TIL that a bottle of Shochu will happily roll around in the floor of your car for a week, and then unscrew its lid 20 minutes from its destination.
Also TIL that Shochu smells like tequila and tastes like water.
TIL that a bottle of Shochu will happily roll around in the floor of your car for a week, and then unscrew its lid 20 minutes from its destination.
Also TIL that Shochu smells like tequila and tastes like water.
Today i learned (again) getting set on fire while welding blows goats.
It still hurts 6 hours later.
(Might should be in the rant thread, but.....)
Yes!!! it's 2018 and we have 'Blows Goats'(six days in) gonna be a good year!! Heal up Dbd13 
Dusterbd13 said:Today i learned (again) getting set on fire while welding blows goats.
It still hurts 6 hours later.
(Might should be in the rant thread, but.....)
Been there, but thankfully not recently. If it makes you feel any better, both my thumb and my pinkie of my left hand have recently discovered the angle grinder's disk. 
In reply to JoeyM :
I learned with the last challenge car that the heavy leather gloves from harbor freight slow the grinder/flap wheel/cup brush down enough to not need nuskin
Don't do E36 M3 for the death wheels though.
In reply to Dusterbd13 :
I learned the hard way why welders wear those fire treated cloth caps on their heads. Ouch.
TIL a boy my oldest son knows at school (5th grade) was caught vaping on the playground right before Christmas break.
I smoked my first cigarette in 5th grade. We didn’t have vaping machines back in 1973.
In reply to Datsun310Guy :
Me too, and 1987...
I might have been a tad older, 13 or so, which also would have been 1987.
As a parent I guess I wasn’t quite ready for this phase of adolescence.
dculberson said:In reply to Dusterbd13 :
I learned the hard way why welders wear those fire treated cloth caps on their heads. Ouch.
Yeah, I should get a new one of those. After I got flash burn on my neck from repeated vertical welding I made myself a leather collar that buttons in the back.
Teaching the kids to fill their Whoopie Cushions with Redi-Whip may not have been the best idea.
Wally said:Teaching the kids to fill their Whoopie Cushions with Redi-Whip may not have been the best idea.
Why? #awesomeparent....
In reply to wvumtnbkr :
Even better, they’re not my kids. I’m the fun uncle.
TIL that it is easier/cheaper to get '71-73 12A engine parts than it is to get RX-7 12A engine parts.
Probably because the number of stock RX-2s and early RX-3s on the road is even smaller than the number of twin dizzy 12As kicking around.
A box of Junior Mints is supposed to contain 3.5 servings. This seems unrealistic to me.
TIL that field techs will:
A. ... use a hard hat long after its expected life span, and attempt to hide defects.
B. ... not wash said hard hat. Ever.
C. ... arrange the site-specific stickers into a decopage-like artform.
D. ... complain if you condemn the old hat and give them a new one.
TIL that if your car has a start button, you can accidently throw your own key fob into the locked confidential paper shred garbage bin, and all you have to do is take the bin home in your car and bring it back tomorrow for when the person with the key comes back.
*Luckily this was all hypothetical. But my co-worker and I had a good laugh once we came to this conclusion.
TIL that Sumic GT406s of unknown age are not the best rain tire for a '97 Mustang GT. I actually knew this already but remembered it again when I finally got the car stopped in somebody's driveway after my attempt at driving up a hill like a normal person failed miserably.
TIL that bonnetheads (tiny species of hammerhead with a less impressive looking cephalofoil) can survive - and gain weight - on a diet that is 90% seagrass.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/meet-world-s-first-salad-eating-shark 
TIL that JoeyM has a shark fetish.
slantvaliant said:TIL that field techs will:
A. ... use a hard hat long after its expected life span, and attempt to hide defects.
B. ... not wash said hard hat. Ever.
C. ... arrange the site-specific stickers into a decopage-like artform.
D. ... complain if you condemn the old hat and give them a new one.
Getting rid of an old lid is like shooting your dog. You've been on so many adventures.
Stampie said:TIL that JoeyM has a shark fetish.
jump the shark ok , but KISS a shark....WOOF!!! got any lips left????
After hundreds of hours this winter researching online and YouTube for vehicles, foundries, forges, burners etc and most recently 3D printers...
TIL 3D printed sex toys are a thing
Not naive just never occurred to me
damn, I'm old
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