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[AJC]

Just an observation and a question about people in my short 70 years on the planet:
Who are the "SMARTEST" people in the world?
Those people who have made THE MOST mistakes aren't they?
If I think about it, any person who says "I made a mistake" is also saying, inherent in that statement, "I LEARNED something" aren't they?

Therefore the STUPIDEST people are those who never make any mistakes aren't they? for they have never learned anything.

All I know is the more I learn the less I know...LOL

Anybody relate?

I would hope to not make every mistake just to make sure its wrong. It has not worked out that way yet but there is hope.

 

[Shoebox]

Cluttered bench
Went to friend place, he's in his reloading room swearing and cleaning his bench ! He had just finish his 22-250 loads, 40gn fb , started on 243 hpbt loads, I ask why are you so hot under the collar ?
While starting to seat the 243 his girl friend came in and started talking
While distracted he pick up a 40gn and placed in the case, after she left he looked no bullet grabbed 85 gn hpbt
Went to place it in neck no go after several attempts took case out to inspect only to find a 40gn happy sitting on the powder

Moral or story
Stay happy stay focus and clean the bloody bench !

 

[22BRGUY]

And then of course there's the famous "I thought I was wrong once but I was mistaken" LOL

 

[6MMsteve]

And then of course there's the famous "I thought I was wrong once but I was mistaken" LOL

A pint of 10yr OLD Charter I have 4 PHDs in nuclear fusion,.....give me a pint and I will tell you all about Nuclear Fusion lol

 

[jpx2rk]

My limit on # of PHD's is two, anything above that and I stop listening to 'em.

 

[DRNewcomb]

.....Therefore the STUPIDEST people are those who never make any mistakes aren't they? for they have never learned anything.....

I look at it this way. You can classify people into three types:

1. People who learn by observing other people's mistakes.
2. People who learn by making their own mistakes.
3. People who never learn and repeat the same mistakes over and over.

It's best to be type 1, and you can still get by as type 2, but you sure don't want to even be around someone who's type 3.

 

[22BRGUY]

I look at it this way. You can classify people into three types:

1. People who learn by observing other people's mistakes.
2. People who learn by making their own mistakes.
3. People who never learn and repeat the same mistakes over and over.

It's best to be type 1, and you can still get by as type 2, but you sure don't want to even be around someone who's type 3.

In #3 are you referring to the politicians or the voters?? Ohhh...Sorry...I forgot...Never mind.

 

[DRNewcomb]

My limit on # of PHD's is two, anything above that and I stop listening to 'em.

We had an engineer at work who had two PhDs. All the other engineers called him "Doctor, Doctor". Among a workforce of about 800 nerds (mathematicians, physicists, engineers, etc) he was the most difficult and unhelpful person to work with and, because of this, generally got shunted off onto meaningless projects. My brother-in-law was working on his PhD in mathematics (at U. Chicago) and doing a little side work for the business department. A business professor had a little talk with him and said, "You know that with a PhD in math, you'll be basically unemployable. Math PhDs have a reputation of being very strange people and no one wants to hire them." Shortly after that he transferred to the business department and got his PhD from them.

 

[22BRGUY]

A pint of 10yr OLD Charter I have 4 PHDs in nuclear fusion,.....give me a pint and I will tell you all about Nuclear Fusion lol

Ahhh...Yes for sure that 10yr OLD Charter I is Good Stuff... but back in my drinking days I rated the Quality of Good Stuff on how FEW of the drinks of it it took before the label didn't matter.....Lol

I did however ask an Irish friend of mine if he would please pour a pint of the GOOD STUFF over my grave when I was gone. He said he surely would but would I mind if he filtered it through his kidneys first?
I said what the heck would I care because I'd be dead anyway.
Is that what's called a "Circular Argument?"

 

[22BRGUY]

We had an engineer at work who had two PhDs. All the other engineers called him "Doctor, Doctor". Among a workforce of about 800 nerds (mathematicians, physicists, engineers, etc) he was the most difficult and unhelpful person to work with and, because of this, generally got shunted off onto meaningless projects. My brother-in-law was working on his PhD in mathematics (at U. Chicago) and doing a little side work for the business department. A business professor had a little talk with him and said, "You know that with a PhD in math, you'll be basically unemployable. Math PhDs have a reputation of being very strange people and no one wants to hire them." Shortly after that he transferred to the business department and got his PhD from them.

Yes I've heard those Phd mathematicians can work constipation out with a pencil.….Lol

 

[CarlGeorge]

We had an engineer at work who had two PhDs. All the other engineers called him "Doctor, Doctor". Among a workforce of about 800 nerds (mathematicians, physicists, engineers, etc) he was the most difficult and unhelpful person to work with and, because of this, generally got shunted off onto meaningless projects. My brother-in-law was working on his PhD in mathematics (at U. Chicago) and doing a little side work for the business department. A business professor had a little talk with him and said, "You know that with a PhD in math, you'll be basically unemployable. Math PhDs have a reputation of being very strange people and no one wants to hire them." Shortly after that he transferred to the business department and got his PhD from them.

My dad used to say "And <idiot> with an MBA is still an <idiot>."

......although he used a more colorful word than "idiot".

 

[Fotheringill]

Weighing up about 50 rounds and dispensing the powder only to find out that you never primed them.

Done EXACTLY that in that EXACT quantity. Guys at the range had a good yuck over that one.

 

[nbkky71]

Forgetting to close the drain plug on the Chargemaster and then trying to add powder to the reservoir. grrr

 

[cw308]

It happens , sorry to say to all of us . After fine tuning all my powder charges in my 308 cases , as I was bringing the cases across the loading tray to the press after a few perfectly seated and charged bullets I noticed powder grains on the loading block . Would have been nice if they had primers . I call it a A H moment .

 

[DRNewcomb]

Forgetting to close the drain plug on the Chargemaster and then trying to add powder to the reservoir. grrr

That reminds me of putting the boat in the water then remembering the drain plug, that gets inserted from outside.

 

[Eric Leonard]

annealing some BRDX cases I heard a shot and felt a pain in my leg,,,had to dig a primer out with eyebrow tweezers,,,,that friggin hurt and I always make sure no cases have a good primer before annealing,,

 

[wkdickinson]

I went to a long range match once and couldn't chamber about 1 out of every 3 rounds. Fortunately, I had enough ammo that would chamber, but still lots of screwing around . For the life of me I couldn't figure out what was wrong. All of the case was neck-sized and they had all been previously fired in that rifle. What I forgot was - same rifle, but two different barrels. I now take the Whidden approach and full-length resize everything.

 

[HillBilly98]

That reminds me of putting the boat in the water then remembering the drain plug, that gets inserted from outside.

Yes sir been there done that more than once lol

 

[muleman69]

That reminds me of putting the boat in the water then remembering the drain plug, that gets inserted from outside.

I hate it when that happens

 

[55fairlane]

I have one die that seats and crimps at the same time......if you set it up like a normal seating die, it will crush the necks of the brass....i hate this die......