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You could prolly go the CC.com Spring Picnic and pick yerself up a buttload of them thar dangerous wadder boddles at the Gear Swap...

I chopped down some rain forest, clubbed a baby seal, sponsored a whale hunt, drilled for oil in the ANWR, bought an H4, took a ride in the Concorde, and I didn't recycle a goddamned thing all day. Then I had sex in a pile of 50 sweaty people that I didn't know from Adam, none of whom were wearing deorderant. Did I miss anything?

Is there really such a thing as the best part of a box of wine???

Coming from suckbm, I'd have to think it was in jest. I've only met him once, but I think he's kidding.

Yeah, but feathers are aid. it had to be said sooner or later...

feathers go good with that, too...

Muff, that's a crying shame what those parents made their kid do. I'd have probably killed someone, too. How has youth sports gone from what it was 30-40 years ago to what it is today? It's all about winning and "looking good" these days. Is this a reflection of what we see in "professional" sports? Players gotta take HGH so that they can hit more homers, sack more quarterbacks, drain more 3-pointers, etc.? Sure, we hated to lose when we were kids, and we loved it when our team won. But on or off the field, it was still all about having some fun with your buds, even if they were on the opposing team.

So what, in this asshole's mind, constitutes "not good enough" for a kid playing ball? I thought it was about having some fun and batting/catching/throwing a ball around. This clownpuncher apparently is one of those "win at all costs" coaches, eh? WTF, does he have to increase his winning percentage so he gets picked up by the NY Yankees as their new head coach? The minute my son's coaches take this attitude, we're outta there. I don't see that happening, because all of the practices and games that I've been to already (like 4 or 5 now), the coaches just let them have fun and run around and hit and throw. They all seem to laugh and have fun, and there's no big emphasis on being "good enough" to play. Last year we had Nicholas in youth soccer. He had one of "those coaches" that yelled at the kids (they're 4 freakin' years old, fer chrissakes), the parents on the sidelines yelled at the kids, and none of the kids looked like they were having any fun. They reacted out of fear, it occured to me. Fear of dissapointing their parents, fear of dissapointing the coach, fear of just not knowing what they should be doing. Nick wanted out of it pretty quickly, so we were gone after the second practice/game. His view of soccer is clouded by that experience now. A shame, since I was pretty good at it as a kid growing up in Italy, and wanted to share the sport with him. Now we just kick the ball around the back yard and play with the local kids out in the street. He likes it a ton better this way.

It's yer moodz. Go to the upper right corner of your screen (where it says "Log Out") and click on the toggle to change it.

mmmmmmmmmmmm, pierogi. :chebit:

billcoe- I do believe he does have a rock hidden under his arms there. It must be for the one and only climber below him, for if he was gunning for hikers, he'd have a lot more ammunition.

I felt the need to bathe after reading this thread. Rawk on, Mo!

That was a great vid. First time in a long time I've watched a U-Tube vid that long all the way through. Damn glad I did, too!

wow, at least you contained yourself for over 12 full hours. Why don't you give that 40-year walkabout another try, eh?

Doug- First, ensure the bottle is empty or the lid is securely tightened. Then, turn the bottle upside down. The logo is on the bottom. billcoe- Yes, you're absolutely correct. It will still leach with unheated liquids as the contents, just much more slowly than with heated contents. I guess I was trying too hard to calm the mass hysteria. Steve- Your welcome. And DEFINITELY DO NOT run them through the dishwasher! Mui bad! Besides, more room in the wine rack is always a good thing, unless the rack is already filled! counterfeitfake- Actually, tap water in the US is some of the safest water to drink in the world. As an engineer whose job it is to ensure safe tap water, we prepare the annual Consumer Confidence Reports for the tap water of various cities in WA. The sampling and testing is unbiased, and goes on all year long. The results are reported to the city, and the city summarizes and publishes those results in your water bill in July. I often check what they publish to see if it jives to what we reported to them. It's always the same results. The next time you get your summer water bill and it has an extra brouchure in it, take the time to actually read what it says. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised with the quality of your tap water. Read about Consumer Confidence Reports here And before the rest of y'all jump my shit about "What about flouride in the tap water!!1?" and "I can taste the chlorine in my tap water!!!1", those concentrations are within the acceptable MCLs for those compounds. You may be experiencing a spike of chlorine that was required due to a pipeline extension project, a plant re-start or back-flush operation, or any number of other reasons. No one's trying to kill you through the public water system. Learn about contaminants here Lastly, if you don't like the idea of flouride in your tap water, or you can smell the chlorine, just get a BRITA filter and run it through that. It works wonderfully; trust me. But remember... that filter pitcher is likely made of Lexan - that nasty "#7" again. So put only cold water in the pitcher and consume/change it daily and you'll be fine.

into your intense beer...

True dat. Studies now show that it's not every plastic bottle out there, just the ones that have a "7" (Lexan) in the recycle symbol have Bisphenol-A (BPA) as the resin. BPA is the chemical that's garnering all the hoopla of which you speak. And it really only releases if you put hot liquids in the bottle; heat-on-plastic accelerates the leaching effect. If you stick with the original, opaque white, Nalgene bottles ("5" in the recycle triangle) or use other bottles with a "2" or a "4" in the symbol, you'll be fine. There's too much hysteria over this whole thing. A month ago my wife ran through the house screaming and waving her arms over her head and threw out all of the kids' sippy-cups. Now they're drinking out of real glasses and spilling shit all over the damned house. Another thing, the bottled water that you pay as much as you do for gasoline, that has a "1" in the triangle? Scientists are saying that you shouldn't refill those bottles either. One time use, then toss/recycle. Another good reason to tote your own water from home in a #5 Nalgene bottle. So remember: #2 (HDPE), #4 (LDPE), or #5 (PP) is good to go. HDPE = high density polyethylene LDPE = low density polyethylene PP = polypropylene mythosgrl's thread avitripp's thread I stopped searching after these two hits. There may be more on this here board. The interwebz is full of 'em...

You forget about Peshastin Pinnacles, or what? This weekend's weather is precisely why the Pinnacles were created and developed. C'mon, ya know ya want to...

Someone better call the Justice League on RuMR, before he gets too out of hand...

Get it straight, Dru... This thread is: "Photos of Really Big Housecats." NOT: "Really Big Photos of Housecats."

character building. see how well that worked out for ya?

Very artsy production. It's the new face of TRs on cc.com. I especially liked the knarled, dead tree with moss scene. BTW, thanks for the PM.

because more than 17.5 days has elapsed since your OP

verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry nice avatar this time, Couloir. Keep that one around for a while...

Motor Bike-Ridin' at Vantage Ah! Good point. Nice move. Keep 'em baffled, if you can't blind 'em by brilliance.