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guitargeek · Post by **guitargeek** » Wed Jul 16, 2014 12:01 pm

Bigshankhank wrote:Are there programs available to help them get back on their feet? Have we given those programs time to take effect? I ask this un-ironically, I genuinely do not know enough about Brazilian politics to answer it myself.

Actually, yes, it's called Esquadrão da Morte. The program has been in place since the 1960s, surely it's been long enough to take effect...

xtian · Post by **xtian** » Wed Jul 16, 2014 12:23 pm

well, gentlemen, it's one thing to blame bigshankhank for the 250.000 homeless, it's another to blame the bloody futball dictatorship in the first place, what's wrong with you, I think you all got infested with the bloody futbal plague, don't even look at me or I'll jump on the floor and roll on my side to fake agonizing pain like all the other drugged illiterate millionaires. seriously. wrong target there. please, re-focus.

Post by **DerGolgo** » Wed Jul 16, 2014 12:33 pm

Listen to the Belgian.

Jaeger · Post by **Jaeger** » Wed Jul 16, 2014 12:50 pm

DerGolgo wrote:Listen to the Belgian.

--Jaeger

motorpsycho67 · Post by **motorpsycho67** » Wed Jul 16, 2014 5:10 pm

Bigshankhank wrote: Those who are working to change it, I have no beef with.
Those who are mentally ill or are trapped by a checkered past, I have sympathy for.
Those who stand on the corner and live off of handouts because they refuse to abide by the rules of society, I have no sympathy for

Thanks for the clarification. Glad you're not placing them all in the same boat.

Post by **DerGolgo** » Fri Jul 18, 2014 3:10 pm

Enjoying the "lovely" summer weather.

It's past 1AM and fucking 84°F. Fuck.

guitargeek · Post by **guitargeek** » Fri Jul 18, 2014 7:58 pm

I'm luxuriating in the refrigerated air being put forth by the freshly repaired heat pump! It's a pleasant 74F in here, and quite dry.

(contented sigh)

It's been a swampy, soggy, smelly summer thus far, with the hottest months still to come.

motorpsycho67 · Post by **motorpsycho67** » Fri Jul 18, 2014 11:03 pm

Just got off work, 11 hour day..... earned a damn blister on my tootsie.

Bo_9 · Post by **Bo_9** » Sat Jul 19, 2014 5:17 am

Fixing a failed RAID array. Joy.

Post by **DerGolgo** » Sat Jul 19, 2014 3:40 pm

Being so tired, I'm half hallucinating. Yet, unable to sleep, on account of the lovely weather.
It's past 1:30 AM. 86°F.

On the other hand, quite unexpectedly, I just beat the lap records for Donnington and Phillip Island in SBK09, which had eluded me for a while now. On the computer, with all difficulty settings at easy, I'm a better rider half-hallucinating with sleep deprivation than I am fresh and bright at any other time of the day. Huh.

Zim · Post by **Zim** » Tue Jul 22, 2014 4:56 pm

Nursing a possible broken thumb from a woods crash less than an hour ago.

Helpful tip: slow down when you can't see the terrain very well. Rut? What rut? *splut*

Aerostich shoulder pad did it's job however.

Post by **DerGolgo** » Tue Jul 22, 2014 9:35 pm

Falling off bike bad.
Zim in one piece good!
Good gear good, also!

Zim · Post by **Zim** » Wed Jul 23, 2014 12:56 pm

Sporting a big-ass thumb splint. Sprain. But I did get to ride to the doctors, at least.

Now I'm wondering how much riding range/gasoline capacity is reduced by a big dent in the tank.

guitargeek · Post by **guitargeek** » Wed Jul 23, 2014 1:18 pm

Zim wrote:dent in the tank.

motorpsycho67 · Post by **motorpsycho67** » Wed Jul 23, 2014 4:02 pm

wyckedsin · Post by **wyckedsin** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 3:03 pm

Tracking down and ordering Reloading Dies and Brass for 10mm...

I dropped the hammer and ordered a 1911 in 10mm...

Should have it in a couple of weeks.

motorpsycho67 · Post by **motorpsycho67** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 7:06 pm

House sitting in Santa Monica. Freak thunderstorm today. Guy was hit by lightning nearby and died...

Looking forward to replacing a thermocouple in a water heater tomorrow.... [/sarcasm]. Something always seems to need fixing around here when house sitting time comes around. I told her that it seems like she plans it that way.... harumph.

Rench · Post by **Rench** » Wed Jul 30, 2014 7:54 pm

Up too late, sleep-procrastinating, planning every fuel stop for DOOM OCD style.

-Rench

guitargeek · Post by **guitargeek** » Wed Jul 30, 2014 9:29 pm

I took a day away from Ponch's wiring to clean and organize my shop.

I put up an angled shelf. It'll be easier for Moose to get up to the loft, and I can put a light under it.

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This is Musta Kissa, aka Moose. She's very helpful.

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motorpsycho67 · Post by **motorpsycho67** » Wed Jul 30, 2014 9:56 pm

Sitting on a creepy couch, in a creepy house...

Post by **DerGolgo** » Fri Aug 01, 2014 12:44 pm

So I went to a political rally today, with a friend. All of twenty people at the rally, so no worries.
I was informed that it was on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the actual break-out of WW1 in 1914.
It took place on the edge of a market, literal market with stalls selling edibles and whatnot, which in turn took place on something called Springerplatz.
I knew that, occasionally, events took place on this square that the organizers called Moltke-Market, after Fritz von Moltke, the prussian militarist fuckwad, one of the great creators of the slaughter that was WW1, really. Because, until 1945, that square was actually called that, Moltke-Markt. There had been protests aboutt hat and whatnot.
During the events to commemorate WW1, I got slightly bored, I admit, and decided to have a look around. I excused myself from my friend and did. I found quite more and different foods on offer than on the mundane weekly market near my home. Suddenly, someone offered me a taste of the ice-cream they were selling. Cucumber flavor. No, I'm not shitting you, it did taste like cucumber, and it was sweat and ice-creamy and good.
So I got a scoop each for me and my friend. Only to be met with the suggestion, upon returning to our place at the political rally, that we should go for a walk.
Turns out, it wasn't even about the inappropriateness of eating ice-cream while someone talked about WW1 (which hadn't even occurred to me when confronted with cucumber ice-cream). No, the rally? It wasn't just about the WW1 centennial. That was just this week. Any other week, the same people organize the same rally, and it's about the market that's named after a Prussian militarist POS, rather than Herr Springer, after whom the square on which it is held is actually named any other day of the week. Herr Springer was a Jewish resistance fighter during WW2.
So, not just buying ice-cream to eat while people were reading from things about WW1 and suchlike music was playing, no, I bought something at a market named after one of the men who made WW1 as terrible as it was, to be eaten during a rally to protest that.
As far as the faux-paz goes, I scored a hattrick, or something. As far as putting my foot in it, I didn't, I took a head-first plunge. From the 10 foot board. With a run up.

My friend laughed at my sillydom eventually, and we went to a lefty-crusty-anarchist bar where, in lefty-crusty-anarchist tradition, foreign beers not usually available around here were offered for the weekly beer event. We got there early, so we had some of the local brews to warm up. Once the place was open, we had something called Fritz IPO or something. Supposedly, the bitterest beer on they had, really, 60 on some arbitrary bitterness scale, while our local only scores 30. Which only proved that scale wrong. That IPO whatnot tasted sweet, sickeningly so. Like Baclava with Super Glue. We switched back to the local stuff.

It was a very nice day, over all.

Jaeger · Post by **Jaeger** » Fri Aug 01, 2014 7:31 pm

DerGolgo wrote: As far as the faux-paz goes, I scored a hattrick, or something. As far as putting my foot in it, I didn't, I took a head-first plunge. From the 10 foot board. With a run up.

HAAA! (Shit, I'd wanna try the ice cream too -- I mean, ya gotta find out, right?)

I will ignore the political or historical ramifications of the rest of your story other than to say: Explains a lot on several levels, dunnit?

DerGolgo wrote:Which only proved that scale wrong. That IPO whatnot tasted sweet, sickeningly so. Like Baclava with Super Glue. We switched back to the local stuff.

It was a very nice day, over all.

Man, we gotta throw some of the mad-ass Yankee IPAs at you when you're here to see how they fare on your palette. If you can call the Dogfish 60-Minute IPA "sweet" without blushing or smiling... I'll buy you another one

(never mind the 90 or -- dare I say -- 120 Minute versions...

)

Dat gawn be'a gud time, Herr Golgo. Tee hee.

--Jaeger

Bigshankhank · Post by **Bigshankhank** » Sat Aug 02, 2014 4:36 am

Sitting here at work, trying to sell one of my little two strokers. Today could be a sad and happy day; I listed two bikes (including the Rusty Trusty Dirtbike) and am dropping them off to their new owners, the money from which will go to purchase a good condition engine for my XJ700. Gotta break a few eggs I suppose.

guitargeek · Post by **guitargeek** » Sat Aug 02, 2014 6:07 pm

Bigshankhank wrote:purchase a good condition engine for my XJ700.

I've wondered what'd become of that...

Post by **DerGolgo** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 1:42 am

Fucking taxes.
Yeah, I'm a little late. So are most people. Anyone I talked to is either doing their taxes this week, or did them sometime in the last month. It's the grand old tradition over here, or something. The vast majority of people have their taxes taken out of their wages anyway and, if anything, only ever get a refund, the tax man is so understaffed, it's ridiculous.
Got my receipts and stuff in order, only gotta figure out how many days exactly I went to work last year, so I can grab the deduction for commuting.

guitargeek · Post by **guitargeek** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 1:54 am

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This has come to consume much of my waking consciousness...

motorpsycho67 · Post by **motorpsycho67** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 8:42 pm

Post by **DerGolgo** » Tue Aug 05, 2014 7:29 am

I've just sat on a motorbike for the first time in near 3 years. I did not ride it, for the well known reasons. No, I sat on it to see whether I could get on at all, to check the pants size. I'll be pillionating a few on my upcoming couchsurf (you know you want it). So, to the gear place! There's the summertime sale at the place, so 80 buck pants could be hadbfor 50.
It's a 15 minute drive, so the busride, featuring intentionally obfuscated timetables took 2 hours. I type this from the returning bus, ever grateful to the driver. She pulled out of the stop, then saw me, doing the best impression of running I could manage...and pulled over again. They don't usually do that.

The bike was a Triumph Tiger (?) 800 ST. You know, the one with the tall tail my dodgy hip barely lets me climb up on.

Post by **DerGolgo** » Thu Aug 14, 2014 8:18 am

I just got home from the eye-doctor. Assessment for accident-insurance. Not the cager's liability insurance, this one is via my employer.
Got to do the whole spiel of any and all eye-doctor examinations. Including the one where they give you some eyedrops that burn like a motherfucker, then you have to wait 20 minutes, then you get some more, then another 20 minute wait, one last dose ... and then, now that your pupils are the size of a small but determined West-Asian country, they shove a damn lens-thingy right on your eyeball. Literally, glass against eyeball, with just a little lube in between, so he could see my retina. I then got some drops to contract my pupils again, but one the way home, I just had to keep my eyes closed for the first twenty minutes or so. Even with sunglasses, the car's sun-visor and my hat, a cloudy day was way too fucking bright.
I'm only slowly regaining the ability to focus now, two hours after getting the F out of there.

Rench · Post by **Rench** » Thu Aug 14, 2014 8:22 am

That sounds unreasonably shitty. Getting mine shaved down wasn't that shitty. Good luck to you sir!

I am currently sweating my ass off. In a relaxing way.

-Rench

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