Amish

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I have a coworker with one of those concrete underground houses. He wanted a round door for his entrance. Amish quoted him $16,000 for it. I do ok at work, but not !6,000 door ok.

All this amish talk is making me want to watch the movie kingpin again.

 

[homerj]

Is every Amish a great person? Of course not. Did the Amish community donate thousands of labor hours and hundreds of thousands $$$ to English communities in hurricane stricken areas of NC? Yep. A hell of a lot more than I did to help my fellow citizens.

 

[Telemark]

I’ll tell you one thing. I’m not concerned with Amish committing any terrorism.

ETA: To think it’s so acceptable to denigrate and insult Amish while taboo to do so for other more violent cultures in our midst is a shame.

I have no problem criticizing Islam, Mormonism, Scientology, fanatics of any sect, and so on. Freedom to criticize and discuss is essential to our right to think freely. It's a necessary part of solving problems we see in our society. Censorship is uncivilized.

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

Speaking of cults…shocking the state of Utah protects the Mormons in making sure the average hunter doesn’t get an opportunity to hunt Joseph Smiths game. Oh and also protecting their profit. Wouldn’t want Joe rogan and Cam haynes to have any competition for their social media elk

Utah wildlife officials secretly culled 170 elk from LDS Church ranch land - The Times-Independent

The meat from the culled elks — over 39,000 pounds — was donated to local food shelters, he added.

www.moabtimes.com

 

[Bearswamper]

My amish experiences. Dad would shop the local farmers market and bring home baked goods that were almost as good as my grammy's. Have lot's of friends who served in Viet Nam and almost every one will not purchase amish goods since they would not serve. Yes, they do pay taxes- I googled it. Couple years ago a huge gang (over 30) came to our area where we hunt. They decided to make a drive through one of our swamps. It had become so nasty we, ourselves, hadn't pushed it for years other than to track a wounded bear or two. Well these guys started around 10 am and we could still hear them yelling at 4 pm. No shooting was done, they were indeed lost. Funny thing is they never came back again to our area. You could tell when they showed up-always in crew cab construction trucks, and outfitted with the very best hunt duds Cabelas had to offer. I used to have a Cabelas card and used it to get free stuff with the "points". Talking with a Cabelas clerk one time , she stated my accumulated points was miniscule to what the Amish customers accrue. No amish in my immediate area, but most of the old timers do speak PA Dutch of which I can understand a "bissel".

 

[PatinPA]

My amish experiences. Dad would shop the local farmers market and bring home baked goods that were almost as good as my grammy's. Have lot's of friends who served in Viet Nam and almost every one will not purchase amish goods since they would not serve. Yes, they do pay taxes- I googled it. Couple years ago a huge gang (over 30) came to our area where we hunt. They decided to make a drive through one of our swamps. It had become so nasty we, ourselves, hadn't pushed it for years other than to track a wounded bear or two. Well these guys started around 10 am and we could still hear them yelling at 4 pm. No shooting was done, they were indeed lost. Funny thing is they never came back again to our area. You could tell when they showed up-always in crew cab construction trucks, and outfitted with the very best hunt duds Cabelas had to offer. I used to have a Cabelas card and used it to get free stuff with the "points". Talking with a Cabelas clerk one time , she stated my accumulated points was miniscule to what the Amish customers accrue. No amish in my immediate area, but most of the old timers do speak PA Dutch of which I can understand a "bissel".

I fully understand the swamp part. The only bear hunt I was ever a part of was at a private lake community in the Poconos. The last drive we made was through a nasty swamp. At one point I came to a dead end. The laurel was too high to climb over and I was standing in 2 feet of water so going under was out too. Had to backtrack and go laterally out of the drive. The drive was over by the time I got out. At one point in the middle of it, I just unloaded my gun. No way in hell am I dragging a bear out of this hellhole I thought. We had roughly 30 guys and saw 0 bear. I did see a fresh track on that drive but it got back through the drivers.

 

[Bearswamper]

I fully understand the swamp part. The only bear hunt I was ever a part of was at a private lake community in the Poconos. The last drive we made was through a nasty swamp. At one point I came to a dead end. The laurel was too high to climb over and I was standing in 2 feet of water so going under was out too. Had to backtrack and go laterally out of the drive. The drive was over by the time I got out. At one point in the middle of it, I just unloaded my gun. No way in hell am I dragging a bear out of this hellhole I thought. We had roughly 30 guys and saw 0 bear. I did see a fresh track on that drive but it got back through the drivers.

I learned to leave the gun at camp. Usually so thick you can't really tell where the adjacent drivers are. I am not good at pinpointing sound direction, and some swamps you are on your knees more than your feet.......and dragging one out of the middle of the swamp is something I swore never to do again.