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  1. Almost all of my flying is for business on my company's credit card.  I have been Diamond on Delta for the last several years.  Getting the mileage requirement is never a problem.  Now Delta has raised the matching spend amount to $20K per year.  Since I have built up status on Delta I would prefer to stay with them.  I have flown 1.1 million miles with Delta.  I have flown about 600K with AA through the years but do not fly with them regularly any longer.  I use SHV as my "home" airport.

    So, I am looking at getting a Delta branded credit card to ensure that I meet the spend threshold with personal spending.  I am not too worried about lounge access.  What card to go with?

    Any advice is appreciated.

  2. I am an olds too where I work. Been here since May 5, 1989. Survived a few acquisitions. I will let y’all guess on who they go to when it comes down to things passing the smell test or some cockeyed idea or whatever. Experience matters.

  3. 2 hours ago, Jameslaw121 said:

    So thankful my wife is not a big fan of holiday celebrations (outside of Thanksgiving and Christmas). Asked her what she wanted to do for Valentines. She was like. When we get home, go grab a couple of drinks at (local bar we frequent), while I try and get the 3 yo to sleep. Then stop and pick up some wine and pizza and lets watch one of th baseball movies you always make me watch before the season starts.

     

    My ex was big into decorating for all of the holidays and seasons. I didn’t mind it until she would get hung up on minute details. I told her that half of the people would not care about the decorations because they are dudes. Which left half being women. Of the women maybe half of them would care. So in the end, at best, she was trying to please maybe 25% of the people.

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  4. 3 hours ago, Cheeseweasel said:

    Been in quite a few short wall / low seam coal mines. It's worse that the video portrays. 

    Room and pillar mines are scary as fuck too when you hear the seam popping. 

    @mininghorn88 can preach.

    There is a reason I am in the surface (daylight) mining industry. The safety protocols of going underground cover everything and then some. Once the lights go out it is straight up dark. It is easy to get disoriented. However there are massive operations underground that have large open spaces.

    I like having a bit more control over the situation that surface mining provides.

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  5. 5 minutes ago, Anwar Namtut said:

    My doctor gave me the choice of pooping in the box or the full colonoscopy. I chose the box for the first go around due to low history in my family and other factors. That'll buy me a couple of years. Haven't heard back on the box, yet.

    I had that option too for the last couple of years.  I would get a box and it would get lost in the shuffle and I would never remember to use it.  I ended up giving a box away this past Christmas as a white elephant gift.

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  6. I have SVT. Have always been able to mostly control it with meds. The doctor said that the older I get the ability to control it with meds decreases. I am going to have an ablation done in mid-March. I know that it is a “regular routine” procedure but I am still not looking forward to it.

  7. 1 hour ago, SurlyGator said:

    Bump.  First ever (54, past due) is next Thursday.  Cover me boys, I'm going in!

    I kept putting mine off forever. I did it this past October at the age of 56. I am clear and do not have to do it again for 10 years. This site encouraged me a lot to get it done. You got this.

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  8. 12 hours ago, BHMCruiser said:

    This is me. Second part happened last night. To the wife's credit the lights appeared to go on as I started to Hulk Out about it and I think she recognized internally that she was being impossible because she immediately switched her tune and was all "no problem we can easily work around this"

    Do not be so gullible.  This is women code speak for "no probem, I will get you back in due time".

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  9. For the western comedy genre I submit The Paleface with Bob Hope.

    There have been many good ones already covered. Though they may not all be great I am a sucker for ‘40s and ‘50s westerns. Some representatives below that I have enjoyed:

    Bend in the River starring James Stewart

    Dodge City starring Errol Flynn

    Firecreek featuring Stewart 

    Many Rivers to Cross with Robert Taylor

    Rocky Mountain and Santa Fe Trail both featuring Flynn

    Sergeant Rutledge with Jeffrey Hunter and Woody Strode

    Shane starring Alan Ladd

    The Ox-Bow Incident featuring Henry Fonda

    Walk the Proud Land with Audie Murphy

    There are so many more awesome and hokey westerns from that era. 
     

    I remember watching one of them and a couple of the Indians were actually wearing wedding rings. So much for detail and authenticity!! Another one featuring an Indian raid, with a bunch of horses running around, actually had mannequins laying on the ground. It was noticeable since they were all laying face down all in the samE posture with their feet firmly 90 degree to the ground.

  10. The other day I was in a meeting at work discussing the action that someone took at a mine and I compared it to Slim Pickens riding the nuclear bomb down out of the plane. A couple of the guys laughed out loud at the reference. Two others asked why the laughter?

    Me: Have you not seen the movie Dr. Strangelove?

    Them: Nope. Who is in it?

    Me: Peter Sellers

    Them: Who is that?

    Me: The Pink Panther!!!

    Them: Never heard of him. When was the movie made?

    Me: The 60’s.

    Them: That explains it.

    Me: You guys ruined an awesome reference. Go watch the movie.

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  11. On 1/29/2023 at 9:46 AM, TexPx said:


    Changing the water pump on a ‘79 Ford Fiesta in a bank Parking lot off I35 in August was a miserable experience.

    I had a '78 Monte Carlo while I was in college.  It loved to eat starters.  It got to a point that most of the time I was using a long screwdriver to jump the post to get it started.  It once "died"  in the Intramural field's parking lot where it sat for a week until I had time to change it out.  I got quite proficient in changing that sucker out.

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  12. 5 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

    JFC, I knew this thread was full of naive white people...but holy shit.  The only reason some of you aren't dead or still in prison is because of your skin color.  You guys got away with some serious shit back in the day.    

    Having said that, while I look Mexican and speak Spanish...I have the whitest fucking name since Edgar Winter.  Flashing that ID has gotten me out of a pickle or two.  A buddy of mine in San Antonio was holding an inordinate amount of narcotics (and I don't mean weed) on him when we got pulled over.  Got outta that one without being arrested, his mom and step-dad were the only ones to ever find out.  I hit the back of a cop car on IH-35 access road near Dirty Sixth.  It turned from red to green at the light and I just gunned it without looking up.  He walked back to my window and I blurted out, "Sir, you backed into me."  He was so shocked, he told me to get the fuck home and let me go.  I asked an undercover cop to buy me beer in high school.  Ingested drugs just feet away from Chief Acevedo at a condo party at the Hilton downtown many years ago.  Got caught in my teens throwing furniture off a balcony at the Breakers in Palm Beach and talked my way out of it with the local PD.  Helped a friend steal a family member's car after a homecoming dance so we could joy ride and drink stolen beer and smoke cigarettes.  Police just turned us over to our parents who were not amused.  And on probably a half-dozen occasions while fucked up at concerts/festivals/games back in the day...I've distracted cops and security guards from giving me an MIP/PI charge by telling them there was a homeless man following me and pointing them in the opposite direction while I got lost.  Worked every time.  The law school student ID eventually helped out a lot as well, "accidentally" dropping it while shuffling through my wallet.  I've also bribed police in Mexico, Costa Rica, Portugal, and Africa. Once traded a Tissot wristwatch to a U.S. Border Patrol agent for not searching me on way back into El Paso.  Once even pulled a Ferris Bueller in high school by cutting school to take the train downtown to a Cubs game where some police caught us drinking tepid Miller High Live on Waveland Avenue.  They weren't even concerned about the beer so much as we were skipping school and on WGN chasing after a home run and making them look bad.  I was almost busted once doing drugs with Brett Hull and Liz Phair.       And i'm never, ever sick at sea.

    I believed this up until you said that you do not get sick at sea.

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  13. On 1/19/2023 at 9:19 AM, Twizzler said:

    Am I the only person who didn't know they even had a medical school?  That institution never came up when my kids were applying.

    I bet your kids did but perhaps your kids were smart enough that they did not need to consider applying to an aggy school?

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  14. 54 minutes ago, Pam Cummings said:

    Scooby Doo was never a good show to begin with, so who cares.

    Scooby Doo is/was a kid’s cartoon to watch on Saturday mornings. I would think that it was not written or produced to be critiqued by adults, acting and viewing it as adults. When was the last time you got up on a Saturday morning, got a bowl of cereal, and planted yourself in front of a TV to watch cartoons for an hour or so before you went outside to build a fort in the woods, ride your bike, play army or cowboys and Indians with your friends until it was time to come in for the evening?

    It is/was great viewing for a kid.

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  15. Our (NE Texas) fight song was the tune of Dixie played super fast. Had been the fight song forever. 
    Two, three years or so ago it was changed. Some alumni that was the former drum major at Alabama wrote a new tune.

    The school song remains the same.

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