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nasty rental car

jipped genes — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:18:09 GMT

while my wife's car is in the shop after the semi truck whacked me we got a rental. its a base model vw jetta. (jetta review later) thats not really the prob. i dont like touching things other folks touch like the steering wheel. it feels nasty.

i wiped it down with lysol and now its sticky.

i cant drive the damn car.

i am not crazy i dont carry hand sanitizer and dont run go wash my hands immediately if i touch a door handle at work. (i do use a paper towel to open the restroom door at work as we have some brown listers........nasty bastards)

is this just in my freakin head!? i am not OCD...........or am i?

i guess i see people picking their nose in the car, flick the booger and put their hand back on the wheel. BOOGER WHEEEEEEL!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

anyway is it just me that is neurotic about stuff like this?

What make's someone a fitness person?

ashley2212 — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:04:17 GMT

She's gorgeous but I don't understand how women get qualified as "fitness models" with no muscle definition to speak of...

Labor Day

millenium girl — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:13:36 GMT

What are you all doing today?

It's not a holiday here but I had the day off and hit the gym twice ..

Anger issues

basskiller — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:05:20 GMT

What do you think about letting a child with anger issues participate in Karate.

The child has never hit another child.. it's not that type of anger. It's more like a frustration anger with a side of abandonment issues.

I think it's a good outlet for this little bundle of energy.. what do you guys think?

opening a new board but not what you think,lol

IBBAdmin — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:31:59 GMT

Ok guys, well my wife and I have been helping this cause for a few years. We help locate homes for rescue pitbulls. Now that we are getting settled, we are going to start on a more helpful note of rescueing the dogs by opening a forum call pitbullsupport.com. We are in the beginning stages now in building.

I am posting this because alot of guys on the boards have Pitbulls or pit mixes.

I will keep everyone updated on progress on when it will be up and running.

Bass, I hope this post is ok,

IBB

Now here this !

IBBAdmin — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:26:59 GMT

I have been bitching about the hot weather, well right now I am in heaven. I am sitting in my boxers, drinking coffee with a cool ocean breeze coming through the window. We moved everything in, now just setting things up. In a few minutes I will go outside like to good little home owner and water my grass, and the street, and the drive ways. I will make a good 70 year old man one day. lmao..

Just need to say hooooray for north east weather right now...:yourock::Smiley-BigClapping:

GD contactor

ozzy69 — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 04:49:56 GMT

so i work 6 days a wk when im on the road but in our contact we have labor day as a paid day off so we have a 2 day weekend.......now the contractor is gonna have us work next sunday to make up for the lost day instead of just having us work monday and pay the GD double time.....so that will make tuesday the start of 13 straight days welding-----ugh! i understand the money issue with a contractor but they still have to pay us time and a half on sunday so WTF

just had to rant guys sorry :000202F6:

but damn this doesnt make sense at all

ballons doing the nasty

basskiller — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:19:19 GMT

ever wonder what ballons would do if they could

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Appreciation

stumpy — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:29:18 GMT

I've just finaly come to appreciate the area we live in. I was trying to find my sunglasses this morning and came to the conclusion I must have left them in the car so went to the car which I'd parked a few buildings down from ours. As soon as I got to the car I noticed the drivers side window was not there, quickly put the keys in the ignition and pressed the button for the window to find it hadn't been broken but I'd left it down. 4 days parked at the side of the road with the drivers window fully open and nobody had tried to take anything from inside, damage or steal the car. How lucky am I!!!

Steroids=America!

DOUBLE J — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:16:40 GMT

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The Family Prostitute

Nate — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:24:19 GMT

As the recession continues, more and more women are turning to the world�s oldest profession to support their loved ones
By Michael Albo

In the workplace lunchroom, dominated by a Formica table stocked with a condiment cradle that holds four kinds of hot sauce, Nikki furrows her brow as she fishes into her purse and retrieves her driver�s license. A resident of Riverside, Nikki is filling out some paperwork for her new job. �There�s a lot of stuff they want to know,� she says.

It�s been a busy day for the former administrative assistant. �I flew in and saw the doctor before I even got here,� she says. Dressed in �business casual,� Nikki is an attractive 24-year-old African-American woman with a retro hairstyle reminiscent of Mary Tyler Moore on the actress�s eponymous �70s sitcom. Speaking with a slight but charming lisp, Nikki notes that she can�t work until she gets cleared by the authorities, and the doctor visit is the first part of that process. In the meantime, she says, �I�ll stay here and get some training because I don�t know anything. Tomorrow, I�ll get my license at the sheriff�s office, and then I can work.�

Nikki is one step away from becoming a prostitute in one of Nevada�s legal brothels.

She�s the sole supporter of two small children and her mother, and the work is important to Nikki. �In the Inland Empire,� she laments, �there are no jobs at all. I couldn�t even get a job at McDonald�s right now.�

And so she�s come to Moundhouse, Nevada, just east of Carson City, where four of the state�s 28 brothels are located just off U.S. Route 50, a desolate track that cuts through a high plain of sage and scrub and is known as �the loneliest road in America.� It�s here � at the Love Ranch, the Moonlight Bunny Ranch, the Sagebrush Ranch or the Kit Kat Guest Ranch � that women, acting as independent contractors, sell condom-protected sex and then split the profits with the management.

It�s perfectly legal, sanctioned by the local sheriff, and has long been a part of the local economy. But that economy works two ways: Women � many brand-new to the sex trade and acting as the sole support for their families � have chosen it because of economic hardship brought on by the worst recession since the Great Depression. While there�s always been a solid group of sex workers who support their families in this way, many on the management side of the industry say they�ve never seen anything like the large numbers the business is currently attracting.

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Los Angeles

The crisis in customer service

Nate — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:21:35 GMT

American workers are mad as hell, and they�re not going to take it anymore. That�s the clear message of flight attendant Steven Slater�s emergence as a �working-class hero,� after he threw his job away with a tirade against passengers and a slide down an exit chute. Slater�s fifteen minutes of fame may be winding down, but his heady time in the spotlight�he was the subject of numerous tribute songs and his Facebook fan page drew more than two hundred thousand people�suggested just how frustrated employees are with stagnant pay, stressful working conditions, and obnoxious customers.

Still, there was something a little surprising about the adulation. After all, the public comprises customers as well as workers, and everyone knows that the contemporary customer is mad as hell, too�fed up with inept service, indifferent employees, and customer-service departments that are harder to negotiate than Kafka�s Castle. Witness the popularity of last summer�s customer-service sensation Dave Carroll, whose guitar was broken by careless United Airlines luggage handlers and who wrote a song slamming uninterested flight attendants and stonewalling customer-service reps. As protest songs go, Carroll�s �United Breaks Guitars� isn�t exactly �Blowin� in the Wind,� but it has garnered more than nine million views on YouTube. When it comes to customer service, it seems, people are unhappy no matter what side of the counter they�re on. Why can�t we get it right?

For a start, most companies have a split personality when it comes to customers. On the one hand, C.E.O.s routinely describe service as essential to success, and they are well aware that, thanks to the Internet, bad service can now inflict far more damage than before; the old maxim was that someone who had a bad experience in your store would tell ten people, but these days it�s more like thousands or even, as in Carroll�s case, millions. On the other hand, customer service is a classic example of what businessmen call a �cost center��a division that piles up expenses without bringing in revenue�and most companies see it as tangential to their core business, something they have to do rather than something they want to do. Although some unhappy customers complain, most don�t�one study suggests that only six per cent of dissatisfied customers file a complaint�and it�s tricky to quantify the impact of good service. So when companies are looking for places to cut costs it�s easy to justify trimming service staff, or outsourcing. The recession has aggravated the problem, as companies have tried to cut whatever they could�the airlines, for instance, have trimmed payrolls by sixteen per cent since 2007�but even in more prosperous times there was a relentless emphasis on doing more with less. That�s how you end up with overworked flight attendants, neglected passengers, and collective misery.

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The crisis in customer service : The New Yorker

Mass Extinctions Change the Rules of Evolution

Nate — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:14:05 GMT

A reinterpretation of the fossil record suggests a new answer to one of evolution’s existential questions: whether global mass extinctions are just short-term diversions in life’s preordained course, or send life careening down wholly new paths.

Some scientists have suggested the former. Rates of species diversification — the speed at which groups adapt and fill open ecological niches — seemed to predict what’s flourished in the aftermath of past planetary cataclysms. But according to the calculations of Macquarie University paleobiologist John Alroy, that’s just not the case.

“Mass extinction fundamentally changes the dynamics. It changes the composition of the biosphere forever. You can’t simply predict the winners and losers from what groups have done before,” he said.

Alroy was once a student of paleontologist Jack Sepkoski[1], who in the 1980s formalized the notion that Earth has experienced five mass extinctions[2] in the 550 million years since life became durable enough to leave a fossil record. Graphs of taxonomic abundance depict lines rising steadily as life diversifies, plunging precipitously during each extinction, and rising again as life proliferates anew.

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ok what the hell?

cowboy198 — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:22:24 GMT

i'm gone for a couple of days and there is no shout box???

My Nasty PWO Shake

Friggemall — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:02:09 GMT

Ran out of my protein yesterday but, I thought I had a full back up container of whey (crap GNC stuff that was gave to me shoved to the back of the cupboard). Worked out this am came home pulled it out and it was empty. :000202F6: First why did I put it back in there because I am anal about tossing shit like that. Then I remembered I had saved it to mix dextros and maltodextrin in.

So there I am without a PWO shake and not happy! Oh hell, I'll just throw some Chrystal light I had mixed up in the blender and add my dextros & maltodextrin and some liquid egg whites. I start adding the eggs and realize that I'll need at least 1 1/2 cups of egg whites, and with the Chrystal light I already put in that was going to be too much liquid hitting my gut. I had 1/2 cup in, so I get the bright idea to throw in a package of tuna and flipped on the blender. I now had a PWO shake of liquid vomit. Tasted like it, settled in my stomach like it, but by God I got my PWO shake in folks, LOL! I'm still praying it doesn't come back up to visit though :Smiley-Praying: