For anyone that wants a place to express their frustration...here ya go.

 

Whoever got to TRU a minute before me when it opened and bought 6 of the 7 VC's and left me with the dented one. Arg!!!

RIP Senator McCain 

I used to come inside every evening as a child with my hands covered in yellowish-brown pecan stains. It'd take forever to scrub off. And my parents would yell at me. 

See, I had various secondhand action figures I'd gotten from yard sales but I wanted some realism in my play and didn't actually want to break too many of them. 

So, we had pecan trees in our yard and the squirrels would knock the pecans down before they got ripe, and I'd gather a dozen or so of them up. They had a soft green shell on them similar to felt. Good for writing on. I'd take a sharpie and write on each one a team role.   "Medic"       "Sniper"        "Helicopter Pilot"         "Captain"          etc. You get the idea.

Then I'd toss them in the grass and pretend they were a commando squad dropped into a jungle by helicopter to destroy a deadly beast that had been killing people. Sorta like Predator.

That beast?  A hammer. I'd take it and smash it into the group, some would "jump" out of the way and only get graze wounds, some would be smashed to death on impact. 

Then I'd look and see who died and slowly kill them off one by one till the last one destroyed the hammer monster. Sometimes, he'd pull a couple injured out with him. 

That's what was so fun about it. The randomness. Anybody could go at any time. 

With action figures, I'd be prone to only killing off the generic red shirt soldiers, and letting the leaders be the last one standing. But here there was real thrill. Anybody could go at any time.

Only thing was when they smashed, that outer coating would almost puree and stain my hands up something awful.

But I was.. the Pecan Smasher. 

But why?

5 hours ago, Stud-Flipper said:

I used to come inside every evening as a child with my hands covered in yellowish-brown pecan stains. It'd take forever to scrub off. And my parents would yell at me. 

See, I had various secondhand action figures I'd gotten from yard sales but I wanted some realism in my play and didn't actually want to break too many of them. 

So, we had pecan trees in our yard and the squirrels would knock the pecans down before they got ripe, and I'd gather a dozen or so of them up. They had a soft green shell on them similar to felt. Good for writing on. I'd take a sharpie and write on each one a team role.   "Medic"       "Sniper"        "Helicopter Pilot"         "Captain"          etc. You get the idea.

Then I'd toss them in the grass and pretend they were a commando squad dropped into a jungle by helicopter to destroy a deadly beast that had been killing people. Sorta like Predator.

That beast?  A hammer. I'd take it and smash it into the group, some would "jump" out of the way and only get graze wounds, some would be smashed to death on impact. 

Then I'd look and see who died and slowly kill them off one by one till the last one destroyed the hammer monster. Sometimes, he'd pull a couple injured out with him. 

That's what was so fun about it. The randomness. Anybody could go at any time. 

With action figures, I'd be prone to only killing off the generic red shirt soldiers, and letting the leaders be the last one standing. But here there was real thrill. Anybody could go at any time.

Only thing was when they smashed, that outer coating would almost puree and stain my hands up something awful.

But I was.. the Pecan Smasher. 

I just want to complain about the BS humid weather in NJ.  If I wanted to live in the Amazon, I would move there.

I got Chic-fil-A's polynesian sauce on my Prince CD in my car I cruise around the streets blasting at night to, so now my CD player won't work, and I have to listen to the radio. The hosts are constantly talking to each other over the first 30 seconds of a song until the lyrics hit, and I'm like "OK, you can shut up now.. OK... please.. I just wanna hear the music..." and that's when I can actually find a song, half the the time I get to a station I like I'm hit with about 5 minutes of ads and I live in Florida so it's always crab houses and water sports.

New Amazon Seller Central order interface . 

Need to buy 75953 Whomping Willow for October 16th. Looked at Target.com last night (screen shot 12:34am) saw $59.99 plus free $10 GC. I’ve had bad luck with shipping, and I feel like a jerk using in-store pickup, so I put on my to do list for today.

Just looked, back to rrp $69.99. FML

 

Also, where’s my October 2x VIP at? Seriously!

Missing the Barnes & Noble Lego fun and madness this past weekend due to having emergency dental work for an infected tooth after enduring two days and restless nights dealing with unbearable pain that pain medications did little to relieve.  This was on top of a sinus infection.  

The root canal is tomorrow morning and this ordeal will be over…So glad for those that got the great deals!

Edited October 9, 20187 yr by LegoWalker4

RIP chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha... A huge loss to the world of Football. 

Rocks... for being so much like rifles.

8 minutes ago, KvHulk said:

Rocks... for being so much like rifles.

2 hours ago, KvHulk said:

Rocks... for being so much like rifles.

Seriously. I...just...can't.

This is a safe space.  No political talk.  Only LEGO

28 minutes ago, Alpinemaps said:

This is a safe space.  No political talk.  Only LEGO

Too bad I am not in a position to buy right now

CA shooting ....

 

18 minutes ago, Bold-Arrow said:

CA shooting ....

 

Any shooting

Just now, exciter1 said:

Any shooting

true ... but this one is fresh . any day an innocent life lost is a bad day 

Why the f**k can every school district in my County get bond measures to pass every single time, but my school district is the one that fails every time?

F**king old people that live in my district seriously overran the polls and put out a disinformation campaign, and seriously prevented a school bond to go through that would build a f**king high school.  Why don't they want it?  The high school would be built in their back yard.  F**king NIMBY's.

1 minute ago, Alpinemaps said:

Why the **** can every school district in my County get bond measures to pass every single time, but my school district is the one that fails every time?

******* old people that live in my district seriously overran the polls and put out a disinformation campaign, and seriously prevented a school bond to go through that would build a ******* high school.  Why don't they want it?  The high school would be built in their back yard.  ******* NIMBY's.

If a mod can use such colloquialisms, does that mean lesser beings like us can also? ? The UK are well aware of NIMBYs as there's far too many new homes being built, but they always have to be close to somebody who doesn't want new neighbours. I've never seen so many houses being built as there is right now, where are these extra 100,000,000 people going to come from to fill these new homes? There's nobody waiting for a new home within 5 miles of where I am so why are they being built?

On ‎11‎/‎8‎/‎2018 at 12:07 PM, Alpinemaps said:

Why the f**k can every school district in my County get bond measures to pass every single time, but my school district is the one that fails every time?

F**king old people that live in my district seriously overran the polls and put out a disinformation campaign, and seriously prevented a school bond to go through that would build a f**king high school.  Why don't they want it?  The high school would be built in their back yard.  F**king NIMBY's.

Whoa, the language!

On ‎11‎/‎8‎/‎2018 at 12:14 PM, TabbyBoy said:

If a mod can use such colloquialisms, does that mean lesser beings like us can also? ? The UK are well aware of NIMBYs as there's far too many new homes being built, but they always have to be close to somebody who doesn't want new neighbours. I've never seen so many houses being built as there is right now, where are these extra 100,000,000 people going to come from to fill these new homes? There's nobody waiting for a new home within 5 miles of where I am so why are they being built?

I suspect it's an errant setting .. mods should be filtered for potty mouth too.

I suspect it's an errant setting .. mods should be filtered for potty mouth too.

I blocked it out while reading and replaced it with “whoopee”.

1 minute ago, exciter1 said:

I blocked it out while reading and replaced it with “whoopee”.

Hah, bullsh....... whoopee!

10 minutes ago, exciter1 said:

I blocked it out while reading and replaced it with “whoopee”.

whats next , this ? 

whats next , this ? 

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