Seriously OT: The Real 3rd Thready...

i missed 2 days of work this week and so did the wife...kids and their pink eye

damn pink eye!

The Land Cruiser ......IS CLEAN

washed, waxed, and detailed...all while wearing shorts, sandals, and t-shirt...weather is great :thumbsup:

odd that is saw a slug on my porch :eek:

got off work early. gonna clean the house for the wife.

Went and did a little back country snowshoeing today. Beautiful day out, average of about 2-3 feet of snow. Went a total of about 8 1/2 miles.

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The pooch loves the snow.
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The high was 10 degrees where we were at.

that's really cool.

Amazing Kris I'v never seen a view like that myself.

Ahhh man...I am so high right now I can't even see straight. That's it...that's the melody to funky town.

bah kris, i walk over worse crossing my driveway




:spit:

it got so cold here last night. that when the pipes started thawing out the were breaking. there were water pipes breaking all around my hangar.

bah kris, i walk over worse crossing my driveway




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But your driveway is only 25 feet wide. :)

well i finally turn 21 soon. can't wait, maybe my insurance will go down like it did when i turned 20.

Man its really cold here in AZ. Its like 25 degrees right now.

Man its really cold here in AZ. Its like 25 degrees right now.
Screw Al Gore and his "global warming" theories, that's what I say to that. Strangely it's 25 here in CNY right now too.

Screw Al Gore and his "global warming" theories, that's what I say to that. Strangely it's 25 here in CNY right now too.


Sorry but whats CNY? Al Gore is trying to gain more sheeps. Sad thing is, people are buying that bullshit. Inconvienant lies. He probably has his money invested in energy saving automobiles and he figures out that the only way to boost his investments is for people to fall for his global warming theories. Hows that for an assumption? lol

Central New York, specifically the Syracuse area.

But I completely agree with you. I wouldn't be surprised at all if he does have an investment in at least something that will benefit financially from trying to reduce "global warming". Almost everybody I know has bought into that bullsh*t, pissed me off.

strange weather...the high today is 75....walked outside this morning and thought it was spring

Central New York, specifically the Syracuse area.

But I completely agree with you. I wouldn't be surprised at all if he does have an investment in at least something that will benefit financially from trying to reduce "global warming". Almost everybody I know has bought into that bullsh*t, pissed me off.



I am curious to know your reasoning behind this? Why do you think its all bullshit?

Well this is the "El Nino" year.

Global warming leads to discussions of science and politics and those topics of conversation never turn out pretty.

^ That's absolutely part of it. Every 3 years, the Pacific Ocean current warms up, along with a change in air pressure. This naturally creates a mild/warmer winter and droughts in the summer time. Of course this is followed by a La Nina system that is the opposite (so everyone be prepared for a poopy winter next year). And this has been going on for hundred of years, before the industrial revolution. But people use the warmer dryer weather as an excuse for global warming, when it's not.

Then along comes some personal facts that I've noticed. When I was a kid, we use to have 90+ degree days in the summer like it was nothing; we had 6 or 7 this past summer (El Nino maybe?). And even my 80 yr old grandmother said the same thing. When she was a kid, there was no such thing as mild 70 degree days in the summer time (I'm sure there were some here and there but not nearly as many as now). So, we're actually getting cooler here rather than getting "warmer".

And one more thing can be found by going to weather.com. They list the record highs and lows for each day. Take a look at almost anywhere, and you'll see that the majority of the record highs were in the 1920's or 1940's (though there are a few in the '90s). If global warming is such a serious problem, shouldn't we be breaking records like crazy, or at least a good amount in the summer?

Also there are FAR more restrictions on factories and automobile emissions than there were decades ago. I'm not saying that emissions are great right now, but they're certainly a hell of a lot better than they have been. We're also getting smarter about cutting down trees. We're now using technology to plant trees in designated areas and only cut down the older ones. Logging companies use GPS to tell them where the oldest trees are, so those can be cut down first, while the not-so old trees are given time to grow into full size. After those are cut down, new trees are planted in their place and allowed to grow for decades before being cut down. This is far different from the old standard of just cutting down an entire forest and letting the earth replant itself. I know this is how it's done in the US and Canada, however I'm sure some places are still using the old method.

What about the icebergs melting? Wasn't the entire northern hemisphere covered in ice a few centuries ago? And weren't we also in an Ice Age even longer ago? Well the ice started melting long before the industrial revolution. I have no facts to back this up, this is just my personal opinion. But I believe that the ecologist have things completely incorrect (pretty crazy huh?). I believe that as long as there are still ice caps at the poles, that we are still infact IN the Ice Age. The world has thawed out for millions of years, for natural reasons. And I feel that we're still just thawing out. Like I said, this is just my own personal opinion and I have no facts to back it up. But until someone shows me some unequivocal proof, I will continue to believe this. And I doubt I'll ever see any proof to change my opinion, because we don't have records from millions of years ago to tell us why the ice started melting in the first place (which may hint to a reason they are still melting today).

We're treating the planet better than we have in centuries, each year or so we are getting better and better. We pass more an more laws (or at least try to until the government sticks their hands in the corporate cookie jar and vetos it). Even the Ozone layer has healed a little in the past 10 years alone. Global warming is just a way to try and scare people into taking better care of the environment, plain and simple. Other tactics simply weren't working as well as most would like so they came up with this new policy.

Global warming leads to discussions of science and politics and those topics of conversation never turn out pretty.
True, but I think everyone here is intelligent enough to know that this is a discussion of opinions. If someone has a different opinion than me, then I try to repect that and hear their side (just using myself as an example there). It's the people who are already troublemakers, that come in and start the name calling, and are too opinionated to even hear the other side of things. I've seen a few conversations in here that have almost finished through with complete respect, but it's the a-holes that try to get under other people's skins; not for the sake of discussion but because they intentionally try to aggrivate. If it gets too out of hand we'll just stop the discussion.

And this has been going on for hundred of years.


This line sums up ALOT of things

well there is 6 more days till the crx meet in los angeles.

was 75 today...54 and below this week

this weather sux...it's 10pm and it's still 62 ;)

sick people out there...a guy in my area decapitated his four year old daughter...the mother came home and found her

sick people out there...a guy in my area decapitated his four year old daughter...the mother came home and found her


OMG? Are you serious? If so, i'll pray for them. Thats just awful. This world is going crazy.

But your driveway is only 25 feet wide. :)

not anymore. after all these yrs, we sold that house. my driveway is smaller, straight, and level now :icon16:


don't get me started on global warming :comprage1

so i'll skip to my next topic. my daughter had a chess tourney today. she brought home a trophy for the 3rd yr in a row. next month is regionals. in 1st & 2nd grade her + friend were the only 2 in those grades at regionals. she's getting really close to the age where a good regionals = a chance at state. it's kinda exciting to watch your kid progress and start busting out strategy :ylsuper:

my daughter had a chess tourney today. she brought home a trophy for the 3rd yr in a row.

Yah for Vic !!! Let her know I say Good Job!!

hey that's great. my wife can't even play chess.

yeah who cares bout me..i juss wanan wish everyone a awesome week.< my girl moved in so i havent been on much lately..damn thats like 1 step closer to marriage lol neways dont miss this cornball too much

i saw nay on moving in with a bf or gf...i say get married and stop playing house...people always want to test the water by moving in first

^^^ Shhhh dont let my better half see that!!

Yah for Vic !!! Let her know I say Good Job!!

will do :bigthumb:

c'mon now adrian....don't go there.

moving in is good if both parties have good intentions on getting married. if not, well you're really just setting yourself up to be on "Cheaters" :uhoh:

on the way to work i decided to sport my khaki shorts and adidas sandals :thumbsup:

it's goona be a high of 20 today.

a couple of days ago for the heck of it i go check the dog's water bowl in the middle of the day. the top had frozen over, but there was a baseball size hole. i look further and there is no water under the ice. apparently the dog licked at the ice until he made the hole and drank whatever water that did not freeze. this really cold weather is getting :screwy:

thought this was worth a good laugh

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i saw nay on moving in with a bf or gf...i say get married and stop playing house...people always want to test the water by moving in first
I completely disagree with that. I moved in with 2 of my good friends a few years ago for about 3-4 months (1 male and 1 female). The reason we only stayed that long was because me and 1 of the roommates started to HATE our other roommate (which was strange because I later found out they were both sleeping together, but that's a whole different story). The point is that you don't always know if you can deal with being around someone all day every day, even if you're really close to the person. So in my opinion it's better the play house for a while than just getting married only to realize you can't stand the person :D

On a side note to this story; I still talk to the friend who I couldn't stand living with, while I've talked to the other roommate that I got along with; once in the past 4 years (backstabbing prick).

i almost fought one of my first roommates over a jar of peanutbutter... no lie

peanutbutters no joke man

I have fought people over peanut butter, wasn't a roommate, but one of my friends staying with me.. I knocked him over a bed into a dumbbell, then he pinned me and I got pissed and punched him in the head and left..all over peanut butter :)

trying being stuck with a bunch of roommates you don't even know. on a boat. make sure you sleep on your back and lock ALL your stuff up. damn thieves!

look at this (http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Honda-civic-JDM-EF9-taillights-Mugen-Spoon-EF8-crx-sir_W0QQitemZ190072580474QQihZ009QQcategoryZ33716Q QrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

watch your cornhole dude..

ppl on the boat are fucking weird

look at this (http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Honda-civic-JDM-EF9-taillights-Mugen-Spoon-EF8-crx-sir_W0QQitemZ190072580474QQihZ009QQcategoryZ33716Q QrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
So is that for a hatchback or a crx? And is that really a special jdm Spoon Sports and Mugen product all in one? And damn... think I need to search on google maps and find out where "JDM Town" is.

So is that for a hatchback or a crx? And is that really a special jdm Spoon Sports and Mugen product all in one? And damn... think I need to search on google maps and find out where "JDM Town" is.
it's for a civic. you know how sellers on ebay work. they put all that crap in the title to attract attention.

find out where "JDM Town" is.

I believe its in New Jersey near the shore lol

Those tails are going to be for a HB, note the absence of the recess that you find in the CRX ones so you can lift the hatch.

plus the fact is says civic on the back and look just like civic tail lights.

Yeah well.. I had to go with the hard evidence.

ah i see.

I was being sarcastic. I just think it's funny how people put all kinds of stuff in the title that has nothing to do with the product they're selling. And on many occasions people don't know any better and buy the stuff thinking it will fit their car, and it doesn't. Certainly a good markenting strategy.

Damn I hit my foot on a wicker rocking chair today, and my foot is killing me. The back end of the part that rocks has a sharp edge on it, and I caught the top of my foot across it. Now I have this big bump (golf ball size) on the top of my foot, though it does seem to have gone down within the past few hours.

I started college off the right way by waking up at 5:30 AM and running 4 damn miles.. yeah, because I haven't done that EVER, and the last time I ran any notable distance was at least 8 months ago, I messed up my ankle pretty well and of course I get to do it all again next morning, only now im sore..yay.

^^ running for a sport or just for fun? I never ran that many miles in my life combined I think.
I bought my books yesterday $400 of crap

I run 18-20 miles a week.

Neither, I had PT..goddamn ROTC scholarship. Today we did burnout or "muscle failure exercise". I think I did somewhere around 200 pushups and situps of various styles and speeds, and ran maybe half a mile because people wouldn't shut up..

I run 18-20 miles a week.

Fireman right?

I was an EMT for 4 years

i don't run anymore...pinched nerve from rollerblading...now i bike everywhere