Just Jack Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 25 minutes ago, Another Fan said: I didn’t actually “know” these two but were mostly all Bills fans here I'll see your Ryans boys and raise you BJH... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Fan Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 3 minutes ago, Just Jack said: I'll see your Ryans boys and raise you BJH... I’ll see BJH and come back with football to the head Tyler Thigpen https://www.kansascity.com/sports/nfl/article4143791.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SinceThe70s Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 Maybe this was ignorant more than stupid, but in high school I over heard a conversation regarding mercy killing. The comment that caught my attention went something like this: Mercy killing? That's killing without mercy and I can't get behind that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 21 hours ago, Royale with Cheese said: We kicked him out the very next month because he couldn't pay rent again. I was about 25-26 at the time, he was about 10 years older. And today, the world knows him as Jm J. Bullock? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LB3 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 (edited) Two brothers rode on my bus in middle school. One was in my grade, the other in the grade below. Whenever they got in fights with other kids, they would both immediately start calling the other kid's mom a whore. When they would fight with each other, they would call each other's mom a whore. Same mother. After this happened a few times, I asked if they knew they were insulting their own mother. I still can't forget the look of confusion on their faces. Edited August 10, 2018 by LBSeeBallLBGetBall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fadingpain Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 22 hours ago, sherpa said: I'll tell two, both from my days in the Navy. We were going on our first cruise on Kitty Hawk. Supposed to be a six month Pacific deployment-turned out to be nine, but that's another story. One of the other bachelor junior officers in our squadron had a Porsche 911. He figured he'd store in during the cruise, so he removed the insurance two weeks prior to deployment. You guessed it-his girlfriend was driving it two days before we left and burned in to the ground. I was in the Pacific Fleet Adversary Squadron. We had 12 airplanes, but only two were two seaters. Occasionally, some guy from another single seat squadron would need to fly in a two-seater, maybe off for a while with some medical issue or something. Anyway, they'd put him in the back seat of one of our airplanes and go out to the warning area east of the Sierras and fly around on instruments for an hour and a half or so. Incredibly boring if you're in the front seat, so the junior guy always got it. No reason to ever be below 15,000'. Anyway, one Friday afternoon our new guy was assigned to do this and off he goes. Nobody is flying over the weekend, but Sunday night when the full maintenance Dept. comes in to prepare the airplanes for the upcoming week, one of their guys notices the top 4 inches of the vertical stabilizer, (what most guys would call the tale), is gone from that airplane. As bad luck would have it, about 40 homes in an area in our warning area had called in to their power company that they had lost power Friday afternoon. Power guys find a down cable and a four inch piece of aluminum a couple hundred feet away that nobody could identify. He had flown under it and cut it. Fight as hard as our CO could, the guy lost his wings over that. So you were a pilot stationed aboard USS Kittyhawk for a while? When was this? I'm trying to guess the plane with the cut-off vert. stab. I'm going to say it was an A-4, especially if you guys were in the adversary squadron. Please tell us, oh, 10,000 more stories! Not about idiots per se, but life on a carrier. I'm sure you have millions of great stories. This is absolutely a true story. When I was in high school in the '80s a group of kids from our school went on a 10 day trip to Italy. There were a number of teachers, adults, and chaperones traveling with us, including a pair of older sisters who were like the aunts of one of the students on the trip. I'll say they were around aged 60 at the time. So during our time in Italy, they were exposed to lots of pop Italian music on the radio, and they decided they really liked it. They both purchased normal transistor type radios (in Italy) so that once they got back to the USA, they would be able to continue to tune into those great Italian radio stations and continue to enjoy the Italian music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 13 minutes ago, Fadingpain said: This is absolutely a true story. When I was in high school in the '80s a group of kids from our school went on a 10 day trip to Italy. There were a number of teachers, adults, and chaperones traveling with us, including a pair of older sisters who were like the aunts of one of the students on the trip. I'll say they were around aged 60 at the time. So during our time in Italy, they were exposed to lots of pop Italian music on the radio, and they decided they really liked it. They both purchased normal transistor type radios (in Italy) so that once they got back to the USA, they would be able to continue to tune into those great Italian radio stations and continue to enjoy the Italian music. LoL... They were 30 years ahead of their time, they just forgot to buy the app and have internet connection. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherpa Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 1 hour ago, Fadingpain said: So you were a pilot stationed aboard USS Kittyhawk for a while? When was this? I'm trying to guess the plane with the cut-off vert. stab. I'm going to say it was an A-4, especially if you guys were in the adversary squadron. Ya. Two cruises on Kitty Hawk in the A7E. It was a TA4, as you suggest. We had A4's, a few TA4's and F-5's at the time with the Adversaries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fadingpain Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 5 minutes ago, sherpa said: Ya. Two cruises on Kitty Hawk in the A7E. It was a TA4, as you suggest. We had A4's, a few TA4's and F-5's at the time with the Adversaries. Fantastic! What's it like landing on a carrier deck at night in choppy water? The thing has like a 30 foot up/down discrepancy depending on where you are in the wave cycle, doesn't it!? I don't know how you guys do that. Did you like flying that corsair? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherpa Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 7 minutes ago, Fadingpain said: Fantastic! What's it like landing on a carrier deck at night in choppy water? The thing has like a 30 foot up/down discrepancy depending on where you are in the wave cycle, doesn't it!? I don't know how you guys do that. Did you like flying that corsair? I don't want to hijack the thread. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RochesterRob Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 (edited) Do we have to limit to just one story? The dumbest that I have personal knowledge of is some guy climbing onto a tower of a high voltage line on a dare. Yeah, I know any fool can climb the better part of ten feet and not get hurt but this guy was probably no more than 5 feet away from 350,000 volts at probably nearly 25 feet up vertically. Not some dumb teen moment and the guy was not a utility company worker. Pretty dumb cashier at the local Wegman's for many years who often did the express lane. Gave me a hard time once over 12 total items in a 15 items or less lane. Then there were the times a front end manager would send people down who had maybe 20-24 items as the regular lines were slammed and this woman would have fits. I told her once to talk to her boss about it. She obviously was connected to a VIP in the community to keep her job. I heard of one time somebody looking to steal gas took kerosene from somebody's garage and put it into the fuel tank of their automobile. Did not work and took that auto to shop nearby to where the kerosene was stolen from with the shop owned by same last name relatives as the ripped off home owner. Edited August 10, 2018 by RochesterRob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 Well, hi... I'm Boyst /Fin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real Buffalo Joe Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 I remember distinctly going to the Stop and Gas in South Buffalo at the corner of Hopkins and Tifft when I was about seven. My dad asked if they still had his brand of cigarettes on a buy one, get one free sale. The guy went back and after a few minutes came back and said "I couldn't find any buy one get ones, but they have two for one. Do you want those?" My dad says fine, and when he goes back to get the cigarettes, just looks at me and says "Stay in school, Joe. Please." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Popinski Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 My first big pour as a service tech for a concrete company was a super target in Mt Dora FL. We poured from midnight to 12 noon for a few weeks straight. The testing company was Universal engineering and they sent out the biggest idiot I have ever met. He said mud going in was 4-5 and coming out of the pump at 6-7 anyone who knows anything understands this is a physical impossibility concrete does not get runnier going through a pump but he had us testing it at both ends, he was a nightmare to the finishers as well, constantly badgering them about how to do their job. one guy bulldozed his samples on purpose, so he had to ask me if he could get access to the ones I had made. Just an all around idiot who let a very little bit of control go right to his head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 On 8/10/2018 at 9:47 AM, LBSeeBallLBGetBall said: Two brothers rode on my bus in middle school. One was in my grade, the other in the grade below. Whenever they got in fights with other kids, they would both immediately start calling the other kid's mom a whore. When they would fight with each other, they would call each other's mom a whore. Same mother. After this happened a few times, I asked if they knew they were insulting their own mother. I still can't forget the look of confusion on their faces. Was this bus, ummm..shorter than the other busses? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LewPort71 Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 Many years ago at the bowling alley somehow a discussion of the deterioration of the Ozone layer occurred. One of the discussion members blamed this on the holes in the atmosphere caused by launching the space shuttle. His idea was that this poked hole allowed the ozone to escape. After a minute or two, I told him that this was twice as bad as he thought since the shuttle poked a hole in the atmosphere on the way back to earth. The look on his face was priceless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhoTom Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 This may not be stupid, but it's "arithmetically declined." My wife used to work for a landscaping company. Employees got a 25% discount on plants. One day, the place was having a 25% off sale, so my wife picked out a bunch of plants and went to the register. The check-our girl said, "OK, you get 25% off for the sale and a 25% employee discount, so that's 50% off." My lovely wife, being the honest person she is, explained that that's not how it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Popinski Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 I did know a girl in high school who thought buffalo wings came from bison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullpen Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 Admin assistant that used to work in our office: Legitimately asked us how to use a ruler to measure something. Didn't understand what "quarter til" and "quarter after" meant when she asked what time it was. Couldn't place a call to a customer in Canada because of "overseas charges." The capper though: When walking past a photo of Mt. Rushmore, she asked us "That's man made right?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrags Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 (edited) Gugny stupid and dumb end of story Edited August 14, 2018 by mrags 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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