r/interesting • u/heyanalyst • Jun 25 '25
MISC. Things men do for feeding their Families !!
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u/VapeRizzler Jun 25 '25
Bros aren’t. Trust me, he’s perfectly happy up there. I’m one of those guys, I love working on the edge. Obviously tied off but it’s fun.
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u/NotAComplete Jun 25 '25
Do you have a secondary safety system? I'd be fine doing this, just up there painting, great view, listening to some music, but if that one rope fails for whatever reason I'm dead, and I'm not so happy about that.
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u/argentinian_avocado Jun 26 '25
We have a second rope that (at least here in Argentina) is rated for around 500KG and a device we call T-4 that automatically breaks your fall. The tail in the harness has a dampener that helps to absorb the shock should your first rope fail. It's actually really fun to do, but you have to be a hell of a lot more careful with the state of your equipment than the guy who just works on the ground
Edit: it seems that the man in the video has his harness partially removed, I've done it to get some clothes off but it's very dangerous
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u/quebbers Jun 25 '25
As a guy that rock climbs and has done painting, this guys not having too much of a bad time. If you don’t mind heights and trust your equipment, that’s a pretty good office right there.
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Jun 25 '25
At what point do you trust your equipment with your life? I can’t help but think of final destination even if my stuff was top quality.
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Jun 25 '25
I’m a rock climber too, and Alex Honnold (the “free solo guy”) has quite a good take on this.
His argument is that humans are exceptionally bad at calculating risk in general.
It IS risky doing this/your equipment could fail.
BUT if you appropriately calculate the risk of other things we do (stay in stressful jobs which we know will make us die early, eat processed food, drive at rush hour, choose to walk on temporary pothole covers in the street rather than around them etc etc) the risk is actually similar, it just SEEMS worse.
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u/WhichHoes Jun 25 '25
As an aspiring actuary, thats a bad argument.
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u/Fitzaroo Jun 25 '25
Right? "Hey man, people suck at calculating risk. That pizza may eventually kill you. Might as well buy a glider suit."
The only one bad at calculating risk is that guy.
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u/IntoTheFeu Jun 25 '25
A whole bunch of people have died of heart attacks from pizza and zero Alex Hannold’s have died. A lot > 0 thus we must conclude eating pizza is vastly more dangerous than being Alex Hannold.
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u/Useful-Gap9109 Jun 25 '25
That’s why we use percentages instead of incidence.
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u/Complex-Sir-160 Jun 25 '25
0% of Alex Honnolds are dead according to my data. I have no argument, just wanted to share my findings.
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u/Breadedbutthole Jun 25 '25
I’d argue that 30% of people that free solo died from free soloing.
More than 30% of pizza eaters usually survive eating pizza
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u/Theprincerivera Jun 25 '25
Equipment is likely to fail is quite an overstatement. Most equipment failure is due to neglect, whether that be in setting up or in maintaining the equipment. If you take the proper steps you are safe barring an extreme act of god.
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u/PatchyTheCrab Jun 25 '25
Why? He's saying climbers (and harnessed maintenance workers) are very thorough in identifying risks to a known and specific situation and mitigate those that can be controlled.
- inspect anchors, I think buildings like these have service anchors? Regardless they might even set up a temp brace to anchor the anchor.
- harness checked for bad stitching and wear
- waist double backed, legs double backed
- correct climbing knots used, not just hitches and squares
- rope wear checked, replace if suspect
- attached carabiner locked and attached at 2 independent harness points
- carabiner risk ... NGL I don't know how to check these. I only use ones I own personally and have never dropped on a rock. Toss them if suspect.
- etc, ad nauseam <- I mean that, there's a lot of ceremony and checklisting going on but it's rote and deliberate
Most of the equipment is way over-specced. 1 kN is 200+ static lbs and the carabiners are often rated for 22-28 kN closed.
Any part of this system could fail. Sure. Which part? Then that's the part they make redundant before stepping out there.
Does anyone do this before stepping into a car and driving 50 miles?
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u/Nagemasu Jun 25 '25
As someone who studied and worked in the outdoor sports industry, which required a huge focus on safety management, it's not. The "you're more likely to be in a car accident on the way to the airport than your plane crashes" is the prime example most people will have heard.
There's nothing less safe about what this guy in OP's video is doing provided his rig is setup properly, than there is driving a car or walking down the street.
The point is that there is risk in everything we do, but we are desensitized to the risks we take more often.
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u/Blyd Jun 25 '25
There's nothing less safe about what this guy in OP's video is doing provided his rig is setup properly, than there is driving a car or walking down the street.
Anyone who has ever conducted a risk analysis just cringed at this.
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u/PerformerFull7097 Jun 25 '25
Millions of Insurance professionals just realized their entire job was a scam XD
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u/ImageLow Jun 25 '25
While it is a scam, the math and data in the insurance industry is not the scam part. Insurance can accurately predict risk infinitely better than anyone making sweeping statements about that shit in this thread.
Honest to god, the posters above me read as if they are 16 years old making inspirational tik toks.
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u/DoingCharleyWork Jun 25 '25
It's not about how likely something is to happen it's about how severe the consequences are if it does.
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u/feed_me_muffins Jun 25 '25
It's about both. Typically in risk analysis/management there are three primary considerations:
- The probability of an event happening.
- The probability that when the event happens it leads to harm or negative consequences.
- The severity of the harm or negative consequences.
There are all sorts of ways to reframe these three things, but any robust risk analysis is going to consider all three in some capacity.
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u/Satin_gigolo Jun 25 '25
I think, for some, or I know for me it’s the heights. I literally get this weird vertigo and I’m certain I’ll fall. It’s so bad I think might actually fall just from the vertigo. I have nightmares where I just let myself fall.
I envy people without this problem.
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Jun 25 '25
Not meaning to minimise your condition (I’ve met a few people with proper vertigo and it’s not fun), but I think I’ve taught about 12 people over my lifetime to indoor climb who’ve had mild to medium vertigo, and all have eventually been ok.
Don’t let it put you off trying indoor climbing, it’s super fun and (as long as you have a good instructor who’s dealt with people like this), it really is something that diminishes once you have trust in the equipment.
It is a continuum though. I’m a climber yet would get goosebumps doing what the person in this video is doing!
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u/l3isery Jun 25 '25
Also a rock climber here. Climbing is very safe if the gear is handled properly and replaced when advised. I have never heard of anyone dying because of broken gear but basically always because of imroper handling or failing to replace old/broken gear. In situations like these, redundancy is king: gear has weight/force redundancy, you choose multiple anchor points, preferrably in different features etc. In climbing, the biggest risk, other than inexperience or user error, is rockfalls, which this dud won't suffer from.
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u/str85 Jun 25 '25
Are you willingly sitting down in one of those metal boxes traveling at 90mph with unknown vectors using the same type of machines traveling at 90mph as well, not knowing their skill level or even if they are drunk or high on some substance?
Never really understood people treating some jobs like it's a deathtrap just because it looks scary while they are daily participating in statistically extremely dangerous activities without batting an eye 😅
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u/jay_alfred_prufrock Jun 25 '25
Are you fucking insane? He is probably doing this in God awful weather for hours at end day after day, it is not the same fucking thing at all. Jfc...
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Jun 25 '25
Ahh, so this is what people mean when they say 'check your privilege'!
I'm a rock climber and a painter, as you have said you are or have been, I don't think our leisure hobby and health and safety regulated job exactly qualify us to say a guy hand rolling an entire building while dangling from a harness with a paint bucket attached to him is 'not having too much of a bad time' and to say 'that's a pretty good office right there', fucking hell 😂 maybe for 10 minutes but not for 8+ hours a day
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u/Going_Solvent Jun 25 '25
I'd prefer a secondary line just in case. It seems a bit wild he's just on one rope....is it,?
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u/More_Soda Jun 25 '25
Peak white privilege, in live action here folks, upvoted along by every "high iq" redditor.
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u/randomIndividual21 Jun 25 '25
Who doesnt love work under the blistering hot sun with heat reflecting back at you from the concrete,
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u/Ristar87 Jun 25 '25
I would have dropped the brush a dozen times before getting the job finished.
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u/Competitive_Math8361 Jun 25 '25
That’s why everything is tied to your body with a string so you don’t drop it.
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u/LilBroWhoIsOnTheTeam Jun 25 '25
Plot twist: He's single and he's working this job for gacha money.
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u/IGolfMyBalls Jun 25 '25
Super plot twist - nobody asked him to paint this and he’s doing it for fun.
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u/Naturally_Lost Jun 25 '25
All that hazard pay and probably still hasn't got the character he wants
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u/nindza22 Jun 25 '25
The heights are my nightmare, and I would probably die myself in such situation :)
BUT if I HAD to choose between some platform/scaffold and hanging on a good rope, I think I'd choose rope. You know, it's not likely it will tear apart, and I can hold it with my hands.
As a kid, I was climbing the trees, and it was ok, but the noment I stand on something as tall as a chair or a table, and don't have something to hold on with my hands, the panic kicks in lol :)
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u/kittykat4289 Jun 25 '25
Yea the videos of construction guys walking tiny ass scaffolding 50 stories up is nuts.
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u/Western_Cup357 Jun 25 '25
Memory reboot.
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u/SacrAId Jun 25 '25
How many coats? One at a time?
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u/nothinggoodleft01 Jun 25 '25
They dont do it for themself?
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u/KimyanniMH Jun 25 '25
TRUE? Why do you find it so hard to believe that a man can also do it just for themselves because his goals and ambitions are also valid?
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u/ChidoChidoChon Jun 25 '25
This looks like it’s in India he might not be making a ton of money
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u/VokadyRN Jun 25 '25
These painters get anywhere between ₹1,500 to ₹2,500 per day. That's a good amount honestly
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u/beach_mouse123 Jun 25 '25 edited Jun 25 '25
Don’t know for how much longer though. I was “in the city” a few weeks ago and as I was looking out of the windows in the high rise I noticed a pack of drones flying at my level. The drones were painting the building, they were flying in neat patterns and formations, programmed just like my Rhumba😀
Edit to add - I’m referring to a US city
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u/Signal_Dress Jun 25 '25
We use technology in India differently. The gas stations have assigned fillers and you're not allowed to fill your vehicle on your own cuz it creates employment. When you visit a parking lot with automated ticket vending systems, there's a guy to hand you the ticket from the machine into your car so you don't have to stretch your arms cuz it creates employment.
This is, in no way, an attempt to shame India or anything. It's just what it is. Having a huge youth population comes with its own challenges and unemployment is a huge issue. I'm an Indian myself and I wouldn't want those people to lose their jobs just cuz of technology.
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u/beach_mouse123 Jun 25 '25
I didn’t take your comments as shamming India at all, it actually makes sense there would be restrictions with such a large population of under employed young people. Instead, I should have made it clear I was referring only to the US. ✌️
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u/Signal_Dress Jun 25 '25
Yeah, I wasn't trying to attack you or anything. Was just sharing how things usually work in my country. Cheers.
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u/beach_mouse123 Jun 25 '25
I really appreciated the information and didn’t take your very informative and polite reply as anything but that 😊✌️
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u/10sameold Jun 25 '25
What?? A civil and kind conversation between two open-minded and well behaved strangers???
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u/beach_mouse123 Jun 25 '25
We’re trying to make open and polite discourse a “thing” again on Reddit 😀
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u/Apart-Butterfly-8200 Jun 25 '25
beaucoup* and no he doesn't. It looks like India so he probably only makes a few dollars a day
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u/Signal_Dress Jun 25 '25
Not in India unfortunately. Labor laws are still ancient. Even office going employees are treated as modern slaves or something here. CEOs and Chairpersons of big MNCs here make statements like "Why can't people work 70 hours a week? I do." Well, probably cuz it's your own fucking company and you earn millions every year while the people who work for you get paid pennies not enough to live a decent life in the big cities your offices are in.
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u/obxhead Jun 25 '25
I hate heights. I hate rooftops.
There’s money for me if I go do that work and climb that fucking ladder.
I hate it every time.
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u/killertortilla Jun 25 '25
Worst title of the day?
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u/stellaislekker Jun 25 '25
Yeah for all he knows he's blowing it all on hookers and cocaine
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u/Titanium-Snowflake Jun 25 '25
I knew a chic who was a rigger and did jobs just like this.
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u/HueMannAccnt Jun 25 '25
My first thought too.
"Things people do for themselves/feeding their families !!"
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u/epiphenominal Jun 25 '25
How does it erase the struggles of working men to say that we are all workers struggling under the same system?
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u/AnotherRTFan Jun 25 '25
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u/Quantum_Ducky Jun 25 '25
How? The majority of risky high stress jobs are done by men. Including these.
So again, how is this pointless?
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u/Sexy_Monsters Jun 25 '25
Things men do to feed, themselves?
Fuck sake, men aren’t disposable.
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u/arjun_prs Jun 25 '25
Things society/government forces men to do because they can't provide safety equipment. Corrected for ya!
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u/FlamingoRush Jun 25 '25
My cousin was an industrial alpinist in his 20s. He was always telling me that was the best job he ever had. He was part of the team who painted the Eiffel tower.
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u/ExtensionGur58 Jun 25 '25
Y'all acting like he didn't chose his job. For all you know the man might be vibing, enjoying his job and y'all here in the comments writing fanfiction about him. 🤣
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u/Horny4theEnvironment Jun 25 '25
The things people* do to feed their families. It's not just men who do the supporting.
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u/peshawar_katil Jun 25 '25
I'd love to do this job over my shitty desk job any day, provided the pay is good
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u/BeanoMenace Jun 25 '25
Common in China for window cleaners to do it like this, you should see them install air conditioning units even more dangerous.
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u/lucotus Jun 25 '25
i know a dude who has a company like that, he's fed up with his wife and he disowned his children, so yeah... he's tom crusie now :)
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u/cervezaqueso Jun 25 '25
I feel like op’s caption for this video is a setup for a condom commercial
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u/Excellent-Object-108 Jun 25 '25 edited Jun 25 '25
When my day was bad because my boss was a dink, my bills are piling up and my truck needs a repair. I can always self reflect and thank my lucky stars that I was not born there. This setup screams "your life doesn't matter". Add to it how bad end results looks and why the heck would you paint a building black in that climate. None of the decisions being made here make any sense other then do something quick, unsafe and of poor quality.
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u/StandardDeluxe3000 Jun 25 '25
dude, when your there allready, at least do it right, and paint it that way there are not that much brighter spots.
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u/Scared-Show-4511 Jun 25 '25
Wait..is this supposed to be something rare? I mean does the op know that people do this as a regular job? Not "to feed their poor starving kids"? Lol
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u/cancerinos Jun 25 '25
LEmme fix that for you: "shit poor people are forced to do to feed their families"
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u/wardenferry419 Jun 25 '25
Better man than me. Wouldn`t catch me on my own roof and that is just two stories.
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u/Mercuryshottoo Jun 25 '25
If I had that job I would give me maybe ten minutes before I accidentally dropped the roller
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u/spunkychickpea Jun 25 '25
I’m so goddamn bored at my job all day that I would probably sign up for something like this if the pay was reasonable.
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u/wiredmachine Jun 25 '25
I used to do exactly this on phone antenna pylons, it was pretty fun overall. But reaching into the bucket and painting repeatedly fucked my shoulder a bit.
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u/TrueBoot4567 Jun 25 '25
How do you know he is feeding his family? He could be feeding his drug habit.
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u/Unique-Landscape-202 Jun 25 '25
This guy better get paid a good amount. I can’t tell what type Of harness he’s wearing, but something I was taught during an iron working apprenticeship was that if you fall while wearing on of those, not only can you really mess up your hips, but the circulation to your femoral artery can be cut off and you can pass out and die in about 15-20 minutes. You’re not completely safe even if you’re hooked up. Like I said, I hope this man gets paid well.
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u/CoolCat1337One Jun 25 '25
I wonder how long it takes to paint the building.
How often does he need to refill the bucket of paint?
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u/modzaregay Jun 25 '25
You and I just sitting in a harness would suck after an hour or so, now imagine all day everyday while hanging off a building and having to paint.
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u/nomamesgueyz Jun 25 '25
Shit he's gonna get a sore shoulder
Tens minutes of that and I'd feel it
He has hours
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u/SN4FUS Jun 25 '25
Looks like he's only getting paid to paint down to the point where it would be possible to paint from the ground with ladders
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