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    CARGO SAILBOAT!?!?

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    There’s no such thing as “knots per hour”. That’s like saying “3:00 am in the morning”. 1 knot equals 1 nautical mile per hour. These writers need to do their homework. Grrr…

     

    Despite the claimed glowing environmental benefits, the bottom line is whether this ship can make money for its owners. I’m betting it doesn’t, due to its cost & operating expenses, and likely has a lot of government money behind it. 

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    Do you tell the other person?

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    14 hours ago, Calamity Kris said:

    Uno is one of those gradual people.  Things gradually get to where they belong.  He will bring something in from the garage. to his office.  When he goes to take it back out, it moves from one desk in his office to the other desk.  Then some time later it will move to the kitchen counter closest to his office.  Some other time, (day, week, month) it will move to the kitchen island, which is closer to the door into the garage.  IT will eventually move to the buffet counter, which is next to the door to the laundry room.  Some time later, it will move to the laundry room sink counter.  At that point, if the item is large enough to be in my way, I will move it to the folding counter in the laundry room.  He will eventually put it on the drier, which is right next to the door into the garage.  "I'm staging it you know."  At that point I will threaten him with bodily harm if he doesn't put it away.  That's how things travel through our house.  It's no wonder he can't find anything.

    I LIKE this man!

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    DVD players question

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    46 minutes ago, J-BAR #18287 said:

    We have 2 cheap Samsung blue ray players, for DVDs, blueray discs, audio CDs.  The old DVDs look great when played on them.  I don't own any Blueray discs so can't compare, but I don't need a "better" picture.  They connect to the wifi and are preprogrammed to connect to Netflix, Prime, Hulu.  More complicated than we need, but you are more tech savvy than we are.  Not planning to change.

    So did we, it’s one that the two that crapped out. Down to one now. Pretty happy with it too, but alas, consumer electronics are disposable these days. The sad news is that DVDs are going the way of VHS tapes and the selection of players is meager. Welcome to the world of streaming…

    Ban forks, only spoons allowed

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    I remember right after 9/11 being at the St. Louis airport and ordering a burger. I wanted to cut it half and saw we weren’t given knives, so I asked for one. Nope, “security” was the reason. I said, “how about a plastic one?”  “Nope, security.” After some stern words from me, he took it back to the kitchen where someone cut it - and probably spit on it too. 

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    Ban forks, only spoons allowed

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    24 minutes ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

    If they even give you a soda, it's a full can. They don't want any possible cross contamination from anybody else. And they don't give nuts, because too many people claim allergy to them.

    They don’t give full cans on American Airlines  flights. Our experience has been the same as Alpo. 

    Star Trek v. Reality

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    That’s one of things that bugged me about “The Hunt for Red October”. Skipper of the American sub, Scott Glen boards the Russian sub with his most experienced sonar operator. First of all, why the skipper? And secondly, what expertise does a sonar operator bring to a boarding party? Seems you’d want keep those two aboard the US sub in case the SHTF. 

     

    Similar thing in the Carey Grant movie, “Destination Tokyo”. He’s the skipper who disarms an unexploded bomb instead of someone else, who likely would have more expertise. 
     

    Hollyweird. 

    time for a hypothetical question

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    11 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

    When my wife passed in 2009, she was cremated, the remains would go to my spot at the NH Veterans Cemetery and an urn was required. I bought one there (crematorium) for about $625. Later I said to my daughter, “I bet I could have done better in the internet.”

     

    almost a year later, my mother passed. We hadn’t spoken for 40+ years but my signature was required. I had them mail me the remains and I searched the web, $110. delivered for an urn. Remains were mailed by crematorium in a plastic bag inside a cardboard box. I moved the bag to the urn, found the cemetery where her second husband was buried and had her put there with her name placed on the stone, figured they could fight it out for eternity. My aunt said she had wanted to be scattered in Maine. I said she should have told me, would have saved me five hundred bucks, well what’s done is done.

     

     

    I’m betting the funeral industry lobbied the legislature to require an urn for burial, just to add to their bottom line. 

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    time for a hypothetical question

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    I’ve often wondered why people spend so much money on very expensive, decorated things for the sole purpose of being put in the ground, never to be seen again. If it’s important to put the departed on display in one’s home, a nice urn makes sense. If not, an old ammo can will do. 
     

     

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