It was kind of funny until he used his son's blood and "more recently, used “shock treatments” on his genitals in an apparent effort to reverse age his penis"

I used to joke with a friend that we should start a business selling rulers that were inaccurate so that there was about 1/2 to 3/4 inch between the inch marks. We could have been rich

No but if you're looking to sell it, I need to do some measuring that it would be perfect for

Congrats!!

I feel like if you can sell a muffler to a Harley rider you can sell anything

Yeah, no problem. Most ham radios are set up to use 12 volts so they can be installed in a vehicle. They don't need a lot of power. But if you're using it at home with normal 120v power (from the power company or from a generator) you actually have to get a power supply to feed it 12 volts. This is a cheap one: https://www.amazon.com/Regulated-Converter-Interface-Amplifiers-TOPPOWER-PS1330A/dp/B0CZP5C2PY?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&smid=A5JF8YGI5RMR2&gQT=1

You could also hook it up to a 12v battery and use the generator to charge the battery.

I didn't mean to imply one was better than the other, just that someone interested in getting into it should know it's not all the same.

I actually prefer VHF/UHF, there's just something about the mobility of it that I like so much more. But I live in an area where storms or tornadoes are the main threat, not hurricanes. If we have a disaster, we just need to coordinate, or maybe ask for help from the next town.

If something widespread hits us, I know guys who often get up at 3am because some HF band is supposed to be open. I'll let them handle that.

Something that should maybe be pointed out about ham radio is that there's local ham radio (VHF/UHF) and there's long distance ham radio (HF). People keep mentioning that ham radio can reach long distances, even other continents, and that's true but that's the harder, more expensive HF side of ham radio.

When you get your first ham license, you are limited to VHF/UHF bands and a little slice of the 10 meter HF band that isn't very useful. Even if it were useful, most radios are either VHF/UHF only ($100-300, $30 for a lower powered handheld radio), HF only ($500 and up), or all bands (well over $1000.)

It's hard to talk about range because it always depends on location, but VHF/UHF has a range that should cover your town/city and maybe enough to reach the next town, maybe enough to reach outside the disaster zone, depending on the disaster. VHF/UHF only needs a simple, cheap antenna that you can stick to anything and it'll just work, more or less.

HF generally requires big antennas that take a lot of tweaking and/or other expenses to work right.

CB radio is very low power and limited range. I had a CB in my Jeep for offroading. It wasn't an ideal installation or an ideal antenna, but it was basically what most people driving a normal vehicle and not really serious about CB-ing would install.

It was good enough for the trail where I was 100 yards from friends but going down the interstate listening to trucks, I was basically limited to trucks I could see within a half mile or so.

With a 2 meter ham radio, the most common band that even beginners can use, and a lot simpler to install than CB, I can talk 20 miles fairly easily, twice that to reach some repeaters in the mountains.

I would think Russia would circulate this to them

Snakes hate this one simple trick!

But to North Koreans he must sound like a hero

Real Jim Carrey retirement vibe here!

I've been saying it for years, the only good Christmas song is Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses.

I don't believe it. I think he was incepted on the plane ride. Where was Leonardo DiCaprio during this?

One of the funniest videos on YouTube is cumtown talking about segal movies

Hysterical Orc wife: Just tell me he died a hero! You: No, it was much funnier than that

Think about having to go tell his family not only that he died, but how he died

I remember thinking radio stations had bands constantly coming in and playing songs and leaving

Growing up, we had a neighbor in the Air national guard who was a boom operator on KC-135 refuelers, meaning he controlled the boom that comes out the back of the airplane and transfers fuel to other aircraft. The boom operator lays face down on a bench and looks out a window in the back of the plane to control the boom.

When I learned that they "operate on their belly", I somehow interpreted that to mean he performed medical operations on people's bellies.

It didn't even make sense to me at the time but I figured there must be some special reason that the operation had to be done while airborne and I was impressed that our neighbor was not only a doctor but an airborne surgeon who specialized in this one belly surgery that couldn't be done on the ground.

Just wait until he gets the $4,500 bill for this advice