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cole854

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What a pathetic display for America. Just a complete a thorough sham all around. Women are entitled to and deserve comfort and safety and care and concern as they have the courage to confront their accusees, particularly as sexual assault goes widely unreported, but men should always be assumed innocent until proven guilty.

Today was none of that.

It was a disgraceful dog and pony show, where dim witted attention whores in fancy suits aligned themselves not with right or wrong, but with strict party line politics, to embarrassingly sling mud at each other’s elected factions. What a disgrace, and every single person in that room, save Judge Kavanaugh and Dr Ford, should be completely ashamed of themselves.


It’s hard to determine what was more cringe worthy. Was it Senator Graham rhetorically asking the would be Supreme Court Justice if he’s a gang rapist? Or maybe the Democratic Senator needling him over his high school yearbook notations and the interpretation of various jargon for flatulence?


Unpopular as it may be, this is the type of horseshit that leads me NOT to vote. Thankful for the right, but I don’t particularly care to be represented by any of these buffoons.

So the character assassination of Kavanaugh didn't bother you? The lack of evidence...er, no evidence, from Ford wasn't a concern? Or are just blabbering about the entire fiasco in general to make some sort of point?

If you couldn't pick up on the one sided lynching today, this pretty much illustrates why you made your last statement by lumping all of the elected officials in the same light. In other words, you're clueless.
 

Wynn Duffy 69

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Assuming you're right. What is anybody supposed to do about it? He's apparently conducted himself in an exemplary fashion in his adult life. Should his career be derailed by an unprovable hypothetical?

Of course his career should not be derailed by an unproven hypothetical. It should be determined based on the evidence. We heard sworn testimony from the two parties today. That’s a good start. Let’s get the other lone identified eye witness in to give sworn testimony before the committee. Then take it from there.

Maybe that’s all the evidence there is. Maybe not. Typically that is why investigations/discovery are conducted - to figure out what evidence is out there. In any event, even if the testimony of the three witnesses is all there is, that is certainly enough to make a credibility determination.

“He said - she said” cases are decided all the time. That’s the point of the process. You listen to the testimony, decide who is lying/telling the truth, and then make a credibility determination. This idea that there has to be some additional corroborating evidence in order to reach a decision is simply misplaced.
 

UK_Dallas

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Sep 17, 2015
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Heads up to those front holes that can't handle a little politics on gyero - you should find something else to do on 11/6 and 11/7. Actually just 11/7. Election night will be dominated by another subject.
 

Ron Mehico

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Was in Vegas this past March for a bachelor party and we made our way to the Spearmint Rhino at 4PM. SIX HOURS LATER and one of my buddies took one of the strippers out with us to get dinner, she wore her stripper outfit with a hoodie on, but still had the fishnet stockings and high heels. We went to STK steakhouse I think it was called, was fairly upscale, and no one even gave our party a second glance.

Vegas is awesome.
 
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Vismund

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Thursday in America Rando's:

~ Baby #2 appears to be a success. Pretty lighted about that amigos.

~ Anyone play Spiderman? Heard it's great but I don't pay full price on games so would prefer some NERDYERO opinions.

~ Took the wife to dirty Myrtle for her birthday this past weekend (she needed a beach trip after this summer of selling our home). The flooding is unreal. Several spots on the way down where water is up the the road a solid mile from the nearest creek or body of water. We sat in traffic in Conway for 2+ hours. Not complaining as I feel a ton of sympathy for those struggling, merely making an observation.

~ White hot stoked about our grid iron cats. Not going to rehash what far more plugged in GYERO'ers have already said but I am going to relish this like I did '07.

~ Finally, two people ruined their lives today (and have been for several months). None of us know if any of it is true and no amount of talking points on either side will square this **** hole circle. What I will say is this, what happened today in untenable in our society. It truly is. And, while it isn't on the same scale at all, I agree with other posters, this is as much a travesty as the republicans never giving Merrick a chance (politically speaking only). The notion that either side is "right" or "better" for their tactics is proof that red jersey vs. blue jersey is very much alive.

As always, much love.
 

mashburned

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Let’s talk marble collections.

This guy on Antique Roadshow had 4 marbles worth well beyond 20k+. Could be as much as 100k for one marble. We don’t really know because the marbles are so rare. There is not a more rare collection of marbles on earth.

~ Finally, two people ruined their lives today (

Well, one made millions of dollars and the other is likely going to be on the Supreme Court. Sad!
 
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My collection, is probably worth in the 10, 000 dollar range.

Sulphide marbles are the rarest and most valuable. Clear glass, shooter sized, with a small fam animal figurine inside.

They always have one pontil (the rough edge where the glass was gathered.

Sulphides with human characters are more rare than the animal ones, and angel sulphides are the rarest.
 

Wynn Duffy 69

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Marbles were money off a slingshot. I could land one of those little bitches two streets over off the back deck.
 
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Marbles aren't made in the USA anymore. Most production shifted to Japan and Mexico after WWII

In the heyday of American made marbles, most were made in Illinois, Ohio, and West Virginia. Mainly because the glass factories (Peltier, Akro etc.) Had abundant resources there, ash, lime etc.
 

UKRob 73

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Where my parents were from almost everybody has grottos with mother Mary on them. My great Aunt, a former nun, made a rock grotto with Mary on top, with marbles cemented in. Antique dealer told my uncle one of them was a $5k marble. Drunk uncle takes hammer to grotto one night, gets about 2 dozen marbles. None of them turned out to be worth more than $2 or $3 bucks a piece.
He was a dick, so we always fu@ked with him that he was going to hell over about $5.

That's the only marble story I got.
 
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Also, an 8 ball of rooster is about the size of your standard shooter marble.

Smaller if its high grade. You know, that stuff that flakes up and gets pearlescent, like fish scales when you're carving off a fatty with your pen knife.
 
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GrandePdre

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Meh, if you're not racing your marbles down a sand hill in your back yard in the Netherlands and making Youtube videos, you're wasting your time with them.

 

joeyrupption

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Two marble takes:

1) I follow those Dutch beach marble racer guys on FB. I’ve never seen an establishing shot of the beach and can’t belive how long the courses always are.

2) Those marbles that the clown posted look like totems for the dark arts. And I feel uneasy even bringing them up and acknowledging their existence. Seeing that photo feels like a “The Ring” type deal, battle for my soul-wise. No thank you.
 

august-west

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May 21, 2002
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Watching this NFL game tonight, which is rare for me, but it seems like TJ Conrad stands to make so much money in the NFL. On one hand i get it, but on the other hand it's real shame he has to be a primary run blocker.
 

tommyg4uk

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- The Duke game is on Election Day, unfortunately. Also my birthday. Sucks with it being the busiest day of the year for me on Pacific time. If I were on Eastern/Central, would be able to at least watch after polls close.

Still have plenty of future bets going.

- Only two strip clubs tonight...Saphire and Hustler, Doc.

- Up $800 tonight, down $200 since I've been here.

- Kavanaugh gets it with all GOP and one Dem (Manchin). Flake being the only Republican possibly against.

- Love this city.
 
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catlanta33

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I have 4 boxes of trains my wife's grandfather gave me. Been trying to sell the better ones on eBay for 2 months and it's just browsers. Guess all the train guys croaked.

Sold my impossible to hit TM blades for $175 buy now. Gotta love golf guy. Guy messaged me about wanting to improve his game with them. Yeah...about that - They're perfect for that!
 

mashburned

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There was a model train guy on antique roadshow (same episode as marble guy). This mfer had $10,000 worth of little fake trees on his big *** train display board.
 
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catlanta33

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Actually have the room to set it all up. I don't want to build a set like I've seen these guys do; which is pretty cool if you see someone really passionate about it. He would drag everything out before Christmas, set it up for about a week, slap everyone's hand away from touching it then repack it after Christmas.

And honestly, I'm a 38 yr old child but pretty invested in the rice burner culture of making the Z awesomer and don't really have the desire to become train guy. I'm sure someone does and just need to find them so I can unload all of this stuff and buy a Nissan part with it.
 

rudd1

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-a few houses back, our next door neighbor the retired head of ob/gyn at UK had an exact replica of a secrion of track in the Allegheny mountains in his basement. It was badass.

-my late FIL had a reallly nice set up as well. I used to hit shows/train shops with him. The minutia makes it cool...but its a lot of work.
 
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Brandon Stroud

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I'm guessing MilkToast spending most of the 1980s as a stereotypical AV nerd is why we have a badass media production team



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RANDOMS

- My kids wouldn't give two ***** about a model train set.

- For whoever asked, the Spider Man game is amazing. One of those games that would make it worth buying a PS4.

- America has peaked as a country. We're in the "bread and circuses" phase now. All is lost.

- "Sunny" the other night was an all-timer. I don't know how that show is still going strong after 13 years.

- The world is in horrific shape and slowly circling the drain. Another Dark Age is inevitable.

- Yellowbird hot sauces are amazing. Could eat them on damn near anything.

- Making chili next week.
 
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