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  1. The pandemic was just the push I needed to do what I should have done long ago. I used to enjoy going to the gym, but more and more, I find it an exercise in frustration. Mostly, the frustration stems from inconsiderate slobs who can't be bothered to put weight back where they belong, can't seem to bring themselves to wipe down benches and machines when they're done, and park themselves on machines between sets with ear buds plugged into their heads so they can conveniently ignore anyone who might ask to work in. Anyway, my wife and I had the discussion about investing in a home gym, so I went looking. And I think I scored big time. Checking on a local classified site, I found a unit for sale in virtually brand new condition for less than half the retail price. So today, I borrowed my son in law's truck and my grandson, and we made the one hour drive to check it out. I took the cash with me, because I was pretty certain I was going to come home with it. It was in a small storefront wellness clinic. The proprietor had bought it thinking his clients would make use of it, but it almost never got used, so he decided to sell it. Anyway, I pulled the trigger, and my grandson and I disassembled it and brought it home. Now I have to move some furniture and other crap out of the basement so I can set it up. The machine is a Hoist V4 Elite, which retails at just about $4,000 Canadian.
    9 points
  2. Beware of rednecks with good credit.
    6 points
  3. It’s like saying “you have no brains,” but there is a collection of cells inside your cranium. It’s there, but it’s not the feature.
    6 points
  4. However, she dies have a wall full of event numbers and a bike! I trust her information.
    4 points
  5. This was taken at a friends house back in the day
    4 points
  6. I was afraid you were going to tell us, he had moved to your new neighborhood.
    4 points
  7. I never quite figured oot how to put my Integra back together after disassembly.
    4 points
  8. It would not make me nervous because with the terrible smell that would be emanating from my drawers from the load I would drop in them would guarantee the bears would not want to eat me
    4 points
  9. This was taken someplace back in the day.
    3 points
  10. I like Bend nice enough. Really nice park system. Lots of outdoor stuff. You don't have to check the weather because it's going to be pretty nice. I just don't have the friend network here that I have back in Portland. I miss our long time friends. Plus I can go into the office a few times a week & kibbutz with them. Bend was always WoScraprs place. She loved it. It's just not the same without her
    3 points
  11. That's good news... generally that is not the case. I had to use Google... I learned something today. I can stop now... The expression 'Scot-free' originates from the Scandanavian word, 'Skat,' which means “tax” or “payment.” The word mutated into 'scot' as the name of redistributive taxation meant to provide relief to the poor during the 10th century. Someone who did not have to pay the tax for some reason was referred to as 'scot-free.'
    3 points
  12. ChrisL wins the Dilbert's mom/Rick Henderson award for this thread. And those Halo ads are creeepy!
    3 points
  13. When I was a kid, one next door neighbor rented out their house and several families were living in it. They had numerous cars & felt the street in front of their house was their parking so would yell at my oldest brother not to park there. My brother repeatedly told them to F’ off. Well one night somebody broke into his car, put in in neutral, released the brake and pushed it down the street. My brother was pissed but never said a word about revenge. However a few nights later someone punctured all 4 tires on every one of their cars. Someone also shimmied up the power line & cut the power to their house. It took the power company a couple of days to repair the damage. Oh and did I mention my brother was a linesman for a power company? The parking fued ended after that...
    3 points
  14. I agree. I have people for that kind of thing.
    3 points
  15. By the time this is over, there will be no winners, only losers.
    3 points
  16. I barely remember him playing. I do remember when Walter Payton started playing for the Bears and hearing that he could be the next Gale Sayers. My first thought was a sarcastic, "yeah, right."
    3 points
  17. Didn't he die in Brian's Song?
    3 points
  18. I have yet to see a grizzly in the wild..., but did face down a polar bear coming towards me. I didnt bother with the spray, but fired a couple rounds into the ground in front of him. He paused and looked at me and I was thinking "okay, that was two..., I have 43 left. 42 for him and one for me." When he turned and went back the way he came I was a happy camper. He was 32 feet away (i went back and measured the distance in the tracks in the snow)
    3 points
  19. So you bought a mental exercise machine. Wouldn't a 1200 piece puzzle have been less expensive. As always, expect at least one piece to be missing.
    3 points
  20. Is that a boarding house?
    3 points
  21. You can download the manual from here but there is no fun in that.
    3 points
  22. Nice clothes rack. Some assembly required.
    3 points
  23. I had to attend a certification audit in our Potsdam (@buffjim knows the place) today. I brought my bike and rode with my good friend who works in that office after we finished. 18 lumpy miles on quiet back roads.
    3 points
  24. If I had a million dollars I wouldn’t have to eat Kraft dinner every night.
    3 points
  25. I say supper at supper time and dinner at dinner time. They really don’t describe the same meal.
    3 points
  26. Channel surfing this AM, I stumbled on Mike and Molly where Molly is complaining about Mike's piece of junk car with a hole in the floor and tape holding things together. Mike was a police officer and Molly a public school teacher, both with 10-15 years service. I looked it up and, in today's dollars, their combined income would be around $180,000! They lived, rent free, in Molly's mother's house. Yes, Molly had run up big credit card debts, but she was handling it on her salary before she added no-debt Mike's $100,000 salary! They weren't big spenders and could save enough in 3 months to pay cash for a new car! Similarly, on That 70's Show, when Hyde is discovered by his rich father, Kitty Forman says to him, "Why would you think we need money when we have this?" and points to her living room and it gets a big laugh as if the Formans had nothing - but it's a well-furnished living room big enough to throw a party for 20 (the first episode opens and last episode closes with such parties there), a side room, a swinging door into a kitchen/dining room, and finished second floor and basement, each with multiple rooms, plus a 2-car garage! The Bundys house from the '70's Married with Children is a typical example of the opposite. They live on Al's shoe salesman salary alone, something resembling minimum wage, but they own a home with a big living room, garage, furnished second floor, etc. That tends to be the case with a lot of the shows about down-and-out people. On The Big Bang Theory, Leonard, a university physics professor, moved in with Sheldon in the first episode because, he says, he couldn't afford an apartment by himself. But then Penny moves in across the hall into a similar apartment, by herself, and she's a waitress at the Cheesecake Factory. Thank God our brains undergo a process called "Suspension of Disbelief" to enjoy fiction, cartoon, etc. shows. But sometimes my Suspension of Disbelief gets strained, maybe because I grew up in a poor but single-home owning family where old furniture, etc. was the rule. We would have been thrilled to have furnishings like the Bundys, Formans, etc. Etc. Etc. Etc. I just needed to rant about something this morning. Thanks for reading!
    2 points
  27. Got mine at work today..with2 other staff members and 130 residents.
    2 points
  28. Friends. Who could afford that nice place on a Bistro hourly wage? The Brady family. 6 kids, giant home, a live in maid, and a wife that didn't work. Seinfeld. Did Kramer ever work? How could he afford NY city apartment? @Randomguy Rosanne seemed kinda accurate. They seemed to be poor.
    2 points
  29. The Howels certainly wouldn't have been living in a thatched roof shack
    2 points
  30. Yeah Sayers was a bit before my time but I have seen Brian’s Song several times when I was younger.
    2 points
  31. We use a tea saucer for the butter. Growing up we used a Correlle Livewear butter dish with the green flower pattern that matched the rest of our dishes.
    2 points
  32. Oh for crying out loud! It's fiction, dammit, fiction.
    2 points
  33. < cleaning the coffee spit off the monitor >
    2 points
  34. He's almost as good at gif posting as I am.
    2 points
  35. Perhaps we should have the pic taken with the mask on. That's the public view of us anyway.
    2 points
  36. Mmmmm. Not so sure. Motivation comes from many different directions. Sometimes you just can't pour sugar on it.
    2 points
  37. ... ... @jsharr visiting the White House a couple of years ago.
    2 points
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  39. The "no knock" warrants were banned several months ago here in Louisville as a direct result of this case.
    2 points
  40. No knock warrants are a horrible abuse of police power. In this case it was used for an investigation - not an arrest. If someone wakes me up in the middle of the night by breaking down my door, I'm shooting.
    2 points
  41. Buy a gas powered snow blower, a massive generator, and a chainsaw or two. That ought to buy you a decade or so of disaster free living.
    2 points
  42. MY uncle endeared himself to my mother (not) by once asking us to pass "that thing you people call butter".
    2 points
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