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Everyone posting their haul this Christmas, this is mine. Oh, I got other goodies, but this stole the show. My DIL had this made for me. It’s my son, grandchildren and my brother that died in 2004. I cried when I saw it. I just wished she would have included her also.
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As you get older, those are the gifts that touch the heart. I received more than I deserved but one really special one.

When I was 12 -13 years old, my mom and dad gave me my first gun. It was nothing special as far as guns go. It was a Winchester single shot 16 Guage shotgun. I cherish that gun, took many squirrels and rabbits with my granddad and dad. Didn't take the best care of it as time went on I got better guns and it was pushed to the back of the closet where it accumulated rust and dust.
A few years later my brother was working at a metal finishing company and offered to refinish all the metal parts. Well good intentions but he took it apart and never completed it. It ended up in a box at my dad's house for the last 30 years. We found it this past summer while cleaning out my dad's house missing a bunch of parts. I wasn't sure what happened to it until Christmas morning.

Unbeknownst to me , my 23 year old son got it. He total refurbished it. He learned how to blue the parts. He sourced all the parts, some used as the gun is no longer produced. Totally refinished the stock to a beautiful finish. I teared up when I opened it. The gun is worth $100 but is priceless to me.
 
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engineerVOL said:
😱 that’s freaky. I didn’t know snakes could bow up and run like that. I would have Joe Milton’d that thing across the river. She’s friggin stone cold.
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Fake.

1) Like someone already mentioned, there are no cobras in Australia. However, the highly venomous tiger Snake can flatten it's ribs out and look similar to one when agitated.

2) Notice the tail almost flopping behind it. Non smooth motion indicating that this is a rubber snake being dragged by some fishing line or something.

3) When the girl grabs it, the snakes head never moves. It would have tried to bite...and likely succeeded in doing so if grabbed that low beneath the head. A lot of people get bitten that way. I've been bitten that way by non venomous snakes several times.

4) Never seen a cobra species with patterns like that.

5) A snake will never randomly charge you like that.
 
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InVOLuntary said:
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As you get older.those are the gifts that touch the heart. I received more than I deserved but one really special one.

When I was 12 -13 years old, my mom and dad gave me my first gun. It was nothing special as far as guns go. It was a Winchester single shot 16 Guage shotgun. I cherish that gun, took many squirrels and rabbits with my granddad and dad. Didn't take the best care of it as time went on I got better guns and it was pushed to the back of the closet where it accumulated rust and dust.
A few years later my brother was working at a metal finishing company and offered to refinish all the metal parts. Well good intentions but he took it apart and never completed it. It ended up in a box at my dad's house for the last 30 years. We found it this past summer while cleaning out my dad's house missing a bunch of parts. I wasn't sure what happened to it until Christmas morning.

Unbeknownst to me , my 23 year old son got it. He total refurbished it. He learned how to blue the oarts. He sourced all the parts, some used as the gun is no longer produced. Totally refinished the stock to a beautiful finish. I teared up when I opened it. The gun is worth $100 but is priceless to me.
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That is awesome...you have a great son.
 
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InVOLuntary said:
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As you get older.those are the gifts that touch the heart. I received more than I deserved but one really special one.

When I was 12 -13 years old, my mom and dad gave me my first gun. It was nothing special as far as guns go. It was a Winchester single shot 16 Guage shotgun. I cherish that gun, took many squirrels and rabbits with my granddad and dad. Didn't take the best care of it as time went on I got better guns and it was pushed to the back of the closet where it accumulated rust and dust.
A few years later my brother was working at a metal finishing company and offered to refinish all the metal parts. Well good intentions but he took it apart and never completed it. It ended up in a box at my dad's house for the last 30 years. We found it this past summer while cleaning out my dad's house missing a bunch of parts. I wasn't sure what happened to it until Christmas morning.

Unbeknownst to me , my 23 year old son got it. He total refurbished it. He learned how to blue the oarts. He sourced all the parts, some used as the gun is no longer produced. Totally refinished the stock to a beautiful finish. I teared up when I opened it. The gun is worth $100 but is priceless to me.
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😭. I’m a girl so I’m allowed to appreciate this with emotional tears. If I could posts gifs, I’d post one with someone blowing their nose in a hanky.
 
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norrislakevol said:
Fake.

1) Like someone already mentioned, there are no cobras in Australia. However, the highly venomous tiger Snake can flatten it's ribs out and look similar to one when agitated.

2) Notice the tail almost flopping behind it. Non smooth motion indicating that this is a rubber snake being dragged by some fishing line or something.

3) When the girl grabs it, the snakes head never moves. It would have tried to bite...and likely succeeded in doing so if grabbed that low beneath the head. A lot of people get bitten that way. I've been bitten that way by non venomous snaked several times.

4) Never seen a cobra species with patterns like that.

5) A snake will never randomly charge you like that.
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most snakes are trying to get away, again, copperheads are tracking you. right now. like predator.
 
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InVOLuntary said:
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As you get older.those are the gifts that touch the heart. I received more than I deserved but one really special one.

When I was 12 -13 years old, my mom and dad gave me my first gun. It was nothing special as far as guns go. It was a Winchester single shot 16 Guage shotgun. I cherish that gun, took many squirrels and rabbits with my granddad and dad. Didn't take the best care of it as time went on I got better guns and it was pushed to the back of the closet where it accumulated rust and dust.
A few years later my brother was working at a metal finishing company and offered to refinish all the metal parts. Well good intentions but he took it apart and never completed it. It ended up in a box at my dad's house for the last 30 years. We found it this past summer while cleaning out my dad's house missing a bunch of parts. I wasn't sure what happened to it until Christmas morning.

Unbeknownst to me , my 23 year old son got it. He total refurbished it. He learned how to blue the oarts. He sourced all the parts, some used as the gun is no longer produced. Totally refinished the stock to a beautiful finish. I teared up when I opened it. The gun is worth $100 but is priceless to me.
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I don't even know your son and I've never been more proud of a son. That's special right there!
 
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Jackcrevol said:
most snakes are trying to get away, again, copperheads are tracking you. right now. like predator.
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Yeah, they have those heat radars in their faces (pits). Poke their eyes out and they still can track you if you are close to them. Never try to pick up a pit viper with out tongs or a snake tube.
 
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hndog609 said:
OK, you've almost worked your way back to making some sense. Now let's have you level up to actual compression.

If Josh had gone to the Steelers and displayed half of the kind of transcendent talent you've attributed to him on these forums he'd have gotten his shot in 2019 in Pitt. That's it. No revisions of anything. That's how it would have played out.

It's true Minshew came in and played well but that's just a surface read. At the very least your description of what to expect from Dobbs would be to have him a rock solid #2 and pushing the #1 guy. (especially a 6th rnd rookie) That's how you keep yourself in position to have a "chance". Instead the Jags waived him to move forward with the likes of Mike Glennon and Jake Luton. (who had 5 and 3 starts respectively in '20)

Which brings us back to post 7960 and addressing your usage of the terms "luck" and "chance". Completely beyond Josh or even sports opportunity starts at being where you need to be to seize that opportunity. You had cited Warner in what was actually an inverse example of the point you were trying to make. Kurt started at zero and clawed his way from the outside all the way up to making himself a first option. Only then was he in position to get that chance. It has been Josh's failure to achieve that status that has primarily kept him from having a shot at real game play, not something as whimsical as luck.

Still, as true as the above is (and it is no matter how unpalatable that may be for you) that doesn't preclude what might happen if Josh does get that shot. To be current I just can't accept that Dobbs isn't a better option for the Titans at QB than Willis right now. If he doesn't come out looking solid against the Cowboys I (and a lot of other people on this board) will be screaming at their tv's to get him out of there and put Dobbs in.
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This is your problem. You think QBs picked in the late rounds can "prove themselves" in practice. Maybe you can refresh my memory but I can't think of a single QB picked in the 4th round or later who won a starting job or playing time due to anything other than injury. Dak Prescott despite a stellar preseason in 2016 still needed Tony Romo to be injured to get his shot. Tom Brady needed Drew Bledsoe to go down to get his shot. Even Kirk Cousins needed RG3 to keep getting hurt to get his job. Right now in San Francisco we're seeing Mr. Irrelevant prove himself thanks to two season ending injuries to the QBs ahead of him.

NFL coaches are conservative in nature. They're not gonna let a late round QB with no experience start regardless of how good he looks in practice or the preseason. Just this year everyone in Cleveland was shocked by how Dobbs was performing in the preseason. But you know what the only criticism was from some in the media to the idea of him starting over Brissett. He has no experience. Then someone said how can a guy whose only criticism against being a starter be starting experience get starting experience without starting? It's this catch 22 Dobbs finds himself in. He can look amazing in practice or preseason and still get overlooked because he's never seen real action in the league.

This is why I said he's been unlucky. Every time he has been the backup the starter has stayed healthy thus never giving him that opportunity to show what he can do in the regular season like other QBs with his pedigree.
 
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norrislakevol said:
And here is how most people get bitten. Notice he grabs it too far behind the head. I am assuming he thought it was a banded water snake, but he should have recognized the Hersheys kisses pattern that is unique to the copperhead.

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I've got my bifocals on. I dont see **** man.

Honestly ive only ever seen a few. Saw baby Copperheads @ Laurel Falls in Hampton, one on Little River, and one that had been relieved of its noggin' at Cades Cove.

More worried about Timber Rattlers, honeslty.
 
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