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  1. 1 hour ago, troph said:

    that looks safe.

    IDK, maybe they have a seakeeper?

    I bet a passenger could smoke a cigar in about a minute and a half.

    csb: My brother had a Glastron with Merc Lake X motor...  I rode in that thing ONCE

  2. 7 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

    I can tell you from personal experience, that if you go to Fantasy Fest a Halloween party dressed as Fidel Castro an Arab Sheikh, and you strapped on a machete (because who owns a scimitar in this day and age?) and you DO NOT run into another guy dressed as a female dominatrix and armed the same way, do not, DO NOT get in a friendly machete quick-draw contest. They'll scream "Fidel you've been a bad boy!" and chase you down Duval St with a paddle while the crowd cheers them on.

    Good advice!, good advice

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  3. 28 minutes ago, C-Man said:

    There is a NFIP program (national) but also many carriers have their own flood programs. A lot of coastal properties need three different policies -- regular homeowner, flood and wind.

    This is the hardest market anybody currently working in the P&C insurance world has ever seen from a property standpoint. And I don't know where it stops. It's brutal out there. There is a point where people will no longer be able to afford insurance if rates continue going up.

    Yup, I've got 3 policies.   At some point, this will become an issue that will force politicians to respond (fuck knows how that's going to go).  But couple the rise in insurance cost with record high real-estate prices...  that's gotta be a nut punch for potential new home sales.   I don't know how kids out of college are going to afford to live.

    signed - dad with two kids in college

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  4. 5 minutes ago, Reagan1k said:

    PREACH!!!!!    

    An 8' stringer in that water is like tying a chum bucket to your thigh.  That tug will gather all of your attention rather quickly.

     

    Sound off!

     

    I knew a couple of crazy bastards who did this a lot.  Always worked in groups of 3, two to shoot and one to defend.  IIRC they would hunt off Palm Beach/Jupiter

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    1. Early summer is shark attack story time.  If there is anything else going on in the news these types of sensational stories don't tend to get reported.  These stories are place holders till hurricane season.  When the hurricanes start spinning up the shark attack stories will magically disappear until next spring/early summer 
    2. Bull Sharks are always nasty and aggressive
    3. But it's fair to mention that shitty ecological conditions ...  Like heat induced deadzones and fish kills leave the sharks looking further and further from their normal sources of food.  Don't believe me? google Recife shark attacks.  

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  5. 2 hours ago, Dnaguy said:

     

    Well, I felt this way at an Obama rally. I've never been swept up like that (even at badass concerts) ever since.

    It helped that I agreed with him AND I totally hooked up with a chick after his rally at the Toyota center.

    No candidate for president will ever top Hope and Strange for me.

    The Arc of the Moral Universe is Long, But it Bends Toward punani

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  6. 37 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

    Glad you did my favorite part about visiting Paris, walking around getting "lost" in the city and finding out how fucking awesome it is. The "rude Parisians" are the ones clueless American's walk up to and without even a polite "Bonjour Monsieur/Madame", immediately start speaking/asking questions in English, and then get pissed that the French person France is not so nice or cordial in answering. 

    Florence is awesome but for me Florence is a place where I love to visit. Paris is a place where I'd love to live.

    I generally agree with this sentiment.   95% of the folks we interacted with were very kind and helpful.  However, we did get to sample some good old fashion French arseholery. 

    First night in Paris, climbing the common staircase to our 5th floor walk up apartment, we were vigorously, rudely, and hilariously questioned by a little angry old french dude.   In a Monty Python type French accent he demanded to know what we were doing in the building?, who us let in?, and insisted that we leave at once!   I calmly told him that we rented an apartment on Airbnb and showed him the key to the unit.  He flew into a rage and demanded to know the surname of the apartment owner.  I told him I didn't know, because I rented it on airbnb.  He then called me liar and physically blocked the stair case.  Then he demanded to know how much I paid...  at this point the novelty was wearing off and I told him I didn't remember and that he could just look it up himself.  After 5 mins of back and forth he relented and went back in his apartment.   When we checked out I let the owner know of the incident, and his response was, oh he knows it's for rent and I've spoken to him about it many many times.

    Another time the wife and I were walking back from the Arc' Triumph and wanted some lunch...  looked on google maps and found a nice looking café on the walk back.  It was just after lunch and we walked up to the almost empty café and in french I said bonjour and asked for a table for two.  In English, and dripping with sarcasm, the man asked if I had a reservation.   This was a simple café, and not particularly expensive or fancy, just a plain ass café.   I looked at all the empty tables both inside and out and said in English that I didn't.   He said they were fully booked and good bye.  Could be true, but not likely based on his attitude, smirk, and the metric buttload of empty tables.

     

  7. 3 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Then why are all those insurance companies pulling out of doing business in Florida?

    https://www.pnj.com/story/money/2023/07/12/florida-insurance-crisis-farmers-insurance-home-insurance-what-to-know/70407302007/

     

    1. Because climate change is even making the old grifty model of milking premiums during the quiet years and going bankrupt in bad years untenable.  
    2. Cost of building (rebuilding is sky high)
    3. Insurance fraud or GASP! homeowners suing insurance companies to honor their policies
  8. 1 minute ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    I think I don’t have crabs? Very cool. There’s a bayou that runs the length of the neighborhood nearby. I assume he stopped by for a drink before heading over there. 

    Cool birds...  the bayou makes a good home for them.  I see them in my neighborhood regularly.  We have small land crabs and you see them hunting early in the morning.  A couple of days ago, at a nearby state park, we saw one absolutely demolishing a land crab the size of a brick.  The crab was trying to get away, but the little heron would just hop around, grab the crab and slam it down.  It was a lot more violent/athletic than you would expect out a sleek looking bird.  Very much a predator.

  9. 11 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    Surprise visitor yesterday. What is it?

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    Looks like a Night Heron...  eats crabs

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  10. 17 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

    I'll chime in. My 12 month renewal with my guys in Houston went up 40% for car, and it looks like my mortgage went up $150 a month becuase of insurance as well. My insurance guys in Houston bascially said "Providers don't even want to cover guys they already have." This is all of us paying for Florida hurricanes and Cali wildfires, right?

     

    Nope, Hurricane insurance companies are state based (at least in Florida) to isolate risk to a company that can just roll the dice and pay shareholders and fold if snake eyes hits.  The state of Florida is just expected (historically) to step in and make homeowners whole. 

    Someone help me out here, but I think that flood risk is nationalized, hurricane risk is not.  

     

  11. 11 hours ago, conVINCEd said:

     If the actuaries had any say in the matter anyone within 50 miles of the Gulf  would be uninsurable.  Politics dictate otherwise.  If anyone wants to complain about their insurance rates they should consider living in a place that is not in a disaster zone.

    Cool,

    So everyone should live where there aren't any wildfires, floods, tornados, hurricanes, volcanos, blizzards, tsunamis, or earthquakes.   Where is this now?

     

  12. 12 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    I would also like to appear on this motion as a non-party how do I do that? I am happy to submit a brief provided that the court accepts MS-Paint

    That might be the only file format Cannon's court accepts

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  13. 10 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

    I don’t have a lot of hope against the number six national seed Clemson, but the weird thing about the Gators is that the last eight times we won a regional, we eventually made it to Omaha.

    At least when we win the odd regional we do something with it.

    meh... we might have a little something for those boys.  

    Spoiler

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  14. 4 minutes ago, deech said:

    I am 100% overly cynical, but I think SCOTUS in making its ruling on immunity may take some completely fucked position in that case where it could potentially be argued that it would apply to the NY case.  

     

     

    maybe, but the crime in question happened before Trump was elected.  Not sure how that would logically work.

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