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1978horn

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  1. 16 hours ago, gsoda3 said:

    You're on a hike with several kids 7 and under.  You see a moose 20 yards away.  What are you supposed to do?  Freeze?  Get low?  Back away slowly?  

    Was in Steamboat Springs last summer and we were walking on a path to a waterfall.  I heard a rustling to my left about 10 yds up and thought it was anything other than a moose.  We had just been talking about moose and how they can be territorial and dangerous when threatened to our 11 and 8 year old a couple days before.  Then this giant fucking moose steps out onto the path and just stares at us for what seems like forever.  I saw it and instinctively told everyone to stop and walk backwards.  My wife(no pics) and 11 yr old son said fuck it and pulled out their phones and stated filming and taking pictures.  I heard my 8 year old daughter scream and then crying...looked behind and she was 40 yds away in no time.  Looked back at the moose and it continued on its way and then laid down in the thick brush about 40 yds away.  It was a pretty cool experience.  I will see if I can dig up the pics of the moose(not the wife).

    14 hours ago, Kennythetiger said:

    You don't have to outrun the moose- just the kids.

    My 8 yr old daughter is way faster than I would have thought when confronted by a moose.  I am pretty confident now that she will not be the one that a moose kills or bear eats.

    With all that said, I have no idea idea what you are supposed to do.  I have heard that you are supposed to find a tree and get the tree between you and the moose.

  2. Aren’t they making one more band of brothers series?  Supposedly about air support/offensives?  I thought hanks and Spielberg were supposed to do that long ago.  Had forgotten about it. Hope it happens. 


    They have been talking about making a series about The Mighty 8th. There has been rumors years, but the last update I remember was about a year ago with rumors of a 500 million dollar budget. No idea where they are in making it reality though.
  3. So I think Shaw was the general consensus on the last board for Austin - right?
    The idea of a daughter sounds good, but I am done.  I feel old as fuck and we just got out of diapers.  The idea of another baby sounds fucking terrible and we already defeated the pill with the first kid.
    Anyone have an idea on how long it takes to get back running?  I had an ankle problem earlier this year and am just finally getting my mileage back up to where it was before.  Most pages say 7-10 days, but 3 months off and I am going to need some diet discipline.


    I was running with care a couple weeks after, but didn’t feel “normal “ until about 3 months.
  4. Shaw did mine almost two years ago.  Never felt a thing and was up and around that weekend.  It took about 3 months before I was totally comfortable exercising again.  Compression shorts were a must during that time period.

    I don't think that Dr. Chopp is practicing anymore.

  5. 3 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

    I want to take my kids (8 and 6) to see this.  We have only seen Iron Man 1-3 and Wonder Woman as far as super hero movies go.  What others do we need to see first?

    I have no idea the difference between the different comic universes.  

    If you haven't seen the movies then you might enjoy it, but will be lost at points.  My 8 yr old girl went with us and she has seen only about 6 or 7 of the MCU movies and was pretty lost, but she is also 8.  There is a 15 minute youtube video out there that you can watch and hits a lot of the main points, but 15 minutes is nothing compared to the 30+ hours of movie that has led up to Infinity War.

     

  6. Took my son and some of his friends yesterday.  It was an amazing movie, I think this is now favorite Marvel movie.  My son and his friends were silent as the credits rolled until the post credit scene.  That is pretty unusual for a bunch of 12 year olds after a great movie.  They were trying to take it all in, but couldn't believe it at the same time.

  7. We are dual income and do camps when not on vacation during the summer.  The first summer blew me away at the price per week.  I thought we were going to save a ton of money that first summer with the first kid no longer in daycare.  I found we spent the about same amount per year with most of it during the summer months.  Most of the camps that we do are themed and different every week.  Sometimes they suck and sometimes they are awesome.  Most have some sort of field trip somewhere and a swim day or two as well.

    If you can find a friend with kids and and "pay" them it would be cheaper, but would they just sit around the house all day or get out and do things?  I just accepted that fact that I am going to spend at least $250 a week on camps per kid.  My oldest doesn't need camps anymore so that saves us, but I also don't want him sitting at home all day playing video games, so we schedule some for him and we send him solo on a plane to family members on the east coast for a couple weeks and he has a blast without us.

  8. Talked with my 12 year old about it last month when all the walkouts were happening.  Told him if he believes in something and knows the issue then I don't have a problem with it and will support him, even if I disagree with him on the issue. Told him that he also needs to be aware of the consequences and accept them fully(unexcused absence, 0 on a grade, suspension, etc...).  I did tell him that I will get pissed is if he does it and is fucking around and not taking it seriously.  He then looked at me and said "Yeah, because if you are fucking around then you make the issue trivial and observers don't think the issue is a big deal".  Guess I have done something right, or maybe that was his mom? (no pics)

  9. 54 minutes ago, ulukinatme said:

    My wife used to treat a woman with Guillain-Barré syndrome that was triggered by the flu shot.  Basically the shot triggered her auto-immune disease that she didn't know she had, her nervous system shut down /w complete paralysis and she was one of the extreme cases where the paralysis never recovered.  She spent the last several years of her life confined to her bed on a ventilator with 24/7 care as a result.

    Not an anti-vaxer, but there are some diseases I'm willing to take my chances with.

    CSB.

    I thought this was the funny pic thread

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