Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770

Send that to Project Farm. Maybe he'll do it.

I don't know if you have these lights, but I've had a bunch. Just sitting in a drawer, the batteries drain in about a month or so. YMMV.

Most flashlights these days have the "on high", "on low", "flash" switches on them. I don't care for them, but I'm not going to go to the effort to look for something simpler. I'd about bet that the circuits for these things are all made in the same Chinese factory anyway. And lately I've been seeing some of them with some FIVE way switch. AND the bezel slides for a "Zoom" effect. I think I'm glad I don't need a new one. I got a set of these some years back at Sam's Club. They were 3 for $20 if my rememberer is right. Notice that they're "Tactical". I guess that's because they're black. Same three way switch, but they work and the batteries don't drain as fast by not doing anything as many others do. Now this light is a rechargeable light. USB C, (I think). But I got them at Walmart a couple years ago for about $14. I keep them in my vehicles, plugged in so that they're always fully charged. Same three way switch, but like the other one, it works.

My wife used to have a Mini Mag Light that I put an LED conversion into.

Follow up follow up question... why should WE?

I don't think flamethrowers have been in use since Ripley used them to clear out the Aliens. And not on this planet since maybe 'Nam. When I first enlisted in The Marines, (1977), there was a replacement for them called the M202 Multishot, but I never saw one. Schwarzenegger used one in "Commando". from wearethemighty.com

When I was still working, whatever uniform the company decided until they changed it, but the last 15 years or so it was dark gray cargo pants, button up short sleeve shirt, Metatarsal boots, (steel toes with armor all the way up the front, looked like lace up work boots), topped off with a black USMC Soft Cover. Off duty, until the last 6 or 7 years, I dressed full Cowboy, from hat to boots. Before that, modern Cowboy shirt, (snap front, yoke shoulders), jeans, boots and hat. (I was Urban Cowboy BEFORE Urban Cowboy). These days, (retired), I usually wear a polo shirt, jeans, and cowboy boots, and my Soft Cover. I think that many men have lost any sense of propriety when it comes to dressing themselves. I'll probably annoy a few of you here, but IMHO, the current "fashion" of shorts and flip flops is horrible. I don't even OWN a pair of shorts or flip flops.

That's what I figured. Mythbusters were able to get a flame, but nothing like the TV episode.

Sometimes you have to give it a minute to load. Watch right below the text and you should see the progress.

A wise man once said that nobody can offend you without your permission. In the same line of thinking, there's a whole bunch of people out there who are just LOOKING to be offended, you can't HELP but to offend them. If they take offense at something I say that I DIDN'T mean to be offensive, that's on them. And if I MEAN to be offensive, there will be NO doubt in anyone's mind as to my intent.

I think that the other side is just trying to not take the blame for it. Except for the most deranged TDS sufferers, even they recognize how horrible it was.

I don't do so for spelling or maybe just changing a word or two that reads better. I've done so when I thought it was pertinent. Usually something like "Edited because I'm an idiot", because I discovered that I'd misread the post I was quoting or some such. Like now, I just read "Do only the administrators see it?' after I hit send. No, It shows up in the post.

Usually it's my neighbor's door. My mailbox is right on the property line between our houses, so they'd always go to his. It turned out that the 6" high numbers on my house weren't enough of a clue which house it was. I fixed that though. I got a sign to mount TO my mail box indicating which way to go.

Many years ago, I bid on a pistol on Gunbroker. At the time I was online with a Webtv. Yeah, THAT long ago. The Webtv crapped out, so we wound up with our first honest to God computer. Running Windows XP. A few weeks after that, I got an actual phone call from the Dealer from Gunbroker. He informed me that I'd won the gun, and did I still want it. I did, and still have it. But with the changes, (the Webtv email account wasn't compatible with Windows, so I had a different email), I totally forgot I'd bid on the gun.

We offered to lift him up on the forklift. Some people have NO sense of humor.

I figured that it was something like that. I guess that these people are too busy making "content" to notice such things. Or how stupid it looks.

Unless you witnessed that personally, I'd about bet that they did that after seeing it on "CSI". Mythbusters tested it and found that it doesn't work that way.

The system my former employer had didn't have that problem. About every six months or so, we had to rent, ($$$) one of those big man lifts so that a guy could clean the lenses. I guess that he was too good to climb a ladder.

You're half right. It's also about giving you the "facts" that they want you to have, and to tell you what to think about it. Or rather how to FEEL about it, thereby promoting the narrative.

I watch a lot of Youtube videos, probably more than I should. Many of them show people posting, from what I gather, on other "social media" platforms. Many of these postings, especially from the blue hair, septum pierced TDS sufferers, are done from their car. That's weird enough, but the crux of my question is why do most of these videos have the image reversed. They look like they're sitting on the wrong side of the car, (no comments from you Aussies, these are American cars), and any writing is reversed. So why is that? I would presume, as someone who not only doesn't do these things, but is still rocking a flip phone, that there would be a setting to correct the image. Or is there such a setting and these people just don't know it?

But where does he hang the towel when he's not... oh, never mind.

Reporters don't WANT to tell us what the truth is, they want to tell you what THEIR truth is. And as long as they think that they can sway the way the sheeple feel, not think, they're fine with that.

I freely admit to being a C.O.B., (Cheap Old Ba$tard). If I can save a buck without outright stealing it, I will.

I can't tell you the number of times something like that has happened to me. Usually the "offended" party's boss would call my boss and when I explained what had REALLY happened, that was the end of it. However, one time at a high dollar customer, (remember the Biosphere 2 in Oracle Arizona?), it got a little more interesting. I was delivering compressed gas cylinders to them. Now the warehouse guy and I had gotten to know each other fairly well and were always busting each other's chops about one thing or another. So he had been out delivering stuff to where it needed to be when I got there, so I unloaded my delivery without him there. Just as I was finishing up the paperwork he comes walking in. "Oh there you are, "I said to him. "Now that I'm done you show up." We laughed about it and I thought no more of it. Well when I got back to the shop I was IMMEDIATELY called into the Bosses office, where he DEMANDED to know why I was bitching out a customer of HIS bosses SON?!?! (The salesman, a really decent guy, was the son of one of the companies owners). I said "What are you talking about?" , and he proceeded to tell me that somebody at the Biosphere had called the salesman direct and told him that I was YELLING at their warehouse guy. The salesman, of course, wanted answers and if he didn't LIKE the answers he wanted a piece of my butt. When I told my boss what really happened he cooled off and he told the salesman and HE cooled off. But now I was miffed. The next week when I was back at the Biosphere I asked the Warehouse guy what the deal was. HE didn't know anything about it. He asked around but nobody ever fessed up to being a little... pansy. The Warehouse guy immediately called the salesman and straightened the whole thing out. Then there was the time a guy at Raytheon, (yes, THAT Raytheon), accused me of trying to run him over with my truck, but that's a story for another time.