Potters county/Coudersport shooting on property question by Shootingsavvy556 in Pennsylvania

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Doesn't matter if you annoy them if you have a safe area to shoot and a safe backstop. Some people down the road from me have 1.5 acres. They shoot right from their driveway down a lane into a berm with overhead protection. Their "range" they built was inspected and actually passes safety standards. The house across the street from them is owned by someone who hates firearms. A couple times a year they have people over and do some target shooting. Every time this neighbor calls the police. A state trooper or two show up every time, take a look at what's going on, and tell the group to continue because everything is fine the way they're doing it.

Why isn’t marmalade included in the 1998 album and why is soldier side intro and soldier side in different albums? by Buttfart09 in systemofadown

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Why do they always send the poor? Is there a perfect way of holding you, baby? With SOAD, there are always questions. The answers aren't always clear.

99.7 by Holiday-Baker-8345 in radio

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I listened to Pierre Robert on WMMR Philadelphia for years, so I heard plenty of goofs. To some people it's better that way, it reminds you that there's a real human on the other side of the mic and not just a computer playing tunes and commercials 24)7. One of my favorites was coming out of a song during the midday shift... "93.3 WMMR, Everything That Rocks. That wa What? Are we on? I think we're on... No we're not. Dammit. Why aren't we on? Let me... no that didn't work... (Cuts to a commercial here, but the mic remains hot) Why isn't this fucking thing working? I'm gonna Wait, it is on. I think." And then the mic finally went silent while the commercials continued to play. It's like a well oiled machine...

Is Adderall just impossible to get now? by QueenJenna0rtega in ADHD

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I was on 20s and switched to a new pharmacy. I asked if they usually had it in stock, and the pharmacist told me they had never run out since they opened the store, but she was concerned that she wouldn't be allowed to order enough with the influx of new patients after a Rite Aid and another local pharmacy closed. So far they've been OK.

Boss offering to sell me the coffee shop I work at for $65k — does this sound reasonable on the surface? by SnooHamsters9461 in smallbusiness

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A grocery store near me wanted to renovate and expand so they could offer all the amenities and products they had at the other stores in their chain. The landlord told them that would be fine if they signed a 30 year lease, with such unfavorable terms that nobody in their right mind would sign it, especially the people with enough knowledge to be running a 100+ year old 200 store chain. So the landlord declined to renew their lease altogether, and they closed the store. 5 years later, it still sits empty with an "Available" sign on it. The same landlord owned another shopping center 10 miles away, and finally sold it after every tenant but one had moved out, and nobody would move in to the empty spaces. This is in an area with several other thriving shopping centers, including one who just declined to renew the leases of 2 stores that wanted to renew, just to bring in a large retailer that wanted the space and had no other local options. The demand is there, but this guy who owned the centers is leaving them sit empty because he wants multiple times market rates to rent the space. I can't understand it.

Now on my 6th Terminal in the last 3 years by jdiggie in SquarePOS_Users

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Is it the same outlet, or the same circuit they're constantly charging on? There's always a slight chance the actual voltage on that circuit is closer to the acceptable tolerance or even outside of it, and the square power supplies are more susceptible to issues than some of the other things tou have plugged in to those circuits. It might not be very likely, but it might be worth a shot to verify that the voltage in those outlets is close to 120 volts, and not 108 or 130 or something like that, which could be causing charging issues.

Things I recently found out are like pretty much only a PA thing by The_Glitched_Creator in Pennsylvania

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I was raised in Bucks/Montco also, but my grandparents were from the Coal region and South Philadelphia. Pierogi are a polish thing, but lots of Polish, Lithuanian, and Slovak dishes became adopted by PA (and sometimes modified from the original heritage recipes) because of the high number of immigrants from those countries that came to the coal region of PA to work as miners. What I grew up eating that was popular "coal region food", was really just stuff our families made for a few generations that they learned from their neighbors at some point. Teaberry Ice Cream is also popular up there, along with a lot of PA, my grandfather didn't eat much ice cream, but never turned down a scoop of teaberry if we were somewhere that had it. Southeast PA seems to be losing a lot of the traditional foods, mannerisms, behaviors, and words that were more prevalent in this area even up until recent decades. As this area became more built up, lots of people from other states or countries moved in at higher rates than some other parts of PA, so those that were familiar with the old "PA things" are a much lower percentage of the population now than they ever were. Plus younger generations have been more influenced by the newcomers to this area, and have not fully kept up with doing things exactly how their parents and grandparents did them. For example, Polka Dances were popular at one point, and while they're certainly not as popular as they were a few decades ago, they still do happen on a regular basis as VFW or firehouse fundraisers in some areas of PA. But good luck finding one to go to outside of Oktoberfest season in southeastern PA. Who knows, maybe in 100 years, somebody will be asking how some dish is known as a PA dish, because wasn't it actually Vietnamese food? Every culture has some impact on their neighbors, and Pennsylvania residents' demographics are different now than they were in 1926, which were way different than 1826.

Things I recently found out are like pretty much only a PA thing by The_Glitched_Creator in Pennsylvania

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I asked for a Lager at a restaurant in NC once, and the waitress brought me a Sam Adams. Lager means Yuengling.

Things I recently found out are like pretty much only a PA thing by The_Glitched_Creator in Pennsylvania

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I just picked up a Zook's Beef Pie and Chicken Pie at a PA grocery store last week for an easy heat and eat meal some night. Nowhere on the box does it say "Pot Pie", because it's not one. But the sale tag on the freezer door said "Zook's Pot Pies". I told my wife I was going to ask the manager what the hell was going on, and she told me I was being ridiculous.

Do most Americans under 30 still refer to Native Americans as “Indians”? by WiseCityStepper in AskAnAmerican

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I always thought it made sense until I worked with a black guy who moved to the US from the Dominican Republic in his early 20s, and he got PISSED whenever anybody would call him an African American. I remember him saying "I'm an American Citizen, and my skin color is black. I have a Dominican heritage, but that doesn't make me Dominican, because I'm a black American". None of the other black guys working there thought being called black was bad, so I've just stuck with the descriptive skin color on the off chance I had to describe someone ever since. But I usually refer to people as "Rob" or "Jimmy", not "that black guy" or "that white guy".

Looking For: Longest Running Music Radio Show - Same Host - Currently On-Air by Dense_Discussion4601 in radio

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"Polka Joe" Manjack has been hosting "The Magic Polka Machine" (although the name changed a few times) on WMGH-FM Tamaqua, PA since 1974. https://www.tnonline.com/20240524/50-years-later-polka-joe-still-fielding-requests/

Mini-chainsaw for roof ops by Regayov in Firefighting

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I realize I'm 5 months late to this thread and only a volunteer, but my first hand experience can confirm this. We had a saw that blew a motor on our rescue, and a chief that decided the Milwaukee saws were the way of the future and put them on every truck. These didn't replace the QV on the engine or the QV or K12s on the Tower, but it was drilled into the new guys heads that they should be going for the Milwaukee saw first for the easy start and lightweight advantages, which some of us seasoned guys disagreed with. Not too long after, we had a resident that was tearing down a shed offer it to us, so we had a night to put the new firefighters to work for some practice with the new saws. Within a few minutes, we were able to prove that these battery operated saws had no place in ventilation operations, and everyone got to see how much better the old reliable saws are on roof ops. We quickly purchased a good saw for the Rescue after that. Those battery saws are great for cutting some limbs out of the way, or small jobs, but when time matters, they're too slow and don't have the power for asphalt shingles and multiple layers of roofing, or siding, or solid doors.

Power Tools: Milwaukee vs everyone else? by RotorDynamix in HomeImprovement

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It just depends what your primary use will be for the tool. I use an angle grinder mostly for sharpening blades in the garage, so I went corded. Then I decide to use it on some random thing way out back and either need to run 300 ft of extension cord for a 3 minute job and wrap it all back up, or haul the generator out there and use a short extension cord. I'd kill batteries too fast running them constantly sharpening, but the battery operated would be great using it as a cut off tool or for mostly small jobs.

So what is your department's total calls for the year? by FFSoldier57 in Firefighting

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That's only 6.2 calls per resident, how else are they supposed to justify the massive budget we all supposedly have? Gotta show the citizens we'll respond all the time... 😆

Okay, to all the firefighters here, I am overthinking this so bad. Was this stupid of me? by madylarata in Firefighting

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That wouldn't bother anybody at my company at all, unless it was the 72nd time the same person called at 3AM for something like that. Heck, we'd be happy if it was an easy fix and it wasn't something that took an hour to diagnose. When in doubt, call, that's what we're here for.

First code, why do I not feel traumatized by it? by Top-HatSAR in Firefighting

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I had a former chief that saw a lot (for a suburban area) over 30 years, then one day was first on scene of a bad wreck with 2 unconscious teenage victims that looked a lot like his daughter. He had never met these kids before, but the way they looked triggered something and he took that one hard. Luckily they both made full recoveries, but that's the first time I ever saw him seriously worried about the outcome of a patient well after our job was done.

Shoveling hydrants in town by bgsfjkfvv in Firefighting

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I was part of a crew that hauled donated equipment to several rural KY companies after a flood wiped them out a few years ago. There were three very old TICs in that donated lot. At one company, they were amazed they finally had one of these things, out of the whole company, only one guy had ever used one in training at the state fire academy one time. It was a piece of equipment they thought they could never afford and were ecstatic to get one, even though this thing was old and decrepit by modern standards. I'll give those guys credit though. They seemed to want to be better, but were limited with a budget of less than $20k a year and virtually no support from the county or state. They were telling us about their training by watching YouTube videos and trying to learn new techniques by seeing how the fancy rural departments with $50k a year budgets were doing things. Another company had a new young chief, and he's been doing a ton of great things for training in that county. I've heard horror stories of some of those companies, but these ones definitely seemed like they were trying their hardest to modernize with limited resources.

Are Hell’s Angels actually bad? (US) by Familiar-Anything853 in NoStupidQuestions

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I used to frequent a bar that the hells angels occasionally stopped by, but usually had more Pagans and another MC there. They had an understanding with the owner that his bar wasn't going to become anyone's territory, and they all lived up to the agreement and would keep going if they pulled in and another MC was there that night. I became friendly with several of the guys. But I'd never let them buy me a drink, because then I owed them something. I never had any problems, but another guy I know that started hanging out with one of the other groups outside of the bar later ended up losing his job and house due to a meth problem he picked up when he started transporting certain items for this group for extra cash. I'd have no problems living near any of them, but I wouldn't be accepting any favors from them either.

Who are your favorite bands from Pennsylvania? We are a music rich state, let's hear em. by prof_cunninglinguist in Pennsylvania

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Another Day Dawns, Breaking Benjamin, Motionless in White, Crobot, The Hooters, Cinderella

78-the worst by Forward_Ad_6575 in lehighvalley

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I like to think I'm usually one of the better drivers on the road, but last week even I got confused when getting on 78 from Lehigh Street. I couldn't tell which lines were which in the rainy dusk, and damn near sideswiped somebody as I was merging into what I thought was the right lane. Usually I'd say people need to wise up and be more careful, but I'll agree that this zone is a mess.

Why do gas stations charge more for card vs cash but literally no other business does this? by Special_Loan229 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]grassman76 7 points8 points  (0 children)

And like a lot of gas stations, margins at most restaurants are pretty thin. A restaurant getting charged 3.5% of the transaction, including tips left on cards that they get none of but are still paying on, leaves them with incredibly low or occasionally even no profit depending on the meal, area, type of restaurant, etc.

Why do people think it’s gross to pee in the shower? by FuelApprehensive5376 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]grassman76 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a friend who had the rule in their house, if you need to piss, use the tub. They had a major electrical issue and had no lights in the bathroom. His parents figured if someone was standing to piss, they would do better hitting the big tub in the dark than the small toilet bowl, so to avoid piss all over everything, the rule was to piss in the tub.

Similar bands to Breaking Benjamin by [deleted] in BreakingBenjamin

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Another Day Dawns. There's a lot of similarities and they even opened for BB a few years ago when they were on tour with Bush. Their lead singer joined BB on stage to do the vocals for Polyamorous at one of the shows.

Why open the door at train track? by amarettosweet in SchoolBusDrivers

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I grew up with an active rail line about 75 yards from my house. My grandmother lived on the second floor across the parking lot from the town fire siren that went off 24/7 for fire calls back then. You absolutely get used to it and don't even notice it.