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<Glaug-Eldare>
what's violent about guns
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<UmbralRaptor>
More importantly, how are glitter and guns genders?
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<Pinkbeast>
If your bags of ammonium nitrate are warm to the touch that may be a bad sign
<Glaug-Eldare>
oh man
<Glaug-Eldare>
I was on a ship that carried ammonium nitrate once, and they loaded it in the most ridiculous way
<Pinkbeast>
Glaug-Eldare: Did they drop it down the hatch to see if anything bad would happen?
<Glaug-Eldare>
first off, they had to build a false bulkhead out of plywood to keey the cargo separate from the bulkhead adjacent to the engine room
<Glaug-Eldare>
separated*
<Glaug-Eldare>
secondly, they didn't use a conveyer or a vacuum or even the crane bucket
<Glaug-Eldare>
they used this lifting tool that picked up nine individual bags of ammonium nitrate powder, held the bags over the cargo hold, then longshoremen used sharp sticks to tear holes in the bags so the powder would fall out
<Glaug-Eldare>
and they loaded the whole ship that way
<egg|zzz|egg>
longshoremen sounds like something to do with the "long boy" meme
<Pinkbeast>
Glaug-Eldare: Cor, when was this?
<Glaug-Eldare>
2007
<Pinkbeast>
Crikey, with bags of stuff being loaded? How unusual.
<Glaug-Eldare>
what do you mean?
<Glaug-Eldare>
bags are still common
<Pinkbeast>
Well, my understanding is that nearly all goods are containerised these days.
<Glaug-Eldare>
but the customer wanted bulk and the supplier had bags, and where there's a contract, there's a way
<Pinkbeast>
I was equally surprised a few years ago in Switzerland to see mixed goods on the railways
<Glaug-Eldare>
most, but I've seen a lot of food products still carried in bags
<Glaug-Eldare>
and bulk materials are still very common
<Pinkbeast>
Do you know how they got it out of the ship?
<egg|zzz|egg>
with a teaspoon?
<Glaug-Eldare>
which, bags or bulk?
<Pinkbeast>
The ammonium nitrate.
<Glaug-Eldare>
we tied up in the middle of the mississippi river and a bunch of crane barges lifted it out in the scoops
<Pinkbeast>
And no-one exploded (I hope)
<Glaug-Eldare>
i'm pretty sure they lowered some bulldozers into the holds to help push the stuff around when it got low
<Glaug-Eldare>
ammonium nitrate is pretty safe, it needs particular conditions to explode or burn
<egg|zzz|egg>
Pinkbeast: well Glaug-Eldare seems to still be able to type
<egg|zzz|egg>
therefore unexploded
<Pinkbeast>
egg|zzz|egg: Someone _else_ might have exploded