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Total chaos: 1-3 inches of snow cripples metro Atlanta Sorry, but this is pretty funny quote:To: Pan_Yan quote:To: FreedomPoster
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# ? Jun 11, 2024 16:50 |
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Freep posted:Stupid subject matter for stupid people in Stupid Land. If there's any way we can get the thread title changed to this I would be eternally grateful. I cannot stop laughing at this.
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kik2dagroin posted:Total chaos: 1-3 inches of snow cripples metro Atlanta
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kik2dagroin posted:Total chaos: 1-3 inches of snow cripples metro Atlanta Its not really that funny. I am in Georgia, and we had people trapped on the goddamned roads for over 24 hours. We had kids trapped at a school that had to sleep over, and we had at least a few people whom were forced to stay overnight at a Home Depot. I mean yeah, it's funny because that one guy had a brilliant loving idea that ended up turning their driveway into an ice skating rink, but there are genuinely people who are having legit issues simply because nobody foresaw this much snow/ice.
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People in danger is certainly not funny, but Nobody saw it coming? Even though atlanta being crippled by 1-3 inches of snow has happened several times in living memory, nobody saw it coming, for some reason. I was born in Buffalo, NY and grew up in Cleveland, OH. I think i know a thing or two about snow. My school buses were not four wheel drive with snow chains, how is it that atlanta is always so paralyzed when the rest of the country continues to function? MattD1zzl3 fucked around with this message at 06:16 on Jan 30, 2014 |
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MattD1zzl3 posted:Even though atlanta being crippled by 1-3 inches of snow has happened several times in living memory, nobody saw it coming, for some reason. I've heard that Atlanta is really terrible with respect to planning and urban sprawl, maybe that has something to do with it.
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Given that they had at least 12 hours warning that snow was coming for sure... And anyone who lives in the southeast knows even a dusting brings the region to its knees but for some reason no one expected it. OBAMAGLOBALWARMINGWEATHERCONSPIRACY
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MattD1zzl3 posted:People in danger is certainly not funny, but Nobody saw it coming? Even though atlanta being crippled by 1-3 inches of snow has happened several times in living memory, nobody saw it coming, for some reason. Because Atlanta, Georgia is filled with idiots. ![]() To be fair, a lot of the public prepared for it, the issue being that the Government is loving useless because we have a republican in charge.
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The weatherpocalypse thread has a link to a good breakdown of the Atlanta stuff here.
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E-Tank posted:Its not really that funny. To wit: Randandal posted:The Weather Channel's Bryan Norcross lays it out for us.
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MattD1zzl3 posted:People in danger is certainly not funny, but Nobody saw it coming? Even though atlanta being crippled by 1-3 inches of snow has happened several times in living memory, nobody saw it coming, for some reason. You should see what happens when it snows down here in southern arizona. People never expect a few inches of snow or ice in the desert.
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kik2dagroin posted:Total chaos: 1-3 inches of snow cripples metro Atlanta Believe it or not people dying isn't funny. That said laugh at the governor and Atlanta mayor all you want.
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Bait and Swatch posted:You should see what happens when it snows down here in southern arizona. People never expect a few inches of snow or ice in the desert. poo poo, I was in the Western edge of the Mojave Desert when we got almost a foot of snow, everything shut down for 2 days until they could bring plows down from the hills. The road to LA was shut down and the entire town was full of 18 wheelers stranded. No one was prepared at all and some guy was trying to ride his loving motorcycle home in 5 inches of snow. He dropped it at least 3 times before we had a chance to pass him on the way home from work. Granted it was a once every 20+ year storm but still. People are dumb.
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Plinkey posted:poo poo, I was in the Western edge of the Mojave Desert when we got almost a foot of snow, everything shut down for 2 days until they could bring plows down from the hills. The road to LA was shut down and the entire town was full of 18 wheelers stranded. No one was prepared at all and some guy was trying to ride his loving motorcycle home in 5 inches of snow. He dropped it at least 3 times before we had a chance to pass him on the way home from work. Granted it was a once every 20+ year storm but still. You don't end up living in the Mohave Desert because you're smart. (I lived there for three years)
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I totally get that Atlanta doesn't have the resources to deal with measurable snowfall. They shouldn't have to, since it's so rare. They should also know that they don't have those resources so when the freak snowstorm comes, they have most of their population at home and not on the roads. I grew up near a western PA ski resort, I know how to drive in snow. Odds are most of the residents of Atlanta don't, and that was borne out this week. They had plenty of warning that this storm was coming and that it was bringing snow. They could've closed schools, or asked businesses to stagger closing times or tele-commute workers where possible. Here's a shocker: when you have two inches of snow and/or ice and no heavy equipment to deal with it, your city is paralyzed. There's a reason for the big-rear end beehive-shaped silos filled with salt and ash along the turnpikes in PA and NY. If you don't get enough snow to justify having those built and maintained, then tell people to just STAY THE gently caress HOME and off the roads.
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I think another major factor is alot of people are inured to the freaking out over the lightest of snowfall because it so very rarely sticks, that most people (myself included) figured it wasn't going to mean two inches of snow STAYING on the ground. Literally every time it has snowed here (Alabama) since I have lived here, it lasted maybe a couple hours and all the snow was gone.
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VideoTapir posted:You don't end up living in the Mohave Desert because you're smart. Thing is you do have to be. When you're building war machines ![]()
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skaboomizzy posted:I totally get that Atlanta doesn't have the resources to deal with measurable snowfall. They shouldn't have to, since it's so rare. They should also know that they don't have those resources so when the freak snowstorm comes, they have most of their population at home and not on the roads. The thing with Atlanta looks to me like something that became readily apparent this month: in a conflict between business interests and public safety business wins. Take the Snow Levels from my home state of Ohio: quote:LEVEL 1: Roadways are hazardous with blowing and drifting snow. Roads are also icy. Drive very cautiously. Level 3 is basically saying "If you go out you can be arrested, so contact your boss and hope they aren't an irredeemable shitheel that forces you to choose between coming in today and coming in ever again". If they had dared to shut down the city the usual suspects would have come out of the woodwork bitching about "gubmint interfering with business" and "nanny state"
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ratbert90 posted:The Mcdonalds CEO may have to NOT give up anything at all? Not even a little bit? He may have to increase the price of hamburgers by less than 2%? Going back a bit; IIRC there is an actual left/marxist/commie-death idea that management salaries should given as a percent/ratio of the lowest paid workers at a company. If the bottom of the payscale is $5 an hour then, by law, the boss can't make more than five times that and so on. I've reached a point where my first thought with this sort of thing is "How would freep react to that?" Then realizing I already know. ![]()
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Meet myRA: Obama offers IRA plan detailsquote:To: tcrlaf quote:To: tcrlaf quote:To: NorthMountain ![]() quote:To: tcrlaf quote:To: tcrlaf
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quote:To: tcrlaf
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I unironically agree with a freeper that Social Security should be expanded instead of funneling money into bonds.
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VideoTapir posted:You don't end up living in the Mohave Desert because you're smart. Did patrolling it almost make you wish for a nuclear winter? Sorry, everyone ![]()
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Wolfsheim posted:Did patrolling it almost make you wish for a nuclear winter? We won't go quietly- the Legion can count on that. what have you done
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Erghh posted:Going back a bit; IIRC there is an actual left/marxist/commie-death idea that management salaries should given as a percent/ratio of the lowest paid workers at a company. If the bottom of the payscale is $5 an hour then, by law, the boss can't make more than five times that and so on. That's how the CEO of Costco operates IIRC. It's probably a hated company by Freepers as well.
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quote:To: Vaquero Finally those investments in antique revolver futures I made will pay off!
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Zero_Grade posted:They're going up, uP, UP!! Man those Pawn Stars dudes must be swimming in piles of Freeper money.
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ATL weather chat: the biggest issue that doesn't face like, any other major metro is the fact that the lily-white suburban sprawl have voted down allowing MARTA into their counties like 6 times because of "those people." Having only 3% of your population use mass transit for their commute will generally gently caress poo poo up if anything happens to the roads. See also: the braves moving to Cobb, ATL building a goddamn dedicated interstate so the suburbs could get to the Olympics etc. Its been said before but Nathan Deal and Kasim Reed are the dream team of incompetence and corruption. When you have a place where most citizens and people are in power are freepers, well, you see what happens. SuperDucky fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Jan 30, 2014 |
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ratbert90 posted:That's how the CEO of Costco operates IIRC. It's probably a hated company by Freepers as well. Head of whole foods as well. Those hoity toity lefties!
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if you want economic rebuttals to peter schiff bullcrap and other similar trash economics there's a good channel worth subscribing to: http://www.youtube.com/user/SchittReport?feature=watch
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Kavak posted:We won't go quietly- the Legion can count on that. I heard Primm wimped out and accepted NCR rule. you monsters SuperDucky posted:Its been said before but Nathan Deal and Kasim Reed are the dream team of incompetence and corruption. When you have a place where most citizens and people are in power are freepers, well, you see what happens. Yeah, basically this is the reason all this has happened and why people are being trapped and dying.
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Crunch Buttsteak posted:
Now I finally know Freepers are utterly irredeemable. Anyone who doesn't like Mulan has no soul. ![]()
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Tigntink posted:Head of whole foods as well. Those hoity toity lefties! I thought While Foods was owned by a libertarian that was just cashing in on a market.
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predicto posted:Now I finally know Freepers are utterly irredeemable. Anyone who doesn't like Mulan has no soul. I can't figure out what propaganda he's referring to in regards to Mulan. If he's whining about its notions of gender equality he should take it up with ancient Chinese seeing as how the movie was based off the legend of Hua Mulan. Radish posted:I thought While Foods was owned by a libertarian that was just cashing in on a market. It is. The guy is batshit crazy too. He recently said Obamacare was fascism and strongly opposes any form of unionism. He is, of course, a self proclaimed Austrian economics advocate and Ayn Rand fanboy. Darkman Fanpage fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Jan 30, 2014 |
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Darkman Fanpage posted:I can't figure out what propaganda he's referring to in regards to Mulan. Probably just the breaking of gender traditional roles.
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You'd think they would latch onto the part about defending one's family against a rampaging horde of darker-skinned barbarians.
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Wait, are they serious about this? While I think that while a lot of modern music and TV promotes materialism and poor behavior, I don't think Mulan is such a case.
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DemeaninDemon posted:You'd think they would latch onto the part about defending one's family against a rampaging horde of darker-skinned barbarians. In addition to not liking the female protagonist, I suspect there's a bit of their "China = commies! = ![]() ![]() amuayse posted:While I think that while a lot of modern music and TV promotes materialism and poor behavior, Tell me more ![]()
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Death penalty sought for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaevquote:To: bryan999 I have no idea if you can center anything in BBcode but this guy's comment is centered and it looks really funny. quote:To: bryan999 #freejahar can down with this ![]() quote:To: bryan999 Unexpected but in retrospect unsurprising Putin love! quote:I don’t want him executed until we learn all the facts Does anyone know why some freepers format their posts like this? I truly don't understand it. quote:To: BenLurkin Reverse racist liberals. quote:To: bryan999 ![]() quote:To: bryan999 So is he for or against executing Dzhokhar? quote:To: bryan999 ![]() ![]() Honestly the reaction is not as ghoulish as I was expecting but then again this is breaking news, so it will surely get worse.
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# ? Jun 11, 2024 16:50 |
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I love that Freep is constantly complaining that Obama is a terrorist sympathizer and whatnot and then when the justice department announces they're seeking the death penalty for a terrorist they suddenly reverse position. You can't have it both ways, guys!
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