The Dysfunctional-Palooza Obnoxious Masshole BS Thread

[day_trippr]

Only in Maine.

fwiw, I don't think it has been firmly established that someone with Covid-19 antibodies is protected from reinfection.
That's the usual case with viral infections that are survived, but it's yet to be accepted in this case as it takes some time to build a cohort and then follow it long enough to gain assurance...

Cheers!

 

[Dland]

So I broke out the Gibson instead of the Garand. ...ears screwed either way....scary times....

 

[Dave Sarber]

Yeah but a Garand is more fun.

 

[Tipsy McStagger]

“In my opinion, the M1 rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised.”Gen.George S Patton.

 

[Dave Sarber]

I love my Garand, OK? It is an exceptional way to get rounds downrange quickly and accurately. (But, as an aside, the 7th round always goes straight up, and hits me in the top of the head, just as I'm squeezing for the last round. Kinda distracting).

BUT, if I want to shoot the balls off a horsefly, I'll pick up an original 1903 Springfield. Not the WWII refurb A3.

 

[Dland]

More or less only one note on the rifles, guitars have many more options. And one can play loud or soft...even crank the tube amp, and the "first responders" won't be coming up the drive.

I'll stick w the Gibsons for now. "Old timey" on the acoustic good for winding down, maybe do that now. By the time it goes the other way, I suspect we will not be posting in this forum. Hope it never comes to that, ...I have thought it through..., pretty sure no one wins.

BTW, '17 Enfield like Sgt York carried is my back up in that round.

 

[paulthenurse]

Once again we see a link... Don't drink the water.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/09/coron...medium=site buttons&utm_campaign=site buttons

 

[Dave Sarber]

Once again we see a link... Don't drink the water.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/09/coronavirus-traces-found-in-massachusetts-wastewater/?utm_source=url_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site buttons&utm_campaign=site buttons

Return to the middle ages. Drinking beer is safer than drinking water.

 

[jrgtr42]

Once again we see a link... Don't drink the water.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/09/coronavirus-traces-found-in-massachusetts-wastewater/?utm_source=url_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site buttons&utm_campaign=site buttons

Return to the middle ages. Drinking beer is safer than drinking water.

Maybe it's just me, but I don't typically drink wastewater -
after the various treatments water goes through, chlorination and such, I'd think water is fine.
But just to be safe, drink beer / booze instead.

 

[Dave Sarber]

So turn that ***** loose in the environment and see what it mutates into next?

I didn't type poopye, but censorship is everywhere.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Once again we see a link... Don't drink the water.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/09/coronavirus-traces-found-in-massachusetts-wastewater/?utm_source=url_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site buttons&utm_campaign=site buttons

This never happened when Boston Harbor was filthy.

 

[Tipsy McStagger]

And the fishing was better.

 

[Dland]

 

[HoppyDaze]

Once again we see a link... Don't drink the water.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/09/coronavirus-traces-found-in-massachusetts-wastewater/?utm_source=url_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site buttons&utm_campaign=site buttons

You'll have to find a new swimming hole eh?

 

[day_trippr]

Heads up my Masshole peeps. Big blow a'comin' tomorrow, don't be planning any forest hikes...

 

[HoppyDaze]

state parks?

 

[the_bird]

Once again we see a link... Don't drink the water.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/09/coronavirus-traces-found-in-massachusetts-wastewater/?utm_source=url_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site buttons&utm_campaign=site buttons

That's good news, isn't it? More people who ARE infected than we expect - but who are not in the hospital system - mean that a higher percentage of folks we get it are asymptomatic. And if more people have it already that we believed, perhaps we're closer to the herd immunity threshold?

I've also heard it suggested that monitoring waste waster might be a technique to try and track where hot spots might be developing. You might get that information a little quicker (and it would be a larger sample size) than just watching folks landing in the ER. If you see the numbers increasing, you know that community probably needs to be locked down - but other areas where the numbers are stable or declining perhaps some of the social distancing protocols can be loosened up.

 

[paulthenurse]

That seems to me to be a REALLY inefficient way to determine infection. Kind of like driving down to Wallaston Beach in the 90's, and gathering up all the condoms washed up on the shoreline to figure out how many teachers you may or may not need on 2000

 

[Dland]

^^^now that is funny,.

Unfortunately, sounds like fertile grounds for federally funded grant,... assuming one applying was well enough connected...and paid off the right officials...

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

 

[paulthenurse]

Coming up on 24 hours without power. The pole went down right around the corner and there has been a guy sitting in a gas company truck keeping idiots from driving down the road and electrocuting themselves pretty much from the beginning.
I was out trimming the orchard this morning and some Jackwad drove up and started berating the guy in the van for not getting out of the van and fixing the pole. He got himself arrested. Highly entertaining. I went over to the guy in the van after and asked how he was doing. He laughed and said “I work for the friggin’ gas company! All I know about electricity is that if the switch is up the power is on.”

We laughed about ‘poop for brains’ getting driven away in the back of the cruiser and laughed even harder when the tow truck pulled up to tow his SUV away.

 

[Dave Sarber]

When it comes to human intelligence in modern American culture, I'm a pessimist.

 

[balrog]

You truly live in an enlightened and amusing neighborhood, PTN

 

[day_trippr]

Half the country is below average intelligence...but distribution is clearly uneven

 

[Oginme]

Half the country is below average intelligence...but distribution is clearly uneven

I would say it a different way: Half the country is below the median intelligence, but there are far more below the average.

 

[day_trippr]

While perhaps accurate, that phraseology fails to characterize Paul's neighbors intelligence in an unfavorable way.
Where's the fun?

 

[Dland]

Well I thought I was smart,...

I went to paint a truck I had spent a few days sanding & prepping and realized had no activator for the primer sealer.

My screw up, but in the old days this would have been a one part product. At least I reviewed instructions before I shot it, must be getting a little wiser..

 

[paulthenurse]

Still ain’t got no juice. I bought a 4K portable generator yesterday. Powers the fridge and the cellar freezer but not the Renni furnace/hot water heater.

I’m heading over to Cape’s in a while to have him scrub my hiney till it gleams

 

[bob1852]

Can't you just fire up the pizza oven and heat water that way?

 

[Dland]

It is sad the way they are allowed to misrepresent junk retail generator ratings like that. 4KW "peak output" means almost nothing, not the same as a 4KW continuous, load factor 1.0 gen set. Of course the later cost and weigh a lot more, but will usually use less fuel, run quieter and be there when you need it.

In the long run, an 1,800 RPM 4 pole set is the way to go, over a 3,600 RPM two pole screamer. Mil surplus, or old fixed up Onan a good way to go if you don't want to drop over $3-4K. You can do it for less if you're somewhat of a mechanic.

I can run boiler, hot water, well, laundry(gas dryer), dishwasher, fridge, freezers, lights(most are LED), and a couple of moderate window ACs of a surplus 5 KW set.