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If you are interested, that ad is from a 1966 issue of Boy's Life magazine advertising Daisy Air Guns, rather than the Sears Catalog. The Sears Catalog still does have guns and rifles as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iceaxe
It would be funny if it wasn't true...https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...28467e97c9.jpg
That also describes men like me...bachelors. All I have to do is show up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iceaxe
Hey that was me, almost, today, but my job was to shoot clay pigeons. How can I prepare dinner when I'm shooting?Quote:
Originally Posted by Iceaxe
Just when you begin to lose faith in humanity.....
My wife has me rearranging the homestead and checking storage containers, and much to my delight I came across this tome....
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I can not wait to share the knowledge that is hidden within these pages with the young members of
my clan...
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the invaluable wisdom of the ancient ones...
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To have pasted the skill of knot tying to the next generation will give me peace when I reach my final resting place...
Got attacked today by a Focke-Wolf. I'm a back-seat passenger in a US-wartime Beech-18
What a great new-years day flight!
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I miss the good old days when you could actually get away with this type of shit....https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...817ecb7ec4.jpg
Years old... but still my favorite Tom Mabe clip. He has some good ones!Quote:
Originally Posted by accadacca
How do you make a small fortune racing cars? Simple, start with a large fortune.
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That'll buff right out
JB Weld...
Say again, why can't you weld it? But I thought you said you were good.
I'm a Very Stable Genius.
-Dirk
Joan Jett, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap:
http://youtu.be/2sky1tt8vLA
OMG farts never get old :lol8:
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Hope this Utah couple has fun in cartel-land, lol
Or, as my 5 year old grandson calls them, "Poop Ghosts"!Quote:
Originally Posted by Sombeech
FWIW - Cancun is outside the travel advisory and so far is not suffering from the drug wars.Quote:
Originally Posted by rockgremlin
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Originally Posted by Iceaxe
Sure...no advisories, but here are a few articles from just last year:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/08...los-cabos.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ing/527247001/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-beach-resorts
These are just the results of a search that took about 12 seconds on Google. There are dozens of others like them.
I know you vacation there every year. And I'll admit I was there about four years ago as well. But just because nothing has happened to either of us doesn't mean Cancun is immune.
I could pull up similar stories on SLC with a 10 second search. I hear about the homicide rate in Chicago and Philly almost nightly on the news.
I follow the Mexican vacation spots closely because we spend a couple weeks in Mexico every year and what I tell people is pick your destination wisely and don't stray too far outside of the tourist zones.
Yes things can happen... there are places in Mexico I will not go, but right now I have more concerns visiting Kearns or Glendale in SLC then I do vacationing at a resort in Cabo or the Riviera Maya (Cancun). YMMV
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! :roflol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVPN0w1BWQw
^^^This is gold..:roflol:
Play it on .25X the speed (1/4 speed) and watch the cat take a great hit on it's prey. Go right to 27 second mark.Quote:
Originally Posted by accadacca
This would be hilarious if it wasn't true...
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Another way to look at it is that Mexico has a murder rate of just over double that of Salt Lake. That means you have about the same chance of being murdered staying in Salt Lake for two weeks as you would spending one week in Mexico. If you haven't been murdered in Salt Lake in the last two weeks, you should be good to go.:haha:Quote:
Originally Posted by rockgremlin
In all seriousness though, we do go to many of the locations away from the tourist areas, but we do try to avoid the really bad areas.
A lot of areas in Mexico (such as the Yucatan) are actually safer than the US, including Salt Lake City.
Although the murder and violence rate is higher in Mexico than it is than in the US, and you should always keep your guard up, a lot of tourist destinations are statistically more dangerous, even though they don't get the media attention. The Bahamas, for example, has about double the homicide rate of Mexico. The US Virgin Islands has about four times the murder rate. Most of the Caribbean Islands have very high murder rates. The exceptions are places like Aruba, Martinique, Cuba, Turks and Caicos.
Still, everyone worries about crime, but things like auto accidents et al are just as dangerous, especially in less developed countries. Mexico is more developed now than it used to be and driving/riding has become less scary, but there are a lot of countries where riding the bus or taxi is genuinely scary. Even in touristy places such as Thailand, you have about a 2.5 times the chance of getting killed in a car accident than you have being murdered in Mexico.
Also, even in the US the death rate of riding a motorcycle is about five times (on average, but depending on miles ridden) that of the murder rate of Mexico. You are much safer vacationing in Mexico than riding a motorcycle in the US.
Anyway, I choose to keep my guard up, but to travel anyway. For the most part, the highest crime rates are in Latin America, the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Papua New Guinea.
My wife the Paramedic sent this to me...
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somebody tell this to my wife, please.Quote:
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I typed that in all uppercase, BTW.Quote:
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