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Post by sparks on Mar 26, 2020 11:43:03 GMT -5
While we all know these are unprecedented times, I think we need to avoid the coronavirus topics for awhile. There have been several threads (some which I have participated in) that have gone down the rabbit hole. While it is difficult to avoid all the information, and not feel compelled to talk about it, I think that we need to keep it out of the forum. I will be closing and archiving any of the current threads out there.
Everyone is on edge, and things can get charged. There is no point losing friends and members at a time when we all need each other the most.
I think we need to maintain The Briar Patch in the form that it best serves us all... to provide an escape from the outside noise. Let's get back to what we do best, and keep this our virtual man cave for pipes and tobacco.
Thanks
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Post by pepesdad1 on Mar 26, 2020 11:50:35 GMT -5
Thank you, Justin!! We have already lost some valued members...I feel a personal loss for each of them. Good friends and comrades are hard to find, so I 100% agree with the action taken by our leader and chief.
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Post by mgtarheel on Mar 26, 2020 12:15:34 GMT -5
Here,Here Justin
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 26, 2020 12:18:07 GMT -5
I lost 2 friends this morning. I am not in a good place.
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Post by pepesdad1 on Mar 26, 2020 12:30:33 GMT -5
I lost 2 friends this morning. I am not in a good place. I know what you are feeling, Ron...I miss those who have been there through thick and thin...people who would give you the shirt off their back, have gone blank and disappeared...like you, I'm not in a good place, either. Conversation alone, should not cause abandonment. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 26, 2020 12:52:22 GMT -5
There wasn't enough friction to explain it. The moon? Who knows.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2020 19:55:36 GMT -5
Little slights in one person's opinion can be the final staw in anothers.
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Post by trailboss on Mar 26, 2020 23:43:10 GMT -5
I saw the thread title earlier today and avoided it precisely for the reasons Justin outlined.
I am burned out on the subject.
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Post by zambini on Mar 27, 2020 0:59:36 GMT -5
I lost 2 friends this morning. I am not in a good place. Sorry to hear this. |
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Post by Legend Lover on Mar 27, 2020 18:07:55 GMT -5
Good call, Justin. Sorry to hear about your friends, Ronv69. |
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Post by sperrytops on Mar 27, 2020 18:21:27 GMT -5
I lost 2 friends this morning. I am not in a good place. Sorry to hear this. +1 |
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Post by instymp on Mar 27, 2020 18:28:48 GMT -5
A lighter side...
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Post by sperrytops on Mar 27, 2020 18:40:21 GMT -5
Just an interesting aside here. I had an appointment scheduled with a orthopedic specialist a couple of weeks out. His office called and rescheduled me earlier but on a Hangouts call. He's gone to telemedicine. We just need to review some x rays, but I thought that was really cool.
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Post by Legend Lover on Mar 28, 2020 8:30:20 GMT -5
Just an interesting aside here. I had an appointment scheduled with a orthopedic specialist a couple of weeks out. His office called and rescheduled me earlier but on a Hangouts call. He's gone to telemedicine. We just need to review some x rays, but I thought that was really cool. People are starting to think outside the box at this time and becoming very creative. |
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Post by briarbuck on Mar 28, 2020 9:30:56 GMT -5
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Post by briarbuck on Mar 28, 2020 9:49:43 GMT -5
Just have one thread and let it run. That's what every other forum is doing. You will end up like the little boy trying to plug the dam with your finger. Corral it all in one place and make it buyer beware.
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 28, 2020 9:52:09 GMT -5
I got a second bottle of industrial 95% ethanol from Amazon. It's all that's left. All of the liquor stores are sold out of Everclear. I have been able to make 4 bottles of hand cleaner.
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Post by instymp on Mar 28, 2020 17:04:15 GMT -5
Just have one thread and let it run. That's what every other forum is doing. You will end up like the little boy trying to plug the dam with your finger. Corral it all in one place and make it buyer beware. "Leave the gun, take the cannoli" "Leave the gun, take the cannoli"...until everyone started adding chocolate chips.. Guess I am outnumbered. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 28, 2020 23:42:28 GMT -5
I don't like chocolate chips in my cannoli, but the wife does. So, guess what?
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Post by BrunoT on Mar 29, 2020 2:46:41 GMT -5
Aah, so that’s what cannoli is. All these years I’ve been wondering why the hell would you put that in pasta.
One of the many wee lies I’ve been told by my ex-teacher Mr.Rogers, the master of humorous deception, as a student. He also made me think for years that gonorrhea was a speech disorder.
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Post by lenticula on Mar 29, 2020 8:46:59 GMT -5
Oh...the temptation !
Well I think I'm very lucky compared with many.
I'm sat here in my sunny conservatory overlooking the peaceful green hills of mid Wales.
I can walk locally without other people around or just sit here doing very little except smoke my pipe....too often !!
I'm trying to pace myself but it's so easy just to keep lighting up !
I've just had to order another 400 grams of my go to favourite from Germany.
Thomas Radford Sundays Fantasy.
I can get it here in the UK but only small pouches whereas from the continent it comes in lovely sealed tins of 100 grams.
Postage is added but still a little cheaper than here.
I wonder how long it will take me to get through it !
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Post by trailboss on Mar 29, 2020 8:58:45 GMT -5
Ask Mister Owl. 
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Post by simnettpratt on Mar 29, 2020 12:05:09 GMT -5
Hey lenticula! I grew up on the Black Mountain just north of Ammanford in a little farmhouse called Foel Uchaf! I miss it. The land around Dallas Texas where I live now is hot, dry, dead and brown. No heather at all. People are nice, but you find out trees can actually be dusty; it's weird.
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Post by lenticula on Mar 29, 2020 12:14:30 GMT -5
Thanks for your reply.
I came over to Dallas in 1980 to get my US pilot's licence out of Meachem Field.
Fell in love with TX and ended up living in the Rio Grand valley.
Was in Port Isabel on and off for 30 years as long as my status allowed me to.
Miss Texas so much. I always told people that I wasn't born in Texas but got there as soon as I could !
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Post by simnettpratt on Mar 29, 2020 12:31:15 GMT -5
Wow. Lived for the first four years on Galveston Island, then mostly around the metroplex after that. Love the people here. My pilot's license unfortunately, is simulated. We have a lot in common, ffrind  |
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Post by lenticula on Mar 29, 2020 13:21:54 GMT -5
Loved my Sunday Brunch at the Hotel Galvez. Queen of the Gulf.
Very special.
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Post by trailboss on Mar 29, 2020 13:52:32 GMT -5
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Post by lenticula on Mar 29, 2020 14:31:02 GMT -5
Thanks for the link.
Brings back great memories.
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 29, 2020 15:05:51 GMT -5
I took a date to the Galvez on the night of her prom. 😁
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Post by Darin on Mar 29, 2020 15:18:49 GMT -5
I just got off the phone with our Genomics Lab that is doing the SARS-2 testing for us.
Looks like I have personally handled several positive specimens … glad I'm always careful!
… changes gloves, applies tons of sanitizer and does the hokey-pokey twice ...
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