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The indications that the possible remains of accused child killer Travis Decker show that he met a grisly end.

Apparently officials found two intact feet, clothing and other bodily remains strewn about the Wenatchee Mountains, potentially by wild animals.
 
OzDigger said:
Hey Toddy, WOW MAN 8 kg/18 lb is a BIG 'Surprise' on your head that early in the morning 😻
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Yip, he's a big lad and was the runt of the litter apparently. If I'm really lucky, I'll also get a wet nose in my ear at 3am, accompanied with a loud purr that sounds a squeaky fanbelt........
 
Just got back from a trip to Europe. Gas prices there are 6-8 Euros per gallon. Locally here, $2.79.
 
Terp152 said:
NHL Hockey season is just around the corner. I was a avid baseball fan all through life. I could name almost every player on every team. Football was a close second. As for baseball about 20 years ago I just started loosing interest until I finally lost 100% interest. With football St Louis lost the Cardinals to Arizona. We get the Rams and they moved for a giant money grab. Plus with football the kneeling in protest and playing the black national anthem ( didn't know that existed) and football joined my I don't care list. So NHL hockey has my 100% attention and the only sport I follow. St Louis is suppose to be the real hot bed of USA soccer. In my mind it is the most boring sport on the planet. I remember one year the police department had a soccer league. So I thought I'll give it a try. After my first game one of my experienced soccer team mates said "Gary you run to long in one place".
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That ended my soccer experiment!
 
gk5717 said:
That ended my soccer experiment!
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The funny thing is I've been hearing for years about how soccer has caught on in the US and it is gaining popularity.

It was, is and always will be 5th in this country behind the 4 majors, but hey, I did read where it's more popular than the WNBA!!............(barely, but you have to take small victories when you get them).

I enjoy the watching the world cup and other major championships, I truly admire how rabid fans are for their country's team and how passionate soccer fans are around the world, they love the players, little kids do especially, but the sport itself will never be as popular here as it is around the world.

I will say the fans do support the pro teams and the league does seem to do ok.
 
Warrior said:
The funny thing is I've been hearing for years about how soccer has caught on in the US and it is gaining popularity.

It was, is and always will be 5th in this country behind the 4 majors, but hey, I did read where it's more popular than the WNBA!!............(barely, but you have to take small victories when you get them).

I enjoy the watching the world cup and other major championships, I truly admire how rabid fans are for their country's team and how passionate soccer fans are around the world, they love the players, little kids do especially, but the sport itself will never be as popular here as it is around the world.

I will say the fans do support the pro teams and the league does seem to do ok.
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Soccer like the metric system in the US. Never going to happen. The game is too slow for Americans. Even baseball is a struggling sport in the era of instant gratification. The kids growing up today with video games are not going to watch for hours to see a goal.
 
Combat said:
Soccer like the metric system in the US. Never going to happen. The game is too slow for Americans. Even baseball is a struggling sport in the era of instant gratification. The kids growing up today with video games are not going to watch for hours to see a goal.
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You mentioned kids growing up and playing video games. You drive around and you never and I mean never see kids playing catch or having a pick up game of baseball. Or any other type of pick up games. As when I was growing up that is all we did. In the summer besides collecting baseball cards we played every kind of baseball game invented, indian ball, runner up, throwing the ball against a wall. Are we would switch and play wiffle ball until is was to dark to see. In the fall it was pick up football games. even threw in a little basketball. No soccer and ice hockey was unheard of. Even my two sons as soon as they could put a baseball glove on we were in the back yard playing catch. My backyard had bare spots for the 4 bases from the kids having ball games in the back yard. Obviously electronic games have taken over but in todays world there are not kids every where. In my baby boomer time growing up kids were every where. Almost every family had 4 kids. No air conditioning in the summer so what was the point melting inside your house. 3 stations on a 19 inch black & white TV didn't keep kids glued to the TV except for Saturday morning cartoons and westerns. OK I admit I did watch Howdy Dowdy and The Mickey Mouse Club sometimes during the week and when I got a little older American Bandstand. OK I admit I did not walk 5 miles to school uphill both ways but I did eat mustard sandwiches for lunch!
 
gk5717 said:
You mentioned kids growing up and playing video games. You drive around and you never and I mean never see kids playing catch or having a pick up game of baseball. Or any other type of pick up games. As when I was growing up that is all we did. In the summer besides collecting baseball cards we played every kind of baseball game invented, indian ball, runner up, throwing the ball against a wall. Are we would switch and play wiffle ball until is was to dark to see. In the fall it was pick up football games. even threw in a little basketball. No soccer and ice hockey was unheard of. Even my two sons as soon as they could put a baseball glove on we were in the back yard playing catch. My backyard had bare spots for the 4 bases from the kids having ball games in the back yard. Obviously electronic games have taken over but in todays world there are not kids every where. In my baby boomer time growing up kids were every where. Almost every family had 4 kids. No air conditioning in the summer so what was the point melting inside your house. 3 stations on a 19 inch black & white TV didn't keep kids glued to the TV except for Saturday morning cartoons and westerns. OK I admit I did watch Howdy Dowdy and The Mickey Mouse Club sometimes during the week and when I got a little older American Bandstand. OK I admit I did not walk 5 miles to school uphill both ways but I did eat mustard sandwiches for lunch!
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Spot on.

Every word of it.

When I was a kid, as soon as I got home from school, right outside I went and did not go home until it was suppertime, pick up baseball games, football games, street hockey and pond hockey, no TV, no video games, just outside with my friends, period.

We had a little league field right up the street from my house; in the summer, you had to get their early to get a game in, kids would wait their turn for the next game; whenever I'd drive past there when I go visit my parents, there were NEVER kids playing pick up baseball, as in ever.

Never see street hockey games anywhere as well, kids are now indoors all the time.

And yes, Saturday in the winter was spent indoors, cartoons in the morning, channel 56/creature feature in the afternoon, or some massive ho/oo scale carpet battle in the basement until dinnertime.

I had a great childhood, wouldn't trade one second of it, some of my fondest memories are from age 8 up to about age 16 or so.
 
Warrior said:
Spot on.

Every word of it.

When I was a kid, as soon as I got home from school, right outside I went and did not go home until it was suppertime, pick up baseball games, football games, street hockey and pond hockey, no TV, no video games, just outside with my friends, period.

We had a little league field right up the street from my house; in the summer, you had to get their early to get a game in, kids would wait their turn for the next game; whenever I'd drive past there when I go visit my parents, there were NEVER kids playing pick up baseball, as in ever.

Never see street hockey games anywhere as well, kids are now indoors all the time.

And yes, Saturday in the winter was spent indoors, cartoons in the morning, channel 56/creature feature in the afternoon, or some massive ho/oo scale carpet battle in the basement until dinnertime.

I had a great childhood, wouldn't trade one second of it, some of my fondest memories are from age 8 up to about age 16 or so.
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Great post.

I can see the weather (seasonally) being a factor in every part of the US except in California.

Yet even when I am in Ca everyone, at all ages, stays inside.

I guess Vitamin D is not as important as I thought it was.
 
Warrior said:
Spot on.

Every word of it.

When I was a kid, as soon as I got home from school, right outside I went and did not go home until it was suppertime, pick up baseball games, football games, street hockey and pond hockey, no TV, no video games, just outside with my friends, period.

We had a little league field right up the street from my house; in the summer, you had to get their early to get a game in, kids would wait their turn for the next game; whenever I'd drive past there when I go visit my parents, there were NEVER kids playing pick up baseball, as in ever.

Never see street hockey games anywhere as well, kids are now indoors all the time.

And yes, Saturday in the winter was spent indoors, cartoons in the morning, channel 56/creature feature in the afternoon, or some massive ho/oo scale carpet battle in the basement until dinnertime.

I had a great childhood, wouldn't trade one second of it, some of my fondest memories are from age 8 up to about age 16 or so.
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I would say the indoor trend goes beyond kids. I live in a neighborhood with large yards. Almost never see anyone outdoors. Like in those end of the world apocalypse movies. There are people who have lived here for years that I've never even seen much less talked with.
 
I'm with all the comments regarding playing outside as a kid. My own sons, now in their 40s (sheesh) grew up playing soccer and baseball, both rec league and school teams as well as pick up games. In the winter time we played board games, Monopoly, Stratego, Dogfight, etc.
 
Terp152 said:
"An anti-ICE protester in Massachusetts forgot to put her car in park while yelling at agents making an arrest of an illegal alien and her car rolled into a lake and sunk." Hilarious.

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Massachusetts; figures................there are TV ads galore now on local stations trying to recruit current police officers as ICE agents, anyone who's a member of the BPD should run to the nearest recruiting station as thanks to the libtard Mayor of Boston and the governor, it's a sanctuary city/state and the police have their hands tied, if I were a member of the BPD, I'd sign up for ICE.
 
"Silent Hill" the movie. A very rare, good movie derived from a video game. And if all police officers looked like the lady officer on the motorcycle in this movie, I might speed more on the highway. Old Pyramid Head is my favorite. He was an angry guy. The whole thing is loosely based on the real PA town of Centralia that had to be evacuated in the 80s due to an underground coal mine that is predicted to burn for the next couple hundred years. Not great for property values.
 
Combat said:
"Silent Hill" the movie. A very rare, good movie derived from a video game. And if all police officers looked like the lady officer on the motorcycle in this movie, I might speed more on the highway. Old Pyramid Head is my favorite. He was an angry guy. The whole thing is loosely based on the real PA town of Centralia that had to be evacuated in the 80s due to an underground coal mine that is predicted to burn for the next couple hundred years. Not great for property values.
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Speaking of police women. I have two opinions. As for as handling your everyday calls, auto accidents, alarm soundings reports of larceny, burglary, auto theft no problem. Even as investigators are juvenile officers they are just fine. But what always bothered me where the calls where physical force had to be used. Now granted most calls were not that but again with every call it could turn right away. To put it frankly they were useless when you needed to physically restrain are arrest some one. Myself and a policewoman received a call in a park in downtown St Louis for an OBS (mental case) We got there and this good size guy began fighting with us are should I say me. She did nothing. At least she could have been like a cheerleader on the side lines and cheered me on! I finally got the guy down on the ground, now any liberals out there are not going to like this, but I got my night stick across his throat and held it until he went limp. To be honest for a second I thought I killed the guy. But no he was alive and well. I was then able to handcuff him and everything was good. I did manage to get an infected finger out of all this. The other thing is being a man you feel you must protect the female so again on calls you might step in ahead of her simply because she was a female while if you were with a male you didn't feel that way. Now the most important part there were a few "lookers" but for the most part, the rest of them it would take more than a few beers if you get my drift.
 
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