Trouble Dump

[mraynrand]

you bought a new car and didn't know it doesn't have a spare?

[hoosier]

I suspect I have a rat den in the backyard near the damned chicken coop that the wife got for the kids. When you see a rat or two scurrying around out there you just know there are at least two dozen of the fuckers hunkering down below ground. Getting rid of them is going to be a giant pain in the ass. I think I may hire some high school kid to sit out there at dusk with an air rifle for a week. Anyone need a bushel of frozen rats?

[Joemailman]

I suspect I have a rat den in the backyard near the damned chicken coop that the wife got for the kids. When you see a rat or two scurrying around out there you just know there are at least two dozen of the fuckers hunkering down below ground. Getting rid of them is going to be a giant pain in the ass. I think I may hire some high school kid to sit out there at dusk with an air rifle for a week. Anyone need a bushel of frozen rats?

Hope they're not Packerrats.

[mraynrand]

Anyone need a bushel of frozen rats?

maybe if you dissect them and snap freeze the organs. Feed them some metformin and omega-3 fatty acid first. Plus, I need a control group.

[SkinBasket]

Live traps work well on rats. Then you don't have to wait for them, you just shoot them in the cage.

[hoosier]

Live traps work well on rats. Then you don't have to wait for them, you just shoot them in the cage.

Yes, but then you have to deal with the biohazard or, if you choose to let it dry out first, the stiff carcass that clings to the cage. No thanks.

[hoosier]

maybe if you dissect them and snap freeze the organs. Feed them some metformin and omega-3 fatty acid first. Plus, I need a control group.

You studying endocrine systems? I could go the Skinbasket route, live trap, and put half the population on a cheetos diet and the other half on brown rice. I don't know about the dissecting part, I don't that is sender's responsibility.

[HowardRoark]

Damn woodpecker. I thought I got rid of it...patched up the house and painted it. Now it came back. A new hole.
I live in a small Mayberry type town (Wayzata, MN) and know the chief of police. Evidently it’s a felony to discharge even a pellet gun. Once you hit a certain age you realize bad things can happen, so not willing to deal with the felony.

I need to get a new house.

[HowardRoark]

Does CarPlay ever just work? Ever since that weirdo Steve Jobs died, nothing works. Speaking of which, how about just firing all of the auto correct staff and bringing it back 5-10 years.

[call_me_ishmael]

Carplay won't ever work because it gives the vendors too much power/authority into the system. It is very unusual for Apple to go that direction, but it is step one is dabbling in re-imagining the car. Touch controls are a disaster in vehicles it turns out, expect it to liberally use voice.

The auto-correct bug in iOS 11 was pretty embarrassing and unusual. I strongly disagree on software quality decreasing. I think it's gotten a lot more stabling since they started public betas three years ago. As an extremely hardcore Apple fanboy for many years, I can pretty confidently say this.

[Anti-Polar Bear]

I am losing boatloads of frogskins playing NL Texas Hold'em.

[Rutnstrut]

Damn woodpecker. I thought I got rid of it...patched up the house and painted it. Now it came back. A new hole.
I live in a small Mayberry type town (Wayzata, MN) and know the chief of police. Evidently it’s a felony to discharge even a pellet gun. Once you hit a certain age you realize bad things can happen, so not willing to deal with the felony.

I need to get a new house.

Did you ever get rid of the woodpeckers? I have a property maintenance business and deal with them often for clients. They are after bugs in/under your siding. There are a lot of different chemicals that you apply that kill the bugs, therefore no woodpeckers after them. One of my better tactics is using the owl decoys you can buy at Fleet Farm. Hang them near where the woodpeckers are pecking. But the very first thing before any preventative is to get all the holes patched and sealed very tight. You have to keep those damn bugs out. Woodpeckers are persistent assholes. I spent a 14 hour day sealing and spraying a clients house with cedar siding last Oct. Came home to find that the little assholes had pecked a bunch of the corner guards off my aluminum siding. Yup I had the bugs in there they wanted. Killed the bugs, sealed it up, and my 15 year old daughter had a blast shooting a few that didn't get the hint.

Hell I even leave some dead and dying trees standing on my land that attract the damn bugs so the little bastards can peck there. They still attack my house.

[Freak Out]

Leave the woodpeckers alone asshole. lol

[Anti-Polar Bear]

Fuck it, I'm quitting poker cold turkey.

[Anti-Polar Bear]

Dear Rats,

It's been 5 days since I last played a hand, so it looks like I'm heading in the right direction against my poker addiction. My goal is to not play another hand til July.