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Started by porcupine kate, December 01, 2007, 09:06 PM NHFT

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dysurian

Quote from: Pat K on December 10, 2007, 08:00 AM NHFT
I remember this advice.

(video from above post)

"We can put it on our credit card!" Priceless. Credit cards (along with a college education I may or may not have needed to spend thousands of dollars on) is my biggest debt in life. I knew full well that it was silly to spend money I didn't have, but there's no teacher like experience. I really wish I had learned sooner...

Russell Kanning

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Though the occasional haircut and cheap bottles of shampoo cost a few bucks a year... but certainly no more than $100 total.

Let's NOT end up with a mostly bunch of bald liberty folks, ok?  It's hard enough keeping people from calling it a cult.
Some of us have hair ... and no haircut expenses. I figure that God gave me hair for protection, so I keep it and let my cute wife cut it anyway she wants to.

Russell Kanning

Quote from: Barterer on December 02, 2007, 02:19 PM NHFT
Quote from: RangerProbst on December 02, 2007, 10:40 AM NHFT
Shoot a lot in 22 LR and shoot a little more sparingly with the higher calibers.

Damn straight.  And if you normally pay to shoot at a gun range, consider getting a badass .22 pellet rifle.. then the rounds are even cheaper, and you can sneak a little gun range in your back yard. Very fun.  ;D
even cheaper ... sell your gun to someone and stop wasting money on ammo :)

Russell Kanning

Quote from: Pat K on December 03, 2007, 02:08 PM NHFT
Quote from: John Edward Mercier on December 03, 2007, 02:00 PM NHFT
Chevy Aveo... cheaper.
Used Geo Metro even better.


A lady here a few years ago, was exiting a parking lot onto
a busy road. The Geo Metro she was driving, was broadsided
by a motorcycle. It knocked the car over on its side.

Here is a little tip from your uncle Pat= if your car can be knocked
over by a motorcycle, it's to Fucking small!
I agree ... cheap used car that gets good mileage ... makes lots of sense. a motorcycle is even cheaper ... just watch out for patK

Recumbent ReCycler

Quote from: Puke on December 07, 2007, 02:59 PM NHFT
Quote from: J'raxis 270145 on December 06, 2007, 09:08 PM NHFT
Especially considering isopropyl alcohol is poisonous...

And it's only that way because we don't want people getting cheap booze.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denatured_alcohol

Listerine is denatured?!?!?  No wonder it tastes so bad.  They should put a warning label on their bottles.  I don't think I'll buy it anymore to prevent the risk of swallowing some.  I knew folks who used to drink it to get buzzed.

J’raxis 270145

Quote from: Defender of Liberty on December 12, 2007, 07:23 AM NHFT
Quote from: Puke on December 07, 2007, 02:59 PM NHFT
Quote from: J'raxis 270145 on December 06, 2007, 09:08 PM NHFT
Especially considering isopropyl alcohol is poisonous...

And it's only that way because we don't want people getting cheap booze.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denatured_alcohol

Listerine is denatured?!?!?  No wonder it tastes so bad.  They should put a warning label on their bottles.  I don't think I'll buy it anymore to prevent the risk of swallowing some.  I knew folks who used to drink it to get buzzed.

Not all denatured alcohol is poisonous; in some cases, they just add a chemical to make it unpalatable, such as using the denatonium mentioned in the article.

KBCraig

Quote from: J'raxis 270145 on December 12, 2007, 08:32 AM NHFT
Not all denatured alcohol is poisonous; in some cases, they just add a chemical to make it unpalatable, such as using the denatonium mentioned in the article.

I have (or had, if she's managed to finish drinking herself to death) a cousin who would drink Dr. Tichenor's. She had minty fresh breath, though! For a while she worked for my sister, who took away her bottle. One day Sis check the cousin's "water" bottle, and found she was sipping straight vodka all day.  ::)

Lloyd Danforth

I knew a guy who drank Witch Hazel.  He eventually died of it. First body I ever discovered.

Kat Kanning

 :(  Have you discovered more than one?

Pat K

Quote from: Russell Kanning on December 12, 2007, 06:22 AM NHFT
Quote from: Pat K on December 03, 2007, 02:08 PM NHFT
Quote from: John Edward Mercier on December 03, 2007, 02:00 PM NHFT
Chevy Aveo... cheaper.
Used Geo Metro even better.


A lady here a few years ago, was exiting a parking lot onto
a busy road. The Geo Metro she was driving, was broadsided
by a motorcycle. It knocked the car over on its side.

Here is a little tip from your uncle Pat= if your car can be knocked
over by a motorcycle, it's to Fucking small!
I agree ... cheap used car that gets good mileage ... makes lots of sense. a motorcycle is even cheaper ... just watch out for patK


Why would they have to watch out for me?

Kat Kanning


Raineyrocks

Quote from: KBCraig on December 12, 2007, 11:24 AM NHFT
Quote from: J'raxis 270145 on December 12, 2007, 08:32 AM NHFT
Not all denatured alcohol is poisonous; in some cases, they just add a chemical to make it unpalatable, such as using the denatonium mentioned in the article.

I have (or had, if she's managed to finish drinking herself to death) a cousin who would drink Dr. Tichenor's. She had minty fresh breath, though! For a while she worked for my sister, who took away her bottle. One day Sis check the cousin's "water" bottle, and found she was sipping straight vodka all day.  ::)


Wow, your right her breath must have smelled pretty damn good!  Do you remember some political guy's wife was drinking rubbing alcohol?  I can't remember her name, I think it was Kitty something.

Raineyrocks

Quote from: Lloyd  Danforth on December 12, 2007, 02:37 PM NHFT
I knew a guy who drank Witch Hazel.  He eventually died of it. First body I ever discovered.


Gee, I would've thought he could have gotten a broom out of the deal first! :P

Raineyrocks


Lloyd Danforth