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The Royal We

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  1. This all hits a little too close to home. My relationship with my mom got really toxic during Covid/TFG's presidency. We had to basically make a pact to not discuss politics so we could try to maintain a healthy relationship. But she tells me she doesn't watch Fox News.
  2. We got a Volvo XC90 PEHV last December for my wife and we really like it so far. We live ~13 miles from the town where my kids go to school and she can drop them off, run an errand or two, and make it back home on battery alone (if it's not cold outside). She plugs it in when she gets home and it's fully charged when it's time to go back to town. I did have an electrician put in a 220 outlet and it cut the charging time down significantly. It would take almost all night to get a full charge previously. The real world battery range is ~32 miles or so, gas range is another ~400 miles I think? It's twitchy off the line too when the battery is fully charged.
  3. Pretty sure it is intentional. When your main goal is to scare the shit out of the rubes, then dark/ominous lighting is what you're going for.
  4. Good call Cucker! DEI was most definitely the downfall of SVB. 3 women on the leadership team, but not a whole lot of melanin in the room.
  5. He really needs his ass kicked. I'm not one to hearken back to the good ole days, but there was a time in our past when people that talked that much shit and ran their mouth constantly would get their ass kicked pretty quickly.
  6. Sorry man, really didn’t mean to be a dick. Just trying to save you from a lot of stress and anxiety. But maybe you are right and everyone else here is missing out.
  7. Yea, I'm not sure why you are so hung up on a canvas tent for camping in Texas, but I'm 99.9% sure that everyone (including yourself) is going to hate you if you buy any of those posted above. Those all have to be a royal pain in the ass to setup when compared to a modern/polyester tent. And trying to set up that pot belly stove and keep a fire going is going to be more work too. I have a 6 person tent from REI and have camped in it with all 3 of my kids multiple times. They sleep on single air mattresses and I sleep on a cot; wife stays home because it's not her thing. We've slept in it when it got down to 22ish degrees overnight and everyone, including my 5 y.o. girl at the time was fine. The one I have is the earlier model of this: REI also has an 8 person from North Face that looks amazing as well. I bet you could set this up in 15-20 minutes after your first try to figure it all out- https://www.rei.com/product/206321/the-north-face-wawona-8-tent
  8. The mother fucker has no shame. It takes about 1.5 seconds for him to eat the shit burger and keep plowing on with his next line of horseshit. “April 2022…”
  9. I hope to hell Dominion doesn't settle. I'm not even sure if they are considering that or not, but putting these fucks on the stand and making them say out loud what we know they already said in text messages may be our only hope to break people out of the echo chamber of bullshit. His closing is really the whole thing - a news organization in the United States argued that telling the truth would hurt their brand. What in the actual fuck!?
  10. Well said. I wish I liked more of it, but nothing comes close to grabbing me like Southeastern did. That might be an unfairly high bar as well though.
  11. Ho-lee-shit. An ad for this thing just popped up on my IG feed and sent me to their website. It can be all yours for only $249,900. https://www.vanguardmotorsales.com/inventory/4722/1979-ford-bronco-restomod-4x4
  12. I live on a pretty rural lake out in East Texas and see a lot of the birds posted up-thread by Anton. We have a pair of nesting Bald Eagles that have been around for a few years now and I see them quite a bit. I work from home most of the time and can always hear them chattering well before I can see them. When the lake was really low last fall I saw them hang out on the shore and pick apart a decent sized catfish with the quickness. I've been putting up Eastern Bluebird boxes for a few years and have an ongoing battle with the area rat snakes trying to get the babies. I put up a 5 foot section of stove pipe around the pole that the main box is mounted on yesterday and hope that puts an end to my problem. It's mounted outside the window to my office and I really enjoy watching the whole process. I saw a male scouting the other day but it was before I'd cleaned out the nest from the year before so they wouldn't take to the box. I really want to get a big set of Purple Martin pods but haven't pulled the trigger yet. Something like this: I have a friend that has some of these up out in the country near their pond and it's a lot of fun to watch them go to work. I've never noticed this thread before but will try to get some pictures to share.
  13. I just re-read the first page of this thread and it does a pretty good job of covering both sides of the argument. I tend to fall on the side of the argument that repealing 230 would make it very difficult to keep a site like Surly up. It would also make Tigerdroppings go away, so it might be worth it...
  14. After trolling around FB marketplace for most of the day this one looks like decent value. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/667210194948784/
  15. Yea, it looks to me like that black jeep speeds up to make the light and then the truck waiting just started to move to turn behind PH. Such a f'n shame that it was your bombjack bronco too. Not like you can just go scoop another one up with the insurance money. Sorry man, glad you are okay though. @Planet Houston
  16. Exactly. I'm a white dude with a scraggly beard and live in East Texas - random people feel comfortable assuming I'll just agree with whatever inane BS they spew. "No, I don't really know how much more expensive eggs are right now. My wife does the shopping and I'm pretty sure the increase is not even a rounding error in my monthly food spend." "Btw, we're at a 7th grade b-team basketball game, where did the egg talk come from?"
  17. You forgot about the real echo-chamber-of-bullshit - Facebook. People that live in a FNC/Facebook cocoon of BS are shocked when I push back on their hot takes. It's like they really never come into contact with anyone who doesn't agree with them on everything. They come in the Surl cloakroom and have to handwave it away as a cabal of leftist thought. It's a real shock to the system for garden-variety trumpaloos.
  18. My crusty ass beater bass boat wouldn't start the other day (just a dead battery) and made me feel the urge to get something a little newer and more reliable. I started poking around looking at used stuff thinking prices may have moderated a bit - FML. I haven't been watching them long enough yet to tell if boats are actually moving at these asking prices, but holy shit man. I'm looking for an aluminum boat around 19-20 ft, bass boat or center console, 2015 - 2020ish, with at least 50 hp. You can't find much of anything under 20k that doesn't look like a total junker. This is the best value I've seen so far and it's really not quite as big as I want. I've got 3 kids and they all like to fish. Taking all of them on something like this is asking for a trip to the hospital. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/6234223276607041/ An Avid or Ranger rt would be ideal, but I'd rather not spend 35k on an aluminum boat.
  19. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CoiQli7D_4K/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Which one of you nasty fuckers sharted at the WM Open? You know this itched like a bastard when it dried.
  20. Someone even brought up Zelensky's wife's spending habits - I heard she has been seen in Paris recently at all the luxury shops!!1!1!!1!one!!! Like we are just giving Ukraine bags full of cash and they are helping themselves to it. GTFOHWTMFBS
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