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Favorite Comment: Fixer Mailman says, “(Whispering) Here, we see the Abomineer in its native habitat. The Abomineer is working on its “kludge,” a peculiar object not found to help the creature in survival, finding food, or mating. This particular Abomineer has adopted camouflage that is most ingenious for its kind. After examining its behavior closely, it is the opinion of the world’s leading biologists that this Abomineer is attempting to look like a magazine. The Abomineer is attempting to hide from its natural enemy, the Quality Control Ferret. Look! A Ferret is approaching. Let’s watch.”
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WOW. That has got to be the stupidest thing ever!
Give him a break- he’s just trying to save face.
Quite toasty, sure beats sushi.
How I envy your innocence.
You know using a torch like this without the proper shielding for your eyes you will go blind, right? It is really IS the stupidest thing ever.
you know blind < Dead.
When it’s either weld like this for a dollar a day, or lose your job and have you and your family starve, this doesn’t seem so stupid after all.
actually its stick welding
that guys a dipstick
actually it is, sparks don’t start fires. I learned to wield when I was 12.
You watch too many movies
Really? Sparks don’t start fires? I don’t think you have any idea what you are talking about.
but he’s 13 now maybe he’s learned something new that we don’t know lol
As a studet studying to become a welder, sparks can ignite fires up to 10 metres away. Its often underestimated.
And the light arc will cause your eyes to itch like hell and the ultra violet lighting will make your skin itch.
Sorry if i look like a teacher, but im not.
I have to give him credit for making sure the fire spreads evenly.
Worst. Disguise. Ever.
Groucho Marx meets The New Yorker.
You forgot Zippo.
No need for a lighter. The sparks from the welder will suffice.
Maybe if he were hiding in a library…
The new dress code at the sparkler testing facility.
My mom made us do this to when we played with sparklers
Ae you a flamer?
Well, cayenne is pretty hot.
Ironically the cover story on that paper was about eye damage to welders
The new DOD budget cuts were felt almost immediately…
I doubt that face shield is OSHA approved.
i dont think they have OSHA in China
Bet he aint dun got no OSHA-10 card.
No but it is O Sh** approved
Dam small font on these welding instructions
Eye holes not included.
Hopefully its some nice images getting burned into his retinas.
Safety gear was in short supply once the war broke out. A rotation schedule was made for who gets to wear what on a particular day. Tomorrow, this guy actually gets one of only three welding helmets the plant has. However, he’ll also be sporting oven mitts and a pink, terrycloth bathrobe.
Peoples Republic of soon to be learning Braille.
That’s the thing about Charlie- you can read him like a book.
I somehow find the nicknaming of this particular person as “Charlie” to be somewhat regrettable, Lieutenant Dan.
Newspaper-50 cents
Glasses-50 dollars
Burning yesterdays coverstory into your face- Priceless.
I wouldn’t worry about the newspaper so much. It probably won’t catch fire. The light though. That light is so bright if you don’t have the right shade for your eyes you could do permanent damage with a few seconds of exposure.
For a second there, I thought this was a still of Woodie Allen from Bananas.
that’s odd….I submitted basically the same thing a few weeks ago and it was not posted….oh well. Apparently this is commonplace in China.
Somewhere, someone just shouted, “I got FIRST!”
Lee endured the miserable, day to day grind of toiling in the Chinese factory by simultaneously welding and reading Ann Landers articles, Wal-Mart advertisements and Houston Rockets game programs.
hey, Sparky, yer doin it wrong
This is a rare screenshot of the next Batman film villian, Dr. Sparkle. Which has, admittedly, had budget cuts in the past few months.
After browsing “Ugliest Tattoos” for a while, Lee decided there was only one thing left for him to do.
That looks like Klinger in M*A*S*H.
Hey I remember that episode, you know the one where Klinger installs a veranda onto the back of the General’s tent, in another crazy attempt to get kicked out and sent home?
Can’t be him– even post crossdressing Klinger would do a better job of accessorizing.
(Whispering) Here, we see the Abomineer in its native habitat. The Abomineer is working on its “kludge,” a peculiar object not found to help the creature in survival, finding food, or mating. This particular Abomineer has adopted camouflage that is most ingenious for its kind. After examining its behavior closely, it is the opinion of the world’s leading biologists that this Abomineer is attempting to look like a magazine. The Abomineer is attempting to hide from its natural enemy, the Quality Control Ferret. Look! A Ferret is approaching. Let’s watch.
“Quality Control Ferret”! LMAO
In David Attenborough’s voice, of course.
Those thick glasses can only magnify the intensify of the light
Demoman thinks he’s Spy trying to disguise as Engineer.
WIN!
This hot new trend in face shields is really catching on.
Lol yeah catching on fire!
Chinese Communist Party’s misinterpretation of Groucho-marxism.
This comment made baby Jesus burble happily.
Otacon & Czernobog= comment win!
I guess if it’s that or go blind I suppose it’s a good alternative, but really I don’t know how effective it will actually be.
Surprisingly enough it works enough. It’s the UV and IR that toast your retinas. The glasses take care of much of that, the paper being white, sends lots of the light elsewhere, also it’s a lower amperage.
Anyhow, for a funny reason (i donno wy) the pain form flash burn takes place after 10pm so you can work all day…. once.
Really? Eye damage? Its news to me…
You aren’t going to go blind by watching a welding arc. By the time the intensity is high enough to do permanent damage the pain will overcome your will. The mistake most people make is watching an arc when it’s not painful. You’ll wake up the next morning with arc-eye, but after two days it’s gone.
In the sense of light and photography this guy is obviously not welding. When you draw a proper welding arc there’s such a huge dynamic range of exposure from the arc to ambient light that photos like this are not possible. If he formed a proper arc it would be the dominant light source, but there’s obviously an artificial soft light source here. Also check the depth of field – the background has some nice bokeh which would suggest a wide aperture. If a there was a proper arc you would need a very narrow aperture (unless you have a .0001 ISO sensor/film equiv)
Any welder would look at this and see that the guy is dragging his stick down that tube. He’s not welding, just making sparks. The angle of his rod is wrong for a vertical weld. The size of his wrong for that size tubing (you can tell from the existing welds). The sparks are obviously from striking, not a formed pool. If he had formed a pool the sparks would be bigger, fewer and more directional.
And even if this guy was welding this…. You can pull this off and the paper will protect you. The idea is to get the sparks to bounce off you and not sit or get lodged somewhere. It might sound weird, but most welders prefer not to wear glasses when they weld because it’s better to have the slag bounce off your eye due to the steam it creates rather than have it trapped between your eye and glasses.
I see your point. But. What if you wear contacts. Will they steam up and pop off or adhere to your cornea?
I say this with all due respect, but what you write is absolutely dangerous. I would advise people to err on the side of caution, especially when comes to their eyes. The welding arc releases massive amounts of UV light. You don’t want to look at this light directly or even indirectly.
You don’t want light or slag bouncing off your eyes! Are you crazy? You need a welding hood with an appropriate shade if lens and UV-resistant safety glasses underneath. The innocuous act of scrapping the slag off a weld with a chipping hammer is potentially dangerous. One flake that is several hundred degrees landing on your eyes will send you to the hospital.
RandomQ should have named himself RandomBS cause he’s so full of bull
Yes but they do things differently in China, dear boy.
Actually it’s the other way around, flammable means inflammable… Flammable wasn’t even a real word.
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Day 149: Using my Pythagorean saw, I acquired raw bar stock for my zombie kludge trap. I also managed to slice through my pinky finger while I was sawing away – I kept it so I could use it as bait. I found a welder in an old warehouse, which I used to begin construction on the trap, but alas, there was no welding mask. In a pinch I decided to use some paper, on the belief that if it did catch on fire, it would give my skin that nice, smoky flavor that would lure the zombies to the trap.
That looks suspiciously like Mike Rowe under there…
I sense a disturbance in the farce…
I sense a disturbance in the face.
I’m a welder, and I have the paper to prove it.
Some of the welders I have worked beside should have used the paper for better things…..like wiping their a$$
Not even the sports section is THAT interesting!
“Paging Mr. Castro… Paging Mr. Fidel Castro…”
hate to be the one to break the bad news, but the picture is staged. he’s not welding, thats a sparkler. sparks don’t look like that when arc welding, and the arc is a blue light.
the unknown comic turned welder
Corporal Max Klinger’s continuing quest for Section 8.
I used to see things like this all the time when I lived in Taiwan. That was years ago and things have improved in most areas. They would either squint or shut their eyes to tack weld, or hope for a decent line. That was nothing compared to some of the bamboo scaffold structures. You haven’t really cringed until you see guys working 200+ feet up with bamboo tied together, only some areas with sheets of old wood for platforms, and guys swinging all over the place, obviously none wearing harnesses.
Wow! Great idea! This is exactly a great sample of how our brain works: invent something. I bet the welder is a chess player: tricky.
The paper will burn before my face does, right? RIGHT?!
Why is he wearing camo, too hide from some brigh spark foreman?
Since his face was all over the news, he decided to just go ahead and build his own jail cell.
“leave me alone! I’m reading Garfield!”
Don’t tell me you didn’t try to kludge a mask. It’s written all over your face!
The super villain Paperman is working on his newest doomsday device.
Dr. Nick: Flammable mean inflammable? What a country?!
i think he’d be better of without the paper. that way if a spark flies, he’ll just lose an eye instead of SETTING HIS FACE ON FIRE!!!!
EPIC FAIL!
And this week’s Darwin Award goes to….
You guys give him a hard time, the guy is probably dirt poor, trying to feed his family working long days for little pay. Obviously he is smart enough to know to protect his eyes somehow, and since his employer does not provide him with proper gear, he resorts to using whatever is available to him.
Now maybe someone would like to stfu and send the poor guy a welding mask.
Ahhh….. How sweet…. He’s learning the family business of arseny!
Well, it should protect him from the the UV radiation which would cause sunburn, skin cancer and blindness, so its actually not that dumb…
I once forgot long sleves ond gloves, after just ½ hour of welding my arm and hand had the worst sun burn ever. He’s not so dumb.
i weld all day usually hours on in with t-shirt and one glove maybe two depending on what or how i have to hold something before i tach it only got burned once (sun burned that is)
Silly welder. You have the paper upside-down!
The article he’s reading is “How to stick weld Lesson #1″ — just on the job training, the side we see is Lesson #2 — that explains that you should always ensure you’re wearing the appropriate (Communist Party Approved) eye protection.
actually its not a torch its an arc welder, from what i observed with the electrode and holder, and this is a terrible photoshop because welding arcs are blue and would throw way more slag
but what do i know i only weld for a living :3
INFLAMMABLE MEANS FLAMMABLE?
WHAT A COUNTRY!