:: Pin drops ::
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2015 8:32 am
How come it's so quiet in here?
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:: Pin drops ::
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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2015 1:39 pm
Is someone sleeping?
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2015 4:20 pm
Who dares to drop pins in my forum? Not everyone is inoculated against tetanus, you know! And even those who are prefer not to be stuck whilst walking about or having a sit!
Tsk, tsk, tsk... things are getting loose around here. We might need a good ol' fashioned cull to bring you posters in line! 
Tsk, tsk, tsk... things are getting loose around here. We might need a good ol' fashioned cull to bring you posters in line! Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2015 5:32 pm
Can't you all just PIPE DOWN?!
Can't you see I'm trying to count P....DAMN!
You made me DROP one!
Now I have to start all over.
Did someone at least hear where it went??
Can't you see I'm trying to count P....DAMN!
You made me DROP one!
Now I have to start all over.
Did someone at least hear where it went??
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2015 7:26 pm
Well, at least this stopped the pins from dropping.
Which was sort of, you know, the point.
Which was sort of, you know, the point.
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2015 4:40 am
The answer to pins of course is magnets. 
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Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2015 2:07 pm
Only if the needles are steel. Do they make needles out of any other metal? Hmm...I should test that. Would be a good way to clean up a spilled pin box.
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2015 5:42 am
Depends how far back you want to go...originally they were bone.
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Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2015 5:52 am
True enough.
Is it me, or is the forum getting slower and slower to load?
Is it me, or is the forum getting slower and slower to load?
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2015 6:04 am
Just you.
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Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2015 5:45 pm
Phooey, I don't believe it.
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2015 6:30 pm
They do...or at least pins and needles with low enough iron content to be nearly non-magnetic.MsMary wrote:Only if the needles are steel. Do they make needles out of any other metal? Hmm...I should test that. Would be a good way to clean up a spilled pin box.
There may be a reason for it, if I remember I'll ask my wife...but I already know she mostly hates them.
Because the best 'pin cushions' by far [and the easiest clean up in case of accidents---which you picked up on right away] are magnets.
And her job is literally full of her and a dozen or so other people wielding pins and needles on a large scale.
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2015 9:49 pm
Why are you counting pins, Vraith? The correct answer is always 1 bazillion minus the one you're going to step on in the middle of the night.
They're like Legos in that regard.
They're like Legos in that regard.
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2015 10:34 pm
True story!aliantha wrote:Why are you counting pins, Vraith? The correct answer is always 1 bazillion minus the one you're going to step on in the middle of the night.
They're like Legos in that regard.
Though I'll never forget the time my son went to pick up what he thought was a Lego on the living room carpet and it turned out to be a lantern click beetle. And it flashed at him when he tried to pick it up!
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2015 6:14 pm
Florida has weird bugs....Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2015 6:29 pm
...and weird names for some common species of them.aliantha wrote:
Calling it a palmetto bug does absolutely nothing to mitigate the fact that it is a [expletive deleted] cockroach.
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2015 7:05 pm
Same here in SC.Savor Dam wrote:Calling it a palmetto bug does absolutely nothing to mitigate the fact that it is a [expletive deleted] cockroach.
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2015 7:06 pm
Really, really *big* [expletive deleted] cockroaches, at that.michaelm wrote:Same here in SC.Savor Dam wrote:Calling it a palmetto bug does absolutely nothing to mitigate the fact that it is a [expletive deleted] cockroach.
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2015 8:03 pm
I think those are just the terrified ones fleeing the real monsters at Ft. Gordon, GA.michaelm wrote:Same here in SC.Savor Dam wrote:Calling it a palmetto bug does absolutely nothing to mitigate the fact that it is a [expletive deleted] cockroach.
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2015 8:34 pm
They're all small fry compared to the ones that I saw when I lived in Australia for a while. Some of them were about twice the size of the ones we see here.Vraith wrote:I think those are just the terrified ones fleeing the real monsters at Ft. Gordon, GA.michaelm wrote:Same here in SC.Savor Dam wrote:Calling it a palmetto bug does absolutely nothing to mitigate the fact that it is a [expletive deleted] cockroach.