Not So Pro 3

[Dream]

We have milk and butter here, but other things are a rare find on shelves like noodles. WTF. How can you go to a grocery store and have every type of noodle wiped out?
Frozen pizza is picked over too usually its just the ones where the cardboard it comes on has more flavor left.

Yesterday it was 2 lb propane bottles. Only 1 to be found at Wal-Mart, and it was hidden.

 

[full chizel]

We’re not really short on anything here. Prices are just up

 

[redline4]

Yesterday it was 2 lb propane bottles. Only 1 to be found at Wal-Mart, and it was hidden.

The green Coleman ones in the camping supply parts of stores are always in stock here, the ones by the welding stuff have been out of stock for probably a year now.

 

[redline4]

That’s a lot of singles dot dot dot.

I'm not sure if hookers and blow in exchange for a wood chipper was a good deal or not.
I suppose time will tell for you..

 

[Kiwioilboiler]

Short supply?

Weird stuff. Brown sugar somehow got contaminated with lead in a bulk ship. WTF. Not a bag to be seen anywhere.
and Toilet paper, not out, just real limited choice. Quilton have ceased NZ production. I actually changed the roll holder in the family toilet to a large radius one just yesterday because there seems to be more choice in quality 'long' rolls than conventional.

 

[ray benson]

Good Morning. 59°F/ 15°C dropping to about 32°F/ 0°C tonight.

 

[JoeDirt]

What'd you drive home?

Forklift.

 

[Mastermind]

Short supply?

Weird stuff. Brown sugar somehow got contaminated with lead in a bulk ship. WTF. Not a bag to be seen anywhere.
and Toilet paper, not out, just real limited choice. Quilton have ceased NZ production. I actually changed the roll holder in the family toilet to a large radius one just yesterday because there seems to be more choice in quality 'long' rolls than conventional.

A couple of weeks ago it was paper towels. At least at Sam's Club. Went to Kroger, got some.

I read an article a few days ago about the situation at the port of Los Angeles. At the time there was an 83 mile long row of container ships waiting to be unloaded.

The author of the article blamed the backlog on the crane operators. Said they make 250,000.00 a year, and are a bunch of spoiled liddle bishes. Part of the Long Shoreman union....and the most powerful people on site. At lunch, rather than staging their breaks so that the cranes are always working, they supposedly all take off together for a two hour lunch.

Of course I have no idea if any of this is an accurate description of the situation, but at this point in time, nothing about it would surprise me at all.

 

[p61 western]

Good morning fellas

 

[Stump Shot]

I like milk.



We got our share of half backs.

Yankees what moved to Florida, realized it was hot there, then moved halfway back.

I tried half down once and that was too damn hot, pert near killeded me.

 

[Woodpecker]

A couple of weeks ago it was paper towels. At least at Sam's Club. Went to Kroger, got some.

I read an article a few days ago about the situation at the port of Los Angeles. At the time there was an 83 mile long row of container ships waiting to be unloaded.

The author of the article blamed the backlog on the crane operators. Said they make 250,000.00 a year, and are a bunch of spoiled liddle bishes. Part of the Long Shoreman union....and the most powerful people on site. At lunch, rather than staging their breaks so that the cranes are always working, they supposedly all take off together for a two hour lunch.

Of course I have no idea if any of this is an accurate description of the situation, but at this point in time, nothing about it would surprise me at all.

This whole antiwork movement coupled with situations like this sound eerily like the classic Ayn Rand novel atlas shrugged. Good read for anyone interested.

 

[Mastermind]

I tried half down once and that was too damn hot, pert near killeded me.

Strangely, we have very few really hot days....and very few very cold days here.

We are at nearly 2000 ft above sea level, and have a massive change in elevation about 20 miles west of us. That seems to make the bad storms either break up, or travel to the north.

What I'm saying is that we are living in paradise.

 

[Mastermind]

This whole antiwork movement coupled with situations like this sound eerily like the classic Ayn Rand novel atlas shrugged. Good read for anyone interested.

Yes....highly recommended.

 

[Stump Shot]

A couple of weeks ago it was paper towels. At least at Sam's Club. Went to Kroger, got some.

I read an article a few days ago about the situation at the port of Los Angeles. At the time there was an 83 mile long row of container ships waiting to be unloaded.

The author of the article blamed the backlog on the crane operators. Said they make 250,000.00 a year, and are a bunch of spoiled liddle bishes. Part of the Long Shoreman union....and the most powerful people on site. At lunch, rather than staging their breaks so that the cranes are always working, they supposedly all take off together for a two hour lunch.

Of course I have no idea if any of this is an accurate description of the situation, but at this point in time, nothing about it would surprise me at all.

Allegedly part of the issue is trucks. New law is only letting in Teamster drivers and with a truck no older that 10 years old.
The other is the price of returning empty containers to the ships was jacked up so high that the ships leave empty. The place is literally stuffed with containers and no one is showing up to haul them. Besides no room for any more empty's. Sadly not even a temporary measure has been put in place to help alleviate the situation. So pretty much a man made problem. That's why the crane operator's can take all the breaks they want, there's nowhere for them to unload to any longer.

 

[Mastermind]

Allegedly part of the issue is trucks. New law is only letting in Teamster drivers and with a truck no older that 10 years old.
The other is the price of returning empty containers to the ships was jacked up so high that the ships leave empty. The place is literally stuffed with containers and no one is showing up to haul them. Besides no room for any more empty's. Sadly not even a temporary measure has been put in place to help alleviate the situation. So pretty much a man made problem. That's why the crane operator's can take all the breaks they want, there's nowhere for them to unload to any longer.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...klog-not-due-trucking-regulations/8456582002/

 

[USMC615]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...klog-not-due-trucking-regulations/8456582002/

If you people woulda watched 60 Minutes last Sunday this was all explained in rather good detail.

...of course Dally only watches 1920's-1950's westerns so there's his excuse. Lmao

 

[Slumberjack]

Good riddens to this old catching on fire mfing junk!

 

[Mastermind]

If you people woulda watched 60 Minutes last Sunday this was all explained in rather good detail.

...of course Dally only watches 1920's-1950's westerns so there's his excuse. Lmao

Hell.....I don't watch the TV at all. Can't hear well enough. Give us the high points.

 

[USMC615]

Hell.....I don't watch the TV at all. Can't hear well enough. Give us the high points.

Ya'll pretty much got it with the prior comments...basically every entity blaming every other entity in the clusterfuckk chain, then throw in the f'ng unions. Crane operators, truckers/drivers, yard space for containers whether full or empty, port/docking all full...it's juss a big ol' mess.

 

[USMC615]

Hell.....I don't watch the TV at all. Can't hear well enough. Give us the high points.

I'd hate to be on a big ol' ship out there anchored just off the coast and run outta milk or groceries...mutiny *s-wordt right there!