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premier
I am not saying good or bad...absence is more at it.
Tell us more about my bad opinions and disrespect for Carolyn.
ola
Carolyn, Oh Carolyn..............................Please!
Oh please read premier's 5282 where he states I do not think you are a lady and I have mis-judged you.
That should bring down hell on ola's shoulders.
Just make it up out of thin air premier.
ola
premier
Well just set me up for dissension, why don't you?
Don't you know how to use the PM feature are are you aware of what you say?
ola
NorthWesterner
What you say regarding tying the Bible into understanding literature is true.
However, you got into the middle of the discussion not the beginning.
I proposed that religion and the Bible be banned "from high school on down"...I am not keen on the idea of impressing immature kids with a lot of poppycock represented to them as true and real. College Bible study is an appropriate time to introduce the Bible as literature and religion as a source of possibility, reflection and debate.
By the way, it is proper and in keeping to say that the Bible is "magnificent literature" The reality is that is poorly written and laughable as good literature goes. It is the fact of it's ubiquity rather than it's merits that makes people THINK it is the greatest book ever written. I mean, the Jones have one don't they? Must be something to it? Right?
Quanity does not necessarily indicate quality. It could indicate a massive, self feeding, repetitious delusion. I never did like "Pet Rocks"
ola
premier
I am well aware that "open discussion", no "taboo" subjects and Freedom of Speech is the lip-synch comedy act for most message boards.
When it comes down to it these people are not liberated from the hindrances of their pasts...that takes a lot of courage and personal conviction, and a disregard for peer pressure.
Independent thought has a scanty existence in society. But there are lots of liberated, independent, free thinkers out there...just ask them.
lol...lol...lol
ola
premier
Maybe it is just my delivery. Carolyn is all het up about it. I can't believe she missed the point I was trying to make.
I make the same presentation over a period of an hour or so while playing cards on Yahoo and people seem to understand. Maybe it is the time lag in playing cards and talking to 3 people; giving time for reflection, that does it.
I do know that friends come to visit and are rather stunned when they realize what I was saying is absolutely true. They laugh openly at the absurdities they held onto for so long.
Just something you have to do.
ola
mr.mark
I see that, I understand that. Isn't there more enjoyment in having a couple of brand new systems? Doesn't it free up scads of time...when is enough cleverness and antiquity enough?
If you are running stuff dating back to 95 and beyond, aren't you running under a tremendous burden?
ola
premier
"I am a vegetarian not because I like animals but because I hate plants."... is a joke and you can't back pedal and say oh I got it but not like it was meant.
Thats just it. It went COMPLETELY over your head and you were attempting to use it as a criticism as if there were something wrong with someone who feels like this.
I don't feel like this, I am not a vegetarian...it was a JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are not known for your ready laughter, witticisms or sense of humor.
ola
NorthWesterner
Why not?
Christians are one of the most confused groups in the United States, heck...the world. Paule was saying there are 20,000 Christian sects in the United States alone.
What does religion and the Bible have to do with education? Nothing, not one damned thing.
In the olden days children were given assignments to read in the Bible at home because every home had a Bible. My great relatives in Louisiana never went to school, they learned to read and write from the Bible. That is not the case today.
Bible study and religious classes are to force feed children twisted ideas and instill guilt trips, fear and a sense of calamity if they touch their mother where she pees, rather than how to read and write.
Move it on, get it to hell out of here.
ola
mr.mark
I seem to be out of the loop here. I buy a new computer every 2 years or less. Can't you buy the latest, fastest computer with gadzillion memory for about $700? or less ... just the "box"?
My 17 ppm color printer, 19" screen, 1.4 Ghrtz unit with XP and everything ready to go (and a DVD player/camera/speakers/ keyboard/mouse) and the shipping, and a 3 year parts and labor in home guarantee/lifetime free consultation...all of it cost exactly $1300.09 Took two hours to unpack, set up, and access the internet/print.
I read articles about people grafting stuff onto their Commodore 64's to keep them going a little longer. That IS NOT far from the truth...and they brag about various functions they can accomplish faster than newer boxs, leaving out all the agony, time, and absolute command of the medium necessary to get this performance out of 3% of their areas of performance...just to brag about how miserable their set-up is?
How much does all this finagling cost in time, much less more money because you are committed? Why not put the brakes on, start saving money and graduate to real-time?
ola
NW
And just what morals, principles, ethics and correct behaviors cannot be teached without religion?
ola
The Original dpb5
Take the Phillippines for example...send them $1,000,000 to dig wells and right off the top, $500,000 of it goes into the Presidental coffer. Than $200,000 goes to building a new gymnasium in the target area...various contractors hired to do the improved water system in the area get $100,000 and the water systems' some 10 odd areas of improvement are improved with sub-standard materials or the specifications are not adequate to the conditions...and then there is the $10,000 or so needed for photos and documentation for the edification and enlightment of the U.S. and the United Nations.
This is how it works...all 3rd world countries (say 95%)
The leaders know all this is going to happen, that is why they are in power. If sweeping reforms and honesty are the policy of a candidate he doesn't get elected. You have to be a crony and everyone has to have their hands in your pocket. Even if you get in without getting killed, you are bucking a well-entrenched infrastructure of corruption. You are virtually helpless.
We would have to invade the countrys and have the corps of engineers install the water improvements.
Water and sewerage disposal are first of course. Well staffed medical outposts sprinkled throughout the country, basic education available to everyone. Irrigation, farm equipment, seed and fertilizers. Transportation systems to distribute materials and foodstuffs more efficiently, communications facilities and a few satellites...helll, it would only take about 100 years of concerted effort by a well managed and led country to accomplish all this.
You have to go in and forcibly make these changes and they would scream to high heaven.
It is best to cut off all aid whatsoever and hope for violent, effective revolution.
Fidel Castro is no one to take lightly...he has a better view and a direct insight into what is going on in the world, better than 99999% of the people. We never would let him up for a breath of air. We made damn sure that he wasn't capable of pulling off significant improvements and ridding his country of poverty. The U>S> is one of the biggest criminals. We don't supply foreign aid for helpful improvements, we supply it for concessions you and I are not and will never be aware of. This money is lost in the corruptive elements in all of these countries.
ola
joemoney..................................I am stunned!
That is SUCH a clever response! So witty! I would have NEVER thought of it.
I am JUST devastated.
That showed me!
ola
shaolin
Go to a Johnstone Supply in any big city near you. Ask for a roll of their best, most expensive duct tape...about $8.00
This is the stuff they call "200 mph tape" in NASCAR auto racing.
We use it to patch tears and holes in our parachutes...no shit
ola
Rogue Planet
Sounds like me after I broke up with my girlfriend. I slowly became infuriated...lasted about a year. Took me forever to forgive her, but believe me, I avoided her the whole time.
Am only now on a forgiven "Hello, how are you basis"
Serious, romantic committed men get hit the hardest...some women are fools, some are not.
ola
Carolyn........................cut from the same cloth?
Hardly, I cut my cloth to my pocket and my sail to the wind.
There is a ton of difference in me. Catch me if you can.
ola
Carolyn.................................to the contrary
Your messages make your thoughts quite clear.
ola
shaoli.....................................short short
Take water and freon...both in the liquid state.
Fire heat boils water at 212 deg F.
Water "steam" takes away heat
Food heat boils freon at -21 deg F.
Freon "steam" takes away heat
Cool either "steam", you get a liquid again.
Do it again.
ola
paule..............................................yes!
That covers 1 X 27 of it. No end to topics.
God? No end to stupid boredom.
ola
gp100 (for short).......................no, not usual.
Enough though to put us all on high alert...thats what this is all about...heightening awareness.
ola
Carolyn...............the subject continues unchanged.
Modesty can be practiced while nude with others...it is the sexual aspect that modesty requirements derive from.
Modesty has nothing to do with being nude.
It is strictly a defensive posture indicating no desire for sexual attentions.
You have sex on the mind this whole conversation...I don't!
ola
Carolyn...................................continuing
Desire is the key word and "their" activities are a mirror of your own.
No one, absolutely no one is interested in watching you scrub your butt.
Queen Victoria has her hooks deeply imbedded in you.
ola
mr.mark
Do you have a propane torch?
After doing all the water shut off, power shut off, pressure relief stuff...simply heat the joint and knock the pipe off the valve.
If no torch, just cut the pipe off with a hacksaw at the valve.
Listen, the overflow pipe is just there to divert the water to the drain pan at the bottom or to a drain.
If you run the water heater with no drain pipe, SHOULD the water squirt out (highly unlikely) it will squirt straight out the valve. Is there anything in that line of squirt that would be damaged? Discolored? Shorted out? If so, just place a deflecting piece of flat metal or plastic in front of the valve discharge.
Don't get excited...this discharge pipe is 999999% of the time superfluous.
If you DO have the torch...stick the old pipe back on the new valve, pressing inward and heat the joint. It will slip on and stay in place...leaks are inconsequential...don't even bother with new solder and flux and all. A good grip is all that is needed, there is no pressure there...it is a relief valve not a pressure valve.
Hell, you can DUCT TAPE the relief valve to the cut discharge pipe. It will hold the second or so the valve is open which is a 999999% improbable event anyway.
Problem with free advice is few people follow it. If I charged you $45 for this post you would run out and promptly fix the valve.
I know, I ran an appliance repair business for 11 years. I would give someone a free service call because they were poor, had done me a favor, or were regular customers. They promptly called someone else for a second opinion and PAID for that second opinion.
Human nature is really twisted towards self-destruction.
ola
shaolin
I am a famous basher, sarcastic at times, witty when it comes to me and a refugee from the weak-minded, narrowly focused, confused, fanatical, goofy posters at that ever so slow Finance site (misnomer)...RagingBull.
I am easily pulled into helping people...no problem.
One of the problems is other posters jumping in and contradicting me or offering other advice until the issue becomes confused. Here at IHub...the PM feature is marvelous. I have already used it to warn a woman on another board to ignore the men trying to demonstrate they know better. It IS a male thing to butt in. (Trying on an instinctual level to get laid)
About refrigeration: Simple!
Boil water on a stove. It takes heat to boil the water right?
The heat goes into and is retained by the water, then steam starts coming off...the steam contains the excess heat.
70 degree groceries have heat...40 deg. groceries have less heat, right?
OK...freon, in a liquid state, boils at MINUS 21 deg F.! No shit. So if I run liquid freon through some coils in your 70 deg refrigerator full of 70 deg food, the heat from the food boils the freon. The freon is now a gas (steam) which flows back to a compressor that compresses the freon AND all the heat in it and discharges it through a radiator (condenser) just like the one on your truck (and most have a fan also).
The heat is dissipated back into your kitchen air. The food, less heat, is colder.
The freon, minus heat...CONDENSES (ergo:condenser) back into a liquid and thus back to the freezer coil (EVAPORATOR) where once again, the heat from your food evaporates (boils) the freon.
Freon is NOT consumed, destroyed or lost...it simply changes states from liquid to gas and back...constantly...in a hermetic system.
Your sweat does the same thing for your blood. Sweat is the body's cooling medium and to a lesser extent, blood. The whole body is cooled.
ola
BobZ.............................................speed?
Took exactly 5 minutes to read 37 messages here today.
Testing! Testing!
This board exudes gravity...OT just can't be helped as I see it.
ola
Carolyn
Just imagine getting the sun without having to constantly be tucking pubic hair back under your bathing suit, adjusting straps, tanning unevenly so you look like some weird clown in your full length mirror, not having to bother what people may say when you rub sun tan lotion all over your breasts and in the crotch and ass. The list goes on and on.
Everyone scrubs their butt in the shower, drys their entire body with a towel...just what is it that you are "hiding" that others don't do exactly the same?
ola
Carolyn.................................like THAT?
Looked at like "THAT" is not necessarily in their mind and not very real.
If you bend close and shake your breasts a little, men will certainly look at you like THAT in response to your invitation.
Nudity becomes as common as cows in about 10 minutes in a clothing optional area. Try it! You will break out in hysterical laughter from then on when someone says that nudity is sinful or shameful or immodest.
Nudism has nothing to do with sex, perversion, peeping, "THAT", child abuse, pornography et al.
ola
mr.mark
12 years old! You are doing great! Throwing $8 or $10 at it now, and it IS simple to do...shouldn't hurt and could only improve the situation.
-IF electric, turn power off...gas?... turn gas off.
-Turn cold water supply valve off...none?...turn off main water valve to house.
-turn on the hot water in any sink...leave it on.
-now, the power is off, there is no pressure on the system.
-Remove the overflow pipe from valve
-remove the valve.
-Go to the local hardware and get a water valve of aprox. same size/same threads...and get some plumbers thread tape or goop.
-re-install and go backwards through this procedure. Run the hot water until all air is out of the system then re-light or throw breaker.
Should take all of 10 minutes either end and a trip to the hardware.
Do this yourself...plumber will cost about $100/dishonest $175...I charge $78
ola
joemoney.........................................request!
Tell us about your girlfriend joe.
Make sure she is standing on her hind legs while you post.
ola
Carolyn.....................................Incorrect!
Gentlemen relate to you normally whether clothed or not.
Sex plays no part in it and modesty? Goodness gracious you mean those 3 1/2 billion other women on the planet have T&A also?
A man with extremely common equipment, sincerely
ola
paule.................................fishing as work?
Fishing in Alaska is guaranteed maiming or death for a high percentage of the participants.
You have to be wiry, strong and deluded as to what money is all about. Unfortunately these guys generally pizz it all away. If you were extremely quick on the draw, a couple years savings could set you up in life and you might make it unscathed.
Brytal conditions in Alaska and a lot of foolishness.
I long-lined salmon at Cape Blanco, Oregon (out of Charleston) and it was some of the most brutal work I have done...we were doing it properly and made a lot of money.
I almost work that hard now. My hours are down to 15/daily where long-lining (when catching) is 18 to 19 hrs/daily.
ola
Carolyn.................................How revealing!
I always thought women DIDN'T have nipples or hair between their legs.
Gad, this changes everything.
Naked is defenseless.
Nude is art.
ola
Ant problem.......................................Help!
Apparently I have a large black ant colony somewhere under the house...they are driving me crazy...believe it or not, I have never had to cope with ants before...anyone have any suggestions? Brand names? Methods? Help Help Help!
ola
Carolyn
Not at all...perfectly proper...people who deny they are omnivores simply deny their bodies golden opportunities to fulfill all the needs easily and enhance the body's defenses.
ola
paule.........................Thanks, another coffee!
I am off the sauce for awhile...gotta get all my paperwork done, get over to the union hall and find a little work.
Maybe I can get another 32 day job or 60...hell 60 days and I won't have to work until dead of next winter say...November, December, January...wouldn't that be great! I hope to free up next summer totally.
ola
paule
You misunderstand. Talk about God being real is foolish chatter.
Talk about there being no god is rational, sensible, logical and intelligent.
Your post sounds great but doesn't make much sense.
Try the old 25 words or less paule and see just how good a command of the English language you have.
ola
premier...........................EVERYTHING is alive!
Every single damn thing...ask any physicist.
The universe is an entirely natural structure with an exceptionally vicious attitude towards life.
Life and death as we know life are inevitable.
Life and death on an atomic scale is suspected not to exist...just a re-arrangement of "live" atoms and a "live" energy exchange.
ola
premier
Another reason I always ragged you on RB was because you never got the joke.
ola
premier
This isn't a bad apples in the barrel type thing.
It is an attitude that the police have regarding us and our rights and what they "think" is correct.
Any officer knows that he can step over the line with few if any repercussions.
Shows like "Cops" on TV have set the American public up for this type of conduct. Viewers get the impression this is OK "law wise"
It is insidious what is going on and ANY constant exposure is good, whether it is sensationalized or not.
Remember Waco, Remember Ruby Ridge.......FREEDOM!
ola
P.S.............................................kill post?
I am a vegetarian not because I like animals, but because I hate vegetables.
ola