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Brisketexan

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  1. This. Never get involved in a "to the pain!" dispute with an opponent who has this guy's pain tolerance: And no worries....if it gets too painful for them and there's some unrest, they can run the one-two punch of 1) Tiananmen square their asses, and 2) start a distracting war with a neighbor, maybe Taiwan.
  2. FIF accuracy. Because I know of a full spectrum of developer types. The ones that have been around forever, who thrive when times are good, and manage to survive when times are bad (because dudes, that market be cyclical) generally treat their contractors alright. Because maybe on THIS deal, the project ended up being one where the contractor took it in the shorts.....which is okay, and he won't end up in litigation or a major dispute with the developer, because he knows that on the next deal, he'll be treated fairly, and will have a chance to make a decent profit. Repeat dealings mean stability, reliability, and risk avoidance. There are shitty developers who are combative with everyone, and try to fuck over everyone. Those developers don't seem to last very long.
  3. Did we know each other growing up? I recall us stopping to buy shrimp right by there.
  4. Our national motto -- or at least of a sizable portion of our nation now -- is "emboldened assholery." All brakes/checks are OFF. These folks are now free to be as huge an asshole as they ever dreamed of being.
  5. And man, a Gulf coast variation of that....I presume that every family living along the coast in the 70s-80s had a "shrimp guy," right? And by that, I mean a dude who would park a van, with a couple of large coolers, at a particular spot on the road -- usually a state highway or FM road -- put out a handpainted plywood sign that said "Shrimp $4 lb" or something like that. And your dad somehow knew when he would be there, and y'all would swing by and pick up 5 lbs or so for all your shrimp consumption purposes. This was a totally normal and legit way to buy shrimp....in fact, buying shrimp at a store was for elitist yankee bastards or somesuch, I think.
  6. Just a well-oiled machine, functioning as intended, making sure we are not invaded by.....Canadian hikers, who own property and vehicles in Canada and are no threat to try to illegally emigrate to the US:
  7. "By predicting event X -- before it even begins." Yes, I mean....that IS how predictions work. Now personally, my preferred practice is to predict things after they've already happened. For example, I predict that Texas will sweep Auburn in baseball last weekend. I also predict that Pope Francis will die right after Easter. PRO: my accuracy rate is 100%. CON: the timing of my predictions doesn't leave a lot of room for people to act on them. Oh well, everything has a downside.
  8. To your proposal, I say "soitanly!"
  9. Dibs on being "Pope Moe I":
  10. If I pay $3,500 for that room, it better be the "Monica Belluci included" package. I mean.....is that package available? Because I've got a browser window open, I could book a room pretty quickly.
  11. Trappey's on your greens, and an extra splash or two on the accompanying cornbread, is winning.
  12. Oh....you think that they observe those rules when they don't want to. How....quaint. If you don't think there's been some serious headboard-banging at the Papal Apartments, you haven't been paying attention.
  13. As I was catholic educated, I think it only right for me to toss my hat into the ring. I look alright in funny hats, I suspect I'd like Italy, and my platform of turning "the body of Christ" into "the delicious, tender smoked body of Christ" by changing the eucharist to brisket samples instead of those nasty little bread cracker disc things, should be a winner.
  14. So. Much. This. We can have much debate about whether the strategy vis-a-vis China is the right one, but most folks would agree that China is a trade adversary that requires additional management. But to kick off a fight with them....while telling literally every single one of your allies (and your enemies....fucking EVERYONE) "fuck off, you're my enemy too!" is the dumbest fucking shit imaginable. Like, "invading Russia before locking down western Europe, the UK, and the US by Hitler" dumb. And also....a fucking immediate-term firebombing strategy to resolve issues that took decades to build up, and will take lots of time to disentangle? Yeah, that's fucking dumb too. But it's extra-mega-super-dumb when you decide to stand alone and make yourself the enemy of literally the entire fucking world.
  15. Dude. No WAY will we get anyone that wise, measured, and qualified.
  16. Yeah dude, way ahead of you. Been grabbing goodies from there for....a long, long time. I like Billy's, too. But Best Stop is my old-school choice. Of course, my favorite place was Babineaux's in Breaux Bridge, but they're long-gone.
  17. Because you don't understand the DJIA like Ana does. And you also don't understand consumer confidence. Or inflation. Or supply chain pressure. Or burning bridges with all of your trading partners. You just don't get the 20-D chess that is being played here. This is what things getting BETTER looks like.
  18. Will he be attaching my rider, which will create a rigorous set of regulations regarding the for-profit exploitation of unicorns? We must ensure that we ban the use of unicorns to pull plows in this state -- such majestic creatures must not be used and harmed in the course of such menial tasks. I promise you, once those regulations are passed, you will never see a unicorn pulling a plow in this great state.
  19. If you wanna make a Grok that does exactly what Elmo commands.....well, what's a few hundred poisoned black people?
  20. For realz. All-day mexican backyard bbqs are the shit. Black folks' bbqs as well. All-day affairs. All KINDS of grub - people bring/make their favorites, and it's a hodgepodge of awesomeness. A brisket, sure. But also chicken and pork steaks on the grill. Two different kids of beans. Deviled eggs maybe. Shit, someone showed up with a big box of Church's spicy? That makes a good snack while we drink beer and man the smoker. That shit is life well-lived.
  21. I've been paying attention to this current timeline. I would be unsurprised if we end up with Pope Beelzebub PuppyKiller the first.
  22. No....it wouldn't look nearly as effective as what TFG is pulling off.
  23. I have done that. Shit, I get calls trying to buy our current residence. I tell them sure, at a price that is several times its value. I told my wife about one of those calls the other day, and she got upset -- "but I don't want to move! I like our house!" I said yeah, me too....but if someone wants to put a couple million extra dollars in my pocket, I'll be out of there before midnight tonight.
  24. Sergey Lavrov seems likely, at this point.
  25. My parents owned two houses (nothing fancy - their residence, and their old modest home in Houston that they kept as a rental property). When my mom died, and her estate went to probate, I got probably 2-3 calls a week, for months, asking about my property at 123 X street, and was I interested in selling it. I’m on a do not call list - that don’t make a shit. Now my dad has passed away. I’m getting 2-3 calls EVERY FUCKING DAY, including the middle of the day on Easter Fucking Sunday. They are fucking relentless.
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