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One reason to have debit cards if you travel is because, in many European countries I went to, there were many places that would not accept a credit card, only debit cards. They paid lower fees when accepting debit cards. This was most common in the Scandanavian countries.

That offer is only good for people who don't have the card already.

For those looking for a good reward card, this is my recommendation, especially if you travel a lot. As cashback cards go, The Chase Freedom Unlimited is as good as it gets. It has no annual fee, 6.5% cashback on travel, 4.5% on dining and drug stores, and 3% back on anything else. Its intro...

The last ones... And the town with the longest name in the world.

And a few more.....

These old timey car, tractor, bike, shows are popular in Europe. I happened upon one in Ireland but there were no tractors in it. Hope you don't mind if I show you some of the pics.

As I live in south Louisiana, pipelines are very common in our area.

I have several credit cards that I use for special purposes. One card is for gas purchases and restaurants. It gives me 5% back on gas and 3% on restaurant purchases. Another one is for groceries and gives me 2% back. Another is for travel and gives me 3% back. Another is for Home Depot, Lowes...

We have a 25' right of way for a gas line across our property about 3000' from the closest structure and back in the woods. I have never heard of anyone having any problems with this gas line and never worried about it. We also have a 200' right of way across our property for high powerlines...

I have not done much gambling. The most I gambled was in the stock market and I made very little money doing that. But my grandfather made a good living at gambling. He was a legal bookie around 1890 to 1920s. He was a riverboat gambler on the Mississippi as they went up and down the river to...

In the last 5 years I have had to put down 3 of my favorite horses that I had for over 30 years. The oldest was 34. I could not even begin to tell you how much time I have spent with them and what all we have done together. They had everything they needed their whole lives and even at over 70...

Back in the 80s when I hunted a lot and had 4 wheel drive I used the quarter machines a lot to get the mud off the truck. At that time they had gone up from 1 quarter for 3 minutes to 3 quarters for 3 minutes and it cost me about $4 to wash my truck. Now they are about 4 quarters for 2 minutes...

I've been married 57 years. Being teenagers, we were quite poor the first few years and on our first Christmas I bought her a new vacuum cleaner. Knowing we couldn't afford anything extravagant, she at least pretended to be pleased. The next year when I got her a washing machine she was less...

Well,, you are south of possum trot.....

You don't need a signature to buy alcohol in New Orleans, just cash or a credit card. You don't even need that if you are a good looking woman.

I always use cardboard to start my burn piles. I get plenty of boxes from Amazon plus empty pizza boxes, soft drink and beer cartons, cereal boxes, etc., that I have to get rid of and they don't have ashes that fly away like newspaper does. They light fast and put out large amounts of heat that...

"Jump that hill" she said. I was 15 and had just bought my 1958 Simplex motorbike and a girl at school who I had been dying to meet, asked me to take her for a ride after school. We went behind the levee where they had piles of pump sand stacked up where I had never ridden before. She said jump...

The Saints new coach is afraid to gamble. You can't win without taking a few risks. If the Saint have 4th and 1 in the red zone, he will go for the field goal instead of the 1st down or touchdown. They should not have gone for the field goal. Even if they missed it would not have made any...

I went by Senor Frogs in St Thomas 2 weeks ago and it was closed down. I hope it wasn't because of the garlic.o_O:)

Most of us on this forum have probably referred to any make brush cutter as a Bush hog. Many of my customers called any refrigerator a Frigidaire. Others called it an ice box. All refrigerants were referred to as Freon. Many people mispronounced it as free zone. Many 4 wheel drive vehicles were...

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened. Mark Twain

The 10 most alligator-infested states: Ranked 1. Louisiana (2 million) Louisiana has the most alligators out of any US state. ... 2. Florida (1.3 million) Florida is home to plenty of alligators, especially in the Everglades. ... 3. Texas (400-500,000) The largest American alligator on record...

Be loyal to your own states economy. Being from Louisiana, I choose to wear alligator boots, though not as often as I did many years ago. I believe the OP should wear python boots and if his wife doesn't like them, he needs to retrain her.:);)

When I was young my neighbor widow had a very nice elderly black lady who worked for her, doing cleaning, laundry and cooking. Once a week I would drive her helper to the grocery to pick up her food for the week. Her helper picked up 2 big brown paper bags of food, one for her boss and one to...

Pictures, we need pictures.

Now as a followup to the previous post: Never attribute to malfeasance what simple incompetence can explain.

We were watching TV when we heard a truck blowing its horn by our front door. I went to see and it was a Fed Ex truck with a young minority girl driving. I walked to the drivers door and she reached out the window to hand me a small package. She remarked "I didn't want to get out of the truck...

No, I'm # 12561. I don't know where you got that number from.

This site was immensely helpful to me in the first few years I had my old International tractor and even more helpful when I bought my grey market Yanmar and needed info and places to buy parts. Since I bought new Kubotas I have not had as many problems lately but found this site useful in many...

Not since he got neutered.

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I'm only 77, but I hope I'm still around to be in the running 20 years from now.

Even the perps aren't required to take lie detector tests. I didn't think any of us thought less of the LEO than we did the perps.

Another display of guns confiscated by police in New Orleans. It looks like no one carries a revolver anymore. The few police in the NOPD appear to be doing a great job. Now if only the DA would prosecute the offenders and then if the judge would sentence them we could eliminate some of the...

You are probably looking in the wrong place. When you move the mouse over any link it will have a very small display on the very left hand bottom of your screen. Try it by moving your mouse to where it says the page numbers, like Prev or 1 ...4 5 6 7 or 8 and it will say something like...

My greyhound has a rather unusual exhaust smell also.......

I think too many of you are trying to make a mountain out of a molehill. So what if the weapon was taken apart with the possibility that the criminals were studying how to make it fully automatic. And would it have been less deceptive if they had placed the parts a few inches away from each...

Thomas joined the day before you.

I notice Muhammad joined March 21, 1998 so I "assume" that is when this forum started. Just wondering who some of our longest current (someone who has posted in the last year) members are.

Another captured "arsenal" from the New Orleans suburbs with the arrest of a street gang. What chance do any of us have if we meet up with a gang like this? It seems like for every gang they arrest and finally get jailed, three more gangs pop up. This is definitely worse and more violent than...

I fixed my bucket and grapple today. It is fully welded and a lot stronger than it was before. There is still a little twist in the grapple mount but it shouldn't bother anything. Before and after:

I thought Kubota was better engineered than this. That top brace that bent on the fel was only tack welded on with about a 9" tack in the middle and another tack on each side. This let the grapple mount twist and bend. I'm going to remove the grapple tomorrow and straighten out the top brace on...

I managed to move a huge stump using my grapple that I thought was too heavy for my fel to lift. I managed to move it very carefully but afterwards found the damage it did to my fel and grapple. Now to try to figure out the best way to repair it.

Well, if they keep more drugs than that in their bedroom, they deserve to be arrested.

I don't know what you call very low pressure. I keep 10# in my rear tires quite often in muddy areas for more traction but if I put 10# in my front tires with a load like that and took a sharp turn, the tire would come loose from the rim.

They were after a drug dealer and caught him with this in his possession. They weren't looking for a terrorist. This is just a photo of what they found in his possession. If they had removed some of the extra magazines, it obviously would not have shown what he was caught with. Someone who...

My wife complained that sometimes when I was sleeping I would not breathe for a minute so I went to the doctor to get checked for sleep apnea. I slept overnight at the hospital with all the testing apparatus on and they found I had central sleep apnea and needed a bipap. Since I have been a...

My wife used it for years on our goats and horses as a wormer and it worked well. I have been tempted to try it because I would love thicker hair but,,,my gut instinct says use more conventional ways. I am positive that many non-traditional medications work miracles in many different ways and...

The saltwater is only a problem in a few of the small towns far downriver from New Orleans. Remember, it takes a ship 7 hours to get down the river from New Orleans to the gulf. The river would have to drop a lot more before it became a problem for the main population centers of Louisiana. No...

More photos: #1 Low water reveals many objects. #2 All the plastic bottles from up north. #3 A half loaded ship comes downriver. #4 Short movie clip that won't work until after midnight tonight. .

For a few times in the last few years we have had to open spillways when the Mississippi got too high. This low is very unusual but we still have plenty of water in the river here, about 10 miles north of New Orleans. Photo 1 is downriver a couple miles from my house. #2 is tied up barges...

These were taken in a police raid. I am not familiar with the gun in the lower right corner. Can you tell me anything about it?

The Saints played a remarkable game this week, shutting out the raiders, with their top 3 players out with injuries. Never before have I seen a team with so many of their top players out injured in so many games. If none of their top players were out with injuries the rest of the season they...

For many years after I started driving in the 1960s, diesel was cheaper than gas. In later years, diesel was changed to help the environment and it got to be 5 0r 10 cents a gallon higher than gas for quite a few years. Lately, it has gone crazy. Today, gas at the stations I usually go to is...

What's that pink thing?

Armadillos are almost blind and are fairly easy to catch. When one is spotted walking leisurely around the yard stopping to nibble every now and then, you must sneak up behind it very quietly (impossible to do in the fall with crispy leaves on the ground) and grab the middle of its tail with a...

Considering I had a lot of damages from Hurricane Ida that I still have to write off this year, a profit from my sale would help my tax situation. Thanks to everyone for their help in making me make the right choice.

Living in South Louisiana as I do, cooking without garlic is almost unheard of. We have plenty of garlic and plenty of garlic lovers, but since I have a black thumb, am I really required to grow it? PS We also have lots of cayenne peppers, filet, onions, and okra to go with our Cajun cooking.

I bought this 6 acre property 10 years ago with intentions to use it for a different purpose. Things came up and we were unable to use it for that purpose and have rented it out since then. I am getting older now and would like to make my life simpler, not having to worry about taking care of...

Japanese plum preserves and celeste fig preserves. My mother made them every year and put them up in those old fashioned mason type canning jars with the glass tops andT clamping lids. In Louisiana, we have the same type of blue crabs that they have in Maryland and the soft shell ones are quite...

Many years ago as I was growing up you could not go a block without seeing a Japanese plum tree, a celeste fig tree, or a cooking pear tree (all local names) in someone's front yard. In the back yard they had a mirliton vine and a blackberry bush in the far corner. If they liked gardening, they...

That might work well in Nevada, but in the Banana Republic of Louisiana, I would probably be heavily fined for not getting a building permit and the councilman's brother would get off scot-free for not being licensed.

I'm 77 now and cannot stand up and put my pants on. I can stand on one leg a few seconds without a lot of practice. When I was 55 I could ride my horse standing in the saddle but I started losing my balance at 60 and had to stop racing my horse in shows for fear of falling. Now I still ride a...

I need to know the best way to remove the grout from my porcelain tile floor. My ex-contractor screwed it up badly during installation. He made the grout so watery that he just poured it on the floor and let it fill up the holes. After it dried it shrunk down so much that the holes were only...

This one looks better and it is a few dollars cheaper at $6.80 right now...

At least, with the high price of toilet paper, we don't have to be worried about so many homes getting rolled this Halloween.

My truck is very heavy duty suspension with 8800 gross weight. If I jump up and down on the bumper it doesn't move. It has a camper top on it and was never used for heavy loads. We used it as a camper when we went trail riding in the Ozark mountains pulling a 3 horse trailer. The diesel was...

I asked around but probably asked the wrong people if they thought I needed new shocks on my truck with about 130,000 miles on it. About 90% highway interstate miles. They all said definitely so I went ahead and ordered some new ones for the front since they are the easiest to change. I changed...

? I have seen dumb replies before but this takes the cake.

w What were those used for?

I believe that buying the cheapest home in a nice neighborhood is one of the best real estate investments. Having an expensive house in a neighborhood of low class homes is the worse. I bought my first home in 1973 for $15,000 in a neighborhood that everyone wanted to live in but it was the...

I haven't had a loan in almost 50 years and I would be willing to bet my credit score is higher than yours. There isn't a day go by that I don't get mail telling me that they will give me $400 to $800 to apply for one of their credit cards that I am already approved for. I could easily give you...

It worked.

I accidently hit the Good Post button. I have not had a loan since I bought my first house in 1973 and paid it off by 1978. My credit score has been over 800 for many years. I would never pay interest on a loan to try to raise my credit score. I have credit cards that pay me back rebates and I...

I can see people showing off their gardens to others: "Maw Maw grows the best morning glories, but Paw Paw grows the best petunias. I don't know why Uncle Leroy grows nothing but crab grass"

Our gas is down to $2.75 at my favorite stations.

Another one you can't buy is Benzedrine inhalers. Benzedrex inhalers used to have benzedrine around 1950 but too many people started using them to get high.

Be careful, 12 volt batteries are larger than 6 volt ones and usually will not fit in the same enclosure and if sitting on top of the brackets that hold it in place, the seat may not close all the way.

Around here, golf courses used to buy their carts and sell them off as they starting giving more trouble than they were worth. Now they lease them all at once for about 4 or 5 years and get new ones from the lessor at the end of the lease. They are then brought back to the lessor, out of state...

I always recommend electric carts. You can get the best deal if you find one with batteries about 5 years ago that need replacing. No need to buy one with newer batteries at a higher cost if you are just going to throw the old batteries away to buy lithium ones. PS I think she will probably buy...

I needed new tires on my 1995 F250 and Sams Club was the first place I looked because they usually have the best prices and the tire installation kit, including everything, is only $20 a tire. They were out of the size tires I needed and it would be 2 weeks to order them so I went online to...

Scootr, I have seen 48 volt lithium batteries but no 51 volt ones. Where do you get those batteries? Second, do you have to replace your stock charger with a $500 lithium charger? I have 2 Club Cars and an EZgo and have had carts for farm use for over 30 years and would like to replace my...

You're lucky. In New Orleans if they have road rage they shoot you.

We had an unusual cold spell about 10 years ago and my truck cranked so slowly it wouldn't start. I wish I had known I had a block heater back then.

IIRC, thingy wrote a few informative posts but a couple of the literary police complained about him using up all the commas,,, and then there was a big controversy,,, and thingy either quit or was expelled and most of his posts were erased.

I went to replace my headlights and I saw this wire dangling that I had never noticed before. I bought the truck new so it is not aftermarket and I don't know what it is. Since it is a 120 volt plug the only think I could even think it might be is a heater for the diesel but it is not mentioned...

I have had this part of your dream a few times.

Oh, I see. I did not notice that a new member replied to a 15 year old thread. I guess thingy is gone for good.

How can you find that zombie thread?

thingy, nice to see you are back. I enjoyed many of your posts years ago. Haven't seen you on here in about 15 years.

About 10 years ago I burned out a headlight in my 1995 Ford F250 diesel and wanted something brighter so I installed HID 6000K headlights. I probably don't drive it at night or with the headlights on 25 hours in a year. I tried everything I knew how to do but could not get the lights aimed...

My most common nightmare is that I am backing my truck up and go to stop and find my brakes don't work. I'm going backwards downhill, faster and faster, trying to watch behind me and dodging the obstacles. Just before I crash I always wake up. My most common dream is that I am running along and...

You win! For getting the correct answer you win the set of 3 chirp wheels. You can come pick them up or pay for postage and I will mail them to you.

It's so strange that every year there are more non smoking laws and more types of cigarettes getting banned and at the same time more states legalizing marijuana. How many years will it be before cigarettes are completely banned and grass is legal everywhere? Then how many more years before...

It's a mystery why my wife wanted one but after getting it she isn't interested in getting any more. Maybe a dogs foot warmer and a banana holder and a couple more things are worth $50 to someone but I rather buy a couple cases of beer.

They are not contoured. They are much too large to be cupholders, measuring 12" 9" and 6" in diameter. I put the Google search app on my phone and tomorrow I will get one of them out and take a good photo and post it and see if Google search can figure out what it is.

What really bothers me is why the hard smooth plastic on the inside but a soft rubber layer on the outside. There is no way you could put this in an oven without having burnt rubber smell everywhere and why would a funnel have a soft rubber coating on the outside? The little one looks exactly...

My wife ordered one of those boxes of supposedly undeliverable items from Amazon and this was in it. Three circular items in various sizes, hard shiny plastic on the inside and rubber coating on the outside. The largest one is about 12 inches in diameter. I told her I would find out on the...

Condenser coils are non-moving parts that rarely go bad so consequently they are not stocked by most companies and have to be ordered from the manufacturer.

Still got my unused cowboy knife collection. Don't remember how old it is though. I gave my prized Roy Rogers knife to my best friend who wanted it. Wish I had it back.

Besides being bad on your tires, aren't burnouts really bad on your brakes also? It seems it would wear the pads out quickly and, if long enough, boil your brake fluid ruining your master cylinder.

I'd like to have that 1955 Ford Crown Victoria with the Continental kit.

I like 5 Guys too. I just order the hamburger. I don't order fries because I fill up on peanuts.

I wouldn't have a Shetland pony if you paid me. They are the Pit Bull of Equines. Mean, hard to train, at times vicious, stupid, untrustworthy and, well..... I guess you can tell I don't like Shetland ponies. One of the smartest equines I ever had was a small coon-hunting mule. I couldn't...

Roy was one of my favorite heroes also. I rode a beautiful Palomino like Trigger in the Mardi Gras parades and was usually the lead horse in the group because of her looks and had to wear a white hat and clothes like Roy and even though I didn't resemble him much, it always made me feel great...

Some of the ones we saw:

The strange part is there were 2 suitcases, shipped together, at the same time. They took 3 days to get to Harahan LA which is right across the river from where I live. One was delivered the next day. The other one was shipped back to Memphis TN. where it stayed for 6 1/2 weeks before being...

Here is a follow-up on the last post I posted here right above this one: We went on our next trip and got back on August 21. I still had not received my lost suitcase so we had to buy another one and new clothes for my wife. After many phone calls, emails and a certified letter I still had no...

My father's 1946 Packard. Standard trans, no turn signals, back in 1960.

I just returned from a cruise in the United Kingdom and there were spots in the ocean where you could see over 300 of those new wind generators. Many far out at sea. It is amazing that they can transport the electricity back to shore.

My parents bought a new windmill with a generator on it from Sears Roebuck in 1931 when they started to build their home. The power company put power in the area about the same time it was delivered so it was never used. About 30 years ago I gave the generator portion to a friend of mine. The...

Preparation H with real shark liver oil in it that worked instead of today's version with corn oil.

Always look on the bright side of life

That is why DDT was not banned worldwide and is still used to fight malaria in countries in Africa and China and South America. Here is an interesting article to read: What Is DDT? Environmental Impact and Current Uses

I know one it killed. Jane Mansfield.

Your 1966 debunked story has been debunked. DDT has been proven many times to cause eggshell thinning among eagles and brown pelicans. Please read some newer articles about this. Google is full of them. Here's one from the EPA: The Case of DDT: Revisiting the Impairment | US EPA I lived in South...

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead. Johnny Carson

amen

Time Line: 400,000 BC 1000 A.D. 1800 1945 Tomorrow This is how it feels to be depressed.

It seems to me that many young people in the 60s and 70s did a little experimenting at that time and denied it through the 80s, 90, and 00s because the climate was not right, but now in the 20s, find the climate change is enough for them to admit what they have been hiding all these years. Even...

How long since we ordered one of these?

How many kids spent their entire weekly allowance on one of these?

A drunk driver hit my Ford Ranger head on causing me to get a couple of painful broken ribs and remembering that when I bought my next vehicle I wanted to get one with an airbag. I read up on them and saw that 1995 Ford pickups had airbags so I made that my next truck. I needed a diesel to pull...

A judge who would go to all that trouble to be fair is the type of judge I would like to have if I ever needed one.

1965 New Orleans area. My favorite bar had draft beer in frozen mugs for 15 cents. Gambling pinball machines were 5 cents. A brand-new stripped-down Mustang was $2222. Gas was 27.9 cents. Diesel was cheaper as was kerosene and mineral spirits. A 10 ounce returnable bottle Coke was 10 cents with...

I mix mine with about a couple ounces of liquid detergent before I spray. I have always heard that it is best to spray when it is hot and dry and the plants are really thirsty so that they absorb it quickly. This works for me as I sprayed Monday and today, Wednesday, the weeds are turning yellow...

I remember ordering stuff from ads that was under a dollar and they said "enclose change or stamps".

And now.............Back to a rant on shipping. I went on a cruise from Vancouver to Alaska and back in June. Celebrity lost my 2 suitcases and I had to return without them. On July 1 they found them and shipped them both under one tracking number on July 7. They had to go through US and Canada...

I went to Sam's Club .com to order more dog food to pick up and they were out. So I went to Walmart.com to order instead. The same bags that I have been paying $21 for are, what, $111.00? I am hoping that this is a misprint and not an actual price. I would have to feed my dogs nutria meat if...

After reading or watching the news reports for the last umpteen years, it is hard to believe that in the last half century, there have probably been fewer deaths caused by wartime than in any other 50 year span in history.

It wasn't but about 10 years ago that I was in my back pasture and was suddenly frozen in place when a strange looking aircraft landed in front of me and then the door opened. Exiting the aircraft were two of the most beautiful women I have ever seen, heading right for me, entranced with their...

If was too hot in South Louisiana so I went to Alaska for a break. I’m in Ketchikan right now and it’s 74 degrees and feels like 82. Sometimes you just can’t win.

I'm using Windows 10 on a 3 year old Dell XPS. I updated to a HP about a year and a half ago and it was a piece of cr@p so I went back to my Dell.

Watching the huge cranes lifting these massive sections of bridge up into place over the Mississippi river was amazing.

We had a Shakey's Pizza right outside New Orleans also, right by the cheaper Mr. Pizza. I ate at Shakey's once but they were twice the price of Mr. Pizza's and since I was only 20 and spent all my money on my hot rod, we ate at Mr. Pizza's when we had a little spending money. I actually liked...

I had my first pizza at 20 years of age at a Mr Pizza. It was a place that had very cheap and thin pizzas and did plenty of TV advertising claiming to have "the world's worst pizza". The best pizza I ever had was in 1978 in, of all places, Flagstaff Arizona when I was on a vacation. I don't...

I think this latest problem started when I went on vacation for a week and turned it off. Every time it is off for a few days it seems like I have a different problem when I turn it back on. Besides that, it takes about 5 minutes to come back on and when you are in a hurry to do your computer...

It is a wired connection. It is very fast but when I use wifi it is much slower.

I will try this.

I have tried rebooting the modem/router without success. Only after I reboot the computer will it work.

My modem/router is supplied by my cable company, Cox, and is about a year old.

I had it set to go to sleep after 5 hours and have changed it to "never" to see if that makes a difference.

I didn't think of that. I will try it one day when I have time.

When I get up in the morning and go to my computer it says it has no internet connection. When I restart my computer it works fine. If I go off for 8 hours and come back home, same problem. Every time I leave my computer for about 8 or more hours it loses the internet connection and it takes me...

Butt, the ram is spending 3 years in a military camp. Hope he doesn't drop the soap.🐏🐏

I'm 76 now. At 40 my business had finally picked up enough where I could spend some time doing things I wanted to do. Loving owning and training dogs all my life I got and trained hounds for competition coon hunting, traveled around 13 states mainly in small towns where the sport was popular...

It was back in the early 1980s when prices started skyrocketing just like they are doing right now in 2022. The difference is that the gov't is saying we just have a 7% inflation rate while everything we buy is 2 or 3 times what it was a year ago. In the early 1980s I put $20,000 in a 5 year CD...

A sad day today and yesterday. Yesterday a coyote got our beloved rooster and today he got her sister. We had a very special rooster a few months ago that was the largest and most beautiful one we ever had. A coyote got him. The good news was we had some hens setting on eggs from him. The only 2...

Over $6000 with tax? And my grandfather had one he made for free out of scrap wood with a moon on the door and it was a 2-seater.

I nailed sheet metal on once years ago instead of using screws and I have lived long enough to regret it. Don't ever think the sheet metal will outlast you.

Maybe if you cut the bees heads off and stick them on little toothpicks around the barn.

And one I took in Hawaii with a zoom lens.

Here's one I took in Skagway AK.

I love cruising and seeing the world and meeting different peoples with different beliefs and ideals. But I am extremely happy to get home after a 21 day cruise which isn't very often.. Most of them are much shorter. I could never live on a cruise ship as I have always been an outdoors person...

I always wondered why TV went off at night in the 50s, 60s and early 70s. Was it loss of revenue in those hours or federal regulations?

It is awful hard to judge a person who lived in a different time and political climate by 2022 standards. Many people were great heroes in their time according to the population at that time but if you judge them by 2022 (PC) standards, they fail to meet our 2022 moralities. Almost every...

Hard to believe after watching all the bears he killed and the Indian fights he had as Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, that one crazy person could cut him up like that.

Life is too short for me to view that almost 2 hour video you posted so I don't know the main topics it recommends. I am 76 and feel much better after any day I spend outdoors accomplishing something. I try to do my computer work on very cold, too hot or rainy days or at night before bed. The...

Knowing how Drew Brees is, I would bet the farm that he was just joking. Also, he swore that he would never play with another team besides the Saints. The Saints are really hyped up this year with all the amazing trades they made lately and many feel like this is going to be a spectacular year...

I've always been crazy but it's kept me from going insane. Waylon Jennings

When I replaced a battery over 40 years old in my multi-meter I thought that might be close to being a record. I was wrong. The battery in the story below is over 180 years old and still going. Oxford University has a bell that has been ringing since 1840. For at least 180 years, an...

We are always writing about how bad shipping is, so here is one about how good it can be. A first class package delivered in less than 48 hours from time it was ordered online from Michigan to New Orleans Tracking History May 9, 2022, 2:35 pm Delivered, In/At Mailbox WESTWEGO, LA 70094 Your...

I have one that came in my old barn when I bought it that looks similar but is a corrugated sheet metal cutter. My old barn is covered with corrugated metal but when I went to replace some after a storm I found that all of the local metal suppliers, including the one named Corrugated Metals...

I went to Cuba when it was open for tourists a few years back and I can tell you that even some "Cuban" cigars bought in Cuba are not "Cuban" but Dominican Republic imitations.

Just wondering. My hydraulic hoses on my frontend loader on my Kubota take a lot of beating pushing down trees and piling them up and clearing woods. I usually wind up breaking them by a fitting and rarely have them just wear out although some of them look so bad after a few years you would...

My wife and I both have organ donor on our drivers licenses. When our son died of multiple sclerosis a few years ago, they said they couldn't use any of his organs because of his condition. If he had been able to help someone else live, it would have made his death a little less tragic for us.

I have to disagree. Many people with a high credit score pay their entire credit card bill off immediately and never pay any interest charges which are where the credit card companies make their income. People with lower scores pay their bills partially each month plus interest and other charges...

It kind of reminds me of a nearby town since Hurricane Ida.

Look how long it takes USPS to deliver a 3 ounce package in an envelope: Tracking History April 27, 2022, 11:16 am Delivered, In/At Mailbox BLACKSBURG, VA 24060 Your item was delivered in or at the mailbox at 11:16 am on April 27, 2022 in BLACKSBURG, VA 24060. April 27, 2022, 6:10 am Out for...

One year after my minor heart attack at 74, I attempted to get on my horse for a ride again and failed to mount from the ground. I had to stand on a railing in my arena to mount up. I knew I lost a lot of muscle in the last year but have hesitated to try to regain it through exercises since, at...

Darn near every American is on high fructose corn syrup and our life-expectancy decreased by two years. Easy to blame almost anything.

It should have started in 1973 when gas was 29 cents a gallon.

When I was 63 I was not on any prescription drugs, nor had I even been to a doctor in over 10 years. All my money was tied up in my business and I had no health insurance until I retired and sold my business. Then I could afford to go to doctors and went for a checkup. They found I had high...

Have you ever removed a 60-year-old galvanized water pipe and looked inside it at all the gunk and corrosion built up inside it? Well, no matter how well you think you have been eating all your life, this is what your arteries now look like and if they build up just a little more trash or if a...

My horse got out of my pasture into the pasture next door for the umteenth time. The barbed wire fenceline is covered with briars and poison ivy and downed trees and almost impassable for humans but that darned appaloosa -paint mix horse in my avatar claims the grass is greener on the other...

In the last few years my heavily wooded yard has turned from a forest into a desert due to the hurricanes destroying things that were here for 90 years without damage. With over 1/4 $million damage lately, at my age, I can't bare to go through another one.

Use a voltmeter and check your voltage from your black wire to the white wire and from the red wire to the white wire and see if you have 220 volts instead of 110. If you do your fan is toast because you let the smoke out.

Is it only 3 wire or does it have a wire for a neutral also?

If if was a skiff, we would all go sailing.

I was surprised to watch 2 good movies the other night. I knew that the book "Don Quixote" is supposed to be the 2nd most read book in the world next to the Bible but I had never watched a movie about him except in kid's animations when I was young. Searching through Amazon Prime for a movie to...

When I was putting old 30' telephone poles up around my arena for lights, the man who helped me had a Bobcat similar to that and he was able to push the poles 7' deep without digging a hole first.

Since you replied to me, almost as soon as I posted, I was still on the computer to see your reply. I fail to see any evidence of religious beliefs in my post and am are confused as to why you may have accused me of doing so though I am not against raising a glass of beer with you.

As adults, with a minimum of a 6th grade education, it is easy for us to figure out whether or not it is beneficial to us to pay the extra for Prime on Amazon or to pay the membership fees at Sam's or Cosco. It doesn't take a PHD in college to tell us that if we only go into Sam's once a year to...

Trad, I have enjoyed reading about your misguided thoughts and conspiracy theories and tried to understand the mindset of someone who denies all human logic and actual proofs. I understand that there are many such as you suffering from these beliefs which originate from a mental disorder and who...

Aye, but you can't make a good seafood gumbo or alligator sauce picante without Louisiana hot sauce.;)

You don't know what you're missing by not getting Louisiana Hot Sauce or Crystal hot sauce. These Louisiana hot sauces are also cayenne pepper sauces and are more chili tasting and less vinegar tasting than even Tabasco which is America's top selling hot sauce. Yes, Amazon sells them too.

After 6 months of hard work I finally got most of my repairs from the hurricane done, not counting the 16 very large trees that are down in my pasture. I work by myself because getting help is very hard to find as all contractors are still backlogged from all the damage done by the strongest...

I can't believe that since Thaddy hijacked this thread 730 posts ago that so many of us are still attempting to change his beliefs since it is obvious enough that he will pay no attention at all to facts and figures and proof after proofs by just saying "that is not true". I don't know whether...

In your video "proving the rocket hit something" you want us to believe you, yet the same video shows the curvature of the earth which I am sure you will make up some "proof" that it really is not showing that.

This photo looks like Clint Eastwood at Oak Alley Plantation, Vacherie, Louisiana. Do you have any info on this photo?

Paul Gilligan has shown us what aliens look like. Now we know!

I have seen one black "panther" or cougar in my lifetime and it was about 40 years ago on a late night drive on I-10 on the Florida panhandle around the Apalachicola River area. It ran across the highway in front of my car close enough that I started to hit the brakes to avoid it. It was a...

Get a flea-proof dog. Sounds humorous and I don't know where you would get one today but I got a flea-proof Bluetick at a coonhunt in Pine Bluff Arkansas in 1982. He was from Michigan. His skin had a natural oily residue and was so tough and thick that you could barely get a syringe needle...

Either y'all are too young or you are just plain forgetful. In 1958 we found out what aliens would look like: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=purple+people+eater&view=detail&mid=006771F463241303CCF0006771F463241303CCF0&FORM=VIRE

Why is rails to trails such a popular topic? Perhaps this map of closed railroads answers that.

They are trying again: 6. AMAZON UNION ELECTIONS Two union elections will take place next month at Amazon warehouses. Workers in Staten Island, N.Y. and Bessemer, Ala. have come to an agreement with the company to hold votes in late March that would unionize their respective workforces...

I would gladly pay 1 or 2 hundred dollars more for a supersonic flight to Europe but not $4000 more. We saved most of our lives to see the world when we retired and now my wife has contracted a nerve condition that won't allow her to sit in a plane over 4 hours. She has tried different...

My important letter that I mailed First Class with tracking finally got delivered. Here is the tracking info: 25 days for a First Class letter. Amazing!!!

This reminds me of a rich man who died years ago and left money to build 40 schools in New Orleans for all children, rich or poor. A century later the residents thought the man's life was not politically correct, so they renamed all the schools that were named after him and tore down his statue.