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Absolutely hilarious! 

I like these ones xD

It took me a bit to warm up to their singer's warbly voice, but I've always dug their music.  They are local to Indy and play in Broad Ripple fairly often.

I'll stop spamming the thread now for a while
Another birthday treat. These guys played Ipswich Town Football Club to ~ 20,000 people in 2005

Edit: I've just remembered why I refuse to go to the big festivals (apart from the awful toilets) - it's all those twats at the front waving the flags so you can't see from further back!
Coldplay at V Festival doesn't count as big as it was early days for that festival and the crowds, from memory, were about 40-50,000

Saw these guys in a much, much smaller venue - in a fire trap basement below The Hope and Anchor pub in Islington, London to a couple of hundred people
"This is our first single which is out now"

Another legend!

Thus concludes the transfer of old posts.

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Edit: i should tell people to read the description just in case you click on and don't get why i've posted this

EVERYTHING grinds my gears because I'm a grumpy old bastard!!

We're just regular people, and like any other occupation some of us are better at it than others.  I bet if you did a ride along program for a week you'd have a totally different perspective.  Its a challenging job, and few make it through their entire career unscathed physically and emotionally, but its one that I never have to wonder if I'm making a difference in.
 
That said, while I'd prefer to have your support I don't require it.  If I needed universal love and acceptance, I'd be a firefighter.

Lol, I'm probably cooler online.  
 
BB, we patrol because that's how you stop issues before they start.  Reactive policing will always be the majority of what we do, but proactive policing can definitely stop crime before it starts.  You don't catch people breaking into cars sitting at a station and waiting for a call, you gotta be at the right place at the right time, and that's done by learning your beat and patrolling.
 
Traffic enforcement has a revenue component, but it also has a safety component.  How else are you supposed to enforce petty crimes?  No one thinks jail time is reasonable, but there have to be enforceable rules of the road if driving is to remain relatively safe.  Having lived in countries that didn't enforce any traffic laws, I see the difference.  Seeing the statistics for high crash intersections in our county when half are assigned a traffic unit for 4 hours a day on random days and the others aren't, I see the difference.  Yes, paying a fine sucks.  Its supposed to in order to deter the behavior.
 
I know a lot of cops that don't like to run traffic.  They consider it petty.  I usually just point out that statistically if you aren't a criminal yourself, aren't involved in gangs or the drug trade, you are much more likely to suffer injury or property loss from a traffic crash than from a violent felony.  Any individual ticket may be petty, but the cumulative effect is a safer community.  I used to write 30-60 tickets a month, when the average district car writes maybe 10.  Few people outside of Traffic wrote more than I did.  I saw direct results in reduced crashes.  Google "6400 Binford Blvd Indianapolis IN" and zoom in until you can see the street markings.  I used to have about 4 crashes a week there because people would try to use that middle "turn only" area to go straight across.  After just a few weeks of writing tickets there, crashes dropped to 2 a week.  After a few months, almost none, and I could focus on other areas.  As long as I hit that intersection once a week or so, people knew I was still there (I'm sure the people who worked in the office building there cursed me daily) and for the most part they stopped cutting across.  I'm sure a lot of the folks I ticketed didn't get why it was a big deal and that I was being petty.  A reduction in traffic crashes of over 90% seems to me that it made a positive impact in that area.   I'm an official True Believer when it comes to traffic enforcement.  
 
Of course now I don't even have a ticket book in my car.  I'm too busy to run traffic, and state law prohibits me from writing them anyway (you have to either be in uniform or in a marked car to write a traffic ticket in Indiana).

We're just regular people, and like any other occupation some of us are better at it than others.  I bet if you did a ride along program for a week you'd have a totally different perspective.  Its a challenging job, and few make it through their entire career unscathed physically and emotionally, but its one that I never have to wonder if I'm making a difference in.
 
That said, while I'd prefer to have your support I don't require it.  If I needed universal love and acceptance, I'd be a firefighter.

We're just regular people, and like any other occupation some of us are better at it than others.  I bet if you did a ride along program for a week you'd have a totally different perspective.  Its a challenging job, and few make it through their entire career unscathed physically and emotionally, but its one that I never have to wonder if I'm making a difference in.
 
That said, while I'd prefer to have your support I don't require it.  If I needed universal love and acceptance, I'd be a firefighter.

Anyone, but especially politicians, who constantly make EVERYTHING about race.
 
Me: I just bought some tacos.
That guy:  Did any black people buy tacos?  DId they have equal access to the tacos?  Were they given preferential rankings in the line to get tacos?  We need diversity in the taco eating community!
 
Me (about a rude waiter):  (good mood version):  That guy's having a rough day.  (bad mood version):  That guy's a total jackass.
That guy (about a rude waiter): He's racist.  He wouldn't treat me like that if I wasn't (insert minority here).
 
The only thing that possibly annoys me more is when people in positions of privilege and social acceptance try to play the "I'm so downtrodden" card.  
 
Me: Looks like some kids got in trouble for praying instead of taking a math test.
That guy: There's a war on Christians!  If a Muslim group they'd let them pray in school!
 
Yup, if you ignore the multitude of clubs like the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, the multitude of Christian schools, media outlets, celebrities, books, musical acts, and the tiny fact every town in America has a plethora of churches, it's pretty obvious Christianity is being stomped out and driven underground by modern American society.

We're just regular people, and like any other occupation some of us are better at it than others.  I bet if you did a ride along program for a week you'd have a totally different perspective.  Its a challenging job, and few make it through their entire career unscathed physically and emotionally, but its one that I never have to wonder if I'm making a difference in.
 
That said, while I'd prefer to have your support I don't require it.  If I needed universal love and acceptance, I'd be a firefighter.

Anyone, but especially politicians, who constantly make EVERYTHING about race.
 
Me: I just bought some tacos.
That guy:  Did any black people buy tacos?  DId they have equal access to the tacos?  Were they given preferential rankings in the line to get tacos?  We need diversity in the taco eating community!
 
Me (about a rude waiter):  (good mood version):  That guy's having a rough day.  (bad mood version):  That guy's a total jackass.
That guy (about a rude waiter): He's racist.  He wouldn't treat me like that if I wasn't (insert minority here).
 
The only thing that possibly annoys me more is when people in positions of privilege and social acceptance try to play the "I'm so downtrodden" card.  
 
Me: Looks like some kids got in trouble for praying instead of taking a math test.
That guy: There's a war on Christians!  If a Muslim group they'd let them pray in school!
 
Yup, if you ignore the multitude of clubs like the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, the multitude of Christian schools, media outlets, celebrities, books, musical acts, and the tiny fact every town in America has a plethora of churches, it's pretty obvious Christianity is being stomped out and driven underground by modern American society.

Anyone, but especially politicians, who constantly make EVERYTHING about race.
 
Me: I just bought some tacos.
That guy:  Did any black people buy tacos?  DId they have equal access to the tacos?  Were they given preferential rankings in the line to get tacos?  We need diversity in the taco eating community!
 
Me (about a rude waiter):  (good mood version):  That guy's having a rough day.  (bad mood version):  That guy's a total jackass.
That guy (about a rude waiter): He's racist.  He wouldn't treat me like that if I wasn't (insert minority here).
 
The only thing that possibly annoys me more is when people in positions of privilege and social acceptance try to play the "I'm so downtrodden" card.  
 
Me: Looks like some kids got in trouble for praying instead of taking a math test.
That guy: There's a war on Christians!  If a Muslim group they'd let them pray in school!
 
Yup, if you ignore the multitude of clubs like the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, the multitude of Christian schools, media outlets, celebrities, books, musical acts, and the tiny fact every town in America has a plethora of churches, it's pretty obvious Christianity is being stomped out and driven underground by modern American society.

Anyone, but especially politicians, who constantly make EVERYTHING about race.
 
Me: I just bought some tacos.
That guy:  Did any black people buy tacos?  DId they have equal access to the tacos?  Were they given preferential rankings in the line to get tacos?  We need diversity in the taco eating community!
 
Me (about a rude waiter):  (good mood version):  That guy's having a rough day.  (bad mood version):  That guy's a total jackass.
That guy (about a rude waiter): He's racist.  He wouldn't treat me like that if I wasn't (insert minority here).
 
The only thing that possibly annoys me more is when people in positions of privilege and social acceptance try to play the "I'm so downtrodden" card.  
 
Me: Looks like some kids got in trouble for praying instead of taking a math test.
That guy: There's a war on Christians!  If a Muslim group they'd let them pray in school!
 
Yup, if you ignore the multitude of clubs like the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, the multitude of Christian schools, media outlets, celebrities, books, musical acts, and the tiny fact every town in America has a plethora of churches, it's pretty obvious Christianity is being stomped out and driven underground by modern American society.

I had not thought about this lately till I spoke to a friend in Co tonight whom had his left lung removed because of cancer (from smoking) and yet get this, he STILL smokes even during chemo and radiation treatments (yeah I gave him hell for that ) anyway that conversation made me think of something I have not even thought of recently about myself....
 
3 more weeks and it will be two and a half years since I quit smoking! I still remember posting on the old MW2 forum about the week I quit   Hard to believe it's been over two years! Outside of quitting drinking (recovering alcoholic) quitting smoking was the best decision I ever made.