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[Buckeye Native 001]

No. The cops I deal with are usually pretty pissed off.

[canadaonstrike]

Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

I don't care about the commercials, so long as GEICO continues to insure me without charging too much for my shitty driving habits (i.e. at least one speeding ticket a year...)

Well if Geico decides to drop you, you can always go with The General

[Buckeye Native 001]

Fuck them, their commercials are terrible.

[canadaonstrike]

Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

Fuck them, their commercials are terrible.

For the best car insurance rates online, go to The General and save some time!

[Cleveland Brown]

Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

No. The cops I deal with are usually pretty pissed off.

No, you call the prosecutor after the ticket has been issued by the cop. Most cities and towns only care about the cash from the ticket, so many will happily change a ticket from 20 MPH over the speed limit to 5 MPH over or even from a speeding ticket to broken headlights - so long as you pay the fine. But of course, you must ask...

[Buckeye Native 001]

I'd rather not and suffer/accept the consequences for reckless driving. It keeps me in check...sort of.

[Strange Meat]

Shit. Need new pads, and I probably warped the passenger side front brake rotor, and HOPEFULLY the wheel bearing and hub are still good. Ugh. And I still gotta get it registered in CO (sales tax, yay!).

Shitballs.

Oh well, it's a nice day out, think I'll go for a skate around town.

[rockyi]

Originally Posted by canadaonstrike

How can you hate those Geico commercials? They're great

They're good commercials but not after seeing them every 5 minutes for months on end.

[Strange Meat]

Originally Posted by rockyi

They're good commercials but not after seeing them every 5 minutes for months on end.

True, they are fairly over saturated. Remember, what was it, a really obnoxious Applebees commercial that played OVER AND OVER AND OVER during one of the March Madnesses a few years back. Like, you'd see the same ad literally twice in the same commercial break, and sometimes, about once every 2 minutes late in the game.

[vid]

Tim Hortons commercials often play twice in a row here. Not two different Tim Hortons commercials, but the same one, back to back.

[Strange Meat]

I despise pretty much everything about advertising and marketing...

[rockyi]

^Yep, me too. The bad thing is, I never really sit and watch TV because 90% of the time it's just on in the background while I'm on the computer. Even then just the audio of the same commercial getting played over and over gets old. I've realized that a lot of these commercials get on my nerves without me even actually viewing them.

[rockyi]

The 4th of July must be coming up. I'm hearing what sounds like dynamite going off every few minutes.

[rockyi]

......Aaaaand President Obama is coming into town tomorrow so I'm guessing traffic patterns will be fucked for a few hours.


....OK, time for bed.

[Buckeye Native 001]

Lemme guess: He's visiting with workers at a John Deer plant?

[rockyi]

Nope, ALCOA. Our local unemployment rate has just dropped below 7% so he'll probably give his best "Yes we can" speech.


.....I'm still not in bed. Another night of insomnia ahead it seems.

[Lipani]

^ If you want I can post dozens of terrible Spanish music videos on your Facebook page to extend the nocturnal vigilance.

[LMich]

So, after a half-year moratorium on medical marijuana businesses in Lansing which is to expire Friday, the city council finally passed an ordinance regulating them after a contentious, hours-long council meeting that stretched into the early morning. Up until the moratorium, it was no holds barred. The "won't someone think of the children" church ladies won the night, being able to influence the council into placing a cap on the number of dispensaries (there are currently 48 in existence), dictating operating hours (7 AM to 11 PM), a distance requirement from schools, churches and other dispensaries (1,000 feet), a ban on the use of the product at the dispensaries, and the most contentious part, instead of a permanent grandfathering in of the existing business who would be out of compliance under this new ordinance (almost all of them), got them to pass only a year of grandfathering before they'd be forced to move, which doesn't even sound legal. The only thing those in favor of less regulation won was expanding the type zones where these would be allowed.

"Lansterdam"s Michigan "Mary Jane" Avenue has taken a hit. lol

[canadaonstrike]

To be honest, I like the distance from schools/churches law

[LMich]

The distance requirement is probably the one that bothers me the least, particularly in concerns to those establishments already close to each other. I mean, you start having them on the same block (which has happened) as they dilute the effect and purpose of their existence in the first place. I also don't mind too much a cap, since the market already kind of capped itself before the moratorium went into effect. My main problem is with the motivations of the opponents, many of who admitted to not voting for the MMMA in the first place, and were essentially trying to legislate and regulate it to death at the municipal level since they failed to stop it at the ballot.