My friend just spent $80 on a "lifetime warranty" caulk gun and it jammed on the second tube. He spent an hour cleaning it and the warranty was basically a coupon for a replacement that didn't match. Funny how the $10 ones from the hardware store just work, no questions asked, until they don't and you toss them. Isn't that how everything is now though, you pay more for the promise of quality and end up with the same headaches.

Yeah man I had almost the exact same thing happen at a bar in Portland. Guy next to me started going on about how the moon landings were staged in a desert. I just kinda nodded for a bit. Then I asked him real simple like "okay so where did all the moon rocks come from then?" He got real quiet. Told me they were just normal rocks from Earth. I said "well they tested them and they're different from Earth rocks." He just shrugged and changed the subject. That's the thing with these guys. They don't have answers. They just have this one thing they heard and they repeat it. The Van Allen belt thing always comes up too. What worked for me was just asking one simple question they can't dodge. Most of them don't actually know the science behind their own claims.

Wait, you used to strip EVERY SINGLE thorn off? That's insane! I've been doing this for year and I never even thought about leaving some on for grip. Fifteen minutes per bucket is a huge time save. I'm definitely trying this next time I do my roses.

Had a friend who's KitchenAid did the same thing mid-batch of sugar cookies. She said the smell of burning plastic was awful and she never got it working again.

Oh man, that reminds me of the time I tried to solder a lamp wire and melted half the dang thing!