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Title: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: ChuckJ on March 13, 2012, 10:34:40 PM
DU is like an ant farm. A person views an ant farm for entertainment or as a hobby. Likewise a person views DU for entertainment or as a hobby. With an ant farm it's enjoyable watching little ants working away and doing other ant-type things, With DU it's enjoyable watching the little DUers bitch about working, wanting free stuff from decent people, perfecting their venom of hate, thinking they'er special/relevent and doing other DU-type things.

The thing that makes DU more enjoyable than an ant farm is that DU is also like a stage. Right now the headline act is nadin. She's the super star. She puts on an entertaining show that simply blows normal people away. Many try to out do her, but it's tough to out do such a dedicated professional. She's a master at her craft. (By the way, is "master of her craft" on the resume?)

About 20 or so years ago I had a guy working with me that was a good fellow. He was just a little slow on the uptake. I guess in that area  he was much like DU; however, unlike DU he had a good heart and would rather help people than take from people. But back to the story…We were working a job where a couple of horses were penned in with an electrical fence. I had to go deal with the owner at the front of the house, and I sent the fellow working with me to the rear of the property to begin work. As I talked to the owner I kept hearing a high pitched "owwwie" come from the rear of the house. I was hearing it over and over again. Finally I walked to the back to see what was going on. The guy that I had sent to the back was standing at the fence and would reach out and touch it. The fence would shock him, and he'd say "owwwie". After watching him touch the fence and "owwwie" a couple more times I finally told him that if he'd stop touching the fence it would stop shocking (or biting him as we say in the south). He said okay and stopped touching the electrified fence and didn't have an "owwwie" the rest of the day.

You could be like the guy in my story. If you don't like people making fun of your stupity there is a solution: stop constantly posting stupid shit.
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: thundley4 on March 13, 2012, 10:42:14 PM
You forgot one comparison between DU and an ant farm.  You flick the wall of the ant farm and watch the little bugs scurry frantically around.  We do the same thing to DU and watch the little bug chasers scurry around wiggle wagging their arms in impotent rage.
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: shadeaux on March 13, 2012, 11:14:54 PM
When my cat acts up, I laugh.  When my husband does something funny, I laugh. When my neighbors act the ass, I look and laugh.

When DUmmies post crazy things, you bet I point and laugh.

Close the blinds and curtains if you don't want anyone looking in.

But to sit and pretend they're above making fun of someone is hilarious in itself.  Go to hell.

 :tongue: 

Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: delilahmused on March 14, 2012, 01:47:45 AM
You know why I laugh at you guys? Because you don't try. You give up before you even start. I had the childhood from hell (you can't even imagine, trust me)...I have PTSD, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder and OCD but I get up every damn morning of my life and LIVE! Sometimes I have to literally yank my ass out of bed because I'm so depressed. But the thing is, I can either lay there and feel sorry for myself or I can get up and tell my demons to **** off. Either I live or they do. You guys INVENT demons and let them take over because you don't want to take responsibility for yourselves. Why the hell would you want someone else to control you? You can make excuses for yourself or you can make the most of your lives. You guys are laughable because you look for reasons to fail. But in a way it's sad because you don't have to. You give up before you ever try. Living well is a choice. For some reason you think feeling sorry for yourself is the best use of your time. Pathetic! Sucks to be you.

Cindie
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: diesel driver on March 14, 2012, 05:16:28 AM
It's soooooo much fun to laugh at you pathetic losers and your "holier than thou" attitude.  You go thru life thinking you're "special"  (you're special, all right!), that you deserve what others have, but you won't make the effort to get those things for yourself.  You want everything handed to you.  Newsflash, DUmmies.  You will be miserable for the rest of your lives living like that, because unless you work to acquire what you want, you can have the world and still be miserable.  It's reflected in your thinking, your postings, and your attitudes.  WHY do you think a man will stand in the doorway of his home with a shotgun, guarding his possessions?  Because HE WORKED for them!  It's called the RIGHT to ownership.  You have NO RIGHT to ANYTHING someone else has, period.  Rationalize all you want, that "the rich" "stole" what they have from "the poor", so that whatever you steal from "the rich" is justified.  BULLSHIT!  You could take EVERYTHING from "the poor" and it would be less than what Ted Kennedy spilled on a typical weekend!  "The rich" didn't steal squat from anyone, they earned it.

I see those utopian ideas you pass off as "higher knowledge" (BTW, just because you were high when you thought of it doesn't make it "higher knowledge"), ideas that have been tried (and failed) for as long as there has been a human civilization, even more so in the last 2 centuries, yet you STILL insist on trying them yet again.  WTF!  That's not "intelligence", that's insanity, trying the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.  Here's a clue, DUmmies:  Karl Marx WAS WRONG!  DEAD WRONG!  Even more so since he's also DEAD!  America achieved greatness quicker than any country on this planet, why?  Freedom!  Most of all, freedom from government.  THAT freedom is being eroded away, to the cheering and assistance of the DUmmie class, that sits on its ASS (why do you think the donkey is the symbol of the dimrat party), and holds out its hands for someone to fill.  That's not freedom, that's not charity, that's not even compassion.  That's SLAVERY!  Sad part is, it's what YOU desire.

Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: BadCat on March 14, 2012, 06:33:47 AM
DU is a collection of misfits, losers, druggies, queers and psychiatric/psychotic cases.  They are everything that is wrong with the world, and it's nice to have them in one pen.
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: Doc Savage on March 14, 2012, 06:39:56 AM
You think it is only this site that laughs, Nope, far from it.  DU is infamous on military blogs, conservative sites and national radio shows.  It is better than a train wreck.  I wonder sometimes if DU is really a test site for the Onion. 
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: JohnnyReb on March 14, 2012, 06:45:59 AM
You think it is only this site that laughs, Nope, far from it.  DU is infamous on military blogs, conservative sites and national radio shows.  It is better than a train wreck.  I wonder sometimes if DU is really a test site for the Onion. 

Yeah, but a train wreck can be put back on track...DU never was on track.
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: Karin on March 14, 2012, 06:48:38 AM
Oh and how entertaining is the DUmmy math and sheer economic illiteracy?  The idiotic mangling of the English language?  The preening self-regard?  
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: franksolich on March 14, 2012, 06:51:01 AM
Hot damn, Chuck!

This is good.  It's awesome.
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: franksolich on March 14, 2012, 07:16:24 AM
Because I don't do television, the primitives on Skins's island are my soap operas, talk-shows, half-hour situation comedies, telethons, movies of the week, infomercials, cooking & baking shows, and whatever else television in real life offers its audience.....and if the primitives don't have anything against watching television, surely they can't object to others watching them as if they're on television.

And also there's that anthropological aspect of Skins's island.....
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: SarasotaRepub on March 14, 2012, 07:18:43 AM
Could you imagine if Nadin and Pitt had gotten married????  :rotf:
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: NHSparky on March 14, 2012, 07:20:02 AM
DU--the shit-flinging monkeys of the Internet.

Pretty much covers it right there.
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: BlueStateSaint on March 14, 2012, 07:27:10 AM
Could you imagine if Nadin and Pitt had gotten married????  :rotf:

The mental images that conjures up . . . Nadin using the strap-on, for example . . .  :o
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: hillneck on March 14, 2012, 07:36:55 AM
The mental images that conjures up . . . Nadin using the strap-on, for example . . .  :o

Thanks, that image just got seared to the back of my brain.
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: wasp69 on March 14, 2012, 09:14:51 AM
For the record, DUmmies, my reasons for reading your screeds are twofold: 

1.  Clicking into the "DUmpster" is like having the Jerry Springer Show on demand.  No, it's better - there are no commercials nor any retards chanting "Jerry-Jerry-Jerry".  I can laugh at your stupidity and undeserved, self righteous preening while having the freedom to click away any time I get tired of you.

2.  Passing around the your posts has been the best illustration of the true face of the demoshit party.  Civilized people recoil in horror at you filthy savages and having "democratic" tacked on to the link is just a bonus.  The best part is I don't have to work very hard to show others just how horrific the face behind the mask of "compassion" and "tolerance" really is.  Like any good conservative I work smarter, not harder. 

Having you filthy cretins do all of the "heavy lifting" to show the utter emptiness and evil of your party is nothing more than having the right talent doing the right job without them knowing.  Pulling that off is just good management and, incidentally, is why you will always be dregs that never evolve past the deep fryer or the dishwasher - you don't have the depth of mind, the self discipline, nor the abstract thinking skills to see past your own wretched selves.  If you did, you wouldn't be liberals and you damn sure wouldn't be DUmmies.
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: BannedFromDU on March 14, 2012, 01:39:29 PM
You know why I laugh at you guys? Because you don't try. You give up before you even start. I had the childhood from hell (you can't even imagine, trust me)...I have PTSD, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder and OCD but I get up every damn morning of my life and LIVE! Sometimes I have to literally yank my ass out of bed because I'm so depressed. But the thing is, I can either lay there and feel sorry for myself or I can get up and tell my demons to **** off. Either I live or they do. You guys INVENT demons and let them take over because you don't want to take responsibility for yourselves. Why the hell would you want someone else to control you? You can make excuses for yourself or you can make the most of your lives. You guys are laughable because you look for reasons to fail. But in a way it's sad because you don't have to. You give up before you ever try. Living well is a choice. For some reason you think feeling sorry for yourself is the best use of your time. Pathetic! Sucks to be you.

Cindie

     I have a soul-nourishing crush on Cindie.  :blowkiss:
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: delilahmused on March 14, 2012, 02:52:27 PM
     I have a soul-nourishing crush on Cindie.  :blowkiss:

Aw, thanks!

Cindie
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: Airwolf on March 14, 2012, 03:12:35 PM
For the record, DUmmies, my reasons for reading your screeds are twofold: 

1.  Clicking into the "DUmpster" is like having the Jerry Springer Show on demand.  No, it's better - there are no commercials nor any retards chanting "Jerry-Jerry-Jerry".  I can laugh at your stupidity and undeserved, self righteous preening while having the freedom to click away any time I get tired of you.

2.  Passing around the your posts has been the best illustration of the true face of the demoshit party.  Civilized people recoil in horror at you filthy savages and having "democratic" tacked on to the link is just a bonus.  The best part is I don't have to work very hard to show others just how horrific the face behind the mask of "compassion" and "tolerance" really is.  Like any good conservative I work smarter, not harder. 

Having you filthy cretins do all of the "heavy lifting" to show the utter emptiness and evil of your party is nothing more than having the right talent doing the right job without them knowing.  Pulling that off is just good management and, incidentally, is why you will always be dregs that never evolve past the deep fryer or the dishwasher - you don't have the depth of mind, the self discipline, nor the abstract thinking skills to see past your own wretched selves.  If you did, you wouldn't be liberals and you damn sure wouldn't be DUmmies.


Same reasons here plus I want to know what they are thinking because they are not going to stop their assault on our liberties till they win. I'm not going to stop till they can no longer take from good honest freedon loving people.
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: Gina on March 14, 2012, 03:24:30 PM
The mental images that conjures up . . . Nadin using the strap-on, for example . . .  :o

You mean she has to use a strap on?  She looka lika man!

(http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhte57B3Ts1qh4nf6o1_500.gif)
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: BlueStateSaint on March 14, 2012, 04:12:30 PM
Same reasons here plus I want to know what they are thinking because they are not going to stop their assault on our liberties till they win.

They obviously think that either the American public will suddenly turn to their line of thinking, or that the military will.  Neither is going to happen, lurking DUmb****s.  If you try to force it, you'll find out about what Samuel Levinson called "the embarrassing Second Amendment," which the SCOTUS has said does apply to both 1) private citizens, and 2) handguns.
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: BadCat on March 14, 2012, 06:04:39 PM
They obviously think that either the American public will suddenly turn to their line of thinking, or that the military will.  Neither is going to happen, lurking DUmb****s.  If you try to force it, you'll find out about what Samuel Levinson called "the embarrassing Second Amendment," which the SCOTUS has said does apply to both 1) private citizens, and 2) handguns.

Remember that the famous DUmmy BenBurch suggested the DUmmies arm themselves for protection against we nefarious "freepers" (I don't post at FreeRepublic).

He told them to go out and buy .32 ACP pistols.  I think that's a GREAT IDEA DUmmies!  Please go out and get yourself some .32 ACP pistols.  I'm being helpful...really.
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: diesel driver on March 14, 2012, 06:07:38 PM
It's soooooo much fun to laugh at you pathetic losers and your "holier than thou" attitude.  You go thru life thinking you're "special"  (you're special, all right!), that you deserve what others have, but you won't make the effort to get those things for yourself.  You want everything handed to you.  Newsflash, DUmmies.  You will be miserable for the rest of your lives living like that, because unless you work to acquire what you want, you can have the world and still be miserable.  It's reflected in your thinking, your postings, and your attitudes.  WHY do you think a man will stand in the doorway of his home with a shotgun, guarding his possessions?  Because HE WORKED for them!  It's called the RIGHT to ownership.  You have NO RIGHT to ANYTHING someone else has, period.  Rationalize all you want, that "the rich" "stole" what they have from "the poor", so that whatever you steal from "the rich" is justified.  BULLSHIT!  You could take EVERYTHING from "the poor" and it would be less than what Ted Kennedy spilled on a typical weekend!  "The rich" didn't steal squat from anyone, they earned it.

I see those utopian ideas you pass off as "higher knowledge" (BTW, just because you were high when you thought of it doesn't make it "higher knowledge"), ideas that have been tried (and failed) for as long as there has been a human civilization, even more so in the last 2 centuries, yet you STILL insist on trying them yet again.  WTF!  That's not "intelligence", that's insanity, trying the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.  Here's a clue, DUmmies:  Karl Marx WAS WRONG!  DEAD WRONG!  Even more so since he's also DEAD!  America achieved greatness quicker than any country on this planet, why?  Freedom!  Most of all, freedom from government.  THAT freedom is being eroded away, to the cheering and assistance of the DUmmie class, that sits on its ASS (why do you think the donkey is the symbol of the dimrat party), and holds out its hands for someone to fill.  That's not freedom, that's not charity, that's not even compassion.  That's SLAVERY!  Sad part is, it's what YOU desire.



I'd like to add you DUmmies gladly welcome the leash of your "master" (government).  You want to ridicule Christians for their beliefs, all the while offering human sacrifices in the form of abortion to your "god".  

DUmmies are nothing more than brainless, soulless, listless, worthless pieces of excrement in the general shape of a human.  
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: BlueStateSaint on March 14, 2012, 06:13:15 PM
Remember that the famous DUmmy BenBurch suggested the DUmmies arm themselves for protection against we nefarious "freepers" (I don't post at FreeRepublic).

He told them to go out and buy .32 ACP pistols.  I think that's a GREAT IDEA DUmmies!  Please go out and get yourself some .32 ACP pistols.  I'm being helpful...really.

I know that, BC.  See, DUmb****s, we really are good people down deep.  Oh--make sure that those .32 ACPs have short barrels, too--the better to blend in with good and decent folk (who most likely would be carrying a tad stronger).

BC, I'd take a skeet shotgun loaded with #9s before I'd take a .32 ACP as my primary weapon.
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: zeitgeist on March 14, 2012, 06:14:36 PM
DUmmies are cheap entertainment.  They are convinced they are the best, brightest, most tolerant.  They are so convinced of their own infailablity that they continiously underestimate the opposition.  They define and refine the definiton hypocrite on a daily basis.  Their presence on the net ?  Take a look at this recent Pew poll via Hotair.

Quote

Pew: Liberals most intolerant online

posted at 11:00 am on March 13, 2012 by Ed Morrissey
It’s a well-known fact that liberals are more tolerant than conservatives or moderates.  Superior liberal tolerance is such a fact that they will scream at you if you dare to disagree or debate them, demand that your advertisers bail on you, and pressure the FCC to get you banned from the airwaves.  Does that sound like tolerance to you?  A new survey from Pew confirms that liberals are the least tolerant of differing opinions, at least on line (emphasis mine):

{snip}

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/03/13/pew-liberals-most-intolerant-on-line

 :mental:
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: GOBUCKS on March 14, 2012, 06:15:50 PM
Remember that the famous DUmmy BenBurch suggested the DUmmies arm themselves for protection against we nefarious "freepers" (I don't post at FreeRepublic).

He told them to go out and buy .32 ACP pistols.  I think that's a GREAT IDEA DUmmies!  Please go out and get yourself some .32 ACP pistols.  I'm being helpful...really.
To be really, really safe, I'd suggest they buy derringers.

Two shots, deadly accuracy, and excellent at long range.
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: BEG on March 14, 2012, 06:21:23 PM
     I have a soul-nourishing crush on Cindie.  :blowkiss:

So do I...
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: Freeper on March 14, 2012, 08:00:53 PM
Hey DUmmies, you claim we are stalking you, well just what do you call what you are doing to Limbaugh now? Under your definition, you are stalking Rush.
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: miskie on March 14, 2012, 08:41:55 PM
The mental images that conjures up . . . Nadin using the strap-on, for example . . .  :o

The one, two, or three meter length one ? or maybe 30 centimeters, for beginners.
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: delilahmused on March 14, 2012, 09:32:34 PM
The one, two, or three meter length one ? or maybe 30 centimeters, for beginners.

Probably shoots baseball sized hail out of the thing.

Cindie
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: diesel driver on March 15, 2012, 04:45:54 AM
What the hell's up with this "centimeter" shit?

We are in the US of BY GOD A, dammit!  Speak English!  30 centimeters is around 1 foot.  14 keystrokes vs. 6.  Now, wasn't that easier.

Leave that foreign shit to the foreigners, nadabrain.
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: BlueStateSaint on March 15, 2012, 07:05:05 AM
What the hell's up with this "centimeter" shit?

We are in the US of BY GOD A, dammit!  Speak English!  30 centimeters is around 1 foot.  14 keystrokes vs. 6.  Now, wasn't that easier.

Leave that foreign shit to the foreigners, nadabrain.

And, it's easier on your keyboards! O-) :tongue: :fuelfire:
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: Tucker on March 15, 2012, 07:24:16 AM
Note to DUmmies:

Pretend like we're not even here.














Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: franksolich on March 15, 2012, 07:35:32 AM
Note to DUmmies:

Pretend like we're not even here.

Bingo.

This is why it bothers me that the primitives know we're observing and studying them.

They get inhibited, they stop being their natural primitive selves.

We learned all about the domestic arrangement of the bathrooms in the old dude's house, during a time when the old dude had no idea, no idea at all, he was being watched, and so he was totally frank and honest and open.

But after the old dude learned he was being watched, he became more secretive.

We want the primitives to act their natural selves.

I always wondered the identity of the primitive who tipped off Mrs. Alfred Packer, who had heretofore been blissfully unaware of us, making her run away from her pals in the cooking and baking forum, for another example.  If grasswire wants to blame anybody for chasing the hippywife primitive away from Skins's island, it has to be whatever primitive it was, who told her; it most definitely wasn't franksolich.
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: Bondai on March 15, 2012, 09:55:13 AM
If you watch an ant colony for any length of time you will see that the ants spend a great deal of time breeding, stockpiling food and then caring for the young. That way there will be a constant supply of replacements to take care of the colony, but alas! the DUmmies have aborted all of their progeny, there will be nobody left to take over.In the mean time the DUmmies scurry around in mindless tasks trying in vain to shore up a colony doomed to failure. Keep it up DUmmies we love to watch you fail.
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: GOBUCKS on March 15, 2012, 11:42:52 AM
A centimeter is a kind of a wormy bug with about a bazillion legs.

If you're in the woods, roll over an old log and you can see lots of centimeters scurry around.
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: diesel driver on March 15, 2012, 06:16:17 PM
And, it's easier on your keyboards! O-) :tongue: :fuelfire:

Damn right!

Simplify, man, simplify!  It's the KISS principle.

Keep
It
Simple,
STUPID!

Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: JohnnyReb on March 15, 2012, 06:49:40 PM
What the hell's up with this "centimeter" shit?

We are in the US of BY GOD A, dammit!  Speak English!  30 centimeters is around 1 foot.  14 keystrokes vs. 6.  Now, wasn't that easier.

Leave that foreign shit to the foreigners, nadabrain.

All the federal government supervised grading jobs I did the last few years were in metric terms....like to drove my hired help nuts...me, not so much.
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: diesel driver on March 15, 2012, 07:02:15 PM
All the federal government supervised grading jobs I did the last few years were in metric terms....like to drove my hired help nuts...me, not so much.

Me neither, but it sounds damned pretentious for someone to be using "centimeters" instead of "inches" on a liberal political forum where the average IQ is a negative number.
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: zeitgeist on March 15, 2012, 07:05:29 PM
All the federal government supervised grading jobs I did the last few years were in metric terms....like to drove my hired help nuts...me, not so much.
 

I remember a push to go metric back around the Carter era.  But we stuck with the Brits (although I have no idea why) Imagine if we still used shillings and pence and drove on the wrong side of the road. :hammer:   One of the big reasons not to back then dealt with re tooling costs.  Of course I had to have two sets of wrenches to work on my Chevy which had both metric and SAE in '86?  
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: diesel driver on March 16, 2012, 04:29:12 AM
 

I remember a push to go metric back around the Carter era.  But we stuck with the Brits (although I have no idea why) Imagine if we still used shillings and pence and drove on the wrong side of the road. :hammer:   One of the big reasons not to back then dealt with re tooling costs.  Of course I had to have two sets of wrenches to work on my Chevy which had both metric and SAE in '86?  

Well, I DO drive on the wrong side of the car when I deliver the mail in my 78 Malibu, which is half metric and SAE, but I've owned metric wrenches since the 70's, to work on my Japanese dirt bike (Suzuki), my parent's car (Mercedes diesel), and the engines on 2 of our IH tractors, dating back to 72.

I have found that you can use metric wrenches on just about everything, but there are very few metric nuts and bolts that can be turned with a SAE tool.

Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: JohnnyReb on March 16, 2012, 06:31:00 AM
Metric wrenchs..... :lmao:...when they first started to appear around here most of the future Obama voters called them "Mexican wrenchs"....and some still do.
Title: Re: To lurking DUers who are concerned about our observance.
Post by: zeitgeist on March 16, 2012, 01:13:58 PM
Well, I DO drive on the wrong side of the car when I deliver the mail in my 78 Malibu, which is half metric and SAE, but I've owned metric wrenches since the 70's, to work on my Japanese dirt bike (Suzuki), my parent's car (Mercedes diesel), and the engines on 2 of our IH tractors, dating back to 72.

I have found that you can use metric wrenches on just about everything, but there are very few metric nuts and bolts that can be turned with a SAE tool.



I miss my 78 Malibu wagon with the small V8.  It was running like a top when I sold it but the headliner had fallen out of it and it didn't have child proof locks or something like that.    Yeah, I guess it did have both metric and SAE now that you mention it. 

IH of course is another story.  In the early seventies I use to sell auto parts.  Owners of IH were pretty well conditioned to have the build sheet with them.  IH changed vendors like a woman changes shoe styles.  Carbs, electric, u-joints you never knew who they had used if you didn't have the old part in hand.  International Harvester was a very apt name, they harvested parts from everyone.

In the beginning the Lord made Vice Grips, and the shade tree mechanics saw they were good for all sizes and shapes.    :hammer: :censored: