Filthie's Mobile Fortress Of Solitude

Filthie's Mobile Fortress Of Solitude
Where Great Intelligence Goes To Be Insulted

Friday, 9 April 2021

Busy Busy Busy

 I am gearing up to get the Forest Deployment Module (camper) ready to roll. My deep cycle batteries were pooched, so I had to get replacements and take the old cores in. I hate stuff like this because I hate spending money, and I hate shopping during the pandemic hysteria...



I am fed up with the pandemic now. Our moron leaders are talking about another three week lock down, and they can just shove that one up their collective ass. I went into the battery shop deliberately without my mask. Some kid scolded me so I put it on, pretending to be a forgetful old fart, and deliberately half-assed it so my nose hung out. I am going to do that everywhere now; play time is over Karen. You had your fun and your drama, but now it’s time to grow up. I am going to make tormenting those scolds a hobby!😆👍

Then I went to one of the last archery shops in Edmonton. It was closed due to chinkypox, opening again on the 20th. What arseholes, I spent 40 minutes trying to get there through construction zones... and the chits decided to use the pandemic to take a holiday. Fine... I don’t care if they don’t come back. There was one other shop... and When I got there, I knew I had found my new tackle shop. Up in the window was a big sign declaring that they don’t bother checking your documents if you are exempted from having to wear the mask. No mask, no problem! There was a bunch of legal notices explaining the legality of it, and warning the Karen’s and maskholes to stay out if they don’t like it. The place was deserted but the pro shop clerk told me they fill up on weekends, and the usual finks come round to threaten everyone. It was a relief to talk to someone sane. He put my bow on the press and tweaked it, and I was out and on my way. If his business survives I will send him any work I can.

Once I got the batteries in I started checking out the systems. The only thing I care about is the furnace and even that is not a big deal, it only goes down to freezing this time of year and soon it will stay above zero even at night. The wife and I will take a few days next week for a quick get away.

Today I think I’ll load the Dawgmobile up with firewood, change the oil on the generator and start moving some supplies into the camper. 

I am enjoying the Russian Experiment. I guess the first step is learning the Cyrillic alphabet and sounding out the words. It’s a novel experience, I haven’t done this since I was five. I found an OyTube channel with a purdy young Russian hottie teaching it. If she actually ran a class I would deliberately misbehave just to get a bare-bummer spanking! HAR HAR HAR! 😊👍 In any event, it’s strange, being able to read and make the noises of the word without knowing what it means. Some of the letters are obviously silent sometimes, and others appear to serve as punctuation... I wonder if I will still be able to read and write English after I am through with this? Many of the letters appear in English but they make different sounds. My mind hasn’t had to work this way in over half a century.

Oh well, such is the life and times of the Obsolete Man! Y’all have a great Friday, hope ya got something fun for the weekend lined up.

16 comments:

  1. Learning Spanish taught me more about English that I though possible. You learn the why in the new language and then what you do naturally in English because it sounds right makes sense.

    It was eye opening...

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  2. Russian you say???? Go check out Bald and Bankrupt and his side channel Daily Bald on Oy-Tube. A nutty Brit who is into remote travel in the former soviet republics. You might get a kick out of it.
    Then again, as a native Spanish speaker I'm with STxAR on the Spanish thing. I can hear Fwench, Portugee, Wop and even Rumanian and understand most of it.
    Then again at the rate you all are going up there with your cultural enrichmint you might want to focus on learning Ragheadistanian as they will be ruling over you soon.

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  3. Yannow, M... Everyone knows that I am the model of civility and restraint... and I hold my tongue at the infractions of the less scholarly... but I am afraid you have gone over a line here: it is "cultural enrichMINT"! We have standards around the Thunderbox that are strictly enforced! If anyone has problems with my enforceMINT - they can take their punditry elsewhere! HAR HAR HAR!!! :)

    I trust you have a good project in the works? I have been by your blog and you really must address your truancy issue. You don't want to end up like STxAR do you...?

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    1. yes MINT it sir....
      As for projects yes, a fairly sizeable remodel job that's been going on since late last fall....right now I'm waiting on subs, electriciticians, plumberists and drywall-drunks to finish destroying my nice framing so I can go back and finish the fancy trimmings. Need to post some pictures of it all but I have so dang many I need to cull them a bit to make it somewhat coherent.

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    2. Good Drywallers are poetry in motion. I’d have to do panelling were it left up to me... I can break drywall just by looking at it...

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    3. Around here every single drywall crew I've ever met are hardcore alkies not much better than roofers. I always figured you had to be one to do that stuff all day long.

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  4. Now that I think of it - I hope I will be able to maintain the high standards of spelling and diction with Russian as I do with English...

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  5. Tell me about this Russian experiment Glen. I must have missed something.

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    1. The Russian Experiment was a long time in the making TB. I’ve always been fascinated by them. Did you know that Russian rocket engines are superior to American ones? They can burn at higher temps and pressures. Yet their early cosmonauts used ejection seats as emergency escape devices?

      I loved Ronald Reagan but I think he shat the bed when he called them the axis of evil in the world... the stuff we are seeing here at home makes Putin look like a saint. It’s getting so bad that if it doesn’t stop... guys like us will have to defect to Moscow! HAR HAR HAR!

      I think I read somewhere that you were learning Japanese? I thought that was a great idea and maybe worth buying onto.

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    2. Glen, you do make a reasonable point that in some ways the "West" has now become the dicatorship that it accused others of being.

      All a fan of learning a second language. Yes, I have been working on Japanese - for something like 40 years. I will probably work on it until I die.

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    3. Yeah, I think I read someplace they have an character for every single word in the language...

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  6. Everything in Russian sounds and is spelled like Kaopectate

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    1. They roll their R’s too. Ya don’t have a burger, you have a boogairdrdrdrdr... some of the words are common to English too.

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  7. Please be careful laying metal tools on top of a battery. You can get a dead short with all that entails.

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    1. Oh yeah. Batteries don't work when you let the smoke out...

      :)

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  8. Please be careful laying metal tools on top of a battery. You can get a dead short with all that entails.

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