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    bb.king got a reaction from Atomic in Golfing in Manitoba   
    It's not Manitoba, but I played this course once in the late 90's when I was doing some work in the Northwest Territories: http://www.fortsimpsonchamber.ca/featured-post-5/.
    It had sand "greens" that you were supposed to rake after you were done, although it looks like they may have changed that now. Every time you stopped for your next shot you immediately had a cloud of gnats and black-flies that would swarm you. But it was worth it so I could always tell my brother (who is an avid golfer) that I played golf further north than him!
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    bb.king got a reaction from Taynted_Fayth in Golfing in Manitoba   
    It's not Manitoba, but I played this course once in the late 90's when I was doing some work in the Northwest Territories: http://www.fortsimpsonchamber.ca/featured-post-5/.
    It had sand "greens" that you were supposed to rake after you were done, although it looks like they may have changed that now. Every time you stopped for your next shot you immediately had a cloud of gnats and black-flies that would swarm you. But it was worth it so I could always tell my brother (who is an avid golfer) that I played golf further north than him!
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    bb.king reacted to Taynted_Fayth in Cal Murphy Statue To Be Unveiled Sept 21st at IGF   
    https://www.bluebombers.com/2017/07/04/bombers-unveil-cal-murphy-statue-investors-group-field/
     
    I for one, hope it's a statue of him fighting off zombies too
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    bb.king reacted to Mike in Biggest Rivalry in the CFL: Regina Winnipeg   
    I think I've literally just about had it with internet Rider fans. There are quite a number of them (CalgaryRiderFan, Beacon.x, Bingo_Arms, Huff Daddy and several others whose names just elude me right now) that are tolerable, awesome guys to talk football with but man, the majority of people over at Riderfans.com are the biggest bunch of deluded dumb as a post mouth breathers I've ever encountered. It's a shame, because every year I go to Regina for every single away game we have there, the people that I meet are awesome. It's a great city to go watch a game and the fans that are invested in supporting the Riders are great to be around.
    But that website is a cesspool of stupidity. The stuff I've read on that site is some of the most ridiculous nonsense I've ever imagined. Very few people on there have any clue about football as it relates to anything outside their province and trying to use any kind of reasoning with them is like talking to a doorknob. Wake up and smell the coffee, Rider fans. Your team is the worst team in the CFL, your coach is the laughing stock of the entire league and your GM somehow manages to have no clue what your head coach and defensive coordinator and media recruiting coordinator are doing, despite them all being the same person. You're using the last wear on the tires of old broken down pieces like Kevin Glenn, Jovon Johnson and Peter Dyakowski. Your coach can't stop fetishizing about the kudos he'll get if FINALLY he manages to turn a fullback into a defensive back or a tackle into a receiver and it affects the quality of your roster from top to bottom. You scout and house somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 players, yet can't find a single guy to play defensive back and somehow have to settle for convincing yourselves that Ed Gainey is serviceable. Maybe AC Leonard will stop going offside. Maybe Brenden Labatte won't get hurt for the 47th time. Maybe Henoc Muamba will stop being too fat. Maybe Duron Carter will keep his trap shut for once. Maybe Linden Gaydosh is duct taped together well enough to hold up for 3 or 4 games. Maybe Jordan Reaves will stop dealing cocaine. And maybe if all of that happens, you might have enough of a football team to piece together 7 or 8 wins this year.
    Until then, know your place, shut up and enjoy the basement. I can't wait until we stomp these guys on Saturday.
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    bb.king reacted to WBBFanWest in Second Round Final Cuts   
    Jesus is good, no question, but if we're talking defence, I'd rather sign Peter.  He's better.  In fact, one night, he denied Jesus three times.  That's pretty amazing!
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    bb.king reacted to JuranBoldenRules in Bombers cut Apodaca, Frederick and 9 more   
    You aren't discussing football.  You've developed some goofy narrative about O'Shea that you have no facts to support and you keep dropping it in every thread.  Most reasonable forums would have banned you already for disrupting every actual discussion happening on the site.  
    Anyways, I'm ignoring you now.
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    bb.king reacted to Mr Dee in US Politics   
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    bb.king reacted to Rich in Artificial Intelligence   
    This is a bit of a long read, but an interesting article on how the most successful / powerful artificial intelligence programs out there are self taught and due to the vast amounts of data that they compile and consume to come to their conclusions, no one really understands how they make the decisions they do.   Yet they are very accurate.
    https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604087/the-dark-secret-at-the-heart-of-ai/
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    bb.king reacted to Tracker in Around the League - Training Camp Discussion   
    Having lost a wife to cancer, I can vouch that no matter what kind of job you have, your head is not going to be in it, even if you do not have 300 lb people trying to murderize you.
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    bb.king reacted to The Unknown Poster in US Politics   
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    bb.king reacted to Atomic in The Simpson's "Classic Moments"   
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    bb.king reacted to Logan007 in The Simpson's "Classic Moments"   
    Phil Hartman...we miss you...
     
     
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    bb.king got a reaction from Taynted_Fayth in The Simpson's "Classic Moments"   
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    bb.king reacted to Mike in Ourbombers.com   
    What we did was definitely a little more than that, since we created a thread on Ourbombers basically saying we were leaving and that if people wanted to follow us, this was where to find us.
    What I take issue with is this idea that we "poached" anyone. Maybe for the sake of clarity, it should be mentioned that Colin was almost entirely inactive as a site owner for over three years prior to us doing what we did. The staff was running Ourbombers, without the help of Colin. What we did was make the decision to a run a site we could improve, instead of running one we couldn't. Like I've said multiple times, I respect Colin for the contributions he made to the Bombers fan community. He did a lot of good things over the years and that shouldn't ever be diminished.
    That being said, I think painting us as "bad guys" for doing what we did shows some unfamiliarity with the situation. Should we have stuck with the guy that was promising us individually for three years that we would get the site upgrades we needed for it to be "functional"? Should we have stuck with the guy who trusted us enough to keep his site running and earning revenue but not enough to grant any of us access to any of the features that would've made our volunteer roles a lot easier? Or if some people think that's maybe a bit too selfish sounding and they wonder "how does that affect us?", should we have stuck with the guy who asked site members to donate in order to cover costs, but then turned around and offered me a monthly "salary" to turn my back on this place and come back to OB because he earned enough money off site revenue to pay me?
    Colin created an awesome fan community when he created Ourbombers. Whether through life getting in the way or personal choice, he let that site fall by the wayside and we made the decision we did to create something that we thought could be so much better. For someone like TBURGESS to infer that what we did was "unethical" when everything we did, we did as volunteers who earn a combined salary of $0 for the time and effort we put into this is ... at best, poorly thought out and at worst, incredibly stupid.
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    bb.king reacted to Fatty Liver in Around The League Off Season Discussion   
    The Bombers really need to kick the Riders ass sideways in their first game in the new park to set the tone for the season and send their fans off on the crazy train.  Nothing else matters.
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    bb.king reacted to Jacquie in US Politics   
    The beginning of the end.
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