The Derailing Thread

[Michael74]

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[Pizza]

Ever since my ENT's physicians' assistant told me to keep my finger out of my nose - all I want to do it put my finger in my nose. Why did she even say that to me? She planted a thought bomb in my head that keeps going off.

 

[Michael74]

Never mind the finger. Whatever you do, just don't think about pink elephants.

 

[Corn Pop]

We didnt know until after my grandmother passed away at 91yo not long ago that my mother was adopted. She only found out after through paper work and got a shock. Not only do i not know one side of my true family bloodline, my grandmother adopted 9 children my mother being one of them

What an amazing woman.

It would be interesting to find my true background and family root on that side.

 

[evenifigoalone]

I would suggest genealogy research, but I wouldn't know the first place to begin myself. And I think it's kind of expensive anyway.

 

[Pizza]

Well, I was on my way to Arkansas - started the car and was putting my last three pairs of socks in the trunk when I smelled something awful. (I ate mexican food yesterday, but that wasn't it....)

Smoke was pouring out of the grill area on the front of the car. Now the odd thing the AM/FM was doing yesterday makes sense to me - the alternator was still hot an hour later when I got it out from under the engine. NAPA will have a new one here by noon for the bargain price of $210.

I am actually blessed:
1) It died in the driveway, near my tools - not 800 miles from home.
2) I have the skills to troubleshoot electrical issues - so no $400 alternator and $300 labor..

Really pretty for a car that was smoking ...
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[Michael74]

Its always cheaper if you can do it yourself. The bank has caused ridiculous inflation in service prices. I don't know how the elderly are going to afford to have someone fix their cars in the future.

I'm glad red is feeling better.

 

[Corn Pop]

They charge like 200 for a basic oil change. Can get oil and filter for 40 and pull the bung out and drain it. I think the other 160 pays them for dirty hands for 10 mins work. Most plugs in models are easy to change unless they underneath motor and air filters are nothing. 60 full service DIY.

 

[Pizza]

An oil change for my car runs around $130 US at a dealer, some have paid $150. But the filters are expensive and the car take two gallons of synthetic oil. A change at home is $15 for a filter plus $72 or so for the oil - and I KNOW that it's done right if I do it myself.

So, I do it myself.

 

[Pizza]

I'm in Memphis, TN. Best sleep in a hotel in a LONG time - Home2 Suites by Hilton. WONDERFUL bed!
The undercharging of the battery has ruined it, it sits at 11 volts. That is too low, so I'm off to get a battery before I get back on the road to Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

Ever since my ENT's physicians' assistant told me to keep my finger out of my nose - all I want to do it put my finger in my nose. Why did she even say that to me? She planted a thought bomb in my head that keeps going off.

Maybe she said it because you have unusually flared nostrils and you have stuff under your fingernails.

Here's another thought bomb for you...
You have other orifices to put your finger into.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

Its always cheaper if you can do it yourself. The bank has caused ridiculous inflation in service prices. I don't know how the elderly are going to afford to have someone fix their cars in the future.

I'm glad red is feeling better.

Well, in the United States it pretty well requires a business to charge $60.00 to $90.00 an hour to employ a person who will do something for you. For a purely service related task (no parts or materials involved) the higher the hourly rate has to be to make enough money to warrant running that business.

 

[Michael74]

Well, in the United States it pretty well requires a business to charge $60.00 to $90.00 an hour to employ a person who will do something for you. For a purely service related task (no parts or materials involved) the higher the hourly rate has to be to make enough money to warrant running that business.

Exactly. The bank has caused absurd service inflation. Getting the simplest thing done can cost a mint. Not a problem for the able bodied, since they can just do things for themselves. For the elderly and disabled, service inflation is bank oppression. You never know, we might get old one day too.

We need a gold standard to protect us from inflation. It worked for our ancestors.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

Exactly. The bank has caused absurd service inflation. Getting the simplest thing done can cost a mint. Not a problem for the able bodied, since they can just do things for themselves. For the elderly and disabled, service inflation is bank oppression. You never know, we might get old one day too.

We need a gold standard to protect us from inflation. It worked for our ancestors.

The interesting thing is our society is changing from one where people did almost everything for themselves, fix cars, build houses, etc. But the right does not address this decline in our society, where self-sufficiency is suffering that way. My concern is not only for the elderly, but for the young people who don't know how to take care of themselves (fix cars, build things, fix faucets) and who don't make enough money to pay people to do it for them either. They end up in rental units where they only go to their job and spend the rest of their time sitting in front of a TV or computer screen. This society is in fast decline. I mean fast decline.

 

[Michael74]

This society is in fast decline. I mean fast decline.

Yes, the bank is creating a future banana republic.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

Yes, the bank is creating a future banana republic.

Yes, an unholy alliance between business and government where the government allows big business to keep all it's revenue from doing business while it taxes the populace to pay for the expenses and liabilities incurred by big business doing business. If we're not there yet, we're real close.

 

[Michael74]

Bankers regressively take resources away from the elderly and poor, then redistribute much of the loot to financial sector players.

In addition, divers weights and measures prevents capitalism from allocating resources to their most efficient use. Thus the nation keeps going backward over time. We used to be so far ahead of the other nations that we produced as much GDP as the entire rest of the world put together. Now bankers have made us #2, and still going backward.

 

[evenifigoalone]

"Your mom has totally seen you naked"
Yeah, well, y'know, I kinda assumed that already.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

You have other orifices to put your finger into.

Ear, then mouth.

 

[evenifigoalone]

Way too warm. I want to take a nap, but it's too hot to get comfortable so I might as well forget it.