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Posts posted by BearSchlong
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Indeed holy shit.
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I just took these from the plane.
The 2nd one really doesnt do justice to the large flames still present.
My work wife and her husband live next to the reservation and she told me it was the most terrifying experience of her life. Like a bomb that kept going.
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Just took these from the plane
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Who was it besides me?Did we ever get the pics from the poster from Beaumont from TOS? -
Wife keeps texting me pics of the plume from near her office in orange.
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Apparently PN-G had some damage.
https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/The-latest-Explosion-at-Port-Neches-plant-14866093.php-
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TPC is one of my customers.
I'm about to fly home from DFW to BPT right now. Going to be interesting to see what I can from the air. -
Good lord, do they give these flight attendants lessons on being condescending and annoying???
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I've been called sponsor by a guy for 7.8 years. He drove over to central LA last night to see about his 80+ year old dad, who had a doctor's appointment today. His dad's getting to the point where living at home by himself is challenging, he was stressing that the Doc was going to "institutionalize him". . .so around 11 am today he went out to the toolshed, retrieved his gun, and shot (killed) himself in the chest.
Sponsee and I both celebrate anniversaries in January, and for the last 7 years his dad has given him his chip. He was so proud of his son.
I've been talking to him sporadically as he deals with the coroner, the Parish sheriff, etc. Since he had outfitted dad's house with cameras he even saw it on video.
Dammit.
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You ever considered that maybe those people love you and would want to help and support you if they only knew your struggle? I've found I'm only as sick as the secrets that I keep in my head, that sunlight is a great disinfectant. The relief I've gotten from sharing my struggles is intense and immediate.
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Here for my semi-annual CR post.
Wife, both sets of inlaws, parents, me are generally moderate.
My younger sister was a Presidential intern just before Monica Lewinski showed up, she worked for Al Gore and just loved being in the Clinton White House. After she finished law school and a few years of boutique DC law, she removed that experience from her resume (non partisan civil service job, but final interview was with then speaker Dennis Hastert (R)) and became associate parliamentarian of the House of Reps, which is an awesome job when you're childless and in your 20s, (Government pay and some 18 hour days). Since a parliamentarian has to be in the House anytime it's in session I'd see her on CSPAN, at the Parliamentarian's bench trying not to fall asleep as some freshman congressperson droned on about some topic during special orders at 11pm.
Can someone die from depression? If so, then I'm afraid for her life should DJT win re-election. Now she works for the Justice dept in a west coast, liberal bastion, and anytime she brings up politics I have to change the subject to something that matters, like my nephews, or my own kids.
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15 hours ago, MissingInAction said:
I get this weird stinging sensation in my lower right abdomen right below the rib cage. Is that my liver failing?
Blood test out front should have told you. Get one.
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1 hour ago, El Diablo said:
Old timer from my first go 'round in 1990 had this to say, and it may be common in the rooms as so many things we hear aren't original...
"There's an old saying that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. HOWEVER you can let the horse see how much others are enjoying the water, how cool and refreshing it is. You CAN help make the dumb horse THIRSTY!"
ETA: The old attraction rather than promotion principle.
Good reminder. Thank you.
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2 hours ago, BBQ2Bayou said:
Kinda always wondered why people on parole/probation mandated by the court to go to AA, who don't want to be there, don't put together that "anonymous" is in the name and there's no way to check that signature. Or is there?
I've been mandated to hundreds of AA meetings by judges and have never attended a meeting. And it wasn't only because I didn't want to be there, but I didn't want to waste the time of people who were there for help. I knew I didn't want the help, so why should I impose on meetings of those who are there for help?
If there's a blank for phone number, I'll put mine in. My thinking is that if some poor PO actually called me I would confirm that I signed the slip, although there is no way of me knowing it's owner.
One thing that I've been shirking is taking the local AA phone calls for a weekend. They always call me right in the middle of an important conference call or work project and I'll think "man, I'm busy and don't have time for this shit." - that's me being a bad AA member. I'm going to stop by the intergroup office and give them my personal cell number (I must have given them my work cell number) and volunteer to take calls over the holidays. I can match it up to when my wife is on-call for her job.
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Checking in with an indignant, militant rant for a moment. . .
Last night I went to a smaller meeting with my sponsor, a sponsee, and some guys I whose sobriety is attractive to me. A book study, but right now we're going through the traditions.
Tradition 5 - Each group has but one primary purpose—to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers. If you haven't read this chapter in the 12 and 12, it'll get your attention - the story of Bill W and his defiant "irishman."
Had a huge realization that I'm not doing 12 step work - of course right now I'm on a 4th step - but when I'm done, I'm going to really seek out some wet drunks who actually want help.
I'm also done signing probation/parole slips. As far as I'm concerned, the Texas department of corrections can stop dropping newly-released women from the local transitional living facility into my home group. It's weary being in a meeting and having to sign 20 "attendence" logs for people who don't want to be there.
Some will disagree with me, noting that they got to AA via a judge, or that being sentenced to AA planted the seed that later bloomed into continuous sobriety. That's fine.
My other gripe is another group I attend, where there are like 600 years of sobriety in the room and zero newcomers. A member commented "we don't see you often" and my reply was "cause this group is too sober, it's boring. what do 20 people with double digit sobriety sit around and talk about?"
I'll find the happy medium soon, probably by taking a meeting to the men's treatment center.
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18 hours ago, Gil Bang said:
We californians buy our hot tubs at home shows and county fairs.
How many Californians does it take to screw in a light bulb?
SpoilerCalifornians don't screw in light bulbs, they screw in hot tubs!
-my 14 year old self, reading "totally tasteless Jokes vol 1" at summer camp. guffaw!
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Fuck the Beaumont hate. We are NOT port arthur, and we're light years ahead of Waco. I've lived in both places and there's just something in the water in Waco that makes people turn into sociopathic assholes.For Texas and keeping it with cities with a pop of over 50K, my bottom 10 would probably be:- Port Arthur
- Beaumont
- Corpus Christi
- Victoria
- Harlingen
- College Station
- Pasadena
- Grand Prairie
- Killeen
- Waco
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Very accurate.It took me a lot of time to understand why teams and fanbases feel differently about Texas and OU, but I think I discovered part of the answer.
They see OU as a team like them, only better. OU players are chippy, they talk smack, they do little things to piss you off (like lay on your QB for an extra few seconds when the clock is ticking in a 2 minute drill), they gloat, and they have loads of swagger. And they back all of that up with talent and good play. They win. They're like the Ohio State of the Big 12. Other guys may hate that they always win, but they respect them, and would happily imitate them.
They see Texas as wealthy elitists. We play clean and we're good sports, but we look down our noses. If we win, well we were supposed to. If we lose, well we're Texas. I think a lot of fanbases think we get by with money more than anything else. And we're an academic powerhouse to boot. They're happy to beat us because they like to rub our noses in it. They don't respect us when we win, though. We're like Michigan to OU's Ohio State.
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I did tell her to watch her cornhole at about 520 am tomorrow.I never found that a problem.-
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Guess its gonna be another lonely night of jerking off using my tears for lube. Wife is out cold.This morning while grocery shopping at HEB I negotiated nasty sex with my wife, if Baylor wins. I'm starting to get optimistic. I tried to get anal included but she said no.
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I've never seen that garment for sale anywhere. He must have them custom made.Rhule’s grocery store shopping cart collector outfit is ridiculous. -
The Rapenant?Wasn't there a movie a while back where Leo Dicaprio got raped by a bear? It'll be like that.
...I really hope I didn't imagine that.
Maybe it'll be like that movie Hereditary where the girl sticks her head out the car window and gets decapitated.
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This morning while grocery shopping at HEB I negotiated nasty sex with my wife, if Baylor wins. I'm starting to get optimistic. I tried to get anal included but she said no.
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Port Neches - TPC chem plant explosion
in Daily Texan
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Just saw this from my attorney friend Mark Sparks feed. Can vouch for him if anyone needs representation.
https://setexasrecord.com/stories/520550644-ferguson-law-firm-files-class-action-tro-over-tpc-plant-explosion