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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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BassmanPaul said:
In the mid Sixties I owned a Gibson EB0F. It had a fuzz box built into the brute. I never used it. Eventually the bass was stolen from a club in Liverpool.
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In all the years I’ve been hangin’ ‘round, I’ve had only a pair of musical things stolen.

1997...I came back from between sets 2 and 3, coughing up a lung, to find that someone needed my SM-57 more than I did.
I was stunned. Dennis, our sax player, said I looked like a dead man playing, all through the set.

The other time was Much more embarrassing...much more expensive.

1983...new to the state and anxious to make connections, I jumped at the chance to play with a ‘potential band’ in
Perry, GA.
My living room amp was a (beautiful) Blond Bandmaster that I’d loaded with a pair of Altec Lancing 12” bass speakers. I was Very proud of myself for not ::::ing it up, and Very proud of how bright n blond it was.

Y’all know where this going.

It’s going to a pawn shop in Atlanta.

Perry police tracked the baastard down. I got $1,000 from him, by way of the judge...:(



Our 9 yr old granddaughter is freakin’ Fascinated with that terrible story. She picks my memory for Every li’l kernel of that unhappy memory.
 
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One for the truckers. TRUCKERS, around here:



The blonde is Lady Pamela Stephenson, Mrs. Billy Connolly, who holds a PhD in psychology* and spent many years teaching the same at Aberdeen University, proving not all blondes are dumb.

* Brunel University London ( where i studied mechanical engineering and in my day an overwhelmingly engineering and science university) student union grafitti:

Psychology is the study of people who don't need to be studied by people who do

On the TP dispensers:

Psychology degrees - please help yourself
 
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SoulReflection said:
Here is one for us GOF's with dogs or experience with them.

One of my sons, just today, lamented that he was fishing with his retriever. My son caught a fish and lost it because his dog jumped out of the boat and he had to haul the dog back in to the boat.

This wasn't the first time. I have been them when a fish got caught or a duck got too close to the boat and the dog jumped in.

My son paid good money for a retriever and then paid more to have him professionally trained.

I texted back to him saying the dog was doing what he was bred and trained to do and all this dog wants to do is please his master.

I don't know how much a dog can be trained with discretion. What do you think?
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I was watching a border collie today. I think that this is one of the best dogs in terms of being attentive to their companion. the dog would take a couple of steps, then look up for direction. Ideally, this is what you want from a retriever. The dog needs to be looking but not make a move until given a command to fetch.

In this case, there’s a lot of distraction just being in the boat on the water, the fish thrashing about, you son is distracted so the dog isn’t getting his full attention. What you want is the dog being like the border collie, giving his attention to your son and not to what is going on around him.

Training a dog requires a lot of repetitiveness. I think the solution is to find a situation at home where the dog can be trained to focus on your son and not any other distractions. The situation will be easier to train at home than in a boat.

For instance, I think that the door example, around 2:30 in, here is a good one. The dog needs to be taught to stay and listen for commands despite distractions. This will take a lot of work.




Once the dog has mastered this, going out in the boat can be just an extension. I think that time needs to be spent in the boat without your son being distracted by fishing, giving full attention to the dog. the next step is to slowly introduce more distractions but remain focused on the dog. Then work on less attention to the dog but still reminding him to stay.

All easier said than done.
 
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Our non-human friends very literally do not experience our shared world in the way we do. Imagine if you leave for the Promised Land headed south at 100 kph ... [enough math word problems] the barn you pass to your left and see again on your right on the return trip is two different barns to an animal. This comes from the chronicles of a woman [forgotten the name and the name of the book] whose own disability allows her to work on behalf of animals. So no, I didn't Vulcan mind meld with Odin.
 
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GwenOnBass said:
Our non-human friends very literally do not experience our shared world in the way we do. Imagine if you leave for the Promised Land headed south at 100 kph ... [enough math word problems] the barn you pass to your left and see again on your right on the return trip is two different barns to an animal. This comes from the chronicles of a woman [forgotten the name and the name of the book] whose own disability allows her to work on behalf of animals. So no, I didn't Vulcan mind meld with Odin.
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Is this who you're recalling? A really good speaker, too, if memory serves.

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beans-on-toast said:
I was watching a border collie today. I think that this is one of the best dogs in terms of being attentive to their companion. the dog would take a couple of steps, then look up for direction. Ideally, this is what you want from a retriever. The dog needs to be looking but not make a move until given a command to fetch.

In this case, there’s a lot of distraction just being in the boat on the water, the fish thrashing about, you son is distracted so the dog isn’t getting his full attention. What you want is the dog being like the border collie, giving his attention to your son and not to what is going on around him.

Training a dog requires a lot of repetitiveness. I think the solution is to find a situation at home where the dog can be trained to focus on your son and not any other distractions. The situation will be easier to train at home than in a boat.

For instance, I think that the door example, around 2:30 in, here is a good one. The dog needs to be taught to stay and listen for commands despite distractions. This will take a lot of work.




Once the dog has mastered this, going out in the boat can be just an extension. I think that time needs to be spent in the boat without your son being distracted by fishing, giving full attention to the dog. the next step is to slowly introduce more distractions but remain focused on the dog. Then work on less attention to the dog but still reminding him to stay.

All easier said than done.
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Now, that was the response I was looking for. Thanks for sharing @beans-on-toast. I have forwarded it to my son. Dogs are incredibly smart and can be taught. From what I have seen recently, this dog training should be applied to some of our younger and not so young, children...just a thought ;).
 
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