Wasps, Yellow-jackets, Hornets - IMO, those guys are just evil.
It seems to me that they're just looking for *any* excuse to fuck your shit up.
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Wasps, Yellow-jackets, Hornets - IMO, those guys are just evil.
It seems to me that they're just looking for *any* excuse to fuck your shit up.
I can get along with the run of the mill paper wasps... they're actually beneficial for the garden. But yellowjackets and bald-faced hornets? Fuck those fuckers. :mad:
fkn funny
We had a bumblebee hive below the floor of one of my sheds. Those fuckers were loud…. Stomp your feet while in there and the whole shed vibrated with their buzzing. Rarely saw them and they weren’t aggressive, just made for a really spooky shed.
It was a nice change of pace after all the bald faced hornets, wasps, and yellowjackets we dealt with this summer. I agree, kill ‘em all.
I've told the story here before. I have a special place in my heart for people who ask you in the grocery store, when they can plainly see you have a cart half full of stuff, if you are shopping. My wife's new boss at the time did that to us once. I didn't know who he was because she didn't have the chance to introduce us first. I replied that no, we were just wandering around the store putting stuff in the cart and that we'd put it all back when we were done. My poor wife had that mix of expressions where one is trying to shoot laser beams out of their eyes while simultaneously wanting to crawl into their own armpit to get away. That didn't earn me any good points with my wife. But her colleagues were in stitches when they heard about it and I seem to recall getting a free beer out of it.
Go to meet someone to buy some race poles. I don't have her phone number because we connected through Facebook (we used Messenger), we're both members of the same ski racing group, but she has my number. I show up at the appointed time, send her a message that I'm there, wait 20 minutes, no response, no text, and no show. Annoying.
When the packaging says "Shake Well" but also has a shitty lid that leaks. WTF assholes?
People say a lot of meaningless stuff in greeting--"How are you" comes to mind. I mean no one expects you to explain the meeting of life when they run into to you on the street, but asking someone in a grocery store if they're shopping seems next level stupid.
OTOH my mother in a department store wasn't shopping. She was borrowing stuff to sit in the bags in the living room for a week and then give back. Most people decorate their house with lamps and paintings. My mom decorated with shopping bags.
Breaking my foot, dislocating my ankle, and a high ankle sprain just as fall MTB season gets going. Attachment 428271
At a previous employer, someone had absentmindedly used the wrong empty answer for such a greeting, and the person they were responding to didn't react. The witnesses decided to make a habit of it, and it caught on (for a little while).
"How are you?"
"Not much, you?"
"What are you up to?" (Or similar)
"Good, and you?"
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Some prick stole my pot plant 2 nights ago. The house next door was just sold and is empty but there were landscapers there last week. Pretty fucking sure one of those shitbags took it.
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Fact
It’s annoying as fuck. Stop typing it
Fact
And it's usually capitalized, you know, to emphasize how fucking factual the "FACT" in question actually is.
Alternative Facts don't care what you think.
Now you're confusing them with Punk Facts.
IME, those ^^ boots suck. The wedge under the heel makes it so your ankle doesn't flex nearly as far, etc.
(I did my tib+fib and they went to that after the first 5 days post-op.)
I ditched the wedge right away and the rest of the boot within a week or so (though I wasn't walking on it for 5 weeks.)
I'd wear it occasionally when I wanted a little protection - say I was to fall down the stairs or something. [Glad that never happened. Stairs on crutches suck. I gave up the crutches pretty quick and just hopped mostly.]
If you're walking on it, and that give some "support" perhaps that's different, I don't know. But I felt that just having mine "out" allowed me to flex it when I was sitting around and work to keep ROM up.
And heal up quick!
I'd be pissed, if that were me! :)
(Edited to add: There's hope. I skied on mine at 11.5 weeks. Yeah, it was semi-stupid, but I mostly got away with it. [long story])
Me: how are your [college] classes going?
Thing #2: fine
Me after thinking for a moment: what did the judge give you for urinating in public?
Thing #2 after thinking for a moment: a spot on the registry.
I can't win.
Do what works for you. I'm not recommending any particular course, other than my experience. (And that was, that those boots suck.)
BTW, I was 49. That was 6 years ago. If I'm still skiing hard in 30 years, I'll definitely consider that a win.
(Oh, and FWIW, I skied my first day back with the doc that took care of me immediately after I broke it...As I noted, it's a long/complicated story, probably not for this thread. But I think I made reasonably well informed decisions, after doing a lot of reading etc. Was I pushing it? Sure. A far as I could? Absolutely. But I also don't think I'll regret it.)
I’m still not weighting at all. Been off it for 4.5 weeks and have about 2.5 weeks to go before I’m weighting it.
I’m one of those guys with a chronic dislocating shoulder. I made some poor decisions when I was young when it happened. Never even saw a doc.
I’m 45 and want to make sure I come back strong from this.
I like the boot for piece of mind but ditch it a couple of times a day to rest. I flex it a little bit when I do that. I’m on crutches and I move around so much with them it’s a bit of a core workout. I also have a knee scooter which is fun to drift around the hardwood floors.
This was an MTB injury and as frustrated as I am to miss the fall, doing it on Labor Day Weekend at least gives me a fighting chance to salvage some ski season.
I want to make sure I do it right though. I can mitigate my shoulder injury snowboarding, mountain biking and backpacking. I can’t really avoid using my foot and ankle during those activities.
Yeah the knee scooter was better than crutches. (You can't carry anything on crutches.)
I did my ankle speed skating a number of years before, and it was like 10-12 weeks before I could really do anything significant on it. It was probably four to six months before I could skate again without really significant pain and edema, post skate. (While I didn't get xrays etc - I think I just really tore up ligaments etc, vs actually breaking things.)
I think this confirms the "wisdom" I often heard when I did my tib+fib. 'Better a tib+fib than an ACL!' Tendons and ligaments can take a really long time to heal. And there's nothing like an intramedullary nail to get a "quick" fix.
Anyway - hope it goes well and you get some good ski time this year!
After buying wood from Hughes Hardwoods for 30 years and being disappointed by the scarcity of boards and the odd thickness of the wood in the vertical racks near the desk, today I found out that the popular 4/4 boards are in open units way at the far end of the very large building and there was a shit ton of the sapele I wanted. I guess my wife is right--I should ask more questions.
There are tib fractures and then there are tib fractures. The bad ones I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. The upper ones often take out the arteries and nerves to the lower leg and foot. The lower ones have lousy blood supply and sometimes don't heal. Then again, we don't get to pick our injuries, so I guess the saying is harmless.
Tibial Plateau fractures are their own world of “bad”. I was 12 weeks non-weight bearing after my ORIF of a type ii TPF.
Tib-fib may be “better” than an ACL, but my tibial plateau fracture repair was much worse than my ACL repair on the same knee (4 years prior).
The TRG is particularly slow this morning. Server voltage must be low. Tell Benny to pedal faster if he wants to get unbanned.
My work email has my last name first, comma, first name. This annoys me.
What annoys me even more is when people respond to my e-mails and call me by my last name even though my signature has my name laid out correctly. Usually when someone does that, I respond with just my first name after the body of the e-mail. Most of these people still continue to call me by my last name, again and again and again.
At my last company we had a sales engineer in Dubai named Zia. After 5 years we were going to move him to London and found out that Zia was actually his last name, and what we thought was his last name was actually his first name. So his email address had it backwards as did every document I'd ever seen, and the fucker never corrected anyone. Likely HR/legal got it wrong on his UK immigration papers which obviously needed to be correct, and he finally told us we'd been saying it wrong all along.
Modern kitchen appliances annoy me. As do kitchen fixtures.
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