Wow you be old. They have been diesel for as long as I can recall and I am past the spring chicken age and heading into my Coq Au Vin ages.
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I have two clothelines but I really only use them after the spring pollen and when it is blazing hot or windy outside and they dry fast. Problem is when I take clothes out there I sometimes forget to go get them as you can't see the lines from the house.Same here now that I think if it.
Jarlaxle
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Yeah, they're great, except for the part the clothes aren't actually DRY.
Yeah, that's awesome if you like clothes CAKED in pollen.
Unkotare
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Aren't you the sensitive little princess.
Jarlaxle
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Sit down, boy, the adults are talking here.
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Can you hear them from your little plastic table in the closet?
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Sorry, bitchboy, I'm not one of the children you lord over every day.
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Had to look that one up.
Born in 1940, lived right next to the rr tracks. Diesel freight trains didn't appear until about 1950 although the "Hiawatha" streamlined diesel passenger train was earlier and came by my house several times per week.
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When the coal trains came by coal would fall from the open cars and people with buckets would scramble to pick up the free coal. We didn't get an oil burning conversion until about 1945. Most in the neighborhood did as well and the coal trains were fewer, however the electric power plants used lots of coal, and some here still do.
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I don't "lord over" anyone, and you wouldn't qualify for high school.
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Then yours isn't working right.
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In some towns outside the big cities in China they still have guys who come around pushing a wheelbarrow full of coal calling out to the people living in a given neighborhood. People come out with little buckets and grab some and/or he opens a little door to a chute and dumps some into the basement of a building where it is fired and heats the whole building (to a degree). As you can imagine, it does not promote clean air. In the cities near where coal is mined the air quality is hard to imagine until you've been there.
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In Korea, when I was stationed there in 1963, the villagers heated with compressed coal bricks in small heaters. The heaters kept their homes just warm enough so you didn't freeze to death. The smoke pipe ran horizontally overhead through the house and was the only 'radiator'.
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I bet you have one of those washers that don't get your clothes clean too.
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Well then you should fire her.
Jarlaxle
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And it hasn't been since day one, to my mother's disgust.
That's why I don't have a new dryer, instead using my 40-year-old Kenmore.
Had to look that one up.
Born in 1940, lived right next to the rr tracks. Diesel freight trains didn't appear until about 1950 although the "Hiawatha" streamlined diesel passenger train was earlier and came by my house several times per week.
The Hiawatha passenger train. - Bing
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When the coal trains came by coal would fall from the open cars and people with buckets would scramble to pick up the free coal. We didn't get an oil burning conversion until about 1945. Most in the neighborhood did as well and the coal trains were fewer, however the electric power plants used lots of coal, and some here still do.
The local textile mill used to burn coal into the 80's I think and our route was a a shortcut between the mountains and the coast so we had coal cars coming through. I was told by a retired brakeman that there was one stretch where people used to grease or soap the tracks so when the coal trains came through they would start shaking getting traction and cause a bunch of coal to fall off back when a lot of people heated with that. It has probably been a good 8-10 years since I saw a coal car come through this area though.
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This is the 21st century
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Well no. The family business I ran away from is appliance sales and service.
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