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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: handyman-ness
« on: Today at 04:08:43 PM »
Wait, he got a 40yd dumpster for that shed?
I did this once as a hint to mrs8 to change her hoarding ways.  Backfired spectacularly.


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It was my mom that ordered it and she didn't know how big to get so she just got the 40yd dumpster. My dad came back a day early from the farm when he saw it getting delivered in the ring camera to make sure she doesn't throw away "Anything good".

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it's our last water polo season (probably) and gearing up for summer tournaments there is drama as there usually is. Since there aren't enough girls at any one club, clubs will join forces to create more competitive teams. Anyway my daughter's club and another club were merging and planned to have an A team and a B team. At least that's what one of the coaches thought. There were 3 or 4 combined tournaments with one team and eventually the other coach (who was going to lead the A team in summer tourneys) thought it was going to be one big team with a huge bench while my daughter's coach thought there would be an A and a B team (so weaker players from both clubs could play a lot at an appropriate level).

The two team would have worked brilliantly EXCEPT the A team coach and/or his weaker players decided that his weaker players would not play on the B team, despite the fact that they clearly should based on ability. Which led to my daughter's coach pressuring my daughter (who was clearly an A-teamer) into playing with the B team to guarantee the weaker players of his club would have an opportunity to play on a more competitive team. Like, he tried to tell her she were depriving the weaker players of a chance to play at all and that the A-team coach didn't want her or have space for her when the A coach flat out told her he wanted her on the team and told them that they were depriving the weaker players of a chance to play. Really not cool.

anyway she is playing with the a-team in a couple of weeks and she will have a lot of fun (hopefully)

Besides watching maybe 5 minutes of Olympic coverage of Water polo I have no idea how it works. What makes someone good a water polo?

Is it similar to football where people with all different body sizes (Lineman/receivers/etc) play at the same time in different positions?

Is it more similar to basketball where being tall is a huge advantage?

Are you swimming/treading water the whole time or can you touch the bottom when the ball is on the other side of the pool?

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: handyman-ness
« on: May 01, 2024, 11:04:02 PM »
Built this shitty metal shed in my parents backyard with my dad when I was in college and now I get to tear it down because it was rusted as crap.


This was actually pretty easy to disassemble because it was basically like 1000 screws that held everything together, couple of hours with a drill and it was all in the easily movable pieces it got shipped to us in.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: handyman-ness
« on: May 01, 2024, 11:01:14 PM »
The actual hardest thing I moved was this concrete fountain that my dad acquired 10 years ago but never got around to setting up/fixing. Had to powerlift it into its side and roll it on the edges to get into the dumpster, was not fun.


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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: handyman-ness
« on: May 01, 2024, 10:55:20 PM »
They ordered a dumpster that was way too large and now I'm filling it with random junk from their house. Their basement got flooded like 10 years ago and the deep freezer stopped working and had just sat down there since...added it to the dumpster today by myself as my dad is still out at the cat ranch for a few more days...felt like a real manly man pushing this upstairs and using a ratchet to take off the lid then using a dolly to haul it out to the dumpster.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: handyman-ness
« on: May 01, 2024, 10:50:04 PM »
Built this shitty metal shed in my parents backyard with my dad when I was in college and now I get to tear it down because it was rusted as crap.


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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: CHIEFS
« on: May 01, 2024, 07:28:09 PM »
As a chiefs homer I want them to stay in Arrowhead forever because of the history. It's already the 3rd oldest stadium in the NFL or something like that.

I especially don't want them to build a dome at the legends just so we can host 1 final 4 out in BFE kck. Football is meant to be played outside and indoor stadiums are an abomination.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: Having trouble with your golf game?
« on: April 30, 2024, 08:48:29 PM »
Playing at Heritage Park on Saturday and Swope Park on Sunday. Hopefully the weather cooperates  :pray:

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Tornado Season 2024
« on: April 30, 2024, 08:47:12 PM »
Got my eyes on one.

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 :surprised:

Hope everyone is okay. Were you close enough to hear it?

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my grandpa used to have a giant tank of roundup on his 3 wheeler and one in a pickup and on days when there "wasn't as much to do" he drove around and round upp'd all his fence lines to keep cedar out!

But they made good fence posts when there were no trees anywhere
I ask this with all due respect and seriousness…did he die of cancer? Lot of those guys who were exposed to Roundup 24/7/365 have.
Pretty sure it's Parkinson's not cancer....or both. My aunt and uncle who are full time farmers  have Parkinson's.

They also had a giant tank of Roundup on the back of a three wheeler.

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Just plant a bunch of cherry and apple trees.

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“Stomp the Gayhawks”

My man had a legendary five o’clock shadow

Lol, didn't notice the button but you have to admit that hat is pretty elite.

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Young Robert in 1986 from a coffee table book called "A week at Kansas State". Gtfoomf with comparing him to the white owl. Robert has been part of EMAW lore since before I was even alive.


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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Kansas City things
« on: April 28, 2024, 10:14:23 PM »
Have they opened up the putt putt course next to the lil boi ferris wheel yet? That could be a good time.

Also nelson Atkins has a putt putt golf course that is like $10 and entry to the museum is free so you could do that, eat some bbq and then go ride the lil boi ferris wheel once it gets dark.

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Sheep used to be a real life thing in WKS and alot of other places but then some smart people invented synthetic fibers and no one needed wool anymore. From my limited research the meat you can get from sheep is not really worth it by itself so you would need to shear the sheep for wool which is a pain in the ass and labor intensive which is why BEEF is now the dominant bovine in most of the US.

My dad did mention they had a small herd of sheep at the cat ranch back in the 70's but the only reason I remember that is because he said they always got some nasty parasites/worms that you would pull out through their nostrils.

if i lose less than $1000 and don't get a parasite they have to pull out of my nose on this hobby i'll consider it a huge win.

Not your nostril, the sheep's nostril.

I'm 100% in favor of sys buying some sheep and starting a hobby hobby farm.

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Milo hanging out at the edge of our very mid wheat field.

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We have a giant crab apple tree and cherry tree that have survived for a billion years since they get watered from the lawn sprinklers so I planted a blackberry and raspberry bush there as well.


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Also I was out at the cat ranch last weekend and planted 4 blackberry, 2 raspberry bushes and 1 apple tree just for the hell of it.

Here are two blackberry and 1 raspberry bushes, planted them behind the garage/quonset building thinking that the extra run off will give them enough water....my only concern is when it's 100 degrees out there in the summer and the metal siding is radiating heat.


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i'm maybe going to get some sheep to try my hand at hobbying.  got to figure out how to take care of sheep real fast.

You hobbying in Kansas?

california.  this is just a hobby hobby flock.

Sheep used to be a real life thing in WKS and alot of other places but then some smart people invented synthetic fibers and no one needed wool anymore. From my limited research the meat you can get from sheep is not really worth it by itself so you would need to shear the sheep for wool which is a pain in the ass and labor intensive which is why BEEF is now the dominant bovine in most of the US.

My dad did mention they had a small herd of sheep at the cat ranch back in the 70's but the only reason I remember that is because he said they always got some nasty parasites/worms that you would pull out through their nostrils.

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Kansas State Football / Re: PORTAL KOMBAT (but for football)
« on: April 28, 2024, 03:47:03 PM »
Imagine a single wing package with Edwards as the wing.

I want as many packages with Edwards and Giddens as possible. I'm imagining lots of 2 back packages where Edwards motions out to the slot or comes in motion from the slot for a jet sweep/fake jet sweep.

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OR.....Just keep adding new 1099's until enough of the tough ones survive and advance then reproduce.

Also zero cats have shown up on the cat ranch randomly and in the year or so there were no cats we had mice drowning in dog bowls of water left outside because there were that many of them.


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Is he trapping them around KC and transporting?
No, some landlord in Colby had a cat person that was feeding all the strays and there were 20+ hanging around the property after she left so they started trapping them.

That was a year ago tho so I'm not quite sure where he is getting these but I imagine it's something similar.

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calling cats 1099s is incredible.  do dogs come in as w2s?
Just 1099's for now, just got an email.




Subject: New 1099 employee

Solid body beauty,  nice coat, coal black with a white spot on the throat.  Identifies as an alpha male.


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