Everything posted by RDCanecutter
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Hawaiian Senator
Great, and yes. Just not there. All we did was mill around, which is acceptable behavior. When a different plane of our unit landed, one officer, in Autopilot Moron Mode, called everybody into formation so he could bray acronyms at them. Turns out there's an old treaty in the Azores part of Hawaii where if you "form troops for battle" you get arrested. I was told he got a golf cart ride.
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Recruiting from your previous company
You could coach up good people at the new place too, and not find out the hard way how small the world is. Also, maybe some of your old team make it over on their own, in a way where you don't burn bridges.
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Hawaiian Senator
I was in Hawaii just once for a couple of hours, long enough for a plane to refuel. Turns out the local name is not "Hawaii" but "The Azores." Didn't look like it does in the movies but it was OK.
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Trivial Things That Make You Surly
But he had CONTROL!
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Alabama Football - Now Featuring Kalen DeBoer
Looks like the redawning of the Three Mikes era. But then again, never count out Alabama's ability to find a new way to cheat. Just because you wouldn't think of it, doesn't mean they won't.
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I caught the cancer
Give her an attagirl from this hive of scum and villainy. That must have been one hell of an exhale.
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Pete Best has passed
He still got to be a Beatle. More than Yoko can say.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Botero paintings have feelings too.
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Trivial Things That Make You Surly
Huhuuu... Welcome to my working life in the mid-80s. Get everything done by lunch, ask for more assignments, they'd give me dick to do, so I'd do my own freelance work at my desk, or hammer an exacto blade into the window sill so I could record its shadow as a sun dial, "research" graphics on Brøderbund games, turn up the Bangles cassette tape on my headphones.
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Sprinter van repair
Just curious, how do you like that van, and would you get one again? Nosing around to get something similar this year.
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Boutique Language Geek Thread of Imperial Grandeur
First new Gaelic class today, out of Aberdeen. Bigger class, 10 students. Approach is more readings based with some conversation. I am able to hang. For readings I am alternating between "clear as day" and "string of gibberish" so I am probably at right level. Dog started barking psychotically at squirrel before I could get to the mute button. But class seems to like dogs. 14 more classes, one a week. Kinda cool kinda cool. My head is tired.
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Mr. Tuberville goads to Washington
It's almost... ALMOST... as if Tuberville were using those players to make money for himself.
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Southern CA Fires- Extreme Santa Ana Winds
Yep. Working in my early 20s in a print shop, we would speed up the cleaning by wrapping rags around our hands and just splashing around with those -enes. tick tock
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manhattan congestion tolls
At night, they'd ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines
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Southern CA Fires- Extreme Santa Ana Winds
During WW2 my grandad (aircraft electrician w/ 9th AF) developed a loathing of the Red Cross. Something involving a girl they rescued from who knows what hell, and Red Cross basically treated her like shit.
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Rear ended- how to handle insurance
Oh that's just naisty.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Sounds Dutch.
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I caught the cancer
Consequence of the Colonial Service, what. Nothing a gallon of Bombay Sapphire can't sort out, Old Bean.
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Rear ended- how to handle insurance
You can never tell when your neck is going to start hurting. Joking, not joking. Just because you didn't feel anything the day of the collision doesn't mean you won't.
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I caught the cancer
Clean brain scan. Doc said if he didn't know there'd been a tumor there, he wouldn't have noticed anything. Except for that one little hole. "Oh my High School teachers knew that was there."
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Trudy's in trouble
This thread reminds me to wonder how I even ate while a student at UT. I had an overall budget of about a thousand a month (late 90s). A chunk of that went to rent, utilities, and books, so how did I eat for a whole month with what was left? You had the Vietnamese carts, if you were strong and stoic. I barely knew what a grocery store was (it was the beer store.) Yet somehow I ate out regularly, and drank almost constantly. Never remember missing meals. Sometimes it was just grazing the land, walking into some event winding down and there are 12 sandwiches left on an abandoned table. "Take them, they're free." TLDR: They gave us plenty of beer money but not so much food money.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
My grandad (when he was a teen) did some bootlegging with his bartender older brother. There were interludes of routine work interspersed with moments of rapid movement and terror. Me I stuck to tame stuff. Puebla blouses and similar. The customs guys didn't even want to look at them, as they tapped on all the admittedly interesting-sounding parts of the car, (and there are many after I rammed that truck in Colima that night, then spent weeks haggling with the body shop guys and showing them pictures of my nieces lying that they were my daughters and that their lives depended on solid hammer-work.) My son called me the Han Solo of Puebla Blouses.
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Southern CA Fires- Extreme Santa Ana Winds
Not to mention Japan is already kinda cool and damp.
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Trudy's in trouble
It was part of a place and time. To really enjoy it you'd have to be just done with an exam or a paper, and shuffle there from whatever subdivided shack you paid too much rent on. Squirrels and grackles and dtf girlfriend and "old" pals you've known for a whole year, and you think you'll see forever. It was there for us then. Then.
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Southern CA Fires- Extreme Santa Ana Winds
Seems like pre-pumping water up to a tank above the roof would be the thing to do.