On the bright side, Farsi is really easy to learn. It’s set up pretty much like most Western languages, but there aren’t any irregular verb tenses. Very logical. The hardest part is it has a lot of borrowed Hebrew and Arabic words, so you just have to memorize those.
As in, everyday 11A E-1s can learn it in 60 days.
Actually, that is exactly it.
I don’t know if you have the best useless trivia or you are a strange variety of troll but I enjoy these factoid posts either way.
Haha, I JUST finished referencing the “horses are omnivores” thing, which I shared with a client after @thefourthruffian posted about it. The client was like “really! that surprises me” and all of a sudden I wasn’t sure because I’d read it here, on an anonymous message board. So as soon as my last client left I looked it up and found an article about it, which I shared with the client. That was months ago, but it came up in conversation today.
No problem, I’m half Jewish!
How do you differentiate the pronunciation of anise and anus?
Not sure if that is a compliment or an insult. I’ll go with compliment.
And for the record, the only reason I know Farsi is easy is I learned Farsi (really Dari, which is probably the equivalent of Mexico Spanish vs. Spanish Spanish) really, really quickly for deployment to Afghanistan. And my worst grades in HS were Spanish (and live in fricking New Mexico).
I actually post on on Farsi boards for ex-pat Iranians all the time, where I get accused of being Afghani when they are mad at me.
Pretty sure that @thefourthruffian has been around longer than me. Not sure why it says he only joined in 2016. And he is a legit badass. Actual warrior, not just interwebz LOL.
I’m fine with both. They both go great on white meat (pork, chicken, etc.)
You’re thinking of Jubelum.
Before the fourthruffian he was the third.
There was some loss during the file migration from the old website format to this one.
Why do I know these things?
Correct. For whatever reason, I was deleted. Probably a Masonic conspiracy.
Sometimes I hate being a homeowner.
My house was built in 1910 and had some updates sometime in the 70s or 80s. Well, I decided to change out my bathroom faucet because mine is touchy and hideous.
I’ve spent $160 in parts since buying the faucet. My old rough in valve is obsolete. I don’t sweat copper (like soldering or welding) so I have to buy the expensive Sharkbite fittings.
I had to borrow a grinder from my dad because the new valve is bigger and the hole in the tile wall was too small. I made an atrocious mess but the valve fits. Aaand now the water supply lines don’t line up with the larger valve.
I started this two nights ago and I’ll be headed back to the store tomorrow to get a few more fittings so I can move those supply lines.
Nothing is ever simple in my DIY life.
Can you get some flexible tubing like PEX and mate it with the metal lines with those shark bite type connectors? Might cheapen it a bit.
Ruffians that they are, I wouldn’t put it past them. Gotta watch your back around those guys. 
Same here. House is 100 years old. Very neat… Stained glass, old wood floors, lots of character but starting to have some really frustrating issues.
I’ll have to check. I though of that as I was looking at my problem. Both ends are Sharkbites. Maybe I’ll get lucky. It’s an easy fix. It just requires another trip to the store and another day of my shower being out of commission.
I avoid “the older” houses during our first home buying experience. My wife wanted to live in a certain area with these old homes and I said no. We bought a house that was built in 1981 and after three years, we’d spent like $15k on it. Apparently owning a home is expensive. That’s the end of the discussion. Age doesn’t matter unless it’s brand new. And even then you’ll run into problems b/c they don’t build them like they should anymore. My house is a tank.
You bought that close to the 30 year window. That’s when systems start to go out: roof, windows, mechanical (2nd time replacement, unless original is still going), etc.
Mine too, but I keep getting “old guy’d”. That’s where the old guy that lived there before me did stuff by shear force, inertia and strength of materials. Or whatever he could steal from work.
My first place was owned by an old coal miner/DC electrician that thought AC electricity had to be set up in a circuit like DC. So the whole house was wired together in such a way that all of the circuits were wired up one side, down the other, and tied together in between. And they were all charged unless you shut down the entire house. It took me several blasts and a couple of years to untangle that mess.
Then my air conditioner in this place went. The contactor switch, actually. Luckily I had the manual from 1974. But nothing in the manual matched the actual unit except the shell. Turns out the old steam fitter built it himself and just used the shell to look nice.
Now any time something clunks or drips I just sigh and swear. Wife says “What’s wrong? You can fix that. It should be a piece of cake for you.”. And I reply “Ghosts honey. The place is haunted. The guy that lived here before us is back, and he’s laughing at me.”.
I’m lucky. My neighbor two doors down owned my house for almost 30 years. He took good care of it and I call him anytime I have a question. He’s an amazing resource.
I can do plumbing, but I have chosen not to do plumbing. We have very hard water (especially since so much of our surface water was used during the Little Bear fire a couple of years ago – although we’ve had 3 wet years now, so that is abating). Pipes get embrittled, valves stick, etc.
I decided I had better things to do with my life. If it’s beyond changing the bits inside the tank in the toilet, I call my plumber.
Life is too short.