Random Thought Thread

100% other than I no longer hang up. I answer, say nothing, put the call on mute, and wait. If there are prompts, I follow until a person answers. They usually hang up within a few seconds. After maybe 2 more calls, they remove the number. One can play around and blast the old internet connection sounds from the dial-up days or obnoxious adult entertainment videos; that usually results in a quick hangup as well.

 

Yeah, I almost never answer any unknown number. What I'm amazed by is that there is usually a snippet of the robo-voice on my voice mail... "If you would like to be placed on our do not call list, please press 1 now."

Someone should invent an app that robo-responds. Or better yet, somehow goes out into the universe of call directories and deletes my number from their system! I should be able to purge my number...

At least the non stop barrage of robo-texts for political campaigns should come to an end today...

 

I have been having really good luck with UPS. They even call me if there's a problem and I've been able to fix things while the package was already in route.

 

My 5 year old grandson jumped off the back of the couch last night playing "Super hero" landed bad and broke his arm.
Late night at the emergency room. He never cried or whined once.
I need to teach him to tuck and roll.

 

@JJ_Colt45 I Will send you the information that I use when sending them. There's a code that you need to put. When I get back to the shop, I'll send you a PM.

 

Oh no! I hope he heals fast.

 

Thanks Jo, he's a tough little kid.

 

Got it ... thank you Jo!

 

Ouch! Unfortunately been there done that with our son...3 times! Forget the ages now (he's 17 now), maybe 8 the first time...then a year to the day later he did it again! Made it past that date the next year, but like 6 months later he did it again! All his left arm...elbow twice and wrist once. Was really getting nervous that DCYF was gonna start asking questions.

 

Used my fk2 pst several trips out without sharpening inbetween. This time i accidentally buried the tip twice into the dirt. The edge was shinny and would no longer shave however it still made fine curls for a feather stick. Afterwards I gave it a few pulls on a ceramic road and a leather strop and it’s back to hair popping. Only difficulty was getting the fine wire edge completely removed during the strop.

 

Ouch. 3 times...

Just some food for thought, but even at younger ages, having kids start on any grappling style is potentially beneficial in a multitude of ways. Aside from the obvious benefits for self-defense, one of the big ones is that styles that emphasize grappling and/or throwing all have a lot of focus on developing kinesthetic awareness of body positioning AND break falls (how to properly fall/land to minimize the risk of injury).

Simply as an anecdotal example, my brother and I both started formal martial arts with karate (I began earlier, despite my brother being 2 years older), but I also developed an interest in all the aspects of martial arts, including grappling and throwing.

My brother broke his arm and dislocated it multiple times from falls (not to mention getting stitches on his head on 3 different occasions from falls not related to any extreme sports).

In my case, learning HOW to fall/roll and distribute the force of a fall saved me from injury many times, and despite being more of a nut in my youth (doing stuff my brother didn't, like a LOT of biking in all kinds of terrain/conditions, skateboarding etc., and even eventually going from point sparring to full contact kickboxing), I managed to avoid any broken bones, aside from finger injuries (which ALL occurred while playing basketball. Lol).

I was present more than a few times when my brother was injured simply from tripping or slipping. The same type of falls I generally didn't even have a bruise/sprain from due to instinctively falling as I'd trained, to minimize the force of the fall and any chance of injury.

 

Can confirm. About ten years ago I was jumping as high as I could on a trampoline and jumped right off it, and I was heading for the rocky ground from like 20+ feet up, head first, very certain I was about to die. But my dusty old high school judo club training and my body/instincts took over and turned the fall into a roll, and I wound up on my feet, bewildered and unharmed. I've considered that one of the great miracles of my life.

I meant 20 feet not 30, haha. Still was scary.

 

Sorry to hear :-( Tough kid !!!

Must be an ice cream and cookies day

 

Before the border closed people were shipping to me in the US, I was crossing them into Canada myself then shipping them domestically. I’ve done a lot that way, in particular more expensive ones you don’t want customs to handle. I’ve had a couple shipped to me directly but it’s hit or miss with customs and the prices are atrocious right now. The last one direct from Jo was a FK2 small box and it cost me I think about $75 all said and done.

 

I think you're onto something here. What do you know about cocaine?

 

Theres so much to love here

 

Nice save.

It definitely makes a difference. I've seen more than a few friends with breakfall training (male and female) with some good (and some impressively acrobatic and even flamboyant) saves due to trained instincts for falls in everything from missteps into ditches to mountain bike crashes (going right over the handlebars and instead of doing a scorpion on their face, tucking into a smooth roll on one shoulder right back to their feet and continuing to run downhill due to the momentum. The rest of us gaped for a moment, then bust out laughing).

 

I specialize in discretion and have references who have had me bring across knives getting close to 5 digits in value with literally no means to recover any value should a loss occur thus proving they certainly trust me.

 

my nickname around here is Crash Arnold. I earned it.