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RDCanecutter

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  1. 7 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    All decisions start with the question “How will this affect donations from rich alumni?” followed by “How will this affect recruiting for the football team?”

    The rich alumni are troubled by the child not knowing how to imply that someone is a monkey by using cute innuendo among friends.

    The skill position players already made the calculation of this guy being in the stands while they earn their NIL check.

    If Ole Miss puts some Heritage not Hate community service and a semester suspension on the little drunk, expect business as usual. If the Frat rebrands itself The Monkey Hooters and attracts every Figurelli in the lower 48, then maybe it matters long-term.

  2. 7 minutes ago, CoTex said:

    My daughter stills tells stories about 11 year old soccer and her nutcase coach. Guy was a 5'3" tall rage-aholic.  

    I'm going to add to my to do list today "think of ways I can help RD fuck with his asshole neighbor."  If I come up with anything clever I'll post up.

    Thanks, but I am free of neighbor rage at the moment. :) Most of them plopped around us about ten years ago as Young Professionals helped into a house by Mommydaddy, and there were growing-up pains for a couple of them. But now it's pretty mellow and if they can put up with my Crazy Hippy ass I can do the same for them.

  3. 2 hours ago, irishtexan said:

    I think the words "toxic masculinity" are thrown around way too often, but this is the perfect example.

    There's a dad across the fence who is teaching his kids to throw and catch baseballs. Let's call him Dr. Jekyll. Normally he's all hubba-bubba bland suburban comity and I'll toss balls back to his kids who lose them in our yard.

    But once Serious Bidness Throwing Practice starts, he changes to focused Psycho Killer Dad and that's when I like to walk up to the fence, call his name until he stops practice, and offer him an old baseball that we found elsewhere. He looks like he wants to fight me every time . I've done it twice so far.

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  4. Getting close to 300 days in Gaelic, and have met at least 3 other people locally interested in it-- one Duolingo dude like me, a bagpiper who appears at any vaguely Scottish event, and an actual Highlander from Inverness who grew up speaking it.

    I feel that the time is ripe to start a club for us and any randos who might pitch in. I have teaching experience, but am not fluent enough to teach this. We'd have to count on most interested parties having zero knowledge, so maybe I could help them get rolling, and ask our Real Scottish Dude to guide us further.

    There have to be some drinking songs out there.

  5. 14 hours ago, BamaATL said:

    In fairness, when the building was built, 1983, in New York if you wanted concrete, you essentially wound up paying Paul Costellano head of the Gambino crime family at the time.  Funny true story, Costellano got a dick implant and bragged about prior to getting plugged at a Steakhouse by likely Sammy the Bull.  You can't make this shit up.  

    We need more guys with the middle name "The."

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  6. 5 hours ago, BevoAbyss said:

    I think it was George Orwell or Hannah Arendt who said effective propaganda creates true believers who trust their fantasies rather than facts. And that’s where 50-60% of this country is today. 

    The Planetary Emperor will be disappointed to hear this.

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  7. 13 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Her ghostwriter and editor both must really hate her to let the “shooting my dog in a gravel pit” anecdote make it to print. 

    It'll be even better if this book is a vanity project and she paid the publisher to print her career-shooting-in-the-face-by-the-gravel-pit stories.

  8. 38 minutes ago, DaysOff said:

    I'd wager the publisher convinced her to keep the story in because he/she is sane and knows Noem shouldn't be near the seat of government.

    Plus the damn thing might sell to people mining it for fresh horrors.

  9. 33 minutes ago, bernorange said:

    Krugs are OK.  They have a distinct copperish color to them due to their allow mix though.  I prefer the color of pure gold (Maples/Buffalos) or Eagles (alloy has less copper than Krugs).

    I kinda like the old "real coins meant to jingle" gold-copper alloy. I'd go Mexican if they had, say, a vintage 40 peso. The 50 peso Centenario just seems outside my ability to focus, but maybe by the time I gather enough $ to get an ounce I will have grown stronger.

  10. We haven't even touched on the poor assholes who work in the gravel pit. I am sure they appreciate trying to eat a Snickers bar with big green corpse flies from the dead animals bumping against their teeth. Much less just trying to delver a load of gravel and there are bleached bones and hide mixed all in it.

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  11. At Casa Canecutter we now hunger for an old-school gold Krugerand. Low premiums going and coming. But maybe the main reason is all the late-70s commercials where Dos Equis Men with scotch-and-cigar voices would tell me to buy one. Took almost 50 years, but those ads and slowly working on me.

    I figured out that I only had to draw 240 extra 4 x 6" cartoons to afford an ounce. We are at 40 this week.

  12. I have more than zero% sympathy with "damn I forgot about those bullets" dudes. Not a high %, but more than nothing.

    In 2004 a coworker bought some kind of vintage SKS rifle. He was so looped-out goofy about his new toy that he handed out SKS bullets to all of us like cigars at the birth of a child. I slipped mine into a jacket pocket and forgot about it.

    Until years later when the metal detector beeped at the UAB emergency room as we walked in. "Excuse me while I take care of this," I said to the Birmingham cop. Since I wasn't actively shooting, he was unfazed, and I stepped out and slung the round under the seat of my car.

    It occurs to me right now that I don't remember if I ever took it out from under the seat. Meanwhile, I since drove that car into Mexico several times. Oh well.

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  13. 12 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Apropos of nothing, agreed.  Jew feels pejorative.  It's not quite the same, but it's like c*nt feels more pejorative than the other anatomical labels.  Something linguistic about it that @RDCanecutter can explain, maybe.

    Oh Law, please don't drag my redneck ass into it. :) I've only been Jewish twice, when dealing with other rednecks who were mumbling something anti-semitic. It was a lie, but it helped fuck with rednecks so I'd do it again. Linguistically, all I have to add is, why isn't it called Anti-Shemetic? Sheems a bit like a shimple shibboleth.

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  14. 5 hours ago, statsman said:

    Could use advice. 
    I pay off the credit card balance monthly. Got a call from Citi asking why the payment is six days late. I said, “You’re crazy.  I paid and you cashed it”. They said nuh uh. 
     
    Checked the bank app. Someone else’s name written instead of Citi. Not my handwriting. 
     
    Also- a check payment made today to Verizon. I do no business with Verizon. 
     
    Called the bank- filed disputes, froze account and opened new one. Resolved to only pay online now. 
     
    I asked the bank if I should file with police, and if so, who? They wouldn’t answer. 
     
    So, Surly-world- advice? Report to local police? Postal inspector? Anyone have any functional experience? Thanks for all advice. 

    It wasn't a check, but when my credit card got hacked, UFCU called the Austin cops while I sat there in the office. Didn't matter where the actual fraud occurred. Once we had a police report on file, they did all the other stuff. But it was UFCU, who suck wayyyy less than any bank I ever had.

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  15. 3 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

    So, I'm not a lawyer, and I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express ever, so can someone let me know if it's bad when the judge tells your legal team that they're losing all credibility on Day 2?

    Seems bad.  And embarrassing.  Like something a narcissist might have an aneurysm over?

    Vinny Gambini got away with it.

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