True Confessions - Share your shame
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well, if you are going to spill some oil, where would you prefer to do it? ;-)
I'm KIDDING - spilling oil is not environmentally friendly
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Oh, come on; the oil came out of the ground in the first place, didn’t it?
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The circular economy, as it were. "From the earth, back into the earth."
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I haven't changed the oil in a car/truck in 20+ years. It's not so much the changing of the oil, it's the getting the used oil to the recycle place w/o getting oil everywhere, and cleaning the associated mess up. Just too much a PITA for me. I do change the oil in the lawnmower and other 4 cycle things other than cars. Way easier because they normally drain right into quart containers. In college? I'd change the oil, change the diff oil, change the transmission fluid, repack the front hubs. Not anymore.
billsgs126
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I use ramps and an empty five quart (oil) jug with an old cookie sheet under the jug.
DaleB
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I usually just drop the oil off at an auto parts store or Wally World. We also have a local place called Under the Sink that takes nearly anything that would normally be tough to get rid of. Lawn chemicals, solvents, all manner of nastiness that otherwise might get poured on the ground or down a sink. They’ll take oil, stale mower gas, old etchant and Alodine, whatever.
I put used oil on my curb and the garbage/recycling company takes it away on trash day. Optionally, I can shoot them an email the week prior and they'll drop off an empty milk jug or two for me to fill. Or I can supply my own jug.
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So you like French girls?
She was based on this one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Inconnue_de_la_Seine
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Well she didn't say no, or otherwise seem to have a problem with it. As to the age, I didn't check the manufacture date. After a cursory inspection, it was clear that it was designed only for oral CPR, and not pelvic examination practice.
Interesting. I will say that she wasn't the best. Or the worst either. Those were hard times, I'm telling you.
Since the question was asked of me in another thread, yes, I admit, I did attempt to raise sea monkeys.
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Not "name brand" sea monkeys, but I had a tank full of brine shrimp. Our guppies loved them. I'd get a few in a pipette and drop them into the guppy tank with as little brine as possible. I think the guppies enjoyed pretending they were sharks.
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Today I broadcasted a perfect initial pattern call. But I did it on guard. As soon as I let go of the PTT, I saw my mistake, and switched radios, so I don't know if there was a barrage of GUAARARRRRRRRd or meows after I transmitted.
there was
Zeldman
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I guess it wasn't as bad as I originally thought. Today I dicovered they not only changed the oil, but also vacuumed the floor boards and cleaned all the windows, inside and out. Also I did not have to dispose of the oil and filter.Don't be ashamed of being smart. I change oil in a lot of my equipment but my truck came with a deal for them to do it while rotating the tires and driving it through the carwash. The price is reasonable and I'm getting spoiled ...
I just changed the air filter myself. Ford and their stupid prop rods...
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I've never been to Oshkosh or Sun-n-Fun. I love aviation, but hate crowds.
I also think concerts are just too loud. I love live music, but it seems they are always competing to see how loud they can be, to the point the music is just distorted noise. I always wear ear plugs to concerts just to be able to hear the music.
I also think concerts are just too loud. I love live music, but it seems they are always competing to see how loud they can be, to the point the music is just distorted noise. I always wear ear plugs to concerts just to be able to hear the music.
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yup - gotta love the "musicians" that think louder will make up for their lack of talent.
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As a trombone player in high school band, I thought louder would annoy the director more.
Pretty sure I was right.
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I went to a concert years ago. REO, Foghat, Iron Butterfly, and Cheap Trick. I never really attended concerts, and didn't know... Had I worn earplugs to that I probably would not have had persistent tinnitus for the past 25+ years. Three of the bands were OK, but Cheap Trick was overdriving the amps and speakers so badly they were usually at least halfway through a number before I figured out what they were playing. It was painful. I've lived with this incessant ringing ever since.
True confession: a few years ago I took my family to a 4th of July fireworks display in a small local town. (A park in the pasture type thing, volley ball tournaments throughout the afternoon, beer garden, hot dog stand, quaint small town stuff). About 100 yards away from were I parked there was a “party” that I had been invited to of building/service contractors, but they were being loud, blaring music, visibly annoying the people around them, and obviously intoxicated. They didn’t see me park and I never went over there, I would have been embarrassed to be associated with them (small town, memories last generations). The final kicker was when the national anthem began to play to signal the start of the fireworks display, they turned up their music (blasting profanities with many small children around them in a very modest community). They never knew I was there, but I very specifically and aggressively found alternative options for the services they provided and completely cut all ties with all of them present. I had lost any respect for them and would never associate or do buisness with a single one of them again.
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The worse I have been to was Ted Nugent. My father-in-law loves his music (but is 180 degrees opposite politically...strange) so we've been twice. The first time I struggled to identify even one bit of the roar as any song. The second time, same venue, I had ear plugs in and could actually make out the music.
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Just saw the Rock The Country lineup at Hastings. All had their sound dialed in pretty good. Loud, but not overly loud. Except Lynyrd Skynyrd. Turnt up past 11. Probably because those guys are so old they couldn't hear it if it wasn't cranked.
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My wife is a music educator (band director) and her primary instrument is trombone.
According to her, if the conductor isn't giving you "the hand", you are not playing the trombone too loud.
On the other hand...
MauleSkinner
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I got “the hand” a lot. I was also moved to the right side (my right) of the music stand instead of the left for a little more sound blockage.
In middle school, I apparently wasn’t putting enough air through the horn, so when I was a freshman, the director suggested that I play bass trombone to kind of force the issue. Kind of backfired on him.
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I was one of the loud brass players in HS. Marching baritone in the fall, plain 'ol baritone the rest of the year. During marching band practice I was occasionally asked to back off a bit by people in the tower who had bullhorns. Fast forward to the Spirit of Atlanta, a Drum and Bugle corps which was known for having a very powerful horn section. Loud was highly encouraged.
That said, a peashooter trombone can produce a really awful tone when pushed a bit too hard.
I haven't done an oil change in a motor vehicle in years. It's not worth the bother when I can get it done by a professional shop , not a quick oil place, for about $50 more than the oil and filter would cost. Not worth having to jack up the car, drain and replace the oil and change the filter while lying flat on my back under the car, and then having to dispose of the oil and filter.
Tis only hear say, but it is common knowledge in my area of the world that the founder and owner (multimillionaire) of warp drive propellers died many years ago as a result of a jack failure while under his car doing some mundane maintenance/repair. (There are also some stories of his adventures and a scorpion one helicopter that is now mounted on top a of a utility pole at a local metal scrap yard …. idk if it is true but if it is, it is straight out of “second hand lions” level of living life).
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Couldnt you just make 10 louder?
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Nice! When did you march? Madison '91-'96 here.
billsgs126
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"It's one louder, isn't it?" -Nigel
midwestpa24
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I knew Dale and know a little more about his accident. It wasn't a car or a mundane repair. He was building a Mad Max style semi tanker on tracks for watering the local dirt track when the lift he was using failed and he was pinned.
mark.staggs
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As a trombone player through college and off-and-on as an adult, I was always told that if you're given "the hand", it just means they're wanting to feel more sound from you.
billsgs126
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"Empty weight approx: 615 lbs
Highest permissible disposable load: 440 lbs"
(pg. 2, K7 POH)
Why does this POH consider me to be a "disposable load"? Should I be concerned?
Highest permissible disposable load: 440 lbs"
(pg. 2, K7 POH)
Why does this POH consider me to be a "disposable load"? Should I be concerned?
455 Bravo Uniform
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Relative to the plane itself, you’re replaceable. Stupid pilots.
Me, neither! I think I read somewhere that those of us who actually can tolerate (or even like, at a distance) the smell of skunk, have a genetic mutation that allows that. In fact, for the first couple of decades of my life, I thought the smell of skunk in the desert was sagebrush heated by the sun. I also have the mutation that makes me taste the horrible chemical they soak paper in for a genetics lesson in high school. Most people taste paper; I tasted something that was so bitter that I remember it to this day approximately 60 years later. I understand that whether one like cilantro or not is also genetically determined.
I grew up near SFO and when the wind was blowing from the north, I could smell the jet exhaust. I didn't mind it, either, and I even didn't mind the noise of the engines, which were pointed at the house when the jets took off to the north. To this day, sleeping near a busy airport is soothing to me.
I can't judge though. I like the smell of jet exhaust. There is just something about the smell of burnt kerosene that makes me not entirely upset to be stuck behind a jet idling on the ramp.
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