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Post by Deeky on Jul 11, 2020 23:14:16 GMT -5
W-W-What?!? That is an impossibility down here this time of year. I must have my A/C. I've a window unit in my bedroom. So I'm not completely melting.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jul 12, 2020 9:12:59 GMT -5
I was supposed to have central air installed last week but this COVID-19 nightmare has apparently crippled the air conditioner manufacturing supply chain. So we're just waiting on parts, indefinitely. Holy Fudge! What are you living with right now? Just a window unit? Tell me you at least have one of those! If the cash flow is good right now, you could get a cooling vest! I've never had A/C here, and I moved to this place in 1999. We're not ALLOWED window units. How do you think ppl got along before it was invented?
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jul 12, 2020 9:53:19 GMT -5
Holy Fudge! What are you living with right now? Just a window unit? Tell me you at least have one of those! If the cash flow is good right now, you could get a cooling vest! I've never had A/C here, and I moved to this place in 1999. We're not ALLOWED window units. How do you think ppl got along before it was invented?
They didn't. People had world wars before A/C was invented. It came into wide usage in the 1950's. No world wars since!
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jul 12, 2020 9:55:08 GMT -5
I've never had A/C here, and I moved to this place in 1999. We're not ALLOWED window units. How do you think ppl got along before it was invented?
They didn't. People had world wars before A/C was invented. It came into wide usage in the 1950's. No world wars since!
OK, that actually explains everything.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Jul 12, 2020 16:58:27 GMT -5
I've never had A/C here, and I moved to this place in 1999. We're not ALLOWED window units. How do you think ppl got along before it was invented?
They didn't. People had world wars before A/C was invented. It came into wide usage in the 1950's. No world wars since!
Or, in places with low humidity (like AZ) they had evaporative coolers, aka "swamp coolers".
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Post by Mayzshon on Jul 12, 2020 18:41:43 GMT -5
Y'all do have that "humidity" thing, which Thank Bob, is much more limited here. Our outdoor thermometer --located in a shady part of the back porch-- currently reads 111. Which means we will probably have more than one fatality before the weekend's out. I imagine that must happen on the Gulf Coast as well :-/ Ugh. It's the worst. Today was my first day back at work in five, and since we can't get anybody to work outside all day pushing buggies for pennies, they called for floor help to go out there and corral them a dozen times. Ahh yes, my old job. 5 years as buggy wrangler. Do they have the robot buggy pushers at your location?
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jul 12, 2020 23:16:40 GMT -5
Ugh. It's the worst. Today was my first day back at work in five, and since we can't get anybody to work outside all day pushing buggies for pennies, they called for floor help to go out there and corral them a dozen times. Ahh yes, my old job. 5 years as buggy wrangler. Do they have the robot buggy pushers at your location?
Do you mean like the "Mule" machines they use at the Supercenters? Unfortunately, no. We're just groceries (with a smidgen of general merchandise), and even though we do Supercenter-size grocery sales, the parking lot is a lot smaller. So, the maintenance guys at ours have to do it all by pushing.
I have a different theory on cart pushing than most of my coworkers. I just do like 5 or 6 at a time when I make runs outside. Most people do these loads twice that size. I can usually do two runs at my lighter load, and not huffing and puffing and watching buggies in the front suddenly cut loose and into oncoming traffic. It's a shit job any way around it. The cart pushers should get some kind of hazard pay during the Florida summer months. I imagine it was pretty awful even up where you are in the Summer, too? I think I could do it, even at my age. But I'd rather ease into it during our mild Autumn/Winter seasons here than do that shit for a solid 6 hours of the day. Especially with record weekend heat like we had.
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Post by Mayzshon on Jul 13, 2020 8:35:33 GMT -5
Ahh yes, my old job. 5 years as buggy wrangler. Do they have the robot buggy pushers at your location? Do you mean like the "Mule" machines they use at the Supercenters? Unfortunately, no. We're just groceries (with a smidgen of general merchandise), and even though we do Supercenter-size grocery sales, the parking lot is a lot smaller. So, the maintenance guys at ours have to do it all by pushing.
I have a different theory on cart pushing than most of my coworkers. I just do like 5 or 6 at a time when I make runs outside. Most people do these loads twice that size. I can usually do two runs at my lighter load, and not huffing and puffing and watching buggies in the front suddenly cut loose and into oncoming traffic. It's a shit job any way around it. The cart pushers should get some kind of hazard pay during the Florida summer months. I imagine it was pretty awful even up where you are in the Summer, too? I think I could do it, even at my age. But I'd rather ease into it during our mild Autumn/Winter seasons here than do that shit for a solid 6 hours of the day. Especially with record weekend heat like we had.
I can vouch for your theory, 6 is the perfect amount. I used to tell people that, but no one ever listened. Yeah, NC summers can be pretty brutal, especially working on blacktop.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jul 17, 2020 12:13:59 GMT -5
Monty Python were great, but The Goodies were a lot of fun, too. How come no one remembers them?
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Post by Deeky on Jul 17, 2020 18:16:57 GMT -5
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Jul 18, 2020 4:57:26 GMT -5
Monty Python were great, but The Goodies were a lot of fun, too. How come no one remembers them? I have one very distinct memory of The Goodies (think I saw, like two, maybe three episodes total). The three of them are, for some reason, being tortured, and the Scotsman with the glasses and beard has a bucket with a hole in the bottom put on his head and then a crab is lowered into the hole. This, not surprisingly, hit a note with me, given my crustaceaphobia, only when they return to him later in the scene, they take the bucket off and he's licking his fingertips and smacking his lips.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jul 18, 2020 8:15:59 GMT -5
I remember The Goodies. I loved that show!
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jul 18, 2020 10:53:19 GMT -5
I watched an episode (for the first time in over 30 years) late last night. While not up there with Monty Python, it was good silly fun. The one I remember best featured the babies of the world rebelling and starting a war on the adult population.
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Post by Deeky on Jul 20, 2020 9:16:20 GMT -5
Anybody ever hung a sling? Got any tips?
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Jul 20, 2020 11:08:58 GMT -5
Anybody ever hung a sling? Got any tips? Beyond make sure you've got it anchored in something structural so you don't inadvertently bring the ceiling down?
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Jul 20, 2020 16:40:49 GMT -5
Anybody ever hung a sling? Got any tips? To elaborate further: I once had a lady friend --somewhat regrettably not a Lady Friend, in that sense-- who was on a very open basis with me about her playtime preferences. She slung her sling with some very heavy bolts from a ceiling beam in a rental. When I remarked: "That's gonna cost you your security deposit, ya know..." she replied with
"Would cost me a lot more than the security deposit if I hung it somewhere else..."
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Post by Deeky on Jul 20, 2020 16:44:04 GMT -5
Beyond make sure you've got it anchored in something structural so you don't inadvertently bring the ceiling down? Was thinking of option F here plus carabiners and chain. It's going to be in the new room in the basement so it'll anchor into the 2" x 12" floor joists of the room above.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Jul 20, 2020 17:35:39 GMT -5
Beyond make sure you've got it anchored in something structural so you don't inadvertently bring the ceiling down? Was thinking of option F here plus carabiners and chain. It's going to be in the new room in the basement so it'll anchor into the 2" x 12" floor joists of the room above. What's this? No steel I-beams?
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Post by Deeky on Jul 20, 2020 17:41:32 GMT -5
My house was built in 1930.... so... no.
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Post by Deeky on Jul 21, 2020 23:43:07 GMT -5
Ot appears that my frugal cooling methods this year are paying off. My bill last month was nearly half what they were last year around this time. What is your method? Any tips are appreciated.
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