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CptSevere
06/05/09

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During the earliest years of downhill skiing, some of the resorts were using rope tows cobbled together using Model A drivetrains, complete from engine to rear end. I've seen steam-powered mining equipment from the nineteenth and early 20th centuries that were converted with car drivetrains during the Depression. But nothing this meatball. That's sick. There's no goddam way I'd stand under this deathtrap.
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IN THE FACE!
06/05/09

@CptSevere: I don't think any of the guys in the video were either...
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Six Flags Over Tomsk
06/05/09

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That right there is more terrifying than any Disney ride. Props for the creativity, though.
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Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
06/05/09

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That's pretty cool. Speaking of lifting stuff up to your apartment, the Dutch have been doing that for centuries. Lots of the homes in Amsterdam and other canal-front towns in the Low Countries have protruding ornamental wooden beams in front, which were used to lift furniture to the upper floors.

Because Amsterdam's original housing plans sold property based on street frontage, people went "narrow, deep, and tall" resulting in stairways too small for much of anything.
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Scandinavian Flick
06/05/09

@Ash78: That is pretty awesome.
That reminds me of when I was in Peru, I noticed that most of the homes didn't have a roof. This is because only complete homes are taxed, and since it only rains about 1/4" per year at most, most people leave off the roof or a wall.
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06/05/09

@Scandinavian Flick: Yeah I noticed that when I was there as well, flat concrete roofs with partially finished beams extending up to a floor that hasn't really been started yet, and bundles of bare rebar sticking up from those beams...

That and I kept wondering who the fuck "Alan" was, his name was in pretty much ever sanctioned mural I saw...

(I did eventually figure it out, and I believe he is president now...)
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engineerd
06/05/09

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Igor, after buying his new flat was excited to move. He and his buddies loaded up his mother's living room and went to Igor's new Patriarch's Pond flat. Upon arriving they found the elevator was not yet functional. This didn't stop Igor and his buddies. Following the credo of Russian kluging, "In Capitalist Russia, car lifts you!", they modified their car as the motive force for an elevator. The last thing Igor ever said was, "Держите это и смотреть!"
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06/05/09

@engineerd: I liked it, but I'm not sure I understood the ending.
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Boosted Lego Wagon
06/05/09

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Workin like a dog for my comrades
Russian movin' company
Im sippin on the vodka and thinkin'
Im gonna have a fantasy

(chorus)
Car-powered elevator
Watchin' the wheels go round and round
Car-powered elevator
Good idea till it hits the ground
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Boosted Lego Wagon
06/05/09

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And to think we spent all that time trying to cram the Panamera in an elevator.

In Soviet Russia, Car lifts Elevator.
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Jo Schmo
06/05/09

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All this just to mount a small air conditioner outside their apartment.
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Jo Schmo
06/05/09

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Ack! That thing is scary. I will be perusing the FAIL! blogs for the outcome of this.
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KTown_WhiteBoy
06/05/09

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Perhaps I'll concoct a Russian Elevator this weekend.

Had a Mountain Dew/Sprite/vodka/everclear drink we called the Chernobyl at the Three Mile Island party last year (back when we created holidays to justify drinking heavily, bah). I figure a Russian Elevator will be similar, though with more rust and burning oil.
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Scandinavian Flick
06/05/09

@KTown_WhiteBoy: I picture the Russian Elevator being more like the Bloody Awful from Top Gear.
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KTown_WhiteBoy
06/05/09

@Scandinavian Flick: Well then, I suppose I'll have to postpone the DIY headphone amp and ignore my calc homework; a V8 blender is my new weekend project.
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Scandinavian Flick
06/05/09

@KTown_WhiteBoy: Gotta keep the priorities in order. Who uses calc anyway?

Hmmm... I have a spare rotary motor sitting around...
The problem is, I like to keep the oil content of my drinks relatively low...
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KTown_WhiteBoy
06/05/09

@Scandinavian Flick: The engineering department tends to encourage the learning of calculus, but what do they know? Apparently all you really need is enough vodka, a car, and some rope.

@PowerTryp: I have a friend whose life goal is the Eiffel Tower, perhaps this, blech, end of that thought.
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Ben Wojdyla
06/05/09

@KTown_WhiteBoy: I've had an engineering degree for five years now and used my minor in mathematics exactly zero times.
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Scandinavian Flick
06/05/09

@Ben Wojdyla: That's why I, when I go for my masters in computer science, I want to take my math requirements at a community college. I suck at higher math, and I will never actually need it in my field of work.
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IN THE FACE!
06/05/09

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I wonder how well they have the other wheel secured?

Also, I would just like to reiterate that Blood-Copy fucking sucks vampire ass.
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Ben Wojdyla
06/05/09

@ぶっちぎり IN THE FACE!: I wondered the same, I'm guessing the parking brake is on and the other front wheel is on the ground. The open diff would mean the power flows to the lesser load -- the reel, probably. Of course, it could go very wrong, and probably will eventually.
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ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-TOAD
06/05/09

@ぶっちぎり IN THE FACE!: Bloodcopy FTL. No more emo bitches on my gawker.
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IN THE FACE!
06/05/09

@darkstar - Fed up with the useless emos: Y'know, the other thing that pisses me off about bloodcopy; all the good user names are already taken...

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skaycog was here
06/05/09

@ぶっちぎり IN THE FACE!: I just took a peek at Bloodcopy....I found it very disturbing.
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dculberson
06/05/09

@skaycog: It's viral marketing for a movie and everyone's lapping it up.
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06/05/09

@dculberson:

It's vampiral whoring for movie-ad-money and gawker is lapping it up.

Wait, I thought TrueBlood was a TV show?
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Scandinavian Flick
06/05/09

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Rube Goldberg tag ftw
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zeeboid
06/05/09

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I want to be the first to ride it! maybe it will be as successful as the russian Concord

+ Watch video

Ah, Communism! i'm so glad we are rushing to it!

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Jo Schmo
06/05/09

@zeeboid: That didn't crash, it blew up and fell.
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engineerd
06/05/09

@zeeboid: Communism is grand...if you're on the top.
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