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Samson's Wig

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  1. Don't talk to fat ugly chicks, and don't use face recognition on your phone. Problem solved. To be fair, you can be drugged without talking to any strangers, good looking or not, while out and about. Happened to me.
  2. My wife mostly felt sorry for the guy, who is clearly a miserable cunt. She kept her cool and didn't engage with him a this level. I'm definitely not that mature.
  3. Some fat, white, middle-aged asshole cussed out my wife and daughter in the Starbucks parking lot on Great Hills a week or so ago. The spots there are tiny, and she was parked dead center (according to her). Well parked or not, he didn't like that he had to shimmy his fat ass to get inside his car, rolled down his window and started screaming obscenities at my wife. Wife asked him to calm down as our 11 year old daughter was with her, and he proceeded with "fuck your daughter, she's a bitch too." Then looked right at my daughter and said, "Yeah, you. You're a bitch just like your mom." Given this site's proclivity for attracting a bevy of men who meet this particular description, I thought I might see if this story sounds familiar to anyone. If you happen to be the guy, please announce yourself so I can come over and feed you your teeth. If you're not man enough to message me your name and address, know that I'll eventually find you anyway. With that out of the way, there does seem to be an uptick in the general level of anger out there in Austin these days. I don't know if it's the influx of northeasterners bringing a more direct form of communication to us Texans, who prefer to act nice outwardly and talk shit behind your back, or it's a result of the political environment of the last few years, the state of the economy over the last few years, pandemic, etc. etc etc.
  4. Crazy guy is going to slap the wrong person at some point. Those types of things tend to sort themselves out.
  5. So an equity and inclusion coordinator pissed off people of color at the PARD. I never bought into the "we're living in a computer simulation" stuff, but things like this make one wonder. I'm sure the Ron Swanson of the department will get this mess sorted out.
  6. Fuck, this thread is disturbing. Your mind wants to believe shit like this is not rampant, but that's wishful thinking I guess. When we moved back to Austin after being gone for a few years, we started looking around for a church. We're not religious at all but were looking for community. My wife was raised catholic, and I was raised southern baptist. Any baptist churches were a hard no based on my experience, but we were very open otherwise. We visited congregations all over town from a wide range of religions, not just Christian denominations but also buddhist, new age/spiritualist, etc. We spent six months visiting a different place each week to find a good fit. It was insane how desperate many of these groups, particularly the christian ones, were for new members - especially if you walk in the door with kids in tow. Almost every one of them, after an initial greeting, tried to separate us from our children. I understand it is typical for many places of worship to have the kids off in one place and the adults in another, but the places that argued with us when we said our kids would stay with us were immediately removed from the list. It happened a lot. I don't think they were all child molesters, but holy shit, you could see the hunger in their eyes. I didn't want to just assume it was the prospect of fresh young blood in the congregation that had them so excited. Ultimately, we just bought a boat and spent Sundays outdoors. Sometimes I worry about the isolating aspect of not being part of a large group, but we actively engage in our neighborhood and keep the kids engaged in activities with other children. Religion is in a sad state of affairs in this country. The only places that seem to be attracting attention are those douche-canoe-laden nondenominational places with bad music, vanity pastors, and a bunch of dummies who show up every week to be fleeced. I'd rather rot in hell. Especially when the evidence makes it very clear that your kids are in genuine danger if you take them to church, I don't understand why anyone does so. It's easy to assume it won't happen in your church, I guess.
  7. I would add to that acronym and make it SPWPUTL. (stuff privileged white people under thirty like) If you were referencing the soccer league, my apologies, but you should really leave them out of this.
  8. Presbyterian in ABQ is about as good as anything we have in Austin. I know that's not saying much.
  9. When did the counterculture get so fucking boring? It all sounds closer to a tax audit than a good time.
  10. We swerved heavily into a rehabilitation-based approach in the 1950s and '60s (particularly in states like California, but aspects were nationwide) and largely abandoned it by the 70s and deemed it a failed experiment. I agree with the sentiment that we didn't really give it a serious attempt.
  11. While it's challenging to have no sympathy for the kids, just remind yourself who they will grow up and act like.
  12. What I'm gathering from this discussion is that polyamory is the new CrossFit. "Polyamory: for when being vegan just isn't enough anymore."
  13. I don't like that AISD number. Vaccines shouldn't be mandatory, but they should be mandatory for participating in society, including public school. If you want to die on a hill of misinformation and ignorance because you have such a pressing need to feel important, you should be welcome to do so, with open eyes that you will take your kids down with you. The only exceptions should be extreme cases of a health issue that would make a vaccine dangerous for the individual. A real one, not some bullshit someone gets a quack they share a pew with to make up for them. Exceptions for being a fucking idiot should go away entirely, especially as we're seeing rising numbers of these types of fucking idiots. It's insane to me that you can just opt out and put everyone else at risk, especially in a school setting.
  14. If we can't get rid of the death penalty, which would be my preference, I would like to see two nuances added to the equation, both involving the victim's survivors. 1. Victims' survivors get one get-out-of-jail-free card to deal with the fucker personally. (I'm half kidding with this one, but the next option is serious.) 2. If they're not interested in the first option, the survivors decide whether the guilty party is executed or spends life in prison. Many (perhaps most) families of victims would rather the guilty person not be executed. There are several reasons for this; the most common one is they don't see how another killing will do anything to make right what happened, and another major reason is that death sentences prolong the suffering of the victims' families, dragging out a process for years that almost never leads to any kind of closure. It only serves to delay the grieving process, sometimes for decades. The death penalty is not for the survivors, it's for the rest of us. The rest of us should grow up. A deterrence-based approach to criminal justice doesn't work. Never has, never will. It appeals to a certain mindset and sounds reasonable on paper, but it doesn't work. A reform-based approach has also failed miserably in this country, but it has succeeded in other cultures. So we're left with retribution based justice, and boy do we lean into this one with gusto in America. The notion appealed to me as a younger man, but I'm getting older and softer and would prefer we start looking at ways to incorporate a reformation-based approach utilizing successes from other nations who are perhaps a touch more civilized than we are. We should, at a bar minimum, start with prison reform.
  15. Mhh, hmm. Outta my fucking cab!
  16. I suggested this very thing to Chris Harrison at lunch a year or so ago. He laughed like I was crazy. Then he quickly jotted down a note.
  17. While I agree with your sentiment, you may want to reread that passage, especially considering the context of this particular discussion.
  18. The Internet was always a piece of shit. It just used to be more fun. Probably a good thing if people are actually spending less time on it.
  19. Cronk was a waste of oxygen and needed to go. I'm not familiar enough with the assistant city managers, but if they were hired by Cronk or were in line with his way of handling things, I support not hiring one of them. However, bringing Garza back was clearly some tit for tat, and his reasoning that Garza knows how to run the city because he did it from '94-2002 is hilarious. This isn't even remotely the same city as it was in that era. It's the same flawed argument that got Watson reelected. Garza is ill-equipped, and Watson has been a huge disappointment. In my opinion, making up a know-nothing job and giving it to Art Vandelay is nothing short of corruption. This city will never have decent leadership because we don't want it. We're getting exactly what we deserve, and will follow a long tradition of big American cities who continue to elect corrupt pieces of shit to run the show. The fascinating part is how little these people bother to hide what they're doing anymore. There is almost no press to hold them accountable, so why bother?
  20. Austin is getting exactly what it asks for. Nothing more, nothing less. I say this as a resident. My kids will be destroyed if we move, but damn if I don't think about it every time some stupid shit like this happens.
  21. The other day, I chatted with a guy at the HEB on Far West who parked his cybertruck next to me. I drive an actual off-road truck and enjoy taking it to remote fishing spots, up into the mountains, rock crawling, you name it. I asked him how the cybertruck handled such conditions, and he looked at me like he had no idea what I was talking about. He had no clue what I was talking about when I asked about the tri-motor setup, how the locking front differential operates, or how I thought it was cool that it didn't need a rear locker due to the independent motors on each rear wheel. All blank stares. I offered to take him out to Hidden Falls to see what it could do, and he not only had no idea what I was talking about, but once I explained it, he had zero interest in it. These things are poorly made toys for cosplayers. I think people should drive what they want in whatever way they want, but anyone in one of these things is hanging a neon sign that they're a clueless dweeb. I really, really, really wanted him to say yes to Hidden Falls just so I could get video and pics of that monstrosity trying to handle even a basic trail. Elon claiming this thing is the "greatest off road truck" is right in line with his claims regarding auto-driving. It's all complete bullshit.
  22. Oh shit. Just when you think the city can't get any fucking dumber.
  23. Those numbers are not surprising. The last few days have been a fucking beatdown.
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