Re: Gloop, Pooh, and Choo-choo

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I mean, after the first time, the train will fit.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 02-23-23 7:45 AM
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True for Gloop and Pooh, too.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 02-23-23 7:55 AM
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This is all related to that study showing that penises have gotten larger, right?


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 02-23-23 8:14 AM
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Coo coo ka choo, Mr. Peep.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 02-23-23 8:18 AM
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Welcome to my life


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 02-23-23 8:20 AM
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Laydeez?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 02-23-23 8:28 AM
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Interesting given that my prior is that Spain is one of the most economical and reliable builders of rail transit in the world. Of their 15 projects over 5 cities in the Transit Costs Project dataset, their median rail line cost $138m/km (inflation- and PPP-adjusted), vs. $656m for UK, $611m for US, $308m for Japan, and $199m for Germany. Perhaps their national procurement is less functional than urban/regional, who knows.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 02-23-23 8:43 AM
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Correction: $291m for Germany. I had let a couple of Greek projects slip in there.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 02-23-23 8:44 AM
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You have to watch those fuckers.


Posted by: Opinionated Trojan | Link to this comment | 02-23-23 8:51 AM
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5: Sounds like you might have a problem suitable for "Ask the Mineshaft".


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 02-23-23 8:53 AM
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"My penis got bigger, help."


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 02-23-23 8:56 AM
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This was really an entirely foreseeable direction for this conversation to have gone.


Posted by: heebie | Link to this comment | 02-23-23 9:08 AM
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You killed the blog with self-awareness.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 02-23-23 10:40 AM
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Kind of disappointing to learn this detail:

The government has, however, previously been at pains to insist that the errors had been spotted before any train was built

Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 02-23-23 11:12 AM
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7: it's quite possible that they're cheap, but shit. Santa Barbara Sistemas is one of the contractors for our hopelessly cursed AJAX armoured vehicle and one of the problems turns out to be that the hulls are not square, as in, they randomly have one side longer than the opposite one.


Posted by: Alex | Link to this comment | 02-23-23 11:35 AM
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You should try sloped armor. Lower profile, harder to hit. Plus the angle means that the effective thickness of the armor is greater if hit straight on.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 02-23-23 11:39 AM
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15: On closer examination, these estimates attempt to subtract out rolling stock - it's more about track and stations.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 02-23-23 11:45 AM
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Aluminum extrusion works this way, it's pretty cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiGlq7408ME
Also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xhwrnGkjas


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 02-23-23 1:05 PM
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Gloop, Pooh, Tippecanoe, and Tyler, too.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 02-23-23 1:58 PM
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Augustus Gloop and Winnie the Pooh
Both too wide to get through
Soon the censors will slim them down
Left with no memory of being round.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 02-23-23 2:49 PM
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Bravo.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 02-23-23 8:02 PM
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