Quoted from CrazyLevi:getting my shit together for an end of month move.
What? Mr. NYC is moving??!!?? WTF? Maybe he’s moving-on-up, like the Jeffersons to the East side, and into a bigger bird cage!?
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Quoted from Blitzburgh99:Maybe he’s moving-on-up, like the Jeffersons to the East side, and into a bigger bird cage!?
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Quoted from Toasterdog:Smoking grass + cutting grass = better
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Word, fellow Floridian
Quoted from Mbecker:Lol appreciate the humor but it’s in nearly every f’ing county in the world. It’s a pandemic by any definition of the word. That’s not fake, Period. Come visit some of the hospitals that are at/over capacity. But sorry to hear it’s cut into your poker profits, that must really bite.
You are wasting your time using facts to make your point.
It's extremely difficult to debate a smart person.
But it is impossible to debate a stupid person.
Quoted from erak:A retired neighbour a few houses down goes out everyday and neals on his lawn. Removes weeds and cuts parts of his front lawn with scissors. And cuts it wth the mower every Saturday. He also hoses his driveway down. I Don't understand it. But I guess it's his thing.
He does have a very nice lawn though.
I got seriously sick about 10 yrs ago. Much to the dismay of my uptight neighbors, I decided my lawn can go to hell once I recovered. No one ever had “He had a fine lawn” inscribed on their tombstone. One of my neighbors started nagging—I told her I had more important things to worry about: not dying, spending time with my children, keeping my business going and that the lawn ranked about 263 on my list. She got furious. Her husband laughed. Biggest waste of water, chemicals, bad for the environment, etc. I keep it mowed and could care less what growing.
My neighbor sends his wife and 14 year old daughter out to cut the lawn once every two weeks. This past June he gets a hammock for Father’s Day. I must be doing something wrong.
Quoted from rai:I collect books all kinds, comic books, literature, Sci-fi and nonfiction. I have been collecting for like 40 years and have a huge collection only have read a fraction. Don’t know if I’ll ever be able to read even half of them. I don’t know why but I can’t bring myself to get rid of them. We just moved must have been 80+ banker boxes.
Also dramatically changed my collecting habit after I got sick. Kind of forced me to realize that I’m just renting the stuff and that some dealer would just pick my bones. I kind of regretted the 100s of days, perhaps even multiple years, of life spent at cons, antique malls, flea markets, etc. never mind eBay. I’ve found a happy medium since then.
Time: Arguing about subjects that involve science.
Money: Giving your money and your vote to a group of people that really do not care about you.
One of my other hobbies is collecting and restoring old radios. Some more than
100 years old now. Lately have gotten the bug to get Depression era radios, mostly
cathedral style, because they represent an important time in our country. And thats
when pinball was invented too. Started collecting radios n 1975 so it predates
pinball collecting by many years.
Lately I've been amassing vintage ham radios from the 1940's and '50's as well.
These are things I could only dream of having when I was first licensed as a kid.
Wife, family and most of my friends tell me to my face its a stupid thing to
was time and money on. Nuts to that! As long as its something I enjoy,
screw them. A heck of a lot cheaper than pinball or classic cars!
Steve
Quoted from albummydavis:Also dramatically changed my collecting habit after I got sick. Kind of forced me to realize that I’m just renting the stuff and that some dealer would just pick my bones. I kind of regretted the 100s of days, perhaps even multiple years, of life spent at cons, antique malls, flea markets, etc. never mind eBay. I’ve found a happy medium since then.
You're not kidding. I once had 13 vintage outboard gas cans, at least 16 guitars, big box of foreign and Civil War bills, a dozen or so tube amps, tube radios, a hundred cast iron pieces, not to mention so much antique furniture my house and barns were full.
Been selling hard and knocked it down a little but more pops up from unlikely places.
Quoted from albummydavis:I got seriously sick about 10 yrs ago. Much to the dismay of my uptight neighbors, I decided my lawn can go to hell once I recovered. No one ever had “He had a fine lawn” inscribed on their tombstone. One of my neighbors started nagging—I told her I had more important things to worry about: not dying, spending time with my children, keeping my business going and that the lawn ranked about 263 on my list. She got furious. Her husband laughed. Biggest waste of water, chemicals, bad for the environment, etc. I keep it mowed and could care less what growing.
Same here. I was diagnosed with MS 3 years ago. And think the same. Many more important things.
It could be me but the whole home brewed coffee scene on your multi-thousand dollar machine seems to have a degree of pretentious wankery surrounding it.
Or it could be that I recently had to listen to a 15 minute spiel by someone I was visiting explaining:
1. How much his unit cost.
2. What type of bean he only puts through it.
3. Where he sources said beans from.
4. How much those beans cost.
5. How it has paid for itself many times over.
6. How it was far superior to anything you could pay for in a commercial establishment.
Just make the damn coffee and shut the f up.
Quoted from ForceFlow:Horses love grass, and they will mow down a lawn in no time flat. If you know of any horse owners nearby and want your grass cut, invite them over. The horse gets a free meal, and you get your lawn done
Sorry but horses will ruin your lawn. They don’t trim them they take it out by the root. Cows are what you want to trim the grass, they don’t pull it out by the root.
Quoted from Brtlkat:Sorry but horses will ruin your lawn. They don’t trim them they take it out by the root. Cows are what you want to trim the grass, they don’t pull it out by the root.
Horses will occasionally do that (as in, once or twice) when eating in a full lawn, yes, but they generally prefer not to get a face of dirt when an abundance of grass is available.
It's only when they're pinned up that they will completely pull up everything they can possibly reach and nibble on.
If you let them graze on a lawn for a day, the lawn will be fine.
This costs me way more than pinball and gets used 30x less
I know its stupid to spend the kind of money I did but I love it.
I think the phrase "a hole in the water to pour money into" sums it up.
Or B.O.A.T. Break Out Another Thousand
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Quoted from JonCBrand:This costs me way more than pinball and gets used 30x less
I know its stupid to spend the kind of money I did but I love it.
I think the phrase "a hole in the water to pour money into" sums it up.
Or B.O.A.T. Break Out Another Thousand
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Wow, I am not into boating but my wife told me we can rent a nice one for $400-600 for 4 hours.
Quoted from ForceFlow:Horses love grass, and they will mow down a lawn in no time flat. If you know of any horse owners nearby and want your grass cut, invite them over. The horse gets a free meal, and you get your lawn done
Yeah, but it would likely come with some horse patties, so there's a tradeout.
Quoted from shavenyak:Yeah, but it would likely come with some horse patties, so there's a tradeout.
Cows leave somewhat messy patties, horses leave fairly neat droppings. Easy cleanup. Just grab a shovel.
It's not like they go every 10 minutes. 
Chances are, they won't leave anything behind.
Quoted from ForceFlow:It's not like they go every 10 minutes.
They go about 10 times a day, its a large amount of manure.
Sheep or goats are the way to go 
Quoted from JonCBrand:This costs me way more than pinball and gets used 30x less
I know its stupid to spend the kind of money I did but I love it.
I think the phrase "a hole in the water to pour money into" sums it up.
Or B.O.A.T. Break Out Another Thousand
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The Best days of a boaters life. The day they buy it. And the day they sell it.
Quoted from trilogybeer:I’m thinking about spending a bunch of money on a new mountain bike. Stupid? Maybe , but damn that bike looks awesome! And I bet it rides very well also .
Not stupid at all. I paid around $800 for a nice one in the late 80s and have rode it ever since. Up and down Saddleback Mountain and all over the place. Still have it and it still works great. Only recently started thinking about buying a new one. Good new ones cost a tad more now though.
Quoted from Puffdanny:You are dead wrong here !!! I am on a 3 year winning streak at Motorcity Casino in Detroit the last time I lost money there was 2016(havent been in 2020) I only play poker because I don't like gambling but poker is like pinball and some people are just better. I'll probably never beat Rosa or Grabowski at pinball but I doubt they'd ever beat me at the poker table.this fake pandemic has really cut into my free money.
I don't win a lot at a time just $100-300 at a time and get out with my winnings.if you're good at poker and not greedy its easy to make a.couple hundred per sitting.
Not talking about playing Poker here where yes some of it is skill and some is luck. But playing the slots and saying thats skill? Come on!
John
Quoted from Dayhuff:Not talking about playing Poker here where yes some of it is skill and some is luck. But playing the slots and saying thats skill? Come on!
John
100% agree on that
People that collect vintage diapers and participate in “diaper parties” where the goal is actually to poop yourself. It’s a real thing. I did not believe it when my friend told me and I did some searches and yup, it’s real.
Quoted from snyper2099:People that collect vintage diapers and participate in “diaper parties” where the goal is actually to poop yourself. It’s a real thing. I did not believe it when my friend told me and I did some searches and yup, it’s real.
You know I would have been fine in life not knowing this was a thing. Ugh.
Quoted from Puffdanny:maybe we can merge diaper parties with pinball tournaments THAT WOULD BE THE SHIT!!
Would there be any difference? 
Bottled water.
What a drag on the environment. Your health (yes, the chemicals from the bottles..). Your wallet.
Just buy a Brita. Or, heaven forbid, drink tap.
Quoted from Blackbeard:Bottled water.
What a drag on the environment. Your health (yes, the chemicals from the bottles..). Your wallet.
Just buy a Brita. Or, heaven forbid, drink tap.
The bottles are BY FAR the #1 piece if garbage I pull out if the river. Probably 5 of those for 1 of everything else combined.
Quoted from trilogybeer:I’m thinking about spending a bunch of money on a new mountain bike. Stupid? Maybe , but damn that bike looks awesome! And I bet it rides very well also .
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What model is that and why do I want one ?
Quoted from shavenyak:Yeah, but it would likely come with some horse patties, so there's a tradeout.
Ahhh... that would be horse apples. You don't want Cow Pattie in your yard 
Quoted from Dayhuff:Not talking about playing Poker here where yes some of it is skill and some is luck. But playing the slots and saying thats skill? Come on!
John
Slots, poker, black jack, etc it can all be considered entertainment. I'll go to the casino a few times a year and always go in knowing that I'm comfortable losing the money I brought. When I go with my wife and friends we make it an event, stay for the night, get a few drinks, grab dinner, etc. Now the people that are spending their retirement savings, losing their house, and going into debt just to gamble is what's really stupid.
Quoted from OLDPINGUY:I have been mowing lawns for over 50 years, and I love gardening.
However, Lawns, to me are the biggest waste of everything!!!
If we could eat what we cut, or feed livestock with it, Great!
For ornament, and its cost....what a waste of time.
Quoted from albummydavis:I got seriously sick about 10 yrs ago. Much to the dismay of my uptight neighbors, I decided my lawn can go to hell once I recovered. No one ever had “He had a fine lawn” inscribed on their tombstone. One of my neighbors started nagging—I told her I had more important things to worry about: not dying, spending time with my children, keeping my business going and that the lawn ranked about 263 on my list. She got furious. Her husband laughed. Biggest waste of water, chemicals, bad for the environment, etc. I keep it mowed and could care less what growing.
You are talking about yard work. Girl friend lives for it. I struggle to start the lawn mower. And think what I could do with the money that my yard eats up. I could be spending that money buying a new topper
But if you work for Scott's Lawn Care company or build, sell, repair, trade lawnmowers, this is how you feed your family. And then there all of those chemicals , like Roundup.
" Around $45 billion is spent annually to care for the 40 million acres of lawns in the U.S., with 800 million gallons of gasoline burned in dirty lawnmower engines."
That's a lot of money driving the economy. So, we continue to waste resources just so the neighbors can oooh and ahhh at our yards.
Don't even get me started on the flower industry which I think is a colossal waste. But it is big business.
https://smartasset.com/insights/the-economics-of-flowers
Are pinball machines an exorbitant hobby? Not if you are building them for living. And not if you are shipping them for a living. If pinballers went on strike, STI would have to close its doors. Stern would be no more.
Come to think of it, if we got rid of all the junk in our economy, no one would have a job.
Quoted from midniight:What model is that and why do I want one ?
It’s the 2020 Yeti ARC. Not sure which specific build it is in that picture though. I’d be looking for a C2 or T1. I want one because I have been riding the trails a lot lately. My current bike is 15 years old and I think I’d like to buy a new one . Also my current bike is full suspension and large frame size . I want a hard tail in medium frame size. I like Yeti bikes.
And I just put a deposit down on a 2021 Yeti ARC , I went with the C2 build. Looks like I will get my bike in October, just in time for some great fall riding. 
ok didnt know where to post this,
Pretty weird hobby..... not that it bugs me (pun) but why?
I was searching for some JP pictures of the first movie stun gun from the opening scene with the raptor handlers.
Then i stumbled upon this site:
https://wdbqam.com/beetles-dressed-up-as-jurassic-park-characters/
I just looked that up. They look INCREDIBLE! Would love to see one in person as it has me intrigued and wanting to buy.
Quoted from gliebig:I just bought two sisyphus tables.
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