Piss & Moan Table

ColoJeep said:
Sounds like my flatwork experience. I wish I could give you and the boy a Beer , you guys will sleep good tonight !
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I think we both ran into heat exhaustion, me around lunchtime, the Mrs grilled burgers for the crew and I just wasn't hungry.
There were 3 of us and we drank 4 gallons of water. The Mrs kept track of the igloo jug.
We were stripping the footing forms later in the afternoon and my son got overheated.
I did enjoy a cold Yuengling afterward. It was a rare event but my son passed on having a beer.
 
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I just got back from a 2 week trip to Wi. I took the Bus aka a United 737 with a stop in Denver. I can’t believe the way people dress and act on a plane these days. I’m old school and dress with a collard shirt, pants and shoes. My clothing is clean and I shower before I leave. I give the attendants my trash when they come to collect it. I don’t try to cheat the baggage fees and only bring on 1 carry on which fits perfectly in the overhead bin. Don’t get me started with the Assholes who have to stand 6” from the baggage carrousel and block the people who’s bags are actually coming through. I fly several times a year and it only gets worse. Only positive for me is that I have enough status to use access the fist class lounges on several airlines and these still have some what of a dress code.

Moment MAGA supporter is kicked off flight for wearing crude t-shirt
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...tml?ito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton
 
bucky said:
I just got back from a 2 week trip to Wi. I took the Bus aka a United 737 with a stop in Denver. I can’t believe the way people dress and act on a plane these days. I’m old school and dress with a collard shirt, pants and shoes. My clothing is clean and I shower before I leave. I give the attendants my trash when they come to collect it. I don’t try to cheat the baggage fees and only bring on 1 carry on which fits perfectly in the overhead bin. Don’t get me started with the Assholes who have to stand 6” from the baggage carrousel and block the people who’s bags are actually coming through. I fly several times a year and it only gets worse. Only positive for me is that I have enough status to use access the fist class lounges on several airlines and these still have some what of a dress code.

Moment MAGA supporter is kicked off flight for wearing crude t-shirt
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...tml?ito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton
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I haven't worn a collared shirt in decades - collars are for dogs.
 
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bucky said:
I just got back from a 2 week trip to Wi. I took the Bus aka a United 737 with a stop in Denver. I can’t believe the way people dress and act on a plane these days. I’m old school and dress with a collard shirt, pants and shoes. My clothing is clean and I shower before I leave. I give the attendants my trash when they come to collect it. I don’t try to cheat the baggage fees and only bring on 1 carry on which fits perfectly in the overhead bin. Don’t get me started with the Assholes who have to stand 6” from the baggage carrousel and block the people who’s bags are actually coming through. I fly several times a year and it only gets worse. Only positive for me is that I have enough status to use access the fist class lounges on several airlines and these still have some what of a dress code.

Moment MAGA supporter is kicked off flight for wearing crude t-shirt
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...tml?ito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton
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I dress for comfort on a flight, not a slob but cargo shorts and a clean, nice t-shirt. Flying has turned into a miserable experience the last bunch of years.
 
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cliffish said:
I dress for comfort on a flight, not a slob but cargo shorts and a clean, nice t-shirt. Flying has turned into a miserable experience the last bunch of years.
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The dress reflects the service. 5 course meal and a lay down seat with down comforter, eye mask and slippers had me wear a collar.
 
We deal an average of an emergency aircraft a shift. Maybe a slightly less. I would say around half of those are some version of somebody getting belligerent and/or sloppy drunk and the pilots request law enforcement to be waiting for them at the gate. That trend was creeping up pre-Covid but has absolutely exploded since. People have lost their collective fucking minds.

My sister is also a gate agent for 'murican in Charlotte. She tells me some crazy stories of people who don't even make it on top the flights.
 
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Farmergreg said:
If you want to get the vibe for the small town area, go to the local diner and sit at the community “piss & moan” table, they’ll bring you up to speed.
My son always got a chuckle when I referred to it so he took the idea and ran.
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I will piss later but moan now.

For you rural country boys:

There I was walking across my ranch with a chainsaw in my hand. I go into the house and tell my wife I have cut the last tree off this ranch and now find myself with nothing to do.

She asks have you found another ranch, I know you are looking"

NO!

Great, its time for you to retire and I would like to got back to Florida.

Yea I guess!

We head out the next morning and in a few days I buy another ranch in Naples but not as big. So we move to Sunny Fl.

After a couple of years I walk in the house and tell wife I cut my tree.

GOOD, we can now go buy place on the water.

We in Port Charlotte FL

Now the old cowboy is down to barely an acre of land, so I buy land across the street.

Now I have done all I can do here and come to this conclusion: Florida is not where I need be. The ranch goes up for sale in Naples tomorrow and the home here in Port Charlotte goes up for sale after that sells in Naples. I am heading HOME!

Take away: FL is full of folks from up North, they cannot drive. Green light means NOTHING. They just sit there I guess playing pocket pool or something. You got to honk your horn to get these folks to move.. Friendly is not a word used here in FL. I hate the traffic.Sitting on I 75/95 for hours at a time is nothing new. Rush hour is all the time.

What sate has the highest auto insurance rates in the US? FL does. same goes for homes.

Then there is the final straw: FREEDOM, brother you do not have freedom here at all

My ranch in Texas, top of the deed in Captial letters: "UNRESTRICTED ACREAGE". The only thing I cannot do is sell alcohol. Here it takes a permit to get a permit...Just spent $2000 on a new hot water heater. Mine when, I run to Home Dept to get a new on, same make and model and I tell the guy I got my truck I will take it home...NO CAN DO, the plumber will pick it up and bring it. Palmer, I don't no plumber I put it in myself. YOU CANNOT DO THAT the plumber has to pull the Permit.

Hot water heater, same make an model $575

The plumber brings it, time to install in the same location, nothing requires replum or anything. 25 min later I wrote a check for $1500 and that was after my discount of 10%.

You can nothing to your home without a permit...and I am NOT in an HOA and I am NOT in the city limits!

Country boy cannot survive here!
 
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Old Jeepin Cowboy said:
I will piss later but moan now.

For you rural country boys:

There I was walking across my ranch with a chainsaw in my hand. I go into the house and tell my wife I have cut the last tree off this ranch and now find myself with nothing to do.

She asks have you found another ranch, I know you are looking"

NO!

Great, its time for you to retire and I would like to got back to Florida.

Yea I guess!

We head out the next morning and in a few days I buy another ranch in Naples but not as big. So we move to Sunny Fl.

After a couple of years I walk in the house and tell wife I cut my tree.

GOOD, we can now go buy place on the water.

We in Port Charlotte FL

Now the old cowboy is down to barely an acre of land, so I buy land across the street.

Now I have done all I can do here and come to this conclusion: Florida is not where I need be. The ranch goes up for sale in Naples tomorrow and the home here in Port Charlotte goes up for sale after that sells in Naples. I am heading HOME!

Take away: FL is full of folks from up North, they cannot drive. Green light means NOTHING. They just sit there I guess playing pocket pool or something. You got to honk your horn to get these folks to move.. Friendly is not a word used here in FL. I hate the traffic.Sitting on I 75/95 for hours at a time is nothing new. Rush hour is all the time.

What sate has the highest auto insurance rates in the US? FL does. same goes for homes.

Then there is the final straw: FREEDOM, brother you do not have freedom here at all

My ranch in Texas, top of the deed in Captial letters: "UNRESTRICTED ACREAGE". The only thing I cannot do is sell alcohol. Here it takes a permit to get a permit...Just spent $2000 on a new hot water heater. Mine when, I run to Home Dept to get a new on, same make and model and I tell the guy I got my truck I will take it home...NO CAN DO, the plumber will pick it up and bring it. Palmer, I don't no plumber I put it in myself. YOU CANNOT DO THAT the plumber has to pull the Permit.

Hot water heater, same make an model $575

The plumber brings it, time to install in the same location, nothing requires replumb or anything. 25 min later I wrote a check for $1500 and that was after my discount of 10%.

You can nothing to your home without a permit...and I am NOT in an HOA and I am NOT in the city limits!

Country boy cannot survive here!
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Go elsewhere to buy your heater. I've purchased two here with no questions. Florida is, for me, a breathe of fresh air after Commiefornia. You think the permit bullshit is bad here? Don't go to Commiefornia. You think the drivers here are bad (they are)? Still, don't go to Commiefornia, they're worse there.
 
Zorba said:
Go elsewhere to buy your heater. I've purchased two here with no questions. Florida is, for me, a breathe of fresh air after Commiefornia. You think the permit bullshit is bad here? Don't go to Commiefornia. You think the drivers here are bad (they are)? Still, don't go to Commiefornia, they're worse there.
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With California as your freedom barometer, Florida probably looks wide open.

IE The boiling frog can handle Florida’s brand of communism, but it’s still communism.
 
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What "they" ask you to do, and what you absolutely have to do are two very different things. The main problem here is the HOA mentality, whether or not there actually *is* an HOA. Our particular county isn't that way - they were told in no uncertain terms that they were NOT an HOA and to BUTT OUT - about 20 years ago. So they butted out! They don't do much unless someone complains. With that said, permits are cheap and relatively easy to get, and the inspectors are very reasonable. About the only pain in the ass situation I ran into was a "sudden" requirement that we have a surveyor check the distance from the foundation line to the property line. Contractor had NEVER had that happen before, but it may have been because I had obtained an administrative waiver for the rear setback.
 
for as long as I can remember Home Depot & Lowes would sell the roughly $16.00 two-pack of 20lb bags of Kingsford Charcoal for half price every Memorial Day and Labor Day, I'd buy a couple two packs twice a year during those sales & that would keep me in briquettes for the year.

Not no mo, both holiday sales this year featured shrinkflation infected bags at 16lbs @ $17.88, and the half price is now long gone, their 'big sale' is now $2.00 off a two-pack. This may have even started last year, I can't remember, but it's a pretty recent phenomenon.

By the time Kamalanomics is done with us in 2032 the bags will probably weigh 8lbs & cost $30.00, that is if we're still 'allowed' to burn things by then :LOL: :oops:.
 
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Westtown Willy said:
for as long as I can remember Home Depot & Lowes would sell the roughly $16.00 two-pack of 20lb bags of Kingsford Charcoal for half price every Memorial Day and Labor Day, I'd buy a couple two packs twice a year during those sales & that would keep me in briquettes for the year.

Not no mo, both holiday sales this year featured shrinkflation infected bags at 16lbs @ $17.88, and the half price is now long gone, their 'big sale' is now $2.00 off a two-pack. This may have even started last year, I can't remember, but it's a pretty recent phenomenon.

By the time Kamalanomics is done with us in 2032 the bags will probably weigh 8lbs & cost $30.00, that is if we're still 'allowed' to burn things by then :LOL: :oops:.
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Sad to hear but I believe the history of kingsford is pretty cool.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsford_(charcoal)

Ford Motor Company sold more than one million Ford Model Ts in 1919. Each one used 100 board feet of wood for parts such as frame, dashboard, steering wheel and wheels. Because of the amount of wood used, Henry Ford decided to produce his own supply. He enlisted the help of Edward G. Kingsford, a real estate agent in Michigan, to locate a supply of wood. Kingsford’s wife was a cousin of Ford.

In the early 1920s, Ford acquired large timberland in Iron Mountain, Michigan, and built a sawmill and parts plant in a neighboring area which became Kingsford, Michigan. The mill and plants produced sufficient parts for the car, but generated waste such as stumps, branches and sawdust. Ford suggested that all wood scraps be processed into charcoal.

A University of Oregon chemist, Orin Stafford, had invented a method for making pillow-shaped lumps of fuel from sawdust and mill waste combined with tar and bound together with cornstarch. He called the lumps "charcoal briquettes.

Thomas Edison designed the briquette factory adjacent to the sawmill, and Kingsford ran it. It was a model of efficiency, producing 610 lb (280 kg) of briquettes for every ton of scrap wood. The product was sold only through Ford dealerships. Ford named the new business Ford Charcoal and dubbed the charcoal blocks "briquets". At the beginning, the charcoal was sold to meat and fish smokehouses, but demand exceeded supply.By the mid-1930s, Ford was marketing "Picnic Kits" containing charcoal and portable grills at Ford dealerships, capitalizing on the link between motoring and outdoor adventure that his own Vagabond travels popularized. "Enjoy a modern picnic," the package suggested. "Sizzling broiled meats, steaming coffee, toasted sandwiches." It wasn’t until after World War II that backyard barbecuing took off, thanks to suburban migration, the invention of the Weber grill and the marketing efforts. An investment group bought Ford Charcoal in 1951 and renamed it to Kingsford Charcoal in honor of Edward G. Kingsford (and the factory's home-base name) and took over the operations. The plant was later acquired by Clorox in 1973.
 
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Some asshole started a brush fire in the hills 4 miles North of my shop about 2 hrs ago. Almost 8pm and it’s still 100 outside. Only good thing is there is no wind. Tankers were able to drop for about an hr before it got dark. Nothing to stop it for miles. Probably over 1000 acres by morning. Hottest day of the yr so far. Brutal for the guys on the ground.

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