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cactusflinthead

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  1. 5 acres? That's not enough carrying capacity for more than a few nanny goats.
  2. He transferred from Rutgers, from NJ originally. But, he lives in Edmund?! I dunno. I want to hate on him, but it's not easy.
  3. One of my favorites of theirs. "Lives were somehow changed by a loathsome toothless geezer incoherent and deranged"
  4. Don't lump us all together. She ain't all that. I can't say I wouldn't hit it, but that's no great confirmation of beauty. I might not get that far if she said more than a few syllables.
  5. I'm thinking about the stuff in my house and the four creatures that expect me to feed them. I don't want more stuff. I want to shed the responsibility of owning it. I don't want my daughter to have to deal with a pile of stuff that she doesn't want and is a pain in the ass to unload. If I can get it down to a pick up load by the time I am ready to exit this mortal coil that's fine with me. Retirement? Bwahaha! I'll retire when she pours my ashes into the Gulf.
  6. Exhibit D money stays in the bank and we make do with what have. I'm not spending a damn dime that I don't have to. Frivolity is gone. Blood thinners suck.
  7. CBS’s Late Show was the only show among the nine tracked by LateNighter to draw more total viewers in Q2 than it had in the first quarter of 2025—although just barely, with the show growing its audience by 1% quarter over quarter. All told, the Stephen Colbert-hosted show averaged 2.42 million viewers across 41 first-run episodes, comfortably outpacing ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! (1.77 million) and NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (1.19 million). In the advertiser-coveted 18–49 demo, however, Kimmel surged ahead with 220,000 viewers—his strongest performance in a year—edging out Colbert (219,000) and leaving Fallon (at 157,000) in a distant third. https://latenighter.com/news/ratings/late-night-tv-ratings-q2-2025/ @bolverk no plain text because links are good. Deal with it or don't
  8. I didn't know the details of the meme until last night. I kept seeing it around but I had no idea what the hell it was about. Some CEO did something? Ok whatever, I'm busy I'll see what it's all about later. 7 or 8 pages, a dozen memes, one quixotic white knight quest by imma (seriously? THIS PAIR is who you're choosing to defend) and I think I am caught up. All I can say is that I have a satisfactory level of schadenfreude this morning. This asshole, by all accounts, has left every company he's ever touched in worse shape than when he arrived. And imma thinks we ought to leave Brittany alone? FUCK THAT and FUCK HIM. I hope he is forever enconsced as the representative meme of "don't get your meat where you get your bread". I also hope he's so toxic that he never gets another chance to pillage a company into the dirt. I don't feel sorry for him having an epic moment of FAFO. He ought to be the representative slide on the HR presentation that we have to sit through on behavior at work. No, I don't think I will back off, nor do I feel any pity or shame or sympathy towards him in the slightest. Saddle up bucko. This one is just starting for you.
  9. It amazes me that after all these years nobody has given her up. She has skated by as anonymous listeater and aggy protects her to this day.
  10. Gotterup played college golf at Rutgers University from 2017 to 2021.[3] In 2019 he won the Metropolitan Amateur and New Jersey State Open, and was given the Metropolitan Golf Association Jerry Courville Sr. Player of the Year Award.[2] He transferred to the University of Oklahoma for 2021–22, where he won the Haskins Award and Jack Nicklaus Award as the top college golfer.[4] It also says that he lives in Edmund, OK now. I guess we might have to be on the lookout.
  11. I still do it. I know he's going to bite me and latch on with all the claws. Don't care. I'm getting some belly rubs.
  12. Darkness and Doubt Above all, there was a sense of distance from God, what the sixteenth century Spanish monk John of the Cross called the “dark night of the soul” or the sense that the “heavens were like brass” bouncing back any prayer sent heavenward. Lewis says, But go to Him when your need is desperable, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double-bolting on the inside. After that, silence. Worse than that, there were doubts about the goodness of God. It wasn’t that Lewis was in any danger of becoming an atheist: “The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not, ‘So there’s no God after all,’ but, ‘So this is what God’s really like. Deceive yourself no longer.’” ---I can't just leave it there This smashing even applies to some of our questions. Some of our questions are unanswerable, at least in the way we ask them. Lewis says: When I lay these questions before God, I get no answer. But rather, a special kind of ‘no answer.’ It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, ‘Peace, child; you don’t understand.’ . . . Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask—half our great theological and metaphysical problems—are like that. --- It is hoped that these insights might be helpful, although I am aware of the dilemma Lewis described in The Problem of Pain: All arguments in justification of suffering provoke bitter resentment against the author. You would like to know how I behave when I am experiencing pain, not writing books about it. When we all experience pain, a little courage helps more (Lewis observes) than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all. https://www.cslewisinstitute.org/resources/c-s-lewis-on-grief/
  13. Fire it up. I've got thoughts about other religions that have to deal with the random ass bullshit of existence just like the rest of us over here in Christian land. And I'm saying that as someone that just reaffirmed his beliefs to join the Presbyterians because the Baptists don't recognize anyone else as having it right so there's no saying to them, "Hey, he's going over here now." Fwiw the same thing applies to the Catholic guy that was sitting next to me at the session. I got thoughts about old Abraham Heschel and Lao Tzu that probably belong in a different thread. But, while I'm here. The OT has more than a few souls that wrestled with the idea of a just and loving God when confronted with the people around them. There's a reason why the Cistercian Father had us read No Exit in our last year. We had already made the journey with Dante through all nine circles of Hell, might as well take a look at Sartre's version too. Zechariah got up there to get ready for the questions back. Job got it out of a tornado. George Washington Carver wanted to know everything there is to know about plants. It's too much little man, but I will tell you about the peanut. That's how big it all is. I don't know much of anything. But, I do know to help other people and don't brag about it.
  14. That's fucked up. Glad you survived to tell the tale. "I've got a lighter! I want us to die!" is the most masthead worthy quote ever
  15. I'm pretty sure he was guilty of breaking more than two laws. Unless he was rolling down the road with a fat ass jay hanging out of his mouth, he probably did something to get the attention of the cops and the other laws were found to be in violation and the first offense was disregarded.
  16. Don't. Just don't
  17. I don't get it. This is how many names? You're not the first person to point out that it's Rex again but I'm going to consider this confirmation of it. I usually wait until he shows up in the Oil Baron's thread before I'm completely convinced but, two or three unrelated posters saying the same thing and him whining about it is enough this time.
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