USERS - Older versus today's

[ShyWriter]

Sometimes what it feels like when YoKenny1 and I make comments that require knowledge of life before 1975..

Compliments of PICKLES by Brian Crane

Shy

[goldhound]

Some days they want to kick by butt out too! When some sweet young thing asks "paper or plastic bags" i usually ask, which one works better for starting the woodstove? They try hard to stay polite whist being indignant and the older gal at the next till who knows me has to stifle a grin

Us older folks need to have some fun now and then and the kids are sooooo easy

[YoKenny1]

Now they are charging 0.03$ per bag so I take my own.

Where the heck is cent on the keyboard?

Wasn't life before 1975.. just when men became free of Dinosaurs and men learned that Express Lanes usually aren't?

[ShyWriter]

Some days they want to kick by butt out too! When some sweet young thing asks "paper or plastic bags" i usually ask, which one works better for starting the woodstove? They try hard to stay polite whist being indignant and the older gal at the next till who knows me has to stifle a grin

Us older folks need to have some fun now and then and the kids are sooooo easy

Amen Wayne - VERY easy.. How's things; worked the claim recently? Not too much action on our other mutual site.

Shy

[Wide_Glide]

@YoKenny1

Had to find it myself, the

[ShyWriter]

[...] Wasn't life before 1975.. just when men became free of Dinosaurs and men learned that Express Lanes usually aren't?

Add that to the ones that roll in with 34 pieces in the 10 item Express Lane and tries to argue with the cashier that because 24 cans are all soup/beans/corn/pick-a-name the 24 should only count as ONE! item. :D

@Wide Glide ; I use the character map so often it's in my Windows STARTUP list..

Shy

[Wide_Glide]

@Shy

I will not lie to you. I did not know about it until YoKenny1 asked about the cent key. Did a quick Google and found the info, pretty neat

I learned something new today, thanks to "Old Timers"

[ShyWriter]

@Shy

I will not lie to you. I did not know about it until YoKenny1 asked about the cent key. Did a quick Google and found the info, pretty neat

I learned something new today, thanks to "Old Timers"

We try... In fact, I've often been told I'm VERY TRYING!

With us "Old Timers", the problem is we know a lot about a bun'cha stuff but can't remember what? I have many of what we call, "Senior Moments". NOT to be confused with oldtimers'... err..ummm... Alzheimers!

Shy

[goldhound]

Amen Wayne - VERY easy.. How's things; worked the claim recently? Not too much action on our other mutual site.

Shy

Not much happening Shy, long weekend here and everybody but me is out mining I got all the "janitor work" done on the site while my mods are out playing

Should be some nugget pics soon.

Oops, update, Ernie got skunked, serves him right for leaving me to mind the store

Wayne

[noknojon]

Now they are charging 0.03$ per bag so I take my own.

I believe it is written as $0.03 -

But as you are a 'pommy' living in Canada ......... - A.K.A. The 57th state of the USA -

I still need to check fonts for the old Pound sign (LSD) Pounds Shillings and Pence -

[YoKenny1]

But as you are a 'pommy' living in Canada ......... - A.K.A. The 57th state of the USA -

I'm not a 'pommy' but Australians are

Some proponents of this theory claim that upon arrival in the country they would be given a uniform with "POHM" or "POME" emblazoned on the back, which apparently stood for Prisoners Of Maidenhead Prison but there are no images or examples of these uniforms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_names_for_the_British#Pommy

I am a Limey though.

[ShyWriter]

Not much happening Shy, long weekend here and everybody but me is out mining I got all the "janitor work" done on the site while my mods are out playing

Should be some nugget pics soon.

Oops, update, Ernie got skunked, serves him right for leaving me to mind the store

Wayne

:) That just means all the more still left for you to find next time you go out... and Ernie has to mind the board. Speaking of gold, I learned something new yesterday; an gram of gold and a gram of feathers weigh the same but an ounce of gold and an ounce of feathers don't. (because gold is measured in one type of weight system and feathers are measured in another.) Only takes 12 ounces of gold for a pound versus 16 ounces for feathers. I tell ya Wayne; I learn the most useless info/trivia.. *Wide grin*

Steve

[noknojon]

That is because the old Troy Ounce method of weights are used for 'precious metals' -

1 troy ounce = 1.097 ordinary ounce

There are 12 troy ounces in every troy pound. It will not equal 16 ounces of feathers -

One troy pound is equal to 373 grams.

1 troy ounce = 24 scruples - I don't have many scruples

[ShyWriter]

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1 troy ounce = 24 scruples - I don't have many scruples

:) I disagree John - I think you have plenty of scruples.

As to weight, I know; I wrote that I had learned about the difference in my posting; I was full of useless info. I just couldn't remember how to spell Avoirdupois

"Gold and silver are almost always weighted in the troy system of weights where one pound troy equals twelve troy ounces and twenty pennyweights equals one troy ounce. The Avoirdupois weight system, where one pound equals 16 ounces, is used in the United States for most everything except precious metals."

[goldhound]

Yeah.......and we are stuck with that bloody metric system!

I just had to quit singing when it changed to be........"i got 64.7 hectares of the vaaaalleeey"

I still think in in miles, fractions of an ounce, pints, quarts, and gallons, but the kids have never heard of them. It wasn't broke but they just HAD to "fix" it

[ShyWriter]

Yeah.......and we are stuck with that bloody metric system!

I just had to quit singing when it changed to be........"i got 64.7 hectares of the vaaaalleeey"

I still think in in miles, fractions of an ounce, pints, quarts, and gallons, but the kids have never heard of them. It wasn't broke but they just HAD to "fix" it

I understand the metric system but mentally I can't instantly do simultaneous back and forth conversions. Some part of the brain that allows multiple languages, etc, must be broken in mine. I never could learn more than a few words in any different language and I'm in awe of people that speak more than one language, fluently, and in the same conversation can change languages back and forth without a break in stride; and a lot of people like cooks, etc, can switch back and forth while instantly converting metric to english in weights and measurements as well as oven temperatures. I sit there Googling for a conversion page so I can make a dinner!

And don't even get me started on the language laws in the French/Canadian providence.

[noknojon]

Yeah.......and we are stuck with that bloody metric system!

I just had to quit singing when it changed to be........"i got 64.7 hectares of the vaaaalleeey"

You still have 160 acres of the vaaaalleeey - It just sounds like you get less -

Our "normal" building blocks were 1/4 acre blocks now it is 0.10117141056 hectare (or something like that) -

[ShyWriter]

You still have 160 acres of the vaaaalleeey - It just sounds like you get less -

Our "normal" building blocks were 1/4 acre blocks now it is 0.10117141056 hectare (or something like that) -

Yeah John; but it just doesn't SOUND like as much..

Hmmm - goldhound must have finally got a chance to go out to his claim and prospect. Here's wishing lots of that shiny gold stuff.

Shy

[goldhound]

Yeah John; but it just doesn't SOUND like as much..

Hmmm - goldhound must have finally got a chance to go out to his claim and prospect. Here's wishing lots of that shiny gold stuff.

Shy

Also was very bent when i noticed that many large companies took advantage of the confusion to repackage products giving us less product and charging more

We have had a longer than usual period of rain this past week and i cannot even get into my back forty to cut firewood let alone get near the claim

[ShyWriter]

Also was very bent when i noticed that many large companies took advantage of the confusion to repackage products giving us less product and charging more

That "repackaging" has been going on for awhile - the box stays the same size and the price stays the same (more or less) but the contents lose an ounce or two. Or candy bars - smaller for same price. It's getting so bad that I wait until my stores(s) have 2/1 and I stock up enough until I figure the time will come again. Magazines, computer-related, are the worst; less pages (because of less ads; and so, fewer stories) BUT the price keep going up. grumble - mumble - pahtooie!

We have had a longer than usual period of rain this past week and i cannot even get into my back forty to cut firewood let alone get near the claim

I take it you have to cut it now so it'll be aged and dry when late-fall/winter arrives. You do darned good for a man near my age, my friend. I did my yard... grass.. shrubs.. trees.. and edging all in one time frame yesterday and almost couldn't get out of bed this more I was so sore and hurting - in fact the only reason I got OUT of bed was I hurt worse in bed than out. Then again; you do a lot more consistent exercise than I do. My 1/4 acre against your 160 acres. No comparison; in metric, or not.

~Steve

[goldhound]

Steve i have only about 3 acres now. Fortunately was old enough when i bought it to realize that a big purty lawn was not necessary so only about a half acre developed, consisting of house, shop, chicken hotel, garden/greenhouse, and numerous fruit trees, nut trees and berries.

The rest was all big timber, mostly Maple and Alder with some Cedar and Fir and backing onto public forest. Have heated my home with it for 20 years, i manage the timber by block cutting and it will be good for many years yet as the growth rate here on the wet coast is rapid!

Wood cutting and other chores get painfully slow nowadays and i know too well what you mean by pain as i have two ruptured discs and spinal stenosis, had a surgeon take the angle grinder to my back last spring. That helped some, mostly got rid of the extreme sciatica but it will gradually come back and the disc issues just have to be lived with.

Wayne

[ShyWriter]

Steve i have only about 3 acres now. Fortunately was old enough when i bought it to realize that a big purty lawn was not necessary so only about a half acre developed, consisting of house, shop, chicken hotel, garden/greenhouse, and numerous fruit trees, nut trees and berries.

The rest was all big timber, mostly Maple and Alder with some Cedar and Fir and backing onto public forest. Have heated my home with it for 20 years, i manage the timber by block cutting and it will be good for many years yet as the growth rate here on the wet coast is rapid!

You need me around, Wayne. I love rainy, drizzly days, yet I visited Seattle and the Vancouver, Whistler and Victoria parts of BC over a two-week period and it never rained a drop. I didn't know much about weather in BC, but I *expected* every day to be a rainy day in Seattle. And even funnier, the last three times I moved and got a beautiful yard, albeit small, we had a year, or more, long drought - killed the grass every darned time. I need that guy with the raincloud over his head in Little Abner to give me some of his mojo. :)

Wood cutting and other chores get painfully slow nowadays and i know too well what you mean by pain as i have two ruptured discs and spinal stenosis, had a surgeon take the angle grinder to my back last spring. That helped some, mostly got rid of the extreme sciatica but it will gradually come back and the disc issues just have to be lived with.

I guess if they fuse those discs to eliminate the pain you'll lose too much mobility and range of motion. I feel for you bud; my wife has the back problems and I have the joint and neck-discs problems. BUT; even with all that, I sure appreciate waking up every morning instead of the alternative.

~Shy

[goldhound]

I can't chance a surgery that would leave me unable to do anything for more than a few days. My wife lives in a wheelchair and very little mobility due to MS so i need to be able to cook, clean, etc, cannot afford a care worker.

The previous surgery (L4-L5 Laminectomy) i was only down for a few days and could slowly do things, disc work would be weeks at least. Also a very long waiting list here, perhaps two years.

Yep, every day you wake up is a good one

[noknojon]

The previous surgery (L4-L5 Laminectomy) i was only down for a few days and could slowly do things, disc work would be weeks at least. Also a very long waiting list here, perhaps two years.

Yep, every day you wake up is a good one

Same ones as mine (L4/5) , 20 years ago when a car hit me head on at 100 kph (60mph) on my motor bike -

I could not sit or bend for weeks until the surgery - Stuck laying in bed or just slow walks around the yard - Not much fun -

Lucky I was not this age then , but it still comes back to haunt me doing any working or bending -

[YoKenny1]

Same ones as mine (L4/5) , 20 years ago when a car hit me head on at 100 kph (60mph) on my motor bike -

I could not sit or bend for weeks until the surgery - Stuck laying in bed or just slow walks around the yard - Not much fun -

Lucky I was not this age then , but it still comes back to haunt me doing any working or bending -

Back in '96 I was a pasenger in a car that was rear-ended and ended up flat on my back looking up at the car roof and had to be assisted out then many months of Physical therapy at least twice a week.

Now I visit a Chiropractor once a week for an adjustment and once a month back massage.

I have Sciatica that acts up whenever the barometic pressure drops.

I don't have to shovel snow nor cut grass now.