Paigowdan
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December 31st, 2016 at 4:31:08 PM permalink
Quote: beachbumbabs

I worked the midnight shift on NYE for the 2001 year, post-9/11. There were idiots shooting guns in the air everywhere that night, including under the approach paths to the runways. There were so many concerned citizen calls to the police thinking people were trying to shoot airplanes out of the sky, they called a major operation.

So I rang in the New Year in the tower watching fireworks and muzzle flash with the FBI, ATF, and local LE for company, all on our own frequencies coordinating movement of arrest teams and diverting airplanes from suspect flight paths. Was kind of fun. Had forgotten about it until this thread.



Idiots are trying to kill us.
Take it to a range, and bring in the new year in a quiet state of sober state of mediation and reflection, - or at a casino, if not.
Save your ammo.
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Boz
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December 31st, 2016 at 6:25:27 PM permalink
Quote: Paigowdan

Idiots are trying to kill us.
Take it to a range, and bring in the new year in a quiet state of sober state of mediation and reflection, - or at a casino, if not.
Save your ammo.



Just don't count cards!
onenickelmiracle
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December 31st, 2016 at 11:48:57 PM permalink
If I believed someone could actually shoot a bullet straight up and land where they stood, I'd call it Darwinism, but they'll hit someone else and not themselves. In that case, they're actually strengthening their odds of procreating and passing on their code.

Good call BBB on 3 days.
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MrV
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December 31st, 2016 at 11:53:55 PM permalink
I remember one summer when I was a kid we constructed our own bows and arrows: they worked pretty well.

The game was to shoot our arrows straight up, then lie down, not move, and see how close the arrows came to hitting us.
"What, me worry?"
djatc
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January 1st, 2017 at 12:21:32 AM permalink
1st 2017
"Man Babes" #AxelFabulous
onenickelmiracle
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January 1st, 2017 at 12:44:34 AM permalink
Quote: djatc

1st 2017

1st change your profile pic back.
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Boz
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January 1st, 2017 at 9:19:20 AM permalink
Quote: beachbumbabs

So you didn't "c" any misspelled f-bombs in his first couple of rants? How selective of you! Lol.

Ok, I'll amend it to 3 days. He'll be bak. Next year.



Don't you start becoming soft in the new year. You'll give 1BB/ Freddy something to make his life seem meaningful.
beachbumbabs
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January 1st, 2017 at 11:42:18 AM permalink
Quote: Boz

Don't you start becoming soft in the new year. You'll give 1BB/ Freddy something to make his life seem meaningful.



I was Martingaling him to 7 for multiple f bombs in 2 different posts, after having been warned earlier this year. I decided it could be treated as a single offense and made it 3, after reading the thread comments.

My second favorite Thread of the Year, after my own "You Might Not Be an AP If...". Come to think of it, they are somewhat related.

Here's to an amusing 2017.
If the House lost every hand, they wouldn't deal the game.
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January 1st, 2017 at 12:44:24 PM permalink
Quote: monet0412

I still smell something fishy with this ZenKing anyway.

Yeah, I think I was a bit too accepting of it all. Upon reflection it appears to have been an utter troll all along.

I remember when SouthPoint backed off three friends who were each playing different counting techniques with RED chips. And this was the morning shift, which would usually be the least alert. If you come across as a greedy counter, you get 86'd. And there is nothing you (or Nesarian) can do about it.
RS
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January 1st, 2017 at 1:16:59 PM permalink
Quote: FleaStiff

Yeah, I think I was a bit too accepting of it all. Upon reflection it appears to have been an utter troll all along.

I remember when SouthPoint backed off three friends who were each playing different counting techniques with RED chips. And this was the morning shift, which would usually be the least alert. If you come across as a greedy counter, you get 86'd. And there is nothing you (or Nesarian) can do about it.



In my experience, day shift at any property seems to be the sweatiest. Swing shift -- lots of stuff going on, so harder to keep track of everything. Graveyard -- they don't give a sh*t....more than likely chose (begged to be on) graveyard so they wouldn't have to do much work.
alphastorm
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January 10th, 2017 at 4:42:10 PM permalink
Isn't it part of the fun to camouflage yourself and count?
billryan
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January 10th, 2017 at 5:11:48 PM permalink
Quote: alphastorm

Isn't it part of the fun to camouflage yourself and count?



Part? For me, the hunt is the game.
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Romes
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January 11th, 2017 at 7:37:13 AM permalink
Quote: alphastorm

Isn't it part of the fun to camouflage yourself and count?

Part of the fun for me is to do the opposite of camouflaging myself, and count.
Playing it correctly means you've already won.
alphastorm
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January 11th, 2017 at 3:36:35 PM permalink
Quote: Romes

Part of the fun for me is to do the opposite of camouflaging myself, and count.



so be as flamboyant as possible and openly count out loud into the pit bosses face?
MathExtremist
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January 11th, 2017 at 5:16:12 PM permalink
Quote: alphastorm

so be as flamboyant as possible and openly count out loud into the pit bosses face?

Why not go all the way: put a large abacus on the table in full view of everyone and use it to track the count. See if you get arrested for violating the "device" statute...

"In my own case, when it seemed to me after a long illness that death was close at hand, I found no little solace in playing constantly at dice." -- Girolamo Cardano, 1563
Zcore13
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January 11th, 2017 at 6:47:37 PM permalink
Quote: MathExtremist

Why not go all the way: put a large abacus on the table in full view of everyone and use it to track the count. See if you get arrested for violating the "device" statute...



Sounds very familiar to what some kid that used to post here did at a crops table


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billryan
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January 11th, 2017 at 8:56:50 PM permalink
I build intricate forts with my chips, strategically shifting them around to correct their weaknesses. It must drive the eye in the sky batty. They see me do it, but it has no correlation to the count, or my bets.
The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction is supposed to make sense.
Ibeatyouraces
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January 11th, 2017 at 9:12:31 PM permalink
Quote: ZenKinG

Casinos just simply cant keep getting away with backing people off and trespassing them simply because someone is counting cards.


The only way this will happen is if laws are changed.
DUHHIIIIIIIII HEARD THAT!
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