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Healing said:
Speak for yourself. I’m pretty sure neighborhood Roman candle and paintball battles were the height of adolescence strategery. And don’t worry, we wore football helmets with face shields (thanks dad) and starter jackets (careful kids, polyester fill can go up fast!).

Don’t forget getting gifted a pellet gun at six, or walking around all summer with enough m80s to equal a military ordnance.

Latch-key phase was the height of my perceived freedom.
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Lol...if we couldn't burn it, we could most definitely shoot it or blow it up. And we did...
 
Healing said:
Speak for yourself. I’m pretty sure neighborhood Roman candle and paintball battles were the height of adolescence strategery. And don’t worry, we wore football helmets with face shields (thanks dad) and starter jackets (careful kids, polyester fill can go up fast!).

Don’t forget getting gifted a pellet gun at six, or walking around all summer with enough m80s to equal a military ordnance.

Latch-key phase was the height of my perceived freedom.
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Did you know that if you drive a piece of inch and a half lead pipe into the ground at the right angle, you can drop an M-80 in it followed by a D battery and shoot it through the side of a tobacco barn or so I was told or something.
 
wmheel1287 said:
Meanwhile, we just got locked in the house and learned how to make flamethrowers with aquanet while mom and dad went out and partied.
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I actually rigged something up with this plastic hook thing a found that could fit around the can and hold a match at the end of the hook....
 
finesse said:
Did you know that if you drive a piece of inch and a half lead pipe into the ground at the right angle, you can drop an M-80 in it followed by a D battery and shoot it through the side of a tobacco barn or so I was told or something.
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I did not know that. Thank you.

However, did you know a 1992 Chevy 1500 will “shoot” a hole in a feed-barn at only 30 mph?
 
Healing said:
I did not know that. Thank you.

However, did you know a 1992 Chevy 1500 will “shoot” a hole in a feed-barn at only 30 mph?
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I believe it. After all the guy who knocked the corner of our house a knocked my sister's bed across the room claimed to have only been doing 35. Now, considering he was driving a 68 327 Camaro that he had just gotten out of his brother's speed shop there's some reasonable doubt. Well, that I heard him coming a half mile away , heard him lose it and bounce off the brick steps before he hit the corner of the house 4 feet off the ground, I don't believe a bit of it.

I don't know how he lived. He lost it 300 yards away, cut down a speed limit sign and cleared out about 30 feet of ditch. This was in Snead's Ferry and the ditches were more than a foot deep so that's not dramatic. He skidded across the road, cut down two mailboxes, went across ta side road and two more shallow ditches and clipped the guywire on a light pole. That's when it looked like he flipped twice, hit the steps, bounced and hit the corner of the house. The top was crushed , a wheel was torn off and the axle was bent. The guy didn't even break a bone. He had some time in the hospital for observation is all.
 
finesse said:
I believe it. After all the guy who knocked the corner of our house a knocked my sister's bed across the room claimed to have only been doing 35. Now, considering he was driving a 68 327 Camaro that he had just gotten out of his brother's speed shop there's some reasonable doubt. Well, that I heard him coming a half mile away , heard him lose it and bounce off the brick steps before he hit the corner of the house 4 feet off the ground, I don't believe a bit of it.

I don't know how he lived. He lost it 300 yards away, cut down a speed limit sign and cleared out about 30 feet of ditch. This was in Snead's Ferry and the ditches were more than a foot deep so that's not dramatic. He skidded across the road, cut down two mailboxes, went across ta side road and two more shallow ditches and clipped the guywire on a light pole. That's when it looked like he flipped twice, hit the steps, bounced and hit the corner of the house. The top was crushed , a wheel was torn off and the axle was bent. The guy didn't even break a bone. He had some time in the hospital for observation is all.
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Holy Crap! Amazing he survived. Was your sister in bed at the time?
 
Kingpin said:
Holy Crap! Amazing he survived. Was your sister in bed at the time?
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She was. I checked her first. She was shaken but not hurt and handling pretty well to only be eight. I told my mom, grabbed a flashlight and checked to see if there was something I needed to do. No bleeding ,no smoke, not my business so we waited for the sheriff and ambulance. It was my senior year in high school and I knew the guy. Had classes with his sister.
 
finesse said:
She was. I checked her first. She was shaken but not hurt and handling pretty well to only be eight. I told my mom, grabbed a flashlight and checked to see if there was something I needed to do. No bleeding ,no smoke, not my business so we waited for the sheriff and ambulance. It was my senior year in high school and I knew the guy. Had classes with his sister.
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Glad she was OK, and has quite a story to tell.
 

Warning signs emerge for Trump with independent voters​


President Trump is seeing warning signs emerge from independent voters as his approval rating weakens with the key voting bloc.

Trump’s net approval among unaffiliated voters reached its lowest level of his second term on Tuesday, according to an aggregate from Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ), with his disapproval rating surpassing 60 percent for the first time since he took office. This has accompanied a wider decline in his overall approval rating throughout June.

 
TarHeeledTexan said:
I’d be dissatisfied, too, if elections get you people like Trump and MAGA in power.
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Yeah, this is not nycfan's fault but that's a bullshit tweet by Cillizza. The question was not what you think about democracy. It was the way democracy is working in your country. You'd have to be a fucking moron to be happy with how democracy is (or more accurately, is not) working in America right now, but that has nothing to do with what people think about democracy as a political construct.
 
nycfan said:
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Saw this being discussed on CNN the other day.

During Obama years it was like 90% of Republicans and 80% of Democrats who responded saying they were proud to be Americans.

Now it’s like 92% of Republicans and 24% of Democrats.

It’s crazy how consistent the Republican number is across presidents and how the patriotism of Democrats seems to sway depending on whether someone they agree with with is in office. Republicans were always more patriotic even under Obama (expected) but the gap was pretty small back then.
 
TarHeeledTexan said:
I’d be dissatisfied, too, if elections get you people like Trump and MAGA in power.
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Didn't Princeton University about a decade or so ago do a political study in which they stated that the USA was no longer a democracy, but an oligarchy? And that was before Trump even took office.

ETA: I found a link to the study's report, it's from 2014 - Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy
 
Always find polls about “happiness” super amusing. Like, what the hell does that even mean and how is it even measured? Happiness is, like, the most highly subjective thing in human existence. Let alone trying to measure happiness by freaking political partisanship or party affiliation!

I’m happier than I’ve ever been in my entire life right now. I’ve got a phenomenal wife, two awesome little boys, my absolute dream job, we make a ton of money, just bought a killer cool house in a great neighborhood in Charlotte, and I can basically afford to do or have anything I want within reason. I’m not sure I could feel much happier.

On the flip side, I couldn’t possibly disagree more with the political or ideological direction of the governing political party in power right now. Couldn’t disagree with it more. Can’t stand it. For example, I think that wanting to put brown busboys in cages next to alligators is awful, to be honest.

So how would I be polled, or how would I answer a poll question about happiness? If you asked me if I am generally happy in life, I’d tell you hell fucking yes before you could even finish asking the question. If you asked me if I am generally happy with the political direction of this country right now, I would tell you hell no.

So how do you poll happiness if, for example, I’m a non-affiliated voter who votes Democratic, who can’t stand the majority of the policies of the party in power, who doesn’t like the political direction of our country, but who overall finds immense joy, satisfaction, and overall happiness in life? In other words, someone whose happiness, satisfaction and joy in life is not at all remotely tied to political partisanship.
 
HeelYeah2012 said:
Saw this being discussed on CNN the other day.

During Obama years it was like 90% of Republicans and 80% of Democrats who responded saying they were proud to be Americans.

Now it’s like 92% of Republicans and 24% of Democrats.

It’s crazy how consistent the Republican number is across presidents and how the patriotism of Democrats seems to sway depending on whether someone they agree with with is in office. Republicans were always more patriotic even under Obama (expected) but the gap was pretty small back then.
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While there is a correlation between “patriotism” and Republicanism (and a healthy debate on whether patriotism is actually a beneficial thing), this dynamic is way more complicated than you’re suggesting.

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National pride is declining in America. And it's splitting by party lines, new Gallup polling shows | The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Only 36% of Democrats say they're “extremely” or “very” proud to be American, according to a new Gallup poll, reflecting a dramatic
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