JedidiahStolzfus
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You get strange looks when you pull up to gas pumps on an ebike.
Just for fun...
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Stefan Mikes
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Why should you?
I often do some small shopping (or eat & drink) at petrol stations. The first question usually asked a driver who didn't specify the pump number is "Any fuel?" Nowadays, when the service station assistant looks at my bike helmet, they don't ask that question! However... It happened many years ago. I drove my (diesel) car to the local service station to take 5 litres of gasoline for a generator. When I produced some drinks and sweets to the cashier, I got that "any fuel?" question, to which I answered "no" as I did not refuel my car but forgot about the gas canister!
A couple of weeks or months later, I could see a policeman at my front door. "Are you Mr M.? You are charged with the fuel theft at a service station. Please see me at the police station for interrogation at 18:00 hours!"
I, a thief?! Well. I went to the police station. There, I admitted I forgot about the gas canister and pleaded guilty. The policeman told me to go to the petrol station and fill in and sign the "In case you have refuelled your car but had no money on you" paper and pay for the fuel, which I did.
Anyway, the civil charge was brought to the local Court of Justice, and I was charged guilty and instructed to pay several hundred zloty in fines.
The gas I had tanked was worth 25 zloty (US$5 then). So be careful when you speak to me! I am a condemned fuel thief!
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I was sentenced by courts two times more. If you want to listen, I am glad to satisfy your curiosity!
None
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I saw a Tesla at the Wawa pump the other day, man looked confused that he couldn't find the gas cap.
Jeremy McCreary
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Wouldn't have pegged you for a career criminal.I am a condemned fuel thief!
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I was sentenced by courts two times more. If you want to listen, I am glad to satisfy your curiosity!
PedalUma
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Carl Hiaasen's specialty is writing novels with comically stupid bad guys. In Razor Girl one greasy crook gets electrocuted while trying to hotwire a stolen electric car. The main character gets other cars to smash into her for the insurance money, saying that she was distracted while shaving for the beach. Which distracts the hapless makes while they hand over their insurance information. In another a Dr. who is a body builder becomes addicted to steroid antiperspirant and little appendages of you know what start growing in his armpits. The hero of these books is a fired cop who is an environmental terrorist and P.I.
JedidiahStolzfus
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Tell him if he coats his tire treads with Armor All it'll cut down on road noise.
JedidiahStolzfus
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If tickling makes one laugh, why don't people like to be tickled?
PedalUma
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I will give a strait, non-funny answer. People cannot tickle themselves and being ticked represents a loss of control. That is why people who want control don't like to be tickled.
Okay now for my own control humor.
The manufacturer of this bike sent this 'replacement' plug-and-play controller yesterday.
Okay now for my own control humor.
The manufacturer of this bike sent this 'replacement' plug-and-play controller yesterday.
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DaveMatthews
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A commentator is just your average potato...
ChezCheese:)
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A couple were going on vacation, but the wife was on a business trip, so the husband went to the destination first and his wife would meet him there the next day.
When he reached the hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick email.
Unfortunately, when typing her address he mistyped a letter and his email was directed instead to an elderly preacher's wife whose husband had passed away only the day before.
When the grieving widow checked her email, she took one look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream and fell to the floor in a dead faint.
At the sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this email on the screen:
Dearest wife,
Just checked in. Everything prepared for your arrival tomorrow.
P.S. Sure is hot down here
When he reached the hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick email.
Unfortunately, when typing her address he mistyped a letter and his email was directed instead to an elderly preacher's wife whose husband had passed away only the day before.
When the grieving widow checked her email, she took one look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream and fell to the floor in a dead faint.
At the sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this email on the screen:
Dearest wife,
Just checked in. Everything prepared for your arrival tomorrow.
P.S. Sure is hot down here
Art Deco
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When we visted L.A. years ago, my daughter was driving us a back way through some 50 + year old track house residential areas near her apartment, and said " While we are over here would you like to see a million dollar home? "
We said "Sure, we have some time to waste."
"Just look around" she said, "Any of these will be at least a million, you can tell because they have off street parking"
We said "Sure, we have some time to waste."
"Just look around" she said, "Any of these will be at least a million, you can tell because they have off street parking"
PedalUma
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I have been working since 8 AM. Now, 4:00, just for fun I am going to sit under a tree with a good book. It is an interpretation/translation of The Odyssey by Emily Wilson of the University of Pennsylvania. The female characters are dimensional. Her language is sparse in common modern English but poetic and in iambic pentameter so it has flow and rhythm. It is very easy to read. Because as a reader you are not struggling or suffering tedium, the story comes to colorful life. Making something complex, simple is very hard to do.
I am back out to read more. This is so good.
I have a double standards general question: If an immortal god holds a woman's sisterly friends as captives and cages them like animals, and with unequal superior godly power he seduces her, is she a slut? No way! It was under duress! So, I say. That is what happened to poor Odysseys with Circe. He wasn't unfaithful, he cried, Circe, as a god, used him for her pleasure, and Odysseus was comparatively powerless. What are his choices, to die, loose his friends, and never get home? Or to appease a powerful god, yet refuse immortality, weep, and to go home as a mortal to his beloved. But Circe requires him to travel to Hades first. There, the prophetic in volcanic Iceland, says that he will die in central Asia after his non-stop adventure, while holding an oar. The Odyssey is a tapestry woven form many pre-historic tales loomed into one poem, with one arch and set in Bronze Age Greece.
I am back out to read more. This is so good.
I have a double standards general question: If an immortal god holds a woman's sisterly friends as captives and cages them like animals, and with unequal superior godly power he seduces her, is she a slut? No way! It was under duress! So, I say. That is what happened to poor Odysseys with Circe. He wasn't unfaithful, he cried, Circe, as a god, used him for her pleasure, and Odysseus was comparatively powerless. What are his choices, to die, loose his friends, and never get home? Or to appease a powerful god, yet refuse immortality, weep, and to go home as a mortal to his beloved. But Circe requires him to travel to Hades first. There, the prophetic in volcanic Iceland, says that he will die in central Asia after his non-stop adventure, while holding an oar. The Odyssey is a tapestry woven form many pre-historic tales loomed into one poem, with one arch and set in Bronze Age Greece.
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ChezCheese:)
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The female characters are "dimensional", you say. 
Is that one dimensional, two dimensional, or three dimensional? Or perhaps they are from another dimension altogether? (Cue the Twilight Zone theme music here...)
Is that one dimensional, two dimensional, or three dimensional? Or perhaps they are from another dimension altogether? (Cue the Twilight Zone theme music here...)
PedalUma
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The reason I said that is because in past versions, all written by men, important characters are cardboard cutouts. The contrast is noteworthy.The female characters are "dimensional", you say.
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