Things That Amuse You

[PB]

Wait ...., you're saying the Wildebeest was being a Karen/Gini?????

[MakersTeleMark]

Spanking brand new studded snows. I feel like I'm 14 again. Holy crap they are fun to play with.



I've been barely staying on the dance floor the last month on my summers. It's like a whole new world out there again.

[lowsparkco]

I did brand new studded snows for the first time this year. Game changer. Lowest stress level winter driving I’ve ever done. And it keeps my speed down on dry pavement, win win.

[MakersTeleMark]

Ran my last snows for 5 seasons. Super pleased on them, but ran them for a full last year and they were toast before I put my summer's on. Took me a little bit to get the new one's I wanted which coincided with legit winter. Now having rails again is like having a new girlfriend.

[billyk]

What kind of cowboy wears spurs into a restaurant? I was half expecting to see him ride off on a horse when he left, but no, just an ancient pickup truck.

[jmedslc]

Ran my last snows for 5 seasons. Super pleased on them, but ran them for a full last year and they were toast before I put my summer's on. Took me a little bit to get the new one's I wanted which coincided with legit winter. Now having rails again is like having a new girlfriend.

Haha I like the cut of your jib, dawg.

I’ve been toiling away here in snow country this year with the all season tires (BFG have a snowflake but not dedicated snows) on the tundra. Thought I’d get away with using the chunky tires all winter.

Well I threw in the towel yesterday, did some digging under the patio and gonna put the snows on. After the GF got stuck trying to make it to the cabin and needed to be extricated, I realized that the snow tires will make a big difference in my day to day.

[~mikey b]

I’m not sure if I’m meant to be happy for makers or not.

[Flounder]

What kind of cowboy wears spurs into a restaurant? I was half expecting to see him ride off on a horse when he left, but no, just an ancient pickup truck.

[billyk]

Yeah, an older, grizzled version of that. But actually wearing spurs. At least he left his chaps home.

[old goat]

Saw a couple of cowboys in chaps, working boots, hats walking down the hall at Kaiser in Sacramento a while back. No spurs though. My guess was a buddy was in the ER busted up. And one of my patients was a guy who broke horses for a living, until a horse broke him. Young guy too. bad head injury which he unfortunately survived.
Fact--the best ropers are from California.

[~mikey b]

goat ropers

[billyk]

Saw a couple of cowboys in chaps, working boots, hats walking down the hall at Kaiser in Sacramento a while back. No spurs though.

Fact--the best ropers are from California.

i’m not up to speed on roping stats to confirm or deny that, either way. Maybe you’re right. However, in my experience, this is more like what actual working cowboys look like. I especially like the cowboy cap (and no spurs).

[riser4]

[waveshello]

I think those recommended results are tailored to your preferences and search history...

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[Lvovsky]

I tried to read that story, but there was an ad for jewelry with Scarlett Johansson on the sidebar...

I like the idea of Scarlett Johansson a lot more than the actual Scarlet Johansson

[old goat]

i’m not up to speed on roping stats to confirm or deny that, either way. Maybe you’re right. However, in my experience, this is more like what actual working cowboys look like. I especially like the cowboy cap (and no spurs).

My friend who spent a summer being a cowboy in Montana worked from a motorcycle.

[Ted Striker]

I like the idea of Scarlett Johansson a lot more than the actual Scarlet Johansson

Truth

[El Chupacabra]

My friend's chihuahua mix dog can tuck herself in with a blanket.

[old goat]

The elite press (WAPO, NYT, New Yorker) falling all over themselves with World Cup fever. It will be hard for them to top the purple prose when the messiah comes. None of them pay the slightest attention to baseball, basketball, football, or ice hockey. Reminds me of being in college at Oberlin in 68-70. 60 guys on the soccer teams (I was one of them), 15 on the football team. Because soccer is the sport of the starving masses of the 3rd world, football the sport of the military-industrial complex. (And BTW--it's not patriotism that pays for all the military displays in the NFL--the Pentagon pays for all that.)

Because let's face it--soccer, and especially the World Cup is less about the sport itself and more about the fans' reaction to it and the soap opera sideshow. True of all sports to an extent of course. That said the final was fun because towards the end both teams were trying to win instead of trying not to lose.

[Bobcat Sig]

Portland weather headlines
For example, seen today:
“Chance of Portland Snow Next Week Remains Uncertain”
You can be almost certain the local network news is building STORM TEAM COVERAGE around this

http://isitsnowinginpdx.com/

The gift that keeps on giving:

[HappyCamper]

The kid is learning to spell. Nice penmanship at least.

[old goat]

You should teach him(her) how to write that in cursive and he can impress the teacher.

[PB]

Writing skills are like lost languages; our nieces and nephews all have the most appallingly bad hand writing ..... and they're only printing. I've tried to trick them into cursive writing, but I don't think they actually know what it is.

[Supermoon]

Who needs to ever use cursive anymore? It’s as useless as Latin

[PB]

Besides efficiency?? How about esthetic/artistic value?

I can't be too zealous - my cursive writing is shit, but at least I know how to do it.