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One thing I have just had a "knack" for is "driving" anything. Skid steer, well pull this lever and this happens push you foot that happens, toe down that, heel down, twist right hand.......Same on a fork truck, same on a OLD hay truck like above. I got to solo in an airplane unusually quickly. I can also back a trailer with no issues, just let me see one side and I will back it across the state.....for me it is not that hard. It is one of those things that just clicks.

The skid loader was the thing that shocked everyone. Ok what does what....got it. Go slow....ok. And I took to it like breathing. Running a backhoe, same thing. It just clicks.

Try a prewar racing Talbot with a preselector gearbox and a center throttle…

Just had to figure one of those out last
Month… without dying!

Sirhr
 
Try a prewar racing Talbot with a preselector gearbox and a center throttle…

Just had to figure one of those out last
Month… without dying!

Sirhr
Most close I came to that sounds like a Model T. That took some thinking.

I think if it is more or less like a "modern" car my brain can do it. Might take a sec to process.

Story time:

When I started flying had to be a few lessons in, I am in taxi and go to leave the parking area for the taxiway. Instructor said you turn with your feet, I said I know. He said then why did you turn the yoke. You said to turn it into the wind to keep the up wind wing down.

Your right I did say that, people never remember that this quickly.

Flew with two "main" instructors in my early days, my main guy went on vac and I flew with another, and he had a fit that I would not "flair" on landing like he wanted.

If you don't know, flair is when you land a plane, you hold nose up and slowly let the airspeed drop till you ease onto the runway. This guy wanted the nose UP THERE. Had lots of bad things to say about it when John (my main instructor) came back. He flew once more with me then hopped out and say give me three touch and goes then come back and park it. Oh boy....you sure. Yea I am sure.

Wife was learning to fly as well and they are all watching me. The other instructor was screaming (according to my wife) HE DOES NOT FLAIR. Where John was he is just fine. And I was just fine. I could just tell the nose high I did not need it pointing at the moon. If they wanted a rough field landing then I will stick the nose up a little more, and slow the decent a bit more, but it is not hard.

Finished at the minimum hours. For the checkride the guy said, you seem to be one of the people that can just fly a plane after we finished, it comes easy to you, like moving your arm. DON'T GET COMPLACEMENT it will bite you in the ass one day. Had to quit flying before it did.

If I ever hit the powerball I will own another plane, hire someone to sit in the RIGHT seat, time is all yours, but I am going to sit here. Even have the plane picked out. 337.

I love odd balls.
 
We owned one. Big motor, all the bells and whistles. Worst vehicle we ever owned. (in fairness, 73 Camaro, ran it a hard hard race but still finished as 2nd worst.). This is the vehicle that when my father was about to sell it, he took it out on a deserted stretch and accelerated as hard as it would go to 80+ in the belief that it would blow all the carbon out of the cylinders. Blew out it did. Blew out both mufflers. Never missed it after it was gone. It was white in color but should have been yellow, "lemon" yellow.
 
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A bit long... but totally worth reading! Right on!

Sirhr

People will fight over this part.

"I put the force into the movies in order to awaken a sort of spirituality in young people. More a belief in God than in any particular religious system. The real question is to ask the question. If you haven't enough interest in the mysteries of life to ask the question: ‘Is there a God, or is there not a God?' For me, that's the worst thing that can happen… I think there is a God, no question."

If you don't buy into their "system" then you are dirt.

People forget, or don't want to accept the Catholic church was first setup to control people......and if you had money you could do anything you want. (buying indulgences). The "systems" are run by men, and as is clear today men are going to do what they want to do, no matter how far off the Reservation that takes them.
 
People will fight over this part, too.

People forget, or don't want to accept the Catholic church was first setup to control people......and if you had money you could do anything you want. (buying indulgences). The "systems" are run by men, and as is clear today men are going to do what they want to do, no matter how far off the Reservation that takes them.
FIFY

The world goes to pot when the men who run the Chuch stray from their proper mission, not because of the Chuch. There's no denying it's happened before or that it's happening now. But that does not mean that the founding or purpose of the Catholic Church was nefarious in any way. He did not tell Peter to feed my lambs so you can eat them later.
 
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I do... and it's because the man was a total disruptor... an outsider who hacked and clawed his way into the Presidency.

The left has compared them many times. And I think, rightly so. Because they both absolutely were crass outsiders who smashed their way into the White House. Jackson was a divorcee, a plain-talker, a warrior (Trump only in the economic sense) and a disruptor. They are very much kindred spirits!!!

I think they would be peas in a pod. Both out to wreck 'the system.'

Don't confuse Andrew Jackson or his tactics with the current commies. It's just that they morphed into that.

Hell, I like Andrew Jackson! Fucker shot a ton of British.

But that's the roots of the Democratic Party. Not in supporting a Republic. Or true (Websters definition) Republican ideas or precepts.

Sirhr

Well, we are all Indians now. At least from the part of the tribe the tribal leaders don't like..