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longhorn320

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #8512 on: September 05, 2020, 09:38:30 PM »
Quote from: CWSooner on September 05, 2020, 08:58:09 PM
A Military Times poll of active-duty troops shows Biden leading Trump 41.3% to 37.4%.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/08/31/as-trumps-popularity-slips-in-latest-military-times-poll-more-troops-say-theyll-vote-for-biden/?fbclid=IwAR0XKqcwWevmi0YZENlNZcs3zEHngSZNAz1eqWmhuiayjYHT5ZaTI6qA8n0

Qualifier: The poll's participants were taken from Military Times subscriber listings and average older and more senior-ranking than the average member of the armed forces.  However, the poll using the same methodology in October 2016 showed Trump leading Hillary Clinton 40.5% to 20.6% (with 34.3% favoring an independent), which was very close to the actual vote.
seriously CW theres too many unknowns about this survey to be able to believe it

how many surveyed were black

how many surveyed were women

how many voted for Trump or Clinton last election

also trying to compare this survey to a previous survey has the same questions on the previous survey

Im not saying the survey is not accurate only that we dont know
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #8513 on: September 05, 2020, 10:45:17 PM »
Quote from: longhorn320 on September 05, 2020, 09:38:30 PM
seriously CW theres too many unknowns about this survey to be able to believe it

how many surveyed were black

how many surveyed were women

how many voted for Trump or Clinton last election

also trying to compare this survey to a previous survey has the same questions on the previous survey

Im not saying the survey is not accurate only that we dont know
Did you read the story, 320?  It acknowledged that as a "scientific" survey it has shortcomings.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #8514 on: September 05, 2020, 11:07:54 PM »
Quote from: CWSooner on September 05, 2020, 10:45:17 PM
Did you read the story, 320?  It acknowledged that as a "scientific" survey it has shortcomings.
I read it and was pointing that out just in case someone else missed that aspect

so there thats my story and Im sticking to it
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #8515 on: September 06, 2020, 08:10:29 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on September 05, 2020, 06:26:50 PM
Yeah, that many folks forgetting to put in the plug would be... unusual.  Something weird going on here.
Ya but the they would have sunk at the dock had some nefarious knobs pulled them.I suspect they pulled them to remove extra/excess bilge whilst moving.And in all the hubbub forget to put them back.Otherwise it's irate Longhorns in tight spaces smacking into each other
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #8516 on: September 06, 2020, 09:46:25 AM »
You'd have to have an incredibly strong bilge pump on a runabout or wakeboat, to keep you afloat at anything less than flat-out running.  The moment you slow down or stop, you're taking on far more water than your pump can remove.

Reports are that the conditions on the lake were extremely choppy, and speculation is that these  boats just took too many waves over the bow.  Also, the parade generated a ton of traffic, and when waves are high it's important to be able to maneuver your boat to avoid the worst of them.  In heavy traffic, it's more difficult to do so.

Anyway, just a really weird string of events to result in something like this.  
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #8517 on: September 06, 2020, 09:50:46 AM »
Maybe there was an unusual number of "wannabes" out there renting boats and not understanding how to manage in heavy traffic?
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #8518 on: September 06, 2020, 11:12:32 AM »
I once tried to launch a dinghy without the drain plug.  That was brilliant....not embarrassing at all.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #8519 on: September 06, 2020, 11:36:55 AM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on September 06, 2020, 11:12:32 AM
I once tried to launch a dinghy without the drain plug.  That was brilliant....not embarrassing at all.
thats happened to a lot of folks

there is generally beer involved
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #8520 on: September 06, 2020, 12:19:17 PM »
Quote from: ELA on September 05, 2020, 07:20:34 PM
My sister-in-law's dad, is part of a racehorse ownership group, because none of them can be a full owner themselves.  I tried to put in a show of good faith bet, but DraftKings doesn't allow betting on the Derby. His horse just won


Your brother's wife's dad? Wow. 

I have only met my brother's wife's family once; at my brother's wedding, back in the 90s. 
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #8521 on: September 06, 2020, 12:22:09 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on September 06, 2020, 09:46:25 AM
You'd have to have an incredibly strong bilge pump on a runabout or wakeboat, to keep you afloat at anything less than flat-out running.  The moment you slow down or stop, you're taking on far more water than your pump can remove.
Friend use to have a 28 ft Amberjack,many times we'd get into after a rain on Lake Erie and get it running out to the fishing spots and on the way pulled the plug and water would drain out fine and plug before stopping.Always did this in Canada with the smaller boats after raining all nite,pull while cruising and replace before stopping :017: keep austin weird ;D
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #8522 on: September 06, 2020, 03:28:01 PM »
There was a doofus on our dock last year who launch his boat and came in with the ass end in the water. His bilge was blocked up with leaves and he was going down fast.

Turned out, we should have let him sink. Glad he's no longer on the dock. Complete dick.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #8523 on: September 06, 2020, 03:44:46 PM »
My sister and her husband used to own a marina on Lake of the Ozarks. He was a little bit crazy... I guess still is. 

Because he had scuba gear, insurance companies would hire him to bring up sunk boats if they were in an area too shallow to be left in place. So he'd be the type who would scuba, in a crappy lake, into boats and fill them up with bags of air to get them to the surface. 

He had one where he had to pull up a boat. 41' cabin cruiser. Insurance company paid him to pull it up, and then offered to sell him the boat for $5K because it was salvage at that point. He knew it had two Ford 427 engines in it, so the cost of buying it--worst case--would probably be recouped just selling the engines. 

As it turns out, he got the boat up, realized that it was probably an owner who had pulled the plugs and sunk it for the insurance money, rehabbed it and sold it for over $30K IIRC. Before the sale I stayed on the boat one college Thanksgiving when I went to go visit--you wouldn't have had a clue it had been sunk and salvaged. 

He's one of those guys who doesn't have "a job", he just has his irons in so many fires that he's always making money somehow. I don't know if I could handle that life, but I guess that's just how he grew up. 
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #8524 on: September 06, 2020, 04:02:06 PM »
Quote from: bwarbiany on September 06, 2020, 03:44:46 PM
My sister and her husband used to own a marina on Lake of the Ozarks. He was a little bit crazy... I guess still is.

Because he had scuba gear, insurance companies would hire him to bring up sunk boats if they were in an area too shallow to be left in place. So he'd be the type who would scuba, in a crappy lake, into boats and fill them up with bags of air to get them to the surface.

He had one where he had to pull up a boat. 41' cabin cruiser. Insurance company paid him to pull it up, and then offered to sell him the boat for $5K because it was salvage at that point. He knew it had two Ford 427 engines in it, so the cost of buying it--worst case--would probably be recouped just selling the engines.

As it turns out, he got the boat up, realized that it was probably an owner who had pulled the plugs and sunk it for the insurance money, rehabbed it and sold it for over $30K IIRC. Before the sale I stayed on the boat one college Thanksgiving when I went to go visit--you wouldn't have had a clue it had been sunk and salvaged.

He's one of those guys who doesn't have "a job", he just has his irons in so many fires that he's always making money somehow. I don't know if I could handle that life, but I guess that's just how he grew up.
I have a buddy like that. He’s always done ok for himself (or it seems he has) but he’s always dabbled in 5 or 6 different things at one time.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #8525 on: September 06, 2020, 04:19:45 PM »
It is not a good feeling when you are in a boat that is sinking.

About 15 years ago I was in Canada on a fly in fishing trip deep in the Northwoods.   I was alone in a 15 foot cedar strip boat with a 15 hp motor.

Saw a huge storm coming in and like a dumb ass, thought I could make it across the main large deep part of the lake and back to camp for dinner.

I didn’t even come close and the rain was so hard that boat filled up with water so fast I couldn’t even believe it. 

I had the wherewithal to pull the plug which saved me as I made it to a small island about the size of two school buses in the middle of the lake and wrote out the storm. 

Finding my way back in the fog and dark was no fun either but I did. Spaghetti never tasted so good. 
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