Do they cal me John the Jane fucker? No. Do they call me John the Mary fucker? No. But you fuck one goat…

If it’s regular maintenance you get a lift that goes higher and you do it when you change the water in the pool. If the pool is empty you can just drive on the floor. Just gotta have something to lower it onto the pool floor.

Well, have you ever stood on a lift like that? I did, on a regular basis. You can lean over quite a bit with them.

Also, the lift itself already has play. You can easily get it to swing 4 centimeters while the base is stationary. It’s just play in bearings and metal slightly bending.

I agree that the lift is not made to be like that. But sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. I’ve done worse, that is for sure. But you have to use your brain.

Clearly the platform has great floating capacity. If the platform would not be capable of carrying that load, it would have sunk by now. The lift is in the middle, who j means the load is putting equal pressure on all sides. That has a stabilizing effect.

Water also pushes back. If you’ve every tried to flip a raft in the pool, you know that it is much easier if you move it side to side a few times, the water wil help you push it over, as long as you keep adding energy at every swing. If you don’t, you will stabilize.

Unless something keeps adding energy to the swing, the swing will only get smaller and smaller. If it’s swinging too much? Just stand still, don’t move and let it stabilize.

The one thing to keep in mind is that the higher you go, the bigger the leverage is. At some point it will probably tip over if you swing it too much, but I don’t think those guys are at that point.

But in the end, this is probably not the proper way to do the work. It’s fun to discuss it, but a professional company would arrange something else.

Still legendary though, I’ve worked for companies that would do sketchy shit sometimes and while dangerous, it was also kind of fun. And I always checked for myself first if it was safe. Because I want to go home at the end of the day. Doesn’t mean you have to be scared of everything though.

Well, it’s always best to listen to the little voice inside, especially if it says “I might just die here”. I completely understand why you would not be climbing on that.

If they have to get out of the lift, it is at it’s lowest position. That means all the weight is in the middle of the platform and the weight of 2 man will not be enough to make the platform flip over.

They will have to jump to the side I suppose. Just step off. Maybe the can even paddle the platform around, I imagine there is at least one piece of rope to manipulate the platform when there is nobody on it.

The lift will go off, the same way it came on. Probably some sort of crane. I cannot imagine they just drove it on there, but maybe they did. Maybe even a forklift with long forks. There are forklifts that could probably handle that kind of weight so far away on the forks.

I get that it looks risky, but I don’t really see a problem here. The platform is in undisturbed water, no waves, no sudden changes. If the platform is strong enough, which it seems to be to me, it will not easily tip over.

I’ve worked on a few lifts like that, and if you manage to tip one over I can only say that you were either really stupid or you were trying to do it. All the weight is at the bottom. They are very stable.

The only way to make them fall over is if your floor is not level while driving. Driving is out of the question in this picture, and as long as both guys stay in the fork lift the center of gravity will not change much.

So the platform will not move, the lift will not move, basically they are fine.

If something was to happen you’re fucked though.

And different solutions are available. I’ve personally been in a different lift that had an arm so the lift would be a the side of the pool and the part where I was standing was elevated above the water. That probably would be a better solution, if you have enough space to get one of those lifts in.

Nope. It’s basically this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AOjauGdi1E

Our version has a plate behind so you can stand on that and drive the thing around.

It’s basically a skateboard with front wheels that can turn if you lean on the handle.

When my colleagues were playing, the car made an unexpected pretty sharp turn, which caused them to tumble off and fall on the concrete.

And yes, the wheels will also hang on small stones, small pieces of wood and what not. Which is fine, because it’s made for moving pallets, not people.

They are still being made and used. At a job I had 7 years ago they had two of them. Pretty handy when you need to fill a truck with pallets. I did not need a license.

You need some practice though, I may have fallen off one or two times in a corner. One day a truck driver borrowed it and managed to park the whole back into another pallet. Fun machines.

At my current job we have ones for single pallets, but they can go 4 meter high. I love it, very flexible and small, but you can still put pallets away pretty high.

Yea don’t take the yellow one with two people.

Two of my colleagues tried, one on each side. Did not go well, luckily they got up in one piece.

That made me laugh, thanks!

I would write a lengthy response, but…

I’ve heard most of the shops sell the same matrassen, but they just give them different names so you cannot compare prices. Which means you can make prices anything you want as long as you have a somewhat believable story about the quality.

Funny, but proper therapy would mean that you learned how to handle the trauma so it would not be so easy to do this.

My expectations? I guess I expected I could have at least half of what my parents had. Which I almost can. They afforded the house on one salary and my mom stayed at home. Me and my gf both have to have full time jobs. But, we can only pay a smaller house.

My parents had five kids and sometimes struggled with money. We have one kid, two salaries and still struggle with money. For basic stuff. Just food and drinks and stuff you need. And the occasional bottle of wine or whisky.

So I guess I got around half of what my parents had. What I would have hoped for is that if two people work 40 hours a week and most of the time more, we would not have to struggle. I would have hoped we could save some money.

I would have hoped that I would not be waiting with service for my motorcycle until I have the money. Or be anxious about the yearly review of my car, because there could be high costs to get it approved another year.

I don’t mind working, I don’t mind working extra, I don’t mind working hard. But right now it feels like I get nothing in return. It’s just expected, and you get to survive. That’s it. You want more? A little more space in your house, or a little bit more time for yourself? Can’t be done. And that is frustrating.

Edit: seems people agree with me, thanks for the support.

Just be glad they managed to fly around your ship and not through it. Navigating at those speeds is hard, matching speed with an older ship, connecting to it and transfering all the people over is probably also difficult.

Not to mention those in the older ship are probably brought into hypersleep in a different way then more modern ships, so they might not actually be equipped to handle the people from the older ship.

That one time I got an executable online that made girls strip on my desktop was great. Of course, the spyware and virus crap that was secretly behind it was not. I think that was the first time I did a full reinstall of Windows for the first time. Good times.

Burning CD’s, ripping CD’s with programs to remove the protection and save songs as MP3…

Anyone remembers cracks? You would replace a couple of files in the game folder and you could run a game without the CD, or a pirated version. These days with the online crap that is much more difficult. Or the serial number generators for some games or software because some genius found out how the software checked the number?

I’m dead anyway. But thanks, it may increase my odds slightly.

I’ll be allright, it is just a small silly ring that I have to throw in a burning mountain. That is surrounded by orcs and other evil beings. While the ring is fighting against me and giving me supernatural powers.

Oh and no pressure, only the whole world will be destroyed and everything I know and love will be gone too.

Yea, Lord of the rings. I’m screwed…

I’ve once had a user who managed to add a second keyboard layout by accident and switch to it on login. I found out when I reset his password and it still didn’t work on the laptop of the users even if I typed it in myself.