real turf fan
| Favorite team: | Tennessee |
| Location: | East Tennessee |
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| Occupation: | Retired geologist |
| Number of Posts: | 10995 |
| Registered on: | 12/22/2016 |
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re: Is the USA failing at education?
Posted by real turf fan on 11/12/25 at 8:11 am to mtb010
We inherited my FIL's high school yearbook. One of his friends joked about how Al got through his Latin and Greek courses.
My Father's yearbook had a picture of him as a Senior with a mustache. Heck, that would have been forbidden 40+ years later when I was in high school.
I wouldn't say the USA is failing, I'd be more likely to shout out that parents are failing in so many ways.
My Father's yearbook had a picture of him as a Senior with a mustache. Heck, that would have been forbidden 40+ years later when I was in high school.
I wouldn't say the USA is failing, I'd be more likely to shout out that parents are failing in so many ways.
re: You guys excited about 50 year mortgages?
Posted by real turf fan on 11/12/25 at 8:01 am to Slippy
When I was 20 there was no way in hell I would have committed to that amount of debt for the entirety of my working life. No way I'd pay that massive amount of interest until I started years in the future to pay down the principle.
Further Hell!. With the plastics and pine and glue that is / are used in putting houses up fast nowadays, are all parts of the house going to last fifty years? The roofs sure won't nor will any of the appliances. Laminate flooring? Don't make me laugh. siding? Double paned windows?
Heavens only knows how many times you'll change out airconditioners as the gobment (sic) redefines what's acceptable.
Further Hell!. With the plastics and pine and glue that is / are used in putting houses up fast nowadays, are all parts of the house going to last fifty years? The roofs sure won't nor will any of the appliances. Laminate flooring? Don't make me laugh. siding? Double paned windows?
Heavens only knows how many times you'll change out airconditioners as the gobment (sic) redefines what's acceptable.
re: JFK assassinated. How many remember the when/where/how they heard it?
Posted by real turf fan on 11/11/25 at 8:26 pm to duckblind56
I was in high school in the middle of exams. They did tell us during study hall.
TV was devoted to the funeral for three days, nothing but the funeral. I remember DeGaulle in his uniform and Emperor Haile Selassie from Ethiopia.
The caisson being pulled by the riderless horse with boots facing backwards.
We lived two hours from D.C. so had heard lots of gossip about his misbehaviors and how Jackie had to buy a farm so she could join a particular hunt in the rich country to our northeast.
TV was devoted to the funeral for three days, nothing but the funeral. I remember DeGaulle in his uniform and Emperor Haile Selassie from Ethiopia.
The caisson being pulled by the riderless horse with boots facing backwards.
We lived two hours from D.C. so had heard lots of gossip about his misbehaviors and how Jackie had to buy a farm so she could join a particular hunt in the rich country to our northeast.
re: Flying cars could be flying over Interstate 4 in 2026
Posted by real turf fan on 11/11/25 at 6:32 pm to Swamp Angel
Right now, it doesn't seem possible to train and retain enough Air Traffic Controllers.
Lets add a hundred of these flying cars above each spoke in the Houston road layout and more above the loop roads. Now ask the ATCs to monitor and handle all the cars in the air.
What could possibly go wrong?
Lets add a hundred of these flying cars above each spoke in the Houston road layout and more above the loop roads. Now ask the ATCs to monitor and handle all the cars in the air.
What could possibly go wrong?
re: Terribly sad story
Posted by real turf fan on 11/11/25 at 4:15 pm to kftiger1
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prayers for the child's mother and the boy's other two siblings.
When did Fathers start being omitted from compassion?
re: Louisiana prison guards cut inmate's dreadlocks. Supreme Court deciding if he can sue
Posted by real turf fan on 11/11/25 at 1:28 pm to slidingstop
Big thick dreads would be excellent places to conceal shivs, drugs, needles, and other good but not godly things.
re: Section of Hongqi Bridge in China collapses months after opening
Posted by real turf fan on 11/11/25 at 1:08 pm to SmelvinRat
How do you totally frick up a hydro-power turbine?
Add clay and lots of silt etc. to the water passing through it.
Why post this?
Because people representing the adjacent hydoelectri power plant have a press release about it happening really close to them.
LINK
Add clay and lots of silt etc. to the water passing through it.
Why post this?
Because people representing the adjacent hydoelectri power plant have a press release about it happening really close to them.
LINK
re: Section of Hongqi Bridge in China collapses months after opening
Posted by real turf fan on 11/11/25 at 10:16 am to SlowFlowPro
There are a few seconds earlier on one site that shows the bridge substructure that is engulfed with dust in this video. It also shows what looks like a quarry or maybe even a tunnel below the bridge, just above water level.
LINK
LINK
re: Americans Are So Uncivilized and Backward That They Use Toilet Paper
Posted by real turf fan on 11/11/25 at 9:46 am to RAB
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You squat over a hole in the ground in the Arab world.
And the hole is 1/4inch deep.
re: Has anyone enjoyed the NFL season more than college this year?
Posted by real turf fan on 11/11/25 at 9:05 am to Earnest_P
I agree that things have changed.
I used to watch teams, and as the players moved through and got better year to year.
Portals and NIL and the hired gun QBs have made it different. In addition, the NFL hasn't ticked me off although the females interviewing coaches during the playing parts of games is not a positive.
I find myself napping through both.
I used to watch teams, and as the players moved through and got better year to year.
Portals and NIL and the hired gun QBs have made it different. In addition, the NFL hasn't ticked me off although the females interviewing coaches during the playing parts of games is not a positive.
I find myself napping through both.
re: More Gambling, More professional athletes being charged
Posted by real turf fan on 11/11/25 at 8:54 am to Mingo Was His NameO
I sort of preferred the gambling between two individuals as to which drop of water would skitter down a window first.
Any thing that involves more than two people is open to one creating advantages that the others don't know about.
Any thing that involves more than two people is open to one creating advantages that the others don't know about.
re: Why was the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald such a big deal?
Posted by real turf fan on 11/11/25 at 8:45 am to SidewalkTiger
The song made it memorable. I thought it was a much older wreck and I was alive and reading newspapers when it sank.
To me, the wreck and sinking of the cruise ship Andrea Doria in 1956 was more memorable. I checked google and there were 51 deaths and 1,660 were rescued. I remember reading a story in the (yes, I'm 'that' old) Saturday evening Post about the sinking and a husband not wanting to leave his wife who was still alive, but her body was trapped by the bent steel from the collision. That massive rescue deserves to be remembered. But isn't.
To me, the wreck and sinking of the cruise ship Andrea Doria in 1956 was more memorable. I checked google and there were 51 deaths and 1,660 were rescued. I remember reading a story in the (yes, I'm 'that' old) Saturday evening Post about the sinking and a husband not wanting to leave his wife who was still alive, but her body was trapped by the bent steel from the collision. That massive rescue deserves to be remembered. But isn't.
re: My son wants an e-bike for Christmas, and I know nothing about them
Posted by real turf fan on 11/11/25 at 8:30 am to Mr. Hangover
How's your family insurance and you might want to up it.
re: IOC to ban transgender women from all female Olympic events
Posted by real turf fan on 11/10/25 at 4:39 pm to SludgeFactory
Ask any high school girl who has competed in field sports while suffering from severe menstrual cramps how it feels.
It's hell and after the game, lying on the floor, sweating and wishing for the pain to go away.
That girl will always know what BS this whole thing has been.
It's hell and after the game, lying on the floor, sweating and wishing for the pain to go away.
That girl will always know what BS this whole thing has been.
re: Had some Mexicans try to sell me oranges today
Posted by real turf fan on 11/10/25 at 11:23 am to Dawgfanman
Blood orange marmalade is usually home made and most excellent.
re: On this date in 1989, the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Posted by real turf fan on 11/10/25 at 11:06 am to PSS101
I cried like a baby. I had spent time in Berlin living near the Brandenburg gate and the wall. I got to know locals and remembers some who were my age and who had not seen family on the other side of the wall since it went up. Jennie was so worried for her Mother and Sister and she'd be able to walk to visit them just as she had. It was a cruel thing to do because the little people didn't matter.
Guards on both sides of the wall were whistling Kaiser Bill's Batman tune that year.
Guards on both sides of the wall were whistling Kaiser Bill's Batman tune that year.
re: What food did you refuse to eat as a kid
Posted by real turf fan on 11/9/25 at 10:36 pm to Jim Rockford
Mayonnaise
still hate the smell,texture and taste.
I have used it in desperation when I needed an egg for baking and the last egg in the carton was bad.
still hate the smell,texture and taste.
I have used it in desperation when I needed an egg for baking and the last egg in the carton was bad.
re: Mike Pence refuses to rule out another run for president.
Posted by real turf fan on 11/9/25 at 5:40 pm to KCT
Is he, perhaps, counting on the D's nominating Harris?
Frozen Pipes north of I-10 if not snow flurries
Posted by real turf fan on 11/9/25 at 12:18 pm
LINK
Some here won't have to worry, but the predicted cold front is coming and seems predicted to stay a day longer than they were predicting last week. A cold night (Monday) in the low 20s is bad; what's worse is highs in the low 30'a and that "warming is only for a few hours.
This is a gentle warning to do what's necessary to protect your pipes and irrigation systems. And your car radiators if you live where it seldom ever freezes this bad.

Some here won't have to worry, but the predicted cold front is coming and seems predicted to stay a day longer than they were predicting last week. A cold night (Monday) in the low 20s is bad; what's worse is highs in the low 30'a and that "warming is only for a few hours.
This is a gentle warning to do what's necessary to protect your pipes and irrigation systems. And your car radiators if you live where it seldom ever freezes this bad.

re: Grambling State and Bethune Cookman throwing haymakers! Gotta love de CULTURE!
Posted by real turf fan on 11/9/25 at 10:30 am to bgtiger
It's sad, but I expected more players actively fighting and for the exchanging of slugs to go on much longer.
By the way, were there no fans in the opposition's stands?
By the way, were there no fans in the opposition's stands?
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