Random Rants

[psiberzerker]

It works brilliantly on a testing machine, but in real life the holes are covered by your fingertips, and the channels in the filter are blocked when the moisture of your lips softens the paper.

Also, they outlet right under your nose, and soak the filter in tar, which can give your lips cancer...  (Adding to your point, not arguing with it.)

This is all Marketing by the same folks that brought you Joe Camel,



totally not to market to kids, and suppressed the science on the health effects for decades.

[ChirpingGirl]

The temperature has been nice recently. Monday to Friday: 97 mother fucking degrees. 

So fucking sick to death of Summer! The season, not my sisters wifey. 

[MintJulie]

We’re finally learning there are negative impacts to health from vaping, not that I’m the least bit surprised.

Michigan is first state to ban flavored vaping.  The marketing for it is obvioualy geared toward kids.  Look at photo in link and say different.

https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/e-cigarette-ban-michigan

Now please ban radio and tv advertising of all of the products.

[psiberzerker]

There's also been an FDA crusade against "Flavored" cigarettes, spurred on by the Tobacco Lobby against Imported cigarettes since the 80s.  (When I lived in North Carolina, so State History involved a lot of Tobacco companies.  Just for instance, we had book covers one yeah, no shit, that had Winston on the outside with a NASCAR, and Salems on the inside, for girls.)

By "Flavored," they mean Cloves, because those are Imported.  They actually got them banned, nationally for several years in the 90s.  Oddly enough, Menthols were never considered "Flavored" by the FDA.  So, while there is some irony in the excuse that Vaping is marketed to kids:



There's also the fact that the Vaping industry is actually competing with the Big 3 of the Tobacco industry.  The one with all the lobbyists.  Since this is Michigan, I just have to compare it to how Ford, GM, and MOPAR have lobbied against anything except for reciprocating piston internal combustion to the point that we have to compromise with Hybrids, so they can keep selling V6es in electric cars.

I'm not saying that the Vapes aren't marketed toward kids, and it's not horrible.  I'm just pointing out that the Tobacco Industry hasn't gotten any less horrible, when it comes to any competition.

[psiberzerker]

It just occurred to me that my hipster sister, and her husband in Colorado Springs (Good luck banning flavored vaping bars in that market, where it's illegal to smoke within 50' of the DOOR to a bar, or restaurant) vape in the house, around their kids.  They won't smoke (Weed is legal there) around them, because the kids might get a contact high, but they'll vape in the kitchen, cooking dinner, while their kids do their homework at the table, not 10' away from them.  

After all, it's not secondhand Smoke, amirite?

[ChirpingGirl]

This is not an angry rant.

I've been making dinner more since wifey's job has gotten hectic. Today I made chicken fried chicken, mashed potatoes and country gravy. Homemade gravy, by the way. It did not make it to the dinner table. The kids went through all the rolls I made and gobbled up every drop of gravy. My seven LOVES country gravy. She likes to smoosh bread up and eat it like a dip.  

I had to make it all over again.  

"It's yummy, mommy" said from a full mouth.   As much as I love them enjoying it, it's a pain in the fucking ass to do this stuff. They won't go near the packaged stuff.  

[RopeFiend]

.... The kids went through all the rolls I made and gobbled up every drop of gravy. My seven LOVES country gravy. She likes to smoosh bread up and eat it like a dip.  

I had to make it all over again.  

"It's yummy, mommy" said from a full mouth.   As much as I love them enjoying it, it's a pain in the fucking ass to do this stuff. They won't go near the packaged stuff.  

I feel your pain, but that last sentence means you've taught 'em right. 

[ChirpingGirl]

My babies are angels. It's almost impossible to ever get mad at them.

[Lois]

Grammerly, it's free!


LIE!

The download is free, but to use it you gotta pay.

[MissBarbara]

Grammerly, it's free!

LIE!

The download is free, but to use it you gotta pay.

Exactly!

"Download the free app today!"

Sure, the app is free -- but you have to pay to use it.

[psiberzerker]

Good, it gives internet pedants something to corect in the comments.

If everyone could have proper grammar for free.  No, wait.  Everyone has access to real facts, and science on the internet, and free spelcheck as well.

Never mind.

[Lois]

I would just love to see a lawsuit over false advertising.

[psiberzerker]

Maybe they could add an app called Lawyerly?

[wayne3218]

Grammerly, it's free!


LIE!

The download is free, but to use it you gotta pay.

Grammarly has two versions the free version and a premium version that you pay to use.
I’ve been using their keyboard on iOS for ages and I’ve never had to pay anything.

https://www.grammarly.com/premium

[psiberzerker]

"Tactical Tomahawks."  Okay, tactical anything, but today I fell down the rabbit hole on Youtube, and got triggered by all the new "Tactical and Survival" tomahawks on the market.

So, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but unless you have a Commander, with Operational support, and Strategic Intelligence, you're not in the market for a "Tactical" anything.  That's what the word means:  What you use, in combat, to complete the mission objectives, and nobody issues a fucking tomahawk to anyone, unless the mission demands it, because it's not "Low Drag."  You know what Low Drag means?

THE OPPOSITE OF A FUCKING AX!  Have you ever carried an Ax?  Okay, now have you ever carried a full loadout in any kind of Tactical situation?  Unless the mission specifically requires it, you're packing out a tomahawk is about as convenient for maneuvering through a tactical situation as a Skateboard.  For you civilians out there, have you ever carried around a Skateboard, all day, even when you weren't permitted to, or the situation made it impractical to stand on it, and kick you way down the halls?

Okay, I have, and I also carried an entire tool bag into an ambush, already in progress with machineguns, and mortars to fix the vehicle so that the pinned down crew could de-ass the area with minimal casualties.  Every single one of those tools were "Tactical" tolls, and I brought them, specifically to make it possible for that crew to deass the area.

I have never, ever been issued a Tomahawk, nor work in the field, with field engineers, where any of them were issued Tactical Tomahawks, either, because that kind of tool is extremely mission specific.  "Or, you're on a Pioneer team, and you're there to set up a forward camp, not engage the fucking enemy."  I understand that there are some Special Forces, and even Urban Tactical (SWAT) teams that are buying tactical tomahawks now, and more power to them.

I guaranfuckingdamnedtee you that not a single one of them window shops for gear on YOUTUBE!

Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.

"Survival Tomahawk"



This is my hiking, camping, and toolbox hatchet, or one of the same model.  (Eswing No.1) Should I find myself in a life or death situation, hiking, camping, or rolling off the road, then it will become my Survival Tomahawk, until which time I find myself out of the life, and death situation.

If you have time to pack, and plan ahead, you have the foresight to avoid the life-or-death situation.  If you're collecting tools, specifically for a life or death situation, you better pray that you have it on you, or never find yourself in that situation.  Or better yet, plan your life better around avoiding such situations.  SHTF notwithstanding, I have a BOB, and a BOV.  However, I don't buy anything, and keep it if it has no use whatsoever in my life until EVERYTHING goes terribly wrong.

If I find myself in another life or death situation, I'll either make do with what I have, or die.  I still won't depend on the latest products to save my life, in conditions that people survived on this continent without METAL for centuries before the Europeans came with muskets, swords, and smallpox.

[ChirpingGirl]

So, many years ago wifey abandoned me and went to Japan to become a chef. Because going to school here was simply a stupid fucking idea that never made any sense. And it's not like her leaving me totally didn't help me spiral into depression and drug use. 

But anyway, she wanted me to go with her but I said no. Her education was more important. I never forgave her for it. Long story short, she left, I became self destructive, she came back with a baby girl, and I had one too and she decided we'd just pick up where we left off without even asking me if that's what I wanted. It wasn't. I wanted my baby girl and to start a new life with her. She saved me from what certainly would have been an eventual overdose or dying in a ditch somewhere. I cleaned up and never did anything worse than a glass of very expensive wine ever again. CJ dumped the rocker chick lifestyle and turned into a milf.   

ANYWAY! Ever since wifey came back I've always asked her if, since she's gay, if she ever had a girlfriend in Japan. Not only has she flatly refused to ever discuss it, she ignores me whenever I bring it up. She got knocked up the same way I did, and my mom did. She had a little too much fun with the fire water and someone took advantage. 

Years of me asking if she got pussy in Japan went unanswered until suddenly and without any prompting she said "Yes". Yes, what? Yes, I had a girlfriend in Japan.  Did you love her? Yes, I loved her very much. Why didn't you marry her then? Because she wasn't you, and she could never be you. But you loved her. Yes, I loved her. But I loved you more. Bullshit. What went wrong? That's for me to know, and you to never know, white girl. I answered your question. Yeah, after eight fuckin' years!

 

So wifey had a girlfriend in Japan. And she would have to have been as hot as her, because admit it or not she is very egotistical about her looks. Just like me.  And she wouldn't touch anyone who wasn't attractive to her. She would not answer me when I asked if she visited her when she took her daughter to Japan recently. 

Guess I'll have to wait another 8 fucking years for her to answer that. 

[Jed_]

For about the last year or two I’ve noticed a big increase in high speed on roads.  Not the usual going by you at 85mph in a zone marked 70mph, but bursts of speed in sporty cars going 85 in a 30 zone.  Those show off bursts of speed, are not only dangerous due to the speed, but also the reckless nature of the maneuvering.  Racing around cars on a shoulder, then just missing someone turning onto a side street.

There’s also been a perceptible increase in high speed accidents.  Last weekend we had to reroute after leaving her brother’s place due to a road closure from a bad accident.  It’s one of many I’ve seen in just the last few weeks.  I keep getting stuck in traffic due to big accidents.

My Peruvian had a doctors appointment this morning, so left late.  Before we were even out of bed, her sister called to say the interstate was closed.  I looked it up; a Jaguar going the wrong way on the interstate hit two large trucks head on at 2:30AM.  The drivers of the trucks were hospitalized.  The driver of the Jaguar had the name withheld pending notification of kin.

[_priapism]

They are expanding Interstate 10 from two lanes in each direction to four, northwest of San Antonio.  It also involves the construction of new shoulders and numerous overpasses, as America’s seventh largest city plans to eat up more virgin acreage.  For now, there are concrete barriers right up on the traffic lanes, and no shoulders.  Not only do accidents and disabled vehicles have no where to go, but emergency responders and tow trucks can’t get to the problems, leaving everyone stuck in the bottleneck for hours.  I typically leave in darkness before 6 a.m.  if I’m not in San Antonio by 6:30, you can forget it.  It has been this way for years.

[psiberzerker]

So glad I don't live there any more.

[ChirpingGirl]

Wifey watched new star wars trailer. Wifey wanna see now. CJ angry. CJ hoped Disney finally cured wifey of life long star wars obsession. CJ was already going to take wifey to see it as wedding anniversary gift anyway. CJ already knew this would happen. CJ already took care of it. 

But CJ still angry. Not wanna see stupid pew pew movie.