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RDCanecutter

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  1. It's the Tuberville Principle: No matter how big a POS you think Tuberville is, Tuberville is a bigger POS than that.
  2. Entertainment. My spammers tend to show up as coming from tiny villages that nobody's ever been to, thing is, *I've* been to them, and I launch into an aggressive discussion about the Chicken Shack or the roller rink (defunct since the 80s.) One or two will try to yimmer-yammer out of it but most just hang up. 4 seconds of fun.
  3. My car died, probably for the last time. We'll get something else. In the meantime, we are so close to our town's downtown that it's better than where I lived in Europe for hoofing around. Like today, had to take some art to the Post Office, maybe a 1/2 mile away. A little rusty starting up, crossed a low hill then downhill to the place. Then coming back, dizzy death. Stopped at every bench and rested. But instead of hardening up, each time I rested I only got woozier. Finally turned into a little bitch and called my wife to pick me up in her car. Spent the time waiting playing Tower Swap. If you want to play Tower Swap, here you go: https://www.crazygames.com/game/tower-swap If you like it, join team Mexico, my wife and I both play for them. I had a show in only two days, and was not looking forward to trying to function. Lo and behold, they cancelled it. But not for a happy reason. The show was a Hispanic organization's pig roast, but one of their members, a 20-ish Dreamer, got arrested for speeding and now sits in a jail several counties from here. Guess they figured it would just be ICE-time if they went on with the show. Anyway, the girl's name is Giovanna. She could use some help. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-giovanna-a-community-advocate-in-need
  4. Easier to win?
  5. @MissingInAction, maybe stop thinking about "having" to go to the ER, and realize you are "getting" to go to the ER. Me I am waiting to go to the dermatologist on the 11th to see if this mole under my right eye that is growing into an imbedded Mango worm is something harmless that they slash off, or another wandering-kidney-cell-tumor-growin-out-my-face that they slash off. A few years ago I woulda Lost My Damn Mind thinkin about it, now it's "take a number, buddy." If there must be a scar, I am hoping for a Charlton Heston El Cid battle-scar scar.
  6. Never shoot pool against a guy named "Pop." Never eat at a diner called "Mom's." Also never eat a huge amount of shellfish, guzzle a gallon of hard cider on top of it, and try to walk a mile home at midnight. The body has pressure relief valves and it will use them.
  7. My first girlfriend got interested in me because her friends hated me. (She should have listened to her friends.) Point being, it doesn't matter what women say to warn each other. Prison record? Dudes IN prison have pen pals counting off the days. The worse crime the better. Also, I notice that drivers license map includes zero women in Mexico. A single dude who hasn't breezed through Mexico isn't even trying.
  8. Jumped around 12 seconds of the video, took a drag on a Gauloise and with hooded eyes, said: "And so 'ow is zis settlement by nature any different from ze rest of ze américain suburbs?"
  9. Had a kidney doctor appointment, all numbers good now, a couple of them had been kinda bad before but no longer are. No idea how the tumors are doing at the moment. Oxygen levels still up around 97% Blood pressure freakishly low, like 88 over 50. I was walking around to do some errands afterwards, felt kinda like a moon walk.
  10. This is the Real Shit.
  11. Damn. I need to start thrashin around in the MRI next time, get some free shit.
  12. S'what I'm sayin. Stab me in the back once, shame on you. Do it twice, shame on me. They're Trumpkins. Point out which way Trump went.
  13. If you're a Capitol cop, do you fight them this time, or just wave them in? I know what I'd do.
  14. I've got a cup like that from when I got my tumor and my tumor's kidney clipped out. My wife claimed it because the sight of it depresses me. It's from Princeton, an hospital on the west side of Birmingham between an avenue known for murder/robberies-gone-wrong, and a McDonalds where randos will emerge through the shrubbery and then it's Wild West. If you hold it up to your ear like a sea shell, you can hear gun shots.
  15. Had me a number 19 tshirt on while I was learning how to put some spin on a football from my Dad who played Wide Receiver with Bart Starr.* *In High School.
  16. I am going to spend the afternoon Seeing Around Corners, may Build Some People Functions if I have time left over.
  17. Planned Parenthood asked me to quit strumming and singing John Prine songs anywhere near camp fires.
  18. I have to admit they pretty much owned me with that photo.
  19. Extra credit for starting prayers with "just."
  20. Or ten years out, if you're my tough little Gramama.
  21. Mine is all fractional because I can always scratch up a small amount of savings, but psychologically never quite make it to an ounce. Not logical, but there it is. In my defense I got about half of it at or below melt by making deals with friends, or working the old eBay Bucks angle, which no longer exists.
  22. This is what the past 200 years show.
  23. It goes back to when there were bimetallic currencies, and governments would establish official rates for the value of silver vs gold. Under the Spanish Empire [I think] it was about 16 to one, and we (the US) inherited the basics of that system except we split our Peso-- the Dollar-- into hundredths instead of eighths & fractions of eighths. Not long after, I believe silver was allowed to float, and float it did-- or sank. The ratio rose on the market, gold was worth lots more than 16 to one. It keeps changing, recently went over 100 to 1, has since come down again. Why does it matter? It might not, but some feel there is a "proper" ratio that it will trend back to. I don't agree. What does happen, though, is that when the ratio gets much higher or lower than a perceived norm, people will exchange the "overvalued" metal for the lesser, and then vice-versa if it hits the other extreme. Every sale, of course, involves a transaction fee, so a perpetual motion machine, it's not. You could pick any two commodities and do this. But gold and silver are magic.
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