Funny pic/gif thread...

VarmintKong said:
He seemed like a good kid; shook my hand and looked me dead in the eyes. Honestly answered both kissing questions. I’d have know he was lying if he said no and then I might have had to be a little stern.

He did start to fidget when I asked him, “what first attracted him to my daughter?” He answered her shyness. Good answer, the boy can think on his feet.

Asked him if he needed a few bucks, he politely refused and they were on their way.

Whole time they were gone all I could think about was my father in law telling me that teenage boys are, “hornier than a 3 dicked mule.” He probably wanted me to sweat like he did when I started dating his daughter.

The young man did bring her home early.
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Dad had a chair by the front door. My sister always got nervous and decided to go redo make-up or change dresses about the time the boy was due. There was a couch on the other side of the door from dad and the young man would get perched there. "What do you do for a living" my father would bark. "Sirrr, I am in high school." The interrogation was just getting started. "What does your father do?" Dad was a big man and the questioning was relentless. By the time my sister came out it was the young man that needed to change clothes, his were soaking wet with sweat!

Hu
 
I was a single father trying my best to raise two daughters when the oldest was about 13 , she asked if she could have a boyfriend after giving it some thought I said sure thing but the two of you need to do a few things for me first which she gladly agreed with ha ha !

What do I do for a living ? You work on concerts and movies daddy , yes and what else ? Well you also work on water wells and windmills and snare and hunt coyotes .

So I know where ever dry water well is in the county and have big guns and very sharp knives , well yes daddy you do !

So I want a current picture and address and his folks names so if he does anything I don't agree with he may get shot chopped up and dropped down a well casing and I've got a cell phone and a cousin who has a cement batch plant and they deliver anywhere ha ha

Needless to say that ended that conversation rather quickly and many of their classmates thought I worked for the mob ha ha

No one ever played a high card to check my bluff still to this day if you haven't figured it out I love to tease and mess with people if nothing else to get them to smile !
 
SSDiver2112 said:
In my past life I once owned a Diver Shop for 20 years and have a Marine science degree, so I will respectfully disagree.

I have held those urchins 1000’s of times. They are echinoderms so they are related to the starfish and have the same suction cuppy tentacle feet. Urchins are herbivores. It is the spines in most species you have to worry about.

This is an Oyster cracker (Toad fish) which I have been bitten by. Grumpy bastard.
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Well, I was TOLD they were called Oyster crackers by an elderly gentleman when he got bit by one. Maybe I misunderstood him. I DO KNOW they have a nasty bite as I was the one that seen him get bit by one. I would say they got teeth somewhere. I never seen the real spiky ones. They were often in our crab baskets wanting the squid we'd put in them.
 
SSDiver2112 said:
In my past life I once owned a Diver Shop for 20 years and have a Marine science degree, so I will respectfully disagree.

I have held those urchins 1000’s of times. They are echinoderms so they are related to the starfish and have the same suction cuppy tentacle feet. Urchins are herbivores. It is the spines in most species you have to worry about.

This is an Oyster cracker (Toad fish) which I have been bitten by. Grumpy bastard.
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That's damn A** cute! (I'm still not putting one in my hand!)
 
David in FL said:
Why don't you pay them enough so that they no longer need to accept tips?

Pay them the equivalent of what they earn with tips and take that burden off of your customers. Word will get around immediately, business will increase, as will revenues.

By the way, I know servers who wouldn't exchange their tips for a $35 an hour wage. Surely most people would consider that to be a "living wage", no?
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you have to do the tax math, $1.00 cash tip gets you $1.00, not the case with hourly wage or for that matter charged tips.
 
ShootingArts said:
I was fishing off of an old bridge/fishing pier and caught one of these or similar. A squatty body fellow, he was balancing on his side fins and tail fin. The first time I reached for the hook he lunged for me like a bad dog! Took me a couple more tries to be sure he could see just fine in the air and he did have his heart set on biting me for pulling him out of his happy home!

Hu
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They hide in holes, but not in fear. They will rush out and ambush you sometimes. I do have a picture of me petting one somewhere.

Fun fact: you can often see baby Jack Knife fish right in the face of the Toadfish. He won't eat them though. They use the Toadfish as a bodyguard, and the Toadfish uses them as bait for a bigger meal.

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Patrick Johnson said:
If owner(s) paid workers a living wage this wouldn't come up. Tips subsidize owners.

pj
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Poor argument. Jobs like Baristas, Fast Food employees, convenience stores clerks etc. aren’t meant to pay a living wage. That’s the problem with younger people nowadays. A job that youths used to have as a part time job in their teens to teach them a work ethic is now considered to be a career to today’s youth, it isn’t a career. You get paid for what you produce, for your worth of your skill set. We’re talking making coffee here.
 
I swim in the oceans every chance I get…love the salt water. But this thread is reminding that it is not without peril.
The coast of Puerto Vallarta, swam out farther than I usually go…when I turned back to shore, my foot bumped something….I reasoned it was at least 100 pounds ….just kept swimming…I’ve always felt protected.
 
pt109 said:
I swim in the oceans every chance I get…love the salt water. But this thread is reminding that it is not without peril.
The coast of Puerto Vallarta, swam out farther than I usually go…when I turned back to shore, my foot bumped something….I reasoned it was at least 100 pounds ….just kept swimming…I’ve always felt protected.
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I once stayed on the 12th floor of a resort in PV, right on the ocean. From my balcony every day I could see huge manta rays moving about right at the shore line, not at all far from the swimmers. You'd never see them from water level unless you bumped into one.
 
SSDiver2112 said:
In my past life I once owned a Diver Shop for 20 years and have a Marine science degree, so I will respectfully disagree.

I have held those urchins 1000’s of times. They are echinoderms so they are related to the starfish and have the same suction cuppy tentacle feet. Urchins are herbivores. It is the spines in most species you have to worry about.

This is an Oyster cracker (Toad fish) which I have been bitten by. Grumpy bastard.
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The black spikey ones in St Lucia, we were told not to touch, they would "sting"... might be what they tell us tourists though... the ones in the gulf where I go scalloping were harmless.
 
8cree said:
The black spikey ones in St Lucia, we were told not to touch, they would "sting"... might be what they tell us tourists though... the ones in the gulf where I go scalloping were harmless.
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The ones with the really long spines are nuts. They can sense your hand and move the spines to aim at it. They are so sharp you can’t test it like you do a sharp pencil. The spine just slides through your skin without resistance.

Some have poison, but all have spines that are very brittle and break off under your skin easily. Because of their design they are hard to get out. They don’t come out like a wood splinter does.

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SSDiver2112 said:
The ones with the really long spines are nuts. They can sense your hand and move the spines to aim at it. They are so sharp you can’t test it like you do a sharp pencil. The spine just slides through your skin without resistance.

Some have poison, but all have spines that are very brittle and break off under your skin easily. Because of their design they are hard to get out. They don’t come out like a wood splinter does.

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Yep.

holding them isn't a problem.

Stepping on them is!

I'm not guessing about this... 😑😂
 
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