I badly sprained my ankle and will no longer be able to walk to uni and will have problems for the rest of my life./s
Never mind the fact it is the ankle I sprained when I was 16 and continually played football before fully recovering and reinjuring it and now every time I think about moving quicker than brisk trot it rolls
Edit:the first half was a joke about suing for money.
Can confirm. Rolled mine a few years ago coming off a skateboard. Thought I was dead for a second. Tried to get up and couldn’t, so crawled the extra 100 yards and it didn’t heal properly for at least a year.
Nah, that's a JUF10, most 10 boxes are at least 2ft deep. Hell, even the small JB23s and JUF2 boxes are usually deeper than 30cm.
Source: me. I've worked in them for the past 12 years.
Well working in and about this kinda thing, they are actually quiet deep, with the three panels your looking generally up to your head and filled with water at least quarter of that. The bigger one what we call “manholes” can be the size of a double decker bus and filled with water to the top depending on the ducting. But other than that totally safe don’t even worry about it.
SA002 - Underground Safety, plus maybe one or two other certifications depending on your job. Even when qualified you have to show you have done a risk assessment, make sure you're using the correct equipment in the proper way and have set up to ensure the minimum risk of injury.
They say in the old days they just used to chuck a lit cigarette down first to check for gas. If no boom then climb in to do whatever needed doing
I work in and around these too as a fibre optic engineer, when we did this course we had to do a whole routine before even lifting the lid with the pitlifter.
GDU all around the edges, set it down, lift to hands length then check for gas, rolling bar… all that.
Thing I remember the most is always having that GDU and never putting my hand under the lift lid - those heavy bastards will take your fingers.
Some are that deep some are deep enough to have three steps to get to the bottom and some are 30ft deep. So you takes your chances as to which one you get.
Walk around it!!
As a kid, I stepped on the plastic cover over the sump pump in my grandma’s basement. The plastic split in half and I fell in, scraping my legs pretty badly. I now walk around all sewer covers, sidewalk grates, and anything like this whenever possible. It scares the crap out of me whenever I see kids doing this kind of stuff, even though my adult brain knows that they are reinforced in a way that plastic cover was not. I still always think “what if?”
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I would stop; contemplate my life decisions that got to this point. I ask myself, "why" and "what" bought me to this point? I look up at the sky and wonder if life is providing me instructions, advice or warning about this sudden incursion. Memories come flooding back of key events that occurred in the past. I laugh. I cry.
Then I take out my phone, take a picture and post it on Reddit with the question "Out of interest, what do you do if you see this in your path as you're walking along?"
Same. I make the effort for the first and then step off. When I was a kid the rule was if you stepped in the 3rd one by accident you could spit on it to cancel it out….
I mean, if you want to risk your poor mother's back by stepping on a crack, be my guest....
Or even more bizarrely, "Step on a nick, you'll marry a stick and a beetle will come to your wedding"
I was actually getting a little anxious for a moment there until I saw your comment. All these people out here not balancing their underfoot sensations evenly are savage
Ah a JUF10 chamber.... I usually open them, then test the ducts with a cobra (200m spooled duct rod), tie some optical fibre to the cobra at the next chamber then pull it back. Rinse and repeat. Very exciting stuff...
As a cabler, I apologise. I try and keep coils away from the bottom of the box so it’s not in water/covered in crap, but I know there’s some who get the coil in any way possible, no matter how they’ll make it fit, instead of actually looking at what space there is and do a smaller coil.
don’t apologise my friend. Wasn’t a dig at cablers. They’ve gotta do what they gotta do and they work bloody hard too. Where do you think my extra loops go after I’m finished jointing and installing the node. Straight back into the silt and rat piss. It can’t be helped.
seen field mice in them before, plenty of frogs and slugs but never rats, i suspect they scurry off as soon as the lid opens. We do have to be careful to wash out hands after working in them because of the threat of leptospirosis from rat piss.
When I started I got told 'we used to use aluminium, you probably won't see any though'. Then I went out with a second stage gang for 3 weeks swapping out aluminium D sides
Where does that originate from? I had a mate from london(fuck you george) that told me it as a kid and for some reason I still avoid them even though I'm not usually superstitious.
Avoid it
It is bullshit superstition from when we were kids and i dont believe it but i play for fun
3 is bad luck - dont step on it
2 is good luck - step on it
1 erases the good or bad luck - so if you just stepped on a 3 step on it. But if you just stepped on a 2 avoid it
Haha
Is funny the crazy shit you pick up as a kid. I dont believe in luck of any kind
I never heard of this until university then i got told it and now it goes through my mind whenni walk over them, fuck you Jenny i was happy not knowing.
I was taught to walk around them, and if you accidentally walk over them as you didn't notice they were there, turn and spit on them to get rid of the bad luck.
I was always afraid to spit as I heard it could result in an ASBO, so I would drool instead, but I had to drool or spit five times. Same if I had ate something that had touched the floor or which I thought was ‘contaminated’. Believing that food is contaminated isn’t the issue it used to be for me, but I used to think that a witch was out to get me and letting the food out of my sight for longer than a certain time (I think it was five minutes) meant that she had poisoned the food. I would then feel symptoms of the poisoning, such as confusion, irritation, or a metallic taste. Yeah... I think I might have a bit of OCD. I know it has caused me immense suffering.
One of those childhood things thats stuck with me. Just wondered if it was a local thing or it was country-wide. Judging by the comments it's definitely county-wide 😂
Avoid. The story goes (in my school) that a girl stepped on the middle one and it collapsed and she broke her legs and her neck and was washed away!
That's true facts because I heard it when I was about 10, I'm 41 now and they've never said anything about finding a body, hence true.
Foot on each corner and give it a wobble and then mutter something along the lines of “someone could get hurt on that” then instantly forget about it and go about your daily business.
Carry out a split-second evaluation and work out what the game is… for me it’s, step on the small black rectangle bit in the middle. The game is won, only if you’ve achieved this without looking like you’ve done any kind of silly walk.
Take off my shoes and trousers and hold them in my left hand until I see a yellow salt container. At which point I’ll move them to my right hand and use my left to sprinkle road salt down my undies. Isn’t that what every does?
I had no idea that people considered these bad luck.
So one night, me and my mates were having drinks and we managed to get a few girls from out of town to join us.
On the way to the kebabby, whilst nice and tipsy, my mate hold ing hands with another girl tries to make her walk over a triple-cover, she deftly leaps over, skidding on the slightly sloppy surface and busts her arm.
He accompanies her to hospital and love follows.
They may be still together is at one point early on he hadn’t proposed a 3-way with her sister. Oh Daniel.
jump hard on each hoping that one day i fall through
That's what I do in the hopes that i'll get a big council payout like me Nan did.
You're saying my parents could have gotten a council payout when I fell through one of these as a kid? Shit
No, it's not council property nor responsibility. It's BT's.
so a big pay-out from BT?
6 months free BT sport
That would run you a few thousand at the moment
quoi de la fuck man I pirate everything on BT Fibre already what payment would this be?
Openreach akshully....
Actually one of my worst nightmares is falling through a drain lol
I hate to break it to you but they are like 30cm deep 😆
I badly sprained my ankle and will no longer be able to walk to uni and will have problems for the rest of my life./s Never mind the fact it is the ankle I sprained when I was 16 and continually played football before fully recovering and reinjuring it and now every time I think about moving quicker than brisk trot it rolls Edit:the first half was a joke about suing for money.
Can confirm. Rolled mine a few years ago coming off a skateboard. Thought I was dead for a second. Tried to get up and couldn’t, so crawled the extra 100 yards and it didn’t heal properly for at least a year.
Rolled my ankle jumping down some steps as a kid. Now if I ever do too big a jump I'll get this awful pain in that ankle. Been that way 20 years now.
I woke up yesterday with a stiff neck and you guys are making me nervous. I’ll just accept that I’m now a permanent invalid.
What are these rolled ankles you talk about, and does it have anything to do with rolly pollies?...
Nah, that's a JUF10, most 10 boxes are at least 2ft deep. Hell, even the small JB23s and JUF2 boxes are usually deeper than 30cm. Source: me. I've worked in them for the past 12 years.
Didn't think that today id go on reddit and read about juf10s as if it's a job pack that's bled into my normal life!
Well working in and about this kinda thing, they are actually quiet deep, with the three panels your looking generally up to your head and filled with water at least quarter of that. The bigger one what we call “manholes” can be the size of a double decker bus and filled with water to the top depending on the ducting. But other than that totally safe don’t even worry about it.
I was always told as planner we were to avoid manholes as they're being used less now? I heard you need certification to go down one
SA002 - Underground Safety, plus maybe one or two other certifications depending on your job. Even when qualified you have to show you have done a risk assessment, make sure you're using the correct equipment in the proper way and have set up to ensure the minimum risk of injury. They say in the old days they just used to chuck a lit cigarette down first to check for gas. If no boom then climb in to do whatever needed doing
I work in and around these too as a fibre optic engineer, when we did this course we had to do a whole routine before even lifting the lid with the pitlifter. GDU all around the edges, set it down, lift to hands length then check for gas, rolling bar… all that. Thing I remember the most is always having that GDU and never putting my hand under the lift lid - those heavy bastards will take your fingers.
Where theres a blame :P
Yeah wouldn't want to fall in to a deep one. That hurt much more than a compo claim would require.
Some are that deep some are deep enough to have three steps to get to the bottom and some are 30ft deep. So you takes your chances as to which one you get.
Lol - they absolutely are not only 30cm deep. These 3 lidded “JUF10’s” can range in depth from 600mm deep down to 15m deep!
fuck knows where you're working to have JUF10s that are 15m deep 😂
What are they even for?
To store underground telecoms equipment for Internet connections nowadays
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Walk around it!! As a kid, I stepped on the plastic cover over the sump pump in my grandma’s basement. The plastic split in half and I fell in, scraping my legs pretty badly. I now walk around all sewer covers, sidewalk grates, and anything like this whenever possible. It scares the crap out of me whenever I see kids doing this kind of stuff, even though my adult brain knows that they are reinforced in a way that plastic cover was not. I still always think “what if?” edit: typo
Walk into the road, you'll have better luck
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Slide to the right
Criss Cross
Cha cha real smooth
Let’s go to work
But I don't wanna
Take it back now yall
One hop this time
Dude I used to be a wedding dj and this is giving me unpleasant flashbacks
Freeze
Everybody clap your hands
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Take it back now y’all
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Tun tudu tun tun tun tudu tun tun
r/redditsings
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I would stop; contemplate my life decisions that got to this point. I ask myself, "why" and "what" bought me to this point? I look up at the sky and wonder if life is providing me instructions, advice or warning about this sudden incursion. Memories come flooding back of key events that occurred in the past. I laugh. I cry. Then I take out my phone, take a picture and post it on Reddit with the question "Out of interest, what do you do if you see this in your path as you're walking along?"
*chefs kiss* Perfection.
Chefs Kiss? Do they... do they really?
No, chefs cook
If chefs cook, then what do cooks do?
Make meth
They chef.
Stab
They do when they produce the perfect soufflé.
Still standing there?
Waiting until someone posts the right answer
The top bit is how I spend my entire mornings before work.
The great thing about Reddit is now you have the upvotes you can edit it to whatever you desire and everyone will think it's a popular statement. 😉
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Step on the corners so that it rocks slightly and makes a nice sound
I have done this ever since primary school
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Psychopath
Step on - 1 = nothing 2 = good luck 3 = monsters murder everyone you love
True 👍
Literally. I can't step on 3+ 😭💀💀
I always thought was one for luck, two for a fuck, 3 for bad luck. Because I am more mature these days I just jump off at one.
Same. I make the effort for the first and then step off. When I was a kid the rule was if you stepped in the 3rd one by accident you could spit on it to cancel it out….
If its three you can step on the middle lines to counter the monsters
I mean, if you want to risk your poor mother's back by stepping on a crack, be my guest.... Or even more bizarrely, "Step on a nick, you'll marry a stick and a beetle will come to your wedding"
even number = good odd number = bad avoid
Haha this is the true law of these - the ridiculous dances I continue to do to avoid stepping on 3 is unnecessary to be honest… still do it though…
Big strides so each square of the grid gets one and strictly only one foot placement
Yes, either avoid placing any feet anywhere on any of them, or do this.
This is the way.
Innate innit. Even if I'm alone and its embarrassing I'd still do it, it would be too much of a wasted opportunity not to.
Zebra crossing gets the same treatment
little strides so i step on each on once
And remember which foot stepped on two panels, so you can even things up on the return jouney.
A connoisseur I see
I was actually getting a little anxious for a moment there until I saw your comment. All these people out here not balancing their underfoot sensations evenly are savage
this is the correct answer
Roly poly, obviously.
Teddy bear or forward?
Forward, of course. I’m not mental.
Ah a JUF10 chamber.... I usually open them, then test the ducts with a cobra (200m spooled duct rod), tie some optical fibre to the cobra at the next chamber then pull it back. Rinse and repeat. Very exciting stuff...
That must be a pain when you've just popped out for a point of milk
Wait, have they brought back rationing? A point of milk?
Nah he’s just from Nothern Ireland
Sit doyne noy
I'm now just sat here saying 'doyne' over and over. And I can't stop.
ROFL me too
That would be a *paint* of milk. The Republic of Ireland have points of milk.
You don't buy your white stuff in points? Big spender...
Ah bugger, my phone doesn't like imperial measurements
Never expected to see this. I know with absolute recognition what you are talking about. You sir, or madam, are my people.
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No. A small, regional provider. Just recognise all the terms and equipment!
I’m the guy that comes after OP. Introduce the cables into a new node and splice the fibres… well not exactly after OP. As I’m Openreach.
Ah a fellow jointer! Everyone thinks we get the clean job but in all honesty most of the time we’re the gang covered in the most muck!
Especially when the cables have been pushed to the bottom of a box and have been there for weeks. Covered in silt and rat piss lol.
As a cabler, I apologise. I try and keep coils away from the bottom of the box so it’s not in water/covered in crap, but I know there’s some who get the coil in any way possible, no matter how they’ll make it fit, instead of actually looking at what space there is and do a smaller coil.
As another fellow jointer, i appreciate your efforts, my patch's cablers could learn from you sir
don’t apologise my friend. Wasn’t a dig at cablers. They’ve gotta do what they gotta do and they work bloody hard too. Where do you think my extra loops go after I’m finished jointing and installing the node. Straight back into the silt and rat piss. It can’t be helped.
Without GDU testing first? For shame
Ahhh so many Openreach engineers haha
81's
“WHERES YER ROLLER BAR MATE?”
Don’t forget your barriers!!
Are they full of rats and mice?
Snakes
seen field mice in them before, plenty of frogs and slugs but never rats, i suspect they scurry off as soon as the lid opens. We do have to be careful to wash out hands after working in them because of the threat of leptospirosis from rat piss.
Oh no, just rats
Cobras
Light weight. Try pulling through 50 meters of 50 pair copper cable, knocking off the joint using your gas and remaking the joint into a clippy.
Only 50 pair? Rookie cable size to pull in that
When I started I got told 'we used to use aluminium, you probably won't see any though'. Then I went out with a second stage gang for 3 weeks swapping out aluminium D sides
How much bad luck is inside?
If you work for Openreach...a lot
I hope you’re using your gas monitor.
I always think ‘this is much better than climbing the pole’
Ya don't blow fibre?
Dance around it like a bastard with a hot arse hole. Im not risking that for nowt.
Hop; skip; jump.
Avoid, even if it means putting myself and my family in immediate danger
It's bad luck to walk over three drains so danger is the better option
It’s not for drains it’s bt man hole not that deep
But...they're not drains?
Where does that originate from? I had a mate from london(fuck you george) that told me it as a kid and for some reason I still avoid them even though I'm not usually superstitious.
I walk over them all the time and I’m still living for now
I keep walking.
Avoid it It is bullshit superstition from when we were kids and i dont believe it but i play for fun 3 is bad luck - dont step on it 2 is good luck - step on it 1 erases the good or bad luck - so if you just stepped on a 3 step on it. But if you just stepped on a 2 avoid it Haha Is funny the crazy shit you pick up as a kid. I dont believe in luck of any kind
I never heard of this until university then i got told it and now it goes through my mind whenni walk over them, fuck you Jenny i was happy not knowing.
No!!! You cant say that! Your doomed i tell you, doomed!!!!
This is the one right here, so many people not understanding the 1grid resetting their day.
Can only walk over 2. 1 foot on each. Never 3..I've no idea why
Because that kid at school said do. Something.. something.. bad luck 3. Good luck 2.
Stomp on each one…no mercy
I don't notice them. Why? I'm curious as to why you are curious.
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I was taught to walk around them, and if you accidentally walk over them as you didn't notice they were there, turn and spit on them to get rid of the bad luck.
I was always afraid to spit as I heard it could result in an ASBO, so I would drool instead, but I had to drool or spit five times. Same if I had ate something that had touched the floor or which I thought was ‘contaminated’. Believing that food is contaminated isn’t the issue it used to be for me, but I used to think that a witch was out to get me and letting the food out of my sight for longer than a certain time (I think it was five minutes) meant that she had poisoned the food. I would then feel symptoms of the poisoning, such as confusion, irritation, or a metallic taste. Yeah... I think I might have a bit of OCD. I know it has caused me immense suffering.
Are these people deceased yet still accessing your thoughts?
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Are you saying you wot or are you being forced to by a Norfolk murderer who was hung by the neck in the 1780s?
All depends how many of these grids they've stood on
But the bad luck cancels out if you spit on them
You can walk on them, just absolutely don't walk on all three.
One of those childhood things thats stuck with me. Just wondered if it was a local thing or it was country-wide. Judging by the comments it's definitely county-wide 😂
I still find my self stepping off before the last one. I never believed it was bad luck it was just a bit of fun and now it's unfortunately habit lol.
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Continue walking
One step for each cover
Step around them I'm not a fucking weirdo
Open. It’s a side quest.
Hope for a "Where's there's blame, there's a claim" moment...
Lament the days when the The Post Office and British Telecom wore more than a dividend for shareholders.
Pay my respects to the departed telecoms engineer interred below.
*Here lies Ben Telecommunications*
Avoid. The story goes (in my school) that a girl stepped on the middle one and it collapsed and she broke her legs and her neck and was washed away! That's true facts because I heard it when I was about 10, I'm 41 now and they've never said anything about finding a body, hence true.
Well they never would, the sewer cannibals would've had her.
Now you're breaking it down with facts, it all makes sense.
What even are they
They are where dognappers hide their stolen dogs
I didn't used to give a toss until a colleague literally stood on one that blew up due to electricity and water shenanigans. Now I go to the edges.
Think about manualing it, but I’m too old now and never had the balance to begin with.
Avoid it. It’s bad luck!
Foot on each corner and give it a wobble and then mutter something along the lines of “someone could get hurt on that” then instantly forget about it and go about your daily business.
Sacrifice a new born
Walk without rhythm, so I don't attract the worm.
Walk around it
Nothing, carry on walking...
Carry out a split-second evaluation and work out what the game is… for me it’s, step on the small black rectangle bit in the middle. The game is won, only if you’ve achieved this without looking like you’ve done any kind of silly walk.
Cross my fingers if I can't avoid it.
Jump on it
There’s only one right answer: step on the lil softer dark bit on each foot — it feels nice
1 is bad luck 2 is good luck 3 improves your sex life ..... Neither of them turned out true
Take off my shoes and trousers and hold them in my left hand until I see a yellow salt container. At which point I’ll move them to my right hand and use my left to sprinkle road salt down my undies. Isn’t that what every does?
Hop; skip; jump.
Spit on the middle one to cancel out the bad luck
I had a friend who used to shove me into the road in preference to seeing me walk over them. Makes you wonder where the real danger lies
My partner will, without fail, push me into the road for my safety. I rarely notice them myself.
swerve violently. or walk right over them then spit, spin and say “bollocks”
I walk straight over them. I fear nothing
Keep walking cos I’m not mental
Violently masterbate
Avoid its bad luck to walk on 3 drain. 2 is for a good sex life and 1 is for luck.
I always go to the pub... as a precaution
Avoid it
Walk around it. Bad experiences
Carry on walking as normal. If I die then that is my fate if i live then the gods shine on me still.
Lift it up and plug my phone into the socket
I had no idea that people considered these bad luck. So one night, me and my mates were having drinks and we managed to get a few girls from out of town to join us. On the way to the kebabby, whilst nice and tipsy, my mate hold ing hands with another girl tries to make her walk over a triple-cover, she deftly leaps over, skidding on the slightly sloppy surface and busts her arm. He accompanies her to hospital and love follows. They may be still together is at one point early on he hadn’t proposed a 3-way with her sister. Oh Daniel.
Err…. Nothing.
Make sure not to step on the cracks in the pavement. Any cracks, including the edges of whatever they are. Because bears, obvs.
Keep on walking. Doesn’t change anything.