Grrl Power #1030 – Wing Woman and the Forklift
It’s not show clearly on this page, but that guy is carrying a palette with a big water tank on it. Or maybe it’s fry oil for the mess. Doesn’t matter, it’s like a 300 gallon tank and if it’s close to full then it probably weighs about a ton. There’s a better shot of it on the next page.
The problem with having moderate super strength is that your job would quickly become “forklift.” I guess there are worse things though, especially if you got paid at least as much as a forklift operator, plus some portion of the forklift maintenance budget. Presumably if you can lift as much as a forklift, you’re probably more maneuverable even if you’re not quite as fast on a straightaway, so that’s another selling point.
The thing is though, you start feeling underappreciated as the strong guy in your unit, then the boss hires a bunch of nine foot tall demons whose primary function in an assault is to toss a 20 ton steel pylon 500 yards to smash enemy armor, and you’re like, well, what the shit? I guess I’ll just carry moderately heavy stuff. Nothing like being the bantamweight strong guy.
To anyone worried about it, I don’t think the back of knees are anyone’s fetish. To be clear, literally anything is someone’s fetish, but the incident rate of kneebackphillia has got to be lower than statistical error noise.
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I’ve always just used the term “kneepit” as the name for the back of the knee.
You mean like armpits and elbow pits? Classy.
I remember that being coined on Ally McBeal, because one of the guys knew a pressure point in the knee-pit that was an instant erogenous zone.
My sister said her dogs like there leg pits scratched. She is talking about the back legs…
Kneeback rolls off the tongue better for me.
Figuratively AND literally.
I bet ppl who are into legs are into the backs of knees as a consiquence
Very lickable
He must like them tall and curvaceous. The fact that she seems to be super strong just like come is likely a much-needed turn on as well.
The thing about being strong as a forklift is that you’re probably still not as useful unless you can fly, and ignore leverage, like Maxima.
Forklifts can lift things really high, not just pick them off the ground. Like, set them on a shelf 20 feet up. And they’ve got heavy weights at their back ends, so that they can lift things out in front of them, instead of having to get underneath them to avoid falling over. They’re really optimized for their job.
OTOH, fork lifts are not particularly all terrain, and require specific features on things in order to pick them up, so there’s that.
Really, I think where moderate super-strength would really shine is in jobs that normally require power assist. Slaughtering cattle, for instance, is usually done with hoists and mobile frames, because a human can’t horse around a carcass that weighs close to a ton.
I do wonder if supers in your universe have a lot of trouble accidentally breaking things, though. Which might actually get in the way of a lot of jobs.
The only way I think Super’s here would be breaking things is if the super strength came on suddenly. If they’ve grown up with it as normal for them, or something they’ve trained up, then there shouldn’t be any difference from an ordinary body builder ‘accidentally breaking’ items like table ware.
On the other end, since most large items are not designed with proper grip points and leverage, super strength could easily end up ripping large items apart if you try to lift them without proper understanding of how much force that item can tolerate where and in which directions.
Superstrength essentially has to come with super finute muscle control as a necessity beyond normal human levels. for example even moderate super strength people should break locks on doors fairly often, because the % of their strength required to turn an open door is .000001% and the percentage of their strength required to turn a locked one is .0000015% You can say “well they’ve grown up with it” but that minute level of muscle control is really super human as well. There’s definitely a required power stunt not to just rip the handles off heavy pull doors that are locked.
“… fork lifts are not particularly all terrain …”
Yes, well, quite a few enterprises do make “all-terrain” telehandler lifts, lke Manitou, well-known in Oz. You do need to be very careful, but rough terrain is what they’re designed for.
The benefit of using a super to do the lifting is he needs a lot less space to work in. OTOH, unless the super can fly, then high shelving is probably not a good storage solution. And I’m not sure this super can fly.
Most 2-tonne forklifts need around nine square meters of workspace, 16m² is better for “accident” avoidance.
A forklift is any device that lifts a heavy object using forks.
You are referring to a forklift truck, which is designed specifically for lifting to a reasonable height.
The most common forklift type, such as a palette truck, just lifts to a short height to enable enough clearance for relocation.
Why would you have a truck for palettes? Unless you are moving some hundreds or thousands of them?
A typo for ‘pallets’, which is evidently more common than I thought. As you say, unless you have a pallet of palettes a fork-lift is of limited use.
Haha, yes. A typo.
Although, saying that, an artist friend of mine employs what he calls his ‘palette truck’ to cart all his paints around when working on large-scale installations.
At least I didn’t typo with ‘palate.’
Hereby reclassifying the local taco van as a “palate truck”.
Ehh, most labor places see guy = forklift already. Basically being male means you carry things around. The benefit of a human with forklift power is not moving heavy things in a yard or on pallet racking. It is carrying heavy things in small areas.
Sorry another Air Force story. But the base I was on had lots of below ground level areas. Take some concrete steps down and follow the hall for all the offices and work rooms. It was tight and you had issue getting two airmen to lift things. Let alone a forklift. So putting things there becomes a great boon.
Or the infamous (for me) we had an old metal safe. Top floor of the Warrior Center (Formerly the nuclear alert pad) Guide that thing down a long concrete ramp. Oh and the general just decided to park at the bottom of the ramp while you are trying to keep a safe that weighs more than you from going out of control.
So just super strength in the military would be a game changer in many instances.
Oh and that moderate strength? He could carry Old Painless into combat. Making him a heck of fire support, especially in places vehicles can’t go.
This is either a situation where “required secondary powers” comes into play, or people really should be working with super-versions of, like, moving company leverage straps. You know, similar to how Hiro picked up a bus for the press conference way back in #161 using a weight-distributing harness, except not for flying. Someone with only muscle power would either break a lot of crap, or (in the case of, say, a giant tank full of liquid) might tip things over trying to get a grip on them and dump it out all over everything.
Fairly sure he does: check out the last panel, she is on his right, which is where the palette is, but he does not look like he is straining or at risk of it falling over or onto her
It’s really more of an applied force thing. Imagine the classic firecracker concept. Put it on the surface, like a flier, and there is only so much force that can be applied. Put it in the middle, you blow it apart. Maxima has the best of both worlds, she is ridiculously strong and can fly. she can also make the point of impact be the point between an immovable object nd an unstoppable force. But you have to figure most people would have limitations.
To be fair, that is a very nice… “back of knee”.
Right? As far as random body parts go, they’re quite shapely.
@DaveB – I think we found the portion of your audience that likes knee-pits!
I kid, I kid!
I’ll add my name to that club!
Truthfully, it’s a much-neglected area with a really surprising number of nerve endings.
Literally ANYthing is SOMEone’s fetish; otherwise, Rule 34 wouldn’t exist. When I first heard of Rule 34, I decided to look up “My Little Pony Porn,” and immediately regretted it. A friend later told me that that had been an EASY one…
While literally everything is someone’s fetish/kink, some fetishes are rarer than others. For example, I have a kink for stories involving people getting their genitals bitten off, and that’s WAY more rare than a kink for erotica involving cartoon ponies. I mean, I assume it is way more rare because of how I struggle finding new material related to this kink.
Include vore in your search terms, oh and there was a joke clip
That clip that scared most people
https://youtu.be/GH1ruMGpTVY
Reminds me of a demon comic I stumbled upon on Hentai-foundry. Something something “Wolf” or “Wolf family” (of demons). Forgot who the artist was/is but artwork was great. (And I vaguely remember it because of the artwork – AND because biting off genitals and vore in general is very much NOT my fetish :-( )
Hentai-Foundry has its own discord
I recall an article from a few years ago that MLP porn was used to disguise communications between members of terror groups, can’t find it now, published about 2012 sometime. It was in an article about steganography…
Even supers are only human, after all.
How did this happen, no comments?
Knee backs? Eh. I will say that I have recently been introduced to the wonders of the armpit.
‘Forklift’?
Still better than getting a number as a joke because you have the most common set of superpowers. Like in PS238 where a girl chooses the number ’84’ as her superhero name, because she is the 84th known super with the power set of super strength, invulnerability and flight.
Instead of hiding it or letting the joke continue, she embraces is and uses it as an inspiration.
I don’t get it…”The most common superpower” for female superheroes is having immense breasts that don’t sag, but I don’t see how that ties in with the number 84.
Maybe that will happen when she goes through puberty is a few more years. The author/artist of that comic tends to draw his female supers with more normal proportions (unless they stretch or are muscle-bound), so that makes FISS the most common power set in the PS238 universe.
Maybe because the “8” looks like boobies and the “4” is someones nose motorboating them?
They are kids, at an elementary school!!!
“… carrying a palette …”
Umm, er, DaveB, it’s “pallet”, very slight difference in meaning.
Dave’s artistic bias is showing.
No, it really is a palette. He’s painting a mural about mine safety and all the paints are made using heavy metals. Some of those transuranics give some really nice colours.
+1 internet point
And of course, everybody’s already wearing hearing protection for the heavy machinery, so the risk of hearing loss when Transuranic Mural turn it up to 11 is much reduced.
Damint! Knew there was something off about that :(
Yes, I am also looking at the back of her knees :|
Was glanced on the “webcomics you like” sidebar and was wondering how out of date it is. One of the ones in it which is not listed as non-updating was dropped by the creator and the url has been out of date for years, you need to go to archive.org to get it (atomiclaundromat).
Are there others you have come across since then which you reccomend?
Mind stating which one you are talking about?
Eric did, it was Atomic Laundromat. the artist stopped updating it after severe writer’s block hit in 2016.
Akshully, there’s quite few URLs there that need weeding:
Busty Girls, Eerie Cuties, Curtailed…
Oh, thank you, didn’t see that :(
As for Eerie Cuties, that should just be moved to “Not Updating” as it’s still there and it links to one of their webics that is still updating
I’m fairly sure: “… you need to go to archive.org to get it (atomiclaundromat).”
Yah, @DaveB, we really do have a bad load imbalance thing happening here. I responded to Guesticules at 5:39pm your time, but Opus The Poet’s post was NOT VISIBLE at this time, despite him posting at 5:05pm your time, 34 minutes earlier.
(If I had seen his post, I would not have bothered.)
If you are sharing a server (and we REALLY don’t want to know the details) then it might be worth sussing a better solution. My immediate guess is you are getting a LOT more traffic than you used to, and the server cannot handle it. Unfortunately, this IS the price of fame.
Note how subtly the author works his back-of-knee fetish into the work, in an even more subtle nod to Quentin Tarantino.
I suppose at this point it is clear you’ve never kissed the back of a woman’s knees…for science. #NotAFetishIfItWorks
Is the female Galtyn super’s hair colour meant to be strobing, or is that a colouring error in panel #2?
Maybe every time cshe says something it changes. That would account for the slight differences the front goes through during their conversation.
Oh, that is her hair, I initially interpreted that to be a cap, which happened to match her hair colour.
I think you’ve got a colouring error in panel #2
Yeah, nah. She deliberately chose that contrasting colour. It’s what females do. I like it.
I’d like to know HOW she did it, it does not seem to be a tape… Maybe it’s self-adhesive and all she needs do is be careful?
Compare panels 2 and 4.
Huh. Colors flipped. Yes, panel 2 seem to be different from all the others where her hair is visible.
The stripes change from panel 2 to panel 3 (more easily compared between 2 and 4), then stays consistent for the remaining panels, so unless she (or a friend) has super speed and changed it between panels, it’s either changing on its own, or I’m pretty sure it’s an art error
I assume they mean the way the colors are reversed from their panel 2 appearance in every other panel.
I dunno, Dave, them knee backs doin’ somethin…
That isn’t quite how statistics works. Sure, reporting bias is likely to drive the error floor above the signal peak, but an independent study trying to avoid that will very clearly show somewhere between about 0.2% and 7% (depending on a lot of factors) of people have such a fetish.
If you run a survey asking “do you think the moon is made of green cheese” you’ll get some fraction saying yes just to mess with the interviewer, or because they pushed the wrong button, or for a laugh. I remember the number geing 3% but can’t source it.
Lizardman’s Constant is 4%.
+1 internet and bookmarked for my next argument with the marketing people about what our priorities should be. I swear, if I see one more slide deck showing me how “market research” recommends 20 different things we should be doing, and the fine print shows a sample size of 17 people…
People tend to be bad at math and probabilities. Did you know that 38% of all people will believe any statistic you tell them?
and 69% of all statistics are made up
Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics…
I’m beginning to wonder if mark twain stole that from Confucius.
Perhaps someone was Confuced?
Confucius say: Who says I say all the things they say I say?
In a deep voice kind of like tom (below)
you do not want to know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5tveO2nRSk
I think the vote incentive link is broken.
Also it didn’t recognize me and I had to type in my username and e-dresss manually.
(That could have been my obsolete Samsung tablet.)
In the Astra-verse, militaries love having low-grade bricks for soldiers. They survive wounds well, you can kit them out in heavy armor that doesn’t have to be powered, and they can carry heavy weaponry.
As for the backs of knees, I remember “kneepit” being a thing on Ally McBeal.
mmmmmm. Kneebacks. brrrr!
I was wondering why Maxima and her team (except for The Mighty Halo) were not in uniform.
This is supposed to be a semi-unofficial visit and yet this guy knows they’re foreign military?
In the next thrilling installment we’ll see him fumble that load and Kenya give him a hand.
(The classic RomCom ‘meet cute’.)
Max, Sydney, and Dabbler are 3 of the most famous people on Earth now by any measure, but this guy is also a super in a military with supers. There is 0% chance that he (or anyone on this base) would fail to recognize the Archon A team.
Medically, the back of the knee is the popliteal fossa, just like the armpit is the axilla, and the crook of the elbow is the antecubital fossa. Not the sexiest of names.
Think knee backs are intricately entwined wheb combined with sheer lace nylons with the stripe down the back in the associated acouturements.
Is it me, or are replies to posts suddenly not working anymore? I tried replying to multiple posts but it doesn’t show up.
Seems to work for me.
Yeah, it turns out it apparently didn’t update properly on my end. I was making the posts, but they didn’t show up on the page, even after a force-refresh. Other posts weren’t appearing either, including those of others and this post.
It’s a common thing with this site. Happens all the time, completely randomly so far as I can tell.
To force an update click first (Look how much Dave’s art has improved!) then last.
If that doesn’t work close and reopen the browser window.
Posts take a while to show up sometimes. My intuition, without having looked at the backend code, is that the pages are static, and it has to regenerate the page when new comments are added, but doesn’t necessarily do so for every comment. It’s either on a schedule, has a cooldown, or just tries to batch them up. So sometimes a comment will show up immediately, and sometimes it will take a while.
It seems variable, for me. Sometimes they show up near-instantly, sometimes not. I suspect processing bottlenecks at DaveB‘s end, combined with the browser at the user’s end only waiting so long before pulling and rendering the new page. If process A completes before process B triggers, you see the comment immediately; if not, you don’t.
“… browser at the user’s end only waiting so long before pulling and rendering the new page.”
Yeah but. The browser can only pull the page that’s being presented. It cannot render something that’s not there. And if we keep hitting F5 or CTRL-F5 and it STILL doesn’t render? It’s not there to be rendered
The problem IS at the server. It’s being overloaded. We COULD say DoSed, but that carries bad vibes, we don’t deliberately set out to deny service.
Given that the delays have been getting steadily and exponentially worse over the last couple months, my bet is that whatever system is storing the comments is starting to run up against it’s storage/performance limits. Time to either purge old comments, jump to the next performance tier, or find a more efficient provider.
So nobody is picking up on the human female blaming the “forklift” for her newly imagined body image insecurity. Isn’t this a male-female trope of men always getting the blame for female imagined thoughts? And so true?
Doesn’t it go both ways? Don’t men blame women for their feelings and insecurities?
It read like friendly ribbing to me.
Wait… is that someone as strong as Kenya???? BRO GO!! I got your back!!
My theory is that these are siblings, and as a tall super woman she knows Anvil’s struggle with finding someone tall to date. The super strength is a bonus, but she’d be sending her brother over either way.
Given the conversation on the last panel I’m going with “good friend” rather than “sister”. Although both versions have been known to give the… person… a fairly violent shove in the right direction if he/she keeps wimping out.
You got a point there man.
Is that a male Alari-the same race as Lorlara and Sciona!?
Looks like it.
So, are all male Alari hipsters in fedoras?
We can only hope. It would be a hilarious affectation given their culture.
Also, it gives me a Jaeger vibe and now I’m anxious to see him in action.
Hafink a nize hat is verra impawtent.
Testing testing
Receiving!
My wife got excited because of a delivery she received
She got a new heavy-gauge wok that she had her eye on for a while. I asked her if she remembered to get the special footwear for it.
She looked puzzled for a moment. Then she sighed and said, “Okay, lay it on me. Tell me your dad joke.”
I said, “I don’t know what you mean by that, but it is my understanding that they have boots that are made for wokking.”
Keep that up, and one of those days your wife is gonna wok all over you.
D’youse think Pander will believe we’re only having pun?
If we can keep a handle on maintaining a dead-pan delivery, I don’t think she’ll get too stirred up.
… why.
Why Brichins. WHY?
Dangit.
Ninja hit squads en route.
Oh dear, now Pander’s all steamed up, guess that was a-braise-ive without really even frying. I can only hope these new squads have no skillet all, because she’ll never forgive my wonton disregard.
Tom might be a gentleman that calls himself a fiend,, but you’re the actual fiend, brichins. Totally and utterly. One which no powerpoint presentation can accurately represent.
*sends more ninja hit squads*
make sure those squads have proper foot wear, or someone might wok all over them.
thanks by the way, its cold tonight.
That would be abuse.
It’s always the invulnerable or regenerative powered guys who give out bad advice. “Yeah! Go tell her you want to compare the sexiness of the back of her knees with her ears – while they are side by side.”
I didn’t know the guy with shades was (Alari?)Alien until his ‘human females’ comment, thought he was just one of the many shades that make up ‘black’.
Forklift seems to offer Kenya’s most mentioned personal attraction, he’s tall, but is he tall enough? Won’t know until they’re in frame together.
WingWoman’s hair is odd, is she sticks around I predict much pain in Dave’s ass keeping the color patterns going. I wonder what her power is
Also, there is no indication that they are speaking another language, and their speech patterns are distinctly US English, Imports rather than local talent?
Am I the only one asking how the hell her butt is smaller than her thighs? How is that possible? Granted sexy as hell but possible?
It’s a common issue with comic supers, the impossible female waist-to-hip ratio doesn’t work with long legs and a short torso. It looks ridiculous, unless the artist removes (or greatly undersizes) the ilium from their pelvis. Once you notice it, they always appear to have femurs that attach directly to the base of the spine.
You know, when you say “literally everything is someone’s fetish”, for some reason I just want to parse that as “literally everything” is SOMEONE’s fetish… which weirdly I have an appropriate video for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kZUIySjzMI&t=201s
Don’t worry, it’s safe for work, just don’t dig too deep into SMBC Theater until you get home.
only if you are Harold Finch
thats… disturbing and funny.
I can’t help but wonder how a ‘forklift’ super lifting something excessively heavy would avoid breaking the surface they are standing on, as most floors are not designed to handle a ton on a single square foot of space.
That’s something a LOT of comics fail with. Sure the person might be strong enough to lift the amazingly heavy thing but that’s now transferring all the weight to the surface area of the super person’s two feet, or even less if they’re wearing stiletto heels like many female supers seem to. And even if the surface they’re standing on can take it can their shoes? Women break off heels normally, I can’t see those shoes surviving the weight of a car on them.
And that doesn’t even get into the small area of human hands exerting enough force to life a bulky and heavy object in the first place, like a loaded pallet or car.
I think the standard response is that “super strength” is actually “touch-range telekinesis”. The object is not exerting more than a moderate force on the super’s body and most of its mass is being supported by magic and the dreams of children.
Yes. Supes holding up a doomed chopper by its landing skid…
Superman, Supergirl, and any other Kryptonians’ superstrength is actually sort of LIKE tactile telekinesis or zero-point telekinesis. It uses something in Kryptonians known as a Kryptonian Biomatrix, which basically involves putting a force around whatever they’re lifting or flying with to make that object more resistant to problems involving mass. Kryptonians are going to have some level of natural superstrength (also amplified by the sun) but a lot of the most extreme things that tell physics to get lost are because of the biomatrix. The biomatrix literally covers every single cell of a Kryptonian, internally and externally.
It’s why when Superman or Supergirl lift a building or oil tanker or whatever, it doesn’t crumble under its own weight.
It’s why, unless the Kryptonian is focusing, they can punch Giganta or some other huge creature, and instead of punching a bullet sized hole in them, it reacts with their entire body like a full sized person hit them.
It’s why, when flying or just moving with someone at superspeed, it doesn’t tear that person to shreds from air friction.
It’s why the air does not catch on fire (again unless the Kryptonian is actively trying to alter the biomatrix) when a kryptonian is moving at superspeed.
The kryptonian biomatrix also extends a few centimeters beyond the skin at a slightly weaker level, which is why even when wearing non-Kryptonian clothes, the clothes can survive bullets, fire, etc. It’s only after a certain level of power that the ‘extended’ matrix can be breached, or if the clothes are already beyond that area of effect. It’s why their clothes, or at least their costumes, tend to be skin-tight. It’s also why Superman and Supergirl have capes that are made of kryptonian fabric instead of what the rest of their outfits are made of (normal human fabrics). The only exception to this is in New 52, where Supergirl’s ENTIRE outfit is made of kryptonain fabric, and her outfit by itself is completely invulnerable, as Simon Tycho explains while experimenting on the outfit under a variety of tests. For some reason, in New 52, Kryptonain fabric is invulnerable for reasons that have nothing to do with the kryptonian biomatrix, although in New Earth, it has to do with the fabric being made of material that have been soaked in a type of radiation which is similar to what happens to organisms on Krypton as well (Kryptonite is what happens when that radiation goes into a higher EM state and becomes harmful to even Kryptonians, usually by warping the Kryptonian biomatrix. That’s why kryptonite doesnt hurt Kon-El as much as full-blooded kryptonians – he doesnt have a kryptonian biomatrix for krypyonite to affect.
The Kryptonian biomatrix is what’s powered by solar radiation. It can be focused or generalized. The more focused it is, the more solar radiation is used. That’s why, when under a red sun, a formerly yellow sun-empowered Kryptonian’s powers are drained the fastest by using heat vision, which requires the most focused use of the biomatrix, then freeze breath, then flight, then speed, then healing, but the thing that uses the least amount of solar radiation from their reserves is invulnerability, which is at a weaker level but still present until reserves fully run out.
When they made Kon-El (as a clone of Superman with Lex Luthor’s human DNA in order to bypass the many problems of cloning Kryptonian DNA), they were able to ‘simulate’ the biomatrix by giving Kon-El a form of telekinesis that only can activate if he’s actively touching the object or person.
There’s often a sort of tactile telekinesis – note how in the first story arc Max is able to lift a vehicle one-handed without the hideous structural damage that would cause.
Or, y’know, Rule of Cool.
Unless the guy has Max’s ability to lift telekineticly on contact yeah no it would cause the floor to crack or worse. I was a factory mechanic for many years and on one occasion some of the guys had to move a 40 ton (imperial) hydrolic press and in order to do so they used a railroad jack just to lift each corner and place a “heavy mover”, basically a caterpillar tread on a frame with a rotating disk on top, under each corner of the press they had a situation were the 18 inch thick floor cracked from the strain of jacking it up to place the first one. Later those dropped the 12 foot tall press breaking the warehouse floor completely and wreaking the press. No, they weren’t the brightest bulbs I was glad I wasn’t in on that!
You’d think your numbers are on target, but it’s amazing how much mass the average floor can take.
Imagine a wooden floor, made of 100×12½ planks supported on 100×200 joists at 750 centers, with posts at 1.8meters. A bit rickety? But regular for most “old school” wood dwellings. Let’s put a bath in the bathroom, and fill it, about 2 meters by 75 cm by 75 cm giving 1.125 m³ water, about 1125 liters, about 1.125 tonnes. The bath is supported by four elegantly cast paws, possibly with a plywood patch keeping the paws off the floor. That’s a poofteenth over 280Kg on a 100×200 patch per paw.
How much does the floor give? Not very much. Maybe a couple of millimeters on a bad day.
So, as long as Forklift isn’t jumping up and down to show off, most floors will carry him and his load quite happily, especially as they are far more likely to be in the order of 150 – 200 mm of concrete. Especially if he’s in a storage shed, where the floor is probably laid down over compacted earth.
I like a nice pair of legs as much as anyone but the back o the knees? I’d be looking at the whole lady not just one part LOL! Anvil is easy on the eyes however as a puny “normal” and nearly 3 times her age I’m sure I’d never survive her first hug lol.
Nice to see some self-awareness about how it would really go down. (ᗒ ᗨᗕ)
So while everyone is looking at the knee pits, I’m curious about the armpit. Specifically what exactly is showing beneath it that matches Kenya’s skin tone perfectly and is extremely round.
???
Part of the guy standing in front of hers bicep.
300 gallons @ 8lb/gallon = 2400 lbs.
Standard Wooden pallet(te) is 15 lbs
IBC containers are 150-180 lbs, depending on cage composite and volume.
So 2600 lbs ball park.
For the People complaining about ForkLifts being for lifting, they’re not wrong. But calling them “human pallet(te) jacks” sounds wrong, even if it’s more technically correct.
And with the nerve concentrations and the thinner skin in the knee-pit, I’m betting it’s going to be a far more common fettish than you’d expect, but more on the ‘doing’ than ‘viewing’ side.
A standard IBC holds a cubic metre of liquid, 1000 litres. At water density that’s a tonne, or ~2200 lb; 2400 lb is only ~10% over, which isn’t outside the realms of rounding.
I see 2 sizes of IBC when I’m looking, so if one is 1000L, which honestly makes a lot more sense the Imperial Measures I’m seeing, what is the other one?
I’m only familiar with the 1000 litre liquid ones, from work and farming applications. Below that would be drums in various sizes up to 200 litres; above it tends to be permanently-installed tankage rather than transportable units. Maybe your source includes the bigger drums among the ‘Intermediate Bulk Containers’?
There is no way a 15lbs pallet is going to support 2400lbs. A wooden stringer pallet that can support 1mt (2200lbs) usually weighs 20-40kg (44-88lbs). Standard CHEP pallets weigh about 40kg. Lightweight plastic pallets may weigh 15lbs, but they can’t support 2400lbs, probably half that weight.
i work in a warehouse, and i put a ton of stuff on a cheap, battered pine pallet 381 inches up in the air every day. they’re fine.
as a professional forklift operator myself, i can tell you those big tanks also slosh around a lot!
“Did you do something different with the back of your knees?”
Not sure that’s a winner.
I’m sure she will remember you. for a day or two.