Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

In 1996, when I first started fabricating and welding, my dad said "stick with it." "There will come a day when people with degrees aren't making any money, and the people that can do things with their hands will be making money."

And here we are...
I threw my degree away and went back to the trades, my job prospects have never been better.
 
In 1996, when I first started fabricating and welding, my dad said "stick with it." "There will come a day when people with degrees aren't making any money, and the people that can do things with their hands will be making money."

And here we are...
Not to mention the fact that the people who can do things with their hand will be able to take care of themselves and their own while people with degrees will be trying to figure out how to change a light bulb.
 
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Not to mention the fact that the people who can do things with their hand will be able to take care of themselves and their own while people with degrees will be trying to figure out how to change a light bulb.
You should see the shit people call the Fire Department for.

Civilian friend of mine found it quite funny when I told him "there's plenty of times they just needed a man. There was an adult male human there, but they still needed a man".

Turned off many a water meter, explained many times their CO/smoke detector is beeping just because it needs a new battery. Yes the oven is smoking, you have it on self clean, leave it alone. No it won't catch the house on fire, it is an insulated steel box.

I could go on...
 
You should see the shit people call the Fire Department for.

Civilian friend of mine found it quite funny when I told him "there's plenty of times they just needed a man. There was an adult male human there, but they still needed a man".

Turned off many a water meter, explained many times their CO/smoke detector is beeping just because it needs a new battery. Yes the oven is smoking, you have it on self clean, leave it alone. No it won't catch the house on fire, it is an insulated steel box.

I could go on...
I had someone shove their six foot Christmas tree up the chimney and try to burn it, almost lost the house (the chimney was totaled.)
 
I had someone shove their six foot Christmas tree up the chimney and try to burn it, almost lost the house (the chimney was totaled.)
Bout 20 years ago, a local restaurant decided to have a new year's party for the employees. Thought it was a good idea to ease the Christmas tree in and burn it a little at a time.

It didn't work out that way. I bet it took about .05 second to turn into a Montey Python line.

RUN AWAY!!! RUN AWAY!!!
 
The day is coming...

I predict in the not too distant future, we will wait months to have a tech LOOK at our vehicles. Labor rate will exceed $250 per hour and flat rate will be a thing of the past. Expect plumbers and other vocational types to be right alongside. But the good news is we will have an abundance of social influencers and gender experts.

So who does an SJW feminist usually call when she needs help with a flat tire?

99% of the leftist feminist nazi counselors are very liberated and will let you know about it until it’s time to pay for dinner.

Don’t get me started about the Hildabeast quote on women suffering more than men in war. I’d like to see her repeat that at a VA hospital.
 
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Hey, just think: If the dumbass Biden administration applies this logic to gun control, they will remove the application process for suppressors and give you two free a year as a supplemental Covid bailout. Free primers for all handloaders and a 357 magnum for every case of empties you drop off at the liquor store.
 
She looks like Vader in empire strikes back or as the nerds call it ...just empire... when the general walks in on him when he was getting the gorilla glue cut out of his head in his special gorilla glue removal chamber. Once again George Lucas spoke the future to us all. hastag # lucadamas
 
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Jesus Christ. Give someone an extra chromosome and they think they gotta one up everybody
Hey now that's an "influencer" you're talking about. I heard that they are something special on social media.
From what I gather they try to "influence" you to do dumb sh*t. It's a big deal and makes you important. :LOL:
 
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My father told me that after he got out of the Army after WW2 that these sold in the crate as pictured for about $400.

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Looks like from the picture it has forced air, My google fu says this type would be the P-63, the upgraded P39 that the commies loved so much, so it would be one of the last and most powerful, on par with Merlin, or Griffin.

To go way off into the weeds here. None of the american home grown single engine fighters had superchargers, turbochargers, alcohol or water injection....none of that fancy smancy high horse power stuff. Oh they did know about it, but two things really killed it. First was an accident. I think it was a P39, that is a single engine US fighter with the engine behind the pilot, the prop turned by a long drive shaft.....why would they do that you say....well so they could hang a huge 37mm cannon in the nose of the thing. Think a 1930's version of an A10, and that is just how the soviets used them.....everyone else hated them, for many reasons, the car doors being a biggie.

Anyhoo, the engine that gave fantastic performance above 10,000 with all the goodies went kaboom. And the army, remember the army ran the planes at the time, said well lets not do that, besides what good are planes way up there, they can't support the troops on the ground from way up there, our big bomber is super fast has like 10 x 50's on it and nothing will get close to it.

The P51 started out as a ground attack plane, and I want to say they called it the A10, but I am a little fuzzy here. Water cooled planes are not the best ground attack planes, something a little more robust works better, with a roundy engine....no pesky rads to take damage.

But back on my many tracks, the allison just would not fit, too fat, too wide, too long something like that so the rolls got stuck in and the rest is as they say history.

So to come full circle I think $400 seems a bit high for a jeep in a box, about half that sounds better. But we now know why all those crazy boats after WWII had airplane engines in them....all the way up to the 1980's.

I loved "thunder boat" racing, or unlimited hydroplanes. The sound of all those engines flat out was a big rush, after they went to woosh boats I lost all interest.