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[MerchManDan]

Three different sources.

As the old song goes: One of those things is not like the others.

[Alkarii]

Well, my brother found out his wife is pregnant again. Now both of my siblings will have three, and my mom's gonna say I need to catch up, since I still haven't even had sex yet. I don't really see much point in getting involved with anybody, and I've got a couple issues to address if I want anything to last more than a week.

[Dave]

For what it's worth: my mother was fine with the message that "Hey, each of my brothers have two boys each, they're good kids, the family will go on... so I don't need to have kids myself." Mom gets to concentrate her "spoil the grandkids" instincts on a smaller group of kids, hence more spoilage per kid

(Since I'd married a woman who definitely did not want to have children, this all worked out well).

[AnotherFairportfan]

"GRANDPARENTS: So simple even a child can operate them>"

[Sgt. Howard]

I personally have the 'Grampa' ribbon with cluster, possibility of another cluster in the near future. My daughter has FORBIDDEN me from teaching explosives to her boys... I will teach it to my SON-IN-LAW, HE can teach it to the boys, no worries. Homebrew? Start with coarse ammonium nitrate fertilizer....

[Dave]

I personally have the 'Grampa' ribbon with cluster, possibility of another cluster in the near future. My daughter has FORBIDDEN me from teaching explosives to her boys... I will teach it to my SON-IN-LAW, HE can teach it to the boys, no worries. Homebrew? Start with coarse ammonium nitrate fertilizer....

Just remember not to make the classic mistake of homebrew.

"We all added the yeast!" (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard)

and also recall that iodine makes an excellent antiseptic, ammonia water is great for cleaning up messes, and putting them together... is interesting.

"GRANDPARENTS: So simple even a child can operate them>"

So, grandparents have a 12:00 12:00 12:00 flashing on their foreheads if there isn't a grandchild around? Or would that be the case, only if grandfather is a vickar?

[Sgt. Howard]

...and also recall that iodine makes an excellent antiseptic, ammonia water is great for cleaning up messes, and putting them together... is interesting.

THAT will make an interesting experiment... I had not heard of that one...

[Dave]

THAT will make an interesting experiment... I had not heard of that one...

For values of "interesting" which equate to "loud, unstable to the point of being incredibly touchy, and the military reportedly spent a lot of money trying to figure out how to stabilize it enough to make it useful and gave it up as a bad job."

[scantrontb]

Homebrew? Start with coarse ammonium nitrate fertilizer....

Ha... a friend of mine got sent out to get more more nails and stuff for a bathroom remodel job we were doing and it took a REALLY long time for him to come home, when he finally showed up he explained that apparently one of the garden supply guys was doing some maintenance on his car at work during his lunch break... changing the oil in his car.... he put some rags under the pan of oil he drained so that it wouldn't ruin the 50 lb. bags of fertilizer that he set it on at a nice convenient height.... another worker saw it and called the fire department and they evacuated the building until the bomb squad got there to take care of it...

he had absolutely NO CLUE that he had almost created the makings for ANFO... one of the ever-so-popular explosives that MythBusters use ALL the time! if it had been diesel instead of just motor oil, then it may have gone up...

[jwhouk]

Wonderful day today - NOT.

First, landlord was supposed to come in to look at the intercom system - but never showed.

Then, I find out my uncle passed away.

Last, I find out my mother-in-law got into a bad car accident, where her car's essentially totaled. She's okay, at least.

[Dave]

he had absolutely NO CLUE that he had almost created the makings for ANFO... one of the ever-so-popular explosives that MythBusters use ALL the time! if it had been diesel instead of just motor oil, then it may have gone up...

My recollection is that ANFO requires significant preparation to make a mix which can be detonated, and also requires a primary (and maybe even a secondary) detonator to set it off. Just pouring oil on a sack of fertilizer might create a significant fire hazard but from what I've read it'd be very unlikely to be able to develop the temperatures and pressures needed to detonate.

Good to be cautious about it, though!

Wonderful day today - NOT.

First, landlord was supposed to come in to look at the intercom system - but never showed.

Then, I find out my uncle passed away.

Last, I find out my mother-in-law got into a bad car accident, where her car's essentially totaled. She's okay, at least.

Oh, man... that sounds like at least six months of downeritude, all in one big bolus. Very sorry it hit you like that...

[Julie]

Then, I find out my uncle passed away.

Last, I find out my mother-in-law got into a bad car accident, where her car's essentially totaled. She's okay, at least.

*HUGS!!* I'm so sorry to hear this. I'm glad your mother is okay, but I'll definitely be keeping you and yours in my thoughts and prayers as you handle the loss of your uncle.

[Alkarii]

So my brother told my mom about his wife being pregnant again. She was all "whatever" about it. Also, according to their doctor, at this stage, the growth hormone levels are more than twenty times what they should be, so twins or triplets would be my guess.

[TazManiac]

Life just is, so Huzzah to recent events, even those to which it would seem inappropriate; Huzzahs all around...

[GlytchMeister]

Yeah, life is definitely full of good and bad stuff. I've had to stop school to make time for getting a couple full-time jobs... Gotta pay bills and debts off, because I'm getting just a little sick of my Dad.

But... I made a friend recently who's lit up my life. I find I am able to deal with everything else just fine and go to sleep happy every night because of her.

[Dave]

So my brother told my mom about his wife being pregnant again. She was all "whatever" about it. Also, according to their doctor, at this stage, the growth hormone levels are more than twenty times what they should be, so twins or triplets would be my guess.

Your mother may now be in the "Oh, another N years of being expected to drop my plans on a moment's notice so I can baby-sit the grandkids" stage of things. That might tend to reduce the pressure on you to add yet another crop of younglings to the clan

[Alkarii]

Actually, my brother's in-laws do most of the helping. But my sister, on the other hand, has my parents going to her house several nights a week to watch her kids.

[AnotherFairportfan]

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[GlytchMeister]

Woah... That's gonna turn into a crapstorm of epic proportions...

[Dave]

Woah... That's gonna turn into a crapstorm of epic proportions...

Yeah, the Ashley Madison hack is shaping up that way. That much embarrassment, released into the environment all at once, could result in some awkward effects. A sudden surge in the population of divorce-court lawyers, followed by serious depletion of available courtroom resources, and a slowdown in handling other civil law cases because the judges are all busy. Then, once everybody gets over the fuss, the mob of divorce-court lawyers starve and their population crashes. Nature can be cruel sometimes.

(EDIT: while perusing the comics, I saw one of the ads being rotated in was a "15% off divorce work" coupon from a local lawyer. I think the feeding frenzy has already started )

It could maybe have been worse. Consider what might have happened if the hackers had used the stolen details for blackmail rather than just releasing them en masse (as some people fear might happen with the "security clearance" information recently hacked from the US government files).