Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

[Frag Maniac]

Mine is also a pitty. He's ten now and we're thinking about another one to cushion the blow when he kicks it. Best dog I've ever had. But maybe that's just all the training I put into him. 😆

500 miles from home, 500 more miles to go. And of course, early on in the trip I hit an unavoidable, shredded truck tire. Tried to put it between my wheels as the best option, but it bent my front subframe and did something to my alignment; been pulling left pretty good for the last 300 miles. Of course, it always pulls left because of a sloppy steering rack, but this is worse than usual.

The subframe I can replace when I eventually get home, but I'm going to call around at our halfway destination here and see if anyone can get me an alignment right away before the next leg of the journey. A lot of shops open in about 5 minutes, so I'm really hoping they can just get me in immediately and resolve the issue before my Mom even wakes up here at the hotel.

Otherwise, guess I'll need to drive on it and ruin my tires, which will suck because they've still got plenty of life left in them.

Maybe at some point in the future drone laws will relax a bit and their battery tech will allow longer range and we can just send one about a half mile ahead on the highway and it would be programmed to alert of hazards on the road. Just set it to auto return every so many miles, slap in a backup battery, and off you go. Either that or have lots of cameras set up on the highway and have an optional service you could pay a nominal fee monthly or by route you take (some highways get a lot more clutter than others), that would send alerts to your phone.

Good luck with the alignment. I changed struts on my 79 Corolla once, reusing the old springs. First time using a spring compressor or replacing struts. When I took the thing in to get it aligned (old non rack type), the guy said the struts were not tight enough and couldn't do it. So I tightened them in his lot. Then the alignment process started. The adjusting rods were pretty rusty, he sprayed them liberally and waited a bit. You could hear very loud creeks as he was adjusting them, in between turning them he was glaring at me.

Normally this type of steering is much easier and quicker to align. I felt like telling him the prior owner drove it a lot in Montana where they salt the roads a lot when I apologized, but I was worried making up excuses would further anger him. I certainly got my money's worth, and he was glad to see me go. It was definitely not one of my best days, or his.

 

[Zed Clampet]

@Charagma I might need to explain why I don't know my daughter's YouTube channel. It's because my wife tracks every move the children make, even now that they are in their 20s. So I have decided to avoid doing that and maybe gone overboard.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Been fighting an online misogynist. He thinks he is a champion of women. He is not. He treats women like they are mere animals. He basically would describe every evil a woman might commit as being caused by a male in her life. That's the sort of thing you say about children and animals. He doesn't have enough respect for women to believe they can be autonomously evil.

 

[BeardyHat]

I'm good. My car is aligned, but still tracking left, though this is a normal amount and I can at least take solace in the fact that it shouldn't kill my tires.

Still 4 more hours of drive left. I'm actually ready to be back home already, kind of regretting this trip, cause I like being home with my family. Oh well.

 

[Charagma]

Been fighting an online misogynist. He thinks he is a champion of women. He is not. He treats women like they are mere animals. He basically would describe every evil a woman might commit as being caused by a male in her life. That's the sort of thing you say about children and animals. He doesn't have enough respect for women to believe they can be autonomously evil.

Can imagine yes. Hopefully no one takes my jokes about marriage etc seriously. I have been happily married for two years. Now I know you going to say "but Charagma, you have been married for 31 years?" and I would reply "YES! and two years was happy ones"

But jokes aside, some men just do not know. Like my dad used to say "You cannot teach intelligence"

 

[Charagma]

I'm good. My car is aligned, but still tracking left, though this is a normal amount and I can at least take solace in the fact that it shouldn't kill my tires.

Still 4 more hours of drive left. I'm actually ready to be back home already, kind of regretting this trip, cause I like being home with my family. Oh well.

Glad it is all sorted then. We have a huge time difference so would not know when you sent that message your time, but by what I can gather you should be there already. The best trip is usually the one you do not feel like doing.

When you wake up in the morning and go "Mahn it is going to be a bad day" then it will be because you called it. So rather make the best of a raw deal or in musician language "When life gives you lemons, all you need to add is Tiquila!", just do not call it, since every day is a great day just with different and exciting challenges with different solutions.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Can imagine yes. Hopefully no one takes my jokes about marriage etc seriously. I have been happily married for two years. Now I know you going to say "but Charagma, you have been married for 31 years?" and I would reply "YES! and two years was happy ones"

But jokes aside, some men just do not know. Like my dad used to say "You cannot teach intelligence"

It would be a sad world if we couldn't joke about our wives

I was just going after this guy because claiming to be a champion of women and then claiming, moments later, that they are not responsible for their own actions, is one of the things that nags at me, the other being my wife...

 

[Charagma]

It would be a sad world if we couldn't joke about our wives

I was just going after this guy because claiming to be a champion of women and then claiming, moments later, that they are not responsible for their own actions, is one of the things that nags at me, the other being my wife...

I would love hearing him tell my wife that ...........

We have a saying about what would happen with him but since we have children reading our posts, I would say it in a way that would make sense.

Note this is a joke but will explain what would happen to him in nice kind words....

"Every night my wife would fill up a 2L bottle with water and place it on her nightstand (her side of the bed). The next morning my body is extremely sore, the water bottle is still full........but not where it was when we switched off the lights the night before........."

 

[Charagma]

@Charagma I might need to explain why I don't know my daughter's YouTube channel. It's because my wife tracks every move the children make, even now that they are in their 20s. So I have decided to avoid doing that and maybe gone overboard.

I watch over my kids' social media till they turned about 20....ish. There after it was just scary so for my own health decided not to read their social media. I only read when tagged. Better for my health and whoever is in the picture with her at the club, better for their health as well.

I used to tell their boyfriends "I have a long gun and a short rope. The short rope is so that you do not get stuck on a lamp post while I am dragging you around a corner, and also, I do not like blood on my car's carpets"

 

[BeardyHat]

Glad it is all sorted then. We have a huge time difference so would not know when you sent that message your time, but by what I can gather you should be there already. The best trip is usually the one you do not feel like doing.

When you wake up in the morning and go "Mahn it is going to be a bad day" then it will be because you called it. So rather make the best of a raw deal or in musician language "When life gives you lemons, all you need to add is Tiquila!", just do not call it, since every day is a great day just with different and exciting challenges with different solutions.

Arrived, but about 5ish hours later? Dunno, stopped at the "Worlds Largest Truck Stop" and spent awhile there.

Nice to finally be done with the drive. I'm just missing my family is all.

As for my location, there's just a lot of baggage associated with where I'm at. But, on the bright side, I have my own car, I have lots of things I can do (tomorrow I'm going to Vintage Computer Fest Midwest) and I brought some models I've been needing to finish painting for weeks, as well as some I've been needing to build for like a year or more now, plus I'll have plenty of time to play some games if I want to.

I just get all anxious and antsy when I'm out of my routine, so it'll take me a day or two to get over that.

 

[Charagma]

Arrived, but about 5ish hours later? Dunno, stopped at the "Worlds Largest Truck Stop" and spent awhile there.

Nice to finally be done with the drive. I'm just missing my family is all.

As for my location, there's just a lot of baggage associated with where I'm at. But, on the bright side, I have my own car, I have lots of things I can do (tomorrow I'm going to Vintage Computer Fest Midwest) and I brought some models I've been needing to finish painting for weeks, as well as some I've been needing to build for like a year or more now, plus I'll have plenty of time to play some games if I want to.

I just get all anxious and antsy when I'm out of my routine, so it'll take me a day or two to get over that.

Remember you mentioned the festival and also that it's not really your thing. Best way, find a "Atari" plugged in and working and sit down and play spaced invaders all day. No one will bother you and times flies. LMAO

Glad you arrived safely at least. Missing the family is usually a problem. But do not make it obvious to them you miss them. "Tricks of old marriage life" ....just go with the flow. Promise you they miss you just as much as you do them. Just stay busy the whole time then you will not think of them that much.

My years in the military, daytime was great, but at night you lay down and miss home. So, I signed up for anything that had the word "Night" in it. Even if it was just to go pick up things after hours at a base somewhere. Made the night pass faster.

 

[Zed Clampet]

I watch over my kids' social media till they turned about 20....ish. There after it was just scary so for my own health decided not to read their social media. I only read when tagged. Better for my health and whoever is in the picture with her at the club, better for their health as well.

I used to tell their boyfriends "I have a long gun and a short rope. The short rope is so that you do not get stuck on a lamp post while I am dragging you around a corner, and also, I do not like blood on my car's carpets"

I didn't let my kids do social media, but I let them have free reign on YouTube. This was back when YouTube didn't really sensor anything, and they were hearing a lot of foul language, which didn't bother me, but my wife would have lost it if she had known. I blame the YouTubers as much as anything. Surely people like Jack Septiceye and Markiplier knew that 90 percent of their audiences were probably children, and they still were flinging curse words like mad. I told my kids, don't let your mom hear this or you won't be allowed on YouTube anymore.

 

[Charagma]

I didn't let my kids do social media, but I let them have free reign on YouTube. This was back when YouTube didn't really sensor anything, and they were hearing a lot of foul language, which didn't bother me, but my wife would have lost it if she had known. I blame the YouTubers as much as anything. Surely people like Jack Septiceye and Markiplier knew that 90 percent of their audiences were probably children, and they still were flinging curse words like mad. I told my kids, don't let your mom hear this or you won't be allowed on YouTube anymore.

LMAO yeah they probably knew about it but ignorance is bliss.....or so the saying goes.

For us, technology was a luxury. Think first time I actually browsed the web (Without a very expensive phone bill and a US robotics dial-up modem) was when Blackberry arrived in my country. But again, was expensive to get one and my kids (Apart from my youngest) bought their own phones and laptops when they started working.

My youngest, well she came much later and for school she had to have a phone and then also for her final year she had to have a laptop. She did the social media and YouTube thing while still under my roof.

 

[Zloth]

But jokes aside, some men just do not know. Like my dad used to say "You cannot teach intelligence"

I wonder. Some of intelligence is just natural born, but when it comes to practical use out in the wild vs. on a test, quite a bit of it seems to just be valuing intelligence.

For instance, no matter how smart you are, intelligence is worthless without facts to be intelligent with. Fact gathering is a completely different skill, though, and one that can be taught. It also requires humility to accept when the facts you've got don't add up to what you are inclined to believe, and that humility seems to be more of a cultural thing.

So yeah, I can see not being able to teach IQ, but getting people to use the IQ they have intelligently? That can be taught. And, if it can be taught, then the opposite can be taught as well to repress intelligence. Stick somebody in an environment where every mistake is punished and where every inconsistency pointed out leads to condemnation of the person pointing instead of serious consideration, and that person will get real dumb real fast.

 

[Frindis]

Some of the most intelligent people in the world also did the dumbest stuff, like the woman who got stuck inside a chimney and died from mechanical asphyxia. Maybe there is a limit to how high an IQ you can have while still functioning in society. Some might just use all their brain power on difficult problems that they forget or don't understand how to approach the simpler ones - like how to engage in public or how to remember to turn off the stove.

 

[BeardyHat]

Some of the most intelligent people in the world also did the dumbest stuff, like the woman who got stuck inside a chimney and died from mechanical asphyxia. Maybe there is a limit to how high an IQ you can have while still functioning in society. Some might just use all their brain power on difficult problems that they forget or don't understand how to approach the simpler ones - like how to engage in public or how to remember to turn off the stove.

Often those who are highly knowledgeable in one area, being experts, just assume they are just as intelligent and knowledgeable of everything else.

I prefer to live by the words of Socrates:
The only thing I know is that I know nothing.

 

[Charagma]

I wonder. Some of intelligence is just natural born, but when it comes to practical use out in the wild vs. on a test, quite a bit of it seems to just be valuing intelligence.
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Replying to both of you in the same reply.

My wife has this story/saying thing when meeting someone like that. Conversation would usually start something like this:

Wife: "You would not believe who I bumped into in town today?"
Me: " Do not know, Who?"
Wife: "I felt so privileged to meet someone so famous. I did not even think they would come this way"
Me: "Ok honey, just spill it, who did you bump into?"
Wife: "Brad Pitt's little brother Stew Pitt"

.............

 

[Colif]

I discovered at 11pm last night I had to do another video... this one of a training session I had to make as well ... not a good time lol. I did wonder about it as course is about running a training session, so it seemed odd there wasn't one in it...
So I sat up for 5 hours and did all the scripts and power point I need. I might flesh it out a bit and add more words... I just know the rules of making power points and too many words is a no no.

I had 6 questions to do at 10pm last night, its now almost 5am. Only 2 questions left and they don't look that hard... I just need a break. I have all day today.

Not sure when video will be made. No one else knows I need their help yet.

 

[Zed Clampet]

It's been a few years since I have done anything in PowerPoint. We were big on not using randomly found clip-art, so I had a bunch of clipart that I'd actually purchased on flash drives (some of it had started off on discs) And then the boss decided we should have coherent art direction, and that's when I finally stopped using clip-art. Not sure what that had to do with anything Your post just reminded me of my clipart collection.

 

[Charagma]

Story/Joke for the evening before I go to bed (5:20am already, been working all night)

First a bit of History. Here we have special Dog vitamins named "Bob Martins" And this is a story about it.

I just hate it when people ask dumb questions. Was in the supermarket the other day buying my dog some bob martins. The line to the pay point was long and behind me stood an oldish lady. Conversation went like this:

Lady: "Excuse me sir, do you have dogs?"
I lift the bottle of Bob martins up slightly, look at it, sigh and

Me: "No madam, this is for me."
Lady: "Really? You use dog vitamins. Are they better than the counter ones at the pharmacy?"
Me: "Oh! yes much better. Makes my hair all shiny, strong teeth, good looking nails and give me a lot of energy on top of it"

I wanted to stop at this point but could see she is very interested so continued.

Me: "Although I need to stop using it and the doctors agree with me. It is very dangerous. It has some very bad side effects"
Lady: "Side effects?"
Me: "Yes, nearly died last week because of it"
Lady: "Why what happened?"
Me: "I was sitting in the middle of the road busy licking my a$$ when a truck nearly hit me. Driver did not see me sitting on the white line"

The guy in front of me burst out laughing and the lady put down her basket and left without buying anything.


Must have been something I said.........