Loitering-Boxing-Cellphones-whatever (Split from disc about suspension list)
Who is Gretzky?Quote: FaceLet this be a lesson: Be wary of anyone who denies that Gretzky was the Greatest. Whether they're looney or lack integrity, something is surely amiss.
Quote: FaceLet this be a lesson: Be wary of anyone who denies that Gretzky was the Greatest. Whether they're looney or lack integrity, something is surely amiss.
Muhammad Ali was the Greatest.
Check out his movie "The Greatest"
Floyd Mayweather's brother :-)Quote: AxelWolfWho is Gretzky?
At least someone got it. I planned on following it up with how great of a sports handicapper I am.Quote: chickenmanFloyd Mayweather's brother :-)
TBH i think larry knew dam well who FM was. I think he was just jealous a black man was making big bets on sporting events.
Quote: AxelWolfWho is Gretzky?
You might be joking, but that's more something I'd expect LarryS to say. He is the NHL's leading goal and point scorer plus 50ish other records because he was an awesome player aided by the peak of his career being with the one of the best teams when the league's offense was at record highs.
I think Mario Lemieux is a lot closer to Gretzky in skill than Face thinks, but Lemieux had many more health issues and a worse team surrounding him in his most productive years. But one thing I do know, and now I can say more freely. Lemieux66 should have been ashamed to use that screenname. Both Lemieux and Gretzky exude class.
Èdit: you were joking; should have known.
Quote: tringlomaneHe is the NHL's leading goal and point scorer
What's the NHL?
Quote: NareedWhat's the NHL?
Nobody Hardly Looks (at hockey)
Quote: terapinedNobody Hardly Looks (at hockey)
Sigh...this.
Quote: tringlomaneSigh...this.
I'm a huge sports fan.
I follow Olympic hockey. Love it.
Will not watch NHL till fighting means an automatic suspension and fine, just like other major team sports.
I refuse to watch goons on ice.
Quote: BuzzardThis site is dedicated to Professional Athletes.
Wait, what?
Quote: AxiomOfChoiceWait, what?
Hey Dice Setting might be an Olympic Sport next year. Sadly, pole dancing won't be.
Quote: terapinedNobody Hardly Looks (at hockey)
Thanks.
Hockey, of course, is big among quantum physicists. Or it should be. After all, the rubberized Higg's bosson used in the game displays very strange properties. It's invisible except when it's at rest relative to the player, or when it strikes the net. The ability of the players to follow the wave function without collapsing it is amazing. A satisfactory theory remains to be formulated. Phycisists are divide between those who think understanding the physics of "the puck" will lead to a unified field theory, and those who believe "the puck" cannot be even comprehended without it.
Quote: BeardgoatWhere is mission? It's been a week since he logged in
I think he is still in the same place but just busy. Maybe a little burned out on the forum.
He heard Bob was back :)Quote: BeardgoatWhere is mission? It's been a week since he logged in
I think he has been working a lot more, that plus kids leaves little time.
Quote: WizardI think he is still in the same place but just busy. .
Busy getting a divorce and fighting off the
cute girls. I don't see it, but the women
seem to find Pierce attractive. He's probably
hip deep in them, he ain't got time for no
stinking forum..
Quote: WizardI think he is still in the same place but just busy. Maybe a little burned out on the forum.
I am so behind the times! Maybe I should be more like the stalking egalite/johno. Never knew the Wizard has his own youtube channel. LOL.
Thanks to johno/egalite for bringing about that Mission146 McNugget challenge youtube vid in GG. Finally your stalking is put to some good use. Ha ha ha.
Mission146... why on earth would you subject yourself to such abuse???? LOL. And at the very least use a napkin instead of wiping your pants.
The Wizard is a very very evil man for subjecting one of your lieutenants downing all that hazardous material. Ha ha.
Quote: DMSCRI am so behind the times! Maybe I should be more like the stalking egalite/johno. Never knew the Wizard has his own youtube channel. LOL.
Thanks to johno/egalite for bringing about that Mission146 McNugget challenge youtube vid in GG. Finally your stalking is put to some good use. Ha ha ha.
Mission146... why on earth would you subject yourself to such abuse???? LOL. And at the very least use a napkin instead of wiping your pants.
The Wizard is a very very evil man for subjecting one of your lieutenants downing all that hazardous material. Ha ha.
Someone on that site posed an interesting question. What does McDonalds think of someone eating their food and then vomiting and what must they think when it goes on YouTube?
Quote: 1BBSomeone on that site posed an interesting question. What does McDonalds think of someone eating their food and then vomiting and what must they think when it goes on YouTube?
LOL. I was having lunch when I looked at that video. So appetizing. There better be a warning label next time!
Apparently not too happy. There was a video called coning at the McDonald's drive through, where the guy would buy a vanilla cone and shove it all over his face. They finally refused service and trespassed him.Quote: 1BBSomeone on that site posed an interesting question. What does McDonalds think of someone eating their food and then vomiting and what must they think when it goes on YouTube?
Quote: 1BBSomeone on that site posed an interesting question. What does McDonalds think of someone eating their food and then vomiting and what must they think when it goes on YouTube?
It really doesn't matter what anyone at McDonalds thinks about it.
What could they do?
Forbid the consumption of McNuggets?
Were they adaptive, they'd swap out one trash receptacle for a vomitorium.
No doubt it would see a lot of use, especially at this Las Vegas location, populated as it is with drunks and lightweights trying to unleash their party animal.
Quote: MrVIt really doesn't matter what anyone at McDonalds thinks about it.
What could they do?
Forbid the consumption of McNuggets?
Were they adaptive, they'd swap out one trash receptacle for a vomitorium.
No doubt it would see a lot of use, especially at this Las Vegas location, populated as it is with drunks and lightweights trying to unleash their party animal.
I am surprised the manager didn't come down on this. Maybe this branch of Mickey D's has seen stranger outlandish things. If this was in a Mickey D's say in Mid-town Manhattan or downtown in the Wall Street area, the Wiz will never pull this off.
Okay enough with the Mickey D episode. MrV, LarryS, and john/carlo/egalite have a much better crack at this. Especially the egalite since he has a much bigger axe to grind with the Wizard.
Back to PTR 2.1!
Quote: onenickelmiraclespeaking of the golden arches, I noticed in downtown pittsburgh they had a sign giving you twenty minutes to eat before considering you to be loitering. is this common within the cities?
I know the store you are talking about and saw a manager boot someone based on it once. I don't know that it is "common" but it is done in places where people "camp." Starbucks started covering outlets in some stores because people plugged in and stayed all day. Other Starbucks locations said it was not a problem in their stores and didn't care if people stayed. A rare case of allowing common sense to be used.
To non-local readers, the McDonald's in question sits a block or two down from Grant Street, the "A" office space street in town but said Grant Street has few eateries. But the street it is on, Smithfield, contains all the bus stops. Thus you get a mixture of high-end office workers needing a table mixed with lower-classes who kill time waiting for the bus. The manager I saw, you could tell by looking at him that he was the type who knew how do deal with this kind of store. FWIW they don't hold a clock on you or anything, they will just boot you if you are hogging a table for more paying customers or if you clearly look like you are loitering.
Quote: terapinedMuhammad Ali was the Greatest.
Check out his movie "The Greatest"
I'll go with Walker Smith Jr. as the best pound for pound boxer of all time. See if u can guess what his ring name was.
Quote: mickeycrimmI'll go with Walker Smith Jr. as the best pound for pound boxer of all time. See if u can guess what his ring name was.
I have no idea and not cheating by googling.
Not a huge boxing fan, pretty much just followed Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard career.
My best geuss, Sugar Ray Robinson.
By the way met Ferdie Pacheco, the fight doctor. He had an art gallery in Ybor City, Tampa FL.
Quote: AZDuffmanI know the store you are talking about and saw a manager boot someone based on it once. I don't know that it is "common" but it is done in places where people "camp." Starbucks started covering outlets in some stores because people plugged in and stayed all day. Other Starbucks locations said it was not a problem in their stores and didn't care if people stayed. A rare case of allowing common sense to be used.
At the starbucks around here it seems as if you're encouraged to sit there all day. I do it sometimes -- why would they care? Sure, I get free refills on my coffee, but every time I get hungry I am spending $5 on a small sandwich.
I did see them call the cops to kick a group out once, but it's not like they need a sign or even a reason to do that.
Quote: mickeycrimmI'll go with Walker Smith Jr. as the best pound for pound boxer of all time. See if u can guess what his ring name was.
In 1960 Tony Baldoni fought Mister Smith in Baltimore. Tony used to come down from PA to encourage someone to pay his debts.
Everybody thought Tony was a bum, like Rocky. But he lasted 1:40 against Mister Smith.
And like Rocky in the movie of the same name, Tony did not want a rematch.
In 1966, or thereabouts, Mister Smith gave an exhibition match in Baltimore. On that same card a heavyweight for real match ended in death. The guy weighed in at 198. The coroners weight was 163. According to witness's at the weigh-in the guy wore an overcoat.
Boxing promoters ! They all can't be nice guys like Don King.
Quote: AxiomOfChoiceAt the starbucks around here it seems as if you're encouraged to sit there all day. I do it sometimes -- why would they care? Sure, I get free refills on my coffee, but every time I get hungry I am spending $5 on a small sandwich.
I did see them call the cops to kick a group out once, but it's not like they need a sign or even a reason to do that.
Starbucks will care if the sitters are discouraging new people to come in, because there is no space for them to sit and chat with their coffee. It'll will vary at different locations, no doubt. Some people do pretty much run their business from a laptop and a coffee shop... two coffee's and a sandwich per day is cheaper than office rental, especially if you are not in the same place every day.
Quote: thecesspitStarbucks will care if the sitters are discouraging new people to come in, because there is no space for them to sit and chat with their coffee. It'll will vary at different locations, no doubt. Some people do pretty much run their business from a laptop and a coffee shop... two coffee's and a sandwich per day is cheaper than office rental, especially if you are not in the same place every day.
In my area they don't care. I have stayed for hours. Not only do they not mind, once, they even brought me a free sample of some coffee that I asked about together with a small piece of cake. Eventually you become a regular and they greet you by name.
That is pretty much the reason that people go to starbucks around here. They are either getting stuff to go (so they don't care if there are empty seats) or they are on their laptops. It might be different in different areas. Around here, the only people that they don't want in there are the homeless people.
As for office space, I'm not sure that I follow your argument. You could just work from home if you really wanted to save money.
Quote: AxiomOfChoiceIn my area they don't care. I have stayed for hours. Not only do they not mind, once, they even brought me a free sample of some coffee that I asked about together with a small piece of cake. Eventually you become a regular and they greet you by name.
That is pretty much the reason that people go to starbucks around here. They are either getting stuff to go (so they don't care if there are empty seats) or they are on their laptops. It might be different in different areas. Around here, the only people that they don't want in there are the homeless people.
As for office space, I'm not sure that I follow your argument. You could just work from home if you really wanted to save money.
Shrug... it depends. For some folks, having an 'office' where people come by works better for them. Or they are in places where working from home isn't so easy.
Quote: AxiomOfChoiceIn my area they don't care. I have stayed for hours. Not only do they not mind, once, they even brought me a free sample of some coffee that I asked about together with a small piece of cake. Eventually you become a regular and they greet you by name.
That is pretty much the reason that people go to starbucks around here. They are either getting stuff to go (so they don't care if there are empty seats) or they are on their laptops. It might be different in different areas. Around here, the only people that they don't want in there are the homeless people.
And that is why they leave it to the local manager. If people are not stopping sales from other customers no big deal, but if they sit for hours without spending and drive people away then it is an issue. It also depends on the hour of the day. The store in the suburbs might be a ghost town at 2:00 PM while the one in the city is packed.
When I was working in Marietta we were very careful to leave a local joint, "The Bakery" after 11 AM or so, that was when their busy time hit. Before that time it was fine with them for us to work there, we spent. It was an open joke, people in town asked if we knew how nice "our office" was. In the afternoon we went to a local coffee house. Same deal, we spent. But some people will not spend. Some will even just ask for water and buy nothing.
Quote:As for office space, I'm not sure that I follow your argument. You could just work from home if you really wanted to save money.
Not always an option. Some people need activity around them as has been posted before. There is an entire industry called "co-working" popping up where you rent a desk and have access to internet and other office niceties. It works for people who need a desk not an office. I suggested it for a satellite office at a former employer.
Other people need to meet clients and meeting a client at your house is just not the way to say "professional" unless you are set up really well for it. Still others, like myself, need to be near something but may not be able to work at that something. My current courthouse is great, but one county over not so much for working there.
Hello, priorities.
Quote: MrVIt seems somewhat ironic that a young person would be homeless yet still have a phone or tablet requiring wi-fi.
Hello, priorities.
They get them free from Obama. Part of the benefits of not working.
ZCore13
Bah.
Back in my day, kids communicated with two tin cans connected by string, and we LIKED IT!
Quote: MrVReach out and ENABLE someone.
Bah.
Back in my day, kids communicated with two tin cans connected by string, and we LIKED IT!
Lol. I walked or rode my bike if I wanted to talk to a friend. An instant message meant I ran.
ZCore13
Quote: onenickelmiraclePhones cost like $40 a month,.
TracPhones cost $6.65 a month for 40min.
Twice as much time as I ever use..
Quote: onenickelmiracleWE'RE due to shop for a new plan overpaying I know but also have texts and data.
Straight talk is the best deal in my area (it's a smaller town with not a lot of coverage from most cell companies). $45 prepaid every month on the debit card for unlimited text, talk and internet. In my area they use the Verizon towers. For 3 people it's going to save me $40-$50 per month when my current contract is done.
ZCore13
Yea it helps to have friends/people to call and leave the basement :)Quote: EvenBobTracPhones cost $6.65 a month for 40min.
Twice as much time as I ever use..
Quote: AxelWolfYea it helps to have friends/people to call and leave the basement :)
This literally made me LOL.
This literally made me lol then lol again writing this.Quote: VCUSkyhawkThis literally made me LOL.
Quote: AxelWolfYea it helps to have friends/people to call
I hate talking on the phone, it's what
kids and women do. I've never seen
anybody I consider an alpha male
sit on the phone 'chatting'. I have no
number I can be reached at.
F Buckminster Fuller, the famous architect,
never had a phone. He said it was like
having a rope around your ankle and when
somebody wanted you, they just jerked
on the rope. Hemingway hated phones and
was loathe to use them. When he was forced,
he approached them like he would a rattlesnake.
