The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2024

[Right_in_Virginia]

[corbe]

[DCPatriot]

[DCPatriot]

[Slide Rule]

[Kamaji]

[MeganC]

Very true. And the first thing most women object to about being a traditional wife is having kids.

[Smokin Joe]

Very true. And the first thing most women object to about being a traditional wife is having kids.

Yeah, not to mention it's such a bitch vacuuming, shoving the clothes in the washer/dryer, and feeding the dishwasher after 'nuking' dinner.

Contrast that with making dinner 'from scratch' (especially the plucking/butchering the chicken part), a washboard, tub, and line, dishes by hand, a broom and dustrag, ..all those skills enshrined in Carla Emery's book or trickled through the pages of Mother Earth News or various survivalist/homesteading off grid manuals.

Looking back at gasoline powered top loader washers with hand cranked wringer rollers as a great advancement and labor saver, having killed, dressed, skinned/plucked, and prepared my own dinner and having 'lived lean', I'm not saying those technological advancements aren't wonderful time and labor savers, just wondering why the additional time is not valued so much to spend with nurturing and teaching children everything from a solid moral footing to arithmetic, reading, literature, simple skills, and so much more.

Heating a home with the push of a button is so much easier than splitting wood and feeding the stove(s) and fireplaces.

Women abdicated their thrones, being the queen of their house, whose children and husband were the jewels in their crown, even if their lives were not necessarily glamorous, and left for empty promises and farmed out the kids. It wasn't that they could not have businesses, nor work outside the home, but past critical economic mass, that second paycheck became less disposable income and more a necessity just to survive. The accompanying social movements were no coincidence, as there was a growing statist movement in the shadows that wanted control of the children from cradle to grave, and it was easier to draw off the mothers with promises of prestige and wealth than forcibly take their children and invoke the instinctive ire of Mama Bear.
 
For those who did not, who stayed and placed their family before themselves and worked hard to provide a nurturing environment and support to their children and husbands, I salute you! For those who did both, held that job and provided in traditional roles the support and nurturing a family needs to thrive, I am humbly in awe.

[DCPatriot]

[240B]

Women:
All men care about is sex, masturbation, and farting!

Men:
Boobs!

[Right_in_Virginia]

[Right_in_Virginia]

[Slide Rule]

businessman

[DCPatriot]

[MeganC]

Someone's been to Wyoming! 

[Smokin Joe]

businessman

Little Debbie, Parsley, and Saran Wrap...

[MeganC]

Yeah, not to mention it's such a bitch vacuuming, shoving the clothes in the washer/dryer, and feeding the dishwasher after 'nuking' dinner.

Contrast that with making dinner 'from scratch' (especially the plucking/butchering the chicken part), a washboard, tub, and line, dishes by hand, a broom and dustrag, ..all those skills enshrined in Carla Emery's book or trickled through the pages of Mother Earth News or various survivalist/homesteading off grid manuals.

Looking back at gasoline powered top loader washers with hand cranked wringer rollers as a great advancement and labor saver, having killed, dressed, skinned/plucked, and prepared my own dinner and having 'lived lean', I'm not saying those technological advancements aren't wonderful time and labor savers, just wondering why the additional time is not valued so much to spend with nurturing and teaching children everything from a solid moral footing to arithmetic, reading, literature, simple skills, and so much more.

Heating a home with the push of a button is so much easier than splitting wood and feeding the stove(s) and fireplaces.

Women abdicated their thrones, being the queen of their house, whose children and husband were the jewels in their crown, even if their lives were not necessarily glamorous, and left for empty promises and farmed out the kids. It wasn't that they could not have businesses, nor work outside the home, but past critical economic mass, that second paycheck became less disposable income and more a necessity just to survive. The accompanying social movements were no coincidence, as there was a growing statist movement in the shadows that wanted control of the children from cradle to grave, and it was easier to draw off the mothers with promises of prestige and wealth than forcibly take their children and invoke the instinctive ire of Mama Bear.
 
For those who did not, who stayed and placed their family before themselves and worked hard to provide a nurturing environment and support to their children and husbands, I salute you! For those who did both, held that job and provided in traditional roles the support and nurturing a family needs to thrive, I am humbly in awe.

Believe it or not there are women out there who still live an authentic life. Granted, it's a small number but then the number of men who are capable of attracting such women are also few in number.

A woman who can sew, cook from scratch, process her own chickens, milk cows, feed the livestock, raise a family, shoot, hunt, happily eat what gets brought home, and who wants to live a Godly life? She's not going to be attracted to some soy boy type or some dimestore cowboy with a shiny pickup truck who doesn't have the money for a decent home.

Good women want good men. Not little boys in big bodies.

[Smokin Joe]

Believe it or not there are women out there who still live an authentic life. Granted, it's a small number but then the number of men who are capable of attracting such women are also few in number.

A woman who can sew, cook from scratch, process her own chickens, milk cows, feed the livestock, raise a family, shoot, hunt, happily eat what gets brought home, and who wants to live a Godly life? She's not going to be attracted to some soy boy type or some dimestore cowboy with a shiny pickup truck who doesn't have the money for a decent home.

Good women want good men. Not little boys in big bodies.

I was married to one until death did us part.
Such wonderful ladies are still out there, and the soy bois don't get a second look.
(I must admit, now being a great grandfather, to being amused at those entreaties).
A guy has to have at least some 'toxic masculinity' to have a chance with any woman worth her salt.

[Bigun]

Believe it or not there are women out there who still live an authentic life. Granted, it's a small number but then the number of men who are capable of attracting such women are also few in number.

A woman who can sew, cook from scratch, process her own chickens, milk cows, feed the livestock, raise a family, shoot, hunt, happily eat what gets brought home, and who wants to live a Godly life? She's not going to be attracted to some soy boy type or some dimestore cowboy with a shiny pickup truck who doesn't have the money for a decent home.

Good women want good men. Not little boys in big bodies.

Yep! Been married to one for 56 years now.

[Right_in_Virginia]

[MeganC]

I was married to one until death did us part.
Such wonderful ladies are still out there, and the soy bois don't get a second look.
(I must admit, now being a great grandfather, to being amused at those entreaties).
A guy has to have at least some 'toxic masculinity' to have a chance with any woman worth her salt.

Yep! Been married to one for 56 years now.

You are both blessed in abundance. I had my real man for the best part of fifteen years and I wouldn't have traded him for the world!

[roamer_1]

Believe it or not there are women out there who still live an authentic life. Granted, it's a small number but then the number of men who are capable of attracting such women are also few in number.

A woman who can sew, cook from scratch, process her own chickens, milk cows, feed the livestock, raise a family, shoot, hunt, happily eat what gets brought home, and who wants to live a Godly life? She's not going to be attracted to some soy boy type or some dimestore cowboy with a shiny pickup truck who doesn't have the money for a decent home.

Good women want good men. Not little boys in big bodies.

They ain't so far between twenty miles out of town... In fact, all the Barbies wind up in the city, so that culls them out of the work.

[DCPatriot]

[240B]

[240B]

Odd to see it in actual writing. But yes, girls with tattoos and piercings equal disease to me. Sick people.
They may or may not be diseased, but whatever the reason ... I want no part of it.

[240B]

[DCPatriot]

[DCPatriot]

[240B]

[240B]

[Right_in_Virginia]

[DCPatriot]

https://www.facebook.com/reel/2728248900690809

 

[deb]

https://www.facebook.com/reel/2728248900690809

 

That was FUNNY!

[DCPatriot]

[240B]

[Smokin Joe]

How about if you have used one of these?

[240B]

[roamer_1]

How about if you have used one of these?

Not a lot, but some... Mostly Johnny-poppers or Minneapolis Molines... A few old cars or pickups.

I know not to get my thumb in the way... 

That's some learnin that will stick with ya 

[Smokin Joe]

Not a lot, but some... Mostly Johnny-poppers or Minneapolis Molines... A few old cars or pickups.

I know not to get my thumb in the way... 

That's some learnin that will stick with ya 

Yep, keep the thumb outta the way and stand back a little. Mostly small tractors. Kick starters on motorcycles and washing machines (with gas motors, tub type with a wringer).

My '41 K-2 International (pickup) has an electric start (6v, button on the floor) but the crank is behind the seat.

We even had one of those John Deeres you had to start by flipping the flywheel over. It was sort of a rite of passage among us kids. When you could fire that one up, you moved up a notch.

[Slide Rule]

Fun Fact

[Smokin Joe]

Fun Fact

Can you imagine how expensive it would have been to haul the water somewhere else to shoot them?
( )

[GtHawk]

I think that would get damn near anyone running  away.😱

[roamer_1]

Yep, keep the thumb outta the way and stand back a little. Mostly small tractors. Kick starters on motorcycles and washing machines (with gas motors, tub type with a wringer).

My '41 K-2 International (pickup) has an electric start (6v, button on the floor) but the crank is behind the seat.

We even had one of those John Deeres you had to start by flipping the flywheel over. It was sort of a rite of passage among us kids. When you could fire that one up, you moved up a notch.

Yup. That was the old Johnny-popper, whose peculiar running style brought that fame...  They mostly started out without a starter, and with a narrow axle in the front, in which the two front wheels were so close together as to be nearly one thing. Most of em that I messed with had been converted to 12v starter, and the wide-axle kit had been applied - a basically 3 wheeled tractor is near useless in the mountains. But even so, when they wouldn't start, the old crank was still there. I have hours of cranking time on a johnny popper.

Starting by turning the 'flywheel' you're talking about... I think that was actually the belt driven PTO. I have never tried to spin the tractor to life like that by hand, but no doubt you can start one tractor with another that way.

One of the saw mills I worked at was intermittent in use on a ranch. *Every time* we went to resurrect that old tractor that ran the mill, that was the way. Jump started it by getting it up to speed with the pto and eventually it would kick off and start going.

There's some very fond memories that you're draggin up. 

[Smokin Joe]

Yup. That was the old Johnny-popper, whose peculiar running style brought that fame...  They mostly started out without a starter, and with a narrow axle in the front, in which the two front wheels were so close together as to be nearly one thing. Most of em that I messed with had been converted to 12v starter, and the wide-axle kit had been applied - a basically 3 wheeled tractor is near useless in the mountains. But even so, when they wouldn't start, the old crank was still there. I have hours of cranking time on a johnny popper.

Starting by turning the 'flywheel' you're talking about... I think that was actually the belt driven PTO. I have never tried to spin the tractor to life like that by hand, but no doubt you can start one tractor with another that way.

One of the saw mills I worked at was intermittent in use on a ranch. *Every time* we went to resurrect that old tractor that ran the mill, that was the way. Jump started it by getting it up to speed with the pto and eventually it would kick off and start going.

There's some very fond memories that you're draggin up. 

It was my grandfather's tractor, and like you said, the front tires were so close together, they might have been one. I did a search for the model, but could not find it. I distinctly recall turning that flywheel clockwise, on the right side of the tractor, but the models I have seen on the web started with flywheels on the left side, turned counterclockwise.  We had other tractors around for cultivating and pulling carts loaded with hay bales or tobacco (smaller, with the wide front wheels), and those started with a hand crank (McCormick/Deering or IH, and those were my great Uncle's). Poppy used John Deere's and kept them in a shed open on one side, My Great Uncle used 'red' tractors IH, McCormick, and often left them out, with a can over the stack. Needless to say, Poppy's were in better shape. IIRC these were bought right after (or just before) WWII, and farming was important to feed the war effort and the folks at home. We got proficcient at starting them all and running them, and the fields we had in the tidewater were flat unless you were somewhere you were definitely not supposed to be (which meant other problems) so the bigger tractors (for there, then) were more tricycle arrangements. One had a PTO bet setup we would use to run a buzz saw on with a table on rails mounted to the front and we'd get together to fill the woodshed with stove wood cut to length from deadfall and seasoned wood (mostly oak) from the 25 acre woodlot planted in the 1850s. All the littler kids old enough would pitch in and fill the shed with cut wood, the older ones would drag the small logs and large branches to the saw, and our elders would do the actual cutting. Two generations making sure a third (older one) had wood to heat and cook for the winter. My grandmother used her wood stove until she was just too old to, well into her later 90s (she lived to 102).

Good times, and an idlyllic childhood, even though it seemed a lot like work at the time.

[DefiantMassRINO]

A convenient personal motivational tool if you were a legitimate Irish-America or Italian-American businessman working in the accounts receivable department.

[Bigun]

John DEERE Model B Otherwise known as Poppin Johnny

@Smokin Joe @roamer_1

[roamer_1]

It was my grandfather's tractor, and like you said, the front tires were so close together, they might have been one. I did a search for the model, but could not find it. I distinctly recall turning that flywheel clockwise, on the right side of the tractor, but the models I have seen on the web started with flywheels on the left side, turned counterclockwise.  We had other tractors around for cultivating and pulling carts loaded with hay bales or tobacco (smaller, with the wide front wheels), and those started with a hand crank (McCormick/Deering or IH, and those were my great Uncle's). Poppy used John Deere's and kept them in a shed open on one side, My Great Uncle used 'red' tractors IH, McCormick, and often left them out, with a can over the stack. Needless to say, Poppy's were in better shape. IIRC these were bought right after (or just before) WWII, and farming was important to feed the war effort and the folks at home. We got proficcient at starting them all and running them, and the fields we had in the tidewater were flat unless you were somewhere you were definitely not supposed to be (which meant other problems) so the bigger tractors (for there, then) were more tricycle arrangements. One had a PTO bet setup we would use to run a buzz saw on with a table on rails mounted to the front and we'd get together to fill the woodshed with stove wood cut to length from deadfall and seasoned wood (mostly oak) from the 25 acre woodlot planted in the 1850s. All the littler kids old enough would pitch in and fill the shed with cut wood, the older ones would drag the small logs and large branches to the saw, and our elders would do the actual cutting. Two generations making sure a third (older one) had wood to heat and cook for the winter. My grandmother used her wood stove until she was just too old to, well into her later 90s (she lived to 102).

Good times, and an idlyllic childhood, even though it seemed a lot like work at the time.

That's right... Maybe I ain't recalling perfect, but I had many hours put in on tractor-belt driven sawmills and such... Just about all that old stuff would run a belt, even if it had been converted to a newer way... Most folks left that old belt drive operational - If it wouldn't run off the motor, you could still get by hooking it to a tractor. All that stuff was ancient by the time I was a pup... Probably on it's way out.... But I remember how those systems were able to make do, several different ways, and that saw blade would be turning one way or another. My thinking still tends that way, probably because of that. Always happy with redundancy.

Yeah... Good times. 

[roamer_1]

John DEERE Model B Otherwise known as Poppin Johnny

@Smokin Joe @roamer_1

Yep @Bigun ... That's it. 

[Smokin Joe]

@Bigun

 

Nicely  restored, too!

[Right_in_Virginia]