The official "WTF" thread
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mat200
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Key word continental.. other deaths iirc in Alaskan islands and off shore.
mat200
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Hawaii Aleutians and off shore usa from sub attacks on shipping
Japanese did attack mainland .. hit oil north of la with submarine deck gun iir , but no deaths
and those were territories at the time, not admitted as states yet.
Because we don't have enough 12 ft. statues of overweight black women?
vandyman
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a peak sign that kids have too much handed to them across all of society...
Can you imagine how incredible it would be to have your OWN COMPUTER for school just 25 years ago?
Can you imagine how incredible it would be to have your OWN COMPUTER for school just 25 years ago?
mat200
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If they wreak it, they do not get a new one .. they have to find their own replacement model used and reinstall the os and app.
That then is their future birthday gift if they do not have money saved from relatives.
While looking at news items about the TikTok "set your laptop on fire" challenge I ran across this...judging by the outlet configuration, apparently @Broachoski has (or had) a kindred spirit somewhere in Europe... 
vandyman
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That is how I started my career.While looking at news items about the TikTok "set your laptop on fire" challenge I ran across this...judging by the outlet configuration, apparently @Broachoski has (or had) a kindred spirit somewhere in Europe...
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As an electrician/electronics tech.
Very shocking job. (retired this year)
Quite of a few of us did, I think.
Circa 1952 I used the spring steel hanger pulled out of a glass Christmas tree ornament and stuck that in the old 2 wire ungrounded outlet; no shock since I one-handed it (good move) and it went hot-to-neutral but it burned the piss out of my thumb and forefinger.
Sure enough.....I became a traffic signal tech for over 31 years, worked on 'em hot 3/4 of the time, got shocked GOOD literally hundreds of times in that time frame. The 12KV neon transformers for the early "WALK/DON'T WALK" pedestrian signals would really ring your bell!
Though I did not become a licensed Electrician, I do most of my Electrical work myself, a friend and I, in our teens, had wires coming out of an outlet that we were doing some experiment with, we did alotQuite of a few of us did, I think.
Circa 1952 I used the spring steel hanger pulled out of a glass Christmas tree ornament and stuck that in the old 2 wire ungrounded outlet; no shock since I one-handed it (good move) and it went hot-to-neutral but it burned the piss out of my thumb and forefinger.
Sure enough.....I became a traffic signal tech for over 31 years, worked on 'em hot 3/4 of the time, got shocked GOOD literally hundreds of times in that time frame. The 12KV neon transformers for the early "WALK/DON'T WALK" pedestrian signals would really ring your bell!
, well sure enough a spark caught his room's shag carpet on fire, LOL, think he put a box or something on top of it to hide the black spot on the white carpet, hahaMy Grandfather was a Master Electrician, he was the only I knew that passed the exam the first round. And get this, he came over from Germany and spoke broken English when he passed the test.