Shit that annoys you

**frorider** · 10-21-2018, 08:56 AM

Originally Posted by shredgnar

I think I bitched about this 50 pages ago. Only way to prevent it is to replace the batteries ever 6 months. Sometimes you can shut down the breaker too. Fuck I hate those things.

We now live in a world that has Li ion battery smoke detectors. 10+ yrs.

Beats fucking around with those 9 V batteries

**rideit** · 10-21-2018, 09:39 AM

https://www.atbatt.com/saft-ls9v-9-v...BoCcF0QAvD_BwE

**Ted Striker** · 10-21-2018, 10:06 AM

So now the battery in your smoke detector has a warning that it may catch fire or explode.

**Ted Striker** · 10-21-2018, 10:12 AM

Getting back to shovels, the quality has really gone to shit. Does anyone still make one that won't fall apart or break under normal use? The dead hookers aren't going to bury themselves!

**Gepeto** · 10-21-2018, 12:47 PM

Meh

**rideit** · 10-21-2018, 12:50 PM

Originally Posted by pisteoff

So now the battery in your smoke detector has a warning that it may catch fire or explode.

Only while recharging, so not actually in the SD.

**Ted Striker** · 10-21-2018, 02:05 PM

I get that, I just found it amusing.

**Ted Striker** · 10-21-2018, 02:07 PM

@ mau, thanks for that.

**Meadow Skipper** · 10-21-2018, 02:31 PM

Originally Posted by pisteoff

Getting back to shovels, the quality has really gone to shit. Does anyone still make one that won't fall apart or break under normal use? The dead hookers aren't going to bury themselves!

I got onto these back in the fire crew days. Just a little smaller than your regular shovel and you can sharpen it (For cutting off annoying...limbs). I'm pretty sure these are on GSA contract, I got one after I retired because nothing else I used was as good:
https://www.supplycache.com/Shovel-J...o/659%2D25251/

Also look for TrueTemper brand.

**Ted Striker** · 10-21-2018, 06:03 PM

^^^ thanks. I'll check that out.

What started this was that I just broke a fiberglass shovel that I got from local tool store in half.

My brother and I have a little side business involving real estate, renos, construction etc, and we've been using True Temper tools for a long time, but my latest digging shovel from them is creaking like crazy. If it breaks I'll just put a new handle on it, but it's still kind of annoying.

**Meadow Skipper** · 10-21-2018, 07:06 PM

Well, you’re not supposed to pry with a shovel.

**Ted Striker** · 10-21-2018, 07:53 PM

Oh yeah, I know, but still occasionally guilty as charged. There's a lot of clay in this town too.

**iceman** · 10-21-2018, 08:00 PM

Get a real Chinese shovel.

**Ted Striker** · 10-21-2018, 08:13 PM

Wow. The Swiss with their silly little knives have nothing on those guys.

**dunfree** · 10-21-2018, 08:21 PM

most stock tool handles are shit these days. get a quality aftermarket hickory replacement and fit it well (a pita). steel handles make my joints hurt.

**Meadow Skipper** · 10-22-2018, 09:36 AM

Originally Posted by pisteoff

Oh yeah, I know, but still occasionally guilty as charged. There's a lot of clay in this town too.

Yeah, just fuckin’ wit ya. I figured you’d know after breaking a few handles.

Originally Posted by iceman

Get a real Chinese shovel.

Great vid, the music really fits the heroics in that.

**Gepeto** · 10-22-2018, 09:47 AM

Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper

Great vid, the music really fits the heroics in that.

I'm waiting for John Wayne to walk in to veiw

**S_jenks** · 10-22-2018, 10:36 AM

Originally Posted by iceman

Get a real Chinese shovel.

With some training, that'd be the ultimate avvy rescue and extraction tool.

Really dig how it functions as a shield too. Perfect for defending again those damn cougars.

PB · 10-22-2018, 01:40 PM

Best for east coast wolves.

**billyk** · 10-22-2018, 10:51 PM

Shit that annoys me might literally be in the City of Austin water system. They issued a “Boil Water” notice this morning due to muddy water from the recent floods clogging up the water treatment plants. To maintain water pressure for the fire department to be able to put out fires, they had to bypass some of the treatment steps. Thus the need to boil water. And the situation doesn’t look like it’s getting better any time soon. The remnants of that Mexican hurricane are supposed to get here in a couple days, so even more flooding and dirty water coming down the river.

**DoWork** · 10-23-2018, 05:32 AM

Originally Posted by Mau

These are pricey, but they'll hold up to abuse.

Corona

AM Leonard

King of Spades

Fiskars. We break shovels like you wouldn’t believe. Fiskars only get lost, never broken. Definitely worth the money for the all-metal ones.

**plugboots** · 10-25-2018, 09:54 AM

I thought of starting a thread on this but,
The Fucking Humane Society.
100 years ago and probably 5 addresses ago, my wife (probably) sent them five? bucks. Then we realize that they were the shittiest organization on earth, and they still track us down somehow and sent us gloves we don’t need. What in the actual fuck??

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Seriously, fuck The Humane Society, none of the donated money goes to shelters that actually do good things. They use it to send me gloves?
Fuck them.

**Danno** · 10-25-2018, 10:04 AM

that happens with lots of organizations, you donate once and are forever on their multiple mailer list, and the ones that send free gifts are the most ridiculous.