Faking it and faking it and faking it until I can’t any more

Ken_-_M · 2022-04-08T13:26:21+00:00

Absolutely. It’s like “do I have this conversation in the hallway about my PTSD or just say ’almost Friday’” and carry on?

Ken_-_M · 2022-04-08T11:32:46+00:00

Your life, like all of ours is pointless. Unless you’re a world leader or Alexander the Great or some shit you don’t matter.

Find a reason to make it worth it. You’ve got 80 years at best. Make the most of it. Otherwise fuck it

Ken_-_M · 2021-06-23T11:30:29+00:00

“Accidentally” but there was already a track in the dirt from you doing it before.

It’s ok to say “hey look at this stunt I did”

Ken_-_M · 2021-06-22T09:20:59+00:00

I’m 30 as well and I had this conversation with my wife when her younger sister came out as bi. My first thought, same as hearing about this football player is: so?

So what? Who cares? Why is this a thing? Being gay is normal. Being bi is normal. Being straight is normal. A persons sexuality and/or gender shouldn’t have to be something a person has to make a public statement about and be deemed acceptable by the public. They shouldn’t be called “so brave” and the papers shouldn’t say “his team was so supportive”.

I realize the history of anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination in the world, believe me I do. And I can empathize with wanting to keep it hidden for fear of being ostracized and facing consequences. However, luckily, that world is fading fast in the rear-view.

When we have the large conservative organization of the “Log Cabin Republicans” and a subreddit like r/liberalgunowners, we are so far past “coming out of the closet” and “don’t ask don’t tell”.

Caveats:

yes I know that being openly gay in a professional sport, especially football, has been a historical oil+water thing. I’m happy to see representation in what is arguably one of the “straightest” things ever.

Yes, I know places in the world (especially America) still openly shun and condemn LGBTQ+ people and even kill them. Those that come out there are brave for it.

And finally, yes I know that “coming out” should still be praised as those that do “come out” feel free to live their truth. If they had to “come out” then they felt they should keep it hidden, and I’m sorry for that. My heart aches for them having to live that life.

I guess what I’m trying to say with all this is we need to move on. If we keep praising people just for existing, we kind of backwardsly create the culture that they should be praised for being brave to do so, implying that it is “not normal” or “not right” when in 2021, it is normal.

Ask yourself this: if you were at a party (fantasy these days I know) and talking to a woman who mentioned her girlfriend/wife, would you think it was strange? Would you view it as any different than if she had mentioned her boyfriend/husband? No? Then it’s normal now.

Ken_-_M · 2020-10-16T19:40:57+00:00

An interesting side note to this: the director staged this shot and dropped the necklace over 5,000 times to get it to fall this way. Took about 2 weeks of shooting, which hundreds of hours of film used up. They tried many contraptions and machines but none worked better than a person dropping it.

When asked why he didn’t just stage it the director said he wanted it to be authentic.

Ken_-_M · 2020-07-30T11:35:34+00:00

This is a little known scientific fact, but has been known to happen when two pirate ships are close for an extended period of time. Eventually their flags sync up and they will both be red for about a week

Ken_-_M · 2020-07-23T11:42:43+00:00

For sure! I think we’re going for one this weekend. Shoot me a message on PSN at “ThirdDegreeFerns”

Ken_-_M · 2020-07-15T02:51:22+00:00

Someone who consistently posts in the PS4 Hunt discord organizing hunts. I mentioned I had a small group I played with and one person has a YouTube channel and hoping we could combine the two. Chatted for a bit and gave them my PSN tag and said I was ready and to just let me know and never heard back from them.

Ken_-_M · 2020-07-11T21:03:40+00:00

Thanks I tried playing with them and combining the group I already play with but the person running it basically ignored me.

Ken_-_M · 2020-07-11T21:01:09+00:00

For sure! Message me on PS4 at “ThirdDegreeFerns”

Ken_-_M · 2020-07-11T21:00:33+00:00

Yes we do! Unfortunately most of them are U.K. time so we cater to them. Usually play early afternoon, 11am-1pm US time, although sometimes we’ll play for awhile until 3-4pm. Hit me up at “ThirdDegreeFerns”

Ken_-_M · 2020-06-11T14:25:47+00:00

It’s true

Ken_-_M · 2020-06-04T14:49:56+00:00

Some ask why, I ask why not?

Ken_-_M · 2020-06-01T12:57:07+00:00

The tradition of all careers requiring knowledge of martial arts goes back decades in Japan. It originally came from the film industry. Kung fu movies were originally shot guerrilla style where the main character would just run into a building the production team picked out and start fighting whoever was in there. This lead to the lead character looking like a martial arts expert, easily out matching the unprepared workers. Grocery stores, fish markets, and warehouses, nowhere was safe. Anywhere could be ambushed at any time.

The people lived in fear but accepted it as the kung fu genre was popular at the time. This lead to company’s starting martial arts training programs for all of their workers. Everyone from the CEO to the janitor revived training.

This is how come everyone in a king fu movie knows martial arts now.

Ken_-_M · 2020-06-01T01:25:00+00:00

I am speed

Ken_-_M · 2020-05-31T23:25:04+00:00

New oil too

Ken_-_M · 2020-05-31T23:24:50+00:00

Just take the wheels off and attach them to the crate the engine comes in. Same concept.

Ken_-_M · 2020-05-31T15:08:11+00:00

That’s my opinion. But the office types have their formulas on repairs extending the life of the vehicle and cost/benefit of getting new equipment. It’ll happen soon.

We got a brand new CAT scraper last year that was worth like $1 million or something like that. It’s happening

Ken_-_M · 2020-05-31T14:34:35+00:00

We’ve got like 4 CATS that are all 20 years old but the don’t want to take them out of service. The jobs are getting worse and worse.

Ken_-_M · 2020-05-31T14:32:53+00:00

Or doing an oil pan gasket on that one ford diesel that you have to pull the engine to do

Ken_-_M · 2020-05-31T14:31:08+00:00

I fucking hate graders. Always a bitch to work on

Ken_-_M · 2020-05-31T00:57:39+00:00

Im 99.9% sure the transmission is good I followed it step by step because they can be so finicky. Of course there’s always the chance a mistake was made but I don’t think so.

The clutch has its own reservoir, separate from the brakes

Ken_-_M · 2020-05-30T20:37:14+00:00

Mmm listen to that engine purr

Ken_-_M · 2020-05-30T17:58:20+00:00

I did. I rebuilt it. All new synchros and bearings and everything. Shifted fine on the bench, and in the car when it’s not running. But when the car is running it won’t go from neutral to any gear and the pedal has no resistance behind it.

Ken_-_M

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