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Brisketexan

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  1. Man.....that is a LOT of words for Nicole to be telling us that she really regrets not blowing the married VP of Sales herself.
  2. This isn’t exactly a secret.
  3. My wife and I were chuckling about this. And goddamn, the hubris. We said imagine if one of us was having an affair. Then, we take our affair partner out to dinner at a big public restaurant in downtown Austin. Or we go to a UT football game together. And we're not just together, we've got our arms wrapped around each other. Dude. We are GOING to be seen by someone we know. It's inevitable, we're playing with fire. Going to a concert with 10s of thousands of people there. SOMEBODY was going to spot y'all all over each other. This was a whole lotta "we're big shit, so consequences don't happen to us" going on.
  4. Severe flood frequency is one of the elements of flood prediction and planning that's taken a huge punch in recent years. Now, those terms aren't really scheduling terms, they reflect the likelihood of such a flood event happening in a given year. So, the short term way of looking at a 100 year flood is that it's a flood that has a 1% chance of happening in any given year, not that you'll only get one such flood every 100 years. But, even then....the prediction of frequency is often way off in recent years. And every meteorologist and planner knows why. We can't talk about it, or even include discussions of it in government planning documents now, because Cloak Room, but trust me....engineers who matter DGAF about Cloak Room issues. They go where the data is taking them when it comes to planning. It takes a good bit of time to catch up, of course. And development and construction that has already happened is there, and isn't going away. But yes, these catastrophic-level events are happening more frequently, and to greater extremes. And our infrastructure and planning is not caught up to the threat, and we seem to be doing all we can socially and politically to ensure that they do not do so.
  5. Fantastic post and illustrations of the different levels of inundation risk. That's not the point, see this response: Floodway vs. flood plain is really important. And FEMA isn't just pulling this stuff out of its ass. These days, the data is pretty well updated, and they use the HEC-RAS modeling software to show inundation in specific types of events. I've watched animations of it simulating actual floods that occurred, and it is pretty close to spot-on. It's pretty impressive. Bottom line, today, if FEMA mapping shows you are in the floodway....you probably shouldn't be there.
  6. Just remember, when it comes to defending yourself against bullying cowards, you don't need an army. Just punch one bullying coward in the nose, and they back down, because right below the surface, they are gutless coward pussies.
  7. Goddammit people, for the 10,000th time, we don’t kink-shame around here. Now, for doing that shit non-consensually…shame away. But for the falafel bit…no judging.
  8. The main thing I’m getting out of this is a solid birthday card idea for my buddies. Every one of them is getting a shitty poem and a semi dirty drawing with my signature as pubes or something like that.
  9. Ahh yes, an option ripped from the pages of "Fuck That Shit Monthly - a Journal of Shit that No Fucking Way is it Ever Going to Happen." Their previous issue on "jamming spiked objects up your ass" was a real page-turner.
  10. Mo-Ranch has a camp. It's not as bougie as many of the others, and generally the sessions aren't as long. And yeah, it's a "church camp," but it's PCUSA Presbyterian, so pretty low-key. I would suspect they'll be adding sessions/slots in the coming years to make up for the lost availability of other camps in the area.
  11. WHAT???????? You mean, maybe Coca Cola has long-term supply agreements with corn syrup suppliers like ConAgra, and can't just turn on a dime? And maybe Coca Cola doesn't have the machinery in the US geared towards blending with sugar instead of HFCS? Pshaw, Trump is magic man. He snap fingers, everything happen.
  12. Oh. So you DID know I was angling to be the nominee.
  13. As the man who has volunteered to be the AP Presidential nominee, I do not appreciate your post. Mostly because my "volunteer fee" of $50 million is really important to me.
  14. Oh....my sweet summer child. "Terms" are such a quaint notion. We don't do "terms" anymore. The proper word is "reign." And nothing ends a monarch's reign but his death.
  15. Whatever. I'm tired of it. It just reminds me that nothing fucking matters. Seriously, imagine the most disgusting, evil, criminal thing you could think of. There could be an hour long video of it happening, airing non-stop on every platform for a week, and the consequences would be.....ZERO. Again, he'd GAIN support if the subject matter is awful enough.
  16. This. 1) I'll believe it when I see it. AND 2) Whatever it is, it won't fucking matter. Nothing matters. Nothing.
  17. Blah blah blah. Y'all know that in the end, nothing matters. This could blow wide open with a video of Trump sodomizing and then beheading an infant, and as the rest of the world gasps in horror, MAGA would smile about how much that "owns the libs, look at their sweet libtears," and he'll GAIN support. Pay no attention to their complaints and discomfort today. They always come around. Always. 100% of the time. Remember "shoot a man in the face in the middle of 5th avenue and not lose a single vote?" Yeah, he was dead-right, and still is.
  18. My self-managed airflow has been working fine for a long time, although my wife occasionally complains when I let loose excessive "airflow" in the bed. Also, this story is fantastic. The hubristic dumbassery is perfect for our time.
  19. MRI? Make sure to remove your metal butt plug first. Don't want that to turn into a projectile.
  20. Most regulations like the one at issue simply require that you have a plan. It's not evaluated for effectiveness, other than sometimes requiring that it have certain specific elements, that sort of thing. While I'm exaggerating SLIGHTLY for effect here, a flood plan of "hope like hell every kid is an olympic-level swimmer and tell 'em 'swim hard!'" might meet the state requirement of "have a plan." And that's not nonsensical -- the state simply doesn't have the resources (even in the best of times, with full funding of things that actually benefit the people) to do a detailed review of every emergency action plan for every licensed facility. Hell, insurance companies sometimes require that you have such a plan to qualify for coverage, but even they don't review it and say "hmm....have you maybe thought of having an evacuation component in this one?" Loss prevention/risk mitigation is done in layers. E.g., to avoid highway deaths, we 1) have well-constructed and well-maintained roads, 2) with speed limits and other cautionary requirements (curve ahead, etc.), 3) with safety requirements and inspections for large vehicles like trucks, 4) with passenger cars having crash avoidance technology (warning bells and such if you're approaching traffic too fast), 5) with passenger cars having passenger protection features (crumple zones, seatbelts, air bags). Sometimes, one or more of those fail, and people die. Often, one or more of those either prevents a collision from ever happening, or ensures that people survive when it does. All risk mitigation is like that. You can't "flood-proof" the entire world. But you can install layers of protection: 1) no structures allowed in floodways, 2) requirements that facilities in floodplains have robust flood emergency plans, shared with all visitors and guests, 3) a robust and real warning system, using cell phone notifications and river level sirens, etc. People will still die in the worst floods. But not as many as would have otherwise.
  21. Man....that's a bit spot-on. But also, it's spot-on enough that I think that Mystic, in some form, will survive and continue. Too many people with an interest and desire in seeing it do so.
  22. Brisketexan

    Austin FC

    2 goals. In the run of play. Lake Travis near full. Wackadoo shit is afoot.
  23. Grok will be bragging about how it does this best within a week.
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