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Astro, your story about Barry reminds me about the scene in the Coast Guard movie with Kevin Costner, "The Guardian". The class was in the pool treading water, and the strongest guy in the group, who was built like a weightlifter, didn't last at all, and was booted. Costner told the class...

The last thing Buc-ee's customers care about are their gas prices. They didn't build a multi billion dollar financial success on their fuel.

Mucar is sure getting A LOT of attention / advertising lately. I'm seeing it everywhere I click. And I'm not even looking for a scanner.

You'll be fine if you use just a light film, and don't get crazy with the stuff. A little goes a long way in making things easier to put back together. I use Super Lube all the time for things like that. Nothing cracks easier than old plastic that's been exposed to thousands of heat cycles, and...

Astro, out of curiosity what was the success rate of the mile long swim in full gear? Were there any time restrictions? That had to be an absolute bear!

About the only thing you're "irritating" is your engine with your haphazard methods.

My money is on a bad seal.... Not a crack. At least don't start worrying until you have a correct diagnosis. That looks to be a fairly healthy leak. I would drive it and get it good and warm. Get under it with a comfortable creeper, and take some brake cleaner and shop towels, spray the hell out...

Why do you think you need to add 2-stroke oil to "help seat the rings" in a 4-stroke? How do you think the rings get seated in the millions of other 4-stroke engines that don't indulge in this silly, non recommended practice? And who simply fill the crankcase with 4-stroke motor oil, and run...

This is a very fragile, "peace deal". While it might work, and is holding for the moment, and is the reason for the current falling oil prices, they could easily skyrocket once again if the blasting starts. And it just might. Ukraine is bombing the hell out of Putin's Moscow oil refineries...

Proves my point exactly.

There are many jobs in the trades and many other professions, that for the most part "force" union membership. It doesn't change the tolerance for, or diminish the overall quality of what they do. The bottom line here is there are far more teachers who agree with all of this nonsense, than...

It was much the same when I was in school. (Catholic grammar school with almost 50 to a single class). There is no discipline in today's classrooms. And you're exactly right that pushing for "smaller classrooms" is just another way of shucking responsibilities, hiring more teachers in the...

Absolutely. None of this happened overnight. Except for the fact most teachers / professors / "educators" have been voting the exact same way for decades. Their political ideology has always remained the same. They all, (regardless of which generation they matriculated from), have all...

Look, both the reasoning and the end results of this entire educational fiasco in this country are highly political. And if we were to even begin to discuss it, this thread would be locked, or else removed in short order. And you don't have to have a degree in political science to know and...

I agree with some of what you have said. As I said in my post, parents are certainly not blameless in any of this. But I don't see anyone raising hell about any of it. (Except for a few that make the news). Be they teachers or parents. The entire public educational system in this country has...

Read my post. I'm saying that's how it used to work. What's happening now is obviously not worth bragging about. We're seeing the results in the end product.

The British today are pretty much responsible for their own demise. Just look at what's been happening over there in just the past few weeks. They let their mass immigration get so out of hand over the years, the fire departments over there are getting a good workout, and plenty of overtime. It...

A good example of this is the PTA, (Parent Teacher Association). 50 years ago it was a relatively large, integral part of the educational system in most parts of this country. PTA meetings were everywhere, and all the time. Today it is nothing but a shell of its former self. And back then it...

Not at all. The idiots "educating" them are.

It's the same in politics and everywhere else. It's getting worse, because today kids in school are taught far less history, (which is fact based), and far more ideology, (which is not). And when a older, supposed educated individual, (read teacher), starts selling it to them, they accept it as...