pjbear05 Posted July 24 Share Posted July 24 Today's Sun-Sentinel in a daily article "Sports In Brief", gathered from various "news sources": " Lions rework QB Stafford's contract". Doh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bahamas Posted July 28 Share Posted July 28 On 6/30/2024 at 4:53 PM, goose said: Spent the last two days on a paint job doing prep work like scraping and brushing worn siding, crawling under eaves, humping ladders. I had to laugh at how glad I was that it wasn't my full time job. What a project that is! A few years back I attempted to scrape and re-paint our very old wood sided house. Built my own scaffolding for the two stories, heat gun with water hose close by, canister mask and gloves, heavy bags of leaded paint scrapings, it took weeks to do two sides until the wood became so bad it was mostly marine epoxy filling before priming. I gave up. We went with vinyl siding (but it's high end!) even though I always mocked it. It was a sad decision but we chose nice colours and had the window trim, roof fascias, vertical corner "posts" with aluminum (spell check wants me to type aluminium) and it turned out pretty good. Kept the soffit brackets even though a few estimates said it's not possible - but when the company that agreed with us said it could be done, we were very happy. It surprised me that using thick "contractor grade" bags, after shovelling in paint scrapings to about a third of the volume of the bag it was very, very heavy. What caught my attention here, goose, was your comment about being glad it wasn't your full time job (still teaching?). I so very much agree. Being a side project is well enough, but to have to contort and crawl and twist limbs to get into corners and such every day for a paycheck, yup, would not be a fun job. Could not pay me enough to do that on house after house. And the weather was such a big factor. Rain? Maybe for a few days? How long to let it dry? Is the fresh coat of primer or paint in full sun by the time you get going? Not a fun experience. I am sure it looks great now, are you happy with the results? Cheers :) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BastillePark Posted July 28 Share Posted July 28 Laughing at the patheticness of so-called Christians after the part of the Olympic opening ceremonies had a performance featuring someone portraying Dionysius but the people looking to be offended thought it was the Last Supper but with gays and trans people. I don't recall that person in the Bible. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted July 28 Share Posted July 28 1 hour ago, Bahamas said: What a project that is! A few years back I attempted to scrape and re-paint our very old wood sided house. Built my own scaffolding for the two stories, heat gun with water hose close by, canister mask and gloves, heavy bags of leaded paint scrapings, it took weeks to do two sides until the wood became so bad it was mostly marine epoxy filling before priming. I gave up. We went with vinyl siding (but it's high end!) even though I always mocked it. It was a sad decision but we chose nice colours and had the window trim, roof fascias, vertical corner "posts" with aluminum (spell check wants me to type aluminium) and it turned out pretty good. Kept the soffit brackets even though a few estimates said it's not possible - but when the company that agreed with us said it could be done, we were very happy. It surprised me that using thick "contractor grade" bags, after shovelling in paint scrapings to about a third of the volume of the bag it was very, very heavy. What caught my attention here, goose, was your comment about being glad it wasn't your full time job (still teaching?). I so very much agree. Being a side project is well enough, but to have to contort and crawl and twist limbs to get into corners and such every day for a paycheck, yup, would not be a fun job. Could not pay me enough to do that on house after house. And the weather was such a big factor. Rain? Maybe for a few days? How long to let it dry? Is the fresh coat of primer or paint in full sun by the time you get going? Not a fun experience. I am sure it looks great now, are you happy with the results? Cheers :) It turned out great, and the homeowner is very happy. My house was built I'm 1934, and I've just spent a dozen hours or so prepping pur window ledges for painting. I've had to strip layers upon layers of paint, then apply wood restorer and putty. Thankfully the rest of the house was redone with siding several years ago. A much easier solution. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bahamas Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 On 8/7/2024 at 12:28 AM, BastillePark said: How dare you mock other folk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BastillePark Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 Captioning this picture, "Militia Etheridge". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Principled Man Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 Archive: February 5, 2022 Wordle 231 3/6 ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Interpret this image as you see fit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bahamas Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 On 8/16/2024 at 10:03 PM, Bahamas said: How dare you mock other folk! BastillePark - my reaction may have come across as loud and opposing. I think I was going for a double speak thing, like somebody taking the time to post a sign about Hillbillies but being concerned about a condition they could not spell properly. So, how could anybody dare mock what they don't even know to be true. My humour is generally kept to myself, but I do make outbursts. Hope I didn't offend you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lerxt1990 Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 I found an old computer at a friends house that had a sticker that said "This Computer Will Never Be Obsolete!" What a hilarious and nonsensical marketing point! It was a Windows 95 machine with 32MB of RAM. lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BastillePark Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 13 hours ago, Bahamas said: BastillePark - my reaction may have come across as loud and opposing. I think I was going for a double speak thing, like somebody taking the time to post a sign about Hillbillies but being concerned about a condition they could not spell properly. So, how could anybody dare mock what they don't even know to be true. My humour is generally kept to myself, but I do make outbursts. Hope I didn't offend you. Not in the least and I took your post as humorous. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjbear05 Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 Watching a banner carryng plane drop an advertisement banner prior to circling around to pick up a new banner. The advert was touting the miraculous news of "Vitamins for your vagina" followed by the lettered addition "Now at Target". Hey, if guys can take hormones and anabolic substances crudely referred to as "d$$k pills", why not the ladies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BastillePark Posted October 3 Share Posted October 3 A guy in Texas, (surprise) paid $4000 in an auction for a guitar supposedly signed by Taylor Swift to then smash it to make a point. Turns out it wasn't her signature which makes the point he thought he was making even less intelligent. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhyta Posted October 3 Share Posted October 3 10 hours ago, BastillePark said: A guy in Texas, (surprise) paid $4000 in an auction for a guitar supposedly signed by Taylor Swift to then smash it to make a point. Turns out it wasn't her signature which makes the point he thought he was making even less intelligent. It is hard to understand how he thinks him smashing the guitar has any effect on anyone, except show what a jackass he is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhyta Posted October 3 Share Posted October 3 On 8/24/2024 at 9:30 AM, BastillePark said: Not in the least and I took your post as humorous. If you want more of this type of humor, check out the Liberal Redneck on YouTube. He is a hoot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Principled Man Posted October 29 Share Posted October 29 Started up the last fire of the year in my firepit on the back patio. Sitting there with Mother, who is a bit sleepy... Me: "Mother, you're sleeping...." [her eyes are shut and she's obviously dozing off] Mother: "Nope, I'm awake...." A few minutes later.... Me: "Mother, do you want to go inside?" [her eyes are shut, her mouth is agape, her head is down] Mother: "No, I'm fine. I'm not sleeping...." Afterwards, we're back in the house, and Mother says: "Boy that fire was so warm! It was putting me right to sleep!" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjbear05 Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 After pausing for a couple of weeks I took a view of the Your Childhood Ruined group on FB. The book cover illustrations are are NSFW as ever, and a few of them had me gasping for breath from laughing so hard. Truly warped! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Principled Man Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 A Russian court has demanded Google pay a hefty fine for its blocking of several Russian media outlets on YouTube. The fine amounts to 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 rubles. That is 2 undecillion rubles. A 2 followed by 36 zeros In U.S. dollars, about $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.00, which is 20 decillion. 20 followed by 33 zeros The entire Global Economy is estimated to be about $110,000,000,000,000.00, or $110 trillion. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Principled Man Posted November 7 Share Posted November 7 Tonight's Wisconsin Pick 3 numbers are: 6 6 6 Really, Damien, they are! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueschica Posted November 7 Share Posted November 7 On 10/28/2024 at 9:36 PM, Principled Man said: Started up the last fire of the year in my firepit on the back patio. Sitting there with Mother, who is a bit sleepy... Me: "Mother, you're sleeping...." [her eyes are shut and she's obviously dozing off] Mother: "Nope, I'm awake...." A few minutes later.... Me: "Mother, do you want to go inside?" [her eyes are shut, her mouth is agape, her head is down] Mother: "No, I'm fine. I'm not sleeping...." Afterwards, we're back in the house, and Mother says: "Boy that fire was so warm! It was putting me right to sleep!" That sounds familiar! My mom does "I'm not sleeping!" pretty regularly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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