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[Immigrant]

Albuquerque banned single-use plastic bags some time ago (then postponed implementation b/c COVID made everybody paranoid about sterility). The stores addressed it by making bags out of plastic that's 2 mils thick, and calling them "reusable". The city council adjusted the law so that it's now 4 mils thick, made of textile, with stitched handles.

Which brings me to today, when I heard some dipshit whining this morning that "mils" as thickness for bags in the new city ordinance was a conspiracy to force us onto the metric system.

I didn't have the heart to tell him a "mil" is 1/1000 of an inch.

Yeah, that shit confuses me too and even though I consider myself an idiot, I don’t consider myself on the same level of idiocy as those idiots. A mil isn’t a millimieter, but it sure looks like a mil is a millimeter when you read “a mil”. It’s like the crazy Europeans did it to confuse everyone intentionally, and stick their fuckin noses a little higher up each others’ asses or something.

The last couple of years I was employed were spent trying to explain that to receiving clerks on docks all over the Pacific NW, and I didn’t fully understand it myself. It’s a good thing I knew lots of boiled meat jokes and thinly-veiled threats about “kicking their asses 200 years ago” that got me through those explanations in one piece without either of us learning anything at all from them, period.

 

[wetwillie]

Yeah, that shit confuses me too and even though I consider myself an idiot, I don’t consider myself on the same level of idiocy as those idiots. A mil isn’t a millimieter, but it sure looks like a mil is a millimeter when you read “a mil”. It’s like the crazy Europeans did it to confuse everyone intentionally, and stick their fuckin noses a little higher up each others’ asses or something.

The last couple of years I was employed were spent trying to explain that to receiving clerks on docks all over the Pacific NW, and I didn’t fully understand it myself. It’s a good thing I knew lots of boiled meat jokes and thinly-veiled threats about “kicking their asses 200 years ago” that got me through those explanations in one piece without either of us learning anything at all from them, period.

Latin. Mille is 1000 in Latin. Like millennium. MM is mille of meter. Mil is mille of inch. Nothing to do with us kicking their asses. maybe
It is weird but the alternative is "thow" for 1/1000". We used that in tool & die, " plus or minus a thow".

Morning immi!

 

[Jehannum]

 

[Domon]

There needs to be a word for someone who isn't actively suicidal, but open to the idea of death as a release.

Like me, who is still using recalled hazard fraught jackstands.

that word is reckless

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

@Domon

Even FloridaMan ain't that dumb.
For bonus scary, pay attention to the eyes in the dark.

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

 

[Jehannum]

@Domon

Even FloridaMan ain't that dumb.
For bonus scary, pay attention to the eyes in the dark.

those guys are up to their asses in alligators.

 

[Jehannum]

oh boy, karen's at it again walking up and down the street looking for shit to call the city about.

Good thing all my bullshit's in check.

 

[wetwillie]

oh boy, karen's at it again walking up and down the street looking for shit to call the city about.

Good thing all my bullshit's in check.

I'd suggest a drive-by puddle splashing but good luck finding one in YOUR area.

 

[wetwillie]

Time to pull the dip stick, again?

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

What a fucking idiot.

 

[Domon]

What a fucking idiot.


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[kiwi]

@Strings what paint do you use for your mini figures? My boy wants to start painting his.

 

[Strings]

@kiwi I highly recommend Vallejo game color and model color.
And I use Army Painter, also very good but you have to shake the hell out of the little bottles to mix the pigments if it sits too long.
Citadel is good but I'm not thrilled with the paint pot containers, they can be tricky to reseal.
But their washes (extremely thin paint for shading and highlights) are top notch.

 

[Strings]

And, Vallejo sets usually come with some step-by-step pointers to get some really cool effects and results.

 

[wetwillie]

oh boy, karen's at it again walking up and down the street looking for shit to call the city about.

Good thing all my bullshit's in check.

I had reason to think about this again. My oldest step-daughter and the SIL just bought a new house, I saw it yesterday. Problem - they are super slobs with their yard and were in a <$100k house for last 11 yr. His mom reveals she had some money set aside for him to buy a house, so they blow the wad on a $350k home with an association. They think they had neighbor problems before? - Lawd have mercy!!

Too bad you don't have a "backfire" switch in your car, do drive-by bangs on ol Karen, then just

and wave.

 

[Jehannum]

I had reason to think about this again. My oldest step-daughter and the SIL just bought a new house, I saw it yesterday. Problem - they are super slobs with their yard and were in a <$100k house for last 11 yr. His mom reveals she had some money set aside for him to buy a house, so they blow the wad on a $350k home with an association. They think they had neighbor problems before? - Lawd have mercy!!

Too bad you don't have a "backfire" switch in your car, do drive-by bangs on ol Karen, then just

and wave.

I do have a backfire switch in my car. It happens all the time when it's cold because I don't have a choke hooked up to the carburetors.

 

[Jehannum]

@AppleTurkey out-nerded me for my birthday present.



It's even autographed by Armin Shimerman.

 

[kiwi]

@kiwi I highly recommend Vallejo game color and model color.
And I use Army Painter, also very good but you have to shake the hell out of the little bottles to mix the pigments if it sits too long.
Citadel is good but I'm not thrilled with the paint pot containers, they can be tricky to reseal.
But their washes (extremely thin paint for shading and highlights) are top notch.

Perfect thanks!