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  1. I can't answer the question. I just know that I use the AmEx platinum and don't worry about it. I've given back several cars with dents. I think I had one at Frankfurt and I just walked away like LOL don't care. But that's not the story I wanted to tell.

    I was driving in England and Scotland for a couple weeks. Went to the Macallan distillery. Ran into a guy from, I think, San Marcos, so we start chatting. I finally get around to the big question. "So, did you wreck the car yet?". He said he dented it a bit. I survived without damage but it was blind luck. The point is, those fucking roads are insane, and I think I've driven in all the most insane places, at least in Europe. The drivers aren't insane, just the roads. The hedgerows will be brushing against the side mirror more than once while passing.

    Scotland is so damn beautiful. If I go back I need to hit Islay for the distilleries there, I freaking love peated whiskey.

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  2. 35 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

    Almost 30 years ago now, I was part of an amphibious readiness group that participated in a combined force exercise with the Jordanians.  We pulled in to Aqaba for three weeks.   The Marines went ashore for exercises, and the ships’ crews got to hang out in port for the entire time.  
     

    The Jordanians treated us right.  The visit fell over the 4th of July, so they lent us the use of the picnic grounds at the Royal Jordanian Dive Center to have an Independence Day barbecue bash.  They didn’t even flinch when we busted out the whole suckling pigs to cook over their pits.  For the full three weeks, they allowed Sailors full access to the dive club and free use of snorkeling gear.   I’ve dove and snorkeled all over the world, and the Gulf of Aqaba has some of the most beautiful water and reefs I’ve ever seen.  The Jordanians also organized multiple trips to Petra for the crews.  That was a truly surreal experience.  
     

    Jordan is a solid ally and they walk the walk. 
     

     

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  3. 59 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

    It leaves us with a bunch of DT crybabies shitting themselves with fear because someone they don’t know came to a person’s door, delivered an anodyne letter, and left without attempting anything even remotely violent or intimidating. 

    It’s pathetic.

    I just wanted to applaud the use of the word anodyne. I also would have accepted quotidian.

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  4. 17 hours ago, Snake Diggity said:

    If you are right about the events preceding a collapse or “accident”, my guess is that sentiment will cause unemployment to rise.  Rates will fall rapidly as a result.  The debt, whose inflation adjusted value has already fallen significantly, will be refinanced at the new lower rates, dramatically reducing the debt service.  The end result won’t be a boom, but it will be far from catastrophic.  Now, that’s not to say the debt isn’t an issue, it is, and if it doesn’t get addressed then eventually there will be a collapse.  But I do not think that is only 5 years away.  
     

    The great wealth transfer and dramatic demographic shift we are just now starting that will last another 15-20 years will have big time impacts on the economy and government spending.  How we deal with those issues is just as important as how much debt we already have when thinking about how the future looks.

    3.4 percent today. 

    Yes, they will go to zirp and abandon the 2% target because high rates don't impact fiscal irresponsibility.

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  5. On 5/13/2024 at 9:20 AM, Longboard Horn said:

    Aggy kid I used to work with put up “a year in review” bullshit on instagram. The cringe 

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    They call themselves the Challenger 17 squadron. Was the Bonfire 99 name already taken? Were Chernobyl and Hindenberg also under consideration? Why do none of those cocksuckers have the correct belt?

  6. 1 hour ago, washparkhorn said:

    We are not close to fiscal instability in the US. Japan’s debt to GDP ratio is more than 250%, yet the Yen remains one of the world’s reserve currencies. 

    “Fiscal instability” is what the crooks scare the dum-dums with, while they steal money out the back door. Stop being a dum-dum.

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    During fiscal year 2023, the US government borrowed $2.7 trillion. This was about ten percent of GDP. (It is worth noting this is not the reported deficit. Some of you sadly still believe the lies.) This year will see an acceleration, resulting from a number of things but notably a significant steepening of the first derivative of interest expense. When we hit a recession, let's say we see deficits north of $4 trillion, but probably higher or about 20% of gdp. We will  hit your 250% number pretty quickly at that rate.

    The federal government borrowed 43 cents of every dollar it spent LAST YEAR. That will only go up moving forward. If the federal government starts to cut trillions on its spending (it has to), it will induce a recession from which we will require decades to recover. 

    At some point, these facts will receive mainstream attention and it will be like Enron. Everybody LOVED Enron, until they didn't. I don't think "collapse" is the scenario, nobody wants that, and the plunge protection team will prevent it. However, all that money we borrowed (accelerating future spending into the present) has to be paid, and the public will pay it through massive and unrelenting (but "transitory" LOL) inflation and lower standards of living. I think an "accident" is more likely than collapse. Banks going down one after another. Major companies going bankrupt. Major government programs getting eliminated. I mean, how do you think we get to balance when we need to cut half of federal spending? Devaluation of the currency. Finance becomes musical chairs.

    After the supply chain problems resolved, we did not see a reversion to lower prices. Most likely that was due to the massive increase in money supply, and that supply is only getting blown up even more at an accelerating rate. We are now in the steep part of the exponential interest expense, the one that human minds don't readily comprehend.

    I've never made a prediction of when, but I will now. It will start within five years. Gird your fucking loins, because we haven't seen anything like this before. Take the existing social chaos and multiply it by massive unemployment and rampant stagflation and let's see what we get. We fucked around, now we will find out. 

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  7. 5 hours ago, Bevo said:

     

    Do we just send them our old stuff and surplus stuff or do we send them more of what they need? I've bitched about accounting in the past but with where we are now, I hope we are putting a low value on artillery that is past or near expiration. $60 Billion can go a long way if we value artillery at $9.95ea. Fuck replacement cost.

    Approximately $16 billion is actually going to the Ukranians. Most of it is DIB spending. It's a normal bill, loaded up with pork. 

    House Approves Long-Stalled Ukraine Aid Over Angry GOP Objections - WSJ

  8. 11 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

    Agreed, battering ram would be more accurate. My bad. 

     

    Season GP Passing Rushing
    Cmp Att Pct Yds TD Int QBR Att Yds Avg TD
    2020      10 194 322 60 2566 26 5   150.7 113 377 3.3   8

    Passer rating his senior year was 150. 

    Michael Penix's rating this year was 157.  Quinn was 159. 

    He was pure ass as a freshman. He threw a completely fucked up INT to cost us a game late in the year. CTJ took to calling him I Am Sam and other nicknames. We argued a lot about whether he would be good, I said he would be. After the Gilbert/Case/Tyrone era, he was our first decent QB in maybe a decade and it was glorious. 

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  9. On 3/7/2024 at 6:31 PM, Armybrat said:

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    This post should not go unappreciated. That car really floats my boat.

    I really think I may do a restoration of a Sunbeam Alpine to match what Grace Kelly drove in To Catch A Thief.

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  10. On 4/10/2024 at 10:51 PM, Superhero said:

    Worked 10 days straight (including an all nighter) with another 2 days to go.

    Had a Juice Force (9.5% ABV) followed by a few fingers of Talisker and now with some Johnny Walker green. Probably have another whisky before I go to bed. Decisions decisions.

     

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    And yes, I need to upgrade my whisky game, but tonight is quantity over quality baby. 

    Incorrect. That is a very high quality selction. I've had most of those. I could buy that Talisker in Poland for around $25, it was my go to. The Balvenie is fantastic, as is the Dalmore.

  11. OK I have a story to tell. It is time to come clean. This is a from a few years ago, but I am only now beginning to heal the emotional scars.

    So I do a loop around Dallas on my bike. It's maybe 40 miles. I am on a road bike, Spandexed out, I have to take some actual surface streets in addition to bike paths, including Hillcrest north of Highway 12. I go through White Rock Lake, down to the AAC, and then up the Katy Trail and past SMU.

    The last bit is the relevant part. Highland park is residential, mostly. So I am going north on Hillcrest past SMU, having a grand old time. Feeling great. And I feel and hear The Gurgle. Pressure. I know there are only private homes. Rich people who do NOT want to talk to me. My gut told me I was fighting a lost cause. Fecal urgency soon turned into a lack of fecal urgency. And that's when I discovered how lucky I was.

    Now the key here is my outfit. I have boxer briefs, of the polyester variety. On top of that, spandex. Two layers. It formed a container of sorts. If you can imagine. Biker shorts are tight on the legs, so the don't slide while riding. All black, so I'm good there. After proceeding a bit, I was confident that I was watertight. Had to be at least a liter of fluid like substance back there.

    This of course created a small difficulty, in that there is a seat on the bike. I could not imagine that squishy feeling of sitting on it. Worried I might lose containment, I refused to sit , I stood on the pedals the whole way home. Like the rape scene in 300, I did not enjoy it, and it was not over quickly. I had like five miles to go with a couple major intersections.

    The piece de resistance of the entire glorious event was the shower scene. You really haven't lived until you enter a room with a liter of poop in your undies. After rushing past others so they would hopefully not find out what happened (I did not make eye contact), I walked fully clothed into the shower. It was fairly emotional. I do not like poop, it makes me dry heave. But there was waffle stomping that day, believe me. It was like something out of The Shining. The shower was of the straight down sort, so the pieces got all spread out and I had to really focus on getting all the stray bits. There wasn't merely a crime, there was also the coverup.

    Something like that really changes your perspective on things. I have other stories that shall not be told. 

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