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Walser

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  1. I hear you. Growing up as a conservative I-won-the-lottery-when-I-was-born WASP, the mental gymnastics to justify my ingrained positions was exhausting. After awhile you stop trying. You just dig in your heels. While I get the anger (and I certainly have a healthy dose of it) it so liberating to see how fucking obviously Marjorie-esque most these people and their positions are. I feel liberated a bit TBH. Also as growing up as a Reagan Republican (well I was not even a teenager yet but still it was formative years) I noticed how much more humorous the "leftists" were. Why was that? Well because the jokes are easy and write themselves. It was another iteration of Don't Look up, The Emperor has No Clothes, etc. These idoits are transparent. Anyway dude just take an Ambien and watch a comedy. This sim is powering down soon...
  2. I thought she was trying to appeal to a more right-wing base? I could be wrong.
  3. Loved playing CoD and other games ten years ago. Even while being called names over the mic by a homophobic racist 7 year old. I'm too slow to compete any more.
  4. This is up there with the funniest things I have ever seen.
  5. I think he was/is an aggie forum contributor that creepily followed a young recruit into the bathroom to try and get an interview. But I could be confusing weirdo aggies.
  6. You fucking guys. My girlfriend looks at me funny this morning while I am cackling at some stupid shit I read here. I have several sites I visit so I don't have to start work. And I enjoy Merlot, sue me. Never change.
  7. Redundant user name blah blah blah
  8. Haha, no. My quite a bit younger ne'er do well sister is currently occupying my front guest bedroom. She is about a month away from leaving to go to Houston and finish up a nursing degree.
  9. This made me chuckle under my breath this morning. My sister and I got into a bit of a fight yesterday because she thought my recently adopted dobie had run off with one of her yeezys to chew up. (he hadn't) I told her she could find it next to my Hitler Youth knife. She didn't reply back. I found the shoes in the trash this morning.
  10. Anybody have any insight on the 101 Poker room in Katy? I gotta spend a weekend there soon. I have a pretty good idea what to expect but would appreciate any input.
  11. WUT. Point me in the general direction and we will have some words. And by words I mean I will bar egress before I torch it. In all seriousness I cannot imagine the backlash those Orcs would receive here in Austin.
  12. For what it is worth the two youth pastors I had growing up were quality individuals. Or maybe I just didn't have the right equipment. The vitriol from the Right towards drag queens or whatever is beyond ridiculous to be sure.
  13. My friend in Ukraine let me know about a Year One documentary locally produced there that was released yesterday. It is lengthy, but the quality is good and it has English subtitles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhssmUtN874 - part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlkzADUfb3s - part 2
  14. I speak weekly with a Ukrainian student learning conversational English. We have weekly lesson plans on various subjects but we are free to deviate from these. She is in her twenties (no pics) and her maturity and English comprehension is quite good. Better than most of us fucksticks. Delicate subject but talk of the war has started to take front stage. She is not shy nor traumatized and speaks freely. She has been sharing some humor, news and stories. A couple quick ones: She lives well outside the war zone but in the first days it was naturally very scary for everyone. She said there are naturally Russians spies around and the rumor was they would paint the roofs of houses for the Russian planes to bomb. People would be checking their roofs every day and put flour on the stairs to detect anyone using them. Often the police would get called by neighbors on other neighbors reporting spies on their roofs. Nothing ever came of that danger where she lives. She said in addition to normal taxes everyone she knows donates what they can to a general military fund. I find that very admirable; these people are all-in. That's all I got. If you got a particular question I can try and work it in during our next session.
  15. Thanks Biff. I have had the good fortune of driving around a lot of the country. I remember the big ass confederate (battle flag of Northern Virginia) practically flying across the Interstate in Tennessee. I was not gruntled.
  16. Do you mind sharing where these were? Asking for myself.
  17. Report on a volunteer organization: If you are like me you have looked into ways to support Ukraine but are scared shitless to donate to anything for fear of getting hookwinked. (Please tell me World Central Kitchen is legit) I volunteered for https://www.enginprogram.org/ . Conversational English volunteer opportunity. I went through my interview, training materials, training classroom sessions, and had my first one-on-one conversation with a Ukrainian English student. Program seems legit. Student was a twenty-something professional (no pics) looking to advance her career. I managed to not bring up Texas football in our introduction session. The program is Ukraine-focused and based in the US, though there are volunteers from all over.
  18. Knock at the Cabin yesterday. Another big idea out of the M. Night franchise having just a mediocre execution. Not terrible but not worth the price to see in the theater.
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