Badger Posted September 19, 2017 Report Share Posted September 19, 2017 Well, to be fair, I am tolerable as long as no "living on a prayer" gets sung Note: Evidently, the local rock station thinks, that and Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Scar Tissue" has to be the last song I hear on the way to work, at least once a week for both. Note: ANd a 3rd day has to be taken up by Green Day. Hmm, heard a Green Day song, and Scar Tissue on the way to work today while also being stuck behind a log truck going 15 MPH, someone hated me today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 19, 2017 Report Share Posted September 19, 2017 That's why you never let on what really bothers you. When they know, they just lean on that button. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 19, 2017 Report Share Posted September 19, 2017 I'll bet Puerto Rico would like a do over on this hurricane season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DasBroot Posted September 19, 2017 Report Share Posted September 19, 2017 If certain fringe climatologists are to be believed they'll have to settle for encores. (Full disclosure: I do believe we've had an impact on the climate: Only a fool or a politician wouldn't. I don't believe that we've reached the tipping point where this season heralds the new normal for hurricane seasons to come. Maybe I'm an optimist after all.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 19, 2017 Report Share Posted September 19, 2017 One head is rolling, anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted September 19, 2017 Report Share Posted September 19, 2017 Play-lynching 8-year-olds in New Hampshire in 2017 A.D.: I read about this last week... of course no information on the bastards released as they are under-aged... My rage level went up quite a bit... I could easily see them getting preferential treatment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted September 19, 2017 Report Share Posted September 19, 2017 Please not Bon Jovi, please dear LOrd no. I like a number of his songs quite a bit. nowhere near all of them, but... that is why there are so many different artists around. Almost no one I know likes Flamenco, but I found out today my dad's caregiver does also... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted September 19, 2017 Report Share Posted September 19, 2017 I've always felt that if someone wants to park in handicapped zones that badly, the logical thing to do would be to make them qualify for it. I understand kneecaps are easy to damage. The only reason I did not "like" this is that I disapprove of assault and battery in principle. Though sometimes the temptation is very strong... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted September 19, 2017 Report Share Posted September 19, 2017 Fun scene aside... Shepard Book has some reading to do (heh). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule It's not fuzzy about kneecaps in the slightest. do unto others as you would have them do unto you? He just has to believe it would be appropriate for the same thing to happen to him in similar circumstances... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted September 19, 2017 Report Share Posted September 19, 2017 IN local news, a pot shop employee eating in his car was kidnapped and murdered last week. In a TV news interview, the killer confessed and stated he was having a very bad day, and originally just went over to beat the guy up because he was disrespectful to him.... so he killed him and stole the car, dumped the body, then the car. I cannot even begin to understand the mindset. THAT, imo, is a THUG. I don't care what color, creed, or nationality someone is, if they think it is appropriate to assault, murder, rob, etc based on "being disrespectful" then they are a problem. I know historically many of our upper crust would have dueled over kinds of disrespect, but... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted September 19, 2017 Report Share Posted September 19, 2017 I've always felt that if someone wants to park in handicapped zones that badly, the logical thing to do would be to make them qualify for it. I understand kneecaps are easy to damage. I'm reminded of a comedian who said, "I saw a guy park in a handicapped space, he got out of his car and was perfectly fine. I figured I'd make an honest man out of him... so I ran him over." After the laughter died down, he added, "Then his 90 year-old grandmother got out of the car and started beating me over the head with her cane." I'm also reminded of my brother, who got a ticket for parking in a handicapped space at the mall. He was incredibly upset, telling our mom, "I limped all the way in and all around the mall!" Mind you, he wasn't hurt at all, he just figured that faking a limp should be good enough to qualify for handicapped parking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 19, 2017 Report Share Posted September 19, 2017 Lucius and Michael Hopcroft 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 20, 2017 Report Share Posted September 20, 2017 The boxer Jake LaMotta has died at the age of 95. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41339153 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted September 20, 2017 Report Share Posted September 20, 2017 Power has been knocked out in the entirety of Puerto Rico. The infrastructure may "never be the same" (and I don't know if it was that great to begin with). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted September 20, 2017 Report Share Posted September 20, 2017 The 7.1 earthquake that hit near Mexico City has claimed over 200 lives. 225 was the last official count given, about four hours ago. They're still digging through rubble, so that number's bound to go up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DasBroot Posted September 20, 2017 Report Share Posted September 20, 2017 There's so much more to an earthquake than the magnitude number. I overheard people talking on the bus about it not being as bad as the one they just had. It's an earthquake. They're all serious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 20, 2017 Report Share Posted September 20, 2017 Mexico City ground movement gets amplified because most of the city is build on old filled-in lake; the sediments in those tend to resonate when shaken hard enough. Shake them hard enough and they'll liquify, which seems not to happened this time, in general. (US Geological Survey page on the event) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted September 20, 2017 Report Share Posted September 20, 2017 Redacted. I may have been wrong about the intent of DasBroot's post. Thanks to Old Man for pointing it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 20, 2017 Report Share Posted September 20, 2017 I didn't read any snark into DasBroot's statement at all. I thought he was complaining about the dismissive attitude expressed by total strangers on the bus. Needless to say it hasn't been a great year for disasters. Magnitudes and death tolls aside, we're looking at hundreds of thousands of people out of power, out of work, out of homes. Puerto Rico was already literally bankrupt and then they caught a Cat 4 hurricane in the teeth. During an administration that is not exactly known for generous aid packages to anyone for any reason. Pattern Ghost 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 20, 2017 Report Share Posted September 20, 2017 The 7.1 earthquake that hit near Mexico City has claimed over 200 lives. 225 was the last official count given, about four hours ago. They're still digging through rubble, so that number's bound to go up. The bright spot (loosely speaking) is that Mexico City had just wrapped up a day of earthquake drills in remembrance of the last Mexico City earthquake disaster. Undoubtedly that saved some lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted September 20, 2017 Report Share Posted September 20, 2017 I didn't read any snark into DasBroot's statement at all. I thought he was complaining about the dismissive attitude expressed by total strangers on the bus. It's possible my cranky factor is high today. If that's the case, apologies to DasBroot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted September 20, 2017 Report Share Posted September 20, 2017 On a lighter note-- This years finalists for the Toy Hall Of Fame Included among the name brands--Sand, and Paper Airplanes. Cygnia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted September 21, 2017 Report Share Posted September 21, 2017 Spanish police storm Catalan government buildings to stop independence referendum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DasBroot Posted September 21, 2017 Report Share Posted September 21, 2017 Old Man, on 20 Sept 2017 - 6:01 PM, said: I didn't read any snark into DasBroot's statement at all. I thought he was complaining about the dismissive attitude expressed by total strangers on the bus. I was. To these people, as well as many others I'm sure, 7.1 is less than 8.2 therefore 7.1 is not as bad. This is only one factor of an earthquakes effects, but it's the one that pop culture has ingrained as being the most significant so its the one that people just reading headlines assign the most value to. I just like people to try and look beyond the buzzwords before speaking (as difficult as it is in today's buzzword driven society): a fishing shack fire isn't as bad as a forest fire but you'd be hard pressed to convince the people trapped in the fishing shack of that. Or in other words... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted September 21, 2017 Report Share Posted September 21, 2017 Heads up if you use Avast's CCleaner: http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2017/09/avast-distributes-malware.html I've heard it said that only 32bit OS's were affected, if you're rocking a 64 bit you are probably safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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