The Construction Thread

[chillywilly2]

And from what I have heard and read, they weren't slaves that build the pyramids. They were paid craftsmen and labourers.

 

[Saint Peter]

Maybe the aliens did help them build the pyramids.

Maybe the aliens will help Rosco build his sea walls.

 

[neci]

 

[thør]

Maybe the aliens did help them build the pyramids.

Maybe the aliens will help Rosco build his sea walls.

Pyramid Builders Local 14

 

[chillywilly2]

Pyramid Builders Local 14

you can't really call the aliens "local' can you?

 

[thør]

you can't really call the aliens "local' can you?

Local is relative.

Ask anyone in 798.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Pyramid Builders Local 14

http://occupations.careers.org/24176/stone-derrickman-and-rigger

 

[Saint Peter]

you can't really call the aliens "local' can you?

"tourists"

 

[Byron In Exile]

Pyramid Builders Local 14

They had teams, and team names, and they all competed against each other for who could produce the greatest number of blocks, as if it were the Super Bowl.

Except, it wasn't just a one-year thing, they knew they were creating a structure that would last forever.

Their team names are painted on each and every block:

There were a few clues about this workforce, and Lehner leads me to one: the limestone quarries immediately below Menkaure's pyramid. "Here's one of the grooves they made to remove a block of stone," he says, bending down next to a channel five inches wide and three inches deep cut into the rock. "They worked with stone picks and copper chisels to free each block, and they carved out sockets for wooden levers so they could pop the whole block—a 20-ton (18 metric ton ) rock—free."

Each block was delineated with red paint before the workers began to remove it. "Some years ago you could still see traces of that red paint," says Lehner, "and a cartouche," the hieroglyphics that encircle someone's name. "It was probably the mark of the team of workers who had to quarry the block."

Similar team-name inscriptions have been found inside the pyramids. On two blocks in the highest chamber of Khufu's Great Pyramid, for example, a gang of workers painted hieroglyphics that read "Friends of Khufu." And in Menkaure's mortuary temple another group displayed its insignia: "Drunkards of Menkaure."

 

[rosco rathbone]

They had teams, and team names, and they all competed against each other for who could produce the greatest number of blocks, as if it were the Super Bowl.

Except, it wasn't just a one-year thing, they knew they were creating a structure that would last forever.

Their team names are painted on each and every block:

Now I never knew that. That's really interesting. It works the same today with competing raising gangs, 4000 years later.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Now I never knew that. That's really interesting. It works the same today with competing raising gangs, 4000 years later.

Except, you'll never build anything that will last this long:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Cheops_grote_gallerij.jpg

Or be this fucking amazing.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Except, you'll never build anything that will last this long:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Cheops_grote_gallerij.jpg

Or be this fucking amazing.

Not my fault modern men build with shoddy materials.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Not my fault modern men build with shoddy materials.

Rosco, honestly, I not only do not understand how these people, who hadn't even discovered the idea of pulleys, could have constructed these things.

We're still trying to figure it out.

How is pretty hard.

Why is a lot harder.

 

[rosco rathbone]

swiss tunnel finished

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_switzerland_world_s_longest_tunnel

 

[rosco rathbone]

So the big "Emergency Meeting for our Future" was yesterday. A total anticlimax. The place was jam packed with guys, everyone thinking it's going to be about givebacks. The BA gets up and says "no givebacks, this about something else>'

It's this guy: http://www.breslin.biz/

Hired by the contractor's association to give a big speech about how we need to earn our premium wages by all being top producers, get back our market share, etc etc.

No discussion of the political and labor-organizing reasons for the decline of the building trades unions. I felt like I was watching 800 or so sheep being led to the slaughter with this feel good bullshit.

 

[Byron In Exile]

So the big "Emergency Meeting for our Future" was yesterday. A total anticlimax. The place was jam packed with guys, everyone thinking it's going to be about givebacks. The BA gets up and says "no givebacks, this about something else>'

It's this guy: http://www.breslin.biz/

Hired by the contractor's association to give a big speech about how we need to earn our premium wages by all being top producers, get back our market share, etc etc.

No discussion of the political and labor-organizing reasons for the decline of the building trades unions. I felt like I was watching 800 or so sheep being led to the slaughter with this feel good bullshit.

Let's build a goddamned pyramid.

Hey, two pints of beer, man.

Food, lodging, all that shit.

Fuck those idiots.

 

[Byron In Exile]

The Egyptians knew how to set broken bones.

 

[chillywilly2]

The Egyptians knew how to set broken bones.

with their construction practices...they needed to

 

[koalabear]

So the big "Emergency Meeting for our Future" was yesterday. A total anticlimax. The place was jam packed with guys, everyone thinking it's going to be about givebacks. The BA gets up and says "no givebacks, this about something else>'

It's this guy: http://www.breslin.biz/

Hired by the contractor's association to give a big speech about how we need to earn our premium wages by all being top producers, get back our market share, etc etc.

No discussion of the political and labor-organizing reasons for the decline of the building trades unions. I felt like I was watching 800 or so sheep being led to the slaughter with this feel good bullshit.

Listen, learn, adapt to the commie way of life.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Listen, learn, adapt to the commie way of life.

Man, the IBEW really fucked you up, didn't they.

 

[koalabear]

Man, the IBEW really fucked you up, didn't they.

Till I sued them and won.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Till I sued them and won.

I knew there was bad blood.

 

[koalabear]

I knew there was bad blood.

A little, they don't seem to be as fond of me now.

 

[Saint Peter]

If you can't join 'em, beat 'em!

 

[Byron In Exile]

with their construction practices...they needed to

Raising 50-ton blocks without even pulleys?

Seriously?

Fucking hell...