"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

Jack Black said:
And before he's strung up, he should be beaten senseless with the parcel I've had sitting in Chicago for more than 2 months! 🤬
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Here's another parcel to add to the party!!😡
I have 2 books coming from Minnesota, not that far away, that were sent on April 27th, and they just made it into Canada - not here yet!! First Class, my a$$!!😤
 
Jack Black said:
And before he's strung up, he should be beaten senseless with the parcel I've had sitting in Chicago for more than 2 months! 🤬
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I wonder if your parcel got to spend some time with the one I have heading for France? Mine spent a comparatively short (but still ridiculous) two weeks in Chicago, before going to Detroit and then Paris. Things don’t seem to be moving much faster in France, as it arrived there a week and a half ago and hasn’t moved since. 🙄
 
btb01 said:
I wonder if your parcel got to spend some time with the one I have heading for France? Mine spent a comparatively short (but still ridiculous) two weeks in Chicago, before going to Detroit and then Paris. Things don’t seem to be moving much faster in France, as it arrived there a week and a half ago and hasn’t moved since. 🙄
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I've had a parcel that took a month++ to come, and spent a lot of time visiting NY, ie : Queens, Jamaica, Newark, Hauppauge...
BTW, the parcel was sent through Asendia (a LaPoste/Swisspost joint venture) but in fact all was dealt with by USPS.
Anyway, since my problems with UPS (paid undue taxes, never got my parcel) I strictly privilege USPS.
 
I don't know about Post-Offices, ours has ceased to exist and is a Digital wilderness of incompetence...but what has happened to the PICTURES in many POSTS on this site? Has Imgur gone down the P.Bucket lane??
 
Will Power said:
...but what has happened to the PICTURES in many POSTS on this site? Has Imgur gone down the P.Bucket lane??
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I was wondering the same thing earlier today, but it seems to be working again. I don’t think it was Imgur, seemed like it was more the folks who post photos directly to BF, but I didn’t look into it too thoroughly. I looked in on several threads that Jack Black Jack Black regularly posts in this morning and none of his photos were showing up (just a little white box with the name of the attachment in it), but they are now.
 
btb01 said:
I was wondering the same thing earlier today, but it seems to be working again. I don’t think it was Imgur, seemed like it was more the folks who post photos directly to BF, but I didn’t look into it too thoroughly. I looked in on several threads that Jack Black Jack Black regularly posts in this morning and none of his photos were showing up (just a little white box with the name of the attachment in it), but they are now.
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That's annoying! I couldn't upload images to Imgur for most of the day because of a widespread problem, but I have noticed that Imgur is slipping down the PB route. I hope we don't end up with anything like that mess again! :eek: :rolleyes: :thumbsup:
 
bigfish64 said:
Same here Charlie, and I’m in Illinois. Sometimes I have to click on the partial picture to see it, and then when I return to the forum it shows up entirely.
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Well, the pics are still delaying a little today, but at least we get to see them!!
 
I learned something useful from Kirsten at the farm yesterday, as so often happens. I then thought of something sensible for myself, which sometimes happens.
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I had Greensleeves in my pocket, of course. Kirsten had one of those folding Vic paring knives we were talking about here a while back. (I thought at the time, "Fine, but so what and why?") Well, they're perfect for the farm: thin, sharp, pocketable, and relatively inexpensive. Sure, Greensleeves is a user, but a rub-in-the-dirt user? Thin, sharp, and cheap is what you want at the farm. So that's what Kirsten taught me yesterday.
What I thought of myself was, "Hey, I have thin, sharp, and cheap, and I have an extra!" And $17 is only relatively inexpensive, especially if you're going to get both wavy and plain edges. (If they ever put both blades in one knife, I'll buy that.)
I got this #8 Opinel at an antique mall for literally a couple of dollars. Somebody sharpened it roughly, but not ruinously, and he carried it a lot, judging by the sweat line where the blade meets the handle. (That's how I know it was a he. A woman's glow doesn't oxidize like that.)
So anyway, starting tomorrow Greensleeves will be on my belt in my new Case side-draw sheath, and the Opinel will be my swamping blade.
It's name shall be "Swampy". Or maybe "Pilar", after Suzanne Pleschette's barefoot swamp girl in that Steve McQueen movie.
 
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I was reading some Reacher this morning. The circled text on the screen is in a sentence about the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington. It's been a few years since I was last there.
Not many things make me tear up, but this did. I lost some friends and classmates to that war. I'll never forget them.

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