Random randomness

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Fri May 18, 2018 10:59 am

Now I can't help but envision all these old men in rockers driving their porches down the street yelling at kids to get off their lawn as they drive by.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri May 18, 2018 1:27 pm

Virginia Husband Lied About Being Kidnapped by Biker Gang So He Could Run Away With Mistress: FBI

After a Virginia man was reported missing, then found hours later on the side of the road, he told police he was kidnapped, drugged and held against his will by members of a motorcycle gang. The FBI says he fabricated that story and several others so he could disappear and start a new life with his mistress.

Larry Wayne Price Jr. was arrested last week and charged with lying to federal authorities. He was being held on a $500,000 bond. Price's lawyer, Justin Lugar of Roanoke, declined to comment.

Prosecutors said after Price's wife reported him missing April 14, police in his hometown of Bluefield and the county sheriff's office launched a massive search that included the use of state police helicopters and dogs.

Price, 38, was located that night by a driver who noticed him on the side of the road on Route 61 near Gratton, Virginia.
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Price's arrest drew attention in Montana, where he owned the largest house ever built in Billings, the Billings Gazette reported. The house is a 10-bedroom, 26,000-square-foot mansion with three swimming pools. KTVQ reports the house was possessed by the lawyer for a company to whom Price owed millions and was put up for sale earlier this week with an asking price of $17 million.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Fri May 18, 2018 3:00 pm

LordMortis wrote: ↑Fri May 18, 2018 9:26 am
hepcat wrote: ↑Fri May 18, 2018 9:17 am I purchased a monocle for the sole purpose of spending an afternoon test driving BMWs.
Wadaminnit.... I though you purchased a monocle so it could fall in to your drink during a moment of big reveal? Or do you purchase different monocles for different occasions? I suspect in actuality, you are purchasing glasses and breaking them in half and merely telling everyone, "Oh there's a monocle for that!", trying to get in the next wave of Apple advertising.

I see what you're trying to do. I got my eye on you.

Let's be honest: monocles are cool.

em2nought · Post by **em2nought** » Fri May 18, 2018 3:14 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Fri May 18, 2018 3:00 pm Let's be honest: monocles are cool.

As opposed to walking around missing one lens in a pair of eyeglasses? I really need to do something about that tiny screw.

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Fri May 18, 2018 3:34 pm

While this should either be in the "What are you listening to right now" thread, or maybe the youtube thread. I'm putting it here to make sure dbt sees it. Since it made me think of him.

I have a Pandora station that plays comedy songs, and this just played.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri May 18, 2018 3:55 pm

My neighbor is out firing his fully automatic guns.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Fri May 18, 2018 4:42 pm

Do they have her goat?

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Fri May 18, 2018 5:34 pm

When I was in high school I bet there were just as many guns per person as there are now. Including "assault rifles".
But I can't think of one incident of mass shootings at school like now.
Just a thought but many we out to look into kids attitudes now and make changes there.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri May 18, 2018 5:51 pm

When I was a kid children got spankings. We were watched after to and not handed a electronic doodad and told to be quite. Basically lots of teaching and learning chances.

Exodor · Post by **Exodor** » Fri May 18, 2018 6:27 pm

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Fri May 18, 2018 5:34 pm When I was in high school I bet there were just as many guns per person as there are now. Including "assault rifles".
But I can't think of one incident of mass shootings at school like now.
Just a thought but many we out to look into kids attitudes now and make changes there.

I can't find data that far back but it's pretty clear that recent history includes a massive increase in the number of guns manufactured in this country

Percentage of households with guns has held pretty steady over my lifetime - which strongly implies that gun ownership isn't getting more widespread but that those who have guns have a lot more of them.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Fri May 18, 2018 7:59 pm

Ugh. People love to latch on to one thing that has changed and try to tie every other change to it. Spankings is a classic example.

Our entire society has changed, in both good and bad ways. There are literally dozens of things that likely contribute to this one issue, from the political climate to the divisiveness in society to the pervasiveness of guns to the celebrity of shooters to incorrectly prescribed medications to untreated mental illnesses to overexposure to electronics to reduced social contact to drug usage to outlets for anger to the way kids are parented to the way the kids parents were parented this to that and to a myriad of other things.

To pick one and say "we changed this thing, and society went to hell" is blind, ignorant, and counterproductive.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri May 18, 2018 8:34 pm

Edited...that was not nice of me to say or my business. But I stand by my belief that spankings help. Did for all the years until millennials.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri May 18, 2018 9:02 pm

It worked for adults, too, but I don't see anyone clamoring for that to come back.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Fri May 18, 2018 9:48 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Fri May 18, 2018 9:02 pm It worked for adults, too, but I don't see anyone clamoring for that to come back.

I had a witty rejoinder for that.

Then I checked for an appropriate image macro to make it even funnier.

Then I scrubbed my browser and search history.

Now where did I leave the eye bleach...

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri May 18, 2018 9:53 pm

Here you go.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sat May 19, 2018 12:31 am

I would like to think it was a simple solution like spanking but I know better of course. Probably numerous things but I get so tired of ignorant people blaming gun ownership as the solve all.
As well as tired of all these asshole shooters who feel life is so unfair to them.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Sat May 19, 2018 2:09 am

If we're looking back at what changed ~15 years ago for some reason, I refer you to the death of Gone Gold and the rise of OO.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sat May 19, 2018 4:42 am

Well, that was very traumatic for me.
That and Trump.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Sat May 19, 2018 6:41 am

Kraken wrote: ↑Sat May 19, 2018 2:09 am If we're looking back at what changed ~15 years ago for some reason, I refer you to the death of Gone Gold

Too soon, man. Too soon...

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon May 21, 2018 11:50 am

Stopped by my local gas station quick stop to grab some breakfast.

SIDE NOTE here.... if you order 2 meatloaf biscuit and one with sausage and they instead give you 1 meatloaf biscuit and 1 meatloaf biscuit with an extra sausage patty on it instead of its own biscuit...dont turn it down. Its YUMMY that way.

Anyways the guy that runs it and owns it is India indian and they are SO nice but a little hard to understand at times. He was asking if its been a while since I was in and I say no that he wasn't there last time it was a woman working. He then asked me something and I misheard him and I said it was long haired blonde working. My wife started laughing and said "Im his wife so with me standing here thats a good answer". I wasn't sure what was up but in the car she said he asked me "Did she have big boobs?" hahahahahah Man I dodged a bullet by accident

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon May 21, 2018 12:00 pm

I would be more concerned about what you call "breakfast".

xwraith · Post by **xwraith** » Mon May 21, 2018 12:01 pm

For those of us in IT who think we might be having a bit of a bad day

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon May 21, 2018 12:09 pm

xwraith wrote: ↑Mon May 21, 2018 12:01 pm For those of us in IT who think we might be having a bit of a bad day

I hope they don't have to defrag anything.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon May 21, 2018 12:26 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Mon May 21, 2018 12:09 pm
xwraith wrote: ↑Mon May 21, 2018 12:01 pm For those of us in IT who think we might be having a bit of a bad day
I hope they don't have to defrag anything.

Scuzz · Post by **Scuzz** » Mon May 21, 2018 12:56 pm

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Sat May 19, 2018 12:31 am I would like to think it was a simple solution like spanking but I know better of course. Probably numerous things but I get so tired of ignorant people blaming gun ownership as the solve all.
As well as tired of all these asshole shooters who feel life is so unfair to them.

I don't own a gun, my dad did and my brother does but I just never got into guns. But I don't blame guns for what is happening in society today. Something has happened to the mental welfare of too many of our youth. That kids would think taking a gun to school and killing randomly was some viable option is insane, and we need to look at it as such.

I don't have an answer for the problem. But screaming about guns and then doing nothing about the kids themselves solves nothing. It just ends up making it political.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Mon May 21, 2018 1:07 pm

xwraith wrote: ↑Mon May 21, 2018 12:01 pm For those of us in IT who think we might be having a bit of a bad day

Read the entire thread and still not convinced it isn't a hoax. Albeit a good one.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Mon May 21, 2018 1:22 pm

To be perfectly honest, if I had come across that I'd probably have picked it up and looked at it.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon May 21, 2018 1:26 pm

And licked it?

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Mon May 21, 2018 3:11 pm

Not again.

pr0ner · Post by **pr0ner** » Mon May 21, 2018 3:35 pm

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Mon May 21, 2018 4:05 pm

Typing out credit card info? What is this 2014?

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon May 21, 2018 7:49 pm

Terms I didn't expect to see today: Canine effigies

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Mon May 21, 2018 8:59 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Fri May 18, 2018 9:02 pm It worked for adults, too, but I don't see anyone clamoring for that to come back.

The spanker's obvious hard-on is a nice touch.

You can always trust 16th/17th-century art.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Mon May 21, 2018 10:46 pm

He's not the only one. *Shudder*

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Tue May 22, 2018 5:42 pm

Found out my engine light was my truck needing a new cylinder head or something. My stepson took it and had it evaluated. It had missed too my firings.
What that meant was the sparkplug had misfired a few times. I remember the incident and it took about 30 seconds before it started working fine.
So at the worst I needed a tuneup.
I reset the engine on lite and it stays off now.
I don't understand the reason for the engine on light except to make dealers more money.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Wed May 23, 2018 10:22 am

The term "pert bottom" appears far too often in UK media.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Wed May 23, 2018 2:46 pm

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/wei ... e-activity

Residents of a Florida city who received alerts about a power outage were also warned to look out for zombies. That's right — zombies.

The Palm Beach Post reports that Lake Worth residents received the message during a power outage Sunday.

The alert warned that more than 7,000 customers lost power "due to extreme zombie activity."

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed May 23, 2018 3:23 pm

GreenGoo wrote: ↑Wed May 23, 2018 10:22 am The term "pert bottom" appears far too often in UK media.

Must...not....Google that...must...not.....must....not....must ...Google ...that...must Google

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Wed May 23, 2018 6:03 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Wed May 23, 2018 3:23 pm
GreenGoo wrote: ↑Wed May 23, 2018 10:22 am The term "pert bottom" appears far too often in UK media.
Must...not....Google that...must...not.....must....not....must ...Google ...that...must Google

But wait, Daehawk! Think of your search history!

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed May 23, 2018 6:30 pm

I was talking to my friend about him getting some rain barrels and collecting rainwater for his garden. Come to find out its illegal in his county to collect rainwater. How nuts is that?? He said he should charge the county a fee for all the rainwater they get from his land.