Island Of Misfits

[Hippie420]

Ha-HAH!!

I beat alla those bastages!! With my company's retirement bonus thingy, I got my retirement and full SS** from the time I retired at age 51.

Yeah, but yer SS# is 003. 001 and 002 went to Noah and Mrs. Noah.

Here's where Nature is pointing the direction to solving NYC's horrible rat problem while providing fun observation:

Some punks set Flaco the Eurasian Eagle Owl loose from his cage.

Well, he hangs around Central Park, and is getting fatter and fatter and folks all over are coming just to see him. He is eating rats. His favorite treat.

They are gonna leave him free. Now if they only turned loose a lady Eurasian Eagle Owl in Central Park...
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When I was working on the addition to the Mason building down at the U of M, they were having a pigeon problem. The kids were slobs and left garbage all over the campus, and pigeons found a reliable source of food. They brought in some kind of bird of prey, a falcon I think, and he went about in eradicating the pigeons. He nailed one while I was looking out the window during break and flew up into one of the tall trees to dine. He's ripping feathers outta this bird and getting down to the good stuff. The feathers are raining down while a couple of gals walked under the tree. They stopped and wondered what was going on. When they finally looked up to see where the feathers were coming from, the shriek that came out of them could crack glass. Mother Nature in all its glory.

 

[joeb631a]

When it gets cold and the weather turns, stripe bass fishing is at its best here on Long Island.
We use big boats.

 

[WeedHopper]

Ha-HAH!!

I beat alla those bastages!! With my company's retirement bonus thingy, I got my retirement and full SS** from the time I retired at age 51.

Not a typo. 51. And they paid for my Pilot's License. And being the cheap Dutch bastage that I am, I refused to die when I was supposed to.

**Company made up the diff as if I was full SS age until I got there. More than twenty years ago.

Not quite in that California hag-ridden (now dead) nightmare ****'s league, though...

Walt we dont have records going back that far. Will have to take your word for it. Im sure there are pictures of you drawn on walls of caves.

 

[joeb631a]

Walt we dont have records going back that far.

or the town hall burned down last century

 

[Hippie420]

Beer thirty. I'll be back.

 

[WeedHopper]

Beer thirty. I'll be back.

Ya *******. I cant until i gets my *** home.

 

[WeedHopper]

Tomorrow I go to the Secret Service job to Escort a plumbing crew until 11am,,, and then I'm heading to Galveston Texas. I have already booked a hotel room on the beach at their fking expense. Can't believe i have to go out of town right before my 2 weeks are up. Might as well enjoy the beach. They are paying for it. Wait to they see the hotel bill.
Ill come home Thursday. Go to the Office on Friday and hand in my Badge, Credit cards, and Keys.
I dont have to report to my new job until the 23rd. Yehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

 

[pute]

I am beat. This time of year I am so busy I don't know where to start. Been culling picking and hauling trash from the veggie garden. My back is gonna scream at me tomorrow morning .....right now I just need to sit a bit. Bet I have 30 to 40 lbs of green tomato's . Have boxes of them ripening in boxes with news paper layered and covered.

Then their is the indoor garden. How do I get myself into this. Wouldn't be bad at 50 but almost 25 years later you can sure feel the years. To make matters worse I haven't gotten a decent nights sleep in days. To sum it up .....this old man's *** is dragging.

 

[WeedHopper]

Giggy said that looks just like ya.

 

[Bubba]

Interesting. That video mentioned oil tankers - I took a class at a Diesel School many years ago. There was a piston ring hanging on the wall that was of a 6 foot diameter. It came out of a single cylinder two stroke Kawasaki oil tanker engine, which operated at just 75 RPM's. Many folks don't realize how much energy and efficiency there still is potentially available to be squeezed out of IC engines, which is why I think the EV rush is just that...a headlong rush.

Even the Wärtsilä still requires fossil fuels.

Meet Wärtsilä 31 - The World's Most Efficient Engine

Electric cars are a joke. Nothing green about them at all. The idea of a rechargeable battery is ancient history. Will never be green, impossible.

Bubba

 

[Bubba]

I haven't been to see 'the man' yet, but I thought it was 66 1/2? And limited earnings?
I have medicare...no ss yet.

Depends on year you are born. I think hopper and I are same age. Once you reach YOUR full retirementage, which for me was 66 and 2 months iirc, you can ( and like Hopper I did) turn on social security and work all I want with no penalty. You do have to pay income tax on it.

Bubba

 

[NewbOldster]

Hey everyone, just checking in. My mom finally passed yesterday just after noon after a long hard fight at the end. I’m am thankful that her pain is finally over. I stayed at her house for about 3 weeks until last night when I could finally come home and sleep more than two hours at a time waking up to give meds. It’s good to be home again. It was a busy day today with a lot of decisions to be made and clearing out mommas stuff and calling the list of people to be notified…. I think it will slow down more as time passes. Hope to soon be getting back into my morning routine coffee, cannabis and buuulshitz with y’all. Hope every one is well My plants are alive but outtacontrol

Groovy vibes heading your way, SubGirl. We've been through it - it's a double-edged sword, I know.

Now...get those plants under control! Don't worry about anyone here.

 

[NewbOldster]

No,,,I work to have options in life. If the Man isn't making money neither are you. What he makes isn't any of my business.
I owned my own business for almost 30 yrs.
What I made wasn't any of my workers business. I paid them well and on time. Took me yrs to build my business and a lot of hard work. Most employees have no fking clue what it's like to run a business and the work that's involved to keep it.

I was being facetious.

 

[WeedHopper]

Ya *******.

 

[WeedHopper]

Does anyone know what these are?

 

[kevinn]

our hearts are with you in this saddened time subbie...you're Mom is now at peace with no pain...remember all the good times...

Sub, I could not say it any better than Boo. Both my wife's parents died in hospice at our house and, while it was tough, my wife would have it no other way.

 

[NewbOldster]

Does anyone know what these are?


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Nope. Salt and Pepper shakers? NOISY ones?

 

[NewbOldster]

Electric cars are a joke. Nothing green about them at all. The idea of a rechargeable battery is ancient history. Will never be green, impossible.

Bubba

Electric cars are pretty cool, actually. Fast, anyway. Nowhere near 'green'.

 

[WeedHopper]

 

[RosterMan]