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More challenging without the reels!

Tube tester and Vacuum Tubes. . Having to go down to Thrifty the day after your TV died to use their tube tester after you’d numbered and pulling all the tubes.

Sorry to hear @pop pop, I hope it stabilizes for ya. After I hit 50, my memory took a turn. Its normal, matters of degree with how it effects everyone. @Grayfox54 hit the main point about how the body ages. You pay for what you did (or more like over did) earlier. Ortho doctors love me. I don't how many of them I have helped buy new cars and houses. The brain health is a crapshoot. My mom had Alzheimer's, seeing it that close makes me appreciate every day. I hope all here don't ever had to deal with that for themselves or their loved ones.

Unfortunately, bring unconstitutional doesn’t prevent such things from becoming law. CA just passed an additional tax on Firearms a few months ago. They didn’t get the number they originally wanted, but effectively doubled use tax. Like any number of bad gun laws, they may get tossed years down the road, but never underestimate the mass of uninformed voters in believing leftist propaganda to pass inane legislation.

Working with his ATF proxy to create laws without congress again. Biden will extend 2022 abuses of FFL’s to declare all gun owners as FFL’s, requiring backgrounds on sales, moving to ban private party sales. https://dailycaller.com/2024/01/31/whistleblowers-allege-atf-is-drafting-rule-that-could-effectively-ban-private-firearm-sales/

Aluminum Christmas Trees!

Really, not kidding, there was no Google or internet. Libraries and Britannica

you were nobody in high school during the early 80’s if you didn’t wear these with your 501’s

One of my favorites from when I was a kid. Spinning around in circles while flyin a Cox glow plug P-40. marginally safer for bystanders than lawn darts

cold war drills thru the early 80’s. subdue dropping the big one and duck and cover would (some how) save you.

Some may have this with remote acreage, but the idea of not just turning on the faucet would be foreign too many

one of my favorite old time cookers was the HOTDOGGER. It worked by electrocuting the poor dogs after they were put on metal spikes. They let out juice and sounded like they were screaming lol As a teenager I got get a kick out of it. The burnt ends were not great, it was about the process. I’m starting to think I have a hotdog problem.

Any partial concern you might have had around health benefits will get taken off by Grilled cheese and hotdogs

Don’t need to turn most things IMO. Doggies and some meats do seem to work better with a flip with ours. Seems the skin gets more even blistering. Large pieces loose less moisture and distributed more evenly. I’d bet there is enough variation between fryers that benefits (if any) differ.

They do! Depending on preference, but they can get the skins nice and brown to just a little crunchy. 3-4 mins, turn, another 3-4

My wife reminds me I am not George Bush, if I ever become president then I can stop eating broccoli. Desperate times call for…an air fryer

You should be happy with the broccoli. We roll em in some olive oil with a little garlic salt and roast em. asparagus olive oil and parmesan cheese is great too. Basically it takes blah too yuck veggies and mashede them so that you almost like em They do great hot dogs in just a few minutes. Great on those snow days you don’t want to go out to the grill. Pork loin is another nice quick one to. While It’s just a convection oven as mentioned, the small space is efficient and such a great time saver.

I don’t think that’s totally cutting against the grain @Darrell. The tax base as implemented is disproportionate and based on invalid data / justification. TN is doing the as many other states have already had these fees in effect. TN’s are some of the highest in the nation. And the tiered structure is set to increase over the next 3 years. Flat for hybrids, which I read as an admission they knew they are making things up for them and more folks have them (according suns pushback) I really meant to focus on the hybrid side of it as it’s so obviously ludicrous with there assumed MPG. Their premise to tax is heavily biased by MPG, so it should be fact based. Figuring out which vehicles to tax would actually be quite simple. All vehicles sold in the US are required to have their fuel economy provided to the EPA. It’s published data that is readily available, just like the link provided. No need to hire a think tank to generate inaccurate graphs. A temp could grab the data in less than 5 minutes. I came from CA, my last truck’s reg fee in 2018 was almost $700. I left that state for such reasons. It’s not about the $$ as much as it’s an unfair tax based on the states own rationale. I think it’s a group that is easy to get voters polarized against. They are the minority and people are not going to vote/campaign in a tax on themselves when they can get ‘those yahoos in dem lefty cars’ to pay for their share. I do plan to reach out to a rep with that hybrid EPA link of actual mileage. Since it’s $$$ for the state and others states get away with it, I know it won’t matter, but gotta do it.

So we got our registration for our vehicles the other day, wife's was $29 as expected, mine is $129 for my F-150. I don't follow most politics, but a quick google led to a umbrella cash grab under the name The Transportation Modernization Act of 2023. Apparently mine is a penalty intended to replace "lost revenue" from these vehicles that are solely responsible for depriving TN of funds needed for road repairs. My F-150 is technically a hybrid. It was the ONLY way to get the 7.2 kw on-board generator. But with MPG in the 20-22 MPG range, it does not deliver any better mileage than it's 100% ICE brethren. It's a big ass 6000 lb truck, it gulps down gas like a fat kid downs cake. But the state seems to think my truck is knocking down 60 MPG! How lucky am I ?! Looks like a number of self-identified intellectuals at UT and Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (TACIR) misrepresented some numbers, misused statics, and help make some leaps in logic IMO. Leading to a blanket approach that does not actually go after some of the real culprits and instead punishes those it shouldn't. Almost sounds a little like gun control LOL. Graphically they presented this hot mess: So average a bunch of stuff without thinking about it and jump to some conclusions. I still cant get over I'm getting 60 MPG So Hybrids knock down 60??? Do they though? Published actual numbers from .gov below. Only 2 or 3 of the dozens get even close. https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/byfuel/Hybrid2022.shtml What am I missing in their numbers? Seems to me, with their (misguided) logic, this should be a war on ANY care that gets over, lets say, 30MPG. That would be a good chunk of most ICE only newer sedans today. That's simply modernization, like the act is named. What about those that work from home that dont put up the avg mileage of 13k? You gotta love made up numbers!