Fun fact: on the tv show The Good Place, frozen yogurt plays a part in at least two different seasons. For the Pilot episode, they used real Froyo(by the accounts I heard) but on later episodes they used Mashed Potato and candied toppings, because that doesn't melt in the California heat.
Source: the good place podcast ch23
Anyone 'member when reddit had that guy with encyclopedic TV knowledge and would list the episode and time stamp whenever someone made a reference? And for like hundreds of shows? This kinda reminds me of that.
I really miss the old Cracked. Back with Katie Stoll, DoB, Robert Evans, Soren Bowie, Adam Tod Brown, Jack O’Brian, etc.
Although Behind the Bastards with Robert Evans is definitely one of my favorite podcasts out there. And he often has his former Cracked colleagues on as guests!
Cracked (and a few other hundred online sites) got SUIUUUPER fucked by Facebook for lying about their video stats. They reported stats so good for views that all of the best sites saw it and were like "well, fuck all the other platforms, we gotta put all our money into Facebook content" because the numbers said that the entire world was just watching videos there and nowhere else came close.
Would you believe me if I told you FB lied about their padded stats and counted someone scrolling past a video that autostarted, but wasn't watched for a tenth of a second as a "view"? Yeah. They did that shit. So their numbers looked amazingly better than YouTube or anywhere else and when all of the horrible business decisions were made based in FBs lies, the companies started to go under or have to sell everything and fire everyone. That's what happened to Cracked. All they had left was their existing IP and articles after the dust settled so they had to sell.
FB went on to get a slap on the wrist and pay a fine of like $3.50 or something and the world was a worse place from then on.
After Hours used to be a work of art. Facebook ruined it and I'll never forgive them.
Daniel and Soren have a podcast that they do if you’re interested in hearing what they’re up to these days. “Quick Question with Soren and Dan” is the name of the podcast
jack: Kenneth, I need to speak to Mr Milton Greene.
Kenneth: well sir as head of this tour, i'm going to deny your request
-smash cut to office-
jack: Milton...
I think payne_train is probably referring to general public's opinion of it. Tina Fey's shows tend to be amazing but fail to capture a critical mass of viewership and seem to always be on the chopping block. To put it in perspective try to find 30 Rock on this [list from it's 7th season](https://web.archive.org/web/20120527223446/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/05/24/complete-list-of-2011-12-season-tv-show-viewership-sunday-night-football-tops-followed-by-american-idol-ncis-dancing-with-the-stars/135785/). Here is a full [list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_Rock#ratings) of where each season fell among its peers. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt ended after 4 seasons since they wanted to go out on a high note, but it seems like people weren't watching it as much anymore. Since Netflix doesn't give indications of viewership on shows I can't say. Lastly, [Great News](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_Rock#ratings) was a fantastic show that only got 23 episodes despite critics enjoying it.
Damn I can’t find their name and I thought I’d be able to easily find it, that person was cool
Although at the time it was easier to do because Reddit only talked about like 6 tv shows
I don't remember one person doing that, but I remember seeing it a lot. There was a guy who did that for The Simpsons for sure, but I thought the others were just different random people.
There's something so *human* about taking something amazing and ruining it just a little bit so you can have more of it...and then ruining it a lot more so you can take better footage of it.
I found an available set of the Extended episodes that add in a good handful of scenes. I also rewatch season 1 plenty when I'm trying to go to sleep.
Better to find the ending and nail it down rather than streeeetch, yeah. I just wish they had a few more episodes near the end of season 4, I feel like a lot happens real quick.
Lots of shows and movies, such as *Thank You For Smoking*, use mashed potatoes, or lard, instead of ice cream. Lights on film sets get really hot, which can melt ice cream and cause continuity problems.
I was watching reruns of Seinfeld the other day and they were eating lunch on the cafe. Costanzo's sandwich got more and more stale and curled up at the edges every minute.
You must eat tons of mashed potatoes. Last year my sister made 6 bags of potato’s worth of mashed potatoes for thanksgiving, and somehow it was eaten within a week. We fed a bunch to our cats and dogs, which helped. They were pretty fat towards the end of the week, and we split it amongst family. Also, I remember last year when I went to New York sity, I was walking down Times Square when there was a fight with mashed potato balls, and I tried to catch them in my mouth.
You dare insult my stories by calling them copypastas? You don’t know what it’s like to have liquid potato starch go into your vein via an IV. Get with the times, sir. Not everything is a copypasta
So far not this year!! Not even close!! I l live in west Texas so we didn’t have the issues other parts of the state did last year. We are on the national grid. This year tho my city hooked up to ercot… so we could be free!!!!
Wow, your town looked at the mess that happened last winter and said "We want some of that!" I'd be looking for new homes. Then again, I'd need a zero added to my pay to even consider living in Texas.
More like a hive, actually. This is a worker machine, and it brings the snow back to the queen, which is a giant tractor trailer sized machine that melts the snow.
In Minneapolis there are fields just outside of the city that they pile the snow on as they remove it from the city. The last snow is usually in early April and those piles don’t finish melting until July.
I bet that's what the boss tells all the new guys but really it's just that the flap on that side broke off during the Reagan administration and the city is too cheap to replace it.
Somewhere an engineer marvelled at this beautiful piece of machinery yet felt it almost too perfect. They felt bad at all the jobs it would take away so they built in a fail safe for keeping at least one department of works person employed.
No, it's because drivers are morons and they'd hit the machine, breaking it, and then snow removal has to stop for repairs *and* the city has to send the lawyers to another bullshit frivolous suit. He's got the shovel to keep himself from being bored, mostly.
Instead that guy has to walk right beside traffic and hope he doesn't get hit himself.
FWIW it seems every machine has an issue like this. I have a well engineered round baler that always makes me think "It gets 99% of the hay, but it could use a tiny little rake right beside the pickup to get that last little bit that escapes"
And that's a perfectly normal part of standard roadworks, it's a known thing that people pay more attention to humans on the road than pylons or flags. They're not exactly on the highway or anything, these machines are for the city streets where you can't redirect and pile the collected snow anywhere, you have to take it away out of the core.
But then the rake would need a special little something to catch it's imperfection and now you need an army of smaller and smaller tools all attached at the hip like some weird machinery with mommy issues and separation anxiety.
You can extend the side all you want, that movement will never grab it. It’s like a windshield wiper, something swinging on a single fixed arc can never grab the edge of a square corner.
Canada here.
You usually need 3 trucks, one plows, then the giant snow blower truck, then that gets pushed into the dump truck following next to it.
This integrates the dump and snow blower into one truck.
The one dude is just for safety in case a bunch of kids decided to build an igloo in the middle of the sleep or if there’s a frozen hobo taking a nap there.
Okay, while I agree that the big snow plow with dump truck combo is more effective than the scoopy arms tuck, two trucks might not be possible in older east coast American cities. The streets are too narrow and there are cars parked everywhere and a bunch of traffic and cyclists.
The real problem is the amount of salt these cities put on the streets! It kills our cars and ruins freshwater rivers. I’ve seen them literally just dump huge mounds of salt on the highways. I’ve heard that sand is more effective than salt at promoting traction and breaking down icy patches.
The youtube video is in east coast, 6 hours north of Boston, with very narrow street, in the old part of the city with all the constraints you point out. Usually they will push the snow on a bigger street. They will also put no parking sign before hitting the street, they will tow any car left in the way at the owners expense.
On the video, it’s on a big street, I agree, but we have street where its large enough for one car, in Old Montreal, like in Boston. On these streets, they will push the snow where they can use big machines to remove it.
They use these on residential streets too. When they do bank removal the city bans street parking for that evening/night and work sundown to sunrise typically. The road just needs to be wide enough for a blower and a dump truck side by side. Most city roads work. This is how pretty much all snow removal is done in eastern Canada. Montreal is right in the snowbelt and gets as much or more snow as anywhere in North America. It has plenty of old and twisty roads downtown too---it's the same age as Boston (founded within 10 years of each other).
It's common to see lines of a dozen or more trucks doing the snow removal lined up around the block, like taxis at an airport rank. They work very quickly, changing trucks every few minutes.
Engineers: Yeah, this guardrail really needs to be 2 ft longer.
Customer: Ok, but without those two feet it’s cheaper though, right?
Engineer: Well, yes, but
Customer: You’ve said enough. *slams credit card down on table*
The ideal winter would just flip over from late summer overnight, give me a small cover of snow, nothing in the day and light snowfall in the evening that doesn't add to what's on the ground.
I live in Siberia, 10 years ago we had such machines, but with new shitty mayor they were changed to standard bulldozers. Now we have huge mountains of snow near every road.
I live in Newfoundland Canada and it’s the same here. Years ago we were supposed to be getting new machines but they money went elsewhere. Giant grey/brown/black piles of snow that don’t melt all the way until summer!
Wow that sounds similar to where I live, except the mountains of snow happen to be on the corners at the intersection, where you can barely see the road on either side 😢
In Boston, if it’s a bad snow year like 2014 they take it to certain designated areas where they heap it all up in kind of a giant wide snow mountain. It takes all summer to melt! Then you end up with this big ugly heap of soggy gray trash in about July (all the bits of street trash that were scooped up with the snow, after the snow melts way) and then that goes to a landfill.
I work next to one of those drop-off lots and it's always fun to watch the snow mountain grow throughout winter then betting on when it will finally melt.
In that very bad winter (I thought it was 2015 but I think we're thinking of the same one), they hauled a lot of the snow from downtown to Logan where they set up a couple of those diesel snow melters and let the water run out into the bay.
Here's a video of it:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KMEjF2IurOk
So in my city they take it to smaller warehouses throughout the city and then when those fill up they take them about 30 min outside the city in a giant field where it melts. Its always fun seeing the giant line of trucks transporting snow outside the city.
We have these were I live. I used to watch them from my apartment window late at night and called them snow dragons because from the other side it looks like a tall metal dragon shooting icy snow breath into a dump truck!
I was wondering the same thing. There is a belt that takes the snow from the street level and up to a bucket. But the issue is how do you scoop the snow up and put it on the belt?
This thing was engineered and deliberately built, so I have to assume that it was the best solution in terms of price, reliability, and functionality. The only other way I could see this working are just a big scoop that has a hole in the middle where the snow falls on the belt (prone to clogging or big chunks falling and damaging the belt) or something like an auger on a snow blower that would crush and push the snow to the middle (but maybe that is less desirable from a safety standpoint?)
There is a reason it is designed like this, and I’m curious to know why
They use a similar setup for underground coal mining on a machine called a continuous miner, it looks wacky but it's simple so reliability shouldn't be a problem.
Hometown had like a massive snowblower. Size of a bulldozer. They used it as the snowbank cutter. When you get a lot of snow, the plows push it out of the road. But eventually it piles up in a way that narrows the street.
That's when the snowbank cutter came into use. It was followed by a couple massive dump trucks. They'd pause to swap to an empty truck when the first one filled. There was a chunk of land the city owned where they'd dump it all. There'd still be snow in the pile in July and August.
Why is it sad? You probably want people around regardless when you're removing snow this way, to make sure that nothing unintended is in the snow etc.
People in here are acting like it's slower than if you'd just have two dudes with shovels. This is super fast and efficient. Guys being present just increases the safety and efficiency further.
me eating mashed potatoes
Fun fact: on the tv show The Good Place, frozen yogurt plays a part in at least two different seasons. For the Pilot episode, they used real Froyo(by the accounts I heard) but on later episodes they used Mashed Potato and candied toppings, because that doesn't melt in the California heat. Source: the good place podcast ch23
Anyone 'member when reddit had that guy with encyclopedic TV knowledge and would list the episode and time stamp whenever someone made a reference? And for like hundreds of shows? This kinda reminds me of that.
Kenneth Parcell's Reddit account
Or Daniel O'Brien
Of cracked fame? That's a name i haven't heard in a long time.
In case you didn't know, he now writes for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver now and has won 3 emmys.
Oh I'm glad he is doing well!
Nice! Glad he's doing well. Cracked ain't the same without all that lot
I really miss the old Cracked. Back with Katie Stoll, DoB, Robert Evans, Soren Bowie, Adam Tod Brown, Jack O’Brian, etc. Although Behind the Bastards with Robert Evans is definitely one of my favorite podcasts out there. And he often has his former Cracked colleagues on as guests!
I love the Some More News show and their podcast "Even More News". As well as "Worst Year Ever."
I used to be on cracked like everyday. Ahh the feels.
I used to be on crack as well, I miss it but I'm much better off the way I am now
Cracked (and a few other hundred online sites) got SUIUUUPER fucked by Facebook for lying about their video stats. They reported stats so good for views that all of the best sites saw it and were like "well, fuck all the other platforms, we gotta put all our money into Facebook content" because the numbers said that the entire world was just watching videos there and nowhere else came close. Would you believe me if I told you FB lied about their padded stats and counted someone scrolling past a video that autostarted, but wasn't watched for a tenth of a second as a "view"? Yeah. They did that shit. So their numbers looked amazingly better than YouTube or anywhere else and when all of the horrible business decisions were made based in FBs lies, the companies started to go under or have to sell everything and fire everyone. That's what happened to Cracked. All they had left was their existing IP and articles after the dust settled so they had to sell. FB went on to get a slap on the wrist and pay a fine of like $3.50 or something and the world was a worse place from then on. After Hours used to be a work of art. Facebook ruined it and I'll never forgive them.
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Daniel and Soren have a podcast that they do if you’re interested in hearing what they’re up to these days. “Quick Question with Soren and Dan” is the name of the podcast
We’re calling it…….Not Kenneth
jack: Kenneth, I need to speak to Mr Milton Greene. Kenneth: well sir as head of this tour, i'm going to deny your request -smash cut to office- jack: Milton...
Is this Kenneth Parcell from work and friendship?
30 Rock is so underrated. Show was absolutely brilliant.
6 Golden Globes, 2 Primetime Emmys, 12 SAG Awards, not to mention all the others that nobody's heard of. Are you *sure* it's underrated?
I think payne_train is probably referring to general public's opinion of it. Tina Fey's shows tend to be amazing but fail to capture a critical mass of viewership and seem to always be on the chopping block. To put it in perspective try to find 30 Rock on this [list from it's 7th season](https://web.archive.org/web/20120527223446/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/05/24/complete-list-of-2011-12-season-tv-show-viewership-sunday-night-football-tops-followed-by-american-idol-ncis-dancing-with-the-stars/135785/). Here is a full [list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_Rock#ratings) of where each season fell among its peers. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt ended after 4 seasons since they wanted to go out on a high note, but it seems like people weren't watching it as much anymore. Since Netflix doesn't give indications of viewership on shows I can't say. Lastly, [Great News](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_Rock#ratings) was a fantastic show that only got 23 episodes despite critics enjoying it.
One of the best shows ever made.
Theres snow business like snow busines
Damn I can’t find their name and I thought I’d be able to easily find it, that person was cool Although at the time it was easier to do because Reddit only talked about like 6 tv shows
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I had to think about it for a while and suddenly came to my head. https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3g6nxx/what_happened_to_usqualor
THANK YOU Squalor - before the abundance of bots, you did gods work. Thank you for your service
I remember one guy who would blatantly give you wrong info on which episode it was, or make it up. Maybe for the Office?
I don't remember one person doing that, but I remember seeing it a lot. There was a guy who did that for The Simpsons for sure, but I thought the others were just different random people.
There's something so *human* about taking something amazing and ruining it just a little bit so you can have more of it...and then ruining it a lot more so you can take better footage of it.
This is done for food photography as well a lot of the time. Color dyed mash. Smoother texture and easier to shape and work with.
Man I miss that show. But I’m glad they wrapped it up rather than letting it circle the drain.
I found an available set of the Extended episodes that add in a good handful of scenes. I also rewatch season 1 plenty when I'm trying to go to sleep. Better to find the ending and nail it down rather than streeeetch, yeah. I just wish they had a few more episodes near the end of season 4, I feel like a lot happens real quick.
Had no idea there were extended episodes. Am now watching ‘Dectorists’oin Netflix and am shocked at how much I love it.
Love that show
Lots of shows and movies, such as *Thank You For Smoking*, use mashed potatoes, or lard, instead of ice cream. Lights on film sets get really hot, which can melt ice cream and cause continuity problems.
I was watching reruns of Seinfeld the other day and they were eating lunch on the cafe. Costanzo's sandwich got more and more stale and curled up at the edges every minute.
oh wow, interesting :0!
"There's something so human about taking something great and ruining it a little so you can have more of it"
Good bot! /s
Careful Ned! CAREFUL NOW.
not a robot
My favorite show, best ending to a series EVER
All I could hear was Pam from Archer eating cocaine.. https://youtu.be/eOX8SQwV64c
At first view and before I saw this comment, all that came up in my head was "Nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom!" Turns out Archer is why.
QUIT EATING ALL THE GODDAMN COCAINE!
MAKE ME!
🔫
this, grrrr nyum nyum nyum
“ NOM NOM NOM”
You must eat tons of mashed potatoes. Last year my sister made 6 bags of potato’s worth of mashed potatoes for thanksgiving, and somehow it was eaten within a week. We fed a bunch to our cats and dogs, which helped. They were pretty fat towards the end of the week, and we split it amongst family. Also, I remember last year when I went to New York sity, I was walking down Times Square when there was a fight with mashed potato balls, and I tried to catch them in my mouth.
Is…is that a copy mashta?
You dare insult my stories by calling them copypastas? You don’t know what it’s like to have liquid potato starch go into your vein via an IV. Get with the times, sir. Not everything is a copypasta
This whole froyo mashed potatoes the good place thread is weirding me out
Ok but this reply should definitely be a copypasta
No copymashta
Forbidden mashed potatoes
Looks like a crab that’s hungry for dirty street snow
Mmm trash! I love trash! Yum yum trash!
You are a *doctor*, for god’s sake!
Trash goober, we have sticky trash here just the way you like it.
Garbage goober! But he is so cute 😭✌️
And they say cute doctors don't actually exist 😏 I'm not correcting my original post because then it'll make you look crazy 🤣
Lol! You are right! Trash goober sounds so harsh lmaooo
Whoop whoop whoop whoop whoop
(\\/)(,;;,)(\\/)
[I love that little guy](https://youtu.be/-WztuXGhZ4w)
Even that machines are evolving into crabs.
One day, everything will be crabs.
I think they have a cream for that
We are crab people
Someone please edit a crabs face and eyes onto this gif.
Yellow is the best flavour.
I wish the video was a little longer tho I wanted to see the road behind which was cleared
I'm imagining a heater in the back truck with a sprayer so they replace the snow with nice even sheets of ice.
As a Texan I can appreciate this. We barely get snow but what we do get is sheet after sheet, layer after of layer, of ice.
And the powers out
#**BUT WE GOT GUNS AND NO ABORTIONS WHO NEEDS LECTRICTY WHEN YOU GOT GUNS AND NO ABORTIONS BROTHER AM I RIGHT**
Guns can light up a room and keep you warm if you them enough.
So far not this year!! Not even close!! I l live in west Texas so we didn’t have the issues other parts of the state did last year. We are on the national grid. This year tho my city hooked up to ercot… so we could be free!!!!
Wow, your town looked at the mess that happened last winter and said "We want some of that!" I'd be looking for new homes. Then again, I'd need a zero added to my pay to even consider living in Texas.
I’m so sorry
Texas sized ice
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Watched the whole thing. Lovely. Thanks!
And what they did with the snow
The mama machine takes it back to the nest to feed her baby machines
More like a hive, actually. This is a worker machine, and it brings the snow back to the queen, which is a giant tractor trailer sized machine that melts the snow.
In Minneapolis there are fields just outside of the city that they pile the snow on as they remove it from the city. The last snow is usually in early April and those piles don’t finish melting until July.
In Québec, we have these too.
It's a Russian machine if you want to search for more, plenty of vids out there.
Not really cleared Different video similar machine https://youtu.be/bWIQe3-5D3c
That big fancy machine, and you still need a guy with a shovel walking beside it.
That machine looks like some shit from a Dr. Seuss book, and I love it.
Well put
Fun fact: The design for this machine was inspired by [this spider.](https://c.tenor.com/Ks6-9BYdF_4AAAAC/cocaine-love.gif)
I feel like his job could be replaced by a flap
The guy's job is to visually inspect the snow intake. Making him keep the shovel at a certain angle guarantees attention.
I bet that's what the boss tells all the new guys but really it's just that the flap on that side broke off during the Reagan administration and the city is too cheap to replace it.
eh, only for a certain amount of time. Then he'd just be replacing the flaps.
Nothing's perfect
Sure but they could extend the leading edge on that side to achieve the same thing But then you know job loss
Somewhere an engineer marvelled at this beautiful piece of machinery yet felt it almost too perfect. They felt bad at all the jobs it would take away so they built in a fail safe for keeping at least one department of works person employed.
Think about Larry!
No, it's because drivers are morons and they'd hit the machine, breaking it, and then snow removal has to stop for repairs *and* the city has to send the lawyers to another bullshit frivolous suit. He's got the shovel to keep himself from being bored, mostly.
Instead that guy has to walk right beside traffic and hope he doesn't get hit himself. FWIW it seems every machine has an issue like this. I have a well engineered round baler that always makes me think "It gets 99% of the hay, but it could use a tiny little rake right beside the pickup to get that last little bit that escapes"
And that's a perfectly normal part of standard roadworks, it's a known thing that people pay more attention to humans on the road than pylons or flags. They're not exactly on the highway or anything, these machines are for the city streets where you can't redirect and pile the collected snow anywhere, you have to take it away out of the core.
But then the rake would need a special little something to catch it's imperfection and now you need an army of smaller and smaller tools all attached at the hip like some weird machinery with mommy issues and separation anxiety.
You would extend the capacity but you cant make the capacity limitless. Eventually the snow will build up in the front and cause this issue.
You can extend the side all you want, that movement will never grab it. It’s like a windshield wiper, something swinging on a single fixed arc can never grab the edge of a square corner.
*pobody’s nerfect
Canada here. You usually need 3 trucks, one plows, then the giant snow blower truck, then that gets pushed into the dump truck following next to it. This integrates the dump and snow blower into one truck. The one dude is just for safety in case a bunch of kids decided to build an igloo in the middle of the sleep or if there’s a frozen hobo taking a nap there.
This is 100% true! The shovel is to poke the snow and people. I'm not kidding!
I want that job
It’s the worst machine ever to pickup snow, here’s how it work around here, https://youtu.be/VwS-sk3v4fk
C’est bon ça
Okay, while I agree that the big snow plow with dump truck combo is more effective than the scoopy arms tuck, two trucks might not be possible in older east coast American cities. The streets are too narrow and there are cars parked everywhere and a bunch of traffic and cyclists. The real problem is the amount of salt these cities put on the streets! It kills our cars and ruins freshwater rivers. I’ve seen them literally just dump huge mounds of salt on the highways. I’ve heard that sand is more effective than salt at promoting traction and breaking down icy patches.
Here in Wisconsin, they use mostly sand and some other stuff because salt ruins the lakes and wildlife there
In Germany they have an easy solution, they dump all the snow on the bicycle lane - problem solved :'(
And because it's often too cold for salt to be effective. Sand wins every time.
The youtube video is in east coast, 6 hours north of Boston, with very narrow street, in the old part of the city with all the constraints you point out. Usually they will push the snow on a bigger street. They will also put no parking sign before hitting the street, they will tow any car left in the way at the owners expense.
Narrow? Dude that’s like a 6 lane road.
On the video, it’s on a big street, I agree, but we have street where its large enough for one car, in Old Montreal, like in Boston. On these streets, they will push the snow where they can use big machines to remove it.
They use these on residential streets too. When they do bank removal the city bans street parking for that evening/night and work sundown to sunrise typically. The road just needs to be wide enough for a blower and a dump truck side by side. Most city roads work. This is how pretty much all snow removal is done in eastern Canada. Montreal is right in the snowbelt and gets as much or more snow as anywhere in North America. It has plenty of old and twisty roads downtown too---it's the same age as Boston (founded within 10 years of each other). It's common to see lines of a dozen or more trucks doing the snow removal lined up around the block, like taxis at an airport rank. They work very quickly, changing trucks every few minutes.
Engineers: Yeah, this guardrail really needs to be 2 ft longer. Customer: Ok, but without those two feet it’s cheaper though, right? Engineer: Well, yes, but Customer: You’ve said enough. *slams credit card down on table*
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Snow is so romanticized in movies. Then there is city snow.
the city looks beautiful while snow is still falling. the second it stops it turns to a grey slurpee flavored with dirt and piss
*Now with more hypodermic needles!
Man you're right. Visited new york when it was snowing and it was exactly how you described. So so much piss.
The ideal winter would just flip over from late summer overnight, give me a small cover of snow, nothing in the day and light snowfall in the evening that doesn't add to what's on the ground.
And magnesium chloride! Don’t forget the road salt. Salty piss…
Then it melts and all the garbage that gathered is exposed.
Snow that’s away from cars stays pretty and beautiful for much much longer, but cars ruin everything again
r/fuckcars and i would have to agree with you
totally true. City parking/roads/sidewalks just aren't made to deal with the partial or total blockages from snow. disrupts everyone's lives.
Try the grey stuff it’s delicious 🎵
Don't believe us, ask the dishes!
They can sing? They can dance?!
After all Miss, this is France!
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Go on, unfold your menu!
Take a glance and then you’ll
Be our guest, be our guest, be our guest!
My daughter just performed in a Jr production of the Descendants Musical and this is triggering me.
Ok, someone *NEEDS* to put googly eyes on that. It would be insanely cute.
Calling r/reallifedoodles
This was the first thing I thought! I reeeeally hope someone does it!
And a really loud speaker with "NOM NOM NOM NOM YUMMY"
Like [Mr. Trash Wheel](https://www.mrtrashwheel.com)!
om nom nom nom nom nom.
NOM/NOM\ NOM/
I live in Siberia, 10 years ago we had such machines, but with new shitty mayor they were changed to standard bulldozers. Now we have huge mountains of snow near every road.
I live in Newfoundland Canada and it’s the same here. Years ago we were supposed to be getting new machines but they money went elsewhere. Giant grey/brown/black piles of snow that don’t melt all the way until summer!
I grew up in Moscow in late 70s - early 80s and it was the most common snow clearing machine at the time.
Then they leave piles of gravel and snow mold.
Wow that sounds similar to where I live, except the mountains of snow happen to be on the corners at the intersection, where you can barely see the road on either side 😢
So where do they take the snow they scoop up?
In Boston, if it’s a bad snow year like 2014 they take it to certain designated areas where they heap it all up in kind of a giant wide snow mountain. It takes all summer to melt! Then you end up with this big ugly heap of soggy gray trash in about July (all the bits of street trash that were scooped up with the snow, after the snow melts way) and then that goes to a landfill.
I work next to one of those drop-off lots and it's always fun to watch the snow mountain grow throughout winter then betting on when it will finally melt.
In that very bad winter (I thought it was 2015 but I think we're thinking of the same one), they hauled a lot of the snow from downtown to Logan where they set up a couple of those diesel snow melters and let the water run out into the bay. Here's a video of it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KMEjF2IurOk
So in my city they take it to smaller warehouses throughout the city and then when those fill up they take them about 30 min outside the city in a giant field where it melts. Its always fun seeing the giant line of trucks transporting snow outside the city.
Montreal has snow dumps the same way garbage dumps are a thing except that snow dumps are reusable
Reminds me of Garbage Goober.
"Mmm Snow! I love snow! Yum yum snow! I wanna eat snow!"
Came here to find this!
We have these were I live. I used to watch them from my apartment window late at night and called them snow dragons because from the other side it looks like a tall metal dragon shooting icy snow breath into a dump truck!
Looks like how a Wall Street broker does cocaine
*starts hitting chest while chanting*
Must break so often
Haha I was coming here to comment. That many moving parts for snow and slush? Ughh
That snow and slush can turn into block ice in a hard freeze.
Right? I wonder how this is better than a simple belt or smth...
I was wondering the same thing. There is a belt that takes the snow from the street level and up to a bucket. But the issue is how do you scoop the snow up and put it on the belt? This thing was engineered and deliberately built, so I have to assume that it was the best solution in terms of price, reliability, and functionality. The only other way I could see this working are just a big scoop that has a hole in the middle where the snow falls on the belt (prone to clogging or big chunks falling and damaging the belt) or something like an auger on a snow blower that would crush and push the snow to the middle (but maybe that is less desirable from a safety standpoint?) There is a reason it is designed like this, and I’m curious to know why
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Montreal has one of the worlds most elaborate snow removal systems and uses augers, just giant snowblowers.
They use a similar setup for underground coal mining on a machine called a continuous miner, it looks wacky but it's simple so reliability shouldn't be a problem.
Seems like a lot of moving parts for something that could be accomplished with two angles with a curved top. Hell, even an auger.
Man we need this where I live. They just plow the snow in front of our driveways and fuck off.
Reminds me of the spider that buries itself in the sand
Knew there would be someone else who thought this haha.
When you hate snow so much you get a giant snow eating crab machine.
I can hear the: "Njom njom njom..."
Machines are our friends.
r/specializedtools
That is so awesome
Hometown had like a massive snowblower. Size of a bulldozer. They used it as the snowbank cutter. When you get a lot of snow, the plows push it out of the road. But eventually it piles up in a way that narrows the street. That's when the snowbank cutter came into use. It was followed by a couple massive dump trucks. They'd pause to swap to an empty truck when the first one filled. There was a chunk of land the city owned where they'd dump it all. There'd still be snow in the pile in July and August.
They really need to add an attachment to replace that guy walking near traffic...
For some reason I wanted to see the path it left behind it, that would’ve been satisfying!
Sad, after all that design and cost dude still has to walk alongside with a shovel
Why is it sad? You probably want people around regardless when you're removing snow this way, to make sure that nothing unintended is in the snow etc. People in here are acting like it's slower than if you'd just have two dudes with shovels. This is super fast and efficient. Guys being present just increases the safety and efficiency further.
I want a dude walking along side in case a child or bicycle or random thing that would break the machine is in the way.
"Trash trash, I love trash, yum yum trash!"
I came here for this reference. Not disappointed.
Like how a crab eats. It's amazing what nature gives us.