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Post by Pharozonk on Jul 25, 2018 18:05:12 GMT -5
Yeesh, gas prices under $1.00. I envy you old fogeys!
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 25, 2018 18:18:58 GMT -5
I had a guy come out to pump gas for me at a little gas station just outside of Salem, MA, when I was there last month. I couldn't quite believe it was happening at first - that kind of thing had pretty much vanished in the UK by the time I was born in the early '70s. The guy was one of three station attendants, all dressed up in their matching oil company uniforms. They were all really friendly guys, who enjoyed joking around with us and gently ribbing us about the fact that my wife and I were a) English, b) vegetarian, and c) going to see the Red Sox play in a few days time. I think meeting these three gas station attendants was probably our favourite random encounter with Americans. Edit: I met my wife at an open mic night that I was running. She's a singer and a musician herself, and wanted to get up to perform a few songs with me. I suggested that I take her phone number and then come round to her house at the weekend, so that we could practice a few songs together (cunning, eh?). We started properly going out a couple of weeks later. 2nd edit: This is my 5,000th post. Woo-hoo! (Jeez, what a loser!) You went through the famous Salem Time Warp. Glad you enjoyed it!
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Post by The Captain on Jul 25, 2018 18:26:18 GMT -5
@md62 - that is a great and heartbreaking story all at the same time. You never know how the people you meet at one point in life will wind up impacting your life for years to come. Congrats on the anniversary! I'll have a drink to you two next Saturday, which also happens to be my birthday. Prince Hal - that is such a cool meeting story, one that will sadly not be repeated often in future generations. I only know of two gas stations around my area that still even offer full service, although I did have a friend in college (while I was getting my second degree) who was 27 and she had never pumped her own gas, because the small town she lived in near campus only had one station and it was full service. I had to take her to a self-serve station one night and show her how to put gas in a car, as she was getting ready to finish her degrees (she was up to four undergrad degrees at that point) and move away to graduate school over in Ohio. Confessor - you musicians get all the girls already, and on top of that, you pull out some sweet moves to draw your wife in. Very nice.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2018 18:53:18 GMT -5
@md62 - that is a great and heartbreaking story all at the same time. You never know how the people you meet at one point in life will wind up impacting your life for years to come. Congrats on the anniversary! I'll have a drink to you two next Saturday, which also happens to be my birthday. Thanks. Another twist to our story. My brother-in-law ended up marrying my wife's best friend from college when they met at our wedding. Since his passing my sister-in-law has since remarried but her new husband is a great guy and very understanding. We are still close with my sister-in-law and still get together several times a year. It also helps that my "new" brother-in-law has similar interests.
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Post by Søren on Jul 26, 2018 11:29:55 GMT -5
"Stick with us. Don't believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news. ... What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening." - Trump "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command" - Orwell, 1984 only saw this comparison on a comment section of another site, thought might be misquote but no seems Trump said that not worrying at all... /sarcasm
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Post by hondobrode on Jul 26, 2018 11:34:52 GMT -5
No, he actually said it, which he'll probably try to pin on fake news later, or a clone or something.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jul 26, 2018 20:38:09 GMT -5
U.S.A.: Get Well Soon! I hope when this mess is out of office that you can get some more explicit conflict of interest laws. We seem to be a bit better at that in Canada, but there's things the U.S. does we could learn from (before Doug Ford takes over completely, ha ha). One thing I did not actually know until recently was that Trump had paid people to attend his rallies and hold signs! I actually said that's where now Ontario premier Doug Ford must've learned it when he was caught doing it during his campaign, not realizing that could literally have been true. Wow! That is so lame, how can that actually have worked for them both? If something like that hasn't discredited him with most people I cannot imagine they are any relation to me, they must not have brains in their heads or are saboteurs of their own nations.
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Post by comicsandwho on Jul 26, 2018 22:52:46 GMT -5
There is no IQ test required to vote. Trump has exploited this fact 'goodly'.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 27, 2018 4:43:13 GMT -5
This isn't the political thread but right now the US is going through a civil war and I'd wager , over half the country supports President Trump. They won't say it because there are liberals that are openly attacking Trump supporters. It's a bad time in America these days.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 27, 2018 5:42:21 GMT -5
^^^^ icctrombone has it right, people; political discussions should be held in the Politics thread.
One of the main reasons we still have a Politics thread (despite its periodically leading to online shouting matches) is to contain this sensible subject in one place.
Thanks for your understanding and collaboration!
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 27, 2018 12:43:28 GMT -5
Here's an interesting bit of scientific research: www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/05/24/611609366/whats-going-on-in-your-childs-brain-when-you-read-them-a-storyThey did FMRIs on four-year-olds as they were told a story three different ways - audio only, illustrated storybook with audio voiceover, and an animated cartoon. The results showed that the illustrated book caused "increased connectivity between — and among — all the networks they were looking at: visual perception, imagery, default mode and language" compared with the other two. So illustrated text is good for your brain. Maybe this is why we comics fans are the most intelligent group around.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2018 15:06:33 GMT -5
Interesting Rob Allen for sharing ^^^ this post above. Fascinating ...
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Jul 28, 2018 23:12:10 GMT -5
For those who have children, did you or are you going to make the decision to vaccinate your children? For MMR for instance? I'm not here to make any judgments or anything. My wife is actually at a crossroads in regards to this it seems, and has gone far down the rabbit hole. Me personally, I'm not.
I like the vibe of this place and the overall demographic here compared to most other communities I frequent online. So I want to hear your insight about this topic. Thanks in advance.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 28, 2018 23:35:51 GMT -5
For those who have children, did you or are you going to make the decision to vaccinate your children? For MMR for instance? I'm not here to make any judgments or anything. My wife is actually at a crossroads in regards to this it seems, and has gone far down the rabbit hole. Me personally, I'm not. I like the vibe of this place and the overall demographic here compared to most other communities I frequent online. So I want to hear your insight about this topic. Thanks in advance. Yes my children were vaccinated. There is no reason on Earth not to have them vaccinated. My father was lucky to be a polio survivor. Anti-vaxxers are a menace.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jul 29, 2018 5:05:52 GMT -5
Yes my children were vaccinated. There is no reason on Earth not to have them vaccinated. My father was lucky to be a polio survivor. Anti-vaxxers are a menace. QFT. Don't have kids, but if I did, there is no question that I would have them vaccinated, just as my siblings and I were vaccinated, with no qualms of any type on the part of my parents (who grew up in a time and in a country without universal vaccination and saw lots of kids die or get horribly ill from diseases that are now easily prevented).
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