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by stanky
Sun Jan 22, 2023 7:32 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: nature boys part two
Replies: 53
Views: 12270

nature boys part two

Sorry to say that my nature stories are mostly depressing. Like, I can tell you about various plants and animals I don't see anymore. One of the species on the way out, is our white ash trees. The emerald ash borer is wiping them out, all over the U.S. and into Canada. On my land, there are hundreds...
by stanky
Sun Jan 22, 2023 7:03 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: life's little aggravations
Replies: 48
Views: 5640

Re: life's little aggravations

They are! They use the same weapons-grade plastic to package them. That's why you always buy a new one just before the old one wears out, so its last gasp is to re-birth itself. The first one I ever bought didn't need no stinking plastic. A friend recently told me that he bought a tool he needed to...
by stanky
Fri Jan 20, 2023 11:30 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: The Drowning Thread
Replies: 25
Views: 2959

Re: The Drowning Thread

is any of it possibly disguised suicidal tendency? lately, i wonder if an optimal life is the one that has enough adventure to kill you before you need suffer the humiliation of oldness. I could see swimming out, in dangerous waters, as a final adventure with a worthy ending. Dignified, even. (Compa...
by stanky
Fri Jan 20, 2023 11:19 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: is rock and roll really dead this time?
Replies: 104
Views: 18255

Re: is rock and roll really dead this time?

There's a lot of young guitar players that make a stir. Here's one of the best I've heard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foiasZnTdSM&ab_channel=LeviClay At 15 years old, he's got some future. I am reminded of when I first heard/saw Shawn Lane. He was playing lead for Black Oak Arkansas and wa...
by stanky
Fri Jan 20, 2023 11:06 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: life's little aggravations
Replies: 48
Views: 5640

life's little aggravations

i'll go first:

Packaging.

Why is packaging so great that you need power tools to open an envelope?
The stuff inside isn't too great, but we really know how to wrap it.
I wrestle with it almost daily. It causes me to use bad language.
by stanky
Thu Jan 19, 2023 5:09 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Newbs
Replies: 15
Views: 1748

Re: Newbs

As the token cave man here, I find this activity to be most bizarre.
Is there even an analogy for it in the non-computer world?
by stanky
Thu Jan 19, 2023 5:00 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: is rock and roll really dead this time?
Replies: 104
Views: 18255

Re: is rock and roll really dead this time?

There's a lot of young guitar players that make a stir.
Here's one of the best I've heard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foiasZn ... l=LeviClay

At 15 years old, he's got some future.
by stanky
Wed Jan 18, 2023 12:45 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: guns 2
Replies: 137
Views: 12622

Re: guns 2

shooting yesterday at an MLK event; one dead, 8 shot.
by stanky
Wed Jan 18, 2023 12:43 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Life's better moments.
Replies: 203
Views: 32903

Re: Life's better moments.

Admin wrote: Mon Jan 16, 2023 8:42 am
Di Wundrin wrote: Sun Jan 15, 2023 9:44 pm Yea ! avatar works.
Am I the first or last to find those tiny arrows behind the username in the Last post column that take you directly to the last post in the thread??
I'd say last, but stanky may have input.
yeah, i still haven't found them.
by stanky
Sun Jan 15, 2023 4:46 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Weather
Replies: 350
Views: 46241

Re: Weather

Admin wrote: Fri Jan 13, 2023 9:10 am $5B from Aussie's economy isn't too bad - we'd be at half that already and there's a string of cyclones forming that would put Hans Niemann's anal beads to shame.
good to see a chess joke