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The take-away is that legally you don't have to use an FLL on either end, but since no carrier will take the gun knowingly, for all practical matters you have to use FFLs.

I've seen this one before and thought "So? Pop out the hinge pins, move the door, replace the hinge pins. Then clean your nasty toilet and paint your wall and door."

I'll take the stairs, thanks.

Especially any wearing bells.

Yep. I wish I'd known about estate sales when I was getting started in life. I could have bought much nicer furniture, cookware, dishware, etc. for the same money I spent on cheap crappy stuff in my first apartment @Luckyforward - There are grip additives made for concrete sealant (like the one Mac mentioned from Thompson's) but I don't know how well they'll do with aggregate. It might be worth a call to a supply house that deals with professional concrete folks (ie not Home Depot, Lowes, or Ace). Euclid Chemical makes an additive called Shur Grip. Again, it's made for concrete/pavers, not necessarily aggregate. Here are their Nashville distributors. https://www.euclidchemical.com/help-support/distributor-locator/ You could give one ore more of them a call and ask them if Shur Grip would work, how much you'd need to add, and if they'll sell it to you. They may suggest a different product for aggregate.

Same. I got lucky and scored two sealed 5-gal buckets at an Estate Sale a few months back for like $10 or something. That will cover all of my aggregate this summer.

Get bear spray when you get there* and if needed use it first. It's highly effective. Very rarely will it not work, then the advice above is all excellent. *You can't fly with it so buy some when you arrive. Unless you're driving, then get it now for cheaper online and take it with you.

He said "no". . . . I think this is a lost cause.

I agree that Mafiaoza's makes a good pie, but they weren't around in 1960s . . . It wasn't Shakey's.

There's a difference between hot and 3rd degree burns scalding hot. Since the NIH was brought up, even studies they host say 136F is the optimal temp for serving. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18226454/ Brewed at 180-205F and served at much lower temps. IIRC, what got McD's was that their own internal research showed the same thing (serving at 180+ was dangerous to consumers) but chose to continue doing it anyway.

With respect, you don't know what you're talking about. That elderly woman was severely injured, spent 8 days in the hospital, needed skin grafts, and never once asked for a dime more than she was owed for medicals and lost income for her daughter providing care. McD's offered $800. It was discovered McD's was intentionally keeping the coffee dangerously hot (180-190F) because their studies showed most customers drank it after they got to their office/wherever and they wanted it to still be hot then. The woman initially only wanted $20K to cover her hospital bills. She and her lawyer tried multiple times to get them to settle at reasonable amounts. They refused. The jury awarded her $160K in compensatory damages for her medicals, loss of quality of life, and her daughter's income who had been providing care. The jury then stacked $2.7M on as punitive damages. Her daughter said much of the money went to pay for medical bills and a full time live-in nurse until her death 10 years later and that she had very poor quality of life from both the injuries and the toll of the trial. I wouldn't recommend that as a get rich tactic.

That's easy. It's not fair, but it's easy. Vietnam was an unpopular war and the country as a whole wanted to forget about it. Most vets wanted to forget about Vietnam. Many returning home took off the uniform, never talked about their service, and very few had patches/caps/license plate frames indicating their service. It wasn't a point of pride for many. I don't know if it was because of the loss, the anti-war movement and press coverage, the fact that most were drafted not volunteers, or more likely a combination of all those things. Either way, almost nobody wanted to think about or be reminded of Vietnam. We saw a little easing of that in the 1980s with the Vietnam Memorial in D.C. and some movies like Rambo and Uncommon Valor where we were reminded of the MIAs, but it got left behind. After that we had the 80s and 90s where it was mostly peace time. During peace time military service is often seen as just another job or VoTech school. Even recruiting drives were often focused on how the military can help you get the skills for a civilian career. The conflicts we did have (Grenada, Panama, Bosnia, Desert Shield/Storm) were over so quickly and the kill:loss ratio was so comically lopsided that it hardly seemed like our military members faced much risk at all. They did, but it wasn't painted that way in the media, so most folks kept thinking of it as just a different career path instead of the noble service it is. Military service was mostly out of sight out of mind unless you lived near a large installation, then it was often one day a year where the community might hold a fair or the base might have an open house and it was basically "thanks for being a part of the community". Post-9/11 the environment is totally different. We don't want to forget 9/11. We saw the results of being attacked and we've watched the sacrifices endured by our military. And we're thankful.

It means get some hot dogs.

+1 to Hiawasee Georgia. Pretty area and a nice lake.

Same. I have a Valuable Personal Property policy with my homeowner's carrier (USAA) that lists my guns, but yeah . . . it gets expensive. I compared it to Lockton Affinity (NRA-affiliated in some way) and the same coverage worked out to about $100 cheaper per year with them. Not chump change, but not enough savings for me to be worth the hassle of dealing with another insurance company. YMMV. Plus I don't know how they'd be to deal with a claim, and I know USAA is awesome.

Yeah, this is a place that's long gone. He said there was a row of building where the West End McDonald's is now just to the left of the main Centennial Park entrance, and that's where it was.

Ok old timers. My father in law remembers a pizza place on West End Ave in Nashville back in the 1960s. It was close to Centennial Park about where the McDonald’s is today. Does anyone remember it and what it was called?

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Is that a Browning Auto-5 for the instructor? I almost didn't see him.

Same for me in Bellevue (west side of Nashville). The few we've had are transients on their way to somewhere else. I'll see one or two for a day or two, then they're gone. A few days later I'll see a different one, then it's gone too. My resident birds never show up before June. I'm only keeping 1 feeder out right now. That and my dozen flower pots are enough to keep the transients going and to attract the residents when they arrive. Then I'll put out a 2nd or 3rd feeder.

First . . .I want to know what you had in mind Jim Henson wasn't directly involved in anything Star Wars, but he influenced it for sure. Lucas wanted him, but he was busy and referred Lucas to Frank Oz (Yoda). Oz and many of the other puppeteers in the late 70s and 80s all ran in the same circles, especially those at the top of their craft who would be working on feature films. Several (Oz for sure) were apprentices of Henson so his style influenced their own designs. I've always thought there was some resemblance between the monkeylizard puppet and some of them from Henson's The Dark Crystal.

Same for me, but not AOL. I wanted a Star Wars handle back in the early days of the Interwebz, but of course all the common characters were taken and I didn't want to be BobaFett3728 or Vader7561. I landed on monkeylizard as the first obscure SW thing I could find that wasn't already taken. It's what Jabba the Hutt's pet thing is.

I was thinking about the Charles Barkley SNL skit where he's Darrell but Macgruber keeps calling him Da'rell

Sounds like an international business expansion opportunity. Le Buc-ee's. It's like U.S. Buc-ee's but the beaver wears a beret and they have a wine section.

That is clearly a meme made by a city boy. A real country boy wouldn't have so many empty slots in the racks and the drawers would be full of ammo-n-camo.