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Old 07-25-2017, 04:20 PM   #67141
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    I mean, that happens, sure. But 15 horses total last year died. There's usually 10ish races a day, for 40 days, and maybe 6-9 horses per race on the low end.

    Oh, and we just had a report today that approximately 99% of NFL players have critical brain damage, but sure a horse dying is the big issue here.
    You do realize that comparison means nothing since football players chose to play. The horses don't exactly sign up to play, even if you can find an article claiming they want to win. I can post a plethora more detailing how dark horse racing is.
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    How as humans can we actually say "yeah the horses want to race" at the same time we can't say they don't either. But I totally believe there could dark side to horse racing.

    I'm not at all offended by horse racing tho.
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    Old 07-25-2017, 06:03 PM   #67145
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    "Typing" on a smartphone. Agonizing when you have big hands/fingers. Of course, there's always half-ass voice recognition which requires you to correct at least one word in every sentence on average. Not sure why in 10 years of smartphones and well over 20 years of texting there hasn't been a solution to make typing on a smartphone easier...other than a peripheral.
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    Old 07-25-2017, 06:22 PM   #67146
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    If you think horse racing is bad, take a read about greyhounds.


    I wouldn't recommend it if you're a dog lover...
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    Old 07-25-2017, 06:25 PM   #67147
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    If you think horse racing is bad, take a read about greyhounds.


    I wouldn't recommend it if you're a dog lover...
    I referenced greyhounds in my original post as well, but deleted it.
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    I mean, that happens, sure. But 15 horses total last year died. There's usually 10ish races a day, for 40 days, and maybe 6-9 horses per race on the low end.

    Oh, and we just had a report today that approximately 99% of NFL players have critical brain damage,but sure a horse dying is the big issue here.
    Not to jump on you, but I'm getting pretty tired of people citing this study over the last day or so. It's a flawed study. I'm sir a lot of NFL players do end up with CTE, but the study you and everyone else is citing only examined players that reported having symptoms tied to CTE. That would be like surveying only US troops that lost limbs in combat and and saying 99% of those deployed were amputees.
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    "Typing" on a smartphone. Agonizing when you have big hands/fingers. Of course, there's always half-ass voice recognition which requires you to correct at least one word in every sentence on average. Not sure why in 10 years of smartphones and well over 20 years of texting there hasn't been a solution to make typing on a smartphone easier...other than a peripheral.
    It's called Swype, or Swiftkey, or lots of other keyboards that have adopted the style. I think it eventually even came to iPhones in recent years

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    can't fight the moonlight gets stuck in my head daily.
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    If you think horse racing is bad, take a read about greyhounds.


    I wouldn't recommend it if you're a dog lover...
    Greyhounds are horribly abused.. and they nearly never get adopted.. its sad.
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    can't fight the moonlight gets stuck in my head daily.
    "Deep in the dark you surrender your heart but you know but you know that you...."
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    It's called Swype, or Swiftkey, or lots of other keyboards that have adopted the style. I think it eventually even came to iPhones in recent years

    Sincerely,

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    i could never figure out how to use that. even more infuriating than typing.
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    thoughts on this brother and sister who passed out at the pool two hours into their mexico vacation and the sister died...?

    it's so weird.
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    People that start out their email requests with "I was wondering if ...."
    Most of the time, it's asking for data from my system. Of course I can do it, so don't start with "I was wondering if." Just directly ask for what you need.
    If you want to be polite, just say "Can you please ..." or "would you please" but for some reason "I was wondering if ..." just really annoys me!
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    thoughts on this brother and sister who passed out at the pool two hours into their mexico vacation and the sister died...?

    it's so weird.
    My wife was telling me about this last week, apparently there's a big problem in certain Mexican resorts with the bartenders drugging guests. There is a site somewhere that has compiled these sorts of stories. And review & travel sites are deleting the reviews for some reason.
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    My wife was telling me about this last week, apparently there's a big problem in certain Mexican resorts with the bartenders drugging guests. There is a site somewhere that has compiled these sorts of stories. And review & travel sites are deleting the reviews for some reason.
    GMA has been covering this - they're deleting them because the reviews aren't "first hand". They're written by people who were with the victims, not the victims themselves.

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    People that start out their email requests with "I was wondering if ...."
    Most of the time, it's asking for data from my system. Of course I can do it, so don't start with "I was wondering if." Just directly ask for what you need.
    If you want to be polite, just say "Can you please ..." or "would you please" but for some reason "I was wondering if ..." just really annoys me!
    My pet peeve is "Question for you,"

    No shit. Thanks for the heads up.
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    thoughts on this brother and sister who passed out at the pool two hours into their mexico vacation and the sister died...?

    it's so weird.
    It's tragic. And her brother is an asshole for allowing his little sister (who was 19 or 20?) to throw back shots in a strange place.
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    People that start out their email requests with "I was wondering if ...."
    Most of the time, it's asking for data from my system. Of course I can do it, so don't start with "I was wondering if." Just directly ask for what you need.
    If you want to be polite, just say "Can you please ..." or "would you please" but for some reason "I was wondering if ..." just really annoys me!
    I'm guilty of this more than I should be, but I think it's because sometimes I'm genuinely wondering if they can help. like I'm emailing someone blindly, they may not have time but someone in their group does
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    It's tragic. And her brother is an asshole for allowing his little sister (who was 19 or 20?) to throw back shots in a strange place.
    She was 20 and the drinking age in Mexico is 18.
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    My wife was telling me about this last week, apparently there's a big problem in certain Mexican resorts with the bartenders drugging guests. There is a site somewhere that has compiled these sorts of stories. And review & travel sites are deleting the reviews for some reason.
    yeah. i'm sure that happens sometimes, maybe at the end of the night. but why? what's the endgame for the bartender in the early evening? what good comes of a passed out patron at your bar?

    also, i read somewhere that they slammed like 8 shots along with a couple sipping cocktails in two hours. that would lay ME under the table.
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    Heard someone tonight call ketchup "tom sauce." Very annoying because she kept asking for it.
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    yeah. i'm sure that happens sometimes, maybe at the end of the night. but why? what's the endgame for the bartender in the early evening? what good comes of a passed out patron at your bar?

    also, i read somewhere that they slammed like 8 shots along with a couple sipping cocktails in two hours. that would lay ME under the table.
    Trump is our President, I'm sure there's a lot of Mexican nationals that have soured considerably on Americans with all the talk of a wall, it's not beyond imagining that some with easy access/ability to harm Americans are taking their frustrations to action.
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    Heard someone tonight call ketchup "tom sauce." Very annoying because she kept asking for it.
    This made me cringe thinking about it
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    Trump is our President, I'm sure there's a lot of Mexican nationals that have soured considerably on Americans with all the talk of a wall, it's not beyond imagining that some with easy access/ability to harm Americans are taking their frustrations to action.
    Well they need to get the fucking memo that got passed around on November 8.

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    Well they need to get the fucking memo that got passed around on November 8.

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    thoughts on this brother and sister who passed out at the pool two hours into their mexico vacation and the sister died...?

    it's so weird.
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    yeah. i'm sure that happens sometimes, maybe at the end of the night. but why? what's the endgame for the bartender in the early evening? what good comes of a passed out patron at your bar?

    also, i read somewhere that they slammed like 8 shots along with a couple sipping cocktails in two hours. that would lay ME under the table.
    I've been reading all these horror stories because I was planning on going to Cabo in October.

    Basically, two things are happening. Unprovable since Mexico won't let the US investigate but the articles I read pointed to:

    1) A resort chain has some agreement with local hospitals to send people there, and patients end up only being allowed to pay in cash. So I'm sure there's a kickback, so get people to get fucked up, call the ambulance, profit. And since Mexico is known as the place people get fucked up, it's a perfect cover.

    2) Due to the cheap prices of all-inclusive and how much people drink, they have been switching out real/good booze with bootleg shit, that ends up being very high in alcohol and/or cut with dangerous shit.

    I think we're going to Greece now...
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    Pretty fucked up if that's true.
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    Pretty fucked up if that's true.
    Yea...it's hard to know what's true and what's just people trying to excuse their behavior...but one story was an adult man/woman who swear they had 2 drinks, felt sick, blacked out and woke up in their room, guy with a broken hand, woman feeling like she'd been raped. They flew back home to MN or something, woman's OBGYN confirmed she'd been penetrated not by her husband and guy's hand was a break usually caused by punching.

    So she's sexually assaulted but ends up in her bed? Fucked up shit.

    Another one was about two teenage boys on a trip with their parents, who had a drink or two and woke up later that night away from the resort, on the first day they got there mind you, with all their shit stolen.
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