Lostin76

6 hours ago, Indykev said:

DO NOT OPEN ANY OF THOSE. It's very rare! I found a graded 9 selling for $499.99. If yours are sealed they could grade a 10 and be worth $800 to a $1000 each, or more. Don't send in all 10 at once it would drive the price down. So you know my fee is small.....

after a little more digging...only 200 of them were made. Not many could be left. If you could track down the authors from the company and get 3 or 4 signed, it would triple the value.

Love this! You never know with comic books. 

32 minutes ago, DWB said:

If you don't have screaming kids with you, I would insist on sitting next to your booth/table. I do it all the time because parents don't teach their kids manners anymore....much less discipline them 

I’m probably okay with you sitting by me if you don’t have screaming kids. I’m not real good at entertaining people’s kids in restaurants these days. Here in Brooklyn, it’s important to note that EVERY kid is the MOST important kid who has ever existed. It’s the public’s job to acknowledge just how special the kid (and the parents!) are. It’s Brooklyn, after all! 

My wife still tells people about the time when we were dining outdoors and a five year old kept coming up to our table demanding us to comment on his toys. I started with “Not now kid,” then went to “Looks great, but not now,” to “GO AWAY kid.”

The father finally got involved when I told his kid to go away. He told me how horrible I was to children and that he hoped my own kids experienced the same. I told him it wasn’t my job to entertain his kid or for that matter his wife. That shut things down pretty quickly. 

22 minutes ago, Drroogh said:

Kind of like the guy that chooses the urinal right next to you?

Ae long as they don’t talk. But they always talk…

10 minutes ago, Drroogh said:

When you go out of your way to park away from people and then someone seemingly goes out of their way to park right next to you?!?!

In restaurants too. There’s a whole empty place and you want to sit next to us?

1 hour ago, 5fouls said:

Quite honestly, the community will never be the same. This happened right by the minor league baseball park, a place that is supposed to  represent a safe haven for families.

On a personal level, my daughter who is in high school, has been texting me all day, asking me to come home early.

As it turned out, 20 minutes after they lifted the lockdown for the bank shooting, there was another shooting even closer to where I work that left one dead and another injured.  That shooter is still on the loose.  We went right back on lockdown.

6 dead, 9-10 injured on the day after Easter.  And, I still dont know if any former coworkers of mine are among the victims 

Jeez, glad you guys are okay and it’s very sad that your kids have to feel this so close to them. 

Horrible news. These families lives will never be the same. 

49 minutes ago, mrflynn03 said:

When I'm 2 years away from retirement I'm going to think of all the money I spent on cds and how I could already be retired if I invested that money.  

And thank Napster for the extra 2 years I will have. 

I also went hard into the CD world but got out pretty quickly, when I realized they weren’t that good. Boggles the mind that people are still clinging to them int today’s world with hi-res downloads and vinyl. 

For @rico and me. I can’t even imagine taking one 500mg edible. That’s going to be a very rough night. 

20 minutes ago, Reacher said:

I don't drink Bud products so I don't have a horse in this race. Not sure why this has you triggered. Liberals and conservatives have both been boycotting companies they don't feel align with their interests. Heck, CA even boycotted other states. I recall boycotts of Target (by the right), Chik Fil A and MyPillow (by the left) in years past. Nothing new here. 

Not triggered, just think its funny that they are making all the videos or them throwing away stuff they’ve already bought. And wait until they find out that Coors Light also supports people they are afraid of.
 

I recall the Target stuff and ChickFilA - also silly. My Pillow is a little different. The dude is a wackadoodle traitor, with a niche product of questionable quality. 

Idiots now boycotting Bud Light. Cracking up over all of these videos of people emptying their fridges - throwing away product they have already purchased like Budweiser cares.

Eventually all of these people will wake up on the wrong side of history and realize, “Oh, wait I’m the a#*hole?” 

4 hours ago, Seeking6 said:

Any of you have experience with seedlings bolting? I have had them under a lid and on a heat mat but literally out of nowhere 6 of tomato and pepper plants grew about a half inch to full inch over night.

I read something just now that says you brush the top of the plant which simulates a stiff breeze and tricks the seed into growing a thicker stalk?? Wtf is all that about? Haha...gardening man. 

You can also use a small fan. Yeah, seedlings are very delicate business.

I tend to just sow the seeds outside and hope for the best. It’s not in the guide books, but we get enough day time sun to just let things go crazy. 

The missus and I figured that if we were going to see Elton John on his Farewell Tour then it should be in London. So, we flew over for a long weekend this weekend.

INCREDIBLE show and performer. He hit all of the highlights - and the dude has a lot of them! You could tell he was pretty emotional on some of the songs. Their was a career retrospective montage during “I’m Still Standing” and it was like, “Damn, this dude has been on everything.”

Who else has been on Sesame Street, The Muppets, Soul Train, The Simpsons, Sonny and Cher, etc, etc. 

I’m not sure there is a more important musical, pop culture icon still with us that spans that many decades and touched so many different genres. Definitely a concert highlight for me. 

“The call is coming from inside the house.” - reference for the olds on here. 

https://ktla.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/nationworld/california-police-union-director-charged-with-importing-fentanyl-other-opioids/

Looks like Geronimo is in the portal. Not surprised. 

https://www.insidethehall.com/2023/03/29/indiana-forward-jordan-geronimo-to-enter-the-transfer-portal/

Love that IU is/has been a dream school for him. Need more kids like that. 

Was really hoping that Sparks committed soon!

18 minutes ago, NotIThatLives said:

OK, so who gets to own a gun?  Just the police or government?  

Isn't it Switzerland that every household has a rifle?  Why no radical consistent gun violence?

It’s above my pay grade. But if it was up to me, we would restrict some sales and make those sales more difficult. We can’t just give them away like candy. And people who have been convicted of violent crimes, lose the privilege of owning a gun. 

And this will make me even more unpopular here, but I’m not convinced the police need to be as armed as they are. They are killing a good portion of our populace with their quick triggers, immature emotions, and inferiority complexes. They don’t need to be armed like soldiers to play Candy Crush and sit in front of the donut shop. 

But it really doesn’t matter what I think, b/c nothing will change. 

And if Switerzerland has one rifle per household, that’s still a LOT less per person than the one and only outlier on the chart I posted. If I didn’t live in a place where I don’t need a gun, like if I lived upstate in the boonies, I would own a rifle or a shotgun. I’m not necessarily anti-gun, but we need some freaking guardrails here. We are going pear shaped very quickly on this. 

3 hours ago, HoosierFaithful said:

Sure seems like we trust teachers to play armed guard but we don’t trust them to do much else. 

Evergreen quote here. I also thought we couldn’t trust teachers to decide what kids read and learn. 

But sure, let’s arm then and trust them with a gun. 

I love how again we are focused on mental health and social media. Like other countries also don’t have those same challenges. That MUST be the problem. Can’t be the number of guns we have in this country. Let’s continue to wring our hands and wonder we are such a failure at this. 

It’s pretty much the exact same chart for auto deaths. Again, the US is a massive, embarrassing outlier. Pretty much anything that can’t be solved with common sense and compassion for others, we fail. 

3 minutes ago, IUFLA said:

Uh... @NotIThatLives saw it, and lived it... I think that's about as "real" as it gets...

I'm sure in many inner city schools cops or SROs ARE hated... People who're involved in wrongdoing don't want anyone that's going to call them on it around...

God forbid a kid bringing weapons or drugs to school have to experience the consequences of their actions

 

So inner city school kids are automatically “involved in wrongdoing.” Oof, that’s not good. 

I’ve worked with so many amazing kids stuck in the “inner city schools” as a volunteer photographer at an art non-profit.  Really good and talented kids, not bangers or thugs. Good, curious, fearless kids that make me hopeful for our future.

1 minute ago, NotIThatLives said:

I work with impd guys now on about a daily basis and there's a ton of good dudes and women.  Was just having a great conversation with one two days ago and he was talking about how their job is to de-escalate situations not to put people in jail.

Even dealing with state cops, they have changed.  A lot more good out there than bad.  NYPD has you skewed. 

My friend, I think you are right. Living here with these cops has made me so jaded.

I apologize for letting that bleed so heavily into my comments on <checks notes> a basketball forum.

I get that it’s offputting, but it is also difficult to live somewhere with such an antagonistic relationship between the cops and the public. AND that relationship is very close, like bumping up against each other close 24/7 on the sidewalks, in the subway. 

1 minute ago, HoosierFaithful said:

The research is pretty clear that more cops in schools don’t really make them safer in any meaningful way and they also increase the school to prison pipeline. 
 

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1163923.pdf

Despite these significant shortcomings, I am not sure I have a better solution. If this is the solution implemented, folks need to give serious consideration to the side effects. Notably - these SRO’s should not be handling disciplinary issues. 

Don’t even get me started on cops in a schools in a big city. City kids freaking HATE cops. And with good reason. The quality of cops in our country is also a problem. Police forces tend to attract the “thin blue line” or Punisher decal types, which is not helpful. Tiny men with huge ego problems. 

I still think about the cops in my hometown growing up as the exception. The chief was a big, booming voiced black dude that everyone loved. He kept a tight rein on his cops and we did not fear them. We knew they were firm, but fair. They didn’t harass us or abuse us b/c of their own mental shortcomings. 

We need cops like that in schools. I know they exist, but I also know they are the exception. 

Just now, rico said:

So we haven't got the school problem figured out yet and you are already looking ahead to the local Walmarts?  I see.

Sure it’s only a problem in schools. It’s a problem everywhere here. And we don’t care enough to face it. The whole thing is a farce. 

3 minutes ago, rico said:

We are talking about schools here.

Until the next massacre in a church or a Wal Mart. 

6 minutes ago, NotIThatLives said:

Disarming everyday citizens is not an option.  Make them a hell of a lot harder, make longer waiting periods. Any common sense solution and deterent.  

No, it’s not an option to disarm everyday citizens. And I’m not arguing that. But JFC some kind of deterrent and speed bump to unlimited killing would be nice. 

Just make an attempt other than thoughts and prayer. Those clearly don’t work. 

4 minutes ago, IUFLA said:

Absolutely not... But it certainly doesn't lie at the feet of law enforcement. Her doctor knew she was suicidal, as did her parents and they knew about the guns and were concerned about them. The background check has to extend to medical records, and we need a reporting mechanism so it throws a red flag...

Come on... If you want a productive conversation that's a shit thing to post.

You're better than that... 

No, I’m not better than that. That’s where I am. Though I didn’t mean it personally towards you and I hope you know that. I would never lump you in with that. 

We actually push those types of things in our Epic medical records. Alerts and red flags are shockingly easy to do inth e medical records. But the NRA and our current crop of worthless politicians won’t let that happen. 

I mean it in general in our society. We have clearly made that choice. Own it then. Just admit that guns are more important than kids or other innocent people.