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  1. crankcall

    Air Canada

    I had dinner with a long term AC employee yesterday, he’s not flight crew , but 30 yrs in airline he knows some stuff . They have a formula for how many no shows they expect on certain routes so they over sell . Not supposed to but they do . If somebody at AC ( executive, or the guy that has to...
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    Who knew this

    Sometimes it’s easier on people around you if they know you have something going on . They may be more patient, not try to hand you a drink you don’t want ( need) or be more willing to be flexible when dealing with you . The era of manly men doing only manly man stuff is going away . It’s ok to...
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    The "Official" Watch Thread and all Things Horological

    I sold my speedmaster when the collab came out with swatch group , now they want to ( imo) devalue the seamaster . Let’s be reasonable here , would James Bond show up wearing a Seamaster Miami vice Bahama collaboration? Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    Who knew this

    If you get up twice ,three times a night to pee , dribble a bit , can’t sport a woodie , you may want to look into male kegels. The urospot clinics do good work with this using magnetic field science . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    We Know you Ride, But do you Shoot?

    What sort of distances are you shooting out there ? Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    The "Official" Watch Thread and all Things Horological

    That whole story is chrono porn . There is a great movie about Harrison that created the amazing time pieces that solved the problem of longitude , called appropriately “ Longitude” , he was told the British govt would offer a one million pound note prize , which is like a hundred million bucks...
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    Country Living (septic, well water, etc.) ... who's done it?

    Uncle has a seventy ft well that barely services the house and a sump pump in the basement forty ft away that never stops . Don’t take anybody’s word for anything with rural water . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?

    Take a one inch spade bit and drill holes as deep as you can go ,then dig down one side and drill into the middle as far as you can go making a Venturi vent port , pour a cup of kerosene or whatever on the stump and light it up , it will burn for an entire day and be ash [emoji637][emoji638]”...
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    Country Living (septic, well water, etc.) ... who's done it?

    Lived in the country twice, farm I grew up on had a natural spring on the Niagara escarpment, small pump and 20ft of pipe , septic was built into a field and was fine , well or septic had never been serviced in the eighty yrs my family had the place , my own house was seventy ft dug well and a...
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    Quick Jack?

    If you jack on the lower control A arms and trailing axle arms you can then place jacks under the usual lift points on the rocker panel rails . Best to go around the vehicle in several stages than to twist the car body if you are not patient . Be on a level surface , and remember rule one ...
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    COVID and the housing market

    Residential correct , that’s a very hard target for approvals . Restaurants, stores , ect are one thing , the possibility some one could be living in the flood zone , not likely to see approval . In the case of the former church in the link provided, it was probably under market priced as the...
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    COVID and the housing market

    I’m intimately involved in a Conservation authority and flood plains . My Boat club ( ironic I know) is now in the flood plains. The flood plain did not exist in nineteen sixty three when the building went up . I can alter the interior , but I cannot change the footprint . Even enlarging the...
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    25'th Anniversary....and no plans. :(

    I love the idea of nice vacations without involving an airplane . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    Tow truck wars are heating up.

    Every one of those people has a beard, except the chick , wonder how many times a week she shaves ? Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    Motor Vehicle Sound checks in Toronto (dB)

    its back in oakville again . as long as knuckleheads keep running stupidly loud exhaust on vehicles , this will be our new norm
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    Inverters !

    Eco watt thing is fifteen hundred bucks off Amazon. Based on the cycle of my nespresso ( which makes single serves ) I can make approximately 20 coffees and still charge my cell phone . And if I sell the boat it can stay with me . Looks pretty and is reasonably well made with all the BMS and...
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    That didn’t last long

    Capitalism is an interesting study when you compare gas stations. The small “ no name “ stations can be cheaper because they aren’t paying back to a mothership that puts logos on F[emoji637] cars . They also don’t compensate a CAA program giving three cent discounts and have a name on the boards...
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    Brian Wilson RIP

    Anybody that played in Lighfoots band must be a decent age by now . @Hardwrkr[emoji637][emoji639] , try thirty five XMU and thirty six AULT , there is a CDN new music station up in the Oneseventy’s number but I can’t remember the number . If Lithium is your go to sounds like your more of an...
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    Inverters !

    Has anybody seen this thing? Battery / inverter/ charger all in a box , one stop job . Charges in an hour and if the stats are to be believed runs everything I need to do without being an electrician And it can go anywhere, . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com mobile app
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    Air Canada

    That spurs some thought . In this months Toronto Life magazine advice column and gal was asking what to do since a friend wanted to have her bachelorette party in Torontos “village” , but only she , the one writing the letter was gay . She thought the others wanted to go stare at the gays which...
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