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Oh okay, I knew the name looked familar.
I was wondering though if it was a previous doper that used to go by Commonsense but the subscription ran out a while back and signed up with a new name.
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I actually remember a guest who’s name was something like that (probably was that) who was told of the other doper names saying that if she stayed, she would change her name. guess she did.
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Are those signs actually enforcible under some sort of law in the way that handicapped spaces are?
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Perhaps not. I’ll do some checking.
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I actually remember a guest who’s name was something like that (probably was that) who was told of the other doper names saying that if she stayed, she would change her name. guess she did.
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Oh okay. A guest had that name but subscribed under a different name.
That makes sense.
I assume then that “guest names” do not stay in the search criteria because I found no posts by “Commonsense”.
Interesting.
No, it’s not really interesting. I’m sure she just asked the mods for a name change. As you should know, signing up as a guest then subscribing with another name is against the rules, so you are casually finding it “interesting” that she is breaking the rules.
She apparently changed it because there was another long standing member named “commasense” and people [post=9332857]suggested it would cause confusion[/post].
And the name on any posts she might have made as “Commonsense” would automatically have been changed to “Sprockets” (as shown in the thread CarnalK linked to) so a search for posts by “Commonsense” would show nothing.
[QUOTE=CarnalK]
No, it’s not really interesting. I’m sure she just asked the mods for a name change. As you should know, signing up as a guest then subscribing with another name is against the rules, so you are casually finding it “interesting” that she is breaking the rules.
She apparently changed it because there was another long standing member named “commasense” and people [post=9332857]suggested it would cause confusion[/post].
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Okay. So the OP changed her/his “guest name” from Commonsense to Sprockets because of the confusion that may happen because there are other long time posters with simaliar names. The OP requested and was “legally” allowed to change their username via the mods because he/she/they agreed that it may cause confusion and wanted to avoid the problems it might create.
Got it!
I was not trying to start an “interesting” situation or disect board rules. I was just curious really.
I don’t like the sporadic, lousy & expensive garbage pickup in our corner of the ‘country’, but I do like sitting on my front porch while I do my hunting and target practice…
Oh, and what food product besides ‘Ding Dongs’ is not biodegradable?
Why burn food scraps? Grow worms or corn in them…
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Oh, and what food product besides ‘Ding Dongs’ is not biodegradable?
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Spam.
[QUOTE=GusNSpot]
Oh, and what food product besides ‘Ding Dongs’ is not biodegradable?
Why burn food scraps? Grow worms or corn in them…
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My daughter lives in the boonies. Food scraps are never a problem. You just throw them over the fence into the cow pasture and the cows rush over and take care of it. And if you have chickens and dogs—no problem.
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Well, you tell me - do you think she’d brag about her Grandpa’s racist attitudes as much as his un-PC environmental attitudes? Now, I’m not assuming that her backwoods Grandpa was a racist, but if he was, that is certainly under the same “oh, it was the 40’s” safe haven some seem happy to provide for pouring paint in the creek.
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I have no idea. I thought I knew the answer before, but after reading some of the reactions in this thread, I’m not so sure…
Maybe the inevitable responses telling me that the two situations are “totally different things” will help educate me, because I’m confused. 
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Whereas, when a houseguest – who in exchange for free room & board was supposed to take our trash to the dump – was actually dumping our trash along the roadside, got a ticket. That ticket meant he was to go to court or pay a fine. I actually worked out a deal for him that he would clean up the trash, take it to the dump and not be “responsible” for trash anymore in exchange for the ticket being dismissed.
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And I was fined fifty dollars and had to pick up the garbage, but that’s not what I came here to talk a out…
You know, when I first moved here and was clearing the land for where eventually built my house, I did have a burn pile just about every day. Up here in Maine, the local fire Chief is the one who issues the burn permits. I got to know him, his family, his farm, and his dog pretty well by the end of the summer.
Now, I don’t even bother with burning brush unless I specifically want a bonfire. All I do is throw it in the empty ravine at the end of my driveway (no water down there) and use the tractor to push it up into a pile. It eventually degrades and is out of my sight. At camp, it’s too much of a hassle to burn all those little branches and twigs etc (especially the fresh cut ones) so I just use them to make an indian fence in the woods at my property line. It’s good for the critters and gets it out of my way.
Now, when it comes to burning piles in the winter, green wood + snow = not liking to burn so well. So we have used all sorts of things to get the fire going. Gas, diesel, cooking oil, motor oil, etc. My grandfather, when burning green / wet brush in the winter, used to start the pile of debris by putting an old tire on the bottom, piling all the green brush on it, and setting it on fire. The oil from the tire would superheat the center of the fire, making a bed of coals, and the rest of the pile would burn really well.
[QUOTE=FourPaws]
You know, when I first moved here and was clearing the land for where eventually built my house, I did have a burn pile just about every day. .
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When my house was built, they just cut down trees and pushed them off to the side to rot. We are talking about a lot of trees.
My Wife and I have spent many, many hours cleaning up this slash. We burned it. It was an incredible amount of work.
We also reconfigured the driveway so it comes all the way to the house (what a concept). Aside from the D4 we rented, we took 6 weekends just falling trees and burning them.
[QUOTE=FourPaws]
And I was fined fifty dollars and had to pick up the garbage, but that’s not what I came here to talk a out…
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IN THE SNOW!
“And we was fined fifty dollars and had to pick up the garbage in the snow; but that’s not what I came to tell you about…”
Since I brought it up in the first place, I feel morally obligated to get our literary allusion right.
Sorry. Got nuthin’ else.
—slinks away—
Don’t move to Africa. It’s the only way of getting rid of trash around here. For every one person burning trash in America, there are about a thousand burning their refuse (admittedly, there isn’t a lot of it- just a smattering of mango seeds, tomato paste cans and millions of plastic bags) here. I think if I ever smell burning trash again, I’m gonna get all nostalgic for Cameroon mornings, when the smoke drifts in a beautiful haze across the bush…
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Don’t move to Africa. It’s the only way of getting rid of trash around here. For every one person burning trash in America, there are about a thousand burning their refuse (admittedly, there isn’t a lot of it- just a smattering of mango seeds, tomato paste cans and millions of plastic bags) here. I think if I ever smell burning trash again, I’m gonna get all nostalgic for Cameroon mornings, when the smoke drifts in a beautiful haze across the bush…
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Speaking as someone glad to be urban, I’ve got no dog in the trash burning hunt. (Wow, talk about mixed metaphors!)
But I couldn’t miss this opportunity to ask if you ever heard this song by the great Red Clay Ramblers: