Trivial Things That Make You Surly

[SHOOTER12 8775]

52 minutes ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

Hey bro @Jameslaw121

I'm more interested in where these guys are finding wives that mow.  That's a thing?

Alas, mine used to.  However, degenerative spine condition combined with a bumpy ass lawn, I have forbidden her from the zero turn.  Perhaps I should consider a trade in?

[nnm 35847]

35 minutes ago, SHOOTER12 said:

Alas, mine used to.  However, degenerative spine condition combined with a bumpy ass lawn, I have forbidden her from the zero turn.  Perhaps I should consider a trade in?

Maybe you should just ease off on the bumpy-ass.

[Knoxtnhorn 5916]

43 minutes ago, SHOOTER12 said:

Alas, mine used to.  However, degenerative spine condition combined with a bumpy ass lawn, I have forbidden her from the zero turn.  Perhaps I should consider a trade in?

The lawnmower or wife?

[SHOOTER12 8775]

6 minutes ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

The lawnmower or wife?

Could be an either/or here lately. 

[SHOOTER12 8775]

19 minutes ago, nnm said:

Maybe you should just ease off on the bumpy-ass.

Wish I could rep this more than once. 

Srsly: armadillos and wild hogs are a bitch.  The struggle is real.

Edited May 26, 2022 by SHOOTER12

[nnm 35847]

3 hours ago, SHOOTER12 said:

Wish I could rep this more than once. 

Srsly: armadillos and wild hogs are a bitch.  The struggle is real.

We have some freaking armadillos living under our deck in ETX. It’s a very big deck, so it’s not an easy solution. Traps are worthless. The only solution is a .410 or a .308, if I can find the suckers. They’re elusive. 

Yes, our lawn is bumpy-ass too, from the armadillos and the many tree roots. The .308 solves the hog problems too  

Edit: back to the thread title. It makes me surly when I’m mowing the bumpy-ass lawn and run over one of the cypress root knuckles that I forget about, significantly shortening the life of the mower. 

Edited May 27, 2022 by nnm

[Armybrat 40635]

Biting the inside of my cheek or lip at the beginning of a meal, then inadvertently doing it several more times until a welt puffs up.

[Wally Pryor 5233]

Local radio guys (aka Rod Babers) proclaiming themselves to be a "lifetime Longhorn". 

What the hell does that even mean? Chest thumping because your neighbor is only a "10-year Longhorn" and will move on to support another school in year 11?

[Armybrat 40635]

1 hour ago, Wally Pryor said:

Local radio guys (aka Rod Babers) proclaiming themselves to be a "lifetime Longhorn". 

What the hell does that even mean? Chest thumping because your neighbor is only a "10-year Longhorn" and will move on to support another school in year 11?

Well, in my case it wouldn’t mean so much.

[nnm 35847]

2 hours ago, Wally Pryor said:

Local radio guys (aka Rod Babers) proclaiming themselves to be a "lifetime Longhorn". 

What the hell does that even mean? Chest thumping because your neighbor is only a "10-year Longhorn" and will move on to support another school in year 11?

Sounds like something a bandwagon fan would complain about. 

[Mrs Whiggins 13049]

On 5/26/2022 at 4:33 PM, Knoxtnhorn said:

I'm more interested in where these guys are finding wives that mow.  That's a thing?

Growing up in my family with two parents with jobs, the mowing chore was handed down by age regardless of gender; it was simply another skill to learn and a task that needed doing. As soon as the oldest got a 'real' job, then the next stepped up and took over. The two things that were less fun was that poison ivy was a real problem at my parent's place, and they had a crap ton of nut trees: walnut, oak, hickory, and pecan. Oh, and I did run the lawn tractor into a wall once and got in trouble for that. But that neighbor boy next door that liked to wash his car in the driveway was soooo cute!

So, mowing now with the husband is a breeze. Plus, I make sure the fridge has beer in it before we start. Got to have a plan, execute the plan, enjoy the plan.

[Knoxtnhorn 5916]

17 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

Growing up in my family with two parents with jobs, the mowing chore was handed down by age regardless of gender; it was simply another skill to learn and a task that needed doing. As soon as the oldest got a 'real' job, then the next stepped up and took over. The two things that were less fun was that poison ivy was a real problem at my parent's place, and they had a crap ton of nut trees: walnut, oak, hickory, and pecan. Oh, and I did run the lawn tractor into a wall once and got in trouble for that. But that neighbor boy next door that liked to wash his car in the driveway was soooo cute!

So, mowing now with the husband is a breeze. Plus, I make sure the fridge has beer in it before we start. Got to have a plan, execute the plan, enjoy the plan.

My wife would mow if she had to.  No reason for her to do it with my two sons and me able to do it.

My mom, 70, mows her own yard.

[Guest]

On 5/26/2022 at 4:33 PM, Knoxtnhorn said:

Hey bro @Jameslaw121

I'm more interested in where these guys are finding wives that mow.  That's a thing?

Wife never mowed my yard.  ever.  She does pull weeds in the flower beds and rock beds though.

My boys never mowed our yard once, and for that I feel an ounce of shame.  Oldest boy( now 28) has mowed HIS own yard the past few years and told me he now understands why I never gave up the vacation from life that is mowing.  So i guess I properly handed that shit down  after all.

Cold beer, a little sweat, and sharp ass diagonals...  the good life.   Now where's that sandwich?

 

[Mrs Whiggins 13049]

8 minutes ago, slorch said:

Wife never mowed my yard.  ever.  She does pull weeds in the flower beds and rock beds though.

My boys never mowed our yard once, and for that I feel an ounce of shame.  Oldest boy( now 28) has mowed HIS own yard the past few years and told me he now understands why I never gave up the vacation from life that is mowing.  So i guess I properly handed that shit down  after all.

Cold beer, a little sweat, and sharp ass diagonals...  the good life.   Now where's that sandwich?

 

Haha. We take sandwiches (or salad) for lunch every weekday so we skip those for supper. You're right though, it's those little things that have kept us best friends for a long long time. He's a good man.

[conVINCEd 21468]

When the little ring seal on a bottle of bourbon fails and you have to get out a knife and do a little work to have a drink.

[Guest]

[Blotto 23352]

Mistakenly ended up with seeded grapes instead of seedless. and its a big ass bag. 

[Guadaloopy 10890]

16 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

Growing up in my family with two parents with jobs, the mowing chore was handed down by age regardless of gender; it was simply another skill to learn and a task that needed doing. As soon as the oldest got a 'real' job, then the next stepped up and took over. The two things that were less fun was that poison ivy was a real problem at my parent's place, and they had a crap ton of nut trees: walnut, oak, hickory, and pecan. Oh, and I did run the lawn tractor into a wall once and got in trouble for that. But that neighbor boy next door that liked to wash his car in the driveway was soooo cute!

So, mowing now with the husband is a breeze. Plus, I make sure the fridge has beer in it before we start. Got to have a plan, execute the plan, enjoy the plan.

When my younger brother was finally old enough to mow, he intentionally screwed it up and scalped the lawn so badly that he was excused from lawn duties forever.  Fast forward 40 years and he’s still a manipulative asshole.

[WhatTheBuck 28694]

2 hours ago, Blotto said:

Mistakenly ended up with seeded grapes instead of seedless. and its a big ass bag. 

Gotta be red grapes, right?

[HornsOverIthaca 2333]

Richard Dean Anderson looks so unhealthy these days

[Prepuce of Doom 20954]

6 hours ago, Guadaloopy said:

When my younger brother was finally old enough to mow, he intentionally screwed it up and scalped the lawn so badly that he was excused from lawn duties forever.  Fast forward 40 years and he’s still a manipulative asshole.

I figured out that by pushing our self-propelled mower way, way too fucking fast, I could flood the engine and make it lock up such that it was unusable for a few hours. 

I didn't mind mowing, but I minded being told to mow it on my parents' schedule rather than my own. So we often had one maniac stripe savaged across an unkempt lawn when I was in high school. 

[Superhero 8695]

I went on a friend’s house for lunch and helped do the dishes.

The center of their sink was not lined up with the center of the window. 

[CooterBrown 17836]

Mistakenly ended up with seeded grapes instead of seedless. and its a big ass bag. 

The fact they sell seeded grapes. Who the fuck buys those?

[Prepuce of Doom 20954]

52 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

The fact they sell seeded grapes. Who the fuck buys those?

Why, people who hate their guests, of course. 

[NeverMarryAStripper 21780]

If all grapes were seedless then pretty soon there wouldn't be any more grapes

[Underdog 28372]

18 hours ago, Superhero said:

I went on a friend’s house for lunch and helped do the dishes.

The center of their sink was not lined up with the center of the window. 

Home builders same people who installed the goalposts at DKR?  

 

[WhatTheBuck 28694]

18 hours ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

I didn't mind mowing, but I minded being told to mow it on my parents' schedule rather than my own.

That was the worst. I didn’t like mowing the yard but when I got down to doing it, it wasn’t that bad. But I hated being ordered to do it and I never received thanks or any appreciation of any kind. And when I was young enough to receive an allowance it was never more than 50 cents a week. (I guess that stopped when I got my first job at 15 which payed a whole lot better.)

For the three summers after I graduated high school, while I was still living at my mom’s place before I got my own apartment, I hired a guy who was a local grade school teacher to take up my lawn mowing chores. I had a seasonal job in a bakery. The hours were rough but the pay was good. I couldn’t be bothered with mowing the lawn.

Don’t even get me started about the hassles of having to weed my mom’s garden. 

[WhatTheBuck 28694]

56 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

If all grapes were seedless then pretty soon there wouldn't be any more grapes

I suppose watermelons will disappear soon. 

[Superhero 8695]

Whoever at Bosch (and pretty much every other brand) who thought built-in microwaves should have doors that pivot down, kind of like an oven.

Ours is mounted 6" above the counter, and it's a pain in the ass to reach in to get the food, and more of a pain to reach in and clean the damn thing.

 

They have above-the-range microwaves that open like a regular door, but NOOOOO, built-in-ovens have to open down. I would have been okay with get a countertop microwave and put a trim kit around it, but Bosch stopped making them.

 

[52-80 19041]

MM-DD-YY

MMM-DD-YY is an acceptable compromise...

[Trey3216 15321]

On 5/29/2022 at 3:55 PM, WhatTheBuck said:

That was the worst. I didn’t like mowing the yard but when I got down to doing it, it wasn’t that bad. But I hated being ordered to do it and I never received thanks or any appreciation of any kind. And when I was young enough to receive an allowance it was never more than 50 cents a week. (I guess that stopped when I got my first job at 15 which payed a whole lot better.)

For the three summers after I graduated high school, while I was still living at my mom’s place before I got my own apartment, I hired a guy who was a local grade school teacher to take up my lawn mowing chores. I had a seasonal job in a bakery. The hours were rough but the pay was good. I couldn’t be bothered with mowing the lawn.

Don’t even get me started about the hassles of having to weed my mom’s garden. 

[closetohumping 17339]

12 hours ago, Superhero said:

Whoever at Bosch (and pretty much every other brand) who thought built-in microwaves should have doors that pivot down, kind of like an oven.

Ours is mounted 6" above the counter, and it's a pain in the ass to reach in to get the food, and more of a pain to reach in and clean the damn thing.

 

They have above-the-range microwaves that open like a regular door, but NOOOOO, built-in-ovens have to open down. I would have been okay with get a countertop microwave and put a trim kit around it, but Bosch stopped making them.

 

We got one of them microwaves that's built into our kitchen island.

[Superhero 8695]

5 hours ago, 52-80 said:

MM-DD-YY

MMM-DD-YY is an acceptable compromise...

Team YYYY-MM-DD

When you're searching through folders that span several years, gotta go with YYYY-MM-DD or you'll get January 2020 docs instead of the January 22 docs.

[Superhero 8695]

3 hours ago, closetohumping said:

We got one of them microwaves that's built into our kitchen island.

Yeah I've seen those and they are pretty cool. But I bet it's a pain in the ass to be kneeling down and have your arm at an awkward angle to clean the damn thing.

[Jameslaw121 4440]

35 minutes ago, Superhero said:

Yeah I've seen those and they are pretty cool. But I bet it's a pain in the ass to be kneeling down and have your arm at an awkward angle to clean the damn thing.

Weird. You wife is pretty good a kneeling down with her arm at an awkward angle....

[nnm 35847]

3 hours ago, Superhero said:

Team YYYY-MM-DD

When you're searching through folders that span several years, gotta go with YYYY-MM-DD or you'll get January 2020 docs instead of the January 22 docs.

Team DDMonYY

As in 01Jun22, 07Dec41, etc.  I always spell out the month to avoid the DD/MM confusion.

 

[elfenix 34157]

people who damn near come to a stop getting on a highway

[Superhero 8695]

51 minutes ago, nnm said:

Team DDMonYY

As in 01Jun22, 07Dec41, etc.  I always spell out the month to avoid the DD/MM confusion.

 

Doing a sort by file name is gonna give you shit results.

I ALWAYS use YYYY-MM-DD and make sure my team does the same. Some of my projects started in 2019 and will probably go through 2024. I need to be able to find the right folders quickly, and sorting anything that doesn't follow that date convention will just make life fucking miserable. 

[Superhero 8695]

4 hours ago, Jameslaw121 said:

Weird. You wife is pretty good a kneeling down with her arm at an awkward angle....

What's she doing to cause her arm to be at an awkward angle? Hammering a tube / hamster up your goatse ass?

[WhatTheBuck 28694]

58 minutes ago, elfenix said:

people who damn near come to a stop getting on a highway

Or making a turn on a green arrow. Fucking GO! That’s what green means!

[WhatTheBuck 28694]

22 minutes ago, Superhero said:

Doing a sort by file name is gonna give you shit results.

I ALWAYS use YYYY-MM-DD and make sure my team does the same. Some of my projects started in 2019 and will probably go through 2024. I need to be able to find the right folders quickly, and sorting anything that doesn't follow that date convention will just make life fucking miserable. 

For storing files, sure. But when it comes to my collection of live bootlegs, I label them MM/DD/YY. And in the Word doc where I keep my list (from back in my trading days), it’s MM-DD-YY for formatting. It just looks better.

To keep this on topic, I used to be very good at hand labeling first tapes and then CD’s. I lost the habit of writing by hand and my handwriting has suffered as a result. Signing my signature with my finger on a touchpad sucks. One of the drawbacks of the digital age. 

[Okie State 3746]

Whoever at Bosch (and pretty much every other brand) who thought built-in microwaves should have doors that pivot down, kind of like an oven.
Ours is mounted 6" above the counter, and it's a pain in the ass to reach in to get the food, and more of a pain to reach in and clean the damn thing.
 
They have above-the-range microwaves that open like a regular door, but NOOOOO, built-in-ovens have to open down. I would have been okay with get a countertop microwave and put a trim kit around it, but Bosch stopped making them.
 

Just bought a french door wall oven for this exact reason. Drop down doors on anything that high is dumb as shit.

[elfenix 34157]

42 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

For storing files, sure. But when it comes to my collection of live bootlegs, I label them MM/DD/YY. And in the Word doc where I keep my list (from back in my trading days), it’s MM-DD-YY for formatting. It just looks better.

To keep this on topic, I used to be very good at hand labeling first tapes and then CD’s. I lost the habit of writing by hand and my handwriting has suffered as a result. Signing my signature with my finger on a touchpad sucks. One of the drawbacks of the digital age. 

most of the time i just draw an X.  finger or pen. 

[Sam Lin 3539]

If you install the microwave upside-down, the door lifts up out of the way.

#themoreyouknow

[WhatTheBuck 28694]

16 minutes ago, Sam Lin said:

If you install the microwave upside-down, the door lifts up out of the way.

#themoreyouknow

Armybrat approves.

[Superhero 8695]

1 hour ago, Sam Lin said:

If you install the microwave upside-down, the door lifts up out of the way.

#themoreyouknow

Are you Australian?

[Steamboat1874 4028]

On 5/27/2022 at 2:49 PM, Wally Pryor said:

Local radio guys (aka Rod Babers) proclaiming themselves to be a "lifetime Longhorn". 

What the hell does that even mean? Chest thumping because your neighbor is only a "10-year Longhorn" and will move on to support another school in year 11?

Would you rather they say "former" Longhorn because that indicates they are no longer one?

[Steamboat1874 4028]

9 hours ago, Sam Lin said:

If you install the microwave upside-down, the door lifts up out of the way.

#themoreyouknow

WTF are you even talking about ?

Do you have a microwave where the door opens like an oven ?

If so I have never seen one in my life.

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

12 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Fucking GO! 

I think all of my issues with other people's driving can be summed up in those two words.

[NeverMarryAStripper 21780]

Sometimes it's Fucking STOP!