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[SacramentoBob]

Drinking out of mason jars.

Wha?

I'm not sure if this is what SacBob was talking about but I think it's ultra-hokey when restaurants/bars do this.

I get it...you've got 'road-house' in your name or you're a BBQ joint. In reality you're a multi-million dollar business with 100 locations nationwide. Just give me a real glass, dork.

 

[Zegras11]

Anyone that yesterday said, "May the 4th be with you" should be put to rest.

 

[Otis]

Drinking out of mason jars.

Wha?

I'm not sure if this is what SacBob was talking about but I think it's ultra-hokey when restaurants/bars do this.

I get it...you've got 'road-house' in your name or you're a BBQ joint. In reality you're a multi-million dollar business with 100 locations nationwide. Just give me a real glass, dork.

I don't have a problem with this.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

Drinking out of mason jars.

Wha?

I'm not sure if this is what SacBob was talking about but I think it's ultra-hokey when restaurants/bars do this.

I get it...you've got 'road-house' in your name or you're a BBQ joint. In reality you're a multi-million dollar business with 100 locations nationwide. Just give me a real glass, dork.

This makes more sense, and sounds like something a cruddy big chain corporate restaurant would do.

Yet another reason why I try to avoid those places.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

Anyone that yesterday said, "May the 4th be with you" should be put to rest.

I'll defend George Takei to my last breath, sir. The man makes the internet 100X better every day.

 

[Usual21]

Leaving stickers on ball caps.

Socks with flip flops.

Using the word NATION after a team name.

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Drinking out of mason jars.

Wha?

I'm not sure if this is what SacBob was talking about but I think it's ultra-hokey when restaurants/bars do this.

I get it...you've got 'road-house' in your name or you're a BBQ joint. In reality you're a multi-million dollar business with 100 locations nationwide. Just give me a real glass, dork.

I don't have a problem with this.

Especially at K-Paul's in New Orleans where it contains a very large fresh jalapeno martini. Got me into heating my own vodka up at home - tastes like a jalapeno right out of the garden.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Socks with flip flops.

Perhaps the all time #1 fashion statement.

 

[FUBAR]

Americans calling British people who have been knighted "Sir"

"Our next guest is Sir Anthony Hopkins"

"Sir Winston Churchill sure was a good leader"

Not seeing the issue here

I see this similar to our referring to or top military officers by their rank, even after they retire. It's deserved.

 

[FUBAR]

Drinking out of mason jars.

Wha?

I'm not sure if this is what SacBob was talking about but I think it's ultra-hokey when restaurants/bars do this. I get it...you've got 'road-house' in your name or you're a BBQ joint. In reality you're a multi-million dollar business with 100 locations nationwide. Just give me a real glass, dork.

It's part of their persona. Don't like it? Don't go there. I don't like umbrellas in my drink, so I don't get them.

 

[FUBAR]

Drinking out of mason jars.

Wha?

Hello, exactly. I've seen this happen exactly once in my life. It was at massive keg party my college house threw. Around 1am we ran out of plastic cups, so people raided out cupboards for anything that would hold beer. Picture a bunch of drunk frat guys and rugby players wobbling around a house drinking beer from pots, skillets, measuring cups, and mason jars. I had no problem with it. I was kinda impressed, really.

Drinking from a skillet - the new fad.

 

[SacramentoBob]

Americans calling British people who have been knighted "Sir"

"Our next guest is Sir Anthony Hopkins"

"Sir Winston Churchill sure was a good leader"

Not seeing the issue here

I see this similar to our referring to or top military officers by their rank, even after they retire. It's deserved.

Referring to military officers by their rank after they retire.

Soldiers wearing their uniform off base.

 

[TxBuckeye]

Soldiers wearing their uniform off base.

They should change clothes to drive home from work?

 

[FUBAR]

Soldiers wearing their uniform off base.

They should change clothes to drive home from work?

I do, but just because I like to be changed before I get home.

Spouses wearing parts of military uniforms.

Soldiers wearing parts of uniforms improperly off post. It's shocking to me how many fat people do this, right outside of Fort Bragg. I'm not sure if they're Soldiers, spouses, former Soldiers, or just think the PT jacket is "cool".

 

[Keerock]

Fans that turn around in them there seats to get on TV and wave like a clown.

Fixed.

 

[TxBuckeye]

FUBAR, on 06 May 2013 - 06:43, said:Soldiers wearing parts of uniforms improperly off post. It's shocking to me how many fat people do this, right outside of Fort Bragg. I'm not sure if they're Soldiers, spouses, former Soldiers, or just think the PT jacket is "cool".

No way they are active duty. They'd get ripped a new one.

 

[SacramentoBob]

FUBAR, on 06 May 2013 - 06:43, said:Soldiers wearing parts of uniforms improperly off post. It's shocking to me how many fat people do this, right outside of Fort Bragg. I'm not sure if they're Soldiers, spouses, former Soldiers, or just think the PT jacket is "cool".

No way they are active duty. They'd get ripped a new one.

I live next to a military base. They wear them all the time, and not "driving home from work". You go to the movies and 10% of them are kids in uniform.

 

[TxBuckeye]

SacramentoBob, on 06 May 2013 - 07:39, said:

TxBuckeye, on 06 May 2013 - 06:54, said:

FUBAR, on 06 May 2013 - 06:43, said:FUBAR, on 06 May 2013 - 06:43, said:Soldiers wearing parts of uniforms improperly off post. It's shocking to me how many fat people do this, right outside of Fort Bragg. I'm not sure if they're Soldiers, spouses, former Soldiers, or just think the PT jacket is "cool".

No way they are active duty. They'd get ripped a new one.

I live next to a military base. They wear them all the time, and not "driving home from work". You go to the movies and 10% of them are kids in uniform.

Lived near/on military bases the past 30 years or so and can count on one hand the number of military I have ever seen in a movie theater. Unless you live near a basic training location where they may be required to do so. Or perhaps it isn't AF in your case and other militaries do it differently?

 

[Henry Ford]

Drinking out of mason jars.

Wha?

I'm not sure if this is what SacBob was talking about but I think it's ultra-hokey when restaurants/bars do this.

I get it...you've got 'road-house' in your name or you're a BBQ joint. In reality you're a multi-million dollar business with 100 locations nationwide. Just give me a real glass, dork.

I'm fine with that as long as I get to drink moonshine out of mason jars at home.

 

[Jobber]

SacramentoBob, on 06 May 2013 - 07:39, said:

TxBuckeye, on 06 May 2013 - 06:54, said:

FUBAR, on 06 May 2013 - 06:43, said:FUBAR, on 06 May 2013 - 06:43, said:Soldiers wearing parts of uniforms improperly off post. It's shocking to me how many fat people do this, right outside of Fort Bragg. I'm not sure if they're Soldiers, spouses, former Soldiers, or just think the PT jacket is "cool".

No way they are active duty. They'd get ripped a new one.

I live next to a military base. They wear them all the time, and not "driving home from work". You go to the movies and 10% of them are kids in uniform.

Lived near/on military bases the past 30 years or so and can count on one hand the number of military I have ever seen in a movie theater. Unless you live near a basic training location where they may be required to do so. Or perhaps it isn't AF in your case and other militaries do it differently?

In the Marines (at least in the 1990s) we were told you cannot wear your camoflage uniform off-base. The only exception was if you had to stop for gas on the way home or something. No stopping at a movie, restaurants, malls or anything. I will say that I see Army and maybe Air Force soldiers and airmen in cammies traveling at airports, stores and other places quite often.

 

[TxBuckeye]

In the Marines (at least in the 1990s) we were told you cannot wear your camoflage uniform off-base. The only exception was if you had to stop for gas on the way home or something. No stopping at a movie, restaurants, malls or anything. I will say that I see Army and maybe Air Force soldiers and airmen in cammies traveling at airports, stores and other places quite often.

When I first came in (1985), you could wear your utility/battle uniforms (flight suit, cammies, etc) only to drive home. No stops other than like a drive through. It was new then, and I was even stopped by a Lt Col and asked what I was doing leaving the base in my flight suit. I had to explain to him what they had told us. The rules relaxed over time, especially after Desert Shield/Storm. I think it was basically, the battle uniform had become the "normal" uniform for the military. Now it is even more so. Most military folks spend as much time "over there" as they do here. So the rules have definitely evolved over time.

 

[FUBAR]

In the Marines (at least in the 1990s) we were told you cannot wear your camoflage uniform off-base. The only exception was if you had to stop for gas on the way home or something. No stopping at a movie, restaurants, malls or anything. I will say that I see Army and maybe Air Force soldiers and airmen in cammies traveling at airports, stores and other places quite often.

When I first came in (1985), you could wear your utility/battle uniforms (flight suit, cammies, etc) only to drive home. No stops other than like a drive through. It was new then, and I was even stopped by a Lt Col and asked what I was doing leaving the base in my flight suit. I had to explain to him what they had told us. The rules relaxed over time, especially after Desert Shield/Storm. I think it was basically, the battle uniform had become the "normal" uniform for the military. Now it is even more so. Most military folks spend as much time "over there" as they do here. So the rules have definitely evolved over time.

Times have definitely changed. Now when you go to a boys scout meeting or a school function near a base on a work night, you will see at least a few officers and NCOs in their battle/combat uniform. That doesn't bother me and I've done it rarely.

 

[17seconds]

Drinking out of mason jars.

Wha?

I'm not sure if this is what SacBob was talking about but I think it's ultra-hokey when restaurants/bars do this.

I get it...you've got 'road-house' in your name or you're a BBQ joint. In reality you're a multi-million dollar business with 100 locations nationwide. Just give me a real glass, dork.

And people say I get worked up over stupid ####

 

[Raider Nation]

Using the word NATION after a team name.

I agree with you. With the exception, of course, of the undisputed original sports team NATION.

 

[17seconds]

Nation is bad when it's applied on an ad hoc basis to small entities.

 

[Fennis]

Using the word NATION after a team name.

I agree with you. With the exception, of course, of the undisputed original sports team NATION.

Houston Oilers Nation?

 

[AhrnCityPahnder]

Using the word NATION after a team name.

I agree with you. With the exception, of course, of the undisputed original sports team NATION.

 

[Usual21]

Using the word NATION after a team name.

I agree with you. With the exception, of course, of the undisputed original sports team NATION.

Agreed for use with Raider Nation. The first team I ever heard use it. Was sick to my stomach when Red Sox Nation was being used.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Using the word NATION after a team name.

Except that the only team that really does this is the Raiders...and it's pretty much a joke these days.

 

[mr. furley]

Using the word NATION after a team name.

Except that the only team that really does this is the Raiders...and it's pretty much a joke these days.

go back to Africa?

 

[SacramentoBob]

Selling newspapers on the side of the road.

 

[SacramentoBob]

People who don't know how to navigate a 4-way stop.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Selling newspapers on the side of the road.

Is it 1922?

 

[SacramentoBob]

Selling newspapers on the side of the road.

Is it 1922?

Apparently it is where I live.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

Americans calling British people who have been knighted "Sir"

"Our next guest is Sir Anthony Hopkins"

"Sir Winston Churchill sure was a good leader"

Not seeing the issue here

I see this similar to our referring to or top military officers by their rank, even after they retire. It's deserved.

Referring to military officers by their rank after they retire.

Soldiers wearing their uniform off base.

Don't have a problem with either of these.

Soldiers wear their uniform off base because a dress uniform is a poosy magnet. Hard to begrudge a man trying to get some action after being holed up with a bunch of dudes for months on end.

However, I totally agree about enlisted men wearing their fatigues all the time. This isn't the desert, soldier. Change out of the camo and lighten up.

 

[TxBuckeye]

Crazy Canuck, on 07 May 2013 - 06:43, said:However, I totally agree about enlisted men wearing their fatigues all the time. This isn't the desert, soldier. Change out of the camo and lighten up.

Fatigues are way easier to take care of than blues. If someone says you can wear jeans and a polo to work or a suit, which are you going to wear? The one that's easy to take care of, that you can take out of the dryer and throw on and you're good to go, or the suit that needs to be dry cleaned every time your wear it? Yea, that's what I thought. NO ONE is wearing blues if given the option to wear fatigues.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

Crazy Canuck, on 07 May 2013 - 06:43, said:However, I totally agree about enlisted men wearing their fatigues all the time. This isn't the desert, soldier. Change out of the camo and lighten up.

Fatigues are way easier to take care of than blues. If someone says you can wear jeans and a polo to work or a suit, which are you going to wear? The one that's easy to take care of, that you can take out of the dryer and throw on and you're good to go, or the suit that needs to be dry cleaned every time your wear it? Yea, that's what I thought. NO ONE is wearing blues if given the option to wear fatigues.

I said "all the time," Sergeant Rant, not "to work."

 

[Fennis]

Selling newspapers on the side of the road.

Is it 1922?

Apparently it is where I live.

Do they shout "Extry! Extry! - Read all about it"? And say things like "Gee, thank Mister" if you give them an extra penny?

 

[SacramentoBob]

Selling newspapers on the side of the road.

Is it 1922?

Apparently it is where I live.

Do they shout "Extry! Extry! - Read all about it"? And say things like "Gee, thank Mister" if you give them an extra penny?

Unlikely.

 

[Fennis]

Selling newspapers on the side of the road.

Is it 1922?

Apparently it is where I live.

Do they shout "Extry! Extry! - Read all about it"? And say things like "Gee, thank Mister" if you give them an extra penny?

Unlikely.

good, then we don't need to retire that action/trend

 

[FUBAR]

Selling newspapers on the side of the road.

Good call. All over the place here. EVERY F'in corner. I can't imagine these guys make much of it.

 

[Joe T]

Selling newspapers on the side of the road.

Is it 1922?

Apparently it is where I live.

You should move to Texas.

 

[roadkill1292]

"Did I hurt your feelings" schtick is really stupid schtick.

 

[SacramentoBob]

Selling newspapers on the side of the road.

Is it 1922?

Apparently it is where I live.

You should move to Texas.

I thought you had already lobbied the governor to keep me out.

 

[Kal El]

Roundabouts. There's one near my house right next to some railroad tracks, and if a train goes through, it snarls traffic for the next 20 minutes. Just put in stop signs, or a traffic light. There are two intersections within a half mile along that same stretch of tracks that have lights, and they do fine.

 

[Buckfast 1]

Roundabouts. There's one near my house right next to some railroad tracks, and if a train goes through, it snarls traffic for the next 20 minutes. Just put in stop signs, or a traffic light. There are two intersections within a half mile along that same stretch of tracks that have lights, and they do fine.

I like roundabouts. They are generally faster and more efficient than stopping and waiting at a traffic light. I don't see how having a stop sign or traffic light would do anything to speed up traffic when a train comes through. It seems like if a train is coming it is going to stop traffic regardless of what type of intersection the city puts in. The biggest problem with roundabouts is just the idiots that don't know how to use them.

 

[Kal El]

Roundabouts. There's one near my house right next to some railroad tracks, and if a train goes through, it snarls traffic for the next 20 minutes. Just put in stop signs, or a traffic light. There are two intersections within a half mile along that same stretch of tracks that have lights, and they do fine.

I like roundabouts. They are generally faster and more efficient than stopping and waiting at a traffic light. I don't see how having a stop sign or traffic light would do anything to speed up traffic when a train comes through. It seems like if a train is coming it is going to stop traffic regardless of what type of intersection the city puts in. The biggest problem with roundabouts are just the idiots that don't know how to use them.

It's because people don't know how to use them that i find them annoying. I'd rather deal with people at traffic lights.

 

[Tom Servo]

Roundabouts. There's one near my house right next to some railroad tracks, and if a train goes through, it snarls traffic for the next 20 minutes. Just put in stop signs, or a traffic light. There are two intersections within a half mile along that same stretch of tracks that have lights, and they do fine.

I like roundabouts. They are generally faster and more efficient than stopping and waiting at a traffic light. I don't see how having a stop sign or traffic light would do anything to speed up traffic when a train comes through. It seems like if a train is coming it is going to stop traffic regardless of what type of intersection the city puts in. The biggest problem with roundabouts are just the idiots that don't know how to use them.

It's because people don't know how to use them that i find them annoying. I'd rather deal with people at traffic lights.

It was the latest road design craze when I worked in MD. Hate 'em.

4-way stop >>>>>>>>>>>>>> roundabout

 

[SacramentoBob]

Referring to circles as roundabouts or rotaries.

 

[17seconds]

Using the word NATION after a team name.

Except that the only team that really does this is the Raiders...and it's pretty much a joke these days.

no ...or do you mean in an official capacity?

I believe every single NFL team has a fan contingent who uses NATION