Recent content by Swagman

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    Did you know asbestos is still being used in car brakes?

    Once upon a time, not really all that long ago, brake drums were much more substantial hunks of metal. One could have its ID turned larger by quite a bit, without compromising the drum's overall integrity. Brake shoe re-arcing machines were all over the place. There was almost never any dust...
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    PSA: If you are getting passed in your car on the right side, GET THE FACK OVER!

    I average about 30,000 miles a year on SoCal freeways, mostly in the left lane, with many miles/hours of stop and go traffic. I do mostly whatever it takes to keep the greatest number of people no more pissed off than they already are. About 10 years ago, just for shits and giggles, I made a...
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    At what age did you really started working?

    I have 2 dreams, after all these years, that repeat maybe 1 to 3 times per year. When the family went on a vacation for a week or 2 during the summer, several times I came back to the route and at some point along the way came to a complete standstill wondering were to deliver a paper to next. I...
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    At what age did you really started working?

    From the "uphill . . . both ways . . . barefoot . . . through the snow or on 140 degree F asphalt . . . while chewing 6 rectangles of bubble gum . . . reading the Bazooka Joe mini cartoon strip on the inside of the wrappers . . .", file. Newspaper delivery starting at the local legal age of...
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    Shaving Cream

    A sad story. :(
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    Chairs, and the asses that sit in them?

    Peoples is a hoot. I've done more reading and posting on forums, mostly based on curiousity about behavior, rather then anything specific to that forums general topic trend. Chairs, at work or home, are a not an unusual subject, regardless the online or face-to-face interface. Me, I've sat...
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    what's the last thing you bought at amazon?

    Two in 8-10 ounces, brought back old memories. The campfire kiddies got glasses with tablets already at the bottom, add water, swig, grin. Very few parents even knew of the ancient magic.
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    I screwed things up at work... :( Really pissed a co-worker off)

    Sometimes it is difficult to learn how to get what one wants, using standard methods but without lying. A deal goes bad over the phone, online, or face to face, and it is becoming more standard to see or read about the one who was done wrong, loosing his cool. Similar also, regarding work or...
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    GPS on a plane

    Aircraft use specialized GPS's that gather their information from unique flight-safe signals. All portable units collect the data from a different, non-safe source. To turn a portable GPS on while in flight, causes hazardous emanations to be attracted towards, and then pass throught the...
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    If you could sing like one person

    I bet he got more groupies than Don Knotts. :beer: Wutta studly voice.
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    I am very sick, incredibly disoriented..

    I am an atheist, and have never had any religion, for more years than you have lived. You continue to stroke your keyboard just as it appears you yank yourself. Your pattern posting precludes any further pertinent posturing. Find your rationale, now, that lets you exit with an imagined measure...
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    I am very sick, incredibly disoriented..

    You did not, and have not. Clichéd forum auto-stroking is not the equivalent of rational conversation. You know no more than the substantial limits of your intellect. Stroke yourself, and then wilt.
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    I am very sick, incredibly disoriented..

    The truth is often that "medicine" is not "safer" than biological reality. Yours and others version of "less risk" has frequently and recently become contingent upon chemical warfare. An otherwise moderately healthy body between the ages of 15 and maybe 50, can be induced to reject many mild...
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    I am very sick, incredibly disoriented..

    I, and a fair percentage of others who would rather not be sick or suffer the symptoms of any real or imaginary ailment, firmly believe and have proven by experience that the basic flu/cold/bug condition can be minimized with grossly elevated body temperatures. Regardless the temperature of...