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Posts posted by Celery Man
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3 years today. I remember hitting 3 months and thinking it was an eternity to pick up my next chip. Didn't even pick one up today - too busy with tasting wedding cakes and some Sunday chores. Will grab one later. I guess that's some part "i should stay more plugged in and on top of good sobriety behavior", some part thinking about how far I've gotten from counting the days like they are years. Anyways - keep on keeping on folks.
I'm thinking a little bit about a Bible verse I read when I was little, that I completely misinterpreted, and then later fixated on it, and then later realized how wrong I had it but how... good the message is, whether or not it was correct interpretation and whether or not you're a Christian.
John 10:10 - The thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
I thought that he was talking about the thieves when he was talking about coming so that they could have life and have it to the full. Which is kind of a big redemptive thing - thieves can be redeemed, they can have full lives, they can be saved. Darth Vader can turn back to the light, even if it's just at the very end. If you are at the end of your rope, and you feel like there's nothing about you worth saving - you can be redeemed.
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50 minutes ago, OatmealRaisinCookie said:
There is a lid for every pot. We should actually be a lot more tolerant that we are (everyone, including me) of accepting that our lifestyle/values/desires which we think are awesome, doesn't mean are great for everyone. Isn't that geographic-ethnocentricism at it's core?
If you want to let your freak flag fly and love the scene and don't mind the negatives, then great, go live in Castro or whatever.
If you want a safe, good school district without a lot of crime and diversity, great for you.
If you want a city that whatever you like about Austin does for you, great for you.
So on and so on. Why are we so judgy-wudgy about how and where people choose to settle down and put roots and live? Just avoid what you don't like and group with where you want to be and do like.
This is kinda what I was about to post, a bit.
Anyone pissed at Austin because Austin is "hardly a part of Texas", that's kinda been the thing about Austin for decades. Talking about the switch from Slacker to Silicon Valley is a different thing. But San Marcos is nearby. If you want to live in a part of Texas that's more like <insert whichever part of Texas feels comfortable to you>, it's a big state. Go with our blessing.
I think Houston has gotten more uppity lately with the "most diverse city" label and rightly so - it has a lot to offer.
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2 hours ago, ImissWallyPryor said:
Austinites’ disdain for just about everone and everyplace in Texas that is not Austin proliferates this message board. I understand the Dallas v Houston rivalry, but too often it’s Austin v The Rest of Texas. It may not sound like it, but a large part of me still loves Austin. There’s just a certain vibe I’ve always gotten about Austinites that gets me.
Dallas pretends to not care about Houston who hates Dallas. Austin acts like why would anyone waste their time anywhere else when Austin exists (never mind that Austin is not metropolitan) and nobody cares about San Antonio at all.
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2 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:
Mexican Mexicans aren't even the same. You got sing-song ranchero Mexicans up in Pancho Villa land, you got Regio Monterrey Mexicans who make natural Romney Republicans, you got your Tapatio in Guadalajara, your Jarocho in Veracruz who stepped right out of a 1930s movie about dockworkers, you got your Chilango Mexico City crypto-commie Buddy-Holly-glasses-wearing UNAM profesora, you got Yucatecos who are "Mexican" the same way the IRA love Queen Elizabeth, you got throwback almost Mussolini dudes marching down the street a bock away from the Workers' Party, (and since it's Mexico the graphic design is simultaneously retro and stunning), you got Yaquis don't know the Otomis don't know the Nahuatl speakers who amongst themselves have a bunch of dialects that theirs is right and all the others suck, you got Pocho-wannabees staring at their phones and saying weird English stuff like "Thanks God!" or "I must to go!", you got your Frenchies and Spaniards and Lebanese Arabs (called Turcos for clarity) and every nation of East Asia referred to as Chinos. You got your old-school Catholic, your atheist, your Jew, your crypto-Jew, your college kid thanking Tlaloc for rain, your Pentacostal speaking in tongues, and 3 or 4 Mormons. You got blond Mennonites selling cheese in the middle of the intersection speaking the most back-road Spanish you ever heard. The Mennonites, not the cheese.
can you get a Mexican guy to do ^that like \/this?
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I think Austinites broadly speaking love the cultural aspects of Texan-ness and dislike the political aspects of Texan-ness (and alternately love Austin's role as the haven of lefties and weirdos). Strong disagree that that equates to Austinites not liking Texas or Texans.
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I tip $1.50 on like... $7.15 at my taqueria because I assume they don't make much money and they're nice and it's always the same 3 ladies and I go there all the time and their tacos are great.
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24 minutes ago, Elvis said:
An absurd waste of everyone's time and money to accommodate the smallest fraction of a percentage of the mentally ill population. SJW eff off.
except it's literally free and simply involves being a decent human being
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Gonna hit Houston and Dallas.
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14 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:
It was a 400 Billion dollar deal that would create one million jobs in a clip NPR played earlier today.
yep, heard him say it was a million jobs today. riiiiiight.
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jeezum fuckin pete
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That guy is a fucking honey badger
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take that cancer
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This Knox guy seems pretty quick.
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That, and plenty of hispanics who are not even remotely immigrants. Poor hispanics, blue collar hispanics, middle class hispanics, upper middle class hispanics, rich hispanics. Oil money hispanics, ranching hispanics. Dudes named Juan who don't speak a lick of spanish but know the fuck out of SQL. Dudes named Juan who wash dishes. Etc etc. Diverse in terms of country of origin (where applicable) and food/custom/etc but also in how they fit in and relate across all of the other socio demographic categories in a state which has been red for decades.
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Not sure about most, but it's certainly not simple math. It's a diverse category, maybe more so in Texas than in some other places.
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2 hours ago, Lobo said:
Interesting statistic...about 30 people move out of Austin each day. Granted many of them are staying in Central Texas, but that's a decent chunk leaving every day. Of course, that means a net increase of about 100/day, but that part doesn't get covered very much. Austin I.S.D. is hemorrhaging students.
The "I would only live in Austin if it were the old Austin from 30-40 years ago" has completely jumped the shark. When somebody wants to wax nostalgic, I'm the first to pull up a seat and chat having been here 25 years myself. But if they make that declarative statement like they're being remotely original, I just pass 'em by. Nothing new here except some cranky asshole bitching about other people deciding to have families here. It's not new, it's not poignant, it ain't even interesting. If you're green, you're growing. If you're ripe, you're rotting. Much of this country is dying, we're lucky enough to live in a place that's booming.
It is curious how some hardcore anti-immigrant Texans think a Mexican coming here to take a landscaping job or handyman service calls is somehow taking a white man's job. But then a computer programmer from San Jose or an engineer from Newark or a finance guy from Chicago (whom are all either White or Asian in this scenario), those guys are literally coming here to literally take a job away from a Texan and somehow we just kind of accept that, make some anti-California joke, and move on. One of them is coming here to just compliment the economy, the other is coming to Texas to literally snatch away a job from a white native Texan and you can't see the difference. That's comical and that explains how our elections turn out I suppose /noCR
Can't have the jobs at all without people moving here from out of state to take some of them. It's a good thing.
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I guess Pod Save America (which is now also an HBO show on Friday's) recorded tonight in Austin and Beto made an appearance
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I would never vote for any person who was a part of the Trump administration for any period of time.
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