[speakeasy]

Worst job on the planet perhaps? A sewer diver in India. They get paid $6 to dive into the sewer and unplug drains. 70% of them die on the job:

http://www.scubaherald.com/the-dirtiest-job-ever/

[Excelsior]

[Apollo]

Eat your fucking heart out, Mike Rowe.

Dude is literally up to his neck in shit everyday. What a god-awful place to live.

[Tuthmosis]

   

[Katatonic]

Sewer Diver > Intern at Jezebel

[soup]

Can someone please prove that India is not retarded in general? I've been seeing way too much stuff lately that makes it look like Ghandi was an asshole, and that these people might have suffered severe brain problems from mal-nutrition.

Example number one- I was playing a gig at a place owned and operated by people from India, and they didn't have my pay ready (which is the norm at most places). I almost got into a fight with the manager.

Example two - IRT

Example Three - a country that makes diving into shit a plausible way to make money.

[Nonpareil]

(02-20-2013 03:30 AM)soup Wrote:  

Example Three - a country that makes diving into shit a plausible way to make money.

Maybe there's white girls down there?

[speakeasy]

That youtube channel Wild films India has tons of crazy shit from India. Was just browsing around and saw this. Wow...

[thebassist]

(02-20-2013 03:30 AM)soup Wrote:  

Can someone please prove that India is not retarded in general? I've been seeing way too much stuff lately that makes it look like Ghandi was an asshole, and that these people might have suffered severe brain problems from mal-nutrition.

Example number one- I was playing a gig at a place owned and operated by people from India, and they didn't have my pay ready (which is the norm at most places). I almost got into a fight with the manager.

Example two - IRT

Example Three - a country that makes diving into shit a plausible way to make money.

It's called extreme poverty, and a history of corruption and bureaucracy.

Did not appreciate the insane amount of generalisation in this post.

[rdvirus]

You can't slap a label on a whole race.. We all know how that goes. I've had my fair share of problems with Indians but the same shit goes for people of my own fuckin race lol.

Makes me understand why there's so many recently immigrated Indians eager to do the jobs I regard as complete shit... It beats literally swimming in shit risking your life lol. A lot of these guys put themselves through school working for minimum wage and do a hell of a lot better then the majority of us born here..

[Ruxman]

The result of a poorer sewerage system, gotta send a guy in to literally unplug it, rather than see the blockage happening on some expensive digital display.

[Matt3B]

(02-20-2013 03:39 AM)speakeasy Wrote:  

That youtube channel Wild films India has tons of crazy shit from India. Was just browsing around and saw this. Wow...

I think they did an episode with them on WildBoyz.

[Kitsune]

Someone needs to write into Jezebel right now because I bet women are under-represented in this industry. We need some quotas for this.

[vinman]

Eww!

[Moma]

why do most of them die? I didn't see his head go under. Is it the possible exposure to infection from the shyt from a population of over 1 billion people?

[Aliblahba]

(02-20-2013 09:12 AM)Moma Wrote:  

why do most of them die? I didn't see his head go under. Is it the possible exposure to infection from the shyt from a population of over 1 billion people?

I saw a show years ago about a ex military diver that dove into shit tanks to repair. He was in a full dry suit, and the decon procedures in place when exiting were impressive. Even then the risk of infection was high, and he was tested frequently for hep C among others. A big concern he had was getting his wife and kids sick. Dude was making a hell of a lot more than $6 per hour.

It's funny how we like to bitch about the Western World, but fuck, diving in shit water like that? I'll take feminism over that job in a heartbeat.

[Parlay44]

(02-20-2013 09:12 AM)Moma Wrote:  

why do most of them die? I didn't see his head go under. Is it the possible exposure to infection from the shyt from a population of over 1 billion people?

Can't be so bad. Most of them are vegetarians aren't they?

[Quintus Flaminius]

(02-20-2013 04:39 AM)thebassist Wrote:  

(02-20-2013 03:30 AM)soup Wrote:  

Can someone please prove that India is not retarded in general? I've been seeing way too much stuff lately that makes it look like Ghandi was an asshole, and that these people might have suffered severe brain problems from mal-nutrition.

Example number one- I was playing a gig at a place owned and operated by people from India, and they didn't have my pay ready (which is the norm at most places). I almost got into a fight with the manager.

Example two - IRT

Example Three - a country that makes diving into shit a plausible way to make money.

It's called extreme poverty, and a history of corruption and bureaucracy.

Did not appreciate the insane amount of generalisation in this post.

Nah, he has a very valid question, my parents would put the Amish to shame, as far as conformity to fucked up shit is concerned.
Poverty and corruption are symptoms, fucked up ethics are the disease.
That being said, putting all of us into one category is like saying that Egypt and Somalia are one race, I can assure you that they are most certainly not.
I'd say Swedes and Sicilians have more in common than any given Indian ethnic groups.

[Double Salad]

India is one of the few countries of the world, in which I have ZERO interest in visiting. Its not just poverty and corruption, but its also Hinduism on top of it all.



http://www.chinasmack.com/2010/pictures/...tions.html

No thanks.

[GameTheory]

i think that dude is a Dalit, so swimming in crap for a lousy 6 bucks for him is a step up in his world

[GameTheory]

(02-20-2013 09:17 AM)Aliblahba Wrote:  

(02-20-2013 09:12 AM)Moma Wrote:  

why do most of them die? I didn't see his head go under. Is it the possible exposure to infection from the shyt from a population of over 1 billion people?

I saw a show years ago about a ex military diver that dove into shit tanks to repair. He was in a full dry suit, and the decon procedures in place when exiting were impressive. Even then the risk of infection was high, and he was tested frequently for hep C among others. A big concern he had was getting his wife and kids sick. Dude was making a hell of a lot more than $6 per hour.

It's funny how we like to bitch about the Western World, but fuck, diving in shit water like that? I'll take feminism over that job in a heartbeat.

at least you can hose off crap. i still remember mixing it up with femiNazis from back in 1994 as if it were yesterday

[le prince perdu]

(02-20-2013 08:09 PM)Double Salad Wrote:  

India is one of the few countries of the world, in which I have ZERO interest in visiting. Its not just poverty and corruption, but its also Hinduism on top of it all.



http://www.chinasmack.com/2010/pictures/...tions.html

No thanks.

The pictures on that website are just discussing,

How can people take a bath with a decomposing body next to them?
Dogs eating dead people?

Wtf is wrong with them?

[Vacancier Permanent]

Damn, that's depressing to see that little kid doing that kind of shitty job.
A guy I know said that India makes Manila look like Tokyo and Manila has been the biggest shit hole I've been to. Says it all really...

[Therapsid]

Everything you've heard that's sickening or horrific about India is true.

Yet it's also a beautiful and interesting place.

For example, if you were ever intrigued by ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome - here's the one remaining pagan civilization.

If you wonder how hundreds of millions of poor people can nevertheless manage to live together, that's India. India belies the widespread Western belief that poverty means high rates of homicide. In fact, the incidence of murder in India is low. India has gruesome pogroms and riots, yet most of the time functions oddly enough. What country as enormous and poor as India would have essentially maintained a democracy since the late 40's?

[bojangles]

(02-21-2013 01:10 AM)Therapsid Wrote:  

Everything you've heard that's sickening or horrific about India is true.

Yet it's also a beautiful and interesting place.

For example, if you were ever intrigued by ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome - here's the one remaining pagan civilization.

If you wonder how hundreds of millions of poor people can nevertheless manage to live together, that's India. India belies the widespread Western belief that poverty means high rates of homicide. In fact, the incidence of murder in India is low. India has gruesome pogroms and riots, yet most of the time functions oddly enough. What country as enormous and poor as India would have essentially maintained a democracy since the late 40's?

It was never one country, that was the problem, it's not really pagan, it's just where the Eastern religions started. (Western ones being the Abrahamic - Judaism, Christianity and Islam). The Brits were the first to fully conquer India from the Hindu Kush to Burma, from Kashmir to Sri Lanka. India's history is just weird as fuck, they've invented shit load of things but the caste system sort of kept the country in check, but when that was abolished, it's just led to more greed, corruption and even more poverty.