Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770
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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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47 minutes ago, Cypress Sun said:Keep magnets away from the control panel to prevent potential disruption of electronic components.
There's your answer.
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6 hours ago, Alpo said:
I wonder if they take "scrubs money", from doctors and nurses? Since scrubs don't have pockets, they stick the money in their crotch - at least they do on several different TV shows and movies I've seen.
My wife is a CNA and wears scrubs. They have pockets.
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I think that I'd do both. I'd mount the dummy for day to day, but have a real one just because I could.
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10 hours ago, Alpo said:
MOST days when I was driving a truck, the best part of the job was that the "chair" drove away from where my "boss" could try to tell me how to do my job.
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2 hours ago, Chantry said:
Another Gym t-shirt I wear.
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1 hour ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
I’d bet there’s a lot of folks who don’t know there’s a dollar coin.
Back when I was a young Marine, I used to frequent the bars in Jackson N.C., as many of us were wont to do. There a lot of bars that had.. dancing girls. Among other things, these girls acted as waitresses and took drink orders. But there was one particular bar that kept a stockpile of the Susan B. Anthony Dollar coins in stock to give back as change. At that time, a beer cost a dollar and a Quarter. So if you gave the girl a $5, $10, or $20 Dollar bill you got a handful of coins back as change. Since a SBA Dollar wasn't much bigger than a Quarter, and the lights were dim, the hope was that as the night went on, and you got drunker, you might not notice that when she asked to keep the change as a tip, she wouldn't just be getting a $.75 tip, but you might give her several SBA Dollars too.
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4 minutes ago, Alpo said:
I never shopped at Target. I had been in there a few times and everything they had cost too much. It was the same stuff at Walmart and Kmart but it was cheaper at Walmart and Kmart. And Target didn't sell guns.
I still don't shop at Target for those same reasons. OMG, I just agreed with Alpo!💩
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58 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
David McCallum played Ilya Kuryakin in eight Man from Uncle films.
On NCIS…
Season 2 Episode 13 "The Meat Puzzle", NCIS Special Agent Caitlin Todd (Sasha Alexander) asks Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon), "What did Ducky look like when he was younger?" and Gibbs replies, "Illya Kuryakin".[21]
The movies were adapted from the series. I think it ran for 3 years. David McCallum played Ilya Kuryakin throughout the series.
From IMDB:
From youtube:
Because of this End Credit scene, many people thought that U.N.C.L.E. was real, and tried to find out how to join it.
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I watched those when they were new. I'm also 71, and while my body objects, my mind still thinks I'm in my 20s, or maybe 30s. I'd say a major difference in Medical care. It's advanced a LOT in the last 50 years. Back then, 70 was considered old, people had to work harder to get there at the expense of their health.
Plus, on the show's side, they WERE showing Bad Guys that targeted people that had problems. Today, we might call it Early Onset Alzheimer's.
I know that while I might not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, I see people, some not much older than I am, some even younger, that I wonder how they get around without a Keeper. A couple weeks ago, I wound up in line at the store, (I refuse to use the self checkout), behind a woman not so much older than I that seemed to have no idea how her Debit Card was supposed to work. Last week I told a woman that was having trouble with it that she was trying to insert her Driver's License into it. She wasn't as clueless as the previous woman, just not paying attention.
A couple weeks ago, a guy driving a Prius nearly ran me down as I was leaving Home Depot. Not the parking lot, the store itself. He just blazed right on by. I cussed the old guy, then noticed that he didn't look much older than I do. (However I figure that since I AM an Old Guy, I can cuss one).
And don't forget, for the last 20 years or so, They, (whoever THEY are), have been saying that 60 is the new 50, or 50 is the new 40, or whatever age group they are talking about at the time.
I guess my point is that the type of people the Bad Guys in the show were targeting were around back then, and that was where the show was going with their stories.
Useless fun fact-ish type stuff
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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.