Real life thread

[Jeff Head]

How are you guys in Houston this morning? Did the ice and snow actually materialize? or was it just a big scare?

Stay safe down there.

 

[vesicles]

How are you guys in Houston this morning? Did the ice and snow actually materialize? or was it just a big scare?

Stay safe down there.

Well, it turned out to be all for nothing. It didn't snow and it's about to be sunny in the pm. It's about mid 30's now. Kinda disappointed that it didn't snow... And it will get back up to the 70's by weekend.

Thanks for the concern! Learned a lot about how to deal with winter weather!

 

[T-U-P]

Well, it turned out to be all for nothing. It didn't snow and it's about to be sunny in the pm. It's about mid 30's now. Kinda disappointed that it didn't snow... And it will get back up to the 70's by weekend.

Thanks for the concern! Learned a lot about how to deal with winter weather!

We should build a pipeline to transfer some of your heat to Toronto. It's been consistently -20C for the past week.

 

[bd popeye]

Good to know someones weather is improving.. Oh well..back here on the frozen tundra of eastern Iowa it is -6F or -21C...bbbbuuurrr!

 

[Air Force Brat]

Only two below F for us, and winds top at 5knts, so it should be great here, I get to be coach in the am, school is still on, but no "nerf tag" for me, LOL!

Yes, the fifth graders begged to play "dodge ball", but coach had left instructions to run relays, so we ran relays. One lad says to me, you're not as much fun as you used to be, I told him that's what the Honey Badger says????? I guess I'm just getting old???? an old fuddy duddy, Sooooooo?????

How many of you can't stomach the thought of listening to the State of the Union, and I thought "slick Willie" was BAD????

No wonder the CIA gave up water boarding, 3 mins of this and the most hardened terrorist will have a complete mental meltdown, and tell you everything he ever knew. I don't even want to click on my homepage and see his face, if I were a "drinker", I'd lay into about a case right now. bbbrrrraaaaaattttt out!

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anybody have an Ibuprofen??? naw make that a Zanax!!!!!! and no I'm NOT advocating substance abuse

 

[broadsword]

I'd certainly rather watch an episode of Mad Men than Obama's speech. Ahh, Christina....

 

[vesicles]

We should build a pipeline to transfer some of your heat to Toronto. It's been consistently -20C for the past week.

I second that. Except that we should keep the pipeline shut in the winter and open it back up in the summer. This way, we maintain a warm weather in the winter and divert some cold air down to the H-town in the summer.

 

[ahho]

Hey T U P, I see that you watch the starcraft episodes on youtube also.

 

[Jeff Head]

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An emaciated man whose boat washed up on a remote Pacific atoll this week claims he survived 16 months adrift on the Pacific, floating more than 12,500 kilometers (8,000 miles) from Mexico, a researcher said Friday.

The man, with long hair and beard, was discovered Thursday when his 24-foot fiberglass boat with propellerless engines floated onto the reef at Ebon Atoll and he was spotted by two locals.

"His condition isn't good, but he's getting better," Ola Fjeldstad, a Norwegian anthropology student doing research on Ebon, the southern most outpost of the Marshalls, told AFP by telephone.

Fjeldstad said the man, dressed only in a pair of ragged underpants, claims he left Mexico for El Salvador in September 2012 with a companion who died at sea several months ago. Details of his survival are sketchy, Fjeldstad added, as the man only speaks Spanish, but he said his name was Jose Ivan.

"The boat is really scratched up and looks like it has been in the water for a long time," said the researcher from Ebon. Ivan indicated to Fjeldstad that he survived by eating turtles, birds and fish and drinking turtle blood when there was no rain. No fishing gear was on the boat and Ivan suggested he caught turtles and birds with his bare hands. There was a turtle on the boat when it landed at Ebon.

Stories of survival in the vast Pacific are not uncommon.

In 2006, three Mexicans made international headlines when they were discovered drifting, also in a small fiberglass boat near the Marshall Islands, in the middle of the ocean in their stricken boat, nine months after setting out on a shark-fishing expedition.

They survived on a diet of rainwater, raw fish and seabirds, with their hope kept alive by reading the Bible.

And in 1992, two fishermen from Kiribati were at sea for 177 days before coming ashore in Samoa.

According to Fjeldstad, the Marshall Islanders who found Ivan took him to the main island on the atoll, which is so remote there is only one phone line at the local council house and no Internet, to meet Mayor Ione de Brum, who put in a call to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Majuro.

Officials at the Foreign Ministry said Friday they were waiting to get more details and for the man to be brought to Majuro. The government airline's only plane that can land at Ebon is currently down for maintenance and is not expected to return to service until Tuesday at the earliest, with officials considering sending a boat to pick up the castaway.

"He's staying at the local council house and a family is feeding him," said Fjeldstad, who added that the man had a basic health check and was found to have low blood pressure. But he did not appear to have any life-threatening illness and was able to walk with the aid of men on the island.

"We've been giving him a lot of water, and he's gaining strength," said the Norwegian.

The Marshall Islands, in the northern Pacific, are home to barely 60,000 people spread over 24 atolls, with most of them standing at an average of just two meters above sea level.

Amazing story. Sea Turtles and turtle blood.

 

[bajingan]

Hi all I just want to vent my frustration a little bit

I just find myself unable to relate to civilian girls anymore

Civilian girls = non working girls/prostitute

I have been punting for a long time (prostitution is legal in where I live) I just finally realize that my punting has severely affect my ability to relate to civilian girls.

Anybody feel like this?


I've been chasing a civilian girl for 18 months now
And then today I drove her meet her BF.