First-World Problems...

I have several five-gallon gas cans, because I learned my lesson that fuel supplies are not exactly robust when the entire power grid is down. "Super-Storm Sandy" (what a stupid name!) was bad enough, but an unnamed Nor'easter many years ago knocked out power for 10 days, and fuel for my generator was problematic.

But our brilliant government, in its infinite wisdom, mandated those stupid valves on new gas cans that do nothing but guarantee a huge amount of spilled fuel. So I took a pair of pliers and went to town...ripping out the valves and leaving the solid nozzles...which also sucked, but such is life.

But I got sick of spilling even a little bit of fuel, so I replaced the solid nozzles with cheapo flexible ones that work great!

Oh...do you see the tire valve that I installed? That's because the government doesn't think that these cans needed an air vent other than the useless one in the complicated valve, which is now gone!

Maybe this isn't exactly a First-World Problem. Maybe this is an expression of my growing disgust with government and its inability to do anything correctly.

Yeah...I'm going to make another cup of coffee.

Posted by: CBD at 02:00 PM

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1 missed?

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #121 at March 03, 2024 02:00 PM (qfLjt)

2 Another plumbing leak is mine

Posted by: Skip at March 03, 2024 02:01 PM (fwDg9)

3 TWOTH!

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 03, 2024 02:01 PM (8sMut)

4 Chalk one more up for the government needlessly fucking things up.

Is this "First World Problems" or "Second World Problems"?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 03, 2024 02:02 PM (8sMut)

5 TEMU has the cheapest retrofit kits to make gas cans great again.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at March 03, 2024 02:04 PM (17s+e)

6 A first world problem is those not allowed to have gas cans.

My stem where a plug is in place of a psi meter is leaking, hopefully drain system, install a new psi meter and it's done.
Just need to get plug out and hopefully the pipe it fits in is good.

Posted by: Skip at March 03, 2024 02:04 PM (fwDg9)

7 Foist !

Posted by: Ciampino - One way to do it at March 03, 2024 02:05 PM (qfLjt)

8 And every one of those cans were made in China.
Can't find a decent Jerry Can anywhere.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 03, 2024 02:05 PM (W/lyH)

9 Two things have kept me from prepping for the long dark night that is coming. First, I don't have any room here. I'm in a rental, and there's no space to speak of.

Guess I could get rid of a lot the junk taking up storage space, but that stuff is there, theoretically, to furnish the house that will be coming.

The second reason is... I'm not sure I want to survive the coming apocalypse. Let the reavers and their victims fight it out.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 03, 2024 02:05 PM (GtZ7X)

10 This was California's doing again wasn't it?
See they employ all those illegals to do the lawn, trees, bushes, etc. that they don't have to worry about gas cans leaking .....

Posted by: Ciampino - Bunch of crazies at March 03, 2024 02:07 PM (qfLjt)

11 I'm not sure if I got them from Amazon or Temu, but I got a pack of a dozen of the air "valves". You just drill a hole in the gas can and forcibly insert the valve. I've done 3 of my gas cans so far and ... no leaks!

Posted by: Wingnutt at March 03, 2024 02:08 PM (945cD)

12 And every one of those cans were made in China.
Can't find a decent Jerry Can anywhere.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 03, 2024 02:05 PM (W/lyH)

Old style Jerry Cans are for sale on Ebay.

Just search old style Jerry Cans.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 03, 2024 02:08 PM (R/m4+)

13 If government cannot be trusted with simple things...

Posted by: KungPow at March 03, 2024 02:09 PM (Rw2Dy)

14 Jah, I bought 5 5 gallon plastic cans during the last panic. I have air seals for them too. So far, haven't needed them but they're stacked in the garage for if things actually kick off. Also have a nice nozzle to attach that allows me to actually pour the damn things.

Fuck FedGov.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at March 03, 2024 02:11 PM (xcxpd)

15 This is an area where the 3rd world is better than the 1st world. Another example of the retardism that leftist environmentalism brings: No, we can't even have the gas vapors escape! Quick, use this can that leaks gas everywhere!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 03, 2024 02:11 PM (ynpvh)

16 I like the idea of a tire valve stem as the air vent. Need to look into some aluminum ones so the rubber won't degrade from the fuel.

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 03, 2024 02:13 PM (MsrgL)

17 Another area is low-flush toilets. Gov't strikes again! So it doesn't matter if I have to flush multiple times, when a larger volume of water would have done it in one flush.

Also high-efficient clothes and dish washers. More expensive, break more quickly, don't do as great a job at cleaning the dishes, mandated by Gov't.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 03, 2024 02:13 PM (ynpvh)

18 16 I like the idea of a tire valve stem as the air vent. Need to look into some aluminum ones so the rubber won't degrade from the fuel.

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 03, 2024 02:13 PM (MsrgL)

I'm getting the vapors just reading that.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 03, 2024 02:14 PM (ynpvh)

19 Since people asked (and only because...)

www.jerrycan.com

They sell the metal ones, spouts, and gaskets for same.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 03, 2024 02:14 PM (qPw5n)

20 CBD is so going on the naughty list this year.....

* breaks pencil lead writing CBD's name *

Posted by: EPA Claus at March 03, 2024 02:16 PM (DgGvY)

21 Our Rural King sells "replacement nozzles" for those plastic gas/diesel/kerosene cans. Comes with a couple gaskets, a spout and two different locking rings.

They also include a couple "snap" like valves for venting.

I had to drill my own hole for those vents, but it's a whole hell of a lot better than the original CA compliant pieces of shit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 03, 2024 02:17 PM (Q4IgG)

22 13 If government cannot be trusted with simple things...
Posted by: KungPow at March 03, 2024 02:09 PM (Rw2Dy)

You give them MORE THINGS TO DO, silly!

Posted by: The Left at March 03, 2024 02:17 PM (8sMut)

23 I hate the government mandated crappy gas cans. Would give a kidney to have about 10 of the old style that actually worked.

Posted by: Texas Zombie at March 03, 2024 02:17 PM (zXOsD)

24 Government is just the things we do together.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 03, 2024 02:17 PM (tXFoB)

25 I FOUND MY PHONE!!

So, the wedding turned out well. It was at a pretty outdoor venue, I didn't drunkenly embarrass myself or others at the open bar, and I didn't lose my phone.

All's well that ends well.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 03, 2024 02:18 PM (cw9q7)

26 Another area is low-flush toilets. Gov't strikes again! So it doesn't matter if I have to flush multiple times, when a larger volume of water would have done it in one flush.

Also high-efficient clothes and dish washers. More expensive, break more quickly, don't do as great a job at cleaning the dishes, mandated by Gov't.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 03, 2024 02:13 PM (ynpvh)

The common denominator with low flush toilets and high efficient washers is the chemicals we use.

Think about it, you have to clean your toilets with chemicals more often, and the detergents we put in our washers, both clothes and dishes, are more complex substances than just soap.

So... let's introduce the Big Chemical Cleaner Industrial Complex into the family of conspiracy theories. More chemicals in our waste water, more chemicals on our bodies and dishes...

Leading to... what.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 03, 2024 02:20 PM (GtZ7X)

27 Another area is low-flush toilets. Gov't strikes again! So it doesn't matter if I have to flush multiple times, when a larger volume of water would have done it in one flush.

Also high-efficient clothes and dish washers. More expensive, break more quickly, don't do as great a job at cleaning the dishes, mandated by Gov't.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

And it takes a certain amount of water to process the shit at the other end (literally), so the waste treatment plant is probably adding back all the water you "saved" by using those shitty shitters and appliances.

Posted by: mikeski at March 03, 2024 02:20 PM (DgGvY)

28 I think I got an old school gas can someplace...

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 03, 2024 02:20 PM (8sMut)

29 and yes, I have checked with other attendees and they say that I didn't do anything bad, so it is not just drunken observational bias on my part.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 03, 2024 02:21 PM (cw9q7)

30 The save-the-earth gas cans were designed by people who have never used a gas can in their lives.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at March 03, 2024 02:21 PM (gf7Ez)

31 My low flow toilets all have full sized tanks so that if you hold the handle, you can get a full sized flush so I guess that is a loophole in the standard (SWIDT).

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 03, 2024 02:22 PM (cw9q7)

32 I'm going to make another cup of coffee.

MOAR COFFEE!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Robert at March 03, 2024 02:22 PM (1Yy3c)

33 WHO WAS PHONE?

Posted by: JackStraw at March 03, 2024 02:23 PM (LkLld)

34 {26} ... Leading to... what.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 03, 2024 02:20 PM (GtZ7X)

Poisoning and increasing instances of cancer, thus increased excess mortalities, and that sweet sweet mass die-off of most of the population that Klaus Schwab and the World Evil Forum dream about?

(Just spitballin' here...)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 03, 2024 02:23 PM (qPw5n)

35 Low flow shower heads are what I hate.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 03, 2024 02:25 PM (cw9q7)

36 30 The save-the-earth gas cans were designed by people who have never used a gas can in their lives.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at March 03, 2024 02:21 PM (gf7Ez)

https://youtu.be/IRVdiHu1VCc

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 03, 2024 02:25 PM (ynpvh)

37 Posted by: BurtTC at March 03, 2024 02:20 PM (GtZ7X)

Poisoning and increasing instances of cancer, thus increased excess mortalities, and that sweet sweet mass die-off of most of the population that Klaus Schwab and the World Evil Forum dream about?

(Just spitballin' here...)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 03, 2024 02:23 PM (qPw5n)

That's where it goes for me too. Everything leads there.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 03, 2024 02:25 PM (GtZ7X)

38 I like the tire valve it completes the renovation.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 03, 2024 02:26 PM (0nHUB)

39 Wish me luck

Posted by: Skip at March 03, 2024 02:27 PM (fwDg9)

40 I have a couple of the old gas cans and I guard them with my life.

Posted by: Mark1971 at March 03, 2024 02:29 PM (xPl2J)

41 I are dumb. How does a tire valve work for pouring gas? I can imagine many folks are dexterous enough to push the release thing while pouring gas.

Is this a modified tire valve without that ball or whatever that has to pressed down to release air?

Posted by: PaleRider at March 03, 2024 02:31 PM (3cGpq)

42 Hey man I play Flip the coin with my 6 year old Great grand person and boy is that person is good.

It/She/Her/Him/They calls Heads they win and Tails I lose and every time I lose !!!!!!

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 03, 2024 02:32 PM (BSF0H)

43 can't not can DOH

Posted by: PaleRider at March 03, 2024 02:32 PM (3cGpq)

44 *17 Another area is low-flush toilets. Gov't strikes again! So it doesn't matter if I have to flush multiple times, when a larger volume of water would have done it in one flush.*

I've found that Home Depot brand Glacier Bay "Power Flush" toilets work quite well for a 1.28. It uses some kind of vacuum suction tech. Also, they are much, much cheaper than something like a top brand Toto

Posted by: SamIam at March 03, 2024 02:32 PM (oasF3)

45 35 Low flow shower heads are what I hate.

https://youtu.be/vMITcQUe-9M

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at March 03, 2024 02:33 PM (NBVIP)

46 Wish me luck
Posted by: Skip at March 03, 2024 02:27 PM (fwDg9)

Break a leg.

Posted by: Robert at March 03, 2024 02:34 PM (1Yy3c)

47 >>>> The second reason is... I'm not sure I want to survive the coming apocalypse. Let the reavers and their victims fight it out.

Posted by: BurtTC
----------------------

High probability; if you survive the first week the rest will be OK.
One gallon plastic fruit juice bottles filled with water in the clothes closet then a piece of 3/8" ply wood on top and you have a shelf. Two bottles wide works for shoes, linens and other smaller item. Four bottles wide and it will support your weight.
Cover the floor, that way, in your closet and you shall have raised the floor about a foot and you will have plenty of water.

Buy tuna and a gross box of mayonnaise packets.
Don't forget the Wiesel mantra.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 03, 2024 02:35 PM (0nHUB)

48 Gas can spouts are indeed a first world problem. I find myself stopping at garage sales to buy ratty gas cans just for the spouts. The mandated ones are worse than useless.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 03, 2024 02:36 PM (ooJyU)

49 I spilled more gas with the spill proof nozzles than I ever spilled with the old school ones.

Government. What can't they fuck up?

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 03, 2024 02:38 PM (AEvvx)

50 41 I are dumb. How does a tire valve work for pouring gas? I can imagine many folks are dexterous enough to push the release thing while pouring gas.

Is this a modified tire valve without that ball or whatever that has to pressed down to release air?

Posted by: PaleRider
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Take out the schrader valve. Main thing - make sure the stem cap is not vulnerable to gasoline.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 03, 2024 02:38 PM (0nHUB)

51 Have you considered how many children in African Shit-hole Countries will be saved from Global "Fill in The Blank" for using that gas worthless gas spout ???????

Posted by: Franklin Stein at March 03, 2024 02:39 PM (/1UO6)

52 Next thing you know, CBD will be ripping the tags off of mattresses.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 03, 2024 02:39 PM (V8he0)

53 I take my shower heads apart, find the offending obstruction, and either remove it or drill it out. Voila!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at March 03, 2024 02:39 PM (DsA2n)

54 Low flow shower heads are what I hate.
Posted by: G'rump928

A clamp and a drill fix those right up.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 03, 2024 02:40 PM (3Ao/X)

55 I think you can buy the nozzles at Bezos whore house. I bought a package of those yellow air caps for my old gas cans.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 03, 2024 02:40 PM (0nHUB)

56 Is this a modified tire valve without that ball or whatever that has to pressed down to release air?

Posted by: PaleRider at March 03, 2024 02:31 PM (3cGpq)

Yup..I should have explained. I used a tire valve wrench to remove the guts of the valve.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 03, 2024 02:40 PM (gSZYf)

57 I bought one of those stick-pumps at O'Reilly's. I don't even use the nozzles anymore.

Posted by: Halfhand at March 03, 2024 02:42 PM (YYt0O)

58 Another area is low-flush toilets. Gov't strikes again! So it doesn't matter if I have to flush multiple times, when a larger volume of water would have done it in one flush.

Also high-efficient clothes and dish washers. More expensive, break more quickly, don't do as great a job at cleaning the dishes, mandated by Gov't.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Remember Al Gore's 1999 canoe trip? He was there to give a $100,000 grant to the Connecticut River Commission. He needs a photo op in a canoe on the river! But the river is too low to canoe on because of a drought. So they release four billion gallons from a reservoir to get the river up to canoeing depth. Just for the day.

In 1999, toilets were limited to 1.6 gallons per flush, because of a 1992 Clinton/Gore law. "Gore wasted 2.5 billion toilet flushes worth, or 2,110 flushes for each of New Hampshire's 1.19 million residents," for that photo op.

And that was $7,100,000 worth of water at the time, so the $100,000 "federal grant" left the Commission 7 million dollars in the hole.

When you're a Democrat, Hypocrisy isn't just a river in Connecticut.

Posted by: mikeski at March 03, 2024 02:42 PM (DgGvY)

59 I don't know if this is real, but it sure looks like it. Biden is driving, but not really; there's a SS agent next to him with what is presumed to be the real steering wheel. IOW, he's a kid with training wheels.

https://tinyurl.com/2s4m7j8w

Posted by: Archimedes at March 03, 2024 02:44 PM (CsUN+)

60 All done. Loos good.
Old plug came right out,dug crap out, used wire pipe cleaner brush twice and put new stem and psi Guage in.

Posted by: Skip at March 03, 2024 02:44 PM (fwDg9)

61 I may have to try that. The jerry can I bought last year requires me to force down a button before I can even squeeze the lever that opens the passageway.

Posted by: Weak Geek at March 03, 2024 02:44 PM (p/isN)

62 58
...
Posted by: mikeski at March 03, 2024 02:42 PM (DgGvY)

Indeed, they feel no shame from their hypocritical behavior. Thus you have more than a hundred private jets fly all the way to exotic locales to discuss how to keep the plebes from using more carbon and forcing them to use less.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 03, 2024 02:45 PM (ynpvh)

63 Still have 4 of my 30 year old gas cans. No fuss, no muss. Another can in the shed has to be around 40 years old. Like my dress shoes.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at March 03, 2024 02:46 PM (iODuv)

64 Temu fix for government assholes.

https://tinyurl.com/3csptxdv

$2.15 that is the cost of the one time you use the shit CARB nozzle in gas split.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at March 03, 2024 02:46 PM (17s+e)

65 Gasket! That's the word I wanted instead of "passageway."

Posted by: Weak Geek at March 03, 2024 02:48 PM (p/isN)

66 I have a couple old plastic gas cans, has a air vent with cap.

Posted by: Skip at March 03, 2024 02:50 PM (fwDg9)

67 Super Storm Sandy was a stupid name, because it was more climate alarmist propaganda.

Hurricane Sandy actually merged with a Nor'easter and transitioned from a warm-core storm (hurricane definition) to a cold-core storm.

Therefore, it could no longer be accurately termed "Hurricane Sandy". It did come ashore with Cat-1 equivalent winds, but many Leftists I know think the "Super Storm" designation meant it was much more powerful than that.

Why does the legacy media keep churning out propaganda? Because propaganda works! That is another First World problem.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at March 03, 2024 02:50 PM (HlyYF)

68 >>Indeed, they feel no shame from their hypocritical behavior. Thus you have more than a hundred private jets fly all the way to exotic locales to discuss how to keep the plebes from using more carbon and forcing them to use less.

I remember when some reporter confronted Kerry, our climate "czar", about his use of private jets while whining about global warming and his response was something like "You can't expect a busy man like me to fly commercial.".

They know they are pushing bullshit and they really do think they are better than us.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 03, 2024 02:50 PM (LkLld)

69 Wish me luck
Posted by: Skip

GOOD LUCK !!!

Posted by: JT at March 03, 2024 02:51 PM (T4tVD)

70 67 Super Storm Sandy was a stupid name, because it was more climate alarmist propaganda.

Hurricane Sandy actually merged with a Nor'easter and transitioned from a warm-core storm (hurricane definition) to a cold-core storm.

Therefore, it could no longer be accurately termed "Hurricane Sandy". It did come ashore with Cat-1 equivalent winds, but many Leftists I know think the "Super Storm" designation meant it was much more powerful than that.

Why does the legacy media keep churning out propaganda? Because propaganda works! That is another First World problem.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at March 03, 2024 02:50 PM (HlyYF)

The other lesson to take from this is the manipulation of language. If they control the language, they control the debate.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 03, 2024 02:51 PM (ynpvh)

71
Next thing you know, CBD will be ripping the tags off of mattresses.
Posted by: Notorious BFD

And running with scissors

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 03, 2024 02:52 PM (xG4kz)

72 Even medium-term gas storage in 5gal cans is a bit of a crap shoot; anything stored that way longer than a year shouldn't be trusted. If you can get ethanol-free gas and add a stabilizer to it beforeyou put it away you improve your odds of it being volatile 18 months from now. The damn corn liquor coming out of the pump with your fuel doen no favors to small engines or the useful life of the fuel.

Posted by: hutz at March 03, 2024 02:52 PM (yLM7j)

73 71
Next thing you know, CBD will be ripping the tags off of mattresses.
Posted by: Notorious BFD

And running with scissors

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 03, 2024 02:52 PM (xG4kz)

As long as he's not running in my direction.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 03, 2024 02:53 PM (ynpvh)

74 72 Even medium-term gas storage in 5gal cans is a bit of a crap shoot; anything stored that way longer than a year shouldn't be trusted. If you can get ethanol-free gas and add a stabilizer to it beforeyou put it away you improve your odds of it being volatile 18 months from now. The damn corn liquor coming out of the pump with your fuel doen no favors to small engines or the useful life of the fuel.

Posted by: hutz at March 03, 2024 02:52 PM (yLM7j)

But it DOES pack the bank accounts of the lobbiests, businessmen and politicians that pimp it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 03, 2024 02:54 PM (ynpvh)

75 SpaceX/NASA - Falcon 9/Crew Dragon
SpaceX Crew-8 - LC39-A - KSC
Coverage Begins: March 3rd at 6:40 p.m. ET
Launch: March 3rd at 10:53 p.m. ET

https://tinyurl.com/37f7zyvy

This is a manned launch.

Posted by: Ciampino - To the Stars at March 03, 2024 02:56 PM (qfLjt)

76 Actually now wondering if it's nice enough out to clear coat my miniatures I worked on all winter

Posted by: Skip at March 03, 2024 02:56 PM (fwDg9)

77 The other lesson to take from this is the manipulation of language. If they control the language, they control the debate.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 03, 2024 02:51 PM

^^^This!

My pronouns are: Only Two Genders

I would definitely print out the corporate rules saying ALL pronouns will be respected before adding that to my profile at a woke company, though!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at March 03, 2024 02:56 PM (HlyYF)

78 75 SpaceX/NASA - Falcon 9/Crew Dragon
SpaceX Crew-8 - LC39-A - KSC
Coverage Begins: March 3rd at 6:40 p.m. ET
Launch: March 3rd at 10:53 p.m. ET

https://tinyurl.com/37f7zyvy

This is a [b[manned launch.

Posted by: Ciampino - To the Stars at March 03, 2024 02:56 PM (qfLjt)

That's sexist.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 03, 2024 02:56 PM (ynpvh)

79 I mix last year's gas into the pickup's tank.
It doesn't notice.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 03, 2024 02:57 PM (0nHUB)

80 Greenies bitch about fuel but putting food in your gas tank is fine

Posted by: Skip at March 03, 2024 02:57 PM (fwDg9)

81 I don't know how CBD bears up under the weight of his first world problems. He's a shining inspiration to us all.

Posted by: Tuna at March 03, 2024 02:58 PM (oaGWv)

82 77 The other lesson to take from this is the manipulation of language. If they control the language, they control the debate.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 03, 2024 02:51 PM

^^^This!

My pronouns are: Only Two Genders

I would definitely print out the corporate rules saying ALL pronouns will be respected before adding that to my profile at a woke company, though!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at March 03, 2024 02:56 PM (HlyYF)

Don't pronouns have to be actual words? Not the silly "Zhi/Zhur/Zhim" stuff?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 03, 2024 02:59 PM (ynpvh)

83 Posted by: mikeski at March 03, 2024 02:42 PM (DgGvY)

Indeed, they feel no shame from their hypocritical behavior. Thus you have more than a hundred private jets fly all the way to exotic locales to discuss how to keep the plebes from using more carbon and forcing them to use less.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 03, 2024 02:45 PM (ynpvh)

It's really not hypocrisy though. It's about control, and a BIG part of the lesson they're trying to shove down our throats is the rather clear and obvious statement: You must do this because we tell you to. We're not going to do it because shut the F up, and do what we tell you.

Or else.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 03, 2024 02:59 PM (GtZ7X)

84 Otherwise, pronouns could be symbols, like what Prince used.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 03, 2024 02:59 PM (ynpvh)

85 79 I mix last year's gas into the pickup's tank.
It doesn't notice.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 03, 2024 02:57 PM

Ha ha tree huggers, try THAT with an EV pickup.

(P.S. I am an actual tree hugger, rather than a poser. Nice day here, so I am heading out to the farm to fertilize young trees!)

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at March 03, 2024 02:59 PM (HlyYF)

86 You should take a look at the "utility jugs" you can find on SpeedwayMotors.com. They come in various sizes, have decent air vents, and the free flow from one is darned quick. Cost is similar to the ones you find in the local stores. The two-handled jugs are a little easer for pouring fuel.

Posted by: DaveK at March 03, 2024 03:00 PM (DuBrN)

87 Don't pronouns have to be actual words? Not the silly "Zhi/Zhur/Zhim" stuff?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 03, 2024 02:59 PM

Like you stated above, they don't have to be actual words ... to someone that controls the language!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at March 03, 2024 03:01 PM (HlyYF)

88 First World Problem: Leftists

Posted by: Gref at March 03, 2024 03:02 PM (5fDan)

89 59 I don't know if this is real, but it sure looks like it. Biden is driving, but not really; there's a SS agent next to him with what is presumed to be the real steering wheel. IOW, he's a kid with training wheels.

https://tinyurl.com/2s4m7j8w

Posted by: Archimedes at March

I've said this before but I think they need to give Joe the keys to the 'Vette and send him to our on a road trip. That would improve his personal popularity.

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 03, 2024 03:02 PM (xcrUy)

90 83 Posted by: mikeski at March 03, 2024 02:42 PM (DgGvY)

Indeed, they feel no shame from their hypocritical behavior.
...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 03, 2024 02:45 PM (ynpvh)

It's really not hypocrisy though.
...
You must do this because we tell you to. We're not going to do it because shut the F up, and do what we tell you.
Or else.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 03, 2024 02:59 PM (GtZ7X)

They violate the behavior they label as evil. You and I know they don't mean it to apply to them.

hypocrisy /hĭ-pŏk′rĭ-sē/
noun
1. The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.
2. An act or instance of such falseness.
3. The act or practice of a hypocrite; a feigning to be what one is not, or to feel what one does not feel; a dissimulation, or a concealment of one's real character, disposition, or motives; especially, the assuming of false appearance of virtue or religion; a simulation of goodness.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 03, 2024 03:03 PM (ynpvh)

91 I remember when some reporter confronted Kerry, our climate "czar", about his use of private jets while whining about global warming and his response was something like "You can't expect a busy man like me to fly commercial.".

They know they are pushing bullshit and they really do think they are better than us.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 03, 2024 02:50 PM (LkLld)

++++

Mrs. Heinz Kerry probably wants him out of the house as much as possible. I know I wouldn't want him hulking around.

Posted by: washrivergal at March 03, 2024 03:04 PM (7YG60)

92 I hate those new gas cans with the heat of 1,000 suns.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 03, 2024 03:04 PM (J3Fnj)

93 TEMU has the cheapest retrofit kits to make gas cans great again.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a
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Has anyone actually bought and received shit from TEMU. They flood my facebook feed with adds, but I've been scammed by facebook "merchants" before so always pass them buy, even though they show some interesting harbor freight type stuff.

Posted by: From about that Time at March 03, 2024 03:04 PM (4780s)

94 86 You should take a look at the "utility jugs" you can find on SpeedwayMotors.com. They come in various sizes, have decent air vents, and the free flow from one is darned quick. Cost is similar to the ones you find in the local stores. The two-handled jugs are a little easer for pouring fuel.

Posted by: DaveK at March 03, 2024 03:00 PM (DuBrN)

Utility juggs.
Okay, getting my mind out of the gutter.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 03, 2024 03:04 PM (ynpvh)

95 It's really not hypocrisy though.
Posted by: BurtTC

True. You're not a hypocrite if you don't believe what you're saying yourself.

Allow me to revise and extend my remarks: Democrats are not hypocrites, they are two-faced reprobates.

Posted by: mikeski at March 03, 2024 03:04 PM (DgGvY)

96 Northernlurker that is funny

Posted by: Skip at March 03, 2024 03:04 PM (fwDg9)

97 Don't pronouns have to be actual words? Not the silly "Zhi/Zhur/Zhim" stuff?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 03, 2024 02:59 PM

Like you stated above, they don't have to be actual words ... to someone that controls the language!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at March 03, 2024 03:01 PM (HlyYF)

All I know is, here in the real world, not the silly nonsense happening on campuses and government offices, I only ever see people putting the he/him she/her stuff in their signature lines or wherever.

Which is a signal to everyone "I'm playing the game." And those of us who aren't? I'm sure we're on a list.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 03, 2024 03:04 PM (GtZ7X)

98 88 First World Problem: Leftists

Posted by: Gref at March 03, 2024 03:02 PM (5fDan)

YES!!!
AKA, Socialists, Communists.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 03, 2024 03:04 PM (ynpvh)

99 91 I remember when some reporter confronted Kerry, our climate "czar", about his use of private jets while whining about global warming and his response was something like "You can't expect a busy man like me to fly commercial.".

They know they are pushing bullshit and they really do think they are better than us.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 03, 2024 02:50 PM (LkLld)
++++
Mrs. Heinz Kerry probably wants him out of the house as much as possible. I know I wouldn't want him hulking around.
Posted by: washrivergal at March 03, 2024 03:04 PM (7YG60)

Well, I doubt he'd get the same response as Milei did.
https://youtu.be/XKLOTuN-Cdc

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 03, 2024 03:06 PM (ynpvh)

100 Pro tip from someone with hundreds of gallons worth of gas containers who uses them regularly:

The "water spouts" for Rotopax offroad fuel containers are actually non-CARB self venting gas spouts sold outside the US. They fit on most Scepter brand products and work like the old-school metal NATO gas can spouts.

You can be cheap and get Scepter branded regular suburban-lawnmower style gas cans and install these spouts on them. The only caveat here is that Rotopax and NATO cans are designed to handle temp swings fully sealed; the consumer cans may not handle it quite as gracefully.

For serious use, I highly recommend Wavian steel gas cans. They have a self-healing epoxy lining and will last a lonnnnng time as long as you aren't storing them on damp concrete and letting them get lots of exterior rust. If you get them, get the larger metal pour nozzle, not the BS that comes with them. The 2.5 gallon size is great for everyday use, and the 5 gal/20L ones are great for rotating through gas. I have kept gas for automotive and generator use for 3+ years with Pri-G or Sta-bil just fine. If you go this route, by extra seals for later on down the line.

Posted by: somedood at March 03, 2024 03:06 PM (cWNll)

101 12 And every one of those cans were made in China.
Can't find a decent Jerry Can anywhere.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 03, 2024 02:05 PM (W/lyH)

Old style Jerry Cans are for sale on Ebay.

Just search old style Jerry Cans.

Make sure to pick up a donkey dick while you're at it.

Posted by: Tim at March 03, 2024 03:07 PM (wRC2j)

102 >>Mrs. Heinz Kerry probably wants him out of the house as much as possible. I know I wouldn't want him hulking around.

Years ago I was on a flight with him from DC to Boston. He was such an arrogant jerk that I saw a number of people including people with kids come up to say hello and he just brushed them off. He's always been a self-important blowhard.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 03, 2024 03:07 PM (LkLld)

103 86 You should take a look at the "utility jugs" you can find on SpeedwayMotors.com. They come in various sizes, have decent air vents, and the free flow from one is darned quick. Cost is similar to the ones you find in the local stores. The two-handled jugs are a little easer for pouring fuel.

Posted by: DaveK
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Gasoline jugs can also be used as water jugs. They are sturdier than the 5 gal water jugs and a much better get out of Dodge choice. (don't mix them up)

Posted by: Braenyard at March 03, 2024 03:08 PM (0nHUB)

104 102 >>Mrs. Heinz Kerry probably wants him out of the house as much as possible. I know I wouldn't want him hulking around.

Years ago I was on a flight with him from DC to Boston. He was such an arrogant jerk that I saw a number of people including people with kids come up to say hello and he just brushed them off. He's always been a self-important blowhard.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 03, 2024 03:07 PM (LkLld)

I had a coworker that, when he was busy, would put a "Do Not Disturb" sign at the entrance to his cubicle.
Kerry needs "Do Not Disturb Asshole" sign around his neck.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 03, 2024 03:09 PM (ynpvh)

105 I don't know how CBD bears up under the weight of his first world problems. He's a shining inspiration to us all.

Posted by: Tuna at March 03, 2024 02:58 PM (oaGWv)

It's a constant struggle, but with all of your support I will keep soldiering on!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 03, 2024 03:09 PM (gSZYf)

106 101 12 And every one of those cans were made in China.
Can't find a decent Jerry Can anywhere.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 03, 2024 02:05 PM (W/lyH)
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Sportsman's Guide?

Posted by: Braenyard at March 03, 2024 03:10 PM (0nHUB)

107 In 1999, toilets were limited to 1.6 gallons per flush, because of a 1992 Clinton/Gore law. "Gore wasted 2.5 billion toilet flushes worth, or 2,110 flushes for each of New Hampshire's 1.19 million residents," for that photo op.

But Clinton wasn't in office until 1993.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 03, 2024 03:10 PM (8sMut)

108 105 I don't know how CBD bears up under the weight of his first world problems. He's a shining inspiration to us all.

Posted by: Tuna at March 03, 2024 02:58 PM (oaGWv)

It's a constant struggle, but with all of your support I will keep soldiering on!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 03, 2024 03:09 PM (gSZYf)

And here I thought the panacea was sous vide the shit out of everything (french toast with maple syrup excepted).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 03, 2024 03:10 PM (ynpvh)

109 the concern over the low flow toilets is no more. I ad my bathroom remodeled a few years ago. The master carpenter overseeing the work said there going to replace the toilets with new ones. i asked about the problems with those low flow toilets and he said all those difficulties had been overcome.

my new toilets are great. No problems at all for flushing.

Posted by: vic at March 03, 2024 03:10 PM (A5THL)

110 True. You're not a hypocrite if you don't believe what you're saying yourself.

Allow me to revise and extend my remarks: Democrats are not hypocrites, they are two-faced reprobates.
Posted by: mikeski at March 03, 2024 03:04 PM (DgGvY)

Orwell characterized it perfectly, with the 2+2=5 equation.

It's not about what is true, it's not even about what you do or don't believe is true. It's about making you SAY you believe it's true, because the consequence of not going along was too painful. They control your mind, by making sure you are only ever able to say/do what they tell you to. What you actually believe is entirely irrelevant.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 03, 2024 03:11 PM (GtZ7X)

111 Just think about all of the lives that have been saved since the advent of the "doesn't work unless you get gas all over the place" nozzles. I think the total of saved lives is up to zero now and we haven't had these nozzles very long so the lives saved will be more than double that pretty soon.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 03, 2024 03:11 PM (os8yT)

112 111 Just think about all of the lives that have been saved since the advent of the "doesn't work unless you get gas all over the place" nozzles. I think the total of saved lives is up to zero now and we haven't had these nozzles very long so the lives saved will be more than double that pretty soon.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 03, 2024 03:11 PM (os8yT)

Sounds like the Vaxx. That saved lives.
I mean, it saves lives, right?
right?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 03, 2024 03:12 PM (ynpvh)

113 I gotta run. have a good day folks.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 03, 2024 03:13 PM (ynpvh)

114 He was such an arrogant jerk that I saw a number of people including people with kids come up to say hello and he just brushed them off. He's always been a self-important blowhard.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 03, 2024 03:07 PM (LkLld)

Oh, now I actually like him.

Of course he doesn't want the riff raff to bother him. Nobody wants to be bothered by the riff raff. Occasionally celebs act like they do, but that's just an act.

Points to him for being honest.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 03, 2024 03:14 PM (GtZ7X)

115 But Clinton wasn't in office until 1993.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

A bad edit on my part.

"[...] the 1992 National Energy Policy Act supported by the Clinton-Gore administration [...]" -- RNC National Chairman Jim Nicholson

So not "passed by Clinton/Gore." Just "campaigned on" or something, I guess.

Posted by: mikeski at March 03, 2024 03:15 PM (DgGvY)

116 my new toilets are great. No problems at all for flushing.
Posted by: vic at March 03, 2024 03:10 PM (A5THL)

I just stopped pooping.

Solved that problem right up.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 03, 2024 03:15 PM (GtZ7X)

117 Imagine being insane and with a burning desire to immolate yourself in front of some government building... but having only a gas can with a "safety nozzle."

Must be frustrating...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 03, 2024 03:15 PM (Q4IgG)

118 Armed gangs jailbreak 4,000 inmates in Haiti after days-long gun battle with police.

Biden to welcome 4,000 Mostly Peaceful Asylum Seekers from Haiti to be relocated to NYC.

Posted by: Franklin Stein at March 03, 2024 03:16 PM (/1UO6)

119 My current most-disliked FWP: The color-newsprint grocery store and cheap furniture store ads in the mail. Always 4-6 of them, all on one one day of the week, jammed into my small mailbox in a street corner multi-box. They are slippery and of various sizes larger than magazines. Getting them out and and under control in one hand, then using the other to fish-out the letter-sized and smaller items is a always a juggling challenge.

Posted by: Gref at March 03, 2024 03:18 PM (5fDan)

120 119 My current most-disliked FWP: The color-newsprint grocery store and cheap furniture store ads in the mail. Always 4-6 of them, all on one one day of the week, jammed into my small mailbox in a street corner multi-box. They are slippery and of various sizes larger than magazines. Getting them out and and under control in one hand, then using the other to fish-out the letter-sized and smaller items is a always a juggling challenge.

Posted by: Gref at March 03, 2024 03:18 PM (5fDan)

+++++

I dislike those ads intensely.

Posted by: washrivergal at March 03, 2024 03:20 PM (7YG60)

121 Has it been mentioned here that late last week and appeals court in DC staffed with liberal judges decided that the DOJ overcharged a J6 defendant? They hit the guy with the charge of interfering with the "administration of justice". Court said bullshit.

There are over 100 J6 prisoners who had the same enhanced charge who are now eligible to have their sentences reduced.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 03, 2024 03:20 PM (LkLld)

122 To save the environment, we now have:
Gas cans that spill
Lights that burn out quicker
Toilets that don't flush well
Cars that can't drive far

All shipped an extra 5,000 to 10,000 miles from China

Maybe instead of worrying about the future, we should fix the present?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 03, 2024 03:20 PM (n6Rnl)

123 My current most-disliked FWP: The color-newsprint grocery store and cheap furniture store ads in the mail.

Totally agree. It sucks.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 03, 2024 03:20 PM (V8he0)

124 My current most-disliked FWP:

I've been watching Tokyo Vice on Max, and have finished the first season, and the first 4 episodes of season 2. I now have to wait a week for each successive new episode. Have they no mercy?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 03, 2024 03:21 PM (CsUN+)

125 Changed all of ours to the flexible water spouts, they did come with the valve to allow for air. I never could use the government approved, satan designed ones. 5 gallon can and old lady strength, not happening with satan's version.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 03, 2024 03:23 PM (2NHgQ)

126 Legalinsurrection.com the 2 would be Constitution destroyers are held with Felony charges, but as many comments that means nothing when they give them a slap.on the wrist and sent on there way when no one is looking

Posted by: Skip at March 03, 2024 03:24 PM (fwDg9)

127 You know what I hate?

Glass cook tops.

1) they don't deliver at all on the easy clean up, as the food now chars and mars the glass
2) the heat delta is so delayed it's impossible to adjust the temp. It's responsive like driving a dump truck.

No one who knows how to cook would choose one after using one.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 03, 2024 03:25 PM (n6Rnl)

128 I'm listening to Jordan Peterson "interview" Abigail Shrier, and a few takeaways:

First, Peterson wants to rant, and the things he's staying aren't really relevant to her new book/her narrative.

Second, he's wrong about it, because they're talking in some ways about two different things.

Third, his prescriptions are going to be AS harmful for the genuinely mentally ill, as he claims they are for those who don't really need therapy.

And D, Shrier is incredibly hot. She's right at that sweet spot of adult female hotness. She's not a kid, and she's not showy, she's just freakin' hot.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 03, 2024 03:26 PM (GtZ7X)

129
Gas cans designed by lawyers.

Passenger jets designed by accountants.

Flight control software written in sweatshops in India.

Bridges designed by gender studies graduates.

Federal strategic helium reserve + infrastructure sold to obscure German company.

Strategic Petroleum Reserve pumped dry and sold to China.

Police forces staffed by legal aliens.

Military run by transgenders and furries.

We're cookin with gas!

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 03, 2024 03:26 PM (uz6ub)

130 It's a beautiful day outside today. Too bad I am stuck in this chair and can not go out on the porch.

Posted by: vic at March 03, 2024 03:27 PM (A5THL)

131 121 Has it been mentioned here that late last week and appeals court in DC staffed with liberal judges decided that the DOJ overcharged a J6 defendant? They hit the guy with the charge of interfering with the "administration of justice". Court said bullshit.

There are over 100 J6 prisoners who had the same enhanced charge who are now eligible to have their sentences reduced.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 03, 2024 03:20 PM (LkLld)

++++

Above all else, and there's plenty others, the J6 incarceration scares the ever-living hell out of me.

Posted by: washrivergal at March 03, 2024 03:27 PM (7YG60)

132 Just try filling a small outboard with one of those Devil's cans while standing in a rocking inflatable dinghy. I usually get more gas in the water than in the motor.

Gaia, as always, weeps.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 03, 2024 03:27 PM (5Mrm1)

133 Did younguys know that fluorescent bulbs including the government mandated CFPs from about 15 years ago are going to be banned soon

Our government for ya, force people to use something one week, ban the same thing the next.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 03, 2024 03:28 PM (os8yT)

134 130 It's a beautiful day outside today. Too bad I am stuck in this chair and can not go out on the porch.

Posted by: vic at March 03, 2024 03:27 PM (A5THL)

++++

Would a wheel-chair do you any good?

Posted by: washrivergal at March 03, 2024 03:29 PM (7YG60)

135 Regarding glass cooktops...

I've had all three; gas, glass and coils. Coils are by far the worst. They warp and then no pan or pot sits level on them. Glass is second worst and gas the best.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 03, 2024 03:29 PM (Q4IgG)

136 There are over 100 J6 prisoners who had the same enhanced charge who are now eligible to have their sentences reduced.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 03, 2024 03:20 PM (LkLld)

Above all else, and there's plenty others, the J6 incarceration scares the ever-living hell out of me.
Posted by: washrivergal at March 03, 2024 03:27 PM (7YG60)

Are we celebrating reduced sentences?

How about no sentences... except for those who sentenced them in the first place.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 03, 2024 03:30 PM (GtZ7X)

137 Low flow shower heads are what I hate.

Haven't had to replace a shower head for a while, but the normal ones I used to get when "low flow" became a thing...all it was was an easy fish out rubber restriction in the pipe. 30 seconds and no more low flow

Posted by: Azjaeger at March 03, 2024 03:31 PM (/wuUy)

138 Glass top cleaner works well

Posted by: Skip at March 03, 2024 03:33 PM (fwDg9)

139 137 Yeah, Publius removed the restriction thingy on ours.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 03, 2024 03:33 PM (w6EFb)

140 Did some more looking into the metal (NATO style) gasoline cans, and this fellow compares a cheap Chinese knock-off, the GELG can, and the Wavian (Valvepro) can:

https://youtu.be/EHrM0OS9VHE

Maybe that can be of use to someone.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 03, 2024 03:35 PM (qPw5n)

141 If you had a crew of total incompetents take in your sails, would you have a Worst Furled problem?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 03, 2024 03:35 PM (tkR6S)

142 After our oven baking element crapped out and I replaced it, I looked at what it would take to replace one of the elements for the glass top.

You have to replace the entire thing. It's sealed.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 03, 2024 03:35 PM (Q4IgG)

143 Are we celebrating reduced sentences?

How about no sentences... except for those who sentenced them in the first place.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 03, 2024 03:30 PM (GtZ7X)

++++

If it all had been fair, right now Nancy Pelosi would be sitting in a solitary confinement cell with bread and water. Sprayed down with a cold hose once a week for bathing.

Posted by: washrivergal at March 03, 2024 03:36 PM (7YG60)

144 I remember some idiot years back suggested that when you wipe your butt only use 1 or 2 tissues....

Because toilet paper was destroying the environment.....

Posted by: Franklin Stein at March 03, 2024 03:36 PM (/1UO6)

145 The weatherman predicted a high today of 69. It is already 74 now.

Posted by: vic at March 03, 2024 03:36 PM (A5THL)

146 Skip, I can get it mostly clean, but there are some places that seem permanently marred. I'm the only one who checks the bottom of a pan to make sure it's clean before placing it on the stove, and likewise that the stove has no oil mist etc on the burner I'm about to turn on.

When we moved into the house I fretted about that cooktop, but I had to let it go. Overall I'm OK with it. Gas might have been better, but would have added to the cost of building.

My biggest regret is not getting a full range hood, only the over-the-stove microwave. Publius' is not getting sink lighting.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 03, 2024 03:37 PM (w6EFb)

147 Enhanced charges reduced but should be no charges at all.

BLM is getting payouts for police supposedly over bearing

Posted by: Skip at March 03, 2024 03:37 PM (xfeGw)

148 >>Above all else, and there's plenty others, the J6 incarceration scares the ever-living hell out of me.

The Fischer case that will be heard at the SC is very similar. The DOJ was routinely overcharging people for J6 "crimes" and the charges weren't relevant to what happened.

If Fischer wins it would put a huge torpedo in Jack Smith's case against Trump. The only thing the left is doing with all of this lawfare is destroy the trust millions of Americans had in the legal system. Great job.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 03, 2024 03:37 PM (LkLld)

149 Old style Jerry Cans are for sale on Ebay.

Just search old style Jerry Cans.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 03, 2024 02:08 PM (R/m4+)

Also commonly found at automotive swap meets and flea markets. If you cannot find one, you just aren't looking very hard.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 03, 2024 03:38 PM (tkR6S)

150 I take my shower heads apart, find the offending obstruction, and either remove it or drill it out. Voila!
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at March 03, 2024 02:39 PM (DsA2n)

I have do this at home but, oddly, they frown on me doing this in hotels.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 03, 2024 03:38 PM (cw9q7)

151 133 Did younguys know that fluorescent bulbs including the government mandated CFPs from about 15 years ago are going to be banned soon.

That is true and fact is that these bulbs are killing the Dinosaurs ........ Soon there will be none left !!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Franklin Stein at March 03, 2024 03:38 PM (/1UO6)

152 127 You know what I hate?

Glass cook tops.

1) they don't deliver at all on the easy clean up, as the food now chars and mars the glass
2) the heat delta is so delayed it's impossible to adjust the temp. It's responsive like driving a dump truck.

No one who knows how to cook would choose one after using one.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
----------------------

Gave my glasstop to the electrician and installed a gasser, up and down.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 03, 2024 03:40 PM (0nHUB)

153 If it all had been fair, right now Nancy Pelosi would be sitting in a solitary confinement cell with bread and water. Sprayed down with a cold hose once a week for bathing.
Posted by: washrivergal at March 03, 2024 03:36 PM (7YG60)

Heh... you misspelled guillotine.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 03, 2024 03:40 PM (GtZ7X)

154 The weatherman predicted a high today of 69. It is already 74 now.
Posted by: vic

The weatherman predicted a half inch of snow today. We got an inch.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 03, 2024 03:41 PM (CFtGR)

155 137 Haven't had to replace a shower head for a while, but the normal ones I used to get when "low flow" became a thing...all it was was an easy fish out rubber restriction in the pipe. 30 seconds and no more low flow

Posted by: Azjaeger at March 03, 2024 03:31 PM (/wuUy)

The last time I was at old home in GA brother was complaining about shower head i looked at it had him bring me a small pipe wrench. I took the shower head off and removed the orifice installed in the pipe and put the had back on. now full flow.

Posted by: vic at March 03, 2024 03:41 PM (A5THL)

156 My favorite fascist scam is the type of freon used in auto air conditioners. Has been run two times already. Every 25 years the DuPont formulation patent expires, and right before that scientists "discover" that the current formula is "bad for the Earth". And somehow the latest formula won't work in the old systems without a conversion and even in the new systems it won't work as well. This time I stashed a good supply of the stuff for my older fleet.

Posted by: Azjaeger at March 03, 2024 03:42 PM (/wuUy)

157 These gas cans - which I hate infernally - were no doubt designed by useless fucking millennials who've never actually had to operate one of these but are full of self congratulation for helping to save the planet. This to me is Exhibit #1 in the collapse of civilization.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 03, 2024 03:42 PM (CW6D5)

158 Remember 10% inflation is not 10% simple inflation, its 10% compounded inflation. That makes a huge difference after a few years.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at March 03, 2024 03:43 PM (CecP5)

159
If Fischer wins it would put a huge torpedo in Jack Smith's case against Trump. The only thing the left is doing with all of this lawfare is destroy the trust millions of Americans had in the legal system. Great job.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 03, 2024 03:37 PM (LkLld)

++++

I, along with many, many others have lost complete trust in the government. I don't believe a word they say anymore. How this works in the Left's favor, I can't imagine.

Posted by: washrivergal at March 03, 2024 03:43 PM (7YG60)

160 Only mid 60s but humidity low enough I clear coated my miniatures. Seems came out ok

Posted by: Skip at March 03, 2024 03:43 PM (fwDg9)

161 I've found that Home Depot brand Glacier Bay "Power Flush" toilets work quite well for a 1.28. It uses some kind of vacuum suction tech. Also, they are much, much cheaper than something like a top brand Toto

Posted by: SamIam at March 03, 2024 02:32 PM (oasF3)

Last year, I got a "Horow" one-piece toilet from a liquidator for $160, brand new in box. Made in China, it has dual-flush buttons and a soft-drop seat, and is a little taller than usual. Works just fine.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 03, 2024 03:43 PM (tkR6S)

162 Or maybe designed Gen-Zers. I can't keep them straight other than they're all useless oxygen thieves.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 03, 2024 03:44 PM (CW6D5)

163 Heh... you misspelled guillotine.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 03, 2024 03:40 PM (GtZ7X)

++++

Too quick. That comes later, after years and years of jail time.

Posted by: washrivergal at March 03, 2024 03:45 PM (7YG60)

164 If you had a crew of total incompetents take in your sails, would you have a Worst Furled problem?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

My First World Problem is puns on AoSHQ. I should hate puns as the lowest form of humor, but the ones here are better than that.

Maybe I should just consider the better ones 'dad jokes' instead of puns?

Posted by: mikeski at March 03, 2024 03:45 PM (DgGvY)

165 Take out the schrader valve. Main thing - make sure the stem cap is not vulnerable to gasoline.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 03, 2024 02:38 PM (0nHUB)

Or just drill a small hole in the top of the plastic gas can, and wedge in a golf tee for a plug. One size fits all!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 03, 2024 03:45 PM (tkR6S)

166 ...How this works in the Left's favor, I can't imagine.

They don't care because they're all Nazi's and Nazi's don't care.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 03, 2024 03:46 PM (CW6D5)

167 144 Sheryl Crow. She caught hell for it too. "Only one square." Right, Sheryl.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at March 03, 2024 03:47 PM (QN7a1)

168 Thank you Jukin for the TEMU referral. I not only ordered the gas can “correction,” but am now lost in a shopping tsunami!

Posted by: jayhawkone at March 03, 2024 03:47 PM (vIlI2)

169 Cleaning glass cooktops. Yes, I know they suck, but this suggestion is for folks who are stuck with them, as I was for many years.

Try Barkeeper's Friend or Bon-Ami cleaning powder. My SiL is a clean freak and I recommended it to her. Even SHE was satisfied and that's saying something.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at March 03, 2024 03:48 PM (FEVMW)

170 I need grammar police help: Is it Nazi's or Nazis who don't care?

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 03, 2024 03:48 PM (CW6D5)

171 Heh... you misspelled guillotine.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 03, 2024 03:40 PM (GtZ7X)

Too quick. That comes later, after years and years of jail time.
Posted by: washrivergal at March 03, 2024 03:45 PM (7YG60)

We're talking about Nazi Pelousy, we have to speed it up.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 03, 2024 03:49 PM (oY/GY)

172 170 I need grammar police help: Is it Nazi's or Nazis who don't care?

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 03, 2024 03:48 PM (CW6D5)

+++

Nazis.

Posted by: washrivergal at March 03, 2024 03:50 PM (7YG60)

173 Sheryl Crow. She caught hell for it too. "Only one square." Right, Sheryl.

She was talking about females wiping after a piss - enough already.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at March 03, 2024 03:51 PM (CecP5)

174 Thanks. I'm apostrophe challenged.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 03, 2024 03:51 PM (CW6D5)

175 We're talking about Nazi Pelousy, we have to speed it up.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 03, 2024 03:49 PM (oY/GY)

+++

I had forgotten that she is older than Biden.

Posted by: washrivergal at March 03, 2024 03:51 PM (7YG60)

176 Old school jerry cans used a pour spout with a lever to expand a rubber grommet to secure it to the can. About an inch wide, poured quick. These spouts were known as....donkey dicks. Universally. Never heard them called anything else.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at March 03, 2024 03:52 PM (QN7a1)

177 174 Thanks. I'm apostrophe challenged.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 03, 2024 03:51 PM (CW6D5)

++++

Its, it's are the real devil.

Posted by: washrivergal at March 03, 2024 03:52 PM (7YG60)

178 No American gas cans are exactly a first world problem, because third world governments aren't stupid enough to impose such stupidity on their people.

Posted by: Kazinski at March 03, 2024 03:52 PM (TIc70)

179 I need to rework the shower head. I suspect it has a restricter as it's unusable. It's like having someone spit at you. But I haven't figured if I can safely climb up to fix it. I have a sturdy stepstool but I try to stay off ladders.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 03, 2024 03:54 PM (yeEu9)

180 Guys are mowing their yards here already. It's the first week of March for heaven's sake!!

This year, I simply have to replace the gas can spout. If the Feds can **** up something so simple, how can they be trusted with anything?

Posted by: Tonypete at March 03, 2024 03:54 PM (A1aWg)

181
Try Barkeeper's Friend or Bon-Ami cleaning powder.

Bon-Ami won't get bloodstains off an organ keyboard.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 03, 2024 03:54 PM (63Dwl)

182
My First World Problem was I went to a Pennsylvania State Park today and watched as a person with their family in a brand new car and brand new kayak ignored all the signs in English advising them to wear life preservers when out on the water this time of year. They also ignored the plate securely installed on the kayak advising them of the capacity of that kayak in pounds English - which they definitely overloaded with five people. They did not end up killing anyone but came close. It's time we did something about not advising people in every language under the sun about everything.

Truth be told; I don't know if they were Korean (North or South), or Japanese (doubtful), or Chinese. But nothing remotely close to English. Gettin' so fvckin' tired of this shit.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 03, 2024 03:55 PM (RKVpM)

183 Easy to dismantle/tear out the inner working of some of those dumb CARB gas cans so they just straight pour. I gas up motorcycles now and then for the kids and nothing like spilling gas all over a bike trying to get those auto vents to open. Having all that gasoline everywhere - doesn't that render the purpose of those..... ah, never fckin mind.

Posted by: Son of Dad at March 03, 2024 03:55 PM (8JB5s)

184 We're talking about Nazi Pelousy, we have to speed it up.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 03, 2024 03:49 PM (oY/GY)

I had forgotten that she is older than Biden.
Posted by: washrivergal at March 03, 2024 03:51 PM (7YG60)

One minute clip of Kyle Dunnigan doing Pelousy and Biden:

https://tinyurl.com/3t2933we

Well worth the time.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 03, 2024 03:56 PM (oY/GY)

185 Bon-Ami won't get bloodstains off an organ keyboard.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 03, 2024 03:54 PM

Truth.

Posted by: Luther at March 03, 2024 03:56 PM (J3Fnj)

186 Its, it's are the real devil.

My trick on that one is, I always use (silently) "It is" for it's. If it fits then I know that it's it's and not its. Heh.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 03, 2024 03:56 PM (CW6D5)

187 CAR CANE ... Saw one of these in someone's car the other day ... Never heard of it but, as I and so many of my friends keep getting close to age 29, it might be good to have one on "stand by" ... Basically, this gadget gets inserted (temporarily) into a car door frame's metal LOCK loop so that a person transitioning from a wheelchair or walker into the passenger seat has something sturdy and secure to lean on with one of their hands.

Posted by: Kathy at March 03, 2024 03:57 PM (yG7uN)

188 Bertram Cabot, Jr., where can I follow you for more housekeeping tips?

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at March 03, 2024 03:58 PM (FEVMW)

189 148 JackStraw

I agree. All the lawfare has weakened trust in the courts & in law enforcement for 50% or so of Americans, anyway.

The lawfare is a useful reminder of just how much the other half hates our guts. The horde may not fully realize that, because we too tend to talk to each other. mostly

I can't stand to read what the left puts out there, although I grit my teeth & subject myself to it just to get the flavor. Beejeebus, do they hate us!

Posted by: mnw at March 03, 2024 03:58 PM (NLIak)

190 Armed gangs jailbreak 4,000 inmates in Haiti after days-long gun battle with police.

Biden to welcome 4,000 Mostly Peaceful Asylum Seekers from Haiti to be relocated to NYC.
Posted by: Franklin Stein at March 03, 2024 03:16 PM (/1UO6)

One or two strafing runs by an A-10 would have fixed that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 03, 2024 03:58 PM (tkR6S)

191 but am now lost in a shopping tsunami!

Posted by: jayhawkone at March 03, 2024 03:47 PM (vIlI2)

You know, when I dedicated 2023 to getting out of debt (and paying 0% on the balances), the first thing I did was cancel my Amazon Prime account. If it's too easy to buy a thing, I don't reflect as much on whether or not I want to spend the money that way. If something truly essential comes up, I can always get a free trial or something to avoid having to pay shipping. Then I cancel it.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 03, 2024 03:59 PM (w6EFb)

192 mikeski
Great story about asshole Al Gore, but I think it was a grant to New Hampshire, and a photo op on the Connecticut River.
So, republican state (at the time) NH got stiffed, not solidly dem state of Connecticut.

Posted by: From about that Time at March 03, 2024 03:59 PM (4780s)

193 I ripped out the old, over range microwave and hood this weekend. Naturally, the 3 1/4 x 10 elbow leading to a vent on the roof is completely fubared.

So, somehow I have to remove that also and replace it without tearing up the drywall or cabinets. There must have been a sale on drywall screws when the original installer put it in as there are about a dozen of them connecting the elbow to the rectangular duct. Hopefully, my oscillating tool can cut them off without too much trouble.

I loathe hacks.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 03, 2024 03:59 PM (A1aWg)

194
Pretty sure Haitians get returned back to Haiti. It's in the leftist rule book.

Cubans, too. Everyone else, good to go. Especially Alan Snackbar types.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 03, 2024 04:00 PM (RKVpM)

195 The Left's Lawfare merely means, to me at least, that there are no laws/rules. I look forward to the day when we visit "no laws/rules" on the left. With extreme prejudice.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 03, 2024 04:01 PM (CW6D5)

196 Its, it's are the real devil.

Posted by: washrivergal at March 03, 2024 03:52 PM (7YG60)

Amen! It's=it is. That's it, that's all.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 03, 2024 04:01 PM (w6EFb)

197 If Fischer wins it would put a huge torpedo in Jack Smith's case against Trump. The only thing the left is doing with all of this lawfare is destroy the trust millions of Americans had in the legal system. Great job.
Posted by: JackStraw

Ah, similar to what the Wuflu response did to the medical establishment.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 03, 2024 04:01 PM (A1aWg)

198 One minute clip of Kyle Dunnigan doing Pelousy and Biden:

https://tinyurl.com/3t2933we

Well worth the time.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 03, 2024 03:56 PM (oY/GY)

++++

That guy is so good.

Posted by: washrivergal at March 03, 2024 04:01 PM (7YG60)

199 FOODIE NOODIE UPSTAIRS

Posted by: Skip at March 03, 2024 04:02 PM (fwDg9)

200 148
'The only thing the left is doing with all of this lawfare is destroy the trust millions of Americans'

That's not the only thing. For some Americans, it is also convincing them that freedom will only be safe when a lot of leftists are destroyed.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 03, 2024 04:02 PM (roH4R)

201 >>I agree. All the lawfare has weakened trust in the courts & in law enforcement for 50% or so of Americans, anyway.

>>The lawfare is a useful reminder of just how much the other half hates our guts. The horde may not fully realize that, because we too tend to talk to each other. mostly

I find hating them right back works for me. It's not us trying to sexualize children, throw our political opponents in prison, cheat in elections and on and on. Leftists are objectively evil. There are no "two sides" thing going on here. They are just bad people and have earned my hate for what they are doing to this country.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 03, 2024 04:05 PM (LkLld)

202
I find hating them right back works for me. It's not us trying to sexualize children, throw our political opponents in prison, cheat in elections and on and on. Leftists are objectively evil. There are no "two sides" thing going on here. They are just bad people and have earned my hate for what they are doing to this country.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 03, 2024 04:05 PM (LkLld)

++++
Absolutely.

Posted by: washrivergal at March 03, 2024 04:08 PM (7YG60)

203 People in the Boating world have been bitching about those gas cans for years. The government could f*** up a wet dream. And does. Regularly.

Posted by: Beverly at March 03, 2024 04:34 PM (Epeb0)

204 Brilliant. It never occurred to me to modify the existing POS cans. I have two - one to empty and one to fill up. Snowblower is fussy fussy and must have fresh gas. Lawnmower does not care. I may go buy a new one and try your mods.

Posted by: Nancy at 7000 ft at March 03, 2024 04:55 PM (0tmoY)

205 "Jerry" cans were originally designed to be water cans.
The Brits had trouble getting them, too -- because they were made by The Jerries. They had to capture them.

Mine are all WWII or Korea vintage. I have never seen one that does not dribble a little when you tip it up. There is a little vent hole drilled right in the spout ferrule, so, guaranteed. For the tractor, whose 'new' plastic hood would probably discolor after years of diesel spills on it, I use what was once a transmission drain funnel and can hold a gallon of drippage. Before you malcontent sons of bitches spent your whole day bitching about your washing machine and toilet, you bitched about jerry cans dribbling. You just can't remember.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 03, 2024 05:41 PM (zdLoL)

206 I was at Cleveland Browns Stadium watching the game during the height of super storm sandy. After the drenching game went home and saw a huge hunk of shingles on the ground, said some poor slob lost part of the roof, then realized it was from the back of MY house.

Posted by: stephana at March 03, 2024 05:56 PM (Pd4Md)

207 Try Barkeeper's Friend or Bon-Ami cleaning powder. My SiL is a clean freak and I recommended it to her. Even SHE was satisfied and that's saying something.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at March 03, 2024 03:48 PM

--------------------

Yep, Barkeeper's Friend works just as well as the special glass top cleaners, and is much cheaper.

Posted by: Bigsmith at March 03, 2024 06:01 PM (bi6pf)

208 I can totally relate!

Posted by: Ralph Z at March 03, 2024 06:02 PM (FRb/T)

209 YAR!! I have always hated those things since they were first mandated in early 2000's. There was no reason to bring them into existence in the first place, and they just exacerbate the [non-problem] that they were supposed to solve ("solve") in the first place. They always broke, and spilled gas... and finally I realized... hey, f*ck it, and I just poured the gas into the chainsaw old-school, spilling a little bit on the ground in the process.

Thanks, government idiots. You solved a "problem" that never ever existed in the first place, and made things go backwards.

You people are so stupid.

Posted by: Tom in Scappoose at March 03, 2024 08:06 PM (AuMb7)

210 I have spilled more in a year from the idiotic 'no-spill' cans than I did in an entire lifetime prior to that.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at March 03, 2024 08:28 PM (setIA)

211 52 Next thing you know, CBD will be ripping the tags off of mattresses.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 03, 2024 02:39 PM (V8he0)

Aagghh!

Posted by: m at March 03, 2024 08:38 PM (o3SCB)

212 I had my moment today. Have been trying to troubleshoot the “singing Pipes” of our plumbing for months, bleeding air out of pipes, etc., and finally today the MRS. bothered to lift the top off the toilet tank. Fiddled with the filling valve. Presto. Source identified. Good thing ‘cause I was about to call a plumber. I even have a replacement in my extensive garage supply reserve.

Posted by: epador at March 03, 2024 08:46 PM (TRnzq)

213 Here's a HINT:

Look on Amazon for the 5gal VP Racing Fuels gas cans.

They are "racing application" gas cans and as such DO NOT fall under the foolish CARB regulations....

I have 10 on hand because hurricanes!

You're Welcome.

Posted by: SwellGuy at March 03, 2024 09:06 PM (LQsBY)

214 201 It's not us trying to ... throw our political opponents in prison
Posted by: JackStraw at March 03, 2024 04:05 PM (LkLld)

Um.

143 If it all had been fair, right now Nancy Pelosi would be sitting in a solitary confinement cell with bread and water. Sprayed down with a cold hose once a week for bathing.
Posted by: washrivergal at March 03, 2024 03:36 PM (7YG60)

Posted by: m at March 03, 2024 09:12 PM (o3SCB)

215 I made the tire valve retrofit as well. I agree that the mandated sucky claptrap spills more gas than the old school cans dis. Some plastics manufacturing mofo prolly lobbied the uniparty to foist this latest scam. Falkers.

Posted by: White Punk at March 03, 2024 09:22 PM (3zy+o)

216 I had two gas cans like the one in the 1st photo.
Both of them blew out on a hot summer day (the spout portion broke out leaving the black screw on ring). The 2nd one happened right in front of my eyes.

Posted by: SMOD at March 03, 2024 09:48 PM (RovqD)

217

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