Official Off Topic Discussion Thread #1

[Ulu]

Oh, geezus. . .They made a hard landing on a roof. Pilot dead.
Not terror. Just error.

 

[Ulu]

Dead serious. I thought it was a joke and started laughing. He said no I'm serious this isn't funny. I told them to go pound sand in a nice way.

We rebranded and declared war on plastics. They're taking the f-ing vending machines due to too much plastic being sold. I asked about recycling and was told it costs too much lol.

Our main office is oil based mind you. No no don't look at the oil look over there see the bastards with plastic straws get them.

They've been getting feed back from the young engineers group since they're so fresh and woke. The vending machines was one of their brilliant ideas. The lead chair for the young group got sent home early last week due to whining so much about it being too hot and dirty in the field.

Never listen more than 10% to the new engineers. New engineers show up as interns with wet EIT certs and have often never built a thing in their lives. Not a P51 flying model. Not a slot car. Not a dog house, or a birdhouse. . . . ZIP!

But if you can find your way through the code and crunch numbers like a pro, then you get a shot to design things that cost too much, fall apart, can't be built, or are simply re-inventing the wheel.

I had built lots of things, and I still made mistakes, yet I had much advantage in practical & tech experience.

BUT THE ONE THING . . . the "one thing" (as Curly the cowpoke would say) that made a difference for me in business, was the willingness to take on things I couldn't quite do and see them through to the end. It's how I got that experience. Others who also felt unqualified (and certainly were in some respects) were hampered by timidity.

We had a very young guy quit, because the boss found him temporarily without work & asked him to clean up the messy plan storage room. It was a nothingburger, but that guy couldn't bring himself to play maid-for-a-day for the good of the office. I took his job, got our horrible shop foreman fired, got a better man promoted, and that company started to really make waves. We did some very high profile jobs up and down the West coast.

OMG the stories . . .
But I gotta work on the house today.

 

[krichardson]

So today was the first time I have eaten a burger without cheese on it,that I can recall.

 

[celebrist]

Hello; casually mention when the short people are around that we all be even shorter as we get older. I was a bit over 5' 10" for most of my adult life. I am now not quite 5' 9". I was not happy about this but do not need others to feel bad about it.
I came to terms with my adult height in my early 20's. We each get dealt a genetic phenotype and there is not much we can do about it. I guess we can maximize our potential with proper diet and exercise but not by much. Some folks win the genetic lottery and get most of the more desireable traits. Most of us get average stuff. Some get a combination of the bad traits.

I forget the name of the book by Kurt Vonnegut (sp) some decades ago. his imagined society forced everyone to be average. If you had excellent vision you had to wear corrective lenses not to improve vision but to distort our good vision down to the "average". They were called handicaps I believe. If you were healthy and fit you had to wear weights to be like most folks. I guess this means these ridiculous notions have been around for some time but now have started to become mainstream.

Get a pair of lift shoes to increase your natural height. Rains your desk up a few inches and the office chair. Post notices on the bulletin board way up high.

I remember that story!
Wasn't in some sort of anthology of novellas?

 

[islandguy11]

So today was the first time I have eaten a burger without cheese on it,that I can recall.

That would be a super rarity for me too, but ever been to White Castle? Haven't eaten there myself in about 40 years, not sure if they're even still around, but I don't remember them having cheese.

 

[krichardson]

That would be a super rarity for me too, but ever been to White Castle? Haven't eaten there myself in about 40 years, not sure if they're even still around, but I don't remember them having cheese.

They are still around but I do not go there.We do get their box of frozen mini burgers for my son.I think they have cheese on them.
In my case,the burger meal I ordered came without cheese and I didn't feel like paying extra for a measly slice so I went without.

 

[Ulu]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron

The Handicapper General did not hang out at Pimlico . . .

 

[Ulu]

They are still around but I do not go there.We do get their box of frozen mini burgers for my son.I think they have cheese on them.
In my case,the burger meal I ordered came without cheese and I didn't feel like paying extra for a measly slice so I went without.

That stuff they call cheese is 49% veggie fat.

 

[krichardson]

Yeah,fake cheese to be sure.

 

[Ulu]

I put up all the binding and stripping, and now I gotta put up siding.
It's about 99F but it's a dry heat.
Seriously, and the AC makes it drier.
I have 7 tanks and 4 sumps going in my house, and you can still get shocked petting the cat.

But I don't have 4 sweaty kids running the bathtub, so perhaps I'm forgetting the "joys" of the past.