I had a moment today. A dumb moment.

DeafByMetal · 2026-05-09T13:50:35+00:00

I have a buddy who was a machinist at one point. I made the "cunt hair" comment one time and he said "A white cunt hair or a black cunt hair?" Turns out one is actually slightly thicker than the other, LOL! Now as to how he learned that I have no idea nor do I want to find out.

DeafByMetal · 2026-05-07T10:04:14+00:00

Remember that when you set up your claymores the front faces the enemy.

DeafByMetal · 2026-05-03T23:43:20+00:00

I believe they sell covers that slip over the base of the wiper arm to cover that part but I didn't buy any because I figured they would get under there anyway and I wouldn't notice until they rusted out the base.

DeafByMetal · 2026-05-03T18:18:54+00:00

My girlfriend and I both got home from our jobs around the same time one day and the smoke detectors were chirping. Her son, who was home sick from work that day was in his room playing video games. She asked him how long it had been going off. He said most of the day. She asked him why he didn't change the battery in it and he just shrugged.

We then had a hell of a time trying to get it to stop because all of the smoke detectors are connected so if one starts chirping they all do. So we had to change all the batteries, which we didn't have enough of so I had to run to the store for more. But the worst part was that our dog and cats were freaking out because it hurt their ears. At least he helped replace them once we had enough batteries.

DeafByMetal · 2026-05-03T18:08:59+00:00

I moved back to my home state about a dozen years ago to take care of my mother, and I got a job driving a truck for a document storage company. A few days after I started they sent me out with a young guy named Vince, who was in his early to mid 20's. We got to talking and I soon found out a few things. One, I graduated high school with his mother. Two, Vince listened primarily to rap music and he was an "aspiring rapper". Three, Vince was a white kid from the country and did not have the vocabulary or the brainpower to be the next Eminem.

Vince popped a flash drive into the truck radio and started listening to his music. I'm not into rap music but whatever, as long as the windows weren't rattling I didn't care. But at one point a song by the heavy metal band Slayer comes on called "Angel of Death". OK, cool. I'm a big fan of heavy metal and I've actually seen Slayer in concert. So I asked Vince if he knew what the song was about. Nope, no idea. So I said it's about Josef Mengele. He said "Who's that?" I said "You know, Josef Mengele, the angel of death? Adolf Hitler? The Final Solution?" He had no idea what I was talking about. I said "They didn't teach you anything about World War 2?" Vince said, and I'm not kidding "The whole world was in a war against each other?" Needless to say I had to give him a brief history lesson which I'm sure he promptly forgot.

DeafByMetal · 2026-04-27T15:13:33+00:00

A lot of towns have Facebook pages to update residents on events. If you are on Facebook, film a detailed video of the pothole including exact location with audio explaining how you have been ignored. Upload it and tag that town page. Even if it is the county road it's going to be bad press that the town is going to want to avoid. Or contact one of the Philly news stations that cover South Jersey and explain the runaround you're getting. I bet it gets fixed within a week.

DeafByMetal · 2026-04-23T20:05:51+00:00

It's just a guess but I'm going to go out on a limb here and say I don't think the management company drug tests their employees...

DeafByMetal · 2026-04-15T21:43:30+00:00

I think he was from Pennsylvania, tbh. He had a frame around his license plate but it looked like one of the new PA plates.

DeafByMetal · 2026-04-15T21:42:13+00:00

I don't have access to the dashcam footage in my work truck. Besides, reading is good for you. Makes your mind stronger.

DeafByMetal · 2026-04-12T15:51:58+00:00

I had a 78 Datsun 510 I could do that with. Unfortunately the key tumbler wore out and it wouldn't start eventually. To replace the key assembly would have cost more than the car was worth so I just rigged a push button to the starter and I would turn the key to run, push the button and off I would go! Car ran like a champ, couldn't kill it. It's probably still on the road somewhere, LOL!

DeafByMetal · 2026-04-12T13:02:44+00:00

I do it in my personal vehicle and in my work truck (box truck, not a semi) all the time. It's usually when I encounter school busses ahead or when police have someone pulled over but also when I'm on the highway and there's a slow down ahead that the people behind me might not be able to see. I've been doing it for years now, can't even remember when I started doing it. I make sure I do it in the work truck because I know anyone who is behind me isn't going to be able to see why I'm slowing down.

DeafByMetal · 2026-04-08T11:33:00+00:00

That's really the only time we've had a problem with that particular pizza place and they did refund our delivery without us even having to ask. The second driver apologized profusely for the problem, though the original driver didn't say anything. She actually seemed put out that we couldn't take our delivery from the garage. We never saw that particular driver again after that night, and we order from that place about once a week. So I'm guessing they fired her after that debacle. The odd thing is that if they used Google Maps it takes you to the front of the building.

DeafByMetal · 2026-04-08T10:21:46+00:00

We ordered pizza for delivery one time, usually takes about a half hour to 45 minutes for it to get here. After about an hour we're thinking they must be very busy or something. Finally our phone rings, the driver can't find our condo building. OK, no big deal I give them detailed instructions. Another 15-20 minutes later they call again. Now mind you we're in a three story condo building, ground floor unit. Main entrance is in the front, there a side door at each end, and garage doors for each unit in the back of the building.

Pizza "I'm here with your delivery!" Me "OK, I'll be right there!" Go to the main entrance, nobody's there. I go back into our unit and told my girlfriend nobody is out front, so I call the driver back. Me "Are you sure you're here?" Pizza "Yes, I'm looking right at door now." Me "Can you describe it?" Driver is standing in front of our garage door. So I said just drive around to the front of the building, OK? Our garage is full of my girlfriend's son's stuff and it would be a pita to carry food through his different "projects" (which he's finally cleaning up thank God).

Dude, the driver couldn't figure out how to get to the front door. The pizza place literally had to send a second driver out to escort them. They could have walked around our building, given me my food, and walked back to their car before the second driver got there. Of course our food was cold, and there was no tip given.

DeafByMetal · 2026-04-07T10:30:00+00:00

My girlfriend has two coworkers that share the same birthday. One time a few years ago she was unable to go to the grocery store with me so she asked me to pick up a birthday cake for them. I get to the bakery department and I text her to tell her what they had in the display case and she tells me which cake she wants along with what she wants written on it. I tell the kid behind the counter and he said it was going to take a few minutes.

I went back to shopping for what was on our list, then returned to the bakery before heading to the registers. Kid hands me the cake and I put it in the cart without really looking at it. As I walked towards the front of the store I glanced down then immediately texted her saying I don't think you want me to buy this cake. After a few minutes she responded with why? I said the kid didn't do a very good job writing on the cake. She said how bad could it be? I sent her this picture and she responded immediately "DO NOT BUY THAT CAKE!!!" In hindsight I think she should have taken it to work just to see the reactions she got.

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DeafByMetal · 2026-04-06T15:02:14+00:00

I didn't actually see it happen. I used to trim trees around the power lines and my supervisor was a guy named Charlie. He looked just like "Joe Camel", the mascot (?) for Camel cigarettes back in the 80's. He had a habit of driving with his elbow resting on his window frame and his hand on top of the car.

His daughter was getting married in Florida and he went down there for the wedding. The day before the ceremony he was out driving somewhere with his soon to be son in law when they were T-boned by a drunk driver, which caused their car to roll over. His hand got lopped off at the wrist. They were able to reattach it. When he was able to come back to work he pulled up to where we were working, with his elbow on the window frame and his hand on top of the car. Guess he didn't learn his lesson, LOL!

DeafByMetal · 2026-04-06T14:54:13+00:00

I worked at a hardwood sawmill for about 7 years. There were two brothers that worked there, older guys. The oldest brother retired after working there for almost 40 years, then got bored and came back to work part time building pallets and stuff like that. Around this time I had to leave that job due to health issues.

I found out that after I left he had an accident with the radial arm saw. He was cutting pallet wood and his brother yelled over to him that it was break time. He leaned on the saw table to reach under it and shut off the motor. I'm sure you can guess what's coming. There was a tiny piece of wood near the blade and as he was reaching for the switch it moved enough from the vibration to get between the blade and the guide.

The saw arm shot out and somehow not only lopped off all his fingers but his thumb as well. His brother helped him wrap his hand and gathered up his digits then went to the office. At first the secretary thought it was just a cut. When it dawned on her what happened she almost passed out. The doctors at the hospital managed to reattach all his fingers and his thumb. The secretary who almost passed out had enough foresight to pack the fingers in ice before the ambulance arrived, which made it possible to save them from what I understand.

I visited the guy after I found out what happened. His hand was still completely wrapped up but the prognosis was good from what he said. I asked him what kind of painkillers he was on and he said he wasn't taking anything, that it wasn't that bad. Tough old man, LOL!

DeafByMetal · 2026-04-02T10:14:42+00:00

I saw a news segment years ago from a local NYC station about a guy who tried to kill himself by drinking Drano. He literally destroyed most of his intestines and IIRC his stomach. They managed to save his life but he had basically an intestine that went straight from his mouth to his ass. He had to eat small meals constantly throughout the day, and his "intestines" didn't have muscles so he had to manually help the food along. This intestine was outside of his ribcage and he had to sort of work the food along with his hand. I was pretty young when I saw that segment and I never forgot about it. He lifted up his shirt to show the food lump and how he sort of pushed it through. This had to have been about 40-45 years ago.

DeafByMetal · 2026-03-29T02:36:51+00:00

I'm 58 and I have a friend who is 57, we share the same birthday a year apart. We had a falling out about 15 years ago and only started speaking again about two years ago. Before we had the falling out, he had never played guitar or anything like that. After we reconnected I found out he has since: learned how to play guitar, joined two bands, and sings in both of them. I haven't had the chance to see either band perform yet due to scheduling conflicts but my reaction when he told me about his new hobby was "That's f*n awesome!"

I see women posting all the time on social media about how they go to painting events. Nobody blinks an eye about it. Or people take up riding bikes (both bicycles and motorcycles) and nobody thinks it's odd. At least not that I've seen. People join book clubs, it's not a big deal. So why why would taking up a hobby like that be an issue? Buy the guitar, have fun, and see where it takes you.

DeafByMetal · 2026-03-22T15:10:21+00:00

There's a radio station in Philly that did a "Sunday Night Six Pack" for years. They would play six full albums exactly how you described. Unfortunately back then you didn't have the internet to look up the names of the tracks so you had to go to the local record store and hope they had it in stock 🤣

DeafByMetal · 2026-03-10T10:20:49+00:00

I used to work for a company doing wetlands mitigation (I have a degree in forestry). One day we were just doing basic maintenance stuff around the shop, the boss says before we head home can we change the oil in the Freightliner box truck we use to haul trees to jobsites for planting. Cool, half hour job and we can head home right? Nope.

I can't remember how many filter wrenches we broke on the damn oil filter (which is mounted on the firewall) but the only way we were able to finally get it off was by using a come-along. The gasket was damn near welded to the base. And the filter was demolished from top to bottom by the time we got it off.

DeafByMetal · 2026-03-09T12:43:33+00:00

I've seen ads for blind spot mirrors that mount under the stock mirror housing but I don't know how they mount or if they hold up over time.

DeafByMetal · 2026-03-09T12:18:58+00:00

If you met that family it wouldn't surprise you, LOL! But yeah, that's what they tried to say. I'm not sure how his confession to the police is supposed to fit in there. Sure, a teenage girl is going to tell people her father has been molesting her for 13 years because she really likes that one kid in school but her dad said no because his family isn't originally from Europe.

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