TGIF! Spring has sprung! At least here in the great PNW it has. It hit 70º here today! I had the top down on my car, even. Nothing but sunshine here all weekend, hope the rest of you can enjoy the same.
Survival – Personal Edition
One of the most essential needs for survival is food. I personally rank it 2nd behind water, but nonetheless both are necessary. Today, we’re going old school and learning how to make an animal trap. This one is for critters and is called a holding trap.
- Start by finding a small stick and get yourself about 2 feet of wire. No string or twine as your prey will be able to bite through it.
- Wrap one end of the wire of the stick. Use your thumb and forefinger to hold the wire while you twist the stick. This will create a coil around the stick.
- Remove the stick from the wire by breaking it near the wire loop and sliding it out.
- Thread the other end of the wire through the loop to make the snare loop. The loop should be about 5 inches in diameter.
- Take that other end of the loop and secure it to a stake.
- So placement: This holding trap should be positioned in an animal track or near a animal hole. If possible, place two of them one behind the other to increase your odds of success.
- Once you’ve found the ideal placement area, plant the stake. The stake should be out of sight to the animal from the trap. Also make sure to mark the stake in some manner so you can find it later.
- Check the trap only once a day. Your presence too often will scare away your critters which will make the trap completely useless.
Once your trap has ensnared your prey, the rest is easy. Humanely kill that critter. They’ll still be alive but pretty exhausted by the time you find them, so this should be easy enough. Then get that fire going and enjoy some fresh meat!
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Survival – Species Edition
Time to put the sexy in Friday!
Enjoy the weekend, folks! Alright, now let’s get to the comments!
Cape class motor lifeboat, Canadian Coast Guard:
Last one, going to bed, although left out Queen Latifah which is a travesty
https://youtu.be/5vgV_dVkXN4?feature=shared
Holy shit I’ve got Saint Patrick’s Day dinner to make tomorrow dessert included.
Better get my ass to sleep.
Boa noite!
Some boss ladies
https://youtu.be/znlFu_lemsU?feature=shared
Killing the lady musics from the 90s. Or aughts maybe?
I just started liking Doja Cat.
She’s no Aretha but no one is.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1xfMKJ6dWaU
Sorry for the obvious anger below. My dog is dying. He’s gone blind. He’s 14. Can’t get out of bed. You’ve all maybe done this but it’s a first for me. Thanks for the community and the meathooks pictures. I like the planes and the ships.
We’ve got you brother.
Don’t be sorry he’ll be gone, be thankful you had him.
You handle you.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Bridge_(pets)
If you haven’t seen La Haine, it’s easy to find the entire movie free on the internet. The 25th anniversary was not long ago and basically fuckall has changed in France
https://youtu.be/wloMLE8kSKw?feature=shared
https://ibb.co/f0mZ1nR
Decided I need to learn more about French hip hop
https://youtu.be/1R2etg__x1Y?feature=shared
Check the Redacteds bobble hat at 1:22
It reappears!
You can go ahead and listen to the entire new Black Cowes album if you choose.
Cosigned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHBu97e–xA
Bad Bunny also counts as good new music, even though he’s been around for a while
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr8K88UcO0s
Big fan.
Ola!
My main takeaway from this week is people can’t drive in the dark.
We did the daylight saving time last Sunday and before that the drive home was pretty much fucked on a nightly basis.
Give us a bit of daylight and motherfuckers remember how to drive.
I’ll take this for the next 6 months.
Happy Friday DFO!
I’m expecting a huge driving pleasure boost in two years, when I’m no longer required to do it twice daily in rush hour traffic. When on the road on my own terms I still enjoy it. But sharing the road with many people is simply aggravating.
I was in heaven during the COVID flu. No driving anywhere it was quiet out. I am happy for you that you get to leave it all in 2 years. I’m alternating weeks at home and the happiness level is wildly different at home weeks
Yeah I enjoyed that. As “essential” I had the roads mostly to myself.
Can’t drive in light rain either. As far as daylight savings, do you want people to be able to drive in the morning or the evening? In most of the country you can only pick one for most of the year, which sucks
I go for dark in the mornings. People are resigned to their fate in the mornings I think. It seems calmer then. In the afternoons, especially Fridays. People are going nuts trying to get home or to the liquor store as fast as possible. So I’d rather more daylight later. I do live in a tourist town though
Light in the evening please.
It’s easier to pick that in California. I have horrible memories of spending the first 3 or 4 hours of my day in darkness in Chicago, and then being at work so I got basically zero sunlight the entire winter. Still can’t believe I survived with most of my sanity sometimes.
You can’t really win. Why not just go halfway? Pick a new time between the two and just get rid of the change. For fun. Like this isn’t importaint at all just do something. Pick any time that doesn’t change twice a year
The system is broken. Fuck the economy. And the foreign legion and the damn supply chain while we’re at it.
Just kill all the sex offenders. That’s my campaign. Got child porn? Drowned in oil. Molested your niece? Off a cliff. First dibs to the dads. That’s it. That’s the slogan. Kill the pedos. Vote for Candy, John. Every year.
We have billionaires going to the moon for kicks while we suck on paper straws and struggle through life but the foddamn pedos get out! It’s all fucked. Burn em. That’s the third choice.
You’re all good folks. Vote Candy. Vote to kill the dossdler. Sizzlers. Fiddler. Didddlers. It’s an affectation at this point. Vote Candy.
I’m in
I knew you’d be on board.
There was this foddamn filthy pedi who got let out on bail in my town. High risk. Extreme they said! Let him out and they contracted out the supervision. The guy sat in his car for 2 hours while this scum, this bag of minus nothing, assaulted a girl in a bathroom. Where the government let him get a job. Why do we even have these people in charge? It’s impossible to accept that any of our “leaders” have any authority – morally, intellectually, or otherwise when the decisions they make lead to this kind of atrocity.
Damn. Statistically they’re the most likely to reoffend, so how did anyone let that happen?
Canadian “justice” meant to favour the criminal’s rehabilitation. We send our most heinous criminals to country clubs. Trafficking drugs? 10 years. Fuck a child? 2. And no consecutive sentences so 10 murders is the same as 1.
Id like a little more American style 200 years in jail stuff up here. For the pedos and the murderers, not for the chemical peddlers. Make that legal and we’d be a lot better off.
And that’s my point. How did anyone let that happen? The people in charge are not doing their jobs.
Agree. There is no lower form of human. I’d fully endorse getting brutal with the punishment. Leave. Children. Alone. Protecting them should be your only possible involvement.
I can see you feel strongly about this.
I do. If there’s anything I care about it’s that there should be breakfast and lunch provided at school and that sex criminals should be eliminated. No equivocation. If you have pictures of naked kids, thriller album or no, you should be burned in a pit.
But what was all that about the Foreign Legion?
Oh that was just a joke. Like I was too drunk to remember foreign policy so I said foreign legion. Not a good joke though, it seems.
https://youtu.be/tGbRZ73NvlY?feature=shared
I’ve officially reached the point of old where I’m pretty sure that my generation had all the best music and the few good new artists are just flukes that the young people are lucky to have since they missed out on the bonanza of quality that was my youth
I absolutely count Lil Nas X as one of the bright spots for the youngs. This is good shit plus he can social media troll better than Trump.
https://youtu.be/6swmTBVI83k?feature=shared
They’re not even that old. Or am I that old that the 90s is recent?
You’re right though, the youth don’t have anything like the music of old. I blame satellite radio.
The early aughts were the last gasp really. And there is a legit reason that predates satellite radio (although that probably didn’t help)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_homogenization
https://youtu.be/-CPCs7vVz6s?feature=shared
I don’t have any models jet engine pics to share… so I’m goin with this.
GODDAM! Is that Tiffany Amber Thiessen?
Dude
Is it?
Uncertain. Give myself and the subject a weekend on a tropical island for field study and I’ll let you know the results.
That get my engine running.
I think I’ve had enough old fashioneds to start posting music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKOtzIo-uYw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6QKqFPRZSA
So fucked up that Lauryn Hill went to prison for not paying taxes
You have to have a pretty shitty lawyer or be Al Capone to go to jail for taxes.
Absolutely love this song
It’s amazing and one of a kind
Still not sure why the Stillers traded Pickett without any backups whatsoever.
That said, Justin Fields probably won’t mind being the first person on Mars at this point.
Plenty of time to find a backup, 5th or 6th round draft pick, or reanimate a corpse like they did with Ben
I’ve decided I’m going to start the conspiracy theory that Ben died in that motorcycle crash. That’s why his dick is grey and why his ankle kept falling off but it was okay to just strap it back on and have him play
Zombie Ben has a nice ring to it
ZOMBIE BEN WANT CHOCO TACOBRAINS
Nice job Mr Ayo. I would like to trap the first lady.
Playing Civ as usual. Going tall and trying to get my highest ever population city.
So, does fat guy have a name?
The basketball player, don’t need to make fun on anyone we know
Lowra,uh, I mean, Burns.Excellent!
“We welcome you to Henderson, Nevada…”
I’ll take ‘Things You Hear In A Brothel” for $800, Alex.
Horatio, fat guy can play.
THE FAT GUY RULES ALL!!!!
Overtime is where shit teams die.
NC State’s fat guy is my spirit animal. He is awesome.
Holy shit, he’s fantastic! And winning this game!
BEEFCAKE!!
Oh my god, that last shot by NC State is going down in history.
Wake the fuck up, Hippo!
He wants the coach fired. This would displease him. All displeases him sports wise lately
I don’t think waking him up to watch this loss is a good idea
“Wow, NC State got the ball back with 15 second left, got the ball over half court and called a time-out? What a bunch of pussies!”
-Kyle Neptune, probably
Virginia basketball is like the New Jersey Devils, in that they emphasize defense to the point that no one watches their sport.
They’re unlike the Devils in that they, with one exception, never win anything doing that, and in fact are the first men’s team to lose to a 16 seed as a 1 seed.
They long for the peach basket.
Seems like there was an appropriate amount of nut screwing in this thread
I’m reminded of the sound check guy joke.
“Testes, testes, 1,2….3?”
Good Lord, NC State has an absolute lard-ass on their team.
Truly inspiring stuff.
Long sleeves!
It’s Jet Day!
Twist in plot, that was actually a person inside a Elmo costume.
Strong core!
ENHANCE
Wife comes downstairs to check her laundry. (I am going nowhere near that, I do the rest)
“It’s not done yet, what are you doing?”
“Drinking wine, listening to Method Man watching hoops. Happy place.”
“Sweet, enjoy.”
Love that woman!
My mother bought a scary washing machine that is capable of literally boiling whatever you put in it. Ever since then she’s done all the laundry as my dad is scared to use it and so am I when I visit.
Yeah, you don’t mess around with washing machines like that. If your girlfriend gets stuck in one you get her out of there right away and sit her down in front of a PlayStation so she can be bored and ignore you.
I remember a story from you when she called your cheap ass out for not buying two bottles of a good wine you weren’t likely to see again and thinking “Yep, that’s the one you nail down for life right there.”
Sliante’
Sydney. A Pinot Noir from Tasmania. I served it in the bar I worked in back in the day.
I still have a bottle of it!
She also told me to shut up and go to the Silversun Pickups last month in Vancouver, and to go to the NOFX 2 dayer in August in Edmonton, because if I didn’t I would just bitch about it later….
You, sir, have out kicked your coverage.
Only bad part is the brother in law.
Yeah, that guy’s a real dick.
We’re drinking the cocktail-of-the-week from two weeks ago, the Leap Year.
Hippo’s game is the tweaker game???
IU is down twenty at the half.
Fuck
Their eventual loss in the NIT will be equally disappointing.
Nit wins are pretty disappointing too
So are nit appearances
I thought IU was done with that shit,
Fuck Archie miller
Evening
My back still hurts
GODDAM!
I know right, that shit happened like a month ago
SAVE THE REDSHIRTS!!!
Also, good reminder about what a good movie ‘Dazed & Confused’ was.
SAVE THE REDSHIRTS!!!
I mean, we got Aaron Donald to retire, what more do you want?
SAVE THE REDSHIRTS!!!
We share the same curves, but those two use them better.
Nice tits, sir.
So nice he let Derrick henry walk?
Did I hear curves?
Darlings all.
My jet engine model has hit a snag. It turns out this is not ideal to do while drinking.
I’m currently trying to assemble these two parts of the engine:
Those are M2x6 screws that mate to M2 nuts. This requires both a 1.5MM driver, and something to hold the M2 nut. Normally not an issue (for me, I’m built differently), but you can see that the screw top is directly below the above surface which means a 1.5MM screwdriver can’t get in there. And my 1.5MM allen key has a short side that is still too long to fit in that gap. So, that means I have to use the wobble end on the long side of the allen key. This very much means I cannot get a reliable hold on the screw head and very much increases the likely hood of striping the screw head. On the other end, there’s no 1.5MM socket to hold the nut. So instead, I’m using a small pair of pliers. Unfortunately those nuts are less than .5MM thick, so they twist wildly when trying to mate with the screw. This precision is, again, very difficult while drinking. Worse, these tiny screws and nuts like to fly about when squeezed too hard, and then they are incredibly difficult to locate.
Nonetheless, I persist, and will conquer. Back to work.
Have you considered using pliers or similar and ratcheting the screw into place? I’ve had to do this when installing ceiling fans since I wasn’t, you know, IN THE GODDAMN CEILING WORKING FROM ABOVE LIKE THE IDIOTS WHO DESIGNED THE MOUNT SOMEHOW THOUGHT I WOULD BE. Needle-nose vice grip to hold one element in place, pliers to twist the other.
Or just take 3 shots and give up for the night. I would say to do whatever floats your boat, but I know you enjoy releasing the Kraken, and it tends to unfloat boats, so whatever changes the submersible status of the watercraft of your choice!
3 shots are a given. My boat floats by continuing on.
I could go for some shots, but everyone is all married with kids and stuff
I guess it’s that awkward period before the kids are old enough to do shots?
The first few shots one does with your “of legal drinking age” kids is also awkward
I am, see?
Perspective of that shot on the jet engine.
What multitool is that? Looks leathermanish, but if it is it’s a newer model than mine
I literally call all multitools leathmans.
I got a Leatherman as a groomsman gift and it has outlasted that marriage both in longevity and usefulness.
I’ve had mine since ’97 I think and it’s good as new
How is a marriage “useful”? Did it join two houses and prolong a dynasty or something?
It presumably has positive utility for the participants, otherwise why bother?
That’s from Project Source. Gift from my brother’s FIL.
Looks like a Lowe’s product.
Lovely!
Grind some of the material off the short side of that allen key so it will fit in that space. They’ll sell you another one for 50 cents at Harbor Freight.
I don’t have a grinder. Where’s Buddy when you need him?
Did someone say “
sexy photos of underage chi…I mean, did someone say ‘grinders'”Dremel tool with a cutting wheel?
I know what you meant. I still don’t have one.
Grindr rejected my resume, I assume because of the lack of dick pics
“this is not ideal to do while drinking.”
-Boeing CEO
HOLY SHIT YOU REALLY BOUGHT THAT MODEL????
(that thing ain’t cheap)
It’s less than 4 digits. No biggie.
Although I did have to disassemble and fix their provided gearbox. Rearranging tiny gears was a pain considering the price, but I got it working correctly. Just wished I tested it before assembling the gearbox case and associated gears.
I know how much it cost. But this shit’s easy, watch this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yU28Xqe5iM
When you’re finished I can only imagine the hours of fun you’ll have turning it on and watching it spin.
If it’s anything like jigsaw puzzles, he’ll take a picture of it then take it apart just enough to shove it back in the box
NFW. There’s zero chance I’ll spend all that time undoing all the bolts, nuts, and screws. I have some shelf space somewhere that this will live and spin forever.
I’m getting there. He just didn’t drink as much as me and he edited the shit out of his build.
This looks very cool.
I did it! 4 with lock nuts, 8 with standard nuts!
Now I just need to fix all the fuel plugs, and you can see one is missing in this photo, total of three have fallen out.
Hooray!
I’ve abandoned the fuel plugs. Need to get some super glue so they stay in place.
Could you have put the bolts in the other way so that the nut is in the middle and the driver now fits?
Also very cool model to make
Yes, but they’re oriented this way for a reason. Well on a real jet engine there’s a reason. On the model I could get away with that.
Listen to Mr Boeing about safety over here
Me: “You know, I’m gonna miss Aaron Donald.”
NFL Network: “We now celebrate the career of Aaron Donald by airing Super Bowl LVI, wherein Donald made Cincinnati’s Offensive Line his bitches and made Joe Burrow cry for his momma.”
Me: “…well that didn’t last long. See ya in Canton, you cheat code!”
That’s pretty funny
“It could be on the moon and there’d be Arizona fans there.”
“It could be in a stripper bar, and there would be ASU alumni all over the place.”
Wait, you can graduate from ASU?
You don’t have to graduate to be alumni, you just have to attend for at least a day or donate to the alumni association
This lair-owning physician gets it.
“Except for the fact that the moon in a hoax.” – Aaron Rodgers, probably, someday soon
I mean, the moon is in space, which we all learned doesn’t exist at the combine
I really shouldn’t plan trips with the Dr. Mrs. It only causes her to get a taste for goin’ places, and doin’ stuff.
It’s really your fault for not making her be barefoot, pregnant, and giving State of the Union rebuttals in the kitchen
I *wish* our kitchen was that uncluttered.
Also you’d never be able to hear her over the vacuuming.
AM I THE ONLY FUCKER WHO DINES AT MY DINING ROOM TABLE?!
Yes.
YOU’RE ALL A BUNCH OF ANIMALS!
I’ll bet you wear pants at the dining room table too, don’t you?
Now, now, that kind of talk is just uncalled for. We don’t use the p-word during mealtimes in my house
lol random desert rat calling sophisticated coastal elites “animals”
https://ibb.co/kMXnYtv
That episode was so, so good.
Rubbish! (in rubbish bin)
I do jigsaw puzzles on mine, but my parents dine on theirs!
In my defense, I don’t even have a dining room table.
I used to, but now I only have a kitchen table. I had a great dining room in my house in Birmingham, and we used it pretty often.
We eat at our dining room table all the time. Here is a look at the current state of it, which could also be described as its “normal” state:
Tortillas grande
Nice gimp mask.
How do we find this and, more importantly, bet money that we do not have on it?
https://twitter.com/PuroresuFlow/status/1768653012677853521
I love that they have to take their shirts off first.
Such a great rule.
It looks like there might be a rule that you can block someone once they take their shirt off, but I’m not certain.
Just ordered delivery from Dairy Queen. Large onion rings and ice cream for everyone. Been a hell of a week
Onion rings make everything OK.
Don’t overdue it on the Mexican food before your trip!
See ya in 2 weeks!
Now this would be sexy!
https://twitter.com/capittalism/status/1768632129116602859
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCS-g3HwXdc
Famous and free cuz he murdered someone. I truly hate this fat faced fuck
I love how, even with the Pac-12 in systemic-racism hospice, they’re still keeping the Pac-12 Tournament games on their own network that no one has.
Pac-12 gonna Pac-12 til the end. Good riddance. Just one more institution that died at the hands of the Commitment of Baby Boomers.
The Ocho!!
Is #3 Heaven? It looks like Heaven.
It’s Iowa
That water is nice but it’s no BORA BORA.
Heaven doesn’t serve milkshakes.
Sexy Friday Appropriate and Equal Opportunity Beefcake
I don’t recall Jake Gyllenhaal’s stint in WWE.
I’m sorry but I just cannot get over the fact that every single gay guy wants to have sex with me.
https://www.theonion.com/why-do-all-these-homosexuals-keep-sucking-my-cock-1819583529