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RTDNTOTO 🐻 Random Thoughts Deserving No Thread Of Their Own 20 (2025)

luckless pedestrian said:
wait, a mullet?
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JNA said:
^^^^
The dream police
They live inside in my head
The dream police
They come to me in my bed
The dream police
They're coming to arrest me
Oh no
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"...If my thought dreams could be seen
They'd probably put my head
In a guillotine,
But it's alright, Ma..."---B. Dylan

BTW this is what I told hospital staff in attendance last time I emerged from general anesthesia.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
Lately I like to take my post-lunch naps on the floor in front of the fireplace in the living room. Today I learned I cannot do that without alerting my wife ahead of time lest she thinks I collapsed for some reason. :omg:
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Understandable.

We are getting old.

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That reminds me...there's a minor clog in the shower drain and I'm the only one in the household that knows how to clear it.
 
mendelman said:
Understandable.

We are getting old.

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That reminds me...there's a minor clog in the shower drain and I'm the only one in the household that knows how to clear it.
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Ah yes, the hair clog. We have a long plastic tool that we use when this happens. I shove into the drain and move it up and down and pushes the clogg down the drain. Seems to clear fairly quickly. Much better than Drain-O. Similar to this but the barbs are only on the end.
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SlaveToTheGrind said:
Ah yes, the hair clog. We have a long plastic tool that we use when this happens. I shove into the drain and move it up and down and pushes the clogg down the drain. Seems to clear fairly quickly. Much better than Drain-O. Similar to this but the barbs are only on the end.
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I need to get one/some of those. I use a small metal snake and it's not as presumably flexible as these plastic ones.

Thanks for the reminder...oh wise old(er) Middle-Aged Man.

o_O
 
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SlaveToTheGrind said:
Ah yes, the hair clog. We have a long plastic tool that we use when this happens. I shove into the drain and move it up and down and pushes the clogg down the drain. Seems to clear fairly quickly. Much better than Drain-O. Similar to this but the barbs are only on the end.
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Santa put a pack of those into all of our stockings a few years ago!

FWIW, my hair is fairly short and I rarely shower at home but my wife and daughters all have long thick hair and they're always complaining about slow shower and sink drains. I would tell them it's because of all the hair that gets rinsed down the drains (even with various filters/traps over them) but no, it's something about our old pipes and whatever. :r:

When we got those little plastic snakes I gave them each a lesson on how to use them and my wife still didn't believe it was all hair until I pulled a huge nasty slimy smelly gunky bundle of hair out of one of the sinks and it instantly started draining about 100x faster!
 
WSU MUP Student said:
Santa put a pack of those into all of our stockings a few years ago!

FWIW, my hair is fairly short and I rarely shower at home but my wife and daughters all have long thick hair and they're always complaining about slow shower and sink drains. I would tell them it's because of all the hair that gets rinsed down the drains (even with various filters/traps over them) but no, it's something about our old pipes and whatever. :r:

When we got those little plastic snakes I gave them each a lesson on how to use them and my wife still didn't believe it was all hair until I pulled a huge nasty slimy smelly gunky bundle of hair out of one of the sinks and it instantly started draining about 100x faster!
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I feel your pain brother. Not many things gross me out, but when I first had to pull the huge nasty slimy smelly gunky bundle of hair out of the shower drain that my daughters use I almost lost it.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
Santa put a pack of those into all of our stockings a few years ago!

FWIW, my hair is fairly short and I rarely shower at home but my wife and daughters all have long thick hair and they're always complaining about slow shower and sink drains. I would tell them it's because of all the hair that gets rinsed down the drains (even with various filters/traps over them) but no, it's something about our old pipes and whatever. :r:

When we got those little plastic snakes I gave them each a lesson on how to use them and my wife still didn't believe it was all hair until I pulled a huge nasty slimy smelly gunky bundle of hair out of one of the sinks and it instantly started draining about 100x faster!
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btrage said:
I feel your pain brother. Not many things gross me out, but when I first had to pull the huge nasty slimy smelly gunky bundle of hair out of the shower drain that my daughters use I almost lost it.
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I only have my wife with long hair, but four adult size males and only one shower. So, lots of clog potential.
 
mendelman said:
Yep.

One of my top five favorite bands.

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Love the band, but they were kind of boring in concert. Just stood there and played. I mean, no dancing or fireworks or anything?

I got two ladies in the house now that one moved out and it's the hair. I have the barbed thing to clear out the daughter's drain every few months. She has long long hair. The wife is not as bad, maybe once a year or something.
 
SlaveToTheGrind said:
Ah yes, the hair clog. We have a long plastic tool that we use when this happens. I shove into the drain and move it up and down and pushes the clogg down the drain. Seems to clear fairly quickly. Much better than Drain-O. Similar to this but the barbs are only on the end.
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NO. they break easily and then you are screwed!
 
joscoffee said:
Once upon a time, there were three kingdoms, all bordering on the same lake. For centuries, these kingdoms had fought over an island in the middle of that lake. One day, they decided to have it out, once and for all.

The first kingdom was quite rich, and sent an army of 25 knights, each with three squires. The night before the battle, the knights jousted and cavorted as their squires polished armor, cooked food, and sharpened weapons. The second kingdom was not so wealthy, and sent only 10 knights, each with 2 squires. The night before the battle, the knights cavorted and sharpened their weapons as the squires polished armor and prepared dinner. The third kingdom was very poor, and only sent one elderly knight with his sole squire. The night before the battle, the knight sharpened his weapon, while the squire, using a looped rope, slung a pot high over the fire to cook while he prepared the knight's armor.

The next day, the battle began. All the knights of the first two kingdoms had cavorted a bit too much (one should never cavort while sharpening weapons and jousting) and could not fight. The squire of the third kingdom could not rouse the elderly knight in time for combat. So, in the absence of the knights, the squires fought.

The battle raged well into the late hours, but when the dust finally settled, a solitary figure limped from the carnage. The lone squire from the third kingdom dragged himself away, beaten, bloodied, but victorious.

And it just goes to prove, the squire of the high pot and noose is equal to the sum of the squires of the other two sides.
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I was never happier with a home upgrade than when we got rid of the 200lb cast iron drain stack (with joints secured by lead and oakum) and all the stupid galvanized drain pipe attached to it (with hair-catching joints) and replaced it with PVC with cleanouts in all the right places. I used to have to go after the shower drain with a 15' snake in the pre-PVC days but now everything slides right down. I use one of those plastic thingies on the bathroom sink about once every six months.
 
Faust_Motel said:
I was never happier with a home upgrade than when we got rid of the 200lb cast iron drain stack (with joints secured by lead and oakum) and all the stupid galvanized drain pipe attached to it (with hair-catching joints) and replaced it with PVC with cleanouts in all the right places. I used to have to go after the shower drain with a 15' snake in the pre-PVC days but now everything slides right down. I use one of those plastic thingies on the bathroom sink about once every six months.
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I stopped using hair snakes and put drain baskets in the drain. Those work so much better.
 
fringe said:
"...If my thought dreams could be seen
They'd probably put my head
In a guillotine,
But it's alright, Ma..."---B. Dylan

BTW this is what I told hospital staff in attendance last time I emerged from general anesthesia.
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Interestingly, my wife tells me I was singing Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 when I emerged from anesthesia following my heart attack. I was reportedly trying to get all staff and visitors nearby to join in on the chorus ("EVERYBODY must get stoned!"). Must be some link between Bob Dylan and anesthesia.
 
I was just wishing I had more hair on top of my head - no I have not gotten to the point of shaving what is left off yet.
 
Before planning, this humble scribe was a plumber's apprentice (high school). The sewage revulsion factor and corresponding gag reflex decreases exponentially after week 1. No hairy glob of unidentifiable black gelatin (with white and orange accents, if you're lucky!) can disgust me. Plus you get to claim you "know your shit" forever!
Cast iron was the worst. Sometimes a homeowner would insist upon hydrojetting their cast iron lines that ran up the outside of old victorianish homes and you would be treated to a lovely shattering noise and rain of rusty poop when the feeble material met the 2-4,000 PSI force of the equipment. Infernal.
 
joscoffee said:
Before planning, this humble scribe was a plumber's apprentice (high school). The sewage revulsion factor and corresponding gag reflex decreases exponentially after week 1. No hairy glob of unidentifiable black gelatin (with white and orange accents, if you're lucky!) can disgust me. Plus you get to claim you "know your shit" forever!
Cast iron was the worst. Sometimes a homeowner would insist upon hydrojetting their cast iron lines that ran up the outside of old victorianish homes and you would be treated to a lovely shattering noise and rain of rusty poop when the feeble material met the 2-4,000 PSI force of the equipment. Infernal.
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yes an old plumber once told me to never look into a sewer line
 
The eternal Thompson gunner
Still wandering through the night
Now it's ten years later but he still keeps up the fight
In Ireland, in Lebanon, in Palestine and Berkeley
Patty Hearst heard the burst of Roland's Thompson gun and bought it
 
DVD said:
Love the band, but they were kind of boring in concert. Just stood there and played. I mean, no dancing or fireworks or anything?
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I've seen Cake live twice (once about 20 years ago and another time around 5 years before that) and I recall John McCrea being sort of lively while still just standing there, if that makes any sense. In any event, I enjoyed both those shows and would happily go see them again if they were in the area.
 
Returned a couple of books to the library unread today.

I have recently decided that there is no shame in returning books I haven't yet read, if I don't anticipate my getting to them within a couple of weeks.

I just put them back on my hold list (with a frozen hold), and will unfreeze them when I ready for them.

Our library has theoretical due dates, but, with no fines or enforcement, they are really just polite requests. (I don't want to deprive others of the chance to read. :) )

Jim
 
Good friend of mine is a plumber. He told me if it's a sewer line job, 'you just have to get your mind right before you head in."
 
Planit said:
Good friend of mine is a plumber. He told me if it's a sewer line job, 'you just have to get your mind right before you head in."
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I can't imagine what those go through who have to go inside large sewers and/or work for big cities. Simply going underneath houses was bad enough.
 
The cafe on our first floor has a new vendor as of this week. BIG improvement over the old one. I expect it will be part of my lunch rotation once a fortnight or so. (I usually bring my lunch and like to eat by myself off in a corner of the 7th floor, since I am around people all day and I like my "me" time.)

Twelve bucks gets you a yummy BLT, chips or veggies, cookies, and drink. Can't beat that.

Jim
 
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