Thoughts and ideas that hold forever true..........

[Chuckyg1]

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?

[Big Messer]

Not much tv when a kid, too busy riding the bike, exploring the world, making models, being annoying. Sitting in front of the tube looked like a waste of my valuable time.

[Big Messer]

34 minutes ago, Chuckyg1 said:

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?

Good question to ponder around the pot belly stove with buddies.

[Tim W. SoCal]

Torque is measured in pounds/feet, not foot-pounds.

[mk11]

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; not the power to achieve, but will to labor.

I believe that labor judiciously and continuously applied becomes genius.

-bulwer

Edited November 1 by mk11

[Big Messer]

2 hours ago, Tim W. SoCal said:

Torque is measured in pounds/feet, not foot-pounds.

You arrive at the pounds/feet by repeatedly foot-pounding.

[Big Messer]

7 minutes ago, mk11 said:

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; not the power to achieve, but will to labor.

I believe that labor judiciously and continuously applied becomes genius.

-bulwer

No. I want money. Lots, because with enough I can achieve anything. Ask Bezos...

[Ace-Garageguy]

11 hours ago, Big Messer said:

No. I want money. Lots, because with enough I can achieve anything. Ask Bezos...

But what's Bezos really achieved?

Yeah, he's leveraged the internet into becoming a global master of buy low, sell high...predominantly trading in Chinese garbage...while he pays his people as little as they'll stand for. So what?

He has a third-rate independent 'space program' that's, frankly, a joke.

He has a hellishly expensive trophy wife who used to be a pretty girl, but is now so artificially inflated and botoxed she's unrecognizable.

He's a hypocrite of the first order, calling carbon-emission-driven "global warming" the "biggest threat to our planet", but his company's carbon footprint is the size of a small country's, and just his personal private jets dump as much carbon into the atmosphere annually as several normal human lifetime emissions combined.

Whenever I hear Alan Parsons I Wouldn't Want to be Like You, the first person that pops into my mind is invariably Bezos.

It's not sour grapes on my part, either. I don't mind at all seeing people who have vastly more wealth than I can even imagine.

But I wouldn't throw a bucket of liquid horse exhaust on Bezos if he was on fire.

 

Edited November 1 by Ace-Garageguy
punctiliousness

[Big Messer]

We can rant and argue until hell freezes over, but HE will be selling something to US, because he has his fingers into everything. That is control, money doesn't matter anymore because it will be flowing his way no matter what. And everybody will be glued to the stupid screens arguing about cats or some other idiocy. We better start learning Chinese, because we are going that way. Or Soylent Green...

[mk11]

It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you, it's what you leave behind you when you go.

[Big Messer]

32 minutes ago, mk11 said:

It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you, it's what you leave behind you when you go.

A lot of models either finished,mint in boxes, in different states of completion or just being messed up...  🙃 🙂

Edited Saturday at 08:52 PM by Big Messer

[Big Messer]

Just found this old rural saying: if hard work led to success the donkey would own the farm.

[Chuckyg1]

By the time a man realizes his father was right, he has a son who thinks he's wrong.

Charles Wadsworth

[Ace-Garageguy]

On 11/3/2025 at 7:42 AM, Chuckyg1 said:

By the time a man realizes his father was right, he has a son who thinks he's wrong.

Charles Wadsworth

Of course, a man might come to realize that his father was just as full-of-it as he seemed to be much earlier, too.

The son sometimes gets right what the father missed entirely. 

[Ace-Garageguy]

Sinatra supposedly once said "You buy a Ferrari when you want to be someone, you buy a Lamborghini when you are someone, you buy a Porsche when you want to be yourself".

As for me, I bought my first Porsche because it was the only one I could find for $600 after I stuffed my hot-rod Porsche-engined Bug.

[Ace-Garageguy]

"Freedom isn't free" is a popular refrain, but it's time for people to realize that free stuff isn't free either. 

[Chuckyg1]

129% of people exaggerate.

[mk11]

When someone tells you who they are, believe them.

[Trainwreck]

It's always the smallest bits of a project that move at warp speed after hitting the floor. 

 

 

Edited yesterday at 06:00 AM by Trainwreck

[Ace-Garageguy]

There is a fine line a man needs to walk between emotional vulnerability and stoic strength. Too much of either one is unhealthy, but we're never taught how to do it, nor is the idea even addressed. Some of us muddle through and eventually find a balance that works. Many never do.

[Big Messer]

17 hours ago, Trainwreck said:

It's always the smallest bits of a project that move at warp speed after hitting the floor. 

Nope. They fly into another dimension.

[JollySipper]

35 minutes ago, Big Messer said:

Nope. They fly into another dimension.

That's why you find them before you lose 'em............   

[Big Messer]

12 minutes ago, JollySipper said:

That's why you find them before you lose 'em............   

You actually find them? How lucky!

[Ace-Garageguy]

3 hours ago, Big Messer said:

Nope. They fly into another dimension.

Yes, I have seen the tiny black holes or wormholes wink in and out of existence out of the corner of my eye on occasion, just like in the movies.

Lost and gone forever, even on a polished hardwood floor, no rug, no critters, just vanished.

I'm rather hoping a big one will materialize some day and take me away, but my luck, it'd only get one of my more useful body parts.

[Trainwreck]

31 minutes ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

Yes, I have seen the tiny black holes or wormholes wink in and out of existence out of the corner of my eye on occasion, just like in the movies.

Lost and gone forever, even on a polished hardwood floor, no rug, no critters, just vanished.

I'm rather hoping a big one will materialize some day and take me away, but my luck, it'd only get one of my more useful body parts.

Sounds like bad lighting and too much caffeine Bill.