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Brisketexan

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  1. 15 minutes ago, pacman said:

    Bezos' fiance following the enshitification trend

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    Seriously....WTF is fucking wrong with these people?  What sane human looks at the image on the right and says "that...THAT is what I want?"  These shitsticks have a warped sense of reality across the board.  They have no fucking business telling humanity how shit should be, being that they think that we should pair off with gold digging manufactured cartoon characters.

  2. 3 minutes ago, Texzilla58 said:

    I thought I was the only kid who lived Delaware punch but that was in Memphis back before the earth began to cool.

    I had some relatively recently (like, in the past 10 years or so).  Holy SHIT, that stuff is SWEET.  I understand some why I liked it as a kid, but man....I can't drink that shit now.

  3. 3 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

    As the kids would say: we’re cooked. This board is an anomaly. Your social circle is the exception. Most of America is full of uneducated dipshits who couldn’t give two shits about democracy or rights or equality. All they want is to eat ultraprocessed empty calories and feed their dopamine habit by jamming what little money they have into a noisy, blinky theft machine. 

    The Idiocracy is upon us.

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    Many of us have realized over the years "hey, I'm smarter and make better judgments than average."  This board draws grads of a pretty university, so that's not an unfair conclusion to reach.

    But dear God, when you realize how uneducated and stupid the vast majority of Americans actually are -- and you realize that 1) you're not THAT smart, yet 2) you're also in the top 5% of intelligent and educated people here.....yeah, we're fucked.  We're turbofucked.

    Not just because we have a giant critical mass of lizard-brained idiocy, but because they are now fully empowered and unleashed.  "Weaponized stupidity."  The rest of us don't have a chance.  We're outnumbered by a staggering ratio.

  4. 3 minutes ago, Chopper said:

    Overall EV sales in Europe are up by 33% year over year (for April). 

    Tesla sales in Europe are down by 49% in the same period.

    Tesla sold just 7,261 vehicles in Europe in all of April 2025.

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    https://electrek.co/2025/05/27/tesla-tsla-keeps-getting-worse-in-europe-despite-electric-car-sales-surging/

     

    "Hey, Western Europe.  I hate you all, hate you having functioning democracies, and will pour enormous resources into empowering the same kind of xenophobic fascist bullshit that led to the continent being a shitload of smoldering rubble 80 years ago.  Wait, what's that?  You don't like me and don't want to spend any money with me?  Well, who could have seen that coming?"

  5. Just now, Pescado_Rojo said:

    I'd LOVE to have her as a senator, but the racist dog whistles in that campaign would be ultra-gross. Especially if Paxton wins the R primary (he will). 

    Yeah.  None of this conversation matters.  Paxton wins the R primary running away (seriously, he beats Cornyn by 10 points or close to it).  And he'll win the Senate race against whoever the D's put up by at least 6 points.  Because we are a shitty state full of shitty people, and Paxton's shittiness, criminality, etc., are not negatives -- they are strengths to our electorate.

  6. 3 minutes ago, Texzilla58 said:

    we are a long way from a shack on the highway selling chopped beef sandwiches, a bag of chips from the rack, and a Grape-ette from the cooler box.  

    Your lack of respect for Delaware Punch is duly noted.

    I remember being super happy as a kid when we stopped to pick up that exact combo at Joel's BBQ in Flatonia on the drive from Houston to south of San Antonio (Devine).  You are definitely right -- we've come a LONG way since then.

  7. 23 minutes ago, deac_tracy said:

    Gonna be in Austin next Sunday and it looks like it's supposed to rain. What BBQ place in Austin or the surrounding area would be the place to go to avoid rain?

    Stiles Switch is a good call for that (it's all indoors).

    And man....I don't get out and about to good barbecue as much as I used to, but it irks me that I still haven't been to Interstellar.  Gotta remedy that one day when I have time for the line.

  8. 3 hours ago, Parliament said:

    The plain old Ferd Terus was the #1 car in America for quite some time.  You don't get there w/o being good at...something.

    good at....getting every major rental car company to make the Taurus the bulk of their rental fleet.  There was a good window of time there where if you rented a car, there was a 75% chance it was gonna be a Taurus.  And the utterly generic nature of the rental car experience actually ended up harming the brand.  When people thought "Taurus," they thought "cheapest car Hertz offers at Love Field."

  9. Hairy approach and landing at AUS. Got a few screams from some passengers as we went into short freefall a coupla times in downdrafts. Landed fine, now backed up because every plane on earth waited till now to come in. No gates.

  10. On 5/7/2025 at 12:24 PM, Js1 said:

    I just assume everything is a scam. 

    Toll road violation texts? Scam

    Job offers to work from home and make $3k/month? Scam

    Offers to buy my house? Scam

    Friends want to hang out? Scam

    Save the whales? SCAM! 

    True story:

    Brisketexan, circa 1992, setting up my shitty but new Packard Bell 386 before law school.  Opens CD-Rom for this outfit called "Prodigy."  Read the literature with it.  I consciously recall tossing it all into my trash, saying out loud, "'Internet?'  Sounds like a scam."

  11. On a flight home from LAS at present (long delay, Austin weather).  Wife and I came to town to see Bruno Mars - not my favorite artist or anything, but dude puts on a helluva show.  And chicks dig him, so nice crowd.

    Stayed at the Aria for the first time (we usually stay at the Palazzo, but wanted to stay next to the concert venue).  Liked it well enough.  Dinner at Din Tai Fung (one of our all-time favorite restaurants anywhere, was happy to snag a reservation for this location).  Brunch at Bardot's (second time to eat there -- everything there is really well done.  We had crepes and the almond french toast which was ridiculously good).  

    Didn't gamble at all, we're just not that into it, but we've come to like the rhythm of a trip to see a show, have a coupla good meals, sleep in, have some quality couple time in a nice hotel room.  We're coming back for the Eagles in October at the Sphere.  Will stay at Palazzo then.  Wife wants brunch at Bouchon that trip, which is a fave of hers.


  12. Mary Lou Retton Arrested on DUI Charge in West Virginia

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    Retton was arrested on Saturday, May 17, on one count of DUI in Marion County

     

    NEED TO KNOW

    • According to court records from the West Virginia Magistrate Court system, Retton, 57, was arrested on Saturday, May 17, on one count of "driving under influence of alcohol, controlled substances, or drugs;penalties"
    • The Olympian was issued a personal recognizance bond of $1,500, of which she posted that same day
    • PEOPLE has reached out to Retton's representative for comment

    Mary Lou Retton was arrested on a DUI charge earlier this month in Marion County, W.V., according to court records reviewed by PEOPLE.

    According to court records from the West Virginia Magistrate Court system, Retton, 57, was arrested on Saturday, May 17, on one count of "driving under influence of alcohol, controlled substances, or drugs; penalties."

    The Olympian was issued a personal recognizance bond of $1,500, which she posted that same day.

    PEOPLE has reached out to Retton's representative for comment.

    mary-lou-retton-olympics-052625-9683980a0ee746ba87a87ca9878fc716.jpg Mary Lou Retton in the 1984 Summer Olympics. Focus on Sport/Getty

    Retton is the first American woman to win a gold medal in individual all-around gymnastics. Her arrest comes nearly two years after she was in the ICU with a rare form of pneumonia.

    Her daughter, McKenna Kelley, announced that she was hospitalized in October 2023 in a post on her Instagram Story which included a link to a Spotfund page dedicated to her mom.

    "My amazing mom, Mary Lou, has a very rare form of pneumonia and is fighting for her life. She is not able to breathe on her own. She’s been in the ICU for over a week now. Out of respect for her and her privacy, I will not disclose all details. However, I will disclose that she not insured," said Kelley.


    I’d believe that. She and her husband Shannon sat right in front of us at the Bleachergate game at UH back in the day. First CFB game we went to that sold beer. She comes back to her seat with 4 beers, holding them with her fingers in the cups. Some UH fans start giving her shit, she whirled around and ripped into them, without spilling a drop. If she’d have had a cigarette dangling from her lips, she would have been 100% Texan (or…a shorter version of my mom, a true class act). It was awesome…but gal could drink. She’d already had several brewpops by that point.
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