First-World Problems...

Some of you will recognize that plumbing fixture. Others will be mopping up the mess after your washing machine feed lines ruptured.

Or...you know...not.

I don't know how often feed lines rupture. I have stainless steel lines, and I can't imagine that robust water lines such as those fail very often, but the conventional wisdom is to turn off the water when you are away.

Okay. I do that. Faithfully!

So I have saved my home from presumably countless floods! I feel so virtuous!

But I also faithfully forget to turn the water back on, so the first load of laundry after a trip is always a clown show.

"The washing machine is broken!"

And even better, when one of the brats comes to the house when we are gone and wants to do laundry, the phone calls are reminiscent of an Abbott And Costello sketch.

"The washing machine is broken!"

No it isn't. The water is turned off."

"How do I turn it back on?"

"Just flip the lever behind the machine."

"Where?"

"On the wall behind the machine."

"I don't see it."

"It's got two steel water lines running from it!"

"All I see is one big tube!"

"That's the dryer. Please call your college. I want a refund."

Posted by: CBD at 02:00 PM

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Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2025 02:00 PM (+qU29)

2 I've had those rubber feed line rupture but not often enough to think about it every time I leave the house.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 26, 2025 02:03 PM (3nLb4)

3 clearly there is some sort of problem here.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 26, 2025 02:03 PM (rbvCR)

4 Why so complicated?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 26, 2025 02:05 PM (N03yu)

5 my problem was not the feed hoses, it was the hose from the drum to the pump that came loose during the filling phase. I only realized there was a problem because I started wondering why my "small" load of laundry was taking so long to fill.

One day I will have a floor drain in my laundry room and never be paranoid again.

(except for snakes coming up it)y

Posted by: Kindltot at October 26, 2025 02:06 PM (rbvCR)

6 Just as with outhouses, the world was a better place when laundry was done by the womenfolk taking it down to the river and beating it with rocks.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 26, 2025 02:06 PM (0Xkm6)

7 Really thinking often of getting that professional plumbing crimping tool for a grand .
Plumbing here is almost a hobby

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2025 02:07 PM (+qU29)

8 It’s worse than that. I can’t remember if open is up or down. The tub drain closes when I pull it up. The light switch turns on when I flip it up.
Help meeeee!

Posted by: RI Red at October 26, 2025 02:07 PM (QhDJW)

9
I had this convo once with my wife trying to get her to open up the valve for the sprinklers.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 26, 2025 02:08 PM (PGEno)

10 I don't know why a washer line would break if left for a few weeks. Certainly not a steel one. I have rubber ones, and we tend to do a bunch of laundry on a free weekend, and then leave it for a few weeks. No problems.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 26, 2025 02:10 PM (BI5O2)

11 Target Is Eliminating 1,800 Corporate Jobs as It Looks to Reclaim Its Lost Luster

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Wait. Target had luster?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, OMGWTFBBQ! at October 26, 2025 02:12 PM (L/fGl)

12 reminiscent of an Abbott And Costello sketch.

Miss a 1/2 cup in the lines at the Minnesota fishing camp and you get

"the waters not on"
"the pump is running"
"I hear water"
"Shit it's spraying behind the wall"
add 1/2 day delay in opening.

Today's FWP plumbing problem appears to have given up the clog to 4 pots of boiling water and 1/3 bottle of Zep drano.

Wasn't looking forward to the cross basement snake adventure today

Posted by: DaveA at October 26, 2025 02:12 PM (FhXTo)

13 Just as with outhouses, the world was a better place when laundry was done by the womenfolk taking it down to the river and beating it with rocks.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 26, 2025 02:06 PM (0Xkm6)
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I remember as a child in our city slicker apartment, even though we had a washing machine, my mother OBM washed certain garments on a corrugated metal washboard in a wooden frame.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 26, 2025 02:12 PM (N03yu)

14
ChatGPT to the rescue. A light flips on in my dash yesterday. I photograph it, ask ChatGPT what it is. "Your tires are low."

It's funny, when I went to the hardware store to buy a tire gauge, the other one is in my mom's car (which turned out not to be necessary anyway because I discovered a few minutes later that the pressure check at those $2.00 for Air machines is free), I asked the guy behind the counter what the difference was between the $2 gauge and the $6 gauge. He laughed. "I don't know; I don't know anything about checking tires!"

I didn't feel so bad after that. I felt great putting air in those tires and watching the light go away.

ALSO, the $2.00 air itself is also free. You just ask the guy at the counter and he turns it on for you.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2025 02:13 PM (5e+/e)

15 Yea, I flip the switch out of habit. You only need to have a hose rupture once and you will know why.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 26, 2025 02:13 PM (viF8m)

16
FWP #1

I have an ice dispenser on my refrigerator. I push the lever with my glass and cubes fall in. Very, very slowly at first. Then, when the glass gets almost full, the flow increases dramatically and cubes are falling all over the floor. To be kicked under the refrigerator.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 26, 2025 02:14 PM (tgvbd)

17 'I don't know how often feed lines rupture. I have stainless steel lines, and I can't imagine that robust water lines such as those fail very often, but the conventional wisdom is to turn off the water when you are away.'

That fixture is nice to have but I have had washers for decades and worked on them but have never had the water lines rupture.

Plus, you have to be there to deactivate the water supply. Now a valve that detects a drop in pressure and shuts itself? That would be good to have.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 26, 2025 02:15 PM (fd80v)

18 Is Halloween Making Our Kids Sick? Why It’s Time to Rethink Halloween Candy

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This is a policy the Democrats should adopt along with cancel Christmas for Gaia.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, OMGWTFBBQ! at October 26, 2025 02:16 PM (L/fGl)

19 Just as with outhouses, the world was a better place when laundry was done by the womenfolk taking it down to the river and beating it with rocks.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 26, 2025 02:06 PM (0Xkm6)

And you'll notice I didn't say taking the womenfolk down to the river with their laundry and beating them with rocks.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 26, 2025 02:17 PM (lPSkA)

20
Just as with outhouses, the world was a better place when laundry was done by the womenfolk taking it down to the river and beating it with rocks.
Posted by: BurtTC

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And men, instead of discovering electricity and penicillin, had to spend their time rethatching the roof and digging wells.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2025 02:17 PM (5e+/e)

21 Good afternoon! It’s a rainy, stormy day here in Dixie. First world problem? Good gosh candy is expensive. I make a little treat bag to hand out to clients on Halloween and yikes! We may have shrinkflation in how many pieces I put in the bags.

Posted by: Piper at October 26, 2025 02:17 PM (Wmg4n)

22 I have one of those dryers that have a water feed line to do steam??? drying or something. I think it's a gimmick, I've never used it, but you see it a lot on newer models.

Anyway my wife was trying to dry clothes, it wasn't working, looked in and the dryer had an inch of water in it! So I pumped out the water, capped off the stupid steam line and it's worked fine since.

A dryer that needs water. That's the opposite of drying. An undryer.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 26, 2025 02:18 PM (3uBP9)

23 19
'And you'll notice I didn't say taking the womenfolk down to the river with their laundry and beating them with rocks.'

Hell no. No one who does that admits it.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 26, 2025 02:18 PM (fd80v)

24 I can never remember. Up is closed, and down is open? Or vice the versa.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 26, 2025 02:18 PM (n4GiU)

25 18 Is Halloween Making Our Kids Sick? Why It’s Time to Rethink Halloween Candy

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This is a policy the Democrats should adopt along with cancel Christmas for Gaia.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, OMGWTFBBQ! at October 26, 2025 02:16 PM (L/fGl)

Some people cannot tolerate others having fun.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 26, 2025 02:19 PM (vwL3N)

26 Just as with outhouses, the world was a better place when laundry was done by the womenfolk taking it down to the river and beating it with rocks.
Posted by: BurtTC

It all went downhill when they figured out that beating the laundry on the rocks was easier....

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 26, 2025 02:19 PM (/lPRQ)

27 Now that I am out of NYC, I see all the new plumbing methods especially CPVC here on the Delmarva. I renovated a bathroom and made the copper CPVC connection with sharkbites. CPVC will revolutionize plumbing.
Copper is only for fire or union rules.

Posted by: Accomack at October 26, 2025 02:19 PM (4qMiv)

28 >>> Good afternoon! It’s a rainy, stormy day here in Dixie.
Posted by: Piper at October 26, 2025 02:17 PM (Wmg4n)

It looks like tire pressure sensor season starts where I am tomorrow. Temps are 50-56 and rainy all day.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 26, 2025 02:20 PM (3uBP9)

29 I remember as a child in our city slicker apartment, even though we had a washing machine, my mother OBM washed certain garments on a corrugated metal washboard in a wooden frame.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 26, 2025 02:12 PM (N03yu)

Yeah, we had one of those too! Mom would clean the baby diapers with it.

I do recall, when we would go camping, mom had to wash out the diapers in the creek. We would play in that creek, and sometimes drink water out of it... I remember one time when my youngest sister was still a babe, I saw this strange goo in the creek. Not knowing what it was, I grabbed it. To my horror, it was the poop, gently undulating in the soft current.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 26, 2025 02:20 PM (lPSkA)

30 "The washing machine is broken!"

No it isn't. The water is turned off."

The water is turned off? What is this, 1930s russia?!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 26, 2025 02:22 PM (PKI1F)

31 Just as with outhouses, the world was a better place when laundry was done by the womenfolk taking it down to the river and beating it with rocks.
Posted by: BurtTC

The women carry outhouses all the way down to the river?

Posted by: From about That Time at October 26, 2025 02:22 PM (n4GiU)

32 And men, instead of discovering electricity and penicillin, had to spend their time rethatching the roof and digging wells.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2025 02:17 PM (5e+/e)

I do wonder if men were less inclined to go to the local whorehouse, before they invented penicillin.

Some of them, at least.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 26, 2025 02:23 PM (lPSkA)

33 27
'CPVC will revolutionize plumbing.
Copper is only for fire or union rules.'

The only disadvantage of CPVC is it getting brittle over time.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 26, 2025 02:23 PM (fd80v)

34 ALSO, the $2.00 air itself is also free. You just ask the guy at the counter and he turns it on for you.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2025 02:13 PM (5e+/e)

That infuriates me. If I buy $50 worth of gasoline, you sure as shit better let me use 3¢ worth of electricity to fill my tires.

I bought a compressor for my garage just to avoid that sort of crap.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 26, 2025 02:23 PM (n9ltV)

35 I show you this:

https://youtu.be/nBDBODZfZnA

To show you this:

https://tinyurl.com/btfdju66

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 26, 2025 02:23 PM (N03yu)

36 On the warpath.

Sen. Warren Launches “Investigation” Into Privately Funded Trump Ballroom, Gets Roasted Online

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, OMGWTFBBQ! at October 26, 2025 02:23 PM (L/fGl)

37 The women carry outhouses all the way down to the river?
Posted by: From about That Time at October 26, 2025 02:22 PM (n4GiU)

My grandmother could have. She was a stalwart woman.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 26, 2025 02:24 PM (lPSkA)

38 "All I see is one big tube!"

"That's the dryer. Please call your college. I want a refund."

Posted by: CBD

*snort.

Sorry.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 26, 2025 02:24 PM (UjDHi)

39 I have one of those, but it has 90° elbows on the top and connects to two copper 1/2" pipes coming directly out of the wall. Unfortunately over the past 20 years or so, water has leaked out of the valve along the horizontal brass turning axis and down the attached steel handle. So much so that the handle has corroded and is no longer strong enough to turn the valve. It's a mere shred of what it used to be. So without choice, I just leave the water on when I leave the house. What could go wrong? The rubber hoses are only 25 years old.

Posted by: slicksister at October 26, 2025 02:25 PM (3ceQJ)

40
I do wonder if men were less inclined to go to the local whorehouse, before they invented penicillin.

Some of them, at least.
Posted by: BurtTC

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Indoor plumbing has destroyed the family unit. Discuss.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2025 02:25 PM (5e+/e)

41 On the warpath.

Sen. Warren Launches “Investigation” Into Privately Funded Trump Ballroom, Gets Roasted Online
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, OMGWTFBBQ! at October 26, 2025 02:23 PM (L/fGl)

Could you say she was burned at the stake?

Posted by: BurtTC at October 26, 2025 02:25 PM (lPSkA)

42 28 It looks like tire pressure sensor season starts where I am tomorrow. Temps are 50-56 and rainy all day.
Posted by: banana Dream at October 26, 2025 02:20 PM (3uBP9)

Even here in sunny, mild Southern California, it's not uncommon to have a tire pressure sensor or two go off with the advent of cooler - meaning not 'hot' - weather in the "fall".*

*Fall being more of a calendar term rather than an actual weather event....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 26, 2025 02:26 PM (QGaXH)

43 "That's the dryer. Please call your college. I want a refund."

Posted by: CBD

*snort.

Sorry.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 26, 2025 02:24 PM (UjDHi)

Unless it's Haaahvaaad. Best plumbing school $60K a year can buy.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 26, 2025 02:26 PM (lPSkA)

44 35
'To show you this:

https://tinyurl.com/btfdju66'

Now she's a member of the red party.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 26, 2025 02:27 PM (fd80v)

45 My issue wasn't the hoses. Mine was the valves.

Moved into house. Hooked up washer. Turned on water.

Didn't turn it off for 27 years until washer died. Valves didn't want to turn.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 26, 2025 02:27 PM (UjDHi)

46
I may have had a clothes washer's water feed libe fail once.

I have had a hot water tank fail more often and, most irritating of all, I have had the gaskets in the water mixing device inside one of those accursed single handle shower water valves fail three times (it cannot be adequately drained of water for overwintering, so what water is there may freeze and thereby permanently distort the gaskets -- hilarity ensues). Those three incidents were total fiascoes to correct because the first step is to order the replacement part and then wait for a few days until it arrives.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 26, 2025 02:27 PM (xG4kz)

47 https://tinyurl.com/btfdju66'

Now she's a member of the red party.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 26, 2025 02:27 PM (fd80v)
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Well, she is certainly doing a good job of stumping for it.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 26, 2025 02:28 PM (N03yu)

48 Now that I think about it - the only place I ever lived with those steel lines was an apartment. Every other place had the rubber. I've never had one leak, let alone blow out altogether. Maybe I'm just really lucky.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 26, 2025 02:29 PM (BI5O2)

49 45
'Didn't turn it off for 27 years until washer died. Valves didn't want to turn.'

Lime makes valves a wear part on any water line.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 26, 2025 02:29 PM (fd80v)

50 We learned the risks of rubber hoses many years ago. One night at about 2 AM our LOUD smoke alarm started going off. We both stumbled out of bed (minimally clad) and see what looks like smoke in the hallway. Husband starts banging on the smoke alarm with a broom handle to try to get it to stop.

It took us a while in our befuddled state to realize that it wasn't smoke but steam from hot water. The hot water line for the washer--close to the smoke alarm--had broken and hot water was spraying all over the hallway. It was actually beneficial because we shut off the hot water before it caused any real damage. So now we always have stainless steel hoses and shut off the water when we're away.

AND we also always forget so we put a Post-it note on the washer: "Water turned off."

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at October 26, 2025 02:29 PM (FEVMW)

51 Looks like hurricane Melissa will be working Jamaica for the next three days or so.
Too late to get discount reservations though.

Third world problem.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 26, 2025 02:29 PM (/lPRQ)

52 The washing machine is broken!"

No it isn't. The water is turned off."

"How do I turn it back on?"

"Just flip the lever behind the machine."

"Where?"

"On the wall behind the machine."

"I don't see it."

"It's got two steel water lines running from it!"

"All I see is one big tube!"

"That's the dryer. Please call your college. I want a refund

What memories are made of.

Posted by: Eromero at October 26, 2025 02:29 PM (jgmnb)

53 >>> That infuriates me. If I buy $50 worth of gasoline, you sure as shit better let me use 3¢ worth of electricity to fill my tires.

I bought a compressor for my garage just to avoid that sort of crap.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 26, 2025 02:23 PM (n9ltV)

I bought a cheap-o tire pressure compressor off amazon that I keep in my trunk. 35$ With an auto shut-off when you reach target pressure. Runs off the cigarette lighter dc-plug. Very easy to use, 100% better experience than the gas station setups.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 26, 2025 02:30 PM (3uBP9)

54 Even here in sunny, mild Southern California, it's not uncommon to have a tire pressure sensor or two go off with the advent of cooler - meaning not 'hot' - weather in the "fall".*

*Fall being more of a calendar term rather than an actual weather event....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 26, 2025 02:26 PM (QGaXH)

I have a company car at my disposal. Recently, they started getting real nasty about making sure everyone maintains the vehicle properly, that we don't ignore check engine lights and that sort of thing.

Well, this past week, the low tire pressure censor started doing its thing. I called fleet and asked what they want me to do, bring it to them to fill up the air?

Oh no, that's too dangerous, they don't want cars being brought where the mechanics work. So... take it to a gas station? Where they charge for air?

Sure. Except your company card doesn't work on those machines.

Oh well, I'll just keep driving on "flat" tires.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 26, 2025 02:30 PM (lPSkA)

55 47
'Well, she is certainly doing a good job of stumping for it.'

mmph... snrt.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 26, 2025 02:30 PM (fd80v)

56 Well, this past week, the low tire pressure censor...
Posted by: BurtTC at October 26, 2025 02:30 PM (lPSkA)

Or sensor.

I should learn to censor my own posts.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 26, 2025 02:31 PM (lPSkA)

57 Not exactly under the bus but . . .

Did Abigail Spanberger re-wrap her campaign bus to remove Jay Jones' name?

https://is.gd/Lcgw9x

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, OMGWTFBBQ! at October 26, 2025 02:32 PM (L/fGl)

58 'I bought a cheap-o tire pressure compressor off amazon that I keep in my trunk. 35$ With an auto shut-off when you reach target pressure. Runs off the cigarette lighter dc-plug.'

Same but from WalMart.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 26, 2025 02:32 PM (fd80v)

59 >>Indoor plumbing has destroyed the family unit. Discuss.

My parent's farm was built right at the turn of the century. The 19th.

There was an old shed on the property that had an outhouse with two seats right next to each other. I occasionally have nightmares trying to understand why.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 26, 2025 02:33 PM (viF8m)

60 That infuriates me. If I buy $50 worth of gasoline, you sure as shit better let me use 3¢ worth of electricity to fill my tires.

I bought a compressor for my garage just to avoid that sort of crap.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 26, 2025 02:23 PM (n9ltV)

I bought a cheap-o tire pressure compressor off amazon that I keep in my trunk. 35$ With an auto shut-off when you reach target pressure. Runs off the cigarette lighter dc-plug. Very easy to use, 100% better experience than the gas station setups.
Posted by: banana Dream

Ryobi that runs off of the 18v battery system. Has been a lifesaver more than once. Gets up to 90psi. Two small tanks.

https://tinyurl.com/ve9xfnry

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 26, 2025 02:34 PM (UjDHi)

61
Did Abigail Spanberger re-wrap her campaign bus to remove Jay Jones' name?

A real profile in courage, that one.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 26, 2025 02:35 PM (xG4kz)

62 Indoor plumbing has destroyed the family unit. Discuss.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2025 02:25 PM (5e+/e)

Playboy magazine was prolly "read" on the terlet more than anywhere else in the house.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 26, 2025 02:35 PM (lPSkA)

63 I show you this:

I laughed. And was instantly forgiven.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 26, 2025 02:35 PM (n4GiU)

64 60
'Ryobi that runs off of the 18v battery system.'

Your vehicle has a 18V battery?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 26, 2025 02:36 PM (fd80v)

65 Ryobi that runs off of the 18v battery system.'

Your vehicle has a 18V battery?
Posted by: Dr. Claw

Air compressor. And battery jump starter.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 26, 2025 02:36 PM (UjDHi)

66 There are jump start air compresser combos.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 26, 2025 02:37 PM (tJnZA)

67 I shut the water off at the main before a trip. No issues with the laundry since have nothing else work is a big flag to turn it back on.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 26, 2025 02:37 PM (/HDaX)

68
accursed single handle shower water valves

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I hate 'em too.

First of all - they never work right for more than a few years. There's always some reason why they turn out to suck, contra whatever you hear from the suits at Big Valve.

Secondly, what problem does this answer? Having to use two handles to quickly and perfectly adjust the temperature, every single time, for decades?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 26, 2025 02:37 PM (BI5O2)

69 My FWP is the Russians just announced they now have a nuclear-tipped, nuclear-powered cruise missile with effectively unlimited range.

Now, it won't make much difference to me if I get fried by a nuke from an ICBM or a cruise missile, but defending against a missile that can be launched in Russia and then hit literally on Earth, with some loitering time thrown in, opens up an entirely new can of worms.

I'm sure the Pentagon has top men on the problem. Top men.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 26, 2025 02:38 PM (YYotJ)

70 Wait. Target had luster?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, OMGWTFBBQ! at October 26, 2025 02:12 PM (L/fGl)

a number of things may glisten but never gleam.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 26, 2025 02:38 PM (rbvCR)

71
https://tinyurl.com/btfdju66'

Now she's a member of the red party.

Posted by: Dr. Claw

Send in the Doom Goblin to protest this flagrant injustice!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 26, 2025 02:38 PM (xG4kz)

72 Getting intake and drain/exhaust pipes mixed up sounds like something today's college grads would do.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 26, 2025 02:38 PM (36PRH)

73 I just set the shower to full hot.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 26, 2025 02:39 PM (tJnZA)

74 Thankfully, I had a builder with a brain. The washroom opens out into the garage. And (this is important), the washroom is one step lower than the first floor of the house, but on the same level as the garage. Soooo, should the lines rupture, the washroom (and it's cheap carpet sitting on padding and cement), and the the garage (cement) will not be a clean-up problem.

So, in summary. I never turn the water off. Even if I'm away for over a week. I, also, added insulation on the hardline coming into the house and any pipes near the exterior walls of the house to help prevent freezing.

Posted by: Orson at October 26, 2025 02:39 PM (dIske)

75 68
'I hate 'em too.

First of all - they never work right for more than a few years. There's always some reason why they turn out to suck, contra whatever you hear from the suits at Big Valve.'

Are you sure you're turning it the right direction?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 26, 2025 02:40 PM (fd80v)

76 I am a Ryobi fan boi. I went with Ryobi because I use them light duty weekend stuff. I didn't need daily professional quality.

Living in the boonies, I have found it pays to be self sufficient.

Air compressor
https://tinyurl.com/ve9xfnry

Batter Jump Starter
https://tinyurl.com/32b63xyu

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 26, 2025 02:41 PM (UjDHi)

77 71
'Now she's a member of the red party.

Posted by: Dr. Claw

Send in the Doom Goblin to protest this flagrant injustice!'

Yes. Definitely send Greta there.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 26, 2025 02:41 PM (fd80v)

78 @74 I'm the one worries that opening and closing a probably Chinese made valve assembly every time I travel will result in a catastrophic failure.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 26, 2025 02:42 PM (36PRH)

79 I've experienced the joy of "fixing" a longstanding dishwasher issue after the repairman had paid two visits to say nothing needed fixing. I paid a visit and when I spun the dishwasher around and pulled out the hose from the back to attach it to the kitchen sink tap, it was a eureka moment. The college kids using it had no idea of the existences of such dishwashers, and no one had told them, so they were "running" it with no water going in or out.

Posted by: Vendette at October 26, 2025 02:42 PM (MR1yy)

80 OT: re Insty piece with Interview with Katie Porters ex husband

She seems delightful.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 26, 2025 02:43 PM (PKI1F)

81 Indoor plumbing has destroyed the family unit. Discuss.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2025 02:25 PM (5e+/e)

Four of my grandfather's five siblings died before the age of five, probably from the bad well.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 26, 2025 02:43 PM (rbvCR)

82 Catch of the day.

https://is.gd/SlZ5Lt

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, OMGWTFBBQ! at October 26, 2025 02:44 PM (L/fGl)

83 FWP #1

I have an ice dispenser on my refrigerator. I push the lever with my glass and cubes fall in. Very, very slowly at first. Then, when the glass gets almost full, the flow increases dramatically and cubes are falling all over the floor. To be kicked under the refrigerator.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 26, 2025 02:14 PM (tgvbd)
***

So. The Eskimo version of the glass half full/half empty?

Posted by: Diogenes at October 26, 2025 02:44 PM (2WIwB)

84 I'm the one worries that opening and closing a probably Chinese made valve assembly every time I travel will result in a catastrophic failure.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO

Even cheap Chyna valves need to be exercised.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 26, 2025 02:44 PM (/lPRQ)

85
Secondly, what problem does this answer? Having to use two handles to quickly and perfectly adjust the temperature, every single time, for decades?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

The scuttlebutt is that, in an emergency, Doofus Bumblefuck would scramble to reduce the flow of the hot water, forget in which direction was "off" and so turn the hot water valve higher and thus scald its own stupid self with hot water.

It's the lawyers. It's always the fooking lawyers.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 26, 2025 02:44 PM (xG4kz)

86 Seems most pressing is outside light needs a new bulb

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2025 02:44 PM (+qU29)

87 >>> Thankfully, I had a builder with a brain. The washroom opens out into the garage. And (this is important), the washroom is one step lower than the first floor of the house, but on the same level as the garage. Soooo, should the lines rupture, the washroom (and it's cheap carpet sitting on padding and cement), and the the garage (cement) will not be a clean-up problem.
Posted by: Orson at October 26, 2025 02:39 PM (dIske)

I have the same setup and the washroom is down from everything else but a hall that leads to the lower garage. But it's a mid-century modern house and people back then were on a real multi-level kick. I think my house probably has fifteen floors all about two feet apart in height. I exaggerate a little.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 26, 2025 02:44 PM (3uBP9)

88 > My FWP is the Russians just announced they now have a nuclear-tipped, nuclear-powered cruise missile with effectively unlimited range.
----------
If it's the one I'm thinking about... one they've been testing up in the Arctic for a couple years, it spews highly radioactive exhaust as it flies... so everyone under it's path is going to die too.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 26, 2025 02:45 PM (Q4IgG)

89 Four of my grandfather's five siblings died before the age of five, probably from the bad well.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 26, 2025 02:43 PM (rbvCR)

This. There are many evils in modern society. Indoor sanitation and plumbing is not one of them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 26, 2025 02:45 PM (PKI1F)

90 "can never remember. Up is closed, and down is open? Or vice the versa."

I have the same problem with the Sucking Chest Wound. You're supposed to roll the victim onto one side to prevent the lungs from filling up with blood and suffocating the patient. For some reason, it's ingrained in memory BACKWARDS and no matter how many times I look it up I still roll the victim onto the wrong side.

I guess if things go sideways just keep me out on point.

And don't get shot.

Posted by: Fen at October 26, 2025 02:46 PM (NHf9S)

91
Katie Porter is just perfect. She's everyone's horrible Leftist hag of an aunt, made flesh.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 26, 2025 02:46 PM (BI5O2)

92 54
Oh well, I'll just keep driving on "flat" tires.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 26, 2025 02:30 PM (lPSkA)

BurtTC - my experience is if you ask they'll just turn it on for you from inside. It may even be 'the law' here.

Or better as mentioned above, is one of those $35 tire pumps available on Amazon. Well worth the convenience AND eliminates one other instance of actually having to TALK to another person, which I hate* now.

* the talking, not the person

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 26, 2025 02:48 PM (QGaXH)

93 My FWP is the Russians just announced they now have a nuclear-tipped, nuclear-powered cruise missile with effectively unlimited range.
----------
If it's the one I'm thinking about... one they've been testing up in the Arctic for a couple years, it spews highly radioactive exhaust as it flies... so everyone under it's path is going to die too.

YMMV
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 26, 2025 02:45 PM (Q4IgG)

It does seem to me the American weapons industry has gone the way of Detroit, when the Japs started making vehicles that were substantially better than what we were making.

But the ol' American "exceptionalism" mentality just kept saying "Nah, it'll be fine."

Until it wasn't.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 26, 2025 02:48 PM (sqFFZ)

94 Out of control.

Japan hits 10 deaths from bear maulings this year as attacks skyrocket across the country

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, OMGWTFBBQ! at October 26, 2025 02:48 PM (L/fGl)

95 Godzirra?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 26, 2025 02:49 PM (tJnZA)

96 First thing I did when I bought the house was put in metal lines for the washer. Had a boss come home.from vacation to find over $70,000 in water damage from a burst rubber line.
He didn't appreciate my burst rubber comment.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 26, 2025 02:50 PM (2WIwB)

97 My FWP is the Russians just announced they now have a nuclear-tipped, nuclear-powered cruise missile with effectively unlimited range.
----------
If it's the one I'm thinking about... one they've been testing up in the Arctic for a couple years, it spews highly radioactive exhaust as it flies... so everyone under it's path is going to die too.

YMMV
Posted by: Martini Farmer
+++++

Had one too.
60s tech. No need for a warwead. Just cruise around enemy nation giving everyone a fatal dose of radiation.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 26, 2025 02:50 PM (/lPRQ)

98 >>> My FWP is the Russians just announced they now have a nuclear-tipped, nuclear-powered cruise missile with effectively unlimited range.
----------
If it's the one I'm thinking about... one they've been testing up in the Arctic for a couple years, it spews highly radioactive exhaust as it flies... so everyone under it's path is going to die too.

YMMV
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 26, 2025 02:45 PM (Q4IgG)

Mr. President, we must not allow... a mine shaft gap!

Posted by: banana Dream at October 26, 2025 02:52 PM (3uBP9)

99 It's the lawyers. It's always the fooking lawyers.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 26, 2025 02:44 PM (xG4kz)

My mom always worried we'd scald ourselves. But the thing is, when you have nerve endings, you know when to turn the knobs. We figured out how to do it. I don't know that a lawyer needs to get inside this operation.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 26, 2025 02:52 PM (BI5O2)

100
I asked the guy behind the counter what the difference was between the $2 gauge and the $6 gauge. He laughed. "I don't know; I don't know anything about checking tires!"
I didn't feel so bad after that. I felt great putting air in those tires and watching the light go away.
ALSO, the $2.00 air itself is also free. You just ask the guy at the counter and he turns it on for you.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Generally, the pressure guages that only go up to about 40-60 psi are somewhat more accurate. Look for a guage that has the reading for your needs at the halfway point of its readout. My motorcycle only needs 28 psi front/rear. So i looked until i found a low pressure guage that only went to 60, from a tractor and farm implement supply house.

I built an inflation setup rig that uses an antique pressure regulator that only reads up to 90 psi on an 8" dial.

Yes. Yes, I am anal about my tire pressure. And yes, i take chalk and mark the tire and adjust the pressure for a proper tread pattern at each tire.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 26, 2025 02:52 PM (QVmho)

101 I have the same problem with the Sucking Chest Wound. You're supposed to roll the victim onto one side to prevent the lungs from filling up with blood and suffocating the patient. For some reason, it's ingrained in memory BACKWARDS and no matter how many times I look it up I still roll the victim onto the wrong side.

I guess if things go sideways just keep me out on point.

And don't get shot.
Posted by: Fen

Well, what side?
And do cover the sucking chest wound on inhale or exhale?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 26, 2025 02:52 PM (/lPRQ)

102 My FWP is my preferred pair of eyeglasses (lightweight aviator frames) are broken, so I have to wear my old-timey church glasses.

Posted by: Don Black at October 26, 2025 02:53 PM (AOsQT)

103 You know they make self-burping sucking chest wound patches now? You slap one on, and the one-way valve burps out air to prevent a pneumothorax.

I got two, just in case.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 26, 2025 02:53 PM (rbvCR)

104 BurtTC - my experience is if you ask they'll just turn it on for you from inside. It may even be 'the law' here.

Or better as mentioned above, is one of those $35 tire pumps available on Amazon. Well worth the convenience AND eliminates one other instance of actually having to TALK to another person, which I hate* now.

* the talking, not the person
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 26, 2025 02:48 PM (QGaXH)

Yes, indeed.

At this point though, I'm at war with the fleet team, because they got their panties in a wad about people not taking care of the vehicles. And added paperwork to our day.

I'm not going to spend a dime of my money to do anything about it. I'll wait until it snows, and I wreck the vehicle from slipping and sliding, then I'll take it back to fleet to have them deal with it.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 26, 2025 02:53 PM (sqFFZ)

105 Thankfully, I had a builder with a brain. The washroom opens out into the garage. And (this is important), the washroom is one step lower than the first floor of the house, but on the same level as the garage. Soooo, should the lines rupture, the washroom (and it's cheap carpet sitting on padding and cement), and the the garage (cement) will not be a clean-up problem.
Posted by: Orson

My brother has a house with a second story washroom. Right over the living room and kitchen.

There was a mess.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 26, 2025 02:56 PM (LjSYW)

106 My mom always worried we'd scald ourselves. But the thing is, when you have nerve endings, you know when to turn the knobs. We figured out how to do it. I don't know that a lawyer needs to get inside this operation.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 26, 2025 02:52 PM (BI5O2)

Saw the meme the other day, Marty Mcfly talking about flying cars by the year 2015.

Then shows a picture of a pizza box with the words "Do not eat the box" on it.

Someone tried to eat the box. And sued.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 26, 2025 02:56 PM (sqFFZ)

107 We have two whole house water shut offs. The town’s is near the street and needs one of those forked gadgets. The one near the house is usually buried under silt and water. I dug it put one day to see the handle is removed.

Posted by: Accomack at October 26, 2025 02:57 PM (RBD82)

108 No damn Canuck wolves!

Trump administration tells Colorado wolves must come from U.S., not Canada

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, OMGWTFBBQ! at October 26, 2025 02:57 PM (L/fGl)

109 9M730 Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile. It probably doesn't work yet. It probably will, someday:
https://tinyurl.com/4jf5md4u

Posted by: gp at October 26, 2025 02:57 PM (7imtn)

110 Saw the meme the other day, Marty Mcfly talking about flying cars by the year 2015.

Then shows a picture of a pizza box with the words "Do not eat the box" on it.

Someone tried to eat the box. And sued.
Posted by: BurtTC

+++++

But cheese and grease box is delicious.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 26, 2025 02:58 PM (/lPRQ)

111 >>My brother has a house with a second story washroom. Right over the living room and kitchen.

That's where mine is. Thus the stainless hoses and shut off valve.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 26, 2025 02:58 PM (viF8m)

112 "What side?"

lie them on their side with the injured side down.

injured side down

injured side down

Sigh. It's not taking

Posted by: Fen at October 26, 2025 02:58 PM (NHf9S)

113 104 At this point though, I'm at war with the fleet team,......
Posted by: BurtTC at October 26, 2025 02:53 PM (sqFFZ)

Ahh yes - one of the few things I miss about corporate life, waging all-out war on the corporate bobble-heads...

Good Times!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 26, 2025 02:59 PM (QGaXH)

114
"What side?"
lie them on their side with the injured side down.
injured side down
injured side down
Sigh. It's not taking
Posted by: Fen

2 quatloos i mess that up and it makes absolute perfect sense. Leaky side down.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 26, 2025 03:00 PM (QVmho)

115
I don't know that a lawyer needs to get inside this operation.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
They are there for the lawsuits to bleed dry the manufacturers for selling a product with a hazardous design flaw. That, in turn, gets local bodies responsible for the building code to outlaw using separate hot and cold water valves in showers. Plumbers here won't touch 'em, because "building codes".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 26, 2025 03:01 PM (xG4kz)

116 At this point though, I'm at war with the fleet team,......
Posted by: BurtTC at October 26, 2025 02:53 PM (sqFFZ)

Ahh yes - one of the few things I miss about corporate life, waging all-out war on the corporate bobble-heads...

Good Times!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 26, 2025 02:59 PM (QGaXH)

I've been at it too long to let any of it get to me, but I drive my supervisors nuts by not just going along with everything.

Flu season is upon us. We have until Nov. 30 to get the shot. Let's see how long after Nov. 30 it takes for anyone to notice I haven't gotten the shot.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 26, 2025 03:02 PM (sqFFZ)

117 So what happened with that attack on the Oakland Coast Guard base?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 26, 2025 03:03 PM (sKqQm)

118 114 2 quatloos i mess that up and it makes absolute perfect sense. Leaky side down.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 26, 2025 03:00 PM (QVmho)

Good advice for the incontinent, also.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 26, 2025 03:03 PM (QGaXH)

119 I've been at it too long to let any of it get to me, but I drive my supervisors nuts by not just going along with everything.

No way, Burt.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 26, 2025 03:03 PM (LjSYW)

120 No way, Burt.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 26, 2025 03:03 PM (LjSYW)

Hey, I'm no Katie Porter, but I do have my moments.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 26, 2025 03:04 PM (sqFFZ)

121 98 >>> My FWP is the Russians just announced they now have a nuclear-tipped, nuclear-powered cruise missile with effectively unlimited range.

That sounds….impossible.

Posted by: Logistics at October 26, 2025 03:05 PM (vwL3N)

122 I have the same problem with the Sucking Chest Wound. You're supposed to roll the victim onto one side to prevent the lungs from filling up with blood and suffocating the patient. For some reason, it's ingrained in memory BACKWARDS and no matter how many times I look it up I still roll the victim onto the wrong side.

I guess if things go sideways just keep me out on point.

And don't get shot.
Posted by: Fen

***

*loads rifle*
OK class. Up until now our first aid training has been theory...

Posted by: Diogenes at October 26, 2025 03:05 PM (2WIwB)

123 Lunch time!

Posted by: BurtTC at October 26, 2025 03:05 PM (sqFFZ)

124 "local bodies responsible for the building code to outlaw using separate hot and cold water valves in showers. Plumbers here won't touch 'em, because "building codes"."

Cripes. We can't do anything in this nation without tripping into all the pitfalls that our damned greedy plaintiff-lawyer-driven government has dug for us.

Posted by: gp at October 26, 2025 03:07 PM (7imtn)

125 "Lunch time!"

I have before me a 5 oz slice of lattice cherry pie

Hang on, I'll send a pic by Instagram.

Posted by: gp at October 26, 2025 03:08 PM (7imtn)

126
FWP: Newsom has officially announced for Prez 2028.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2025 03:08 PM (5e+/e)

127 116 Flu season is upon us. We have until Nov. 30 to get the shot. Let's see how long after Nov. 30 it takes for anyone to notice I haven't gotten the shot.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 26, 2025 03:02 PM (sqFFZ)

The clot shot? I thought we were done with that schnizz....

One of my regrets in life is being intimidated into getting the first set of clot shots in April of 2021 thinking the Co. was going to force it. They never did, and I'd had Covid over the previous Christmas so was likely immune for a while anyway.

Never got it, nor the boosters again. I do get the regular flu shot in the fall.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 26, 2025 03:09 PM (QGaXH)

128
* knife thrust *

"That's a wound."

* another knife thrust *

"That's a kill."

-- Bill the Butcher, "Gangs of New York"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 26, 2025 03:10 PM (xG4kz)

129
FWP: Newsom has officially announced for Prez 2028.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

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

Oh. nvm. He said he's "considering" it.

FWP: Twitter isn't reliable.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2025 03:10 PM (5e+/e)

130 123 Lunch time!

Posted by: BurtTC at October 26, 2025 03:05 PM (sqFFZ)

We must be in the same time zone.....?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 26, 2025 03:11 PM (QGaXH)

131 My father put the shutoff valve just behind the washtub faucets because he loved his idiots... erm, offspring.

My FWP is I want to replace my dryer but the delivery & installation "window" is too chaotic. If I take a day off work, I'll lose $1000 for perfect attendance.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at October 26, 2025 03:13 PM (oQih4)

132 My FWP is the Russians just announced they now have a nuclear-tipped, nuclear-powered cruise missile with effectively unlimited range.

That sounds….impossible.

Posted by: Logistics at October 26, 2025 03:05 PM (vwL3N)

Oh, definitely not infinite, fly forever range, but long enough to hit things on the other side of the world from Russia.

On the bright side, perhaps our long Penguin Nightmare can now be solved.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 26, 2025 03:13 PM (YYotJ)

133 My brother has a house with a second story washroom. Right over the living room and kitchen.

There was a mess.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 26, 2025 02:56 PM (LjSYW)
____________________________

That's...bizarre. Usually (probably 99.9% of the time) the washroom will be on the first floor right where the hardline comes into the house. The washer will get a line, and then the water line goes down into the basement (usually to the hot water heater and tank) then up to be distributed throughout the house.

The exceptions are apartment buildings, of course due to distributed washer/dryer set-ups and stand alone hot water heaters. Maybe you brother's house was multi-family at one point in time.

Posted by: Orson at October 26, 2025 03:13 PM (dIske)

134 At some point hot water will be body temperature and we will turn the unihandle all the way to hot.
Then, they will install a stop and we will have only lukewarm water to save the erf.

Posted by: Accomack at October 26, 2025 03:14 PM (28cZF)

135
I do get the regular flu shot in the fall.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

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

I don't know what to do about that. An acquaintance of mine who faithfully got the flu shot every year missed it in 2012 -- which happened to be the year of the deadliest flu outbreak ever (killed more people than COVID), and he was one of its casualties!

After that, I got the shot every year, but since the COVID lies, I'm considering not.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2025 03:14 PM (5e+/e)

136 Some people cannot tolerate others having fun.
Posted by: Cow Demon

You’re not wrong, you know.

That’s why the left is so sullen these days. America is getting its mojo back, they are being trolled left and right and people are optimistic.

Winning!

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 26, 2025 03:15 PM (mT+6a)

137 My FWP was taken care of this afternoon. A relatively reliable generator, a Generac, was gifted to my daughter and son-in-law today.

Thus I was in the market for a new one, with push button start, remote start and dual (gas/propane) fuel options. More running watts too.

Now, I will not need it. Money well spent. I think. Maybe.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 26, 2025 03:16 PM (Q4IgG)

138 " Twitter isn't reliable."

Book: 'Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now,' by Jaron Lanier.

He's just a stringy-haired hippie, but he might actually be right about this one.

Posted by: gp at October 26, 2025 03:17 PM (7imtn)

139 So what happened with that attack on the Oakland Coast Guard base?
Posted by: 18-1

The driver isn't getting his money back.
They kinda ventilated the rental truck.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 26, 2025 03:18 PM (UjDHi)

140 Those stainless steel hoses are just a braid over a polypropolene plastic tube inside.

Posted by: Lord Percy at October 26, 2025 03:19 PM (65L+K)

141 Thus I was in the market for a new one, with push button start, remote start and dual (gas/propane) fuel options. More running watts too.

Now, I will not need it. Money well spent. I think. Maybe.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

I just got a whole house Duromax 13,000 watt dual fuel electric start during Amazon Days for $800 less than list.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 26, 2025 03:19 PM (UjDHi)

142 A nuclear war would end any decision to work or stop now wouldn't it?

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2025 03:19 PM (+qU29)

143 I just replaced a leaking flex hose at my water heater, the outside was stainless steel braid and it leaked at one end. I replaced it with aShark bite flex hose and coupling. so far it’s working great. It took me several trips to the store to get all the right fittings.

Posted by: High tech at October 26, 2025 03:20 PM (37cEZ)

144 Some people cannot tolerate others having fun.
Posted by: Cow Demon

Old retired neighbors from the 1960's have entered the chat.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 26, 2025 03:20 PM (UjDHi)

145 Last time I had the flu, it was awful. I've been getting the shots since. Nobody even talks about COVID shots anymore. My PCP never brings em up. Even Walgreens never pushes them on me. I think the only person left who still believes in COVID shots is POTUS.

Posted by: gp at October 26, 2025 03:21 PM (7imtn)

146 My FWP?

I got brand new tires a couple months ago. Now it sounds like there’s a lug nut banging around inside the hubcap.

Only loud when I’m barely rolling, goes away when I hit 5 mph.

wtf

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 26, 2025 03:21 PM (mT+6a)

147 You’re not wrong, you know.

That’s why the left is so sullen these days. America is getting its mojo back, they are being trolled left and right and people are optimistic.

Winning!
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 26, 2025 03:15 PM (mT+6a)
___________________________

A couple months back I ran up to Walmart to get a watch battery, and a friend of mine tagged along. There were a bunch of LBQTdljfdlfjdljdjlfdXYZ folks all dressed up (aka as guys wearing dresses) doing some fund raising at the entrance, and a guy wearing a dress stepped in front of us holding a donation can. "Care to contribute?" We didn't even ask what it was for. My buddy just laughed. Then said something like, "Dude, I can't believe you're wearing that purse with that dress. Heathen."

I had to fast walk inside before I broke out laughing. I didn't want to start anything.

Posted by: Orson at October 26, 2025 03:21 PM (dIske)

148 Book: 'Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now,' by Jaron Lanier.

Book: 'It's OK to Not Have Any Social Media Accounts', by Mr Aspirin Factory.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 26, 2025 03:21 PM (LjSYW)

149 "My FWP is the Russians just announced they now have a nuclear-tipped, nuclear-powered cruise missile "

See 109.

Posted by: gp at October 26, 2025 03:22 PM (7imtn)

150
'Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now,' by Jaron Lanier.

He's just a stringy-haired hippie, but he might actually be right about this one.
Posted by: gp

===========

Sigh. I do get interesting tidbits. I've been watching Mamdani's radical turns towards Islam in the past few days. That's his thing now, even harder than socialism. It's funny, because the people he's charging with "Islamophobia" and bigotry are... New Yorkers!

Maybe the thing is to just read, not engage.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2025 03:22 PM (5e+/e)

151 I think wallyworld sells a jumpstart I can hold in my hand, around $100.

Posted by: Eromero at October 26, 2025 03:23 PM (jgmnb)

152 My FWP?

I got brand new tires a couple months ago. Now it sounds like there’s a lug nut banging around inside the hubcap.

Only loud when I’m barely rolling, goes away when I hit 5 mph.

wtf
Posted by: nurse ratched

Centrifugal force.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 26, 2025 03:23 PM (UjDHi)

153 Then said something like, "Dude, I can't believe you're wearing that purse with that dress. Heathen."

I had to fast walk inside before I broke out laughing. I didn't want to start anything.
Posted by: Orson

This is how it’s done. Yes yes yes.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 26, 2025 03:24 PM (mT+6a)

154 @134. Please don't give them ideas. Bad enough with all the crap they come up with

Posted by: Case at October 26, 2025 03:25 PM (9HFDU)

155 I started using a black sharpie to mark On and Off position of switches and marking direction to close the main water shutoff valve in my basement. Intended for my wife in emergency situations but I might eventually need it as I get older.

Posted by: High tech at October 26, 2025 03:25 PM (37cEZ)

156 Centrifugal force.
Posted by: rickb223

This I know. I just don’t want to pry off the hubcap and figure it out.

Not my line of work.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 26, 2025 03:25 PM (mT+6a)

157 ''It's OK to Not Have Any Social Media Accounts', by Mr Aspirin Factory.'

I nuked my X and FB accounts. I wanted to get off Google 100%, but I've now volunteered to do a weekly YouTube livecast for a friend, so I'll keep the Google account for that.

Curse the day that Google bought YouTube!

"Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006"

They got it cheap.

Posted by: gp at October 26, 2025 03:25 PM (7imtn)

158 I got the flu shot every year. After the lies, corruption of statistics and efficacy level of any of the shots, I've abstained.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 26, 2025 03:26 PM (FH2HJ)

159 This is why I need a guy in my life.

To take care of simple shit like this.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 26, 2025 03:26 PM (mT+6a)

160 This I know. I just don’t want to pry off the hubcap and figure it out.

Not my line of work.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Sounds like one lug nut backed off. Stop by a tire shop. They'll fix it right up.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 26, 2025 03:28 PM (UjDHi)

161 > Thus I was in the market for a new one, with push button start, remote start and dual (gas/propane) fuel options. More running watts too.

Now, I will not need it. Money well spent. I think. Maybe.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

I just got a whole house Duromax 13,000 watt dual fuel electric start during Amazon Days for $800 less than list.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy
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Sweet. I figure since I sprung for mine, thinking the winter has potential to be "bad" I will end up running the A/C during the mildest winter in decades.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 26, 2025 03:28 PM (Q4IgG)

162 If I am going to be on a long vacation I turn off the water at the main by the street. One thing you also have to remember is to turn off the breakers for the water heaters and turn off the automatic ice maker for the fridge or they will break.

Oh and you have to remember to turn everything back on when you get home.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 26, 2025 03:29 PM (0N4FZ)

163 I got the flu shot on Friday and they asked a few times if I wanted the Covid shot too. I try not to snarl.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 26, 2025 03:30 PM (I8Tp0)

164 Never seen the pictured switch. Gas and water levers usually go with the direction of flow. If the lever is in line with the pipe it is open and if it is cross wise it is closed. They are sometimes refereed to as gates. If you think of it that way you can see the gate as open or closed.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 26, 2025 03:31 PM (FH2HJ)

165 Had one too.
60s tech. No need for a warwead. Just cruise around enemy nation giving everyone a fatal dose of radiation.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 26, 2025 02:50 PM (/lPRQ)

Yeah... was the name of that one SLAAM or something?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 26, 2025 03:33 PM (PKI1F)

166 >>Maybe the thing is to just read, not engage.

The reason we are winning is because we are finally engaging.

There's a reason the left tried to censor us into submission.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 26, 2025 03:33 PM (viF8m)

167
This is why I need a guy in my life.

To take care of simple shit like this.
Posted by: nurse ratched

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Same here, sister. ChatGPT in the meantime. It's not handy, but it's knowledgeable.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2025 03:33 PM (5e+/e)

168 I got the flu shot every year. After the lies, corruption of statistics and efficacy level of any of the shots, I've abstained.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 26, 2025 03:26 PM (FH2HJ)

The Flu vaccine is still the old-fashioned kind.

But if they try to make it an mRNA vaccine, then all bets are off.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 26, 2025 03:34 PM (n9ltV)

169 I got the flu shot on Friday and they asked a few times if I wanted the Covid shot too. I try not to snarl.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 26, 2025 03:30 PM

I got the flu shot last friday after I asked the doctor if they used the shot that had both the flu vaccine and the covid booster in it. He said nope we don't get that one, we just get the super over 65 flu shot.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 26, 2025 03:34 PM (0N4FZ)

170 So what happened with that attack on the Oakland Coast Guard base?
Posted by: 18-1 at October 26, 2025 03:03 PM (sKqQm)

I hope the MPs are now issued auto-shot guns with rifled slugs. The fastest way to stop a charging truck with a shot to the block.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 26, 2025 03:36 PM (rbvCR)

171 I have stainless steel lines, and I can't imagine that robust water lines such as those fail very often, but the conventional wisdom is to turn off the water when you are away.

Oddly enough, the only time I have had a stainless steel, corded connector burst is… after turning the water off (to clear the electric heater, not, fortunately, because I was going away) and then…

Turn water back on after clearing water heater.

“Where is that noise coming from?”

Looks around. Nothing.

“It sounds like running water. I can’t see any.”

Looks around.

“Why is water leaking out of the wall?”

Run into the kitchen… the kitchen floor is covered in water. So is the living/dining room floor, which I had literally just finished flooring a few days ago.

Turn water back off.

Ah well. First test of homeowners insurance successful.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 26, 2025 03:37 PM (EXyHK)

172 The slaam, iirc, was a nuke that could low orbit forever being propelled by nuclear propulsion, the when the order came could strike its target.

There were a lot of worries in those days about being hit first and being able to respond. They wanted to have planes loitering in the air as well without coming down. I am not sure they ever tested the B-36 with a nuke they had plans for before missile tech improved to the point to make it all pointless.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 26, 2025 03:37 PM (PKI1F)

173 Never had a flu shot hence had no desire to get the Fake Vax. Why start now?

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2025 03:38 PM (+qU29)

174 Centrifugal force.
Posted by: rickb223

This I know. I just don’t want to pry off the hubcap and figure it out.

Not my line of work.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 26, 2025 03:25 PM (mT+6a)
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I can help you with things like this, but the current wait time for projects is 6 years.

Posted by: Weasel at October 26, 2025 03:39 PM (DX6IT)

175 Just as with outhouses, the world was a better place when laundry was done by the womenfolk taking it down to the river and beating it with rocks.
Posted by: BurtTC

The women carry outhouses all the way down to the river?
Posted by: From about That Time

You wouldn't just empty them out in your back yard, would you?

Posted by: mikeski at October 26, 2025 03:40 PM (nhCoE)

176 After that, I got the shot every year, but since the COVID lies, I'm considering not.

Yeah, I suppose if there is one benefit to COVID, it is that I no longer trust, hey, you should get this vaccine. So I usually wait until October to get the flu vaccine. Let the early adopters test it.

Sad that vaccines now have to be treated like new technology.

And yeah, if they switch to mRNA I will give them years to work out the technological hurdles.

Unless of course I die from a disease contracted from an unwashed phone first.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 26, 2025 03:40 PM (EXyHK)

177 Only loud when I’m barely rolling, goes away when I hit 5 mph.

wtf
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 26, 2025 03:21 PM (mT+6a)

Reread section on centrifugal force.

Posted by: RI Red at October 26, 2025 03:40 PM (+hwtP)

178 I hope the MPs are now issued auto-shot guns with rifled slugs. The fastest way to stop a charging truck with a shot to the block.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 26, 2025 03:36 PM (rbvCR)

F*ck that.

Shoot at the cab with #4 buckshot. About five rounds...then shoot the block with slugs.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 26, 2025 03:40 PM (n9ltV)

179 I can help you with things like this, but the current wait time for projects is 6 years.
Posted by: Weasel at October 26, 2025 03:39 PM (DX6IT)

*checks number*

Dammit Weasel! It seems like since you retired wait times have gone way up!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 26, 2025 03:40 PM (PKI1F)

180 I used to run a 12-story building.

Want to know what happens when there is an unreported leak on the 12th floor?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 26, 2025 03:40 PM (m6HS6)

181 Reread section on centrifugal force.

Posted by: RI Red at October 26, 2025 03:40 PM (+hwtP)

Or...centripetal acceleration!

Yes...I am a physics nerd.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 26, 2025 03:41 PM (n9ltV)

182 wtf
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 26, 2025 03:21 PM (mT+6a)

Reread section on centrifugal force.
Posted by: RI Red at October 26, 2025 03:40 PM (+hwtP)

Tire is probably out of balance now too.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 26, 2025 03:41 PM (PKI1F)

183
Oh.
@TrinityMustache
Did any journalist even bother to fact check Zohran Mamdani’s teary eyed claims about an aunt in NYC or were they too busy jerking off to this story?

Because it looks like Mamdani’s only aunt doesn’t even wear a hijab and has never lived in New York.

(pic of said aunt, looking very happy and thoroughly Western)

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For those who don't Twitter, he's been literally shedding tears and spitting fire about the horrid treatment afforded Muslims by New Yorkers. One of his stories is the sufferings of his aunt post-911 who stopped taking the subway because people gave hostile looks at her hijab.

(I think about 3,000 other New Yorkers stopped taking the subway for another reason, but let's move on....)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2025 03:42 PM (5e+/e)

184 Tire is probably out of balance now too.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 26, 2025 03:41 PM (PKI1F)

And I'll bet she is out of blinker fluid too.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 26, 2025 03:43 PM (n9ltV)

185 Dammit Weasel! It seems like since you retired wait times have gone way up!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 26, 2025 03:40 PM (PKI1F)
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The amount of time dedicated to my project list each day has decreased to 60 seconds in order to accommodate increased play time with the doggies.

Posted by: Weasel at October 26, 2025 03:43 PM (DX6IT)

186 (I think about 3,000 other New Yorkers stopped taking the subway for another reason, but let's move on....)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2025 03:42 PM (5e+/e)

2,753 people, one of whom was named Kenny Caldwell, a friend of my wife's.

Never mind making them cry, we should have put a few hundred Muslim heads on spikes after 9/11.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 26, 2025 03:45 PM (n9ltV)

187 The amount of time dedicated to my project list each day has decreased to 60 seconds in order to accommodate increased play time with the doggies.
Posted by: Weasel at October 26, 2025 03:43 PM (DX6IT)

Mrs. Red makes it up in volume.

Posted by: RI Red at October 26, 2025 03:46 PM (+hwtP)

188 Yeah... was the name of that one SLAAM or something?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 26, 2025 03:33 PM (PKI1F)

This has to be what you're thinking of. SLAM:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Supersonic_Low_Altitude_Missile

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 26, 2025 03:47 PM (/HDaX)

189 CBD, I think the fact that you have such a plethora of FWPs points to you definitely being a nerd.

Posted by: RI Red at October 26, 2025 03:48 PM (+hwtP)

190 FSJ and Gertie are a little mad at me right now because I made them wait until nearly 3pm for dinner.

Posted by: Weasel at October 26, 2025 03:48 PM (DX6IT)

191 Saw something new yesterday. Dryer displaying an error code. Said error code says airflow is blocked. Lint trap isn't bad, maybe 1/4 full. Clean it out like you're supposed to do between loads. Next load dries fine, no errors.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 26, 2025 03:48 PM (lUFok)

192 The Flu vaccine is still the old-fashioned kind.

But if they try to make it an mRNA vaccine, then all bets are off.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

The one offered to my parents was a combo shot. I have a feeling you won't have a choice this year. They'll slam them together and not tell anyone. The trust is no longer warranted.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 26, 2025 03:50 PM (mlg/3)

193 This has to be what you're thinking of. SLAM:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Supersonic_Low_Altitude_Missile
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 26, 2025 03:47 PM (/HDaX)

That's it. For some reason, I thought it was spelled weird (they usually are.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 26, 2025 03:50 PM (PKI1F)

194 I MAKE A MEAN SAMMICH!

WONT SOMEONE HELP
A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS?

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 26, 2025 03:50 PM (mT+6a)

195 Huh. I've never seen that fixture, I mean, I see what it is doing but we have had individual faucets directly attached.

Posted by: toby928(c) has drink taken at October 26, 2025 03:50 PM (jc0TO)

196 Blanco,

Lint traps aren't completely efficient. Open things up and check before and after the trap. You'll probably be surprised at what gets past.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 26, 2025 03:50 PM (/HDaX)

197 Any time that I am going to be away from the house, even just overnight, I shut the water off.

Something to bear in mind is that your dishwasher is also likely fed by hoses. Out of sight, out of mind...but they are back there...lurking. Periodic replacement is a very good idea.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 26, 2025 03:50 PM (XeU6L)

198 FSJ and Gertie are a little mad at me right now because I made them wait until nearly 3pm for dinner.
Posted by: Weasel at October 26, 2025 03:48 PM (DX6IT)

Tell fun size his name can be changed to free shit joe real quick.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 26, 2025 03:51 PM (PKI1F)

199 Saw something new yesterday. Dryer displaying an error code. Said error code says airflow is blocked. Lint trap isn't bad, maybe 1/4 full. Clean it out like you're supposed to do between loads. Next load dries fine, no errors.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 26, 2025 03:48 PM (lUFok

Blanco, my clothesline does not have this “error code” problem.

Posted by: RI Red at October 26, 2025 03:51 PM (+hwtP)

200 -----
I can help you with things like this, but the current wait time for projects is 6 years.
Posted by: Weasel
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This explains my stalled '78 Cutlass Calais project. AoP would have had it wrapped up years ago.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 26, 2025 03:52 PM (XeU6L)

201 I love y’all.

Blonde Morticia,
Please consider coming up to the PNW in May. I’d really like to meet you.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 26, 2025 03:52 PM (mT+6a)

202 198 FSJ and Gertie are a little mad at me right now because I made them wait until nearly 3pm for dinner.
Posted by: Weasel at October 26, 2025 03:48 PM (DX6IT)

Tell fun size his name can be changed to free shit joe real quick.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 26, 2025 03:51 PM (PKI1F)
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He's been insufferable since yesterday when he received a write-in vote for sheriff.

Posted by: Weasel at October 26, 2025 03:53 PM (DX6IT)

203
2,753 people, one of whom was named Kenny Caldwell, a friend of my wife's.

Never mind making them cry, we should have put a few hundred Muslim heads on spikes after 9/11.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

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I'm sorry about that, Charlie. And this is the sort of thing that gets me off that "Let it burn" mentality. We should be fighting that Commie Muslim SOB and that trash that will follow in the wake of his success with every atom of our being.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2025 03:53 PM (5e+/e)

204
Please consider coming up to the PNW in May. I’d really like to meet you.
Posted by: nurse ratched

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I feel like I really missed out after reading all the Texas MoMe comments. I'm considering.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2025 03:54 PM (5e+/e)

205 Flu shots don't always work. There are different shots for the type of flu going around. The powers that be decides which one to give. If they are wrong, well you can get the flu.

Posted by: Case at October 26, 2025 03:55 PM (9HFDU)

206 We should be fighting that Commie Muslim SOB and that trash that will follow in the wake of his success with every atom of our being.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2025 03:53 PM (5e+/e)

You are 100% correct. Two of my favorite countries (after America of course) are currently falling to the Muslim hordes because they didn't fight.

We need to be different.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 26, 2025 03:57 PM (n9ltV)

207 We should be fighting that Commie Muslim SOB and that trash that will follow in the wake of his success with every atom of our being.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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"The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little"

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 26, 2025 03:58 PM (XeU6L)

208 Only loud when I’m barely rolling, goes away when I hit 5 mph.

wtf
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 26, 2025 03:21 PM (mT+6a)

You have a lug nut bouncing around in your hub. When you get to speed centripetal forces stop it from bouncing around

Posted by: Kindltot at October 26, 2025 03:59 PM (rbvCR)

209 FOODIE NOODIE TIME

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2025 04:00 PM (+qU29)

210 Lint traps aren't completely efficient. Open things up and check before and after the trap. You'll probably be surprised at what gets past.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 26, 2025 03:50 PM (/HDaX)

I found a butterknife in the ducting that lead to the exhaust hose in the back of my Dad's clothes dryer.
I suspect Dad had it in his pocket from some potluck, and didn't notice when he threw his pants in the washer. It is the sort of thing you only find when you do a full strip down of a machine to figure out where the squeak is coming from

Posted by: Kindltot at October 26, 2025 04:09 PM (rbvCR)

211 I read that the moneyed class don't care if mandani wins or loses. What he does won't affect them. Another article said that Manhattan is full up. If anything there's a shortage of rental.

Apparently as rational people are running away, nut jobs are running to it. Like moths to a flame.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 26, 2025 04:13 PM (FH2HJ)

212 I found a butterknife in the ducting that lead to the exhaust hose in the back of my Dad's clothes dryer.
I suspect Dad had it in his pocket from some potluck, and didn't notice when he threw his pants in the washer.
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I clean the filter with each use. Once, I forgot to reinstall it. The next day, walking around in the back yard, I found a couple of dollar bills. (*!*)

On a moment's contemplation I went in and checked the dryer. Sure enough, not only had I forgotten to check my pockets before washing a couple of pairs of trousers, I had also forgotten to reinstall the filter.

I'm sorry that I did not witness the result, as the dryer is on the upper part of a split level house. Watching the money floating around in the air would have been pretty amusing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 26, 2025 04:16 PM (XeU6L)

213 Appears most here are pro flu shot. My doc always says that even if the shot is not on the money there is still a degree of benefit.
Reconsidering abstinence, he is.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 26, 2025 04:20 PM (FH2HJ)

214 @WallStreetApes . Oct 25

In June 2025, GPS data placed Zohran Mamdani at Barack Obama’s war room twice in just 6 weeks. Also present were individuals tied to the Muslim Brotherhood

Obama’s war room is located at 2446 Belmont Rd NW, just minutes from the Islamic Center of Washington DC

The Muslim Brotherhood openly state their goal is to control the political power in every state in America and eventually the all country

“We will run candidates inshallah— the strategy is a long-term strategy. I can be very confident to tell you. That we are on the road to the White House, to the Congress, to the decision making everywhere in the United States.”

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 26, 2025 04:38 PM (FH2HJ)

215 @212 Hate it when I realize I left a kleenex or two in one of my trousers before they went into the washer.

The worst was when a printed magazine went into the washer, having been covered up by a pile of dirty clothes. To the washing machine's credit (I guess?) it managed to completely turn that magazine into pulp. It was a bitch to clean all that out of the washer and my clothes.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 26, 2025 04:41 PM (36PRH)

216 On the bright side, perhaps our long Penguin Nightmare can now be solved.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

We are keeping score.

Posted by: Merry Marching Penguin Majority. at October 26, 2025 05:09 PM (oftw2)

217 Go out and get those old, simple washers and dryers they used to make. They were the low end ones till at least the 2005 era. They are very simple to figure out if they bresk and the working parts are standardized and chesp and available. You really dont need to set wash and dry times or be able to start your laundry with a phone even if they told you that

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