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Thetexashammer

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  1. Incorrect. That is a very high quality selction. I've had most of those. I could buy that Talisker in Poland for around $25, it was my go to. The Balvenie is fantastic, as is the Dalmore.
  2. OK I have a story to tell. It is time to come clean. This is a from a few years ago, but I am only now beginning to heal the emotional scars. So I do a loop around Dallas on my bike. It's maybe 40 miles. I am on a road bike, Spandexed out, I have to take some actual surface streets in addition to bike paths, including Hillcrest north of Highway 12. I go through White Rock Lake, down to the AAC, and then up the Katy Trail and past SMU. The last bit is the relevant part. Highland park is residential, mostly. So I am going north on Hillcrest past SMU, having a grand old time. Feeling great. And I feel and hear The Gurgle. Pressure. I know there are only private homes. Rich people who do NOT want to talk to me. My gut told me I was fighting a lost cause. Fecal urgency soon turned into a lack of fecal urgency. And that's when I discovered how lucky I was. Now the key here is my outfit. I have boxer briefs, of the polyester variety. On top of that, spandex. Two layers. It formed a container of sorts. If you can imagine. Biker shorts are tight on the legs, so the don't slide while riding. All black, so I'm good there. After proceeding a bit, I was confident that I was watertight. Had to be at least a liter of fluid like substance back there. This of course created a small difficulty, in that there is a seat on the bike. I could not imagine that squishy feeling of sitting on it. Worried I might lose containment, I refused to sit , I stood on the pedals the whole way home. Like the rape scene in 300, I did not enjoy it, and it was not over quickly. I had like five miles to go with a couple major intersections. The piece de resistance of the entire glorious event was the shower scene. You really haven't lived until you enter a room with a liter of poop in your undies. After rushing past others so they would hopefully not find out what happened (I did not make eye contact), I walked fully clothed into the shower. It was fairly emotional. I do not like poop, it makes me dry heave. But there was waffle stomping that day, believe me. It was like something out of The Shining. The shower was of the straight down sort, so the pieces got all spread out and I had to really focus on getting all the stray bits. There wasn't merely a crime, there was also the coverup. Something like that really changes your perspective on things. I have other stories that shall not be told.
  3. Colorado has lost 16 players to the portal in this part of the cycle alone.
  4. Applebee's ain't the greatest restaurant in the world but if my waiter acted like you I'd fucking slap them upside their head.
  5. Even if you are correct, this is totally unprofessional.
  6. I'm tapping out bro. You are a nightmare. You know some human beings are pleasant to deal with and can hold a conversation without being offensive. You are not that. I think if you understood your customer acquisition model you would have said it. I think if you had a rational basis for excluding 50% of your potential customers, you would have said it.
  7. Hitler was a vegetarian. I am not saying that all vegetarians love Hitler. I am merely saying they want EXACTLY the same things, and boy that is a really weird coincidence wink wink. The "D" is TDS stands for deranged.
  8. I've already described the value proposition that this website offers. Well, it did in the past. Your understanding of that value proposition is different it appears.
  9. You don't understand your business model at all. Good luck.
  10. I've been looking at LAC as a lottery ticket. They raised new money today. Based on the shares issued, their overall valuation is basically unchanged.
  11. It's half or more of the potential market for users. This isn't hard.
  12. Medina lake history. I absolutely love that part of Texas. We used to go out there riding the Three Sisters.
  13. I cannot compete with anyone here vis a vis their love of wine. I've more or less moved to whisky, mainly because I can put the top back on the drink it again a month later. That said, I am a gentleman and will always have a bottle of champagne in my fridge. A couple of years ago when I was living in Stuttgart, I was able to attend the Salon des Vins des Vignerons Indépendants Strasbourg. I don't know if anyone has been t one of these, so I will tell the story. https://www.tradefairdates.com/Salon+des+Vins+des+Vignerons+Indépendants-M13982/Strasbourg.html Basically, it's all the smaller winemakers. Tons of champagne for example, I took home a case. Not the big names, I've been to Reims-Epernay, they weren't there. I also bought some a couple cognacs, which were amazing. All were around $20 per bottle or less. So when you walk in, you pay like $5 and they give you a glass. Some pro types had a lanyard to hold the glass. There was probably 500 booths for wine, maybe more. An entire large convention center filled to the brim. People were buying everything by the case. So you wander around getting free samples until you find what you like. Then you get a couple cases. So you would get a hand truck (for free) and fill it up. Then you go over to the temporary storage area, and drop off your goodies. When you are ready to leave, there is a special loading lane. So you drive over, grab your purchases and a hand truck, and load up your car. People were literally filling up their cars, they must have a bought a years supply. All in all, it was a completely amazing experience. They do similar shows across France. I didn't need to ship anything back to the US as I was living there. Has anyone ever been to one of these?
  14. Last time I looked, the VA removed maximum limits on its loans. They had been around $450k. I am still having trouble believeing I can do a million dollar VA loan, but holy shit if I can it's gonna be awesome.
  15. His accent in that commercial is absolutely terrible.
  16. I think they are going to have to cut rates massively to avoid out of control deficits. To be fair, this is what I am hoping for anyway. When this happens, I want to get massively long on some personal real estate. It will be the last time we see low cost mortgages, and just like the inflation from the 1980's, if you held on to your home the mortgage cost inflated away and the home value (driven by nominal wages) just kept going up.
  17. Leg thigh combos are for the poors. It's impossible to cook the legs and the thighs correctly at the same time. That said, I really miss Houston.
  18. Can we start calling Parker Livingstone "White Lightning"? Because that would be hilarious.
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