Posts by RubaDub

If you leave your car closed here with un-tinted windows, you can get to 130 to 140 degrees if not higher. Children left for a few minutes here are often the victims with stupid parents.

The US just has many different areas.

Rub a Dub

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Drug-Sniffing Dogs Getting Retired at Airports

by RubaDub in

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i found this interesting in the news that dogs used to sniff for drugs at airports are being significantly cut back here in the us due to the increased legality of marijuana at the state level (though technically still illegal at the federal level) and passengers arriving from canada.

a large number of the dogs are being put into early retirement.. i learned that dogs can be trained to sniff for drugs but once they "learn" a smell, they cannot unlearn it.

basically, there is no difference to them between marijuana or cocaine or meth.

RubaDub

The future: A nation of doped up, pacifist, lazy, gender-confused morons who can't decide which bathroom to use, so they piss and shit out in the street.

WingC ...

Look at the bright side. At least they aren't 2nd Amendment skin-heads who will pull out a gun and shoot you.

Rub a Dub

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Do you have dark tinted windows on your vehicle?

by Iamallcool in

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if you have one, do cops stop you to make sure it is not too dark?

.

RubaDub

Here in Florida, virtually every car has tinted windows, and I would guess well over 50% are tinted illegally dark.

When I bought a new car several years ago, I went to one of the big tint shops and they gave me the options. The first thing the guy said was do you "need the legal ones" or the "standard" ones.

I didn't go totally dark, but still much beyond what is technically legal. But then, the only cars on the street that appear to be legal are likely rental cars. About one out of ten cars here is so dark that you cannot possibly see anything inside.

Police don't give a rat's behind here about tinted windows. Virtually every police car you see here has illegally tinted windows.

Remember, we have a lot of sun here ... the Sunshine State.

Rub a Dub

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Languages, Dialects, Accents

by LoveUniHateExams in

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just though i'd start a thread devoted to languages, dialects/sociolects and accents, with the idea being that posters can comment on any language, or dialect or accent of any language, on this thread.. any phrases, expressions or idioms that you find interesting are also welcome.

first, the subject of english accents came up on another thread.. the british isles have many different types of accent (although many of the dialects may be dying out), and if i start to take a closer look, i can't help but see 'patterns' .... in received pronunciation of standard english, the letter r is pronounced initially, between vowels, and after consonants, e.g.

red, arrow, break.

RubaDub

Aren't sentences supposed to end with eh? Eh

road to nowhere ...

I think you have it backwards. It's the British (especially older ones) that begin sentences with eeeeeehhhhhhhh.

Rub a Dub

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Languages, Dialects, Accents

by LoveUniHateExams in

jw
friends

just though i'd start a thread devoted to languages, dialects/sociolects and accents, with the idea being that posters can comment on any language, or dialect or accent of any language, on this thread.. any phrases, expressions or idioms that you find interesting are also welcome.

first, the subject of english accents came up on another thread.. the british isles have many different types of accent (although many of the dialects may be dying out), and if i start to take a closer look, i can't help but see 'patterns' .... in received pronunciation of standard english, the letter r is pronounced initially, between vowels, and after consonants, e.g.

red, arrow, break.

RubaDub

Question for Canadians from a US person:

Do they teach in school or is it just something culturally that you end every sentence with "ya know?"

(We love you though. Many here would love you more if you learned how to tip in restaurants ... lol).

Rub a Dub

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When "all" is not "everyone" or "everything."

by Wonderment in

we keep seeing posters bringing col. 1.16 and john 1.3 up as proof that christ is excluded from the creative acts.

the proof they submit is that the words "all things [gk., pánta]" appear in these texts.

however, they are missing this important element from the discussion: the word "all" is rarely used in greek, and even in our everyday language to mean literally "everyone" or "everything" under the sky.

RubaDub

All, everyone, everything, etc. mean nothing unless it is logically identified and put into the proper context.

We have heard many times (if your are/were a JW) comments by some after an assembly about how "everyone" enjoyed it, "all" were encouraged, etc. etc. etc.

In reality, about 5% were actually listening, about 35% didn't want to be there, and the other 60% were on auto-pilot and just nodded, laughed or clapped when speaker would raise his voice and expect some kind of response.

These words really mean nothing by themselves.

Rub a Dub

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The JW media Mecca

by lastmanstanding in

i was thinking about how the org is dying, and how the guboobs are trying to give it cpr by transitioning to tvpreach.

now they will construct a media mecca and it looks like they will go full on e digital.

so, i was trying to come up with a name for their new hollywood that would stick.

RubaDub

Very Soon Productions.

Just Around the Corner Productions.

Rub a Dub

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Drug-Sniffing Dogs Getting Retired at Airports

by RubaDub in

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friends

i found this interesting in the news that dogs used to sniff for drugs at airports are being significantly cut back here in the us due to the increased legality of marijuana at the state level (though technically still illegal at the federal level) and passengers arriving from canada.

a large number of the dogs are being put into early retirement.. i learned that dogs can be trained to sniff for drugs but once they "learn" a smell, they cannot unlearn it.

basically, there is no difference to them between marijuana or cocaine or meth.

RubaDub

I found this interesting in the news that dogs used to sniff for drugs at airports are being significantly cut back here in the US due to the increased legality of marijuana at the state level (though technically still illegal at the federal level) and passengers arriving from Canada. A large number of the dogs are being put into early retirement.

I learned that dogs can be trained to sniff for drugs but once they "learn" a smell, they cannot unlearn it. Basically, there is no difference to them between marijuana or cocaine or meth. It's either a yes or no in their noses.

So new dogs are being trained (at an estimated $25,000 a pop). Interesting.

Things we learn in life.

Rub a Dub

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I had to submit to a drugs test yesterday.

by joe134cd in

i had to submit to a random work place drugs test yesterday, of which i passed.

in this country smoking marijuana / methamphetamine is illegal.

the thing that really struck me was that despite the illegal nature of it, was just how prevalent and problem is.

RubaDub

Pot is NOT legal in the US -- at least not from Federal Standards -- the law is just not enforced. It is "legal" in many States as far as State law.

Desirous ....

You are absolutely correct on that. That is why when I made my earlier comment, I noted it is legal in about half of the states. However, as you mention, it is still not legal from a federal standpoint and technically the feds take precedence. The last time I heard a debate on the issue, the federal laws still have weed in the same classification as cocaine. But yes, it is a federal law that is simply not enforced.

However, I agree that lawyers for insurance companies would pounce on that in a minute in a courtroom.

Rub a Dub