When'd it change?
Printable View
When'd it change?
Not sure. I think it was 10-15 years ago when I was living in Chicago.
TG says that open primaries lead to more "revenge voting"
Yeah, I hear they post naked photos of the candidates.
Eeeewwwwww!
Did y'all see where Otto Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Yeah, that's pretty much why it's revenge: There are no survivors.
I know someone who moved to Ohio - usually votes democrat - and when I asked if they revenge voted they told me they voted Rep.
Kasich got in on garbage like that.
Not fair to be setup for a contested convention by rogue democrats!
So, I wanted to program a robot to make pasta, but I just kept ending up with spaghetti code.
Eeeewww indeed.
... Day three of typing one handed. The surgery went well and I have more feeling in my left hand. Less mobility for now though.
It may just be the oxicodine or the 48 hours of rest, but I am feeling in better spirits than I have for some time. Now if the car still turns over and my hair grows back I'll be 100% of 60%. :)
Jelly bread skulduggery equinox barsoom...
rogue democrats vs pack of wild nuns smackdown..
I know his beer was warm which is a terrible thing, but 15 year is a bit harsh!Quote:
Did y'all see where Otto Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
dribble dribble drool.
Mine's still on its wheels....is that a bad thing?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gruff
Oh... I see... that's what you use the internet for is it? You could go blind you know.Quote:
Day three of typing one handed
Surgery? Did I miss something?Quote:
The surgery went well
More coherent now. (I think.)
I broke my wrist in June last year. They put a metal plate in there at that time.
Since then I lost most sensation in that hand. Last Monday they went back in to fix the problem. Seems to have worked so far.
I am tring to remain in a good mood. You folks go a long way to help in that regard.
Nasty. Does the feeling appear to be back now?
A mate of mine shattered his ankle when he high sided his bike at a race and they had to reset it 3 or 4 times before it finally took. Mind you, he didn't help by stubbornly carrying on doing sports before it'd healed properly. Watching someone rock climbing with a dirty great boot on is kinda funny though.
I've managed to get x-rayed more this year, and visit more doctors this year, than in any previous year of my life. Since it's only mid-March, that's what you could call, "a bad trend."
Didn't amount to anything, though. The foot and the knee turned out to be nothing too bad. I did manage to partially tear my left bicep in a falling accident (can't really call it climbing, can I?) a couple weeks back, and that one has reduced my strength, but the doctor told me to hit the gym to keep the range of motion as it heels, which it will...over the course of the next several weeks. I thought I'd be going under the knife for that one. For the first two days I couldn't lift 5 lbs with my left arm. Now it feels fine most of the time, but I'm only up to about 30 lb curls with that arm.
Shaggy, do you do rock climbing or strictly hiking?
He started with leniently hiking...Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
The rock climbing is only bouldering for exercise on a climbing wall. The falling works about the same, though, except that there is padding.
I wouldn't say I'm so strict or lenient at hiking. How about lackadaisical? And don't forget the biking, the caving, the sailing, the rafting, and whatever activity comes along. One thing I have noted is I prefer duration over intensity. Biking for a few hours is exercise, and I may or may not do that. Biking for a thousand miles....well, that was fun. I'd do something like that again, but I'm kind of booked with some hikes for the next few years.
If that were me I'd have to hold it for a couple of days. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Well there goes your love life:eek:Quote:
For the first two days I couldn't lift 5 lbs with my left arm
Too easy. Just too easy.Quote:
I prefer duration over intensity
Bouldering's generally much harder work than roped climbing though. Far more intense and exhausting. Personally I prefer roped because there's a greater sense of achievement when you get to the top but a few interesting bouldering problems at the end of the night are great for burning that last ounce of energy.Quote:
The rock climbing is only bouldering for exercise on a climbing wall
I suddenly had this vision of a (completely new and not in anyway copied from another) TV program where they pair up vague celebrities with professional hikers .... maybe Shaggy could be a judge !!Quote:
strictly hiking?
Ultimately, even movies about hiking end up not being about hiking. It's not much of a spectator sport.
So, I was walking home from the store this morning with a pack full of groceries, and some woman asked if I needed money. Apparently, I'm a bit scruffy, but I didn't think I looked that bad.
Hmmm. Game show about hiking... "The Trudge"?
Ever had a large work table, weighing about 500 to 600 pounds, hit ya in the head while falling off a forklift? Don't you hate that?
Anyway, I had some X-rays done. My skull and spine is ok... numbness in my face has passed... and I don't see double! Woo-hoo!
I had a rock about the size of a football hit me in the head while I was climbing down a waterfall one time. It made a positive impression on me.
Gotta love the British sense of humor (humour)...
UK asks public to name $300M boat; "Boaty McBoatface" leads vote
To be sailed by Capt. wrong-way peach fuzz??
Never ask the British Public to name something in an online poll unless your actually looking for daft answer!! :DQuote:
Gotta love the British sense of humor (humour)...
UK asks public to name $300M boat; "Boaty McBoatface" leads vote
I particularly liked the Boatimus Prime suggestion.:lol:
I thought they were all pretty good. Every good ship needs a nickname as well as a name. That one may have one, by now.
I spent too much time bouncing around the North Atlantic in the early seventies to romanticize sailing. The USS Vigorous out of New London CT. and the USS Morgenthau out of New York NY.
I had nicknames for them too. None of them repeatable. ;)
God save the queen!
I guess you made the cutter, then.
You could say I coasted through my enlistment.
Get off my lawn you dang kids! (DadGumIt!)
That would be a guarded comment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gruff
Semper Peratus
(Pretty much the boy scout motto.)
Overcome with a wave of nostalgia. *heh heh*
Take a swig of rum, lie down for a few minutes...it'll pass.
The ship broke down 300 on the briney out of St John's Newfoundland, Stormy seas. Ice bergs. Good thing we could wade ashore. :D
Well, at low tide....but once that tide comes up, it comes up fast!
I was impressed by the Cost Guard down in FL. They were always out there, no matter what conditions. We used them to relay messages a few times.
I worked in the Florida Keys area. In fact, all the work was in Florida Bay, which has an average depth of less than two feet and a water temperature that could top 100 degrees F (we measured 40 C on a couple occasions). Most of the bay didn't get anywhere near that warm, but it was pretty comfortable.
I had an engine fail during a storm one time. I promptly anchored up to keep the bow into the waves, but I felt that my 'unsinkable' self-bailing boat was, in fact, sinking. Therefore, I put on a life preserver and swam out along the anchor rope. The water at that point was about as deep as anywhere in the bay, at about 8', so I couldn't touch the bottom. However, using the life preserver to assist in buoyancy, I'd lift the anchor and move it about six feet towards the boat, then let the boat drift down until the anchor line came tight, then repeat. My goal was to drift the boat six feet at a time until I reached a shallow mud bank what was only one or two feet deep. That way, if the boat did sink, it wouldn't have far to go.
I did that for a couple hours. Whenever I got tired, I'd go hold onto the bow of the boat and stand on the anchor line. As waves lifted the bow, I would be lifted clear out of the water, then dropped back down. Eventually, the wind shifted, and my mile or so of drifting to shallow water became a good 10 miles, so I gave up.
You gave up? So you died?
I wish I was stationed in Florida. In the North Atlantic it was 40 below with wind chill.
We made a couple of trips to Guantánamo bay cuba for refresher training. That was the opposite. high heat and metal ships are not a good combination.
The telling was a lot better than some of the hollywood movies, these days. Shame that he died at the end.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gruff
Sounds like a good segue into 'The Day I should Have Died' stories....Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
There was a book and a movie titled "John dies at the end." Never read or saw it though.
I was thinking that I should say that I died, so I'm amused that you jumped on it anyways.
Even at the time I was thinking, "this isn't really much of an issue." There were storm warnings posted and the wind was howling, but with a depth so shallow, the waves can't get all that high, and the water temperature was sufficiently comfortable that with a life preserver, I wasn't in any danger at any time. The only question was whether to stay with the boat, or swim to the bank (the mud bank). In those conditions, the greatest danger would have been being run down by another boat while swimming, which wasn't a great danger cause it wasn't a heavily traveled area. I remained with the boat because it hadn't sunk and had lots of equipment on it.
Another fun point was that this was pre-cell phone. I had a means to contact the office, though I forget what it was, at the moment. Unfortunately, the battery of the device lasted just long enough to get through and say that I was sinking...then it died. So, a couple different boats set out to rescue me. It took some time for them to launch, and everybody ended up showing up at the same time. The engine promptly started right up and I went home under my own power, feeling both embarrassed and annoyed. The engine would crank and nothing more when I tried it several times in the first hour.
Several months later, the problem was finally identified when the engine died on my boss when he was out on the reef. There was a crack that let water into the ignition system, but only in a driving rain, which was the condition I encountered. The rain stopped as I was swimming the boat, and the ignition system dried out enough that when the rescue party showed up, the engine fired right up.
eeeee-eee-eeeee
What's that flipper?
Shaggy fell in the water?
I'm half expecting some sort of extractor fan joke...
Happy Good Friday everybody! I hope all y'all have a ton of crawfish to eat like I will later on today ;)
When ever I have crawfish they stick in my craw.
If I had a cray, I wouldn't use it for fishing.
My wife's Catholic and I'm Methodist, so she tells me some of the traditions that she follows. Here are a few that are specific to Fridays during Lent:
- Don't eat meat
- Don't dig a hole
- Don't look in a mirror
- Don't summon Ouija spirits
Ok, I think the last one pertains to all days regardless of if it's Lent.
I'm a lapsed Catholic. Stopped going to church and observing the sacraments when I was fifteen.
It wasn't until I was older that I realized the penance was forgoing eating meat not being forced to eat fish. :/
Never heard of digging holes or looking in mirrors. Doesn't sound very Catholic to me. :)
I once met a family that thought watching Harry Potter movies was a sin
Cause as everyone knows if the magic doesn't come from God it must be evil. Right?
Yeah, I need to go down and pull my crawfish trap out of the Cuyahoga. :sick:Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
That's how I feel, too. There's a place near here that puts on a crayfish-fest, but the crayfish come from the Snake River, which has loads of agricultural runoff (mostly dairy farms, but other things as well) in that stretch. Crayfish are pretty omnivorous, but it all comes from the bottom.
I'm a lapsed Unitarian: Sometimes I don't question things.
As a dyslexic I sometimes wonder if Dog really exists.