MattPie

RE: white vs. brown shooters I more or less did. The Conservative reaction to the Planned Parenthood shooter on my FB feed was really different than the CA shootings. In for lattercase, it was all about mental illness and how the liberals are going to take away their guns. In the former, OMG Muslims killing people at a Christmas party!! (and the liberals are going to take our guns!) How about this: mentally ill Muslims shot up an education center, vs. mentally ill Christian shoots up medical center. Doesn't have the same pop. To be fair, the tone of the liberals on my FB was different too. Everyone is susceptible to it.

I've had it, it's really nice but I'm no whiskey expert.

That'd carry more weight if he wasn't also the radio PBP. :) I end up listening to a bunch of games per year for various reasons. I haven't really noticed the issue people are talking about, but that's because I'm usually doing something else and only really pay attention when something happens.

Old Spice guy? Do you mean Bruce Campbell? (Disclaimer: I haven't seen many commercials in the last few years)

Resurgence's IPA is surprisingly good for a Buffalo beer. I don't want to sound snobbish, but most of the Buffalo micros are OK but not great. It seems they're catching up fast, and I couldn't be happier.

MattPie thinks refering to yourself in the third person is weird.

I don't love the commercials, but I wouldn't turn her down.

I just looked up Alburtis, for some reason I thought it was up towards Allegheny. Seeing where it is, I've probably ridden through at some point going to a friends house in Macungie. I know I've ridden Mountain Rd. and even went had a burger at Snuzzle's. If you ever pull over a guy on a silver BMW with an orange helmet, say hi!

I had a similar one, but on a fairly narrow but moderate traffic road. There's no way I could have gotten off the road enough to not block a lane, putting everyone at risk so I put the flashers on (to acknowledge the cop) and drove up less than a mile to parking area I knew was there. I like to think he appreciated that he didn't have to stand in traffic to talk to me; he didn't give me any trouble about not pulling over in any case. SS70, what would you prefer in that situation? I assume you make stops on those windy narrow roads up there often. Should the driver wait until there's somewhere safe for everyone or pull over immediately?

Hmmmm, maybe not? Western Executive: "You'd get the most for Hall...I like Hall but there is a missing level of engagement, somehow. You want to love him. He plays hard, with reckless abandon. He tries, he battles. But there is a lack of awareness, it seems to me." https://twitter.com/kikkerlaika/status/672519046877872128 Sounds a bit like E Kane, perhaps?

Gun owners (legal and otherwise) are generally killing non-gun owners (at least in the cases that get significant play in the media). If "liberals" aren't supposed to look to gun owners for the answers, and can't come up with their own solutions (because the liberals are coming for my guns), what other course to you recommend? The only we hear about is to become gun owners themselves in some half-assed effort to protect themselves. There may be a lesson from the movie and video game industry, both of which are fairly self-regulated (I think, maybe Josie will pipe up) in terms of ratings. If you don't come up with a solution for a problem with your industry/hobby, the government will. Entertainment decided to create their own solution and for the most part people leave them alone (except for the crazy parents that don't understand the ratings). Do you want to be part of creating a solution, or complain about the solution that the government comes up with when enough voters get fed up?

Stage 1: Adrenaline. Heart thudding. Nervous, even over "minor" stuff like speeding (or most recently, an expired registration) Stage 2: Prep, because I want to be respectful and as non-threatening as possible. Take my wallet out, get the registration out before the officer approaches and have them ready. If it's nice out, roll down all the windows and if it's dark, turn on all the interior lights. Shut off the car, of course. Stage 3: When the officer approaches, make sure to keep things visible (head, hands, etc.) to make sure there's no mistaking my intentions. Stage 4: Admit to whatever I did wrong. I'm not really going to fight the ticket; I was wrong, might as well suck it up. Stage 5: Wish the officer good day, etc. Now that's being said as a middle-aged white guy who is generally Lawful-Good. I give all that thought because in the back of mind I know these things can go bad, even though it's unlikely they will for me. I have a tough time imagining how I'd feel if I were non-white and had more chance (real or perceived) of being harassed by the police. (I'm not casting aspersions here, I think the data shows that minorities have more interaction with the police in general, and more bad interactions as well.)

They can set it on fire after the game as part of the fireworks!

I feel youse. My parents keep asking us to come visit them in Florida over the winter. Neither my wife or I want to go. My parents are nice and all, but from what I've seen of Florida it's an endless line of strip malls and golf courses between beaches. The NJ/DE/MD beaches are a really easy day trip for us, so it's not that big a draw, leaving golf (which we don't) and strip malls. We keep offering to have them come visit us but they mostly blow the idea off. It reminds me of this, if my parents weren't retired and I didn't have a toddler to manage for the trip. http://www.theonion.com/article/parents-with-more-vacation-time-financial-resource-37103 Fun fact: the Paoli, PA location for the article is 3 miles from here.

You guys suck.

I'm interested. There's a bunch of good Philly-area beer.

And in this case, it seems like with little regard to which wings are on each side. Unless they're really putting the only actual RW the Sabres have on Eichel's LW.

I was wondering that too. It's about time, too. After reading on Timmy's life after hockey I can't be mad at him, just the people that gave him all that money.

Year ago, a friend of mine had, "You found Jesus? If no one claims him in 30 days, he's yours to keep!"

On the surface, you can say the internet allows you to find other people to reinforce and encourage whatever type of crazy you are a lot easier than if you had to do it locally.

According to wikipedia, there are roughly 460,000 Army and Air National Guard members. There's another (I assume you can't be in both) 500,000-ish Reserve members split across the branches of the services. So roughly 1M people out of the roughly 50M households with guns (assuming every reserve/guard member has a gun in the house). There's bound be a population of former military, reserve, and guard members in the gun-owning population also. The remainder is still a lot of people that likely haven't had a lot of training on how to use a gun.

What's got you torqued? (there's a metric mechanical joke for you)

LOL, I'll get to work on that one; I love it!

My daughter pointed at my Sabres T-shirt last night and said, "Mooo!" (she's all into animal noises right now). I wasn't sure if this belongs in the Awesome or Complaint thread, so I'll put it here. What does the buffalo (er, bison) say?

The Sixers were equally impressive until breaking their streak the other day. (I don't actually follow the NBA, but heard it mentioned on the radio here)