Wayne Rumball''s House of Nonsense

[Wildbilly]

Sold @ 4.97, another case of profitus interruptus for me,

I wonder if my doctor has something for that?

[Wayne R]

yup, looking good

[Wildbilly]

Turning out to be a nice trade.

[Wildbilly]

I bought a handful of WTID for $4.35 today after I saw cintrix mention it on the Bounce bd. It's a 3x inverse WTI crude, huge drop
I figured it's bound to go back up right? ...right?
I was down right off the bat WHAM!

[Wayne R]

Well the shit has really hit the fan.

For the crazy people out there, buy oil futures, short automakers, buy anything renwewable energy oriented and maybe gold and silver futures.

Don't forget, with futures you don't get your ass handed back to you, they take that away too.

JMO
Not a recommondation to buy are sell anything, though I wish I could.

[Wayne R]

I'm president of an association with 15 parcels of land for people to grow vegetables.

A couple months ago I get a phone call, can they set up a stand for the 28th of sept on our parcel of land. Ok, sure why not if I don't have to do anything.

Couple weeks later, another call, guy got mY number from the first guy, asks the same question. Same answer.

Couple weeks after that, another call, same question, same answer. However, this time I asked for her name and further details, which were few.

So since then, I'm waiting for a call back to firm up whatever the hell they want to do.

I went to city hall today for another matter and then asked about whatever the hell was going on the 28th of sept.

I seems my association has sponsored a workshop about natural gardening, tips and tricks.

Fine with me, but it would have been nice to be informed a bit more. Hell, my name is on the flyer.

Anyway, you have to signup for the workshop, so I did, you can never have too much advice.

[Wildbilly]

When I would drop in a spoonful of sugar

intending to stir with the spoon, I always thought that it was the metal spoon that caused the boiling over,

but the article suggests it was maybe the sugar? Or both, Could be why my eruptions were so rambunctious.

[Wayne R]

https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=150968706

[Wildbilly]

dayam, noted.

[Wayne R]

you get a friend over and he says "hey wildbilly, your coffee tastes like mud"

and you say "sure, but it is to avoid superheating"

LMAO!

[Wayne R]

You forgot to dump some sand into your coffee cup...
Adding sand or dissolved gas to a liquid provides nucleation sites which will minimize the chance that superheating will occur.

[Wildbilly]

I've scalded my hands and fingers from "superheating" a cup coffee on two occasions,

fortunately just my hands and not my face or chest.

https://www.thoughtco.com/how-superheating-works-609436

[Wayne R]

when the kids were about 10 or 12, in the morning they got up and stuck a bowl of milk in the microwave for a minute.

one morning they rushed into my bedroom, "papa, papa, il y a un probleme avec la microonde";

sure enough it looked like a thunderstorm in there with lightening strikes. I ducked down and moved across the floor to unplug the damed thing.

smoke was coming out the sides.

It wasn't anything my kids did, there was just a bowl of milk inside, no utensils.

I've heard of people that cook EVERYTHING in their microwave, fish, meat, whatever. I've alays thought that that could not possibly be healthy.

[Wildbilly]

I have one, a built in, that's 20 years old and I'm sure it's developed some leaks.

Leaky microwaves are one of the cautions that came with my pacemaker,

so I try to remember to move to the other end of the kitchen after I turn it on.

[Wayne R]

I'm afraid of microwaves, have been since they were invented.

That article;

Bree Flory

Bree is a vegan, coffee and beer loving, intersectional feminist who is particularly invested in health. She has a degree in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from CSULB, where she spent her time turning her passions into academic activism. When she’s not busy spreading awareness on living a non toxic lifestyle, she is most likely taking a long bath, cooking extravagant vegan food, or crying about dogs.

Taking a long bath? that is very bad for the planet. Take a quick shower.

why's she crying about dogs? Because they eat meat?

My grandmother died at 100+ years after a lifetime of eating fruits and vegetables sprayed with ddt and other crap. She died of old age and not cancer.

At tupperware parties are they now obliged to put a notice at the front door "using these products will lead to cancer and death"?

So many questions, so few answers

[Wildbilly]

That' a hoot, but there is a reason for that guidance.

Plastics containing food stuffs are rated on a 1-7 scale, I've tried to make sure to stick with #5 for years now.

Some of the other ratings are prone to leaching over time and in warm places like a garage. Never microwave anything in any plastic of course.

https://www.nontoxicrevolution.org/blog/7-types-of-plastic

[Wayne R]

There was a "special report" on the news last night. It was about food packaged in plastic recipents that will evntually give you cancer. Milk, yogurt, apple sauce, different prepared meals, etc.

So the report goes on to say that as soon as you buy this shit, put it all in glass jars.

What nonsense. IF it is true that those plastic containers are gonna give you cancer, then you are already fucked. Putting everything into glass jars after the fact ain't gonna change anything.

Sort of like having unprotected sex with someone and putting on a condom afterwards....

[Wildbilly]

Paying employees salaries appears to be key,

can't dispute, done that, been there with tornado recovery 1971 ie: FEMA .

[Wildbilly]

We don't get the story here anymore, really have to search.

[Wayne R]

He said, she said, they said, you said... blah blah blah

"They want to know what exactly their money is being spent on and if they agree to it before they hand it over, and not just to pay employees’ salaries."

Boggles the mind. Probably 80 percent of the cost is manual labor.

I haven't heard much recently, but back then, some knucklehead in government proposed that the reconstruction include modifications to make it look more modern, like a transparent dome on top.

HELLO, it's an historic monument, not eurodisney

Idiots.

Could be why the billionaires are holding back bucks, they want to be assured that it will be as it was and no fucking bubble on the roof

[Wildbilly]

Off wid dere heads!

Do we know our dear elite or what?

French Billionaires Waffle On Notre Dame Rebuild As US Donors Foot The Bill
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-14/french-billionaires-welch-notre-dame-rebuild-us-donors-foot-bill

[Wildbilly]

No, what happened...oh yeah, somebody torched a church or something?

Yeah, that's it, a bunch of high profile uber rich guys promised to donate 100's of millions of dollars for restorations.

Did any of them ever pony up?

[Wildbilly]

The one for me is 'went'

I went and put my boots on, I went and snail mailed my taxes.

My 7th grade composition teacher, Mr. Mclary, would have had a conniption and big red x'ed the shit out of anything he considered excess language.

I hear commentators and others on t.v. do this all the time, people you would think know better. I instinctively flinch expecting them to be called up in front of the class at any minute and humiliated.

I put my boots on, I snail mailed my taxes.

[Wayne R]

It is now 2 months later. Do you remeber what happened?

After stops and starts, my son found a job that he really likes and fits with his qualifications.

Thing is, he can't tell me what he's working on. Sworn to secrecy.

DGSE? CIA?

I won't mention the name of the company, I might be breaking the secrecy, but they have production facitilies as well in Atlanta.

That aside, I was out in the vegatable garden today, some guy stopped by to take a look at my work, we started taking.

He asks me, "are you english", I say no, Canadian, from the english speaking part. Guy grabs my hand and starts shaking it "thank you, thank you for liberating france"

Yesterday was the aniversary of D day, lots of Canadians lost thir lives....

I tried to tell him that I didn't do anything, my father wasn't even born yet and my grandfather was never in the war but he continued shaking my hand like I was a war hero.

It is entirely possible that he was slightly drunk....

[Watcher31]

Whats the latest ?
Miss the real life stories

[ernie44]

yeah ,he was ''sleep-walking''on the roof

[Wayne R]

Message from another board I can't post on;

I am an IT professional who is hopeful that Data443 can solve a much needed problem that effects everyone.

What AFFECTS everyone is people that post grammatical errors all the time and suddenly that's how you write it.

In modern literature I stall my reading for minutes with a phase like this
"try and get a gun"

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

it is "try to get a gun"

[Wayne R]

Damnit!

The bastards stole the bike again.

Wednesday, everything was closed, holiday.

Thursday and Friday, work, so no time to buy a lock for the shed, I planned to go today and... fucking bicycle is stolen again.

I suppose I could set up a system whereby as soon as you open the door to the shed you get a face full of acid.

But then it we be me spending time in prison and not the thieves....

Checked where we found it the last time, of course it was not there, that would be too simple.

[Buckey]

well we got a car stolen once - The kid who stole it left his bike behind LOL - yes it was stolen also. it was just a joyride - likely all yours was

[Wayne R]

Woke up this moning, half asleep I opened the shutters and I see the doors
to the shed in the garden open.

I'm turning it over in my head, what did I do in the shed last night.

I come up with NOTHING.

So I take a look inside and... Marianne's bicycle is gone.

She was still sleeping and I wasn't going to wake her up for a bicycle that
she doesn't often use.

Anyway, when she did wake up (holiday today), I told her that her bike was
stolen. So she called the police to let them know what had happened.

I kept saying to her, It is pobably not far, we'll take a walk later and see
if we run across it.

We left the house and she wanted to go right, I said no, left, in the
direction of the small roads. Took 5 minutes to find it abandoned at the
side of the road.

Now she thinks I'm inspecter Clouseau

LOL

[Buckey]

I have crossed 100 times. Only 3 times harrassed in any direction by same office

[Wayne R]

20-25 years ago I did a month long trip from Montreal, destination Grand Canyon.

My idea of a motorcycle trip is that you take all the roads less travelled.

So, me and my ex-wife arrive at the crossing to USA, at some boarder crossing that was toatally deserted. No cars going into Canada, no cars going out.

The guy came out of his hut, I think we woke him up, and asked for identification.

We were both produced Canadian passports. Her's says she's born in France.

At the time, all you needed to cross the boarder was a birth certificate. The guy wasn't used to seeing passports....

You have to realise that a Honda 650 loaded down with 2 passengers and everything they need for a month is an odd sight.

The guy asks me, where are you going?

I say destination is Grand Canyon, then we head back.

He asks, how much money do you have with you?

I said, right now, about a hundred bucks, but I have this American Express card and this Visa gold as well.

hrumph, he kinda looks up the road and down the road and a little bit around, second glance at the motocycle totally loaded... then hands back our passports and says have a good trip.

That particular crossing, I imagine they've put up razor wire and blocked it of recently........

[Buckey]

Quick answer - Is I have no idea. I cannot think of a valid reason but it is government we are talking.

aside but related. The whole border is senseless for both sides here. That is USA and Canada. since 2010 I have had great hassle entering the USA due to one asshole who interrogated me relentlessly at 6 am. I was travelling at the last minute to visit my Father who had suffered a massive heart attack. I booked one way the day before. He put in the system I had a criminal record. I DID NOT I had all the fingerprint checks and background checks done through the RCMP. crossed us customs many times after than but witheld 1/3 of the time. Finally was refused entry and even have a brand new fingerprint check done - SO I went and got a NEXUS pass - Only one US office did all this to me at one pint of entry. I received and informal apology. Now I hear coming our way to Canada they can be huge assholes also

[Wayne R]

Hey buckey, long time no see.

Got a question for you.

Why, in 2016, did the Canadian government decide that Canadian citizens with double nationality CANNOT enter the country without a Canadian passport.

I have a French passport, not really because I want to appear to be french, actually I'd prefer to have a Canadian one, BUT, they make it so fucking complicated to get one when you are overseas and have double nationality that it was just simpler to head over to city hall, get fingerprinted, fill out forms, and I'm done. 3 weeks later passport ready at city hall.

Aside from the bureaucratic shit, What I want to know is what was the point of this new law? Why don't they want Canadians coming back on other passports? Has there been massive abuse?

[Buckey]

I saw a stat on bus accidents in CUBA - it was mind boggling . STAY ON RESORT Busses are bad

[Wildbilly]

I've never been into strip clubs,

the maybe three times I've gone have been at the urging of whomever I was with.

I mean, who doesn't like a disingenuous attitude, low self esteem and over priced drinks?

[Wayne R]

My son asked me to help him do an oil change in his car. I said OK, no problem, we'll order an oil filter and it should be here in a few days;

Then it struck me, why does my son, who doesn't give a shit about maintaining his car suddenly wants to do an oil change.

So I asked him. He said the check engine light was on and he read on internet that it meant the oil needed to be changed.

I told him that check engine light can mean a lot of things, but it will never come on because you forgot to change the oil.

So, because you can find just about anything on the innernut, I found a way to read the fault codes for check engine. Strangely, there were no fault codes. So with innernut info I reset the fault codes.

We'll see in a few days if the check engine light comes back on, OR it could be because he has WAY too much oil in the crankcase. He swears he's never touched it (which i have no doubt is true given his level of interest in maintaining his car). Tommorow I drain some out. It's a blown head gasget waiting to happen

[Wayne R]

Strippers...
Yea I forgot, once I headed down to Niagara to see the strippers with the guys. My first time in a strip club. Didn't really do anything for me.

I got a job in Toronto, guy says to me, for lunch, go down the street to the strip club, all you can eat buffet and strippers.

Went once, the food wasn't all that good

When I was at college a neighbor asked if I could take her sister who was starting out to be a stripper, to the other end of Toronto from Hamilton, and I'd be paid. Sure, why not

It was a good hour drive from a to b.

As soon as we arrived I became royalty, I sat in strippers corner, talked to all the other strippers, didn't pay for any beer.

At the end of the night, the girl I had brought there told me she didn't need a ride home, she was leaving with someone.

From stripping to prositution in one night.

She gave me 20 bucks, I got free beer, and on top of it, I got to sit with the strippers.

[Wildbilly]

I was recruited by a headhunter for a company based in Buffalo and after taking the job and spending a month of training there I began to question the sanity of the execs who chose to locate headquarters there even tho' I would be based back home. Apparently much of the city was located below lake level as every time you stepped off the sidewalk the water would squish over your shoes.

The sky was literally criss crossed with power lines from Niagara headed to places down south so there was a low level constant hum.

The waterfront, which should have been the showcase of the town, was instead a hulking, rusting remnant of what once was Rich Industries.

Driving up the expressway to get a glimpse of Rich stadium where the Bills play, the signs kept announcing the stadium exits and we were like 'where'? All that was visible were the top of two goal posts out in a field, turns out the stadium was buried to protect against the lake winds which we experienced several days of those 50-70 mph sustained winds.

We were excited when we learned of the grand opening of Buffalo's first ever Bob Evans breakfast joint. Two of us were looking forward to a little bit of home until we pulled up that sunday morning and couldn't even get close as the cars were piled up on the highway waiting to exit for the opening. We passed, apparently this was one of the most anticipated events of the winter in Buffalo.

Never did have any Buffalo wings which was our bad.

On a night off I went to a nearby strip club with the two other guys in training with me. It was in January and the club was freezing, the strippers, all around 4'!0"-5'0" and 170 lb,s or so all wore what looked like their boyfriend's Woolrich plaid shirts with bare legs hanging out the bottom. This isn't a dis, simply an observation, but they all sounded and looked a bit Native American. It was a weekday night and we were three of maybe six people. We stayed for one very watered down very expensive drink and left a bit more depressed for the experience.

One highlight on another day off we took a drive south down along the lake when after an hour we came upon a cinder block joint painted high skrool bathroom green sitting right on a wide expanse of sand. the "Bar & Grill' sign showed promise of grabbing a beer and sammy. Turns out the grub was surprisingly good, serving full course dinners later that evening, as it turns out we later tried the prime rib. It was the only unlikely balmy day that month in the 50's, so we sat on a rooftop terrace over looking the lake and got absolutely blewie numbing ourselves for the final week in Buffalo. Suddenly a guy in a little 15' fiberglass boat with fins, the kind that was popular in the jet age of the 60's, with a green Evinrude appears out of the haze and beaches right in front. A bunch of people sitting in Adirondacks on the beach down below swarm around him then go inside. So we go downstairs to check it out only to see everybody in the joint seems to know this guy and are apparently happy to see him. After an hour or so of kibbitzing with others in this happy event we are invited with about 20 others to this huge banquet table on a raised platform at the back of the room. Boat boy orders bottles of wine for all and tells us to order what we want, all on him. The waitress seemingly on cue sets two large silver platters in front of him which he pours a large pile of toot on each divided into dozens of lines and passes each down either side of the table. This was repeated so many times that I don't know why we bothered with food. I wished I could have asked for a doggie bag, but didn't. The guy had himself a cozy little business running across from Canada and we had unknowingly been rubbing elbows with his regulars all day.

When we finally made it to the falls we had been told the strippers were far classier on the Canadian side, but when we drove over after ogling the falls we looked at each other and nearly in unison said "nahhh" and instead took a two hour drive along the Canadian waterfront. The strippers weren't the only classier things on the other side, put the American side to shame.

[Wildbilly]

Ahh, subliminal Easter musings?

God is a tough subject for me having been raised by a religious and good man, the most genuine man I have ever met... by a bunch.
I don't believe or disbelieve, I like to keep my options open. :)

As far as helping someone in need, I have always gone out of my way to help without being self serving no matter the risk involved in spite of my somewhat outward sarcastic nature.

[Wayne R]

The Jehova guys,
One said he recently went to Canada and went on about the typical French tour of Canada.. Montreal-Quebec-Niagara falls-Toronto-home.

I remember Niagara Falls 35 years ago, it was a much better place than what I saw 5 years ago.

Which reminds me of something 35 or so years ago. Me and a couple buddys are sitting in my appartment and all we had was 2 beers between the three of us on a Sunday night. One of my buds says hey, lets go to Buffalo NY, they have all night liquor stores.

Looking back, I'm not sure if he knew that to be true.

Anyway, we hit the road and stopped for a break at Niagara. It's January and the mist from the falls is icing everything. The guy who suggested the trip is in cowboy boots, jumps a fence to get a better look at the falls and immediately starts sliding into the gorge.

Luckily, he managed to grab onto a small tree and slither back up.

So we hit the road again, get to customs control, guy asks us why we are entering the United States. I say Neil Young tickets go on sale tomorrow morning and we want to be first in line to get good seats.

So he let us go and off to Buffalo we went. Never found anything the resembled a place to buy beer, but we did pass 6 vehicles that had "PARKING AUTHORITY" written on them. Must be a big parking problem in buffalo.

So we headed back to Canada, customs guy asked us what were were doing in USA and how long was our stay, I said we went to camp out for Neil Young concert tickets then found out they only go on sale next week. We've only been there for a couple hours, nothing to declare.

It was fortunate that neither of the customs agents were Neil Young fans. no idea if he EVER played a concert in Buffalo....

[Wayne R]

Had some Jehova Witness guys pass by a few minutes ago.

They weren't ready to encounter me.

"have you read the bible?"

Yea, sure, 4 or 5 times front to back, and old testament twice, I've seen things that only God or Godlike aliens could have created.

The problem with society these days is that not enough people believe in God. That there are consequenses to our actions.

I see a broken down car on the side of the road, I stop to render assistance. Few people would.

Why do I do that, because if it was Canada in the middle of a snowstorm in the middle of nowhere and you didn't stop for a driver in distress, well you'd read about their death from hypothermia a few days later.

All this I told the guys, and told them to not come back. I am not a part of any church or religion, I believe in God on my own terms, and I think He understands.

They gave me their magazine and left contemplating what I had said.

[Wildbilly]

Bwahaha, nice tie-back end to your story.

I can't match that one right now, but I can carry on the theme a little bit. In todays news San Francisco has reported another 118% increase in human excrement on the downtown sidewalks so far this year. They've had a similar system as Nantes for reporting human feces alerts on city sidewalks which is how they've compiled their statistics, self appointed citizen narcs take a picture of the offending steaming pile or call a dedicated number to report the location of the same. City fathers have calmed alarmed citizens by assuring them the problem is well in hand with their intention to form dedicated "Poop Patrols" to address the problem which isn't addressing the problem at all of course. I wonder what their title will be?

Typical of me, the most distressing part seen in numerous Youtube videos is that the offenders don't usually clean themselves after the offending act simply hitching up their pants or dropping their skirts and continuing on their way which surely makes the majority of public spaces in the city a no go for this country boy. I'd much rather deal with the end product from grass and grain eating large ruminants than bodily odors from human meat eaters.

[Wayne R]

There was a bus crash in Madera, portugal a few days ago. 29 German tourists dead. A very sad thing, but they had to pump it for all it was worth, the news guys.

I've been to Madera, the real question is why don't MORE people die in bus crashes.

Hell, we left our hotel to go for a walk and just walking in the street gave me vertigo and the roads in the mountains are very narrow.

We took a public transport bus into town, scary shit. Don't look down.. Sit on the mountain side, not the side of the road where there's nothing...

Aside from that, we spent a nice vacation. The beaches were few and far between.

TODAY the big news, or all the news they could dig up, was about dogs shitting on sidewalks and owners not picking it up. Apparenty Nantes, where I live rated low on the scale of cities where people pick up dogshit, but Paris and Marseille rater lower.

The radio announcer had someone from city hall on the phone to explain the problem. Here's the fun part...
They are creating a smartphone app so if you see dogshit on the sidewalk, you can take a pic, the app will define the location and it will be sent off to city hall and they'll take care of it as soon as possible. within minutes apparently

A serial killer was sentenced to 30 years in prison after years of trials and I suppose the years of trials didn't really make it news, so dogshit lasted 3 times as long to report.

I don't make this shit up

[Wildbilly]

We've had crap like that going on concerning the border issue for instance happening for years now, old stock file clips and photos reported on as if they just happened today. Essentially there are no, what has always been considered, 'news' organizations left. It's either all infotainment presented by nice looking info babes or shock news with click bait headers that draws the highest ratings, Concerning what just happened over there we'll have all Notre Dame all the time until the ratings tail off as if there is nothing else of interest happening in the world. Two months from now probably 7 out of 10 Americans will be unable to recall any of those events - we'll be on to the next train wreck that captures our lurid interests.

[Wayne R]

Some knuckleheads posted pictures of a demonstration, can't remember where, showing hundreds, maybe thousands of people marching in unity.

Problem is, on that day, there were fewer than 50 people in that place, and the picture in question was a walk to generate funds for cancer research 3 years ago...

[Wildbilly]

Surprised youve heard of the movement and

I have a Twitter account, so I'd believe everything that came out of your mouth ie: a loyal viewer.

[Wayne R]

Maybe I could be a CNN correspondant; Might need to tone this down a bit, but I can give a on ground summary LMAO;
Ha!

Surprised youve heard of the movement.

Just a bunch of assholes that want something for nothing, especialy if there is no effort involved in getting the something.

President Macron will speak tonight and no one will be happy.

Hell, he could say he's going to give everyone 10,000 euros free and these guys will go to the streets demanding 20,000 or more.

Bunch of fucking idiots representing less than 2pct of the population that have created several hundred million euros in damage.

[Wayne R]

Oh, with Notre Damn burning, Macron put off his speach. Maybe he set the fire...

[Wayne R]

Yea, it is all they talk abought on the news. So sad. Will be years before anyone can ever visit again.

The attic was a fire hazard waiting to happen