[quote]mahwah wrote:
Have they started giving out MRE’s yet?
Lot’s of calories in those ;)[/quote]
They started that on Sunday.
I could go the rest of my life without ever eating one of those again. They are cool in that you may get the lucky bag of M&M’s, but constipation is only fun for so long.
“Look guys, I haven’t taken a shit in a week!!!”
“I guess that explains the 20 extra pounds.”
Going through something like that makes you look at life different.
I always wondered what those MRE’s tasted like, but I will take your word for it.
The older ones really suck but the ones they have now are much better. They are not bad, especially when you haven’t eaten in a day or two or if it is your only meal of the day!
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
I always wondered what those MRE’s tasted like, but I will take your word for it. [/quote]
They don’t taste bad at all now.
I, for one, would like to make a donation to the hurricane victims.
Oh, wait a minute…that means I’m subsidizing people who choose to live in a hurricane zone.
But wait…I’m already doing this anyway. People choose to live in flood plains and in cities that are 9 or 10 feet BELOW sea level…and I get to send my tax dollars to help them rebuild and live…in hurricane zones and flood plains.
How exciting! I always enjoy paying for others who choose to do stupid things.
Hey, if some of you choose to jump off of cliffs, can I pretty please support your families all my life, with my tax dollars too? Thrilled, positively thrilled!!
This is not the PWI forum. If we decided to discuss the government “subsidizing” people living on the coast I think you’d find many here agree with you.
With your line of thought, we should evacuate all of Florida and the entire Gulf Coast and the flood plains of the Midwest. Hurricanes can also hit Georgia and the Carolinas. What about the fire ravaged West, oh and earthquakes. What about tornado ally?
Maybe we should all just move to Ohio. That sounds like a good time.
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
I, for one, would like to make a donation to the hurricane victims.
Oh, wait a minute…that means I’m subsidizing people who choose to live in a hurricane zone.
But wait…I’m already doing this anyway. People choose to live in flood plains and in cities that are 9 or 10 feet BELOW sea level…and I get to send my tax dollars to help them rebuild and live…in hurricane zones and flood plains.
How exciting! I always enjoy paying for others who choose to do stupid things.
Hey, if some of you choose to jump off of cliffs, can I pretty please support your families all my life, with my tax dollars too? Thrilled, positively thrilled!!
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Are you serious? You live effing in Tornado Alley!
HH you really kinda suck
Ohio flooding 2008
Oh, look. An entire website dedicated to OHIO Disasters.
http://www.gendisasters.com/oh/
[quote]mahwah wrote:
This is not the PWI forum. If we decided to discuss the government “subsidizing” people living on the coast I think you’d find many here agree with you.
With your line of thought, we should evacuate all of Florida and the entire Gulf Coast and the flood plains of the Midwest. Hurricanes can also hit Georgia and the Carolinas. What about the fire ravaged West, oh and earthquakes. What about tornado ally?
Maybe we should all just move to Ohio. That sounds like a good time.[/quote]
I don’t expect others to pay my bills. If I do something dumb, then I myself have to bear the responsibility.
Whatever happened to standing on one’s own feet, not forcing others to pay taxes to robber-governments, who buy votes by distributing my tax dollars to those who want to live on an island in a hurricane zone?
If my home is flooded (unlikely, since I actually thought about where to live), then I’ll pay for my own repairs. Just like Sarah Palin said about the bridge: “Thanks, but no thanks!”
[quote]Geminspector wrote:
Oh, look. An entire website dedicated to OHIO Disasters.
http://www.gendisasters.com/oh/ [/quote]
Nice list. Did you enjoy sending your hard-earned dollars, extorted at gunpoint by tax thugs, to help the people of Ohio? Why is that moral or right? What if you actually want to use your own money and … maybe even give willingly?
Do you people see any difference?
Alright, I’ll go away. None of you understand wtf I’m talking about anyway. “No difference between benevolence and thievery…” Jeeezzzzzzz…
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
Geminspector wrote:
Oh, look. An entire website dedicated to OHIO Disasters.
http://www.gendisasters.com/oh/
Nice list. Did you enjoy sending your hard-earned dollars, extorted at gunpoint by tax thugs, to help the people of Ohio? Why is that moral or right? What if you actually want to use your own money and … maybe even give willingly?
Do you people see any difference?
Alright, I’ll go away. None of you understand wtf I’m talking about anyway. “No difference between benevolence and thievery…” Jeeezzzzzzz…
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I understand, but this isn’t the time or the place.
Please, make a topic about it elsewhere.
[quote]RSGZ wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
Geminspector wrote:
Oh, look. An entire website dedicated to OHIO Disasters.
http://www.gendisasters.com/oh/
Nice list. Did you enjoy sending your hard-earned dollars, extorted at gunpoint by tax thugs, to help the people of Ohio? Why is that moral or right? What if you actually want to use your own money and … maybe even give willingly?
Do you people see any difference?
Alright, I’ll go away. None of you understand wtf I’m talking about anyway. “No difference between benevolence and thievery…” Jeeezzzzzzz…
I understand, but this isn’t the time or the place.
Please, make a topic about it elsewhere.[/quote]
Thanks for the voice of reason RSG
HH, I am sure you could find a huge audience in PWI. Can you please leave this thread to folks who are in the situation and coping and the folks that are concerned about people in a bad situation?
Please just take the vitriol to the PWI where it is more suited to that kind of debate.
edit: take it to PWI
LOL Gem
Using a human tragedy to argue your political agenda is stupid.
People like HeadHunter just don’t get it. Would you tell someone who just lost a limb in a motorcycle wreck they should have driven a car? Would you tell someone whose child has just died not to worry they still have 2 other kids? No.
Unless you have been through a huge catastrophy like this, you can’t truly understand it.
3 years after Katrina and Rita and now 2 back to back Hurricanes and you have your “Sunday Armchair Hurricane Quarterbacks” who instead of trying to lift their fellow countrymen up by being supportive, they want to kick them while they’re down. Sure you can live anywhere, but there is only one place you can call home.
[quote]mahwah wrote:
This is not the PWI forum. If we decided to discuss the government “subsidizing” people living on the coast I think you’d find many here agree with you.
With your line of thought, we should evacuate all of Florida and the entire Gulf Coast and the flood plains of the Midwest. Hurricanes can also hit Georgia and the Carolinas. What about the fire ravaged West, oh and earthquakes. What about tornado ally?
Maybe we should all just move to Ohio. That sounds like a good time.[/quote]
Nope, Ohio was just ripped a good one by Ike. All the hurricanes pass over Ohio, but generally they just rain by the time they get here. This one hit like a fist. Trees everywhere. Haven’t had power since Sunday, all the workers were sent to Texas right before it hit here, along with all the generators. Luckily I already had a generator. My neighbors weren’t so lucky, lost $1000+ in food.
Thousands of trees gone, lot of roofs missing. Was absolutely terrifying. I can only imagine what it was like down there, at full power. My prayers with you guys.
EDIT: HH, where do you live in Ohio? Cuz where I’m at, there’s quite a lot of damage, and it’s going to cost a bit to repair.
Hang in there Prof X and the rest of you guys in Texas!
Hope you all come thru it OK.