Fact of Life

[Brian Williams]

Tis a nice campfire sm, you got smoores?
Sure, over on the stump,
hotdog sticks can be wittled down by the woods, take sm's old hickory kinfe, watch it it's sharp.

ouch dang if it ain't, anybody gotta bandaid.

 

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Boys and Girls are different

Right off they are Plumbed different.
And I do mean they are plumbed different "right off".

Baby Girl and wet diaper, removed wet diaper and one can take their time.
Baby Boy, and remove that diaper and that fella is going to have perfect aim peeing on your face.

Or that potted plant...
Or Grandpa's CCW he is wearing exposed in the house checking out his first grandchild -a grandson.


Grandpa : We had two girls , this never happened with the girls.
Grandma : First time I've seen a boy hit anything with pee he was aiming at.
New Dad: I never missed the bathtub taking a bubble bath.
New Mom : Daddy! MoOm! Honey! Stop, it hurts when I laugh!
Grandson : Just real darn proud of himself working the crowd.


Fact: Before you remove a wet diaper off a baby boy, have another cloth , diaper, something to cover the "plumbing" right fast when you do.
"Plumbing" exposed to air, just seems to "prime the pump".


Use Enough Covering

 

[gunsmith]

it's playtex isn't it?

Just because Sophie Loren wore Platex bras, does not mean if you wear a Platex bra you are going to become a curvaceous movie star.

I know, thats why I got rid of my Victoria Secret catalouge , nothing ever fit us old fat guys!



great thread though, a keeper!

 

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Dealing with it.

Making it.

Oh that is right, I forget Survival is the current buzzword of the times.

Whatever.
Since the beginning of time folks have had to deal with what dealt them.

Folks prepared ahead of time, put back, had stores, "just in case".

Pretty damn sure Ug the Caveman did not rely on calling on a cell phone the Dept of Dependency and expect a drop shipment of stores no matter what the situation was.


Now I don't have a problem with new stuff - except when folks focus on Stuff instead of Thinking.

Yep, back to Mental vs Physical, or Software vs Hardware.

Some folks would need a Moving Truck to haul all the "Dealing with it" gear.

Mr. Murphy, remember him? He will pick a time when this moving truck is not around to have matters get serious.

One cannot be in state of awareness [yellow] 24/7/365.
One cannot have everything they need when matters get serious.

You get a loaner car leaving yours to get repaired.
Rental car, out of town.
There is not going to be a Serious Trunk gun, Full Set of Snap on Tools in the Trunk or anything else.

Laugh at the lady or gent with a Swiss Army knife that has a screwdriver blade to tighten a radiator hose now will you?

Those that have been in the Military, various branches , and taken "Survival Courses" understand this.
Pilots and having to land, getting shot down...one great example.

My points are:

-Where are you and what needs would you have for what?
-Mental Skill sets are best, and one is best to not learn on a crutch.
-Physical tools, that are simple and proven are also best to learn as well, that not learning with a crutch stuff again.

Quality Time, Responsible Use of a TV, Mental Skills sets...
There are lots of great educational tapes.

Here is one, that I wished I still had my copies:

Alone in the Wilderness
http://www.alaskanha.org/_details.cfm?ProdID=969

Alone in the Wilderness: a documentary of Richard Proenneke, the subject of the book One Man's Wilderness: an Alaskan Odyssey. Richard Proenneke built his own cabin in the wilderness near Twin Lakes, in what is now Lake Clark National Park & Preserve.

This is fascinating! Men and women and kids will all enjoy this, and everyone will learn something.
Everyone will find a subject of interest to research further.

Pay attention to what his priorities were, and tools he used.

 

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Needs vs Wants

<lights smokes and waits a second>

First one of you bunch that uses some gall-darned term like "Ultimate" in some sentence like the "Ultimate Versus Thread" I'm...

Hint: Incoming rounds go "splat" then you hear the shot...maybe.

Only thing left of someone when they die is that which don't burn. -anon

I heard that on the Ra-di-di-o burning down the road in the wee hours flipping stations. Not sure who said it, but it is true.

Think about it.
Think about the folks that have been through disasters such as Katrina, Floods, Fires, and the like.
No pictures of the kids, wedding albums, no guns, knives, jewelry, computers, washer, dryer, clothes, toys...

They got themselves, each other, and that is it.

Kids...dang kids going through something like is real tough. They just have not been around long enough to gather some understanding and life experiences.
Still even kids understand more than Big People give them credit for.
Ever seen a kid give another kid a older toy, or a Bike they have outgrown?

Seen the same thing with adults.
Right appreciative of having a Used Police Trade in Model 10 to keep handy while the mess gets sorted out.

Remember that part about when something takes life, someday it ceases to live?

How many got a old pocket knife some lady or gent way back in the family used to use and carry and the knife is not really usable?
Old watch, clock, some old firearm...?

It is NOT so much the physical item itself, instead so much more about the Person.
All you got.
They are gone and all you have is that rusty old Imperial pocket-knife, or Illinois Pocket Watch that you just sometimes have to admire, hold and wonder about what all it could share if it could talk.


Picasso, Michaelangelo, Rodin, Einstein, Julius Caesar, Sun Tzu...Hemingway, Ruark...

These folks are gone.
Now I have seen Hemingway's home in Key West and Pigget.
Sorta doubt I'll ever get to visit his in Cuba.

One of these days , I just gotta see where Ruark grew up in North Carolina.

Then again, I do have something that did not burn in their works.

Works by Picasso, Rodin and Mr. Hart, that drew the BC Cartoons back in the day, well, call me what you want, but I like what they left me that did not burn.

I know about stuff burning up.
More than once.
3 NIBs Colt ARs from back in the old days and I never got to shoot them.
Persons that gave them to me, long past.
I miss the folks.

Signed copy of Brister's Book. It burned up too.
I do recall the day I met him, and the next day him signing a book and we shooting together.
Incidentally I still have the SX1 I shot that day with him.
Still runs like a top, and it has ~ 300,000 rods through it.
May not look much to some with its character, pretty special to me and what all that SX1 could say if it could talk
(Kinda glad it can't in regard to some things).

Just Metal and Wood as Dennis Bateman wrote.
I kick off, and that gun disappears...

Well lots of folks for me now passed that I run with that SX1.
There are some still around, that were little, and stories float, about Skeet , busting Quail, felling ducks, and learning to shoot, and....

I've been in Evidence rooms and seen Pythons, Citori's , Parkers, Rem 3200's, and other nice rifles and firearms with the barrels whacked off, the stocks cut down and BGs had , and had used.
Seeing a Model 23 with the barrels sawed off and that stock cut...hits one kinda hard...

I'm sure most have seen the Pictures of the guns that NOLA said they did not confiscate during Katrina.

Some of the owners are gone, they did not make it.
All that remains are the memories of a HS Graduation Gift, 25th Wedding Anniversary, Retirement Gift, That neat pistol Grandpa taught a kid to shoot with...

Sorta like that old truck you learned to drive in as a kid...

 

[ArfinGreebly]

Pocket Knife

. . . rusty old Imperial pocket-knife . . .

Mine's not rusty.

Imperial Officer's Ulster. Four blader, with the hook-style can opener. I've opened more darn cans with that thing.

1961.

Birthday. From my dad.

It's got mileage and an edge, but no rust, thank you.

It was my multi-tool for more than twenty years.

It's been in every country in which I've lived or visited.

Precious memory, even if it doesn't see a lot of use these days. My oldest will get that when I'm done here.

These last twenty-five years, I've carried a little Gerber Silver Knight with the point re-ground after I broke it.

It's seen a lot of not-really-knife duty. It's worn and scarred. But it's family, and it, too, will be handed down.

My kids all got their pocket knives young. My grandkids already have theirs -- they just don't know it yet. Their mom will see to it they get taught right.

I have kids and grandkids. I'll have more generations down from them. When I'm done here, I will have at least assured one more generation of shooters, more like two if I have my way.

Some folks don't have offspring. They can still hand off the important things in their lives and experience. A little creative work building connections with families -- even partial families -- can provide that path.

Not that I actually know anyone who's done that.

Anyway.

Do carry on.

 

[Larry Ashcraft]

Only thing left of someone when they die is that which don't burn. -anon

Not quite anonymous, if I remember right:

Labgrade

RIP, buddy.

 

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Ammunition & Shooting

Ever been to the grocery store, and while you are checking out realize you don't have anything to eat except the candy bar the kid bought with their own money?

How about getting home and the very items you needed , you did not get home with?

Oh it is bad enough you have no idea what to fix for supper for you and the kids since the wife is working the 3p-11p shift.
Or
Bad enough you really wanted to surprise the husband with that special dinner he likes...

You forget the milk for the kid's cereal <slap forehead> and you also Promised that kid that new cereal for them.
Remember, you "promised' if the kid picked up socks and got them in the clothes hamper...
...for helping around the house...
...for...

But...But the kitchen counter is full of Window cleaner, and Special Cleaners for, kitchen sink, guest bathroom sink, hall bathroom sink and that one is really specially made for Master Bathroom Sinks.
<scoots them all together>
Let us repeat this with Toilet Cleaners <aw hell! which one was specially made for the Master Bath again?>
And what about all this stuff for floors...
And...

Toilet paper makes sense, I can understand Select-Size Paper towels as well.

<Holds something up "two aughts are aught...divide this by that...check Farmer's Almanac...PM Mal H for how much this crap is per ounce.>

I give up!

$23.47 cents an ounce Steve
Thanks Mal

:Yikes!!:

<reads itty bitty fine print with two magnifying glasses stacked atop each other>

This here product is not really good for anything, still we make a lot of profit off of it because we just stick a new label on it from time to time and change Marketing Strategy. Don't tell anyone we actually have the same product for 50 cents an ounce.

Well hell! for $23.47 an ounce it ought to..."hi Art's Grammaw!"

While I make sure Art's Grammaw is not just outside the door tapping her foot-
I'll wait <sneaks over to door to peak....>

Run into your Gun Stuff Room and take a look at what all you have to clean, lube, and whatever else you do to guns. Oh, and get an idea of what all that costs.
Don't forget that box of stuff you hid from yourself and the rest of the family.

Now take a look at the Ammunition and what you are griping about not having.

You back?

Now since I was a brat, my system does not like Chlorine.
Damn I was sure hoping I was allergic to cleaning toilets and bathtubs at age 3.
Doc said "don't use Comet and all"
I still offered Doc my sucker he gave me to say I being allergic to cleaning bathtubs and toilets.
Playing in the water is one thing, mom's have this thing about "clean" meaning "clean". Go Figure.

So mom goes out gets Ajax, and other cleaners with Chlorine, except Comet. From across the room I get the allergic stuff.
Maternal Grandma, bless her heart.
"Are you nuts! I did not raise you to be stupid!" - Grandma says to mom
This is great for a 3 year old whose Grandma thinks he hung the moon.

See, Grandma and I cleaned with Baking Soda, Vinegar [She also did these neat volcano dealies with these two].
Murphy's Oil Soap, Bon-Ami (I still like the "hasn't scratched yet ad slogan) and good old fashioned Soap and Water.
Make mine Lemon Joy please.

When we had to use Bleach for clothes, I was not around.
And my stuff had to be washed in soap again and rinsed again.

Hydrogen Perioxide with water worked on getting stains out and getting stuff white.
Go look what is in Non-Chlorine Bleach. *grin*


Grandma and I went to the local Mom&Pop store took all that stuff back Mom had gotten.
I got part of this money.
"You want to get a box of .22 ammunition with some of your money?"
So a lesson on what I had, and what I would have left over was given.

"You want a Coke?" - she asked
I knew that Coke machine took a nickel. It was pretty neat getting lifted up and inserting a nickel and lifting the door and the cylinder would turn and a
6 1/2 ounce Coke could be pulled out with ice in the neck of the bottle.

I am looking at my money, and I am looking at a nickel. That was a lot of money. I did my head looking down as I did, and "hey, I'm buying, don't look like that, I need a date and you are it"
Our secret getting this Coke, two straws, sitting on the bench in front of the store sharing a Coke.
*wink*

Pretty Neat for a kid with his own .22 ammunition stuffed in them little jeans pockets...

--
Mom would later in life take the glaze off a bathtub and have to have it re-glazed.
I had neighbors in Apts that messed up Fiberglass Shower & Tubs using too abrasive a cleaner.

I still use Baking Soda, I got two boxes for $1 at the Dollar type store.

And there is a kid that also seems to not get along with Chlorine that has "taught mom and dad" that Baking Soda and such works just fine, and she got the money for stuff taken back and got a bulk pack of .22

--

Now did you did buy the guns to shoot, or mess with every cleaning, lubing marketing deal that comes down the Pike?

How much ammo will $23.47 per ounce for stuff you don't need buy again?

 

[1982fxr]

Now see, *this* thread is what the internet is all about.
sm: Thank You. A long life and great health to you Sir.

 

[Brian Williams]

OBTW Welcome to 1982fxr

 

[sm]

Us vs Them

<pops top, takes a pull, grabs spoon...>

Damn! This is good stuff Maynard!
Get you a can of Pears, and stick in the Fridge to get chilled.

Uncle 'teve, we brought you a box too

-"Thanks darlin', you want a sip of my pear juice?"
<helps kids sip from can>

Tink you

Hold on a second, darlin' and I have this thing, she likes to kiss me on the mustache.
*giggle* "good"
Hey , if a cutie wants to get the last of Pear juice, or whatever off my mustache, ....

I got my very own box of Animal Crackers in the Animal box like they are supposed to be.
<finishes pears, finishes juice, sets down can , now I have a Butt-Bucket.
Lights smoke...>

*woof* *woof* <tosses Dawg a Animal Cracker>

*crunch*
<Dawg turns head, looks at me funny>
Hey have y'all tried these little bitty dog bone shaped dawg treats, they are pretty good!

Us vs Them

Are you the "Us" or are you the "Them" ?

Just who in the hell is right? The Us's or the Them's?

Whut happens when a "Us" is doing a "Them" thing and vice versa?

Oh them Shotgunners are a bunch of so-n-so's
Oh we are?
You sure acted different when you really needed some empty 25# shot bags to make rests for your rifle.

Take a shooting bench.
Hell it don't know :

-if a Kid is going to shoot a Pink Cricket for the first time,
-a Benchrest shooter is going to shoot a gnat's butt at long distance,
-Some old boy is testing loads he is working up in his Black-Powder Pistol,
-Some Lady checking out a New Glock CCW gun,
-Another lady getting ready for deer season with Model 94 in 30-30
-Card Shoot
-Turkey shoot
-Red Ryder BB Gun
etc.

Knock it off dammit!
WE got enough problems with Anti-Gun Groups, Legislative Matters and Politics without Gun Folks beating each other up!

Fence Sitters. Now what the heck are they supposed to think?

They walk into a basic protection class to get some information about personal safety and they get bombarded about Brand Names and Makes and Models and Ammo and if they "don't do this" they are idiots.

Hey, they just showed up to get information and Maybe the most important thing they need to hear is about door locks, motion detectors and preventative measures!
Often times why some show up in the first damn place!

But you have your opinions Steve

Yep, sure do. I happen to think I am right about some things due to life experiences and observations.
I can only share what I know.
If I don't know, I have no problem saying so, and if I can, I will send someone to another better able to assist them that has experiences in that area.

I gotta right to be wrong, which means I gotta right to be right when I am right.

Will Fennell can share some life experience about shotguns for what he uses shotguns for.
Awerbuck, go see him about defensive shotgun stuff.

I assure neither one is going to talk down the other on what a shotgun is used for.

H&H Hunter - ask him about Dangerous Game.
Art, read his take on hunting Deer.

I bet you a $1 they don't get into a "Us vs Them" them about the type of hunting or the Rifles used.

Go look in the Mirror.

Remember there are Three Perspectives when you deal with another person.

- Perspective you have of another person
- Perspective the other persons has of you.
- Perspective of the un-involved person standing off to the side.








But I don't see anyone else in the mirror but me

<lights another smoke>

*grin* one always says that, always...here is the "it" part.

Have you ever felt good about your presence in front of another?
Say speaking to a handsome guy , or pretty girl in the hallway, only to go to the restroom and the mirror reveals salad lettuce in your teeth, or mustard stain on your cheek, blouse button undone, pants unzipped...etc?

You thought your presence was fine.
The other person never said a work to embarrass you.

Now what perception did you really give?
What about another person that viewed this exchange?

 

[sm]

Intent

Intent
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/intent

It is the intent of the user of a tool - not the tool.

WE speak of this all the time in regard to responsible firearm ownership.
We speak of this in regard to concealed carry, and edged weapons around here as well to draw fence sitters off the fence toward our Mission Statements and Ideology.
We use this to battle Anti-Gun Legislation , and those that support Tyranny.

Intent is also something in all our activities of daily living (ADLs).
Intent plays a huge part in communications, which is a huge part of societal interactions.

-

Some of y'all got your Robin Hood Flour Sack Panties in a wad!

Oh umm! Steve just did a "spam" for Robin Hood Flour...

Well the nerve of that chauvinistic male pig talking down to us ladies like that...

...picking on us folks older he is ,especially us'ns that grew up poor...

...hey, sounds to me like he is picking on us younger folks again.
Just what the heck are "flour sack panties?

*Oink*

Now the dern fool is picking on us Cops!!


See what I mean?

Quit being so damn sensitive and taking everything personal will ya?
Life is too short to take yourself too serious and not just breath in life.
Take a deep breath, let it out, and just relax.

Life is about "living" which differs from "existing".
The choice is yours, still if you want to wear yourself out "reacting" to everything, well, don't be surprised if a situation comes up, you do not have your battery reserves charged because you keep them depleted by your own actions.

It ain't gonna hurt to laugh at yourself.
If you are blond, you probably know all the best blond jokes.

If you are from North, you probably know all the best Yankee jokes.

If you don't, let me and some of us Suthern Foke ejumacate ya.
Hey, walking uphill both ways in the snow retaking skool subjekts in the sumer, you don't expect to actually study do you?
We gots Yankee Jokes to share.

See? I and other Southern Folks poke fun at ourselves.

Jokes are just that - jokes.
Humor and comedy are good for a person health well being.

If your intent is to berate, be uncivil and demeaning, then Yep, you own it and you deserve what you get in reply.

Internet is difficult to express tone, inflection, body language and other parts of Speech and communication.

If your intent is harmless, a part of speech from where you are, poking fun at yourself, well, accept the the fact someone might be sensitive, or having a legit bad day, it happens.

If you are the one reading something - stop - don't just "react".
Take a look again, smilies help, still take the time to digest, get a feel for the meaning and intent.

-

Art has shared with me :
"You know why wimmin got small feet? So they can stand closer to the stove".


Go in the kitchen, take a look at where the stove meets the floor, and notice the indention go up under the stove?
Now look at the cabinets where the sink is, in the kitchen.
Indented too is it not?
Bathrooms the same way.
Male and Females and this includes kids can get closer to the stove, the sinks, and all.



Know where the double sink in the Kitchen come from and why?
Idea come from the South.
A true Southern Gentleman always removes the dishes before he tinkles in it?

Hey we guys can't hit a toilet standing over it, so getting closer to the tinkle place helps with our aim.



Intent.

My intent with all this was to get folks to stop, think, take pause and reflect on their intentions when they communicate with others and how they respond to others communicating with them.

When I share about the 28 gauge , I really do mean it , when I say it is the best teaching tool for anyone to learn shotunning with, and I am not alone on my take.
.22 handguns and learning to shoot, again, my intent is to share what passed to me, to others.


Intent.