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    Mad Mike is a Grampa.

    Who has thirty K laying around to gift ? I see your point , that’s a big number . The RESP should be set up through a bank , those guys in shopping malls selling them need to be avoided . But Mikes a former banker , I suspect he knows more about this than me . The second best thing my parents...
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    Mad Mike is a Grampa.

    Best gift my Mom came up with was to set up for her Grandkids was establishing an RESP AND RRSP as soon as feasible . No it’s not fun , but in eighteen yrs when college comes up and sixty yrs later when your grandkids wanna retire they will think very fondly of Gramps . It’s literally the gift...
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    Mad Mike is a Grampa.

    Congratulations, indeed wonderful news . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    World class health care

    Indeed lots of info missing in the story , and as usual written to portray a particular angle . Reading it ( with a wife that spent her career in hospital medical) , there is some parts that can’t be true . Not stitching up a wound has nothing to do with no bed, that could be done in the parking...
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    World class health care

    We have good healthcare, not perfect healthcare . Mistakes happen , sadly . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    Appliance Repair

    My appliance repair guy ( now retired) also hates Frigidaire . I have no real idea why , he says he has terrible luck repairing them . He fixed my water dispenser on my Kitchenaid three times in a week , then I bought a Frigidaire. Maybe it was him …. Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    The cursed USS Harry S. Truman

    Imagine the grocery tab Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    We Know you Ride, But do you Shoot?

    If my dad were here this would spur an hour lecture , guns travel on a carriage or are set upon a fixture , carbines , rifles and muskets are carried by foot soldiers . So when the news reported , the suspect pulled a gun, my Dad would say , he must have been the size of a Clydesdale, I hated my...
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    The cursed USS Harry S. Truman

    The YT crowd would , if your deployed in the Red Sea and under pressure round the clock , stuff is going to happen. And if you run as much equipment as the US navy , hard not to have an operational challenge or three . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    We Know you Ride, But do you Shoot?

    The Home Depot carriage bolt holding the hammers on inspires confidence . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    We Know you Ride, But do you Shoot?

    Anywhere from 1880 to 1910 ish ? Exposed hammers in the curved style , most likely twelve gauge , barrels look like Damascus . It could make a big hole in something . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    The cursed USS Harry S. Truman

    FIL at one point was the navigation officer on a Canadian aircraft carrier . Pre amalgamation of the forces , the navy ran the ship and the airforce ran the planes . Airforce used Loran electronic navigation since they really wanted to know where the ship was when planes came back . The Navy...
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    Covid Vacs

    Rural BC ? He’s lucky they didn’t burn him for being a witch . First they would see if he floats , since witches are made of wood ( that’s why they burn) , but ducks also float so if he weighed the same as a duck…. Well that’s that . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    The cursed USS Harry S. Truman

    Lot of careers being put on stall related to that ship Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    Covid Vacs

    I’ve had Covid three times , I’m convinced I would have been in a lot worse shape without shots . As it was , basically a bad cold . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    Where's the ignore button?

    It not anonymous, many of us know each other in a smaller circle than the internet . @twoslow , you and I have met in person at the end of my driveway. Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    Where's the ignore button?

    Or maybe you only have so much time to spend on a forum and you get to decide how you spend your time . It’s like walking away from an awkward conversation, you can walk away . It may not mean you’re frail , quite the opposite actually. Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    L F Quality mini lathe

    King makes about a dozen models , you just don’t see dealers stocking much . Tegs in Hamilton sells a lot and can give good advice if your out that way . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    L F Quality mini lathe

    Sioux lathe or small southbend would be a good choice , the Brit’s made the same lathe under about one hundred brands . Myford was a huge success . Facebook market has lots under a grand . Busy bee has better models and I would seriously consider a King Industrial , even new they are a value . I...
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    High speed trains

    When I was in France in Feb the big news was the relaunch of the new Concorde . It’s coming back . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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