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NotActuallyALonghorn

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  1. 4 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    Hanlon's.

    Razor.

    I will never understand why people insist on preferring the belief that a sinister conspiracy, requiring complex action and perfect timing, is what happened, instead of....slipshod maintenance and operations and cheap-ass ownership and management.  I mean, we see the second circumstance all the time, every day.  The laws of mathematics tell us that every once in a while, those circumstances will combine to bite us in the ass.

    I don't rule out anything -- that's why investigations are done.  Sometimes they find bizarre things in play.  But the odds are overwhelmingly high that this was a stack of fuckups that led to a serial fuckup at the exact worst time.  See Challenger disaster, see Titanic, see any number of other industrial accidents.  If the brakes fail on a semi as it is backing up in a Love's travel stop, it doesn't make the news.  And that happens.  If the brakes on that same truck fail when it's at a highway speed and it plows through a school bus killing a dozen kids . . . we all hear about it.  And in case 2, people like Zeus are asking "who disabled the brakes?  DO THE RESEARCH!"  When in reality, both failures were due to shitty maintenance and someone cheaping out on the proper care for the brakes.

     

    FTFY

  2. Make sure your compressor is heavy duty enough. I've nearly been stranded because of relying on a cheap light duty one. I'd also look into something you could buryor some sort of heavy bag you could fill with dirt/sand/rocks and attach your winch to in the event there isn't anything else. 

  3. 11 hours ago, Celery Man said:

    In high school my sister took forever to get anywhere. I rode with her once and realized that she only knew how to get anywhere from our house, so she would drive from wherever we were to our house and then from there to the next destination.

    I knew a girl in high school who refused to make left turns. She would have to figure out how to get wherever she was going without making a left turn. Which, in retrospect, is fairly impressive on its own. 

  4. 5 hours ago, deft said:


    Didn’t that close a year ago?

    Yeah, I would assume most of them have gone through by now,  but you never know. I got mine back in October after submitting it right at the deadline.

  5. If it was an amnesty SBR, you can still reapply by paper. Try and find out the age t who reviewed it and try to speak to them. Mine went through despite only sending in one fingerprint card instead of two. 

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  6. On 4/26/2024 at 8:47 AM, Celery Man said:

    anyone else's wife have their paycheck set up for $0 withheld for income tax?

    Yup. Wife started a new job after a few years raising the little ones. Asks me how much we are getting back from our tax return. We'll actually...

    Somehow it's my fault. 

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  7. It's literally set during the time period post reformation where catholics and protestants had been at war with each other on and off for nearly a century. 

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  8. On 4/25/2024 at 10:56 PM, NeverMarryAStripper said:

    I had an Arabian (3/4 Arabian 1/4 Paint) gelding when I lived in Magnolia.  He was a smart fucker.  He knew how to open the gate to his pasture.  Every morning, when I went to sit on the back porch to drink my coffee, he would open his gate and come graze in the backyard next to me.  After that, I would take him back to his pasture and feed him.  When I moved back to Houston, he went to live with my niece, who jumped him in competition.  I finally sold him a couple of years ago.  Baladi Al Katir (my daughter called him Mr. Chips) was a good horse even though he threw me and busted up my shoulder.

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    I read that as Mongolia at first. Would have been way cooler if it was Mongolia. 

  9. 22 hours ago, MrBig said:

    I said in the shit that makes you surly thread that it pisses me off when people use “how come” instead of “why” because it sounds fucking stupid and I’ve decided it’s a clear sign of low intelligence. 

     

    I think it's even more of a clear sign of low intelligence when someone assumes that people using informal speech (speech with provenance that goes back to Shakespeare at least) have low intelligence while themselves using informal speech. Any person possessing a basic education should be able to realize that "how come" is an informal shortening of the phrase "how did it come to be that." Do you feel similarly about other phrases such as "y'all" being so shortened?

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  10. 23 hours ago, BurntEyes said:

    380, as in 9mm kurtz or 308? I'd add 300 blackout to that list too. In fact, aside from ammo price, I'd be okay not having 556 personally. 

    As for fun, I love my lever in 38/357 and if you get a Ruger Vacaro you can run both with fairly inexpensive 38. 

    I have also think it required to add 22 ans 12 g.

    Rabbit hole, I found it.

    I'll see myself out.

    I have a few SAA clones in .38/.357 and a Miroku made Winchester 1873 in .357 that is the smoothest lever action you will ever shoot, but unfortunately it is picky on bullet overall length because of the way the carrier block in the actual works. The one time I tried .38 in it I had to remove the magazine cap to get it unjammed. 

  11. 8 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    I would take seriously the grave warnings but wouldn’t get too excited about any alleged U.S. kinetic action in space— which would undermine the warnings we are sending out. 

    So it was mid February of this year, and it was specifically about Russia nuclear capabilities in space with regards to anti satellite stuff. If they put an EMP in orbit to destroy some or one of our satellites you don't think we'd shoot it down as a matter of course to show we won't tolerate that sort of stuff?

    8 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    I would take seriously the grave warnings but wouldn’t get too excited about any alleged U.S. kinetic action in space— which would undermine the warnings we are sending out. 

    So it was mid February of this year, and it was specifically about Russia nuclear capabilities in space with regards to anti satellite stuff. If they put an EMP in orbit to destroy some or one of our satellites you don't think we'd shoot it down as a matter of course to show we won't tolerate that sort of stuff?

  12. 1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    A month or two ago, there was a news story I happened across on one of the UFO subreddits that there was something in space that was gravely concerning to the US government. A week or so later, there was a news story about a satellite deorbitting and burning up in the atmosphere. Of course they said it was some ordinary satellite, but I wonder if that was a cover for us shooting down a satellite with a nuke or maybe an EMP. Prime tinfoil hat stuff, yes, but certainly not out of the realm of possibility. 

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