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I’m so sorry. I’ve loved many dogs, but the ones I loved best were both yellow labs. Much love to your family.

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The head tilt! Adorable.

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I think my distaste for romcoms has been a positive in my marriage. I do like foreign films significantly more than Mr. Moreta does, but I have a few friends I usually see those movies with. We go to the movies a lot still. We aren’t concessions people and our schedules allow for early matinees at t...

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DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Fri Apr 06, 2018 10:00 am Such a relief that media outlets will soon be able to go interview farmers in the Midwest who voted for Trump to get their views on things.

I have heard at least 3 of these already.

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I have no idea how to fix it, but my coworker managed to screw up a bunch of our fire department district mapping thanks to that little bug.

/cool story bro

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For your amusement, I present the train wreck Michigan county that got a lot of attention for shifting hard for Trump. They also elected a county clerk of whom they can be equally proud.

Only the best!

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“I have a collection of worthless old baseball cards at my place. Want to see them?”

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I guess he didn’t complete the process on the slide.

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JUST LET IT END

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Oh ffs.

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Amusing thread.

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My eldest made some pocket money streaming play-by-play for Starcraft matches, mostly with Korean players. I don’t understand the appeal, but this stuff is definitely popular. And increasingly marketable.

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My department has had a rookie fire a rifle into his patrol car and an officer shoot the counter in the lobby of our gun range. These are highly trained officers with bachelors degrees working for a selective department that gets the better hires. Things happen. I don’t want guns in the classroom. A...

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So tired of nun references.

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I hate Gimp. A lot. I am currently doing the monthly Adobe Creative Cloud thing that gives me PS/Lightroom and gives my daughter their animation software for what I feel is a reasonable monthly fee. You can probably do everything you want to do in Gimp, but (for me) it will be more time consuming an...

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She gets good movement on both pitches, but her control is just about average.

This describes so many aspects of my life.

Go Oats!

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People are buying a LOT of guns. We get guns turned into us all the time for destruction, usually unwanted guns inherited by people who don’t have any interest in taking on the responsibility of selling them. At the same time, we get a couple dozen gun registrations every week (and we are not a larg...

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And now two kids are dead.

You don’t solve this by shooting a shooter first. You solve this by disarming shooters. You can also make a dent in the rate of completed suicides in this country.

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It is an excellent joke, but explaining it to clueless kid was better.

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Went to see the fish fucking movie today. Mr. Moreta asked the ticket seller for 2 tickets for Grinding Nemo. He had to explain the joke, the attempt at which was funnier than the joke. Movie was good. Weird but good. I think it would have benefited from completely eliminating the sexual encounter b...

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DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Tue Mar 06, 2018 10:10 am

Huh. My mom must have gotten arrested with Randy Bryce. She’s collecting quite a list of co-arrestees.

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Looks like he had police contact the night before and was released in the morning. It might have been a psych hold, which I’m sure will raise all kinds of issues.

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Local news says it was his parents and that he was just released from a nearby hospital this morning.

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I can’t sit through another ridiculous “leadership” class with badly spelled presentation materials (“roll play” anyone?) and endless misattribution of quotations. Lincoln didn’t say that, you stupid cop. No, Aristotle didn’t say it either.

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The Michigan gubernatorial race is terrifying me. It should be a win for Democrats; Blue wave and all that, plus the current Republican administration poisoning a whole city. However, there’s a Democratic primary battle brewing between a far left male progressive and a more mainstream female candida...

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I haven’t seen the movie but the suicide location is pretty typical for men. Not all of course, but men tend to do it where family will find them. Women tend to do it away from the home, taking care to not make a mess. Not so much of a spoiler as a sensitive topic. I haven’t seen the movie yet. In ...

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One of the downsides of living where I do is the limited theater scene. Mr. Moreta and I went to a musical Game of Thrones parody last night that was amusing though.

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Musicals don’t really need an introduction beyond, “There will be singing.”

You guys will love it. The Book of Mormon is very funny.

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In the last 10 years or so there’s been a shift in protocol from “establish a perimeter and attack the situation from a position of safety” to “get in there as soon as posible and isolate/address the threat.” Active shooter training is a thing, but I bet it’s a thing that a retirement age school res...

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sancarlos wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2018 6:41 pm
Moreta wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2018 6:20 pmI’ve never seen any of those movies.
It's a rare Swamper who hasn't seen Office Space.

I think we can all agree that I qualify as a rare Swamper.

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Missed 12, 15, 18.

I’ve never seen any of those movies.

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Post-bankruptcy Detroit is a completely different place than pre-bankruptcy. Almost all of the abandoned homes have been torn down, roads are repaved, cops actually patrol the entire city. This is an overstatement. It is a bit better, but it still has a very long, hard road ahead. Reinvestment is j...

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Telling an entire high school your door is always unlocked is not something the school administration would consider. It is likely that, in an emergency situation, they would not be able to effectively relay the availability of your home as a safe place. It is a good and kind thought though.

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Of the airline options that popped up on skyscanner, I’d probably go with Cathay. A friend does some contract work for them and they seem legit.

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Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2018 1:42 pmShe got us tickets for Black Panther for Saturday... I'm psyched.

Are you wearing costumes? I hear you’re supposed to dress up.

(Do not do this.)

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My state legislature is pushing a bill to allow concealed carry in schools. Because that will help. I’ve joined 3 different gun control advocacy groups. I’ve gone to rallies. I’m pressuring my union (a police union) to start pushing statewide gun control legislation. I still feel so helpless. Maybe ...

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A+ draft guys. I’m glad I opened the thread just to see whether Paul Simon or S&G had been picked yet.

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brian wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2018 4:20 pm We were basically neighbors for a decade.

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The Sybian wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2018 1:51 pm

I was satisfied with the dog pictures, but that story is fantastic. I wonder how much longer than necessary the officer kept the conversation rolling.

Knowing him, long enough to be embarrassing if there were sober witnesses. I imagine he caught some hell for not calling for backup.

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