Facepalm Of The Day

mcgruff10 said:

brianlux said:

Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

mcgruff10 said:

Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

If DNA testing can indicate your ethnicity... then doesn't that suggest there are inherent differences within us that do not make us 'all the same'?

that was deep bro

I'm going crazy. Our area is still experiencing fires. Stuck inside and going deep.

You in the north-west, Thirty?  My wife had a hard time hopping from Sacramento to Seattle to get to Alaska due to massive smoke causing delays.  We've had only one big on so far her in the Sierra Foothills (the Detwiler fire, 81,800 acres) but our worst fire season is late August and September.  A new one started in the Yosemite area (1600 acres, 0 % containment).  Things are getting bone dry, shits gonna burn.

Brian, 
is the drought still over?

Yes and no McG.  the 2016/2017 winter was the wettest winter we've had in several years which of course helped but, as usual, summer is dry here and we have had no significant rain since mid April (again, that's normal).  We need more winters last last winter and that's difficult to predict.  In any case, the impact of drought is still taking its toll here.  I'm still seeing pines, cedars and manzanita (a large tree-like shrub) dying off.  We had to take out a huge manzanita yesterday that had died off quickly this summer and have two cedars, one quite large, that look like they aren't going to make it.  I noticed today that about 1/2 of the deciduous trees in our local Raley's grocery store parking lot died rather quickly just recently.  I don't mean to sound sensationalist or alarmist but I do observe this kind of thing regularly and what I'm seeing causes me much concern. 

Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

Scruffy and Brian...

I'm in the interior of BC (Kamloops). The region is burning up. Air quality is getting better, but it was at 49 at one point making it one of the top 5 worse palces to breathe on the earth.

All our parks are closed. There has been no mountain biking this year. My problems are small compared to evacuees though.

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/thousands-of-hectares-burned-as-bc-nears-worst-wildfire-season/article35994947/?ref=https://www.theglobeandmail.com&

damn Del that is terrible!  I hope things get better soon.

Bri, I can see that you are highly observant with your surroundings!  I pray you both get some rain soon!  Here in new jersey we have almost too much rain lol.  I wish we could send some your way.

Thanks, fellas.

We need rain badly. Not a little spit either... we need a downpour that lasts. The one fire is going to burn until winter no matter how much rain we get.

mcgruff10 said:

Del,
Lighting strike or some dumb ass cause this massive wild fire?

There's multiple fires right now, but they are attributing half of them to morons.

This is appropriate here.  Sorry if it has already been posted in another "stupid people" thread!
https://www.click2houston.com/trending/womans-post-slamming-hobby-lobby-for-raw-cotton-decoration-goes-viral

PJPOWER said:

This is appropriate here.  Sorry if it has already been posted in another "stupid people" thread!
https://www.click2houston.com/trending/womans-post-slamming-hobby-lobby-for-raw-cotton-decoration-goes-viral

That's the dumbest thing I've seen all day.

Here is one for the books.
http://scout.com/outdoors/hunting/Article/Man-Bit-By-Rattler-After-Trying-to-Eat-It-108015368

Ugh.  Warrants much more than a facepalm, but still...UGH.  Fucking clueless.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-feeble-no-may-mean-yes-indian-court-overturns-rape-conviction/ar-AAsuBhe?li=BBnbfcL

Jason P said:

Kellogg is eliminating this artwork from their Corn Pops box because it has been declared racist ....

They claim the only brown Corn Pop is the janitor.  Folks, the janitor clearly is not a Corn Pop.  It's a person that had his mouth removed by Agent Smith in The Matrix.

I was just about to post this same story.  Changing the artwork all because of one jackasses tweet.