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  1. 1 hour ago, Reagan1k said:

    My wife got on the "subscription box" kick for Xmas this past year.  My kids are older, doing OK, and don't need much so they are admittedly hard to buy for.

    She decided to get them several of these subscription boxes centered on their various interests.  Signed up for them in the fall on a 6 month deal so she could give them  a couple boxes at Xmas and then the balance of the deal would show up every 30 days for the next few months.

    She made a point to tell them all this was a 6-month deal and if they wanted to keep them coming after that they could activate themselves or just let it drop.

    This month I noticed a shit-load of charges from all these box companies showing up so I asked her what the deal was.

    She's adamant that she told the kids it was a 6-month deal which I agreed with......... since I was there, but guess what - That's not what she signed up for.

    Auto - renewal on every last one of them.  Merry Christmas - AGAIN.  Another 6 months on the way.

    She'll call, complain, get another 6 months thrown in at 1/2 price.  Everybody wins.

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  2. On 4/16/2018 at 11:59 AM, Mac8111 said:

    So back when I started listening, he would have some pretty low level talent on the show because they were friends of the show.  Rev Bob Levy is one that comes to mind.  There are others.   Then he started the schedule were he barely does three shows a week and all those guys disappeared.  Was it more of a falling out situation or that he just didn't have time to fit them in due to three shows a week, where most of those are spent talking about Northshore Animal League.

    Supposedly it's due to his "new management", Marci Turk, CEO of the Howard Stern channels on Sirius, who had no radio experience prior to taking the position. Gilbert Gottfried has more appearances on HS than any other comedian if I'm not mistaken, and he is no longer allowed on the show supposedly.

    Artie and Gilbert talk about the changes here.

     

     

  3. 5 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    That's it.  Anyone with a modicum of training can take off, fly, and land a fully-functioning plane in bluebird weather.

    That ain't what I want to pay my pilot for.  I want the SOB with icewater in his (or her) veins, who can make split-second decisions in a crisis, keep their cool the whole time, do complex math in their head while flying the plane so as to evaluate alternatives, and knows how to fly anything from a busted cropduster to a state-of-the-art Boeing.  In short, give me someone with military training, in most cases.

    Give me this gal.  Give me Sully.  Give me the pilot of United 232 in Sioux City.

    It took 3 pilots to "land" that plane.  Still miraculous anyone lived.

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    An off-duty pilot who had hitched a ride home on the flight, Denny Fitch, was sitting with the rest of the passengers when he heard an explosion in the tail engine and went to the cockpit to help. The blast cut the hydraulic lines that make controlled flight possible. Fitch got down on his knees and used all his strength to manipulate the plane's throttles, while both Haynes and Records struggled with the yoke, the steering wheel.

    Fitch died this week at age 69, losing a battle with brain cancer. But on that hot summer day 23 years ago, he and the two other pilots wrenched the jet toward an Iowa airport without the hydraulics required for steering.

    "I think what you had was three men desperately trying to get what control they can of the aircraft," said Jim Burnett of the National Transportation Safety Board during a news conference after the crash.

    Desperate is right. The captain found that the only way to control the plane was by varying the thrust of the engines. Even then, the plane could only veer toward the right.

    https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/05/10/152402632/hero-pilot-in-1989-united-crash-dies

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  4. Damn, just read about that plane engine explosion, guessing the fatality was the lady in the seat of the pictured window.  Apparently she got sucked out of the window and some passengers were able to pull her back in.  RIP, first death on a U.S. airline in 9 years.

  5. I realize you have to get some skill players from out of state, that's a given.  Bishop Carroll and Northwest routinely battle for state titles out of Wichita.  They rarely have more than a player or 2 between them that go D1.  These kids are on winning programs and generally go to JUCOs not because of grades, but because they're not being recruited heavily because Wichita isn't considered a hotbed of football, which relatively it probably isn't.  But guess what Kansas, you'd be competing against JUCOs, not other D1 schools for these kids and you could easily pull 10 good players out of here every year.  You're already losing every fucking game, how worse could it possibly get?

    Last time I checked, Barry Sanders was from Wichita.  Can't be all that bad here.

    Stupid stupid stupid

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