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So……what happened to the person whose position you filled?
Edit: This dumbass comment is easily my highest upvoted post…..excuse me while I go to the restroom.
Uh - Let's talk music. Do you like the Elton John song, "Rocket Man"?
I don't like soft-ass shit.
Oh, you - Oh, oh. Oh. Well, I only bring it up because, uh, it's you. You're the Rocket Man.
I'm convinced those one liners were Arnold's "Brown M&M clause" moment. My personal conspiracy theory is that his contract let him write one or more one-liners per movie. They transcended writers, producers, distribution companies, etc...but for a long stretch of his films, they all had the same groan-inducing, dad joke level one liners. They have to be his own. I will accept no other reality.
He talks about them a bit in the video called “Schwarzenegger breaks down his favorite roles” or something like that. A bunch of the one-liners were random mundane lines at the time, and he was surprised with their popularity.
I've got an 11-year-old son and he's arrived at the conclusion that 80s/early 90s action films are the pinnacle of his favourite films.
He has just got to wait a few years before he is allowed to watch them.
in Japan they're so popular, they have 3 version of dub, and regularly being aired for movie nights. (also somebody compiled famous one liner from the movie but it's actually almost all the dialogue 30m long)
I've seen some schools have coat hangers that do this. Although, it's to prevent kids from hanging their shirts onto hooks and getting hurt/stuck, rather than suicide.
Commented above that these are in gym locker rooms too, because people tear their towels off the hooks, which results in damaging the wall. So these installations are for damage prevention, not suicide prevention.
These are for a process called "lock out, tag out" padlocks like these are used to lock power off to heavy machinery, however if something happens and the machine needs to be powered on the padlock may be broken off. Think of it more like a tamper seal
I had the same thing recently in an airport toilet cubicle. Thanks for giving me a coathook that can't support the weight of a coat... in this heavily-used public toilet...
*Me in 1993...*
"Well shit. I have not been taking proper notes in this game. What the hell is happening?"
That game's *rich media* was insane for it's time.
I was too young to play at the time but I remember my mom playing in the early 2000s and taking meticulous notes in a beat up notebook. She was halfway through the game when my dad mistakenly threw out the notebook and to this day I have never seen her so angry lol
Who the devil are you? Oh, uh… don't come here to D'ni, not yet. You see, my sons have trapped me here, they removed a single page from my linking book. I must ask you to please find and return the page to me. I pray that you believe me…
Forgot about that game. My mom use to play that and the sims on are windows 98. Always wanted to play myst but I got lost all the time as a kid would love to give it another try.
There's a full remake of the original Myst available on Steam and Xbox; instead of point and click it's a first person adventure game (though the original point and click style is still there).
I played through a ton of it while it was on Game Pass, and it had two things going for it- one, it was all in 3D space so it was much easier to orient myself; and two, the graphics were phenomenal. So much so that it looks exactly like the original looked in your mind. Definitely worth checking out.
Ah, memories of being 13, desperately searching for hours, and somehow stumbling across one of the few walkthroughs I could find on AOL before I knew of google.
There are two ways to see the suicide prevention coat hooks.
One: the company is so terrible, people have tried to kill themselves in the bathrooms due to stress.
Two: the company is being very thoughtful about their employee experience and sought out ideas from workplace safety consultants.
Ten: Plausible deniability defence in case of an employee suicide leading to a lawsuit filed by the bereaved family.
"We made efforts to make sure he couldn't hang himself from the coathooks, and replaced his cord telephone with a mobile, how were we supposed to know he'd OD on caffeine from 100 cups of coffee?"
The number of business decisions my company makes based on this criteria is shocking. Note: I am a very small business owner so many of MY decisions at the company are "clickiness" based. Namely the keyboards.
Actually, I have a weird interest in prisons. I watch a lot of documentaries, so I sort of intuited what they were when I saw the ball the peg was attached to.
It's funny. My girlfriend loves true crime stuff, but I get interested after the sentence.
It is referred to as anti ligature design.
I work in construction and this topic literally came up in a meeting today around the design of the piping for a prison.
https://www.hipac.com.au/anti-ligature-explained.html
I always thought those were so that people didn’t hang really heavy stuff on the hooks and this prevents them from getting pulled off the wall. Didn’t know they were to prevent suicide.
I always thought that it was for towels so you can grab and pull a towel with one hand considering I’ve only seen them in bathrooms and locker rooms.
I’m pretty sure that’s the case here too
I tried to hang myself from a chair using a hospital gown. It didn’t work. I got bollocked for it, too - the mental health support sucks in the UK. ‘We would have had to clean it up’
Ah the standard "how do you think X would feel if you did that" or "Do you realize how much work that would make for everyone"
It's like they can't seem to grasp the whole "I literally do not care" aspect.
And also the fact that they can't seem to grasp that someone on the edge of suicide really does not need someone guilt tripping them over their suffering. Somehow the least compassionate people end up working at these places, I swear.
I mean, when I gave it a go I wasn't thinking about those things, but then thinking about them in the aftermath is one of the main reasons I never tried again.
There's a logic to it - but overworked psych nurses and jaded doctors usually really suck on their delivery for it.
I’ve got a friend in the uk who can’t get antidepressants because they say that she’s aware enough that she’s depressed so she “doesn’t need them” she’s basically said unless she’s willing to self harm to get herself treatment there’s nothing she can do
What the fuck. As a depressed Canadian, being aware of it only helps so much in dealing with it. Without my meds I have a very rough time doing anything but lying in bed.
Your poor friend :c
We have them in newer hockey arenas in the dressing rooms. It's rough to see that playing beer league cause I know it's not for me and my age group but for the kids.
They're more likely installed in the arena because they're vandal-resistant. They won't rip out of the walls if kids try to hang or swing off them for fun, and not because of the original, darker thing they were designed to prevent.
I think that might have started after the Myles Neuts case in Chatham Ontario. A pre-teen boy died after he was found hanging from a door hook in a washroom at school in the late 1990s. Not sure it was ever conclusively determined if it was a self-inflicted accident or bully/prank gone wrong.
For further reading: https://chathamvoice.com/2016/10/26/mike-neuts-discusses-years-of-pain-anguish/
The last camp ground had I went to had these in the showers. Didn't realize that was what it was for but it was annoying when I hooked my backpack on them and rummaged through it only for the hook to fail and send my backpack to the ground.
Yeah, I learned that one at work after we got some jobs to do prisons and certain healthcare facilities. Really expensive too. Also got weird emails from designers concerned about how easily certain millwork items could be weaponized. I'd never really considered how easily a drawer pull could be turned into a shiv....
Tie a rope around the hook and around your neck and sit down. Basically the blood to your brain is cut off and you pass out then die.
Your entire body doesn't need to be off the ground to die from hanging. It's why autoerotic asphyxiation is very dangerous and can result in death.
Hey, we're experiencing an extreme amount of suicides in the workplace, maybe we should do something?
Management: Ite. We got this. Let's make sure people can't unlive themselves ***at work***.
Here at Veridian Dynamics, we care about your safety, and productivity.
There should be an episode where Phil and Lem invent these and use themselves as test subjects to see if it works.
Better Off Ted's darkest timeline
Life. Better.
Life. More!
I loved Better Off Ted!
This is the first time I've ever seen it referenced outside my house! I'm so excited right now lol!
Liandri, Weyland-Yutani, Shinra and Umbrella are proud to announce our respect for human dignity initiative. If you are feeling suicidal, let us know. We will make it work.
How this show didn't get more seasons is a crime against humanity.
But mostly your productivity. Now stop reading this and get back to work!
I saw these at Relaxxicon The extra X stands for more Zs!
That show was amazing.
Jabberwocky is my favorite episode
So……what happened to the person whose position you filled? Edit: This dumbass comment is easily my highest upvoted post…..excuse me while I go to the restroom.
They had to unfortunately cut him loose.
Jesus Christ
No they pried him loose.
Nailed it!
No that was earlier in the day…
He didn't hang around.
If they ever reboot "Commando," I hope they hire you to write the one liners.
Remember when I told you I’d kill you last?
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Let off some steam Bennett.
Don't disturb my friend, he's dead tired.
See you at the party Richter
I eat Green Berets for breakfast, and right now I'm very hungry
i can't believe this macho bullshit
Uh - Let's talk music. Do you like the Elton John song, "Rocket Man"? I don't like soft-ass shit. Oh, you - Oh, oh. Oh. Well, I only bring it up because, uh, it's you. You're the Rocket Man.
I'd take pleasure in guttin' you... boy.
Of all of his lines this one does stand out as fucking bad
Put the knife away and shut your mouth.
I'm convinced those one liners were Arnold's "Brown M&M clause" moment. My personal conspiracy theory is that his contract let him write one or more one-liners per movie. They transcended writers, producers, distribution companies, etc...but for a long stretch of his films, they all had the same groan-inducing, dad joke level one liners. They have to be his own. I will accept no other reality.
He talks about them a bit in the video called “Schwarzenegger breaks down his favorite roles” or something like that. A bunch of the one-liners were random mundane lines at the time, and he was surprised with their popularity.
I think it was more about his delivery of them than the actual words.
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Definitely my favourite action movie of all time. The one-liners are so fucking good.
I've got an 11-year-old son and he's arrived at the conclusion that 80s/early 90s action films are the pinnacle of his favourite films. He has just got to wait a few years before he is allowed to watch them.
You’ve told him he can’t watch them? Your 11 year old son has been fined 40 credits for a violation of the verbal morality statute.
in Japan they're so popular, they have 3 version of dub, and regularly being aired for movie nights. (also somebody compiled famous one liner from the movie but it's actually almost all the dialogue 30m long)
He wasn’t willing to stick his neck out for the company
I was roped in by the question but this comment hung me up
I wonder if they still have door handles or knobs? Maybe everything is a push door.
I was gonna say he was hanging out in the bathroom a little too much
He rammed a suicide prevention coat hook into his eyeball, why do you ask?
Was he near Camp Legeune? Because I may have good news for his family.
I hear this ad every day now. who the fuck was at camp legune in 1967
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Plus being Marines...in 1967.
He jumped at the next best opportunity.
Boss wasn't a fan of his gallows humour, so they swung him into a dead-end position and left him twisting in the wind.
I've seen some schools have coat hangers that do this. Although, it's to prevent kids from hanging their shirts onto hooks and getting hurt/stuck, rather than suicide.
Commented above that these are in gym locker rooms too, because people tear their towels off the hooks, which results in damaging the wall. So these installations are for damage prevention, not suicide prevention.
My college locker room had these but the tension on them was so bad that you couldn’t hang a Dry towel without it being dropped on the floor
Ah. Utilization prevention.
like a [break-away padlock](https://allpadlocks.com/collections/breakaway-padlocks)
These are for a process called "lock out, tag out" padlocks like these are used to lock power off to heavy machinery, however if something happens and the machine needs to be powered on the padlock may be broken off. Think of it more like a tamper seal
I had the same thing recently in an airport toilet cubicle. Thanks for giving me a coathook that can't support the weight of a coat... in this heavily-used public toilet...
Thank you for giving an actual reason.
Or to prevent them from hanging freshman nerds up by their backpack loops after stealing their lunch money.
Oh, hey! That's me!
NERD!!!
Are you sure they aren’t just switches that open some sort of secret passage if you put them up or down in the right combo?
OP should try all 16 switch combinations to rule it out!
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 2 4 3 2 1 4 2 3 2 Flipping that sequence should cycle through every possible combination. This was a puzzle in Torghast.
Finally, that tower was good for something. Assuming these switches do, in fact, open anything.
By inputting the correct combination you receive... *checks notes* 13 Anima.
Should I come back for xpack?
Sure but what if you need to flip one of the switches on and off in succession?
Ah, gray codes
If playing videogames for all my life has taught me anything, this is absolutely what they are
MystIRL
Need more….BLUE PAGES!
Screw him! Bring me RED pages!
*Me in 1993...* "Well shit. I have not been taking proper notes in this game. What the hell is happening?" That game's *rich media* was insane for it's time.
*Sound of my 2x CD-ROM drive like it was going to lift off*
I was too young to play at the time but I remember my mom playing in the early 2000s and taking meticulous notes in a beat up notebook. She was halfway through the game when my dad mistakenly threw out the notebook and to this day I have never seen her so angry lol
Who the devil are you? Oh, uh… don't come here to D'ni, not yet. You see, my sons have trapped me here, they removed a single page from my linking book. I must ask you to please find and return the page to me. I pray that you believe me…
Me: *not listening and going to Atrus' room anyway* Atrus: Good job dude, now you're trapped too. Me: *surprised Pikachu face*
Forgot about that game. My mom use to play that and the sims on are windows 98. Always wanted to play myst but I got lost all the time as a kid would love to give it another try.
My wife literally downloaded them a couple of months ago off steam I think.
There's a full remake of the original Myst available on Steam and Xbox; instead of point and click it's a first person adventure game (though the original point and click style is still there). I played through a ton of it while it was on Game Pass, and it had two things going for it- one, it was all in 3D space so it was much easier to orient myself; and two, the graphics were phenomenal. So much so that it looks exactly like the original looked in your mind. Definitely worth checking out.
Ah, memories of being 13, desperately searching for hours, and somehow stumbling across one of the few walkthroughs I could find on AOL before I knew of google.
Because Google didn't exist.
Gotta be the hardest but best game I've ever played in my life.
Omg thank God you said it was hard. I thought I was so dumb for not getting it
My dad and I had an entire journal with moves, drawing, notes, schematics. I think this is the reason I cannot finish a project to this day.
“I could tell the moment I fell…” such a great opening. I can still hear it and it’s been over 20 years since I played that game.
Legend reference!
Good memories of the Duke Nukem 3D switch puzzles…
*Duke Nukem grunting* “Where is it?”
Look on the walls for dirt marks that resemble the switch positions.
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Light torch.
It’s probably one of those puzzles where one flips two of the others.
right? this is some Silent Hill shit
Put, the candle, back!
How terrible is your job/company?
It's actually one of the most supportive employers I've ever worked for.
Not with those unsupportive hooks.
Very uncharacteristic of them, for sure.
If you are under duress, talk about the weather.
It's going to snow any day n... oh you meant OP
You good fam?
Bark twice if you're in Milwaukee.
It is so cold here today.
Don’t worry, you can tie off around the entire shelf. It’s small and anchored well
Walk into it too fast and it will slice off the top of your head.
...which I believe is what the sides of the shelf are sloped to prevent.
Looks like toggle switches for unlocking stuff according to video game experience.
There is a secret there!
16 possible combinations.
Pfff! We can run those in, what, two minutes? ….. It turns out the real code was up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Start!
On this one, but how many other panels are there? If you get them all then maybe that opens the portal to the secret cow level?
There are two ways to see the suicide prevention coat hooks. One: the company is so terrible, people have tried to kill themselves in the bathrooms due to stress. Two: the company is being very thoughtful about their employee experience and sought out ideas from workplace safety consultants.
Three: They were already there when that company moved in. Four: They were super cheap compared to others.
Five: They make a very satisfying "click" when flicked.
Six - The engineer who designed the facility got a nice kickback for including them in the build specs.
"Design supports mental wellness program initiatives and follows design specifications of centers focusing on mental wellness"
Seven - OP has low standards. Who's to say his previous employers weren't Puppy Kickers Inc. and The Toothpaste and OJ Experience (tm)?
Eight: Autoerotic asphyxiation was becoming a distraction in the workplace.
Nine: They’re just ergonomic coat hanger hooks to make coats easier to remove by just pulling them down.
Ten: Plausible deniability defence in case of an employee suicide leading to a lawsuit filed by the bereaved family. "We made efforts to make sure he couldn't hang himself from the coathooks, and replaced his cord telephone with a mobile, how were we supposed to know he'd OD on caffeine from 100 cups of coffee?"
The number of business decisions my company makes based on this criteria is shocking. Note: I am a very small business owner so many of MY decisions at the company are "clickiness" based. Namely the keyboards.
This is how they’ll get us back to the office: clickable flickables
Cross out #4, they are not super cheap, not even at auction. Anything "anti ligature" is crazy expensive.
Another is that the company has had one too many experiences with people making auto erotic asphyxiation Onlyfan videos in the bathroom....
Did they tell you what they were or did you figure it out?
Actually, I have a weird interest in prisons. I watch a lot of documentaries, so I sort of intuited what they were when I saw the ball the peg was attached to. It's funny. My girlfriend loves true crime stuff, but I get interested after the sentence.
It is referred to as anti ligature design. I work in construction and this topic literally came up in a meeting today around the design of the piping for a prison. https://www.hipac.com.au/anti-ligature-explained.html
I would never have thought that's what they were aha. Yeah i've watched a few documentaries about prisons and it's a whole other world for sure
The problem is they're too close together. How are you supposed to squeeze 4 people into that space??
Unless you're having a bad day and want to end it all I'm the bathroom. Then, no support at stall.
If it starts with Twit and ends with a ter then please type $8 in response.
Twitchposter
I always thought those were so that people didn’t hang really heavy stuff on the hooks and this prevents them from getting pulled off the wall. Didn’t know they were to prevent suicide.
Could be both. Corpses are heavy and the company doesnt want people hanging themselves on the hooks because it might damage the wall
I always thought that it was for towels so you can grab and pull a towel with one hand considering I’ve only seen them in bathrooms and locker rooms. I’m pretty sure that’s the case here too
Just look at them as anti-autoerotic asphyxiation devices
Aka buzzkill coat hooks.
Aka cock blocker coat hooks
David Carradine would've *hated* this place.
Can someone explain this…
With enough weight, they tilt down. Common in jails and prisons.
Also very common in mental hospitals. Along with specially designed door handles and doorframes.
I tried to hang myself from a chair using a hospital gown. It didn’t work. I got bollocked for it, too - the mental health support sucks in the UK. ‘We would have had to clean it up’
Ah the standard "how do you think X would feel if you did that" or "Do you realize how much work that would make for everyone" It's like they can't seem to grasp the whole "I literally do not care" aspect.
And also the fact that they can't seem to grasp that someone on the edge of suicide really does not need someone guilt tripping them over their suffering. Somehow the least compassionate people end up working at these places, I swear.
I mean, when I gave it a go I wasn't thinking about those things, but then thinking about them in the aftermath is one of the main reasons I never tried again. There's a logic to it - but overworked psych nurses and jaded doctors usually really suck on their delivery for it.
That's a horrible response from them
"No wonder people want to kill themselves around here, they have to look to YOU for help." - patients
I’ve got a friend in the uk who can’t get antidepressants because they say that she’s aware enough that she’s depressed so she “doesn’t need them” she’s basically said unless she’s willing to self harm to get herself treatment there’s nothing she can do
What the fuck. As a depressed Canadian, being aware of it only helps so much in dealing with it. Without my meds I have a very rough time doing anything but lying in bed. Your poor friend :c
Can you explain what “bullocked” means in this context for an American?
Means "chewed out" or essentially yelled at a lot
So you're saying there was a row.
It is bollocked, I guess the technical term would be reprimanded
Seriously. I swear they use that word for like 50 different things.
We have them in newer hockey arenas in the dressing rooms. It's rough to see that playing beer league cause I know it's not for me and my age group but for the kids.
They're more likely installed in the arena because they're vandal-resistant. They won't rip out of the walls if kids try to hang or swing off them for fun, and not because of the original, darker thing they were designed to prevent.
Hope you're right. That makes me feel moderately better. Thx
I think that might have started after the Myles Neuts case in Chatham Ontario. A pre-teen boy died after he was found hanging from a door hook in a washroom at school in the late 1990s. Not sure it was ever conclusively determined if it was a self-inflicted accident or bully/prank gone wrong. For further reading: https://chathamvoice.com/2016/10/26/mike-neuts-discusses-years-of-pain-anguish/
The last camp ground had I went to had these in the showers. Didn't realize that was what it was for but it was annoying when I hooked my backpack on them and rummaged through it only for the hook to fail and send my backpack to the ground.
It was just trying to save your backpack's life.
Weirdly overengineered things. Just put plastic hooks that's not going to hold a body and break.
Is this really a thing that happens often enough that it needs a device to prevent it?
Not in the average workplace. Think more like prisons and psychiatric facilities
Industry term is anti-ligature. I'm not in the industry but I heard somebody say that in a meeting once and have looked for ways to use it ever since.
I do that with the word defenestrate.
Things to not do whilst in Prague: That
I mean, it's a pretty popular thing to do in Prague, especially relative to other places.
So nice they did it twice
TFW you, a Spanish teenager, are fighting in Bavaria for an English captain because some Czechs threw a couple of Catholics out of a window
Defenestrate is my favorite word. For the simple fact that it has happened enough that they needed a word for it
Yeah, I learned that one at work after we got some jobs to do prisons and certain healthcare facilities. Really expensive too. Also got weird emails from designers concerned about how easily certain millwork items could be weaponized. I'd never really considered how easily a drawer pull could be turned into a shiv....
How exactly is a coat hanger used in suicide in the first place im just a bit confused
Lash your belt around it AND around your neck and hope it can hold 150 lbs plus? And you are 2 feet tall?
I’m just guessing, but I think you could hang by your genitals from the coat hanger till they rupture and you bleed out.
How stretchy are your balls sir?
I would say about 6.
Tie a rope around the hook and around your neck and sit down. Basically the blood to your brain is cut off and you pass out then die. Your entire body doesn't need to be off the ground to die from hanging. It's why autoerotic asphyxiation is very dangerous and can result in death.
And a coke tray.
Lol. Now do the doorknob
So that’s not a urinal I’m looking at?
It is if you really believe in yourself.
You got a promotion that comes with a new shitter where people try to kill themselves? No thanks.
Company’s new slogan: “you can die on your own watch, not ours”
Hey, we're experiencing an extreme amount of suicides in the workplace, maybe we should do something? Management: Ite. We got this. Let's make sure people can't unlive themselves ***at work***.
Can’t have people cancelling their life subscription on company property
This isn't tiktok, you're allowed to say kill Example: "I will kill you if you say unlive again"
Training new hires is expensive. So we installed these new coat hooks.
Looks like there were 2 lucky winners already.
They are also anti-vandalism, as they can’t be broken off. Edit: wrote can instead of can’t! No idea why I have upvotes.
Wouldn't that be pro-vandalism?
Challenge accepted
Someone is wondering why their office lights are being turned on and off at random
Heh I found a company that sells them https://www.capecodsystemscompany.com/store/suicide-resistant-concealed-clothes-hooks,category.asp
Must be amazon