Octopus Overlords

ImLawBoy wrote:

Jaymann wrote:Since almost no one ever parks in the handicap space, my favorite spot is to park very close to it, ensuring a wide berth on both sides.

As someone who needs every inch of space a handicapped spot provides for a ramp and getting my son's wheelchair loaded and unloaded, I'd really appreciate you stopping this practice.

ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) -- A hardbound edition of "The Hobbit" is back on the shelves at a New York library nearly 40 years after it was checked out by a reader who traveled the world as a Marine.

Bob James tells WSTM-TV in Syracuse (http://bit.ly/2jwoC2Q) that he checked out the J.R.R. Tolkien book from the Tompkins County Public Library in Ithaca before enlisting in the Marines in 1979.

The book became so popular with his fellow Marines that there was a waiting list. James believes the book was passed along to Marines and sailors serving aboard at least eight different ships in the western Pacific.

He brought the book the home after getting out of the Marines and held onto it until Monday, when he returned it to the library.

The library didn't charge him any late fees.

coopasonic wrote:

LordMortis wrote:There is a movement of people who spell dilemma with an n. Who knew?

http://dilemna.info/

I view that page as more of a support group for the misled or misinformed.

hepcat wrote:Posted the following on my facebook page:

It's dreary and cloudy outside. I think I'll just spend the day in my boxers. God, I love those dogs.

Then I realized that joke was probably going a little too far and deleted it. Society wins.

Blackhawk wrote:The police spots aren't for convenience. The police spots are because cops are often there either on a priority call - not quite an emergency yet, but they don't need to be searching for a place to park, and because they are often dragging uncooperative suspects out to their cars.

tjg_marantz wrote:A longing?

ImLawBoy wrote:

Jaymann wrote:Since almost no one ever parks in the handicap space, my favorite spot is to park very close to it, ensuring a wide berth on both sides.

As someone who needs every inch of space a handicapped spot provides for a ramp and getting my son's wheelchair loaded and unloaded, I'd really appreciate you stopping this practice.

Jaymann wrote:

ImLawBoy wrote:

Jaymann wrote:Since almost no one ever parks in the handicap space, my favorite spot is to park very close to it, ensuring a wide berth on both sides.

As someone who needs every inch of space a handicapped spot provides for a ramp and getting my son's wheelchair loaded and unloaded, I'd really appreciate you stopping this practice.

Well you shamed me into examining the situation more closely. There are actually 2 handicap spaces next to each other with the unloading area between them (a smart setup). So me sidling up to the outside of this setup has zero impact on the unloading capability.

wonderpug wrote:

Jaymann wrote:

ImLawBoy wrote:

Jaymann wrote:Since almost no one ever parks in the handicap space, my favorite spot is to park very close to it, ensuring a wide berth on both sides.

As someone who needs every inch of space a handicapped spot provides for a ramp and getting my son's wheelchair loaded and unloaded, I'd really appreciate you stopping this practice.

Well you shamed me into examining the situation more closely. There are actually 2 handicap spaces next to each other with the unloading area between them (a smart setup). So me sidling up to the outside of this setup has zero impact on the unloading capability.

Some wheel chair lifters are fixed so that the car can only unload on one side.

Enough wrote:No matter how kind you are, German children are kinder.

Isgrimnur wrote:One assumes that they still have a reverse gear.

US authorities have seized $20m (£16m) in cash discovered in a bed frame under a mattress in a Massachusetts flat.

The cash is believed to be linked to a $1bn pyramid scheme involving TelexFree, a company that claimed to provide internet phone services.

Investigators uncovered the cash while following a Brazilian man, who was charged in connection to the haul.

Federal prosecutors say the defunct company swindled almost a million people worldwide out of about $1bn.

Blackhawk wrote:It's been one of those months.

My glasses got run over a few weeks ago.
My socks (all the same age) all started sprouting holes.
I just noticed a tear on one of my two pairs of pants.

And now my vacuum cleaner just exploded. Loud noise. Bad smell.

Thanks, Trump.

Blackhawk wrote:And now my vacuum cleaner just exploded. Loud noise. Bad smell.

Smoove_B wrote:

Blackhawk wrote:And now my vacuum cleaner just exploded. Loud noise. Bad smell.

My mom still has an Electrolux vacuum from the 1960s - it's one of the floor canister models. Other than replacing worn belts, it's unstoppable and has ridiculous suction power. Meanwhile, I've gone through at least 4 vacuums in the last decade. They don't make 'em like they used to...

dbt1949 wrote:I was drinking my soda today when evidently a lady bug crawled inside and I ate it.
Birds are right not to eat these things. Yuck!

Daehawk wrote:I used to sell Kirby vacuums. A nuke couldn't kill one. They last forever and in 1987 for the price of $800 they damn well better. I used to sell one a day I was so good. The only downsides to them were they were heavy and the belts broke often. But those things worked better than any vac you could buy.

coopasonic wrote:

Daehawk wrote:I used to sell Kirby vacuums. A nuke couldn't kill one. They last forever and in 1987 for the price of $800 they damn well better. I used to sell one a day I was so good. The only downsides to them were they were heavy and the belts broke often. But those things worked better than any vac you could buy.

We finally retired my mother-in-laws Kirby 7 years back when we moved to a two story house. Hauling that thing upstairs on a regular basis was just not going to happen. We've been through several vacuums since. Nothing compares.

Rip wrote:
The vacuum cleaner sounds like it could be a broke belt. Depending on model not that hard to fix.