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  1. HudsonHawk

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    I don't mind seedless watermelons. They are not "genetically modified", they are just a hybrid that is "sterile". They're kind of like mules, and who doesn't love mules.
  2. HudsonHawk

    1940's Baseball

    I like that baseball is the most historically documented sport in the world. Every pitch and cup adjustment is recorded in a book somewhere, and that means a tremendous amount of data for comparison and analysis. But as Yogi said, you can observe a lot by watching.
  3. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I would suggest that "New Year's Day" is a proper noun, but not necessarily "new year". I think most of the time, we are wishing people well on the former.
  4. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I've never gotten a straight answer from anyone on exactly what "Boxing Day" is. I still don't know.
  5. HudsonHawk

    1940's Baseball

    Sounds like she's be up on most people today, including many so called "baseball people". It seems all they can do these days is recite stats and count pitches to make decisions. Few seem to be actually watching what's happening on the field.
  7. HudsonHawk

    STOP "repurposing". PLEASE!

    I've seen these in numerous places. They are not "repurposed" old hats, they are modern lampshades in the shape of a hat.
  8. HudsonHawk

    The Agents of F.L.A.S.K.

    I've been out of the country for a month, so I'm catching up watching. I see in the season finale they finally got around to putting a camera down the hole. And they found nothing. Imagine that.
  9. HudsonHawk

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Oh I got your point, and I agree. I wasn't challenging anything you said, just sort of reinforcing it.
  10. HudsonHawk

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    You don't have to understand aerodynamic lift to fly on an airplane, you just have to purchase a ticket. And in general that's a good thing. That's the benefit of technological advancement...not everyone has to invent the wheel.
  11. HudsonHawk

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I am too. And I have a good job with a good company. I'm happy to have it. But this is an issue with many millennials...they all think they're going to be CEO and demand that it be in the next five years. Somehow they find being just a regular employee a character flaw. Ambition is one thing...
  13. HudsonHawk

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Of course, there are also many good people who work hard, enjoy their work, and are grateful to be able to provide for their family being a "stooge". Someone has to mine the dilithium crystals.
  14. HudsonHawk

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Millennials in general are very smart. My biggest gripe with them is that too many never learned the fundamentals, and don't seem to think they need to, be that how to contour a map or who covers 3B on a bunt. Higher level understanding breaks down when you get stumped on the basics.
  15. HudsonHawk

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    You know, I have unlimited minutes to any phone number in the US for $35/month, which to me is an incredible deal, especially compared to what long distance calling used to cost. But it seems that there is no end to the complaining and moaning by younger folks at how ridiculously high that is...
  16. HudsonHawk

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Again, that's just fear mongering. Feel free to choose to not have amalgam fillings, but your decision is based on emotion, not science or medicine, and I object to your describing anyone who doesn't buy the fear as "idiots".
  17. HudsonHawk

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    This has nothing to do with pay phones, but the comment about long distance calls got me thinking how that's gotten both more complicated and simpler at the same time. We have three overlapping area codes around here, which means you have to always dial 10 digits, and some calls to other area...
  19. HudsonHawk

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    "Existing longer" is not the same as "living well".
  20. HudsonHawk

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    There is no definitive research that concludes the amount of mercury in amalgam fillings is harmful to most people. In fact, just the opposite. Studies have shown over and over again that there is no elevated health risk from amalgam fillings, and in fact, trying to remove them is likely more...
  21. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    They've certainly had HR departments since I've been working starting in the early 80s. And I'm not sure why you're so upset about the company not using pejorative terms to describe their employees, or why you'd be so eager to do so.
  22. HudsonHawk

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    I always said I'd quit playing baseball when my teammates dragged me off the field and told me I couldn't play anymore. That may be getting closer than I realize.
  23. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I still had to Google him. I gotta get out more.

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