Quoted from punkin:

I've never used one anywhere. Union till i die, i'd rather wait in line and create jobs.

Quoted from LTG:

When I was thinking of buying land up north where I like to vacation at, and later build a retirement house on it. A friend that lived there warned me that you have to bury three generations before the locals will talk to you.
LTG : )

Quoted from JohnnyPinball007:

For power and speed, VOLVO is the best excavators I have ever operated.
Long ago I did love that Hitachi 270 that my dad owned.
When I was young, I learned to operate on a John Deere 690. It was fun then, no way in hell would I ever touch one of those again, they sucked, but I did not know anything else back then.
Confess 35 years ago my dad would pull up on a job, get out of his truck and toss a beer can, and when he was not looking, I would scoop the can up with an excavator and dump it in the bed of his truck just being a smartass.
Confess I hate anything that Bobcat makes. I just played dumb all through the years if asked to do anything with one of those.
And weird as it may be, I learned how to drive a stick shift, not in a car or truck, but operating an Arrow Hydraulic Hammer back when I was young.
I used to love operating that hammer tearing up concrete. What 12-year-old does not like tearing up stuff, AND getting paid to do it!
Confess I miss the good old days operating machines on jobs for my dad.
Back then there were no hardhat bullshit, and dad would leave a cooler of beer for all of his employees on the job daily, and at lunch time he would have us cut down a hickory tree, and he would use that wood along with a bag of charcoal to cook steaks for everyone.
OSHA would have a heart attack about all of that these days.
Hell, back then we all loved going to work and we had a great time every day.
Confess I retired from all of that long ago, but someone found me and begged me to play in the dirt some more.
I help them maybe 70 days a year, as long as no hardhat crap. No beer cooler on the job, but that is fine, I stopped drinking and driving back when I was 23 years old anyway, that is when that could land a person in jail, and HELL NO! I have never been in jail, and I do not plan to start going there now.
The only thing that really sucks is that when I do help them, I have to get up at 5am, a TV in up ofnd that is way too early and just sucks.
But, from when I was 6 years old, until I was 30 years old, that was what I did, kind of liked it, kind of like them, so in mid 50's and years later I go back to that for a while, and the extra bucks does help with the skyrocketing property taxes on my rental houses.
Most of my tenants are retired, and on fixed income, and I know food and everything else going up has to be hurting them, so no way in hell will I raise their rent. I will just work more myself to cover all these higher taxes.

Just coincidence. I am quick when I am here, but a lot of the time anymore I am not here.
Confess some topics like this one I thumbs up every post, and some topics I only thumbs up really good ones, or new people that have not made many comments yet, just as a welcome to the site.
And hell, after all the help LTG and others have gave me here, last night I was able to give some help back. A member was asking about can the big buck hunter arcade be set to free play, and I was able to help with that. (a been there done that thing with getting tired of feeding all the money that those things eat in a hurry, and no credit button like on a pinball machine).
I hope all of you have a great weekend!

Quoted from RCA1:

Hope that all went/goes well!

Quoted from punkin:

Mostly the game room thread. I didn't know the term dolls was offensive to males in North American culture. I was told i should have used the phrase 'action figures' instead.

Quoted from dirkdiggler:

Haha. I had a buddy in high school who drive a old 60s Cadillac who had the Aooga horn.

Quoted from MtnFrost:

I confess I haven’t been proud to be an American most of my life. This is just the latest example. We keep going backwards while the rest of the world moves forwards

Quoted from JohnnyPinball007:

Confess I have no plans of ever owning a cat.
2 main reasons:
1. My girlfriend hates cats, she had been in a relationship with a crazy cat dude that him and his cats made her once home unlivable many years ago.
2. I have cat scratch disease. I am partly blind from it. Other than that not too many other issues now.
To refresh about #2, about 9 years ago I was cutting grass for a client, and I knew that he had of just had surgery.
While I was mowing his lawn, I notice him on a ladder in a hospital gown, and I said what the hell are you doing.
He said my new kitten is on the roof, and I am trying to get it down.
The dude could not even stand up straight, and was in obvious pain, so I said here, I will get the kitten for you.
That kitten scratched the blood out of me, and I was not rough or anything to cause it.
I did rush home and washed the scratch.
Anyway, in a short time I was very sick, and I had not been sick in years, and then I thought I was going blind all of a sudden.
My case was baffling the eye doctors, until they finally hooked me up with someone super smart.
He asked all these weird questions that I said no to, until the question about have I been scratched by a cat, and that was a yes.
Blood test confirmed that I have cat scratch disease, and they said I will always test positive for it and have it.
The medicine they gave me helped to restore some of my eyesight, but the medicine started making me sick to the point that it almost killed me, and I had to stop taking it.
Confess the next time I ever have to look at a eyechart to renew my drivers license, I am ready to argue.
I have spots in my eyes that I can not see through to read a eyechart, but I can see most everything else just fine.
I still have other issues that come and go also, but the main thing is my eyes, the problem stays the same with my eyes.
Anyway, to help all of you avoid what I have dealt with and I still deal with, here is the deal with cats and kittens:
(And this is what I remember from reading about my issue years ago):
When a cat or kitten scratches a flea, something from that flea gets under their nail, and that is what causes cat scratch disease if they scratch you then.
The kitten I helped to rescue off the roof was too young for flea prevention at the time it scratched me.
Anyway, I confess I wonder if the same thing could happen with puppies and dogs, but none of them ever scratched the blood out of me, they only bit me while playing.

Quoted from punkin:

We have lots of words for the same thing, tosser, wanker, puller, flogger.......
tosser
English insult.
Implies that the person masturbates excessively. Also see Wanker.
wanker
UK/Aus/NZ slang for:
1. Someone excessively and annoyingly pretentious and/or false, with a strong likelihood of working in the creative industries, especially "new media". Very high populations of wankers are to be found in certain areas of London including Shoreditch and Hoxton; see also Shoreditch twat.
2. Someone with a faintly sociopathic lack of regard for other people; see also arsehole.
3. Someone useless, inefficient or time-wasting, especially in a place or work and/or position of responsibility.
4. A general term of abuse.
5. Someone who masturbates.
1. He spent twenty minutes telling me about the studio's new pathways they're developing in innovative synergistic blue-sky-media treatment concepts. In a fake Cockney-geezer accent. What a fucking wanker.

Quoted from pinzrfun:

I confess i almost lost my shit last night - went to dinner at a new place and while looking for the bathroom, turn the corner and there's a game room w 4 pins and a pool table. So after we eat, I get some singles and head down to play some pinball w the gf. Five minutes later, this woman brings her 2 screaming kids in there, puts some money in the pool table and leaves them. They start slamming the balls around, screaming, and 60 seconds later when the balls are gone just use the pool table as a jungle gym. Mom eventually returned but was too busy on her phone to tell them to get the hell off it.
We cut our night short to escape the shrieking.
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Quoted from pinzrfun:

To follow up - it couldn't have gone much better. We had a couple beers upstairs, gave them a quick tour of the house, bullshitted a little, then went down to the game room and played for a couple hours. Ordered a couple pizzas, then sat around the table playing a drinking game and listening to 80s metal before going back down to the game room for another hour or 2. They got there around 1230, left around 6pm, went through about 2 cases of beer and a lotta laughs.
Turns out a few of them are into golfing and do a guy's weekend with about 10 other guys in northern MI every summer, tons of food/booze - I'll be tagging along this year.

Quoted from punkin:

If you've been following my journey, you'll know that i am changing the way i interact with what is a new to me class of people. I get on fine with my countrymen, but i find the US citizens have a hard time understanding my bluntness.
Highly requested doesn't make it a constructive thing, you could have the ignore without restricting the experience for those of us who choose not to use it.
In any case, i know this is not the stage for it, so i'll leave it at that.
Just wanted mod's to know how it affects people who pay to view and support the site.