyone realizes that there's a really little gap in between an elevator and a building's floor. Hopefully they realize it as a precautionary measure. Others realize this as their phone or keys are sliding through. For a fun story, here's a time an entitled mom tried to speak to an elevator tech's supervisor, but he was it.

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Text - MastaFnog 32.7k points · 1 day ago Q2 Keys. Trash. Bugs if the building is exceptionally shitty. Mostly dirt and dust. Found a paint roller that the last guy left there once. It was stuck to the floor. Not a whole lot of weird stuff can make it between the sill and the landing.

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Text - agentSMIITH1 30.2k points · 1 day ago This question should be my jam, but unfortunately I've never found anything interesting. $2 coin once, a dime bag of some unknown drug, plenty of syringes, or sets of keys. It's mostly just peoples junk mail and empty chip bags down there.

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Text - Myjunkisonfire 27.7k points · 1 day ago 2 2 e5 I once accidently lost my drivers license down the little gap in the elevator doors, just dropped it and was super unlucky as it slipped through. It turned up in my mail 10 years later! Obviously long expired, but still crazy some maintenance guy found it and bothered retuning it.

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Text - Hocktober 21.2k points · 1 day ago 2 Worked at a hotel. Guest dropped their phone down the shaft. After a few failed retrieval efforts, we called the elevator guys. They went down got the phone and also found a carton of eggs. Rotten, but not cracked. I don't even understand how that could happen accidentally. EnriqueShockwave9000 20.0k points · 1 day ago 82 3 O 3 @3 & 5 More Because it was no accident. I work in tech now but while I was in college I helped an HVAC guy and he once had me

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Text - nibiyabi 21.1k points · 1 day ago 3 O 3 & 11 More My dad has a great story about this. He supervised the mechanics, and one of them called him from a mental hospital and said "you've got to see this". The maintenance guy was called because the elevator wasn't quite sitting level on the ground floor; it was about half an inch too high and both patients and staff had been tripping on it. But all other floors were no problem. My dad arrived to find the maintenance guy cackling, looking into

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Text - TheAyre 278 points · 1 day ago Not an elevator technician, but I can tell you some dude, at some point is going to find a kindle at the bottom of a shaft in a Toronto hotel elevator. Rules to remember: Rule #1: Always check that you zipped your carry-on and didn't leave a gap in the bottom Rule #2: Kindles fit through small carry-on bag zipper gaps and elevator shaft gaps

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Text - KnightOfNoir 13.8k points · 1 day ago · edited 1 day ago & E 2 e & 2 More Bundle of Watehmen Watchtower magazines (Jehovah's witnesses pamphlets) wrapped in duct tape. Inside it was a Rossi .44 Special revolver and a screwdriver.

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Text - drdisney 11.9k points · 1 day ago8 Not a technician, but do work at a large hotel. A few years ago one of our elevators stopped working. Turned out when they opened it up they found a 3-ft pile of guest folios that were never delivered to the rooms. Later when we looked on the camera we found it was a security guard that got tired of delivering them to the rooms and instead dropped them down the elevator shaft. He did this for months until he was caught.

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Text - anon577321 766 points · 1 day ago Not elevator maintenance but one time I dropped a set of wheels for a cart in the crack. Im sure some maintenance man is going to be concerned to find loose wheels in the elevator of a nursing home. Like some elder person is walking around with a wheel less walker.

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Text - aimeeerp 10.6k points · 1 day ago 5 3 6 & 4 More My dad was an elevator mechanic for about 15 years. He had a very dark sense of humour and would come home with some of the craziest stories. (For example, any time he was in an elevator, he would shake it a little or tap on the displays or buttons and go 'Yep. Total piece of crap. Inferior piece of crap.' and I think he mostly did it to freak people out.) One of my favourites: He got a call that someone was hearing weird noises from the el

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Text - indigoaway 7.1k points · 1 day ago One time, we were doing a rip out at an old factory. They were gutting them and turning them into luxury apartments. The elevator we were taking out was a shitty old freight that hadn't run in years. When we finally ran it up, we went down to inspect the pit. It smelled like a dead body had chilled there for half a century. The bottom floor wasn't lit so I shined my flashlight under the elevator and the whole floor started moving. Roaches. Nasty Haven't

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Text - AwesomeJohn01 5.7k points · 1 day ago Not an elevator repair person, but you would be shocked by the number of nurses that drop their keys down the shaft. 20 stories up and 2 buildings away from the parking garage and they already had their keys in their hand. I had to call maintenance all the time for retrieval.

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Text - D28wt 991 points · 1 day ago One of my baseball coaches when I was a kid lost his glass eyeball in the elevator shaft. Maintenance guy gave a solid WTF.

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