Fans of "How It's Made" TV Show Here?

i wonder how much discovery sells the seasons videos for?

Plonk

Count me as a fan.

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An excellent show!

My wife likes Mike's pecs.

Ever seen Survivorman? That would really get your SAG dander up! Imagine this... A guy with an idea makes up his own show, writes the music. "performs it", films it, edits it, and doesn't have to pay a bunch of do-nothings to sit around and collect union-scale!

Are you a SAG member or a member of one of the various lame-ass production unions?

I used to love when one of my touring crew members slid a stage monitor 5 feet, and the union house dickheads tried to organize a penalty strike. All because nobody spent 1/2 hour+ trying to find and peel one of them away from the crew buffet or outdoor smoking area long enough to move it for us.

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I love the show. It's Canadian quirks just make it more amusing. I suppose if I wasn't reasonably knowledgeable about most of what they show then the mistranslation might be more of a problem.

It's great to see some of the amazing ingenuity on the various massive production lines. The occasional surprise too, like that hard candy with the text in it... Expected some big 50' long multi screw extruder, not hand lay-up into a giant log.

Pete C.

"Proctologically Violated©®" wrote in news:tXtli.21$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe12.lga:

Here's most of what I have up at the mo'

Or I guess you could follow the link in the sig I forgot about that.

Terrific show.

It'd be cool to see printed circuit boards stuffed and wave soldered too.

--Winston

will need a bitorrent client like Azureus. Season 7 and 8 online...

Were you aware that a "Merkin" is a pubic wig as well as a corruption of "American", it came up recently on the BBC program "Balderdash & piffle". I makes your comment quite amusing. See

, google also has pictures of merkins.

Did you say crew buffet?? !!

Not SAG, but my union occasionally crosses paths with their union, and I got to hang out with a bunch of extras, and the two gerlz who were priviledged enough to get paid SAG rates to massage Meg Ryan's feet, after an oh-so tiresome take of about 7.5 seconds.

But man, the food was incredible!

Yeah, they call it working "out of title" and unions get pretty bent overdat.

Seems totally absurd to the outside world, is hated by management, and indeed violates many of the tenets of cooperation, altruism, efficiency/productivity, and all the other good things in a good world. But, the world in fact sucks, and this union mentality shit is a backlash to a long history of abuse, and likely much worse abuse in the future by management et al. There is an unfortunate logic to this, and to strict seniority systems (you know, where actual competence is irrelevant). It's really a pick-yer-poison type deal: Go fukn loony with a corrupt merit-based system (where everyone plays a kind of "office chicken" after 5 pm, to see who cracks and goes home first--I could do it 'til about 8-9 pm. Now I get paid by the literal minute. ) OR Get strangled by a brain-dead seniority system, but where you at least can stay sane, albeit a little recalcitrant (hey, dats not my job....)

Unions will eventually lose The Battle by default, by definition, when there are simply no more jobs left, proportionately speaking.

Malthus, donchaknow.... Oh, and the P4 chip....

We are headed toward an ass-f****ng of cosmic proportions, of astronomically deep penetration--think black hole.

And, basically, we have brought it on ourselves, with boucou help from the P4 chip.

1. We tip our philistinic hand every time we buy sumpn or click dat mouse, information-wise--sorta like playing fuknPoker with a camera behind our shoulder.
2. We've gone hog-wild over Reality TV and GirlsGonefuknWild, perhaps the most degenerate and reprobate pubic offering ever devised.
3. Speaking of Poker: If Golf wadn't bad enough, and as if ketchup were a vegetable, now Poker is sport-ish enough to be aired on ESPN--AND the Travel Channel. goodeffingawd.... Just HOW did DAT happen??????

When the Bilderbergers saw us watching fuknPoker, that was the draw that broke the camel's hand ...

We have so willingly eviscerated our own culture, we have essentially written the following message--in blood on whitewashed walls-- to the Powers Dat Be (the Bilderbergers, of course): "Whatever crumbs you thought we might have deserved, QOL-wise, as your Servant Rabble, we shall show you that that was far too generous, and really all we are worthy of is a mile-long trough of flowing slop, running water in our gutters to eventually move the old feces along, cots in windowless zinc-roofed barracks so we can at least f*ck (variously) at night, and old

55 gal chemical drums to catch the fresh water runoff from said zinc roofs."

And bleeve me, dats exactly what we're headed for.

Start practicing yer dumpster-diving NOW, muthafuckas, cuz it's gonna get real competitive perty soon. We may not even need running water in our gutters to move the feces along in the gutters--there might be enough blood for that.

So I guess when I shorten my Great American Pubic (Public) to Merkin Pubic, it becomes semi-redundant, eh? I'll have to watch that. Boy, itsa small lexicographical world, idnit?? :)

What was/is the purpose of a pubic wig, fergodsakes??

Every time I think our culture is guilty of unwarranted and unprecedented stupidity, I find out I'm wrong. :)

These days for decoration, a British burlesque artist has a diamond studded merkin, but the word dates back hundreds of years and it was suggested it was a vital tool of the prostitute trade back when they may have had syphilitic sores and wanted to hide it from prospective customers.

Someone on the program joked it was quite appropriate calling you merkins as you got a guy called Bush in charge.

Hilarious. Indeed, speaking of syphilitic political sores. That has, essentially, infected the world.

Codpieces were jeweled, as well. Family jewels?? :)

You forgot to mention the need to contribute money to buy 'credits' or upload a show that isn't already on there.

I'd sooner give money to that evil money grabbing bastard Murdoch than fund a private torrent site.

I'm often amazed at the common items that sell for a buck or two require some expensive and sophisticated machinery to accomplish the end result. Ed

Volume volume volume...

The segment on end mills was quite impressive. Makes you wonder why they don't cost more than they do.

For the woodworkers, how about that coffin segment?

Pete C.

I was in the orchestra for a local performance of "Disney on Parade". We had set up when someone came over and told us we had to move 6 feet to the right. The conductor threw a fit and said our union could not pick up a music stand or , God forbid, a chair. After an hour or so of sitting some stage hands came over and moved us. Not end of story.... after an hour of rehearsal the director decided we were facing the wrong way and needed to move again... this time, it was his idea and we were all directed to pick up our stuff and move. How the tides change!

LLB

"Proctologically Violated©®" wrote >>>Cain't get much cheaper than Mike Rowe, on Dirty Jobs.

Wave solder is pretty much a thing of the past. Pick-n-place, followed by a reflow ovens for surface mount components have pretty much taken over. You can't see the actual reflow process, because you have to be very careful of the oven profile for each type of board made on that oven. BTDT with both the early "Pizza oven" type reflow oven, followed by a new Heller oven.

Unions are nothing more than poker chips in politicians pocket. They are the white man's NAACP with the real benifits going to the groups leaders while the rank and file Pay,Pay ,Pay Legalized extorsion plain and simple. Yes ...there was a time when unions were the savior of working class ...but ... like $.50 a gallon gas it's no more ten a memory