Originally Posted By: jpulley This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Alright Gentlemen,
One more duh-umb question that you all may have just the answer to.
Scrooching around in these attics on my knees and shins are not doing those particular points on my anatomy any good at all.
I was considering a set of knee/shin guards from a dirt bike store, but I am wondering if anyone of you have a better idea.
If you do, FESS UP! I'm getting tired of feeling like the bad guy in a Shirley Temple movie. (the one that always got kicked in the shins)
Originally Posted By: dedwards This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
I wear knee pads and elbow pads in attics and crawlspaces. Works very well, especially when the crawlspace is littered with rocks, broken bricks, nails, glass and thousands of other nasty things Ive seen. I got my knee pads at the the big Orange store but I went to the sports section of Target and got some good elbow pads for skateboards. They are hard capped and washable. They encircle your entire arm so they don’t shift around on you and have saved many a sore elbow. I for one don’t give a large rodent’s rear end what I look like. My comfort and saving my joints is more important.
Originally Posted By: Joe Smith (For real) This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Right idea Doug, knee & elbow pads as I have found many a nail/splinter in my inspections.
You can find them at any building supply or sports stores Wal-Mart etc.. I get mine at Harbor freight as they are on sale quite often. But get the better grades as you'll pay dearly for the lower quality ones.
-- Learn what you can, when you can, as much as you can and use it as often as possible as you never know when the knowledge you've gained will help you or can be shared.
Originally Posted By: Brian A. Goodman This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
I use a pair of “Gorilla” kneepads now, they’re pretty good and not too pricey. Sears has them here. When I did carpentry I wore a pair of catcher’s shin gaurds if I had to be on my knees a lot. Hard shell, good padding, adjustable, and very quick on and off with the little catches they have.
Originally Posted By: Brian A. Goodman This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Chad Fabry wrote:
Sissies.
Now just because your ole' lady has you crawling often enough to develop callouses on your knees.... 
Originally Posted By: Guest This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
For God’s sake,
That was humor between Brian and I. He got it and his reply indicates he got it. Sorry I got yer knickers in a wad.
As for being critical. I am. I've been around long enough to understand motive and reality. When I notice something is out of whack I look for the reason. If a price is too low, if one of my children is acting unusual, or if someone is just too darned friendly or adversarial..I view all those critically and gather facts so that I may be able to form an opinion based on fact rather than emotion or blind loyalty.
All of us should endeavor to be critical thinkers. I'm not very good at it yet, but I'm making an effort.
Kant's lifelong approach to philosophy which distinguishes between different perspectives and then uses such distinctions to settle otherwise unresolvable disputes. The Critical approach is not primarily negative, but is an attempt to adjudicate quarrels by showing the ways in which both sides have a measure of validity, once their perspective is properly understood. Kant's system of Critical philosophy emphasizes the importance of examining the structure and limitations of reason itself.
www.hkbu.edu.hk/~ppp/ksp1/KSPglos.html
"Characterized by careful judgment "
characterized by careful evaluation and judgment; "a critical reading"; "a critical dissertation"; "a critical analysis of Melville's writings"
www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn
1. critical (vs. uncritical) -- (marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws; "a critical attitude")
Originally Posted By: jburkeson This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Chad Fabry wrote:
As for being critical. I am. I've been around long enough to understand motive and reality. When I notice something is out of whack I look for the reason. If a price is too low, if one of my children is acting unusual, or if someone is just too darned friendly or adversarial..I view all those critically and gather facts so that I may be able to form an opinion based on fact rather than emotion or blind loyalty.
All of us should endeavor to be critical thinkers. I'm not very good at it yet, but I'm making an effort.
Kant's lifelong approach to philosophy which distinguishes between different perspectives and then uses such distinctions to settle otherwise unresolvable disputes. The Critical approach is not primarily negative, but is an attempt to adjudicate quarrels by showing the ways in which both sides have a measure of validity, once their perspective is properly understood. Kant's system of Critical philosophy emphasizes the importance of examining the structure and limitations of reason itself.
www.hkbu.edu.hk/~ppp/ksp1/KSPglos.html
Chad,
Fascinating, but of course there are philosophers like Thomas Hobbes who valued social contract above critical approach to adjudicate quarrels.
It was Hobbes who described men in a state of nature, that is a state without civil government, are in a war of all against all in which life is hardly worth living. The way out of this desperate state is to make a social contract and establish the state to keep peace and order. Reason, so it seems for Hobbes, is not about making certain rights universal or weighing the validity of an argument, it is about finding terms of coexistence among people who are drawn to violence by their conflicting passions.
Chad, I truly enjoy these forays into the existential ether, it is a shame that in most cases application has not followed intellect. 
Originally Posted By: jburkeson This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
mrose wrote:
Chad,
I seems Mr. Burkeson has suggested in a most eloquent fashion that you might be full of crap.
Mike,
Thanks for the vote of confidence and team spirit, but Chad should not hang alone here, as I too have fallen short on the application of moral and political philosophy, hence the need for the Mr. Smiley  in my post, guess the attempt at humor was too dry.
Chad Fabry wrote:
So then, soft shell knee pads or hard shell. That's the question of the day.
I like the soft, the hard ones make my pants scrunch up.
Hard Shell, of course.
-- Joseph Burkeson, RPI (Hooperette)
?Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.?
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Originally Posted By: Guest This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
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