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Misc 2018 Banter & Venting Thread

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Avalanche said:
The Angus Barn has a great atmosphere, a wine cellar in full vintage, wild turkey lounge (complete bar), some great crackers-cheeses-peppers among other things to snack on prior to meal. Also, prime rib that is as good as you will get anywhere. I do give you this, the Texas Roadhouse is the best chain steakhouse out there.
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Need Jimmy Hypocrasy to back me up, but I’d put the Peddlar steakhouse, on Poinsette Highway, up against any steakhouse in the GSP area!
 
Avalanche said:
The Angus Barn has a great atmosphere, a wine cellar in full vintage, wild turkey lounge (complete bar), some great crackers-cheeses-peppers among other things to snack on prior to meal. Also, prime rib that is as good as you will get anywhere. I do give you this, the Texas Roadhouse is the best chain steakhouse out there.
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I had the prime rib. It was good. It's just that I have had some just as good for half the price. I just don't get why the prices there are so high. Seems like you are just paying more for the name.
 
Brick Tamland said:
I had the prime rib. It was good. It's just that I have had some just as good for half the price. I just don't get why the prices there are so high. Seems like you are just paying more for the name.
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I agree the price (for the entrée) is high. I look at it like this, when I go, I'm there for a few hours with friends at the bar (wild turkey lounge), and I get reasonably priced drinks while I eat all the cheese/crackers/peppers/etc. All in all, if I'm going to grab a meal with my wife and kids, Id rather go Texas Roadhouse or similar restaurant and save the money. But if I'm making a night of it with my wife and friends, and know ahead that I'm going to socialize as well as drink a few, I usually find the Angus Barn more favorable.

No wrong or right, the Angus Barn is nice if you plan on that being your sole entertainment for the night and you are going with some friends. But if you are going to a movie or some other form of fun, and just view dinner as being dinner and nothing else, then save the dough and eat at the chain steakhouses. Plus, I do enjoy the warm-up peanuts at the Texas Roadhouse.

I did the chophouse in Greensboro, and Ruth Chris in Durham, and boy, they will thin your wallet fast. Terrific steak, but I'm on a top-round ground beef salary. LOL. So they won't see me again. I guess they all have their place as I've done them all. Man am I hungry!!!
 
Rain rant. It seems like in times past when we've had a moisture feed like we've had lately, and it being this time of year with the heat, we've received a lot more rain. Not sure why we have seemed to come up empty lately. I guess low level moisture provides early in the morning cloud cover, which reduces instability. Some met can explain this, but I've seen widely scattered thunderstorms from a western flow provide more rain than this southeast flow has. Maybe the western flow provides more sun, more heat, thus stronger storms? I don't know. But this current SE flow that we've had just didn't seem to have any lift or mechanism to trigger storms, other than the moisture itself.
 
Tarheel1 said:
You missed the point altogether! Big Pharmaceutical companies control everything, and they are the problem!
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My daughters Flovent inhaler for Asthma is around $180 a month, her Flonase for allergies is $7. They are the exact same medicine, yet one is configured to get down in your chest. Amazing how much extra money is required to put it in an inhaler. An albuterol inhaler is also around $180 for a month supply while the same medicine except more powerful for her nebulizer is $10.

While my insurance company is partly to blame, you can't tell me someone can't make a generic of an inhaler with the same common medicine used.
 
Arcc said:
My daughters Flovent inhaler for Asthma is around $180 a month, her Flonase for allergies is $7. They are the exact same medicine, yet one is configured to get down in your chest. Amazing how much extra money is required to put it in an inhaler. An albuterol inhaler is also around $180 for a month supply while the same medicine except more powerful for her nebulizer is $10.

While my insurance company is partly to blame, you can't tell me someone can't make a generic of an inhaler with the same common medicine used.
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Yeah man, that sucks! There can always BE a generic, but I believe when big pharma companies are awarde the patent for a drug, they get copyright protection for 5–10 years or so! So they get all their and then some, before the more affordable, generic is allowed to be made or sold!
 
Avalanche said:
The Angus Barn has a great atmosphere, a wine cellar in full vintage, wild turkey lounge (complete bar), some great crackers-cheeses-peppers among other things to snack on prior to meal. Also, prime rib that is as good as you will get anywhere. I do give you this, the Texas Roadhouse is the best chain steakhouse out there.
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I'd go with Outback every day. Longhorn is good too. Texas Roadhouse is good also, but Outback is my fav!
 
Rain Cold said:
I'd go with Outback every day. Longhorn is good too. Texas Roadhouse is good also, but Outback is my fav!
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Wallabe darned and blooming onion, FTW! And as wing king, Outback has some great wings, IMO!
 
Came to Atlanta for a Braves game. Atlanta traffic is just ridiculous. Wouldn’t live here if you paid me. Too many people. Bring back the 90’s. Go Braves!
 
Eat at the Vortex!
 
Seeing some wicked lightning strikes in the distance while out shopping right now

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pcbjr said:
Benign tropics and absolutely gorgeous as a result ... :cool:

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If the last 3 monthly Eurosip MSLP predictions for the MDR to GOM for ASO were to verify, benign would likely dominate the Atlanitc season even through much of the normally most active part of the season though we know it almost has to pick up from the current extreme quiet. OTOH, even if this relative quietness were to verify for ASO in the tropics-GOM, the subtropics and northward off the US east coast may not be as quiet relative to normals as those same runs show. Regardless, I like how the season looks as of now for the SE US from a not overly threatening viewpoint. Also, Hawaii appears to be at a significantly higher than average risk per the same Eurosip runs.
 
The main thread is on fire!! I guess nobody got love for big wet redux
 
I was wondering what weather app does everyone use? I am trying to find the best free one for my phone.
 
Strokin’ , by Clarence Carter, never broke the top 20, but it’s my jam!
 
Grass is getting pretty crispy IMBY here in North Alabama. We've had only 2 inches of rain in July and most of that was in the first week. Need some relief!
 
Why do you build me up (build me up), buttercup baby just to let me down..... Build me up, buttercup, don't break my heart
The Foundations
That song almost describes our weather forecasts sometimes. LOL
 
uhhh, dudes that run this site, some of us are 'bigger' people.. I was thinking buying one of your t-shirts.. but XL ain't gonna cut it for my fat ass. Do you have any 3-4 XLs available?
 
whamby said:
uhhh, dudes that run this site, some of us are 'bigger' people.. I was thinking buying one of your t-shirts.. but XL ain't gonna cut it for my fat ass. Do you have any 3-4 XLs available?
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We can

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Lordy ... Hope those folks in Miami can remember what drawer they stored the socks in ... LOL ... :p

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