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BearSchlong

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  1. My son shared a tent in Kuwait with an Army doc who made $450K during a 6 month deployment moonlighting as an online boner pill doc. Did the bare minimum for his Army job and spent every available moment online.

  2. 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.

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  3. 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.

  4. 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.

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  5. The EAS program is one of those DEI programs that rural Republicans don't realize is a DEI program.  It's a Democratic program.  It's always been supported by Democrats.  The only people who oppose the EAS program are Republicans.  
    The EAS program comes from the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978.  Rural Democrats objected to airline deregulation on the basis that it was inequitable to their constituents.  While people in Dallas and Houston might get the benefit of lower fares resulting from airline competition, their constituents in Beaumont and Tyler would be left without air service altogether.  To assuage that concern, Congress created the EAS program.
    The Biden Administration increased funding to the EAS program by $1.7B.  The argument was the same: we want to be fair and equitable to rural communities and include them in American prosperity.  It's a complete DEI program.
    But equity and inclusion are now passe.  Fuck-youism is now the order of the day.  So sorry, Cordova and Beaumont and Tyler and Enid--you're going to lose your air service.  And if that is inequitable and excludes you from being able to participate as effectively in the American economy . . . well, that's exactly what you voted for.

    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.
  6. Right handed, cast right handed, reel left handed.  For fly fishing - casting is the most important, so use your dominant hand.

    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.
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  7. On a bait caster I cast and retrieve with my right on a fly rod I cast with my right and retrieve with my left.  Spinners same as a fly rod. 
     
    edit - clarify two diff conventional set ups 

    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?
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  8. Yes sir! But more than that, my grandfather lived on 11th ave in Port Arthur DIRECTLY behind the PA Gibson's. Middle school Pescado spent HOURS perusing the sporting goods department almost daily in the summers. There wasn't shit else to do, and Gibson's had AC. The gun department might have been the closest thing to a basement in SE Texas. I was there so much, the employees would ask me if they had something and where it was located any time a customer asked them. I was 100% certain that Gibson's would be my part time job when I got old enough, but it had closed by then, and became the Bogle Supply warehouse. 

    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.
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  9. 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.

  10. why catch fish all day long with live bait when you can torture yourself fishing (and not catching) with a fly rod and an artificial??

    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.
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