my fat ass next door neighbor asking my to fix something he is to lazy to fix his damn self oh and the bastard calling me at 7 am and dammit my smokes went up in price oh oh oh and i am almost outta Dr.Pepper time to goto the store.


also complete inablity to spell a damn thing.



and the jack ass just called me again like 5 mins ago to come over to fix his hot water heater and failing that show him how to drain it because he is tired. come the frack on there is a big red handle on the fron that sez drain from here. i mean hell i try and be a good guy but at almost 2 am the only person i really wanna talk to is my family or bama and by god someone better be either dead dying or in jail. failing that i really have nothing to say to anyone this late.



:rant:

Absolutely. My line is drawn rather earlier in the evening!

Wilderness's brother threw a party here last night. This was fine with everyone - Wilderness and I had a couple of friends over too. But the brother proceeded to get so drunk he wasn't even standing anymore. It's embarrassing to have guests over with the host acting so stupidly!!!!!!

He'll probably grow out of it.

I hope so. He complains he has no money and lives paycheck to paycheck, but it's no wonder - he drinks all of it!

My puter upgraded to IE8 overnight and I'm trapped in the problem where every post wants to be a "quote". There is a fix in the "tools" section, but I can't remember what it was. It was featured in a thread, but I can't find the reference.

Here ya go Oldfart!

It works! Merci beaucoup, cher Neige.

(Presque!!! Neige is féminin, therefore it's chère, not cher. ;))

De rien!

As I once said, Je parle francaise tres 'orrible.

You didn't say that! :argue:

Only mwa parlay fraunsa tra orbull :D

Did, you know.

Great, I go from a place that speaks English(home) to a place that speaks Spanish(Work) and now I'm at Pixies and you people are speaking French. I'm so confusticated.

So are we. :wink:

There's the fourth language.

I'm pissed off because I left the cat in overnight and he showed his appreciation by pissing on my washing.

Then pay him back in kind by turning him into Kung Pow Kitty.

:roflmao:

when the weather goes from a nice 92 to 68 in less than an hour then the hail hits and it rains so hard that my cell phone cuts out

that pisses me off too.

:argue: Never seen someone get so angry at having to change a fuse. Seriously, I thought guys were supposed to delight in such things! If I had known I was gonna ruin his night so much by asking him to get the fuse to the fridge/microwave that blew as I finished cooking supper, I would've gotten it myself!!!

Humans are an amazing species.

At many levels.

Next time tell him you are tired of the blown fuses. You want him to change out the service panel to breakers. Then changing a fuse won't be a big deal. :wink:

And if they're like here, they just plug straight into the fuse slot.

Most likely they are the old glass screw-in fuses. :eek:

Our fuses were shaped porcelain pieces that took a replaceable fuse wire. The new replacements are circuit-breaking switches that fit into the fuse bay without modification. New homes and replacement boards have the breakers built into the boards.

Interesting. :nod: The key word that caught my eye was 'slot'. I had a hunch you were referring to tube fuses as we know them. They have never been used here for residential service but have and still are for commercial and industrial installations, particularly three phase service. Our residential service is normally 120v, 100 amp with two hots and a neutral. All the 120v appliances come from a single leg and 240v for motors above fractional HP and high wattage heating elements by using both hot sides but are still single phase.

This topic made me think of some of the OLD home installations I've seen. Some of the earliest were 'wire fuses' in a wood box lined with asbestos sheet and mounted on the wall with normally 2 circuits for the 20 amp service. It was nothing but two screw terminals connected with a small lead alloy wire intended to melt. Same principle as the replaceable flat strips inside the porcelain or single use fiber tube fuses I believe you were talking about. We moved from the wire fuse to round glass threaded plug with a visible link inside to see which had blown among the 4 to 8 circuits on a 60 amp service. Sometime near the 1950's they started using breakers with 100 amp service to all homes.

240v and 480v, 3 ph with 400amp and 600amp industrial service had a different evolution.

Oh dear... great day for the hot water boiler to break down...

Just as well it's spring.

But see, somehow it's all my fault. Nevermind that I called the landlord (his dad) as soon as I figured out we had no hot water. I should have been able to do more, I guess...

Unless he has some bizarre idea that you took to it with a sledge-hammer, how is it your fault? You used it too much, or was it that the water was too watery? It's one thing to grumble, another to blame.

It is definitely one of his faults to blame people for things that are no one's fault. And it's getting on my feckin nerves!!!!!!!!!

Tell him nicely.

I would suggest if you tell him nicely, make sure you're holding the sledge hammer you took to the water heater. :D

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/...?section=justin

Bastards.

Let him fulfill his obligation. Issue him AND his family each a set of snowshoes and a burlap bag, then let them clear a mine field.

Mr PantyFanatic, I'm surprised at you. You, in your secret identity as SuperEngineeringMan, should know that snowshoes are a loadspreading device, and as such inappropriate for that purpose. Now pogo sticks, there's another story . . .

Pogo sticks? Too small a contact area. Maybe a snowshoe fastened to the tip of the pogo.

We should work together on these worthwhile projects more often. :thumb:

Many of these devices have threshold weights to stop sheep and rabbits from setting them off. Reference "Teller Mine". Pogo stick gives you sufficient pounds per square inch to go over that limit (probably). Apart from that, it makes them look ridiculous.