The Funny Pic Thread, Pt. 8

[spencer rifle]

I am absolutely sure our cat's most common thought is "If they were just a little smaller...."

 

[Alamo]

[video=facebook_share;1717026331687183]https://www.facebook.com/NateTalksToYou/videos/1717026331687183/?t=102[/video]

click to play

I want one.

 

[Alamo]

Well, when the power goes out those old school phones still work. Nothing wrong with keeping one around.

I wish I still had the one we had in the house when I was growing up. Just like the yellow and green ones in the picture, in basic black tho. And yes it was a party line, had to check for others before dialing.

I don't have a landline anymore so I could not hook it up, but I could still use the hand set as a weapon...

 

[HoughMade]

I want one.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Ma...h=item3fb3d7a588:g:ZUIAAOSwVEFcC0pW:rk:4:pf:0

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-19...w1cBLzg:sc:USPSPriority!46383!US!-1:rk:8:pf:0

 

[Alamo]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Ma...h=item3fb3d7a588:g:ZUIAAOSwVEFcC0pW:rk:4:pf:0

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-19...w1cBLzg:sc:USPSPriority!46383!US!-1:rk:8:pf:0

Well, my wife was asking what I wanted for Christmas...

 

[actaeon277]

Feminism has really never taken hold in Russia for some reason.

One of my favorite memes.

 

[ATOMonkey]

Well, when the power goes out those old school phones still work. Nothing wrong with keeping one around.

You need a gizmo that turns clicks into beeps to get it to work with the phone company. I just installed an old ringer in my house. We use Google Voice and an adapter device for the VOIP.

 

[Dirtebiker]

Whem my power went out my smart phone worked just fine.

I can even charge it in my truck.

when the tornadoes hit us a few years ago we couldn’t get through on cell, but home phone worked. I’m happy to keep both for now.

 

[actaeon277]

when the tornadoes hit us a few years ago we couldn’t get through on cell, but home phone worked. I’m happy to keep both for now.

Yup. I keep both.

 

[HoughMade]

Yup. I keep both.

I do too. Also, my house has spotty cell reception and I don't want to stand on the back deck to make every phone call.

 

[printcraft]

 

[ATOMonkey]

Mother Jones published an article based upon a damning internal memo from Ford and used the article to apply pressure to the NHTSA. The NHTSA at first resisted the pressure, sticking to its normal procedures regarding recalls, but eventually acquiesced and started recall proceedings in an accelerated fashion and set up a test that, while not really rigged and not involving explosives, went far beyond how small cars were normally crash tested at the time, making it more likely to create a fire. For instance, they filled the tank to the brim with gas, switched the headlights on, used a higher speed and used an impact vehicle with a sharper front rather than a flat barrier. They got their fire.

That being said, it all started with Ford's own words.

https://www.autosafety.org/wp-content/uploads/import/phpq3mJ7F_FordMemo.pdf

The cost of saving an estimated 180 burn deaths, 180 serious burn injuries and 2100 injuries was $137 million, the benefit was saving $49.5 million in payouts to families. The conclusion of this memo was that implementing an $11.00 per vehicle fix would not yield a reasonable benefit, so the fix was not voluntarily implemented.

That is probably a standard memo for every vehicle. I imagine that if you looked you could find one for each vehicle at every manufacturer.

The Chargers were particularly bad in a rear collision, as the fill door for the gas tank is very near to the drivers head and would douse the driver with fuel (no sealing caps back then) before setting them on fire.

 

[HoughMade]

That is probably a standard memo for every vehicle. I imagine that if you looked you could find one for each vehicle at every manufacturer...

That may well be true and I have no reason to doubt it. However, the public doesn't react well to companies knowing of a specific risk...of death by fire and severe burns, especially, then concluding that $11 per vehicle is a better bet than paying off widows and other family members.

 

[Doug]

That may well be true and I have no reason to doubt it. However, the public doesn't react well to companies knowing of a specific risk...of death by fire and severe burns, especially, then concluding that $11 per vehicle is a better bet than paying off widows and other family members.

The above may well be true and I have no reason to doubt it. However the same types of decisions will be made about vaccinations for children and health care for all under one-payer socialized medicine. The difference is that there is a financial incentive for refusing treatment and allowing suffering and death.

Fools refuse to believe this and socialist leaning media won't report it. Some of the problems in the British system: https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapo...rgery-due-to-budget-constraints/#588cc8163b99

I am aware of similar sub-standard treatment in the Veterans Administration Health Care system.

 

[ATOMonkey]

That may well be true and I have no reason to doubt it. However, the public doesn't react well to companies knowing of a specific risk...of death by fire and severe burns, especially, then concluding that $11 per vehicle is a better bet than paying off widows and other family members.

There is a video of a very young Michael Moore (supposedly) going after Milton Friedman about this issue. Friedman counters with the question, "how much should be spent on safety?" His point is that you will always get to the place where additional money invested to improve safety just isn't worth the lives it may or may not save. Is that evil? I think that everyone assumes a certain amount of risk in everything they do. The big question is, where do you draw the line?

We have Failure Mode Calculations that we do at work. Invariably they all lead to the engine catching fire, the plan crashing, and everyone dying. We do our best to mitigate the risk of these failure modes, but nothing is full proof.

My argument has always been, "show me one other car from that era built differently." Every single one had the fuel tank between the bumper and the axle, and most didn't have it partitioned from the cabin with a firewall. The only thing separating most motorists from a gruesome death in the '70s was about 2 inches of cheap foam.

 

[Spear Dane]

 

[Spear Dane]

I do. I think it's flipping hilarious!

 

[Jerchap2]

A 60 second commercial from 1966. I remember it. Click to play if you like. Made me laugh. Those were different times.

[video=facebook_share;1968839006713410]https://www.facebook.com/classictelevisioncommercials/videos/1968839006713410/[/video]

 

[Jerchap2]

 

[2A_Tom]

I must not be very evolved. Now a days all we have is the Victoria's Secret fashion show. Which, by the way, I do not watch.