I'm picturing it now, as I sit here with my teeth gritted

Removing a bulb socket that has separated from the bulb can be done by jamming a potato into the socket and turning. Read that in Grit or somewhere a long time ago.

Well impressed with the use of 6 snow ploughs to clear a road! Wait, no, 7, 8, 9, uhm... 22 snow ploughs and 2 grit trucks later!!

They're intended to protect the dog's paws against the cold, slippery and/or hard surfaces, salt and grit on winder roads. They're quite a good idea but it does take some dogs a while to get used to them. In the meantime, they look a bit hilarious in the process, but that's hardly the owner's fault, so I think you're overreacting a bit there.

That had me gritting my teeth

Should be a skill full or nerves of steel tag too. Did you see the way he reversed the steering direction when he was going in reverse to keep his car away from the wall? That requires some grit

Newer, fresh tar will melt pretty easy until it gets some grit and dirt in it.

Will get soft around 95-100 degrees in direct sunlight. Really annoying in the summer when they are filling cracks and it sticks to your car tire when you stop or slow down and then your car pulls it up in a big strip and wraps around your wheel.

It's worse if they use the wrong mixture of tar....lot of people think you can use roof tar to fill cracks in your driveway. Don't do that. Roof tar melts really easy and is meant to so it'll flow and fill in places where water might leak in....much lower melting temp. They often pump it from the ground to the roof....

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My jaw aches from gritting my teeth! =oO

@VoodooV
Humans can speak firmly, loudly, emotionally, impatiently and disrespectfully on subjects they care about. This doesn't mean they are angry, could just be passionate (lol, but also could be angry)

If you perceive Atheists as being angry in the face of Agnosticism, I suggest (where possible) informing them what your position actually is as I've met some and heard of others who erroneously thought it was a position of no opinion.. and that's what would get them agitated.

The number of times I've felt I've had to go in to bat for Agnostics is far greater than the times I've had to bat for Atheists, by these experiences I do understand the negativity, but feel some more recent comments were categorizing a bit extensively.. remember, some people are just assholes, regardless of their stance on a subject.

Main reason for this post: Atheism is not a religion. (think that was the first time I've gone bold on the sift)
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/religion

I don't like going to the dictionary, but I really want to distance Atheists and Agnostics as far from religions as possible.. had too many conversations where people try to tell me Atheist and Agnostic are the same thing and are also a religion.. *grits teeth*

So, in every dictionary definition you will notice that 'religions' relate to the having of a belief, not the lack there of (note that i don't actually doubt you already know this).
If you want to make this claim, then by the same logic you must also accept that you and I are also in the Afairyist religion, and the Aunicorn religion, Acookie-monster religion, and A etc etc religion (I took the assumption you didn't believe in some things, please do correct me if I'm wrong). Hopefully this points out how absurd it is to claim 'not believing something is real' is a religion.

It's incorrect on more counts than this (no practices/rituals, no rules/guidelines, no faith/acceptance of a supernatural entity) and imo comes from one of 2(3) things, either you're wrong and don't know it, or you're trying to agitate people. You've made too many good points for me to suspect the former without additional reason to suggest you weren't sure of the legitimate meaning of religion.

I don't like religions, and if by 'religion' you did know the meaning, and weren't trying to agitate people, then i suspect you were referring to the dogmatic fanaticism that some Atheists display.. in which case, OK, yeah, but would rather you just say we're 'whining little bitches that too-aggressively make their stance and don't shutup', that i could accept without posting.

Agree with everything you said in your previous post except 'Atheist religion', 'anger' and 'revenge'.

For the last 20 or so years, my family has owned a yellow-naped Green Amazon parrot. He's finicky, and very territorial around his cage. He's quite a bit larger than these Caiques, but smaller than a Macaw. When we let him out of his cage, he's not nearly this... playful. He usually just wants to hide in a corner until he feels safe enough to explore. If you handle while they're still very young, then they can be this playful. It really depends on how their raised.

In general, social animals, that is to say, animals that flock or group with animals from the same or even similar species (the birds on Telegraph Hill in SF come to mind, they're not a homogeneous flock) tend to make better pets than animals that lead solitary lives in the wild (cats, reptiles, etc). They tend to have a more defined personality, and have more capability to read social cues and take training.

The things is, birds know they're fragile - most of their bones are only paper-thin. So they posture up, get defensive and territorial around their cages. To train them, you usually have to take them out of their place of power, that is, their cage, to another space that they don't have as much familiarity or control.

The Amazon my family has kept for 20 years, as I said, is very finicky. But 20 years of trust built up has made him a little more friendly to me, at least. He tolerates my mom, and used to be outright hostile to my dad (the bird would kick grit from the bottom of his cage at him, lunge to bite at him if he got close to his cage. But I'm the only one he'll let pet him on a consistent basis, and even then, if he's in a mood he might lunge at me. He also hasn't had much training at all, and to handle him by hand is to risk getting bit HARD. No one else in the family has attempted it, and I usually get bit in the process His jaws put out a LOT of force. Usually he tries to play with my earrings or hair, but winds up chomping my ear or scalp. I don't hold it against him, he's probably trying to figure out how to climb to the top of my head. If you want to handle animals, you have to accept that getting bit or scratched will be an inevitability.

My wife's family took care of a Grey Amazon that found his way to their home about 20 years ago. You could say the bird adopted them. One of his legs was busted - he likely broke it himself to break free of what chained him down, and he still managed to fly away with clipped wings. Most birds keep their beak ground and well-kept, but he let his beak over-grow, curving to one side of his upper beak and hooking upwards in a manner that looked threatening. His cage was left open frequently so he could bop around, but usually he'd just want to climb up someone's leg all the way up to their shoulders. He was very rough around the edges, likely because of the constant pain of a disfigured leg, but eventually warmed up to me and let me scratch his head. He passed away a couple years ago, around Christmas time. He is missed.

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@NetRunner: Really, the for-pay university system in general is the problem, and the student loan system is a... really shitty offbrand bandaid that left all sorts of cotton and grit in the wound and got it infected. But sure. Call me a libertarian some more!


Sorry, I wasn't calling you libertarian, I know you're not one of those!

@NetRunner: Really, the for-pay university system in general is the problem, and the student loan system is a... really shitty offbrand bandaid that left all sorts of cotton and grit in the wound and got it infected. But sure. Call me a libertarian some more!

They salt steep slick hills around here by backing up them and turning their salter on high, so they can use the grit for traction and have it melt through the snow as they back their way up. I thought this was a little dangerous since you might be backing up when a dumby starts trying to come down it....but it's what they gotta do.


This video seems like a bad accident waiting to happen, since tow truck probably can't see anything during this whole push.

Your dog will levitate for Kibbles and Grits, buy some today.