Why I need to take blood pressure medication

[FAA]

Yeah, that's right. I'll have to throw one into my weekend kit. I always get the bag back late in the day and am in a rush. These clowns make me all the more frantic! 

[DaBurglar]

Oh, and seeing The Pats get away with something ELSE    ...just a mattter of time....what's next????

OK, ummm, you have kept up with the so-called  "headset" issues  ordeal since the opening game, havent you Galeygoo?    If you have then you should know that this supposed latest example of cheating was nothing of the kind, that the NFL (once again, just like with the footballs) is responsible for these communications equipment and implementation responsibilities for ALL teams and ALL games.....and that these frequent malfunctions and breakdowns happen ALL the time in MANY different stadiums.....not just foxborough.Any reasonable person knows by now that the PAtriots have become targets and scapegoats for a lot of people from other teams and from within the NFL itself......it is a matter of JEALOUSY, the long term continued success of the New England PAtriots in the current NFL system (with its salary cap and many revenue sharing arrangements) that is SUPPOSED to ensure parity and prevent the same team(s) from winning or dominating year after year after year, etc.But the really stupid thing is, history and business has shown that within most professional sports, where one or a few teams dominate, that actually HELPS promote growth over the long term, as all the other teams are forced to step up their game and efforts to catch the front-runner/dynasty.....the New York Yankees from the mid 1920s all the way thru the mid 1960s, where they TOTALLY dominated the sport of baseball, actually helped the league grow and prosper as they represented the standard by which all others could measure and aim for as they sought to improve and grow.....otherwise, mediocrity and malaise tends to set in when teams do not have to put forth their best, supreme effort in order to win......it really makes sense when you think about it......The fact is, the WAY the entire Patriots Organization is run, from the owner on down, the culture and how they go about doing things (or NOT doing things) is WHY they have dominated the NFL the past 15 years.    You may find their methods boring and tiresome (even I find Billbelichick a total BORE)  the results speak for themselves.....

[Galeygoo]

This forum is for members to express their opinions, DaB. I posted mine.

[DaBurglar]

This forum is for members to express their opinions, DaB. I posted mine.    Please do not be upset or irked with my previous response Goo, I am just defending "my team".....See, I am a die hard, TRUE Patriots fan......I have loved them all my life, EVEN back when they STUNK and were the laughing stock (back in the 1980s and early 1990s.....I stuck with them and I am now proud as heck.Surely you can understand that and not find fault?  Afterall, in 1985, your BEARS (Da bears!)  beat the crapola, 46-10,  out of the patriots in the FIRST superbowl the PAtriots played (first of what is now....ahem, EIGHT  for my PAts)     I can face up to this shallacking.......

[Galeygoo]

DaB, I am neither upset nor irked. I just post what I mean/think/believe, nothing else.

[FAA]

I wisely avoided confrontation yesterday with a chain smoker to my
right holding cig with left hand, giving me direct second hand stream. Bringing a battery operated fan on future visits!
Human chimney. His prerogative, but a huge annoyance.

[DaBurglar]

I wisely avoided confrontation yesterday with a chain smoker to my
right holding cig with left hand, giving me direct second hand stream. Bringing a battery operated fan on future visits!
Human chimney. His prerogative, but a huge annoyance.


Indeed.....this constitutes ASSAULT in my book.    With the KNOWN and undisputed harm that second hand smoke entails, WHY on earth it is still allowed is a testament to the still DEEP and prolific $$ Pockets $$ of BIG TOBACCO in the USA......why on earth is tobacco products still allowed to be made, bought and sold?Anyone want to take a stab at the societal costs of cigarettes since 1960?    Ho wmuch do you think the HUGE cost of healthcare in the USA, and the general level of bad health faced by Americans, is due to cigarettes???      Absurd.....ridiculous and absurd.

[FAA]

Health was not a priority for this morbidly obese man. I was sandwiched on both ends. Annoying young blonde to my left was vaping. She and her bf kept texting each other to secure adjacent seats after much seat hopping. The weekend crowd leaves much to be desired! I was only too happy to flee the scene, having doubled my investment. 

[DaBurglar]

he smokes  AND he is morbidly obese?    That's beautiful ...... And no doubt he probably is a republican who opposes Obamacare (i.e. Government health coverage for everyone) but most likely when his heart attack comes, or his kidneys shut down from Diabetes, he will be signing up pronto for Medicare/Medicaid, if he already has not done so......

[Ambassador E]

my biggest pet peeve is.a smoker who knocks there ashes into your drink.then when you get up to leave.you trip over there pile of ashes and spill your drink on them.and then they have the nerve to get mad at you.