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RTDNTOTO 🐻 Random Thoughts Deserving No Thread Of Their Own 19 (2024)

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Maister said:
How to start manual transmission car with dead battery:

1. Turn ignition key to on position
2. push clutch to the floor and put into 1st gear (2nd gear works too)
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I've always done the opposite: depress clutch pedal, verify neutral, hit the ignition. Indeed, my current Mazda 3 won't do anything until the clutch pedal is depressed.
 
Gedunker said:
I've always done the opposite: depress clutch pedal, verify neutral, hit the ignition. Indeed, my current Mazda 3 won't do anything until the clutch pedal is depressed.
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As I recall that was the "lockout" issue I had with my Beretta that prevented you from push-starting it. Can't pop the clutch to start if doing so shuts off the ignition circuit. At least that's what I remember. 25 years ago and sadly the last manual I owned.
 
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What fun! Filling out insurance forms for a new board. Of course Finance should be doing this since they do risk management and especially when they ask me for the latest finances of the board. You mean the budget your team prepared?
 

This song probably didn't help LPs situation much when she was younger either, but I bet she still ends up giving it a big like regardless.
 
Doohickie said:
That song evokes fernweh, a yearning to go to a place you've never been. The Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song Helpless does the same- makes want to go to a town in north Ontario.
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I had not encountered the term 'fernweh' previously. Seems like a better translation might be wanderlust, but I understand the underlying principle you're talking about. Like how John Denver's "Country Roads" makes one long for West Virgina. I watched a CBS Sunday Morning segment once about how that song has been translated into scores of different languages around the world, naming instead of West Virginia a hundred other small towns and rural places in locations around the globe beckoning the listener to feel homesick for Location XX.

www.cbsnews.com

The universal nostalgia for "Take Me Home, Country Roads"

A song about a longing for home, John Denver's first hit in 1971 has been embraced by West Virginia in a big way, and has been appropriated by singers around the world looking for their very own "place I belong."
www.cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com
 
Northern English towns in the 1980s were very much a part of my childhood. My grandmother lived in one of those 2 up/2 down terraced houses in Lancashire.
 
You ever have one of those conversations when after your 20 ‘dangs’ & 10 ‘yups’ & 7 ‘that’s crazy’ & 3 ‘wow mans’ they won’t stop & keep talking?
 
Faust_Motel said:
As I recall that was the "lockout" issue I had with my Beretta that prevented you from push-starting it. Can't pop the clutch to start if doing so shuts off the ignition circuit. At least that's what I remember. 25 years ago and sadly the last manual I owned.
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I learned to drive stick on a Beretta! The door handles were my favorite. 😀
 
dandy_warhol said:
I learned to drive stick on a Beretta! The door handles were my favorite. 😀
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That handle location! I once locked my keys in that car and the two cops who showed up to help me had quite the contest over who could break in with their slim jim. They got me into the car but it never locked again afterwards.

Also I'm sure it's true for most two door cars but dang those doors were heavy. Park on a tilted surface and one door would be hard to open while the other would fly open and be hard to close!!
 
It boggles my mind that, of all the agencies we work with at all levels of government, the only agency that still INSISTS on paper copies of all tentative maps is:

the Nevada Department of Environmental Protection.

Everyone else has gone digital.

Jim
 
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Every time I hear the opening lyrics to Jimmy Buffet's "Come Monday"

Headin' out to San Francisco
For the Labor Day weekend show
I got my Hush Puppies on
I guess I never was meant for glitter rock 'n' roll
And honey, I didn't know that I'd be missin' you so

the Hush Puppies that come to mind for me are desert boots (sometimes also called chukkas?).
I have no idea why that specific show style pops in my mind - I never wore them, nor did I ever want them, so there isn't some repressed memory associated with Hush Puppies. I just think it is weird.
 
Gedunker said:
Every time I hear the opening lyrics to Jimmy Buffet's "Come Monday"

Headin' out to San Francisco
For the Labor Day weekend show
I got my Hush Puppies on
I guess I never was meant for glitter rock 'n' roll
And honey, I didn't know that I'd be missin' you so

the Hush Puppies that come to mind for me are desert boots (sometimes also called chukkas?).
I have no idea why that specific show style pops in my mind - I never wore them, nor did I ever want them, so there isn't some repressed memory associated with Hush Puppies. I just think it is weird.
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Damn great song by the way.
 
Since I can't post in the political thread. People born in 63 and 64 are not baby boomers. We are early Xers. I will not be grouped in with a bunch of self absorbed narcissist. My cultural and social references are differ and more in line with the Xers, which I consider myself.
 
Whose Yur Planner said:
Since I can't post in the political thread. People born in 63 and 64 are not baby boomers. We are early Xers. I will not be grouped in with a bunch of self absorbed narcissist. My cultural and social references are differ and more in line with the Xers, which I consider myself.
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I was born in 76 but tend to identify more with people born in the late 50's and early 60's. Now get off my lawn!!

Jim
 
jumbach said:
I was born in 76 but tend to identify more with people born in the late 50's and early 60's. Now get off my lawn!!

Jim
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I was born in '60 to parents of the "greatest" generation ('24 and '26). My sister and brother ('49 and '52) I consider, and they are, Boomers. I do not consider myself a Boomer, nor do I consider myself an Xer. We are a generation of notch babies, adrift from that which preceded and that which followed us.

Kids born of parents born during the Depression/WWII and born 1960-65, are, I believe, the first Xers.
 
Sick of seeing nostalgia for 2014. I'd much rather go back to the 80s.
 

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Well, this is a bit of a kick in the shin. Wife's offer for a new job came back a lot less that what she currently makes. We knew that was likely to happen given the different market and that she is at the top of this market. Overall it is about break even for us, but she is going to accept it, and keep looking for something better.
 
Gedunker said:
I was born in '60 to parents of the "greatest" generation ('24 and '26). My sister and brother ('49 and '52) I consider, and they are, Boomers. I do not consider myself a Boomer, nor do I consider myself an Xer. We are a generation of notch babies, adrift from that which preceded and that which followed us.

Kids born of parents born during the Depression/WWII and born 1960-65, are, I believe, the first Xers.
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I agree whole heartily. This is my case. Our cultural references and experiences were and are different.
 
My son has been walking my younger dog with his dog lately, since my older dog is 14 and slow and cannot walk very far. He has this habit of walking down the alleys in the neighborhood (the older part of the hood has alleys), I think because he likes to visit with dogs in the backyards. I'm not sure this is such a great idea, but it is what it is. My younger dog usually does not get along well with dogs she doesn't know, but if the dog is behind a chain link fence she can kind of get to know them and doesn't always freak out.

So this evening he was walking down an alley about a half mile from our house with his dog and my younger dog. So they were visiting with a Doberman through a 6 foot chain link fence, and when my son went to move on, the dog jumped into the next year (only a 4 foot fence) and then into the alley and started following him. He went around to the front and knocked on their door, but no one answered. So he tried to move on and hoped the dog would go back home. But it followed my son all the way home.

He called me when he was a block away and told me what was going on; I helped him get our dogs in without letting the Doberman in. Surprisingly my dog who's usually aggressive to other dogs seemed to be fine with this one; I guess they got to know each other good enough through the fence.

So once our dogs were inside, I took a leash out to my son and he was able to get it on the dog's collar, and got a bowl and some water, and we walked back to the house. Still nobody home. So my son knocked on the next door neighbor's door and once someone who spoke English came to the door (this is the Hispanic part of the hood), he asked if they knew the neighbors. She said no, the neighbors had just moved in, but she suggested opening the gate and putting the dog in. The gate on the alley was locked, but the one that faced toward the front wasn't. So we put the dog in and went home.

That Dobey was a really nice dog; I hope they can keep it contained. It would be a shame if it got out again and got lost.
 
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The guilt has been building up for decades. No longer can I keep it inside, but after carrying this secret for so long, I've at long last got to unburden myself......

Dear 4th grade teacher,
You know that science project in 1973 where I made a diorama of the human digestive tract using various types of macaroni and pasta? well.....

MY MOTHER HELPED ME WITH IT!!! In fact, I'd say she did most of the work! I've been living a lie ever since. There's no question I never would have gotten to where I am in life today but for the A grade I got on this one important assignment.
Season 8 Tns GIF by THE NEXT STEP
 
woo boy - still feeling a little... er... tired from a wedding weekend extravaganza but there is coffee, but I forgot my reading glasses
 
It's raining and rain is expected to continue from 9 am till 1 pm. I have a meeting scheduled at 11 am on site at an active construction project. So now we play meeting cancellation chicken. Who will be the first to suggest cancellation?
  • The City Planner with the muck boots in his personal vehicle and a new department issued rain jacket
  • The grizzled grading superintendent who suggested that we meet today because it was raining last Thursday.
  • The City's construction project coordinator who likes to track mud into office buildings.
  • The City's Public Utility Director who doesn't really want to be anywhere.
  • The Developer's engineer that knows everything.
  • The developer's project manager that doesn't want to stop progress of the project for anything.
Edit... Before I could finish posting this; the meeting location has been moved to a indoor location, but any guesses as to who suggested the change?
 
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