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Y'all watchin Landman yet?
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I started binge watching the 1st season this week.
Unfortunately, tonight was the episode with Jerry in it, giving his "I love working with my family" speech.
I think I'm actually feeling a little ill after listening to that.
Unfortunately, tonight was the episode with Jerry in it, giving his "I love working with my family" speech.
I think I'm actually feeling a little ill after listening to that.
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He did a cameo telling Jon Hamm and Billy Bob to hang in there, then talked all about how his entire purpose with the Cowboys was to work with generations of his family. It was quite revealing.
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I was struck with the dangers that men faced to keep drilling oil out of the ground so that I can keep enjoying life, all of the things that oil is made into, plastics, etc., and the least of which is gasoline, so that I can drive a car in times of the day and places when it's not rush hour traffic, the kind in DFW that can be torturous.
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It's danged akrit. Speaking as a former Roustabout.
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Only thing he gets wrong here is saying we're running out of oil. That's based on the silly fiction that crude oil is a fossil fuel. It's not, we find oil at depths much deeper than any fossil could ever be. But this is highly informative nonetheless.
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He had only a short cameo.
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ruined it forever then
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Actually it was quite telling.
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Landman scared the shit out of me last night with the new episode.
It opened out on the prairie we're watching six dudes in a halftrack hunting wild boar. They scare one up, it runs. They're extremely agile and fast, so the outcome is far from certain - the boar has a better than average chance of getting away.
Pip. Pip. PipPip one of the guys is shooting and making it even more sporting, he's using a .22 caliber Marlin semiautomatic long rifle. Gonna take multiple hits with this and in the right places, to drop a boar.
But up ahead, drop it does and the halftrack stops and the shooter runs up to claim his prize. He stands over the boar, hands on hips, and starts coughing. First a little, then violently as he then falls forward, and collapses on the hog.
His cohorts seeing this, all run to him thinking heart attack. He was a portly dude, after all.
They get near him and start coughing too and within seconds, all are collapsed. The camera pans straight up and we see the dead men below.... and hundreds of hogs dead all in a crescent like formation, then the camera turns slightly and we see a long abandoned, extremely rusty pump jack and the picture fades to black as the main title is shown...
I didn't understand at first but then two seconds later it hit me - hydrogen sulfide gas! One of the deadliest most lethal substances on the planet and a not uncommon result of oil production. And what scared me? I'd forgotten all about it!
Must have just buried that information in my subconscious mind. In my former job as a Roustabout, I was on the cutting edge of that danger daily and had to wear a H2S detector at all times. Only ever ran into it once and the concentration was way below harmful but will never forget the smell. The rottenest rotten egg smell there is. Then it goes away suddenly because the first thing hydrogen sulfide does is kill your sense of smell completely.
Anyway... It's scary shit. Rest of the episode was scary too as a rigging crew was checking a decommissioned field which oops happened to be this very one. The wind kept changing and since H2S is heavier than air they had to don their SCUBA while bazooka barfing when the wind blew the gas to them....
It opened out on the prairie we're watching six dudes in a halftrack hunting wild boar. They scare one up, it runs. They're extremely agile and fast, so the outcome is far from certain - the boar has a better than average chance of getting away.
Pip. Pip. PipPip one of the guys is shooting and making it even more sporting, he's using a .22 caliber Marlin semiautomatic long rifle. Gonna take multiple hits with this and in the right places, to drop a boar.
But up ahead, drop it does and the halftrack stops and the shooter runs up to claim his prize. He stands over the boar, hands on hips, and starts coughing. First a little, then violently as he then falls forward, and collapses on the hog.
His cohorts seeing this, all run to him thinking heart attack. He was a portly dude, after all.
They get near him and start coughing too and within seconds, all are collapsed. The camera pans straight up and we see the dead men below.... and hundreds of hogs dead all in a crescent like formation, then the camera turns slightly and we see a long abandoned, extremely rusty pump jack and the picture fades to black as the main title is shown...
I didn't understand at first but then two seconds later it hit me - hydrogen sulfide gas! One of the deadliest most lethal substances on the planet and a not uncommon result of oil production. And what scared me? I'd forgotten all about it!
Must have just buried that information in my subconscious mind. In my former job as a Roustabout, I was on the cutting edge of that danger daily and had to wear a H2S detector at all times. Only ever ran into it once and the concentration was way below harmful but will never forget the smell. The rottenest rotten egg smell there is. Then it goes away suddenly because the first thing hydrogen sulfide does is kill your sense of smell completely.
Anyway... It's scary shit. Rest of the episode was scary too as a rigging crew was checking a decommissioned field which oops happened to be this very one. The wind kept changing and since H2S is heavier than air they had to don their SCUBA while bazooka barfing when the wind blew the gas to them....