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Post by Deeky on Nov 17, 2023 10:40:02 GMT -5
I'm hoping it's the plot to "Key Largo". No? Lost subplot in the director's cut.
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Post by El Santo on Nov 17, 2023 13:09:46 GMT -5
I think she means that all shrews are killers if you're small enough to have to deal with them face to face.
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Post by Deeky on Nov 17, 2023 13:26:40 GMT -5
Yeah, but what does that have to do with Key Largo?
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jan 13, 2024 15:20:49 GMT -5
Anybody know what this thing is? It's sitting in a long vacant property next to the entrance to my subdivision. Apologies in advance for whatever direction the photo rotates to in the attachment. It all depends on how I was holding the phone when I took the shot.
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Post by El Santo on Jan 13, 2024 16:12:10 GMT -5
Anybody know what this thing is? It's sitting in a long vacant property next to the entrance to my subdivision. Apologies in advance for whatever direction the photo rotates to in the attachment. It all depends on how I was holding the phone when I took the shot.
It's a self-priming water pump-- like a powered version of those hand-cranked jobs you used to see all the time in the country, on land that wasn't served by any municipal plumbing infrastructure. The particular company that made it, Pomona, got its start in the irrigation business in Southern California. As you might imagine, "Our products make it possible to set up the world's most productive fruit orchards in the fucking desert!" was one hell of a sales pitch in the 30's and 40's, and Pomona quickly became a major national brand. EDITED TO ADD: Oh! I just noticed the Fairbanks-Morse logo on it in addition to Pomona! Fairbanks-Morse was the foremost American manufacturer of steam turbine engines during the first half of the 20th century. Practically every US Navy warship with a maximum speed in excess of 20 knots built between World War I and the early years of the Cold War ran on Fairbanks-Morse turbines. I wonder if Fairbanks-Morse acquired Pomona at some point, or if Pomona was merely licensing a Fairbanks-Morse motor design for that generation of pumps?
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jan 14, 2024 9:16:16 GMT -5
If there are ANY shrews and you're a grub in the vicinity, they will definitely eat you. Maximum terror
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jan 14, 2024 10:07:27 GMT -5
Anybody know what this thing is? It's sitting in a long vacant property next to the entrance to my subdivision. Apologies in advance for whatever direction the photo rotates to in the attachment. It all depends on how I was holding the phone when I took the shot.
It's a self-priming water pump-- like a powered version of those hand-cranked jobs you used to see all the time in the country, on land that wasn't served by any municipal plumbing infrastructure. The particular company that made it, Pomona, got its start in the irrigation business in Southern California. As you might imagine, "Our products make it possible to set up the world's most productive fruit orchards in the fucking desert!" was one hell of a sales pitch in the 30's and 40's, and Pomona quickly became a major national brand. EDITED TO ADD: Oh! I just noticed the Fairbanks-Morse logo on it in addition to Pomona! Fairbanks-Morse was the foremost American manufacturer of steam turbine engines during the first half of the 20th century. Practically every US Navy warship with a maximum speed in excess of 20 knots built between World War I and the early years of the Cold War ran on Fairbanks-Morse turbines. I wonder if Fairbanks-Morse acquired Pomona at some point, or if Pomona was merely licensing a Fairbanks-Morse motor design for that generation of pumps? Thank you, El Santo! Thorough yet concise at the same time. BTW - It's hard to make out from that shot, but directly to the left of the pump there is a hole in the ground about 6" wide that goes way, way down. I threw a couple of concrete bits down it and it took a couple of seconds to hear them hit bottom.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jan 21, 2024 13:39:34 GMT -5
This has got to be fake, right? Their home offices are here, and I do see billboards around town. Usually they claim "Bigger is Better", as they are supposedly one of the largest injury lawyers in the country.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jan 21, 2024 20:52:43 GMT -5
How come I give my pets utmost privacy while they take a piss but they are LET ME WATCH YOU PEE! when I do?
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jan 25, 2024 11:18:25 GMT -5
When did "cis" replace "straight" for sexual orientation?
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Post by Deeky on Jan 25, 2024 13:56:02 GMT -5
When did "cis" replace "straight" for sexual orientation? That's not what cis means. It means "not trans." Has nothing to do with orientation.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jan 25, 2024 17:12:00 GMT -5
When did "cis" replace "straight" for sexual orientation? That's not what cis means. It means "not trans." Has nothing to do with orientation. Is it shorthand for something longer? Why "cis"?
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Post by Deeky on Jan 25, 2024 18:58:03 GMT -5
That's not what cis means. It means "not trans." Has nothing to do with orientation. Is it shorthand for something longer? Why "cis"? It's from Latin. It's short for cisgender, which is the opposite of transgender.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jan 26, 2024 12:01:57 GMT -5
I never see anyone flying kites anymore? Do people still do that?
To be fair, most people that fly kites here are visitors on the beach during tourist season and I went to the beach a total of once last year.
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Post by El Santo on Jan 26, 2024 13:26:44 GMT -5
Is it shorthand for something longer? Why "cis"? It's from Latin. It's short for cisgender, which is the opposite of transgender. To enlarge upon Deeky's point, the cis- and trans- prefixes in Latin mean approximately "on this side of" and "on that side of." For example, the Romans used to divide Gaul into cisalpine and transalpine regions, depending on whether or not a traveler from Italy would have to skirt or cross the Alps to get there. So by analogy, a transsexual/transgender person has to cross over from the sex or gender imposed on them by anatomy, while a cissexual/cisgender person can stay put where they started. Note also that you'd be correct in perceiving this as a new linguistic development-- and a positive one, I would argue. Something similar happened with "homosexual" and "heterosexual." The former word is significantly older than the latter, because up until the back half of the 20th century, the technical term for somebody who wasn't homosexual was just "normal." It was precisely the growing recognition of homosexuality as part of the "normal" range of human variation that created the need for a term meaning specifically "people who are only or primarily attracted to others of the opposite sex." That a critical mass of English-speakers now recognize the need for a term meaning specifically "people whose gender identity matches the sex organs they were born with" is a sign that the transphobes are losing, however loud a hissy-fit they might put up about it on the way.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Feb 2, 2024 12:10:46 GMT -5
Anybody have bird feeders? I received a window bird feeder for Christmas and finally put it up over a week ago. Thus far, none of the many birds I attract to the yard with my daily feed toss seem to have noticed it. Maybe it's up too high? I know the finches usually keep fairly low to the ground...
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Feb 3, 2024 12:17:09 GMT -5
Anybody gotten the RSV vaccine? Just wondering if it left you feeling sluggish or anything (and for how long)?
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 4, 2024 9:39:58 GMT -5
I need to know what movie this is, and quickly!
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 4, 2024 9:41:51 GMT -5
When did "cis" replace "straight" for sexual orientation? That's not what cis means. It means "not trans." Has nothing to do with orientation. OK, but whence cometh the word "cis"? Is it short for something, or is it an acronym or what?
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Feb 4, 2024 10:43:52 GMT -5
That's not what cis means. It means "not trans." Has nothing to do with orientation. OK, but whence cometh the word "cis"? Is it short for something, or is it an acronym or what? Apparently it's from this: the Romans used to divide Gaul into cisalpine and transalpine regions, which appears to be a really weak joke on "trans", undoubtedly from some wanker on the far right.
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