It's July, say what's on our mind. Other than Politics/US Government or Lack Thereof!

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Thoughts on Human Stupidity

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. - Robert A. Heinlein

More good reading:
http://www.quotegarden.com/ignorance.html

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/stupidity

http://www.brainyquote.com/words/st/...ity225049.html

http://mistupid.com/people/page019.htm

[OldLincoln]

That Quote Garden is priceless. Couldn't help but laugh and wanted to add a dozen to my sig but I doubt Dr. John would approve.

[jeepster09]

Loving wife....

Loving Wife


A man breaks into a house to look for money and guns.

Inside, he finds couple in bed.
He orders the guy out of the bed and ties him to a chair.
While tying the homeowner's wife to the bed the convict gets on top of her, kisses her neck,
then gets up & goes into the bathroom.

While he's in there, the husband whispers over to his wife:
'Listen, this guy is an escaped convict. Look at his clothes!
He's probably spent a lot of time in jail and hasn't seen a woman in years.
I saw how he kissed your neck. If he wants sex, don't resist, don't complain...do what ever he tells you.
Satisfy him no matter how much he nauseates you.
This guy is obviously very dangerous.
If he gets angry, he'll kill us both.
Be strong, honey. I love you!'

His wife responds: 'He wasn't kissing my neck.
He was whispering in my ear.
He told me that he's gay, thinks you're cute, and asked if we had any Vaseline.
I told him it was in the bathroom.
Be strong honey. I love you too......

[jeepster09]

Jocko?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHPec...ature=youtu.be

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The Green Thing

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days."

The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.

Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.

But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.

But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then.

We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store andoffice building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.

But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.

But that young lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana . In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then.

We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.

But we didn't have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.

But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?

Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smartass young person...

We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to tick us off. :31:

[jocko]

yup thats cool, brings back a heh of alot of memories. course back then those things u mentioned were all we had to. It wasn't conservation as much as it was "just living". Sears Roe buck catalogs were sitting in every out house, guraatee u that much. That was a nice thing tha tI never thoght about when I was a kind was thatIf I had to take a dunk, I dind't have to come back home, I just went into any neighbors yard and used their outhouse. I wold nt call themcommunity sh!tters but no one ever cared if u used theirs for they ujderstood. tell thatto your grand is and their first sentence will be, "whats an outhouse".

[yqtszhj]

I remember a lot of that too, and I'm not even as old as Jocko. Remember when the stores gas stations were closed on Sunday too? And someone else pumped your gas, cleaned your windows, and checked the oil too?

Kids went outside and played instead of sitting in front of the boob tube? And what about a house with no air conditioning. We did have a window unit air conditioner in one room though.

[wyntrout]

I just saw this one on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...&type=1&ref=nf

Wynn

[wyntrout]

Yeah, I remember all of that stuff. Now our oceans are a slurry of slowly deteriorating plastic drink bottles and bags and the fish we eat from the seas are filled with plastic from living in those plastic filled seas... the ones that aren't killed by plastic debris like monofilament nets, plastic bags that look like jellyfish, and six-pack holders. I've seen seals and waterfowl being slowly choked to death by crap like that. Almost everything we throw away could be recycled or used as fuel in a power plant.

Wynn

[wyntrout]

I just took my wife's 2001 Volvo S40 out for a test spin. I took it to Costco to get her tires rotated and balanced Thursday. We had a cloudburst while I was there and I was having too much fun on the last big whifferdill offramp on the way home. I was driving with my usual gusto and thought I would take a second glance for traffic before exiting onto the main road back toward home, so I kinda tapped the brakes... bad move... instant 180° and slid into the curb with the driver side of the car... jumped the curb into the grass. There was no traffic in front or near me from behind, thankfully! I was able to turn around and exit the low area of the curb/sidewalk and drive on. I stopped first chance and surveyed the damage because I saw the gas tank access door was open. There was a lot of grass stuck in both tires between the bead and the rims and the left rear alloy wheel had a 1/2" strip of the rim about 5-6 inches long broken off, but the tire was holding air. There seemed to be no other damage or any airbag deployments, so I drove on home. The air pressure and dropped to 15 PSI by the next morning so I got out the space-saver 50mph/50-mile tire, washed and treated it with silicone... after removing the LARGE yellow warning sticker from the wheel... and its very persistent adhesive!

I ordered a used alloy wheel online and will get that changed over and get 4-wheel alignment done at Volvo. I had been wanting to do that, anyhow, as the car is over 11 years old and that hasn't been done.

My new Google nexus 7 Tablet came in yesterday and I charged it up and registered at Google Play... got a $25 spending credit for stuff there. It's a super tablet, but I'm reading a book on my "old" one ,and today is the best gun show downtown at the convention center where the president just was campaigning this past Thursday.

Wifey is about to venture out in the Volvo after two days at home. I hope that she has no problems. Tuesday will be two weeks since she was laid off at work and she has a lot of running around to do next week... on the temporary spare... looking for a job and going to the job fair at the same convention center.

I'm gonna grab the hurricane fund and go to the gun show for a few hours and look around. I don't intend to buy a gun, but you never know if you might see a deal too good to pass up. I DO feel a little guilty!

Wynn

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Tread lightly!

Wynn, my advice is DO NOT BUY ANYTHING AT THE GUN SHOW! Cook her a quality meal, give her a neck rub and massage her feet. Tread lightly!

[wyntrout]

Maybe I can find her some doodad for her get-home setup. Gotta get ready to go to the gun show! I hope she doesn't call me with car trouble!

Oh! Tonight we're having the other half of the rotisserie chicken I brought home from that trip to Costco.

Wynn

[OldLincoln]

Aren't those chickens great? We usually debone it and make 4 meals out of it plus a sandwich or two.

[wyntrout]

We only get two meals out of one... my wife and I... but the last half I get to pick the bones, too. The Wal-Mart chickens are so salty we would almost choke, but the Costco ones are fine... no EXTRA salt added.

Dang! I went to the gun show at the convention center and they were having an Herbal-Life convention or something. I tried to call Wifey but she was still on the phone with her mother. So I went to Shooters and looked at guns there. CW9/40's and CM9/40's were on sale for $349.99. I found a used P9 on sale for $470... was $520. I kind of thought about it, and pulled the slide off to check it out... not as clean as I would have liked, so no sale.

When I got home I checked the calendar and the gun show was at the fairgrounds... the "lesser" show. That's why I tried to call my wife. Maybe I'll get there tomorrow. I made up a sign to wear and had my S&W 645 to look for a trade... maybe. I also had the hurricane fund... just in case.

The good show is August 4th weekend, so I'll have another chance, unless my "Alzheimer's" acts up again.

Wynn

[OldLincoln]

I've only been to one gun show and couldn't even get to all the tables is was so packed. But I don't recall seeing people wearing signs. Since sellers buy tables I'd think management would frown on that. Is that the sign that says "Kick me HERE V" ?