Skilled truckers

I have met truck drivers that can (and have demonstrated) back their trailer up to a cargo dock blindfolded.

I’ve met some that can navigate turning radii (radiuses? Radiens?) smaller than my old Nissan.

And then I’ve also met some that couldn’t figure out their 13ft tall trailer can’t fit under a 12ft 8 bridge…

For the most part though, in my experience truck drivers are better drivers than 97% of regular drivers.

As an American, even the ones that aren’t should stay away. Why visit a place where you might get kidnapped by government sanctioned brute squads and sent to a death camp in another country?

I’m sure they’ll have plenty of proper god fearing Christian good old boys just lining up to do their solemn duty.

You know, it’s always funny when sci-fi shows have doctors that refer to current year medical practices as “barbaric” or “Savage”, but honestly looking back just 50 years? Same feeling.

200 years ago, the local “doctor” will probably tell you to take a swig of the bottle he just dumped on your wound, because he’s gotta saw it off. Hopefully they at least washed it since it’s last use.

200 years from now? Eh. Doc will wave a light over it, you’ll be fine.

But it’s better.

See? It’s got the pointy bit at the end.

Who needs superior naval power when you can just turn any naval battle into a land battle? Well… Infantry battle, anyway.

Interpretatio Graeca Romana

So good at stealing things, they even stole the idea that stolen things weren’t stolen!

“See? You stole it from those guys!”

“Steal? We would never! It’s simply been incorporated into our society.”

“See? Totally different.”

Why invent when you can get a jump start on iterative design?

It’s a bit harder without CAD, but they made it work.

Now I want a trireme with a Corvus painted to look like a crow.

And I will definitely be referring to it as my ship’s Corvid. Any time a newcomer tries to correct me, I’ll just point to it and ask “You sure about that?”

Push workdays later into the day so a 9-5 becomes an 11-5.

FTFY

work can get fucked if they think I’m giving up my evenings. We should be pushing for shorter workdays, too. Not just push them back.

I’ve lost my sea legs, unfortunately. It’s been about a decade since I set sail and at this point I’m paranoid about any online interactions.

I wouldn’t even know where to start with VPNs.

Is this what getting old feels like? Can I go back to limewire?

I ended up finally giving it a shot last month, and I recall having seen stuff about season 2.

I finished season 1 in 2 days, and then found out season 2 hadn’t quite come out yet.

Then I did what I always do and waited for all the episodes to come out… I got halfway through season 2 before my last month I’m paying for streaming services ran out.

So now I will indefinitely be halfway through season 2.

I should have started season 2 the day the last episode was released.

GROND

GONK

Look, if you have an aural processing issue I totally understand, but if you’re just being racist against droids as some kind of hold-over from the clone wars, GTFO.

There’s a massive difference between “GONK” and “GONK”. They sound nothing alike.

Next you’re going to tell me that ewoks could take on an imperial brigade…

I my experience, Christians don’t know their own Bible and rarely, if ever, crack it open without someone telling them to, usually during a service.

As I said, non-fictional people tied together with a fictional story.

Deciding that I said one thing, when simply looking up and seeing I didn’t say it means you are founding your reply on feelings instead of actual information.

🎶🎵Oh the times, they are a-changin🎵🎶

harmonica solo

HP ain’t got shit on The Hobbit.

She called the Asian girl “ching chong”, she called one of the few black people in it “shackle bolt”, and she might as well have called the Irish kid “Irish O’Carbomb” given his name an propensity for unintentionally setting things on fire.

Don’t even get me started on the goblins.

She straight up admitted lycanthropy is HIV, and all werewolves are interested j is spreading their disease by attacking anyone nearby, one werewolf specifically targets children, if I remember correctly.

The only gay characters I am aware of, one is a villain, and the other other is “one of the good ones” who never acted on it after a point and just stayed a celibate single.

The only non-magical users in the magic world “squibs”, basically disabled people, are portrayed as shitty humans. Every summer Harry got left with ms fig who was “a mad old lady”, and the school caretaker Filch, who is a sadist that welcomes umbridge with open arms, a parasite who latches on to whoever benefits him most.

I’m sure there’s others I’ve never caught or thought about.