Our Vice President, ladies and gentlemen

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
07/07/2017 at 13:49 • Filed to: None

Maybe he just can’t read.

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DISCUSSION (33)

RallyWrench > ttyymmnn
07/07/2017 at 13:50

I can’t claim credit for linking these, I saw the connection made in a twitster screenshot in that piece. Funny as hell though.

Kinja'd!!!

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > ttyymmnn
07/07/2017 at 13:51

My theory is he believes that the rules don’t apply to him.

ttyymmnn > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
07/07/2017 at 13:52

Perhaps, but I’m going with “He’s a moron.”

For Sweden > ttyymmnn
07/07/2017 at 13:53

When you can’t touch the orb but still want to touch something

[I have never done something like this, but I could definitely see myself making this mistake]

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn
07/07/2017 at 13:59

I’d touch it too, just because of the sign. I’m kind of stupid like that. Also, never met a button I didn’t like to push.

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
07/07/2017 at 14:01

This is correct. He is white, male, and rich. The rules do not apply, and even when they do, they don’t. (See Clinton’s email server vs his email server)

Asshole. Too bad that bit of really fucking expensive badass awesome science wasn’t electrified.

X37.9XXS > ttyymmnn
07/07/2017 at 14:02

I know the Pence thinks “the science” is witchcraft, but this is why you are not supposed to touch it

https://benthamopen.com/contents/pdf/TOCORRJ/TOCORRJ-3-38.pdf

I know he will have problems with the big words, like “and,” “of,” and ”the”

WilliamsSW > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
07/07/2017 at 14:04

I’d be stunned if this was not the correct answer.

Urambo Tauro > ttyymmnn
07/07/2017 at 14:07

Do not let this man near a car.

AuthiCooper1300 > Chariotoflove
07/07/2017 at 14:09

Not trying to excuse Mr Pence here, but if it is so important that this component should not be touched at all - wouldn’t you cordon it off at a reasonable distance, or at least put it behind a plexiglass pane or something?

I wonder if someone at KSC with a peculiar sense of humour didn’t set him up with the little sign, knowing full well what was going to happen.

fourvalleys > Urambo Tauro
07/07/2017 at 14:10

“Why did you turn?!”

Chariotoflove > AuthiCooper1300
07/07/2017 at 14:22

Yes, exactly. There are plenty of people there who know what’s going on. If they really didn’t want him to touch it, they would t let him.

AuthiCooper1300 > Chariotoflove
07/07/2017 at 14:26

And he fell for it hook, line and sinker.

Chariotoflove > AuthiCooper1300
07/07/2017 at 14:29

I almost wonder if someone working there said, “Here Mr. Pence, feel how smooth this surface is machined to be.”, and then someone snapped a photo to tweet when he did.

AuthiCooper1300 > Chariotoflove
07/07/2017 at 14:35

Oh no, that would be a scandal because that is actually directing him to do it – a sort of “entrapment”.

But maybe – just maybe – someone was extolling the marvels of precision machining and special coatings, “with such a lovely texture once it is ready” and so on.

The Powershift in Steve's '12 Ford Focus killed it's TCM (under warranty!) > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
07/07/2017 at 14:37

Wait, that’s still a theory, rather than a fact?

Chariotoflove > AuthiCooper1300
07/07/2017 at 14:38

And BTW, why do people put quotation marks around things like that? Does no one ever remember middle school English class?

AuthiCooper1300 > Chariotoflove
07/07/2017 at 14:41

Meh, people do (most unfortunately).

I am more interested in the CRITICAL bit.

The ultimate come-on.

DipodomysDeserti > AuthiCooper1300
07/07/2017 at 14:56

Since it’s mostly rocket scientists working in this area, they probably didn’t think they’d need to idiot proof anything.

DipodomysDeserti > Chariotoflove
07/07/2017 at 14:58

That’s quite a conspiracy theory there. This is the same guy that thinks the earth is 6k years old, right?

Chariotoflove > AuthiCooper1300
07/07/2017 at 15:01

As opposed to all the superfluous space flight hardware.

Chariotoflove > DipodomysDeserti
07/07/2017 at 15:01

Not to my knowledge.

AuthiCooper1300 > DipodomysDeserti
07/07/2017 at 15:04

Management may have a different point of view, of course, but I’d say that anytime there is a visit to this kind of facilities all the engineers and technicians are mightily pissed off and know for a fact that shit just happens.

On the other hand maybe they just wanted an excuse to bill the Office of the Veep for damages - including, but not limited to, stripping, refinishing, recoating and testing the part.

AuthiCooper1300 > Chariotoflove
07/07/2017 at 15:06

Exactly. One would expect that to a layman all spaceflight hardware must seem to be critical, so why emphasising it?

DipodomysDeserti > Chariotoflove
07/07/2017 at 15:12

My bad, that was Ben Carson. Pence is the one who doesn’t think smoking kills.

AuthiCooper1300 > DipodomysDeserti
07/07/2017 at 15:19

No, not a conspiracy theory. It’s called “banter”. I thought you had more sense of humour?

My point is that if you want to make the Vice President of the US (or anyone else, for that matter) look like a fool there are very subtle ways of doing it and what happened might be one of them.

I am sorry to disappoint you, but I am not interested in conspiracy theories, I am not a creationist, I am not a truther, I don’t believe the Earth is flat, nor I am interested in the “teachings” of Ron Hubbard etc etc. In fact I deal with technical matters many hours a day, if only from a publishing point of view.

In spite of my fascination with technology I am no engineer, sadly.

promoted by the color red > ttyymmnn
07/07/2017 at 15:42

He was probably distracted because a woman who was not his wife/mother walked into the room and he had to do something to stop himself from having impure thoughts.

This is the man second in line to run the country.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > ttyymmnn
07/07/2017 at 15:43

I don’t give a shit about this image, but I am glad that it bumped the Brazilian double-handjob thumbnail from the FP.

Chariotoflove > AuthiCooper1300
07/07/2017 at 15:50

See, if I worked there, I’d put out a sign that says “not as important, please touch” on the machine next to it.

No, I wouldn’t last long at that job.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
07/07/2017 at 16:01

Sadly I think that applies to, oh, everyone in the current administration.

Don’t like a rule? Go ahead and ignore it. After all, who’s going to stop you?

ttyymmnn > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
07/07/2017 at 16:02

Agreed. That thing is awful.

ttyymmnn > Chariotoflove
07/07/2017 at 19:51

That could easily be a Shop, too.

ttyymmnn > Chariotoflove
07/07/2017 at 19:52

I think the believe it makes it more important.