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Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Feb 07, 2021 1:16 pm

I admit those are two legendary songs.

I think Ill make this its own thread so others can play along.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Sun Feb 07, 2021 1:46 pm

Holman wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 11:49 am
Daehawk wrote: ↑Fri Feb 05, 2021 11:51 pm See and play the song that was #1 on your birth date.

https://www.birthdayjams.com/
Number 1 on my birthday was Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It through the Grapevine," and number 1 on the country charts that day was Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman."

I am therefore objectively awesome.

Mine was Smells Like Team Spirit.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Feb 07, 2021 2:41 pm

You sure its Team?

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Sun Feb 07, 2021 2:42 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 2:41 pm You sure its Team?

Well it was #1 after all.

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Sun Feb 07, 2021 6:14 pm

Holman wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 11:54 am
Daehawk wrote: ↑Sat Feb 06, 2021 2:49 pm Have an urge to watch The Hollywood Knights again. it came out in 1980 and I was just 11 so missed it. My wife told me about it and got me to watch it around 1990. One of those classic 80s young comedy movies that were so prevalent then. Like Porkys or American Graffiti. It stands on it's own though. No idea why it re entered my head today.
I'm guessing you'll find that it (like Porky's) doesn't age well.

So many of those 80s sex comedies feature assault, stalking, and casual bigotry in ways that feel very creepy today.

they felt that way back then, to me - the typical gen-Z'er watching those now would be horrified

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sun Feb 07, 2021 9:22 pm

I do not understand this fascination with Miley Cyrus. To me she seems like an embarrassment, but she is constantly in the news or web. So I must be a minority.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Sun Feb 07, 2021 9:38 pm

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 9:22 pm I do not understand this fascination with Miley Cyrus. To me she seems like an embarrassment, but she is constantly in the news or web. So I must be a minority.

She started as a Disney child star and grew up to be a sex symbol, making her this century's Annette Funicello.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Feb 07, 2021 10:00 pm

We liked her on Hannah Montana. Except for a couple songs I ignore her as an adult..if you can call her that. And sex symbol?..puhleez.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Feb 07, 2021 10:54 pm

The one winning the Super Bowl is the one I figured would win it.

Sudy · Post by **Sudy** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 2:28 am

I think it's a rule that the celebrities with the broadest appeal are generally vapid and repulsive to us outcasts and intellectuals. Evidently, they appeal to a lot of people... ask one of them and see what they say.

Generational differences isn't all of it, because I think most of us will remember being confused and irritated by pop icons when we were kids, too.

pr0ner · Post by **pr0ner** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 10:02 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 10:00 pm We liked her on Hannah Montana. Except for a couple songs I ignore her as an adult..if you can call her that. And sex symbol?..puhleez.

She absolutely is a sex symbol now.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 11:32 am

pr0ner wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 10:02 am
Daehawk wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 10:00 pm We liked her on Hannah Montana. Except for a couple songs I ignore her as an adult..if you can call her that. And sex symbol?..puhleez.
She absolutely is a sex symbol now.

Yes totally

pr0ner · Post by **pr0ner** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 11:58 am

A bad picture does not make her unattractive.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 1:23 pm

I picked the winner in my head of the super bowl but I was thinking 10 points...not so many lol.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 1:39 pm

Remember Rebecca Black? The kid that sang the song Friday in 2011? She is all grown up now at 23. Doubt any of the boys make fun of her now.

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 2:10 pm

pr0ner wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 11:58 amA bad picture does not make her unattractive.

The actions I'm familiar with do.

Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 2:11 pm

But... does she still think it's Friday?

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 2:18 pm

pr0ner wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 11:58 am A bad picture does not make her unattractive.

Also a picture of someone letting loose is not mutually exclusive with them being a sex symbol.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 2:28 pm

Anyone have experience with those baseball cap washers? The type you put your cap in then toss in the machine? Supposed to hold their bill form. I think the bills are filled with paper board / cardboard and if you just toss them in it ruins them. I have a green army hat my wife got me years and years ago and I wear it to work outside in. It has sweat stains Id like to wash out but dont want to lose it.

Those things look like this....

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 2:44 pm

Picture, schmicture. I'd find her attractive if she didn't work so hard to push the 'slutty' persona, but none of that matters. Whether she's a sex symbol or not isn't about how any of us see her (I don't find most 'sex symbols' attractive.) It's about how she's perceived at-large, and to a certain significant segment of the population, she's a sex symbol.

Anonymous Bosch · Post by **Anonymous Bosch** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 2:48 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 2:28 pm Anyone have experience with those baseball cap washers? The type you put your cap in then toss in the machine? Supposed to hold their bill form. I think the bills are filled with paper board / cardboard and if you just toss them in it ruins them. I have a green army hat my wife got me years and years ago and I wear it to work outside in. It has sweat stains Id like to wash out but dont want to lose it.

Those things look like this....

I doubt that device is intended for use with the older type of caps that have a bill likely constructed from cardboard instead of the more forgiving plastics of today's day and age. So if you agitate and fully immerse an older cap like that in a washing machine, you're asking for the bill to be turned into mush whether you stick it in one of those frames or not.

With an older cap like that, it'd be much safer to spot-clean it as described here (be sure to pay careful attention to the 'Tips for Cleaning Older Hats' section):

How to Clean a Baseball Cap

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 7:53 pm

Thanks. Looking like it may stay dirty

In other news...FLABBERDABBER! I had three days lined up since last week to work on the brush and trees. Today through Wednesday. I got out today and cut the first tree and my polesaw got pinched in the limb and stuck when the tree decided F it its going to fall over with or without me. Bent my shaft (is this sounding dirty to anyone else yet?) and broke my polesaw. So I called Home Depot and they said bring it in for exchange. Dang place is the other side of town. Took me 25 min to get there. They tell me just go get one like and come back to the front. Of course they dont have one JUST like it. They have one exactly like it except it has a 10" bar and not a 8" bar. Same everything else and same price. (Still sounds dirty. Only adding nuts and bolts would make this worse)

So at front due to the 2" difference they wont swap with me. And they dont carry mine. So they stick me with STORE fucking CREDIT! I hate store credit. So no matter what they have my money. Would be ok but mine was on sale and I dont have the difference this month to actually go ahead and get the other one. So I have no polesaw.

So Im left with 2 options..

1. Wait on stimulus and pay the difference and get a new polesaw then. Which is at least a month or two away . I cant work outside in the heat the cold or the rain or worse health so Im limited to a short window early in the year and late in the year.

2 Or I can drag out my real chainsaw thats hard to start and run, dangerous, and VERY difficult to use thanks to two busted wrists and hands. Plus it wont reach to the tree tops I need to cut out of the wire from power to house.

The day started with such promise.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 8:00 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 7:53 pm Thanks. Looking like it may stay dirty

In other news...FLABBERDABBER! I had three days lined up since last week to work on the brush and trees. Today through Wednesday. I got out today and cut the first tree and my polesaw got pinched in the limb and stuck when the tree decided F it its going to fall over with or without me. Bent my shaft (is this sounding dirty to anyone else yet?) and broke my polesaw. So I called Home Depot and they said bring it in for exchange. Dang place is the other side of town. Took me 25 min to get there. They tell me just go get one like and come back to the front. Of course they dont have one JUST like it. They have one exactly like it except it has a 10" bar and not a 8" bar. Same everything else and same price. (Still sounds dirty. Only adding nuts and bolts would make this worse)

So at front due to the 2" difference they wont swap with me. And they dont carry mine. So they stick me with STORE fucking CREDIT! I hate store credit. So no matter what they have my money. Would be ok but mine was on sale and I dont have the difference this month to actually go ahead and get the other one. So I have no polesaw.

So Im left with 2 options..

1. Wait on stimulus and pay the difference and get a new polesaw then. Which is at least a month or two away . I cant work outside in the heat the cold or the rain or worse health so Im limited to a short window early in the year and late in the year.

2 Or I can drag out my real chainsaw thats hard to start and run, dangerous, and VERY difficult to use thanks to two busted wrists and hands. Plus it wont reach to the tree tops I need to cut out of the wire from power to house.

The day started with such promise.

Aren't you lucky that they didn't just say "Your tree broke it, it's not our problem"?

Was there a warranty?

gilraen · Post by **gilraen** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 8:05 pm

See if they have your original saw on their website (for a sale price, or at least cheaper than the other one) and have it delivered to the store for pickup?

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 8:12 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 7:53 pm Of course they dont have one JUST like it. They have one exactly like it except it has a 10" bar and not a 8" bar. Same everything else and same price.

Uhm...

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 8:18 pm

gilraen wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 8:05 pm See if they have your original saw on their website (for a sale price, or at least cheaper than the other one) and have it delivered to the store for pickup?

I asked the guy giving me the store credit gift card and he read it and it says in store only. So not sure they'd ship it to my store without payment for me to pay there for. Ive never heard of that.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 8:18 pm

Was there a warranty?

1 year with HD and 5 years through Ryobi.

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 8:43 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 7:53 pm Thanks. Looking like it may stay dirty

c'mon, spot-cleaning is not hard

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 8:46 pm

But you have to catch him first.

Anonymous Bosch · Post by **Anonymous Bosch** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 10:44 pm

hitbyambulance wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 8:43 pm
Daehawk wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 7:53 pm Thanks. Looking like it may stay dirty

c'mon, spot-cleaning is not hard

Indeed, we're hardly talking rocket science here, Daehawk. In terms of safely cleaning a baseball cap, as that write-up observes, spot-cleaning with a simple toothbrush and just a little shampoo works remarkably well for removing sweat stains.

gilraen · Post by **gilraen** » Tue Feb 09, 2021 1:39 am

Looks like that article suggests exactly what I used to do back in college when I occasionally wore baseball caps: just soaking them in a bucket of soapy water for a few hours. I never got them so stained that I needed to scrub, but I can see where shampoo would be ideal (since it's kinda designed to clean sweat).

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Tue Feb 09, 2021 9:46 am

I've got a pair of wireless earbuds. Because I have to keep one ear open at work, I keep one earbud synced to my tablet for the times when I want to listen to a video or something. I have the other earbud synced to my phone for when I want to listen to an audiobook. It works well as long as I never have both out at once, but it can be jarring to suddenly hear an author in my ear when I was expecting to hear a game review or vice versa. Some day I'm going to label them.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Feb 09, 2021 12:45 pm

Can you believe its been 21 years since Y2K? Over 2 decades!

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Tue Feb 09, 2021 1:02 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 8:12 pm
Daehawk wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 7:53 pm Of course they dont have one JUST like it. They have one exactly like it except it has a 10" bar and not a 8" bar. Same everything else and same price.
Uhm...

He also mentioned he got his on sale, so only got back the sale price. He doesn't have the difference between that and the full price.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Tue Feb 09, 2021 1:04 pm

I have finally solved my earbud problem. One set of tips is always too big. The next is always too small. Then I realized - I have different sized ears. The right is larger than the left. Of all the stupid things not to realize.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Tue Feb 09, 2021 1:12 pm

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Tue Feb 09, 2021 1:04 pm I have finally solved my earbud problem. One set of tips is always too big. The next is always too small. Then I realized - I have different sized ears. The right is larger than the left. Of all the stupid things not to realize.

Have you ever considered bone conduction? I've used two different versions of Aftershockz and never want to go back to buds.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Feb 09, 2021 1:31 pm

On the saw front Ive decided to skip a polesaw and buy an electric chainsaw. I have to wait on either my energy help to go through or my stimulus. But Ill get this yard cleaned up in a year or two some way. Im sick of it.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Feb 09, 2021 1:32 pm

Going to be 14 degrees Monday morn. Time to break out that last bottle of kerosene Ive been saving since 2018.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Tue Feb 09, 2021 1:53 pm

stessier wrote: ↑Tue Feb 09, 2021 1:12 pm
Blackhawk wrote: ↑Tue Feb 09, 2021 1:04 pm I have finally solved my earbud problem. One set of tips is always too big. The next is always too small. Then I realized - I have different sized ears. The right is larger than the left. Of all the stupid things not to realize.
Have you ever considered bone conduction? I've used two different versions of Aftershockz and never want to go back to buds.

I'd love to give it a try, but I'd need to know how it worked and sounded (to me, not others) before I'd be willing to shell out the dough. And while they'd be great for some applications (driving, for example), they'd be bad for some others (doing anything in a noisy house where the point is to not hear anything else.)

Jaymon · Post by **Jaymon** » Tue Feb 09, 2021 3:21 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 11:37 pm sitting here reciting old 70s tv commercial jingles.....cant remember what I learned in school but can recite ancient tv commercials...thanks brain...awesome...always been there for me in life.

"Little blue jug of...Dynamo!"

Pixar explains why