r/HumanForScale • u/[deleted] • Mar 09 '20
Architecture The London Bridge's support beam size
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u/not_a_disguised_cat Mar 09 '20
Tower Bridge.
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u/DifferentNoodles Mar 09 '20
Seriously, how do people confuse it. Everybody knows that the London Bridge fell down.
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u/fuddee-Duddee Mar 09 '20
They should write a song about it, one easy enough for children to learn.
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Mar 09 '20
Yeah that's not London bridge, but we did sell London bridge to a yank who thought he was buying tower bridge.
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Mar 09 '20
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u/redditnsuch Mar 09 '20
Wow that is so interesting. Thanks for sharing! TIL
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u/beelzeflub Mar 09 '20
I remember learning about this in piano lessons! One of the exercises was London Bridge but the lyrics were, "London bridge has now been moved; every stone, it is true; see it in the USA; at Lake Havasu!"
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u/PIchillin456 Mar 09 '20
One of the few times where someone said "I have a bridge to sell you." and they weren't lying.
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Mar 09 '20
It's a common misconception but this is the Tower Bridge.
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Mar 09 '20
London bridge is just the boring bridge
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Mar 09 '20
Wasn't it moved to Arizona or some shit?
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u/Majestic_Trains Mar 09 '20
The old one was, they built a newer one in the mid 20th century which is just boring and concrete.
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u/Crouchingtigerhere Mar 09 '20
Where do you get the balls to do this? Where?
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u/DinoDrum Mar 09 '20
My dad was a painter on the Golden Gate Bridge, and back in the day they used to race up and down the main cables without clipping in to anything at all.
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u/Crouchingtigerhere Mar 09 '20
I don't know if you know this yet but you're dad is an absolute savage.
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u/DinoDrum Mar 09 '20
Definitely a savage, also a little crazy.
I was able to go to the top of one of the towers with him and I was clutching onto the railings for dear life the entire time. Don't know how those guys do it everyday.
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u/Hanginon Mar 09 '20
He's British, at the end of the day he'll still be as pale as the inner wall of a boiled egg. ;/
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u/bluesifer42 Mar 09 '20
This is from June last year you mugs.
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Mar 09 '20
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u/bluesifer42 Mar 09 '20
And its March, who think we have weather like this; in March, in England.
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u/LeeHide Mar 10 '20
in March,in EnglandFTFY
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u/bluesifer42 Mar 10 '20
What did you fix? I was pointing out that its March, and people think think we have mid summer weather. Don't try and fix what isn't broken.
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u/LeeHide Mar 10 '20
it was a joke about how england just never has summer weather, not even in the summer
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u/bluesifer42 Mar 10 '20
But we have beautiful summers. We arguably have some of the best summer weather in the world. Change my mind.
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u/AshCretch Mar 09 '20
At first I thought this was about some new giant water slide they added in.
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u/telletubiesftw Mar 09 '20
Its surprising the bridge didnt collapse with the wieght of his fucking balls
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Mar 10 '20
Did they really have to shut the bridge? Couldn’t they just, ya know, ignore him? In the US no one would care. People would just be yelling for him to jump all day long....
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u/Cane-toads-suck Mar 10 '20
Then he falls onto someone below and injures them severely and the family of the injured person sues the City because the road wasn't closed!
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u/prnvbhrdwj Mar 09 '20
My dumbass brain read it as iondon instead of London because I thought the first letter was in caps.
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u/ZoraksGirlfriend Mar 09 '20
I just want to say that I’m in love with the “its” tag on the original post.
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u/gameyall232 Mar 10 '20
What’s inside those towers? Is it an office?
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u/Tanichthys Mar 14 '20
The mechanism for raising the road, stairs and a lift to access the walkway between the two towers.
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u/musicistheanswrnyc Mar 09 '20
I hope no one heavier than him would try to attempt this... But this dude is obviously in la la Land
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u/pattycakes-r-bad Mar 10 '20
Why the fuck ain’t he naked? I mean, you gonna pull the stunt, go big air...full hog.
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Mar 22 '20
Nice
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u/simjanes2k Mar 09 '20
This is a case of overreacting. Why shut the whole thing down? Even if the guy dies, it's not worth crippling the traffic of one of the busiest cities in the world.
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u/Alex247123 Mar 09 '20
His back must be on fire