Curmudgeons Under Down

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Gertabelle said:
Seriously, conservative Catholics need to stop having this knee-jerk reaction against the public schools! 😠
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And unions, government regulations, interreligious dialogue, taxes, the Second Vatican Council, our current Holy Father… 😠

“Pluralism,” “coexist” and “compromise” are very often like curse words here. I see the term “Benedict Option” thrown around a lot too, and I think “Amish Option” would be a more appropriate term - if we can’t make everyone conform to our particular beliefs, then we can completely withdraw from evil society and those “other” wicked people 😡

Oh my! Whatever just came over me? Okay, rant over 😳
 
I almost thought you said “Amish Oprah”.

That would be interesting.
 
“And today, everyone in the audience gets… a new plough horse!! You get a new plough horse! And you get a new plough horse!”
 
Probably too late for 2018., but 2020 now…

Hey a new third party… The Curmudgeons.

Congress could be replaced by Cumudgeonarium. Say. This thing has possibilities. I’ll bet you could get resources from a “Go fund me” entry.
 
StephieNorthCo said:
Probably too late for 2018., but 2020 now…

Hey a new third party… The Curmudgeons.

Congress could be replaced by Cumudgeonarium. Say. This thing has possibilities. I’ll bet you could get resources from a “Go fund me” entry.
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Awesome.

No need to go around smiling and trying to convince everyone that we care about their pet projects.

The curmudgeon party platform will be:
  • Wipe that smile off your face.
  • Mind your own business.
  • Go do something with your life.
  • Get off my lawn.
Yep, I think we’ve got a winning idea there, folks. 👵🚬

Gov needs a new job. I nominate him as the first candidate to run on the Curmudgeon party ticket.
 
That’s right. And the children will have cold mush and they’ll LIKE it. 😠
 
StephieNorthCo said:
Hey a new third party… The Curmudgeons.
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Great idea sign me up. 👍

Instead of having an elephant or a donkey we could use something like this:

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TheHolyTrinity said:
My balcony thermometer (shade temp) reached 52.3 C today at 2pm !
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Greenfields said:
My kitchen thermometer read 35C
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Okay, OKAY! SHEESH! I have NO idea what has gotten into you people! Here you are, nations that still consider HRH Queen Elizabeth to be your nation’s head-of-state, and you’re using a system of measurements that originated with the atheist Masonic French Revolution as a way of eliminating nature-based (i.e, from G_D) measurements, while we 'Mericuns (“It’s not A Merica, it’s THE Merica”) after having thrown off the chains of imperialistic royalty, still use a measurement system that is proudly called “Imperial”!

I don’t even want to look at you now. 😡

FOR THE RECORD: 35 down there equals 95 up here; 52.3 C = 126 F. So, yeah, a bit toasty. If it’s as humid as you describe, throw a steak in a vacuum-sealed plastic bag and hang it up outside for some nature-based Sous-vide cooking.
 
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Sorry. No. Wait. This is Curmudgeon territory.

True story (albeit engineering humor).
I told one of the techs to temperature test a piece of equipment at 85C for 4 hours. He asked what was that in “real” temperature. Thought for a second and said it was 185F.

So he mis-set the chamber for 185C. (365F). Needless to say, the equipment came out crispy crittered.
 
I have to wonder if the knobs on the oven were labeled. I mean, if the dial CLEARLY stated “C”, then he had no excuse.

Another true story: On the night of July 25, 1956, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria was struck by the Swedish ship MS Stockholm in heavy fog off the coast of Nantucket. The Andrea Doria later capsized and sank after 1,660 people were rescued. Both ships had radar, a new tool in those days. It’s not known who misread their radar; what is agreed upon is that the accident could have been prevented by the addition of a 50-cent piece of equipment: a small light that would have made it clear if the radar scale was switched to read kilometers or tens-of-kilometers. Had that light been added to either of the ships radar equipment, there would have been no confusion about the distances involved. A clear example of what would later be codified as “Murphy’s Law”.
 
Have you watched the show weather gone viral? 🙀

Greenfields it is the metal skin of the car that protects you in a lightening strike. Not the rubber tyres. Yes as soon as you hear thunder, get inside or in a car or shed. Lightening can travel along the ground for some distance . The Old see the lightening, count the seconds till thunder to determine how far away the storm is , doesn’t work for safety from being struck by lightening.
Lightening likes to hit the highest point but will then travel along the ground.
I used to work with a guy who was next to people 5 seperate times when they were struck by lightening.
 
Muzhik, I took a newborn foal into vets one night, around 3am. The place was being flooded out, and the the foal was cold and wet. The vets were working in a blackout with head torches. They took temperatures of the foal with 3 thermometers. None registered a temp. They thought , strangely, all 3 were broken. In reality the foal’s temp was too low to register. Sometimes the obvious answer isn’t that obvious!
 
I was in the car at the time. Not sure if the car protects you in a lightening strike. A tropical cyclone is forming off New Caledonia and well will get rain from the ex-tropical cyclone over the coming days - still a low certainty.
 
It’s metal skin grounds the car, so a strike goes through. Get inside in a storm.
As opposed to being outside . Although if you feel that static, and are outside, try to get 1 leg off the ground.
 
Thanks for the info, lets hope it doesn’t happen again in the near future.
 
Remember that “lightning never strikes the same place twice” is a myth. It can and has. (Remember, this is a Curmudgeon thread) 👿
 
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