The Problem with Normal People

[JTM]

Jack, I really have to ask you about that avatar, where did you bury all those red hats you have in your bucket? I mean you just can't be doing that many at once. People will get suspicious.

 

[Jim Timber]

Jack, I really have to ask you about that avatar, where did you bury all those red hats you have in your bucket? I mean you just can't be doing that many at once. People will get suspicious.

Funniest post in the thread.

 

[Jackbnimble]

up the road, down by the bog, in Highgate, just north of Hampstead Village, on Preston Platform

 

[Jackbnimble]

yeah ok so this is you eh


(I thought you were gonna keep our fling quiet so you'd get discounts? No more for you.)

 

[Jackbnimble]

The Japanese are going to enter the chainsaw manufacturing industry in a big way, soon, and kick butt. They will build less expensive, precision machines with much better reliability and durability. They will eliminate the failures and the consistent weaknesses that have plagued the current major players, who have a penchant for not listening to the complaints and concerns of their customers and critics. Their move will be like the Tsunami that almost destroyed Detroit 50 years ago and still threatens U.S. manufacturing prowess, that not one expert financial analyst predicted or saw coming.

They will design and manufacture lighter, sleek new machines that will be essentially hassle free. They will use marketing techniques they learned from the United States and offer superior customer service unknown in today's loosely disorganized smear of the competent with the hucksters. They will build into their designs innovative safety and other features that will establish new industry standards.

They will dominate this multi-billion dollar market in twelve years, that no one saw coming.

 

[JeffGu]

Thank you for the news from 1950. What are they doing this year?

 

[Jackbnimble]

Thank you for the news from 1950. What are they doing this year?

I can't say they dominate the market for chainsaws, yet. But, they will. They are unequaled at producing excellent small to mid-size machinery at competitive prices and responding to consumer preferences.

Unrelated but interesting. When the U.S. government cracked down on the big three for building unsafe cars, they fought tooth and nail the regulations requiring safety features be installed across the board. Now, safety is a key component in their marketing, subtly implying that all along it was they who took the initiative and are responsible for all the improvements.

 

[JTM]

The US gave Japanese manufacturing the edge during the rebuilding after the war. You've heard the buzz words "just in time" manufacturing, "lean manufacturing ", those were concepts originated in the US and put in practice and perfected by the Japanese. The Japs have no natural resources and limited space for manufacturing. These conditions force them to be efficient (getting it right the first time) and enable
them to make revisions to products almost immediately so those changes are available to consumers while all other countries might have to work through months and even years of existing work in process. Exacerbating that the US had tax incentives to maintain large work in process inventories which was in response to the war effort and continued into the 80's. For the automotive industry the unions pretty much had a stranglehold and a culture of animosity is not conducive to making changes for improvements. Also, the US and Europe are mixed cultures. The Japanese culture is fairly homogeneous with respect to social conventions. This gives them a strong edge in carrying out changes. I met a guy that owned a plant near Tampa Florida. He said that there were 12 languages spoken in his plant and that they all hated each other - blood feud hatred that carried over from their countries of origin - the kind that make BLM, ANTIFA, KKK look like a bunch of well behaved pansies. Of course that's the extreme but if the folks ain't singing from the same sheet of music then you've got problems. The Zaibatsu has always been Japanese and will stay that way. The US is but a fattened calf for slaughter by foreign countries and Europe the carrion for the vultures of socialism.

 

[Jackbnimble]

got to love this:

a 3-stage design that stood 363 ft. tall--60 ft. taller than the Statue of Liberty-- When fully loaded with propellants, the rocket weighed 6.2 million pounds. It had more than 3 million parts. At full throttle, its five first-stage engines produced a thundering 7.6 million pounds of thrust at liftoff. All told, a Saturn V churned out more power than 85 Hoover Dams

Igniting seconds before actual liftoff, turbopumps with the power of 30 diesel locomotives forced 15 tons of kerosene and liquid oxygen fuel per second into the five F-1 engines. The first stage burned for approximately 2.5 minutes, driving the astronauts into their seats with the equivalent of 4.5 times the force of gravity, or 4.5 g's-- rising to an altitude of 38 miles, the 138-ft.-long, 33-ft.-dia. first stage shut off, separated, and burned up while dropping back through the atmosphere.

15 tons of propellant per second. 30 diesel locomotive engines. More power than 85 Hoover dams. When Americans work together toward a common goal, we go to the moon.

 

[Jackbnimble]

The Hoover dam is just a tiny little insignificant toy out west. Nothing much to brag about. Just look at the slight turbines water trickles through.

 

[Jackbnimble]

I believe in being generous. America has been blessed (and we've worked extremely hard) but sometimes I wonder if those nations who have received aid from us care at all, you know? In 2014 alone we meted out $32.53 billion in economic assistance. That's a lot of chainsaws

 

[BC WetCoast]

You don't do for the caring, you do it so you can influence. So if you don't do it others will and they will be able to influence.

The Chinese are setting up huge agricultural operations in East Africa, they now influence.

 

[Jackbnimble]

Thar ya b. That's sort of my point. We've given untold billions and our influence amounts to what? Our private citizen giving is phenomenal, too, yet, do you get the sense we are appreciated around the world? Seems we are despised no matter what we do. We are perceived as the big, boisterous and wealthy bully, demanding our way or else. That's not the perception we hope our foreign aid will buy.

And you and I are the ones who pay for that image. And it doesn't include our military aid.

 

[JTM]

You don't do for the caring, you do it so you can influence. So if you don't do it others will and they will be able to influence.

The Chinese are setting up huge agricultural operations in East Africa, they now influence.

From what I've heard over the years it's not just agricultural operations...

 

[Jackbnimble]

I think JFK had the right idea with the Peace Corp, building relationships with others based on peaceful objectives. The Japanese gave more than any other over the Sumatra Holocaust, one half billion bucks. In doing so, they and other nations and individuals who gave, provided the incentive for factions warring for 29 years to sit down to discuss peace. It also created a new set of tensions between those who received funding and their desperately poor neighbors who didn't qualify and got nothing.

Reminds me what an old timer concluded, Yet man is born for trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward.

 

[BC WetCoast]

Thar ya b. That's sort of my point. We've given untold billions and our influence amounts to what? Our private citizen giving is phenomenal, too, yet, do you get the sense we are appreciated around the world? Seems we are despised no matter what we do. We are perceived as the big, boisterous and wealthy bully, demanding our way or else. That's not the perception we hope our foreign aid will buy.

And you and I are the ones who pay for that image. And it doesn't include our military aid.

Not me. Im canadian and loved wherever i go.

 

[Jackbnimble]

I can't believe how much wood has changed during my lifetime. It got very heavy over the last few years. Logs I could handle in the past are a bear to move around today. They look just the same; same size and color and appearance in every way, so how could this be?

 

[JTM]

I can't believe how much wood has changed during my lifetime. It got very heavy over the last few years. Logs I could handle in the past are a bear to move around today. They look just the same; same size and color and appearance in every way, so how could this be?

Oooooh boy.... here we go.

It's because you're using the wrong premix ratio.

 

[JeffGu]

Your skull is getting thicker. Alters your perceptions of gravity.

 

[Jackbnimble]

Oooooh boy.... here we go.

It's because you're using the wrong premix ratio.

No sir. I'm using the exact same formula!