Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770
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On 4/2/2025 at 11:38 AM, Sharps40 said:
Well, carries nice.
Okay, now that's just wrong. A pistol like that deserves a LEATHER holster!
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5 hours ago, Pat Riot said:
I have never seen a place that reveres their University soooooo much. It’s almost uncanny.
You've obviously never been to Columbus Ohio or Tucson Arizona.
In Ohio, they love the buckeyes SO much that if you don't, and they know it, you're treated like you are mentally ill. Some years ago, my wife, daughter, and I went to dinner with my ex-sister and her family at a local restaurant. EVERY table in the place had somebody wearing OSU apparel. Including my brother in law. If you're looking for souvenirs in Ohio, you will have a VERY hard time finding anything that isn't OSU related. When I was growing up there in, the 1960s, the football coach was Woody Hayes. He was so revered that anybody running for ANY office in the area, as far ahead as the 1980s would automatically get elected if he could say that he played football for Woody Hayes. When I was getting married the first time, it was on the day of a game. My family was all gathered at the church, all ready for us. But the preacher was nowhere to be found. Finally my Best Man and I went looking. We found him in his office, watching the game. He FORGOT that he was supposed to be Marrying us.
As for Tucson, attitudes are very similar over the U of A Wildcats. When I was actively shooting Cowboy matches, I've seen people leaving the match early because there was a football game coming on. When the wildcats went to the Rose Bowl, in about 95 if my rememberer is right, they got their picture on the cover of Sports Illustrated, there were PILES of the magazine EVERYWHERE. When I was checking out at Walmart, the cashier was absolutely flabbergasted that I didn't want one. She just kept saying, "But it's the Wildcats!"
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3 minutes ago, Alpo said:
I believe it.
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Just now, Rye Miles #13621 said:
I don’t save any money but I save time and there’s hardly ever a line and it’s always shorter than the cashier line.
I disagree about getting shafted. I’m glad to get out of there in a hurry so I saved time and time is money so they say!
How about you do you and I’ll do me?EASY there Rye, nobody's saying that you can't do so if you want to. If that's your preference, go for it.
As for me, I've got more time than money, I'll wait in the cashier line. Like I said, I don't work there. Now if they offered a discount for using the self checkout, like they do for gas, I'd be all over it.
3 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:Man what a bunch of dinosaurs!😂
Not denying it.🦖
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11 hours ago, watab kid said:
whats startuing to bug me is all this self check out stuff , i like the interaction wiith the clerk , and you get the mess ups in lables fixed father too
5 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:Do you save any money for doing their job for them?
Are the waiting lines any shorter?
If you answered "no" to either one you're getting shafted.
I'm the same way. If asked, I tell them that the cashiers that they DO have are getting paid to run the register. I'm not, so I won't.
I've found that if you ask, someone will run the self checkout for you.
If they ever say that they can'/ won't, I'll tell them they've got two choices: Either they can find someone to check me out, or they can find someone to put the stuff in my cart back on the shelves.
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4 hours ago, Alpo said:
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33 minutes ago, Alpo said:
Blame otto. He's good about deleting words. Sometimes I think he would rather delete a word or two then misspell a word or two.
Anything to make the post confusing.
I don't have otto. Completely my fault. BRAIN FART!!
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36 minutes ago, Alpo said:
I think you left out a word. At least, to me, the sentence makes more sense with that word in it.
You got me.
I guess that my finger got ahead of my mind. The fact that I type with one finger should tell you something about my speed of thought.
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16 hours ago, John Kloehr said:
So my question is, am I suddenly channeling @Alpo?
Apologies for putting this here, but it does qualify as useless and factish and maybe fun-ish and certainly not worth a new thread.
Sometimes I think that we need a thread of Alpoesque questions. Certainly if he just asked his questions there it would cause the Saloon to have a few less pages. We could all ask things there.
I think that next time I have a question for the Saloon, I might start such a thread.
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I've lived in Arizona for 35 years. I've had a few encounters with LEOs, including a number at the Douglas Az. DOT scalehouse. With one or two exceptions they've all been positive. The one or two were Tucson Cops, (From Somewhere Else I think), who were nervous about my guns. They were still polite and professional.
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4 hours ago, Alpo said:
3 hours ago, Chantry said:I would get into so much trouble!
Heck I get in trouble for the things I DO say!
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44 minutes ago, Stump Water said:
Here's a fun exercise - especially with younger folks. Pick a place that you go to fairly regularly.
Better, tell your Millennial Grandkid to navigate ANYWHERE on a paper map.
A few years ago when I was planning my first Arizona to Ohio road trip, I went down to the Truckstop and picked up an Atlas. When I showed the guys at work, they were astonished. Even the other truck drivers. Same thing when I pulled out a collection of CDs the I keep in the Jeep.
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2 hours ago, Cypress Sun said:
I'll agree with the premise.
I do believe strongly that the tires sold/mounted by Walmart and Sams is NOT of the same quality as the same brand of tires sold at the smaller "actual" tire retailers.
23 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:Exactly! My friend bought a name brand TV at Walmart, can’t remember exactly what brand but it was a decent price and he’s had no problems with it. I think it was a Vizio but not sure. 🤔
Tires, no matter where they're sold OR made, (China, Korera, etc.), must meet US DOT standards. Walmart can sell name brand tires simply because they can buy 200,000 tire at a time where Bob's tire shop might get a couple hundred at a time. The same way that they can sell Wrangler Jeans for less than Bubba's Cowboy Palace. Walmart is buying 50,000 of each size at a time where Bubba is only buying a dozen at a time.
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7 hours ago, Dapper Dave said:
The Walmart in Marana USED to be good, but I haven't been back there in years. The Walmart in Casa Grande is low class and getting worse with all thew hooligans we are importing from Commiefornia. I avoid the place.
Dapper Dave, I don't know how far out of Tucson you are, but I frequent the Walmart at Foothills Mall, and it's a pretty decent place. You might give them a try unless it's just further than it's worth for you to travel.
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4 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:
I tend not to believe that “lesser quality” theory.
I don't think that it's lesser quality, but many of them have less FEATURES. It's my understanding that, for instance TVs that are Black Friday Specials just don't have the features that a higher priced version from the same maker might have.
Do you sometime get junk from Walmart? Sure. But I'd about bet that it's not any higher of a percentage that anywhere else. It's just that Walmart sells so many more of them.
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9 hours ago, watab kid said:
i was afraid of that , ive seen a lot of it yet hoped there was a segment of our society that was still teaching , raising and parenting , the ones that will soon lead this country , run our businesses and pay the taxes that our polititians seem so eager to spend .............if they keep dumbing down our children they will kill the golden goose
Well your standard run of the mill public schools are run that way, but there is still hope, it just doesn't get any play in the Lame Stream Media, it doesn't fit the narrative.
Look at the kids that are helping Yul Lose with his trash cans. Good kids there.
When I was a kid, (1970s), adults were bemoaning OUR generation for being useless. The Hippie culture, campus riots, Woodstock, the whole thing. But for the most part we turned it around.
There ARE good people these days teaching their young Right from Wrong. Just not in public schools. And I'm not saying that all public school teachers are this way, but like Hollywierd, most are.
There are young people who know what needs to be done and are actively doing it. Look at Charlie Kirk's work on campi with Turning Point. He gets thousands of college students coming to see him. he, more than Elon, I think, had a big helping hand in the way the last Election turned out.
It's low hanging fruit to just say "Look at all the smartphone zombies out there", but I really don't think that we're Done For yet. Do I think that public schools are crap? Heck yes. Are they shaping the young people of today to ruin tomorrow? They're trying. But as long as there are Good People out there to counteract some of public school's nonsense, we'll be okay. But we can NEVER stop teaching. We have to keep telling our Grandpa stories to our young because WE have teachable moments to pass down to them. Right now, WE are the Old Guys bemoaning THIS generation for being useless. We have to do what we can, not only to tell, but to SHOW them Right from Wrong. To tell them what mistakes our generation made so that they don't repeat them. Let them make their own mistakes, but hopefully, because they've been told what WE did, they can learn from them as most of us did, and so keep things headed in the right direction for the next generation to screw up.
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22 hours ago, watab kid said:
i cant figure out how people today dont know the basics of life ....dont their parents teach them ? dont their teachers teach them ? dont life experiences teach them ?
People these days don't know anything that isn't on their social media. The parents of today were the dumbass kids of yesterday, remember them?
Teachers have been trying to undermine our civilization since WE were kids. It's a miracle we still HAVE a civilization with what they've been "teaching" kids in public school.
And their life "experiences" are just what they get from their social media. (See what I did there.)
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1 hour ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:
You may be describing YOUR WalMart but the one I go to is nothing like that at all! There’s also another one near a shoot I go to that also nothing like you describe. I don’t think ALL Walmart stores can be put in the same jug!
Agreed. Like I said in my earlier post, the stores around here are pretty good.
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3 hours ago, Alpo said:
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2 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:
There used to be large (100 yards or more) concrete arrows in the deserts east of LA pointing at LA.
I watched a Youtube video a couple weeks ago that showed that a lot of them still exist.
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Forty, it's too bad that you had this problem. Here in Tucson, I've generally had just the opposite.
The stores are for the most part clean, the employees usually happy to help. On many occasions, when I ask where something is, the employee will not only tell me, but lead me to the item I'm looking for.
I'm sure that you also refuse to use the self checkout. I'm the same way. I don't work for Walmart, (or Fry's, or McDonalds, or anyplace else), and even at Walmarts that don't even HAVE an "Assisted Checkout", with the exception of one old biddy, I've always found that they've always been more that willing to run it for me, if they don't have one already open.
I'm at a Walmart several time a month, and I order stuff online from them too. Usually big stuff that I'm just too lazy to carry, but often stuff that I want/ need but I'm not going out that day, or that I can't get locally. They don't carry the Wrangler Jeans I wear in my size locally, but I can get them online for much less than anywhere else. And as long as you order more than $30 worth of products, delivery is free. AND if you order something online and need to return it, you can return it to a store that doesn't even carry it.
Maybe I'm lucky, maybe it's the .45 on my hip, (I often get complimented on my carrying a gun, many times FROM Walmart employees), but Walmart has usually been good to me.
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The Military has manuals for EVERYTHING. Usually they are behind by about 2 wars. When I enlisted in The Marines in 1977, we were thoroughly trained for Jungle Warfare, like 'Nam. So of course the next war was a Desert War.
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1 hour ago, watab kid said:
what could possibly go wrong
Go wrong, go wrong, go wrong...
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2 hours ago, watab kid said:
i cant figure out how to delete it ,
Easy enough. Once you've replied to a thread, you can edit your reply. There are 3 dots in the upper right corner. Click on them and you'll see the option to edit.
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Well, my Step Daughter, (since she was 5, she's 35 now), calls me C.J., but refers to me as her Dad.