First-World Problems...Part שבע

The faint clunk of the one-way valve on one of my sump pumps is maddening! There are two pumps in the basement, and one is silent when I test it. But the main pump thumps (loudly when next to it) when the valve closes at the end of a pump cycle. I have some theories, but the one that makes the most sense (or is the least stupid) is that the PVC running to the quite pump is at an angle, and the velocity of the water hitting the valve is lower than the other pump, which has a vertical PVC pipe.

Oh...why two pumps? Well, the main one runs off of house current, and the second one, which is set to turn on at a slightly higher water level, runs on two marine deep-discharge batteries fed through an inverter for 110V power. The typical auxiliary pumps are 12V pumps designed for short-term use, but I get a lot of water in my basement, and if we lose power for any length of time those cheap pumps won't be able to handle it.

What's that? Yup...both pumps are American made, because the previous two failed. And for extra credit, guess where those were made...

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Commenter "Kathy" sends this list along in the hopes that we can all start paying more attention to "Made In America" at the same time we pay less attention and money to "Made In China."

All American Clothing Co
Alliance for American Manufacturing
AmericansWorking.com
Authenticity50
IBuyAmericanStore
Lifetime
Made In America Store
The American List
MadeInUSAForever
Mast General Store
Still Made In USA
STRICTLY USA
The Made in America Movement
USA Love List
USA Made Products

And...

This link explains Walmart's "Made in the USA" Campaign, as well as its new identification system for their American-made products:
Cheap Simple Living: Guide to Walmart's "Made in the USA" Campaign

There's more!

ORAL HEALTH PRODUCTS (Oklahoma)
UNITED STATIONERS SUPPLY (Illinois)

Posted by: CBD at 02:15 PM

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1 ORAL HEALTH PRODUCTS (Oklahoma)

ANAL HEALTH PRODUCTS (Californication)

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 02:17 PM (JFO2v)

2 Not getting a first

Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2020 02:18 PM (ZCEU2)

3 Hi

Posted by: Nancy B. at May 10, 2020 02:19 PM (6jUej)

4 Fuck China Cirrus Aircraft - buy Cessna.

Posted by: TeleSkier at May 10, 2020 02:19 PM (ua1m6)

5 2 Not getting a first
Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2020 02:18 PM (ZCEU2)

You can have my first. I was looking for a 7th or 9th.

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 02:19 PM (JFO2v)

6 rhennigantx no take backs

Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2020 02:21 PM (ZCEU2)

7 Th

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 10, 2020 02:21 PM (/UQ/R)

8 > ORAL HEALTH PRODUCTS (Oklahoma)

> ANAL HEALTH PRODUCTS (Californication)

On being told she was going to be given an analgesic, the young woman asked if there wasn't an oral version she could take instead.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 10, 2020 02:22 PM (mNq/0)

9 Need small sharp pointed scissors, CVS nor grocery store has them. Craft store if they ever open again maybe.

Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2020 02:22 PM (ZCEU2)

10 Top 10!

Posted by: Weasel at May 10, 2020 02:23 PM (oGne4)

11 But the main pump thumps (loudly when next to it) when the valve closes at the end of a pump cycle.

***********

Is there an early to mid-diastolic decrescendo murmur along the left upper sternal border?

Could be a bicuspid aortic valve.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 10, 2020 02:24 PM (Fc5rx)

12 Some years back I grabbed a can of generic shaving cream at one of the "everything for a dollar" stores. Most shaving creams have a fragrance, this one was somewhere between gasoline and naptha. Seemed to work OK but I only used it a couple of times because the smell made me wonder what was in it. Sure 'nuff was made in China.
I'm thinking we need a new bumper sticker, channeling the old SNL routine about the "All Things Scottish" store (which is on yewtoob)
"If it's Chinese it's CRAP!!"

Posted by: George V at May 10, 2020 02:24 PM (U2Tva)

13 Willowed......

Welcome to Colorado BurtTC!

And Happy Mother's Day to all you wonderful ettes!

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 10, 2020 02:25 PM (/UQ/R)

14 By the way, howdy y'all. Forgot to get the formalities out of the way first.

Way back in the day when most products were made in America, except for good stereo systems, there was a city in Japan called Usa.

Yep, you guessed it...for a time, they proudly labeled their products...Made in USA. They finally got caught out and had to change their labelling.

Posted by: Traveling Man Who's Stuck At Home&&&& at May 10, 2020 02:26 PM (dUuHJ)

15 On being told she was going to be given an analgesic, the young woman asked if there wasn't an oral version she could take instead.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 10, 2020 02:22 PM (mNq/0)

he makes me to take the anal

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 02:26 PM (JFO2v)

16 Willowed......

Welcome to Colorado BurtTC!

And Happy Mother's Day to all you wonderful ettes!
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 10, 2020 02:25 PM (/UQ/R)

Thanks! We're going to take a drive later today. Not far, not because Governor Polecat says not to, but because I don't really feel like spending a whole day out and about.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 10, 2020 02:26 PM (hku12)

17 You're sure you don't have any air trapped in the line?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2020 02:27 PM (OCKbA)

18 I would make a point to buy one of the American-made brands of vitamins but then I'd worry that I wasn't getting enough melamine.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 10, 2020 02:27 PM (cuKeo)

19 he makes me to take the anal

Does he have a newsletter?

Posted by: Sandra Flook at May 10, 2020 02:28 PM (EgshT)

20 >>Need small sharp pointed scissors, CVS nor grocery store has them. Craft store if they ever open again maybe.
Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2020 02:22 PM (ZCEU2)

How small? Cuticle scissors can be found by nail care at a walgreens. Probably at a target or walmart, too.

Posted by: My life is insanity at May 10, 2020 02:28 PM (kck+S)

21 Can someone maybe put that list of Made in USA products somewhere for easy peasy reference in the coming days/weeks?

I'm doing my own searches these days, and speaking of first world problems, I'd rather not have to scroll through stupid search engine results.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 10, 2020 02:28 PM (hku12)

22 9 Need small sharp pointed scissors, CVS nor grocery store has them. Craft store if they ever open again maybe.
Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2020 02:22 PM (ZCEU2)

if you have someone that does fine work get a pair of those storke scissors from germany. About a 100 for the cheap ones. I bought my mom and granny one about 30 years ago. Still perfect. Do not know which wortless SOB got my grannies.

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 02:28 PM (JFO2v)

23 Is there an early to mid-diastolic decrescendo murmur along the left upper sternal border?

Could be a bicuspid aortic valve.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 10, 2020 02:24 PM (Fc5rx)

I'll amend my #17 to ask if there might be an air embolism.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2020 02:28 PM (OCKbA)

24 Is there an early to mid-diastolic decrescendo murmur along the left upper sternal border?

Could be a bicuspid aortic valve.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 10, 2020 02:24 PM (Fc5rx)

Then should he replace his sump pump valve with one from a pig? What's the warranty like on those anyway?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 10, 2020 02:29 PM (cuKeo)

25 Ah, sump pumps...

In the long ago days of marriage we had an 1871 house with a dirt floor basement. No basement door, a floor hatch to the steps.

One day my wife said hey Bander the heat's not working, can you figure out why? I opened the hatch and found that the reason was three feet of water in the basement and the heater was flooded.

With waders and a flashlight I discovered that we had a natural spring which entered the basement under the stairs where there was a sump pump which had failed. Important detail, wished I'd known that.

All the vinyl albums and whatever other tchotchkes were down there were lost.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 10, 2020 02:29 PM (gd9RK)

26 Oh I know!

CHI nah

Posted by: torabora at May 10, 2020 02:29 PM (Y274z)

27 12 Some years back I grabbed a can of generic shaving cream at one of the "everything for a dollar" stores. Most shaving creams have a fragrance, this one was somewhere between gasoline and naptha. Seemed to work OK but I only used it a couple of times because the smell made me wonder what was in it. Sure 'nuff was made in China.
I'm thinking we need a new bumper sticker, channeling the old SNL routine about the "All Things Scottish" store (which is on yewtoob)
"If it's Chinese it's CRAP!!"
Posted by: George V at May 10, 2020 02:24 PM (U2Tva)

get a nice real tube creme for shaving art of shaving etc much better than can shit

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 02:30 PM (JFO2v)

28 My latest first world problem, brought up last week or the week before. I hired a company to spray my front lawn for weeds. That was Friday. Took them about 5 minutes.

Well, here it is Sunday, and I'm not convinced the weeds are giving up. How long must I wait?? Not much indication of wilting or browning yet. Seems like I should be seeing results by now.

They guaranteed their results. But I WANT THEM NOW!!

Posted by: BurtTC at May 10, 2020 02:30 PM (hku12)

29 Water hammer.

Posted by: ExPatPatriot at May 10, 2020 02:30 PM (O48oS)

30 somewhere upstairs I have a small camera accessory
it threads into the shutter button on my Pentax K1000 and acts as a mechanical shutter release

it is stamped
MADE IN OCCUPIED JAPAN

Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 10, 2020 02:30 PM (iTXRQ)

31 This is the chilliest Mothers day I can recall. I had big plans to finish weeding. Not gonna happen today. If it wasn't windy maybe..

Posted by: Jewells45 at May 10, 2020 02:30 PM (dUJdY)

32 19 he makes me to take the anal

Does he have a newsletter?
Posted by: Sandra Flook at May 10, 2020 02:28 PM (EgshT)

quoting lorena

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 02:30 PM (JFO2v)

33 WRT to the sump pump, you could try sticking a second check valve in the line half-way up the vertical. That might reduce the water-hammer effect.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 10, 2020 02:31 PM (mNq/0)

34 There used to be a city in Japan, as I remember, named USA.

Posted by: Javems at May 10, 2020 02:31 PM (ofIwF)

35 Manu Raju@mkraju
Trump has retweeted, quote-tweeted and tweeted himself 52 messages in around an hour's time this Mother's Day morning. A sampling:

https://bit.ly/3cohrUQ

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Resulting in a pixel famine.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 10, 2020 02:31 PM (+y/Ru)

36 Then should he replace his sump pump valve with one from a pig? What's the warranty like on those anyway?

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No warranty. You're doing well if you get 7-10 years before needing to replace it. Might want to try to displace that cost onto the new owner if you're looking to relocate.

Wait, what were we talking about?

Posted by: Muldoon at May 10, 2020 02:31 PM (Fc5rx)

37 29 Water hammer.
Posted by: ExPatPatriot at May 10, 2020 02:30 PM (O48oS)

I was wondering about that too.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2020 02:32 PM (OCKbA)

38 that Wal-Mart thing is good to know
glad they are doing it

Posted by: vmom 2020 - check out Gen Flynn's book here at May 10, 2020 02:32 PM (G546f)

39 "Is there an early to mid-diastolic decrescendo murmur along the left upper sternal border?
Could be a bicuspid aortic valve."

yes, that was my first thought too .... ha.

My bro-inlaw was at Chciago Circle med school (iirc) ... he had tapes of different heart problems ... all sounded the same to me, must take a refined ear. But a real nurse let me play with her stethoscope once, and I impressed her when I said I heard a murmur ... but it was just the only thing I knew to say about a heart issue.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 10, 2020 02:32 PM (Cus5s)

40 First World Problems

Cannot find ribbed for my pleasure condoms.

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 02:32 PM (JFO2v)

41 That TRACE bill in the sidebar needs to be decapitated and burned with fire.

Also, 6666?

RUFKM?

Posted by: Methos at May 10, 2020 02:33 PM (kOpft)

42 it is stamped
MADE IN OCCUPIED JAPAN
Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 10, 2020 02:30 PM (iTXRQ)

My daughter has spice rack from he grandma made in West germany

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 02:33 PM (JFO2v)

43 Then should he replace his sump pump valve with one from a pig? What's the warranty like on those anyway?
Posted by: Cicero

Better go with one from a hippopotamus on this.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 10, 2020 02:34 PM (+y/Ru)

44 Pass by a dozen pharmacies on way home will try Walgreens, making 15mm horse limber teams and the strings for harness are in tiny spots.
https://i.postIMG.cc/vmWgqY8W/20200216-142833.jpg

Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2020 02:34 PM (ZCEU2)

45 > Cuticle scissors can be found by nail care at a walgreens.

Now I'm thinking of the old joke. "She's so ugly her even her nails ain't got cuticles."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 10, 2020 02:34 PM (mNq/0)

46 No warranty. You're doing well if you get 7-10 years before needing to replace it. Might want to try to displace that cost onto the new owner if you're looking to relocate.

Wait, what were we talking about?
Posted by: Muldoon at May 10, 2020 02:31 PM (Fc5rx)

Repo Man

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 02:34 PM (JFO2v)

47 9 Need small sharp pointed scissors, CVS nor grocery store has them. Craft store if they ever open again maybe.
Posted by: Skip

Skip, Joann's is open in PA
and
Michael's is now open for curbside pickup
also dollar stores I think, as well.as Target

Posted by: vmom 2020 - check out Gen Flynn's book here at May 10, 2020 02:35 PM (G546f)

48 All the vinyl albums and whatever other tchotchkes were down there were lost.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 10, 2020 02:29 PM (gd9RK)

Variation on the "canoe accident" ploy, comrade?

Posted by: comrade banned relic curious at May 10, 2020 02:35 PM (QSMM4)

49 Well, we live in an area that was called, for the longest time, The Black Swamp.

Dad and I, and most of his family before me, were in the business of digging other people's foundations and basements. Often we were in the business of saving their foundations and basements. It always seemed to us like, around here anyway, a house was more or less floating in mud. The only question was whether it was a raft or deep-draft.

So, if you needed a pump to keep your house from sinking, you had chosen your home site poorly. My house is fairly big, but the basement such as it is, is just big enough for the water meter cavity and a cleanout on the bottom of the soil stack. The other house on the property has a cellar, with a stone-and-crockery water pickup under it leading down the sanitary, and when the trap on that failed I still had to pump out a couple of times. It's fixed now, but I have to run a cleanout down the sanitary every year or two for tree roots, and the city would love to have me install a sump pump so whatever water finds its way in can be pumped out into the yard.

This sounds like the dumbest goddam thing I've ever heard, if I do say so myself. Where do The Engineers think that water is going to go?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 10, 2020 02:35 PM (oRpiG)

50 How many of us have bought new clothes since this WuFlu farce began? I haven't been in a Walmart for months, but I've read that they have all the non-food, non-pharmacy sections roped off so people can't go there. Is this true? I feel like this is what our rulers want us reduced to: scruffy, unkempt, shaggy-haired beggars in rags, shambling along with our eyes on the ground as we follow the arrows steering us like cattle.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at May 10, 2020 02:35 PM (u/gis)

51 Wait, what were we talking about?
Posted by: Muldoon at May 10, 2020 02:31 PM (Fc5rx)

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Pffft. Like I ever know.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 10, 2020 02:35 PM (cuKeo)

52 Better go with one from a hippopotamus on this.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 10, 2020 02:34 PM (+y/Ru)

Hippo heart a lil chewy

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 02:36 PM (JFO2v)

53 Look up "water hammer arrestor".

Posted by: klaftern at May 10, 2020 02:36 PM (RuIsu)

54 Shameful plug...I make "Made in USA" screwdrivers for Ideal Industries...You can find our stuff at True Value, Menards, and soon at Lowes. We have a sister company SK Tools which makes excellent wrenches and sockets.

Posted by: BaronofGrayMatter at May 10, 2020 02:36 PM (BQNyf)

55 Yep, still there. Can't argue with Tripadvisor.

https://tinyurl.com/yckwvova

Posted by: Javems at May 10, 2020 02:36 PM (ofIwF)

56 Ah, sump pumps...

In the long ago days of marriage we had an 1871 house with a dirt floor basement. No basement door, a floor hatch to the steps.

One day my wife said hey Bander the heat's not working, can you figure out why? I opened the hatch and found that the reason was three feet of water in the basement and the heater was flooded.

With waders and a flashlight I discovered that we had a natural spring which entered the basement under the stairs where there was a sump pump which had failed. Important detail, wished I'd known that.

All the vinyl albums and whatever other tchotchkes were down there were lost.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 10, 2020 02:29 PM (gd9RK)

As they say, coulda been worse. Could have been instead of a spring, a house built on an ancient Indian burial ground.

There didn't happen to be any creepy old dolls in the house, were there?

Posted by: BurtTC at May 10, 2020 02:36 PM (hku12)

57 There's a rumor running around on the internet about IPC codes having country of origin embedded in the first 3 digits of the code.

Unfortunately, that isn't true. The first 3 digits DO reveal the company's country claimed, but

as you probably know, many companies set up subsidiaries in other countries. And if the product is distributed/labeled by that subsidiary, the IPC code would indicate that company origin only.

For example, I looked at the IPC code on a bottle of vitamin D3 in my cabinet. First 3 digits are 058, which indicates a company origin other than the US (000) or China (690s).

Yet the label identifies the product is made in China and US. Yeah, the D3 is made in China, packaged in the US is my guess.

Sigh. It's gonna be a loooong unwind from them fuckers.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 10, 2020 02:37 PM (Z4rgH)

58 That TRACE bill in the sidebar needs to be decapitated and burned with fire.

Also, 6666?

RUFKM?
Posted by: Methos

That choice for symbol placement limited to forehead or hand is over the top.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 10, 2020 02:37 PM (+y/Ru)

59 There used to be a city in Japan, as I remember, named USA.
Posted by: Javems at May 10, 2020 02:31 PM (ofIwF)

See comment #14.

Posted by: Traveling Man Who's Stuck At Home&&&& at May 10, 2020 02:37 PM (dUuHJ)

60
in other news :

WSJ NEWS EXCLUSIVE TECH
Trump and Chip Makers Including Intel Seek Semiconductor Self-Sufficiency
Pentagon says coronavirus pandemic underscores vulnerability from reliance on Asian factories.

Posted by: runner at May 10, 2020 02:37 PM (zr5Kq)

61 Verify check valve is working, spring inside for my well valve went and had to replace it.

Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2020 02:37 PM (ZCEU2)

62 50 How many of us have bought new clothes since this WuFlu farce began?

Never bought Walmart clothes

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 02:37 PM (JFO2v)

63 You're sure you don't have any air trapped in the line?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2020 02:27 PM (OCKbA)

Yes, it's a simple PVC pipe leading to an outdoor drain, so there is no pressure in the line and no kinks where it could trap air.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 10, 2020 02:37 PM (dLLD6)

64 I haven't been in a Walmart for months, but I've read that they have all the non-food, non-pharmacy sections roped off so people can't go there.

==

only true in some states I think

Posted by: vmom 2020 - check out Gen Flynn's book here at May 10, 2020 02:38 PM (G546f)

65 That TRACE bill in the sidebar needs to be decapitated and burned with fire.

Also, 6666?

RUFKM?
Posted by: Methos at May 10, 2020 02:33 PM (kOpft)

I swear, they're doing it on purpose, just to torture us. Catholic blogs are talking about the Mark of the Beast, and even Bill Gates (of Hell), which actually made me laugh a bit. This is all so bizarre, I can hardly believe it's really happening.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at May 10, 2020 02:38 PM (u/gis)

66 @50.. nothing is roped off in my Walmart. I live in Missouri.

Posted by: Jewells45 at May 10, 2020 02:38 PM (dUJdY)

67 Any shopping is a painful chore, need new work boots, hope they last as long as Emperor Wolf wants them to.

Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2020 02:39 PM (ZCEU2)

68 only true in some states I think
Posted by: vmom 2020 - check out Gen Flynn's book here at May 10, 2020 02:38 PM (G546f)

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Walmart's in CA are wide open. You can even buy Lady Ghostbusters DVDs, six for a dollar.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 10, 2020 02:39 PM (cuKeo)

69 Most stuff is manufactured in China for three reasons..

Tort.

Environmental Regs.

OSHA Regs.

If we want large scale manufacturing to come back to the US we are going to have to deal with those three.

Or alternatively....

I'd love to see where we are going to put the giant lead smelters, nickel processing plants, lithium mines, cobalt mines, etc to churn out 3 billion batteries.

Because you're not getting any of the above without dealing with those three items.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 10, 2020 02:40 PM (xXJfx)

70 59
There used to be a city in Japan, as I remember, named USA.

Posted by: Javems at May 10, 2020 02:31 PM (ofIwF)

See comment #14.

Posted by: Traveling Man Who's Stuck At Home at May 10, 2020 02:37 PM (dUuHJ)

Sorry, missed it.

Posted by: Javems at May 10, 2020 02:40 PM (ofIwF)

71 14 By the way, howdy y'all. Forgot to get the formalities out of the way first.

Way back in the day when most products were made in America, except for good stereo systems, there was a city in Japan called Usa.

Yep, you guessed it...for a time, they proudly labeled their products...Made in USA. They finally got caught out and had to change their labelling.
Posted by: Traveling Man Who's Stuck At Home&&&& at May 10, 2020 02:26 PM (dUuHJ)

My father told me that story to explain why some Lionel products were labelled as "Made in US of A". Late 50s/early 60s.

Posted by: Fox2! at May 10, 2020 02:40 PM (qyH+l)

72 >>>[9] Need small sharp pointed scissors, CVS nor grocery store has them. Craft store if they ever open again maybe.
Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2020 02:22 PM (ZCEU2)

Greetings, Skip ... Home Depot offers several 4-to-8-inch pointed scissors; if they don't carry them in the retail store, you can place a "Ship to Store" order at the Customer Service desk (pay cash if desired), then pick up your order within a few days or so.

You might also find small scissors in the Nail Care section of local drug stores (near polishes and removers).

Posted by: Kathy at May 10, 2020 02:40 PM (qv3wo)

73 >>nothing is roped off in my Walmart. I live in Missouri.
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 10, 2020 02:38 PM (dUJdY)

Ours either. Wisconsin.

Posted by: My life is insanity at May 10, 2020 02:40 PM (kck+S)

74 67 Any shopping is a painful chore, need new work boots, hope they last as long as Emperor Wolf wants them to.
Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2020 02:39 PM (ZCEU2)

Amazon will ship you pairs to try

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 02:40 PM (JFO2v)

75 50.. nothing is roped off in my Walmart. I live in Missouri.
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 10, 2020 02:38 PM (dUJdY)

Maybe it's just the slave states of Michigan and Illinois. As I said, I haven't even gone to check in the one near us. I don't buy clothes in general there, but I do get underwear and socks, and it occurred to me that I should start looking for replacements for when the need arises.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at May 10, 2020 02:41 PM (u/gis)

76 66 @50.. nothing is roped off in my Walmart. I live in Missouri.
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 10, 2020 02:38 PM (dUJdY)

cant find sport tampons or magnum condoms

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 02:41 PM (JFO2v)

77 Maybe it's just the slave states of Michigan and Illinois. As I said, I haven't even gone to check in the one near us. I don't buy clothes in general there, but I do get underwear and socks, and it occurred to me that I should start looking for replacements for when the need arises.
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at May 10, 2020 02:41 PM (u/gis)

Salve and Free states swapped places. Next we will have Fugitive Shopper Act.

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 02:43 PM (JFO2v)

78 Walmart's in CA are wide open.

Well, not wide, the line to get in wraps around the building.
They are "allowing" very few people in at a time, this in a huge box of a building.
SOCIALIST DISTUNCING!!

Posted by: banned types and deletes at May 10, 2020 02:44 PM (QSMM4)

79 China is ASSHOE!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 10, 2020 02:44 PM (NWiLs)

80 Louisiana going the tracing route. https://tinyurl.com/ycafnxv5

Posted by: Javems at May 10, 2020 02:44 PM (ofIwF)

81 I'd love to see where we are going to put the giant lead smelters, nickel processing plants, lithium mines, cobalt mines, etc to churn out 3 billion batteries.

Because you're not getting any of the above without dealing with those three items.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 10, 2020 02:40 PM (xXJfx)

The jobs and economy from that would make us a $30 T economy.

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 02:45 PM (JFO2v)

82 What's that? Yup...both pumps are American made, because the previous two failed. And for extra credit, guess where those were made...
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I actually have had two 'Made in China' dehumidifiers recalled. Not because they were hazardous, but because the failure rate was so high.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 10, 2020 02:45 PM (pK7cg)

83 this can of RemOil I use on my pistoles
reads 'distributed in the USA by Remington Arms' etc etc
but no clue where it was made

Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 10, 2020 02:45 PM (iTXRQ)

84 Salve States or Balm States?

Posted by: klaftern at May 10, 2020 02:46 PM (RuIsu)

85 >The jobs and economy from that would make us a $30 T economy.
Posted by: rhennigantx

if not for that judge in Hawaii

Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 10, 2020 02:46 PM (iTXRQ)

86 Kathy see picture link up above, a 15mm horse is only 7/8 inch high.
The scissors I have are probably some nail kind but won't cut using just the point.

And boots are not a grab and go item, will try on 6 types to find 1.

Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2020 02:46 PM (ZCEU2)

87 84 Salve States or Balm States?
Posted by: klaftern at May 10, 2020 02:46 PM (RuIsu)

There is no balm in Gilead!

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 02:47 PM (JFO2v)

88 I have an annual checkup with the Dr. tomorrow.

It's being done 'virtually.'

Which means he can't do shit regarding a physical. No weight, no temp, no BP, zip. The most he can do is ask me my opinions.

I didn't even need the checkup, but his office required it to continue a prescription.

But I'm sure it's billable.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 10, 2020 02:47 PM (oVJmc)

89 @81

It sure would, we literally gave away 16 trillion dollars worth of GDP to China.

And when I say gave away, I'm not talking about the innumerable politicians and well connected who go to dip their big fat beaks in Chinese Bat Soup for over the last 40 years.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 10, 2020 02:47 PM (xXJfx)

90 83 this can of RemOil I use on my pistoles
reads 'distributed in the USA by Remington Arms' etc etc
but no clue where it was made
Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 10, 2020 02:45 PM (iTXRQ)

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If the can says Made from 100% Virgin Baby Seal Fat, there's a clue.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 10, 2020 02:47 PM (cuKeo)

91 China is ASSHOE!
Posted by: Insomniac
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I now expect such utterances to be in Latin.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 10, 2020 02:48 PM (cGzEU)

92 Jug Ears killed lead production, tire weights of lead are getting hard to find.

Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2020 02:48 PM (ZCEU2)

93 84 Salve States or Balm States?
Posted by: klaftern at May 10, 2020 02:46 PM (RuIsu)

Ointment States.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 10, 2020 02:48 PM (NWiLs)

94 Most stuff is manufactured in China for three reasons..

Tort.
Environmental Regs.
OSHA Regs.

Plus restrictive union work practices.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2020 02:48 PM (OCKbA)

95 91 China is ASSHOE!
Posted by: Insomniac
-------
I now expect such utterances to be in Latin.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 10, 2020 02:48 PM (cGzEU)

China ASSHOE est!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 10, 2020 02:48 PM (NWiLs)

96 94 Most stuff is manufactured in China for three reasons..

Tort.
Environmental Regs.
OSHA Regs.

Plus restrictive union work practices.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2020 02:48 PM (OCKbA)

And minimum wage. And the abolition of slavery.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 10, 2020 02:49 PM (NWiLs)

97 I have an annual checkup with the Dr. tomorrow.

It's being done 'virtually.'

-
Do you have to stick a finger up your own butt and cough?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 10, 2020 02:49 PM (+y/Ru)

98 If the can says Made from 100% Virgin Baby Seal Fat, there's a clue.
Posted by: Cicero
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OTOH, if it says 'Made From Bat Squeezings'...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 10, 2020 02:49 PM (cGzEU)

99 83
this can of RemOil I use on my pistoles

reads 'distributed in the USA by Remington Arms' etc etc

but no clue where it was made

Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 10, 2020 02:45 PM (iTXRQ)

iirc, Remmington is Chinese owned.

Posted by: davidt at May 10, 2020 02:49 PM (l3+k2)

100 The faint clunk of the one-way valve on one of my sump pumps is maddening!

I consider it assurance the pump is working so I don't have to go downstairs to check. Time the interval for bonus rain-o-meter entertainment.

Posted by: DaveA at May 10, 2020 02:50 PM (FhXTo)

101 88 I have an annual checkup with the Dr. tomorrow.

It's being done 'virtually.'

Which means he can't do shit regarding a physical. No weight, no temp, no BP, zip. The most he can do is ask me my opinions.

I didn't even need the checkup, but his office required it to continue a prescription.

But I'm sure it's billable.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 10, 2020 02:47 PM (oVJmc)

You got some lube for the prostate exam or gonna dry hole it?

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 02:50 PM (JFO2v)

102 I have a bottle of hand sanitizer, 'Made in China'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 10, 2020 02:50 PM (cGzEU)

103 Here we go:

Sina anum est!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 10, 2020 02:51 PM (NWiLs)

104 Do you have to stick a finger up your own butt and cough?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 10, 2020 02:49 PM (+y/Ru)

note to self get a smaller web cam

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 02:51 PM (JFO2v)

105 cant find sport tampons or magnum condoms

Someone MUST be held accountable for that.

Posted by: Sandra Flook at May 10, 2020 02:52 PM (EgshT)

106 105 cant find sport tampons or magnum condoms

Someone MUST be held accountable for that.
Posted by: Sandra Flook at May 10, 2020 02:52 PM (EgshT)

Magnum tampons. Though a roll of newspaper print will do in a pinch.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 10, 2020 02:52 PM (NWiLs)

107 I consider it assurance the pump is working so I don't have to go downstairs to check. Time the interval for bonus rain-o-meter entertainment.
Posted by: DaveA
----

Aw, c'mon. Web-connected sump pump (with camera) is the way to go. Or, maybe Bluetooth, with an app.

Posted by: A Millennial at May 10, 2020 02:52 PM (cGzEU)

108 IIRC, Sam Walton started the Made in America campaign in the mid-80's as response to growing trade deficit. I remember commercials of displaced workers getting jobs back making clothing for Walmart.

Then sometime in the 2000's lawsuit was brought against WallyWorld for false labeling of Made in America products. Walmart blamed it on vendors and suspended the labeling at that time.

Posted by: olddog in mo, F*ck BofA & uckfay ancercay at May 10, 2020 02:53 PM (Dhht7)

109 Magnum tampons. Though a roll of newspaper print will do in a pinch.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 10, 2020 02:52 PM (NWiLs)

Got an old rolling pin in the house?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 10, 2020 02:53 PM (cuKeo)

110 Sump pump sounds obliquely sexual.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 10, 2020 02:53 PM (NWiLs)

111 I'd love to see where we are going to put the giant lead smelters, nickel processing plants, lithium mines, cobalt mines, etc to churn out 3 billion batteries.

The last lead smelter in the US was run out of business by the TFG EPA during the Reign Of Error. The smelter was in Missouri.

Missouri has lots of lead deposits. Now, dead lead/acid batteries must be shipped out of country for recycling, and all lead sheeting must be imported.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 10, 2020 02:53 PM (Z4rgH)

112 "Made in the USA" but got be careful, many say that then add: "with domestic and foreign components".

Posted by: runner at May 10, 2020 02:53 PM (zr5Kq)

113 Got an old rolling pin in the house?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 10, 2020 02:53 PM (cuKeo)

Nah, I've been divorced for years now.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 10, 2020 02:54 PM (NWiLs)

114 And minimum wage. And the abolition of slavery.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 10, 2020 02:49 PM (NWiLs)

Slavery was about 10 to 20 years from failing. Mechanization was much cheaper. Value of every slave in 1860 was $2 B. Civil war cost about 5 to 7 B.

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 02:54 PM (JFO2v)

115 Sina anum est!
Posted by: Insomniac
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Much better.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 10, 2020 02:54 PM (bk3Sg)

116 Doc, I been preparing for this physical on account I'm not an expert and all. I'm up to 3 fingers in my ass. After 10 minutes, it starts to feel good. That normal?

Posted by: ask that ripoff artist if he'll accept virtual dollars at May 10, 2020 02:54 PM (H5knJ)

117 I was in an Illinois Walmart about an hour ago. I didn't get far enough inside to see if clothing was roped off or not. While entering the store, I was told masks were mandatory. So I said, "Not shopping here, then" and left. The lady looked at me like I had leprosy.

Enough.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 10, 2020 02:55 PM (lwiT4)

118 Ointment States.

That word always reminds me of an MST3K short called "Is This Love?" which ends with a list of other shorts on life and health offered by McGraw Hill. Mike and Bots added their own to the list:

How Much Affection
When Should I Marry?
Know Your Ointments
What's That Down There?
When He Wants It Rough
Procreation, Not Recreation

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at May 10, 2020 02:55 PM (u/gis)

119 Only saw it first day where I am working they had the alcohol from a distillery even in plastic whiskey bottles with hand sanitizer label. Wondered how many tried a swig.

Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2020 02:56 PM (ZCEU2)

120 There's still a $20 copay for this 'virtual' visit.

Hopefully I don't slip and ask the doc to show me his tits out of habit.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 10, 2020 02:56 PM (oVJmc)

121 I have a bottle of hand sanitizer, 'Made in China'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 10, 2020 02:50 PM (cGzEU)

Oh shoot. I forgot about hand sanitizer. That was one of the things that I didn't get when I walked out of Naziland WalMart.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 10, 2020 02:57 PM (lwiT4)

122 note to self get a smaller web cam
Posted by: rhennigantx
----

Hmm. 'Lipstick', or, 'Bullet'. Yeah, I've have to go with the lipstick.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 10, 2020 02:57 PM (bk3Sg)

123 Someone MUST be held accountable for that.
Posted by: Sandra Flook at May 10, 2020 02:52 PM (EgshT)

She calimed gals at her school were fucking about 2000 time each year.

I was lucky to get some pussy at UT 3 or 4 times weekly.

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 02:57 PM (JFO2v)

124 I was in an Illinois Walmart about an hour ago. I didn't get far enough inside to see if clothing was roped off or not. While entering the store, I was told masks were mandatory. So I said, "Not shopping here, then" and left. The lady looked at me like I had leprosy.

Enough.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 10, 2020 02:55 PM (lwiT4)

I'm with you. The same rule now applies at Costco, so I won't be going there until it stops. Maybe not even then. I wonder if I could get my year's subscription price back? I *just* renewed in February, before all this crap started. Now I think if the cost of shopping there will be eternal grave-sized spacing in a line outside AND masks, I'm out.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at May 10, 2020 02:57 PM (u/gis)

125 Time the interval for bonus rain-o-meter entertainment.

Posted by: DaveA at May 10, 2020 02:50 PM (FhXTo)

Way ahead of you! Seven second pump run-time then a bit less than one second to the thump.

Yes, I am a bit obsessed.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 10, 2020 02:58 PM (dLLD6)

126 94: And cheap labor leads to high profits.

Posted by: Biding my time at May 10, 2020 02:58 PM (ONvIw)

127 The last lead smelter in the US was run out of business by the TFG EPA during the Reign Of Error. The smelter was in Missouri.

Missouri has lots of lead deposits. Now, dead lead/acid batteries must be shipped out of country for recycling, and all lead sheeting must be imported.
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 10, 2020 02:53 PM (Z4rgH)

Doe Run Company. I didn't know they were now defunct.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2020 02:58 PM (OCKbA)

128 So I said, "Not shopping here, then" and left. The lady looked at me like I had leprosy.

As she well should have! If it saves just one life. We're all in this together.

Posted by: A Scold of Karens at May 10, 2020 02:59 PM (EgshT)

129 116 Doc, I been preparing for this physical on account I'm not an expert and all. I'm up to 3 fingers in my ass. After 10 minutes, it starts to feel good. That normal?
Posted by: ask that ripoff artist if he'll accept virtual dollars at May 10, 2020 02:54 PM (H5knJ)

I dont think you are coming here for the checkup

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 02:59 PM (JFO2v)

130 Rain-snow here. What a lovely Mother's Day. Rain-snow and WalMart nazis.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 10, 2020 02:59 PM (lwiT4)

131 91 China is ASSHOE!
Posted by: Insomniac
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I now expect such utterances to be in Latin.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 10, 2020 02:48
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inachay isyay asshoeyay?

Posted by: olddog in mo, F*ck BofA & uckfay ancercay at May 10, 2020 03:00 PM (Dhht7)

132 Slavery was about 10 to 20 years from failing. Mechanization was much cheaper.

Fight for $15!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2020 03:00 PM (OCKbA)

133 As she well should have! If it saves just one life. We're all in this together.

Posted by: A Scold of Karens at May 10, 2020 02:59 PM (EgshT)

The last straw was when I passed the Kentucky Fried Chicken drive-thru and they had a sign "Heroes Work Here."

No. No they don't. You're a teenager who messes up drive-thru chicken orders.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 10, 2020 03:00 PM (lwiT4)

134 My bitch: Doctrinaire Austrians and libertarians (not the weeditarians or the I hate all authority so I will scream at the meter maid people, but people with actual theories and examples) have this thing for free trade, and consider having China make things for the US at dumping level of prices is not an issue. In a strict Marginal Utility sense this is correct, as it allows the US to focus on things that are more valuable than geegaws like pressed potmetal consumer products.

However, two issues come to me along with historical references. It allows foreign interests who may not have your best interests at heart control an industry which could be used to influence your life.
Spain and Russia were late in developing a Iron cannon industry. As it was at the time, the English, the Netherlanders, and the Swedes were the cannon manufacturers of Europe.
Spain and Russia couldn't get an industry started through a number of cultural and political reasons: jailing heretics (most cannon casting experts were protestant, not Catholic or Orthodox), Political in that Spain and Russia were fighting everyone including the countries that could cast decent cannon, social in that the infrastructure for large scale founding has a need for a social outlook that was alien to both countries that were on the whole land-owning and agricultural, and Political in that vested interests did not want to allow the power that came along with casting cannot be be given to any other group, and they were not interested in casting cannon themselves since they bought them from other countries.

In the end, Russia spent a good 50 years developing the Tula arsenal that made good guns, domestically, and the Spanish just kept buying cannon because it made better economic sense up until they lost a lot of their overseas market in silver and gold, got embargoed by everyone they could buy cannon from and eventually lost the fight for the Netherlands, and had to try to start founding cannon anyways.

In short, "natural comparative advantages are generally engineered, not
discovered" so although plumping for bringing manufacturing home may
exclude other economic pursuits, every choice in life prevents other
decisions. That is what life (and economics) is all about. And making a decision does not mean you won't have to stop and do something else, anyways.

the second is a very libertarian point of view: even if we concede that the Chinese workers are making better money that they ever could working for strictly domestic products, part of the work force are slaves. And we don't know what part of the production we get is made by slaves and what part is by workers held at their jobs merely by no other viable economic option. So, the best thing to do is refuse to have commerce with slave holding countries until they can prove not to hold slaves for manufacturing.
As far as I can tell, that is how things are supposed to work.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 10, 2020 03:01 PM (WyVLE)

135 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at May 10, 2020 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)

136 Aw, c'mon. Web-connected sump pump (with camera) is the way to go. Or, maybe Bluetooth, with an app.

Posted by: A Millennial

You know something is wrong when the cats look worried.

Posted by: DaveA at May 10, 2020 03:01 PM (FhXTo)

137 Rain-snow here. What a lovely Mother's Day. Rain-snow and WalMart nazis.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 10, 2020 02:59 PM (lwiT4)

Nazis everywhere. I wish I can share some of my lovely experience. I am looking to engage an attorney - it got that bad.

Posted by: runner at May 10, 2020 03:01 PM (zr5Kq)

138 A SINCERE Happy Mother's Day to all you Horde Moms out there.

I hope you have as beautiful a day as you can.

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at May 10, 2020 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)

139 Mother's Day wishes:

https://youtu.be/L3tnH4FGbd0

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at May 10, 2020 03:02 PM (Zz0t1)

140 What about US companies owned by China, i.e Smithfield? Don't want to buy anything from them either!

Posted by: Lurker at May 10, 2020 03:02 PM (HfMsJ)

141 Sump pump sounds obliquely sexual.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 10, 2020 02:53 PM (NWiLs)

Simp pump. For the fella whose wife's boyfriend is NOT practicing social distancing.

Did you know it's possible for a dude to achieve climax without an erection? He knows.

Simp pumps come in manual or battery operated. For the simp who can't be bothered to supply the hand movement himself. One ping only.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 10, 2020 03:02 PM (hku12)

142 I was told masks were mandatory. So I said, "Not shopping here, then" and left. The lady looked at me like I had leprosy.

Enough.
Posted by: grammie winger

Hollywood Reporter editor Kim Masters recounts a frightening encounter with deplorables.

Kim Masters@kimmasters
Do you want to know how much Trump and Fox News have politicized a health crisis?
Today I was wearing a mask while walking my dog. Two guys approached, no masks, and as they passed me, one asked, "Do you vote Democrat?"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 10, 2020 03:02 PM (+y/Ru)

143 For anyone who's trying to read the tea leaves, did you notice that a few people were missing from Trump's meeting with the joint chiefs yesterday?
Head of navy, head of CIA and the VP

Posted by: artemis at May 10, 2020 03:02 PM (AwPyG)

144 Should celebrate mutha's day:

https://youtu.be/m68Pw-KZvvo

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at May 10, 2020 03:02 PM (Zz0t1)

145 @111

Indeed, the SCOAMF is the surprise anal gift that keeps on sclonging the world.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 10, 2020 03:02 PM (xXJfx)

146 But the main pump thumps (loudly when next to it) when the valve closes at the end of a pump cycle.

Take your time, you'll get a good sign.Draggin' the line (draggin' the line), draggin' the line (draggin' the line)

Posted by: Tommy James at May 10, 2020 03:02 PM (YqED9)

147 I wish I can share some of my lovely experience. I am looking to engage an attorney - it got that bad.

Posted by: runner at May 10, 2020 03:01 PM (zr5Kq)

Oh dear

Posted by: grammie winger at May 10, 2020 03:02 PM (lwiT4)

148 Got a couple of 'Murican grown racks of baby backs on marinade now.

Mmmmm

Posted by: Diogenes at May 10, 2020 03:02 PM (axyOa)

149 Kim Masters@kimmasters
Do you want to know how much Trump and Fox News have politicized a health crisis?
Today I was wearing a mask while walking my dog. Two guys approached, no masks, and as they passed me, one asked, "Do you vote Democrat?"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 10, 2020 03:02 PM (+y/Ru)

well...does she ??

Posted by: runner at May 10, 2020 03:03 PM (zr5Kq)

150 The last straw was when I passed the Kentucky Fried Chicken drive-thru and they had a sign "Heroes Work Here."

Even we had to laugh at that one.

Posted by: A Scold of Karens at May 10, 2020 03:03 PM (EgshT)

151 You need a small (1/8 ") vent hole below the check valve that drains into the sump pit.

Posted by: Richard Belaire at May 10, 2020 03:03 PM (ouMG+)

152 Rain-snow here. What a lovely Mother's Day. Rain-snow and WalMart nazis.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 10, 2020 02:59 PM (lwiT4)

The mask wearing in Walmart is probably a state mandate. Here in MS, the employees are required to wear one (company policy, nationwide) but the customers are not.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 10, 2020 03:03 PM (Z4rgH)

153
Nazis everywhere. I wish I can share some of my lovely experience. I am looking to engage an attorney - it got that bad.
Posted by: runner at May 10, 2020 03:01 PM (zr5Kq)

I don't recall you proposing...

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 10, 2020 03:04 PM (NWiLs)

154 Today I was wearing a mask while walking my dog.

What a dope.

Posted by: A Scold of Karens at May 10, 2020 03:04 PM (EgshT)

155 And we don't know what part of the production we get is made by slaves and what part is by workers held at their jobs merely by no other viable economic option. So, the best thing to do is refuse to have commerce with slave holding countries until they can prove not to hold slaves for manufacturing.
As far as I can tell, that is how things are supposed to work.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 10, 2020 03:01 PM (WyVLE)

now do this with Arab Oil!

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 03:05 PM (JFO2v)

156 I heard that some of the coronavirus taskforce people are quarantined for 2 weeks because they were exposed to the virus. Why can't they just test them and see if they caught it? Does it take 2 weeks for it to show up in a test? That's coincidentally how long it took to find out if you had it before there were any tests available.

Posted by: zmdavid at May 10, 2020 03:05 PM (xqRaG)

157 What's that? Yup...both pumps are American made, because the previous two failed. And for extra credit, guess where those were made...

Got the old ones at Horror Fraught, (cough) I mean Harbor Freight, didja?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at May 10, 2020 03:05 PM (7s3Gx)

158 I bought writing tablets for the grandsons...made in USA. Puzzles were USA made, water colors USA, dot art sets also USA

Posted by: CN at May 10, 2020 03:05 PM (ONvIw)

159 Seven second pump run-time

As long as the time between runs is > 7 seconds you're good.

Posted by: DaveA at May 10, 2020 03:05 PM (FhXTo)

160 Kim Masters@kimmasters
Do you want to know how much Trump and Fox News have politicized a health crisis?
Today I was wearing a mask while walking my dog. Two guys approached, no masks, and as they passed me, one asked, "Do you vote Democrat?"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 10, 2020 03:02 PM (+y/Ru)

I'll take "Things with a high probability of not happening, ever, anywhere." for $400, Alex.

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at May 10, 2020 03:05 PM (Zz0t1)

161 134 - As far as I'm concerned, the whole free trade mantra is a sham, repeated by dupes and hucksters. There hasn't been free trade in my lifetime.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 10, 2020 03:06 PM (H5knJ)

162 INSOM!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at May 10, 2020 03:06 PM (Zz0t1)

163 The mask wearing in Walmart is probably a state
mandate. Here in MS, the employees are required to wear one (company
policy, nationwide) but the customers are not.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 10, 2020 03:03 PM (Z4rgH)

Yeah, this particular WalMart was in Illinois, close to my husband's work. The WalMart we usually go to is in Wisconsin. Customers do not have to wear masks in WI like they do in Naziland.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 10, 2020 03:06 PM (lwiT4)

164 If no one has mentioned it yet, a good alternative for everyday wear is AMERICAN GIANT.

OKABASHI makes my go-to summer sandals.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 10, 2020 03:06 PM (/+bwe)

165 What a dope.

Yeah, that's what I said. At least she feeds me every now and then when she remembers.

Posted by: Kim's dog at May 10, 2020 03:07 PM (EgshT)

166 Kim Masters@kimmasters
Do you want to know how much Trump and Fox News have politicized a health crisis?
Today I was wearing a mask while walking my dog. Two guys approached, no masks, and as they passed me, one asked, "Do you vote Democrat?"

Funny that she doesn't see her attribution of that to Trump as 'politicizing.'

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 10, 2020 03:07 PM (oVJmc)

167 Nazis everywhere. I wish I can share some of my lovely experience. I am looking to engage an attorney - it got that bad.
Posted by: runner at May 10, 2020 03:01 PM (zr5Kq)

Sue them sue them to stoneage sue their mama daddys babies babies daddy

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 03:07 PM (JFO2v)

168 Here in MS, the employees are required to wear one (company policy, nationwide) but the customers are not.
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 10, 2020 03:03 PM (Z4rgH)

Ambulance chasers are probably right now working on their late night TV ads:

"Did you catch Covid-19 from a negligent business? If so, you may be entitled to CASH COMPENSATION. Our lawyers are standing by. Get the money you DESERVE! Call 1-800-SHYSTER now!"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2020 03:07 PM (OCKbA)

169 Since the piping is PVC, it would be easy, I would think, to plumb in an accumulator to dampen the water hammer. Just a T fitting, and an elbow into a bit of capped vertical pipe, so that there is an air chamber to absorb shock.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 10, 2020 03:07 PM (GBHAb)

170 So I want to buy a house.

They want proof of me having money.

I tell them to fuck off.

they call, can you be here at 2

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 03:08 PM (JFO2v)

171 What about US companies owned by China, i.e Smithfield? Don't want to buy anything from them either!
Posted by: Lurker at May 10, 2020 03:02 PM (HfMsJ)

I was amazed when I went to the store last, how much Smithfield there is in the meat section.

Yeah, no.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 10, 2020 03:08 PM (hku12)

172 Nazis everywhere. I wish I can share some of my lovely experience. I am looking to engage an attorney - it got that bad.
Posted by: runner at May 10, 2020 03:01 PM (zr5Kq)

I don't recall you proposing...
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 10, 2020 03:04 PM (NWiLs)

Tanned, rested and ready ?

Posted by: runner at May 10, 2020 03:08 PM (zr5Kq)

173 156 I heard that some of the coronavirus taskforce people are quarantined for 2 weeks because they were exposed to the virus. Why can't they just test them and see if they caught it? Does it take 2 weeks for it to show up in a test? That's coincidentally how long it took to find out if you had it before there were any tests available.
Posted by: zmdavid at May 10, 2020 03:05 PM (xqRaG)

Wuhand had a depress economy in Oct 2019. China lied, americans Died.

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 03:09 PM (JFO2v)

174 Kim Masters@kimmasters
Do you want to know how much Trump and Fox News have politicized a health crisis? Today I was wearing a mask while walking my dog. Two guys approached, no masks, and as they passed me, one asked, "Do you vote Democrat?"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 10, 2020 03:02 PM (+y/Ru)

"We were talking to the dog!"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2020 03:09 PM (OCKbA)

175 "Did you catch Covid-19 from a negligent business? If so, you may be entitled to CASH COMPENSATION. Our lawyers are standing by. Get the money you DESERVE! Call 1-800-SHYSTER now!"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
------

There will be a rider, exempting NPR and The Kennedy Center for The Performing Arts from liability...oh, and abortion clinics.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 10, 2020 03:09 PM (L47aO)

176 You need a small (1/8 ") vent hole below the check valve that drains into the sump pit.

Posted by: Richard Belaire

Wouldn't that just mean re-pumping the volume above the pump and below the check valve every cycle?

Posted by: DaveA at May 10, 2020 03:10 PM (FhXTo)

177 >>> 142
.....
Hollywood Reporter editor Kim Masters recounts a frightening encounter with deplorables.

Kim Masters@kimmasters
Do you want to know how much Trump and Fox News have politicized a health crisis?
Today I was wearing a mask while walking my dog. Two guys approached, no masks, and as they passed me, one asked, "Do you vote Democrat?"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 10, 2020 03:02 PM (+y/Ru)

It's true! Then they started punching her and shouting "Clinton must pay!"!!!1!

Posted by: This... is XiNN at May 10, 2020 03:10 PM (0ReGO)

178 So I want to buy a house.

They want proof of me having money.

I tell them to fuck off.

they call, can you be here at 2
Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 03:08 PM (JFO2v)

Sure. Let's have the lenders making loans they shouldn't. Again. Worked out so well last time.

Here folks, how's about another bailout for the lending industry. Yay!

Posted by: BurtTC at May 10, 2020 03:10 PM (hku12)

179 When they broke out the bleach and hot sauce, I ran for my life.

Posted by: kim masters at May 10, 2020 03:11 PM (H5knJ)

180
now do this with Arab Oil!
Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 03:05 PM (JFO2v)

We are. Fracking and oil sands and US production that was never ramped up because of cheap OPEC oil and the belief that we had other things to do with the funds that it would take to ramp them up.

Slavery at its base is a POLITICAL phenomenon. It takes a society to enforce it. That was the whole point of the Fugitive Slave Act and associated legislation, and the reason why it was actively nullified by states like Wisconsin.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 10, 2020 03:11 PM (WyVLE)

181 Hollywood Reporter editor Kim Masters recounts a frightening encounter with deplorables.

Kim Masters@kimmasters
Do you want to know how much Trump and Fox News have politicized a health crisis? Today I was wearing a mask while walking my dog. Two guys approached, no masks, and as they passed me, one asked, "Do you vote Democrat?"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 10, 2020 03:02 PM (+y/Ru)

It's true! Then they started punching her and shouting "Clinton must pay!"!!!1!
Posted by: This... is XiNN at May 10, 2020 03:10 PM (0ReGO)

Did she drop her Subway sandwich?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2020 03:11 PM (OCKbA)

182 Arrrrgh.... Sorry just saw the sidebar about the latest $100 BILLION boondoggle grift and graft bill. AYFKM?!!!
hopefully, clear heads in the senate would prevail.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 10, 2020 03:11 PM (r+sAi)

183 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 10, 2020 03:11 PM (NWiLs)

184 I like to give that dirty blond on Yellowstone a poke in the whiskers.

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 03:11 PM (JFO2v)

185 The town parks and beaches are back open here but the state park is only partially open. Seems kind of dumb but it sure was nice to get out for a walk today.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 10, 2020 03:11 PM (ZLI7S)

186 She hides behind me when she sees a black cat. Sigh.

Posted by: Kim's dog at May 10, 2020 03:12 PM (EgshT)

187 172 Nazis everywhere. I wish I can share some of my lovely experience. I am looking to engage an attorney - it got that bad.
Posted by: runner at May 10, 2020 03:01 PM (zr5Kq)

I don't recall you proposing...
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 10, 2020 03:04 PM (NWiLs)

Tanned, rested and ready ?
Posted by: runner at May 10, 2020 03:08 PM (zr5Kq)

Two out of three ain't bad.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 10, 2020 03:12 PM (NWiLs)

188 " so there is no pressure in the line and no kinks where it could trap air." cbd

maybe it creates a vacuum on the back side, and that makes the impellers (or whatever) slam back when it turns off? idk, just another thought on the opposite side of a pressure thing.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 10, 2020 03:13 PM (Cus5s)

189 BurtTC.....have a nice outing!

BTW......it's polesucker around these parts

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 10, 2020 03:13 PM (/UQ/R)

190 In another week they - the Feds, will see that the world did not come to an end in states that opened. No spikes, no nothing. Maybe pull back disaster declarations.

Posted by: runner at May 10, 2020 03:13 PM (zr5Kq)

191 You need a small (1/8 ") vent hole below the check valve that drains into the sump pit.

Posted by: Richard Belaire at May 10, 2020 03:03 PM (ouMG+)

Yup...I have one of those.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 10, 2020 03:13 PM (dLLD6)

192 so that there is an air chamber to absorb shock.

So sorry, but this has been no success. But also I think no lasting complaint.

Posted by: The Paolo at May 10, 2020 03:13 PM (YqED9)

193 Happy Mudder's day!

Posted by: Prince Atazhukin at May 10, 2020 03:14 PM (yAMbj)

194 Been checking my sewing notions and they are all over the map (literally). Sewology, which is HobLob's house brand, is made in China, but I found others made in Japan, Czech Republic, Brazil, Germany and Mexico.

Posted by: Sal at May 10, 2020 03:14 PM (bo8pf)

195 So if the masks work why are all the businesses closed? Just mask up and work, right???
If they don't work, why are we being forced to wear them?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 10, 2020 03:14 PM (axyOa)

196 The Chinese Communist Party, the democrat party and the Clintons are the problem. But I repeat myself.

Get rid of them and the world would be a better place.

A man can dream.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 10, 2020 03:14 PM (Z+IKu)

197 Kim Masters@kimmasters
Do you want to know how much Trump and Fox News have politicized a health crisis?
Today I was wearing a mask while walking my dog. Two guys approached, no masks, and as they passed me, one asked, "Do you vote Democrat?"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 10, 2020 03:02 PM (+y/Ru)

well...does she ??
Posted by: runner at May 10, 2020 03:03 PM (zr5Kq)

Obviously. She wouldn't be complaining if she didn't.

You're predictable, dear. You're basic. There's nothing interesting or unique about you.

Which you already know.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 10, 2020 03:15 PM (hku12)

198 195 So if the masks work why are all the businesses closed? Just mask up and work, right???
If they don't work, why are we being forced to wear them?
Posted by: Diogenes at May 10, 2020 03:14 PM (axyOa)

To fuck with us. It's all about manipulation and control. But I'm not saying anything you don't already know.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 10, 2020 03:15 PM (NWiLs)

199 190 In another week they - the Feds, will see that the world did not come to an end in states that opened. No spikes, no nothing. Maybe pull back disaster declarations.
Posted by: runner at May 10, 2020 03:13 PM (zr5Kq)

They have their excuses ready: it's the "second wave" that'll come later in the year that's going to be the killer. You'll see! None of their predictions so far have been remotely accurate, but that one will be right on the money, so we have to keep the lockdown going into the fall.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at May 10, 2020 03:15 PM (u/gis)

200 Wally's wide open in my neighborhood.
Has Sam's all beef, no preservative, no additive sausage too. add your own seasonings

Posted by: Braenyard at May 10, 2020 03:15 PM (wHCvQ)

201 Kim Masters@kimmasters

Do you want to know how much Trump and Fox News have politicized a health crisis?

Today I was wearing a mask while walking my dog. Two guys
approached, no masks, and as they passed me, one asked, "Do you vote
Democrat?"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 10, 2020 03:02 PM (+y/Ru)

It's true! Then they started punching her and shouting "Clinton must pay!"!!!1!

#MAGACountry

Posted by: Methos at May 10, 2020 03:15 PM (kOpft)

202 I was told masks were mandatory. So I said, "Not shopping here, then" and left. The lady looked at me like I had leprosy.

-
I've been playing Red Dead Redemption II during the lockdown. I noticed that I have a bandana to use as a face mask in my satchel. Did Rock Star see COVID coming or what?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 10, 2020 03:15 PM (+y/Ru)

203 Just a T fitting, and an elbow into a bit of capped vertical pipe, so that there is an air chamber to absorb shock.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 10, 2020 03:07 PM (GBHAb)

Oh...I like this idea.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 10, 2020 03:15 PM (dLLD6)

204 170 So I want to buy a house.

They want proof of me having money.

I tell them to fuck off.

they call, can you be here at 2

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 03:08
------------------------------------
What kind of proof? Your tax return?

I've run into that before as well. Needless to say, I never bought from "those" kind of people.

Posted by: olddog in mo, F*ck BofA & uckfay ancercay at May 10, 2020 03:16 PM (Dhht7)

205 So if the masks work why are all the businesses closed? Just mask up and work, right???

If they don't work, why are we being forced to wear them?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 10, 2020 03:14 PM (axyOa)

Stop making sense. It isn't scientific.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 10, 2020 03:16 PM (lwiT4)

206 BurtTC.....have a nice outing!

BTW......it's polesucker around these parts
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 10, 2020 03:13 PM (/UQ/R)

I've taken to calling him Jared Penis, but I was trying to be polite. It's Sunday, after all.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 10, 2020 03:16 PM (hku12)

207 Sigh. It's gonna be a loooong unwind from them fuckers.
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 10, 2020 02:37 PM (Z4rgH)

Was outside of Shanghai two years ago in the Enterprise Zone. Their manufacturing assets/data centers/factories are on a scale I have never seen in the US. MANY of the facilities were 10-12 US city blocks and 5-6 stories high. Tens of thousands of Vespa-like scooters on the surface roads with few automobiles.

Was discussing this morning with my sis how long it will take the US to un-plug from those bastards.

Posted by: JC. Idaho bot. at May 10, 2020 03:16 PM (377Zs)

208 about that valve, there are a variety of things to do about that so you better do something before things start breaking. If you're in delmarva there are businesses that supply to homeowners right up through construction contractors. They should be able to sell you a dampened valve. Another option is a duckbill check vale. What you are hearing when the valve slams shut is called water hammer and it will break things. Call a supplier tomorrow if you haven't already

Posted by: macko at May 10, 2020 03:17 PM (adVtW)

209 so that there is an air chamber to absorb shock.

So sorry, but this has been no success. But also I think no lasting complaint.
Posted by: The Paolo
--------

Moreover, there can be embarrassing consequences.

Posted by: Eric Swalwell at May 10, 2020 03:17 PM (ysC0S)

210 In another week they - the Feds, will see that the world did not come to an end in states that opened. No spikes, no nothing. Maybe pull back disaster declarations.
Posted by: runner

***

General Secretary Inslee will be the last to relinquish his "emergency " powers.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 10, 2020 03:17 PM (axyOa)

211 @realDonaldTrump

OBAMAGATE!

Posted by: JackStraw at May 10, 2020 03:17 PM (ZLI7S)

212 366 Seriously, watch this fucking video.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z5VYqJqrtIt=338s

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess - Hydroxy Chloro Queen and Bat Soup Nazi at May 10, 2020 02:11 PM (rCwaK)

Posted by: Braenyard at May 10, 2020 03:17 PM (wHCvQ)

213 Happy Mudder's day!

Wait, it's not Murders Day? Oh shit.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 10, 2020 03:17 PM (gd9RK)

214 They have their excuses ready: it's the "second wave" that'll come later in the year that's going to be the killer. You'll see! None of their predictions so far have been remotely accurate, but that one will be right on the money, so we have to keep the lockdown going into the fall.
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at May 10, 2020 03:15 PM (u/gis)

They'll just have to swallow it. If no disaster, no emergency powers. Though some of theses local authorities are totally nuts.

Posted by: runner at May 10, 2020 03:17 PM (zr5Kq)

215 The Quincy, IL Menards required masks, but around the corner WalMart did not ... but walMart had arrows and stops signs on the aisles, making them one-way ... not that crowded though. But everything was for sale, giving them an edge over those stores deemed non-essential (stores without lobbyists).

Posted by: illiniwek at May 10, 2020 03:18 PM (Cus5s)

216 If they don't work, why are we being forced to wear them?
Posted by: Diogenes at May 10, 2020 03:14 PM (axyOa)

Throwing a bone to Karen.

Posted by: Sal at May 10, 2020 03:18 PM (bo8pf)

217 Been checking my sewing notions and they are all over the map (literally). Sewology, which is HobLob's house brand, is made in China, but I found others made in Japan, Czech Republic, Brazil, Germany and Mexico.
Posted by: Sal at May 10, 2020 03:14 PM

I got a darning mushroom and darning wool sent from a UK shop... made in China.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 10, 2020 03:18 PM (/+bwe)

218 General Secretary Inslee will be the last to relinquish his "emergency " powers.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 10, 2020 03:17 PM (axyOa)

no doubt, no doubt

Posted by: runner at May 10, 2020 03:18 PM (zr5Kq)

219 213 Happy Mudder's day!

The hero of Canton, the man they call Jayne!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 10, 2020 03:19 PM (NWiLs)

220 If no disaster, no emergency powers. Though some of theses local authorities are totally nuts.

Posted by: runner at May 10, 2020 03:17 PM (zr5Kq)

If Trump ends his emergency powers act, or whatever it is he's got going, then do the governors have to end their emergency powers as well? I don't know how this works.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 10, 2020 03:19 PM (lwiT4)

221 What kind of proof? Your tax return?

I've run into that before as well. Needless to say, I never bought from "those" kind of people.
Posted by: olddog in mo, F*ck BofA & uckfay ancercay at May 10, 2020 03:16 PM (Dhht7)

Loan qualification

I have not had a house loan in about 20 years

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 03:19 PM (JFO2v)

222 The Quincy, IL Menards required masks, but around the corner WalMart did not ... but walMart had arrows and stops signs on the aisles, making them one-way ... not that crowded though. But everything was for sale, giving them an edge over those stores deemed non-essential (stores without lobbyists).
Posted by: illiniwek at May 10, 2020 03:18 PM (Cus5s)

I say this seriously, do not mention locations that seem to defy orders. It may be just a local manager and you may get him in trouble.

Posted by: runner at May 10, 2020 03:19 PM (zr5Kq)

223 >Kim Masters@kimmasters ...Today I was wearing a mask while walking my dog. Two guys approached, no masks, and as they passed me, one asked, "Do you vote Democrat?"

cellphone vid or it didn't happen

Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 10, 2020 03:19 PM (iTXRQ)

224 The paperwork involved in first world medicine would astonish normal working people, among whom I still count myself, despite a medical degree earned 37 years ago.
If I explained the group think and mind meld in thought, attire and all else you would marvel.

Drs should be pitied, not worshipped.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at May 10, 2020 03:19 PM (6hLK2)

225 Throwing a bone to Karen.
Posted by: Sal at May 10, 2020 03:18 PM (bo8pf)

That should calm her down. Not before time, either.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2020 03:19 PM (OCKbA)

226 >>>[86] The scissors I have are probably some nail kind but won't cut using just the point. Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2020 02:46 PM (ZCEU2)

Skip ... Home Depot offers several small KLEIN TOOLS scissors. Maybe one of these will work for you:

3 in. Fine Point Embroidery Scissor
4-1/2 in. Large Ring Embroidery Scissor
4-1/2 in. Curved Blade Embroidery Scissors

Posted by: Kathy at May 10, 2020 03:20 PM (qv3wo)

227 So CBD did you get a Zoeller or Liberty sump pump, both made here?

Posted by: clutch at May 10, 2020 03:21 PM (9UmRs)

228 TFG released information late on Friday so it could be forgotten by Monday
D effin T releases it on a slow Sunday afternoon.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 10, 2020 03:21 PM (WyVLE)

229 For American made, don't forget Diamond Gusset jeans. Tennessee company, Georgia factory. Plus, they are the most comfortable jeans you will ever wear because of the, well, the diamond gusset in the crotch. gusset.com

Posted by: Billy Hollis at May 10, 2020 03:21 PM (sNJx5)

230 BurtTC......doesn't matter what day of the week it is......just ask myself and Infidel

polesucker polesucker polesucker

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 10, 2020 03:21 PM (/UQ/R)

231 Plumbing is not my forte, but I think the pump may have succumbed to demonic possession. Recommendation: a dybbuk box.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 10, 2020 03:22 PM (H5knJ)

232 Never posted before, very long time lurker.

Redland Cotton. Amazing sheets and towels. All grown, milled and made in our great Southern states. Strongly recommend everyone support them.

Posted by: Bee Bee Que at May 10, 2020 03:22 PM (lCUne)

233 Throwing a bone to Karen.
Posted by: Sal at May 10, 2020 03:18 PM (bo8pf)

Therein lies the rub.. Karens haven't been getting the Bone, IYKWIM.

Posted by: Traveling Man Who's Stuck At Home&&&& at May 10, 2020 03:22 PM (dUuHJ)

234 So if the masks work why are all the businesses closed? Just mask up and work, right???

If they don't work, why are we being forced to wear them?

Ann Barnhardt did some calculating, and found that a cloth facemask has openings between the fibers 4,800 times wider than the microbe it's trying to stop. It's like trying to build a fence with boards 1.5 miles apart.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at May 10, 2020 03:22 PM (u/gis)

235 224 The paperwork involved in first world medicine would astonish normal working people, among whom I still count myself, despite a medical degree earned 37 years ago.
If I explained the group think and mind meld in thought, attire and all else you would marvel.

Drs should be pitied, not worshipped.
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at May 10, 2020 03:19 PM (6hLK2)

My docs now carry a transcriptionist room to room. So another 50 to 60k added to cost.

Obamacare kill medicial care.

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 03:23 PM (JFO2v)

236 Hi Bee Bee Que. Nice to meet you. Did you bring snacks?

Posted by: grammie winger at May 10, 2020 03:23 PM (lwiT4)

237 If Trump ends his emergency powers act, or whatever it is he's got going, then do the governors have to end their emergency powers as well? I don't know how this works.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 10, 2020 03:19 PM (lwiT4)

Not sure..other may know more...I think has to be approved by the President. Otherwise every blue state would have been in perpetual disaster mode. I think has to do with funds allocated from Feds.

Posted by: runner at May 10, 2020 03:23 PM (zr5Kq)

238 Posted by: Bee Bee Que

Come on in. We're nice. Well, not nice nice.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 10, 2020 03:23 PM (+y/Ru)

239 Our one of two groceries here now has the 40% store capacity mandate in effect.

"So... how many people would that be?" I asked the sacker.

"About 140, but that includes the employees."

I have never seen more than about 50 shoppers there ever at any given time, and that includes Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Posted by: Sal at May 10, 2020 03:24 PM (bo8pf)

240 Ann Barnhardt did some calculating, and found that a cloth facemask has openings between the fibers 4,800 times wider than the microbe it's trying to stop. It's like trying to build a fence with boards 1.5 miles apart.
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at May 10, 2020 03:22 PM (u/gis)

HIV is about 20 times smaller than size of microscopic holes in condoms.

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 03:24 PM (JFO2v)

241 Miley, the Duchess - Hydroxy Chloro Queen and Bat Soup Nazi at May 10, 2020 02:11

Geebus.

Posted by: Infidel at May 10, 2020 03:25 PM (nvc6v)

242 233 Throwing a bone to Karen.
Posted by: Sal at May 10, 2020 03:18 PM (bo8pf)

Therein lies the rub.. Karens haven't been getting the Bone, IYKWIM.
Posted by: Traveling Man Who's Stuck At Home&&&& at May 10, 2020 03:22 PM (dUuHJ)

rhenniagntx 101: Your banging your wife (or GF) or someone else is!

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 03:25 PM (JFO2v)

243 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z5VYqJqrtIt=338s

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess - Hydroxy Chloro Queen and Bat Soup Nazi at May 10, 2020 02:11 PM (rCwaK)
Posted by: Braenyard at May 10, 2020 03:17 PM (wHCvQ)

Remember when Fauci was challenged by the reporter, who asked if Fauci was being TOLD what to say by Trump, after he made some comment on the Sunday shows the day before?

Fauci gave a gangster stare at the reporter, and said "Nobody tells me what to say!"

That look.

Who do you think you are. The thing is, Fauci HAD been told what to say. Just not by Trump.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 10, 2020 03:25 PM (hku12)

244 Hi Bee Bee Que. Nice to meet you. Did you bring snacks?

And by "snacks," she and we mean "platters."

Posted by: Hierominous Botch at May 10, 2020 03:26 PM (YqED9)

245 229 For American made, don't forget Diamond Gusset jeans. Tennessee company, Georgia factory. Plus, they are the most comfortable jeans you will ever wear because of the, well, the diamond gusset in the crotch. gusset.com
Posted by: Billy Hollis at May 10, 2020 03:21 PM (sNJx5)

I never wash my good jeans. Do they have a unwashed surge jean? I have some BRs I have not washed in about 8 years. Put in frezzer.

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 03:27 PM (JFO2v)

246 >Posted by: Bee Bee Que

Come on in. We're nice. Well, not nice nice.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

don't believe it!
the first time I posted here I was placed in a burlap sack and beaten with reeds

Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 10, 2020 03:27 PM (iTXRQ)

247 Could be a kind of air hammer.

Most pumps pump until they lose suction but when they shut off there's still some water in the plumbing/pump.

When it shuts off that water goes back where it was pumped from slamming any one way valves and/or creating a bang when the water slams into the air that now occupies the plumbing/pump parts previous.

The one pump may not do that because it's different? Are they identical? Is the piping to and from identical?

Air hammer is cause by air being trapped in the plumbing and when water runs into it under any kind of pressure t compresses the air and then rebounds causing a vibration that we hear as a bang. Or pop or shriek.

The sound and the loudness depends on the amount of water and air and the plumbing size and routing.

Air hammer has driven many a plumber nuts. Or nutsier.

Posted by: jakee308 at May 10, 2020 03:28 PM (lwNxB)

248 My First World problem...

I'm trying very hard to rationalize Eastwood's endorsement of Bloomberg. I'm trying to believe that he endorsed him as the democrat candidate for president and not the person he actually wants to be the president, DJT.

It keeps getting harder to suspend my disbelief and watch movies and shows knowing vile, harmful and hateful statements many stars are making and have made.

If it keeps going like this I'll be down to watching nothing DVD's and old show, which I like.

Posted by: xa4 nasal radiator at May 10, 2020 03:28 PM (xkudx)

249 Not sure..other may know more...I think has to be approved by the President. Otherwise every blue state would have been in perpetual disaster mode. I think has to do with funds allocated from Feds.
Posted by: runner at May 10, 2020 03:23 PM (zr5Kq)

Governors can declare a state-level emergency. If the President declares a corresponding Federal emergency, then a certain amount of the state expenses for the emergency will be covered by the Feds. IIRC, 75% or so, for specified types of expense.

Posted by: Fox2! at May 10, 2020 03:28 PM (qyH+l)

250 @99 iirc, Remmington is Chinese owned.

Other than the spelling, are you pretty sure about that?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 10, 2020 03:28 PM (oRpiG)

251 don't believe it!
the first time I posted here I was placed in a burlap sack and beaten with reeds
Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 10, 2020 03:27 PM (iTXRQ)

it was unbleached muslin and it was cane

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 03:28 PM (JFO2v)

252 Since when is Jersey "First World"?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 10, 2020 03:29 PM (EZebt)

253 Therein lies the rub.. Karens haven't been getting the Bone, IYKWIM.
Posted by: Traveling Man Who's Stuck At Home&&&& at May 10, 2020 03:22 PM (dUuHJ)

Yeah, I hit "post" and thought "ooops, phrasing!"

Posted by: Sal at May 10, 2020 03:29 PM (bo8pf)

254 Do they make face masks for dogs?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 10, 2020 03:29 PM (aKsyK)

255 >Ann Barnhardt did some calculating, and found that a cloth facemask has openings between the fibers 4,800 times wider than the microbe it's trying to stop.

do people get that the mask is to keep you from spewing your germs onto others, NOT to protect you from germs?

it seems many people are confused on that point

Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 10, 2020 03:29 PM (iTXRQ)

256 Kathy those 3" embroidery scissors are what I need

Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2020 03:30 PM (ZCEU2)

257 Impossible to build a factory that makes anything the environments disapprove. A company tried to build a waste wood power plant in a area of old industry long gone. (NYS has lots of wood)..lawsuits by all sorts of environmental groups put an end to that idea. The company I worked for at the time, spent millions fighting environmental groups that weren't based even in the state. They saw an easy way to get dollars. Needless to say, the manufacturing was moved out of the country.

Posted by: Colin at May 10, 2020 03:30 PM (knIeN)

258 >Posted by: Bee Bee Que

Come on in. We're nice. Well, not nice nice.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

don't believe it!
the first time I posted here I was placed in a burlap sack and beaten with reeds
Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 10, 2020 03:27 PM (iTXRQ)

Depends...if you're a Lady, you get the burlap sack and wet reeds treatment. If you're a Dude, you get the blanket over the head and beaten with sock wrapped bars of soap. Just a lil initiation party.

But then a couple of shots of Val-U-Rite will set you right.

Posted by: Traveling Man Who's Stuck At Home&&&& at May 10, 2020 03:31 PM (dUuHJ)

259 Happy Mudder's day!

Wait, it's not Murders Day? Oh shit.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 10, 2020 03:17 PM (gd9RK)

It is for us.

Posted by: Planned Parenthood at May 10, 2020 03:31 PM (kOpft)

260 I think it's time to get into the alcohol

Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 10, 2020 03:32 PM (iTXRQ)

261 Is that H.R. bill number about contact tracing for real?

Am I the only one to notice the 6666 as being highly suggestive (if one has read Revelations)?

I'm getting chills thinking about it.

Lot's of people speculating for a while that we're may be in the End Times.

But then people been saying that for 1500 years or so.

Posted by: jakee308 at May 10, 2020 03:32 PM (lwNxB)

262 254 Do they make face masks for dogs?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 10, 2020 03:29 PM (aKsyK)

If they do, then they should make muzzles for Karens.

Seems only fair.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 10, 2020 03:32 PM (OCKbA)

263 The first issue with "Made in China" is that one child policy, which meant millions upon millions of abortions. Anyone who is pro-life knows that buying anything made there supports the murder of children.

Add the bat-flu to that, and there is no reason whatsoever to do business with those murderers and liars. QED.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 10, 2020 03:33 PM (vVOK2)

264 255>do people get that the mask is to keep you from spewing your germs onto others, NOT to protect you from germs?

it seems many people are confused on that point

Posted by: DB- just DB.
-------------------------The purpose of face masks is to instill fear and terror in the population.

Posted by: Captain Morgan Personified at May 10, 2020 03:33 PM (2oYEN)

265 .Depends...if you're a Lady, you get the burlap sack and wet reeds treatment. If you're a Dude, you get the blanket over the head and beaten with sock wrapped bars of soap. Just a lil initiation party.

yes but shaving my testicles was uncalled for

Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 10, 2020 03:33 PM (iTXRQ)

266 Governors can declare a state-level emergency. If the President declares a corresponding Federal emergency, then a certain amount of the state expenses for the emergency will be covered by the Feds. IIRC, 75% or so, for specified types of expense.
Posted by: Fox2! at May 10, 2020 03:28 PM (qyH+l)

HAHAHA...so broke-ass states (Cali, IL, NY) cannot do emergencies on their own. Unemployment, perpetual business closures or openings but with restrictions so that businesses die anyway. Of course, blue states continue to surprise, possible that logic will not work.

Posted by: runner at May 10, 2020 03:33 PM (zr5Kq)

267 what is a "basement"?

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 10, 2020 03:35 PM (dlZr1)

268 Misguided though it may have been, we shaved your testicles in the spirit of genuine friendship.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 10, 2020 03:35 PM (H5knJ)

269
I never wash my good jeans. Do they have a unwashed surge jean? I have some BRs I have not washed in about 8 years. Put in frezzer.
Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS

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*detects fashion/clothing post, sits up*

wait, what? You freeze jeans instead of washing them? Tell me more.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 10, 2020 03:36 PM (G51Gf)

270 The purpose of face masks is to instill fear and terror in the population.

Posted by: Captain Morgan Personified at May 10, 2020 03:33 PM (2oYEN)

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^^^this^^^

X 1000

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 10, 2020 03:36 PM (dlZr1)

271 @realDonaldTrump

OBAMAGATE!
Posted by: JackStraw

It's funny because #OBAMAGATE is at the top of the 'trending' section on Twitter.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 10, 2020 03:36 PM (UdCe2)

272 can someone put me some knowledge: what is the hockey reference in the side bar?

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 10, 2020 03:37 PM (dlZr1)

273 I gotta say though, perhaps the Hitler mustache with indelible ink might've been a step too far.

Posted by: Traveling Man Who's Stuck At Home&&&& at May 10, 2020 03:37 PM (dUuHJ)

274 260 I think it's time to get into the alcohol
Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 10, 2020 03:32 PM (iTXRQ)

good choice

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 03:37 PM (JFO2v)

275 It is beer-thirty, isn't it?

Posted by: Traveling Man Who's Stuck At Home&&&& at May 10, 2020 03:38 PM (dUuHJ)

276 267 what is a "basement"?

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 10, 2020 03:35
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It's where you go when the tornado comes.

Posted by: olddog in mo, F*ck BofA & uckfay ancercay at May 10, 2020 03:38 PM (Dhht7)

277 Looking for masks on Amazon and since most are made in China. They are shipped for China to your front porch...Amusing comments...."The box I received was poorly packed with what looked like used masks" "I ordered a box of 50, and got a box of 5".
I got a box of Chinese masks, sent by Amazon, which were fine. Most masks are just third party stuff.

Posted by: Colin at May 10, 2020 03:39 PM (knIeN)

278 ha!

Part 7

ha!

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 03:39 PM (JFO2v)

279 Happy Mother's Day to all of you masked mothers out there.

And a special salute to the TEENAGE MOTHER...Means 9 months of trouble!

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at May 10, 2020 03:39 PM (DY3v8)

280 not sure we ever came to an official AoS conclusion, but talking or singing will produce more of a mist ... a mist is what carries the virus (of an infected/contagious person). So a mask would catch a lot from the infected person. It would limit the amount of inoculate he would breathe/sneeze onto the merchandise as well. (and dosage matters, which is why "continuous" exposure is more dangerous)

On defense, a mask could catch water particles (carrying a virus) if an infected person sneezed in the vicinity, but the eyes and the rest are not protected.

Maybe masks help, but are not of course 100%. But over time, we all need to get it, so herd immunity is developed. AND the social cohesion breakdown from everyone wearing a mask and living in social distance is not so good either, even deadly over time.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 10, 2020 03:39 PM (Cus5s)

281
@realDonaldTrump

OBAMAGATE!
Posted by: JackStraw

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This is great. High time Obama was tied into this. Naming the whole scandal after him is even better. I hope Trump utters that term many, many times in the coming days and weeks.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 10, 2020 03:39 PM (G51Gf)

282 275 It is beer-thirty, isn't it?
Posted by: Traveling Man Who's Stuck At Home&&&& at May 10, 2020 03:38 PM (dUuHJ)

I am on 5 or so

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 03:39 PM (JFO2v)

283 Is that H.R. bill number about contact tracing for real?

Am I the only one to notice the 6666 as being highly suggestive (if one has read Revelations)?

I'm getting chills thinking about it.

Lot's of people speculating for a while that we're may be in the End Times.

But then people been saying that for 1500 years or so.

Posted by: jakee308 at May 10, 2020 03:32 PM (lwNxB)
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yes, it's real.

my first instinct was that it was #FakeNews, but i looked it up on the House webpage before i sent it to the COB's

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 10, 2020 03:39 PM (dlZr1)

284 redc1c4 -its a hole in the ground under a house but thats not important right now.

Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2020 03:40 PM (ZCEU2)

285 *detects fashion/clothing post, sits up*

wait, what? You freeze jeans instead of washing them? Tell me more.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 10, 2020 03:36 PM (G51Gf)

I like raw denim so if I think they are funky I freeze

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 03:40 PM (JFO2v)

286 275 It is beer-thirty, isn't it?

Posted by: Traveling Man Who's Stuck At Home&&&& at May 10, 2020 03:38
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You're late. Started about 3 thirties ago. Right when the meat went into the smoker.

Posted by: olddog in mo, F*ck BofA & uckfay ancercay at May 10, 2020 03:40 PM (Dhht7)

287
The scissors I have are probably some nail kind but won't cut using just the point.

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Sounds like you're looking for embroidery scissors, if you don't mind a slight bend at the tip to get closer to what you're cutting.

Posted by: Empire1 at May 10, 2020 03:41 PM (X2mEE)

288 Matthew 24:32,33

"From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near. So also, when you see all these things, you know that he is near, at the very gates."

The things to which Jesus is referring are found earlier in the chapter. Wars, famine, pestilence. Pestilence.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 10, 2020 03:41 PM (lwiT4)

289
@realDonaldTrump

OBAMAGATE!
Posted by: JackStraw

=========

Can't find that tweet from Trump's account.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 10, 2020 03:41 PM (G51Gf)

290 And a special salute to the TEENAGE MOTHER...Means 9 months of trouble!
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at May 10, 2020 03:39 PM (DY3v

what about other 20 or so

Posted by: rhennigantx dont californicate my TEXAS at May 10, 2020 03:41 PM (JFO2v)

291
Can't find that tweet from Trump's account.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

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Never mind, found it! I was including a hashtag, Trump wasn't.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 10, 2020 03:42 PM (G51Gf)

292 Wishing had a scary Halloween mask, line inside with material and it would be awesome.

Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2020 03:42 PM (ZCEU2)

293 Maybe it doesn't get better from here.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 10, 2020 03:42 PM (lwiT4)

294 I was able to get a matching codpiece for my Pritzker-compliant mask. The mask has the Bill of Rights printed on it, and the codpiece has the 16th Amendment.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at May 10, 2020 03:43 PM (DY3v8)

295 Happy Mudder's day!

The hero of Canton, the man they call Jayne!
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 10, 2020 03:19 PM (NWiLs)
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Eggs. The living legend wants eggs!

Posted by: Jayne Cobb at May 10, 2020 03:43 PM (4o2K3)

296 Empire 1 thats what I have are curved tip but no longer cut at the tip

Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2020 03:43 PM (ZCEU2)

297 By Grathhar's Hammer,
What a savings...

Posted by: lin-duh en fugue at May 10, 2020 03:44 PM (UUBmN)

298 I'm going with Patron Silver Cointreau and orange juice

Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 10, 2020 03:45 PM (iTXRQ)

299 Posted by: clutch at May 10, 2020 03:21 PM (9UmRs)

Liberty...both of them. Really well made.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 10, 2020 03:45 PM (dLLD6)

300 to all narrators in the media.

Can we just stop with sticking -Gate on the end of some noun?

It's boring. It's antique. It's repetitive. It indicates a lack of imagination.

It shows how stupid narrators are and how fixated they are on anything/time that some evil Republican was crucified.

At least no one died over Watergate like they did in Benghazi.

After 50 years it's just really really annoying.

Posted by: jakee308 at May 10, 2020 03:45 PM (lwNxB)

301 jakee308 I agree

Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2020 03:46 PM (ZCEU2)

302 Can we just stop with sticking -Gate on the end of some noun?
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I was fed up with that back in the 80s.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, USS Lone Fire at May 10, 2020 03:47 PM (4o2K3)

303 Just had a guy from our Farmer's Market drive by and gave us some red romaine lettuce. Said it was slow day and he was giving his produce away. I guess a drive-thru market on Mother's day was not good for business.

He was optimistic, though. Said next week people could start getting out of their cars to shop. I gave him a sawbuck.

Posted by: olddog in mo, F*ck BofA & uckfay ancercay at May 10, 2020 03:47 PM (Dhht7)

304 Been off trolling my local NextDoor Karens. Boy are they pissed off. I consider that a sign that I have done a good job. Now switching to rum cocktails so I expect to be booted off. Cause I ain't gettin no nicer... just more honest.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 10, 2020 03:47 PM (pw+jk)

305 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 10, 2020 03:45 PM (dLLD6)

They're made in NY which is only kinda sorta America.

Posted by: clutch at May 10, 2020 03:47 PM (9UmRs)

306 I assume the characters in the title are Hebrew. Funny, then, that the popup ad that accompanied my look at this page was for Israel bonds. Maybe spooky is a better word than funny. It'll be interesting to see if that theme follows me as I navigate to other pages.

Posted by: mongo at May 10, 2020 03:48 PM (LROYh)

307 Skip: Look at Micro-Mark or ship model tool sources for "rigging tools." There is a tool that looks something like a harpoon, that will reach into tight places and cut thread cleanly.

Posted by: Capercillie4901 at May 10, 2020 03:48 PM (qpjZr)

308 Is that H.R. bill number about contact tracing for real?

Am I the only one to notice the 6666 as being highly suggestive (if one has read Revelations)?
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Click the link on the sidebar, click the Overview tab, then scroll down to the botton where it says they got the information from congress.gov and click that.

That will take you to congress.gov which has all the same information. It's real.

Posted by: Methos at May 10, 2020 03:48 PM (kOpft)

309 Seven second pump run-time then a bit less than one second to the thump.

Yes, I am a bit obsessed.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

You get an answer up thread yet? I had one that the upper shaft bushing had broken (plastic, don't ask) and the runtime would be almost the same before the impeller loaded up with water and the whole unit would wobble in its frame with a clunk.

If the check valve is integral to the unit, but you can inspect it by removing the pump from the PVC pipe, (phrasing)]/b], probe it with small dowel to verify that valve move and operate freely.

Hold the pump and trip the switch that turns it on. Rotate the unit around and see if you can replicate the clunk - this would indicate a bushing / shaft problem like I had.

Posted by: BifBewalski at May 10, 2020 03:48 PM (VcFUs)

310 >Can we just stop with sticking -Gate on the end of some noun?

you know there are 'reporters' doing that who weren't even born in '72

Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 10, 2020 03:48 PM (iTXRQ)

311 rhenni......I'm on my fifth mimosa........so I got that going for me

Prosecco of course!

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 10, 2020 03:49 PM (/UQ/R)

312 Ironically (or coincidentally), we're narrowing down a list of laptops to buy, and the final question brought up by my kid was if the model was not made in China.

This gets a little convoluted as I know the components themselves are manufactured in various nations while the final assembly may be done at a hub, for example, in China. I guess my loyalty would be to the brand, i.e., HP vs Lenovo, as the profits would be directed toward a shareholder vs the PLA.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at May 10, 2020 03:49 PM (DY3v8)

313 hey guys we saw this new horror flick 1BR

holy moley

super creepy and TOPICAL

Posted by: WolfsCaptiveBlackOrchid at May 10, 2020 03:49 PM (j9HX3)

314 This is made by a subsidiary of our company. I have been using it for years (and mine is a prototype) and it works great. https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.supplyhouse.com/product_files/Level-Guard-Z24800A1Z-Product-Overview.pdf

Posted by: Radar at May 10, 2020 03:49 PM (PQ6Dl)

315 They're made in NY which is only kinda sorta America.

Posted by: clutch at May 10, 2020 03:47 PM (9UmRs)

Way the hell upstate, so they get dispensation.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 10, 2020 03:50 PM (dLLD6)

316 Thanks Kathy! Much appreciated. Thanks CBD. Cobs rock, especially lately.

Posted by: Sock Monkey..safety off at May 10, 2020 03:50 PM (grQ0q)

317 Rotate the unit around and see if you can replicate the clunk - this would indicate a bushing / shaft problem like I had.

Posted by: BifBewalski at May 10, 2020 03:48 PM (VcFUs)

It's definitely the valve.

If I could embed a audio clip I would....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 10, 2020 03:52 PM (dLLD6)

318 There's a City in China called America so that everything they make there can be labelled as "Made in America".

Posted by: Surfperch at May 10, 2020 03:52 PM (tVQUs)

319 you know there are 'reporters' doing that who weren't even born in '72
Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 10, 2020 03:48 PM (iTXRQ)

Oh I know what's happening. Some Boomer teaching "Journalism 101" uses the Watergate scandal as a teaching tool/example of some kind.

And all the little robots absorb the lesson and etch it in their programming. Never to be erased.

I'd bet that everyone of those who do it, think they're being clever because the bastards don't read anybody else's news/articles.

It's like the guy named Richard Little getting Tiny Dick jokes all his life. And every damn one of them thinks they're being an original wit.

Posted by: jakee308 at May 10, 2020 03:53 PM (lwNxB)

320
OBAMAGATE!
Posted by: JackStraw

It's funny because #OBAMAGATE is at the top of the 'trending' section on Twitter.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 10, 2020 03:36 PM (UdCe2)

OBAMAGATE; first several up on Bing and Gargle, DDGo not until #3.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 10, 2020 03:54 PM (wHCvQ)

321 There's a City in China called America so that everything they make there can be labelled as "Made in America".
Posted by: Surfperch at May 10, 2020 03:52 PM (tVQUs)

The Japanese did that back in the 60's.

Posted by: tbodie at May 10, 2020 03:54 PM (D4SfS)

322 Trump retweeted this:

https://tinyurl.com/ybb9jlpw

Posted by: Tami at May 10, 2020 03:54 PM (cF8AT)

323 Posted by: Surfperch at May 10, 2020 03:52 PM (tVQUs)

Years ago there was a Korean or Japanese city named USA.

Even the FTC caught on eventually.

Posted by: jakee308 at May 10, 2020 03:55 PM (lwNxB)

324 .I'm on my fifth mimosa........so I got that going for me Prosecco of course!

I just put in a curbside dinner order, and I'll be bringing home Smoked Manhattans and Old Fashioneds. This mother's getting lit later.

Posted by: no good deed at May 10, 2020 03:55 PM (MmFTx)

325 Years ago there was a Korean or Japanese city named USA.

Even the FTC caught on eventually.
Posted by: jakee308 at May 10, 2020 03:55 PM (lwNxB)

City in Japan. See comment#14. I'm 29+...used to have some things marked as such when I was a kid. Can't remember what they were...got CRS.

Posted by: Traveling Man Who's Stuck At Home&&&& at May 10, 2020 03:57 PM (dUuHJ)

326 Yet the label identifies the product is made in China and US. Yeah, the D3 is made in China, packaged in the US is my guess.

Sigh. It's gonna be a loooong unwind from them fuckers.
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 10, 2020 02:37 PM (Z4rgH)
++++++++++++
One of the reason I like WalMart's labeling. It looks like is derived from window stickers in the auto industry.

"Assembled in" != "Assembled in and made from mostly" != "Assembled in and made from entirely"

I think they can stamp "Made in the USA" for products assembled here out of entirely foreign parts (or "Made in the USA of imported components" or some such). I like the labeling of assembly + parts content.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 10, 2020 03:58 PM (hYcqw)

327 Ann Barnhardt did some calculating, and found that a
cloth facemask has openings between the fibers 4,800 times wider than
the microbe it's trying to stop.

do people get that the mask is to keep you from spewing your germs onto others, NOT to protect you from germs?

it seems many people are confused on that point

Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 10, 2020 03:29 PM (iTXRQ)

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Think about what you just typed. Change it and get back to us.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 10, 2020 03:58 PM (pw+jk)

328 to all narrators in the media.

Can we just stop with sticking -Gate on the end of some noun?
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I look forward to people finally flipping out over Bill Gates person-chips.

Gatesgate.

Posted by: Methos at May 10, 2020 03:59 PM (kOpft)

329 I look forward to people finally flipping out over Bill Gates person-chips.

Gatesgate.
Posted by: Methos at May 10, 2020 03:59 PM (kOpft)
+++++++++++++
Nah, they're on the same side. No scandal here. Move along, prole.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 10, 2020 03:59 PM (hYcqw)

330 By the way, for the person above who mentioned an item marked...Made in Occupied Japan...some of those pieces are very collectable.

Posted by: Traveling Man Who's Stuck At Home&&&& at May 10, 2020 04:00 PM (dUuHJ)

331 I think they can stamp "Made in the USA" for
products assembled here out of entirely foreign parts (or "Made in the
USA of imported components" or some such). I like the labeling of
assembly + parts content.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 10, 2020 03:58 PM

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My Casio watch says "cased in China" I think the parts are made in Mexico, sent to China and "cased" there.

Not sure why they just don;t do that in Mexico or wherever they make the parts.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 10, 2020 04:00 PM (JUOKG)

332 MUDER HORNETS-GATE !11!!

Posted by: runner at May 10, 2020 04:00 PM (zr5Kq)

333 FOOD!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 10, 2020 04:01 PM (0ReGO)

334 FOOD NOOD

Posted by: Skip the guy who calls noods at May 10, 2020 04:01 PM (ZCEU2)

335 >By the way, for the person above who mentioned an item marked...Made in Occupied Japan...some of those pieces are very collectable.
Posted by: Traveling Man

yeah I've never seen any other item so stamped

Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 10, 2020 04:02 PM (iTXRQ)

336 My Redwing boots are assembled in Redwing Minnesota, but the leather and other pieces are sent to China for shaping, then sent back to Minnesota for completion.

Posted by: Traveling Man Who's Stuck At Home&&&& at May 10, 2020 04:03 PM (dUuHJ)

337 While its all well and good to buy made in America, to me its not going to take off on any kind of scale. Like a gnat on an elephants ass. (Not to be confused with the horrific murder rape elephant gnat swimming over from asia right now.)

The best way to buy American, would be a 25% tarrif on anything NOT American. Then you dont have to sit there and study every god damn thing you buy.

Posted by: Menack at May 10, 2020 04:03 PM (buTO7)

338 Build a 'speaker box' around the valve to broadcast the thump.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at May 10, 2020 04:04 PM (1g7ch)

339 Tom Bihn- raging lefties in Seattle but they make all their packs and bags there.

Traffic, glorious traffic on I-5 today.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 10, 2020 04:12 PM (Lqy/e)

340 Quiet check valve - Made in the USA
Either PVC union style or rubber coupler style with worm clamps
Better to use pvc union style, much more rigid and long term safer
Clamp all discharge piping above the silent check valve with insulated 'strut' clamp hardware
45 degree elbows whenever possible, sch 40( deep socket) for outlet line.
Pump should have air bleed hole in casting, if not drill 1/8" hole in discharge pipe well below floor line, with a slight angle down.
Don't rush it
Be the Water

Posted by: BlkWtr at May 10, 2020 04:13 PM (RDD7f)

341 I used to have a pumpkin shaped teapot stamped made in occupied Japan

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 10, 2020 04:14 PM (Lqy/e)

342
On the other end of the pump scale, I've got a submersible well pump that's been going for about 40 years now with not a single problem.

I'm going to drill another well for the new house for Miley and me, and I hope the new pumps will be as reliable as they were back then.

I've got three phase at my shop, and I'm going to put the pump nearby and use a 3-phase motor for it.

With wells, you have to wait to find out what capacity you're gonna get it. If I get enough capacity, I'm going to put a big boy in, and have a big expansion tank.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 10, 2020 04:15 PM (rCwaK)

343 Skip ... Even if you end up buying a new pair of scissors (while waiting for the craft stores to reopen), I thought it worth mentioning that Joann's offers in-house sharpening every couple of months. Items can be dropped off up to 6 days ahead of the event, picked up later, and fees vary depending on the tool (knives, scissors, shears, even mower blades). I recently had my food scissors done for $8, which was worth every penny.

Posted by: Kathy at May 10, 2020 04:43 PM (qv3wo)

344 Hey CBD, fellow NJ swamp dweller, I have the same problem. My plumber told me there are different stop valves, one being silent, the other noisy. He said he's bring one by to replace the thumper I have. Might be worth asking your guy.

Posted by: Distilled Spirit at May 10, 2020 04:58 PM (/L/8T)

345 I have a Made In USA for you - Henry - Made In America Or Not Made At All.

https://www.henryusa.com/

Posted by: Bama Bubba at May 10, 2020 06:11 PM (mAxkE)

346 Chuck Fina.

Posted by: Dr_No at May 10, 2020 06:47 PM (mu5GU)

347 @330 By the way, for the person above who mentioned an item marked...Made in Occupied Japan...some of those pieces are very collectable.

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The same is true for anything marked "West Germany" or "Made in West Germany" (I don't know how much stuff might have been stamped "Made in East Germany".)

Posted by: Dr_No at May 10, 2020 06:51 PM (mu5GU)

348 Campbell Mfg Llc 2" Quietsewage Chk Valve $30, worth every penny.
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B000LXA9RU

Posted by: David at May 10, 2020 08:12 PM (Y1Zk7)

349 "Pump Thump"?
Is it like "pipe-hammer' in ordinary water pipes when taps are turned off suddenly?
One "solution" I have seen involves an "expansion chamber" branching vertically from the feed line. The "branch" is air-filled and acts as a compressible "buffer". It seems to work on a problem increasingly common with the large-scale uptake of short-throw taps with ceramic 'seals".

Posted by: Bruce at May 11, 2020 02:55 AM (4U6go)

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