little_old_man

Happy birthday you old shit. Hope it was a good one.

Happy birthday pliskin. Hope you had a great one.

You're not late Greg, his birthday is next week. Joe still doesn't know how to read a calender.

Happy birthday stinger.

Yeah I forgot all about those. Fuckers would swim up to the sides of my boat when I fished near shore. Good old cotton mouths, good for nothing snakes.

LOL Happy early birthday Ter. I guess Joe is using a metric calender.

Didn't anybody notice what Luke said in the trailer? The force is strong in my family. My father has it. I have it. My sister has it. You would think if his father (Vader) was really dead he would have said "my father had it." Plus they made a point of showing Vader's helmet. Just my inner nerd coming out. Personally I haven't cared for any of them since the original trilogy. I think I've mentioned here before that I was in the ILM workshop and watched them build several of the models for the Empire Strikes Back in the late 70's. So naturally I'm a little attached to the originals.

Normally I'd agree with you but just like any animal you have some that are meaner than, well snakes. When I was a kid in Ohio I was bitten by a copperhead on the leg that went out of its way to slither across the yard just to bite me. I didn't stop it because I figured there was no way it would bite but the fucker did. After several shots and a lot of swelling & pain I was fine after a few days. The snake however wound up as a hat band after I killed the fucker and skinned it for biting me. Out here in California I see rattlesnakes frequently and usually I can walk within a few inches and they don't pay much attention other than a little rattling, but sometimes they will come closer to you for no obvious reason. A couple years ago we were at my brothers house on 4th of July and a rattler came into the garage and headed straight for one of the kids. I scooped it up with a rake and put it in a bucket. We dropped it off a few miles away. I was bitten by several non-poisonous snakes as a kid because I was always picking them up and playing with them. Especially the green snakes and the black snakes. Mom always hated that because she freaks out just at the sight of one.

Be careful with that little guy. He can fuck you up.

Great catch Bama. I googled it but a snopes page didn't come up in my search results. That's usually the first place I check on stories like this.

I was just preparing to post the same video. Good thing I searched first. Can't wait for it to come out.

Very possible, but unless there is some other kind of confirmation or if a major news outlet picks the story up, it will always just be a rumor. The part I find unbelievable is that she was sleeping with Castro. Castro attempted a coup in 1953 in Cuba that failed, and he spent several years in prision before his successful coup in 1959, so I doubt if Marilyn would sleep with a well known communist, especially at a time when people were being black balled in Hollywood for even being suspected of having communist associates.

Thanks everybody. I don't feel a day over 85.

I wouldn't either Joe, but lucky for us we've never been put in their dad's position where such drastic measures were necessary.

It's not perfect by our standards, but the fact that these boys have a father at home at all gives them a leg up on most of their friends. Two thirds of black kids come from a single parent home, and the dad is the one missing from the picture 99% of the time. Twenty percent of black kids will drop out of high school, and one third of all black men can expect to go to prision in their lifetime. For all we know their dad just got out of jail himself and is catching up with his boys. We simply don't know the whole story. As it turns out there is a barber in Atlanta that offers bad haircuts for kids with bad grades. He started it because he did it to his own kid and it turned him around. It looks like this is a growing trend in the black community. If it works I'm all for it. http://www.techtimes.com/articles/30946/20150205/atlanta-based-barber-gives-bad-old-men-haircut-to-misbehaving-boys.htm

Well Joe we'll just have to agree to disagree.

If dad continues with the tough love to turn their grades around there is hope for those boys yet. They're both at an age where school doesn't matter and they join gangs. Once they get stuck in that environment there is little hope that they'll ever get out and will wind up in jail or prison. Personally I applaud what he did and I hope it works out for them. Very few of us can relate to how those boys are growing up, and saying what the dad did is wrong based on our experience is like comparing apples to oranges. There simply is no comparison.

This may have been posted a long time ago but I thought it was thought provoking and worth another look. Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not good for the environment. The woman apologized to the young girl and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days." The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations." The older lady said that she was right -- our generation didn't have the "green thing" in its day. The older lady went on to explain: Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day. Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags that we reused for numerous things. Most memorable besides household garbage bags was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags. But, too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then. We walked up stairs because we didn't have an escalator or elevator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day. Back then we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts. Wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day. Back then we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then. We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blade in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the "green thing" back then. Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the"green thing." We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint. But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then? We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off... Especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced smart ass who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much.

This is the 21st century Harry. Now they call it a sex change.

You were starting to sound a lot like him with all of that bitching.

That's quite a story Johnny. I'm not going to ask what you were searching for when you came across this.

Happy birthday Google BEEEEECH.

Yeah but Bullet complains about it and quits every fucking day. At least I waited until the map was over.

I finally gave up on TDM this morning. I was lagging like crazy with my ping jumping between 100 and 150. DM seems to be working better than TDM for some reason, at least for me.

Evil spirits, burn it with fire.