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  1. I've canceled 2 weekend getaways and a vacation already this year. I've gone from traveling 100k miles a year on an airplane to being at home 100% of the time. Haven't been inside a building besides my house since April 5, and haven't put gas in my car since March 8. I fully expect that I will not get on another plane this year. I fully expect that I'll be sitting at home later this year when I was supposed to be in Portugal just like I'm sitting at home right now even though I was supposed to be in Malaysia for a wedding. This is an absolute failure of management by our Republican federal government and our Republican state government. If they think I'm going to just forget about this lost year when I go to the voting booth for the rest of my fucking life, they are severely underestimating my ability to hold a grudge. FUCK THEM ALL RIGHT IN THE EYE. I sincerely hope that all of you are good at grudge holding as well, because these people must be held to account. We can not get back to normal because we have people who would rather play politics and/or profiteer than do the right thing for their constituents. Our system of government works only when those elected are acting in good faith and when the populace holds them accountable when they don't. We've come upon a time when a whole party has quit acting in good faith, so it is time for the populous to do its fucking job and hold them accountable. Let's make this happen people. Also, please someone hit the fast forward button to November. I'm ready for this to be over.
    18 points
  2. She's hot if you're into that "ostrich checking out your bologna sandwich through the passenger window at the drive-thru safari park" kind of chick.
    14 points
  3. How exactly does one differentiate an okie from a lowlife?
    12 points
  4. Man. Gotta love friends with first class shit Epic 3 days offshore out of Freeport. Tequila/Sunrise/Nansen/Boomvang/Hoover Limit Snapper 3 Wahoo 11 Yellowfin (30-60#) 2 Blue Marlin including my first (#350)
    12 points
  5. Family ranch on the rim of the Palo Duro canyon in the Panhandle (not too far outside Claude, Texas). The views are beautiful.
    11 points
  6. A 3000 sqft house in Tomball where they park their f350 before their 80 mile round trip commute to an office building.
    11 points
  7. Has anyone ever seen Eric Nahlin, Justin Wells, and Ian Boyd in a room together?
    11 points
  8. There's an article on ESPN interviewing Lawrence Wright, who (re)popularized the Gator Bait chant in the 1990's at Florida. He says that *he* never took it as racist in any way, and even if it were once racist, that he and his fellow athletes defined a new history for the term. He's also pissed that the UF administration didn't even come to him to talk about it, they just jumped immediately to shutting it down, because woke. The Eyes of Texas is in the same place. Whatever (dubious at best) racist underpinnings were once there have long since been replaced with inclusive feelings - we are ALL Longhorns when we sing The Eyes. If our black students don't feel that way, it's sad, because I believe that 99.999999% of UT students and alumni don't sense any racist intent in the song. https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/29329250/university-florida-putting-end-gator-bait-cheer-band-performance-due-racist-history
    10 points
  9. Just bought this Gibson SG Jr for my niece w/ the condition that it becomes officially hers the day she graduates High School. At 14 she just put together her 1st band and is damn good.
    9 points
  10. My friends all refer to my small (24 acre) place as El Rancho but I’ve always felt kinda weird calling it a “ranch”, even when we had horses. To me a ranch has to have some livestock related functionality, regardless of size. Maybe I should start referring to it as a wildlife preserve, since it’s under wildlife management, and we preserve some wildlife in sausage casings.
    9 points
  11. Also there's a lot better ways to use the University's money than to donate to a political organization founded and led by Marxists. Call me crazy.
    9 points
  12. I’ve said this 30x. We see whole nursing homes ending up positive now with hardly anyone getting very sick. It’s spreading as easily but not as potent. That is likely to change in the fall but not a guarantee. We are better at treating too but I don’t have access to treat with the same meds in NH’s and patients are still usually fine. This is not what we were dealing with in March.
    9 points
  13. The American Cancer Society doesn't do much for diabetes. Which I guess is fine, but it alienates a lot of fat people.
    9 points
  14. Ah yes, the dreaded slippery slope. We have plenty of fans that are flailing about too. You’ll be alright man, we got through letting black people be free, and vote, and go to the same schools as white kids. Not having to hear 90k people yell some racist shit won’t end the world either.
    8 points
  15. Some of the younger members on my team have been incessantly bitching about how “hard” things are post covid- people working from home and not getting information “instantly”, Zoom audio not always clear, etc. Oh the horrors!!!!! Made me want to laugh and tell them about..... Waiting in line at a bank of pay phones when a conference or trade show let out to call in and get messages. Then, making return calls from a hotel phone with a calling card. Pulling off the road to call in an order or check in with the office from a corner pay phone is the rain, heat, or cold. Having to use USPS to mail quotes to a customer and then wait for them to mail back a purchase order. Having a corresponding secretary and a dictaphone to create correspondence. Keeping track of long distance calls and cost accounting for them on an invoice when the order was urgent and actually required ***gasp**** phone calls to the factory or a vendor when mailed inquiries weren’t fast enough. Delivering massive catalogs and manuals by hand or mail to customers and manually updating them with any changes throughout the year(s) Thermal fax paper curling and discoloring and still thinking it was groundbreaking new age business technology Asking for (or vetting to whom you gave) your 800# Tri-part message pads and life before post-it notes. When expedited delivery meant taking a box to the station and putting it on a bus since there was no FedEx or UPS 1-2 day delivery. I’m sorry someone didn’t respond to an IM for 20 minutes or there was an echo on your Zoom...... now get off my lawn.
    8 points
  16. Well, it’s been a year and a half since I updated this thread. Ben turned 3 yesterday! He started walking in April and is tearing around, which is totally awesome! He has been crushing his PT/OT/Speech and is really coming along. He’s doing great with his communication, and is starting to talk in a big way, I think partly due to being home with us for the last 3 months and hanging with his big brothers and sister. Things are changing really quickly and he’s figuring out new things daily. We’re so proud of this little guy, and wouldn’t change a thing. Happy to talk if anyone is going through something similar, just DM me. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    7 points
  17. The eyes of Texas are upon you (Santa Anna for the Alamo) you cannot get away (revenge is ours) at night or early in the morn (when surprise attacks would take place in battle) till Gabriel blows his horn (a Texan will never forget till Jesus comes back) We can all make shit up.
    7 points
  18. I’ve always been a fan of his way with words.
    7 points
  19. If wearing the black jerseys for one game this season brings up the morale of the team, do it.
    7 points
  20. Ok. That's fine. This is a guy who won by the narrowest of margins (i.e., 77,000 votes across three states). And he can't get his own coalition back together. It's now less than five months to election day, and he is having to work to reconstruct the base that he used to win in 2016. That's a really bad sign for a presidential reelection campaign. Presidents have the inside track for reelection because they can typically count on getting the same voters to vote for them for reelection as voted for them four years earlier. So they can spend all four years--and especially the reelection campaign--reaching out to persuadable voters. Look at how Clinton did it--after the midterms in 1994, he adjusted and "triangulated." Without speaking to the wisdom of the public policy that came out of those efforts, Clinton was able to keep his base of Democratic voters while persuading a whole lot of Independents and even a few Republicans. Trump hasn't done that. He hasn't spent a moment of his presidency trying to persuade anybody who didn't vote for him in 2016. And now, he's having to spend all of his time trying to keep those people in his corner. It's an impossible position that he's put himself in in June of an election year, and it makes him the underdog in this campaign. This is a bad take, and you should feel bad for it. Trump doesn't have the inside track. That's ridiculous. He's down double digits in every poll out there. And there is no Electoral College magic that overcomes a double-digit spread. Three points--sure. Four points--maybe. Five points--ehh, probably not. Ten points, fuggetabbouted. His "base" is 35-40%. He needs 46% to have a prayer (and probably higher because of the lack of good third-party candidates). That means persuading some people who are not in his "base." And he isn't doing that. As we sit here today, Trump is the underdog. Underdogs do sometimes win. But he definitely does not have the "inside track." This is a bad take, and you should feel bad for it. You really "don't see how Trump doesn't win this November"? Really? He's down in every poll by double digits. The economy is in the tank. Thousands of Americans are dying each month of a disease that he has botched the response to. We have racial strife that a significant majority says he is making worse. And you can't envision him losing? That's a pretty damned limited imagination you've got there.
    7 points
  21. My experience with Oklahoma is that it sucks.
    7 points
  22. Buncha non-reading fucks in here.
    7 points
  23. I got Somme too last night She battled my bulge and I wanted to stop Midway, but finished on her Tets.
    7 points
  24. I think that you should fly a 737 Max to a COVID hotspot during a race riot, to go full "fuck it, it's 2020."
    7 points
  25. My family and I will be burying my mother in a few hours and I gotta tell ya, being able to suit up and show up just like all the normies is no small miracle. No real regrets, nothing was left unsaid or undone. No sibling squabbles this past week. Just a full and grateful heart. Stick around they said, do the work they said, wait for the miracle they said. Very glad that I did.
    7 points
  26. Texas Fight, doo doo doo doo doo doo Texas Fight, doo doo doo doo doo doo Texas Fight, doo doo doo doo doo doo Texas Fight
    7 points
  27. Little known fact. The GAP Band was formed by friends in North Tulsa that grew up on the streets of..... Greenwood, Archer and Pine. Sent from my SM-G973U using Tapatalk
    6 points
  28. Put in a pool last year. Did a lot of research at the time and weighed pros and cons of course. We have 3 girls 9 and under and are happy in the house so we decided to go for it. Loved it last summer and felt good about the decision. Feel FUCKING FANTASTIC about the decision now.
    6 points
  29. If you have to ask, it’s probably not a ranch.
    6 points
  30. They should clear the area with teargas and troops. A precedent was set by the President. LAW AND ORDER!
    6 points
  31. We haven’t given up. It’s just that 40% of us never took this seriously in the first place and then decided it was their god-given right to go out and do the exact stupid shit that maximizes spread. A significant portion of our population is stupid, reckless, selfish, and belligerent. Once they were told that Liberal Democrats, New Yorkers, and the Deep State wanted them to wear masks and social distance, their petulant, contrarian reaction was inevitable. I can’t believe how many grown adults in this country are intellectual toddlers. All it took was a little reverse psychology and they enthusiastically took up the cause of spreading a plague. Fucking morons.
    6 points
  32. Forbes had an article recently about how California did a study that said the opposite; SAT/ACT were more indicative of success than GPA. Of course, the study was then ignored.
    6 points
  33. it’s pretty awesome that instead of figuring out ways to raise test scores the better plan is to just eliminate tests. this generation is gonna be fine.
    6 points
  34. Just a note for the readers. In this thread, we see BLM being criticized as a movement for 1) making it all about black lives only, and 2) making it about things OTHER than black lives. In short -- black people are damned if they do, damned if they don't.
    6 points
  35. And this is why we are homeschooling this year (not Austin but figure everyone will look more or less the same) and not starting our kids. We will check in in December to see what’s up in our district. With all the protests and talk of racial inequality it breaks my heart, as a former educator, to think of what will happen to disadvantaged students in this scenario. School and education is the best shot at equalizing outcomes for disadvantaged groups, and under these circumstances the gap will widen and not narrow. This is bad shit for our kids.
    6 points
  36. Has Trump tweeted that he invented the question mark yet?
    6 points
  37. Defund the Corp for cosplaying military. Stolen valor.
    6 points
  38. Who has traditionally run this shit? Middle aged white men. Who sees that slipping away? Middle aged white men. Who is scared shitless that once they lose power, everyone else will treat them the same shitty way they have treated everyone else? Middle aged white men. Who can get fucked? Middle aged white men.
    6 points
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