Life in Sector 7 G.

[Rigjockey]

My mom will be leaving for Costa Rica soon and I will be dog sitting. It's a bit more work for me but I don't mind. The dog has a personality and makes me laugh sometimes; he's a character.

I thought I would help her with some essential Spanish phrases like Mas Tequila and dos cervezas, por favor. I learned those in case I ever went to a Spanish speaking country. They don't teach those in the app I am using to learn Spanish, Duolingo.

She doesn't drink so those phrases are as useless as everything I have learned on Duolingo.

Learning on Duolingo, how to say Juan eats apples in Spanish is not something I, or anyone would use in any conversation with a native Spanish speaker.

 

[Electric Chicken]

My mom will be leaving for Costa Rica soon and I will be dog sitting. It's a bit more work for me but I don't mind. The dog has a personality and makes me laugh sometimes; he's a character.

I thought I would help her with some essential Spanish phrases like Mas Tequila and dos cervezas, por favor. I learned those in case I ever went to a Spanish speaking country. They don't teach those in the app I am using to learn Spanish, Duolingo.

She doesn't drink so those phrases are as useless as everything I have learned on Duolingo.

Learning on Duolingo, how to say Juan eats apples in Spanish is not something I, or anyone would use in any conversation with a native Spanish speaker.

At first I read this as you're teaching the dog Spanish while she's away.

 

[Electric Chicken]

People who say we shouldn't use that word are the sole reason why I will never stop using it.

I don't call actual mentally disabled people retards so why wouldn't I use it on idiots? Seems more appropriate exclusively for the latter than the former.


"Ma'am, your daughter isn't retarded. She's mentally handicapped. That mechanic is retarded."

 

[Duck]

I don't call actual mentally disabled people retards so why wouldn't I use it on idiots? Seems more appropriate exclusively for the latter than the former.


"Ma'am, your daughter isn't retarded. She's mentally handicapped. That mechanic is retarded."

No it's just cultural stupidity.

Originally, people who, in laymens term are "extremely stupid", were called idiots by the medical & academic community.

Normal brained people call each other idiots as an insult.

At some point the people who worked with "idiots" for a living got offended and decided to start calling them "mentally retarded".

At the time, "retard" was a verb meaning to hold something back. The word is still used for jake brakes in trucks.

Eventually people started calling each other retards, and the people who worked with "retards" decided to switch to calling them "mentally handicapped".

We started calling each other mentally handicapped, and the people who worked with the mentally handicapped got offended and blah blah blah blah blah blah


No matter what PC term they come up with to replace the previous one, people are going to use the new terms as insults among each other.

Current term is "autistic". I've seen it used often in memes making fun of democrats having temper tantrums in public.

It's a stupid cycle.


I won't participate in it. I'll call stupid people retards, idiots, etc. & if someone gets offended, it's their own fault for getting caught up in semantics.

 

[Duck]

Same thing with "swear words".

Why is there a list of words, that are in most dictionaries, off limits?

Racist terms that cause conflict is one thing. But specifically I'm talking about "cuss words".

George Carlin's skit.

Everybody knows these words, everybody knows what they mean based on the context in which they're used.

So why do so many people think we should not use them?

It's stupid.

 

[Hillbilly Canuck]

Current term is "autistic". I've seen it used often in memes making fun of democrats having temper tantrums in public.

It's a stupid cycle.


I won't participate in it. I'll call stupid people retards, idiots, etc. & if someone gets offended, it's their own fault for getting caught up in semantics.

Case in point...... I hear my kids call each other autistic pretty regularly

 

[Duck]

Case in point...... I hear my kids call each other autistic pretty regularly

"Autistic screeching" is the name of the language spoken by most college age democrats.

 

[Electric Chicken]

When I was in school we had classes for slow people called special education. So naturally we called each other speds.

 

[Rigjockey]

DC-8 one of the first flights I worked. It was a Saturday and I thought this is insane!
So effing loud and that haunting sound. This start up is with a jet start and the hoses are on the belly but close to the engines.
I almost quit the job that day.

 

[Rigjockey]

L1011 Tristar by Lockheed. The most advanced plane of its time.
Yes, it was always like this. Engines sounding like they were about to fall apart. Plenty of smoke every time, the boom, boom sound of the tail engine. Standing there in the cold in the winter waiting for all three engines to start so we could salute the pilot and send the plane on its way.

 

[Rigjockey]

Smokey Robinson, second that emotion.

 

[Rigjockey]

Jerry Lee Lewis can be a bit cocky... Because he's Jerry Lee Lewis and the rest of us are not!

 

[Duck]

L1011 Tristar by Lockheed. The most advanced plane of its time.
Yes, it was always like this. Engines sounding like they were about to fall apart. Plenty of smoke every time, the boom, boom sound of the tail engine. Standing there in the cold in the winter waiting for all three engines to start so we could salute the pilot and send the plane on its way.

Those look like older jet engines. Today's are bigger, because at some point they discovered that if they embiggen the intake compressor fans & allow a lot of their wind output to flow around the main engine, bypassing the combustion area and then exit surrounding the high velocity center thrust, they get quieter and more fuel efficient.



I just tried to get AI to explain "turbojet VA turbofan jet engines" with horrible results.. Tons of articles that explain it but with no freakin' pictures.. So I just did an image search.

 

[Rigjockey]

Yesterday I went to the car wash to umm...get the car washed. I went to get a one time wash but they offered a monthly membership. I thought I was signing up for just one month but no, It's perpetuity. Unless I cancel.
I am not sure if I cancel via my credit card or at the car wash.

The good thing is two car washes cover the cost of the membership.
Also, so much salt on the road here I might wash the car more often.

First world problems.

 

[Duck]

I am not sure if I cancel via my credit card or at the car wash.

Cancel at the car wash and if they make it impossible like AOL or Amazon Prime, then you cancel via the card company or bank.


I washed the van a few days ago.

Keep in mind this is a rusted out shitbox missing a front fender. I didn't wash it to make it pretty. I washed it because it was covered in salt and transmission fluid.

There isn't a single place on my property where I would want that runoff. But the car wash owner bribes local government to let them discharge into a creek.

I used the manual bay where you do it yourself, because when you have a rusted out shitbox, you can't go willy-nilly with the water nozzles. Gotta aim it just right or you'll get water inside the vehicle.

Anyway I only washed the roof because if I didn't, dirty water would run down across the clean parts.

I used the foamy brush thing, set to "wheel cleaner" for the entire van, and then did the power blast thing with the pressure washer, finally the low pressure rinse using soft water so it won't be covered with minerals like when I use my well water at home.


When it dried, it was way cleaner but still dirty.

And it cost me like $17 to do it too.

In certain modes, the clock runs faster.


Annnyway here's what pisses me off.

In the past several years, 4 big fancy car wash places opened up in my area. They've got rows & rows of vacuum cleaner stations for cleaning your interior, but only one wash bay and they're fully automated.


I've never had a fully automated car wash actually get a vehicle clean unless the vehicle was already clean when I entered.

The car wash place in Manteno is the only one in the area I'm aware of that has the manual bays, and there's only two of them, and one of them requires you to reverse out of, making everyone in line behind you back up, because the exit door is fucked up from someone hitting it like 5 years ago.

 

[Hillbilly Canuck]

I know of one automated one and it's a little over half an hour across salty sandy road from here. They've got no other ones in town. Any other town is at least 2-3 times farther and I'm not even sure if they have anything or not. The vehicle would be just as bad or worse than when you started by the time you got it home. Winter washing is basically pointless unless I got the odd day above freezing to do it in the yard to be clean until it got past the end of the driveway again.

 

[Duck]

I know of one automated one and it's a little over half an hour across salty sandy road from here. They've got no other ones in town. Any other town is at least 2-3 times farther and I'm not even sure if they have anything or not. The vehicle would be just as bad or worse than when you started by the time you got it home. Winter washing is basically pointless unless I got the odd day above freezing to do it in the yard to be clean until it got past the end of the driveway again.

Do they salt the hell out of the roads to accommodate people who can't drive?

 

[Hillbilly Canuck]

Do they salt the hell out of the roads to accommodate people who can't drive?

It's more sand than salt here. It just ends up a sloppy muddy mess. Other provinces are bad to lay down enough salt to raise the Titanic. I've seen them do it even when it was above freezing almost as if they have a use it or lose it kind of budget.

 

[Electric Chicken]

It's more sand than salt here. It just ends up a sloppy muddy mess. Other provinces are bad to lay down enough salt to raise the Titanic. I've seen them do it even when it was above freezing almost as if they have a use it or lose it kind of budget.

When I was taking my load into the rail there was a dump truck with salt coming in behind me. He went in and dumped it in the silo despite the next week projected as being warm. I believe you're correct about these use it or lose it and/or it's already paid for budgets.

 

[Hillbilly Canuck]

When I was taking my load into the rail there was a dump truck with salt coming in behind me. He went in and dumped it in the silo despite the next week projected as being warm. I believe you're correct about these use it or lose it and/or it's already paid for budgets.

I used to do that sometimes when I was running a truck and Pop a few years ago. Some towns wanted to start stocking salt sheds in September.