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Mish mash => Open Forum => Topic started by: snarf on July 05, 2012, 08:00:27 AM
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My children get careless and throw aerosol cans (hairspray) in the garbage. I often catch them before I burn. I have yelled, I have scolded. Now we are going to have two weeks of absolutely NO hairspray in our house. That means no spray bottles nut'n zip zero. I had my own fireworks show over the 4th. A can ended up in the burn pile; a can cooked off and I almost got the loosing end of the deal. Thank Christ I was wearing my sun glasses. When the can cooked off a shard from the can hit my glasses instantly melting to the lens,
You can bet I was just a tad over being pissed off.
(http://i1033.photobucket.com/albums/a411/snarf1971/IMAG0011.jpg)
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I'm glad that you didn't get hurt Snarf!
You burn your trash, plastics too? :o
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I'm glad that you didn't get hurt Snarf!
You burn your trash, plastics too? :o
Oh no, plastics get recycled. I dont completely hate mother earth
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Geez!
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Glad you didn't lose the eye. That's a wicked looking piece of shrapnel. I've had a couple of close calls like that while wearing glasses of some form or another and after vision loss/recovery with the cataract thing I do almost every thing with some kind of eye protection.
FYI in my neighborhood (way out in the thulies) it's a $1,000 fine for garbage burning.
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Glad you are ok, eyes are something you don't mess with. Looks like you need to write a testamonial to that eyeglass company with pics telling them how well they worked saving your vision, are they marketed as safety glasses or just straight sunglasses? I'd buy a few more pair.
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+1
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Glad that wasn't worse, Snarf. I remember burning our trash when I was a kid, and I would dig those out specifically so I could suspend them over the fire until they exploded.
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Yes they are Z87+ approved safety glasses. I wont wear normal safety glasses after I saw the results of rock hitting $5 sunglasses. The lenses just shatter and all the fragments end up in your eye. Good friend of mine lost his eye that way. Out in the sticks of Iowa we can still burn. I try not to as much as possible; it was a "company is coming over can you get rid of this for me" kinda thing
I think I might have to send an email to they company that makes them, maybe I can get a few freebies 8)
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When I was a kid, one of my jobs was to burn the trash. After an aerosol can shot out of the fire just over my head, I made it a regular practice to sort through the trash carefully for aerosol can. Then I carefully sprayed them until fully depressurized, then I poked several holes in them before tossing them back in the burn barrell. Even as a kid, I preferred to be thorough when my life was on the line. :)
Glad you're okay. Glad you're grateful.
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:o Burning garbage??
They won't even allow me to park our RV at our house for more than 24 hours... CC&R's... :-\
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Glad you dodged another flying object.. ie: Buzzard..
It's been said that things happen in three's, so be on the lookout,
or we might have to start calling you Snake..
(https://public.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pdxqqgdtw621QguA9g7XD2UOqCkoLv-LNM3V7tHLGbh-TQ8Eh2D5R5FPxI3KX3Ag35FfUWV25oOcLPhC_-ISIdA/Snake1.jpg?psid=1)
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Glad you dodged another flying object.. ie: Buzzard..
It's been said that things happen in three's, so be on the lookout,
or we might have to start calling you Snake..
(https://public.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pdxqqgdtw621QguA9g7XD2UOqCkoLv-LNM3V7tHLGbh-TQ8Eh2D5R5FPxI3KX3Ag35FfUWV25oOcLPhC_-ISIdA/Snake1.jpg?psid=1)
Can we call him 'ole one eye' instead?
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OHHHHHH; the all knowing mystical one eye.
Hey I kinda like the ring of that. If it happens again that what ya'll can call me ;)
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hi
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Some time back, over a year ago, I was checking out my stuff at Safeway. A guy wearing an eye patch walked past, and the little twinkie gal (maybe 16 years old or so) who was bagging groceries said something like, “That guy has a cool pirate patch.” The checker lady, about my age (middle aged), stared at the twinkie and said, “Honey, that’s not a pirate patch. He wears that because he’s only got one eye.” The twinkie says, “Eeewwww, why would he do that?”
Simply astounding.
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Oh CRAP! Glad you're ok! I'd be giving up the hairspray big time!
(https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/532369_10151021841773276_2118757569_n.jpg)
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Can we call him 'ole one eye' instead?
OHHHHHH; the all knowing mystical one eye.
Hey I kinda like the ring of that. If it happens again that what ya'll can call me ;)
(https://public.bay.livefilestore.com/y1ptZHwxel4zM0gnH21t9Td8Bgu_rYmsfOB_4aDhmjyWW1jEUmA1fR3I0ijmI_URhL2zyVaLIaZ84bURsAJOgTQHg/cat_butt.jpg?psid=1)
Honestly, I've was told long ago the this was getting the 'Ole one eye'..
Snarf sounds better, but if you insist...
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In small town Texas back in the 60's we burned our trash in 55 gallon oil barrels. The city came by once a month and picked up the ashes. As a kid we used to toss those cans in on purpose and watch 'em go off. We always stood back though. I'm not saying it was smart but other than riding a bike down a dirt road there was not a lot to do out there.
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Some time back, over a year ago, I was checking out my stuff at Safeway. A guy wearing an eye patch walked past, and the little twinkie gal (maybe 16 years old or so) who was bagging groceries said something like, “That guy has a cool pirate patch.” The checker lady, about my age (middle aged), stared at the twinkie and said, “Honey, that’s not a pirate patch. He wears that because he’s only got one eye.” The twinkie says, “Eeewwww, why would he do that?”
Simply astounding.
The Twink sounds like she could be a future presidential candidate.
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'Twink'?
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Twinkie:
http://www.yourdictionary.com/twinkie (http://www.yourdictionary.com/twinkie)
...and now back to our regular program..............
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I know what a twinkie is....it's the 'twink' that's a bit funny to me.
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you think that's funny....
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What's even funnier....picture/signature line (see above).
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What's even funnier....picture/signature line (see above).
(http://www.zggtr.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=9623.0;attach=11341;image)
I'm just along for the ride.
Yeah, you should take your signature into account before posting. :rotflmao:
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ahh crap
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:rotflmao: :rotflmao: Happens to the best of us... Nice avatar by the way. ::)
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Well since I still have both my eyes i will stick with snarf.
We have a new director of operations at work. His favorite saying is "theres a new sherrif in town"
I call him a " rusty sherrifs badge". They look just like the ol one eye.
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Talking about gPink... and the end is near. Somewhat apt based on his latest ramblings...
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must be the heat
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Yep.
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ahh crap
:rotflmao:
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I know what a twinkie is....it's the 'twink' that's a bit funny to me.
After a couple of margaritas, what isn't a bit funny to you?
[smg id=338]
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True enough.
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A couple of the Urban Dictionary's definitions of 'Twink':
1) twink: An attractive, boyish-looking, young gay man. The stereotypical twink is 18-22, slender with little or no body hair, often blonde, dresses in club wear even at 10:00 AM, and is not particularly intelligent. A twink is the gay answer to the blonde bimbo cheerleader.
2) twink: In an MMORPG, a veteran player who makes a new character and gives a bunch of top-shelf equipment from their older, maxed-out characters to the new character.
I'm familiar with only the second definition, I'd never heard the first before...