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On 2/10/2025 at 9:42 PM, musicman said:

Thx guys, it was me. 14 seasons. Had a blast. Now I can be a true fan and just support the team. Looking forward to hanging with the Roaring Riot pregame tailgates and who knows from there.

Haven't been to a game in a couple of years but the last few I did attend the music really stood out as you played alot of heavy rock oriented music and that is what I love and the way you did it really enhanced the stadium atmosphere.

Sorry to hear you will no longer be doing it

3 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

I brewed for a few years back 15-20 years ago. Now there's just so much good beer available commercially and it takes so much time I've just gotten out of it. Still have all my equipment. I really should start back up again. I have two good buddies who are head brewers and two different small breweries. Me and one of them almost bought a small brewery back in the early '00s. His uncle owned it and he worked for him. They brewed good beer the uncle was just an antisocial wierdo and they were in a poo hole town in the greater Philly area so it was barely staying afloat financially. We were just going to buy the equipment and relocate it to WNC. Still think from time to time how that different life timeline would've played out.

That is cool.  Always thought it would be neat to have a small commercial brewery.

Same here and about the same time frame.  I love good craft beer and there is alot of it available.  I love trying new and different craft brews.

Alot of work but still keep thinking I want to do some again with my tiny bit of equipment I still have.

Just saw this thread.

Really cool experiment.  We are in Eastern NC and yep this time of year a few warms days and the maples are popping.

I like trying those kind of things too.

Reminds me....I want to get back to my roots and start brewing my own beer like a did several years ago before life got out of control.

20 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

Not remotely close, but I also don't hate her because she has given me literally zero reason to have any issue with her.

I'm a "fan" of hers in the sense that I think she's a good person who actually strives to do good in the world.  They did philanthropic work in every city of her tour, something you don't really see with musical tours and I think that's extremely commendable.  Then at the end of the tour she gives absurd amounts of bonus money, literally out of her own pocket, to every person who worked on her tour, from performers, to stage hands, to truck drivers, concessions stand employees, all of them.

I'm not a Swifty or even a fan of her music, but as a person, yea, I'm a fan because she tries to do good in the world and has never done anything to make me hate her as I don't care how many times she's shown on TV during NFL games, that's the worst reason to ever hate on someone, so ridiculous.

And don't forgot she donated 5 million related to hurricane recovery

But let's hate her.......

9 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

What in the world has she ever done to be called that?

Put on the most successful global music tour of all time, during which she gave 10's of millions of dollars out of her own pocket as bonuses to her employees, while also donating to good causes in the cities as well?

There is literally nothing Swift has ever done to give people a reason to hate her, it's insane how screwed up this world has become where people hate on a person for being shown on TV too many times for their liking.

I agree

I don't care for her music but I certainly do not understand that kind of hate for her

It's all fun.....Kick back and enjoy your life for a few seconds

What a cluster........

Always cool to see the Panthers win one.  Also, I picked them to win in my pick pool so good for me.

Ok

On 12/2/2024 at 11:20 PM, mav1234 said:

I don't know how you can compare a veteran like that to Bryce, a player coming off the best stretch of games in his career.

Winston is super entertaining to watch when he's on a different team, because if he isn't throwing touchdowns, he's throwing picks.

Pick 6s

Man the Saints reallyyyyyyy suck

Man......Sorry but trying to be a Panther fan is just depressing.

I just can't see any hope on the horizon and if there was i feel it would be screwed up.

....And I will certainly no questions asked be doing something else besides watching this poo show

2 hours ago, jayboogieman said:

 

Awesome work folks.....keep up the good fight!!!!!!!

1 hour ago, jayboogieman said:

Yep. There's rumors that he's eyeing Tillis' senate seat though.

Will get my vote

Crazy

5 hours ago, jayboogieman said:

 

19 minutes ago, CamWhoaaCam said:

I mentioned this earlier. We are living in scary times. These storms can go 0-100 in just a day. This is not being talked about enough why are these storms gaining strength so quickly in such little time.

 

I hope that thing doesn't make landfall as a cat 5. Hope those people in Florida are evacuating it doesn't look good.

Yep....My brother lives right there in Tampa

He is currently on the road heading north.  Just told me traffic is pretty bad and he had to go 60 miles to find a station with gas.  Told him to come on up to eastern NC but i think he is going stop sooner and not come this far.

6 hours ago, ladypanther said:

Reading this thread is disappointing for the wrong reasons.  Bickering over stats, records, and then the political, government trashing.

I live in Morganton, probably 3-4m miles from LG.  For hours I watched those tropical force winds constantly bend trees fearful a tree would hit my house.  I heard trees cracking and the thunderous sound of some large ones hitting  the ground. You know that feeling you have when you are  driving down the road and a car suddenly pulls out in front of you...you hit the brakes and prepare for a crash?  I had that feeling constantly for hours.  This thing went on forever.  I had 5 large trees across my drive including 3 uprooted oaks.  It was Monday before the tree people got there.  They spent all weekend getting trees off of houses. For 2 days over the weekend I had no cell service.  I was alone, could not communicate with anyone and had no idea what was going on.  It was a horrible feeling/experience.

I still have no power and a boil water order (isn't that funny).  That being said...I count myself as one of the very lucky ones.  I have cried twice during this...the 1st time when the tree people got my driveway cleared and last night when reading more about the devastation in the mountains.  WNC will never be the same and for way too many people...their lives have changed forever.

There is a tremendous volunteer effort...people helping from all over the county.  Someone was criticizing the government saying that there were more private planes/helicopter than  military helicopters...about that I say 1) Celebrate the fact that there are so many good people in the world willing to sacrifice the time and money to help 2) Military helicopters and plans can carry a LOT more than private.  Private plans/copter cannot carry water for example because of the weight. Also....someone said they saw no Blackhawks Sat and criticized the slow response.  Well...at my house Sat I was outside all day.  I saw many, many  huge military transport helicopters all day long as well as the smaller ones . That's how I knew things must really be bad.

So, please, stop trying to blame, find fault, get political.  Take all that to the TB.  Let's focus on the tragedy, the people as well as being thankful for all the good people.

Some of you have posted some incredible things that you are doing  to help.  I think that is awesome. 

Time to come together rather than tearing things apart.

I can get to work.  Our office is in the middle of downtown so that's how I have internet to use.  Again, I know that I have so much to be thankful for.  I just cannot even begin to imagine what the people west of me are going through.

Let' all try to help them and take care of each other.

Bless you for this post.

You exemplify how we all should be thinking after disasters such as this.  Reading and hearing the other negative reactions is sickening.

Having been through too many storms here in Eastern NC I completely can relate to all the feelings you have had and continue to feel. 

Hang in there.......Better days are coming 

In fact.....I want to come join you and go on a "mission" until after November 5th.

Now that I think about it....may want to delay that until a few months into 2025 as who knows what kind of craziness is going to happen.

So.....please save me the really good stuff

You may want to take a lot more and come back to reality in a few months

2 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Facts.

Our local dipshit Warren Daniel had to get out there to "escort" aid convoys. Nevermind the state troopers in front of his truck doing the actual escorting. You're just taking advantage of photo 

2 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

I'm very glad to have Starlink. I would've been without connectivity from home other than text for a few days without it. We talked about getting a whole house generator when we bought this place because we're half a mile off the road and there's only two houses on this line. I knew in the event of a major outage (I was thinking ice storm would be the most likely culprit) we'd be super low priority. But since we bought the place we've never lost power but for a few minutes. Now this and sure enough, nope we still don't have power. I don't really care. I'm fine with being the last house in Burke County with power as far as I'm concerned. I have a 3500w generator that can run everything except the HVAC, kitchen range, and dryer and I have plenty of other cooking options.

 

Pretty much my setup here in Eastern NC

We have weathered several hurricanes and this generator has been awesome and gotten us through a few times

Man, haven't even thought of the insurance implications of this event.  I live 2 counties off the coast and we pay hellacious insurance premiums.  Every couple of years they propose more outrageous rate hikes.  The further you go inland the rates and hides are way less.  Another reason I have been seriously considering  moving away from the coast.

I guess the insurance folks never anticipated this sort of event farther inland.

I am assuming insurance rates are much less in western NC but feel free to correct me as I do not know that to be the truth.

Man, this is heartbreaking.  I just spent a week near banner elk back in July.    gorgeous country and I love it there.  Always depressed when I have to go back home to the coast.  Have been seriously considered moving there

We have seen these sort of things here in the eastern part of the state with floyd and Florence and fran....and I could keep going and they are terrible.

All I can say is it certainly changes things but it will be built back.  

I un derstand though, hard to think about that when you are currently in the middle of it all.