# These blast furnaces **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 11, 2014, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-blast-furnaces/681097 "2014-02-11T23:05:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![compositejoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/compositejoe/32/7232_2.png) [@compositejoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/compositejoe)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-blast-furnaces/681097/1 "2014-02-11T23:05:35Z")
What impression do you get of the blast furnaces in this picture? [https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ibvIDyw-JuM/T5FA-snf4TI/AAAAAAAACWI/ioWtOMm0KIY/w506-h281-o/Blast-furnaces-hi.jpg](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ibvIDyw-JuM/T5FA-snf4TI/AAAAAAAACWI/ioWtOMm0KIY/w506-h281-o/Blast-furnaces-hi.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-blast-furnaces/681097/2 "2014-02-12T00:03:22Z")
> [@compositejoe](#): > > What impression do you get of the blast furnaces in this picture? “I think I saw those in Saints Row III”. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-blast-furnaces/681097/3 "2014-02-12T00:12:36Z")
I get the feeling that’s it’s just compositejoe asking another odd question about a picture that he already knows the answer to. > **[This picture taken from a field](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=715283)** > > Look at this picture: https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/t31/q84/s720x720/921380\_10200627325366002\_872338950\_o.jpg and what impression do you get of the building with the straight arm coming out of the side into another structure?... > **[What do you think could be inside this building?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=714936)** > > The building in this picture I am about to mention is actually to do with a steel making plant:... > **[This gas holder](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=713222)** > > Look at the gas holder in this picture: http://i44.tinypic.com/2mx4z5t.jpg and what is the impression you get of it? Also, would it be something you would be happy to get a view of from your backyard and/or bedroom window everyday? > **[What type of place do you think this corridor could be located in?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=708030)** > > I was browsing Google and happened to come across this picture: http://www.deadendwaterfall.com/exploration/random\_corridor\_greyred.jpg I don’t know where or what kind of place the corridor is located in, but I wanted your opinion on what kind of... > **[What type of place do you think this staircase could be based in?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=711418)** > > What type of place, for example a hospital or a school etc do you think the staircase in this picture: https://scontent-a-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/q71/s720x720/1530553\_1433739103522087\_1912775876\_n.jpg could be based in? > **[What is your opinion on this department store?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=679102)** > > Hey guys, I was wondering what are your impressions on the department store shown in this video clip? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05TAFhcUPiw I did not make this video, one of my friends did, and it is a department store in the UK, and the video... > **[What opinion do you have on this workplace](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=652430)** > > In the late 1990s, I visited one of my friends in the United Kingdom and they showed me around their workplace. The place that they worked at was an electricity board company. The workplace from the outside looked like this:... How about you tell us why you’re doing this. It’s weird. ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-blast-furnaces/681097/4 "2014-02-12T07:20:30Z")
That the pic is found in a post “Can I sue one of the Scunthorpe steelworks blast furnaces?” ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-blast-furnaces/681097/5 "2014-02-12T14:24:27Z")
Industry! Men building products to be used by American families! A nation… _on the move!_ ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-blast-furnaces/681097/6 "2014-02-12T14:49:56Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I get the feeling that’s it’s just compositejoe asking another odd question about a picture that he already knows the answer to. > > [This picture taken from a field - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=715283) > [What do you think could be inside this building? - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=714936) > [This gas holder - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=713222) > [What type of place do you think this corridor could be located in? - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=708030) > [What type of place do you think this staircase could be based in? - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=711418) > [What is your opinion on this department store? - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=679102) > [What opinion do you have on this workplace - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=652430) > > How about you tell us why you’re doing this. It’s weird. Well, that’s bizarre. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-blast-furnaces/681097/7 "2014-02-12T16:19:49Z")
My brother the psych professor used to send me images and short paragraphs with the same sort of “What do you see here?” queries, as part of whatever project or evaluation he was working on at the time. I suspect a similar motivation in compjoe. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-blast-furnaces/681097/8 "2014-02-12T17:00:28Z")
Triangular ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-blast-furnaces/681097/9 "2014-02-12T17:46:06Z")
It makes me want to listen to some Pink Floyd. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-blast-furnaces/681097/10 "2014-02-12T18:27:47Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > It makes me want to listen to some Pink Floyd. I did think the same thing when I saw it, but I wanted to dig up all those other posts instead of playing his game. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-blast-furnaces/681097/11 "2014-02-12T18:40:40Z")
Well, I did just finish The Dark Side of the Moon. But it’s just not the same when it’s sunny and in the low 80’s. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-blast-furnaces/681097/12 "2014-02-12T19:28:41Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I get the feeling that’s it’s just compositejoe asking another odd question about a picture that he already knows the answer to. > > [This picture taken from a field - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=715283) > [What do you think could be inside this building? - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=714936) > [This gas holder - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=713222) > [What type of place do you think this corridor could be located in? - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=708030) > [What type of place do you think this staircase could be based in? - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=711418) > [What is your opinion on this department store? - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=679102) > [What opinion do you have on this workplace - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=652430) > > How about you tell us why you’re doing this. It’s weird. He seems to be increasing in frequency. Clearly the end times are upon us. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-blast-furnaces/681097/13 "2014-02-12T20:18:37Z")
That they are made out of some kind of metal, probably steel. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-blast-furnaces/681097/14 "2014-02-12T20:27:03Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > How about you tell us why you’re doing this. It’s weird. Psych project? ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-blast-furnaces/681097/15 "2014-02-12T21:58:10Z")
> [@compositejoe](#): > > What impression do you get of the blast furnaces in this picture? [https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ibvIDyw-JuM/T5FA-snf4TI/AAAAAAAACWI/ioWtOMm0KIY/w506-h281-o/Blast-furnaces-hi.jpg](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ibvIDyw-JuM/T5FA-snf4TI/AAAAAAAACWI/ioWtOMm0KIY/w506-h281-o/Blast-furnaces-hi.jpg) They look like my mother with whom I’ve had a rough relationship with ever since she gave away my chicken nuggets to a neighbor kid to impress his mother making me have buried feelings of inadequacy in my adult life and explaining my hatred of chickens ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-blast-furnaces/681097/16 "2014-02-12T22:14:52Z")
Many years ago, driving west across northern Indiana toward Chicago would have you recalling a sad joke. "When the sky turns yellow and the smell changes, you know you’re in Da Region. Today, most of the steel mills are gone, and the air is much better there. ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-blast-furnaces/681097/17 "2014-02-12T22:43:47Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > Many years ago, driving west across northern Indiana toward Chicago would have you recalling a sad joke. "When the sky turns yellow and the smell changes, you know you’re in Da Region. Today, most of the steel mills are gone, and the air is much better there. You reminded me of a passage from Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex that really resonated with me, since it’s set in my stomping grounds of Detroit’s east side: > [@](#): > > We were having one of our pink nights. They happened every so often, depending on temperature and the level of chemicals in the air. When particulate matter in the atmosphere was sufficient, light from the ground got trapped and reflected back, and the entire Detroit sky would become the soft pink of cotton candy. It never got dark on pink nights, but the light was nothing like daytime. Our pink nights glowed with the raw luminescence of the night shift, of factories running around the clock. Sometimes the sky would become as bright as Pepto-Bismol, but more often it was a muted, a fabric-softener color. Nobody thought it was strange. Nobody said anything about it. We had all grown up with pink nights. They were not a natural phenomenon, but they were natural to us. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-blast-furnaces/681097/18 "2014-02-13T03:57:10Z")
I must be in Pittsburgh!