Miscellaneous Discussion Thread II
Quote: DieterQuote: lilredroosterQuote: DieterAnecdotally, a "handle" and a 30-pack would be completely normal supplies for an individual for a weekend.
seriously______?
you or some of your buddies would drink about 15 beers on Saturday and about 15 on Sunday___________?
amazing
I belonged to a frat in college - they did some pretty heavy drinking - but I don't think I ever saw anybody do more than about 7 beers in one day iirc
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"What are your plans this weekend?"
"Got a 30-pack. Gonna watch the game."
Yeah. Between Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday, it'd be gone.
Lewis Black did a bit about drinking in Wisconsin. I think he undersold it.
Personally, I'd show up to the bar for happy hour, and stay for 8 hours. I'd pass about 40 or 50 bars on my way home.
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As someone who owned a bar for three and a half years I can safely say anybody who goes to a bar four or five times a week without a doubt is an alcoholic. They're probably a high functioning alcoholic in that they go to work everyday and alcohol does not really interfere with their lives, but they're still alcoholics.
The best thing you could ever do if you own a bar is to let the regulars run a tab. I probably had 60 or 70 customers that ran tabs. When you do that you have no idea how much you're drinking because you're not paying anything till the end of the month. And it's a win-win for the owner, because if the patron is late in paying it doesn't affect the bottom line. I paid $3 in the late seventies early eighties for a liter of the hard liquor that was a generic brand that we poured the most. I made $30 profit off every bottle that I paid $3 for. Owning a bar is like owning a money printing machine. So it didn't matter how late the customer paid his tab as long as he paid it eventually.
Quote: EvenBobQuote: DieterQuote: lilredroosterQuote: DieterAnecdotally, a "handle" and a 30-pack would be completely normal supplies for an individual for a weekend.
seriously______?
you or some of your buddies would drink about 15 beers on Saturday and about 15 on Sunday___________?
amazing
I belonged to a frat in college - they did some pretty heavy drinking - but I don't think I ever saw anybody do more than about 7 beers in one day iirc
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"What are your plans this weekend?"
"Got a 30-pack. Gonna watch the game."
Yeah. Between Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday, it'd be gone.
Lewis Black did a bit about drinking in Wisconsin. I think he undersold it.
Personally, I'd show up to the bar for happy hour, and stay for 8 hours. I'd pass about 40 or 50 bars on my way home.
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As someone who owned a bar for three and a half years I can safely say anybody who goes to a bar four or five times a week without a doubt is an alcoholic. They're probably a high functioning alcoholic in that they go to work everyday and alcohol does not really interfere with their lives, but they're still alcoholics.
The best thing you could ever do if you own a bar is to let the regulars run a tab. I probably had 60 or 70 customers that ran tabs. When you do that you have no idea how much you're drinking because you're not paying anything till the end of the month. And it's a win-win for the owner, because if the patron is late in paying it doesn't affect the bottom line. I paid $3 in the late seventies early eighties for a liter of the hard liquor that was a generic brand that we poured the most. I made $30 profit off every bottle that I paid $3 for. Owning a bar is like owning a money printing machine. So it didn't matter how late the customer paid his tab as long as he paid it eventually.
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I believe it was pretty common for the regulars to make weekly payments toward their tabs, both at bars and liquor stores. (The liquor stores that allowed people to run tabs charged more, so I shopped elsewhere. I was a frugal drunk.)
When I decided to go dry for 6 months, I felt a bit better. When I came back to it, I found that two of my "regular" bars had gone out of business. At a third, the bartenders and barbacks on shift gathered around and applauded for a solid minute when I ordered a drink with liquor instead of just a diet cola.
Nowadays, I barely touch the stuff - by Wisconsin standards. A few (6?) days a year, I'll have half a dozen drinks... but that's a far cry from the 300 days a year that I used to.
Quote: DieterQuote: EvenBobQuote: DieterQuote: lilredroosterQuote: DieterAnecdotally, a "handle" and a 30-pack would be completely normal supplies for an individual for a weekend.
seriously______?
you or some of your buddies would drink about 15 beers on Saturday and about 15 on Sunday___________?
amazing
I belonged to a frat in college - they did some pretty heavy drinking - but I don't think I ever saw anybody do more than about 7 beers in one day iirc
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"What are your plans this weekend?"
"Got a 30-pack. Gonna watch the game."
Yeah. Between Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday, it'd be gone.
Lewis Black did a bit about drinking in Wisconsin. I think he undersold it.
Personally, I'd show up to the bar for happy hour, and stay for 8 hours. I'd pass about 40 or 50 bars on my way home.
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As someone who owned a bar for three and a half years I can safely say anybody who goes to a bar four or five times a week without a doubt is an alcoholic. They're probably a high functioning alcoholic in that they go to work everyday and alcohol does not really interfere with their lives, but they're still alcoholics.
The best thing you could ever do if you own a bar is to let the regulars run a tab. I probably had 60 or 70 customers that ran tabs. When you do that you have no idea how much you're drinking because you're not paying anything till the end of the month. And it's a win-win for the owner, because if the patron is late in paying it doesn't affect the bottom line. I paid $3 in the late seventies early eighties for a liter of the hard liquor that was a generic brand that we poured the most. I made $30 profit off every bottle that I paid $3 for. Owning a bar is like owning a money printing machine. So it didn't matter how late the customer paid his tab as long as he paid it eventually.
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I believe it was pretty common for the regulars to make weekly payments toward their tabs, both at bars and liquor stores. (The liquor stores that allowed people to run tabs charged more, so I shopped elsewhere. I was a frugal drunk.)
When I decided to go dry for 6 months, I felt a bit better. When I came back to it, I found that two of my "regular" bars had gone out of business. At a third, the bartenders and barbacks on shift gathered around and applauded for a solid minute when I ordered a drink with liquor instead of just a diet cola.
Nowadays, I barely touch the stuff - by Wisconsin standards. A few (6?) days a year, I'll have half a dozen drinks... but that's a far cry from the 300 days a year that I used to.
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If a bar goes out of business it's never for lack of profit. It's usually because they got caught serving minors once too often or they get sued out of business. I'm talking about neighborhood bars. If you own an upscale bar with a high overhead I'm sure you can go out of business for lack of profit but neighborhood bars have almost no overhead at all.
Quote: EvenBobQuote: DieterQuote: EvenBobQuote: DieterQuote: lilredroosterQuote: DieterAnecdotally, a "handle" and a 30-pack would be completely normal supplies for an individual for a weekend.
seriously______?
you or some of your buddies would drink about 15 beers on Saturday and about 15 on Sunday___________?
amazing
I belonged to a frat in college - they did some pretty heavy drinking - but I don't think I ever saw anybody do more than about 7 beers in one day iirc
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"What are your plans this weekend?"
"Got a 30-pack. Gonna watch the game."
Yeah. Between Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday, it'd be gone.
Lewis Black did a bit about drinking in Wisconsin. I think he undersold it.
Personally, I'd show up to the bar for happy hour, and stay for 8 hours. I'd pass about 40 or 50 bars on my way home.
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As someone who owned a bar for three and a half years I can safely say anybody who goes to a bar four or five times a week without a doubt is an alcoholic. They're probably a high functioning alcoholic in that they go to work everyday and alcohol does not really interfere with their lives, but they're still alcoholics.
The best thing you could ever do if you own a bar is to let the regulars run a tab. I probably had 60 or 70 customers that ran tabs. When you do that you have no idea how much you're drinking because you're not paying anything till the end of the month. And it's a win-win for the owner, because if the patron is late in paying it doesn't affect the bottom line. I paid $3 in the late seventies early eighties for a liter of the hard liquor that was a generic brand that we poured the most. I made $30 profit off every bottle that I paid $3 for. Owning a bar is like owning a money printing machine. So it didn't matter how late the customer paid his tab as long as he paid it eventually.
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I believe it was pretty common for the regulars to make weekly payments toward their tabs, both at bars and liquor stores. (The liquor stores that allowed people to run tabs charged more, so I shopped elsewhere. I was a frugal drunk.)
When I decided to go dry for 6 months, I felt a bit better. When I came back to it, I found that two of my "regular" bars had gone out of business. At a third, the bartenders and barbacks on shift gathered around and applauded for a solid minute when I ordered a drink with liquor instead of just a diet cola.
Nowadays, I barely touch the stuff - by Wisconsin standards. A few (6?) days a year, I'll have half a dozen drinks... but that's a far cry from the 300 days a year that I used to.
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If a bar goes out of business it's never for lack of profit. It's usually because they got caught serving minors once too often or they get sued out of business. I'm talking about neighborhood bars. If you own an upscale bar with a high overhead I'm sure you can go out of business for lack of profit but neighborhood bars have almost no overhead at all.
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Well, it's Wisconsin, so serving minors has a whole different set of complications*. I believe one sold to new ownership when 3 of the partners wanted out, and the new crew was still closed to redecorate to the new branding. I don't recall the circumstances of the other closing; possibly owner retirement, and the land was more valuable to a developer than anyone wanted to pay for a turnkey business.
Quote: lilredroosterQuote: DieterAnecdotally, a "handle" and a 30-pack would be completely normal supplies for an individual for a weekend.
seriously______?
you or some of your buddies would drink about 15 beers on Saturday and about 15 on Sunday___________?
amazing
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Stroh's was popular because a case was thirty. A case in a weekend would be normal.
Quote: lilredroosterQuote: DieterAnecdotally, a "handle" and a 30-pack would be completely normal supplies for an individual for a weekend.
seriously______?
you or some of your buddies would drink about 15 beers on Saturday and about 15 on Sunday___________?
amazing
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Stroh's was popular because a case was thirty. A case in a weekend would be normal. Bringing a case to a party was expected.
Quote: billryanQuote: lilredroosterQuote: DieterAnecdotally, a "handle" and a 30-pack would be completely normal supplies for an individual for a weekend.
seriously______?
you or some of your buddies would drink about 15 beers on Saturday and about 15 on Sunday___________?
amazing
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Stroh's was popular because a case was thirty. A case in a weekend would be normal.
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I used to drink Stroh's Beer all the time in the 60s and seventies because it was fire brewed and had a different taste. They changed the formula in the 80s and it was never the same. I talked to somebody who worked there and he said it just got too expensive to brew it that way.
Quote: rxwineI bought a case of Blatz beer for my cheap friends for $4. And we lived. It really didn't taste any worse than the worse beers I ever had.
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I don't think I ever had that.
One of the things that makes me suspicious about the "even one drop is bad" claim is that the NY Times keeps getting cited for digging up the study. This of course has the surgeon general hopping up and down
The pushback already started?
emphasis mineQuote:the media reported on a new study that found even small amounts of alcohol might be harmful. But the stories failed to give enough context or probe deeply enough to understand the study’s limitations—including that it cherry-picked subgroups of a larger study previously used by researchers ... who concluded that limited drinking in a recommended pattern correlated with lower mortality risk.
https://harvardpublichealth.org/policy-practice/is-alcohol-bad-for-you-or-is-alcohol-good-for-you-yes/
Quote: rxwineI bought a case of Blatz beer for my cheap friends for $4. And we lived. It really didn't taste any worse than the worse beers I ever had.
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Blatz beer was my go to beer in college. I could get a case of 24 bottles for $4.19. The same store also sold some jalapeno tortilla chips for like $0.89. Blatz beer and "death" chips were a staple and probably cost us a lot extra in toilet paper.
Quote: DRichQuote: rxwineI bought a case of Blatz beer for my cheap friends for $4. And we lived. It really didn't taste any worse than the worse beers I ever had.
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Blatz beer was my go to beer in college. I could get a case of 24 bottles for $4.19. The same store also sold some jalapeno tortilla chips for like $0.89. Blatz beer and "death" chips were a staple and probably cost us a lot extra in toilet paper.
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They called it Blatz because that's the sound you make when you're kneeling over the toilet after drinking it.
Quote: rxwineI bought a case of Blatz beer for my cheap friends for $4. And we lived. It really didn't taste any worse than the worse beers I ever had.
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I used to be tasked with resupplying my step-father-in-law's liquor cabinet. For a time, he had a brother-in-law staying with him, and drinking up anything vaguely palatable.
The $9.99 36 packs of Boxer Ice got him to move out. It is almost tolerable if it is just barely above slush temperature. (There has been some inflation since, but I believe $11.99 still puts it as technically less than $1 for 3 beers. Boxer Regular is the way to go, if you're not trying to shoo a nuisance guest.)
Quote: Some former coworkerAnybody can drink the good stuff, but it takes a real man to drink swill.
Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin rocket is ready to launch
he is competing with Elon Musk in space travel
from the article:
"he talks grandiosely about a future where millions of people live and work in space, of immense cylindrical objects spinning to provide artificial gravity"
https://archive.ph/AfYWg
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Quote: googled summary (AI)The main problems with centrifugal artificial gravity, which is created by rotating a spacecraft to generate a force similar to gravity, are: disorientation and motion sickness caused by the Coriolis effect, uneven gravity distribution within the rotating structure, potential for instability due to mass shifts, and the need for very large structures to achieve a comfortable level of artificial gravity at reasonable rotation speeds; making it impractical for current spacecraft design
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Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin rocket is ready to launch
he is competing with Elon Musk in space travel
from the article:
"he talks grandiosely about a future where millions of people live and work in space, of immense cylindrical objects spinning to provide artificial gravity"
Not going to happen. What good reason is there for "millions" to "work in space?" To even get a couple thousand would take 150 years. By that time world population collapse will be too big a problem to make it happen.
Quote: odiousgambitusing centrifugal force to create artificial gravity is such an obvious idea that you have to ask why we arent' already doing it. Well, there are problems
Quote: googled summary (AI)The main problems with centrifugal artificial gravity, which is created by rotating a spacecraft to generate a force similar to gravity, are: disorientation and motion sickness caused by the Coriolis effect, uneven gravity distribution within the rotating structure, potential for instability due to mass shifts, and the need for very large structures to achieve a comfortable level of artificial gravity at reasonable rotation speeds; making it impractical for current spacecraft design
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Reminds me, I need to give Elon a call and ask him why he launches rockets from a stationary position, when you could propel them along the ground first on a rail like a bullet train using ground energy, then up a curved track before igniting the onboard fuel.
mind over matter
a man submerges himself in an ice bath for over 3 hours - I got the shivers watching it
and then walking barefoot on hot coals - OUCH!!!
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Quote: rxwineQuote: odiousgambitusing centrifugal force to create artificial gravity is such an obvious idea that you have to ask why we arent' already doing it. Well, there are problems
Quote: googled summary (AI)The main problems with centrifugal artificial gravity, which is created by rotating a spacecraft to generate a force similar to gravity, are: disorientation and motion sickness caused by the Coriolis effect, uneven gravity distribution within the rotating structure, potential for instability due to mass shifts, and the need for very large structures to achieve a comfortable level of artificial gravity at reasonable rotation speeds; making it impractical for current spacecraft design
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Reminds me, I need to give Elon a call and ask him why he launches rockets from a stationary position, when you could propel them along the ground first on a rail like a bullet train using ground energy, then up a curved track before igniting the onboard fuel.
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Maybe Elon can rig a bunch of Tesla Solar roofs and Tesla Wall batteries and make a railgun or MagLev type sling shot?
Quote: rxwineReminds me, I need to give Elon a call and ask him why he launches rockets from a stationary position, when you could propel them along the ground first on a rail like a bullet train using ground energy, then up a curved track before igniting the onboard fuel.
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Be careful.
That describes Canadian engineer Gerard Bull's 'Big Babylon'.
Bull was assassinated in 1990.
Quote:Johanna Garcia was sentenced to 20 years in prison for her role in a nearly $200 million Ponzi scheme in Broward, Florida.
Garcia ran a firm called MJ Capital Funding, LLC and recently pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. Through her firm, Garcia raised funds to supposedly provide short-term financing to small businesses. She even hired recruiters to go out and find additional victims.
Quote: rxwineI wonder if she now remembers different moments when she considered it was time to get out.
Quote:Johanna Garcia was sentenced to 20 years in prison for her role in a nearly $200 million Ponzi scheme in Broward, Florida.
Garcia ran a firm called MJ Capital Funding, LLC and recently pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. Through her firm, Garcia raised funds to supposedly provide short-term financing to small businesses. She even hired recruiters to go out and find additional victims.
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When do you say "enough"? It's easy to say it's time to quit, but the prospect of another $500,000 flirts before you. Greed gets you in the end.
Quote: DRichI had a short notice trip to Vegas pop up yesterday so I was trying to book a hotel. This trip is not a pleasure trip so I do not want to stay at a casino. I tried to book the La Quinta and the Hampton Inn by the airport but they were $180 a night which I usually get for around $100 a night. I started looking around and found Hooters (now OYO) for $120 a night and the location is much better than staying on the strip. I booked it for $120 a night and later noticed there is also a $45 a night resort fee on top which is a joke for that property. Then, I find out they are charging $20 a night for parking. So it turns out I am paying $185 a night for Hooters. I am pissed.
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As you should be the place is a dump/ Rooms are dark & dingy.
Quote: DRichI had a short notice trip to Vegas pop up yesterday so I was trying to book a hotel. This trip is not a pleasure trip so I do not want to stay at a casino. I tried to book the La Quinta and the Hampton Inn by the airport but they were $180 a night which I usually get for around $100 a night. I started looking around and found Hooters (now OYO) for $120 a night and the location is much better than staying on the strip. I booked it for $120 a night and later noticed there is also a $45 a night resort fee on top which is a joke for that property. Then, I find out they are charging $20 a night for parking. So it turns out I am paying $185 a night for Hooters. I am pissed.
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Notice the point below about airline fees.
Quote:Blumenthal, the chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, said seat fees were pure profit for the airlines because they don’t have to create new seats or incur other expenses by allowing customers to pick where to sit.
Some senators expressed frustration during Wednesday’s hearing when airline executives could not explain how they set the amount of various fees. They said the vagaries of airline pricing make it hard for consumers to budget for trips.
“We’re all captives on your airplanes at a certain point. You just say, ‘You want to pick seat? We’re just going to charge you some random amount more,’” Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., said. “It would be good if you guys could be transparent about what you do and why.”
Quote: rxwineQuote: DRichI had a short notice trip to Vegas pop up yesterday so I was trying to book a hotel. This trip is not a pleasure trip so I do not want to stay at a casino. I tried to book the La Quinta and the Hampton Inn by the airport but they were $180 a night which I usually get for around $100 a night. I started looking around and found Hooters (now OYO) for $120 a night and the location is much better than staying on the strip. I booked it for $120 a night and later noticed there is also a $45 a night resort fee on top which is a joke for that property. Then, I find out they are charging $20 a night for parking. So it turns out I am paying $185 a night for Hooters. I am pissed.
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Notice the point below about airline fees.Quote:Blumenthal, the chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, said seat fees were pure profit for the airlines because they don’t have to create new seats or incur other expenses by allowing customers to pick where to sit.
Some senators expressed frustration during Wednesday’s hearing when airline executives could not explain how they set the amount of various fees. They said the vagaries of airline pricing make it hard for consumers to budget for trips.
“We’re all captives on your airplanes at a certain point. You just say, ‘You want to pick seat? We’re just going to charge you some random amount more,’” Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., said. “It would be good if you guys could be transparent about what you do and why.”
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I fly about 50 times a year and seat fees never bothered me because they are not required. If you don't care where you sit you don't have to pay anything.
Quote: DRichQuote: rxwineQuote: DRichI had a short notice trip to Vegas pop up yesterday so I was trying to book a hotel. This trip is not a pleasure trip so I do not want to stay at a casino. I tried to book the La Quinta and the Hampton Inn by the airport but they were $180 a night which I usually get for around $100 a night. I started looking around and found Hooters (now OYO) for $120 a night and the location is much better than staying on the strip. I booked it for $120 a night and later noticed there is also a $45 a night resort fee on top which is a joke for that property. Then, I find out they are charging $20 a night for parking. So it turns out I am paying $185 a night for Hooters. I am pissed.
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Notice the point below about airline fees.Quote:Blumenthal, the chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, said seat fees were pure profit for the airlines because they don’t have to create new seats or incur other expenses by allowing customers to pick where to sit.
Some senators expressed frustration during Wednesday’s hearing when airline executives could not explain how they set the amount of various fees. They said the vagaries of airline pricing make it hard for consumers to budget for trips.
“We’re all captives on your airplanes at a certain point. You just say, ‘You want to pick seat? We’re just going to charge you some random amount more,’” Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., said. “It would be good if you guys could be transparent about what you do and why.”
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I fly about 50 times a year and seat fees never bothered me because they are not required. If you don't care where you sit you don't have to pay anything.
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Whereas I have flown probably 20 times in my entire life the last time being in 2014 and hopefully that's the last time I will fly. I absolutely hated every flight I was ever on. What a terrible way to travel.
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Whereas I have flown probably 20 times in my entire life the last time being in 2014 and hopefully that's the last time I will fly. I absolutely hated every flight I was ever on. What a terrible way to travel.
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I do not enjoy flying but the time savings makes it preferable to me. I would rather sit in an uncomfortable seat for two hours than in a car for 14 hours.
I am going to Vegas this week so my choice is a 5.5 hour plane ride or a 36 hour car ride.
So today I got a phone call from Nelnet, seemed a legit phone number, but they keep calling and this time I tried to pick up, but the phone wouldn't let me answer. What? I just spent 2 hours trying to track this problem down. Somehow, under Calls and Messages under Do Not Disturb under Notifications, all calls and all messages were being rejected. I called myself with my other phone and all I could do was text myself back with an autoprompted text. I may have been able to type something else but I didn't get that far. I fixed those two settings and now I can can answer my phone again, and I extended the lock screen lockout a bit while I'm home.
This Nelnet is some student loan bank and I have no idea why they would be calling me. My Tracfone number has been subject to some major spoofing problems in the past, I should change it.
Speaking of civil asset forfeiture, I saw another video of 2 Americans crossing into Mexico and they weren't stopped at the border and they thought they took a wrong turn so they pulled over to the side of the road and it was busy. They had lost their phone service and GPS as soon as they entered Mexico, so they were lost. They figured they took a wrong turn and were hoping the cop that pulled up behind them would get them to the right place. The cop took all their money and gave them an escort to the place they were supposed to go. It was only $120 cash, but it was still all their money.
Quote: billryanPolice in Mexico can issue traffic tickets and demand immediate payment. In some municipalities, patrolmen keep a percentage of the tickets as part of their pay. It's a horrible system.
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I remember stories in the USA that an out of state person might have had to pay a ticket at the local cop shop as late as the 1970s. People skipping tickets was common before the states all got together to collect out-of-state fines. Before that was the honor system.
Quote: AZDuffmanQuote: billryanPolice in Mexico can issue traffic tickets and demand immediate payment. In some municipalities, patrolmen keep a percentage of the tickets as part of their pay. It's a horrible system.
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I remember stories in the USA that an out of state person might have had to pay a ticket at the local cop shop as late as the 1970s. People skipping tickets was common before the states all got together to collect out-of-state fines. Before that was the honor system.
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I remember getting pulled over outside of Pittsburgh in the 1980's. The cop went through the normal spiel and then handed me an open envelope. He told me he was going to run to the corner store and get coffee and that I should seal up the envelope and give it back to him and then I could be on my way.
I think they banned some other red dye years ago. Haven't looked it up though.
Quote:At the poker table, one of the men wore a tiny earpiece that was so small it could only be removed with a magnet.
The man and his accomplice outside were caught. Were they detecting the transmissions? Did security bang him on the side of the head until it popped out?
Quote: DRichQuote: AZDuffmanQuote: billryanPolice in Mexico can issue traffic tickets and demand immediate payment. In some municipalities, patrolmen keep a percentage of the tickets as part of their pay. It's a horrible system.
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I remember stories in the USA that an out of state person might have had to pay a ticket at the local cop shop as late as the 1970s. People skipping tickets was common before the states all got together to collect out-of-state fines. Before that was the honor system.
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I remember getting pulled over outside of Pittsburgh in the 1980's. The cop went through the normal spiel and then handed me an open envelope. He told me he was going to run to the corner store and get coffee and that I should seal up the envelope and give it back to him and then I could be on my way.
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I'd forgotten about this, but in the mid-1960s, my family was driving around Western North Carolina when my Dad got pulled over for speeding. We followed the cop to a jailhouse where we sat on a bench for a while until a man showed up and the three of them went into a room. The next thing we heard was the judge berating the cop for pulling over an active-duty soldier and his family. We went outside and got bottles of coke from a blue vending machine.
Quote: rxwineHey, Billryan. Does the banning of red dye #3 potentially make any products with red dye in them more valuable? They were showing a bag of gumdrops.
I think they banned some other red dye years ago. Haven't looked it up though.
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There was a Red Dye #2 scare back in the early to mid 70s. It caused pulling of red M&Ms though they did not use it. Not sure if it was related but for some time ground meat in the store was brown not red. That part is one of the only things I remember as I was a very little kid but I sort of remember adults watching giving us any red colored foods for a little bit.
Quote: rxwineHey, Billryan. Does the banning of red dye #3 potentially make any products with red dye in them more valuable? They were showing a bag of gumdrops.
I think they banned some other red dye years ago. Haven't looked it up though.
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Not really my field of expertise, but I wouldn't invest in it.
He says he gets 15-20 inquiries daily as his reputation for exposing them grows.
