Good idea but these are only a little above the ankle high socks they call stockings.
I bought a long sleeve tick proof shit that was like $60 bucks and I imagine bottoms would be more, so using pantyhose is a smart move. :thumb:

After fishing we'd do a thorough tick check on each other. We called it playing doctor. :blush:

Not you, you, but, you'll get the idea.:D



:jig:

have sent this to Twil a number of times. Her eyeroll muscles are getting really strong!

Ah, got an email tonight apologizing for a glitch in there system but it's all better now.

That probably means 33 shirts will arrive at some point. :smack:

I've been forced to replace the 10 four foot fluorescent fixtures in my basement as they are dying and can't get tubes for them anyway. The LED fixtures at Lowe's/Home Depot run about $45 each. A couple weeks ago I bought a 4-pak off Amazon for $48. At $12 each I didn't expect much and quite surprised they are super bright, 5' cord, hanging chains/hooks, and pull chain switch. The only thing missing was the reflector but I can use the reflector from the dead light fixtures although they don't need it.
Cool get more... this morning they're $67. :smack:

the mind boggles

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Perfect! You are mildly irritating me today.

Ha!

Mjölnir stirs...

snigger. This is mildly amusing me rn

I'm sorry, you seem to be in the wrong thread...:D

I'm irritated because my brand new truck (only 10,000 miles) has 1/2" of oil in the coolant expansion tank. Thee are several causes for this, none good or cheap to fix. I am therefore stranded at a hotel in Mechanicsburg PA until further notice. The shop kicked the repair to the dealer who kicked it to the engine manufacturer. No word on a cause or estimate for repairs. Sigh.

Quoted for irony.




I'm sorry bout ur enjun.

Sounds irritating.

My new "all season" tires for my Subaru are complete shit in the snow. Pete did the leg work on this one and they assured her that these were good in the snow even though they don't pass the eye test. This car was brilliant in the snow in her original tires. Nice job turning a great car into a piece of shit.

Not Carlisle?

Anyway, my old home town. That big-ass high school on Rt 11, that was my school. And if it's really Carlisle, that McDonalds across from the Petro, I worked there and it was hilarious for a summer.

Close enough. I'm going by the terminal mailing address. I'm right by the Flying J and the ABF yard. I found out today that my truck is in York. It seems that there is a pinhole leak in the #1 cylinder. So it's being resleeved, under warranty, and should be driveable on Monday sometime. A whole week wasted. Sigh.

I honestly think they want to call it Mechanicsburg cos of the trucks...! If only Carlisle had been named Trucklisle everything would be fine.

People used to come into that McDonald's and say it was the worst McDonald's they had ever been in. We were proud. And since then I have been in ghetto McDonald's, and we were better than that, but still. Keeping a truck stoppy McD's up to snuff isn't easy.

Plus, it was the summer they were testing Chicken McNuggets out, for the first time, in Pittsburgh only. So people used to get off the turnpike and ask for McNuggets and when we told them we didn't have them, they would get all sad.

Good times

You know what happens if you go into a McDonalds and say, hey I worked here 35 years ago? They don't give a shit, is what.

LOL. I can picture the exchange perfectly.

Meanwhile, the infant behind the counter looks around the register for the button for that...

That just describes my work day sometimes..... *******sigh*****

You know that thing, where you're working with a group of people to get something done, and you can clearly see it isn't going to happen--not because of anything the group did, but just because outside realities make the thing the group wants impossible--but the group doesn't want to believe the thing is impossible, and are determined to waste huge amounts of time and resources fighting right up to the very bitter end? And you just have to go along with it, because you're part of the group, even though it is painfully obvious to you that this thing is 100% dead in the water?

So, yeah. That.

Just hope what the group does makes enough noise, a big enough splash, to draw people's interest so it may be possible in the future.

Not that kind of thing. This group wants a corporation to sign a legal document as a favor to the group, even though it doesn't benefit the corporation one bit and potentially is a liability for them. The risk of the liability is extremely small, but that's irrelevant--the corporation has absolutely no reason to get in the middle of it, and won't.

Suggest group spends $$/effort on getting CEO drunk?

:)

Excellent idea, one photo of the CEO passed out, with empty bottles and several naked ladies in attendance, is very persuasive. Likely his wife won't believe it if there's more than one lady, but his peers and stockholders would.
Call it operation Bill Cosby.

TBH, more than mildly irritating, but anyway...

Last Thursday's power cut during one of our recurrent bouts of bad weather wasn't exactly unpredictable but UK Power Networks seems incapable of using even a smidgen of common sense.

Each winter seems to come as a surprise to them and when flying chunks of tree hit overhead lines they are faced with often very difficult repair jobs.

They never seem to expend any effort in trimming back trees which are close to power lines during the summer months. Perhaps it's cheaper to wait for the inevitable.

Surely an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure?


Incidentally, when the supply was restored after about twelve hours, my wireless router was as dead as a Norwegian Blue.

Despite my best endeavours nothing would resurrect it so I did what I always do at moments of crisis, I went and made a cup of tea. :)

Strangely, when I wandered back into my man cave about half an hour later, it was working and has been ever since.

Perhaps your attempts to reactivate were indistinguishable from the previous power company chaos to the router, and it went into this too shall pass mode.

Heh, my routers/modems have usually gone into 'This shall not pass!!' mode...

Mine is now in "Working well, leave it alone" mode. ;)

It's 0320 and I'm wide awake.

I've just been woken up by a police helicopter (distinctive sound) that hasn't moved more than a few hundred yards in the last ten minutes.

Presumably there's good reason for it to be out at this time of night, but it's still an irritating nuisance and it's getting louder again!

They're probably chasing a COVID-19 carrier who's escaped quarantine. Don't open your doors.

nothing like the sound of a hovering chopper to help me sleep..... well ok, boat engines, vacuum cleaners, thunderstorms, washing machines.....

can you sleep better knowing it will probably spot the bad guy before they break in to your house? what?

Or prompt him/her/them to break it to grab a hostage.

The phone rang at 0725 today.
A call before about 0900 is usually an urgent matter if not a full blown emergency.
Having rushed to answer I was greeted with the usual call centre noises associated with a scam.
It didn't take long to confirm what I suspected so I brought the call to an end PDQ.
We haven't had a great number in the last couple of weeks but I believe that this might be due to a recent edition of Panorama exposing their methods.

Most of the programme was based on the work of 'Jim Browning' an IT professional who invests a great deal of time and effort in exposing the scammers.
Fascinatingly, by hacking into the call centre's own CCTV system he was able to see the person he was talking to.



I think that some of the scammers ended being rather more irritated than me.
Not before time.

LINK Not viewable outside the UK but the relevant material is all in Browning's YouTube channel.

I need TP for my bunghole.[/TheGreatCornholio]
 

I AM THE GREAT CORNHOLIO!!!!

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So, in the interests of maintaining a clean bunghole, I went out early this morning in search of toilet paper. At 7:00.

WalMart looked like Christmas eve. I had to park a good four hundred feet from the door. When I topped the hill coming upon WalMart, I saw the parking lot full to the gills and said 'Well, this can't be good.', and it wasn't. No paper products except plates and bowls. No tp, no tissue, no paper towels. But, they did have large rolls of bubble wrap on the ends of three aisles.:eek:

Dollar General Market wasn't open yet, but there was like 25 cars in the parking lot. I almost took a spot, thinking maybe these ppl know something I don't. I continued on.

Piggly Wiggly had three six-packs of paper towels. I took one, another guy came around the corner of the aisle and took another. He looked at them, looked at me, and said 'Close enough.' I said 'Me too.' And I went home.

The paper towels prolly won't flush well, but I got a 3 gallon bucket with a lid that may get pressed into service as a poopypaper receptacle.

And I have an emergency roll (¾) under the back seat in GrandCherokeeOne.

Close enough.

I have Cornholio still sealed in the factory packaging.

Might have to open it and use the packaging...Don't forget to grit yer teeth, because cardboard.

I'm thinking about going out to the country and picking up a bunch of corncobs...

Bear to Rabbit: Do you have problems with shit sticking to your fur?
Rabbit : Nope!
Bear :::wipes arse with rabbit:::

Fortunately I have so far managed to avoid the great bog roll brouhaha.
Some months ago it became evident that my 1992 car was unlikely to pass its MoT (annual test) so I took the plunge and ordered a new vehicle.

I knew that there would be a delay in delivery of the new car so I did a 'mega shop' before parting company with old faithful some weeks before the current panic set in. This, by great good fortune, included a fair number of loo rolls so we're OK for a while.
However, there's always a downside. I'm having to go into town by train and return burdened by bags of other shopping twice a week.
I'm finding it a bit of a struggle, to be honest.

BTW, Gravdigr's experience at Walmart was similar to mine in Tesco on Tuesday.
There was not a single loo roll, box of tissues or roll of kitchen towel to be seen.
It's a substantial aisle and normally stocked from floor to ceiling.

Anyway, onward and upward. :)

I buy toilet paper online, UPS delivers, single ply, 100% recycled, 96 rolls/case. Living alone that's good for years. I stopped at the Supermarket on the way home from the doctors yesterday, bottled water and paper roll products looked like the only thing they didn't have. Oh, and organic bananas, I don't buy them but noticed the display was empty.

My local Giant finally had some TP yesterday. Individual rolls of Scottissue in loose paper wrapping, maximum two per customer.

That's the stuff you can read the newspaper through.

That stuff's John Wayne toilet paper, won't take shit off nobody!

The (loud) music in this doctor's office waiting room is about 75% Michael Jackson. Which to me is weirder than 100% Michael Jackson. Like, "Celebration" just played in between ABCs (Jackson Five, technically, but I say it counts) and "Eat It," but when "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" slipped in about 15 minutes ago, it faded out early, unless I'm wildly misremebering how long that song is. And now we're on some B track I don't even know, but it's definitely Michael Jackson. Utterly bizarre.

Wait just a Weird Al minute there young lady.

Ha! Admittedly, I know more lyrics to the Weird Al version.

What's mildly irritating you today?
 

Gout. In my right big toe.

Maximum sympathy brother.

I actually thought I broke my toe... In my sleep (sleep walking and kicking big rocks with my bare sleeping feet???)

I changed out the leader hose on my hose reel, and somehow shredded my right thumb and first two fingers although I can't figure out how, couldn't find any sharp bits. Son had to come help, h emerged unscathed. My skin is thin but.... :( Now eveything I touch smarts. Especially potato chips. and the mouse.

(it exploded with out warning yesterday, I happened to be sat right by it in a place I don't normally sit, and fortunately/unbelievably didn't get showered, but was able to turn the water off so we didn't wake to a flood and huge water bill ....no good luck goes unrevenged, I guess....)

What happened to ed?
 

I have noticed that the final syllable 'ed' seems to have disappeared from a number of words.

I have seen examples such as:

I am not bias.

He is vex.

They are prejudice.

The Bucks Free Press, not a noted journal of record, included the headline 'Woman who text police officer to offer him drugs is jailed...'

Last but not least is 'use' as in 'I use to go'.

I do not profess papal infallibility when it comes to the use of English, either spoken or written, but atleast I try to get it right and am successful alot of the time.

I think that maybe an element of patois creeping in via the youthdem

Notice all of those words end in an S sound ("text" technically ends in a T, but I'd argue the T sound already disappeared in deference to the S sound before it a while ago.)

Anything hard to pronounce gets weeded out of language like a bad evolutionary mutation. I once did narration on an educational program with fractions, and was told to stop clearly pronouncing the words because the kids wouldn't understand. So it was "sikss" for "sixths," "fiths" for "fifths," etc. "Fourths" was already replaced everywhere with "quarters," which I found oddly infuriating.

I don't think that I have ever seen or heard 'fourths' used instead of quarters, on this side of the Atlantic, although it has the merit of consistency.

Just my 25c worth.

I see what you did there.

To play off of putting in one's two cents, one could also represent a quarter by saying: Just my two bits worth.

(e.g. Shave and a haircut, two bits.)

we don't want to hear about your two bits.

It was very weird to move here and hearing people use "one fourth" or "three fourths" instead of quarters. Like stepping back in time. (Then I realized that was the least of my worries in that respect).

I still won't do it. I'll even use "gotten" sometimes but I haven't sunk to saying fourth instead of quarter. Yet.

But, four quarters don't make a whole.

Four quarters makes a dollar.

:D

Four Quarters make a Hole if you leave them in your pocket long enough.

Things that sting when you have multiple tiny but bloody lacerations on your fingers and thumb:

chips/crisps
a COVID quality soapy hand wash
chopping onions
sunblock
citronella oil for torches