Plan B Forum

When I was forced to play soccer as a kindergartner I followed my own 3 rules: 1) Get as far away from the other kids as possible. 2) Avoid the ball as much as possible. 3) If the ball does end up running into your feet, kick it away as fast as possible. Those rules pretty much sum up my life, actua...

IE doesn't allow to expand images natively. The "Show Image" menu option is only to load images that haven't been loaded yet (for example, if you "stop" the page from loading before the images finish, you can load them individually. Or if you have image download disabled). FireFox and Chrome both le...

I realize it's for a good cause, (assuming this isn't a scam organization; I haven't checked them out) but that insipid ear worm 1-877-cars4kids commercial is driving me mashugana... I was hoping that they'd stop after the holidays, but noooooo ... :arg Likewise. Except here it's been 3 years of it...

It's a private evangelical establishment. Freedom of speech doesn't apply. If she wants to teach religious tolerance, an evangelical college isn't the place (it should be taught, but evangelicals are some of the least religiously tolerant people I've ever met). In any case, you can be fired from pre...

We called them "times tables" when I was a kid. That is, in the 80s. And that was at a highly regarded Catholic grade school. We learned them in 2nd or 3rd grade. I hated them. Anything that was rote memorization made no sense, which added to my problems in mathematics later in life when you needed ...

I don't watch sitcoms at all. Last one I tried to watch consistently was cancelled quickly (Better Off Ted), and that was over 5 years ago. They kept bouncing it around the schedule and preempting it, making it hard to follow. I did check out a couple more since but I haven't found any I didn't thin...

I regretfully have to pass on the news:

https://www.mountaineagle.com/obituarie ... resa-smith


I don't have much else to say, but she will be missed.

Well, everyone will die of cancer, unless something else kills you first. Kinda "Captain Obvious" there.

New Years Eve is one of those days I don't leave the house. Drunks on a normal day are bad enough.

Someone down the street is having a blast of a time though, and it's still almost 6 hours until midnight here. Hopefully the ballistic arcs don't come down on my property again.

Wealthy Mexican drug kingpins in a Mexican jail are one thing. An American- doesn't matter who - in a Mexican jail is inhumane. Though I have a hard time feeling sorry for that sack of $#!+ Affluenza kid.

Allowing "anyone" to vote in either party's primary is insanity. And if the parties paid for and ran their own primaries, I'd be inclined to agree. But if the primary is paid for by the State elections department via public funds, then the State should be allowed to have whatever kind of primary is...

I use BS wrenches all the time. Some of them even have both BS and Whitworth markings on them (which of course are different even though the span is the same). They aren't mine, belong to the museum, but since I'm one of the main mechs there... Even though Packard built the Merlin V-12 here in the U...

Gotta love when bureaucracy meets computer security. So, I had to call my State's government health care system because my password once again got locked. Most systems give you 5 tries to get the password right, this one is 3 but they don't tell you that until you've locked yourself out and it doesn...

Swift, JB Hunt, CRST, May, etc etc. Trucks to avoid. Even other truckers (including ones that drive for those companies!) say to get out of their way. Inexperienced drivers. One of the CRST ("Can't Really Steer Trucks") drivers heavily damaged one of the race boats on the series I participate in at ...

Truth is, some folks needed reminders. 15 years ago I worked at an office that had a keycode entry box on the door so you could unlock it. The keycode box was installed ON the door, above the handle. The doors opened outward. The keycode box was on the outside. There were no windows in the door. Gue...

Jarlaxle wrote:Yes, actually, the A-1 WAS, in fact, carrier-based! (The "Spad" replaced the SB2C Helldiver.)

Yeah, I messed that one up. I researched the A-1 AFTER I wrote the first sentence, because I didn't even know what the Skyraider was.

Screwed up? No, that was intentional. Someone bought a new shop vac, stuck their old one in the box, and returned it for a refund. It's actually quite common.

Bullshit. The Air Force is still flying B-52s that were built in the Eisenhower administration! The newest A-10 was built in 1984. Most B-1s are over 25 years old. The A-1 Skyraider was in service 30 years. Apples to orangutans. None of the planes you list are carrier based aircraft. The plane I wa...

That's the difference between straight math and estimating. I have to assume that the test in question also had instructions (not visible in the small snippet) which informed the test-taker that they were to estimate at the nearest 10. Otherwise, it IS proper estimating if you assume to round to the...

The A-6 was retired mainly because the F/A-18 existed. It's a common tactic by the military to retire older systems for the "cost savings" so they can buy new systems, even if the new systems can't do the job any better than the old ones. Though if the A-6 was still around NOW, the airframes would b...