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    When the covid lock down hit, my wife and I would just get in the car and drive through the country. My daughter was visiting country cemeteries and taking pics of a lot of the interesting tombstones, so we decided to see some too. And we still do occasionally, on Sunday afternoons. We saw this epitaph on a stone and I thought it looked like a good beginning for a movie.
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    Maybe he carried his wallet in a briefcase?
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    Somewhere, floating around the internet, is an NCAA report on Alabama recruiting violations in the 90's. They promised a kid $20k for signing. $10k up front and $10k after signing. The kid took the first briefcase full of $100's and then signed with someone else. Boosters were out $10k and couldn't do a thing about it.
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    But, they've left her no choice!
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    I was talking to a neighbor the other day about the occasional coyotes I see in our yard. I had one pretty close to the house but didn't have a pistol handy to shoot it. He said he'd use a long gun, which makes sense but their houses within 1/4 mile behind us and I told him I didn't think it was a good idea. He told me he has a .30 cal and .50 cal air gun which would take them down. I won't bore you with the rest of the conversation but when I ask him about charging them, he said it took 30+ minutes with an air compressor. I didn't ask him how he was planning to get a coyote to stand still for 30 minutes while he charged his gun. Which leads me to my question. What good does a gun do you if you have to wait 30 mins to an hour before you use it. Does anyone have any experience or insight to why they make sense? They can be as expensive as regular rifles and besides the novelty, I can't see any real advantage with them.
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    Years ago, I saw our cat hunkered down in the yard being dive bombed by a Blue Jay. I just thought how stupid is he. Later that afternoon I went on the back porch and it was covered with feathers and bird parts. He would lay in the grass, take a few pecks to the head to lure them in close and then grab them midair as they got bolder. He was a hunting machine.
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    Credit cards make transactions easy because you get your money up front and the customer doesn't have to carry cash. But to a merchant, CC charges are expensive. They are negotiable to a certain extent but I think for most small/medium companies they vary 2-5%. It doesn't sound like much but to a small merchant it's a big deal. If you sell $100K a month on CC's, your processing fees can run around $3K+ a month. If you have a 30% gross profit margin, that's 10% of your profit going to processing a CC. With inflation driving cost up and consumers putting pressure on sellers to keep prices down, companies are getting squeezed. Most are forced to add it because they can't absorb it any more.
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    Back in the 70's a friend of mines dad was trying to buy a Datsun B210 for the gas mileage. He had an old pickup that he was driving to their farm and his gas bill was expensive. As he was negotiating a price with the salesman, they both came to a sticking point. The salesman turned to his wife and said "wouldn't you like to have a nice new car?" She didn't and said to him "Screw that car. You can take it and drive it up your ass" and walked out. His dad shrugged and followed her to the parking lot. The salesman followed them and agreed to his price. I don't know if she was going through menopause or not but it was an effective car negotiating tool.
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    Probably should go in the divorce thread but I'm not divorced so I'll put it here. "Referencing research pertaining to corporate psychopaths and how they operate in high-achieving roles in workplaces, Dr. Boddy explains female psychopaths tend to be more manipulative than males, use different techniques to create good impressions, and use deceit and sexually seductive behavior to gain social and financial advantages more often than male psychopaths." https://studyfinds.org/female-psychopaths-are-surprisingly-common/
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    It's called male pattern deafness. Eventually you just learn to tune them out and then say it's because your losing your hearing.
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    In the late 60's, early 70's there was an adult theater in Fort Worth. I think it was the Capri. The voicemail was always done by some slutty/campy voiced woman who would tell the names of the movies and times with a double entendre filled description of the movie. It was quite entertaining for a hormone raging preteen.
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    Triggering pic. Years ago I went into an account and the purchasing agent was on the phone. She told me to get a cup of coffee and wait. They had one of these that hadn't been cleaned in a long while. The pot was stuck to the burner and when I pulled on the handle the pot broke. I poured an entire pot of boiling coffee on me that hit about 2" below my nuts and down my leg. My skin peeled like 3 ply toilet paper. 3rd degree burns and I still have scars on my legs. I hate these with a passion. Definitely make me surly.
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    The dog smells something fishy.
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    Or a few dozen.......
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    Getting old sucks

    Crapinon replied to Hate's topic in Lulz

    Do you trust the doc or get a second opinion?
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    I know this is about a&m but I always laugh at this part
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    Our local CVS has all this stuff on the same isle and next to the walking canes, braces, bed pans and such. I'm not sure which marketing research said they should go together.
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    We lost our hot water heater to snowpocalypse. When I bought the new one I replaced the cheap plastic valve with a brass ball valve. The sediment won't plug the valve and it drains in minutes.
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    Getting old sucks

    Crapinon replied to Hate's topic in Lulz

    I had my surgery in October. Before I had the surgery I told my wife we were buying a split king adjustable bed. I wasn't going to sleep on the couch this time. It was well worth the money. I never missed a nights sleep and was able to slowly adjust the bed down in as my shoulder relaxed. And in the long term, sleep is so much better.
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    Getting old sucks

    Crapinon replied to Hate's topic in Lulz

    Or she'll think "Never mind, he's deaf" and just drop it all together.
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    In the 60's I had cousins that lived in a house with no indoor bathroom. The outhouse was at least 30 to 40 yards from the house, wedged between two barns. So instead of digging a hole, placing the outhouse on top of the hole, then covering the hole and moving the house when it was full, they just put lime on top of the ever growing pile of crap and shoveled it away when it got close to the seat. It was more disgusting than you could imagine. When we visited it was fun being allowed to pee off the front porch before going to bed. But I could go several days without taking a dump.
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    I couldn't find those but if you don't mind wearing a higher heel, I found these.
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    Getting old sucks

    Crapinon replied to Hate's topic in Lulz

    I call it "male pattern deafness". I learned it from my FIL.
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    How did I miss that?

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