The Weirdly Wonderful Seneca Wallace Small Talk Chit Chat Talkin' Topics Thread

[BostonNut]

Originally Posted by glen87

not really sure what is sadder......the fact that you would actually plan an entire day around taking photos of large apparatuses....or the fact that there are actually other people willingly going and doing this with you

Sounds like they didn’t plan anything. What a Foamer Fail.

[fulltritty]

Originally Posted by glen87

whackers.....they are whackers

You can learn and remember something. Maybe one day you'll not mix up Star Wars and Star Trek stuff.

[BostonNut]

Originally Posted by glen87

whackers.....they are whackers

No, fire trucks spray foam sometimes. That’s how I remember.

[glen87]

Originally Posted by fulltritty

If you ever got on Facebook, you would see that there are thousands of people around the US and in Canada that take photographs of fire trucks, police cars, and ambulances.

even more reason NOT to go on there

[fulltritty]

Originally Posted by BostonNut

Sounds like they didn’t plan anything. What a Foamer Fail.

Exactly! We were told everything was planned and it seems the only thing that ended up being planned was the BWI stop. I'm still not sure why the drivers that were there couldn't just pull out the other apparatus to be photographed even though they were out of service because they didn't have enough people to man them.

And I took some photos of planes landing and taking off as we waited for the apparatus to be moved.

[glen87]

Originally Posted by BostonNut

Sounds like they didn’t plan anything. What a Foamer Fail.

it was more of a generalized statement in as such as plans were made to meet other people and travel to place to photograph apparatuses.

[fulltritty]

Originally Posted by BostonNut

No, fire trucks spray foam sometimes. That’s how I remember.

glen is correct.

Fire apparatus photographers are whackers although I have no idea why that term.

Train photographers are foamers because supposedly they foam at the mouth at the site of trains.

[fulltritty]

Originally Posted by glen87

even more reason NOT to go on there

I bet they have JMU fan pages on there where you can meet the other 5 people who like JMU sports players.

[glen87]

Originally Posted by fulltritty

glen is correct.

Fire apparatus photographers are whackers although I have no idea why that term.

Train photographers are foamers because supposedly they foam at the mouth at the site of trains.

or foam at the mouth from waddle running after missed trains

[glen87]

Originally Posted by fulltritty

glen is correct.

but then again...you could have simply stopped there

[glen87]

Originally Posted by fulltritty

I bet they have JMU fan pages on there where you can meet the other 5 people who like JMU sports players.

why would i want to meet other people....yinz numbnutz are bad enough

[fulltritty]

I learned last night that one of my best friends in the fire apparatus photography realm is going to be a Dad. His wife is due in November.

I told him that as honorary Uncle, I was going to buy the kid their first pair of checkered short as he always wears checkered shorts when we photograph fire trucks.

[glen87]

Originally Posted by fulltritty

I learned last night that one of my best friends in the fire apparatus photography realm is going to be a Dad. His wife is due in November.

I told him that as honorary Uncle, I was going to buy the kid their first pair of checkered short as he always wears checkered shorts when we photograph fire trucks.

i can only imagine that is a rare event in the world of fire apparatus photograph

[glen87]

ALL RIGHT NORTH CAROLINA

North Carolina lawmakers introduced a bill to ban giving children participation trophies for youth sports activities.

The three Republican state representatives — Sens. Tim Moffitt, Eddie Settle, and Bobby Hanig — introduced the bill, called Eliminate Participation Trophies, to the state senate on March 30.

The bill says that any award given to children for youth recreation activities must be based on identified performance achievements.


where can i donate to help make sure this passes

[corndog]

Originally Posted by fulltritty

I bet they have JMU fan pages on there where you can meet the other 5 people who like JMU sports players.

[Saraste]

Originally Posted by glen87

ALL RIGHT NORTH CAROLINA

North Carolina lawmakers introduced a bill to ban giving children participation trophies for youth sports activities.

The three Republican state representatives — Sens. Tim Moffitt, Eddie Settle, and Bobby Hanig — introduced the bill, called Eliminate Participation Trophies, to the state senate on March 30.

The bill says that any award given to children for youth recreation activities must be based on identified performance achievements.


where can i donate to help make sure this passes

I saw this this morning before my long nap. Was going to post the link here but fell asleep.

[glen87]

Originally Posted by Saraste

I saw this this morning before my long nap. Was going to post the link here but fell asleep.

if it gets to SMIBland, FTjr will be done with sports

[fulltritty]

Originally Posted by glen87

ALL RIGHT NORTH CAROLINA

North Carolina lawmakers introduced a bill to ban giving children participation trophies for youth sports activities.

The three Republican state representatives — Sens. Tim Moffitt, Eddie Settle, and Bobby Hanig — introduced the bill, called Eliminate Participation Trophies, to the state senate on March 30.

The bill says that any award given to children for youth recreation activities must be based on identified performance achievements.


where can i donate to help make sure this passes

I hate having to legislate something like this as it is clearly an intrusion into everyday life, but it is sad we live in a world where they had to do something like it.

[fulltritty]

Originally Posted by glen87

if it gets to SMIBland, FTjr will be done with sports

Thankfully after T-ball, he's never gotten a participation trophy.

[glen87]

stopped by BJs to get a couple of these.....

[glen87]

...and then saw this......

[Saraste]

Originally Posted by glen87

...and then saw this......

There's multiple layers of joke potential in here.

[TheFrenzy]

Spuds, Saraste, go check out the All-Name Tournament and cast some votes. Looks like there's a tie that needs breaking.

[Boo]

Originally Posted by fulltritty

Today reminded me of why I don't go photographing fire trucks with certain people.

The dude who put everything together had no idea the county was having a drill today, so most of the departments he set up were at the drill. They were less than pleased at the drill when he asked to move some stuff around. Ft. Meade was there so we only got one engine and nothing else.

Half of the stuff at BWI was out of service with no crew so they wouldn't bring it out for us.

We stopped at Station 33 and found out they were at the Academy training all day.

I almost killed the one guy in the group who kept repositioning the engine at Station 21 and told me I had to move my car because he couldn't get a photo. I and my two PA friends had no problem taking photos of it with my car where it was. Than after I moved it, he put the ambulance over in that lot. If he asked me to move my car again, I was going to drive it up his butt.

And then after that station, we were done because a few clouds came out.

[Boo]

Originally Posted by glen87

not really sure what is sadder......the fact that you would actually plan an entire day around taking photos of large apparatuses....or the fact that there are actually other people willingly going and doing this with you