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  1. 1 minute ago, The University said:

    amazon prime day. is that the day that a lot of overstocked junk is listed at "sale" prices? iow, hoarder's delight?

    don't get me wrong, you might find a good deal on something you need right now. however, once i started to notice the pile of rarely unused batteries and flashlights, i decided to hang it up.

    /shakesfistatclouds

    For me, it usually just knocks enough off of the price on something I've been mulling over for a while. And that's if I actually remember that there's even a sale. 

  2. I took my twins there when they were 3 or 4, old enough to pick out what they wanted. One of them chose a Cookie Monster doll. I tell you what, that old woman that was running the machine made the single greatest stuffed animal I had ever seen. It was perfect, no underfilled areas or loose limbs. Well worth the 25 bucks or whatever it was.

    After I got divorced a few years later, my ex got some shithead dog that chewed it up. /csb

  3. 25 minutes ago, Wiler77 said:

    Is 7 years really "retiring early"?  That's way longer than the average NFL career, especially RBs.  And like you said, he qualified for the pension after 4, and presumably he's still relatively healthy.  I think he's retiring at the right time.  If you wait until it starts to hurt before you retire, I'd say you retired too late.

    I don't know. My own internal scale (based on nothing but comparisons to other players over the years) was that 10 years is what I expect from an all-star player. I think 7 years is just fine, those guys don't owe us anything. I hope he made enough dough to live comfortably and he doesn't have any medical issues.

  4. 56 minutes ago, JimmyHoffa said:

    My dad was in the Navy but never served in combat. 

    Same here. My dad joined the USAF in '67, wanted to be an airplane mechanic so he could get a good job after the war. They made him a medic instead. When I was a kid, I asked him why he didn't have to go to Vietnam, he said "President Nixon didn't tell me to go, I guess." The closest he got to that war was when we went to the Philippines in '75. He retired in '93, no combat experience. 

  5. On ‎7‎/‎9‎/‎2018 at 2:14 PM, Jograves said:

    I graduated AIT right before Christmas and we all got like 10 days leave before having to report to our first posts. When I arrived at my unit, there was a story/rumor one of my basic training classmates got married over the break in his Class A uniforms. He promoted himself to master sergeant, gave himself a Combat Infantry Badge, Purple Heart, a Silver Star, and any other medal he could find. Must've looked like a North Korean general by the end of it. He was supposedly court-martialed after hanging his wedding photos in his locker. 

    My friend was doing recruiting for a bit (USMC) and was talking with another recruiter, who told him about his old Sergeant. He noticed a small hole in the Sarge's blouse, right where an extra row of ribbons would go. Told Sarge, you need a new blouse, huh? Sarge said, "Oh, when I go to the high schools, I tack on a bunch of ribbons and shit and go as a Major!". He talked the young guy into going with him as a captain. Luckily for them, they never got caught.

  6. Ain't nobody here man enough to admit it? Well, I am:

     

    I used to get their thin crust pizzas back in the day. They were good. I am not ashamed. It was the 90s in south Oklahoma City and they were next door to my apartment.

  7. 6 hours ago, 52-80 said:

    completely planned.  brock got off his cycle because he was preparing for a superfight anyway with jon jones.  dana/ufc sanctioned that shit.

    i hate brock the wwe character.  i hate brock the athlete (for the drogs).  i actually like brock the person because outside of a few promo pieces like that ring stunts, he keeps it very real.  

    that said, its embarassing that DC built his half his platform on the jon jones drama, comes off a MONUMENTAL victory, and immediately plays into this charade.

     

    i wouldnt mind him getting this payday then retiring... but atleast give it a week or 2 after you just dethroned the most successful HW of all time

    I'm a 100% DC nuthugger and I want him to give up the LHW belt and just stay at HWT until he retires in March. No more weight cuts, just cruise into the sunset after beating Brock and cashing that big-ass check.

  8. I had the surgery yesterday. I took the valium, I felt extremely tired and a little silly. I did not get the bladeless, so the machine opened my eye with a blade. It DID hurt, less than a paper cut but I didn't expect to feel anything. Then zap, zap I was done. It smelled, too, like when you have teeth drilled. I was in pain for several hours afterwards but it was manageable.

    I'm already seeing better today. I'm curious how much better it will get over the next few days/weeks. If you are on the fence about this, just do it. It's worth it.

  9. On ‎7‎/‎3‎/‎2018 at 12:53 PM, luke duke said:

     


    I’ve met 2 guys that had one distance eye and one reading eye. They said that once they adjusted, they we’re happy. I’m not sure if they do that any more.

     

    They offered me that shit during my consultation, they called it "Monovision". I said fuck that noise.

    My surgery is tomorrow and I can't lie, I'm a tad nervous. I wound up getting the valium and I'm gonna take it. 

  10. What's worse: the guy that doesn't like sports, so there's nothing to talk about; or the guy that knows nothing about sports but wants to talk about it as if he does?

    My ex-BIL was the latter. He was an ou fan and wanted to talk shit about how great they are, but couldn't name more than one player. He only talked about football, too. Basketball was for "niggers" and even though he wrestled in HS, he wouldn't discuss wrestling because ou can't hold a candle to OSU. Right before the start of Adrian Peterson's freshman year, he asked me if he was "any good? Will he start?". I just said "I dunno" to everything. Those conversations were a beating.

  11. 14 minutes ago, Goo Punch said:

    all of the celebrating in okc will be funny to look back at a year from now after another okc early round exit. 

    Meh. I live in the OKC suburbs and just the reality of having an NBA team is almost unbelieveable. That they make they playoffs just about every year is icing on the cake. We ain't the Kings, yet. I'm just enjoying the here and now.

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