What makes people tell random ppl their business?

Me? Now i like to talk chit, stir the pot, carry on.

You’ll never me say how my knee hurts, or light Bill is about to be cutoff, or cousin is on the dope again.

Worst is getting cornered up in the checkout line at the grocery store. I got a dozen eggs, a 15 pk keystone light and some lightnin bread.

I don’t care how you been working all week cause your car is broke down and this is your once a week trip to the grocery store and you gotta get the scratch offs and you got a bad tooth.

Dude at work tells me about how his dead beat son won’t keep a job. 🤷🏽‍♂️

It’s not that i don’t care, but i don’t care. 🤦🏼‍♂️

Seems like I don't care about that.

Rocket science...

I don’t want to listen to your scchitt, Dave!!
Grins

If you want to hear some in-depth personal stories be a regular long haul airplane passenger.

Haha.

Never been on an airplane. 😂🤣

Bored probably!

Wonderful machines but you ain’t missed a whole lot and I don’t care if I ever get back inside of another aluminum tube.

Helicopters are another wonderful machine and engineering marvel but if I ever fly in another one of those bastards it’ll have Med-Evac written on the sides.

Somebody once wrote an entire song about not caring if Jimmy cracked corn.

Well,,,,what if The Hokey Pokey really is what it’s all about?

My brother just retired a year ago as a Captain at Delta. Sometimes, he'd have to deadhead in uniform. He made a point of burying his head in a book so that nobody would bother him. My wife is/was Diamond Medallion at Delta and she made a point of putting in her earbuds and watching a movie. Nobody ever bothered either of them.

Attention seeking fascist book syndrome....

Maybe they go kicked off of fascist book ....

Hard to do that on a 15-20 hour direct flight (depending upon headwinds.).

But I know what you’re talking about.

Did you say sumthin.....I wasn't listening to your whining.

I have spent a hot minute in helicopters in the Gulf of Mexico. Every color and shape.

Some folks didn’t care for them. Good for napping.

I agree Dave,especially here... I just shake my head... Maybe folks think they're actually friends here??? 😂😂

Try owning an automotive repair shop! Holy chit.

We’ve probably plowed the same ground.

Like I wanted to know you drank Keystone Light.

Sometimes dave the things a guy has to worry about are enough to deal with and when someone starts dumping on you your defense mechanism kicks in and out comes I don 't care. The way it is, hey you asked. Just cause I like to think I m a good guy I'll tell you a secret I don't care that you don't care about someone else's problems. Got it?

Need patches for vest.

“Brotherhood of the campfire”.

🤣😂🤣.

Ok. Substitute Miller High Life.

Better? 😂🤣

I dont have anything going on.

I like hearing what you have going on......in moderation.

The Shampagnay!

I do all my socializing on the internet.

Thought you was big into group txts 🤣😂

So, Dave, how was your week?

😜🦫

That's mostly one way, so it doesn't really count as socializing.

We did. Started out with 2 chairs, then 4, then a sofa. 2 pots of coffee a day, then 6. Donuts every morning.

Repeat customers, good friends, and some damn good war stories. The rest, well you just put up with it.

I get up and work a room. I like to experiment with personality types. Used to do it at work. With different contractors, developers, engineers, out of towners. lol

Did it at CostCo a few days ago. Struck up a conversation with an old lady in the optical. Had her believing I gave an enthusiastic shît about The Roll Tide. She had a Bama jacket on, I took it from there. This woman went football to her house dogs, her lawn care treatments to kenny rogers, bled her out in 15 minutes.

I could’ve sold her a $1500 kirby vacuum cleaner and a new roof.

When I sold jobs, the product was only 10% of the conversation. Never sell the job to the man.

Women eat that stuff up when you deal with them while the cuck is sitting there. lol

You must have been a real panty dropper!

Possible Smartest Man on Fire next year, if you keep up with good hygiene, and watch you eating for the swimsuit part of the competition.


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You right about the women.

I know when Mrs Shirley down at the Short stop calls me “baby”. My 3 piece spicy strip snack just turned into 4 PCs.

I didn't know you could buy 15 packs of keystone light. Or was it 15 six packs?

🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Keystone comes in 15 and 30 packs.

DG will have the 15 pk on sale for $5.75 some times.

Only 3 left

Don’t screw around and wait

TMI

Some folks don't have anybody to talk to, so any port in a storm.

and all that sounds like an advert for your point of view. You think folks care about what you don't care about?

i find others misery enjoyable. i just don't want to hear how much better others have it than me. standing in the voting line last fall, i wanted to cave this fuggers skull in. guy i kinda knew, my age, blabbering on to anyone who will listen about how he sold his business and is buying a big house in floridah and has a big house in the mountains. verbally beating off for a friggen hour. trump almost lost my vote.

and wtf is lightnin bread?

Definition of hell would be to have to stay in the waiting area of a repair shop forever.

Maybe so. But is your house paid off?

Lightin bread.

You know. White bread. Sunbeam. Girl on the yellow wrapper.

Growing up it was either sunbeam lightin bread or Roman meal wheat bread.

Maybe both out of biz now?

No bunny bread. Or wonder bread. Or Sara Lee.

ladies like to talk there's a lot around here

I tell what I want to, some things are a privet matter.

If it’s not funny or educational I probably don’t want to hear about it.

LOL

Get the rabbit habit

Bunny bread, that what I said !!

I have some fun with that when the check out lady greets me with "Hi, how are you?" Like they give a damn how anyone is, so why has it gotten to be such a universal greeting? I tell them about how my foot has been bothering me, the car is acting up again... It probably gives them pause for a bit.

There are easily identifiable people here on the 24HCF who tell that they are in possession at their home of precious metals, ammunition, all kinds of guns etc. etc. Even brag about it.

One reason I haven't missed going to the store in almost a year.

Always some son of a bitsch in front of me wanting to bump their gums instead of paying for their items and get the fugg down the road.

Truth right here, I did every week for along time, Southwest...

Early frequent flyer check in and seat assignment, would do my best in the exit row right side right seat, (that way the 600 pound whatever sitting next to me was not too intrusive) to tell the attendant I understood, would help if we crashed and please let me go to sleep. I developed the ability to be out before we back away from the gate...

One of you 11 girls not on ignore wanna tell him?

Old fuggs griping on a public forum about old fuggs telling their business.


TFF


Every time one of you stubs your toe or changes your oil it gets posted here.

LOL

Don’t tell anyone. Just keep this between us okay?

Kinda the same as I feel, about what you care or don't care about dave.

Did a project in Covington, KY for Messier Bugatti, had to go to Lyon 5 times to do as-builts for piping...Memphis to Schiphol. Got to do first class every time as the engineers required it of us so they could sell it to their bosses, that crap was $5K a trip back then...

Going over pretty OK, tried to sleep as much as possible on the way over, first Class is a LOT better than coach for privacy. Coming back after the mandatory two day layover in Amsterdam was not hard to sleep, took most of the trip to sober up. Did have an interesting long conversation with a female gynecologists coming the US for a convention. She regaled me with the Danish take on sexuality v. prudish US norms. Otherwise I put the seatmate on ignore...

People in general love to talk about themselves or their situation. It might be about their kids, job, money, health, vehicles, house, spouse etc... It doesn't matter the topic, they just want to talk about their lives and they assume you want to hear it too.

Same goes on here. People just sharing their life but using the written post.

I’m not a d!ckhead about it.

Always nice. Yes ma’am. No sir.
Just keepin inching back.

If it looks like a losing battle.

Pull out your phone like it’s ringing in vibrate...

“Hey man, what’s up?
What??? #3 went down again?
Aight. On my way. “.

You ever see those old farts driving around with that tag on the front of their Grand Marquis: Let Me Tell You About My Grandchildren.


Those fuggers, I could sell them replacement windows and rooftop power ventilators. hahaha

Ever fly on PHI in the late 70's, early 80's? My brother was there after he got out of the army.

Many times, Hiker.
Air Log, Evergreen, Bristoe and several more that I can’t recall.

Flying with national pilots was always fun and not so fun, especially the Chinese, Indonesian, Thai and Malay pilots. Typhoon evacuations were always a real hoot.

Coincidentally, one of the Gents in our small hunting group is retired from PHI. He and I had crossed paths many times in earlier days.

My brother got permission for me to fly out there once when he was flying out of Houma. He regularly flew a Bell Longranger that was owned by PHI but painted red/white for Penrod Drilling. He ended up going to Arabian Helicopters and flew in the Persian Gulf for a few years.

Lots of those guys went International, ostensibly to train thenational pilots and thank goodness that they did.!!

One of the pilots we flew with in Malaysia was the pilot that picked up Neil Armstrong and crew after the first moon shot. He was an interesting gentleman.

My brother used to laugh that if the passengers of his Delta A320 were aware that he was an old, broken down, Army helicopter pilot with just a high school education, they'd all run off the plane screaming...

Those guys are some cards !

Was supposed to fly into Venice, La. shorebase in Bell 210 L Model. I sat up front with the pilot and we were talking with the earphones on, beautiful day but we were headed way westward and not northwesterly like usual and we had a full passenger load.

I asked Chuck what’s up? He told me that we were diverting to Morgan City and that his landing position would be unusual in orientation and then told me to stay in the bird and don’t get out .

We landed facing southward and he announced that there was a problem at the Venice shorebase thus the diversion.

The rear passengers got out, got their gear bags and headed to the checkin point when SWAT came out from everywhere in full attack mode. All those guys hit the tarmac and the team went to one guy who was on the top 10 most wanted list.

After securing him we got out and got the rest of the guys back on the bird and off to Venice we went .

He told me that he acquire the nickname "Mad Bomber". He had to slingload a big valve out to one of the rigs. He hovered over the landing pad and thought that he felt the valve touch down and lighten his load. So he punched it off. The only problem was that he was several feet up and when it hit, it broke a bunch of the fluorescent lights in the living quarters under the pad...oops!

I’d imagine that the day sleepers hit the floor running !

That had to be a Fuggin bang on that steel deck.

I was in "pain" the entire day that I flew with him. The night before, there was a Jerry Jeff Walker concert in Houma. Little brother (me) wanted to show his big brother that he could outdrink him. I did. One of the places we flew to was a barge with a large crane that was dismantling a rig that had burnt out. The Gulf had a big swell that day and we landed and just started going up and down, up and down. We took off right before I would've spewed.

Well F you guys

I’m not gonna tell you about my hot cousin

Hiker, you don’t know how much fun you missed.

Big Dave could relate a few stories I’m thinking,

Please!
Exceptions can and will be made.

It is a woman,,,right ?
Grins

No wild stories.

Phi, air log / Bristow. ERA. Texas Air. Houston air or something. Red helicopters.

I worked for Rowan back when it was a big deal. They had the rigs, boats. Letrounea , ERA. Yard in fourchon. Sabine.

Rig was big enough for s76.

Was on the rig when we plucked a smaller field chopper out of the water. Wasn’t much left of it. Pilot made it ok.

Now THERE is something to whine about...

I honestly thought this was going to be a post about how amazing it is what personal stuff people tell here on the ‘fire.

Like that dude who talked about all his regret in the female department a while back.

I have to say I don’t ask a lot of people “how ya doin” like I used to. “Hello” is better, a nod of recognition better yet.

You should check out the ruptured hemorrhoid thread.

I scowl at most people on principle.

Do I have to read through the whole four pages to find out everyone's business or can someone give me a Cliff's Notes version.

Rick should have some "I brake for incest" bumper stickers made up to sell in the 24HCF canteen.

Be a big hit in TN, KY, and WV I bet.

Sometimes people post things just hoping somebody else just GAF.

Is anybody out there?