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BearSchlong

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  1. I spent the day giving a customer a 335% price increase for some enterprise software, at the insistence of my director and VP. We are talking low 5 digits, and their previous price was laughably low because it was offered back when that product was a startup. Negotiated for a few hours, til they told us they were cancelling and to fuck off. Last email of the day was my director asking our VP how he wanted to respond. Admittedly, this deal was inconsequential in terms of my attainment, and I used it as a low-risk trial experiment in negotiating future deals. Honestly, I wanted to show leadership that I was aligned with their strategy and willing to stand firm and believe in our worth. Keyboard warrior of a customer refused to pick up the phone and sent two emails that could be vaguely construed as threats. No specifics, but this is what DOGE hath wrought.
  2. Just taken by my kid in front of Trump Chicago
  3. I particularly liked these. Some kid is being raised right.
  4. My kid representing in Chicago. The EL driver stopped the train and honked in solidarity.
  5. I agree with Ztejas. I've got a Puma like that with the contrasting red and I love it. The earth tones that Nike puts their guys in look like shit, imho. But Im also an old with silver hair so that look washes me out.
  6. Anticipating S4 as my kid is in a scene with Carmy as an extra. My buddy owns as busy a restaurant as I've ever seen and as a spectator fan I will sit by the kitchen waiting on food and watch 20 staff bounce around like seemingly chaotic maniacs, plus I have a huge crush on one of his managers (she looks like Emmy Rossum from Shameless). She tells me she watches The Bear to calm her nerves.
  7. Exactly how I explained it to my wife. Disaster porn. Also had to explain why the US Open isn't played on Pinehurst #2 every year. She's a tennis fan but is coming around.
  8. Homepage explains a lot. Holy shit level of Sociopaths. I'm surprised my ex wife and her stoma of a husband haven't tried this con yet.
  9. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/stars-and-neighbors-come-out-for-terrence-mcnally-way/ar-AA1GaegQ My friends Peter and his wife Vicki
  10. Just spent the evening with one of my closest friends whose brother had a street renamed in his memory. https://www.americantheatre.org/2025/05/30/on-the-street-where-he-lived-terrence-mcnally-way-unveiled/ Jonathan Groff at the ceremony.
  11. This is the new reality.
  12. Beaumont can probably stand on it’s own as all the AA flights are codeshares with Quatar Airways. The locals don't acknowledge it, but we are, for all practical purposes, subsidized by Sovereign Wealth Fund investments in NG Liquifaction plants. Still, Jefferson County does have to pay AA a sweetener if this fails.
  13. The best thing a fly fishing guide ever did was to tuck the rod butt up under my jacket cuff to keep me from getting too wristy; when I’m on I can throw it a long way and land a fly without a ripple.
  14. * and unlike “our” Baylor football players on the payroll, Pescado would have been a productive employee /SWC
  15. That would feel freaky and unnatural to me, but then again I've got 48 years of muscle memory doing it my way. One of my best friends, a guy I've worked with for over 20 years is coming down from Dallas for the weekend. He was laid off recently, and actually had an anxiety attack so severe it landed him in the ER. So Im going to take him on long boat rides to all my honey holes this weekend and we are going to practice mindfulness and casting. I've never fished with him so Friday afternoon I suspect I’ll be swapping handle sides on spinning gear and getting him a LA license and play acting fishing guide all weekend. Please God can we be blessed with June weather patterns? Is 5-10 variable from the SSW such a heavy ask?
  16. As a natural lefty, this is the first time I pondered that most people shift the rod to a different hand to reel.
  17. If I had know you back then I’d have put you on the payroll. Running the Beaumont location was so fun except when fishing/hunting license renewal days came around. Had to almost break the ballpoint pen to do those triplicate forms. And, of course, everytime all the guns were stolen. One of our assistant managers was an Academy founder.
  18. Do you by chance remember Gibson’s’ on 11th in Beaumont?
  19. A whole bunch of Reddington/Loomis from 3-12 wt, nothing extravagant.
  20. Ok dumb question time. Do you right-handed people use left hand cranked baitcasters/spinning reels? I cast lefty and crank righty, does that mean I fish left or right-handed? Same with fly rods. I ask because dad was right handed and after he died I had to convert a dozen spinning reels to RH crank. I suspect I’m about to convert a half dozen fly reels/spools to the same. But if I go search “baitcasting reels” everything comes up, generally speaking, with RH cranks. So am I really a RH fisherman or was dad a righty who fished lefty? Legit question as I consider myself lefty but I golf righty and throw/catch lefty. And I know I’m goofy AF because that's how I skateboard/snowboard.
  21. At some point I need to go through the locker containing a dozen fly rods and reels. And I have a glass presentation case full of redfish flies my dad tied. This will occupy the 2nd half of my midlife crisis.
  22. People who use gulps are also dumb enough to get out of a perfectly good dry comfortable boat and slog around casting./end Sabine/LA rant. I'm really just giving y'all shit because currently all my fishing is in places non-conducive to wading, and I have easy access to whatever live I want. Prior to losing my beachfront house to Ike I spent incalculable hours tossing tout tails, spoons, and mirrOlures from the 2nd sandbar, and on the backside of East Bay. Hell, my dad owned the sporting goods store.
  23. And jobs? My personal conservative estimate is that $150B in salaries have been eliminated or offshored or AI’d in 2025. I don't believe any government figures.
  24. Christ on a cracker haven't you heathens heard of live bait?
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