[HardtailHack]

Samsung should never have started making forklifts and Hyster/Yale should not have kept the Samsung dream alive.
Fuck Crown too, who puts a 5000hr service life on an engine? Stupid Daewoo pieces of shit!
Rabble rabble rabble, Japan FTW!

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Fascinating and a bit terrifying:

The universe is in fact larger and more powerful than we are...

 

[Adventurous]

Whenever I have ziti I feel like I am feasting on the aortas of my enemies.

Or the aortas of my friends. Really just whoever is around when I am hungry.

For some reason my head read aereola instead of aorta and thought nothing of it.

 

[SkaredShtles]

<snip> MIL got all butthurt last night cause we didn't just accept her assertion that only yogurt that says, contains "probiotics" actually contains probiotics. Which is incorrect, since all yogurt technically contains probiotics, whether alive, dead, or of the many different varieties they may add.

Yeah - yogurt without probiotics is just plain old fucking milk.

 

[Adventurous]

Cemeteries are a waste of space and resources. Our town report indicates that it spends 25% more maintaining a single cemetery than the parks and recreation department across multiple properties. There's something wrong with that equation.

 

[Westy]

Cemeteries are a waste of space and resources. Our town report indicates that it spends 25% more maintaining a single cemetery than the parks and recreation department across multiple properties. There's something wrong with that equation.

Make the dead pay property taxes

 

[Adventurous]

Make the dead pay property taxes

You ever been to The Catacombs? That place rules. We need more halls of bones.

 

[Westy]

You ever been to The Catacombs? That place rules. We need more halls of bones.

maybe if we built bridges with bones they would actually get maintained.

 

[Adventurous]

maybe if we built bridges with bones they would actually get maintained.

The mental image is quite humerus.

 

[Westy]

The mental image is quite humerus.

No bones about it

 

[canadmos]

Just some random stuff. I think we've all experienced over flowing trails and whatnot over the past year.

I was looking at some stats on Trail Forks today and saw the following the following...

Copeland Forest - outside of Toronto. Hard to navigate.

https://www.trailforks.com/region/copeland-forest/

Don Valley - located in downtown Toronto. Literal shitshow of people and trails.

https://www.trailforks.com/region/don-valley/

Ontario as a whole. Was expecting more of a spike for 2020 - but this is just Trail Forks, which is just a snippet of the actual riding population. Will be interesting to see at the end of this year, as Trail Forks is definitely gaining more traction over most other trail apps (round here at least).

https://www.trailforks.com/region/ontario/ridelogstats/

 

[StiHacka]

Next chart - miles of trails open to MTBs.

 

[canadmos]

Next chart - miles of trails open to MTBs.

could not find

 

[canadmos]

Has "through" officially become "thru"?

 

[Changleen]

Has "through" officially become "thru"?

No.

 

[canadmos]

No.

o rly

I'd have thought otherwise, based on how often thru is used.

 

[HardtailHack]

Has "through" officially become "thru"?

Was it not always that way? I figured a place that called a "doughnut" a "donut" would also call "through" "thru".

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Language evolves.

 

[Westy]

Langwuj evolvs.

FTFY

 

[Changleen]

FTFY

Yes exactly. Evolution in language is good when it helps us describe out world better but not when it is degenerative. Like, you know, stuff and things.

 

[HardtailHack]

Language devolves.

Yasssss!

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Yes exactly. Evolution in language is good when it helps us describe out world better but not when it is degenerative. Like, you know, stuff and things.

Texting, in particular, is leading to shortening of words, not to mention the like of YMMV and it's ilk. This was, of course, preceded by telegraphy...

 

[StiHacka]

$10 DHL shipping from UK: 3 business days with proper tracking
$30 DHL shipping from DE: 3 weeks to 3 months without having any clues WTF is going on

The difference: DHL UK not using USPS but their own network of couriers.

 

[Adventurous]

Pops and bangs tunes are not cool, nor will they ever be. Your car just sounds like an obnoxious hunk of rolling junk.

 

[Westy]

Pops and bangs tunes are not cool, nor will they ever be. Your car just sounds like an obnoxious hunk of rolling junk.

Still better than every Harley Davidson rider who feels the need to rev their engine constantly

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Still better than every Harley Davidson rider who feels the need to rev their engine constantly

And broadcast shitty music from bad speakers...

 

[slimshady]

What kind of sadistic SOB wants you to put out a presentation in powerpoint these days?

I instantly recalled why I abandoned that POS over 10 years ago.

 

[HardtailHack]

My boss shits me at times.
My petrol compressor started misfiring so I drained the fuel, stripped the carby down, cleaned then reassembled it and the thing ran the same. So, logic says it's a spark problem(gov is working properly).

He asks if I have played with the mixture so I inform that it should not be a mixture issue as it went to crap whilst running.
He "plays with the mixture" until it stops and won't start.
Him and his son do the same on customers' gear, don't diagnose something properly and adjust timing and mixture without writing down any changes they have made, fuck!

 

[Westy]

My boss shits me at times.
My petrol compressor started misfiring so I drained the fuel, stripped the carby down, cleaned then reassembled it and the thing ran the same. So, logic says it's a spark problem(gov is working properly).

He asks if I have played with the mixture so I inform that it should not be a mixture issue as it went to crap whilst running.
He "plays with the mixture" until it stops and won't start.
Him and his son do the same on customers' gear, don't diagnose something properly and adjust timing and mixture without writing down any changes they have made, fuck!

Gonna guess they don't understand how "spark" works and therefore ignore it being a potential problem.

 

[HardtailHack]

Gonna guess they don't understand how "spark" works and therefore ignore it being a potential problem.

Yeah because you can't "fiddle" with the spark on a compressor so they dismiss it.
It sucks having to finish jobs that they have started, you just assume anything that can be adjusted has been adjusted.
That reminds me, I have to send my spark tester back for warranty.

 

[slimshady]

Could some native English speaker explain to me how this major inconsistency is accepted/used?

PRESSURIZE by DEPRESSING??? Doesn't the "de" prefix mean "without" or "take from"?

 

[Westy]

Could some native English speaker explain to me how this major inconsistency is accepted/used?
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PRESSURIZE by DEPRESSING??? Doesn't the "de" prefix mean "without" or "take from"?

Depress is also synonymous with to push.
Ain't English great?

 

[6thElement]

Depress the plunger would mean to press it in and hold though too?

 

[StiHacka]

Depressing.

 

[Westy]

Depress the plunger would mean to press it in and hold though too?

I don't think that information is encoded within the word as it would depend on whether or not what you are depressing is capable of returning or not.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Depress is also synonymous with to push.
Ain't English great?

"to cause to sink to a lower position" - not quite push...

 

[StiHacka]

Nothing gets your attention like getting a Home insurance cancellation policy because your "agent" made the mortgage servicer send your money to another insurance company that you never consented to switch to...
How the fuck is that even possible / legal?

 

[SkaredShtles]

Nothing gets your attention like getting a Home insurance cancellation policy because your "agent" made the mortgage servicer send your money to another insurance company that you never consented to switch to...
How the fuck is that even possible / legal?

No fucking way that's legal.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

"Crazy Phil" Ramey and I, on one of our weekend long motorcycle rages, were heading south one night on I91 going through Hartford, got confused where it crossed I84, and stopped to confer. A patrol car stopped and, after the officer requested that we turn off our engines so they could hear, asked what was up and we told them. They said "follow me", turned on the blues, and led us out of town at about 100 MPH.

 

[Adventurous]

Why do they make it so hard to recycle electronics? I know a healthy number of the materials inside are recyclable and should be recycled, but it kind of chaps my ass that the town recycling facility is open for 3 hours on a single day once a month.

It's a bit of a value trap when it costs $3 to throw it away yet $30 to recycle.