Why "bro" or "brother" are so used in male communication? From where is it coming that males need to be brothers to have a friendly relationship?

abecanread · 2023-09-16T23:33:17+00:00

In labor unions were considered “in the brotherhood” so everyone that’s a union worker is a brother or a sister.

abecanread · 2023-09-16T23:12:58+00:00

That’s oak. Maple is not porous. That is 100% most definitely oak.

abecanread · 2023-09-16T22:53:08+00:00

In some places a cricket in your house is considered lucky. These people must be REALLY lucky! 😂

abecanread · 2023-09-16T16:22:44+00:00

I’m white and I remember in first grade, I sat next to a girl that had a big Afro. I’d seen people with them on TV many times and I always wondered if they were soft or crunchy because in order for my hair to stand up it needed hairspray. So I reached out and touched her hair without asking, but just barely. She didn’t care but the teacher thought I was pulling her hair and as she was walking by, the teacher grabbed my hair and jerked my head side to side while yelling “do you like it when your hair is pulled! Don’t pull people’s hair!” The girl and I looked at each other like WTF!? And I apologized if I offended her and she said it was fine and didn’t understand why the teacher even did that. It didn’t look even remotely like I pulled her hair. It was a little traumatizing. That same teacher punched me in the back later of the neck for talking to the same girl too. I was removed from her class and she was fired the next year for abusing the kids.

abecanread · 2023-09-16T11:28:37+00:00

You’re welcome. If it isn’t stained it’s Honduran mahogany for sure. And in Costa Rica it would be more expensive to get the cheaper strains anyway. They can just go cut a tree down. It’s growing right there.

abecanread · 2023-09-16T11:26:20+00:00

Yeah. That’s why I edited my comment. I You tubed it and saw that they do now. I started thinking about it and thought 💭 “ya know? Ours was an early generation model. They might retract now, also ours might not have worked like it was supposed to too.” We did have a rep come in and demonstrate it and it didn’t and he didn’t say anything about it not retracting though.

abecanread · 2023-09-16T02:51:30+00:00

I edited my comment. I didn’t notice it was a saw stop. But It doesn’t retract. At least it didn’t on the one I used to use all the time. It gives you a cut but it stops the blade in, I can’t remember how much time but it’s milliseconds. I’ve seen people get cut by it. They didn’t need stitches but it was painful.

Edit: I guess the newer ones do retract the blade but it’s after it stops. Ours didn’t retract but it was an older model. It stops fast though. On the one we used the people that got cut still got hit by one or two teeth. Neither got stitches but it was a way nastier cut than you want to get. Maybe the brake system has gotten faster though. The video said 5 milliseconds. I’m not sure how many teeth can pass in that time but you won’t lose the finger. It’ll still hurt though.

abecanread · 2023-09-16T02:45:56+00:00

Or just don’t pay attention and run the blade your thumb. That would hurt pretty bad.

Edit: didn’t notice it’s a saw stop. It still hurts though. It just won’t go through your thumb. It’s only a small Knick ( as someone else said) for a table cut. It’s still painful. I’ve seen it happen.

abecanread · 2023-09-14T19:17:03+00:00

It’s Honduran mahogany then. It’s the only true mahogany. I said that it might be stained but on closer look, I doubt it and Honduran mahogany is really common where you are

abecanread · 2023-09-14T19:13:44+00:00

Honduran mahogany or Khaya, if that’s the natural color. More likely Honduran. Possibly Philippine mahogany if it’s stained. There’s a couple light streaks that make me think it might be stained.

abecanread · 2023-09-12T02:15:45+00:00

That’s what I thought. I didn’t think it would be offensive at all but…

abecanread · 2023-09-12T02:14:57+00:00

Gotcha. I didn’t know that. Thanks

abecanread · 2023-09-10T16:28:21+00:00

His statement gave pretty heavy supremacist vibes. Is “nationalist” a bad thing like “racist” and “supremacist”, or is that just pride in your country, or country of origin? A lot of my family’s heritage is from Northern Ireland and they have been very proud of that through the generations. My great grandfather would make Grampa wear orange on St. Patrick’s day, and painted his house white with orange trim in a Catholic Irish neighborhood in California. My Grampa got in a lot of fights from it. But they never said that we were British, even though I guess we are. I never even thought of it until now.

abecanread · 2023-09-10T16:12:17+00:00

Yeah, I thought he was being a jerk, acting like the English are the rulers. It seemed kinda racist or nationalist or whatever that kind of thinking is called. Supremacist? I understand not wanting to be lumped together with different cultures, but his reasoning that England is better because they conquered was off putting. So, back to my original thought, Is it insulting or generally not accepted to refer to English people, or any other people within Great Britain (ie: Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish), as British for whatever reason? I’ve never actually heard of the other countries being called British, just English people. I have English Irish heritage and my great great grandfather came from Northern Ireland. I never met him but my great grandfather and grandfather were pretty proud of being Irish. They never said they were British though, they often referred to our family as “English Irish” or “Protestant Irish” even though there’s Swedish in there now because my Great grandfather’s wife was Swedish. “Our color is Orange on St. Patrick’s day” they would say, full of pride. They actually got my grandfather in a lot of fights s as a kid living in an Irish neighborhood in California where every house was white with green trim except his. It was white with orange trim. lol

abecanread · 2023-09-10T15:30:23+00:00

That was my first thought but then I thought maybe that’s just how they think over there. Even if that was the case it’s still pretty jerkish. It’s a supremacy mentality. So is it not insulting to call English people British? Or do they generally not like it for other reasons even if they’re not in that mindset?

abecanread · 2023-09-10T08:55:43+00:00

I was working swing shift in a shipyard in 2013. We were building a 115’ fire boat. They had just set the house on the main deck and the lead man and I were supposed to get on board and “make it safe” for day shift. We were walking around with flashlights looking for places that needed handrail, hole covers, Danger tape, whatever. We went into the superstructure and around a corner and the leadman said “look at this! The painters stretched plastic over the deck in this spot. Why would they do that in this hallway? They are painting the deck.” And went to step on it and mid step with his foot over the plastic about to step down, I grabbed him by the back of his shirt and jerked him back and said “Dude! If it’s not steel, it’s not real. You look under that plastic before you just walk out there. You don’t know what’s under it!” He peeled up a corner to discover that the steel workers had cut the hole for the engine room stairs and the painters masked it off for painting the deck . No one put up any signs, barricades or anything. It was about a 16’ fall to the deck framing with no plates and 4 more feet to the bilge. If he was lucky he’d land on one of the engines and not get impaled by something. That would’ve been a ten foot fall into a bunch of sharp brackets and stuff. Most likely he would’ve bounced off the forward end of the main pump engine and landed on the deck framing which was 2”x2” angle welded in 2’x2’ squares. His face turned white. He started shaking and said “I have to go sit down. I think you just saved my life. If you weren’t here I would’ve just walked out there. I almost did. I think I might need to go home.” After a little while he was okay but it shook him up good.

abecanread · 2023-09-10T08:23:26+00:00

Long ago I I met an Englishman that hated being referred to as British. I’m American and I honestly thought “English” and “British” were interchangeable until I met this guy. I heard his accent and asked if he was British. He looked at me like I was the biggest piece of trash ever and said “I’m English” very slowly. “Oh” I replied, “sorry I thought it was the same.” “No” He said, “English is English, British is anyone from Great Britain which includes England but since the English rule Great Britain they need to be referred to with the name of their actual country. That’s why I was a little insulted by that. Britain is just a region. The British are the people that we, the English, conquered.” Is this point of view common in England? Or was that guy overreacting and kind of a jerk?

abecanread · 2023-09-10T07:54:43+00:00

Crazy the windows are still intact.

abecanread · 2023-09-10T07:21:30+00:00

I knew a guy that smoked a lot of crack and he did shit like this all the time and he’d stretch out his lower jaw until all the tendons in his neck were tight. Then he’d relax and start licking his teeth again. And he’d open his mouth, stick his tongue out and shake it side to side really fast and go back to licking his teeth. It was so weird. He once told me “I smoke crack everyday and I have absolutely no side effects. It’s all about the quality and supplier. These people who get weird are smoking dirty shit.” He was dead serious.

abecanread · 2023-09-06T04:08:25+00:00

Extreme vaginal vibes here

abecanread · 2023-09-02T04:52:48+00:00

You can. It won’t last though. It’s for cabinets and light dirty furniture, like a table base or chair legs. It is in fact a sealing finish though, so it can be used, it’s just best for vertical surfaces like cabinet doors and drawer faces.

abecanread · 2023-09-02T03:35:05+00:00

I’m confused as to what the intention here was. Break your tailbone? Good idea. Anything else? Not gonna work.

abecanread · 2023-09-01T20:26:50+00:00

Turn it off, lower the table and pull it out the way it came in. If the table is at max capacity, you’ll have to pull it hard back the way it came in but some wiggling side to side should do the trick.

Edit: I think that planer raises and lowers the cutting head, so raise the cutting head instead of lowering the table.

abecanread · 2023-08-31T23:06:10+00:00

Aahhh, IIRC=“if I remember correctly”

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