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Ojo Rojo

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  1. This is dumb. We got it today too, but it's an advance on a credit for which we don't qualify. It'll just get deducted from whatever refund we would've gotten so I won't have to write the IRS a check, but still. My wife thinks this is a good thing. I should put that in the Stupid Wives thread.
  2. Haha. My dad didn't have any mags, none that I ever found, anyway, but he did have a VHS tape of some real nasty 70's porn. It was a trilogy about incest called "Taboo."
  3. The funniest of these to me are the ones where dudes try to smoke random shit. I don't know why that's so funny to me. To wit, I once made a pipe out of a 90 degree galvanized pipe fitting and the end of a water hose. Rode my bike a couple of miles on a busy two lane highway in the country at night to go buy Garbage Pail Kids cards at the nearest store. Easily should have been killed. Probably the actual dumbest thing I've ever done.
  4. And then that kid put some dynamite in a lady's mailbox and blew her up, which caused this chain reaction that ended up with the kid's friend with no arms or legs.
  5. All of this throwing rocks at cars stuff, dang. That shit is dangerous. I seem to remember a news story from a year or two ago where four teens were throwing rocks off an overpass at cars and actually killed someone. I think those kids got prison time. I never considered doing that, probably because throwing rocks was verboten in our household ever since a neighbor kid threw a rock and hit my brother in the face with it and my dad almost killed that kid.
  6. My buddy's dad reloaded his own shotgun shells, so he had all the tools and stuff for it, including....gunpowder. We made rocket propelled cars out of pipes and wheels we scavenged off toys. Not sure how close we actually got to making pipe bombs and blowing off our fingers. My buddy's dad was also a machinist so he had a shop full of tools and shit. One time we made Chinese stars out of solder. His dad got pissed when he saw them; apparently solder was expensive. It was soft metal and didn't make very good throwing stars anyway.
  7. Hoo-boy. Let's see, I'll start with this one: The neighbor lady was obese and all of the neighborhood kids made fun of her. One day we were bored and I thought it would be a good idea to fuck with her. So we made this greeting card for her. On the outside it said, "To: Mrs. (Obese Woman's Name). When you opened it up it said on one side, "Fuck you, Jabba the Hutt." On the other side was a picture of a hand shooting the rod. Our story was going to be that we found this note in the road and that it was left by some random person. So we ran over it a few times with our bikes to put tire marks on it and complete the alibi. Obese lady was out mowing her grass on her sagging riding lawnmower. We sent my little brother over to deliver the card. He got about halfway when I panicked. I realized at that moment the whole idea was stupid and that we would be caught and I would end up getting my ass whipped. I screamed at my brother to come back and not give her the card. But it was too late. He couldn't hear me over the mower (or he chose to ignore me, knowing it was my ass). He handed it to her and she opened it and read it. I will never forget the look on her face. Face contorted in anger. She turned red. She immediate got off the lawnmower and started coming to my house. All of the other kids scattered. I ran inside and started pleading with my mom that the neighbor lady was coming over and she was going to accuse me of writing something to her that I didn't do. My mom just said that she would be able to tell based on the handwriting if it was me. Handwriting! Fuck me! Up until that point I hadn't considered I'd be identified by my handwriting! Anyway, mom saw it, admitted it was me and apologized to the fat bitch. Then she sent me to my room for the rest of the day to wait for my dad to get home. I was shitting bricks the whole time, but all he did when he got home was talk to me about why the card was wrong. In truth, I'm sure they both had a big laugh over it.
  8. Oh, and it's actually Asian Pawn. It's an obscure move in chess. It's where you castle your king and feint with your rook to knight 6. I saw it in the Queen's Gambit.
  9. I don't know all of the ins and outs and what have you's of this case, but just based on the 20 mins. of what I watched during this hearing here's what I saw: The Trump lawyers are shitty people, which is why they would take the job of representing Trump in a bogus voter fraud case in the first place. They also are not good lawyers. This was a sanctions hearing over really just one question: What did the lawyers do to vet the information they received before filing it with the court? The answer should have been, "We interviewed a bunch of witnesses who became our affiants. They appeared to be sincere and reliable. We believed them and took them at their word, which was not unreasonable. We also hired expert witnesses to inform additional aspects of the claims. So, we did conduct at least the minimal degree of inquiry to avoid sanctions. They should have also said, "Today is not a trial on the merits and most of the questions asked during the hearing go to the weight of the evidence, not the level of inquiry performed by counsel." They didn't do that though. The judge seemed predisposed to rule against the Trump lawyers. I wasn't impressed with the judge. The formulation of the questions, the interplay with counsel - none of it was good. She didn't really have control over the hearing and didn't seem to have command of the issues. Very unlike the federal judges in SDTX. And I know this, NO ONE would get away with talking to the judge like the bow tie guy did in SDTX.
  10. Blatantly disrespecting the judge. Sneering. I can't believe it. You disrespect a federal judge at your peril, friendo.
  11. We're gettin' Scherzer!!!
  12. Wee Man isn't dead. Dammit. Several others already posted this. Sorry.
  13. This. That arm wing thing he does is annoying af.
  14. One positive thing came from the video. The capitol police were a lot more professional and valiant than I first believed. They really did try to hold them back. They were just severely outnumbered and they were not equipped. Utter failure of leadership, but not the rank and file.
  15. Watched it. Disturbing. All of those stupid fucks (with the exception of a couple who died in the event) are still among us.
  16. I saw the govt. send out trillions of dollars in stimulus money and then saw inflation because there were too many dollars chasing too few goods and services. I didn't think maybe we overdid the stimulus because of people screaming. Don't get me wrong - I was in favor of the stimulus. Still am, though I think there are a lot of people who got it and didn't need it and a lot of people who needed it and didn't get it or get enough. There is a limit to govt. spending. Fiscal deficits can have negative consequences. That's not a political statement.
  17. The worst thing I have ever seen on the internet was on TOS. It was on the thread, NSFW Horrible Shit You Can't Unsee, or something to that effect. I didn't look at everything on there, but for whatever reason I clicked on one thing that scarred me for life. It was photos of men who had cut off their own dicks. Apparently it's a mental condition or a fetish or something. But there were pics of a bunch of stumps or less. Can't unsee.
  18. Agree 100%. I know these are unusual times, but I've never seen price increases like this in my lifetime and it scared me. What scared me even more was that the experts, govt. officials and media acknowledged it, but said it's temporary. Seemed like whistling past the graveyard. We've had price increases, but other drivers of inflation, like massive influxes of cash into the economy from the federal government, are also present. It sure felt like we overdid it with the stimmies when maybe we didn't need to. Or didn't target the money to the right places. I guess we'll see.
  19. Sorry, I thought prices falling is what you meant by "settle back." I agree that deflation is bad, but if you have a spike in prices followed by decrease, would that still be deflation? I guess it would depend over how long of a period you net it out. Anyway, glad to see the price of lumber going down. That's a big one.
  20. This goes back to what I said originally - prices have already risen noticeably and I don't believe businesses are going to just voluntarily roll back prices. I think those price increases are here to stay and I think the buying power of our dollars has already shrunk. I'm not worried about growth. Pent up demand from the pandemic will help a lot.
  21. What about from Feb. 1, 2020 to now? And the coming months? That's the period where it appears that inflation will blow past that target.
  22. Sorry, mate, I'm not an economist. Can you please 'splain?
  23. PPPBBBBTTHHH!!! In her world, reason is superfluous. In her world, giving me a reason means I win.
  24. Speaking of trips, my wife refuses to use luggage unless we are getting on a plane. So for weekend trips using the car, which are most of our trips, she uses open top bags for all of her shit. Clothes, toiletries, hair dryers, everything, just stuffed in fucking bags . Does the same thing with groceries - paper sacks upon paper sacks of groceries. That might not sound that bad, but when you go to pack the car you understand what is wrong with this. Shit easily falls out of bags that don't even have a way to close. Plus, open bags really don't stack well, so they have to go on top. As opposed to cuboid shaped suitcases and totes that stack and pack very well. Shit drives me crazy. I've asked her nicely, even if she doesn't understand the reasons why, to please, pretty fucking please with a cherry on top - use a fucking suitcase. Refuses.
  25. I'm not going to take the time to game out an entire scenario, but I can tell you that massive inflation and the resulting recession or depression will be a big part of it. Inflation scares me and it's already happening. Real estate prices skyrocketing to ridiculous levels. Consumer prices for ever good under the sun going up, up , up. "Experts" are saying it's temporary; I say bullshit. Like everyone is going to just miraculously lower their prices to pre- post-pandemic levels? Riiiiiiiggghhhttt...
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