Anti-Arizona Humor

[Daniel E.]

One of these was in my shed today:

Western diamondback rattlesnake - Wikipedia

My neighbor removed the rattlesnake and moved it a few miles away.

 

[David Baxter PhD]

I really do not like snakes.

 

[Daniel E.]

Your comment reminded me to close up the doggie door mg:

 

[gooblax]

At least snakes in Australia are considerate enough not to rattle.

 

[GaryQ]

At least snakes in Australia are considerate enough not to rattle.

Sneaky little bastards down under, eh?

@Daniel why didn't you take a picture to show us the actual intruder? :lol:

 

[Daniel E.]

I wasn't home, but my husband has a video of the snake. I refuse to watch it anytime soon

 

[Daniel E.]

Life In America Really Is Nasty, Brutish, And Short - Business Insider

As expected, the US has the most violence among the 17 "peer" countries in the study...

Canada is practically a bastion of safety for those Americans who make it across the border.

 

[Daniel E.]

Yesterday, my neighbor had his second encounter this month with a rattlesnake.

Dogs are supposedly 20 times more likely than people to be bit by a rattlesnake, so I have to babysit my dogs now every minute they are playing in the yard. At least I will get more exercise this way

(I am also getting accident insurance for the dogs. Fortunately, the dog who is mostly likely to get into trouble -- the puppy -- is fully insured already.)

 

[GaryQ]

Somehow I fail to see the humor in that one
unless you update later with a post saying you got bit while keeping an eye out for the dogs and forgot to keep an eye out for your own behind

 

[Daniel E.]

We will start a new thread on AZ horror stories

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[David Baxter PhD]

I think horror stories can also be funny sometimes.

 

[Daniel E.]

Like bagged milk.

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[David Baxter PhD]

Exactly. Despite stories to the contrary, I think a lot of people in Canada hate bagged milk.

Among other things, it tends to allow the milk to lurch out of the bag in large quantities with no warning.

It is also sometimes difficult to keep from getting knocked over in the fridge. Or on the table. This little pitchers have a narrow base.

And maybe most importantly, look at all the plastic required:

• the plastic bags containing each liter of milk
• the larger plastic bags holding the individual plastic bags of milk
• the plastic closer on the large plastic bags containing the best before date
• the plastic "snippers" many people use to cut the corner of the milk bag
• the plastic pitchers you need to hold the plastic bag of milk once it opened (mandatory because plastic bags don't stand up on their own)

All in all, not only annoying but very environmentally unfriendly. I really don't know why people continue to use them.

I buy my milk in 2 liter waxed paper cartons and I don't need or have to contend with all those disadvantages and accessories.

 

[GaryQ]

That brings back memories from back in Québec.
Only thing you could get in family size was the 3 bag bag of milk. I hated them mainly for the odd time when grabbing a bag to discover it had acquired a hole somewhere along the line. Plus you had to keep a fresh box of baking soda in the fridge all the time or the milk could acquire the taste from other stuff in the fridge

Here, milk is only available in the tradition waxed cardboard for 2L and smaller sizes, and plastic jugs for every size up to 4L.
That's also a lot of plastic but they are recyclable.
Definitely easier to carry.
Stand up by themselves.
Not much risk of spilling when cap is on.
They also seem to stay fresh at least 3 or 4 days past the best before date.

I buy the 4L 3.25%. (get almost twice as much fat, In other words FLAVOR, for a couple extra pennies compared to 2% watered down milk)

Speaking of horror stories! Anyone remember powdered milk? Man that stuff was horrible. :yuk:
Tasted just as bad as coffee whitener, if not worse. I wonder if they still make/sell that stuff???

 

[forgetmenot]

lol i hated the smell of that powdered milk We were raised on it cheap and could be watered down to go farther blah

 

[GaryQ]

Interesting how we went from:

Anti-Arizona humor to
Not funny rattle snake story to
horror stories are funny to
bagged milk being funny to
how David hates bagged milk to
we don’t have bagged milk here to
powdered milk is blah

rder: Daniel, David, Gary and FMN,
you are all hereby reprimanded for being fftopic2:

 

[Daniel E.]

Re: Anti-Canadian Content (Laughing With Us, Not At Us) Pt. 5

Phoenix is No. 1 in the nation in this unwanted political category

The Phoenix market topped the nation in the number of political ads on broadcast TV between Sept. 3 and Oct. 16, with 41,000 spots.

 

[GaryQ]

Speaking of American Politics in Arizona.....

 

[Daniel E.]

Sears closing: Nostalgia for retailer fails to reflect reality

"It was the perfect storm for millennials to not have any emotional nostalgia. If you told them Amazon was going to go away, there might be riots," Dorsey said. "Sears basically invented the catalog, and yet we have millennials who don't even check the mail."

 

[GaryQ]

Sears is perfect example of bad management decisions over many decades they were already on a fast decline even before the internet changed the face of retail shopping. They stuck with their dying business model and the last sears catolog was published in 1993 long before the internet was even known or used by the average person and almost 20 years before the ensuing internet shopping convenience gained major acceptance and traction.

Growing up the sears catalog was the default and pretty much only way to know all the things we could add to our gift wish list. After all we only got limited tv commercials. The thing was bigger than most phone books. Another thing that’ll soon disappear.