La Salle Explorers

[hedge]

Didn't you say the boy is about to be 15? Don't you think he has access to internet porn? I suspect he feels the same way about Playboy as you do. He's probably in there reading the adviser or the interview, just like his pappy...

[Jungle Rat]

My dad had Playboys on the coffee table when I was growing up. We had to dumpster dive behind the post office to get ahold of Penthouse.

[eCat]

Didn't you say the boy is about to be 15? Don't you think he has access to internet porn? I suspect he feels the same way about Playboy as you do. He's probably in there reading the adviser or the interview, just like his pappy...

probably , especially since he has a Samsung III now.

I should probably sit him down at some point and let him know that every girl he dates isn't' going to be able to take a baseball bat up the ass or enjoy getting sperm sprayed on her face...but by all means search for that kind of girl while you can.

[Jungle Rat]

Since it's Saturday & it's raining that can only mean one thing.

E is on a Boy Scout camping trip again.

[eCat]

Since it's Saturday & it's raining that can only mean one thing.

E is on a Boy Scout camping trip again.

nope, today we're taking the extended fambly to the circleville pumpkin festival - so I am gonna get wet anyways.

Did you see the boy scout leaders video tape themselves knocking over a rock?

[Jungle Rat]

Yep. A relative?

[hedge]

"Did you see the boy scout leaders video tape themselves knocking over a rock?"

Link?

[AugustWest]

They knocked over a 250 million year old rock formation. SAid they did it because it was "unstable".

[eCat]

Every scout leader is supposed to be trained during a program called OLT, and during that training they stress the Leave No Trace concept.

We take it so far that we don't let the boys throw rocks into the water and we make them fluff back up the grass after a weekend of having their tent mat it down. Every camping trip we do a "police line" where the boys line up the width of the campsite and walk the length of it picking up trash, and finally every hike we take, we bring along a plastic grocery bag and pick up trash left behind from previous hikers.

Its discouraging when you see these dumbasses doing this kind of thing - even if it is just a damn rock

[hedge]

I hate to think of eCat being discouraged. That's on par with a 250 million year old rock formation being dislodged. Don't let them win, eCat. Screw your courage to the sticking place and you'll not fail...

[eCat]

I'm gonna have to make some contemplation time to myself recalibrated to this

[Jungle Rat]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/22/us/utah-b ... homepage-t

[sardis]

He need not worry. If the insurance won't pay him, the government hands out disability like Halloween candy...

[hedge]

Judge Holden did shit like that all the time...

[Bklyn]

random aside...

Some states will allow for some individuals to collect their unemployment benefits for those 16 days of shutdown, even though they will receive back pay. Not a bad windfall, all considering.

[Jungle Rat]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/love-lett ... 17680.html

[innocentbystander]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/too-big-s ... 13940.html

One of the largest cruise ships in 1985 was the 46,000-ton Carnival Holiday. Ten years ago, the biggest, the Queen Mary 2, was three times as large. Today’s record holders are two 225,000-ton ships whose displacement, a measure of a ship’s weight, is about the same as that of a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier.

Cruise ships keep growing bigger, and more popular. The Cruise Lines International Association said that last year its North American cruise line members carried about 17 million passengers, up from seven million in 2000. But the expansion in ship size is worrying safety experts, lawmakers and regulators, who are pushing for more accountability, saying the supersize craze is fraught with potential peril for passengers and crew.....

.....Some experts doubt that ships can grow much larger than the current behemoths, marvels of naval engineering that combine the latest technology and entertainment. Today’s biggest ship, Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas, has 2,706 rooms, 16 decks, 22 restaurants, 20 bars and 10 hot tubs, as well as a shopping mall, a casino, a water park, a half-mile track, a zip line, mini golf and Broadway-style live shows. It can accommodate nearly 6,300 passengers and 2,394 crew members — the equivalent of a small town towering over the clear blue waters of the Caribbean Sea. It measures 1,188 feet long. Its sister ship, the Oasis of the Seas, is two inches shorter.....

.....While ships are becoming bigger, the burden on crew members is growing. The Queen Elizabeth 2, which was launched in 1969, had one crew member for about 1.8 passengers. On the Triumph, the ratio was one crew member for every 2.8 passengers. The issue is also complicated by language and communication problems, and a high crew turnover rate that can reach 35 percent a year.

A turnover in employment of one-in-three annually. Well, this is what happens when the majority of your employees at your company are 3rd World, their work is almost 100% service sector focused, and their well formed jobs are entirely replaceable. Alas, the lack of continuity also creates a greater risk of danger should there be an actual emergency not to mention, the high turnover creates a greater opportunity for true terrorism.

When you get right down to it, a dirty bomb on the Allure of the Seas could do more damage to many more lives (9000 people stranded in the middle of the Caribbean, cut off from ALL first responders) than 4 hijacked airliners did operating as self-guided, kamakasee, flying-fuel-air-bombs on September 11th.

[Cletus]

When is your next cruise?

[innocentbystander]

When is your next cruise?

Believe it or not, we have nothing scheduled (yet.)

[NSA]

Interesting convo guys.