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thunderlounge

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  1. Sure, just not the SEC.
  2. Had these on my sub for about a week. They definitely help and are worth it, but it’s not a 100% fix. Maybe 70%. Still impressive and worth it though.
  3. Took this while working one of the cup races at TMS one year. Can’t remember which exactly. ‘08-‘10 give or take. Billy and the boys were putting on a little pre-race show and killing it. Was a nice little set, other than it was short.
  4. Glocks cure cancer? Right on.
  5. Oh boy. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! Right. Up. My. Alley. I get a kick out of replying to fucking text spammers. (Then I report and block them. lol) Hell, I'll fuck with a wrong number if it feels warranted. I love how the first two sent a read reply. lol How about a warm-up from a dumbfuck sooner? According to my passport, my name is definitely NOT mary: And well, I'm pretty fucking sure that a) I don't drive toll roads, nor have a tag, and b) if I did, they wouldn't text from a foreign number.
  6. Already tugged them nice and slow over your mom’s face. Have fun being a piece of shit.
  7. I was out before Carl was. I run into him around town once in a blue moon, which is always nice. I miss a lot of the people, and have a ton of memories, but things change and people move on. As far as the real reason he stepped down? Pretty much what’s out there. I haven’t pressed him (and wouldn’t) for details. But it’s not difficult to put 2&2 together, ya know?
  8. He really hurt that little kid, and you want to make that the butt of your joke? Go get fucked.
  9. Spandex is a privilege, not a right.
  10. What the hell are you babbling about? Receive the ball properly?
  11. Do we trust him not to be a Mack mole?
  12. Did he try that one out too? Did he burn the pit up on that one too? 😂
  13. I've shared this before, but I fucked my back up in 2000. Finally got an MRI in 2004. Bottom disk has degenerative disk disease. Basically it's a hollow shell of a disk. It makes a picture, but that's it. It's toast. The disk above that is (or was) fine, but the one above that was hanging half out. They called it bulged, but half-slipped seems a better description. At that time, my doc said I was a perfect candidate for disk replacement. However, he told me without sugar-coating it that if I could hold off and "make due" at least one cycle (they were 10yr replacement cycles then, no idea what they are now) then I should. As that was one less cycle to go through, one less chance for something to happen, etc. So after that, he gave me some core stretches to do, and guided me on finding triggers, and trying to avoid them as best I could, knowing there would be times it couldn't be helped. Since then I've done those stretches every morning before getting out of bed. I also see a chiropractor, and a massage therapist. I also try to avoid triggers as best I can. If I need to do a task that I know can trigger it, I side with the moderation route. Work a few minutes, rest twice as long. Rinse and repeat until it's done. For me it's worked well enough. Is it perfect? Oh hell no. And it can be a tad inconvenient from time to time. However, it's worked, and if you did the math, I've been able to hold off at least 2 cycles, and working through the third. As things stand now, without significant changes to the situation, I don't see it ever being worth it in my current condition. And just so we're clear, I went about 6 years without being able to play golf. Those stretches caught up eventually, and I've been back to playing regularly for over 15 years. Granted I did make a minor swing change, and did lose a tick of distance, but that's ok. I can still go play, whenever I want, and not worry about if I'll be on the couch for 2 days. My wife on the other hand, had a foraminotomy done on hers in 2007. It helped a little bit initially, but within 3 years she was back to where she was before, and was never off the pain pills afterwards. Looking back, it wasn't worth it. She got lucky to only be back to about the same, instead of worse off than she was.
  14. Champkind did one, but it wasn't his idea.
  15. Here's Sprints guiding "philosophy", you may find it very similar to that of one Mack Brown: "Fuck you, pay me." First, why would they buy out T-Mobile, but keep their name? That's easy. Because Sprint had completely trashed their name by the time they bought T-Mobile. So they keep the name, and voila, the emperor has new clothes. Now, back before sprint bought out Nextel, and really before Nextel was a big deal or was just becoming a big deal, sprint just loved to fuck people over. One such example revolves around day/night minutes. Remember those? Remember how they worked? 7a-7p: daytime minutes, which you had a limited amount of; 7p-7a: nighttime minutes, which at the time were "unlimited." The kicker here is that if you were on a call before 7a, it was nighttime minutes, and would remain nighttime minutes until the call was completed. Even if that call went beyond 7a. So at the time, I was driving back and forth about 75min for work. I'd leave just a bit after 6, and about 6:20 I'd call up a buddy of mine and we'd chat during our commutes. We'd both arrive about the same time to work, about 7:25-7:30. Ok, no big deal, right? Take advantage of those nighttime minutes, right? Even if it's only 30 minutes, right? At the time that savings made a difference. Now the fun part. I started noticing our call dropped every morning. I altered my routine just enough to see if a different tower would make a difference. It did not. So I called Sprint to see if there was an issue, or at least let them know there might be one. No big deal right? Yeah, they didn't give a single fuck. So for 6 months, every morning, and the occasional Saturday morning, I documented every single call. When it started, when it dropped, and where I was at the time. From time to time I left earlier/later enough to be on a different tower. Nothing made a difference, and by 7:03 in the morning, the call would drop. However, it never dropped on a Saturday morning. Once again, I presented Sprint with the data. Fucks given? Zero. So what was really happening there? What was the issue? The issue is they were intentionally cycling their towers to drop existing nighttime minute calls. Pretty sleazy. We won't even get into their billing "discrepancies", either. So for me, that was enough to drop their service. I moved to Nextel, and never had another issue. Well, until sprint bought them out, and guess what? Within 3 months it was back to the same bullshit. Dropping calls when minutes changed, major billing issues, the works. Dropped them and never looked back. If they were the only carrier left, I'd do without.
  16. What, she didn’t like the use of, “suck it up, buttercup” or other such wisdom?
  17. But then you’re stuck with tmobile, aka sprint. Fuck no.
  18. Well, that's fucking stupid.
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