The family gathering was a bit smaller than usual this year. Not because of Covid, but because they could not make it for other personal reasons. It also felt like something was off, more tense, quiet, and perfunctory. The food was excellent, and the weather was beyond perfect, but still something was off.
It will be a couple months before I see them all again. Perhaps by then things will start to seem more normal… whatever normal may be.
Kudos
Thanks for stopping by. I shouldn’t have to tell you that our submission page is available, but feel free to drop off a couple of jokes.
So this is by no means a complete list because there are still some things out there I do not know, and things I do not know that I do not know. That being said, I am still thrilled with my Nissan Leaf, but I really wish I had better understood when I bought it.
Battery State of Health is really important, but 30KWh battery packs have an 8 year warranty.
I passed up a really cheap Leaf with a severely degraded battery. It was a 2017 and would have qualified for the free replacement, and since Nissan no longer makes the 30KWh pack, I would have gotten a free 40KWh battery instead.
The Capacity of the Battery in KWh (Kilowatt hours) is King!
Your range is going to be determined by how many Kilowatt hours the battery can hold. You need to know what the car originally came with, and how many Kilowatt hours of storage are left. Sometimes (like on my Leaf) you have to use a Bluetooth OBDII reader and a mobile app and some math to figure it out. Make the effort and DO THIS.
Your Driving Habits and Conditions are Queen!
I actually kind of knew this, but I had no idea just how drastic the range difference can be. Driving down the interstate at 70MPH with the heat on is going to use up the battery more than 3 times faster compared to driving down a country road at 45MPH on a sunny day with the windows down.
Just Leave it in ECO Mode.
At first it was fun zipping in and around traffic, but I have since cooled my jets. Because these types of cars are so quiet and smooth, it can be very easy to turn into a jerk on the road. Put it in ECO mode and drive with the flow of traffic around you.
Pay More Attention to Your Miles per Kilowatt Hour
If you really want to get the most range out of your vehicle, don’t fret over the battery percentage level gauge and ignore the GOM. Watch that Mi/KWh bar. Make it into a game to see how high you can get that bar without driving like an idiot for the conditions you are in.
Unless it Qualifies for a Warranty Replacement, You Will Never Replace Your Battery.
There are a lot of YouTube videos showing electric cars getting replacement batteries and even upgrades. These are in the extreme minority and will never be mainstream. Make sure that the car you are getting has more than enough range for your current driving needs. Your battery capacity WILL degrade over time, and it is simply not practical to replace the battery once the range has dropped below the level that can meet your needs. Your best option will be to get a newer used car.
Certain Problems are Nigh Impossible to Fix
This is a bitter pill for me to swallow, but unless the cause of a problem is something blindingly obvious, do not expect any dealership to be able to figure it out and fix it. The heater in my car STILL has an intermittent problem, and of course it always works fine when I take it into the shop.
EV Haters Will Never Get It (So don’t bother trying.)
Some people will never be OK with EVs. There is no argument you can make that will change their minds. Gasoline could cost $10 per gallon and new battery electric vehicles could be half the price of an internal combustion engine, but they would still try to justify why they think electric cars are a bad idea. {smh} I should have told those guys it was a 3 cylinder that got really good gas mileage.
Kudos
Our submission page remains open for any and all contributors like my good buddy Darin. Thanks old friend!
Pax,
-f2x
Just a quick addendum, I’m still posting these side bars late Sunday / early Monday, so don’t let the post dates fool you.
While the timestamps for the comic and the rant are still being posted as Saturday and Sunday respectively, the simple fact is I typically don’t have time to work on the comic or site until Sunday evening, so the upload isn’t until late Sunday, and often early Monday morning.
Honestly, until I sit down late Sunday, I actually have no idea on what the comic will even be about. It is as much a surprise to me as to anyone who reads it.
Oh, and I got the job.
Kudos
Thanks for the jokes, Darin, and I know it has been a few months, but congrats on your new job! I’m kind of envious. If anyone else would like to contribute our submission page is always at your disposal.
It is that time of year again, and lacking anything better to do, certain congress critters have come up with this plan to make daylight saving permanent.
Now I don’t have a problem with getting rid of the twice yearly time change, but here is where it kind of leaves a bad taste in my mouth: Daylight Saving Time is not the correct time!
In actuality, Daylight Saving is about an hour off or more from the actual local time. The whole point of AM, Noon, and PM was based on the idea that at Noon, the sun would be at its highest point in the sky. Under Daylight Saving, actual noon occurs around 1:00PM, plus or minus a half hour.
But I get it. If your job has you coming in from 9 to 5, you just wouldn’t have enough time to go play golf after work, and changing the working hours to 8 to 4 would be akin to socialism… So let’s just fuck with the clocks and pretend we’re coming in at 9 when it’s actually 8. Yeah… That’s such a smart idea.
For the life of me, I have no idea how humanity ever managed to make it this far.
Kudos
Again, thanks for the jokes, and if you want to contribute more, our submission page remains open.
So I had to go see the doctor again. Apparently I came down with a really bad case of thrush. I am finally on the mend, but my mouth still feels a little spicy. There for a while, it was quite unbearable. I had trouble talking, and eating was extremely painful.
As bad as thrush is, the more unsettling part is that this disease does not exist in a vacuum. There is usually some underlying condition that is considerably more serious. Under normal conditions, the human immune system doesn’t have any problem dealing with the infection. In fact, a person could eat a bucket full of the stuff and still not get infected by it. Now I’m left to wonder what else is going to go wrong.
But for now I feel like everything is getting better, and I feel stonger. I even managed to lose about 15 pounds as a result of not being able to eat for a while. Now if I could just lose another 85 we’d be set!
Kudos
Well, that’s all I have for this week. Thanks to our anonymous (Big D) donor for the jokes. As you can see, I’m still not editing the jokes anymore, and there are probably a lot of repeats in these latest additions. I am not into spending a lot of time on this site anymore, so I really appreciate it when others take the time to make things happen.
Of course if you would like to help make things happen, our submission page is always at your disposal.
So it's been kind of a mixed bag this year. Sadly, my Aunt Pam passed away back in February, then my cat, Alex, died in June. On the plus side, I got Murphy in August, and I finally managed to pay off what was left of my old revolving credit card debt that I've had hanging over me for 40 years.
Born on June 22, 2025, Murphy is about 6 months old as of this post. I picked him up off Craig's List for $10 when he was about 7 weeks old. Since then I've spent about $1300 over 5 vet visits to make sure he got all his shots and yes that includes neutering. Where Alex merely tolerated Gail, Murphy adores her. and the two are regularly seen snuggling up to one another. Those photos aren't staged. These two are really that close.
In spite of everything, I'm still gainfully employed. it's highly doubtful AI is going to take my job anytime soon, so I guess I can be thankful for that. On the other hand I recently found out I have chronic kidney disease, so that's no beuno. I won't find out until January if lifestyle and medication changes are going to be enough to keep it from progressing. Fingers crossed.
On a lighter note, I've started occasionally live-streaming Tarot card readings on Twitch. No, I don't actually believe in magical mumbo-jumbo, but there is an art to the craft. I look at Tarot as basically being psychology with flashcards. There are 78 cards, and each card can have different and multiple meanings depending on its context. When you know what you're doing you can ALWAYS match randomly dealt cards to the context. Form a coherent narrative around the cards and you can actually gain an altered perspective on your situation that may give you more confidence in facing your problems.
So that's about it for 2025. Not gonna lie: While it wasn't all bad, this year sucked pretty hard. I can't make any promises, but I fully intend on putting out more than 2 comics in 2026, and I might even include a few more jokes and rants.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everybody!
Pax,
-f2x
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What is Flush Twice?
Flush Twice has been around since May of 2003. It started out as a JOTD (Joke of the Day) website. New jokes were published every weekday. Over the years, good jokes were increasingly hard to come by, and eventually they got so rare that I just stopped trying to publish them.
Since 2004 there has also been an eponymous comic. I still occasionally publish a new one on Saturdays. It’s also rare anymore, but sometimes it happens.
Here lately I’ve been posting a “Link of the Day”. For the time being, I will be featuring a new website from my enormous collection of bookmarked websites every weekday. None of it is solicited promotions, and no one is paying me to feature their site. These are just websites that at one time I thought were interesting enough to add to my bookmarks folder.
I highly encourage using some kind of ad blocking extension before clicking on any of these links. You’ll also hear me say this phrase a lot about these posts: “They can’t all be winners.” But it’s better than just leaving the site abandoned.
The jokes were generously provided by friends and visitors such as yourself. I want to express my eternal thanks to everyone over the years who helped contribute to the collection.
So what is it that makes a joke funny?
It all boils down to a sudden shift in perception. The story starts you thinking one way, then the punchline turns that thinking on its ear. The art of the joke is to craft a short story that isn’t overly contrived, then deliver a punchline that suddenly shifts your perception about the story you were being told.
Many of the jokes on this site are offensive, and I make no apologies for it. Offensive jokes work by making the reader uncomfortable through the use of a taboo subject thus enhancing the underlying humor. Without the offensive element, the joke would simply not be as funny.
