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My slammed rice burner goes fine in snow with proper tires. I prefer FWD in the snow over RWD. My Mustang is fun, but not prudent in adverse conditions. I tend to drive my wife's car in snow and ice. Replacing parts on my rat rod import would be impossible if some idiot smacked her. I find that it is most of the people that think they know how to drive in the snow are the dangerous ones. I have a million miles under my belt in all weather and I still get nervous in adverse weather. Also crotch rocket refers to a motorcycle, not a car, get your slurs right or it just makes you look silly instead of foolishly opinionated. Sent from my LGLS740 using Tapatalk

I have used a lot is PSA lowers, they are good to go. I have also used Anderson lowers. They are also good to go. Sent from my LGLS740 using Tapatalk

I don't completely agree, or disagree. I thought it was a good film, and fun. But I don't think it is picture if the year material. Sent from my LGLS740 using Tapatalk

Nominated for ten Academy Awards.   I was floored.

I know I am in the minority, but I am just not a fan. I don't dislike her or anything, it isn't like that, I just don't find her to be all that.

Close underperforming 'markets' that are taking business from the Super Wal-Mart.   Business 101.

And that how you stop the booty infiltrate.

Stay out of the West End. East End is good. 4th ST Live is pretty popular. It is a large city just like any other. Though it is becoming more dangerous. Sent from my LGLS740 using Tapatalk

I rank it above Thunderdome, but below Road Warrior and Mad Max.   Although I have to admit that Thunderdome had some of the best lines of the series.

Bowie was a great artist. His influence still carries in today's music. He will be missed. Sent from my LGLS740 using Tapatalk

I suggest PSA all the way. I have built four guns, using three of their uppers, two being the premium line.   They make a fine rifle and is cost efficient.    I however suggest the PSA branded items only. I am in the minority but I do not like the PTAC branded upper I received. It won't feed steel case at all. I built a cheap rifle to feed it cheaply with little care for it's welfare. It disappointed me.

I hope it works out. She is a fine looking dog.

Anyone else into this show?   With Breaking Bad gone and SOA over, this is about the only show I am still into.    It is superb and brutally honest. I find it insulting that year after year it is passed over during the awards season.   New season starts in a week or so. I am pretty excited, and it might be the sole reason I haven't cancelled my cable subscription.

I read a couple, the Elfstones and a few others.   Another obscure fantasy series I would LOVE to see make it's way to the screen would be The Book of Swords stuff.   But then reality dawns on me, and I don't watch television.

I have a soft spot in my heart for a blue tick. You have to once you hear that bark, it is a one of a kind. Even now it tugs at my heart strings when I hear one.   Tao Tick was an old rapscallion that called my home his stomping grounds when I was a youth. "What you say old Tick?" Got shortened to Tao Tick over the years. One of the best dogs I ever had. I have waxed nostalgic on him a time or two around these parts. Damn fine dog he was.   We have Bandit now, got her from here on the board, and we would be lost without her. She is spoiled. Has two dog beds, but still sleeps in the master bed. Under the covers. With her head on a pillow. Well trained, too smart for her own good. She is two now.    Good luck finding her a good home, it is out there.

http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/music/hard-living-lemmy-kilmister-mot-rhead-dies-70-band-confirms-n487071   I know I am not the only metal head here. Lemmy was one of a kind.

Congrats, and thanks to the members that made this possible!

I have mentioned it a time or two when threads like this come up, it is the seniors that raised the current adults of today.    Accepting responsibility is an amazing thing.   I understand that there are still a lot of great cats out there of all generations. Thus I hesitate strongly to stand and point and say that one demographic is greater than any other. It is the appreciation of differences that truly shows character and class.   EDIT   I am in my late 30's. Married once, still married. With a single child that is well rounded and well behaved. Making solid As in school (one B ever, this year) who plays several musical instruments. I am college educated with a home, and food in it. My bills are paid and I appreciate life for what it is.   I was birthed to and raised by a drug addicted whore who spat out half a dozen children that were nothing more than paychecks, punching bags and slave labor. My father left when I was young. I never saw him again. Both were born and raised middle/upper middle class by 'The Greatest Generation' and both are well into their senior years now.   Now, far be it from me to stand as say that everyone everywhere is the same, but you don't have to walk far to find anyone, of any age who can tell you the same story of their lineage and who turned out 'all right.' You don't even have to walk any further to hear of those with much better lineage who didn't turn out 'all right.'   I suppose that having been through the seedy underbelly of the world and emerging with no blinders or preconceived notions of what this world owes anyone has jaded me, or possibly made me bitter. I tend to think of it as seeing more clearly. The greatest thing it has taught me is to accept everyone as they are. From beggars to kings, everyone has good points, as well as their bad.   Ultimately I just get tired of hearing that it was better in a different era, which is nothing more than misguided nostalgia. Human beings are the same now as they were when Ogg first rubbed two sticks together and learned that cooked meat tasted pretty good. Everything changes, that is the nature of progress, but humans haven't in thousands of years of evolution.   /soapbox

Seriously. Her mother never read the books or chucked a polyhedral die in her life, but she let me name her Takhisis. Outside of certain circles I think only one or two people have ever caught it. But Dragonlance taught me a valuable lesson about cannon. I went read it unless W&H wrote it. Everything else is fanfic. And even they can be wrong. Like for an entire age. That made watching all of the Expanded Universe go *poof* easier to deal with. Sent from my LGLS740 using Tapatalk

I laughed pretty hard at that. My daughter's middle name is Takhisis. Sent from my LGLS740 using Tapatalk

I liked it, it hit the right notes, like mentioned it was predictable in a spot or three. But I greatly enjoyed it and thought it was well done. I am highly anticipating the next ones.

So, I am not an awesome guitar player, but I don't suck anymore either.   I have found my groove, and I can sit and noodle away for hours at a time and be amazed that I should have been in bed hours ago.   I found some cat on Youtube, and I don't know what it is about him, but it is super simple to understand what he is playing, and how to make my fingers at least mimic within reason what he does. I am sure part of it is the fact that I spend about an hour a day noodling, but there is something about what he plays. It is simple, but full at the same time.   The Mule, the Squier Bullet I have has been fully set up and intonated and man, with just the bridge pickup and some string bending, I can really tell why these are some well loved guitars. That sound is amazing. Then on the other hand, my new to me Epiphone Les Paul, with some simple power chords and palm muting, and I can tell why every heavy metal band in the world has one of these in their arsenal.   I can spend an entire afternoon just playing with the settings on my amp and going back and forth between the two of them to see how each one reacts to the same riff, and they are clearly two different animals.    My daughter is having fun as well, she always feels special when she gets to plug into the amp and crank it up.           I can only hope that everyone has something that helps them relax and shed stress like this, in a healthy manner. Because man, it feels great to actually be doing something that can be recognized as music.

That was some good stuff, and I hope folks can learn from it.

My daughter was the best thing that ever happened to me.

My family had several Dobermans when I was younger, and they always did well.