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Samson's Wig

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  1. Lol. Who overrates Dallas? The obvious Texas answer is obvious. A city with no culture/identity of its own anymore, drifting in a sea of coastal migrants, all vying to turn it into something a little closer to the shitholes they left behind. Austin is but a memory. Yet I still live here. Furk.
  2. Took my son about 8 days to get over symptoms and he was able to get back to school for the last week of 4th grade. No one else in the house ever got it. We isolated him to his room, but my wife and I still went in there multiple times a day to feed him or provide him with some company.
  3. Gotta love that the cult of sports we maintain ensures that one of the biggest water consuming activities there is (watering athletic fields) will continue even in drought conditions. With the rates we pay for water to those criminals downtown they should be able to truck in more water than we could ever use.
  4. The craziest part is that we act like graduating high school is an achievement worth celebrating anymore. Congratulations! You have surmounted the absolutely lowest imaginable bar possible for achievement! Now get out there and change the world! Don't get me wrong - go have a party and enjoy the end of the drudgery that is high school. But the ceremonies are stupid, especially when they're filled with white trash morons blasting air horns and cheering like their kid just accomplished something amazing rather than the reality - he or she managed to show up to school each day for at least 60% of the time and they're getting a participation certificate for the trouble.
  5. I get where you're coming from, but the "good guys with guns" folks don't give a shit whether their argument is neutralized or not. Internet debates never changed anything. Arguing for the sake of debate can be loads of fun, and I'm all for it generally, but this is an issue that requires action and we fail to do anything over and over. If we could somehow manage to magically fix mental health issues, clean up the police departments and ensure they respond properly to dangerous situations, elect finger wagging soft hearted folks who speak eloquently on the evils of gun violence, raise the age to purchase a gun to 25, pass red flag laws in all 50 states, etc. etc. etc., school shootings and mass shootings will still happen. There is only one way to stop it. But we won't do it. We will, however, bitch and moan about all of the ancillary issues because subconsciously we think maybe something will happen to address those. I suppose from a palliative standpoint that makes some folks feel better. I thinks it's fucking pointless. It's going to take the type of passionate, pigheaded, long-term, potentially insane behavior that has led us to the point of Roe v. Wade being overturned to change gun laws in this country. That's what we need. Steal their playbook. Get it done.
  6. Just like with Sandy Hook and Parkland, too much energy and anger is being spent focused on the actions of law enforcement and security. This plays right into the hands of the NRA. The focus and anger should be laser focused on gun control if anything is ever going to change. Those predisposed to hate cops, even with justification, are understandably focused on that aspect. And while that aspect needs addressing, it will do nothing to change the underlying cause and problem at hand. Stay angry, but channel that energy toward harassing the fuck out of elected officials until they do something or campaigning for politicians who will. Putting the focus on law enforcement's response plays right into the hands of the "we need more secure schools to solve this problem" crowd. Fuck those cops if indeed they hung around and did nothing, but Twitter and the rest of the Internet fuck up stories like this every damn time. Internet warriors gonna do what they do. So will shitty cops. Stay focused on gun control. Get involved if you're truly moved to do so. Lots of gun control advocacy groups out there. Or just reach out to politicians directly, but keep doing it a month from now, and six months from now, and next year, and so on.
  7. Wrong thread - posting in the discussion thread instead.
  8. Agreed. Maybe her LSAT and essays sucked. In my area, I deal with Southwestern grads somewhat regularly. She's the most impressive I've come across. Anyway, back to Amber Heard. She's crazy, but she's not that hot, which makes the equation very confusing as to why anyone would put up with her. I've never understood the fascination. Has always been kind of weird looking, in my opinion. Not ugly, just not worthy of adoration.
  9. She graduated a mediocre law school at a time big law was dumping partners and slashing costs every way they could thanks to the Great Recession. That was probably the worst time to become a lawyer in the history of the country. Most big firms revamped their partnership structures rendering it damn near impossible for a young attorney like Camille to get ahead. Fortunately, on occasion cream rises to the top even in those ridiculously antiquated firms. Good for her getting such a high profile opportunity. She nailed it. She'll easily be able to leverage this into a partnership at her current firm or a new one.
  10. People get paid to do this work. lol For their next experiment these top notch psychologists will determine that water is indeed wet.
  11. Good advice, and in line with CDC guidelines. He could test positive for three months, but after day ten any virus in his system is nontransmittal. We've had a couple of years to get this data together, and only very severe cases result in being contagious past day ten of symptoms.
  12. Such a brave and bold move, Starbucks, belatedly getting out of the Russian game now that no one there can afford your shitty coffee anymore.
  13. This is just the latest investigation on this issue with the SBC. It's been an open secret for a long time, including numerous lawsuits filed by victims. I grew up in the Baptist Church, during an era when this shit was apparently at its worst. Dodged a bullet I guess. I bailed on those nutbags a long time ago for other reasons. Fuck those fuckers. And yes, every time this issue comes up Baptists will chime in with the "decentralized organization" line. "My church would never do that." Bull shit. I understand how clinging to that notion can make one feel better about being part of something that is inherently evil, especially when it is something so intrinsically tied to one's sense of self and one's existence as religion. But the so called "innocent" members of the flock who claim to have nothing to do with this stuff are exactly who enables the leadership to get away with it. Whether it is Catholics, Baptists, Baylor jags, Penn Staters, Boy Scouts, everyone throws up their hands and says "wasn't me!", but I don't see many of them bailing on their organizations or demanding change. Fuck every last one of them for enabling this shit to go on and on for decades. Hiding in a turtle shell and acting like you have no culpability because you had nothing to do with it, all while filling up the collection plate or donating to alumni organizations, is just one cunt hair less disgusting than the people who cover this shit up for the organization. Watching the sheep try and distance themselves from the flock now that it all is coming out is grotesque. You all know what you were a part of.
  14. The Catholic Church, Southern Baptists, Baylor University, The Boy Scouts, and fraternities. Good times.
  15. My ten year old son is still running a 102 fever after developing symptoms last Friday. Deep cough as well. I feel bad for the guy, he's been stuck in his room for the most part, and if things don't improve he'll miss the entire last two weeks of school. This shit doesn't just go away in a couple of days for everybody, not even kids. Wife, Daughter and I all tested negative on a PCR test this week. Weird virus.
  16. Of course not. But I stand by my statement.
  17. Seems like most of the folks I'm hearing from that have it now are getting it for the first time. I wonder if this is due to the transmissibility of the new subvariant or simply the general relaxation of protective measure we've all slipped into. Either way, a large wave that doesn't result in much hospitalization may be a good thing if it signals that we can finally start treating this thing like a cold.
  18. My top theory is that it is some form of religious self-flagellation mentality trickling into the secular aspects of their lives. Or maybe it is leftover Great Depression austerity pride passed down from parents/grandparents. Fuckers can go be a monk in a Sonoran sweat lodge if they want to, I'll be comfortable and cool in my house. ERCOT can get fucked along with anyone purposefully choosing to sweat while sitting at the dinner table so they can earn tough guy and/or woke eco points. My other working theory is simpler. The people pridefully talking about how fucking hot their house is are either female, old, have ruined their circulation with smoking, or suffer from an iron deficiency (or some combination of the four). I have more sympathy for these folks than the former, but they'll still have to deal with hard nips if they come over to my ice palace for Sunday brunch.
  19. Better than the alternative. Sounds like you hit the jackpot to me.
  20. The numbers will look no different than the number of asshole parents who sent kids to school with a fever pre-Covid. That type of shit is what one would hope this pandemic would train out of the populace, but it hasn't come close. Fever = no school. Period. Same for work. Until we can change this mentality we'll just rinse and repeat every flu season and for every new novel virus that pops up.
  21. Everyone in our house has dodged this shit through the entire pandemic, until today. Son (4th grader) woke up this morning with 102.5 fever, sore throat, head congestion, and a sore neck. Tested positive for Covid. He's vaxxed but it's hitting him pretty hard. His pediatrician had to remind herself how long he should quarantine, etc. as she hadn't dealt with a Covid patient in so long.
  22. My kids are both smart and half Canadian. That's a leg up, mother fuckers!
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