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My first summer job, after one year of college studying Chemical Engineering, was in a chemical complex and I was assigned to the shipping and receiving department. Ran a fork lift, stacked boxes, swept floors. Paid Okay but I was really surrounded by a rough crowd and lunch drinkers. I...

A recent thread mentioned phobias and it made me think that I’ve developed two phobia’s in my later years. As a private pilot, I have no fear of flying or generally of heights. I always want the window seat on a plane. But recently there seem to be be many TV commercials where people are free...

Went shopping yesterday and saw this in the soda aisle where I live. Has anyone tried it? Doesn’t look appealing to me but Coke spends millions on marketing and taste studies so someone liked it.

I just took ownership of a new Browning BPS 12 gauge. Walnut stock. The gun shop gave me a new gun still in the box covered with whatever goop Browning covers the metal parts with. Some of the goop (cosmolene?) is on the walnut stock. The Browning manual that was included only offers this...

How did you handle the yearly covering of leaves on your lawn this year? I’m from manual rake (bamboo please!) them into containers and take them to the town compost yard crowd. I wish I could compost them on my property but it is not big enough. I don’t own a gas or battery blower. I tried...

I was looking at another car site and there is a thread about a company that makes an aftermarket replacement brake caliper kit. That’s not unusual, but what caught my eye was the kit eliminates the emergency, or what some call the parking brake, from the vehicle. There is no option or way to...

I kinda, sorta, maybe after a few shots of whiskey, can be mistaken for someone famous. I was contacted by a legitimate casting firm to see if I wanted to be an “extra” in a production. They said it would be a one time roll (non SAG) but it could grow depending on how I did and if the series...

From a CNN report via. Securities filing so this press release essentially comes direct from the company: A Friday filing from 23andMe to the Securities and Exchange Commission said that about 0.1% of the company’s user accounts, or roughly 14,000, had their accounts breached by the hackers...

As a Prime subscriber I have found increasing use of the Amazon site for many of my purchases. I generally write product reviews for most of my purchases. These are honest summaries of what’s good and bad and sometimes just irksome about the product. My Amazon reviews get noticed and are often...

My sons dog attacked a skunk very last night in his backyard. Dog is current on his rabies shots. He says the dogs muzzle and front paws and neck was covered with a yellow goo after the encounter that initially didn’t smell like a skunk but turned skunky. The dog was immediately bathed with...

From Journal of the American Medical Association, published July 14, 2023. The thread title comes from the title of the article. Pop culture had me believing that having lots of friends and engaging with them socially was critical to hold off later life Dementia. (assuming you were genetically...

I have seen some posts reporting that they need to replace a car because of body rust. Wow! My state (NJ) requires a car be “inspected“ every 2 years at a state DMV facility. They used to do a thorough inspection (brakes, suspension, exhaust system, tires, glass, seatbelts, emissions via a...

I recently had a Navien NCB-250/150H combi boiler + continuous hot water system installed and the literature says that the hot water maker plate and frame style heat exchanger is susceptible to plugging. I want to get a whole house water filter system installed to remove the dirt/scale that the...

In todays WSJ there is a front page article about Musk building his own town for employees outside of Austin Texas. A return of the company town, I never would have believed this could happen but who knows. Those who dislike HOA’s are really going to hate living there I’ll bet...

Ground rules are you must have bought the individual stock, not as part of a fund. Let’s not get into rants about companies or business sectors we take issue with and would never invest in. Here to play you actually bought the stock, took the money/profit but with great distaste. Why did you...

There was a commentary piece in todays Wall Street Journal written by Allen Funt, yes that Allen Funt, about how car manufacturers are leaving out the ability of some new 2023 cars to receive AM radio. Apparently AM reception requires shielding and distance from interfering devices and...

An interesting article in the January 2023 Readers Digest (yea, who that was still around) on eye color distribution around the world and heredity. Contained in it is was this interesting point given as a fact: “Everyone with blue eyes actually shares one common ancestor. The first-ever pair of...

I earlier today posted a topic called :Using a 0W type oil as an engine coolant. Why not? And it was pulled down and put in quarantine status after 4 replies. What in heavens name is controversial about that topic?

Every time I cook grits, they stick to the bottom of the pot. Gas setting is simmer burner as low as possible. I’m stirring every 5 minutes or so. Is there a secret to preventing this? Maybe add some butter to the water or spray bottom with PAM first. Maybe the type of pot used? I use a...