Off topic for sure, but I have a small quandary
 

Off topic for sure, but I have a small quandary
 

dsi1 wrote:

> On Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 5:25:40 AM UTC-10, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
> > On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 12:20:04 +0100, Janet >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > In article
> > > >,
> > > says...
> > >>
> > >> On Friday, April 12, 2019 at 3:02:55 PM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > I don't know. Maybe it's because I've always shopped early when
> > >> > stores first open and I avoid all the idiots of the other
> > >> > variety? Never encoutered any of this. I suspect they are
> > mostly >> > fake stories.
> > >> >
> > >> If you've never encountered it just may be because you do shop
> > at the crack >> of dawn. But that doesn't mean these scenarios
> > never occur and thus make >> them fake. I don't shop when the
> > chickens get up so yes, I do see these >> situations pretty much
> > weekly. >> >
> > >> > Pain in the ass to
> > >> > have to go to my bank that opens at 9. Lazy turds.
> > >> >
> > >> I go to the bank perhaps twice a year so them opening after
> > sunrise doesn't >> bother me at all.
> > >> >
> > >> > I suspect all these people problems with traffic and stores,
> > etc >> > is only because people are lazy and don't go out early
> > enough. >> >
> > >> Did you ever stop to think the reason people are out shopping
> > after 9:00 a.m. >> is because a LOT of stores don't open until
> > that hour or even later?
> > >
> > > It certainly never occurred to me; in UK many smkts either open
> > > 7 am till late. or 24 hours. I live on a little rock (not Hawaii;
> > > off Scotland).Just an Atlantic backwater, population 4500, so our
> > > smkt only opens 6am to 10 pm.
> > >
> > > Another cultural difference spotted in this discussion concerns
> > > the frequently-mentioned US ankle-ramming with a smkt cart. Do US
> > > carts have projecting bullbars, or what? Is this another example
> > > of US military might?
> > >
> > > No ankle-rsmming here; lefty socialist UK smkt trolleys are
> > > designed in such a way there's no inbuilt weaponry capable of
> > > maiming or taking down other shoppers. We can't even take guns to
> > > the supermarket, let alone buy one when we get there. Hard to
> > > imagine, I know.
> > >
> > >
> > > Janet UK
> > The shopping carts that I have been used to all my life (trolley in
> > Brit speak) consist of a large basket area at the top and a shelf
> > for additional items on the bottom.
> > http://tinyurl.com/yyaxp5rd
> >
> > I hope these pictures help expand your understanding
> > you are welcome :)
>
> It's a stupid design for North America, where chronic ankle bashing
> is a problem. A simple redesign would transfer the point of contact
> to a larger, more padded, area of the human anatomy i.e., the
> buttocks. It's not much of a problem on this rock, where people are
> less in a hurry and think more about people other than themselves.

What idiocy are you on about now?

Janet, he's being an idiot and assuming people bash one another with
carts here. They do not.

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Sqwertz wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 17:39:29 -0700 (PDT),
> wrote:
>
> > I don't know if any of you have ever heard of the site "Nextdoor"
> > but it's a site for specific neighborhoods in your area. You can
> > post helpful infor- mation, items for sale, upcoming meetings, etc.
> >
> >
> > This past week-end someone posted a bogus for sale item that
> > required signing into the site again. It was a posting hopefully
> > to steal a posters information but it only succeeded in locking me
> > out of the site. When I signed up for the site several months ago
> > I used "ItsJoanNotJoAnn" as my sign-on name but now since this
> > phishing post they are demanding to unlock my account I m.u.s.t
> > give the administrator my full first and last name. I am NOT
> > comfortable in using my real, honest-to-goodness name on any social
> > site even though they claim it is completely secure. Yeah, right.
> > It's so secure they've already had a phishing scam on it.
> >
> > Anyway, my quandary is do I fork over my real name or tell them to
> > delete my account?
>
> Nextdoor is useless unless you lost a dog. It's a bunch of dumb
> crybabies. And nextdoor is just a data collection agency. They run
> a few other 'scams" pretending to be good for you, but nothing like
> Google, the pros at this.
>
> When I signed up it ran a superficial credit check to see if my name
> was at my address even though I was an invite (from a phoney
> neighbor who I set up before they realized I was phoney). It's
> pretty hard to fool process. This credit check is also used to
> check age on some sites,a nd asks you questions "Which of these
> addresses were yours". Which is inherently evil - do not answer ANY
> of thsoe questiosn. They're guessing how to connect the dots to YOU
> - they DON'T know, and that's why they're asking you top tell them.
> What its actually doing is getting you to update your creditors on
> your location and find out who else may have claims against you at
> previous addressees. Which everybody apparently already knew except
> the State of California comptrollers they could send me a $14,000
> overdue tax bill because I didn't pay $85 worth of State income
> taxes in the tax year 2000. When it's they who owe me $60 for 1999,
> but I moved to Texas around the time I was expecting a return. I
> never worked in California in 2000,. I wrote "**** you - you owe ME
> $60 from 1999, that comes to 9,870 using your same calculation. pay
> up!". So they sent it to credit collections (after 19 years? Also
> evil). And "I disputed it" which a useless exercise in futility as
> they only ever reply "Nope. We verified the computer records it's
> true. Watch, we'll do it again now... Yep,
> still true".
>
> This is the collection company that just paid me $85 in a class
> action suit for harassment. Which is kinda a sweet victory - getting
> a collection agency to send YOU money while you've never sent them
> one dime.
>
> Somehow Netxdoor already knows you name through the invite or
> application process. They're just using it now to verify its still
> you requesting an account action. They won't delete your account
> either.
>
> Our neighborhood "administrator" REQUIRES that full names be used
> rather than just last initial. So I changed my name to "Steve
> Nolast". Another neighbor snitched me out when he PM'ed me saying
> "he knew everyone on the street". Well, technically we were never
> introduced, but I'm that guy. Then he snitched me out to Nextdoor.
> So snitched on him out for deed restrictions. That cost him about
> $21,000 in rental income for the house next door to him. Now it's
> been for sale for 6 months. And my name is back to being 'Steve
> Nolast'. That ****er. He's the one that set the precedence at the
> county judge for the deed restrictions for suing somebody else for
> the same thing for arguing it against another neighbor 3 years ago.
> I sued him with own victory and didn't even have pay court fees.
>
> As a former and still sometimes data miner for odd database formats
> from some "proprietary" smaller companies (I purposely made them
> odd, duh(*)). I can positively say that your cell phone number is
> the MOST EVIL THING you can hand out to any company. It's more evil
> than your SS#. It all started with that seemingly innocent "number
> portability act". Every time you download and install an "app" your
> cell number and email address is given away to hundreds of
> databases. Sometimes every time you use an app, too.
>
> So I carry two cell phones - one cellphone that has never been
> assigned a phone number and which I side-load ALL apps (Google
> doesn't know I've downloaded these apps, and this phone doesn't even
> know my google account). And then another cell phone with a phone
> number for those old fashioned things, like... CALLING people.
>
> (*) For any database/software developers to appreciate:
>
> Another dirty "contractor" trick is to hard code dynamic numbers
> (such as South Carolina's sales tax rate) rather than putting them
> into an easily user-changeable or dynamically updated table and only
> give them compiled versions of source code until all conditions of
> the contract have been fulfilled. Cancel my contract two months
> early because I work too fast and wanted to get the **** out there?
> Well, I've been following the news and all the conditions are "ripe"
> now that NASA is using private contractors. The next time a taxable
> entity (not NASA) orders a $52K space shuttle tire from Michelin? I
> get about $13K before they can even bill them properly. They can't
> hold that up while a lawyer decides if they can fight it, because
> I'm holding the source code hostage. And it's a data type they (or
> even I) would never expect to look for in compiled binary. It may
> even be derived from multiple unknown data types to purposely
> obscure it even more. There may even be a checksum on the binary
> that will cause the binary to error out if you so much as edit one
> byte in it. So yeah, they're ****ed. They've been locked out of any
> minor changes for a couple years now. This would be a show-stopper
> though.
>
> Am I evil. Damned right I am.
>
> -sw

Bullshit Steve. All of it.

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Off topic for sure, but I have a small quandary
 

On 2019-04-14 3:01 p.m., cshenk wrote:
> dsi1 wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 5:25:40 AM UTC-10, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>>> On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 12:20:04 +0100, Janet >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In article
>>>> >,
>>>> says...
>>>>>
>>>>> On Friday, April 12, 2019 at 3:02:55 PM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't know. Maybe it's because I've always shopped early when
>>>>>> stores first open and I avoid all the idiots of the other
>>>>>> variety? Never encoutered any of this. I suspect they are
>>> mostly >> > fake stories.
>>>>>>
>>>>> If you've never encountered it just may be because you do shop
>>> at the crack >> of dawn. But that doesn't mean these scenarios
>>> never occur and thus make >> them fake. I don't shop when the
>>> chickens get up so yes, I do see these >> situations pretty much
>>> weekly. >> >
>>>>>> Pain in the ass to
>>>>>> have to go to my bank that opens at 9. Lazy turds.
>>>>>>
>>>>> I go to the bank perhaps twice a year so them opening after
>>> sunrise doesn't >> bother me at all.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I suspect all these people problems with traffic and stores,
>>> etc >> > is only because people are lazy and don't go out early
>>> enough. >> >
>>>>> Did you ever stop to think the reason people are out shopping
>>> after 9:00 a.m. >> is because a LOT of stores don't open until
>>> that hour or even later?
>>>>
>>>> It certainly never occurred to me; in UK many smkts either open
>>>> 7 am till late. or 24 hours. I live on a little rock (not Hawaii;
>>>> off Scotland).Just an Atlantic backwater, population 4500, so our
>>>> smkt only opens 6am to 10 pm.
>>>>
>>>> Another cultural difference spotted in this discussion concerns
>>>> the frequently-mentioned US ankle-ramming with a smkt cart. Do US
>>>> carts have projecting bullbars, or what? Is this another example
>>>> of US military might?
>>>>
>>>> No ankle-rsmming here; lefty socialist UK smkt trolleys are
>>>> designed in such a way there's no inbuilt weaponry capable of
>>>> maiming or taking down other shoppers. We can't even take guns to
>>>> the supermarket, let alone buy one when we get there. Hard to
>>>> imagine, I know.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Janet UK
>>> The shopping carts that I have been used to all my life (trolley in
>>> Brit speak) consist of a large basket area at the top and a shelf
>>> for additional items on the bottom.
>>> http://tinyurl.com/yyaxp5rd
>>>
>>> I hope these pictures help expand your understanding
>>> you are welcome :)
>>
>> It's a stupid design for North America, where chronic ankle bashing
>> is a problem. A simple redesign would transfer the point of contact
>> to a larger, more padded, area of the human anatomy i.e., the
>> buttocks. It's not much of a problem on this rock, where people are
>> less in a hurry and think more about people other than themselves.
>
> What idiocy are you on about now?
>
> Janet, he's being an idiot and assuming people bash one another with
> carts here. They do not.
>

I don't think that anyone said that ankle bashing is a constant threat.
I mentioned an incident where a woman who was purposely blocking a choke
point in an aisle was purposely struck hard enough that she reacted in
pain, and a case were an old old lady repeatedly bumped me while in
line. It wasn't painful, it was annoying. Nobody is thrilled about being
struck with an object, whether it is accidental or intentional. I did
not flip out the first, second or third time.... but 4 times??? What
the hell are people thinking that they would keep bumping into someone
else? Is it possible that they are so spaced out that they don't realize
that are repeatedly bumping into someone?

Off topic for sure, but I have a small quandary
 

On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 16:09:02 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>I don't think that anyone said that ankle bashing is a constant threat.
>I mentioned an incident where a woman who was purposely blocking a choke
>point in an aisle was purposely struck hard enough that she reacted in
>pain, and a case were an old old lady repeatedly bumped me while in
>line. It wasn't painful, it was annoying. Nobody is thrilled about being
>struck with an object, whether it is accidental or intentional. I did
>not flip out the first, second or third time.... but 4 times??? What
>the hell are people thinking that they would keep bumping into someone
>else? Is it possible that they are so spaced out that they don't realize
>that are repeatedly bumping into someone?

Let it go, Dave. Life's too short.

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On 4/14/2019 2:46 PM, Bruce wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 14:09:04 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>
>> Bruce wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 09:54:54 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>>>
>>>> "U.S. Janet B." wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 16:20:04 -0700 (PDT), "
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Friday, April 12, 2019 at 2:03:41 PM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Get outta here with all that. I've done all the shopping for over
>>>>>>> 30 years. Never encountered anything like that. I'm serious too,
>>>>>>> Joan.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> You have lead a v.e.r.y sheltered life is all I can say.
>>>>>
>>>>> he's quite the little housewife.
>>>>
>>>> I did a pretty good job as a substitute mom too, thank you very
>>>> much. :)
>>>
>>> Have you asked your daughter's shrink?
>>
>> heheheh ;)
>>
>> Hey....have I ever told the story here about how I handwashed
>> dirty diapers? ;)
>
> Men can do that?
>
Only the special ones. I don't qualify.

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On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 16:33:00 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 4/14/2019 2:46 PM, Bruce wrote:
>> On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 14:09:04 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>>
>>> Bruce wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 09:54:54 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "U.S. Janet B." wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 16:20:04 -0700 (PDT), "
>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Friday, April 12, 2019 at 2:03:41 PM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Get outta here with all that. I've done all the shopping for over
>>>>>>>> 30 years. Never encountered anything like that. I'm serious too,
>>>>>>>> Joan.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You have lead a v.e.r.y sheltered life is all I can say.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> he's quite the little housewife.
>>>>>
>>>>> I did a pretty good job as a substitute mom too, thank you very
>>>>> much. :)
>>>>
>>>> Have you asked your daughter's shrink?
>>>
>>> heheheh ;)
>>>
>>> Hey....have I ever told the story here about how I handwashed
>>> dirty diapers? ;)
>>
>> Men can do that?
>>
>Only the special ones. I don't qualify.

Oh, I thought only women could do it, just like giving birth.

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On Sunday, April 14, 2019 at 9:01:15 AM UTC-10, cshenk wrote:
> dsi1 wrote:
>
> > On Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 5:25:40 AM UTC-10, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
> > > On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 12:20:04 +0100, Janet >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > In article
> > > > >,
> > > > says...
> > > >>
> > > >> On Friday, April 12, 2019 at 3:02:55 PM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
> > > >> >
> > > >> > I don't know. Maybe it's because I've always shopped early when
> > > >> > stores first open and I avoid all the idiots of the other
> > > >> > variety? Never encoutered any of this. I suspect they are
> > > mostly >> > fake stories.
> > > >> >
> > > >> If you've never encountered it just may be because you do shop
> > > at the crack >> of dawn. But that doesn't mean these scenarios
> > > never occur and thus make >> them fake. I don't shop when the
> > > chickens get up so yes, I do see these >> situations pretty much
> > > weekly. >> >
> > > >> > Pain in the ass to
> > > >> > have to go to my bank that opens at 9. Lazy turds.
> > > >> >
> > > >> I go to the bank perhaps twice a year so them opening after
> > > sunrise doesn't >> bother me at all.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > I suspect all these people problems with traffic and stores,
> > > etc >> > is only because people are lazy and don't go out early
> > > enough. >> >
> > > >> Did you ever stop to think the reason people are out shopping
> > > after 9:00 a.m. >> is because a LOT of stores don't open until
> > > that hour or even later?
> > > >
> > > > It certainly never occurred to me; in UK many smkts either open
> > > > 7 am till late. or 24 hours. I live on a little rock (not Hawaii;
> > > > off Scotland).Just an Atlantic backwater, population 4500, so our
> > > > smkt only opens 6am to 10 pm.
> > > >
> > > > Another cultural difference spotted in this discussion concerns
> > > > the frequently-mentioned US ankle-ramming with a smkt cart. Do US
> > > > carts have projecting bullbars, or what? Is this another example
> > > > of US military might?
> > > >
> > > > No ankle-rsmming here; lefty socialist UK smkt trolleys are
> > > > designed in such a way there's no inbuilt weaponry capable of
> > > > maiming or taking down other shoppers. We can't even take guns to
> > > > the supermarket, let alone buy one when we get there. Hard to
> > > > imagine, I know.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Janet UK
> > > The shopping carts that I have been used to all my life (trolley in
> > > Brit speak) consist of a large basket area at the top and a shelf
> > > for additional items on the bottom.
> > > http://tinyurl.com/yyaxp5rd
> > >
> > > I hope these pictures help expand your understanding
> > > you are welcome :)
> >
> > It's a stupid design for North America, where chronic ankle bashing
> > is a problem. A simple redesign would transfer the point of contact
> > to a larger, more padded, area of the human anatomy i.e., the
> > buttocks. It's not much of a problem on this rock, where people are
> > less in a hurry and think more about people other than themselves.
>
> What idiocy are you on about now?
>
> Janet, he's being an idiot and assuming people bash one another with
> carts here. They do not.

We don't bash other people ankles here either. Is that relevant? Does everything in the world have to be cleared by you before it can happen? Perhaps that's the idiocy she's talking about.

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In article >, says...
>
> Janet wrote:
> > IIRC US Janet is a widow, and she took care of her husband too.
>
> I think you are remembering Janet Wilder who died some years ago
> while on vacation in Vietnam or vicinity.
> Very nice woman with good recipes. I do remember she had a
> little dog friend. I think she was a widow but before my time
> here.
>
> Janet US here still has a husband. At least I hope he's still
> alive. He was eating peanut butter and blueberry jam sandwiches
> just 3 weeks ago.

Sorry US Janet.

Janet UK
>
> BTW, USJanet...I would love to find a jar of that.
>
> That said, I do apologize for even that comment. I so hate it
> when someone pushes my buttons, I reply in the heat of the
> moment, then usually regret my haste later. Always best to save
> emotional (or drunken) replies as a DRAFT. Then read later on and
> decide whether to send or not. Most will be deleted.
>
> I really have turned into a grumpy old man. Way too cynical for
> even my own tastes. So many people (and beloved animals) have
> checked out in the last 3 years. I am so over death. Just imagine
> having to live with ME every single day....arrghhh. And I have
> to do just that....every single day.
>
> My daughter keeps asking me to come and move in with her. That
> fool! heheh

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On 2019-04-14 6:45 p.m., Janet wrote:
> In article >, says...
>>
>> Janet wrote:
>>> IIRC US Janet is a widow, and she took care of her husband too.
>>
>> I think you are remembering Janet Wilder who died some years ago
>> while on vacation in Vietnam or vicinity.
>> Very nice woman with good recipes. I do remember she had a
>> little dog friend. I think she was a widow but before my time
>> here.
>>
>> Janet US here still has a husband. At least I hope he's still
>> alive. He was eating peanut butter and blueberry jam sandwiches
>> just 3 weeks ago.
>
> Sorry US Janet.
>

Rumors of his death were premature.

;-)

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On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 14:05:26 -0500, cshenk wrote:

> wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 12:06:36 PM UTC-5, GM wrote:
>>>
>>> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>
>>> > On 4/13/2019 8:51 AM, Sqwertz wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > Am I evil. Damned right I am.
>>> > >
>>> > > -sw
>>> > >
>>> >
>>> > That's not always a bad thing.
>>>
>>> I have to admire what Steve did about that next - door neighbor,
>>> LOL...
>>>
>>> Best
>>> Greg
>>>
>> It was funny and his jerk neighbor deserved it.
>
> It's also made up bullshit.

This isn't even the fake cshenk. I haven't ****ed her for a couple
moths. Must be that delayed reaction thing.

It's not like most of us haven't already pegged her as a kook,
anyway. Now she's trying to out-kook her stalker.

-sw

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On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 14:04:49 -0500, cshenk wrote:

> Sqwertz wrote:
>
>> Am I evil. Damned right I am.
>
> Bullshit Steve. All of it.

Which part do you want to bet on first that I can't prove in under
10 minutes? It will cost you at least $500 each.

C'mon kook, put up your dukes, you crazy bitch.

-sw

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Off topic for sure, but I have a small quandary
 

On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 08:13:00 -0400, Gary > wrote:

>
>I saw an ad in the newspaper this morning for a restaurant Easter
>Buffet. $44 for all you can eat lobsters, snow crab, and leg of
>lamb. Oh and children under 10 can come for half price. $22. lol
>

Once or twice a month the Casino in the downtown offers seniors an all
you can eat lobster/prime rib for $9.99. I hear it is very good,
have never been but keep intending to with some friends lol

>For a buffet setting, that's pretty damn expensive, imo. Not only
>that, but...SNOW crabs? For that price they should be offering
>King Crab legs, even if from South America. Snow crabs are a big
>letdown.
If I am going to eat crab, I like Dungeness crabs, plenty of meat in
them and particularly the claws, rather like lobbies.

>
>Here's an old joke I just remembered too....
>
>Couple goes to an all-you-can-eat for $19.99 restaurant.
>After the first plates were finished, they asked for more.
>Waitress said, "ok but it will cost you double."
>Couple asked why, "It says all you can eat for $19.99."
>Waitress responded, "Yes, what you had is all you can eat for
>that price."
>
>heheh
That's terrible !!

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cshenk wrote:
>
> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 15:55:44 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
> >
> > > On 4/13/2019 10:44 AM, Gary wrote:
> > >
> > >> Lucretia, have you eaten any beloved lobsters lately? Probably a
> > >> decent price where you live but way too overpriced here. Most
> > >> all the time, $14.99/lb here.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Just came back from Publix. $16.99. Didn't buy.
> >
> > I'll look next time I go to the supermarket, really don't know.
>
> Gary is pretty right on our average price here but loss leader sales
> can be 8.99lb.

I've never seen any price here other than $14.99 even when
lobsters were selling very cheap in New England a few years ago.

This was at my old beloved Farm Fresh that closed down last year
(or was it the year before?) They always had a tank of live
lobsters. Only tiny ones too...1 pounders I guess...just barely
legal to keep.These days I shop at either Food Lion or Harris
Teeter. I've actually never looked in those stores. I'm not even
sure they sell live ones....probably just frozen tails.

I'll look when I next go this week. Just curious to see if either
offer live ones. I've never noticed but then I haven't looked
either.

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On 2019-04-15 6:51 a.m., wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 08:13:00 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>
>>
>> I saw an ad in the newspaper this morning for a restaurant Easter
>> Buffet. $44 for all you can eat lobsters, snow crab, and leg of
>> lamb. Oh and children under 10 can come for half price. $22. lol
>>
>
> Once or twice a month the Casino in the downtown offers seniors an all
> you can eat lobster/prime rib for $9.99. I hear it is very good,
> have never been but keep intending to with some friends lol
>
I won't go to those places, ever!

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graham wrote:
>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 08:13:00 -0400, Gary > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I saw an ad in the newspaper this morning for a restaurant Easter
> >> Buffet. $44 for all you can eat lobsters, snow crab, and leg of
> >> lamb. Oh and children under 10 can come for half price. $22. lol
> >>
> >
> > Once or twice a month the Casino in the downtown offers seniors an all
> > you can eat lobster/prime rib for $9.99. I hear it is very good,
> > have never been but keep intending to with some friends lol
> >
> I won't go to those places, ever!

Why not, Graham?

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On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 06:55:58 -0600, graham > wrote:

>On 2019-04-15 6:51 a.m., wrote:
>> On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 08:13:00 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I saw an ad in the newspaper this morning for a restaurant Easter
>>> Buffet. $44 for all you can eat lobsters, snow crab, and leg of
>>> lamb. Oh and children under 10 can come for half price. $22. lol
>>>
>>
>> Once or twice a month the Casino in the downtown offers seniors an all
>> you can eat lobster/prime rib for $9.99. I hear it is very good,
>> have never been but keep intending to with some friends lol
>>
>I won't go to those places, ever!

I fail to see the attraction too. I played in a bridge tournament
that was held there some years ago and as I waited for my partner I
looked round and noticed all wool carpeting, chandeliers that were
probably thousands of dollars each, real quality. How do people not
look and see who pays for that?

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graham wrote:

> On 2019-04-15 6:51 a.m., wrote:
> > On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 08:13:00 -0400, Gary > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I saw an ad in the newspaper this morning for a restaurant Easter
> >> Buffet. $44 for all you can eat lobsters, snow crab, and leg of
> >> lamb. Oh and children under 10 can come for half price. $22. lol
> >>
> >
> > Once or twice a month the Casino in the downtown offers seniors an all
> > you can eat lobster/prime rib for $9.99. I hear it is very good,
> > have never been but keep intending to with some friends lol
> >
> I won't go to those places, ever!


I agree...they are "claustrophobic" and have an ugly vibe of desperation about them...I don't gamble, never have...and I ABHOR buffets in any case...

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Greg

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wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 06:55:58 -0600, graham > wrote:
>
> >On 2019-04-15 6:51 a.m., wrote:
> >> On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 08:13:00 -0400, Gary > wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> I saw an ad in the newspaper this morning for a restaurant Easter
> >>> Buffet. $44 for all you can eat lobsters, snow crab, and leg of
> >>> lamb. Oh and children under 10 can come for half price. $22. lol
> >>>
> >>
> >> Once or twice a month the Casino in the downtown offers seniors an all
> >> you can eat lobster/prime rib for $9.99. I hear it is very good,
> >> have never been but keep intending to with some friends lol
> >>
> >I won't go to those places, ever!
>
> I fail to see the attraction too. I played in a bridge tournament
> that was held there some years ago and as I waited for my partner I
> looked round and noticed all wool carpeting, chandeliers that were
> probably thousands of dollars each, real quality. How do people not
> look and see who pays for that?


Is smoking still allowed in these places, that is a REAL turn - off...

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Greg

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On 2019-04-15 8:55 a.m., graham wrote:
> On 2019-04-15 6:51 a.m., wrote:

>> Once or twice a month the Casino in the downtown offers seniors an all
>> you can eat lobster/prime rib for $9.99.Â*Â* I hear it is very good,
>> have never been but keep intending to with some friends lol
>>
> I won't go to those places, ever!

I went through the casino in Niagara Falls. I am not a gambler and did
not stop at any of the tables or machines. I have never seen a more
depressed looking bunch of people. I know quite a few people who go. A
lot of them go with the idea that they are willing to blow a certain
amount of money and consider it a night of entertainment. They all tell
you how much they win, but they don't tell you about the losses.

I had a negative role model that reminds me why I should not gamble.
Crazy Joe was a gambler. He bet on the horses, on sporting events,
played poker etc. He considered himself to be a high roller. He used
to spend a lot of time in a bar where we used to hang out. One day he
came in to the bar with money in his pocket. He live in a hotel across
the street from the bar and he owed them rent that he had to pay that
day or he was going to be evicted. He had to pay $250 and he had the
money. One of his gambling buddies bought him a beer and bet him that
$250 that he would not pay his rent. Then he challenged him to a game of
shuffle board.

Joe kept losing. He tried all the gambling stunts, like double or
nothing, and just kept losing. He lost the $250. He go evicted. He owed
his buddy $250.

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On 2019-04-15 7:04 a.m., Gary wrote:
> graham wrote:
>>
>> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 08:13:00 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I saw an ad in the newspaper this morning for a restaurant Easter
>>>> Buffet. $44 for all you can eat lobsters, snow crab, and leg of
>>>> lamb. Oh and children under 10 can come for half price. $22. lol
>>>>
>>>
>>> Once or twice a month the Casino in the downtown offers seniors an all
>>> you can eat lobster/prime rib for $9.99. I hear it is very good,
>>> have never been but keep intending to with some friends lol
>>>
>> I won't go to those places, ever!
>
> Why not, Graham?
>
They are a blot on society as well as the landscape.

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On 4/15/2019 1:25 PM, graham wrote:
> On 2019-04-15 7:04 a.m., Gary wrote:
>> graham wrote:
>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 08:13:00 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I saw an ad in the newspaper this morning for a restaurant Easter
>>>>> Buffet. $44 for all you can eat lobsters, snow crab, and leg of
>>>>> lamb. Oh and children under 10 can come for half price. $22. lol
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Once or twice a month the Casino in the downtown offers seniors an all
>>>> you can eat lobster/prime rib for $9.99.Â*Â* I hear it is very good,
>>>> have never been but keep intending to with some friends lol
>>>>
>>> I won't go to those places, ever!
>>
>> Why not, Graham?
>>
> They are a blot on society as well as the landscape.


But, but, but, you can get rich there. All you need is the right poker
hand or roll of the dice.

When I was about 12 I was at Jimmy's house one summer afternoon and we
were playing cards. Jimmy's father came home early and asked if we
wanted to learn how to play better. He gave us a lesson on gambling and
why the house always wins. The few times I was in a casino I may has
****ed away 20 bucks for entertainment value, but it is really dumb the
way people live for the fantasy of the big win.

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On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 07:50:59 -0700 (PDT), GM
> wrote:

wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 06:55:58 -0600, graham > wrote:
>>
>> >On 2019-04-15 6:51 a.m., wrote:
>> >> On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 08:13:00 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>> I saw an ad in the newspaper this morning for a restaurant Easter
>> >>> Buffet. $44 for all you can eat lobsters, snow crab, and leg of
>> >>> lamb. Oh and children under 10 can come for half price. $22. lol
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> Once or twice a month the Casino in the downtown offers seniors an all
>> >> you can eat lobster/prime rib for $9.99. I hear it is very good,
>> >> have never been but keep intending to with some friends lol
>> >>
>> >I won't go to those places, ever!
>>
>> I fail to see the attraction too. I played in a bridge tournament
>> that was held there some years ago and as I waited for my partner I
>> looked round and noticed all wool carpeting, chandeliers that were
>> probably thousands of dollars each, real quality. How do people not
>> look and see who pays for that?
>
>
>Is smoking still allowed in these places, that is a REAL turn - off...

You can't smoke here in any public building, nor can you smoke just
outside the door anymore - you have to smoke where there is a public
smoking point.

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On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 11:25:49 -0600, graham > wrote:

>On 2019-04-15 7:04 a.m., Gary wrote:
>> graham wrote:
>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 08:13:00 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I saw an ad in the newspaper this morning for a restaurant Easter
>>>>> Buffet. $44 for all you can eat lobsters, snow crab, and leg of
>>>>> lamb. Oh and children under 10 can come for half price. $22. lol
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Once or twice a month the Casino in the downtown offers seniors an all
>>>> you can eat lobster/prime rib for $9.99. I hear it is very good,
>>>> have never been but keep intending to with some friends lol
>>>>
>>> I won't go to those places, ever!
>>
>> Why not, Graham?
>>
>They are a blot on society as well as the landscape.

From what I could see, not a good habit that's for sure. We might go
once for the food but if I do, the most I would do is gamble $5 in the
machines :)

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On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 14:06:28 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 4/15/2019 1:25 PM, graham wrote:
>> On 2019-04-15 7:04 a.m., Gary wrote:
>>> graham wrote:
>>>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 08:13:00 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I saw an ad in the newspaper this morning for a restaurant Easter
>>>>>> Buffet. $44 for all you can eat lobsters, snow crab, and leg of
>>>>>> lamb. Oh and children under 10 can come for half price. $22. lol
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Once or twice a month the Casino in the downtown offers seniors an all
>>>>> you can eat lobster/prime rib for $9.99.** I hear it is very good,
>>>>> have never been but keep intending to with some friends lol
>>>>>
>>>> I won't go to those places, ever!
>>>
>>> Why not, Graham?
>>>
>> They are a blot on society as well as the landscape.
>
>
>But, but, but, you can get rich there. All you need is the right poker
>hand or roll of the dice.
>
>When I was about 12 I was at Jimmy's house one summer afternoon and we
>were playing cards. Jimmy's father came home early and asked if we
>wanted to learn how to play better. He gave us a lesson on gambling and
>why the house always wins. The few times I was in a casino I may has
>****ed away 20 bucks for entertainment value, but it is really dumb the
>way people live for the fantasy of the big win.

The odd lucky person gets a win but the persistent gamblers simply
gamble it back immediately. I went to Las Vegas with my elder
daughter (she had to go to a trade fair) and we each played $20 on the
slots. Mine was gone in minutes but she won $400 and it nicely paid
for all the shows we wanted to see :)

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On 2019-04-15 1:25 p.m., graham wrote:
> On 2019-04-15 7:04 a.m., Gary wrote:
>> graham wrote:
>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 08:13:00 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I saw an ad in the newspaper this morning for a restaurant Easter
>>>>> Buffet. $44 for all you can eat lobsters, snow crab, and leg of
>>>>> lamb. Oh and children under 10 can come for half price. $22. lol
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Once or twice a month the Casino in the downtown offers seniors an all
>>>> you can eat lobster/prime rib for $9.99.Â*Â* I hear it is very good,
>>>> have never been but keep intending to with some friends lol
>>>>
>>> I won't go to those places, ever!
>>
>> Why not, Graham?
>>
> They are a blot on society as well as the landscape.

Indeed they are. Governments have allowed them but tend to put in
places where they attract visitors. Niagara Falls casino placed where
it would attract Americans. NY state responded by putting on on their
side. There are some on Indian reservations.

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On 2019-04-15 2:25 p.m., Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2019-04-15 1:25 p.m., graham wrote:
>> On 2019-04-15 7:04 a.m., Gary wrote:
>>> graham wrote:
>>>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 08:13:00 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I saw an ad in the newspaper this morning for a restaurant Easter
>>>>>> Buffet. $44 for all you can eat lobsters, snow crab, and leg of
>>>>>> lamb. Oh and children under 10 can come for half price. $22. lol
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Once or twice a month the Casino in the downtown offers seniors an all
>>>>> you can eat lobster/prime rib for $9.99.Â*Â* I hear it is very good,
>>>>> have never been but keep intending to with some friends lol
>>>>>
>>>> I won't go to those places, ever!
>>>
>>> Why not, Graham?
>>>
>> They are a blot on society as well as the landscape.
>
> Indeed they are.Â* Governments have allowed them but tend to put in
> places where they attract visitors.Â* Niagara Falls casinoÂ* placedÂ* where
> it would attract Americans. NY state responded by putting on on their
> side.Â* There are some on Indian reservations.
>
Where they allow smoking - so the huge parking lot for the one on the
edge of Calgary is often full.

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On 2019-04-15 2:06 p.m., Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 4/15/2019 1:25 PM, graham wrote:

> But, but, but, you can get rich there.Â* All you need is the right poker
> hand or roll of the dice.
>
> When I was about 12 I was at Jimmy's house one summer afternoon and we
> were playing cards.Â* Jimmy's father came home early and asked if we
> wanted to learn how to play better.Â* He gave us a lesson on gambling and
> why the house always wins.Â* The few times I was in a casino I may has
> ****ed away 20 bucks for entertainment value, but it is really dumb the
> way people live for the fantasy of the big win.

Some people are bad gamblers. I had friend who liked to gamble. We used
to play backgammon. I am not normally a gambler, but he was so bad at
gambling that it was easy to win money from him. Betting with
backgammon is easy enough. If you win you get one point. If you get all
your men off before the opponent gets in off it is a gammon, and worth
two points, and going out while he still has a man in your inner board
is a backgammon and is double that.... 4. Then there is the doubling
cube. When it is your turn to roll you can, before rolling, double the
value. The opponent can then accept the double and whatever the score at
the end of the game is doubled, or he can decline the double and concede
the game at the current value. The opponent must double you before you
can double him again. Simple enough.

We usually played for $1 a game. There were many times when he was way
ahead of me and heading for a gammon or maybe even a backgammon, and,
sure that he was going to win, would double me. I would decline the
double and concede the one point. I would lose $1 rather than playing
it out for a minimum of $2 and possibly $4. He was a sucker for a
double. If I was way ahead I could double him and gammon him. If he had
followed my strategy he would lost $1 instead of $4. There were many
times when he won more games than I did, but I would win more money.
While I was always pretty confident about my ability to win the game, I
would not try that doubling tactic with anyone else.

He was equally bad at lotteries. We once went to a party in a bar in
Niagara Falls NY and bought some Empire State Lottery tickets. I bought
one for a $ and won $10. I pocketed the money. I played all night and
every time he won he used the winnings to buy more tickets. Then when he
crapped out on those tickets he would buy some more. In his mind he wone
a couple hundred bucks. In reality, he spent $150 on tickets in addition
to the ones he won.

Another time I was on a coffee break with a co-worker who bought a $5
scratch ticket. He scratched it and won a free ticket. He scratched
that one a couple more tickets. He scratched them and won a couple more.
He ended up with 5 tickets in addition to the one he paid $5. He was
thrilled with the win. When the night of the big draw came along he had
his 5 tickets in hand. He didn't win anything, but he was still a
winner with those 5 extra tickets. That is how casinos and lotteries
make so much money.

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The closest casino to me...Riverside, Iowa...is fairly new. Smoking is allowed on the
gaming floors, but not anywhere else. The air handlers should be top of the line and
powerful enough to handle anything. BUT! The minute you walk through the front door,
cigarette smoke is all you can smell.

The buffet is about 75 yards down a hall, around a large curve. It is beautifully decorated
by colored fountains, fancy logos, lights, etc., including a large circle in an intersection of
several hallways where you can stand in the very center and yell as loudly as you can,
and it is not heard anywhere else, including just outside the marked center.

In any event, by the time you get to your table in the area where the buffet is, you don't smell
the smoke anymore. Still, that initial whiff at the entrance to the whole thing is a real turnoff.

(The food is very good, and changed/refreshed promptly. The servers clear used plates and
utensils very quickly, replacing utensils as necessary, plus refilling glasses with whatever you
are drinking.)

N.

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On Monday, April 15, 2019 at 6:35:06 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
>
> Another time I was on a coffee break with a co-worker who bought a $5
> scratch ticket. He scratched it and won a free ticket. He scratched
> that one a couple more tickets. He scratched them and won a couple more.
>
I bought a scratch off ticket once and my prize was another scratch off
ticket, that one was for another free ticket. The third ticket was dud.
Oh well, I lost a dollar and of course I'd rather have won a dollar.

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On Monday, April 15, 2019 at 7:12:03 PM UTC-5, Nancy2 wrote:
>
> The closest casino to me...Riverside, Iowa...is fairly new. Smoking is allowed on the
> gaming floors, but not anywhere else. The air handlers should be top of the line and
> powerful enough to handle anything. BUT! The minute you walk through the front door,
> cigarette smoke is all you can smell.
>
> The buffet is about 75 yards down a hall, around a large curve. It is beautifully decorated
> by colored fountains, fancy logos, lights, etc., including a large circle in an intersection of
> several hallways where you can stand in the very center and yell as loudly as you can,
> and it is not heard anywhere else, including just outside the marked center.
>
> In any event, by the time you get to your table in the area where the buffet is, you don't smell
> the smoke anymore. Still, that initial whiff at the entrance to the whole thing is a real turnoff.
>
> (The food is very good, and changed/refreshed promptly. The servers clear used plates and
> utensils very quickly, replacing utensils as necessary, plus refilling glasses with whatever you
> are drinking.)
>
> N.
>
The few casino buffets I've eaten at were topnotch. Like you said, fresh
and replenished often with waitstaff promptly removing dirty dishes, and
a selection to choose from to please anyone.

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On 2019-04-15 9:55 p.m., wrote:
> On Monday, April 15, 2019 at 7:12:03 PM UTC-5, Nancy2 wrote:
>.
>>
> The few casino buffets I've eaten at were topnotch. Like you said, fresh
> and replenished often with waitstaff promptly removing dirty dishes, and
> a selection to choose from to please anyone.
>


A good friend of mine frequently goes to the buffet at the Niagara Falls
Casino. It isn't cheap, but it is good.

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In article >,
> wrote:

> If I am going to eat crab, I like Dungeness crabs, plenty of meat in
> them and particularly the claws, rather like lobbies.

Two thumbs up.

leo

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In article >, Ed Pawlowski
> wrote:

> When I was about 12 I was at Jimmy's house one summer afternoon and we
> were playing cards. Jimmy's father came home early and asked if we
> wanted to learn how to play better. He gave us a lesson on gambling and
> why the house always wins. The few times I was in a casino I may has
> ****ed away 20 bucks for entertainment value, but it is really dumb the
> way people live for the fantasy of the big win.

I have lived all my life in a twenty-four hour a day gambling state. I
did gamble a little at blackjack and craps when young. I was done
gambling by thirty.
Why? I hate to lose twenty bucks more than I like winning a hundred. A
wise little birdie whispered in my ear, "cheap, cheap, cheap".

leo

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On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 10:44:44 -0400, Gary > wrote:

>Bruce wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 17:41:48 -0600, U.S. Janet B. >
>> wrote:
>>
>> >On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 16:20:04 -0700 (PDT), "
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >>On Friday, April 12, 2019 at 2:03:41 PM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Get outta here with all that. I've done all the shopping for over
>> >>> 30 years. Never encountered anything like that. I'm serious too,
>> >>> Joan.
>> >>>
>> >>You have lead a v.e.r.y sheltered life is all I can say.
>> >
>> >he's quite the little housewife.
>>
>> Lucretia, she's putting down housewives.
>
>Lucretia, have you eaten any beloved lobsters lately? Probably a
>decent price where you live but way too overpriced here. Most
>all the time, $14.99/lb here.

I looked just now when I was in the supermarket, $14.00 crawling,
$16.99 cooked. Season ends May 31st.

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On 2019-04-16 8:11 a.m., Gary wrote:
> wrote:
>>
>> Gary wrote:
>>> Lucretia, have you eaten any beloved lobsters lately? Probably a
>>> decent price where you live but way too overpriced here. Most
>>> all the time, $14.99/lb here.
>>
>> I looked just now when I was in the supermarket, $14.00 crawling,
>> $16.99 cooked. Season ends May 31st.
>
> Yikes. That sounds high for your area.

But that's ~US$10.50 and 12.75.

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Leo, I gambled in Monaco (promptly quit when my $20 self-imposed limit was gone), and also
in one of those old mining towns in the hills of Colorado...same result). We went to the
Riverside Casino just to check out the food.

I always thought gambling was the equivalent of just throwing your money out the window.

N.