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Friday ONT: Toxic Masculinity Edition
All hands on deck! Drop your c**** and grab your socks, it's time for the ONT!
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Fun fact: I try not to curse above the fold, but down here it's rock out with your cock out, baby!
I Have No Idea Why She's Upset. There's Beer!
The accents really make the video. I can't even breathe I'm laughing so hard.pic.twitter.com/XmbeZbKfbW
— Sam Whiteout (@samwhiteout) July 24, 2018
To Protect AND SERVE Florida officer helps shave homeless man’s beard so he could get a job
I mentioned yesterday that I was in Ft. Worth all week. I was at a leadership conference, and I had the good fortune to spend some time with the CEO of my company. The man is a legend, he took a small, struggling company and turned it into an industry powerhouse, making hundreds of folks millionaires along the way. Then he retired, and a year or so later he did it again, coming out of retirement to resurrect another company that was even worse off than the first one, and less than a decade later, here we are again, right back on top (and beating the stuffing out of the first company that decided to go corporate after he left). I've know him for 20 years, and his success isn't due to superior intelligence, an ability to work harder than anyone else or a blinding charisma (although he has all of those things, in spades). No, his success is due to the culture that he instills everywhere he goes. It's in the company mission statement, a mission of H.O.P.E. (Helping Other People Everyday). He talks about service constantly. “Your income is the outcome”, he'll tell you, “The outcome of approaching everyone you meet with the attitude of trying to be of service to them”. The part that a lot of people, particularly our liberal friends, miss, is that having a servant's heart (as Sarah Palin put it), does not mean that you're subservient to anyone. Quite the opposite. You can be a fire-breathing Alpha male and still have a servant's heart. Like our friend the cop linked above. (BTW, we're hiring, if anyone needs a job drop me a line, my nic at gee, mail!) The Story of James Found this thread on Twitter, all about an intern named James.
James failed to realize that, even on Casual Friday, American flag tank tops still weren’t appropriate office attire. When we asked him to change, he came back in a tank top and tennis shoes because he thought his flip flops were the issue.Some pretty funny stuff. When you get down to people commenting on the thread it goes to the usual social media sinkhole, with some SJW folks bitter about James' “white privilege” or “male privilege” preventing him from getting fired (for what? There's nothing overtly “fireable” in the stories recounted, and only one thing I recall that might even be borderline). Didja ever notice that SJW types tend to demand acceptance of every single foible they have, while refusing to give any leeway to anyone else? I guess they never read Matthew 18: 21-35. Related: Justin Welby reimagines a poorer and less free Britain The Archbishop of Canterbury, for heaven's sake. The article is a great fisking of his nonsense, by the way. I wish I could have every collectivist in the world standing before me. I'd pound this truth into their empty heads: THERE.IS.NO.GREATER.GOOD. With a mace. The “greater good” is achieved by maximizing the number of individual goods in a society. It can never be imposed from above, no matter how wise, or smart or * spit * “compassionate” you think you are.
To his credit, James has a pretty incredible singing voice. Unfortunately, he’s only ever used it for renditions of “Careless Whisper” by George Michaels (sic) and Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” with dirty lyrics.
The Auschwitz Volunteer How many of you have heard of Witold Pilecki? If you haven't, you should make it a point to learn about a man who volunteered to go undercover as a prisoner in Auschwitz, and stayed there for 3 years. Tonight's ONT brought to you by good advice:
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: ALH at July 27, 2018 10:05 PM (8kkL4)
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Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at July 27, 2018 10:09 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 27, 2018 10:10 PM (nvpzs)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 27, 2018 10:10 PM (pUDQf)
Posted by: ALH at July 27, 2018 10:10 PM (8kkL4)
Posted by: Phineas at July 27, 2018 10:09 PM (gH4yp)
One cross each, line on the left.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 27, 2018 10:10 PM (CSNuj)
Posted by: ALH at July 27, 2018 10:10 PM (8kkL4
Is that really fair to dingbats?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 27, 2018 10:11 PM (pUDQf)
Nice ONT, WeirdDave. Thank'ee kindly.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2018 10:11 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: Phineas at July 27, 2018 10:09 PM (gH4yp)
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Welcome! Please jump right in with both feet in regards to posting.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at July 27, 2018 10:11 PM (YRtrf)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 27, 2018 10:11 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 27, 2018 10:10 PM (pUDQf)
Big Whoop. Women do that all the time.
Posted by: ALH at July 27, 2018 10:11 PM (8kkL4)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 27, 2018 10:11 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 27, 2018 10:11 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: latemarch a member of the rabble in good standing at July 27, 2018 10:12 PM (uqdlV)
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at July 27, 2018 10:12 PM (e9G8E)
Posted by: buzzion at July 27, 2018 10:12 PM (lKs2v)
I would prefer if you'd sign in Spencerian script, but I will leave it up to your judgement.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2018 10:12 PM (gUCYC)
Big Whoop. Women do that all the time.
Posted by: ALH at July 27, 2018 10:11 PM (8kkL4
Baloney. I have it on good source that women only go to the bathroom to have lesbian sex and apply makeup. But mostly lesbian sex.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 27, 2018 10:12 PM (pUDQf)
Posted by: Russian Pee Whore at July 27, 2018 10:12 PM (8O3HH)
Imagine what would happen if your condo caught on fire and your cats were trapped on the third floor and....the firefighters had no toxic masculinity, so they shrugged and suggested you plant some pretty herbs on the rubble/cats' ashes?
Posted by: Lizzy at July 27, 2018 10:12 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: buzzion at July 27, 2018 10:13 PM (lKs2v)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at July 27, 2018 10:13 PM (uDcBt)
I was hoping we'd get Wii girl again for the GDP number.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 27, 2018 10:13 PM (8O3HH)
Spoiler: it did not get him a horseman baby.
Posted by: hogmartin at July 27, 2018 10:13 PM (y87Qq)
On vacation having a late dinner of shrimp and grits and a tanker full of old fashioneds. Thoroughly enjoying watching wealthy old dudes hit on 40 or 50 something women unsuccessfully.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2018 10:14 PM (hF8iB)
Always do. 'Cept when I don't.
Never a sitzpinkler. I'll clean the mess, should one occur. But I shall never crouch to pee.
Ever.
For I am a man.
*Superman hands on hips, lantern jaw jutting, cape billowing*
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gentleman Drunkard at July 27, 2018 10:14 PM (EhZNT)
Gonna throw this in again: If you're going to the Texas MoMe, you need to start looking at accommodations NOW. Some area hotels are already full.
Posted by: creeper at July 27, 2018 10:15 PM (Wg5rG)
Posted by: AlaBAMA
Why not all three?
Posted by: Russian Pee Whore at July 27, 2018 10:15 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 27, 2018 10:15 PM (CSNuj)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2018 10:15 PM (gUCYC)
http://yourllbeanboyfriend.tumblr.com/
Unfortunately, she will be competing with *his* boyfriend, IYKWIM.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 27, 2018 10:16 PM (W+vEI)
Props to this cop for his act of charity, but let's be real.
Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at July 27, 2018 10:16 PM (rlQwD)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2018 10:15 PM (gUCYC
Posted by: Richard Gere at July 27, 2018 10:16 PM (pUDQf)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2018 10:15 PM (gUCYC)
I'm'a let someone else take that hangin' curve...
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 27, 2018 10:16 PM (+F0Wk)
Saturdays are the BEST!
Posted by: ALH at July 27, 2018 10:17 PM (8kkL4)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at July 27, 2018 10:17 PM (J88d5)
Posted by: qdp zsteve at July 27, 2018 10:17 PM (km8m2)
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And the Horde does not disappoint!
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 27, 2018 10:17 PM (+F0Wk)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2018 10:17 PM (gUCYC)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 27, 2018 10:18 PM (km8m2)
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 27, 2018 10:18 PM (zhyDM)
Hey how about Demi Lovato!!
Hey how about that moon landing!
Posted by: qdp steve at July 27, 2018 10:19 PM (km8m2)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 27, 2018 10:19 PM (i0s33)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 27, 2018 10:19 PM (km8m2)
Posted by: qdp "days late and dollars short" steve at July 27, 2018 10:19 PM (km8m2)
Posted by: Blutarski at July 27, 2018 10:20 PM (+Tibp)
Hey how about Demi Lovato!!
Hey how about that moon landing!
Posted by: qdp steve at July 27, 2018 10:19 PM (km8m2)
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Have you heard of this thing called "fire"? Change the world, I tell you what!
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 27, 2018 10:20 PM (+F0Wk)
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 27, 2018 10:18 PM (zhyDM)
Sometimes you just need a man.
Posted by: ALH at July 27, 2018 10:20 PM (8kkL4)
Posted by: qdp "waaaay out of the loop" steve at July 27, 2018 10:21 PM (km8m2)
Saturdays are the BEST!
Posted by: ALH at July 27, 2018 10:17 PM (8kkL4)
What I find amusing is that for me, getting up because I have to (work) and getting up on a weekend is not really all that much different, except for attitude. Often on a Saturday I'll lie in bed simply because it's warm and cozy and my wife is next to me. But seldom for more than a half hour. Then I'm up and ready to shirk all my home-front duties.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gentleman Drunkard at July 27, 2018 10:21 PM (EhZNT)
Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at July 27, 2018 10:22 PM (qUahL)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 27, 2018 10:22 PM (+F0Wk)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 27, 2018 10:22 PM (xJa6I)
That video with the pool in the living room is hilarious.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 27, 2018 10:10 PM (nvpzs)
Of course whining about the carpet does no good. When will women remember the correct response to this sort of thing is to say, "If you've ruined my carpet I will castrate you with a broken bottle"
Guys can respect a comment like that.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2018 10:22 PM (2K6fY)
Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
....
I asked my Pastor after Sunday School a few weeks ago if I was allowed to hold a grudge against liberals because they had eclipsed making me angry 490 times.
He grinned and told me that figure is figurative, not literal, but added he understood where I was coming from.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 27, 2018 10:23 PM (i0s33)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 27, 2018 10:23 PM (km8m2)
Usually, 365-1/4 of 'em, per-annum.
THIS, is one of the better ones though.
Thanks, WD!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 27, 2018 10:23 PM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger
Not Lutheran, then?
Posted by: Blutarski at July 27, 2018 10:24 PM (+Tibp)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 27, 2018 10:24 PM (pUDQf)
*Walks into Walmart mens room*
*Three guys all spinning around, dicks straight out, projectile whizzing everywhere*
*Walks out of Walmart mens room*
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 27, 2018 10:25 PM (km8m2)
Posted by: The Doctor at July 27, 2018 10:25 PM (JpIFY)
Posted by: logprof at July 27, 2018 10:25 PM (e7oj4)
Posted by: Tentotwo at July 27, 2018 10:26 PM (yhf6w)
*Walks into Walmart mens room*
*Three guys all spinning around, dicks straight out, projectile whizzing everywhere*
*Walks out of Walmart mens room*
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 27, 2018 10:25 PM (km8m2)
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Were they en pointe?
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 27, 2018 10:26 PM (+F0Wk)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 27, 2018 10:26 PM (km8m2)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 27, 2018 10:26 PM (km8m2)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 27, 2018 10:22 PM (+F0Wk)
https://stoatnet.org/rvs_bed.gif
Posted by: hogmartin at July 27, 2018 10:26 PM (y87Qq)
Unfortunately, my pets can't read a clock, so feeding time is the same time every morning, regardless of my desires.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 27, 2018 10:24 PM (pUDQf)
There is no snooze button on a cat what wants breakfast.
Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at July 27, 2018 10:26 PM (qUahL)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 27, 2018 10:27 PM (pUDQf)
Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess
And guys can respect a comment like that as well.
Your hash has changed, your Grace.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 27, 2018 10:27 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 27, 2018 10:27 PM (i0s33)
Yes there is, but it requires a hammer to activate.
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at July 27, 2018 10:28 PM (Liolw)
Posted by: hogmartin at July 27, 2018 10:26 PM (y87Qq)
Many thanks!
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 27, 2018 10:28 PM (+F0Wk)
Posted by: The Doctor at July 27, 2018 10:28 PM (JpIFY)
There is no snooze button on a cat what wants breakfast.
Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at July 27, 2018 10:26 PM (qUahL
Preach it, sister. Nothing like a cat paw on your face at 6:00AM. I swear I heard him mutter 'wake up and feed me, or I will slit your throat and look indifferent while I do it'.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 27, 2018 10:28 PM (pUDQf)
Posted by: hogmartin at July 27, 2018 10:29 PM (y87Qq)
The research, published in the scientific journal Aids, was sparked by anecdotal reports from Saskatchewan, where HIV rates in 2016 exceeded the national average tenfold in some areas. Nearly 80% of those infected with HIV in the province are indigenous.
"Some of our physician colleagues in Saskatchewan started to report that they were seeing cases of people being infected with HIV and getting very sick, very quickly," said Zabrina Brumme, the lead author of the study and a professor at Vancouver's Simon Fraser University. "It was almost as if there might have been something particularly nastier about the virus."
Posted by: SMOD at July 27, 2018 10:30 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2018 10:30 PM (2K6fY)
Epic.
I once met the (retired) skipper of the newer, Perry-class R.J.A very classy guy with some cool-as-hell stories to tell.His whole crew was in "Hunt for Red October." He was a technical adviser.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at July 27, 2018 10:30 PM (8ZmvG)
Posted by: Obligatory at July 27, 2018 10:30 PM (+DkQm)
Posted by: logprof at July 27, 2018 10:30 PM (e7oj4)
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at July 27, 2018 10:31 PM (LWu6U)
The pool dude should've put a tarp in the bed of his pickup truck and filled it with water.
It wouldn't have been as much fun as getting bitched at, tho'.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 27, 2018 10:31 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: Butch at July 27, 2018 10:31 PM (hXu8T)
Imagine what would happen if your condo caught on fire and your cats were trapped on the third floor and....the firefighters had no toxic masculinity, so they shrugged and suggested you plant some pretty herbs on the rubble/cats' ashes?
Posted by: Lizzy at July 27, 2018 10:12 PM (W+vEI)
Yeah... funny how Toxic Masculinty means we have to get out of bed to check out that strange noise in the middle of the night...
Let alone changing a damn tire...
Posted by: Don Q at July 27, 2018 10:32 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at July 27, 2018 10:32 PM (5jVnA)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1022884715647381504
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1022884811835428865
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1022884901807443968
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1022884991519416322
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1022885088273596417
Posted by: kbdabear at July 27, 2018 10:32 PM (0Ntuf)
Posted by: SMOD at July 27, 2018 10:30 PM (e8kgV)
Unprotected sodomy with 1000 different partners a year?
Posted by: The Doctor at July 27, 2018 10:32 PM (JpIFY)
I've been messing with my refrigerator and was checking the drip pan underneath after a defrost cycle. I was lying on the floor, and just lay there for a minute or two after I put the grill back on.
My cat was blown away, and seemed all discombobulated by me lying on the floor like that. He never sees that much, I get. He came up and starting nuzzling my hair.
I though that was sweet, then I realized he was likely wondering if I were dead and if he could then eat me.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 27, 2018 10:32 PM (8O3HH)
Your hash has changed, your Grace.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 27, 2018 10:27 PM (8O3HH)
Hello, publius! Yes, I'm posting from the Barrel. Not the real barrel, but a noxious place where you don't walk barefoot and would by some standards require hazmat gear.
I am here to testify that I still live, albeit with Mommy Dearest's IP address.
Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at July 27, 2018 10:32 PM (qUahL)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1022885176202940416
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1022885274525810688
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1022885397825839105
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1022885483599290370
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1022885591619448833
Posted by: kbdabear at July 27, 2018 10:33 PM (0Ntuf)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 27, 2018 10:33 PM (8O3HH)
Short visit tonight; I will probably sleep soon. Yesterday I came down with something that is making me hurt all over, including my skin. Clinic PA called it "acute virus syndrome."
So I'm feeling pretty lousy. At least I can breathe.
Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2018 10:34 PM (4HMW8)
Posted by: AlaBAMA
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Always keep your eye on the target.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 10:34 PM (xSo9G)
Let alone changing a damn tire...
Posted by: Don Q at July 27, 2018 10:32 PM (NgKpN)
I don't do things for women anymore. No more chivalry, unless they are good to me as family or friends. I'm not alone in the new black knight movement.
Great job femintwits.
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 27, 2018 10:35 PM (JpIFY)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 27, 2018 10:27 PM (pUDQf)
Were they natural Born Americans? or imports...
Remember, the society where you are RAISED is the one you will normally follow...
And the fact is that they just plain have different rules.
Posted by: Don Q at July 27, 2018 10:35 PM (NgKpN)
It wouldn't have been as much fun as getting bitched at, tho'.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 27, 2018 10:31 PM (HaL55)
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Tarp? Use Flex Seal! Just cut your pickup in half, and then apply a few coats! Your truck will be good as new, with a water tight seal for that pool in the bed!!
Posted by: Phil Swift at July 27, 2018 10:35 PM (+F0Wk)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 10:34 PM (xSo9G)
Don't forget to lead it a bit and check for windage.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 27, 2018 10:35 PM (CSNuj)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 27, 2018 10:35 PM (8O3HH)
And the fact is that they just plain have different rules.
Posted by: Don Q at July 27, 2018 10:35 PM (NgKpN
Well, someone should add that to the citizenship test.
1. learn English
2. Learn constitution
3. Learn rules of men's restroom urinals.
4. Don't be rapey
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 27, 2018 10:36 PM (pUDQf)
He grinned and told me that figure is figurative, not literal, but added he understood where I was coming from.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 27, 2018 10:23 PM (i0s33)
--When I think of SJWs the line from --IIRC-- Matthew that whores and tax collectors are entering the Kingdom before the Pharisees comes to mind when it comes to libtards.
Posted by: logprof at July 27, 2018 10:37 PM (e7oj4)
Let alone changing a damn tire...
Posted by: Don Q at July 27, 2018 10:32 PM (NgKpN)
I don't do things for women anymore. No more chivalry, unless they are good to me as family or friends. I'm not alone in the new black knight movement.
Great job femintwits.
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 27, 2018 10:35 PM (JpIFY)
Actually? I do... and I call them Ma'am...
Sometimes just to piss them off.
And did tell one woman... 'isn't it nice there was a MAN around?'...
She was not amused.
Posted by: Don Q at July 27, 2018 10:37 PM (NgKpN)
Short visit tonight; I will probably sleep soon. Yesterday I came down with something that is making me hurt all over, including my skin. Clinic PA called it "acute virus syndrome."
So I'm feeling pretty lousy. At least I can breathe.
Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2018 10:34 PM (4HMW
Sounds like Lyme disease and/or Rocky Mountain Spotted fever. I'd check for tick bites and go back. It's a nasty season for ticks everywhere.
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 27, 2018 10:37 PM (JpIFY)
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at July 27, 2018 10:37 PM (Liolw)
Posted by: Minuteman at July 27, 2018 10:37 PM (D8/uu)
Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess"
That's when you get up open the door let the cat out and then close it.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at July 27, 2018 10:38 PM (J88d5)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 27, 2018 10:33 PM (8O3HH)
Nah, those happen August. They can be unpredictable though, and you have to hope for the dark of the moon, but when it is a good year you can get 30 shooting stars in an hour.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2018 10:38 PM (2K6fY)
Posted by: Don Q at July 27, 2018 10:35 PM (NgKpN
Well, someone should add that to the citizenship test.
1. learn English
2. Learn constitution
3. Learn rules of men's restroom urinals.
4. Don't be rapey
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 27, 2018 10:36 PM (pUDQf)
5. Learn that the damn Left hand Lane if for passing... not slowing down faster traffic.
Posted by: Don Q at July 27, 2018 10:38 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Calm Mentor at July 27, 2018 10:38 PM (YRtrf)
I hope there's not a Gateway to Hell in there?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 27, 2018 10:38 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Average Guy at July 27, 2018 10:38 PM (LMcFk)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 27, 2018 10:39 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: Don Q at July 27, 2018 10:32 PM (NgKpN)
Counterpoint: I don't think I've ever dated a girl who couldn't change a tire. No, I don't have a questionnaire or a practical skills test or anything. They do have to correctly answer three fiendishly cunning riddles, each more baffling than the last, but c'mon, that's f'n amateur hour.
If we got a flat while both of us were in a car, I'd be the one changing it regardless of whose car was, but I can't think of one who would have been stranded somewhere with a spare in the trunk because she didn't know what to do or couldn't do it.
Posted by: hogmartin at July 27, 2018 10:40 PM (y87Qq)
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at July 27, 2018 10:40 PM (Liolw)
Posted by: Engrish Sign, Inc. at July 27, 2018 10:40 PM (t6XCL)
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 27, 2018 10:37 PM (JpIFY)
Are there treatments for those? Because if it's the same as what I'm already doing (rest, symptom relief) I may as well save the money and stay home.
The PA will be calling me in a couple of days to follow up.
Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2018 10:40 PM (4HMW8)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 27, 2018 10:33 PM (8O3HH)
Bzzzt.
The answer we were looking for is Colts.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at July 27, 2018 10:40 PM (5jVnA)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 27, 2018 10:41 PM (HaL55)
(That, and I'd kick the fan off the ceiling if I did flips on my bed.)
Posted by: mikeski at July 27, 2018 10:41 PM (P1f+c)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 27, 2018 10:41 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Engrish Sign, Inc. at July 27, 2018 10:40 PM (t6XCL)
I prefer to leave one, but to each his own.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at July 27, 2018 10:41 PM (5jVnA)
She looked at me and said, "It is 2018 you know."
I said, "Yes. Did you want help moving stuff this year?"
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2018 10:42 PM (2K6fY)
Posted by: Minuteman at July 27, 2018 10:37 PM (D8/uu)
I saw Justine Welbey's Douchebag open for the Jesus and Mary Chain at the Ogden Theatre in '09.
Posted by: Some Jackass at July 27, 2018 10:42 PM (sXefu)
Those queens identified as male! Hater!
Posted by: Allie at July 27, 2018 10:42 PM (P1f+c)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 10:42 PM (CDGwz)
It wouldn't have been as much fun as getting bitched at, tho'.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 27, 2018 10:31 PM (HaL55)
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Tarp? Use Flex Seal! Just cut your pickup in half, and then apply a
few coats! Your truck will be good as new, with a water tight seal for
that pool in the bed!!
Posted by: Phil Swift at July 27, 2018 10:35 PM (+F0Wk)
My sides!
Posted by: Zombie JOhnny Cash at July 27, 2018 10:42 PM (QLvwG)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 10:34 PM (xSo9G)
Don't forget to lead it a bit and check for windage.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 27, 2018 10:35 PM (CSNuj)
Windage and elevation!
Posted by: Zombie John Wayne at July 27, 2018 10:43 PM (QLvwG)
Emil Joseph Kapaun (April 20, 1916 - May 23, 1951) was a Roman Catholic priest and United States Army captain who served as a United States Army chaplain during World War II and the Korean War. Kapaun was a chaplain in the Burma Theater of World War II the,n served again as a chaplain with the U.S. Army in Korea, where he was captured. He died in a prisoner of war camp.
https://infogalactic.com/info/Emil_Kapaun
Posted by: logprof at July 27, 2018 10:44 PM (e7oj4)
Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2018 10:44 PM (4HMW8)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 27, 2018 10:44 PM (km8m2)
Sometimes just to piss them off.
And did tell one woman... 'isn't it nice there was a MAN around?'...
She was not amused.
Posted by: Don Q at July 27, 2018 10:37 PM (NgKpN)
Meh, I was raised to so that. They like getting pissed off at shit like that because it gives them a sense of righteousness and the attention they crave.
Stop holding doors for them and look at their shocked faces when the glass crashes into their faces and body. Also, in the grocery store if they ask for help to reach or carry something, just laugh shaking your head and walk away. Or if they make small talk about politics, tell them when the invasion comes they will be left on their own to survive for voting in these policies. Nobody will protect them. I gas light them every chance I get. Fuck them, they ain't MAGA.
That gets their attention and sends the right message.
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 27, 2018 10:44 PM (JpIFY)
Sorry to repeat myself, but I've previously related the saga of a liberal acquaintance's carpet-munching daughter who rails against "toxic masculinity," when her father and brother are about as masculine as PeeWee Herman, and, let's face it, there are no boyfriends on the ledger.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 10:45 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 27, 2018 10:41 PM (HaL55)
This is about West Side Story, isn't it?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 27, 2018 10:45 PM (CSNuj)
Posted by: Average Guy at July 27, 2018 10:38 PM (LMcFk)
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That was a hard category to watch.
I did find it amusing that the Asian guy got the question about the gong right, while the white guy got it wrong.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 27, 2018 10:45 PM (+F0Wk)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 27, 2018 10:45 PM (pUDQf)
--When I think of SJWs the line from --IIRC-- Matthew that whores and tax collectors are entering the Kingdom before the Pharisees comes to mind when it comes to libtards.
Posted by: logprof at July 27, 2018 10:37 PM (e7oj4)
....
That is a beautiful parable.
To many libtards try to co-opt that passage to mean that the Lord will favor the sinner over the preacher rather then taking the entire passage into account.
The passage truthfully discusses the Lord taking an obedient sinner that ultimately does the right thing before taking a poser that gives lip service to obedience but never obeys.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 27, 2018 10:47 PM (i0s33)
I then went to the supermarket to buy a few things. I wanted to by a package of bacon but the entire wall of breakfast pork products was empty. I was told that the refrigeration unit had broken down.
No hot dogs. No bacon. This is not the America I grew up in. Have the Burning Times begun?
Posted by: rickl at July 27, 2018 10:47 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 27, 2018 10:37 PM (JpIFY)
Are there treatments for those? Because if it's the same as what I'm already doing (rest, symptom relief) I may as well save the money and stay home.
The PA will be calling me in a couple of days to follow up.
Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2018 10:40 PM (4HMW8
It can take weeks to recover or more. You need to get it diagnosed and caught before it's too late. Doctors will give you comfort meds. I know it sucks like oh shit I'm dying and can't move sucks if doctor is late getting the diagnosis correct.
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 27, 2018 10:47 PM (JpIFY)
I just remembered it's garbage night tonight. I guess I ought to get my candied ass up out of this chair and get that done. What do you think?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 27, 2018 10:47 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: DaveM at July 27, 2018 10:47 PM (WWC3Y)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2018 10:48 PM (gUCYC)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 27, 2018 10:48 PM (kufk0)
I get a kick out of watching the sexes here in Oklahoma. The men still "Ma'am" you and they treat Oklahoma ladies like they're made of eggshells. Those same Oklahoma ladies, dressed to the nines and perfectly made up, can jump a dead car battery in fifteen seconds flat.
If there's no man around.
Posted by: creeper at July 27, 2018 10:48 PM (Wg5rG)
Posted by: rickl at July 27, 2018 10:47 PM (sdi6R)
That's literal hell. man. Endeavor to Persevere!
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 27, 2018 10:49 PM (QLvwG)
Posted by: hogmartin at July 27, 2018 10:49 PM (y87Qq)
Posted by: creeper at July 27, 2018 10:49 PM (Wg5rG)
Posted by: rickl at July 27, 2018 10:47 PM (sdi6R)
Man your face colanders! To the assless chaps!
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 27, 2018 10:49 PM (5jVnA)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 27, 2018 10:49 PM (km8m2)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 27, 2018 10:45 PM (pUDQf)
No, they just want to get angry about being treated as a woman because they are filled with hate. Give them what they want and watch how they react. It's funny because it's all a shit test and treating them like they want is not what most men do.
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 27, 2018 10:49 PM (JpIFY)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 27, 2018 10:41 PM (HaL55)
How can anyone have forgotten Barack Obama?
Posted by: Some Jackass at July 27, 2018 10:50 PM (sXefu)
Sometimes I feel like every day is garbage day.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 27, 2018 10:50 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 27, 2018 10:51 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at July 27, 2018 10:51 PM (8ZmvG)
I can't find a face colander, can I just strap this cheese grater to my face instead?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at July 27, 2018 10:51 PM (IcT7t)
Posted by: rickl at July 27, 2018 10:51 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: hogmartin at July 27, 2018 10:40 PM (y87Qq)
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When I was teaching my daughter to drive, we stopped for lunch one day. When we were walking back to the car, noticed the left front was flat. She immediately turned to me and said "You're going to make me do this so I can learn how, aren't you?".
She always was one that caught on quickly.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at July 27, 2018 10:51 PM (YRtrf)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at July 27, 2018 10:51 PM (IcT7t)
few coats! Your truck will be good as new, with a water tight seal for
that pool in the bed!!
Posted by: Phil Swift at July 27, 2018 10:35 PM (+F0Wk)
My sides!
Posted by: Zombie JOhnny Cash at July 27, 2018 10:42 PM (QLvwG)
Don't worry JOhnny, with the magic of Flex Seal we can replace your old, aching sides with new, superior sides made from layers of Flex Seal.
Posted by: Phil Swift at July 27, 2018 10:51 PM (BHRUO)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 27, 2018 10:51 PM (kufk0)
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 27, 2018 10:52 PM (JpIFY)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 27, 2018 10:50 PM (8O3HH)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmbeaMrFKFQ
Posted by: hogmartin at July 27, 2018 10:52 PM (y87Qq)
I give AtC a run for her money in the height department...
Posted by: lin-duh at July 27, 2018 10:51 PM (kufk0)
Well then better keep a weather eye on Jane D'oh.
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 27, 2018 10:53 PM (5jVnA)
I can't find a face colander, can I just strap this cheese grater to my face instead?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at July 27, 2018 10:51 PM (IcT7t)
Probably less comfortable. Might get you some Apocalypse cred though. Everyone laughs at the guy wearing a beekeepers hood.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 27, 2018 10:53 PM (nvpzs)
Stop holding doors for them and look at their shocked faces when the glass crashes into their faces and body. Also, in the grocery store if they ask for help to reach or carry something, just laugh shaking your head and walk away. Or if they make small talk about politics, tell them when the invasion comes they will be left on their own to survive for voting in these policies. Nobody will protect them. I gas light them every chance I get. Fuck them, they ain't MAGA.
That gets their attention and sends the right message.
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 27, 2018 10:44 PM (JpIFY)
Me too. And I do it now, with pleasure and pride.
Having said that, in grad school, the quasi-dyke girlfriend of a friend, who was driving a van with a bunch of us in it up to go skiiing at Tahoe, spent four hours ear-banging us about feminist shit, how women were oppressed, etc.
As we went above and below the snow line we'd had to get out and put on/take off the chains repeatedly. Great fun, crawling underneath the van in the slush to do this.
Finally, I'd had enough. "So, X, do you really think women should be treated exactly as men?"
This was like throwing red meat to a starving Doberman, of course.
"Great. I agree. It's YOUR turn to put the fucking chains on. A has done it, B has done it, I have done it, everyone here has done it, except you. You're only the one who hasn't. So hop to it."
Needless to say, she caviled and whined, and I ended up doing it yet again. But she did shut up - for about ten minutes - about the feminist shit. Although I was still soaked through with ice water when started up again.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 10:53 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 27, 2018 10:47 PM (JpIFY)
She gave me an antibiotic prescription in case I need to fill it. Looks like the correct antibiotic for Lyme's. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever uses a different one.
Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2018 10:54 PM (4HMW8)
Bad news: Frasier and Niles are now not only brothers, they're lovers too. And their father has died and been replaced by Wanda Sykes. :-P
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 27, 2018 10:54 PM (km8m2)
grocery store all the time. Some have even been women. I am always very
thankful.
Posted by: lin-duh at July 27, 2018 10:48 PM (kufk0)
I am not the effin' help!!
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 27, 2018 10:55 PM (QLvwG)
1. learn English
2. Learn constitution
3. Learn rules of men's restroom urinals.
4. Don't be rapey
Posted by: AlaBAMA
And what things are flushable.
I have worked for the same company for over 30 years (quite a feat for a 29 yr old). The just put up signs by the toilets telling you don't flush paper towels. Hell the Hmong mountain hillbillies in the 80s knew that. But the new Somalis not so much.
Posted by: X-Ray at July 27, 2018 10:55 PM (xwvYG)
Posted by: publius
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Yes.
Posted by: Bear & Raccoon Local 103 at July 27, 2018 10:55 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Daisy Cutter at July 27, 2018 10:56 PM (sM+h7)
Posted by: Cheribebe at July 27, 2018 10:56 PM (DAdSz)
Hillary's Decency
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Mythical entity or deeply suppressed reality?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 27, 2018 10:57 PM (+y/Ru)
Presumed chivalry today involves, for instance, holding down a night-shift supervisory job with union employees who'd love to eat you alive, and by the way, Sunday night and Wednesday night are your "days off," while identically educated and paid Missy goes to corner office in LR, primed for promotion. Because, Be A Man. And yes, once she is one notch up she will have you replaced by a Sister, and you will get to train Sister too. Be A Man.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at July 27, 2018 10:57 PM (8ZmvG)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 27, 2018 10:57 PM (HaL55)
I think I recognize one of those. She's an "actress" of course.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 27, 2018 10:35 PM (8O3HH)
I assume you read some kind of "Actresses Weekly" when you go to the barber. How else could you possibly keep up with these celebrities?
Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at July 27, 2018 10:57 PM (qUahL)
grocery store all the time. Some have even been women. I am always very
thankful.
Posted by: lin-duh at July 27, 2018 10:48 PM (kufk0)
I am not the effin' help!!
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 27, 2018 10:55 PM (QLvwG)
Sock Fail. 'Twas supposed to be Toned Arms FLOTUS.
We regret the error.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 27, 2018 10:57 PM (QLvwG)
Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2018 10:57 PM (XoqA6)
I almost bought a new refrigerator this week, but cancelled it. The damn thing's performance was declining and then about two weeks ago, the ice maker just crawled to a near stop. I'm a sweet tea addict and without ice to make it, well, I'm headed for the DTs.
So, I noticed it was running much. I figured who knows, maybe low on Freon, and saw it was R-12, and that stuff is scarce, and that the low pressure cutouts or something were kicking in.
So, I ordered a new one. And then I got to fucking around. I found a wiring diagram for the thing online, and looking, noticed, no, there are no pressure cutouts or anything. There's only an overload relay on the compressor motor. Hmmm.
So, I roll the damn thing out. And see there's a wiring diagram pasted right on the back. Hell, if I'd have just looked, I would've seen.
So, what the hell. I get my meter. Turns out there were some dead spots in the defrost timer relay. So, I rigged a manual SPDT switch to cut that out and see.
Well, now, I've got to the freezer at 0.6F (+/-2F, I think on that thermocouple setup), and the lower fridge compartment is hovering at 32-33F. Ice maker is going gangbusters.
I cancelled the new fridge. So, after I decide to get a new one, I somehow get motivated to figure out what's wrong.
Anyway, Bezos had a cheap Chinese replacement defrost timer for $12. Name brand was $65. I've got the cheap one on the way.
Been manually defrosting it every 12 hours or so with my jury rigged switch.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 27, 2018 10:58 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Calm Mentor at July 27, 2018 10:51 PM (YRtrf)
Yes, their parents definitely deserve a lot of the credit too.
Posted by: hogmartin at July 27, 2018 10:58 PM (y87Qq)
178 WUT are you doing that you need to flush a paper towel!
Posted by: Cheribebe at July 27, 2018 10:56 PM (DAdSz)
You'll need more fiber, or Brawny.
Posted by: Joey Biden at July 27, 2018 10:58 PM (sXefu)
To many libtards try to co-opt that passage to mean that the Lord will favor the sinner over the preacher rather then taking the entire passage into account.
The passage truthfully discusses the Lord taking an obedient sinner that ultimately does the right thing before taking a poser that gives lip service to obedience but never obeys.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 27, 2018 10:47 PM (i0s33)
--I found it: Matthew 21:31-32
"Which of the two did what his father wanted?"
"The first," they answered.
Jesus said to them, "Amen I say to you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you. For John came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him.
Posted by: logprof at July 27, 2018 10:59 PM (e7oj4)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 27, 2018 10:45 PM (pUDQf)
Not true. They want women to be treated as equal to men when that is advantageous to them; otherwise they are little flowers who must be protected.
Ask a feminist if it's fair that men pay more for auto insurance. Of course, she'll answer. (Fair enough.) Then ask her if it's fair that women should pay more for health insurance, or be paid less for an annuity. She'll splutter with rage.
Yet the fundamental question is the same: is sex an appropriate segmentation variable for the actuarial calculations?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:00 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: X-Ray at July 27, 2018 10:55 PM (xwvYG)
Somalis, hell, some of the regular ol' people born and raised in the good ol' US of A can't figure that one out. And it's not the same ones that can't figure out how to hit the inside of the urinal nor the ones who seem to leave a quart of water all over the countertop when they wash their hands. Oh no, those are all *different* people............
Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2018 11:00 PM (XoqA6)
Former President Bill Clinton was interrupted by protesters demanding the decriminalization of sex workers worldwide on Friday, while he was giving the closing speech at the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam.
Clinton had just begun addressing the crowd when the protestors began chatting and blowing whistles.
"President Clinton, we demand for decriminalization of sex work worldwide and in the United States," one protester shouted at Clinton.
Another protestor shouted at Clinton, "we know you support sex workers, please help us!"
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2018 11:00 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2018 10:57 PM (XoqA6)
You obviously didn't see the power and the glory that was Lady Ghostbusters.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 27, 2018 11:01 PM (CSNuj)
That's a problem that need some sort of electrical short and an accelerant.
Posted by: Some Jackass at July 27, 2018 11:01 PM (sXefu)
Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2018 10:54 PM (4HMW
Yikes! Have somebody check your body for ticks and tick bites. They hide in the scalp, armpits, all over body. Seriously, check your body. And get a follow up ASAP! Get comfort meds like pain medicine and muscle relaxors. Demand from the doctor a test for Lyme and Rocky mountain spotted fever. And other things ticks carry. If you have it, demand comfort meds so to can function and have a decent quality of life while recovering.
I hope you get better and don't have that stuff but double check.
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 27, 2018 11:01 PM (JpIFY)
Posted by: SMOD at July 27, 2018 10:30 PM (e8kgV)
Viruses evolve... they particularly evolve in response to antivirals.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at July 27, 2018 11:02 PM (FTXAT)
https://bit.ly/2vaYhgP
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 27, 2018 10:51 PM (+y/Ru)
Aye, laddie, they're drinking outlawed egg creams with outlawed straws.
Posted by: Uncle Angus at July 27, 2018 11:03 PM (CSNuj)
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Yeah, "barber shop", that's the ticket, your Grace. I'm like a Hollywood insider. That's where I learned my favorite trick with the ficus.
And it would be " 'Actresses' Weekly".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 27, 2018 11:04 PM (8O3HH)
"President Clinton, we demand for decriminalization of sex work
worldwide and in the United States," one protester shouted at Clinton.
Another protestor shouted at Clinton, "we know you support sex workers, please help us!"
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2018 11:00 PM (IqV8l)
I am sure Clinton gave them a big thumbs up and then sent the SS over to collect phone numbers.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at July 27, 2018 11:04 PM (FTXAT)
Doxycycline. Know it. Live it. Love it.
Posted by: Weirddave at July 27, 2018 11:05 PM (bQXMb)
Well done!
I have now repaired about every major appliance in the house except the dryer and the water heater (unless you count the over pressure relief).
Youtube, any of a dozen appliance parts houses, and amazon are your best friends. Costliest but also the best savings over new appliance was probably a refrigerator logic board at about $250, which was about an order of magnitude cheaper than a new fridge.
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 27, 2018 11:05 PM (5jVnA)
So I did. And the next time we had a flat I volunteered to change it. "Oh no, honey," he said. "You can't do that. You'll get all dirty."
And you guys wonder why we don't understand you.
Posted by: creeper at July 27, 2018 11:06 PM (Wg5rG)
Speaking of sexworkers, that reminds me, the founder of that group of topless women protestors (who amazingly weren't bad at all) Femen, was found dead of an apparent suicide recently.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 27, 2018 11:06 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2018 11:06 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 27, 2018 11:07 PM (JpIFY)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 11:07 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at July 27, 2018 11:02 PM (FTXAT)
The correct plural of virus is virii!
Posted by: Pedantic Virologist at July 27, 2018 11:08 PM (BHRUO)
It's amazing how fast the fun wears off driving a truck with a ton of water sloshing in the back. Dogs really dig it though.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at July 27, 2018 11:08 PM (8ZmvG)
Thankfully this one is old to be old school, with old fashioned electromechanical controls, not an electronic control board.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 27, 2018 11:08 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 11:08 PM (CDGwz)
Replace the magnesium anode every few years, preferably with a segmented one unless you've got enough head room for a rigid one.
Which reminds me, it's time for me to do that again. I just checked - I wrote the date of the last time on the water heater with a Sharpie - and to my alarm it was five years ago.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:09 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2018 11:09 PM (IqV8l)
When I was working, I used to get up at 4:30 AM every morning, and the first thing I would do after urinating was feed the cats.
After I retired, one cat would try to wake me up, but it didn't work because I am a deep sleeper and even when woken up, I can fall back asleep in seconds.
So, the cat found a new strategy. It wakes my wife up instead. She is a light sleeper. The cat doesn't even try to wake me up anymore. It just keeps pestering my wife until she makes me get up to feed it. In effect, the cat has made her a catspaw.
Posted by: Toad-O at July 27, 2018 11:09 PM (cct0t)
Posted by: creeper at July 27, 2018 11:06 PM (Wg5rG)
He needed to make sure you knew how. Once that was established, well, you're still his little girl.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 27, 2018 11:09 PM (nvpzs)
Bad timing on my part. My previous doctor retired and I have not gotten a new one yet. Our area is famous for poor medical care, so the one or two good doctors have a waiting list. I didn't rush to get on with a new doctor since I haven't been sick in several years.
Monday, hopefully I'll feel good enough to get started with the new patient paperwork.
Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2018 11:09 PM (4HMW8)
Posted by: creeper at July 27, 2018 11:06 PM (Wg5rG)
First time to teach you how to change a tire.
The next time to teach you how a man is supposed to treat a woman.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 27, 2018 11:10 PM (i0s33)
Youtube, any of a dozen appliance parts houses, and amazon are your best friends.
Say it again, brother (or sister as the case may be). If you can get the manufacturer's part number, plug that into a browser and see if an Amazon link comes up. If so, you're usually home free if you're halfway handy.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 27, 2018 11:10 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2018 11:09 PM (IqV8l)
And one who has virus-like characteristics is said to be virile.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 27, 2018 11:10 PM (CSNuj)
So I did. And the next time we had a flat I volunteered to change it. "Oh no, honey," he said. "You can't do that. You'll get all dirty."
And you guys wonder why we don't understand you.
Posted by: creeper at July 27, 2018 11:06 PM (Wg5rG)
Simple. He'd established the principle. If he'd done it every time, you wouldn't appreciate what he'd done for you.
Now you do.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:11 PM (YqDXo)
"Ma'am, I held the door for you not because I had any suspicion you were a lady, but because I know I am a gentleman."
Much hilarity ensued.
Posted by: Phineas at July 27, 2018 11:11 PM (gH4yp)
$10 thermostat, and we're back in business.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 11:11 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: creeper at July 27, 2018 11:06 PM (Wg5rG)
First time to teach you how to change a tire.
The next time to teach you how a man is supposed to treat a woman.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 27, 2018 11:10 PM (i0s33)
Makes perfect sense.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 27, 2018 11:11 PM (QLvwG)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 27, 2018 11:11 PM (+y/Ru)
My people did not avoid wars, famine, plague for eons just so I could chuck civilization to "camp".
If I can't see it from the balcony or poolside of the 5 star hotel I'm in, it ain't worth seeing.
ok I'll denounce myself.
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at July 27, 2018 11:11 PM (Liolw)
The next time to teach you how a man is supposed to treat a woman.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 27, 2018 11:10 PM (i0s33)
Three times is enemy action.
Posted by: hogmartin at July 27, 2018 11:12 PM (y87Qq)
Clinton had just begun addressing the crowd when the protestors began chatting and blowing whistles.
"President Clinton, we demand for decriminalization of sex work worldwide and in the United States," one protester shouted at Clinton.
Another protestor shouted at Clinton, "we know you support sex workers, please help us!"
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2018 11:00 PM (IqV8l)
Good guess on their part.
All that was missing there was a grenade.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:13 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 27, 2018 10:38 PM (8O3HH)
I have the Keymaster here. The Gatekeeper is arriving on Monday.
Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at July 27, 2018 11:13 PM (qUahL)
Posted by: Weirddave at July 27, 2018 11:05 PM (bQXMb)
Yep. That's the one for RMSF.
Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2018 11:13 PM (4HMW8)
Which reminds me, it's time for me to do that again. I just checked
- I wrote the date of the last time on the water heater with a Sharpie -
and to my alarm it was five years ago.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:09 PM (YqDXo)
Well I'll be. Never knew of such an animal. Never done it in ten years, and selling the house this year. Must depend on the water, as that sounds about as foreign around these parts as logic on a democrat.
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 27, 2018 11:13 PM (5jVnA)
$10 thermostat, and we're back in business.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 11:11 PM (CDGwz)
Garage door opener packed up. $10 for new worm gear, another $10 for new circuit board, and we're back in business.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:14 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 27, 2018 10:25 PM (km8m2)
What? You don't think synchronized pissing is elegant? You have to be swimming or something to make it "art"?
Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2018 11:14 PM (XoqA6)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2018 11:14 PM (NV/E7)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 27, 2018 11:14 PM (nWc4E)
Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at July 27, 2018 11:13 PM (qUahL)
Wait. What are we talking about here?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 27, 2018 11:14 PM (nvpzs)
Posted by: logprof at July 27, 2018 11:15 PM (e7oj4)
It's amazing how fast the fun wears off driving a truck with a ton of water sloshing in the back. Dogs really dig it though.
My 28yr-old S-18 has a bedliner that holds water too. I use it as a rain gauge/mosquito farm.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 27, 2018 11:15 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: Toad-O
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Believe it or not, our cat wakes and annoys our dog until the dog starts annoying me to get the cat off his back.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 11:15 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 27, 2018 11:15 PM (pUDQf)
Believe it or not, our cat wakes and annoys our dog until the dog starts annoying me to get the cat off his back.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 11:15 PM (CDGwz
Smart cat. Get the dog to take the heat for waking everyone up.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 27, 2018 11:16 PM (pUDQf)
Much hilarity ensued.
Posted by: Phineas at July 27, 2018 11:11 PM (gH4yp)
I always have my boys hold the doors for the ladies, and they do proudly, while the ladies get a kick out of it. But, private christian school.
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 27, 2018 11:16 PM (5jVnA)
Say it again, brother (or sister as the case may be). If you can get the manufacturer's part number, plug that into a browser and see if an Amazon link comes up. If so, you're usually home free if you're halfway handy.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 27, 2018 11:10 PM (HaL55)
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Even if Amazon doesn't carry the part, there are several reputable online parts stores that usually will have it.
I've used RepairClinic.commany times for parts.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 27, 2018 11:16 PM (+F0Wk)
Anyway, I discovered that changing fuses is so easy even a moronette can do it. It didn't fix the car we just bought, but I was able to fix my husband's air conditioner, cig lighter, and instrument panel display yesterday.
He was pleased. I was able to do it for $0.
Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2018 11:17 PM (4HMW8)
Posted by: Weirddave at July 27, 2018 11:05 PM (bQXMb)
Yep. That's the one for RMSF.
Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2018 11:13 PM (4HMW
About 8 years ago, my good friend got both Lyme and Ricky MT Spotted Fever from the same tick bite. He didn't go to the doctor until his fever got up to almost 104 about a week later. It took him over 2 months to recover. He thought he was dying. The doctors have him opioids, muscle relaxors, and other stuff. He lost close to 30 lbs. He was effed up bad. He was 28 at the time.
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 27, 2018 11:17 PM (JpIFY)
So I did. And the next time we had a flat I volunteered to change it. "Oh no, honey," he said. "You can't do that. You'll get all dirty."
And you guys wonder why we don't understand you.
Posted by: creeper at July 27, 2018 11:06
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This position and action is not at all inconsistent, when you think about it logically.
The first time, he wanted to make sure that you knew how to do this, as I presume he does not ride with you everywhere you go. He needed to know that you would not be stuck out there somewhere with no idea how to fix things.
Once he knew you would be OK if you were on your own, no more reassurance needed and he could revert to to typical Daddy/Daughter behavior.
I posted above about this. I would go out and change a tire for my daughter called me. This is because I know she knows how to do this already, if she had to.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at July 27, 2018 11:18 PM (YRtrf)
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 27, 2018 11:13 PM (5jVnA)
Fair enough. Our water here in SoCal is notoriously shitty, chock-a-block with compounds resulting in lime scale. So much so that at on the last day of each month I turn on each irrigation circuit (which normally comes on at 3 am) to make sure the various outlets are not crapped up with lime scale, and I turn on/off each angle stop to break up any lime scale that has deposited in the last month.
This saves a LOT of maintenance.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:18 PM (YqDXo)
Typical collectivist. They believe that the collective (be it a racial collective, national collective, workers collective, &c.) can be the only fount of anything good, such that the benefit of the collective necessitates that the collective arrange society as it deems fit to maximize the collective's benefit; this is because in this view, the individual's good and benefit can only come from what the collective bestows upon the individual.
http://politicalhat.com/?p=14777
Posted by: The Political Hat at July 27, 2018 11:18 PM (itfg0)
Posted by: sestamibi at July 27, 2018 11:19 PM (YgnPL)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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Yeah, I've had the gears fail. If someone had asked, I would have said, "Sure, they'll wear out eventually", but I certainly never thought about it. Just one of dozens of things that can fail around the house, but which you don't anticipate failing.
Mine is a Craftsman. Getting replacement pies was easy.
I've been putting off replacing the anode in the
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 11:20 PM (CDGwz)
Anyway, I discovered that changing fuses is so easy even a moronette can do it. It didn't fix the car we just bought, but I was able to fix my husband's air conditioner, cig lighter, and instrument panel display yesterday.
He was pleased. I was able to do it for $0.
Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2018 11:17 PM (4HMW
Funny. I just showed my boys how the AC unit works in a car, and how to top up the refrigerant.
I hope some of this takes.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:20 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 11:20 PM (CDGwz)
Matthew that whores and tax collectors are entering the Kingdom before
the Pharisees comes to mind when it comes to libtards.
Posted by: logprof at July 27, 2018 10:37 PM (e7oj4)
Weird thing is, they're more whorish and more interested in gouging people on taxes than those old-timers were, and *also* more Pharisaical than the most devout Pharisee!I don't see this ending well for them.
Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2018 11:20 PM (XoqA6)
When you tinkle
Be a sweetie
Wipe the seatie
Posted by: sestamibi at July 27, 2018 11:19 PM (YgnPL)
--My college buddy's version:
If you miss
when you piss
wipe it up
you son of a bitch
Posted by: logprof at July 27, 2018 11:21 PM (e7oj4)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:18 PM (YqDXo)
Yep. Nothing like that around here in PNW. But we get a lot of rain and freshwater in reservoirs and don't have to rely on ground water which might be filtered through limestone.
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 27, 2018 11:21 PM (5jVnA)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 11:20 PM (CDGwz)
This.
You can't anticipate everything, so cut yourself some slack.
Garage door doesn't open, you take apart the opener and find it's full of Teflon snow. Uh oh. It happens, inevitably.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:22 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 27, 2018 11:23 PM (HaL55)
True, but there's enough iron in our water to build a battleship.
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at July 27, 2018 11:23 PM (Liolw)
My fever is 99.
Just checked for ticks or bites. Found nothing unusual.
Only weird thing is yesterday before I started feeling sick, I got scratched by a stick in the yard. The spot immediately got all puffy. It's still a little puffy today. I showed it to the PA in case that's how germs got into my system.
Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2018 11:24 PM (4HMW8)
Posted by: The Doctor at July 27, 2018 10:32 PM (JpIFY)
Indians in Saskatchewan? Much more likely to be sharing needles for IV drug use. Huge problem, there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2018 11:24 PM (NV/E7)
Posted by: Mickey Mouse at July 27, 2018 11:24 PM (CSNuj)
Posted by: Goofy at July 27, 2018 11:25 PM (i0s33)
This normalization has become increasingly open, particularly within academia, where pre-pubescent sexuality is lauded, such as from the Department of Sociology as the University of California, Santa Barbara.
http://politicalhat.com/?p=14777
Posted by: The Political Hat at July 27, 2018 11:26 PM (itfg0)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 27, 2018 11:04 PM (8O3HH)
Nunno - there is no possessive. We're ruminating on actresses. Weekly.
Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at July 27, 2018 11:26 PM (qUahL)
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 27, 2018 11:21 PM (5jVnA)
You're lucky, in at least that respect.
The tough part, the first time, is torquing the retainer. God knows how they torqued it in in the first place, but it took a breaker bar and a length of pipe on it to get the retainer free, amid some fluent Anglo-Saxon, owing to the awkwardness of the position.
After that, it was easy. Even though there was only a foot or so of clearance above the water heater, with a segmented anode, it was easy to snake it in and then replace the retainer.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:26 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:14 PM (YqDXo)
One of the things I absolutely will refuse to fix myself is a garage door opener. Or anything else that falls within the set of "things that contain rusty twenty pound steel springs springs under twenty years of constant tension that are just aching to fly through my ribcage at warp five and pin me to a joist like a leaky, briefly-whimpering marionette".
Posted by: hogmartin at July 27, 2018 11:28 PM (y87Qq)
above the water heater, with a segmented anode, it was easy to snake it
in and then replace the retainer.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:26 PM (YqDXo)
Not gonna lie. I googled magnesium anode water heater just to make sure you weren't pulling my leg.
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 27, 2018 11:28 PM (5jVnA)
Posted by: The Doctor at July 27, 2018 10:32 PM (JpIFY)
A slow year for Gaetan Dugas, aka Patient Zero. He racked up 5000 in three years.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:28 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 27, 2018 11:14 PM (nvpzs)
Miley's journey to Hell.
Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at July 27, 2018 11:29 PM (qUahL)
My fever is 99.
Just checked for ticks or bites. Found nothing unusual.
Only weird thing is yesterday before I started feeling sick, I got scratched by a stick in the yard. The spot immediately got all puffy. It's still a little puffy today. I showed it to the PA in case that's how germs got into my system.
Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2018 11:24 PM (4HMW
Are you sure it wasn't a plutonium tipped stick?
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 27, 2018 11:29 PM (JpIFY)
myself is a garage door opener. Or anything else that falls within the
set of "things that contain rusty twenty pound steel springs springs
under twenty years of constant tension that are just aching to fly
through my ribcage at warp five and pin me to a joist like a leaky,
briefly-whimpering marionette".
Posted by: hogmartin at July 27, 2018 11:28 PM (y87Qq)
When they go, there is violence, for sure. We have simple coil springs that are relaxed when the door is open. But a spring under compression/extension is to be respected.
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 27, 2018 11:29 PM (5jVnA)
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 27, 2018 11:28 PM (5jVnA)
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Just don't search it on Urban Dictionary! *shudder*
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 27, 2018 11:29 PM (+F0Wk)
Posted by: X-Ray at July 27, 2018 11:30 PM (xwvYG)
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 27, 2018 11:28 PM (5jVnA)
Nah, I'm not lying to you, my brother. The whole idea is to have a metal more electroactive than iron to serve as a sacrificial anode, i.e., the metal that gets corroded in preference to the other.
It's exactly the same principle as placing zinc bits on the hulls of ships.
Would a chemist lie to you?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:30 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 27, 2018 11:31 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at July 27, 2018 11:31 PM (8ZmvG)
Posted by: MAxIE, mentioned in dispatches at July 27, 2018 11:32 PM (9TR2V)
Yikes! Ya'll sure have had your fill of tick-borne diseases.
Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2018 11:33 PM (4HMW8)
So, last night I tried reading forward through the comments, got a couple hundred in and got distracted and never got caught up to live comments.
I would try reading backward through the comments, but sometimes when you do that you can hear the devil screaming about collusion.
So... first to the rest of the content. Of all things.... Then I can figure out how to read the comments.
Posted by: mindful webworker - marginally marginalized at July 27, 2018 11:33 PM (eauMe)
Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess
That wasn't a possessive, but a single quote. The distinction is "actresses" vs actresses. The former aren't noted for their acting ability. Not one little bit.
So I was speaking a publication, perhaps popular at barber shops, but certainly at "barber shops" dubbed "Actresses" Weekly.
The rule is that single quotes go inside double quotes when you're quoting a quote, right? I defer to you on these important things.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 27, 2018 11:33 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at July 27, 2018 11:33 PM (Liolw)
Posted by: X-Ray at July 27, 2018 11:30 PM (xwvYG)
So you can appreciate my task: a six-point (not a twelve-point) socket, a breaker bar, a three foot length of pipe over the handle of the breaker bar, and some heartfelt, fluent, and poetic Anglo-Saxon. Job done.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:34 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 27, 2018 11:34 PM (rnAwa)
Meth shed chemist or Dupont?
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at July 27, 2018 11:33 PM (Liolw)
What's the difference?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:35 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at July 27, 2018 11:36 PM (Liolw)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 27, 2018 11:36 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: The Doctor at July 27, 2018 10:32 PM (JpIFY)
A slow year for Gaetan Dugas, aka Patient Zero. He racked up 5000 in three years.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:28 PM (YqDXo)
I just looked up your reference. He is described as a sociopath intentionally seeking to infect others.
So in today's terms in California that would be 5000 misdemeanors.
The guy should have been locked away for life. Consider the hysteria over HPV, which 90% of men and women carry. If a man gives a woman HPV, they are considered to be literally Mengele.
No excuse in HIV spreading in America and Canada the way it has and was aloud to do.
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 27, 2018 11:37 PM (JpIFY)
Posted by: SMH at July 27, 2018 11:37 PM (rCAAz)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:30 PM (YqDXo)
Actually, it is part of the job description.*
We had anodes in the navy (zinc). I get the concept. I just never knew of them being in water heaters, and at first mention, it sounded like military bearing grease or some other snipe hunt. But then again, we don't have corrosive water here, relatively, I would guess.
* From the navy days, the power plant water chemistry guys had an in joke that the answer to "what is X value on this particular water test?" is "what do you want it to be?" I can't recall which was the most nonsensical, whether TDS, pH, phosphates, etc. But that was my introduction to the honesty of "chemists."
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 27, 2018 11:37 PM (5jVnA)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 27, 2018 11:38 PM (i0s33)
Posted by: hogmartin at July 27, 2018 11:38 PM (y87Qq)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:35 PM (YqDXo)
How would we know?
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 27, 2018 11:38 PM (5jVnA)
Preventative galvanic corrosion with a sacrificial anode.
Posted by: X-Ray at July 27, 2018 11:38 PM (xwvYG)
Something I thought about doing with an electric water heater, but never did was this. They have two elements, top and bottom, but they never run both at the same time. This is to keep the circuit requirements less than 30A (well, 24A, max continuous on a 30A circuit, 80%).
So I though about just pulling two circuits and rigging it to let both run at the same time, if needed, and wondered what that would do for the recovery time.
I've got a gas water heater now, and that's now a problem.
I've sort of mused about putting hot water out in the shop, and I've got 3-phase out there, and would've just ran the two elements between two different phases.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 27, 2018 11:39 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: SMH at July 27, 2018 11:39 PM (rCAAz)
Posted by: hogmartin
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Safety cables. Always. There's no reason to assume that they won't fail while you're just standing there. I had one spontaneously fail at 3 o'clock in the morning. Startled the hell out of me, as I was in bed in the bedroom above the garage.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 11:39 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2018 11:39 PM (4HMW8)
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 27, 2018 11:28 PM (5jVnA)
Nah, I'm not lying to you, my brother. The whole idea is to have a metal more electroactive than iron to serve as a sacrificial anode, i.e., the metal that gets corroded in preference to the other.
It's exactly the same principle as placing zinc bits on the hulls of ships.
When we lived in Chateau Merde we kept having rust show up in the ice water line.
I traced the problem back to where two copper pipes had been joined with an iron fitting.
Now I'm no plumbing guru, but I know a shorted electrochemical cell when I see one. And on breaking the shorted electrochemical cell, the problem was solved.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:40 PM (YqDXo)
Yikes! Ya'll sure have had your fill of tick-borne diseases.
Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2018 11:33 PM (4HMW
They are aweful this year. I have 10-20 on me and my clothes when I get back from hiking in the woods. I get at least 5 on my legs just from walking in the front yard playing with the doggehs.
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 27, 2018 11:40 PM (JpIFY)
We are probably writing off one of our Friday night restaurants. Good food, good service, good prices, bad clientele. We came in and were seated next to a party of four... ladies that had already paid its bill. While we ordered, ate, and paid, they were yelling across the table at each other and cackling at the top of their voices. This isn't the first time this has happened.
When we finished and left, they were still there. Managers must love this kind of party. No doubt they tip well, he added sardonically.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2018 11:40 PM (LsBY9)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 27, 2018 11:41 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: X-Ray at July 27, 2018 11:38 PM (xwvYG)
This.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:41 PM (YqDXo)
Goodnight, beloved Horde!
I'm gonna rest up and see how I feel in the morning.
Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2018 11:39 PM (4HMW
Hope you are feeling better and get it pinned down soon.
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 27, 2018 11:41 PM (5jVnA)
Posted by: hogmartin at July 27, 2018 11:41 PM (y87Qq)
Beautiful full moon.
....
I'd advise you to visit the University of the South at Sewanee up on Monteagle Mountain if I thought you were sightseeing.
Absolutely beautiful up there.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 27, 2018 11:41 PM (i0s33)
"Ma'am, I held the door for you not because I had any suspicion you were a lady, but because I know I am a gentleman."
Much hilarity ensued.
Pro tip for more hilarity? Just let go at that point and let the door hit her in the face.
Posted by: Weirddave at July 27, 2018 11:42 PM (bQXMb)
Posted by: SMH
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Mars should be clearly visible, about 4 o'clock from the moon, maybe a handwidth away. Worth a look if you haven't seen it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 11:42 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 27, 2018 11:38 PM (i0s33)
The duPont chemists' chicks still have teeth?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:43 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 27, 2018 11:44 PM (HaL55)
electrochemical cell when I see one. And on breaking the shorted
electrochemical cell, the problem was solved.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:40 PM (YqDXo)
I saw shorted electrochemical cell open for they might be giants at SUNY RAC in the 90s. I am ChemE, BTW.
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 27, 2018 11:44 PM (5jVnA)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 27, 2018 11:44 PM (NWiLs)
Guy in tub ended aburptly. She threw the camera at him at that point?
Now, how to approach comments?
Ah, I know... both ways from the middle.
Posted by: mindful webworker - urinating with precision and elegance, but mostly precision thank goodness at July 27, 2018 11:44 PM (eauMe)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity
I have a theory. It is all the swearing that really breaks a rusted bolt loose. I've never had one break loose yet without yelling swear words at it.
Posted by: X-Ray at July 27, 2018 11:44 PM (xwvYG)
quotes when you're quoting a quote, right? I defer to you on these
important things.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 27, 2018 11:33 PM (8O3HH)
You're absolutely correct - I didn't see that. Sloppy on my part.
Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at July 27, 2018 11:45 PM (qUahL)
It never ceases to amaze me how much shit y'all know how to do. And how I don't know how to do jack shit by comparison.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 27, 2018 11:44 PM (NWiLs)
The secret to success is failure.
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 27, 2018 11:45 PM (5jVnA)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 11:39 PM (CDGwz)
I'll look that up - I'm assuming it's just a retaining cable that prevents the spring from exceeding its maximum operational travel or holds it to the mount?
Mostly I just live in a constant state of numb existential dread while dicking around in the garage/workshop*, but this safety cable thing sounds promising!
* and everywhere else too, to be honest
Posted by: hogmartin at July 27, 2018 11:45 PM (y87Qq)
I have been called a superficial asshole but it had nothing to do with rust.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 27, 2018 11:45 PM (CSNuj)
it is an exercise in power, dumb millenial.
dumb. millenial.
Posted by: deepelemblues at July 27, 2018 11:45 PM (ryr6F)
And 1st world problems, I hope the ticks start leaving you alone.
Posted by: Emmie at July 27, 2018 11:46 PM (4HMW8)
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 27, 2018 11:37 PM (5jVnA)
The first time I swapped out the sacrificial anode on our water heater - which by usual standards should be long gone - the anode was, to my alarm, corroded to a pathetic thread of material.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:46 PM (YqDXo)
Had a garage door spring fail once. Blew a hole big enough to throw a golf ball through in the roof. Landlord at the time was not happy about having to replace the damaged shingles.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at July 27, 2018 11:47 PM (IcT7t)
YOU KEEP DOOR CLOSE
PLEASE COOPERATE COMPLETELY
MOCKING RULES NOT PERMITTED
I like the last one especially - the English is actually OK, and the authoritarian mindset shines through nicely.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 27, 2018 11:47 PM (QDnY+)
It never ceases to amaze me how much shit y'all know how to do. And how I don't know how to do jack shit by comparison.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 27, 2018 11:44 PM (NWiLs)
The secret to success is failure.
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 27, 2018 11:45 PM (5jVnA)
You have no idea how antithetical that is to everything I was taught and conditioned to believe.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 27, 2018 11:48 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 27, 2018 11:44 PM (5jVnA)
Ah, so you know the drill. I'm tracing the copper line back until I find a connection that is magnetic. Dissimilar metals, in contact with an electrolyte. I think I found the problem ...
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:48 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 27, 2018 11:39 PM (8O3HH
I was always told the bottom element heated the water and the top element kept it warm.
Don't know if it's true or not.
Posted by: dDan at July 27, 2018 11:49 PM (hwYmz)
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 27, 2018 11:28 PM (5jVnA)
I would expect such anodes are most needed in regions with very soft water. If you have a lot of calcium, magnesium, or sodium in your water, it's likely to be basic, not acid.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2018 11:49 PM (NV/E7)
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 27, 2018 11:49 PM (5jVnA)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 27, 2018 11:44 PM (NWiLs)
It is rarely important to immediately know how to do anything right the first time. It is vitally important to know where to find out how to do something, should the need arise. "I have no idea, but I'll look it up" is almost never the wrong answer.
So buck up, silly. Treat yourself to a delicious ice cream sandwich.
Posted by: hogmartin at July 27, 2018 11:49 PM (y87Qq)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:43 PM (YqDXo)
....
Exactly.
Fewer open sores as well, I'd imagine.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 27, 2018 11:49 PM (i0s33)
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 27, 2018 11:45 PM (5jVnA)
You have no idea how antithetical that is to everything I was taught and conditioned to believe.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 27, 2018 11:48 PM (NWiLs)
In fairness, I would qualify that to read "non-lethal failure."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:50 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: X-Ray
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It's at least possible that blood sacrifices via damaged knuckles helps also.
We could probably add a section to the AoSHQ Hints & Tips Book with suggested phrases. I would submit, 'You c*cksucking, whore mongering, SOB...'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 11:50 PM (xSo9G)
"You can't run an army without profanity, and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag."
- Gen. George S. Patton
Posted by: rhomboid at July 27, 2018 11:50 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:50 PM (YqDXo)
Thanks for nothing.
Posted by: Timothy Treadwell at July 27, 2018 11:51 PM (CSNuj)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:48 PM (YqDXo)
Yep. And that chemists can lie with impunity.
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 27, 2018 11:51 PM (5jVnA)
It never ceases to amaze me how much shit y'all know how to do. And how I don't know how to do jack shit by comparison.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 27, 2018 11:44 PM (NWiLs)
The secret to success is failure.
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 27, 2018 11:45 PM (5jVnA)
It's living 25 hours a day.
Posted by: Night Ranger at July 27, 2018 11:51 PM (JpIFY)
There is truth to that, but it's grunting or yelling in general not just cussin'. I've noticed that, and been told do that. Grunt when you're straining and it seems you get an extra boost of force.
They did some study on that, and found a typical human can get about a 10% increase in output force from grunting.
Just looked it up. The number is 7%. 7% increase in force on average.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 27, 2018 11:51 PM (8O3HH)
You aim too, please.
Posted by: the janitor at July 27, 2018 11:52 PM (03kKB)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 27, 2018 11:48 PM (NWiLs)
Believe you me, it is easier said than done. But overcoming fear of failure is the first step to success. Which is also easier said than done.
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 27, 2018 11:53 PM (5jVnA)
Now I'm going to hit that urinal with VELOCITY.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 27, 2018 11:53 PM (CSNuj)
Just looked it up. The number is 7%. 7% increase in force on average.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 27, 2018 11:51 PM (8O3HH)
Do you have any studies on how much force increases when yelling "by the power of Grayskull"?
Just curious. Asking for myself.
Posted by: hogmartin at July 27, 2018 11:53 PM (y87Qq)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 27, 2018 11:53 PM (N1ZXu)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 11:42 PM (CDGwz)
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We're heading due east, so it's in front of us atm...with Mars.
Posted by: SMH at July 27, 2018 11:53 PM (rCAAz)
Posted by: hogmartin at July 27, 2018 11:54 PM (y87Qq)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 27, 2018 11:48 PM (NWiLs)
They lied. I know, I fell for it too.
Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at July 27, 2018 11:54 PM (qUahL)
I remember breaking loose some big nuts on some big rear tractor tires. This required a big 3/4" drive pull handle and a long cheater bar.
I couldn't break it without grunting. But a big "Raaargh!" and I could break it loose.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 27, 2018 11:54 PM (8O3HH)
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It's a cable that is attached to the wall of the garage just above the door, strung lengthwise through the spring, and attached at the far end to whatever structure secures that end of the spring.
If the spring fails, then it remains captive by the cable.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 11:54 PM (xSo9G)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 27, 2018 11:56 PM (N1ZXu)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2018 11:49 PM (NV/E7)
I think the controlling factor is the conductivity, i.e, osmolarity, of the water, more than its pH.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:56 PM (YqDXo)
I've sort of mused about putting hot water out in the shop, and I've got 3-phase out there, and would've just ran the two elements between two different phases.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 27, 2018 11:39 PM (8O3HH)
Heh. at my Arizona place, I rigged in a new 40 gallon electric water heater, did all the plumbing as close to code-perfect as I could, and the wiring, too, but could not get an electrician to come out and put a dual breaker in the panel to send it 240V, single phase. So, I put a regular 120 volt plug on the cable, and plugged 'er in to 120. It has worked perfectly that way ever since. Now, sooner or later, I will do it right, but the darn thing runs fine on 120, and gets from "cold" (well, "Phoenix cold", i.e. blood warm) to hot enough in about an hour.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2018 11:56 PM (NV/E7)
If I knew that 20 years ago maybe I'd still be married. Though probably not the screwing the study was researching.
Posted by: X-Ray at July 27, 2018 11:56 PM (xwvYG)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 27, 2018 11:56 PM (N1ZXu)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 27, 2018 11:57 PM (rnAwa)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 27, 2018 11:57 PM (N1ZXu)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 27, 2018 11:56 PM (N1ZXu)
From what I've heard - and I'm not a Russianologist, mind - you only need The One.
Posted by: hogmartin at July 27, 2018 11:57 PM (y87Qq)
200 ft-lbs, if I recall. A breaker bar + six-foot pipe is the easy way.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 11:58 PM (xSo9G)
They're generally both the same wattage. Cold water is directed to the bottom, and the hot water is tapped off the top.
The top thermostat is an SPDT thing (3-way). When it turns off, it switches over to the bottom element, which has its own single pole thermostat.
When the top closes, the top element runs until it opens, then the bottom element can run. The idea is to heat the top first, then heat the bottom.
During continuous draw down, you've only got the top element going. Run both of them at the same time, and you've got twice the heat going into the water.
Gas water heaters can easily dump enough heat in that the draw-down characteristics are much better.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 27, 2018 11:58 PM (8O3HH)
I remember when I was 17 I got to stay the summer with my Grandpa in farm country, Wisconsin, and he got me a job driving a harvester. I told him of course I could drive a tractor with a pto, and first day at work I told the company sure, no problem.
Well naturally I had never been on one in my life, but I figured a hell a lot of idiots run these things all the time, how hard could it be? I figured out the basics in about 30 minutes, luckily is was out in a field and no one watched too hard, and I got the hang of it by the end of the first day. Left foot right foot brake steering took some practice, but it was fun.
And that was how I learned to run farm equipment.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2018 11:59 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 27, 2018 11:53 PM (5jVnA)
True, but fear of failure is, I suspect, more a male thing. Let's face it, if you try and fail you lose man points. I think the first step to success is to have some idea what you're doing, and THEN to overcome fear of failure. Youtube can be invaluable to the former. How is this damned thing held together? After that, it's all downhill.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:59 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: flounderbot
Having spent decades destroying my finances, blundering away my opportunities, alienating my family, and undermining my future, I often, as the saying goes, wish that I'd known then what I know now.
But I didn't. And the only way I know what I know now is by having experienced all the devastation and ruinous decisions I've been through.
It's like all ironical or something.
Posted by: mindful webworker - wiser but so what at July 27, 2018 11:59 PM (eauMe)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 27, 2018 11:48 PM (NWiLs)
They lied. I know, I fell for it too.
Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at July 27, 2018 11:54 PM (qUahL)
Sucks doesn't it? You have to perform, you have to succeed, the first time, every time. If you don't, you're a failure.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 27, 2018 11:59 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 27, 2018 11:57 PM (rnAwa)
Same, or that some funny thing Ace or a cob or commenter posted a year ago sticks in my brain and I post it again without realizing it. And then everyone says cruel, hurtful things and throws cigarette butts and bottle caps at my tiny peanut head.
Posted by: hogmartin at July 28, 2018 12:00 AM (y87Qq)
Posted by: Farmer at July 28, 2018 12:00 AM (yJ1e6)
* and everywhere else too, to be honest
Posted by: hogmartin at July 27, 2018 11:45 PM (y87Qq)
I have a flip-up steel garage door in my barn that uses counterweights, not springs. Found the door at the dump, no counterweights with it, and rigged it in. I use a pair of
Studebaker OHV six cylinder heads as counterweights, which is about their highest and best use, as they were prone to cracking between the valve seats.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2018 12:01 AM (NV/E7)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 27, 2018 11:56 PM (N1ZXu)
What's it like to be called a Russian Spy in meatspace by real live people?
Posted by: Night Ranger at July 28, 2018 12:01 AM (JpIFY)
Posted by:
THAT'S NOT THE MOON!!!
Posted by: NASA at July 28, 2018 12:01 AM (03kKB)
What's the thing rated for? If it's rated 240V, I don't see the problem. The resistance of those things is fairly constant, IIRC, nichrome elements or whatever the material is.
So, with constant R, you'll get only 1/4 of the power output at half-voltage. Now, you definitely do not want to run an element at twice rated voltage. If it's a 120V element (and they make those things, but the power is so low....), then running it at 2x voltage and 4x power, would not be a good idea.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 28, 2018 12:01 AM (8O3HH)
Thanks for the info.
Posted by: dDan at July 28, 2018 12:01 AM (hwYmz)
Posted by: X-Ray at July 27, 2018 11:38 PM (xwvYG)
The Aztecs tore that still beating sacrificial anode right out of the water heater's living tank.
Barbaric. Gruesome.
And that was just the plumber's bill.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 28, 2018 12:02 AM (QzJWU)
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It helps if no one is watching. Sadly, many of my stupidest mistakes have been witnessed.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 28, 2018 12:02 AM (xSo9G)
thing. Let's face it, if you try and fail you lose man points. I think
the first step to success is to have some idea what you're doing, and
THEN to overcome fear of failure. Youtube can be invaluable to the
former. How is this damned thing held together? After that, it's all
downhill.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 27, 2018 11:59 PM (YqDXo)
You don't lose man points, you gain boneheaded funny stories to relate when drinking beers.
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 28, 2018 12:02 AM (5jVnA)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 28, 2018 12:02 AM (QzJWU)
My People used every part of the water heater.
Posted by: Elizabeth Ann Warren at July 28, 2018 12:03 AM (y87Qq)
This normalization has become increasingly open, particularly within academia, where pre-pubescent sexuality is lauded, such as from the Department of Sociology as the University of California, Santa Barbara.
These academic abusers never bother to read medical and case notes for the children who are abused.
I will stop there and say no more.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2018 12:03 AM (2K6fY)
Posted by: Hare lip at July 28, 2018 12:04 AM (IqV8l)
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 28, 2018 12:02 AM (5jVnA)
Or that occurred while drinking beers.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 28, 2018 12:04 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 27, 2018 11:59 PM (NWiLs)
My biggest fear is that my boys will also have to unlearn late in life that you have to do everything perfect the first time. It has kept me from too long a list of pursuits. I see it in them and I try to ensure that nobody is perfect without practice, which includes, of course, failures.
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 28, 2018 12:05 AM (5jVnA)
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 27, 2018 11:45 PM (5jVnA)
Just not too much failure all at once.
Posted by: GWB at July 28, 2018 12:05 AM (XoqA6)
.....
I've read studies that suggest the fear of failure is strongly associated with intelligence.
The theory posits that intelligent people analyze things so deeply they anticipate the potentiality of things going awry. They also tend to overemphasize their own lack of experience. Essentially they know what they don't know and are hesitant to attempt new undertakings.
Less intelligent people, the theory posits, tend to overestimate their own abilities, do not frequently identify potential problems and are more willing to try new things and figure things out as they go.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 28, 2018 12:07 AM (i0s33)
I still have work ahead of me, but man is it fun and the most rewarding job in the world being a dad.
Posted by: Night Ranger at July 28, 2018 12:08 AM (JpIFY)
200 ft-lbs, if I recall. A breaker bar + six-foot pipe is the easy way.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 11:58 PM (xSo9G)
Yep. And the flywheels gland nut on the VW engine is about the same. And that's enough force to roll the engine over on the ground.
And Studebaker, Jeep, and Mopar products with tapered hubs on the rear axles call for a similar torque value on the axle nut.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2018 12:08 AM (NV/E7)
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 28, 2018 12:08 AM (5jVnA)
I will stop there and say no more.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2018 12:03 AM (2K6fY)
Modern Leftism seems to be built on a mountain of damaged psyches.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2018 12:08 AM (nvpzs)
Studebaker OHV six cylinder heads as counterweights, which is about their highest and best use, as they were prone to cracking between the valve seats.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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*!*
Hmm. I have some Olds 350 heads. Let's see, this should call for a couple of cams...or fusees.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 28, 2018 12:08 AM (xSo9G)
In many ways, this is the story of Obama.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 28, 2018 12:08 AM (N1ZXu)
Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2018 12:08 AM (m45I2)
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 28, 2018 12:05 AM (5jVnA)
Same here. It's one of the primary reasons I have very little self-confidence. Failure isn't an event in a process of learning, it's additional evidence of worthlessness. It's a horrible way to live.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 28, 2018 12:09 AM (NWiLs)
I think that's true, but then I don't think I'm the one to talk.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 28, 2018 12:09 AM (N1ZXu)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity
That which doesn't kill you, makes you smarter?
Posted by: mikeski at July 28, 2018 12:10 AM (P1f+c)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 27, 2018 11:56 PM (N1ZXu)
Just tell them, "Hey, when I go back to Moscow for instructions, I get to bang Anna Chapman, and you don't!"
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2018 12:10 AM (NV/E7)
Speaking of dissimilar metal corrosion, a good one was some jack-legging wiring at a church. It was 60Aish, 3-phase circuit, from a fused safety switch. The fuses were blowing.
The thing wasn't pulling enough current to blow the fuses, but boy was it. It was getting very hot. The troule was someone had spliced aluminum to copper directly in a box near that switch. It had corroded and was heating. Copper carrying the heat back the switch, which was enough to melt the fuses.
YOu can splice copper to aluminum. If there's no moisture around. And, some jack-legs truck can work, such as filling the splice with "No-AL-Ox", an anti-oxidant compound. But I wouldn't trust it.
I think they make a wire nut dookickey system rated to splice Cu to AL,in the smaller wire sizes, and it does it this way essentially. Clean them both up and the thing is filled with some anti-oxidant compound that keeps water out.
But I wouldn't trust it for a second. But they got it UL rated.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 28, 2018 12:11 AM (8O3HH)
I think that's true, but then I don't think I'm the one to talk.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 28, 2018 12:09 AM (N1ZXu)
Perhaps. Though my psyche is pretty severely damaged and I hate the modern left's fucking guts.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 28, 2018 12:11 AM (NWiLs)
Less intelligent people, the theory posits, tend to overestimate their own abilities, do not frequently identify potential problems and are more willing to try new things and figure things out as they go.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 28, 2018 12:07 AM (i0s33)
Dunning-Kruger, I think. I'd have to look it up to be sure, I could be mistaken.
Posted by: hogmartin at July 28, 2018 12:11 AM (y87Qq)
Posted by: redc1c4 at July 28, 2018 12:12 AM (1KVV3)
I fear failure greatly. That's why I always make sure no one is watching when I try something for the first time.
If no one sees me fuck up, then I'm okay. :-)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 28, 2018 12:12 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Calm Mentor at July 28, 2018 12:13 AM (YRtrf)
Posted by: X-Ray at July 28, 2018 12:13 AM (xwvYG)
I fear failure greatly. That's why I always make sure no one is watching when I try something for the first time.
If no one sees me fuck up, then I'm okay. :-)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 28, 2018 12:12 AM (8O3HH)
If you fuck up in a forest, and nobody is around to see it...
Posted by: Insomniac at July 28, 2018 12:13 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity
Now you're telling us proximity to Donny Osmond is what causes water heaters to fail?
Posted by: mikeski at July 28, 2018 12:13 AM (P1f+c)
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 28, 2018 12:14 AM (JpIFY)
Heh
Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2018 12:14 AM (m45I2)
But I wouldn't trust it for a second. But they got it UL rated.
Posted by: publius
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UL Listing is a very low bar, and yet municipalities bow to it. Not much choice, I suppose, but there is some very cheesy shit that is Listed.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 28, 2018 12:15 AM (CDGwz)
I have had this conversation with numerous other people in management and people I have been training for management, and one of these days, it is going to get me in trouble.
Most people are not afraid of failing, but being seen to fail- to be thought of as an idiot. This means they do not put forth ideas, they do not ask questions they think everyone already knows the answer to. They do not try something they think might be beyond their reach.
My analogy is this: sometimes, you have to slap your dick on the table no matter what happens and say 'Here it is! Go ahead, tell me what you think!'. Sure, someone might whack it, but you cannot be afraid to try.
The annoying assholes are those who sit back, never venturing anything and just criticizing everyone else who actually tries. Do not be that asshole.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2018 12:15 AM (nvpzs)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 28, 2018 12:09 AM (NWiLs)
It is, and awareness is the first step to a change of perspective.
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 28, 2018 12:15 AM (5jVnA)
If you websearch that, be aware that her pics are most NSFW...
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 28, 2018 12:15 AM (N1ZXu)
Posted by: X-Ray at July 28, 2018 12:13 AM (xwvYG)
That's the most critical part, I think. Exasperation and disgust because you don't get it right immediately do very little to inspire confidence or persistence.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 28, 2018 12:15 AM (NWiLs)
As long as it's not with fire, you're probably OK.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at July 28, 2018 12:15 AM (IcT7t)
That's Dunning-Kruger indeed, and it's a big thing.
Another interesting thing is the level of anxiety. There is an optimum. Too little worry about something, and you don't anticipate all that can go wrong. You're cocksure, Casey at the bat.
Too much, however, and it's bad too. So, there's a sweet spot of anxiety.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 28, 2018 12:16 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2018 12:15 AM (nvpzs)
I'm a different type of asshole.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 28, 2018 12:17 AM (NWiLs)
breaks a rusted bolt loose. I've never had one break loose yet without
yelling swear words at it.
Posted by: X-Ray at July 27, 2018 11:44 PM (xwvYG)
If you have a nut that is really rusted on and the blaster and penetrating oil isn't working, take an angle grinder and take a good meaty corner off it. That should change the geometery of the stress on the nut, and it will probably heat it enough to make it expand enough to break free of the rust too.
. . . . and if that doesn't work you have the angle grinder right there and handy to take the bolt off clean anyways.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2018 12:17 AM (2K6fY)
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 28, 2018 12:17 AM (JpIFY)
Posted by: mikeski at July 28, 2018 12:13 AM (P1f+c)
I knew it. Snipe hunt.
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 28, 2018 12:17 AM (5jVnA)
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 28, 2018 12:02 AM (5jVnA)
Depends. The earnest liberal who bought Chateau Merde from us didn't want to use a power mower - protect the polar bears, doncha know - and so set about in mid-summer wearing long pants and a jacket to mow the lawn with a reel mower after he'd let the lawn grown to about a foot high. (We live nearby, and heard this from the neighbors.)
Now anyone who's ever used a reel mower knows how this turned out. He made it about six feet before saying "fuggit" and getting Juan to come in with a power mower.
The funny part is that he started his mowing out in the front yard, in front of God and everybody, so his failure was manifest to God and everybody.
Moral: if you're not sure what you're doing, perhaps start on a small scale where people can't see you. In his case, in the BACK yard, where you can realize you're over your head without losing man points.
But if you start in the front yard, by Christ, you'd better finish the front yard, even if you have a heart attack doing it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 28, 2018 12:18 AM (YqDXo)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 28, 2018 12:18 AM (rnAwa)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 28, 2018 12:16 AM (8O3HH)
You need just enough to keep you sharp, but not so much as to be paralyzed.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 28, 2018 12:19 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: JROD at July 28, 2018 12:19 AM (+MWCq)
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner
Or that occurred while drinking beers.
Posted by: Insomniac
Exactly. Nobody thinks "that guy is unmanly" when the episode starts with a "hold my beer and watch this".
Unwise, probably. Unmanly, no.
Posted by: mikeski at July 28, 2018 12:20 AM (P1f+c)
As long as it's not with fire, you're probably OK.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at July 28, 2018 12:15 AM (IcT7t)
Or felling a tree.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 28, 2018 12:20 AM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2018 12:20 AM (m45I2)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 28, 2018 12:09 AM (NWiLs)
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This is absolutely not true, and I think you know that. I know it's how you feel, but that is emotion. Not logic.
Failure, if learned from and not repeated, can be a wonderful thing. It is how one learns. The key here is to not dodge responsibility, but own it, admit to it, and move on.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at July 28, 2018 12:21 AM (YRtrf)
In many ways, this is the story of Obama.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 28, 2018 12:08 AM (N1ZXu)
Yeah, who painted him to look like a President?
Posted by: rickl at July 28, 2018 12:21 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2018 12:22 AM (NV/E7)
As long as it's not with fire, you're probably OK.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at July 28, 2018 12:15 AM (IcT7t)
Or felling a tree.
...so I've heard
Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2018 12:22 AM (m45I2)
THIS!!! and usually they WATCHED you doing it and waited till the project was done to bitch!!
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at July 28, 2018 12:23 AM (Liolw)
Taken to a higher level.
My next door neighbor is a U.S. Coast Guard Master Electrician. He's damned good with the entire tool inventory, but I'm the far better craftsman and carpenter.
I help him build his deck to code, plumb and true. He wires my garage for 220 V.
The other USCG guy across the street? Shipfitter. His welds are not "nice, straight and neat". No. They're PERFECTLY NICE, PERFECTLY STRAIGHT, and PERFECTLY NEAT.
Same with most any metal work he does. He's also a great mechanic, too.
What he's bad at, is FINISHING a project.
I've been of some help in that arena for him. And he's done some critical metal work for me, and making me a better welder, one project at a time.
We all ask one another for help, as needed.
It's not a "eating dirt" form of Humility. It's the Servant's Heart kind, much like Weird Dave so aptly illustrated in that ONT Content, oh, so very long ago.
We're actually all humbly proud of our respective skills, and offer to help our neighbors, often.
A brother sharpens a brother, like iron upon iron.
Read that somewhere, I think.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 28, 2018 12:23 AM (QzJWU)
You will generally avoid jail time.
Posted by: X-Ray at July 28, 2018 12:24 AM (xwvYG)
Electricity, firearms, chemicals, heights, power tools....they require study and preparatio before initial use.
Putting up shelves, working on the car, etc....the worst I can really do is cost myself some money.
The exception to that was sex. I just jumped right in on that without much thought to what might happen as a result of screwing up.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 28, 2018 12:24 AM (i0s33)
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at July 28, 2018 12:23 AM (Liolw)
Yeah, I call them zero sum credit motherfuckers.
They believe that there is only a finite amount of credit in the universe. If someone else looks good, they look bad.
Fucking liberal economic morons.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2018 12:24 AM (nvpzs)
Pity the guy who got it right first go, he doesn't learn anything.
The failures, if you are willing to listen, tell you more than anything else.
But you can't just say, "that didn't work" you have to also ask, "what does this mean?"
Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2018 12:24 AM (2K6fY)
Posted by: JROD at July 28, 2018 12:19 AM (+MWCq)
I was hardcore into martial arts years ago. I presently don't have the resources and my knees are borked.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 28, 2018 12:24 AM (NWiLs)
Toire o kirei ni natte itadaki arigatou gozaimasu
"We gratefully thank you for leaving the bathroom clean"
Posted by: Socratease at July 28, 2018 12:25 AM (2GbWn)
it, if you try and fail you lose man points. I think the first step to
success is to have some idea what you're doing, and THEN to overcome
fear of failure. Youtube can be invaluable to the former. How is this
damned thing held together? After that, it's all downhill.
Yeah, well, what pisses me off is when I do things right and they still don't work. I replaced the hot water heater on the RV yesterday, and I did everything right, and I STILL have a slight leak where the RV lines connect to the tank. I'm gonna have to pull the entire thing at least partway out to fix (all I'm going to have to do is re-wrap the threads with plumber's tape, but when the tank is in the fully installed position there just isn't enough slack in the lines to get the nut to "bite"-and you have to do it left handed, through a small access hole with your ass hanging out of the back compartment of the RV to boot-so you have to be able to wiggle the tank itself to make them line up). It's mounted with 24 screws, sealed up tight and waterproofed, gas and electric are all wired 5 X 5 (I used it yesterday, works great)...and I'm going to have to undo all of that just to redo the simplest part of the job. GRRRRRR!
Posted by: Weirddave at July 28, 2018 12:26 AM (bQXMb)
start on a small scale where people can't see you. In his case, in the
BACK yard, where you can realize you're over your head without losing
man points.
But if you start in the front yard, by Christ, you'd better finish the front yard, even if you have a heart attack doing it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 28, 2018 12:18 AM (YqDXo)
I don't know. That still sounds like a story I would tell over beers about how smart I thought I was. And how I am now anti-polar bear. But maybe that's just me. I would laugh at myself for being a pretentious douche and learn my lesson.
Life is funny. You gotta laugh at yourself. I have done some pretty stupid stuff in my day.
One day, I will tell the tale of being the phantom shitter. But today is not that day.
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 28, 2018 12:26 AM (5jVnA)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 28, 2018 12:24 AM (NWiLs)
You could probably join a wheelchair slap fighting league.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2018 12:26 AM (nvpzs)
OH MY GOD, THE TREES !!!!!!!!
Posted by: Adriane the You Must be Guilty of Some'it Critic ... at July 28, 2018 12:27 AM (AoK0a)
Posted by: JROD at July 28, 2018 12:27 AM (+MWCq)
Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2018 12:20 AM (m45I2)
Just think of all the jobs that will be created in the construction industry, building replacements!
Doubly ironic, in that Leftards nearly all subscribe to the broken windows fallacy, and what better "broken window" could there be than mass population displacement and infrastructure destruction caused by Gerbil Worming?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2018 12:28 AM (NV/E7)
Failure, if learned from and not repeated, can be a wonderful thing. It is how one learns. The key here is to not dodge responsibility, but own it, admit to it, and move on.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at July 28, 2018 12:21 AM (YRtrf)
I know it's not true, I'm just describing what's ingrained into me at a fundamental level. It's not rational or logical, but it is crippling.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 28, 2018 12:28 AM (NWiLs)
If you absolutely, positively MUST have the upper-decker delivered to that overpriced snooty hipster bar's bathroom TONIGHT . . .
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 28, 2018 12:28 AM (N1ZXu)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 28, 2018 12:09 AM (NWiLs)
Perfection is unrealistic. Boo-boos are par for the course, until you learn how to do something, unless the boo-boos are catastrophic.
The trick is to learn the ethos: to think before doing things. If you cut this tree limb, how and where is it going to fall? If the power saw binds up, where will it kick? Is this circuit you're going to work on live? How do you know? Are you sure?
That sort of thing.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 28, 2018 12:28 AM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 28, 2018 12:24 AM (NWiLs)
You could probably join a wheelchair slap fighting league.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2018 12:26 AM (nvpzs)
Heh. I'm not crippled yet.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 28, 2018 12:28 AM (NWiLs)
Re the Cu-Al wirenuts. Ideal, big wire nut/electrical stuff outfit makes some, "Ideal 64 purple wirenuts".
They are filled with an anti-oxidant and have a little gasket seal thingy.
Look it up to see it. And the first thing I see is pictures of them failing, melted and burned.
I'll read up on this. I'm sure they would say the failures are due to improper installation or in areas not rated (like moist/damp places or something).
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 28, 2018 12:29 AM (8O3HH)
And that's just the humans.Posted by: ro-man at July 28, 2018 12:29 AM (RuIsu)
*****
I love it when you talk dirty.
Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2018 12:30 AM (m45I2)
Posted by: hogmartin
I saw Numb Existential Dread open for Morrissey at...
...no, wait, it was just Morrissey. Nevermind.
Posted by: mikeski at July 28, 2018 12:30 AM (P1f+c)
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 28, 2018 12:30 AM (5jVnA)
They believe that there is only a finite amount of credit in the universe. If someone else looks good, they look bad.
I also think there is a lot of "I can't/won't do this, but I'll sure as hell tell you how to."
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at July 28, 2018 12:30 AM (Liolw)
The funny part is that he started his mowing out in the front yard, in front of God and everybody, so his failure was manifest to God and everybody.
Moral: if you're not sure what you're doing, perhaps start on a small scale where people can't see you. In his case, in the BACK yard, where you can realize you're over your head without losing man points.
But if you start in the front yard, by Christ, you'd better finish the front yard, even if you have a heart attack doing it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 28, 2018 12:18 AM (YqDXo)
Reel mowers come in powered and unpowered; the latter are called "push mowers" in polite company.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2018 12:30 AM (NV/E7)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 28, 2018 12:24 AM (NWiLs)
Seitai jodo ... fairly easy on the knees.
Posted by: Adriane the Sports Critic ... at July 28, 2018 12:31 AM (AoK0a)
Posted by: JROD at July 28, 2018 12:27 AM (+MWCq)
One tournament. We did a lot of in-class sparring though. I was miserable when I thought I didn't do well enough, which was a lot of the time.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 28, 2018 12:31 AM (NWiLs)
That sort of thing.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 28, 2018 12:28 AM (YqDXo)
Common sense. Something most parents failed to teach their intelligent kids. Like my parents. I learned this common sense lesson on this blog. I've practiced it ever since.
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 28, 2018 12:31 AM (JpIFY)
I am a Certified Welding Inspector. I cant weld for crap. True manual welding is an art. Those guys just feel something I don't. I get the words "drag the pool" and can do it kinda. But real welders paint with molten metal.
Posted by: X-Ray at July 28, 2018 12:31 AM (xwvYG)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Also, Mars currently at about 4-5 o'clock, and a handwidth away, so, lower. It may show up yet.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 28, 2018 12:32 AM (CDGwz)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 28, 2018 12:32 AM (8O3HH)
Speaking of failure and profanity, watching some russki videos (good stuff, Zhukov and Rokossovsky, history of the Order of Victory medal, etc.), and at times it seems like they're talking faster than the DJs on Mexican AM radio when they're doing some of their schtick. Very frustrating, but I'm doing it to revive vocabulary and comprehension.
RUSSIA!!!
Posted by: rhomboid at July 28, 2018 12:32 AM (QDnY+)
Look it up to see it. And the first thing I see is pictures of them failing, melted and burned.
Unsurprising. The whole point of a wire nut is to connect wires by compression without solders or anything else that gets all melty and burny if it gets too hot.
Filling one with goop seems counterintuitive, even if it's generally-beneficial goop.
Posted by: mikeski at July 28, 2018 12:33 AM (P1f+c)
Posted by: Adriane the Sports Critic ... at July 28, 2018 12:31 AM (AoK0a)
Hmm. I've not heard of that before.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 28, 2018 12:34 AM (NWiLs)
I put in a stainless deep sink in our laundry. It leaked first time. Out it came, more teflon tape and a pipe wrench on the faucet fittings, instead of tight enough to make my hands bleed.
I should have known better, given my history and experience. I cut corners and got lazy. Lesson learned. And it had to come out anyway to drill some holes for mounting. Now we have a nice deep sink, a project I sat on for several years, just before we sell the house. I am an asshole.
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 28, 2018 12:35 AM (5jVnA)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2018 12:36 AM (NV/E7)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 28, 2018 12:36 AM (ALgU9)
There's a special place in hell for people who plumb lines (or electrical cable) that juuuuuuust makes it somewhere else, without any slack at all.
Hey, how about a 360 degree loop at the end, to make life easier for everybody?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 28, 2018 12:36 AM (YqDXo)
Tell everyone you're going Green.
Buy sheep.
Hope to score with eco minded hippie chicks ...
Posted by: Adriane the Grass Growing Critic ... at July 28, 2018 12:37 AM (AoK0a)
Sorry, had to say it. JROD certified pie welder.
Posted by: JROD at July 28, 2018 12:37 AM (+MWCq)
...no, wait, it was just Morrissey. Nevermind.
Posted by: mikeski at July 28, 2018 12:30 AM (P1f+c)
Fuckin' lol
Posted by: hogmartin at July 28, 2018 12:37 AM (y87Qq)
Further, how the F**K can there be so many people who have any interest in public affairs who are SO ignorant, and SO stupid, that they take any of this Trump/RUSSIA nonsense seriously, enough to say such idiotic things to BTH?
That completes my list of current questions.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 28, 2018 12:37 AM (QDnY+)
Some are pretty spectacular. Sprinkler systems set off, bus bars melted, etc.
As I have gotten older, I have found that self-effacing humor is often what I enjoy most. All when observed through the rearview mirror, of course.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 28, 2018 12:38 AM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2018 12:26 AM (nvpzs)
Heh. I'm not crippled yet.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 28, 2018 12:28 AM (NWiLs)
It's not like they are going to call you out on it. That would seem harsh.
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 28, 2018 12:38 AM (5jVnA)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 28, 2018 12:36 AM (ALgU9)
That does suck. I work my heavy bag now and again, but that's about it.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 28, 2018 12:39 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: JROD at July 28, 2018 12:39 AM (+MWCq)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 28, 2018 12:37 AM (QDnY+)
Short answer: People are very stupid- but think they're not.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2018 12:40 AM (nvpzs)
Posted by: Insomniac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB2UqF8tNYM
Narration in Japanese, but good filming ...
Posted by: Adriane the Grass Growing Critic ... at July 28, 2018 12:40 AM (AoK0a)
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at July 28, 2018 12:40 AM (Liolw)
Posted by: JROD at July 28, 2018 12:39 AM (+MWCq)
Do you weld pies before moving up to the more difficult cobbler welding?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2018 12:40 AM (nvpzs)
Buy sheep.
Hope to score with eco minded hippie chicks ...
Posted by: Adriane the Grass Growing Critic ... at July 28, 2018 12:37 AM (AoK0a)
I'm not sure if you were angling for a 'score with the sheep' riff here, but I'll not rise to the bait. I do really want a big slab of Manchego now though, thanks a lot Adriane
Posted by: hogmartin at July 28, 2018 12:41 AM (y87Qq)
Close enough for government work I say.
Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2018 12:41 AM (m45I2)
A baseball player, at the highest level of success, will fail to achieve the desired outcome 2/3rds of the time and achieve the ultimate goal perhaps 5-6% of the time in each attempt at bat. And yet even with the propensity for failure they are still regarded as successful and are feared for their relative likelihood of achieving the desired outcome,
The finest basketball players fail on half of their efforts shooting and fail at defending 40% of the time as well as losing the ball a number of times each game and fouling a number of times each game.
Tennis players lose a number of points, games, sets, etc.
There is failure built into the endeavors, however the relative successes are championed.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 28, 2018 12:41 AM (i0s33)
It's hard to convey Russian swear words in comments due to the necessity of transliteration into the English alphabet and the lack of pronunciation guide (which English-speakers really need, because Russian really requires you to move your mouth differently). That said, here are a few classics:
sooka : bitch
peezda : pussy
blyad : whore (but also a kind of all-purpose term of abuse)
yob tebya : go fuck yourself/fuck you (long o)
golooboi : slang for gay (literally light blue)
Maybe you can find pronunciation videos for these on the Interwebz.
Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at July 28, 2018 12:42 AM (H5knJ)
(obligatory AOSHQ riff)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 28, 2018 12:42 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2018 12:43 AM (NV/E7)
Cutting wire to short is a hallmark of amateur electricians. It's some basic idea of "saving wire", I think. Now, when you do a panel, you want it neat, not a jumble of wires going willy-nilly, and do that, you want a lot of play to work with. You bend the wire around, neatly, and come in the sides to the breakers, and use wire-ties and shit like that.
When you pull cable or THHN in a panel, take a loop all the way to the bottom or opposite end of where of it comes in, curve around and come back up or down the other side. That will give you more than enough to work with.
Yes, you're going to waste some. BFD. And you can use that for little jumpers and pigtails for other things.
In boxes, you want about 6". The length of your hand from middle fingertip to wrist will do roughly.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 28, 2018 12:43 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: ro-man at July 28, 2018 12:43 AM (RuIsu)
Posted by: rhomboid
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Because ALL of their sources of 'information' are
Ignorant
Stupid
Biased
Politically driven
Some combination of those. And those sources are all that they have, and go unchallenged, so they believe it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 28, 2018 12:43 AM (CDGwz)
Pi welders are irrational.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2018 12:43 AM (NV/E7)
And Pi are square.
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 28, 2018 12:44 AM (5jVnA)
Buy sheep.
Hope to score with eco minded hippie chicks ...
Posted by: Adriane the Grass Growing Critic ... at July 28, 2018 12:37 AM (AoK0a)
You laugh, but they would if they could. It's a liberal couple who've already plumped for the introductory two-pack of Third World kids, and who've talked about raising chickens (!) in the back yard. (This is suburban SoCal, and so a non-starter.)
They put several raised planters in the front yard - despite a large and pristine back yard - and they now feature several scraggly and dying/dead plants, and look like grave sites for all the world, as they're about six feet long and three feet wide. Now liberal genius did not think when he put those in, as they're exactly 0.9 lawn mower widths apart. How to mow the grass in between them? Hmmm.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 28, 2018 12:44 AM (YqDXo)
Posted by: JROD at July 28, 2018 12:44 AM (+MWCq)
That does suck. I work my heavy bag now and again, but that's about it.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 28, 2018 12:39 AM (NWiLs)
Probably can get back to the speed bag in a month or so, heavy bag is about 6 months away hopefully.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 28, 2018 12:44 AM (ALgU9)
Sorry, had to say it. JROD certified pie welder.
Posted by: JROD
If I took offence to that I would be a bad CWI. I know I am going to piss off some welders. And I'll back down if they can show me where I read the specs wrong. The first year doing it was a bitch until I showed them why I failed what the guy before me passed.
Posted by: X-Ray at July 28, 2018 12:44 AM (xwvYG)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 28, 2018 12:28 AM (NWiLs)
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Wow, living that way explains many of your posts here. It must truly suck.
Please consider getting thee to a therapist, pronto. It will obviously take a while, but in cases like yours, they can be like the Emo Marines.
They strip you down to nothing, and then build you right back up. I did this 3 years ago, after a divorce. A good therapist can work wonders.
Ask around please.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at July 28, 2018 12:45 AM (YRtrf)
Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at July 28, 2018 12:42 AM (H5knJ)
But... but... the one.
Ёб твою мать
(yob tvoyu mat')
Posted by: hogmartin at July 28, 2018 12:46 AM (y87Qq)
A baseball player, at the highest level of success, will fail to achieve the desired outcome 2/3rds of the time and achieve the ultimate goal perhaps 5-6% of the time in each attempt at bat. And yet even with the propensity for failure they are still regarded as successful and are feared for their relative likelihood of achieving the desired outcome,
The finest basketball players fail on half of their efforts shooting and fail at defending 40% of the time as well as losing the ball a number of times each game and fouling a number of times each game.
Tennis players lose a number of points, games, sets, etc.
There is failure built into the endeavors, however the relative successes are championed.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 28, 2018 12:41 AM (i0s33)
How about airline pilots?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 28, 2018 12:46 AM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2018 12:46 AM (m45I2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Jupiter
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 28, 2018 12:46 AM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 28, 2018 12:44 AM (YqDXo)
He could go really old school and use a scythe.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2018 12:46 AM (nvpzs)
Posted by: Adriane the Ethnic Food Critic ... at July 28, 2018 12:47 AM (AoK0a)
Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at July 28, 2018 12:47 AM (5jVnA)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRnTcPLExV0
Posted by: hogmartin at July 28, 2018 12:48 AM (y87Qq)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 28, 2018 12:46 AM (YqDXo)
The successful ones get to boink the hot stewardesses; the failures, the gay stewards.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2018 12:48 AM (NV/E7)
Posted by: hogmartin at July 28, 2018 12:48 AM (y87Qq)
Posted by: Insomniac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB2UqF8tNYM
Narration in Japanese, but good filming ...
Posted by: Adriane the Grass Growing Critic ... at July 28, 2018 12:40 AM (AoK0a)
Thanks!
Posted by: Insomniac at July 28, 2018 12:49 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 28, 2018 12:46 AM
....
Not really a sport, but if we had to describe competitive piloting, I suppose we would still rank a fighter pilot that shot down 8 enemy planes before being killed as being a relatively successful pilot.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 28, 2018 12:49 AM (i0s33)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 28, 2018 12:49 AM (CDGwz)
Sometimes it helps to know someone who's fucked up so massively that you know you can never fuck up as big as they did, no matter how hard you try. One of my pals in high school was the total teen motorcycle geek, he had a Suzuku Enduro that he'd learned to pull wheelies on, and he was so proud of himself that he came up with this big plan to sneak his bike onto the practice track during our senior Homecoming Football game, and ride a wheelie all the way in front of the stands, and then escape through a gate he'd opened up.
Well you can guess how this worked - just as he got in front of the middle part of the stand, maximum exposure, he flipped the thing over backwards, knocked himself out, and the bike bounced away and ran into a light pole. He woke up to the security team grabbing hold of him and the laughter of a couple thousand people, laughter that started again whenever he showed his face for the rest of that year.
No matter how much I fuck up in public, I know that he will ALWAYS have me beat!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2018 12:49 AM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Insomniac
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. It works. We've all got this internal critic, our own subconscious. When it gets out of hand, it tells us we're a failure, we're going to fail, don't even try, etc, etc.
It can be reprogrammed. And that's what CBT does. It works. But it takes effort, and someone who knows what they're doing.
The thing is, that internal subconscious critic is *learned*, and it can be unlearned. It's powerful. Your rational mind alone can't really combat it without help, and that's what CBT does.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 28, 2018 12:50 AM (8O3HH)
You know the technical term for a scientist whose predictions are not borne out experimentally?
"Wrong."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 28, 2018 12:50 AM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Adriane the Occupational Hazard Critic ... at July 28, 2018 12:51 AM (AoK0a)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2018 12:51 AM (nvpzs)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2018 12:49 AM (V2Yro)
And that kid... was Albert Einstein.
*everyone stands up and claps*
Posted by: hogmartin at July 28, 2018 12:51 AM (y87Qq)
Read the specs wrong, naw. My favorites are the wrong weld, upside down overlays just to name a few.
Posted by: JROD at July 28, 2018 12:52 AM (+MWCq)
(hog just provided the Russian for the classic insult that involves directing someone to have intimate relations with their mother)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 28, 2018 12:52 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Sling
Posted by: Mike Hammer,
Just a regular rock works.
Posted by: Cain at July 28, 2018 12:52 AM (xwvYG)
A baseball player, at the highest level of success, will fail to achieve the desired outcome 2/3rds of the time and achieve the ultimate goal perhaps 5-6% of the time in each attempt at bat. And yet even with the propensity for failure they are still regarded as successful and are feared for their relative likelihood of achieving the desired outcome,
The finest basketball players fail on half of their efforts shooting and fail at defending 40% of the time as well as losing the ball a number of times each game and fouling a number of times each game.
Tennis players lose a number of points, games, sets, etc.
There is failure built into the endeavors, however the relative successes are championed.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 28, 2018 12:41 AM (i0s33)
How about airline pilots?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
EOD?
Initial success, or total failure.
Posted by: Jean at July 28, 2018 12:52 AM (LnUJw)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 28, 2018 12:44 AM (YqDXo)
He could go really old school and use a scythe.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2018 12:46 AM (nvpzs)
He gets Juan to do it with a weed whacker. Bugger the polar bears. And the reel mowers.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 28, 2018 12:52 AM (YqDXo)
*everyone stands up and claps*
Posted by: hogmartin at July 28, 2018 12:51 AM (y87Qq)
And now, you know... the REST of the story.
Posted by: Paul Harvey at July 28, 2018 12:52 AM (nvpzs)
They strip you down to nothing, and then build you right back up. I did this 3 years ago, after a divorce. A good therapist can work wonders.
Ask around please.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at July 28, 2018 12:45 AM (YRtrf)
Would if I could.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 28, 2018 12:52 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Paul Harvey at July 28, 2018 12:53 AM (nvpzs)
There are relative standards in each case.
I went parachuting. I thought it was a good idea to get it right the first time.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 28, 2018 12:53 AM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2018 12:53 AM (nvpzs)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 28, 2018 12:52 AM (QDnY+)
http://www.online-toolz.com/tools/unicode-html-entities-convertor.php
(don't tell anybody about this secret website pls, thx)
Posted by: hogmartin at July 28, 2018 12:53 AM (y87Qq)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 28, 2018 12:53 AM (QDnY+)
"Wrong."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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LEAVE ME ALONE !
Posted by: Felisa Wolfe-Simon at July 28, 2018 12:54 AM (xSo9G)
Posted by: Paul Harvey at July 28, 2018 12:53 AM (nvpzs)
The pause before the "good day", this right here. This just killed it.
Posted by: hogmartin at July 28, 2018 12:55 AM (y87Qq)
Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2018 12:55 AM (m45I2)
Posted by: Felisa Wolfe-Simon at July 28, 2018 12:54 AM (xSo9G)
Quit cutting and get out and do something useful with your life.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2018 12:55 AM (nvpzs)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 28, 2018 12:52 AM (NWiLs)
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I hear ya.
HUA. Heard. Understood. Acknowledged.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at July 28, 2018 12:55 AM (YRtrf)
(hog just provided the Russian for the classic insult that involves directing someone to have intimate relations with their mother)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 28, 2018 12:52 AM (QDnY+)
Here you go, товарич.
Russian keyboard + https://www.charset.org/html-special-characters
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 28, 2018 12:56 AM (YqDXo)
Speaking of welding tricks, truly amazing is to watch a TIG magician fill in a large hole in aluminum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf7Oe9O1RBE
That's long, but watch that. Beautiful.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 28, 2018 12:56 AM (8O3HH)
You know the technical term for a scientist whose predictions are not borne out experimentally?
"Wrong."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
Economist?
Posted by: Jean at July 28, 2018 12:58 AM (LnUJw)
Posted by: Felisa Wolfe-Simon at July 28, 2018 12:54 AM (xSo9G)
LOL. That was a laughably gross gaffe, and an obviously wrong assertion from the get-go, for reasons I've detailed previously elsewhere.
Anyone who took that at face value should turn in his Ph.D. forthwith. She might as well have claimed to have crystallized phlogiston.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 28, 2018 12:58 AM (YqDXo)
"Wrong."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
Economist?
Posted by: Jean at July 28, 2018 12:58 AM (LnUJw)/i]
Prominent.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 28, 2018 12:59 AM (YqDXo)
Posted by: irongrampa at July 28, 2018 12:59 AM (S/hVx)
Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2018 12:46 AM (m45I2)
Vous aves raison mon ami!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
/disclaimer. Bing fwench English transmorgifier
Posted by: Jim at July 28, 2018 01:00 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2018 01:00 AM (nvpzs)
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 28, 2018 01:00 AM (JpIFY)
"Wrong."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
Paul Ehrlich Bing Professor of Population Studies of the Department of Biology of Stanford University ???
Posted by: Adriane the Occupational Hazard Critic ... at July 28, 2018 01:00 AM (AoK0a)
And, then, you have isostasy to consider.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2018 01:00 AM (NV/E7)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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Did you ever watch the video of the roll-out by NASA?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 28, 2018 01:01 AM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2018 01:01 AM (m45I2)
Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at July 28, 2018 01:02 AM (H5knJ)
A 'NASA research fellow', well now I am impressed.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2018 01:02 AM (nvpzs)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2018 01:02 AM (nvpzs)
Is she the one who claimed to have found arsenic-based life forms in Mono lake?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2018 01:03 AM (NV/E7)
Neil DeGrasse Tyson?
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at July 28, 2018 01:04 AM (5jVnA)
Posted by: JROD
Funny sort of story. A sensor my company makes with a flange was welded to a high pressure pipe. We got the failure back. The welder did just enough to make it look nice on the surface. Should have had a 1" multipass weld. They got maybe a 1/4". Our sensor and flange flew across the plant.
Posted by: Cain at July 28, 2018 01:04 AM (xwvYG)
Acceptance of an expectation of failure to some degree is a good thing.
If I treat approaching women for a date like attempting to pilot a plane, I'm likely to spend the majority of my days fapping between comments on a message board due to analysis paralysis.
Better to get smacked in the face and move on to the next one than to wait interminably for the sure thing.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 28, 2018 01:04 AM (i0s33)
Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2018 01:01 AM (m45I2)
They were in the Cookies on your C:/ drive. Couldn't miss 'em.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 28, 2018 01:04 AM (QzJWU)
I want to know how we as a society allowed people in the "subjective" disciplines to even call themselves "scientists". "It may be we evolved as bipeds so we could invent track and field events." Prove me wrong.
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at July 28, 2018 01:04 AM (Liolw)
Or maybe they were invented for people living in row houses with postage stamp sized lawns. I could see that.
Posted by: rickl at July 28, 2018 01:04 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: hogmartin at July 28, 2018 01:05 AM (y87Qq)
Is this like how you can get a car to run on propane?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2018 01:06 AM (nvpzs)
Well my dad.....oh, willingly.
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at July 28, 2018 01:06 AM (Liolw)
Posted by: Adriane the Occupational Hazard Critic ... at July 28, 2018 01:00 AM (AoK0a)
Hence my "prominent" assertion above.
Plus, IMO, biology is a quasi-science. In a real science, hypotheses can be definitively falsified. Biology flunks this criterion, because apparently falsifying results are farted off as due to "biological variation." To a scientist, "biological variation" means "uncontrolled variables" which in turn means "shitty experimental design."
Sound too harsh? Note that of (IIRC) 53 major publications in the biomedical field, only 6 could be reproduced by other labs. See, e.g., https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/44834/
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 28, 2018 01:06 AM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2018 12:46 AM (m45I2)
ᛋᛈᚱᚳᚪᚦ ᚫᚾᚸᛚᛁᛋᚳ ᚩᚦᚦᛖ ᚪᚠᚫᚱ
Posted by: Se Léodweardprætt Hæt at July 28, 2018 01:06 AM (itfg0)
Try learning Aikido for age related self defense.
Pull up the Ol Tube Of You videos of Godfather Ueshiba.....
Enlighten it is y'all.
No shit, I've seen a wheelchair Black Belt OWN competent 20yr olds.....(hence handguns...distance)
Secret is......they had to get within arms length to harm him....and once he laid hands on you, it was fuckin startling how fast it was over.
He had distilled the nuances of the Art to the most Violent techniques.......But, he had no choice.
Imagine the disadvantage being in a chair automatically bestows...and you still figure out a way to competently defend yourself......impressive shit y'all.
Anyway, properly taught Aikido, (combined with striking an basic ground), is a truly lifelong recipe for confident self defense.
Sales pitch over......heh.
Glad the Ron's an Ette's are running strong here at El S's bastion of Fuckin Sane......appreciate y'all more than you know.
Thank Ya!
Take Care an Have a Good One.
Posted by: Hillbillyking at July 28, 2018 01:07 AM (OB/rQ)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 28, 2018 12:56 AM (8O3HH)
Check out 6160.com on youtube. The guy is a magician.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at July 28, 2018 01:08 AM (5jVnA)
Or maybe they were invented for people living in row houses with postage stamp sized lawns. I could see that.
Posted by: rickl at July 28, 2018 01:04 AM (sdi6R)
I have used one. Long story. The reel secret (haha) is to make sure the blades are sharp, that you do not get a cheap reel mower, and that you do not let the grass get too long.
As I told my friend at the time: there is a reason people switched to gas mowers. It was not because they wanted to breath gasoline fumes.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2018 01:08 AM (nvpzs)
Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at July 28, 2018 01:02 AM (H5knJ)
Aside from blyat, it's the only one I know. But the two of those can get you pretty far in life.
Or maybe they were invented for people living in row houses with postage stamp sized lawns. I could see that.
Posted by: rickl at July 28, 2018 01:04 AM (sdi6R)
I had one for just such a situation and it worked great. It was a hell of a lot easier to maneuver than anything else and took up as much space in the shed as a pushbroom. I did a go-over with a gas or electric at the start of the season though, since it couldn't knock down anything over about 4".
Posted by: hogmartin at July 28, 2018 01:09 AM (y87Qq)
Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2018 01:09 AM (m45I2)
Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2018 01:09 AM (m45I2)
Well, if John McCain could fly one...
OK, bad example.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2018 01:10 AM (nvpzs)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 28, 2018 01:11 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2018 01:11 AM (nvpzs)
Posted by: hogmartin at July 28, 2018 01:12 AM (y87Qq)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2018 01:02 AM (nvpzs)
Positively or negatively? The latter is more appropriate, now that SJW criteria reign supreme.
Is she the one who claimed to have found arsenic-based life forms in Mono lake?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2018 01:03 AM (NV/E7)
That's the one. You know enough chemistry to know how improbable that was. In short, the greater lability of arsenate vs. phosphate esters, the kinetic isotope effect of any reactions in which phosphate esterification/ saponification is rate-limiting, etc.
The whole thing was laughably implausible on its face, barring compelling evidence, which was notable by its absence. She found a hoof print in her backyard, and concluded she'd found a unicorn. She should be staying home, having babies, and baking brownies, and not wasting her time and everyone else's on endeavors in which she has no business, and for which she has no talent.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 28, 2018 01:14 AM (YqDXo)
"Wrong."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
Economist?
"Krugman"
Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at July 28, 2018 01:14 AM (IcT7t)
Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2018 01:14 AM (m45I2)
Posted by: JROD at July 28, 2018 01:15 AM (+MWCq)
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at July 28, 2018 01:16 AM (5jVnA)
They use reel mowers on the golf courses, at least the greens. They can do a very smooth, neat job.
Of course they are powered, pulled by tractors. A guy around here who built the original golf course close by here, with his brother (they sold it), used one of those on his own lawn.
Good ones will do a beautiful finish job, and give you that manicured look.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 28, 2018 01:16 AM (8O3HH)
As I told my friend at the time: there is a reason people switched to gas mowers. It was not because they wanted to breath gasoline fumes.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2018 01:08 AM (nvpzs)
I've used one too. That's why I laughed when this idiot was trying to use one to mow foot-high grass, and that wearing long pants and a jacket in summer.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 28, 2018 01:17 AM (YqDXo)
That thing must have been 30 years old THEN (late 80's/early 90s.) Scared the living shit out of me.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2018 01:18 AM (nvpzs)
Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2018 12:46 AM (m45I2)
My Father was a Doctor like you are IIRC. He would randomly recite Shakespeare and other poems in Deutsch. I've had people believe I can speak it from that rudimentary knowledge.
Posted by: Cain at July 28, 2018 01:18 AM (xwvYG)
Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2018 01:19 AM (m45I2)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2018 01:19 AM (nvpzs)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2018 01:19 AM (nvpzs)
Leave Lena Dunham out of this.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at July 28, 2018 01:21 AM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2018 01:14 AM (m45I2)
USAF had us doing it with hand clippers. Single piece of steel, and the 180 degree "loop" of spring steel at the heel of the tool was the "power" you were pressing against to get the blades to close and shear.
The mind boggles that Drill Instructors were not summarily impaled by the twinned blades of such devices of sheer torture.
(swidt?)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 28, 2018 01:21 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 28, 2018 01:21 AM (nWc4E)
Posted by: Muldoon at July 28, 2018 01:14 AM (m45I2)
I actually needed that a couple weeks ago to trim part of a hedge next to the porch railing that I couldn't reach with the electric hedge trimmer.
But I couldn't find it. I know I have one around here somewhere. How the heck do you lose something like that?
Posted by: rickl at July 28, 2018 01:22 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: lousagirl at July 28, 2018 01:25 AM (PmCoA)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2018 01:25 AM (nvpzs)
Or maybe they were invented for people living in row houses with postage stamp sized lawns. I could see that.
Posted by: rickl at July 28, 2018 01:04 AM (sdi6R)
Power reel mowers are no more difficult to use than self-propelled rotary power mowers, but make a much neater job if you have a fine lawn.
If you have a postage-stamps lawn, but it's a fine lawn, and not a lumpy weed patch, a good quality hand-push reel mower can be a pleasure to use. Key words: "good quality" and set up properly. hard to find anyone anymore that can properly sharpen and set them, and has the equipment to do it.
And you don't use a push mower to knock down six-inch tall grass; it's not meant for that. Knock a half-inch or so off twice a week.
I own a Clemson E16 Junior push mower. They were the best you could get back in the 1950's, and I doubt any better have come along. Major castings were all magnesium, with a large-diameter steel tube as the front tie rod. All ball bearings, of course, and magnesium wheels, too. Machine was very light, but absolutely rigid, which is a necessary quality for an implement that works like a rotary scissors; the rotating reel must be set just so in relation to the fixed bed knife.
But I don't mow my yard with that. Yard is too big, and is lumpy ex-pasture, to boot. I use a riding mower. But the Clemson is a cool artifact.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2018 01:26 AM (NV/E7)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 28, 2018 01:26 AM (PUmDY)
The mind boggles that Drill Instructors were not summarily impaled by the twinned blades of such devices of sheer torture.
(swidt?)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 28, 2018 01:21 AM (QzJWU)
Those things were diabolical abortions from brand new.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2018 01:27 AM (NV/E7)
Posted by: lousagirl at July 28, 2018 01:27 AM (PmCoA)
Posted by: Muldoon
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I still use one, to trim around shrub 'trunks' that I don't to chance damaging with the weed eater. Usually just a few snips.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 28, 2018 01:28 AM (xSo9G)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 28, 2018 01:26 AM (PUmDY)
OK.
I looked that one up and all the internet could churn out was George Michael lyrics.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2018 01:29 AM (nvpzs)
Posted by: lousagirl at July 28, 2018 01:27 AM (PmCoA)
They are. We'll be fine, whether they are or not.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at July 28, 2018 01:30 AM (5jVnA)
THEY are doomed, we will have an almost inexhaustible source of hog feed.
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at July 28, 2018 01:30 AM (Liolw)
Posted by: Adriane the Occupational Hazard Critic ... at July 28, 2018 01:31 AM (AoK0a)
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at July 28, 2018 01:31 AM (Liolw)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 28, 2018 01:33 AM (PUmDY)
Posted by: lousagirl at July 28, 2018 01:27 AM (PmCoA)
Fear not. They're workable as chattel, and Cannibal Bob is always scrounging for his next meal, y'know.
He'd barter, count on it.
/snrk
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 28, 2018 01:34 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: lousagirl at July 28, 2018 01:34 AM (PmCoA)
I wonder how many rounds of .308 a kidney would go for?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2018 01:35 AM (nvpzs)
Posted by: lousagirl at July 28, 2018 01:36 AM (PmCoA)
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at July 28, 2018 01:36 AM (Liolw)
Posted by: Lurking Cynic at July 28, 2018 01:36 AM (OD+5+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2018 01:35 AM (nvpzs)
Depends.
Was the .308 delivered at 2850 fps? If so, that kidney now has zero value, y'know.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 28, 2018 01:38 AM (QzJWU)
Starvation is a great motivator, but they don't like it when you bring back fewer than you took.
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at July 28, 2018 01:38 AM (Liolw)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2018 01:35 AM (nvpzs)
*plugs in Ladyl signal*
*ONT lounge power strip daisychain bursts into flames*
Posted by: hogmartin at July 28, 2018 01:38 AM (y87Qq)
Posted by: lousagirl at July 28, 2018 01:42 AM (PmCoA)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2018 01:42 AM (NV/E7)
Anyone?
OK. Don't worry about it.
I'll just... put it over here, with the rest of the fire.
https://stoatnet.org/fire.gif
Posted by: hogmartin at July 28, 2018 01:42 AM (y87Qq)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2018 01:43 AM (NV/E7)
Sorry I was on break...Gawd Hog, you been microwaving tires?
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at July 28, 2018 01:44 AM (Liolw)
Posted by: hogmartin at July 28, 2018 01:46 AM (y87Qq)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 28, 2018 01:47 AM (PUmDY)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 28, 2018 01:47 AM (PUmDY)
I knew he was flaming. But on fire, too?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2018 01:49 AM (NV/E7)
Posted by: Jim at July 28, 2018 01:54 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 28, 2018 01:54 AM (PUmDY)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2018 01:55 AM (NV/E7)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2018 01:49 AM (NV/E7)
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In the last few years of his life, as I understand it, he was dedicated to giving away millions of dollars to charities.
He may not have lived it well, in the view of some, but it really sounds like (if true), he ended it well.
Not a shot at you at all, AOP. Your post was just a springboard to make that statement.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at July 28, 2018 01:56 AM (YRtrf)
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 28, 2018 02:10 AM (JpIFY)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2018 01:49 AM (NV/E7)
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In the last few years of his life, as I understand it, he was dedicated to giving away millions of dollars to charities.
He may not have lived it well, in the view of some, but it really sounds like (if true), he ended it well.
Not a shot at you at all, AOP. Your post was just a springboard to make that statement.
One of George Michael's better known songs, 'One More Try,' strikes me as a cry for help from someone who was taught (groomed) towards homosexuality by a careless deviant.
I grew up when his music was popular.
IMHO, YMMV.
Posted by: Bumr50 at July 28, 2018 02:10 AM (SEBYZ)
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 28, 2018 02:14 AM (JpIFY)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 27, 2018 10:55 PM (QLvwG)
Sock Fail. 'Twas supposed to be Toned Arms FLOTUS.
We regret the error.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 27, 2018 10:57 PM (QLvwG)
I had completely forgotten that Michelle-fiasco. Good for you for the reminder.
Posted by: m at July 28, 2018 02:19 AM (CwOPz)
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 28, 2018 02:14 AM (JpIFY)
That's the Bush shock collar.
Bimini Twist. GREAT knot. Tough to tie. (At least for an idiot like me)
Posted by: Bumr50 at July 28, 2018 02:22 AM (SEBYZ)
The intern James thread had me lmao until that stupid SJW with her privilege tweets. They ruin everything.
Night all.
Peace out.
Posted by: platypus, gumdrop gorilla channel at July 28, 2018 02:23 AM (+SVqR)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2018 11:15 PM (CDGwz)
That actually gave me a real lough out loud guffaw. Too funny.
I think there's a moral in there somewhere about shit rolling downhill until someone is the shitcatcher. Your dog is smart enough to know there's someone lower on the shitcatcher scale than him/her.
Posted by: RickZ at July 28, 2018 02:25 AM (8lsuS)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2018 11:09 PM (IqV8l)
kudos
Posted by: m at July 28, 2018 02:27 AM (CwOPz)
Try the Capuchin monkey cucumber throwing at the unfairness of it all schtick next time ...
Posted by: Adriane the Occupational Hazard Critic ... at July 28, 2018 02:29 AM (AoK0a)
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And of viriii, viriv.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 27, 2018 11:11 PM (+y/Ru)
!!!
Posted by: m at July 28, 2018 02:30 AM (CwOPz)
https://tinyurl.com/y8g2k5gg
Ok, good. Still not seeing it though, barring the miracle that it's SJW free and centers on Luke and Yoda. Ain't gonna happen, though.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 28, 2018 02:43 AM (/qEW2)
@AllieF0rnia
Imagine if men centered their masculinity on caring for animals, gardening and maintaining some nice plants, beekeeping, having a clean home, reading books, building tables..literally anything besides destruction and power
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"Millennials Invent Farming" is exactly right. Reading that tweet conjures up Weird Al's "Amish Paradise" in my mind. Maybe she's an undercover Amish recruiter.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 28, 2018 02:54 AM (/qEW2)
https://tinyurl.com/yccyl4fz
Giant salt water lake discovered beneath the surface of Mars. No doubt that idiot Musk will send people to investigate it, and they'll end up awakening Cthulhu's cousin or something. Oh well, better to go out with a bang than a whimper.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 28, 2018 02:58 AM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2018 03:08 AM (pHfeF)
"Some of our physician colleagues in Saskatchewan started to report that they were seeing cases of people being infected with HIV and getting very sick, very quickly," said Zabrina Brumme, the lead author of the study and a professor at Vancouver's Simon Fraser University. "It was almost as if there might have been something particularly nastier about the virus."
Posted by: SMOD at July 27, 2018 10:30 PM (e8kgV)
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Now that's smart. Andrew Jackson destroyed the Indians virally by giving them infected blankets. Modern society destroys them virally by introducing them to sodomy. It's the politically correct way to destroy people, and shifts blame to the participants themselves. Our moral revisionists won't be blamed in the same way that Jackson was vilified.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 28, 2018 03:31 AM (/qEW2)
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y98y3hhs
Posted by: Cain at July 28, 2018 03:33 AM (xwvYG)
Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2018 03:33 AM (pHfeF)
Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2018 03:36 AM (pHfeF)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 28, 2018 03:36 AM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2018 03:45 AM (pHfeF)
Posted by: redc1c4 at July 28, 2018 03:48 AM (1KVV3)
Posted by: redc1c4 at July 28, 2018 03:54 AM (1KVV3)
Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2018 04:00 AM (pHfeF)
Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2018 04:12 AM (pHfeF)
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y98y3hhs
Posted by: Cain at July 28, 2018 03:33 AM (xwvYG)
Nicole Aniston videos are definately NSFW.
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 28, 2018 04:20 AM (afzAq)
Posted by: MAxIE, mentioned in dispatches at July 28, 2018 04:24 AM (9TR2V)
Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2018 04:30 AM (pHfeF)
Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2018 04:33 AM (pHfeF)
And thank the Baseball Gods for not sending you to the friggin pinstripes. Esp with this week being the 35th anniversary of the Pine Tar Game. Plus you look better *with* the beard.
Posted by: Shopgirl #raisedRoyal at July 28, 2018 04:40 AM (qIFb8)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 28, 2018 04:46 AM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2018 04:50 AM (pHfeF)
Posted by: A dude in MI at July 28, 2018 04:55 AM (CDETr)
Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2018 04:57 AM (pHfeF)
Posted by: m at July 28, 2018 05:00 AM (CwOPz)
Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2018 04:50 AM (pHfeF)
Add some chocolate powder? I've been doing that for a while, now, and it's life-changing.
Posted by: m at July 28, 2018 05:01 AM (CwOPz)
Last F-1 weekend for a month.
Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2018 05:03 AM (pHfeF)
Posted by: 1st world problems yoga studio at July 28, 2018 05:03 AM (afzAq)
Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2018 05:05 AM (pHfeF)
Posted by: m at July 28, 2018 05:05 AM (CwOPz)
Posted by: m at July 28, 2018 05:05 AM (CwOPz)
. . . or I could just scroll past it. Talk about 1st-world problems.
Posted by: m at July 28, 2018 05:07 AM (CwOPz)
Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2018 05:12 AM (pHfeF)
Everyone have a great day.
Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2018 05:15 AM (pHfeF)
Thus, I am expected to describe bare facts only, as my colleagues want it. It was said: "The more strictly you will adhere to nothing but facts, relating them without comments, the more valuable it will be."
So, I will try . . . but we were not made of wood . . . not to say of stone.
First sentences of Witold's Report
Posted by: m at July 28, 2018 05:16 AM (CwOPz)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 28, 2018 05:23 AM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 28, 2018 05:23 AM (/qEW2)
Fake?
Posted by: m at July 28, 2018 05:30 AM (CwOPz)
"Trump tried a victory lap, but probes encroach"
I'm picturing alien probes.
Posted by: m at July 28, 2018 05:32 AM (CwOPz)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 28, 2018 05:34 AM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Brother Cavil says at July 28, 2018 05:35 AM (lLeln)
Posted by: m at July 28, 2018 05:35 AM (CwOPz)
Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2018 04:57 AM (pHfeF)
I gave up on the fake syrup a long time ago. Vermont or Canadian amber is more pricey, but you need less of it. Also, real maple syrup is a great cooking additive, like in homemade baked beans.
I just can't buy, much less eat, the fake syrup shit anymore.
I already pulled out the real maple syrup to make pancakes and bacon this morning.
Posted by: RickZ at July 28, 2018 05:38 AM (8lsuS)
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 28, 2018 05:39 AM (KCxzN)
"Trump tried a victory lap, but probes encroach"
I'm picturing alien probes.
Posted by: m at July 28, 2018 05:32 AM (CwOPz)
I get the surreal feeling that the investigation will never end, that it will morph into some kind of permanent Federal agency that will continue to exist decades after Trump leaves office.
At this point it feels like a plot device in a Kafka story. Some background entity whose only purpose is to generate angst.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 28, 2018 05:43 AM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Eromero at July 28, 2018 05:43 AM (zLDYs)
Posted by: redc1c4 at July 28, 2018 05:44 AM (1KVV3)
Posted by: Panhandler at July 28, 2018 05:50 AM (Hxfsr)
Posted by: Eromero at July 28, 2018 05:43 AM (zLDYs)
Wish we could have lent you some of ours. For the past 3-4 weeks on the NE coast, it's been deluge after deluge.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 28, 2018 05:50 AM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 28, 2018 05:51 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Pope Francis at July 28, 2018 05:52 AM (/qEW2)
Posted by: HC from Chappaqua NY at July 28, 2018 05:57 AM (LOgQ4)
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