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derekc62 wrote:Puzzles could be Pantera . . .
Looks like you're right Derek - I had to zoom in to max on the shirt website but it has those little (almost-predator-like) cut-outs in the letters.

So between THAT, the larger first/last letters, and them being another metal band - I think the mystery is solved =D>

Next week The Clubhouse invites answers to the question "Why do women need so many handbags & pairs of shoes?"

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Slayer..? laughing hard. ha.ha.ha.... :lol: :rolf:
Nostalgia can be a bad thing, especially when you are led by it.
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I can't believe how stupid some politicians and real people can be . . . (* OK - I CAN :roll: *)

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#44 Post by kevtk135 »

Glad everybody’s hanging in there.
Between being retired, my hip pain, the surgery and recuperation it seems very sad to me that this stay at home hasn’t changed my life since 2017! :rollin: LOL
I have enuff kits to keep me busy for centuries, but I hope we’re freed long before then.
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Heavy Metal Spike wrote:I can't believe how stupid some politicians and real people can be . . . (* OK - I CAN :roll: *)


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    Of course Spike, there is NO danger of this happening up in your neck of the woods ... I mean people flocking to the beaches ... unless they are wearing Arctic parkas!!!!

    :rolf: :rolf: :rolf: :bgrin:
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    bucketfoot-al wrote:Of course Spike, there is NO danger of this happening up in your neck of the woods ... I mean people flocking to the beaches ... unless they are wearing Arctic parkas!!!!
    I don't think you understand Vancouver's climate Vlad :)

    Interestingly though - we did have a few issues with morons in public places before common-sense finally (for the most part) prevailed.

    Canada as a populace has been way better behaved than the US and the UK. And BC in particular have handled this amazingly. That's why the number of cases & deaths here are so small compared to most other major cities. I'm rather proud to say that most have us have used our brains instead of politics and emotion, and it's working.

    Latest stats - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british- ... -1.5537286

    Nice article - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british- ... -1.5535335


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    Heavy Metal Spike wrote:
    bucketfoot-al wrote:Of course Spike, there is NO danger of this happening up in your neck of the woods ... I mean people flocking to the beaches ... unless they are wearing Arctic parkas!!!!
    I don't think you understand Vancouver's climate Vlad :)

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    I suspect you are right, Spike .... pictures of Vancouver I've seen show a beautiful place, and one that is undoubtedly far more civilized than the cultural wastelands of Northern California are ... where I am living in my exile ... :wink: I truly HATE this state, most of its people, and all that it has come to stand for (except for the weather and scenery which are still nice) ... but have no better $$$ strategy at the moment for reaching retirement in a number of years that will take me elsewhere ...

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    .... I am 1522km (more or less) straight South from you .... and the beaches around HERE are TOO @$*!#@ COLD for my taste!!! :lol: (The Northern Pacific and its air currents are M-F-ing cold .... as is the water ).... if its not Hawaii ... or the Adriatic in July-August ... I have no use for them.... I HATE when temperatures drop below about 75 degrees Fahrenheit ... always have, always will ... :bgrin:
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    bucketfoot-al wrote: . . . if its not Hawaii ... or the Adriatic in July-August . . .
    Your patience & perseverance will hopefully pay off in the end - then you can retire somewhere more to your liking.

    Just be safe while you're waiting bud!


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    Thanks Spike!
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    Don't forget to turn the sound UP . . . WAY up . . . :)

    Alter Bridge - "You Will Be Remembered" - from their 2016 album "The Last Hero" - a new video - for obvious reasons.

    • "We wrote 'You Will Be Remembered' as a tribute to anyone who gives of themselves in service to others.
      In this current climate, those stories are around us every day and we just wanted to offer our own small visual tribute to some of those people.
      There are numerous stories and we want to thank everyone that is doing their part to get us through this unprecedented time.
      Thank You."


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        • I wrote these words to tell you all the things I should've said so long ago
          So long ago
          Know that I am grateful I will not forget or let your memory go
          No, I won't
          I waited way too long, way too long

          I know this life's a mystery, we lose the things we never can replace
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          So many things we keep inside are never said until it's much too late
          Oh, so I'm giving you this song

          For the ones who sacrifice it all, we will sing
          Who took a stand so we would never fall, we will sing
          You will always be a hero, we will sing so you will be remembered
          You will be remembered

          I know you've suffered way too much, I know you gave your all for us to be
          Oh, I see
          I know how much you've sacrificed and all of this you did so selflessly
          Oh, so I'm giving you this song
          I'm giving you this song

          For the ones who sacrifice it all, we will sing
          Who took a stand so we would never fall, we will sing
          You will always be a hero, we will sing

          You'll be remembered, you're still alive
          Your memory will survive
          And in the end, all your sacrifice
          It made a difference this time

          So I'm giving you this song
          And I'm giving you this song
          For the ones who sacrificed it all, we will sing
          Who took a stand so we would never fall, we will sing

          You will always be a hero, we will sing
          So you will be remembered

          So you will be remembered

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    Love it, HMS....
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    This virus is not in the league of elboa not even close..
    Nostalgia can be a bad thing, especially when you are led by it.
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    scuzzfink85 wrote:This virus is not in the league of elboa not even close..
    At the risk if introducing some facts into this debate - as opposed to an unsubstantiated statement - the World Health Organization reported that between the years 2014 and 2016 (the worst years for the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea) the number of Ebola deaths totalled 11,308 (https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-shee ... us-disease)

    That was for a period of three years.

    In the United States alone - for a period of approximately two months - there have been in excess of 65,000 deaths from COVID-19 and we haven't seen the end.

    I should also point out there are treatments and an experimental vaccine for EVD (Ebola Virus Disease), something that does not yet exist for COVID-19.

    Now, if you want to compare COVID-19 to the flu (which you really should not), annual global flu-related deaths may be as high as 650,000 according to 2017 WHO data. But again, there's are vaccines for 'the flu' which can be adjusted to deal with various strains.

    We don't even know when, how or if COVID will mutate into a different strain.

    Follow the advice of the scientists - wash your hands, keep your distance - tackle that stack of kits in the stash - and don't drink bleach.

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    scuzzfink85 wrote:This virus is not in the league of elboa not even close..
    I hate it when I bump my funny bone.

    Still - you're right - not in the same league - I'd MUCH rather do that than contract COVID-19.


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    The Wuhan COVID-19 Virus is relatively weak, so far as viruses go. What makes it so devastating is that it MUCH more 'viral' (ie it is 10x easier to catch) than the flu. So, when you do the math, unchecked its spread becomes catastrophic. China PROBABLY has lost 200,000 (+/-) to this pandemic. They just never reported it accurately, then stopped reporting completely as they started trying to spin this thing that their $@%@&*^ crappy Wuhan reseach lab negligently released into the world.

    I'm gonna stop now or, as Scott Adams says "there will be swearing". But I will say the following:

    De-COUPLING economically from China is the only solution. Let them GTH. :cussing: :cussing: :cussing:

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    bucketfoot-al wrote: Wuhan reseach lab negligently released into the world.
    No, the covid virus wasn’t made in a lab. More than one peer reviewed genetic analysis has shown that it’s from nature.
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    bucketfoot-al wrote: Wuhan reseach lab negligently released into the world.
    • LOBOREX wrote:No, the covid virus wasn’t made in a lab. More than one peer reviewed genetic analysis has shown that it’s from nature.
    Based on my limited research (no pun intended) - I think that's a semantic difference.

    Last I read (possibly incorrectly) :arrow: the lab that is being investigated for accidentally instigating the pandemic, was researching a natural virus.

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    LOBOREX wrote:
    bucketfoot-al wrote: Wuhan reseach lab negligently released into the world.
    No, the covid virus wasn’t made in a lab. More than one peer reviewed genetic analysis has shown that it’s from nature.
    I didn't say it was MADE in a lab. Two years ago US Diplomats were given a tour of the Wuhan Bio Research lab where they were told that the lab was studying (among other things) bat Corona viruses. What they saw in terms of lax safety protocols disturbed them so much that they wrote a memo to the US State Department warning of the danger. Worst of all, the Chinese government chose to locate this lab in the middle of a highly populated area (these types of facilities should be well away from population centers for obvious reasons).

    US intelligence services have concluded that it is almost certain that this virus escaped from this lab, and was unwittingly spread into the City of Wuhan by probably asymptomatic infected lab personnel. Then the government punished the doctors who warned of the danger back in December, and gave the virus two months to spread by allowing the Chinese New Year Celebration to go on unchecked, after which 4 million people left Wuhan. It is also interesting that after they banned flights from Wuhan to Beijing they still allowed international flights to leave Wuhan, spreading the disease world-wide.

    I don't say that they did this intentionally for obvious reasons - you don't intentionally release a plague into your own population. Anytime something really, really bad like this happens, the more likely explanation is incompetence - at all levels, starting (obviously) with the lab, and then with successive layers of bureaucracy trying to cover their own behinds.

    By the time that Beijing woke up to the magnitude of what was happening, the 'genie was out of the bottle'.

    Just as bad as the incompetence that caused this has been the Chinese government's response - using the World Health Organization as a cover to spread their lies, refusing to cooperate with Western health organizations, and finally trying to profiteer from what they released by trying to hold back PPE that was being being produced in China by foreign companies.

    Japan will pay its companies to relocate their production facilities back to Japan, and we should be doing the same.
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    Not trying to defend the lab, but bats carry tons of pathogens and in my vho it's more likely that in a open air market with bats and pangolins being sold everyday. Then add to that the fact that If animals are in closely packed, unsanitary conditions with many people nearby it is easier for a virus to jump species. It just seems the more likely scenario. But the fact is considering how alien the concept of truth is to the Chinese government we will probably never know for sure. We are not allowed to discuss politics at the clubhouse so i will stop at this, what you have stated about intelligence agencies is incorrect. Most intelligence agencies remain skeptical that conclusive evidence of a link to a lab can be found, and scientists who have studied the genetics of the coronavirus say that the overwhelming probability is that it leapt from animal to human in a non laboratory setting, as was the case with H.I.V., Ebola and SARS.
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    LOBOREX wrote:Not trying to defend the lab, but bats carry tons of pathogens and in my vho it's more likely that in a open air market with bats and pangolins being sold everyday. Then add to that the fact that If animals are in closely packed, unsanitary conditions with many people nearby it is easier for a virus to jump species. It just seems the more likely scenario. But the fact is considering how alien the concept of truth is to the Chinese government we will probably never know for sure. We are not allowed to discuss politics at the clubhouse so i will stop at this, what you have stated about intelligence agencies is incorrect. Most intelligence agencies remain skeptical that conclusive evidence of a link to a lab can be found, and scientists who have studied the genetics of the coronavirus say that the overwhelming probability is that it leapt from animal to human in a non laboratory setting, as was the case with H.I.V., Ebola and SARS.
    I'll agree & stipulate to the following :wink:

    1. We'll never know for sure exactly what happened.

    2. You (like me) are a bit of an argumentative cuss by nature: :lol:

    3. "Intelligence agencies" may be an oxymoron given the track record of the past 20 years - they seem to be much better at just making s%it up (OK that was not in the discussion earlier :mrgreen:)

    4. We both love modeling. :beer: (And I, at least, currently have no time for it - which makes me crankier than usual as I have to see 7-8 different projects in various stages of progress every single :cussing: time I go into the garage to get in/out of the van on the way to/from work.)

    5. Discussing politics may give one a temporary rise but is, in almost every single case thoroughly unsatisfying, and in many cases, outright aggravating to one's spirit (not to mention sanity). So I try to avoid it most of the time. Which CAN be difficult for me as one of my ancestors must have been a troll (though a very tall one) :roll:

    6. Its late and I am rambling instead of finishing my work. Which my wife just reminded me I need to get to instead of typing this response. :oops:

    So - everyone stay safe, have a good night, and - MODEL ON!!! :D
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