Southern Engineering

[Smackie Chan]

"hey let's hang this 400 lb sign with liquid nails"

Have you tried staples?

[smackaholic]

Paging Dinsdale to the white building codes phone.

[Truman]

Sad. Heather is a member of my business networking group. Very nice lady.

[Derron]

Why some thing like this fails in the south should be no surprise. I have always wondered about the construction on those stick houses and buildings, and the long held tradition of living in the metal boxs on wheels. Probably paid off any inspectors, then some fat ass walks by the sign and farts and it falls over.

Cue the lawsuits for everyone remotely involved in that incident.

Then you have incidents like this one. I have attended 2 events in the last 4 months that this restaurant catered. Probably going to take a pass on any more, odds are not real good.

http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index. ... virus.html

[Felix]

hmmmmmm

something tells me the Birmingham Airport Authority is going to paying out a shitload more money than it would have cost to install that sign correctly......

damn the south is filled with a bunch of fucking idiots

Heather is a member of my business networking group. Very nice lady.

my condolences....death by stupidity through no fault of your own is about as bad as it gets

[Felix]

Why some thing like this fails in the south should be no surprise. I have always wondered about the construction on those stick houses and buildings, and the long held tradition of living in the metal boxs on wheels. Probably paid off any inspectors, then some fat ass walks by the sign and farts and it falls over.

Cue the lawsuits for everyone remotely involved in that incident.

Then you have incidents like this one. I have attended 2 events in the last 4 months that this restaurant catered. Probably going to take a pass on any more, odds are not real good.

http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index. ... virus.html

and restaurant employees wonder why it's important to wash their hands???????

[Carson]

Well seeing as how felix the brilliant libtard is determined to promote stereotypes in this thread, let me remind him that Jefferson County has an almost 100% black workforce.

[BSmack]

Well seeing as how felix the brilliant libtard is determined to promote stereotypes in this thread, let me remind him that Jefferson County has an almost 100% black workforce.

100%? I'll just go ahead and call bullshit.

[Dinsdale]

Paging Dinsdale to the white building codes phone.

I told you so.


Sin,






Deck at the beach house

[mvscal]

damn the south is filled with a bunch of fucking idiots

Show me one square block anywhere on planet earth that isn't infested with idiots. Modern society has short-circuited natural selection and has allowed even encouraged fucktards to thrive and multiply.

In a sane and just society, the mensa member who thought it was a good idea to secure that sign with liquid nail would be stuffed in a potato sack and tossed off a ten story building.

[Felix]

Well seeing as how felix the brilliant libtard is determined to promote stereotypes in this thread, let me remind him that Jefferson County has an almost 100% black workforce.

morons come from every political and ethnic background.....I've spent enough time in the south that I stand by my assertion.....as mvscal pointed out, there aren't many places where idiots abound, it just seems like the south has a disproportionate percentage.....sorry you had to find out this way

[Left Seater]

As someone who has lived and visited more of the country than the average person, I have to agree with Felix on this...

morons come from every political and ethnic background

I disagree with him that a larger percentage come from the south. Those in the south just embrace their inner moron. At the same time the rest of those in the south recognize that there are morons among them and leave it at that. Meanwhile the rest of the country tries to hide their morons or claim they don't exist.

Hell, but for the walkout basement Smacky's deck construction pic would be right at home in the south, or Appalachia, or Peoria, or Truckee, or the Oregon woods.






Smacky, this was not meant to degrade your deck construction, nor your choice of yard art, but rather to say you are a man of the people.

[Go Coogs']

damn the south is filled with a bunch of fucking idiots

So that bridge falling in Minnesota 10 years ago was the south's fault?

[Felix]

damn the south is filled with a bunch of fucking idiots

So that bridge falling in Minnesota 10 years ago was the south's fault?

huh? wtf does a bridge in minnesota have to do with the south being populated by people breeding to close to the gene pool?

minnesota has their fare share of imbeciles.....I've met some of them personally

[Felix]

I'll go ahead and bet a company based north of the Mason-Dixon line did the recent renovations at the B'ham airport. We'll see who was at fault soon enough.

Lead archtects were KPS Group out of Birmingham
Project Management was A.G. Gaston out of Birmingham
Lead Construction company was Brasfield & Gorrie and BLOC Global Services Group, both out of Birmingham

how much was the bet for?

[Go Coogs']

minnesota has their fare share of imbeciles.....I've met some of them personally

Then why don't you say there are idiots everywhere? Point being, catastrophes happen everywhere due to human error.

Constructing Milwaukee's ball park was a huge FAIL on the guy who was in charge of authorizing lifts in 50mph winds. Cost two construction workers their lives.

How 'bout these idiots, feelsdix. This job was done in Colorado:

[Mikey]

This happened after the sequester, right?

[Felix]

Then why don't you say there are idiots everywhere?

i'm sure i said someplace that there are idiots everywhere

but it takes a special brand of stupidity to think that a liquid adhesive is strong enough to adequately support a large metal sign....don't take it personally dude

[Screw_Michigan]

but it takes a special brand of stupidity to think that a liquid adhesive is strong enough to adequately support a large metal sign....don't take it personally dude

No shit. Tejas isn't even part of the south, why the fuck does he care?

[Go Coogs']

No it doesn't. Idiots who let people use toxic/reactive chemicals to paint an inner wall inside a pipe without an egress route or safety tag lines attached to them is what I call special.

Same with the Birmingham people. You and Scrote are foolish to think this couldn't happen to your family in your hometown.

[War Wagon]

Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City.

that was over 30 years ago, I'm surprised you recall that.

But that wasn't a case of poor engineering or construction methods. It was case of a skywalk being used as a dance floor. It was a case of piss poor hotel management that killed and/or maimed over 100 people.

[FLW Buckeye]

Wags, it was an engineering snafu.

[War Wagon]

Wags, it was an engineering snafu.

I need to learn to check the facts before opening my ignorant trap in the future.

Thanks for the lesson.

[mvscal]

Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City

That's the south?

July 1976: Gillum-Colaco, Inc. (G.C.E. International, Inc., 1983), a Texas corporation, selected as the consulting structural engineer for the Hyatt project.

[FLW Buckeye]

Although no one I know (Texan or otherwise) considers Texas part of the south.

[Foghorn Leghorn]Them there are fightin' words, boy![/Foghorn Leghorn]

sin,
The Confederacy

[mvscal]

Texas, particularly East Texas, was cotton country and most certainly part of the Deep South both culturally and economically as well as being an original member of the Confederacy.

[atomicdad]

Liquid Nails?



Pfffbbbttttt.

[Truman]

Texas, particularly East Texas, was cotton country and most certainly part of the Deep South both culturally and economically as well as being an original member of the Confederacy.

This. At the time, the family inheritance passed to the first born, so a pretty nice chunk of Texas was populated by second- and third born South Carolinians, Georgians, Alabamians, and Mississippians seeking their legacy. After initially settling in East Texas, the boll weevil continued to drive these folks west, and they developed dry land farming techniques to continue growing their crop. You can still find cotton farming as far west as Lubbock even today.

[Truman]

They're like a whole different breed of people.

I've read it's because they were their own Republic (and will be by-God-again if things don't shape up!) and elected to join our Union. God, Texas, and America. In that order.

BTW, Sammy, Heather knows...

[Left Seater]

God, Texas, and America. In that order.

That is partly true, but you are leaving a few things out of that list.

More like God, Family, Neighbors, Football, Texas, Guns, Hunting, Military and America.


Don't think though that this means Texans aren't proud Americans. It's just that we look locally before we look globally. But please by all means keep spreading that mantra. We are seeing 1500 people a day move to Texas and about 300 of them are from Cali.

[War Wagon]

first day of basic training at Lackland AFB outside San Antonio, circa 1980:

Drill Sergeant: "Where you from, boy?"

Newb: "El Paso, Sir!"

Drill Sergeant: "There ain't nothing but steers and queers from Texas and I don't see no horns on you, boy"!

Newb, to self: "I shoulda' joined the Peace Corps".

[Felix]

How 'bout these idiots, feelsdix. This job was done in Colorado:

hey how about the Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster in 1987 where the crew left the bow doors of a car ferry open which capsized the boat and killed 193 people....idiots from Great Britain

in 1995 there was the Sampoong Department Store collapse, shoddy construction and breathtaking stupidity by management of the store results in the death of 502 people.....there are idiots in South Korea

make no mistake, the world is full of path of least resistant types.......

[Felix]

Damn, Felix...you just can't let it go, can you?!

no I can't
January 26, 2013 a 20 story high rise in Rio De Janeiro collapses....suspected cause was illegal building modifications....hey, there are idiots in Brazil

[smackaholic]

Well, fukk, Sam, I'd say Rio is pretty damn far south.

[Mikey]

We are seeing 1500 people a day move to Texas and about 300 of them are from Cali.

The faster they leave California the better.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

California is my favourite part of Mexico.

[smackaholic]

We are seeing 1500 people a day move to Texas and about 300 of them are from Cali.

The faster they leave California the better.

Yeah, I mean who needs all those damn taxpayers anyhoo? I am sure there are a few dozen folks in monterrey that can carry the load all by themselves. Or maybe they can just do it on obamabucks. Surely bernanke can print an extra few bazillion.

[Left Seater]

We are seeing 1500 people a day move to Texas and about 300 of them are from Cali.

The faster they leave California the better.

And as Smacky said they are taking that tax revenue with them.

The passing of Prop 30 is only increasing that. Tax revenues are already well below Jerry's predictions and what he sold the people on. So what do you do when the the tax increase you approved doesn't close the gap and it expires in 4/7 years? make it permanent and increase it again?