How was your commute today?

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
04/03/2019 at 11:43 • Filed to: None

This is a pretty old video, but I like to watch it now and then to remind myself to be thankful for people like tower climbers, firefighters, police officers, EMTs, and middle school band directors. They all do important jobs that I would never, ever be able to do.

Has anybody seen my testicles?

DISCUSSION (26)

HammerheadFistpunch > ttyymmnn
04/03/2019 at 11:46

Some people aren’t overly concerned with heights. Some people does not include me.

bob and john > ttyymmnn
04/03/2019 at 11:47

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*gets to the top* oh shit I forgot the bulb on the ground

E90M3 > ttyymmnn
04/03/2019 at 11:48

Better than yesterday where everyone decided that they were incapable of passing a cop.

ttyymmnn > bob and john
04/03/2019 at 11:48

I could probably climb it, but I would never be able to get down.

No, I could never climb it.

ttyymmnn > E90M3
04/03/2019 at 11:49

DPS troopers do that shit all the time. If the speed limit is 75, they’ll sit in the left lane going 73, just trolling everybody. And NOBODY wants to pass him, even though he’s going under the limit.

E90M3 > ttyymmnn
04/03/2019 at 11:51

I’ll pass them, you wanna pull me over for going 5 over? Go for it.

Goggles Pizzano > ttyymmnn
04/03/2019 at 11:52

I’d rather work in a slaughter house.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > ttyymmnn
04/03/2019 at 11:53

Yeah, no. Just watching that was enough to make me queasy. I didn’t even like working on the roof of the small barn my dad and I built 35 years ago; as expected, I fell off, and was grateful that we were only about 8 feet up...

ttyymmnn > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
04/03/2019 at 11:54

I climbed up a ladder onto the flat roof of my mom’s house in Tucson to clear some water drains. One story up, and it was all I could do to get back on the ladder to climb down. I’m surprised I’m not still up there.

gettingoldercarguy > ttyymmnn
04/03/2019 at 11:55

Kinja'd!!!

Seriously, my hands got sweaty just watching the first part of the video. Hear t rate went up, turned it off.

ttyymmnn > E90M3
04/03/2019 at 11:56

I’ll put the cruise on the limit and pass them.

Spanfeller is a twat > ttyymmnn
04/03/2019 at 11:57

I snapped at a pair of bus drivers that were constantly overtaking each other in a narrow 3 lane road causing a shit ton of congestion. So I, with the help of other motorists, hoarded the middle lane so that they couldn’t overtake eachother and slow everyone down.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > ttyymmnn
04/03/2019 at 11:58

I liked how you sneaked in “Middle School Band Directors” into that list ;)

Maxima Speed > E90M3
04/03/2019 at 11:58

Wimp. Do 120 and blow his doors off

ttyymmnn > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
04/03/2019 at 11:59

As Dirty Harry said, “A man’s got to know his limitations.”

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > E90M3
04/03/2019 at 12:01

My general policy is to always pass cops with the cruise set a few MPH over just to see if they’re a dick, or not.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > ttyymmnn
04/03/2019 at 12:04

The only thing of note on my commute was a BMW that kept doing scary braking manuevers behind me. You know the type, goes full speed and slams on brakes at the last second, and stops inches from you, EVERY TIME. No matter what the stopping distance is, they just use 100% of it at the last possible second. Ive been passengers in those cars and it bothers the fuck out of me. I eventually just got away from that fucker because it frightens me to feel I am about to be rearended anytime traffic slows down. All it takes is 3 or 4 of those idiots and then massive pileup. I dont understand why keeping a nice gap in front at all times to plan for any sort of emergency braking is such an unheard of concept. I want a zero percent chance that I will run into somebody so I always leave space, even if it means people cutting me off ocassionally.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > ttyymmnn
04/03/2019 at 12:05

Check your wife’ s purse?

E90M3 > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
04/03/2019 at 12:05

I know in some places, i.e. Cobb county GA, they can pull you over for any amount over the limit, but they can't fine you until 5+ over.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > E90M3
04/03/2019 at 12:14

Around here, they can certainly pull you over and write a citation for any amount, but it turns out that I know enough about where the strings are behind the curtain when it comes to traffic citations in NM and how they work in the court system that I simply do not care whether or not a cop writes me a ticket. I know it will go away in the end, and with very little effort on my part.

My bird IS the word > ttyymmnn
04/03/2019 at 12:15

I’m not scared of heights. I’m scared of falling. Boggles me how there isn’t better (shielded) ladders up there. I think you could pay me enough to climb it, but never to do anything that could be considered work. Messing around with tools on top of that would be awful.

MoCamino > ttyymmnn
04/03/2019 at 12:21

There are not enough nopes in the world to describe how much I could not do that. Wow. More than a quarter mile up, and most of the time didn’t have any a safety strap hooked on. I usually don’t have much trouble with heights...but just watching that made me dizzy.

ttyymmnn > My bird IS the word
04/03/2019 at 12:55

They should give the guys parachutes for coming down.

ttyymmnn > MoCamino
04/03/2019 at 12:56

It didn’t help with the camera bobbing up and down, which the climber would not have sensed since he was using his own eyes and ears. Remember, it’s not the fall that kills you. It’s the sudden stop.

gettingoldercarguy > E90M3
04/03/2019 at 16:35

I’d do it and have done it. If they want to bust me for 2 or 3 over, it’ll go over real well with the judge for clogging up their court with that egregious infraction.

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > ttyymmnn
04/03/2019 at 23:04

Thanks for the repost. I got just as much vertigo as last time I saw it. When he finally gets to the top is the worst part.