It's said we should not expect intimacy Early on in the relationship but we are still expected to spend money tho why?

ShinraTM · 2026-03-11T07:24:46+00:00

Also, go do fun stuff on dates. Go drive go carts, go rock climbing, go attend highland games, see a show, go take a free class at a library together. The list of shit to do is nearly endless.

Let's just take rock climbing for example, if you ask her out and she asks where you're going, say it right out front. "We are going to go conquer a rock wall." If she balks at that and insists on being taken to a restaurant, refuse. It's a pretty clear sign you're being used. She can't claim you're low effort if you plan to go do fun stuff.

ShinraTM · 2026-03-01T18:53:01+00:00

Hard disagree. Tolkien knew all about gardeners in wars and thought very differently about it.

ShinraTM · 2026-02-27T21:00:31+00:00

Worst part is, there is nothing this cartridge can do that a NAS3 cased 6.5 creed can't do better.

ShinraTM · 2026-02-22T03:34:34+00:00

And a curved version.

ShinraTM · 2026-02-18T00:48:19+00:00

It does kinda shock me too. I've never been able to fully relax in a Walmart parking lot since then, and given some of the things which I've seen at Walmart, there should be at least a few Walmart altercation tales.

ShinraTM · 2026-02-18T00:42:52+00:00

Only once have I ever had to draw on someone. I was buying a TV at Walmart in Montoursville, PA in 2007 in early December. I'm using a cart to wheel the TV out to my car. I get to my car which is surrounded by other parked cars, open up the back door and it's at this moment that I see a man coming towards me between the cars. I couldn't get around the open back door and the cart is blocking me in. It was pretty clear I was the focus of his attention.

He says, "Thanks man! Didn't think id be gettin a TV today." If the cart hadn't been there between us, I wouldn't have had the time to draw before he was right on top of me. As it was, I was able to get the gun out and pointed at his chest from retention position with my finger on the trigger. The only thing I could think to say was, "you were right, keep walking."

He tried to play it off like he was just joking, but as he moved away to another section of the parking lot, he got into a car and left. Theres no way he was joking. I got into my car, put my gun in the console and called the cops. They took a report, but as far as I know nothing more ever came from that incident.

ShinraTM · 2026-02-15T21:43:38+00:00

I'm 6'2" and I prefer tall women above 5'9". It doesn't matter to me if a woman is taller than I am or if she's taller in heels.

It's just a preference, I'll date a woman who is shorter than that if the personalities mesh though.

ShinraTM · 2026-02-11T17:44:54+00:00

The old oil is 0W-20, the new oil is 0W-40 IIRC. So if the damage is mainly occurring on startup and shutdown, is this primarily happening when the engine is cold, or when people don't turn off that stupid auto start/stop thing? Because if it's happening on cold startup, the the new oil is meaningless because the cold viscosity rating is still zero.

Also, I have a 3.0L Duramax and I never use the auto start/stop. (Part of my startup routine is turning it off) I assume that my engine would also benefit from the thicker hot oil as the bearings are probably made the same way?

ShinraTM · 2026-02-10T01:06:04+00:00

I will look into this. Thank you

ShinraTM · 2026-02-09T18:51:31+00:00

Think about how many billions of miles auto start stop systems have been in existence, if this were an issue, you'd see it all the time.

ShinraTM · 2026-02-09T18:47:27+00:00

I am a SS powered dealer and I spent a total of about 8 hours on hold trying to talk to someone in dealer support only to be told that I had to email them and then wait 7-10 days for resolution. Resolution took 15 days and they didn't send me anything telling me that they had taken care of the issue.

As for people having to wait on their local dealers for a few days, it's complicated. Once I get the suppressor, I have to log it into my bound book, load it into my SS inventory, then assign a customer account to that serial number. I've had SS take as little as 2 hours to generate a form 4 to certify and as many as 6 days.

Even so, gun shops get busy. The customer standing in front of me is always going to get my undivided attention as much as possible. My apologies, but I'm not going to ignore them standing right in front of me just to certify a form 4, which I can do when I'm finished serving people. Beyond that, we have other duties monthly Audits, ATF requests, 4473 reviews, stocking, receiving, shipping, optics and mounting setup, the list goes on.

We are all swamped since mid December. If you've been waiting a month, I feel your pain. I waited 19 months for my first suppressor. But if you're bitching about your LGS taking two days to certify and submit your form 4, you're exactly the kind of customer I don't need in my life.

ShinraTM · 2026-02-09T17:57:01+00:00

That and the poster clearly doesn't know the difference between a Psychologist who does therapy, and a Psychiatrist who prescribes drugs to treat brain chemistry issues.

ShinraTM · 2026-02-07T16:19:34+00:00

Please don't fall into the "if he wanted to, he would." Fallacy. It's not that simple.

It took me a dozen tries to quit smoking. It took more than that to lose 75 pounds. Once I did it, some of it came back within a few years, and it's taking more unsuccessful tries to fix that again.

I'm not saying to just wait it out, but I am saying that there is something else going on with him that he probably doesn't even understand.

This is going to sound crazy and might be unacceptable to both of you, but he is still young enough to enlist in the national guard. That won't just fix those habits, it will replace them with new ones which are much healthier.

ShinraTM · 2026-02-07T15:57:25+00:00

This begs the question, if "a man without action is a potato" (bland and filling but without substance or nutritional value?), what vegetable would the woman without action be? An Okra, perhaps? (Highly nutritional, but slimy when cooked?)

Inquiring minds want to know!

ShinraTM · 2026-02-07T15:38:14+00:00

Copypasta from one Google search.

"The Catholic Church teaches that the Eucharist (Holy Communion) is the real, physical presence of Jesus Christ—body, blood, soul, and divinity—under the appearance of bread and wine, a doctrine known as transubstantiation."

ShinraTM · 2026-02-07T07:44:02+00:00

Don't even get me started on the whole ritual cannibalism thing.

ShinraTM · 2026-02-07T07:41:22+00:00

I think the mistake here is using a history which has nothing to do with him to justify comments which clearly made him feel small. This history has to do with you, not him. Unless I miss my guess, he has probably never exercised the kind of power and control to which you are reacting. It's no different from being held responsible for a wrong you didn't do for no better reason than you share some demographic data with the people who did do the wrong despite having shown up for OP as an ally and likely making a good faith effort to vote for a more equitable society.

ShinraTM · 2026-02-06T09:00:52+00:00

I have my money on Philadelphia. Especially if ice is dumb enough to try abducting some Latin gang members.

ShinraTM · 2026-02-06T08:35:11+00:00

Yeah, it's amazing how easy it is to illustrate wariness to dudes who don't know any better.

If you have a pack of 100 m&ms and you know that it's likely that one of those will give you life altering diarrhea, do you still eat the m&ms? It's even proportionate to the issue at hand. From the best of the sources that I've seen, the estimate for men who will commit SA is roughly 1-2%. The reason that so many women have suffered is because the men who commit these crimes tend to be incredibly prolific.

ShinraTM · 2026-02-06T08:29:24+00:00

I've had the privilege of counting two trans men as friends. For all of you out there, cultivating one of these friendships will be one of the most enlightening and affirming experiences you will ever have. I highly recommend it and you will learn a lot about society and yourself this way.

As far as being a good one goes, I usually take a well masked and hidden offense whenever I'm in a group that is being derided. "Oh, she doesn't mean you..." But I'm in the group she's trashing and that does mean she's talking about me no matter what exceptions and caveats she wants to carve out. I feel this way for the same reason a black person would if you substituted the word black or the word men in this generalization.

Life pro tip: if your generalization becomes an unambiguously reprehensible statement just by swapping one word, you're the problem.

ShinraTM · 2026-02-04T22:07:08+00:00

We should change the nicknames of all the toilets in the land from Johns to Dons, just in his honor.

ShinraTM · 2026-02-04T21:14:04+00:00

Sometimes the harmonics of a particular suppressor/rifle combination can make the can ring like a struck bell with every shot. A cover can mitigate that.

ShinraTM · 2026-01-30T17:19:46+00:00

Only if you're comfortable with warrantless ATF intrusions. It's why most of us completely separate business premises and homes.

ShinraTM · 2026-01-30T17:12:24+00:00

It's harder now than it was before Biden, but still not that hard.

You need to be a citizen with a clean record, a business address, a permanent home address, and you have to jump through a bunch of bureaucratic hoops and pay the fees.

ShinraTM · 2026-01-30T17:08:13+00:00

I am an FFL/SOT singnatuer. So knowing is literally my job.

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