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Everybody on my FB feed is raving about this little girl on AGT last night. Cowell called her "the next Taylor Swift" and pushed the golden button sending her past all the preliminaries to the main competition.

I must be weird or something...I really didn't think she was that good as a singer. She was cute & giggly-nervous, but her voice was really pinched and I couldn't understand half of the words because she apparently never met a consonant she liked.

Her name was Grace VanderWaal. Anyone else see her?
 
it's not my business but someone who commented on a FB friend's share has me wanting to call them out for being a POS. But I don't want to be that person.
 
cowgirl836 said:
someone up here got hit by a boom that broke trimming trees yesterday. Wasn't you, was it?
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No, we don't go past Janesville/Beloit. I wonder if it was an older bucket truck, one that uses cables to move and extend the boom instead of hydraulics. Most likely not since those kind are illegal now, but you never know with private outfits.
 
Pretty sure KC's raccoons have rabies. For sure they are carrying baylisascaris. Evil devil creatures in cute bandit disguise. Not sure why Stephen King hasn't featured them in one of his terror stories.

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BoxsterCy said:
I am a safety geek. Wear safety glasses when I mow. Used to wear steel toed boots also but my lawn is a 15 minute job so don't usually wear them anymore.
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Sunglasses and earplugs are all I need. I have composite toe boots, but that's only good enough if I drop a piece of wood I'm carrying. OSHA says that if there's less than 10 employees, my boss only needs to tell us we should wear hard hats and vests, it's not required.
 
BoxsterCy said:
I am a safety geek. Wear safety glasses when I mow. Used to wear steel toed boots also but my lawn is a 15 minute job so don't usually wear them anymore.
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For all my rough edges, I'll agree with this...well, I don't wear safety glasses for mowing, but I wear glasses anyway, so...but I do wear ear plugs. Used to wear ear plugs and safety glasses when I worked at a glass place in college (basically construction, but glass storefronts and mirrors). A guy I worked with got a hot piece of drill debris in his eye one day. I walked 50 feet to get him a pair of safety glasses, handed them to him. He said "oh, thanks"...then set them aside. I was like, well it's your eye. My hearing protection has paid off, I guess....at work a while back, the recent grads and interns were complaining about this high pitched noise that was unbearable for them, the old farts couldn't hear it. While I'm probably an old fart to the recent grads, I was one of the few people my age that could hear it. I'm all for personal protection. No job is worth injury or my life.
 
stormchaser2014 said:
Sunglasses and earplugs are all I need. I have composite toe boots, but that's only good enough if I drop a piece of wood I'm carrying. OSHA says that if there's less than 10 employees, my boss only needs to tell us we should wear hard hats and vests, it's not required.
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You are in Wisconsin so if you get some nasty facial scarring you can say it was from playing hockey.

00clone said:
For all my rough edges, I'll agree with this...well, I don't wear safety glasses for mowing, but I wear glasses anyway, so...but I do wear ear plugs. Used to wear ear plugs and safety glasses when I worked at a glass place in college (basically construction, but glass storefronts and mirrors). A guy I worked with got a hot piece of drill debris in his eye one day. I walked 50 feet to get him a pair of safety glasses, handed them to him. He said "oh, thanks"...then set them aside. I was like, well it's your eye. My hearing protection has paid off, I guess....at work a while back, the recent grads and interns were complaining about this high pitched noise that was unbearable for them, the old farts couldn't hear it. While I'm probably an old fart to the recent grads, I was one of the few people my age that could hear it. I'm all for personal protection. No job is worth injury or my life.
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My mower is quiet enough I don't need hearing protection. You won't believe the mailings I get (one today) for hearing aids and such. Apparently I am in an age demographic that dictates sending this **** to me every couple of days. Sometimes I am at friends homes who are my age I am all WTF about how LOUD they have their TV on.
 
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BoxsterCy said:
You are in Wisconsin so if you get some nasty facial scarring you can say it was from playing hockey.



My mower is quiet enough I don't need hearing protection. You won't believe the mailings I get (one today) for hearing aids and such. Apparently I am in an age demographic that dictates sending this **** to me every couple of days. Sometimes I am at friends homes who are my age I am all WTF about how LOUD they have their TV on.
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Heh...my dad's hearing is part of why I'm so protective of my own. That's one of the 'macho' things I don't get. Grr, I'm tough, I'm too manly to wear (protective equipment). As far as I'm concerned, if you wear it for a while, you'll get used to it...I can say that, I've done it. Hard hats, hearing protection in the past, safety glasses still today. So you're too macho to get used to something that may save you.
 
theantiAIRBHG said:
Butter lettuce on a salami and sharp cheddar sammy for dinner. Delicious. The fresh lettuce from the farmers market is so deliciously bitter.
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One by one, mrs00 is getting more and more militant about what things we buy conventional and what we buy from the hippie food store/market. Not from a crazy standpoint, but "OMG, it tastes so much better".
 
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