reverendotis
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re: Visited India So You Don't Have To ( And offended 1 billion people )
Posted by reverendotis on 12/31/24 at 4:02 am
I worked with a gentleman who, early in his career, did a stretch as an engineer for his home country on a World Bank funded project in Africa.
These projects work like this, the World Bank funds the build usually via very low interest loans directly to the nation where the project is being built. In return, World Bank participating countries get portions of the job for their businesses. As a result, they often have tradesmen and engineers from all over the globe working on them.
He received the best advice from some British engineers on site who, through their colonial times, were well familiar with Indians.
They told him, "if you have a pistol and are confronted by a both a snake and an Indian - you must shoot the Indian first because you have a pretty good idea what to expect from the snake." :lol:
India and Indians are chaos.
These projects work like this, the World Bank funds the build usually via very low interest loans directly to the nation where the project is being built. In return, World Bank participating countries get portions of the job for their businesses. As a result, they often have tradesmen and engineers from all over the globe working on them.
He received the best advice from some British engineers on site who, through their colonial times, were well familiar with Indians.
They told him, "if you have a pistol and are confronted by a both a snake and an Indian - you must shoot the Indian first because you have a pretty good idea what to expect from the snake." :lol:
India and Indians are chaos.
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re: It's past time to have this honest discussion. Louisiana singled out ...
Posted by reverendotis on 12/22/24 at 9:33 pm
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Even people that legitimately need food stamps can't get them anymore. They are being forced to work.
re: Any shoreside tankerman baws here?
Posted by reverendotis on 12/9/24 at 12:07 am
Maritime regs require loading and unloading of some cargoes (certain liquids, volatiles, etc) to be overseen by tankermen. Their concern in the case of our barges is the vessel integrity and weight being drafted to a fairly uniform and acceptable level.
I've never seen a tankerman perform the act of filling or emptying a barge. In our case, the liquid cargoes are overseen, solid cargoes are not. I've only seen a tankerman mess with solids when there were QA samples needed for submission to a third party trade lab. In that case their role was more of a neutral agent.
I've never seen a tankerman perform the act of filling or emptying a barge. In our case, the liquid cargoes are overseen, solid cargoes are not. I've only seen a tankerman mess with solids when there were QA samples needed for submission to a third party trade lab. In that case their role was more of a neutral agent.
re: Did the aliens end up showing up today?
Posted by reverendotis on 12/4/24 at 12:17 am
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Billjamin’s butthole checking is as safe from probes
I would be very disappointed in a race of aliens who, having the incomprehensible technology required to navigate here from even the closest inhabitable systems in the universe, decide to inspect humans' assholes during their study of our planet.
re: Thoughts on grounding sheets
Posted by reverendotis on 11/30/24 at 11:25 pm
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What’s grounding sheets?
You have to run #6 wire back to the rod outside and then connect the other end to your sheets so you don't get shocked laying in bed. Its coming in the 2025 NEC.
ETA, can't just ground your bed frame, it has to be your sheets. Otherwise the matress and box spring serve as insulators, especially those fancy foam matresses. Don't conduct worth a shite.
That's what I think anyway. :lol:
re: The trans bathroom thing
Posted by reverendotis on 11/22/24 at 4:40 am
The "treatment" for every other debilitating mental illness doesn't require everyone who isn't afflicted with it to pretend those that are afflicted with it are fine.
Much less breathlessly insist they interact with the ill people and participate in ridiculous charades to affirm their belief that they aren't ill.
Much less codify by law this participation by sane people in things they know aren't sane under threat of fine or sanction.
By analogy, voice-hearing schizophrenics can be treated if sane people would simply sneak up behind them and whisper crazy things every so often. In this way they actually would hear voices and everything would be much better somehow. :lol:
Much less breathlessly insist they interact with the ill people and participate in ridiculous charades to affirm their belief that they aren't ill.
Much less codify by law this participation by sane people in things they know aren't sane under threat of fine or sanction.
By analogy, voice-hearing schizophrenics can be treated if sane people would simply sneak up behind them and whisper crazy things every so often. In this way they actually would hear voices and everything would be much better somehow. :lol:
re: Congrats to Bobby Beck, legend of the CBDSL
Posted by reverendotis on 11/21/24 at 10:53 pm
I also wish to congratulate Bob Breck, one of NOLA's top 5 ever weathermen and a surprisingly good wearer of toupees.
re: Huge gas plant eyed to power mystery $5 billion Louisiana data center
Posted by reverendotis on 11/17/24 at 9:36 pm
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Too bad it’s not coal
Reconciled to BTU, proven reserves of US Coal contain more energy than the combined total of all other proven oil and mineral based energy reserves of every other nation on Earth.
Do your homework kids and learn to love coal again. It is flat out retarded to have long term discussions about energy policy without it.
re: Who y'all thinking for Secretary of Agriculture?
Posted by reverendotis on 11/12/24 at 11:10 pm
Tonight's trivia from the USDA, SNAP funding (supplemental nutrition assistance program) is by far the largest single line item in every Farm Bill.
The best thing that any Ag Secretary candidate could do to shore up my support would be to suggest decoupling that non-discretionary spending albatross from otherwise meaningful legislation that affects domestic ag business.
As a result, every four years or so, beneficial ag trade policies wouldn't get held hostage by food stamp money.
ETA..I loved what I saw from Burgum during the debates. He was my solid #2 if something took Trump out. I believe his background is in software so I have no idea if he knows diddly squat about ag. I'll read up on how he has handled this aspect of being governor.
The best thing that any Ag Secretary candidate could do to shore up my support would be to suggest decoupling that non-discretionary spending albatross from otherwise meaningful legislation that affects domestic ag business.
As a result, every four years or so, beneficial ag trade policies wouldn't get held hostage by food stamp money.
ETA..I loved what I saw from Burgum during the debates. He was my solid #2 if something took Trump out. I believe his background is in software so I have no idea if he knows diddly squat about ag. I'll read up on how he has handled this aspect of being governor.
re: Oprah Winfrey the biggest fraud ever?
Posted by reverendotis on 11/11/24 at 12:41 am
Next thing you're gonna try and tell me that Springer was staged.
re: How Do People Not Know That Timberlake & Stapleton
Posted by reverendotis on 11/10/24 at 4:01 am
How many marijuanas did you take boy?
re: “Joe we blew it”
Posted by reverendotis on 11/9/24 at 11:00 pm
I said this in another thread and I'm too lazy to retype it all so I copied and pasted it.
The Dems have 100% become the party of false equivalence. All they have is identity politics and all they do is stretch every issue out way past the end of its runway.
They'll argue that...
Two men getting married and simply minding their own business is impossible unless your daughter shares a locker room with a mentally ill man with a pecker.
Economically beneficial use of the United States' domestic energy is impossible without turning the entire Earth into Love Canal.
Poor Lourdes coming to work a shite job in hotel housekeeping is impossible unless MS-13 gang members with Tuberculosis get to come sling poison dope everywhere.
Some of the elderly black ladies at church on Sunday getting help buying groceries is impossible unless fatherless generations of 20 year old hoodlums get to eat free food too before they murder one another.
A society that tries to compassionately help others doesn't exist without hordes of insane homeless drug addicts camping out on the sidewalk downtown, shooting up and then passing out in broad daylight & waking up to piss and shite all over the place.
The Dems have 100% become the party of false equivalence. All they have is identity politics and all they do is stretch every issue out way past the end of its runway.
They'll argue that...
Two men getting married and simply minding their own business is impossible unless your daughter shares a locker room with a mentally ill man with a pecker.
Economically beneficial use of the United States' domestic energy is impossible without turning the entire Earth into Love Canal.
Poor Lourdes coming to work a shite job in hotel housekeeping is impossible unless MS-13 gang members with Tuberculosis get to come sling poison dope everywhere.
Some of the elderly black ladies at church on Sunday getting help buying groceries is impossible unless fatherless generations of 20 year old hoodlums get to eat free food too before they murder one another.
A society that tries to compassionately help others doesn't exist without hordes of insane homeless drug addicts camping out on the sidewalk downtown, shooting up and then passing out in broad daylight & waking up to piss and shite all over the place.
Dems became the party of false equivalency and irrational conclusion
Posted by reverendotis on 11/8/24 at 2:54 am
Two men getting married and simply minding their own business is impossible unless your daughter shares a locker room with a mentally ill man with a pecker.
Economically beneficial use of the United States' domestic energy is impossible without turning the entire Earth into Love Canal.
Poor Lourdes coming to work a shite job in hotel housekeeping is impossible unless MS-13 gang members with Tuberculosis get to come sling poison dope everywhere.
Some of the elderly black ladies at church on Sunday getting help buying groceries is impossible unless fatherless generations of 20 year old hoodlums get to eat free food too before they murder one another.
A society that tries to help others doesn't exist unless hordes of insane homeless drug addicts camp out on the sidewalk downtown, shoot up and pass out in broad daylight & piss and shite all over the place.
I hope the actors, comedians, bloggers, journalists and politicians and consultants who have been penning these "poor me, poor us, why and how" articles following Tuesday come to see this for what it was - a personal rejection of them, their smug shite attitude and all of the nonsensical bullcrap they believe in.
Economically beneficial use of the United States' domestic energy is impossible without turning the entire Earth into Love Canal.
Poor Lourdes coming to work a shite job in hotel housekeeping is impossible unless MS-13 gang members with Tuberculosis get to come sling poison dope everywhere.
Some of the elderly black ladies at church on Sunday getting help buying groceries is impossible unless fatherless generations of 20 year old hoodlums get to eat free food too before they murder one another.
A society that tries to help others doesn't exist unless hordes of insane homeless drug addicts camp out on the sidewalk downtown, shoot up and pass out in broad daylight & piss and shite all over the place.
I hope the actors, comedians, bloggers, journalists and politicians and consultants who have been penning these "poor me, poor us, why and how" articles following Tuesday come to see this for what it was - a personal rejection of them, their smug shite attitude and all of the nonsensical bullcrap they believe in.
A CPA with a background in data analytics once told me
Posted by reverendotis on 11/6/24 at 3:15 am
some broad in Iowa who had Harris up 10 two days ago, was our nation's gold standard pollster. Also said that all the big money was waiting to see what she said before making their high dollar election wagers.
re: Nola walk of fame
Posted by reverendotis on 11/3/24 at 4:29 am
I signed back in just to upvote
Some of my earliest memories are heading down to launch at Hopedale. Getting up at 2 to get in the water by 5, trailer ball on the back of our station wagon pulling a 17' boat up the Industrial Canal bridge.
Dad had WWL 870 am on because everybody else had signed off for the night. They replayed the prior day's brodcasts including Hap.
He'd run down the sheets at the Fairgrounds and of course he'd give you Hap's Blue Plate Special.
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Hap Glaudi
Some of my earliest memories are heading down to launch at Hopedale. Getting up at 2 to get in the water by 5, trailer ball on the back of our station wagon pulling a 17' boat up the Industrial Canal bridge.
Dad had WWL 870 am on because everybody else had signed off for the night. They replayed the prior day's brodcasts including Hap.
He'd run down the sheets at the Fairgrounds and of course he'd give you Hap's Blue Plate Special.
re: Nola walk of fame
Posted by reverendotis on 11/3/24 at 3:37 am
Where the frick is Al Scramuzza?
List is hot, loose dog shite.
List is hot, loose dog shite.
re: Dealing with burnout?
Posted by reverendotis on 11/1/24 at 9:26 pm
Start taking mud baths, at least once a day, twice if possible.
It doesn't have any particular health benefits, not for relaxation either. You're just getting yourself used to the feeling of being under dirt.
It doesn't have any particular health benefits, not for relaxation either. You're just getting yourself used to the feeling of being under dirt.
re: The curious case of Bobby Jindal...
Posted by reverendotis on 10/30/24 at 11:23 pm
Hurricane mode Bobby Jindal was a sight to behold. His pressers during the run up to one were fire hoses of information.
He could tell you how many bags of ice were left in the coolers at Dago's in Lydia, whether it was block or cube and when they would be re-stocking.
He was like Animal Mother in Full Metal Jacket, "Jindal needed someone to throw hurricanes at him the rest of his life."
He could tell you how many bags of ice were left in the coolers at Dago's in Lydia, whether it was block or cube and when they would be re-stocking.
He was like Animal Mother in Full Metal Jacket, "Jindal needed someone to throw hurricanes at him the rest of his life."
re: Any of y’all ever dealt with a runaway diesel engine?
Posted by reverendotis on 10/30/24 at 11:12 pm
Yes, seen it happen on a pump engine, a 71 series Detroit.
It runs away in a sense but the mechanical load helps restrain it plus the piston fits being bad enough for this to happen in the first place and the combustion of old oil not being equivalent to atomized, refined diesel usually isn't catastrophic.
I could see it getting out of hand on a truck in neutral but not on something under load.
In the case of the pump engine, it just kept running (real shitty) after fuel got cut off. They ended up gagging the air intake to stop it.
A someone said in this thread, you never need to check the oil in a Detroit, just look under it. If there's no oil under it, there's no oil in it. :lol:
It runs away in a sense but the mechanical load helps restrain it plus the piston fits being bad enough for this to happen in the first place and the combustion of old oil not being equivalent to atomized, refined diesel usually isn't catastrophic.
I could see it getting out of hand on a truck in neutral but not on something under load.
In the case of the pump engine, it just kept running (real shitty) after fuel got cut off. They ended up gagging the air intake to stop it.
A someone said in this thread, you never need to check the oil in a Detroit, just look under it. If there's no oil under it, there's no oil in it. :lol:
re: What does this board make of Trump’s language, eg “vermin,” “poisoning the blood…”
Posted by reverendotis on 10/26/24 at 7:59 pm
I'm like Peter Sellers as Dr Strangelove.
My right arm keeps raising up in its own to give the heil salute and I have to keep beating it back with my left arm.
Every time I try to say " Mr President" it comes "Mein Fuhrer!"
My right arm keeps raising up in its own to give the heil salute and I have to keep beating it back with my left arm.
Every time I try to say " Mr President" it comes "Mein Fuhrer!"
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