Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread

Posts: 3188 · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:03 pm

killjoy32 wrote:

so do they teach spelling in your schools? Very Happy

Well we spell 'color' and 'armor' correctly Wink

Course our language is just a mishmash of others with slang thrown in for good measure.

ShaneG.

Posts: 2556 · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:03 pm

killjoy32 wrote:

so do they teach spelling in your schools? Very Happy

Apparently not the one Aneoth went to. Laughing

Posts: 1439 · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 9:05 am

Sheese.......... Shocked

THE ONE TIME I dont cut and clip from Werd and I get this kinda treetmant...... Rolling Eyes

Posts: 1346 · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 10:36 am

It must be that cute Southern drawl.

Posts: 4544 · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 11:03 am

So, sports fans, who has worse crediblity right now? Roger Clemens or Pacman Jones?

First. now Jones is being accused of orchestrating the shooting at the Vegas club he was busted at:

Quote:

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A 29-year-old man arrested for a Las Vegas strip club shooting said suspended Tennessee Titans cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones ordered the 2007 shooting, which injured three people.

Earlier this month, police arrested Arvin Edwards of Renton, Wash., and charged him with three counts of attempted murder for the 2007 shooting at the Minxx Gentlemen's Club in Las Vegas. The shooting followed a melee inside at the club.

According to documents uncovered by NewsChannel 5, Edwards extorted money from Jones told police that another man demanded that he pay or something would happened to Jones's mother and young daughter.

In telephone interview from a Washington jail, Edwards said Jones framed him.

"I feel sorry for them and everything, but I want to let them know I'm not the person who done this. I've been shot before. I know how it feels," he told NewsChannel 5 reporter Amy Rao.

On top of being a roided up freak, apparantly Clemens is also a pervert:

Quote:

NEW YORK - Roger Clemens had a decade-long relationship with country star Mindy McCready that began when she was a 15-year-old aspiring singer and the pitcher was a Boston Red Sox ace, the Daily News reported.

"I cannot refute anything in the story," McCready told the newspaper in a story posted on its Web site Monday night.

"I have known Roger Clemens for a long time," she said, without detailing the nature of their relationship.

Clemens' lawyer, Rusty Hardin, confirmed the pitcher and singer had known each other for a long time but told the newspaper there was no sex

Whatever happened to the good old days, when guys like Mickey Mantle were just a drunk, and Billy Martin would get into a fight in a restroom every once in awhile?

Mike B.

Posts: 1200 · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 1:14 pm

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Posts: 2921 · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 1:19 pm

Badmike wrote:

Whatever happened to the good old days, when guys like Mickey Mantle were just a drunk, and Billy Martin would get into a fight in a restroom every once in awhile?

Mike B.

One of my grandfathers pitched in the Minors in that era. He was an alcoholic coal miner, and often pitched drunk, or at least on a good beer buzz. It helped kill the physical pain. Those guys would stay in there a full nine innings, some nights on double headers. It was a TOTALLY different kind of player back then.

Posts: 508 · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 5:46 pm

Hell, Austin's current mayor gets into fistfights on a regular basis & it hasn't hurt his political career:

http://www.keyetv.com/mostpopular/story.aspx?content_id=6cfebef7-1681- 4e72-98ec-3bccddd60640

Posts: 1439 · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 6:04 pm

sauromatian wrote:

Hell, Austin's current mayor gets into fistfights on a regular basis & it hasn't hurt his political career:

http://www.keyetv.com/mostpopular/story.aspx?content_id=6cfebef7-1681- 4e72-98ec-3bccddd60640

Actually, he only has the one fist fight (Actually he choked the guy) and he also (Last year) cussed out construction workers for closing down one of Austins major roads during rush hour traffic. (If you dont know Austin, rush hour traffic is normally like any Saturday morning before dawn on US 75, or US 635 in Dallas).

lol....
A Drunken, fightin, Texas mayor.
Whoda thunk it?
Wynn is a democrat............ and he endorsed Barack Hussain Obama for President.
BTW: Austin is a democrat party town and is without question, the biggest democrat politcal haven in Texas.

Posts: 4544 · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 6:05 pm

sauromatian wrote:

Hell, Austin's current mayor gets into fistfights on a regular basis & it hasn't hurt his political career:

http://www.keyetv.com/mostpopular/story.aspx?content_id=6cfebef7-1681- 4e72-98ec-3bccddd60640

I don't expect much different out of Austin. It's like a third world country or something stuck right into the middle of Texas. The only city that WELCOMES the homeless and gives them more rights than actual citizens.... Rolling Eyes

My wife and I have had to stop our traditional Guadalupe Street stroll we do everytime we go to Austin due to the ridiculous amount of people demanding handouts every five feet....

On the other hand, the mayor is no Kwame Kilpatrick...think Detroit would like a swap of mayors at this point?????

Mike B.

Posts: 145 · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 10:12 am

BADMIKE "The only city that WELCOMES the homeless and gives them more rights than actual citizens...."

No, not the only one, look at San Francisco. Used to be a really beautiful town. Now it's like Mecca for hobos. You have to wade through human waste on some downtown city streets.

I feel sorry for the business people there. You can't even ask some lunatic bum nicely not to scare your customers away or crap in your shop's doorway, if you do you'll have a dozen Homeless Advocate committees on your a$$ about oppressing the rights of the homeless. And forget walking in a park.

It's become so bad, even the lefty moonbats who live there are actually asking the lefty moonbat city govt to take some kind of action.

Posts: 2556 · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 10:41 am

Dumbest man on the planet has been found in Ft. Worth Texas:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24394898/?GT1=43001

Laughing

Posts: 1346 · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 10:50 am

He should have just deposited it. The ATM doesn't know any better.

Posts: 7612 · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 11:03 am

Kingofpain89 wrote:

Dumbest man on the planet has been found in Ft. Worth Texas:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24394898/?GT1=43001

Laughing

what an absolute muppet

Posts: 4544 · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 3:12 pm

Agent Cooper wrote:

BADMIKE "The only city that WELCOMES the homeless and gives them more rights than actual citizens...."

No, not the only one, look at San Francisco. Used to be a really beautiful town. Now it's like Mecca for hobos. You have to wade through human waste on some downtown city streets.

Ooops, I meant the only city in TEXAS that welcomes the homeless...

Austin used to have a shanty town built on the main drag (Guadalupe) in a large alley between two buildings. I don't know if it's still there, but it got pretty large after awhile, making UT students have to run a gauntlet of panhandlers everytime they went to campus.

The last time we went there, my wife and I were acosted by two drug addicted parents pimping out their beautiful young daughter in front of a Walgreens. "Pimping" her consisted of the parents shivering by a phone booth in withdrawals while their daughter sang, danced and ran around soliciting money which she delivered to her parents. Sick. When I went by the father asked if I had any money, I asked him for what, he said "food". So I went inside and bought them some food (loaf of bread, jar of peanut butter, some canned lunch meat and tuna fish) came out and handed it to him. The look on the guy's face was priceless---I suppose by "food" he meant "Heroin" so I must have disappointed him.

When we left we called the police, they couldn't have been more disinterested if we had told them a spaceship full of martians landed and were handing out doughnuts.

Mike B.

Posts: 607 · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 7:51 pm

I saw the movie Iron Man. Not bad. It should help the comic book world some.

Speaking of comic books, tomorrow is FREE COMIC BOOK DAY, which isn't as good as FREE RPG DAY, but free is still a decent price. Now all I have to pay for is the $13.90 it takes to drive three miles to the comic book store and back. Shocked

Posts: 508 · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 10:11 am

Badmike wrote:

Austin used to have a shanty town built on the main drag (Guadalupe) in a large alley between two buildings. I don't know if it's still there, but it got pretty large after awhile, making UT students have to run a gauntlet of panhandlers everytime they went to campus.

After an ATM mugging a while back, a lot of Austin's homeless ['dragworms' in local parlance] were driven away from the UT area. Not much left at the 23rd st. Renaissance Market [the shantytown you mention] but the arts 'n crafts booths.

Badmike wrote:

their daughter sang, danced and ran around soliciting money which she delivered to her parents..

Organized panhandling seems to be on the rise. At the UT-area HEB grocery, I've been asked for money twice by young women holding babies. Both times were in cold, rainy weather. In better weather the babies are nowhere in sight, making me think they're a scam brought out only when it looks sufficiently dramatic. Their 'pimps' [the true recipients of the money given] keep them in SUVs in the parking lot, then they get out to approach their marks.

Posts: 4544 · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 11:33 pm

sauromatian wrote:

Organized panhandling seems to be on the rise. At the UT-area HEB grocery, I've been asked for money twice by young women holding babies. Both times were in cold, rainy weather. In better weather the babies are nowhere in sight, making me think they're a scam brought out only when it looks sufficiently dramatic. Their 'pimps' [the true recipients of the money given] keep them in SUVs in the parking lot, then they get out to approach their marks.

JohnGaunt gave a strategically placed homeless man (in front of a local Walgreens) money when he asked for cash to buy a "hamburger" on our trip to Austin today....

To our surprise the homeless guy went over to Whataburger and bought a hamburger.... Shocked

I feel bad now about saying "Yeh, he needs a hamburger called Schlitz....."

However, plenty more homeless out in force all over the city today, although not quite as bad as I remember it in times past. Maybe they are moving to Dallas in anticipation of it's new 21 million dollar homeless center?

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/022 607dnmethomeless.17a2b6e.html

Mike B.

Posts: 318 · Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 1:26 am

killjoy32 wrote:

first!

well it had to be didnt it Smile

i just wasted an evening watching a totally boring manchester united match. though having a chat with john on the phone was cool, so not totally wasted Smile

*goes off to search for stuff*

Al

Well, it's a week later and Man U wins a match 4-1 despite playing "down one" for a large part of the game! (PS I think the West Ham guy boxed Nani's ears before Nani did a 'head-butt' (?) on him; Nani should've been red-carded off as he was, but the West Ham guy should get something from the disciplinary board--thoughts?)

It's over if Chelsea outright loses this weekend (due to goal difference, if Man U is ahead three points + goal difference, that is effectively up four with one match left).----Or, will it be, down to the wire?

Posts: 7612 · Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 6:29 am

little niggly stuff like that happens in games all the time. what is needed is for someone to review incidents properly. i agree, the one provoking (as was VERY clear to see in your example there) should also be punished, but in the end, retaliating is very much frowned upon, and you get what you deserve basically.

what makes me laugh though, is the lame-looking head butts they do to actually GET sent-off. i mean its pathetic! if youre gonna head-butt someone, then do it properly and still get sent-off.

football is getting really pathetic imo. i dont watch it much anymore as i cant be doing with all the primadonna's and the cheating that goes on.

man-u will win the league. if they dont then they will have handed it on a plate to chelsea and i doubt for one second that will happen, they are too good for that. what you won't have seen though, is that they have had an immense amount of luck this season as well, but as they say, thats the way it goes sometimes!

in the same way, the fight going on at the bottom of the table is probably more interesting. reading are 99% relegated as to get out of it, they have to win by an incredibly ridiculous margin, but there is still one relegation spot up for grabs and a few teams can still fill it.

for 2 teams, the whole world is about to drop out from under their feet.

thats life.

Al