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Ah, those were some fun times.Quote:
Originally Posted by FunkyDexter
I just got from an ultrasound. They found a nodule on one of my jewels... thankfully it isn't the big C, just a scrotum hematoma as a result from my vasectomy.
Maybe it's an oyster. Oysters usually produce pearls, it's only fair that pearls return the favor.
Wow, I just read the last few dozen posts in Tyson's latest Republican Hate Thread™ and I feel like I need a shower. I find it hard to believe that all that childish baiting and name-calling aren't blatant violations of this site's terms of use, yet I post a mildly racy comedy bit here and some humorless admin deletes it within hours.
Obviously it's perfectly acceptible to this site's admins to call our president a "buffoon" and Republicans "pieces of ****" but hey, no sexual innuendo! This is a family site! :mad:
No wonder this site is fading away. This place used to be fun, informative, engaging, intellectually challenging and BUSY. Now it seems it's nothing more than a bunch of ideological hatred and the random (clean) bullpoopie that is Post Race.
The primary way a post comment can be dealt with is by reporting it. His thread is long and we cant be everywhere. Appreciate any assistance members provide us so we can review it for any site violationsQuote:
Originally Posted by homer13j
You got snipped? So the picture on your website isnt up to date or you just decided to get snipped at a young age?Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
I'm 25. I've had two kids and my wife has some serious complications as it is, so I decided I might as well.
Ah I see. My wife cant get prego for risk of death. So know what you mean
@homer - I have gone in that thread and I'm cleaning up all the profanity. I'll have to write a love note and close it down too.
I told the admins about this in forum feedback a month ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by homer13j
Most days I just close the page...
I don't mind getting political and having political discussions, but that particular thread went beyond what it should have.
For example, I consider myself a deep conservative, but I think that Trump is a terrible president. I have been very critical of Trump his entire presidency, but at the same time, I give him praise where praise is due.
Trump has a bad problem with how he is perceived, most of that is his own doing, though not all. Trump also has a problem of flipping too much, the most recent example is the house's heath care bill. A month ago the plan was a "great plan", "very, very incredibly well-crafted", and of course "we want to brag about the plan." Then as of yesterday, the bill is "mean."
Where I found Trump has done well is through his nomination and subsequent approval of Supreme Court Judge Neil Gorsuch, aside from that all he has really done is some historical flights in the Middle East and has really done well with stopping illegal immigration (though it was being slowed when he took office, to his credit it was slowing because it was ramped up so high).
The reason I say that Trump has been a terrible president is that he hasn't gotten any legislation passed, he hasn't really improved the economy, and he continues to time and time again to shoot himself in the foot. If he would get away from the fibbing unemployment model deployed under Obama and show significant improvements there along with getting his goal of an average of 4% GDP growth, then all of his ill-perceived notions won't matter. To this, I refer to President Reagan, in his last 4 years he was riddled with the Iran-Contra scandal, but everybody remembers the economic boom of the 80's and this is because of the GDP growth during that time (I think he averaged like 7% which is phenomenal).
Today I take my series 6.
Rookie! I got banned over one of those.Quote:
Originally Posted by homer13j
Wait...are you talking about Chit-Chat? The sites still informative, and engaging, but are you really saying that Chit-Chat was intellectually challenging? Your glasses may need cleaning, cause they're getting a bit rose-colored. I'd agree that it was more active, and you've been around to remember when it was considerably more profane. After all, there was more swearing FROM MODERATORS on the first page of the snake thread than in the ENTIRE Trump thread. Woka had posts that were mostly asterisks.Quote:
No wonder this site is fading away. This place used to be fun, informative, engaging, intellectually challenging and BUSY. Now it seems it's nothing more than a bunch of ideological hatred and the random (clean) bullpoopie that is Post Race.
But do your remember the immigration thread? That was also more profane, and savage, than the political thread, but there wasn't much intellectually stimulating about it. At the time, the OP could delete the first post and the whole thread was gone, which is what happened to the immigration thread.
I also remember pages of cat threads, a few game threads (what was that called? All I can think of is Urban Assassins, and that's not it), and lots of nonsense...from a bunch of people who were a whole lot younger than they are now.
Face it: We're gentrifying, and your post is just part of the gentrification.
Moar mermaids!
Back on page 1006!Quote:
Originally Posted by Niya
Just girls in tight skirts. Fish don't have knees, so they don't bend like that.
Leaving aside politics, is 4% even possible for a mature economy like the US? The Hudson Institute puts the GDP under Reagan at 3.5%.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
https://hudson.org/research/12714-ec...ef=patrick.net
They do put the GDP under Johnson as high as 5%, but things were different back then. It's easy to get a high percentage growth when you are starting from a low point. That's how China managed to get double digit growth. All they were really doing was industrializing and building loads of excess capacity...for a variety of reasons. Back under Jonhson, the world at large was still rebuilding following WW II. That was tailing off, and has completely tailed off, by now. Devastate ALL other industrialized nations and there will be a whole lot of customers to buy stuff as they rebuild. That helps, but it's hardly a recipe I'd like to see followed again.
I've heard several economists say that 4% may not be possible in the US simply because that's 4% on a really BIG starting number, which itself is a really BIG number. You need somebody to buy that stuff. There isn't a rebuilding Europe anymore. There isn't much going on domestically, unless we decide to re-build our infrastructure at a frantic pace, which can only be funded by deficit spending in the current economy.
What can make it work? Apple can put out a new iPhone and count on millions to line up and buy, but what will we do? Interstate Highway System 2.0! Now with tolls every mile for corporate profit! That's not as absurd as it might sound. Currently, we pay a gas tax, which was supposed to pay for highways, but hasn't increased since the early 90s, whereas no other cost has held steady for so long. Also, with cars being more efficient, we use less gas per mile to begin with, so even if we drove as much (I heard that we weren't, which, if true, surprises me), there isn't as much money coming in. If we went electric, that "pay to play" model is dead. A "pay per mile" design would solve that, which tolls do as long as they are automated and don't also slow traffic to a crawl periodically (e.g. Florida).
Anyways, is 4% realistic? I'd say not. At least not sustained for more than a quarter here and there.
I passed my series 6!!!
Congrats! :thumb:Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
Wait! If CC is gentrifying then shouldnt we have more cats?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Cool. Good thing you took it series-ly.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
It does seem like it.Quote:
Originally Posted by RobDog888
I'm no social media person. This is all the social media I do. When I started, FaceBook was a couple years in the future. Even MySpace was in the future, though not far. Back in those days, there were loads of young, or relatively young, people on here (mostly guys, but there was OceaneBelle and Hairball) chatting. The folks still in here now seem to be older. Heck, I seem to be older.
The tone and pace of CC has certainly slowed over the years. Partly, it may be that people are aging, but that's only an issue if there is no next generation. However, it might be that back when CC was young and hip, it was also the only game in a town now shaded by a looming colossus.
Ask and ye shall receiveQuote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
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CC felt like high school or something back then. Now its geriatric daycare lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
That picture made me think of Poppa Mintin immediately for some reason. Must be the eyes, or my mental image of him.Quote:
Originally Posted by RobDog888
http://www.vbforums.com/image.php?u=...ine=1236373568
Is that a cat? I know it's an ine of some type, just can't say whether fel or can.
Congratulations DdayQuote:
I passed my series 6!!!
Thank y'all for the congratulations. This was my last hurdle to keep my captive insurance contract with the company that I represent, so this is a huge relief off of my chest.
For some reason, I thought this was the cat thread.
If I didn't pass my series 6 it could've been a cat-astrophe
We have an award that is given out every couple of years that goes by that name. The trophy is the back end of a bobcat mounted on a plaque. At one point, it had a ribbon tied around it's nads, but that has been removed.
Oh I must be slipping as if I was on my toes you would have not doubts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Perhaps because I have a bad cold for days now and cant shake it :(
Cat got your tongue?
That pun was purfect.
I dont see what you guys mean. Eyes are red and puffy from the "how to prevent eye infections during the winter thread". :(
Sounds like you should be following some of the advice from that thread....or not.
The OP never posted their spam so I have no remedy for protecting my eyes from infection in the winter (Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
@Homer - Have you seen this yet: http://www.cleveland19.com/story/356...e-in-brunswick
Think today will be my last day of being sick. Almost well! :)
Boing sick?
Or did you spell that wrong and you meant bong sick?
being :p Forum software spellchecker doesnt have a correction spelling suggestion for boing to being, lame!
When I'm on Chrome, I exclusively use Grammarly. However, Grammarly recently decided that it was going to correct non-gender neutral words such as congressman and salesman, which I find hilarious (but I still use it because the service is good).
This is my first tropical storm type weather that I'll experience with my children.
The eye is passing right over Lake Charles and I live just west of there.
This is also my first tropical storm type weather that I'll experience as an insurance agency owner.
We're under a moratorium right now...
I just figured you were on the rebound.Quote:
Originally Posted by RobDog888
This is only a tropical storm, though. It won't have a defined eye, and the winds aren't all that much. I have seen incredible amounts of rain out of a tropical storm, but otherwise they're kind of unimpressive. If your house is damaged by one, then you had an issue just waiting to show up.
Tropical storm Gordon hit me three times when I was down in the Florida Keys. It first passed through the Florida Straits, dumping something like 8" of rain, with enough wind to keep me in the office. It then got out in the gulf, turned around, and swept back across South Florida dumping a further 11", or more, only a day or two after the first pass. After that, it went up to the Carolinas, turned into a hurricane, swiped the outer banks, dropped back to tropical storm status, and turned back SSW to sweep back, and dissipate over, Florida.
Even though we're where they defined the eye will pass, the bad weather is always just to the east. My wife's family down in the Houma area are already getting hammered.
So early in the morning????.....oh, wait, you meant by rain, didn't you. Now I get it.
Well...
HA!
Bummer...too short.
Did you know that tags doesn't count towards the character count in VBForum posts? Try posting just:
<hello world>
This I did know :DQuote:
Originally Posted by dday9
96 degrees for today. Guess its time to get the ac in my stang working again.
I thought that you had a newer mustang?
I need it to be hot down there for a time. I'm hiking through the high Sierras in late August, and it would be good not to be walking through too much snow.