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

[Transamguy77]

Wow so I was initially intrigued by @passedpawn’s post because it’s a light bulb moment when you realize that it has 2 purposes but after reading about all the old tv and radio shows it took me back to when I was a kid. My dad is almost 45 years older than me so listening to old radio shows was his thing and he had them on most weekend nights. Thanks for that stroll down memory lane.

 

[Jayjay1976]

I loved TZ and Night Gallery, and sometimes late at night laying in bed I'd listen to coast to coast AM with George Noory. I miss my shortwave radio, there was so much eerie weirdness to browse.

Sometimes I would tune in to a numbers station, a woman's voice in Spanish counting up from zero to ten, then it would say siete cero. It would repeat over and over, endlessly. I dunno why but I couldn't hear it enough. I think it was a Cuban or central American intelligence agency communicating with operatives in north America.

 

[passedpawn]

I loved TZ and Night Gallery, and sometimes late at night laying in bed I'd listen to coast to coast AM with George Noory. I miss my shortwave radio, there was so much eerie weirdness to browse.

Sometimes I would tune in to a numbers station, a woman's voice in Spanish counting up from zero to ten, then it would say siete cero. It would repeat over and over, endlessly. I dunno why but I couldn't hear it enough. I think it was a Cuban or central American intelligence agency communicating with operatives in north America.

I've been fantasizing about getting a radio (icom 7300). Hoist a rediculous antenna over my house. Get licensed. I dunno, seems like another useless hobby dammit.

 

[Jayjay1976]

I've been fantasizing about getting a radio (icom 7300). Hoist a rediculous antenna over my house. Get licensed. I dunno, seems like another useless hobby dammit.

Icon 7300, now that is a serious piece of kit. We had an Archer crossbow on a mast bolted to the garage and a Teaberry Twin T haha. Didn't know what we were doing, just some random stuff my grandpa left behind. But my crappy SW radio, it wasn't worth ten bucks, though I'd pay ten times that to have it back.

 

[DuncB]

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!

Happy school days, evenings canoeing on the lake and the science teacher would throw bits of sodium at us whilst we paddled around. If you could catch and hold the fast moving sodium under water with your paddle it would explode and take the end of your paddle off.
Ahh Happy days.

Now bits of potassium were far more dangerous.

 

[Tobor_8thMan]

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Sometimes I would tune in to a numbers station, a woman's voice in Spanish counting up from zero to ten, then it would say siete cero. It would repeat over and over, endlessly. I dunno why but I couldn't hear it enough. I think it was a Cuban or central American intelligence agency communicating with operatives in north America.
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Cuban spy number station.

 

[Tobor_8thMan]

I've been fantasizing about getting a radio (icom 7300). Hoist a rediculous antenna over my house. Get licensed. I dunno, seems like another useless hobby dammit.

Consider digital mode, WSPR or low power. Amazing results with proper propagation. There are Raspberry Pi projects that will get on air. Use the money saved from not purchasing the 7300 and put towards brewing.

 

[Brewbuzzard]

here's another one. LOL

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

Back in the day A

 

[Brewbuzzard]

Has anyone ever seen this? As I opened HBT this morning a window popped up asking if I wanted to gift Garrett_McT a lifetime membership for $200 or a one year membership for $25. Garrett_McT I'm sure you're a nice person but.. WTF

 

[day_trippr]

lmao!

 

[Brewbuzzard]

lmao!

Yes...

 

[tkdgeek]

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

Did that in Ireland when I had nothing to open a few ciders. Have to be careful with it being turned sideways but emergencies are emergencies!

 

[Hwk-I-St8]

Not beer bottles, but we were in a pinch with bottles of wine at a hotel room. I had deck screws and a pliers in the car which worked pretty well. I've since seen a technique hitting the bottle (in a shoe) against the wall but I've never tried it. We have a corkscrew in each of the cars now and I have a bottle opener on my keychain.

 

[duffy5018]

I've since seen a technique hitting the bottle (in a shoe) against the wall but I've never tried it.

I tried it. After hitting it against the wall 3 or 4 times and making it sound like a construction zone, we decided it was better to go ask the front desk. That usually does the trick.

 

[davidabcd]

I have also squeaked a bottle top off with one of those white, cheap Bic pens, TV remote (not a great idea), butter knife (of course), flat head screwdriver (of course) but strangely, never a small crow bar or hammer.

 

[grampamark]

I almost always carry a McGyver which has multiple implements of destruction suitable for opening bottles.

 

[passedpawn]

Easiest way to open a bottle: just use 3x the amount of sugar when bottling homebrew. Bottle will open itself all magical-like when it is ready to be drank. For example, this octoberfest I brewed:

 

[DuncB]

Easiest way to open a bottle: just use 3x the amount of sugar when bottling homebrew. Bottle will open itself all magical-like when it is ready to be drank. For example, this octoberfest I brewed:

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Nice and if you aren't sober enough or feel faint from blood loss the vessel topples over to keep you from overdrinking.

 

[Tobor_8thMan]

Something is going on with the HD weekly email ads. I click the button to "See Weekly Ads" and I'm not seeing the ads. Worked fine a few weeks ago. Doesn't matter what browser I try.

Are others having the same problem?

 

[Beermeister32]

Must be the cookies.... conspiracy against us brewers.....

 

[JAReeves]

check, check, check, check plus chef's knife which is my favorite way and most dangerous-ish.

I was going to suggest this one-back of the blade at the end of the rush.

 

[T Murph]

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

Sherwin Williams and Valspar which is now owned by Sherwin Williams. I used to own a paint company and I've used most everything out there. So when it comes to long lasting, good looking and ease of application, none of the others match up. Valspar is a available at Lowes and is slightly less expensive than SW.

 

[davidabcd]

Valspar is a available at Lowes and is slightly less expensive than SW.

Appreciate the info.

 

[Tobor_8thMan]

As a youngster "Outer Limits" scared the crap out of me. They have taken control of the family TV. They control everything I see and hear! Sit quietly for the next hour!

 

[Tobor_8thMan]

@Murph4231 Thanks. I like S&W paints. Good to know about Valspar.

 

[Tobor_8thMan]

I can just see it now. "Hey, babe, I'm going to HD". Her, "What are you fixing now?". Me, "Um... nothin... getting brewing supplies."