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I'm actually posting from the front row of the Crawford boxes watching a rookie pitcher make his first start.

I love baseball

Tanner's stupid.

 
Homer J Simpson said:
kevzilla said:
Homer J Simpson said:
Captain Quinoa said:
Notorious T.R.E. said:
So you're looking for advice so you can pass that advice off as your own advice?
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That's what I do with all the stories people tell here.
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Yep. Remember that time I threw all those pennies at Best Buy?
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Remember when I moved to Nicaragua?
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That was me, dude. Wtf?
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Sorry, man. I've been pregnant for like five years or something.

 
Giving 2.5 year old a bath tonight and he says "Daddy I tooted." I chuckle as I hear the bubbles. Then he lifts his butt says "Daddy change my diaper" The log was already half way out and I couldn't do anything about it.

PS Did NOT waffle stomp it down the drain.

 
strykerpks said:
Giving 2.5 year old a bath tonight and he says "Daddy I tooted." I chuckle as I hear the bubbles. Then he lifts his butt says "Daddy change my diaper" The log was already half way out and I couldn't do anything about it.

PS Did NOT waffle stomp it down the drain.
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Luckily that hasn't come up with my 2. I'm assuming it will probably happen tomorrow.
 
Homer J Simpson said:
General Malaise said:
Trade school. Good advise. Also have a call set up with MexiJoe to discuss the Coast Guard. MexiJoe does not speak Spanish, right?
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I only know a handful of guys that have been in the Coast Guard but they all absolutely loved it.
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You see this, GB?

NOT LONG AGO I was offered work as a quality-control expert with an American company in China I’d never heard of. No experience necessary—which was good, because I had none. I’d be paid $1,000 for a week, put up in a fancy hotel, and wined and dined in Dongying, an industrial city in Shandong province I’d also never heard of. The only requirements were a fair complexion and a suit.

“I call these things ‘White Guy in a Tie’ events,” a Canadian friend of a friend named Jake told me during the recruitment pitch he gave me in Beijing, where I live. “Basically, you put on a suit, shake some hands, and make some money. We’ll be in ‘quality control,’ but nobody’s gonna be doing any quality control. You in?”

I was.

And so I became a fake businessman in China, an often lucrative gig for underworked expatriates here. One friend, an American who works in film, was paid to represent a Canadian company and give a speech espousing a low-carbon future. Another was flown to Shanghai to act as a seasonal-gifts buyer. Recruiting fake businessmen is one way to create the image—particularly, the image of connection—that Chinese companies crave. My Chinese-language tutor, at first aghast about how much we were getting paid, put it this way: “Having foreigners in nice suits gives the company face.”
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General Malaise said:
Homer J Simpson said:
General Malaise said:
Trade school. Good advise. Also have a call set up with MexiJoe to discuss the Coast Guard. MexiJoe does not speak Spanish, right?
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I only know a handful of guys that have been in the Coast Guard but they all absolutely loved it.
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You see this, GB?

NOT LONG AGO I was offered work as a quality-control expert with an American company in China Id never heard of. No experience necessarywhich was good, because I had none. Id be paid $1,000 for a week, put up in a fancy hotel, and wined and dined in Dongying, an industrial city in Shandong province Id also never heard of. The only requirements were a fair complexion and a suit.

I call these things White Guy in a Tie events, a Canadian friend of a friend named Jake told me during the recruitment pitch he gave me in Beijing, where I live. Basically, you put on a suit, shake some hands, and make some money. Well be in quality control, but nobodys gonna be doing any quality control. You in?

I was.

And so I became a fake businessman in China, an often lucrative gig for underworked expatriates here. One friend, an American who works in film, was paid to represent a Canadian company and give a speech espousing a low-carbon future. Another was flown to Shanghai to act as a seasonal-gifts buyer. Recruiting fake businessmen is one way to create the imageparticularly, the image of connectionthat Chinese companies crave. My Chinese-language tutor, at first aghast about how much we were getting paid, put it this way: Having foreigners in nice suits gives the company face.
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Just saw the recent Vice episode that went over this subject. It had this white goofball who didn't even know how to tie his own tie portraying a doctor at a conference. :lmao:

Maybe I should move to China. :oldunsure:

 
Yesterday was anniversary numero dos to Wife 2.0. Also took delivery of a new (to us) car.

Would have been a pretty nice day if not for some drama with the two older kids. I am so sick of their BS.

 
Sammy3469 said:
General Malaise said:
Frostillicus said:
East St. Louis not making it is a bit of an upset.
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Gary, Indiana and Alexandria, Louisiana also conspicuous in their absence.
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I had to laugh that Lakeland FL made the list. I always thought of that as the retirement capital of the US of A.
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Well, the list was based on survey respondents opinions on their own safety. And some old people certainly are prone to be fearful when it isn't really warranted. Winter Haven also has a farily high violent crime rate.

 
Sammy3469 said:
General Malaise said:
Frostillicus said:
East St. Louis not making it is a bit of an upset.
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Gary, Indiana and Alexandria, Louisiana also conspicuous in their absence.
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I had to laugh that Lakeland FL made the list. I always thought of that as the retirement capital of the US of A.
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I chuckled a bit at that as well, but that'd be the demographic that would be the first to say they feel unsafe because "I don't like the look of that group of brown teenagers!!" :)

My in-laws live about 30 minutes outside of Lakeland. It's little other than retirees, orange groves, and phosphate mines. Maybe all the migrants workers get rambunctious on the weekends?

 
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For Tanner

Saturday night I was out on the patio having a drink and my dog somehow flushed out a fox, chased him into the front yard, around the house, and right back to me. Needless to say I was a bit freaked the #### out when all of a sudden, in my very buzzed state, a large mammal that is designed to kill, ran right to me. He was a little unnerved too that my fast dog, generally a coward but loves to hunt, was on his ###. I ran in the house and went back out a few minutes later to retrieve my drink and the fox was gone. The dog was all proud of himself though and wanted a treat for his fine work.

Last night around sunset I was drinking a beer and the dog spies a rabbit on the other side of the yard. He begins to stalk it like a cat and I'm loling to myself because he doesn't have the speed off the mark to catch the thing. He makes is within 5 feet of the rabbit and it takes off running into the woods. That's when I notice Climby, the feral cat that hangs around, in the neighbors yard. Apparently he was stalking this same rabbit and was angry at my stupid dog for chasing off his dinner. My dog sees Climby and sticks his nose through the fence to sniff him. So Climby, being the bad mother####er he is, bolts across the yard right at my dog, getting right in his face. I'm guessing he must have said something to my dog because he went from wagging his tail to bowing his head in shame and walking away.

 
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