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That looks like a tube rope, if so don’t put it on the tower. That’s a recipe for a problem and also outside of any warranty on the tower if something happens. They aren’t designed for the forces that a tube is going to put on them unless just pulling in a straight line.

You become keenly aware of all lines in the water after one bad experience.

Shit, that sucks. Reminds me of one of my stories. We used to travel a lot for work. When there was a lake nearby, I would drive and pull the boat so we could go out at night. Probably 15 years ago we were out on one of those trips and me and one of the other guys that was with us were wakeboarding together. One of the girls swore she could drive the boat. She proceeded to cut across two wakeboard lines and wrap them up around 6:30. We tried flagging people down and got nowhere so we swam it into a wooded shore area. The other guy that was with us held the front of the boat and we worked on the lines with nail clippers one of the girls had. The guy in the front took the cooler with him and proceeded to get shitfaced drunk while we spent two hours undoing the mess. At some point we realized after it had gotten dark that we were drifting. The dumbass in the front was gone. He had decided to take off walking through the woods barefoot with beers stuffed in his life jacket. We got everything cleared by 9 and spent another 30 minutes trying to get him back to the boat. It was a clusterfuck. Later that week the same guy was shitfaced again but this time at the strip club. He was sitting at the stage throwing bills at every dancer and didn’t realize until the next day he was throwing 10’s and 20’s. He still had his stack of 1’s he took. He had a drinking problem.

You have my vote. I view these threads as a place to come see others opinions on what happened and what might be happening. If I was a few episodes behind, I think I would just take that time and catch up on the episodes.

The Mayor really should have chosen better wording this morning when the numbers came out and it was made to sound like rescues were complete. It’s going to be a while before they reach everyone that was in the building. With 51 unaccounted for, the death toll is going to be more than the 1 that was circulating earlier.

I’m not going to say much, but he was brilliant and also off his rocker. We did some work with him on some things over the years and he really went off the deep end several years back.

This is shaggy 101 (maybe HF 101, can’t remember how far back it goes.) JT method tells you which one you like best so 3rd watch, 1st watch, 2nd watch in that order. Randy method is the standard method that makes sense to normal people.

I’m on my 3rd Undercover Ultraflex with zero complaints.I prefer that style over the retractable versions.

Having eaten in a few of his establishments over the years, I’m not sure “dirty” immigrants is his hiring pool.

I don’t know, that last .8 seconds was pretty awesome.

That this thread is heading to the cloakroom in short order.

Don’t care what your buddy said, Michigan had nowhere near the volume of people on it that it has had any other trip, any time of the year. It’s been busier in the winter than what it was when we went in May. Boat tours and other operators were mainly parked, took 5 minutes to go through TSA at O’Hare at lunch on Friday before Memorial Day, lots of closed places through downtown, massive police presence downtown, etc. It is most definitely not the same feel downtown as in the past. I think that is similar in a lot of places, but the travelers have definitely not come back to Chicago yet for whatever reason.

Never did figure it out, we stay at the Langham and there was always that many outside. I kind of think it was a staging area to rotate them through downtown on breaks maybe because that road is dead and it’s out of the way. It did seem odd they were lined up in front of Trump towers of all places though. I’ve always been a Chicago fan. We’ve been going 1-2 times a year for probably the last 10-15 years. We always took the train in/out, walked everywhere or took the subway, etc. It felt different this last trip walking around downtown. I think Harrison hit on it pretty well, it was a weird mix of feeling uncomfortable by the presence as well as comfortable in a City you know pretty well. The other issues were that Michigan and that area felt dirty and old compared to our last trip before all this crap. There was a lot of empty space even though the places we frequent were still there. It was just different.

They are keeping a significant number of police set up around the downtown area. Guess they have given up on the south side. We were there right before Memorial Day and they had cop cars pretty much on every block along Michigan, State, etc. with cops also walking the blocks. There were 4-5 cars stationed outside of Trump towers the entire time.

Got out for the first time this weekend and ran through all the break in procedures. Also had the fun experience of spending 3 hours mounting the Bimini and frame. Printed included instructions have gotten really shitty over the last few years. I guess they figure everyone just goes straight to YouTube. That works great unless you’re on my lake with no cell reception. Need to get some pictures next weekend.

If you’re on a super low carb diet, but a 1/2 cup of rolled oats, a banana, and a few blueberries isn’t very much especially if you aren’t eating much in the way of carbs the rest of the day. It may hit 20% of the low end of the daily guidelines.

Ended up chunking the Fox shocks. After going in circles with customer service, the best they would do was give them my credit card info, send them the shocks, and they would evaluate whether a rebuild would work. If so, they would charge my card for that. If not, they would ship a new set and charge my card for that. They would it call and discuss the options. The shop is trying to get me to go to airbags, I think I’m going to throw some Bilstein’s on the rear and see how they tow.

If you want an evaluation of the current Greek system in relation to racial diversity, Ole Miss is probably not place the start. That campus is as old south white as a campus could possibly get. There is no telling what they are signing on Greek row today, but it probably hasn’t changed much.

Churches are outnumbered by other nonprofits by a factor of 4 or 5 to 1 I believe. Now some factor of the other nonprofits is made up of religious based organizations, so I don’t know how much that gap closes. I’m definitely not going down the road of a religious debate although I guess that ultimately is probably the dividing line in this debate for both sides.

Similar story, college for me was a means to an end that no one else in my family chased. I was dating my now wife (married my junior year of college) from high school, working full time, and trying to get as far away from what I grew up around as possible. It wasn’t bad per se, it just wasn’t what I wanted in life. The Greek life looked to me like a bunch of fuck offs that needed someone to hang out with. Looking back, I was off base but I don’t think certain aspects of my life would look like they do now if I went that route In my industry it’s made some things difficult not being involved in the Greek society as doors seem to open a lot easier, but I just wanted to be done with college. I do work for a large national Greek organization now. It’s interesting being on that side in this discussion. They have been trying to outrun the perception for all the years I’ve worked with them, but some of the perception is intrinsic to the Greek system and impossible to get by. Their entire corporate staff is heavily women and minority at this point almost like they are trying to change their perception at the top on that alone. Every year they get pulled back down though with a National story that breaks. Kids are stupid, they are products of their upbringing, and especially in some of these locations racism runs deep and travels with them as they head off to college. Look at the baseball draft and some of the stuff that comes out on drafted high school guys every year when some newspaper researches their Twitter history. It’s nuts in 2021 what is still rooted in large swaths of society.

Neither, I will say their headquarters is just where the employees sit and there is some meeting space. It just happens to sit right where an entity with a ton of money (another nonprofit entity actually) needs to have the location for further expansion. Paying property taxes for the vast majority would not impact their ability to exist, it may make some of them think about their location/mission/etc. a little more. Most nonprofits exist outside of high cost areas and even those could only really be assessed at their “ground” value. I’m not saying they should pay at the same percentage of value as commercial/residential, but they should pay something in my view on the property tax side.

Tax exempt status takes a few hours to fill out the paperwork and gather the requisite documents, but I’ve never seen the IRS question a filing outside of if you are missing something.

Maybe or maybe they use their support differently or raise additional funds. I do work for a nonprofit that has 20 or so employees. They have had offers in excess of $40M to buy their current headquarters. What helps them meet the purpose of their charter more, that tied up in one piece of real estate or that available to be spent on their work?

I’m with Brisket for the most part. There is good and bad in the world on nonprofits and churches, but the good far and away outweighs the bad and I don’t think you go after all of them for the sins of a few. There should be a system the challenges their status periodically to make sure they are following their formation documents though. Also, churches should have to file 990’s rather than it be optional. That makes no sense and that way comp, lawsuits, and other spending is disclosed. I also think they should have to pay property tax.

This is the one I’ve looked at a couple of times and keep coming back to although I would probably go with the standard band.