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Purveyor of persiflage. Bad jokes and boring tweets about vintage tools, woodworking, guns, marksmanship, and amateur radio. That tweet was sarcasm, dummy.

Rural Eastern Washington, USA
Joined March 2018
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My favorite chisels have my name stamped on them. Butcher. Wood Butcher.
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I've never believed it, and I can't explain why I do it anyway.
never even heard this one
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Transmission shop: "sorry, we don't resurface flywheels anymore or know anyone who does, the industry's gotten away from that because of liability concerns." Me: Dick the Butcher was right
Replying to @dbennett_ks
Guy at NAPA: "yeah man, I just think people don't do that anymore" Colleague a few years younger than me: "people still get flywheels resurfaced?" <headdesk>
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Sometimes I think my wife forgets that I jumped a 10' wide creek on my BMX bike in 5th grade and landed it. She would lock up that attitude if she remembered what I'm capable of.
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She broke up with me at what had been “our” restaurant. You could hear the gasp of the sandwich artist.
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Tried to drop my tractor flywheel off to have it ground, but the machine shop has the wrong size grinding wheel. Even better, the local NAPA has no idea who in this area can resurface a flywheel. Come on, man.
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Just had an AI porn ad pop up in the middle of trying to read a Christianity Today article about a mission hospital in Kenya and if that doesn't sum up the Internet I don't know what does.
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Speaking as someone who learned rock climbing and mountaineering just a few years later in the early '90s, this looks like something from the 1880s.
The rigging and methods on display here are primitive even for the 1980’s despite Rope access being in its infancy at the time
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Wall climbers had safer gear in the 1970s.
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Made the mistake of rereading that as a teenager during a power outage. By the flickering light of an oil lamp, surrounded by dark windows during a storm.
Replying to @drewdyck
Should have said this present darkness
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With all the Anakin posting I thought I'd add this. When Revenge of the Sith was bootlegged in China and then back translated to English, the Jedi Council was translated as "The Presbyterian Church" or "Hopeless Situation Presbyterians", leaving us with this gem:
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Filled out my ballot. Basically a waste of time in WA, apart from the minor satisfaction of voting against anyone endorsed by shitbag @GovBobFerguson.
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Voted every item except the two unopposed candidates who didn't submit a blurb for the voter's guide. If you don't care, why should I?
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"If you order over the phone I can give you a 5% discount" heck yes, Yesterday's Tractors dot com.
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The existence of George Strait implies the existence of George Isthmus.
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Pulled the lift pump to clean sludge and a disturbing number of metal bits in this sump, and noticed the PTO tailshaft looked rough. Here’s what’s left of the mating needle(?) bearing. Lovely.
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You can put a junk hard drive magnet in a plastic bag to pick up bits of metal. Turn the bag inside out to remove the magnet, and your metal is in the bag.
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Heck yeah. Now fast forward six years…
1yo took a 3.5 hour nap yesterday and then he woke up really good at putting pegs in holes and significantly more interested in lids and mechanical contraptions
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Happy Getting Home From Work in the Dark season to all who celebrate the next five months of depression and headlamps.
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