-
Posts
13446 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Store
Downloads
Recruiting - 2020
2019-2020 Football Season
Football
Entertainment
Sports
News and Business
Cloak Room
Transfer Portal
Recruiting
Events
Posts posted by tbone_
-
-
Forgive me, is this the final 4 or to go to the final 4?
-
Honky Tonk Women isn’t top 5?
-
Oh, and one of the best things we ever did (not really knowing how well it would turn out) was to buy the boy a "project" go-kart for his birthday when he was 13 or so. It ran, and he could drive it around and have fun with it. But it needed work and tuning (it really was a homemade kart, so some aspects of it did not perform optimally). We went to Harbor Freight, and I bought him his own set of tools. And then told him and his friends that they were free to work on it to their hearts' content. He started out griping about it, but eventually really got into it. He's now 21, and when he and his friends come home of Christmas and such, one of the things they do is get together to tinker with the go-kart, which they have turned into a semi-armored car. One of his friends SO got into it that he now has a side hustle of buying busted up go-karts, rehabbing them, then flipping them for a profit. They get their knuckles scraped and hands oily and dirty, and know how to take apart small engines, all kinds of stuff. AND, it provided them a fun diversion for years.
Give a kid a project that they can have fun with, and sometimes, they'll run with it. Maybe we got lucky, but it turned out to be a good thing. I'm fucking sick of the kart and all the parts and shit taking up half my garage, though.
I for one would gladly swap space currently reserved in my garage for Christmas shit for a bunch of fixer upper go karts.- 1
- 1
- 1
-
Team no relic
Also team who cares where your Martin is from if you dig it- 1
- 2
-
- Popular Post
- Popular Post
That’s on you for still having the trash bag and the donate box at the house when she got home.
- 10
- 3
-
Who’s the band?
-
-
Totally. I was just being a smart ass about the hat.
-
Loves me some Fender Rhodes.
This right here. I don’t know about the out of tune part, but played correctly it’s fantastic. As evidence I submit these two examples. -
Fuck man
- 1
-
Dude could kick your ass in basketball while wearing heels.
Wasn’t he like 5-2? -
I lucked into free GA tickets from Little Steven to the Springsteen show in San Francisco last night and it was an epic night for my wife, daughter, and me (our son missed out because he was away on a school trip).
The show itself was incredible. It was our first Springsteen concert and I’m kicking myself for not attending one when I was younger.
During the show, Little Steven gestured for me to give him the hat I was wearing. He and Bruce took turns wearing it for nearly an entire song.
To make the night even crazier, Bruce handed my daughter his harmonica after playing it.
You get a free bowl of soup with that hat?- 2
- 2
-
My first car was a 1971 Toyota Corona Deluxe. The passenger front door would fly open on a sharp left turn. I don’t want to hear any whining about build quality.- 1
-
I have a theory, based partly on reading Keith’s autobiography, that Mick and Keith have lived a life that few if any others in human history have been able to live.
Better than filthy rich billionaires because they are worshiped and they still have plenty of money. Better than real royalty or political leaders because they don’t have the responsibility to lead, but they are absolutely cultural royalty. Worshiped all over the world, literally everyone you meet will fall all themselves to do whatever you want/need/etc. There is no place you go that you aren’t the coolest person in the room. And all you have to do in return is rock. They were among the first true rockstars, probably the biggest ever, and managed to keep it going for what 60 years?
Just trying to think of anyone else in human history who’s had that kind of life experience. Not many.- 3
-
I always liked the Van Halen drum sound. Made them sound like Van Halen to me.
I know, I know. I’ll show myself out. -
I’m guessing I’m the only one checking the market this morning wondering why shit isn’t moving.
Dammit Jesus.
Nope -
- Popular Post
- Popular Post
My wife is 45. This past weekend was the first time she ever heard the phrase "righty tighty lefty loosy".
She broke the garage door a few months ago. Knocked it off the track and the vertical channels got bent. Door was wedged crooked about halfway down. One roller bracket got so twisted I had to cut it just so I could get the door shut or risk having thieves stealing all of my tools and shit. I ordered all the parts to fix it and have been busy with work so haven’t had time to fix it until this past weekend.
Since she broke it, and I needed a 2nd set of hands to pull the panels off and put them back in, I made her help me. I have an old car in the garage I'm restoring so if course it was in the way. I was taking out hinge bolts on one side of the car, then handed her the socket wrench to take out the two bolts on her side.
I stood there and watched as she rotated the socket wrench the wrong way - click click click click - for a good 2-3 minutes. I kept telling her to turn it the other way but she couldn't figure it out. "It's not turning." I had to walk around the car and show her how a socket wrench works.
Later when we're reassembling, she kept trying to tighten a bolt with the wrench set to loosen. This was after I had already shown her how to switch it. "You need to come do this one. I can't get it tighten."
Seriously - how do you live 45 years and not understand which direction to turn something to tighten or loosen it? She's changed light bulbs before.
There are 4 other females that live with me in my house. I’d be more surprised if one of them knew how to work a socket wrench than if I woke up with my head sewn to the carpet.- 7
- 3
- 7
-
At least she brought the recycle bin in off the curb, which is a win I guess
- 6
- 1
-
To the Clit post - They all know how to get a 4 year old to show you his dick though
-
Academics not sold on DJT
DJT stock hits turbulence: More volatility ahead for Trump's high-flying Truth Social
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/03/28/truth-social-trump-media-slide/73131957007/ -
its okay to swear if you wear a wifebeater
Pretty sure it’s required- 1
-
the Stones keep rolling because, in the end, it's Mick and Keith.
They do now. But they wouldn’t have had the same groove that made them The Stones without Charlie Watts.- 2
- 1
-
I'm not saying that he was useless to the Beatles and that they would have been as good with someone else, but I AM saying that the credit he gets is excessive. George and Paul were better musicians, singers, and songwriters. Ringo was a better musician and singer. To many people, John Lennon is the definitive Beatle. To me, he's the guy that brings the least to the band.
That may be true individually. But to me the thing about music is that when you bring the right pieces together 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 > 4. For the Beatles 1+1+1+1=~27. That’s the unexplainable magic that makes great music great.
Individually is Lennon the third best? Maybe. Would they be The Beatles without him? No.- 1
-
It’s just one song that is played over and over, right?
Same with Zydeco- 2
Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty Guilty
in Cloak Room
Posted
He’s literally just daring them to do something