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What Annoyed You Today? (3 Viewers)
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MIflyer
1st Lieutenant
Oh, they took it plenty seriously. It is just that government workers cannot figure out how to stop doing something they have gotten used to. E.G. The Indian Armory started building Lee-Enfield .303 rifles in 1921 and were still building the same thing, upgraded for 7.62 NATO, 45 years later- even though the Indian Army had switched over to a modern semi-auto rifle in the mid-50's. In the USA, NASA figured out that the Space Shuttle was not viable on 28 Jan 1986 and kept flying them for 25 more years.
at6
1st Sergeant
Took my dogs out to do their final "bath room" activity at 1:30 this morning and some b*$tard a$$ spawn of a promiscuous female pig dog set off an illegal firework a block from my home. My dogs were scared sh*tless and sweet Bark Angel Barbie injured her left rear leg getting back into the house. I wish these vermin would blow themselves up when they light that crap. Let them have a toe tag in a body bay on a slab in the morgue.
fubar57
General
I wish I had a camera up the back-side. Mine went up in front......twice. Surgeon wanted to check his handy work. On another downer, just spent 20 minutes in a massive lightning storm trying to catch a bolt. This is the best I got.
GrumpyOldCrewChief
Airman 1st Class
Oh, I feel for ya, fellow dog owner. I live in a close suburb of Detroit, and these @$$holes have turned my poor 65 lb. Collie into a lapdog. Sha cannot stand loud noises like fireworks. Thunder, no big problem, only a little worried. Fireworks drive her around the bend. And take my wife and I with her. Our other dogs would go into the basement, where the sound was deadened, but not this one. We have to drug her halfway into next week - nearly knock her out - it can get so bad. And it ain't even July yet...
From what I read the Shuttle was a huuuuuuge risk right from the outset and they were fortunate that more weren't lost. The expected failure rate was very high and there was no escape for the hapless crew if anything went wrong at any stage of the flight.
Luckily the council is improving facilities for dog owners where I live, but the one thing that remains a problem are small white fluffy dogs, of which there are heaps where I live and their owners just don't look out for them in the dog parks. I hate the little devils, their owners are clueless and get upset when our bigger dog growls at them because they come running up barking. We call them slippers, like what you put on your feet inside, cos that's what they're good for.
GrumpyOldCrewChief
Airman 1st Class
We have had to stop visiting our local municipal dog park, for much the same reasons. Our Collie - a type not known to be either small, or to be mean, is constantly being messed with by those little yap monsters. The owners never seem to properly socialize their mutts, and now the responsible dog owners are leaving, not to return.
"Slippers", yeah I like that description. But most of the blame should be placed firmly on the wretched owners' shoulders.
"Slippers", yeah I like that description. But most of the blame should be placed firmly on the wretched owners' shoulders.
Snautzer01
Honourably banned
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- Mar 26, 2007
I would call them yikes , because that is the sound they make when stepped on.
at6
1st Sergeant
This sh&t's been going for over month around here. I hate to think what the Fourth will be like this year. The past years have been bad but this year the turds used their stimulus to buy it by the sh*t load from Nevada. A Bomb Squad truck in L A had 5000 lbs of confiscated crud and blew up. A damned shame it didn't happen to the vehicle that brought it in to California.Oh, I feel for ya, fellow dog owner. I live in a close suburb of Detroit, and these @$$holes have turned my poor 65 lb. Collie into a lapdog. Sha cannot stand loud noises like fireworks. Thunder, no big problem, only a little worried. Fireworks drive her around the bend. And take my wife and I with her. Our other dogs would go into the basement, where the sound was deadened, but not this one. We have to drug her halfway into next week - nearly knock her out - it can get so bad. And it ain't even July yet...
at6
1st Sergeant
It's hard to catch lightning bolts, so consider this one a success. Great shot.
fubar57
General
I use my cell phone for lightning. I hold it up to the sky in one spot and hit the video button for about 30-45 seconds. If a bolt happens in the video I'll scroll through the video on pause until I find the bolt and then take a screen shot of it. I usually take about 20 videos during a storm
MIflyer
1st Lieutenant
They ordered the Shuttle Off The Drawing Board with no demo and shut down all of our other launch vehicles in anticipation of it being a tremendous success. We even quit building most of our rocket engines years before the first Shuttle flew and also scrapped at least 26 perfectly good Atlas boosters 10 years before the first Shuttle flight.
See: The Space Review: The engine problem and The Space Review: About those scrapped Atlas ICBMs
The Shuttle was supposed to cost $14 Million per flight, bring in at least $18M in revenue for each flight that carried a satellite to orbit, and fly up to 50 missions a year. In reality, in the final analysis, each Shuttle flight cost about $1.5 Billion (Billion, with a B) and the best they ever did was 9 missions in one year. They also managed to kill 17 people.
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Yeah, the Shuttle was a fascinating exercise in wishful thinking.
Armchair pilots.
ARTESH
Chief Master Sergeant
This:
www.radiofarda.com
حکم حبس برای شهرزاد نظیفی، قهرمان بهایی موتورکراس زنان، تایید شد
حکم ۸ سال حبس شهرزاد نظیفی، شهروند بهایی و قهرمان موتورکراس زنان در دادگاه تجدید نظر تایید شد.
www.radiofarda.com
What for? Unladylike behavior? Insane! Are they trying to bring back the dark ages?This:
حکم حبس برای شهرزاد نظیفی، قهرمان بهایی موتورکراس زنان، تایید شد
حکم ۸ سال حبس شهرزاد نظیفی، شهروند بهایی و قهرمان موتورکراس زنان در دادگاه تجدید نظر تایید شد.
ARTESH
Chief Master Sergeant
Dark ages brought back since February 22, 1979!
Snautzer01
Honourably banned
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- Mar 26, 2007
No they still live in the dark ages. Never left it.
Bucksnort101
2nd Lieutenant
Air conditioner went out on Wednesday evening. Replacement estimate caused my heart to stop momentarily, they can't install it until next week. Gonna be a steamy 4th of July this weekend.
MIflyer
1st Lieutenant
You know, I have thought about buying a 5000 BTU window unit for $150 or so and having it available just for emergencies like that. You could at least cool one room in the house.
