Pat Riot

Yep! And they wanted Boeing to do it so Boeing, being a huge government contractor, wouldn’t look bad. Finally SpaceX brought them home.

My wife just cannot leave a flat open surface alone. Something has to go there. Drives me nuts! Women & Cats = Yin & Yang Think about it.

My wife and I have an air fryer. We got it as a gift 7 or 8 years ago. We liked it, but cleanup was a PITA. Over time it ended up back in its original box and it now resides on a shelf somewhere. Air fryers may be better now in regard to cleanup, but we love our Breville toaster oven. Here is a shot of its control screen. It’s a very versatile appliance. Breville also makes a toaster over like ours, but it also has an Air Fryer capability. We may get that one when this one dies…if ever it does.

I think it’s funny how NASA kept saying “They’re not stuck up there. We’re just extending their stay” or similar nonsense. Bull Sh**!

It’s easy. I just don’t. Some of it is due to early memories of my childhood, I’m sure. Some is due to having Rock & Roll bones and a Metal heart.

The scariest ride and road I had ever been in/on was the bus ride I took from Clarke Air Base to Subic Bay in the Philippines. That crazy Filipino bus driver drove like a bat out of hell in a rickety bus down a crappy, mostly gravel road at top speed. I have pictures somewhere that I took out the bus window looking down and the drop would have been several hundred feet and the bus tires were literally a couple of inches from the edge on gravel. We must have been doing 50 around an outside curve. When the bus stopped on the Navy Base, as I was exiting, I told the driver “Your one crazy mother… You should be driving race cars not buses!” He grinned like a lunatic. Crazy SOB!

Personally, I do not like Country music of any era. That’s just my taste in music, but your comment about “modern country” made me laugh. I think these ”modern” “Country Music” singers/bands think they can made any music “Country” if they just exaggerate a country accent when singing…and repeat the same chorus over and over and over…good gawd that drives me nuts. There’s a couple of country singers, Lakewood & (something or other) that made some Hard Rock / Metal songs. I heard one and thought “This sounds like some country butthead wants to be a rock star” and sure enough, once I researched it, it was exactly that. I deleted that crap from the playlist.

@watab kid & @Black Angus McPherson When I decided I was dumping my Glocks and buying Sig Sauers my first purchase was my P229 M11A1. In researching that gun I found out that older P228 & P229 mags would work in my gun but the mags for my gun wouldn’t work in them. I also found out the older mags would fit loosely, kind of “dangling from the mag catch”, as one guy put it. At first I thought this was silly, probably because I was used to Glocks and the way they do things. I just know now that mags for my gun should have “P229-1” on the factory mags. I do not use unproven aftermarket mags in any of my guns. I had read that Mec-Gar aftermarket mags were excellent. I wouldn’t doubt that because Mec-Gar has made excellent mags for other guns I had owned. It turns out that Mec-Gar actually makes the factory mags for my M11A1. My gun came with 3 mags and I bought 3 more. All 6 say “Made In Italy” stamped into the body of the mag. Mec-Gar is an Italian company. I guess they do make the factory mags for my gun. I am not sure they make the mags for your P938s, but if Mec-Gar makes aftermarket mags for those guns I would bet they’ll run perfectly. My next purchase will be an Sig Sauer P226, hopefully the Mk25 model. I need to research mags for those now. I am seriously considering a P365 as well, though I am not sure which one yet.

This guy calls that music “noise”. That’s priceless.

Noise? Dorothy is on my list of favorite Hard Rock & Metal bands.

I think that one was before my time. I had each one of these.

We have a Singer 1911 in pristine condition in the Armory aboard my ship. The Gunnery Chief kept it locked in what he called the “Special Safe”. I got to see it twice. I liked to work in the armory on occasion and the Chief let me, even though I was a “launcher puke”, but the chief liked me so I got to do exciting things in the armory, like clean guns… Anyway, prior to going to Cuba for wartime readiness drills and shakedowns I did an inventory of all the small arms in the Armory. One day while we weren’t at sea doing QC or fire drills I was called to the Armory over the 1MC (PA system) When I arrived 2 very serious Navy inspectors (a CWO and a GM Master Chief) wanted to know if I did the last inventory and I I wouldn’t mind verifying every gun on the roster and verifying my signature. As I was scanning the lists and showing these inspectors the small arms on those lists going safe by safe I came to the pages for the 1911s. I noticed the small “special safe” was no longer there. I also noticed the column where “Gun Manuf.” did not contain the word “Singer”. The hair on the back of my neck stood up. I opened the safe with all the 1911s and began going through the list and showing each gun by serial number then I reached the point on the list where the Singer should have been and there was a Colt listed there. I reached I to the safe going in order as I had been and lo and behold a Colt matching that serial number was next in line on the racks - that spot was usually empty as it was where the Singer sat. I looked at the Chief and I looked at our Lt. and they both had a look of “Don’t say a word! Just continue) so I did. Once that was all done the Inspectors / Auditors asked me to verify my signature on each page. The hair on the back of my neck was dancing. I could feel my ears getting hot. I scanned the sheets and the sheet that once had the signature had my signature, just as it was on all the other sheets. I said they were all correct and the Master Chief and the Warrant both smiled and thanked me for making their inspection easy and that the Armory was “four oh and squared away”. The Gunnery Chief and Lieutenant were also pleased. I left…quickly. I didn’t say a word about that Singer aboard ship. I knew the Chief stole it and I am sure the Lt. was involved as well. After we got back from Cuba the Chief threw a little party at his house for all us Gunner’s Mates. I got him to the side and said “Chief, I don’t know how you did it and how you fixed that paperwork, but I know we used to have a Singer in the Armory.” He smiled and said “I think you should try this whiskey I got especially for you.” It was a 1/2 gallon of Jack Daniel’s. ”You can take the bottle home, if there’s any left and let’s not speak of that Singer again, okay?” I said “Okay” and that was that. We polished off that half gallon. It never made it home. I know how he did it, but I won’t bore you with all that.

For some reason I never cared for this guy or his acting. May he rest in peace.

Really? What state is that?

I have never fired one, but I did handle a couple at gun shows and they did feel awkward to me. I did want one anyway. Nowadays if a gun feels odd in my hands I quickly evaluate whether or not I can change the oddity and if it doesn’t appear worth the effort I put it back where I found it. A salesman at a gun show convinced me to hold one of these: Photo from: https://www.smith-wesson.com/product/performance-center-model-460xvr I would have to say I think these and revolvers like them are just plain (bleeping) weird. Awkward doesn’t begin to describe this thing, in my opinion.

Same here.

My last job was in Los Angeles at the LA County transit agency in Light Rail (passenger trains) California legalized marijuana. It did not matter. Transit falls under federal regulations under the FTA, the Federal Transportation Admin. Drug testing and how it is conducted is still highly regulated and enforced. I actually think drug testing was stepped up a bit.

I was waiting for Yoko Ono to appear and shriek something to add to this noise.

I wanted a broom handle Mauser the first time I saw “Joe Kidd”. When I saw Star Wars I thought Han Soli had a modified Mauser C96.

I do not like them. They kill my lower back. My wife doesn’t like them either. She thought they looked great until we rented a cabin in the mountains and those were the campfire chairs. I remember her commenting on how nice they looked and how they would look good in our yard when she saw them behind the cabin. Then she sat in one for a little while.

I wouldn’t feed that dog to a dog.

I figured that. I hope they never need it.

Don’t care. I ain’t rich enough, popular enough or scary enough for them to worry about. If it ever happens they become aware of me I have a feeling I will be in a group of like minded people that they won’t be worried about just me, they’ll be worried about US!

I grew up hearing the I was Scots-Irish & Cherokee Indian. Total BS perpetrated by someone on my dad’s side. It turns out I have 0 Cherokee Indian blood. Zero, zip, nada, etc… Also I have 8% Irish - Scots-Irish is a name Protestant Irish used to ensure they weren’t seen as Catholic. To top it off I am of 41% English, 40% Scottish, 10% Germanic (German / French), 8% Irish and 1% Scandinavian. I am not crazy about Brits. I half can’t understand Scots. I can’t stand Germans, but I love French food and 10 minutes in a group of Irishmen I want to fight or drink and since I don’t / won’t drink someone’s getting their arse kicked. Me or them. The way my body is today I could last, oh…20, 30 seconds…they’ll know I was there, anyway.

I am not afraid to use it. Drew a line in the sand years ago and it was a cold 3 weeks, but that (stuff) don’t fly any more. What’s good for the goose, and all that.