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Dave Daveson

@davemayhem.bsky.social

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Makes science TV shows for a living and still cant believe it's a real job. Draws pinup, mixes cocktails and mucks about on bikes for fun. Significantly cooler thanks to AC. He/Him

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Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · May 9

It's finally live! I was lucky enough to get to work with an amazing team and help make this show a reality. Essentially the same team behind the award winning Horrible Histories (but with added me). Its the same mix of sketches, songs and more fart jokes you can sniff at but now with more science!

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Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 1h

The old Jesus is very cross.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 1h

As I say, this is a general comment on poor management. Please do not think this is an attempt to minimise your experiences. I have no reason to think your explanation is anything but correct and even less of a wish to contradict you.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 1h

It's easy to think that all bad managers know exactly what they are doing when they cause harm to their staff. Sadly the opposite is more often true. Mostly they just have no idea that they are bad and would be horrified if they really understood the wider consequences of their actions.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 1h

If the person isn't trained properly, allowed to make small mistakes and fix them before they become big mistakes, it's incredibly hard to learn the skills required. As with many skills, poor training leads to bad habits which become ingrained.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 1h

Thats not to say poor managers are blameless. Far from it, they are still responsible for their actions. It's more an attempt to explain the cause of their poor decisions.

Being a good manager requires a level of self reflection which is neither natural for most of us, nor an easy skill to learn.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 1h

Often the last is the root of the problem. Being a good manager is hard and takes time to learn. Many companies never put the training and mentorship in place to support their managers. They promote people who were good at their role or popular with their managers irrespective of management skills.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 1h

It's entirely possible, I obviously cant speak for your experiences. That said, Ive seen far too many managers do what you describe for them all to be narcissists. Often its a combination of wanting to impress their peers/superiors, a fear of being found out, laziness and simple ignorance.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 3h

Look I get it. You don't actually understand how positive pressure works. You can stop now.

If the extra air you put into the system, be it a stair well or frog suit, is actively contaminated then the positive pressure makes things worse.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 3h

It was pressurised with the contaminants inside. FFS mate this isn't F1 race car levels of fluid dynamics. The suit itself is essentially a filter bag that keeps contaminants inside!

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 3h

You keep saying it's pressurised as if that means something important. Positive pressure is used in clean rooms to stop dust getting in. Of course that only works because the air blown in is first passed through filters to clean it. If you dont filter it positive pressure itself doesnt do anything.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 3h

Unless there is a filter in that suit then capsicum vapour is reaching him and he's giving it william large potatoes.
Unless you think a liquid sprayed into a fan, thus definitely causing more of a mist inside, will immediately ignore the laws of physics and drop out of suspension.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 3h

The vapour does not need to come through the fabric of the suit when there's a fan actively drawing in air inside. The position of the fan is largely irrelevant as long as the air pressure can support the fans mass.
The air drawn in gets everywhere because if it didn't the head wouldn't inflate.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 3h

Any mist fine enough to be suspended in the air has particles small enough remain suspended and be moved through the entire suit by the fan inside. The air pressure is higher inside explicitly because it's actively drawing in potentially contaminated air. Any airborne irritants will reach your head

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 3h

The use case that contradicts my "theory" is a single case where the majority of shots fired did not burst because they bounced of the softly inflated suite.
If sufficient shots were instead fired at the feet then that mist would be drawn into the suit and concentrated in there.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 3h

I have also worn one when someone has blown a vape cloud near the fan. The suit very quickly filled with the smoke to the point I had to take it off.

I am speaking from first hand knowledge here.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 3h

There is breeze inside, thats what I've been trying to explain. You can feel it when you wear one. There is a fan blowing air into the suit constantly, it's the only thing that keeps the suit inflated. Said fan is circulating the air inside. I have worn such costumes, I know first hand.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 6h

That air intake will draw in anything in the air around it, it will get circulated and it will cause irritation if irritants are in the air.
That includes airborne spray from pepper balls aimed at the ground in front of them or impacted of people around them.

Direct hits are not the issue.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 6h

the suits work by drawing in air from the outside via a battery powered fan in the suit. The suit itself is a thin fabric that leaks so the fan, similar to a PC cooling fan, has to be on constantly flowing air in and around the suit inflating it as quick as it goes down.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 6h

The wearer of such a costume wouldn't have to wear the respirator fully but loosely to be more comfortable over extended periods. Should someone in such a costume become more concerned about atmospheric conditions then tightening the respirator will ease such worries.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 6h

Purely theoretically speaking, inflatable costumes are vulnerable to drawing in and concentrating elements from the outside atmosphere inside the costume. Should the occupant be concerned about possible atmospheric conditions, it would an idea to wear a full face respirator with appropriate filters.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 6h

The singer and songwriter for Carter U.S.M Jim Bob, has to be one of the most unfairly overlooked great lyricists. Sharp, witty, insightful, dripping in sarcasm yet often managing to be hopeful ,even whilst covering difficult subjects. Carter deserved to be heard by far more people.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 12h

There’s a good chance they won’t have even have heard of it tbh. It was invented in a Bangladeshi restaurant in Birmingham I think.

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Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 12h

Honestly is a different level of spice to Tabasco or peri peri chillis. It doesn’t even taste good. Not worth the effort. Sounds like you’d enjoy a madras’s, vindaloo or a couple of Nepalese curries tho.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 12h

Personally I don't think a Phaal actually tastes good, but then I suppose flavour isnt the point. whilst I will happily plow through a madrasa or a proper sour vindaloo but Phaals just take the piss. I don't want to have to put a roll of toilet roll in the fridge for the next morning.

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Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 12h

Nandos X-hot isn't exactly brutal, kinda madras or vindaloo level. Like cheeky but not insolent. The chef's cooking a Phaal have to wear respirators. The whole thing was made to shut up the "Whats the hottest thing on the menu" lads.

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