The General Thread

[Mr.F]

Kiwifarms reference?

 

[Jason Wynn]

Will someone please explain to my old ass what the fuck this Hauck Tuar or Hawk Tooter or whatever the fuck this zoomer autism meme circulating around is all about. I really don’t get it.

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

Is it ok to fap to someone who died?
Enquiring minds want to know

 

[ToroidalBoat]

the pool is finally warm enough that the "getting used to it" BS is gone

 

[Forsaken Wanderer]

alright this doesn't deserve a captains log entry because this is serious.

 

[Ravier Xavenblood]

So I had my suspicion that a WW2 era brass compass I'd been given be a veteran when I was a kid had radium paint in it. The geiger counter I bought confirmed it. Thankfully the container I keep it in, plus its own metal housing shields most of the radiation, and nothing in the lockbox with it is contaminated either.

Scary shit though, thinking that people in the 40's carried around radioactive compasses without even knowing it.

 

[DavidS877]

Scary shit though, thinking that people in the 40's carried around radioactive compasses without even knowing it.

Carrying them was pretty low risk. The real problem was the people who made them, Radium Girls.

 

[Ravier Xavenblood]

Carrying them was pretty low risk. The real problem was the people who made them, Radium Girls.

They were unlucky enough to get the full unshielded dose. If that paint chips and makes it outside of the casing, it'll cause problems for sure. Radium has a half-life of 1500 years so anything that has radium paint in it is barely less radioactive than the day the paint was made.

 

[AnOminous]

Scary shit though, thinking that people in the 40's carried around radioactive compasses without even knowing it.

I have a whole collection of radioactive shit, mostly glass. Isn't going to do anything to you. Just don't paint radium dials and lick the brushes, that shit will fuck you up.

They were unlucky enough to get the full unshielded dose.

That's what happens when you actually CONSUME it and put it in your body. Don't snort up dust from that shit and contain the items that contain it. I routinely drink from a uranium glass teacup though.

 

[Ravier Xavenblood]

I have a whole collection of radioactive shit, mostly glass. Isn't going to do anything to you. Just don't paint radium dials and lick the brushes, that shit will fuck you up.

How long have you been collecting it? Ever taken a geiger to your collection? From what I understand, uranium, or at least its most common natural isotope U-235 isn't very radioactive and the fact that it's a heavy metal akin to lead is what makes it dangerous.

The readings stabilized at ~1640CPM. Not something you'd want to be exposed to regularly but the brass lid cuts the exposure in half.

That's what happens when you actually CONSUME it and put it in your body. Don't snort up dust from that shit and contain the items that contain it. I routinely drink from a uranium glass teacup though.

As long as it hasn't chipped or spread dust around, it's not very dangerous. Also what the actual fuck. Do you eat your breakfast off of cadmium laced fine china too?

 

[JustSomeDong]

I have a whole collection of radioactive shit, mostly glass. Isn't going to do anything to you. Just don't paint radium dials and lick the brushes, that shit will fuck you up.

That's what happens when you actually CONSUME it and put it in your body. Don't snort up dust from that shit and contain the items that contain it. I routinely drink from a uranium glass teacup though.

You and my 7th grade Earth Sciences teacher would have been great friends. He had quite the collection of what he called "household atomics." Cool dude.

Also what the actual fuck. Do you eat your breakfast off of cadmium laced fine china too?

Yall cowards dont even

 

[AnOminous]

How long have you been collecting it? Ever taken a geiger to your collection? From what I understand, uranium, or at least its most common natural isotope U-235 isn't very radioactive and the fact that it's a heavy metal akin to lead is what makes it dangerous.

Most of the current stuff with uranium is U-238, so-called depleted uranium. U-235 is what was used in Little Boy, though. It is the more "fun" one, and the one that gets a Geiger counter happy even today. That kind of uranium glass mostly disappeared from production when its use in warfare became more compelling.

U-235 is a gamma emitter, but in the quantities it was used even during the time it was common to use uranium in glass for merely decorative purposes, much as another heavy metal, lead, was also used in glass, it was probably harmless other than possibly to the people who worked directly with it.

As for your radium example, I'd probably not wear a watch with the paint on the dial in radium. It's probably not going to harm you if that paint stays on it, but if it flakes off, yeah, that's probably bad. Inhaling even a tiny amount of that flake-off could seriously fuck you up.

When it's in glass, though? I'm pretty sure uranium glass is harmless. Even the couple pieces I have that make the Geiger counter go berserk.

As long as it hasn't chipped or spread dust around, it's not very dangerous. Also what the actual fuck. Do you eat your breakfast off of cadmium laced fine china too?

Ever heard of Fiestaware red? I have some of that too.

Never would touch anything with cadmium in it though.

 

[Ravier Xavenblood]

Most of the current stuff with uranium is U-238, so-called depleted uranium. U-235 is what was used in Little Boy, though. It is the more "fun" one, and the one that gets a Geiger counter happy even today. That kind of uranium glass mostly disappeared from production when its use in warfare became more compelling.

U-235 is a gamma emitter, but in the quantities it was used even during the time it was common to use uranium in glass for merely decorative purposes, much as another heavy metal, lead, was also used in glass, it was probably harmless other than possibly to the people who worked directly with it.

As for your radium example, I'd probably not wear a watch with the paint on the dial in radium. It's probably not going to harm you if that paint stays on it, but if it flakes off, yeah, that's probably bad. Inhaling even a tiny amount of that flake-off could seriously fuck you up.

Fuck me, I got my 2 naturally occurring uranium isotopes mixed up. And yeah, you'd have to open the compass up and rub the dial a little bit to actually release the radium dust. So thankfully, it's not super dangerous in its current state.

Ever heard of Fiestaware red? I have some of that too.

Never would touch anything with cadmium in it though.

I've seen YouTube videos of it making a geiger counter go crazy. Good to know there's non radioactive poisonous elements in it too so it can fuck people up 4.5 billion years from now too.

 

[Cat Funt]

 

[Cats]

You haven't lived until you've gone on a solo night drive through your city at 2-3 a.m. while listening to this through your stereo:

Very ethereal experience. Both calming and strangely frightening at the same time.

 

[AnOminous]

You haven't lived until you've gone on a solo night drive through your city at 2-3 a.m. while listening to this through your stereo:

This is an underrated film. I still think it's the weakest of the original trilogy, but not by much, unless you count the color remake of Dawn which if you did would then be the weakest. Terry Alexander's soliloquy in Day is epic.

(Also Bub the Zombie rules and an asshole getting killed by being *shot* by a zombie is pure kino.)

 

[Cats]

They are some of my all-time favorite movies, along with John Russo and Russ Streiner's offshoot Return of the Living Dead (and...to some small extent, its completely ridiculous first sequel...)

I love the original Dead "trilogy" with all my heart and can basically quote all three films from memory. At LEAST once or twice a month I put them on while I am painting to zone out and work to. The best version of "Dawn" was the theatrical released with Goblin's music, along with this total gem of a song which shockingly happens to be stock music! I always thought it was so crazy because it sounds like something Goblin would play but also seems so perfectly composed for the scenes it plays over:

But yeah. Driving through empty dark streets while the Day of the Dead theme plays on your car stereo is an otherworldly experience. Especially once it gets nearly halfway through and the darker sounding parts start kicking in with the "dun dun, dun dun dun, dun dun dun..."

Such a fantastic collection of three films.

 

[AnOminous]

The best version of "Dawn" was the theatrical released with Goblin's music, along with this total gem of a song which shockingly happens to be stock music!

This is probably the absolute masterpiece of zombie movies, with every subsequent movie an attempt to recapture this lightning (sadly even those by Romero himself).

I remember I was really mad my parents wouldn't let me go to it when it first came out. They said it would give me nightmares. Which it probably would have, so I can't really blame them in retrospect.

 

[Cats]

My mom grew up in Bethel Park, PA which was right near Evans City where they filmed most of the original black and white Night of the Living Dead from 1968. She wasn't born yet when they filmed the movie but used to go visit the cemetery...for a while she was convinced they had filmed it in the Bethel Park cemetery which was right behind her childhood home but eventually learned that it was actually Evans City. There was a lot of local Pittsburgh celebrities involved in the three movies, like "Chilly Billy" Cardille giving a news report update in the first film and his daughter Lori Cardille (who played main character Sarah in Day of the Dead) pretty neat.

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE RETURNS]

Will someone please explain to my old ass what the fuck this Hauck Tuar or Hawk Tooter or whatever the fuck this zoomer autism meme circulating around is all about. I really don’t get it.

I'd like to know this too. It was on spankbang.com special. I didn't understand there was a day for this.