First-World Problems...

I needed two connections from a water line in the back yard. Apparently newly planted trees need water. Who knew?

Anyway, I bought this splitter, knowing that it would have a finite (and short) life span. But that was fine. I only need the second line for a year or two.

Yes...that is sheared off! I am truly impressed by the crappiness of this fitting. I think it takes tremendous skill and planning to use only the worst materials and the worst manufacturing techniques and a total absence of quality control to produce something this monumentally inferior!

I am in awe!

Posted by: CBD at 02:00 PM

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1 First

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2024 02:01 PM (fwDg9)

2 Watering newly planted trees is racist.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 10, 2024 02:02 PM (ELuCO)

3 My FWP

this is real
I have $78,000 I don't know what to do with

Posted by: Don Black at March 10, 2024 02:02 PM (oCjPU)

4 China's finest manufacturing

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2024 02:03 PM (fwDg9)

5 Looks like a job for duct tape.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 10, 2024 02:04 PM (ju2Fy)

6 Were you swinging on it?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 10, 2024 02:04 PM (aD39U)

7 "I think it takes tremendous skill and planning to use only the worst materials and the worst manufacturing techniques and a total absence of quality control to produce something this monumentally inferior!"

Hold my beer.

Posted by: My Place of Employment at March 10, 2024 02:04 PM (SYTee)

8 Yea, those things suck donkey balls bigly.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 10, 2024 02:04 PM (Q4IgG)

9 It says NO right on it.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 10, 2024 02:04 PM (aD39U)

10
Those fittings don't take freeze/thaw cycles well. Ask me how I know. No, don't.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 10, 2024 02:05 PM (RKVpM)

11 Let's hope the chinese make their tanks the same way they do their waterline splitters.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2024 02:05 PM (W/lyH)

12 DEI manufacturing at its best

Posted by: feds are here to help at March 10, 2024 02:05 PM (FAQlI)

13 When will CBD run out of First World problems? Will he drop down to Second World problems?

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 10, 2024 02:06 PM (rWwta)

14
When will CBD run out of First World problems? Will he drop down to Second World problems?

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 10, 2024 02:06 PM

I tend to think of myself living in a Third World country anymore - at least when it comes to the injustice system.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 10, 2024 02:08 PM (RKVpM)

15 Stainless steel is way to go

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2024 02:08 PM (fwDg9)

16 okay then

Posted by: Don Black at March 10, 2024 02:09 PM (oCjPU)

17 I don't know what I'm looking at, - someone said a "splitter," - but that has got to be the cheapest hunk of shit to ever come from a rice paddy.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 10, 2024 02:09 PM (EEgXH)

18 Curious? Is time change just a FWP or do Third World Shitholes deal with it too?

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 10, 2024 02:10 PM (ju2Fy)

19 I kind of know what the Third World is but not the Second World.

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 10, 2024 02:10 PM (rWwta)

20 Did you over-tourque it with a tire iron?

Posted by: Mr Nance at March 10, 2024 02:10 PM (SYTee)

21 19
'but not the Second World.'

Communist bloc.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 10, 2024 02:11 PM (roH4R)

22 I'm on my second one. We've only got one outside faucet and I need a hose for the front (washing cars) and back (garden and pool.) It's a piece of shit. It leaks. the ball valves are always getting stuck. And on and on.

Tried different manufactures but they're all shit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 10, 2024 02:12 PM (Q4IgG)

23 That looks like actual bronze. If made by a reputable maker, there might be a lifetime warranty on it. It would be worthwhile to check. If it is real bronze, and no warranty, you could solder the threaded ring back onto the main body. Use a propane torch and acid-core solder. Jig it up so the ring is square to the casting for a good seal on the rubber washer.

If you don't have the torch and solder on hand, they cost more than fitting itself. Bronze has pretty decent scrap value, by the way.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2024 02:12 PM (tkR6S)

24 Not as bad a problem as having a pallet applied directly to your forehead, after dropping from a C-130 sans working chute.

Posted by: Ciampino - Another taller tale at March 10, 2024 02:13 PM (qfLjt)

25 Made in Chyna.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 10, 2024 02:13 PM (NpAcC)

26 23
'If made by a reputable maker, there might be a lifetime warranty on it.'

I'm certain this is the brand CBD got.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 10, 2024 02:14 PM (roH4R)

27
It's getting windy as hell out there. Not quite 'not in Kansas anymore' but shit be blowing around.

:: Eeyore voice ::

I'm gonna lose power again, I know it.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 10, 2024 02:15 PM (RKVpM)

28 I have a similar splitter on my outside faucet at home in Alberta, but mine is made of plastic, IIRC. So far, so good.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2024 02:15 PM (tkR6S)

29 15 Stainless steel is way to go

Well, duh!

Posted by: Elon at March 10, 2024 02:16 PM (fvaUq)

30 The Red Chinese sure make some real crap. They have also succeeded in getting the customer used to them making real crap as it is to be expected that anything made in Red China is real crap.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 10, 2024 02:17 PM (R/m4+)

31 25 Made in Chyna.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 10, 2024 02:13 PM (NpAcC)

My first thought, too.

Posted by: Ralph at March 10, 2024 02:17 PM (wnTj5)

32 China's finest manufacturing
Posted by: Skip

When your First-World problem is imported from the Second World.

Posted by: mikeski at March 10, 2024 02:17 PM (DgGvY)

33 I use five gallon buckets to water the trees. This is not virtue signalling, it is because I gather water from my outside bathtub worm bin and it only puts out so much leachate in a day. I use it to recycle the dish water when I wash dishes.

The second part is virtue signalling, by the way.

(The leaves on my saplings are the deepest green I have ever seen, by the way)

Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2024 02:17 PM (D7oie)

34 11 Let's hope the chinese make their tanks the same way they do their waterline splitters.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2024 02:05 PM (W/lyH)
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I pictured Wiley Coyote Esq. in a chinky tank, swivels the turret and the turret shears off.

Posted by: Ciampino - Forgot to apply Roadrunner grease at March 10, 2024 02:18 PM (qfLjt)

35 Those fittings don't take freeze/thaw cycles well. Ask me how I know. No, don't.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 10, 2024 02:05 PM (RKVpM)

I took the hoses off before the first frost. I think maybe a branch fell on it, although it couldn't have been a very big one, otherwise I would have noticed.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 10, 2024 02:18 PM (gSZYf)

36 Is that a pink granite countertop? They are radioactive, you know.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2024 02:18 PM (tkR6S)

37 So, the pictured hose splitter.....

Does two ball valves equal one scrotum valve?

Posted by: mikeski at March 10, 2024 02:20 PM (DgGvY)

38 28

'mine is made of plastic, IIRC'
Is it outside all year? I suspect not.

Every I have had valve like that, sooner or later, lime fouls the moving parts and makes the valve un-turnable.

I would treat it as a consumable and buy plastic like AOP.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 10, 2024 02:20 PM (roH4R)

39 First world problem: I had to turn off JavaScript to load up this site the past few days.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 10, 2024 02:22 PM (NpAcC)

40 31 25 Made in Chyna.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 10, 2024 02:13 PM (NpAcC)

My first thought, too.

Posted by: Ralph at March 10, 2024 02:17 PM (wnTj5)
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Remember in the 50s when all the Japanese stuff was real crap? Then they made transistor radios which were pretty good, then they didn't look back. One day I realized that Japanese optics, cameras, binoculars, were as good as Zeiss!! Shock.

Posted by: Ciampino - I don't think the Chinese will get there unless Capitalists at March 10, 2024 02:22 PM (qfLjt)

41 I am truly impressed by the crappiness of this fitting. I think it takes tremendous skill and planning to use only the worst materials and the worst manufacturing techniques and a total absence of quality control to produce something this monumentally inferior!

*shrugs*

Posted by: China at March 10, 2024 02:22 PM (V8he0)

42 Let's hope the chinese make their tanks the same way they do their waterline splitters.
Posted by: Diogenes

I pictured Wiley Coyote Esq. in a chinky tank, swivels the turret and the turret shears off.
Posted by: Ciampino - Forgot to apply Roadrunner grease

Bugs Bunny reaches up, puts one finger on the side of the barrel, and the turret freezes in place while the body of the tank starts spinning.

Cartoon physics makes more sense than Chinese manufacturing.

Posted by: mikeski at March 10, 2024 02:23 PM (DgGvY)

43 I have $78,000 I don't know what to do with

Do you have a brokerage account? I usually dump excess cash into a money-market fund at Schwab. It's paying over 5% at the moment and it's pretty liquid. I can cash out portions of it in a single business day as the need arises.

Posted by: Halfhand at March 10, 2024 02:24 PM (N0Aec)

44 I have $78,000 I don't know what to do with

Posted by: Don Black at March 10, 2024 02:02 PM (oCjPU)

5% interest-bearing savings account?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 10, 2024 02:24 PM (w6EFb)

45 37 So, the pictured hose splitter.....

Does two ball valves equal one scrotum valve?

Posted by: mikeski at March 10, 2024 02:20 PM (DgGvY)
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Well I read valve as vulva. I beg forgiveness.

Posted by: Ciampino - I'll have one of those at March 10, 2024 02:25 PM (qfLjt)

46 Had I planted new trees in the backyard, I'd plumb a new distribution line off of the sprinkler system and taken measures so that the fucking deer don't eat the trees to death.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 10, 2024 02:25 PM (EEgXH)

47 If you source from China, you will find that low cost factories almost always use the lowest cost, worst materials possible. (There are some better factories out there and more are coming, so don't get cocky)

They will use the cheapest possible hardware for furniture, so your $50 FOB price furniture fails due to shitty 2 cent screw being used instead of a 3 cent better one.

Posted by: Harun at March 10, 2024 02:25 PM (c2WeP)

48
Between about three inches of rain last night and predicted high winds for the next 30 hours I rate my chances of losing power as 'near certain'.

The tree fall last week was pretty epic. Tree was so huge, it not only took down the line but split some utility poles - or maybe they decided to change them out, not sure. Fourteen hours to repair.

It used to be something that occurred once a year, then twice a year, then six times a year. So far this year, it's been twice and we're only 10 days into the month. Third World problem.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 10, 2024 02:25 PM (RKVpM)

49 My FWP

this is real
I have $78,000 I don't know what to do with
Posted by: Don Black at March 10, 2024 02:02 PM (oCjPU)

Hmm. Bitcoin?

Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2024 02:25 PM (D7oie)

50 Had I planted new trees in the backyard, I'd plumb a new distribution line off of the sprinkler system and taken measures so that the fucking deer don't eat the trees to death.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 10, 2024 02:25 PM (EEgXH)

I thought about that, but I will only need to water for about a year.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 10, 2024 02:25 PM (gSZYf)

51 Getting wind gusts

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2024 02:26 PM (fwDg9)

52 40
'One day I realized that Japanese optics, cameras, binoculars, were as good as Zeiss!! Shock.'

The Japanese wanted to expand their market in the 1950s and 1960s and went all in on quality control.
The Chinese didn't need any improvement to get their market, just cheap labor.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 10, 2024 02:27 PM (roH4R)

53 The Chinese are very good at making products that look like the real thing, but are actually crap.

Posted by: Sven at March 10, 2024 02:27 PM (iXXRJ)

54 I have $78,000 I don't know what to do with

I have $1.75 in change under my couch cushions that I don't know what to do with.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 10, 2024 02:27 PM (V8he0)

55 Don Black - invest in plastics
Mr Robinson

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2024 02:28 PM (fwDg9)

56 Extra $78,000?
Barret .50 cal and a couple cans of ammo.

Posted by: Reforger at March 10, 2024 02:28 PM (LkHYv)

57 It just so happens that 100 shares of Duke Enterprises goes for exactly $78,000.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 10, 2024 02:29 PM (u73oe)

58 If here this year there has been enough rain, tree can't make it it won't survive the future

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2024 02:29 PM (fwDg9)

59 Bronze has pretty decent scrap value, by the way.

We know.
- SoCal grave robbers.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at March 10, 2024 02:31 PM (i4CGk)

60 If it is real bronze, and no warranty, you could solder the threaded ring back onto the main body.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Did I miss something AOP?
Are you suggesting CBD handle hot iron?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 10, 2024 02:31 PM (dqcIy)

61 Chinese are very good at making products that look like the real thing, but are actually crap.

Looking at you, Norinco.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at March 10, 2024 02:32 PM (i4CGk)

62 Splitter???

Ohhhh.

I read that as a spitter...couldn't see how that was a real problem.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2024 02:33 PM (W/lyH)

63
If all the rain this winter in SE PA and probably Jersey and north had been snow it would have been record breaking for just about anywhere on the planet. Maybe it's the el Nina Hartley effect.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 10, 2024 02:34 PM (RKVpM)

64 My 1WP is I have to go put stuff in and out of the truck, and it has to be 25mph winds blowing

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2024 02:36 PM (fwDg9)

65 Made in china eh? ... probably it has spyware on it.

Posted by: ET at March 10, 2024 02:36 PM (lhB7k)

66 One of the high flyers at my former company insisted we could improve qualityt and margins by moving production of certain components to China. The test batch came back just fine. The first production batch came in, and low and behold, the stainless steel turned out to be pot metal in lab testing. Impressive how much effort was put in to make garbage look like stainless.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2024 02:38 PM (y96+C)

67 My 1WP.
So Mrs D bought that new toilet paper that has the squiggly tear lines. They seem to work just like the old straight tear lines, but I don't think the are the fingers supposed to poke through the paper.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2024 02:38 PM (W/lyH)

68 It's a retirement IRA from a job I left 12 years ago. I don't contribute to it anymore, so it just sits there

It goes up a little, it goes down a little, depending on the market

I wanna cash out and use the money for home improvement
I have other income to provide for my ease in retirement

but I will take a tax hit

Posted by: Don Black at March 10, 2024 02:39 PM (oCjPU)

69 >>>Extra $78,000?

>Is $78K too much to put down on a house in the Biden Economy?

Fuck it, I say zero down and squat like a hobo illegal alien.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 10, 2024 02:40 PM (EEgXH)

70 this is real
I have $78,000 I don't know what to do with
Posted by: Don Black

Go to computershare and look up XOM. PE of 11.5.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2024 02:41 PM (y96+C)

71 My FWP is that written instructions are being replaced more and more by drawings. Instead of writing out "tab A goes into slot B" we've got diagrams with circles and arrows and shit that require a interpretation and may be easily misunderstood. And don't even get me started on pictoral traffic signs!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 10, 2024 02:41 PM (FVME7)

72 I would never attempt to play the stock market

I do not have the expertise

Posted by: Don Black at March 10, 2024 02:42 PM (oCjPU)

73 I have bought splitters made out of about every material available - brass, galvanized steel, nylon, plastic - and NONE of them have lasted more than a few months.

Posted by: mongo at March 10, 2024 02:43 PM (4wlYh)

74 67 My 1WP.
So Mrs D bought that new toilet paper that has the squiggly tear lines. They seem to work just like the old straight tear lines, but I don't think the are the fingers supposed to poke through the paper.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2024 02:38 PM (W/lyH)
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They spent a year testing different perforations, etc. I bet they never actually tried wiping as arse with it.

Posted by: Ciampino - Sticky Fingers -- M Jagger at March 10, 2024 02:43 PM (qfLjt)

75 I would never attempt to play the stock market

I do not have the expertise
Posted by: Don Black

So you're no Nancy Pelosi?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 10, 2024 02:44 PM (FVME7)

76 I would never attempt to play the stock market

I do not have the expertise

In the long term the value of stock goes up, so if you buy and hold on a decent company you come out ok usually.

But day trading? Unless you have insider info it is really, really hard.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2024 02:45 PM (ibTVg)

77 Craftsman 48" Lawn Tractor with Kohler 16.5hp engine (year 2000). Started rough, idling sounded like a running backfire. I assumed it would work itself out. Took it out on the street to clear the curb first. Put it in high gear and it died not to start again.
No fuel in the filter but when take the line loose fuel runs free.

The carburaetor can be picky so I take off the air cleaner and spray carb cleaner into the engine while I'm cranking it. Problem solved.
She's idling like a champ. However when I go to back out of the garage it wants to die. Every time I start to let the clutch out it wants to die. hmmm. I check the connection on the dead man switch and it's come apart - plug that back in. Problem solved and I cut the yard. Drive back into the garage, turn the key off and it doesn't want to stop running. It guffaws its way down.

I think it's an electric fuel cut off failure. Repairing it is a task I'll get to before next cutting.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2024 02:46 PM (B4M0V)

78 >So you're no Nancy Pelosi?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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no, I'd be the guy who bought a million shares of White Star Lines a week before the Titanic left port

Posted by: Don Black at March 10, 2024 02:46 PM (oCjPU)

79 71 My FWP is that written instructions are being replaced more and more by drawings. Instead of writing out "tab A goes into slot B" we've got diagrams with circles and arrows and shit that require a interpretation and may be easily misunderstood. And don't even get me started on pictoral traffic signs!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 10, 2024 02:41 PM (FVME7)
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When 10th graders are reading at 4-5th grade level .... also no comprehension unless it's a video clip on how to eat Tide Pods.

Posted by: Ciampino - a picture is w to a blind manorth .... nothing at March 10, 2024 02:47 PM (qfLjt)

80 Later gang.
Stuff to do.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2024 02:48 PM (W/lyH)

81 It's a retirement IRA from a job I left 12 years ago. I don't contribute to it anymore, so it just sits there

It goes up a little, it goes down a little, depending on the market

I wanna cash out and use the money for home improvement
I have other income to provide for my ease in retirement

but I will take a tax hit
Posted by: Don Black

Given it is pre tax, you can roll it into an IRA and self direct it. And, looking at the world, I remind you that you can buy gold in a self directed IRA

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2024 02:48 PM (y96+C)

82 72 I would never attempt to play the stock market

I do not have the expertise

Posted by: Don Black
------------------------

Parking your money at Exxon is not really playing the market.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2024 02:49 PM (B4M0V)

83 My FWP (updated): When we last left our intrepid hero, he was wrestling mightily to remove a previously installed 3 1/4 x 10 in vent elbow in a wall cavity by a hack.

It took three days, dozens of annoying cuts and scrapes, and the proper application of swear words but I finally got that bastid out.

To install the new one properly took all of 5 minutes. Another 15 to install the new exhaust hood.

This week's FWP coming up - prepare a Corian countertop to receive the new cooktop. The current opening is a half inch too narrow.

Thermite and black powder are available. Decisions, decisions.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 10, 2024 02:50 PM (WXNFJ)

84 We're here to help.

Posted by: Chy Nuh at March 10, 2024 02:50 PM (dg+HA)

85 also, I'm not getting any younger, and 'you can't take it with you'. I have no heirs.

Posted by: Don Black at March 10, 2024 02:51 PM (oCjPU)

86 42 Let's hope the chinese make their tanks the same way they do their waterline splitters.
Posted by: Diogenes

I pictured Wiley Coyote Esq. in a chinky tank, swivels the turret and the turret shears off.
Posted by: Ciampino -
-------------------------

The hatches on their boats aren't watertight.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2024 02:51 PM (B4M0V)

87 also, I'm not getting any younger, and 'you can't take it with you'. I have no heirs.
Posted by: Don Black

Daddy!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at March 10, 2024 02:53 PM (cRrcX)

88 Let's hope the chinese make their tanks the same way they do their waterline splitters.

IN the event of WWIII with Red China I suspect we'll find:

Competent, dedicated Chinese officers with incompetently built equipment

Incompetent, completely indifferent American officers with well built, but incredibly expensive equipment.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2024 02:53 PM (ibTVg)

89 However when I go to back out of the garage it wants to die. Every time I start to let the clutch out it wants to die. hmmm. I check the connection on the dead man switch and it's come apart - plug that back in. Problem solved and I cut the yard. Drive back into the garage, turn the key off and it doesn't want to stop running. It guffaws its way down.

I think it's an electric fuel cut off failure. Repairing it is a task I'll get to before next cutting.
Posted by: Braenyard

If it is like the one I use, you might double check the transport clips. They are tied into the electrical system. I have had issues of dying in gear if they aren't set just right.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2024 02:53 PM (y96+C)

90 I think it's an electric fuel cut off failure. Repairing it is a task I'll get to before next cutting.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2024 02:46 PM (B4M0V)

I doubt there is an electric fuel cutoff. Reason being, solenoid valves cost money. Usually, on outdoor power equipment in this class, the switch is an ignition kill. In the "off" position, a contact closure shorts out the low-voltage side of the ignition coil. Look for a bad ground to the ignition switch, or a faulty connector between it and the engine.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2024 02:54 PM (tkR6S)

91 The hatches on their boats aren't watertight.
Posted by: Braenyard

Confirmed. Sailor son was invited to a visit on a brand new Cynese warship. His verdict - bad welds, dangerous wiring, lack of watertight anything, no NBC capability at all.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 10, 2024 02:54 PM (WXNFJ)

92 Parking your money at Exxon is not really playing the market.
Posted by: Braenyard

And you can buy the stock in an IRA and delay the tax hit.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2024 02:54 PM (y96+C)

93 I probably have a dozen or more hose fitting like that or similar style connectors. In steel, brass and plastic.
They all suck.

Posted by: From about that Time at March 10, 2024 02:54 PM (4780s)

94 I did minimum outside, it's nasty out there

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2024 02:54 PM (fwDg9)

95 FWP :
measuring cups that pour all over the counter.
WTF Pyrex?!
Is that really the best (design) you can do?

Posted by: Heirloominati at March 10, 2024 02:54 PM (CtJ/Z)

96 86
The hatches on their boats aren't watertight.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2024 02:51 PM (B4M0V)
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Are the screen doors latchable?

Posted by: Ciampino - what quality welding on their ships? at March 10, 2024 02:55 PM (qfLjt)

97 I'm 66 this year

how much more delay do I have in me

Posted by: Don Black at March 10, 2024 02:55 PM (oCjPU)

98 Real FWP here. Have you ever tried to cut similar sized slices off a baguette?

Posted by: Pete Bog at March 10, 2024 02:56 PM (BHL6B)

99 Comes in the welcome basket when you join the Judean People’s Front.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 10, 2024 02:56 PM (u73oe)

100 Real FWP here. Have you ever tried to cut similar sized slices off a baguette?
Posted by: Pete Bog

Betcha AOP has a surveyor's transit you can borrow.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 10, 2024 02:57 PM (WXNFJ)

101 CBD - The appropriate Dilbert cartoon:
https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/2001-03-09

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 10, 2024 02:58 PM (XeU6L)

102
It's from Chi Nah

Posted by: The Guy Who's Always at a Loss For Words at March 10, 2024 02:58 PM (PePXk)

103 How do the IRAs work once you hit retirement + age?

I know dad has to take a mandatory minimum disbursement. But if I needed more to pay for aides to come in can I drain the whole account? He is over 80, I'm sure there is some complicated formula.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 10, 2024 02:58 PM (wTs+0)

104 85 also, I'm not getting any younger, and 'you can't take it with you'. I have no heirs.
Posted by: Don Black at March 10, 2024 02:51 PM (oCjPU)

Gubs & brass already covered?

Posted by: Heirloominati at March 10, 2024 02:59 PM (CtJ/Z)

105 right- and what is the age when I have to start taking distributions?

Posted by: Don Black at March 10, 2024 02:59 PM (oCjPU)

106 I see the VA is still mandating the clot shot.

Guess they haven't killed enough vets yet...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2024 02:59 PM (ibTVg)

107 >Gubs & brass already covered?

Posted by: Heirloominati

I have to figure out what to do with them, too

Posted by: Don Black at March 10, 2024 03:00 PM (oCjPU)

108 also, I'm not getting any younger, and 'you can't take it with you'. I have no heirs.
Posted by: Don Black at March 10, 2024 02:51 PM (oCjPU)

————

Hookers and blow out of the question?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 10, 2024 03:00 PM (u73oe)

109 measuring cups that pour all over the counter.
WTF Pyrex?!
Is that really the best (design) you can do?
Posted by: Heirloominati

I had to replace a measuring cup. The new ones have a hook handle instead of a full handle like a coffee mug. When you pull them out of the dishwasher, they hook on the rack enough to pull them out of your hand. I guess there isn't planned obsolescence for measuring cups, so they want you to break them.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2024 03:00 PM (y96+C)

110 I have usually had good luck with these fixtures UNTIL workers (painters, pressure washers, landscapers, etc) use them. For some reason - and without fail - the workers will turn the shutoff switch in the wrong direction. It amazes me the force required to turn it in the wrong direction but the determination that the workers exhibit in forcing the switch.

Posted by: JT Smith at March 10, 2024 03:01 PM (FxdZx)

111 Yay! Proton VPN (free version) is working again on Linux Mint. It had stopped connecting after an update. Proton does not support Linux Mint but the Proton guy I was emailing back and forth with was helpful. I did absolutely nothing with his suggestions. The first thing I did today was just download the latest Linux Mint updates. One of them was a lone Proton VPN update. Maybe it was a fix, not sure, but I can connect again. I love it when my minimal troubleshooting works. I start with simple and easy first and work my way up. Do the same at work.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 10, 2024 03:01 PM (sAmhv)

112 I see the VA is still mandating the clot shot.

Guess they haven't killed enough vets yet...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2024 02:59 PM (ibTVg)

I have an appointment Friday. Nothing was said to me. I thought they did away with the mandate.

I'm not taking the fucking shot.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 10, 2024 03:02 PM (R4t5M)

113 C'mon dude, comparative advantage, man~! We don't need factories. They stink like farts and stuff. Climate change, man~!
* BONG RIP *

Posted by: lolbertarians at March 10, 2024 03:02 PM (IG4Id)

114 right- and what is the age when I have to start taking distributions?
Posted by: Don Black

As of right now, 72

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2024 03:02 PM (y96+C)

115 Do what I did, buy a new car with cash.
That way you get to haggle.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 10, 2024 03:02 PM (MeG8a)

116
I probably have a dozen or more hose fitting like that or similar style connectors. In steel, brass and plastic.
They all suck.

My wice is a huge fan of the quick connect hose fittings. I fooking hate them.

Unless they are unscrewed from time to time, they will corrode and become nearly impossible to remove from the hose to which they are connected. And later, they themselves will corrode and become impossible to join with their own kind.

We'd have been better off just using the $$$ spent on them to start charcoal for grilling food.

Posted by: The Guy Who's Always at a Loss For Words at March 10, 2024 03:03 PM (PePXk)

117 See on phone news Marines we're sent to evacuate people from Haiti

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2024 03:03 PM (fwDg9)

118 The reason the hose fitting broke is because CBD and the other Morons actually do GAINZZZZ!

Those fittings are made for soy boys, and are certainly strong enough for "men" that think lifting a Starbucks coffee counts as a bicep curl.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at March 10, 2024 03:03 PM (HlyYF)

119 He can take as much as he wants, it is taxed as income.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 10, 2024 03:04 PM (u/iZz)

120 I have an appointment Friday. Nothing was said to me. I thought they did away with the mandate.

For people working there.

So every DR or nurse you see was forced to take that poison.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2024 03:04 PM (ibTVg)

121
The test batch came back just fine. The first production batch came in, and low and behold, the stainless steel turned out to be pot metal in lab testing. Impressive how much effort was put in to make garbage look like stainless.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2024 02:38 PM (y96+C)

$1 in Chinee labor is actually cheaper than $1 in stainless steel.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 10, 2024 03:04 PM (n+4am)

122 We are not leaving our heirs whatever is left of our estate. Not kidding. All but two don't need it and the others would just piss it away on cross-dressing shows and weed.

We'll give it to a very select few organizations.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 10, 2024 03:04 PM (WXNFJ)

123 I know dad has to take a mandatory minimum disbursement. But if I needed more to pay for aides to come in can I drain the whole account? He is over 80, I'm sure there is some complicated formula.
Posted by: PaleRider

Yes, the RMD is the minimum. You can take out whatever you want, but is taxes at income tax rates.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2024 03:05 PM (y96+C)

124 Internet so take with huge grain of salt Don Black. But you should not have the extra penalty if you took your whole IRA. Depending on your base income you might want to take in 2 or 3 chunks while breaking up home improvements over time to avoid hitting higher tax bracket.

"You can take distributions from your IRA (including your SEP-IRA or SIMPLE-IRA) at any time. There is no need to show a hardship to take a distribution. However, your distribution will be includible in your taxable income and it may be subject to a 10% additional tax if you're under age 59 1/2 "

Posted by: PaleRider at March 10, 2024 03:06 PM (wTs+0)

125 For people working there.

So every DR or nurse you see was forced to take that poison.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2024 03:04 PM (ibTVg)

Understood.

That's some fucking bullshit. They should sue.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 10, 2024 03:06 PM (R4t5M)

126 See on phone news Marines we're sent to evacuate people from Haiti

What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 10, 2024 03:07 PM (V8he0)

127 That's some fucking bullshit. They should sue.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

No standing!
-- Spineless SCOTUS

Posted by: Tonypete at March 10, 2024 03:07 PM (WXNFJ)

128 Remember too the government fully admits the clot shot does not "stop the spread". So the only argument for the clot shot is "we want you to take it"

Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2024 03:08 PM (ibTVg)

129 I wanted to say solenoid but not sure if that's correct.
It's on the underside of the carb bowl, when the ignition switch is cut off it shuts off fuel to the engine.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2024 03:09 PM (B4M0V)

130 I have two FWP's: one is the shower mixer in the family shower. I think it's a Delta from HD. The other is my old 20 amp twin tank Campbell Husfield air compressor was gently zapping me when I went to connect the hose the tank coupling. I am loathe to replace it, but, it is 20 fucking amps and that is too much just about everywhere.

Posted by: Jamaica at March 10, 2024 03:09 PM (IG7T0)

131 You can take distributions from your IRA (including your SEP-IRA or SIMPLE-IRA) at any time. There is no need to show a hardship to take a distribution. However, your distribution will be includible in your taxable income and it may be subject to a 10% additional tax if you're under age 59 1/2 "
Posted by: PaleRider

If it is still in a 401K it needs to be rolled into an IRA first.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2024 03:10 PM (y96+C)

132 I wanted to say solenoid but not sure if that's correct.
It's on the underside of the carb bowl, when the ignition switch is cut off it shuts off fuel to the engine.
Posted by: Braenyard

hydrocoptic marzlevanes.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 10, 2024 03:10 PM (WXNFJ)

133 I need to talk to my financial guy

Posted by: Don Black at March 10, 2024 03:11 PM (oCjPU)

134 Look for a bad ground to the ignition switch, or a faulty connector between it and the engine.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I'll do that. Seems as if a lot of little things are requiring attention. May as well buy that seat spring for the deadman switch too.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2024 03:12 PM (B4M0V)

135 Posted by: Jamaica at March 10, 2024 03:09 PM (IG7T0)

If it's Delta, they will guarantee it for life.

I never buy anything else. They have a higher-end brand called Brizo, but both are good stuff.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 10, 2024 03:13 PM (gSZYf)

136 Dad's retirement was rolled into an IRA. When I've gone online the last couple years since it got too hard for him to take care of things over the phone I get a short period of YIKES when I pull up "retirement fund" on the TR page and get the "you have nothing here" error before I get myself navigated to the IRA section.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 10, 2024 03:14 PM (wTs+0)

137 My Goldman Sachs's money market that I got for getting an Apple MC is paying 4.5%apr

Posted by: Jamaica at March 10, 2024 03:14 PM (IG7T0)

138
I'm not seeing too much information or outrage, but it appears that JoeDementia has now made Social Security taxable income. Bracket creep and inflation adjustments are pushing some seniors who made decent money in their working years into taxable tax brackets. No wonder he needs 80,000 new IRS agents. They found money to be mined and those old folks are low-hanging fruit.

'Hello, I'm from the IRS and I'm here to help... redistribute your check to someone more deserving."

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 10, 2024 03:14 PM (RKVpM)

139 Syrian refugee who was in 'fawning' BBC documentary about the plight of asylum-seekers is convicted of raping a 13-year-old girl seven times

https://mol.im/a/13178507

Lovely people.

Posted by: Ciampino - he had stamina? at March 10, 2024 03:15 PM (qfLjt)

140
I'm not "the guy"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 10, 2024 03:15 PM (PePXk)

141
measuring cups that pour all over the counter.
WTF Pyrex?!
Is that really the best (design) you can do?
Posted by: Heirloominati

Plus, the Pyrex brand doesn't use the borosilicate glass anymore. The clear glass is the high quality borosilicate, while the bluish tinted glass is a shittier type of soda glass.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 10, 2024 03:16 PM (n+4am)

142 Social Security was tax free until Biden personally intervened as a senator to make it taxable. Look it up.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 10, 2024 03:16 PM (MeG8a)

143 Extra $78,000?

I'm really disappointed that no one so far has mentioned the obvious:

Lottery Tickets!

The scratch off kind.

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at March 10, 2024 03:17 PM (a/7LW)

144 My money is on if ever a real Zombie Apocalypse happens it starts in Haiti

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2024 03:18 PM (fwDg9)

145 I'm not seeing too much information or outrage, but it appears that JoeDementia has now made Social Security taxable income. Bracket creep and inflation adjustments are pushing some seniors who made decent money in their working years into taxable tax brackets. No wonder he needs 80,000 new IRS agents. They found money to be mined and those old folks are low-hanging fruit.

Revealing, yet again, they don't give a shit what people think anymore.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 10, 2024 03:18 PM (R4t5M)

146
What could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: Notorious BFD

They actually rescue some slime-sucking grifters affiliated with the Clinton Foundation?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 10, 2024 03:18 PM (PePXk)

147 138. I thought SS or part of it has been taxable for ages.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 10, 2024 03:18 PM (wTs+0)

148 I wanted to say solenoid but not sure if that's correct.
It's on the underside of the carb bowl, when the ignition switch is cut off it shuts off fuel to the engine.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2024 03:09 PM (B4M0V)

Well, that is a sort of solenoid. Electromagnetic jet, maybe? I have seen electromagnetic pilot jets on several automotive carburetors, notably VW beetles. The idea is to cut off the carburetor idle fuel circuit so that a hot engine does not "run on" when the ignition is shut off. Some people call this "dieseling". When run-on happens, the engine is typically very rough and jerky, and there is a big smell of unburned fuel.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2024 03:19 PM (tkR6S)

149 103. I know dad has to take a mandatory minimum disbursement. But if I needed more to pay for aides to come in can I drain the whole account? He is over 80, I'm sure there is some complicated formula.
Posted by: PaleRider
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IRS dot gov: Retirement plan and IRA Required Minimum Distributions FAQs
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Must take minimum but more can be taken. How was the account set up? Are you your father's Payee Representative or similar designation? Beneficiaries assigned if balance exists upon his passing, or was it assigned to Estate?

Same with his checking account if MDR goes into there.

Posted by: L - I have complete confidence they're refining their rope-a-dope tactics at March 10, 2024 03:19 PM (GshMh)

150 U.S. military flies Marines into Haiti embassy, evacuating some staff in overnight airlift
Story by Jacqueline Charles and Michael Wilner, Miami Herald
• 1h

Posted by: Don Black at March 10, 2024 03:19 PM (oCjPU)

151 this is real
I have $78,000 I don't know what to do with
Posted by: Don Black

Buy a machine gun or three. You can shoot em, play with em and sell em for more than you paid for it in a few years.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 10, 2024 03:19 PM (R/m4+)

152 Syrian refugee who was in 'fawning' BBC documentary about the plight of asylum-seekers is convicted of raping a 13-year-old girl seven times

https://mol.im/a/13178507

Lovely people.
Posted by: Ciampino - he had stamina? at March 10, 2024 03:15 PM (qfLjt)

Castration might be salutary. Him and 9 others just to drive the lesson home.

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 10, 2024 03:20 PM (rWwta)

153
I wanted to say solenoid but not sure if that's correct.
It's on the underside of the carb bowl, when the ignition switch is cut off it shuts off fuel to the engine.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2024 03:09 PM

The solenoid stopped working correctly on my tractor and I disconnected/removed (forget which) it and installed a manual fuel cutoff. The purpose of the solenoid seems to be to stop fuel to prevent backfire when shutting down. Now I starve the tractor of fuel about 30 seconds before parking it. No backfire. Clean carb for winter storage.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 10, 2024 03:20 PM (RKVpM)

154 126 See on phone news Marines we're sent to evacuate people from Haiti
What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Notorious BFD
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Evacuate them to the Dominican Republic, to Cuba; to where per chance are they being evacuated?

Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2024 03:20 PM (B4M0V)

155 the people being evacuated are US Embassy personnel

I guess we just bring them back to the US

Posted by: Don Black at March 10, 2024 03:21 PM (oCjPU)

156 Came too late for the book thread.

Balaji
@balajis
Like everything else in Sulzberger’s paper, the NYT bestseller list is fake.
They were forced to admit in court that it’s not a ranked list. It’s actually “editorial content” and they can exclude books they don’t like.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 10, 2024 03:22 PM (FVME7)

157 We're going to get a least a battalion of Haitian males when this is all hashed out. I wouldn't doubt if our IC is down there orchestrating that disaster.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 10, 2024 03:22 PM (R4t5M)

158 I did not know that, CBD. I see on YouTube that there should be a sticker inside telling male and model..
The guys who did the bath were stupids. One day the wife says to me that the toilet is leaking. So, yep, leaks when flushed. A little YouTube and get set up to pull the toilet and put a new wax ring in. They used two rings "2 B sure" but instead misaligned the outlet and the drain.

Posted by: Jamaica at March 10, 2024 03:23 PM (IG7T0)

159 Lest we forget Dubya went on the air with Clinton to beg folks to donate to relief for Haiti after their big earthquake. I wonder if he got a slice of the grift or just did that to help a fellow globalist.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 10, 2024 03:23 PM (wTs+0)

160 OK thanks for the discussion
gotta go do stuff
I'll miss the food thread, but suffice it to say: meatloaf tonight

Posted by: Don Black at March 10, 2024 03:25 PM (oCjPU)

161 They don't care who the illegals vote for. What matters is that urban populations overwhelm the rural.

Posted by: Jamaica at March 10, 2024 03:26 PM (IG7T0)

162 A metaphor for Socialist Commie/fascism...

Posted by: Fisht at March 10, 2024 03:26 PM (BHEHK)

163 Saw an interesting post on X today.
Dominion: the definition is the opposite of Freedom.
Dominion's motto is Changing the Way We Vote.
Their logo is a red piece of paper going in to a red bucket and another one going out is blue.
They're not hiding anything.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 10, 2024 03:26 PM (MeG8a)

164 >>>I wonder if he got a slice of the grift or just did that to help a fellow globalist.

Posted by: PaleRider
----------------------

You bet ya.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2024 03:27 PM (B4M0V)

165 They don't care who the illegals vote for. What matters is that urban populations overwhelm the rural.
Posted by: Jamaica

If they don't vote, all the better. They still count for representation, so only 20-30 percent of a city controls the city.

Representation without taxation.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2024 03:28 PM (y96+C)

166 Don Black, I agree, dying in a house in need of repairs because you didn't want to tax your IRA is pretty stupid.
Unless you are making too much money to have asked this question, you'll probably be taxed at 24% federal on whatever you take out, and 85% of your social security will also be taxed at that rate. So add those two amounts together and multiply by 24% (maybe 30% with state, although many states don't tax retirement income).
Put that amount aside to pay your taxes, and fix up what needs fixin.

Posted by: From about that Time at March 10, 2024 03:28 PM (4780s)

167
My reading of the Social Security machinations/bracket creep is that many couples will now decide to divorce to escape higher taxes as a couple and be able to once again afford groceries, rent, utilities, etc.

The breakup of the American family continues. The 'Long March' continues and half the country does not GAF, actually approves.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 10, 2024 03:29 PM (RKVpM)

168 I think it takes tremendous skill and planning to use only the worst materials and the worst manufacturing techniques and a total absence of quality control to produce something this monumentally inferior!

You ain't seen nothing yet, round-eye!

Posted by: Big Panda, a wholly-0wned subsidery of Big Penguin at March 10, 2024 03:31 PM (a3Q+t)

169 Foam toilet rings >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> wax toilet rings.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 10, 2024 03:34 PM (a3Q+t)

170 3 My FWP.
this is real
I have $78,000 I don't know what to do with
Posted by: Don Black

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Gifting? Smart Assets: Gift Tax, Explained: 2024 Exemptions and Rates, Updated on February 6, 2024

Example: For 2024, the annual gift tax exclusion is $18,000, meaning a person can give up to $18,000 to as many people as he or she wants without having to pay any taxes on the gifts. For example, a man could give $18,000 to each of his 10 grandchildren this year with no gift tax implications.

Posted by: L - I have complete confidence they're refining their rope-a-dope tactics at March 10, 2024 03:35 PM (GshMh)

171 169 Foam toilet rings >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> wax toilet rings.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 10, 2024 03:34 PM (a3Q+t)

Makes sense it would. Do they last as long?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson work phone at March 10, 2024 03:35 PM (5YGrl)

172 Mailed out ballots get filled out by the recipient if it was mailed to them or not

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2024 03:35 PM (fwDg9)

173 @3

>>My FWP. this is real
I have $78,000 I don't know what to do with.

Take 25k and buy Microsoft, take 25k and buy nvidia, take 20k and put it in an aggressive growth mutual fund, take 8k and buy your wife something nice.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 10, 2024 03:37 PM (XV/Pl)

174 A few people have commented on my tools, appliances, and whatnot being old or purchased used, but once I explain that they are not "smart" and were made at a time things were built to last more than the warranty period, a little light comes on inside their head.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2024 03:38 PM (y96+C)

175 Speaking of problems:

@guypbenson
New ABC poll on issue trust

Economy:
49% Trump
37% Biden

Inflation:
45% Trump
31% Biden

Crime:
41% Trump
35% Biden

Immigration/Border:
45% Trump
29% Biden

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2024 03:38 PM (IG4Id)

176 You got a permit for that tree?

Posted by: Weasel at March 10, 2024 03:40 PM (JwHpX)

177 You got a permit for that tree?
Posted by: Weasel

If not you'll have to leave.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 10, 2024 03:41 PM (WXNFJ)

178 For example, a man could give $18,000 to each of his 10 grandchildren this year with no gift tax implications.
Posted by: L

Except the money in this example is pre tax, so it will be taxed as income to the giver. The only way to extract pre tax income and not pay tax ever is via a qualified charitable contribution.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2024 03:41 PM (y96+C)

179 Black Star Line turned out to be a better investment than White Star Lines, plus you get beaucoup DEI points.

Posted by: Marcus Garvey, Founder at March 10, 2024 03:42 PM (V5BDR)

180 Yes...that is sheared off!

I guess you didn't know your own strength...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 10, 2024 03:42 PM (ynpvh)

181 The only way to extract pre tax income and not pay tax ever is via a qualified charitable contribution.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

We know! Isn't America great!!?? Howdya like Chelsie's wedding?

-- Clinton Charitable Foundation

Posted by: Tonypete at March 10, 2024 03:43 PM (WXNFJ)

182 The only way to extract pre tax income and not pay tax ever is via ~~a qualified charitable contribution~~ an under the table payment to Joe via Hunter Biden.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2024 03:44 PM (D7oie)

183 Biden's Humanitarian Parole Programs

Q - Can Haitians apply for humanitarian parole?
In order to be considered for the humanitarian parole program, an individual must meet the following criteria: Is a national of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, or Venezuela, or is the immediate relative of a national of one of those countries who is applying for the program.Oct 31, 2023

Posted by: L - I have complete confidence they're refining their rope-a-dope tactics at March 10, 2024 03:44 PM (GshMh)

184 1st world problem:
Feeding the cats this morning. As I pulled back on the tab to open the can, the tab came off. Fortunately there was enough of the can open to get something under the lid to pop it off.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 10, 2024 03:44 PM (ynpvh)

185 The finest sintered pot metal.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson work phone at March 10, 2024 03:44 PM (5YGrl)

186 I need to get up and add something funny to the Gun Thread about the time change today. Any suggestions?

Posted by: Weasel at March 10, 2024 03:46 PM (JwHpX)

187 186 I need to get up and add something funny to the Gun Thread about the time change today. Any suggestions?

Posted by: Weasel at March 10, 2024 03:46 PM (JwHpX)

Dunno. Daylight (so-called) Savings time shoots my Sunday to sh*t.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 10, 2024 03:46 PM (ynpvh)

188 @186

>> I need to get up and add something funny to the Gun Thread about the time change today. Any suggestions?

Find a picture of a clock that's been shot and go with that.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 10, 2024 03:47 PM (XV/Pl)

189 Foam toilet rings >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> wax toilet rings.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 10, 2024 03:34 PM (a3Q+t)

Makes sense it would. Do they last as long?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson work phone at March 10, 2024 03:35 PM

AFAIK (and in my personal limited (~5 yr.) experience), yes. Plus, they're reusable, which is very nice when you have to mount/remount the toilet due to alignment issues.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 10, 2024 03:47 PM (a3Q+t)

190 The similarities in usefulness between the M-16 forward assist and the time change? Bureaucratic stupidity.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson work phone at March 10, 2024 03:47 PM (5YGrl)

191 188 @186

>> I need to get up and add something funny to the Gun Thread about the time change today. Any suggestions?

Find a picture of a clock that's been shot and go with that.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 10, 2024 03:47 PM (XV/Pl)

That's one way to move a clock forward.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 10, 2024 03:48 PM (ynpvh)

192 Wax ring is cheap and works.

Posted by: Jamaica cheap jah mahn at March 10, 2024 03:48 PM (IG7T0)

193 I need to get up and add something funny to the Gun Thread about the time change today. Any suggestions?
Posted by: Weasel at March 10, 2024 03:46 PM

Humor is allowed in the Gun Thread?

When was this change made?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 10, 2024 03:48 PM (a3Q+t)

194 Just to explain QCD, once you are 72 or older, you can have your IRA custodian send a check to a qualified charity like a church once per year, and that money counts toward your RMD, but is excluded from your taxable income, so it is a way to fund charity and never pay income tax on the donated money.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2024 03:49 PM (y96+C)

195 193 I need to get up and add something funny to the Gun Thread about the time change today. Any suggestions?
Posted by: Weasel at March 10, 2024 03:46 PM

Humor is allowed in the Gun Thread?

When was this change made?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 10, 2024 03:48 PM (a3Q+t)

As long as it's done politely, as the aphorism about an armed society goes.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 10, 2024 03:49 PM (ynpvh)

196 CBD- I think it takes tremendous skill and planning to use only the worst materials and the worst manufacturing techniques and a total absence of quality control to produce something this monumentally inferior!

******

Maybe they were going for broke!?

😋

Posted by: Muldoon at March 10, 2024 03:50 PM (991eG)

197 186 I need to get up and add something funny to the Gun Thread about the time change today. Any suggestions?

Posted by: Weasel at March 10, 2024 03:46 PM (JwHpX)
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Bullet thinking: if I'm in flight to the target when the time change occurs, does it mean I get there faster or tomorrow?

Posted by: Ciampino - brainy bullets at March 10, 2024 03:50 PM (qfLjt)

198 Wife missed 10 o'clock service because I only adjusted the microwave clock and not the oven, too. A gun woulda been handy right then

Posted by: Jamaica at March 10, 2024 03:51 PM (IG7T0)

199 194 Just to explain QCD, once you are 72 or older, you can have your IRA custodian send a check to a qualified charity like a church once per year, and that money counts toward your RMD, but is excluded from your taxable income, so it is a way to fund charity and never pay income tax on the donated money.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2024 03:49 PM (y96+C)

I thought QCD was a about Quantum color change.
https://youtu.be/ti1SA02ZiTA

(Scary however: ad on top of EweToob: Charitable Deductions From IRA - Free Estate Planning Toolkit).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 10, 2024 03:52 PM (ynpvh)

200 I need to get up and add something funny to the Gun Thread about the time change today. Any suggestions?
Posted by: Weasel at March 10, 2024 03:46 PM

Just point out that effective shooting can begin at BMNT, regardless of what the clock says.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2024 03:53 PM (W/lyH)

201 About the photo in the header:
Didn't the Klinton Krime Fambly lecture us endlessly on how moving all US manufacturing, stripping us of independence, and furthering the US toward insolvency was "Good...far the Am-err-cunn peepll". Anyone remember that fucking lie besides me? Anyone?

Cheap manufacturing knockoff techniques from the Godless fucks in chyyna not good enough for you? Tough shit. You're stuck with it.
Now, gimme allll dat monies to fight Climate Change. Sucker.

Posted by: Dan Patterson at March 10, 2024 03:53 PM (0Zswy)

202 197 186 I need to get up and add something funny to the Gun Thread about the time change today. Any suggestions?

Posted by: Weasel at March 10, 2024 03:46 PM (JwHpX)
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Bullet thinking: if I'm in flight to the target when the time change occurs, does it mean I get there faster or tomorrow?

Posted by: Ciampino - brainy bullets at March 10, 2024 03:50 PM (qfLjt)

You create a flux capacitor.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 10, 2024 03:53 PM (ynpvh)

203 We don’t need manufacturing jobs….we got service jobs.
‘You wantsum fries wit dat?’

Posted by: Eromero at March 10, 2024 03:55 PM (NxC5+)

204 Done!

Posted by: Weasel at March 10, 2024 03:57 PM (JwHpX)

205 203 We don’t need manufacturing jobs….we got service jobs.
‘You wantsum fries wit dat?’

Posted by: Eromero at March 10, 2024 03:55 PM (NxC5+)

Service economy runs very well in DC and state capitols.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 10, 2024 03:57 PM (ynpvh)

206 Just to explain QCD, once you are 72 or older, you can have your IRA custodian send a check to a qualified charity like a church once per year, and that money counts toward your RMD, but is excluded from your taxable income, so it is a way to fund charity and never pay income tax on the donated money.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

I misspoke - you can start QCD at 70.5, and RMD have to start at 72.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2024 03:58 PM (y96+C)

207 Get cleaned up and upstairs
FOODIE NOODIE

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2024 04:01 PM (fwDg9)

208 I quit doing yard work in 1974. Spousel unit worked in landscaping for a few years. She does a good job. She also takes care of the pool. My wife, i think I'll keep her.

Posted by: javems at March 10, 2024 04:02 PM (8I4hW)

209
We don’t need manufacturing jobs….we got service jobs.
‘You wantsum fries wit dat?’

Posted by: Eromero at March 10, 2024 03:55 PM

Using an inflation modifier on the manufacturing facility I ran, those people I employed would be making $65,000 today vs $40,000 ($20.00 an hour) for the best paying fast food employee today.

Those people really made out fat in losing their manufacturing jobs to Chyna. Were people of color, disable, or others with issues inordinately effected? You betcha.

But the Blacks and other groups will keep voting for the (D)'s because 'they care'. Hahaha, they got the shaft and Charles Barkley is gonna beat them up if they notice.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 10, 2024 04:02 PM (RKVpM)

210 178. Except the money in this example is pre tax, so it will be taxed as income to the giver. The only way to extract pre tax income and not pay tax ever is via a qualified charitable contribution.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Then, he's over 59 1/2 years old, go the Minimum Distributions route. Pay the taxes on that amount on an annual basis, leaving cash available to make home related repairs, etc. But do not drag the distribution through to age 97.5, or whatever the IRS has calculated as doable, as he has no heirs. ??? (Take it over 10 years, don't let house fall into disrepair because NGOs are hunting them down to take into conservatorship.)

Posted by: L - I have complete confidence they're refining their rope-a-dope tactics at March 10, 2024 04:03 PM (GshMh)

211 The current economic activity in the US is the mining and redistribution of the wealth of the older generation that created all the wealth to start with.

Posted by: pawn at March 10, 2024 04:04 PM (QB+5g)

212 Checked the engine for proper identification, went to the Kohler parts department only to discover that the needed part, a fuel cut off solenoid, in fact, all parts for my engine have been discontinued.
Thanks Kohler.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2024 04:10 PM (B4M0V)

213 >>>Yes...that is sheared off!

Time for Superglue!

Posted by: m at March 10, 2024 04:22 PM (o3SCB)

214 Had one of those cheap plastic ends for a clothes rod in the closet break. Wooden rod so it sagged instead of bending like a metal one would. Luckily Ace is open on Sunday so I picked up a set of metal ends. Twenty minutes later and that's fixed.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at March 10, 2024 04:45 PM (dZVON)

215 The modern world moves too fast.

I've been trying to sleep through a YouTube documentary about Roman military history, and they keep talking about Seezer and Skippy-O.

I can't keep up with all these new Rap artists.

Posted by: Tom Perry at March 10, 2024 05:30 PM (MX0bI)

216 This isn't a 'splitter' - there's no cable connections on it! Can't fool me, y' know - I been a round.

Posted by: Dr_No at March 10, 2024 05:42 PM (ayRl+)

217 I remember not to long ago you could go to Sears or a local hardware store and buy one made in this exotic place called USA, made out of high-quality brass, maybe we could start importing stuff from them again.

Posted by: David H at March 10, 2024 06:42 PM (tahWp)

218 You would have been better off to buy a plastic one instead of overpaying for a fake brass one.

Posted by: rocdoctom at March 10, 2024 07:01 PM (NKIHl)

219 "this is real
I have $78,000 I don't know what to do with"

Buy an EV and sell it back to the dealer. That will get rid of half of it.

Posted by: mark at March 10, 2024 08:21 PM (l8wwz)

220 Luckily Ace is open on Sunday
Yes, Ace is the place for your shelving needs.

There was passing mention yesterday of the Italians over-engineering everything like a work of art, and then the usual snide reference to the Fiat someguy got given to him in college and how it wasn't as reliable as Dustin Hoffman's Alfa Romeo.

Let it be said, the Italians make the finest metal hose fittings and nozzles in the world. But you're going to buy Chinese again, aren't you? And then use this technology to squeal?

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