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Herbie Hancock

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  1. When I was younger, this kind of declaratory statement used to really aggravate me. It still does, but not as much as it used to as I came to realize that the majority of people making these kinds of statements are either intellectually deficient or misinformed. Or both. So I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are simply misinformed. Every department/agency has what is called a PIO (Public Information Officer). He or she has been designated as the mouthpiece for the agency when high visibility incidents occur in that agency’s jurisdiction. They have been beaten over the head by city lawyers, HR, and their superior(s) with what to say and how to say it. 98% of the time they are a desk jockey position; not someone that is currently assigned to operations and engaged in daily tasks. If you’ll notice, they almost always have on a white shirt and/or white helmet (and it’s not dirty). If it is dirty, it’s because they borrowed it from someone else. Thanks for coming to my TED talk
  2. I’d rather have to deal with the inconvenience of someone going slower than maybe necessary. In two days it will be the five year anniversary of someone driving too fast for road conditions killing two Lubbock firemen and a Lubbock police officer working a previous wreck. A month from tomorrow will be 11 years since a Dallas fireman working a previous wreck was hit and killed by someone driving too fast for road conditions. The second leading cause of death for fire and police, behind heart attack, is involvement in a vehicle collision. Not fire. Not a meteor. Not a bad guy with a gun or knife. I like my job, but I’d prefer to not die doing it unless it’s necessary.
  3. There is a force field right at the tarrant/parker county line. Everything east is melted, everything west is slicker than a greased bb. Big ol’ fat snowflakes coming down out here
  4. You’re not wrong. I have long contended that if fire and ems were to ever be put under the same microscope as law enforcement, public opinion of us would be about the same as the cops these days.
  5. I’m curious how much water it is that you think it takes to put out a single structure fire. As for the bolded, that’s a pretty strong assumption. Is there an ISO study or a fire suppression official that has come out and stated that is what they will do or have to do?
  6. That’s an AR-AFFF foam that is used to suppress vapors and snuff an existing fire out. Not gonna do anything for radiant heat impinging on a structure
  7. 12. I intend to have a little left over to take home with me tomorrow
  8. Starting a pot in a few hours for dinner tonight. Using the Lynn Heitmancjik recipe from 1988 Terlingua competition from page one or two of this thread. 9 pounds lean ground venison, 3 pounds venison breakfast sausage. Pics to follow
  9. That’s Latin darling. Evidently Mr. Ringo is an educated man. Now I really hate him
  10. Because fires like this one and the one that tried to burn all of Boulder County a few years ago are spotting two to three hundred yards ahead of the fire line.
  11. Nah, I played. It’s not hard to see the field on a freshman football team. Now ask me where I was in ‘04 when we played SLC and I’ll tell you a much different story.
  12. I played against Case Keenum, Colt McCoy, Ryan Tannehill and the McCoy brothers from Midland Lee all in the same year and beat all of them. Keenum hit me in the forearm with a pass and I didn’t regain feeling in it until later that night.
  13. Decent dusting in Red River today. Planning to head up at the end of the month if a bit more will come down. Pretty sure this is the first snowfall for them since before thanksgiving
  14. Damn that’s unfortunate. I shop two regularly here in FW and they are far and away the most fresh, most variety and best prices.
  15. This is only true if you don’t have a Fiesta nearby.
  16. Like Fud and I both called a few weeks ago, the old Montana’s is a shit location for the new Heim. Also, the only Vietnamese places that are worth a damn are in densely populated Asian communities. Not sure the gypsies are connoisseurs of Pho or Banh Mi.
  17. Wtf happened to the ghost pepper ranch corn chips???!!
  18. Orthostatic BP as a condition of discharge status is interesting. Did you suffer a cardiac episode that I am not recollecting?
  19. I coordinated intimacy with your mom last night
  20. Death. I’ve also pooped down a chimney, although I’m not sure that makes me an expert on the subject.
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