First-World Problems...

Is there some special vendor of power outlets that sells only to hotels? You know... those outlets that never work, whether they are in a lamp base or the wall or built into the bedside table.

There probably 50 outlets in my home, and I can count on one finger the number that have failed in the last 20 years. So why is it that hotels can't seem to keep their outlets in good working order? I understand that hotel guests don't respect the equipment in hotel rooms, but how much casual physical abuse do outlets have to tolerate?

I think it is a plot by Big Plug!

Posted by: CBD at 02:00 PM

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1 So devices can't be swapped?

Posted by: Skip at January 19, 2025 02:01 PM (fwDg9)

2
Happy Sunday!

Posted by: four seasons at January 19, 2025 02:01 PM (3ek7K)

3 Socket to me???

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 19, 2025 02:02 PM (g1vJ4)

4 I doubt I have been to a hotel in 25 years.

Posted by: Skip at January 19, 2025 02:02 PM (fwDg9)

5 More plugging and unplugging going on in hotels.

IYKWIM.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 19, 2025 02:02 PM (bss/y)

6 Shocking, really.

Posted by: jsg at January 19, 2025 02:03 PM (Fg0Nr)

7 4 amps limit on a 15 amp receptacle? Fuck them!

I paid the man!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 19, 2025 02:03 PM (hXQfZ)

8
Forecast says we're getting 5-9 inches tonight, then frigid air moves in. Monday low of 4, and Tuesday low of -4.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 19, 2025 02:04 PM (UvA5U)

9 The spark of a good idea for a post.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 19, 2025 02:04 PM (bss/y)

10
Noticed that the new ones I just replaced have covers on the slots.

Posted by: Auspex at January 19, 2025 02:04 PM (j4U/Z)

11 Shocking, really.
Posted by: jsg at January 19, 2025 02:03 PM (Fg0Nr)
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Watt you said!

Actually, it's revolting.

I could say more but I must resist.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 19, 2025 02:04 PM (g1vJ4)

12 I stay at hotels for the Continental Breakfast.

Posted by: Zombie Thomas Paine at January 19, 2025 02:04 PM (Fg0Nr)

13 Hot dogs in hallways.

Posted by: Bumr50 at January 19, 2025 02:05 PM (uDfXN)

14 It's the tricknology the man use to keep the people down.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at January 19, 2025 02:05 PM (ef8Rg)

15 Watt you said!

Actually, it's revolting.

I could say more but I must resist.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 19, 2025 02:04 PM (g1vJ4)

Should not impede the discussion.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 19, 2025 02:06 PM (bss/y)

16 In my hotel experience, the outlets are incorporated into cheap chinese made lamps with half melted wiring made from scrap iron, which is a step up from their building products made from industrial waste.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 19, 2025 02:06 PM (QRzWH)

17 37 here on the beach with a breeze out of the north. It's sunny and gorgeous, but, brrrrrrrrr.

The Puget Sound Bobbers were out there earlier. Folks who go into the 47 degree water and hang out for several minutes. Just. No. Make me shiver just to think about it.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at January 19, 2025 02:06 PM (/eUJf)

18 4 amps limit on a 15 amp receptacle? F*** them!

I paid the man!

Plug in a power strip, and then a dozen hair dryers in the power strip. Turn them on and go for a walk.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 19, 2025 02:06 PM (xCA6C)

19 "So why is it that hotels can't seem to keep their outlets in good working order?"

Sometimes in hotels the wall outlets are tied to the light switch. Light switch ON=wall outlet (or desk outlet) works. OFF=doesn't work.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 19, 2025 02:07 PM (CHHv1)

20 Flower Duet
https://tinyurl.com/9bz2xcup
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Well, it's no In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 19, 2025 02:07 PM (L/fGl)

21 WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!

The Federal Reserve just left a global climate coalition of central banks

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 19, 2025 02:07 PM (L/fGl)

22 Noticed that the new ones I just replaced have covers on the slots.
Posted by: Auspex at January 19, 2025 02:04 PM (j4U/Z)

Tamper-resistant. Required as part of the NEC now. I hate them. Hard to jam the plug in and the little shutters fail quickly.

Literally a plot by Big Outlet.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 19, 2025 02:08 PM (FC8SQ)

23 19 "So why is it that hotels can't seem to keep their outlets in good working order?"

Sometimes in hotels the wall outlets are tied to the light switch. Light switch ON=wall outlet (or desk outlet) works. OFF=doesn't work.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 19, 2025 02:07 PM (CHHv1)

Several outlets in my apartment are like that. Usually just the top outlet, the bottom is always live.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 19, 2025 02:08 PM (bss/y)

24 Turbovolt.

Posted by: Eromero at January 19, 2025 02:08 PM (FuCE/)

25 When Marine got married in Vegas in 2023, I bought the plane tickets for me and #1 son and he arranged our hotel.

He got us a room at Trump Towers. It was awesome.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at January 19, 2025 02:08 PM (/eUJf)

26 Four amps @120 volts, just enough for your wall charger.
Last hotel had usb ports for charging cable. The cable on my iPad registered "liquid in the line detected" will not charge. Buddy says, you've got to use bona fide Apple crap or you'll have problems. Here try this cord. It registers the same on mine not his.
Back home the cord works fine.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 19, 2025 02:09 PM (SCPhd)

27 >>>Watt you said!

Actually, it's revolting.

I could say more but I must resist.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 19, 2025 02:04 PM (g1vJ4)

Should not impede the discussion.

Posted by: Aetius451AD

>Your reluctance will be noted on you permanent record.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 19, 2025 02:09 PM (hXQfZ)

28 How is the average person supposed to know how many amps something draws?

Posted by: Reforger at January 19, 2025 02:09 PM (xcIvR)

29 Roach motel!

Posted by: runner at January 19, 2025 02:09 PM (g47mK)

30 28 How is the average person supposed to know how many amps something draws?
Posted by: Reforger at January 19, 2025 02:09 PM (xcIvR)

Mine goes to 11

Posted by: Nigel Tufnel at January 19, 2025 02:11 PM (Fg0Nr)

31 It isn’t a bad plan to (whilst main breaker is open) to re-tighten the outlet screws very firmly that secure the hot, neutral, and ground connections. They tend to loosen over time. You’ve of course avoided those execrable outlets where the wiring is simply poked into a spring loaded connector.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 19, 2025 02:11 PM (JowJ5)

32
I think it's nice that Big Electrical Socket has chosen to honor President Biden by-

perfectly duplicating the vacant look on Biden's face when he forgets where he is during a speech for their 3-plug sockets.

Well done, gentlemen and ladies! Well done.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 19, 2025 02:11 PM (iJfKG)

33 4 amps limit on a 15 amp receptacle? Fuck them!
I paid the man!
Posted by: Dr. Bone

The receptacle is fine.

It's the 22 gauge wire behind it that's the issue.

Posted by: mikeski at January 19, 2025 02:11 PM (DgGvY)

34 Hey CBD,
I see there's now a "state of emergency " for New Jersey. You all stocked up with bread, eggs and milk? Oh, and bourbon? I tried a new one yesterday with son. Still Haven. Pretty good.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at January 19, 2025 02:12 PM (/eUJf)

35 Less than 24 hours and that Rotting Corpse will be gone !!!!

Fuck'n A Bubba and Viva La Trump !!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at January 19, 2025 02:12 PM (2/uQy)

36 How is the average person supposed to know how many amps something draws?
Posted by: Reforger at January 19, 2025 02:09 PM (xcIvR)

Simple! If it starts smoking, it’s too many amps.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 19, 2025 02:12 PM (FC8SQ)

37 >>>Tamper-resistant. Required as part of the NEC now. I hate them. Hard to jam the plug in and the little shutters fail quickly.

Literally a plot by Big Outlet.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
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https://tinyurl.com/3npks26f

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 19, 2025 02:12 PM (SCPhd)

38 Noticed that the new ones I just replaced have covers on the slots.
Posted by: Auspex at January 19, 2025 02:04 PM (j4U/Z)

Tamper-resistant. Required as part of the NEC now. I hate them. Hard to jam the plug in and the little shutters fail quickly.

Literally a plot by Big Outlet.

Oh, and I suppose you'd like all the electrons scattered all over the floor?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 19, 2025 02:12 PM (xCA6C)

39 That plug has seen some shit.

Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at January 19, 2025 02:13 PM (UWRAE)

40 If you bend the plugs around a little you can use a welder with that outlet!

Posted by: Weasel at January 19, 2025 02:13 PM (iu4Pw)

41 Current draw is listed on the nameplate by law, I’m sure. There may be Arithmetic involved. Converting Watts to Amperes. Ohm’s Law is your Friend. Most residential service have 20 amp outlets.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 19, 2025 02:13 PM (JowJ5)

42 How is the average person supposed to know how many amps something draws?

It's printed on the appliance.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 19, 2025 02:13 PM (xCA6C)

43 Shoulda' stayed in a tent.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 19, 2025 02:13 PM (Q4IgG)

44 Two stars below a motel 6?

Posted by: Archer at January 19, 2025 02:14 PM (IDphi)

45 Ohmy God stop with the puns.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 19, 2025 02:14 PM (YIxO9)

46 >>>How is the average person supposed to know how many amps something draws?
Posted by: Reforger at January 19, 2025 02:09 PM (xcIvR)

Mine goes to 11

Posted by: Nigel Tufnel

>I have a $1000 worth of gear to measure that in about 3 seconds. But then I do this kind of service almost everyday.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 19, 2025 02:15 PM (hXQfZ)

47 You all stocked up with bread, eggs and milk? Oh, and bourbon? I tried a new one yesterday with son. Still Haven. Pretty good

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at January 19, 2025 02:12 PM (/eUJf)

Nope. I'm away, and will miss the storm. But I am drinking a lovely new bourbon...Frey Ranch! I had to fly 1,000 miles to find it!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 19, 2025 02:15 PM (qvqLl)

48
I thought I was the only one -- which is the nature of First World Problems! You suffer in silence, thinking it's you, or your embarrassing lousy luck, or something you deserved. I spend a lot of time in motels, and those sucker-traps in the lamp posts get me every time. And don't forget the USB ports in them, too. No juice.

As for AirBnBs, they always manage to have the lone outlet on the opposite side of the room from the head of the bed, so you can't fall asleep to something soothing in your phone, like a YouTube playlist of MSM lefties reacting live to the 2024 election.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 19, 2025 02:15 PM (lCaJd)

49 Might not be a First-World Problem, but it's definitely a First-World Scam.

Some enterprising companies out there have taken the archaic concept of a TV Dinner and dressed it up into a bulk mailing exercise. I'm talking about the "Tempo", "Home Chef", "Hello Fresh", "Factor"....etc. There are many.

They gin it up by calling them gourmet, healthy, and better than scratch prepared meals. All they are, are TV Dinners (which IMO always taste like crap)

Posted by: Orson at January 19, 2025 02:15 PM (dIske)

50
Who here has ever seen the carrier USS John F Kennedy in person?

Launched in 1967, Decommissioned in 2009. Been languishing, mostly, in Philadelphia since.

Rigged for tow, the former USS John Kennedy began it's final trek to Texas for dismantling three days ago.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 19, 2025 02:16 PM (UvA5U)

51 Roseanne & Tom MacDonald Top iTunes With Trump Rap “Daddy’s Home”

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And he's taking off his belt.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 19, 2025 02:16 PM (L/fGl)

52 Chinese user comments on all the white TikTok refugees flooding into RedNote (another Chinese social app):

https://tinyurl.com/mvezu3v3

LOL!

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 19, 2025 02:16 PM (W5ArC)

53 45 Ohmy God stop with the puns.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 19, 2025 02:14 PM (YIxO9)

Watt do you mean?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 19, 2025 02:16 PM (bss/y)

54 A 4 amp outlet makes no sense. Junk. Literally. Capable of running a laptop.

They probably want to preclude coffee pots, frying pans, space heaters etc. It wouldn’t matter if they did install a 20 amp capable outlet, the circuit breakers would also be a limiting factor.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 19, 2025 02:17 PM (JowJ5)

55 Most residential service have 20 amp outlets.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 19, 2025 02:13 PM (JowJ5)

15A outlets, 20A circuits. Unless it’s actually a NEMA 5-20R.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 19, 2025 02:17 PM (FC8SQ)

56 But I am drinking a lovely new bourbon...Frey Ranch! I had to fly 1,000 miles to find it!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Pumpkin spice bourbon > Ranch bourbon

Posted by: mikeski at January 19, 2025 02:17 PM (DgGvY)

57
Interestingly, the efforts to make the USS Kennedy a museum failed.

I mean, at some point, we don't have enough room to save all these behemoth "museum" pieces, right?

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 19, 2025 02:18 PM (UvA5U)

58 47 You all stocked up with bread, eggs and milk? Oh, and bourbon? I tried a new one yesterday with son. Still Haven. Pretty good

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at January 19, 2025 02:12 PM (/eUJf)

Nope. I'm away, and will miss the storm. But I am drinking a lovely new bourbon...Frey Ranch! I had to fly 1,000 miles to find it!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 19, 2025 02:15 PM (qvqLl)

I love that I can find new bourbons to sample simply by posting here. I'm enjoying 1792 today, really good. Now I have 2 more to test. Thanks AoS !

Posted by: jsg at January 19, 2025 02:19 PM (Fg0Nr)

59 Rigged for tow, the former USS John Kennedy began it's final trek to Texas for dismantling three days ago.
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 19, 2025 02:16 PM (UvA5U)

Texas? That’s where the real John F. Kennedy was disassembled!

Too soon?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 19, 2025 02:19 PM (FC8SQ)

60 > You’ve of course avoided those execrable outlets where the wiring is simply poked into a spring loaded connector.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 19, 2025 02:11 PM (JowJ5)

I cannot believe those flimsy things meet code, but apparently they do.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 19, 2025 02:19 PM (W5ArC)

61 56 But I am drinking a lovely new bourbon...Frey Ranch! I had to fly 1,000 miles to find it!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Pumpkin spice bourbon > Ranch bourbon
Posted by: mikeski at January 19, 2025 02:17 PM (DgGvY)

It could be worse- it could be Fire Island Bourbon.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 19, 2025 02:19 PM (bss/y)

62
So, yeah, the USS John Kennedy will be SCRAPPED.

If you have more questions or want to see this HULK being towed to the scrapyard, here's a new video:

https://is.gd/W25Pph

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 19, 2025 02:20 PM (UvA5U)

63 > 53 45 Ohmy God stop with the puns.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 19, 2025 02:14 PM (YIxO9)

Resistance is futile.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 19, 2025 02:20 PM (W5ArC)

64 >>>It's the 22 gauge wire behind it that's the issue.
Posted by: mikeski
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Wire the hotel with 22 gauge saves a lot of money over 14 gauge.
Must be Hotel California.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 19, 2025 02:20 PM (SCPhd)

65
If you have ever had cause to examine the innards of one of those "surge guard" power strips having multiple plug in ports, you'd be appalled at the shoddy workmanship therein. Solder gobbed into place, unprotected potential contact points where short circuiting might occur not covered with tape or other insulator, and so forth.

Real shit shows, they are.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 19, 2025 02:20 PM (xG4kz)

66 > A 4 amp outlet makes no sense.
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Yea... the guy with the arc welder next door is royally pissed off about it.

He and the meth head on the other side of me can't seem to get their shit done.

Something smells funny.....

Posted by: No Tell Motel Resident at January 19, 2025 02:20 PM (Q4IgG)

67 There is a pop-up ad that appears here occasionally, 'Save Energy Using This One Simple Trick!', the picture shows a hand holding a bare unconnected socket....

Another with the same verbage shows a hand holding a lead pencil pointed into the socket. I find both amusing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 19, 2025 02:21 PM (XeU6L)

68 We always wired with 12 gauge.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 19, 2025 02:21 PM (SCPhd)

69 Chinese user comments on all the white TikTok refugees flooding into RedNote (another Chinese social app):
https://tinyurl.com/mvezu3v3
LOL!
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

"Slut virus most strong. I'm not approve."

That could be the new "all your base are belong to us."

Posted by: mikeski makes his time at January 19, 2025 02:21 PM (DgGvY)

70 Watt you said!

Actually, it's revolting.

I could say more but I must resist.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 19, 2025 02:04 PM (g1vJ4)

Should not impede the discussion.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 19, 2025 02:06 PM (bss/y)

These terrible puns signal the Falll of the American Ampere.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 19, 2025 02:21 PM (iJfKG)

71 50
Who here has ever seen the carrier USS John F Kennedy in person?

Launched in 1967, Decommissioned in 2009. Been languishing, mostly, in Philadelphia since.

Rigged for tow, the former USS John Kennedy began it's final trek to Texas for dismantling three days ago.
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 19, 2025 02:16 PM (UvA5U)

I read somewhere's they sold it for a penny? Probably a'cause the buyer agreed to tow it to it's final destination, I supposed.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 19, 2025 02:22 PM (QGaXH)

72 Pretty sure 4-amps can't recharge me.

Posted by: Michelle Obama's Shake Weight Jammer at January 19, 2025 02:22 PM (Fg0Nr)

73 My biggest pain in the Ass was the GFI Outlet in the garage always tripping for whatever reason.

Put some Dielectric Gel on the Plugs and it seems to be working. Probably there was a ground affect or an environmental condition affecting the outlet.

24 hours and so far, so good...

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at January 19, 2025 02:22 PM (NAFdz)

74 > Oh, and I suppose you'd like all the electrons scattered all over the floor?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 19, 2025 02:12 PM (xCA6C)

My high school physics teacher used to joke that the power company was pumping electrons out of your yard and charging you for it. Of course, they return them 1/60th of a second later, but even renting them should add up to a tidy sum.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 19, 2025 02:23 PM (W5ArC)

75 Jelly Roll, Earth, Wind & Fire, Stephen Stills, and More To Perform at Benefit Concert for LA Wildfire Victims

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Earth, Windows & Fire? Was Blow Torch unavailable?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 19, 2025 02:23 PM (L/fGl)

76 In age of sail, a man of war lasted 50 to 100 years

Posted by: Skip at January 19, 2025 02:23 PM (fwDg9)

77 Hey CBD,
I see there's now a "state of emergency " for New Jersey. You all stocked up with bread, eggs and milk? Oh, and bourbon? I tried a new one yesterday with son. Still Haven. Pretty good.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at January 19, 2025 02:12 PM (/eUJf)

Right, because the new breed of pussies that moved here over the years WILL DIE, OMG WE'RE GONNA DIIIEE..... in 2-3" of snow. They used to not even have school closures in that type of snow.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 19, 2025 02:23 PM (VwHCD)

78 Old cars used to run into a similar problem. Headlights have long wiring runs, back and forth, and to the little high beams and low beams. They worked OK when new, but corrosion from road salt and pollution start causing voltage drop, and heat.

Headlight switches don’t have fuses, for safety reasons. Circuit breaker built in. Driving down the highway at night, the headlights turn off. Nice!

Posted by: Common Tater at January 19, 2025 02:23 PM (JowJ5)

79 But I am drinking a lovely new bourbon...Frey Ranch! I had to fly 1,000 miles to find it!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Pumpkin spice bourbon > Ranch bourbon
Posted by: mikeski at January 19, 2025 02:17 PM (DgGvY)

It could be worse- it could be Fire Island Bourbon.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 19, 2025 02:19 PM (bss/y)

I've read that Fire Island Bourbon has a lot of spunk.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 19, 2025 02:23 PM (iJfKG)

80 Rigged for tow, the former USS John Kennedy began it's final trek to Texas for dismantling three days ago.
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Had a good friend who served aboard.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 19, 2025 02:24 PM (XeU6L)

81 Chinese user comments on all the white TikTok refugees flooding into RedNote (another Chinese social app):
https://tinyurl.com/mvezu3v3
LOL!

Americans are asshoe!

Posted by: Chinese user comment at January 19, 2025 02:24 PM (xCA6C)

82
Oh my God stop with the puns.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie

Mho! Mho! Mho!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 19, 2025 02:24 PM (xG4kz)

83
The plug illustrated won't work because it's a decal.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 19, 2025 02:24 PM (Ijbq0)

84 My high school physics teacher used to joke that the power company was pumping electrons out of your yard and charging you for it. Of course, they return them 1/60th of a second later, but even renting them should add up to a tidy sum.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

The electrons are free.

Shipping and handling charges get ya.

Posted by: mikeski at January 19, 2025 02:24 PM (DgGvY)

85 75 Jelly Roll, Earth, Wind & Fire, Stephen Stills, and More To Perform at Benefit Concert for LA Wildfire Victims

-
Earth, Windows & Fire? Was Blow Torch unavailable?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 19, 2025 02:23 PM (L/fGl)

Can we come ?

Posted by: Talking Heads at January 19, 2025 02:25 PM (Fg0Nr)

86 Put some Dielectric Gel on the Plugs

Name of the product?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 19, 2025 02:25 PM (xCA6C)

87 Watt do you mean?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 19, 2025 02:16 PM (bss/y)
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I used that pun already.

You're grounded!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 19, 2025 02:25 PM (g1vJ4)

88
Earth, Windows & Fire? Was Blow Torch unavailable?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent

White Snake was right out!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 19, 2025 02:25 PM (xG4kz)

89 Never use a GFI on anything important. Like say, a deep freezer full of frozen meat.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 19, 2025 02:26 PM (JowJ5)

90
Want to hear a Motel6 story?
Hmm, should I tell this story? Why not.

A long, long time ago in a state far, far away I was staying at a Motel6. Truly a hive of scum & villainy. I got so sick of noisy scum in the adjacent room, I grabbed my portable Jump Starter and hooked the cables to the Key-Card Door Lock assembly and fried the electronic mechanism.

Let me tell you, they had a hell of a time getting into that room. The Manager was unhappy, but I was happy for a couple of days. The End.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 19, 2025 02:26 PM (UvA5U)

91
You all stocked up with bread, eggs and milk? Oh, and bourbon? I tried a new one yesterday with son. Still Haven. Pretty good

Posted by: nurse ratched

================

Eggs. I was making Lemon Bars yesterday so I had to get some eggs. Went to Trader Joe's they're all sold out. Hand-written signs taped to the case saying "One carton per customer." Went to another supermarket and they have the same signs on their case, but thank goodness they do have some eggs. I get the Pasture Raised ones because there's no denying it, they taste the best and I've seen caged chickens and it's horrible. $10/dozen. My god.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 19, 2025 02:26 PM (lCaJd)

92
Mho! Mho! Mho!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
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[cues up 'Ohm, Ohm on the Range]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 19, 2025 02:27 PM (XeU6L)

93
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 19, 2025 02:26 PM (UvA5U)

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Must have been in the days before ubiquitous cameras?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 19, 2025 02:27 PM (lCaJd)

94 Watt you said!

Actually, it's revolting.

I could say more but I must resist.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 19, 2025 02:04 PM (g1vJ4)

Should not impede the discussion.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 19, 2025 02:06 PM (bss/y)

These terrible puns signal the Falll of the American Ampere.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 19, 2025 02:21

We might get some Zap pa out of this.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 19, 2025 02:28 PM (W/lyH)

95 >>>If you have more questions or want to see this HULK being towed to the scrapyard, here's a new video:

https://is.gd/W25Pph
Posted by: Soothsayer
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It's in PA and they are going to tow it all the way to Brownsville to scrap it. Are they going to sell the metal to Mexico or are they going to ship it to foundries back up North?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 19, 2025 02:28 PM (SCPhd)

96
read somewhere's they sold it for a penny? Probably a'cause the buyer agreed to tow it to it's final destination, I supposed.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

True. The man in the video I posted mentions that. I think he said the USS Kittyhawk also sold for $0.01 because the cost to move them was prohibitive, if that's the right word.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 19, 2025 02:29 PM (UvA5U)

97 I put this on the plug to create a seal. Not on the actual electrical prongs, but around the outer edge of the plug to create an air proof seal. The product is listed below, and I got it on Amazon.

AtomLube Dielectric Grease, 2 Oz. Tube

Waterproof Dielectric Silicone Grease for Electrical Connectors, Switches, and Sensors. Need to wear rubber gloves when using so none gets on tour hands.

Safe High Temp Grease & Multipurpose Electric Grease

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at January 19, 2025 02:29 PM (NAFdz)

98 $10/dozen. My god.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Picture: a dozen eggs.
Caption: "just two more payments and it's all mine."

Posted by: mikeski at January 19, 2025 02:29 PM (DgGvY)

99 I like De-Ox-ID “special” from the Sam Chem company. It was specified by Ma Bell back in the day. And they knew what they were doing. Sometimes called “ear wax” by techs. A small can or tube will last the rest of your life. It’s also excellent to apply to anything as a rust preventive

Posted by: Common Tater at January 19, 2025 02:29 PM (JowJ5)

100 We might get some Zap pa out of this.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 19, 2025 02:28 PM (W/lyH)
-

Currently playing:

https://youtu.be/Af0P6XEkI7Y

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 19, 2025 02:31 PM (g1vJ4)

101 Er, No-Ox-ID. De-Oxit used to be good stuff for volume pots, but it was defanged. “If it’s good, they’ll stop making it”

Posted by: Common Tater at January 19, 2025 02:32 PM (JowJ5)

102 Your device's plug also needs to have a 'shocked'-face plug ...

Posted by: Dr_No at January 19, 2025 02:32 PM (ayRl+)

103
You mean Deoxit D5?

That stuff is great for electrical contacts.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 19, 2025 02:33 PM (UvA5U)

104 AOSHQ should display a countdown clock.

Posted by: runner at January 19, 2025 02:34 PM (g47mK)

105 >>>Yea... the guy with the arc welder next door is royally pissed off about it.

He and the meth head on the other side of me can't seem to get their shit done.

Something smells funny.....

Posted by: No Tell Motel Resident

>Have you considered moving to a more affluent neighborhood?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 19, 2025 02:34 PM (hXQfZ)

106 AtomLube Dielectric Grease, 2 Oz. Tube

I like De-Ox-ID “special” from the Sam Chem company.

Thanks to both of you.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 19, 2025 02:35 PM (xCA6C)

107
Hegseth and Rubio were standing behind the Medal of Honor recipients on the left side of the stairs down to the ceremony area at Arlington

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 19, 2025 02:35 PM (xG4kz)

108 Jelly Roll, Earth, Wind & Fire, Stephen Stills, and More To Perform at Benefit Concert for LA Wildfire Victims

-
Earth, Windows & Fire? Was Blow Torch unavailable?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 19, 2025 02:23 PM (L/fGl)

Hopefully they'll be performing rain dances, so help with the fires.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 19, 2025 02:35 PM (VNX3d)

109
You know what I REALLY hate?

All these high-wattage chinese junk devices manufactured with cheap two-prong cords with, supposedly, 16awg wire.

1500-watt space heaters, for example.

UL Listed?? Hahahahahaha, sure.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 19, 2025 02:36 PM (UvA5U)

110 Picture: a dozen eggs.
Caption: "just two more payments and it's all mine."
Posted by: mikeski at January 19, 2025 02:29 PM (DgGvY)

I bought 2doz organic eggs for 7.99. Where are they charging $10/doz?

Posted by: Long night... at January 19, 2025 02:36 PM (2NXcZ)

111 Pretty sure Andrew Gillum and his entourage were the previous renters of that room. Enough plugging and unplugging to beat the band. A black light would reveal so much.

Posted by: Microbial Soup To Nuts at January 19, 2025 02:36 PM (G5+As)

112 Trump Victory Rally, if interested

https://tinyurl.com/y4hc7yjf

Posted by: jsg at January 19, 2025 02:37 PM (Fg0Nr)

113 You know what I REALLY hate?

All these high-wattage chinese junk devices manufactured with cheap two-prong cords with, supposedly, 16awg wire.

1500-watt space heaters, for example.

UL Listed?? Hahahahahaha, sure.
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 19, 2025 02:36 PM (UvA5U)

Uncle Loo Listed!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 19, 2025 02:37 PM (VNX3d)

114 > 1500-watt space heaters, for example.

Every appliance is a space heater if you use it wrong enough.

Also, a smoke machine.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 19, 2025 02:38 PM (W5ArC)

115
Chinese user comments on all the white TikTok refugees flooding into RedNote

_______

TikTok banned. White sluts hardest hit.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 19, 2025 02:38 PM (dxSpM)

116 D5 used to be great stuff. The very best stuff for vintage pots is Kerosene, but the hipsters get the vapors.

Even vaseline is better than nothing for electrical connectors, anything to preclude oxygen and moisture. We used to have all kinds of trouble even with gold plated cannon plug pin connectors when operating in dusty environments. The .mil used to have a whole stable of electrical contact cleaners and protectants. They are all banned by now. 1.1.1 Trichloroethane. Barium containing compounds, etc.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 19, 2025 02:38 PM (JowJ5)

117 Ohmy God stop with the puns.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie

You could be negative or even better positive. I'll remain neutral and grounded.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 19, 2025 02:38 PM (R9QMz)

118 The dead ones are the ones with the cameras in them, silly.

Posted by: sherlockzz at January 19, 2025 02:39 PM (fAOGR)

119 Fighting like cats and dogs.

https://tinyurl.com/522cwrhs

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 19, 2025 02:39 PM (SCPhd)

120
I'm no fan of JFK, but it just ain't right we won't have a Kennedy carrier, but we'll have a clinton carrier.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 19, 2025 02:39 PM (UvA5U)

121 > Earth, Wind & Fire

I always wondered what happened to Water. Maybe Water got kicked out for banging Earth's girlfriend in the early days or something.

It's a shame, because they could use Water in SoCal right now.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 19, 2025 02:40 PM (W5ArC)

122 @ 110: I bought 2doz organic eggs for 7.99. Where are they charging $10/doz?
________________________________

'Organic' eggs are organic at the moment they drop from the chicken's ass into the nestbed. The term is strictly a marketing term to fool rubes into thinking they're getting something 'special' - and they are: A free proctological exam ... the bill for it is payable at checkout ...

Posted by: Dr_No at January 19, 2025 02:40 PM (ayRl+)

123 Trump Victory Rally, if interested

https://tinyurl.com/y4hc7yjf
Posted by: jsg at January 19, 2025 02:37 PM (Fg0Nr)

looks lively

Posted by: runner at January 19, 2025 02:40 PM (g47mK)

124 I always wondered - wouldn’t a single “1” be sufficient for Trichlorethane? They need three for some reason. Worked good for cleaning for sure. Didn’t have any effect on me. On me. On me. On me

Posted by: Common Tater at January 19, 2025 02:40 PM (JowJ5)

125 Posted by: Dr_No at January 19, 2025 02:40 PM (ayRl+)

Say what you like, still 2 dozen for $7.99.

Posted by: Long night... at January 19, 2025 02:41 PM (2NXcZ)

126
No more Cape Kennedy. No more USS Kennedy.

I reckon lots of pubic schools named after Kennedy have been renamed...to appease the black racists.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 19, 2025 02:42 PM (UvA5U)

127 Fighting like cats and dogs.

https://tinyurl.com/522cwrhs
Posted by: Braenyard
______

The dog was ready to quit and the cat just kept egging him on. It's always the cat.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 19, 2025 02:42 PM (Dm8we)

128 My biggest pain in the Ass was the GFI Outlet in the garage always tripping for whatever reason.
Posted by: Ferd Berfall

I hate those damned things in the garage. Cannot turn on my 10,000rpm bench grinder without it tripping the stuipd outlet. It's not a short, it's a high draw surge capacitor to get it spinning.

I swap them out with a real outlet, and trust the circuit breaker in the breaker box.

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 19, 2025 02:42 PM (MsrgL)

129 94 Watt you said!

Actually, it's revolting.

I could say more but I must resist.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 19, 2025 02:04 PM (g1vJ4)

Should not impede the discussion.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 19, 2025 02:06 PM (bss/y)

These terrible puns signal the Falll of the American Ampere.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 19, 2025 02:21

We might get some Zap pa out of this.

on this lazy sunday morning, i'm having a hard time keeping current with the puns

Posted by: anachronda at January 19, 2025 02:43 PM (edU/H)

130 I'm trying to remain neutral here, but you're unbalanced and I must pump up my girth and gauge.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 19, 2025 02:43 PM (hXQfZ)

131 Weatherman, day before yesterday said it was going to snow.
Yesterday, weaterman said it was going to be drippy.
Today weatherman says it's going to snow then go to low 20s.
Pins & Needles, stay tuned, we're all going to die.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 19, 2025 02:43 PM (SCPhd)

132 'Organic' eggs are organic at the moment they drop from the chicken's ass into the nestbed. The term is strictly a marketing term to fool rubes into thinking they're getting something 'special' - and they are: A free proctological exam ... the bill for it is payable at checkout ...
Posted by: Dr_No at January 19, 2025 02:40 PM (ayRl+)

I like "Free Range© Vegetarian Fed®". I aprove of wild chickens being fed Vegitarians.

Posted by: Reforger at January 19, 2025 02:44 PM (xcIvR)

133 @ 125: Your money; your choice ... the 'non-' versions are just as good, tho' ...

Posted by: Dr_No at January 19, 2025 02:44 PM (ayRl+)

134
Texas? That’s where the real John F. Kennedy was disassembled!

________

You can watch the CBS news bulletin about the JFK assassination. Ol' Uncle Walter was pushing the Dallas Killed Kennedy line almost right off the bat.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 19, 2025 02:44 PM (dxSpM)

135
No more Cape Kennedy. No more USS Kennedy.

_______

No more JFK Stadium in Philadelphia.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 19, 2025 02:46 PM (dxSpM)

136 96
read somewhere's they sold it for a penny? Probably a'cause the buyer agreed to tow it to it's final destination, I supposed.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

True. The man in the video I posted mentions that. I think he said the USS Kittyhawk also sold for $0.01 because the cost to move them was prohibitive, if that's the right word.
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 19, 2025 02:29 PM (UvA5U)

That's as good a word as any I suppose....seems about right....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 19, 2025 02:46 PM (QGaXH)

137
Per that above vid I posted, it costs about $10K/day to operate a Ship "museum." That's $6M/yr.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 19, 2025 02:46 PM (UvA5U)

138 123 Trump Victory Rally, if interested

https://tinyurl.com/y4hc7yjf
Posted by: jsg
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Thanks

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 19, 2025 02:47 PM (SCPhd)

139 note to self. PROOF READ, IDIOT!

Posted by: Reforger at January 19, 2025 02:47 PM (xcIvR)

140 I'm no fan of JFK, but it just ain't right we won't have a Kennedy carrier, but we'll have a clinton carrier.

Same guy that McCarthur wanted to court martial - because he flouted basic SOP by leaving that PT out of gear at idle ? Or the JFK that was steaming toward not winning a second term before he got shot ?

That Kennedy ? The one, like the rest of them, that go infinitely more popular after death ?

Posted by: Easy at January 19, 2025 02:47 PM (yAQn+)

141 Vibrators pull a lot of amps.

Posted by: Or so I've been told at January 19, 2025 02:49 PM (dg+HA)

142
I would also guess there's lots of profit & payoffs in getting these govt "deals" such as scrapping old Navy ships.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 19, 2025 02:49 PM (UvA5U)

143 The "fighting like cats and dogs" video looks like a fight from a 1930s movie serial.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at January 19, 2025 02:49 PM (FEVMW)

144
That Kennedy ? The one, like the rest of them, that go infinitely more popular after death ?
Posted by: Easy at January 19, 2025 02:47 PM (yAQn+)

________

If they'd gotten PDT at Butler, PA, you may rest assured there wouldn't be a rush to build a USS Donald Trump.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 19, 2025 02:50 PM (dxSpM)

145 >>>No more Cape Kennedy. No more USS Kennedy.

_______

No more JFK Stadium in Philadelphia.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

>I thought we were over the Kennedys when The Lion of the Senate croaked. Fuck those nepos.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 19, 2025 02:50 PM (hXQfZ)

146 My liver is still metabolizing alcohol

Posted by: Teddy Kennedy at January 19, 2025 02:50 PM (Fg0Nr)

147 I like "Free Range© Vegetarian Fed®". I aprove of wild chickens being fed Vegitarians.
Posted by: Reforger at January 19, 2025 02:44 PM (xcIvR)

Me too. That's how I know it's healthy.

Posted by: Long night... at January 19, 2025 02:50 PM (2NXcZ)

148 If they'd gotten PDT at Butler, PA, you may rest assured there wouldn't be a rush to build a USS Donald Trump.

And Modern Mainstream Propaganda wouldn't have went with "Pennsylvania Killed Donald Trump".

Posted by: Easy at January 19, 2025 02:51 PM (yAQn+)

149 > 124 I always wondered - wouldn’t a single “1” be sufficient for Trichlorethane? They need three for some reason.

Ethane has a chain of two carbon atoms, each with three hydrogens attached.

The carbon atoms are numbered 1 and 2, but it doesn't matter in this case because the molecule is symmetric.

Now, if you replace three of the hydroges with chlorines, you can have:

Cl H
| |
Cl-C-C-H
| |
Cl H (1,1,1 trichloroethane)

Or:

Cl Cl
| |
Cl-C-C-H
| |
H H (1,1,2 trichloroethane)

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 19, 2025 02:51 PM (W5ArC)

150 Two things I always pack when I am going to stay in a hotel/motel - 9 foot extension cord, and a clothes pin to close drapes all the way.

Posted by: washrivergal at January 19, 2025 02:51 PM (C53IZ)

151 120
I'm no fan of JFK, but it just ain't right we won't have a Kennedy carrier, but we'll have a clinton carrier.
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 19, 2025 02:39 PM (UvA5U

A carrier named after Clinton seems hilariously appropriate.

Posted by: Stateless...14% at January 19, 2025 02:51 PM (jvJvP)

152 Two things I always pack when I am going to stay in a hotel/motel - 9 foot extension cord, and a clothes pin to close drapes all the way.

Posted by: washrivergal at January 19, 2025 02:51 PM (C53IZ)

Must be one Hell of a "personal accessory".

Posted by: Easy at January 19, 2025 02:53 PM (yAQn+)

153 Joe....... Joe............. Joe.......

Wake up it is 8:59 EST on Monday Morning 20 January and it is time for you to go....

The people from Visiting Angels are here to help you move to your Delaware home today.......

Posted by: Buster Hymand at January 19, 2025 02:53 PM (VYoMb)

154 There's a reason why outlets look alarmed.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 19, 2025 02:53 PM (4XwPj)

155 The builtin-in outlets in lamp bases in a lot of hotel rooms either don't work or are too loose to hold the plug in.

Posted by: Chinese Spokesman Say at January 19, 2025 02:55 PM (LPS7w)

156 The new Biden Library is set to open up on Tuesday, 21 January 2025 at Yucca Flats.

A place that is near and dear to Biden and total destruction...

Posted by: Buster Hymand at January 19, 2025 02:56 PM (VYoMb)

157 /sockoff

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 19, 2025 02:56 PM (LPS7w)

158 On the outlets, my guess is that hotels are required by law to provide X number of outlets per room or per guest or whatever, so they install these low-power shit outlets so that nobody can actually use them to charge or power anything. Lower electricity costs while still technically meeting legal requirements.

As for carriers, there should be one named the George Washington, and the rest should be named after Revolutionary War battles. Destroyers should be named after Civil War battles. Nothing should be named after politicians. Same with the money. Washington on the quarter and the dollar, Liberty or whatever on the others. Indian head, clown face, whatever, I don't care. No politicians.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at January 19, 2025 02:56 PM (QdGJh)

159 Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 19, 2025 02:51 PM (W5ArC)

That reminds me of a crazy dream I had.

Posted by: August Kekule at January 19, 2025 02:57 PM (PiwSw)

160 > H H (1,1,2 trichloroethane)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 19, 2025 02:51 PM (W5ArC)

Well, that didn't come out formatted correctly.

Basically in ethane you have a chain of two carbon atoms, each of which has three hydrogens attached (the fourth bond is connected to the other carbon).

If you replace three of the six hydrogens with chlorine, you can either have all three on the first (1,1,1 trichloroethane) or two on the first and one on the second (1,1,2 trichloroethane).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 19, 2025 02:57 PM (W5ArC)

161
I bought 2doz organic eggs for 7.99. Where are they charging $10/doz?
Posted by: Long night

=============

Pasture raised is a little different from organic. California.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 19, 2025 02:57 PM (lCaJd)

162 The builtin-in outlets in lamp bases in a lot of hotel rooms either don't work or are too loose to hold the plug in.

Posted by: Chinese Spokesman Say

Don't laugh. I pull the mattress away from the headboars and inspect the room for bedbugs before i take my bag off the trolly. I plug in an 8 foot long, 3-wire extension cord to the fresh outlet behind the bed. That's what I use for my laptop power brick and cell phone charger. Hidden outlet isn't worn out by daily maid vacume plug and other guests plugging sketchy shit into it.

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 19, 2025 02:58 PM (MsrgL)

163 Hotel outlets like that get a lot more wear and tear than most home's outlets, since it's the plugging and unplugging of things that wears out the outlet. With home outlets, once you've plugged something in, it mostly just stays plugged in. That doesn't put any wear on it. With a hotel outlet, every guest could plug and unplug something into such an outlet, maybe even multiple times.

Posted by: George Grady at January 19, 2025 02:58 PM (mheMJ)

164 Cats are asshoe

https://tinyurl.com/vs84e9pe

Posted by: jsg at January 19, 2025 02:58 PM (Fg0Nr)

165 The former SS UNITED STATES will become a fishing reef near Pensacola.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 19, 2025 02:59 PM (dg+HA)

166 Here's my fwp.

My hearing is excellent. I have a brand new American made Electolux vacuum cleaner.

Whenever I turn that thing on, I put in the little rubber earplugs. Loud as hell. But I protect my hearing. My friend and I went to the movies last year, I slipped in the earplugs and heard almost everything. Crazy loud.

Posted by: Stateless...14% at January 19, 2025 03:00 PM (jvJvP)

167 Two things I always pack when I am going to stay in a hotel/motel - 9 foot extension cord, and a clothes pin to close drapes all the way.

Posted by: washrivergal

Clothespins! I need to add them to my kit for that reason too!

Tha k you!

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 19, 2025 03:00 PM (MsrgL)

168 Predicting 5-6" snow here, but I am counting on coastal effect to keep it at half that. After football, at eleven or twelve, will shovel what has fallen before the deep freeze hits. Worry about the rest later.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 19, 2025 03:00 PM (EQALQ)

169 First Hamas Hostages freed.... one clearly tortured recently as she is missing 2 fingers, and others are deformed... and the medical folks put bandages over the two missing fingers stumps.

Sickening... that Politicians are saying this is some type of victory.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 19, 2025 03:00 PM (QAkQ3)

170 I think it is a plot by Big Plug!

A very minor subsidiary of a subsidiary of a subsidiary of ours.

Posted by: Big Penguin at January 19, 2025 03:01 PM (a3Q+t)

171 Who choked?

Posted by: DaveA at January 19, 2025 03:01 PM (FhXTo)

172 Here's my fwp.

My hearing is excellent. I have a brand new American made Electolux vacuum cleaner.

Whenever I turn that thing on, I put in the little rubber earplugs. Loud as hell. But I protect my hearing. My friend and I went to the movies last year, I slipped in the earplugs and heard almost everything. Crazy loud.
Posted by: Stateless...14% at January 19, 2025 03:00 PM (jvJvP)

Stateless, are you recharging using a hotel outlet? Is that why you're at 14% power, and 2 hours from 15%?

/sarc

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 19, 2025 03:01 PM (VNX3d)

173
How is a corpse a "hostage?"

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 19, 2025 03:02 PM (UvA5U)

174 Stateless, are you recharging using a hotel outlet? Is that why you're at 14% power, and 2 hours from 15%?

/sarc

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 19, 2025 03:01 PM (VNX3d)

Sadly, that's my mental state. Tough year.

Each day better. Drinking and doing tons of housework now.

Posted by: Stateless...14% at January 19, 2025 03:02 PM (jvJvP)

175 Sickening... that Politicians are saying this is some type of victory.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 19, 2025 03:00 PM (QAkQ3)

That's what all managers / bosses / anyone in authority does when shit goes south. They start manipulating the message. It works.

Posted by: Easy at January 19, 2025 03:02 PM (yAQn+)

176 151 120
I'm no fan of JFK, but it just ain't right we won't have a Kennedy carrier, but we'll have a clinton carrier.
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 19, 2025 02:39 PM (UvA5U

A carrier named after Clinton seems hilariously appropriate.
Posted by: Stateless...14% at January 19, 2025 02:51 PM (jvJvP)

The USS Clintons should be a submarine of some type.... so they can... you know... blow the tanks to surface.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 19, 2025 03:03 PM (QAkQ3)

177 Vibrators pull a lot of amps.
Posted by: Or so I've been told at January 19, 2025 02:49 PM

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Posted by: Sybian at January 19, 2025 03:03 PM (a3Q+t)

178

Posted by: Sybian at January 19, 2025 03:03 PM (a3Q+t)

179 Uh oh

Posted by: jsg at January 19, 2025 03:03 PM (Fg0Nr)

180 Sickening... that Politicians are saying this is some type of victory.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 19, 2025 03:00 PM (QAkQ3)

I'm sure her family is thrilled to have her back anyway.

Posted by: Long night... at January 19, 2025 03:04 PM (2NXcZ)

181 Nice save

Posted by: jsg at January 19, 2025 03:04 PM (Fg0Nr)

182 Posted by: Sybian at January 19, 2025 03:03 PM (a3Q+t)

Its cool. I'm impressed you could even type.

Posted by: Easy at January 19, 2025 03:04 PM (yAQn+)

183
Don't laugh. I pull the mattress away from the headboars and inspect the room for bedbugs before i take my bag off the trolly. I plug in an 8 foot long, 3-wire extension cord to the fresh outlet behind the bed. That's what I use for my laptop power brick and cell phone charger. Hidden outlet isn't worn out by daily maid vacume plug and other guests plugging sketchy shit into it.
Posted by: BifBewalski

==================

I'm not laughing one bit. I'm taking notes. I've pulled beds and chests away from the wall in a few motel rooms to get to the outlets that actually work -- but I hadn't gone the extra step of the extension cord. That is now on the list.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 19, 2025 03:04 PM (lCaJd)

184 173
How is a corpse a "hostage?"

Answer: Joe Biden

Posted by: Buster Hymand at January 19, 2025 03:04 PM (VYoMb)

185 127 Fighting like cats and dogs.

https://tinyurl.com/522cwrhs
Posted by: Braenyard
______

The dog was ready to quit and the cat just kept egging him on. It's always the cat.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 19, 2025 02:42 PM (Dm8we)

wasn't there a song about della and the dealer and the dog....but the cat never said a mumbling word.....

Too lazy to look it up.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 19, 2025 03:04 PM (QGaXH)

186 'Organic' eggs are organic at the moment they drop from the chicken's ass into the nestbed. The term is strictly a marketing term to fool rubes into thinking they're getting something 'special' - and they are: A free proctological exam ... the bill for it is payable at checkout ...

As long as it's made up of carbon based materials it's not technically a lie.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 19, 2025 03:05 PM (lUFok)

187 >>>Who choked?

Posted by: DaveA

>Dr. Jill. On my fat cock.

My FWP.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 19, 2025 03:05 PM (hXQfZ)

188 144
That Kennedy ? The one, like the rest of them, that go infinitely more popular after death ?
Posted by: Easy at January
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German security messaged our security that they couldn't do business with Kennedy because he was a security risk.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 19, 2025 03:05 PM (SCPhd)

189 I'm sure her family is thrilled to have her back anyway.

Sure. And when the some of the same ones Israel released do the same thing again, and more people get raped or killed or kidnapped ? You pick the order.

History doesn't even have the decency of the rhyme now. It just repeats.

Posted by: Easy at January 19, 2025 03:06 PM (yAQn+)

190 Posted by: Romeo13 at January 19, 2025 03:00 PM (QAkQ3)

we will have to see, but for now , some heart
warming images :

https://tinyurl.com/nrnbz6pw

Posted by: runner at January 19, 2025 03:06 PM (g47mK)

191 Here's my fwp.

My hearing is excellent. I have a brand new American made Electolux vacuum cleaner.

Whenever I turn that thing on, I put in the little rubber earplugs. Loud as hell. But I protect my hearing. My friend and I went to the movies last year, I slipped in the earplugs and heard almost everything. Crazy loud.
Posted by: Stateless...14% at January 19, 2025 03:00 PM (jvJvP)

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Excellent suggestion. For a while now I have refused to go to the movies due to the earth-shaking loudness.

Posted by: washrivergal at January 19, 2025 03:07 PM (C53IZ)

192 > All these high-wattage chinese junk devices manufactured with cheap two-prong cords with, supposedly, 16awg wire.

1500-watt space heaters, for example.

UL Listed?? Hahahahahaha, sure.
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I had an electric space heater in the garage two years ago. Plugged into an extension cord. During a particularly cold spell I was out there dicking around with something when the breaker tripped. The heater had started to melt the extension cord at the plug.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 19, 2025 03:07 PM (Q4IgG)

193 No politicians.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at January 19, 2025 02:56 PM (QdGJh)

Abso-f*cking-lutely!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 19, 2025 03:08 PM (qvqLl)

194 Posted by: BifBewalski

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I'm not laughing one bit. I'm taking notes. I've pulled beds and chests away from the wall in a few motel rooms to get to the outlets that actually work -- but I hadn't gone the extra step of the extension cord. That is now on the list.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Come to AoS for the puns, stay for the knowledge.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 19, 2025 03:08 PM (SCPhd)

195 155 The builtin-in outlets in lamp bases in a lot of hotel rooms either don't work or are too loose to hold the plug in.
Posted by: Chinese Spokesman Say at January 19, 2025 02:55 PM (LPS7w)

*watches pitch sail across the plate*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 19, 2025 03:09 PM (bss/y)

196 As for me, I am pro ton.

Posted by: Stacey A. at January 19, 2025 03:09 PM (a3Q+t)

197 wasn't there a song about della and the dealer and the dog....but the cat never said a mumbling word.....

Too lazy to look it up.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
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Hoyt Axton.

The Dealer had a knife and the dog had a gun and the cat had a shot of Rye

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 19, 2025 03:10 PM (Dm8we)

198 1st world problems

Remove outlet check across terminals with a circuit check tool (light/meter)
Buy new outlets at Home Depot for less than 5 bucks each
input how to connect wires to standard outlets.

Install GFI outlets within 6 ft of sinks appliances ect .

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 19, 2025 03:10 PM (jQ+5q)

199 ++++

Excellent suggestion. For a while now I have refused to go to the movies due to the earth-shaking loudness.
Posted by: washrivergal
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And the dialogue is muffled.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 19, 2025 03:10 PM (SCPhd)

200

Come to AoS for the puns, stay for the knowledge.

Posted by: Braenyard

The fresh outlet and extension cord are the freebee. I am nuts about checking the room for parasites like bedbugs and electronic listening devices.

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 19, 2025 03:11 PM (MsrgL)

201 Posted by: Sybian at January 19, 2025 03:03 PM

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Its cool. I'm impressed you could even type.
Posted by: Easy at January 19, 2025 03:04 PM

V 2.0 has a number of attachments currently in beta.

Posted by: Sybian at January 19, 2025 03:12 PM (a3Q+t)

202 This is why, when I have to stay in a hotel, I always travel with three or four candelabra.

Posted by: Paco at January 19, 2025 03:12 PM (mADJX)

203 Today at the request of former President Obama I am pardoning Usama bin Laden who is a distant cousin of former President Obama.

UBL was wrongly punished, and recent FBI information shows that Trump and the J6 Rioters were responsible for 911.

Posted by: Blo Jiden at January 19, 2025 03:13 PM (houUd)

204 When I travel to a hotel, I'm armed!

Posted by: Weasel at January 19, 2025 03:13 PM (iu4Pw)

205 I had an electric space heater in the garage two years ago. Plugged into an extension cord. During a particularly cold spell I was out there dicking around with something when the breaker tripped. The heater had started to melt the extension cord at the plug.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 19, 2025 03:07 PM (Q4IgG)

Back in the day - that's how it was meant to work. On this topic, I know.

The idea of "grounded" - that three prong plug in your home - isn't as obvious as some may think. For those ambitious enough to take the cover off their main breaker box ? And I recommend most of you not to.

Your neutral - that white wire, the second wire on that two prong plug - is bonded, literally tied with another wire, to the green stuff. That's the stuff that ultimately goes outside to whatever piece of rebar was driven next to your foundation.

I design this stuff. I always run a separate ground. But its not magic. Or fool-proof.

Posted by: Easy at January 19, 2025 03:13 PM (yAQn+)

206 Well, to be honest, we're not gonna leave the light on.

Posted by: Motel 4-amp at January 19, 2025 03:13 PM (Fg0Nr)

207 158

As for carriers, there should be one named the George Washington, and the rest should be named after Revolutionary War battles. Destroyers should be named after Civil War battles. Nothing should be named after politicians. Same with the money. Washington on the quarter and the dollar, Liberty or whatever on the others. Indian head, clown face, whatever, I don't care. No politicians.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at January 19, 2025 02:56 PM (QdGJh)

Going from memory - all US coinage in the 1800's featured lady liberty in some fashion - a floating head or seated figure. Then in late 1800s came the Indian head penny - still ok and buffalo nickel - again with an indian head ont the obverse. Then in 1909they went with Lincoln on the penny, Jefferson on the nickel came sometime after then the Roosevelt dime.....up to the current era....we should just go back to Liberty on the coins....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 19, 2025 03:13 PM (QGaXH)

208
I Do Not Like Space Heaters, especially the ones with the red-hot heating elements. I don't trust them.

Three Words: Oil-Filled Heaters.

I like these. They're effective, they're safe(r), and they're silent.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 19, 2025 03:14 PM (ys6MS)

209 I keep the green stuff in my billfold.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 19, 2025 03:15 PM (SCPhd)

210 UBL was wrongly punished, and recent FBI information shows that Trump and the J6 Rioters were responsible for 911.

Biden, in his Farewell Speech today, yelled "I'm not going anywhere!" to conclude it.

Except to a memory care facility, of course.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 19, 2025 03:16 PM (uxCna)

211 When I travel to a hotel, I'm armed!
Posted by: Weasel at January 19, 2025 03:13 PM

Easy for you to say.

* sobs *

Posted by: Michelle Fields at January 19, 2025 03:16 PM (a3Q+t)

212 Three Words: Oil-Filled Heaters.

In a power outage - these are the most effective and efficient portable heat devices you can own. I own a couple, and have made it through a week without power just running them.

Soothsayer's words may not be made of iron. But they're made of heat, when you need it. And common sense.

Posted by: Easy at January 19, 2025 03:16 PM (yAQn+)

213 Howdy Horde! I have a new FWP. Hoping a few of you tech-savvy types might help. Been using the Qwant browser for a while on my iPhone but it has grown increasingly clunky. Decided to try our a new one called SnowHaze. Navigation is amazing smooth (even on this site), but it no longer auto-populates my nic & email address in the comment fields. I'm guessing there's a setting I need to adjust, but when I get into those menus I may as well be reading Basque....

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at January 19, 2025 03:16 PM (kOluj)

214 Biden, in his Farewell Speech today, yelled "I'm not going anywhere!" to conclude it.

So where are all the truly repulsive pardons?

Or are his handlers waiting until tomorrow morning to release them.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 19, 2025 03:17 PM (uxCna)

215 >>>They're effective, they're safe(r), and they're silent.
Posted by: Soothsayer
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I like hear the fan run. It cuts out other noise. And the breeze.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 19, 2025 03:17 PM (SCPhd)

216
Your neutral - that white wire, the second wire on that two prong plug - is bonded, literally tied with another wire, to the green stuff. That's the stuff that ultimately goes outside to whatever piece of rebar was driven next to your foundation.

I design this stuff. I always run a separate ground. But its not magic. Or fool-proof.

Posted by: Easy

Every house i buy, gets a Bif installed extra ground wire. Just in case. I use the new ground when i install the new 60amp 220 circuit for my air compressor. Yes, i run the new circuit through grounded conduit and i connect that 5hp motor to the new ground as well.

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 19, 2025 03:17 PM (MsrgL)

217 Isn't the government closed tomorrow for MLK DAY?

Posted by: Ben Had at January 19, 2025 03:18 PM (oT+t6)

218
The fresh outlet and extension cord are the freebee. I am nuts about checking the room for parasites like bedbugs and electronic listening devices.

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 19, 2025 03:11 PM (MsrgL)

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This is so gross but I'll tell it anyway: Years ago my ex-in-laws used to go to Las Vegas for bowling tournaments. One time, another couple that they were friends with in their league, got a room in the same hotel they were staying in. This other couple's room, they noticed had a very foul odor. So bad, they requested a room change. Turned out there was a dead body stuffed beneath the bed.

Posted by: washrivergal at January 19, 2025 03:18 PM (C53IZ)

219 212 Three Words: Oil-Filled Heaters.

In a power outage - these are the most effective and efficient portable heat devices you can own. I own a couple, and have made it through a week without power just running them.
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How do they work if the power is out?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 19, 2025 03:18 PM (SCPhd)

220
In a power outage - these are the most effective and efficient portable heat devices you can own. I own a couple, and have made it through a week without power just running them.

Posted by: Easy

My mistake. I should've made it clear I didn't mean kerosene heaters. I meant those oil-filled electric heaters that look like little radiators.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 19, 2025 03:18 PM (ys6MS)

221 217 Isn't the government closed tomorrow for MLK DAY?
Posted by: Ben Had at January 19, 2025 03:18 PM (oT+t6)

Holy crap I forgot. Who screams Racism first ?

Posted by: jsg at January 19, 2025 03:19 PM (Fg0Nr)

222 >>>Yes, i run the new circuit through grounded conduit and i connect that 5hp motor to the new ground as well.
Posted by: BifBewalski
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Speculating that you use a copper rod.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 19, 2025 03:20 PM (SCPhd)

223 This is so gross but I'll tell it anyway: Years ago my ex-in-laws used to go to Las Vegas for bowling tournaments. One time, another couple that they were friends with in their league, got a room in the same hotel they were staying in. This other couple's room, they noticed had a very foul odor. So bad, they requested a room change. Turned out there was a dead body stuffed beneath the bed.
Posted by: washrivergal at January 19, 2025 03:18 PM (C53IZ)

Worst Menage a Trois ever.

Posted by: jsg at January 19, 2025 03:20 PM (Fg0Nr)

224 Turned out there was a dead body stuffed beneath the bed.

Posted by: washrivergal

I pray I never find something like that. I have made a hotel give me back my money because of bedbugs though.

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 19, 2025 03:21 PM (MsrgL)

225 Yes, fed govt closed tomorrow for MLKjr day.....with the weather we're having now, i would have been closed anyway

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at January 19, 2025 03:21 PM (IQ6Gq)

226
My "Last Resort" absolute emergency heat is...a kerosene torpedo heater. If I had to keep the pipes (or me) from freezing, I'll run the torpedo heater in the house.

The house will stink for months (or possibly asphyxiate me or burn the house down), I imagine, but it's better than the alterative.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 19, 2025 03:21 PM (ys6MS)

227 Every house i buy, gets a Bif installed extra ground wire. Just in case. I use the new ground when i install the new 60amp 220 circuit for my air compressor. Yes, i run the new circuit through grounded conduit and i connect that 5hp motor to the new ground as well.

This is a discussion, not a criticism. Please note this first. What you describe ... makes some sense. I do this for a living, but I'm not one of these scolds.

And what you describe is every single phase welding plug. I get it.

I have seen GFIs nuisance trip on looping schemes like this - because you just made a second path to ground and those devices measure at a really dumb level. Of course, a nuisance trip beats no path to ground at all. I get it.

Posted by: Easy at January 19, 2025 03:22 PM (yAQn+)

228 Turned out there was a dead body stuffed beneath the bed.
Posted by: washrivergal at January 19, 2025 03:18 PM (C53IZ)

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

Posted by: Zombie Harry Reid, former chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission at January 19, 2025 03:22 PM (PiwSw)

229 ---

Speculating that you use a copper rod.

Posted by: Braenyard

yeah, a surplus 5/8" Army ground rod. And i use the full 3 section driven into the ground too.

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 19, 2025 03:22 PM (MsrgL)

230 I am sure we got eggs and wasn't $10

Posted by: Skip at January 19, 2025 03:22 PM (fwDg9)

231 214 Biden, in his Farewell Speech today, yelled "I'm not going anywhere!" to conclude it.

So where are all the truly repulsive pardons?

Or are his handlers waiting until tomorrow morning to release them.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 19, 2025 03:17 PM (uxCna)

I'm guessing he's got something truly reprehensible planned to steal the news away from Trump - maybe pardon Sirhan Sirhan if still alive the remaining Manson family?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 19, 2025 03:23 PM (QGaXH)

232 Grateful. I was thinking in terms of Joke not issuing any more pardons.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 19, 2025 03:23 PM (oT+t6)

233 > The fresh outlet and extension cord are the freebee. I am nuts about checking the room for parasites like bedbugs and electronic listening devices.
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My wife is fanatical about bugs in hotels. Goes to great lengths to make sure there are none.

I look for cameras. And find the ice machine.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 19, 2025 03:23 PM (Q4IgG)

234 Isn't the government closed tomorrow for MLK DAY?
Posted by: Ben Had at January 19, 2025 03:18 PM (oT+t6)

Holy crap I forgot. Who screams Racism first ?
Posted by: jsg at January 19, 2025 03:19 PM

In my school district, the kids have the day off.
The staff have an in-service meeting all day.

Young teacher made a joke thaf it's okay because most of the teachers are white.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 19, 2025 03:24 PM (cU25t)

235 230 I am sure we got eggs and wasn't $10
Posted by: Skip at January 19, 2025 03:22 PM (fwDg9)

Those were the pasture fed in the cute colorful containers.

Posted by: Long night... at January 19, 2025 03:24 PM (2NXcZ)

236 Okay, what is the real reason the inauguration was moved indoors?

I remember Bill Clinton sitting in a big fat heated lazyboy during one of his. Everyone was freezing but him.

I think there is a terrorist threat, from the crazy women.

Posted by: No one of any consequence at January 19, 2025 03:24 PM (ZmEVT)

237 Stateless, are you recharging using a hotel outlet? Is that why you're at 14% power, and 2 hours from 15%?

/sarc

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 19, 2025 03:01 PM (VNX3d)

Sadly, that's my mental state. Tough year.

Each day better. Drinking and doing tons of housework now.
Posted by: Stateless...14% at January 19, 2025 03:02 PM (jvJvP)

I've had times like that. It does get better.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 19, 2025 03:24 PM (VNX3d)

238 So, yeah, the USS John Kennedy will be SCRAPPED.

If you have more questions or want to see this HULK being towed to the scrapyard, here's a new video:

https://is.gd/W25Pph
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Could pack a lot of newcomers on the barge, haul out to Sargasso Sea, and let then make of it what they can.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 19, 2025 03:25 PM (/lPRQ)

239 I think there is a terrorist threat, from the crazy women.
Posted by: No one of any consequence at January 19, 2025 03:24 PM (ZmEVT)

The blue hairs in the pink crotch hats? Or just the Pelosis

Posted by: Long night... at January 19, 2025 03:25 PM (2NXcZ)

240 Ohmy God stop with the puns.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie
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That really hertz.

Posted by: scampydog at January 19, 2025 03:25 PM (32wH/)

241 I meant those oil-filled electric heaters that look like little radiators.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 19, 2025 03:18 PM (ys6MS)

Oh no ... that's what I meant as well. The electric ones that look like little miniature versions of your grand-dads steam heater.

We're on the same page. They're safe. They put out a great amount of heat. Yes - during an ice storm - I ran a walk-out basement house on two of these bastards and a generator. Didn't bust any water lines.

I think every home that can should own a generator - whatever size they can afford. And at least one of these oil filled portable heat units.

Posted by: Easy at January 19, 2025 03:26 PM (yAQn+)

242 >>>I look for cameras. And find the ice machine.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Buddy knows where the ice machine is before he opens the door.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 19, 2025 03:26 PM (SCPhd)

243
Incidentally, I performed my own oil furnace tune-up. New filter, new pump screen & gasket, and new nozzle. The only thing I didn't do was an "efficiency check" because I don't own a Gas Analyzer.

I didn't break anything and no leaks.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 19, 2025 03:26 PM (ys6MS)

244 Of course, a nuisance trip beats no path to ground at all. I get it.

Posted by: Easy

I've been fortunate. Current house has two panels, kitchen and bathrooms are on one, hvacs, stove, oven, wwater heater and air compressor are on the 2nd. No nuisance trips on the gfi circuits where water is near them.

City put in natural gas a few years ago. As the major appliances are failing, we are putting in gas replacements. I expect the downstairs hvac to be first in that queue. It's undersized (10ton) for the 1st floor and runs all the damned time. Upgrade to 13ton, with gas heater should solve that.

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 19, 2025 03:27 PM (MsrgL)

245 Buddy knows where the ice machine is before he opens the door.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 19, 2025 03:26 PM (SCPhd)

++++

LOL

Posted by: washrivergal at January 19, 2025 03:27 PM (C53IZ)

246 221 217 Isn't the government closed tomorrow for MLK DAY?

Martin LooterDay for all illegal immigrants in large Blue Cities.........

Posted by: Franklin Stein at January 19, 2025 03:27 PM (cF1yG)

247 239 I think there is a terrorist threat, from the crazy women.
Posted by: No one of any consequence at January 19, 2025 03:24 PM (ZmEVT)

The blue hairs in the pink crotch hats? Or just the Pelosis
Posted by: Long night... at January 19, 2025 03:25 PM (2NXcZ)

Big Mike, Kamel-toe, Nancy, Shrillary and AOC...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 19, 2025 03:27 PM (QGaXH)

248 Ohmy God stop with the puns.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie
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That really hertz.
Posted by: scampydog at January 19, 2025 03:25 PM (32wH/)
Time to sine off. Waves!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 19, 2025 03:28 PM (VNX3d)

249 228 Turned out there was a dead body stuffed beneath the bed.
Posted by: washrivergal at January 19, 2025 03:18 PM (C53IZ)

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
Posted by: Zombie Harry Reid, former chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission at January 19, 2025 03:22 PM (PiwSw)
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I wonder if housekeeping saw the body and thought, "I don't have time for this!" so they just stuffed it under the bed and tidied up the sheets.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 19, 2025 03:28 PM (LPS7w)

250 BH, he has demonstrated repeatedly that rules don't apply to him...he may think he has an extra week for all I know

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at January 19, 2025 03:29 PM (IQ6Gq)

251
I made a few predictions the day after the election:

-obama & biden will never speak to each other again
-we will never see the bidens or harris again until biden is dead

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 19, 2025 03:29 PM (ys6MS)

252 Martin LooterDay for all illegal immigrants in large Blue Cities.........
Posted by: Franklin Stein at January 19, 2025 03:27 PM (cF1yG)

As they're deported, we need to confiscate their phones to determine which Americans aided and abetted the invasion. Prosecute accordingly.

Posted by: Long night... at January 19, 2025 03:29 PM (2NXcZ)

253 Grateful, hahaha, I wouldn't be surprised.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 19, 2025 03:30 PM (oT+t6)

254 Those were the pasture fed in the cute colorful containers.
Posted by: Long night... at January 19, 2025 03:24 PM

And sure get meal worms and coffee for breakfast in their beds in the morning

Posted by: Skip at January 19, 2025 03:30 PM (fwDg9)

255 Been a dead body in my bed for about a decade. But Hell, we're married. And I ain't getting any better looking.

Posted by: Easy at January 19, 2025 03:30 PM (yAQn+)

256 And sure get meal worms and coffee for breakfast in their beds in the morning
Posted by: Skip at January 19, 2025 03:30 PM (fwDg9)

Gotta be worth the extra money!

Posted by: Long night... at January 19, 2025 03:32 PM (2NXcZ)

257 > I meant those oil-filled electric heaters that look like little radiators.
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We have one in our bathroom during the winter. That room and my office are the two coldest rooms... and oddly at opposite ends of the house.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 19, 2025 03:33 PM (Q4IgG)

258 Fir what I heard a statement from Sundowner he isn't going to go away , he will much faster than he thinks

Posted by: Skip at January 19, 2025 03:33 PM (fwDg9)

259
We have one in our bathroom during the winter. That room and my office are the two coldest rooms... and oddly at opposite ends of the house.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Yeah, the rooms furthest away from the Thermostat will be the coldest.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 19, 2025 03:35 PM (ys6MS)

260 Rally is starting.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 19, 2025 03:36 PM (LkLld)

261 212 Three Words: Oil-Filled Heaters.

In a power outage - these are the most effective and efficient portable heat devices you can own. I own a couple, and have made it through a week without power just running them.

Soothsayer's words may not be made of iron. But they're made of heat, when you need it. And common sense.
Posted by: Easy at January 19, 2025 03:16 PM (yAQn+)

"...and have made it through a week without power just running them."

How do you keep them going in a power outage? Generator?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 19, 2025 03:36 PM (QGaXH)

262 The USS JOHN F. KENNEDY, CVN79, is under construction at Newport News and will be delivered later this year.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 19, 2025 03:37 PM (dg+HA)

263 I guess we the people pick who sings the National Anthem at Trump rally's. So far every person (girl) I've heard really could have done a better job'

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 19, 2025 03:38 PM (jQ+5q)

264 Is there some special vendor of power outlets that sells only to hotels? You know... those outlets that never work,
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Must be the same vendor who installs the security cameras that never work on crime shows.

WTF is the point of having a security camera that doesn't work?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 19, 2025 03:38 PM (YqDXo)

265 An extension cord is always good to have along in a hotel room.

In case you want to hang yourself, or tie someone up or torture someone.

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at January 19, 2025 03:38 PM (QB+5g)

266 I have found several corpses in my career.

One thing: do not touch anything until the M.E shows up otherwise they treat you like a killer.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 19, 2025 03:38 PM (jKrmL)

267 In bed with a dead girl or a live boy.

Posted by: Just the punchline at January 19, 2025 03:39 PM (dg+HA)

268 Have football game on with sound hardly on trying to finish Churchill biography

Posted by: Skip at January 19, 2025 03:39 PM (fwDg9)

269
A new USS Kennedy?

Wonderful.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 19, 2025 03:40 PM (ys6MS)

270 Incidentally, I performed my own oil furnace tune-up. New filter, new pump screen & gasket, and new nozzle. The only thing I didn't do was an "efficiency check" because I don't own a Gas Analyzer.

I didn't break anything and no leaks.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 19, 2025 03:26 PM (ys6MS)

Same method I use.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 19, 2025 03:40 PM (VwHCD)

271
Will it be the Kennedy II?

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 19, 2025 03:40 PM (ys6MS)

272 I got a Buddy heater that runs on a the same sized propane tank as my campstove. Haven't needed it yet as the cold days have been dry. Winter power outages around here are usually from freezing rain bringing down electrical lines.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 19, 2025 03:40 PM (cU25t)

273 Did read at Legalinsurrection.com 3 Israeli women have been released.

Posted by: Skip at January 19, 2025 03:40 PM (fwDg9)

274 Also the USS DORIS MILLER, but I'll let you enjoy looking that one up yourself.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 19, 2025 03:41 PM (dg+HA)

275 City put in natural gas a few years ago. As the major appliances are failing, we are putting in gas replacements. I expect the downstairs hvac to be first in that queue. It's undersized (10ton) for the 1st floor and runs all the damned time. Upgrade to 13ton, with gas heater should solve that.

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 19, 2025 03:27 PM (MsrgL)
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Meanwhile, California continues its jihad against natural gas. They're even thinking about banning burritos.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 19, 2025 03:41 PM (YqDXo)

276 BIG PUG!!

Oh wait, you said big plug.

Sorry.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Day 6 of Funemployment at January 19, 2025 03:41 PM (Ad8y9)

277 Also the USS DORIS MILLER, but I'll let you enjoy looking that one up yourself.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 19, 2025 03:41 PM (dg+HA)
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Next up: the USS Idi Amin.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 19, 2025 03:42 PM (YqDXo)

278 And snow which was getting finer is turning into sleet

Posted by: Skip at January 19, 2025 03:42 PM (fwDg9)

279
Also the USS DORIS MILLER, but I'll let you enjoy looking that one up yourself.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Ahh, fake black "history" bullshit.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 19, 2025 03:43 PM (ys6MS)

280 275 City put in natural gas a few years ago. As the major appliances are failing, we are putting in gas replacements. I expect the downstairs hvac to be first in that queue. It's undersized (10ton) for the 1st floor and runs all the damned time. Upgrade to 13ton, with gas heater should solve that.

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 19, 2025 03:27 PM (MsrgL)
_______________

Meanwhile, California continues its jihad against natural gas. They're even thinking about banning burritos.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 19, 2025 03:41 PM (YqDXo)

Was thinking about that last night and the feasibility of smuggling in a gas water heater from an adjoining state in my camper should the need arise......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 19, 2025 03:43 PM (QGaXH)

281 "I use the new ground when i install the new 60amp 220 circuit for my air compressor. Yes, i run the new circuit through grounded conduit and i connect that 5hp motor to the new ground as well." Posted by: BifBewalski

I'm thinking both grounds need to be bonded (to each other)?

I put overhead wires underground (different 0000 wire) and code now says to run 4 wires (for 220) two hots, neutral and ground. But I just did it the way it used to be ... ground rod at quonset about 300' away, but just three wires from main box to quonset. Hasn't caught fire yet.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 19, 2025 03:43 PM (Cus5s)

282 Have football game on with sound hardly on trying to finish Churchill biography

Iggles? Hope it's a home game as we are getting blanketed by snow.

Posted by: t-bird at January 19, 2025 03:44 PM (633JL)

283 I wonder if housekeeping saw the body and thought, "I don't have time for this!" so they just stuffed it under the bed and tidied up the sheets.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 19, 2025 03:28 PM (LPS7w)

++++

I've often wondered. Did the housekeeper find the body and didn't say anything, or did she simply run the vacuum under just the edges of the carpet beneath the bed.

Posted by: washrivergal at January 19, 2025 03:44 PM (C53IZ)

284 Those darn foreigners trying to put their curling iron plugs into our very fine power outlets!

Posted by: L - When do we hit rock bottom? Not today at January 19, 2025 03:44 PM (NFX2v)

285 Fir what I heard a statement from Sundowner he isn't going to go away , he will much faster than he thinks
Posted by: Skip

Something tells me his staffers have moved that fake Oval office set to his home in Smellaware and are going to have him eat applesauce and lunchables at the desk everyday.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 19, 2025 03:45 PM (mlg/3)

286 I suspect the 4 A max in the photo above is so that some nitwit (who can't parallel park) doesn't try to operate a hair dryer from that outlet.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 19, 2025 03:45 PM (YqDXo)

287 Matthew Lohmeer has been nominee for undersecretary of USAF

Posted by: Skip at January 19, 2025 03:47 PM (fwDg9)

288 Does seem to be precipitation in south Philadelphia

Posted by: Skip at January 19, 2025 03:48 PM (fwDg9)

289 Just over 20 hours to go.

I suspect Mrs fluffy will fire up streaming before she has coffee tomorrow.

Posted by: fluffy at January 19, 2025 03:48 PM (AN2gy)

290 I've had times like that. It does get better.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 19, 2025 03:24 PM (VNX3d)

Thanks!

Posted by: Stateless...14% at January 19, 2025 03:48 PM (jvJvP)

291 Prepare for some chop.

@Breaking911
SOME OF TRUMP'S EXECUTIVE ORDERS, DAY 1:

- Begin deportation raids

- Declare national emergency at the Southern border

- Jan. 6 pardons

- 'Deep state purge'

- End Biden's DEI directives

- Roll back limits on offshore drilling

“Your head will spin when you see what’s going to happen,” Trump said.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 19, 2025 03:49 PM (mlg/3)

292 " Biden, in his Farewell Speech today, yelled "I'm not going anywhere!" to conclude it."

Really? Last I heard hell isn't just anywhere.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 19, 2025 03:49 PM (VwHCD)

293 After over 470 days: Romi, Emily, and Doron come home
Romi Gonen, Emily Damari, and Doron Steinbrecher have returned to Israel after more than 470 days in captivity in Gaza.
Israel National News
Israel National News
Published: Jan 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM (GMT+2)
Updated: 10:13 PM

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 19, 2025 03:50 PM (jKrmL)

294 I hope I never hear his voice again.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 19, 2025 03:50 PM (dg+HA)

295 Meanwhile, California continues its jihad against natural gas. They're even thinking about banning burritos.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 19, 2025 03:41 PM (YqDXo)

Was thinking about that last night and the feasibility of smuggling in a gas water heater from an adjoining state in my camper should the need arise......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 19, 2025 03:43 PM (QGaXH)
________________

One of the many reasons that I am a fundamentalist about doing routine annual maintenance on our water heater (sacrificial anode replacement, flushing, temperature-pressure relief valve), which is now pushing 20 years old.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 19, 2025 03:50 PM (YqDXo)

296 “Your head will spin when you see what’s going to happen,” Trump said.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 19, 2025 03:49 PM (mlg/3)
====

b"h

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 19, 2025 03:51 PM (jKrmL)

297 "Biden, in his Farewell Speech today, yelled "I'm not going anywhere!" to conclude it."
________________

Were a couple of burly guys wrassling him out the door at the time?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 19, 2025 03:51 PM (YqDXo)

298 295
One of the many reasons that I am a fundamentalist about doing routine annual maintenance on our water heater (sacrificial anode replacement, flushing, temperature-pressure relief valve), which is now pushing 20 years old.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 19, 2025 03:50 PM (YqDXo)

Yeah..I need to get religion on that - what do you do with the hose when you flush the heater ? Run it out to the street?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 19, 2025 03:52 PM (QGaXH)

299 Were a couple of burly guys wrassling him out the door at the time?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 19, 2025 03:51 PM (YqDXo)

He might have been having some succulent Chinese food.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 19, 2025 03:52 PM (D7oie)

300 SOME OF TRUMP'S EXECUTIVE ORDERS, DAY 1:

- Begin deportation raids

- Declare national emergency at the Southern border

- Jan. 6 pardons

- 'Deep state purge'

- End Biden's DEI directives

- Roll back limits on offshore drilling

“Your head will spin when you see what’s going to happen,” Trump said.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 19, 2025 03:49 PM (mlg/3)
______________

End Biden's DEI directives? Hell, end ALL of Biden's directives.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 19, 2025 03:53 PM (YqDXo)

301 Were a couple of burly guys wrassling him out the door at the time?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 19, 2025 03:51 PM (YqDXo)

He might have been having some succulent Chinese food.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 19, 2025 03:53 PM (D7oie)

302 Something tells me his staffers have moved that fake Oval office set to his home in Smellaware and are going to have him eat applesauce and lunchables at the desk everyday.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 19, 2025 03:45 PM (mlg/3)

++++
All these stories coming out about how far gone he is mentally.
Yet, Jill maintains this cold resentment to anyone who tried to persuade him to step down. So crazy.

Posted by: washrivergal at January 19, 2025 03:53 PM (C53IZ)

303 "Biden, in his Farewell Speech today, yelled "I'm not going anywhere!" to conclude it."
________________

Were a couple of burly guys wrassling him out the door at the time?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 19, 2025 03:51 PM (YqDXo)

I'm hoping that, tomorrow, they dress Joey in a straightjacket to make it easier to move him out of the White House.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 19, 2025 03:53 PM (VNX3d)

304 Release Ross Ulbrecht?

Posted by: Kindltot at January 19, 2025 03:53 PM (D7oie)

305 What is the purpose of declaring when and where they are doing deportation raids? Hoping people leave first (?) because I would think sanctuary cities will put some police or some group out there to stop the raids?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 19, 2025 03:54 PM (FxQ+S)

306 300 SOME OF TRUMP'S EXECUTIVE ORDERS, DAY 1:

- Begin deportation raids

- Declare national emergency at the Southern border

- Jan. 6 pardons

- 'Deep state purge'

- End Biden's DEI directives

- Roll back limits on offshore drilling

“Your head will spin when you see what’s going to happen,” Trump said.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 19, 2025 03:49 PM (mlg/3)
______________

End Biden's DEI directives? Hell, end ALL of Biden's directives.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 19, 2025 03:53 PM (YqDXo)

I agree. This will be a situation where 'less' is most definitely not 'more'.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 19, 2025 03:54 PM (QGaXH)

307 He might have been having some succulent Chinese food.

Did he don a festive little hat?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at January 19, 2025 03:55 PM (xypP4)

308 “Your head will spin when you see what’s going to happen,” Trump said.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 19, 2025 03:49 PM (mlg/3)

That is so hot.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 19, 2025 03:55 PM (ufFY8)

309 Yeah..I need to get religion on that - what do you do with the hose when you flush the heater ? Run it out to the street?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 19, 2025 03:52 PM (QGaXH)
_____________

Nah. I just run it outside to the walkway, as our water heater is only six feet or so from the front door.

Alternatively you could run the hose into one of the 5 gal. Home Depot orange buckets. Most of the crud comes out in the first few gallons of drainage anyway.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 19, 2025 03:55 PM (YqDXo)

310 “Your head will spin when you see what’s going to happen,” Trump said.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 19, 2025 03:49 PM

Our "Rheeeeee"ing will be going to eleventy for months!

Posted by: Joys Behar & Reid at January 19, 2025 03:55 PM (a3Q+t)

311 Snowing again, better than freezing rain

Posted by: Skip at January 19, 2025 03:56 PM (fwDg9)

312 I was sent to Norfolk Naval Shipyard to film the asbestos removal decades ago from the fire and engine rooms of the USS Kennedy.

No per diem given for a hotel in those days. Had to stay in a room in an unused portion of enlisted quarters.

Posted by: L - When do we hit rock bottom? Not today at January 19, 2025 03:57 PM (NFX2v)

313 What is the purpose of declaring when and where they are doing deportation raids? Hoping people leave first (?) because I would think sanctuary cities will put some police or some group out there to stop the raids?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 19, 2025 03:54 PM (FxQ+S)
_____________

Head fake. Announce you'll start deportations in city X, but then actually do them in city Y. Kinda like throwing a change-up to a hitter expected dead red.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 19, 2025 03:57 PM (YqDXo)

314 309 Alternatively you could run the hose into one of the 5 gal. Home Depot orange buckets. Most of the crud comes out in the first few gallons of drainage anyway.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 19, 2025 03:55 PM (YqDXo)

Good suggestion. Thank you!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 19, 2025 03:57 PM (QGaXH)

315 Can't wait for the media to flip their lid even more.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 19, 2025 03:57 PM (ufFY8)

316 What is the purpose of declaring when and where they are doing deportation raids? Hoping people leave first (?) because I would think sanctuary cities will put some police or some group out there to stop the raids?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 19, 2025 03:54 PM (FxQ+S)

It would be funny if the first cities hit weren't on the list. Force the loudmouths out of position, and get the illegals out.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 19, 2025 03:57 PM (VNX3d)

317 I want Trump to weld a broad sword through the government bureaucracy

Posted by: Skip at January 19, 2025 03:58 PM (fwDg9)

318 What is the purpose of declaring when and where they are doing deportation raids? Hoping people leave first (?) because I would think sanctuary cities will put some police or some group out there to stop the raids?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Test to see if Trump has control of the military. Cali puts out cops to stop roundup of illegals, declare insurrection and 82nd rounds up cops and their chain of command up to and including the governor.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 19, 2025 03:58 PM (/lPRQ)

319 50. I did. See 312 above.

Also on several carriers at Philly during overhauls, repairs.

Posted by: L - When do we hit rock bottom? Not today at January 19, 2025 03:59 PM (NFX2v)

320 I've become semi-pro at Rapid Receptable Replacement and learned how corrosive cat piss can be. Still love em though

Posted by: SamIam at January 19, 2025 03:59 PM (oasF3)

321 @30/Nigel Tufnel: "Mine goes to 11"

But why not just have it go up to 10, and have it put out the amperage you need?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant (playing along) at January 19, 2025 04:00 PM (O7YUW)

322 Yeah..I need to get religion on that - what do you do with the hose when you flush the heater ? Run it out to the street?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 19, 2025 03:52 PM (QGaXH)
______________

Pro tip: the temperature-pressure relief valve usually doesn't really need replacement. Our water has a buttload of minerals in it that form lime scale on the valve. I have two such valves: I replace the existing one with an older one that I treated with HCl (available commercially as CLR) to dissolve the lime scale. I test it, and it works fine. Meanwhile, I refurb the one I took off.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 19, 2025 04:00 PM (YqDXo)

323 I want Trump to weld a broad sword through the government bureaucracy
Posted by: Skip at January 19, 2025 03:58 PM

"What are we, chopped liver?"

- Zweihänder and Beidhänder

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 19, 2025 04:01 PM (a3Q+t)

324 Test to see if Trump has control of the military. Cali puts out cops to stop roundup of illegals, declare insurrection and 82nd rounds up cops and their chain of command up to and including the governor.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 19, 2025 03:58 PM (/lPRQ)

I wonder if it could be used as a pretext to extend the voting rights act to the west coast.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 19, 2025 04:01 PM (D7oie)

325 FOODIE NOODIE

And convinced CBD will eat anything

Posted by: Skip at January 19, 2025 04:01 PM (fwDg9)

326 I want Trump to weld a broad sword through the government bureaucracy

Posted by: Skip at January 19, 2025 03:58 PM (fwDg9)
______________

I want A-10 Warthog strafing runs through the bureaucracy.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 19, 2025 04:02 PM (YqDXo)

327 What is the purpose of declaring when and where they are doing deportation raids? Hoping people leave first (?) because I would think sanctuary cities will put some police or some group out there to stop the raids?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 19, 2025 03:54 PM

Self deportations and some companies preemptively conducting mass firings of illegals. Low hanging fruit.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 19, 2025 04:02 PM (Rcnd3)

328 I've become semi-pro at Rapid Receptable Replacement and learned how corrosive cat piss can be. Still love em though
Posted by: SamIam at January 19, 2025 03:59 PM (oasF3)

Do you know those child-safe plug in covers? Maybe those would work for you.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 19, 2025 04:02 PM (D7oie)

329 Leave the T&P valve alone. It will function when it needs to despite scaling etc. Your just likely to mess up the seals.

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at January 19, 2025 04:02 PM (QB+5g)

330 I've become semi-pro at Rapid Receptable Replacement and learned how corrosive cat piss can be. Still love em though
Posted by: SamIam at January 19, 2025 03:59 PM

We love you, too!

Posted by: Corroded Receptacles at January 19, 2025 04:03 PM (a3Q+t)

331 "Biden, in his Farewell Speech today, yelled "I'm not going anywhere!" to conclude it."

His rotted guacamole brain left a long time ago.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 19, 2025 04:03 PM (sAmhv)

332 309 Alternatively you could run the hose into one of the 5 gal. Home Depot orange buckets. Most of the crud comes out in the first few gallons of drainage anyway.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 19, 2025 03:55 PM (YqDXo)

Good suggestion. Thank you!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 19, 2025 03:57 PM (QGaXH)
______________

My pleasure. The reason the crud comes out early is that the dip tube supplying water to the heater end just above the bottom of the heater, i.e., where the crud is. So blasting water in through the dip tube tends to stir up the crud and facilitate its drainage.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 19, 2025 04:04 PM (YqDXo)

333 “Your head will spin when you see what’s going to happen,” Trump said.

I just saw Catherine Herridge's post, too. Man, it's going to be something.

Posted by: t-bird at January 19, 2025 04:04 PM (7a3bZ)

334 Leave the T&P valve alone. It will function when it needs to despite scaling etc. Your just likely to mess up the seals.

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at January 19, 2025 04:02 PM (QB+5g)
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Nope. I only do the above when the TPI valve doesn't operate properly. A few minutes with dilute HCl dissolves the lime scale, and then the TPI operates smoothly.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 19, 2025 04:05 PM (YqDXo)

335 A few minutes with dilute HCl dissolves the lime scale
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 19, 2025 04:05 PM

I could do that in seconds.

Posted by: HF at January 19, 2025 04:09 PM (a3Q+t)

336 "I've become semi-pro at Rapid Receptable Replacement and learned how corrosive cat piss can be. Still love em though
Posted by: SamIam at January 19, 2025 03:59 PM

We love you, too!"

lol.

Posted by: SamIam at January 19, 2025 04:09 PM (oasF3)

337 334 Leave the T&P valve alone. It will function when it needs to despite scaling etc. Your just likely to mess up the seals.

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at January 19, 2025 04:02 PM (QB+5g)
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Nope. I only do the above when the TPI valve doesn't operate properly. A few minutes with dilute HCl dissolves the lime scale, and then the TPI operates smoothly.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 19, 2025 04:05 PM (YqDXo)

pawn and Deplorable J - thank you both for the information. I will likely try the flushing but am averse to disassembling things.

Deplorable J - I'm in Orange county - our water is very hard.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 19, 2025 04:14 PM (QGaXH)

338 Hadn't run the van in over a month, A cold snap ago and another coming. Yep, turned over and but no start.
Dug out charger, jumped it, and it's been idling twenty minutes. Should be enough.
Ahead of the game for once, more or less.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 19, 2025 04:14 PM (EQALQ)

339 I could do that in seconds.

Posted by: HF at January 19, 2025 04:09 PM (a3Q+t)
______________

Actually, you couldn't. HF is not a strong acid (i.e., highly ionized), and in any case its action on lime scale (CaCO3) would produce ... CaF2, which IIRC is not soluble.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 19, 2025 04:29 PM (YqDXo)

340 pawn and Deplorable J - thank you both for the information. I will likely try the flushing but am averse to disassembling things.

Deplorable J - I'm in Orange county - our water is very hard.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 19, 2025 04:14 PM (QGaXH)
_______________

Probably the same water we get here in SD. I don't diassemble the TPI valve; I just immerse it briefly (for a minute or two) in dilute HCl. You can see the bubbling as the CaCO3 dissolves. I check that the valve now moves smoothly and freely, then put it on the water heater, do the same thing, and make sure the valve doesn't leak (which is how I know the seals are OK).

I do the same thing with, e.g., our coffee maker (just run the dilute HCl through for a minute, then flush multiple times with water).

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 19, 2025 04:32 PM (YqDXo)

341

Plug My Outlet!

Posted by: Tranni Tilapiatwat at January 19, 2025 04:43 PM (4iSSU)

342

Prong Me! Prong Me!

Posted by: Tranni Tilapiatwat at January 19, 2025 04:45 PM (4iSSU)

343 Same guy that McCarthur wanted to court martial - because he flouted basic SOP by leaving that PT out of gear at idle ? Or the JFK that was steaming toward not winning a second term before he got shot ?

That Kennedy ? The one, like the rest of them, that go infinitely more popular after death ?
Posted by: Easy at January 19, 2025 02:47 PM (yAQn+)

Question....were you alive back then, and how old were you if you were?

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 19, 2025 05:24 PM (iODuv)

344 Question....were you alive back then, and how old were you if you were?

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 19, 2025 05:24 PM (iODuv)

Best of all answers ... no. Born in '72. So I got to see all the folks, first-hand, that worshiped Carter. And also Elvis and JFK.

He was a shitty president. JFK put missiles in Turkey that the USSR then put in Cuba that just about got it all going. He was a shit president.

It's a Boomer Thing - to suck off Kennedy. It might be a Millennial thing to suck off Obama. They all were awful.

Posted by: Easy at January 19, 2025 05:31 PM (TB8s7)

345 As to the plugs, something up the line is probably tripped, and likely in another room altogether (cue Clint Eastwood saying "Swell.")

Posted by: SouthCentralPA at January 19, 2025 05:32 PM (muRIc)

346 Or are we talking about Bobby Kennedy ? You know, the Kennedy that pissed off the mob by getting elected and then attacked the Teamsters - also known as the Mob - that elected and funded him ?

Or are we talking about Ted ? The Lion of the Senate that let one girl die after a party, then got filmed drilling another one a couple decades later ?

Posted by: Easy at January 19, 2025 05:34 PM (TB8s7)

347 "I think it is a plot by Big Plug!"

That's my favorite story!

Posted by: Mayor Pete at January 19, 2025 06:11 PM (t4AS1)

348
Cl H
| |
Cl-C-C-H
| |
Cl H (1,1,1 trichloroethane)

Or:

Cl Cl
| |
Cl-C-C-H
| |
H H (1,1,2 trichloroethane)

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
--------
All of this is why I'm grateful that the EE curriculum stopped at inorganic.
If I had Chem questions, I had a ChemE and a ChemPhD at work to ask.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 19, 2025 07:41 PM (+XvTL)

349 test

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 19, 2025 08:31 PM (a4mOr)

350 "I pray I never find something like that. I have made a hotel give me back my money because of bedbugs though."

Decided to stop for the night in an out of the way place. Got stretched out in bed, thought I must be really tired, because the ceiling was moving.

Lots of little white scorpions. On the ceiling.
Decided I did not need the rest after all. Finished up the last 200 miles, wide awake.

Posted by: boynsea at January 19, 2025 09:14 PM (z/uSE)

351 wasn't there a song about della and the dealer and the dog....but the cat never said a mumbling word.....

Too lazy to look it up.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

Della and the Dealer
Hoyt Axton
Featured on WKRP in 1979

Posted by: Chuck C at January 20, 2025 02:32 AM (D0HYP)

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