Things I've learned the hard way . . .(Part 2)

[Sgt. LED]

Things i've learned from G1K:


Stay the hell off motorcycles.


:eek:
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:crackup:

 

[Monocrom]

If your boss is a lazy idiot, it will never matter how intelligent you are or how hard you work.

 

[m16a]

• Hot glass and cold glass look exactly the same
• Black ice exists and is REALLY slippery...

 

[KD5XB]

What have I learned the hard way?

"Experience is what you get right after you needed it!" :laughing:

 

[bullfrog]

To be very VERY sure a woman is actually pregnant before you ask:

"so, when are you due?"

My mom gave me first hand experience with this when I was younger when she asked a friend of a close friend this - talk about awkward.

I still laugh about it - thanks mom :laughing:

 

[Monocrom]

To be very VERY sure a woman is actually pregnant before you ask:

"so, when are you due?"

:crackup:

Had a security trainer make the same mistake. It's even worse when a guy says it.... on the job.

 

[Black Rose]

To be very VERY sure a woman is actually pregnant before you ask:

"so, when are you due?"

I almost made this critical mistake very early in my career. An out of town manager was brought in to manage the shutdown of the department I was working in at the time. She was on the large side and appeared to be pregnant, however I opted not to ask.

It was a good thing I didn't. When I moved halfway across the country to a new office, she ended up being my manager.

 

[mossyoak]

Pavement is slicker after it rains then when its actually raining, and my jeep XJ is a fishtailing nightmare. But fun...

 

[jrmcferren]

Trying to parallel two LEDs in a minimag socket cause a great potential for a short circuit, when your experiment involves no current-limiting resistor this can cause a short circuit. Short circuits on NiMh cells create a lot of current and a lot of heat, this combined with holding leads on an LED can cause a nasty feeling burn.

 

[jrmcferren]

You will not realize that the lower heating element in the oven has gone :poof: when your rice pudding didn't turn out right or the pie does not burn at 450 degrees, but when the Thanksgiving turkey takes forever to cook.

 

[Hooked on Fenix]

Here's some things I learned on a backpacking trip in the Sierra Nevadas recently out of Lone Pine (Cottonwood Lakes area just before New Army Pass).

Snowshoeing through a boulder field covered by 4 feet of snow is a pain in the butt. I had to put on and take off the snowshoes every two steps. The snow gets undermined near the boulders so even with the snowshoes, you fall through and get wedged against a boulder (messing up your knee and ankle). It is better to avoid the boulder field all together and climb the nearest hill to a point where the area gets more sun exposure and walk or boulder hop across.

After a day of falling through soft, wet snow on a backpacking trip, your only pair of boots will freeze solid and you won't be able to put them on. Putting a backpacker's towel in each boot along with a 1 liter Nalgene bottle full of boiling hot water will solve the problem. The water stays in the bottle. The hot water bottle will defrost the boot and the towel will absorb any defrosted water so it can be removed without refreezing or making your feet colder.

A 0 degree sleeping bag from Walmart won't keep you warm in the 20s, especially if it's too short, the hood doesn't close enough, and the zipper on top of the bag opens while you sleep. However, a 1 liter Nalgene water bottle will keep you toasty warm for 3 hours.

Spindrifts are demoralizing events that can get you to turn around and go back. They are basically ice tornadoes. If you get in the middle of one, you'll be pelted with snow and ice. They also wipe out footprints so you can't see where the trail leads or where you came from.

Backpacking in the snow is colder if you go somewhere that doesn't allow fires.

With enough wind, a candle lantern can be put out in a 4 season tent just by the wind swinging it around too much. The wind was unable to directly blow out the lantern in the tent. It went out twice in an hour.

The best gear in the world is no substitute for knowledge. Knowledge will help you realize the limits of your gear so you don't get killed using it.

 

[AlphaTea]

You really should'nt take a Prilosec AND an Ambian CR at the same time. The Ambian gets a delayed action for about 8 hours, THEN you cant keep your eyes open.

 

[Sgt. LED]

Don't take your eye out in front of children, it scares them.
:mecry:<- Like that.

 

[Burgess]

:eek:

:cool:
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[TigerhawkT3]

Permanent dental implants are not invulnerable and can still somehow come loose. I haven't learned how or why it's possible, but it is.

Gonna be going to school tomorrow with a Ti socket sticking out of my gum.

Artist's conception of what I'll look like.

EDIT: Got it fixed about an hour ago. They said they prefer using temporary cement, in case the tooth chips or something. If they used actual permanent cement, the only option would be to machine it out, and, as we all know, Ti is not easy to machine. :) So, my tooth is back in, and it's only a slightly different fit than it had yesterday, so I'm sure I'll readjust quickly enough.

 

[mossyoak]

don't get in a pillow fight. With tempur-pedic pillows. Also don't belly flop onto a tempur-pedic mattress

 

[jaygrant]

No one else in the world can think or feel the same as you do, no matter what, everyone is different even if you don't believe it.

Birth and Death are the only absolutes in life, everything else is subjective and variable.

Tomorrow never comes and yesterday can't be taken back.

Beliefs are based on emotion, not reason.

Reality is only a belief.

It doesn't matter if aliens are out there, they aren't helping us get out of tihs mess are they?

You can do several 180's, on the highway, at 130mph, but you have to air the tires back up afterward.

 

[Sgt. LED]

^ And wash your pants out at the gas station bathroom. :crackup:

 

[Monocrom]

Beliefs are based on emotion, not reason.

Reality is only a belief.

Reality is that which does not go away, once you stop believing in it.

(Not one of mine).

 

[Hooked on Fenix]

don't get in a pillow fight. With tempur-pedic pillows. Also don't belly flop onto a tempur-pedic mattress

Don't get in a pillow fight with guys that put rocks in their pillows. Yes, this actually happened to me at a 1 week Christian summer camp on Catalina Island. High schoolers can be mean.