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The rant thread...

Discussion in 'The Water Cooler' started by buckeye, Feb 3, 2013.

  1. oldnotdead

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    Been there felt that. It is a nature's process. Your brain knows to go into protective mode as you age.
     
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    Rain steady from today through Saturday with high winds and cold temps. Highs low to mid 50's and night lows ,low to mid 40's.
     
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    Yeah pretty much what we have dealt with here wet windy and cold.
     
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    So anyone noticing the lack of " Global Warming" rhetoric since...
    1.) DOGE shut down the slush funds
    2.) We entered the El Nino weather cycle.

    Now they can allow real atmospheric news like how the sun goes through "weather" cycles that effects us.
    Between our pole switch, the suns increased flare bursts and outdated electrical/ electronic infrastructure be prepaired. There will be more air planes and air liner ,lets say issues. There will be far more outages and electronic fails. Then heads up because our space is a major satellite cluster F. What goes up can come down and it doesn't always burns up on reentry
     
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    Thought I would throw new spark plugs in the boat should be a quick and easy project. I used all my curse words up none left. What kind of idiot designs an engine install with coolant manifolds in the way making it impossible to get a socket on the spark plugs? took me about 3 hours.
     
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    They are designing to make self work harder and harder
     
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    You need a special tool. An engineer designed the tool first!
     
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    You want to know why kayaks are typically stored inside down? Because I was cursing like a mad man trying to roll over a kayak half full of water on an inclined bank. My loving wife was standing there watching me so I had to channel my rage and not possibly direct it at the person responsible for my conundrum. Kayak's fault.:rant:
     
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    Making one, no having one made.
     
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    Global warming?
    Same here in SE TN.
     
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    Ticks. Been picking them off me for days. Damn I hate those things.
     
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    I have had 1 wood tick since I moved, my dogs don't even get ticks. Much better than having limes again.
     
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    Highly pissed this morning, there is not a Honda outboard dealer from the Twin Cities to Brainerd, WTF. I need 1 gas line fitting.
     
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    So if I disappear from the site, hubby retired. If I'm not in prison, well I retired to my tallest tree stand with a big bottle of Jamerson
    He's home for a medical precedure, it's like having a 150# knat buzzing me constantly.....I love him I do, in small increments
     
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    So just got back from his hospital procedure all is fine. I learned something very important

    You best stay in very good health and pray if you plan on living past 75yrs of age.
    After that there are no more insurance payed tests for many things.
    Prostate
    Colonoscopy
    Women get there yearly pap smears (Uterine cancer) taken after 65. You go to 3 yrs not every year
    I don't know about breast cancer screenings. They still do those yearly, at 75 who knows.
    I suppose there are many more tests that won't be allowed.
    So insurance and medical have an expiration date starting at 75? It makes me wonder quality of actual medical care after that time line.
     
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    People who send 3 separate text messages, back to back, instead of one.

    You can use punctuation in texts to separate thoughts…
     
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    Most likely using voice text, my wife does this to me all the time.
     
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    OK , so why are prices high? GEE could it be warehouse screw ups that are allowed to happen. What is the consequences when the warehouse ships air filled bags of food with 3#'s of canned food and 4 bottles of mouth wash? Food all over the inside of box you need to replace. That's happened 4x's in the last year. The very next day the rest of order arrives, but not. E-mail says it was delivered and gave the correct items listed. What was in the box though wasn't even close. Mind you also worth 5x's more than the items I actually ordered. I call and on first shipment , no you keep bad items and we do not need the pics you took. Replacements being sent. Today, keep all the items you received and replacement order is being sent.
    Last week I ordered 50ft. of fencing e-mail stated your 1 item 50ft blah ,blah, blah was delivered. Sure enough the one box was delivered. The next day another box gets delivered 50ft of fencing. No e-mail no statement of delivery and zero charge. I called oooppss our bad ,no need to return.
    Mind you I truly appreciate the good fortune , but also know there is a price to be paid over all
     
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    Sort of like working on a car. My son and I worked on cars years ago. He wanted to be and is a mechanical engineer. I told him if I caught him designing something like we encountered, I would kick his butt around the block. IMHO, a vehicle designer should be required to work in a dealer shop for two years before designing a vehicle of any kind. Any of you guys remember changing points, plugs and condenser?
     
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    Still do vintage outboards.
     
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