What makes you think that they're all separate entities, not just manifestations of one all encompassing irritant?Quote:
Originally Posted by Toolmaker51
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What makes you think that they're all separate entities, not just manifestations of one all encompassing irritant?Quote:
Originally Posted by Toolmaker51
Old Kodger,
I really would not want to be around if you told a room full of Leprechauns, Fairies & Elves,(not that this would ever happen), that they were all the same!
Has anyone else ever dropped something and couldn't find it and decided to drop another something, usually the last something, in order to see where the first something went only to lose the second something as well?
Ha! I do that with the little bits that jump off the bench when I'm not watching...the trick is to focus on point of impact when you drop the second one...cheers
Inconceivable! No deity would create such a diabolical, widespread, infinite, self-serving, despicable entity.Quote:
Originally Posted by old kodger
Yet, on the other hand, I've no copy of the Master Plan...
Oh yes they would what else is a deity to do after creating everything. Once created where's the entertainment in just watching man go about his daily lives without injecting a little serendipity in our livesQuote:
Originally Posted by Toolmaker51
I have dropped a second item to try to find the first, and have indeed lost the second. If the thing is really important, I typically find it by sweeping under the things I cannot see under, then sifting through the dust and debris that comes out.
[QUOTE=hemmjo;192259]I have dropped a second item to try to find the first, and have indeed lost the second. If the thing is really important, I typically find it by sweeping under the things I cannot see under, then sifting through the dust and debris that comes out.[/QUOTE
Yep, that's in phase 2 of mystery disappearance...and with my trusty floor magnet thingy...but recently working with SS...lost a 3mm nut...I make sure I overbuy at the big green box...you can never have enough spare hardware...I bought a 30 drawer mini cabinet, about 350mm square in 1980 and have been filling and using it's contents for the last 40 years...(one of my) grandsons calls it Grampy's lucky dip cabinet...always a treat to use a nut or bolt or such that you gleaned from an obscure source, even in the gutter walking the dog...handy if you never need it...cheers
I stand corrected, hoping the assignment went to a lesser deity of nuisance exclusively?Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
Meanwhile, also standing uncomfortably, with a metal chip in my sock.
Inside high top boot.
With full length trousers.
With Tee-shirt not tucked in!....how big are these Blue Men?
Do they carry 10" ladders?
They do not need ladders, they can morph and move around in very stealthy ways... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Toolmaker51
Solution! WWI Doughboy trench gaiters, spats, lace up leggings?Quote:
Originally Posted by hemmjo
Some threads propel themselves! Cheap fun!
I am unbelievably happy with this thread, it is proof positive that I'm not the only "loser" ( I do mean that in a materialistic way). It has become a standing joke around my workshop. Just yesterday I dropped (it popped off of the bench actually) a paxolin special profile washer, well that knackered the old magnet trick. Moved things, swept the floor.........turned up a new one.
Me too, giddy and filled with reverie. Especially when tripping across new ideas and such.......
Paxolin = Paxolin (SRBP) is a brown phenolic paper laminate.
Knackered is somewhat broader = worn, tired, incomplete, faulty, defective and universally SNAFU
Snafu is probably the closest, a knackery is where horses are taken to be put down = a knackery = abattoir.
"always a treat to use a nut or bolt or such that you gleaned from an obscure source, even in the gutter walking the dog...handy if you never need it...cheers "
That is stuff the universe is providing for free, many today just aren't grateful. I am always amazed that something others consider rubbish that I pick up comes in handy or is needed by someone else within a few weeks of finding,(usually right after I have cleaned/fixed and tidied up).
I think my purpose in life may be a recycling center.
Norton, I'm a big fan of recycle/re-purpose...I love making heirloom type projects for friends and family from my well seasoned (some as old as 50 years) hordes of timber and panel products. Nothing better than bringing a ratty old bit of weathered wood to a new purpose...and I've got a fair stash of NZ Kauri Pine as well...cheers
Just yesterday I was searching for the 3/8" Allen key that is always on the top of my lathe. I had carried it to the project we are working on to tighten up an adjustment and left it on the table.
I left it right there on the table I said after making the adjustment on this side.
I laid it right there my partner said after adjusting this side he said.
We moved parts and tools around from one end of the table to the other searching for several minutes until I finally said the heck with it I'll just get another one and put it on my lathe.
This morning we carried a heavy part to the table and what was right in our way to put down the part . A piece of channel iron with 2/3s of the Allen key sticking out from under it. I swear the table is siting right over the portal into a parallel plane of existence
berserklyboy,
Yeah Kauri is nice, nice fine grain and stunning when oiled. Still quite a few Kauri boats sailing in the harbour. I know little about wood but like art I know what I like. Had/have friends involved in recovering swamp Kauri some of which is semi-petrified. Most of it goes to Japan which is annoying as I reckon high value local stuff should be processed here and value added before export. Rimu and Tawa are other local timbers I like, have little time for pine weeds, horrible stuff only fit for pallets and firewood. Damn wildlings are destroying large areas of bush and bugger-all grows under them plus unpruned they are near impossible to get through when hunting
Some of your Aussie timbers are impressive. That Jarrah is damn strong stuff and the patterns in Spotted Beech are really eye catching.
" I swear the table is siting right over the portal into a parallel plane of existence " - Nah, that was a prime example of the overworked Blue Guys just sorting stuff out.
Yes, indeed...there is some domestic production of touristy stuff, but the export of quantities of swamp Kauri is just wrong...we have some of the same problem here with Huon Pine in Tasmania. AUS timbers are unique in the world, if not only for their density. Our QLD Kauri (sister species) is lovely, but very soft compared to yours. NZ Kauri was imported in huge amounts in late 19th and early 20th century for flooring, and was pulled up wholesale in the 60s and 70s and sent to landfill...I collected what I could find in the 90's and use it where appropriate to this day. Rimu and Tawa are also exceptional timbers...btw, I'm married to a KIWI mainlander for 25 years, so have extensive NZ travel and understanding...We had a bach at Raglan for 12 years as well...cheers
Jim in sunny Sth Coast NSW
Raglan huh. Nice, surf's up! Place ,(like so many now, Piha, Bethels, Muriwai etc),is getting 'civilised'.
Don't know about this 'Mainland' stuff though. Bit of Southerners insecurity there maybe?
Yea, probably, but it's just a laugh really...her son and family live at Edgecumbe, near Whakatane. And her older brother is in Paihia, so we get around usually once a year. I could easily move there, but her 2 other kids are here in AUS. Cheers
Yeah, there is just a little bit of rivalry between the Islands. Stewart Islanders think of themselves as Kiwis but Chatham Islanders do not. Hell, even in the Land of Ork people on Waiheki don't consider themselves to be Orks, Neither do many on the North side of the mighty Waitamata.
Bit like you I have friends spread out all over the place and both siblings are now Aussies. I suppose at the end of the day we are all Southerners to the Northern Hemisphere.
Well put! I'm an American expat since 87. I get asked by any new acquai tance firstly, if I'm a Canuck, and secondly, would I go back and thirdly, what the he'll is going on in America...I'm glad I'm a Sthrn Hemisphereian! Keep well...
Unfortunately, said in 1787, the words of Benjamin Franklin are showing that our founding fathers had very strong insights.Quote:
Originally Posted by Beserkleyboy
This article gives some perspective
For me, this pretty much says it all.
Hemmjo, well, that may be for you, but the religious spin is really just a copout the the real problems facing America today, the lack of compulsory voting as a requirement of citizenship being the elephant in the room...but I will exit here with the politics, as firstly, this forum has always been nearly devoid of it and secondly, no forum will ever be capable of doing them justice in today's utterly unenlightened age. Nuff said, thank you for your contributions.
It’s funny; I occasionally pick up wrenches or sockets from the local pawn shop. Last time I was there, I found all of their 10mm sockets were missing, too!
😂😂 I would expect nothing less.Quote:
Originally Posted by bob47907
10MM sockets are one of the most used sizes so I guess that's why they go missing.