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Wouldn't it be great if we lived in a country where the government could tell us what color we could paint our cars?

To answer the question of the OP I would find that obscene. Obscene is tricky to prove though because it is subjective. What one person may call obscene and be offended by another person might find completely acceptable. I think a good litmus test is how a small child would act if exposed to that material. (I'm not in any way advocating doing this.) Would you want your four year old to see that? Didn't think so.

Dude, what kind of drugs do they have you on over there at the super double secret agent place? Oh and your mom said you can come upstairs now, dinner is ready.

Jonnin- Any sweet tea aficionado knows that the only way to make real sweet tea is to add the sugar to boiling water and then steep the tea bag in said sugary water. Adding the sugar to already cold tea will not properly properly sweeten the tea as it will not dissolve. This will leave you with an unsweet beverage with a sweet sand like substance in the bottom. OP- Sorry I've never heard of a crocus cloth. WestwindMike- I was thinking the same thing about hosepipes as I was reading the thread. More on sweet tea... First time I went to California I'd been off the plane at LAX for about 2 hours. Needless to say I was experiencing some hardcore culture shock. We go to a steak house and our waitress is your stereotypical dumb blonde, the sun and some other things probably had completely fried her brain. The conversation went like this. Watiress- What would you like to drink. Me- I'll have sweet tea. Her- I'm sorry, what was that? Me- I'll have sweet tea. Her- Sweet tea? I'm sorry I'm not sure what that is. Me- Do you have tea? Her- Yes, we have tea. Me- Well you take tea and you put sugar in it, that's sweet tea. Her (not sarcastic, dead serious)- Wow! That sounds really good, I'll have to try that sometime.

Just the kind of info I'm looking for. Looks like the fix to the strawberry milkshake is the replace the radiator with a particular aftermarket unit? Pretty sure I have the same lousy cupholders in my '97 Avalon. They are good for, well getting your beverage all over yourself and the interior of the vehicle. Can the sagging suspension be fixed with aftermarket coils?

I'm considering my next vehicle and I'm looking very closely at 4runners. Them seem to be a pretty good value over the pickups which I originally wanted. Seems that a Tacoma outfitted about the same as a 4runner is about twice as much. It's a Toyota so I know they are about bullet proof. Anyone know of any concerns? I'll be shopping within the next couple of months but I don't need it until the fall so I will take my time to find the right truck for the right price. I'm looking at the 1996 and up models in the $4-6K range. I've noticed they are offered in 4 cyl but I will be towing a 6x12 trailer full of firewood a few times per year and it seems like that 4 banger would be stressed under that kind of load? 4x4 is a must, gotta have it so I'm not stranded in the winter, plus I really hate dragging deer back to the truck, I'd rather take the truck in to get the deer. I see a few that have manual transmissions which I would prefer but they seem to be few and far between. However I'm not scared of an automatic with 200k on it if it has been properly maintained. Ideally I'm thinking V6, manual, 4x4, with the transmission not being a must. Thoughts?

Might work for you. I have a 23, and a 27 with a 9mm barrel as well. I can't carry the 23 comfortably (23 and 19 are same frame.) I can carry the 27 all day long. I carry a back up mag if I think it's necessary. I also have problems concealing the 23, but I'm a skinny guy.

It's okay, they're just New Yorkers...

This is really stupid. Here is a news flash, a cell phone is not a necessity. Unlike most of our population I do not use a cell phone, much anyway. I don't get coverage at home or work or in between. I travel quite a bit in the winter and I have a prepaid phone that I use then. That way my cell phone usage is costing me $30 a month for 1 or 2 months as opposed to the $1200+" per year I was paying with Verizon. The last 4 months that I had Verizon I used less than 20 minutes each of those months, so I couldn't justify keeping a cell phone. The difference between myself and the free phone recipients though, just to be fair, is that I do have a landline at home. I think the point of the program is so people can use the phones to help them get jobs and what probably more government benefits. Admittedly it is hard to get a job without a phone number, but here is an idea... Visit a business where you would like to work. Fill out an application, turn it in and explain that you don't have a phone. Return every 3 days or so and ask the manager if he has looked at your application. If you will appear eager and ready to work it is probably entirely possible that they will hire you without having a telephone. All these government programs giving people this and that disgust me. I think it is Obama's way of rewarding his voters. Get a job, earn it, or do without! Sorry I think I got into a rant there.

I'm sure Bloomberg is all over it.

Know what I think is scary? At the end of the article it stated that NYC voters opposed the ban on softdrinks 51%-46%, meaning that damn near half of NYC voters are really stupid.

I'm with BigK, if I carried a large knife or a fixed blade I may think about looking at regulations before carrying it in a foreign place. I really wouldn't think twice about carrying my 2 1/2 inch blade lockback. Heck, IMO a locking blade is a safety feature that makes the knife safer to use. I consider a knife to be a tool that I use everyday more than it is a weapon. I would check the regulations on carrying my knife just about as quickly as I would check those about wearing a belt or carrying a ball point pen. Usually I am in the "ignorance of the law is no excuse crowd" but when the New Yorkers are coming up with these asinine laws I just do kind of believe that "Ignorance is a perfectly acceptable excuse for stupid laws and that a person should make sure that their knife is well concealed at all times."

We can thank the mall ninjas for that one. Lights and lasers on a slingshot? No thanks, I'll take my hickory stick and a thick rubberband. I really didn't need to see that before I had coffee this morning. ATTN mall ninjas: it is in fact possible for a weapon to function without accessory rails, flashlights and lasers...

I played paintball with a slingshot ONCE, you gotta be tough for that, hurts way more than a paintball gun.

I saw three box turtles crossing the road within about a 3 mile stretch yesterday. I stopped and moved one, the other two were not in locations where it was safe to stop. And I wasn't interfering, I was helping him along the way. Interfering would be if I took him to where he just came from.

So what constitutes a knife as illegal in NY? I remember when I used to work loss prevention my boss was fresh out of NYC and told me that I was not allowed to apprehend anyone who I knew possessed a knife. I laughed at her and told her that I might as well go on home because in TN everybody carries a knife. She said that "only criminals" carried knives in NYC. Yeah, I don't miss that gig.

Looked at a kayak at Wally world this morning, looks like a fairly decent set up for $250. I'm going to wait a bit and search Craigslist and see what I can come up with. I think a kayak would be ideal for the creeks I fish. I could also access Calderwood Lake, Chillhowie, and Lower Chillhowie all of which are within a 15 minute drive of my house.

Some of those comments are sickening. I spend a lot of time in the GSMNP and I'm armed 100% of that time. OC mostly in the park as long as lots of people aren't around.

Say he was from Georgia?

Recently I've had to order a few small items off of the internet. All of these things were specialty motorcycle parts. Each of the three items that I've ordered would fit in the palm of my hand together, yet I have had to pay $12-14 to ship each one. Seems a lot of these distributors are only shipping UPS and I guess that is where their rates start now. All of these items would easily fit in a USPS Flatrate box and could be shipped for under $5. It just frustrating since I'm paying as much or more for shipping than I am for the items in question.

Speed cameras are a joke, as are speed limits on a good portion of roads. The biggest problem that I have with speed cameras is that there is no way to face your accuser and contest the ticket. I've gotten out of the majority of speeding tickets that I have gotten from actual police officers by pleading my case in front of a judge. There is no avenue for defending yourself from the accusation of the camera, the camera says that you are guilty so you are guilty. I don't want to live in a country where an electronic device decides my guilt or innocence. Driver education is fundamental, it's not speed that causes crashes the majority of the time, it's distractions and incompetence. Do we not all know of a piece of road that is a speed trap? I can think of several 4 lane highways where there is no cross traffic and not lots of businesses or houses yet the speed limit may be 45 through that stretch, you can travel the same road for a few miles and everything is the same but the speed limit is 65. I try to stay within 10 mph of the speed limit if there are chances that it could be patrolled, I don't feel that I'm endangering myself or anyone else. As a society we bow down to the speed limits and we do not question them. (Some speed limits I can agree to, 70 on the freeway works, because most people are moving 80 or so, move it up and triple digit speeds will start to become common, American drivers are just not ready for that.) Why should we never question a rule imposed on us by our government? Will we take this same mentality of "don't question the rules" when the government decides to remove our hunting rifles from our possession because they hold more than one round, or they don't like the caliber?

I usually open carry when I'm fishing (IWB.) Mainly because I'm wading and it helps keep my gun dry as opposed to my normal pocket carry. I usually carry in my pocket. The other day there was a lot of people around and a lot of them looked pretty hippy/ gun hating like. I tied a bandana around my belt loop and tucked it over the butt of my 642 and no one could see it. Even talked to a guy for about 20 minutes and he didn't notice. (I wasn't wearing a shirt btw)

Went out for just a couple of hours Tuesday evening. Didn't see the first trout but I caught three nice small mouth. Kept the two largest for me and the girlfriend. Rolled one up in aluminum foil, had it stuffed with butter and seasoning, it was pretty good. The other I fileted and cut into bite sized chunks, rolled in seasoned flour and fried in butter, chewing was not necessary, some of the best fish I have ever had. Headed out for a few hours this afternoon!

We had one that was missing a front leg one season, saw it several times around the house. It still got around pretty well and looked healthy otherwise.

Okay if train horns don't work I'm thinking those little deer whistles are a scam.