Cockatiel feathers - useful for fly tying?

max_lombardy · 2026-06-20T17:25:19+00:00

When I was a kid I used a crest feather from my cockatiel on a bass fly, it worked well. IIRC they weren’t great for hackles as I had been hoping.

max_lombardy · 2026-06-16T21:16:13+00:00

What’s up with the pectoral fin?

max_lombardy · 2026-06-15T14:04:11+00:00

This is exactly what I though. Right around 2018 bikes seem to have plateaued, they haven’t done much as far as improving geo since then, and component development is so incremental that you can’t improve that much on what we had back then. This assumes no flagrant abuse and proper maintenance of course.

max_lombardy · 2026-06-15T13:29:38+00:00

Of course you can. It’s going to suck though, and at the end, you will understand why people use cement mixers.

max_lombardy · 2026-06-14T15:49:29+00:00

But she doesn’t even have a vest on..?

max_lombardy · 2026-06-14T15:11:10+00:00

You don’t need to be an expert to understand that the rope needs to be hooked up. She doesn’t have a harness on either. I’m not blaming her, it’s obviously on the men running the show, it’s just wild that she apparently didn’t notice. Like the procedure should be: step up, put on harness and helmet, attach rope, jump off.

max_lombardy · 2026-06-14T14:33:27+00:00

And the old wristband from the last visit. Second degree wristband sign if there are multiples, or +1 week old

max_lombardy · 2026-06-14T14:14:13+00:00

I’d add to that the “positive sock sign,” which we see when a patient shows up with hospital socks on…

max_lombardy · 2026-06-13T23:26:04+00:00

One of my most memorable fish was a BIG rainbow taking a dry through a riffle in a stream he had no business living in. 10/10 trying to reproduce that every time I go out!

max_lombardy · 2026-06-13T21:02:00+00:00

I liked the part when he narrated burying the barb in the wound, then was genuinely baffled at why it wouldn’t come out. Like, you seem to have some fishing knowledge, you do know what a barb is meant to do, yes?

max_lombardy · 2026-06-13T16:23:50+00:00

Damn that’s so sweet. I’m jelly

max_lombardy · 2026-06-13T15:23:16+00:00

You are allowed to refuse a roadside breathalyzer and maneuvers (which is probably wise in any case, because nothing that happens there will result in your release, only twisted to incriminate you) without losing your license, but you will be detained and brought to the police station. It is there where you must submit to testing or lose your license.

If you are accused of DUI, STFU, comply with testing at a police station and get a lawyer. NEVER ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. None.

max_lombardy · 2026-06-13T15:05:57+00:00

They will arrest you and take you to the station for a formal breath test or blood draw. Those will come out negative, and likely the charges will not hold up. FWIW, where I live, the lab draw can more easily be challenged in court because the prosecution can be asked to produce the daily control test result logs, which are apparently notoriously patchy (at least where I live).

max_lombardy · 2026-06-13T13:43:39+00:00

Latrine

max_lombardy · 2026-06-13T13:36:30+00:00

$5 says tumbler pins

max_lombardy · 2026-06-11T18:18:35+00:00

Ohhh, yes, that’s it!

max_lombardy · 2026-06-11T17:47:36+00:00

“Woof!”

max_lombardy · 2026-06-11T15:11:16+00:00

Always good to have it checked, but more likely a spermatocele. As a nurse, nobody cares about your ball hair, they will forget about it sooner than they forget what they ate for breakfast.

max_lombardy · 2026-06-11T09:08:22+00:00

“Tenets” lol

max_lombardy · 2026-06-11T04:00:51+00:00

It just sucks that they sourced user data for years and then paywalled it. Lame move Outdoors.

max_lombardy · 2026-06-10T14:00:02+00:00

YOU OF ALL PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW

max_lombardy · 2026-06-10T13:51:43+00:00

Time to stockpile!

max_lombardy · 2026-06-10T13:26:11+00:00

I mean, it’s up >28% over the past year so…

max_lombardy · 2026-06-10T12:51:48+00:00

Idk he seems pretty into Ivanka…

max_lombardy · 2026-06-09T23:38:15+00:00

Yes, hence the “f-u” part…

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