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Got Yer' Gory Soviet Work Safety Posters, Here

Radley Balko | 1.19.2011 1:23 AM

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Radley Balko is a journalist at The Washington Post.

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  1. anarch   14 years ago

    Alt text caption contest:

    But Comrade Jefferson say Tree of Liberty must be... Oh, wait.

    1. anarch   14 years ago

      And for the third one:

      Buffering...

    2. Cunctator   14 years ago

      I'm guessing most of you have never worked in an industrial environment. Years ago, these same types of posters were common in American workplaces. I've attended "Safety Meetings" where films were shown using cadaver parts to simulate injuries, i.e. crushed body parts, severed limbs, burns etc.

      Nothing too special here.

  2. Menthols Washington   14 years ago

    So, the Soviet Union was filled with extreme Three Stooges enthusiasts?

  3. damaged justice   14 years ago

    "No, comrade! Deeper! How do you expect me to receive my disability payments with such trifling wounds?

  4. ?   14 years ago

    It's the mark of the Kochtpo?o.

  5. ?   14 years ago

    o

  6. SugarFree   14 years ago

    "Comrade! You have stabbed me!"

    "Why are we using pitchforks in a mine? It's dark as fuck in here, dude."

    1. The Sheep   14 years ago

      D-

      1. SugarFree   14 years ago

        Fuck off, you bipolar attention whore.

        1. Ron   14 years ago

          Say that to his face once your blog gets OVER ONE THOUSAND VIEWS!!!11!!!

          I live in NYC and a thousand people saw my face just this morning. Does that make me a successful model?

          1. SugarFree   14 years ago

            A+, Ron.

            1. Rather   14 years ago

              Are you in some fucking diabetic-induced imbecility?
              Ron, you're just stupid

        2. The Sheep   14 years ago

          You take criticism very well.

          1. SugarFree   14 years ago

            I'm not feeding you anymore, trolly.

            1. The Sheep   14 years ago

              But you will again, eventually. It's inevitable. I'm in your head now.

              Tick...tick...tick...

              1. Rather   14 years ago

                I love you sheep and bonus: I'm the only one here NOT thinking of fucking you in the ass!

                1. The Sheep   14 years ago

                  How do I tell SugarFree that fat, short and pimply is not my type? Dear SugarFree, if you're reading this, baaa-aa-ack off.

                  1. Rather   14 years ago

                    fat, short and pimply is not your type? Now you made the rest of these little boys cry! Sheep, why do you hate fat, short and pimply Reasonoids?

                    1. Reasonoid   14 years ago

                      Sheep love me! My pimples are only on my ass.

        3. joshua corning   14 years ago

          someone someday needs to explain to me the Rather hate.

          Is it real?

          Are you guys kidding around?

          If not what did rather do to cause such hatred?

          1. Rather   14 years ago

            Vagina and tits scare these boys every time

            1. Kant feel Pietzsche   14 years ago

              Just chlamydia-infested vaginas, and hairy mole-encrusted tits.

  7. Fist of Etiquette   14 years ago

    That's what they get for using pitchforks to plumb a column.

  8. Rather   14 years ago

    Holy shit I was looking at vintage posters last night in bed and I was writing about them today. Was that you next to me Radley? oh ya THANKS for the wake up 😉

    1. Warty   14 years ago

      Jesus, shut the fuck up, whore.

      1. Rather   14 years ago

        not a dirty whore? Lol

    2. Rather   14 years ago

      No wait, that's not Radley next to me, it's the rancid bum I picked up off the streets last night to smoke crack with.

      He just took a shit on me lol.

      1. The Sheep   14 years ago

        My blog is on fire!

        1. Rather   14 years ago

          Lol, you pissed off sugarfree-he didn't like his grade

          1. The Sheep   14 years ago

            He can fuck me. Again.

            1. Rather   14 years ago

              Do sheeps get freaked out when Reasonoids use sheep skinned condoms?

              1. Rather   14 years ago

                [sheep]

              2. The Sheep   14 years ago

                I hear most of them have to use strap-ons.

                1. How Sweet!   14 years ago

                  Just like their mommies!

  9. Ice Nine   14 years ago

    There are more than few Darwin Award slam dunks in there.

  10. Jesus   14 years ago

    Warty, I like whores.

    1. Mary Magdalene   14 years ago

      Come here Jesus; get your sweet ass over here

  11. Bee Tagger   14 years ago

    That's the Russian stigmata

    1. SugarFree   14 years ago

      Stigmata

  12. Rich   14 years ago

    I like the one with the wheelbarrow dropping fish. The Michelangeloesque hand eliminates possible confusion concerning the message.

  13. SugarFree   14 years ago

    I like the one with the guy being attacked by remorseless, cybernetic monochrome Pac-men. "Wakka-wakka-wakka," indeed.

  14. Name Nomad   14 years ago

    Remember, comrade: any injury you do to yourself that makes you less able to work is damaging state property. All violators will be prosecuted.

  15. Hibbert   14 years ago

    Karl Malone doesn't like the look of Louis Gosset Jr's puncture wound.

    1. Jill   14 years ago

      Nice Malone 3rd person FTW.

  16. Death Panelist   14 years ago

    Vampire leprechauns. They're everywhere.

  17. Spoonman.   14 years ago

    "Shit, maybe if we worked for the capitalist I wouldn't have to carry man-size containers of dangerous chemicals on my back in a wicker basket."

  18. Yakov   14 years ago

    In Soviet Russia, fork pitches you!

  19. West Texas   14 years ago

    It literally says, "take care with pitchforks!"

  20. petronius   14 years ago

    When I was a kid living near the railroad yards, they wouold distribute little comic books about how dangerous the trains were. they had pictures of kids being run down by loose flatcars, losing and eye when they set off a railroad torpedo (essentially a big percussion cap used as a warning signal) and other gory scenes. It was fun!

    1. cmace   14 years ago

      Railroad torpedoes were fun. I still have all my fingers and eyes.

  21. P Brooks   14 years ago

    Vampire leprechauns. They're everywhere.

    This (for whatever reason) is one of the funniest comments ever.

    Thank you.

  22. JD the elder   14 years ago

    Of course, they missed one of the big ones, namely, "Do not use Soviet equipment." (Not 100% joking there. A friend of mine, who emigrated from the USSR, has burn scars on one arm because his father was boiling water in a kettle, and when he lifted it, the handle broke off.)

  23. Yakov Smirnoff   14 years ago

    In soviet union we use pitchforks to shovel snow.

  24. ????? ??????   13 years ago

    Thanks

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