Pinch Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 2 hours ago, fortyearspickn said: Pinch, I apologize for that! I can't keep track of anything - let alone where we all hail from. No sweat! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortyearspickn Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 21 hours ago, Whitefang said: How this went from someone stealing a guitar to Covid mask mandates and all is the puzzle. And proof that too many people are suffering from ADHD these days. Especially in THIS place! NOW you're gonna get nitwits that'll blame THAT on the vaccine. Just like those who blame the measles vaccine for causing autism. And so we have all those cretins putting both their children and other's children at higher risk in order to keep them "safe". Whitefang How this went? Let me help you ... someone pointed out the irony of medical mask mandates enabling grand larceny and a couple of posts later you compared medical masks mandates to stores requiring people wear shoes and shirts. Funny thing about the internet - it's like herding cats. And cretins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortyearspickn Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 22 hours ago, RBSinTo said: fyp., Doctors at a highly respected medical school teaching hospital making a medical decision. Where will it end? RBSinTo OR... was it a political decision ? Of course a couple of years ago, we would have believed this as silly as believing someone coming into Guitar Center to shoplift an $8K guitar will remove their mask for the video camera by the door. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 On 1/24/2022 at 9:55 AM, RBSinTo said: Chief, It would be simple enough to require everyone entering a retail establishment to first remove all head coverings in front of a video camera. Wouldn't bother me a bit. RBSinTo Yes your right, you should mention that to Justin (not Bieber) Trudeau net time you see him. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 22 hours ago, Whitefang said: How this went from someone stealing a guitar to Covid mask mandates and all is the puzzle. And proof that too many people are suffering from ADHD these days. Especially in THIS place! We should just have one thread in The Lounge called Dump Your Baggage Here. We just continually post on whatever comes to mind, CV-19, 8K guitars getting pinched, Clapton, NFL, RCT looking for a house in Florida, me being a mean a-hole, ya know that kind of stuff. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortyearspickn Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 17 minutes ago, Sgt. Pepper said: We should just have one thread in The Lounge called Dump Your Baggage Here. We just continually post on whatever comes to mind, CV-19, 8K guitars getting pinched, Clapton, NFL, RCT looking for a house in Florida, me being a mean a-hole, ya know that kind of stuff. Yep ! We could call it the "Can't we just talk about guitars - NOT" thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RBSinTo Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 21 minutes ago, fortyearspickn said: OR... was it a political decision ? Of course a couple of years ago, we would have believed this as silly as believing someone coming into Guitar Center to shoplift an $8K guitar will remove their mask for the video camera by the door. fyp., OR... was it a medical decision? We are both free to believe what we think it was, and going back and forth is obviously pointless. As for the mask business in the store? My store, my rules. Show me your face when you enter MY STORE, or you don't enter MY STORE. This isn't Science of the Rocket. RBSinTo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 (edited) 11 minutes ago, RBSinTo said: fyp., OR... was it a medical decision? We are both free to believe what we think it was, and going back and forth is obviously pointless. As for the mask business in the store? My store, my rules. Show me your face when you enter MY STORE, or you don't enter MY STORE. This isn't Science of the Rocket. RBSinTo I decided to retire a few months back. We crunched the numbers with our financial people. I'm gonna go out and get a part time do nothing job just to get out of the house and have money for guitar strings. While I was a contractor at the NASA Langley Research Center I met a few Rocket Scientists. Their degrees are actually in Aerospace Engineering. But Rocket Science is the layman term most use. Let me tell ya those guys could do some math. When does it thaw in Toronto, me and the wife want dumplings in Chinatown. Edited January 26, 2022 by Sgt. Pepper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitefang Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 OK Sarge. If those guys are so smart, maybe they can answer a question that's bugged me for years.... If the TV weatherman says, "today's temperature is zero degrees"... and then says, "Tomorrow it will be TWICE as cold", what will that temperature be? Whitefang Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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merciful-evans Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 On 1/23/2022 at 3:54 PM, Sgt. Pepper said: No one has guns in the UK? Come on. No bad guys in the UK. But we don't associate with them. Oh yes, the bad guys got guns, I've seen it on TV. The bullets cost £5 each. Myself I've never seen a gun in this country outside of a farm or a military parade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 52 minutes ago, Whitefang said: OK Sarge. If those guys are so smart, maybe they can answer a question that's bugged me for years.... If the TV weatherman says, "today's temperature is zero degrees"... and then says, "Tomorrow it will be TWICE as cold", what will that temperature be? Whitefang That is easy 00 degrees. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 6 minutes ago, merciful-evans said: But we don't associate with them. Oh yes, the bad guys got guns, I've seen it on TV. The bullets cost £5 each. Myself I've never seen a gun in this country outside of a farm or a military parade. Hey Merc this is off topic and not mean to be bad, but why to you over in the UK call what we call cigarettes - F-ags? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merciful-evans Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 9 minutes ago, Sgt. Pepper said: Hey Merc this is off topic and not mean to be bad, but why to you over in the UK call what we call cigarettes - F-ags? I honestly dont know. But the Aussies use the word too. Did you know the 1st floor in UK and US buildings are on different levels? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 6 minutes ago, merciful-evans said: I honestly dont know. But the Aussies use the word too. Did you know the 1st floor in UK and US buildings are on different levels? I wanted to get it from the horses mouth an Englishman, but here is what I just looked up. Many years ago cigarettes were traditionally made with a thin layer of cork covering the filter to prevent lips sticking to the paper - mass produced cigarettes did away with the expensive cork and used cork effect, coloured paper, instead. These mass-produced cigarettes were called colloquially “fakes”, “fags” is a bastardisation of the word “fakes”. That is why cigarettes are called fags in the UK, and that, my friends, is a fact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merciful-evans Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 39 minutes ago, Sgt. Pepper said: I wanted to get it from the horses mouth an Englishman, but here is what I just looked up. Many years ago cigarettes were traditionally made with a thin layer of cork covering the filter to prevent lips sticking to the paper - mass produced cigarettes did away with the expensive cork and used cork effect, coloured paper, instead. These mass-produced cigarettes were called colloquially “fakes”, “fags” is a bastardisation of the word “fakes”. That is why cigarettes are called fags in the UK, and that, my friends, is a fact. ah, that explains why the butts are that colour too then. Thanks for the update sarge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 3 minutes ago, merciful-evans said: ah, that explains why the butts are that colour too then. Thanks for the update sarge. See ya learn stuff here, its not just all covid covid covid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RBSinTo Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 (edited) 8 hours ago, Sgt. Pepper said: I decided to retire a few months back. We crunched the numbers with our financial people. I'm gonna go out and get a part time do nothing job just to get out of the house and have money for guitar strings. While I was a contractor at the NASA Langley Research Center I met a few Rocket Scientists. Their degrees are actually in Aerospace Engineering. But Rocket Science is the layman term most use. Let me tell ya those guys could do some math. When does it thaw in Toronto, me and the wife want dumplings in Chinatown. Chief, You might consider waiting a while before planning to invade our fine city. While the Ontario Provincial Covid restrictions on restaurant dining in are about to be partially lifted on January 30th, there's still another reality that might impact your decision. Currently, the temperature is minus 12 Celcius with no end to the brisk weather in sight. I'll leave it to your Engineering of the Aerospace buds to convert that to a " real" F. temperature. That's cold enough to make your ba11s take the express elevator up into your abdomen to stay warm. Am looking forward to meeting Mrs. Chief and hearing her stories of loose bindings and neck re-sets. RBSinTo Edited January 26, 2022 by RBSinTo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 (edited) 6 minutes ago, RBSinTo said: Chief, You might consider waiting a while before planning to invade our fine city. While the Ontario Provincial Covid restrictions on restaurant dining in are about to be partially lifted on January 30th, there's still another reality that might impact your decision. Currently, the temperature is minus 12 Celcius with no end to the brisk weather in sight. I'll leave it to your Engineering of the Aerospace buds to convert that " real" temperature. That's cold enough to make your ba11s take the express elevator up into your abdomen to stay warm. Am looking forward to meeting Mrs. Chief and hearing her stories of loose bindings and neck re-sets. RBSinTo Yeah that is why I asked when does it thaw. I'm not going North till its at least in the mid to upper 70's there. What is that about 25celcius? Edited January 26, 2022 by Sgt. Pepper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RBSinTo Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 14 minutes ago, Sgt. Pepper said: Yeah that is why I asked when does it thaw. I'm not going North till its at least in the mid to upper 70's there. What is that about 25celcius? Chief, 25C. =77 F. For future reference: Celsius to Fahrenheit Formula: (°C * 1.8) + 32 = °F Fahrenheit to Celsius Formula: (°F - 32) / 1.8 = °C It thaws up here in early May, just in time for us to plant the annual Crabgrass and Dandelion crops, and freezes again just after the Harvest. RBSinTo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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