In reply to aircooled :
Exactly, 42.5 million U.S. citizens have disabilities..that means that 425K of them are at the 100th percentile of being dicks.
Heck, Wally has 40K+ of them running around in his state alone.
In reply to aircooled :
Exactly, 42.5 million U.S. citizens have disabilities..that means that 425K of them are at the 100th percentile of being dicks.
Heck, Wally has 40K+ of them running around in his state alone.
I'm sure that Wally meant that one specific person is terrible, and I think Appleseed was directing that comment at the awful customer in Wally's story, not Wally himself
In reply to Appleseed :
If I had feelings they'd be hurt.
Another week, another canceled order from Lowes because they can't find inventory in their own damn store. Why even bother showing it's in stock if it's nowhere to be found? Thank you for suggesting I pick it up at the next closest store, which is 96 miles away. GFY
budget_bandit said:I'm sure that Wally meant that one specific person is terrible, and I think Appleseed was directing that comment at the awful customer in Wally's story, not Wally himself
Yes, I can see that now. He clearly could have been referring to the one person (hopefully, but I suspect he was), it's easy to miss that with the reply being tagged to Wally (but directed elsewhere). He still potentially could be referring to Wally, but at this point I will assume not... I mean it's Wally, who could be mad at that guy?! I should have considered that(!)
Having to be super careful with wording on the the internet can be a lot of work. It sometimes takes a good amount of work to make even a simple point clear! That is my rant!
aircooled said:In reply to Appleseed :
Wally, in no way, implied ALL people with disabilities are a-holes.
I think if you carefully re-read what he wrote, you will see that.
That would be as ridiculous as to assume that disabled people cannot be a-holes.
You read that wrong. I'm "talking" to the shiny happy person lady that makes us all look bad and forcing people like Wally to have to unnecessarily deal with the E36 M3.
Sorry for the confusion.
Wally (Forum Supporter) said:In reply to Appleseed :
If I had feelings they'd be hurt.
No, man, that ain't directed at you. No way.
In reply to Appleseed :
And this is why a lot of people with legitimate concerns due to a disability don't like to bring them up.
I found out last month that a friend's son is colorblind. HE found out last month that his son was colorblind. He's like 20 now.
As a kid, he would rather fail tests and schoolwork than point out that he couldn't see the colors that he needed to be able to see for the assignments.
I'm not trying to paint colorblindness as a disability in the way the term is colloquially used, but if you're asked to differentiate two things that 90% of the male population can do but your body can't, what else do you call it?
Was recently in a new antique shop in my town. It made me realize two things that annoy me: antique shops full of new Etsy/temu stuff and bad covers of songs I like.
They were playing a cover of "poor poor pitiful me" by Warren Zevon that was just awful
Flying during the holiday season sucks even more than it usually does. My flights have all been on time and it still sucks.
I'm trying to think of the name of a certain type of pipe elbow and coming up blank.
It's for extremely tight clearances, and is shaped kind of like a donut on one end, and is supposed to flow almost as well as a straight pipe, with no flow separation.
I have seen photos of it in a book, and I no longer have that book. And I can't think of what the dang thing is called to search for it.
I have to go back to work tomorrow.
In reply to APEowner :
I cover seven midwestern states for sales. I was told to fly more and drive less. I prefer to drive with my stuff - planes suck a lot but the cleanliness of rental cars suck even more.
I think Enterprise Rental stopped cleaning the interior (except for vacuuming) and they leave a big sanitary wipe for you to use for "extra" cleaning.
APEowner said:Flying sucks.
FTFY
I don't understand the majesty of human flight.
It's a bus in the sky.
Now board the tube of despair, be nice to everyone and let's get this over with.
In reply to ShawnG :
My friend that passed away last week was a garbage man from age 18 until he retired - the last part of his career was driving the roll off containers (dumpsters).
His dad was a career long pilot for American Airlines - my friend was his only child.
I wonder at family parties when they've both had a few cocktails if they both joked about "hauling trash" for a living.
gixxeropa said:Was recently in a new antique shop in my town. It made me realize two things that annoy me: antique shops full of new Etsy/temu stuff and bad covers of songs I like.
They were playing a cover of "poor poor pitiful me" by Warren Zevon that was just awful
Warren Zevon wrote "Poor Poor Pitiful Me", and as much as I love Linda Ronstadt, she did the cover...
In reply to ShawnG :
My work backpack has been pulled for extra scrutiny by the TSA on 3 of my last 4 flights. I really appreciate the fact that they have never seen a tape measure, calipers, or a laser distance meter before... it really inspires confidence.
Pete. (l33t FS) said:I'm trying to think of the name of a certain type of pipe elbow and coming up blank.
It's for extremely tight clearances, and is shaped kind of like a donut on one end, and is supposed to flow almost as well as a straight pipe, with no flow separation.
I have seen photos of it in a book, and I no longer have that book. And I can't think of what the dang thing is called to search for it.
Does it look anything like the thing on the bottom-right?
That's a double-suction pump's inlet pipe. It seems to be closely related to the symmetrical suction elbow:
Both of these are for generating suction from fluid flow rather than just acting as a pipe elbow but they're the closest thing I can find to what you're describing.
In reply to tester (Forum Supporter) :
Imagine how I felt going through with four 1908 Ford ignition buzz coils in my luggage.
I'm sure little wood boxes filled with coils of wire, capacitors and tar, topped with a set of points doesn't look suspicious on the x-ray.
I didn't even put a lock on my suitcase. I knew they would open it.
In reply to CJ :
No it's actually a different cover, by Terri Clark. It's not objectively terrible, but I just hate it
In reply to ShawnG :
On September 13 2001 i flew from Toronto to London with a square plastic box in a velvet bag in my carry-on. I had documents from various sources as too the contents.
Agents wanted to remove it from my bag and open it to prove the contents. After my dad got involved and said under no circumstances are they touching it let alone opening it things got a little tense.
After a period of time it was agreed that I would remove it from my bag and open it to prove my brother's ashes were inside. It was not the best time to be flying with something out of the norm to say the least.
Pete. (l33t FS) said:I'm trying to think of the name of a certain type of pipe elbow and coming up blank.
It's for extremely tight clearances, and is shaped kind of like a donut on one end, and is supposed to flow almost as well as a straight pipe, with no flow separation.
I have seen photos of it in a book, and I no longer have that book. And I can't think of what the dang thing is called to search for it.
That book wasn't Turbochargers by Hugh MacInnes, was it?
He calls it a banjo-type turbine discharge.
In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
It's Monday morning at 4:25 am and I've been awake for an hour. This marks day 3 of fairly unpleasant stomach pains. I'd call in if I were going to work but I'm in the middle of a 5 day stretch off work.
I know I'm a terrible patient but I'm starting to think I should go see a doctor before much longer.
Wife and I got into an argument over something incredibly dumb. (TV remote control batteries this time. I mentioned the dead batteries, and that using the voice search eats them up quick. The reply was that she doesn't. It's the kid doing it. ) And it went on from there . On. And on. And on.
When things go beyond a certain point, I tend to fold up, and walk away. I've told her that if I continue, I'm going to say or do something extremely mean and hurtful, something I'll definitely regret. I've warned her repeatedly. I've been able to walk away, calm down, and collect my thoughts. She's never seen vicious me.
She pushed me passed that point and met vicious last night. Except he wasn't mean to her. He called out a 4 year old. (A berkeleyING 4 YEAR OLD.) To hurt her. He said, "Well, son, I guess it's all your fault," while looking directly at her. And making him cry out, "No! No, it wasn't my fault! I'm sorry!"
I watched him say that to the boy, and I let it happen. Except it wasn't vicious that said that, it was me, because he IS me.
And I'm a piece of E36 M3.
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