#18301 2011-01-13 12:51:06
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#18310 2011-01-16 01:56:39
Isn't pride a deadly sin?
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#18311 2011-01-16 02:10:41
sigmoid freud wrote:
http://www.usdat.us/secretary/archives/ … 168_sm.jpg
Isn't pride a deadly sin?
Only for Christians, so that's ok.
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#18313 2011-01-16 13:01:03
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#18319 2011-01-16 22:57:47
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#18320 2011-01-16 23:45:06
This makes me a bit queasy, so naturally I figured I'd share.
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#18321 2011-01-17 00:46:11
Nice shoes. Wanna.. ... ... nahh.. ... nevermind.
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#18322 2011-01-17 20:29:58
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#18323 2011-01-17 23:52:38
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#18324 2011-01-18 00:31:44
Hi George!
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#18325 2011-01-18 14:17:35
I took the liberty of scanning the barcode on Taints banner using my Ipod and came back with a 1975 Pontiac oil pump, some automotive speakers or a Whirlpool dishwasher control panel. I was expecting something far more exotic from a man like Taint.
Fixed image link - square
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#18326 2011-01-18 14:33:54
How did you spend your holiday yesterday?
I had partied a little bit too much on Sunday
So I was feeling kind of rough
Got a quick wash
and a cup of coffee
Spent some time cleaning the house
Was going to catch up on some work, then thought "fuck that noise, it's a holiday"
Then
Went out for a motorcycle ride
and stopped in at some friends house. It's a mixed race marriage
so they can be a little confused. 
Helped them take down the Christmas decorations
and talked about how her sister and her lesbian partner were currently "interviewing" possible sperm donors by hiring an executive search firm. Things really are different in California, even how babies are made. 
Hauled home to make some grub
and decided that if my New Years diet was going down, it was going down big. Blazed up
Polished off the last of the birthday cake
watched Californication
and hit the sack
Night!
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#18327 2011-01-18 20:19:33
Sweet!
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#18328 2011-01-19 01:39:29
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#18329 2011-01-19 02:00:40
choad wrote:
Toys like that were the best. I remember visiting my grandparent's homes growing up and playing with the toys my parents played with in the 1950's and 1960's. They were all dangerous as hell having sharp edges, bottles of caustic liquids and pinch points capable of removing fingers. Regardless, they were FUN, they were about imagination and promoted interests in science and engineering. They were far better than the Tonka trucks and Stompers I grew up with. Toys today have devolved back to the style of toys available in the stone age, mere possessions to keep children busy long enough not to interrupt their parent's TV watching.
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#18330 2011-01-19 03:13:33
You're coming along well, Dirck. In a few short years you'll be as irascible and embittered as the rest of us.
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#18331 2011-01-19 08:53:12
I was rooting around in my Grandfathers attic looking for some old pictures and found an old "weather & science kit" from the 1950s that had been my father's. (He was a meteorologist for 20 years). It contained nearly a 1/2 cup of liquid mercury as well as Prussian Blue (iron cyanide) and a bunch of other highly toxic chemicals. It was stored next to a gallon apple juice bottle with "18 molar sulphuric acid" written on it and a plastic bag hose clamped over the top. My grandfather was not known for his safety thinking. How he worked for a railroad for 40 years and retired with all of his fingers is a complete mystery.
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#18332 2011-01-19 09:08:10
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#18333 2011-01-19 21:04:21
choad wrote:
I had the Kenner Hydro-Dynamic set... you could make everything from a petroleum cracking tower, to a hydrochloric acid plant to a DDT plant (really). I still have it. When my girlfriend saw it she said 'no wonder all you boys turned out to be engineers - we girls never got to play with stuff like this!'. 
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#18337 2011-01-20 13:11:54
whosasailorthen wrote:
choad wrote:
I had the Kenner Hydro-Dynamic set... you could make everything from a petroleum cracking tower, to a hydrochloric acid plant to a DDT plant (really). I still have it. When my girlfriend saw it she said 'no wonder all you boys turned out to be engineers - we girls never got to play with stuff like this!'.
Those toys appealed more to inquiring minds than mass merchandising and child protective services. I whelped from a long line of cheap fucks - Christmas was fresh fruit and new underwear - but my neighbors were more indulgent, their attics stuffed with abandoned Erector sets, Heath Kits, kites, rockets and munitions of every description.
I wouldn't know how to assemble a list of challenging toys now but my own sacred kidhood relics are of the simple minded variety; a kite parachute ejector (Boys Life, $1.00), an ancient wooden top, and diablo sticks.
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#18338 2011-01-20 13:35:58
choad wrote:
whosasailorthen wrote:
choad wrote:
I had the Kenner Hydro-Dynamic set... you could make everything from a petroleum cracking tower, to a hydrochloric acid plant to a DDT plant (really). I still have it. When my girlfriend saw it she said 'no wonder all you boys turned out to be engineers - we girls never got to play with stuff like this!'.
Those toys appealed more to inquiring minds than mass merchandising and child protective services. I whelped from a long line of cheap fucks - Christmas was fresh fruit and new underwear - but my neighbors were more indulgent, their attics stuffed with abandoned Erector sets, Heath Kits, kites, rockets and munitions of every description.
I wouldn't know how to assemble a list of challenging toys now but my own sacred kidhood relics are of the simple minded variety; a kite parachute ejector (Boys Life, $1.00), an ancient wooden top, and diablo sticks.
Also, choad's family couldn't afford wood, so they painted flames in the fireplace and they couldn't afford food so they sucked on rocks instead.
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#18340 2011-01-20 14:08:53
choad wrote:
I whelped from a long line of cheap fucks - Christmas was fresh fruit and new underwear...
Damn, how little choad must have suffered.
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#18341 2011-01-20 17:55:05
MSG Tripps wrote:
I hear this happens all the time in Quebec and France.
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#18342 2011-01-20 18:01:28
tojo2000 wrote:
choad wrote:
whosasailorthen wrote:
I had the Kenner Hydro-Dynamic set... you could make everything from a petroleum cracking tower, to a hydrochloric acid plant to a DDT plant (really). I still have it. When my girlfriend saw it she said 'no wonder all you boys turned out to be engineers - we girls never got to play with stuff like this!'.
Those toys appealed more to inquiring minds than mass merchandising and child protective services. I whelped from a long line of cheap fucks - Christmas was fresh fruit and new underwear - but my neighbors were more indulgent, their attics stuffed with abandoned Erector sets, Heath Kits, kites, rockets and munitions of every description.
I wouldn't know how to assemble a list of challenging toys now but my own sacred kidhood relics are of the simple minded variety; a kite parachute ejector (Boys Life, $1.00), an ancient wooden top, and diablo sticks.Also, choad's family couldn't afford wood, so they painted flames in the fireplace and they couldn't afford food so they sucked on rocks instead.
At least he had rocks.
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#18343 2011-01-20 18:07:42
MSG Tripps wrote:
choad wrote:
I whelped from a long line of cheap fucks - Christmas was fresh fruit and new underwear...
Damn, how little choad must have suffered.
The fuck did I know? Like all kids, I thought my own little world was baseline normal.
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#18344 2011-01-20 19:36:06
I started thinking of what my favorite toy was as a kid and it had to be Estes rockets. http://www.estesrockets.com/ It looks like they haven't changed their catalog much in years either. I think I had at least half of the rockets listed there at one point or another. One of my favorites was always the Bull Pup 12D
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#18345 2011-01-20 20:00:15
choad wrote:
The fuck did I know? Like all kids, I thought my own little world was baseline normal.
When you were young.
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#18346 2011-01-20 20:53:10
tojo2000 wrote:
Also, choad's family couldn't afford wood, so they painted flames in the fireplace and they couldn't afford food so they sucked on rocks instead.
Maybe fnord can explain this better but money does weird things to people.
From its English settlement to present day, commoners and privileged alike are cheap fucks here. And proud of it. My grandmother had pots of money but folded and reused the same paper napkin every day for two weeks. My mother knew to BYO-TP whenever visiting or live to regret it.
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#18347 2011-01-20 21:08:25
choad wrote:
tojo2000 wrote:
Also, choad's family couldn't afford wood, so they painted flames in the fireplace and they couldn't afford food so they sucked on rocks instead.
Maybe fnord can explain this better but money does weird things to people.
From its English settlement to present day, commoners and privileged alike are cheap fucks here. And proud of it. My grandmother had pots of money but folded and reused the same paper napkin every day for two weeks. My mother knew to BYO-TP whenever visiting or live to regret it.
My mom used to make us carefully unwrap our Christmas presents and put the wrapping paper aside. After Christmas she'd cut off the taped bits and put the sheets through her Ironrite ironer, to be used again next year.
She was born in 1916. That should explain that.
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#18348 2011-01-20 21:47:49
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#18349 2011-01-21 00:04:52
Our wrapping paper was delivered one sheet at a time, every Sunday in the newspaper. Other people called it the comics, but we saved it all for wrapping presents. Yay!
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#18350 2011-01-21 00:17:05
whosasailorthen wrote:
My mom used to make us carefully unwrap our Christmas presents and put the wrapping paper aside.
Never had that, but I do remember my dad hammering bent, pulled nails straight for reuse.
Oh, yeah, pic:
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