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First-World Problems...

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[My apologies in advance for presenting a First World Problem...but then having a solution!]

Yeah...I am one of those people who has that special skill for losing small parts. You name it...guns or computers or plumbing or cars or just fixing some random equipment in the house, and I will invariably drop a small part onto the floor, or even more fun shoot it across the room...propelled by some tiny little spring that is shockingly powerful!

Magnets! Ain't they grand! That silly little pressed metal container has a few cheap rare-earth magnets embedded in the base, and it holds everything nicely...even on end, so it is easier to pick up when needed.

It's pretty much perfect, and a marvelous First World Solution to a First World Problem.

Oh...anyone who can identify what's in the magic magnet bowl gets a one year platinum membership to AoSHQ, with ampersand utility AND Troll-B-Gon!

Posted by: CBD at 02:00 PM




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Posted by: Skip at March 19, 2023 02:02 PM (xhxe8)

2 Been to Kkng Hsrv 3 times

Posted by: Skip at March 19, 2023 02:02 PM (xhxe8)

3 Some step ladders have magnetic area on top step, none I have

Posted by: Skip at March 19, 2023 02:04 PM (xhxe8)

4 1911 parts.

Posted by: davidt at March 19, 2023 02:04 PM (SYTee)

5 looks like the parts of nose hair cutter

sans boogers

Posted by: REDACTED at March 19, 2023 02:06 PM (us2H3)

6 My wife uses one of those magnetic cups for her bobby-pins.

I use them (like CBD) for small gun parts mostly. Sometimes small hardware, but mostly gun stuff.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 19, 2023 02:06 PM (Q4IgG)

7 Magnets! Ain't they grand!

How the hell do they work?

1911 parts.

I only count three.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 19, 2023 02:07 PM (nfrXX)

8 I use rare earth magnets all the time for holding small parts. There's nothing better for holding screws or other small parts when you're installing or removing them while you're on a ladder.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 19, 2023 02:07 PM (YqDXo)

9 Ive been looking for my ball point pen parts. Looks like I've found them.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 19, 2023 02:07 PM (anj39)

10 A firing pin and associated parts?

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 19, 2023 02:08 PM (Vwz3I)

11 A millapeed, cotter pin and a thingamajig.

Posted by: Bosk at March 19, 2023 02:08 PM (OR9VM)

12 Aluminum centrifuge?

Faytuks News Δ @Faytuks · 4h
BREAKING: King of Saudi Arabia invites Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi to Riyadh, Iranian official says - Reuters

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 19, 2023 02:08 PM (Vwz3I)

13 A firing pin and associated parts?

Ejector pin.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 19, 2023 02:09 PM (nfrXX)

14 There. Are. Four. Parts!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 19, 2023 02:09 PM (Vwz3I)

15 Can tell they are not nonferrous metals

Posted by: Skip at March 19, 2023 02:10 PM (xhxe8)

16 BREAKING: King of Saudi Arabia invites Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi to Riyadh, Iranian official says - Reuters
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 19, 2023 02:08 PM (Vwz3I)

sounds like a certain someone is trying to pawn off a fake Leonardo

Posted by: REDACTED at March 19, 2023 02:10 PM (us2H3)

17 Ejector pin.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 19, 2023 02:09 PM (nfrXX)

Ding Ding Ding!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 19, 2023 02:11 PM (XIJ/X)

18 Heh!
50 quatloos he doesn't lose the parts but in the morning the container is gone.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 19, 2023 02:11 PM (anj39)

19 My micro tools kit has a magnetic mat for the same purpose, but the bowl is better IMHO, because I could still accidentally swipe things off the mat.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 19, 2023 02:12 PM (ssESX)

20 Very good, Oddbob.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 19, 2023 02:12 PM (Vwz3I)

21 But ... do the magnets work on aluminum parts?

Posted by: Barky I at March 19, 2023 02:13 PM (YqDXo)

22 Ding Ding Ding!

I'll go out on a limb and guess either Remington or Savage.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 19, 2023 02:13 PM (nfrXX)

23 If you want a first world problem, UBS is going to buy Credit Suisse for two billion, on a firm with a book value of 8 billion. Of course, before the purchase takes place, the Swiss government this weekend is going to have to change their laws, so that the shareholders of Credit Suisse, the actual owners, cannot have a say in the transaction.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 19, 2023 02:13 PM (Q1BZZ)

24 Motherf'in magnets, how do they work?

Posted by: Insane Clown Posse at March 19, 2023 02:13 PM (ssESX)

25 ... because I could still accidentally swipe things off the mat.
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Is that a catatonic state? 🐱

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 19, 2023 02:14 PM (Vwz3I)

26 If you want a first world problem, UBS is going to buy Credit Suisse for two billion, on a firm with a book value of 8 billion. Of course, before the purchase takes place, the Swiss government this weekend is going to have to change their laws, so that the shareholders of Credit Suisse, the actual owners, cannot have a say in the transaction.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 19, 2023 02:13 PM (Q1BZZ)
______________

Will Credit Suisse throw in their perverted transgender executive?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 19, 2023 02:15 PM (YqDXo)

27 It looks like parts from a lawnmower carburetor.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 19, 2023 02:15 PM (BdMk6)

28 Heh!
50 quatloos he doesn't lose the parts but in the morning the container is gone.
Posted by: Diogenes

Even odds -
Lost, broken, or pregnant.*

*In honor of you Marines and all that you do.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 19, 2023 02:15 PM (P5ifK)

29 vacuum

Posted by: JackStraw at March 19, 2023 02:15 PM (ZLI7S)

30 @25 nothing is going to stop a cat from knocking that bowl off a table if it's not smack in the middle. Lol

Posted by: Insane Clown Posse at March 19, 2023 02:16 PM (ssESX)

31 /sock

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 19, 2023 02:16 PM (ssESX)

32 A pin, a gizmo, and a widget.

Posted by: Gref at March 19, 2023 02:17 PM (AMIL/)

33 Lately, I've been wearing a magnetized bowl on my head. The tinfoil hat seemed to have lost all of its powers.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 19, 2023 02:18 PM (Xrfse)

34 You found your mom's vibrator again, didn't you.

Posted by: Es Senor Pendejo to you at March 19, 2023 02:19 PM (zgYkI)

35 The telescoping magnet is pretty handy as well.

Posted by: Javems at March 19, 2023 02:19 PM (AmoqO)

36 Thank you for the pleasant afternoon, all; see you on the gub thread.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 19, 2023 02:19 PM (Vwz3I)

37 my main goto magnet is my shop sweeper

Posted by: REDACTED at March 19, 2023 02:20 PM (us2H3)

38 See ya this evening, andy.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 19, 2023 02:21 PM (Xrfse)

39 Magnets work by making a local gravitational anomaly that only affects ferrous metals. Or magic. One or the other.

Posted by: fd at March 19, 2023 02:21 PM (iayUP)

40 My father always had one of those magnetic dishes screwed onto his ladders.

Posted by: Tuna at March 19, 2023 02:21 PM (gLRfa)

41 @30 Unless the cat fits in the bowl for napping purposes.

Posted by: Editor at March 19, 2023 02:22 PM (4DcbE)

42 Cheers, Notorious BFD.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 19, 2023 02:22 PM (Vwz3I)

43 there is no stronger magnet than a hot tub, VSOP Brandy and Luther tunes

Posted by: REDACTED at March 19, 2023 02:24 PM (us2H3)

44 I have one of those telescoping magnet thingies, one with a mirror and another with little gripping fingers. I'm old and can barely get on, or off my hands and knees when looking for shit I eventually drop.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 19, 2023 02:25 PM (Q4IgG)

45 How do magnets work?

Posted by: Jimco Industries at March 19, 2023 02:26 PM (buTO7)

46 40 My father always had one of those magnetic dishes screwed onto his ladders.
Posted by: Tuna at March 19, 2023 02:21 PM (gLRfa)

I've bagged a lot of tail but I have never nailed a hot chick on a ladder

kudos to your pop

Posted by: REDACTED at March 19, 2023 02:26 PM (us2H3)

47 I was taken aback the first time a saw a roofer swinging a magnet on a string in the yard to pick up any loose nails from the construction.

What an obvious low-tech solution to a problem that wouldn't have occurred to me.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 19, 2023 02:27 PM (40DMX)

48 I have one of those telescoping magnet thingies, one with a mirror and another with little gripping fingers.
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I have two out of three. Wouldn't be able to make out anything in the mirror at the end of the thing anyway.

Posted by: From about that Time at March 19, 2023 02:28 PM (4780s)

49 there is no stronger magnet than a hot tub, VSOP Brandy and Luther tunes

I call bulls*hit, homey.

Posted by: Zombie Barry White at March 19, 2023 02:28 PM (Xrfse)

50 I'll go out on a limb and guess either Remington or Savage.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 19, 2023 02:13 PM (nfrXX)

Savage 110.

And I want to modify the ejector with an angled surface, which apparently solves the very common issues. But that damned pin that holds the ejector is a bitch to put back in!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 19, 2023 02:29 PM (XIJ/X)

51 Banned for 7 days on Twitter just now, although I don't consider it a problem. Turns out that twitter thinks this is me telling people to commit suicide:

If you like pure gray clam chowder, eat it with no added titanium dioxide.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at March 19, 2023 02:30 PM (buTO7)

52 Damn. Those misplaced asterisks get me every time.

Posted by: Zombie Barry White at March 19, 2023 02:30 PM (Xrfse)

53 Magnets! Ain't they grand!

How the hell do they work?
Posted by: Oddbob at March 19, 2023 02:07 PM (nfrXX)

Motherf'in magnets, how do they work?
Posted by: Insane Clown Posse at March 19, 2023 02:13 PM (ssESX)

How do magnets work?
Posted by: Jimco Industries at March 19, 2023 02:26 PM (buTO7)



Dunno. [Goes back to reading Feynman's Lectures]

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 19, 2023 02:30 PM (ZSK0i)

54 I have several of these on my toolbox and I'm always mad at myself when I forget to grab it and use it.

Posted by: Blago at March 19, 2023 02:30 PM (c/72Q)

55 MAGNETS & METAL ... Decades ago, my neighbor created his own version of this USA-made magnetic floor sweeper for cleaning the garage and driveway ... IIRC, though, I think the piece between the wheels was a spinning metal pipe (not a hinged box) ... https://tinyurl.com/23nn3ek4

Posted by: Kathy at March 19, 2023 02:31 PM (JklXp)

56 Speaking of first world problems . . .

How drinking coffee perpetuates white supremacy
Created by Black people for Black people—and now a pillar of white supremacist capitalism. If you consume coffee, you are helping an industry built on racism.

https://afru.com/coffee-industry-racism-white-supremacy/

This is unnecessary. Coffee had me at tastes great and gives me a boost.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 19, 2023 02:32 PM (FVME7)

57 First World mystery: have two older Carhartt baseball caps, cotton. They can be bone dry in the evening, but by morning damp enough to lick a postage stamp. ???

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko solutions at March 19, 2023 02:32 PM (3/JS2)

58 How do magnets work?


Instead of power being generated by the relative motion of conductors and fluxes, it is produced by the modial interaction of magneto-reluctance and
capacitive directance.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 19, 2023 02:32 PM (40DMX)

59 I remember decades back when Edmund Scientific sold a magnet that had a nice rectangular form factor that was great for sweeping up ferrous materials.

Kinda like this one:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/125710187634

But it had fins.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 19, 2023 02:33 PM (ZSK0i)

60 First World mystery: have two older Carhartt baseball caps, cotton. They can be bone dry in the evening, but by morning damp enough to lick a postage stamp. ???

Turn the sprinkler off before bedtime?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 19, 2023 02:33 PM (Xrfse)

61 Yeah...I am one of those people who has that special skill for losing small parts.

Far be it from me to criticize after losing small carburator parts while being forced to work outside.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 19, 2023 02:35 PM (ZSK0i)

62 As a kid I used to run a magnet crane n my metal working job, and would pick up a plate of steel about 4 inches thick and about 5x10 feet. I'd stand ON the plate for fun while moving it. You had to stand pretty close to the magnet, and my pant leg caught the toggle switch and turned the magnet off. Gravity took over and long story short, I never did that again.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at March 19, 2023 02:36 PM (buTO7)

63 Unless the cat fits in the bowl for napping purposes.

*******

You need a separate bowl to hold the cat in place. But you will need to have some raw animal magnetism.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2023 02:36 PM (ykeLU)

64 CBD, you're not alone in losing parts. I've dropped a starter bolt on an F150 into the starter pocket and to the bottom of the flex plate. Trying to fish it out with the telescoping magnet stick. Ugh...

Posted by: clutch at March 19, 2023 02:38 PM (9UmRs)

65 Oh...anyone who can identify what's in the magic magnet bowl gets a one year platinum membership to AoSHQ, with ampersand utility AND Troll-B-Gon!
-

That's from a home railgun kit.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 19, 2023 02:40 PM (8Sz8Y)

66 True story...back in '75-'76 or so I glued a speaker magnet(blown out pioneer, toooo much Robin Trower, deep purple, ZZ Top, Traffic...Marshall Tucker/Allman Bros) to the bottom of a SS mixing bowl to use while turning wrenches on my old '67 Chevy stepside. It was to hold sockets as much as, nuts/bolts/washers/screws. I had never heard or seen of anyone else doing that, and no one I knew ever had either. It became a popular Idea with the crowd I ran with. The magnet was strong enough to hold the bowl upside down on the frame/floors, and still hold the bits and pieces right in front of your face. I guess I should have filed for a patent. (The other idea I came up with about that same time was to attach a retractable seat belt to the gate posts of a movie theater ropeline, it was while helping build a Glendale, Az. 7 screen drive in, now they are standard/everywhere)

Posted by: birddog at March 19, 2023 02:41 PM (uAI4S)

67 First World mystery: have two older Carhartt baseball caps, cotton. They can be bone dry in the evening, but by morning damp enough to lick a postage stamp. ???
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko solutions at March 19, 2023 02:32 PM (3/JS2)


This happens pretty easily anyplace where there's significant atmospheric moisture. Over the course of the night, the temperature frequently will drop until it hits the dewpoint. Combine that with radiative cooling in the direction of space and you get visible condensation.

A serious problem in using and imaging with telescopes.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 19, 2023 02:41 PM (ZSK0i)

68 Serious question.

How DO magnets work?

Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2023 02:42 PM (ykeLU)

69 The parts in the pan are obviously from a turbo encabulator.

Too easy.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at March 19, 2023 02:42 PM (AiZBA)

70 56 Speaking of first world problems . . .

How drinking coffee perpetuates white supremacy
Created by Black people for Black people—and now a pillar of white supremacist capitalism. If you consume coffee, you are helping an industry built on racism.

https://afru.com/coffee-industry-racism-white-supremacy/

This is unnecessary. Coffee had me at tastes great and gives me a boost.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 19, 2023 02:32 PM (FVME7)

I decided to have a rare 2nd cup this afternoon (a decaf), just to feel a greater sense of...warmth and happiness...38 degrees in VA on an early spring afternoon is coffee season...can't wait for the 70s later this week...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 19, 2023 02:42 PM (exHjb)

71 CBD, you're not alone in losing parts. I've dropped a starter bolt on an F150 into the starter pocket and to the bottom of the flex plate. Trying to fish it out with the telescoping magnet stick. Ugh...
Posted by: clutch

Into bell housing?
Sould have maintenance plugs.

Had one go into the bell housing of my Kia. Kia is maybe the only manufacturer without plugs. So I drilled a hole with a bimetal saw. Fid make a special pilot bit to not drill through the torque converter.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 19, 2023 02:43 PM (Poio3)

72 the dirty little secret is 78% of small parts are unnecessary

when in doubt ...........

Posted by: REDACTED at March 19, 2023 02:45 PM (us2H3)

73 Butcher I will take a look if there is a plug at the bottom, good idear. Thanks

Posted by: clutch at March 19, 2023 02:45 PM (9UmRs)

74 How DO magnets work?
Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2023 02:42 PM (ykeLU)

they don't

they just stand around bars and pose

Posted by: REDACTED at March 19, 2023 02:46 PM (us2H3)

75 How DO magnets work?
Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2023 02:42 PM (ykeLU)
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Maybe we can get an answer by taking a pole.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 19, 2023 02:48 PM (8Sz8Y)

76 Hard hitting news from CNN . . .

CNN’s Burnett: evidence revealing Chinese money to Bidens ‘doesn’t look good’

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 19, 2023 02:48 PM (FVME7)

77 This happens pretty easily anyplace where there's significant atmospheric moisture.

While there have been historic rains lately, other things remain dry, toilet paper, typing paper, other cotton clothing.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko solutions at March 19, 2023 02:48 PM (3/JS2)

78 > I was taken aback the first time a saw a roofer swinging a magnet on a string in the yard to pick up any loose nails from the construction.

What an obvious low-tech solution to a problem that wouldn't have occurred to me.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger
__________________
Had the dipshits that put the roof on this joint whenever it was last done did that, it would have saved me a trip to the ER with a rusty roofing nail embedded in the ball of my foot. Fucking head broke off and it was buried deep. Right through a cheap flipflop in the driveway.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 19, 2023 02:50 PM (Q4IgG)

79 the drawback of magnetic bowls is the parts will stick to the bottom of the bowl as well as the top

Posted by: REDACTED at March 19, 2023 02:50 PM (us2H3)

80 While there have been historic rains lately, other things remain dry, toilet paper, typing paper, other cotton clothing.

Something to do with the composition of the fabric in the hats?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 19, 2023 02:52 PM (Xrfse)

81 Same metal working job as a kid, They had bought new computers (running Windows 3.1) and so we immediately installed a game called Scorched Earth on it and started gambling.

This wasn't allowed of course, so they told us a guy was coming from Latrobe PA to find out who installed it. Thats where the giant magnet saved the day. I moved it right over the computer, and bricked it. It even ruined the monitor.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at March 19, 2023 02:52 PM (buTO7)

82 My ex-sister-in-law got involved with a multilevel marketing scheme whose thing was magnets with purported medical benefits. One of the products was a shoe insert. The sales demonstration involved having a person stand and give them an unexpected light shove, resulting in them taking a small step back to stabilize. They would then put in the shoe insert and repeat the demonstration. The mark was subconsciously prepared for the shove and would brace themselves, so "Voila!" the magnet had stabilized the individual.

I told her magnetic shoe inserts would be fine if you only needed to walk north and south.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2023 02:52 PM (ykeLU)

83 Magnets cause climate change.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 19, 2023 02:54 PM (fUnHJ)

84 How DO magnets work?
Posted by: Muldoon
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Pretty well.

Actually, the real answer lies with the reference to Richard Feynman above.

An interesting interview on the topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 19, 2023 02:54 PM (HsC66)

85 I told her magnetic shoe inserts would be fine if you only needed to walk north and south.

Slowly I turn...step by step...

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 19, 2023 02:55 PM (Xrfse)

86

Magnets be racisss, yo!

Posted by: Prof. Jimbobo, Afrophysicist at March 19, 2023 02:55 PM (kOFPS)

87 Something to do with the composition of the fabric in the hats?

All cotton, composite bill stiffener.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko solutions at March 19, 2023 02:55 PM (3/JS2)

88 All cotton, composite bill stiffener.

Hmm...'tis indeed a mystery.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 19, 2023 02:56 PM (Xrfse)

89 I lose small nuts and bolts in the driveway while working on the tank all the time. Then my wife runs over the in her Honduhh and gets angry when her tires get holes them

Posted by: Defenestratus at March 19, 2023 02:59 PM (X5+1X)

90 Maybe there's a pet peeing on the hats at night

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 19, 2023 03:00 PM (fUnHJ)

91 I have two of those little bowls filled up with I forgot what.

Posted by: Javems at March 19, 2023 03:01 PM (AmoqO)

92 Maybe there's a pet peeing on the hats at night

That thought had occurred to me but I was hesitant to ask. Heh.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 19, 2023 03:01 PM (Xrfse)

93 How DO magnets work?
Posted by: Muldoon


Only after you tell me how RNA then DNA 'evolved' from miscellaneous stuff inside a cell.

:-)

Posted by: Gref at March 19, 2023 03:01 PM (AMIL/)

94 Oh...anyone who can identify what's in the magic magnet bowl gets a one year platinum membership to AoSHQ, with ampersand utility AND Troll-B-Gon!
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It's clearly two doodads and a thing-a-me-bob.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 19, 2023 03:03 PM (2hlEI)

95 If the hats have absorbed sweat over the years, the salts, as the humidity increases/decreases might well(?) absorb moisture from the air. We see this all the time in salt shakers as humidity shifts up and down.

SWAG

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 19, 2023 03:04 PM (MbWzp)

96 they don't

they just stand around bars and pose
Posted by: REDACTED at March 19, 2023 02:46 PM (us2H3)
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I have it on good authority that mountains come out of the sky and they stand there.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 19, 2023 03:05 PM (2hlEI)

97 Had the dipshits that put the roof on this joint whenever it was last done did that, it would have saved me a trip to the ER with a rusty roofing nail embedded in the ball of my foot. Fucking head broke off and it was buried deep. Right through a cheap flipflop in the driveway.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 19, 2023 02:50 PM (Q4IgG)


Ouch!

Had something similar happen in my youth (I think I was 15) while working on a road crew weedeating the guardrails on the interstate.

Long nail right through the sole of a tennis shoe and into my foot.

The foreman had the wisdom to pour some diesel fuel on the puncture wound to disinfect it. Hurt like a sumbitch for many days.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 19, 2023 03:06 PM (40DMX)

98 FWP - dropped the only key to a door down the spaces in cinder block. It went down about 3-4 blocks. After much swearing and no resolution, I dropped a magnet down the hole.

Next time I'll tie it to a string.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 19, 2023 03:07 PM (OQM6D)

99 hats have absorbed sweat over the years, the salts, as the humidity increases/decreases might well(?) absorb moisture from the air.

Regularly washed.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko solutions at March 19, 2023 03:07 PM (3/JS2)

100 hats have absorbed sweat over the years, the salts, as the humidity increases/decreases might well(?) absorb moisture from the air.

Regularly washed.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko solutions

You can do that?! Wow!

Posted by: Tonypete at March 19, 2023 03:09 PM (OQM6D)

101 >>> 76 Hard hitting news from CNN . . .

CNN’s Burnett: evidence revealing Chinese money to Bidens 'doesn't look good'
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 19, 2023 02:48 PM (FVME7)

But No Serious Prosecutor would file charges, because reasons.

Posted by: This... is XiNN at March 19, 2023 03:09 PM (llON8)

102 I have dropped tools and other things in walls, a magnet on a string saved me a few times

Posted by: Skip at March 19, 2023 03:10 PM (xhxe8)

103 But that damned pin that holds the ejector is a bitch to put back in!

Couple of things I found that help. Start the pin before putting the spring and extractor in. Then use a cartridge as a lever to press the pin down against the spring. You can use a dummy pin made from a toothpick to hold everything in place while you tap the real in the rest of the way in.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 19, 2023 03:11 PM (nfrXX)

104 Scoff if you wish but magnet therapy does work. I use a magnet in conjunction with bandaging on wounds on the horses. Decreased healing time.and no scaring. They work on back pain in people also.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 19, 2023 03:11 PM (UnuZ7)

105 Regularly washed.

Well, maybe a magnetic bowl might be a useful alternative?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 19, 2023 03:11 PM (Xrfse)

106 Another medical product they had was a magnetic bracelet for your wrist that "revitalized" your red blood cells (because they contain iron, duh) as your blood circulated through your wrist. To compound the silliness, the magnet spun continuously, which seems like it would negate any purported physiologic effect by effectively eliminating the polarity.

She also touted the health benefits of drinking oxygenated water.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2023 03:12 PM (ykeLU)

107 CNN’s Burnett: evidence revealing Chinese money to Bidens 'doesn't look good'
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 19, 2023 02:48 PM (FVME7)


You know what this means, don't you?

ARREST TRUMP IMMEDIATELY!!!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 19, 2023 03:13 PM (Qzn2/)

108 40 My father always had one of those magnetic dishes screwed onto his ladders.

Posted by: Tuna at March 19, 2023 02:21 PM (gLRfa)


I recently bought a wristband with magnets sewn into pockets around half of it. Because why not? It is not elastic - it has velcro to snug it down to your wrist size. I have not used it but expect it will come in handy someday for doing something like hanging shelves.

Posted by: Gref at March 19, 2023 03:13 PM (AMIL/)

109 She also touted the health benefits of drinking oxygenated water.

In the butt?

Posted by: Gwyneth Paltrow at March 19, 2023 03:13 PM (Xrfse)

110 If you consume coffee, you are helping an industry built on racism.

Uh oh. What if you add Irish Cream to it? Like double-plus racisty, right?

Posted by: Oddbob at March 19, 2023 03:13 PM (nfrXX)

111 She also touted the health benefits of drinking oxygenated water.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2023 03:12 PM (ykeLU)


This is exactly why I pay extra to inflate my tires with argon.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 19, 2023 03:14 PM (Qzn2/)

112 But it had fins.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 19, 2023 02:33 PM (ZSK0i)

A magnetic fish?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 19, 2023 03:15 PM (XIJ/X)

113 Here's a first world problem. I have a bunch of my house hooked up to a Samsung SmartThings hub. The hub died. I have some things that I don't have manual control for. Like the light in our bedroom.

Gah.

Posted by: blaster at March 19, 2023 03:16 PM (z2Og4)

114 Scoff if you wish but magnet therapy does work. I use a magnet in conjunction with bandaging on wounds on the horses. Decreased healing time.and no scaring. They work on back pain in people also.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 19, 2023 03:11 PM (UnuZ7)
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Ridiculous. Calculate the electronic Zeeman energy of an electronic spin in a, say, 500 G magnetic field (i.e., more than your average magnet). It's trivial, less than 1 cm-1, where thermal energy is ~ 200 cm-1.

Plus, most of the body is diamagnetic, not even paramagnetic. Using a magnet to influence the body is like farting in front of a runaway truck in an effort to stop it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 19, 2023 03:16 PM (YqDXo)

115 Another medical product they had was a magnetic bracelet for your wrist that "revitalized" your red blood cells (because they contain iron, duh) as your blood circulated through your wrist.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2023 03:12 PM (ykeLU)

Well, that explains the 100% death rate in MRIs.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 19, 2023 03:17 PM (XIJ/X)

116 Thats where the giant magnet saved the day. I moved it right over the computer, and bricked it. It even ruined the monitor.

When my son was about 3 or 4, he discovered that if he moved a magnet around on the TV screen, it made really pretty moving color designs. That TV had a dark blotch got better over time but never went away completely.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 19, 2023 03:18 PM (nfrXX)

117 Scoff if you wish but magnet therapy does work. I use a magnet in conjunction with bandaging on wounds on the horses. Decreased healing time.and no scaring. They work on back pain in people also.
Posted by: Ben Had

*******

I'm open to anything, but my default position is generally skepticism. So can you explain how it ostensibly works for wound healing as well as an alternative theory on what might create better wound healing NOT caused by the magnet?

Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2023 03:18 PM (ykeLU)

118 114 So does an MRI create and significant or measurable changes in the body?

Posted by: MAxIE at March 19, 2023 03:19 PM (twxj3)

119 Well, that explains the 100% death rate in MRIs.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

*******

Well sure, if you are looking at the long term results. Same hold for drinking oxygenated water.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2023 03:20 PM (ykeLU)

120 Another medical product they had was a magnetic bracelet for your wrist that "revitalized" your red blood cells (because they contain iron, duh) as your blood circulated through your wrist. To compound the silliness, the magnet spun continuously, which seems like it would negate any purported physiologic effect by effectively eliminating the polarity.

She also touted the health benefits of drinking oxygenated water.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2023 03:12 PM (ykeLU)
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So you're saying there's hope for my "yam therapy?"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 19, 2023 03:20 PM (YqDXo)

121 I was building a shower, and decided I didnt like this brass thing inside the drain hole which would open if water started building up above it. So I tried taking it out and it fell down the drain and out of sight. No magnet would get it, and leaving it there, nearly the same diameter as the pipe, it was just a matter of time. So there it sat, out of sight, below a 500 pound concrete shower pan.

My shop vac sucked it out instantly.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at March 19, 2023 03:20 PM (buTO7)

122 Posted by: Oddbob at March 19, 2023 03:11 PM (nfrXX)

The pin hole is ridiculously tight. It's supposedly a 1/16th, but I have three 1/16th punches and only one fits in the hole. But my guess is that the original pin is exactly 1/16th, so it makes the entire process a bitch. I got three more pins from Savage, so hopefully I can get at least one of them to seat fully.

But...that's part of the fun of guns.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 19, 2023 03:21 PM (XIJ/X)

123 Something to do with the composition of the fabric in the hats? Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 19, 2023 02:52 PM (Xrfse)

Is this the Carhartt sweat wicking cap that is designed to absorb and wick away sweat and moisture?

Posted by: Kindltot at March 19, 2023 03:21 PM (xhaym)

124 I for one won't touch water if it has oxygen in it.

Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell at March 19, 2023 03:21 PM (Qzn2/)

125 118 Is time of exposure critical in an MRI in the same way it is in an X-ray???

Posted by: MAxIE at March 19, 2023 03:21 PM (twxj3)

126 So you're saying there's hope for my "yam therapy?"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 19, 2023 03:20 PM (YqDXo)

Rectal or nasal?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 19, 2023 03:21 PM (XIJ/X)

127 118 114 So does an MRI create and significant or measurable changes in the body?
Posted by: MAxIE at March 19, 2023 03:19 PM (twxj3)
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Only if you're a nuclear spin in a hydrogen atom. Well, bowl me over with a radiofrequency pulse!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 19, 2023 03:22 PM (YqDXo)

128 Re: 103

s/extractor/ejector/

I do that a lot.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 19, 2023 03:22 PM (nfrXX)

129 126 So you're saying there's hope for my "yam therapy?"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 19, 2023 03:20 PM (YqDXo)

Rectal or nasal?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 19, 2023 03:21 PM (XIJ/X)
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Take no chances: do both. I mean, you've already got the mallet there for whichever one you chose first, so ...

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 19, 2023 03:23 PM (YqDXo)

130 So you're saying there's hope for my "yam therapy?"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

The Popeye Procedure?

Posted by: Bruce at March 19, 2023 03:24 PM (vd8XM)

131 is like farting in front of a runaway truck in an effort to stop it.

*******

Any volunteers to test this hypothesis?

Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2023 03:25 PM (ykeLU)

132 I was building a shower, and decided I didnt like this brass thing inside the drain hole which would open if water started building up above it. So I tried taking it out and it fell down the drain and out of sight. No magnet would get it
Posted by: Jimco Industries at March 19, 2023 03:20 PM (buTO7)
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You're aware, of course, that brass is not ferromagnetic, I trust?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 19, 2023 03:25 PM (YqDXo)

133 Plus, most of the body is diamagnetic, not even paramagnetic. Using a magnet to influence the body is like farting in front of a runaway truck in an effort to stop it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Who of us wouldn't want to let one last fart before being hit by a truck ?

And if the person saw the truck coming, the fart might contain some substance.(if you catch my drift....)

Posted by: JT at March 19, 2023 03:25 PM (T4tVD)

134 Hal, turn on the light
Can't do that Dave, it uses energy you are not permitted to use

Posted by: Skip at March 19, 2023 03:25 PM (xhxe8)

135 Is time of exposure critical in an MRI in the same way it is in an X-ray???

Posted by: MAxIE at March 19, 2023 03:21 PM (twxj3)

No. It is benign. The alternating magnetic field tweaks certain molecules, and then with some radio waves they give off a tiny bit of energy that can be read with sensors.

They are amazing machines!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 19, 2023 03:25 PM (XIJ/X)

136 131 is like farting in front of a runaway truck in an effort to stop it.

*******

Any volunteers to test this hypothesis?
Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2023 03:25 PM (ykeLU)
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We should try to convince some liberals to do this.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 19, 2023 03:25 PM (YqDXo)

137 Plus, most of the body is diamagnetic, not even paramagnetic. Using a magnet to influence the body is like farting in front of a runaway truck in an effort to stop it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevar

I didn't follow any of this until the 'farting' part.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 19, 2023 03:26 PM (OQM6D)

138 So you're saying there's hope for my "yam therapy?"

Nevah did like yer candied yams, anyway. Too much candy, not enough yams!

Posted by: Zombie Walter Brennan at March 19, 2023 03:26 PM (Xrfse)

139 Had a MRI on leg over decade ago, not dead yet but assume someday will

Posted by: Skip at March 19, 2023 03:28 PM (xhxe8)

140 One tip for losing small parts, especially spring loaded stuff that acheives escape velocity from eath's gravity, assemble and disasemble said parts in a small plastic bag that contains said parts, so that they can be captured before they escape into the wild.

Posted by: Brian at March 19, 2023 03:28 PM (1K+Qy)

141 You're aware, of course, that brass is not ferromagnetic, I trust?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 19, 2023 03:25 PM (YqDXo)


What's your point?

Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell at March 19, 2023 03:28 PM (Qzn2/)

142 They are amazing machines!

*scowls*

Posted by: Zombie Brazilian Lawyer at March 19, 2023 03:28 PM (nfrXX)

143 I'm open to anything, but my default position is generally skepticism. So can you explain how it ostensibly works for wound healing as well as an alternative theory on what might create better wound healing NOT caused by the magnet?
Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2023 03:18 PM (ykeLU)


I am going to butt in here, but I expect it is more of a pragmatic medicine thing, more than a blue-ribbon double blind study that we have heard of so much in the last three years.

You know, like removing the pump handle in a London neighborhood to limit a Cholera outbreak, which was both a brilliant move, and done for a crank medical opinion that was later shown to be pure fantasy.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 19, 2023 03:28 PM (xhaym)

144

MRIs were invented by black men and women when we were constructing the pyramids so we could listen to the symphonies of our great composers, but were stolen by white devils after they knocked down our multistory buildings and took our wheels...

Posted by: Prof. Jimbobo, Afrophysicist at March 19, 2023 03:29 PM (kOFPS)

145 @131

How many metric cow farts are required to affect the momentum of an oncoming truck?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 19, 2023 03:30 PM (ssESX)

146 Rectal or nasal?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo


*******

I jam what I jam!

Posted by: Dr. Popeye at March 19, 2023 03:30 PM (ykeLU)

147 I can't do a lower body MRI. I've got various metal and hardware in my leg and knee.

Posted by: polynikes at March 19, 2023 03:31 PM (+ekwe)

148 Is time of exposure critical in an MRI in the same way it is in an X-ray???
Posted by: MAxIE at March 19, 2023 03:21 PM (twxj3)


How is your claustrophobia and tolerance to the sounds of things snapping and breaking?

Posted by: Kindltot at March 19, 2023 03:31 PM (xhaym)

149 Let no man who has had parts left over after reassembly cast the first stone....

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at March 19, 2023 03:32 PM (2YtOq)

150 I can't do a lower body MRI. I've got various metal and hardware in my leg and knee.

Posted by: polynikes at March 19, 2023 03:31 PM (+ekwe)

Is it old stuff? I would have thought that they would use non-ferrous metals.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 19, 2023 03:33 PM (XIJ/X)

151 Let no man who has had parts left over after reassembly cast the first stone....
Posted by: blake

Annnnnnnnd, I'm out.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 19, 2023 03:33 PM (OQM6D)

152 Let no man who has had parts left over after reassembly cast the first stone....
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at March 19, 2023 03:32 PM (2YtOq)


You mean drive his own truck down the hill and try to switch the on-the-fly 4x4?

Posted by: Kindltot at March 19, 2023 03:34 PM (xhaym)

153 We should try to convince some liberals to do this.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 19, 2023 03:25 PM (YqDXo)
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They already have. Idiots tried to get in front of a semi then got upset when they almost got ran over.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at March 19, 2023 03:34 PM (2YtOq)

154 You know, like removing the pump handle in a London neighborhood to limit a Cholera outbreak, which was both a brilliant move, and done for a crank medical opinion that was later shown to be pure fantasy.
Posted by: Kindltot

******

Okay, but if you are going to explain a positive healing effective ostensibly caused by a magnet applied to the wound, the two most obviouus aspects to test would be
1. the effect of the magnetic field
2. Some other physical effect of how the magnet was applied (compression? immobilization? etc.)

That's what I'm asking.

Posted by: Dr. Popeye at March 19, 2023 03:34 PM (ykeLU)

155 The shrapnel in my calves is from putting up Party tents.

Important tip: do not mis hit worn out steel stakes with your sledgehammer.

Posted by: polynikes at March 19, 2023 03:34 PM (+ekwe)

156 Have had two MRIs on my brain as part of a Desert Storm medical.study.
Mrs.D insists Im brain dead.
She may be right.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 19, 2023 03:35 PM (anj39)

157 Is it old stuff? I would have thought that they would use non-ferrous metals.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 19, 2023 03:33 PM (XIJ/X)
________________

Anything else would be madness.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 19, 2023 03:35 PM (YqDXo)

158 /off sailor man sock

Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2023 03:35 PM (ykeLU)

159 That's really cool. Gotta get me a few of those.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at March 19, 2023 03:35 PM (UQUAY)

160 Let no man who has had parts left over after reassembly cast the first stone....

Hell, I don't consider it a success unless I have.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 19, 2023 03:35 PM (Xrfse)

161 Have had two MRIs on my brain as part of a Desert Storm medical.study.
Mrs.D insists Im brain dead.
She may be right.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 19, 2023 03:35 PM (anj39)
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Hmm, sounds like the Dr.'s made the assumption there was something to look for. However, in my case, they don't make that assumption.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at March 19, 2023 03:36 PM (2YtOq)

162 >>> 153 We should try to convince some liberals to do this.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 19, 2023 03:25 PM (YqDXo)
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They already have. Idiots tried to get in front of a semi then got upset when they almost got ran over.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at March 19, 2023 03:34 PM (2YtOq)

Back in the Reagan years some idiot commies sat on a train track attempting to block a freight train which they believed to be carrying "nucular" weapons (or maybe it was materials). This ended very badly for one of them.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 19, 2023 03:36 PM (llON8)

163 Back in the Reagan years some idiot commies sat on a train track attempting to block a freight train which they believed to be carrying "nucular" weapons (or maybe it was materials). This ended very badly for one of them.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 19, 2023 03:36 PM (llON
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Ah, the Rachel Corrie dipsy-doodle.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 19, 2023 03:37 PM (YqDXo)

164 Back in the Reagan years some idiot commies sat on a train track attempting to block a freight train which they believed to be carrying "nucular" weapons (or maybe it was materials). This ended very badly for one of them.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 19, 2023 03:36 PM (llON



Pffft.

Posted by: Rachel Corrie at March 19, 2023 03:37 PM (Qzn2/)

165 Let no man who has had parts left over after reassembly cast the first stone....

Hell, I don't consider it a success unless I have.
Posted by: Notorious BFD

Many of us are so old we remember carb rebuild kits for multiple models of carb. Even if you rebuilt it correctly, you would have parts left over. I never got use to those kits.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 19, 2023 03:37 PM (OQM6D)

166 Hmm, sounds like the Dr.'s made the assumption there was something to look for. However, in my case, they don't make that assumption.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at March 19, 2023 03:36 PM (2YtOq)


On my first appointment, I was walking and chewing gum at the same time. I think that baffled them for a bit.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 19, 2023 03:38 PM (anj39)

167 Plus, most of the body is diamagnetic, not even paramagnetic. Using a magnet to influence the body is like farting in front of a runaway truck in an effort to stop it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
===
Have you read my book Dianetics?

Posted by: El at March 19, 2023 03:38 PM (EZebt)

168 /sock fail

Posted by: El Ron Hubbard at March 19, 2023 03:38 PM (EZebt)

169 163 - 164

The Hordemind is awesome!

Posted by: Tonypete at March 19, 2023 03:39 PM (OQM6D)

170 Is it old stuff? I would have thought that they would use non-ferrous metals.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 19, 2023 03:33 PM (XIJ/X)

Good question. I don't know. I had my repair done in 1982. But it's really the pieces of shrapnel I have in my calves. They told me they would cause more damage removing the pieces.

Posted by: polynikes at March 19, 2023 03:39 PM (+ekwe)

171
On my first appointment, I was walking and chewing gum at the same time. I think that baffled them for a bit.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 19, 2023 03:38 PM (anj39)
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hah!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at March 19, 2023 03:39 PM (2YtOq)

172 Even if you rebuilt it correctly, you would have parts left over. I never got use to those kits.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 19, 2023 03:37 PM (OQM6D)

I just swapped out a toilet valve, and it came with about five extra parts.

Or they were fvcking with me...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 19, 2023 03:39 PM (XIJ/X)

173 Firing pin?

Posted by: Java Joe at March 19, 2023 03:40 PM (VsPm9)

174 I just swapped out a toilet valve, and it came with about five extra parts.

Or they were fvcking with me...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 19, 2023 03:39 PM (XIJ/X)
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yeah, you probably got the "OCD Special" kit.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at March 19, 2023 03:41 PM (2YtOq)

175 Ah, the Rachel Corrie dipsy-doodle.

Damn. Beat me to it. Ya snooze, ya loose here at the HQ.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 19, 2023 03:41 PM (Xrfse)

176 Copper bracelets are supposed to heal stuff, too.

So I'm going to get both groups of Barnumites at once, and sell magnetized copper bracelets.

And when someone points out the obvious, I'll get a third group by saying it's a homeopathic level of magnetization.

Posted by: mikeski at March 19, 2023 03:41 PM (DgGvY)

177 TATTOOs and MRIs ... A person with tattoos might have mild skin irritations when getting an MRI ... Just depends on how much metal is in the inks and, of course, how much of the skin has been tattooed.

Posted by: Kathy at March 19, 2023 03:41 PM (JklXp)

178 A person with tattoos might have mild skin irritations when getting an MRI ... Just depends on how much metal is in the inks and, of course, how much of the skin has been tattooed.
Posted by: Kathy at March 19, 2023 03:41 PM (JklXp)
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Maybe crank the MRI to eleven to see if it will pull the metal right out of the skin?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at March 19, 2023 03:42 PM (2YtOq)

179 TATTOOs and MRIs ... A person with tattoos might have mild skin irritations when getting an MRI ... Just depends on how much metal is in the inks and, of course, how much of the skin has been tattooed.
Posted by: Kathy


If the tattoo winds up looking like its own photo negative, you can just put them in the tube the other way and fire it up again to fix it.

Posted by: mikeski at March 19, 2023 03:44 PM (DgGvY)

180 And when someone points out the obvious, I'll get a third group by saying it's a homeopathic level of magnetization.
Posted by: mikeski at March 19, 2023 03:41 PM (DgGvY)
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Maybe go with a copper wrap bracelet powered by a watch battery? Convince people the copper coupled with the magnetic field creates extra power healing?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at March 19, 2023 03:44 PM (2YtOq)

181 And don't forget the healing power of crystals and pyramids!

Posted by: Marianne Willuamson at March 19, 2023 03:45 PM (EZebt)

182 One of the things in the bowl looks like a metal centipede.

Posted by: JuJuBee, fact checker hammered by events at March 19, 2023 03:46 PM (tM5h4)

183 Dagnabbit! Little Luke's been eatin' them magnets again. Says they stick to his ribs.

Posted by: Zombie Walter Brennan at March 19, 2023 03:47 PM (Xrfse)

184 I just swapped out a toilet valve, and it came with about five extra parts.

Or they were fvcking with me...

******

I think that is due to alternative installation options on different brand toilets. Universal kits cover the common possibilities.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2023 03:47 PM (ykeLU)

185 Dagnabbit! Little Luke's been eatin' them magnets again. Says they stick to his ribs.
Posted by: Zombie Walter Brennan at March 19, 2023 03:47 PM (Xrfse)

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Pa, how was I to know it didn't work like that?

Posted by: Bruce Dern at March 19, 2023 03:49 PM (2YtOq)

186 Y'all are reminding me of a horse BB moderator many years ago who was gushing about a great new poultice she had found that was ionized. Really effective it was. Since she was the moderator I refrained from going "so high priced epsom salts in a clay or gel eh?"

Posted by: PaleRider at March 19, 2023 03:49 PM (3cGpq)

187 Okay, but if you are going to explain a positive healing effective ostensibly caused by a magnet applied to the wound, the two most obviouus aspects to test would be
1. the effect of the magnetic field 2. Some other physical effect of how the magnet was applied (compression? immobilization? etc.) That's what I'm asking.


Sir, that is not how medicine works, the trajectory of medicine has always been that someone does something that works by pulling it out of his highly educated ass with the knowledge that it doesn't harm the patient more than whatever else they are doing to the poor sod, then passes it around to colleagues because it actually heals patients, and then the universities research to figure out why it works.
Even any attempt to do it backwards from only research or only reviewing literature, or letting the labs play with proteins and then push a therapy that has been tried on rats, dogs and volunteers is a good way to find that we may have reinvented the wheel, or created a widespread food allergies or even worse, doesn't work the way it was theorized, but does something else and only helps by accident.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 19, 2023 03:49 PM (xhaym)

188 Can't ID the gun parts, but I use the f out of my mag-tray.

Posted by: WhitePunk at March 19, 2023 03:49 PM (oh1jj)

189 Pa, how was I to know it didn't work like that?

Kate shoulda told ya.

Posted by: Zombie Walter Brennan at March 19, 2023 03:50 PM (Xrfse)

190 Copper bracelets are supposed to heal stuff, too.

So I'm going to get both groups of Barnumites at once, and sell magnetized copper bracelets.

And when someone points out the obvious, I'll get a third group by saying it's a homeopathic level of magnetization.
Posted by: mikeski at March 19, 2023 03:41 PM (DgGvY)
_______________

"See, that's what I was talking about with aluminum and magnets!"

Posted by: Barky I at March 19, 2023 03:52 PM (YqDXo)

191 Dagnabbit! Little Luke's been eatin' them magnets again. Says they stick to his ribs.
Posted by: Zombie Walter Brennan
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Pa, how was I to know it didn't work like that?
Posted by: Bruce Dern

Bruce must have looked an awful lot like Richard Crenna.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 19, 2023 03:52 PM (OQM6D)

192 I can see why AOSHQ holds such a powerful attraction for folks.

Thanks for the lively discussion. Time for me to go take my magnetized water soak and my placebo integumental cohesion therapy. Later!

Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2023 03:52 PM (ykeLU)

193 My FWP, dryer quit heating. Now it's just a cold air dryer.

Great. And i'm completely swamped the rest of the day, and the next two weekends. I know how easy it is to troubleshoot, write down a part number, then order said part. But damnit, I'm completely booked for two solid weeks, every damned day. I don't wanna pay some sheister handy man to come into my house while I'm gone, for Smash to deal with, when i can do it myself.

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 19, 2023 03:52 PM (3CCua)

194 Even any attempt to do it backwards from only research or only reviewing literature, or letting the labs play with proteins and then push a therapy that has been tried on rats, dogs and volunteers is a good way to find that we may have reinvented the wheel, or created a widespread food allergies or even worse, doesn't work the way it was theorized, but does something else and only helps by accident.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 19, 2023 03:49 PM (xhaym)

So...what are ya sayin'?
Do i dump the crystals and bone rattles or not?

Posted by: Diogenes at March 19, 2023 03:54 PM (anj39)

195 181 And don't forget the healing power of crystals and pyramids!
Posted by: Marianne Willuamson at March 19, 2023 03:45 PM (EZebt)
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And yams!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 19, 2023 03:54 PM (YqDXo)

196 Then have Smash troubleshoot. There's probably YouTube vids that walk you through it.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 19, 2023 03:54 PM (3cGpq)

197 It even ruined the monitor.
Posted by: Jimco
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When my son was about 3 or 4, he discovered that if he moved a magnet around on the TV screen, it made really pretty moving color designs. That TV had a dark blotch got better over time but never went away completely.
Posted by: Oddbob
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Get an electric fan (room fan worked for me), plug it in and turn on the fan.
Move the fan's motor around your crt/screen/monitor it'll degauss it.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 19, 2023 03:54 PM (cM9SK)

198 I guess even smart people occasionally get cause and effect wrong.

Posted by: polynikes at March 19, 2023 03:55 PM (+ekwe)

199
Ejector
Ejector spring
Ejector capture pin

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 19, 2023 03:55 PM (XIJ/X)

200 Crystals, copper bracelets, magnets, whatever... if it puts the person in a positive frame of mind that's probably helpful in some small way if they're in pain, discomfort or need some mental focus for some reason or other.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 19, 2023 03:55 PM (Q4IgG)

201 Then have Smash troubleshoot. There's probably YouTube vids that walk you through it.
Posted by: PaleRider

Broken heating coil
Broken Hi temp sensor
Broken temp sensor

One of those is the usual culprit.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 19, 2023 03:55 PM (OQM6D)

202 Bruce must have looked an awful lot like Richard Crenna.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 19, 2023 03:52 PM (OQM6D)
----------------

Wait, wrong western? This isn't "Support Your Local Sheriff?"

Why am I always the last to find out?

Posted by: Bruce Dern at March 19, 2023 03:57 PM (2YtOq)

203 You ain't lived until you use your tweaker to remove a Jesus clip from a pinch roller and the Jesus clip goes shooting across the room never to be seen again and your kit containing the assortment of Jesus clips is out of the particular Jesus clip you need.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 19, 2023 03:57 PM (up/3i)

204 Crystals, copper bracelets, magnets, whatever... if it puts the person in a positive frame of mind that's probably helpful in some small way if they're in pain, discomfort or need some mental focus for some reason or other.

YMMV
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Vajayjay scented candles anyone?

Posted by: Gwyneth Paltrow at March 19, 2023 03:58 PM (OQM6D)

205 I think that is due to alternative installation options on different brand toilets. Universal kits cover the common possibilities.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2023 03:47 PM (ykeLU)

Oops!

I got all five parts to fit!

And now the toilet flushes on its own!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 19, 2023 03:58 PM (XIJ/X)

206 MF. I always liked to use my horses as test rats for stuff like MSM for minor joint pain. They aren't going to have a placebo effect. The exception is/was turmeric. That 'practically magic' (from FB years ago) herb helps me and the dogs, but I've never noticed it do anything for a horse with arthritis when I've tried feeding it to them.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 19, 2023 04:00 PM (3cGpq)

207 You ain't lived until you use your tweaker to remove a Jesus clip from a pinch roller and the Jesus clip goes shooting across the room never to be seen again and your kit containing the assortment of Jesus clips is out of the particular Jesus clip you need.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Without the base plate of pre-famulated amulite nothing can be done to set it right.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 19, 2023 04:00 PM (OQM6D)

208 So...what are ya sayin'?
Do i dump the crystals and bone rattles or not?
Posted by: Diogenes at March 19, 2023 03:54 PM (anj39)


Depends. Are you planning to use them as a suppository?

the supposed reason for the regulation of medicines and doctors' education is to protect against quacks and snake oil potions that will do no good or will do great harm.

However, all the regulation seems to have done is close, denigrate and outlaw alternative therapies and schools of treatment, and created a situation where treatments can be outlawed due to economic and political reasons by the producers of competing treatments.

Regulatory capture is a real thing, and it mostly creates cartels controlled ultimately through the government.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 19, 2023 04:01 PM (xhaym)

209 FOOD NOOD

get cleaned up and upstairs

Posted by: Skip at March 19, 2023 04:01 PM (xhxe8)

210 you aint the boss of me

Posted by: PaleRider at March 19, 2023 04:02 PM (3cGpq)

211 Without the base plate of pre-famulated amulite nothing can be done to set it right.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 19, 2023 04:00 PM (OQM6D)
----------------

what if one uses inverse reactive current?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at March 19, 2023 04:02 PM (2YtOq)

212 @207

>>Without the base plate of pre-famulated amulite nothing can be done to set it right.

And not to mention that the pre-famulated amulite needs to go through at least two degausing cycles and your degausing coil's input/output shaft is over 7 units disgronified because, BOBBB, left it on overnight.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 19, 2023 04:03 PM (up/3i)

213 Then have Smash troubleshoot. There's probably YouTube vids that walk you through it.
Posted by: PaleRider

Broken heating coil
Broken Hi temp sensor
Broken temp sensor

One of those is the usual culprit.
Posted by: Tonypete

Yep, there's even a $40 parts kit fom Bezos for that model with all 3 in it. But I ain't letting her work on anything run by 220vac without my supervision.

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 19, 2023 04:03 PM (3CCua)

214 Kamala harris' virginity NOT lost to a donkey?

Posted by: George at March 19, 2023 04:05 PM (VxdGe)

215 I got some Jart stories. But all Jart stories end in pain. So we won't go there.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at March 19, 2023 04:07 PM (buTO7)

216 OH MY, article over on MSN... Early Deaths are skyrocketing, and the Culture Wars are part of the problem.

Yes, not Vaccines... its you conservatives fighting back that is causing all the early deaths...

/facepalm

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 19, 2023 04:09 PM (oHd/0)

217 Bif, before you get carried away buying new parts, check the AC cord where it connects to the machine. Got a free dryer off Craigslist years ago after previous owner gave up; said it rotated but didn't heat. I checked the cord and it was melted and gone where it had been screwed to the terminal too loosely. Recut and strip all three conductors, clean up terminals as needed, and screw conductors down tight. Even better if after you strip the wires, dip them in flux paste, twist strands with lineman's pliers, then heat copper with torch and apply a bit of solder. This will stiffen the end of the conductor, prevent stray strands, and allow you to really tighten down the terminal screws.

Posted by: Cowboyneal at March 19, 2023 04:26 PM (DzsA0)

218 without peeking at comments I'd say those are parts from a type of pen or pencil lead that is retractable

Posted by: SamIam at March 19, 2023 04:39 PM (oasF3)

219 It looks like parts from a lawnmower carburetor.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 19, 2023 02:15 PM (BdMk6)

There was one model of lawnmower carburetor had a part in it called a "bubble breaker". It was just a brass pin, a little under an inch long, that rattled around loose in a vertical passage. And woe betide the fool who left it out!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 19, 2023 04:44 PM (tkR6S)

220 She also touted the health benefits of drinking oxygenated water.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2023 03:12 PM (ykeLU)

Healthier than de-oxygenated air!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 19, 2023 04:55 PM (tkR6S)

221 If your farts smell like a springtime thundershower, you just might have a 1st world problem.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 19, 2023 04:57 PM (Jg7EG)

222 97-BitterClinger:

Ouch, indeed! However, just pouring diesel over the wound wouldn't get to what the nail left behind along the puncture path.

My dad (May he rest in peace) grew up on a farm and would tell the stories of those close encounters with rusty (and worse) nails. The standard treatment for being punctured by a nail was to dip a cotton swab in turpentine, and run it down the hole and twirl it around. Then repeat the process a couple of times. At least nobody ever got tetanus.

Posted by: DaveK at March 19, 2023 05:11 PM (giPs4)

223 "Oxygenated water? Did someone call me?" -- Peroxide, Hydrogen Peroxide; at your service.

Posted by: Regular joe at March 19, 2023 05:34 PM (nnp+f)

224 a case extractor, pin and associated spring

Posted by: sam klem at March 19, 2023 06:28 PM (nycWw)

225 Sure looks like the pump piston from a Power Painter.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 19, 2023 07:09 PM (oRpiG)

226 1911 extractor

Posted by: waepnedmann at March 19, 2023 08:17 PM (iD031)

227 The parts are the plunger, spring, and retaining pin for a Walther type cartridge extractor.

Posted by: 10x25mm at March 19, 2023 08:26 PM (4NTzz)

228 Post by CBD

Ignored

Posted by: Schlippy at March 19, 2023 11:01 PM (zdJd7)

229 I work in a bike shop and swear by these. https://tinyurl.com/yksss3zf
The big one is too big, but the med and small are awesome.

Posted by: Pauly at March 19, 2023 11:17 PM (oGy+8)

230 Firing pin, spring, and retainer.

I just use old frying pans with the handles cut off.

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