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Generally speaking, women do not know how to work the ratchet tie-down straps used in trucks today

Posted on 04/09/2021 4:20:42 PM PDT by SamAdams76

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To: cherry
You make a good point. A male family member of mine got stranded with a flat tire. He called Triple A with his cellphone and sat in the car with his girlfriend for over an hour waiting for them to come - even though he had a spare and tools in the back, he had no idea how to use them.

For me, that would have been a very emasculating experience. I remember when my sons got old enough to drive, I wouldn't let them drive my car until they showed me they could change a tire.

61 posted on 04/09/2021 5:09:54 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (By stealing Trump's second term, the Left gets Trump for 8 more years instead of just four.)
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To: SamAdams76

It won’t be necessary for your assistance when I do move. And no, you are not allowed to drive my truck.


62 posted on 04/09/2021 5:13:57 PM PDT by notpoliticallycorewrecked (Escaped CA, not going back except to visit a friend or two perhaps every two years. )
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To: Magic Fingers

Thats what makes it work.

Seinfeld, its funny, cuz its real.


63 posted on 04/09/2021 5:17:52 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: cherry
unfortunately many men are not doing the bread winning so that leaves mommy to do it all....

You're kidding yourself is you think that what the Women's Movement is all about.

The Women's Movement and probably most of their followers are about rebelling against the God-given unequal roles between husbands and wives, men and women and that husbands are the head of their wives who are to obey their husbands. Long gone today which is the root cause of more divorces than ever before.

The problem is of course confusing equal VALUE (men and women are of equal value) with unequal ROLE (men and women are NOT of equal role). The Women's Movement tries to say role IS value. The age-old, sad lie that performance equals value.

64 posted on 04/09/2021 5:18:40 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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The recipe for making ice totally baffles women as well


65 posted on 04/09/2021 5:22:52 PM PDT by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: Jim W N

The comment you made was so ignorant as to be both cringeworthy and disgusting. That you don’t understand that is your problem. If you have a wife, daughters, granddaughters, maybe you should have a conversation with them. Do they feel, or did you raise them or do you treat them with such disrespect that they are incompetent or lack confidence in their abilities?


66 posted on 04/09/2021 5:22:57 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Wo)
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To: SamAdams76

This is one woman who does know how.

https://www.youtube.com/c/IwonaBlecharczyk/videos


67 posted on 04/09/2021 5:23:42 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: notpoliticallycorewrecked

Thanks, I will have that Saturday all to myself!


68 posted on 04/09/2021 5:24:00 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (By stealing Trump's second term, the Left gets Trump for 8 more years instead of just four.)
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To: SamAdams76

OK, that’s fine. That’s why we have men. I have no need to work those straps. But I WILL inspect the load and make sure it is strapped down sufficiently. If it’s not the MEN will have to do more.

Just not seeing how the retirement savings discussion fits in here!


69 posted on 04/09/2021 5:24:40 PM PDT by jocon307 (Dem party delenda est!)
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To: jocon307

In retirement, I will have more time to help people strap down their loads.


70 posted on 04/09/2021 5:26:59 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (By stealing Trump's second term, the Left gets Trump for 8 more years instead of just four.)
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To: Chickensoup

For some things, ratchet straps are better. I’ll use them every time I transport the Sportster, and prefer to use them if I’m carrying something heavy on a flatbed. For just keeping items from falling or blowing out of a pickup bed, I’d as soon use rope and knots. Less likely to pinch my fingers.


71 posted on 04/09/2021 5:36:16 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: lee martell

One of my friends has seven sons, and another has nine.

Life is what lands on us, which I think is kind of what you said.


72 posted on 04/09/2021 5:39:22 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Scarcity is real, and reality is not optional." ~ KDW)
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To: SaxxonWoods; SamAdams76
The first thing to know is, if you aren’t saving at least 6% in a 401k or Simple IRA and another 4-6% on your own, you are in trouble.

Nope. Commodities is the way to go now. Lead, brass, shoes, camping gear, seed, tools, dehydrated groceries....

73 posted on 04/09/2021 5:39:26 PM PDT by SisterK (Let the King of my heart Be the fire inside my veins)
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To: SamAdams76

I live near Charlotte. It’s average ;-).


74 posted on 04/09/2021 5:39:42 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Scarcity is real, and reality is not optional." ~ KDW)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

We just put stuff in the van.


75 posted on 04/09/2021 5:40:23 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Scarcity is real, and reality is not optional." ~ KDW)
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To: Menehune56

This is a typical Sam Adams thread. It’s not supposed to make much sense.


76 posted on 04/09/2021 5:40:47 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Trump is a deposed Pres. in exile. America is truly a banana republic. Our govt. has been overthrown)
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To: SamAdams76

Flat tires ain’t nothing. Hell, when I was 17, my buddy was swapping out the old motor in his Impala with a rebuilt 327, and we needed to move the new mouse motor. We borrowed his dad’s truck, used an engine winch to get it into the bed, and used strap-downs (we called them ‘come-alongs’), then hauled ass. His old man was a Shriner, so they let us use the motor pool garage at the club to have a little engine party one Saturday night. By about 6 AM, there were five of us drunks hooting and saluting the ‘72 Impala convertible with a 327 four barrel doing donuts in the parking lot. And a dead 307 sitting in the back of the truck. (I think we just went down a county road and rolled the damn thing down a hill. LOL)


77 posted on 04/09/2021 5:40:58 PM PDT by Viking2002 (When's the appeasement party start? I brought enough white guilt for everyone! [/sarc])
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To: Tax-chick
I sure don’t. Don’t even know what they are.

I often have occasion to move heavy furniture. Securing with straps is a subset of moving stuff, and moving stuff is a man thing. I would as soon perform surgery on myself, as attempt to strap a piano to a trailer.
Him as loads it, ties it.

78 posted on 04/09/2021 5:42:34 PM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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To: SamAdams76

I’m not sure that I know how to operate ratchet straps, which must be confirmation that I am in fact a lesbian.


79 posted on 04/09/2021 5:47:56 PM PDT by OKSooner (Hey Boehner, go smoke another Camel, and have a big ol' glass of bourbon with it too.)
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To: SamAdams76
When I am with a woman at a gas station, I will get out of the car and pump the gas

Good on ya Sam!

My mom drove mostly in NJ and never in her life pumped gas. Told me to avoid it at all costs. There aren't many full service stations in my territory but I would go far out of my way to use them. And most days I give a friend a ride and they'll pump gas. It really pays to know people on the revoked list. :)

80 posted on 04/09/2021 5:49:31 PM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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