Yep, "progress" is for the birds...
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Originally Posted by
Shuz
The other day my wife gave me an empty coffee can;bless her soul. She's been doing that for years. As I took the can out to the shop for it's usual task of housing lead ingots, or as a dross receptacle from my smelting, I noticed that the sides of the can are now cardboard!! While these "cans" can prolly house 30 to 40 pounds of ingots like the old cans, you can imagine what might happen should I use it for flaming hot dross or as a turpinetine filled paint brush cleaning receptacle! Is this the "price" of progress? AAAArgh, first they convert my wheelweights to zinc and steel: and now this! I needa go pop some primers.--Shuz
The coffee cans and wheel weights are just the tip of the iceberg.
I pine for the days when you could walk into the hardware store, buy a Solothurn Anti Tank gun for $55, a Luger for $40, a gallon of Carbon Tetrachloride, pay for it with real money, and walk out the door without filling out any paperwork.
Money is no longer gold and silver, the dollar is no longer redeemable in silver, and the idiots want to electronically deposit my checks!
I told them it's against my religion, so I'm the sole holdout still being sent a real, paper check. It really grates them not to have 100% compliance, but it sends the message just fine.
Remember the days when people didn't watch much TV, and they actually did things? Now I have to hid my chemical experiments because some brain dead idiot
will automatically assume I'm making meth and either try to rob me or turn me in to the police.
Mr. Peabody: Kindly crank up the Wayback Machine and drop me off in 1962.
Happy Shootin! -Tom