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Friday, March 14, 2025

Friday's gifs

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  1. # 1. Now that's morning wood
    #. 9. The old VHS days
    #. 10. Nice job, not the first time that driver has backed a trailer
    JD

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  2. #4 = There is a reason that folks call this "Monkey Hangers."

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    1. Ape hangers, where I come from.

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    2. "Ape hangers". With a real ape.

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    3. What function does that shaft have that that clown manipulates? (We see lotsa apehangers during Sturgis and I think anything over shoulder height is supposedly illegal. Lawmen are fairly lax since that event is a major moneymaker for SoDak.)

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    4. Jockey shift & foot clutch.
      Apehangers, yes. "Monkey hangers" is one I haven't heard.
      --Tennessee Budd

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    5. My arms lost their sense of feeling just looking at that.

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  3. #5 That is the face of a psychopath.

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    1. Drown proofing your kids...

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    2. And somebody just stood there and recorded it. Another psycho.

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    3. 11:49, read the comment directly above yours. The Red Shield Youth Center in the California town I came from had those drownproofing classes.

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    4. Yeah. Even it that's not her mom, she's scarred for life.

      Parents: "We took you to a drown-proofing class when you were two."

      Teen Girl: "Maybe that's why I wear all black and cut myself now."

      - Red Alert!

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    5. #8) I hear "Yakety Sax" in my head as I watch that. Or maybe the "Dukes of Hazzard" theme.

      - Red Alert!

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    6. At the ripe age of three I was thrown off the boat in the Keys into shark-infested water. I can walk on water. And don't bring up copperheads..

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    7. Dad taught me to swim. Scoop me up, toss towards the pool, while mid-air called out, Sink or swim.

      Looking up while sitting on the bottom wondering what just happened, dad dove in to rescue me.
      Back topside, dad asks, Didn't you hear me? And bam, scooped up again. Sink or swim. I learned to swim. What a glorious new world.

      All his kids learned to love the water. Snorkeling, SCUBA cert, competitive swimming, water polo, body surfing, surfing, and more. There came the day that I felt more at home in the water than on land.

      I've been caught children and some adults how to swim. First of all, it is necessary that the student trust that the teacher has the ability to save them. After that, it can be a game of how many ways you can save yourself.
      Falling in while fully clothed, but in a safe environment builders confidence and vanquishes the fear.

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    8. And do you wear all black and cut yourself after that traumatic experience? Yeah, I don't either and I learned to swim the same way you did.

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    9. My granddaughter is currently 26 months old. Last summer while on vacation at the lake she was fearless in the water. To the point that someone had to have eyes on her at all times near the lake. She is a natural in the water with no fear of sticking her head underwater and holding her breath to look around. Teaching her to swim is going to be easy.

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    10. We just had a 2yo drown in a river he fell in not far from here. Maybe training wouldn't have helped ... but better to have it than not.

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    11. We did the Infant Self Rescue pictured in #5 with both kids when they were about 18 months. It was a 5 week course, 10 minutes a day. The kid in the gif is at the end of the training. They go into the pool fully dressed and immediately turn over on their back and do a starfish float, while calling for help. By the time the training was done, they could both swim like fishes and would just float on their backs whenever they got tired.

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    12. The subject came up recently, talking about emersion baptism for infants. With the tots, first blow in their face then immediately dunk them, bring them back up while smiling and cheerful.
      A six month old can be taught to swim in that manner.
      I learned from my brother. After tossing me in, he said if I drowned, there'd be more food for him at supper.

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  4. #4 There's stupid...and then there's that.

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  5. #1 That tree wood be more valuable as planks.
    #9 VCRs were pretty amazing

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    1. I do this. It fills the hole back up, then I can cut the base.

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    2. Local arborist gets a pretty penny for those tabletop blanks.

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  6. #3- Training for the Big House Olympics- The 40 meter Over-the-Wall Roll, Puff & Crunch-

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  7. #9, The mechanical complexity of a front load VCR loading cycle still impresses me today, especially as I repaired a number of those back in the day.

    #7, I hope that chick had prearranged the squirt gun attack with the guy at the drive up window (with the intent to make a video of the whole thing), as otherwise that was an extremely stupid and potentially dangerous dick move.

    #2, Elephants are cool. Cute girl, too.

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    1. I took a TV and VCR repair correspondence course a long time ago. It was not much later that both became obsolete. VCR's no longer even exist, I believe and TV's are both too cheap and too computerized to make it economical to fix them. Like so much of society today, they are basically throw away items.

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    2. I never took a course (was self taught) so at least I wasn't out the investment in training. But yes, learning to repair VCR's and TV's was not an occupation with much of a future unless you got into it about 1980, then you probably had 15 pretty good years to profit from the skill set. By the mid 90's, VCRs from Taiwanese manufacturers were getting so cheap that they were throwaways. You might still get a good high end Sony or JVC deck for repair, but that was work dwindling fast.

      TVs were much the same; high end large screen CRT's still got repaired, but most average Walmart stuff at 25" or less was disposable, as it cost less to buy new than to repair. Now with flat screens, unless the repair is a simple board swap, there's really nothing much to repair. A cracked or otherwise damaged display panel - be it LCD or OLED - makes the set instant junk. If it's under warranty, they just give you a complete new unit, and throw away the failed one. I did repairs as a hobby/side hustle for a while in highschool and beyond, made some halfway decent money at it until demand dried up. Still repair old audio gear, which can be fairly lucrative.

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    3. Yeah, try that shit in Memphis & you're liable to get shot.
      --Tennessee Budd

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  8. 1) I remember a case in Georgia years back when there was a big storm with lots of trees down and one guy was cutting one up in his yard exactly like that. His toddler daughter was playing around in the stump hole when the tree stood back up.

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  9. #10 Been there, done that... I HATE backing into buildings (20 yrs OTR exp)... can't see a damn thing inside, only the opening... However, there was ONE place (out of 50?) that had decent lighting that really helped.

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    1. Yeah, the actual backing in isn't anything.
      I don't like buildings either and I always get out and go look at what the hell I'm looking at.

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  10. Actually #6 was from 20-25 years ago during a Russian ceremony honoring some military members….so yes Russian, probably leftist, from a technology starved society at the time…poor lady, nervous and overwhelmed by being included.

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  11. 3: I'd love to see the landing.
    5: You'd lose my trust for life at this point.
    7: On behalf of anyone who's had to work at a drive through and deal with the constant parade of assholes and retards, I hope that was scalding hot coffee.
    9: I remember being so fascinated with how this all worked when I was young.
    10: Clearly not one of the DEI hires that are permeating the industry right now.

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  12. Was gonna comment, but I think you guys pretty much covered it... LOL
    Thanks for the laughs... ~S~

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  13. #3 - I hope he landed in the on-ramp of a highway.

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  14. Once in the early 70's I had to back a spread axle tandem trailer into the barge dock at the U.S. Steel's irwin works to pick up some coils. You put the trailer into the black hole and hoped you didn't smash anything. Once when you could see, you found that the loading dock was at an angle. I was driving a 1964 White snub nose cab with a 220 Cummins, a 10 speed and Tandem rears with NO power steering! I'd like to see someone do that these days. I earned my money driving that shit shaker. No sleeper, single seat.

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  15. #5 is a great environment to learn in. My Daughter-In-Law is a level 5 certified life guard. Swim team captain both high school and college. She had both of their kids swimming like fish before the age of two.

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  16. I think y'all got it wrong in #1 - that tree's stomp is in the foreground.

    wojtek

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