HarryWeezer

Welcome Rage. Hope you're into COD5 MW and not that freeze-tag bullshit. Delighted to meet you.

Very sorry to hear about your problems Dukoo. I hope you are able to work through them. You'll have to wait to come back, but you seem to have a lot of friends here looking forward to it. Best of luck.

...when you're having fun

Welcome to the admin team Pinglo. Regretfully, as XI's least senior admin, among your duties is to clean up the Circle Jerk Room at XI corporate. You'll need a wet suit.

Happy Birthday Chile!!!

Hang tough Angel. We're all behind you.

Toes, you inbred slut. Delighted to welcome you to the XI Post Whore Club. We meet every six months at various undisclosed locations for Crisco parties and circle jerks. Stand by for an invite.

That's a great idea if I can get the glue off the concrene once I take that carpet up. We're not going to do that right away because we have to walk on that floor and the glue will make a hell of a mess. Thanks all for the suggestions. Lot of work to do and I'm really getting long in the tooth for it.

Hi Jo. Welcome to the home of the largest bunch of organized Idiots in the universe. Keep your powder dry, your dick in the dirt, and please do stay engaged here.

Always delighted to welcome our Canadian friends. But do all of you play just freeze tag, eh?

Welcome QuQumber, though the English translation is cucumber. And just what is it that you do with cucumbers?

Damn. I sure hate to go through all that work and expense. So when you have carpet glued to concrete, does the mold grow on top of it and if so, can I just rent a carpet cleaner and go over it? It's all drywall with insulation behind it but the water never got above two inches so I don't think the insulation got wet. As to the drywall, I know water will wick up the drywall a bit but right now, there's no evidence that the drywall above the baseboard is wet. I wonder if I can just cut out small square holes in the drywall just above the baseboard to let air in. That's easier to patch that cutting away all the drywall for a foot. ?? This was just rainwater that came in under the baseboards. The basement floor is about six feet below grade and the rain super saturated the ground, and came it right at the base of the concrete block walls. It was clean water; no mud or dirt in it.

Oh, my aching back... Five days of rain in my parts set a record for us and last Wednesday in the middle of the night it started to flood our downstairs, a six-room finished area with carpet. We got up at 3 a.m. to find two inches of water. All I could do was suck it up with a wet vac every 2-3 hours, which continued until Saturday night when it finally stopped coming it. We emptied the shop vac more than 200 times - a 14.5 gallon vac which held about 10 gallons of water. So we removed some 2,000 gallons of water. I'll have to replace carpet in a bedroom which I had just glued down two weeks ago because the glue wicked to the surface and ruined it. But we ran five fans and a dehumidifier all day Sunday and this morning, I'm hopeful we saved the carpet in the main room, a large den area. This carpet is also glued to concrete and while it feels somewhat dry, I assume the concrete probably absorbed some of the water that sat on it for five days. Anybody have experience with this? Will this finally completely dry out or do I face a certain mildew/mold problem? Will I have to remove this carpet to get the water out of the concrete pad under it?

Welcome to XI. I have sent you an invite to join the clan Xfire group.

Point taken Shamu. But such is the history of the planet. Among theories on the disappearance of dinosaurs (besides the comet inpact) which has occurred several times, is continental drift where animals "invaded" other continents as they came together and decimated local populations by disease or otherwise upsetting the balance that nature establishes for a confined land space. When the Isthmus of Panama rose, joining North and South America, we were "invaded" by among other animals, camels, tapirs, deer, horse, saber tooths, opposum, armadillos, and porcupines - all animals not native to N. America. It's not possible to control pythons in Florida - the population is now 5,000-180,000. So this hunt for them seems useless.

IP of this user bears checking...

In effect, that's what will happen. Those he libeled and otherwise attacked have civil causes of action and they will be pursued. Otherwise, the courts can't just seize property without due process. As well LOM, the constitution protects against illegal search, which is what a mandated lie detector test would be for persons not accused of any crime. Of course (not to veer into politics here) the constitution is violated repeatedly by government, for instance, every time a law enforcement agency seizes a vehicle, home, cash or other property on arrests for drug use or sales. This is a violation of the constitutional protection from seizure of private property without due process. A DUI traffic roadblock looking for drunk drivers violates the constitution in that it is an illegal search without cause. Some years ago, a college roommate of my daughter took her car while she was sleeping and was stopped and found to be driving revoked. They seized her car. It wasn't his car and he in effect stold it. Nonetheless, it cost me $600 for my attorney to get it back. But I got that back the following year by lying on my income tax.

Here's my take in an editorial I wrote: Redemption is a powerful concept in Christianity, offering absolution from past sins and salvation, "justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus." (Romans 3:24.) Some, through their faith, will view Lance Armstrong as on the path to redemption by admitting he cheated to gain fame and riches, then lied about it for years. One pundit wrote, "Only one way out of this mess, Lance Armstrong. America can love a fallen hero, but only if he admits the fall and apologizes for lying about it. Do those two things, Lance Armstrong, and we’ll love you again." No, we should not. Forgiveness may come to those sincere in seeking it, who offer lifelong sacrifice in the cause of absolution. But that is not Lance Armstrong, who has demonstrated he will say anything to keep fame and riches, whose objective is to persuade the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) to lift a lifetime ban and allow him to compete once again. The head of USADA is Travis Tygart, interviewed for "60 Minutes Sports" by Scott Pelley: PELLEY: Some of the words that you used in outlining your case (against Armstrong) were "drug possession," "trafficking," "cover-up," "conspiracy." You described Lance Armstrong as, quote, "the enforcer" end quote. Why’d you use those words? What led you to describe it in that way? It, it reads like a mafia conspiracy. TYGART: Scott, we heard the evidence. We heard the stories from the athletes. And it supported, without question, every allegation that we put in that letter that, obviously, now has been shown to be true. PELLEY: And so when Lance Armstrong essentially threw in the towel after all this, you were surprised? Not surprised? TYGART: Not surprised. Again, we were disappointed he didn’t come in and be part of the solution. It’s one of the lowest days of this investigation, quite honestly. But we knew, when he rejected that opportunity for redemption and to be part of the solution at that time, that this was his only option, to avoid all this evidence from ever coming through in open court. PELLEY: If you had an opportunity to have that meeting with Lance Armstrong, you could say one thing to him, what would it be? TYGART: It’s never too late to tell the truth and make it right. Yes, it is. Armstrong’s confession comes after months of meetings with his attorneys to decide a course of action after USADA stripped him of his Tour de France titles. Even then, Armstrong lied, calling the ban a witch hunt and a vendetta. To shut him up, USADA released thousands of pages of documents including affidavits from a dozen former teammates who verified the doping. Even the confession was a subject of discussion according to the Wall Street Journal, with options ranging from doing so in a newspaper interview, to a documentary, to a book. In a meeting with USADA, "Tygart told Armstrong he had already had his chance to come clean and at best, if he gave full co-operation, the ban would be eight years. He told Armstrong he stood accused of offenses that stretched beyond doping to a cover-up marked by nearly 15 years of denials, threats and actions against anyone who told the truth about doping on the team. He told Armstrong all he (Armstrong) wanted to do was find a way to compete again. Armstrong said he would compete in unsanctioned races, hurled a profanity, and walked out." This man used performanceenhancing drugs throughout his career, cheating to make millions off endorsements. His confession is the desperate act of someone who trashed his own teammates and attacked anyone telling the truth, who treated his fans as fools, who lied to children who idolized him, who continues to try to game the system. The ban should never be lifted.

Don't know about Battlefield Simon but now that you've introduced yourself, here's how to eventually become one of us. First, the web site is important to XI. Be involved in it; post comments on threads, start new threads on any subject (except religion and politics.) Put up photos. This helps you to know some of us better, and helps us get to know you. We're international, so you should find Idiots on Battlefield at all hours - I'm sure one of those guys or gals will also respond here and let you know the peak hours when most XI members are on there. Download Teamspeak and join us there. After a time when we're comfortable with you (and you with us) you may get an invite. That's how it works.

Is there not a time limit on official FU threads? This started nearly three months ago; how long does poor Chile have to get fucked?

FU Bog and everyfuckingbodyelse by god!

Welcome Mate!!

Simon Says What??? Welcome to our forums!!

Scotch tape?

I thought it was HXTR's ass.