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In its present form it's DOA in the Senate. Bet you 50 bucks Trump is on the evening news talking about how this is a big triumph despite that. "Unbelievable Victory" is the words he used. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

I see that originates from The Daily Fail. That alone makes it unsuitable for me, whether I'm at work or not. ;) True. But it's just them hosting the video. It's out there in a few places, that was just the first one on a search. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

We all know that breast cancer is bad. And on social media, nipples are usually censored. So some smartass has come up with a new PSA on breast cancer, and at the same time protests the censorship. Because Everybody Loves Boobs Both provocative, and seriously disturbing at the same time. So it fits pretty well in here. And if you need me to tell you that it's NSFW, well... (yes, it is) "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

I would say it is likely dead. Temps are too cold for it to survive at night. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Although I haven't been up there much recently, I've been to and through Canada a bunch over the years. Driving truck, sometimes I would "transit", that is, shortcut through Canada, avoiding the toll roads & Chicago when going from the upper Midwest out to New England/upstate New York. Other times I would deliver something, then pick up somewhere else in Canada. People were usually friendly, drivers far more polite than here in the US (except in Toronto). Even in Quebec the people were nice. I speak a few words of French, and always tried to use it as best I could (basic concept that it's their country and somewhat presumptuous to assume they should speak my language). With rare exception, they would seem to appreciate that I was at least trying. Customs going into Canada was usually a more pleasant experience than coming back to the US too. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Very good points. Although the xenophobes generally push the fear of the other cultures "taking over", as opposed to complete chaos. Look at the fear of "Sharia Law" in some places here in the US. They've even passed laws banning it. The really funny (ironic funny, not humorous funny) part of that is those are often places where the Christian version of "sharia law" is strongly entrenched (stuff like alcohol sales prohibited on Sunday, for example). So those people don't really have fear of religious laws, they just fear laws of a religion different from their own. And Bangladesh. And just like Yugoslavia (and much of the Middle East & Africa), the boundaries of old "India" didn't follow any of the historic, tribal, or cultural divides. Just lines some bureaucrat a zillion miles away drew on a map. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Nope. Not in France I cannot. There are many who think that is the way it should be. There are some who go one further and claim I have no right to an opinion on the matter. However you feel about it, I am not indifferent to the results and they *do* affect me... Ok. I didn't know. I guess I believe that only citizens should be able to vote for their leaders. Resident aliens, even permanent ones, aren't eligible here and I don't think they should be. And I don't believe that "millions" (or even a handful) voted illegally. But that doesn't mean you don't get to have an opinion, or that the results won't affect you. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Welcome to May 2015 for the UK, November 2016 for the US and June 2017 for the UK again... Glad France has caught up. I think this is what Phil111 meant. This is happening everywhere. Bigotry, xenophobia, "nationalism", all that crap. Hatred is popular nowadays. Scary, disappointing and depressing all in one. For Nataly: As a Canadian/Brit, can you even vote? I don't know the rules there. If so, vote your conscience. That may mean the "least worst" of the possible winners, that may mean a minor party candidate who has zero chance of winning. Personally, I couldn't vote for either Trump or Clinton, so I voted Libertarian. Protest vote, throwing my vote away, useless vote, whatever. It's what was right for me. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Most likely: "Vse chto pozhelayete, Mr Putin." (Google translation of "Whatever you want") "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Wait a minute... He isn't blaming Obama for it? "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Kinda depends on how you define "Europe". As a geographic landmass, both are in it. Yugoslavia completely, Turkey partly (eastern half in Europe, western in Asia). Sadly, I think it would be more xenophobic and tribalistic than homogeneous. Look at the situation with the refugees from Syria. How much has that contributed to the rise of bigotry, hatred and 'nationalism' in Europe? Look at Trump in the US (I know it's not fun, but do it anyway). The majority of his campaign was based on bigotry and hatred. And it worked. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Ouch. Why not tied off? He should have been, right? One of the places I deliver to just instituted a new policy. All trucks have to unhook the supply line (red air line) and the dock worker puts a lock on it (gladhand lock). This is because they had a truck pull out when an operator was on the dock plate. Dude fell off the plate and his lift truck (the ride on kind, not a regular forklift) fell over on top of him. Did not survive. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Actually, it was "standard practice" not too long ago. Some people have very long memories. Given what was done to their ancestors, I'm not entirely sure I blame them. Look at the Armenian genocide in the early 1900s. Wholesale slaughter. Even more recently was Yugoslavia. The different ethnic groups were forcibly mixed together, and made to "play nice" by their Soviet overlords. Once the Soviet Union collapsed, it only took a few years for the animosities to rear up and once more... Wholesale slaughter. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

I think over time (multiple generations) the enclaves would be more socio-economic than cultural. Eventually the cultural differences would start to smooth out. It'll happen first with food, because food is a universal language. Then it will happen with actual language and biological differences. Eventually everyone will look like Beyonce and Obama, speak an evolved version of English, eat some really good fusion food, and hopefully not have as much racial/cultural animus as we do now. There will still be tension, but it will be economic with less of a racial undertone. Or we could all become food for our robot/alien overlords. Maybe. In an ideal world, sure. But, unfortunately, humans are still human. And xenophobia/tribalism/nationalism is a huge part of that. I'm afraid that the enclaves would more likely become more and more isolated and insulated. Crossover would still happen, but it would be the exception more than the rule (Romeo & Juliet anyone?). I doubt we'd become food for the robot overlords. Robots don't require protein (unless they are some form of cyborg - living tissue and robot combined). "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Probably a wise choice. It's the topless women jumping out of a large cargo plane and making a formation that is a sale price on washing machines. The one young lady goes for her ripcord (yes, ripcords) and pulls... Something else instead. Goes into the pool at the country club and climbs out minus rig, helmet and... Everything but a smile. :) "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Interesting interview with the fire/rescue guy. I love how he got picked for the rescue. He does a pretty good interview too. All he cared about was getting her down safely, and getting her any help she might have needed. I'd love to hear the 'rest of the story' on this one (why she did it and how she got up there). I would guess that "Mischief" is similar to "Disorderly Conduct" here in the US. Very much an "I don't know what we should charge her with, but after all the hoopla, we have to charge her with something" sort of catch-all charge. No damage, so not vandalism. Probably no forced entry, so no burglary (nothing taken either). Criminal Trespass? Maybe. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

But sometimes they get it sooo right! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_cJ1ywIy0A

Could you elaborate? Some people hold up Southern California as a near utopia, others as a dreaded hellscape. I'm sure you're somewhere in the middle. And why anyone would want to live in a Southern California desert when they could move to the rolling green hills of Virginia is beyond me. I would suspect he means that it would become a hodgepodge of different cultures. A vast range of socio-economic strata. Some mixing, but far more 'enclaves'. Both cultural and socio-economic. KoreaTown and Little Saigon, along with Bel Aire/Beverly Hills and Watts/East LA. Both the good and bad of all of it too. Depending on the level of 'rule of law' and social 'safety nets', it could be anywhere from actual SoCal to someplace like Rio di Janeiro, where the slums are real shitholes where the gangs rule and cops don't go. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Well, to be a bit pedantic, experience doesn't reduce the risk of a camera jump. The risks will still be there, no matter what. What experience does is give the ability to recognize and deal with that risk. Recognizing it helps with making a decision on whether to do it in the first place (the good old "didn't know how far in over his head he was") Dealing with it includes reacting to a situation and taking the appropriate measures to get through the situation (the good old "he would have made it if he had just...") "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

You can call yourselves anything you want. Doesn't make it true. You're "deep south", fundamentalist Christian and clannish mountain people. Nowhere near the "middle" that I can see. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

What are you looking to do? TI? Video? Pack? Where are you looking? US? Elsewhere? If in the US, any particular region? Lots of folks work "up north" in the summer, then travel "down south" in the winter (US based). Upper midwest includes bigger places like SDC & CSC, but there are "small to middlin'" DZs that run four or five days (weekends plus a couple days) that support full time seasonal staff. Lots of those folks then go down to Texas, Arizona or Florida for the winter. Some go to Hawaii. "Best DZ" is a pretty personal choice. Each DZ has it's own culture and vibe. "Best" for you is likely different from "best" for someone else. And FWIW, most of the upper midwest DZs already have their summer staff set up. You may or may not be able to find a full time, full season job at this point. Look through the classifieds to see who is hiring. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Wait, so now we have The Holy Church of Climate Change Denial? Please don't tell me that I'm going to have to hear bullshit about Intelligent Design stopping Climate Change. Pretty much. Lots of the denier crowd claim that God is the only one who can change the climate. This Billboard is a couple miles from my house. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

The data does show a massive increase in reported natural disasters and a massive increase in number of people affected. Wasn't your argument that there were less of them? Floods certainly have killed significantly less people. But that doesn't necessarily mean a reduction in severity or frequency of floods. It could very well mean we have gotten much better in building damn and dikes and have gotten much better at predicting and responding. Same goes for hurricanes/cyclones. Prediction, monitoring, warning, evacuation, all that. The Galveston hurricane in 1900 killed somewhere between 6k and 12k. But there was no warning. None at all. By the time anyone realized that there was a serious storm coming, they were cut off. Even tornadoes are "less deadly" today, because the warning time has increased. We just had "tornado awareness week" here in WI, and one of the "fun facts" tossed around is that average warning time has more than doubled in the past 20 years or so. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

So assuming he is a spy, which is hardly been shown, you have no sympathy for a man who volunteered to serve his country in a hostile foreign land, knowing the result could be life imprisonment or death? How do feel about soldiers wounded in combat? It happens all the time, they should have known better. No sympathy! Sad! Well, from a purely pragmatic standpoint, it's unlikely he's a US intelligence officer. I doubt they'd send an actual US citizen in to do that. Very limited freedom of movement, very strong suspicion and close attention from the "minders", huge propaganda value to the DPRK if caught. I'm actually a bit surprised it took this long. This is very typical of them. The DPRK gets caught with their "hand in the cookie jar" (the killing of KJU's brother), stupid posturing and provocative statements from both sides, some sort of demonstration of the "power of the DPRK" (missile test), more posturing and statements, then the DPRK grabs a foreign national (usually an American), claiming they are a "spy." Lots more posturing and stupid statements, then someone of stature (like an ex-pres) goes over and 'negotiates' the release. The crimes committed by the DPRK are forgotten, KJU (or his dad when KJI was alive) looks very good to the citizens subjects of the DPRK, and life goes on. I would bet very heavily that the 'spy' is an actual aid volunteer. I'm not sure if I would call him "brave" for going, or "not all that smart." I get the idea that, for a lot of those sorts of volunteers, the calling to help others is stronger than the fear/risk of going to dangerous places. But the DPRK has a long, long history of these sorts of arrests. Especially during times of tension, like we have now. Being there now, or staying there if he's been there a while, wasn't a really smart move. Edit to add: Well, it kind of depends on how you define "Happens every time." As I noted above, it seems like every time the DPRK gets itself into trouble, the end up grabbing a foreign national and calling him (or her) a "spy." "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Yes. I'd personally do a double sided patch. One patch on the inside, one on the outside, sewing the hole between them. Probably overkill, but that wind has some power to it. Not really. I would suggest E-thread, which translates to #69 Upholstery thread for "normal" tailors. Again, not really. You want something as close as possible to what you are patching. One idea is to get in touch with Vertical and see if they could send you a small piece or two to use as a patch. Then you'd know it was the same stuff. The one issue you might face is that a normal tailor/seamstress may not understand how strong you need it to be. You commented on how well it was sewn ('sews the hell out of these things"). There's a reason for that. If you are in Miami, you probably have a lot of sailboat places nearby. Those guys know how to sew strong stuff. You might try one of them. Otherwise, ask around at the tunnel. See who repairs their stuff. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo