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Originally Posted by Champ967
:laugh: ROTFLMAO! Nice one, D80.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
I passed this on to some fosters in North East Louisiana and their shelter already knew, but they have a good transportation group and were going to reach out to them.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
Excellent!Quote:
Originally Posted by BhadDawg
Any particular entity got your goat?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dwayne From Minden
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Originally Posted by tenacious_dog
Newspaper woman not putting a wrap on a paper with today's weather...
I tell my democratic friends that its a local government, not an employment agency.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dwayne From Minden
What’s a newspaper?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dwayne From Minden
In my profession - something you have to legally advertise certain public notices/advertisements in to keep from being in violation of public bid law...Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
it's something you wrap fish in.....Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
I just read some of the 45 pages pertaining to public bid law. Never crossed that before. I didn’t realize there was that much regulation concerning public works.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dwayne From Minden
Otherwise knowledgeable sports talking heads that say “verse” instead of “versus” when talking about a game. It’s like fingernails on a chalkboard.
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Originally Posted by techman05
Why the state can't have a centralized bid site where all bids are posted on the public domain is beyond my comprehension - it would save my small parish about $7k a year just at the Police Jury level
Same thing for publishing minutes and publishing notices
There has got to be a better more efficient way
I would say more folks have access to the internet now than they do print
Our state government if full of things that were born out of corruption. Some of these things still exist and are overlooked because we don't know about the waste and some like using newspapers in the bid process are just antiquated and need to go because those involved in the process are either dead or out of business.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dwayne From Minden
Well I am sure your public journal is just like all of the rest in the state, they charge a pretty steep rate for legals compared to commercial advertising. The requirement of publishing in print is one of the things that is keeping the small town papers profitable and able to continue operating. The downside is that I am afraid we would see some of these local papers cease to exist without the legals and frankly, that is the only news print that I read anymore.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dwayne From Minden
If they go out of business because they lose parish funds that the parish can't afford, so be it.
Let them do things like ad sales and overpriced obits to stay in business.
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Originally Posted by PawDawg
I told one of the local owners if our $$ or the school board $$ is what is keeping you in business - you need to close up shop and get out of the business...
State wide rate is a maximum of $4.50 per square for legal ads (set by revised statute) - which is actually less than their regular commercial rates
Amazing how larger market public bodies pick the higher subscription rate dailies (over $100/year), compared to a local weekly (around $30/year) as their "official journal."Quote:
Originally Posted by Dwayne From Minden
Once again - set by archaic R.S. probably from the Lemke/Long eraQuote:
Originally Posted by Dawgpix
I'll go you one further - their are some bid types that force us to advertise both in our local journal and the largest daily - so we get hit with a DOUBLE WHAMMY
"Press 1 to check your Google listing"
And variations thereof.
17 times a dayQuote:
Originally Posted by JuBru
One for today and one for yesterday.
Sorry, but the sign language person at the pressers is annoying.
When I click on a link to READ it, I don't want to watch a video.
Today, I discovered that someone walked onto our property where we hunt and stole a trail camera.
Probably currently being used as a social distancing camera! ��Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
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Originally Posted by techman05
.....did the camera get --and record-- a picture of the thief? Otherwise, what good was the camera in the first place?
I’m sure it did, but they have the camera and the disk. I’m not rolling in it like some of my bulldog brethren. ;) So it wasn’t one of the fancy ones that uploads straight to the computer or phone.
I can’t help it but I can’t decide which response is better. He was wearing a covid mask and couldn’t be identified or since the camera was stolen how can they have whoever it recorded. Sorry it’s been rough and a little humor helps.
Every business requiring face mask but no one has face mask in stock.
https://www.amazon.com/Daily-Disposa...%2C199&sr=8-16Quote:
Originally Posted by JuBru
So...there is a bank that has reopened their lobby for a few hours to allow customers to conduct some business. But there are strict rules, including PPEs. The security guard at the door stopped some people and motioned for man in line to come forward, "Only the fellow in the mask is allowed into the bank."Quote:
Originally Posted by JuBru
These are strange times....
Good lord. If any of you people are HEALTHY (that's the qualifier), and you wear a "face mask" during this period of silliness, I will completely disown you as a Bulldog brother/sister. Well, not completely. I do want pictures. ;) But regardless, you WILL BE recommended for membership in the "ULL Leopards" club instead of LTAC.Quote:
Originally Posted by tech70
DON'T DO IT! Don't succumb to the political elite nonsense.
What about those of us that have close family at extremely high risk. I can tell you that this virus would kill my wife if I brought it home so I can tell you I will be taking all necessary precautions and I’d like to see you or any one say anything to me. I’m old and have no patience for foolishness . I will never be associated with the school down south.
Your comments are amazing for an intelligent individual.
Can't argue with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by tech70
What Fauci has said about face masks is it keeps you from projecting your breath into the atmosphere (3 to 5 feet if memory serves) which cuts down on the possibility of you infecting someone else. It doesn't help much with protecting yourself. Makes sense to me.
Wal-Mart in Minden is requiring everyone to wear a mask to enter the store. Seems a reasonable thing to me. But then I've had a friend die from Covid-19 that wasn't considered vulnerable.
Plus, the non-masked spreaders of coronavirus are only going to make the full reopening of the economy take longer.
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Originally Posted by HogDawg
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Credit to my mom for the mask. And to DallasDog for the handsome wall hanging.
Nice. I haven't worn a mask much, but I did wear one when I went into Wal Mart for the first time in probably a year. I figured if there was ever a place to catch Covid it would be there. Crazy seeing kids wearing masks. It's surreal.
I also wore a mask and gloves and safety glasses when I was cleaning out the attic at my wife's office. Not because of COVID, but because it's nasty up there.
No need for drama. We'll just agree to disagree on the silliness of wearing masks. (Though I will admit that Champ967's momma made a great looking bandanna/mask) As for your wife's health challenges, I'm sorry to hear that. But, I did issue an UNDERLINED qualifier in my comments about being healthy.Quote:
Originally Posted by tech70
People who are inconsistent with their indignance. What a horrible club to join just to be a kool kid.
Okay, I know this bothers some of you...
Notice in action movies or westerns how the good guys are about to be going into action against the bad guys or vice versa ...
They never put a bullet/shell in the chamber at the appropriate time. If I'm in danger, I'm putting one in the barrel WAY early. "Gun Safety" is not my concern. My safety is my concern. That extra 1/2 second that it takes to shuck a shell/bullet into the barrel could cost me...
I don't keep any of my defensive guns around the house with a chambered round in them. I have nosy and curious grandkids and eventually one of them will come across one of my tactically placed weapons. It only takes a second, maybe a half-second, to chamber a round. My dogs will provide me more than that luxury of time. Safety first.
In the movies, often you'll see a character chamber a round when they already had one chambered...technically. In a John Wayne movie I watched recently, the one with Robert Mitchum and James Cahn, JW had been shooting his lever-action Winchester, stopped to talk, then before going back into action he cocked the lever again. That would have meant he ejected a live round onto the ground...dumb. But, it is only a movie...
Hollywood still doesn’t know how 1911s work.
They don’t know about so much in proper use of a firearm. It’s irritating to watch .
I understand about the safety thing. That would be El Dorado. Never mind the Duke anyway. He was a racist according to UCLA and Hollywood.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
They know it sounds/looks cool to use the lever to put the fear in the other guy.Quote:
Originally Posted by johnnylightnin
Yes, that was my peeve.Quote:
Originally Posted by tech70
Basically the same thing in the opening of the later seasons of the "Lawman" TV series. Marshal Troop takes a rifle from the rack, cocks it and tosses it to Deputy Johnny. He also cocks it but nothing is ejected so I always figured they were playing with an empty rifle.
There is a beep going off in my new apartment every 15 minutes and I cannot figure out what or where it is. I turned the power off to the apartment and removed batteries from the few apartment items that had them. And the beep is still there. I thought it might by a leftover annoyatron type thing, but thoroughly searched the apartment and nothing.
None of my stuff beeps unless I want it to, and all of that is on my desk.
So I'm stumped. I have yet to be able to not hear it.
did you check the smoke detectors?Quote:
Originally Posted by JuBru
Exactly. That's what it is. And you can't kill some of those SOB's either. LOL! I've actually pulled the batteries out of some smoke detectors, and they still CONTINUED beeping anyway. Not kidding. I think some smoke detectors (not all) have built-in cells that allow them to continue working even after the battery dies. Very irritating. HAHA!Quote:
Originally Posted by arkansasbob
Yes. I unplugged it from the wall. Took out the battery. Shut the power to the apartment. And was holding it in my hand when the next beep came. It didn't come from that.
Do you have more than one smoke detector in the house?Quote:
Originally Posted by JuBru
Do you have a fios box ?
If one of the apartments that touches yours is vacant, that's a possibility....a smoke detector going out in another apartment.Quote:
Originally Posted by JuBru
Man, that's the kind of stuff that drives me nuts.
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Originally Posted by HogDawg
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Originally Posted by tech70
Probably. It could be a weird sound thing from either the mechanical room or closet outside my doors. It shifts too much to tell. Have stood everywhere in my living room and kitchen to figure it out. Nada.Quote:
Originally Posted by johnnylightnin
How about an back up ups power supply? Security system key pad? Refrigerator warning ?
battery's low in the spycam in the air vent...
Euphonium music in treble clef.
The amount of sodium in everything.
Sodium is not bad. You will not take in more than you can tolerate.Quote:
Originally Posted by JuBru
Bad...
Sugar
Grain
Starches
You are using a very broad brush to make that statement. Having what your body can tolerate doesn't necessarily make it good for you. Its true that concentrations of sodium are carefully regulated by the body and fluctuations can lead to negative side affect but not everyone reacts the same to high sodium input. To some it can be detrimental (high blood pressure, heart disease and even stomach cancer). Just don't overdue it and most people will be be fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
Yes, I think we know who needs to lay off the salt. The same folks who need to stay at home and hunker down during a pandemic.Quote:
Originally Posted by LABulldog
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Originally Posted by arkansasbob
i didn't realize the peril of that being read out of context in this thread...Quote:
Originally Posted by TYLERTECHSAS
just to be clear, that was a sarcastic reply to jubru's beeping noise complaint -- not a peeve of my own.
(i replace the batteries in my spycams weekly to make sure that sort of thing doesn't happen to me...)
Mispronounced contractions...
Wouldn't - WOULD UNT
Couldn't - COULD UNT
etc.
The one that get's me the most is
Won't pronounced as WANT. I'm not sure where this comes from other than one feeling the need to speak "properly" and thinking want sounds better than won't.
that's got to be the reason. where i come from, there is no audible difference between want and won't. people are conscious of the fact that "want" is not properly pronounced that way and thus they change everything that sounds like "won't" in their head to "want".Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
a more obscure example is the word "swage". most people don't know what a swage is, but if you work with piping, the word comes up from time to time. thing is, it sounds like the way a redneck would pronounce a large hammer ("bring me that slage so i can drive this wage into the lage"). so people automatically assume it should be spelled and properly pronounced "swedge".
You have it wrong. You put a "D" in and they don't pronounce the D. So phonetically it's more like Wuh-unt or Cuh-unt. They don't know how stupid they sound. Or like they have s speech impediment. But then I guess I don't get how cool they are. But they wouldn't (wuh-unt) say cool, they'd say Dope, or Lit, or Gucci or some other silly term.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
This is where Camp967 says, "OK Boomer".
Ask any Boomer -- the development and evolution of English ended on the day they were born. Moreover, the science, literature, history, religion, etc that was taught in the 1950s and 60s is the only correct version. Everything before them was primitive. Everything since is corrupted.Quote:
Originally Posted by tenacious_dog
But just for fun, look up the video sometime of the kids in Baltimore trying to say "Aaron earned an iron urn"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word...l-word-heh-hehQuote:
Originally Posted by techman05
For wont of a better topic, PD chose this...Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
just kidding! just WANTed to throw in the word WONT, but I WON'T do it again.
...50 years of teachers who were not taught properly teaching a subject they finally just stopped teaching all together.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
I love hearing talking heads mis-pronounce the word "THE" using THEE pronunciation randomly. Again, thinking is sounds proper.
I think a prescriptivist such as yourself would have had a difficult time during the great vowel shift.
Especially if the middle class hypercorrection theory is accurate.
Is a prescriptivist somebody who has only been paying attention since first grade? For me 1967?;)Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
Spoiled rotten former participation-trophy-receiving Gen Z’ers that opt out of their responsibilities.
Not recruiting high character Gen Z’ers that will honor their commitments because they are 1” too short or 1/10th second too slow.Quote:
Originally Posted by RhinoDawg
Christmas lights that don’t even last a month.
Glitter.
It's coarse, rough, irritating, and gets everywhere.
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Originally Posted by JuBru
......being a Dallas Cowboys fan.
People speaking in one word sentences in an attempt to get a point across.
So?Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
I see the Saints have clinched a playoff berth...how are the Cowgirls doing?Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
They are out of the playoff picture.......just like the Rummel Raiders. :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
At least Rummel MADE the playoffs!Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
Okay, I started not to post this, but you guys know me...
Just back from a week at Disney World. Other than the aggravating mask, it wasn't all that bad. The weather was perfect all week. Brought one of my granddaughters, at age 5, her first visit. She made it all worthwhile. I loved watching her reactions to everything...like when she first saw Mickey & Minnie, wow! Disney has taken precautions and implemented crowd control, especially the good ole social distancing, and for the most part folks followed the protocols. No real issues there.
But, this is the pet peeve thread, so, here goes. Sorry, but being a f---king fat, disgusting bastard/bitch is NOT legit "disability." Those two-ton assholes who drive those scooters around and demand priority access to the attractions just because their ankles are bigger than Bo Jackson's thighs, just doesn't cut it. Lose some weight, fatty!!!
And this...the fakers! Yes, I noticed a group using the scooter excuse just to go to the head of the line, and not have to endure the 30-50 minute wait the rest of us did. I first noticed this bunch in Magic Kingdom. One of them, a teenage fatty was driving the scooter and the rest, 7 by actual count, with her. They go up to one of the Disney workers and claim they need priority access because of the girl...who they claim medically can't wait in line. Bam! straight onto the attraction they go. Later I note that the older woman was riding the scooter and that fat teenage girl was engaged in play-fighting with her brothers, who also were sporting huge guts. She was jumping around, shoving her brothers...I say to myself, this is the same behemoth who they claim couldn't wait in line? I watched them go up to the next attraction and make the claim that the older woman now was the one...I smelled a rat(s). My wife says to me, stay out of it, it's none of our business. I beg to differ. I reported it to the nearest Disney "cast member." At first he was like, what? Really? I insisted he do something or I would. To my surprise, that Disney cast member returns with a supervisor. They spoke to the attendant at the attraction, who points to the parked scooter, the 8 fatties inside. When the fat brigade emerges, sure enough, the older man gets on the scooter and off they go. The supervisor follows, as do I. At the next attraction they force their way past those standing in line and go straight to the attendant. Inside they go. They emerge and the older woman now gets on the scooter...bam, busted! By then two security guards had been summoned. The group is escorted away...to where I don't know, but I never saw them again.
I meet up with my wife and granddaughter, "Happy?" my wife asks. Yep! I despise fakers, fraudsters! (you know the kind). Oh, I almost forgot the best part. It was cool in the morning but quickly warmed up down there. So, at the second attraction one of the fat boys take off his jacket revealing an LSU Tigers shirt. I knew I had to nail those bastards for sure!
The water leak just outside the west side entrance to Joe Aillet Stadium that has gone unrepaired for at least three months.
D80, I have argued for a long time that they should not allow motorized scooters at all. Wheelchair only. If you have to be pushed or use your arms to propel yourself it might make people think twice before using that service unless they absolutely have to.
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Originally Posted by techman05
I will add some folks just need to lose weight too. Being a fatty is not a legit disability.
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Originally Posted by dawg80
The first time I took my daughter to Disney was with her grandparents. His knees have been bad for... well that is why he had to stop playing ball at Tech! He still walked normally. He didn't want a handicapped parking tag and such. But I knew that if he tried to walk that park he would be miserable by day two. When I suggested we get him a scooters he about flipped his lid! That was quite the battle.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
But at the end he agreed to get one. And he admitted after day 1, that had he walked what we traveled (FYI, my fitbit was at 80K steps and then stopped working) he wouldn't have been getting out of bed on day two.
Now at points during the day he needed to walk a bit and someone else would drive the scooter. But we also did not try & skip every line. If her grandfather felt he could stand during the wait we did. If he didn't think he could, we would ask for this special pass that allowed us to come back at the estimated wait time and use the "Fast Pass" )or whatever it is called) lane. But had we had to push this 60+ y/o man around all day our experience at Disney would not have been nearly as fun! And we paid Disney quite a bit to have that scooter.
D80, I am truly sorry you had that bad experience with someone abusing the system. But T05, I don't feel wheelchairs only is the answer to solve that problem.
We all pay Disney quite a bit to be there. And, the last two times we've gone we've had young grandchildren who get tired, and impatient, and have to suddenly go potty! after we'd already stood in line for 20 minutes or so. Upon our return, we got back at the end of the line and started over.
I saw a veteran...young man, probably late 20's...he had no legs. No need to ask about the exact circumstances of his losing his legs. He had a young woman with him, his wife or girlfriend. He was on one of those scooters. No one, myself included, had any issue with his skipping the long wait. He actually seemed embarrassed by all the fuss being made on his behalf.
We walked 37 miles over a 4-day period, according to the "Steps" app on my phone. It felt like more than that! Not as young as I used to be. I understand some folks can't do that. I am thankful I still can. But, there are those who abuse the privilege, and not just in the manner I described here. BTW, the secret to doing all that walking...and standing, don't forget you are on your feet all day, like 10 hrs+...is: Ibuprofen! Take some before and after. Works wonders.
Pet peeve... those silly-looking signers used at press conferences. How about using CLOSED CAPTION instead!
The signers are silly looking?Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
You do make a point about technology, not taking that away. I’ve always found ASL pretty beautiful to watch in person when there was a need for that at church.
Yes! especially their facial expressions. Just watch one...Quote:
Originally Posted by turbodawg
Repaired! Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by roughedge
Parents barking at ballgames when it’s obvious they have never played the sport before.
Scammers spoofing my number multiple times in a week. Getting spoof calls at my office multiple times in an hour every day.
you better renew your vehicle warranty soon before they take you off their list...Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
My Google listing that I never had is about to expire tooQuote:
Originally Posted by arkansasbob
Yesterday, 11 times from a different number each time, I was told that I needed to talk to their advisor before using my Apple devices.
Amazon: Congratulations David, you came in 3rd in today's Amazon Airpods raffle! Click this link to set shipment:
When you update your computer because it will not let you reboot without updating and then it crashes every time you try to use something because the drivers now have to be updated as well.