Sometimes we men don’t ask for help simply because we want to see if we can do it ourselves. It’s a test.
I often have work at my camp that makes me think it would be smarter or safer to wait until I can get help. Then I think, nah, you can figure this out. That often leads to novel solutions.
Crying in front of a woman has got me dumped a few times, like next-day dumped.
Had a reddit post deleted for using retard as a verb, as in, “Have you tried retarding the action, maybe it’s too fast?”
We out here poking and peeking.
Seems counterintuitive, but I’ve had more productive arguments with conservative vs. liberal friends. By productive I mean to say, the conservative often changed his view, sometimes a little, sometimes a lot, sometimes a complete reversal. In any case, they listened to my points and would reason with me. They would often shift my thoughts or, at worst, I came away understanding, if not agreeing. If one’s only experience arguing a political point is online, well, your mileage will vary.
Liberals, on the other hand, often won’t engage in real life arguments, at all. “This doesn’t bear discussion. I’m right, you’re an idiot, I’m out.” Try arguing a conservative take in a room full of liberals. You’re getting shouted down, and you’re not getting invited back. Winning hearts and minds here guys?
Both sides are religious in their online echo chambers, ears firmly plugged, “You will toe the party line, comrade!”. (Point goes to the online liberal, they’re a bit more lenient.) The echo is so strong around here, posts get down voted for having the impertinence to ask a clarifying question or so much as explaining a conservative view, even if not holding it. Fuck me, I’ve seen dozens of buried posts, posts that only stated a single, inconvenient fact. Hell, I check the negative posts because I often find an interesting take or new thought. Watch the down votes roll on this post merely because I related positive personal experiences with conservatives. No value judgements, just stating what I’ve seen in real life.
(Here I’m going to ramble around a bit, hoping I can get back on track at the end…)
Funny story, I was at a house party and wandered upstairs to find my dad moderating a debate (I forget the topic) in a room full of drunk college kids. After a few minutes he called a halt. Pointing to the debaters, he said, “You’re going to argue his view and you’re going to take his. Switch sides.” Momentarily taken aback, they wholeheartedly jumped into their new roles. I suspect dad timed that to teach me a lesson, he often said, “If you can’t argue both sides, you don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Pre-Obama, I used to be fairly conservative, thought I was anyway, listened to talk radio while delivering or eating lunch. One afternoon I realized dad would be ashamed to hear that I got all my views from one side. So I started reading CCN, that hotbed of radical-left boogeyman I had heard so much about. Let’s see what these liberals have to say. Well, CNN was anything but a hotbed of whacky liberalism, even back then. Terrible journalism, yes, opinions rampant in every “news” story, but nothing like the bias I had been listening to. (And here we are, back to experiences differing in real-life arguments vs. online, or on-air as the case may be.)
About the same time, Limbaugh turned me off like a light switch, never listened to another word after snapping off my radio. A caller was relating his experience with purchasing and installing a wind turbine at his home. Rush laughed, on cue, at the silly liberal notions of clean energy. OK, that sucks, but to be expected. The caller starts talking about the expense and hassle of hooking it to the grid. Limbaugh went off, over and over again, “You mean to tell me the windmill needs power to function?! Har, har, har!” The man was only trying to explain that he wished to pump excess back into the grid, get paid, but all in all, the system was a loss for him. Rush was a very intelligent man, knew exactly what the caller was trying to say, knew if would be construed as a benefit, cut him off every time he opened his mouth to explain. Fuck you Rush.
That last anecdote seems to contradict earlier statements. I guess what I’m getting at it that conservatives are close-minded when they’re in their echo chambers. Confronted with a live human being, they’re mostly pleasant to argue with. Bet money that, one-on-one, Rush would have argued in good faith. When contradicted, liberals come with “tell it to the hand”.
/rambling-nonsense
Yep! I’m going for something like those two, stuff like Con Air or The Rock.
LMAO, my man co-opted an old racist tune. You go on with your bad self.
Bible’s already covered this and the bees won.
Judges 14:8 (KJV)
8 And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.
In other news, I can’t believe I pulled that out of my ass. No idea what this bit of the Samson story is about.
Favorite all-time painter!
“Raphael, imma let you finnish, but Maxfield Parrish was the one of the best painters of all time. Of all time!”
LOL, you would love my house and decorations. Also, this.
Stolen AGAIN?! (The theft plays a part in the painting’s fame.)
I got best results having my dentist make me a mold ($70) and using Amazon whitening tubes.
I pronounce it both ways. Huh. Did not know that about myself.
Being clean is a matter of life and death! They have hygiene issues we don’t see at our scale. They deal with tiny things like mites we don’t even think about.
Couple examples: Extra crap is extra weight and causes balance issues. Tiny blob stuck to a wing? You’re flight systems are hosed. Something tiny stuck to a single lens on your compound eyeball is going to throw your visual system. Even predators are prey, gotta be at peak performance. Probably 1,000 things I’m not thinking of ATM.
Imagine your skeleton is on the outside, plate mail if you will, your flesh fused directly to the underside. Now let me roll you in sand and see how well you function. Ouch. I pretty much destroyed a drone landing it on a river beach. Sand ate the gears, and that thing wasn’t moving nearly as fast as insect wings.
Boric acid is wildly effective against roaches (and other bugs) precisely because they’re such clean animals. They track through it and ingest the acid while washing up, burns their little guts out. Diatomaceous earth is so fine it gets in the chinks and physically grinds 'em up.
Watch any given insect for a bit, house flies are a great example. Constantly cleaning! The exceptions being predators like spiders and such. They have to remain chill to ambush prey.
tl;dr: Insect anatomy is fine tuned to a level us biguns can hardly grasp. Dirty is not an option.
Always struck me as odd how thick they get in cold climates. I’ve seen videos from Siberia where the guys in the field are wearing the mosquito version of bee keeper suits.
Meanwhile, in Florida, I have a couple of swampy acres out in the boonies and mosquitos aren’t bad at all. They’re worse in my front yard than out there.
Oh god, the pictures in my head, LMAO.
“Ma! There’s a danged ole black bear stuck to the back porch screen!”
“Well poke it loose with the broom!”
You sleep late thinking the sun is low. Nope. Gator spread eagle on your bedroom window.
“God. Damnit. Not again”
Wife rolls over in bed,
“Stop bitching and go get the gator spray.”
“We used it all!”
“Then why didn’t you buy more?!”
“I put it on our shopping list. You forgot last time you went to Winn Dixie.”
Kayaking was easy. Get one you can afford on FB Marketplace and go. Cheap paddles are just fine to start as are $3 thrift life vests, grab a whistle while you’re shopping. Next thing you know, you’re scanning Google Maps for water and new adventures.
Hi-Point .45 carbine, total impulse buy but it scratched several itches.
For those that don’t know, Hi-Points are stupid cheap and stupid looking guns. But everyone says they work great, so I was Hi-curious, if you will. The design makes me think they took a gang of skilled engineers, showed them pictures of guns, and said, “Make one.” Everything about the assembly is bizarre, no idea how to take it apart.
Stumbled on this thing for $300. Love me some .45, wanted a PCC (short rifle that shoots pistol rounds) and it’s white, looks like a Stormtrooper rifle! True to their rep, it won’t misfire, even with the cheapest remanufactured ammo. Taking it out today, it’s a hoot. God help me if it ever needs cleaned.
Yep, got 2! And Casios are stupid cheap on eBay. My wife and I are a bit addicted to thrift store watches. She just got me a digital Citizen for $1.99!
Where do you live where this could be problematic?!