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  1. 3 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

    Parents who try and be "cute" and give their kids these names are the fucking worst.

    My buddy wanted to name his first kid (a girl) after his dad, who has a unisex type of name. His dad said, please don't, I hate my name. They did it anyway but spelled it all fucked up, just to be different I guess. Years later, he told me "I regret that. She's gonna have people pronouncing her name wrong for the rest of her life". 

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  2. On 10/10/2023 at 11:24 AM, Mitch Cumsteen said:

    All of this was a pre-emptive strike to remind my wife of just how much Halloween shit she has and prevent her from buying more. I don't think it's going to work.

    It's just going to let her know which stuff she doesn't have yet. And another trip to Target will commence. 

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  3. 6 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

    Every qb is good in this offense

    Well, there was one guy that just couldn't cut the mustard. We traded him to....wait a sec....

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  4. Flipping around football games yesterday and watched some of the end of the Eagles game. They pan into the crowd and there's a guy wearing a cool hat. Not an eagles hat, I don't like the eagles at all. It looked like the old powder blue Phillies stuff they used to wear in the 70s. But it's not a phillies hat, it had something else written on it in the old phillies font. It took me under 2 minutes to find this hat online. It's from a surf shop in New Jersey, of all places.

    It just made me think about when I was a kid watching a movie or tv show, and I'd see a guy wearing a cool t-shirt or hat or something and wish I had that. There was no way to figure out where the item was from or how to get it. Now I can find out in minutes. 

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  5. 2 hours ago, Rockwell Torrey said:

    Sadly, I think they have been doing this with Feinstein for the last year or so.

    I don't get these old-ass politicians. Why don't they just go home and spend their remaining years with their grandkids and great-grandkids? Do they hate their families too much or do their families hate them? It can't be the money, none of those pricks are poor. Is the allure of power too much to overcome? If I have to listen to my 76 year old dad tell the same damn story for the 100th time, their families should have to do the same. 

  6. 1 hour ago, luke duke said:

    I’d ask for compensation for ruining your favorite tree, in addition to removal costs.

    I mean, I took all of my resume photos next to this tree. It's like family!

    I called the project manager and explained how the tree has been cut up and how I'm concerned about the stability and would like it to be removed. I think he was caught off guard and was expecting me to bitch about how much I loved the tree. He said he would talk to his superintendent and one of them would be in contact. 

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  7. I had a letter put on my front door last week, stating that my city (not in Texas FWIW) had contracted them to replace a sanitary sewer pipe in my area. The letter stated that they would excavate a hole in my yard and take down some fence panels but when they were done, they would put everything back as it was. I called the project manager, who listed his contact info on the letter, and asked for further details. He said the same thing, that they would determine where the pipe is and dig a hole and blah blah. I was satisfied with what he said.

    I came home Monday and found that my yard looked like a WW1 battlefield. I get it, dirt comes out of a hole and it has to go somewhere, no biggie. But the area in which they're working is right along my back fence, where there happens to be a large tree. There was a large backhoe in there and to get the backhoe where it needed to be, they have cut off a decent sized portion of my tree. Now, I don't like this tree and it is starting to lean towards my neighbor's yard and I'd love to have it cut down. The area of the tree they have cut off is near the bottom, so I'm concerned it might be a little top heavy. Combine that with the dirt being dug up and now I wonder if that make is even more unstable.

    I was thinking about calling the project manager again and telling him my concerns and see if they would just cut the tree down. I'd even be willing to kick in a little cash but I'm not gonna say that unless he brought it up. I don't want to just be some complaining Karen but if they hadn't come in and dug shit up, I'm not having these concerns about the tree right now. 

    Would asking for them to cut the tree down be an asshole move? 

  8. My wife and I were chatting when she got home from work yesterday, talking about our days. She mentioned that her assistant was going to be off on Thursday and Friday. I asked why and she said "That's the anniversary of her mom's death and she always takes off that day". I stopped for a second and realized that the anniversary of my mom's death....is today. 16 years ago. It seems like much longer. My sister and I used to call and talk on this date every year, but I don't remember doing that for quite a few years. I was going to call my dad for unrelated reasons but now I think I'll wait till tomorrow. I don't know if he'll bring it up and I just can't handle listening to him talk about it. 

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  9. 20 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

    Call me old-fashioned, but I see to it that the GF rarely, if ever, has to pump gas.  If we are driving together in her car, I will always top it off if it's below 1/2.  If I haven't driven it in a few days, I check the level and if it's south of 1/2, I run it to the station.   It's a little thing that I know she appreciates, because I've heard her tell her sister that she cannot remember the last time she got gas on her own.

    I don't think my mother ever filled up her own car. My dad would go out whenever it got low and gas it up. When I was younger, he'd ask me if I wanted to go, and it was some nice father/son bonding. 

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  10. 2 hours ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

    Grandpa was a piece of work.   I remember riding in his truck and the conversations.   He was a medic in WWII.   He would get mad when I told him he was a nurse.   “I wasn’t a fucking nurse”.  “Yes you were, I have your nurse bag right here”.  “That’s a war bag, son.” Call it what you want, looks like something a nurse would carry.  “ Look you little shit, you have no idea.”  You’re right I don’t.   Then we would pull into Praseks and eat. He may have been a nurse, but he was a badass.  

    My buddy was a medic in Afghanistan. When his unit would go door to door, he was the breacher that went in with a 12 gauge. He got to go home on leave when his son was born. Fast forward to today, his son is 13 and playing the new Call of Duty game. My buddy is watching him play and his son had built a breacher class, complete with a 12 gauge and whatnot. He tells his son "Hey, that's me. I did that in the war.". He said his son looked at him and scoffed "Pfft, you were just a medic". 

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  11. 39 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    My mothers parents were both alive until I was in junior high. Of course, I never met them because they declined to spend the money on a bus or air ticket to ever go and meet their daughter’s two sons.

    Priorities. 

    My mom's father was like that. Her folks lived in Colorado, we were in California and then Oklahoma. He couldn't be bothered to visit. My grandmother came out once. We went up there 2 or 3 times. I only met him 5 times in my life. He was never rude or shitty towards us, just didn't really care. I had my first grandchild 5 months ago and I worry about how that relationship works. I've never had a grandfather give me a hug and tell me he loves me. My dad's dad died before I was born, this is foreign territory for me.

    My other kid is having a baby next year, so I need to un-fuck myself and figure it out, I suppose.

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  12. Just now, nnm said:

    I grew up mostly in northern NM. I had chile with every meal. 

    Both of my folks were born in the 40s and raised in the midwest (Indiana & Iowa). I spent most of my childhood in the Philippines or western Europe. My first introduction to tacos was from Taco Mayo in the OKC suburbs. But I had already been eating stuff like fried rice and lumpia from our time in the PI, so I was somewhat cultured.

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