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The rant thread...

Discussion in 'The Water Cooler' started by buckeye, Feb 3, 2013.

  1. virginiashadow

    virginiashadow Legendary Woodsman

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    Yep. I remember being 10 and 11 and watching my 7 and 8 yr old brother all summer long. Both parents at work all day. We would be out of the house running around nearly all day. No one said a word and we grew up just fine.

    Americans are funny. If they watched a show on Native Americans and it showed little kid 5 to 7 years of age running around hunting, fishing, and watching their younger siblings during dangerous activities, then people would accept that. Yet when 2 little kids stay at home and and watch a movie...then all breaks loose


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    If you don't mind, I'll buy the 200 acres of woods next to yours. Our kids can run around all day unsupervised and nobody will call the cops...
    Just keep your damn cameras pointed off my side of the fence.
     
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    Nice work deserves more than a like.
     
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    Sota Legendary Woodsman

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    Anybody see any mainstream media coverage of the very successful border wall GFM page?
     
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    dnoodles Legendary Woodsman

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    that would require me to watch/listen to MSM, so no...

    I do know that a WaPo writer tried to get it taken down, though.
     
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    new rant...
    my local Cumulus radio station app just went to a subscription service-only platform.
    So I can listen in my car for free and not be tracked, but not on my phone. Efffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
     
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    My sister and I were latchkey kids and by the time we turned 9 we were expected to be proficient in how we used our gap time between school and mom getting home. The alternative involved not being able to sit or more chores on top of chores. Needless to say, I never had time to sit down with all those chores so I had that going for me. However, it is a different world today than it was in the early eighties. So many more distractions, creeps and accessibility to drugs. Do I think it's right what they doing to that mom, hell no. Are they going to talk it up big and then reduce the charges, probably
     
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    dnoodles Legendary Woodsman

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    true, but she will always have that felony arrest on her record; no matter if she beats it or gets it reduced. Have fun trying to get a better job with that.

    I was more p.o'd she gets crucified for leaving her kids safe in their own home while people are screeching about kids being removed from parents at the border when these adults knowingly and willingly put their kids through literal hell in getting here illegally. Illegally entering this country anywhere along the southwest border is insanely dangerous for an adult, much less a kid. It is literal child endangerment. The should charge every damn parent caught illegally entering with their children with felony child abuse/endangerment.
     
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    Was booking the tickets to Tampa this morning forgot I had two Delta e-credits that equaled $1400 from business travel reservation changes. I didn't tell Mrs Sota that we will be riding up front. 2 first class tickets to Tampa for $700 not too shabby. I also used points for a hotel, I love my mother but I am not staying at the family compound when my siblings are there with their kids.
     
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    I'm not having the same airline luck...wife's flight delayed 3x, she originally was supposed to land in less than hour still hasn't left the ground...now looking like 1:50am if at all...

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    finally in the air...so I get to take a trip to ORD at 2am. Awesome.
    she's worth it though.
     
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    The maladies of getting old suck. Plantar Fasciitis in both feet.

    Getting a shot of steroids with a big ass needle in the feet.
     
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    River levels are high enough to flood all our club roads for weeks. Deer season is effectively over for me. Can't even get on the property to pull my stands. The good news is no one's home is getting flooded, however.
     
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    I hear ya. We've had rain every Thurs-Sat since Oct, in central NC. Never seen it this wet...lots of downed trees too.
     
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    Can't she expense parking a car at the airport?
     
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    Dang Bill you must be lucky I have never heard of somebody having it in both feet at the same time.
     
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    What's the saying, "if I didn't have bad luck, I wouldn't have any? "
     
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    virginiashadow Legendary Woodsman

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    I got it real bad in my left foot like 8 years ago. Turns out my hips and calves were weak comparatively. I really started working on those things and it slowly went away never to return.

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    virginiashadow Legendary Woodsman

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    This came out of Lebrons James mouth recently.

    "In the NFL they got a bunch of old white men owning teams, and they got that slave mentality," James said during the episode. "And it's like, 'This is my team. You do what the f--- I tell y'all to do or we get rid of y'all.'


    Sounds like most of us in our jobs. Ans to equate making millions and being treated by the best doctors, best physical therapists, nutrisionists, etc., to slavery...well that is terribly inappropriate and inflammatory. He would love it if Barrack were still Preaident so he could fan more flames.

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