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  1. Burns

    The Video Thread

    If anyone wants to learn some upholstery leatherworking, this guy is pretty good, or if you just like watching a tradesman do his trade w/o talking:
  2. Burns

    The Video Thread

    Story of Irish rebellion of 1916 told though mostly traditional songs from the time (better to die under an Irish sky than in some Turkish hellhole for British nobles):
  3. Burns

    What are you listening to at the moment?

    ...and now for something completely different:
  4. Burns

    Investing General Discussion

    Yarp, it's hard to have high morals if you want to make money on the stock market. I was mostly joking, but I really do feel dirty profiting off of such companies. So I will stick to index funds, where I have a much smaller slice of the pie. Also, all tech is not made the same. It seems that...
  5. Burns

    Europa Universalis IV

    Maybe I'll try that. I generally despise achievements as busy work, but they did add some extra enjoyable play time on the Total War: Warhammer games.
  6. Burns

    Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

    I mean, it is getting tough reawtching each episode 10 times out of spite, so I will probably have to cut back to 5 next episode, but still, I want everyone that bought Fallout 3 to know that they should all burn in hell for helping defiling the greatest IP of all time. As for last episode in...
  7. Burns

    Investing General Discussion

    Sure, but then you are investing in Facebook, a morally reprehensible company second only to TikTok. I feel less dirty investing in Lockheed or Northrop Grumman, and they actually kill people (but at least they aren't complicit in destroying US society). Speaking of NOC, look at them numbers...
  8. Burns

    Europa Universalis IV

    Every time I start a new game I want to try something new, but always end up picking a major power after spending 30+ minutes looking at lesser nations. All because I don't want to miss colonizing the new world. Yet when I get to the Caribbean first, claim all the good spots, and end up owning...
  9. Burns

    Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

    It's nothing new, the magic of HGH administered by the best medical staff money can buy and the best personal training team that money can buy. Had a boss (owner of the company) at one time that was in his late 40s and jacked like a 20 year old on roids. He loved his HGH. Said it had all the...
  10. Burns

    The Woman King (2022)

    Yarp, it took Real Sports making waves in the US about jockeys in Saudi & UAE for them to abolish child slavery (only) in camel racing and switch to robot jockeys: I know a lot of people dislike Bryant Gumble, but Bernie Goldberg is pretty good.
  11. Burns

    The Woman King (2022)

    Funny, a history YouTube recently did a video on just that. Always thought the narrator guy sounds Turkish, so might go a little soft on them, but does a decent job.
  12. Burns

    Tales of the Jedi

    I don't think there is anything official saying how many Jedi there were before order 66? If you go off of younglings that Yoda teaches or Anakin kills (whichever is larger) then you would assume there are at least a handful that become Padawan each year, yet only five Jedi are known to turned...
  13. Burns

    Woodworking

    Right, but the whole point of talking about glue was only in relation to using it instead of that metal piece, in the old house, that the dude in the video was so enamored with and musing about how much smarter they were... ...when in fact that metal ring is just obsolete technology used to fix...
  14. Burns

    Woodworking

    I would have thought a 45 degree miter joint, like you have on the door frame molding, would be more akin to the end to end glue up that he showed in his video. The picture you have is what the guy in the second video is talking about, where you need joinery to properly keep it together. Also...
  15. Burns

    Woodworking

    The glue would add enough to keep it from separating like he shows on the one doorframe in his house. The cost of time and resources to make and put that octagonal ring in, still looks like it would be more than the cost of just gluing it, then replacing the whole frame, if its damaged. Doesn't...
  16. Burns

    Woodworking

    How is that any better than wood glue? Modern US houses are built cheap, so cheap, I doubt they take the time to apply wood glue on any molding. They just walk around with a nail gun and nail that shit up as fast as possible. Hell, the crew that did our house didn't even double check the...
  17. Burns

    Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

    Good to hear that the big modders are give it a go for this game. I think I played Prophesy of Pendor for twice as much time as vanilla Warband (with light mods). Maybe next year is the year to actually pick up this game.
  18. Burns

    Hard West 2

    Before it came out, I was looking forward to playing this. Then I read some reviews saying that it's very punishing for not playing the missions exactly the way the devs had in mind, turning it into more of a puzzle game (save/load repeat), instead of an Xcom type tactical game. Still, may give...
  19. Burns

    The Mandalorian

    Sure, they could have made a good show and they could have even kept it about him being an old bounty hunter with a dream (wanting a place to call home, even if that means he cant do everything solo). So he needed to call up a bunch of his bounty hunting contacts, to work as enforcers, that...
  20. Burns

    Andor

    Looking through the writing staff on IMDB, I don't see any KK blue hairs, but isn't this a KK crew show? Also, it's Former Maester Qyburn:
  21. Burns

    The Mandalorian

    It's weird that they didn't get it, when Filoni mostly nailed the bounty hunter thing in Clone Wars with young Boba, Bossk, Aurra Sing, and Cad Bane. The 7 samurai tribute episode was the only(?) bounty hunters as the "good guys" type thing (that I remember), and not morally grey, out for...
  22. Burns

    Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

    That would make sense on how it can fit The Message. I thought it funny that they would make the black queen the evil usurper, but the twist could easily be that she is just the figurehead daughter of the old king, forced to do the bidding of the evil white man that is really the one in charge...
  23. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    If you want more options for research from users of the products (less likely to be fluff PR bullshit), your best bet it to try an enthusiasts forum. If KIA doesn't have a very active enthusiast forum, you can try others, and use search for people's opinions on rim manufacturers. Maybe even...
  24. Burns

    The Video Thread

    In honor of the new King Charles III, here is a favorite video of what happened to Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland: P.S. Charles II almost destroyed the monarchy by dissolving parliament numerous times and leaving a catholic heir to the throne, in his brother James II (who was...
  25. Burns

    Investing General Discussion

  26. Burns

    Investing General Discussion

    This should help the market today, too much green yesterday.
  27. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Used car prices are continuing to trend down after that HUGE spike in 2021. So you don't have to load twitter to read the chart:
  28. Burns

    Black Adam (2021)

    I was trying to think of one. Then I remembered seeing him in The Mummy Returns and thought, here is an actor with zero potential, so I never watched a single movie he has been in since. Still, if people say this is decent, I may give it a shot. I am interested because there are too many hero...
  29. Burns

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Yarp, cat thefts have seen a surge in most major cities. Some trucks have huge cats that cost $3000+ to replace, not counting the damage the thieves do when they sawzall it out. Fun fact: It's illegal in the US to sell used catalytic converters to the public. They can not be legally reused and...
  30. Burns

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    From Reddit: "Towed with the e-brake on"
  31. Burns

    The Animated GIF Thread

  32. Burns

    The Animated GIF Thread

  33. Burns

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Catalytic Converter "lock"
  34. Burns

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    From Reddit: "Customer bought wheels and tires online, after advising multiple times that the tires are too small for his SUV he insisted for us to put them on. TireSize: 225/45/17"
  35. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    If you can smell oil burning when the car is running, then it could be the valve gasket or a valve seal(s) that has a leak. The gasket repair is not necessarily a major repair, but still at least a couple hundred (probably). A seal repair, on the other hand, is a major, upwards of a $1000+...
  36. Burns

    Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

    When watching the Dwarf scenes, that was also my thought. The beard would have made her character much better and I don't see why they decided to take it out. It even fits the woke agenda of "women" being able to have traits that are purely male (in humans) and still being considered beautiful...
  37. Burns

    Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

    What's the saying? "For every hot woman out there, there is a man, somewhere, sick of her shit." In this case it is a whole squad. Time impacts elves differently, so it takes hundreds of years before they all just throw up their hands in disgust.
  38. Burns

    Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

    I started watching this show out of spite. Spite for all the people on this forum who bought Fallout 3 and 4, when Fallout 2 was one of the best games ever made. Yall want to contribute to ruining one of my favorite IPs of all time, well fuck you, I'm watching each episode 10 times and then...
  39. Burns

    Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

    My guess would be Tom Bombadil. If they want to stay true to the lore, the wizards weren't sent to Middle Earth until the third age (according tot he wiki). There is a good chance they just said fuck it to the lore though...