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  1. 4 minutes ago, 1978horn said:


    I’m dumb, delete user

    No, something is off in those numbers.  The statewide water demand in 2020 was 7.7 million acre-feet.  https://www.twdb.texas.gov/waterplanning/swp/2022/docs/04-SWP22_Future-Population.pdf  Samsung was not using 7.5 million acre-feet, virtually all of the water demand of Texas.  ...Too preoccupied with enjoying the heavy rainfall right now in 78756 to reconcile the math...

  2. 1 hour ago, Ted Lange said:

     

    Woman Asks Fellow Passenger To Move From Business Class to Economy So She Can Move Her Husband Up

    "He's already heading this way!" the passenger recalls the woman telling him in a post shared on the subreddit, 'Entitled People'

    A Reddit user recounted a shocking request made of him by a fellow passenger.

    In a post shared on the Entitled People subreddit, the user canada11235813 recalled an incident in which the woman sitting next to him in business class asked him to voluntarily downgrade his seat so that she could sit next to her husband, who was seated in economy, in business.

    The original poster (OP) was on a flight from Toronto to Vancouver on an unnamed airline when he says the woman sitting next to him in a two-seat center pod configuration asked him if he'd mind switching seats with her husband so the couple could sit together.

    He said yes assuming that her husband was sitting somewhere else in business class, at which point the woman casually revealed that her husband's seat was actually 18B — a middle seat in economy.

    "You can't seriously expect me to swap a pod for a MIDDLE seat at the back of the bus. Are you kidding me?" OP recalled saying, adding that he kept looking around to see if he was being recorded for some kind of YouTube prank.

    Not only was she serious, she proceeded to throw a tantrum over OP's refusal, saying "But you said you would! He's already heading this way!"

    The woman, he says, had originally been seated in economy with her husband, but took a free upgrade when it was offered to her, apparently assuming someone would readily downgrade their seat so she could sit with her spouse.

    The OP said that if she could find someone in business class to switch with her husband, he'd move to any pod in the section so that they could sit together in the double pod. Or, she could sit with her husband back in economy.

    Seemingly unhappy with these options, he says, she replied, "But we both want to sit together up here!"

    Unable to facilitate either option because of the seating assignments, OP writes, she eventually sat down and traveled apart from her husband for the 5-hour flight.

     

    https://people.com/woman-asks-passenger-move-from-business-class-coach-for-husband-8599345

    While not the same thing, this reminds me of the time my wife (no pics) and I were upgraded on a MEX-AUS flight.  But, we were in like 3B and 3C which on that plane happened to be two aisle seats rather than right next to each other.  When we got settled in, a woman asked my wife if she would switch seats so she could sit next to her husband, which would have moved my wife to a completely different row.   We declined and indicated we'd prefer to stay sitting by each other, and the woman got all huffy.  After they got seated, my wife, being gracious, and tried to clear the air with the husband, and he just rolled his eyes, threw his hands up in desperation, and gave the look of a typical defeated husband who knew his wife was being unreasonable but he had to take her side anyway.  I'm guessing there is a reasonable chance this encounter was with a fellow surly poster, haha.  But, was it wrong to not agree to their switcheroo request just because my wife and I wanted to sit "next" to each other, even while divided by an aisle? 

  3. 33 minutes ago, texasdago said:

    This.  It has to be utter humiliation not that he has any shame or a conscience to feel humiliation.

    Put him on an uninhabited island in the Bering Strait so he's close to Mother Russia.  Give him a small but comfortable house with a TV that only gets CNN.  Stock him up periodically with food supplies and toiletries, but he's on his own to cook and clean.  Stock him up with board games, puzzles, books, and whatnot.  Have Secret Service vigorously monitor the island from afar.  Generously allow visitors once a week.  By any other standard, a highly compassionate house arrest.  Way more humiliation than the celebrity status he would enjoy at any actual prison facility.

  4. 1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

    "Fast Truck" is absolutely the dumbest thing I've heard this month, and I've heard and read a whole bunch of dumb things this month.  You should feel shame.

    Haha, so true - Fast Truck would be horrible, that idea.  It was intended as a dig on formulaic country songs, not as a way to make it better, but pointing out how he missed a golden opportunity to kill two birds with one stone (make the cover his own, and check the "truck" box for the song). 

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  5. On 7/19/2023 at 10:29 PM, boilerhorn said:

    This one was shared by @jimmyjazz in the "cmt pulls aldean video" thread on "Daily Texan".  Might as well share it here.

     

     

    Jeez, what an abomination of a cover.  When it comes on the radio I can't change the channel fast enough, except half the time on shitty Austin radio its playing on at least one other station at the same time.  The dude broke the cover song honor code and didn't even try to change up his version, even a little.  It's generic and soulless.  Could you at least have made the song "Fast Truck", or sung it from the perspective of the other character (presumably the boyfriend) in the song?  Nope - instead we get to hear a country bumpkin twangin' on about being a homeless woman with an out of work boyfriend, desperately dreaming of a better life.  The whole thing just isn't plausible - I mean, redneck dudes don't live in shelters, work in convenience stores, have partners (girlfriends/boyfriends?) who put their arm around their shoulder while driving fast cars.  He even kept the line about how he's gonna work in the market as a checkout girl.  It's the same as if I learned to mimic 99 Luftballons so I could do a killer karaoke performance - yep, I could do it, but I wouldn't have a damn clue about the words I was singing.  The only silver lining of this atrocity is that it put a black female songwriter on the top of the country charts for the first time, and I can only imagine she's laughing at this cracker all the way to the bank.

     

  6. 3 hours ago, zman13 said:

    So is going to Xochimilco worth it? Have heard lots of reviews and lots of different opinions. 

    Seems like it could be a lot of fun. 

    Also seems like a big detour, crowded, lots of people selling things, etc. 

     

    Absolutely yes, it is worth it.  We were there last month on a Saturday afternoon and it was almost entirely locals.  Yes, it was crowded, but on the water it didn't seem overly so, because after going through a bottleneck of party boats, you'd hit a more peaceful stretch to chill out for a bit.  None of the sellers tried a hard sell - just wave them off, and they get it.  Or, beckon them over and check out what they've got.  The whole experience was fascinating, and while kitschy, it seemed like a glimpse into authentic Mexican family fun; and at least the day we were there, felt like it was off the beaten path of the US tourist circuit.

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  7. 39 minutes ago, Brothahorn said:

    Oh my bad.

    Really dumb taking your sidepiece when you change jobs. Only thing missing from his terrible decision making is a bastard baby.

    Yep.  I just got my wife (no pics) up to speed on this story, and the very first words out of her mouth were: "What was he thinking bringing his mistress to Alabama with him?  If there's one thing Alabama's got, it's pretty girls willing to fuck a football coach.  They may be dumber than a box of rocks, but they're pretty."

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  8. On 3/21/2021 at 10:14 AM, South Austin said:

    Had a great date night on the second level patio at Olive & June last night. Perfect weather and still solid food.

    Minor complaint – They ask that you complete your meal in two hours, which is understandable, because given the revenue hit restaurants have suffered the past year they want to turn as many tables as possible to start making money again. But it made the service feel much more rushed, and we couldn’t enjoy a cocktail or glass of wine between courses, as it was all served in pretty quick succession.

    Oh man, at that restaurant's price point, that's downright tacky and rude to overtly suggest a time limit - but let me tell you, Olive & June has been rushing meals since way before the pandemic.  On our first visit, they brought our cocktails and seemed pushy to get the order placed right then.  We said sure, we're ready to order, but please let us enjoy our drinks before bringing the appetizer, we are in no rush.  Well, the appetizer came right out, and the entree got plopped down onto our table soon thereafter, before we even touched the appetizer.  On our second visit we emphasized to our waiter that we were looking forward to a leisurely evening, and we purposely spaced out the ordering process to assure this - but we got the distinct impression over the course of the meal that they were itching to turn the table, something that shouldn't ever happen at a restaurant who fancies themselves of a certain caliber.

  9. Just voted!  1 hour in Central Austin at the Rec Center.  I had the extreme displeasure of having two elderly mask-avoiding Aggy standing behind me at far too close a distance.

    After being in line for 30 minutes, they tried to cut ahead of me in line because I guess I wasn't moving fast enough??  I called them out on it, and they said, oh, we thought you just got here.  wtf?  The dude in front of me turned around and said, no, he's been here.   Then the old lady actually bumped into my back with her face because she shuffled forward and "wasn't paying attention".  At the actual building entrance there was a hand sanitizer station.  The old lady asked her husband - do we HAVE to use it before going in? He said, no, you're good.  Of course, with my luck they got the voting booth next to mine.  She couldn't figure it all out, so the old maroon-shirted grampa loudly pointed out how to vote for Trump and Cornyn - that's all that matters, I don't know about any other those others.  God help us!! 

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  10. 39 minutes ago, cmontexas said:

    10 face 5 body girls are disappointing relative to the effort expended

    The 10 body can eventually talk myself into that 5 face.

    Yep.  Willing to consider a butterface.  A butterbody would be a no-go. 

    But as has been pointed out, butterbodies are exceedingly rare since the attributes that make a body a 5 or lower usually rule out anything above a 7 face.

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