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Learning the right knots is good advice, ordinary knots will weaken the line too much. Actually you can probably get by if you just know the Palomar knot. Buy a rod and reel to match the pound test of line you'll use, it's written on the rods and reels. With the right knots, 6-12 pound test works fo...

If you're really miserable with the rash, oral corticosteroids can knock it out fast. It's not medicine to be trifled with but I don't think a Medrol pack one in a blue moon is going to hurt me. But I haven't had to resort to cortisone since discovering the Tecnu products. I think this one is the ge...

If you want to get in trouble and piss off your politically correct friends / relatives, play The Bad News Bears for the kids one day. I honestly didn't remember the movie much but figured how bad could a PG movie be ... well, it is pretty fucking funny on purpose, but hilarious how much things have...

The Tecnu products are pure gold. They used to be hard to find, you can get them at most drug stores now. I am told washing off with Tecnu was daily SOP for linemen down south, who'd be hacking through the shit daily. The soap is very good for getting the stubborn oil off of you, that's at least hal...

I do a little work with alarm systems. For self monitoring, the best thing I've found is the Elk brand, with email - to - text for notifications. Text message notifications would be a must for me. Pair it with a Dropcam for sure. If you want something a little heavier, get cloud recording for the Dr...

I got a letter from my carrier telling me I'd be switched from the plan I had into another plan with a nice bump in premiums. I shopped around and couldn't find anything cheaper, so I switched to another larger carrier with a bigger network. Shopping was comically confused. The larger carrier was an...

Now it all makes sense, I see why he took up with those malignant gypsies, a few years with them, and having your pecker replaced with a simulated vagina is a step towards normalcy. Who do you think spent more time making that photo happen, the makeup necromancers at Vanity Fair or the swapout surge...

Come on man. The history post-Nafta has been a reallocation of quality jobs and therefore $$$ away from working class whites to mexican nationals. That shift is due to a lot of reasons. While NAFTA made cheaper Mexican labor more competitive, we were doing things that made our labor more expensive....

I was thinking about this, in scifi movies etc. there has been a recurring theme for a long time that eventually technology would create robots that would overtake and wrestle control from human beings in a robot revolution. People also worried a lot about blowing up the world with a nuclear bomb or...

When someone talks about a corporation in this context, or the way we normally use the word in the modern world, it isn't any group of people that get together. You don't form a corporation by coming to an agreement between individuals, that's a contract. You get a corporation by filing some papers ...

In 1950, the biggest employer in the US was General Motors and the average compensation was the 2014 equivalent of about $50/hour with including pension and health care. In 2015, the biggest employer in the US is Walmart and the average wage is under $10/hour and the workforce is carefully managed s...

Of course war is a racket, so is peace.

Of course war is a racket, so is peace.

If she gets to the general election, I'd be shocked if she didn't win. In 2008 people voted for an affable, unknown black bonehead because he was black. True believers voted as they always do, but the race is always close after the true believer factions vote as they always do. Black people turned o...

I was thinking they should just make rest rooms and locker rooms only big enough for one person at a time, but even then I wouldn't always be comfortable with the company in there.

This is pretty much the Fabian strategy and it sounds to me like it makes sense with this particular crop of shitbirds. Harass them and make sure they churn through their resources as quickly as possible. They are repugnant but it's hard to get excited about taking up with their enemies, most of who...

What the deal between traditional and the IR models - besides the ad copy - and the big price difference? I went in one of those IR saunas, I helped install them at a gym. They were planning on trying to charge for it like tanning. It came with promo posters with all kinds of ridiculous claims for ...

Do you remember where you read that? I'm interested as I've always been skeptical about the body retaining toxins I remember reading that, of all places, about 30 years ago in Muscle and Fitness. Before that, the idea of the skin as an important organ for elimination was part of the old-days hippie...

Now there's a challenge, a double blind study on sex change and driving skill, how would you make a placebo group for a sex change study, and conceal which subjects were in the placebo group from the researchers? It sounds difficult but hey, if you only want to do easy things, you're not going to ch...

I feel like it would be a bad oversight if a thread that involves burning people and Vietnam doesn't send a shout out to Thich Quang Duc, the Buddhist monk that immolated himself in 1963 in protest of government repression of religious expression. You have to respect a man that burns himself rather ...

Incendiaries have been used for centuries, right, up to and including the ultimate incendiaries so far, the nukes dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which by the way I am told killed fewer people and fewer civilians than the firebombing of Dresden at the end of WWII. Flamethrowers were used to clear...

I couldn't think what this made me think of until today, it's this: THEME FOR ENGLISH B By Langston Hughes The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you--- Then, it will be true. I wonder if it's that simple? I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem....

I'm sorry, I figured you had hacked access to the email accounts of all the girls whose pictures you post. (How else does he get all their pictures?!?) If you don't have anyone in the household, in your extended family and friends, or hog tied in the back of your van that has an .edu account to hook...

I was thinking of this option as well, ccrow. I was actually about to download the 30 day free trial last night but decided to hold off. May go ahead and pull the trigger on it this weekend. I think I was on the BIM site though? Thanks, ccrow! Here it is right at Autodesk: http://www.autodesk.com/p...

Most of the stuff you'll get off the torrents is malware or etc., and software is getting harder to boost, but I do still see people running pirated Autodesk programs. Revit has a free 30 day trial. I think the trial will do all you need to brush up. With a little effort you can run the free trial m...