Stupid Things You Notice About Yourself?

[mortonbriar]

That would be a long list, even if just categorising broadly...

example #3,488, 248: I consistently try to balance and carry too many things, and refuse to put them down to find keys in pocket and unlock door, or turn on the light etc, it usually results in broken things, spilled things and sore body parts.

There is a surprising amount of solace in reading how universal this stupidity is...or maybe it's just a pipe smoker thing!

 

[wyfbane]

I am considering going back to get a master's in the subject just to travel to another country and teach English there. However, I fear that i won't be able to get pipes or pipe tobacco in places like Japan, Taiwan, and the UAE. I was also considering becoming a plumber and working in a different state, NYC's prospects are drying up as i type.

I wish you well, brother. I am also looking at possibly using Voc-Rehabilitation to try to get a trade, but mostly to do my own repairs around the farm. Electrician or Welder top the current list.

Having a trade here in the US is a near guarantee at being able to survive wherever you land in the states.

You can teach English in other countries online from right here in the US, too. My sister in law did it for a while.

 

[smokingauthor1]

I wish you well, brother. I am also looking at possibly using Voc-Rehabilitation to try to get a trade, but mostly to do my own repairs around the farm. Electrician or Welder top the current list.

Having a trade here in the US is a near guarantee at being able to survive wherever you land in the states.

You can teach English in other countries online from right here in the US, too. My sister in law did it for a while.

I'll look into that, my main hope is turning it into a career that i can live off of. Thanks for the inspiration

 

[anotherbob]

You mean, there's only one? That's my good news for the week!

not the only one just the big problem. The one that takes the cake (which is a bad habit by the way, leave peoples cakes alone). Which means you just illustrate another big problem.

 

[Servant King]

leave peoples cakes alone

Hey man, it's 2025. If people want their cake protected from scavengers, they should keep it hidden from view. That's how they used to do it in this country, and it worked just fine. Yet more proof that society is breaking down.

 

[anotherbob]

Hey man, it's 2025. If people want their cake protected from scavengers, they should keep it hidden from view. That's how they used to do it in this country, and it worked just fine. Yet more proof that society is breaking down.

You know that's just a wild misrepresentation of the level of skullduggery your cake addiction has lead to. That time you told everyone you were the king of Sweden and on a diplomatic cake mission literally took the cake.

 

[Servant King]

You know that's just a wild misrepresentation of the level of skullduggery your cake addiction has lead to. That time you told everyone you were the king of Sweden and on a diplomatic cake mission literally took the cake.

It was a top-notch ruse, and you know it. But it only worked so well because Americans are so behind on world history that they don't know Sweden abandoned monarchy back in like 1993 or something. They were too busy polishing their Doc Martens and listening to Dinosaur Jr.

 

[kcmontie]

Here is a thing that bugs my wife about me. I tend to buy new things, then avoid using the new thing so it doesn't wear out.
Years ago I bought a new pair of leather Adidas, I forget the name, the black ones with the 3 white stripes...very popular classic Adidas.
After about a decade she asked if she could give them to her friends 17 year old son. I never wore them once, I didnt want them to wear out.
Eight years ago I bought a Husqvarna 460 chainsaw. Ive used it maybe 4x. I keep nursing my Sthil Farm Boss and 360 through another year. The Husqvarna is better in every way. But I dont want it to wear out.
I buy new pocket knives and hunting knives all the time. Although I carry a pocket folder daily, I also have carried an Esee Izula for the last 15 years, and its the knife I use 99.9% of the time.
I have more never used "things" than anyone I know.

This. Is me too. I think i will get to them but never do.

 

[anotherbob]

It was a top-notch ruse, and you know it. But it only worked so well because Americans are so behind on world history that they don't know Sweden abandoned monarchy back in like 1993 or something.

You were in Sweden at the time!

They were too busy polishing their Doc Martens and listening to Dinosaur Jr.

Nothing wrong with that. The most important song ever written.

 

[BingBong]

into the morass of public education.

Ah, in my younger day, morass was always desirable.

 

[NookersTheCat]

Here is a thing that bugs my wife about me. I tend to buy new things, then avoid using the new thing so it doesn't wear out.
Years ago I bought a new pair of leather Adidas, I forget the name, the black ones with the 3 white stripes...very popular classic Adidas.
After about a decade she asked if she could give them to her friends 17 year old son. I never wore them once, I didnt want them to wear out.
Eight years ago I bought a Husqvarna 460 chainsaw. Ive used it maybe 4x. I keep nursing my Sthil Farm Boss and 360 through another year. The Husqvarna is better in every way. But I dont want it to wear out.
I buy new pocket knives and hunting knives all the time. Although I carry a pocket folder daily, I also have carried an Esee Izula for the last 15 years, and its the knife I use 99.9% of the time.
I have more never used "things" than anyone I know.

Oh preach on brother... Yet more evidence that makes me think we are separated kinfolk without knowing it haha. I was just organizing my pipe collection the other day and realized probably 2/3 are unsmoked. I always joked that I don't even have ammo (of caliber/chambering) for half the firearms I own lol.

Thankfully I am slowly getting better... cleaning out the homes of deceased relatives and seeing "brand new" 30+ year old treasures getting thrown in a dumpster because nobody in the family/estate sale would even take it for free has really started to slowly but surely adjust my outlook.

 

[wyfbane]

Ah, in my younger day, morass was always desirable.

As an English teacher, it is more ass I think you are referring to. Big difference... lol

 

[Oddball]

I don't want to crash the site...

 

[FLDRD]

I am considering going back to get a master's in the subject just to travel to another country and teach English there. However, I fear that i won't be able to get pipes or pipe tobacco in places like Japan, Taiwan, and the UAE. I was also considering becoming a plumber and working in a different state, NYC's prospects are drying up as i type.

There are reputable voices that indicate the new millionaires to be created will be those who enter the "old fashioned" trades. Services that everyone needs but too many don't want to get their fingernails dirty...
And by some accounts, there are approximately 7 million of those types of jobs begging to be filled in the US alone.

 

[NookersTheCat]

There are reputable voices that indicate the new millionaires to be created will be those who enter the "old fashioned" trades. Services that everyone needs but too many don't want to get their fingernails dirty...
And by some accounts, there are approximately 7 million of those types of jobs begging to be filled in the US alone.

Can 1000% concur. I am an electronics engineer by education and my career is running/managing a mid-sized design/build commercial/industrial electrical contracting business. Most people have not the slightest clue of the amount of hurt this country is about to be in due to lack of skilled tradesmen and technologists. And contrary to popular belief, it is not something that 'just anybody can do'.

It takes people (usually men) with special talent and a way of looking at the world that current educational institutions are, at best, ignoring.. at worst, actively deriding/indoctrinating against.
We have some of the best quality help available in our area (a top 100 US metro) and even then, ~1/2 our pool of labor is middling at best... and 2/3 of THEM will be retired within the next decade... lol.

Oh, and anyone who says the trades can/will be replaced by robots/AI proves their own ignorance of the topic only that much further. My job before this included programming and maintaining multi-million dollar robots in industrial settings... we are nowhere near cost-effective, humanoid type automatons with the ability to replace skilled trades labor.. It's hard and expensive enough to use extremely specialized bots to replace 1 single repetitive task. With the trades, there's just way too many real-world variables for a computer to handle.

 

[Sig]

Oh preach on brother... Yet more evidence that makes me think we are separated kinfolk without knowing it haha. I was just organizing my pipe collection the other day and realized probably 2/3 are unsmoked. I always joked that I don't even have ammo (of caliber/chambering) for half the firearms I own lol.

Thankfully I am slowly getting better... cleaning out the homes of deceased relatives and seeing "brand new" 30+ year old treasures getting thrown in a dumpster because nobody in the family/estate sale would even take it for free has really started to slowly but surely adjust my outlook.

Ive only got 2 pipes I haven't smoked. One is the Brulor I bought a few months ago. Its way too small for my taste. Im going to give it away here when I hit 2000 posts, which is very soon. The other is a MM Diplomat I bought in 2010. I put a Forever Stem on it too. I haven't smoked it because the Great Dane I bought at the same time is still going strong. They are the same pipe, but the GD is an hourglass shape. Why have 2 of the same pipe going?
Im the opposite as far as ammo. In years past ive sold firearms, but the ammo stayed here. So I have lots of ammo in calibers I dont own a gun for. Such as....410, 30-06, 41 Magnum, 303 British....
I actually have an old Enfield rifle in 303, but its...let's just say.....not in safe firing condition.

 

[yohanan]

Stupid Things You Notice About Yourself? Yes, too many to mention about myself at the moment, it would take years to list them all, and new ones would have to be constantly added.​

 

[sablebrush52]

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[B.Lew]

I have more never used "things" than anyone I know.

Me:


I’d love to stumble upon your estate sale!

 

[BingBong]

Can 1000% concur. I am an electronics engineer by education and my career is running/managing a mid-sized design/build commercial/industrial electrical contracting business. Most people have not the slightest clue of the amount of hurt this country is about to be in due to lack of skilled tradesmen and technologists. And contrary to popular belief, it is not something that 'just anybody can do'.

It takes people (usually men) with special talent and a way of looking at the world that current educational institutions are, at best, ignoring.. at worst, actively deriding/indoctrinating against.
We have some of the best quality help available in our area (a top 100 US metro) and even then, ~1/2 our pool of labor is middling at best... and 2/3 of THEM will be retired within the next decade... lol.

Oh, and anyone who says the trades can/will be replaced by robots/AI proves their own ignorance of the topic only that much further. My job before this included programming and maintaining multi-million dollar robots in industrial settings... we are nowhere near cost-effective, humanoid type automatons with the ability to replace skilled trades labor.. It's hard and expensive enough to use extremely specialized bots to replace 1 single repetitive task. With the trades, there's just way too many real-world variables for a computer to handle.

The age of skilled trades is over. The age of "Have A Go Heroes" is at hand.