The ultimate thread! (possible NSFW) (#30)

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Originally Posted by Mars

Dude those guys clearing the double in that vid are insane. Wow.

especially given that those bikes are somewhere between 125-165cc

[yooper]

Originally Posted by Cube Dweller

Getting the inside of the Swiss part clean was a pita. I used a circular pipe brush. Save the screen and bring all the pieces to TuTap. I'll try to get it back on there for you.

I used my circular pipe brush too, then degreased it and brushed it some more. It was all shiny in there but it still didn't want to stick even with copious flux. Part of the problem was the largish gap that had to be filled with solder I think.

When I tried to get the screen soldered back on the Swiss part came loose from the copper again. That's when I gave up. I don't really need the screen. I'm not buying roadside gas in Mexico out of random 55 gallon drums.

No worries, it's very functional as is.

[DSRTRDR]

Originally Posted by yooper

My dad mostly drank Leinenkugel's when I was little. He's from Chippewa Falls, though, which is where it is brewed.

Now he shares most of my tastes in beer. We usually drink stout when we are together.

my father never drank

in the last half year of his life he tasted a few glasses of wine and remarked that maybe he hadn't needed to be so fundamentalistic in his disregard of alcohol

my mother on the other hand continues to enjoy wine that's what we drink together, and aquavit, which she keep in the freezer compartment

[yooper]

Originally Posted by surfpig

FUCK the FUCKING carmakers and their stupid FUCKING cheapass bumpers that can barely withstand a FUCKING 5mph collision, but just FUCKING shear clean off the car when you accidentally drive over and then back up over a FUCKING 5 1/2" tall MALL CURB!

Originally Posted by surfpig

It was one of those moments when I notice the front bumper dangling off of the Civic, then Mrs Surfpig goes, " Oh, yeah..."



Turns out that it's held on by about half a dozen plastic fasteners...

WTF?

I was mortified when I replaced my 100 bumper with the ARB bar and found that the stock bumper was a little folded piece of metal covered with styrofoam and then the big plastic cover.

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Originally Posted by Jman

For disposing of human remains, I use the woodchipper.

[yooper]

Thanks for the moral support TUT. I'm gonna go read some Korean War historical fiction and go to sleep. Surgeries in the am time. Night.

[gladly]

Originally Posted by Hugh Heifer

A voluminous literature notwithstanding, there is little convincing empirical research about the correlation between personality traits and addictive behaviors. Substance abuse and dependence (alcoholism, drug addiction) is only one form of recurrent and self-defeating pattern of misconduct. People are addicted to all kinds of things: gambling, shopping, the Internet, reckless and life-endangering pursuits. Adrenaline junkies abound.
The connection between chronic anxiety, pathological narcissism, depression, obsessive-compulsive traits and alcoholism and drug abuse is well established and common in clinical practice. But not all narcissists, compulsives, depressives, and anxious people turn to the bottle or the needle. Frequent claims of finding a gene complex responsible for alcoholism have been consistently cast in doubt.

I can quit any time I want

[DSRTRDR]

Originally Posted by Jman

Wow, that is way too young. But not a bad way to go. Sorry for your loss, your community's loss, and his wife and daughter's loss most of all.

yeah, sorry to hear, too - this seems not too uncommon ; I know of two collegues who died totally unexpectedly out of the blue - one was the same age, the other younger

but I have to echo this

Originally Posted by Jman

But not a bad way to go.

As the saying in my hometown goes "a nice death" (as opposed to other forms )

[gladly]

Originally Posted by yooper

[DSRTRDR]

Originally Posted by Jman

Okay, so why does boiled water taste different?

'cause you burned your tonge first

[DSRTRDR]

Originally Posted by srplus

Sorry about your friend Sean. I just realized when I read what you typed that I am the same age my dad was when he found out he had terminal cancer. I had not thought about my age in those terms before.

I have often

I have beat my father's age at death by two years now

did I mention I go to cancer screenings regularly

[DSRTRDR]

a neighbor from a cove at the other end of the lake came by

apparently, word travels fast (no, he can't see our house from his place, so he could not see the lights in the house at night)

he is the guy for the "there's crap on my beach" and "my sandhill outlot grows weeds" jobs

he came by to tell me he found crap on my beach and that from now on, he will just send one bill at the end of the year

[DSRTRDR]

tomorrow, a tree service will come by an take two trees down and cut a big limb off another one that's blocking a walking path on the beach

I got some grass and sedum to cut down left......

I forgot mulch today when I was in town

[DSRTRDR]

we got nice Lily of the Valley flowering

but the winter must have been long and hard - the iris are barely driving the flower stalks up and will not open for at least another two weeks

the ornamental grasses are all very slow this year as well

I saw two turkeys in the last two days

[semlin]

Originally Posted by DSRTRDR

we got nice Lily of the Valley flowering

but the winter must have been long and hard - the iris are barely driving the flower stalks up and will not open for at least another two weeks

the ornamental grasses are all very slow this year as well

I saw two turkeys in the last two days

lily of the valley was my grandmother's favourite flower and now my mums. i have tried to get it here this weekend without success.

[semlin]

i has walnuts and rhubarb crumble from our garden, and white wine from across the street


nomnomnomnomnomnomonomnom

[semlin]

mrs semlin eyeballed a fricken fountain today that she wants to put in our frontyard to drown out the road noise

[semlin]

i said "you do realize you are talking about buying a fountain"?

and she nodded

[semlin]

she also topped and trimmed the crap out the yew tree in the front today

[semlin]

there's doins afoot at semlin acres

[semlin]

she wants me to fix our trellis too. maybe mars has some suggestions?