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  1. On 7/24/2018 at 11:48 AM, PvilleStang said:



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  2. On 7/25/2018 at 7:34 PM, Deej said:

    If you really need your fix, a box of sidewalk chalk should take care of it.

    No kidding. I dislike Necco for more than their shitty candy.

    For years local confectioner Stark Candy Company made candy raisins. Nothing to do with raisins. A member of the soft jujube family with a honey, ginger, lilac / violet flavor. Maybe a little bit medicinal. Really delicious. Kind of a local thing like bubblers and brandy old fashioned sweets with olives.  

    Necco bought Stark and discontinued candy raisins. After a couple of years of sweethearts and wafers, Necco closed the local factory. A lot of people were out of work. What? Did the Chinese start exporting conversational hearts and sidewalk chalk?

    Only recently have real candy raisins made from the original patented recipe become available again. 

    So. Hard luck, Necco. 

     

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    Weeks after their dramatic rescue from a cave in northern Thailand, young members of a Thai soccer team were ordained as novice Buddhist monks

    Eleven players on the Wild Boars soccer team had their heads shaved, donned simple white robes and offered prayers at a temple in Chiang Rai province.

    The boys joined local temples as novices for nine days to give thanks for their safety and to honor a volunteer diver who died during the long rescue effort. Their time in the temples will include meditating, praying, and performing charitable deeds. The Wild Boars team members lit candles and placed sweet drinks and fruit in front of Buddhist statues. Hundreds of well-wishers attended the ceremonies, which were broadcast live by local authorities.

    The boys’ 25-year-old coach, Ekapol Chanthawong, will be ordained as a monk since he has already lived as a Buddhist novice for a decade.

    “They should spend time in a monastery. It’s for their protection,” Seewad Sompiangjai, grandfather of one of the boys, told the BBC. “It’s like they died but now have been reborn.” 

    One of the 12 members of the team, 14-year-old Adul Sam-on, is not participating in the ordination activities because he is Christian. The teen is reportedly attending a church to perform a separate thanksgiving ceremony. 

    The team became trapped by floods inside the Tham Luang Nang Non cave in northern Thailand on June 23. Chanthawong and his players, ranging in age from 11 to 16, remained in the cave for over two weeks while an international team of experts planned their rescue.

    The complex operation, which captivated many around the world, ended on July 10. Team members were taken to a local hospital and released to their homes last Wednesday. 

    Chanthawong reportedly tried to keep his team calm during the long ordeal by teaching them meditation techniques.

    Chiang Rai Gov. Parchon Pratsakul told the AP that the players’ mental and physical health is slowly improving. The government has imposed a temporary ban on media speaking to the boys. Violators of the ban could face prosecution under Thailand’s child protection laws. 

    It’s common for males in Thailand, where the dominant religion is Theravada Buddhism, to join a local monastery at some point in their lives. Buddhist families believe the practice helps them accumulate merit and generate good karma, which helps people on the road to enlightenment.

    The rescued boys plan to dedicate the merit they achieve by temporarily entering monkhood to Samarn Gunan, the 38-year-old former Thai navy SEAL who died on July 5 while trying to deliver oxygen tanks to the cave. In Thai culture, getting ordained in honor of a loved one is of the biggest tributes a Buddhist can offer.

     

  4. On 7/24/2018 at 11:48 AM, PvilleStang said:

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    Why I'd recognize that recidivist anywhere.

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  5. On 7/16/2018 at 1:37 PM, Stoogey said:

    No. Take them to court. They will pay damages because that's the law. The problem is proving that particular truck caused the damages. Luckily I have a dashboard camera. A stone took out an entire headlight assembly. Just the wiring harness remained. A little bit higher and inside and I'd have been a goner. 

     

    2 hours ago, markstanco said:

    Failure to secure load.

    Better have a dash camera though to prove it.

    But no, those signs mean nothing.

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  6. 16 hours ago, Underdog said:

    We did the Tour also, very cool. Let us get near the edge of the field. 

    Even the field at Lambeau is interesting.

    At the beginning of one tour, the guide asked, "What makes the Packers different from other NFL teams?" And this little boy yells, "THEY'RE AWESOME!" The guide was looking for being publicly owned but I liked the kid's answer, too. That was a great tour.

    Forgot a Green Bay side trip: The National Railroad Museum. Most exhibits are indoors; a rain shower won't spoil the trip. There are locomotives and cars you can board so you're not just looking at trains from ground level.

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    My favorite: A rare geared logging locomotive for steep slopes and tight turns with heavy loads. Rusting away on the back lot waiting patiently for restoration. Note the link and pin coupler on the front of the engine.  

  7. On 7/26/2018 at 7:40 PM, Underdog said:

    By all means, check out the Packers HoF/Museum at Lambeau if you get a chance. 

    Take the Lambeau tour if possible, too. The Alumni Tour and HOF package is the most comprehensive and will take most of the day. There's a lot of material to cover. https://www.packers.com/lambeau-field/stadium-tours  

    Then go across the street to Kroll's. Happy hour is Monday through Friday from 3:30pm to 7:00pm. It isn't the greatest restaurant but you'll be able to cross booyah off your eating list. 

    Don't bother trying to find the party houses. They look like normal homes when the the Pack isn't playing in Green Bay. On game day it's another matter.

    Packers games have been sold out since 1960 and the waiting list is at 133, 700 people; the wait time is estimated at fifty years but that isn't true because there is virtually no turnover. Most people inherit their tickets. When a baby is born, you get the birth certificate and then sign him or her up on the Green Bay waiting list. I am not kidding. The other thing is that the people I know with season tickets will meet at a bar to jump on the rental bus to Green Bay. Once we get there, we are scattered all over the stadium. So, if you are planning on going to a game, start checking the online scalpers now.

    Don't don't forget to have your picture taken at the new Lambeau Leap statue.

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    If you have an extra day, drive north from Green Bay to Door County. Picturesque lighthouses, beautiful Peninsula State Park. Instead of a fish fry, have a fish boil.  

    Appleton is kind of a drive-by city to me. I've eaten at The Red Ox, a steakhouse. It was okay. If you have never had Chicago-style hot dog or dipped Italian beef with mozzarella (no giardiniera - sweet peppers), try  Downtown Chicago Grill. Italian beefs are messy - casual clothes, grab plenty of napkins. Trust me. For Chicago deep dish pizza, Uno's. For German food or Friday night fish fry, Mark's East Side. I like the schnitzel a la Holstein (ask for asparagus) and schaum torte for dessert. 

    Appleton has a lot of shopping opportunities; I'm not really a shopper. Oshkosh has an outlet mall.

    Or you could drive around Lake Winnebago and visit High Cliff State Park. Or rent a boat and explore Lake Butte des Morts (Bluff of Death) and Lake Winneconne.

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  8. On 7/29/2018 at 7:08 PM, CoTex said:

    Free divers do get the bends - you’re wrong.

    Ama, the topless Japanese female pearl divers, on surfacing exhale with a long whistling sound to prevent the bends. 

    You don't have to be diving to be susceptible. 300 feet below Milwaukee there is a 17 mile long system of tunnels created to prevent sewage overflows into Lake Michigan during thunderstorms. Each worksite had a hyperbaric chamber in the event of decompression sickness.

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  9. On 7/28/2018 at 6:17 PM, captained said:

    I love mayo, but that sounds fucking horrendous. Of course, I had sour cream ice cream at a long-gone place in Houston that was called Gravitas, IIRC, and it was amazing. So...who knows. 

    Sometimes it's those more adventurous flavors that are really great. Matcha green tea, purple sweet potato, sakura cherry blossom, rose, lavender, pumpkin, adzuki sweet red bean ....

  10. Little Black Sambo is a little boy in India. He was chased around the tree by tigers which live in Asia. Okie dokie - maybe in the Zimbabwe Zoo. The English called everyone darker than lily white blacks.

    Why is Sambo racist for Africans.?

  11. 19 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Chuck bigtimed everybody.  I recorded a local drummer many years ago who got tabbed to back up Chuck at Aquafest or some such.  As per usual, no rehearsal, and as per usual, total screaming at the band after the show, threatening not to pay them, etc.

    Keith Richards discovered Johnnie Johnson (piano) did not receive songwriting credits and encouraged Johnson to sue. Irreparably damaging the Berry / Johnson relationship.

    Then there was the backstage punch incident.

    A young Bruce Springsteen played backup for Berry and said the tuning was way out of whack. Impossible to follow.

    Two seats on an airplane. One for Chuck, one for the guitar. 

    Cash only, paid in advance before walking onstage. Little wonder he did time for tax evasion. 

    And there was that pervy toilet and transporting underage girl thing.

  12. 7 hours ago, PvilleStang said:



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    Woman tossed boyfriend’s kitten from balcony after alleged assault, police say

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    Austin police are looking for a woman who told them she threw her boyfriend’s kitten off a balcony because she was mad at him after an alleged assault, according to an arrest affidavit filed Friday.

    Kyana Deshay Norwood, 22, faces a felony charge of cruelty to non-livestock animals, police said. She was not in custody Monday but upon arrest her bail has been set at $5,000, the affidavit said.

    A witness told police on June 29 that Norwood threw Ginger, an 8-month-old kitten weighing 4 pounds, off the third-floor balcony of an apartment in the 7600 block of Cameron Road in Northeast Austin, the affidavit said.

    The kitten — which the Austin Animal Center later determined had a collapsed lung, a fractured jaw and an injured leg after the fall — was “crying like a baby” on the ground, the witness told police in the affidavit.

    Norwood apologized to the witness, saying “Oh, I’m sorry you saw that,” according to the affidavit.

    Police had responded to the apartment complex six hours earlier when Norwood had accused her boyfriend of assaulting her, the affidavit said.

    She later told police the kitten belonged to her boyfriend and his sister.

    “Norwood stated that she never like the cat and was mad at the boyfriend for the assault and so she threw the cat off the balcony,” the affidavit said. 

  13. 3 hours ago, RPM said:

    I'm not lying about anything. Just asked for you to quote your source. Still waiting, btw. 

    Why are you so adamant about defending this company? They look like greedy folks that ran a slipshod business whose major concerns were not safety and liability. 

    You stupid fuck. I am talking about DUKWs in other cities. Pay attention or shut the fuck up.

  14. On 7/26/2018 at 12:57 AM, Homesickhorn said:


    Not if you’d picked up my backpack, thrown it at me, and said that it was in your chair I wouldn’t.
    Had you asked to sit down where my backpack was, I would’ve moved it, and we would’ve been sitting next to each other.
    Had you actually done what you claimed, we would’ve had a talk.

    See? You should not have put your backpack on the chair. 

    You could have avoided being beaten the snot out of you.

    So sorry. Chicago / Tokyo / NYC / Osaka rules.

  15. On 7/23/2018 at 8:20 PM, RPM said:

    So you think it's perfectly safe and reasonable to let a child (who by your definition can't even touch the controls) take control of a moving commercial vehicle? It doesn't matter if it's on land, air or water. Is it cute? Hellz yes. Is it safe? Hellz no. Is it covered by their insurance? Until I see evidence to the contrary, I'm gonna say no way in hell is that covered. I'm sure you have no problems letting a kid drive the school bus, because hey it's dry land. What could possibly go wrong?

    I do admire your twisting this into a completely different conversation than safety and liability were not at the forefront of their business model. Well played.

    You fucking cunt. I can't stand it when people lie to support an argument. Who said the commercial vehicle was moving? It isn't. 

  16. 3 hours ago, Homesickhorn said:


    Not if you’d picked up my backpack, thrown it at me, and said that it was in your chair I wouldn’t.
    Had you asked to sit down where my backpack was, I would’ve moved it, and we would’ve been sitting next to each other.
    Had you actually done what you claimed, we would’ve had a talk.

    City slicker.

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