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  1. I am another that eats gulf coast oysters in months that end in "r". I still won't eat them in September though. I eat cold water oysters during the summer. I can't afford to eat cold water year round. I mean, I could, but choose not to. Fuck $36/dozen.

    CHIEF

  2. 40 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Seems high, but it would be high because Russia doesn’t have the infrastructure to quickly evacuate their wounded.  The stuff we pioneered in Korea and Vietnam with helicopter evacuation and surgical hospitals has been completely lost to them.  They’ve probably got guys who spend hours before seeing even modest levels of medical care.

    I haven't heard one peep about Russian field hospitals, or evacuating the injured one single time during this whole conflict. If you are a wounded Russian, I think you get a "tough shitski" and a bullet between the eyes.

    CHIEF

  3. On 6/2/2025 at 8:49 PM, Gil Bang said:

    so, some of y'all will recall that I built a studio on my property that I rent furnished, mostly to travel nurses.  I've had two non-nurses, one IBEW apprentice lineman that was serving a segment of his apprenticeship here locally for 6 months or so, and my current tenant is a civil engineer that is working as a consultant at the nearby desalinization plant. He's leaving soon, so I'm advertising again.  I just got a phone call from an unknown number, and I've had a couple beers, so I didn't answer.  I then got a text asking if I had the unit for rent.  I'm leery as to who is asking, so I always say I have other interested parties (true), etc.   

    I asked the text person "what's your situation?"    Here's the response.

    I am in a home that I have to get out of. It is full of mold two of the world‘s deadliest molds, and it’s affecting me with my epilepsy and paralysis and affecting my dogs with their losing hair not eating, not having bathroom movements and we are just stuck in one room, which I am controlling the air quality in this room and down to the bathroom for the dogs then right back upstairs so I need to get out. They they currently have an eviction notice on me but we have a Escondido city of court compliance that states that this house is in inhabitable and they have to pay for me to be relocated and cannot charge me with any offense due to that relocation so that will take care of the eviction. My attorney say will take care of all that and then they will have not just one but two cases against them. One would be the mold which their lawyer was even kind of aware of it and actually put it in writing that there possibly was a mold hazard, and then also the pain and suffering, and the damage is done to me and my pets along with me falling down the flight of stairs And breaking multiple bones in my foot and in my knee and other cases that are being brought up to the mold testing  but right now I just need to get out. I need to find a place where I can have fresh air for me for my dogs for them to feel comfortable and not just in a cocoon and be able to move around. They are on leashes at all times, but if you did have a like a fenced in area, they would love something like that, but that’s what they were used to when we lived in Maryland, but since we moved back to California they’ve been always unleashes and I do have a daughter that lives here and like I said a son and another daughter who lives in For Huachuca, Arizona so a lot of family here and a lot of very close friends. I worked on Camp Pendleton for six years as paralegal so I am 17 years with paralegal and legal officer in the military and working for the military so I am on my way to get my degree.

     

    So, what's the board's consensus?  Sounds like a dream tenant, right?  Right?  

     

     

    Sent from my iPhone

    Yeah, wait till this tenant conjures up something wrong at your property and you have to refund them all of the rent collected, then pay for their mental anguish and suffering.   
     

    CHIEF

  4. 35 minutes ago, Bert Orange said:

    Wait, a Tritoon is $120k now?!?!? Holy shit. I paid $72k for mine 6-7 years ago and thought I was going to have a coronary. 

    You can still get a basic one for that. But with nice guts, sound system, cockpit, and the loungers that face the stern, and a 250 or 300 Yamaha/Merc hanging off the back on what is considered the best brands of tritoons (Bennington, Avalon) you are there, easily. 

    The biggest problem with pontoon boats, is they are a bitch to put the cover on. We would come back after drinking on the lake, and no one ever wanted to put it on. That has more than likely hastened its demise. Of course, with no real skin in the game, that was bound to happen. I have been reassured that this new boat will get wiped down and covered every time it goes back in the slip. CHIEF Jr. is even ponying up for the slip cradle. Gonna pattern it off the trailer, and have a buddy from work, their lead welder and shop foreman, weld it up. I'll have to haul it on my gooseneck, to the lake, put it on styrofoam or blue plastic barrels and float it into place.

    That Bennington has had a dozen kids on it every summer weekend since CHIEF Jr. was sixteen. When they all went off to college, they would come home and spend the summer on it. It has been puked on, puked in, puked under, and puked off of.

    CHIEF

  5. 5 minutes ago, Handcruser said:


    Crazy. The prices are out of control.

    For sure. That is substantially more than I paid for my first house. I'm gonna finance it for as long as possible (20 years) but should be able to pay it off in 4-5 years with a substantial down payment. I'm 57, no way I am having a boat note that I have to pay while drawing social security.

    I don't have any write-offs for income tax, they take me to the cleaners annually. No house, property, or vehicle payments. I'm gonna get creative with this toad.

    CHIEF

  6. Well, my old Bennington just turned 20 years old. The interior is getting pretty ratty, the starter went out on the Yamaha at the beginning of last summer, so we basically cancelled our summer weekends. Those starters hardly ever go out, and are really tough to find, so it was late fall before we found one. Now we thought we had a spark plug issue, but now think it is an injector. So time to get rid of it.

    Old-Bennington.pngThis is the boat my Dad bought, couldn't get it on the trailer when it was windy, so he just gave it to me.

    I called my cousin at Fun N Sun in Hurst, about getting a new tritoon, and to get one comparable to what we have was over $120k new. CHIEF Jr. has always wanted a wake boat. He is a Centurion man. I always told him only a fucking idoit would pay six figures for a damn ski boat. So what is this idoit doing this Thursday? Going to go try and make a deal on this Sumbitch: 

    https://www.awsboatstx.com/default.asp?page=xPreOwnedInventoryDetail&id=15925476&p=1&s=(Sort By)&d=D&fr=xPreOwnedInventory

    Depreciation was the deciding factor. I'll give my kid credit, he knows how to set the hook. We don't carry a dozen college kids anymore, so really don't need a tritoon. I'm gonna be officing like Cajun soon.

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  7. 4 hours ago, nnm said:

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    I am in this picture of Preikestolen (pulpit rock) in Norway. A friend had a drone and took pics and video during our hike. I am on the mountain side of the crack, facing AWAY from the void. It was terrifying for me, as I have a debilitating fear of heights. But I had to suck it up and make the hike because I was the leader of the group. 

    Many people have no problem walking right up to the edge, dangling their feet off of it. In this social media age, many do ridiculous things like handstands also. 

    Zoom in on the top right corner of the pic. There is a little girl there, behind a teenage couple who have their back to her. She is not their child. I don’t know where her parents are. She’s just casually hanging out, on a 1,982 foot cliff. If that doesn’t give you the willies, nothing will. 

    Despite approx 300,000 visitors annually, apparently there are only 4 recorded deaths from falls there. 

    One of my colleagues brought this to share at the top. It was greatly appreciated. 
     

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    I think I would stay on the "mountain side" of that big ass crack there.

    CHIEF

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  8. On 5/14/2025 at 2:04 PM, BabaYaga said:

    Not so much shrewd as more relentlessly trying to beat you down again and again for the lowest possible price/rate/etc..  100% correct about zero loyalty.  

     

    On 5/14/2025 at 2:20 PM, Im_smarter_then_you said:

    Heard from more than one realtor, very liberal so not maga hating on minorites.  But basically you show them everything and when it’s time to purchase they go to Indian realtor and get a kick back

    Funny. The day I read this thread was the day a new builder contacted us about listing his homes, when they are finished. First Indian we have had build in our subdivision. He went and bought the two cheapest lots he could find (dead trees and a big drainage ditch) and built $750-850k houses on them. I was really hesitant, but my Mom/Broker decided that we would list the homes in our subdivision, but not the cheaper subdivision 15 minutes away with roads so bad, you almost need a 4x4. Again, cheap lots.

    He is another Asam (Awesome), and wants these homes gone ASAP, as his investors are already getting nervous. I imagine his investors are immediate family. These houses are gonna be on the market for at least six months. Other builders are buying the nice lots, and building the same caliber of house for the same, or less money. At least I was able to convince my broker to only list them for 90 days. I figure this is probably going to end up as ISTY said. We will have a listing agreement, and then he will want to deal with the buyer direct, and not pay a commission.

    CHIEF

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  9. I have a cousin that Rahr would call, when they first opened, to come work at bottling time. Think he went in a dozen or so times in the three months they first opened. You got paid in beer, and lots of it.

    CHIEF

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  10. 2 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

    I don't think they can afford to stop. There's some thought that the war economy is propping up an otherwise shaky manufacturing sector. Plus, the ego has to be fed. They can't stop, won't stop.

    This. The economy is a House of Cards, the war stops and things get so bad in Russia that there will be a coup. Putin knows this. 
     

    CHIEF

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  11. 17 hours ago, Updawg said:

    I went up there earlier this evening. Place is pretty cool except the beer selection. Was hooking up with a chick I’ve been banging but she was there with her friends and constantly bitching about her loser asshole husband

    Like clockwork. Well done. 
     

    CHIEF

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  12. 2 hours ago, Herpa Derpa said:

    Not so surprising when you factor in all the carts used at retirement communities.

    We have had two fatalities on golf carts since I have moved into my neighborhood, 13 years ago. Didn't know the gal that hit a brick mailbox at 30 mph, but knew the second, Phyllis. Mid 60s, usually saw her at the 19th Hole. My buddy hired her on as a cashier at the liquor store. Her and her husband got in a drunken argument coming back from The Hole. She decided she was getting out of the golf cart, again, at 30 mph. Sixty year old women can't exactly jump off and run down to a stop. Stepped off and did a header right into the pavement.

    CHIEF

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  13. 1 hour ago, Spaulding Smails said:

    I've done it a hand full of times starting off a wake skate on my ass with behind a tow rope, and I needed to be right at 40 mph.  I'd pull my buddy who was 5'6" 140 lb at right around 37 mph.  Lots of fun until you fall.  

    I tried a few times and never could get up on my feet without planting face first. That was before they put booms on the boat, I know a lot of people that couldn't barefoot until they were able to learn on a boom.

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  14. 8 hours ago, futureman said:

    this made the rounds a few years ago but will always be holy shit. 

    I have an uncle that was that good at barefootin’ back in the 70s and 80s. He is now 78 years old. Don’t think he could do that anymore. 
     

    CHIEF

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  15. 41 minutes ago, Not a cat said:

    Having never personally eaten it, I'm gonna trust you on that.  It might be good prepared Asian style, but apparently the Germans in New Braunfels haven't quite mastered it.

    I make French Dip sandwiches as a regular staple around the house. My FIL was a big cow tongue sandwich guy. I boil my tongues like doing a crawfish boil. I season it the same, boil it for 90 minutes then, set it out to cool for an hour. I peel the skin. I then shave about 3 days worth on my deli slicer. It is absolutely killer. The marbling at the base of the tongue makes it the best beef you will probably ever eat. I used to use the in-house roast beef at the HEB deli counter, but the lengua will make you throw rocks at the roast beef. 
     

    Like skirt steak, before fajitas, lengua is now a delicacy that has gone through the roof on cost. 4-5 years ago a three pound tongue was less than $10. It is now about $8/lb. The last one I bought was over $28. 
     

    CHIEF Jr. has about a half dozen friends that absolutely love it. But they have no idea what it is they are eating. 
     

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  16. 48 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    The only Allsups burrito I've had was from in Tucumcari at about 5 in the morning.

    Maybe it had just been sitting too long, but I thought it was just "good".  Was expecting something on par with, say, boudin based on the way it's discussed here.  I liked it, but the bar was set so high it had little chance but to disappoint.  Wondered if there was some kind of recipe difference (as some chains are wont to do).

    The Alsup's burrito, as my keen intellectual studies have proven, is pretty tasty, right from the heat lamp rack, in towns with a population of at least 4000. There are enough customers purchasing burritos that the oldest burrito in the rack is probably about 30 minutes old (Graham, Stephenville, Abilene, Mineral wells, etc.) In smaller towns, you need to cozy up, and flatter the oldest woman behind the counter. Like her hair, nails, neck tattoo, her bangs, and have her cook you up 2-3 fresh. This works in Hamilton, Throckmoton, Olney, Seymour etc.

    All Allsup burritos come from the same production facility, made by Windsor Posada. You can actually get them on Amazon.

    CHIEF 

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