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[–]beanmosheen 85ポイント86ポイント  (11子コメント)

Just sitting at a light one day and then bam. Dead as could be.

[–]bgroins 36ポイント37ポイント  (2子コメント)

If there's one thing this sub has taught me, it's that at any given time a truck can come flying out of nowhere and kill you. I would live life to the fullest if I didn't have so much anxiety about being instantly crushed.

[–]emkay99 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

And you don't even have time to jump out and make a run for it.

[–]shockdizzle 4ポイント5ポイント  (2子コメント)

Just thinking this....it really sucks that no matter what you do to protect yourself, be safe and healthy in life, death just happens

[–]beanmosheen 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

On a long enough timeline, the survivability rate of everyone drops to zero.

[–]emkay99 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Which is why you should always wear clean underwear.

[–]DeadPlayerWalking 4ポイント5ポイント  (4子コメント)

I think I'll stay off the roads for a while.

[–]ninjate 4ポイント5ポイント  (3子コメント)

Joke's on them, I never leave the house.

[–]beeraholikchik 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Don't worry, you could always develop an aneurysm and stroke out randomly so you don't miss out on all the fun.

[–]emkay99 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

That cement truck could just as easily miss a curve in the rain and come barreling through your living room like a locomotive.

[–]2540 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Still no guarantee. I'm seeing cars plowing into houses every other day here lately. (Australia)

[–]Jimmy_Two_Fingers 28ポイント29ポイント  (6子コメント)

That guy's a lot of dead.

[–]Shitty_Bollocks 11ポイント12ポイント  (5子コメント)

Three females

[–]JeffyLikeFlaccid 4ポイント5ポイント  (4子コメント)

Did he survive?

[–]AUTISM_IN_OVERDRIVE 26ポイント27ポイント  (0子コメント)

He's a professional jar of tomato paste now.

[–]beanmosheen 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

Wouldn't bet on it. They usually carry 25-45000 lbs. of concrete. He's crushed flat.

[–]sankto 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

He lives on...

in our memories.

[–]Stickrell 4ポイント5ポイント  (3子コメント)

Is that smog?

[–]FlowchartDelicious 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

it's south korea. it could be smog (i've never seen smog that bad there) but far more likely is it's dust and other particulate pollution coming in from china. happens every year and it's so bad you can barely see a few feet in front sometimes.

[–]Satsumomo 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

This stuff pisses me off, when a 3rd party dies because of some idiot's actions. It could either be the truck or the bike's fault, but certainly not the guy at the stoplight.

[–]DarkKerrigor 11ポイント12ポイント  (2子コメント)

Suddenly I'm in the mood for pancakes.

[–]liam3 2ポイント3ポイント  (5子コメント)

what car was that?

[–]ImNot_YourHusband 5ポイント6ポイント  (3子コメント)

a chevy cruze I believe

[–]speeler21 12ポイント13ポイント  (0子コメント)

A chevy crush

Ftfy

[–]redbirdrising -2ポイント-1ポイント  (0子コメント)

They go from 0-60 in no time, flat!

[–]ctyt -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

Probably badged as a Daewoo.

[–]WhereDidEverybodyGo 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

The one in the front of the turning lane and it got squashed

[–]heathenyak 8ポイント9ポイント  (0子コメント)

This kills the human

[–]thevoid 20ポイント21ポイント  (31子コメント)

Dang, least it would be quick.

Just to be the pedant in the thread, that is actually a concrete mixer. Cement is just one ingredient of concrete.

[–]jreacher 29ポイント30ポイント  (27子コメント)

Pedant is the right word.

'Cement mixer' is a significantly more common term than 'concrete mixer', and not an incorrect one since it indeed mixes cement.

[–]emkay99 1ポイント2ポイント  (6子コメント)

Actually, around here that would be a cement truck. A "mixer" is one of those small jobbies on two wheels that you tow to a work site behind a pickup. And you hang it from a crane 100 feet up at night so it won't get stolen.

[–]ConvertsToMetric 1ポイント2ポイント  (4子コメント)

[–]emkay99 1ポイント2ポイント  (3子コメント)

This is the most pointless forking robot I have ever seen.

[–]BetterCallHeisenberg 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

That's because you don't live in Europe. I'm glad this bot exists.

[–]jreacher -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

Both do the same thing. One is on a truck, the other is not.

[–]ghosteatingtiger -1ポイント0ポイント  (18子コメント)

More common does not mean correct. You don't mix cement. You mix concrete. Cement is just an ingredient of concrete. Concrete is a mixture of aggregates and paste. The aggregates are sand and gravel or crushed stone; the paste is water and portland cement. Yes, lots of people use cement and concrete interchangeably. They are all incorrect.

[–]emkay99 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

And you should run for Congress on that platform.

[–]gerrettheferrett 5ポイント6ポイント  (15子コメント)

More common does not mean correct.They are all incorrect.

That's prescriptivist thinking, which is wrong in this case.

Terms change in meaning with how they are used. There is no unchanging definition of words.

Concrete mixer and cement mixer are synonymous now. They may not have always been, but now that they are used interchangeably by a lot of people (your words), they are synonymous.

That's how languages in general, and English in specific, works.

Source: am linguist, am tired of seeing prescriptivists touting linguistically false, concrete unmalleable ways of thinking about definitions.

EDIT: Here's a source for y'all, before you downvote me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_change

[–]emperri -5ポイント-4ポイント  (14子コメント)

this is why soft sciences are treated as a punchline

[–]gerrettheferrett 2ポイント3ポイント  (13子コメント)

Agreed. People touting prescriptivist ways of thinking give linguistics, a proper science, a bad name.

[–]emperri -2ポイント-1ポイント  (12子コメント)

No really though, if you have this sort of postmodern "whatever people wanna do, man" view of your own field then why is it a field? What do you even do? Are you just a specialized historian?

[–]gerrettheferrett 2ポイント3ポイント  (10子コメント)

you have this sort of postmodern "whatever people wanna do, man" view

That's not at all what I view.

I view that words can change meaning over time.

For example, the word gay. It used to mean "merry". Not it means "homosexual." The meaning has changed.

Another example is literally. It used to mean only literally, but now can be used figuratively in addition to meaning literally, based on context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_change

The term here, cement and concrete mixer, has undergone similar change. There used to be a difference semantically between the two, but outside of specific technical discussions there was no need for one, and so it has disappeared.

This is how languages evolve.

[–]emperri -3ポイント-2ポイント  (9子コメント)

So the answer to "what do you do and what difference is there between that and a historian specializing in language" is "nothing and nothing"

[–]gerrettheferrett 2ポイント3ポイント  (6子コメント)

Linguists study MUCH more than just semantic change. If linguists did JUST that, then maybe you could be rude and insult us as you are by saying a linguist is but a glorified historian.

But, we do more. In order to be a linguist, one must be familiar with and then study in phonetics, phonology, morphology, semantics, psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, and more. We learn what languages are, how they come to be, how they change, how one learns language, how languages drift apart and together, to name but a few things.

Do we study history to do that? Yes.

But that's like saying that there is no difference between a nutritionist and a butcher, just because they may both know how to cut meat.

EDIT: But for real. It's quite rude of you to insult another profession that you clearly know nothing about.

[–]LinguisticPenguin14 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

I'd like to just give my two cents here. I don't think the term 'soft science' really gets us anywhere, do you? I mean already you're creating a false dichotomy between what disciplines are apparently more valid, when in reality it doesn't hold water.

Linguistics can of course be just as much of a hard science in the traditional sense of the word, you can be as rigorous and as scientific as possible, acoustics and phonetics for instance. There is often a lot of crossover with physics, psychology and even mathematics. Just because it has a social science classification stuck to it doesn't mean it's just totally liberal and progressive - you'd be a fool to think any scientifically credible field doesn't have to hold up to very rigorous logical scrutiny, if not concrete evidence. Even though you don't understand it (and from what I have seen, I sincerely doubt that you do) doesn't mean you can make presumptions like that, because I can guarantee that being politically correct or morally justified has absolutely nothing to do with linguistics. Nor does documenting every word and usage paint more than a small subfield (see: philology, and etymology). We have dictionaries that do that.

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[–]bizzybone78 -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

Cement mixer is an incorrect term. It's a concrete mixer.

[–]Derp_Vayder 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

We would get a firm talking to in my materials class if we ever refered to concrete as cement.

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    [–]JU5TlN 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

    That's what happens when you forget to use your turn signal

    [–]ToastThing 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Another reason for automated cars. Why do some people drive like fucking maniacs?

    [–]littlebear_blackfoot 4ポイント5ポイント  (1子コメント)

    um... death tag please?

    [–]DashcamWarriors[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Just figured out the flair thing. Added.

    [–]Von_Kissenburg 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Dude, I don't come to this sub to see people get killed.

    [–]zackkitzmiller 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Cross post to /r/watchpeopledie for extra karma.

    [–]emkay99 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Owwwwww. . . .

    [–]brainotomy 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

    and they're dead. All dead.

    [–]portoguy -2ポイント-1ポイント  (5子コメント)

    Should this have a NSFL tag?

    [–]DashcamWarriors[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

    Added death tag.

    [–]MrsKravitz 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

    I don't see any tags. Just put [NSFL ] in brackets in the title.

    [–]DashcamWarriors[S] -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

    I don't know how to edit titles, I added the death flair.

    [–]djpokeboy 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

    You don't really see a person in the car or anything. This is nowhere near nsfl.

    [–]DashcamWarriors[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Fallowing the rule "Major visible injury and death must be tagged appropriately" I thought the title didn't need a special tag, as we don't see anyone actually. We can assume injury/death, so I added the flair.

    [–]capchaos -3ポイント-2ポイント  (0子コメント)

    THEY EDITED OUT THE CRUSH PART!