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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 12,015
    edited August 2022
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    I had an encounter with a snapper just like this one when I was 17 or 18. My friend stuck a baseball bat handle in front of it's mouth. The snapper bit HARD and my friend picked it up while it was clamped down on the handle. My friend was a strong roofer guy. That snapper was scary, just like the one in this short video.

    Super Fast they are. ;)

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/animals/don-t-mess-with-the-snappers/vi-AA110ZYX?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=2157c7e87ee748fb83ef8add2c8aef10
    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.

    “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
    --Mark Twain.

    “If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.” - Steven Wright
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,813
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    Tony M wrote: »
    I had an encounter with a snapper just like this one when I was 17 or 18.

    At first I thought this sentence was in reference to the previous video. :o
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 12,015
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    I should've been more specific for sure. :D;)

    I think the 2 above are out of my league. Plus, they are partners.
    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.

    “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
    --Mark Twain.

    “If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.” - Steven Wright
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
    edited August 2022
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    Tony M wrote: »
    I kind-of like this but the noise would get old after a few minutes.

    https://youtu.be/yFuK68u2-hw


    Why, yes! A perpetual motion device is impossible.
    B)

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  • dromunds
    dromunds Posts: 10,174
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    Wonder what color he spray painted the grills?
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
    edited August 2022
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    Toolfan66 wrote: »
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    In the name of all things holy... please tell me that's photoshopped.

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    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    dromunds wrote: »
    Wonder what color he spray painted the grills?

    I'm guessing orange...

    Ahh, yes. The JBL Look.

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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 12,015
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    :'( ....................Some people.

    They, he, she, them probably painted them to match their hair .
    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.

    “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
    --Mark Twain.

    “If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.” - Steven Wright
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  • dromunds
    dromunds Posts: 10,174
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    Paint huffing ain’t all it’s cracked up to be kids
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  • xschop
    xschop Posts: 5,830
    edited August 2022
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    Toolfan66 wrote: »
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    Either way you look at it.... Someone discovered a new doping compound.
    Don't take experimental gene therapies from known eugenicists.
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,878
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    Kind of matches my underwear.
    Sal Palooza
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 15,018
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    Why is "Ocean Breeze" or "Ocean Fresh" scent or the myriad of similar odors that people pay for a thing?

    Like, I have yet to smell any one that actually smells like an ocean.

    Oceans don't smell good. They smell like fish poo and crab flarts. Especially at low tide when all the sulfur and methane compounds in the rotting organic matter start mixing with the oxygen and nitrogen in the air.

    Makes me wonder if anyone who designs these scents has ever been anywhere near an ocean?

    The funniest ones are the ones that say ocean breeze and they smell like coconut oil based suntan lotion.

    Also, side note, how is "driftwood" a scent? It just smells like barnacles (which stink), seaweed and wet wood. Dunno how that's anything close to what the scents smell like.
    Expert Moron Extraordinaire

    You're just jealous 'cause the voices don't talk to you!
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    Preach it, Brother @Jstas! Preach!
    B)
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  • PSOVLSK
    PSOVLSK Posts: 5,450
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    Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.-John Wooden
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,364
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    https://ottawasun.com/health/dont-try-the-nyquil-chicken-trend-you-saw-on-tiktok-fda-says

    Really? just how stupid are kids today?
    What's next marinating a steak in gasoline before BBQing it
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,364
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    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    "Willow wrote: »

    Really? just how stupid are kids today?

    REALLY FARKIN STUPID.... I blame it on the kids who ate Tide pod's who had kids.....

    In their defense, maybe they were trying to cleanse their palettes.
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 6,079
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    For all you people who want to be an audiophile. Here's your starter kit! :D

    https://portland.craigslist.org/clc/ele/d/portland-audiophile-starter-kit/7529006498.html
    Gustard X26 Pro DAC
    Belles 21A Pre Upgraded with Mundorf Supremes
    B&K M200 Sonata monoblocks refreshed and upgraded
    Polk SDA 1C's modded / 1000Va Dreadnaught
    Wireworld Silver Eclipse IC's and speaker cables
    Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)

    There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 52,406
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    Oh man, I've been looking for those exact speakers for a long time.
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  • dromunds
    dromunds Posts: 10,174
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    Yeah, and that amazing Sanyo receiver!
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    dromunds wrote: »
    Yeah, and that amazing Sanyo receiver!
    F1nut wrote: »
    Oh man, I've been looking for those exact speakers for a long time.

    Well... I've gotta say.
    On a $ per knob and button basis, this looks like a great deal.
    and
    I mean, for the industrial strength audiophile, what better than industrial series JBLs? I can almost hear 'em screaming from here...
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    Dang. I shouldn't've looked twice at that ad.
    NOW I am wondering what is/was hooked 'twixt the pre- and power amp on that receiver... :#
    The ad, tantalizingly, gives no clue.

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  • dromunds
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    I heard one of the big problems with getting grain out of Ukraine by rail is they have Soviet style rail gauge and it’s incompatible with European rail gauge. Wonder where the Russkies got their rail gauge system from?
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  • skipshot12
    skipshot12 Posts: 2,154
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    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Well, because that's the way they built them in England, and English engineers designed the first US railroads. Why did the English build them like that?

    Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the wagon tramways, and that's the gauge they used. So, why did 'they' use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they had used for building wagons, which used that same wheel spacing. Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing?

    Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break more often on some of the old, long distance roads in England . You see, that's the spacing of the wheel ruts. So who built those old rutted roads?

    Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (including England ) for their legions. Those roads have been used ever since. And what about the ruts in the roads?

    Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match or run the risk of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome , they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Therefore the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live forever. So the next time you are handed a specification/procedure/process and wonder 'What horse's a$$ came up with this?', you may be exactly right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. (Two horses' a$$e$.)

    Now, the twist to the story:
    When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah . The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.
    So, a major Space Shuttle design feature, of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system, was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's a$$.
    And you thought being a horse's a$$ wasn't important? Ancient horse's a$$es control almost everything!

    Thanks for that one nooshin.

    Had to send that one to my brother.
    He’ll be retiring from the space center next year…. 😬
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  • DaveHo
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    audioluvr wrote: »
    For all you people who want to be an audiophile. Here's your starter kit! :D

    https://portland.craigslist.org/clc/ele/d/portland-audiophile-starter-kit/7529006498.html

    Clicked on the link. All I got was "404, audiophile not found". Damn, the internet gets better every day!
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 6,079
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    The head collection makes me NOT want to go there.

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    Gustard X26 Pro DAC
    Belles 21A Pre Upgraded with Mundorf Supremes
    B&K M200 Sonata monoblocks refreshed and upgraded
    Polk SDA 1C's modded / 1000Va Dreadnaught
    Wireworld Silver Eclipse IC's and speaker cables
    Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)

    There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,520
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    Just mist and wipe with a little Holy Water....all good

    Don't go alone ;)
    2-channel: Modwright KWI-200 Integrated, Dynaudio C1-II Signatures
    Desktop rig: LSi7, Polk 110sub, Dayens Ampino amp, W4S DAC/pre, Sonos, JRiver
    Gear on standby: Melody 101 tube pre, Unison Research Simply Italy Integrated
    Gone to new homes: (Matt Polk's)Threshold Stasis SA12e monoblocks, Pass XA30.5 amp, Usher MD2 speakers, Dynaudio C4 platinum speakers, Modwright LS100 (voltz), Simaudio 780D DAC

    erat interfectorem cesar et **** dictatorem dicere a
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