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hookem2010

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  1. I worked at Hamilton Pool for a while, fortunately while the pool was closed for swimming. Drownings were nearly annual there before, and no more than about 100 people can swim there each day. It's insane to me that poor swimmers, or parents of poor swimmer, take no steps to avoid such things.
  2. I play reasonably close attention, but didn't know about Wes Moore until this week and was only peripherally aware of Shapiro but couldn't point him out of a lineup. I'm team anyone but Trump (or any R), for what it's worth.
  3. Perhaps we should start caring, seeing as the two presidential candidates are 80 year-old men. One who occasionally appears to be sundowning and the other who brags about passing neurologic exams and subsists on McDonalds.
  4. I went to Lassen in June a few years ago. Didn't get to see any of the geothermal features, but it was still a fantastic, uncrowded trip. Highly recommend.
  5. I've got to check that one off then. My wife is from there so we've gone back to visit family probably 10 times, yet I haven't been. Now that we have kids, I guess I can use that as an excuse to go next time.
  6. I didn't listen, but it seems like anything between a disaster and a home run is basically worst case scenario.
  7. I can't even listen to that. It's cringey enough to read.
  8. Congratulations! Speaking of illnesses, the wife, who works at Dell, said the new Covid strain is no joke. So that's fun. I regularly get updates on horrifying illnesses and injuries I never even thought to worry about. We're just entering the 3rd trimester for our 2nd boy. The 2 year-old's favorite phrase currently is "No Dada, get back." I've got, what, 3 years of white-knuckling it and just trying to survive?
  9. But you also put your life savings on Nebraska and the over.
  10. I will admit that my concerns at the time were based more on Biden drowning in the admittedly flawed polls. But I don't think it was unbelievable or unforeseeable that Biden would be declining mentally by the time of this election. He's not just 81, he's been President or VP for 12 of the last 16 years, and the other 4 he was watching Trump attempt to destroy the country and campaigning. Not to mention the death of his son, or his other child's legal/personal issues. The man has experienced multiple lifetimes of stress in the last two decades.
  11. It seems like someone should have gotten in Biden's ear a while ago about stepping aside. I know I, and many others, were mocked last year when bringing up running a different candidate due to giving up the incumbent advantage. Does that advantage still exist when the candidate appears unsafe to be left alone at home, much less run a country?
  12. Tara Davis making it interesting early, fouling on her first 2 jumps before hitting the 3rd to advance to earn 3 more jumps.
  13. Impeccable timing. You're going to want to take all of your camping gear. There are surely worse ways to experience the end of the world than as a hermit in the mountains of NZ, occasionally meandering into town to share beers with some kiwis.
  14. What exactly was the other side, dumbfuck?
  15. He just said there were very fine people on both sides. One side happened to be white supremacists and nazis. But you are right, he did not say "white supremacists and nazis are very fine people".
  16. I commandeered the TV and put on olympic trials. If I have to watch the debate, I'm not going to start with CNN pretending like we're dealing with 2 normal candidates/parties.
  17. I'm in the exact same boat, but I will be drinking. Going to opt for beer though.
  18. He's about as close to a celebrity as us birders have. Great to see him continuing to make something so incredible out of a horrible incident.
  19. This is me, except it's my own parents.
  20. Nah, that's my old neighbor in Houston. If he wasn't working on a lawnmower at 2 am, he was playing the goddamn drums or getting in yelling matches with his gf about dildos while they threw N-bombs back and forth (they were white).
  21. I slept it until 745, then just got up from a 2-hour nap. Trying to store up for the lean months ahead when the second one arrives. I think I will have a beer now.
  22. Please don't say "we" like the rest of of us are part of YOUR cult of racism/misogyny/authoritarianism/mutant christianity/narcissism/hate/greed/unmatched fucking stupidity
  23. I was working that event and left apparently 20 minutes before the shooting started. As I was driving home with ambulances passing me, I figured there was a shooting or vehicular murder of some sort. So horrible, so pointless.
  24. I thought I knew all there was to know about strategic warfare after becoming Shogun MULTIPLE times on medium difficulty as a mere teenager, but some of you talk like you mastered the more complex Medieval and Rome Total War editions as well.
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