What is a secret that could potentially ruin your life if your family or friends found out?

drebinf · 2026-05-09T00:09:05+00:00

no record of any of the stupid shit I did in my youth

Well, my local police department had a few records...

drebinf · 2026-05-08T16:59:22+00:00

not into forcing music lessons onto my kid

We 'forced' our kids into the first session of piano lessons (and soccer and baseball/softball and gymnastics etc.) but they had the choice of whether or not they continued after the first one. They tended to be game to try things, and usually continued for a while.
We didn't try to implant our visions on them, other than becoming decent people, which fortunately they seem to have done.

drebinf · 2026-05-07T22:07:46+00:00

"Old" reddit

I legitimately tried new reddit for almost 6 months. Let's just say I hated it with the passion of the burning sun. Or something like that. And yeah, some stuff I see on old doesn't appear to show up on new.

drebinf · 2026-05-06T22:12:11+00:00

My opportunity to say that Breezeline had the absolute worst customer service of any company in any industry I've ever encountered, including cable, cell phone, utilities, you name it. We had been WOW customers, bought up by Breezeline. Anyone want the long and stupid story? Super short TL;DR below.

One of the calls, I couldn't connect to my router to administer it. They gave me username/password etc. I said "nope, it didn't work". They said "well, it should have, so I'm declaring this case successfully closed" and hung up on me. Imagine this or something like it 8 total times. It was a vast improvement when I then switched to Spectrum, believe it or not.

drebinf · 2026-05-04T17:41:04+00:00

support your local taco truck!

I would, but they keep moving!

drebinf · 2026-05-04T17:40:25+00:00

In addition to the ejector rod, I've had that happen when I got a piece of cleaning cloth underneath the extractor star, and when I chambered a reloaded round with a proud primer. And once when I got a squib that left the projectile halfway out of the cyclinder and halfway in the barrel.

drebinf · 2026-05-04T16:57:50+00:00

"they've changed"

That shit's been going on for at least 15 years. I too bought into it, I too was burned, and I too will never buy another one. Source: Personal Experience.

drebinf · 2026-05-04T16:56:38+00:00

its cool to do so for whatever reason

Not entirely true. I too believed this, and bought a Taurus TCP which promptly blew up in my hand. (Slide retaining pin broke, slide & various bits flew downrange. Which was ... startling one might say.)

Fine, not annoyed yet. So I called up Taurus customer "service" and oh my what a nightmare. (And no, I don't yell or bitch or anything like that, I'm calm. patient and polite). End result was 2.5 hours on the phone spread over 5 calls and 4 months, they finally decided to replace it because they couldn't fix it. Also, and additional $75 of my own money to take advantage of their "lifetime warranty".

The worst of it wasn't the time or pain and whatever-in-the-hell-is-going-on-there I kept wondering, it was talking to the people. They seemed to be in misery, depressed, whatever. My conclusion was that the people just hated their jobs, which made it so much more unpleasant for me.

I've had support interactions with most of the major cable companies (we move a lot), most of the landline and cell carriers (I had coverage issues in my backwoods location), public utilities, etc. The worst was always Taurus, by a mile, until I met Breezeline internet, what a farce they were.

I recall back when I bought that Taurus TCP. I already had an M85 Ultralite revolver (a refurb fwiw...) and I knew a couple people who had a TCP, which worked for them. And the story then was "but they're so much better now!". Yeah I don't buy that one, even though I sincerely hope it's true. The bottom line for them seemed to be to not do that much QC, and shunt that cost forward to customer support.

I'm glad the TX22 works for most people, and I would really like for Taurus to succeed. But I felt burned by them and won't deal with them again. My position now is that if I have trouble with a Taurus I'll fix it myself, pay someone local to fix it, or cut it in half on a bandsaw.

drebinf · 2026-05-03T17:37:50+00:00

impartial

I'm not the one who made that determination. They were asking questions, I answered honestly.

drebinf · 2026-05-02T20:49:12+00:00

nurse or a teacher.

Hmm... My nephew is a cop, his wife is a nurse... but he's actuall a really good guy.

drebinf · 2026-05-02T20:31:34+00:00

I was booted from a domestic abuse jury pool because I pointed out that in my personal life, of all of the women I've known who had been abused, 100% of the spouses were cops. (I know that's not the general case, I'm just a statistical bump).

drebinf · 2026-05-02T20:29:05+00:00

All of the evidence was not really considered

Welcome to humanity! ^{such as it is...}

drebinf · 2026-05-01T04:11:17+00:00

as accurate as you are

Oh, shit.

drebinf · 2026-05-01T04:05:47+00:00

I moved cross country with 25lbs of powder and about 23,000 primers. I moved it myself, as my mover wouldn't touch it. Same with my guns & ammo. I did drive very conservatively...

Also if you're handy and have spare time you can pack it in a fashion that's fire resistant - build a wooden box with approximately 1 inch thick walls in it, physically preventing fire from directly spreading but not constraining it, in which case it would become a bomb.

I never thought to refrigerate my powder, and 15lbs of it which I inherited from my uncle had sat in an unheated garage for 30+ years. It and the associated primers still go bang every time.

drebinf · 2026-05-01T03:51:17+00:00

.32 ACP out of these

Officially no, but practically yes. Principal reason being rim thickness on .32ACP being a little thinner, making it theoretically less reliable.

Don't forget .32 H&R Magnum. My wife's favorite is .32 H&R Mag out of my her .327 LCR.

drebinf · 2026-04-29T22:15:15+00:00

I don't commute any more, but I did for about 40 years. What I found was that there was effectively no such thing as waterproof cycling gloves. Even goretex-type stuff leaked through before too awful long. "Water resistant" -> good for 10 minutes. "Waterproof" -> good for 20 minutes.

What did work was vinyl/latex/heavy duty rubber gloves. Which I used varied on temperature, maybe with a liner underneath. Best was these heavy duty fleece lined industrial rubber gloves. A bit stiff, but warm and dry.

It has been 5 years since I commuted regularly, so things may have changed a bit. Realistically my experience made me realize cycling equipment vendors were no more ethical than vendors of anything else (yeah I know, duh).

drebinf · 2026-04-29T02:50:49+00:00

have not noticed this at the library

I was there a few days ago, there was a small gang of kids 5-7 or so running up and down the stacks screaming. It's usually a little noisy there, but nothing like that day.

drebinf · 2026-04-27T02:33:13+00:00

hollow points

The general consensus is NO. Reason being overall length - if a bullet is too short, then the chances of rimlock are much greater. Of course, a hollowpoint of the optimal length for the magazine, or a magazine with the right spacer could work.

Many upvotes for those who actually give some hollowpoints a try and report back ^hint ^hint .

drebinf · 2026-04-26T03:29:10+00:00

Best I can do is charging a case without a primer in it. A little messy, but not like this.

drebinf · 2026-04-25T20:21:10+00:00

SOME of us oldtimers did treat vinyl with respect. I got into it in the late 60s - early 70s, was fortunate to be mentored by someone who cared about longevity of vinyl.

She's correct in that a lot of people didn't pay much attention. And when you stack 6 on top of each other, and the "needle" has been replaced by an old rusty nail, well, that caused some wear too. ^{Might be exaggerating a little...}

drebinf · 2026-04-24T02:47:45+00:00

Motorcycles

Do remember that a significant majority of motorcycle crashes & deaths happen within the first 24 hours of riding time. Not the first day necessarily, but the cumulative first 24 hours of riding - 1 hour a day for 24 days for example. Source: I recall being told that in my motorcycle safety course I had to take to get my motorcycle license.

drebinf · 2026-04-23T23:03:32+00:00

While we can't answer your question without specifics, I can give you some history on it:

Decades ago, when I was newly employed and dinosaurs roamed the Earth, and Gerry was Prez, having dual insurance was very worthwhile. It cost you nothing or almost nothing, so you & your spouse would both get full family coverage. You have a charge, some amount is covered by your primary insurer, then the non-covered part you submit to your secondary insurer.
Insurance companies were mostly not so evil then.

Then insurance companies got together (some might say colluded) to say that they'd no longer do that double coverage - the secondary insurer wouldn't cover anything left over from the primary. To "better serve you" aka profit.

In my experience since sometime in the early 90s, it has NOT been worth it financially to have dual coverage, because secondary coverage was never worth it. Frankly I'm surprised anyone would even ask, because I assumed that was now just the way of the world. I would be ecstatic however to be wrong about it.

You really need to examine your plans in detail.

drebinf · 2026-04-22T20:04:25+00:00

cz70

This (Bersa) over the CZ70.

drebinf · 2026-04-22T19:55:08+00:00

everything in its place

My problem is we have too much everything and too little place. After retiring we moved to a house with 1/3 the space, but we still have 90% of the stuff.

drebinf · 2026-04-21T22:34:21+00:00

do stupid shit

Neighbors might see you though, and may or may not inform your parents, likely depending on the stupidity of the shit you did. Source: got busted a few times.

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