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Wise is the best on fees and exchange rate. But it acts up sometimes, and tells us "nope, you can't transfer money." Usually when it's a bigger amount, but we've sent big amounts before with no issues, so we really can't figure out when and why it will give us a hard time. Bank wire transfer exchange rate SUCKS.
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This. And I gotta tell you, as something of a BBQ fan (see username), I've been around and experienced Texas BBQ for decades now. Including back in the era when most readily available barbecue was decidedly mediocre (think little roadside joints good for chopped beef sandwiches, or urban places that were chains like Luther's, local joints like Bert's, or even small town outfits that were decidedly meh). There were a handful of "classic, great" joints. The Lockhart places, Louie Mueller's, Cotten's, Luling City Market, etc. And yes, Snow's (kicking myself for not going back when a client in Lexington told me I needed to come visit one Saturday for barbecue, back when it was still a local secret). It was a big deal to go to one, like a special road trip from town, or you stopped at one when you happened to be heading that way to go fishing or somesuch. We loved 'em, and going was a treat. Read "Legends of Texas Barbecue" to get a feel for what I'm talking about. Then, the "craft barbecue" movement kicked off. It largely overlapped with the birth of internet food discussions and reviews. John Mueller opened his place on Manor Road. Got lots of buzz and attention. Then Aaron opened his trailer, and a focus on a real "perfectionist," refined approach to smoking traditional Texas barbecue kicked in. And this movement has produced some AMAZING food. I love it. I can get world-class, make you change religion barbecue at a dozen places in Austin alone now. But fucking hell and goddammit. In a quest to out-barbecue-snob each other, everyone is disdainfully looking down on places that are, and remain, glorious cathedrals of deliciousness. Fuck that shit. I've had plenty of high-end, "new gourmet" brisket from many of the places on the TX Monthly list. And I have to tell you, give me a top-end bite of brisket from 20 of those places, side-by-side, and I would be hard-pressed to tell you the difference. They are ALL amazing. Sure, any place can have an off day, etc. But bottom line, we live in a world where you can get 10-out of-10 quality barbecue at dozens of places. And people are arguing whether it's really a 10, or is it a 9.98? What the fucking fuck? We're entering the "that supermodel has pointy knees, would not bang" territory of barbecue discussion. It's fucking stupid. It's barbecue bro snob culture, and it's fucking stupid and annoying. And it's killing what we love. You know who DOESN'T engage in that bullshit? A guy who has literally made Texas barbecue his passion and career, Daniel Vaughn. He genuinely appreciates the embarrassment of riches we now have. And he's not denigrating any place by putting it in the 11-50 category. The bottom line is that, aside from a unique twist here and there (egyptian style seasonings, or brisket fried rice), every one of these places is making barbecue that would have been the best barbecue you've ever tasted 25 years ago. I'm brisketexan, and I love good barbecue, and I appreciate the fine folks who make good barbecue, which can now be found all over the state. And I think that people who take this shit so seriously that they feel the need to "out craft-bbq-bro" people in their snobbery fucking suck, are missing the entire point, and are fucking up the barbecue experience for the rest of us. Lighten the fuck up, don't take it - and yourself - so fucking seriously. And if you ever say anything about Tootsie and Snows that isn't along the lines of "it and she are a Texas treasure, and we're all fortunate to have them around to experience," you should probably re-examine your life.
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The context and length of time over which you discuss forcible asteroid sodomy is a very important detail. Pay attention, man.
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I mentioned it when all this shit started going down, but I'm totally down with getting into the bootlegger bidness if I get to drive a sweet wooden boat....
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My daughter had a hellacious time with that. I had an HSBC account already (had to open one for the boy going to school there - we needed it in order to buy a flat, so we didn't have a UK address yet). You CAN open an HSBC account in the UK from the US. It's a headache, but it can be done. There are only a couple of banks that will let you do it, but HSBC is one of them. Or at least, it was.
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Also, reality is completely uncoupled from reality. The market doesn't react to Trump's tariff statements anymore because they don't mean anything unless and until a tariff is actually imposed. Which maybe it will be. Maybe it won't be. Who knows?
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The fact that we now live in the "college athletic coach to United States Senate-pipeline" era is yet another piece of evidence that, even standing alone, would merit total destruction of our planet by a rogue meteor.
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So, I'm administering my father's estate, and he owned a home in Houston, as well as his residence in Austin. To do the inventory, I need an appraisal. Anyone got a name for a good, reliable appraiser in Houston? And for that matter, one in Austin? I know they can get backed up for months, and I'd like this done in the next 30-45 days if possible, so maybe that figures in. Thanks.
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Man, I always was when I was 20 or so. Oh, wait, you’re talking about rain.
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Correct. We have always had a giant moron class. It is the nature of humanity. However, they also mostly knew that they were morons. What has changed is that we have now weaponized stupidity, and they are now convinced that their idiocy is BETTER than intelligence. The dumber shit is? Well, that’s proof of how much better they really are. That’s what’s killing us: weaponized stupidity.
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We might. But Mexico is gonna have to pay for it.
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The man is a fucking lying psychopath, exhibit infinity. God I wish he would fucking die, tonight. Choke on a big Mac. Massive MI. I don't care. Just fucking die already.
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To put it in sharp relief: Be brown and you once ran a stop sign back in 2012? You should be deported and/or shipped to a Salvadoran prison. Be white and commit $30 million in bank fraud, or steal $10 million of employee tax withholdings? FULL AND UNCONDITIONAL PARDON. But don't worry, folks. Remember......it's going to get a LOT worse. Wait until we get to type "be aligned with the administration and gun down political dissidents? Immediate full and unconditional pardon, pre-empting even the beginning of any DOJ prosecution."
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Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
Brisketexan replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
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. -
No. They won't.
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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.
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We've never reckoned with our original sin (slavery). Which is amazing, being that we fought our bloodiest war over the issue....but then we never finished the job. We lurched back and forth between the shittiness of Reconstruction and then the shittiness of Jim Crow, without ever solving a goddamned thing. We are a nation of immigrants.....that hates immigrants. We are a nation with a much-larger-than-normal "minority" population....that hates minorities. We are a decadent nation....that is violently puritanical about sex and drugs and such. We are a nation that brags on law and order....with an off-the-charts rate of gun violence. Our national ethos is denial. To get better, we don't have to self-flagellate. But goddammit, we need to admit to the full spectrum of our sins, and quit making excuses. So what are we doing? Literally BANNING any education that would "make white people feel bad." Which is shitty, when you realize that white people are the most fragile snowflakes around, and merely hearing that this country was built on a foundation of enslavement of black people, which distorted wealth and power in ways apparent to the present day, makes them hurt in their fee-fees.
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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.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Brisketexan replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
"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?" -
Quit excusing them and forgiving them. They are huge pieces of shit. They are mean, cruel, and shitty. We don't excuse the Germans for their choices in the first half of the last century, made for many of the same reasons and in similar circumstances. Fuck that shit. No matter how weak and scared you are, when you choose the "let's go with antidemocratic cruelty and xenophobia as our cornerstone beliefs" route, you chose shittiness and you are shitty. And you are making the world shitty for everyone else. I can feel pity for someone who was abused as a child. I can want them to get help. But once they choose to pass that abuse on to a new generation, then guess what they are? Piece-of-shit child abusers. Fuck them. "Understanding" and latitude only emboldens and further empowers those shitheels. Fuck them all. Crush them. Make them suffer, make their shattered selves crawl back under a rock, where they belong. If you love your country, you believe in fighting its enemies, and since the Civil War, this country has never faced an enemy as dangerous as MAGAs.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You should stay away from them if you are involved in military decisionmaking with the Putin regime.
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