Subject: Stream of Consciousness: a thread that cannot be hijacked
Date: Tue Jun 2 01:17:12 2020
User: mrbuck
Message:This is as good as I can find. It's not good enough, but it'll have to suffice.
mrbuck
Link: Hitler and a duck
Date: Tue Jun 2 07:31:40 2020
User: outskirts
Message:I have a one footed goose named Dominic but I call him Lefty. He walks like that! Lol omg
Date: Tue Jun 2 09:45:35 2020
User: outskirts
Message:ps ix, I got your waxing joke, haha 😂
Date: Tue Jun 2 09:50:18 2020
User: outskirts
Message:oops sorry different thread
Date: Tue Jun 2 09:53:01 2020
User: outskirts
Message:Anyhow, ix's dream has chowdered around in my brain some this morning.... it's very interesting
And I loved the daffy video mrbuck posted
Date: Tue Jun 2 15:26:28 2020
User: outskirts
Message:Lefty is hysterical to me now and makes me think of John Cleese in Fawlty towers. I'm not laughing *at* him, I love him and the other princesses.
Date: Thu Jun 4 05:36:58 2020
User: TitanicTony
Message:"The accident happened when the pillars supporting a fuel tank at a power plant began to sink. The area is built on permafrost which has been melting as the climate warms."
Maybe we need a thread for "Climate Crisis" disasters??
And, surely they could have taken preventive measures; like prop up the tank, or lessened its weight (by moving half of the oil to smaller tanks)!!!!!
Date: Fri Jun 19 15:44:16 2020
User: BuzzClik
Message:On the plus side is that diesel is easily degradable and tends to have a low burden of the truly nasty constituents of a lot of petroleum products (e.g., PAHs).
On the bad side, cold climates are not amendable to biodegradation. That stuff is going to be there for a while.
Date: Fri Jun 19 15:50:29 2020
User: BuzzClik
Message:I'm posting the following on this thread to avoid the wandering eyes of a certain someone....
Some people are convinced that the Covid-19 pandemic is a total nothing burger. Not really lethal, not really contagious, not worth isolating the infected. They blame most of the media for propagating the lies, and they really blame the doctors who support such notions.
My question is: Why would anyone fake data on a global scale or make up symptoms or contribute to tanking the economy?
Date: Fri Jun 19 16:49:24 2020
User: mrbuck
Message:To keep the Earth flat?
mrbuck
Date: Fri Jun 19 17:25:00 2020
User: TNmountainman
Message:Exactly. And to safeguard the moon so we'll never try to go there. The blue/bleu cheese industry is important to the economy; must be protected. Moon tariffs if it comes to that.
Date: Fri Jun 19 20:32:01 2020
User: ix
Message:
Date: Fri Jun 19 20:46:46 2020
User: firenze
Message:After all, the president's campaign slogan is "Grandma would have died anyway".
Date: Sat Jun 20 00:20:28 2020
User: mrbuck
Message:ix,
It's not my death I fear, but yours, however mild it may be.
mrbuck
Date: Tue Jun 23 11:02:36 2020
User: TNmountainman
Message:Update on my post about the big fuel spill in Siberia. (See June 4 above if you missed it.) That part is about 1/2 way down the linked page.
Decided not to put it in one of the climate change threads, as those have gotten contentious.
Link: Siberia's (current) weather anomalies
Date: Wed Jun 24 12:02:21 2020
User: TNmountainman
Message:“It is a general rule that the worst of men are fondest of change and commotion, hoping that they may thereby benefit themselves;
but by adherence to a steady, quiet system, affairs proceed without confusion, and bad men have nothing to gain.”
-- old Chinese maxim
Date: Tue Aug 18 15:27:25 2020
User: TNmountainman
Message:"They don't make things the way they used to, Part 2,384"
I've been helping a family of friends dispose of the affairs of their patriarch. He had a lot of old papers, files, documents, financial records, etc. Like, lots.
Some of these boxes of stuff hadn't seen the light of day since the '50s. (Or *possibly* early '60s.) Without belaboring the evidence that this was true, just accept that it was. Stacks and stacks and stacks of items bound in rubber bands. And not those thicker ones we have today - these are those old-style, very thin ones like used to be ubiquitous in offices and such. And this guy had an office, from the '40s into the late '60s or *possibly* early '70s. Well guess what? Those rubber bands work as good, or better, than modern ones right this minute. Completely astonishing. My guess is that they're actual rubber - and maybe modern ones aren't?? (Not gonna research it.) It's actually quite dumbfounding and remarkable. In fact, I'm using two or three right now. I could have salvaged dozens, but at first, I thought they were lucky to not have disintegrated anyway, so trashed them. But then, I tested one or two - and then many. They all were still good. Ok, I think one broke upon testing. Crazy.
Reminds me of the encounter I had (I think earlier-recounted on this forum) in the backwoods mountains (MANY years ago) with a WWII Willys Jeep that - yes- had it's original tires still on it. The owner recounted to me how those tires were made to be nearly indestructible, and that only after the war did manufacturers realize that if they made their tires last so long, they wouldn't have repeat business. I've since seen evidence both for and against that assertion, so don't know the truth of it. But I can sure attest to the truth that these old rubber bands seem stronger than their thicker, modern cousins.
Date: Fri Aug 21 09:10:43 2020
User: sgmsgmsgm
Message:Probably not exposed to UV light. UV degrades lots stuff quickly.
As for the tyres, lots of factors at play there, exposure to UV being one them, as a general rule, the softer the compound the better the grip and I wouldn't want to be driving that jeep on wet bitumen.
Date: Fri Aug 21 13:15:02 2020
User: TNmountainman
Message:Well, of course I know the UV factor, but I've had dozens of much newer rubber bands, used in non-UV light situations, degrade over a period of a year or two or three in the dark. This is WAY beyond that being the only factor.
And yes, we know that about tyres, too. The ones I saw were reputed to be the original tyres that came with that WII-era Jeep. A completely different animal that what your comment is referring to. Whether they were actually that old is something I can't attest to. But that was not the only "old-timer" I heard that story from. And yes, I know it sounds unbelievable.
Date: Fri Aug 21 13:22:38 2020
User: cellmate
Message:
i haven't played anything on my belt-drive turntable in years. I'm reluctant to try because i suspect the belt will disintegrate
Hopefully a turntable belt is better quality than the typical modern rubber band
Date: Sat Aug 22 01:57:30 2020
User: sgmsgmsgm
Message:Drive belts are made to be flexible without stretching so weakening is less likely. I wonder if rubber bands are susceptible to work hardening? You should have bought a Linn Sondek direct drive.
Speaking of audiophiles, and nobody was, I learned to hate those guys. I am talking about the era before CDs were invented, 70s and early 80s. They may have had the best gear like valve amps, Linn Sondek turntables & Nakimichi tape decks but they always seemed to have the worst, most boring taste in music. You would go around to their house and all they ever played was Rick Wakeman & Jeff Wayne. Their main criteria for music was how it demonstrated the quality of their set up. I preferred to sit in the car and listen to the Clash on a trashy car audio system
Date: Sat Aug 22 03:46:22 2020
User: TNmountainman
Message:So glad I bought a direct drive, WAY WAY back when. Still works. I wasn't really an audiophile, but like you, had some friends who were - but they and I liked the same music, for the most part. Some of them were pretty extreme. Buy a record; play it ONCE, in order to record it onto very-high-end reel-to-reel tape; put record back in dust jacket, and leave for years, or until tape quality degraded over years. I bought the best stuff I could reasonably afford. THE KEY for long record life is a super-high-end stylus, and keep it and the records very clean. And of course as low a stylus pressure as you can make work.
Date: Thu Sep 3 15:07:56 2020
User: BuzzClik
Message:360 vertical rotation on one of the jumps .... just because. Lunatic.
Date: Fri Sep 11 12:58:18 2020
User: TNmountainman
Message:Here ya go, ix..........
This reminds me of the bicycle thing I posted (mostly for you) in this thread back in Feb. Pretty interesting physics. Actually................let me correct that..........*very* interesting physics.
Link: "The Bizarre Behavior of Rotating Bodies"
Date: Fri Sep 11 15:12:01 2020
User: ix
Message:
Date: Tue Sep 15 19:05:49 2020
User: TNmountainman
Message:I did the tennis racquet thing a couple of days ago, and it's about like they say. I *was* able to sort of 'cheat' a bit with either the toss or initial starting angle, and 'overcome' it a couple of times, but it's a very strong reality. What's most startling to me is how many tens of thousands of times I've spun tennis racquets and not known this. But of course 99+% of those weren't around the axis in question.
Date: Wed Sep 23 09:33:17 2020
User: BuzzClik
Message:Apparently the U.S. has developed a "hydrosonic" missile ... aka, "superduper missile", because "hydrosonic" is hard to say.
We in the U.S. are a very stupid people.
Date: Wed Sep 23 09:36:54 2020
User: The_Interpreter
Message:I get very hyper over hydro.
Date: Fri Oct 9 17:53:29 2020
User: mrbuck
Message:That is interesting history for sure.
mrbuck
Date: Fri Oct 16 19:37:03 2020
User: BuzzClik
Message:Voted today at an early voting center. Longest lines of my long voting history, but the line wasn't all that bad. Got out of the car at 2:10, back in the car at 3:20.
100% masks. No Cleveland Chic (nose exposed) or chin diapers. The line was 90% outside the center with distancing inside. They gave us unsharpened No. 2 pencils to use the erasers for the touch screens.
My only hesitation was my blazing urge to emphatically and enthusiastically jab my choice for Official Spokesperson of the United States of America. I took a breath, gently tapped the screen, and moved to the next screen.
I HAVE WAITED FOR NEARLY 4 YEARS FOR THIS MOMENT!
Vote, please. For whomever. Just do it.
Date: Fri Oct 16 19:40:51 2020
User: outskirts
Message:I'm taking a pic of the pen I used to fill out this historic ballet. In 100 years it will go for $5000 on ebay.
Date: Fri Oct 16 19:42:57 2020
User: outskirts
Message:No not the ballet. The ballot, stupid always changing my words. Now really when I say this why do you change it to thus? And now you change thus to this.
Date: Fri Oct 16 21:33:05 2020
User: TNmountainman
Message:The ballet will be in "trump: the musical". While the final act has yet to writ......odds are it will be a tragi-comedy. There will be many off-shoots, many off-Broadway.
"Discuss amongst yourselves" for the various ballet sub-plots.
Date: Fri Oct 16 21:50:10 2020
User: BuzzClik
Message:The male lead will wear lifts in his ballet slippers.
Date: Fri Oct 16 22:00:25 2020
User: outskirts
Message:The Village People will show how it's done
Date: Fri Oct 16 22:05:14 2020
User: TNmountainman
Message:Will the male lead need an orthotic device in one of both of said shoes?
Date: Fri Oct 16 22:09:22 2020
User: outskirts
Message:I'm thinking Randy Rainbow has it written!
Village People ref was in ref to his macho man dance in case anyone missed THAT
Date: Fri Oct 16 22:27:50 2020
User: Anon4Life
Message:Randy and the Rainbows?
Link: dooby doo
Date: Fri Oct 16 23:19:03 2020
User: outskirts
Message:Hardly
Date: Fri Oct 16 23:23:38 2020
User: outskirts
Message:Google it or search YouTube, his latest has the actual in person Patti LuPone . I ain't posting it
Date: Sat Oct 17 09:10:30 2020
User: differentDay
Message:I had to go ogle to discover the identity of the song that was being parodied.
On a dubiously related note, I found no reference, in 19 result pages, to any 'My Way' track that wasn't related to "The" My Way - can't imagine why...
Date: Mon Oct 19 07:23:19 2020
User: ix
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