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I'll start:

Has anyone used/owned an electric zero-turn mower? I need to get a mower to take care of about 1-1.5 acres of relatively flat grass (one small area with a probably 40-45 degree slope). I have an electric push mower that has done a fantastic job for smaller lawns, but this big one is sucking my soul (and time). I like electric for the quietness, low maintenance, and easy "fueling". Not thrilled with the wildly expensive price. On other hand, I can spend half as much on a gas zero-turn, or even less for a gas tractor type. Any recommendations?

Also, what's up with every fifth car in the NoVA region having a "new driver" sticker on it? Did we get a massive influx of folks who are genuinely learning to drive in their thirties and forties, or is it some sort of self-defense mechanism against others being mean?
 
Where was it filmed.

Background - this morning's true crime on the telly in front of the stationary cycle at the gym featured an episode of "Fear Thy Neighbor" which is basically fifty minutes of neighbors engaging in a spat until one kills the other. Ho hum. Ordinarily I'm not interested.

1. It was set in Australia. The actors had Australian accents. They interviewed actual Australian family members and friends.

2. The good guy neighbor drove a Dodge Ram pickup. But - it appeared to be right hand drive, and confirmed with interior shots. Not impossible I guess, you can buy F150's with right hand drive over there.

3. Minor nitpick, but the bad neighbor was carrying around a fake AK. The narrator kept referring to it as a fake SKS. It was not a fake SKS. It was a fake AK.

4. After the bad neighbor killed the good neighbor by stabbing him, another neighbor drove home to get his wife, who was a nurse to try to save him. He drove a Dodge Challenger.

5. The cops showed up wearing Aussie police uniforms but driving Crown Vics.
 
AvNavCom said:
I'll start:

Has anyone used/owned an electric zero-turn mower? I need to get a mower to take care of about 1-1.5 acres of relatively flat grass (one small area with a probably 40-45 degree slope). I have an electric push mower that has done a fantastic job for smaller lawns, but this big one is sucking my soul (and time). I like electric for the quietness, low maintenance, and easy "fueling". Not thrilled with the wildly expensive price. On other hand, I can spend half as much on a gas zero-turn, or even less for a gas tractor type. Any recommendations?

Also, what's up with every fifth car in the NoVA region having a "new driver" sticker on it? Did we get a massive influx of folks who are genuinely learning to drive in their thirties and forties, or is it some sort of self-defense mechanism against others being mean?
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Not just in NoVa. Here in West Michigan I see them on cars that are obviously not student drivers. Probably just a way for them to drive like an ******* and get a free pass.
 
George Carlin once asked a good question:

Flammable, inflammable, and non inflammable, ... why are there three of them?
 
"E/I"

"This program is both educational and informative."

Um, is anything educational but not informative? or is anything informative but not educational?
 
FORANE said:
Because they're idiots. Oh, and the ones faster than you are crazy.
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Easily solved for everyone:

If a car is behind you (ie, you're holding them up), then:
1. move up (until you are the car behind the person in front of you)
or
2. move right

If everyone did this, driving in congested areas would be so much more pleasant.
 
Why doesn't the CACI list cover every condition for which a physician can approve Basic Med?
 
Bob Noel said:
"E/I"

"This program is both educational and informative."

Um, is anything educational but not informative? or is anything informative but not educational?
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There is MUCH that is informative, but not educational. Just because you can know something doesn’t mean it’s worth knowing! (Ask me how I know……)
 
eman1200 said:
why do I like ketchup so much?
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Because it's close to the perfect condiment. A mix of sweet, sour, and savory with tomato flavor. Without it, french fries have no purpose.

My question is, why does the GF talk to me from another room, as if we were wearing tv action movie headsets and I could hear her?
 
flyingpreacher said:
There is MUCH that is informative, but not educational. Just because you can know something doesn’t mean it’s worth knowing! (Ask me how I know……)
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ok, I asked the question poorly.

I'd love to see examples.

For my simple (retired) engineer brain, educational and informative are synonyms
 
Bob Noel said:
ok, I asked the question poorly.

I'd love to see examples.

For my simple (retired) engineer brain, educational and informative are synonyms
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I generally agree. And conversely, perhaps I answered the question poorly.

There is a great deal of information that is useless to MOST people, but all information has some relevance to someone (otherwise it would not have been learned in the first place.)

As an engineer, you probably came across some obscure tidbit of information that, in your field, in exactly the right circumstances, could have theoretically been valuable, but to anybody else, it would have been a useless fact. It would have given them the knowledge of that point of fact, without actually teaching them anything.

So, pilot example: if I walk up to somebody on the street and say, Vy for a Bird Dog (L-19) is 88 knots.

They know a fact, but they don’t know what Vy is, they don’t know what a bird dog is, they don’t know what knots are, so it was informative, but it didn’t really teach them anything (educate).
 
Sac Arrow said:
Minor nitpick, but the bad neighbor was carrying around a fake AK. The narrator kept referring to it as a fake SKS. It was not a fake SKS. It was a fake AK.
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But an SKS can be made into a fake AK. A friend of mine had one. Another friend had a real AK. It was much nicer to shoot.
 
How are people able to navigate themselves to an airport, but absolutely forget how life works once inside?
 
Racerx said:
How are people able to navigate themselves to an airport, but absolutely forget how life works once inside?
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Because the human race is like an anti-collective of intelligence. Once you get a certain number of people together the average IQ drops by 40 to 50 points for everyone around you.
 
When “this little piggy went to market”, did it go willingly? Like, was it carrying a wicker basket so it could come back with a load of flowers and some baguettes sticking out? Or was it in a cage, bouncing around in the back of a wagon, about to get hung upside down by its hind legs and bled out?
 
I've never seen a piggy, little or otherwise, with a wicker basket, so I'd guess the latter.
Yumm.
 
Domenick said:
I've never seen a piggy, little or otherwise, with a wicker basket, so I'd guess the latter.
Yumm.
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You’re obviously unfamiliar with the true definition of a “thriller.” ;) You must spend your holiday reading the entire Freddy the Pig series.
 
What's the best libation to carry in your flying flask?

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When foxhunting, sherry, port, or brandy are traditional, but for aviation it seems there should be something a bit more appropriate. Grey Goose, perhaps? Does it matter whether you're flying a high-wing or a low-wing?
 
Half Fast said:
What's the best libation to carry in your flying flask?


When foxhunting, sherry, port, or brandy are traditional, but for aviation it seems there should be something a bit more appropriate. Grey Goose, perhaps? Does it matter whether you're flying a high-wing or a low-wing?
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Perhaps a bit on the nose...
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Dana said:
But an SKS can be made into a fake AK. A friend of mine had one. Another friend had a real AK. It was much nicer to shoot.
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You can't really turn an SKS into a fake AK. There is cosmetic nylon furniture. But, having different internals, they aren't really even close. A nice Tula SKS with a 20 round fixed Soviet magazine . . . one that has not been "bubba'd", is a "real" rifle. Not to say there are not nice Kalashnikov pattern rifles and shotguns, and they tend to work no matter how they have been treated, 'cause that's what they were designed to do.

It is interesting that both the US and the USSR designed and fielded the rifle that best suited their own situation. The Soviets would IMHO have been better served by the M-16 and the US by the AK-74, as each would have pitted strength against weakness.
 
billsgs126 said:
The Soviets would IMHO have been better served by the M-16
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Not sure, but I suspect that the Soviet ammo, especially with corrosive primers, might have been an issue for the direct gas impingement design of the M16. I know US soldiers in Vietnam had lots of ammo-induced failures, as the rifle was designed to use stick powder ammo but when fielded ball powder ammo was used instead.
 
What happened to Hunt's Ketchup? I've always preferred it to Heinz, but I never see it here in the upper, far-left corner of the contiguous 48.

What's the difference between "ketchup" and "catsup" besides the spelling?
 
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