Milage wise? 120k miles, plus a little. But it was also 15 years old, so that ain’t too bad

Bought it new, drove it until the wheels figuratively fell off lol

Be careful.

Roosters can be great. They can also be territorial and outright dangerous. Sometimes the same rooster will be all of that. And, if it goes bad, they are impossible to place. Rooster rescues take in all they can, but there’s a limit to how many any given place can house, and roosters are very prone to needing rescues between their own natures, laws, and humans not knowing what they’re getting into.

That being said, if you have a lot of space, plenty of time, and are aware of their needs, a rooster with your flock is a truly wonderful thing. Ours has fought off a dog three times a coyote (or maybe coydog, hard to be sure) once, and in one of those cases literally broke his spur off in the dog’s ass. He even tried to fight off a hawk that got one of our hens, though he didn’t manage to succeed.

But chickens are highly social. You need multiple unless you’re able to have them with you inside and have the time to serve the role of flock for them. A rooster without a flock is going to be prone to stress. A stressed rooster is prone to being territorial. A territorial rooster is prone to fuckery. And that fuckery can include trying to break a spur off in your ass.

Legit, I love our rooster. But I would not take another one on in the future. It’s a ton of work when he’s got a hair up his ass, which is 9/10 days here lately. If I were less disabled, and could expand the flock enough to keep them all happy, that would change though. If the world was perfect and I could handle the work involved, I’d have a dozen girls and when this big dummy eventually dies, I’d want another. I just can’t ever recommend it without the caveats being covered

I kinda thought the section with the hills had been a location shot tbh

Gotcha! No worries lol

The whole Kentucky colonel thing is weird as hell tbh. Folks there treat it seriously, but also like a long running joke as well, so it wouldn’t have surprised me if a conspiracy had grown up around it. I’m almost disappointed there wasn’t lol

Huh?

Where’s the conspiracy theory?

A Kentucky colonel is a thing, and it’s been around much longer than Sanders. Nor has it ever been a secret that’s what he was, rather than a military officer.

Or is this a joke post?

If not, I’m really interested in the conspiracy theory because I’ve never run across it at all, despite having seen a lot, including a couple of documentaries and short form videos, about Sanders over the years.

Stay chill and friendly when doing it all, no matter how hard that is.

No bullshit, you can present almost anything with a smile and a casual shrug and get away with it as long you stay polite in your wording. Very often, throwing in a “you know how it is” and giving it that tone of commiseration keeps things smooth even if you’re essentially telling the person to fuck off.

Since you’re in hospital setting, you can sometimes throw in “that’s out of scope” and at least befuddle whoever it is.

And, smile a lot. But not one of those rictus smiles, or smug ones. Think inwardly of your coming escape and hold tight to the relief, and just radiate that glow. Takes serious prep mentally to stay in he right frame of mind for it, but that jolly bastard will make it so much harder for people to ramp up their aggression.

It always helped me to remember that anyone getting all bothered and upset in that situation has a much sadder life than me. It let me reframe a given interaction to a different dynamic.

I was thinking more that Satan, as we know the entity is largely a product of creation grafted onto older things all hodgepodge.

No reason said entity couldn’t adopt older languages if it was real, obviously.

But, in terms of Satanists, they’re such a comparatively modern thing that them using Latin makes sense for multiple reasons

I have a wall in my head that won’t accept this as funny because it entirely misses what Satanism is.

It’s a response to Christianity, and in its oldest forms, Catholicism. So, the Latin bit should be the default. There wouldn’t have been Satanists that were using Aramaic or whatever. Hell, anyone engaging in the equivalent of satan worship from before the creation of satan in the form religious Satanists do worship could have spoken anything from their era anyway.

It’s not like there’s a ton of examples of satan dictating holy (or unholy) books, but he/she/it would still have spoken the the dark prophets in their own tongue. Why the fuck would you speak Enochian to some random Babylonian? You’d speak Babylonian.

Urea!

There was also mimeo, or some similar spelling, from mimeograph

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimeograph

Looking over that, I’m not certain those would smell the same way otheroptions did, but at my elementary school, that’s what teachers usually called them. If it wasn’t that, it was dittos

Depends on what you mean.

Humans can live without limbs at all. There’s issues that need to be watched because the body can struggle to regulate itself with that much mass and blood vessels gone, but it isn’t a problem by itself… We can live with no eyes, ears, nose, or even lips and teeth. We can lose one kidney, part of a liver, one lung, and segments of our intestines.

But, again, the more you lose, the more support you need, and the shorter your life expectancy.

However, that’s not survivable if you lose it all at once, without very fast help. Just losing part of an arm or leg can kill you without addressing the loss of blood that’s probably happening as well. The survivability of losing two feet of intestines to a bear in the woods vs losing it in a surgery is massively different, to put another slant on it.

Depends on what’s on them.

It turns out that having a little fat/oil on dishes helps get the whole load clean because of some chemical fuckery I don’t understand. Something about the surfactants working better or some such.

So, if it’s a little light grease, or something that will dissolve completely (like a smooth condiment), I don’t bother. But covid chunks, you gotta get off unless you enjoy digging around in a filter that’s clogged and under a puddle of trash filled water

Eh, the original pictures that were behind it all are very hard to find now. You have to go looking

That would be where I’d start

Or tainted love

I did find a different book of theirs and ran it through the stuff I have on my tablet

The only one that gave a decent render was perfectviewer, which is mainly for comics.

Nowhere near as good as a pdf version of a different book from the same publisher, a recipe book.

I think you may end up being better off converting files to pdf and going that route

Totally fine, no worries. I’ll see if I can dig up a copy.

Dammit, this is bugging me lol.

Do you have a way to share the file that you’re comfortable with a stranger having? I can piddle with out and try it on stuff over the next couple of days and see if I can find something that renders right.

Wait! Have you tried sumatra?

It is/was an app on Windows that handles a pretty wide range of text files. Iirc, it did a decent job with some manuals I had in pdf and ebup formats. I can’t promise it’ll render right, just that it’s an option that worked for a similar use case a few years ago

Edit: I didn’t think of it earlier because it’s windows based, but it might be doable on Linux nowadays https://sumatrapdf.org/

Yes! And you’ve nailed one of the most common.

Mind you, none of the ones I’ve run into reach the degree of usage y’all does.

But, there’s we’s, we’ns, and us’ns

This is all in my local area, or in areas close enough to have visited frequently.

No idea what yankees use for dialect first person plural, but we’ns down hyuh have it figgered out right nice.

However, if you want the dialect mind fuck of all mind fucks, wait until someone needs to address a large group of mixed sub groups and breaks out “all’a y’all’ns” which is said as a single unit all’a’y’all’ns. All of you all ones. It’s like a black hole of linguistics that sucks you in, and the closer you get, the more spaghettified your brain becomes.

They ain’t nuthin much more sigogglin than suthren talkin, an if’n it’s in the hills (aka mountains), y’all gonna have ta step quick ta keep up. Shit far (fire) and save matches, y’all damn feriners done missed out on some got dayum good talkin!