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  1. 3 hours ago, Parliament said:

    Farming in the 1980's was very though.  More than once we kids got our savings accounts cleaned out to pay bills.  My cousins had the same thing. Just the way it was.

    Yep. My savings account got hit up for Christmas after the scorching summer of 1980. Somehow we still broke even on 55 acres of Sudan, that meant enough for a pup tent and a canteen.

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  2. On 12/27/2023 at 1:43 PM, MontereyMXmuthafucka said:

    Right behind this yesterday.  Fucking terrible

    https://www.fox4news.com/news/georgia-family-johnson-county-crash

    A buddy, the Johnson County Farm Bureau agency manager, was behind them a ways, and saw the whole thing. The crash threw everyone in the minivan through the front windshield. 

    The family of the kid driving the truck has had the worst five or so years of any family I have known. The dad was always in trouble with the law, and hung himself in the Somervell county jail. The older son, one of CHIEF Jr.'s associates, was so struck with grief that he committed suicide as well. Now the younger son has gone and done this. He is still in critical condition and not out of the weeds yet.

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  3. 16 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

    Yeah, it is kinda weird that with all their success in meat judging, they haven't really figured out a way to monetize it.  I guess anti-NIL Aggie integrity and all.  Just as well, I'm sure this kid would capitalize on it only to find out that for some strange reason, Jimbo Fisher was entitled to 90% of the revenue.  

    And yeah seriously, I thought for a long while we were just being harsh to What-a-Burger for selling out.  But it's time we all come to terms with it, it's way below their usual standard and getting worse and more expensive.  It's just not a Texas Staple it was for decades.  It's okay to admit, doesn't make you any less of a Texan.  Just means we don't have the time to wait 15 minutes for an overpriced version of our high school cafeteria burger.

    You would think they would hit up Cargill, Conagra, and IGA for NIL. Or if they wanted to really flaunt their protein prowess, Omaha Steaks.

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  4. 10 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

    Fair enough, I just don't think Oklahoma State is anywhere near the 2nd best team in the Big 12. 

    The ESPN efficiency ranking system has Oklahoma State as the 10th best team in the Big 12. FEI has them ranked similarly. They're a very average team that led in almost every "luck" metric in the country. They're a 7-7 type team that somehow found a way to win 10 games this year. 

    I'm not complaining because we deserved a little luck in the Big 12 championship game. 

     

    The way they played tonight they would have lost to Oklahoma, KSU, KU, and probably West Virginia. At least those are the ones I remember. Alan Bowman will be sacking groceries shortly, or maybe can weasel his way a GA position. 
     

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  5. 57 minutes ago, MAGS® said:

    Eh... good story but bullshit..  as someone stated earlier 99 is the highest score possible.. i should know.  Did meps in San Antonio after my first year as a ME student at UT.  I had no more money for school and signed up for the USMCR for money to pay for school...  retook the ASVAB as it had been more than 2 years since I had last took it and had to "requalify"    anyways took the test and thought nothing of it. We got our test scores and we're standing in line to meet with the 1st Sgr to see if we qualified to join the Corps.  I was standing in line with some fellow recruits and they were talking about their scores.    I think 20 might have been the minimum at the time... not entirely sure.... it was low... anyways the guys were going over their scores and were celebrating mid 20 scores.  The guy in front of me got something in the mid 50s and they were amazed how fucking smart cornbread was.  You fucking genius holmes!   They looked at me and asked what did you get.   I looked down at my score and was like 56...  God damn! dude you fuckin smart....  didnt think much of it after that....  then i got to the front of the line, 1st sgt takes the piece of paper out of my hands... looks at score... looks at me... looks at score....NINETY-FUCKING-NINE!.. looks back at me and screams the LINE FOR THE AIR FORCE IS OVER THERE!...  Which is kind of ironic because about 3 years later I was commissioned by the USAF...  i know... csb.

    He didn't tell me I made a 100, the recruiter just told me that I got 100% of the answers right. Hope that clears shit up. 

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  6. 4 minutes ago, Not a Sock said:

    You could be making bank with absolute job security working in a civilian plant. I didn’t do the nuke program because if you don’t pass A or B school you get thrown into the “needs of the navy”

    The ASVAB didn't really have much complicated math or physics, which is why I did so well. I imagine I would have gotten washed out in A or B and would have landed in the "needs of the navy" scrapyard.

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  7. 12 minutes ago, Not a Sock said:

    The nukes are untouchable so it does have its perks, they avoid the majority of the navy’s bullshit.

    It wouldn't have been a bad job. But I'm a tad bit claustrophobic, something my old man brought up. I always wonder what I would be doing now. How much different would my life be.

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  8. 3 minutes ago, Butch Had Not said:

    It was optional at my high school and I did it to get out of algebra that morning. Big mistake as I had recruiters bugging me for the next few months.

    I was sick of school after my sophomore year of college, so I hit up the local navy recruiter. Scored 100 on the ASVAB, and shit blew up. Got offered a $30k signing bonus to go to nuke school. My old man talked me off the ledge. He told me "you realize that you will be stuffed into the reactor room of a ship or sub for the next twenty years, don't you?" Stupid me was wondering how he could be so sure. He followed up with, "what runs on nuclear power other than those two items?" Wasn't the only time his logical thinking bailed me out.

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  9. 25 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said:

    The new aggy coaching staff is going to be a real Who's Who of college coaches.

    Just, not in a good way.

    I imagine that any and every coach knows that aggy is still a sinking ship with a temporary three year plug. Elko wasn't a "splash" hire but a belly flop into the shallow end of the pool. He will be lucky to last three years, we know it, everyone in college football knows it, even aggy really knows it, deep down.  Any coach that has ambition to continue climbing a collegiate coaching ladder as quickly as possible knows that hitching their wagon to that ship could very well set them back a few years. They opted out of the short-term windfall to keep their careers on track.

    Aggy is left with previously fired coaches that have nothing to loose by taking what could potentially be their last payday, or guys that are so young, and low enough on the career ladder that they can either use this as an opportunity to skip a few rungs with a good performance, or that still have plenty of time for their career to get back on track after a temporary setback.

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  10. 6 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

    I thought it was the reverse? Boosters pay the initial lump and then the athletic department fits the bill for 8-10 a year until it’s done? The 12th man just did a huge capital raise and signed the check to the AD recently. 

    The stadium loan is to the university. If that isn’t already paid off, and it might be, they’ll just renegotiate that shit. 

    Aggy is the couple knocking down $10k/month, but has a $9500 nut due. They don't care how much things cost, but just how much per month. I'm sure most of us, here on Surly, know someone like that. 4500 sq/ft. home, a new Audi SUV, and a Platinum F350, and minimum payments on $100k worth of revolving debt.

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  11. My worst job was a short stint at a plant, in Waco, taking summer classes at MCC. If you ever cut open a hollow door, the interior is braced by corrugated cardboard that is glued together to form a lattice work. The facility was a non-a/c, non-insulated metal building that averaged about 115 degrees. It had automated glue guns, and band saws. The glue guns ran a little "rich" and would spill glue on the floor where it would promptly stick to the bottom of your shoes. This would create a situation where it was unavoidable to step on random small sheets of cardboard, and cardboard dust from the bandsaws, so you were constantly having to clean your shoes. 

    There were many middle aged people stuck in this dead end hell hole.They were way too old to be doing this kind of manual labor. Being the youngest there, by about 15 years. I got the worst job, loading the lattice frames onto pallets at the end of the assembly line, we produced several thousand a day. They came off the conveyor in groups of five, and fast enough that you would have to rotate about three feet every 2-3 seconds, from a bent over position. I could do this for about 30 minutes straight before my back would give out. They had six other people that could make it about five minutes each. I would rotate to their positions for 30 minutes to give my back time to rest, then it was back to being crouched or bent over stacking again. I did this for about a week before I had enough and went to work at a full service gas station.

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  12. 1 hour ago, fattyflattie said:

    It will depreciate more, but nothing like a comparable 1/2 ton pickup.  Depending on when he gets back out, he might do OK.  Loaded diesels are still going about 80%+ of sticker for first 3-4 years/100k miles.   Many were paying sticker (or a bit more) 2 years ago, but nowhere close back in 17-18.    The owners of the 17-18s are proving them alongside the rest. Look at high end custom boats of Texas. People are still selling simmons’ for what they paid >10-12 years ago, as new ones have become 200k (unaffordable for many) purchases.   There’s ALOT more people that can buy a 70k pickup than a 115k pickup.   Then again  markets change, all the time. 

    The window sticker was $88k new, they wanted $85k, but lowered it to $81k to match the price of a comparable truck. I imagine the original owner paid about $10k over. 2024 is the last year for the supercharged 6.2L V8. They are going to go with the new Hurricane I6 with twin turbos, so hp will drop about 150 hp. CHIEF Jr. tried to talk me into buying one of the 900+ hp Dodge Demons and put it in storage a few years back, said I could double my money in five years or less. I told him that was idiotic. Well...he was right. 

    We were talking with the guys at the dealership the other night. They said that anything with the hellcat, or helliphant engine that was new was picked up on a trailer most of the time. Many are being bought by Trusts as investments. They had three of the new Demon 170s on the floor. Window sticker was $125k, they were listed at $250k and all three were sold. All of the new Hellcat Chargers and Challengers are going to be electric.

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  13. 2 hours ago, BabaYaga said:

    #Natureismetal

    Hunters had an "oops" moment with a youth hunter.  It happens.  Son rushed a shot and the deer didn't immediately drop.  Dad texted me and he was apoplectic.  Kids first deer.  They tracked and tracked.  Called my cousin and brought in tracking dogs with GPS collars and contacted our neighbors for permission to cross their fences.  Dogs found the deer that next evening.  One day.  Coyotes out there are nothing if not efficient.  So wild.  

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    Hogs will do that too. Between hogs and coyotes nothing but the spine, skull, and rack will be left after one night.

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  14. 1 hour ago, BabaYaga said:

    On the bright side, buddy is a guide at a place in Waco called C5 Whitetails.  This guy scored 181 over the weekend.  Keeps wanting me to help out.  Make a grand videoing the hunt, taking pictures, dressing the deer, and cooking and drinking.  I need to find the time.

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    I used to set up at the Texas Trophy Hunters Expo with those guys. I can't remember their names, but one of them would bring his daughter. She was about 14-15 years old. She couldn't have been more than about 4'3" and 70 pounds. This was in 2020-2021.

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  15. My Dad was the fourth oldest of ten children born to a sharecropper family. We had hard times a few times in life, but he would always regale me with, "you think its bad now, when I was a kid we had to...." 

    1. We were so poor, momma would tie a string to a piece of bacon and tie the other end to a hook in the ceiling. You got to stand on a stool and swallow the piece of bacon. After 2-3 minutes she would come back and kick the stool out from under you.

    2. This is supposedly true. When his momma would cook a huge batch of biscuits, all the kids would take as many biscuits as they could and lick them to keep their siblings from getting them.

    I posted this when a buddy sent me a TikTok of "We were so poor stories."

    We were so poor that momma didn't have anything to cook us for supper, so she would just read us the recipe. I had a little brother that was hard of hearing, and he almost starved to death.

    We were so poor that Pop would have us run out in the yard and bark at visitors because we couldn't afford a dog.

    We were so poor that when we went to our aunt's house, we ate the fruit off the wallpaper print.

    We were so poor that momma made us eat cereal with a fork, so the next kid could reuse the milk. 

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  16. On 12/9/2023 at 11:54 AM, tx 3 putt said:

    Honestly good for him though, its a great feeling buying a damn nice truck 

    Holy shit. We went to the deer lease in the TRX. I have never ridden in anything like it. it will settle in at 90-92 mph on the highway in 8th gear on 35s. Never hunts gears or downshifts. Got around 12-13 mpg. We are nine miles into a ranch with dirt roads, extremely steep hills, and rock ledges. In my F-350 it will shake your fillings out of your teeth, and take you about 40 minutes to get to camp. With 13 inches of suspension travel we made it in less than 20 minutes, felt like we were riding on a cloud. It has a baja mode that changes the valving on the shocks that slows the shock rebound. He did his homework, and I can definitely see the allure. This truck isn't a pavement queen, its gonna see some shit. But this trip was truly eye opening. He put down a huge down payment, so his truck payment, fuel, and insurance can be paid with one week's pay, so he didn't do something completely idiotic. It rides smoother than my wife's Lexus on bumpy roads by a good bit.

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  17. It’s a 2022 with 16k miles. It was $81k. This is the last year for the V8. His rationale was that it will not depreciate, and could actually appreciate with the Hellcat engine. 
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  18. Well, CHIEF Jr. is living at home ratholing money after college. One of our friends, the one that would be giving him a construction loan to build his house, said he would need to buy something before any lender would ever give him a loan (he has a high credit score but almost no credit history). So what does the little fucker come home with? A TRX.

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    That is his old beater truck behind it that he decided to keep since they wouldn't give him much for it.

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