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  1. ChrisB

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Similarly, many people prefer the flavor of imitation maple syrup to the real thing.
  2. ChrisB

    You know you are getting old when:

    I use a flip phone. What’s an app?
  3. ChrisB

    You know you are getting old when:

    You are getting old when you celebrate your youngest uncle’s 90th birthday.
  4. ChrisB

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who actually do.
  5. ChrisB

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My profession is that of Engineer in the field of RF, it is a job, but I don’t consider it to be work. I ask myself, what would happen if I stopped doing my job, would anyone notice? Probably not. Now ask the same question about the people who haul off our trash, grow & transport the food we eat...
  7. ChrisB

    Forgotten Advertising Characters of the Era

    It seems to apply to people as well these days.
  8. ChrisB

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Store bought sentimentality is the cheapest form of love. Try being a caregiver for a disabled adult, that will say more than 1000 cards.
  9. ChrisB

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Whatever happened to “e pluribus unum”? It might never have been reality, but at least it was a good ideal.
  10. ChrisB

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Health care has become a racket.
  11. ChrisB

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Life is like a roll of toilet paper: it goes faster near the end.
  13. ChrisB

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    If a visitor from another planet were to come here and note that one species went around picking up the poop of another, which one would they conclude was in control?
  14. ChrisB

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Back in the days of printed media, crackpot ideas were less likely to find large scale distribution. The internet is the ultimate “vanity press”.
  15. ChrisB

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Substitute awful for awesome and it will come closer to the truth.
  16. ChrisB

    You know you are getting old when:

    I just keep an increasingly decrepit portrait of myself hidden away.
  17. ChrisB

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    On the NJ shore, they use defunct Christmas trees to stabilize the dunes. On my familys farm, we grow and sell Christmas trees, a cut your own operation. Occaisionally we get a request that a tree be dug up rather than cut, but doing so would mean a loss of top soil and a hole to fill in, so...
  19. ChrisB

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I use DuckDuckGo, which makes a rather awkward verb.
  20. ChrisB

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    To be precise (and pedantic) it is ininitially a cold water heater as well. Drop the adjective and you cover everything. “Hot water heater” is the term I always heard in my youth also.
  21. ChrisB

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    This is actually an accurate term, as you are constantly adding heat to already hot water just to maintain the temperature. “On demand” types should be called “cold water heaters”!
  22. ChrisB

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    There are some real hazards in distillation that you don’t have in beer or wine making: flammable liquids & vapors, possibility of explosion, and methanol poisoning if done incorrectly. .
  23. ChrisB

    You know you are getting old when:

    When writing the date, I still find myself starting with “19” occaisionaly.

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