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smokeywolf

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Brett, that was absolutely meant as a compliment. Sorry if I was misusing the term. You're a farmer and according to what I read with regard to how you treat you family and your sense of responsibility to your community, you are definitely a gentleman.

Not meant as an insult at all.

EDIT to add: When I was growing up, it was a good thing for a man to be a gentleman. What has changed?
 
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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Brett, that was absolutely meant as a compliment. Sorry if I was misusing the term. You're a farmer and according to what I read with regard to how you treat you family and your sense of responsibility to your community, you are definitely a gentleman.

Not meant as an insult at all.

EDIT to add: When I was growing up, it was a good thing for a man to be a gentleman. What has changed?
My father taught me that a gentleman, when walking on the sidewalk with a lady, is to walk next to the street, to say bless you when someone sneezes even if the someone is a stranger, and to not spit on the sidewalk. I still practice the first two, and was never a spitter.
 

RBHarter

West Central AR
I understood the Gentleman Farmer to be a bit like the 40 something lady saying " Mam' is my mother I ain't that old " .

Coughed yesterday , breath taking , set back 2 days I think ........
 
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Rick

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Brett, that was absolutely meant as a compliment. Sorry if I was misusing the term. You're a farmer and according to what I read with regard to how you treat you family and your sense of responsibility to your community, you are definitely a gentleman.

Not meant as an insult at all.

EDIT to add: When I was growing up, it was a good thing for a man to be a gentleman. What has changed?

I suspect different terms have different meanings in different parts of the country.

Does however show how easy it is to take comments completely out of context from the original intent on these forums.
 

Ole_270

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Sitting around on pins and needles. Yes, part of it is the Carpel Tunnel getting worse. Waiting on the results of the MRI of my neck to show up. Mainly though, I got a tracking number for my early Ruger M77 Tang Safe action with a new Shaw barrel. Supposed to be here early next week. managed to get the stock refinished since I sent it in last march. One of my favorite rifles and cartridges.
 

CWLONGSHOT

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I know the pain this can be. I hope you can get this release surgery and have the results I have.
I also like those old Ruger 77's. I just wish that they shot better.
CW
 

JonB

Halcyon member
I have a lot of farmer friends who grew up in farming families and they might take offense to the term "Gentleman Farmer." I would have thought it was a regional thing...Minnesota is chock full of regionalisms.

But my quick search of Green Acres on the interwebs (it is my thought of Gentleman Farmer), I find this.

"A New York City attorney and his wife attempt to live as genteel farmers in the bizarre community of Hooterville"
 

CZ93X62

Official forum enigma
I grew up as an orange grove kid, as did Marie. We both have deep respect for all of those in the farming and ranching industries, which are the only TRULY ESSENTIAL INDUSTRIES ON EARTH.
 

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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Today is the ??th anniversary of my wife's birth, so I treated her to an overly expensive lunch at a mainly tourist oriented restaurant. She had crab cakes with Hollandaise sauce and I had an oak-wood grilled local salmon fillet with pesto sauce. Eating at the restaurant strongly re-confirmed, at least to me, the reason why we order
to-go -- permissive parents.

My wife spent till the early afternoon more than a little miffed that daughter and grandkids didn't call her, but glad that son-in-law sent her a nice text, though I think he should have called. Unexpectedly, daughter and grandkids showed up, along with a friend of the kids, bearing gifts that saved them from a looming disinheritance and whatever is just short of eternal damnation.
 

smokeywolf

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I did an internet search on the phrase "gentleman farmer". While I was thinking that it simply meant "a gentleman who is a farmer", apparently it is often applied in a derogatory context that implies, a rich or wealthy man who treats farming as more of a hobby and often hires the work done, rather than do it himself.

While I don't feel the need to apologize for an insult, as I never meant any malice or insult. I do apologize for my ignorance of the potentially derogatory use of the phrase that caused this misunderstanding. For that I'm sorry.
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Old machinery has to be repaired constantly unless you do a full reset which costs as much as a new import. Just like with used machine tools, do you want a project, or do you want to DO projects?

I own two Bobcat skid-steers. The 743 is down for a left drive motor and needs a cylinder head (been limping with a crack or blown gasket for a long time), the 763 needs an engine. Financially, the 743 is totalled so logic dictates fix the big one, but I hate the transverse engine and have been putting off putting it back together for core credit. Might buy a used one outright if I can find the correct one. Too many projects, and I'm going to need one of them soon to re-top part of the driveway with crushed rock. All that and I have the knowledge, experience, and tools to fix anything on the machines. If you aren't a pro mechanic, fuggitaboutit.

Good friend said once "Obey the three Fs: If it flies, floats, or fornicates---rent it." I would add heavy equipment and RVs to that list as well, and definitely horses.
I disagree. Renting works great for the once or twice a year job, if you have a rental place in easy driving distance and a way to haul it. Otherwise, if it's something that will get plenty of use, buying is the way to go. And to say "constantly needs repair"
is also inaccurate. If you buy junk knowing you will have to fix it, yeah. If you hunt around and get something decent, probably not going to be much in the way of repairs.
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
No worries guys. I get it now. Around here "Gentleman Farmer" is one step below "Hobby Farmer" which is one step below "Child Rapist" in the line of insults. GF's are the rich city people who buy a "farm" for tax shelter purposes and brag about their exploits which occurred as they watched the hired locals get hot an dirty from behind the windshield of the Beemer. You can see how that works.

As far as gentleman goes, yeah I say please, thank you, sir and ma'am and I hold the door etc. That's not being a "gentleman" IMO, that's just good manners. If you can't do that stuff, swear like a moron in front of kids, ladies and strangers, have a nut sack hanging off the back of your truck, etc, well, you're just trash. Lots of that around here.
 

Matt_G

Curmudgeon in training
I'm trying to figure out an electrical issue in my basement this morning.
I have 3 light fixtures in the ceiling of my loading area.
They are just your typical fixture you can screw a bulb into minus the pull chain.
These were wired by the builder when the house was built.
Anyways, yesterday morning I heard a faint pop and the middle bulb in that run went dark.
I assumed the bulb had burned out and changed it. (100W equivalent CF)
When I got home from work yesterday turned the lights on and within a minute or two that same bulb went dark again.

This morning I went to Home Depot and bought a new porcelain fixture and just finished installing that.
Damn thing stays on about 30 to 60 seconds and goes dark.
It has a faint random flicker when I turn it on and then just goes all together.
The two end fixtures in the circuit are just fine.

I am not an electrician.
Any ideas as to what the heck is causing this?