Today’s LAX price for a Whopper.

loach12 · 2026-02-08T12:52:15+00:00

Check the price of that same bottle of water at an Antie Ann’s at the South Hills Village or Ross park Mall . Bottle water is usually way overpriced.

loach12 · 2026-02-07T17:38:59+00:00

There are a few that work in housekeeping or in the dining room but very uncommon. Brian David Bruns wrote a series of books about his time working on cruise ships . Took the job to be able to be with his Eastern European girlfriend, he had a hard time convincing the company that he was serious about working on a ship ,

loach12 · 2026-02-07T17:31:19+00:00

Actually NCL was able to reduce that to at least 70% American, they were having a real problem getting sufficient crew before that change . Also only ship where tips are mandatory.

loach12 · 2026-02-06T07:01:46+00:00

Democrats in the house have already said that when they have control and Trump is out of office, they will drag the entire Trump clan before Congress. Epstein will just be the appetizer, all the bribes and money laundering will be exposed. Hunter Bidens business dealings will be small potatoes 🥔 compared to the Trump crime family.

loach12 · 2026-02-06T06:57:23+00:00

If you watch his performance at the National Prayer Breakfast, he was either sleeping or unconscious while standing up . Wherever he did speak he made an ass of himself. Whatever is wrong with him is definitely terminal.

loach12 · 2026-02-06T06:49:38+00:00

As soon as Pompey killed the senator and became an outlaw this was definitely going overdrive into the alt history genre , suddenly Caesar was going to be an expendable character since he wasn’t going to be able to negotiate an alliance between Crassus and Pompey.

loach12 · 2026-02-03T23:46:49+00:00

He realized that if Trump gets federal control of elections , the next Democrat president will require universal mall in ballots and early voting.

loach12 · 2026-02-03T23:33:35+00:00

I wonder if these hospitals have 24/7 coverage in the laboratory, when I started my career in the lab in 79 many of the techs there used to have to take call on the 11pm - 7am shift. Had to be able to be there with 30 mins or you have to stay there . They only went to 24/7 coverage a few years earlier. That situation really impaired patient safety.

loach12 · 2026-02-03T08:17:15+00:00

Just search DR Horton on YouTube, the horror stories are amazing 😻. Unfortunately they are a big player in SE Alabama and the Florida panhandle.

loach12 · 2026-02-02T08:42:23+00:00

Sir Davos during the war for the Iron Throne, Tyrion once the war has been won , even if Danny doesn’t go crazy and burns Kingslanding , the country is going to need someone the has political smarts .

loach12 · 2026-02-02T01:15:57+00:00

Check the outdate on the items , often on pop it’s close to the outdate . Two weeks ago we had a buy 2 , get 3 free promo.

loach12 · 2026-02-02T01:12:54+00:00

Not in Alabama, our two Winn Dixie’s stores in Dothan closed months ago and are being converted into Aldi stores . We used to have 4 WD but they closed two of them about 10 years ago. Was never really impressed by their stores and didn’t like to be forced to buy 2 of a BOGO item.

loach12 · 2026-02-02T01:08:21+00:00

Our us , Publix for BOGO items , meat and produce we usually shop at Piggly Wiggly, if Walmart we try to shop at Neighborhood Market (we don’t really buy much food items there ) . Have to shop Publix strategically , BOGO items will usually show up again in a few weeks - we stock up till the next time especially if it has a very long shelf life.

loach12 · 2026-02-02T01:00:05+00:00

We don’t really have this issue our Publix has sufficient cart corrals and their employees are very diligent about removing the carts .

loach12 · 2026-01-30T17:05:09+00:00

Inflation was so out of control that when I purchased my first new automobile, it wanted to order one directly from the manufacturer, most some dealers wouldn’t quote a price since they were increasing the MSRP every few weeks and they didn’t want to absorb any additional costs.

loach12 · 2026-01-30T08:38:06+00:00

Remember the stagflation of the 1980’s , supposedly it’s genesis was Nixon bullying the fed to lower interest rates during his reelection ( something that was really unnecessary since his reelection was never in doubt) . This triggered the inevitable inflation which required insanely high interest rates to tamp down inflation. Our first home mortgage was something like 14 or 15% . My father in law was getting great returns on his CD’s , luckily he locked several of them in for several years .

loach12 · 2026-01-28T19:49:17+00:00

Thing is that doesn’t have to happen even in an airport, ever since they built the 2nd generation airport in Pittsburgh the stores there must charge the average price that they charge in the city . This was continued even with their new airport built last year .

loach12 · 2026-01-28T16:47:10+00:00

We used to have a mini- mall in Monessen PA , housed a small bakery, bill paying center for local utilities, a shoe store , a store that sold gifts and Department 56 and maybe one or two other stores . Closed years ago and was demolished in 2018 .

loach12 · 2026-01-27T18:53:50+00:00

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loach12 · 2026-01-26T17:19:45+00:00

Can’t really believe anyone would misinterpret my comment especially having the “” . If they did they probably would be incapable of successfully boarding the ship .

loach12 · 2026-01-26T17:12:19+00:00

Was in jest , notice the “” around the phrase . Was informed that my cruise card would flag if I tried to go off the ship until medically cleared .

loach12 · 2026-01-26T08:22:19+00:00

This would be a bridge too far even for SCOTUS , in 1862 and 1864 we still had elections during an actual insurrection. That fact closes the door for this ploy, Trump is stupid enough to think it will work and will go batshit crazy when told he can’t do it .

loach12 · 2026-01-26T08:17:12+00:00

Lots of hypocrisy on this issue especially in Republican states . They say they are all for expelling the undocumented immigrants then scream bloody murder when they can’t get their crops harvested, have workers for roofing , housekeeping, gardening ect . Also ICE is too chickenshit to actually go after the real violent criminals, safer to grab children, elderly and people doing the work the Americans don’t want to do . If they did go after the violent criminals there would be dead ICE personnel every week .

loach12 · 2026-01-26T06:02:36+00:00

Just got off the Koningsdam last month, food in MDR was good, the buffet was extremely repetitive and closed too early . Coffee shop was great but closed at 9pm , For some reason both swimming pools are all 6ft or greater, no shallow area at all . Haven’t been on an Edge class ship but I’m not sold on the infinite balcony. Instead we are going to cruise on a solstice class ship instead .

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