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The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

Stevicus

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Quagmire

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Right now I'm testing out homemade mosquito repellent made from Tabasco sauce and water.

Seems to be working really well.

What I should have done though is I should have put it on one arm and left the other one bare just to be able to make a comparison.

Even so, I'm usually getting eaten up pretty good this time of the evening, and they haven't bit me once yet. A few of them have been buzzing around my arms but not landing. One kept landing and taking off again but didn't bite and finally gave up.
 

sun rise

The world is on fire
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Right now I'm testing out homemade mosquito repellent made from Tabasco sauce and water.

Seems to be working really well.

What I should have done though is I should have put it on one arm and left the other one bare just to be able to make a comparison.

Even so, I'm usually getting eaten up pretty good this time of the evening, and they haven't bit me once yet. A few of them have been buzzing around my arms but not landing. One kept landing and taking off again but didn't bite and finally gave up.
I guess they're spice wimps.
 

Brickjectivity

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Right now I'm testing out homemade mosquito repellent made from Tabasco sauce and water.

Seems to be working really well.

What I should have done though is I should have put it on one arm and left the other one bare just to be able to make a comparison.

Even so, I'm usually getting eaten up pretty good this time of the evening, and they haven't bit me once yet. A few of them have been buzzing around my arms but not landing. One kept landing and taking off again but didn't bite and finally gave up.
Quagmire, have you written a pamphlet or anything? You seem to be furthering the technology for outdoor living.
 

JustGeorge

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All this Confederate flag talk has made me miss my old friend...

We'd gotten a new stove years back, and the old one was sitting there. Told them I didn't know what to do with it.

"Well, if you're asking me, I'd say put a Lynyrd Skynyrd poster on the front of it, attach a rebel flag and set it in the front yard. But if you want the socially acceptable answer, you should send it to the dump."

Told them I don't care for Skynyrd, so we settled on an Ozzy poster and British flag, but Sam wouldn't allow it. Spoilsport.
 

Stevicus

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All this Confederate flag talk has made me miss my old friend...

We'd gotten a new stove years back, and the old one was sitting there. Told them I didn't know what to do with it.

"Well, if you're asking me, I'd say put a Lynyrd Skynyrd poster on the front of it, attach a rebel flag and set it in the front yard. But if you want the socially acceptable answer, you should send it to the dump."

Told them I don't care for Skynyrd, so we settled on an Ozzy poster and British flag, but Sam wouldn't allow it. Spoilsport.

I remember when nobody really cared that much about the Confederate flag - or even the Nazi flag, for that matter. I remember watching an old biker movie with Peter Fonda (really bad, and I can't even remember the name), and they had a scene where they had a funeral for one of their fellow bikers. The casket was draped with a Nazi flag. There's even a scene in the movie Platoon where it shows a U.S. tank in Vietnam sporting a Nazi flag. And I'm thinking "Why?"

I later came to find out that it started when the biker gangs were first started, many by WW2 veterans who were sporting war decorations they captured from the enemy. They weren't really Nazis (although it's hard to tell with some of those guys), but they seemed to like the flags and the memorabilia just the same.
 

JustGeorge

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I remember when nobody really cared that much about the Confederate flag - or even the Nazi flag, for that matter. I remember watching an old biker movie with Peter Fonda (really bad, and I can't even remember the name), and they had a scene where they had a funeral for one of their fellow bikers. The casket was draped with a Nazi flag. There's even a scene in the movie Platoon where it shows a U.S. tank in Vietnam sporting a Nazi flag. And I'm thinking "Why?"

I later came to find out that it started when the biker gangs were first started, many by WW2 veterans who were sporting war decorations they captured from the enemy. They weren't really Nazis (although it's hard to tell with some of those guys), but they seemed to like the flags and the memorabilia just the same.
It seems to hold different meanings for different people.

My husband is a southerner. He does not fly that flag, nor desires to, but he says its pretty common in the south, and most who are flying it do so to represent southern culture and it has nothing to do with racism. We agree, it has no place on government buildings. (We don't agree on a lot.)

If he sees someone here in the Midwest with one: "****ing racist" is usually his commentary. He's found that people flying it here in Iowa are generally hateful people, and avoids them.
 
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