BTW volunteer firefighters get massive amounts of respect from me. Just because I think that most professional firefighters are overpaid doesn’t mean I think they shouldn’t be paid at all, and yet here are dudes exposing themselves to roughly the same amount of danger for free.

In case you are not trolling, please note all the replies correcting your misunderstanding also applies to black bears and other animals capable of attacking humans once they associate humans with food.

Yes, hero worship, like like Soldiers. They get paid, they get pensions, and they off when they almost kill motorcyclsits while drunk.

It’s an unpopular opinion, but it’s mostly true. Firefighters (municipal, not wildfire) have a very cushy job with excellent pay and benefits, and it isn’t nearly dangerous as many people think it is. In fairness, though, they all get weird cancers, so...

This is the kind of frat house shit I’m talking about. See also the ethnic/racial discrimination lawsuits that have been filed against nearly every big city fire department.

You would be incorrect with your assumption. Alligators in the wild are pretty docile. They don’t normally associate people with food unless someone starts feeding them, because we are larger than their normal prey...but little kids aren’t. Gators eat dogs a lot and a 2yo isn’t much bigger than a medium-sized dog.…

I live in the Inland Empire, I’m well aware of this.

There are gators in Florida, even in Disney World. Why is this suddenly news to everyone? What happened to the boy was tragic but Disney has no more control over Florida’s wild animals than they do over Florida’s weather. There is no controlled dome over Disney World sorry to burst people’s bubble.

Firefighters often aren’t the brightest dudes. They’re kind of the gimps of public service: really great when you need them, but should go back in the box after you’re done with them.

“I made this and it was delicious! Only my hubby doesn’t like avocado, and my kids don’t like bread, so I subbed the avocado for peanut butter and the bread for Saltines, and it was amazing!”

WHY ARE YOU AXING ME THAT QUESTION!

AVOCADOS DO NOT GROW IN MY LINCOLN LOG CABIN SUSAN!!!

I decided to choose a “set it and forget it” investing strategy, since I was intimidated by that part of money. I went with Betterment which has low cost index funds. Vanguard and a few others are good as well.

No?

Fuck off. Stop stating facts!

I don’t think you said a single accurate thing in that entire post.

Everyone’s aware that this league is subsidized by MLS, right?

Only the national teamers.

The laws of the game require grass or turf. Safety is probably one reason but the pitch isn’t supposed to affect the game like it would if part of it were dirt. The ball’s supposed to be affected uniformly by the length of the grass, etc.

Only thing smaller than that pitch is the respect for women’s pro sports in general in this country. You can fucking bet that there’d be a negative 400% chance that even a MLS team would be subjected to this.