The Dysfunctional-Palooza Obnoxious Masshole BS Thread

[smurfjuice]

Bless his heart demmit ...

 

[paulthenurse]

Paulies been in Key Largo since Tuesday. Spawn #2 says the power is back on so I guess we’ll come home tomorrow as scheduled.

Dammit.

 

[Melana]

F!ck you Paul. Storm damage sucks.

 

[Cape Brewing]

... and here I am thinking the high tides were storm related.

#DisplacementsABtich.

 

[paulthenurse]

Watch yourself Buttwad. That’s SWMBO lounging on the anchor.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Oh, I guess chivalry ain't dead.

 

[HoppyDaze]

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Paulies been in Key Largo since Tuesday. Spawn #2 says the power is back on so I guess we’ll come home tomorrow as scheduled.

Dammit.

Diving out of John Pennekamp State Park?

 

[Cape Brewing]

Who said I was talking about that picture?? I was simply referring to you going diving.

 

[HoppyDaze]

Nice try

 

[paulthenurse]

Diving out of John Pennekamp State Park?

I’m not sure where Pennekamp’s boundaries actually are. Most of the reefs, Molasses, French, The Elbow, etc. are protected waters so I assume they are included in the park but don’t really know. But yes, that general area. I wanted to go down to Key West for a day to dive the Vandenberg but all the boats down there do it as a morning trip, meaning we’d need to get up at 4:30 to get there on time. Not what I (or more to the point SWMBO) wanted to do on vacation. Some other time.

 

[HoppyDaze]

Yeah that’s a bomb of a drive if you don’t plan to spend the entire day down there, and even if you do. I may have seen a nicer sunset in my life but I don’t remember when.

Lots of hurricane damage or is it pretty much cleaned up?

 

[paulthenurse]

The reefs are totally changed. Most are 10-20 foot deeper. All the sand from decades of parrot fish crapping coral is gone, filling up pools on shore. Totally new dives. Unrecognizable in some instances. New wreck debris everywhere. We found some bronze nails barely covered with sand. Of course, we left them there as policy dictates.

Coral heads now have huge swim throughs at their bases and huge fields of broken off corals lying at their bases that were previously covered with decades of sand. They’ll all fill in in a few years but it’s a stark reminder of what little impact man really has on these reefs compared to a really good storm.
The corals are making a HUGE comeback. New soft corals sprouting up everywhere and the hard corals rose out the storm quite well.

Fish populations undisturbed as far as I could tell. Maybe even thriving. Only thing I never saw, and I looked hard, was a single Flamingo Tongue. God knows I looked, couldn’t find one.

 

[paulthenurse]

As far as on land goes...
You’re talking about an area where soap and water is strictly optional if your house costs less that one million bucks. Who can tell. The trailer parks down Islamorada way are washed away. Too bad. Where do the local neer-do-wells live now?

 

[paulthenurse]

I may be a little bitter. I was stationed in Key West in the Coast Guard back in 1979. A guy on the ship was getting transferred to Cleveland. He offered me his cottage for $5,000. I made $182.15 every two weeks. I was 19. $5,000.00 was a princely sum that I could never afford. I declined.

About fifteen years ago Al and I drove down there when a storm blew out the days diving. We drove by that cottage. It was for sale, under agreement for 4.5 million bucks.

Alice drove us home to Key Largo that night. I was seriously addled and unfit to drive.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Was the guy on that ship named Columbus?

 

[paulthenurse]

Just did some envelope scratching. That cottage cost just slightly more than a years salary. I was single, lived on the ship, ate on the ship, sh!t on the ship, shaved on the ship, and worked on the ship. My only expense was my Bronco, at home in Boston, that my brother drove. The only thing I needed to buy was booze. It was 1979, you didn’t even need to buy rubbers unless you were insanely over concerned about knocking up some tender young co-ed spring breaker from Wisconsin who wasn’t on birth control. There were no STD’s back then. Granted, I drank a ton of booze and got more ass than a toilet seat but...

I think I’m going to drink too much tonight and ruminate.

 

[paulthenurse]

Was the guy on that ship named Columbus?

GFY.

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[TheDudeLebowski]

Happy Birthday Paulie [emoji1]

 

[paulthenurse]

Thanks. Fortieth anniversary of my 19th birthday.

 

[day_trippr]

Looks like Central Mass came in a solid second to the Berkshires on this dump, I just spent four hours moving tons of 18" deep cement and I'm gassed.
Days like this I'm thinking moving to an Out Island in the Bahamas makes a lot of sense

 

[Cape Brewing]

We lucked out this time... only a couple inches fell here. Luckily it was just heavy enough to knock the effin power out in the whole freakin’ town again. Back up already but generators for 12 hours is still a pain

 

[bluemoose]

We were lucky, only 18” here. Some spots with over 3 feet. More Monday?

 

[the_bird]

We had about 18" overnight, plus the 12" from yesterday. Light and fluffy, though, so it's now down to maybe 18".

 

[HoppyDaze]

Ahhh

 

[paulthenurse]

What are you, the Spawn of Soper?

 

[Cape Brewing]

That’s shtty ski weather

 

[smurfjuice]

Generators at the bog Cape??

 

[the_bird]

Only because they didn't pay the electric bill. But they'll have the cash next week - promise!

 

[HoppyDaze]

That’s shtty ski weather

The mountain just got two feet of snow

 

[paulthenurse]

The mountain just got two feet of snow

Gunstock just doubled in height.