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Your Mom

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  1. Saw this cool Bronco this morning in South Austin. Just got back from Big Bend RSP with my rig.
  2. Anybody interested in owning this chest? I bought it thinking it would be a good box for camp kitchen gear and food, or at least much cooler than a basic plastic bin. It’s made to carry medical supplies. I bought it on E-Bay. It is WAY too big for what I need and it’s heavy and a hassle to open and close. The cool factor isn’t enough to make me use it and it’s taking up space in my garage. It’s big. Maybe 20” x 32” x 18”. Just a guess. Can measure when I get home. It has a nifty divider to separate the top and bottom halves. It doesn’t appear to be very old to me. I doubt it’s of any historical significance other that being a cool manly looking olive drab box. I’d take any reasonable offer on it. I can’t remember what I paid for it. Located in South Austin and I drive to Houston fairly often.
  3. I don’t feel that strongly about it but I can understand that view.
  4. I bet that hot tub was 20k of it. Why don’t more people do a separate above-ground hot tub off to the side? Just aesthetics? The hot tubs you can buy for 4-10k look a lot more comfortable than a gunite one. My pool guy says they can’t build one that competes with the above-ground models, other than in looks.
  5. They are out there, nobody cares. The time when people gave a shit about things like having shown your tits on the internet has passed. It doesn’t even move the needle in terms of creating a scandal now. If anything it would probably give her a bump in popularity when she played the revenge porn/ body shaming card and became a victim over it.
  6. I’ve always assumed someone shoved a bat up their ass. Richard Gere style.
  7. This. I have an LX470. I would have preferred to buy a LC but this was the deal I found when the timing was right. Other than standard AHC, the LX differences are mostly trim. Start here: https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/100-series-faq.30754/ I love the Active Height Control but lots of folks replace it with conventional. It gives you about a 2 inch lift or a 2 inch lowering at the touch of a button and it rides like a dream on the road. For a long time the conventional wisdom said when AHC started acting up it was time to just rip it out. But unless the lines are rusted out it's a pretty simple hydraulic system. More and more guys are sticking with it now. Mine been all over the backroads of Big Bend and some fairly chunky spots in Moab. IH8Mud.com is the big Cruiser forum and is a wealth of knowledge. You'll find tons of guys on there that use the AHC to its fullest ability right next to cruisers with a traditional lift in places like Moab and the big passes and trails in Colorado. If your primary goal is off-road then you should look for an 80 series. Solid axle, many have all 3 diffs lockable. They are absolute beasts off-road. But the last one was made in 1997 and while you might get 400k out of the engine and the frame, thats a lot of age on all the other parts. The 100 series were made from 1998 to 2007. If you aren't wheeling it really hardcore in places like the Rubicon, it will go everywhere off-road you need it to and behave much better on the road. It doesn't have the charactoer of an 80 series, but it's a solid vehicle. My only real complaint is that the the headlights are straight up awful. I just replaced mine with HID projectors and wish I'd done it sooner. It was a pain in the ass but at least I can see great at night now, the stock lights are just terrible. Mines a 2000 and is my daily driver. I'm going to drive it until one of my kids takes it and then I'm planning to get a new longbed Tacoma after the next re-design in a couple years. If you want good mileage, high towing ability, or to go fast, these are not the vehicles for you.
  8. Hey anyone wanna turn Bijan's thread into a thread about Reggie Bush?
  9. In 2021 a crack commando football coach was sent to prison by a military court for a crime he didn't commit. This man promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Tampa underground...
  10. Anyone have a favorite specific primitive campsite in Big Bend Ranch State Park? Only looking at the sites that are way off the paved road. The kind of place you need 4WD to get to and won't see another human being for a couple days. Not looking for condos, AirBnbs, or group campsites. GF and I are trying to plan a quick trip out there next week. BBRSP is our preference so we can have a campfire each night. Been to both parks quite a few times and know the area well. Last time we were out there we camped at site La Mota 1. It fit the bill, good views, isolated, about 2 hours from the pavement. It's available when we want to go next week but if anyone else has a favorite spot out there I'd like to hear about it. Rincon, Fresno Canyon, and all the Papalote sites are also available.
  11. I remember when spring break 2020 was only going to be extended by a week or so. That bullshit is coming to AISD again I bet. They will ease us it one step at a time but it’s coming. All over a variant that is weaker than all the others before it.
  12. One tall immature childish asshole. I get the frustration, my kids have broken shit, wrecked a car, etc... and they've heard me drop more than a few key-placed f-bombs. But that was a grade A titty-baby temper tantrum like you'd expect from a toddler. Way to teach your kids how to react to a problem Dad.
  13. Not at all. Coffee breath and morning breath are not the same thing. Morning brushing is to clear out the nasty shit that grew overnight and it does that even if you chase it with coffee.
  14. If you’ve come this far you already want it. You’re going to get it anyway and it’ll cost $95k next year.
  15. Front 3 look irritated, but blondie in the back is like, "Hell yeah perv dude, how you doin'?"
  16. Fans from every team in the country love to wax on and on about how the refs all hate them. We're as bad as anyone else when it comes to that.
  17. The fact that they think this kind of faggotry is worthy of being called Hell Week is another reason.
  18. You mentioned that the job would be stressful. Just pointing out that it's way less stressful than GA would be for me.
  19. You guys are are worse than a bunch of women when it comes to holding grudges. That Rose Bowl deal went our way and it was proven to be the right decision nearly 20 years ago and you guys are still cackling about it. He's an odd cat for sure, but.. meh.
  20. I get it, but it beats working for a living. For the money that can be made working 3 days a week and 90% of that "work" tine is spent shooting the shit with the guy next to you... I still say it can't be beat. The bad days suck for sure but the best part of this job is how seldom they make me do it and never ever having to take the work home or catch up on it after a vacation. Knock out a 3-day out and then forget you have a job for 4 days. Or stack 2 together and then take a week off without using vacation. I think I worked about 120 days this year. I haven't flown GA in a while but it would be more stressful that a typical day at work for me. Monotonous is what'd I'd call most of the work days. My son wants me to get checked out in something so he can see what it's all about and I'm sure I'll make a complete idiot out of myself in a GA plane for the first time in 17 years.
  21. I eat brisket once every couple of months and a steak about as often. Can’t remember the last time I ate a burger. Option 3 wouldn’t be too hard to get used to. I’d miss really good brisket but I’d give it up way easier than everything else.
  22. It’s at the point now that I was pretty excited just to have the gravel base put in in prep for the decking. That gave me a place to park the smoker without standing in a mud pit. It’s a baby step but it’s something.
  23. I’m not worried about it. It’s not like it’s ever 80+ degrees and suitable swimming weather in December.
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