The "What I learned recently" thread.

[SoupOrMan]

There is a difference between "these skates are a little snug" and "near-crippling foot pain."

[JKosprey]

Subaru's All-Wheel Drive system will get you stranded in a ditch in the middle of nowhere-especially if you have a test that evening.

[Cybrludite]

Today I learned you've never used an apartment complex laundry room. There's etiquette for just that situation, and it involves the laundry being "stored" in the dryer being evicted and left, um, homeless. And the homeless tend to be very dirty.

But the person who's clothes would be evicted in this case a) would know who did it, b) has 24/7 access to my stuff, and c) possesses an engineer's sense of humor.

Pack it all really tight into a pillow case and put it on his bed when you need the dryer. "Hey, [strike]dickhead[/strike] housemate - I needed the dryer so I put your stuff on your bed."

You're just trying to help, right?

Meh. Not worth the fight, really.

Meanwhile I've learned through the example of someone else that my policy of not sleeping with anyone from work and not sleeping with anyone who's married is a really good policy to have. Especially when the female in question falls into both categories, and her husband's job title can best be described as the Lord High Muckity-Muck Of A Very Important Department.

[Netpackrat]

I recently learned that my $420 Aimpoint, the $200 mounting system I bought for it, and my $250 homebuilt AK do not work together the way I had hoped they would.

[Weetabix]

my policy of not sleeping with anyone from work and not sleeping with anyone who's married is a really good policy to have. Especially when the female in question falls into both categories, and her husband's job title can best be described as the Lord High Muckity-Muck Of A Very Important Department.

Once upon a time, in the nascence of email, my supervisor was dating my peer. Another peer, who fancied himself a prankster, sent me an email from her untended computer calling me a jerk and saying "she" hated me.

Shortly thereafter, I went to the prankster, glum and downcast. Told him that she had written that email, I'd told my supervisor she was a bitch, and he'd fired me and told me to leave at the end of the day. "We just had our fourth child! How am I going to feed them?" I wailed. His cohort who knew what prankster had done looked extremely uncomfortable, as did prankster. Then I walked away.

About an hour later, prankster, sweating heavily, shuffled up to me and confessed what he'd done. I told him I had known it was him, and I was just yanking his chain.

I learned that the best practical jokes are the ones you can turn back on the joker without his knowing it.

[Netpackrat]

I recently learned that my $420 Aimpoint, the $200 mounting system I bought for it, and my $250 homebuilt AK do not work together the way I had hoped they would.

And I just learned that it's going to take a $180 handguard/optic mount combination to make the rifle and the optic play nice together.

[rightisright]

NPR, not happy w. your TWS rail? Or is it just not playing well w. the Aimpoint? I was just about to order the rail for my Saiga.

Got the riser. Looks great. Hopefully I will mount it this weekend and take some pics.

[308Mike]

I recently learned that Europeans use brown, blue, and geen-yellow for power instead of black, white, green or black, red, white. The brown wire is not your friend.

Did you also learn the hard way that they use a much higher voltage than we do?

Women aren't like men.*

*I actually learned this one many years ago, but it slaps me in the face regularly and frequently.

You mean run by emotion and hormones, right? Kinda' like the vast majority of liberals.

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Did you know it's possible to run on water to escape your own boat crash?

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[Steamforger]

It's clearly even possible to run out of one of your shoes and your helmet.

[Netpackrat]

NPR, not happy w. your TWS rail? Or is it just not playing well w. the Aimpoint? I was just about to order the rail for my Saiga.

Got the riser. Looks great. Hopefully I will mount it this weekend and take some pics.

The TWS rail is great. The Aimpoint is also great. Unfortunately, it doesn't sit quite low enough to get any co-witness with the iron sights. So, it is either get a QD mount, or use a forward mount over the gas tube. I bought the new dog leg from TWS, that replaces the standard dog leg portion but has an AK leaf sight milled into it, and you don't have to use the ghost ring that is the only other rear sight option TWS offers. What's doubly annoying is that I'm one of the guys who suggested they make a dogleg with the leaf milled into it, and it didn't do what I had hoped, which is allow the red dot to be mounted over the receiver while still getting a low co-witness. Probably going to go with the Midwest extended SS handguard set with the Aimpoint specific top cover. I was going to get that handguard anyway, I'm just glad I held off long enough to learn that I was going to need the Aimpoint top cover.

I think I'm going to put that TWS rail on the rifle that currently has the Tech sights so I can just get rid of them. I'll buy a ghost ring rear for it and swap out the leaf for the standard dogleg. Mostly I want to get both of my existing 7.62x39 AKs into a condition where I am happy with them and stop modifying them. And then build something else.

Glad you got the cheek riser and you like it. I'd love to have pictures of it once you get it installed.