Here's an article releveant to what's being discussed. I found it rather interesting, because I identified with some aspects of how a perfectionist is described myself:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180219-toxic-perfectionism-is-on-the-rise

Then, of course, there is that widespread (if erroneous) belief that being a perfectionist makes us better workers (or parents, or athletes, or whatever the task is at hand).

 

http://time.com/5171239/woman-assumes-norwegian-flag-is-confederate/

When Morris found out that she had mistaken the flags, she pointed to the current political climate as a possible reason for her mix-up.

“Maybe that’s the story,” she told the Seattle Times. “We’re so stressed by all things political that we see things that aren’t there.”

Go Norway!

 

http://time.com/5171239/woman-assumes-norwegian-flag-is-confederate/

"Maybe that’s the story,” she told the Seattle Times. “We’re so stressed by all things political that we see things that aren’t there.”

Go Norway!

"...we see things that aren't there"?

Is she French of does she have a mouse in her pocket?

 

https://www.nbcolympics.com/news/team-usas-historic-curling-victory-their-own-words

 

kv

 

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How did you find a video of my wife?????

 

I didn't realize it until about a week ago when I saw a quip in the school newspaper. I don't remember the specifics, but it was something like, "You know you are a UCCS student when..." and one of the responses was something like, "Your classmate gets an excused absence to represent the United States in the Olympics."

http://communique.uccs.edu/?p=30046

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...anned-even-touching-snow-headteacher-accused/

 

Modern appliances.

 

Modern appliances.

Those were the days!

Edit: Look at how nice it was to be a man!

 

Those were the days!

Edit: Look at how nice it was to be a man!

it still is ...

 

Modern appliances.

BTW: I thought "Carol" was ummm [edited] attractive -
Edited to add: I think that is Connie Marshall http://www.famousfix.com/topic/connie-marshall/wiki

I wonder if this is her granddaughter...

 

BTW: I thought "Carol" was ummm [edited] attractive -

Yes, she was one of many 'child' stars that faded with age in old Hollywood.

 

Yes, she was one of many 'child' stars that faded with age.

Yeah - I guess she did a few things as an adult, but they did not work out for her....http://www.famousfix.com/topic/connie-marshall/wiki
"Connie was to work with the silver screen`s top movie stars over the years, including Gene Tierney and Joan Crawford, but once she outgrew her precociousness, her career began to fade away. She attempted TV with the short-lived series "Doc Corkle" (1952) and appeared as a feisty teen co-star opposite Gene Autry in his film oater Saginaw Trail (1953), but by 1954, after an un-billed part in Rogue Cop (1954), Connie was literally and figuratively out of the picture."

 

We had a much less elegant pressure cooker when I was young and it did wonderful roasts. Unfortunately me sister tried to use it and blew out the safety disk and since the thing was at least forty years old there weren't any replacement to be found (maybe today in the age of the internet the might be) and there was no way to fabricate one. A sad day when it went to the dump.

 

We had a much less elegant pressure cooker when I was young and it did wonderful roasts. Unfortunately me sister tried to use it and blew out the safety disk and since the thing was at least forty years old there weren't any replacement to be found (maybe today in the age of the internet the might be) and there was no way to fabricate one. A sad day when it went to the dump.

Getting 40 years out of an appliance - WOW!
I just got almost 2 years out of a vacuum cleaner when I had to replace this

A simple power switch and it went bad (maybe operated 200-300 times) - unfreaking believeable.
https://onlinevacshop.com/product/hoover-power-switch-440003992/
Cost $8.56 (including shipping). Probably blow out again because it is underrated or just junk. I suppose I should have installed a heavier duty switch which would not have fit. - I don't know, but apparently my limit on these matters is ~$9

 

Getting 40 years out of an appliance - WOW!
I just got almost 2 years out of a vacuum cleaner when I had to replace this

A simple power switch and it went bad (maybe operated 200-300 times) - unfreaking believeable.
https://onlinevacshop.com/product/hoover-power-switch-440003992/
Cost $8.56 (including shipping). Probably blow out again because it is underrated or just junk. I suppose I should have installed a heavier duty switch which would not have fit. - I don't know, but apparently my limit on these matters is ~$9

While I definitely agree that today's appliances are of shamefully poor quality, since a pressure cooker (the these) is purely mechanical, there is very little that can go wrong (but I have a sister that is highly skilled in the art). The only part that ever had to be replaced was the gasket and (in my perhaps ten years of working with it) we only had to do that once; my dad just brought home a sheet of gasket material from work and we used the old one as a template and cut it out with a pair of scissors. Took maybe five minutes. My dad even quipped about how I would be teaching my kids how to make a new gasket for it some day -- I think my sister overheard.

But you are spot on the money. Whether it's washers and dryers, stoves, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners or even much more "modern" things like VCR and DVD players, today's stuff is pure crap compared to stuff twenty or fifty years ago.

 

We had several old canning pressure cookers.


We had a really big one for rendering Souse Loaf (like Head Cheese) on a outside wood fire during a hog butcher. Anything left-over goes in the pot.

 

Avian politics?

The claim is that this occurs with a probability of one in million - please show your work.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/02/28/one-million-yellow-cardinal-seen-alabama/381541002/

 

...today's stuff is pure crap compared to stuff twenty or fifty years ago.

The cost of appliances was much higher in the "good ol' days".

For comparison.