GottaRun
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I had two single seats to the Hamilton, Ont show last year. The venue ended up letting me swap them the day before the show for 2 seats together on the floor by the sound booth. The setup for the show is a big deal and they don't know how many extra seats they can squeeze in by the booth until the last minute.
Also, there were better seats going on sale the week and 2 - 3 weeks after the show went on sale on Ticketmaster than there were the day the seats went on sale. So if you're into tickets for this show keep checking. -
My plan is:
1. Google whoever we draft after we draft them
2. Post my well researched opinion
3. Get told I'm an idiot
4. Enjoy the summer
5. See if last years draft picks can actually play this September
6. Get pumped up, convince myself we are headed to the Superbowl
7. Drink away my sorrows
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Maybe the NFL thinks Brady will retire after this season and they want him to bow out with the AFC East, last 2 at home.
NE schedule
Nov 26 home to the Dolphins
Dec 3 at the Bills
Dec 11 at the Dolphins
Dec 17 at the Steelers
Dec 24 home to the Bills
Dec 31 home to the Jets
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We could have had an extra home game in Sept, or Oct, or two games in Nov, but they gave us 3 fuc**** home games in a row in December. Stupid friggin schedule
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I'm tired of the NFL disrespecting Buffalo football fans. All of our home games are Bills games. In a 16 game schedule you think they could at least give us one game that involves two teams with something to play for? Clevelanders must really be pissed.
Some city could get a massive snowstorm and need to move their home game to New Era (ala Bills Jets in Detroit) Just think - we may get a Browns home game some year!
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The weathers never any good in October, November, December!!! All of our games should have been in September!!!
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Hey, here's a fun little factoid: the Russians consider thermobaric weapons to be "chemical weapons." And most of the world considers the MOAB to be thermobaric (incorrectly, I may add. It's just a big-ass conventional bomb).
So if we dropped a MOAB, I expect the Russians will very shortly accuse us of using chemical weapons in Afghanistan. And everyone will assume that their definition of "chemical weapon" is identical to our definition, and then wig out over it.
I'll wig out now if it helps.
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No, they're not entirely true. You have to remember that news reports are condensed and usually senationalized sound bytes for mass consumption. And to the masses, "destroy" just as well covers "suffocate everyone out of the cave" as it does "collapse the entire cavern and bury everyone in it." It's never a particularly good idea to assume details in the broad brush-strokes of news stories, particularly in this sensationalist age when they misuse or abuse words so frequently.
The closest would actually be the Daisy Cutters the USAF dropped in Vietnam (to create helicopter landing zones in the jungle by knocking down trees in a couple-hundred-yard radius). The MOAB is actually the Daisy Cutter's replacement. The biggest difference between the largest British bombs and the Daisy Cutter/MOAB is that the latter are "high capacity," while the former were penetrators (practically armor-piercing). Which means that the MOAB is something like 80% explosives by weight, whereas a Grand Slam was only about 40%, which makes for significant differences in usage and target effect.
The cookie was actually widely used. It was part of the standard load of the Lancaster bomber during World War 2 - one 4000 lb HC and a boatload (2-5 tons) of 4-lb incendiaries. The cookie would break windows and knock tiles off roofs of buildings to facilitate the fires the incendiaries started. It's actually similar to the "aerial mines" the Germans dropped on London (literally, an air-delivered naval mine modified to detonate as a bomb) your father-in-law would have seen. The larger Tallboy and Grand Slam weren't widely used - again, very specialized weapons.
Interesting. I think I heard that the aerial mines were meant to explode on a delay. Basically land mines from the sky that could sit in waiting. So you would re-enter your home thinking you were safe, then find out you weren't.
My father in law saw a lot. He was in the first group of kids shipped out of London when the British thought the blitz was coming. After being in Oxford for several weeks his family figured it was safe to bring him home. He arrived back in London the day the blitz started. Tells me about spending the first night in a shelter and after seeing the damage the next day, realizing that the shelter wasn't going to do anything for him. He spent the rest of the blitz in the street watching the bombs fall and the fighter planes buzzing around. He told me that once you got over the fear of dying it was the most fascinating thing a 14 year old kid could see. He was a good artist and filled a sketch book with various planes that crashed near him.
Thanks for the info.
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1) No one bombs caves to collapse them. You bomb them to empty them of air (it's why napalm was the most effective weapon against Japanese field fortifications late in World War 2 - a 16-inch HC shell with a weight of some 2800 lbs might not damage a Japanese cave, but a thousand pounds of napalm in front of it burns all the oxygen out of the cave.) The idea that bombing a cave is ineffective if the cave isn't destroyed is counter-factual, since that is rarely the point of bombing a cave.
2) "Similar" British bombs weren't all that similar. Both the Tallboy and Grand Slam were MC penetrators that were actually designed to take out hardened (e.g. submarine pens at Brest or Lorient) or underground targets (e.g. some rail tunnels). The MOAB's more similar to a 4000 lb HC "cookie" in being a giant air-dropped demolition charge, but the two are intended for vastly different purposes (the MOAB's a big-ass precision munition, the 4000 lb HC was an area weapon intended to facilitate incendiary raids.)
Pretty much.
So any news report I read about this being to destroy the caves/tunnels is not entirely true? Is it meant to suffocate the people inside?
The British bombs are the closest I can find that were actually detonated to what the Americans dropped today. Was the "cookie" actually dropped in anger?
I'm generally not into combat/war, I'm going off of my memory from news footage on CNN and stories from my dad and father in law during WWII*
* neither were in WWII but my father in law was a 14 year old living in London during the blitz and my Dad was a 6 year old living in Brighton. Dad talks of American soldiers constantly giving him chocolate. Father in law talks of bombs and planes crashing all around him and has the scariest sketch book I've ever seen.
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You don't know what you're talking about.
Probably, care to elaborate.
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I seem to remember the Americans dropping bunker busting bombs in the mountains after 911. If my memory is right the US soldiers said the bombs weren't any good at collapsing mountain caves and tunnels + there were so many tunnels and caves that the enemy just moved to another route. I wonder why the Americans think this bomb will be more effective?
Similar British bomb from WWII effective against railways and viaducts. The British planned on using it for underground factories but the war ended so it wasn't tested
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Sandwich or no sandwich, hotdogs are disgusting.
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Sounds like he's angry, needs to keep stirring up **** to keep himself focused, and he self medicates all day long. He needs a doctor to sort himself out. He probably knows he's got a problem (he fits so many spectrums with those 3 points I'm not guessing which problem he has) , but he's not going to be sharing that with you anytime.
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Random Google search info, not sure if it's accurate The NFL schedule for 2017-2018 will be released April 13th 2017 at 8 PM EST with the schedule release show on NFL Network.
Can we please have a nice home, away, home, away schedule this year and not some crap 4 or 5 weeks away from home stretch. -
A bowl of Froot Loops and a pint of Stiegl Radler Grapefruit beer. Don't knock it til' you try it.
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Aaaaaand my brackets ruined.
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I have no clue what I'm doing, so I'll take my 21/25 and say thank you very much.
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Over. Love him or hate him Tyrod has another year of experience under his belt and he's good at the position, not amazing, but not terrible either. Stability at QB has to be good for a couple of wins.
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I watched Requiem for the Big East last week so I picked Seton Hall to win their 1st round game simply because I've heard of them. Science and conventional wisdom be damned.
Ah. Having heard of the team. What a great strategy, I should have used that.... or should I? Ask me on the 20th. If Notre Dame is still alive I clearly should have used your strategy.
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I read one article about college basketball this week, so I now consider myself an expert. I went with Villanova, Gonzaga, UCLA, and Kansas. Villanova to be champions.
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What a bunch of pansies.
In my day, I walked 8 miles to school, each way, every day, through 3 feet of snow blah blah blah...
(disintegrates into old-guy talk)
....uphill, both ways....
and school was held outside...
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The Bills will sign Romo to a 1 year $25 million guaranteed contract, then cut him before the season opener.
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I asked my doctor a few years ago. They showed me a chart.
The chart showed my life expectancy at 0 drinks per day. At 2 drinks per day my life expectancy went up. At 3 drinks per day my life expectancy was the same as at 0 drinks per day. At 4 drinks or over per day life expectancy went downhill fast.
So I have settled on 2 - 3 per day. Must be standard drinks. Free pouring mixed drinks gets me in trouble fast and defeats the purpose of the chart.
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What makes you feel so negative before the free agency period has even begun ? I dont think we will have a good sense of where the season may end up, till after the draft. I am giving the benefit of doubt to the coaching staff and saying that it will depend upon the players gained (and lost).
Like I say, maybe it will become apparent in the fall. As for now, we finished the season with a 1 - 4 run, the only win being against Cleveland.
We have a brutal looking schedule coming up. Dareus was a massive disappointment, for now I assume he will be next season as well. Watkins may or may not bounce back from multiple surgeries on his feet, but for now I assume he has trouble.
We have a first time head coach coming in. The skies the limit, but for now he's a first time head coach.
Who knows how Ragland will be this season coming off an ACL injury.
Maybe I'm overly bitter after watching the super bowl, but I do not see a lot of light on the horizon.
Great Article on Bills/Whaley by John Kryk
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Great article - thanks for posting it