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HouTex

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  1. New daily hospital admissions in Harris County (pop. 4.7 million) for the last week beginning July 3: 37, 40, 39, 41, 47, 36, and 33 today. Per Seatrac.org.
  2. I can’t understand litter on a hiking trail far away from roads, but a lot of roadside litter is from trash flying out of the back of open bed trucks. Workers don’t give a shit if the garbage they toss in the back goes flying out somewhere along the way. I see stuff flying out of truck beds just about every time I’m on a Houston freeway.
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    Fat People

    My pecker would be limp as a wet noodle in front of that gross fat ass.
  4. I’m not quite as aggressive but yeah.
  5. HouTex

    Fat People

    Vic comparisons are always fair game and make for a good laugh. I’ve seen some of his beauties, but they look like Kate Moss compared to the CK model.
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    Fat People

    This. No one on this planet thinks she is physically attractive.
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    Fat People

    That cannot be real. Just disgraceful.
  8. The people that are really scared of flying just shouldn’t fly. We were on one of my kid’s spring break trips to Mexico, or maybe the Bahamas, and a woman in her late 20s directly behind us whimpered and cried the entire flight. She just could not settle down. Her young husband or boyfriend tried to console her but nothing would help. It’s distressing to hear an adult cry and whimper for three hours.
  9. The OP was clearly in the right. The tougher call is when I’m asked to give up my relatively comfortable aisle seat for a shitty middle seat between two fatties so a mom can sit next to her teen age kids. On short flights I’m happy to do it but on a long flight I generally say I’m happy to move so long as I get a comparable aisle seat.
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    Fat People

    This. Nothing in your post deserved Celery’s first sentence. Your post was spot on. We need to say it more often that people are responsible for what they put in their mouth. Saying so is not being mean. I’m all for educating people about nutrition and calories. I learned about that in 9th grade Texas public school in 1977. Have we stopped doing that?
  11. Getting really sick of the rain in Houston. I don’t think we’ve had five days without rain in the last 3 months. I’m guessing we have had 1.5 inches in the last 30 min in 77057 and still coming down.
  12. Ribs and chicken on the egg. Ribs cooked too long but they taste great. Just too tender and fall off the bone. Didn’t have time today for brisket. Chicken is awesome.
  13. You should have way more optimism. We can always improve-who can’t, but we are the greatest nation ever conceived.
  14. My favorite part. John Adams’s speech at the church in the first episode of the HBO miniseries hits it as well. Our rights are not granted by the state. They are inherent in our being, or if you believe in the Almighty, they are God-given: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed . . .
  15. Not exactly your point, but those seemingly random caps were probably acceptable at the time. The Declaration of Independence also had some random caps that you would not see in modern English. Adams was well educated and he probably would not have written his wife using improper English.
  16. As one of my law school professors said, “lawyers publish their mistakes, doctors bury their’s.”
  17. John Adams' July 2, 1776 letter to his wife, Abigail: "I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more. You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. -- I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. -- Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not."
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    Fat People

    Ok. I don’t disagree. Yet there needs to be an acknowledgment that being fat is bad for everyone. There’s a tremendous burden on all of us. I get that humans are not perfect and we all have issues, but we need to more actively encourage people to lose weight.
  19. It doesn’t seem like we have a resident expert, but I’m wondering what it takes to bring a building like this down. Just one pillar would do it?
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    Fat People

    Not sure exactly what fat shaming is but we need to be actively encouraging fat people to lose weight. Covid was a great opportunity to issue PSAs for people to lose weight.
  21. What ever you think about this case, we should think long and hard about having no SOL for rape cases.
  22. I was in Chase Tower when that happened. I felt it but I don’t recall being scared or anything. I was in my shower in Briargrove when the gas pipeline leak outside of Brenham blew up in the early 90’s. That sounded like thunder a few miles away.
  23. I loved his albums as a kid (early 70’s). My grandmother had all of them and when she babysat me I played them over and over. They never got old.
  24. Yep. As bad as this apparent engineering/maintenance failure is, it's not the first and it won't be the last structural failure. Thankfully, they are rare. The Hyatt hotel walkway collapse in Kansas City killed over 100 people in 1981 and the Oakland/SF area double deck freeway collapse during the 1989 World Series earthquake killed over 40. Who had the bright idea to build a double deck freeway in the middle of earthquake central and then not design it well enough to withstand a major earthquake? Those are just two events that I recall in my lifetime. Probably several more if I think about it a while.
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