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Re: Really Staten Island?????
« Reply #25 on: November 02, 2012, 11:09:20 AM »
Quote from: Gina on November 02, 2012, 11:03:46 AM
I heard yesterday also that in NJ and OR that you can't pump your own gas, that an attendant has to do it and that is slowing things up alot .  Is that true?

Having lived in Burlington County, NJ, for several years, yes, it's true.  It's one of the two states I know of that have such a law, 'To protect jobs.'  It wouldn't really slow things up particularly, though, that's more an electric power and fuel supply issue.
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Re: Really Staten Island?????
« Reply #26 on: November 02, 2012, 11:11:00 AM »
Quote from: wasp69 on November 02, 2012, 10:09:46 AM
Why does obama hate white people?   :fuelfire:

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Re: Really Staten Island?????
« Reply #27 on: November 02, 2012, 11:11:12 AM »
Quote from: Gina on November 02, 2012, 11:03:46 AM
I heard yesterday also that in NJ and OR that you can't pump your own gas, that an attendant has to do it and that is slowing things up alot .  Is that true?

I like not pumping gas!
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Re: Really Staten Island?????
« Reply #28 on: November 02, 2012, 11:13:36 AM »
I can't imagine handing my bank or credit card over to some minimum-wage no-speakee-English immigrant just off the boat just for gas.  Sounds like a great way to get ripped off.
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Re: Really Staten Island?????
« Reply #29 on: November 02, 2012, 11:18:28 AM »
Quote from: Chris_ on November 02, 2012, 11:13:36 AM
I can't imagine handing my bank or credit card over to some minimum-wage no-speakee-English immigrant just off the boat just for gas.  Sounds like a great way to get ripped off.
We did that for many years and never heard of a problem. Then after the big price jump in the 70s, when gas approached forty cents a gallon, stations started offering a nickel or so discount if you pumped your own.

Of course, in the 70s, gas station employees were still English-speaking Americans.
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Re: Really Staten Island?????
« Reply #30 on: November 02, 2012, 11:19:36 AM »
Quote from: Chris_ on November 02, 2012, 11:13:36 AM
I can't imagine handing my bank or credit card over to some minimum-wage no-speakee-English immigrant just off the boat just for gas.  Sounds like a great way to get ripped off.

I pay cash AND I don't have to get out of my warm (or cool) car.  It's a winner for me -- the only downside . . . no gas station bouncies!
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Re: Really Staten Island?????
« Reply #31 on: November 02, 2012, 11:23:32 AM »
Quote from: njpines on November 02, 2012, 11:19:36 AM
I pay cash AND I don't have to get out of my warm (or cool) car.  It's a winner for me -- the only downside . . . no gas station bouncies!
I don't carry cash any more.  I have no reason to.
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Re: Really Staten Island?????
« Reply #32 on: November 02, 2012, 11:23:59 AM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on November 02, 2012, 11:18:28 AM
We did that for many years and never heard of a problem. Then after the big price jump in the 70s, when gas approached forty cents a gallon, stations started offering a nickel or so discount if you pumped your own.

Of course, in the 70s, gas station employees were still English-speaking Americans.

If I use a credit card, I go to Wawa where the above is still true.
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Re: Really Staten Island?????
« Reply #33 on: November 02, 2012, 11:25:37 AM »
Quote from: Chris_ on November 02, 2012, 11:23:32 AM
I don't carry cash any more.  I have no reason to.

Most stations (other than Wawa) charge 5 or 6 cents more a gallon if you use a credit card -- that's why I use cash.
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Re: Really Staten Island?????
« Reply #34 on: November 02, 2012, 11:26:38 AM »
I rarely see that any more.  Everywhere I go, it's the same price.
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Re: Really Staten Island?????
« Reply #35 on: November 02, 2012, 11:30:08 AM »
Quote from: Chris_ on November 02, 2012, 11:26:38 AM
I rarely see that any more.  Everywhere I go, it's the same price.

They usually stop doing it when the price gets under $3 a gallon.
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Re: Really Staten Island?????
« Reply #36 on: November 02, 2012, 11:35:04 AM »
Quote from: njpines on November 02, 2012, 11:11:12 AM
I like not pumping gas!

Oh I do, you grab that hose and shove it into the tank.  So gratifying watching it fill your tank up.
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Re: Really Staten Island?????
« Reply #37 on: November 02, 2012, 11:37:37 AM »
Quote from: Gina on November 02, 2012, 11:35:04 AM
Oh I do, you grab that hose and shove it into the tank.  So gratifying watching it fill your tank up.

Stop it!   :asssmack:
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Re: Really Staten Island?????
« Reply #38 on: November 02, 2012, 11:37:48 AM »
Quote from: ScubaGuy on November 02, 2012, 09:59:43 AM
This one is priceless!

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The thread goes on and on like that

Pulled that from a Conservative web site?  :rofl:
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Re: Really Staten Island?????
« Reply #39 on: November 02, 2012, 11:38:12 AM »
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Re: Really Staten Island?????
« Reply #40 on: November 02, 2012, 11:41:30 AM »
Quote from: Gina on November 02, 2012, 10:29:34 AM
did they say the same thing about the Katrina people?  :???:

nooooooo.........

Perish the thought!

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Re: Really Staten Island?????
« Reply #41 on: November 02, 2012, 11:45:45 AM »
Quote from: Gina on November 02, 2012, 11:03:46 AM
I heard yesterday also that in NJ and OR that you can't pump your own gas, that an attendant has to do it and that is slowing things up alot .  Is that true?

Yes that's true.
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Re: Really Staten Island?????
« Reply #42 on: November 02, 2012, 11:48:19 AM »
Gina you look gorgeous in your avatar pic.
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Re: Really Staten Island?????
« Reply #43 on: November 02, 2012, 11:55:15 AM »
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31. they might be some hired teabaggers to moan before the cameras

about how awful Obama is handling this situation.

And of course the CNNs will lap it up and report it that way.

Damnit!....the 321st Tea Party Psyops Detachment has been found out.  You are hereby ordered to whine and moan with increased intensity.  You'll blend right in.  Carry on.

CNN?  Wait,....no.... FOX, right?  C'mon idiots, keep the program straight will ya?  It's getting very hard to follow your precise, laser-like logic.
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Re: Really Staten Island?????
« Reply #44 on: November 02, 2012, 12:01:40 PM »
Quote from: Gina on November 02, 2012, 10:29:34 AM
did they say the same thing about the Katrina people?  :???:

No, that would have been racist.
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Re: Really Staten Island?????
« Reply #45 on: November 02, 2012, 12:24:45 PM »
Quote from: Ballygrl on November 02, 2012, 11:48:19 AM
Gina you look gorgeous in your avatar pic.

I agree!! Great picture, Gina!
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Re: Really Staten Island?????
« Reply #46 on: November 02, 2012, 12:29:05 PM »
Carl and BSS, I'll pick you guys up on my way through to our gig.  That way, we'll have 3 people if we need to get into the city.  As arranged, we each get $5,000 to stage a skit of misery and deprivation.  Make sure the camera gets your good side!  Smear mud on your faces and wear tattered clothes.  We'll be a hit! 
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Re: Really Staten Island?????
« Reply #47 on: November 02, 2012, 01:59:00 PM »
Quote from: Gina on November 02, 2012, 11:35:04 AM
Oh I do, you grab that hose and shove it into the tank.  So gratifying watching it fill your tank up.


This.     :yahoo:
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Re: Really Staten Island?????
« Reply #48 on: November 02, 2012, 02:02:14 PM »
Quote from: Ballygrl on November 02, 2012, 11:48:19 AM
Gina you look gorgeous in your avatar pic.

thanks!  I had that not so fresh feeling and needed to update myself.  The other one looked like I was sniffing my armpit. Maybe I'll change it up more often so I don't get all dated.   :-)
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Re: Really Staten Island?????
« Reply #49 on: November 02, 2012, 02:17:56 PM »
Quote from: Chris_ on November 02, 2012, 10:01:42 AM
Katrina who?

Katrina and the Waves  :whistling:
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