Aaarrrrrggggg generation gap

Stephen G

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My Grandpa was strict as hell and tuff as nails. So I never did stuff to piss him off and taught me how weld and mechanic etc. He would open our door say in a calm voice get up- 3 min later if you were still in bed you got a gallon of ice water in your bed.
My Dad once closed the hood on my 57 pickup and left me in there for couple hours for being a smartass.
If I went to a friend to talk about how my feelings got hurt, theyd popped me in nose and said NOW that shit hurts.
The only feelings I can remember growing up are hunger, fear, pain, joy and relief.
I still laugh at a friend for loosening a thumb and everyone still laughs at me for hitting a turtle with my face water skiing.
WTF is up with all this I feel, you made me feel, hurt my feelings, I'm sad shit???

I dont get it. Stupid should hurt and pain is funny.
 
Are you saying we're living in a world (seemingly) full of "snowflakes?" :unsure:

I think it's a matter of misleading vividness. It SEEMS there are more snowflakes now. I think it seems that way because they get a disproportionate amount of attention.

Last week I watched 277 NON-snowflakes graduate from the USMC basic training at Parris Island. Hope is not all lost. :cool:

But I do get what you're saying. :) We need to stop giving the snowflakes any attention. They should be shunned.
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Congrats to your son 👍Graduation is something to see.

I know Im way less tolerant of BS these days. I just dont see how things are going down.
My dad and I built vehicles, firearms and computers from magazine advertisements. With him working 60+hrs aweek and my mom working 40+. If something broke I was taught to fix it. Taught self reliance and perseverance.
Now Im seeing parents completely self absorb with minimal personal skills. Children 7-8 yrs old- pitching a all fit, laying in floor of the grocery store because they cant play on the phone. Teenagers tossing new bikes in the trash because the chain fell off.
Grown men treating everything as disposable. Vehicles, generators, tools etc.
My newest vehicle is 20yrs old in VERY good shape. I use tools giving to me from Dad, Grandfather and GREAT Grandfather. Cook with pots and pans that have been in faimly over 100yrs.
Offer to teach young men how easy it is to do brakes FOR FREE, they rather pay $600 to someone for parts swapping.
Just got a Jhon Deere Gator for couple hundred mostly because the battery terminals were completely corroded and fenders busted. Already pulled out a tree stump and pulled over by the popo with it.
HOLLY SHIT offered to repair/get running again 3 different tractors 1940 to 1970 freaking yard art. JUST TO HAVE SOMETHINGTO DO/ FREE . It doesnt get any simpler then 1940s Massey Ferguson, but scares the shit out of them to change a sparkplug on a push mower.

I am so fucking bored Ive caught 6 moles by hand in last year. Running outa things to occupy myself with. Lmao
 
Stephen G said:
Congrats to your son 👍Graduation is something to see.

I know Im way less tolerant of BS these days. I just dont see how things are going down.
My dad and I built vehicles, firearms and computers from magazine advertisements. With him working 60+hrs aweek and my mom working 40+. If something broke I was taught to fix it. Taught self reliance and perseverance.
Now Im seeing parents completely self absorb with minimal personal skills. Children 7-8 yrs old- pitching a all fit, laying in floor of the grocery store because they cant play on the phone. Teenagers tossing new bikes in the trash because the chain fell off.
Grown men treating everything as disposable. Vehicles, generators, tools etc.
My newest vehicle is 20yrs old in VERY good shape. I use tools giving to me from Dad, Grandfather and GREAT Grandfather. Cook with pots and pans that have been in faimly over 100yrs.
Offer to teach young men how easy it is to do brakes FOR FREE, they rather pay $600 to someone for parts swapping.
Just got a Jhon Deere Gator for couple hundred mostly because the battery terminals were completely corroded and fenders busted. Already pulled out a tree stump and pulled over by the popo with it.
HOLLY SHIT offered to repair/get running again 3 different tractors 1940 to 1970 freaking yard art. JUST TO HAVE SOMETHINGTO DO/ FREE . It doesnt get any simpler then 1940s Massey Ferguson, but scares the shit out of them to change a sparkplug on a push mower.

I am so fucking bored Ive caught 6 moles by hand in last year. Running outa things to occupy myself with. Lmao
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Unfortunately I frequently tick off a lot of your "BS" boxes either because no one taught me or I fall into the "convenience trap". I used to change my oil and rotate my tires, for instance, and don't bother between the hassle of the job & the hassle of collecting and finding a place to legally dispose the oil. In the grand scheme you are spot on, we are a throw away society as many things are not fixable & if they are, we don't know how to do it. One in a while I'll get a wild hair and replace a thermistor on a ice maker or something that depending on the situation. I wish I knew more about gas engines in general. They don't like me trying to fix them ;)
 
brian said:
Unfortunately I frequently tick off a lot of your "BS" boxes either because no one taught me or I fall into the "convenience trap". I used to change my oil and rotate my tires, for instance, and don't bother between the hassle of the job & the hassle of collecting and finding a place to legally dispose the oil. In the grand scheme you are spot on, we are a throw away society as many things are not fixable & if they are, we don't know how to do it. One in a while I'll get a wild hair and replace a thermistor on a ice maker or something that depending on the situation. I wish I knew more about gas engines in general. They don't like me trying to fix them ;)
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In case you didn't know, many auto parts stores like "Advance Auto" and "AutoZone" will recycle old engine oil. 🤔
 
BeerHunter said:
In case you didn't know, many auto parts stores like "Advance Auto" and "AutoZone" will recycle old engine oil. 🤔
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Good to know in case I get the desire to do it again. My favorite to do was when I had the Blazer 4x4 as I could just crawl under to do it without jacking it up, etc. My biggest "oh-shit" moment was when I couldn't get the filter to unscrew on my Mustang and had to drive a screw driver through it to get leverage to get it to turn - talk about a little mess LOL.
 
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Good to know in case I get the desire to do it again. My favorite to do was when I had the Blazer 4x4 as I could just crawl under to do it without jacking it up, etc. My biggest "oh-shit" moment was when I couldn't get the filter to unscrew on my Mustang and had to drive a screw driver through it to get leverage to get it to turn - talk about a little mess LOL.
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I take it a filter wrench wouldn't do the job? 🤔
 
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It was publications like PS that made so many people think that was acceptable! :eek:
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It's science and I don't see the issue? We have only one earth, so recycle.
Oil came from the earth and I heard the voices of earth and the tree huggers telling me to return property back to earth since I was a kid.

With anti-freeze, it's the same gig. There's green algae in the oceans, lakes and streams, so mother earth has no problem drinking a few gallons of beautifully green anti-freeze every few years. It's a drop in the bucket.

BTW, the lot next door down the hill from me is for sale and has a vacant garden that needs tending.
 
I got quite perturbed towards a guy a few doors down from my shop several months ago. Normally we are quite chummy but I noticed him walking to the dumpster with containers of used motor oil! :eek: I says "What the fuck are you doing! There is a Walmart five minutes away!" 😠 I shamed him into putting it back in his truck. He probably just threw it in someone else's dumpster... :rolleyes: He kept a dirty shop and they kicked him out not long after that. Some people are just criminally lazy. :(

I did a report on used/waste oil back in college. A couple tidbits I remember:
* people in the US improperly dispose of more oil per year than escaped from the Exxon Valdez
* oil dumped in the ground can leach into aquifers and contaminate wells miles away
* used oil can be cleaned, refined and re-used

When I was a kid, we used to pour our used oil along the fence line to kill the weeds. :rolleyes: A mechanic shop I delivered auto parts to got busted doing oil changes over the storm drain! :eek: A shipyard owner got fined for burying PCB-laden transformers from his shipyard (former WWII Navy yard) into the backyard of his farm--seems his green-fanatic neighbors own binoculars and turned him in... :D

Another peeve I have here in my town in FL is they did away with recycling a few years ago. Years of conditioning everyone to recycle blown out the window. :( Granted, they were just dumping it in another part of the landfill... :rolleyes: Metal and glass recyclables are efficiently recycled and is why I support a nationwide bottle-bill. This will never fly because people are too fucking lazy... 😒

BTW, landfills here in FL are the HIGHEST points around for miles. And they are a finite capacity--when they are a certain height, that is it, no mas. But people are conditioned to consume (and disgard)--my neighbor across the street is always throwing out something re-usable. I grabbed a couple standing fans from him a while back. Fixed the base on one and reattached the fan blade on another and they work fine.
 
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