Vents of the week....

OK, I'll add mine:

1) Surveyors who prepare a giant map of a 1/4 ac. irregular lot survey, and then also show every other irregular lot within 500' in a lighter line-weight, sprinkle a bunch of "IP FOUND" symbols at some of the corners, show offsets (0.135'N, 0.169'E, &tc.) from the IPs found to the corners, but provide no other math to get from their survey to the supposed other corners - I don't see the value in the exercise beyond eyewash for the layman.

2) Surveyors who survey several properties on both sides of a street, and each survey has a different location for the centerline of the street, or OK - mebbe 2 of 4 or 5 share the same centerline.

3) Attorneys who prepare legal descriptions and have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE as to the ramifications of the word "parallel".

Robert Hill, post: 391497, member: 378 wrote: Vegan hipster spew

I saw Vegan Hipster Spew open for the Ramones

Vegans that open their traps at tail-gate parties are cheerfully drenched in BBQ sauce.

Texas vegans that open their traps at tail-gate parties are slow smoked at 250 for 8 hours, drenched in BBQ sauce then served with a dill pickle slice.

paden cash, post: 391540, member: 20 wrote: Texas vegans that open their traps at tail-gate parties are slow smoked at 250 for 8 hours, drenched in BBQ sauce

yep, if they ate a REAL diet, you wouldn't need the BBQ sauce!

If someone wants to eat vegan, that's fine by me. But my ancestors for the last several thousand generations ate meat and so do I, and I wouldn't like to be criticized for it.

I wouldn't wear it, but I laughed at the tee shirt that said "Vegetables are what FOOD eats."

They eat horse in france, dogs in china , won't eat cow in India, it's hard to say with any moral authority who is right or wrong, just a matter of your own values.

SWMBO mostly makes soup from veggies with small portions of meat for flavor like one super thin slice of extra lean beef, pork or a single shrimp.

I will put meat gravy on most anything and make red eyed gravy with and for steak and roast and would be lost without my Presto CoolDaddy elite.

Cheese goes on most things too.

Just got back from a successful caribou hunt. Swmbo came along and had a ring side seat and helped with the butchering and packing. First time she'd ever seen anything like it. She did real good and she's more a tofu and veggie than steak girl. My guess is if people had to kill and butcher their own meat, there'd be whole lot more vegans in this world.

Williwaw, post: 392540, member: 7066 wrote: ...My guess is if people had to kill and butcher their own meat, there'd be whole lot more vegans in this world.

Back in my deer hunting days we use to have a joke that made it's way around the fire a couple of times every year:

Q: Do you know the difference between "venison" and "deer" meat?

A: Venison is when you shoot the deer, field dress it, pull the truck up and throw it in the back. Deer (dear) meat is when you shoot it, field dress it and pack the rest of it on your shoulders the entire 2 miles back to camp.

And down here you usually CAN carry a dressed whitetail carcass. Caribou, elk, moose or even big mulies are a different story entirely....

Paden, remind me to ship you a few hundred whitetails that you can't possibly pack out on your shoulders. It'll help cut down on the number of car/deer accidents reported every week here. I don't know if it's possible, but a high speed trail drive herding a couple thousand of them from here to the city limits of Norman would be an adventure worthy of several books.

You can have some from Iowa, too, and I wouldn't miss them.

It has finally rained, but with the drought we had going on, you could carry a field dressed white tail with one hand. They just didnt have the food to eat. They look better this year, but we still dont get them the size you guys do.

paden cash, post: 392546, member: 20 wrote: Back in my deer hunting days we use to have a joke that made it's way around the fire a couple of times every year:

Q: Do you know the difference between "venison" and "deer" meat?

A: Venison is when you shoot the deer, field dress it, pull the truck up and throw it in the back. Deer (dear) meat is when you shoot it, field dress it and pack the rest of it on your shoulders the entire 2 miles back to camp.

And down here you usually CAN carry a dressed whitetail carcass. Caribou, elk, moose or even big mulies are a different story entirely....

YEA, My brother (now a PE/ civil engineer in 3 states) once decided it was a great idea to go out West, live off the land & raise cattle. He was in the company of an old time rancher from out West one nite. He decided to draw on the old gent's knowledge of elk hunting and asked him, "Where is the best place to shoot an elk?" The reply was, "next to a pickup truck".

Check out the view under the Boston Haymarket area inside Vent Building #4 of the Central Artery/Tunnel Project.

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Bill93, post: 392533, member: 87 wrote: If someone wants to eat vegan, that's fine by me. But my ancestors for the last several thousand generations ate meat and so do I, and I wouldn't like to be criticized for it.

I wouldn't wear it, but I laughed at the tee shirt that said "Vegetables are what FOOD eats."

Remember, vegetables come from DIRT.

Legal description with 3 non-tangent curves that were only described by radius and length with no map references.....

Robert Hill, post: 391497, member: 378 wrote: So I'll limit it to three...my vents of the week.
1. My inability to encrypt a few simple pdf files. This use to be any easy task without 3rd party software and /or registering bs.
It seems like I use to use office or something without the aggravation.
2. Mini Coopers and the drives who prowl the streets with them. Sorry but my life has no relevance to their Italian Job driving habits...plus the annoying stickers that they attach to the rear of the car. I would have no qualms about any group of individuals who would pick up and carry these cars and place them in dumpsters.
3. Female Vegan from Austin Tx who had the audacity to criticize a pre game tailgate fundraiser for ALS victims for Team Gleason at the Saints-Giants game in NJ on Sunday. This looks like a wonderful event with good food and drinks and nice prize raffles sponsored by a NYC restaurant. A person did reply to her and succinctly called her the C word with the K sound but she stilled replied to admonish with her Vegan hipster spew.
That's all folks thanks for letting me share
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O.K., are we still on vents (aka rants)? I have always been perplexed as to why land descriptions, commonly referred to as legal descriptions, are deemed to be the practice of law. To be sure, I have seen some very good descriptions prepared by lawyers. I have seen many, many more totally incompetent so called legal descriptions. I recently surveyed some land (several small tracts) in an area that is mostly unplatted. The land was previously deemed near worthless but now it has become suddenly valuable. The balance of the lots in the area are not shown on any plat & the legal descriptions are a comedy of errors. They could be legally correct (maybe) but even that is in doubt as they conflict. Many are totally worthless for locating a tract of land on the ground. How could someone that has not even seen the land, nor seen a plat of the land & apparently has no knowledge of how it is situated according to the cardinal directions, write a competent legal description? There is often no bearings or distances given, just the adjoiner's name. Mostly, the old deed description was copied, errors & all. The adjoining property owners are not updated or just plane incorrect & in one case, the name of the county was misspelled. I have seen descriptions that were physically impossible, such as a 1/4 quarter acre lot that was described as abutting a salt marsh over 2,000 feet to the East. How wide would that lot be? Another classic would be the description of a remote timber tract. I immediately sensed something was wrong as there was a new course & distance every 10 or 20 feet. The lawyer used the wrong unit of measurement. The plat was in chains, not feet. The area is often at odds with the measurements. Isn't the overriding consideration supposed to be the benefit & safety of the public? That would seem to dictate that legal descriptions should be written by someone competent to do so, namely, the same person that is charged with establishing the property lines to begin with. Especially, since it is generally that person that usually winds up fixing the whole mess. Yea, the courts have the authority to make rulings & rightly so. They even get it right sometimes but somebody has to do it. The court, no matter how honorable, has to have something credible on which to form an opinion and render a decision.
There is currently a strong & much over due national movement for Tort Reform. Laws obviously should reflect the best interests of the public, consistent with the constitution.

Dan Patterson, post: 395784, member: 1179 wrote: Legal description with 3 non-tangent curves that were only described by radius and length with no map references.....

I scratched my head for a while over a misclosure in a subdivision plat I was working on. I had a misclosure of something like 75'. Of course I went over all of the calls looking for wherever I must have made my mistake. They had a curve that they had called as nontangent and showed a cord bearing that agreed with it being nontangent. I finally thought I would change to cord bearing to a tangent bearing and boom....I found the bust. (but at least I was able to find it.

I realize its that time of year to be thinking in cords, but is your point that chords of curves can generate nearly as much heat on the right desk?