Random Ramblings

Nordic wrote:That sucks Duff.

Thanks man

duffy munn wrote:

DWags wrote:

Man. So sorry. You’re a good egg Duffy.

As you know it's really rough. My Dad has always been my hero. Feels weird that I kinda want him to go peacefully rather than live like this. Fuck.

I feel you pain. My mom was convinced my dad was having ladies come into the house in the middle of the night, then she would run around the house yelling at him for cheating on her at 2 am. Like every night. We finally convinced her she is crazy and got her on meds. She seems much better now. (a couple months now)

AvgMSUJoe wrote:

duffy munn wrote:

As you know it's really rough. My Dad has always been my hero. Feels weird that I kinda want him to go peacefully rather than live like this. Fuck.

I feel you pain. My mom was convinced my dad was having ladies come into the house in the middle of the night, then she would run around the house yelling at him for cheating on her at 2 am. Like every night. We finally convinced her she is crazy and got her on meds. She seems much better now. (a couple months now)

Jesus guys, really sorry. My grandma died with dementia. She was at my moms house the last couple of years. Very frightening and sad. Sorry you’re going through this.

Did you know there’s a paint that can, to some extent, suppress a bomb blast? I know the military uses it, as does the federal government on places like overseas embassies and who knows how many other structures and vehicles.
I mention this because it seems to me this same product could and maybe should be used in a residential application; specifically, on the walls and ceiling of the room(s) where gas appliances/furnaces/water heaters are installed. Seems like every couple of weeks there’s a story in the news of people dying because a house was leveled following a gas leak.

https://www.theice.com/products/30/FCOJ-A-Futures

Sell Mortimer! Sell!

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So west michiganders...is she hot?

AvgMSUJoe wrote:[tw]1218258087162847237[/tw]

So west michiganders...is she hot?

1) sure

2) she already works for "WOOD" tv - what's the big deal?

That is one awesome plate! If I received that from the SOS, I would have to rock that sucker on my truck!

Senior Dickfist wrote:That is one awesome plate! If I received that from the SOS, I would have to rock that sucker on my truck!

i mean, a dick just naturally belongs above (truck) nuts

Yeah, the randomness of it is seriously awesome. I wonder if you went into the SOS and requested that if they would give it to you? Probably not.

like "VAG 247" or something... then I'd have to get some sort of obnoxious bro vehicle to roll around in...

DWags wrote:I mean do you young kids have another term for ASAP? My 22 year old was working out. I text her that I was going to see my FIL at Royal Oak Beaumont. She says when.....wait for it, I say ASAP
She says “what does that mean?”

3.85 Human biology, traveled the country, the world, 22 years old. Asks me what that means. I’m like WTF?!?!

She says “ok boomer”

Holy shit.

Idk how anyone that age cannot know what ASAP. Especially for the youngins that invent more abbreviations than anyone else

Duffy, I’m sorry to hear that. It sounds so terrible to watch someone go through that.

The only thing I wish I could have done was say goodbye to my dad and brothers. But all those times , they were sudden phone calls. But watching someone waste away is also so terrible.

I hope he pulls it out and recovers.

Dendrobates wrote:Duffy, I’m sorry to hear that. It sounds so terrible to watch someone go through that.

The only thing I wish I could have done was say goodbye to my dad and brothers. But all those times , they were sudden phone calls. But watching someone waste away is also so terrible.

I hope he pulls it out and recovers.

Thanks Dendro. All of this happened really fast. He was literal fine a couple of weeks ago.

And I'm very sorry for your sudden loses.

First time I’ve been “anxious “ while flying. The gate closed and we started taxiing, and the captain says we have to go back because the engine is leaking. Kind of a big deal. Anyway, an hour later, we’re back on our way. I hear this odd low rumble/buzz that was new to me. During our takeoff and speeding up, the plane then suddenly stops. Now, I was thinking I was ready to switch airplanes. Captain doesn’t say much, just said he’s configuring things. We’re parked somewhere but not far from the runway. An hour later, we suddenly turn around and take off. No explanation, and it came out of no where. It was a surprise to suddenly take off. Very strange, and not comforting, but the flight itself was unremarkable at least.

Dendrobates wrote:First time I’ve been “anxious “ while flying. The gate closed and we started taxiing, and the captain says we have to go back because the engine is leaking. Kind of a big deal. Anyway, an hour later, we’re back on our way. I hear this odd low rumble/buzz that was new to me. During our takeoff and speeding up, the plane then suddenly stops. Now, I was thinking I was ready to switch airplanes. Captain doesn’t say much, just said he’s configuring things. We’re parked somewhere but not far from the runway. An hour later, we suddenly turn around and take off. No explanation, and it came out of no where. It was a surprise to suddenly take off. Very strange, and not comforting, but the flight itself was unremarkable at least.

Holy shit. I'd have had a panic attack. I'd have caused the whole shebang to be de-planed. One time we had to land cause water was leaking out of the bathroom and filling up the cubby where you go into it. My family and I were in the very back and they walked back with a fucking manual and were reading it while we were in flight. JFC. We land, and it took some alcohol to get back on another plane. So, yeah, in that situation, I"m asking to talk to the captain, both Captain Morgan and the Captain of the plain.

Dendrobates wrote:First time I’ve been “anxious “ while flying. The gate closed and we started taxiing, and the captain says we have to go back because the engine is leaking. Kind of a big deal. Anyway, an hour later, we’re back on our way. I hear this odd low rumble/buzz that was new to me. During our takeoff and speeding up, the plane then suddenly stops. Now, I was thinking I was ready to switch airplanes. Captain doesn’t say much, just said he’s configuring things. We’re parked somewhere but not far from the runway. An hour later, we suddenly turn around and take off. No explanation, and it came out of no where. It was a surprise to suddenly take off. Very strange, and not comforting, but the flight itself was unremarkable at least.

Been on some weird flights.  Strangest was a trip back from Hawaii in '86.  Boarded on Kauai.  Flew to Maui to pick up more passengers.  Bunch of stuff happened.  They struggled getting the dinner carts loaded and in place over an apparent mechanical issue.  For unknown reasons they escorted people that had just boarded the plane, off...and then the search to get all their luggage off the plane.  Had a couple loud teenagers sitting behind us.  Had to restrain the wyff (kitten) from going over the seat backs to get to them and settle her down.  Last event was a guy stepped out of a toilet on the other side of the aisle in front of us with smoke trailing out the door behind him.  Was odd because the smoke alarm didn't go off until he was 2-3 steps out the door.   Chaos continued when a flight attendant chased him down the aisle screaming at him.

We were sitting in that plane 2-3 hours before resuming the flight to LA.  Sweating cuz plane ventilation/AC doesn't seem to work on the ground.  Got one free drink out of it, compliments of the airline.

Got bumped to first class a few times before that bitch Connie Chung stuck her nose into the travel business.  

One of the strangest flights, ever.  Was on the way back to Detroit from Houston early 80's.  Slight layover at O'Hare.  Boarded a DC-10 with just a few other passengers.  Short flight to Detroit but really odd in a plane that big with almost no one in it.

We flying to Hawaii out of Chicago on United around 15 years ago.  One of the audio channels allowed you to listen in to the flight crew and their radio transmissions.  I found this very intriguing.

We takeoff and just as we get airborne I see a large flock of geese.  Still listening in on the radio I hear some surprising loud thump-thump-thump-thumps in rapid succession, quickly followed by a bunch of alarms going off.

I hear the tower on the say "flight XXX we have an indication of multiple bird strikes, return to the airport for evaluation"

Pilot: "No, we're fine."

Tower:  In a very firm tone "Flight XXX return to the airport immediately."

Pilot: In a very firm tone "I said we are fine."

And we went along on our merry way.

Pantry- that is some odd shit for sure. And I still think AC won’t work/isn’t turned on when you’re on the ground. They’re probably just being cheap:



And holy shit MSU addict, now that would worry me! That wouldn’t be allowed today I’m sure. If the tower tells you to go back you go back regardless.

Flew down to Florida a couple of weeks ago. Had a white trash couple sitting a few rows behind me. Everything on flight goes smoothly until the minute we pull up to disembark. The minute the door to the plane opens the white trash husband starts going off about people taking too long to get off the plane. He's complaining about anyone that has to unload their carryons from the overhead bin, you name it. Nonstop bitching until we finally start to move.
Return flight, this asshole and his wife are on the same flight. We get to Detroit to disembark and he starts up with the same crap. I finally tell the guy if he's that impatient maybe he should have bought first class tickets. We finally get to my row to start exiting and him and his wife are crowding my row. I don't look when I get to leave and just stand up, knocking him and his wife back a couple steps. She gets in my face, I tell her to wait her turn. Not another peep out of them the rest of the way out.

MSU addict wrote:We flying to Hawaii out of Chicago on United around 15 years ago.  One of the audio channels allowed you to listen in to the flight crew and their radio transmissions.  I found this very intriguing.

We takeoff and just as we get airborne I see a large flock of geese.  Still listening in on the radio I hear some surprising loud thump-thump-thump-thumps in rapid succession, quickly followed by a bunch of alarms going off.

I hear the tower on the say "flight XXX we have an indication of multiple bird strikes, return to the airport for evaluation"

Pilot: "No, we're fine."

Tower:  In a very firm tone "Flight XXX return to the airport immediately."

Pilot: In a very firm tone "I said we are fine."

And we went along on our merry way.

No
Fucking
Way

I'd have been passed out from fear and begging anyone to land the plane. Oh, and there is no way I'd ever be listening to my pilot.

MSU addict wrote:We flying to Hawaii out of Chicago on United around 15 years ago.  One of the audio channels allowed you to listen in to the flight crew and their radio transmissions.  I found this very intriguing.

We takeoff and just as we get airborne I see a large flock of geese.  Still listening in on the radio I hear some surprising loud thump-thump-thump-thumps in rapid succession, quickly followed by a bunch of alarms going off.

I hear the tower on the say "flight XXX we have an indication of multiple bird strikes, return to the airport for evaluation"

Pilot: "No, we're fine."

Tower:  In a very firm tone "Flight XXX return to the airport immediately."

Pilot: In a very firm tone "I said we are fine."

And we went along on our merry way.

A Flock of Seagulls would have been better. Less damage.

Floyd Robertson wrote:

MSU addict wrote:We flying to Hawaii out of Chicago on United around 15 years ago.  One of the audio channels allowed you to listen in to the flight crew and their radio transmissions.  I found this very intriguing.

We takeoff and just as we get airborne I see a large flock of geese.  Still listening in on the radio I hear some surprising loud thump-thump-thump-thumps in rapid succession, quickly followed by a bunch of alarms going off.

I hear the tower on the say "flight XXX we have an indication of multiple bird strikes, return to the airport for evaluation"

Pilot: "No, we're fine."

Tower:  In a very firm tone "Flight XXX return to the airport immediately."

Pilot: In a very firm tone "I said we are fine."

And we went along on our merry way.

A Flock of Seagulls would have been better. Less damage.

you know what I would have done? I would have ran, ran so far away.

DWags wrote:

Floyd Robertson wrote:

A Flock of Seagulls would have been better. Less damage.

you know what I would have done? I would have ran, ran so far away.

Well played

Floyd Robertson wrote:

MSU addict wrote:We flying to Hawaii out of Chicago on United around 15 years ago.  One of the audio channels allowed you to listen in to the flight crew and their radio transmissions.  I found this very intriguing.

We takeoff and just as we get airborne I see a large flock of geese.  Still listening in on the radio I hear some surprising loud thump-thump-thump-thumps in rapid succession, quickly followed by a bunch of alarms going off.

I hear the tower on the say "flight XXX we have an indication of multiple bird strikes, return to the airport for evaluation"

Pilot: "No, we're fine."

Tower:  In a very firm tone "Flight XXX return to the airport immediately."

Pilot: In a very firm tone "I said we are fine."

And we went along on our merry way.

A Flock of Seagulls would have been better. Less damage.

My apologies - I should have said a plump of geese (the most correct term for a group of flying geese not in formation).

And of course a group of seagulls is called a colony.

if you had to chose one for the rest of your life, would you rather pee sitting down or crap standing up?

Banks2Mason wrote:if you had to chose one for the rest of your life, would you rather pee sitting down or crap standing up?

Pee sitting down. No brainer. You'd be wiping shit for days off of your ass standing up. Plus the spash in the bowl would be awful.

Watch Out Pylon! wrote:

Banks2Mason wrote:if you had to chose one for the rest of your life, would you rather pee sitting down or crap standing up?

Pee sitting down. No brainer. You'd be wiping shit for days off of your ass standing up. Plus the spash in the bowl would be awful.

update: you get to poo in the shower and your shower drain is large has a grinder pump so no wiping/splash.

Banks2Mason wrote:

Watch Out Pylon! wrote:

Pee sitting down. No brainer. You'd be wiping shit for days off of your ass standing up. Plus the spash in the bowl would be awful.

update: you get to poo in the shower and your shower drain is large has a grinder pump so no wiping/splash.

Stand up dumps sound manly as fuck. Sign me up.

Cameron wrote:

Banks2Mason wrote:

update: you get to poo in the shower and your shower drain is large has a grinder pump so no wiping/splash.

Stand up dumps sound manly as fuck. Sign me up.

same. and if you're not a poor, you can go do it out in front of the lake in the morning and have one of your "people" deal with it.

I'm not sure I could take a dump standing up. I know I could pee sitting down.

Couple other stories.  Kitten and I went on a cruise with our daughter's Godparents.  Our travel agent business cards (kitten's was legit, SIL had some printed with my name on them) got all four of us bumped to 1st class for the flight from DTW to Charlotte and the next flight to San Juan.  Cruise was kinda crappy but that's another story.  Did the same flights in reverse order on the way back but without the upgraded seats.  Were still climbing to cruise altitude out of Charlotte toward a nasty looking cloud bank.  All of the sudden the plane veered hard right as if the pilot saw something ahead he didn't like.  Seconds later the plane dropped hard with sort of a bang, literally taking a male flight attendant off his feet in the aisle.  We were all startled but that poor dude got the worst of it.  Wasn't physically injured but sat in an empty passenger seat for maybe 10 minutes to collect himself.  Smooth flight the rest of the way.

Made a number of flights to San Diego to visit my FIL so he could see his grandkids.  He covered most of them, having what seemed like 5 million FF miles.  Air travel with young kids was always a challenge but our kids adapted fairly well.  Went out there with our four kids (all under 10) for Christmas one year.  All was well until the day before we were scheduled to return.  Youngest (14 months) puked at SeaWorld.  He seemed okay the rest of the day.  Got on the plane the next day.  He (lap child) puked on kitten shortly after we took off.  She was prepared.  Had a change of clothes for herself and a couple for son in the carry-on.  Everything cleaned up but he wasn't happy with either of us while we were seated.  I carried him up and down the aisle probably halfway to Detroit before he fell asleep.

Banks2Mason wrote:

Watch Out Pylon! wrote:

Pee sitting down. No brainer. You'd be wiping shit for days off of your ass standing up. Plus the spash in the bowl would be awful.

update: you get to poo in the shower and your shower drain is large has a grinder pump so no wiping/splash.

Poo shower,. Two birds, one stone. And I ain't squating in the snow every time I go out to pee.

I think we need a ruling. Stand up means stand up straight. No bend in the knee at all. Straight up standing. Then poo. No way.

DWags wrote:I think we need a ruling. Stand up means stand up straight. No bend in the knee at all. Straight up standing. Then poo. No way.

Just use a wide stance.

Nordic wrote:

DWags wrote:I think we need a ruling. Stand up means stand up straight. No bend in the knee at all. Straight up standing. Then poo. No way.

Just use a wide stance.

I was thinking that. But too wide of a stance straight I think brings the cheeks together.

DWags wrote:

Nordic wrote:

Just use a wide stance.

I was thinking that. But too wide of a stance straight I think brings the cheeks together.

you'd adapt

Banks2Mason wrote:

Watch Out Pylon! wrote:

Pee sitting down. No brainer. You'd be wiping shit for days off of your ass standing up. Plus the spash in the bowl would be awful.

update: you get to poo in the shower and your shower drain is large has a grinder pump so no wiping/splash.

So you only get to shit while showering? Sounds great except I’d have to take a lot of showers.

Why can't you say Super Bowl? If I start a "Super Bowl" thread will I get fined?

Married guys, you ever take a shit with the wife in the bathroom doing her make up or something like that? 26 years, never even crossed my mind to do that. Have a friend who says he does it all the time. WTF?

DWags wrote:Married guys, you ever take a shit with the wife in the bathroom doing her make up or something like that? 26 years, never even crossed my mind to do that. Have a friend who says he does it all the time. WTF?

No. I'm not a savage.