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While I would love to have a thriving beer garden or concert venue in conjunction with the golf course, I have no doubt in my mind that the city is not capable of executing this. The only thing they are capable of doing is spending money.

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Corey Wilson, BREC's former, extremely underqualified superintendent LINK scoffed at the idea of an outdoor venue in Baton Rouge when they put in the Knock Knock. They could have saved a crap ton of money doing both of those at the same time on top of the large hill.

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Except Catholic Church. If then, you're screwed.

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Yea, catholic church doesn't offer many places to meet someone. It's just go to church and leave. Also, it seems full of families.

I have had people tell me that Catholic singles app is like old school tinder with hookups but I have never tried it.

There's some seriously good advice in this chat. I'd like to add some of my lessons as well:

1. Let someone, usually single women, look at your profile and get their honest input. No point in wasting time fishing with shitty bait. You'll eventually learn the pros/cons of making a decent profile. I can't tell you how many dudes that bitch about not getting any good matches have the worst profiles that may not show their face or hair (if they have any) or only have selfies inside their car. Decent pics of different styles - for example, one after a 5k; one in a suit before a wedding; one on a boat (don't include the fish in the pic... it's a turnoff to girls for some reason); and one out with a group of friends -- work best.

2. FB dating is free and trying undercut the others. It's okay. Hinge is the best across the board in Louisiana probably. I haven't used Bumble in a while. Tinder can be more fun in bigger cities/tourist towns. As other posters have said, mix them up from time to time -- paying for the apps let's you see who liked you but there's no use paying for all of them at the same time.

3. Also, as other posters have said, I avoid full dinners for the first date -- drinks with appetizers usually works great and cuts the cost down (even that isn't cheap.) That said - if the chick is hot enough or I'm in the mood for a decent dinner, I'll break that rule.

4. Every date's first question will be: "So how long have you been single?" or "When did you get divorced?" .. and as you heal you'll likely start asking them that. It's the easiest indicator someone is going to have a lot of baggage or maybe drama with the ex or need help with the emotions of the process. It's not a big deal but have an answer ready. After a few drinks, they'll ask why you are getting divorced.

5. Try to enjoy the process. Enjoy a new first date experience. Some will go great. Some you'll kick yourself for screwing up by talking about your ex too much etc. Don't focus too much on the bad ones.

6. You can be honest about what you want. I know many women that have hooked up with dudes that just said I'm too fresh to be dating serious and want something more fun right now.

7. Don't sit at home and message on them all the time. It will feel like a 2nd full time job. The best approach is a combo approach where you join clubs/volunteering and add some online dates. You'll get back into it with the dates so you're ready when/if you meet someone in person.

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I can take her back to court on that in due time. I don’t think I have the time available to successfully have 50-50. Work keeps me busy.

The longer this goes on, the less of an argument you're gonna have for more custody

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I agree with this post. Now is the time to act. Cut back on work some if you can or rearrange your schedule.

As a bonus, the child custody payments will be reworked to account for a more equitable time arrangement.

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Motorcycles because the latest gen doesn’t know what a clutch is.

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And everyone is playing on their phone and the roads are shite. I couldn't image trying to ride one around the streets of baton rouge

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None of that is evidence. All of the evidence points to Lee Harvey Oswald being the lone assassin.

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The Allen Dulles theory doesn't rule this out as an option. As you know, Oswald had connections to the agency and Dulles had discussed using easily manipulated people to conduct similar missions in the past.

They haven't said drugs were involved yet. It really is ridiculous that nothing has been said or done yet on this.

“Jenni Peters, who lives on the course, says she thinks the space would be better as a park, with amenities like an amphitheater, kayak rental, and arboretum. She also wants to make the golf course a par 3 “pitch and putt” where part of the existing course can still be preserved to the northeast corner.

“You take a look on a sunny warm day and think if this was a park, all the people that would have the opportunity to utilize it, and right now there’s nobody really playing golf,” Peters says. “The par 3 concept is lit and very appealing to young people, so I think we could still preserve an aspect of the historic golf course.” LINK

I'm not even sure what she means "is lit"... God forbid this city have one last uninterrupted green space left -- a well used golf course in the heart of the city. Her idea sounds absolutely AWFUL and ruins the playability of the course, which will reduce the usage until she can put up her stupid coffee shop idea.

Why not stack some of that lake mud up and put her coffee shop in front of the Lod Cook? Lod already has the food services capacities to run a little water front cafe.

The times I've met him Baton Rouge Transportation and Drainage Director Fred Raiford always been very nice, but it is odd that there never been a mixup at the top in Baton Rouge. Some fresh ideas could help.

More importantly --- why the hell are those two vital jobs that Baton Rouge struggles combined under one job?!

Drainage director should be pushing for permeable parking lots on new constructions or watching the water retention/diversion for Burbank closely. (There's no doubt that's going to cause flooding when the build those houses).

Transportation needs figure out why everyone has to sit at a red light when there's no one coming or waiting on the cross street. Didn't we pay a ton for smart lights? Why does Longhorn need a full 2 minutes on Stanford on the weekend?

He seemingly been in charge for as long as I've been in Baton Rouge. Again, seems like a pretty good guy but everything could benefit from some new ideas.

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Then it is possible he truly was just taking out the trash

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He was shot 11pm Wed and found thur morning. Trash pickup in that area is a full day later. However, he could have just been bringing a bag to the can when the car pulled up.

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Cities develop and rezone all the time to accommodate the changing nature of the area and/or new priorities/learned lessons Because something was originally zoned one thing back when Clinton was president, the city can't change course prior to development? Can't learn from the shitty city planning that everyone curses every rush hour or a missive city wide flood in 2016?


Then why did every other plot of land with the same designation as this one get a higher grade/zone?

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I'd need to see the zoning map, but I think they'd be arguing that the re-zoning was arbitrary and capricious or vindictive instead of the legitimacy of St. George - if the easier argument was there. My guess is that were zone differently based on the different characteristics of the properties.