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I feel you Doomy. I too wonder of such things sometimes.... usually after thinking "Does Arwen knows Aragorn is really Vigo the Carpathian and does she ever role play as the 'the gatekeeper'?

Nabs has nothing in his life. NOTHING

Sponges.... why have you no teed off on that stupid motherfucker yet?

I look it up: it was the Harris, Coaches, and six computer rankings.

What the fuck is he even downvoting?

And, yes, they placed different value on "big wins" over ranked than unranked. The latter was all about expectations and optics - you were expected to blow them out of the water, but you had to make it look like you weren't running up the score on purpose (even though you obviously were). That essentially means killing the opponent with your backups in the 4th.

Just computer and coaches, I think.... If I recall, the AP kind of did its own thing, resulting in a split championship at least once.

That's not you being old, that's just you being... kinda thirsty.

I was referring to conference championships, obviously. But, that being said, the MoV metric for the BCS and Playoff Selection isn't a true metric- it has a subjectivity variable built in that accounts for things like this and (presumably) to discourage running up the score in an obscene manner.

I'm envious of Vamped being able to get up and straighten her back.

No. it's a national thing. Thanks to having several coastal ranges in addition to our very long coast on one side and the Sierra Nevadas on the other, we have access to more federal public use land than most states. You don't need a permit to go into a NF or NRA, you just need a permit to use its services. The fire permit is also a national thing, mostly because the prevalence of wildfires mean that the place you can start a campfire fewer and the times you can have a fires in those spaces is increasingly restricted. In most cases you probably can't even get a fire permit,

I had no idea margin of victory was an actual metric.

It can be daunting. But those things are almost alway fitted with governors, so you'll feel like you're going 2mph and big rigs blow past you at 80.

Permits into the NPs or NFs? As far as I can tell, NF Rec permits aren't restricted the same way an NP permit often is. In fact, I think you can buy an annual pass to all the NFs in the entire US. Edit: Should specify, those NF permit fees are for recreational use, and its more for areas that have bathrooms and other day use things. I don't believe you need a permit to hike in a National Forest, but you do need a permit for some things, like using a campground or importantly starting a fire.

Those things aren't bad. You can drive a 26' box truck with air breaks on a standard C, and those fuckers are bigger and more unwieldy.

Also, none of this explains why you said there was a limited amount of people allowed to hike. Is that because of NP permit restrictions?

Just so long as you don't underfund. Getting the expensive gear is important, but it's more of the contingency that you probably need to worry about. All it takes is one night where you're stranded in a town where your budget gets blown the fuck up.

Knowing several people with severe food allergies of various types, I guess it kind of pisses me off when people insist on you eating something even if they check first.

Wut?

It's par for the course for him. He almost always has a good point but he's so relentlessly pessimistic it gets eclipsed by borderline hysterics. Dude just does not know how to read the fucking room.

I don't think anyone is giving him shit for caring. We are giving him shit for overreacting and compounding that overreaction with trying to contact his family or, worse, contacting the cops. Caring is fine as long as you're level headed about it. Otherwise, you're making the problem exponentially worse.

I guess I'm getting tripped up by the formulaic structure of the posts.

Happy Birthday, Cool Dude...

That’s a very formal racist, then.

Even bots are racist.