#Mack CF

[larryshapiro]

Upper Saucon Township Fire Department, Central Valley, PA

[kim-ruzek]

CF and CPD made me so happy this week !!

Yessss same!!!

CPD in particular, because Burzek actually being together and Mack calling Adam dad has been my wish for yeaaaaars.

And I actually watched CF this week, since apparently I'd do anything to get any hit of any amount of brettsey lol. Although I did skip a lot of the non Casey scenes because I'm still on a break from CF and in general watching proved I'm still not ready to watch full time.

(which does mean I'm out of the loop a little, like please tell me they aren't trying to ship carver and my precious Violet. Evan didn't die for this shit to happen.)

Thank you for asking!! 💖 Hopefully all the episodes left to come will make us as happy as this week.

[osrphotography]

The last of the good aerial appliances.

Ex-Auckland City 205 [Mack CF612 6x4 Aerialscope/Mills-Tui] was taken out of storage and displayed in front of MoTaT's blister hangar for the Fire and Emergency Live Day 2023.

City 205 was built new for NZFS Auckland City by Mills-Tui and managed to outlive every other Mack CF that NZFS brought. It was retired from active duty and donated in the mid-2010s, after a 30+ year service life.

[haltandcatchfiretothemax]

couple days late but happy anniversary to the we belong scene!! the timeline post is here:

www.tumblr.com/roarsaidthedinosaur/179062495712

i’ve been wanting to rewatch again and update it. i didn’t really focus on season one all that much when i first made this. it’d be nice to go back and relive it all.

Ahhhh, belated thanks for this link!! And also for the We Belongiversary well wishes!

I'm also feeling like it's time for a rewatch. Things are not entirely hopeless for humanity, but it's not looking great right now, and H&CF always reminds that there are disaster lesbians, chaotic bisexuals, and others out there who are trying to do some good. Also I miss Mack and Kerry's faces, they don't seem to be doing much film work at the moment!

[wikiuntamed]

Five steps of Wikipedia for Tuesday, 27th February 2024

Welcome, croeso, 欢迎 (huānyíng), أهلا بك (ahlan bika) 🤗 Five steps of Wikipedia from "The Imperial OPA" to "ABCB11". 🪜👣

Start page 👣🏁: The Imperial OPA "The Imperial OPA Circus was a modern circus headquartered and operated out of Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 2009 by Timothy Mack, the Imperial OPA Circus performed at local events to benefit nonprofit organizations such as Wish for Wendy, which benefits those with cystic fibrosis, and the Atlanta..."

Step 1️⃣ 👣: Cystic fibrosis "Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a rare genetic disorder that affects mostly the lungs, but also the pancreas, liver, kidneys, and intestine. The hallmark feature of CF is the accumulation of thick mucus in different organs. Long-term issues include difficulty breathing and coughing up mucus as a result of..."

Image by National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NIH)

Step 2️⃣ 👣: ABCB4 "The ATP-binding cassette 4 (ABCB4) gene encodes multidrug resistance protein 3. ABCB4 is associated with progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis type 3 and intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy. The membrane-associated protein encoded by this gene is a member of the superfamily of ATP-binding..."

Image by National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine

Step 3️⃣ 👣: ABCA3 "ATP-binding cassette sub-family A member 3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ABCA3 gene.The membrane-associated protein encoded by this gene is a member of the superfamily of ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters. ABC proteins transport various molecules across extra- and..."

Image by National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine

Step 4️⃣ 👣: ABCA7 "ATP-binding cassette sub-family A member 7 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ABCA7 gene...."

Image by National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine

Step 5️⃣ 👣: ABCB11 "ATP-binding cassette, sub-family B member 11 (ABCB11), also known as the bile salt export pump (BSEP), is a protein which in humans is encoded by the ABCB11 gene...."

Image by National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine

[vehicleillustration]

FDNY Engine 10 1981 Mack CF

[sonougeheadcanons]

Headcanon #52

One day, Sonic bought an old fire engine and restored it with Tails' help. He then brought it over to Rouge's mansion, and she was impressed, even more so when he offered to take her for a ride. She also loves when he takes the rig out to parades because he always lets her ride, though she could do without him randomly activating the siren.

[firetruckoftheday]

Netcong Fire Department Netcong Fire Company No. 1 Engine 28-72 by Triborough Via Flickr: 1982 Mack CF

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

tuesday again no problem 12/20/22

feelin...fizzy. feelin...scattered. let's make up for it with twelve (12) photos and a three part making section

listening

unloved’s new album has been out for some weeks but ive had Sorry, Baby on loop most of that time. it’s got the sort of fluttery bubbly electronica i associate with heist scenes or when someone wants to convey there is technology bubbling away in the background. cf a lot of the ambient music for the fallout 4 nuka cola world dlc. i also wish i had a better comparison.

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reading

fallow weeks. it’s so funny how mack’s face changes in different light. she has such an angular teen face right now but you would not know it from this photo where she has eyebrows.

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watching

rewatching a bunch of westerns as i knit. even tho i rarely rewatch shit, i want to be steeped in the vibes bc the days are very short and the nights are very long and the cowboys spark joy. The Great Silence (1968, dir. Corbucci) knocked me flat for a full twelve hours as it did for my first viewing. i remain mildly bemused by Death Rides A Horse (1967, dir. Petroni) but im glad mr van cleef got to have his tits out?

i also saw Gallowwalkers (2012, dir. Goth, starring Wesley Snipes). a weird west/horror sort of direct to DVD thing. there is very little to recommend this movie. it is largely incoherent. it has a lot of on-screen rape and sexual assault and women getting thrown around. i could not put together this movie in chronological order if you put a gun to my head. however, it does Look.

the costuming is what i can only call “capcom video game”. some of the worst wigs i have ever seen in my life are in this movie.

yes this man has two iguanas sewn to his head, bc the schtick of the film is the undead need to continuously get new skin sewn on. how they acquire the skin is shown in great detail.

unfortunately (fortunately?) the baddies have nearly all the good lines.

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playing

beat the elite four in Pokémon, beat Team Star, beat Arven (that sucked. i felt so bad at the end of that) can’t quite beat my best friend/arch rival. more puttering around needed. or perhaps i need to actually learn how types work instead of hitting everything with one of my flamingo’s three different kinds of big kick. let me in the crater!!!

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making

knitting again!!! i will update when i have a full repeat done bc right now it doesn’t look like very much. beloved mutual and real/life co-conspirator @itsybitsydragon passed along two gently loved cat trees for my chief henchwoman and she (the cat) has taken to them quite well!!! lovely to see her (my dear friend, i can see my cat any time i want), very worth shuffling a lot of furniture around.

I did promise a cast iron update but it’s a disappointing and slightly baffling update. this is Four (4!))) layers of seasoning and it's still not evening out. it's covered, bc it's not rusting, but it does look like fucking shit. it is dry to the touch and not tacky.

there are several potential causes, i think:

couldn’t quite get all the old seasoning off and this is somehow affecting the new seasoning (but it shouldn't be reacting this weirdly to the flaxseed oil? or really at all?)

i didn’t manage to completely neutralize the vinegar bath with baking soda?

the layers are maybe slightly too thick or slightly too thin? the weirdest looking parts are in the parts where i did manage to get the old seasoning off and down to bare metal

perhaps my ancient electric oven is not quite getting up to that nice 450-500F i want? i inadvertently left my oven thermometer in the old lair and haven't remembered to get a new one, but the smoke point of this oil should be like 225-230F, and i know for a fact my oven gets above that bc i have not yet given myself food poisoning

this is probably perfectly fine and safe to cook with but it's a little bit too much problem solving for me right now, and like @morrak i'm probably going to get deeply annoyed at some point and have at it with some naval jelly. unfortunately that will have to wait for more clement weather.

[footlongdingledong]

wacky artstyle test feat some of my dogs from the funny wobbled dog game

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[larryshapiro]

Clarendon Hills FD (IL) Mack CF/Pierce/Tele-Squrt

[glennk56]

This is a re-written post of my fictional account of Stan and Ollie coming home from their first European Tour in 1932. I re-wrote it after learning that the Georgia Military College was not as devastating to a young child as I thought and maybe was helpful in Ollie being the agile, athletic portly fellow he was. The school was the closest school for residents of Milledgeville. It had an elementary school and it was co-ed.I will be deleting the other soon. The only time Hardy did not attend this school was the short time after his mother married her last husband, CF Jackson. This man was mysterious and did seem to disappear. Pictured above is Laurel & Hardy, Larry Semon, Frank ‘Fatty” Alexander, Hughie Mack, Myrtle Reeves Hardy and Viola Morse.

Stan and Babe are in Stan’s suite on the S.S. Paris on the way home from their European Vacation/Tour. Babe’s wife Myrtle is having a spa treatment and Stan invited Babe over to have breakfast with him in his suite. Both are in underwear with silk robes on over them. They have finished breakfast and Babe is sipping on a Bloody Mary. Stan is lounging on the bed with an empty cup of coffee. Babe is sitting on the edge of a settee in the room with his robe opened and legs spread.

Stan: It’ll be nice to get home. That wasn’t exactly the vacation I had in mind.

Babe: Me neither. It was exhausting. But the people. All over. They love us. Could you ever imagine we’d            ever be this loved?

Stan: No I didn’t.  I don’t think Charlie Chaplin would ever get that kind of reception.

Babe: Are you still in competition with Chaplin? We’re Laurel and Hardy. Everybody loves Laurel and Hardy. I’m glad you thought to invite me over while Myrtle is having a spa day. We get so little time to be just you and me.

Stan: Isn’t it funny how so many people think we are a real couple? I mean they think we really live and sleep together.

Babe: (finishes his drink, stands up, removes his robe, and scoots over to Stan on the bed with a big grin.) And they’re so disappointed when we tell them we don’t. (and pokes Stan in the gut) That’s so funny. Scoot over. (Stan is propped up on some pillows and Babe lies down in front of him. Facing him.

Stan: I wish everybody thought that way. Maybe it’s just that way in Europe.

Babe: No, it’s in America too. A lot of the fan mail I get assumes we live together.

Stan: But if we were a couple, I’m sure some church groups would condemn us. You know Hal Roach and MGM make sure people know we are two married men.

Babe: Would two married men do this? (He grabs Stan by the head and starts kissing his face all over, finishing on the lips.)

Stan: Ha-Ha. (looking at Babe with familiar love) What has gotten into you? You’re so giddy today.

Babe: It’s you.  I think. I’m happy right now. Even Myrtle can’t get me down now.

Stan: You’ve shown me some of the greeting cards you give her. You write some very flowery prose. You’re very romantic.

Babe: I try. But I can’t please her in bed like most men could.

Stan: Why is that?

Babe: Well. My penis isn’t very big. I think you might even say it’s very small. Here look. (Babe pops off the bed and pulls down his boxers.)

Stan: Where is it?

Babe: It’s there. Just hiding in my fat. (Babe reaches down presses in the fat around the penis and it pops out.) There. Hello Stanley. (He waves it at Stan.)

Stan: Oh, you are small.

(Babe pulls his boxers back up and comes around the bed and gets in behind him and puts his arm around Stan’s waist.)

Babe: See? (pressing up against Stan’s backside).  Can you imagine me fucking her with that? You wonder why I’ve never had children?

Stan: If you try real hard. You might make it happen.

Babe: What’s funny is, that’s how Madelyn (Saloshin-first wife) got me to marry her.

Stan: How do you mean?

Babe: She told me she was pregnant, and the baby could only be mine.

Stan: And you believed her?

Babe: I was young and horny. It was the first time I had sex. I couldn’t stay in her and I basically came outside of her vagina. I pushed in again, so I thought maybe that’s what did it. I wasn’t sure so I asked my Mama if it could be.

Stan: You asked your Mother?

Babe: I had nobody else to ask. And my Mother knew my penis was small. Mama was sure Madelyn was lying. So I believed she was lying, but how could I be entirely sure. Madelyn said we had to be married before she started showing as to protect her reputation. She then said she could help me with my career. We could move to Jacksonville (from Atlanta) and I could find a job at one of the studios down there. And since she had ties in the entertainment world, she could get me in.

Stan: Is that how you got in the movies?

Babe: Kind of. It turns out she wasn’t pregnant and said she miscarried the baby soon after we married. Mama was livid. She called me a fool and a sucker for marrying her. I couldn’t even bring Madelyn home to meet her. It turned out Madelyn’s ties to entertainment didn’t help much in getting me a job. It was my constantly bugging the studios, my agility and Fatty Arbuckle getting popular that got me the job. I do credit her with getting me to Jacksonville and making me choose my own nickname, so the studios wouldn’t call me Fatty. Kids used to tease and taunt me with Fatty and I didn’t want to be known as Fatty Hardy for the rest of my life.

Stan: I thought an Italian barber gave you the nickname?

Babe: VIM or King Bee or Vitagraph. I can’t remember what stories came from which studio. I never attended College either. I’m not smart enough.

Stan: Were you angry that she tricked you?

Babe realized he is opening up about stuff he never told Stan before, maybe it was because he was holding him in his arms.

Babe: Of course. I was mad. But there was another reason I married her and it was probably the most important to me.

Stan: What was that?

Babe: She..I..

Babe didn’t believe he was going to tell Stan his big secret. But this is what he wanted to do, so he pressed on.

Babe: She caught me giving a blowjob to the stage manager of the theater in Atlanta in the dressing room.

Stan: What?

Stan, who was feeling very cozy and comfortable cuddling in Babe’s arms suddenly felt slightly uncomfortable. Only slightly though and he relaxed again, wondering where this was leading, excitedly.

Babe: You heard me right. But she never threatened to tell anyone about it. What she did do was let me continue seeing men sexually while we were married. I couldn’t see other women, but I could see men as long as she didn’t know about it. She didn’t consider men as threats. I couldn’t leave her for a man.

Stan: This wasn’t a one-time thing?

Babe: No. I like the company of men as well as women. She didn’t feel the men were a threat. Afterall in showbiz it’s fairly common. I wasn’t even a good catch back then. All I had was ambition and a good singing voice and that couldn’t help me get into pictures. She just wanted to get married before she got too old just so she wouldn’t be an old maid. She did make it hard for me to meet with men or other women. I worked during the day at Lubin and I worked at the Hotel Cabaret she worked at during the evenings.

Stan: She sounds a lot like Mae, my first wife. Was she trying to control you?

Babe: Looking back on it now. I’d say yes. But I had lots of opportunity with both men and women at the studio. I kept my bargain with the women, but fooled around with almost all the other actors.

Stan is wondering now. Why hasn’t he seen this side of Babe before?

Babe: It wasn’t until Lubin closed in Jacksonville and I was making pictures in New York that I started to see other women. I couldn’t hide that from her. She smelled perfume on me where she shouldn’t have. She seemed to know everything. She always guessed right when she saw me on screen with an actress I liked a lot. We fought a lot in New York. That ended when I came back to Jacksonville in 1916. Those were the best days for my young career. I co-starred as Plump in the Plump and Runt comedies.

Stan: Did you write those?

Babe: I contributed ideas when I thought I had a good one.

Stan: Everybody in this business wrote their own material back then. Nobody was helping me. Why were you special?

Babe: Because we were a Jacksonville studio and the VIM group was all about sharing ideas and putting out the best product we could so we could compete with Hollywood. And Louis Burstein liked me and was still trying to make me into Fatty Arbuckle. It didn’t hurt that I was willing to get on my knees. Now where was I? VIM failed after one year and Louis started King Bee. He gave up on the Fatty Arbuckle idea a told me that if I lost some weight, he would keep me as a foil to Billy West, the Charlie Chaplin imitator. He wanted me to be big, but not roly-poly.

Stan: You were fatter at one time?

Babe: I was fatter much of my life. I had to go on a strict diet and start exercising just to get down to a weight where I could look husky. Then we came to New York again as part of the King Bee company. Madelyn watched me like a hawk. Since I couldn’t see women, I got bold about finding men. I went to underground clubs the showbiz people would frequent and Madelyn would always come with me and sit with a miserable look on her face. I would chat with the guys and ignore the girls so she wouldn’t get upset. The problem was that guys saw me with my wife and thought I wasn’t interested in sex with them. One time I agreed to go back to a guy’s apartment to see his “artwork” and Madelyn would go home knowing what I was doing. He was very macho and I was a little bit afraid of him, but I was in lust. Once we got to his place, all he did was show me his art. It was a one room apartment, so we sat on the bed. I laid back, but he ignored me and continued talking about his art, show me his work and how he wanted to get into a Broadway play. Then I turned to my side and put my leg up on the baseboard of the bed and basically had my ass in his face.

Stan: That’s a hard ass to miss. He didn’t get the hint?

Babe: He got up and (incredulously) started cleaning his apartment. I never got fucked up til then, but with him, I was thinking about it. I would usually lay together naked with the guy, kiss and neck and exchange blowjobs.

Stan: Why didn’t you just tell him?

Babe: I wasn’t sure about him and like I said I was a bit afraid of him. I felt I was wasting my time at this point and got up to make my exit when he stops me and says that he was sorry, but he heard I was a top. I thought he was a top.

Stan: That’s funny. He didn’t give you any clues?

Babe: No. A guy like that needs to.

Stan: Hmm.

Babe: Well Hollywood was the place to be and King Bee eventually moved to Hollywood. Madelyn really resisted us moving to Hollywood, but she had no choice because my career was bringing in more money than hers now.

Stan: Go on. I’m very interested. (Stan was enjoying listening to Babe talk about himself)

Babe: Hollywood was very different from the East coast. I had a lot to learn. For one thing the Hollywood tabloids scared me. I was afraid my career would end if I misbehaved with men. I didn’t know who I could trust. So I swore off men. One thing I did realize was that it was time for me to split with Madelyn. But Madelyn refused to divorce me, so that was a long process. After King Bee closed, I freelanced for a while until 1919 when I signed on with Vitagraph to be the Heavy for Jimmy Aubrey.

Stan: Jimmy’s a friend of mine from Karno. (Comedy Troup from England)

Babe: I can imagine what he told you about me. If he mentioned me at all. I think he saw me as a threat.

Stan: He said you were very good, but you would steal scenes from him. You didn’t know when you shouldn’t be funny.

Babe: As he would tell me often.

Stan: When I came to Roach I saw that you were on the team and I was afraid they would put me with you. I was still trying to build a solo career. Hal said we would be perfect together. I wasn’t seeing it that way. I had some very funny pictures with Joe Rock. But Hal called them garbage and said I needed a fresh start.

Babe: (playfully nibbles at his ear) And I ruined your life for good. Anyway, I met Myrtle during this time. She was from back home in Georgia. I met her at a private party just before prohibition started and she and her sister were so much fun for me. It was like I was back home with my little girlfriends in Georgia. I told her everything about me. Everything. And she didn’t bat an eye. I told that I probably wouldn’t give her any children and I told her how frustrated I was with my marriage and the deal that I had with Madelyn. Myrtle offered the same deal to me. That is if I ever wanted to marry her. I even moved in with them before my divorce was final. That kind of scandal was good for my career. Anyway, at Vitagraph, I met Larry Semon.

Stan: Larry Semon. I worked with him.

Babe: Yes, it turns out he liked to fuck men.

Stan: That doesn’t surprise me. I swore he and Frank Alexander were doing something.

Babe: They were. He said he couldn’t come by masturbating or blowjobs. He could only come in an ass or a pussy. And I think he preferred the men’s asses, big men’s asses. I may have been a little small for him. He was fucking Hughie Mack. And when Hughie Mack left Vitagraph, it was Frank.

Stan: They were both a lot bigger than you.

Babe: Yeah, but he wanted me too. Larry was always horny and he was generously endowed. He was constantly fucking. Men and women.

Stan: And you let him?

It may have been his imagination but he thought he could feel Babe’s little penis get hard just talking about Larry Semon fucking him.

Babe: He definitely wasn’t my type, but he was smooth as a salesman. He knew who to trust and who not to and never had a scare with the tabloids. So he talked me into letting him fuck me.

Stan: How did you know you wanted to do that?

Babe: Well, the first time. I’ve never, ever told anybody this. The first time I was raped.

Stan: Oh my God.

Babe: Yes, my Mom worked hard running a hotel and she appreciated all the help she could get. I think I was 12 years old and this guy was always hanging around. He would do repairs around the hotel. He painted and sometimes I would help him. I didn’t pay much attention, but he was always bugging my sister Emmie. I think he may have raped her too. One night, there was a big fight going on between him and my Mama. Then all of a sudden my Mama was marrying him and my sister married and moved to Philadelphia. That left me and Henry in the house. He let Henry be because Henry could lick him for sure. But he was always picking on me. I don’t even know his name. Just initials, CF. We called him CF. Maybe it meant child fucker. Jackson was his last name. He insisted that I call him Dad. I never did and he beat me more than once for that. At night he would come to my room and jerk me off while I sucked him off. He made me promise not to tell Mama and I didn’t. I was confused. Getting jerked off felt good. Then one night he wanted to show me something new and got on top of me in the bed, pulled up my nightgown and forced himself in me. I yelled loud enough for Mama to hear and she came into the room screaming. CF pushed his way past her and she got me and held me and promised he would never hurt me again. Soon after, she sent me away to Young Harris Academy in the Georgia Mountains where I lived at the school. When I came home again, CF was gone. I never saw him again. I still think Mama killed him and buried him in the basement. I tried to find the body but found nothing. I asked Henry if he killed him, but he just laughed and said he wished he did.

Stan: Turn around. It’s my turn to hold you.

Babe was reluctant. But relented and let go of Stan and flipped over. Stan turned around and put his arm around Babe, who held Stan’s hand around him.

Stan: There. That’s better. Are you okay?

Babe: Oh yeah. I got over that a long time ago. I never did ask my Mama why she married the guy. I assume it was some sort of deal for him to let Emmie go and marry a man her age.

Stan: Where were we? Oh yes. So you let Larry bugger you?

Babe: Bugger he did. And I enjoyed it. Larry wasn’t afraid of the tabloids but he did urge me to get married as soon as my divorce went through. Eventually Larry signed me away from Jimmy and we continued on. Frank too. Sometimes the three of us would get in bed and Larry would fuck one of us and Frank and I would get each other off, while Larry built up another load for the other.

Stan: I’ve lead such a sheltered life. What about Myrtle? Does she know?

Babe: Oh heavens no. I can’t have regular sex with her. I imagine she doesn’t want to hear that I’m getting fucked. But the sex Myrtle and I have is great. I make up for it by being romantic. When we are intimate, that is, when I am home. I lower the lights and she puts on sexy lingerie that I get for her and I wear my silk robe and smoke a pipe. Then I ravage her body with my mouth a tongue. All over. I have become quite the expert at making her come with my tongue. I feel guilty that I’m not home often. I think she drinks because I am not and she fills her time with alcohol. Larry took up a lot of my time, introducing me to golf and the racetrack, as well as the sex. And when I went to Tijuana on weekends, I used Larry as an excuse.

Stan: What do you do now that Larry is no longer with us?

Babe: I was devastated when I heard the news. We were working and one of the guys let us know at lunchbreak. We were doing the picture where we were wearing each other’s pants and couldn’t switch them without getting caught.

Stan: Liberty

Babe: Is that it? Is that what it’s called? Anyway, I’m glad we weren’t doing the scenes up on that building that day. I might’ve fallen. I went home and I cried that night. Let me up, I’ve got to pee.

Stan: (Stan holds him down) Promise me you’ll come back in this position.

Babe: I want you back the other way.

Stan releases him and flips over as Babe runs to the bathroom and comes back shortly getting back in behind Stan.

Babe: Now where were we? Oh, Larry died. I was hoping and believing that the rumors about Larry faking his death to beat his debts were true. Can a person die of pneumonia because he had a nervous breakdown or was depressed? I don’t know. But I thought something was fishy. I couldn’t find anybody who saw the body other than his wife Dorothy and she stood to gain by his death too. He was shipped off to Philadelphia for the funeral. I really thought I’d get a message from him asking me to go to a spot in Mexico on a certain day at a certain time. But nothing like that ever happened.

Stan: That was a few years ago. Has anybody taken his place? (Stan asked, hoping he’d say no.)

Babe: That’s where Viola comes in. I’m sure you’ve heard about her from the tabloids. Myrtle waves those in my face every time I’m the latest news.

Stan: And she buggers you?

Babe: No, haha. Actually I met her through Larry at the track and she knew what went on with us and she reached out to me and told me she knew someone who could replace Larry for me.  So now Viola and I go to the track. People leave me alone with her, we have lunch, have fun then we go back to the hotel and meet up with Hernando. He’s a sexy, young Mexican. He’s got a big cock and knows how to use it. He will fuck both me and Viola. I just have to tip the both of them.

Stan: That must get expensive.

Babe: Yes, it does. I tell Myrtle I’m losing money through gambling on the ponies. But actually, I’m doing much less gambling now. I can’t afford it.

Stan: I have a confession to make too.

Babe: What’s that Stanley?

Stan: I like women. I like strong-willed women. Women who will fight with me. But I’ve entertained the thoughts of loving a man. But for me, I can’t do what you do. There has to be emotional attachment. I don’t even know what I would do sexually. But my time just lying in bed with you has been nice and I’ve been hard the whole time.

Babe: I thought I felt something poking me.

Stan: I used to dream about doing pictures with Mae. She would boss me around and I would be the hen-pecked husband, never good enough to make her happy. I never sorted it out. But when I teamed up with you, I used the same idea. You played Mae’s part. It worked a lot better with you. Babe, I’ve got that emotional attachment to you and I think I love you more than Lois (current wife).

Babe: Stanley, are you asking me to marry you?

Stan: (surprised and embarrassed) Oh no, nothing like that. I just want you to know that if we could, I would. Our careers would be ruined, but I think I’d be happy for the rest of my life.

Babe: I suspect you’re right about it ruining our careers. But if you want to play with me right now, I’m willing to teach you a few things..

PHONE RINGS

Babe: That must be Myrtle back to our room looking for me. That didn’t take as long as I’d hoped.

Stan thinks to himself, What awful timing.

Stan: Can you delay going. I’d be willing to learn.

Babe: I’ll try. But I can’t think of a reason that she’ll accept.

Stan: Don’t answer. Catch up to her later. Say we were exploring the ship.

Babe: Or exploring each other?

Stan turns around in the bed to face Babe, tears welling up.

Stan: Babe, I love you. I’ve loved you for a long time. I just didn’t know. I didn’t know I could be with you.

Babe gives him a big hug and kisses him square on the lips.

Babe: I love you too Stan. I can act the way I do with you because you’re the only person since my mother that I can be natural around. I know you can accept me for who I am. We’ve just never been alone together long enough where I could gather my thoughts and tell you without just blurting it out.

Stan: I can’t be like Larry or Hernando though. I think I’m too small too. I think I’d be a bottom. I don’t know. I never tried it.

Babe: Alright then, let’s play around a little bit right now. (Babe stands and removes his boxers with flair and ends up kicking them across the room.

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

Myrtle: (from the other side of the door) I know you’re in there. I heard you talking.

Babe is standing, wearing only his undershirt and bare from the waist down. Stan is admiring his ass as Babe scans the floor looking for his boxers. Stan realizes he needs to help and grabs Babe’s robe and throws it to him. Babe catches it and slips it on and runs for the door and opens it while tying it. Meanwhile Stan looks around at the floor toward where Babe kicked his underwear.

Babe lets Myrtle in.

Babe: Oh, hello dear. Back so soon.

Myrtle: Didn’t that lady at the Spa call Stan’s room to let you know I was on my way up. We need to get ready for lunch. Come on. Hi Stanley.

Myrtle grabs his hand tugs on him and turns to leave. Then stops to look again at what she thought she saw. She looks again to see a large pair of boxers hanging from a floor lamp. Both Stan and Babe see what she sees too. And nobody says anything as she pulls Babe out of the room.

Myrtle: You too Stan. Get ready for lunch.

Myrtle didn’t leave Babe to be alone with Stan for too long for the rest of the voyage home. Stan spent his time working on their next picture, entitled Their First Mistake.

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FDNY Collection - Fire Engine 58. Mack CF Pumper. Harlem Fire Factory. Code 3 release 2002.

Location : 925 East Tremont, Bronx.

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Okay so I'm doing a s1 rewatch and gonna talk to you about it because why not. I kind of didn't get into the show until s2 and sort of just skimmed through s1. So rewatching it, in 1x07 is it just me or is the whole Joe electrocuting himself to turn Cameron on (?!) both absolutely ridculous and like... super gross? Joe is what like 15? years older than Cameron who is what, 20 here? Ew? A woman supposedly wrote this episode but I bet a man wrote that bit. It's so very Male Bullshit™

CON’T: In fact all of Joe in season 1 (and lets face it all seasons?) is kind of Male Bullshit. But especially in season 1. Because like, canon Cameron is clearly a fucking mess who's vulnerable to his bullshit. But also some part of me feels like Real Cameron who didn't really come into existence until season 2... would not rly have been into him :P I can't fully grasp if she's meant to rly like him or if she's just with him for lack of other options/being lonely and bored.

A long time ago a fellow gay shipper joked on here/said something to the effect of, ‘remember when he literally had to shock her with a live current because that was the only way he could turn her on?’ If I’m being honest, I still have not recovered from this!

I suppose that whole scene is a matter of taste, for which there’s no real accounting (okay briefly - my official position on it is that some things just don’t work as well onscreen as they might on paper, even with actors like Mack and Lee), but to belatedly speak to your other points: I feel like the most critically productive way to read early H&CF is to view the acknowledged Male Bullshit™ as The Point. It’s not always clear that it’s the point, and that’s because, well, the creators didn’t know how to do what they were trying to do at the beginning! Fortunately, the network set them up with experienced producers who were able to see their vision, for a series about (‘about’) an antihero that’s about more than justifying and begging sympathy for his destructive behavior, and pity for the characters that become his collateral damage. I think, largely based on that pilot spec script that’s been floating around for a while, that the producers understood that the way to do that was to spend more time on the other characters and make it a true ensemble, and to make them smarter (if not sneakier) than the antihero. J*e and his machinations still kind of have to be the engine for the first seasons’ plot, because, well, that’s how the characters are: they’re all stuck, and they need this random, aggressive, (surprisingly genuinely?) sad bastard to push them to act. 

So, yes, there’s a huge age difference between Cameron and J*e, and he definitely scams his way into her college classroom because for his plan to work he needs a 22-year old coder who’s both naïve and a little wild, and who he presumably can manipulate. He absolutely knows what he’s doing, no matter how many people on this website refuse to see his actions clearly, and he largely succeeds at that for most of the season; he’s the main antagonist, and we’re supposed to be wary of him, and put off by all of this. Because, even though a lot of people want to ignore this, too, Cameron is naïve, and also legitimately emotionally compromised (yes, even with that tough front, people contain multitudes, and they can be deceptive), and it works on her. (I’m pretty sure I’ve said this here before, but you can actually see when it starts to work on her, it’s when they’re negotiating her salary, and he says, ‘Now you’re thinking like a professional.’ That gets to her.)

Which isn’t healthy or positive, but it is real. I think ‘like’ is a strong word for how Cameron feels about him, especially in the first half of season 1, but their connection is the real deal, even if it’s largely based on them both being isolated, and having complementary emotional dysfunction based on similar childhood traumas. They’re also drawn to each other’s expertise; Cameron makes her derisive and mostly deserved comments about ‘whatever it is that a product manager does,’ but she recognizes that he can sell and publicly promote an idea in a way that’s useful, and in a way that she can’t and won’t. (She says as much at COMDEX ’90.) 

And for as critical as I’ve been of how that relationship has been handled, I think all of that is pretty clear from the text? But the show doesn’t spell this out or spoon feed it to the viewer, so there is much room for willful/sexist/heteronormative misinterpretation. I don’t think all of the misinterpretation is willful though, people misunderstand power dynamics in relationships and excuse men’s intentional harm irl all the time, because that is sadly the cisheteropatriarchy we all live in.

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Dầu nhớt cho động cơ Turbo và những điều cần lưu ý

Việc sử dụng Turbo tăng áp đã không còn là chuyện lạ lẫm trong ngành công nghiệp ô tô. Vậy turbo tăng áp là gì? Nhớt thông thường và nhớt Turbo khác nhau như thế nào? Việc sử dụng chúng có gì khác nhau? Lưu ý gì khi sử dụng dầu nhớt cho động cơ Turbo? Mời các bạn tham khảo bài viết sau với Power Turbo nhé: 

1. Turbo tăng áp là gì?

Turbo tăng áp là một công cụ cơ khí được sử dụng như hệ thống nén khí. Để đẩy vào các xi-lanh, giúp tăng cường quá trính đốt cháy từ đó tăng công suất động cơ. Ban đầu turbo tăng áp dùng để tăng sức mạnh cho những chiếc xe thể thao. Cần công suất lớn hoặc cho xe khi đi trên đèo núi nhằm bù đắp tổn thất sức mạnh do lên cao thiếu oxi cung cấp cho buồng đốt. Nhưng hiện nay turbo tăng áp đã được trang bị rộng rãi cho cả các dòng xe phổ thông khác.

2. Nhớt thông thường và nhớt Turbo khác nhau như thế nào?

Việc sử dụng nhớt turbo có gì khác so với nhớt thông thường là điều không phải ai cũng biết.

Đối với các yếu tố kỹ thuật và chi phí, động cơ sử dụng turbo đòi hỏi phải sử dụng các piston khỏe hơn, các cần đẩy khỏe hơn; và trục khủy cũng phải khỏe hơn so với các động cơ không sử dụng turbo. Các Turbochager cũng tạo ra nhiệt bổ sung đáng kể, chính vì vậy mà động cơ nóng hơn. Vì vậy hệ thống làm mát bộ tản nhiệt lớn hơn và các valve chịu nhiệt được sử dụng khá phổ biến.

Các turbin có thể quay trên 100,000 vòng/phút (có thể lên đến 250,000 vòng/phút). Chính vì vậy các động cơ được tăng áp đòi hỏi phải có nguồn cung cấp dầu dồi dào. Cùng với một bơm dầu dung tích cao hơn và có thể là cần thêm một bộ làm mát dầu. Nhiệt độ là kẻ thù lớn nhất của dầu, chính vì vậy mà động cơ được tăng áp đòi hỏi phải có khoảng thời gian thay dầu ngắn hơn động cơ không được tăng áp.

=> Do vậy các loại dầu thông thường từ cấp độ thấp như CA, CB, CC, CD, CD-2, CE, CF, CF-2… Sẽ không thể đáp ứng được môi trường vận hành khắc nghiệt của động cơ có turbo.

3. Sử dụng dầu nhớt turbo tăng áp như thế nào là phù hợp?

Các sản phẩm dầu nhớt động cơ trên thị trường hiện nay đa phần đã đáp ứng đầy đủ từ cấp độ: CF-4, CH-4, CI4, CJ-4 chuyên sử dụng các thiết bị động cơ Turbo tăng áp. Các sản phẩm có cấp độ thấp hơn như CA, CB, CC, CD, CD-2, CE, CF, CF-2… Không được khuyến cáo sử dụng cho động cơ có turbo.

Vì sao nên sử dụng từ cấp độ nhớt CF-4 trở lên để phù hợp với động cơ turbo?

Dầu nhớt API CF-4 (có từ năm 1990) dùng cho động cơ tốc độ cao, đạt tiêu chuẩn để sử dụng cho động cơ 4 thì và có trang bị turbo. Có thể dùng thay thế có cấp độ CD và CE (không hỗ trợ turbo). Khi cấp độ càng cao chỉ số độ nhớt càng cao thì các tính năng sẽ phù hợp với thiết bị có sử dụng có Turbo tăng áp.

Khi dùng nhớt có Turbo Tăng áp sử dụng nguyên liệu diesel thì thông thường chú ý đến các vấn đề sẻ xảy ra như sau:

Trong điều kiện công tác khắc nghiệt hơn động cơ xăng – tỉ số nén thông thường khoảng 1:20 trong khi động cơ xăng nhiều nhất chỉ 1:11 – nhưng động cơ diesel thường có tuổi thọ tới gấp rưỡi động cơ xăng.

Tuy nhiên chi phí sửa chữa động cơ diesel có turbo rất đắt đỏ, nhất là các mẫu máy hiện đại phun dầu điện tử … CRDi …Common Rail … Vẫn có trường hợp động cơ Diesel hỏng rất sớm, tốn kém chi phí sửa chữa. Có một số lỗi đơn giản dễ làm giảm tuổi thọ của động cơ diesel mà người dùng hay mắt phải như sau:

Tắt máy ngay lập tức:

Bài này chỉ bàn đến kiểu máy thông dụng nhất là sử dụng Turbo tăng áp khí nạp dẫn động bằng khí xả. Turbine khí được làm quay bằng khí xả của xe có tốc độ quay lên tới hàng chục ngàn vòng/phút. Nó được bôi trơn bằng dầu nhớt dẫn tới từ các te dầu của xe bằng bơm dầu nhớt của động cơ.

Dòng dầu bôi trơn này gần như ngừng lại lập tức khi động cơ xe dừng lại. Do đó nếu đang để máy nổ lớn thì lúc này cánh quạt Turbo cũng đang quay cực nhanh. Nếu tắt máy lập tức thì với quán tính lớn cánh quạt turbo vẫn tiếp tục quay. Trong khi dầu bôi trơn ngừng lại, sẽ làm Turbo bị hỏng nhanh chóng.

=> Lưu ý: Khi dừng xe lại, nhả hết chân ga ra và đợi cho động cơ trở vệ trạng thái ga răng ti khoảng 30 giây đến 01 phút. Để cho cánh quạt Turbo giảm tốc độ, sau đó mới tắt máy và rút chìa khóa.

Để bình dầu nhiên liệu cạn:

Điểm này đặc biệt nên chú ý đối với miền bắc Việt Nam vì có độ ẩm cao. Những động cơ dầu hiện đại sử dụng kim phun dầu điện tử rất dễ bị tắc, hỏng khi trong dầu nhiên liệu bị lẫn nước.

Khi thường xuyên để bình nhiên liệu vơi, lượng không khí bên trong bình lên đến 50 – 80 lít. Khi khí hậu có độ ẩm cao (mùa nồm lên đến >90% độ ẩm), lượng hơi nước trong bình nhiên liệu sẽ ngưng tụ ở thành bình chứa nhiên liệu và rơi vào dầu.

Đối với bình xăng cũng như vậy, nhưng vì xăng có tỉ trọng nhẹ nên thương là nước trong bình xăng lắng xuống dưới. Đôi khi xả đáy bình xăng của xe cũ được tới vài lít nước. Dầu Diesel có tỉ trọng nặng gần như nước nên nước lẫn trong dầu dễ bị nổi lên. Nhất là khi xe di chuyển và đi vào bơm nhiên liệu, di chuyển vào hệ thống cấp nhiên liệu và làm hư hỏng xe.

=> Lưu ý: Khi bình nhiên liệu vơi nên đổ đầy luôn. Nhất là xe để không đi một khoảng thời gian thì nên đổ đầy bình nhiên liệu để đẩy hết không khí ra ngoài. (với xe xăng nếu duy trì được như thế này cũng có lợi).

Một số sản phẩm nhớt turbo của Dầu nhớt Morris

Dầu nhớt turbo Versimax HD4 15W-40 là dầu nhớt ô tô động cơ diesel cao cấp có chứa phụ gia tiên tiến. Sẽ bảo vệ động cơ ngay khi khởi động ở mọi điều kiện vận hành khắc nghiệt nhất. Sử dụng hiệu quả cho các loại động cơ diesel có trang bị Turbo tăng áp hoặc không. (Như xe tải, xe khách, xe thương mại, tàu thuyền…)

Tiêu chuẩn kỹ thuật:

ACEA: E7

API: CI-4+/SL

Caterpillar: ECF-1, ECF-2

Cummins: CES 20071 / 72

Cummins: CES 20076 / 77 / 78

Global: DHD-1

MB: 228.3

MAN: M3275

MACK: EO-M Plus

RVI: RLD2

MTU: Type 2

Volvo: VDS3

Allison: C4 quality

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FDNY Engine 237 1987 Mack CF