no comment, other than this...

[bloke]

[Three Valves]

Egyptians had a lot of good help!

[bort2.0]

You build a bad pyramid, you'd probably get beaten or killed.
You install a bad pole... You'll probably get paid, trained, benefits, therapy, promoted...

[bloke]

You build a bad pyramid, you'd probably get beaten or killed.
You install a bad pole... You'll probably get paid, trained, benefits, therapy, promoted...

If you build a $10,000 tuba (to be sold brand-new for only $2000) in more than a day, you might (??) get the same treatment as those who might have built bad pyramids.

[York-aholic]

Proof positive that evolution can't really be a thing. Otherwise, we are definitely going backwards (devolving?)...

Or perhaps this is a replacement pole with a smaller footprint? I'm not sure that disproves my first statement.

[tubaing]

Or perhaps this is a replacement pole with a smaller footprint? I'm not sure that disproves my first statement.

That was my thought as well. Not the right way, but can backwards-engineer how we got there

[bloke]

I was just annealing some brass on one of those double-priced school-grade tubas, and wasn't thinking about the quality of the materials.

Right at the moment that it began to glow, two holes appeared.

Oh well, I've fixed worse.

[DonO.]

Reminds me of replacing tuning machines on a guitar. You use one hole you already have, but the second one NEVER lines up, you gotta drill a new one, and you hope and pray the plate covers up the old hole. You replace machines 3 or 4 times on the same guitar (possible on one that’s been around a long time) and your headstock starts to look like Swiss cheese! It would be nice if the companies that make tuning machines could get together and agree to use the same hole pattern- but NOOOOOO!

[bloke]

Someone needs to donate a hammer drill to that poor/impoverished city.

I'm sure that every single penny of tax revenue received is spent efficiently/frugally/responsibly.

[York-aholic]

Someone needs to donate a hammer drill to that poor/impoverished city.

I'm sure that every single penny of tax revenue received is spent efficiently/frugally/responsibly.

Nope, even with a hammer drill sitting on the truck, it is less work to just bolt the thing down the way pictured. Why do more than you have to

^^^
the beginning of the end to civilization...

[bloke]

With so many of us driving as much as two hours out of the way to avoid populated areas, I'm pretty sure it's already begun - if not having already completed.

The idea that The People and their elected officials (if those elections are even to be trusted) control those populated areas is laughable, and everyone knows who's really in charge of them.

From an roughly hour east of downtown Memphis, Tennessee to Sheboygan, Wisconsin, the largest metropolitan areas I passed (even) near were Paducah, Kentucky and Rockford, Illinois, and absolutely by design.

[YorkNumber3.0]

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[bloke]

Worker to manager: This won’t work.
Manager who never did the job: Yes it will. Make it work.
Worker: OK. (Mischievous obedience ensues.)

My brother (c. 13-1/2 years older than me) was the #2 man in an important sector of the Corps of Engineers.

His boss (#1 in the blah-blah within the COE) was incompetent, and had been dragging his feet on a mandatory extremely significant change on "how things were done".

The absolute deadline (as things HAD to inter-phase with other parts of the COE) was sometime in the spring.

I was more than apparent to my brother that he was going to be the target of scapegoating.

My brother was well beyond minimum retirement age, staying longer really wouldn't add much of anything to his pension, but enjoyed his work, and had been willing to stay on - as long as it was still fun.

Due to this, though, my brother decided to walk into his boss' office (just before Christmas) and announce that he was retiring on January 31st.

Of course, when the huge thing ended up NOT getting done (as my brother was probably the ONLY one who COULD HAVE done it - but his boss hadn't been giving him what he needed to get it done), my brother's boss was fired (nope: not demoted/not transferred)...fired.

[Heavy_Metal]

They probably couldn't find a YouTube video to tell them how to do it right