Random Rants LXVI: NO, **YOUR** THREAD TITLES SUCK!!

[Cutlass]

So in today's episode of "I'm getting too old for this sh**!" I was on the roof next door cleaning out the gutters when I started thinking that I'm really just not as agile or comfortable walking a peaked roof as I used to be, and maybe it's time to start hiring someone else to clean out the gutters. And just as that thought finished filtering through, the extension cord on the leaf blower I was using caught on the ladder, and the ladder fell to the ground.

I look around, and the lady who lives there was just getting in her car to drive out of state for the holiday. So, thinking fast, I took off one of my gloves and threw it at her car to get her attention. And the wind blew it into the garden, and she never saw it. So I took off my other glove and tried again. And this time hit the windshield so that she saw it, stopped and got out of the car. Fortunately she was able to stand the ladder back up. For I would have hated to call the fire department to get me off the roof.

 

[warpus]

I was picturing Chevy Chase go through that as I was reading, for some reason. Glad everything worked out

 

[Synobun]

So in today's episode of "I'm getting too old for this sh**!" I was on the roof next door cleaning out the gutters when I started thinking that I'm really just not as agile or comfortable walking a peaked roof as I used to be, and maybe it's time to start hiring someone else to clean out the gutters. And just as that thought finished filtering through, the extension cord on the leaf blower I was using caught on the ladder, and the ladder fell to the ground.

I look around, and the lady who lives there was just getting in her car to drive out of state for the holiday. So, thinking fast, I took off one of my gloves and threw it at her car to get her attention. And the wind blew it into the garden, and she never saw it. So I took off my other glove and tried again. And this time hit the windshield so that she saw it, stopped and got out of the car. Fortunately she was able to stand the ladder back up. For I would have hated to call the fire department to get me off the roof.

You clearly missed the obvious opportunity God presented you here. He heard your lamentations about becoming older and offered you a chance to begin your parkour career. A fancy flip off the roof and landing in a ducked roll would have sorted you out right nicely!

 

[Takhisis]

so ı saw the latest Terminator movie on a DVD channel . Good that it proves there can be no Terminator without Ahnold in . Not so good with the fad of re-booting everything . Not an attack on the mother of dragons , but all those people , not actors themselves , kinda looked better in the 20th Century . And yeah , John Connors on the new heading ...

I watched it about two weeks ago. I… Schwarzenegger barely saved it. The plot was so convoluted that I felt as if it would have done better with an hour more to try and explain it, but the director would probably just have made it even more convoluted (perhaps John Connor is his own mother and Kyle Reese is really Batman?). It's not the plothole-ridden B-Movie that Terminator 3 was or the grim reboot that Terminator 4 was, but I'm glad I didn't pay for a ticket at the cinema (I pay for cable whether I watch the damn film or not).

I was picturing Chevy Chase go through that as I was reading, for some reason. Glad everything worked out

I pictured him as a black policeman who's about to retire next week.

How tall is the roof, Cut?

 

[Cutlass]

Single story house on an uneven yard. So the lowest edge varies from about 8 feet to over 20 feet.

 

[Takhisis]

Hmmm, potentially you could risk an 8-foot drop, but only as a last resource. Is the ground hard?

 

[Cutlass]

The low part is a wooden deck. So is pretty damned hard.

 

[Kyriakos]

The low part is a wooden deck. So is pretty damned hard.

If you have Obamacare against that, there would be your opportunity to retire?

 

[shadowplay]

So in today's episode of "I'm getting too old for this sh**!" I was on the roof next door cleaning out the gutters when I started thinking that I'm really just not as agile or comfortable walking a peaked roof as I used to be, and maybe it's time to start hiring someone else to clean out the gutters. And just as that thought finished filtering through, the extension cord on the leaf blower I was using caught on the ladder, and the ladder fell to the ground.

I look around, and the lady who lives there was just getting in her car to drive out of state for the holiday. So, thinking fast, I took off one of my gloves and threw it at her car to get her attention. And the wind blew it into the garden, and she never saw it. So I took off my other glove and tried again. And this time hit the windshield so that she saw it, stopped and got out of the car. Fortunately she was able to stand the ladder back up. For I would have hated to call the fire department to get me off the roof.

I'm glad it worked out okay. At least it makes for a funny story.

You throwing your glove to get her attention made me think of this scene from Life's Too Short. The relevant bit starts at :55 seconds.

Spoiler some nsfw language :

 

[Omega124]

There was a shooting in Albany at a gay bar. Hate Crime from what the news said.

Second shooting this month in my hometown. This one happens the night I come home. Thankfully the first one was just gang related but this one.... God this is making me feel so scared and hurt. They're killing my people in my own city. Just....

 

[cardgame]

So in today's episode of "I'm getting too old for this sh**!" I was on the roof next door cleaning out the gutters when I started thinking that I'm really just not as agile or comfortable walking a peaked roof as I used to be, and maybe it's time to start hiring someone else to clean out the gutters. And just as that thought finished filtering through, the extension cord on the leaf blower I was using caught on the ladder, and the ladder fell to the ground.

I look around, and the lady who lives there was just getting in her car to drive out of state for the holiday. So, thinking fast, I took off one of my gloves and threw it at her car to get her attention. And the wind blew it into the garden, and she never saw it. So I took off my other glove and tried again. And this time hit the windshield so that she saw it, stopped and got out of the car. Fortunately she was able to stand the ladder back up. For I would have hated to call the fire department to get me off the roof.

At what point are you too old to drop to the ground? I am not too comfortable on a slanted rooftop but an 8' controlled drop isn't a factor.

 

[Cutlass]

8 foot drop will break an ankle if you land wrong.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

8 foot drop will break an ankle if you land wrong.

The young and agile can do a hang and drop. I'd probably roll off while trying to get to hanging from the edge and land on my head.

 

[Kyriakos]

Tesla claims in his memoirs that at age 60 he slipped in the rain and did a 360-degree turn to land back on his feet and carry on running.
Then he goes on to say other stuff about vivid colours and respecting the crow.

 

[warpus]

Never drop more than 7 feet off a roof, the falling feet might hit each other and bounce off to the side and kick someone in the head by accident

 

[Lohrenswald]

I think I somehow have disabled signatures and I don't know how to change it

 

[Kyriakos]

I think I somehow have disabled signatures and I don't know how to change it

Maybe those fell off 7 or 8 feet of roof too?

 

[Lohrenswald]

7 feet is like 2 meters right?

 

[Kyriakos]

I don't know, ask the USians or their former overlords. Iirc it should be at least 2,5 metres?

edit: google says it is roughly 2,2 metres.

 

[Takhisis]

Depends. If it's 7 times the foot of an Englishwoman then its'a 2-story house.