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  • I take it that you're happy with your political forum being an echo chamber of ignorant, leftist ideology.  Have you considered opening the forum to others so that quality discussion can ensue?  

    JJ Husker
    JJ Husker
    Scarlet Overkill
    Scarlet Overkill
    I suddenly got a hankering to post in the politics section.  You wanna know why?  BECAUSE I CAN.

    Thanks_Tom RR
    Thanks_Tom RR
    No matter how "right" (or "left" :D ) you think you are, political content is restricted to the political forum. Violations of this board rule will result in disciplinary actions. If you can't find it, listen for the echo, at least according to the op :moreinteresting

    Our July 4th ended by watching a brawl at a house near my in-law's home with six police cruisers showing up. I imagine we all looked very similar to Wilson from Home Improvement. It was so entertaining... we totally forgot about the rest of the fireworks we had to shoot off.

    huKSer
    huKSer
    No video?

    Enhance
    Enhance
    @huKSer We tried to take some but most of the actual fighting was being done behind a bunch of vehicles and down a small berm about 100 feet away so it was tough to see much on video. We thought it was best to stay back until police showed up, and then (to my total surprise  :lol: ) everything seemed to calm down when they did.

    Except for this one chick in a red dress. Her anger was over 9000 until she finally got in her car and left.

    huKSer
    huKSer
    We thought it was best to stay back until police showed up


    That is why you buy a drone!

    This weekend's Austrian Grand Prix was the best F1 race so far this season. Incredibly entertaining. Verstappen's abysmal start combined with a remarkable overtake on Lap 69 was so much fun. And although I've always been a Hamilton fan, it was nice to see a different race winner outside of the Silver Arrows.

    If you could have one routine task done for you all the time, through no effort of your own, what would it be?

    I waffle between shaving or anything to do with dishes. Trimming nails has always been a pain to me, but I don't do that every day.

    I don't blame Vettel for being pissed about the 5 second penalty in this weekend's Canadian Grand Prix that cost him the win, and there probably wasn't anything he could do to avoid the situation once it happened, but I feel like people are glossing over the fact that he made a mistake. He wouldn't have been in a position to get penalized if he hadn't lost control of his car. It doesn't really matter if it was the tires or something else - that's racing. People get penalized in sports all the time for stuff they didn't intend to do, but if you do make a mistake, that's kind of on you, Seb.

    ZRod
    ZRod
    Yeah, but mistakes are a part of racing, and at a certain point you have to let the race have a natural progression without too much outside influence.

    I see both sides of it. If you are an Indy or NASCAR fan the penalty looks dumb and the incident is just a normal part of racing. If you're an F1 guy, the penalty is technically by the book but a little harsh for a no harm no foul incident. He pinched Hamilton, but it wasn't like he was totally out of control. You should still be able to defend your position safely.

    jsneb83
    jsneb83
    I couldn't even watch the race because our local ABC station showed the stupid White Sox game.

    VectorVictor
    VectorVictor
    @jsneb83 next time that happens, try the ESPN app. Happens all the time in the DFW area when F1 is on the ABC affiliate and they choose to show something else instead because of...reasons. 

    As for Vettel, I do have a hard time sympathizing with him when he was on the right end of these decisions a couple of times during his run a few years ago. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, you're going to storm around like a petulant child and switch the place markers in front of the cars around?

    This was all because of Vettel's mistake, and I really have a problem with him returning to the racing line when he completely went off the course. He even admitted he saw Hamilton in his mirror on the broadcast, and that admission has to factor in to whether or not one views this as an 'out of control'/racing incident or Vettel trying to get away with something there. 

    Do you ever notice when you're reaching a new posting milestone and you get kind of excited and start paying attention to your post count only to then totally forget and realize you surpassed the milestone without acknowledging it in any way?

    Me either. #13000posts

    Ulty
    Ulty
    Simpsons-Milestone-600x300.jpg


    JJ Husker
    JJ Husker
    Well that makes sense. You just don't see much crossover with Vikings, Bears and Packers fans. The ole black and blue division typically stays pretty true to form and usually seems pretty aligned to the city. I've spent some time in Milwaukee and ran into both Packers and Bears fans. There's some pretty strong feelings between those fan bases and I've found Vikings fans to be the third spoke in that wheel. Not sure there's another 3 teams anywhere that all really sort of despise two other franchises seemingly equally. It's kind of a neat and unique phenomenon imo. That's why it seemed odd to me to like 3 Chicago teams and then Minnesota. FWIW, I was a big Green Bay fan as a kid and still have a soft spot for them. But I also loved Fran Tarkenton and Walter Peyton. Sweetness is probably my all time favorite NFL player. But growing up in Nebraska, I kind of had pick a team because none were geographically natural.

    Enhance
    Enhance
    Yeah the really tough thing is that as I've gotten older my Vikings fandom has sort of become less. I'm much more of a fan of the NFL in general these days; but, my fandom for other Chicago teams has sort of developed this affinity for the Bears. It now feels complicated because part of me thinks 'well, you like all other Chicago teams, it may as well be the Bears, too' while the other part of me is telling myself 'you've liked the Vikings forever AND Chicago is a divisional foe, you twit.'

    I guess how I would describe it now is I hope the Bears do well and I don't actively root against them, and then when the Vikings/Bears play, I sort of pretend it's not happening lol.

    Redux
    Redux
    DaaaaaaBears

    In case you haven't seen yet, and want to have some fun, Google "Thanos" and click his gauntlet on the right.

    YouTube seems to be doing a lot more back-to-back ads in the last few weeks.

    GSG
    GSG
    Ad Blocker Pro

    TonyStalloni
    TonyStalloni
    I noticed that too. 

    Xmas32
    Xmas32
    Yeah I've noticed that as well.  Time to go with a different free streaming music service for me.  

    #TriggeredTuesday having a tire fixed/replaced this morning. There are six chairs in the lobby, separated 3 and 3. The two people who were here before me took the middle chairs.

    Enhance
    Enhance
    @GSG Oh I sat next to them alright!!! Come on though, it's just like the urinal law. You don't take the even numbered urinal if there's an odd number total, and you don't take a urinal next to another guy unless there's no other option.

    TAKODA
    TAKODA
    Cough, gag and blow your nose, as if you have some sort of communicable disease. You will then be able to take a whole section (your chioce of views) and put your feet up!  :D

    BigRedBuster
    BigRedBuster
    Some people just have no concept of personal space and intelligently existing in life to accommodate others.

    Another one that gets my goat are people who pull into a big (mostly empty) parking lot and park in the spot right next to you.  WTF???

    Anybody have recommendations for yard drainage professionals that aren't outrageously expensive?

    TonyStalloni
    TonyStalloni
    Yeah thats going to be a problem without storm drains.  The pipe that broke a few years ago that flooded your driveway.....was it a city main water line that burst? If so go back to them and explain the problem.....maybe they can help you bring in new dirt for the places your lot sunk. Cities always have a stash of dirt and they have the loaders to move it.  You might end up planting new grass or sod etc.

    Enhance
    Enhance
    Good call! Yes I contacted them yesterday about it but I believe they've been flooded (see what I did there?!) with calls the last few days. Had to leave a message.

    I doubt it would happen, but, I wonder if I could convince them to make a culvert opening to my drain pipe since they felt it was necessary to do that for a bunch of other houses except mine. Wishful thinking...

    TonyStalloni
    TonyStalloni
    Did the rush of water undercut your driveway making it sink down? If so you have due cause to get the city to fix that as well.

    It's a #TriggeredTuesday: I hate when people in my building get off on the second floor, instead of the first, to go outside through the rear entrance. Most of them do it to smoke. If you get off on the second floor, you have to walk down 10 steps. If you get off on the first floor, you have to walk up 10 steps. Stop being an inconvenience and just get off on the first floor with the rest of us, jerks.

    Ulty
    Scarlet Overkill
    Scarlet Overkill
    Triggered to the point of having to put the first person on my ignore list.

    JJ Husker
    JJ Husker
    @Enhance you should anonymously post some fictitious health article in the elevator, about how walking up stairs before smoking and down afterwards negates the bad effects of smoking. That might help get them to quit stopping on the 2nd floor. :lol:

    If you own a pick up truck, what percentage of time would you say you use it for an intended purpose vs. using it as a means of pure transportation from Point A to B.

    teachercd
    teachercd
    I know I will never get a car again, I like sitting up high.  My last two are a Wrangler and Grand Cherokee.

    Enhance
    Enhance
    @ZRod I sincerely hope you're being sarcastic but I can't tell for certain so I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt!

    ZRod
    ZRod
    @Enhance I'm just playing around. Sorry, sir...  :(

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