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It’s been a crazy week for me this week, I hit my 40 hour mark yesterday already. I wanted to get a couple projects wrapped up by yesterday, and we finished the last one last night. Kiddo is off of school today and tomorrow, so I wanted to be able to stay home both days.
The fall walleye rush hasn’t quite started yet, at least not around this area (Any day now!). Until then, we can always go bird hunting. I’m guessing we’ll do a little of both over the next few days.
The Vikings-49ers game is approaching, and I feel the same way about this game as I felt about the Chiefs game as it approached. This team has shown that it can hang tough with good opponents, so let’s hope they can somehow snag a W on Monday. If they do, the season will look much different than it did just a couple weeks ago.
Minnesota Vikings Discussion Topic of the Day
Rumor has it that the Jaguars are interested in Danielle Hunter. Should the Vikings consider trading their star pass rusher? If not, why not? If so, what is the minimum offer (in terms of draft picks) you would consider?
Hunter will be 29 in about 10 days. He currently leads the NFL in sacks, and looks to be back in prime form, as he was prior to missing a couple seasons due to injury. His current contract is set to expire at the end of 2023, and he has dead money in 2024 due to a void year. If the Vikings would trade him, they would save about $11.5 million in 2023 cap space, while incurring dead cap hits of ~ $9.5 million in 2023 and $14.9 million in 2024 (void year).
Minnesota Vikings News:
MSN speculates about potential Danielle Hunter trade scenarios.
Vikings.com has a preview of the upcoming Vikings-49ers matchup.
NFL.com reports that the Jets are trading WR Mecole Hardman to the Chiefs, and Trevor Lawrence is questionable to play against the Saints this week due to a knee injury.
CBS Sports lists ten NFL players who need to be traded prior to the trade deadline.
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It’s a very good thing I’m not a politician.
If I were, and going to make a big speech tonight on the Middle East. I’d mention that Iran’s oil fields are going bye bye.
Let them fund terror with sand.
Maybe we should stop sending Iran billions of dollars.
That’s for sure!
“Powerful: Columbia Professor Calls Out American Universities for Allowing ‘Pro-Terror’ Demonstrations”
Bravo!
Wow spot on.
Kathy Excellent. Hope this guy has tenure.
Right, but we need more brave people to speak up. Pro-terrorists is never OK. Saw some independent reporters interviewing protestors saying, will you condemn the rape of teenage girls and the murder of innocent women and children? Not one of them would.
You know Kathy read your comment below – I’n scared for my children like you and agree with norseman’s comment about society.
I realized I stand around and bitch a lot but don’t do very much – all talk. So, have jointed a couple of Pac’s and doing some volunteer work. Figure every little bit helps and hope more will just standup and do whatever they can. Big task, takes many, many hands.
Good for you, agree! We all must do something to try to save our country. This is no longer red vs. blue. This is everyday Americans vs. the corrupt establishment elite globalists and marxists. There are plenty of corrupt establishment RINOs too. At least we now know who they all are. At a minimum, call or email your local representatives and let your voice be heard. Even better, get involved like you are doing.
Final thought. Can’t do much about the folks on the other side. But, at a minimum. we can get after the folks that are supposed to be “on our side.”
Amen!
Did see a law firm rescind offers to graduating law students who signed a pro Hamas letter.
thought it was great and several big donors have stopped donations to many of these schools.
Oh, I forgot, I did see that too. It’s a start, need more.
I get this dude, i see a societal collapse. Not a fan of aging but this is as good of time to do it. Problem is the kids and their kids. If what you see out there doesn’t frighten you nothing will.
I’m terrified for my daughter and grands.
Seems to be no sense of urgency on what’s going on. You don’t pass a bill to fix people. Yes, you see a pic of a granddaughter preschool so happy and you just wonder.
Gross.
I can’t remember who is the optometrist on here…if you are around, I assume an optometrist could detect and grade posterior capsular opacification?
Bless you.
i have 20/20 visions and murals with metaphors….
if that counts
Butthole eyes?
I assume they could, but would likely refer to an ophthalmologist for treatment.
Yeah, my wife has it but my home shop acts like patients calling with questions like hey dr x is my ophthalmologist and he told me to call if this happened…have leprosy.
The bank discussion reminds me of something that was said at med staff…a recently minted doc that moved here from MN was asking if the hospital would hire a security guard to help deal with belligerent family or patients…hahaha…we just come en masse when they call a security alert. I’ve seen little 5’4″ nurses stare down big ol’ 300 pound good ol’ boys.
Good for you guys….safety in numbers.
My family was once dealt with by a hospital security guard. Long story for another day.
I found the bank discussion interesting on several levels. First, the mask mandates and then some rather poor banking processes.
Having been involved in similar type situations, I’d just suggest to everyone there are a few more things involved here.
I actually was involved in a very similar situation – but it was “unmasking policy” that caused quite a stir. Some of these things are complicated.
Hmm…not everything is black and white…most situations are nuanced….
NAH! NOT BUYING IT.
For example, this is quite an outlier. This lady was smart, articulate and knew her stuff. 999 times out of 1000 when police are called in this type of thing, a customer is abusing other customers and/or employees.
Yes, but she was being rather stubborn and non compliant. Which I did very much appreciate, but I get what you are saying…very unusual for the cops to come into a relatively peaceful situation.
Totally and this being videoed was a bit of a flag to me.
This was also a federal regulated bank even though it resides in a state with sometimes competing rules.
We’ve evolved to masking only when there is an outbreak in our building, but there are a few employees who choose to continue wearing one.
They are of Asian heritage. Way back in ’91 when I was stationed in Korea you would commonly see the Koreans wearing them, so I assume it’s a cultural thing and their families are accustomed to wearing them.
Is it wrong that I mock people who drive alone in cars and wear a mask, or people who mask up when walking alone outside.
I feel like it is wrong to make fun of someone with such obviously limited intelligence, but I do it anyway.
Do it.
I and most will support you.
I remember that.
Kids masks had little cartoon characters on them.
Mostly during cold and flu season.
We had a strange situation happen to us.
We operated several branches in some tough areas that got robbed several times. Last one, teller and customer got shot. Bothe perp had big hats and sunglasses on making id’s hard with our cameras. Working with local law enforcement, we adopted a policy no hats/sunglasses on doing business inside.
Rather soon after, a group of a particular religious persuation showed up with all their head gear – and with full camera coverage from the local TV stations.
A well intended policy to protect people got quickly trashed..
It amazes me that people can’t see the forest for the trees.
When there was that shooting in an Ennis MT bar parking lot the shooter claimed he would finish the job at the hospital. They had a couple good ole’boys at each entrance with hunting rifles.
Was she partially hiding a realllllllly long syringe that he could see?
Gotta say, I enjoyed the discussion today. A lot of the flavor of the old DN. This has filled me with optimism and I have now decided Vikes will win on MNF by blocking the game winning FG.
You are off work for the day and have started your self medication, right?
Exactly!
Life is good, I would have a celebratory whiskey but I have a church meeting to attend so I will have to wait.
There are religions more tolerant WRT alcohol.
Yes, there are Christian denominations more tolerant towards alcohol than the one I ascribe to…but it is a small sacrifice to wait a few hours to imbibe.
True, just kidding around. Both my Grandmothers were Southern Baptists and alcohol was completely tabo.
Know how to keep a Mormon from drinking your beer when you go hunting?
Zactly…I have heard that told with Baptists as wel!
Good times for sure. Nice to disagree with someone without my cognitive function being called into question.
I said yesterday, the only category we have the advantage over the 9’ers in is the number of WRs with a J in their name. We have no reasonable chance of winning that game, therefore Vikings by 7.
You are a fool and an idiot and likely only gainfully employed because you knew someone who knew someone.
I think our punter is better, and maybe our long snapper.
And KOC is better looking and taller than Shanahan.
Taller for sure…
“better looking” is subjective.
Since he’s our coach and I’m biased, I’m voting for KOC.
Guess McCaffrey, Samuel and perhaps Williams availability significant. Not heard anything, think injury reports pushed back a day.
well that’s bad news
i’m going to mark your first post as misinformation
Subaru Update…So the guy called me back and said they had no intention of charging me for all of that stuff. So the 5700 Bill is really a 3,000 dollar bill.
There is a lot that went wrong here but to me this is an equitable compromise.
For now NoDak, stay tuned.
I know…until I drive it the 100 miles from Bismarck I won’t quite trust that it is fixed.
Good luck! 🙏
Will have to see if the problem is actually fixed.
yeah right??
Glad you had some success. Hope car runs well after all of this.
Good job speaking up for yourself. Hopefully it’s actually fixed. They replaced the control panel on our new furnace today, no charge. We’ll see if it’s actually fixed.
Yeah,thanks Kathy, I won’t really feel comfortable until the work is done, the engineers check it out and I make it back to Minot with no issues.
Old ‘Why Not Minot’. It bring back memories, some actually good.
Hopefully you won’t have to make that trip before winter hits. Don’t want as sketchy car up north in the winter.
SoCal, its going to be a nice winter! What with that Spanish chick in the ocean and the Global Warming, I bet it doesn’t get to 30 below this winter.
We have a locums sonographer in our department born and raised in AZ…has never seen snow, and she just signed up to come back and enjoy January and February with us. She is worried about the cold and snow, told her I would choose 1000 times to spend January and February in GDV over July and August in Phoenix.
Ya got that right….you can keep putting on layers, but there is only so much you can take off.
I remember my FIL telling a So Cal boy during his first ND winter.
‘If your hands are cold you are either poor or stupid.’
I miss that old Doc.
Ha! Perfect.
One of my soon to retire partners told me a story about a buddy of his from California who was doing anesthesiology residency in Rochester same time my friend was doing rads. His wife was expecting any day and he gets a call, “it’s time”. Said he went out to his VW Beetle and it was all iced up, he didn’t have a scraper so he used a credit card to scrape a 6 inch porthole in the driver side window. Said the drive home was precarious to say the least. My retiring partner said well by the time you scraped that little amount the defroster was probably warming the car enough to clear the windows:
“Ah, D, that is how I know you are from ND…you would have started the car”!
LOL
Had a German neighbor threaten to call the cops on me for doing that in Stuttgart.
They were that ‘green’ almost 30yrs ago.
Loved visiting Stuttgart. We were about 100 clicks away, south of Karlsruhe just outside Rastatt.
Started in the north near the Schloss, had apartment in the east near the river, moved to the middle when they deactivated my Battalion and ended up in the south when they closed everything but the SF and their support.
All of those names escape me now since it has been so long and I am old now.
Some people are “green”, some people are just jerks. In my experience, a lot of “green” people are just jerks.
Yeah he came outside at 5:30 in the morning to tell me not to run my car/defrost during a blizzard or he was going to call the cops.
Figure more likely full Green Virtue Signaling, he probably wanted to tell his buds how he got an American to stop the engine and therefore he saved the planet.
No arguments about Green often = jerks.
Just watch all of the ‘Stop Oil’ morons blocking traffic.
My son and dil were in Germany just before and during Covid. My son in in the military. My dil’s opinion of the Germans is that they love rules. But as in all places, you have people that are cool and people that are dicks.
They have very strong opinions.
When I was there the first time the wife was preggers.
Germans believed she should stay at home.
We got lots of dirty looks and chewed out a couple times before we knew the language well enough to understand what was being said.
‘feeding chocolate to a dog will make them go blind’
‘reheated mushrooms are poisonous’
‘people who don’t drink beer have something wrong with them and are not to be trusted’
So many wrong opinions.
But it’s a ‘dry heat’.
And after 4 years of Ft Hood Tx I know that it does make a difference.
Farmers (LMAO) says colder and snowier. El Nino says warmer. I predict dark tonight.
Correct.
WAG’s presented as credible weather info.
Ha! Farmers Almanac is nothing but made up shit. NOAA at least has some science behind it.
Ahhh a mild winter for you then.
Plan a trip that way after The Teachers retirement and our move to Idaho to visit son and DIL.
I have been to Idaho once for vacation. Loved it.
errr meant ‘hopefully make that trip before winter hits’.
Nicely done.
It best come washed, waxed, detailed, with a new air freshener hanging from the rear view, a spare in the glove box and a free coupon to Sizzler in the bill jacket….
glad to hear you’re not getting (completely) hosed….
Sizzler? You must be a left coaster.
Nope. Just saw ‘White Men Can’t Jump’ too many times…..
Closed our Sizzler, it is now a Mexican Restaurant.
Sigh, would think we have enough Mexican Restaurants around.
Yeah, not a complete victory, this last guy I dealt with was really nice.
It feels like they just pushed the tip in but didn’t thrust.
Ha!
“The malarkey stops here. And the Fondling Starts”
“Groping victim sold separately.”
LMAO
I missed the words! Thanks for pointing that out.
👍
I couldn’t get the full tweet to show up.
You gotta click it to see it.
Todays summary: Buy Carshield
Think 9ers D handles us easily. KOC will be out coached. Mattison will be targeted 57 times.
57 seems like an odd number.
58
carshield? aka just stick to toyota….
i don’t think i have heard anyone say “so my toyota kept having issues” ever…
Warranty expiration needs to be addressed. I’m retired, just lease. It breaks here you go, fix it.
I got my previous Tacoma here and after 6 months the battery crapped out.
Truck was still under warranty so I took it back to the dealer and they said ‘Well the car was on the lot for 6mo before you bought it so it’s warranty has expired’.
Bumper to Bumper my ass.
Correct.
Warranty is likely only good for the engine, tranny, and the electronic control box.
In So Cal you don’t have to go to the dealership if you want ‘Tranny’ work done.
Haha
My ’07 Tacoma is going strong.
My ’02 Celica before that did as well.
Dealership Service Dept suck but cars are good.
That’s the issue.
Using a dealer to fix your car.
Works sometimes while under warranty but after that not so much.
Watching Biden might be a good view tonight.
Could be some major gaffs after traveling to Israel and back.
that’s kind of a “sick” goodness though. The rest of the world is watching the ineptness of our fearless leader. Be they’ll be shaking.
Just heard for the third time today detroit has the best oline – thought we did.
Also, heard a couple of interesting things about WR’s
Have heard several times we have a deep WR room with a lot of playmakers. But, then I heard this.
Couple of former NFL players were talking about CeeDee Lamb and saying he wasn’t a playmaker. They believe all NFL receivers should be able to like run a 10 yard pattern and catch the ball. But, playmakers can break tackles, make people miss and turn that into a 35 or so yard game. Playmaking is more than ordinary.
We have JJ. Made me wonder do we really have any other playmakers on the team
Cook did that a few times last year.
This year, unless you count fumble ‘scoop and score’, not so much.
No, JJ is it.
Unfortunately, I agree. I’ve got hopes that Addison will be – kid looks explosive, fast and agile despite the small size. That’s not to say they can’t move the ball – we do have effective chain-movers in Hock (when he catches the ball) and KJ (same) it’s the chunk plays that will be hard to replicate without #18 – if there’s a guy to do it, it’s Addison.
I am worried about Addison getting rock due to his small size.
Hopefully they will keep the crossing routes over the middle to a minimum.
Hock broke a few tackles last year too, but doesn’t have the juice to turn a broken tackle into 35 extra yards. And he has done next to nothing this year.
I would say JJ is it.
The problem is that he has to actually catch the ball first.
This does seem to be a challenge
He’s not athletic enough nor does he have the vertical to reel in the high ones Kirk has been serving up to him.
Since MT always just dabbles at the top and never dives all the way in to the comments, I will leave this picture up here for him.
You work the salt mines, me I’m the canal mule:
That doesnt look like a bad gig.
Looks like a nice walk.
As long as the weather is nice.
Hopefully NLNVF isn’t one of the Delta Force guys that the sniffer doxed last night.
Hope and pray for all our troops with our existing CiC.
Yeah. Did you see the latest video of him? His chin is completely different. Mumbling was the same but something is wrong with his face.
After watching him sitting there trying(poorly) to read his notes in meeting with Bibi, have decided to not watch any more.
Tonight’s double talking speech would be just too much for me – don’t like to drink that much late at night.
What he said in the one I saw wasn’t as concerning as there is something visibly, physically wrong with him, or it’s a poor body double.
Oh, for sure he is slipping and it’s happening at a pretty fast pace. Especially noticeable after trips when he can’t rest up for a few days.
They’ll have him polished up tonight.
No worries. Hunter will take care of the polishing.
Adderall and titrated doses of pharmaceutical grade methamphetamines.
Or ritilin.
A dr friend gave me a little tip – try to notice how dilated his eyes are tonight.
Stroke?
I’m not a medical professional so I have no idea, but something ain’t right.
Looks like the AI bots chin slipped out of place
Irony is that he was actually more articulate on the right compared to his normal performances.
The rubber band on the back of his neck that pulled all of his loose flesh tight fell off. That’s all.
Body Double is more mental fit?
I found Lifer and figured out why he hasn’t been around.
How much gas and oil did Greta burn to get to the conference, in order to protest gas and oil?
“Do as I say, not as I do!”
Hypocrisy is a virtue……
Greta 1:1
I saw this and now I’m hungry for hot dish
Spam and eggs!
What a waste of tater tots.
My mother would often inflict that cruel punishment on me, coming home from school to smell the delectable odor of frying potatoes………only to spring that……..GLUMP underneath them on me!
Oughtta be a law……
I hated it as a kid, but my wife actually makes it pretty good. Using breakfast sausage instead of plain hamburger helps.
I was never a fan of spam.
My dad loved it. Grew up in the depression/WWII era though.
Spam is disgusting. My buddies dad fried some a couple of years ago at hunting camp and the smell made me nauseous. The taste made me throw up.
That was part of our rotation growing up. Fried spam, scalloped potatoes and those disgusting peas in a can.
Fried spam sandwiches were awesome – fried crispy but not burnt. Swipe of Miracle Whip, 2 slices of Wonder. BOOM. Lunch
I just vomited a little.
I used to make the kids open faced Spam burgers. Half a hamburger bun, a layer of Spam and cheese on top. I would warm them in the oven and then use the broiler for a minute or so to crisp up the bun.
We didn’t have much money growing up, but thankfully my parents never put me through that sort of torture. SOS and tuna melts, but no Spam.
You know, in some cultures they only eat vomit.
I’ve never been there, but I read about it.
In a book.
Right up there with fried bologna!
My grandma would make us fried braunschweiger sandwiches as a treat. Way better than Spam.
With red onions? I would agree.
Spam is a fantastic breakfast food, like a spam and egg sammy or scrambled eggs and diced spam.
Hot dish is fantastic, though in SD where I grew up they called it casserole
A casserole is what you cook a hotdish in.
a hot dish is what you cook a casserole in
We have Rocky Mountain Oysters.
i wish five was here for the subaru discussion.
it would go something like this:
hey beta boys, try buying a real car next time.
five out
Ha!
LMAO
As he drives his little half ton, wearing his skinny jeans and sipping an IPA.
Have you ever taken a moment to look at the evolution of a half ton? A 1975 F150 is smaller than my 2011 Ranger. My long bed super crew F-150 feels like parking a bus in a tight parking lot.
Yeah, I just liked giving him crap when he screamed about driving a manly vehicle and being so manly while driving what was likely a 6 cylinder half ton.
5 drinks session beers and seltzers
Awesome!
Love it!
in the words of the immortal beastie boys
YOU GOTTA FIGHT, FOR YOUR RIGHT, TO deposit checks, apparently
Just to clarify, this happened yesterday? If it happened in say May of 2020 I would have a different opinion.
would your opinion change if there was, like she states, zero mask mandate in the state?
Of course not, because it is up to the business policy…think hospital or clinic.
would you opinion change if she got the 200k in 1’s and made it rain?
How about in 100’s, then I would do a sexy dance in my scrubs and lab coat.
They can have their policy, but then fork over the money.
Trouble is there are laws that actually do protect the bank from having to shell out a lot of cash all at once. – goes back to runs on the bank during the depression.
Cashier’s check is fine by me. Just give me my money and close my accounts. I will be taking my business elsewhere.
Exactly. She just wanted to be difficult to make a point.
And she made it well.
Liked her response when the cop asked her to ‘hang out for a few’ so she could get some info.
‘Am I under arrest? No? then I will be going as I have work to do’.
Believe me, the bank wouldn’t have just written a cashiers check easily either.
That would work. And that’s why the teller should have immediately gotten the Mgr over there right off the bat.
I believe the Mgr said in the Video that he apologized for the delay and stated that was ‘with another customer’.
Doubt it was true. More likely he couldn’t be bothered until the police were on site and he realized the bank might lose a decent sized customer. All of which would reflect poorly on him. So he got off azz and handled the situation, aka gave in.
I actually have a bit of an addiction to the YT videos of people standing their ground at DUI checkpoints, immigration check points, etc…there are times I would refuse say I’m pulled over for failing to signal and they ask to search my car but 95% of the time I personally would answer their question with a quick yes or no, roll down the window instead of having it open a teensy crack, etc….
In this particular case I might have just gone to the drive through window and asked to close my account. Actually with $200,000 I would probably just set up an account at another bank and then either have it transferred or just write a cheque for the whole amount to the new bank. And…I would never pipe off on a video that I have that much money in the bank to a peace officer. Sounds entitled.
But hey she had her fifteen minutes of fame.
Also, no way as a non lawyer I would jet after the cop told me to stick around unless they actually told me “you’re free to go”.
If I’m not under arrest or being held for investigative detention of an actual crime, then I am free to leave. If you don’t like it, arrest me. Not sure what you’d arrest me for since I’m not resisting arrest as you’ve said so especially as a lawyer, I’ll see ya in court.
Seems like Trespassing was the crime.
Bank asked her to leave for violating their policy about masking and she refused.
She was making a point, stuck to it and got the service she originally asked for.
Bank expected her (and everyone else) to comply to their unnecessary mask mandate and she made them eat it.
All and all I say ‘good for her’.
She asked the cop if there was a crime and they said no. She wanted her money and she would leave. At that point the were stealing 200k from her as much as she was trespassing.
Just re-listened and Cop never said ‘no crime’, she tried to explain that the bank asked her to leave based on her not adhering to their mask mandate.
Based on her explanation it sounded like Trespass.
Yes, once the bank rep instructs her to leave the property and she refuses, it becomes trespass.
Exactly my point.
Not expressed a well as you did though.
We dealt with a situation like that a month ago here at the nursing home (if you can believe that).
A family member came and was creating a public nuisance, disturbing all the other residents who live here.
The cops who arrived to help with the situation said they could not remove the offending person until one of us staff members asked the person point blank to leave the property.
‘no way as a non lawyer I would jet after the cop told me to stick around’
But you could ask if you were ‘free to go’. And if they said no you could clarifications about arrest/detained/explaination/etc.
Right. That’s exactly what I did years ago when I got pulled over for rolling through a stop sign at the airport loop in Spokane. Gave me a warning chatted about Montana and I asked if I was free to go and he said no we are visiting, why are you in such a hurry? Now a lawyer living in Spokane might relish driving away and dealing with the consequences because they like being in court as much as I like being in the hospital, on my side of the room so to speak. Whereas little old me would be driving to Spokane to plead my “leaving the scene” case, paying for a hotel, lawyer, etc…
Said oh I remembered I was supposed to pick up an auto part from my B-I-L’s business back thataway and I have a flight to catch at blah he said OK you’re free to go. Just don’t let me catch you going through another stop sign.
Correct, no need being confrontational.
I got pulled over for speeding (I was) coming home from a late shift.
Complied with everything the Sheriff wanted and said ‘yes or no Sir’ to all of his requests.
Figured he was just doing his job and I didn’t ‘deserve’ anything just because I was a Correctional Officer.
At the end of it he actually said ‘I am letting you off with a warning because you were polite, compliant and didn’t expect special treatment. That is rare for you guys from the prison’.
I thanked him and wished him a safe shift.
Always be respectful when dealing with law enforcement, especially when they pull you over for breaking a traffic rule.
“Yes Sir, No Sir” is the way to go.
Don’t complain about the other people going faster, or how nobody comes to a complete stop.
You broke the rules, own it.
Exactly – being respectful goes a long way.
Amen.
No different than the No Shirt/No Shoes = No Service rule.
Are the cops called to enforce it though?
And I would point out, a paying customer can walk away and not spend their money. When your money is in the bank, that’s completely different IMO.
No, because it’s been a thing so long that society has accepted it.
Masks are new, so people are gonna push back.
Don’t get me wrong, I freak’n hate wearing one, but if that’s the business’s policy to do business in their establishment, I have 2 choices – wear it, or go elsewhere.
Agreed. But are you going to leave $200,000 in the business you gonna walkout on?
Nope, but since I don’t own the bank, I don’t make their policies on how to close out an account, nor am I allowed to change them.
She was trying to take option 2.
Again, on her own terms, not the bank’s.
There’s policies in place for closing accounts, documents to sign, and no, they’re not going to hand over $200000 in cash.
It should never happen. Period MT.
Yep yep. I’m sure you stood your ground on flights during the pandemic and when you visited the hospital.
Regarding the timeline, she did say (paraphrasing) “I did that for a year, I’m not doing that anymore”, i.e. she complied with mask mandates for a year. Therefore, I don’t know if it was yesterday when it was posted, but it wasn’t in 2020.
This is why you encourage employees (tellers) to use their brains.
Not a good look when cops make up rules that are not laws…..
Good video
Correct.
Would a cop enforce a business rule the cop didn’t like?
They take the ‘law’ and stretch it until it fits what they want to do.
Saw it in prison a lot but then ‘inmates’ by law have less rights.
My on-going saga with Subaru of Mandan continues.
I take it there in early July for some suspension and break work, they talk me into a full engine tune up (preventative) it has 125,000 miles on it.
Two weeks later I am driving in the middle of nowhere (near Linton) on a Saturday, and it starts shaking horribly and the dashboard light is a flashing.
I have it towed to Mandan Subaru. I say whats up just had a tune up, what the hell? they say they will check it out. I leave it there and catch a ride back to Minot.
1 week latter they claim its a sticky clutch valve and the tires need to be rotated. I say I don’t think so but they are sure. I say be sure to test drive it cause I don’t want to be halfway between Bismarck and Minot and have it fail. They say they did and its ready to go. $450.
I have my co-worker pick it up as in Mandan to drive it back to Minot. He says there is something horribly wrong with your car. Once he got passed Washburn, it started shaking horribly and the dashboard lights started flashing. He slowed down to 30mph and drove it the rest of the way to Minot.
So now I am a little pissed off, I call Mandan Subaru and tell them they had not fixed the problem, just as I had suspected, what are they going to do about it? They have it towed back to Mandan.
I hear nothing for two or three weeks. Finally I receive a text message, they say its the T orque converter and it will cost $2,200 to fix. I set up a meeting with the service manager to discuss. Nice fellow, good discussion, he says because of all I have been through he will fix it for $1,300 – the cost of the parts. I say great, lets do it.
About a week later I get call from a service tech says the parts are in and should they fix it? I say yes, I had already approved it with the service manager. Turns out the service manager fled the scene moved back to Kansas City shortly after my meeting.
I hear nothing for 2 or 3 weeks. I finally leave a message with the general manager. The next day I get a text from a service tech…”Oh, it looks like a valves was damaged when the torque converter went out. That will need to be fixed. We have the parts here to do it, just give us the go ahead – total cost including the torque converter $5,200″. I say no, please send me a detailed quote.
I hear nothing for 2 or 3 weeks. Finally I call and someone in their service area picks up. He says they have had a lot of turnover and he is handling my car at this point. We talk briefly about the history of what my car has been through and he confirms the 5,200 repair estimate. I tell him I need a detailed quote He says no problem he will get one right out to me, he leaves me his direct phone number and text number.
A week passes and I hear nothing. I text the guy back and call and leave a message with the guy and I hear nothing.
Yesterday, I get an estimate from their ‘assistant service director’, although its not detailed it at least breaks down the costs a bit. Here is what they want.
For a grand total of $5,700. and the car was fine before I had them do a tune up.
At this point they are waiting for my approval to fix the valve.
I will try to talk to them, but this is probably headed to small claims court.
See if you can get on People’s Court. She’s easy on the eyes.
I will do my best North! Did you say she has nice eyes? funny but I hadn’t noticed.
I like freckles!
Hers look tasty.
Sucks going through that.
Whenever someone “recommends” something on my car for something unrelated to what it’s in for, I always say no.
A couple of years ago I bring in my KIA for an oil change, and they recommend new tires and a front axle. $1,500 estimate. I said no. Almost 3 years later, tires and axel are fine.
That blows. No fun getting into those kind of sagas with them people. It’s a drain.
Oh my, that’s awful, sorry. Son in law went through nightmare with his new truck, and now our new furnace isn’t working. At least the furnace is still under warranty. They say the control panel is defective. Waiting for parts.
Dude, that’s fucked! Do you feel it’s a Subaru issue or that particular dealer? My parents have a 2020 or 2021 new Subaru, Assent. They love it but the transmission (wanted put shorten to to tranny but had to erase it because I knew how those comments would go with this chuckle hut around here lol) has been doing weird shit. My mom was a mechanic and service manager for decades, she knows her shit. But Subaru is telling them there’s nothing wrong it’s just how they are, they won’t fix it. Scares my mom because of my dad’s health and they are both older if something were to go out while they travel cross country to sell my mom’s seasoning. I love my Subaru and apparently they all have the same tranny basically.
‘they all have the same tranny basically.’
He/she/it must get tired.
(you called it)
Sounds like every Subaru dealership I’ve heard of.
Edge, I don’t know, I haven’t really dealt with Subaru before, I have always had it to the local shop.
I was looking at the Subaru Ascent. Decent ride and my neighbor has one.
CVT tranny is all of them now. I wonder if that is the issue?
Was getting my car smog-ed and was chatting with other customers in the waiting room.
We were discussing how bad the dealerships have gotten.
One guy told me he took is pickup into the dealership to be checked and after the initial paperwork he sat on the tailgate to wait. After 90m he called the service department to see about his ‘diagnostics’ and they told him.
‘Yeah, just got done and the estimate is $1,600’. He replied ‘I have with my truck since I dropped it off and no one has been here to check it, go ahead and cancel the work order and I will come in a get the keys’.
Everyone in the waiting room had a similar tale.
I believe that they dealership sees car owners as cows that need to be ‘milked regularly’. I have a shop that I trust and I go to whenever anything is needed.
Yep. That’s the key.
Yep. Chevy dealership in Billings, nothing but crooks. I make the 20 minute drive to Laurel and they are awesome. Never had a single issue and they actually fix what’s wrong.
Dealership gave me a $2k estimate for some ‘word salad’ repair estimate, took it to a small shop recommended by a neighbor. Bad spark plug wire, $70 to replace it plus the diagnostics.
Been with them ever since.
Yes sir.
Like Bow, I still drive 30 miles to my mechanic of choice.
Too bad Lifer is a quitter, he’s the resident Subaroo “expert” around here, I think he’s even “certified”
*Certifiable. That’s why he quit.
Unbelievable. That sucks Rube. You deserve better. Not dealing with honest people.
Sorry to hear that NDR…I really don’t have anything to add but as with everything else the “supply chain issues” affect part availability and that drives up prices.
I myself have had the tale of two Subarus. I traded in my 4Runner way back when for a new 2004 Forester, had that car while I was putting in miles interviewing for residency and while I was in Rochester, loved that car, never gave me a lick of trouble.
I also had a 1994 SVX that I bought just before med school, that car was a f’ing nightmare and putting money into it while I was living in poverty sucked real bad. I did bunches of work on it during my “spare time” and when I finally got it in decent running condition I bit the bullet, asked my parents for a loan, and traded it for a Civic. The gal at the dealership took me along on the test drive as she was unfamiliar with some of the gadgetry and someone was smiling on me that that car didn’t pull a “SVX” on us during the drive. When she told me we’ll give you “x” dollars on trade, you might do better selling it yourself I counted to three so as not to sound too eager and then said DO IT.
I have strong brand loyalty now to Lexus and Ford. That Vulva I picked up last winter has become my wife’s car now and it has been good as well but I sense it is just waiting to blow a niffle pin and cause me headaches since GDV has such great foreign car service availability.
“That Vulva I picked up last winter”
Hopefully you had protection and your shots were up to date.
Ha!
Didn’t your wife pick that car for you? Kind of sounds like she was playing a long game if she’s driving it now. She’s a sharp one.
Yes, she did. She started driving it this summer and discovered it’s a real nice SUV to drive and has figured out the weird little Volvo controls for things…we had this little talk where I said you know come Nov 1 I’m selling the RWD Ranger and taking over the Volvo and she said why don’t you just take the old (2011) F-150 and I said well it’s not quite as safe and stable on the winter roads…yeah that was dumb.
Also in stupid me category I had ordered some perfume for her, planning as a Christmas gift, she opened the box and called all happy oh how nice and I said shoot I was planning on that for Christmas…well now you can’t and I thought you were just doing a random special…
I have stuff like that delivered to work. That and hunting stuff I don’t want my wife to know about.
Yup stupid me and I should have just said surprise!
Tough spot. Long shot – call Subaru USA and try to get the attention of someone with a little authority.
Yep, that is next on my list.
I mean, I am not unreasonable, at this point I would pay them 1300 for the torque converter work and 1600 for the valve, but no more. So we are about 3,000 apart.
Alternatively I will pay them 1300 for the torque converter and get a buddy with a flat bed and go pick it up and have the valve work done somewhere else.
I am skeptical they will accept either of those options.
Good luck. Some parts of the country have TV stations that have weekly shows that highlight screwed up consumer service issues – you certainly have a great candidate.
Even if this option is not a viable option, can still mention to USA that you are going to do this. Might work or help some.
Thanks.
Sorry about that.
Remember, Service writers are commissioned salespeople. Doing unneeded work gets them bonuses.
https://twitter.com/vidsthatgohard/status/1714817524355797318?s=20
Damn
Big family day out there in the middle east or India?
Dude is a fucking ATHLETE!
Looks like a good number 1 draft pick for safety.
this looks half WWE half slap wars.
I think I could take him
So could I, anywhere he wants to go…
Hey, when did you sneak in? Welcome!
well you are probably 2 feet taller than him
Today I wondered how much potato is in a Pringles chip. Turns out the answer is 42 percent of it is potato. That’s enough for me, I guess.
By the way, the potato crop in the garden was amazing this year. Plus, they dug up almost clean. We are literally sitting on like 7-10 bushels of potatoes. I am basically a potato magnate now. I am going to be eating potatoes for every meal, which is fine, because I really like potatoes: fried, mashed, baked…can’t go wrong.
Cheese needs to be 51% real cheese in order to be called cheese by law… incredible.
Interesting.
It appears that Velveeta cheese blocks are not real cheese. I grew up on that stuff. Always sliced it to put on spaghetti.
We had spaghetti every Sunday, so I associate spaghetti and Velveeta with the Vikings 100 percent.
I still use Velveeta for my award winning Chipotle Nacho Dip! Lol. It’s a cheese product. It’s just when school’s call something “beefy” nachos, mean’s it’s beef-ish lol
I’ll trade ya recipes – I use Velveeta for my Cheese-Broccoli Soup (I requisitioned the recipe from the restaurant I worked at in college).
Gladly swap. I’ve given it out on here before. See below lol.
3# broccoli florets
2 pints half n half
2# velveeta
4 cups water
1 cup cornstarch mixed into 1 cup cold water
1.5 tsp salt
1.5 tsp pepper
A bonus about this recipe is it is gluten free when made with the above ingredients, if you have friends/relatives that need to watch what they eat.
Yum!
Cheese Dip
Ingredients
Start by sautéing onions and then add the burger. Put in taco seasoning, again depends on amount of burger you chose, you can’t really go wrong. Also add some sugar for sweet component that will caramelize. A little before you think it’s done, drain the burger grease and then taste because when you drain you loose a lot of seasoning. Re-add any taco or sugar as you see fit.
Already have your Velveeta chopped up and in the crock pot. Pour hot meat over the Velveeta.
Add as many diced, and de-seeded/ribbed jalapenos as you want. It isn’t that spicy de-seeded, it adds a great fresh component.
Spice comes from the chipotles in adobo, you want that smoky flavor they give. So take some out of the can, de-seed them too and then slice them to a pupl, a literal pulp so it just melts into the sauce. Pour some adobo sauce in if you want, I do.
Then let cook. Shit rules. I have won competitions with it.
Your sex tape
I think I got that recipe from you awhile back. It’s on my Christmas to do list. I’m going to take a week off from work and just sit at home, stuffing my face, watching movies and playing video games.
Granted…my wife does not know this yet, so…
Haha, don’t tell her until it’s happening!
This is me Christmas and Thanksgiving weeks.
Food. Video games. Movies, and maybe a book or two,
Your comment resonates with me, as we had a fairly rigid 14 day rotation for supper in my household growing up. When I bach’d it, go figure I also had a rotation, was chatting about that with my wife, I thought I was doing pretty well (LOL as my wife is a fantastic cook) until I started recounting the items in my rotation, spaghetti was a big one, but some real stinkers in there including hot pockets, pierogi, tomato soup and Kraft Dinner, hamburger helper.
TL;DR I used to ingest an elephant’s daily allowance of sodium.
Nothing wrong with too much sodium. It’s elegant!
If we don’t do our part and consume salt, the salt miners will be out of a job.
And that would be a tragedy.
VP is thankful for the work.
Someone has to do it.
Same with angus cows I believe.
Isn’t there similar standards when a whiskey may be called rye, etc.
Yes. There are some other ones that are funny like Scotch must be made in Scotland and must be aged at least 3 years… and a day lol.
Lots of ways to prepare, good food.
Tried to come up with RT O’Neill joke but couldn’t quite come up with one that reached the high standard I have set for myself.
We have standards?
I like to self evaluate and try to improve things that I can.
Hence the setting of standards.
I didn’t say that I met them much, just that I have set them for myself.
Speaking of jokes and standards, I saw an interview with Dave Mustaine yesterday. He was on some Italian TV show or something with an annoying host, and she asked him to say something nice about Kurt Cobain.
Dave Mustaine deadpan says: “He had good aim…”
Damn…that’s metal…
pffft hahaha!
LOL
Mash em, fry em, put em in a stew.
You need to get with Mick and swap for some eggs.
Good call! Together, we can monopolize the food market!
At least the breakfast food market.
Do you have an inkling as to why the spuds did so well? I was unskilled labor digging my wife’s potatoes, she doesn’t cuss but if she did she would have. She was disappointed in my digging prowess and her potato crop. I feigned empathy.
‘I feigned empathy’
Well put.
It is a skill every man must cultivate I believe.
Using the word – cultivate- when speaking of gardening.
Nice
Almost like I did it on purpose, almost.
No real idea. We don’t do anything for the potatoes at all. Just plant and forget.
We were sort of dry here, so I think soil conditions were just right. We got timely rains, but they weren’t excessive, so the ground was never super dry or super soggy. Then they are in the shade of a big cottonwood tree, so they get sun, but they don’t get it full force all day long when it’s hot.
My brother built a potato plow, so we dig up a row of potatoes in pretty much 30 seconds. Then throw them in a skid loader bucket and away we go. We dug and picked up two skid loader buckets in 20 minutes. Works slick.
Hey Skol some usernames changed some didn’t when people migrated from DN but did you know SB a FP doc in Anaconda, her husband Dave had a barber shop for awhile? I’m guessing you do as we previously discussed on DN.
Yes I did, good doc, nice lady. They were my next door neighbor for 20 yrs. They moved to Dickenson ND
Yeah, she’s still on staff there (I checked the website while killing time at Menard’s over there). I should really get in touch, Dave was my best man cuz he was the only Canadian I knew in these parts.
RIP Paulie
He was an actual pro boxer too I found out a while back. I love when actors play a part so well you just assume that guy is who he really is. He was a big part of that franchise RIP!
A pretty good one (boxer) if I remember correctly.
My favorite role of his was his appearance on the Sopranos as Bobby ‘Baccala’s old man – who was an enforcer for the DiMeo crew. Kills Mustang Sally on orders from Tony and has a heart attack after and dies.
Suzanne Sommers passed away on Sunday, I barely heard anything about it.
She had alternative ways to treat breast cancer, no chemo. 76, not a bad run.
I heard about it as there is what is either a hilarious meme or a deeply disturbed individual who posts on FB page for the town I went to HS in…he posts some “Jesus hates the pot” images depicting a black belt Jesus kicking marijuana leaves…he posted one depicting a young Barbra Streisand apparently subbing for a young Suzanne Somers and said another Hollywood actor has passed due to the “pot”, “Jesus hates the pot”.
The replies always make me LOL.
She was a regular on FOX news, so the entertainment media wasn’t going to go full love and praise over her obituary.
good point.
Question at top – dealing with Hunter.
Just wonder, we were all looking for the defense to take a step forward this season.
With Davenport out and unreliable anyway, can this defense move even one inch forward without Hunter on the field
I don’t envision any pressure happening without him playing.
We’ve been in the situation before where we hoped ONE stud on the DL would attract enough attention to make it easier for the other guys to put some pressure on the QB, and it just didn’t happen.
if we end up dealing Hunter (i would be surprised if we would) that would for sure signal in the white flag on the season, IMO.
i’m sure the coaches would say “we have depth that will fill in for him” garbage, but the truth is, without Hunter on the DLINE, it will be a long, zero pass rush season
Then I think, you, North and I are saying the same thing. Further, we just don’t have he talent on the backend to play without a pass rush.
Freezey Freezey Freezey
Without him in the mix I think we’d also start getting burned really bad on our safety blitzes too. Right now they’re fairly effective.
What if they trade him for another pass rusher who has multiple years left on their contract?
wouldn’t hate that.
Well we thought that was the white flag last year with Hock… then the Lions went on a roll!
This season is effectively over so either trade him or give him an extension if you think he’s part of the future.
If the crystal ball were working and we could see him playing at this level for the next 4 years, hell yeah, extend him.
Barring injury he will play at a high level for the next few seasons, question for me is, will he stay healthy, which I think ftmp he would, and how soon after the ink dries on the extension will he start bitching about his contract.
Well, the competitive portion anyway
What has Hunter done?
He isn’t worth the annual, “my contract isnt fair” routine.
Trade him for at least a 2nd.
He hasn’t done enough in my book to say he is a difference maker over the last 3 years.
8 sacks in 6 games (in addition to 21 additional pressures) doesn’t impress you?
His mid term production is a big question mark.
Not worth the annual drama for me.
I can see that side of it.
But I do think he proved himself after his injury/surgery, and he re-worked his contract in the team’s favor already. IF he can stay healthy and keep up production I have nothing against paying him another contract.
To be REALLY effective, he does need a complimentary player on the other end of the line.
The Vikings should trade for Chase Young.
To play with Hunter, or instead of?
With. Tell the davenport to hit the Couch. Just leave him on IR and recoup what you can in active per game bonus.
that would be a good dead. Two rushers would be nice. If Hunter is hard to deal with in off season. you still have Young to build around.
Wants to be paid, i’m afraid he’ll hit the couch if we do so. I’d take a 2nd, at least. 1st easy.
From what I have seen, the defense looks a bit more “busy” this year, which is good. I think we just lack genuine talent. We are so dry on talent we are playing a senior-citizen safety because we have no one better.
Got to nail those drafts, Kwesi.
If moving on from Hunter helps for the future, go for it.
The “if” there is a rather a big condition. If I knew Cine and Both would be starters, good ones ……….
good on him!
i will still always love him for that game sealing interception vs aaron rodgers in that one game that one time
Thats awesome, I love that hes got that going on for him. Wonder if he would start a guide service?
I think he is tied in with one already.
Wonder if this was on his own Outfitter land,,,https://www.vikings.com/news/trae-waynes-retirement-hunting
One of the comments is from the outfitter he is working with and says they have been watching that buck for a couple of years.
Hope for Booth?
Breaking out any day now.
Cine not so much…
Maybe we’d get a ham sandwich and a kicking tee for him.
practice? we talkin bout PRACTICE?!?!?!
1st ballot practice HOFer!!
booth? that’s a bold take. i like it.
Maybe we’d get a ham sandwich and a kicking tee for him.
oops, wrong spot.
Trishton Jackson waived. Making room for Nailor?
3st!!
Is this movie review the greatest contribution to mankind ever? Probably not. It likely falls somewhere between Michelangelo’s David statue and pasteurization…
Read the whole review, kind of makes me want to see the movie, one of my favorite lines from your review…
Read it too, and I am interested in watching as well.
Read it too, and that was one of my favorite lines as well.
Do you intentionally watch shitty movies?
your reviews often leave me absolutely certain I will never watch the movie you review, this one makes me kinda want to watch the alligator people.
Maybe this is when the “Lizard People/Illuminati ” conspiracy started up?
GM
FTP
SKOL
Happy Thorsday
Good morning, SKOL!
FTP!