I replaced a municipal clay pipe juncture in North Dakota years back, to make a bigger pipeline tie in, and it was much older. In fact it was pretty damn close to the train yard. If it was buried and made properly the clay pipe shouldn't have failed so soon in the first place, yours was a shoddier example to use.

This made me suddenly emotional.

Lmao didn't expect to see my street on Reddit today

ITS THE SAME GATE TOO

Pepto bismol.

The 2 world histories

Are those Nazis in the photograph?

If yes, were they Wehrmacht or Waffen-SS?

This is fascinating and gave me chills.

There's a turtle all the way down.

What does bismuth taste like?

Well, guess it's true what they say - men win battles, but logistics win wars.

if you think jan 6 and infowars is as bad as (if not worse) than WW2 you really need to turn off MSNBC and touch grass

Then write an easier title? I like when people correct my grammar on the internet as it helps me to not come off as an idiot in the real world conversation.

Before they held up the photo, I thought they'd show the Gulag😂

Ayy, my hometown. Actually recognized it because of the Grafitti.

Count me out, that would be creepy as hell

it's not like large numbers of 100-year-old houses in the places we're talking about have been destroyed (through natural processes - we're not talking about whether buildings can survive a bomb blast).

You can't have a survivorship bias if the vast majority of things from the population survived.

It's pretty hard to tell whether you're buying a high quality property, because the things which determine longevity are not obvious. Even if you could, house prices are so expensive that there is enormous pressure to build cheap, so you're unlikely to be able to find it readily. Hence you're not just paying for the actual cost of building a longer-lasting building, but also the cost of competing for a limited supply of them.

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Ah yes, the war on history! It rages on to this day

Love hearing these stories God bless him!!

I would still lose. My 102 teacher was a fucking beast.

Boy, that gate held up pretty well.

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It's weird because many people have this "idea" in their head of what combat or fighting is, but in reality it's basically nothing like that. Try describing being stuck up halfway up on a massive hillside in a valley taking shots from enemy like 400 meters away on the opposite hill trying to hit you with their irons while you move around and also return fire in the slowest process known to man. People think of combat as some sort of "yeah you see the guy and then you shoot him and then it's over and you win!" They don't realize it's like a half an hour process that feels like 5 hours while you awkwardly maneuver around what somehow always seems to be the most cluttered area of your life and then suddenly it's "over."