The Daily Rant Thread

[James A. Doty]

I'm not a fan of pretty much any human-powered sport. And honestly, these days, even motorsports. I just don't have 3-5 hours of my life to give up to watch things like that. I'll catch moto replays the day after, which are 30mins vs 4hours.

Oh, I do like hand-cycle racing.

Over the last decade I've become less fond of televised motor sports due to the excessive advertising breaks, and "This lap is brought to you by...." stuff.

 

[James A. Doty]

kind of in the same boat. ill watch baseball and hockey. been to a bunch of baseball games in my life. never been to a hockey game. if for some reason i get the hankering for basketball ill watch some Big3. football, i don't even watch the super bowl. and i care even less about soccer.
if you want to be entertained without knowing wtf is going on, watch rugby some time. somehow they combined football and soccer and made it not suck.

motorsports on the other hand. if it has an internal combustion engine I'm probably going to watch at least a little of it. tried watching some EV racing, nope, about as entertaining as watching paint dry (apologies to the paint for the analogy).

and i used to watch "action sports" before big name sponsors came in threw money around and screwed that all to hell. i don't even recognize the X-Games anymore.

Cricket looks confusing too.

 

[Suburban_Hooligan]

Cricket looks confusing too.

cricket, or as i call it retar... wait, i can't say that. but rugby is interesting because it kind of reminds me of a game i played as a kid called smear the que... wait, can't say that ether.
the internet and PC culture sucks when you're a 90's kid.

 

[Ritz413]

 

[Chubaka]

Just broke my stihl weedeater gear box. Hoping theres a spare somewhere as I have another yard to mow.

 

[Suburban_Hooligan]

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in my day we pee'd in them.

 

[James A. Doty]

cricket, or as i call it retar... wait, i can't say that. but rugby is interesting because it kind of reminds me of a game i played as a kid called smear the que... wait, can't say that ether.
the internet and PC culture sucks when you're a 90's kid.

It must have been weird to be a 90s kid.

I was a 60s and 70s kid. Back then, like chickens today, we were free range kids. Allowed to make our own decisions as to where we wanted to go, who we wanted to go with, and what we wanted to do, but only if we stayed out of trouble.

When we lived in San Diego in the early 1970s, when I could still walk I would pack up my plastic briefcase with food and water, ride to a friend's house four blocks away, and the two of us would ride for hours in no particular direction.

As long as we were either at my house or his before the streetlights came on our parents didn't care what we were up to and never even bothered to ask.

The most electronic hand held device I owned and took with me was a portable AM radio kit from Radio Shack I built with my dad.

That's another thing, I had a a wood burning kit that I got when I was maybe seven or eight years old, a functional kid sized BBQ grille I got when I was ten (Imagine cooking small hamburger in your bedroom anytime you wanted one.), and a soldering iron when I was eleven.

Dangerous toys were great, they either taught you coping skills, or removed you from the gene pool.

 

[James A. Doty]

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Oh gross. I got my first apartment in 1983 and my step mom's cousin, who was actually two years younger than I am spilled his bong in my living room. I tried cleaning the spill from the carpet but it was a no go. The smell was terrible.

I was pissed, that not only was my first apartment but it was in a five story building that was otherwise vacant. I was the first tenant to move it and we had the whole building to ourselves. It was fun exploring all the apartments.

 

[James A. Doty]

Just broke my stihl weedeater gear box. Hoping theres a spare somewhere as I have another yard to mow.

Wow, that's unexpected. I aways thought Stihl equipment was tough as hell. That sucks.

 

[James A. Doty]

in my day we pee'd in them.

Wow, I didn't know that was a thing. Poor kids today can't have proper toy guns. I remember when you could bring a toy gun to school, even in California, just as long as you kept it put away during class. I had a middle school teacher in Washougal, WA who had a drawer full of confiscated toy guns, and another teacher in junior high school in the bay area who would stomp on toys guns he'd confiscated.

That taught me the value of conceal carry.

 

[Xraycer]

As long as we were either at my house or his before the streetlights came on our parents didn't care what we were up to and never even bothered to ask.

I had the same childhood, in the early 80's. My cheapo Huffy was adventures and freedom!

 

[RudyF6]

Dangerous toys were great, they either taught you coping skills, or removed you from the gene pool.

I am, right now, living in the house where I used to ride a Tonka dump truck down the hill out back. Sharp, rusty steel corners and shorts with flip flops!

 

[Suburban_Hooligan]

It must have been weird to be a 90s kid.

I was a 60s and 70s kid. Back then, like chickens today, we were free range kids. Allowed to make our own decisions as to where we wanted to go, who we wanted to go with, and what we wanted to do, but only if we stayed out of trouble.

When we lived in San Diego in the early 1970s, when I could still walk I would pack up my plastic briefcase with food and water, ride to a friend's house four blocks away, and the two of us would ride for hours in no particular direction.

As long as we were either at my house or his before the streetlights came on our parents didn't care what we were up to and never even bothered to ask.

The most electronic hand held device I owned and took with me was a portable AM radio kit from Radio Shack I built with my dad.

That's another thing, I had a a wood burning kit that I got when I was maybe seven or eight years old, a functional kid sized BBQ grille I got when I was ten (Imagine cooking small hamburger in your bedroom anytime you wanted one.), and a soldering iron when I was eleven.

Dangerous toys were great, they either taught you coping skills, or removed you from the gene pool.

a real 90's kid grew up just as analog. you left with food and water? wow. i left with nothing. not even an ID. i just went out side and played. look for the yard full of bikes to see where everybody was. go up and knock on the door or just help yourself to walking into the backyard fallowing familiar voices. parents may or may not ask where you were going and who you were going with. gone for hours with no lifeline/connection. when the street lights went on we scattered like roaches heading home. no one really cared where we were or what we were doing as long as it didn't seem destructive and nobody got hurt to badly.
i noticed a shift in about 1997 where suddenly old people and other adults a little younger than my parents started to care. suddenly going there and doing that started to became problematic. then of course that lead to the next generation of scene addicted sissy's and "helicopter parents".

electronics wise there was the gameboy, walkman (later discman), "boombox". i had a 13" TV in my bedroom that i bought when i was 10. had a Nintendo in the house (hooked to the TV in the living room. so playing that wasn't always an option.) and of course the coveted home stereo.
the walkman and boombox got heavy use.

i had a wood burning kit when i was 10. that was kinda fun to play with. i also started soldering when i was 10 or 11 cause i had started drag racing slot cars and was constantly taking motors out to rebuild and then reinstalling them. i had a toy metal molder. pour in the almost like a diecast material, let it heat up into a liquid. then flip the handle on the side and it would pour into the mold. the mold would burn the hell out of you, there would sometimes be leftover molten liquid in the pan that could splash out and burn the hell out of you. fun to play with tough

Wow, I didn't know that was a thing. Poor kids today can't have proper toy guns. I remember when you could bring a toy gun to school, even in California, just as long as you kept it put away during class. I had a middle school teacher in Washougal, WA who had a drawer full of confiscated toy guns, and another teacher in junior high school in the bay area who would stomp on toys guns he'd confiscated.

That taught me the value of conceal carry.

toy guns, they weren't aloud at school. but at home we used to run around "playing guns" (that's literally what we called it) everyone gets a toy gun of some kind, usually a cap gun that look freaking real. pick teams and it was like hide and seek/tag but you were trying to "shoot" each other, yelling "bang" if your gun didn't make noise. bunch of 9 year old running around like mulita men arguing over who shot who first, which usually ended up in a wrestling match on someone's lawn.

then of course water guns. in my day we had super soakers. and if you got teamed up on and got pissed you'd go up between a couple houses or in a bush and pee, or pretend to pee, in the tank. then rather you did or didn't, you'd run around declaiming you pee'd in the tank. which sent everyone running in fear. there was always that one kid who'd call your bluff. so you'd shoot him in the face and even if you didn't pee in the tank he would swear you did and you would end up in a wrestling match on someone's lawn.
and there was always that one PITA kid who would say he couldn't/wasn't aloud get wet. but was running around shooting people with a super soaker anyway. resulting in everyone ganging up on him.

good times.

 

[RudyF6]

Ok rant: our power went out right before dinner.
Bright spot? Decent but 20 year old portable generator with a whole house hookup. Turned on the fuel tap, then I pull it through slow to get things moving and it just started!

 

[Chubaka]

Wow, that's unexpected. I aways thought Stihl equipment was tough as hell. That sucks.

They were but they cheapened. My head is a komb which is a power head and attachments. It started life of a 94 then went to a 91 4mix that was tough as hell on it. I had it 9 years and used it on manicured and overgrown yards both personally and at work.

A few 90s or 91s at work had the same issue under a years old. Can't count the edger because other people ham it into a corner at speed and under power.

No matter a home owner or commercial I use commercial parts on them. I replaced my homescaper fs55r outter and inner shaft with a commercial fs90r outer shaft and solid inner drive shaft. When the clutch goes its a metal housing off the hedge clippers.

I think I got like 20 pieces of weedeaters and edges. Most are stihl but I have a few echos, a hisqvaena trimmer with a Honda motor. I want a kawasaki, Redman, and shindiawa one day.