The Dysfunctional-Palooza Obnoxious Masshole BS Thread

[day_trippr]

I've boated on both coasts and around the Caribbean, and nearly without exception there are those retired guys who wake up, have breakfast, then head out to their spots at the local boat launches for their daily entertainment

And I could be one of those guys if I ever quit being a boat launcher, though I'd have to locate closer to the coast for convenience. I totally know how to do that job - Lord knows I've witnessed enough boat ramp hilarity for a lifetime just waiting my turn in line, plus I have mad "uttered snark" skilz...

Cheers!

 

[paulthenurse]

Sorry. No video.

 

[homebeerbrewer]

Damn. I was imagining a video with the Benny Hill theme song.

 

[Dland]

Ah, the days of yachting and being of the leisure class.

Sitting here waiting for the nursery truck w a shipment of trees.

Boating wise, I'm barely in the club anymore. Though the picture does not show it well, there is a nice Anthony Waterer Spirea bush growing on starboard deck, and operating costs are favorable.

 

[paulthenurse]

Sweet ride.

 

[Yooper]

Good guesses. No.
Put the f’ing drain plug in before you leave the dock.

You avoid a major areshole pucker and jumping over the side to jam a “Thank God Alice left this stuck between a few cushions!” wine cork into the hole. Managed to make it back to the ramp and back into the trailer and spent an hour letting it drain. Then I was able to retrieve the plug from the door panel of my truck where I left it last fall and plug the bitch up.

Fark me, I’m getting kind of old for this sort of entertainment.

You'd have to be a real putz to sink your own boat.
Oh, wait......................

 

[paulthenurse]

Hey Yoop,
GFY

Smooches

(Who’s sensitive? Me? You arseholes know me. I’m not sensitive!)

Oh wait……

 

[Dland]

I'm willing to trade this classic '50's inboard for a working boat of any description....even yours, ;}

If you ever have rowed out to where your boat should be, and the angle the mooring float is at looks wrong.. on a cold November Sunday night.... clearly seeing ones boat has sank, looking down on the pale reflection from the bottom and knowing it is your boat......never mind.

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Sweet ride.
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[day_trippr]

Speaking of the joys of boating....

Today I had the pleasure of replacing the thermostats on my '96 OMC 90hp V4 outboard. It's a famously odious task due to the location of the thermostat housing at the back of the engine and occluded by the engine baseplate. There are plenty of youtube videos showing how to do this job, but most of them cheat by cutting a chunk of the engine baseplate out to greatly ease access.

Three screws hold the housing "sandwich" to the engine, and two of those screws are below the hose ports. It takes a couple of small 7/16" wrenches to get them out - no room for sockets or nut drivers or anything like that - and nearly all of the "turning" is in 1/12th rotation increments. And the screws have to come out with the housing assembly - can't back them out far enough to remove them.

Which means those screws have to be in place when re-installing the sandwich - which is spring-loaded by the high speed bypass valve springs. So you're trying to keep this thing that's coated with gasket compound pressed against the engine block while trying to get a screw started and meanwhile the springs are relentlessly trying to prevent success.

Here's the cause of all this: the thermostat on the left had rusted itself closed over the winter. Its mate still worked fine.

All this stuff gets crammed into the assembly - and those are the springs trying to screw everything up!

It's a nightmare, but I got it done and the engine is now quite chill

Cheers!

 

[balrog]

No wrenches required here.

 

[day_trippr]

I have three of those. Can't waterski behind any of them, and can't take them out in the hahbah for fishing

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

No motors to repair with theses either Top 10 Fishing Kayaks Under $1k

 

[day_trippr]

Kayak: semi-automatic drowning machine
Besides, they are a back killer, and I've already had two microdiscectomies and am nursing what'll likely be the third.
Hard pass...

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

For every solution, a problem…

 

[day_trippr]

Gets more true the older I get

 

[balrog]

My kids still have the pictures of the first kyak I attempted to enter, as it rode me slowly away from the shore, in a gravitationally inversive manner.

[No, there will be no photo shares]

 

[day_trippr]

So....anyone in the Greater Massachusetts Area (which would include everything north of the NY/NJ borders) seen much in the way of the foretold dreaded cicada 'splosion?
I have a feeling it totally missed us...

 

[balrog]

I went to TN in May, and while present down there, they were not swarming/hoards/dogsandcatslivingtogether bad. Here in WMA I can't say I've seen ... well, a couple.

 

[Dland]

They don't show up much on island. I remember a few years back there was a substantial brood (not brood x)on the cape, could here them screaming in trees along 28, but none to speak of here.

I'll add that the annual swarm of tourist, short term renters, property pimps more than makes up for the lack of insects. I'd take the critters anyday over the two legged pestilence.

 

[homebeerbrewer]

None in NH as far as I've seen, or heard. Maybe they don't travel this far north.

 

[balrog]

Yeast Weirdness
The tale of the foamy overbuild, that struts and frets its time on the stir plate
A tale, told by an idiot, full of foam and fury

Anyway.

I take 100b, make a starter for a brew day, overbuilding by 100b, saving that for next starter.

The protagonist of this tale, WY1007, was not really old, and only on overbuild#3, having been last overbuilt end of April (yes, this year). I have used 6-9mo old saved overbuilds plenty of times in the past, just two stepping them based on this calculator. This time, the 1.5 liter starter, done in my 1 gallon jug on stir plate, was, in a word, exuberant.

I did not have time to cold crash before using/saving, so the saved amount went in a quart mason jar, washed/starsan-rinsed, and after settling, I put it in a more space saving pint jar, also cleaned/starsanned.

Now a few days later, and it’s got froth. It’s not creating pressure, but it’s not normal. Smells normal.

I don’t know if it’s bad, it’s just different than what normally happens. If it weren’t the middle of Mother Nature’s Hell on Earth Cry of the Flaming Valkyries, I'd order some more from Ritebrew. It would never survive.

Maybe I have to give up and drive to the godforsaken eastern part of the state where there are still home brew shops.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Taste it!

 

[balrog]

I bet you tell all the boys that.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

A real man, wouldn’t hesitate to taste his yellow fizzy liquid to know if it’s soured or gone bad.

 

[balrog]

This actually brings up a really good question, to which there is no discernible obvious consensus on the net: as a dry alternative for WY1007, do you choose K97 or Notty for an Altbier?

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Personally, I’d go with k97. Keep the German with the German

 

[balrog]

Thanks.
But I will do the taste thing, because, well, someone smart said I should.
And while I've read mostly "neutral" about K97, I've seen a few scary "clove" "banana" "bubblegum" mentioned as well, and I personally feel those are contraindicated in altbier, but I've not scoured BJCP guidelines in a while.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Well, it is a Kolsh yeast which generally are clean, but hey, I haven’t brewed many of them to know… I suppose those off flavors some people report are due to mishandling the yeast and fermentation temps. I hope your fizzy yellow stuff tastes proper and you brew a good refreshing beer with it. I’ve got a grapefruit mead going as of yesterday… my first fermentation of this year. I had to enlist hubby’s help with the lifting, will have to give him co-brewer status!

 

[balrog]

OK, what in the left handed blue fashizzle are you guys up to over there today @paulthenurse ?

Massachusetts police standoff with heavily armed men ends in 11 arrests


The ordeal, which started during a police traffic stop, led to the shutdown of part of Interstate 95 and a shelter-in-place order for the surrounding area ...the men were wearing what Massachusetts State Police Col. Christopher Mason described as tactical vests and military style uniforms...the men indicated they were traveling from Rhode Island for "training," ...the men claimed to be "from a group that does not recognize our laws," according to a statement from the Wakefield Police Department.

 

[smurfjuicebrew]

Just read this. not goot...