The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[Revoltingest]

I may send this to my youngest Viola teacher

How many viola teachers do you have?
Why only to the youngest of them?
And the big question....how do you hold the bow with 6" claws?

 

[Wu Wei]

How many viola teachers do you have?
Why only to the youngest of them?
And the big question....how do you hold the bow with 6" claws?

I have no idea what you are talking about....the NERVE of a guy...deleting the 's just to make a joke....REALLY....How DARE you sir....... I'm thinking water balloons at 10 paces....... but since I have no gloves I shall have to first slap you with my 6 inch claws to challenge you to this duel........ and of COURSE I did not edit it after you pointed out my GLARING mistake..... that umm...aaaa... I didn't make

 

[Revoltingest]

Question....
Why are bears so bad at spelling?
- Dumb?
- Ignorant?
- Drunken or hibernation induced stupor?
- Or is it that claws & keyboards don't mix well?

 

[Wu Wei]

Question....
Why are bears so bad at spelling?
- Dumb?
- Ignorant?
- Drunken or hibernation induced stupor?
- Or is it that claws & keyboards don't mix well?

Maybe this will answer your question.....I have a pile of these out back....

Now where are you exactly.... I still need to slap you with my claws in order to get this duel underway that you keep ducking

 

[Wu Wei]

3 hour job indeed..... took me 30 minutes to change 4 spark plugs..... and if I did it all the time, like I did back when I was an auto mechanic I am betting it is a 15 to 20 minute job.

I understand you have to let the aluminum heads cool..... stupid cheap metal.... but if the car has already been in the shop for other work for over an hour....to then say 3 hours more....BAH!!!!! and every other garage said 2.5 to 3 hours......

 

[Revoltingest]

3 hour job indeed..... took me 30 minutes to change 4 spark plugs..... and if I did it all the time, like I did back when I was an auto mechanic I am betting it is a 15 to 20 minute job.

I understand you have to let the aluminum heads cool..... stupid cheap metal.... but if the car has already been in the shop for other work for over an hour....to then say 3 hours more....BAH!!!!! and every other garage said 2.5 to 3 hours......

No wonder it went quickly....you had help!

 

[Wu Wei]

No wonder it went quickly....you had help!

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

I can't see how that would ever work out well for the engine, wiring, etc...

 

[sun rise]

There should be some sort of award or recognition for all the bear images that have amused me.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

My belly hurts today.

 

[ChristineM]

My belly hurts today.

Awww.

 

[ChristineM]

3 hour job indeed..... took me 30 minutes to change 4 spark plugs..... and if I did it all the time, like I did back when I was an auto mechanic I am betting it is a 15 to 20 minute job.

I understand you have to let the aluminum heads cool..... stupid cheap metal.... but if the car has already been in the shop for other work for over an hour....to then say 3 hours more....BAH!!!!! and every other garage said 2.5 to 3 hours......

Just had similar, trailing arm bearings, quotes for between €1200 and €1500. The guy down the road did the job for a slap up meal and €140.

 

[Revoltingest]

I got more free stuff at Menards.
I use some of it, but most of it's donated to a museum.)

 

[savagewind]

I found the last piece of pecan pie that was saved for someone, but I do not remember who so I ate it.

 

[Revoltingest]

I found the last piece of pecan pie that was saved for someone, but I do not remember who so I ate it.

You are wise.

 

[Brickjectivity]

There should be some sort of award or recognition for all the bear images that have amused me.

Agreed. They are plentiful.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

The video game Fallout 4 has my new favorite "radio station." To the point I'm going to make a Youtube playlist with these fine songs:

• Bach, Johann Sebastian - Suite in E minor, BWV 996 - III. Courante
• Beethoven, Ludwig van - String Quartet no. 12, Op. 127 - I. Maestoso - Allegro
• Brahms, Johannes - Tragic Overture, Op. 81
• Chopin, Frédéric - Ballade No. 1 in G Minor
• Chopin, Frédéric - Introduction and Polonaise Brillante in C major, Op. 3 - I. Introduction. Lento
• Chopin, Frédéric - Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2
• Debussy, Claude - La Mer - II. Jeux de vagues
• Debussy, Claude - Nocturnes - I. Nuages
• Elgar, Edward - Enigma Variations - Variation IX: "Nimrod" (Adagio)
• Elgar, Edward - Salut d'amour, Op. 12
• Masson, Diego - Valse Diable (only exists as file, Sound\FX\MUS\Radio\Institute\MUS_Institue_Masson_ValseDiable.xwm)
• Grieg, Edvard - Peer Gynt - In the Hall of the Mountain King
• Grieg, Edvard - Peer Gynt - Morning
• Holst, Gustav - The Planets - Mars, the Bringer of War
• Liszt, Franz - Consolation No. 3
• Liszt, Franz - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
• Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - Requiem Mass in D Minor - III. Lacrimosa (only exists as sound descriptor, FormID 000AB8D)
• Mussorgsky, Modest - Khovanshchina - Prelude, Dawn over the Moscow River
• Mussorgsky, Modest - The Fair at Sorochyntsi - Gopak
• Mussorgsky, Modest - Méditation (feuillet d'album)
• Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay - Scheherazade - I . The Sea and Sinbad's Ship
• Saint-Saëns, Camille - Carnival of the Animals - The Cuckoo in the Depths of the Woods
• Saint-Saëns, Camille - Carnival of the Animals - The Elephant
• Saint-Saëns, Camille - Carnival of the Animals - The Swan
• Scarlatti, Domenico - Sonata in F minor, K. 19
• Schumann, Robert - Scenes from Goethe's Faust, WoO 3
• Scriabin, Aleksandr - 24 Preludes, Op.11 - No. 5 in D
• Smetana, Bedřich - 3 Salon Polkas, Op.7 - III. Polka in E major
• Strauss Jr., Johann - The Blue Danube
• Tchaikovsky, Pyotr - March, Op.31
• Tchaikovsky, Pyotr - Swan Lake - Finale
• Wagner, Richard - Die Walküre - Ride of the Valkyries

On it's own, it's a fine station. And though it doesn't have Bach's Goldberg Variations: Aria, there is still a "Silence of the Lambs" type of feeling many of the songs give after going on your own bloodthirsty massacre.

 

[Wu Wei]

Interesting morning..... Chinese vs. American discussions over the importance of math in education and society....guess which side is obsessed with math and testing over all else in the educational system in America.......

Also found an interesting fact this morning..... 1 in 4 Chinese (from China) kids admitted to Ivy League schools drops out....

 

[Revoltingest]

Also found an interesting fact this morning..... 1 in 4 Chinese (from China) kids admitted to Ivy League schools drops out....

Not surprising.
Pushing kids into fields the parents choose for them won't turn out well if the kids have
other interests & abilities. I see it as more about helping kids find what they want.
And yes, this will sometimes mean they don't become physicians....oh, the horror!
(I'm thinking of an ABC kid whose family was all physicians & one veterinarian.
He became an engineer. They were actually angry & ashamed over this.)

For the unfamiliar....
ABC = Americastanian Born Chinese

 

[Wu Wei]

Not surprising.
Pushing kids into fields the parents choose for them won't turn out well if the kids have
other interests & abilities. I see it as more about helping kids find what they want.
And yes, this will sometimes mean they don't become physicians....oh, the horror!
(I'm thinking of an ABC kid whose family was all physicians & one veterinarian.
He became an engineer. They were actually angry & ashamed over this.)

For the unfamiliar....
ABC = Americastanian Born Chinese

Yes and speaking as an Americastanian IT bear dealing with a mainland Chinesestanian doctor on this issue..... it is not pretty...and welcome to my morning....