t77wp Wrote: > I'm an ice climber and I can tell you 8 degrees F > with wind can be dangerous. Ive climbed in -14F > with wind and quite frankly it sucked. In the > Rockies we climb at temps above 15F if at all > possible, the ice is softer and it beats > frostbite. Ive gotten frostbite at 15F its > actually quite easy. This was the correct call. Good for you. I'm a bac
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fourlegs Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I stood outside for like 10 seconds and my balls > froze. I'm sorry you were cold. Did anyone tell you it's winter? You know, it gets cold in the winter, right?
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Fuckwithmeyouknowigotit Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Please explain to me how kids staying home affects > you. I have to take a half-day from work to stay with the kids, so my wife can get into work and put in her half day. That's how it affects me.
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Fuckwithmeyouknowigotit Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Stop complaining about the conditions you had to > go to school in as kid. We don't care and just > because you had it shitty doesn't mean we should. > You're supposed to want better for your kid. > > They probably changed it from a delay to closure > to annoy us then make up happy aga
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cDGJL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Can have anything he wants, just wears shorts and > T shirts mostly year round. > > Just refuses to wear anything else. Well, I would advise your kid on the risk of frostbite and send him out the door. I won't die in shorts and a t-shirt, but he may think twice about doing it again - and having his friends wonde
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K Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I hope you know that there are at least 20 kids in > the hospital right now, dozens of buses stranded > kids still haven't gotten the school kids are > still sitting out at their bus stops and kids are > slipping and falling and getting seriously > injured. None of the parking lot at school was not > shoveled
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Dude, give me a break. I've lived here all my life - went to FFX Co. schools during the "mini ice age" of the 1960s. Trust me, when it got cold, we went to school. When it snowed, they put chains on the busses. I never remember schools closing because it got cold outside. In conditions like this, you wear a sweater under your coat and warm gloves. Are you telling me you don't have warm clot
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Yeah. Bet you also snuck some candy into the show that you bought from the Dart Drug next door.
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I well remember Crossroads Airport, where Skyline Center is now located. I also remember the little pony ring that used to be in the SE quadrant of Bailey's Crossroads where you could pay a few bucks to have your kid ride a pony, before they built the big interchange there and obliterated it.
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I lived in a condo for 17 years, and most years, no kids showed up. A few years I had one kid show up. I think kids are not inclined to trick or treat in condo complexes, and I understand there's little traffic in townhouse communities as well, though someone can correct me if I'm wrong. It seems most of the trick or treating is done in single family home communities.
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