It can be hard to get through the second half of the day.
What are the first words that spring to mind when you hear used car salesman?
Compassion, generosity, heart? If not, maybe James and Haydee Charles will change your mind. The North Carolina couple has invited people living in their cars, to park in an unused portion of their lot at night, providing them a safe space to sleep. If you’re in the Charlotte area, and looking for a used vehicle, stop by Kiplin Automotive. An ethical, community spirited, business deserves success.
The struggle is real today!
For me too. I’m surrounded by rude people and I’m trying hard to not snap!
It’s a Monday.
Daredevil dies during homemade rocket launch in California
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And I think it’s gonna be a long, long time
Till a crash makes me flat again to find
I’m not the loon they think I am at home
Oh no no no, I’m a rocket man
Rocket man, trying to prove Pizza Earth up here alone
I’d be a lot more sympathetic if he hadn’t been a flat earther!
Truly, all he had to do was not be an idiot and he’d still be alive today.
What did they THINK was going to happen with a homemade rocket?
…not to be unduly cynical…but whatever they thought this is pretty much what I expected the first time he tried…getting involved in ballistic trajectories while denying the curvature of the earth does not for happy landings make?
It’s almost like you have to believe science exists to successfully calculate how not to fucking dying when you launch yourself into the sky. Who knew?
Right? I mean it’s not rocket science… er, uhm, well, you know what I mean!
“getting involved in ballistic trajectories while denying the curvature of the earth does not for happy landings make?”
Not to mention,simple mistakes, like ladders mounted too close to launching vehicles, and *probably* also the fact that, since one is using old-fashioned steam power, said launch vehicle was likely pretty damn heavy.
https://www.npr.org/2020/02/23/808645524/daredevil-mad-mike-hughes-killed-in-crash-of-homemade-rocket
Steam powered? I missed that little detail. What a fucking idiot.
…look, they came a long way from the prototype based on the diet-soda+mentos equation for thrust?
steam rockets are at least actual rocket science territory…
Sounds like if he had just had someone remove the ladder once he was in the rocket he might have been ok.
Uhh… something tells me that, ladder or no ladder, this was destined to end as it did. When you’re starting from the basic premise of “planet not round”, all of your science must fall in line behind that.
Yeah, I’m not celebrating the man’s demise, but I am looking at the situation and thinking, “Well, that ended about the way I thought it would.”
A tale of two interviews:
1) Friday. Near Disaster. Utterly brain dead from lack of sleep.
2) Today. I was actually awake. Did all right.
…fear may be the mind-killer…but sleep-deprivation is a notorious substitute
As a west coaster of a certain age, I can’t think of a used car salesman without hearing Cal Worthington singing that damned jingle.
Thanks to Loveshaq I get the reference!
“What are the first words that spring to mind when you hear used car salesman?”
For me, those words would have to be “No Jack Johnny”
Also known as “my former neighbor,” a SWEET, lovely man & a bit of a goofball when sober, and even when drinking with the neighbors/out at a bar.
But who turned into the biggest PITA, whenever he got his hands on some Jack Daniels Whiskey😂🤣🤣
He was known around town–and at ALL the bars in town as “No Jack Johnny,” and EVERY bartender at every bar in town had strict orders to *NEVER* allow him to drink Jack at their bars.
In fact, at one of the bars, he wasn’t even allowed *into* the bar, if he arrived ornery from drinking Jack earlier.
The bartenders there (all women, and Jonny was horrible at lying, so they ALWAYS got the truth out of him🤣) would just ask him, “Johnny, did you have Jack tonight?🤔🤨, he’d tell the truth, and they’d either call up his wife, or call for the free local cab to take him home–and while he waited, his ONLY option there would be water.
He’s a GOOD used-car salesman. He just has NO tolerance for Jack.😉
I love that he couldn’t lie! He’s the George Washington of used car salesmen/Jack Daniels drinkers.
He was only like the George Washington when he was drunk, though😉😂🤣
Mostly just because he couldn’t keep his story straight when he was drunk, and they could ALWAYS pull the truth out of him after a little while😉
Sober Johnny was MUCH better at… “stretching” the truth. Although he typically didn’t try to outright lie-lie if he could help it, because if he drank later on, he’d still get caught out😂