Random Silly Grins

kxkvi · February 4, 2019, 9:17pm

And one minute after typing this, I go to the other place and read:

I’ve written about the 11foot8 bridge (aka the Can-Opener) quite a few times here on Boing Boing. Located in Durham, North Carolina, it’s a 79-year-old railroad bridge that has a lower clearance than the height of many common commercial trucks. It’s scraped the top off of 139 trucks since 2008, the year that Jürgen Henn installed a video camera to record the crashes.

Now if that ain’t weird I dunno what is!
(actually I assumed it was Google or something do its ad thing)

nimelennar · February 4, 2019, 9:31pm

Hold stick near centre of its length.
Moisten pointed end in mouth.
Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum.
Use gentle in-out motion.

ChickieD · February 4, 2019, 9:35pm

I can confirm; these people have too much time.

teknocholer · February 4, 2019, 9:54pm

I can’t see why that wouldn’t work. They’re just cans.

nimelennar · February 4, 2019, 9:56pm

I think #1 is to prevent a sudden pressure release into your face, and #2 is to prevent a spark from causing a jet of fire to shoot up into your face.

Daveb · February 4, 2019, 10:22pm

Wonderful, so you can open oxygen canisters then?

Daveb · February 4, 2019, 10:24pm

Do you want to get the wallpaper for the asylum or should I?

teknocholer · February 4, 2019, 10:33pm

Oh, right. We wouldn’t want a loud “WHOOSH” sound.

howaboutthis · February 5, 2019, 12:07am

No aerosol cans?
Drat. I was just thinking how fun a shaving cream can would be.

Wisconsin_Platt · February 5, 2019, 1:01am

While I’ve never opened a can of Barbasol with a can opener, I may have taken a few cans to the rifle range as a youth.

I remember being satisfied when the pressure was rapidly brought to equalibrium

RAvery · February 5, 2019, 2:35am

You should have been working with Foamy.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TPGxvOxu9gg

kxkvi · February 5, 2019, 3:26am

gadgetgirl · February 5, 2019, 4:07am

You know… wrap the can up in green paper first, do something about the white twine, video it against a matching green screen, and you’d have a great, reusable clip that could save you a lot of money on CGI. You could film it simultaneously from different angles too.

teknocholer · February 5, 2019, 2:22pm

I didn’t think that… um… "that sort " of videos used a lot of CGI. Perhaps I’m just hopelessly naive.

kxkvi · February 5, 2019, 2:24pm

Oh.

just figured it out

chgoliz · February 5, 2019, 2:51pm

EITMLI5?

(yes, that’s a full sentence…the system doesn’t seem to like the above without some sort of explanation)

teknocholer · February 5, 2019, 2:57pm

nimelennar · February 5, 2019, 3:02pm

Discourse doesn’t like all-caps.

teknocholer · February 5, 2019, 3:08pm

DISCOURSE CAN’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!

nimelennar · February 5, 2019, 3:08pm

Well, you see, some people like watching videos of people being sprayed by Super Soakers.

But the problem with Super Soakers is that they can only hold so much water in their tanks. And, even if there’s enough water in the tank to satisfy the people who would want to watch someone get soaked, there’s a limit to how much pressure it’ll come out with, no matter how much you pump it up first.

So, I think that the suggestion is to use the footage of the spray can to show someone getting soaked with enough water, with enough pressure, to satisfy the kind of people who would watch those kinds of Super Soaker videos.

Or, that’s how I would explain it to a 5-year-old.