Bob_Church
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"You do understand that, after a Nazi ran a car into a crowd and killed a woman, that Trump defended the Nazis, saying that some of them were "Fine People", don't you? " A Nazi? I thought it was some loser named James Alex Field, not some aging survivor of WW2. Did he shout Seig Heil before giving it the gas? Did he have a swastika emblazoned on his walker, since he'd be at least in his 90s now.
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But who is using that term? They refused her service for being a liar, not a Nazi. As far as I know you are the first to bring up that word. The restaurant owner certainly did not call Sarah that. I've yet to see a discussion about this or just about anything else that didn't use the term Nazi. I'm not talking about at the restaurant but the resulting discussions. What I worry about is whether or not the attitudes that hating Trump has created will stay after he's gone. Will we ever go back to talking like adults again?
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If a restaurant inside the Beltway refuses service to liars, it won't be in business long. Anyone who thinks the current administration has exclusive rights to inaccuracy is delusional. Once people start using the term Nazi there just isn't much sense in discussion. I wonder what would happen if we started referring to people we disagree with as Klingons? It makes as much sense.
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I'd always knelt at the base of the canopy, where the slider ends up, and squeezed the air upwards. With ZP I know kneel on the top of the canopy and push the air downwards, then pin the bottom of it and start S folding. And I never try to pack on surfaces like vinyl flooring. The 'teeth' of carpet or grass help keep the canopy under control and cuts down on the S folded canopy's habit of spreading out sideways.
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There you go again. Equating asylum seekers with convicted felons. You really think the children care either way?
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They weren't being asked to put up her posters in the window for vote R, they were asked to do their job in a professional and adult manner. They were neither. They managed to make themselves look like a bunch of petty, pissy little people. I can't imagine eating any food they've been alone with.
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There are about a quarter of a million women in prison in the US. I wonder if any of these same activists have ever tried to help one of them see their children?
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No, but I wonder how much of the things we think about it are slanted due to a study about using it to fight alcoholism. I know that this same study gave us the often cited 'Truth' that 1/3 of those who go in for treatment get worse, 1/3 better and 1/3 stay the same." I have a copy of it in my AFU files if I can find it because I dug into it and discovered that this entire study was done by Timothy Leary and Frank Barron to justify opening a chain of alcohol treatment programs using LSD. Between the obvious slant and Leary's infamously bad methodology the study is pretty much worthless but gets cited a lot. I'll dig out my old AFU files and see if I can't find that one, scan it and post it.
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I think a lot of people are unaware of the fact that it was still legal in 1968 or so. I have a photo of Cary Grant taking a capsule identified as LSD. (I keep finding sources to say it was made illegal in 1968, but that seems kind of late to me. I thought it was banned at least a few years earlier)
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Actually what we said was that the T-Rex couldn't wipe its ass with those wimpy arms. This is the real reason they died out. Typing is just a matter of leaning forward far enough.
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BillyVance's "You Can't Make This Up" News Stories Thread
Bob_Church replied to BillyVance's topic in The Bonfire
Her last words before getting out of the car "sorry, I'm going to have to hang up, I'll get back to you." -
"But online and in live media, they're paid for being first, and/or most shocking (click bait). So while truth is a goal, they're not paid for it. And some people (particularly the ones who mainly copy and paste others' news) really don't care as much about the story as they do about making their (liberal or conservative) customers comfortably smug in their beliefs. Because that gets more clicks. Wendy P. " I feel sorry for the photojournalism students. I've seen how hard they work, how they're trained and what they hope to do. I can remember when all that paid off and many of them, people I knew personally, made a difference. Now they don't have a chance.
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I want to check something but googling any variation on it I can think of just deluges me with stuff about what's going on now. I remember awhile back when they put out warnings to potential immigrants about what they'd find if they did get to the US border. It was a list of reasons not to even try and was distributed through pamphlets, radio broadcasts and advocates in a way that nobody thinking about coming to the US could miss it. I'm trying to find out if the separation was part of it. I'm pretty sure it was but would like to know one way or other for certain. But I do remember that at the time the whole package was meant to serve as a deterrent. "No decent parent would bring their child here knowing that this would happen."
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"I don't miss my risers falling down my shoulders because of poor riser keepers, or keeping my chest strap really tight because the shoulders were both wide and floppy, of having my main container cover come open most jumps, etc. I don't miss the plastic ripcord handle, and while it was convenient to stuff my pilot chute into the hollow made by the laterals, it really wasn't all that secure... " And feeling like you've been in a car wreck after three jumps because of the harness.
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And I'd like to know how she and other drivers were briefed, and how they all actually behaved -- in the real world, not just what was on a long form she signed. I haven't gone back to check on how long she was driving, but if drivers were driving around a couple hours at night in boring areas, were they all keeping eyes on road or were a large proportion also playing with their phones a bunch of the time? Interesting that "distracted driving" can apparently apply when someone else fails to observe right-of-way rules. (Yeah I know one has some duty to not run over peds who step out onto the road but still.) I like audiobooks for long drives. They cut way down on the boredom while not being anymore distracting than listening to the radio.
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Not Marty Feldman. Monty Python sketch. Four Yorkshiremen. You'll find it on You Tube. You can both be right. I believe Marty Feldman has done a version or 2 of the sketch, included along with the Python troupe. My memory says it may have been live performances. It's a floor wax AND a sleeveless gown.
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I was curious when or how this would pop up. In my opinion you're still the PIC so ultimately it's your fault. We'll be sure to see this guy counter suing Uber for misleading him to think that the vehicle should have detected the threat and stopped. The driver was Rafaela Vasquez; A woman. And I'd be willing to bet that all of this was laid out in detail in her employment agreement. It would be interesting to know what it says.
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Personally, I just don't think a child can be educated without the participation of a parent or parents. We can continue dumping all the duties of home on the K-12 teachers but that doesn't mean it's going to work.
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Not Marty Feldman. Monty Python sketch. Four Yorkshiremen. You'll find it on You Tube. I hadn't seen the Python version, but I saw Feldman do it twice, once on his TV show. Thanks for the link, I'll try a comparison. In Feldman's last version, last that I saw anyway, they were sitting around in a cafe.
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"I would (and have) jumped any of that gear again. But I think my newer rigs are generally better. Wendy P. " I was just doing my Marty Feldman routine. Edit: I was trying to find it on youtube, or more accurately one of them. If I remember correctly he had a series of similar skits but the one I remember had him and a couple of other ancient Vets sitting around a table talking about how many times each of them had been killed in the war and the different horrific ways they died then would end with "but you try to tell kids today and will they listen? Nooooo!"
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That is really unfortunate. The right will use that news as an indicator that nothing bad is happening at the border and it is all overblown. It would be a lot better all around if they could maybe slow down a little and be sure to get things right, instead of just first.
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Edit to add: Some pictures here. https://www.flickr.com/...s/72157622676844920/ You can see the R3s with the clear plastic tube. The R2 pictures are just before the R3s. Young jumpers probably think the rigs in those photos were old but it's not true. That's how our gear came, straight from the manufacturer, and we liked it that way! It built character unlike these Ken and Barbie rigs today that don't even have enough velcro. We had more fatalities during packing than bounces. But you try to tell young people about how it was and they act like you're talking crazy.
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And yet another thing that "We All Know" goes down the tubes A little girl who became the public face of US migrant family separations was not taken away from her mother at the US border, says her father. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44578339
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I'm trying to remember wooden toggles. I think mine were cloth but I might be misremembering. Or could those have been R2s? Is this the Rodriguez of Spanish Fly fame? No wooden parts on the R2s, they were all velcro and nylon. That was one on the differences between the R2s and the R3s that had a small piece of clear nylon tube to give you something to pull on. The R2s just had nylon to pull on. I recall the tabs were made from sewn tubular nylon so you had something to grab but the R3s with the tubes were an improvement. The only wooden toggles I ever had were on round canopy steering lines
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I'm trying to remember wooden toggles. I think mine were cloth but I might be misremembering. Or could those have been R2s? Is this the Rodriguez of Spanish Fly fame?