• Echo Dot
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            At work get emails from all over the world from different departments, all in different languages. Most of the European languages I can sort of work out, at least a bit, but I have no idea with German at all, it just looks like a bunch of random letters.

          • @ironhydroxide
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            2 months ago

            Ah, I got the Abfalleimer. Didn’t get the other. My German isn’t very good.

    • @[email protected]
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      142 months ago

      Other classics are in aviation asking them to grab a bucket of prop wash, and then the numerous automotive ones like blinker fluid, muffler bearings, etc.

      • @[email protected]
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        92 months ago

        We used to have ramp newbies handle the lavs as a sort-of right of passage. The Lav fluids we called “blue juice.” One day I told a newbie to go to maintenance and get a bucket of “red juice.” He disappeared for an hour. We were wondering where the hell he went about when he showed up looking a bit stressed out, actually carrying a bucket of red fluid of some sort. Apparently he started going around the entire airport’s maintenance shops asking them one by one for red juice, none of them knowing what the hell he was talking about. Instead of asking for clarification over the radio he just kept going. Eventually somebody in a completely different concourse poured some hydraulic fluid in the bucket for him. I was a bit astonished and then had to figure out what the hell I was going to do with a bucket of hydraulic fluid.

        • @DannyBoy
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          32 months ago

          Nissan named their donut style exhaust gaskets “bearings” so exhaust bearings do exist too.

            • @threelonmusketeers
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              12 months ago

              Huh, interesting. I wouldn’t have thought that adding a nitrogen compound to the exhaust would reduce the amount of nitrogen oxides, but I guess urea is a good reducing agent.

          • @DannyBoy
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            22 months ago

            Reduces harmful emissions from a diesel motor. Most new diesel trucks and cars have an exhaust fluid reservoir that needs to be kept full.

    • @[email protected]
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      92 months ago

      When apprenticing as an electrician I was once sent back to the shop for the Wire Stretcher. Supply guy gave me a Come Along to take to my journeyman.

    • Bob
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      42 months ago

      That’s a common one in the UK too!

    • Joe Cool
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      22 months ago

      I just shake it as hard as I can. There ya go lotsa bubbles.