Ace-Garageguy

"Mindset" where it's come to mean "personal perspective" or "lived experience" or one kind of bias or another has displaced objective reality...to our peril.

Kinda like so many mindlessly accept whatever scrambled gibberish Google or AI vomits up without checking it because muh technology.

Up the Down Staircase was a 1967 film based on the book of the same name that deals with an idealistic young teacher's difficult first confrontation with reality.

Yup. Don't know if it's a temporary site glitch or that access to the archive has been eliminated, but there doesn't seem to be any way to get in as of 11/30/2025. Only recent articles from HR appear to be available.

Jumbo or Dumbo, there's usually an elephant in the room everyone tries to ignore.

Last full-blown Thanksgiving dinner, had to make an extra batch of gravy. Tomorrow I'll steam or boil the remaining meat off the bones, make soup or chowder or something similar to finish off the leftovers. Mmmm mmmm good turkey.

See my comment immediately above. ^^^

A lot of the reason stuff like this happens is because the suits with shiny little degrees in management and no practical experience in anything believe that a mechanic/plumber/HVAC hard-tech job takes nothing more on the ball than the guy who blows leaves after your lawn in mowed. So they hire the cheapest they can get, often (in this market anyway) non-native English speakers who aren't even proficient enough in their OWN languages to read and comprehend and follow installation instructions (which are almost always printed in the two most likely languages to be spoken by labor). And don't forget...the ones doing the hiring are often challenged by putting Ikea stuff together, but somehow, in their logic-free existences, think that any drooling mouth-breather can install HVAC equipment properly.

"Split the difference" is a concept some people have never encountered and don't understand.

"Together again, for the first time anywhere" was part of how a couple of old friends of mine who performed music would introduce themselves.

Yup. Which explains why the stupid ones really believe they're the smart ones...and often brag about having the "education" to "prove" it, while sneering dismissively at those who employ common sense, critical-thinking, have deep and broad general knowledge, and excel at reading comprehension. The Dunning-Kruger effect is a very real thing.

Allowance money or proceeds from mowing lawns and other simple work was often squandered on meeting girls when I was much younger.

"Cap and ball" describes "cap-lock" scary bangy things that discharge a single spherical projectile with each operation.

Another possum fricassee for dinner, and I'm going to start eating bugs.