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02-09-2010, 10:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Quedawg
You look like the offspring of predator, so I couldn't resist to hook you up in photoshop and do a number on you.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBzJGckMYO4
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02-09-2010, 10:39 PM
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The world system is in direct opposition to God and His Word — PrettyBoy The R35 GT-R doesn’t ask for permission. It takes control, rewrites the rules, and proves that AWD means All-Wheel Dominance — PrettyBoy
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02-09-2010, 10:43 PM
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How did I miss the rest of Quedawg's posts? LOL.
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02-09-2010, 10:45 PM
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How did I miss the rest of Quedawg's posts? LOL.
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That's what I said too. I just went back to see if there was more. LMAO!!! 
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02-09-2010, 10:52 PM
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LOL
Sorry, again, DaemonSeid.
Why did The Predator have to have dreads, anyway? A muscular, dreadloc alien mofo. Racist. LOL.
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And what was sad, it was bad photoshopping... ah well...
I was waiting for claws.
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02-09-2010, 10:56 PM
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And what was sad, it was bad photoshopping... ah well...
I was waiting for claws.
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Good photoshopping means taking the joke too seriously and too far. 
It was slap-yo-knee-funny enough.
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02-09-2010, 11:06 PM
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Say something else about cowboy boots...lol!
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02-10-2010, 01:31 AM
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this is so damn contagious. lol
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02-10-2010, 09:50 AM
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Yeah, they are traction aids. They are basically a series of coils that wrap around the bottom of your shoe. They are awesome.
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My fancy schmancy Montrail Gore-Tex shoes are hard to run in, so I bought a pair of Yak Trax last night, I'm going to try to give them a go later this afternoon. Hopefully visibillity will be better by then, everyone on the news is all "STAY IN UR GONNA DIE".
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02-10-2010, 10:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Lil' Hannah
My fancy schmancy Montrail Gore-Tex shoes are hard to run in, so I bought a pair of Yak Trax last night, I'm going to try to give them a go later this afternoon. Hopefully visibillity will be better by then, everyone on the news is all "STAY IN UR GONNA DIE".
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I've found that they work best on packed snow -- when I ran in them during SNOWMAGEDDON II: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO I ran in the middle of the road where a couple of cars had packed down the snow. It's really hard to run in these drifts. The YakTrax seem to work best in the few days after a snowstorm where there's complete ground cover that's been smooshed down a bit.
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02-10-2010, 10:44 AM
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6 more inches
6 more inches
6 more inches, Dougie Fresh you're on!
uh uh on!
uh uh on!
ononon uh uh on!
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02-10-2010, 11:22 AM
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Originally Posted by ADqtPiMel
I've found that they work best on packed snow -- when I ran in them during SNOWMAGEDDON II: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO I ran in the middle of the road where a couple of cars had packed down the snow. It's really hard to run in these drifts. The YakTrax seem to work best in the few days after a snowstorm where there's complete ground cover that's been smooshed down a bit.
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Noted. I'm way behind on my training for the Cherry Blossom 10 Miler because I let my gym membership lapse and I'm only running outside now.
I'm going to walk to the grocery store now, despite Topper Shutt's recommendations to stay inside. Hopefully they're open.
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02-10-2010, 11:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Lil' Hannah
Noted. I'm way behind on my training for the Cherry Blossom 10 Miler because I let my gym membership lapse and I'm only running outside now.
I'm going to walk to the grocery store now, despite Topper Shutt's recommendations to stay inside. Hopefully they're open.
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Same here -- cancelled the gym membership in September because the only reason I would use a treadmill is because it's snowing, and it never snows here. Right. Luckily I haven't gotten too far behind on training (running the Shamrock Marathon in VA Beach in March) -- I've just switched weeks around and whatnot so the snowstorms have coincided with rest weeks.
Last night my husband snarled at the TV, "I hate you Topper Shutt! I don't even CARE what your real name is!"
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02-10-2010, 04:34 PM
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I've been lauding the YakTracks (and their variations) on GC for years. They do work better on more glaciated snow and ice, and if the drifts are high I have my snowshoes on.
My only righteous indignancy about people complaining about the snow is that other than travel it isn't unreasonable to keep enough food and water on hand for a week for emergencies. I grew up in San Francisco (no snow) and have had that set up my whole life due to earth quakes. I have my camping gear in the event my home is demolished, but are people just not prepared for emergencies? I know the roads suck but are complaints about roads related to getting to the store and what not, wouldn't the lack of infrastructure for clearing roads be lessened if people stayed the hell home so roads could be cleared quicker, which is what we do here or people clear roads on their own.
Yeah, I'm not making Idaho look good about cuckoo survivalists but honestly, emergency preparedness is a good idea.
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02-10-2010, 05:11 PM
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I think the problem with these huge snowfalls in DC is that they don't have the equipment to deal with it. For them to get two 20" snow falls in the course of a week is a "100 year" event. I don't think they have the kinds of plowing equipment and staff that we have here in Detroit. Some jobs don't allow you to stay home (when I worked in the hospital, for example) so you have to get through it somehow, getting stuck often, etc. People don't know how to drive in it because they don't have that experience. Shoot, even here, when it was snowing to beat the band last night on my drive home, people were driving way too fast and spinning out all over the place. White knuckling it, watching others spinning out and trying to avoid them for two hours is stressful.
Two 20" snow falls in that short a time period would really hurt us, in even in the Detroit area. When we had 30" fall in 48 hours time in 1999, some streets in the city proper weren't plowed for two weeks. They didn't deliver mail in all that time.
You also have power, cable and phone outages at a time when it's really cold. Then pipes burst, etc. I don't know that their roofs are built to handle the weight of that kind of snow either! Their trees aren't used to it either so their branches don't hold up the same way that trees in the north do. It's a very unusual event for them. For the people in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, it's business as usual under those conditions!
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