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SquishMitten

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  1. Why do they even need a police force? Everybody knows not to try that in a small town.
  2. This is easily solved by not opening your inbox until 10am
  3. Nah. None of that weak shit. I’ll (final-ish scene) Bone Tomahawk that fool
  4. * Last 2 hours now, but point still stands
  5. This gauge has to be wrong, doesn’t it? Over the last hour?!?
  6. Well, wherever this line crosses, it looks to be a doozy. Damn thing’s barely moving
  7. I would remove both of his hands in my opening swing, do a 360 and open his stomach. It'd be over in seconds.
  8. Looking at the radar, ain’t shit near me. Looking out the window, I can see some serious lightning, but there’s no thunder. This is weird
  9. The Dutch ovens were overwhelming. Same reason my wife points a fan at me while I’m sleeping
  10. Makes sense. It came with the ovens already. Damnit. Should’ve known I would’ve been beaten to the punch on that one.
  11. This has been true forever. Excluding alcohol, which everyone knows has a huge markup, cokes, tea, coffee, etc, go a long way towards profitability. 20+ years ago, I believe the cost of what an average diner would drink was 1.5 cents worth of product/labor. And you were charged $1 or $2 dollars for it. Jesus. I need to get off this thread.
  12. I guarantee that’s better for their business in almost every way. The thing about them, especially depending on whether the town receives a lot of through traffic, is that almost all of their customers are locals. The smaller the town, the older that clientele is likely to be. So, the food needs to be cheap for a couple reasons. Older folks and those living in small towns generally have lower incomes and are less prone to spend it on finer dining. To ensure the restaurant is regularly filling up, they need those locals to be coming several days a week. If the food costs much more than it costs to eat at home, the locals will just eat at home. Really, they’re making the same exact food their customers would make at home and just charging a bit extra to save them the hassle of cooking for themselves. Additionally, someone that’s going to eat at the same place multiple days a week is going to want absolute consistency. That’s much easier to do with cheap, processed food than it is with farm to table. Point being, while small town folks may want better options locally, they won’t actually support them enough for those places to survive. Nobody is driving from Austin to Liberty Hill for a good meal that they could get here for a few more dollars. Even in the places with a lot of through traffic, it’s harder for the more expensive places. Let’s say I’m driving through some random town and want to stop for a bite. I see two options, one where the parking lot is nearly full and one where there’s only a few cars. I’m more likely to pick the busy one on the assumption that it’s better. But it might not be. It might just be the cheaper one that everybody goes to several days a week rather than the good restaurant they only splurge at once a month. Wow. What a weird rant I just went on.
  13. Well, no. I don’t pay people in advance. But it’s also pretty ballsy to share your ID with someone you’re scamming. Assuming the ID is real, which could’ve been verified.
  14. Unless the gorilla has been trained how to defend against a sword, I don’t need any training to know how to gut him with it. I wouldn’t even need the other 4 dudes
  15. What am I missing here?
  16. Well, it’s a Toyota, so I’m pretty sure she meant TRD Girl, just like it says. Turns out I wasn’t on the wrong thread. The wordle stuff threw me off
  17. Who would win between Tyson at his peak or 100 unarmed 12 year olds? The answer to me seems obvious, and I think the gorilla has a bigger advantage than that.
  18. I had no idea Kevin was a water buffalo or whatever that thing is
  19. Ah, you had me confused by calling it a fruit. Although it's not botanically a fruit, I understand what you meant now.
  20. Huh? Are you suggesting a bond election to raise $171 million across all Austin tax payers and then use it to fund Democratic campaigns?
  21. So, they’re supposed to be closer together or something?
  22. The last guy. Holy shit that was hilarious
  23. She didn’t have the ability to stop him. Elected Republicans do. That was the entire point of my post. They’re all following along, some because they actually do want all this evil shit, but it doesn’t take very many to stop him. There’s enough that aren’t fully onboard but they’re just too cowardly to stand up and risk being primaried
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