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Post by silverdragon on May 28, 2014 6:41:00 GMT
A Good Day, Yesterday we managed to get at the sidelight bulb on my good friends car, went to a local spares shop, and got a replacement, that fitted, first attempt. This whole lot came in, including estimated fuel costs of running to the shop, for UNDER a fiver... (£5)....
This is a modern car, but its Toyota, and they dont mess with irreplaceable expensive bulbs. And they are easy to get to as well... about two mins a bulb if you were in a hurry?...
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Post by the light works on Jun 13, 2014 14:59:07 GMT
the fuel gauge on my truck - which hasn't worked for the better part of a year - was working yesterday. not gonna commit to trusting it - but its handy to have it back.
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Jun 13, 2014 19:55:09 GMT
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Post by the light works on Jun 14, 2014 0:20:14 GMT
looks less cumbersome than the opening kick suit - but I still see a lot of work before it goes to prime time. still, its a start.
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Post by ironhold on Jun 16, 2014 15:12:12 GMT
A bit back, I mentioned a particular individual in my congregation who had an over-inflated sense of self.
At church yesterday, he started shooting his mouth off again. This time, it was about how cats are lazy because they tend to sleep most of the day away. He said that if he could come back as an animal, it'd be a cat because he wanted to be able to do the same.
I then proceeded to inform him that cats are nature's murder machines.
The average house cat is more than capable of downing prey several times bigger than it is, up to and including human beings, without breaking a sweat.
This meant him.
He seemed rather horrified at this discovery, and it seemed like he was having to reconsider a number of presumptions that he had made.
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Jun 16, 2014 15:15:19 GMT
A bit back, I mentioned a particular individual in my congregation who had an over-inflated sense of self. At church yesterday, he started shooting his mouth off again. This time, it was about how cats are lazy because they tend to sleep most of the day away. He said that if he could come back as an animal, it'd be a cat because he wanted to be able to do the same. I then proceeded to inform him that cats are nature's murder machines. The average house cat is more than capable of downing prey several times bigger than it is, up to and including human beings, without breaking a sweat. This meant him. He seemed rather horrified at this discovery, and it seemed like he was having to reconsider a number of presumptions that he had made. That's a great way to unsettle FIGJAM...
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Post by ironhold on Jun 16, 2014 19:32:51 GMT
What people fail to understand about cats is that:
1. They're born with a natural instinct for aggression. Even as kittens, they'll stalk prey and move to defend themselves if they can't run away from a threat. As part of this, they already instinctively know to go after the head, throat, and major joints of whatever they're going at. All they need is someone - usually an older cat - to teach them how to handle specific targets.
2. Cats have fangs and claws. They don't use them very often when they're domestic, but there's more to a cat sharpening its claws than just a desire to ruin your couch: it's keeping itself ready in case it has to murder something.
3. Despite their small size, a healthy cat can pack a lot of power into its little body. Individual cats can leap as high as six feet into the air, and they can put a surprising amount of power into their attacks and into hauling off prey.
The guys behind the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game actually (if inadvertently) paid tribute to this by setting it up so that the average house cat could take out the average first-level character in a one-on-one encounter.*
I myself have seen cats take down humans, and I've heard anecdotal reports of cats taking down such creatures as coyotes.
*A cat's bite does IIRC d6 damage, while each set of claws can do d4 damage. This means that, barring critical hits or other damage modifiers, a cat can hypothetically do 22 points of damage in a single turn. Even berzerkers only get d12+mods hit points at first level, and so if a cat lands all of its attacks and does maximum damage then it can kill a first-level character outright in a single turn.
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Post by Cybermortis on Jun 16, 2014 22:47:22 GMT
You forgot one other little tit-bit of information about house cats; They are largely nocturnal. Something anyone who's been woken up at 2am by a cat clawing its way up the curtains can attest to.
Good news, how about yours truly getting a reply from none other than Marina Sirtis on Twitter. Yes, Councillor Troi herself has replied to a Tweet of mine.
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Post by the light works on Jun 17, 2014 14:38:21 GMT
if he comes back as a male cat there's a good chance steps will be taken to ensure he doesn't reproduce.
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Post by GTCGreg on Jun 18, 2014 12:34:35 GMT
Survived another trip to visit the In-Laws in West Virginia. Guess the fact that I'm back home is a good thing.
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Jun 18, 2014 12:40:03 GMT
Survived another trip to visit the In-Laws in West Virginia. Guess the fact that I'm back home is a good thing. How many conversations with mom-in-law started with "How come you..." or "Why don't you..."?
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Post by GTCGreg on Jun 18, 2014 13:03:47 GMT
Survived another trip to visit the In-Laws in West Virginia. Guess the fact that I'm back home is a good thing. How many conversations with mom-in-law started with "How come you..." or "Why don't you..."? It's not so much the MIL. I get along pretty well with her. It's the BIL, SIL and NIL (Nieces-In Laws) that are a bit hard to take. NIL #1 comes in all covered in dirt complaining how one of her goats got into her garage and she spent the last hour wrestling with it trying to get it out. Then NIL #2, who lives down the road a "piece", stops by complaining how the BIL's dog killed one of her chickens. These people make the Duck Dynasty folks look normal. It's a totally foreign life style. Like I said, good to be home.
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Jun 18, 2014 13:11:35 GMT
It's not so much the MIL. I get along pretty well with her. It's the BIL, SIL and NIL (Nieces-In Laws) that are a bit hard to take. NIL #1 comes in all covered in dirt complaining how one of her goats got into her garage and she spent the last hour wrestling with it trying to get it out. Then NIL #2, who lives down the road a "piece", stops by complaining how the BIL's dog killed one of her chickens. These people make the Duck Dynasty folks look normal. It's a totally foreign life style. Like I said, good to be home. Goat rasslin'?? Too bad nobody was around her recording on their cell phone, YouTube viewers eat that stuff up...
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Post by the light works on Jun 18, 2014 13:16:48 GMT
How many conversations with mom-in-law started with "How come you..." or "Why don't you..."? It's not so much the MIL. I get along pretty well with her. It's the BIL, SIL and NIL (Nieces-In Laws) that are a bit hard to take. NIL #1 comes in all covered in dirt complaining how one of her goats got into her garage and she spent the last hour wrestling with it trying to get it out. Then NIL #2, who lives down the road a "piece", stops by complaining how the BIL's dog killed one of her chickens. These people make the Duck Dynasty folks look normal. It's a totally foreign life style. Like I said, good to be home. the duck dynasty folks ARE normal. they just act like that for the TV show.
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Post by GTCGreg on Jun 18, 2014 14:11:54 GMT
It's not so much the MIL. I get along pretty well with her. It's the BIL, SIL and NIL (Nieces-In Laws) that are a bit hard to take. NIL #1 comes in all covered in dirt complaining how one of her goats got into her garage and she spent the last hour wrestling with it trying to get it out. Then NIL #2, who lives down the road a "piece", stops by complaining how the BIL's dog killed one of her chickens. These people make the Duck Dynasty folks look normal. It's a totally foreign life style. Like I said, good to be home. the duck dynasty folks ARE normal. they just act like that for the TV show. Unfortunately, my in-laws aren't acting.
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Jun 18, 2014 14:18:20 GMT
the duck dynasty folks ARE normal. they just act like that for the TV show. For some reason, "Duck Dynasty" doesn't bother me as much as "Honey Boo Boo" (I likes my sketty with ketchup and butta). Something about HBB just leaves me wondering how it can't be scripted to some extent.
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Post by the light works on Jun 18, 2014 14:23:00 GMT
the duck dynasty folks ARE normal. they just act like that for the TV show. For some reason, "Duck Dynasty" doesn't bother me as much as "Honey Boo Boo" (I likes my sketty with ketchup and butta). Something about HBB just leaves me wondering how it can't be scripted to some extent. granted, they write DD a little better (or so I assume from the fact that Mrs TLW won't watch HBB)
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Jun 18, 2014 14:29:23 GMT
granted, they write DD a little better (or so I assume from the fact that Mrs TLW won't watch HBB) I would summarize it as DD portrays "rednecks with money" whereas HBB is more "ignorant rednecks"
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Post by GTCGreg on Jun 18, 2014 16:29:18 GMT
granted, they write DD a little better (or so I assume from the fact that Mrs TLW won't watch HBB) I would summarize it as DD portrays "rednecks with money" whereas HBB is more "ignorant rednecks" Never saw HBB. After this last trip, don't think I need to.
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Post by silverdragon on Jun 19, 2014 8:56:17 GMT
Eh what?.. Dragon is off the deep end without a parachute....
Duck Dynasty... The main person acting up for the camera is Mum.
Everyone needs a little Si in their life.... Just so they can attach an anchor to normality... its at the opposite end of the room to Si..... His Brother Jase is almost normal.
But I do think they are suggesting too much. That was a show where if you left the camera running, you would eventually get genuine results.... I think they are in too much of a hurry to get results.
HBB... I watched about 20 seconds of some over pretentious mum giving it large, I then left the roo, because I knew I would eventually throw something at the TV?.... The Missus watched a full episode... for research reasons....(One of her friends is addicted...) She says she honestly doesnt know where they fit into a normal world, and wonders how badly scarred they are psychologically, for life.
She also wonder how the real world should deal with them.... We have met a family like that in passing in a hotel one time....(Something like that happens in UK...) They were at large in the dining hall, trying to order off-menu items, for "Special" child.... We left and warned management that they would be trouble. We avoided them for the rest of our stay, but did hear some back-room curses from staff who had had to deal with them... (The management were friends of mine, we had some back-room access...)
I have an honest opinion that their complete life is false. It appears that "Special" is something that by demanding is no longer what it started to be. Eh what?.. Dragon is off the deep end without a parachute....
If you insist long enough that it is what YOU say it is, you alter the meaning of something. This may only affect a localised field, but it does happen.. Therefore, anyone who partakes in "Special treatment" for that particular show, b@$tardizes its meaning to special-for-the-show treatment. [I had to miss-spell a word there because the board software doesnt like certain word used in its true meaning that isnt rude.]
{Admin note; The word is on the censored list. Although attempting to bypass the list in any way is against board rules, I'll allow this to stand since the word is being used in a correct and none-profane context. CM}
Do I honestly believe that they live their life's as they portray?... No. Therefore what they do is for the camera. Its not real. It should not be allowed out into real life. You are NOT royalty, do NOT expect royal treatment. Do NOT "Demand" what you didnt pay for.
And "For the record", the hotel I was staying at that time?.. it had a clause in its billing that stated that extra room service was a billable extra, special diets could be catered for, but may incur extra charges. Yes they did load the bill with "Extra charges".... exactly what had been demanded... they kept careful track of everything.... Yes there was an argument. Yes they did eventually pay... including all the extras..... You get what you pay for, you pay for what you get. "We wont come back here again" "You wont be welcome" The family name is on their "Do not accept booking from" list......
As it affects normal people, I therefore say, that its a bogus show, and should not be encouraged.
Dont get me started on the age of the kids.... Thats a separate subject.
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