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re: Coal miners headed to work in the 1900s
Posted on 3/16/19 at 8:07 am to DavidTheGnome
Posted on 3/16/19 at 8:07 am to DavidTheGnome
This is a stern reminder that I am a spoiled, ungrateful, lazy POS.
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Posted on 3/16/19 at 8:09 am to MrLarson
That is Appalachia. Most likely inbreeding. These people were isolated from the world.
Posted on 3/16/19 at 8:09 am to DuckManiak
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You wouldn’t have lived in a mining town, then.
The allure of the gold rush out West.
Posted on 3/16/19 at 8:24 am to DavidTheGnome
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Coal miners
Get that coal to me, so I can get that put into the boiler and make that electricity, baw.
Posted on 3/16/19 at 8:29 am to dbeck
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It would still look like that today without safety regulations
OSHA and unions are sometimes looked upon badly, but they were instrumental in making the workplace safer. OSHA still ensures safety regs are in place, while the union does a good job of making sure POS workers can't get fired.
Posted on 3/16/19 at 8:30 am to MrLarson
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Why was everyone so ugly back then?
Hookworms.
Posted on 3/16/19 at 8:31 am to DavidTheGnome
They did it to get away from their wives.
Look at them! Two of the wives are right there in the pic and they are nagging their husbands until the elevator is way below ground and out of earshot!
Oh the humanity!
Look at them! Two of the wives are right there in the pic and they are nagging their husbands until the elevator is way below ground and out of earshot!
Oh the humanity!
Posted on 3/16/19 at 8:32 am to fr33manator
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You jest, but the reality is if you have to poop, you either shite your pants or don’t.
Because there wasn’t absolutely no where to take
a shite in a mine shaft right?
Posted on 3/16/19 at 8:33 am to X123F45
quote:
I just ate 2 lbs of ground bison
Wow how much do you weigh? 400 pounds or just big boned?
I just ate 2 lbs of ground bison
Wow how much do you weigh? 400 pounds or just big boned?
Posted on 3/16/19 at 8:37 am to RogerTheShrubber
There isn't on fat arse in that picture. Looks like number 2 woman who's cramming them on the elevator eats healthy.
Posted on 3/16/19 at 8:39 am to Ed Osteen
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Because there wasn’t absolutely no where to take
a shite in a mine shaft right?
They had poop cars which were kinda like rolling toilets.
Posted on 3/16/19 at 9:02 am to RogerTheShrubber
Hmm, the more you know.
I was prompted to look up hardhats. I'd always heard they were invented when the Hoover Dam was built... Not true. That may have been the first job where they were required though.
I was prompted to look up hardhats. I'd always heard they were invented when the Hoover Dam was built... Not true. That may have been the first job where they were required though.
Posted on 3/16/19 at 9:03 am to DavidTheGnome
I worked as a contractor in an underground coal mine here in Alabama during college. It was quite the experience which I wouldn’t trade for anything. Of course my mine was unionized, so conditions like those pictures weren’t what I experienced.
Since I was a contractor, I had to sign out my safety gear every morning: helmet, headlamp, rebreather, utility belt. Anyway, it had a metal stamp on it with a number that I signed in and out. After a couple of weeks, I asked the guy if I had to keep signing out for it. There was only one way in and out (elevator like the one pictured) and I was obviously bringing it back. The guy running the safety gear then informed me that the signing out wasn’t to make sure I brought it back. Instead, my name next to the number of the metal stamp was for body identification in case of mine collapse.......
Shortly after our project ended, the mine had an explosion killing several people.
Since I was a contractor, I had to sign out my safety gear every morning: helmet, headlamp, rebreather, utility belt. Anyway, it had a metal stamp on it with a number that I signed in and out. After a couple of weeks, I asked the guy if I had to keep signing out for it. There was only one way in and out (elevator like the one pictured) and I was obviously bringing it back. The guy running the safety gear then informed me that the signing out wasn’t to make sure I brought it back. Instead, my name next to the number of the metal stamp was for body identification in case of mine collapse.......
Shortly after our project ended, the mine had an explosion killing several people.
This post was edited on 3/16/19 at 9:07 am
Posted on 3/16/19 at 9:05 am to Dellybelly82
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There isn't on fat arse in that picture. Looks like number 2 woman who's cramming them on the elevator eats healthy.
My first thought was she looked pregnant.
Posted on 3/16/19 at 9:09 am to DavidTheGnome
This reminds me of that story where Saban got an F in grade school and his dad took him to the bottom of a coal mine in W.V. and told him thats where he'd work the rest of his life if he failed school
Six national championships later...
Six national championships later...
Posted on 3/16/19 at 9:11 am to Kafka
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FWIW Charles Bronson's father was also a coal miner. Bronson was so poor as a child he had to wear his sister's old dresses to school.
The gold mines here from the 1880s to 1920 or so paid high wages. The guys that worked the mines locally were some of the highest paid and had the highest standard of living among miners in the world.
This post was edited on 3/16/19 at 9:12 am
Posted on 3/16/19 at 9:17 am to DavidTheGnome
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I’d rather starve
Three things happen when you're starving. You either die a slow death, steal food to feed yourself or get a job to feed yourself.
Two of those are not a good option.
Posted on 3/16/19 at 9:28 am to RogerTheShrubber
quote:We forget that these days.
Hunger is a hell of a motivator
Posted on 3/16/19 at 9:32 am to DavidTheGnome
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Frick that. I’d rather starve to death than put myself into that sardine can plummeting into the depths of the Earth.
Couple differences between them and you.
A) They ain't pussies.
B) They actually started before....you haven't
Posted on 3/16/19 at 9:34 am to Homesick Tiger
quote:You forgot, receive about 40k in aid from the govt.
Three things happen when you're starving. You either die a slow death, steal food to feed yourself or get a job to feed yourself.
Two of those are not a good option.
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