TCRT 9: The TCRT thread Wars (retroactively titled TCRT9: Episode IV – A New TCRT)

[Lagamorph]

I've just discovered Wellington Paranormal.

How have I not seen this before? It's amazing.

It only became available here last week despite the fact it first aired in New Zealand 3 years ago. I believe it's only just started airing in America as well.

I've only watched all of season 1 so far but it's been excellent. Episode 4 with the ghosts has been my favourite episode so far. The taser scene is brilliant.

I think the Zombie episode has been my favourite so far

[Memento Mori]

A white van proclaiming to be archaeologists has parked outside my house.


I'll keep you all informed.

[Memento Mori]

They've gone.

[OrangeRKN]

Nice try, white van people. I know you've taken over mori's account

[Jenuall]

Do archaeologists go around in branded vans? Seems dodge to me!

[Qikz]

A white van proclaiming to be archaeologists has parked outside my house.


I'll keep you all informed.

Was Red there?

[Memento Mori]

Do archaeologists go around in branded vans? Seems dodge to me!

I googled the name and it's a company which does archaeological surveys for construction companies. No building sites in my road though.

A white van proclaiming to be archaeologists has parked outside my house.


I'll keep you all informed.

Was Red there?

It was three women who got out the van, stood outside my house for ten minutes then left.

[Drumstick]

It was three women who got out the van, stood outside my house for ten minutes then left.

Definitely Red.

[Jenuall]

Women archaeologists?!



Okay that checks out

[Moggy]

twitter.com/mikewarburton/status/1381367173474611202

[Jenuall]

strawberry float me.

Surely harnesses were a thing then? It was only 100 years ago not the strawberry floating dark ages!

[Skarjo]

I fink back den dey just knu not to fall off lmao

[Corazon de Leon]

They only started putting netting down while building bridges during construction of the Golden Gate Bridge a few years later, so my bet is that there were no harnesses.

[Jenuall]

I mean, I get that they didn't use them - but harnesses must have existed as a concept and/or possibility!

I'm all for being careful and "they knew what they were doing etc." but sometimes things just go wrong, or strawberry float even just a freak gust of wind comes along or something!

[Cuttooth]

I fink back den dey just knu not to fall off lmao

When men were men and didn't care about health and safety regulations.

...what do you mean they explicitly cared about this?!

[Vermilion]

I suspect regular changes of underwear were required when working up there.

[Jenuall]

I suspect regular changes of underwear were required when working up there.

Even with a harness it's still brown trousers time!

[Moggy]

strawberry float me.

Surely harnesses were a thing then? It was only 100 years ago not the strawberry floating dark ages!

Along with setting a new height record, the Chrysler Building set a new standard for health and safety.

Deaths were common place, because skyscraper workers of the 1920s didn’t use safety harnesses and were often scaling steel frames like trees in a park.

“In those days, it was considered the norm for a building to have one death for every floor above the fifteenth floor," notes author, Vincent Curcio.(7)

The Chrysler Building had 3000 workers. With 77 floors it could have resulted in 62 fatalities.

But it had none.

By comparison, the Empire State Building’s construction caused 5 worker deaths and the original construction of the World Trade Center in the 1970s caused 60(9).

https://owlcation.com/humanities/10-000 ... r-Building

More died when they introduced safety harnesses. Proof that health and safety indeed went mad.

[Lagamorph]

Did many people actually fall off during those skyscraper constructions?

[Jenuall]

strawberry float me.

Surely harnesses were a thing then? It was only 100 years ago not the strawberry floating dark ages!

Along with setting a new height record, the Chrysler Building set a new standard for health and safety.

Deaths were common place, because skyscraper workers of the 1920s didn’t use safety harnesses and were often scaling steel frames like trees in a park.

“In those days, it was considered the norm for a building to have one death for every floor above the fifteenth floor," notes author, Vincent Curcio.(7)

The Chrysler Building had 3000 workers. With 77 floors it could have resulted in 62 fatalities.

But it had none.

By comparison, the Empire State Building’s construction caused 5 worker deaths and the original construction of the World Trade Center in the 1970s caused 60(9).

https://owlcation.com/humanities/10-000 ... r-Building

More died when they introduced safety harnesses. Proof that health and safety indeed went mad.

FAKE NEWS! Chrysler covered up all the deaths!

I've seen similar stats about building bridges and things in the past, it's impressive although I do wonder if the injury stats tell a different story.