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GoPokes83

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  1. Any of you sailor types know the real difference between a boat and a ship? Online definitions are all over the place. Big equals ship and small equals boat but what’s the cutoff? Coastal/inland is a boat and ocean going is a ship, yet an ocean going yacht is a boat. Submarines are somehow boats even though they’re in the ocean. Fishing boats are still boats even if they’re huge. Confusing, at least to me.
  2. She joined the auxiliary of the local VFD a few years ago when we moved here full time. They do fundraisers for the FD and take water and food out to longer fire calls, pretty good little charity for the local save a slab. (In the 30 years I’ve been at the coast they’ve yet to save a structure of any kind, strictly Green Acres quality but my homeowners insurance is much cheaper because they’re close!). Anyway, the FD won’t give the Aux radios so other than hearing the sirens for the ambulance or fire apparatus they don’t know if something’s happening so they’ve all downloaded scanner apps on their phones so once they hear the siren they can turn it on and hear the call. The apps run 60 seconds behind, I guess so criminals don’t use them for real time crime assistance. She got where she left it running all the time so she and her nosey friends could hear everything that is happening with the sheriff dept and the local fire/ems. A little annoying, but no big deal. Then she discovered if she turned on a Bluetooth speaker she could hear it easier from the kitchen or from the couch while watching TV, which means it has to be equal to or slightly louder than the TV volume. It’s like living in a damn police dispatch station 24/7!!! God bless the woman, she practically kills herself doing everything for me and the kid and asks so little in return, but this may be a battle I have to take on!
  3. Pretty sure those are ass implants
  4. Forget politics, religion, same tastes in entertainment,etc…. Before you get married make sure you’re on the same page when it comes to the damn snooze alarm! She hit it 6 times this morning, that added an extra hour to her set time to get up and she can’t figure out why she’s so rushed! I’m usually up and turning my alarm off before it goes off.
  5. Kudos on introducing Mr. Magoo into your kid’s life.
  6. Neighbor, “Your dad’s got that nice bike in the shed and I’ve never once seen him ride it. What’s wrong with him?” Baby Pokes; “So? He’s got a wife and you’ve never seen him ride her either!”
  7. Depends on the funeral. All the classier type elders in my family have passed except my in laws, and they’re as low key as they come. MIL is donating her body to science, and FIL is going to be cremated, so there will probably be a celebration of life dealio at their church and a suit wouldn’t be required or expected. Anyone else I know it’ll be business casual looking stuff. If my wife or kid dies I’d probably get an off the rack suit though, then donate it ASAP afterwards.
  8. Not superior, just not for me. I’m not anti tattoo, just anti shitty tattoo. I saw a pretty girl in Wal Mart the other day with no crappily drawn tattoo and I thought she was standing out from the crowd because of it. Then she reached up for a box of something and there it was!
  9. Or get confessions out of people!
  10. GoPokes83

    Cart Narcs

    Well that’s specific, but probably true.
  11. Other than around the 4th and New Years fireworks trash is the occasional nuisance . Balled up shitty diapers (baby thankfully) left behind are pretty much daily. There are a couple of old ladies that hit the beach close to daybreak in their golf carts and spend a couple of hours every day picking up trash. God bless them!!
  12. I also haven’t owned a suit for 15 years or so, just can’t see a scenario where I’d need another one. I do still have my Marine Blues and my Army ASU hanging way in the back of the closet for some reason. Don’t know why, my kid couldn’t care less about them and I don’t blame her, and at this point I could probably sew the two together and it might come close to fitting.
  13. You still get robocalls on a landline? Actually saw an ad online the other day for a service where you get an old looking rotary phone and a landline’s included. It’s somehow hip.
  14. She made a lot of movies, I’ll give you that.
  15. Couldn’t find a thread. Saw this on the news this morning, apparently this has been around a couple of years. They call it pro, but I can’t imagine the players even make back gas money. If this somehow takes off it looks like 300 lb linemen types are going to be SOL. This is a very fast game. https://www.affl.com/
  16. No ordinance against it here as we’re in an unincorporated part of the county. Even during burn bans it’s ok to set stuff off, because sand won’t burn I suppose. (Thermonuclear weapons the exception)So we get people coming to the beach year round setting off fireworks on random nights. Sometimes I sleep through it and only find out by all the Facebook posts on neighborhood pages from women complaining for the 6th time about their little dogs being freaked out, only to be told once again that it’s not illegal and either get used to it or move. And of course all the fireworks trash people have no issue driving away from being left on the beach.
  17. Houston news had a story this morning about the opening of a 90’s themed cafe/restaurant (Sugarland I believe). Reporter was visiting and it was a strip mall looking building with some random 90’s looking junk on the walls and food dishes and drinks loosely associated or at least named after things from that time. Seems like there’s least a couple of different segments about these different types of theme joint bars or restaurants a week. Do these people know these places are going to fail as soon as the novelty wears off shortly and just open another short life cafe or bar somewhere else, or is this an all eggs in one basket dream of these families that has a forgone conclusion they just can’t see?
  18. I love the old movies. Watching one this afternoon with Lauren Bacall. I don’t get it with her, just my opinion but she’s just kind of attractive and has the emotional acting range of a stick. She made one great and three decent movies with Humphrey Bogart, but he was the reason they were good. Why’s she so revered as an actress? Pretty sure the only reason she got jobs and was a star was because she was banging Bogart.
  19. I’d like that hat.
  20. Something being smarter than me is no great achievement.
  21. Minnesota /Oklahoma. My spelling wasn’t exactly Scripps worthy with that one.
  22. After five straight days and nights of 4th of July weekend here at the beach I’m not doing a gat dang thing today. I’m sitting my ass on this couch in the A/C and enjoying the relative peace and quiet. Might bring the trash cans back from the street after they’re picked up, might not.
  23. And he isn’t interested in a single one of them. Weird!
  24. Birds are smarter than I thought.
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