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  1. 1 hour ago, Dahobbs said:

    Dude, you're the one making a mountain out of a molehill. Why are you so worked up about such a benign phrase? Also, I can't for the life of me figure out how straight up bribery isn't cuddling up to SA, but whatever, it doesn't matter. See my post above. 

    As to Biden, he was asking for more oil production from SA to bring down US oil prices. It wasn't really about helping Ukraine or hurting Russia, although I guess it would make it somewhat easier for us to help Ukraine. Really though, it was really more about helping the Democrat's chances in the mid-terms. 

     

    Cabal 101, make snide remarks, twist words of other posters.

    try and make like it wasn't a big deal. 

    Your leg humping is getting Boring

  2. 24 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    Lol you said we should send over Ferraris and lambos to sweeten the deal. 

    Unless in your world, that's leaning on them?

     

    I said send  em cars zero dark thirty style that’s not cuddling up, that’s straight up bribery.

    I’ll take that route if it stops Putins war machine. 

    you can hump the other leg

     

    The surly cabal at its best, start fights with anyone you even slightly disagree with , and if you don’t have facts invent them or twist the narrative  or play obtuse/dumb (maybe your best trait ).

    Oh and our current sitting president Joe Biden is trying anything he can do to get Saudi Arabia open up the Spigots to increase their production and I can guarantee you he will give them pretty much anything they want within His Power to get them to do it

     

    You boys should go out and protest the use of the letter Z in defiance  of Putins invasion 

  3. 18 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    You said we should cuddle up with SA to get increased production. I don't know what else you call that. Again, it doesn't matter because, at least as far as Russia and Ukraine goes, SA is irrelevant. They don't export gas. And even if they did, Germany isn't setup to receive it (and, again, we'd be better off be the supplier if that were an option). 

    It seems like you're intent on having something done, even if that something doesn't actually benefit us, Ukraine, or Europe and doesn't hurt Russia in the slightest. That seems weird to me. 

    No I didn’t I said Biden needs to lean on SA to increase production go hump somebody else’s leg

  4. 8 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    Saudi Arabia is a relatively minor oil player for Germany. And the thing they really need is gas, which Saudi Arabia doesn't export. I don't see how increased SA production is really going to move the needle as the infrastructure isn't even there to get what is needed to Europe. If we are talking long-term, then getting LNG facilities in Germany is much better play because then we can be the supplier. 

    Maybe I'm wrong, I don't claim to be an expert. But getting further in bed with SA doesn't seem to solve anything and just creates more problems. 

    Getting further in to bed with them ?  I was just talking increased production (which the Biden admin. has been trying to get them to do), even if it just helps us.  Lots of people here are affected by $70 fill ups. It's more of a pain in the ass for some people (most posters here I'm guessing), but it does affect lots of peoples monthly budgets.

  5. 2 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    my next car is definitely going to be electric, and I'd much prefer my city to have better public infrastructure so I didn't have to drive everywhere.

    But no you're right, we shouldn't ever worry about who or what our money is actually going to with our day-to-day purchasing decisions. Just be good little consumers and continue to consume so MBS can bribe give Jared Kushner another $2,000,000,000

    Oy vey.....

  6. 3 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    and besides, what's a few murdered and dismembered journalists between friends amirite??

    Yeah make sure you park your car immediately, and don't drive it in protest....

  7. 4 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    I don't think Saudi oil is going to have much of an effect on Russia. Their primary markets aren't really the same. Besides, I don't really want us giving even more leeway to SA. 

    That topic was discussed this AM on NPR, and the folks discussing it were making the case for more Saudi production as Germany considers sanctions of oil, and gas from Russia.

    I'd rather give leeway to SA than funding Putins war machine. Lesser of 2 weevils. 

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  8. The US needs to lean uber hard on OPEC to get them to turn the spigot up on supply, and choke off Putin once and for all.  SA doesn't have the warm and fuzzies for the US Currently so Mr. Biden needs to get somebody over there, and pass out a shit load of new Lambo's, Ferarris, and any other luxury piece of shit car we can (ala Zero Dark Thirty) to sweeten the deal. 

    No new oil income will hurt him the most, and should bleed him out quickly.

  9. On 4/25/2022 at 2:50 PM, 4th&Five said:

    Looks like we'll have a 24 hour layover in Frankfurt in July.  What are the highlights?

    If you have 24 hours in Frankfurt you're at the train station when your plane lands, so getting anywhere 2-4 hours away is relatively easy.

    Rothenburg 2-3 hours to the south is my favorite German city. Do a googlez search, and you'll get better flavor than I can supply......... with pictures no less.

  10. On 4/16/2022 at 1:19 PM, RPM said:

    Serious question here. What do you think of a guy that brags "I went to film school" but doesn't know who Errol Flynn is?

    I think they’re gonna graduate in the bottom of their class.

  11. 1 hour ago, Scooter Monzingo said:

    Bullshit. Flynn made multiple movies with Michael Curtiz. Both Robin Hood and Charge of the light brigade would have been covered in any filmmaking curriculum. Therefore one should at the very least know Flynn’s name.

    I'm not sure how one goes thru film school, and doesn't know who actors are from past, and present. If you're interested in a particular field of study I'd think you'd immerse yourself in all aspects of it, not just the technical aspects, or from one side of the camera.  

    To say you go to film school, and don't know who actors are, as you look at films, and study directors, and how a film was shot, and why, and WHO was in it seems odd. History by it's definition is a study of the past, and how does one study film without discussing the very objects of the camera lens.

    For that matter I didn't go to film school, or watch silent films, but I know who the stars of that era were, and they were all dead and buried before I was even born. Any successful or intelligent student of the history of film is going to know who most if not who all actors, and directors were, and why they were important in their era (Flynn is about as iconic an actor as there's ever been).

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  12. 56 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:


    It is a cottonmouth. Has the typical black streak behind its eyes. Definitely interesting pattern. Almost broadbanded watersnake like.

    Not a pretty snek.

  13. 16 minutes ago, UT_OB1 said:

    Was doing work at a house in the middle of nowhere that we are trying to fix up and rent. Surrounded on 2 sides by woods, and the grass has gotten a bit high as we’ve been more focused on the house. Was packing up and heard something flipping around behind me. I was standing about 2 fee from this.  I think we were both pretty startled. 
     

    copperhead, right?

     

     

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    Oh hell no, that's a black cottonmouth mamba.  Looks way too dark to be a copperhead (unless they run that way in Texas), and that head doesn't look very copperheady.

  14. 7 minutes ago, RPM said:

    LPS & NCFOM are both snapshots of time in Texas. You can shoehorn Lone Star inbetween.

    And you have to look at a film in the era when it was made.  There are lots of great old flicks I dig that don't have the production quality, acting style, or more natural/ real dialog, etc. They're still great flicks.   

  15. 1 minute ago, TexArcher said:

    I'll never forget the sound of Nolan's fastball hitting the mitt in the Dome.

    Everybody else's was a thump.  His was a thwack.

    Yeah it's always amazing when you hear that sound. I remember a kid we had on our team in pony league ball. His pitches made that kind of sound. We had a kid on our HS team who made those same kinds of sounds.  It was kinda scary knowing you had to get in a box against that on a daily basis sometimes.

  16. 4 minutes ago, immamac said:

    Uh dude the leaders of communist countries are the wealthiest people on earth. So yeah. They know how success rates are 100% for that. 

    And that's relevant only if the wannabe communist plans on being a leader of a communist country.  Otherwise he's just another cog in their poorly designed wheel, and those so called communist countries they're not really communist, they're just mafia orgs.  

    The true success rate, based on a per capita ratio would be .000000000000000000000000001%/2

  17. 9 hours ago, Bernard said:

    I disagree. There are foolish buyers out there, but disqualifying a house for aluminum wiring is like disqualifying a house because the AC units or the roof are too old. I completely rewired a five bedroom home in 2019 for less than the cost of two AC units; easily less than a typical roof. The cost of repairing or replacing aluminum wiring is rarely a deal killer. Most rational home buyers can be talked off the ledge in 10 minutes.

    Bernard

    STFU, and stop making sense, this site has nothing to do with sense, common or otherwise.

  18. 3 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    Lol Ukraine's entire navy was like two frigates, none of their vessels have participated in hostilities.

    But they've sunk a number of Russian vessels despite that.

    Also, tell your tankie friend to stop supporting genocide

    How many in addition to the Moskva have they sunk ?  And who the fuck in their right mind can be a Communist knowing what we know about the success rate of communist countries ??

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