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  1. And by the way, there are a LOT of people out here mad the bullies didn’t get kicked off the team. Hell, leave the peanuts in his shoes and it’s attempted fucking murder, negligent homicide a possible realistic conviction had he died. There are a TON of families that despise the football first and only attitude. I mean shit they have stupid priorities and still can’t beat Westlake.
  2. There’s a shit ton of real but new money out here now too. The remote work revolution changed a lot and there are legit mid sized company CEOs, private equity / VC types, investment bankers etc that live here now too. It’s a very odd mix of rough hollow real housewives kinda shit, (keep up with the jones types), lake rats, Lakeway olds, 17 lgbtq families, and obscene money. We try to just opt out, and enjoy the recreation.
  3. It’s extreme I get it, but there are thousands out here for the lake not the bullshit. I’m just trying to balance out the discussion to highlight the appeal that Austin does not have. Exception - Tarrytown / Westwood / westlake by lake Austin, etc have a similar vibe and a similar bullshit culture with some variation for politics and city vs burb vibes. Lakeway / Bee Cave / LTISD blow donkey balls unless you’re here for the lake, boating, golfing or flying airplanes (small private airstrip). It was a retirement community for a long time for a reason. If the recreational aspects not your reason for being out here you’re suspect imo.
  4. I honestly couldn’t stay but for the proximity and access to the actual lake. And I can’t figure out the appeal if not the water. But anyway, we have almost zero friends out here. Not our people. My kids are lake Travis band kids, at least one coulda been in athletics past 8th grade, it was easy to side step the athletic toxic garbage. We stopped trying to compete athletically with any intensity by the 5th grade. My youngest did decide he likes tennis and playing one season competitively for his school was more than enough for him. He still plays for fun but the athletic culture out here is not something that my sons care for. My other son surfs sails and mountain/road bikes so we aren’t lacking physical activity. So if you steer your kids from it that toxic world fades away pretty fast. Add being out here for the lake changes everything at least for us. I just won’t trade easy unplanned boat nights or these views for Austin bullshit.
  5. I’ve had clients (not because of the pool) that suffered this - awful. Most insurers have already paid out their limits.
  6. Rain can be super sexy. My best friend got married in the rain. It was gorgeous.
  7. The 8 foot sailfish I caught? The first jack I caught that took 45 mins to land (I was a teenager)? Tuna screaming with the line, marlin jumping (didn’t land)? More dorado and wahoo than I can count, multiple limits caught in half day trips - reds / trout, trophy trout and trophy reds, I mean I could go on and on, all on conventional tackle all take a back seat. Sorry, I get you like what you like, but the skill and effort catching on a fly especially with barbless hooks is next level. You should try it will rock your world.
  8. To each his own. My top 5-10 fishing experiences are all on a fly rod. 11-15 probably conventional off shore but give me another 5 years and those will drop further, after that it’s back to the fly rod. And I’ve barely scratched the surface. No permit, caught but haven’t landed 12-14 pound bonefish you have not heard a reel scream until you’ve seen a large bone take off, caught but haven’t landed a 50 lb tarpon and the fucker jumped 3 feet into the air before it through the hook, caught a heavy weight GT which is a catch of a lifetime, caught a 28-30 inch red, caught a slot from 60 feet away with a perfect cast and the momentary skill of a pro, and more reds and trout than I can count, almost all I saw them before they saw me and I targeted them. I’ve hit the mother load of 10+ trout in 30 mins on a fly rod more than once but first with Hollywood, on a fly rod is an incredible way to hunt fish. Add barbless hooks and it’s even more satisfying - and this part cannot be overstated - releasing a fish after a fight almost unharmed just startled is the holy grail imo. And I started fly fishing at 43-45 years old. There’s always time. You get bored it’s the next level. The draw is inexplicable.
  9. That’s cool. They deserve to get bored. The rest of us have a lot more fishing to do before we are entitled to be bored. The power of humility, gratitude and appreciation is real.
  10. Yeah but who is doing the real fishing? Until they are up at 1am the night before getting the rigging just right - or owning the boat and paying the crew to do that - then they aren’t really fishing. and I say that with all due respect as a pelagic tourist who has caught plenty of bounty fish all over the western hemisphere and has also spent time with an owner and saw what really goes into pelagic fishing the night before.
  11. My view is as things stop working for you it’s important to be more responsible for the full catch. Hard to do off shore but I’m sure catching a sail when you set up the rig, you figure out where to go and how to hunt for them is way more satisfying. In the end most of us tourist fish for pelagics, that’s a very narrow fishing experience and 95% of the fishing is done by someone else. I compare it to a Colorado vacation float trip for trout versus soup to nuts doing it yourself. Night and day difference.
  12. The last time I fished CR we caught 8 and I thought it was an epic day. Caught a really large sail trophy pic worthy and since I hadn’t ever caught one they let me get the pic. The rest we left in the water. I went home so effing happy. 45+ ??? Wouldn’t know what to do.
  13. yeah I think the law equivalent is about 10% less in hours but a whole lot less in pay. I worked 100 hours per week rarely but it happened. 65-70 was pretty standard - a lot of 12 hour days and a few hours to organize, think, catch up on the weekend. not great but manageable when you're young and no kids. but bump that up to 75-80 hours and more often at 100 hours per week and that will burn. but the money and the skills for sure. good luck to her that's awesome. world will be her oyster for sure.
  14. @MotownHorn your piling on is horseshit. If this was my place you’d be gone too. I can’t blame imma for banning Derka, I’d like to hope I would do it different but he wasn’t coming at me. So walk a mile and all of that. I’ll let it go for those reasons and then some. But for Motown to stay silent and then pile on after Derka is gone? That’s the definition of a bitch move.
  15. I don’t think so. It had Hookem or horns or something like that in the title - it was Texas only and probably had probably less than 50 active posters. It was around the time she died, shaggy did not exist until 2008? It predated then.
  16. Maybe one poster posted the attack that caused it but I distinctly remember the very site being founded on a “we are smart, you are dumb, so dumb” mentality and the most popular thread that had numerous participants was quoting hornfans posters and making fun of them. I remember because I railed on them for it on hornfans.
  17. I salute you Shadow Operative! May your ill fortune on surly be met with the surprise of a beautiful life!
  18. it was a group of posters on a start up obscure message board that was more focused on keeping people out than growing a base. there was no single one poster that bullied, the culture of that board was to point at posters on hornfans and laugh. she got caught up in it and it went awful. several months or years later shaggy was born. very early on, the idea of telling someone to kill themselves was treated as a bannable offense.
  19. it was not on longhornfanzone.com it was on a short lived very few members message board that I don't remember the name of. back then it was broadly accepted that online bullying was a part of it. granted anyone who does do that probably has other issues too, but it's the combination we all have to worry about.
  20. I meant, Helobious, but thought his name was spelled Heblious. shows how much i pay attention.
  21. first they challenged rocko to a paystub fight, then they came after derka then they laughed at heb. shits about to get real.
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