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MidnightToker( • )( • ) Offline
#1201 Posted: Mon, May 6 2024, 1:21 AM EST
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I know some vespertine women.
deadeyedick Offline
#1202 Posted: Mon, May 6 2024, 10:33 AM EST
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Scientists estimate that the average American eats about one pound of bugs each year.

So MACS doesn't need quite as much of those protein shakes as he thinks.
MACS Offline
#1203 Posted: Mon, May 6 2024, 11:26 AM EST
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But they taste better than bugs... just sayin'.
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#1204 Posted: Mon, May 6 2024, 2:16 PM EST
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Those who ride without full faced helmets eat a lot more than that.

I remember hearing you eat about 5 spiders a year because they crawl into your nose while you're sleeping.
MACS Offline
#1205 Posted: Mon, May 6 2024, 3:15 PM EST
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We've got "organ donors" here who ride with no helmets. d'oh!
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#1206 Posted: Mon, May 6 2024, 3:28 PM EST
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MACS wrote:
We've got "organ donors" here who ride with no helmets. d'oh!

Same here. The helmet law was reversed in PA about 20 years ago. If you're over 21 and have a motorcycle license (not just a permit) you don't have to wear a helmet. Though you do have to wear your seat belt in a car by law. More gubment hypocrisy.
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#1207 Posted: Mon, May 6 2024, 3:34 PM EST
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They are remaking the Lord of the Rings trilogy with Tom Holland as Frodo. I won't even watch it. Hollywood needs new ideas, not more remakes.
jeebling Online
#1208 Posted: Mon, May 6 2024, 4:30 PM EST
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MidnightToker( • )( • ) wrote:
Same here. The helmet law was reversed in PA about 20 years ago. If you're over 21 and have a motorcycle license (not just a permit) you don't have to wear a helmet. Though you do have to wear your seat belt in a car by law. More gubment hypocrisy.


Insurance lobby at work is my guess. But I don’t really know.
jeebling Online
#1209 Posted: Mon, May 6 2024, 4:33 PM EST
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MidnightToker( • )( • ) wrote:
They are remaking the Lord of the Rings trilogy with Tom Holland as Frodo. I won't even watch it. Hollywood needs new ideas, not more remakes.


I haven’t seen the first trilogy yet but the books were outstanding.
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#1210 Posted: Sat, May 11 2024, 3:53 PM EST
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Jimmy Stewart considered himself a pilot first and an actor second
Palama Offline
#1211 Posted: Sat, May 11 2024, 4:01 PM EST
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MidnightToker( • )( • ) wrote:
They are remaking the Lord of the Rings trilogy with Tom Holland as Frodo. I won't even watch it. Hollywood needs new ideas, not more remakes.


Really? Sheesh, not sure how they’re gonna make it better but I doubt that I’mma gonna watch the remake in either big screen or streaming options.

Fo’ sure Hollywood has run out of fresh, totally original ideas. Iffin’ it’s not a 3rd or 4th remake, it’s the 8th installment / offshoot of a successful franchise like Star Wars, Fast ‘n Furious, etc., etc.
Palama Offline
#1212 Posted: Sat, May 11 2024, 4:02 PM EST
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ducati996 wrote:
Jimmy Stewart considered himself a pilot first and an actor second


He truly had a wonderful life.
jeebling Online
#1213 Posted: Sat, May 11 2024, 11:29 PM EST
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^lol
Speyside2 Offline
#1214 Posted: Sun, May 12 2024, 8:18 PM EST
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Ted Williams was the same, a pilot first and a baseball player second.
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#1215 Posted: Sun, May 12 2024, 8:28 PM EST
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Stewart was an Army and Air Force Colonel and not a professional baseball player.
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#1216 Posted: Sun, May 12 2024, 11:08 PM EST
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8trackdisco wrote:
And probably soon to be forgotten.

Hear people say You learn something every day. Unsure of the level of truth with that, but startingbthink about the range of experiences with this group and think there are certainly less useful threads posted here (a bunch of them mine).

So… if you learn something new, and you’d like to share with the group, please do.

I’ve just learned something new and it’s actually shocking to know that it’s the truth.
But I’m not so sure that I want to share it with the group…
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#1217 Posted: Mon, May 13 2024, 9:01 PM EST
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Have ya learned how to build a hut yet?
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#1218 Posted: Tue, May 14 2024, 7:43 AM EST
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Massachusetts became the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage.

This Week in History‏‏‎‎ May 17, 2004

Massachusetts became the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage.

Hundreds of gay and lesbian couples hurried to apply for marriage licenses, thanks to a state Supreme Court ruling the previous November. Some paid fees to waive a three-day waiting period. The desire to make their partnerships legal as well as the fear that politicians might take away their right to marry fueled the rush.

Marriage entitles spouses to benefits such as inheritance, hospital-visitation rights and the filing of joint tax returns. Other states followed suit, and in 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act enacted in 1996 was unconstitutional. Today public approval of same-sex marriage is widespread in the U.S.
jeebling Online
#1219 Posted: Tue, May 14 2024, 7:59 AM EST
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I’m all for it. Not to be a downer, but it irks me that the government is involved in any way whatsoever, for any citizen wanting to marry. But I understand.
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#1220 Posted: Tue, May 14 2024, 10:00 AM EST
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The average couple will pay $214,000 in Medicare taxes over their working life but receive benefits totaling $635,000.

Of corse this does not include what they may have done with that money iffn they didn't pay taxes up front.
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#1221 Posted: Wed, May 15 2024, 8:03 PM EST
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Heard about this a few days ago. Regarding the owner of the old AWA (American Wrestling Association), Verne Gagne.

Things can go south if you're in a nursing home, and know killer wrestling moves.

On January 26, 2009, Gagne got into an altercation with Helmut Gutmann, a 97-year-old resident of the Bloomington, Minnesota nursing care facility where they both resided. According to Gutmann's widow, who was not present during the altercation, Gagne picked Gutmann up and threw him to the floor, then broke his hip by pulling back on his body. "'The attack happened quickly while the men were at a table', Bloomington Police Chief Jeff Potts said. 'It was more like "a push and a shove" and it caused Gutmann to fall.'"[20] Neither man had any recollection of the incident.[21] Gutmann was admitted to the hospital, and died on February 14 from complications of the injury.[22] On February 25, 2009, the older man's death was officially ruled a homicide by the Hennepin County medical examiner's office.[21] On March 12, 2009, the Hennepin County Prosecutor's office officially announced that Gagne would not be criminally charged as a result of the death as, because of Gagne's dementia, he lacked the mental capacity necessary to be criminally culpable.[23]
Abrignac Offline
#1222 Posted: Thu, May 16 2024, 8:45 AM EST
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jeebling wrote:
I’m all for it. Not to be a downer, but it irks me that the government is involved in any way whatsoever, for any citizen wanting to marry. But I understand.


I’ll take that a step farther by saying government has ABSOLUTELY no business regulating personal relationships at all. Not everyone will agree with everyone else’s choices. But, I’ve always subscribed to the idea that one person’s rights end where another person’s rights begin.

It’s undeniable that the basis of many morality based laws, or lack thereof, is religion. It is also undeniable that our country was also founded by by strong followers of the Christian faith. Yet, it is equally undeniable that those believers SPECIFICALLY stated:

Quote:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.


So it would seem any law based on what may or not be covered in the Bible would be a law reflecting an establishment of religion.

As such to allow benefits of marriage to one another a couple composed of a man and a women but to deny those benefits to a same-sex couple is a prima facia example of a) a law based on religion and b) a violation of equal protection.

Doesn’t mean I’ll always agree with everything but it’s what I swore to protect both as a military inductee and as a law enforcement office.
Abrignac Offline
#1223 Posted: Thu, May 16 2024, 8:46 AM EST
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8trackdisco wrote:
Heard about this a few days ago. Regarding the owner of the old AWA (American Wrestling Association), Verne Gagne.

Things can go south if you're in a nursing home, and know killer wrestling moves.

On January 26, 2009, Gagne got into an altercation with Helmut Gutmann, a 97-year-old resident of the Bloomington, Minnesota nursing care facility where they both resided. According to Gutmann's widow, who was not present during the altercation, Gagne picked Gutmann up and threw him to the floor, then broke his hip by pulling back on his body. "'The attack happened quickly while the men were at a table', Bloomington Police Chief Jeff Potts said. 'It was more like "a push and a shove" and it caused Gutmann to fall.'"[20] Neither man had any recollection of the incident.[21] Gutmann was admitted to the hospital, and died on February 14 from complications of the injury.[22] On February 25, 2009, the older man's death was officially ruled a homicide by the Hennepin County medical examiner's office.[21] On March 12, 2009, the Hennepin County Prosecutor's office officially announced that Gagne would not be criminally charged as a result of the death as, because of Gagne's dementia, he lacked the mental capacity necessary to be criminally culpable.[23]


**** with bull, get the horns….
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