Home Depot really wants me to drink bottled beer while I'm painting

[jrgtr42]

Bottom line, any 90° corner will suffice - even if it leaves a gouge

My desk edge in my college dormroom eventually didn't have a sharp enough corner to catch the bottle caps.
They never noticed - or at least they didn't charge me anything for the damage...

 

[bracconiere]

I always get strange looks when I tell people that we should take the warning labels off everything and just let natural selection and survival of the fittest run its course.

i never take warning labels lightly, even though sometimes they can be funny....i had a can of sodium metal, i want'd to get rid of it, and right when i was about to flush it down the toilet....noticed, and stoped to read, the warning never mix with water....damn that would have been nasty!

 

[Snark_Wolf_Brewing]

i never take warning labels lightly, even though sometimes they can be funny....i had a can of sodium metal, i want'd to get rid of it, and right when i was about to flush it down the toilet....noticed, and stoped to read, the warning never mix with water....damn that would have been nasty!

That would have been bad!

 

[NTBeer]

I might be slow, but I eventually figure out what everybody else already knew: the paint can opener that I get free with every can of Behr paint at Home depot doubles as a bottle opener. Oof. What else have I been missing?

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You can open paint with those? Who knew?

 

[bkboiler]

I'm just laughing at how so many of us would go to home depot for brewing equipment before they even sold brewing equipment (e.g. paint strainer bags, buckets, vinyl tubing)...not that I would ever do such a thing

 

[Snuffy]

A standard wedding band will open a bottle of beer like a champ. I bought a stainless steel one for just that purpose. Steer clear of “comfort fit”. You don’t want beveled edges.

 

[faithie999]

i never take warning labels lightly, even though sometimes they can be funny....i had a can of sodium metal, i want'd to get rid of it, and right when i was about to flush it down the toilet....noticed, and stoped to read, the warning never mix with water....damn that would have been nasty!

what in the world brought you to buy a can of sodium metal? and I assume it was packed under a layer of some kind of light oil so that it wouldn't spontaneously combust from the moisture in the air when you opened the can.

 

[Beermeister32]

Need a bottle opener in a hotel room? The latch strike plate on the bathroom door frame usually works

Now THAT brings up memories - I was in sales and travelled the 13 Western states - did that all the time! Make sure to wrap a hotel hand towel around the bottle, sometimes you can lose a little beer because of the angle!

 

[Dland]

Since one can open a beer bottle w old GM seatbelt latch, does that mean GM wants us to drink beer in truck, w seatbelt off?

Actually, any seatbelt will do, as will many many other things.

 

[Tobor_8thMan]

Don't make me do it! Haha, I'm a massive fan, and I can quote verbatim a lot of the opening monologue of Rod's. I used to get the Twilight Zone Magazine, it had scripts, and my brother and I used to enact each one when we got the mag. Haha.

(have you guys checked out Black Mirror on Netflix? No Rod, but wow some awesome episodes, and every bit as good as Twilight Zone or Night Gallery).

From what I understand Rod really didn't want to do Night Gallery. He didn't write any of the shows. Apparently he was paid enough to introduce the show, but that's it.

He probably had enough $$$ from the Planet of the Apes movies.

 

[Tobor_8thMan]

If you’re of a certain age you might remember a program which began with a bald, rotund, gentleman solemnly intoning “Goood eve-a-ning…”

I really didn't care for the Alfred Hitchcock TV show. Nor for "One Step Beyond" (IMO, awful). However, the original Outer Limits was good.

 

[Tobor_8thMan]

Haha, remember when the broadcast day actually ended with the national anthem, then a test pattern and and awful tone, and then snow? haha, that would wake me up.

The Cheech & Chong "Hey, man what are you watching?". "Um, an Indian movie, but it's really boring." "Man, that's no Indian movie, that's a test pattern!"

 

[duffy5018]

i never take warning labels lightly, even though sometimes they can be funny....i had a can of sodium metal, i want'd to get rid of it, and right when i was about to flush it down the toilet....noticed, and stoped to read, the warning never mix with water....damn that would have been nasty!

Fun story. I used to work in a field that used marine grade flares for training (and safety) purposes. We had a policy that we could use expired flares, as long as they were less than 10 years expired. Well, most people never need to use their flares, found out that we would take them, so we wound up with two 6'x3'X2' metal chests full of expired flares. When they were past 10 years, they just sat there forever, because NOBODY RECYCLES THEM! So, one bay of the garage I used to work at is sitting chock full of phosphorous just waiting for the A/C to go out on a 100+ degree day and burn the block down.

We seriously couldn't find one place to take them off our hands. This may have changed, hopefully has, but as of about a decade ago, those things were just timebombs.

 

[Garrett_McT]

i never take warning labels lightly, even though sometimes they can be funny....i had a can of sodium metal, i want'd to get rid of it, and right when i was about to flush it down the toilet....noticed, and stoped to read, the warning never mix with water....damn that would have been nasty!

Where the f are you getting pure non-denatured sodium from!

 

[bracconiere]

Where the f are you getting pure non-denatured sodium from!

this is back in 2002, when i was 22 or so.

 

[Garrett_McT]

this is back in 2002, when i was 22 or so.

Gotcha

After a quick google search, it seems as though any average Joe can go out and buy pure sodium. This seems awfully crazy to me. Part of me wants to go out and buy some so I can amaze people that water can cause flames and explosions

 

[MaxStout]

From what I understand Rod really didn't want to do Night Gallery. He didn't write any of the shows. Apparently he was paid enough to introduce the show, but that's it.

He probably had enough $$$ from the Planet of the Apes movies.

He wanted to do it, but gave up much of the creative control, a decision he later regretted. The show's producer would throw some weird shiat into some of the episodes, like short comedic fillers between the three parts. Flip Wilson doing a 30 second gag as an interlude...on Night Gallery?

The show was still solid in its first run in the early '70s, though some of the reruns of it were edited from 60 to 30 minutes.

Amazon has the entire series on DVD for around $25--it's tempting. I can always FF through the Flip Wilson segments.

 

[bracconiere]

Gotcha

After a quick google search, it seems as though any average Joe can go out and buy pure sodium. This seems awfully crazy to me. Part of me wants to go out and buy some so I can amaze people that water can cause flames and explosions

i saw a youtube video just like that....i've seen youtube videos on how to make it too....


but that's exactly why i don't mind warning labels! except prop 65! i really don't need a warning on my canister of oxygen that it causes cancer.......or my grain mill, or, etc, etc.....

 

[T Murph]

Lol, at least you got a bottle opener out of the deal because Behr paint is the bud lite of paint.

 

[davidabcd]

Behr paint

Is it seriously? I had no idea--thought it was fine. Which brands are best, if you don't mind?

 

[davidabcd]

What else have I been missing?

I think the only other thing, in all of existence you might be missing, is that the spaghetti claw with a hole in it has the purpose of measuring out a single portion.

 

[passedpawn]

I think the only other thing, in all of existence you might be missing, is that the spaghetti claw with a hole in it has the purpose of measuring out a single portion.
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I have one of those

 

[MaxStout]

Someone had to do it, might as well be me. New thread: Post your favorite bottle opener.

 

[davidabcd]

I have one of those

My spouse told me what it was for.

 

[Snark_Wolf_Brewing]

The Cheech & Chong "Hey, man what are you watching?". "Um, an Indian movie, but it's really boring." "Man, that's no Indian movie, that's a test pattern!"

*Changes the channel* "Oh look man, it's a horror movie!" "Far out man! Is that Jane Fonda?" "No, not that kind of whore movie. Scary, like this...* makes ghost noises*

 

[wetmk]

If you’re of a certain age you might remember a program which began with a bald, rotund, gentleman solemnly intoning “Goood eve-a-ning…”

Now I'm humming the theme.

 

[homebeerbrewer]

but that's exactly why i don't mind warning labels! except prop 65! i really don't need a warning on my canister of oxygen that it causes cancer.......or my grain mill, or, etc, etc.....

I was searching for tires for my truck recently, and one site had the prop65 warning on the tire page. The question that popped into my head was "do Californians chew on their tires?"

 

[2hennepin6]

I really want me to drink bottled beer while I'm painting.

 

[shoengine]

All this talk of radio is making me want to find my discs with Suspense on them...

 

[day_trippr]

I really want me to drink bottled beer while I'm painting.

Maybe not. My best friend and I worked our Junior HS summer for a landscaper who used us for all kinds of non-landscaping jobs, like re-roofing his barn and repainting his rental properties. By the end of the summer we were so tired of working indoors or on roofs in the heat we got ploughed on Bud while doing some interior painting and proceeded to lose the delineation between baseboards, carpet, and wallpaper.

It was awful

We caught hell and were fired the next day - this after working five summer for the bastid owner.
Sure we deserved it, but still, eff'im, we were much better off

Cheers!