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- MiltonWaddams, on 01/06/2008, -6/+152Big deal. When I was a kid the bricks I had to carry on my head had "NBMUTRSHGWIHSBCSLJMES" printed on them. "NBM" bricks are for pussies.
- MikeonTV, on 01/06/2008, -1/+107Actually my job is quite calm. Thank you for showing an interest in it.
- alan784, on 01/06/2008, -9/+100If someone asked me to do that for a job I think I just might ***** bricks at the thought.
- Elvises, on 01/06/2008, -5/+85This high quality color picture was taken previous to the invention of the wheelbarrow? Amazing.
- inactive, on 01/06/2008, -2/+57Perfect for a headache pain reliever commercial
- inactive, on 01/06/2008, -0/+53OWPC (One Wheelbarrow Per Child)
- CasinoJack, on 01/06/2008, -6/+57Chiropractors must be raking it in over there.
- inactive, on 01/06/2008, -1/+44Tetris IRL
- iDiggIt42, on 01/06/2008, -0/+43Apply directly to the forehead!
- Fikiman, on 01/06/2008, -1/+37no offence buddy, but I bet that kid now wants to play squash with your balls...
- BaxterK, on 01/06/2008, -1/+33Ahh, childhood, this looks like a Norman Rockwell painting.
- Renton, on 01/06/2008, -0/+29There has to be a better way to do that...
- damnitdaniel, on 01/06/2008, -1/+28Stack bricks.
- gradivus, on 01/06/2008, -6/+32Do these people not have wheels or arms? Wheel barrows,or wooden carts would VASTLY improve their productivity.
//these people have issues - affanjam, on 01/06/2008, -3/+27I wanna play Jenga on that kids head!
- Jonsey, on 01/06/2008, -2/+25Apply directly to the forehead!
- smpx, on 01/06/2008, -2/+24Because when you get paid 4 cents an hour you're first instinct is to blow it on a $120 chiropractor appointment.
- dignity, on 01/06/2008, -3/+21I was trying to find if there are any more pics, and found this - http://webmaster.zattevrienden.be/01/Misc/
lot of naughty stuf... - lhbaker, on 01/06/2008, -6/+23I'd like to see his reaction to a picture of me, in my Dockers and Oxford, toiling away in my featureless cube, itself unremarkable among hundreds of other cubes, without a window in sight, trying like hell not to fall asleep at my desk. There's a lot to be said for hard work and sunshine.
- Skanadian, on 01/06/2008, -1/+18Hey guys, check it out, there's an image section now!
- rfm1, on 01/06/2008, -0/+15I worked construction in a tropical third world country. We expanded a concrete pump station. We poured the concrete by using 5 gallon bucket to go fromthe truck to the forms - biggest pour was 30 yards using 6 people.
About your comment on the wheelbarrow - we used sledge hammers to break up the old building foundation and walls. Pure brute force. We also manually compacted the dirt for the floor. Howeevr, 300 yards away the company had both jackhammers and gas powered thumpers. Unfortunately it was cheaper for the company to pay us to do it by hand than to use the power equipment. Which may be the case in this picture (though a wheelbarrow should be plenty cheap).
I've lived in India and seen the sub-foundation for roads being built by gangs of ladies placing one stone at a time - nothing mechanized. It may seem foolish to you but it can be cheaper for a company to use purely manual methods rather than anythin mechanical. I'm fortunate to have a better life and feel for those trapped in that poverty. - npsken, on 01/06/2008, -0/+15Apply directly to the forehead!
- S1ngular1ty1, on 01/06/2008, -0/+14Fine print:
Note, may cause diarrhea, nausea, numbness, paralysis, or even death. Please consult a doctor before using. - NeoCortex, on 01/06/2008, -1/+15Plus it was snowing, and we were building a wall uphill.
- techolous, on 01/06/2008, -0/+13Apply directly to the forehead!
- mdaize, on 01/06/2008, -0/+12Jenga anyone?
- damnitdaniel, on 01/06/2008, -4/+16ummm... It's a picture.
- Unreal595, on 01/06/2008, -0/+12Apply directly to the forehead!
- inactive, on 01/06/2008, -0/+12Apply directly to the forehead!
- affanjam, on 01/06/2008, -2/+13I dugg you up.
Well played. - Disease, on 01/06/2008, -3/+13That's not as fun as making kids balance things on their heads.
- Cink420, on 01/06/2008, -0/+10I bet you'd ***** bricks if someone told you MrBabyMan still doesn't use the pictures section either though.
- TheSarf, on 01/06/2008, -0/+10Indian kids (The boy's name is Akash). With all the poverty there, kids work cheap labor like this everyday. I guess they need wheelbarrows.
- himenohogosha, on 01/06/2008, -3/+13wthell?
- kyouteki, on 01/06/2008, -1/+11C-C-C-C-Combo Breaker!!!!!
- alexdemers, on 01/06/2008, -0/+10When you'll find out, you'll ***** bricks.
- bullsfan03, on 01/06/2008, -1/+10read the printing on the bricks from the picture.
- crazybugger, on 01/06/2008, -2/+11Yes. Its very painful to see kids losing their childhood.
- codyman, on 01/06/2008, -0/+9You would think the wheel would be in widespread use by now...
- ordig, on 01/06/2008, -2/+11Can you walk around with bricks stacked on your head?
- dajota, on 01/06/2008, -3/+12screw One laptop per child, we need one wheel barrow per child
- thesonofdarwin, on 01/06/2008, -1/+9Your site requires me to enable Javascript. Stop using javascript so Script Blocker won't block it. Now, kindly ***** off and die.
- calon9, on 01/06/2008, -0/+8They are manual laborers in India, and yes their life does suck. I've been there. I've volunteered there. I've seen it. I was in a village in the northern part of the country (in a state called HP). There, most of the manual laborers came in from Nepal. The children who came over were either orphans, or their parents were too poor to support them so they asked them to leave or kicked them out, hence the necessity to work as manual laborers, for enough money to buy a meal a day or every second day and sleep out on the street.
I went there as a volunteer for an organization which collected info on bride burning and abuse, child labor, and infanticide.
Yes, a child laborer's life in India may be better than the bottom 5% of the population there. But the bottom portion of our population has comforts, rights, health, food and stability miles ahead of any or all of them... and that is not a patronizing assumption, just a fact. - shankarganesh, on 01/06/2008, -5/+13it's many people's day job in India. they carry things in a construction sites like this. they get really low wages. and I'm guessing the people in the picture are Indians?
- jmgarrison, on 01/06/2008, -1/+8The picture section is for pictures...
- evilesttoast, on 01/06/2008, -1/+8bigger bricks
- Ramble, on 01/06/2008, -2/+9Well, they need to progress to the next technological age and then research it at the town centre first.
- CloseTheCode, on 01/06/2008, -2/+9That actually takes a fair amount of skill. Credit to them!
- inactive, on 01/06/2008, -5/+12That's nothing, they're just setting the bricks up, then I come in and break them all with my forehead.
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