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  1. Way to brag about your 1/4 nuts.
  2. I think they make a multi-pack of these with the main screw driver set, a small screw driver set, and a little stubby set. That pretty much sets you up for most of your basic screw driver needs.
  3. I was going to say I remember very clearly being in grade school and it just being a fact of life that the Cowboys were in the Superbowl again to a young kids mind, but then I remembered that I just turned fourty.
  4. Just finished, and the treatment of slavery (other than no mention of my largely insignificant ancestors who fought) is probably my biggest complaint. We all are hopefully in pretty much unanimous agreement that slavery was abhorrent and is one of many blights that was rightfully exposed in this documentary. I want to be clear on that point because reactionary Surly can be reactionary, but most of the southern slave holding founding fathers where in a serious pickle when it came to slavery. Slaves represented a significant capital investment, and were often leveraged. Even if they were serious about ending the practice, and few were dedicated enough to jeopardize their lifestyle for the cause, most of them didn't have the financial means. They were cash poor and land rich. It'd be like a modern farmer just deciding that he should buy out the bank for all of his tractors, outbuildings, and other equipment. Slavery was not particularly economical at the time. You had to feed, house, and clothe a labor force that remained idle for significant portions of the year. It seemed like it was an institution that would die a natural death and hopefully not ruin them financially to most of the founding fathers who were slaveholders. They were happy to kick the can of horrific human subjugation down the line. La Fayette was one of the few who put his money where his mouth was and actually purchased a plantation with slaves with the intent to free them. But then came along Eli fucking Whitney with his fancy cotton gin and made slavery economical again...
  5. A Christmas Story is great to have on in the background during Christmas get together. There's no obligation to sit down and watch, but it offers the opportunity to tune in during the iconic scenes like when his dad unboxes the lamp or the flagpole scene.
  6. The Polar Express has to be up there. The animation is terrible and disconcertingly creepy. Like they couldn't be bothered to spend a bit of extra time to make the movements seem in any way natural and decided spreading nightmares was about as good as spreading Christmas cheer. The wife put it on for the kids tonight, but she and the 4 year old were the only ones watching. The middle child was playing Mario 64 on his Switch (pos rep for him) while I pretty much ended up doing everything for him after he tried and failed, or got to distracted dropping the baby penguin down the chimney (he's 6, so he thought that was about the funniest thing ever). Of course we were too much of a distraction from her slow roll horror movie that never ends. Speaking of which, they finally arrived at the North Pole at about 9 o'clock, and I ask if we should start getting the kids ready for bed, as they've already stayed up pretty late and I have stuff I need to do, like watch Ken Burns' American Revolution Documentary. "It's almIost over," I'm told. Fourty five minutes later they are still waiting on Santa to shut up so they can go home and finish the damn story. How in the most unholy of abominations do you stretch a story out so long? It's worse than the droid factory scene in whichever Star Wars prequel that was.
  7. Pirate booty. And who doesn't like booty?
  8. Yeah, that's a hard pill to swallow for a rental.
  9. I'm not sure "shot down" is the correct terminology, but still pretty cool
  10. While we as the public may not know what exactly is going on with UAP, there are tons of government documents that have been released that confirm there has been a cover up going on for longer than most of us have been alive. Whether or not we have been visited by non human intelligence may be up for debate, but whether or not there has been a cover up related to the subject isn't.
  11. Lol, that's cute. We don't even have P&ID's for our steam. We have so much stuff that exists in the field, but not on paper that it's real fun when you are in charge of coming up with a plan to lock it out. We even have ancient AIPed equipment in the field that has no tags or anything, and nobody even remembered what it was named until I stumbled across an old hand drawn drawing from the fifties in which had it on there.
  12. We will just have to legalize shooting the tires out of inconsiderate drivers.
  13. I've got a Rossi R44102 .44 mag snubbie. Recoil is unpleasant.
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