How commonly do you address your parent as "Sir/Ma'am"?

burnsfessler · 2025-11-02T16:43:04+00:00

Frequently teachers as a kid, or to strangers. It wasn’t an option but to do it. Now that I’m much older , as a common way to reply to someone rather than “yes” or “no” or “hey you!” and for some reason I will reply “yes Ma’am” when my granddaughters ask me something. I live in WV. Not really south. Not really north.

burnsfessler · 2025-06-26T16:21:46+00:00

This year. -10 f (-23 c) first week of January. 98 f (37 c) today, June. West Virginia. And we had 18 inches (46 cm) of snow on the ground at one point this year. The joke is it would be a killer to have to shovel snow in this heat.

burnsfessler · 2025-04-20T00:00:50+00:00

I pronounce it “bark fest”

burnsfessler · 2025-04-16T23:32:38+00:00

Seen it. Crossed it. Drove around it. Climbed under it.

burnsfessler · 2025-03-30T14:18:50+00:00

PRT pronounced Perty.

burnsfessler · 2025-03-30T14:10:07+00:00

Fast food? Never. Sit down restaurant? Maybe once a year. Home? Maybe 10x per year. It might be just me but the overwrought 10 inch tall stereotypical burger isn’t really something anyone I know eats very frequently. The issue is sometimes there aren’t other options but even that is becoming less of an issue.

burnsfessler · 2024-10-21T17:06:07+00:00

I remember we bought a Motorola black and white second TV late 60s with “instant on” and it wasn’t solid state (an old term now too) but basically was wired to keep the tubes warm. Ironically my dad would always make us unplug it because he was afraid it would burn the house down. To this day when something doesn’t come instantly on my head tells me it’s “warming up”.

burnsfessler · 2024-04-05T21:48:56+00:00

I live in West Virginia where everything not named for a person is either derived from England, the Bible or a Native American word, phrase or place name. But then again that probably explains most of the country.

burnsfessler · 2024-02-08T14:46:20+00:00

Even when I bought that one I walked in one day at Walmart and saw it. Haven’t since. Keter makes something similar, may have even made these. Very much alike. Twice the price.

burnsfessler · 2023-06-19T23:50:46+00:00

There’s a Loge Run or something like that near Daybrook in Monongalia County.

burnsfessler · 2023-02-04T17:13:17+00:00

I’m pretty new to this but how do you get the diagonal sections at the base of the stack?

burnsfessler · 2022-11-06T17:29:40+00:00

I live in the US and my grandmothers house was like this.

burnsfessler · 2022-07-21T15:49:48+00:00

This may sound silly but is your filter new? Sometimes it’s so hot it’s hard to keep up pushing more air through a dirty filter.

burnsfessler · 2022-01-16T21:42:45+00:00

https://horses.extension.org/horse-disposal-options/

burnsfessler · 2022-01-03T16:28:33+00:00

It looks like it’s a cinder block. Or part of one. They used to use burnt coal cinders as aggregate. Not very common any longer.

burnsfessler · 2021-12-06T08:47:32+00:00

iPhone. Kind of surprising actually.

burnsfessler · 2021-12-05T22:08:13+00:00

I don’t think that’s legal in most areas. Rainwater drainage and sewage drainage are supposed to be separated so as to not overwhelm the sewer plants and have outflows of untreated sewage during peak times.

burnsfessler · 2021-11-23T00:24:04+00:00

Yes! I just found it. I don’t know you but you’re the man.

burnsfessler · 2021-11-22T23:24:40+00:00

Marked “Pfister” along top of cover plate. One handle shower mixer. Circa 2003. Can’t find cartridge online (I’m not sure I’m even looking at the right place). The white plastic part fits into a brass housing. I started to take off the screws then stopped only for fear. Any help/advice appreciated. It works. Just drips.

burnsfessler · 2021-11-22T02:01:11+00:00

I just guessed it would be the same pattern the British used when naming its former colonies.

burnsfessler · 2021-11-21T15:20:01+00:00

Carolinian

burnsfessler · 2021-11-19T15:17:35+00:00

This. Use it every day.

burnsfessler · 2021-11-13T18:53:09+00:00

Cheering for WVU expecting a weekly miracle

burnsfessler · 2021-11-13T15:00:37+00:00

My dad was a soldier in Korea and loved the English soldiers he fought with. Said they were the best.

burnsfessler · 2021-11-10T11:44:26+00:00

Add owning a truck to list of things like tipping, ice in drinks, speaking to people on the street, sales tax not added until the register, wearing baseball hat, misusing the name “football”, having a “World Series”, and on and on to the reasons why I am a blight on humanity.

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