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

Meako, that thing is awesome! I'm imagining the discussion my wife and I would have if I were to find something like that, about why it should (my argument) or shouldn't (hers) be displayed prominently in the living room, or maybe in a front window so the neighbors could see it, like the leg lamp from A Christmas Story. :D

meako said:
I searched for them and got in touch with a Swiss VIC dealer who told me it has to be sent back because they remain the property of Victorinox and it should not have been sold to a member of the general public.yeah right-that might be what you the Swiss do and who am I to criticise? but its not the Australian way.
I can't write what my response to that was but I had to laugh. I should out of interest get an estimate of how much it would cost me to send it to Switzerland-tipping a bit more than 30AUD.
So in much the same way that milk crates and wooden pallets remain the property bla bla bla- it is now mine miiine I tell you.
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This is by far my favorite part of the whole story! :thumbup:
 
Good on you Barrett.
The whole milk crate thing has reached mythological status in this country.

Apparently if caught with one (by whom I'm not sure -The milk crate squad?) its a 300buck fine -per crate. These things would be worth 3 cents a piece tops. They are everywhere.Back in the old days people would have entire households of furniture built of plastic milk crates. Beds ,sofas,tables ,chairs everything. If the dairy cared so much about them perhaps they shouldn't leave them lying around everywhere.

put it this way.
Satan will be snowboarding to work the day I give that giant SAK back .
 
btb01 said:
Meako, that thing is awesome! I'm imagining the discussion my wife and I would have if I were to find something like that, about why it should (my argument) or shouldn't (hers) be displayed prominently in the living room, or maybe in a front window so the neighbors could see it, like the leg lamp from A Christmas Story. :D
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LOL! :D Top find Meako :thumbup:

r8shell said:
Aussies sound a lot like Texans! :D
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We're having the same problem here with the young folks, something to do with all the Australian soap operas they watch, they've imported a rising inflection ("Valley Girl Speak") into their speech :grumpy: ;) :D
 
Jack Black said:
LOL! :D Top find Meako :thumbup:



We're having the same problem here with the young folks, something to do with all the Australian soap operas they watch, they've imported a rising inflection ("Valley Girl Speak") into their speech :grumpy: ;) :D
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Oh, we also have the "up-talking", but what I meant was we also love big, cheap, semi-contraband decor. :D In my day, many a University of Texas student had his dorm room furnished with nothing but milk crates and cattle skulls.
 
r8shell said:
Oh, we also have the "up-talking", but what I meant was we also love big, cheap, semi-contraband decor. :D
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I know r8shell :) Sorry, I was just pulling your leg :o ;) :thumbup:

r8shell said:
In my day, many a University of Texas student had his dorm room furnished with nothing but milk crates and cattle skulls.
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LOL! :D :thumbup:
 
I rang Interpol
They are preparing to swarm UOT in Texas sized milk crate sting operation. Operation Longhorn.
Part of the high alert team are 2 old ladies who disguised as visiting Grandmas will dust and and clean the skulls and milk crates so as to reduce any toxic risks to the heavily armoured officers.We wouldnt want them to get any nasty sneezy sniffles now would we.
 
Hope everyone here in the States had a Happy Thanskgiving (and I hope everyone else had a great Thursday)! :D

I had my first go at using my Weber kettle grill as a smoker, smoking two boneless turkey breasts (one wrapped in bacon). Both turned out pretty good.

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btb01 said:
Hope everyone here in the States had a Happy Thanskgiving (and I hope everyone else had a great Thursday)! :D

I had my first go at using my Weber kettle grill as a smoker, smoking two boneless turkey breasts (one wrapped in bacon). Both turned out pretty good.

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That reminded me of the Far Side cartoon of the "boneless chicken ranch". I'm thinking these aren't gobblers, but wobblers.
 
My cynical spider senses began to tingle.
My youngest came home all full of drama about "black friday"- now to me that is Friday the 13th -which can occur 2 or 3 times a year in different months. So it hardly ever falls at the same time of year. Its basically a day where bad luck is abroad and likely to fall upon superstitious people. Such people would tell you that turning in bed on a Friday means a ship will be turned at sea-that sort of thing. The 13th because it is a superstitious number- 12 being a much better number. For example some people are sooo stupid they think that by calling the 13th floor of a hotel 12 and half it won't be bad luck!! Ive got news for them-its still the 13th you idiots.
So thats Friday the 13th.
From my basic research Black Friday is nothing but a retailer contrivance invented in the 1960s to get all the pigeons into the shops to spend their money before they close for Christmas.(shops today don't do that anyway).
Its only association with the historical Thanksgiving Day in the Americas is that it falls a week after and announces the Christmas shopping season.
Bad news I'm afraid -the Christmas shopping season these days starts about a week after Easter and kicks up into high gear around Halloween.
What next? Happy Walmart Day?
not round here.
 
I got hit with the latest Windows 10 screw-up today :mad: I hope that nobody else here has had this - though it's clearly very common - basically locked out of my Microsoft account and my computer has just been taken over. Fortunately my files are still there, though it took me several hours to find them. I spent several more hours dealing with some idiot from Microsoft's "Support Team", who knew even less about the issue than I did. I'm currently backing up my entire hard drive, and I've decided I'm going to install Linux. I just can't cope with Windows 10 anymore, it's like a disease :mad: Currently my PC is completely disabled. I'm not going to get much work done this week.
 
Eight wasted hours because Microsoft can't write software for toffee these days it seems :mad: I don't want to go through that again :( I never liked Linux in the past, but I really need to get rid of Windows 10 :thumbdn:
 
By the time I finished this post it didn't make sense anymore because everyone had moved on so I erased it.:eek:
 
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Meako, you've got it about right. It's gotten worse in the last few years, too. It used to be that stores would open early the Friday morning after Thanksgiving (which is always on a Thursday), and idiots people would camp out/line up for hours to save money on crap they probably don't need anyways. Now, stores are opening late on Thanksgiving Day (some at midnight, some earlier in the evening). My mother-in-law is big into this stuff, to the extent that the last time we were at their house for Thanksgiving, we had to move the time of Thanksgiving dinner up so she could go to Walmart and save $5 on DVDs or whatever else it was. Personally, I don't get it. I'd rather spend the extra money on whatever it is than go out and deal with that whole thing.

Jack, sorry to hear about your computer woes. I use Mac at home, but have had to deal with Windows 10 on computers at work, and I did not enjoy it. Good luck. :(
 
I can commiserate, Jack! I've had my share of down time, and
I am stubbornly running XP (2002), and hope to take it to the grave:rolleyes: (in 30 years or so!!:o)
When will that looney bin called microsoft write a straightforward operating system, keeping all the buttons in one (and the same) place, and make it REALLY ergonomic, instead of some pile of dung created by a bunch of defectively-brained, drug-addled baboons that has to be kept locked up for its own safety??:mad:


Bill Gates! Yeah you!! A thousand monkeys on a thousand keyboards CANNOT write an operating system!!!:grumpy:
 
Jack Black said:
I got hit with the latest Windows 10 screw-up today :mad: I hope that nobody else here has had this - though it's clearly very common - basically locked out of my Microsoft account and my computer has just been taken over. Fortunately my files are still there, though it took me several hours to find them. I spent several more hours dealing with some idiot from Microsoft's "Support Team", who knew even less about the issue than I did. I'm currently backing up my entire hard drive, and I've decided I'm going to install Linux. I just can't cope with Windows 10 anymore, it's like a disease :mad: Currently my PC is completely disabled. I'm not going to get much work done this week.
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Not a Windows apologist but I assume you did not have an image of your drive. I use Win 10 on my home and office network and other than minor glitches which occur from time-to-time with software and operating systems have not had any significant problems.

Unfortunately you did not specify what the exact problem was so it is difficult to determine what you are referring to. I'm confused as to how your computer is completely disabled but you are able to backup files. I follow these things daily and have never seen a reference to a common problem of users being locked out of their user accounts and the computer being taken over because of some problem with the operating system as opposed to operator error, virus or something similar nor have I seen any reports in the general or computer media of such a problem. Do you have a link to any reports of this “common” issue?
 
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