Thats what you call black humor. Btw. are you surrounded by supermodels or are they magically attracted to you?
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No, not at all. It is just an exercise in ridiculousness for me but my wife feels it does something. I have had it 4 or 5 other times for various other things and it only seems to work on ancient Chinese people at the turn of two centuries ago. Some people feel great benefits from it but I don't. Maybe it cures ich.Would you say acupuncture helps?
It's a curse. It seems there are Supermodels all over the place, many on this forum even though I have never seen any of you. (Also remember that I live in New York and we have 9 million people just in the City alone and half of them are females and I find the vast majority of them to be very nice and they smell better than most of the people on subways)Btw. are you surrounded by supermodels or are they magically attracted to you?
I am not sure who Arthur is but where you live that must be King Arthur and I have him all over my body also. You are correct, today construction is easy with all the power tools. Most commercial buildings are made of concrete and when I got into the business, to mount things to concrete we used a "star drill" which was a cold chisel with a star pattern on the end and you banged it with a sledge or lump hammer maybe 50 times to make a hole that you could insert a lead anchor. (I even forgot the name of the thing, Oh wait AJs, Ackerman Johnsons) Then you banged that in and put in a screw.My hands have Arthur and I guess that's from using hammers and screwdrivers. Everything used is a power tool now, wel rarely used anything but hand tools back in the day.
Today they would just shake their heads in disbelief at what we did or had to do back in the day and what we had to do it with. People have become more like robots with all the aids they have.Thats how it was Atoll. I worked on the construction of many of the buildings here in Manhattan that were built in the last 60 years including the Trade Center which of course unfortunately is no longer in the picture.
That 50 story building (One New York Plaza) all the way on the right with the black band around the center, I installed a 37,000 pound generator on the 20th floor which is set back 19 feet and sets out again two floors above. I also had to get the thing up there by hiring the largest mobile crane in the US at the time. (Circa 1990) It took two other cranes to put the boom on and we had to close the Lincoln Tunnel to Manhattan and insure the subway beneath it.
I was the General Foreman. Nice job. I have pictures someplace.
If I knew the book would sell so well I would have added more pictures of me wearing a Speedo.I ordered your book to have during that week and read it while digging my feet into the sand and hearing the waves crash every morning. It was quite fitting and a great read!
Very well put, sir.If I knew the book would sell so well I would have added more pictures of me wearing a Speedo.
OK....Maybe not.
Atoll, maybe it's me but do young people today just look so young? I don't know but I was a Sargent in Nam at 19 and basically an adult. A 19 year old today, especially if he spent the last 2 years in college looks like a kid and if was thrown into a dangerous situation would be in trouble.
Not all of them thank God but the vast majority.
If you gave a 12 year old a job burning cars apart with a torch today you would get arrested and you couldn't find a kid who would do that anyway because they would be spending all their time on their tablet. Like my Grand Kids do.
I learned how to make money and take care of myself very early. My parents never gave me any money unless I worked for it like shining shoes, washing the car etc and although I was probably not happy then, it paid off.
I don't play the lottery or gamble because I feel it is stupid and I can easily make all the money I want. You just have to be a little more creative than the next person and go the extra mile, or at least foot.
Very few people take pride in their job any more. Once I had to go into work on a Saturday to Manhattan and install a transformer. I found out the next day I crossed a cable and it didn't work. I got paid double time for that and I called my boss and told him not to pay me for that day. I refused that money because it would have bothered me for the rest of my life. That would never happen today because there is no pride in your work and because of that, almost nothing is made here in the US anymore.
Here I am about 16 years old. I am the good looking one with the hair on the roof of this Simca. (little weird car)
I would buy cars like this for 8 or 10 bucks and sell them for a hundred or so dollars. That was a lot of money in 1967. Today you would be hard pressed to find a 17 year old who knows how to open the hood but they can text a tow truck and have Daddy pay for it.
I think it should be illegal to buy your kid a car. Let him work for it so he appreciates it. The same with weddings, houses etc. They will eventually get your hard earned money eventually but by then, maybe they will appreciate it and know the hardships we went through to earn it.
Maybe it's just me but it bothers me to see the country I love go downhill so far, so fast.
I am 19 here in Nam. This was on a large clearing in the jungle. I filled those mortar boxes with dirt as a blast wall.
Sorry Paul. As they say "getting old isn't for sissies".Unfortunately being "old" brings on some health issues. Not as bad as my wife but I have been having some back pain lately, like most people and I figured it was from my extensive habit of bungee jumping, back flipping and ball room dancing almost every morning before breakfast and sometimes after lunch.
But for the last 2 years the upper back pain extended to my shoulders. I originally thought it was from my 7 shoulder surgeries and that probably didn't help.
I have been going for acupuncture and pain Management shots mainly because both my acupuncturist and pain Mgt Dr. are Supermodels but after a while, even a Supermodel can't help. Not to much anyway but I still like to go.
The MRIs show that my back looks like it came from a blue leg hermit crab but the X Rays show it more like an arrow crab.
I stand pretty straight but my spine has a big curve to it which made the Neurologist think they made a mistake and took a picture of a boomerang.
About 8 disks are to degenerated to do anything about and are all bone on bone. It is what it is and will always be painful and I will get stiffer as time goes on (like all old people) and my fish don't seem to care at all even though I hung my X Ray in front of their tank.
(I have been taking short baths in Prizapro)
He said it can't be fixed unless he cuts out almost all my disks and installs rods which will make me walk like an Emu looking up in the sky for bald eagles or even eagles with hair which is not the look I was going for so I will keep my old back as I probably can't get a new one.
Of course my main concern is my Bride of almost 50 years because I do almost everything for her and putting her walker in my car is getting quite hard. But manageable.
The Neurologist told us it is from my job as a Commercial construction electrician because that is not a Girly job as most of the equipment was a thousand pounds and wanted to be mounted on the ceiling.
Unloading all that from tractor trailers for half a century probably was not the best thing so I imagine those Neanderthals bringing down a Woolly Mammoth must have kept Pain Mgt. Doctors pretty busy and it was probably even harder then to get an appointment.
I spent much of my life either installing or removing asbestos, but it wasn't dangerous then.No wonder you are fireproof since you wrapped yourself in asbestos early in life LOL!