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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Kegger26 on March 24, 2005, 11:09:05 AM

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Post by: Kegger26 on March 24, 2005, 11:09:05 AM: I dont know if this has been posted before...but I laughed my bellybutton off when I saw it.

http://www.freebeerandhotwings.com/Videos/QVC%20Ladder%20Demo.wmv
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Post by: Mickey1992 on March 24, 2005, 12:03:22 PM: http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=97313&highlight=qvc

It still hurts to watch that, seeing the back of his head bounce off the floor like that.
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Post by: Kegger26 on March 24, 2005, 12:24:34 PM: I read that someone in the other thread was saying that whoever was calling was off stage and not a real caller. I tend to agree. QVC is located in Fla. This lady said she was calling from Calif. She said uhoh before the guy even hit the ground. It seems to me there would be atleast a 10-12 sec delay in just basic transmisson over that kind of range.
A few years ago I flew one of the traffic planes for a radio station in Baltimore. I know that whenever Dave would transmit there would be a small delay even then. It was very small maybe a second or two at most, but I still remember noting it was there...
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Post by: Yeager on March 24, 2005, 01:54:24 PM: yeah kegger thats really funny watching someone get hurt :(
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Post by: Kegger26 on March 24, 2005, 02:11:23 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Yeager
yeah kegger thats really funny watching someone get hurt :(

Jesus...I think some of you around here need to get laid...I mean really, what is it like being that up-tight all the time? Does it hurt?
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Post by: Yeager on March 25, 2005, 12:07:45 PM: I could get laid laid ten times a day and still not get any pleasure out of watching some guy fall six feet off a ladder and hit his head on a solid floor.

Sorry man, not funny....
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Post by: Furball on March 25, 2005, 12:23:20 PM: i thought it was funny.

not hilarious, but amusing, doubt very much he would get any long term hurt from that - and i dont think it was a solid floor, seemed more like a set, wooden panelling for a floor.

My dad has survived falls off ladders. One being from 3 stories onto concrete landing on his shoulder.
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Post by: Yeager on March 25, 2005, 01:34:21 PM: to each his own furball but it is a queer thing to find humor in people obviosuly getting hurt.

also, stay off of laddersl, you have the anti-ladder gene :aok
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Post by: RTSigma on March 25, 2005, 02:10:52 PM: WE MUST BAN LADDERS!
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Post by: Kegger26 on March 25, 2005, 02:20:33 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Yeager
to each his own furball but it is a queer thing to find humor in people obviosuly getting hurt.

also, stay off of laddersl, you have the anti-ladder gene :aok

OHH NO! Look out everybody its the fun police! WYOOOOOOOOO-WYO-WYO-WYO-WYO-WYO-WYOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Post by: Furball on March 25, 2005, 02:25:18 PM: Its not the fact someone got hurt that makes it funny.. its the situation. If he had been quite clearly seriously hurt then it would not be funny.

Its like in Aces High when you watch noobs trying to up from a cv heavy or while its turning - comedy gold.
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Post by: lasersailor184 on March 25, 2005, 03:02:42 PM: It's sort of a give and take situation.

I laugh at other people for getting hurt. I give them full rights to laugh at me when I do a handsomehunk move.
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Post by: DREDIOCK on March 25, 2005, 07:04:35 PM: As someone who works on ladders regularly and whom this could very well happen to.

I found it Hillarious.

the guy climging it was obviously ad idiot.
First he had the ladder set up at too steep an angle.
thats why he missed a rung on the way down.

Secondly he climbed up too high on it.

the top rung should never be lower then your chest

The two combined contributed greatly to his fall.

basically it was his own stupidity that caused him to fall.

and when stupid people do stupid things. the outcome is usually pretty funny as is the case here.

The film should have been titled "How you shouldnt use a ladder"

Kinda like the cartoons they used to show you in shop class
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Post by: JB88 on March 25, 2005, 07:11:45 PM: there was an inside joke at the woodshop in college.

"like an 8 foot arrow"

referring the the potential tragectory of a piece of lumber being ripped.

one of my students once proved this theory much to the dismay of the project on the table behind it.
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Post by: DREDIOCK on March 25, 2005, 07:12:17 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Yeager
I could get laid laid ten times a day and still not get any pleasure out of watching some guy fall six feet off a ladder and hit his head on a solid floor.

Sorry man, not funny....

(http://www.thehiddenroom.org/b3ta/crying_man.gif):p
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Post by: Furball on March 25, 2005, 07:15:30 PM: you shamelessly stole that from me ;)
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Post by: DREDIOCK on March 25, 2005, 07:21:01 PM: Quote
Originally posted by JB88
there was an inside joke at the woodshop in college.

"like an 8 foot arrow"

referring the the potential tragectory of a piece of lumber being ripped.

one of my students once proved this theory much to the dismay of the project on the table behind it.

I worked for a guy that did something similar once though with a peice of metal doorframe.

Was a Fire rated door co and he was customising part of the doorframe for a job.

he was trying to rip it lengthwise by turning a radial arm saw sideways.
Didnt look like a good idea to me but I was only 18 at the time and he was the boss so who was I to say so.

Well next thing I knew I heard a Whoosh sound and a big thud. and hearing the boss yell "CHIT!" I turned around and saw this nice hunk of metal about 7 feet long sticking halfway out of the wall. the other half had gone completely through 2 layers of 3/8 inch sheetrock
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Post by: DREDIOCK on March 25, 2005, 07:21:46 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Furball
you shamelessly stole that from me ;)

yes I did :)

and Im proud of it too!:D

besides. it seemd to fit the circumstance
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Post by: JB88 on March 25, 2005, 07:23:32 PM: you have seen the arrow.

you are now a mystical god with the power of striking the cord of fear in the hearts of young padwans.
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Post by: Jackal1 on March 25, 2005, 08:54:57 PM: 8.9 :D