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  1. On 4/3/2024 at 8:49 AM, SydneyCarton said:

    My step father tried to tell me how much he likes Hailey, and he balked when I said she was a piece of shit. He hates MAGA, but he still completely shut down, and he still says "Biden is senile" with no basis. Have you considered flat out saying to your parents "I have a hard time exposing my son to you, when your beliefs and viewpoints directly jeapardize the future life and freedoms of my son, your grandson." Maybe that will snap them out of it?

     

    The closest I've came to this was probably five or six years ago, at Thanksgiving, I finally told my mother that we (me, wife, 8-ish year old daughter) were going to leave if she didn't turn Fox News off. 

    She turned it off.

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  2. 1 minute ago, Ben Tobin said:

    We’re kids in the 70s frequently sick or dying from unknown reasons that we just didn’t talk about? In twelve years with hundreds of kids, I can’t recall even a single mention of nut allergies. No warnings at school, no BOLOs at Halloween, not a peep. What the fuck happened?

     

    Yes, but...

    Nut allergies have gotten more common, or at least severe nut allergies have gotten more common. This is a fact. The reason why is being debated. Not sure if any one hypotheses is currently leading the field or not.

     

     

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  3. 7 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    Ooooo, we love sloe gin. Two of the brands that you can find in the US that we like: Plymouth is our favorite followed by Hayman's. If you've got Dekuyper it's not going to be quite the same but it'll do. I'd love to try some of the brands that are more common overseas. There are some out of California that are supposed to be good but we haven't sampled them and I've not had any luck finding Sipsmith in our area.

    So, with sloe gin you can drink it neat. The Plymouth (of the two we have) is best for this IMO.

    Cocktail recipes under the spoiler for space.
     

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    A lot is going to depend upon your personal taste. For ex, I don't mind bitter (think like a Negroni cocktail)but spouse not so much. We both like a citrus 'punch' to our cocktails and thus many will have lime or lemon (freshly squeezed).

    So I'll start with the less bitter drinks first and one of our faves:

    Charlie Chaplin

    1 ounce apricot liqueur (Rothman & Winter brand is solid and available at Twin Liquors)

    1 ounce sloe gin

    1 ounce fresh squeezed lime juice

    Shake with ice, strain into cocktail glass

    Sloe Gin Collins

    2 ounces sloe gin

    1/2-3/4 ounce lemon juice

    club soda

    Shake gin and lemon with ice, strain into tumbler, top with club soda. If you like, you can have the tumbler filled with ice, we do that more in the hot weather.

    Sloe Gin Pink Lady

    1 ounce sloe gin

    1 ounce gin (we use Plymouth regular gin for this but have also used Hayman's Old Tom)

    1 1/2 Tablespoons lemon juice

    1 tsp grenadine

    Egg white

    Chill cocktail glass in freezer for 10 minutes. Add all ingredients to shaker w/o ice. Shake. Add ice and shake again. Strain and pour into chilled glass.

    Wibble

    1 ounce gin

    1 ounce sloe gin

    1 ounce grapefruit juice (we use a white grapefruit juice because it's more sour, but pink makes a prettier drink & is sweeter)

    1/3 ounce lemon juice

    1/3 ounce creme de mure (if you don't have this, use creme de cassis and it'll be fine)

    1/6 ounce simple syrup (optional)

    Shake with ice, strain into glass

    Sloe Gin Cocktail

    I think this one is a little bland so it's not one of our more frequented makes, but we've not yet figured out how we'd like to adapt it. Will report back if we improve it.

    2 ounces sloe gin

    1 ounce elderflower liqueur (we've got St. Germain's but there are many good brands)

    1 ounce lemon juice

    club soda

    Shake first three ingredients with ice, strain into ice filled tumbler, top with club soda

    If you don't mind bitter:

    Green Deacon (it's not green)

    Absinthe: rinse glass with absinthe & pour out any extra

    1 1/2 ounces dry gin

    3/4 ounce sloe gin

    1 ounce grapefruit juice (my spouse likes it with a little more than that so YMMV)

    Shake with ice, strain into glass

    there are more, but those are the ones we've made most recently and have been in our rotation. I didn't see your question but I haven't been in the gin thread for a while.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Oops who's the idoit? Its not sloe gin, its made with aronia berries, whatever they are, and is supposed to be similar to sloe gin. 

     

    But your sloe gin collins sounds intriguing. Thanks for the recs. 

     

     

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    I asked this in one of the booze threads, and got no answer, maybe you drunks can help: 

    I got a bottle of sloe gin from a friend. Its been sitting for too long. Any drink recipe recs?

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  5. 40 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

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    They aren’t going to seriously punish anybody on the football team.

     

    or any coaches. And if they aren't going to punish coaches, they aren't going to punish administration. I mean why should the fans suffer for the actions of the players?

     

    I attended Lake Travis elementary back before Lake Travis ISD even existed. Lake Travis elem was one of two elementary schools in Dripping Springs ISD at the time. Back then, other than the kids from Lakeway, everybody was redneck. And we were ALL white trash. 

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    I remember back before they closed off 6th to cars at night. All the fighting was under the I-35 underpass, and no one really watched or cared. Cops wouldn't even bother walking across the street from their headquarters. 

  7. On 4/5/2024 at 1:11 PM, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    what that tells me is people are aware of their local situation but know fuck all about other states or the country as a whole

     

    tells me that people are fucking stupid. 

     

     

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    WIth my wife its shoes. 

     

    I bought a new pair of hiking boots about a year ago, then maybe a month later, I bought a new pair of steel-toed work boots. Literally been over a decade since I had bought a pair of either. She asked me why I needed both types of boots. I didn't say anything, just pointed to the 20 pairs of shoes (all hers, except one pair of mine and one pair of my daugther's) stacked in the hallway next to the door. 

     

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  9. 10 hours ago, Bevo said:

    The motte-and-bailey fallacy (named after the motte-and-bailey castle) is a form of argument where an arguer conflates two positions that share similarities, one modest and easy to defend (the "motte") and one much more controversial and harder to defend (the "bailey"). The arguer advances the controversial position, but when challenged, insists that only the more modest position is being advanced. While this is considered a form of debate, it seems to me that it may be more than that and is a way that people think.

    People think that any person that they disagree with is nuttier than they really are. While their debater may have a reasonable position, the person arguing with the debater thinks the debater's position is extreme.

    Maybe there is a separate medical psychology term but I'm not aware of it. In politics it is pretty much a given that people think the opposing party members are nuts, but it is common in most subjects. A person who raises Pit bulls is thought of as a gang banger while he may just like raising Pit bulls. A person who likes guns is thought of as a violent instigator and not just an enthusiast.

    It seems to me that it a much more extreme person is easier to disagree with than a more moderate position. So, people naturally ascribe extreme positions to people simply because it makes it easier to argue with them. It may also make the person feel better about themselves when they engage in the argument.

    Anyway is this a common, well-described and well-understood phenomena or an unexplored area of human psychology? I'm just curious because I had never thought about it before and it seems like a good topic for Psychiatrists, Psychologists and Socieologists to consider.

    And while I described why people ascribe more extreme positions to their debater, I also feel that debaters themselves frequently have both modest and extreme positions and present both thoughts unknowingly through their subconscious. So, in this case people actually have more extreme positions than they let on. And in this case, people are actually more extreme than they let on. For example, a person might have extreme positions on overpopulation but when arguing they try to limit the discussion to water shortages but invariably the person adds in extreme comments like "we need a plague". Thoughts?

     

     

     

    Is this post some sort of meta motte and bailey thing where you are actually extreme, but your post seems reasonable?

     

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  10. 11 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    I truly don’t mean to frighten you, but I’ve been doing research with a Grand Mason to go through these issues.  Your mind will be blown.  It seems like rich people who have more money have an advantage in legal matters. With an unlimited budget, you can take a deposition of everyone who might possibly know anything.   If you’re poor, you can’t take that many depositions, and evidence that could help you might elude you because of resources.
     

     

    so you agree with Bozo when he says 

     

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    If I didn't know better I'd think there was some kind of inherent bias inside the legal system in favor of the rich and powerful at work here, but "never ascribe to wagon circling which is adequately explained by denial"

     

     

     

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  11. 2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Some of the comments:

    I am interested in the fact that Musk had a lawyer there who was not admitted to practice in Texas, engaged in the unauthorized practice of law, interfering with the deposition. Surely that is sanctionable.

    letting my client talk about running an alt account as a toddler then at the end going ahhh yes of course this will be confidential?

    "you're even less competent than Alex Jones's attorneys" should be a career-ending insult

     

    We need this:

     

     

    lol

     

     

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  12. On 4/5/2024 at 1:00 PM, scottsins said:


    THIS!

    I guess some would propose a solution along the lines of just having judges state:

    “ I know that there are rules and shit, but I really think this defendant is a danger to our country so I’m going to just do some shit that I never do otherwise, possible outside what is allowed by law.”

     

    you mean like what they did with the Guantanamo detainees? 

     

     

  13. On 4/5/2024 at 2:01 PM, NameAlreadyInUse said:

    On the one hand lock that fucker up.  On the other, it's a drop in the bucket.  I used to read a blog that once a week ran a list of all the people who were either clergy or outspoken "family values" republicans who had been arrested for either kiddie porn or else the rape of children.  I don't recall that list ever falling below 15 in any given week.

     

     

    how many drag queens, gays, atheists, or trans on that list?

     

     

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  14.  

    We watched it out in the sticks between Bracketville and Eagle Pass, right on the line. Cloudy, but we did get glimpses leading up to totality, and then maybe 2 or 2.5 minutes of totality (out of 4.5). I tore the lenses out of a pair of eclipse glasses and taped them over a pair of binoculars. Pretty spectacular. 

    Birds shut down, insects disappeared, could see what I guessed was Venus, and apparently I was right. 

     

    Even my 13 yr old was all like: 

     

     

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  15. On 3/28/2024 at 4:22 PM, hookem2010 said:

    I didn't read it and really enjoyed season 1, so hopefully it gets renewed. I'm sure the Saul character does too, since he's supposed to be the smartest person in the show but spent all of season one getting high.

     

    and fucking chicks. 

     

     

     

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