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Homercles

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  1. On the model X door failures, every time I see one being opened I think of this:
  2. I know him mostly from The Wire…the man had an absolutely badass way of walking that suited the character perfectly. Was also on one of my favorite Key and Peele’s:
  3. Holy shit thank you! Drinking to enhance vs drinking to escape. I like that. I never had a problem with the former, but nearly sunk myself with the latter. Looking back it was all stressors…grad school, tough baby, associated marriage stress. Imagine that drinking made it worse…what a concept. On a related note, we just visited some family who have been through the wringer with the husband suffering a few years under leukemia before a transplant last year permanently ended it. His wife looked rough, understandably, but I instantly recognized myself from 3+ years back…the chubby, pimpled, reddish blotted face of someone who drank daily (or close to it).
  4. Ice cream scoop
  5. My kids usually want a lunch box on Friday (pizza) day…I’m trying to tell them that square pizza is a rite of passage for public school. Next time I’ll threaten that their next field trip is to Matamoros
  6. Yeah that’s a great point, our man here may not be wise to get stoned then try drinking four shakes while everything heals. Weirdly I don’t get super munchies until I’m coming down…my progression goes: cold/shaky (coming up) -> silly -> horny -> hungry. I also tend to stay up late whereas my wife straight passes out after we (usually) get busy. But when I do get munchies I go insane. Shits the next day are like
  7. My wife had the sleeve done and edibles are fine. Constant nicotine narrows your arteries as you know, occasional THC won’t be an issue. I like to have a couple drinks, pop an edible then ‘coast’ that way…fun, relaxing, no hangover and so long as you don’t keep drinking it won’t be wild. Also, weighing yourself everyday may be counterproductive. Water, shit, etc will have it wiggling up/down driving yourself mad.
  8. No shit. All of mine looked like the one from BrewStew
  9. OrangePower. I think they just couldn’t pay the bills…Twitter account said, a few months ago, they were working to get back online but alas it’s dead. Pretty good fans for sports stuff, but the news/politics board was ass backwards as fuck painful.
  10. Well that didn’t work out https://theoatmeal.com/comics/gym
  11. Dude it’s all relative. I fee skinny at 205 which I’m not.
  12. …so are you Chinese or Japanese?
  13. Yep, got clobbered by Arky and lost a close one to Vandy…but taking care of business in the rest of the weak noncon. Wish there was more coverage on our blogs about it, and from what I’ve heard D1 isn’t that great for the price. Having McLean back was huge but it’s a long season and Josh teams have certainly peaked early before.
  14. Fun fact that the Sideshow Bob gag was due to the writers running out of content for this episode and needed 20s or so of filler…though my favorite is the ‘2 against 1’ cactus patch gag And I recall that Trey Parker hated this episode before it aired and wanted to pull it…still my favorite SP episode.
  15. Feel like I say this every year but it’s a shame that baseball isn’t on tv more. Yeah there’s ESPN+ but it seems to just have such limited exposure for a game that has, in my opinion, the best playoff system out there. It’s a great thing to have on the tv when you’re cooking or something, there’s key moments of excitement but also lots of breathing room to stay on task.
  16. Yep there’s one configured for VIP transport called the C-37. Guess I shoulda said VVIP because it’s quite a step up from the C-21 Learjets that seem to shuttle stars around in-theater. There’s an upcoming jammer thatll replace the EC-130 Compass Call birds. …kinda reminds of the elusive RAT55 radar test bed that flies around the NTTR/Area 51 a lot I’ve always wondered if they drop special mission birds in UPT (training)…I’d guess not, probably have to fly a normal white jet like a C-21 first or maybe other AMC stuff like a tanker or C17. On the other hand some people do go to AFSOC (special ops) right out of training so who knows.
  17. Thanks gents. I like listening to LiveATC or just random stuff like VAS on YouTube…hell I miss channel 9 on the old UA birds. But complex taxi instructions seem like they’d be hard to follow unless you were prepared for it. Obviously there’s endless clips of JFK, between old Kennedy Steve stuff and just general mayhem it seems to be a magnet for wild dialog. I figured most weren’t that bad.
  18. Dad was just a reservist 1LT (retired AD O6) back in ‘85 when I saw my first air show. His reserve base was Niagara Falls so naturally that’s where we went and off to see the Blue Angels…which saw lead and opposing solo crash. It’s the only memory I have before about 10yo: https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/16/nyregion/report-cites-pilot-error-in-blue-angels-crash.html Once he went AD we had a few air shows to go to where the T-birds went at it…and I instinctively clench up a bit during that maneuver. Dangerous job. There was a discovery show about the Angels years ago that was awesome, but what cracked me up was a segment where the new angels had to fly into LAX…naturally it was a foreign world and they really struggled with all the tightly controlled traffic and constant ATC vectors. Even taxiing was a challenge. Y’all that fly professionally and often go into places like JFK, ORD, LAX, etc that have multiple ground freqs and lengthy taxi instructions have my respect. Do you still use pen/paper/iPad to write it down as they issue or do you mostly have it figured out already by knowing the airport/gate, what runway you’re given, etc?
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