^this is funny.

 

One time I was leaving a Walgreen's late at night and the security guard looked down at the bag I was carrying (from another store). Annoyed, I turned to him and said, "Did I steal something?" I then asked if he would like to check my pockets, then mockingly kowtowed to him. He looked as if he could have killed me on the spot. If stores are going to hire security guards, at least get people who are professionally trained!

Current Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow, said this, regarding Kid Rock's confirmed run for Senate:

 

"I know we both share a love of music. I concede he's better at playing guitar and I'll keep doing what I do best: fighting for Michigan."

 

Kid Rock replied:

 

"Senator Stabenow and I do share a love of music, although probably not the same kind," Rock replied. "I concede she is better at playing politics than I am so I'll keep doing what I do best, which is being a voice for tax paying, hardworking AMERICANS and letting politicians like her know that We the People are sick and tired of their bullsh!t!"

My company has a warehouse full of stuff nobody wants, so we don't have a significant employee theft problem, but every once in awhile something comes through with a brand name stamped on it and those items have an amazing way of disappearing.  We had about four times last year when for some reason we brought in skids of Clorox Bleach and Tide and each time a bunch of it went missing.  I have to assume that the guys turned around and sold it at Trader's World or somewhere like that. 

 

A few years ago we had a guy get fired for stealing toilet paper. They were storing all of the toilet paper for the building in the warehouse and someone caught him stuffing it in the back of his car. 

Kid Rock has a 9th grade education. Isn't there at least a GED requirement to hold public office?

My company has a warehouse full of stuff nobody wants, so we don't have a significant employee theft problem, but every once in awhile something comes through with a brand name stamped on it and those items have an amazing way of disappearing.  We had about four times last year when for some reason we brought in skids of Clorox Bleach and Tide and each time a bunch of it went missing.  I have to assume that the guys turned around and sold it at Trader's World or somewhere like that. 

 

A few years ago we had a guy get fired for stealing toilet paper. They were storing all of the toilet paper for the building in the warehouse and someone caught him stuffing it in the back of his car. 

 

What is it with guys refusing to buy toilet paper? Every male room mate I've ever had, absolutely refuses to buy it. My brothers were the same way when I lived with them. It's like a dollar per roll! Whenever the TP I buy runs out in the bathroom and it's my room mate's turn to buy toilet paper, those giant commercial rolls of toilet paper appear in the bathroom. They just steal it from wherever they work.  It's not an equal contribution when I buy expensive Charmin TP for everyone to use. I call the industrial/commercial stuff "John Wayne toilet paper." It takes sh!t from nobody. It's also like wiping your ss[/member] with sandpaper.

My company has a warehouse full of stuff nobody wants, so we don't have a significant employee theft problem, but every once in awhile something comes through with a brand name stamped on it and those items have an amazing way of disappearing.  We had about four times last year when for some reason we brought in skids of Clorox Bleach and Tide and each time a bunch of it went missing.  I have to assume that the guys turned around and sold it at Trader's World or somewhere like that. 

 

A few years ago we had a guy get fired for stealing toilet paper. They were storing all of the toilet paper for the building in the warehouse and someone caught him stuffing it in the back of his car. 

 

When I was at Thomas & Betts, Reznor Heaters was a sister plant of sorts because of geography.  This was the height of NIN's popularity and they had a lot of nameplates vanish.

 

Where I am now we had a machine operator get busted for stealing brass scrap parts and bar ends.

Wasn't Reznor Heaters owned by Trent's grandfather?

Wasn't Reznor Heaters owned by Trent's grandfather?

 

Yep.  ITT bought them in 1963.

Gatorade flavors don't make any d@mn sense. They all have names like "Arctic Glacier Frost" or something like that. You go and try them and they literally taste like nothing that can be found in the natural world. My favorite Gatorade flavor is Blue Cherry and there's no such thing as a Blue Cherry!

The full panorama of Gatorade flavors in a gas station cooler really is a sight to behold. 

 

That Indian guy who run's Joey's Mart on McMillan St. color-codes everything.  So the orange Gatorade is stocked beside the orange juice.  The yellow is next to the grapefruit juice. 

I refuse to consume blue things.

It was fun skimming through this. Also interesting to see Gary IN and Dubai UAE gunning for title of worst place ever.

 

Travelers of Reddit, where do you NEVER want to go again?

^As you should. It is unnatural - that is, it is the rarest color in nature: animals, plants (except for those genetically modified), etc

I'm curious as to whether anyone on UO has an opinion on the much publicized and hyped, upcoming (very soon) Floyd Mayweather/Conor McGregor fight. There probably isn't a whole lot of MMA or Boxing fans on this site but maybe there's a few people on here who follow it to some degree, so I figured I'd bring it up.

 

Personally, I was surprised that during promos for the event, Mayweather did an extremely horrible job of trash-talking Conor McGregor. McGregor definitely came out ahead and Mayweather suddenly appeared extremely meek, which isn't like him at all but that was the case when confronted with McGregor at these recent promos. It really shouldn't be that hard to trash-talk McGregor - unlike McGregor, Mayweather is completely UNDEFEATED throughout his entire, decades-long career! Conor McGregor has been defeated at least 3 times that I'm aware of, and he is only 29.  McGregor, through his trash-talking, managed to bring Mayweather out of retirement when Mayweather was clearly set for life and had a great legacy, yet Mayweather couldn't manage in any instance to one-up him during the trash-talk/promo phase? Wtf is going on?  Personally, I don't think McGregor stands that great of a chance against Mayweather in the ring, especially since McGregor agreed that it would strictly be boxing and not MMA which would have otherwise allowed him to utilize signature techniques he is accustomed to using.  Some people think that this whole event is rigged and all about money and it seems that almost everyone is just tuning in to see the spectacle and not caring either way, what happens.

 

I just think it's interesting, Floyd Mayweather pointed out (in regard to Conor McGregor and his very long stint wherein he would call Mayweather out and was determined to set up a match between him and Mayweather) that racism still exists within boxing. Mayweather pointed out that he's always considered 'cocky' and 'arrogant' for his trash-talking while white fighters are actually praised for the same kind of talk. Honeslty, that seems real to me. It's certainly pertainent in the Mayteather/McGregor fight.

 

I do think it's worthy of mentioning the racial component of this fight.  One of the first things that I thought of, when I found out about this, is, 'Is Conor McGregor supposed to be the Great White Hope?" You know,  perhaps that was the motivation for this fight and nothing has changed, even though Eastern Europeans have been dominating boxing recently and it really doesn't matter.. I looked further into it though, did extensive google searches and even White Nationalists, Neo-Nazis and what-have-you on the Stormfront message board seem to absolutely despise Conor McGregor; they dismiss him as an annoying, show-boat Irish Wigger.That was really fascinating to me.

 

Regardless, this is an unprecedented event in professional sports and after seeing promos for the event, I have to admit that it's extremely entertaining and that I look forward to watching the match, regardless of who ultimately wins.

Mayweather is going to kill McGregor in under two minutes, and the promos have been laughably forced and fake. If McGregor were focusing on Mayweather's habit of beating the s-hit out of women, then we might have something interesting -- but the racial stuff is half-assed, lame, and you can tell Mayweather, really anyone, is not particularly bothered by it.

 

^^I agree.  Any time you've had one of these "I'm gonna cross-over to your sport" kind of moves, the new guy gets crushed.  I think Maywhether will tire Connor out pretty quickly, then rail him. Either way it's a good payday for both.

I came across this gem of a line graph in a Cincinnati Enquirer article. I've been a big fan of stupid graphs - be them misleading, pointless, etc. - since I first picked up an Edward Tufte book as a freshmen in college. That said, I think it has to be one of the most useless graphs I've ever happened upon by accident:

 

Nice Y-Axis.

 

That is a terrible graph for sure.

It's probably a good extrapolation of the Trump approval rating....

The Enquirer struggles with 3-D space, cardinal directions, the sequence of past events, and differentiating heroes from villains. 

I came across this gem of a line graph in a Cincinnati Enquirer article. I've been a big fan of stupid graphs - be them misleading, pointless, etc. - since I first picked up an Edward Tufte book as a freshmen in college. That said, I think it has to be one of the most useless graphs I've ever happened upon by accident:

 

 

 

 

i had the opportunity to meet tufte and talk with him on a few occasions, very nice man. he is also a very wealthy fellow, so a few years back he opened a sort of vanity art gallery of his art works in chelsea, which lasted for about 5yrs. he would give talks to the public there about his artwork and graphing work. it was pretty cool.

 

i see he still gives lectures around the country -- you might try to catch one if you can:

 

https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/

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Using the ISO certification without actually having it is a no-no. That vendor could be in some legal trouble.

 

I did a bit of research about the glasses I bought a few months ago. Here's a list of reputable vendors and manufacturers:

 

https://eclipse.aas.org/resources/solar-filters

 

I have 5 pairs of shades from Rainbow Symphony, and they do appear to have the proper ISO certification. Are you watching the eclipse in town? I'm thinking about taking part of the day off and grilling out on my deck. I've thought about making the ~3 hour drive to spend a few hours somewhere watching, and then driving back, but that seems like a long day.

^No I am driving to Tennessee.  My brother's wife's family land is in the "path of totality".  We're camping out on Sunday night. 

my childhood barber died :-(. (I wish I now had enough hair to go to a barber on a more regular basis--lol) What struck me was that his mother's name was Melania :|

 

THEODORE FRANZ FIX

1934 - 2017

 

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/news-herald/obituary.aspx?n=theodore-franz-fix&pid=186308196

 

 

Does it bug anyone else when someone is flossing in the bathroom.  I find it revolting and annoying.

I've seen people clipping their nails on the subway

^^^looks like a solid barber.  Last year I had a falling out with the barber I had been going to since about 2003 and won't be back.  He wasn't bad but his more conspicuously Italian (fat but thought he was muscular, the stupid slicked-back hair, the gold chains, etc.) son was taking over and he was a real turd.  I have gone to at least 4 different obnoxious Italian barbers and can't handle it anymore.  I don't want to talk about horse racing, the strip club they used to work at in Las Vegas, etc. 

^^ Toes or fingers?

^As I recall it was just fingernails, but it may have been both. It's just so unbelievably disgusting I guess I'm trying to block it from my mind.

 

^^I had an Italian barber who died or at least think he did. He had a heart condition and one day when I went to his shop--a one man operation--it was vacant. I inquired at the shoe repair shop next door and the proprietor, an Asian man who spoke virtually no English, just said he had left. Now I'm going to one who is from either Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan, I can never remember which, and at this point it's embarrassing to ask him again. All I know is he speaks Russian and hates Putin but I suspect he supported Trump, like a lot of Russians in New York.

^I had an uber passenger from Uzbekistan who was really pissed when I was unable to pinpoint it on a mental map.  I said I was pretty sure it was northeast of the Caspian Sea.  It's actually due east.  My bad, bro.  The guy was seriously pissed, though. 

Using the ISO certification without actually having it is a no-no. That vendor could be in some legal trouble.

 

Understatement, if anything.

^I had an uber passenger from Uzbekistan who was really pissed when I was unable to pinpoint it on a mental map.  I said I was pretty sure it was northeast of the Caspian Sea.  It's actually due east.  My bad, bro.  The guy was seriously pissed, though. 

 

 

and after all those uzbek threads i put up...tch tch!

 

I've seen people clipping their nails on the subway

 

that doesnt bother me a bit, but it drives my spouse berzerk!

I've seen people clipping their nails on the subway

 

that doesnt bother me a bit, but it drives my spouse berzerk!

it's absolutely disgusting! It's as bad, worse actually, than someone eating an orange and throwing the peels on the floor. One time I was on a bus and the man next to me was eating fried chicken out of a grease-soaked paper bag--no container, no napkins, nothing--and throwing the bones on the floor :-P

^I had an uber passenger from Uzbekistan who was really pissed when I was unable to pinpoint it on a mental map.  I said I was pretty sure it was northeast of the Caspian Sea.  It's actually due east.  My bad, bro.  The guy was seriously pissed, though. 

 

 

and after all those uzbek threads i put up...tch tch!

 

 

I was basically correct.  I have to think that he thought I was saying between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea, which would be Armenia, Azerbaijan(sp?), Georgia (I'm going by memory).  I remember your posts but I think those were after this ride. 

 

I've seen people clipping their nails on the subway

 

that doesnt bother me a bit, but it drives my spouse berzerk!

it's absolutely disgusting! It's as bad, worse actually, than someone eating an orange and throwing the peels on the floor. One time I was on a bus and the man next to me was eating fried chicken out of a grease-soaked paper bag--no container, no napkins, nothing--and throwing the bones on the floor :-P

 

I lived, for a couple years, catty cornered from a fried chicken place in Cincinnati (Tina's on Walnut and Liberty). There was a 500 foot radius around the place, in all directions, that was constantly littered with chicken bones. It was always strange to see birds picking at them. Once, I found a $20 bill lodged under one of the chicken bones, which had become wedged up against a bump in the sidewalk. I was on my way to jury duty, at the time, so I found more money laying in the street than the amount of pay I earned - which was $19/day in Hamilton County if I'm remembering correctly.

It's really annoying when you're walking a dog and there's chicken wings all over the ground, everywhere. I see them at bus stops all the time when I'm walking, when there isn't even a chicken wing place nearby.

D#amnit. The eclipse happened today? I forgot about it and didn't even notice it. I'm pretty sure I was by a window at the time and don't even recall it getting dark. I probably went to the bathroom or something petty like that. For those who witnessed it, what was it like?

 

Personally, I'm a little paranoid that it will cause a bunch of earthquakes in the next couple days, triggering the super-volcano in Yellowstone National Park to erupt, wiping out at least half of the United States with volcanic ash and causing a global stock market crash. I hope I'm wrong but I do expect a total eclipse across the continent to cause a sudden, significant decrease in temperature.

Really? That is so f-ing lame. I didn't miss anything! I don't get it; if the moon is blocking 80% of the sun in Cleveland as those maps suggested, why didn't it at least get particularly dark for a couple minutes? That was a scam to get people to buy those glasses.

 

You really don't get anything out of it unless you're directly in the path of totality? That's so lame. The media really did a bang up job of acting like this would apply to all of us in N. America and something that everyone must behold... except that it isn't and I'm sure a lot of folks wasted a lot of time, energy and money on this b.s. Thanks for that, mainstream media.

 

^I...I don't think you understand how eclipses work lol.

Care to expound on the subject? Apparently I don't. Even if cloudy (which it was today) I expected it to at least get significantly dark. Yeah, I'm not an astronomy expert but when I'm told we'll get an 80% eclipse, I expect 80% of the sun to disappear at some point, causing a few minutes of the daytime to be 80% darker... I'm not sure what I'm missing but I'm curious to know. I can't be the only one in Cleveland disappointed by this eclipse.

Put it this way. I heard an expert talking this AM, he made the point that in Cincy the eclipse was going to be about 90%. With just 10% of the sun showing it still is 100,000 times more light and energy reaching that spot on the earth than the part that is under totality. That being said, I thought it was noticeably darker, yet not dark.

Cincinnati is pretty far south from Cleveland, much closer and relevant to the path of totality, where the eclipse is concerned.  We didn't get sh!t in Cleveland. That was bullsh!t. Those maps could have easily indicated that the eclipse wouldn't apply to various (most) parts of the U.S but instead it stated that Cleveland was within 80%. They acted like it was this grand, once in a lifetime phenomena that everyone  in the U.S. owes it to themselves, to behold. That wasn't the case.

I'm sorry, but it's absolutely hilarious how irritated you are by this. Go look up the actual definition of the word 'eclipse', then have a lie down for a while. If you can wait until April 2024, Cleveland will have a total eclipse then.  Hopefully that one will be up to your satisfaction!

I viewed the eclipse in LA which was pretty far off the path of totality, too, and I was also kind of underwhelmed. It was cool to see the portion of the moon in front of the sun while looking through the glasses, but I thought it would get darker here as well. It was a little cloudy and a little smoggy which probably dampened some of the effects of the eclipse, but I thought it would get noticeably darker out, and it really didn't. Maybe a little, but not nearly as much as I thought. The media certainly hyped this event up way more than was needed, I think. A couple of minutes of darkness in the middle of the day is pretty neat. Seeing a sliver of the moon in front of the sun while looking though some glasses? Decidedly less cool.

 

David, can't tell if you were being serious about the cooling effect of the eclipse causing Yellowstone to erupt. That's ludicrous. By that logic, a cloudy day would have the same effect, no? What is the correlation between ground surface temperature, which would be affected by sunlight, and volcanic activity? Am I missing something here?

If you can wait until April 2024, Cleveland will have a total eclipse then.  Hopefully that one will be up to your satisfaction!

 

Sweet. I won't have to go anywhere  :laugh:

 

David, can't tell if you were being serious about the cooling effect of the eclipse causing Yellowstone to erupt. That's ludicrous. By that logic, a cloudy day would have the same effect, no? What is the correlation between ground surface temperature, which would be affected by sunlight, and volcanic activity? Am I missing something here?

 

I was watching Youtube videos on conspiracy theories concerning the eclipse that they claimed were backed up by science so I'm pretty sure it wasn't 'ludicrous,' sir.  You're fake news.

 

Seriously though, that super-volcano is due to erupt and when it does, most of the U.S. is absolutely f-ed.  Ohio is probably a Doomsday Prepper's wet dream. We manage to stay out of the way of almost every major threat, minus tornados, which really aren't that big of a threat.

 

I have heard multiple times that earthquakes occur shortly before or after a total eclipse. Yellowstone has recently been experiencing a hell of a lot of earthquake activity lately anyway and earthquakes do trigger volcanic eruption. One just occurred, right before the eclipse: http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/844037/eclipse-solar-eclipse-earthquake-Yellowstone-volcano There have been thousands, recently.

 

When the super-volcano in Yellowstone erupts, it is projected that it will be 1000x more powerful than Mt. St. Helens. We're talking 10 inches of volcanic ash and nuclear winter for MOST of the United States.  That is in addition to lava instantly destroying everything in the western-mid United States. Not only will tens of millons of people die but crops will as well. It will effect the entire world. It may happen tomorrow or thousands of years from now but one thing is certain; it will happen and there will be devastation like we've never seen.

Don't worry the world ended in 2012, we are living in an alternative universe.

Definitely a dystopian alternate universe. Time to hop back in the DeLorean and go back.