Yeah, I had 3 of them up when choosing between Christmas and Thanksgiving. Dad’s Guide was my favorite.
What's everybody up to?
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Week 2 of peak cicada and I’m starting to lose my mind. How can something so small be so damn loud?!?
Had one nasty summer peak when I was a kid up in central PA. Not sure we get that level of them in VA.
If we have them this year, they are remarkably light and blend in with the other woodsy noises around us. I remember as a kid it was unmistakably plague-like.
I remember once as a little kid, we had a tree in our yard that was literally covered top to bottom with their skins. That must have been a hell of a year as I have not seen that repeated. Luckily we don't seem to have them on a level that is craze inducing....or we're simply used to them.
No you do not. My first summer here fresh from the left coast was shock and awe since it's impossible to comprehend. As I sit in my modern office building made of brick, I can hear the droning of the klaxon thru the air tight window every bit as loud as the AC system above my head. You just cannot escape them.
Can you not.. kill them? Agent Orange? Seems like it if was that bad people would find a way to exterminate them!
Once a year MILLIONS of them crawl out of the ground, shed their underground skins for their flying skins and then fly around for a few days screeching & humping without eating until they drop dead. Then you have the black ones with red eyes that come up every 17 years to add to the chaos so nuking them from orbit isn't going to buy you much relief.
That.. seems like a poor lifestyle choice.. man insects are freaking weird.
RIP your ears I guess!
RIP your ears I guess!
My brain tuned them out a long time ago. They don't even register unless there's one on the window sill or something.
There are multiple cycles going on at any one time but the green camo dudes are annual and come in significant numbers for 3 weeks each August.
The Flash drive dog tab I used to use for keeping hobby related projects & tranfering them from home/work/other. It was the 1 drive at work I'd never try to put work stuff on. (For fear of some a hole not giving it back.)
Reguardless of what I just said, it helped me out a few times at work when I needed a drive.
Reguardless of what I just said, it helped me out a few times at work when I needed a drive.
I am sure I have some floating around somewhere. I'll find one and send it to you.
We had some cool shit!
I wonder where my shirt is? MAJOR BLOOD made it for Comic con and had the M1A1 rolling over a Hiss tank.. god we were so petty back then!
Glad to see all that goodness HeelJoe! What # is the coin?
#30 which was my age at the time, went with that as #10 my fav number was taken. My wife still wears my t-shirt, albeit as a pj top, and the sweater is kicking around in the back of the wardrobe somewhere.
I’ve been mainly in 1:6 recently but since clearing out my garage and going through my 1:18 boxes... I might slowly creep back.
This isn't a 1:18th site, it's a place for all things Brexit and Trump just like the rest of the internet these days.
Don't forget robots, legos, and football.
Yeah, 1:18th has taken a backseat around here... but I blame that more on the state of the industry than the site or it's membership. If 4" figures were going strong, I suspect they'd have a stronger presence around here. As we've aged, we might not be feverishly into it, like NSA discharging himself from the hospital to go hunt for Retaliation Troopers and Pit Commandos, but I can imagine many of us would still be making room for more cool toys.
Yeah, 1:18th has taken a backseat around here... but I blame that more on the state of the industry than the site or it's membership. If 4" figures were going strong, I suspect they'd have a stronger presence around here. As we've aged, we might not be feverishly into it, like NSA discharging himself from the hospital to go hunt for Retaliation Troopers and Pit Commandos, but I can imagine many of us would still be making room for more cool toys.
Haha oh man I remember that now.. appendix schmappendix! I was hitting Targets HARD back then for those figures.. truly the glory days.. my how times have changed!!
Wow, that sucks. I’ve never lived anywhere that has significant annual cycles. I’m not sure we have more than some odd stragglers here in VA. I think even in the “bad” years I’ve only seen a few extra around.
WTF kind of snake is THAT?! I don't think we have those. Just black snakes, chicken snakes, and the occasional copperhead. That thing looks dangerous.
I'm not afraid of snakes per se, as in I don't scream like a girl and run away... but I would wish them away into the cornfield if I could. I have cats for rodent control. I don't need what they're selling.
Snakes... the only thing I hate more than clowns.
Just a small Garter snake. Definitely looks scarier than the black Garter/Ribbon snakes we had in Seattle, but basically the same thing. He gave up trying to swallow the toad after 45min, so I removed him to the tall grass and gave the toad a place to shake it off.
That's too funny. I bet the toad was thinking, "What the hell is this snake doing to my ass?"
He didn't look concerned about being eaten in the slightest. He looked more annoyed than anything. "Third stupid snake that's tried to swallow me whole this week. Ugh."
He didn't look concerned about being eaten in the slightest. He looked more annoyed than anything. "Third stupid snake that's tried to swallow me whole this week. Ugh."