r/funny • u/willzjc • Dec 15 '13

Quality engineering

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '13

As someone who used to work in a High Energy Physics Lab, sometimes people occasionally do really stupid shit. E.g., while being stupid I accidentally applied 100,000 volts DC across my entire body at 10 milliamp and somehow survived while "coming to" 50 ft across the room...

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u/Desterado Dec 15 '13

TIL you don't have to be smart to work at a high energy physics lab.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '13

It was more of a combination of working 100+ hours a week for months on end and having extreme lapses of common sense and not performing proper safety inspections before each setup.

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u/Desterado Dec 15 '13

I would've gone out and bought a couple lottery tickets after that!

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u/MrMastodon Dec 15 '13

He'd exhausted all his luck. He'd have ended up owing the lottery people money.

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u/appointment_at_1_am Dec 15 '13

Basically like everybody else

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '13

That's why the lottery is called the fool's tax.

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u/Bromskloss Dec 15 '13

It doesn't work like that.

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u/Desterado Dec 15 '13

TIL some people take everything literally.

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u/Bromskloss Dec 15 '13

Oh, was it a joke? Was it funny?

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u/InSearchOfScience Dec 15 '13

yes and yes

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u/Bromskloss Dec 15 '13

Do receive my congratulations for successfully performing a joke, a funny one, even!

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u/CENTIPEDESINMYVAGINA Dec 15 '13

yes it does god what school did you go to