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Empty deer corn sacks. Picked up 15 today.
Corning Turkeys? That's even worse.Quote:
Originally Posted by tenacious_dog
Most were old so probably deer hunters. But 5 or 6 were brand new, so yeah.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
Concession stands with no ice and no cold drinks.
Having to wait almost two hours to talk to someone at PayPal about potential fraud.
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Originally Posted by tenacious_dog
Jr high game or Tech game?
Doesn't Olddog75 drive an Escalade? I think so, but I have never really gotten a good look. He always blasts past me like Mario Andretti on I-20 going to those Saturday tailgates in Ruston. I think one of my headlights came loose a couple of years ago due to his blow-by wind draft.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
There’s a difference?Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
It is an epidemic in Claiborne Parish - and we can't get the CPSO to write tickets when they see them blow outQuote:
Originally Posted by tenacious_dog
Cleaning the kids sinks for the wife, then coming in to find toothpaste spit splattered everywhere
20+ minutes of previews and other stuff before the movie actually starts at the theater.
Since you know this why not arrive 20 minutes later? You can use this if you're running late.Quote:
Originally Posted by JuBru
It's a recent switch here. I will be adjusting accordingly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Houston Techsan
It's been like that for quite a while here in the Houston area. We have just gotten used to it and already adjusted.Quote:
Originally Posted by JuBru
I like the film previews. The local business commercials are cringe-worthy and bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by JuBru
Lady in a brand new Altima riding with a baby about 15 months old in her lap. You can spring for the new car at $350 a month but no car seat?
Why is it that kids can’t wake up for school, but they can be in your room at 7 on Saturday morning begging you to get up?
IKR?!?!?!Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
Idiots that think Mueller is looking for any kind of Russian interferance in the 2016 Presidential Election. It is EXTREMELY OBVIOUS and involved Hillary and the Democrats!!! However, that is not the direction he wants to go!! What a one sided, political "Witchhunt"!!!!
This really isn't the forum for that
That's right. We have another forum for that. We all know that politics can always tick somebody off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Champ967
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Originally Posted by 70TECHGRAD
Why? It's a peeve for many. Not you, of course, as you root on the witch hunt.Quote:
Originally Posted by Champ967
When you have an armadillo digging up the yard everywhere, but he disappears when you set a trap.
If you get rid of the yard, he can't dig it up.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
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Streptococcal pharyngitis
Mosquitoes.
Yeah...how hard would it have been for Noah to leave the two skeeters behind? I mean, come on, man!Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
A tennis commentator who says, “She(whoever she is) is an up and comer who will win a major championship. Not only is she dedicated, but she really wants it.”
No way, I always thought the people that won those tourneys didn’t give a rip.
My pet peeve is tennis on TV.
Just kidding....kind of.
Not quite as bad as golf on TV but next thing. Our secretary years ago was an avid tennis player/fan and watched the Majors on TV. My partner told her it was like watching paint dry.
I usually watch golf on Saturday and Sunday during a major tournament and during a couple of weekends where the tournament is on a course I have been lucky enough to play. Often I will check in on the PGA tour to see what is happening during non-major tournaments.Quote:
Originally Posted by Houston Techsan
Tennis I rarely watch, although tennis in the 80's was fantastic. You had characters like McEnroe, Conners, Borg and Lendl. The tennis was pretty good, but I think I really tuned in to see if McEnroe would go absolutely ballistic on someone. I must admit, I am one of the few who enjoyed seeing Lefty have his meltdown earlier this year. It was good to see one of the best players of all time get so frustrated. As a player who has thrown a few clubs before, I found Lefty's action very therapeutic.
My pet peeve? Dummycrats.
Careful, the Dummycrats will jump on you and tell you this is NOT the thread to post anything about politics!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
....and you know I'm reeeeel scared of that.....:laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by 70TECHGRAD
Exactly!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
They got riled up when I called them Democrats and idiots!!Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
Tech alumni that pull for LSU because they "represent the state"
:bomb:
LA Tech fans who act like LSU could beat us half to death playing with only 6 players.
Los Angeles Tech fans
These people are dead to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by LATechBanjo
DSL internet at work when many homes and businesses further from town have true high speed.
Over the last few weeks I’ve spent quite a bit of time on the Tech Campus and there are a few things that peeve/concern me:
(1) I have seen two apparent students with LSU shirts and two wearing LSU hats walking our campus (does peeved = infuriated?)
(2) I was stopped at a crosswalk and a student, looking at his phone while walking, actually walked into the side of my truck! It woke him up rudely as I also blew my horn at the same instant.
(3) I watched a young lady, looking at her phone while walking, step right in front of a car, nowhere near a crosswalk, and the driver thankfully was alert and was able to stop within inches of her. She didn’t even flinch, but stopped and stood right in front of the car and gave a look of disgust and shrugged her shoulders.
It's according to where you were on campus. When I was there 50 years ago pedestrians had the right of way all over campus except Tech Drive and RR Avenue (there was almost no need cross RR Avenue then). Anywhere else drivers had to look out for students. Maybe it was an unwritten rule, but pretty well followed. I know there are lots of areas now that we didn't use then and there are more cars. But there are more students, too.
I was just addressing the auto/pedestrian issue. If it was the sdudents in LSU gear, go ahead and run over them.
I thought of y’all yesterday when i saw a young guy in WM parking lot in an LSU sweatshirt. Thought at first he was just one of those wannabees who never went to LSU. Then as I got closer, he also had on gray sweatpants with Louisiana Tech Bulldogs in big letters down the side. So he was a wannabee of both schools or an actual Tech student. I think the latter. Ugh......Quote:
Originally Posted by ChipDog
I will really know LouisinaTech has arrived when we have our own rack in the GOODWILL STORE like LSU.Quote:
Originally Posted by CutiePie72
personal exemptions for federal income taxes went away in 2018. how did i miss this?
Does lsu still have their own rack in the Tech bookstore?Quote:
Originally Posted by ChipDog
I assume you were jokingQuote:
Originally Posted by Blue Dawg
When I was a student, I found an lsu ABCs in the children's books (it was a small section anyway, of course). I immediately complained to the manager and even helpfully brought all extant copies (a good handful, it was no accident) to the back desk. They made some excuse (I think the author was a Tech grad, "they were just trying to support her"), but I reminded them that this was the Tech bookstore and that I didn't pay tuition to lsu.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChipDog
6 years later, FanBase is finally selling a Tech ABCs. I don't know if the on-campus bookstore carries it.
But they increased the standard deduction to about offset it. I know this won't help if you have been intemizing.Quote:
Originally Posted by arkansasbob
Idiots that give a signal and STOP while in the LEFT lane of traffic.
This has happened twice in seven days. These individuals are too lazy and stupid to make a block to get their natty light and cigs.
that was the way they justified it. increasing the standard deduction doesn't help me -- it just reduces my incentive to itemize. i pay more either way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Houston Techsan
I knew it would harm a lot of people. It was also supposed to make filing simpler - no Schedule A - but now we have Schedule 1.Quote:
Originally Posted by arkansasbob
If people were expecting simpler, they didn't get it. Forms 1040A & 1040EZ are gone. Schedule A still exists but very few will get to use it. Form 1040 used to be 2 pages but has been broken down and many could file the 1040 with supplemental Schedules 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5....so 6 pages.Quote:
Originally Posted by Houston Techsan
Most will pay lower taxes but some will pay more. But it's not easier to file returns.
That's why I have a CPA do mine. Worth every penny I pay him. Especially my 2018 returns, OMG! He'll have fun with these.Quote:
Originally Posted by tenacious_dog
People who say "a nuther" when they are trying to say another.
I know this one has made an appearance, maybe many times.......
But , irregardless........
Itemizing deductions is a thing of the past for nearly all folks. Heck, as a married old fart, my standard deduction is $26,600.Quote:
Originally Posted by arkansasbob
so i should just take one for the team, i guess...Quote:
Originally Posted by olddog75
That hurts my ears!!! It is just like saying he hung himself instead of correctly saying he hanged himself. Or, even worse, saying I raised my children. Horses, cattle, and chickens are raised.....children are reared!Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
It's a moot point, not a "mute" point. I see this mistake all the time on sports boards. It's equivalent to scratching fingernails on a chalk board.
There are so many sports examples.Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
That’s a golf shot.
He has a great motor.
He really knows how to score the basketball.
HD, the very ideal that your dissing him for bad english. Why, he is to nice of a person to be correcting him. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
Stop, stop! Have mercy!Quote:
Originally Posted by Amos Moses
Rustonites are running low on blinker fluid again.
I think "raise a child" is an acceptable use of the word. It fits the definition.Quote:
Originally Posted by 70TECHGRAD
What about "they said you was hung?"Quote:
Originally Posted by 70TECHGRAD
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Natchitoches drivers see red lights as merely good advice.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
Little Rock drivers see any form or amount of precipitation as cause for panic.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
Evangilists/preachers who go third person from the pulpit and beg for an Amen every 30 seconds....
I stopped listening to Joyce Meyer because of that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dwayne From Minden
Physicality
Should of, this one kills me!!!
I know right? (kills me)
Also, "gotcha" seems to be popular now.
IKR?!
What about someone texting you "lte"
Our house could be on fire and it wouldn’t motivate my kids to get dressed and get moving when we need to be somewhere.
When people start a sentence by saying yeah.
yeah, that one sucksQuote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
lmaoQuote:
Originally Posted by sportdawg
So, what's worse than that...Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
is the use of "So" to start sentences. Just listen for it, now that I have made you aware of it.
"How many people does your shelter serve weekly?"
"So...there are usually 250 people..."
So? Why start the answer with "So"? Just answer the effing question! "We serve 250 people weekly." Period.
Why end a sentence with with?
...a little joke about ending a sentence with a preposition:Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
A girl from Louisiana was on a city bus in Shreveport, and she hears a yankee accent coming from a young lady near her. Being a polite Southern girl, she asks the young lady "Where are y'all from?" The snooty yankee lady says, "I'm from a place that doesn't end a sentence with a preposition"!
The young lady from Louisiana apologizes and says, "Let me rephrase the question, then. "Where are y'all from, bitch!"
Oxford Dictionary says its okay https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/...-prepositions/
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fact, there are four main types of situation in which it is more natural to end a sentence or clause with a preposition:Most attempts to avoid stranding or deferring prepositions in the following examples end up sounding over-formal, awkward, or like Yoda in Star Wars:
- passive structures (she enjoys being fussed over)
- relative clauses (they must be convinced of the commitment that they are taking on)
- infinitive structures (Tom had no-one to play with)
- questions beginning with who, where, what, etc. (what music are you interested in?)
To sum up, the deferring of prepositions sounds perfectly natural and is part of standard English. Once you start moving the prepositions to their supposed ‘correct’ positions you find yourself with very stilted or even impossible sentences. Well-established and famous writers over the years, such as George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, and Julian Barnes, have been blithely stranding their prepositions to no ill effect: please feel free to go and end a sentence with a preposition!
Stranded preposition Preposition before noun or pronoun Gail has much to be happy about. Gail has much about which to be happy. [over-formal] Martin persuaded Lucy that there was nothing to be frightened of. Martin persuaded Lucy that there was nothing of which to be frightened. [over-formal] The house hadn’t been paid for, so they had to sell it. Paid for the house had not been, so they had to sell it. [not good English] Who were you talking to? To whom were you talking? [over-formal] The tennis match was rained off. Rained off the tennis match was. [not good English] He wondered where she had come from. He wondered from where she had come. [over-formal] She often said things that were inappropriate, but think of the pressure she was under. She often said things that were inappropriate, but she was under a great deal of pressure. [less emphatic]
Tommy had no one to play with.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
My favorite from Winston Churchill. "Ending a sentence with a preposition is something with which I will not up with put".
Just received a sales and use tax notice on a gift my son was mailed last year. I have to record this on my return since my 10 year old doesn’t file. The $5 sales tax is not the issue. It’s the lack of rationale that gets me.
Pet Peeve!
Why does it bother us so much to lose a dog? We lost one of ours this morning, our first rescue. Had her 16 years. Her name is Annabelle. Or "Bellsy" I called her. Now my wife wants me to bury her out at our family plot at the cemetery. So...I will. My wife is upset enough, I don't dare not do as she wishes.
Bellsy was the dog of a college student at NSU and her boyfriend got mad at the dog, while still a puppy, and kicked her so hard he broke her hip. The girl, the student, couldn't afford the vet bill. A friend asked us if we could chip in and help. That was our introduction to the Natchitoches Humane Society, more than 16 years ago. My wife and I went to the Vet's, felt so bad for the little dog, we paid the whole Vet bill and adopted her on the spot.
Now, 16 years later, our little Bellsy passed away. But! why does it bother us...not me, I mean, my wife is crying and upset.
Now! just watch, within the month, we'll be back at 4 dogs. Rescue!
When people use 100+ yards of the left lane to get into the left turning lane.
Sorry to hear about the passing of "Bellsy". She sounds like she was a great dog. Unlike most people in our lives, Dogs give us their unconditional love. They are always glad to see us. I'm sure she will be missed.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
Believe it or not, our other dogs are mourning her loss.Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
Thanks for the kind words.
Oh, I firmly believe that. We had a Rhodesian Ridgeback and a cocker spaniel, and the spaniel died. They shared the same doghouse and the ridgeback was the spaniel's companion since he was a puppy. About a week after the spaniel died, I heard a deep moaning from the doghouse. The ridgeback was mourning the loss of his buddy and that lasted about a week.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
One ply toilet paper in the TAC
One ply TP anywhere. That's just barbaric.Quote:
Originally Posted by 70TECHGRAD
Call me what you will, buy my cheeks are very sensitive. Cottonelle with Aloe is the only way to fly.
You libs are anti-forest industry. How dare you use any paper product! Use a leaf....or a pine cone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Champ967
Lost one of our "mutt rescues" three weeks ago, I have his male litter-mate also and he has mourned more than I ever imagined a dog could. He has lost several pounds, especially for his size, and he comes out of their house and has the most sorrowful howl you have ever heard. He howls for a few minutes and then goes and lays down and waits for his brother.Quote:
Originally Posted by Amos Moses
As painful as that is though, we will continue to rescue and foster when we can.
Thumbs up for you BhadDawg.
We need more foster families. The Bogalusa, LA shelter is closing and they put out a call that any dogs still in the shelter on the last day will be put-down. The Natchitoches Humane Society plans to go get as many as they have confirmed foster homes for.
Those who think that it is governments responsibility to provide jobs via employment, especially at the local and parish level...
It's the local/parish/county's responsibility to provide the MOST SERVICES/UTILITES at the lowest cost (whether by taxes, fees or fares) to its citizens
These services include roads, streets, bridges & other infrastructure, water, sewer, protection - fire, police & health issues, libraries, courts, jails, schools, health facilities, just name a few
Thereby making it attractive to economic growth and population growth
It's not the Town, City, Parish or Counties responsibility or in its best interest to hire your neighbor or family member or anyone else and paying them a wage and call it economic growth
Not is it good stewardship to pay for services to "local businesses/individuals" that should be done in house with already existing labor at a fixed cost or no cost