Random Thought Thread

The only fall I recall having in recent years was during killing and removing wasp nests at my parents house. I made a plan and it was going well right up ... until it wasn't.

As I started spraying the second nest it turned out the whole carport roof was full of the little evil bastards. They poured out of it by the hundreds pissed off and as I was backing away spraying those that came at me ... I tripped over the long pvc pipe I use to knock the nests down. Battling wasps from your ass is not a method I would recommend.

The battle was long, but victory was sweet and the bourbon flowed freely that night ... medicinal for the stings ya know.

How does Nathan climb up on that ladder/pallet/fortlift contraption a thousand feet in a tree and not fall, but Jo is picking herself up off the ground?
 
JJ_Colt45 said:
The only fall I recall having in recent years was during killing and removing wasp nests at my parents house. I made a plan and it was going well right up ... until it wasn't.

As I started spraying the second nest it turned out the whole carport roof was full of the little evil bastards. They poured out of it by the hundreds pissed off and as I was backing away spraying those that came at me ... I tripped over the long pvc pipe I use to knock the nests down. Battling wasps from your ass is not a method I would recommend.

The battle was long, but victory was sweet and the bourbon flowed freely that night ... medicinal for the stings ya know.

How does Nathan climb up on that ladder/pallet/fortlift contraption a thousand feet in a tree and not fall, but Jo is picking herself up off the ground?
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My method was usually: My mom's hair spray, my dad's lighter, my paintball gear, and teen spirit. Wasps are really flammable, and a lot less scary once you light yourself on fire a few times.

I was the poster child for all those safety tags. Ran with scissors, played with matches behind the curtains/couch, bb gun/firework wars with my friends in the woods, fireworks in the living room showing my sister "how to use them", jousting with the neighbors cattail yard decorations, non insulated fingernail files (the steel ones) in the wall outlet, getting things pulled out of almost every orifice at the er, drinking things you have to frantically find the poisen center number on the back label for, knocking out my teeth via wrestling on (off?) trampoline, curiously put both my hands on a red hot stove eye (your hands can stick to those btw), picking up broken glass barehanded and missing unwrapping gifts my first Christmas.

I was understandably beaten daily lol. That was fun to remember 😅
 
ferider said:
I fell a couple of months ago on ice on concrete, which I thought was just wet.

I find falling once or twice a year normal, Jo the Machinist Jo the Machinist - I’m always happy that no bike is involved. As long as you know how to fall (no broken wrists, etc), no problem.

Speaking of which … besides the two true bike accidents that I had, from the other bike drops, Lombard street is most memorable: it started raining, and the street bricks got soapy slippery like ice. Drove very slowly downhill, two up, and the Harley just wouldn’t stay up. In the end we were standing but the bike laying on it’s side :)

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I was driving my truck on a winding section of hwy 1, with steep drop offs on the side. Two guys on BMW motorcycles passed me. I went around the next blind corner and one guy was standing there with no bike looking over the edge. It was fast enough that he must have landed on his feet and the bike went off the edge. When I was on my way back a couple of hours later a recovery effort for his bike was underway with tow trucks.
 
Mendoman said:
I was driving my truck on a winding section of hwy 1, with steep drop offs on the side. Two guys on BMW motorcycles passed me. I went around the next blind corner and one guy was standing there with no bike looking over the edge. It was fast enough that he must have landed on his feet and the bike went off the edge. When I was on my way back a couple of hours later a recovery effort for his bike was underway with tow trucks.
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Eeee.. sounds like it could've been a way crazier recovery effort if not for dumb luck.

Oh yeah.. still looking for these https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/sykco-1311-and-skinner-for-2-sets-of-ecam-scales.2033642/
 
JJ_Colt45 said:
How does Nathan climb up on that ladder/pallet/fortlift contraption a thousand feet in a tree and not fall, but Jo is picking herself up off the ground?
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Because a fall from that height could be dangerous but Jo, being tiny, has never actually fallen from a harmful distance before so has never really needed to learn to be careful.
 
Big DJ said:
And being "large" means that terminal velocity can be reached from only 3 feet up and result in bad things.
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I've got one of those. Total knee replacement. Now I'm thinking my other isn't too far away from needing. I dread that. Had mine done in '19 in Davenport, IA while building a behavioral health facility.
 
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