Can you explain how to do this in English rather than Klingon? Just go to a gas station in the hood and get a phone and a prepaid card or something?
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Can you explain how to do this in English rather than Klingon? Just go to a gas station in the hood and get a phone and a prepaid card or something?
My phone is back now, but was out for a while. It was out in much of Kentucky and as far East as North Carolina. In far western Kentucky, 911 service was out. Also out in much of Nashville. I thought there was a decent chance of something happening in the Nashville area when I mentioned it a few days ago.
The AT&T service is affecting 9-1-1 calls all over this area. Hospitals in Nashville are strained as well as their airport. This very well may be a lone/random/rogue act, but man. . . it looks like the rising action to a Tom Clancy novel. Scary stuff.
All those neck beards who bought up all the Baofeng radios don’t look so stupid now huh.
I thought everyone in GYERO had Verizon because money is no object to us?
7 may be peak Santa age. I’m hoping we’ve got at least a couple more good years but my niece is 9 and you can tell she’s suspicious if not out right just playing along at this point.
My daughter knew at 9. My son is 11 and is firmly in “want to believe, holding on” mode. I miss it but it’s still fun. Legitimately surprised my daughter with her “Santa” gift this am so that was fun.
Verizon Talk and Text (prepaid) plan is $35/month, but you need an old phone.
(My wife and I used to have a prepaid phone that we would periodically turn on and give to Canadian & European friends and family when they visited us. It was like $20/month back then.)
Verizon is on a CDMA network standard that was developed by the US gov. By the time the rest of the world built out their systems, they went with GSM networks. We now have both CDMA and GSM networks in the States but CDMA network is considered more bulletproof and reliable.
Smaller carriers just use the larger carrier’s networks. So even if you buy a Cricket prepaid phone, you’re just using AT&T’s network - so you’d still be screwed.
My 12-year old just walked downstairs with Ruth Bader Ginsberg pajamas on. Gift from the in-laws of course. They won’t survive the week (the pajamas, that is). What kind of sick, f’ing weirdo gives a kid RBJ pajamas?
Who gives a f**k, Wayne. They’re goddamned pajamas, man.
I figured out that Santa couldn’t be real when I was 6 years old. I went outside to look to the sky and and it just hit me that the world was so big and no person could possibly take presents to every child in the whole world in one night.
I went in and asked my mother to tell me if I was right and Santa wasn’t real. She explained that there was a real person named St Nicholas who gave presents to children a long long time ago, and after he died parents took up the spirit of Santa and took care of getting the children their gifts. Santa was a spirit of giving, not a real person. I felt pretty proud of figuring it out and as the oldest child, I never revealed the secret to any of my 5 younger brothers and sisters. Christmas was never dimmed in anyway for me after I knew.
All three of my daughters knew the truth by age 7. Kids at school told them, and though I tried to keep the magic alive, once they were suspicious it was over. I used the same story my mom told me to explain and one by one, they were fine with it.
I have to say I have a very hard time believing that any child over the age of 7-8 still really believes. Kids at school have definitely told them the truth. I think they are pretending to believe because they are afraid if they admit they know, Santa will stop coming.
Santa never stopped coming at my house until, my girls left home. Even though they knew the truth, we kept the giving spirit of St. Nicholas alive, and, I got the credit!!
I went in and asked my mother to tell me if I was right and Santa wasn’t real. She explained that there was a real person named St Nicholas who gave presents to children a long long time ago, and after he died parents took up the spirit of Santa and took care of getting the children their gifts. Santa was a spirit of giving, not a real person. I felt pretty proud of figuring it out and as the oldest child, I never revealed the secret to any of my 5 younger brothers and sisters. Christmas was never dimmed in anyway for me after I knew.
All three of my daughters knew the truth by age 7. Kids at school told them, and though I tried to keep the magic alive, once they were suspicious it was over. I used the same story my mom told me to explain and one by one, they were fine with it.
I have to say I have a very hard time believing that any child over the age of 7-8 still really believes. Kids at school have definitely told them the truth. I think they are pretending to believe because they are afraid if they admit they know, Santa will stop coming.
Santa never stopped coming at my house until, my girls left home. Even though they knew the truth, we kept the giving spirit of St. Nicholas alive, and, I got the credit!!
That’s just the part of the tree that got blown through the window you can’t see.
My uncle was one of the crazy paratroopers that was in Bastogne during that siege. Calmest and easiest person I’ve ever met but the stuff he told me they did was hard to believe until I got older and could research the stories. Found out real quick my uncle was a BMF.
****, well I guess initial reports were wrong...that evacuation message was coming directly from speakers on the RV.. warning it was going to explode and gave a 15 minute countdown. Weird ****.
Absolutely nothing about this event passes the smell test. The mayor was already talking about building 2nd Street back stronger. Du wat?
I get that it was Christmas and there is a skeleton staff everywhere so no one probably scripted his comments but what in the hell is that about? There was just an unexplained car bombing and he's giving the COVID speech or something? Bizarre.
Shared the Sparks three free throw pic the other day.
This is my second favorite photo of the rivalry... I don't know why but I think UK is gonna do it today.
This is my second favorite photo of the rivalry... I don't know why but I think UK is gonna do it today.
Yeah, the mayor came off as a complete dumbass. Kind of used the opportunity to promote Nashville, but also giggled through his comments.
I'm not a conspiracy guy in the least...think the mayor is just a moron. Just weird with the warning coming from the RV, the time, location, etc.
I'm not a conspiracy guy in the least...think the mayor is just a moron. Just weird with the warning coming from the RV, the time, location, etc.
Hadn't heard about this before. Concerning?
That interview was bizarre. Dude is trying to crack jokes and laugh about a damned terrorist attack in his city while the flames are still rolling.
We have had a crazy week, which led to me just telling our big kids the truth. They knew about Santa anyway so it wasn’t a huge ordeal which was cool.
Got the call my mom caught Covid on Monday although she was in the hospital since last week. Her kidneys are shot, lungs operate at 60% and multiple other issues health wise.
Hospital had given up once it really took ahold. She is still here but oxygen levels have been in the lower 80s now for longer than a day.
Driving back and forth from Louisville to Paducah 3 times this past week, and doing Xmas between has just ran me ragged.
On top of that Xmas Eve night the wife ran to the bank to get her cash for our trip down Xmas day, hit some ice and slid into the curb at the bank destroying her wheel. So that made things even worse.
Kids had a blast at least.
So, yea, Cats 56-54, maybe, I guess........hopefully!
Got the call my mom caught Covid on Monday although she was in the hospital since last week. Her kidneys are shot, lungs operate at 60% and multiple other issues health wise.
Hospital had given up once it really took ahold. She is still here but oxygen levels have been in the lower 80s now for longer than a day.
Driving back and forth from Louisville to Paducah 3 times this past week, and doing Xmas between has just ran me ragged.
On top of that Xmas Eve night the wife ran to the bank to get her cash for our trip down Xmas day, hit some ice and slid into the curb at the bank destroying her wheel. So that made things even worse.
Kids had a blast at least.
So, yea, Cats 56-54, maybe, I guess........hopefully!
Havent been this mad about a loss before the game actually starts in a long time
These guys won’t even be awake at 1PM. It’s going to be an ugly loss.
Hank "wouldn't be surprised" if the mayor was the one behind the Nashville bombing according to the other thread.
Not sure anything ever would surprise me more.
Not sure anything ever would surprise me more.
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