The Dysfunctional-Palooza Obnoxious Masshole BS Thread

[day_trippr]

fwiw there were towns not far from our place up in the NH Whites that got creamed last night.
We got whaled pretty good yesterday but at that we didn't get the worst of the storm.
Not sure we'll be as lucky tonight

 

[Dland]

PTN's thread seems to have devolved into a windging (brit/aus slang, not misspelling) version of the weather channel. & I recall we have had this discussion before.

I love dramatic weather, but most of these T storms miss my location. All I can say its;

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Short and powerfully sweet here compared to yesterday. A lot of trees snapping and flying by the window. Radar looked worse yesterday but I think today I was just in the right spot. Had about 3" rain in 20 minutes.

Did the neighborly thing and checked out the window to see if it was just I without power or all of us. Yay! Everyone down!

And a constant complaint. Why cant storms take down the 99% rotten trees instead of the healthy ones?

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Yesterday's radar was impressive and boring. I road the line all the way home from Nashua

 

[day_trippr]

PTN's thread seems to have devolved into a windging (brit/aus slang, not misspelling) version of the weather channel. & I recall we have had this discussion before.

There's a difference between your limey windging and just discussing what's all around us mainlanders.
Also, if I'm the only one brewing beer around here, what does that leave for the rest of you to talk about anyway?

Cheers!

 

[homebeerbrewer]

Well, if you wanna talk about brewing, there’s a website called HomeBrewTalk….

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

It's turned all political.

 

[homebeerbrewer]

And apparently the weather too.

 

[homebeerbrewer]

Aaaannnnd, let’s get back on topic. Are the Masstobefest shenanigans happening this year?

@paulthenurse, looking at you.

 

[day_trippr]

It's turned all political.

Nah. There's a narrow place where "politics happen" here, but otherwise it's pretty smooth for a public forum.
Outside of HBT...let's say compartmentalization really isn't that hard for grown-ups. I rarely talk politics, usually just with my kids

Cheers!

 

[balrog]

Last thing I “brewed” was limoncello.
Can’t lift anything until after a shoulder replacement.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Try a limonviolin then.

 

[Dland]

There's a difference between your limey windging and just discussing what's all around us mainlanders.
Also, if I'm the only one brewing beer around here, what does that leave for the rest of you to talk about anyway?

Cheers!

I brew 10 gallons pretty much every other week, but figured everyone here was tired of hearing about it.

 

[Dland]

Last thing I “brewed” was limoncello.
Can’t lift anything until after a shoulder replacement.

That sounds like a pain in many ways, hope you recover soon.

 

[Melana]

Aaaannnnd, let’s get back on topic. Are the Masstobefest shenanigans happening this year?

@paulthenurse, looking at you.

please? pretty please?

 

[day_trippr]

Where the heck is Williamsburg?
https://www.masslive.com/business/2...new-western-mass-location.html?outputType=amp

 

[balrog]

Where the heck is Williamsburg?
https://www.masslive.com/business/2...new-western-mass-location.html?outputType=amp

Kewel.
It's about 5 miles up Rte 9 from the Florence Pie Bar, of course.

 

[balrog]

And in other news out here in the hinterlands, apparently I have a new flavor with which I must contend in my brewing....

 

[day_trippr]

"Climate change strikes Quabbin and the MWRA. Film at eleven!"

 

[homebeerbrewer]

Where the heck is Williamsburg?
https://www.masslive.com/business/2...new-western-mass-location.html?outputType=amp

About an hour and a half south of me.

 

[day_trippr]

Ironically, Eriksons was left off the inaugural "Massachusetts Ice Cream Trail" apparently because they do not exclusively use milk from MA producers...

https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/r...a-wins-wicked-local-opinion-poll/74540487007/

 

[balrog]

A Fluffer Nutter is the proposed MA state sandwich?

 

[day_trippr]

Mmmmm! Lightly grilled they are quite tasty!

 

[balrog]

Mmmmm! Lightly grilled they are quite tasty!

I fell like I’ve wasted 65 orbits around the giant flaming gas ball that I never tried one.

Or spearing a Reese’s peanut butter cup, smearing Fluff on it, toasting it, and laying it between graham crackers. .

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Latest trend is fluff on fried chicken. I had Armsby Abbeys fried chix with fluff and peanut butter. I was drunk. I ate it

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Latest trend is fluff on fried chicken. I had Armsby Abbeys fried chix with fluff and peanut butter. I was drunk. I ate it

Was it good? I mean would you get drunk and have it again?

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

I didn't even know they had the extras on it until halfway thru. It was lightly done. I wouldn't say it added anything to it. It was ok. Their menu is a little lacking. I'd say i might even have it sober

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

I've visited the Salem and Brighton locations. Great places. Yet to visit the new one in Worcester. Walking distance to Armsby

Ive had this. Delicious

 

[Dland]

I was down at the local and iconic wooden boat yard in my town recently, and one of the owners was heating and pouring pitch into some voids in the bilge of his boat (a big classic ocean cruiser).

I could see how this might apply to wooden kegs, as I used to put up cider in 50 gallon oak whisky barrels. I am intrigued and am going to look into this.

 

[day_trippr]

I wonder if pitch will stay put when used inside a hull?

 

[Closet Fermenter]

I wonder if pitch will stay put when used inside a hull?

I don’t know anything about putting pitch in a boat, but I can tell you the it hangs tight to a chainsaw, (and clothes, gloves, hands, and anything else that it touches).

 

[day_trippr]

Oh yeah, I know all about pine pitch - it gets on everything and sticks forever
But challenged by hydraulic pressure from the bonding side...might not do very well with that...

Cheers!

 

[day_trippr]

Courtesy of Microsoft's "Copilot", the replacement for the Sagamore Bridge.

Yeah, that looks like a freakin' mess on multiple levels. Send Copilot to Civil Engineering school....

 

[balrog]

It looks like midway through a Civ VI game to me.

 

[Dland]

I'll believe it when it starts to happen, and I would not be surprised if it is not completed in my lifetime.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

I thought everything after the bridge was under water now?

 

[Dland]

That is absolutely true, I don't know why people keep trying to get here.

 

[homebeerbrewer]

Why take the bridge? The tunnel is much faster.

 

[Dland]

Go for it, someone has to be the first one to try it.

And let me know how it works out, the ferry service seems to be becoming less reliable the more they spend on it. There have been so many problems with the new boats. Most of the problems are related to computerization of the systems. Steer by wire, software problems with generators, stuff like that.

I remember in the old boats being able to see the steering shaft move around in well lubed pillow blocks. None of that now, all computerized and unreliable.

Thanks to all the digital folks who have enabled a less reliable infrastructure. ;}

 

[Dland]

Oh yeah, I know all about pine pitch - it gets on everything and sticks forever
But challenged by hydraulic pressure from the bonding side...might not do very well with that...

Cheers!

That's not the purpose of it, has more to do with filing rot prone gaps between ribs and such in bottom of bilge that can never get fully pumped out. If you have ever seen bilge of a large wooden boat or ship, you would understand that.