Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Sad news. Looks like the third eaglet chick, the runt of the litter, didn't make it. The website is the Dale Hollow eagle can in Twin Lakes, Tennessee. The other two are much bigger and appear to be doing fine. Nature can be cruel sometimes, but it probably would have been attacked by a larger predator anyway.
Speaking of bicycles, I can't speak highly enough of hot dip chain wax - if you're not doing it it's so worth it. It's a little bit to get set up (2 new chains recommended, which you have to clean ALL the factory lube gunk off/out of) and pan for wax, junk pliers or whatnot etc.
I do this in the oven - I am really not clear why they all insist on slow cookers when the oven you can actually set to 200F and it holds it. The only hazard is if Wife is picky about using the oven for garage shit, and getting little bits of wax everywhere, which will happen.
It's astonishing how clean the chain stays. It's a little noisier than lube - you almost feel at first like it's not lubricated! - but you can tell by the noise details when it's time to swap chains (you start hearing more sort of little squeaks - Edit: and you feel a little like the turbo may be going out) - and that's the thing, when it comes time to "clean the chain" you just swap to the other one then soak the other one so it's ready.
(Oh and I'm using Runaway Bike - I just get the "Hot Tub" REFILL - I don't need their silly pot as I got cheap Chinesium 8x8 baking dish from Wal-Mart* - it seems fine and is way cheaper than the big brands.)
*Has anyone else noticed that the Wal-Mart logo (as featured on the back of their vests) looks like a butthole?
Damn, on my bicycle ride this afternoon (just got back a bit ago) I passed a 5-locomotive train throttled down (I think waiting for clear track). It's always cool to see them up close like that even if they aren't doing much. Well... The trail separates some from the track for awhile, then under a street shares an underpass with the tracks. As I approached that I noticed the train was on it and gonna re-pass me. So I got on it too and was perfectly placed in the underpass with the engines. It was so awesome, all the power and sound reverberating and everything.
I was living in Japan at the time. I hadn't visited my birth country for about 10 years, so I brought my wife and baby daughter home for a 10 day visit, which coincided with my Birthday. Travelling on a plane in the 1990s....
My two elder brothers knew I was studying linguistics, and bought me a birthday present that they thought was a hilarious joke: The Shorter Oxford Dictionary, which is a two-volume monster weighing around 13+ pounds (6+ kilos).
I left the dictionary at my mother's house, and reclaimed it around 10 years later when I returned to my birth nation with my family.
We still use this dictionary today, but there is no way you could whip it out without suffering wrist dislocation.
Note: I AM watching out. Warning appreciated.
Hmmmm...
I notice sometimes that there is a whole bunch of stickies, and then in one moment or so, a whole swathe of them are unstickied, and I wonder how this works.
I would have thought that unstickying would make sense if, A) there are incoming posts that need sticky space and there are too many stickies there, or B) a post has been stickied but is basically inactive and not gathering any upvcotes or responses for a period of time.
But if there are no new stickies, and the posts are still active, then why unsticky? just because of time?
Hmmm....
signed, Curious cat.
Mods work in mysterious ways
You too fren. God bless.
There's a duck on the pool this morning. It is kinda cool. 😎🦆
It's a wild American duck.
Keep up the bank runs!
Hope this is the right place to post this. Could someone provide the link to the rules of being able to make a post? I feel I remember reading you must comment on so many posts before you make your own. I'm on mobile and can not figure it out.
I was trying to share a news story of SECOND GRADERS performing oral sex in school classroom and the instructional assistant was also in the room. Similar incident happened back in February.
https://www.wavy.com/news/investigative/portsmouth-school-investigating-sexual-incident-involving-second-graders/
Wow - this is really disturbing. Hope there is follow through by authorities and other parents on this.
You need to have a minimal karma by making comments and getting upvotes. Until then your posts will get auto filtered.
Thank you for answering. What is the minimal amount?
Been following Q since /pol/ and been here long awhile, just not much of a commenter. More of the upvote and share the info type. Too bad for me upvoting others doesnt count cause I would be set 😁
Most of this is controlled by the dot win site, not by us moderators, so I can't tell for sure how much is the minimal amount. However, if you participate in comments, it shouldnt take too long.
What's the threshold, bub?
Today’s news wasn’t as winning as the last few weeks. I didn’t even get to scan through any until tonight due to being busy with family. But appears it was a negative day for Good Friday. Well at least I know what today is really about, and await Sunday for Christ to rise for us all. Keep calm and carry on Anons. God bless you all. WWG1WGA.
I have to say, from the Trump indictment on Tuesday to the Florida Grand Jury charging the Biden admin with human trafficking on Thursday - I was expecting the boomerang but not THAT damn fast!
Many boomerangs incoming. And I mean MANY.
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Too often these days, I come to General Chat to express a few ideas, and find myself writing up a bunch of stuff that turns into a post in its own right.
Curse you General Chat. You are WAY too effective.
Disclaimer: See NEW for the rant I just transplanted to a post.
Why rant when you can bye?
That is at least a second-order play on words, possibly third-order.
Kudos to you!
Snap. I didn't see the second.
I stand in awe....
Yeah... I groaned and then stroked my chin in contemplation. 🤔
Touche!~