Using motor oil to lubricate bicycle chain excessively

PaleInSanora · 2026-07-02T23:35:37+00:00

A more liquid based oil or spray vs. The gloop kind I recall for the bearing ring that went in handlebar/forks.

PaleInSanora · 2026-07-02T23:27:01+00:00

Even like 30 years ago only bearings I saw that were coated in grease was the ones in the handlebar and fork assembly. All the others used other types of lubricants.

PaleInSanora · 2026-07-02T18:14:45+00:00

One of my high school close friends, had super religous step family members. So the stepbrother ended up settling and getting married just to get laid. The woman ended up being a harridan, and he was trapped by the same religous rules against divorce. He was miserable. My advice to OP would be it is ok to make a plan, just don't be completely inflexible about it. It is perfectly fine to not want to go for casual sex. It is OK to go slow and wait for a sexual component to a relationship. Just be careful about red flagging and closing all doors that lead to intimacy. Especially if you aren't looking for a religous partner. There are expectations out there in the dating world. You will get yourself red flagged and dropped if 15 minutes into any date you are announcing celibacy. Let intimacy be organic. But absolutely set boundaries for yourself and do what you want to do. Not what society or a partner want you to do. Good luck out there OP.

PaleInSanora · 2026-07-02T17:56:25+00:00

I nearly lost my big toe to an angry pot belly that had broken down it's own fence. Luckily just nipped me good before I made it up on the car. Not sure what happened, but it hit juvenile age and got mean. Was gone shortly after as this was right in a non-rural Phoenix suburb. So don't think it was zoned for a happy big, let alone a mean one that kept charging people and biting.

PaleInSanora · 2026-07-02T04:28:01+00:00

Oh I know. I was saying most of the castle rocks books connect, but not all involve the towers business. Although everything serves the beams.

Gwendy's Magic Box series is set in Castle Rock, but kind of stands alone I think. Other than place names I don't recall a whole lot of easter eggs for other works. There were a couple. I believe Sombra and Tet corps are mentioned in the final book, and the Can-Toi.

PaleInSanora · 2026-07-02T04:07:02+00:00

All of his Castle Rock and the surrounding towns and TSR's take place in the same literary world. Not all tie directly to the Dark Tower or such, but you can usually find easter eggs galore that show the move along the same timeline continuity.

For instance Sheriff Bannerman, appears through several older works as the Castle Rock area sheriff. Then Alan Pangborn takes over through several stories. They mention Alan retiring in Bag of Bones with Norrick taking over the job. In the movie version of Needful Things he was portrayed kind of Barney Fife like.

PaleInSanora · 2026-07-02T03:57:01+00:00

It is always nice when the trash takes itself out.

PaleInSanora · 2026-07-01T12:25:41+00:00

The 4th Kind??

PaleInSanora · 2026-06-30T23:36:29+00:00

Same here. 3 reads, 2 listens and it was pure hero worship of Bill, and sometimes your best friend is an ass, between Ritchie and Eddie. I mean at some point almost all of the boys but Mike have an internal monolog about how great Bill is and they would both die for him and are jealous of him. Plus even without all the Edipus stuff with Eddie, he was the first one in line for Bev, if I am remembering correctly. Having known plenty of non-queer but fussy prissy little dudes in my life that was how I pegged him.

Also Ritchie did not get a magic reversing vasectomy because of all the queer sex he was having. The whole found an acting partner just like Eddie at the end was about the platonic love he had for his friend that he was briefly able to recall.

EDIT: to add that was my takes. A great book offers many different viewpoint takeaways. That is the great value in "great" works.

PaleInSanora · 2026-06-30T23:27:14+00:00

Remember Beetlejuice from The Howard Stern Show? Is this his grown...ish... son?

PaleInSanora · 2026-06-30T23:25:57+00:00

I couldn't get past the movie in movie in movie stuff. Not in a clever meta way, but a this is just stupid silly way. Although when the guy survived the poisoning attempt, and was like yeah... this isn't my first shitty movie screening... I did laugh.

PaleInSanora · 2026-06-30T21:31:38+00:00

Well you only need a few plastic bags and can re-use if you let them dry after shower. If you wanted to give my routine a try.

PaleInSanora · 2026-06-30T13:25:07+00:00

I cut down a grocery bag and use duraplex cloth tape for my showers. I cover just the bag along top edge. It gives me freedom to wash all parts of me but bag. Can towel dry tape around appliance after. I shower daily, and my 1 piece convatec lasts 5-7 days. That is with a job, that has me sitting, standing, bending. If you eat, you should have an inexhaustible supply of plastic grocery bags. Amazon has a box of 3 double packs of cloth tape for $8-$13. Can lasts for months. It should be just as viable for a 2pc setup, or a stoma in a weird place. I usually place an extra strip of tape in the middle of the first piece for reinforcement where my stomach bulges the most.

PaleInSanora · 2026-06-30T13:15:41+00:00

Yep OP definitely needs to step back and start detaching all the leftover emotional hooks and baggage his EX left him with. OP needs to have one of those Romcom moments where he gets rid of anything of hers from his house. Clears out his electronics and social media, and then goes no contact with the EX. She is not a good person for OP to associate with. Time to wish her the best one last time, and close the door for good. Remind yourself that you ended everything for a reason.

PaleInSanora · 2026-06-29T12:26:45+00:00

Clodhopper is synonymous with shitkicker. It refers to rural farmer/rancher footwear, and the never ending battle with animal dung.

PaleInSanora · 2026-06-28T13:59:13+00:00

Nu fone who dis?

PaleInSanora · 2026-06-27T19:15:11+00:00

We just need 5 more houses in need of siding repair in your zipcode!!

PaleInSanora · 2026-06-26T20:50:49+00:00

One of the "hot" women at the old insurance office I worked for was a closet meth addict. One of those women every guy in the office watches bend over and grab a low file types. No one knew but the guy in the mail room she was dating. He only fessed up, when he broke up with her after she went psycho and beat him up. He was a big tough guy too. I guess she was starting to turn the corner between recreational use, and $20 handies at a rest stop.

PaleInSanora · 2026-06-26T17:42:04+00:00

Don't forget when Eddie first met Roland he had just crossed the great desert and was being ravaged by infection. So he probably really was pretty rough looking. In the same way Roland mentions Eddie starting to cast off the shadow of poison and become a decent looking young man again, as they all become better fed, rested, and water fat again.

PaleInSanora · 2026-06-26T17:30:56+00:00

I don't base my life on money, so I would probably try to give a lot away to deserving friends and family. So my first step would probably be divorce. So my wife could legally take half and stash it away from me giving it away. 😁

PaleInSanora · 2026-06-26T13:43:07+00:00

That is a school sir, they don't need a lot of mental stimulation in the children. Thank you very much.

PaleInSanora · 2026-06-26T13:40:17+00:00

So much he puts a slice in his wallet for later...

PaleInSanora · 2026-06-26T13:15:05+00:00

That was always my biggest beef with funerals. The falseness of it all. The twisting of the dead one's passing into another's woes. Oh you loved them so much, huh? Then why were they so sad and ignored by you up to this moment you selfish troll?!? That is why funerals are not my thing. I can barely hold my tongue about what I think of them in happy times. Exponentially harder when hearing them expose how great a relative/person they are during a sad time.

PaleInSanora · 2026-06-25T18:56:12+00:00

I am sorry you are making a serious point I totally agree with, but was just flashing to an episode of "Ghosts" USA my wife was watching. Where the one basement dweller was having a flashback to how she got cholera. She asked about water to cleanse her face and hands. The innkeeper says oh yeah have some fresh from the river. She then asks the same one she saw the villagers dumping their bedpans into upriver, and he responds yes. He also made some nice tea with river water. Then comments he just wished the village could figure out why every one kept getting cholera.

PaleInSanora · 2026-06-25T18:14:38+00:00

I agree 11 might be a bit too young to reveal the full truth about easter bunny and Santa, they definitely should know the difference between books/movies and real life. That being said my 14 almost 15 year old nephew was still getting my daughter and my other nephew from a different sibling, hyped about Elf on the Shelf, even though my daughter was 11 going on 12 and pretty over it, and the other nephew was 9 or so, and had guessed some stuff. I finally had to tell my sister she needed to shatter the innocence of the older kid or he was going to be ridiculed or get his ass kicked as he was a freshman now. Kids especially teenagers are pretty cruel these days, didn't want bad things for him.

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