Frosty Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 Like Scott's taxing comments, Das? My folks had a realistic if interesting approach to telling us NOT to do something dangerous. Dad would say, "Do NOT do (X)). This is how it's done" Knowing we'd give whatever a try anyway he'd tell us the safest way. Mother on the other hand would tell us, "Hurt yourself and you'll get a beating when you get home from the hospital." By beating a swat with the wooden spoon was almost all it ever took, if we got two swats we'd gotten a beating. It was a good place to grow up. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted March 20, 2022 Author Share Posted March 20, 2022 I'm just trying to avoid touchy subjects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 Lol yeah Frosty, that which shall not be mentioned with those we do not speak of. Or something.... Oh that wooden spoon.. unfortunately my grandfather made good wooden spoons for his daughters. Because any cheap store bought wooden spoon surely would have broken. I have a wooden spatula blank that my grandfather started. I still have yet to finish it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted March 20, 2022 Author Share Posted March 20, 2022 Wooden spoons with holes drilled in them hurt worse. It let's the air out so there is more impact... Grandma had no mercy for tomfoolery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 Maybe the holes made it faster but I don't think aerodynamics matter to a mother that is fed up enough to be grabbing the wooden spoon for a behind wooping. And trying to block it just enraged them more and got you a smacked wrist, hand or knuckle on top of the behind haha. I will say having kids now, I understand the old "this hurts me more than you" saying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 I tried reverse psychology on my kids in the 70s, gotta tell ya it didn't work worth a darned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 Reverse psychology. This is going to hurt you worse than it will hurt me. Reverse psychology didn't work? Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 For my family it was an old fashioned yardstick for my Father; except he worked for Bell Labs and so it was a solid hard maple meter stick---narrower, thicker, stronger, longer. Mom grew up on a farm in Oklahoma and she believed in cutting a switch. I can only remember a few times getting paddled and clearly remember the WHY too. I got to raise two battered kids through their adolescence and their younger experiences meant there was no linkage between the paddling and the WHY. It happened often and randomly. Messed up the kids' "cause and effect" system something terribly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 On 2/25/2022 at 12:46 PM, Nodebt said: With a little weird bike history thrown in for good measure! Eh, just found this video and it reminded me of the earlier bicycle conversation. Some look mighty awkward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted April 14, 2022 Author Share Posted April 14, 2022 Perfect, thanks for the smile of the day, Aric. It's a good thing they worked out the kinks before they put engines on them..... They look dangerous the way it was lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 Oh yeah. Pretty amusing how he had to get up on some of those. And dismounting (jumping off, or Falling over) with the tall ones... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted April 14, 2022 Author Share Posted April 14, 2022 It's hard not to laugh at the crashes as long as they get up and wave at the camera..... I'm ok! (Wow my arm hurts....) Been there, done that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 How about the one where the guy falls and it looks like his leg is trapped? He sure has an anguished expression when he picks his face out of the dirt. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 Think it is the same guy in all of the clips.he knew what he signed up for lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 It's the same guy, he has a set routine on the high wheelers and didn't look too much worse for the fall most times but that one he sure looked like he wanted the camera man to help untangle him. I wonder what he was getting paid. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted April 15, 2022 Author Share Posted April 15, 2022 I would guess he was paid in Bier the way he's demonstrating. That first bike looked like a dangerous contraption. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 That first one reminded me of a more recent bike that someone built to have it steer reverse of which way you turn the handle bars. That person had people try to ride it and found it nearly impossible. Then there was the spring frame bike someone built. Then the one in this video with the single handle that looked like lifting it was the brake? Lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted April 15, 2022 Author Share Posted April 15, 2022 I bet left handed folk would be able to handle that reverse steering.... You have to adapt to a backwards world when you are a lefty.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 Scott, offense to that! us backwards people take Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 Lefties are just sinister people! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 NEVER let a lefty set up on your right side at a demo! I used to work with a fellow who claimed he was ambidextrous but couldn't do anything with either hand. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted April 16, 2022 Author Share Posted April 16, 2022 7 hours ago, ThomasPowers said: Lefties are just sinister people! I like bumping elbows with righties at the dinner table.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 Out of my two brothers and I, I'm the only one that is Right..... handed. They did adapt to shooting rifles and bows right handed tho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 20 hours ago, ThomasPowers said: Lefties are just sinister people! What!?!? you sir have offended us left handed people! I’d throw my left glove at you an challenge you to a duel!….if you weren’t so far away! Lol Sorry to change the subject back again, but I gotta gripe that kinda follows the original topic, a couple days ago I needed finish a hydro job on a zero turn mower, I ran into a local parts house and told the guy at the counter I wanted 12 quarts of castrol gtx 20w 50 oil…. He came back with a case an rang me up…. For $87 an some change!!! $7.25 a quart!!! I didn’t wanna be rude an walk out so I reluctantly paid an went on, I checked at a couple more places for prices on sae 30 and 10w 30 and 20w 50 on various brands and everything was $6-7 a quart, even the cheapo harvest king oil made by Citgo at Atwood’s is up to $3.29 for conventional, used to be $1.98 not long ago, so I got online today and did some cruising through various oil distributors, i found a super cheap Chinese oil company distributing across the US with free shipping on 55 gallon drums for $525, but I’d never heard of their oil an don’t trust it, so I kept looking, I found a American oil company that offers free freight on 55 gallon drums and was $564 a drum, now if my maths correct, a 55 gallon drum comes out to 220 quarts, at $564 that’s $2.56 a quart, so can someone explain to me why buying it in a plastic bottle drives the price up so high? also one more thing, I ordered a 1 pound part from ingersoll rand in Oklahoma City, 3 hrs west of me, and those guys charged me $64 freight! And took days to get here, but oil companies can ship a 55 gallon drum of oil free? Something ain’t makin no sense here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 I guess it's a matter of logistics. The average guy like me who uses Castrol GTX 20w50 in my classic 1987 Cavalier Z24 with 233363 miles on her would never buy a 55 gal drum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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