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mtowncyclone13 said:
If journalists can protect their sources what's to stop them from making something up?
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The odds of saying anything untrue, regardless how insignificant it may be, and having everyone believe you is pretty hard to pull off. I'm sure a little bit of journalistic creativity goes on, but few careers depend on getting your **** straight more than journalists. Good journalists anyway. I'm not talking about some gossip rag.

If you don't believe me, ask Marcus Fiver
 
mtowncyclone13 said:
If journalists can protect their sources what's to stop them from making something up?
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That has happened numerous times. Eventually someone remembers something or digs something up and proves you wrong, and then it comes back to bite you in the ***. Think Brian Williams.

The only thing stopping journalists from making things up is integrity. And some still have it.
 
CloneinWDSM said:
Yeah true. You're good boxster


I could picture DH rocking a polo, some cargo shorts, with those shoes and ankle length socks.
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At first I was worried because this would describe how I dress quite often then I remembered no need to worry because it fits my wide ranging definition of acceptable everyday public fashion; with the low end being something that would get me arrested for indecency or resemble a "people of walmart" picture and the high end being something worn by a pretentious, narcissist, who cares too much about what members of the country club think.
 
My weekend did not go as planned. We picked up little Cooler Friday after work and discovered that a friend of hers decided to give her a little present, a bunch of them in fact. Head lice.

Long, thick beautiful hair becomes a long beautiful pain in the *** when you spend numerous hours running a fine-toothed comb through it 5-6 strands at a time. That and re-washing every piece of bedding, pillow cases, couch cushions, car headrests, etc pretty well consumed the "relaxation" portion of my weekend.

It seems to me that when I was a kid, if you had lice, you were a social pariah. You must have come from a dirty home or your hygiene was suspect. After reading a lot about it, I learned that it's almost as transmittable as a cold and has nothing to do with hygiene.

Of course, now I'm freaking out about any little itch on my head.
 
Heading over to Lifetime and wearing jeans. According to all things cool it might be "okay" to wear running shoes for the short road trip since I am heading to a fitness club. So, of course, I am all Bu and wearing boat shoes.

:twitcy:
 
BoxsterCy said:
Heading over to Lifetime and wearing jeans. According to all things cool it might be "okay" to wear running shoes for the short road trip since I am heading to a fitness club. So, of course, I am all Bu and wearing boat shoes.

:twitcy:
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I love how you wear boat shoes along with me. Makes my day
 
So, summary of the airline complaint, going to phoenix, book tickets with American/US Air. Didn't go with Allegiant because after all the pizzing around with paying extra for everything, it's about the same price as the others, plus in-laws live closer to sky harbor than Mesa (majors fly to SH, Allegiant flies to Mesa). Booking, it says select seats at check-in. Knowing we have 2 kids with us and want to sit together, I log in 5 minutes after it opens and there are 4 seats left in the plane, everything else is selected. Plus, they're premium seats, and it says it's like $50 a seat. I'm all...it's the only seats left, it's not like they can charge me for them. So I plow thru, basically the same thing on every leg out and back. I get done, and it says I owe them close to $600...so I'm all heck with this, I'll call them.

So I call them and he's all "well, if you want to select the seats, you have to pay for them." and I'm all "I'm not selecting them, it's the only 4 left!", and he's all, "well, if you want to reserve them, you have to pay", and I'm all "I'm just checking in online", and he's all "well, you can check in at the airport and you won't have to pay, you'll be assigned seats then", so I say fine, we'll do that.

Except, with only 4 seats left so early, it's likely they oversold and won't have any fallout, and we quite likely won't have 4 seats available.
 
You know when you are a little boy and you play with your cool Tonka dump truck. You know the big kind you find in a quarry.

Yeah the real life job of doing that is not nearly as interesting.
 
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wxman1 said:
You know when you are a little boy and you play with your cool Tonka dump truck. You know the big kind you find in a quarry.

Yeah the real life job of doing that is not nearly as interesting.
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One of these:

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Yeah, they're pretty boring. However, tip the arse end of one over, and they get much more interesting really quickly. At least, that's what it looked like, while I've driven one, I've never tipped one, but a woman driver did on our job. She was a little top-heavy herself, perhaps played a factor.
 
00clone said:
One of these:

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Yeah, they're pretty boring. However, tip the arse end of one over, and they get much more interesting really quickly. At least, that's what it looked like, while I've driven one, I've never tipped one, but a woman driver did on our job. She was a little top-heavy herself, perhaps played a factor.
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Yeah. It is one of those things that is boring and very repetitive but you have to stay on your toes or it could get bad real quick.

The one I am driving is similar to this.

Edit:first link didn't work. Try this....

http://www.cat.com/en_US/products/new/equipment/off-highway-trucks/mining-trucks/18089787.html
 
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coolerifyoudid said:
My weekend did not go as planned. We picked up little Cooler Friday after work and discovered that a friend of hers decided to give her a little present, a bunch of them in fact. Head lice.

Long, thick beautiful hair becomes a long beautiful pain in the *** when you spend numerous hours running a fine-toothed comb through it 5-6 strands at a time. That and re-washing every piece of bedding, pillow cases, couch cushions, car headrests, etc pretty well consumed the "relaxation" portion of my weekend.

It seems to me that when I was a kid, if you had lice, you were a social pariah. You must have come from a dirty home or your hygiene was suspect. After reading a lot about it, I learned that it's almost as transmittable as a cold and has nothing to do with hygiene.

Of course, now I'm freaking out about any little itch on my head.
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not that I really "like" this but I feel bad for you! One of my friends had this happen when she was in....middle school? I think? She has super, duper thick hair. Like, she goes to the hair stylist and gets it thinned every now and then. Yeah, she and her mom said that was awful. The combing, they did mayonnaise a couple times.
 
00clone said:
One of these:

Equipment%20for%20sale%20046.JPG


Yeah, they're pretty boring. However, tip the arse end of one over, and they get much more interesting really quickly. At least, that's what it looked like, while I've driven one, I've never tipped one, but a woman driver did on our job. She was a little top-heavy herself, perhaps played a factor.
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Sounds like the real problem is some idiot let a woman drive one.
 
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