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LazloH said:
Does your business card read "Surly old jackass" ? I can't even figure out what you are talking about with Microsoft and excel... "Back in my day, we used an abacus and kept all of our hard earned nickels in a sock under the bed! Back when this was allllll orange groves... far as the eye could see."
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I speak a differnt language... I know, but I wont stop so you might want to ignore me in settings. Eventually the mods will ban me so you could just wait it out.
 
Tune-A-Fish said:
Sing me a song Loretta... The people in coal country might disagree... Even though they all want out of the mines as far as coal dust and cancer goes, but when those jobs just get yanked away ending generations of employment it's very depressing for a small community or a family now relying on assistance designed for poverty in big cities not Butcher Holler. The cash cow that fracking created should be the loss payer to those who... Lost.

Just muh 2 Lincolns mang :eek:
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This is surprising... I figured you would be more familiar with Indian head pennies... Lincoln was not on there until 1909.
 
Tune-A-Fish said:
I speak a differnt language... I know, but I wont stop so you might want to ignore me in settings. Eventually the mods will ban me so you could just wait it out.
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I don't block anyone in here..... never know what you might learn from someone. I have learned way too much from this forum in regards to engines and the physics within... can't stop now just because someone is trolling for fun.

Unless you are one of those caferacer.net guys.
 
LazloH said:
I don't block anyone in here..... never know what you might learn from someone. I have learned way too much from this forum in regards to engines and the physics within... can't stop now just because someone is trolling for fun.

Unless you are one of those caferacer.net guys.
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Can't troll for fish every day.
 
Tune-A-Fish said:
Don't sell yourself short mang... I'd like to see an accountant weld a 360 with one stop, but I bet you can add up the money in yer wallet, subtract it as you use it and divide a pie into equal slices... Before Microsoft and the excel spreadsheet' by today's standards we would all be accountants.
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Aint nobody can do that sirs!
That thurr math sure is hard thangs! :D
Depending on the length of whatever rods lying about ill do a 360 with zero (!) Stops. Unless we are talking pipes couple of feet in diameter. Then i'd need a break..
And i do take great pride in what i do.
 
LazloH said:
Does your business card read "Surly old jackass" ? I can't even figure out what you are talking about with Microsoft and excel... "Back in my day, we used an abacus and kept all of our hard earned nickels in a sock under the bed! Back when this was allllll orange groves... far as the eye could see."
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Reminds me of that class of 98 song or whatever the name was.. "respect your elders, cause someday they are you".
Then again im 33 and today thats old.
 
I get to press the green button. Sometimes I make things too.
 
wahvtec said:
Haha that's always a good thing. I luckily got paid to do my masters, but I have friends with over $100k in debt considering another degree...
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Debt is basis of the global economy today so i guess they play the game correctly then. My view of it is that although this gambling with non-existing funds sure gives us all a "richer" lifestyle, its all designed to give the big players even bigger and deeper pockets, its all going down like a house of cards when the debts has to be paid, and guess who's paying? Us. As long as its not happening right now its not a problem.
That whole view of life is a huge problem for humanity, and i personally fear that day, cause then its suddenly all about survival and less pleasurable tinkering with our bikes. Well, rant over..
 
I came into this world with nothing.

If I go out owing then I figure I came out ahead. ;D
 
Mr.E said:
I get to press the green button. Sometimes I make things too.
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That reminded me of my younger sons "term of endearment" for the 13B guys in the Artillery... "Pull the string, get a cookie" :p
 
datadavid said:
Reminds me of that class of 98 song or whatever the name was.. "respect your elders, cause someday they are you".
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the song 'Everybody's Free (to wear sunscreen)" was performed by Baz Luhrmann and was almost directly quoted from an essay that was published in the chicago tribune.

I'll provide the wiki link so everyone thinks that's where I got my info.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_Sunscreen

Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free (to Wear Sunscreen) Lyrics
Originally written by Mary Schmich

"Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '99
Wear sunscreen

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it
The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists
Whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable
Than my own meandering experience, I will dispense this advice now

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth, oh, never mind
You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth
Until they've faded but trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back
At photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now
How much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked
You are not as fat as you imagine

Don't worry about the future
Or know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum
The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind
The kind that blindsides you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday
Do one thing every day that scares you

*Sing Chorus*

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts
Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours

Floss

Don't waste your time on jealousy
Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind
The race is long and in the end, it's only with yourself
Remember compliments you receive, forget the insults, if you succeed in doing this, tell me how
Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements

Stretch

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life.
The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives
Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't
Get plenty of calcium
Be kind to your knees
You'll miss them when they're gone

Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't
Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't
Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the 'Funky Chicken'
On your 75th wedding anniversary
Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much
Or berate yourself either
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can
Don't be afraid of it or what other people think of it
It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your own living room
Read the directions even if you don't follow them
Do not read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly

*Sing Chorus*

Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good
Be nice to your siblings, they're your best link to your past
And the people most likely to stick with you in the future

Understand that friends come and go
But a precious few, who should hold on

Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle
For as the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young
Live in New York City once but leave before it makes you hard
Live in northern California once but leave before it makes you soft

Travel

Accept certain inalienable truths
Prices will rise, politicians will philander, you, too, will get old
And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young
Prices were reasonable, politicians were noble
And children respected their elders

Respect your elders

Don't expect anyone else to support you
Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse
But you never know when either one might run out

Don't mess too much with your hair
Or by the time you're 40 it will look 85

Be careful whose advice you buy but be patient with those who supply it
Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past
From the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts
And recycling it for more than it's worth

But trust me on the sunscreen"
 
I'm a little slow sometimes so I prefer a simple country dity.


Taking down your neighbour won't take you any higher
I burned my own damn finger poking someone else's fire
I've never gotten taller making someone else feel small
If you ain't got nothing nice to say don't say nothing at all

Just hoe your own row and raise your own babies
Smoke your own smoke and grow your own daisies
Mend your own fences and own your own crazy
Mind your own biscuits and life will be gravy
Mind your own biscuits and life will be gravy

Nobody's perfect, we've all lost and we've all lied
Most of us have cheated the rest of us have tried
The holiest of the holy even slip from time to time
We've all got dirty laundry hanging on the line

So hoe your own row and raise your own babies
Smoke your own smoke and grow your own daisies
Mend your own fences and own your own crazy
Mind your own biscuits and life will be gravy
Mind your own biscuits and life will be gravy

Pouring salt in my sugar won't make yours any sweeter
Pissing in my yard ain't gonna make yours any greener
I wouldn't know about the rocks in your shoes
So I'll just do me and honey you can just do you

So hoe your own row and raise your own babies
Smoke your own smoke and grow your own daisies
Mend your own fences and own your own crazy
Mind your own biscuits and life will be gravy
Mind your own biscuits and life will be gravy
 
VonYinzer said:
The coal industry hasn't "collapsed", it's modernized and become streamlined in relation to 20-30 years ago. Back then you needed 400-500 people to run a mine and coal prices were super high. Win win for everyone. Now the prices are low and due to advances in technology and the removal process, you can do the same amount of work with 100 people.
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I'm in the UK. ' Collapsed ' is a polite reference to the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who was at war with the unions in the 1980s. With a bit of foul economics she made our coal industry unviable and quite literally closed mines and bulldozed them flat overnight. Whole communities were shattered and what were thriving societies broke down and areas fell into impoverishment and a third world existence. Many areas are still in states of recovery. The wound has never healed.
 
Erskine said:
Ironically much of my work has been rebuilding communities and regenerating the environment following the 'collapse' of the coal industry.
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I want to hear more about this.
 
This is why coal is important. NO COAL= NO COAL FORGING..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5P2asT9PS0
 
its not the same man.

That actually wasn't even sarcasm as usual.

But I guess the answer is you can, but its different.
 
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