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[cavemanrich]

Although 1980 to 2024 is 44 years.

I think Twinkies would be able to pull the extra time

 

[Sally PB]

I think Twinkies would be able to pull the extra time

After 25 years, what's another 19?

 

[Jenbirdee]

 

[Pasha838]

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Oh, and I used to work at McDonald's. True, it was in Russia. One McDonald's was in Moscow, and the other one was not far from the village where I live. In Moscow, it was mostly students who ate, and the traffic police officers always had breakfast at the "village" McDonald's. They would come there in whole columns in cars and order coffee and buns with chicken and pork.
Big Macs started selling at 10 am, and the traffic police would arrive much earlier. That's why they took the morning menu.
Prices... A Big Mag at that time cost around 98 rubles, at the exchange rate of that time, that was about 1.2 dollars. Moreover, one Big Mag was given for free, and a second one was given for free if you worked more than 9 hours. I worked more, so I took two Big Macs ))
There are no McDonald's in Russia now, either due to some Ukrainian sanctions, or because it has become unprofitable (in terms of rubles, trading in Russia is too unprofitable). Former McDonald's now also sell some food, but I have not been there yet, because I live with herds of goats, ducks and geese and I have no time to leave home even for the neighboring village.

 

[MotherofOrpies]

Going into town is overrated anyways, whenever I have to go there, the dirt, the masses of people, the graffiti, the search for a parking space, I am always glad to go home

Not to be ot, this here is a picture of the last time I drove into town, famous Oberbaum bridge built in 1894, formerly connecting east and west Germany

 

[cavemanrich]

 

[Pasha838]

A couple of days ago I accidentally broke the lantern above the barn door. I was just throwing a bale of hay down from the loft to give to the goats, but I missed and the bale hit the lantern. The lantern shattered. The lantern looked something like this

I thought about it and decided not to buy a new one, but to restore an old lantern that I had lying around for almost 20 years. This is a rather flimsy lantern, probably made somewhere in China, a long time ago it was on a vertical support. The support was broken, and I got the lantern without anything, just an empty body.
So I'm sitting there, improvising. I took a metal pin and put it through, placed some kind of plastic corner on it, on which I placed a socket and a small bulb, and brought the wire up, covering it with an old drilled lid from a juice bottle. There was a hole at the bottom of the lantern, where the vertical support used to go, I couldn't think of anything better than to take a broken piece of a wheel mount from a Soviet chair and screw it on with a nut.

In general, all that remains is to come up with/screw some metal ring on top of this pin, and then hang the lantern on a chain on a retractable corner. I haven't decided yet where to get it - I can't find a ready-made one in the garage. I'll probably have to weld it from some iron and scraps of construction reinforcement that I have left. If I can't find a corner, I'll have to do electric welding.

I want to get something like this as a result (a picture from Internet)

The only thing is that I will probably replace the lower nut that allows me to unfasten and lower the windows later (when I finally get to the store) with a wing nut of this type

because I'll probably be too lazy to send for a wrench every time to change a light bulb. I'll have to buy some of those nuts, because I've run out of them, and only have the simple ones that require a wrench.
Here is a free lantern, for the restoration of which I simply collected various junk that I found around the house.

 

[AntiqueB]

You are certainly creative and curious, @Pasha838 . I love innovation like that.

 

[Pasha838]

You are certainly creative and curious, @Pasha838 . I love innovation like that.

Well, initially I thought about going to the market and buying some iron pipe to restore the lantern as it was, but I never went, and then I needed a lantern for the wall and I decided to remake this one.
Life in a private house is quite interesting in this regard, there are always a lot of such things here. In addition, Russian legislation is quite neutral, only power plants and power lines are strictly controlled, and what is located further than the electricity meter can be done without a project at the owner's discretion. Another thing is that if you commit some really blatant violations and start a fire, then in addition to other troubles, this will end with a fine, or even a criminal trial, if it harmed the health of other people.
But this is not the case with this lantern - the barn has a stone wall, and I did everything, albeit from garbage, but quite reliably. The lamp holder inside is factory-made and fully certified.

 

[Jenbirdee]