
PERSISTENCE
When his factory was forced to shut down, he fought his government. When the laws banned his research on land, he built a lab-boat. In no instance in human history, has there been such a passion for blowing shit up.
(The Nobel Prize)
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This captioner has obviously never seen “Mythbusters.” Or the g-d “Die Hard” movies….
well up until then, is what he meant.
This is why Al Qaeda are struggling: their risk assessments get bogged down with the Health & Safety folk, partly because they can’t read Arabic.
I hear someone reported them to OSHA for saftey violations. Al Qaeda is screwed.
OSHA got mad at my husband once because he had too many papers piled on his desk. I thought he meant the fire marshal (which I could understand), but, no, it was OSHA. What did they think would happen — they would fall on him and he would die the death of a thousand paper cuts?
Triplicate… the format of DEATH!
OSHA exist? I thought they where just the bogey men of the job world.
Well, they are. That doesn’t mean they don’t exist though… LOOK OUT THEY’RE RIGHT BEHIND YOU!!!
It’s a serious business those paper cut wardens take part in!
if he worked his “whole life” to invent TNT then when did he have time to blow stuff up with it?
While he was trying not to blow himself up inventing it?
Yeah, you think you had a rough day at work? Try having to count your fingers to make sure they are all there every time you produce something. Make for a looooooonnnnnng day.
If you can see straight from the shell shock.
Shell shock is the best part of the day! Like that feeling at the end of a monster roller coaster ride!
And with the ringing in your ears (if they’re till there) You don’t have to listen to the kids yapping away!
*starts mixing fertilizer in the basement* What? Oh, that’s just my new lawn care formula!
Mr. Carolinian, we’d like to have a word with you…
Oh yes of course… Mr. Carolinian is busy at the moment if you could please wait in the Stu-… no… I believe you could wait in the Loun-… no… I believe there’s a seat for you in the uh.. um.. in the um.. in the eh, um… Library!
With the candlestick?
No, I think I left that in the billiards room. Um, would you settle for a lead pipe?
I found the Revolver! Eleanor Rigby is a really good song too. Oh look, here’s the Sgt. Pepper too!
When he discovered that someone else had already invented TNT?
Yes, but that’s not having to fight THE LAW and go out of their way to blow things up. There’s a difference between fighting the law and insurance companies. Also keep in mind that they actually are allowed to use bomb ranges and whenever there’s going to be a big explosion they get assistance from the FBI.
Our government HELPS the Mythbusters. Huge difference.
Becuase they show ALL the bureaucractic wranglings required on camera. Clearly you have very few interactions with government entities if you naively state that our government HELPS them. lol!
Fair enough, but Mythbusters haven’t, so far, managed to blow up a bunch of people. Huge difference.
…The oppressive decision by The Law was that Nobel couldn’t be doing that sort of experimenting within city limits after the accident.
Unless there’s a bundle of other government fighting he had to do? If so, I’d love to be educated on more about this.
Savage. Adam Savage
Thanks.
I was going to say that, but you beat me to it. Long Live MythBusters!
Michael Bay
….And the less said about him, the better.
He worked his whole life to invent TNT? That was kinda daft of him. :p
And it was a mistake too. He was trying to make a cheap imitation gold that could be used to make peace medals, and they just kept exploding..
Was it Liberian gold?
Can’t have been: that stuff is neither use NOR ornament!
This is the worst de-motivational poster ever.
Let’s blow it up….
I’m so in.
Blowing something up will change your life forever. It did mine.
Best. Career. Possible.
.
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I thought that too. Wordy, but made me laugh out loud.
I’m in!
For the first couple sentences I was thinking “WTF is this? Another EWAdams?” But the payoff at the end was worth it.
Yeah, I was thinking “Fscking EWAdams”, but then I got to the end and it was actually hilarious and therefore not EWAdams.
Hehehe! I likey! You have to be persistent to read to the end. Amazed it got through voting if everybody decides (as I do) at a quick glance whether it’s a yes or no.
They were all attracted to the gold shiny thing.
Fukc, I really can’t type on my Dad’s keyboard. This is ridiculous.
I dunno… blwoing doesn’t sound so bad….
It’s amazing how you can get used to one keyboard or another. I’m still getting back used to a real keyboard after 2 years of the laptop.
Too wordy definitely.
I remember reading that he intended TNT to help farmers clear their fields of rocks and tree stumps and was horrified when it was used as the late 19th C. equivalent of a ‘weapon of mass destruction.’ Which was why he established the Peace Prize in his name.
He didn’t invent TNT.
Joseph Wilbrand.
It was dynamite, the somewhat more stable version of tnt, that he invented, no?
Nope. He invented the blasting cap. He just patented dynamite. Or so the pit boss (AKA my brother-in-law) tells us.
Nobel invented dynamite among other explosives, yes. TNT is more stable than dynamite. You might be thinking “a more stable version of nitroglycerin”? As far as I know, TNT and dynamite are not closely related.
His brother invented it. That’s why Al-ol-pal blew him up.
Okay.
Dynamite is nitroglycerin mixed with an absorbant substance (usually diatomaceous earth or sawdust), wrapped in a protective paper and detonated with a blasting cap. Nobel invented and patented it in 1867.
TNT is trinitrotoluene, which is a whole different compound.
Neither of these is to be confused with Kid Dyn-O-Mite! aka J.J. Evans.
Dang, that was good! Ordinal post-worthy! So…..
Six hundred seventy-fifth!
That’s why “Sweaty” dynamite should be dealt with with extreme caution…
Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things…
Then he is a complete and utter moron. Any person who invents or patents something that will help create explosions (bigger and better) and doesn’t think it’ll have a Military Application is naive, a liberal, or a complete idiot (socially).
It’s not true about Nobel, anyway. He realised what the dynamite could and would be used for. But still.
Came for this, leaving satisfied.
And it was dynamite.
I dunno. Mythbusters and the fans thereof come pretty darn close, if you ask me. XD
It’s suspected that he came up with the Peace Prize after there was a premature obituary mistakenly printed about him in France. They called him a ‘merchant of death’ and its said that he was so offended by it, he came up with the idea for the Peace Prize.
Just think, if it wasn’t for the French we’d have a Liberty prize or the Freedom prize instead.
Just imagine, if it wasn’t for the reply button we would never know who you were replying to.
God would know.
That’s great! Does God ever respond lol, rofl, or anything?
God: OMM, Sqwirk!!
Win.
*whispers* Sqwirk is a bit crazy…I often suspect it’s talking to itself, or possibly replying to posts that the rest of can’t see….
Yeah, the illuminati use these forums to exchange our coded messages.
You know, as long as you don’t take anything Sqwirk says even remotely seriously, he’s actually pretty entertaining.
I noticed that too.
Actually, the same goes for Mr. Carolina Numbnuts, too. Especially when “He be workin’ up a passive aggressive rage”
This may be your first trollish comment so I’m letting you go with a warning for now. However, the next time you troll like this, ‘ho, I will put you out of your misery. M’kay? Good. On your way
So, “Mr. Carolina Numbnuts” is your real profile, and Heyho is your sock?
If you can see the above message I welcome you to the inner circle btw.
Congratulations on level theta five clearance.
*looks at post above*
*looks at this post*
Sqwirk, if you’re gonna sock, it’s best to actually change your name.
No, it’s Squirk1 and Squirk2, like Thing1 and Thing2 in Cat in the Hat.
NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just had the most horrible thought — anyone else actually remember the book? THERE WEREN’T JUST TWO!
Shhh! You’re going to give me nightmares!
Wait, wait…maybe it’s not so bad. The others were wee little cats. Maybe that doesn’t count? *sighs* So much better now.
Mm… tasty freedom fries…
I prefer freedom babies. Deep fried and salted. Yum.
Just think, if it wasn’t for the french the USA would still be a british colony.
Um… Obviously they have never heard of Mythbusters… lol
Not to mention Mythbusters!
Or, come to think of it, Mythbusters.
But you forgot to mention Mythbusters!
And Mythbusters!
What’s Mythbusters?
Someone said it’s a cooking show. Maybe they make bombes?
I hate cooking shows. What’s that show where they blow stuff up? That sounds pretty awesome.
Cooking with Paula Deen I think.
That just blows up your heart.
She got hit in the head with a ham. How often do you get to see something like that happen?
Not often enough.
And Myth-Busters.
And what about that guy with the mustache who blows things up on TV?
You mean Mith Boosters?
No no, it’s Math Blusters.
Meth Bastards?
That’s what I’m naming my documentary about my old neighborhood.
Hey, you’re all forgetting about that one show on the Discovery Channel. The one where they blow stuff up!
Yeah, there’s an American programme here in the UK where they blow stuff up.. Mythbusters, I think it’s called.
Actually they do that in Brainiac as well. (Anyone want to know how to make their own Home Made Napalm??)
Gasoline, orange juice and a styrofoam cup?
I can make a bomb out of a bag of flour and two cherry bombs. I <3 my chem teacher.
You can’t say bomb on a plane!
Bomb on a plane.
*explodes*
Actually it’s Gasoline and The styrofoam cups (As many as it takes to make the mixture go gloopy. Gasoline apparently makes Styrofoam dissolve. Isn’t Chemistry wonderful
) Don’t know about the Orange juice for?? Unless that’s the version for Kids. “Yes kids!! You can have your own Orange Flavoured Napalm. It’s fun at any party”
*sirens* Oh, dear, Homeland Security just snatched Vila. Hey, he left his napalm!
I have a friend who made his own napalm and used it to light his head on fire. If that isn’t bad enough, not only did he survive the experience, he’s now having children! Oh, where is Darwin when we need him!?
*headdesk*
I think *headbigbucketofwater* might be appropriate.
But why? I mean, making your own napalm makes perfect sense, but why on earth set your own head on fire? To see if you could?
You gotta test it out, you know.
Maybe he just loved the smell of napalm in the morning?
Some people are just a walking argument for eugenics.
The really sad part is, he actually has a degree in physics.
Which leads to the next question, does he have a Ph.D?
I think he does actually. O.o
You just spoke volumes.. no other rationale is required.
As an aside and not really apropos, I once interviewed a guy that had a Ph.D in Quantum Mechanics who was wanting a job as a Unix Administrator. When asked why, he said he wanted a career change. I made the horrible mistake of asking about quarks and got a 45 minute dissertation.
Quark? The guy with the bar on DS9?
He included that as well, but that only took up 30 seconds.
Please tell me you hired him!
Oh hell no.. I put it to a vote and everyone said they didn’t think they could tolerate working with The Professor..
I’ll say that not all Ph.D’s are this nutty.. but then again, your husband may not be holding up to the standards set forth by the Ph.D community at large.
I…um…I think the head thing was actually on purpose too….
He can fix things, too! We are a family of excessively educated people who can still figure out how to plunge a toilet. Astounding, isn’t it?
Are you still friends? I’d be very suspicious if he shows up at your house with a box of ‘stuff’ and muttering about a bbq.
All bbq’s are had at his house actually. It’s safer that way (safer for my houst that is). Also, he already has the napalm at his house.
Maybe it’s looking for all those teeny, tiny particles that makes the quantum physicists go nuts?
Yep. Why we need real-life gene pool lifeguards.
HOW! I just found your catch phrase. “You know, its a human race. And you lost.” You can say it just before you eliminate people from the gene pool.
Oh, can I use that one too? I’ll remember to properly credit you.
Now you ladies just remember to add the apostrophe when you use it.
I love you all and this place.
Actually it isn’t mine. I wish I could take credit for it, but alas I just found it.
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Hai Gaiz! What about Myth Busters?
Never heard of it.
Dude, you’re totally forgetting about that show Mythbusters!
Is that the one where they blow stuff up?
No no no, that’s Mythbusters.
No way! That’s Moth Ballsters!
Must have mighty tiny penes then!
Peni? Can peni be the plural of penis? Please?
It’s not MythBusters?
What’s Mythbusters?
Apparently it’s a show where they blow stuff up. Go figure.
No… I think you’re really thinking of Mythbusters.
I’ve heard of that one, too, but I thought they were talking about Mythbusters.
At last! Someone makes the obvious connection with Mythbusters!!!
Are you all retarded? It’s Mythbusters.
So what exactly do they do on Mythbusters?
(Someone actually asked me this once.
)
It’s a cooking show.
Yeah, they cook up some awesome explosions!
“What Happened?!”
‘An explosion of flavor! I was using some very unstable herbs!’
“It’s like an orgy of flavors in my mouth.”
No, that’s Mythbusters!
(I could do this all night!)
Well, do it til you go blind, but it’s Mythbusters. Sheesh.
No Ivan I’m pretty sure Mythbusters will make you go blind.
Dear gods! How long have you people been at this? I can’t believe after all this time no one has even mentioned Mythbusters!
I see your point, but I’m sure the show is called Mythbusters. (See, told you I could do this all night!)
I can’t stand that show. Mythbusters is a much better show.
You know what show I really miss…. Mythbusters…
I think I’ve heard of it. It’s sort of like Mythbusters isn’t it?
Not really, it more takes a bit of Myth… and throws in a little buster… to make a more Mythbusters feel.
That’s crazy talk! There is no show like that, or someone would have mentioned it already!
You should be shunned, diss.
Because I left out the temp that’s filling in while Kari’s on maternity leave? I really can’t remember her name.
I’ve only actually ever seen on episode. So I don’t know. I don’t have that channel.
That gives me a sad, Charro. It’s such a fun show.
That’s what I’ve heard.. Maybe I’ll start getting the DVDs.
YES!!1!11!!elebenty!!!!
YOU MUST WATCH EVERY EPISODE OF THIS SHOW!!!
*pant pant*
Actually, it’s got some really cool episodes. My favorite is when they blew up…..check that, VAPORIZED a cement truck. That one and the Blue Angels one where Adam is taken for a ride-along……watching a jet go from horizontal to fricking vertical almost instantly…..well, it gives you goosebumps. And elipses, apparently.
Whoa!
*backs up*
Are you in danger of exploding?
I dunno, but for some reason I can’t stop this damn ticking noise…
Completely off topic, but my mom had an artificial valve in her heart that ticked really loud. She got a lot of strange looks. I always thought it was cool that she sounded like a bomb.
That made me giggle.
It would have been interesting to follow her through airport security.
Pirates episode, for the win! I even got some use out of that episode for my anatomy class!
The eye patch segment?
Absolutely!! Po)
I like the James Bond episodes. They got my son hooked on MacGyver. Had to go out and buy him all the seasons on DVD.
I like when they blow up c4 in the microwave because they did it in Grosse Point Blank which is one of my favorite movies of all time. And the MacGyver episode. Because I <3 McGyver.
The dirty-car-gets-better-milage thing was awesomely cool even if they didn’t blow anything up.
My favorite episode!
My family and I watched Grosse Point Blank once. I’m the only one who like it. Akroyd is hysterical.
We all loved that movie. I thought it was hilarious.
It’s perfectly done from start to finish. And Joan Cusack when she’s smoking and pouring gasoline all over the office while humming is a scream.
My favorite too. So awesomely dark and twisted.
I grew up near Grosse Pointe, so of COURSE I had to watch it. One of my favorite movies. And the first time I saw The Rocky Horror Picture show was at the Punch & Judy Theater in Grosse Pointe…
*drives around with the top down*
LEMME GOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOON!
Grosse Point Blank is great! And the John Cusack of yore is just so goddamned delish. *drools*
Does it make me a bad person for looking down on Kari for being bigger at 6 months preggers than I was at 8?
Lol….I thought she looked adorable!
Well of course, but I was extremely priggish about my size during pregnancy
It’s a myth I tell you, a MYTH!!!
Are you sure it isn’t a legend?
Words from my father, a bomb tech…
Actually, Albert Nobel invented dynamite in 1867. Joseph Wilbrand invented TNT in 1863. It is a common misconception that TNT and dynamite are the same thing. Though both are high explosives, there is no other similarity between them. Dynamite is an absorbent mixture which consists of three parts nitroglycerin, one part diatomaceous earth and a small admixture of sodium carbonate (C3H5N3O9.). These compounds are then soaked in nitroglycerin, then compacted into a cylindrical shape and wrapped in paper,
TNT or Trinitrotoluene is a specific chemical compound called 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene.
(C7H5N3O6). The explosive yield of TNT is considered to be the standard measure of strength of other explosives. Dynamite has a 60% greater energy density than TNT.
See me ride out of that sunset,
On your color TV screen,
Out for all that I can get,
If you know what I mean….
Women to the left of me,
And women to the right,
Ain’t got no gun,
Ain’t got no knife,
Don’t you start no fight….
Cause I’m T.N.T, I’m dynamite,
T.N.T., and I’ll win that fight!
T.N.T., I’m a power load,
T.N.T., watch me explode!
Words from my father:
Son, if you had dynamite for brains, you wouldn’t have enough to blow your nose with.
Apparently that one’s transAtlantic, as I heard the same thing from my dad on occasion!
Diss is made of awesome.
Dirty deeds
Done with sheep
Dirty deeds
Little Bo Peep
Dirty deeds and they’re done with sheep.
Kindly deeds, done for free…
Actually C3H5N3O9 is the chemical symbol for nitroglycerin, sodium carbonate is Na2CO3
Very kind of you to post this, Hierophantria. Kudos to you for trying to help educate people and passing on the knowledge you’ve learned. I bet dinner conversation at your house is the bomb!
Didn’t he make dynamite to make working in mines safer, and when it got used to kill people he killed him self out of guilt?
He died in a stroke.
His guilt over his inventions may have been the inspiration for him founding the nobel prize though.
He believed in peace through war, so, no, probably not.
Well I never. Wikipedia says that Dynamite was first demonstrated at a quarry about two miles from where I live. You learn something every day on this site! (If you trust Wiki that is…)
Isn’t Wikipedia run by a bunch of dirty librulls? Or at least that is what the “trustworthy encyclopedia” conservapedia says about Wiki
Please tell me it’s not actually called conservapedia….
It’s not actually called conservapedia. [/lying]
Google it. But guard yourself… for it can very damaging to your IQ even if you treat it as a joke. It can also create ulcers and make you invent new obscenities.
Cry ‘Havoc’, and let slip the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial
Seriously? So… their argument is that Wikipedia has a liberal bias…. so they make conservapedia? And they expect people to take this seriously.
Conservatives is srs bizniss.
See, Wiki is liberal because only liberal welfare slugs like Rando have time to sit at home and write Wiki entries.
(Of course, they never explain how THEY have time to create an entire new website….)
They send the jobs overseas so underpaid Chinese workers can build the website for pennies an hour.
Pennies an hour? Bah, they’re getting ripped off. In India I can get them to work for pennies a week!
Really. Those conservatives are just bad business people. We’ll get DU to whip those slave laborers into shape.
Oh, if I’m whipping them I can probably get a few working for free.
Hey Max, want a job?
Did you just call me an Indian?
And honestly DU, I’m offended! The only thing I can honestly say on the subject is…. um… where can I get an application
*evil grin*
There actually was an article in the paper last year about Wiki: someone did a study of random facts on Wiki to see how accurate they were. They found that more commonly accessed facts (such as who invented dynamite) were accurate while facts such as where Virginia Woolf got her money were more likely to remain uncorrected if wrong.
In summation: More people care about dynamite than about Virginia Woolf and/or her money.
He invented dynamite, because TNT is unstable and dangerous for mining and lots of people were dying doing it.
Dynamite is much safer, and allowed itself to be used in war.
Horrified at this unintended use, Nobel founded the peace price…
… which now throws it’s money at people for no sane reason…
Norway just wanted to help with the defacit…
No.
He invent Dynamite not TNT. Idiots.
NO! IT WAS MYTHBUSTERS!!!!!111!!!!462q34!!!eklnhjohuiofeioihwroupoory!!!!!
*is getting way to carried away with her exclamation marks*
There, there. *pats DU* Maybe a little beer?
I’m not actually a beer fan. If you have any hard cider on the other hand….
*rummages in cabinet* Um, whiskey (single malt, of course), Baileys, no hard cider. Not really worth buying when you’ve the good stuff in WA State.
I’ll take the Baileys if you don’t mind. Wonder how Baileys and Oreos work together.
Sure, but don’t you think Baileys deserves homemade chocolate chip cookies?
….*hopeful eyes* Does…does that mean you have homemade chocolate cookies?
I have a 17 year old. What do you think the probable life span of chocolate chip cookies here is? I do have chocolate ice cream, however.
Hmm, a chocolate ice cream and baileys milk shake would be delicious.
Your evil suggestions are bad for my diet.
Diets are bad for you by definition. I mean, it says die right there in the word!
Diet is a 4-letter word and my Daddie said I wasn’t supposed to use them . . .
IKR!
I wish Sqwirk would learn to use the reply button so people wouldn’t have to try and guess who he/she was replying to……..
Maybe in the future we can have a “Manhatten Project” Peace Prize too?
Or a George Bush Jnr Peace Prize?
Or a Tony Blair Peace Prize?
Screw, let’s have all three.
And an Barrack Obama Peace Prize…
oh this could run long..
Alfred Nobel did NOT discover TNT, he invented dynamite.
They said so on Mythbusters?
Sheesh. No, they invented TNT…on their show.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamite#Difference_from_TNT
Don’t enyone here read wikipedia? If anyone did the stupid argument of what dynamite and TNT is and who invented what whould have died.
You don’t know much about people?
Ironically, Ol’ Alfred’s passion for blowing up stuff was because he wanted the blowing-up-stuff business safer. And he succeeded.
Oh and
Please. Stop comparing Alfred Nobel, one of greatest inventors and Swedes that has ever lived, to “Mythbusters”. That’s simply outrageous.
I suspect you don’t get the Mythbusters thing. No one has compared Nobel to them, really. :p
Ironically, someone has already made this point.
Oh, and the Mythbusters jokes have much more to do with this being a lolsite than with Nobel. Even some Swedes get that.
Ladies and Gentlemen, as First Lady of PK I come to you today with a very special announcement. Sadly, 1 in 10 posters were born without a sense of humor. I don’t think any of us can truly know what it’s like to go through life constantly missing the joke and being way too serious but the sad plight of these individuals is nothing to laugh about (they really wouldn’t know why we were laughing anyway). Please, donate your time and your money and together we can find a cure for those afflicted. Won’t you please help this poor soul get the joke? Please?
This case was particularly bad. As I read the post, Biggles took two erroneous steps:
1: I disapprove of attempts to compare Nobel to Mythbusters because Nobel is sacred, or something tantamount to that
2: I really think people did seriously compare Nobel to Mythbusters
Oh me, oh my.
(Before someone comments on all of my own complaints on this lol, I must say that I don’t find it funny because it’s based on facts which are all pretty much wrong. That breaks the fun for me.)
Well, it’s bad enough when people can’t get the spelling right in the caption, but getting the facts wrong is surely much more egregious. Probably reasonable cause for summoning HOW.
… Except on Mythbusters. Those guys blow up everything from water heaters to pants.
I’ve seen a programme like that. I think it was called Mythbusters.
Oh, that sounds like Mythbusters. Do you get that show in the UK?
We get a show that’s very similar, with these guys who blow up everything from water heaters to pants, but our version is called Mythbusters.
We get something like that in Portugal too, we call it ”Caçadores de Mitos” I think
other than mythbusters
No, I think you’re confusing that with Mythbusters.